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Elmira man joins Legion’s Woolwich at national executive council odds with Gord Moore elected as first vice-president of Dominion Command

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Township looking for more local control as region moves closer to new Official Plan

A longtime member of the Royal Canadian Legion's Elmira branch, Gord Moore will now serve the organization at the national level.

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fter some 25 years of service with the Elmira Legion, Gordon Moore is now ready to represent the branch on a national level: he was recently selected to serve as Dominion first vice-president of The Royal Canadian Legion. His election to the Legion’s top executive council came at the 43rd Dominion Convention in Winnipeg.

Moore joined the Canadian Army in 1969, serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, stationed in Fort Osborne, Winnipeg for three years.

He has been a member of the Elmira Branch 469 since 1985. He served on the branch executive and all its committees, including a stint as the poppy committee chairman.

He became branch president in 1989.

By the time he finishes his term as vice-president and then president,

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egion of Waterloo efforts to draft a new Official Plan still gives short shrift to the township, butting in on territory that belongs under local control, says Woolwich’s director of engineering and planning.

For Dan Kennaley, the region’s latest revisions, now under review by the province, don’t address all of the township’s concerns. Planning staff have been commenting on the draft Regional Official Plan (ROP) throughout the lengthy process, winning some concessions. But more are needed, he said this week.

“There are still some outstanding matters – we want the region to make changes.”

Specifically, the township would like to see more local control over subdivision approvals, for instance. Likewise, municipalities should be able to adjust their own

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With growth coming to Breslau and the stockyard area south of St. Jacobs, Woolwich would prefer the region keep its nose out of the township’s business. Throughout the ROP review, council has been adamant decisions about land use in those areas are a local issue, albeit with regional input.

The current draft of the ROP takes a firm line on expansion of exiting urban boundaries, and calls for protection of the countryside line separating the rural and urban areas. It does, however, provide some flexibility for the Breslau area, which has been identified as home to future employment land development.

“During the preparation of the ROP, submissions were received from a number of developers and landowners in the Breslau area of the Township of Woolwich – including Empire Communities, Breslau Properties Limited, Dave Rutherford, and Breslau North Developments Inc. (Smart Centres) – that proposed some form of urban area expansion or rationalization of the proposed urban area boundary to accommodate the sale and/or development of their respective properties. Woolwich staff has expressed an

interest in having the ability to consider such requests …,” reads a regional report filed with the province.

Kennaley said the changes to the ROP don’t go far enough, but do give Woolwich more say in the process. The township would prefer future decisions about development in Breslau and the stockyards area rest with local councillors.

In that light, Woolwich council recently approved fast-tracking the creation of a secondary plan of those two areas in tandem with the township’s review of its own OP. “We want to get out in front of the issues, rather than be reactive. We want to take the lead on this,” Kennaley said, recognizing the region will still be involved in the process.

In the grip of a slew of gravel pit applications, the township would also like to push forward its own aggregate policies rather than following the region’s plan. Council has put in place more stringent requirements for gravel pit approvals.

But even the region’s position is at odds with the province, which has historically been very lenient, rarely siding with local concerns and essentially rubberstamping applications.

In regards to the ROP, the province has already opposed measures to protect groundwater sources on the west side of the region, where planners wants to halt development.

Aggregate there, says a recent planning department report, acts as a filter for groundwater; its removal would

threaten water quality.

Gravel pits may be one of the more contentious items if the province’s decision on the draft ROP – expected later this month or early in August – ends up in hearings before the Ontario Municipal Board.

Once the decision has been announced, interested parties will have 20 days to appeal.

Woolwich is leaving its options open on that front, said Kennaley.

He’s planning to bring a report to township council outlining his concerns about the ROP, and recommending a course of action.

“Our intent will be to bring this report to council before the appeal period is up, he said, noting the township could seek standing at any subsequent OMB hearings to “safeguard our interests.”

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HANDS-ON Kids of all ages came out to the St. Clements Library on Tuesday 13 to see a ‘Mad Science’ presentation called Awesome Animals. Above, Sophia Hanley, Janessa Martin and Chris Martin check out the textures of different types of fur.

Legion: On the way up to organization's top spot > CONTINUED FROM COVER in 2016, he will have dedicated 30 years to the Legion and its causes.

“I started a number of years ago and I haven’t looked back since,” said Moore. “This new role is an exciting one. To be supported by the other delegates and the 350,000 members they represent was a very humbling thing to happen. I am still on cloud nine.”

Alongside his Legion work, he has been an avid volunteer and has worked with minor soccer and junior and senior softball leagues.

He has also volunteered with the Children’s

Wish Foundation. For the past 32 years he has been employed in sales and marketing and is currently employed with Tri-City Equipment as its marketing and sales manager.

His new role will have him chairing two committees and sitting on a number of others.

He will focus much of his time on two main areas: increasing membership and developing more Remembrance programs in schools.

“Membership over the past number of years is way down,” he explained. “People often think of the Legion as just an old boys’ club

where people drink beer and play bingo, but it’s not. We do so many community programs and are involved with so many groups.”

And more importantly, his focus with his new role will be to take care of the members of the Legion, war veterans and their families.

“Not necessarily just the traditional veterans from the Second World War and the Korean War, but also now our modern day veteran, who is serving in Afghanistan, Bosnia,” said Moore. “We have to be there for them and that is going to be our major focus.”

Moore himself lost three out of nine family members who served in the Second World War. “If you think about war veterans back in their era – it’s basically the same thing that these men and women are facing today,” said Moore. “Remembrance is taking on a whole new meaning for our younger generation.”

Going forward, he hopes to move up the ranks even further, eventually becoming president of Dominion Command. To celebrate his new position, the Elmira Legion is holding an open house for Moore July 19 starting at 1 p.m.

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BRIEFS > Well-travelled Elmira history book up for bids

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Organizers Ron Hergott and Katie DeVries had plenty to keep them busy at the Wellesley arena July 10 during the second annual Bikefest in July event, which raised some $3,500 for three area charities. Inset, blues singer Cheryl Lescomb entertains the crowd.

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undreds of motorcycles rumbled through Wellesley Village Saturday, as beautiful weather and the chance to help some area charities brought riders out to the second annual Bikefest in July.

Some 1,000 people passed

through the doors of the Wellesley arena July 10, said Ron Hergott of The Cycle Works in Wellesley, who, with the help of a host of volunteers, organized the event.

Featuring a poker run (about 260 bikes took part this year), a swap meet, a show-and-shine contest and

live music performed by blues singer Cheryl Lescomb, Bikefest is an event that could grow with each successive year, Hergott said.

“We think there’s room in this area for something like this. We hope to build on it every year,” he said. “It’s worked out really well. I’ve

had good support from the people here.”

Although he’s still crunching the numbers, Hergott expects to provide about $3,500 to three charitable groups: the Wilmot Family Resource Centre in New Hamburg, Ray of Hope in Kitchener and the Wellesley backpack program.

Stuff happens; reconstruction project woes Sewer backup at Elmira apartment linked to work on Samuel Street Steve Kannon

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lmost a month after sewage backed up into an Elmira apartment unit, restoration work is now underway with the goal of returning the tenants to their home within two weeks.

The incident was quickly traced to reconstruction work being done on Samuel Street – the six-plex building sits on the corner of Samuel and Snyder Avenue – where a sewage pipe may have been dislodged.

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quickly on the night of June 20, property owner Paul Schwindt spent the next few weeks pushing for the money to repair the damage in the unit where the sewage backed up. Estimated at a cost of $15,000, the work was delayed as the contractor, engineering consultant and the insurance companies argued about who should pay.

“I was caught in the middle, and I was really frustrated, said Schwindt, who finally got the go-ahead from contractor Steed and Evans on Tuesday. “It took more than three weeks to get it

settled, but we finally got it resolved.”

The incident got started when residents of the apartment returned after being away for the weekend. Upon using the washroom facilities, they discovered that sewage was backing up into their unit. After inspecting the problem, Schwindt called the emergency number for Woolwich’s public works department; a crew arrived within minutes.

“I have to hand it to the township – those guys did a good job.”

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gineering technologist with the township, said the first order of business that night was to stem the flow. Workers turned off the water and began scoping the system to determine the cause of the sewage backup. They discovered a section of the sewage pipe had been dislodged or otherwise moved out of place. At that point, the contractor was called in, making repairs well after dark.

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A book offering a glimpse of Elmira’s past, discovered at an estate sale in Portland, Oregon, is up for sale on eBay. The antiques vendor, who has no idea how the book came to end up on the other side of the continent, has the item available under the listing “Antique history souvenir book Elmira Ontario Canada.”

Entitled Enterprising Elmira Souvenir, the 70-page book was published in 1903 by George Klinck, publisher of the Elmira Signet newspaper. The title page calls the book “An Historical, descriptive, and illustrated Book of the Village of Elmira, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada.”

The auction, with a starting bid of $9.99, runs until July 19.

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Elmira man called police after he received a death threat.

The man was visiting a dating website online and chatting to someone who claimed to be from New Jersey who threatened to kill him. Police are investigating.

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man called police to report both of his license plates stolen. He had just arrived home from Conestoga Mall in Waterloo when he noticed the plates missing from his vehicle. He was unsure whether the plates were taken while he was at the mall or sometime the previous

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COW CROSSING? A cow that strayed from a livestock truck appears to be taking in the scene at the corner of Arthur Street and South Field Drive in Elmira Tuesday morning.

night. The plate number is AHCH 952.

with ‘impaired driving’ and speeding.

after his car was egged when it was parked on Oriole Parkway. A group of youths in a white Pontiac Grand Prix drove in the direction of Lions Park and police were able to catch up to them. Their parents were contacted and alternate measures of punishment were enforced.

compound on Arthur Street North was broken into sometime overnight. Stolen were a Johnson outboard motor and a Stihl chainsaw.

Police have not yet identified

police after four preteens were approached by a man during a soccer game in Lions Park. The man, approximately 40 years old, with short dark hair and a red shirt, offered them marijuana. Later, police arrested a 36-year-old Elmira man and charged him with possession of a narcotic. The investigation is ongoing.

>>11:42 PM | A witness called >>10:53 PM | A man called police >>8:00 AM | An industrial police after a 17-year-old

male was refused entry to the Central Tavern in Elmira and appeared to have injured his wrist. Police are continuing to investigate.

after her vehicle was keyed. The woman identified a suspect to police, someone who had been making threatening comments to her via Facebook. The investigation is ongoing.

>>1:20 PM | A woman driving on

Sawmill Road near Golf Course Road was flagged down by a man at the side of the road, asking her to call police. The man had just seen another man come onto his property, which backs onto the Grand River, and take his canoe down the river.

Police later arrested a 22-yearold Cambridge man and charged him with ‘theft under $5,000.’

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JULY 10 >>1:13 AM | A 32-year-old

Tillsonburg man was driving 132 km/h northbound on Arthur Street at Sawmill Drive which is an 80km/h zone. He was charged with stunt driving, and his vehicle and driver’s license were seized for seven days.

>>3:50 AM | A 22-year-old Elmira

man driving a green Pontiac was pulled over by police on Arthur Street at Sawmill Road going 116km/h in an 80 zone.

The man, who said he was coming back from a nightclub in Kitchener, appeared impaired to the officer. His blood-alcohol level was determined to be more than double the legal limit. The driver was charged

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? Barb and Bruce Finn accent their James Street garden with a stained glass window from the former Wesleyan Methodist Church in Elmira. The Finn’s garden was one of the stops on the Elmira Horticultural Society’s annual garden tour last Saturday.

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were stolen from a tool shed on Arthur Street North near Florapine Road sometime between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. the previous night. Police currently have no suspects but the investigation is ongoing.

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>>1:40 PM | Two gas containers

stray cow wandering in Elmira led to a Waterloo Regional Police search for a truck with its trailer doors open early Tuesday morning.

The cow was found near the intersection of Arthur Street and South Field Drive just before 8 a.m. Police suspect it escaped from its trailer while its owner’s truck was parked nearby.

Police corralled the cow, which did not cause any disruptions in traffic, and began to look for its owner around town. That owner was located soon after at the stockyards, subsequently returning to pick up the animal.

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have to,” he said.

Since then, the township has been “indirectly involved” in the issue, but has been following up to ensure the work is moving head.

“We want to get this completed as soon as possible."

Schwindt is of the same mind. Now that the contractor has ac-

cepted responsibility, he’s pushing to have the work done so that his tenants can return.

“It hasn’t been pleasant for them. They’ve been living elsewhere since [that night] and they had to rush to find someplace to go and to get their stuff moved,” he said, adding he hopes the company will compensate the tenants for the hassle and all the

out-of-pocket expenses they’ve incurred.

Overall, the $2.5-million reconstruction project is running about a week behind.

The Samuel Street work is part of a large undertaking that has ripped up much of Snyder Avenue, causing traffic headaches on the west side of Elmira.

In this particular project, underground

water, wastewater and storm sewers are to be replaced in the reconstruction of Samuel Street, Ann Street and portions of Riverside Drive, Herbert and William streets. New curbs, gutters and sidewalks will be installed.

Sigurdson said the work is expected to be completed on schedule, which would see it wrap up Oct. 18.

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EDSS class of 1970 celebrates 40th reunion Katie Edmonds

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n 1970 the world celebrated its first ever Earth Day, Apollo 13 launched towards the moon, Brazil won the FIFA World Cup, the Beatles ‘Let it Be’ rose to the top of the music charts, and 88 Woolwich residents donned a cap and gown to finish up their five years spent at Elmira District Secondary School. Forty years later, many of those graduates travelled from places near and far for their 40th year reunion.

Members of the organizing committee were hoping to contact all 88 graduates, and through a network of emails and records from EDSS were able to locate 67. Seven had passed away since graduating. In the end, 34 people turned up at the event to reminisce, remember and reconnect. A fair number of graduates still live in the area, but the event brought people back to town from as far away as Montreal, Michigan and Calgary.

“Not everyone we contacted was able to make it, which was too bad,” said organizing committee member Elizabeth

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TOGETHER AGAIN Thirty-four members of the Elmira District Secondary School class of 1970 were joined by some of their former teachers at a 40th reunion event held

recently in Elmira.

Lyons. “But for those who came by it was a great time. It was so good to see everyone again.”

This is the third time the class of 1970 has reunited; the first was 15 years following their convocation, the second at the 25-year mark.

The event was put on by a committee, a handful of graduates who joined forces to contact old friends, organize a venue, and put together a collection of memorabilia.

“I began hauling out old boxes of things from high school and all the memories just came rushing back,” said Lyons. “I had dragged the boxes around for years

from house to house and never really looked at them. It was neat to open them up and remember things I had forgotten.”

Among the attendees were back-in-the-day celebrities Brenda Snyder (Hoyt), the winter carnival snow queen, Dennis Brubacher, the head prefect and Dean Martin, the male athlete of the year.

Also included on the guest list were former teachers, some of whom, Bill Crane for example, were just beginning their teaching careers at EDSS and others who were finishing their careers. The event was saddened, however, by the announcement that

nator and granddaughter of FIDA founders Jack and Anne Wall, was in Haiti with her mother, Betsy Wall, when the earthquake happened.

“It was an absolutely surreal experience,” she said. “The buildings just disintegrated.”

At the same time FIDA is rebuilding its guest house, using funds from the visitors who are staying in the one undamaged building and temporary shelters, it continues to raise funds for agricultural development. FIDA employs a staff of 30 Haitians who provide local services.

Barkman explained that her grandfather was one of the founders of International Child Care, which in the 1970s undertook a national tuberculosis control program. He learned that children were getting tu-

berculosis because their parents couldn’t afford to feed them properly, and began promoting agricultural cooperatives.

Shane and Angela Wiebe live in Abbotsford, B.C., where Shane grew up, but a cross-Canada tour in support of their latest album is bringing them to the area. Angela grew up in Stratford and is a good friend of the Wall family, so a benefit concert was a natural fit. Shane’s name will be familiar to fans of Canadian Idol; he was a top five finalist in the show’s second season.

The FIDA concert takes place July 16 at 7 p.m. at the Great Hall, Luther Village in Waterloo. Admission is free, with donations going to support agricultural development in Haiti. For more information, call 519-886-9520.

long-time teacher Ernie Kendall has passed away the morning of the event – he had been planning to attend and many attendees were looking forward to seeing him.

The reunion was held on the property of Marjorie and (the late) Harry Soehner on Arthur Street in Elmira.

Although the day started

with a light rain shower, the clouds moved along and the group was able to enjoy an afternoon in the sunshine. For Lyons, it was the company that made the day and all the planning worthwhile.

“In our eyes, we all still look like we did when we were 18,” said Lyons. “I think when you see people from your

past it is like time has stopped and you just pick up where you left off so many years ago.

It’s a great feeling.”

Proceeds from the event will be donated to the scholarship set up at EDSS in Kendall’s name that is presented annually to the graduating student outstanding in academics and athletics.

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ix months after the earthquake that flattened Haiti, the reconstruction work goes on, as does the effort to raise money for it. On Friday night, Canadian Idol finalist Shane Wiebe and his wife Angela perform a concert to benefit the Foundation for International Development Assistance.

The Waterloo charitable organization supports agriculture in Haiti through co-operatives. FIDA also operates Wall’s International Guest House in Port-auPrince, which hosts tourists, mission teams and adoptive parents. The building collapsed in January’s earthquake, killing Elmira nurse Yvonne Martin.

Alexis Barkman, FIDA’s promotions coordi-

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FIDA concert event supports Haitian rebuilding efforts

Joey Primeau

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Are you in school?

Yes, I’m going into my fifth year at EDSS.

I play football for the KW Predators, and hang out with friends.

What do you want to do after you finish high school?

Go to university – maybe for business or become a gym teacher.

What position do you play?

I play right tackle.

What do you do in your spare time?

What’s something people get wrong about football?

They think it’s easier than it looks. It takes a lot of preparation; it’s a lot of work for

one game a week.

Favourite pro player?

Jeff Saturday of the Indianapolis Colts.

What’s something not many people know about you?

That I work here. A lot of people don’t expect a football player to take care of kids.

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Above all, it would be nice to finally see a fresh, longterm vision for our ever-changing community.

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THE MONITOR he fallout continues from the G20 Tscheduled Summit fiasco, with a series of rallies for Saturday in cities across the country (the closest to here being London). Canadians Advocating Political Participation (CAPP) is calling for an independent review of events.

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t’s been a bad summer for Dalton McGuinty, whose popularity was already low thanks to a string of screwups, including the eHealth debacle.

Then along comes the G20 summit, a fiasco fraught with legal issues and abuse of the public and its rights.

Just a week later, Ontarians were hit with the new HST. Sold to us as a way to streamline business practices and encourage job creation, the tax is but the latest step in the process of moving taxes off of corporations and onto individuals.

Also rolled out July 1 was a series of new environmental fees on a host of products, from compact fluorescent light bulbs to fire extinguishers.

The goal is to have manufacturers of products contribute to the costs of disposal or recycling of their goods.

That in itself is not a bad idea, but the implementation has been nothing short of sorry, with the inadequacies

of Stewardship Ontario blowing back on the province.

Industry run, Stewardship Ontario is not a government agency, but is regulated by it. Created in 2004, its mandate is to oversee the Blue Box program, expanding in 2008 to encompass the Municipal Household and Special Waste program, which saw so-called eco fees introduced on a handful of items. At the top of the month, that list expanded to 22 categories of goods deemed to require special handling at the end of their useful lives.

For the most part, we don’t pay up front for the lifecycle of the products we buy. Neither do the makers of goods.

Typically, the costs of waste collection – later augmented by recycling – and pollution have simply been what economists call externalities: someone other than the manufactur-

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Introduced July 1, the same day the HST came into play, the eco fees were seen by many of us as yet another tax grab. That sentiment was enhanced by a lack of transparency, and by a huge number of cases where shoppers were charged rates far above what was mandated. In some cases, the fees differed from store to store.

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7 OPINION

Introducing too much democracy risks a return to violence in Rwanda D

id Paul Kagame really stop the genocide in Rwanda 16 years ago, or did he just interrupt it for a while?

That question frightens him so much that he will not risk everything on the outcome of a democratic election.

Kagame is running for re-election to the presidency of the traumatized Central African country next month.

If economic success automatically brought political success he would be a shoo-in: Rwanda’s economy grew by 11 per cent last year. But in fact, his resounding election victory in 2003 was the result of ruthless manipulation, and this one will be the same.

In recent months, opposition party leaders in Rwanda have been arrested and charged with denying the genocide. An opposition newspaper was banned and its co-editors attacked (one died, one survived). Leading generals in the Rwandan army have been arrested or have fled into exile.

(One was wounded last month in an attempted hit in South Africa.) So is Kagame over-reacting? Maybe.

If you cut Paul Kagame open, you would find engraved on his heart William Faulkner’s terrible truth: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

One-tenth of Rwanda’s population – at least 800,000 people, Tutsis and those who tried to protect them – were murdered by their neighbours, mostly with machetes, only 16 years ago.

Not nearly enough time has passed yet for generational turnover to take the edge off the grief and the hate.

Everybody pretends it’s over, but of

International Affairs GWYNNE DYER course it isn’t. How could it be?

Kagame’s whole life has been shaped by genocide. He grew up in Uganda, where his parents fled when an earlier wave of violence killed about 100,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in the early 1960s.

He became the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a mainly Tutsi exile organization dedicated to overthrowing the Hutu extremists who ruled the country, and he led the RPF army that marched in to stop the great genocide of 1994.

He knows, of course, that Tutsis and Hutus are not really separate ethnic groups. All of Rwanda’s 19 major clans includes both Tutsis and Hutus. They speak the same language and they live in the same villages. The term once distinguished cattle-herders from farmers, and later the wealthy from the poor. Rich Hutus could become Tutsis – but the Tutsis naturally always remained a minority of the population.

He also knows, however, that the colonial authorities exploited those class differences and gave the Tutsis political authority over the Hutus in return for their loyalty. By the later 20th century the Tutsis and Hutus had become ethnic groups for all practical purposes, with a constant undercurrent of resentment by the Hutus

against the Tutsis. After independence in 1960, the killing got underway very quickly. It peaked in 1994.

This past will not leave Rwanda alone. The very words “Tutsi” and “Hutu” have now been banned in Rwanda, but a ministerial investigation in 2008 found anti-Tutsi graffiti and harassment of Tutsi students in most of the schools that were visited.

The army is exclusively Tutsi and the government almost entirely so, because Kagame does not really believe that this generation of Hutus can be trusted.

To make his position even more precarious, Tutsi solidarity is breaking down. The arrests, exile and attempted assassination of various generals may be in response to real plots. Most Tutsi generals belong to the Nyiginya clan, which traditionally provided the country’s king. Paul Kagame is from the Umwega clan, and some of the Nyiginya think that power has remained in the wrong hands for too long.

It is an awful situation, and Kagame has only one strategy for avoiding a return to genocide: hang onto power, and hope that rapid economic growth and the passage of time will eventually blur the identities and blunt the reflexes that have made this generation of Rwandans so dangerous to one another.

His model is Singapore, an ethnically complex state that avoided too much democracy during the early decades of

THE VOICE

Should an investigation be done into G8/ G20 policing?

“Yes definitely. I don’t think it was clear to any of us why the police acted the way they did.” > Elianna Bartlett

“No. The protesters proved the reason why the city needed the level of security it had.” > John Will

> SEE DYER ON PG. 08

THE VIEW FROM HERE

“Oh yes. I think if it was ever to be done again in Canada, things would have to be much different. To have it in a big city, and for police to have carte blanche power just didn’t make sense.” > Lois Wichman

BP's inability to contain the oil gushing into the gulf has sent toxic pollutants much further afield than the company originally predicted.

“Definitely not. If anything they probably should have spent more.

The police did their job exceptionally well considering the circumstances.” > Mike Grocholsky

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Nostalgia a big part of our love affair with cars I

t’s a rare night that you’ll find downtown Kitchener packed with people. It’s a sign there’s an event going on, and last weekend was no exception. This time around, it was the Cruising on King Street event.

There were thousands of people out on the main drag. There was, in fact, no cruising, but they were there to check out the parked cars, a collection of some 250 vehicles ranging from old Model Ts to classic ‘50s Chevys and ‘70s muscle cars.

Summer is full of such events. In fact, there’s one in St. Clements – Autorama – today (Saturday). Last month, it was Kruisin’ with the King in Linwood. It seems we can’t get enough of the old cars.

It would be easy to chalk this up to nostalgia. That undoubtedly plays a part in the appeal: in checking out the old vehicles, I had an eye for the muscle cars of my own youth. I’m sure others were doing the same. Still, there were plenty of young people there checking out the vintage models. In my own case, I found plenty of interesting cars that predate my time.

Part of the appeal lies in the interesting styles. Today’s cars certainly don’t have the design elements so prevalent in the past – just think about the massive fins found on some of ‘50s classics. New cars are all about aerodynamics, to the point where many models appear indistinguishable.

When I attend such car shows, I can’t help but think about American Graffiti, George Lucas’ brilliant early film. Of course, that was all about nostalgia. Released in 1973, it was an ode to a period just a decade earlier – taking place one summer’s night in 1962. The timeframe was no coincidence, predating the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the height of the Vietnam War, the summer of love and Woodstock. It was a time before innocence was lost.

Lucas has said the story was semiautobiographical. Born in 1944 in Modesto, California, he would have

From the Editor Steve Kannon been 18 in the summer of ’62. The movie he wrote certainly takes a rosy view of the period. His nostalgia for the time is shared by millions of boomers, but also by those that followed.

The ongoing appeal led Detroit to design retro versions of the classics, including Ford’s Mustang and Thunderbird and Chrysler’s Charger and Challenger, not to mention the now-axed PT Cruiser.

The American brands aren’t the only ones jumping on the retro bandwagon. In fact, it’s likely Volkswagen got things rolling with its new Beetle. The Mini Cooper, a British classic now made by BMW, has been a huge hit. In Europe, the revamped FIAT 500 is the talk of the industry.

Nostalgia is not going away, especially when it comes to our love affair with cars and trucks.

That’s true even with gas prices on the rise again, though the market may shrink – aficionados have been watching sales figures for new iterations of the Challenger and Camaro.

Each year, there seems to be an ever-expanding selection of styling and design concepts, which reminisce that of the classic cars from the 1930s to the late ‘70s. Many new vehicle designs incorporate parts that bring to mind the appearance of the early hot-rods. There are an abundance of examples of this styling from many of the different manufactures, many of which have created mass demand and consumer appeal. In addition to small hints of the past incorporated into new designs, there are new cars created to meet the consumer demand for this type of vehicle.

Many of the new vehicles designed share hints of retro styling.

Dyer: An uphill battle in Rwanda > CONTINUED FROM PG. 07 its dash for growth. If Rwanda could become the Singapore of Central Africa, then maybe its citizens would eventually come to believe that their stake in the country’s new stability and prosperity was more important than the history. But Singapore did not have so far to travel, and its history was not drowned in blood.

The logic of Kagame’s strategy obliges him to stay in power: his first duty is to Rwanda’s Tutsis, at least half of whom have already been murdered. But he must provide prosperity to the Hutu majority too, in order to reconcile them to Tutsi survival, and his relatively corruptionfree government has made impres-

sive progress towards that goal.

Nevertheless, in a free election today most Rwandans would vote along ethnic lines. His Rwandan Patriotic Front would instantly be replaced by a Hutu-led regime of unknowable character and purpose.

He dares not risk it, so real democracy is not an option.

If Paul Kagame is now killing opposition journalists and dissident generals, then he is making a dreadful and probably fatal mistake, but it may not be him. In the ruthlessly Machiavellian world of Rwandan politics, other possibilities also exist. Either way, he has the loneliest, scariest job in the world, and he must know that the odds are long against him.

These designs bring back memories of earlier cars built in the era of hot rods and early muscle cars. The new Chevrolet Camaro is a good example of this type of design, featuring design elements from ‘70s and ‘80s Camaro, which featured an almost identical shape.

While the market for full-retro cars may have peaked – the Thunderbird and PT Cruiser, among

others, is no more – the trend seems to be to incorporate elements that provide retro styling into new cars in order to avoid stagnation.

For the Detroit 3, hammered hard by the market, the gamble is that nostalgia for the past will help them survive into the future … at least until we, and they, buy in completely to fuel efficiency and alternatives such as plug-in electric cars.

Time for fresh thinking in Woolwich To the Editor,  I am sending this letter in regards to last week’s article "Ramping up for the new mayoral race in Woolwich Township" (Observer, July 10/10) and specifically Bill Strauss’ comment, “I would like to see him run for council first and get some training, then run [for mayor] when I’m ready to step down.”

I am in agreement with candidate Todd Cowan’s thoughts on Woolwich needing some new leadership skills from the top down. I feel the comment made by Bill Strauss clearly undermines all the skills and experience Todd would bring to the table.

Bill Strauss has been mayor for the last two terms due to acclamation.

He has apparently become too comfortable with having the position handed to him by default and should appreciate that in a democracy others are able to challenge you for the position. You would think that if he was that concerned about the wellness and positive development of the community he would welcome the competition and encourage voters to evaluate the visions that both candidates are presenting. Everyone could then make an informed voting decision to ensure the best possible leadership for our township.

I have lived in Elmira for eight

years now. Having attended council meetings, I have grown tired of seeing so few things accomplished during these meetings. There appeared to be little direction provided by the mayor, with the councillors running the majority of the sessions.

In regards to the new Woolwich Memorial Centre, the real driving force behind this was the community itself. The mayor really had no choice but to listen to and support the residents’ great desire to build this wonderful resource. The mayor, while patting himself on the back, fails to mention all the hard work and dedication most members of the community put forth in order to get this building erected. This was a real display of the community not backing down and pushing hard for exactly what they wanted.

I have known Todd for several years through various organizations. He is a genuine leader and definite go-getter. He is reliable, hard-working and involved. Those of us who choose to support Todd are doing so because he has new ideas and objectives.

Above all, it would be nice to finally see a fresh, long-term vision for our ever-changing community.

> Marinette Fargo, Elmira

Horses mistreated in hot weather To the Editor,  Just plain cruelty. That was what happened last week when a horse pulling a buggy collapsed from the heat just outside Elmira (Observer, July 10/10). Any person in his right mind must have realized that the grueling heat was dangerous to children and animals alike. To force a horse to pull a buggy up a hill to the state that he collapses is plain and

simply ignorant and cruel.

Where is the Humane Society when this kind of incident occurs?

Where is Woolwich’s animal control officer? What must we wait for, the next horse to be driven to his death before somebody wakes up and does something about this?

> Elze Bredenkamp, Elmira

Ontario seniors remain financial hostages To the Editor,  The Ontario government continues to withhold full access to a senior’s defined-contribution pension.

Half of these seniors own retirement money remains locked in until they die, at which moment their money is, illogically, unlocked.

Although unlocking this 50 per cent would save millions of dollars,

the province remains fixated on a ’70s paternalistic pension policy, effectively restricting seniors from their own money. These seniors deserve financial freedom and flexibility in 2010. Jack Mintz, Malcolm Hamilton and Gordon Pape agree.

> Bill Nafziger, Milverton

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9 BUSINESS

BUSINESS

An apple fit for a Prince PHOTO

» KATIE EDMONDS

Martin’s Family Fruit Farm hopes to raise awareness about new varietals FRESH PICK Kevin Martin of Martin's Family Fruit Farm is touting the virtues of the Red Prince, a new variety of apple growing at the company's St. Jacobs-area orchard.

Katie Edmonds

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uy local. Buy fresh. That’s the advice we are getting from food experts and environmentalists. By doing so you’ll be helping preserve the environment, and you’ll be strengthening your community by investing your food dollar close to home, the argument goes.

But how do you keep your promise to buy local foods, and also have a variety in your diet when staple items are only in season at certain times of the year?

Members of staff at Martin’s Family Fruit Farm in Woolwich Township are taking the first step to tackle that challenge, and are currently marketing a new item – the Red Prince apple. Its first widespread introduction into the Ontario

marketplace happened at the start of February, a time when most other apples on the shelves here are imports.

The Red Prince’s unusual prime season gives it a niche in an otherwise overcrowded market.

“It’s exciting because we have found an apple that actually gets better the longer you store it,” said Martin’s president Kevin Martin.

“Some apples get worse for wear after a while but the Red Prince stays crisp and the flavour actually gets better with time.”

The Red Prince apple was discovered in 1994 in an orchard located on the German/Holland border in a small town called Weert.

The farm’s owners noticed one of their apple trees had produced a beautiful red apple among a sea of

green apples. At the time, they believed it was a gift from Mother Nature and later discovered that it had been developed through the natural crossing of two

It’s exciting because we have found an apple that actually gets better the longer you store it.

Kevin Martin varieties: the Jonathan and the Golden Delicious.

In 2001, Irma and Marius Botden, co-owners of Global Fruit in Thornbury, planted their first Red Prince trees in Ontario. Nine years later, as exclusive growers in Canada,

they, alongside the staff at Martin’s Family Fruit Farm who are helping to market the product, are excited to introduce the Red Prince apple to Canadians.

Recognized for its red skin, rich with antioxidants according to Martin, the Red Prince has inherited a number of characteristics from its ‘parents’: the sweetness and juiciness of the Golden Delicious and the crispness and tanginess of the Jonathan.

The biggest challenge with marketing a new apple however is the hurdle of getting people to change their eating habits, said Martin.

“People will go into a store and pick up a Macintosh because it’s familiar. They’ve tried Macintosh, they like Macintosh. Why try something new?” he explained.

“It’s our job to get people to

pick it up for the first time.

Once they do we are confident that they will like it.”

To raise awareness about the new product, the team of marketers at both farms have developed something called the 30 Day Civility Challenge, which encourage people to do a kind act for someone else every day.

“The theme of the civility challenge goes along with the prince idea,” explained Martin. “It can be tough to create a brand around food but we think by encouraging people to do good things and eat a healthy, local product, we can’t really go wrong.”

The Red Prince apple is currently sold in Sobey’s, Loblaw and Longo’s stores in Ontario, as well as locally at Martin’s Family Fruit Farm and the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market.

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Retail battle will keep food prices low H

ere’s a brave prediction from the George Morris Centre: food prices won’t rise in our current competitive environment for groceries. Even though significant factors are at play behind the scenes, such as a recovering economy and rising production costs for farmers, the chronic grocery war between retailers will keep food prices in check.

It’s a conclusion found in a new report released Wednesday by the Guelph-based centre. The report focuses on private labels (retailerowned labels such as No Name and President’s Choice) versus national brands. Report author Kevin Grier says the two parties are slugging it out with increasing intensity, as the brands try to win back customers from popular and cheaper private labels.

That’s prompting all competitors to beef up their marketing, promotion, profile and pricing efforts, says Grier. And along with Wal-Mart’s foray into the cheap food business, it’s a move that will keep Canadian food price inflation in line.

That’s good news for consumers.

But it underlines how the primary production sector – that is, farmers – will need increased support to maintain a stable industry. Farmers are taking a hit and they’re fed up with platitudes about the importance of the sector, while many of them are struggling to make ends meet.

Food For Thought Owen Roberts They need to be profitable to run their businesses. One way for them to be profitable is if food prices rose and they received a portion of those higher prices. Farmers have to rely on government support because at the check-out line, we don’t pay them enough for what they produce. They get pennies for harvests and livestock that become grocery products, items that consumers pay dollars for.

However, consumers aren’t exactly swimming in money, either, especially given that we’re on the back end of an economic slump. Whether you’re a dentist, a dental technician, a dental apprentice or a dental patient, you probably think you pay enough for food. Most people do, regardless of where they fit in.

And governments, who say they too are up against the wall, think they give enough through the many support programs provided to farmers.

But farmers have nowhere else to turn. And they know governments can find money when they need to, such as the $450 million speedily cobbled together by Ottawa in

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response to the weather disaster facing western Canadian farmers.

In Ontario, farmers are fed up.

They hoped some concrete measures would be announced last week when the federal, provincial and territorial agricultural ministers met.

The measure farmers want is an income stabilization plan, a kind of insurance plan towards which they would contribute, along with the federal and provincial governments.

Ottawa has held firm, saying existing programs are adequate, even though farmers, the program recipients, say they’re not.

There was some recognition of the program inadequacies at the ministers’ meeting. And the Ontario Agricultural Sustainability Coalition, representing major commodity groups dedicated to crops and livestock, was listening. Now, it wants to see some follow through.

4-H launches poultry club Katie Edmonds

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earning by doing’ is the educational philosophy of the new Poultry 4-H program run out of Bloomingdale. Youth between the ages of 10 and 21 are invited to come and get their hands dirty with the new club, which consists of six sessions run during the summer months – designed to educate kids about the different stages of a bird’s life, the differences between ‘egg birds’ and ‘meat birds,’ and even a bit about bio security.

Organizer Kevin Snyder knows from experience that young people learn best when they are involved in their learning.

The intent is to do, reflect, and apply.

“What we do here is quite different from what they might learn in school,” explained Snyder. “They may have gone on a field trip and learned a bit about a facility, but here they get a two-hour session where they get to try things out for themselves and really get into the business of poultry.”

The seed of the 4-H idea of practical and “hands-on” learning came from the desire to make public school education more connected to country life.

Early programs tied both public and

private resources together for the purpose of helping rural youth.

The 4-H Club dates back to around the start of the 20th century with the work of several people in different parts of the United States. At the time, researchers found that adults in the farming community did not readily accept new agricultural discoveries. But, educators found that youth would “experiment” with these new ideas and then share their experiences and successes with the adults – youth programs became a way to introduce new agriculture technology. This soon became known as 4-H: Head, Heart, Hands, and Health.

The new club, geared towards poultry specifically, will involve some games and activities with eggs, a session on how to deal with backyard foxes, and information about proper housing for poultry.

“A lot of these kids have five to eight laying hens at home in their backyard but don’t know much about them.

They come here because they want to learn which is really neat to see.”

If you are interested in registering a child, or joining the Poultry 4-H club yourself, call or email Snyder – 519-741-1447.

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Wilma Jeffray, chair of Ontario Pork, was even more blunt. “Ministers have once again missed an opportunity to address the current market disasters we are facing in Ontario.”

The coalition says local food systems are in jeopardy, and they’re right. Most full-time farmers can’t exist on roadside sales and stalls at farmers’ markets. They have huge issues facing them – weather, economics, production costs (fuel, fertilizer, insurance), among them.

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11 LIVING HERE

LIVING HERE

Just gotta dance

Shedding skin to get thin?

Shifting from avid student to fledgling instructor, young enthusiast is now offering dance camp in Wellesley

Get healthy Stay healthy Barney Kuntze

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» JONI MILTENBURG

H

oN THE MoVE Having received a business startup grant, Kira McDermid hopes to share her passion for dancing with young children at her Barefoot Dance Camp in Wellesley.

Joni Miltenburg

K

ira McDermid would like to teach the world to dance. Hoping to one day open her own dance studio, she’s taking her first steps in that direction by starting a dance camp in Wellesley.

“I’ve had a really good experience with dance, and I want to share that with children in the community,” McDermid said.

McDermid, 17, has been dancing since she was eight at the Carousel Dance Centre in Waterloo. She started with one class a week and now takes as many classes as she can fit into her schedule, in ballet, modern jazz and pointe. During the school year, she dances for 13 hours a week, spending most of her evenings and all day Saturday at the studio.

A member of Carousel’s travelling company, McDermid performs all over Ontario, and dance has taken her as far as New York City and the Netherlands. As much as she loves performing, McDermid is cognizant of the fact that very few dancers are able to make a career of it. Her dream is to open her own studio and share

her love of dance by teaching.

“This is what I’ve wanted to do since Grade 9,” she said.

McDermid has some teaching experience under her belt already, having worked at Carousel’s dance camp and spending last summer working at a gymnastics camp in Montreal. She has also supply taught and assisted with classes at the studio.

The Barefoot Dance Camp is open to children aged five to 10 who want to try dance. The camp will be held in the Wellesley Community Centre starting the week of July 26 to 30. At this point, McDermid has enough interest to offer classes for two more weeks in August, and she’s hoping to attract enough participants for three or four weeks.

McDermid, who is going into Grade 12 at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, got a $1,500 startup grant from Ontario’s Summer Company program, which helps youth ages 15 to 29 start their own businesses. The funding is going toward paying an employee, Amy Sproule, and purchasing some craft supplies and toys for the times when the children aren’t dancing. McDermid gets to keep the money she brings in, and

there is the possibility of receiving another $1,500 upon successful completion of the camp.

McDermid will be running morning and afternoon sessions at the community centre. The cost of the camp is $60 per week for half days and $80 for full days. McDermid is keeping fees low in order to make the camp available to as many people as possible. Ideally, she’s hoping for about eight students per session.

Students will learn skips, hops and gallops as well as basic ballet terminology. McDermid aims to make the learning process creative and interesting and maintain a summer camp atmosphere.

To that end, she has consulted her own teachers for ideas and input.

So far only girls have registered for the camp but boys are welcome too, McDermid said. Dance is a great activity to get kids moving and give them something to do.

“There aren’t that many activities for children [in Wellesley], especially in the summer,” she noted.

For more information, contact McDermid at 519-656-3212 or email kiramcdermid@live.ca.

ave you ever found that you’ve shed some skin, only to find yourself lighter and feeling more energetic?

I mean this literally and metaphorically.

Let me share what I mean by this. Recently I was out at the beach with a good friend of mine on his boat and Sea-Doo. I got my first sunburn of the year. The next weekend I was up north, hanging out with some fellow practitioners and coaches doing some personal and professional development work. Before we left, I had taken a shower in this very cool outdoor shower. I noticed how much my skin had started peeling, which was simply the dead skin that had started to fall off. I know that this doesn’t really sound that exciting, but bear with me here.

It was at this point that I had made the realization that my body was letting go of the old (skin) to make room for the new (skin) to keep growing. Now this is an obvious and normal process that takes place when one’s skin has been burned. What I realized is that through my development in all facets of my life, I was shedding a lot of metaphorical skin in my life that wasn’t serving me anymore.

I could literally feel my body becoming lighter physically and energetically.

> SEE FITNESS ON PG. 12

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From The Chef's Table Kirstie Herbstreit & Jody o'Malley grandma had perfected. I watched every step carefully, and, I daresay, this year the results were fantastic. I’m about to divulge some serious family secrets here, but this pot is so good, I feel it’s my duty.

She begins the process with roasting some pork side ribs – this gives the soup some great protein and flavour. Beet greens, the tops of the beets, are essential. If this is not possible for you, substitute some Swiss chard. Finally, if rhubarb is still around, this adds a nice touch. And, of course, cool the whole thing down with sour cream. Make it now, eat some, and freeze the rest to enjoy the traditions of summer when days cool down a little.

Pre-heat oven to 400°F; Season ribs well with salt and pepper and roast until really browned, then place in a very large pot and cover with cold water, about 8 litres. Add bay leaf and simmer until fork tender; In the same roasting pan, add beets (without greens) and 1 cup of water; cover and roast until just fork tender; remove, cool, and slip off the beet skins; cut into half-moon slices; Prepare all of the vegetables: roughly chop beet greens, cut carrots, beans and rhubarb and chop herbs; Add all of the vegetables to the pot; simmer for 25 minutes and then add the herbs and lemon juice and zest; season well with salt and pepper; simmer a further 10 minutes. Taste: add salt, pepper and vinegar, if needed. Enjoy immediately, or cool down in smaller containers and refrigerate. As with most soups, this is better the next day when the flavours have developed; also, you can easily remove cooled excess fat.

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Have you ever taken the time to notice or reflect on what it is in your life that isn’t serving you anymore? Are you willing let it go? Let it shed, get rid of it and make room for the new?

I think you will be quite shocked as to how much “weight” we all tend to hold on to when there has been an accumulation of stress and challenges in our lives. When you do this, your body will reflect these changes physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. From my experience of coaching clients to better health and wellbeing, a lot of weight gain can be attributed to a highly stressed lifestyle, neglecting to live in accordance with how our bodies have been designed to operate in harmony with our environment and surroundings.

My challenge to you this week, is to take inventory of what “skin” you need to shed. What is it in your life that is causing you stress and emotional turmoil? Remember that our psychological and physiological aspects of our beings cannot be separated. Changes that you make in either aspect will directly influence and affect the other.

Think about a time in your life when you’ve been exercising consistently in the right amounts, eating healthily for your body type, keeping your mind clear and clean of stressful thoughts. You most likely felt on top of the world, like you could accomplish anything you wanted to. Then compare that to a time in your life when everything seemed to be going “wrong” or “against you.” I’m certain that you felt as though you were singlehandedly carrying the burdens of the world on your shoulders.

Be willing to shed some skin this week, this month, this summer and watch what happens to your body. Don’t be surprised if you begin to transform your body shape into a more lean and healthy body.

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The story goes that my grandmother’s Polish cousin taught her how to make borscht, and then she began to make it every summer as this is when all of the produce needed would have been ready in their gardens. Beets, beans, carrots, herbs – these vegetables are at their peak now (believe me, we tried to make it in January for my birthday, and it really didn’t taste the same).

It makes a giant pot, so aunts, uncles, cousins and grandchildren would flock to my grandma’s house with container in hand to eat piping-hot soup in the middle of the summer. My mother even had it for lunch on her wedding day in August.

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excavated from the area where their garage now stands.

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A break from the fast track Young Elmira hurdler home for the summer after a stellar season at her U.S. university

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aking things slowly is not something that Elmira resident Olivia Charnuski is accustomed to doing these days. Spending the summer at her Birdland home and working at a feed mill in Elora is a drastic change of pace for the 20-year-old who has spent the past two years competing as a sprint hurdler on a track scholarship at Liberty University in Virginia.

Charnuski began training as a

sprint hurdler more than five years ago when she ran for Elmira District Secondary School as well as the Laurel Creek Track and Field Club. Previously she had run short sprints and done gymnastics competitively: sprint hurdling was a combination of the two that her coaches thought she may be good at it – and that certainly turned out to be the case.

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The Kings have lost a number of players from

last season’s team, some expected and some unexpected. Three players have signed with other clubs, and two more have tryouts with OHL teams. The coaching staff also knew they would be without veterans Jeff Zippel and Michael Therrien, who graduated out of the Ju-

nior hockey system last year.

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Goaltender Brendan Gorecki will be playing Junior A next season

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Garrett Rank of Elmira fired a four-over-par 292 to finish in a three-way tie for 13th at the Ontario Amateur Championships July 9.

A double bogey in the first round and two more in the fourth round left Rank 11 strokes back of the leaders.

Listowel’s Corey Connors posted a seven-under-par 65 in the final round to finish -7 overall and claim the championship.

The Canadian men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams have both qualified for the quarterfinals at the 2010 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships.

Both teams took their only losses of the tournament thus far in their final preliminary games against Australia and finished second in their respective pools this week.

The Canadian women fell 59-52, while the Canadian men lost 67-49.

Elmira’s Katie Harnock plays for the women’s squad, while the men’s team includes KitchenerWaterloo’s Tyler Miller.

Both the men’s and women’s teams are the defending champions, having won gold at the last tournament held in 2006. For the Canadian women, it was their fourth consecutive world championships, meaning this year they are vying for an unprecedented fifth straight world title.

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his weekend I have been asked to present a seminar at an outdoors show in central Ontario. This is a reasonably good indication that every other outdoorsman they called said no.

It’s not that I am horrible at presenting seminars; more like I’m always nervous that someone is going to hit me in the back of the head with a spit ball as soon as I take my eyes off of the crowd. This would only be fitting, since that’s how I spent my youth.

The trick with doing outdoors seminars – and I have done a few now – is to show no fear and be confident in everything you put forth, even if what you just said was a horrible mistake.

That’s how the truly great discoveries are made – I’m pretty sure that’s why people still use skunk cover scents, for instance.

My seminar is going to be about grouse and woodcock hunting, which are two things very near and dear to my heart. I am qualified, only in the sense that I do a lot of this when the season is on and, in doing so, have probably made every mistake imaginable.

I’d be very comfortable in presenting it this way, and probably will, but the problem is that there is always a person or two in the crowd who mistakes experience for true expertise.

As a seminar presenter, it is critical that you identify this person and then make every effort never to hunt with them from that point forward. No person, after all, should have to endure that sort of disappointment.

Another very real issue is the fact that one or two of your buddies will always show up to a seminar, not to be supportive, but rather to heckle you and ask embarrassing questions about that grouse that glided across the open meadow last season. The one

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If they are really good friends, they’ll save this question for the part of the seminar where you start lecturing on the benefits of proper gun fit, good shooting form and practice.

The funny thing is that seminars are a recent development in the history of the outdoor tradition. Okay, maybe they are not all that recent, but we certainly used to call them by a different name – hunting stories.

Typically, only the very finest hunting stories evolved into seminars.

The process, as you would guess, is a lengthy one that began as several hunters gathered round in a circle and told each other half-truths.

At one point, someone – in a fit of desperate attention seeking behaviour – would say something so ridiculous and out of the ordinary that the others would simultaneously stop telling their own stories. This might be something as simple as, “Hey, let me tell you about this sure-fire, incredible method to tag bigger bucks.”

The others, in awe of such unmitigated bull, would naturally take a seat and listen intently. And thus the modern-day seminar was born.

Eventually, this was refined to the point so that hunting stories were only told where the lighting was good, the sound system was adequate and a ready-made platform with ample sponsorship existed.

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Hurdler: Juggling athletics and academics In the summer of 2008 she competed at the Canadian Junior National competition in British Columbia, a meet for the top runners 19 and under. There she came in second place and was eligible for the Commonwealth Youth team.

That fall, just a few weeks into starting her education at Liberty, she travelled to India to run for Canada.

“It was an honour to go over there and represent my country,” said Charnuski. “It was a bit of culture shock for me and unlike anything I had ever done before but I feel so blessed to have been able to go.”

At Liberty, Charnuski started out as a little fish in a very big pond.

“I chose to go to a school in the U.S. because they have a longer season for track and field,” she explained.

“They take the sport very seriously down there, which I love, but it meant I was no longer the fastest person.”

It hasn’t taken her long to catch up, however, and she climbed to the second tier of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) in her first year of competition. Based on her times during competitions, she was named the fastest freshman Liberty had ever seen.

Following her first year, she came back to Canada and competed at the Junior National Competition again, this time in Prince Edward

Island, coming in third.

Her relay team from Laurel Creek came in first place and broke a Canadian record, putting Charnuski on the podium once again.

This past year, the star athlete kept up her momentum and broke personal records with nearly every race in which she competed and even began training for a more vigorous event: the 400-metre

To race against that caliber of athletes was amazing. Just thinking ‘I am a part of that now’ was so exciting.

Olivia Charnuski hurdles.

“The 400-metre is extremely tough. A combination of the lactic acid [buildup], hurdles and mental toughness makes it the hardest race on the track.”

While training for the second event, she was able to keep up her sprinting speed and qualified for the ECAC indoor competition.

Then at a meet at Liberty, Charnuski broke the Liberty women’s 100-metre hurdles record which had stood for 21 years, with her wind-aided 13.65 second race in the preliminary round. The athlete who had not run faster than 14.18 in the 100-metre hurdles during her two seasons with the Lady Flames obliterated her previous best by more than a half second. Aided by a strong tailwind, she ran nearly stride-

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That one race transformed the rest of the season for me.”

That race put her in the top 48 runners on the East coast.

“To race against that caliber of athletes was amazing. Just thinking ‘I am a part of that now’ was so exciting.”

Despite the three- or four-hour practices several times per week and events each and every

weekend throughout the year, Charnuski manages to stay on top of her school work and even made the dean’s list this past year. She is enrolled in the exercise science program and hopes to one day become a chiropractor.

“I spend a lot of time doing homework in hotel rooms, or on buses or airplanes, but I get the chance to do what I love so it is entirely worthwhile.”

Eventually, Charnuski hopes to compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association level where only the best quarter of track athletes on the East Coast attend.

“That’s every NCAA athlete’s goal. The best of the best, the cream of the crop are at nationals.”

For this summer however, she is back in town and trying her best to take it easy.

“I just really needed a break,” she said. “All year we are going and going and going and I don’t want to burn out or get injured. I do miss running already, but it is good to be home.”

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SCORECARD WOOLWICH U15/16 L6 BLACK

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LARGE DISPLAY OF

FRIDAY 5pm - 35 Years & Older All Colour Antique Stock Tractor Pull 7:30pm - Ladies Fashion Show SATURDAY 4pm - John Deere and Guests Tractor Pull 5-7pm - Beef Dinner (tickets call 519-638-3112) Jamboree-Dave Chittick Dance-Bill Beattie Band SUNDAY 9am - Church Service 11am - Modified Lawn Tractor Pull

Draws For: Specialty Quilt, John Deere Pedal Tractor, John Deere Tool Box & Weather Centre John Deere 4020 Toy Show Tractor Services: Food Booths by Local Service Clubs, Breakfast Available Camping on Grounds with limited electrical hookups & Motel nearby.

Bring your tractors, parts & equipment to sell in the parts corral.

Auction & Flea Market Kids Activities all Weekend.

ADMISSION $5/DAY • 12 & UNDER FREE • FREE PARKING

Region 4 Regional Tourism Organization Volunteer Board of Directors Region 4 RTO is being established as a not-for-profit corporation pursuant to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism’s new funding strategy for tourism marketing and development.

The Transitional Steering Committee seeks nominations for an industry led board to represent tourism industry sectors and stakeholders from Huron, Perth & Wellington Counties and Waterloo Region.

For complete details about Region 4 RTO, its board structure and the nomination/application process visit: www.rto4transition.ca

For More Information, Write:

Ken Furlong: 519-923-6984 | Brian Sharpe: 519-745-9712 | Janette Freeman: 519-638-5160 Email: info@uppercanadatwocylinderclub.ca | Website: www.uppercanadatwocylinderclub.ca

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Inquiries may be directed to: nominations@rto4transition.ca

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LAST OF THE ACTION Woolwich Minor Softball's season wrapped up July 10 with a tournament in St. Jacobs. Top, Noah Bauman of the Diggers connects with the ball. Above, Jake good scoops up a grounder, preparing to tag the runner out at third.

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Conestogo Lake hosts fishing derby

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HURRY UP AND WAIT Tyler pitz of Waterloo

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waits patiently for a bite during the Conestogo Lake Conservation Area’s annual fishing derby July 10.

Anglers dipped lures in the water hoping to catch catfish, smallmouth bass and pike.

VOISIN CHRYSLER quality, certified used vehicles

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3.3L Automatic, Stow and Go Seating, Rear Air & Heat, Power Second Row Windows, Cruise, Tilt, Keyless entry, 7 Passenger seating with driver power seat. 34800km Finished in Linen Gold.$21,400 D#9105

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2008 Grand Caravan SE

2008 Ram 1500 4X4 SXT

2008 Jeep Compas North

3.3L V6 Automatic Trany, Power Windows Front And Back, Power Locks/Mirrors, A/C, Full Stow And Go, Sunscreen Glass, Tilt/Cruise, C/D/AM/FM, Keyless Entry, Finished in Red 34,300km $18,900 D#9565

5.7L MDS V8, Automatic Trany, Power Windows/Locks/Mirrors, Keyless Entry, Cruise Control, A/C, Chrome Wheels/Side Tubes/Fuel Door/Front Deflector, Box Liner. Finished in White 40,600km’s $23,900 D# 9244

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have work commitments that interfere.

Although the player turnover is higher than expected, Haddaway commented that it seems to be the nature of the league.

“Last year, by bringing in so many young guys – even though we would lose some – we could still have a strong returning core, and that’s exactly what we do have.”

Returning next season are Andrew Smith, Brad Kraus, Shane Smith, Zach Salomon, Lukas Baleshta, Jarred Parent, Spencer MacCormack, Kody Ellis, Nick Horrigan and Josh Woolley.

The Kings have traded Andrew Schacht to Waterloo for blueliner Colton Wolfe-Sabo, who had 18 points last season and 27 in his rookie season with the Siskins.

Haddaway would like to add another offensive defenceman and a stayat-home player to fill Zippel's role.

Up front, the Kings have signed Brady Campbell, who played Junior C in Blenheim last year, notching 19 goals and 20 assists. The coach would like to add another top-six scoring forward, and said the rest of the forward po-

sitions will be filled by players who display grittiness and a strong work ethic.

Haddaway said the coaching staff would like to have the roster finalized as quickly as possible after training camp opens Aug. 23, but the reality is they’ll be tweaking it up to and past the start of the season.

“No one likes to think of it this way, but I’ve said to many players in the past, tryouts go right up to Jan 10, because that’s when you can still tinker with the roster,” Haddaway said.

The team looks to be on the young side again this year, with only two 20-year-olds (Parent and Woolley) on the roster at this point.

“To me, that’s a good thing,” Haddaway said.

“I don’t ever want youth to be equated with ‘can’t win,’ because some of the hungriest teams I’ve ever coached were young. The team the Elmira Sugar Kings finished with last year may have been the youngest in the league, and we were certainly close to winning. The guys that are coming back, they have one more year of Junior experience, and that’s supposed to go a long way to helping us develop this year.”

WOOLWICH MINOR HOCKEY REQUIREMENTS FOR QUOTATION FOR 2010 3 sets of rep hockey jerseys = 3 away, 3 home 17 jerseys per set Size for all sets could be adult sizes with 2 goalie sizes per set Jerseys medium weight pro knit/mesh (Kobe label) Cresting • 2 colour print on front aprox. 11x11 • Canadian flag patch (embroidered) 2-3/8 x 1-1/4 approx.

• Sleeve 2 colour satin twill 4” • Back 2 colour satin twill 10” • Numbers are 1thru 16 and 31 • Sponsor bars will be required for these plus other sets as changes result • Stop sign patch embroidered cloth (Woolwich minor hockey may supply) • Samples of past jerseys are available as this is the look minor hockey is looking for.

Socks • Approximately 700 pairs will be required of which 500 would be home and 200 away • Anything I have overlooked or you have questions about please contact Myself Paul Wilson 669-8006 or via email cpairbrush@cyg.net The Proposals The tenders can be presented towards all items or break it down i.e. only the jerseys and socks Delivery Would be looking for delivery of order around Sept. 4, 2010 Thanks for your interest in tendering a quote for supplies Deadline is July 31, 2010 Paul Wilson Assistant Equipment Manager V.P. Rep Hockey Woolwich Minor Hockey 20 Queen St. Elmira, Ont. N3B 2S8 519-669-8006 cpairbrush@cyg.net

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Residential 20-Word Ad $7.50 (Extra Words 20¢/word) Commercial 20-Word Ad $12.00 (Extra Words 30¢/word)

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CNC NESTER/DRAFTER Responsibilities • Nesting flat patterns for cutting on CNC plasma table • Basic CAD layout for generation of flat patterns • Creation of Bill of Materials for shop fabrication • Some purchasing duties Requirements • Ability to use CNC nesting software • Intermediate Autocad skills • Ability to use MS Office applications • Experience in the metal fabrication industry • Knowledge of sheet and plate steel • Successful applicant will possess strong organizational skills and attention to detail *Experience with Sigmanest and Visual Manufacturing software is an asset.

A diversification of duties is anticipated, depending on abilities.

Requires

Attention: Human Resources or Fax: 519-669-1450 or Email: bob@mgmill.com We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those considered will be contacted.

Drivers & Helpers

Retail Sales Associate #837

Must be physically fit, neat appearance.

Full-time with benefits.

License required.

Apply in person with resume to Dan at: 66 Schaefer St., Waterloo or fax 519-747-5810

Approximately 24 hrs/week

Responsible to the Retail Store Manager, you will provide courteous and efficient service and product advice to the public and staff customers.

You will process cash, credit, and debit card payments by using PRISM and Royal Bank Debit card machines, ticket and replenish merchandise, and provide general housekeeping of shelves and merchandise on display. Some heavy lifting and unloading truck shipments will be required. You will consistently demonstrate a friendly and helpful attitude toward customers. You have good communication skills and a high school diploma or equivalent.

We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Retail Sales Associate #837, by Friday, July 23rd, 2010 to: Human Resources Department, Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry Street West, St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 e-mail: hr@homehardware.ca Fax: 519-664-4711 (Microsoft Products Only)

Sales and Service

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>>established Framing Company in KW area requires framers with a minimum of 2 year experience.

Must have own transportation.

Top wages offered to energetic and responsible applicants, 519-575-3807.

CHIlD Care

>>experienced Babysitter in Elmira starting September, 2010. Within walking distance to 2 schools, parks and Kids & I. please call Ellen at 519-669-8188, between 6 and 9 p.m.

FOr sale

M&G MILLWRIGHTS LIMITED >>Mattress/Boxspring, P.O. Box 247 Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6

COMPUTERS - LAPTOPS

Our St. Jacobs Retail Store currently has the following opportunity...

M & G Millwrights has designed, manufactured and installed custom process & material handling equipment for the food, animal feed, aggregate and automotive industries since 1967.

Dedicated to providing exceptional service and support to our employees and clients; we are currently seeking the following dynamic individual to join our growing team.

COMPUters

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hr@homehardware.ca

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

PLACING A CLASSIFIED AD | Classified ads can be obtained in person, by phone, fax or email from Monday to Thursday 8:30am-5pm or Friday 8:30am-4pm. All classified ads are prepaid. Deadline is WEDNESDAYS by 4pm.

new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195. Delivery available. 519-635-8737.

>>Passport

Photos, Gun licences etc. $10. Brian’s photo, 57 Arthur St. S., Elmira.

519-210-0608.

FOr sale

Pets

>>Queen, brass canopy bed $500; hand crafted pine TV cupboard, pocket doors, drawers, beautiful condition $800; antique sewing machine $25; kitchen pine sideboard cupboard,2 piece, white, $250; brass desk lamp $35; microwave valance cupboard type $50; french doors, white $150; antique writing pedestal table, yellow oak $200; apartment sized dryer $50; antique classic galanti accordian, mother of pearl casing $300; classic Sony reel to reel tape recorder and speakers, original condition $250; classic Sony record turntable $75; antique captain’s chair, classic, original condition with gears and spindles $100. 519-6359482.

Pets

>>stud

service Standard and miniature poodles. please call 519595-7933.

Watch your business

GROW

14 Spring St., Drayton

>>Golden Doodles, Cockapoos, Snoodles and other puppies. First shots, vet checked, dewormed.

519-595-7933.

Great Cond.

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>>elmira

- 2 bedroom town house. please, no smoking, no pets. $875 plus utilities. Must provide own appliances. Suitable for quiet tenants. Call 519-743-7479. One parking space included.

>>Industrial Bay for rent.

64 Howard Ave., Elmira.

2000 sq ft., open space. 14’ high bay door. 16’ ceiling height, good for mezzanine. separate hydro, gas and water meters. Inquiries please call 519-465-8421 or 519-669-1461 ext. 22.

519-741-6368

>>elmira - 1 Bedroom.

New, unique and attractive.

Non smokers, no pets preferred. Available Sept. 1. $678 + utilities. 519-6692212. >>Moorefield - large two bedroom apartment, furnished or unfurnished, laundry facilities, parking , electric heat, cable TV. No pets, adult building.

References. $795.00 inclusive. First & Last. 519638-3013.

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Tire Service Equipment

Liquidation AUCTION to be held ONSITE at the

Marsh Tire Service Ltd., 150 Wellington St East, Guelph

$650+

>>elmira

- 1 bedroom, downtown location, no pets, A.C., immediate. $495.00 + utilities. 519-669-8074.

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$395,000 1,900sqft home, 5 bdrms, 3 baths, on fenced corner lot, mature trees. Eat-in kit open to family rm w/FP, slider. Bright dining rm w/2nd slider. Lg living rm.

Finished bsmt. MLS. Call Paul Direct.

NEW LISTING

$254,000

LOCATION AND SPACE

this 3 bed, 3 bath 1600 sq ft semi, features open concept. Upper floor laundry, master with ensuite and walkin closet, fenced yard and air.

DON’T WAIT OR YOU’LL BE LATE. MLS. Call Paul direct.

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6+1 bdrms, 4 bths, surrounded by 100ft trees, 2 springs, pond, and riding trails. Geo-thermal heating system. MLS. Call Paul direct.

BEAUTIFUL HOME COMPLETELY FINISHED

$364,900

3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Extra large windows in basement.

MLS. Call Paul direct.

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Paul Martin

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With seperate entrance. 5200 sq ft, 3 kitchens, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 3 car garage and extra long driveway. MLS. Call Paul direct.

HOME 519-669-3074

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OFFICE 519-888-7110

ONLINE www.homeswithpaul.ca

180 Weber St. S., Waterloo

ELECTION EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The Township will require approximately 50 people to work in various polling places throughout the Municipality on Election Day which is Monday, October 25, 2010 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. If you are over 18 and would be willing to work on Election Day, we would ask that you complete an application form and submit it to the Township by August 20, 2010 to: The Township of Woolwich Council and Information Services PO Box 158 24 Church Street West Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6

QUALITY BUILT HOME

BY VERDONE

$431,900

THANK YOU! Thank You to the following people for your involvements with the Canada Day Celebrations on July 1st, 2010, at Gore Park in Elmira

Event Sponsors:

Elmira Foodland Elmira Chiropractic Elmira Home Hardware St. Jacobs Printery

Advertising:

Elmira Independent Woolwich Observer MP. Harold Albrecht, Mayor William Strauss Township of Woolwich Council Kiwanis Club of Elmira Byron Shantz Klazz Klown Elmira Girl Guides and Brownies Elmira Optimists Kiddies Funtrax & Volunteers from Woolwich Summer Playground

Cake Cutters:

Individuals appointed will be required to attend one of the training sessions to be held on October 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.

The application form is available at the Township office or may be found online at http://www.woolwich.ca/en/council/Training.asp .

If you require additional information please contact Charlene Lavigne at (519) 669-6006 or Valrie Hummel at (519) 669-6005.

ACCESSIBILITY IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH Do you have comments, questions or suggestions about how services, programs or facilities of the Township of Woolwich are accessed by persons with disabilities? The first step is to e-mail your ideas and requests for improved accessibility to the Township's Accessibility Co-ordinator for consideration. The e-mail address is vhummel@woolwich.ca or call (519) 669-6005 Monday to Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. All incoming requests will be investigated and responded to. Help us improve accessibility!

4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, upgraded kitchen cupboards, pantry, upper laundry floor. MLS. Call Paul direct.

Ice Cream Scoopers: Music & Sound System Magic Show: Drinks: Hot Dogs & Popcorn Bouncer and Helpers:

Firefighter Games: Ice Cream:

Elmira Firefighters Elmira Foodland

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ELMIRA REAL ESTATE Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage SERVICES

519-669-3192 90 Earl Martin Dr., Unit 1, Elmira N3B 3L4

BROKERAGE

Looking for somewhere new to hang your laundry?

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. 45 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA

519-669-2772

BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record MVA Residential

Res: 519-669-1068

JULIE HECKENDORN Broker Res: 519-669-8629

TRACEY WILLIAMS Sales Rep. Cell: 519-505-0627

OPEN HOUSE | SUN JULY 18 2-4PM 10 Spring wagon lane, elmira

TONS OF SPacE! 1883 sq. ft.-3+ bdrms, 3 bths.(5 pc. enuite). LR, large DR PLUS main flr. family rm. Fenced yard w/shed. 4th bdrm. in lower level.

Quiet street! MLS $291,900

Call Team McNeil Today!

BONNIE BRUBACHER Broker of Record

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Eat-in kit open to FR w/fireplace, 3+ bdrms, rec room. Deck, workshop & shed. Dbl garage & new driveway. MLS 00 ,9 69 $2 00 ,9 29 $2 00 ,9 69 $3

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519-579-4110

Warren McNeil* Melanie McNeil*

Colleen Mader*

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TWIN CITY REALTY INC., BROKERAGE

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OFFICE PHONE: 519.343.2124

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Lots to offer in this immaculate family home w/3 bedrm, 4pc bath, eat-in kitchen, lvrm & famrm w/ wd-stove, large front porch & back deck all on a nicely landscaped lot.

Oversized 27x32 heated and insulated garage w/ lots of parking.

Edith MLS 1031107 $225,000 Victorian 4 bdrms, 2.5 baths family home on beautiful landscaped yard w/grand porch & 2-private decks.

Home boasts hardwood flooring & natural trim throughout. Lots of potential for the walk up attic & incredible basement w/walk out to yard. Kathy MLS 1018313 $269,000

MONIQUE BRUBACHER Sales Rep.

22 RobeRta stReet elmiRa PIcK YOUR FAVOURITE PLAN

AT ELMIRA RAcEWAY ESTATES FINAL PHASE ON KNAPP STREET

ONLY 1 LEFT - 1900 sq.ft. condo backing to open parkland. Quality constructed. Fin. rec. room. Precast concrete const. - r.i. for in floor heat.

Elevator. Oversized dble. garage.

MLS $413,500

STARTING AT $299,900 | Visit PaRaDiGm (elmiRa) Homes sHoW Home tHis WeeKeND, 2000 sq ft, open concept beauty. 2 smaller plans now under construction. other plans to choose from. exclusive.

RaRE OPPORTUNiTY - near Elmira.

Immac. bungalow nestled in the trees on 7 acres. Updated from top to bottom - bathrms. kitchen, hardwood flrs. windows, shingles. Fin. lower level. Prof. landscaped. MLS $699,000

GREAt VAluE

$178,000 DRAYTON | located in the village of Drayton, this home features large bedrooms, 2 large walk-in closets on 3rd level; open concept and loads of space; mls

BEAutIfully tREED lOt

LOcaTiON! - Large wooded lot.

Lots of living space in this 2500 sq. ft. + finished w/o bsmt. Rear addition Potential for in-law suite.

MLS $389,900

$275,000 GLEN ALLAN | this great family home has had many updates including the kitchen, windows and wiring. Patio off family room. insulated shed 20 X 30. mls

Oversized principal rooms. Lge. dining area. W/O from fam. rm. to deck & partly fenced yard. Fin. rec. re. & 4th bdrm. Tastefully decorated MLS $319,000

ElMIRA SPlIt lEVEl

$344,900 | beautifully maintained, offers generous sized rooms on all levels, including huge country kitchen with bay dinette, formal dining room. Front mainfloor office/den and family room with walkout to back yard. 51' corner lot. mls

UPDATED CENTURY HOME

Steps to Victoria Park & amenities. F.R. addition, updated baths, finished attic.

Wrap around porch & large yard. Deal of the Century! MLS

DALE KELLER Sales Rep.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY 2-4 PM

3 bdrms, updated kitchen & windows, hrdwd & ceramic flrs. C/A, re-insulated.

Fenced yard backs onto park & river. MLS

1 bdrm + den, hrdwd flrs, upgraded kit, in-suite laundry, all appliances, w/out to private patio. A must see! MLS

LAURIE LANGDON Sales Rep.

GRAND OPENING

BACKS ONTO RIVER! RENOVATED

DOWNTOWN LIVING AT IT’S FINEST!

DARREN ROMKEY Sales Rep.

THIS WEEK'S FEATURE PROPERTIES

CUSTOM BUNGALOW WITH UPGRADES

3 bdrms, 3 bath, huge lot! Large kitchen with granite, and great room. Finished bsmt with large rec-room. Central Air, Vac, Natural Gas, fenced yard! Call Mel today! MLS

SHANNA ROZEMA Broker.

cAPtIVAtING BEAuty LINWOOD - Huge lot. Lge. kitchen w/ island & b.i. appl. Sunken fam. rm. w/gas f.p. Mn flr. office & laundry.

Ensuite bath. Lge. deck. Shed. Furnace & cac(2008). MLS $ 374,900

$789,000 | Picturesque 2.52 acre setting.

Gorgeous post and beam 2800 sq ft home.

Welcoming front verandah, natural wood throughout. Chef's dream kitchen! Century barn with workshop and storage area. mls.

GOOD VALUE -Nice back yard!.

Cozy fam. rm addition w/woodstove.

Updated windows, refaced cabinetry.

Rec. rm. w/gas stove 4th bdrm. Great lot! MLS $279,900

www.thurrealestate.com

Elmira@royallepage.ca | www.royallepage.ca/elmira

FOR SALE BY OWNER

Elmira Bungalow - 27 Pintail Drive

37 Kingfisher Drive, Elmira

Spacious 4-level semi-detached back split

$364,000

$250,000 3 bdrms, 2 baths, kitchen & dinette, living room, lg family rec room with gas fireplace, central air, central vac, new roof ('09), backs on to church & greenspace.

519-669-4179

> FROM pg. 19 traDes & serVICes

>>CrD

accounting services - Income Tax (E-File) Services. Small business accounting, payroll & gov/t filings.

Chuck Downs, 95 Aspen Cr., Elmira. 519-669-1498, cell 519-569-1744.

GaraGe sales

>>Multi

Family Garage Sale. 24 First St. E., Elmira, Fri. July 16 - 3 - 7 p.m., Sat. July 17 - 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Household items, dressers, and more!

In desirable Pintail neighbourhood! 1730 sq ft on main fl, 3+1 beds, 2 updated baths, 4 season sunroom w/ gas fireplace, large rec room w/ gas fireplace & bar, his & hers closets in master, updated eat-in kit + dining room, fenced yard, mature trees, furnace & a/c (06), roof (07). Move in ready. Close to walking trails/parks. Call 519-669-3121 for more info & to view.

reNtals

>>New, entirely renovated, spacious 2 bedroom apartment with balcony. $900 + hydro. 519584-5567. >>One Bedroom apartment - second floor of house. Available August 1.

Close to downtown, parking.

Call 519-669-1263. >>MOOreFIelD - One bedroom apartment, furnished, laundry facilities, parking, deck, electric heat, cable tv, no pets, adult building.

References. $695 inclusive.

First & last 519-638-3013.

COMM/IND FOr reNt

>>Office space for rent above peak Realty at 17 Church St. in Elmira. 135 sq. ft $650 per month all inclusive and 90 sq. ft $400 per month all inclusive and 90 sq ft. $400 per month all inclusive. Call Mildred Frey 519-669-1544.

The #1 Weekly in the Region.

traDes & serVICes

• Manufacturing of Landscape & Snow Removal Equipment • Custom Manufacturing and Machining • Agricultural, Industrial, Transportation & Construction Equipment Repairs

519.669.1501

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real estate 519-669-1544 24hrs

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage Independently Owned and Operated

17 Church St. W., Elmira REALTY LTD., BROKERAGE

4B Arthur St. S. Elmira • www.remaxsolidgold.biz

www.peakrealestate.com

OFFICE: 519-669-5426

Independently Owned and Operated

Wendy Taylor

Mary Lou Murray

LEON MARTIN

BERT MARTIN, BROKER

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated

SALES REP

BROKER

COUNTRY PROPERTY!

.5 acre don’t miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. Starting at $66,000 MLS COUNTRY LOTS

marylou@mmrealestate.ca

wendy.taylor1@rogers.blackberry.net

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

$579,900 - New Hamburg In exclusive Whispering Woods backing onto Nith River just under 1/2 acre wooded lot. Hardwood, ceramics, private park-like backyard with extensive gardens.

A must see! MLS Call Mary Lou,

RED

Well kept home on .31 acre in Village of Ayr. Entertaining will be a pleasure in the parklike, fully fenced backyard with stamped concrete patio and hot tub. Hardwood, ceramics, master ensuite and more!!! MLS Call Mary Lou,

D

GREAT STARTER!

3 bedroom country bungalow with high speed internet available open concept. Master ensuite, main floor laundry, large 2 car garage, new not built. Hobby shop allowed. $319,900 MLS

$379,900 - Ayr

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Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, main floor family room, finished basement, double garage (28' x 22'), large principal rooms. New in 2009, roof, garage doors, paved drive. Most original windows replaced. All this on 1/2 acre 10 minutes from Waterloo and 5 minutes from Elmira.

MLS. Reduced to $319,900.

RED

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Property offers three bedrooms, eat-in kitchen with sliders to large deck, french doors separating dining & living rooms, sun room, main floor laundry. MLS $149,900.

D

Your referrals are appreciated!

Great property on the edge of town, approx. 21 acres workable, the rest is wooded with a large portion of maple trees, 1.9 acres is inside an industrial designated area. $599,900 MLS

Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

Two storey 3 bed and 3 bath room home on a half acre lot, open concept, high speed fibre optic internet available. $317, 900 MLS

For Lease - Kitchener 825 sq ft and 1250 sq ft available immediately in well maintained building with elevator and free parking. Recently renovated with ensuite 2 pc. bath. High traffic location. MLS Call Wendy or Mary Lou,

ALLI NORRIS

BILL NORRIS

OFFICE:

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CELL:

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FAX:

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Country Property outside Elmira, 2 bedrm, finished basement. Enjoy sunsets and sunrises. $234,900 MLS

$289,900 - Waterloo

519-577-6248

ADDRESS: 4-B

Thinking of Buying or Selling call or email today!

BUYING OR SELLING?

25 KINGFISHER, ELMIRA

$229,900.00 LINWOOD

CE

• OFFICE: 519-669-5426

NE

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Plenty of living space in this century home located in the downtown core of Linwood.

Close to school, church, ball diamond and the new Community Centre. Presently a four plex. A very unique property with potential development possiblities or easily converted back to a single family dwelling. Rare find!

You’ve come to the right place to find a home.

$249,900.00 HEARING ASSISTED

St. Teresa Catholic Church

Welcome to

Calvary United St. Jacobs

Celebrate Eucharist with us Mass times are:

Sat. 5pm, Sun. 9am and 11:15am

19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira • 519-669-3387

Wheelchair accessible • Nursery Care provided • Hearing Assisted

Bloomingdale Mennonite Church

ELMIRA

Minister: Summer Worship Rev. Dave Jagger June 27 - Sept. 5 10 a.m. at Trinity Sunday School During Worship

Sundays - 9:45 am Family Worship Service 11:00 am Sunday School for all ages

Visit our website at: www.wondercafe.ca 21 Arthur St., North • Church Office 519-669-5560 “Our mission is to love, learn and live by Christ’s teachings”

1151 Snyder’s Flat Rd., Bloomingdale • 519-745-2411 www.bloomingdalemennonite.com

MY FINANCES

Sunday, July 18, 2010

July 18

As Long As It Doesn’t Hurt Anyone Church

SUNDAYS @ 10:30AM 5 First St., Elmira • 519-669-1459 Services at John Mahood www.elmiracommunity.org Public School

NURSERY PROVIDED

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

10:00 AM Service and Worship led by The Embassy 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1296 Check out our website www.woodsidechurch.ca

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Sunday July 18th 11:00 AM & 7PM

Upbeat Family Worship & Sunday School 10:00 am

48 Hawkesville Rd. • 519-664-2311

Trinity United Church

billnorris@rogers.com

Well kept three bedroom semi backing onto church property. Large eat in kitchen with walk out to deck. Bright eating area with lots of windows. Enjoy the privacy of a fenced back yard. Finished rec room with a two pc. bathroom. Mature trees and tool shed. Hook up for gas stove and BBQ. Ideal home for first time buyers close to schools and Lions Park ball diamonds and soccer fields.

PLACES OF FAITH No God No Peace Know God Know Peace

519-669-9885

allinorris@rogers.com

OPEN HOUSE • SUN. JULY 18 • 2-4PM

Arthur St. S., ELMIRA • EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net

DIRECT: 519-503-2753

“You dream...We’ll work.”

519-588-1348

519-669-9885

Country at its best, trees, stream, camp area, lawns all on 4.3 acre estate lot with 18ft x 45ft outbuilding, 5 bedroom approx. 2350 sq ft with a large deck, walkout basement, tennis court with lights. $459,000 MLS

Move-in condition. Over $15,000 in recent updates. 3 bed, 2 bths, fenced yard. Large attic area familyroom. Close to schools and shopping. MLS Call Wendy Taylor,

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

Les Frey A Tale of Misplaced Values Jonah’s Faith

Discovering God Together

519-669-2319 | www.wbconline.ca 4522 Herrgott Road, Wallenstein

“Making Faith Live” Sunday Worship 9:30 am - 10:30am

2 First St., Elmira • 519-669-5030

Gale

Summer Worship 10am Sunday School during service

Minister: Rev. Dr. Linda Bell

Presbyterian www.galepresbyterian.com Church 2 Cross St., Elmira • 519-669-2852

Office Hours: M-TH 9-Noon & 1-3 • E galepresbychurch@golden.net

St. Paul`s 10am Worship Service Lutheran Pastor: Richard A. Frey Church www.stpaulselmira.com 27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593

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aNNIVersarY

HAPPY 50th Leo & Elsie Martin

Happy 40th Anniversary Honey July 25, 1970

Love & Prayers, your family

BIrtH NOtICe

BIrtHDaY

Willard

Special thank you to our amazing midwives Heather and Carol of Family Midwifery Care of Guelph.

FaMIlY alBUM

formerly of the Elmira/St. Jacobs area, are very honoured to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Brampton with family and friends on July 17, 2010

Kathy & Tony Koebel

Myron & Hilda are long-time residents of the Brampton area and have been blessed with 6 children, 5 surviving, and 13 grandchildren.

Congratulations & Best Wishes Love Your Family

BIrtHDaY

Happy 3rd Birthday Mirella Sandelli You are such a big girl now!

STAG and DOE for

Trisha Fleming & Brian Walter

Happy 90th Birthday

Almeda Martin

To Celebrate this occasion, the family invites friends and relatives to an Open House

Sunday July 25, 2010 from 2-5pm Wallenstein Bible Chapel, 4522 Herrgott Road Wallenstein, On

at our home at 14 Grey Owl Dr. in Elmira.

Incase of rain we will celebrate at the Elmira Mennonite Church. 58 Church St. W in Elmira

HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY

Love Mommy, Daddy & Luca

staG & DOe

Best Wishes only

GraDUatION

Stag & Doe

Dr. Alissa Brearley B.Sc., O.D.

for

Adrienne Beatty & Jeremy Shoemaker

For as little as.. .

23

$

Call

Myron & Hilda (Frey) Martin,

on Saturday July 24th from 3pm-9pm

With a Family Album Ad in the Observer

» Anniversary » Birthday » Engagement » Stag & Doe » Thank you » Birth Notice » and a lot more....

The Children and Grandchildren of

Family, Friends and Co-Workers past and present are invited to an Open House

staG & DOe

Share The Good News!

aNNIVersarY

BIrtHDaY

Happy 65th Birthday

Kevin, Melissa and big brother Landon are thrilled to announce the arrival of Isabelle Elizabeth Hallock born June 23 2010.

aNNIVersarY

+GST

519.669.5790 ext 104

Saturday, July 17th, 2010 Doors Open at 7:30 Lions Hall 40 South Street West, Elmira

IN PRINT | ONLINE | IN PICTURES | IN DEPTH

For tickets please call Jayne 519-669-8069

Saturday July 24th at 8pm Woolwich Community Center 29 Parkside Drive, St. Jacobs Tickets $12 at door. $10 in advance Please contact Nicole 519-638-2262

Jim and Marilyn Brearley are proud to announce the graduation of their daughter Alissa with a Doctor of Optometry degree from the Ohio State University.

Alissa also holds an Honours Degree in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

Congratulations on successfully fulfilling your childhood dream career. Mom and Dad, sister Alanna and Grandma Irene Cunningham are very proud of your accomplishments and the woman you have become.

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straNGe BUt trUe

You don’t want to sample the fruit of this tree Q.

What’s the story behind the heart-stopping “Cerbera odollam” tree of Kerala, India?

Strange But True

A.

Named after Cereberus, the hound of Hades of Greek mythology, its narrow, dark green leaves resemble the common oleander, says Amy Stewart in Wicked Plants.

Sprays of starry white flowers release a perfume as sweet as jasmine.

Its fleshy, green fruits are like small unripe mangoes, except that the white nut meat contains enough cardiac glycoside to stop the heart within three to six hours!

This powerful resource is not lost on the locals. The suicide rate in Kerala is about three times India’s average, with about 100 Keralites attempting it every day and 25-30 succeeding. Poisoning is the choice of 40% of the

Bill & rich sones despondents, with women in particular favoring a mashed odollam final “dessert.”

Because the symptoms resemble those of a heart attack, the seeds have also been used to commit murder. Recently, a team of scientists used liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to prove that many of those who had died under mysterious circumstances had actually been fed odollam.

Q.

What do today’s horse racing jockeys do that the earliest

jockeys didn’t, helping improve race times dramatically? Is it a matter of better aerodynamics?

A.

The late 19th century saw a radical innovation where jockeys abandoned a comfortable upright posture -- “tall in the saddle” -- for the hunched-over, short-stirrup style seen today, says Steven Blau in Physics Today.

By 1910, when the style became universal, race times had dropped by more than 5%, an improvement during that first decade greater than in the hundred years since!

Yet surprisingly, according to Thilo Pfau of the University of London’s Royal Veterinary College, the gain is due less to positional aerodynamics than to synchronization of movement between horse

and rider. The London group determined that jockeys today do not undergo much vertical displacement as the horse gallops; rather, they strenuously pump their legs in such a way as to absorb the horse’s motion. This way, the horse does not expend unnecessary energy lifting and lowering its cargo.

Moreover, the horse’s forward speed varies over the gallop cycle so that when the horse is moving faster than on average, the jockey moves slower.

“That out-of-phase response could help the horse execute a smoother, more energy-efficient gallop.”

>>

Send STRANgE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@cs.com

FaMIlY alBUM GraDUatION

GraDUatION

Congratulations!

Ryan Robert Elias Lawrence

Congratulations!

Marcy Lemon-Lawrence

June 18, 2010

June 18, 2010

We are very proud!

Dr. Bryan Lawrence, Marcy Lemon-Lawrence and sister Lindsay of Waterloo are extremely proud to announce the graduation of their son/brother Ryan Robert Elias Lawrence, from the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Bryan Lawrence, Lindsay (Teacher) and Ryan (Teacher) of Waterloo are extremely proud to announce the graduation of their wife/mother, Marcy Gayle Lemon-Lawrence from the University of Western Ontario.

Ryan earned a Bachelor of Education degree with Distinction (Junior/Intermediate Health and Physical Education).

Ryan is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University where he earned an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology (2009).

He is also an Ontario Scholar graduate of St. Johns Kilmarnock School, where he was presented with the Todd Shannon Memorial Scholarship for Athletics and Academics.

Marcy earned a Bachelor of Education degree with Distinction (Primary/Junior Division). Marcy is a graduate of the University of Waterloo where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and the University of Toronto where she earned a Masters of Social Work degree. She is an Ontario approved Adoption Practitioner and operates her own adoption practice within the Region of Waterloo.

Ryan would like to sincerely thank his Western Associate Teachers, (John Foss, Rob Buston, Warren Bullock) and a special thank you to teacher mentor Clark Day, as well as his faculty advisors, (Les Asseltine, Don Schafer, Frank Haines). He is also proud to be teaching with the Waterloo Region District School Board.

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Marcy would like to warmly thank her family, friends, colleagues and clients for the incredible support she received while she was completing her education degree.

Special Acknowledgement to her Western Associate Teachers (Joanne Ziegler, Chrisoula Xintavelonis, Landry Smith, Secretary Trish Dietz) and special teacher mentor Catherine Campbell as well her faculty advisors (Les, Frank and Don).

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FIreBalls ClINCH tOP sPOt Junior baseball wrapped up with an end-of-season tournament July 10 in St. Jacobs. The Fireballs won all three of their matches ending in a nail-biter that could have gone either way. Sawyer grubb was awarded the MVp for the team, while the rest of the players recieved first-place medals.

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strONG at tHe FINIsH Elmira’s Red Sox were the consolation champs, winning two out of three games at the season’s final tournament July 10. Adam Letson was awarded the MVp trophy while all players received medals. The tournament finalized a two-month season with teams hailing from Elmira, St. Jacobs, St. Clements and Wellesley.

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lorraine passed away on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at grand River Hospital, K-W Health Centre.

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JUlY 20 >>Explore Africa at the Region of

Waterloo Library. Join us at St. Clements, Linwood, St. Jacobs, Bloomingdale and Wellesley branches for Explore Africa with the Destination Jungle TD Summer Reading Club! This free program includes stories, crafts and activities for children ages 6 to 12. For more information please contact your local branch; July 20-23.

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Branch Library, 3 p.m. Join us for the Reptile Show from Hamilton Reptiles. Meet the reptiles and learn about where they are from, their eating habits and defenses.

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Join us at St. Clements, Linwood, St. Jacobs, Bloomingdale and Wellesley branches for A Rainforest Adventure with the Destination Jungle TD Summer Reading Club! This free program includes stories, crafts and activities for children ages 6 to 12. For more information please contact your local branch; July 27-30.

>>Tooney Tuesday with Erick Traplin, Amazing Corban, 6-7:45 p.m.; $2. City hall rotunda, Kitchener, 519-741-3400, ext.

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This show is recommended for children 5 and up. Tickets $3 per person or two for $5. For more information contact the Elmira Branch Library 519-669-5477.

aUGUst 10 >>go Wild, Jungle party at the

Region of Waterloo Library. Join us at St. Clements, Linwood, St. Jacobs, Bloomingdale and Wellesley branches for A Rainforest Adventure with the Destination Jungle TD Summer Reading Club! This free program includes stories, crafts and activities for children ages 6 to 12. For more information please contact your local branch;. Aug. 10-13.

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