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Conestogo road-widening proposal put on hold JAMES JACKSON Regional councillors have asked staff to find a yet another compromise for a proposed road-widening and repair project on a portion of Sawmill Road and Northfield Drive in Conestogo.

The issue isn’t whether or not the road should be fixed – of that there is no debate – but how to go about repairing the road in a way that appeases as many residents and community groups as possible.

Cyclists want Sawmill Road in particular widened to accommodate bike lanes, while residents want to preserve the area’s historic character and properties.

“What I’ve heard is outcry from the public that they will lose their front yards, along with a number of trees taken down, and five or possibly six properties that the region would have to buy and knock down” said Woolwich mayor and regional councillor Todd Cowan.

Another issue is the upwards of 50 to 60 parking spaces in the village that would need to be eliminated to accommodate the road-widening, including at the fire station. “(The region) don’t want to expand the road any more than it is because there is not a lot of space along parts of that road.”

Cowan said there were “four or five” delegations at the meeting on Tuesday, including cyclists hoping to promote the ROADS | 4

The Elmira Farmer’s Market marked its tenth anniversary last weekend at its usual spot on Maple Street. For a decade the group has promoted the sale of locally-sourced food, and they are open Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from May to October.

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A decade of local food JAMES JACKSON

While larger farmers’ markets such as St. Jacobs might steal the limelight, the Elmira market quietly celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend.

Located on Maple Street and tucked in a parking lot behind the new township office, the market sets up every Saturday morning from the first weekend in May to the last weekend of October. What began as a one-off experiment initiated by the Elmira Business Improvement Area back in 2002 has grown into one of the town’s best-kept secrets.

“I can hardly believe we’ve been here for 10 years,” said Laurene Martin last Satur-

day.

Martin and her husband Alan are just one of two vendors who have been at the market since its inception.

“We’ve had some great community support, or we wouldn’t be here anymore.

We’ve had some ups and downs over the years but it’s the consumers that have kept us here.”

After getting their start in 2002, the group ran into insurance problems at their location in the parking lot behind what is now the Bargain Shop. The Home Hardware store heard of their problems and offered up some of their land for the stalls.

They’ve called that parking lot home ever since and have been running full-time

since 2003.

They had about 10 vendors that first season, a number that has ebbed and flowed over the years. Currently they attract about 15 vendors full-time, with another handful who come only at certain times of the season to sell their strawberries, corn, or other seasonal fare.

“Some tried it and moved on, while new ones come on all the time,” said Martin, who sells baking and preserves from her family’s stall.

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Woolwich Counselling Centre the recipient of $25,000 award JAMES JACKSON The Woolwich Counselling Centre (WCC) has been named the recipient of the 2012 Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region (SVPWR) Investee award.

With the award comes guaranteed funding of $25,000 per year over the next three to five years, along with mentorship and guidance from more than 50 partners with SVPWR. “We’re pretty thrilled,” said Mary Wilhelm, executive director of the centre.

SVPWR launched back in 2010 using a business model created in Seattle, Washington in 1997 by Paul Brainerd. His vision was to build a philanthropic community that leveraged venture capital practices, meaning a group of partners pool not only their money – a minimum donation of $5,000 is required per year – but also their technical or vocational skills to help communitybased organizations grow.

“The $25,000 is important but it goes way beyond that. The other pieces are very attractive,” said Willhelm.

“We’re not just about writing a cheque,” added Jennifer King, executive director of SVPWR. “Along with the grant comes the expertise of our partners.”

That expertise can range from a marketing and business background to promote the investee, to legal and fundraising assistance as well.

“It really is a partnership,” King said. “We believe in the idea that we can accomplish more by pooling our money and our time.”

In three years the SVPWR will reexamine the progress of each investee and decide if they wish to continue funding them. They also perform annual evaluations of the program to see how the groups are progressing and how the funds are being used.

WCC provides various counseling programs and services to support the needs of the people of Waterloo Region, with a focus on youth and children.

They help about 160 kids per year with issues ranging from grief and loss to autism, and Willhelm hopes that number will climb to at least 200 with this increased funding.

As far as dedicated funds for children are concerned, the group receives a donation from the United Way as well as $15,000 from Wallenstein Feed every year, so $25,000 of guaranteed funding every year over the AWARD | 6

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LINWOOD STUDENTS GREEN THEIR SPACE

STEVE KANNON Shuttered, the last service having taken place at the end of 2011, Chalmers Presbyterian Church remains a Winterbourne landmark, one advocates say deserves preservation. They found a receptive audience in Woolwich councillors, who this week agreed to include the building on its Municipal Heritage Register.

The inclusion of the church as a “listed building of interest” affords it some protection, and perhaps paves the way for a full-on heritage designation.

Built in 1870, the structure has essentially remained unchanged over the last 142 years, serving as a Presbyterian church.

In December, however, the church closed its doors due to a declining membership.

In January, some 60 residents worried the building could be lost to demolition if the property is sold, petitioned the township to preserve the building.

“In smaller communities like Winterbourne, there are usually a few structures

Students at Linwood Public School, including Grade 8 Green Team members Shaylen Jones (left), Chantelle Weber, Julia Lee, Johnny Metzger, and Emma Weber (back) participated in the school’s sixth annual spring plant in the schoolyard Monday. The event included four new trees, 24 new shrubs, and 21 new perennials as part of the awardwinning environmental sanctuary.

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Councillors take hands-off stance in hiring controversy STEVE KANNON Woolwich councillors have yet to weigh in on a controversial hiring, which saw a newly-created staff position filled by a friend of the mayor. Now the township faces the possibility of going through the process two months later, as the new employee’s work visa is set to expire.

Councillors, however, say personnel matters are left

to staff; the situation has not been the subject of a formal discussion, nor are there plans to question the decision to hire someone in the country on a temporary visa set to expire in midJune.

Saskia Koning, a South African citizen, beat out some 120 other candidates to win the executive assistant’s position, starting the job Apr. 26. It was to be a three-year contract.

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the township had considered re-advertising for the position, deeming all the other applications ill-suited to the job.

"If the position becomes vacant the only additional costs that will need to be incurred will be associated with the recruitment process," said Cowan in an email.

"It should be noted that had the township not hired Ms. Koning, we would have

Chief administrative officer David Brenneman said this week there’s been no change in Koning's visa situation. It’s likely she’ll have to leave the post, sending the township back to square-one in the hiring process.

Brenneman and Mayor Todd Cowan, who was involved in the hiring process, deemed Koning the best-qualified candidate.

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Koning’s own résumé, however, does not seem to fit the qualifications stipulated by the township when it advertised for an executive assistant to the mayor/ council and corporate communications assistant.

Brenneman said he is satisfied with her background and experience.

Officials have also de-

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Foodlink board members Andrew Coppolino (left), Julia White, Ingrid Schiller, and Karl Allen-Muncey, along with Harold Albrecht (centre) and Foodlink manager Anna Contini (right) launched their annual Buy Local! Buy Fresh! food map at the market last Saturday as well.

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items, pork, chicken, and beef. Starting last year for the first time, dairy products including cheese and eggs are available.

When the market shuts down for the winter months a three-person committee plans for the next season and talks have often turned to how they can attract more customers. While they could make the market larger if they wanted to, organizers fear it would take away from the true nature of why they started in the first place.

“We could expand and make it more of a flea market, but that’s not what we

want. You must make it, bake it, or grow it. That’s our motto. That way we keep it local.

“If everyone in Elmira came, we couldn’t support them all.”

They currently attract shoppers from across the region, and even from areas outside of Waterloo, who are drawn to the quaint nature of the market rather than the larger markets that are very busy on a Saturday morning.

“Some come from Kitchener and bypass St. Jacobs market for Elmira.

It’s a little quieter, a little smaller, and they know it’s local.”

As part of their 10th

anniversary they offered sausage on a bun with all proceeds going to local food banks, as well as wagon rides.

Foodlink also launched its 11th annual Buy Local!

Buy Fresh! map at the market last Saturday morning as part of the anniversary, and it includes information on upwards of 70 local farms and farmers markets.

Copies of the map can be found at local libraries, as well as food retailers and restaurants across the region.

The market runs every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and for more information on the Foodlink maps visit www.foodlink.ca.

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safety aspects of installing bike lanes through the village by drawing upon the recent death of Waterloo cyclist Barrie Conrod, who was struck by an SUV and died in Wellesley Township almost a month ago.

Meeting Tuesday, councillors asked staff to develop a new report that considers the concerns of the cyclists.

Cowan added they were receptive to the idea of designating Flax Mill Drive as a bike path, and said he was open to the idea as long as the region was willing to cost-share the project on the township road.

“Compromise will be good for both sides,” he noted. “At this point we haven’t moved on it, we’re waiting for staff to come

back so we can address the cyclist issue.

“They (cyclists) felt they weren’t being given a dedicated area.”

The Region of Waterloo is currently considering improvements to Sawmill Road from Musselman Crescent to the Conestogo Bridge, and on Northfield Drive from the south limits of the village to Country Spring Walk. A traffic study indicated that by 2024 the intersection of Northfield and Sawmill would operate at a “poor level of service.”

The original plan called for the road to be widened by 1.5 metres to accommodate cyclists and buggy traffic, the installation of left-turn lanes at the intersection of Northfield and Sawmill, the construction of a pedestrian refuge island, and enhanced

boulevard landscaping, among others, totaling $5.2 million.

Following public consultation back in October at Conestogo Public School, and after reviewing public comments, the project team that was established to direct the planning of the improvements came back to council with the suggestion to abandon the widening of the road and to reconstruct Sawmill Road and Northfield Drive in its current configuration.

That modification would cost an estimated $2.5-million, or about half of the original project, and to be funded by the roads rehabilitation reserve fund.

Cowan said he expects a new report to come forward in about three weeks at the next committee meeting.

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Woolwich wary of CETA negotiations Woolwich this week joined a long list of Canadian municipalities expressing their unease over the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), currently in the negotiation stage between Canada the European Union.

Meeting this week, councillors passed a resolution calling on the federal and provincial governments to stand up for municipal interests, as critics have

seen the possibility the deal could undermine local autonomy, including purchasing decisions. The deal is also a potential threat to local drinking water systems.

Municipalities could lose some of their ability to control who bids on contracts for goods and services – CETA would open the process to international companies, disallowing any buy-local provisions. Far more worrying is the access-by-stealth aspects of the deal: European designs on Canada’s resources, including water, an ongoing threat with existing and proposed free trade agreements.

Hawkesville TV episode June 12 Hawkesville residents will have a chance to see their community featured on TV with the premiere of a new TVO show called Giver. It features a group of six Hawkesville kids volunteering their time to improve the playground at the Hawkesville Community Centre.

The Hawkesville episode of Giver was filmed in August 2011 and will premiere on TVO Tuesday, June 12 at 6:30 pm. Six local children ages 7 to 13

joined the Giver team to design and build a beach-themed playground with a sandcastle fort, a climbing pyramid and a volleyball court. The kids learned about civic engagement as they got their hands dirty sawing, nailing and painting with the help of local volunteers. With only three days to finish the project, they felt a great sense of pride in all that they were able to accomplish in that time.

Giver, co-produced by TVO and Sinking Ship Entertainment, engages kids across Ontario to volunteer their time to build playgrounds in their communities.

Dust suppression work underway in Woolwich Delayed by a potential legal challenge of its tendering process, Woolwich this week began treating its gravel roads with dust suppressant.

The work would normally have been completed by now, with the setback causing more gravel dust to be dispersed into the air, affecting farm fields and the quality of the air breathed by rural residents, Coun.

Mark Bauman noted at this week’s

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Police seek suspect following break-and-enter in Breslau Police were contacted at 3:40 on May 27 about a break-and-enter at a Dolman Street residence in Breslau.

When officers arrived they discovered the home’s back door was open. Once inside, they found the house had been ransacked.

A safe taken from an upstairs room was found near train tracks near the

house. Owners of the house reported a small amount of money and some jewelry was missing.

Police are looking for a suspect described as 25 to 35 years old, average height and medium build with short brown hair, scruffy beard, dark yellow teeth wearing a black ball cap and a long-sleeved t-shirt with a silver cross wing design.

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4:30 AM | Police received a call about a dog that had been barking for three hours on Anne Street near Riverside Drive in Elmira. When police arrived they found the dog tied to a tree unable to move and it had been sprayed by a skunk. The animal was transported to the Humane Society.

5:10 AM | A small to mid-size vehicle driving along Northfield Drive near Jigs Hollow Drive lost control and entered a ditch. When police arrived they found a man and woman outside the vehicle but were unable to determine who was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident. They are continuing to investigate.

7:30 PM | Two people travelling in a red Dodge pickup on Line 86 near Manser Road were attacked by a man who threw rocks at the their vehicle. When they stopped the man proceeded to attack the female passenger. The attacker is described at wearing a white shirt and black pants. Police could not find any suspects in their search.

7:10 PM | Police received a call about a green Honda driving erratically around the Crosshill Community Centre. When police arrived they found two young men in the vehicle and seized a small about of marijuana.

council meeting.

A challenge from one of the unsuccessful bidders put the township behind schedule by two or three weeks. The township, however, stuck with its original plan, awarding the work to Pollard Highway Products, which will spread a 20-per-cent solution of calcium brine on Woolwich’s 119-kilometre network of gravel roads. Councillors weren’t swayed by a representative of Miller Paving Ltd., which submitted the nominally lower bid for the job.

With the cost of extra water factored in, the Miller bid was deemed higher.

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7:20 AM | A 66-year-old Brampton man was charged with an improper turn when he struck a 2000 Safari van operated by a 49-year-old Wellesley man with his transport truck. The truck driver told police he was driving when he realized he was heading in the wrong direction and made a U-turn before hitting the other vehicle.

3:45 PM | Police received a call about graffiti on the Apostolic Church and at a nearby park on the building near the tennis courts on Lobsinger Line in Heidelberg. The investigation continues.

The 80-year-old driver of this car backed into with her own home on Snyder Avenue last Sunday morning after she blacked out. No charges were laid and the driver suffered minor injuries.

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8:30 PM | A Listowel Road resident contacted police when they discovered that the license plate on their vehicle had been switched with an expired plate. The investigation continues.

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9:50 AM | An 80-year-old Elmira woman was backing out of her driveway on Snyder Avenue when she blacked out, causing her black Saturn to loop around and drive into her own house. The car had significant damage and the woman

sustained minor injuries. No charges were laid.

7:00 PM | A Conestogo man driving a 2011 Nissan van hit a deer on Sawmill Road near Bloomingdale.

The deer survived the impact and ran into a field. The vehicle sustained significant damage to the left side. No injuries were reported by the driver.

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2:00 PM | A 16-year-old Elmira man operating a 1998 Toyota on Reid Wood Drive near Floradale lost control of the vehicle and rolled over, causing

significant damage. The youth was charged with ‘careless driving’ and not having a G1 licensed driver in the vehicle with him at the time.

3:55 PM | An accident occurred at Entertaining Elements on King Street North in St. Jacobs when a 51-year-old man cut his inner thigh moving a stove. The man was a friend of the owner and not an employee.

He was helping the owner pack appliances as the store is moving. He was taken to Grand River Hospital to be treated.

8:25 PM | A 31-year-old woman from Markham was charged with ‘fail to stop at a red light’ when she drove her 2011 Jetta into a 2003 Kia driven by an Elmira woman in her 30s at the intersection of Arthur Street North and Church Street in Elmira. No injuries were reported. Both vehicles suffered moderate damage.

10:45 PM | Police and firefighters responded to a fire at a store on Katherine Street near Line 86 in West Montrose. Fire officials believe the fire started from a faulty electrical system. Damage was estimated at $10,000.

MennoHomes plan more affordable housing for townships JAMES JACKSON Building on the success of their affordable housing rental units on Centre Street in Elmira, MennoHomes is embarking on an ambitious plan to create even more affordable housing in Elmira and Wellesley village.

The projects involve renovating an existing bungalow located at 9 Ratz St. in Elmira, building a duplex on the adjacent vacant lot, and building a second duplex in Wellesley on David Street. The five units will bring the total to 105 for MennoHomes in the past decade.

Yet the new construction projects go beyond merely

building new houses. They actually involve the deconstruction of an existing fourplex in Waterloo and transporting three of the floors to the sites – two of those units are headed to Elmira, and one for Wellesley.

“For us this is a first,” said MennoHomes president Martin Buhr. “It’s a whole new experience.”

The unusual opportunity arose last year when a pair of brothers – who wish to remain anonymous – sold their property on King Street North in Waterloo.

Faced with the removal of the four-unit building, they could either turn the units into rubble, or donate them.

Luckily for Menno-

Homes, they chose the latter option.

“Its 10 years old and they’re deconstructing it in modular housing units so it can be reassembled,” said Buhr.

Not only are the brothers donating three of the floors (the fourth was deemed unsalvageable), they are covering most of the costs themselves, including deconstruction, transportation, storage (if necessary), foundation work, and reassembling the units.

The agency doesn’t take ownership of the homes until they pass final inspection and are deemed inhabitable under regional and township building codes. MennoHomes must

MennoHomes president Martin Buhr (right) and treasurer Gary Chard show off the future design plans for a duplex to be built at 11 Ratz St. in Elmira using two donated levels of a soon-to-be demolished fourplex from Waterloo.

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also complete soil tests at the David Street site before construction can begin to ensure it is not contaminated.

Buhr estimates completing the work themselves would have cost about $100 per square foot, and with each unit about 1,500 square feet in size, the savings should amount to more than $450,000.

There are still a lot of other costs that the company must cover, including site plans that need to be drawn, work to even the grade on the 7,300 squarefoot vacant lot in Elmira, and driveways and parking lots must also be comMENNOHOMES | 7

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Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan, acting on behalf of Governor General David Johnston, this week presented Elmira’s Sue Walton with a Certificate of Commendation in recognition of her actions in helping with rescue efforts on Lake Huron in Kincardine on Sept. 7, 2008.

Michael Hancock ultimately lost his life trying to rescue his daughter, who had become caught in a strong current. Others entered the water from nearby boats, attempting to aid both victims in distress. As the group got closer to shore, Walton was one of the bystanders who assisted by throwing them a life buoy and pulling them back to shore. The daughter was revived, but her father did not survive.

next three to five years will go a long way to increasing their programming capabilities, not to mention the other benefits they will draw from joining with partners of the investee program.

The process of being named an investee is a sixmonth procedure. First, companies or groups write a letter of interest stating why they wish to be selected as the investee. From there the list is whittled down to five agencies in the region and they are invited to write full proposals, which require references and a businesslike approach, said Willhelm.

“You’ve really got to show

Mary Willhelm, executive director of WCC, is thrilled her organization has been named the 2012 investee for Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region.

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your stuff and be very transparent.”

The next step is to make a

presentation in competition with one other agency to decide a winner. This year the WCC was up against the John Howard Society, and both groups presented on May 7 at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, with WCC selected as the investee for 2012.

“They had strong leadership and a great board, and their focus on children and youth development, including play-based therapy, really spoke to us,” said King of why the counselling centre was chosen.

The WCC investment begins immediately, and SVPWR’s next call for Letters of Interest will take place this fall. For more information on Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region, visit www. svpwr.org.

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– ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING – Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 7 p.m.

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than entry-level offerings, which run closer to $25,000.

Executive assistants, with more experience and responsibility, can earn closer to the range offered by the township, according to figures available from federal employment websites On the issue of Koning’s hiring, Coun. Mark Bauman said council hires one per-

son, the CAO, who in turn looks after all other personnel issues.

“With regard to the EA position, council does not get involved in the hiring process.”

Council is responsible, however, creating the job, which was approved as part of budget deliberations in February. There has been no talk of eliminating the position should it become

vacant.

At the broader level, council is also responsible for setting pay ranges, but there has been no discussion about restraint despite some public backlash that has arisen due to the hiring controversy. But that is not on the table right now, either, said Coun. Julie-Anne Herteis, noting ward councillors were not involved in the employment process.

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Built in 1870, Chalmers Presbyterian Church in Winterbourne has been vacant since its last serice in December. Residents hope to preserve the building.

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It may be an inn, a mill, a post office or, sometimes, a bank. But more often than not it is an old church, and Chalmers Presbyterian is an example of this,” said John Arndt, past-president of the North Waterloo regional branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, in addressing Woolwich council May 29.

“It represents community values, and the history and heritage of place.

Physically, it is an excellent example of late-19th century rural church architecture: the windows, the steeple, the inviting front door. Chalmers church is a local landmark appreciated by former parishioners, residents, history buffs and people passing through Winterbourne.”

For Kim Hodgson, whose home abuts the church property, preserving the building amounts to keeping Winterbourne’s de facto community centre.

“The church is important for so many reasons,” she said, pointing to its charming architecture and long history. “We owe it to our township to preserve this little building.”

Although it may no longer serve as a church, converting it to residential or commercial use, while preserving its look and character, would be an ideal solution, she suggested.

The Presbyterian Church of Canada, which now

owns the building, is interested in selling it, and has been lukewarm to the idea of a heritage designation, which would limit its options for the property.

Woolwich has pushed ahead, however, because of the building’s significance.

“The church does have a number of key elements which make it a potential candidate for designation,” director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley noted in his report to council. “The church is an older structure built in the 1800s, is connected to the history of the community, has been maintained and used as a Presbyterian church since its construction, and character has not been significantly altered.”

Arndt noted there are some issues with the building that will require repair, but they’re all rather easily addressed.

In that vein, Coun.

Mark Bauman pointed to a couple of recent cases in Elmira – the Steddick Hotel and a Victorian home at 10 Park. Ave. – where heritage buildings were allowed to deteriorate so badly that demolition was the only option, warning that historical designations can be onerous to property owners.

Forced to maintain characteristics of the buildings, often requiring expensive techniques for repairs and renovations, owners should have access to funds to help offset the costs, he argued, though voting in favour of the listing.

Over the summer months, three Elmira girls – Gwyneth Findlay, Tricia Bauman and Natalie Hanley-Sadowski – are planning to visit orphanages in Romania as a way to open their hearts and support the children in the state-run institutions.

Romania is going through an orphan crisis, with close to 80,000 children abandoned, abused or displaced across the country.

The girls are travelling with International Teams Canada and will be running a day camp for children.

“The purpose of the ministry going to Romania is to teach the orphans family skills and life skills because the Romania orphanages are institutions and not homes – they do not pick up those kinds of skills,” said Findlay. “The idea is that the orphans will be able to raise a healthy family once they leave the orphanage.”

The trio will be heading to a camp near Cluj in the mountains of Romania with seven other volunteers for two weeks from July 22 to Aug. 6.

Last summer Findlay and her family went to Romania to work with children in the north-west part of the country. Working in a camp for two weeks they would perform morning exercises, read bible stories, play games and activities with the children from two nearby orphanages.

Tricia Bauman (left), Gwyneth Findlay and Natalie Hanley-Sadowski held a yard sale at Findlay’s house last Saturday to raise funds for their upcoming goodwill trip to Romania.

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“Ever since that trip I always wanted to go back but I didn’t think it would be an option until I was 18 years old,” said Findlay, a 16 year old EDSS student.

Findlay was sitting down with her team leader earlier this year when she asked

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“He said that as long as I had my parent’s approval and there were chaperones it was totally possible,” said

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Bauman, Findlay’s friend from school was on board shortly after.

“When (Findlay) came back from her first visit she couldn’t stop talking about her trip and it seemed like her life had changed. She was so excited about it and I always had wanted to do a short term mission trip and it just seemed to work out that we would be able to go together this summer,” said Bauman.

Hanley-Sadowski joined the trio with help from Findlay’s parents who work for International Team Canada as they set up interviews for the 18 year old St. David’s student.

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A cautionary tale of wages out of sync with reality If, like many Canadians, you stopped somewhere for coffee this morning, chances are the person who served you isn’t earning a healthy stipend for his or her troubles. That is unless you stopped by the Tim Hortons at Newfoundland’s Health Sciences Centre, which has been staffed by public-sector workers making $28 an hour.

“How is that possible?” you ask. Because it made sense to bureaucrats in the public sector. Until this week, that is, when hospital announced it was turning the operation over to the private sector. Why? Because the coffee shop lost $260,000 last year. Why? Because employees were making $28 an hour.

A nice wage, but hardly the way to run an operation that was intended to provide the hospital with some $300,000 in annual profits when it was installed in the facility back in 1995. Instead, there’s been mounting losses.

“Let me tell you why [the hospital franchise loses money],” Vickie Kaminski, the authority’s president and CEO, told reporters on Tuesday. “We charge you a $1.94 for that large coffee, but we insist that the staff who are pouring the coffee are Eastern Health staff, and they get paid $28 an hour. No Tim Hortons pays that.”

True. And the average Tim Hortons restaurant reportedly generates $265,000 in profits. It does so typically by paying its employees minimum wage.

Critics this week jumped on the revelation as an indication of wasteful spending in the public sector, asking what other inefficiencies await discovery. If something as idiot proof as a Tim Hortons franchise loses money, what’s happening in the much more complicated parts of the health-care system?

This is surely a cautionary tale. A reminder of what happens when bureaucracies expand, and ever-increasing pay scales continue to grow, regardless of job type, skills, inflation, the tax burden or any other rationale measure that should be taken into consideration.

There’s a parallel here with the recent hire at Woolwich Township, where an administrative assistant’s position is paying in the neighbourhood of $50,000 a year – less, officials might point out, than the $56,000 doled out on an annualized basis for those lucky coffee servers at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s. As with the Tim Hortons employees, the job is paying well above comparable jobs in the private sector.

Statistics indicate a growing gap between civil service wages and the average earning of private sector employees.

The discrepancy is likely to increase, as average industry wages will remain stagnant or decline dramatically in some industries as layoffs take hold – look at what’s happening with RIM, to name just one.

Yet, as we’ve seen in this area, government employees continued to receive multi-year deals worth, on average, three to four per cent a year. With no bottom line – politicians seem to have few qualms about dipping deeper on their repeated trips to the well – governments simply pass the increases along to a public forced to pay taxes, a far cry from the situation faced in the private sector.

This is not simply a tirade against government workers.

We want services, so we need people to provide them. Those people should be paid a decent living wage. The trick will be to decide what services we really need – hint, fewer than we’re spending money on right now – and what constitutes “decent.”

With hiring practices and wage levels in need of scrutiny, Woolwich council has thus far refused to ask questions, let alone demand answers.

WORLD view / GWYNNE DYER

Assad opts for murder rather than lose power WORLD AFFAIRS “There is no doubt that the (Syrian) government used artillery and tanks (in Houla),” said Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday. But then he added: “There is also no doubt that many bodies have been found with injuries from firearms received at point-blank range. We are dealing with a situation where both sides participated in the killings of innocent civilians.”

Russia is at last admitting that Syria is using heavy weapons against its own civilian population. It could hardly do less, given the scale of Saturday’s massacre in the village of Taldou in the Houla region: at least 108 civilians killed, including 49 children. But while other countries are expelling Syrian ambassadors, Lavrov is still trying to spread the blame in order to protect Bashir al-Assad’s regime from foreign intervention.

While some of the victims in Houla were killed

by shellfire, others had been shot at close range or knifed to death. Assad’s propagandists insist that the fighters of the Syrian opposition (the “armed terrorist gangs,” as the regime calls them) massacred their own people with rifles and knives in order to put the blame on the government, and Russia is actively promoting the same story. But it is nonsense, and Lavrov must know it.

The testimony of eyewitnesses is consistent: after two hours of shelling by the Syrian army, armed men belonging to the pro-government Shabiha militia entered the village and went door to door killing suspected activists and their families. The government in Damascus doesn’t care that everybody knows it’s lying: the whole point of the massacre is to terrify Syrians into submission, and it knows that NATO will not intervene.

The victims murdered in Houla last weekend are only one per cent of the Syrian citizens killed by their own government since the anti-regime protests began in March of last year, but some people hope

that this will be a turning point in foreign attitudes to Assad. They even talk about it as a “mini-Srebrenica.”

That was the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian forces in 1995 that finally persuaded the NATO countries to use force against Slobodan Milosevic, the dictator of Serbia, but it’s not going to happen here. The brazen effrontery of the Assad regime in perpetrating such a massacre even after United Nations/ Arab League monitors have entered the country shows how confident it is that the Western alliance will not use force against him.

NATO will not go beyond empty threats because it cannot get the support of the United Nations Security Council for using force against Assad’s regime (the Russians and the Chinese would veto it), and because the Syrian armed forces are so big and powerful that it would suffer significant losses if it attacked.

If there is no foreign military intervention, then Syria is heading into a prolonged civil war like Lebanon’s in 1975-1990: the ethnic and religious divisions

in Syria are quite similar to those in Lebanon. If the Syrian regime understands that, then why does it persist in killing the protesters? Because it reckons that fighting a prolonged civil war is better than losing power now.

The pro-democracy protests in Syria began soon after the triumph of the Egyptian revolution in February 2011, and for six months they remained entirely non-violent despite savage repression by the regime. (By last September, Assad’s forces had already murdered about 3,000 Syrian civilians.) And so long as the demonstrations stayed non-violent, the vision of a Syrian democracy embracing all sects and ethnic groups remained viable.

Assad’s strategy for survival had two main thrusts. One was to divide the opposition. At the start the protests included Christians, Druze, and even some people from Assad’s own community, the Alawites. He needed to separate those minority groups from the majority DYER | 12

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Their view / question OF THE WEEK

Should students have the right to protest against rising tuition fees?

»»Paul Collins

»»Michael Beams

»»Erika Fleck

I think it would be best if they didn’t protest as Yeah I agree with that. It’s heartless what much as possible.

Harper and McGuinty are doing to students.

»»Al Fry

»»Carrie Rody

I can agree with why students disagree with I believe as Canadians that we have the right tuition hikes. There are lots of students who are to protest when we’re done wrong. very smart, and just because they might not have enough money to go to university, it’s not fair.

Yes, because this is Canada and we have the right to protest anything.

"Civil war is Assad’s best option for survival, and he’s not stupid." Gwynne Dyer | page 10 HIS view / STEVE KANNON

Unrealistic expectations meet worsening reality: the new generational struggle EDITOR'S NOTES Kids today are lazy, with an overblown sense of entitlement. Kids today are facing a sinking economy, loaded with debt and facing diminishing job prospects.

Pick one.

Baby boomers should retire, making way for the next generation who can’t find employment. Baby boomers have to keep working, as jobs go unfilled and their taxes are needed to pay for all the services required by an aging populace.

Pick one.

Which ones you choose probably depends on your age.

Every generation feels the one that came after it has it easier and doesn’t appreciate what they’ve got. In the industrial era, each generation has done better than the previous one ... until now. Things are changing. Those who tut-tut the students out in the streets of Montreal see

only entitled kids, not the struggle. They may be going about it all wrong – the jury’s still out on that one – but the issues are real.

Baby boomers, especially those leading the cohort, did have it easier, coming of age at a time when the economy was booming, housing was much more affordable and education, which was much less called for, was more affordable.

Those born in the 1980s and ’90s find themselves in a much different world, one filled with a struggling middle class, the victims of free trade, outsourcing and a shift to a service economy.

Those early boomers lucky enough to land a well-paying job with benefits and a full pension face a soft landing today.

Plenty of others, however, had no such luck, and find themselves being squeezed along with the millennials. Those who rode the consumer wave, relying on home-equity loans and credit cards to maintain their middle-class lifestyles, see no chance of retirement, let alone Freedom 55.

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of the comforts of life. Some of those jobs, including factory work, weren’t ideal in everybody’s eyes, but they allowed for a good, middleclass life. In some cases, workers who started in the mailroom as kids ended up in the executive suites – I certainly knew more than a few relatives and parents of friends who went that route.

Today, if you do manage to get a mailroom job, you’re probably stuck there for the duration.

That reality is greatly at odds with the expectations of today’s young people, which is where we get into the image of spoiled, entitled kids. Ironically, it’s the offspring of the boomers, whose parents fueled the consumer-based economy and fostered a system that boosted children’s selfesteem above all else, who are bearing the brunt of derisive comments.

While it’s easy to generalize, there’s something to the argument that some of today’s young people have a sense of entitlement that doesn’t mesh with reality, past or present.

The National Report

Card on Youth Financial Literacy, a research study released last fall, quantified just what we’re up against.

The survey of some 3,000 recent high school graduates found most were overly optimistic about their financial prospects.

The median survey respondent expects to earn $70,000 in 10 years’ time (more than double the reported income of Canadian post secondary graduates 10 years older) and almost three quarters expect to purchase a home within 10 years, which is a much higher rate than actual home ownership in this country.

The average survey respondent expects to earn $90,735 in 10 years, roughly three times the average income of 25 to 29 year olds with post-secondary de-

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grees ($31,648), according to Statistics Canada data.

Clearly there is a divide between expectations and the realities of the job market, one that is pointed to in trying to explain why young people are rejecting entry-level jobs, where wages, hours and working conditions don’t align with their idea of what a job should be.

That perhaps explains some of the almost one million young people out of work in this country, a cohort known as NEETs -- Not in Employment Education or Training.

Some 513,000 of those 15 to 29 years of age who are neither working nor in school aren’t even looking for work.

With prospects showing no sign of improvement, expect the new generation gap to grow.

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There are those who argue that older workers should step aside, making room for young people having a tough time finding jobs. That flies in the face, however, of the government’s rationale for continuing to flood the country with immigrants, claiming we need them to deal with a growing shortage of workers. This at a time when overall unemployment rates hover around eight per cent – with the real rate, including underemployment, well into double digits – and the official youth unemployment at 13 per cent.

Leaving aside the fact the immigration is a net drain on Canada’s resources, depressing wages and helping to fuel the housing bubble, the shifting economic trends away from good-paying, stable jobs to precarious, low-paying McJobs is enough to sound alarm bells.

It’s a much different scenario than was the case for boomers. There was a time when someone could get a decent job right out of high school, paying enough to afford a home, a car and some

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Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth. Although similar trends in Canada and the U.S. maintained growth in middle class incomes until the 1970s, they have since run out of steam. Globalization, technological advances, a drop in unionized work, and a deregulated labour market have contributed to stagnant real incomes for most in Canada and the U.S. since the 1980s.

“What we find objectionable is these failed candidates clearly rejected by the Canadian people are being put on EI boards, put on the Port Authorities, this is pork barrel, this is patronage and this is an insult to taxpayers.”

Four Woolwich schools received bomb threats on June 2, 1999, one day before an Ontario election. All four buildings were to be used as polling stations. Similar incidents were reported across the province. In Woolwich, Riverside PS, John Mahood PS, Floradale PS and St. Jacobs PS were named.

»»Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and Canadian Centre for Policy

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of the protesters, the Sunni Muslims who make up 70 per cent of Syria’s population.

His other goal was to lure the protesters into using force, because that would license his own army to use far greater force against them.

Eventually, in October/ November, deserters from the Syrian army (who took their weapons with them) began shooting back at Assad’s troops, and he had his pretext. After that, he was free to use artillery against city centres, slaughter whole villages, whatever he liked.

The shift to open warfare also had the effect of frightening most Christians, Druze and Alawites back into the regime’s camp. They bought the regime’s lies about the resistance being run by Sunni Islamist fanatics

with al-Qaeda connections (although it is nothing of the sort), and decided that even Assad and his henchmen were better than a democracy that brought vengeful Sunni Muslims to power.

So Assad now has about 30 per cent of the population on his side, plus most of the army, all of the heavy weapons, and the world’s nastiest intelligence services. That’s enough to fight a long civil war, and maybe even enough to win it.

Russia and China will guard Assad’s diplomatic flank, and the other Arab states will do nothing beyond sending some money and a few weapons to the rebels. Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan is a dead letter, and NATO will not intervene militarily.

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Rolling out a new challenge With the popularity of roller derby, couple launches a new league, encouraging women to give it a try COLIN DEWAR

More and more women are participating in roller derby, making it one of the fastest-growing sports in the world.

The sport combines a unique mix of camaraderie, creativity and physicality. With leagues in nearly every major city in Canada, the game has re-emerged with the emphasis shifted from the theatrics to athleticism.

This spring a new league in the region has emerged with a twist: a zombie theme.

Within the new league, called the Walking Dead Derby Girlz, fierce makeup and fishnet stockings are still a standard but safety is the main concern for league organizers Cindy Brown, a.k.a.

Bonny Bruiseher, and her husband Michael, a.k.a.

Chocolate Meltdown.

The couple has been involved in roller derby leagues across southwestern Ontario for the last three years, learning the ropes before deciding to take on the challenge of creating their own.

“It all started one night when my husband said to me we’re getting fat just sitting around: we’re not roller skating enough. So I went on the computer and looked up roller skating and came across Tri-City Roller Girls and I thought ‘what is this?’ There was a game that week so we went and by the end of the

match I was hooked,” said Brown who has been roller skating for 30 years.

At the age of 44, Brown decided to try out at a boot camp and has been taking part in the sport ever since.

She admits that boot camp was not her cup of tea.

“Every minute was painful for the three days a week that we did it. I am not an athlete and was not used to that kind of workout. I am allergic to exercise,” laughs Brown. “I wore full makeup throughout boot camp and I told them that I don’t sweat and of course I didn’t want to wear the helmet as that wrecks your hair, but it was an amazing time.”

Of the 60 women who attended that boot camp only 14 would survive to play in the league; 80 per cent of those girls had never skated before, said Brown.

“Some girls don’t have any idea what this sport requires of them, they think they can just grab their roller skates and show up.

It takes hours of practice but it is worth every minute of it when you are out there with your team in a game.”

Brown skated with the Tri-City Rollers for a year before moving to the new Guelph Royal City Rollergirls, where she showed them how to skate derby style. That led the couple to teach skating at the at the Elora Community ROLLER DERBY | 14

EDSS celebrates its athletes as year winds down COLIN DEWAR Students and faculty of Elmira District Secondary School blew the roof off Lions Hall with thunderous applause and cheers as the top athletic awards were handed out Wednesday night at the school’s annual athletic banquet.

The event had team coaches praising their student athletes as they presented the most valuable player awards as well as the major athletic awards which included outstanding male and female athlete awards for both junior and senior students, manager of the year, most improved male and female athlete and both the sportsmanship and sportswoman awards.

Top honours went to Ted Sebben and Kaitlin Doering, who took home the outstanding senior athlete awards.

Jessica Reichard, finishing her fifth year at EDSS, was awarded the first-ever Commitment to Athletics Long Service Award, recognizing extraordinary contribution to Lancer athletics over five years. The recipient of the award is a student who throughout their high school career has been committed to the success of sports at their school and their teams.

Reichard, a four-sport athlete who excelled in

Cindy Brown, a.k.a., Bonny Bruiseher, is the organizer of the new Walking Dead Derby Girlz roller derby league in Waterloo Region. She’ll be holding boot camps for girls in the region who are interested in learning more about roller derby and what the sport offers those who play.

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Centre on Sundays for low contact (LOCO) derby and for the last six months they have been teaching the Stratford Festival City Roller Girls team.

Two months ago the Browns were discussing all the work they were doing for all the different leagues

in the surrounding area when they decided they would set up their own league.

“We know how to do all this now. Michael was refereeing for other leagues, and we were both teaching and it just made sense to start our own league.”

Safety is a priority for the Browns, who are holding

boot camps every Saturday night until the end of August before sending their players into the rink for the fall season.

“It takes at least two months of boot camp before players know what they are doing. Some leagues only have eight practices before they send a squad out. I don’t think that

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is very safe. We know all the rules to the sport and know how to be safe.”

They plan to start off small introducing one team of players this year before expanding on the numerous ideas they both have for the sport.

“We are taking baby steps right now, but we have some great ideas for the future.”

The league already has 15 players, well enough for one team, called the Rigor Mortis Roxys. The team will be playing against girls in September from leagues in the area, starting with scrimmages against teams from Toronto, Tri-City, Stratford and Fergus.

“Scrimmages help players learn the game; they can

Safety is a top priority for Brown as she organizes a new roller derby league in the region.

[COLIN DEWAR/THE OBSERVER] ask questions to the referee during a scrimmage. It is not like a real game where everyone is focused on the task at hand.”

Cindy, who grew up and

lived in Elmira before moving to Kitchener last year, is looking to tap into the Woolwich Township for new players.

“I would like to build from the Woolwich area and I know that there are a lot of girls playing soccer and baseball and hockey. I just want them to know that there are other sports available to them. Roller derby is so much fun I just want to share the sport.”

The leagues boot camp is held at the Albert McCormick Arena in Waterloo every Saturday night from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome to come and watch.

Anyone interested in the league should contact deadderbygirlz@gmail.com

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“The aim of the day is to say thank you for the donations over the past two years for the dock,” said commodore Ben Harrison.

The new wooden dock is 44 metres long – about the same as the old one – and is comprised of six sections that sit atop the water on plastic floats, which will make it easier to remove and install each season. The dock, made possible through grants and donations from club members, also has rubber siding to help prolong the life of the sail boots that are moored to it, and was installed in sections over the course of the past two seasons.

The total cost of the dock was approximately $20,000, or about a third of the club’s annual budget. About $5,000 came from the KW Community Fund, and another $3,500 was realized through the Kitchener Sports Association. The rest was raised by the club itself.

The replacement of the 40-year-old dock was overdue.

“It was still a decent dock, but it was not suitable for us,” said former commodore Jan D’Ailly, who has been a club member for about 12 years. He said the constant repairs they had to make to it took away from time that members could spend out on the water.

The club offered up the sections of dock for free to neighbouring cottagers, and all the sections save for one

The Conestoga Sailing Club unveiled its new 44-metre wooden dock last weekend at its annual open house. The dock, which cost $20,000, replaces the old 40-year-old dock and was installed in sections over the past two seasons. [JAMES JACKSON/THE OBSERVER] summer months and about are now gone.

200 individuals take lessons The highlight of the there every season. new dock is the ramp they “Boats and equipment are installed which will allow here and available for those anyone in wheelchairs or that are just getting started with any other accessibility in the sport so they don’t issues the ability to access need to go out and buy it,” the dock, and a hoist will said Harrison. be installed that can lower A family club membership them into one of the club’s costs $350 and provides actwo accessible sailboats. cess to the club’s boats and “The goal was to help facilities. facilitate sailing for people Part of the appeal of sailwith disabilities,” said Haring is that it teaches boaters rison. to respect the environment, These improvements are such as the wind and the wajust the latest way the club ter around them, said D’Ailly. has tried to promote the “You need to learn to resport of sailing in the region for the last half-century. Har- spect the weather and the water, and learn to work with rison said the club is a great the environment and not place for the public to come against it. and learn the sport without “The wind is your friend.” having a heft investment.

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not so great outdoorsman / STEVE GALEA

The judicious use of a club could have prevented overpriced parking today OPEN COUNTRY I’m writing this from the nation’s capital, just like a real journalist might.

Outside my hotel window is the Rideau Canal, Parliament Hill and the bustling City of Ottawa.

And, thankfully, this will be as close as I ever come to being a Parliament Hill reporter.

Even so, I can’t help but find good stories.

Yesterday, for instance, I literally ran right into blues legend B.B. King. I was

walking out of my hotel to get me some of that fine McDonald’s cuisine that this city is famous for. Mr. King was being wheeled into the hotel – perhaps because he just ate there.

The difference was he was surrounded by an entourage. Better still a man in a suit carried his guitar.

That’s the pinnacle of success, as far as I’m concerned.

Of course, I am no stranger to success myself, having recently remembered not to wear socks with my sandals. But, sadly, that’s not the kind of success that will get you a man in a suit to carry your laptop. No, I’m guessing for

first cave man tried to charge his fellow tribesman for parking a horse close to the cave.

Then I would club him – several times.

Hopefully, then no one would ever think of perpetrating this ridiculous scam again.

I mean what was that first parking lot attendant thinking? I’m guessing it was 10,000 B.C. and the world’s population was less than 1,000,000. It’s not like space was at a premium.

Even if it was, how do you justify charging someone good money to park close to your establishment?

Aren’t you actually supposed to do everything in

that you need remember not to wear both socks.

In any case, as King and I crossed paths, we both pretended not to recognize each other.

But, even so, I think I know exactly what he was thinking: Gee whiz, parking is expensive around here!

And it was. In fact it was so expensive that I figure King went straight into his hotel room and started writing a blues song about it. Which explains why he never called, I suppose.

I am so perturbed by this that I have decided that should I ever get to go back in time, I’m going straight to the moment when the

idea cold.

It’s not much but it would have altered the course of history a bit, and for the better too. For one thing, I wouldn’t be out $80 by week’s end.

your power to encourage this?

The point here is that I would have used a big club so he wouldn’t even think of franchising the business.

I would have stopped the

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each, said winning the award left her surprised.

“It actually was. I never expected this at all,” she said.

This year she was a strong presence on the basketball, volleyball and slo-pitch teams and also competed in tennis.

Reichard played for five years on the basketball team, four years on the slopitch team and three years playing both volleyball and tennis.

Reichard said one of her favourite moments in sports this year was the camaraderie she felt with all her teammates.

“The best part about sports at EDSS is making friends and coming together as a team.”

The Ernie Kendall Award for Outstanding Athletics and Academics for both commitment to sports and academia was given to Taz Martin.

The two sportsmanship awards were awarded to Sab Huber and Julia Frey.

MVP Awards Jr Girls Basketball Nicole Cressman Sr. Girls Basketball Jessica Reichard Cross Country Alex and Julia Hildebrand Field

Kory Lorentz (right) of St. Clements and Vaughan MacDonald of Elmira helped the Canadian National Amputee Team capture its sixth consecutive International Standing Ice Hockey Federation World Championship from Apr. 28-May 6 in Tampere, Finland. Canada defeated the host Finnish team 6-3 in the finals. It is the fifth gold medal for Lorentz and the sixth for MacDonald. Lorentz led the team in scoring with 8 goals and was tied for first with 14 points in four games, while MacDonald collected one assist over the course of the tournament.

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The annual EDSS Tinman Triathlon saw competitors swim, bike and run across the streets and trails of Elmira on Tuesday. Laurie Murray (top left) competes in the swimming event, Laura Bartlett of Bluevale cycles down Snyder Avenue, Jakes Jones from GCI challenges James Ball of John F. Ross in a final sprint to the finish line.

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COLIN DEWAR The EDSS annual Tinman Triathlon went off without a hitch for the ninth consecutive year even with storm clouds threatening to open up on participants as they competed Tuesday in a race

across Elmira.

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“We’ve had a great turnout for the event again and saw more competitors than last year,” said organizer Laurie Murray. “Once again we had no major issues this year beyond the few minor cycling accidents. All in all it was a great day, the weather

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Putting it all together was a team effort, she said, acknowledging the crew of staff and student volunteers who helped along the course, giving directions and handing out water.

“We owe a lot to the volunteers for a successful day,” said Murray. “Without their help we would never be able to pull off an event like this.”

EDSS had some solid finishes by the end of the day.

The school took first place in the student triathlon relay, with Keenan Courtis, Morgan McPhee and Matt Bannon finishing with a combined time of 52:44.

Brandon Berchtold came in second overall in the junior boys’ event with a time of 1:04:22.

In the senior division, Keith Weber came in fifth place in the senior boys’ race with a time of 1:05:21 and Jenny Norris placed

sixth in the senior girls’ category with a time of 1:14:02.

EDSS placed third in the staff triathlon relay, a team made up of Janice Harper, Sarah Gerth and Rebecca McKerron timed in at 1:25:17.

Two staff members of EDSS were in the top-10, with Merzi Dastoor placing third with 1:03:31 and Troy Dettwiler taking seventh place with a time of 1:08:29. Murray broke into the top 15 of the staff triathlon with a time of 1:13:51.

Strong CJGA play for St. Clements youth

St. Clements’ Parker Lobban put on a strong showing at the Canadian Junior Golf Association 2012 Nike Golf Junior Series/ Stephen Ames Cup Qualifier in Pickering at Cherry Downs Golf club on May 26-27.

Competing in the Under-14 category, Lobban finished fifth with a combined +31 after rounds of 93 and 80 on the par 71 course.

The finish comes on the heels of another fifth-place performance at the Euro Junior Golf Cup/ Lipton Brisk Canada Cup Team East Qualifier on May 19-20 at Hidden Lake Golf Club in Burlington. Lobban shot a combined +12 with rounds of 78 and 76 in the under 14 category on the par 71 course.

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Making a tablet best-of-show Armodilo tablet kiosk, a hit at Vegas tradeshow, has become a booming business for Elmira man JAMES JACKSON Tablet computers such as the iPad and Playbook have revolutionized the way we access information, and a local Elmira company is looking to corner the market on how that information is made available to the public.

The Armodilo tablet display stand has been called the world’s most versatile tablet kiosk system, and was designed specifically for the tradeshow and exhibit industry.

Launched in March after eight months of design, it has already garnered international attention as it captured the Buyers Choice Award for best new product at the EXHIBITOR2012 conference and exhibition held in Las Vegas.

“Tablet kiosks are still fairly new, so to get not only the wonderful feedback but to win an award on top of that was really cool,” said Armodilo founder and CEO Iles Guran, who moved to Elmira from Waterloo with his wife last May. The Armodilo is an aluminum stand that can safely house a range of tablets, including the iPad 1,2 or 3, the Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Xoom and Samsung Tab. Their patent pending threein-one design allows exhibitors to easily adjust the configuration to suit their requirements, easily transforming from a floor to a desktop or to a semi-

permanent wall mount configuration.

The tablets can then be used to provide product information, sales data, slideshows, videos, or run whatever apps the user chooses.

It is available in two designs; the Armodilo(ex), which features the threein-one capabilities along with a carrying case and retails for $1,049. The total package also weighs less than 15 kilograms, making transportation to and from tradeshows easy.

Their second line is called the Armodilo(rt) which offers consumers the choice of either the wall, floor or tablemounted version, and no carrying case. Prices range from $349 for the wall-mount to $549 for the free-standing model.

The units are also customized with a keyboard tray, graphic panels, a rotating head, and, in the near future, a card reader.

For Guran, who has 15 years of design and marketing experience, what initially started out as a side project for one of his clients has morphed into a business that now draws some 90 per cent of his time and energy.

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According to the province, slot machine proceeds being shared with the racing sector are instead needed for schools and hospitals.

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block, as are those at Flamboro Downs and Mohawk.

This situation raises many non-racing issues, too, not the least of which is the hypnotic lure of slot machines. If they didn’t generate so much money for all parties, their pending departure would cause a lot less panic. But the reality is that for some gamblers, the mesmerizing effect of slot machines is stupefying. It makes players almost trance-like, pulling levers, pushing buttons, watching graphics spin, almost oblivious

to either the win or, more troublesome, the loss they are experiencing.

This hypnotic effect of casinos and slots in particular has long interested and bothered University of Guelph marketing and consumer studies researcher Prof. Karen Finlay. From her laboratory on Gordon Street in Guelph, just south of the university, she carries out studies on casino environments in a room that mimics parts of an Ontario casino, trying to understand how gamblers can become disassociated from reality as they get caught up in

the slot machine experience.

One reason she conducts research in a lab is because for years she wasn’t allowed by casinos to do studies there, even though they’re public places.

But then came a breakthrough, owing mainly to her persistence as well as support from the Guelphbased Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre. Last fall, both Elora, home to 400 slots, and Flamboro Downs, which houses 800 slots, gave her the green light to work inside their confines. She

described the relationship as very cooperative, with both facilities as interested as she in enlightenment about gamblers.

At Flamboro Downs, over a 12-day period for eight-hour stretches, she and her graduate students studied ways slot machine gamblers could potentially be pulled out of their repetitive behaviour, by something called restorative images. These images – including a tropical beach scene (the most popular), a ballet dancer, horses galloping, mountains, cubs playing together – give slot machine

gamblers a mellow, visual break from the transfixed monotony offered up by the machine’s graphics.

It’s restoring reality, really. Finlay calls it “wiping the visual slate clean” for gamblers.

The research team showed these images on a big-screen TV just above a slot machine, and measured how much people looked away at them from the slot machines. Unfortunately, even they had little effect – despite being big, and directly above the machines, gamblers were still too absorbed in their activity, at least until the

researchers brought the restorative images to their attention.

Finlay suggests slot machine manufacturers build restorative image provisions right into the machines’ video displays, so the images pop up periodically and give gamblers a visual break from slot hypnosis.

Slot machines, wherever they end up, will continue drawing gamblers. And researchers such as Finlay will keep trying to make sure measures are in place to make gambling fun, not addictive.

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a part-time thing, but we’ve gotten such a good response. We’re selling a lot of the units, and it’s a lot of fun,” he said. “I get to use my talents both as a designer and as a business owner and entrepreneur.

I get to do the design, but also the marketing and branding of it, which I love.”

The units are made of aluminum, which allows the company to keep the kiosks lightweight as well as durable and recyclable.

The colour is customizable, and then powder coated for a high quality, durable finish.

Even the company’s name was chosen to convey a sense of strength and stability, drawing upon the armadillo and its famed armoured shell.

“We spent a lot of time going through prototyp-

ing and manufacturing processes to find the best materials and the way things assemble.”

The production is also kept local, with the units constructed just down the road in Waterloo. It may be slightly more expensive than producing them overseas, but by building them here in Waterloo Region Guran said he not only helps keep local jobs, but it allows him greater control over manufacturing process and any quality issues or concerns that might arise.

“I’m probably at the production plant every day looking at issues and whatever is going on.”

The CEO said that while kiosk systems may look like a very niche market at first, there are seemingly endless possibilities for the future of the product.

Despite only launching a few months ago

the product has begun to garner interest from major companies across the continent, names that Guran cannot disclose at this time but includes major banks and business chains.

With traditional information kiosks the overhead costs are enormous for the programming, engineering, installation, and eventual removal. His units, however, provide all functionality of traditional systems, but with more convenience and at a fraction of the price “Every day we run into more clients that have ideas that we never even thought of. There’s, what, 500,000 apps in the app store? If you can think of it you can do it with this.”

For more information on the Armodilo tablet kiosk display, visit www. armodilo.com.

The kiosk systems have garnered international attention, winning the 2012 Buyers Choice Award for best new product at the EXHIBITOR2012 conference in Las Vegas in March.

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THE ARTS ON STAGE / OL’ TIME HONKY-TONK

The man who set the stage for musical icons to come Hank Williams’ legendary life gets a sympathetic telling in Joe Matheson’s show STEVE KANNON Dead for almost 60 years, Hank Williams is still synonymous with country music. The legacy he created before passing at the age of 29 remains compelling today.

Hank – like many artists who came after, one name is enough for people to know who you’re talking about – changed the face of country music, putting it on the map, says performer Joe Matheson, who’s Hank Williams Live – 1952 comes to the Commercial Tavern June 10.

“Hank was a real character. He was Elvis and Michael Jackson wrapped up in one,” he said.

Matheson first became intrigued by Williams’ story in 2000 when he was called in as a lastminute replacement in a production of The Show He Never Gave, performing as the legendary singer-songwriter. Cramming for a few days to get ready for the part, he was surprised by just how many of the songs he already knew, perhaps something he picked up as a kid growing up in Saskatchewan.

That role piqued his interest and he began looking into Williams’ life, which was often portrayed in a negative light – “they seem to paint him

Joe Matheson is the titular legendary performer in Hank Williams Live - 1952, the self-penned show he brings to Maryhill’s Commercial Tavern June 10.

[SUBMITTED] as the devil.”

Finding few sympathetic portrayals, he

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wrote a show of his own, which he first staged in 2006, seeing it evolve

into the much-lauded production that will appear next weekend on

stage in Maryhill.

Happenstance brought him to Hank Williams, but he’s since grown attached to the character.

“I have a huge affection for this guy, and a lot of compassion.”

Born in 1923 in rural Alabama, Williams had a rough life, which contributed to his welldocumented issues with alcohol, drugs and failed marriages. Behind all the troubles and moodiness – he was a lonely man because nobody seemed able to understand him – there’s an interesting and complex character to be discovered, said Matheson, insisting there’s more to Williams than his live-fast, die young reputation.

“He’s kinda the poster boy for that,” he admitted.

While recording a CD of Hank Williams tunes – Long Gone Lonesome – in 2006 in Nashville, he met with Don Helms, the steel guitar player in Williams’ band, the Drifting Cowboys. From Helms, the last surviving member of that lineup, Matheson got some firsthand accounts of Williams, stories that formed the basis of Hank Williams Live – 1952.

“A lot of shows have everybody talking about Hank. With my show, it’s Hank talking about everybody else,” he laughed.

Matheson knew he was on to something when even hardcore Hank Williams’ fans approached him after his shows to tell him they’d learned something new about the man.

The production is not a tribute show, but rather his own take on Hank’s life.

“It’s like you’ve gone to the bar and it just so happens Hank Williams is playing tonight.”

While the 1952 performance he recreates never happened, events unfold as they might have in that fateful time leading up to Williams’ Jan. 1, 1953 death.

“It’s not a true story, but all of the stories in it are true,” he explained.

There are stories told from the stage, but the real attraction is the authentic treatment of Williams’ songs.

“This is old-time Hank Williams’ honky-tonk – a honky-tonk couple of hours,” said Matheson of the music that helped make the legend.

Today, that legend lives on, which is why he sees people of all ages at his shows – they all know who Hank is.

“It’s quite a phenomenal thing.”

Joe Matheson’s Hank Williams Live – 1952 is set for June 10 at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $20, available at the Commercial Tavern, 1303 Maryhill Rd., or by calling 519-648-3644.

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semi detached raised bungalow. Complete with main floor laundry, 4 piece ensuite and open concept eat-in kitchen and living room. All the conveniences on one floor. The small yard will be easy to care for! The large garage is 17.5ft x 20ft, perfect for storage and still have room for a vehicle.

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Kitchener - Whether you are starting out or ready to retire, this cheerful bungalow has everything you desire. The fresh decor will have you feeling right at home the moment you walk-in the front door. Just steps from Breithaupt Park & trails, schools, public transportation and all amenities. Updates include carpeting in basement (May 2012), Furnace (2004), Roof (2007), all windows replaced, updated electrical - 125 Amp, freshly painted. MLS Call Bill or Alli direct.

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Drayton - Luxurious, custom built home loc’d in quiet area. 3100sqft + huge fin’d bsmnt. Spacious kit designed w/cooking & entertaining in mind! Unique & exceptional home, spacious but still makes you feel right at home.

Beautiful sun rm w/hot tub overlooking fabulous private yrd w/gazebo, pond & waterfall, beautifully gardens.

Stamped concrete drive & lg patio w/retractable awning. MLS Call Alli or Paul direct.

Alli Bauman SALES REPRESENTATIVE

sunroom, 2 fireplaces, ensuite, and large walk-in closet in master.

The big living room/dining room is equipped with a lovely built in sidebar. Bright dinette surrounded by windows. Convenient underground parking. Automatic membership to Willowells Club. MLS Call Paul Direct

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Elmira - Outstanding value for this 1800sqft custom built 1 owner raised bungalow. Fin’d basement incl: Rec rm w/wd burning fp, 3pc bath, bdrm, den/office or 5th bdrm possibility & lr workshop. Open living rm w/hardwd flr. Convenient main flr laundry. Separate dining rm w/walk out to yard. Fabulous big backyard complete w/interlock patio, hot tub & cute shed great for your family or entertaining! MLS Call Paul direct.

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Elmira - Exceptional home with potential inlaw suite w/2 bdrms, full kit, bath, & lndry. Lg yrd 87x250ft over looking farm

land just steps to golf course. 5200sqft of fin'd living space. Welcome friends & family in grand foyer w/stunning chandelier & spiral staircase. Open concept kit & GR, 2 master bdrms w/spa like ens. Attractive interlock driveway & walkways. Fantastic opportunity for any car buff or hobbyist, 3 car garage & detached 4 car garage/workshop. MLS Call Paul or Alli direct.

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Elmira - Located on a quiet street close to downtown, schools, parks and hiking trails - this cozy well kept home with main floor bathroom, bedroom and laundry is perfect whether you are starting out or ready to retire. MLS Please call Bill or Alli direct

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REAL ESTATE LISTINGS

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$594,000. Elmira. Private mature court of fine homes. Unique architectural designed ranch bungalow offers 1883 sq ft, 2+ bedroom, updated baths, hardwood flooring, open concept kitchen/dining. Bump out dinette/studio overlooks yard and entertaining patio. Fully finished basement. Triple+ interlock drive and oversized double garage. MLS

$279,000. DRAYTON. Newly renovated home offers a lovely maple kitchen with bright dinette, walkout to deck and huge backyard, large main floor living room, master bedroom offers a 5 pc ensuite privilege, mostly new flooring, freshly painted, spacious lower level family room & nice 3 pc bathroom + the 3rd & 4th bdrms. MLS

OPEN HOUSE THURSDAYS 3-6 & SATURDAYS 2-4 22 Knapp Rd, Elmira

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Sand beach, almost 2000 ft of waterfront on quiet Gillies Lake, great for boating and water sports, fishing, sailing. Year round main residence and seasonal second cottage. Clean water on the Bruce Peninsula. $ 1,450,000. MLS

RARE 35 acre parcel

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2-4PM 1371 Listowel Road, Elmira

Great country lot with privacy and great views over the country side yet close to town. Just outside Glen Allan. Come see the potential. 3 bedroom, great room with gas fireplace, huge 4 plus car garage. $ 717,000. MLS

ELMIRA FANTASTIC RURAL SETTING

Just Listed Great family home. Full 4 level backsplit semi approx. 1700 sq ft finished. 4 bedroom, family room, open concept kitchen, dining, and living room, new 3 pce bath on lower level, rec rm, and a very nice yard. Roof,windows, doors, all newer. S.S. appliances included.

Don't miss this one. $ 235,900. MLS

$699,900. NEW PRICE. 3.74 acres sprawling bungalow; 4 bedrooms; new kitchen with granite counters, new ceramic and carpeting; vaulted great room; landscaped yard with mature trees, inground pool, cabana, patio and deck.

38’ x 24’ shop. MLS

Great Value Located in Drayton on a quiet street.

Single family with lots of living space. Finished basement with in floor heating. Nice yard. Large eat in kitchen. 3 bedrooms. Possible to rent out basement with separate walk out entrance. Needs your finishing touches. $ 224,900. MLS

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Great family home outside Drayton, boasting something for everyone.

Quiet Scenic Dr., 4 spacious bedrooms, rec room, large kitchen & dining area open to living room, spectacular sunsets out the back yard, walkout to patio, huge double garage and extra parking. Nicely treed.

Loaded with value! $ 359,000. MLS

most sought after location for older homes. Completely refurbished. New bathrooms, floors, kitchen, windows.

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Extra large garden shed. Has 2 bathrooms. One in basement. 3 bedrooms on main floor. Lots of room to finish a play area/recroom in the basement for the children. Don't miss out come see this great starter home for small family. MLS#1221989 Call Len or Mildred Frey.

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Lovely fam. rm. w/cathedral ceiling & lots of windows! Huge rec. rm. w/ high ceiling. 3 bedrooms.

Large dining room.

Newer doors, windows, furnace & deck. Gas heatstove. Long driveway.

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MLS REDUCED $265,900.

7361 Sideroad 12 Mapleton Twp - $569,000

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Semi in Lincoln heights area with 2 legal units. Documentation available. Lower unit is vacant. Upper unit is rented.

Opportunity for single person to live in basement unit and have a great income to pay off the mortgage quickly. NEW MLS 1225217 & 1225218 call Mildred or Len Frey to view.

Lovely bungalow with breakfast counter between eat-in area and work area of Birch Kitchen. Contrasting counter top very impressive. Highgrade laminate in Lr/Br . Porcelain Tile floor in kitchen. Large windows in basement gives lots of light to recroom and games room Property is just under 4 acres with heated workshop 25X40. Great for hobbyist. NEW MLS 1225283 & 1225281 Call Mildred or Len Frey to view.

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MLS $339,900.

LISTINGS WANTED! We have several buyers wanting to relocate. If you’re thinking of selling, why not find out how much equity you have in your existing home. Call for details. www.thurrealestate.com

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Saturday June 16th at the Schwaben Club in Kitchener. A bus will be leaving the Central Tavern in Elmira at 7:30pm and returning to Elmira at 1:30am. Tickets are $10 and available at the Sip and Bite.

Come enjoy games & mexican food and take a swing at the pinata!!

Friday June 8th, 2012 8pm - 1am Elmira Lions hall Saturday June 2nd 2012 8pm at the Waterloo Rod and Gun St. Jacobs

Games | Prizes | Late Lunch $10/Ticket

Friday June 15, 2012 8:00pm - 1:00am Lions Hall - Elmira Games, Raffle Prizes, 50/50 Draw, DJ, Late lunch provided.

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Happy 80th Birthday

Happy 80th Birthday Dad!

Happy 80th Birthday Eileen Martin

Love: Martha (Mom) Jeff, Kevin, Lana, Laura, Aaron, Daniel, Roxanne, Brad, Derrek, Jenny, Blake, Madison & Molson.

Open House at Countryside Christian School Gym - Hawkesville Sunday June 17, 2012.

4:30pm - 7:30pm Best wishes only please!

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With lots of love to our Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother; family and friends are invited to celebrate with Doris ~ Saturday, June 23rd at an Open House, 2-4pm, Chateau Gardens Elmira -- Activity Room. Best wishes are preferred...donations to Chateau Gardens Auxiliary would be accepted.

Doug and Pat Boucher of West Montrose, together with Rob and Marilyn Martin of Elmira, are proud and delighted to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children, Danielle Boucher to Scott Martin. A celebration of their love and commitment to one another will take place on June 9, 2012, in an evening ceremony along the peaceful banks of the Grand River.

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NOTICE OF HEARING

On June 18, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – News and Events – Current Public Notices.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Jongerious - Gowan

Kenzie Louise Gunn

Amy & Neil are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter, Stella Maria Gowan! Born on February 29, 2012 Weighing 7lbs 15oz.Proud Grandparents are Carol & John Jongerius of Elmira and Barb & Dave Gowan of Allenford.

Addison is thrilled to announce the arrival of her baby sister, Kenzie Louise Gunn, born May 2, 2012, weighing 7lbs 10oz.

Proud parents are Ben and Steph.

We love you!

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The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 12, 2012. Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email jvink@woolwich.ca or by fax 519-669-4669.

MINOR VARIANCE A5/2012 Vera Brubacher 12 Covered Bridge Drive West Montrose The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the building line setback adjacent to a street from 6 metres to approximately 2.7 metres; and expand the legal non-conforming use of a variety store; in order to permit a 2.4 by 4.3 metre addition (retail and office area) to the existing building.

The 607 square metre property contains an existing variety store, bakery and residence.

The property is zoned Settlement Commercial (C-3) and enjoys legal non-conforming status for lot width and lot area.

MINOR VARIANCE A6/2012 Edgar F. and Karen Martin 905 Arthur Street South The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the required Minimum Distance Separation (MDS) adjacent to a Residential zone from 600 metres to approximately 325 metres in order to permit an addition to the existing dairy barn and a new manure storage area. The calculated MDS is 198 metres which is below the proposed 325 metre setback. The 56 hectare property contains a single family dwelling, farm shop and dairy operation.

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In loving memory of a Dear Grandson, nephew and cousin.

Jackson June 1, 2011.

DEATH NOTICES

Wendy, Riley, Ryan, Kayla Shantz and family would like to thank everyone who has and continues to bless us with their love and care during our period of bereavement.

An Angel in the book of life wrote down Jacksons birth and whispered as she closed the book...

BELL, EVA | It is with deep love and sorrow we

announce the passing of Eva Bell on May 17, 2012, at the age of 90.

We are deeply visits, prayers encouragement. kindness and our journey

Too beautiful for the earth Forever in Gods Hand

KNECHTEL, DOROTHY | At St. Mary’s

Hospital, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, after a brief illness.

Violet Dorothy Knechtel, aged 88 years. Local relatives are her sister Carol and her husband Alson Martin and Erma Gingerich, all of Elmira and sister-in-law Gladys of Elmira.

Gramma & Grandpa John & Brenda Janeczko, Uncle John & Aunt Pam, Cousins Kaitlyn & Makena.

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EDUCATION / ABOVE AND BEYOND

Together they’re making a difference Floradale PS educators win provincial award for their approach to all-day kindergarten program COLIN DEWAR A new teamwork philosophy has earned a pair of Floradale PS educators top grades from the province. Teacher Janet Martin and early childhood educator (ECE) Gloria Bauman are the recipients of the Premier’s Award for the Full Day Kindergarten Team of the Year.

Watching the “proactive, productive professionals” at work inspired principal Vlad Kovac to nominate the pair.

Early last month the kindergarten team was notified that they had received the award, which honours only one team from across the province for their work in a full-day kindergarten program.

“We were shocked and very honoured, but when it comes down to it we are just doing our job,” said Martin, who has been a teacher for 16 years.

The program is a paradigm shift in teaching philosophy; whereas kindergarten was once theme-based learning it has now changed to an inquiry-based learning, Kovac explained.

The new curriculum is currently being phased across the province over the next five years.

“It is really based on the student’s interests. So teachers are now coming at this grade from a different way or perspective.

Students are now asking questions about things and teachers help them

find the answers to their questions,” said Kovac. “It was identified early that these two teachers were not only doing well at it but they were accelerating with it.”

Through the new program school has become more of a hands-on experience for the children.

“It is phenomenal to see kids really engaged and really enthused with it all as they are learning what they want,” said Kovac.

“It is incredible and very powerful to see the students learning in a different way.”

To be recognized for the award the kindergarten team must be comprised of a registered ECE and a teacher who are currently employed in a full-day kindergarten class in a publicly funded elementary school.

Although the team has only been working together for the last two years they have already worked with the school board to share their experiences teaching the new model by speaking to other staff and leading discussions on the professional development that is occurring in public schools. The ministry has also sequestered them to make videos that will be shared with the whole province about the program and philosophy behind it.

The two educators have taken a different approach to the classroom experience. During the school year they had their class run a lemonade stand to

Celebrate Dad – treat him to dinner RECIPE NOTES

Janet Martin and Gloria Bauman, educators at Floradale Public School, recently received the Premier’s Award for the Full Day Kindergarten Team of the Year.

[COLIN DEWAR/THE OBSERVER] make the concept of money real to the students.

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Father’s Day is right around the corner. I have cooked for musicians, politicians, cooking icons and many special guests, but the hardest man to cook for has always been, you guessed it, my dad. One of our hors d’oeuvres inspired by him and his traditional tastes is the petite yorkie with beef tenderloin and horseradish mashed potato. It is hugely popular and loved by all, but very safe.

After beating stomach cancer – a moment I was never more proud – his cooking sense and taste buds awakened. Now he is trying all sorts of new recipes and cooking his way through cookbooks.

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The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach?

Not necessarily, but I love to try! This recipe is fantastic in the oven or BBQ – just keep the BBQ on med-low to avoid the sugar burning. We use Conestoga porkloin: it is delicious! As the season progresses you can switch the apples to peaches, plums and figs.

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“There is so much learning that can happen when the children are asking questions and we manage to get every aspect involved from math to language as well as a lot of social skills and just learning to take turns and learning their shapes,” said Bauman.

“The language that they are learning in a playbased program is amazing,” said Martin.

The students are more focused and want to learn about everything from writing to reading and math, said the two women.

“We don’t give them topics to write about. In the past we would ask them to write about what they did on the weekend but if you have children that didn’t do anything exciting on the weekend they don’t want to write about that. So you don’t get anything real from them. It is so much better that they write about what they are doing in classroom,” said Martin.

The two educators are giving their students a reason for needing to write

or read.

“We are making sure that the children understand that writing and reading has a purpose in life not just in school,” said Bauman.

Working as a team hasn’t always been a smooth process, they admit.

“There are challenges.

There are times (Bauman) wants to approach a subject differently than I would have and I don’t think it will work but as a teacher I needed to let go of the control of my classroom. She is a professional as well and has many different and good ideas,” said Martin.

The two women say they are much more comfortable working alongside each other within the program now and have been able to harmonize their teaching styles.

“It is just something that develops over time we both come in with different experiences, different education and different ideas but it is those differences that make us work as a team,” said Bauman.

Working together makes the learning better for the

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“I have learned so much in the past two years. I have over 15 years experience as a teacher and I would think I have this job down pat, but my teaching has changed so much these past two years – all in a good way. The results that we are seeing are amazing with these children and they are excited to be here and want to come to school,” she said.

Another advantage of the all-day program and having two educators in the classroom is how well the teachers have got to know their students.

With two of them in the classroom there are more chances for one on one time with students allowing the teachers to meet the students at their level.

“It has been a wonderful partnership. It has been a match made in heaven. I am so lucky to have (Bauman) in that classroom.

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presented by Crosshill Community and Crosshill Mennonite Church; 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. At the church: The Rhuby Café, bake table, fresh rhubarb, used books, CDs and DVDs table, all thing rhubarb. Free children’s activities, community BBQ lunch and more! Rain or shine. Community-wide rhummage/yard sales.

Electronic rhummage waste drop-off and more. All proceeds donated to mission’s outreach.

JUNE 1 PD Day Movie – 2 – 3:45 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library.

Showing will be Gnomeo & Juliet. Tickets are $1 each and every person attending must have a ticket.

Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.

Admission includes popcorn and a drink, please no outside snacks. The event will take place at the library, 65 Arthur St. S in Elmira. For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477 or elmlib@ regionofwaterloo.ca.

JUNE 3 Dei Song, 7 p.m. at Waterloo North Presbyterian Church. You will love Dei Song…God’s song, a great ladies trio. Come and enjoy our newest gospel music ministry. 400 Northfield Dr. W. Free will offering, wheelchair accessible. For more information call 519888-7870.

Cholesterol Solutions 10:00 – 12:00 noon. Attend this session and find easy ways to improve your cholesterol level. This free class is facilitated by Registered Dietitian, Karen Reitzel and will be held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs.

For more information call 519-664-3794.

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Spaghetti Dinner with garden salad, $7. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. Elmira, 6 p.m. Take outs available – call 519-669-2932 to place order for Friday pick up.

Needle Sisters Quilters Guild meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Monday of the month at the Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W, Elmira. Guests welcome ($5.00). Next meeting on June 4. For more information call 519-6693244.

JUNE 2 Maryhill Luau Dinner. Come out and join the Maryhill CWL & Knights of Columbus at the Maryhill Heritage Community Centre. Two seatings for dinner: 5:30 & 7 p.m. Roasted BBQ pig, roasted potatoes, vegetables, salad, & rolls, dessert, coffee & tea. Prices: adults $15; children ages 6-11 $7; Under 5 free. Advance tickets only. Mike 519-648-3394, Doug 519-648-2939, Mary 519-822-9287.

Making Baby Food Class 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. What foods are good for your baby’s age and stage? How to choose, make and store baby food as well as ways to avoid “picky eating” and nurture a “good eater” will be some of the topics covered. This free class is facilitated by Registered Dietitian, Robin Hicken and will be held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. For more information call 519-664-3794.

Crosshill Community Rhubarb & Rhummage Sale

Tai Chi Demonstration. Are you looking for an activity that will lead to better balance, posture, and increased

strength? If yes, then come and learn more about Tai Chi from 11 – noon at 1 Pond View Dr. Wellesley. Everyone welcome. For more information contact Karla at the Wellesley Township Community Health Centre, 519-6569028, ext. 224.

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JUNE 5 Caregiver Coffee Hour from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Caregiver Coffee Hour group will meet at Chateau Gardens in Elmira for peer support and a light lunch. Caregivers of those family members who are dealing with Alzheimers or related dementia are invited to join us.

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JUNE 7 Weekly Bingo 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-500-1434.

Woolwich Caregivers from 10-11 a.m. Woolwich Caregivers will meet at WCHC for a time of peer support while enjoying a cup of tea. Caregivers of family members who have chronic or life-threatening illness are invited to attend. No group in July or August.

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Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ancient wisdom of young kids refusing to eat their spinach or brussels sprouts?

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Q. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ancient wisdom of young kids refusing to eat their spinach or brussels sprouts?

A. The five basic human

tastes play fundamental survival roles, existing for far more than just our pleasure, says David G. Myers in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Psychology: Tenth Edition.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pleasureful tastes attracted our ancestors to energyor protein-rich foods that enabled their survival.â&#x20AC;?

A sweet taste indicated

a source of energy, the umami taste drew us to proteins that grow and repair tissues, and salty tastes were a draw to sodium essential for physiological processes.

Aversive tastes, on the other hand, steered us away from potentially toxic new foods.

So those fussy two-tosix-year olds might just be exhibiting this inherited biological wisdom when they turn up their noses at new meats or bitter-tasting vegetables.

Since meat and plant toxins were both potentially dangerous sources of food poisoning for our ancestors, especially for children, these sour and

bitter tastes were functionally useful signals to stay away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given repeated small tastes of disliked new foods, children will, however, typically begin to accept them,â&#x20AC;? Myers says

Q. A Brooklyn, Ohio reader asks, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you were to take a digital clock and flip it over, in a 12-hour period how many words would it spell out?â&#x20AC;?

A. The digits of sev-

en-segment numeric displays, when turned upside-down, may be read as letters, giving rise to â&#x20AC;&#x153;calculator spelling.â&#x20AC;? Most famous

is the number 0.7734 which read upside-down is â&#x20AC;&#x153;hELLO.â&#x20AC;? Another popular example (which has appeared on various TV shows) is the mildly risque 5318008, whose translation is left to the reader. If the display includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;tailsâ&#x20AC;? on digits 6 and 9, then the flipped-digit-letter correspondences are 0=O, 1=I, 2=Z, 3=E, 4=h, 5=S, 6=g, 7=L, 8=B and 9=G. If tails are not included, then 6=q and 9=b.

As for the words spelled out by a fourdigit (hours + minutes) upside-down clock, a few hours of computer programming and a 41,000-word electronic

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are added. Again, some of these occur at multiple times.

What if the clock has six digits, including seconds? For non-military time and no tails, there are 6 words: belie, bezel, booze, libel, loose and seize. With tails, bogie, geese and goose also occur. For military time (with tails) you get the longest clock-word: gigolo!

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so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once.

Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. We have got you started with a few numbers already placed in the boxes.

dictionary yielded 15 distinct words for a notails display: bee, bib, biz, bob, eel, lee, lei, lib, lie, lob, oil, see, sis, sob and sol. If the display includes tails, you get 9 more: beg, big, bog, gee, gel, gig, gob, leg and log. Many of these words occur at multiple times, such as gig (6:16, 6:19, 9:16, 9:19). Curiously, there are no four-letter words spelled out.

For a clock showing military time, leading zeros are not suppressed and all the words have four letters. For a notails display, there are four distinct words: bozo, silo, solo and soso.

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44. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comprende?â&#x20AC;?

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Robin Hood and his band of merry men will once again be running through the woods of Gibson Park as the Robin in the Hood Medieval Festival is set to return to Elmira.

The event began 12 years ago when Elmira District Secondary School drama teacher DJ Carroll decided to create a small festival using his students and other local actors and volunteers.

The first festival had only 50 cast members but that has grown over the years to more than 140 this time around, with an additional 30 volunteers who help out on the day of the event.

The primary objective is to educate the community on medieval history in a family friendly environment, said Jessica Straus, director of advertising and promotions for the festival.

On June 8 there will be an education day that’s closed to the public and aimed at Grade 4 students from around the region who are brought to the park for a day of workshops and fun activities to help them learn more about the medieval time period.

“We bring students in to experience and learn about medieval life. Since the study of the medieval era is part of the Grade 4 curriculum. The festival offers a unique learning experience for the students,” said Straus.

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The number of students participating in the education day has grown from just over 400 the first year for a half-day seminar to close to 1,000 this year for the whole day.

The main attraction, however, is on June 9 when the park will be open to the public to experience life in the Middle Ages through a series of family friendly activities starting at 10 a.m. and running until 5 p.m.

Visitors will be transported to Sherwood Forest where they can shoot a real bow and arrow, play outlaw games and cheer for their favorite team of knights as they compete in tournaments. They can also explore a castle or wander among the numerous vendors who will be selling armour, toys, leather goods, and other period novelties.

Every half-hour there is a tournament scheduled between a group of knights, and every hour there will be a different show scheduled so visitors can go to knight school where they can wear armour and learn how to properly hold a sword.

“We have made the day more interactive for the public. Instead of getting to know one or two characters we have made it so that visitors can meet and relate to 10, 15, even 20 characters through out the day which will give everyone a better experience,” said Straus.

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