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Pendergast to side with residents’ group as it prepares for battle over Hunsberger application

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ooking for people willing to help with the battle against a large gravel pit proposed for a site just outside of Conestogo, the residents’ association this week got the backing of a heavyweight: the MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga.

Given a choice between remaining out of the fray and doing what she can to block the development of what’s known as the Hunsberger pit, Leeanna Pendergast said she’ll side with

her neighbours in Conestogo.

“I’ll do what I have to do to stop the pit,” she said Tuesday night, addressing a meeting of some 100 members of the ConestogoWinterbourne Residents Association (CWRA) in the gym at Conestogo Public School.

Advised by the province’s Integrity Commissioner that she might be in a conflictof-interest situation – caught between being a private citizen of

A FIGHT ON THE MENU EDSS senior students Emily Phillips and Sarah Charron are gathering interest and petition signatures as they battle a plan to outsource the jobs of three longtime cafeteria workers.

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change in policy at the school board level will mean the end of a long career for three women who work in the cafeteria at Elmira District Secondary School. Their abrupt dismissal has a number of students seeing red.

The school board has decided to make the switch from the independently-run cafeteria that has existed at EDSS for the past several decades to join other schools in the region that have hired a cafeteria services company, JC Vending. Along with the new menu items and equipment will come a new staff, leaving the three women who are currently employed there with the option of

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Santa's little helpers James Jackson

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TOYMAKER Grade 11 student Brad Hoffman demonstrates the whirligig toy that he is making in class.

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They also considered donating the toys to a larger charity such as Sick Kids Hospital, but after

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t’s a long way from the North Pole and his industrious elves, but Santa Claus seems to have found some help from a group of students at Elmira District Secondary School.

Deep within the walls of the school there are 36 students in Grades 11 and 12 working away to make wooden toys for the Woolwich Community Services annual Christmas goodwill program, which collects non-perishable food, clothing, and toys for local families.

It is the second year the class has done this. Construction technology teacher Alex Derma said participation has many benefits for both the students and the community.

“A lot of the toys are pretty simple, like this cup-andball” he explains, picking up the nearly completed toy made by one of his Grade 12 students. “But it teaches them the basic skills like using a lathe, as well as some assembly skills. I tell them they have to make sure it is as good as it can be, almost like it was a store-bought toy.”

Those skills are on display in the classroom as stu-

dents operate sanders, lathes, band saws and the drill press to complete their toys.

“Making the propeller is the most difficult,” said Grade 11 student Brad Hoffman after smoothing the wood out on the lathe. He is making a toy whirligig completely out of wood. “I couldn’t find one at a store so I have to make it all on my own.

The hardest part is making it spin to make it go up in the air.”

Derma said the students were not overly excited when they first heard about the project, but now that they are into it, they are enjoying it.

The only requirement is that the toys are all made of wood.

The class has been working on their toys for about two weeks now, and spent two days in the library doing research on the type of toy they might like to build and how they wanted to build it. They also spent some time researching

discussing the fact that the hospital probably has a lot more money and assistance than local charities like the WCS, they decided to go the local route.

“It makes you feel good knowing it will go to a local kid and that you’re helping people out,” said Grade 11 student Adam Racine, who is making a couple of wooden toy trucks, adding that using the band saw to cut the wood was the most difficult part of the process because of how much time and care it required to cut the wood properly.

The class has a field trip scheduled for Dec. 13 when they will deliver their completed toys to Lions Hall to be included in the WCS Christmas hampers.

“It’s their own project; they do it from start to finish so that way when they donate the toy, they feel like they have done it all, because they have. And they do all their own problemsolving. It’s been a really good project,” said Derma.

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Working with wood, students make toys for WCS hampers

> Pigeon King has wings clipped

FUN & GAMES Justin Costa shows why he thinks his paddle ball toy is so addictive. Left, Alex Derma’s Grade 11 construction technology class poses with some of their near-completed toys. Back row: Jake Haid, Brad Hoffman, Jeff Weber, Justin Costa, Adam Racine, Luke Playford, Jeremy Seip, Will Haber, Jaeden Shoemaker. Front row: Tasha Connell, Sarah Witherspoon, Gareth Martin.

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The man behind Pigeon King International, the now-bankrupt pigeonbreeding firm said to have bilked investors out of millions of dollars, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself into Waterloo Regional Police.

Arlan Galbraith, 62, is charged with one count of fraud over $5,000 and with four violations of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. The criminal charge relates to allegations that Galbraith defrauded individuals in Canada and United States of more than $1 million between 2004 and Pigeon King’s bankruptcy in 2008.

Police estimate that approximately 1,000 people invested a total of $20 million in the purchase of pigeons while allegedly being promised guaranteed financial returns.

Galbraith was released following a bail hearing, and is to appear in court again Jan. 25.

> Producer shares award with TVO EDSS alum JJ Johnson, along with his partners in Sinking Ship Entertainment, donated $25,000 to TVO after winning the 2010 Shaw Rocket Prize for best children’s, youth or family TV program.

The producers won the award for their series Dino Dan, about a ten-yearold dinosaur expert whose imagination leads him to encounter computer-generated dinosaurs.

Sinking Ship has a long relationship with TVO, producing such popular kids’ shows as “Are We There Yet?: World Adventure,” “The Jungle Room,” “The Ocean Room,” “Roll Play,” “This Is Daniel Cook,” “This Is Emily Yeung,” and “I Dare You!.” Since its inception in 2002, the company has produced 10 series that can be seen in more than 130 countries.

> 4-H aims to sweeten things up The 4-H Chocolate Club is an endeavour everyone can sink their teeth into, especially at this time of year. Meetings resumed last month, with two in December likely to be very busy indeed, as visitors are welcome to check out members working with chocolate at the Kitchener Farmers’ Market.

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Gasoline truck mishap closes King St. near St. Jacobs Country Squire Road was broken into sometime during the day. The homeowners reported that jewelry and electronics were stolen. Police are investigating.

>>9:47 PM | A witness called police after spotting a woman in distress at the side of Listowel Road near Arthur Street, with her car having a flat tire. When police arrived, they noticed the 58-year-old was under the influence of alcohol. She was arrested on the spot for impaired driving.

NOVEMBER 25 >>8:57 AM | Police have teamed up

with Canada Post to investigate a potential fraud. Canada Post was alerted when an Elmira business was found to be attempting to change their address.

>>12:03 PM | Six students at Elmira District Secondary School were investigated for drug possession. A small amount of marijuana was seized for destruction but no formal charges were laid.

NOVEMBER 26 >>2:50 PM | An employee of

the Tim Hortons restaurant in Elmira called police after a counterfeit $10 bill was passed to them by a man who used the drive-through. The bill was sent to the fraud branch for further investigation.

ing Street North was shut down for a period of time early Wednesday morning after the driver of a loaded gasoline tanker truck hit a patch of ice and slid into the ditch. St. Jacobs firefighters responded as a precaution, but nobody

was injured in the incident. The driver, a 36-year-old man, was en route from Toronto when the accident occurred. He was subsequently charged with ‘careless driving.’ The road remained closed until the gasoline was transferred to another truck.

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lost control of her black 1995 Chrysler, entered a ditch and struck a hydro pole on Manser Road near Schumer Line in Wellesley Township. The woman was not injured but her vehicle suffered severe damage.

>>6:20 AM | An 18-year-old

Elmira woman, the driver of a grey Chrysler, lost control of her vehicle when it hit a patch of ice on Northfield Drive near Jigs Hollow Road, just north of Conestogo. The vehicle spun, struck a guardrail and ended up in the ditch. A Palmerston resident witnessed the event and called police. The driver was uninjured, but her vehicle suffered extensive damage. No charges were laid.

>>10:20 AM | A 22-year-old

Walsingham man was charged with ‘careless driving’ after his silver Honda Civic rearended a black Dodge pickup truck driven by a 45-yearold Listowel woman who was stopped at the Arthur Street and Listowel Road intersection. The Honda was heavily damaged and the truck suffered light damage. Neither driver was injured.

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>>12:36 PM | The driver of a UNDER REVIEW The 24-year-old driver of this car was uninjured after colliding with the back of snowplow called police after witnessing an accident where one party failed to remain at the scene. An 18-year-old Moorefield woman was driving northbound on Manser Road near Schumer Line when she lost control of her vehicle and struck a tan pickup truck in the oncoming lane. The woman got out of the car and had a brief conversation with the driver of the other vehicle – a middleaged white male with long hair. The man then left the scene of the accident before police arrived. There was light damage to the woman’s 2006 Chevrolet Equinox, but no charges were laid.

>>3:55 PM | A 24-year-old

man was driving a horsedrawn buggy out of a private lane onto Line 86 when his

a school bus making a routine stop at the train tracks on Arthur Street, north of St. Jacobs, on Tuesday afternoon. The Elmira man was charged with ‘careless driving.’

horse failed to yield and struck an oncoming vehicle, a 2001 Nissan. There was light damage to the Nissan, which was being driven by a 43-year-old Arthur woman: the right rear corner of her car was dented. The horse was injured but is expected to make a full recovery. No charges were laid.

NOVEMBER 28 >>1:28 AM | Two men in their

twenties were charged with a variety of breaches of the law after being pulled over by a police officer for failing to signal their turn at the intersection of Arthur Street and Sawmill Road. The men, wanted for previous offences, were held

until they could be tried in court the following morning.

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residence driveway on Sawmill Road in Conestogo. Police are investigating the situation.

>>6:01 PM | Boomer Line was >>2:30 PM | An unoccupied closed down for a period of time school bus was making a routine stop at the railroad tracks on Arthur Street south of Elmira when it was rearended by a 24-year-old Elmira man in a 2003 Honda Civic. Nobody was injured in the collision, but the Honda was demolished. The driver was charged with ‘careless driving.’ Speed, alcohol and weather were ruled out as being factors in the crash.

>>3:41 PM | A 1992 Ford

Bronco was stolen from a

after the driver of a five-ton feed truck lost control of the vehicle, the load shifted in the carriage and the vehicle entered the ditch. The driver was uninjured, but he was issued a ticket.

>>11:07 PM | Elmira police were

advised of a possible fraud after a significant amount of money was stolen from a 92-year-old Elmira woman. It is believed the fraud was committed by a personal care worker. The fraud branch of the WRPS is looking into the incident.

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Lifestyle may allow Mennonites to live longer Preliminary results from comprehensive survey show lower mortality rate among Old Order groups Katie Edmonds

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ld Order Mennonites have a significantly lower mortality rate by comparison to Ontario’s general population, according to preliminary results of a study into the group’s lifestyle habits Kathryn Fisher, a PhD candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, is conducting the survey of Old Order Mennonite farmers in Waterloo Region.

She hopes the data will help pin down the lifestyle causes behind afflictions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, calling this finding a critical first step in the process.

“I have spent the past few months collecting the data, building up a picture of the population and analyzing what I am seeing. What we are finding now is that there is something in that lifestyle that is an advantage to them,” said Fisher. “When we look at the number of people who have died in each age group, the

numbers for Old Order Mennonites are significantly lower than other people in Ontario.”

In April, Fisher sent out a 74-question survey to 2,000 Old Order Mennonites in the area.

The questions cover topics such as health problems, work, stress, community, religion and healthcare. More than 1,200 completed questionnaires were returned, a response rate over 60 per cent and far more than Fisher was expecting.

The Old Order Mennonites offer a unique opportunity to study the social and environmental factors behind chronic illness, Fisher said, because their lifestyle has changed little over the past 75 or 100 years.

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illness like heart disease, cancer, arthritis and those kinds of conditions are common in our population. With the Mennonites, we can see whether lifestyle makes a difference. This is a group that doesn’t smoke and they don’t drink so these things should emerge as lower levels of chronic illness.”

Fisher has been working on the study for the better part of the past two years.

Most of that time has been spent building a relationship with the Old Order Mennonites and designing the survey with the help of the bishops and members of the community.

Currently, she is in the process of collecting similar questionnaires she sent out to non-Mennonite farmers in the survey area who will serve as a control group. By surveying people who live and work in a similar environment but lead a modern lifestyle, Fisher will be able to gauge which factors contribute most

to chronic illness.

After all the survey data has been entered into a database and analyzed, Fisher intends to interview some of the Old Order Mennonites to validate the survey responses.

“Now I would like to talk to Mennonite and non-Mennonite farmers and cross-check what I am seeing in the survey,” she said. “I need to make sure that I am interpreting results correctly, to make sure that what I am seeing I am really seeing.

Then our next job is to understand why that is the case. It may be a long while before we can put all the pieces together, but we are getting there.”

Fisher held a draw to motivate people to participate in the study and will be contacting the winners next week.

She expects that the study will wrap up in the spring or summer of 2011, and she plans to present her findings in a public meeting for anyone interested in the results.

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Wellesley to study expansion of employment lands Katie Edmonds

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ith growth likely over the next couple of decades, Wellesley has to start planning for the development of industrial land in order to provide jobs for some of the 1,900 new residents expected over that period, says a new report.

According to a forecast in Waterloo Region’s Official Plan, there will be a boom in the rural areas surrounding KitchenerWaterloo.

Specifically, the Township of Wellesley will need to accommodate approximately 20 per cent more people and some 810 additional jobs by 2029.

According to a report presented at Tuesday night’s council meeting, in order to support long-term growth in employment opportunities, Wellesley must secure new employment lands to foster economic development.

To that end, councillors discussed a report that recommends a total of 106.7 acres of land in the township be considered for industrial or commercial development.

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“We have put together a document, the employment lands strategy, which provides a current review of the township’s existing vacant employment lands. It provides staff recommendations of potential sites that could be new employment lands that are consistent with the provincial policies,” Sarah Peck, the township’s junior planner told councillors meeting Nov. 30.

Taking the 2008 Region of Waterloo industrial and business park vacant land inventory into consideration, township staff has determined that Wellesley currently has seven parcels of vacant employment land totalling approximately 47 acres, about half of which is regulated by the Grand River Conservation Authority, leaving the other half for potential use.

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Cafeteria: Fairness, food quality at issue > CONTINUED FROM COVER either transferring to another school farther away or retiring. Two of the three women have chosen to retire rather than make the long commute.

Senior students Emily Phillips and Sarah Charron got wind of the changes to be implemented in January when they overheard another student talking about the departure of the ladies from the cafeteria.

They’ve decided to stand up against the plan to change to JC Vending.

“We started a student petition and we have 500 signatures so far,” said Charron. “If this goes through, three ladies will not be here and will be without jobs after the holiday.

It’s not fair.”

The students have approached faculty and staff about the problem, receiving mixed responses.

“It’s kind of sad how it is working out,” said EDSS vice-principal Dave Conlon. “Cafeteria people become part of the family. I understand

why the kids are upset.”

The Waterloo Region District School Board is one of the only school boards in the province which continues to operate their school cafeterias independently.

Over the past few years, the school board has been gradually streamlining the cafeteria services into a more organized, efficient operation run by a single company, JC Vending. EDSS is one of only four schools in the region left to be changed over.

“We are in the business of education. We are not in the business of food services,” said Marilyn Marklevitz, Executive Superintendant of Business Services for the Waterloo Region District School Board. “We don’t have the expertise that people at cafeteria service companies have.

With the new legal and health requirements being put in place, we thought it was a wise idea to go that route.”

The students however, do not see eye to eye with the school board

on this issue. Their concerns range from doubting the quality of the food to worries about new pricing. Others are concerned with how the implementation of a new company will effect their foodrelated fundraisers.

“If we want to have a bake sale or a pizza day fundraiser, we are going to have to apply to the company and they will have to have it approved, every single time,” said Phillips.

“And I have been talking to other students from other schools who use JC vending and they said that they absolutely hate the food. They said that on a scale of one to 10 for disgusting level, it’s an 11.”

Marklevitz said the ideas the students have about the company are just a misunderstanding.

“Other schools have continued to run things like pizza day and the money goes back to the school. The new company will actually help the school,” she said. “I think kids hear things from other students and rumours get going.

Nobody has explained to them what is happening and it might just be a breakdown in communication.”

As far as the school is concerned, the case is as good as closed.

“In the end what it comes down to is that this is a structural change that is being made by the school board and it is about efficiency,” said Conlon. “New regulations are coming down from ministry about the quality of food in cafeterias and they have decided to regulate it across the board.”

Until new information or explanation is provided, the fight continues for the students and the number of signatures on the petition is climbing.

“These cafeteria ladies have been there for so long. They know everybody’s names and they always say something nice to you,” said Charron. “A lot of people have said that we can’t do much about this, but we figure if we do as much as we can, at least we can say we have tried.”

Development: Employment lands will be needed > CONTINUED FROM PG. 05 area, staff chose to recommend sites across the four settlement areas (Wellesley, St. Clements, Linwood and Hawkesville) to spread the new employment throughout the township, providing jobs in close proximity to places with appropriate local demand.

“Staff has proposed sites that are scattered across the township and those that are clustered around existing employment lands,” said Peck. “What we have in tonight’s agen-

da is just a first draft.”

And council and staff made clear that although the motion passed to accept the report, it is in fact just a first draft, an initial idea about future developments.

“This just gets the process moving, if land becomes available for usage,” said Coun. Jim Olender.

Mayor Kelterborn was quick to ensure that the council wasn’t taking premature steps towards development without proper consultation.

“I understand that

this is a first step,” said Kelterborn. “But my concern is if we as a council are saying ‘this is where we want this employment land or industrial land to be,’ we should be prepared to explain why we want it there.”

To move ahead, the proposal to extend the township’s employment lands must comply with the Provincial Policy Statement, Places to Grow – Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the regional Official Plan and the township Official Plan.

The next step in the process involves the scheduling of a public meeting to review the report in detail – the date for which has yet to be set.

“I would like to emphasize the fact that we are not advocating any particular industrial use,” stressed township chief administrative officer Susan Duke. “We are simply suggesting that there could be industrial or commercial uses on this property subject to the rest of the planning process being implemented properly.”

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“At the end of the day, there’s no conflict: I have to represent the constituents.”

While the dust hasn’t even settled on the recent skirmish at Woolwich council over the nearby Kuntz gravel pit, the CWRA is preparing its strategy for when the Hunsberger aggregate application comes up for debate at the township. To that end, it’s building a war chest to pay for lawyers, planners, engineers and other consultants if the fight goes to the Ontario Municipal Board, which is a likely outcome, said Keri Martin Vrbanac, the group’s president.

Along with volunteering to take part in the evaluation of the many documents submitted by the applicant, Hunder Developments, Martin Vrbanac said residents could help the cause by being vocal about their opposition, airing their concerns to local and provincial officials.

“If you’re passionate about not having a gravel pit in your backyard, then it’s important to make sure that you let somebody know that that’s how you feel, and get your neighbours to let people know as well,” she said.

“There’s strength in numbers. The more people that come out and show that we’re

against this, the better chance we have of potentially stopping or mitigating the impacts of the pit.”

That message wasn’t lost on Todd Cowan, Woolwich’s new mayor, who told the crowd council was elected on a mandate to review gravel pits, particularly the three larger operations proposed for the area between Conestogo and West Montrose.

“Gravel pits don’t belong in our backyards.

Let’s look at a balance.

Let’s look at where we should have these gravel pits,” he said.

In the case of the Hunsberger application, the pit would be located immediately east of the village. The proposal calls for a gravel operation sprawling over 150 acres of land on two farm properties located at 128 Katherine St. S. and 1081 Hunsberger Rd. Hunder Developments hopes to remove 4.3 million metric tonnes of aggregate, proposing to extract up to 500,000 tonnes per year.

Information filed by the applicant indicates the pit would operate six days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., requiring an average of 18 trucks per hour to pass through its gates.

The CWRA has pointed to the applications for other gravel pits in the immediate vicinity –on Jigs Hollow Road and the Capital Paving proposal in West Montrose – as creating the potential for a cumulative nightmare for those living in that part of the township.

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Fortunately, the Region of Waterloo and the Township of Woolwich are always planning ahead for the winter season, in particular for winter road maintenance.

“We strive to have everything all done by Nov. 15, and we were ahead of schedule this year,” said Ed Switenky, the region’s manager of transportation operations. “We’re just waiting for the snow now.”

A considerable amount of work goes into preparing for the winter season, he said.

It’s much more involved than simply firing up the snowplows when the first blizzard hits the area. The region has hired 15 additional drivers this year to cover two plowing shifts during the day, bringing the total number of drivers up to 51.

The shifts run in the morning from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and in the afternoon from 3 to 11 p.m.

“Once we hire those people, we then have to train them,” Switenky continued.

“They’re trained in the importance of minimizing the amount of salt used and make sure the roads are maintained safely. They are trained in all the equipment, and go through an extensive two-week training program.”

In each of the past 12 years, the region has erected about 13.5 kilometres of snow fencing along regional roads to prevent snow from drifting across the driving lanes. To keep the surfaces clear, crews use about 50,000 tons of salt each year.

Switenky notes the region has made a concerted effort to reduce the amount of salt that goes on the road to lessen the impact on the environment.

“One of the problems with salt is when you drop it on the roadway it bounces,” Switenky explained. “So a lot of it bounces off the roadway and it doesn’t help you at all.”

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READY TO ROLL Maynard Martin (left), Richard Rank and Barry Baldasaro are part of the Woolwich team that will keep township roads clear over the winter months. the salt in a water/ brine mixture to activate the salt beforehand to help it stick to the road better, using less salt as a result.

The region does not, however, typically use sand on the roadways, which Switenky said is due to the higher volume on the regional roads that would render sand ineffective.

On bridges, which freeze quicker than the roads because of the presence of cold air under and over the road, the region uses a combination of a water/ brine mixture and beet juice. The juice helps to lower the temperature at which the salt can melt the ice, while remaining environmentally friendly.

The region is also experimenting with natural snow fencing such as bushes, trees, or even farmers’ corn to limit the amount of snow fencing they have to use each year – it is a very labour-intensive job that takes up a lot of time.

“We just really started last year, we haven’t got the program up yet but we’re investigating a couple ideas,” Switenky said.

Meanwhile, Woolwich does its winter maintenance a little bit differently. The township does not have the luxury of hiring extra help for the winters.

Instead, they reassign existing workers to help with winter main-

tenance.

“We all wear many hats here,” said Barry Baldasaro, the superintendant of Woolwich public works.

The township has seven plows, as well as one backup truck and two graders that are fitted with ice-breaking blades for use on gravel roads. Much like at the region, township drivers need to prepare for each season by inspecting the trucks and by driving their routes to look for any obstacles that they may hit with the plow once they are covered in snow.

Baldasaro said they aim to be ready for winter by the middle of November as well, and that the township and the region work together to ensure commuters have a safe drive.

“In the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge, the regional roads are maintained by the city staff, but in the townships the region looks after the regional roads. For example Arthur Street is a regional road that the region plows, and the township plows all the other streets in town.”

The normal operating hours at the township are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., but Baldasaro says those hours get pushed to the limits during the winter because of the townships inability to hire extra staff.

“In most cases where we have to deal with snow, our trucks would typically be on the road between 4:30 or 5 a.m., and they’ll go until conditions warrant stopping,” he explained. “(But) it comes to a point where we have to stop. I can only work people for so long. Our goal is to have the roads in a condition where the public can get home safely.”

Baldasaro said the township also uses a special mixture of sand and salt, called “pickled salt,” which is 20 per cent salt and 80 per cent sand. This allows for greater traction on the roadways because once the salt has melted and disappeared, a truck needs to come out and reapply that salt to prevent the road from freezing again. With the pickled sand, however, the mixture allows for greater traction even after the salt has done its duty and disappeared.

Despite all the preparation that goes into the season, Baldasaro said it is still tough to plan ahead for what the season might bring.

“We have all sorts of weather forecasts and predictions that we use to help prepare, but to find two that agree with each other is pretty difficult,” he said, laughing. “I think we’ve done a good job here, and the staff takes their winter roles very seriously.”

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REGIONALPROPOSED MUNICIPALITY OF WATERLOO REGION OF WATERLOO

CITIZEN APPOINTMENTS BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, SIGNTO BY-LAW ADVISORY COMMITTEES & SPECIAL PURPOSE BODIES The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft

TOO, CAN BECOME ACTIVELY ENGAGED RegionalYOU, By-law respecting signs on Regional roads.

The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory Each year the Regional Municipality of Waterloo advertises for applications from the public and signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessoryAdvisory signs, open house signs and poster appoints citizens to various Boards, Commissions, Committees and other Special signs.

Purpose The proposed Signa particular By-law establishes requirements for unoffi cialappointments signs including: Bodies required for year(s) or Council term of office.

These give citizens of

this Region, from a variety of backgrounds, an opportunity to volunteer and become actively engaged Location and placement; as a•member of a Board, Commission, Advisory Committee or other Special Purpose Body.

• Size, shape, construction and content;

Interested citizensto andthe incumbent members are invited • Impacts function of the road;to apply for appointment to any of the following:

• Number of signs and timing of placement; and • Sign removal.

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a) ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (EEAC)

JOHN INGLIS So what brings you to St. Jacobs today?

I am visiting town from Brockville, Ontario. We were here about 10 years ago and we wanted to come back and visit again before Christmas this year.

What brought you here a decade ago?

I was born in Guelph in 1955 and moved away with

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my family shortly after, but I have always felt that I have ties to this area of the province. My mum was born in Maryhill.

What do you remember about living here?

One of my earliest memories is visiting my uncle’s farm in West Montrose and sitting on his lap as he plowed the fields. I was only

four but he let me ‘drive’ the tractor.

One person required for a two-year term ending December 31, 2012 and four persons Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2013. Persons with knowledge, interest, Signing Policy to allow tourism signage inonenvironmental Regional roads for related agri-toursim professional and/or technical qualifications issues to suchactivities. disciplines and policy areas as biology, ecology, hydrology, forestry, agriculture, environmental law/policy, wildlife When: Tuesday, June planning.

17, 2008, drop in 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. management and urban/rural

Place: Regional Administration Headquarters (lobby)

b) HERITAGE COMMITTEE (HPAC) 150PLANNING Frederick ADVISORY Street, Kitchener Four persons required forcentre a three-year ending 31,providing 2013. The information Heritage Planning This public information is being term held for the December purpose of and Advisory (HPAC) on Regional and policies, in accordance with the receivingCommittee comments fromadvises the public.

A copyheritage of the issues draft By-law is available for review in Regional Official Plan. The Committee also assists the Region in promoting Regional heritage and in the Clerk’s Offi ce, Region of Waterloo, 2nd fl oor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the increasing public understanding of heritage issues.

Region’s website at:

c) KISSING BRIDGE TRAILWAY ADVISORY BOARD

www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices

What has changed at the market since you were here last?

It is absolutely huge now, compared to how I remember it. It used to be just a few barns and back then it was sort of out in the middle of nowhere. Now it’s practically right in the city.

One person required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2013. Person from the public If you havethequestions concerning the By-law, Nancy Button, who represents local non-farm landowner community from please any of thecontact municipalities in which the Manager, Transportation at 519-575-4520 or advisory by board emailto the at Trailway is located are encouragedEngineering to apply. The Trailway Advisory Board is an County of Wellington and Regional Council. bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca d) LAUREL CREEK HEADWATERS SENSITIVE If you require accessible services toENVIRONMENTALLY participate in this meeting, pleaseLANDSCAPE contact the above PUBLIC LIAISON COMMITTEE (LCHESLPLC)

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Three persons required forreceived a three-year term ending December The regarding Laurel Creek All comments and information from individuals, stakeholder groups31, and2013. agencies this Headwaters Environmentally Public Liaison Committee provides communityproject are being collected to Sensitive assist the Landscape Region of Waterloo in making a decision.

Underathe Municipal based forum toinformation monitor, discuss provide periodic advicenumber, to the Region on howlocation best tothat implement Act, personal such asand name, address, telephone and property may be the objectives of the Regional Planning Policies for the Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this Sensitive Landscapes (ESL). information should be referred to the person indicated above.

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e) SPECIALIZED Nancy Button TRANSIT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE (STSAC)

Manager, Transportation Engineering Five persons required for a two-year term ending December 31, 2012. The Specialized Transit Region of Waterloo Services Advisory Committee (STSAC) will advise and provide assistance relating to the development of 150 Frederick Street, 7th Special Transit Services policies andFloor service that best meet the needs of the community.

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Kris Fletcher Director, Council & Administrative Services / Regional Clerk 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act and will be used to determine suitability for appointment. Questions regarding the collection of personal information should be referred to Stevie Natolochny at 519-575-4450, Office of the Regional Clerk.

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As the staff at the Sunbeam Residential Development Centre know, the cost of such a vehicle can be upwards of $70,000.

That figure looms large for the organization looking to replace the van that has been in use for some 15 years at its St. Jacobs group home.

“The van has been good to us for a good number of years, but time and the elements have taken their toll and we will soon have to look into replacing it,” said Sunbeam executive director Shaune Lawton.

The St. Jacobs Sunbeam group home is home to six young residents with significant physical handicaps, four of whom require wheelchairs. The van is used frequently to

take the residents on day trips away from the home.

To help cover some of the costs, the St. Jacobs Lions Club will be presenting Sunbeam with a cheque for $5,000 – just a small part of the contributions made to Sunbeam by the Lions over the years.

“We started contributing to the fund last year,” said Lion Den-

“They have provided donations, they have replaced a furnace for the home and every year at Christmas they make a visit to the house to share in fellowship.

They are a great supporter to us.”

But despite the most recent gift from the Lions, merely a fraction of the money needed for the van has been raised to date. The St. Jacobs facility is one of 14 similar homes Providing a working in the Waterloo Region, all of which van is just part of have their own costs and projects. the work that goes “Fundraising is a into giving young work in progress,” men and women said Lawton. “We have some money quality of life we tucked away for this think they deserve. project but it could take several years to Shaune Lawton amass enough money to replace a van like nis Lougheed. “But it’s that. Providing a worknot a cheap undertak- ing van is just part of ing and it may take the work that goes into some time to raise the giving young men and amount of money that women quality of life they need.” that we think they deThe group home serve.” opened in 1982 and the The Lions plan to Lions have been one continue to support of their primary sup- the residents as best porters throughout the they can and hope that years. members of the com“The Lions Club sort munity will also pitch of adopted us when in to help out. we first began in St. “We haven’t been able Jacobs,” said Lawton. to make a long-term pledge,” said Lougheed.

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Scouts all treed up for the season I

Bridge said he had to raise the base price of the pine and spruce trees this year from $30 last year to help cover his extra costs associated with the new HST, which cut about $300 or $400 from their profits.

The lot is open Monday to Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., and

can come and pick up their tree and pay for it at Read’s Decorating on Arthur Street.

“I think we’re the only place left in North America where we will allow people to pick up the trees themselves when nobody is there,” Bridge laughed. “We still have a lot of trust in people.”

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on weekends from noon to 6 p.m., but if anyone is interested in picking up their tree outside of those hours, the Scouts are working under the honour system and anyone

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trees are typically more expensive. A balsam fir typically takes n Elmira, it’s a sure eight years to grow, sign of Christmas. and a Fraser takes 10 Last Saturday memst years.”

Scout bers of the 1 Elmira Bridge places the group Scout Group were order for the trees evcommisjoined by several volery October from Kris sioner in Elmira, unteers as they unKringle Christmas and he has been loaded two trucks full involved in the of Christmas trees and Trees at Somerville Nurseries near ShelChristmas tree sales set them up around burne. A local comfor about 30 years now, the band shell at Gore pany usually donates starting back when the Park in preparation a truck and a driver to Elmira Jaycees used to for the annual sale, a go and pick the trees sell them. He said the major fundraiser for up, but this year the operation has scaled the group. nursery delivered them back considerably over The money raised free of charge. the years. will go towards the “That’s only hap“They used to sell Cubs, Beavers, Scouts pened twice in 20 two truckloads – two and Venturers that years,” Bridge said 18 wheelers, 1,800 at a comprise 1st Elmira with a laugh. “Normal- time.

Scouting, as well as toly we use Martin Pet “We’ve dropped down wards their new buildsince then. That’s ing fund. Prices for the Foods – they’re very when you could buy trees range from $35 all generous.”

Bridge bases his a Christmas tree for the way up to $90. order on the number $15. Not anymore,” he “Pine and spruce are of trees that were sold laughed. in less demand than the previous year. Last So far sales have they used to be, and year, they sold about been going well, Soehthey’re less expensive 330 trees and had ner added. They sold 15 because they grow – MOH – FHT Newspaper about 10 left over, so he trees last Sunday, and faster,” said Daryl 1011461P File Name: 1011461P_HOC233-10.indd placed the same order two were spoken for Bridge, the chairmanTrim: 10" x 7" again before they even had of the fundraiser. “But Colours: CMYK this year.

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The truth is that the Pope did not change the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding sexuality and contraception.

Janet Smith letter on page 15

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t doesn’t score well on the employment side. You’re spending a lot of money and it’s not creating very much in terms of jobs.

>>Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page says federal stimulus spending wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

THE MONITOR e’re not doing much to support CanaW dian goods, as Canada's overall current account deficit widened by $4.6 billion to

reach a high of $17.5 billion in the third quarter. This marks the eighth quarterly deficit since the fourth quarter of 2008.

Stronger imports of goods accounted for the bulk of the increase, as exports of goods also weakened.

>>Statistics Canada

EDITORIAL

Rising income gap comes at a big social cost S

tudies in Canada and the U.S. show parents today are increasingly convinced their children will be less well off than they were. The figures back up that sentiment, as the great prosperity that flowed out of the postwar years in particular succumbs to constant attack.

The majority of us have seen real incomes decline. Studies show the gap between rich and poor is growing, even during the best of economic conditions. The trend that started in earnest 30 years ago has been exacerbated by the recession.

This week, yet another study confirmed the downward slide.

Canada’s richest one per cent are taking more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history, says the report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

“The Rise of Canada’s Richest

1%” looks at income trends over the past 90 years and reveals the 246,000 privileged few who rank among the country’s richest one per cent took almost a third (32 per cent) of all growth in incomes between 1997 and 2007.

“That's a bigger piece of the action than any other generation of rich Canadians has taken,” says Armine Yalnizyan, CCPA senior economist and the report’s author.

“The last time Canada’s elite held so much of the nation’s income in their hands was in the 1920s. Even then, their incomes didn’t soar as fast as they are today. It’s a first in Canadian history and it underscores a dramatic reversal of longterm trends.”

Among the report’s findings: from the beginning of the Second World War to 1977, the income share of the richest one per cent

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are getting a smaller share of Canada’s economy, in good times and in bad. Only the richest 20 per cent are experiencing gains, and most of those gains are concentrated in the top 10 per cent.

That richest 10 per cent of Canadian families are getting richer.

They enjoyed a 30-per-cent earnings increase compared to a generation ago, the only group to experience such gains. This is creating a new phenomenon in income distribution in Canada: the rich are breaking away from the rest of society, in a way not seen since such information began to be collected 35 years ago.

Where once a rising tide could be said to lift all boats, increasingly the bigger boats are prospering at the others’ expense. That kind of inequality is inherently unsustainable.

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WikiLeaks info contains nothing too revealing T

he U.S. government, faced with the publication on the internet of a quarter-million cables sent by U.S. embassies in recent years, has responded just as it did when WikiLeaks posted similar troves of secret messages about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on the web earlier this year. It has solemnly warned that WikiLeaks is endangering the lives of American diplomats, soldiers and spooks.

“Such disclosures put at risk our diplomats, intelligence professionals, and people around the world who come to the U.S. for assistance in promoting democracy and open government,” the White House declared. “By releasing stolen and classified documents, WikiLeaks has put at risk not only the cause of human rights but also the lives and work of these individuals.”

Hmm. Might there be some exaggeration here? Does the U.S. ambassador to Moscow really face assassination for reporting, in late 2008, that President Dmitri Medvedev “plays Robin to (Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin’s Batman”?

Will United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon really order a hit on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now that he knows she ordered U.S. diplomats to collect the details of confidential networks used for official communication by senior UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys. (She also wanted their frequent flyer numbers, credit card details, fingerprints, iris scans, and DNA biometrics.)

Will French President Nicholas Sarkozy have the U.S. ambassador murdered for saying that he has a “thinskinned and authoritarian personal style”? Will Italian Prime Minister Sil-

THE VIEW FROM HERE

International Affairs GWYNNE DYER vio Berlusconi put out a kill order on Elizabeth Dibble, U.S. charge d’affaires in Rome, for saying that he is “feckless, vain, and ineffective”?

And by the way, the leaked documents don’t only deal with “people around the world who come to the U.S. for assistance in promoting democracy and open government,” as the White House pompously put it. They also reveal who came to the U.S. for assistance in suppressing democracy and open government – and, quite frequently, got it.

The official outrage is as synthetic as it is predictable, and what drives it is not fear for the lives of American diplomats and spies but concern for their careers. But how did a big, grown-up government like that of the United States blunder into the error of making all this “secret” material so easily available?

It made the elementary mistake of thinking that electronic communications could really be kept secret, even when widely disseminated, if you just surround them with a sufficiently impressive clutter of passwords, security clearances and encryption. Any historian could have told them they were wrong. If it’s written down, then it will come out sooner or later. In this case, it was sooner.

Before I realized that journalists have more fun and make (a little) more money, I trained as an historian and

did research in the archives of various foreign ministries. I always pitied my colleagues working in earlier periods of history, when most things were decided face to face. By contrast, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the period that I was studying, governments had got so big that everything was written down.

Documents would pass from one desk to another, and each recipient would note his comments in the margin and initial them. They had to do it that way, writing down what they really thought, because there were no telephones. It was a system that allowed subsequent historians to trace the way decisions actually got made – about 30 to 50 years later, when the files were finally opened to researchers.

Then, in the decade or so before the First World War, all those officials got telephones, and that system died. The officials had their confidential discussions on the phone, real motives never got written down, and the documents usually contained only a sanitized version of the policy debate. It got a lot harder to do good history.

What the U.S. Defence Department thought it had invented in the Siprnet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) was a way to distribute confidential information widely, like in the good old days, but without jeopardizing secrecy. Except that it wasn’t secure, as the massive dump of cables on WikiLeaks demonstrates.

All you needed to access the Siprnet was a “secret” security clearance.

When the number of people with a “secret” clearance or above was last

THE VOICE

What is your favourite part of the Santa Claus Parade?

“When Santa comes along and all the kids go wild, it’s so much fun.” >>Taylor Osland

“Deciding on which is the most spectacular float.” >>Karl Bennett

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“Seeing Santa!”

>>Taylor Caldwell

A sure sign winter has arrived: residents start complaining about the sidewalk snow-clearing services in Elmira.

“The elves! Those little green men dressed in tights.” >>Tasha Connell

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When ideology takes us where we don't want to go I

have a friend who has the kind of stomach that doesn’t take to a variety of foods, including dairy.

Every once in a while, she’ll eat something she knows probably won’t sit well, figuring maybe this time that milkshake won’t be so bad. Experiencing an unfavourable reaction, she’ll get back on her usual diet.

This, in a nutshell, is how federal politics play out in Canada.

Every once in a while we vote for the Conservatives. Feeling sick to our stomachs, we go back to the Liberals. After some time has passed – and figuring maybe this time it won’t be so bad – we try electing another Conservative government.

The Joe Clark experiment was short-lived, sandwiched by the presence of Pierre Trudeau. As with the inexplicable two terms for George W. Bush, we twice voted for Brian Mulroney, before regretting it and reducing the party to a pair of seats in the election that brought Jean Chrétien to power.

After 13 years of Liberal rule, we voted Conservative in large enough numbers to make Stephen Harper the head of a minority government.

In that abbreviated summation of the past four decades, a pattern emerges. I find it useful in trying to put the current campaign in per-

From the Editor steve Kannon spective. And it’s why we should avoid a Harper majority: It’s a good idea to avoid the pain that would follow.

Our problem with Conservative governments boils down to ideology: deep down, we don’t like what they’re selling. It’s the same reason most of us, if we had a vote, would support Democrats and not Republicans in U.S. elections.

Again, there’s a simple pattern to be found. Right-wing governments tend to cut spending on things we benefit from, spend on things we don’t, run deficits, privatize assets to the benefit of a few supporters and deregulate where a watchful eye is needed.

And that doesn’t even address the distasteful fundamentalist positions and social conservatism, which have crept into Canadian politics courtesy of the Reform movement.

Let’s just stick with the basics.

Mulroney’s governments ran up massive deficits during good times, introduced the GST and free trade despite public opposition and spent

money like sailors on shore leave, all the while widening the gap between rich and poor. The same scenario played out with other so-called fiscal conservatives at the time, most notably Ronald Reagan in the U.S. and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K. It was only successive centre-left parties – the “tax and spend” crowd – that balanced the budget and restored economic health to their countries: Chrétien’s Liberals here, Democratic president Bill Clinton and Labour’s Tony Blair.

It’s no coincidence that the current economic turmoil originated from the U.S. under Bush: The massive deficits, debt spiraling past $11 trillion and deregulation frenzy combined to bring us where we are today, handcuffing Bush’s successor Barack Obama.

Harper supporters decry the comparisons to Bush. Frankly, there are too many similarities for our comfort level, this being Canada.

Even in the absence of the worst fundamentalist abuses and the attack on civil liberties, the economic crisis has clearly revealed the right’s greatest weakness: laissez fair economics.

You can accuse Bush of having being a not-too-bright puppet, with Cheney and his ilk running things in the U.S. Here, however, Harper is a one-man show. An economist by

training, he should know exactly what can, and does happen under the kind of market system he’s advocated for years.

Deregulation is a mantra on the right. That may change in the wake of the financial sector meltdown, as some analysts are calling it the end of the cowboy capitalism that’s thrived under the Bush administration. Unfettered by bothersome rules, the industry spun evermore intricate financial instruments, greed making everyone ignore that the system had become a house of cards. Banks are folding, not just in the U.S. but overseas as well, under a mountain of bad debt. Canada’s banking system weathered the storm largely because the mergers and deregulation demanded by the industry were disallowed by previous Liberal governments. The situation here might have been much grimmer today if a Conservative government had been at the helm a decade ago.

In an election that was called for no other reason than Harper hoping the time was right for a shot at a majority, the financial crisis comes in time to shine a spotlight on his party’s economic shortcomings. He argues we need a steady hand on the tiller in turbulent times. Problem is, he’s steering us the wrong way.

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Bioenergy plant does not make dollars and sense for Elmira To the Editor, In the editor’s column in last week’s edition, you state that most of Ontario voters’ backlash against the McGuinty government for the province’s rising cost of energy is not deserved. On what basis can this assertion be supported?

The Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress (created by the Ontario government) has just reported that the provincial government has overstated the benefits of its Green Energy Act and understated resulting hydro rate increases.

This is hardly a surprise to those who have been paying attention to the province’s developing ‘green energy’ reality as distinct from propaganda, to reading the numbers rather than cheering at the mention of trendy ‘green energy.’ Ontario’s Green Energy Act features 20-year contracts for wind, solar, hydro and bioenergy projects at rates up to 20 times higher than the current market price for electricity.

A comparison of the prevailing negative reaction in Ontario to skyrocketing green energy costs to the supposed reaction in Europe is invoked by Woolwich Bio-En’s Chuck

Martin, the promoter of a biogas plant in Elmira. Such a comparison would be relevant only if the European cost experience was uniformly comparable (it isn’t) and as poorly controlled in general as in Ontario (it isn’t).

Take as a case in point the Ontario government’s biomass energy program, the financial gravy train Bio-En seeks to board: never is so much money to be thrown around to produce so little.

Ontario’s long-term green energy plan includes spending $4 billion (up from $1 billion) on energy generated from “biomass” (read biowaste). And what may Ontario taxpayers expect to gain from this pouring of their dollars into the pockets of outfits like Bio-En? The increase by the year 2030 in the share of Ontario power generated by biomass is expected to be 0.3 per cent, i.e., an increase from today’s one per cent of Ontario’s energy supply all the way up to 1.3 per cent: $4 billion + 20 years = 0.3 per cent.

For this pathetic projected result from lavishing taxpayer dollars on biowaste energy, can any sentient being expect that the residents of Elmira will quietly put up with the construction of a waste facility in their midst with all its negative impact on their quality of life?

Hardly.

>> Alastair Rickard, Elmira

To the Editor, For several months I was very ill, going out only for doctor’s appointments. I was dependent on family support and a wheelchair/walker to do so.

At that time, Riverside Drive West in Elmira was under construction.

Daily, the street was dug up and, at day’s end, filled up. I was concerned as to how an ambulance would get through in an emergency. When my son came to visit from B.C., perhaps he spoke to the workers, but each night they made sure a path was packed down from one side of the street to the other.

When family brought my mother over in her wheelchair to visit, the construction workers helped to carry her, in her chair, through the mud, and safely back. As I got on my feet, they were always there to help get groceries across the work area and see that I got back to the house safely.

These are truly random acts of kindness. Instead of cursing the construction mess, I thank God for the care and consideration shown daily by these kind gentlemen.

>>Pat Garton, Elmira

To the Editor, A few months ago we moved to this area and immediately subscribed to the Waterloo Regon Record. For some weeks I noticed a weekend enclosure called “Observer,” but didn’t at first pay much attention to it.

However, one week I did and I was amazed and pleased at how much excellent information it contained concerning events and happenings in our area. Also I came to enjoy the cartoons, and appreciate the splendid editorials, last week’s “Ottawa can’t be trusted to mind the till” being no exception.

Now each week – before I even open The Record – I peruse the Observer in its entirety.

Keep up the good work.

>> Ernest Nullmeyer, St. Jacobs

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Put Pope's words on condoms in context To the Editor, While the cartoon on the opinion page of last week’s paper (Observer, Nov. 27/10), Pope’s Shift on Condoms takes the Catholic Church out of the Dark Ages, was meant to be funny, what it really shows is a woeful ignorance on the part of the cartoonist and an equal lack of consideration on the part of the editor.

The truth is that the Pope did not change the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding sexuality and contraception. To say otherwise is to fail to recognize the context in which the comments were made.

The passages came from a book of interviews; if someone wanted to really understand what the Pope was driving at, he or she would, in good conscience, have to read the entire section on the topic, not cherry-pick what he or she thought was of importance. Every good reporter/editor recognizes that this is essential to integrity.

The conversation went this way: Pope Benedict: “There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way towards recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one

cannot do whatever one wants. But this is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can lie only in a humanization of sexuality."

Are you saying, then, that the Catholic Church is actually not opposed in principle to the use of condoms?

Pope Benedict: “She of course does not regard this as a real or moral solution, but, in this or that case, there can nonetheless, in the intention of reducing the risk of infection, a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.”

What the Pope is expressing is the principle of double-effect, a longstanding part of Catholic theology. In this case, it expresses the recognition that there is a situation where the use of a condom might represent the beginning of a journey away from the banalization of sexuality towards a true and clear moral sense, if indeed, the individual is seeking truth and goodness.

Sex with a condom, or with the pill or any other means of artificial contraception for that matter, is a lie, for it denies the very definition of sexual intercourse. The Catholic Church has always taught that sex is the total, mutual self-giving of a man and a woman for the unification of that couple and for the procreation of children. To use contraception is to reject one of the functions of sex (the procreation

of children) as well as to deny the concept of total, self-giving.

The individual who practices contraception says to the other, “I will share all of me with you, except my fertility.” To reduce human sexuality to pleasure seeking is to destroy it. Pope Benedict is seeking to refocus the world towards a more

more likely it is to leak. If you disseminate it very widely by electronic means, it’s almost certain to leak.

So distribution lists will get a lot shorter in the U.S. and elsewhere.

This may result in some minor degradation of the decision-making process, but not much, really.

The most striking thing about those quarter-million messages is that they contain almost no real surprises. You’d be just as well informed about the world if you read a couple of good newspapers every day.

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 13 counted by the General Accounting Office in 1993, there were more than three million of them. There are probably twice as many today.

And all it takes is one of them to send the data to WikiLeaks, and the whole system is compromised.

The U.S. government will persist in trying to get Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, jailed on one charge or another, but he is just the tip of the iceberg. The more widely you distribute information, the

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The local project’s rough ride is in many ways indicative of the buffeting the provincial government has experienced on the energy file, especially since introducing the Green Energy Act last year.

Projects such as the one proposed by Woolwich Bio-En Inc. are part of the transition from dirty coal-fired plants to cleaner, more-sustainable sources of electricity. Few Ontarians may have issues with reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but where the controversy develops is in the rising costs and a backlash against the locations of some of the projects.

In Elmira, some residents are concerned about potential odours from a plant that will convert organic waste into methane, which will in turn power a generator. Opponents praise the idea, but would rather see the facility some-

place other than the proposed site, an industrial property in the north end of town.

Everybody is supportive of green energy, says the president of the company behind the Elmira plan, but the opposition comes down to the potential impacts, mostly odour and traffic concerns.

The key to easing those fears is more public information, said Chuck Martin, who took part in another open house session Tuesday night at Lions Hall in Elmira.

“We’re telling people, ‘yes, we’re working with smelly stuff here – and here’s what we’re doing to avoid any odour problems,’” he explained of Bio-En’s efforts.

Opposition here has been relatively mild, however, in comparison to the pushback against wind turbines. Under the umbrella of Wind Concerns Ontario, some 53 community groups in 31 counties in the province have been fighting against wind energy development. In fact, a Chatham-Kent organization this week launched a legal challenge against the first-ever project to get the nod under the Green Energy Act’s renewable energy approval process,

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A LENGTHY PROCESS Chuck Martin, president of Woolwich Bio-En Inc., is looking to finalize the paperwork for the Elmira project by early next year, after which time it will be reviewed by the province. a plan for eight 2.5-megawatt wind turbines near Thamesville.

Such local challenges are playing out against a wider backdrop of higher prices for electricity, the issue that has the most public play.

The provincial government expects electricity costs to rise 46 per cent over the next five years. The higher rates

paid for renewable energy – in some cases, up to 20 times the market rate – will be part of those increased costs, though much smaller than, say, the expenses related to upgrading the aging grid that carries our electricity.

At Waterloo North Hydro, for instance, the need to spend on infrastructure led to the utility seeking an 18.5-per-cent

increase on its portion of the electrical bill. If approved for implementation next May, the hike would add $69 a year to the average bill for residential users in Woolwich, Wellesley and Waterloo.

The increase would be the first since 2004. Rather than small annual increases, the

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Look to healthier food choices for the holidays Food For Thought Owen Roberts countries. People are avoiding what’s good for them.

As a result, farmers are missing a golden opportunity to show their true value to society – that is, they not only keep people fed, they can help keep them healthy, too.

Maybe the local food movement will help stimulate consumption.

After all, a great deal of local food consists of fruit and vegetables, and accessibility is a good first step towards healthy eating.

But there’s another vital key: that is, taste.

Yi says research is showing taste, above all, is what drives fruit and vegetable consumption. It’s not as big of a concern with fruit. But some vegetables simply don’t taste what people consider to be good – they might be bitter or, they might have what Yi calls an “unattractive” taste. To him, increasing vegetable intake will require the agricultural sector to work hard to overcome the widespread perception that some vegetables are not tasty and are difficult to prepare. To that end, with support from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, he’s assembled a team that includes a consumer psychologist, a marketing researcher and a nutritional researcher to investigate perceptions of taste and preparation difficulty among Ontario consumers.

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Team members have gained some insights already. Yi says they’re finding many consumers either have little experience preparing vegetable-rich dishes, or don’t feel confident about their culinary skills when it comes to vegetables.

Consumers want what he calls “delicious but simple, easy-to-follow recipes,” and they want them readily available, either while getting

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province permits only infrequent rate adjustments, meaning when increases are approved, they look much higher than if you average them out over time, say hydro officials.

“Our primary job is to distribute electricity and to maintain the infrastructure for distributing it in our service area,” said spokesman John Janzen, noting the utility requires money to keep the system reliable, but has no influence on the cost of generating the electricity it carries.

“The transition to renewables will be more expensive. There will be upward pressure on rates.”

Martin, who serves on the WNH board, agrees.

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With governments of all stripes having neglected the infrastructure for at least two decades prior to Dalton McGuinty’s election in 2003, the government has been trying to play catch-up ever since. That costs money.

There’s no room to try to cap rates, as the Harris government did after its aborted attempt to privatize Ontario Hydro, running up a tab of more than $900 million, she added.

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The solution? Yi points to smart phones, giving consumers easy access to recipes. Or short, two-minute clips on local radio stations in late afternoon, when main food preparers are pondering what to serve for supper.

Yi and the team are scaling up the project in the spring, and hope growers associations will join the quest for better answers and solutions.

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A boatload of information is floating around about the virtues of eating healthy.

So, why don’t we eat healthier?

University of Guelph marketing and consumer studies Prof. Sunghwan Yi says it was once believed a lack of nutritional information is what kept us on a crooked road. But, he adds, that’s not an excuse anymore. Probably the most visible and very public example is the federal government’s healthy eating guide (Canada’s Food Guide), which offers clear advice ... including eating 7-10 servings of vegetables and fruit a day.

Even on paper, that sounds like a lot to me. And I’m not alone, says registered dietitian Lise Smedmor of Erin. “But the thing to remember is that serving sizes are small,” she says. Indeed, a “serving” is one piece of fruit, or a half-cup of vegetables.

Still, we ignore this good advice, or worse yet, scorn it. Despite substantial promotional efforts, vegetable consumption has been stagnant or falling in the past three years in Canada. When the head count takes place, it turns out only about eight per cent of Canadians are following Canada’s Food Guide recommendations. Typical fruit and vegetable consumption is way below the recommendations, coming in at just over five servings per day.

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in on their way to the Stratford Festival, while others enjoy the close proximity to the St. Jacobs markets. Others just come to take a break from their busy city lives and smell the flowers that the Hafemans have planted in their yard.

Families have come to stay, groups of friends have slept a night in the Hafeman home and they have even hosted a few weddings.

“It’s neat because some of the weddings we have held have been for the grandchildren of people we served back when we had the store,” said Emily. “And visitors are always welcome to come by and say hello if they’re coming through town. We tell them to come in for a cup of coffee and some German cake if they can fit us in.”

But their generosity and community involvement doesn’t stop there.

Adolph is one of the founding members of the Wellesley ABC Festival. Emily has been with the ABC board for 27 years and volunteers with the horticultural society. They donated the antique red sleigh that carries Santa through

t’s hard to believe that the Christmas season is upon us. With all the good times also come a variety of stresses, and it’s easy to ignore some of the fundamentals of good health and fitness.

I find in my coaching practice with clients that it’s always good to get back to the basics, to remember what it is that yields exceptional results.

In holistic lifestyle coaching principles, we teach the six foundation principles required to become successful in achieving optimal health and wellbeing.

1) Thinking – most people think on average around 68,000 thoughts per day – most of which are negative and don’t serve them in a beneficial way.

2) Breathing – 26,000 breaths per day is average, however 20-22,000 is ideal since it places less stress on your body and improves healthy posture and digestion. Breathe in through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

Remember this acronym: S.L.E.D.S., Slow Long Even Deep Smooth.

3) Movement – for the most part, on average only about three to eight per cent of society exercises on a regular basis, including walking their dog or riding

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Active in the community for four decades, couple’s welcoming nature sees them named marshals of Wellesley’s Christmas parade Katie Edmonds Adolph and Emily Hafeman are no strangers to welcoming people to Wellesley Township. Since 1969, when they moved to the area from Waterloo, they have thrown their doors wide open and invited visitors in, first when they owned a grocery store in the village and then when they operated a bed and breakfast out of their home.

So it is no surprise that they have been chosen to give out a few more smiles and waves, this time as the parade marshals for the Wellesley Christmas Parade.

“We will be riding in the fire truck,” said Emily with a laugh. “At our age.

Can you believe it?”

The couple made perfect sense as a choice for parade marshal, said parade committee member Jean Horne.

“They have done so much for Wellesley,” said Horne. “They invite people to walk on their trails, and they’re just really lovely.”

And their open invitation to walk on the trails is just one of a long list of ways in which the Hafemans give back

to the community.

In 1969, after a career shift for Adolph, the couple bought a store in the village.

For 18 years they greeted customers and got to know their neighbours. When the time came for the store to close, the Hafemans decided to play host again and began to offer rooms for rent in their home; their bed and breakfast has been

You shouldn’t fence yourself in. We like to keep our horizons as wide open as we can as far as physical ability allows.

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“When we had the store, we had people around us every day for 18 years,” said Adolph. “And all of a sudden we were sort of cut off. It was so rewarding to have such nice people coming and visiting our home.”

The B&B has become so popular that in the summertime there are only a handful of days when the couple does not have guests in the house. Some stop

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Shortbread’s historical roots come from Scotland, where in the 16th century Mary, Queen of the Scots, made famous this delectable biscuit. It was, in those days, definitely a luxury item, reserved for such occasions as Christmas.

Shortbread is one of the simplest of luxuries too, often consisting of no more than three ingredients: flour, butter and sugar, and in that order. The word ‘short’ refers to the crumbly, or ‘short,’ texture caused by the high butter content. We’re okay with this!

In this recipe, spices and old cheddar cheese are added to the basic recipe. For best results use a two- or three-year-old orange cheddar. Once the dough is made,

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it is rolled up in a log and refrigerated or can be frozen: all you have to do is cut and bake, making it a quick, company’s-coming snack.

Top the shortbreads with all kinds of things: our favourite is an apple chutney (space does not allow us to print the recipe here – if you’re interested, email us), a slice of crispy bacon, the classic cream cheese and pepper jelly.

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the streets of Wellesley each year.

They’re both members of the Wellesley and District Board of Trade, volunteer at their church, and sing in the St. Paul’s Church choir.

“It’s fun,” said Emily. “You shouldn’t fence yourself in. We like to keep our horizons as wide open as we can as far as physical ability allows.”

As of next May, the Hafemans will be keeping their eyes open for new opportunities; they have decided to retire from the bed and breakfast

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before cutting and baking; Unwrap and cut into 1/4- to 1/2inch slices using a sharp knife; Place on a parchment- or Silpatlined baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes or until just lightly coloured; Cool on a cooling rack; Sift dry ingredients, cream butter and cheese together; Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture; Roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness and cut; Chill until ready to bake Bake 20-30 minutes until lightly coloured.

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“We have done this for a long time and we decided that this might be a good time to retire from this,” said Emily. “We will see what else life has to offer.”

Next up: greeting Wellesley visitors from the inside of a fire truck during the annual parade, an experience that both of them look forward to.

“I just suppose we will have to work on our wave,” said Emily.

The ChristmasTyme in Wellesley parade takes place in the village on Dec. 10 at 6:45 p.m.

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The First Elmira Cubs visited the University of Waterloo Observatory Nov. 23 to try to see some of the star systems they learned about earlier in the evening. Cloud cover prevented any star-sightings, but the Cubs were treated to an up-close look at the facility.

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 18 a bike. Join a gym, go for a walk, bike ride, join an organized sports league or just start dancing in your house right now … like no one is watching. Just get moving!

4) Nutrition – three square meals per day equals 21 meals per week on average for most people. Each time you eat, it’s either bringing you closer or further away from your goals. Think about what you put on your fork next time.

5) Hydration – water. What’s that? It’s too bland? No taste? It makes you pee? That’s what I hear all the time. Try using a small pinch of good sea salt, which will add very healthy and beneficial trace minerals. Also it will minimize you from having to visit the washroom every hour.

6) Sleep – just get some! Sleeping from 10-11p.m. until 5-6 a.m. is ideal. If you’re going to cut yourself short due to being “busy,” then go to bed earlier and get up earlier.

Yes, there is another 4 and 5 on the clock that exists during the same 24 hours.

These are just some short tips

and reality checks on simple things that you can do today. If you notice the impact that the first three can have on your health, it’s essential to start with taking inventory of the thoughts that you’re thinking. Do they serve you or not?

How conscious are you of your breathing during the day? Set a timer on your phone, watch or computer to remind you to check it each hour during the day.

Get up and move each day, walk the stairs, take your bike, join a gym or an organized sports league.

Take written inventory of what you eat for a week. Just the act of writing it down will encourage more conscious eating decisions.

Carry a water bottle with you where ever you go. Put some freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice, add a small pinch of sea salt, on the rocks or straight up.

Make a conscious effort this week to have quiet time before bed (Facebook doesn’t count!) and try counting backwards from 100 very slowly to help you fall into a meditative state almost before you drift off to a good night’s sleep.

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Kings end spate of games Junior, senior boys taking different routes by taking two of three this basketball season

When the going gets tough, Elmira digs deep to come out on top of seesaw battles

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he EDSS junior and senior boys’ basketball squads have hit the court once again, but only one of the teams will appear in regular season games.

This year, the senior team has opted not to enter into the WCSSAA league.

“It’s mostly because of numbers,” explained head coach Brian Roberts. “We didn’t have a lot of guys coming back this year, so it’s a brand new group.”

The team only has three returning players from last year’s squad that lost in the quarterfinals to Cameron Heights, and featured five fifth-year players, and four 12th Graders – none of whom returned.

“We decided that it would probably be better not to enter the team in the league, but to

he Kings have finally wrapped up what was arguably their toughest stretch of the season – nine games in 19 days – last weekend by winning two of three to move into a third-place tie with Brantford in the standings, with 36 points.

Coach Geoff Haddaway said that in all his years of coaching he had never seen a schedule like the one the Kings just endured, which saw them play three games per weekend over the span of three consecutive weeks.

“It’s overwhelming, both mentally and physically.”

Last weekend didn’t begin too well for the Kings, as they dropped their opening game 7-4 in Listowel Nov. 26 against the Cyclones. Yet the score isn’t indicative of the type of game that was played.

After a scoreless first period, both teams came to life in the second. Listowel struck first just 34 seconds into the period, before stand-

> SEE KINGS ON PG. 27

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continue to practice with the hopes of developing and getting better by the end of the year,” continued Carter.

Instead, he will continue to run practice every week, and plans to enter the team in four tournaments this year as well. The boys played in a tournament in Stratford last weekend, but didn’t win a match.

The coach has also organized six exhibition games this year as well, and hopes to get the senior boys into about 20 games in total before the season is over.

By making the team less competitive this year, Carter said, they enticed a lot of new players to

> SEE BASKETBALL ON PG. 25

KINGS COME OUT ON TOP Elmira’s Ryan Clarkson protects the puck with his body as he drives to the net against Brantford during the second period of last Sunday’s 6-5 win.

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he EDSS girls’ hockey team is off to a fast start to their season. The team played its first game on Tuesday afternoon at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, and was dominant in victory.

Kaitlin Doering led the way with a goal and two assists as

the Lancers defeated the visiting team from St. David’s by a score of 4-1.

Even more impressive was the fact that the team had spent very little time together prior to the game.

“We only picked the team (last) Thursday,” said coach John Swatridge after the game. “And we haven’t even

had a practice yet. It was the first time all of our lines had a chance to play together.”

A total of 25 girls tried out for the team, which is looking to repeat as the WCSSAA champions after they defeated the favoured Southwood Sabres 3-1 last season to win

> SEE LANCERS ON PG. 28

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Lancers looking to repeat last year’s WCSSAA hockey championship

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espite what the calendars say, winter is upon us. This means that an outdoorsman needs to consider shifting gears – and maybe even getting snow tires installed.

For instance, while some of the finest duck hunting of the year is upon us right now, it’s generally a big water affair. Because of this, you need to go with bigger shot, bigger boats, larger decoy spreads and very good cold-weather gear. And, of course, you need experience. The big water, in cold weather, can be a very dangerous place.

Alternately, you can go rabbit hunting. This is the complete opposite of a duck hunt in that there is a need to dress warm but not so warm that you overheat as you move. And it’s on dry land, so there are none of the associated dangers of big, open water. Plus, you don’t have to set up scores of rabbit decoys or get up before dawn.

The point is that the snow and cold change everything and, often,

Not-So-Great Outdoorsman Steve Galea this means a rethinking of the activity. For example, I’ll happily bow hunt deer from a tree stand in the snow. If freezing rain has been in the offing, however, I’ll avoid trying to use my tree stands: I’m not looking to make an involuntary snow angel.

Most important to all of this is actually getting to your chosen activity. I’ve never actually seen a statistic that details it but I’d bet first crack at a big flock of mallards that a lot of hunts end before they are ever started because the hunter’s vehicle ends up in the ditch or can’t negotiate the road conditions on the way in.

That’s why snow tires are an

important outdoors tool and why learning to slow down and make sound assessments of road conditions is an important skill. The latter always provides the greater challenge.

I’ve personally been in several situations where the drive in was easy but the drive out required a lot of pushing, digging and cursing.

Usually, that story begins with me holding onto my seat and saying something like, “That’s an awfully big hill. We should probably park the truck here and walk the rest of the way.”

These words seem to provoke the driving outdoorsmen to reply with, “It’s okay; I’ve got four-wheel drive.”

This is perhaps the most frightening sentence in the entire outdoors.

Once you’ve heard this, it’s time to put on the back truss, hide your food, and prepare for a long walk out. That’s because this sentence means that the driver has determined that he’s going to take his

truck to places that a mountain goat would think twice about.

Typically, the ride ends with the front end of the truck teetering over a cliff, the back end on ice and the very real need for new underwear.

That’s when the driver will look at you and say, “Please let go of my larynx.”

What follows is an exercise in spinning tires and rocking the vehicle. Also, there is always at least one member of the group whose “recent” back injury prevents his assistance. But that’s okay because this guy is incredibly good at offering advice. He’ll tell you all sorts of backbreaking things to try.

And, often he comes in useful as an anger motivator – which helps when pushing a vehicle out of a tight spot.

Eventually, however, you get out and then you feel pretty good about it too. Which is as it should be.

Spring, after all, is a wonderful time of year.

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THAT ONE'S DENIED Wellesley netminder Jordan Bauman makes one of his 14 first-period saves in the team’s 5-4 loss to the Port Dover Sailors Nov. 27.

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Jacks forward Justin Roeder takes a shot on net during the third period of Saturday’s game.

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he Wellesley Applejacks experienced a couple of firsts last weekend. Unfortunately, they came out on the wrong end of each one.

The Jacks suffered their first regulation loss in nearly two months, a 4-2 decision against the Tavistock Braves Nov. 26, and followed it up Saturday by being the first team to lose to the Port Dover Sailors all season, a 6-5 final.

“The weekend was the first time this team has faced any adversity,” said head coach Kevin Fitzpatrick, whose team hadn’t lost in regulation since a 7-4 defeat in Delhi on Oct. 1, a stretch where the team went 8-0-3.

“It was a frustrating weekend.”

Friday night against Tavistock the Jacks played a tough game against the division-leading Braves, and were in it until the final buzzer sounded. Down 1-0 after the first, Wellesley tied it up at 9:47 of the second with Corey Way’s team-leading 12th goal of the season from Shawn Fitzpatrick, which had the Jacks optimistic heading into the third period.

Tavistock retook the lead at 6:46 of the third, and from there the game unraveled for the Jacks. The team took a costly too many men penalty at 7:51, and suffered for it. Ta-

vistock’s Darrin Pye scored just four seconds into the powerplay to put the Braves up 3-1, and Kyle Alyea made it 4-1 with a shorthanded goal at 14:47 to effectively put the game out of reach.

“It was a very good game up until then,” noted Fitzpatrick. “We had a guy break his stick on the faceoff right after (the too many men penalty) and they scored off of it. That’s going to happen.”

Eric Parr rounded out the scoring at 19:11 on the powerplay to make it a 4-2 game, assisted by Rob Hinschberger and Justin Roeder.

The Jacks looked to put the disappointing loss behind them on Nov. 27 against the winless Port Dover Sailors, who were dead last in the league with an ugly 0-151 record. Wellesley had won the previous three games against the Sailors this season by a combined score of 25 to 6, and they got out to a good start in this one as well.

Way scored for the sixth straight game to make it 1-0 with only 11 seconds left in the first, from Michael Forster and Geoff Parr. It was a fast-paced period with each team recording 14 shots on

goal. Geoff Parr broke up the play in the neutral zone and got the puck up to Forster to start a 2-on-1 the other way, leading to the goal.

Goaltender Jordan Bauman was strong in net for the Jacks, making several key saves to keep the Jacks from falling behind early.

The Sailors came out and scored early in the second to tie it up at one just 1:56 in, but Kevin Howorth restored the one-goal lead at 6:53 with a shorthanded goal. A Sailor forward tried to dump the puck deep into the Wellesley zone from centre ice to

start a line change, but the puck didn’t get deep enough and Howorth was away on a clear breakaway, shooting the puck top shelf.

Eric Parr added another less than two minutes later to put the Jacks up 3-1 at 8:48 of the second, from Way and Read Shantz, and the Jacks appeared poised to continue the Sailors misery.

“We went up 3-1 and everybody figured we were going to blow them away and they let up, and you can’t let up,” said Fitzpatrick.

Wellesley forward Geoff Parr took an interference penalty at 9:26, and the game turned in Port Dover’s favour. Connor Dorey scored on the powerplay at 10:19 to make it a 3-2 game, and Matt Vansickle completed the

> SEE JACKS ON PG. 29

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Basketball: Looking for another year's experience which included many Grade 9s playing a lot of basketball for him, coach Chris Finnie is optimistic about this year’s team, predicting that they should outperform last year’s junior team that didn’t win a game all season.

“We have more experience,” he said prior to Tuesday's season-opening victory over Waterloo-Oxford, 45-9.

“Hopefully they will use that experience to be more competitive.”

As the coach of a junior team, he said he has a lot of players who may have never played the game before, or have only played in gym class or with their friends in the schoolyard.

“Some of our newer guys are good athletes, so I hope they can learn and build good fundamental skills, not only for the team now, but when they go on to play senior ball as well,” Finnie said. “That means coaching

SHARKFEST CHAMPS The Woolwich girls’ Midget C rep team took the gold medal at the Barrie Sharkfest Tournament Nov. 19-21. Back row: coach Rod Martin, coach Murray Horst, Emma Norcott, Amy Calenda, Taylor Caldwell. Middle row: Kayla Wideman, Victoria Horst, Heather Lorenz, Kayla Death, Katharine Hoffman, Mandy Martin, Sarah Church, Lea Olsthoorn, Marissa Woodburn. Front row: Linny Lesage & Lizzy Vanderstam. Missing: Melanie Schwartzentruber, and trainer Vickie Caldwell.

The 12th annual Kids & Cops event is set for tomorrow (Sunday) at the Wellesley Arena, running from noon to 4 p.m. The day is aimed at children in the Twin Centre Minor Hockey Association from ages 4-10 from St. Clements, Hawkesville, Linwood, Heidelberg, Wellesley and St. Agatha.

On-ice sessions will be run by volunteers from the Waterloo Regional Police and the Wellesley Applejacks, with players from the Kitchener Rangers also attending. The Junior A team will hold a full practice around 2:30 p.m. Kids will get a chance to skate with the players, who will sign autographs as well.

For information, call Danny Bisch at (519) 656-2062.

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Two members of the EDSS senior girls’ basketball team have been rewarded for their strong play this season.

The Lancers’ Lydia Frey was named to the WCSSAA all-star first-team, while Kaitie Martin made it to the honourable mention list.

There were 24 players chosen as allstars, divided into a Blue team and a White team, and the game was played on Wednesday evening in Waterloo.

The final score was 50-40 for the Blue team, and Martin and Frey led the White team in scoring with 11 points and eight points respectively in a losing cause.

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the basics along with good technical skills, because it is a very technical game in high school.”

One thing that the coach predicts won’t change is the amount of heart his player will demonstrate every night, whether they’re winning or losing.

“We’re going to be a hustle team, and they showed that last year. They never packed it in and kept playing hard, even when they were losing.”

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“They were nervous about playing in the league, and the time commitment,” he said.

“Basketball isn’t the number-one sport for about half of them, so with this they get some basketball but not the time constraints.”

The junior squad, however, has high hopes heading into their new season. After a rebuilding year last season

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SCORECARD WOOLWICH NOVICE - GIRLS

OCT. 16 Owen Sound 11, Woolwich 4 Goals: Cassidy Moser, Brianna Jacobi x2, Ava Henderson (Erica Buehler) OCT. 17 Woolwich 14, Wellington North 1 Goals: Cassidy Moser x4, Erica Buehler x2, Ava Henderson x2, Madelyn Camm x2, Alice Wang x2, Brianna Jacobi, Hilary Bauman, (Madelyn Camm x3, Kayla McDougall x2, Cassidy Moser, Hilary Bauman, Brianna Jacobi, Alice Wang) OCT. 30 Woolwich 9, Wellington North 2 Goals: Maddy Waters x3, Ava Henderson x2, Caylee Gallant x2, Hannah Gramlow, Erica Buehler (Madelyn Camm x2, Ava Henderson, Erica Buehler) NOV. 3 Woolwich 14, Waterloo 1 Goals: Hilary Bauman x4, Cassidy Moser x3, Brianna Jacobi x3, Alice Wang x2, Maddy Waters, Hannah Gramlow (Alice Wang x5, Hilary Bauman x4, Brianna Jacobi x2, Cassidy Moser x2, Maddy Waters, Ashley Brubacher, Kayla McDougall) NOV. 13 Woolwich 12, Kitchener 8 Goals: Alice Wang x4, Brianna Jacobi x3, Ava Henderson x2, Madelyn Camm x2 Caylee Gallant, (Caylee Gallant x3, Madelyn Camm x3, Hannah Gramlow x2, Alice Wang, Brianna Jacobi, Ava Henderson)

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LOCAL LEAGUE #2 - GIRLS

NOV. 27 Grand River #1 5, Novice LL#2 3 Goals: Jordan Torti x3 (Kirsten Livingston, Bella Kuchma, Kylee Zacharczuk, Mackenna Krulicki)

TWIN CENTRE HERICANES ATOM C GIRLS

NOV. 27 Ingersoll 5, Hericanes 3 Goals: Sadie Diebold, Marrissa Lebold, Jade Lipczynski (Madelynn Jantzi, Kate Seip, Olivia Bolender)

TWIN CENTRE HERICANES PEEWEE LL - GIRLS

NOV. 27 Twin Centre 3, Stratford 2 Goals: Kristen Kraemer, Jessica Harnack, Ashley Yost (Leah Sebben)

WOOLWICH WILD BANTAM LL – GIRLS TOURNAMENT

GAME 1: Woolwich 3, CYGHA Wonder 1 Goals: Erin Graham, Leslie Quinn, Alise Fife (Jessica Townsend, Marlowe Schott, Brianna Schlupp, Breanna Campbell, Emily Schuurmans, Lize Schuurmans) GAME 2: Woolwich Wild 2, Aurora 1 Goals: Emily Schuurmans, Megan Thoman (Emily Schuurmans, Erin Graham) QUARTER FINAL: Woolwich Wild 2, CYGHA Gold1 Goals: Lize Schuurmans, Breanna Campbell (Alise Fife x2, Lize Schuurmans) SEMI FINAL: Oakville 1, Woolwich 1 Goals: Alise Fife (Breanna Campbell, Lize Schuurmans)

WINDSOR GIRLS BANTAM BB - GIRLS

NOV. 27 Waterloo 3, Windsor 1 Goals: Landis Saunders, Rebecca Luis,

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Corey Hinsperger (Lauren Lawson, Landis Saunders, Rebecca Luis, Tori Martin) NOV. 27 Woolwich 2, Windsor 0 Goals: Randi Paul, Victoria Cote (Rebecca Luis) Shutout: Lauren Lesage

TWIN CENTRE MIDGET LL #1 - GIRLS

NOV. 26 Hericanes 1, London 1 Goals: Callie Churchill (Shannon Novak, Jessica Dunbar) NOV. 26 Hericanes 2, Oakville 0 Goals: Holly Lorentz, Janessa Heywood (Sarah Van Allen, Jessica Dunbar) Shutout: Lindsay Dietrich NOV. 27 Stratford # 1 2, Hericanes 0 NOV. 28 Hericanes 2, Stratford #2 0 Goals: Janessa Heywood x2 (Holly Lorentz, Ally Guenther, Lisa Guenther) Shutout: Lindsay Dietrich NOV. 28 Burlington 3, Hericanes 1 Goals: Sarah Van Allen NOV. 29 Hericanes 4, Kitchener Lancers 0 Goals: Janessa Heywood x 2, Carling Cisecki, Shannon Novak (Sarah Van Allen, Becky Cornwall, Holly Lorentz, Emily Detzler, Callie Churchill, Jessica Dunbar) Shutout: Lindsay Dietrich

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #1 - BOYS

NOV. 27 Twin Centre LL2 3, Twin Centre LL1 2 Goals: Zach Lipczynski, Alex Kaufman (Michael Hayes) NOV. 29 Twin Centre 5, Paris 3 0 Goals: Tyler Zyta x3, Alex Kaufman, Michael Hayes (Sam Erb x2, Zach Lipczynski, Kodie Gerber, Alex Erb, Will Edwards) Shutout: Aidan Lipczynski

TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LOCAL LEAGUE #2 - BOYS

NOV. 27 Twin Centre LL#2 3, Twin Centre LL#1 2 Goals: William Weber, Linden Jantzi, Curtis Butler (Brock Krulicki, Curtis Butler) NOV. 29 Twin Centre LL#2 9, Tavistock LL#1 2 Goals: Will Weber x3, Curtis Butler x2, Jack Koebel, Linden Jantzi, Brock Krulicki, Noah Gilchrist (Eric Poirier x3, Curtis Butler, Jack Koebel, Tyler Rose, Lucas Hergott, William Weber, James Snyder, Caleb Wellman, Brock Krulicki)

WOOLWICH NOVICE LL #1 - BOYS

NOV. 28 Woolwich Novice LL #2 6, Woolwich Novice LL #1 1 Goals: Tanner Mann (Ben Witmer, Danny Soehner)

WOOLWICH NOVICE LL #2 - BOYS

NOV. 27 Woolwich Wildcats 7, Paris 4 Goals: Nathan Taylor x5, Andrew Weber, Cameron Leonard (Andrew Kieswetier x3, Nathan Taylor, Cameron Leonard) NOV. 28 Woolwich Novice LL #2 6, Woolwich Novice LL #1 1 Goals: Nathan Taylor x6 (Simon Shantz, Gavin Wright) NOV. 30 Twin Centre Stars LL #3 5, Woolwich Wildcats LL #2 4

Goals: Nathan Taylor x3, Matthew Yorke (Simon Shantz, Cody Kroetsch, Connor Kroetsch) WOOLWICH NOVICE LL #3 - BOYS

NOV. 20 Woolwich 12, St George 1 Goals: Cameron Martin X8 Nathan Curtis x2 Caden Sellars Parker Merlihan (Kieren Oberholzer, Dante Del Cul, Cole Seabrook) NOV 21 Twin Centre 10, Woolwich 3 Goals: Patrick Perry, Nathan Curtis Cameron Martin (Ben Martin, Keith Mikel, Dante Del Cul)

WOOLWICH NOVICE TYKE SELECT BOYS

NOV. 25 Woolwich 5, Erin-Hillsburgh 3 Goals: Jake McDonald x2, Cole Slade, Kody Lewis, Colton Schmitt (Jake McDonald x2, Owen Lee, Tyler Brezynskie, Kody Lewis, Cole Slade, Ethan Birmingham) NOV. 27 Woolwich 6, Centre Wellington 0 Goals: Jake McDonald x2, Cole Slade x2, Owen Lee, Gavin Roemer (Ethan Birmingham x2, Brett Moser x2, Cole Slade, Jake McDonald, Gavin Roemer, Colton Schmitt) Shutout: Brett Strohoff and Quinn Brown NOV. 28 Woolwich 2, Georgetown 1 Goals: Nolan Steringa, Colton Schmitt (Weston Bradley, Kody Lewis)

OAKVILLE NOVICE MAJOR A - BOYS

NOV. 29 Woolwich 2, Oakville 1 Goals: Brett Allen, Isiah Katsube (Brett Allen)

GUELPH NOVICE MAJOR AA - BOYS

NOV. 26 Woolwich 5, Pickering 0 Goals: Connor Bradley x2, Lucas Huber, Mitchell Lee, Isiah Katsube (Brett Allen x2, Blake Roemer x2, Trevor Ferretti, Spencer Young, Kyler Austin) Shutout: Simon Huber NOV. 26 North Bay 4, Woolwich 1 Goals: Mitchell Lee (Connor Bradley) NOV. 27 Chatham 8, Woolwich 1 Goals: Mitchell Lee NOV. 28 North Bay 5, Woolwich 4 Goals: Isiah Katsube x2, Mitchell Lee x2 (Ryan Elliot, Spencer Young, Keaton McLaughlin, Blake Roemer)

WOOLWICH MINOR ATOM A - BOYS

NOV. 26 Woolwich 6, Burlington 1 Goals: Jake Code x3, Austin Cousineau, Eli Baldin, Mackenzie Willms (Austin Cousineau x3, Griffen Rollins x2, Justin Taylor, Eli Baldin, Mackenzie Willms, Ethan Young, Jake Code ) NOV. 27 Woolwich 12, Beaver County 0 Goals: Brody Waters x4, Ethan Young x2, Griffen Rollins x2, Jake Code x2, Sam Davidson, Lukas Shantz (Seth Morrison x2, Josh Martin x2, Mackenzie Willms x2, Brody Waters, Jake Code, Ethan Young, Austin Cousineau, Lukas Shantz ) Shutout: Riley Demers NOV. 27 Woolwich 7, Niagara Falls 1 Goals: Brody Waters x2, Jake Code, Griffen Rollins, Austin Cousineau, Josh Martin, Sam Davidson (Eli Baldin x2, Griffen Rollins x2, Austin Cousineau, Lukas Shantz, Sam

Davidson, Jake Code, Josh Martin) NOV. 28 Woolwich 5, Milton 0 Goals: Josh Martin x 2, Griffen Rollins, Brody Waters, Eli Baldin (Griffen Rollins x2, Justin Taylor, Ethan Young, Lukas Shantz, Mackenzie Willms, Seth Morrison, Austin Cousineau) Shutout: Riley Demers NOV. 28 Woolwich 5, Brampton 0 Goals: Brody Waters x2, Lukas Shantz, Ethan Young, Austin Cousineau (Mackenzie Willms x2, Brody Waters, Griffen Rollins, Seth Morrison, Sam Davidson, Justin Taylor) Shutout: Cyrus Martin WOOLWICH ATOM LL #1 - BOYS

NOV. 25 Woolwich 1, Plattsville 0 Goals: Matthew MacDonald (CJ Sider) Shutout: Cal Schell and Liam O'Brien NOV. 27 Woolwich 2, New Hamburg 1 Goals: Matthew MacDonald, Tyler Horst (Matthew Dunn, Simon Zenker) NOV. 30 New Hamburg 6, Woolwich 5 Goals: Bruce Martin x2, Joseph Boehm x2, CJ Sider (Tim Brunkard, Matthew MacDonald, Tyler Horst, Matthew Dunn)

WOOLWICH ATOM LL #2 - BOYS

NOV. 27 Beverly 7, Woolwich 2 Goals: Devin Williams x2 (Kyle Gingrich) NOV. 28 New Hamburg Atom LL #3 4, Woolwich 1 Goals: Hayden Fretz (Kyle Gingrich)

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NOV. 20 Woolwich 11, Paris 1 Goals: Kayden Zacharczuk x5, Travis Weber x3, Hunter Schmitt, Ryan Parrott, Nathan Kocher (Travis Weber x3, Kyle Deyell, Kayden Zacharczuk, Hunter Schmitt, Wonkyu Shin)

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NOV. 22 Woolwich 3, Dundas 2 Goals: Kieffer Beard x2, Zac Pickard (Cameron Mailette x2) NOV. 24 Action 4 Woolwich 3 Goals : Nick Ravelle, Justin Uhrig, Kyle Bruder (Kieffer Beard, Owen Harnock, Luke Haugerud)

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NOV. 19 Woolwich 3, South Point 1 Goals: Jackson Hale, Ryan Belanger, Luke Haugerud (Owen Harnock, Tim Mayberry) NOV. 20 Ancaster 4 Woolwich 1 Goals : Zac Picard (Justin Uhrig) NOV. 20 Windsor 1, Woolwich 3 Goals: Zac Pickard x2, Justin Uhrig (Nick Ravelle, Ben Lenaears)

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NOV. 24 Woolwich 4, Hespeler 0 Goals: Nathan Schwarz x3, Jake Lewis (Nick Kieswetter x2, Brett Henry, Gareth Rowland, Benton Weber, Jake Lewis) Shutout: Ryan Conrad NOV. 26 Woolwich 4, Arthur 2 Goals: James Cooper x2, Aaron Weigel, Jake Lewis (Aaron Weigel x2, Benton Weber, Gareth Rowland)

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NOV. 28 Dundas 2, Woolwich 0

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NOV. 27 New Hamburg #1 6, Woolwich 1 Goals: Quinn Young

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NOV. 29 Woolwich 3, Burlington 1 Goals: Garrett Schultz x2, Mathiue Fife (Tyler Moser, Connor Bauman, Blake Doerdecker, Jayden Hipel) NOV. 30 Woolwich 7, Brampton 2 Goals: Connor Runstedler x3, Garrett Schultz, Liam Dickson, Kelby Martin, Mathiue Fife (Liam Dickson x2, Tyler Moser x2, Colby Bond x2, Greg Huber x2, Jayden Hipel, Kelby Martin)

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NOV. 20 Woolwich LL #1 3, New Hamburg #3 - 3 Goals: Ryan Devries x2, Brodie Keen (Brodie Keen x2, Jake Bruder, Jordan Vanderwoude, Chris Taylor )

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NOV. 23 Woolwich #2 7, Embro 4 Goals: Andrew Stoltz x2, Trevor Bowman, Calvin Cressman, Matt Lalonde, Nick Berlet, Marty Metzger (Brendan Taylor x2, Nick Berlet, Matt Lalonde, Jacob Cornwall, Calvin Cressman, Marty Metzger, Trevor Bowman, Austin Horst) NOV. 28 Woolwich #2 2, Woolwich #3 0 Goals: Austin Horst, Matt Lalonde (Marty Metzger, Calvin Cressman, Austin Horst) Shutout: Jared Wilson NOV. 29 Woolwich #2 6, Twin Centre #2 2 Goals: Nick Berlet x2, Calvin Cressman x2, Austin Horst, Jacob Cornwall (Mike Sokolowski x2, Trevor Bowman x2, Marty Metzger x2, Matt Lalonde)

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NOV. 27 Brampton 6, Woolwich 3 Goals: Alex Uttley x2, Adam Jokic (Cole Lenaers, Troy Nechanicky, Jason Gamble, Harrison Clifford)

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NOV. 23 Woolwich 8, Guelph 5 Goals: Johnny Clifford x3, Alex MacLean x3, Ryan Schinker, Adrian Gilles (Alex MacLean x3, Ryan Schinker x2, Johnny Clifford x2, Timmy Shuh x2) NOV. 26 Woolwich 9, Hespeler 2 Goals: Harrison Clifford x3, Johnny Clifford x2, Alex Uttley, Alex White, Grant Kernick, Ryan Schinker (Johnny Clifford x3, Grant Kernick x2, Ryan Schinker x2, Harrison Clifford, Adam Cook, Alex White, Alex MacLean, Sebastian Lane)

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NOV. 24 Dundas 5, Woolwich 1 Goals: Spencer Inglis (Tristern White, Eddie Huber) NOV. 27 Woolwich 4, Arthur 2 Goals: Connor Pierson, Evan Martin, Tanner Horst, Colton Williams NOV. 30 Arthur 4, Woolwich 2 Goals: Tanner Horst x2 (Bailey Nickel x2, Evan Martin)

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Kings: Hectic schedule will ease off going into the Christmas break

JOCKEYING FOR POSITION Kings forward Andrew Smith (#24) screens the Brantford goalie during first-period action Sunday night at the WMC.

your guys ‘OK, we’re doing good things, keep it up.’ And lets be honest, the guys equate good things with a lead on the scoreboard. It’s very tough to convince a team that is in a 0-0 game that they’re playing well,” Haddaway said.

In the second, the Kings continued their dominant play and outshot the Siskins 19-10, and were rewarded with a pair of goals, the first at 5:09 by Andrew Smith from MacCormack and Baleshta, and the

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second from Woolley on the powerplay at 8:27 from Wade Pfeffer and Campbell.

In the third, however, the Kings let the lead slip away once again. Waterloo scored just 59 seconds into the period from Kevin Billings on the powerplay, and tied it up at

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out rookie Brady Campbell scored his 17th of the year for Elmira to tie the game at 10:39, from Ryan Clarkson and Brad Kraus.

A parade of penalties, however, derailed any momentum the Kings may have generated, with Listowel scoring a pair of five-on-three powerplay goals at 13:49 and 14:38 of the period to put Listowel ahead 3-1.

Jarred Parent pulled the Kings to within one with a goal at 19:14 from Andrew Smith and Chris Zubac, but the damage had already been done.

“It was the second period that really killed us,” admitted Haddaway. “They had three five-on-threes and we killed one, but that’s asking an awful lot to kill five-on-threes: those should be almost automatic goals against a team that has the firepower that Listowel does.”

The Kings actually pulled ahead briefly to start the third period on goals from Wade Pfeffer at 3:52 from Josh Woolley and Brennon Pearce, and from Lukas Baleshta on the powerplay from Spencer MacCormack at 5:37.

The Kings couldn’t hold the lead, though, surrendering a tying goal at 7:54, and falling behind for good at 15:35 on a goal from Caleb Cameron.

Haddaway pulled his goalie with just under two minutes left to try and find some lastminute magic, but to no avail.

Listowel scored twice into the empty net to seal the victory.

The Kings didn’t have much time to worry about that loss, though, as they were right

back at it on Saturday in Waterloo.

Despite holding the edge in play, the Kings failed to score in the opening period once again, which Haddaway said could start wearing on the players.

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16:57 with another powerplay goal. Suddenly, despite holding a decisive edge in shots and play for much of the night, the Kings were tied with only three minutes to go in the visitors building.

For great teams, that is where leadership steps up and takes control. And that’s precisely what veteran Shane Smith did. Just 36 seconds after Waterloo potted the tying goal, Smith scored his third of the season from two other

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veteran leaders on the team – Baleshta and Andrew Smith – to regain the lead.

Andrew Smith would then go on to score the empty net insurance goal at 19:28 to make it a 4-2 final.

“I just tipped my cap to them after that,” the coach said. “I told the guys I was proud of them after the game; I think it showed a lot of character.”

The Kings certainly needed that confidence heading into Sunday night’s game at home against the Brantford Golden Eagles, winners of 11 straight games heading into their matchup at the WMC, which had given them a two-point lead over Elmira in the standings.

The first period was not kind to the Kings, however, as they trailed 3-2 heading into the dressing room. The low point of the period came at 15:16 while the Kings were on the powerplay. Brantford’s Dave Lazarus broke up an Elmira pass at his own blue line, but the puck got away from him and headed down towards Kings goalie Matt Smith.

Smith won the race for the puck just inside the line, but shot it directly into Lazarus’ chest. Lazarus corralled the puck and skated it into the wide open cage, making it a 3-1 game.

The goal silenced the stunned crowd at the WMC, and could have marked the beginning of the end for the Kings and sent Brantford towards their 12th consecutive win. But the Kings wouldn’t allow it.

Andrew Smith pulled the Kings to within one on the powerplay at 18:24, giving renewed

life to his teammates and giving the fans at the Dan Snyder Arena a reason to cheer again.

The teams traded goals in the second period, and the Kings entered the third period down 4-3.

“It’s the third period of the third game in a row for the third weekend in a row against a team that’s won 11 in a row.

This is nothing more than gutcheck time,” said Haddaway.

Cass Frey scored his second of the season at 6:19 after some tremendous work by Woolley and Campbell along the boards on the forecheck. Woolley made a perfect tape-to-tape pass to Frey from behind the net, tying it up at four.

Brantford retook the lead at 8:06, but much like the Waterloo game the night before, the Kings stepped up and didn’t let that late goal faze them. Clarkson tied the game once again from Josh MacDonald and Campbell just over a minute after the Brantford goal, and MacCormack gave the Kings the lead for good at 14:47 from Baleshta and Parent.

At the final buzzer, it was 6-5 for the home team.

Haddaway said the team leaders have really stepped up over the past three weeks, and helped to carry the team through this particularly difficult section of the schedule.

“Our guys are taking more and more ownership of those things on the bench."

After a tough stretch, the Kings followed up with a 4-3 loss to Thorold on Wednesday night. They return to the ice tomorrow (Sunday) to face the Cambridge Winter Hawks.

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the school’s first girls’ hockey title. The team did, however, lose their leading scorer from last year, Erin Zach, who is now playing for the Rochester Institute of Technology in the NCAA this season.

“We lost one of our top players from last year, and it wouldn’t surprise me if she was among the top of the (NCAA) scoring leaders when the season is over,” said Swatridge. “But we might be a more well-rounded team this year.”

A better-rounded Lancer team might prove trouble-

some for the rest of the league.

Despite their limited ice-time together prior to Tuesday’s game, the team displayed a quick offence that was able to move the puck crisply and stay in the opposition zone for prolonged periods of time, and a stifling defense that limited St. David’s to few shots, and even fewer quality scoring chances.

The team is also relatively inexperienced compared to last year’s squad. Of the 17 players on the team, four are Grade 9s and six are Grade 10s. But Swatridge and fellow coach Steve Karn are optimistic about their chances.

“We’re fast,” Swatridge said.

“We’ve got talented, young kids with lots of energy, and a good bunch of kids with lots of character. In the past we’ve had some attitude problems, but not this year.”

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Lancers: Coach likes team's chances as hockey season gets underway

IN CONTROL Kristen Kaster dives for the puck sitting in the St. David’s crease during the first period of Tuesday’s 4-1 win. Right, Kaitlin Doering corrals the puck as she crosses the blue line.

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Jacks: Time to get back on ice and put losses behind them, says coach > CONTINUED FROM PG. 24 comeback just 1:59 later to knot it at three heading into the dressing room after two periods.

Wellesley roared out of the gates to start the third period, with Ben Ahier scoring just 55 seconds into the period from Justin Roeder and

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OH WHAT A NIGHT Christine

Brown (left), Emily Philips, Brady Schummer, Candace Kuepfer, Tyler Kehl, Sam Lanesmith, Caleb Fahey, and Hannah Johnson are among those in the EDSS production of 1001 Arabian Nights, which will be staged Dec. 9-11.

Drama department production tells some of the classic stories of 1001 Arabian Nights Steve Kannon

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he EDSS gym will be converted into an Arabian marketplace where the audience can interact with the players as the drama department stages a production of 1001 Arabian Nights beginning next Thursday.

The theatrical offering is based on medieval Middle East literary epic “The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night,” from whence comes such classic characters as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba.

A Persian sultan, King Shahryar, whose first wife was unfaithful, mistrusts all women. After executing the first wife, each day he marries another woman, killing her each night before she can betray him. Eventually, he is wed to Scheherazade, who comes up with a plan to avoid the fate of so many

before her: to delay her execution, she tells the king a story on their first night together and begins a second one, careful to stop before the end. The sultan eagerly awaits the conclusion of the story the following night. After 1,001 nights of stories of honor, revenge, humor and fantasy, he makes her his queen.

Being bright, Scheherazade tells stories that gradually alter the king’s outlook on life, ultimately leading him to spare her life and to become a better, more compassionate ruler.

“Scheherazade stalls the beheading by telling a story every night until the king learns a lesson about treating people nicely,” explained DJ Carroll, who heads the drama department at Elmira District Secondary School.

Staging 1001 Arabian Nights is a major undertak-

ing, one he chose to mark his tenth year at the school.

Some 60 students get in on the act, which mixes some of the stories with live music and dancing.

“We won’t be doing all 1,001 stories,” he laughed.

Among the tales presented will be the well-known Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Others include the story of the greedy merchants, the ox and the donkey, and the emperor and the demon.

Centuries old, the stories still deliver a message that resonates with audiences, he said.

“It’s a great family show, because the stories appeal to everyone. And the lessons are as timely now as they were then.”

Scheherazade’s stories tell of a just ruler who pardons his subjects, about women of

virtue and wisdom and selfsacrificing love, about men caught up in foolish pride who mistake these women for monsters or dismiss them without cause. The play ends with the sultan, in a spirit of repentance and humility, professing his love and devotion to Scheherazade.

Call it self-improvement, the kind many of us could benefit from.

Along with learning a moral or two, the audience will get a chance to participate in the goings-on.

“There’s plenty of opportunity for people to get involved – it’s a very interactive story,” said Carroll.

Because of the staging, the audience will be immersed in the world of those Arabian nights.

“The costumes are amazing. We have live music that really sets the mood.

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Think of a Bollywood scene moved to points west, namely to Persia.

Actually, the original stories draw on Indian influences, as well as ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.

In the stage production, the mix is all about fun and entertainment.

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TOWNSHIP OFWOOLWICH COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS 2011- 2014 The Township of Woolwich is looking for citizens and community members to get involved with the community through the Township’s various committees.

The term of the Committee will follow the same term of Council, ending November 30, 2014. Members are needed for the following Committees: Committee of Adjustment (5 members) Elmira Business Improvement Area – (6 members) Must be a member of the Elmira BIA Property Standards Committee – (4 members) Township of Woolwich Environmental Enhancement Committee (TWEEC) –(5 members) Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (4 members) Application forms and detailed information regarding each of the above Committee may be obtained by contacting the Council and Information Services Office at (519) 669-6005 or by visiting the Township’s website www.woolwich.ca. The final date for submitting completed applications is Wednesday, December 15, 2010.

2011 DOG TAGS Dog Tags for 2011 are now available to be purchased

at the following locations: • Township of Woolwich Office at 24 Church Street West, Elmira.

• Village Pet Food Shoppe, 10 Church St. W., Elmira • Creature Comfort Pet Emporium, 1553 King Street North, St. Jacobs • Eldale Veterinary Clinic, 150 Church Street West, Elmira • Breslau Animal Hospital, 2057 Victoria St. North (Unit 3), Breslau, Ontario.

The fees before April 15th are: Neutered/Spayed $20.00 Non-neutered/non-spayed - $25.00 And after April 15th are: Neutered/Spayed - $25.00 Non-neutered/non-spayed - $30.00 A replacement tag costs $5.00

If you have found a dog or lost your dog please call the Township Office at 519-669-1647 Extension 6106.

OVERNIGHT PARKING BAN Effective December 1st to April 1st, parking is prohibited on all Township roads and streets from 2:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Vehicles found parked overnight on Township roads during the parking ban or on Regional roads at any time will be ticketed. For further information, please call 519-669-1647 extension 6009 or 6005.

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Closing your eyes helps enhance the kissing experience

Q.

“How old are you?” asks Auntie Ann at little Jimmy’s fourth birthday party. “I’m four,” he replies, and then asks, “How old are you?” Everybody laughs. Why?

A.

Jimmy just broke one of the culture’s “politeness rules,” which most of us learn by about age three, says David Crystal in A Little Book of Language. He was being cute but of course Auntie Ann wouldn’t tell her age. And gradually Jimmy will learn that one thing you should never do is ask a lady this question.

In English, when we meet people for the first time, we can talk about the weather or which part of the country they’re from, no problem.

But we wouldn’t ask whether they’re married or how much they earn.

Not asking a woman her age is a cardinal rule of polite conversation found in many cultures and languages but not everywhere. In some Asian cultures, questions about age or earnings are perfectly normal. “It’s just their way of being friendly.”

Q. A.

What’s the net effect of 0 and 1 on our lives?

Make that “Net effect,” as 0 and 1 are the binary digits, or bits, that are the basis for data transmitted over the Internet, says Science Illustrated magazine.

Transistors switch an electrical signal on (“1”) and off (“0”), creating a string of 1s and 0s called binary code.

Eight bits make up one byte, which can represent a letter or number. One

Strange But True Bill & Rich Sones

exabyte equals 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, and with about a quarter of the world’s population now online, the daily global Web action amounts to roughly 500 of these exabytes. Now, that’s some effect!

Q.

As any seasoned cook knows, a quick sprinkle of water on a skillet can tell if it’s hot enough, as the drops bead up and dance about on a thin cushion of water vapor.What’s the name for this remarkable phenomenon?

A.

It’s the “Leidenfrost effect,” after Johann Gottlieb Leidenfrost, who studied it in 1756, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics.

This is what keeps the drops from sizzling away immediately, telltale sign the skillet isn’t yet hot enough.

The thin-cushion Leidenfrost effect also comes into play when barefoot firewalkers daringly step across glowing hot coals. The sweat on the nervous walker’s feet may vaporize to form a sort of protective layer, with other factors helping as well.

This effect even appears in Robert Ruark’s novel Something of Value. To determine which of two men was telling the truth, a tribe forced them to lick a very hot knife, the idea being that the liar would have a dry tongue out of fear and so would be burned,

while the truth-teller would have a moist tongue and be protected by the insulating vapor.

Q.

Why do most of us, when we get lucky, kiss with our eyes closed?

A.

Because in this way we minimize distraction and increase our touch sensitivity, fulfilling 19th-century psychologist William James’s aphorism, “Touch is both the alpha and omega of affection,” says David G. Myers in Psychology: Ninth Edition.

In fact, the deprivation of any sense can show up in the accentuation of another sense. In one experiment, people who had spent 90 minutes sitting quietly blindfolded became better at locating the direction of sounds they heard. And blind musicians are more likely than sighted ones to develop perfect pitch.

People who have been deaf from birth exhibit enhanced attention to their peripheral vision; their auditory cortex, starved for sensory input, remains largely intact and becomes somehow responsive to touch and visual input.

Q.

Can you cite any English words containing the same letter three times in a row?

A.

Here’s saying you can’t because the usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters, says Oxford University Press.

When three letters do happen to come together, hyphens are used to break them up, e.g., bee-eater, bell-like, cross-section, shell-less. A person

who flees is a fleer, not a fleeer, and someone who sees is a seer, not a seeer. Chaffinches used to be called Chaff finches, but when the two words were merged, one of the f ’s was dropped.

“Written representation of noises often contain triple letters, such as brrr, shhh, zzz, but these don’t count as proper words.”

Q.

“Each and every one of us must help protect the environment.” So, who can find fault with these words?

A.

The sentiment is fine but the emphatic “each and every” has been widely condemned by usage critics for its alleged redundancy, since the words “each” and “every” convey the same message, writes Mark Davidson in Right, Wrong, and Risky.

Moreover, according to various dictionaries of English usage, “the phrase is a cliche, a pomposity, and a bit of bureaucratic bombast.” One style guide even contemptuously dismissed it as “pitchman’s jargon.”

Some risk-free advice regarding this, from lawyer-lexicographer Bryan A. Garner: “Unless you need a special emphasis, avoid this trite phrase.”

So here’s hoping that each and every reader out there heeds this advice, each and every time it’s called for.

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On December 3, 2009, our family lost a very special person and our lives will never be the same.

Memories of his ideas, his humor and his good natured ways will live on forever in our hearts.

And like a single drop of rain, That on still waters fall, His life did ripples make, And touched the lives of all.

Two years ago we lost the sweetest, kindest and most courageous little boy any family could know.

Not a moment goes by without a thought or a memory of your precious smile, your wonderful laugh or one of your BIG SQUEEZY HUGS. Whether it was getting another badge at Cubs, catching frogs while camping or telling us one of your many funny jokes, you always brought a smile to everyone that you had ever met.

It broke our hearts to lose you.

We get through the day knowing you are in a better place. A place without suffering. A place with God. We will never forget you, Chris -Love Nicole, Dad, and all of your family and friends

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When losing leads to winning Despite a number of teams being disqualified when a member failed to complete the necessary weigh-in, the totals for the Elmira and Milverton locations were impressive.

This is Shaefer’s second attempt at being the biggest winner and this year, her efforts paid off. The Elmira resident lost 11 per cent of her total body weight in the six weeks.

“The program is an inspiration for me,” said Shaefer. “I have been battling my weight for a while and this was a good way to get myself going. I love a good competition.”

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uring Pinacle Fitness’ annual fitness challenge called ‘The Biggest Winner,’ it was Jeanette Shaefer who came out on top. But Pinacle owner Barney Kuntze is certain that everyone was a winner this year: Elmira participants lost a total combined weight of nearly 480 pounds.

“This year’s challenge went over very well,” said Kuntze. “We had our closing ceremonies this past week and it was great to see everyone come out with a smile on their face and proud of what they had accomplished.”

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“Most of the time, my team exercised together as a group,” she said.

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The team with the most weight lost won a prize of $1,500, and Shaefer’s team came in second place overall.

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“I am really proud of everyone who participated.”

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(long-time member of St. Theresa’s Church, Elmira) - peacefully with her family at her side on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, in her 90th year. Carmela, beloved wife of the late Arthur. Loving and proud mother of Leonard (Sandy) of Newcastle, Charles (Sharon) of Seattle, Patrick (Paula) of Elmira, Gary (Lorraine) of Vancouver and Vincent (Leona) of Bolton. Grandmother of Sarah, David, Patrick; Courtney, Hillary; Meaghan, Michael; Dustin, Corey, Chelsea, and Stephen. Great grandmother to Brady, Hope, and Olive. Sadly missed by her brother and sisters and extended family. Sister of James Falco, Joseph Falco, Steven Falco and Grace Chalmers, and predeceased by many brothers and sisters. She will be fondly remembered by her six foster daughters. Friends may call at the NEWCASTLE FUNERAL HOME, 386 Mill St. S., Newcastle (just north of 401 at the lights, 1-877-987-3964) on Friday, December 3, from 7-9 p.m., with a prayer service at 8:30 p.m., and Saturday, December 4, from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. A Funeral Mass will be held in St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, 214 King Street E., Newcastle, on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. Interment, Elmira Union Cemetery. Donations to the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated.

A special thank you to the staff of the Fosterbrooke Long Term Care Facility for their care and compassion. (Expressions of sympathy may be made on-line through www.newcastlefuneralhome.com)

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DEATH NOTICES

>>BRUBACHER,

Curtis – Curtis Brubacher died peacefully in the presence of his wife Alice (Snider), on November 24, 2010, in his 94th year. He was born in 1917 east of Heidelberg.

>>CHALMERS, James – After a fulfilling life, Jim passed away in his 80th year on Monday, November 29, 2010. Jim was the founding headmaster of St. John’s Kilmarnock School.

>>S H O E M A K E R ,

Louise – At St. Mary’s Hospital, Kitchener, on Monday, November 29, 2010, Mrs. Louise Elizabeth (Schellenber) Shoemaker of Elmira, and formerly of Gowanstown, in her 79th year.

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>>Life in Spite of Me, Extraordinary Hope after a Fatal Choice, Kristen Jane Anderson.

Coming to Woodside Bible Fellowship.

Youth Christmas banquet, $20/person; $8 speaker only beginning at 8 p.m. For tickets contact Pastor Randy or Sherrie Baker 519669-8530. This evening is for students.

DECEMBER 4

>>Life in Spite of Me, Extraordinary Hope after a Fatal Choice, Kristen Jane Anderson.

Coming to Woodside Bible Fellowship.

Ladies Breakfast, 8-10 a.m. $8/person.For tickets contact Heidi Konig 519-669-1296 x 26. >>Breakfast with St. Nicholas 8-9:30 a.m.

(before the parade). Pancakes and sausage $5 per person. Trinity United Church.

Advance tickets only from the church office or Read’s Decorating.

>>The

Paradise & District Lions Club third annual Tree of Light will take place at 6 p.m. in St. Clements, beside the library. Enjoy free apple cider, cookies and participate in caroling lead by the St. Clements Church senior choir. All welcome.

For more information or to purchase $5 bulbs for the tree contact Annette Kuhn at 519-699-5917.

>>K-W Twin City Harmonizer Christmas Concert – Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs. Two performances – 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12.50 each can be purchased at the door. (children are free).

Refreshments will be served after each performance. >>Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir presents annual Christmas Concert, “Let Us Adore Him”, 3 p.m. at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church. Tickets available in advance or at the door ($10/$5 children/$15 family) Contact Colleen Weber, 519-669-4296 or visit mennosingers.com/imcc for further information. >>Hark The Glad Sound! The Saviour Comes – an evening of Advent and Christmas music presented by several Elmira churches. 7 p.m. at Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N. Elmira. Join us for an evening of anthems, solos, readings and carol singing. Admission is free.

Goodwill offering. Proceeds to the Woolwich Counselling Centre.

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DECEMBER 8

>>Millennium Choral Organization presents A Christmas Mosaic, 7:30 p.m., Nith Valley Singers, Steinmnan Mennonite Church, 1316 Snyders Rd.W. Baden. Adults $18; seniors/students $15; children (12 and under) $10. Tickets 519-662-3291.

DECEBMER 9

>>Rockwood

Farmers’ Parade of Lights, beginning at 7 p.m. Rockwood, located East of Guelph on Hwy 7. For more information visit www.rockwoodfarmersparade.org.

DECEMBER 10

>>Christmas Tyme In Wellesley – parade starts at 6:45 p.m. from Wellesley Public School. Tree lighting ceremony, caroling, Christmas manger and live nativity.

Preschool story time (3-4:30 p.m.) with Santa, children 6 and under will receive free treat bags and pictures with Santa at Pfeifer Gallery. Live nativity 6:30 & 7:20 p.m. >>St.

Teresa’s annual Christmas dinner will be held of St. Teresa of Avila Church, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira. Continuous meal will begin at 6-7 pm. Those who have purchased take out tickets can pick their meals up by 5:30. Tickets available at the parish office Mon. – Fri. ,9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Adults $15; children 6-12 yrs $7.50; children 5 and under free. Last chance to purchase tickets Dec. 7. All are welcome.

>>“Not A Creature Was Stirring,” a children’s musical, 7:30 p.m. at Floradale Mennonite Church, 22 Florapine Road, Floradale. Everyone welcome.

DECEMBER 5

>>Jubilee Brass 7 p.m. Come and enjoy this Salvation Army brass band. A true musical beginning to the Christmas season.

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>>The Waterloo Regional Police Male Chorus with special guests Constable Brian Duyn and the Eastwood Collegiate Choirs and Strings present “We Need a Little Christmas;” 7:30 p.m. at Grandview Baptist Church, 250 Old Chicopee Dr., Kitchener. Partial Proceeds to Children’s Wish Foundation. Advance tickets $13/ adult, $7/children under 12. Tickets at the door $15. For more information call 519208-9326. >>Hungryman’s Breakfast with Canadian Riders, plus a visit from Santa! Serving from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. All you can eat – adults $6, 6-10 yrs $3, 5 & under free. At the Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira.

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>>The Renaissance Singers present “A Renaissance Christmas” at 8 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, corner of Duke and Water, Kitchener. Tickets $20 adults; $15 seniors; $10 students and are available at the door or through Music Plus, or by calling 519-745-0675.

DECEMBER 17

>>R.J. Kruisselbrink Sisters’ Annual Christmas Concert – 7:30 p.m., at Wallenstein Bible Chapel, Wallenstein; 519-669-2319. Proceeds to help support International Needs in Ghana. Refreshments to be served following this concert. For more information call 519-934-2608.

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