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EDSS students join in province-wide school walkout

BY FAISAL ALI fali@woolwichobserver.com

Hundreds of students from Elmira District Secondary School staged a walkout of classrooms last week as part of province-wide demonstrations against the Ford government’s proposed changes to education.

Taking to the streets of Elmira an hour before the end of school on April 4, the EDSS students voiced their opposition to the changes, which would see average classroom sizes increased in Ontario high schools from 22 to 28 students per teacher, as well as cuts to student loan programs.

From the school, the students marched up Arthur Street for impromptu demonstrations outside the office of Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Mike Harris.

“We say no!” chanted the large crowd, who waved signs at passing motorists as they made their way up the street in an orderly fashion.

“What I personally want to do with this walkout is get information out there and let the public know

that students have an opinion,” said EDSS student Mariah Martin, one of the organizers of the demonstrations. “We’re not just going to lay back and let whatever’s happening happen to us. We want to let the public know that we don’t support it, or at least some of us, and make a stand for what we need in our education and our future.”

Premier Doug Ford was quick to dismiss the protests as provoked by the teachers’ unions. The local MPP, however, struck a more conciliatory note.

“The first thing to realize here is that I fully support students out voicing their opinion. We’re happy to chat when we’ve got time available, and we certainly want to listen to the concerns that they have,” said Harris in an interview. “I give students full credit if they’re coming to these conclusions from their evaluation of what’s going on.”

A father of five himself, Harris said he had a vested interest in creating the best education system possible for students.

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The good weather on Saturday brought massive crowds at this year’s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. Estimates placed attendance at 80,000 people.

An extra-sweet sap festival

BY FAISAL ALI fali@woolwichobserver.com

From Church Street down the length of the Arthur Street mall, and across to the Woolwich Memorial Centre, Lions Hall and EDSS, the town of Elmira was packed with visitors from all over attending this year’s maple syrup festival on Saturday. Balmy spring weather over the weekend was the chief reason for what proved to be a massive attendance at this year’s festival, which celebrated its 55th anniversary.

While it will be some time before all the receipts are added together and crowd sizes are measured up, organizers were reporting an exceptionally strong turnout at this year’s festival, perhaps hitting 80,000, up significantly from 55,000 last year.

“Well, we were blessed with near ideal weather,” said David Unrau, an organizer for the festival. “Friday setup was not as horrible as the forecast. At least downtown we didn’t seem to get any of the freezing rain, so that was quite wel-

come. So it started out better than last year when we had some snow and a delay in getting the tents up.

“And Saturday, cripes, at about 8 o’clock it was sun and blue sky. It was really quite something.”

Unrau was the head of the festival’s pancake committee again this year; and while he couldn’t yet say how many people were at the festival, he did notice a significant uptick in demand from his vantage point at the popular pancake tent.

“We haven’t really got

the tally quite completed yet, but I can tell you that we used 1,847 lbs of batter,” said Unrau. “And it was 512 lbs of maple sausage.”

By contrast, in 2018 only 1,304 lbs of batter was used, or about 500 lbs less.

“It was definitely busier than last year. Last year we did 1,304 lbs of batter and 490 lbs of sausage. Coffee was down a bit, chocolate was down a bit compared to this year.”

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Jury selection got underway this week in the trial of Glenn Bauman, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Linda Daniel and her daughter Cheyenne. The women, 47 and 13 respectively at the time, disappeared in 2011 while living near St. Clements. Bauman was arrested in 2016 in Alberta and charged with the murders and two counts of offering an indignity to a body. The trial is expected to last eight weeks.

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A new supermarket in Elmira’s south end will be part of a larger commercial development under a plan approved this week by Woolwich council.

A 34,000-square-foot food store will anchor the spot, also proposed to house a building centre-type outlet, on eight acres of land at the corner of Arthur Street and South Field Drive. The property envelopes the Tim Hortons restaurant on the corner.

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LO CA L L E A D E R S H I P

Local Lion the recipient of leadership award

Winterbourne residents petition council to save Peel St. bridge

International president's award attributed to being a 'finisher'

BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Winterbourne residents are pushing to have the Peel Street bridge retained for pedestrian traffic at a minimum, this week presenting a petition to Woolwich council calling for a more fulsome review of the options.

A report commissioned by the township recommends the permanent closure of the century-old steel-truss span, though a formal report from planning staff isn’t expected until the fall. Even the suggestion of decommissioning the bridge doesn’t sit well with residents, however.

Council chambers were packed with residents eager to hear about the fate of the bridge, as well as a later discussion about a gravel pit proposed for a Peel Street property.

Winterbourne’s Ron Craig addressed the issues raised by the petition signed by more than 175 residents.

“It’s a petition signed by almost every adult in the village,” he noted.

He called for more analysis of options for the bridge, as well as more consultation with the Old Order Mennonite community. In a presentation to council, he made a case for keeping the bridge open, if only for recreational use, pointing out that WinterBRIDGE | 05

Damage was pegged at $500,000 following a fire on Isabella Street in Linwood.

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Community rallies in support of Linwood family after fire destroys their home

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Neighbours and the wider community have rallied around a Linwood family left scrambling after a fire destroyed their home last week.

Residents almost immediately began collecting clothing and other items in the wake of the fire, also launching online funding efforts that quickly surpassed their goals.

The Isabella Street house went up in flames April 4, causing damage in excess of $500,000. The Myers family was uninjured, the adults having left for work and the kids already at school when the fire broke out.

“There were some Mornington Communications workers [Ryan Kipfer and Keagan Goetz] out framing the fibre to the village.

They saw the smoke, they

called it in. One of those workers went up and started banging on the door to see if anybody was in the house,” said Wellesley fire chief Paul Redman. “He’s the one that heard the dog barking – he kicked the door in, and the dog ran out.”

The family golden retriever, Gus, was given oxygen at the scene and was in good condition.

The fire, which spread quickly through the house, was battled by firefighters from all three Wellesley Township stations, as well as a Woolwich mutual aid tanker on standby. Redman said the blaze was likely started by an electrical device such as a tablet or computer charging on the couch.

“It was a really hot-burning fire. Just in a small time, it burnt the entire ceiling, it came off the

wall – the couch was completely gone except for the springs,” said Redman. “It was a really, really intense fire. It did cause quite a bit of smoke damage to the house.”

In response, friends and neighbours have started a Facebook fundraiser page that has already far surpassed its original goal of $15,000. At press time, more than 250 people had pledged some $20,000 to help get the family back on its feet.

Alicia Antoinette Dekker, a friend and neighbour of the Myers family, helped to create the fundraiser.

She said she was impressed with the community spirit.

“The support has been outstanding,” said Dekker.

“People are dropping off clothes and other items as well. It’s pretty incredible.

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Elmira’s Freda Walker of Woolwich Community Lions has been honoured for her dedication to the organization with an International President’s Leadership Award, presented to her at the annual District A15 Lions convention.

“I am very appreciative to receive the International president’s award ... it was quite a surprise,” said Walker. “[It’s in] last fall’s Lions magazine, another great honour, a full-colour page.”

Walker, along with Lion Karen MacDonald, served on this year’s International convention host committee as welcome ambassadors, greeting thousands of Lions around the world. Both were asked to oversee a service project, “Clean the World.”

The award is usually given personally by an international director after the district governor has nominated the recipient.

As the fourth highest Lions Club International award, it celebrates the distinguished achievements to those who fulfill the club’s service mission.

District governor Kevin Bansfield said there was a particular moment that made Walker stand out as a recipient.

“I have to write an application of someone deserving. It’s someone you recognize for doing something

Freda Walker

great within the organization,” said Bansfield.

“The reason she got the leadership award is because when we were in Las Vegas for our international convention last year, a project was coming off the rails.

Freda and a couple of others stepped up and helped international organizations, convention committee to plan their service activity in Vegas, which was building some gardens in not the greatest neighbourhood in Las Vegas. So that was pretty cool, in my mind.”

People internationally were so impressed with her that Walker had been invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to Milan for the international convention this year. She has accepted the invitation. Bansfield said it was her ability to complete projects – local and international – exceptionally well was another factor meriting her this award.

“So it seemed like a natural fit for me that we need to recognize this as an organization, but even as a district,” he said. “That we do have leaders that aren’t just here in our own backyard but are leaders abroad.”

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Neighbouring residents remain adamant in opposition to Jigs Hollow pit Preston Sand and Gravel want to mine gravel below the water table; critics note that would preclude rehabilitation of farmland

BY STEVE KANNON skannon@woolwichobserver.com

With little prospect of extracting gravel from the site, the owners of Winterbourne-area property should look to turn it back into farmland, suggest residents of Winterbourne and Conestogo who packed Woolwich council chambers this week.

Opposed to a gravel pit that was eventually approved for the 89-acre site at 125 Peel St., the neighbours have stepped up their efforts since Preston Sand and Gravel (PSG) began pushing to remove a holding provision that prevents below-the-water-table extraction on the site.

A legal battle having already cleared the way for a conventional pit at the Jigs Hollow site, PSG was stymied when work got underway in 2014 and the water table was too high to permit it to continue – all extraction has to be no deeper than 1.5 metres above the water table, and levels were almost at the surface. Since then, the company has been jockeying for a request for the

township to reverse its prohibition against digging below the water line.

In addition to allowing the company to dig into the water table, the request calls for the total amount of aggregate to be mined to reach 2.1 million metric tonnes, up from 800,000 in the current agreement.

Extraction would remain at 150,000 tonnes per year.

The operational timeline would extend to 14-plus years rather than the six or seven years in the existing forecast. And instead of rehabilitating the site back to farmland, a large pond would remain in the middle of the valley, filled in with groundwater to depths of 6.5 to 14 metres.

The elimination of any pretence of rehabilitation is at the heart of residents’ arguments against PSG’s request.

Conestogo’s Della Stroobosscher told councillors meeting Tuesday night that extracting below the water table would contravene an existing Ontario Municipal Board mediation agreement that makes repeated calls for rehabilitation back to farmland.

Residents Jan Huissoon and Bill Norrish look out over the Winterbourne valley.

“This major site plan amendment application proposes that the final land use of the extraction area will not be agricultural, but ‘a naturalized water body,’” she said.

“This final land use is in conflict with the board’s order of rehabilitation, which all parties agreed to in mediation.”

A better vision for the property involves halting plans for a gravel pit altogether, said Stroobosscher, whose presentation drew a round of applause from the packed gallery.

“The land has been sitting inactive for five years.

Not a single piece of gravel has been extracted from it.

The berms are only partially built, and no equipment is sitting on it.

“It’s not too late to rehabilitate it back to farmland, as ordered by the OMB.” Dan Kennaley, Woolwich’s director of engineering and planning, noted there is something of a contradiction in the OMB decision – it calls for rehabilitation, but also provides a process for lifting the holding provision on the property.

That said, ‘there’s got to be really solid reasons to

do so,” he said of allowing the operation to go below the water line.

“It creates a very tight sieve through which the application for a below-the-water-table operation is judged,” he said of provisions in Woolwich’s aggregate policy.

Representing PSG, Justin Bischoff said the company should be permitted to go ahead with its plans, pointing to a previous below-the-water-table operation in Woolwich, namely in Bloomingdale.

He said the company has approvals from the MOE, MNR and region to move forward.

“There are extremely stringent guidelines for below-water-table extraction,” he said of safeguards that would be in place.

Addressing the Bloomingale example, Coun.

Larry Shantz noted there is now a large pond, but the remaining land around the Bloomingdale pit was never rehabilitated.

Bischoff said the pit no longer belongs to PSG, arguing there’s a need for the

product.

“Gravel is an essential part of our economy.”

But Shantz was unconvinced.

“What good is that going to be to the township?” he asked of the prospect of a fenced-off pond on what is now prime farmland near Winterbourne.

Kennaley noted hydrogeologists hired by PSG remain at odds with the assessment of experts hired by the township to review studies submitted by the company. A solution does not appear to be imminent.

Scheduled to retire at the end of June, Kennaley said a comprehensive report and recommendation will be left to new planning staff to be hired following his departure, which comes on the heels of the retirement of manager of planning John Scarfone.

He said he’d provide council with an update prior to departing.

“It’ll likely be a status report rather than a recommendation report,” he said, adding he doesn’t want to handcuff the new planning staff.

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other friends were standing in front of the house, we were racking our brains to figure out where to help, and where to start. Jocey McBeth mentioned a GoFundMe page, and we basically flew into gear from there.”

The victims are staying with family members for the time being. They have already received a sufficient amount of clothes that were donated by community members. The mother of the family affected, Carra

Myers, thanked everyone for the support and shared her thoughts in a public Facebook post.

“Seeing everything you have worked so hard for completely destroyed is a feeling no one should ever feel. Walking through your home and seeing all of your children’s favourite things unsalvageable is devastating,” said Myers.

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“I want them to make sure that they’re in safe, supportive classrooms.

I want to make sure that we’re meeting standards when we talk about educational testing. I want to make sure that our government’s putting our best foot forward when it comes to helping our kids succeed, and I think we’re on the right track to doing that.”

The Ford government has said larger classroom sizes, as well as compulsory e-learning courses for high school students, would help prepare students for the future. However, students and educators say the province is being driven by an austerity agenda, and looking for savings at the expense of public education.

Ford was elected on a promise to balance Ontario’s budget, which the PC government estimates will see a $13.5-billion deficit this year. Ontario’s debt, meanwhile, is being estimated at $346 billion by the Ontario Financing Authority for 2018-19, with interest payments on the debt alone expected to cost $12.5 billion, the third-largest expenditure after health care and education.

“The fact is that we’ve been left by the Liberals with a pretty big financial mess,” said Harris. “So there are definitely some tough choices that have to be made. But in making

those tough choices, we still want to make sure we are providing students with the necessary skills that they need to become part of the workforce later in life.”

Whether these tough choices will means cuts to education spending is not something Harris could elaborate on, he said, until after the release of the Ford government’s budget on Thursday (April 11). But the province has said that no teachers will lose their jobs as a result of the increase in class sizes, which will be phased in over four years through attrition.

“We will not be laying off any frontline workers.

Any efficiencies that are being found are going to be positions where people are retiring,” said Harris.

With the PC government making math, science, literacy and skilled trades its focus in education, students worry that fewer teachers will mean a reduction in extracurricular activities, and a de facto defunding of the arts.

While classroom sizes will be increased in the coming years, Ontario autism advocates have also raised a red flag over the province’s changes to autism assistance, which they say will see more students with special needs joining regular classrooms. The plan decreased funding to children with autism based on age, and uses a flat-rate funding model children

Hundreds of EDSS students were out in force on April 4, joining classroom walkouts across the province in protest of changes to education announced by the Ford government.

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with autism.

The province has argued the new model will clear more children off the wait list for assistance, but the changes were bitterly opposed by many in the province.

After backlash to the initial plan, including protests outside the MPP’s Elmira office in February, the government announced “enhancements” to the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) last month, and has said it intends to launch public consultations in May. “On the OAP side of things, we’re doubling – well actually I think we’re more than doubling the investment into the OAP program, up to $600 million now,” said Harris. The Ontario Autism Coalition has said the enhancements do not address the primary

concerns of autism stakeholders.

“We’re looking into all of these things, we’re going through a consultation period right now where we’re meeting with stakeholders, we’re meeting with school boards, we’re meeting with the teachers unions,” said Harris.

Cutbacks to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) formed another major flashpoint for the EDSS protesters, with the province scrapping the free tuition scheme of the previous Liberal government for low-income students. The income bracket for families eligible to receive OSAP was also decreased from $175,000 to $140,000, while the sixmonth interest free grace period for graduating students to pay back their

loans was eliminated.

With the province moving forward on its austerity agenda, more belt cinching is likely ahead for Ontarians as the government tries to rein in spending without raising taxes, another promise of the Conservative government.

Asked if these program changes would disproportionately affect Ontario’s most-vulnerable, Harris points out that the prov-

bourne is a low-cost community when it comes to the township given the lack of facilities and services.

The historical value of the bridge and the prospect of a cultural heritage landscape designation for the bridge and the surrounding Winterbourne valley should also be taken into account, Craig suggested, calling for “longer-term thinking.”

Coun. Murray Martin took issue with claims the Old Order Mennonite community had not been consulted, noting he twice circulated some 100 comment sheets in the community. The group was also well represented at a public meeting.

He noted that members of the community asked to “keep the process respectful,” adding they told him “we will speak for ourselves.”

Martin’s comments were echoed by Dan Kennaley, the township’s director of engineering and planning

services. He, too, noted there has been extensive consultation, including holding two public meetings instead of just one, as required.

Likewise, there have been many groups involved in the process, he added.

Still, low traffic volumes on the bridge prior to its closure – about 125 vehicles per day, with 11 per cent of that attributed to horsedrawn buggies – and the cost of rehabilitation are factors at play, Kennaley noted.

Outside of permanent closure, options include some kind of pedestrian use, he said, pointing to a conversion project in Guelph as an example.

“We’re looking at doing something similar with the Peel Street bridge.”

In response to Coun.

Scott McMillan’s question about the possibility of Old Order Mennonites helping to repair the bridge, as was the case in 2001, Kennaley noted there are legal issues

and liabilities to consider.

Unlike past work on the deck, the problem areas are the steel trusses and girders that form the underpinning of the bridge.

“It’s unlikely that local help will be ... sufficient.”

As for costs, the pedestrian option alone would run $750,000 to $1.2 million, he said. “It’s a substantial amount of money.”

Kennaley noted that rehabilitating the bridge for pedestrian use would not allow for buggy traffic; the cost of bringing it up to that standard would be almost as much as restoring it for vehicle use, which was estimated at up to $1.6 million.

A cost breakdown in the study, completed as part of an environmental assessment, paints an expensive picture of reopening the bridge. In the case of either vehicular or just pedestrian traffic, both of which come with an immediate expense, upwards of another million of today’s dollars would have to be

spent in 2040, followed by $700,000 to demolish the bridge when it comes to the end of its lifespan in 2050.

Replacing the bridge with a new one comes with a projected cost of $5.5 million.

Simply closing the bridge and leaving it in place would cost $475,000, with another $150,000 by 2040 and the demolition costs in 2050. Keeping the bridge maintains its heritage qualities and leaves future administrations with options down the line.

Along with the Peel Street bridge, the township is looking at old steel-truss bridges on Middlebrook Road and Glasgow Street, with preliminary reports recommending closure of the former and rehabilitating the latter, which sees the highest volume of traffic.

Kennaley said he expects a report on each of the three steel truss bridges to come this year, staring with the Glasgow Street structure in June and the other two in the fall.

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Spending proposed in 2018-19 by the defeated Liberal party would have seen Ontario’s deficit, and debt, continue to grow.

“A lot of the programs you’re talking about have become so unsustainable under the previous government, that a lot of these programs were actually going to run out of money,” said Harris. “And when you talk about making sure that these programs are there for vulnerable people in the future, there’s some real changes that need to be made.”

EDSS students, however, urged the government to find a better solution.

“I would just say: find another way,” said Garret Tracey, a fifth-year student at EDSS participating in the protest. “I know the biggest reason a lot of these cuts are being made is because Ontario is in a debt, and I will concede that debt does need to be paid off.

But there’s got to be another way than at the expense of our students’ future.”

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milling about the pancake tent even before the 7 a.m. opening to pick up their ticket.

“I was surprised to see – it was before 7 already, and there were people lined up at the ticket booth,” he said.

Elmira Maple Syrup Festival committee member Doug McLean agreed, though noting it would be weeks before the festival had counted up all the proceeds from this year’s event. With the festival serving as fundraiser for charities and organizations in the township, as well as an economic boost for local vendors, the early indications suggest a very good windfall.

“The festival was a big success,” said McLean. “I mean, the weather was the best weather we’ve had in several years, and lots of people came out. And obviously they had quite a busy full time downtown, it was quite full. The sugar bush tours were right full, and everything was very active and busy.

“There’ll be money coming in for the next couple of weeks from all the people that donate, and the venues that contribute after the festival,” he added of the final dollar value raised.

Woolwich Mayor Sandy Shantz, too, remarked on the good weather bringing in the crowds, as well as the tireless work of the festival’s many volunteers.

“There are so many volunteers that work, from the day that it closes until the day it happens next year to make it happen, so it’s just a great event to bring community together,” she said.

“It’s just a wonderful event.”

Once the dollars and cents are added up, the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival committee will be divvying up the funds raised to local organizations. Last year, a total of $45,000 was given out to almost 30 organizations in the township, including Elmira District Community Living, Woolwich Community Services, the Elmira Theatre Company, the 1st Elmira Scout Group and several public school parent councils.

“There’s a lot of heebie-jeebies about getting everything set and trying to take care of all the details, and the weather’s the wild card, and you have all this anxiety. And then it’s all over and you can relax a little bit,” said Unrau.

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“The federal Ethics Commissioner’s office is tainted by bias in favour of the Trudeau cabinet, and must delegate the investigation of the SNC-Lavalin scandal to a provincial ethics commissioner who is fully independent of any political party. Ethics Commissioner Dion should not be ruling on any situations involving Liberals as he was hand-picked by the Trudeau cabinet through a secretive, very questionable process.”

While social media (such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) is a top news source for 52% of Canadians (alongside news websites) it was also the least trusted, at only 32%. This is especially true for Canadian millennials; social media is the most common (73%) but least trusted news source at 36%.

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Gearing up for yet another round of education unrest familiar with such things.

Unrest was common when last the Conservatives were in power.

The Liberals arrived on the scene and began spending like sailors on shore leave, in large part to buy the votes of government workers and to avoid the optics of work stoppages. Eventually forced to confront their profligacy, the Liberals were immediately set upon by the same public-sector unions that had benefited handsomely.

Now, with the Conservatives back at the helm, the unions are on red alert.

When it comes to the schools, there is a recognizable pattern: teachers engage in skirmishes with the province and with their boards, the organizations that set the workaday agendas; parent councils struggle with extracurricular activities and the threat of

t’s no surprise the Ford government has prompted unrest in the public-sector ranks, most notably of late among teachers. Activities such as the recent walkouts by students underline the potential for actual labour disputes in the next school year, with boards expected to make cuts to the number of teachers – whether that’s by attrition only, as the province maintains, or by layoffs.

The province is looking to get a handle on spending and runaway deficits. There will be attempts to curtail spending on many fronts.

As the second-largest cost after health care – third place belongs to interest payments on the accumulated debt – education has to be in the equation by default.

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work stoppages; and, as always, caught in the middle are students who suffer the consequences of decisions made by their elders.

The teachers’ unions have trotted out the tired old line about putting students first in every strike, work-to-rule campaign and labour negotiation, with only one goal in mind: getting more taxpayers’ dollars.

Given the perception that teachers are overpaid and underworked (all those holidays), coupled with the economic hard times for most Ontarians, public sentiment is clearly not with the unions.

Blame also lies with the province. Job action by teachers and other civil servants that became the norm under the Mike Harris government got the band-aid treatment when the Liberals took over: some modicum of labour

peace was achieved by throwing money at the situation. That path was treacherous. The funds came with no real accountability, so the education system got no better – some would argue it worsened – even as teachers and administrators enriched themselves.

Later in its tenure, the Liberal government felt the wrath of the very same teachers with short memories as it realized its spending wasn’t sustainable.

The education budget, however, never increases at a pace suitable for teachers looking for more, always more. That their ranks grow even as enrolment drops and many dubious changes have been made – class sizes, for instance – simply to artificially inflate the number of jobs has been forgotten in the spirit of what-have-you-done-for-me-

lately?

Nobody in this struggle is wholly at fault or wholly blameless.

Typically, governments argue they are trying to control costs and introduce more public accountability. But their actions are usually more about politics than altruism.

The teachers argue they are trying to preserve quality in the schools. But saving jobs and boosting working conditions are the purview of their unions.

Really, governments should have set the terms right from the beginning, reigning in spending on costs not of benefit to the public and focusing on classroom improvements such as technology that would help achieve higher educational standards. Ontarians got just the opposite, and we’re all suffering for it today.

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t shouldn’t have been a surprise when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, three days before the Israeli election, that he is going to annex all the Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. After all, every other member of his Likud Party in the Israeli parliament (28 out of 29) had already said they wanted to do that. Yet it did come as a surprise.

Netanyahu had avoided saying it previously because as head of government his statement would have made it official policy, and according to international law annexing conquered territory is illegal. (Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 war, and has occupied it ever since.)

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The traditional Israeli policy has been to colonize as much of the territory as it can with Jewish settlers, but to insist that it was all open to negotiation in a peace settlement.

It never meant that, of course. Around 20 per cent of the people in the West Bank and the adjacent parts of East Jerusalem, conquered at the same time, are now Jewish settlers (600,000 colonists among 2.4 million Pales-

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ax season is now upon us, and millions of Canadians are looking forward to refunds. Experts – particularly those that want commissions from investing your money, even if they prosper and you don’t – will note that refunds aren’t a windfall. Rather, they indicated you paid too much tax to begin with, and the government is giving you some back ... without interest, to boot.

“Canadians love their tax refunds and at this time of year many people are filled with ‘intaxication’ – a term I use to describe the short-term euphoria of getting a tax refund that fades when you realize you’re getting your own money back. A better plan is to ensure your portfolio operates as tax-efficiently as possible to keep more of your money throughout the year,” says Jamie Golombek, managing director, tax and estate planning at CIBC, which last week released a survey noting 53 per cent of Canadians have already received or expect to get some money back for the 2018 tax year.

While refunds are in fact the correction of an overpayment – and a de facto interest-free loan to the government – many Canadians like getting a lump-sum payment. In effect, refunds represent a forced savings of sorts.

We don’t notice the extra loss on each paycheque, but appreciate having a windfall we use to pay down bills, indulge ourselves or do with as we will.

This bit of human nature is one of the biggest failures of the Trump tax cut south of the border. He lied about the benefits of the massive scam – it was a boon to corporations and the very wealthy, but will end up costing the average taxpayer more down the road – and more citizens are becoming aware of that reality.

Particularly because the administration fudged the numbers

at source, with few Americans noting small increases in their paycheques but becoming all too aware that the refunds have shrunk considerably or vanished, with some having to pay yet more.

Again, the forced savings aspect is considered a good thing.

The same argument can be made for much higher contributions to the Canada Pension Plan – the small incremental increase in deductions would largely go unnoticed, but would pay off in spades down the road.

It’s a policy favoured by the public, with surveys showing more than 80 per cent of workers support the idea of higher mandatory contributions. That would be a good thing given that

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more than three-quarters of private-sector employees don’t have a workplace pension. Most workers have limited savings when it comes to RSPs, for instance – certainly not enough to support themselves in retirement.

In fact, the majority of Canadian workers are concerned they won’t have enough savings to retire, let alone retire comfortably.

More than a third of Canadians

say they don’t know when they’ll be able to retire, while some 40 per cent of employers believe their employees are overly optimistic in their assessment of when they will be able to retire.

According to studies by the Conference Board of Canada, concern over inadequate retirement savings has already led a good number of Canadians to delay their retirement, and the situation is not improving.

On the whole, we’re not putting enough money away to secure our future as retirees. That much is abundantly clear, as even a casual look at the topic of pension reform will show you.

For those who have no savings of their own, relying only on government sources, retirement will

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be a meagre affair. Or simply put off altogether.

The CPP currently provides about 25 per cent of a worker’s average annual earnings – hardly enough for a comfortable retirement. That level has been consistent since the program was introduced five decades ago.

Payments for current recipients come partly from invested reserves and partly from contributions from today’s workforce.

In order to ensure a more stable system and to provide a decent retirement income, we’ll have to start boosting CPP contributions.

Ideally, that 25 per cent figure would become 70 per cent, the figure most often cited as the level of income needed to preserve our standard of living in retirement.

We’re a long way from that.

We’re not overly confident about getting to a comfortable retirement. About half of us, in fact, aren’t even sure CPP will be there for us in our retirement years, a number that’s been increasing over the years. Changing that impression, and making decisions about something that really matters to a wide spectrum of Canadians, will require some long-term thinking and decision-making in the public interest, not the strong suit of those at the helm.

Of course, politicians also fear a backlash from workers who would see significant increases in CPP contributions as simply another tax grab.

That’s not the case. Unlike employment insurance, CPP is an arm’s length arrangement.

Contributions go directly to the plan, and are never part of government’s general revenues. The plan is generally secure, reliable, cost-effective, and well managed. Increasing the mandatory contributions would be a largely painless way to ensure a more comfortable retirement.

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■■ Provincial plan to cut teachers is unworkable To the Editor, A minister of education should have at least a modicum of knowledge of how the system she presides over works before implementing major changes.

Lisa Thompson, in pledging that 3,475 teaching positions will disappear over the next four years by attrition only, has proven that she is completely ignorant of some of the basics of how education in this province is managed in its high schools.

Staffing a school is already a nightmare for principals, vice-principals

and guidance staff. Trying to match student course selections with teacher availability and expertise, all the while having to stay within mandated class size averages, is a Herculean task that must be completed every semester.

How does Minister Thompson expect principals to add in the unknowns of teacher retirements into this already complex equation? What happens if three math teachers retire but not a single theatre arts teacher?

Does the principal cancel the theatre arts program and assign the remaining theatre arts teachers to teaching math?

She might suggest that the problem be solved on a board-wide basis, but that would mean that every

semester there would be a wholesale shuffling of teachers from one school to another. That would mean the end of most extra-curricular activities and a huge drop in school spirit and both student and staff morale. It would also disrupt subject departments which work hard to provide an integrated program over their student’s four year high school careers.

This non-plan to cut dollars will be another guaranteed disaster for Ontario brought to you by the Doug Ford Conservatives and the ones being hurt are the future of our province.

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tinians), but they control 42 per cent of the land. You don’t make that kind of investment if you’re really planning to give the land back to the Palestinians in the future.

But leaving the legal status of the Jewish settlements open actually enables them to go on expanding, whereas annexing the land the settlers now hold would implicitly recognize that the rest of the land really still belongs to the Palestinians, and stop the settlers from grabbing even more of it. Moreover, leaving the question open lets Israel’s Western allies and supporters ignore its actions.

Even Western media dodge the issue, using slippery formulas like the BBC’s famous line, which appears in almost every piece it does about the occupied territories: “The [Jewish] settlements are illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.” It is the exact legal and moral equivalent of saying that “Russia’s annexation of Crimea is illegal under international law, though Russia disputes this,” but in practice it lets the Israelis off the hook.

So why did Netanyahu change the policy now?

The election, obviously.

In response to a (probably planted) question from the audience at Saturday’s ral-

ly, he said: “You are asking whether we are moving on to the next stage – the answer is yes, we will move to the next stage. I am going to extend [Israeli] sovereignty and I don’t distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlements.”

‘And the isolated settlements’ is an interesting phrase. Ariel Sharon’s famous exhortation in 1998 – “Everybody has to move; run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because everything we take now will stay ours. Everything we don’t grab will go to them” – had concrete effects.

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The OHF Midget A Championship is being hosted at the WMC this weekend. The championship is one of the largest midget A events in the province, said Kurt Wilkie, an organizer with the Woolwich Minor Hockey Association, which won the bid to host it.

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OHF midget A provincials come to Woolwich

Jr. Sugar Kings get a second chance while playing host to this weekend’s action

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It’s the one of the biggest events in midget A hockey in the province, and it’s happening right here in Elmira. The Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) Midget A Championship is being hosted at the Woolwich Memorial Centre this year, bringing some of the top teams in the province to compete on Elmira ice this weekend.

For township residents, the championships are a chance to catch some premium midget A hockey at home, as the winners of four minor hockey leagues from across Ontario battle it out in a set of round-robin matches to determine the province’s best.

But for the Junior

Kings, who fell just short of clinching the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) midget A championships last month after a tight final series against Centre Wellington Fusion, the OHF games are a shot at redemption. As this year’s OHF hosts, the Elmira team received an automatic entry into the tournament.

“It's the final tournament of the year,” explained Junior Kings head coach Zack Barriage.

“So the winner of that series that we played [the OMHA], plus the winners of the other leagues, they all play in the tournament.

But we're hosting it this year, so we also get to play.”

While the Junior Sugar Kings will now be competing on ice for provincial

status, it was another battle of sorts for Woolwich to become the hosts for the event. The Woolwich Minor Hockey Association placed a bid to host the event back in August, though they were not the only OMHA team to do so.

“I was obviously really excited and so happy that they chose us,” said Tracey Williams, chair of the championship organizing committee, and a member of Woolwich Minor Hockey. “There was that moment where I was like, ‘Oh no, I can't believe now we actually have to plan this, because it is a lot of work.’

But I think it is a really cool thing for Woolwich to have, and a real feather in our cap as far as an association goes.”

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OHF championships are rotated on an annual basis between the participating leagues. But while the OMHA was set as this year’s hosts for the midget A championship, Elmira had to compete against five other OMHA centres to win the bid.

For Woolwich, hosting the OHF championship is a major milestone in the township for minor hockey, says Williams.

"I wouldn't say [it's] a once in a lifetime opportunity for Woolwich, but it will be a once in, say, a decade or more. We've never hosted it before in all the years,” she says. “It's going to be a once in, certainly a hockey-career lifetime for this to happen for our town, and it’s just going to MIDGET | 11

f I were writing a book on outdoors survival, it would be titled, Don’t Get Lost: It’s Easier Than Building A Shelter, Eating Grubs And Starting A Fire With Sticks. The entire book would be about how to use a map, compass and GPS. That’s because if you never get lost you don’t really need to learn all those other survival skills and spend uncomfortable nights out in the woods.

If a publisher asked me to write a follow up book it would be called, You Got Lost Anyways? For The Love Of God Just Stay Put And Call For Help On Your Cell Phone.

The third book would be OK, I’ll Show You Outdoors Skills You Are Never Going To Have To Use If You Read My First Two Books.

Finally, my last book would be called Be Careful Who You Take Survival Advice From.

This last title was inspired by a bit of outdoors advice I saw dispensed on the Internet the other day.

The “expert” created a video showing viewers what he thought was a safe way to hammock camp in bear country.

First of all, let me say what you probably already know. If you are worried about bears, take the standard precautions: hang your food up a tree away from camp, keep a neat campsite and, if it’s really bad, avoid the area entirely.

Also, most camp-raiding bears are not looking at humans as their next meal. That said, a man-eating bear would probably regard any tent hammock you are enclosed in the same way we regard the casing on a sausage. If aggressive bears are an actual worry, nothing short of portable electric fencing or a gun capable of dealing with the problem will do.

This “expert” took a different approach, however. He suggested a wise

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thing to do when hammock camping in bear country was to set up your hammock 20 feet off the ground.

To do this, he built an unsteady ladder made of saplings and parachute cord that extended about 20 feet up. Then he tied cross members between four trees and stood on those rickety cross members without a safety harness to set up a rickety platform made of questionable materials. From this questionable platform, he set up his hammock.

Let’s forget for a moment that bears are incredibly adept at climbing trees.

A man-eating bear wouldn’t even have to go to the effort of climbing the tree. It would just have to wait at the bottom until he fell out, or simply shake the tree since this guy wasn’t wearing a safety harness.

Also, it took him two full days to make this platform, so here’s hoping that any man-eating bear in the area is patient.

Without a doubt this was the stupidest thing I have ever seen on the Internet being passed off as sound outdoors advice. Interestingly, his thousands of subscribers thought he was a genius.

In fairness, they did not have the mental wherewithal to understand a person is far more likely to die from not wearing a safety harness when working 20 feet up a tree than from a bear attack.

I’m not going to speculate why that expert thought this was a good idea. All I can say is I don’t think it’s a good idea to be that high around bears.

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THE SCORE WOOLWICH WILDCATS Atom: Major A

Mar 03 vs Brampton 45's HOME: 10 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Mitchell Krasovec (3), Caleb Paquet (2), Spencer Hume (2), Sutton Meier, Declan Martin, Luke Wood ASSISTS: Carter Weir (3),

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(2), Carter Weir ASSISTS: Luke Wood, MacIvor Zettel, Adam Bloch, Bryce Brubacher

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Bantam: B

Kara Mcpherson, Olivia Straus

Mar 29 vs Peterborough Ice Kats HOME: 4 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Marlee Fraser (4) ASSISTS: Kaitlyn Hyatt (3), Katie Lee, Brooke Rempel (2), Taylor Schmitt, Sophie Beyer

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Atom: Major A

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Mar 25 vs Oakville Rangers Red HOME: 0 VISITOR: 3

Apr 06 vs Peterborough HOME: 3 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Sophia Payne, Sara Forwell (2) ASSISTS: Keira Lavallee (2), Avery Grundy, Reese Talbot, Brie Brezynskie

Apr 17 vs Oakville Rangers Red HOME: 5 VISITOR: 4 GOALS: Carter Weir, Luke Wood, Bryce Brubacher, Sutton Meier, Mitchell Krasovec

Mar 30 vs Oakville Rangers Red HOME: 3 VISITOR: 2 GOALS: Mitchell Krasovec, Spencer Hume, Sutton Meier

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Apr 19 vs Oakville Rangers Red

PeeWee: BB

Atom: Major A

Atom: Major A

Atom: Major A

Mar 31 vs Oakville Hornets Bantam B HOME: 1 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Maggie Sabean ASSISTS: Rachel Christenson SHUTOUTS: Gwyneth Martin

Apr 05 vs Stoney Creek HOME: 3 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Keira Lavallee, Claire Catton, Brie Brezynkie

Apr 22 vs Oakville Rangers Red HOME: 1 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Alex Veitch ASSISTS: Carter Weir, MacIvor Zettel

Atom: Major A

(3), Mitchell Krasovec (2), Sutton Meier, Bryce Brubacher, Luke Wood

Bantam: B

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ASSISTS: Sutton Meier, Carter

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Bantam: B

Mar 30 vs Etobicoke Dolphins Bantam B HOME: 1 VISITOR: 1 GOALS: Marlee Fraser

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Atom: LL

Mar 25 vs Guelph Jr. Gryphons - Black HOME: 3 VISITOR: 4 GOALS: Addison Bettke, Michaela Blanchet, Addison Fitzgerald

Bantam: LL#1

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Martin

SHUTOUTS: Makenna

Atom: LL#2

Bantam: LL#1 Atom: LL#2

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Bantam: B

Bantam: B

Mar 29 vs Lambeth Lancers Bantam B HOME: 1 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Marlee Fraser ASSISTS: Olivia Bloemberg, Katie Lee SHUTOUTS: Gwyneth Martin

Mar 30 vs Oakville Hornets Bantam B HOME: 2 VISITOR: 0 GOALS: Marlee Fraser, Emma Wiseman ASSISTS: Katie Lee SHUTOUTS: Gwyneth Martin

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out. The Kings responded in the second with a pair of their own on a four-minute penalty power play to tie the teams 2-2 as they headed into the third frame, where the two teams would be forced into several overtimes.

Ultimately, it was Centre Wellington that slotted the game-winning point, giving them the OMHA midget A championship.

“There was fantastic goaltending by both teams in that series. And there were so many times where one shot, one save was the difference to a series,” said Barriage. “And likewise, our goalie made some amazing saves in that third period and the first overtime that they probably should have won some of those shots too. So yeah it's crazy. It comes down to one puck on net, or one breakaway and that's all it is to win the whole thing.

But that's the way it goes sometimes.”

With the Kings and Fusion set to meet again this weekend at the WMC, it’s anyone’s guess how their meeting will go this time.

But those hoping to catch the action will have ample opportunities, as five games are scheduled on both Friday and Saturday, and another three on Sunday.

Game times on Friday and Saturday are at 10 Four teams from four minor hockey leagues in the province will be competing in Elmira, along with the host team, the Jr. a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:45 p.m., Sugar Kings.

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be great hockey.”

With Elmira hosting the OHF championship, the Elmira Junior Sugar Kings will be facing off against the winners of four minor hockey leagues in the province. Those are the winners of the OMHA, the Centre Wellington Fusion; the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA), New Liskeard Lions; the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL), Lorne Park Clarkson Wild; and the Alliance’s Stratford Warriors.

“I think we can definitely do well. I mean, with the

tournament style, it's really different than a series,” said Barriage. “Like it's one game, right? Anything can happen in a one-game series versus a five-game series, so it's anyone's game really.”

That was certainly the case in the finals of the OMHA, which saw the Junior Kings take on Centre Wellington in March. The two teams were so evenly matched it took an extra sixth game on March 29, and two full overtimes, for the series winner to be decided.

“Usually it's only a five

game series, but we tied game five after an overtime. So then they went to game six, and in game six they played three overtimes. We played two of them and lost to a second one,” said Barriage.

It was a game that was played down to the wire, with each save and each miss meaning the difference between an OMHA championship victory, and defeat.

Centre Wellington picked up an early lead in their March 29 meeting, putting two on the board before the first frame was

4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. On Sunday the second and third place teams will face each other for an early morning game at 8:30 a.m., followed by the first and fourth teams playing at 10:30 a.m.

The final game of the championship will see the winners play in a 3:30 matinee for the provincial title.

“This is a really big event,” said Kurt Wilkie,

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Steaming Nostril cycling race returns to Woolwich Seventh annual event kicks off the spring bicycling season, taking to township roads

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Hundreds of cyclists will be taking to the rolling hills and pastoral setting of the St. Jacobs countryside this weekend for the seventh annual Steaming Nostril race. Run each year as one of the region’s first largescale bike events of the year, the Steaming Nostril race will see riders of all stripes barreling through the rough-and-tumble rural roadways of Woolwich on Sunday.

Through mud and snow, along gravel pathways and off the beaten path, riders will be challenging themselves against the 65 km Steaming Nostril, and its shorter cousin, the 40 km Runny Nose.

“This is our seventh year, our seventh annual.

It's hard to believe that it's been seven years. And we're expecting anywhere from 250 to 300 people,” said Malcolm Steven of not-for-profit Cycle Waterloo, who along with Blake Ellis organizes the race each year.

Watch for a stream of cyclists on township roads this weekend as the Streaming Nostril returns.

“I think it's a gravel grinder kind of trail ride this one. It's a road event, but it’s really geared more towards the CX or cross bikes, and mountain bikes.

So it's definitely folks that really enjoy riding in the dirt and in the gravel,” says Steven.

For competitive cycler and enthusiast Bruce Bird from Toronto, the Steaming Nostril is a perennial draw.

“It's a very fun event, and it's one of the best run events in the province,” said Bird, who participates in the race most years.

“There's a few things that are really fun about it,” he explained. “It's kind of the first outdoor event of the season. And because it is, it makes the course unique and challenging. In the summer, you're never going to find snow on a trail, so when you're riding

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there are some sections that might still have some snow or ice on them, and you're doing a lot of gravel riding.”

For previous participants of the race, this year’s event will look quite similar, though with some minor changes to the Steaming Nostril course, including making more use of the G2G Rail Line Trail.

But perhaps one of the most recognizable, and grueling, aspect of the race is the “longest kilometre” section, which will again be making a return this year.

“We also have section of the course which is nicknamed the longest kilometer,” said Steven, which actually takes riders on part of a local farm, through cow pastures and along the river.

“We use part of [the owner’s] farm, and also go down along the river at a really quite muddy and fun section. So we created a kilometer down there, and riders actually have to get off their bike, and dismount, and carry their bike back up a ridge ... and go back towards Hawesville Road.”

A rest stop along that longest kilometre carries shots of local maple syrup, for that last bit of energy to power through the race.

“So it adds a real unique dimension to the race and the ride.”

Bird notes that beyond just the interesting course and the scenic route, what makes the Steaming Nostril such a success is the organization behind the ride.

“The way it's set up and run, Malcolm and Blake have done a great job getting us the right of way. So every time, all around the course, it's kind of rare that [when] an event like this is organized and you have actual right of way at every intersection,” said Bird.

“When you get to the cross section of the road, there's a police officer there. You have the right of way. You never have to worry about your safety during this event, and it's really important.”

The race begins at 10:45 a.m. with the Runny Nose, followed by two waves for the Steaming Nostril, at 11 and 11:05, with riders kicking off at the Waterloo Rod and Gun Club. As of Tuesday, 260 riders have pre-registered for the event.

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There were 511 residential sales in March through the Multiple Listing System (MLS) of the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors, a decrease of 5.7% versus the same month last year, and down 7% compared to the previous ten-year average for March. The average sale price of all residential properties sold in March increased 3.4% to $505,855 compared to March 2018. Detached homes sold for an average price of $585,668 an increase of 0.8% compared to March of last year.

HOUSING STARTS FLAT The trend in housing starts was 202,279 units in March 2019, compared to 202,039 units in February 2019, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a sixmonth moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of housing starts.

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St. Jacobs marketing company lets workers telecommute Wednesdays to help reduce its ecological footprint

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

In response to a growing climate change problem, a St. Jacobs-based marketing firm is taking action to reduce its carbon footprint and improve the environment.

Quarry has made environmentally conscious decisions in the past, including purchasing reusable dishes for employees instead of paper plates, encouraging recycling, and reducing their garbage output by 60 per cent. Managing director Tony Mohr said it has long been a critical issue for the firm.

“We need to be taking this not as just a political issue but a human crisis that requires a response from all of us,” said Mohr.

So their newest sustainable initiative involves staff working remotely from home weekly on Wednesdays. It will remove almost 100 vehicles from the road and reduce commuting emissions by an estimated 185,500 kilometres a year.

It began last week and will run as a six-month trial.

“So one of the considerations was making sure that this was going to work for the team,” said Mohr.

“We thought we would give people a sufficient window for them to be able to adapt.”

Other added bonuses of this initiative include saving energy costs on lights, printers, and reducing

overall energy use. The company can also curb expenses on cleaning staff and courier pickups this way.

According to Quarry president Ken Whyte, the trial has been running relatively smoothly so far.

“I think generally people found, ‘wow, the day went by really quick,’” said Whyte. “You might think ‘I’m going to get bored after four or five hours on my own’ but it goes quickly, it slips by.”

Mohr added that a potential challenge is encouraging staff to be as productive as possible on days off.

Other Quarry workers who are adjusted to working remotely were happy to give tips.

One example is maintaining a typical morning routine to help put staff in the working mindset. It is a significant change for employees, who were used to coming into work every Wednesday for years.

To collaborate effectively while working from home, employees use mediums such as Google for Business, Gmail, chat, and video conferencing to have a social watering hole to touch base with fellow employees.

The inspiration for the change came after Mohr heard a radio show warning that there is a decreasing amount of time to take action on climate change.

Another factor was how individual contributions to

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Quarry president Ken Whyte (left) and managing director Tony Mohr said their #CurbOurCarbon workdays have been going smoothly so far. [VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER]

improve the environment might feel small – the “drop in the bucket” effect – but when a collaborative, group effort is taken – with

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everyone working remotely on the same day – it can feel more significant.

Whyte said he hopes that these #CurbOurCarbon

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razil is feeling confident in its future … but it knows that future could be a house of cards if it’s not committed to sustainability.

I’m visiting Brazil with other agricultural journalists, trying to understand the state of agricultural development on the environment. That development, particularly with regards to agricultural land development, is under the microscope.

The new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has definite pro-development views.

However, he’s also aware that Brazil needs to be sensitive to the rest of the world’s expectations that development must be responsible, sustainable and not affect the Amazon rainforest, popularly dubbed the lungs of the earth.

Estimates by environmental activists such as the World Wildlife Federation and Greenpeace claim 20 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, in the northwest part of the country, has already been cleared.

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The purpose of the Regional Development Charge is to recover certain growth-related capital costs from residential and non-residential development.

Public input to this review process is encouraged. You are invited to attend the public meetingwhich is scheduled to hear representations regarding this matter. This meeting will be held at: Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 6:00pm Regional Council Chambers, Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 2nd FloorKitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Background Study The draft Regional Development Charges Background Study is available on the Region of Waterloo’s website (https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/doing-business/development-c harges.aspx) Public Meeting Regional Council will hold the public meeting to hear representations regarding development charges as required under the Development ChargesAct on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Regional Council Chambers.To register as a delegation for the May 8, 2019 public meeting, please contact the Regional Clerks’ Office at 519-575-4420 not later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday May 6, 2019.

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actions, there’s going to be other organizations that look at that and say ‘You know what? There’s something we can do,’” said Whyte. “Hopefully they can think about it and take some action. We do need to have collective action – that’s the only way we’re going to tackle this climate change.”

Of all the workdays to choose from, why Wednesday?

“What we were trying to align with was just a sense of people’s work rhythms and even our psychological or mental state when we’re coming into or leaving a workweek,” said Mohr. “So the selection of Wednesday was purposeful.

“There’s also just the

awareness that if we made it on a Friday or Monday, it would potentially send a message that we’re encouraging extra long weekends, and that’s probably not in everybody’s best interest.”

Quarry specializes in business-to-business marketing, with a focus in the technology sector. Some 90 per cent of its clients are based in the United States.

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forest wood, such as rosewood, by developers and farmers who had come from the south, seeking cheap or available land.

Once it was cleared, farmers brought in cattle to graze on it and in the savannah to the south and east, called the cerrado.

Typically, though, they’ve paid little attention to pasture improvement. In fact, Brazil is said to have about 30 million hectares of unimproved or degraded pasture.

That pasture – not the rainforest – is where Brazilian officials believe future agricultural development lies, along with conservation programs to ensure the cerrado is not overly developed.

“Deforestation is not needed for growth,” says Santiago De Stefano, Brazil business director of GDM, a privately owned soybean genetics company whose traits are in most Brazilian soybean varieties and in a quarter of the world’s soybeans.

“Originally, Brazilians didn’t know cutting the rainforest was a bad thing.

Now we do. We do not need to cut one more tree for

agriculture.”

Brazilian agriculture has succeeded with grain production in the southern part of the country where it’s traditionally been grown, thanks mainly to subtropical temperatures and rainfall, fertile soil and research into growing two cash crops per season – soybeans, as well as some corn, followed later by another corn crop called the safrinha (literally, “second crop”) – on the same fields.

While North American farmers bide their time waiting for winter to finish, Brazilians are taking off their second corn crop.

Honing in on the precise timing of the safrinha cropping system, including planting, crop protection, technology (such as GMOs, which comprise nearly all the soy and corn crops), harvesting and delivery, has driven production skyward.

But no amount of research will make further development into the Amazon palatable to importers.

Europe, for one, is having regular and serious debates about limiting trade with countries that disregard the environment and violate international sustain-

ability pacts.

That’s prompting Brazil to get more engaged with conservation, including a regulation that requires farmers to set aside an appreciable amount of their land for ecological preservation: at least 20 per cent in the south and southwest, 35 per cent in the cerrado and 80 per cent in the northern states, close to Amazon rainforest.

In fact, that law has been on the books for more than a decade, but largely ignored by the previous government. Watch for Bolsonaro to lean in, if it threatens exports.

And as another step towards greater sustainability, Brazilian farmers are being encouraged to adopt conservation tillage, especially no till. It’s been promoted here for the past quarter century, and caught on appreciably.

Now, it’s gaining momentum as sustainable farming methods become more necessary.

Says Jonadan Hsuan Min Ma, president of the Brazilian No-Till Farmers’ Federation: “Farmers really worry about the environmental situation and want to do something about it.”

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Levi Adams, Cruz Balog, Zachary Carter, Cameron Fisher, Mason Gear, Cohen Hamburger, Matthew Kochut, Jordan Martin, Nolan Martin, Thomas McCarthy, Cohen Patterson, Colton Sinclair, Rhys Taylor, Zachery Wiseman, Joshua Wraight, Coach David Gear, Asst. Coach Daniel Balog, Asst. Coach Jason Hamburger, Trainer Greg Martin, Asst.

Trainer Tim Taylor

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WILDCATS | ATOM AE

WILDCATS | ATOM LL1

Fraser Allen, Charles Basler, Cameron Dawson, Mills DeVrieze, Luke Forbes, Brody Habermehl, Owen Hallman, Harrison Hartwick, Sam Houston, William Krubally, Sam Kruschat, Owen MacGregor, Mason Maurice, Owen McAdam, Joshua Thompson, Coach Scott Basler, Asst. Coach Dave Forbes, Asst. Coach Ian McAdam, Trainer Jeremy Thompson, Manager Amanda Forbes

WILDCATS | ATOM LL2

Caleb Antonello, Kelan English, Cooper Jones, Evan Reger, Bryden Schaefer, Emmet Schell, Johan Schmidt, Zion Shadd, Nicholas Shantz-Schlegel, Austin Thompson, Carson Zinger, Coach Greg English, Asst. Coach Dwight Zinger, Trainer John Schmidt

WILDCATS | ATOM LL3

Aiden Acheson, Carter Crummer, Christien Desroches, Andrew Diebolt, Anand Ghali, Braden Hardman, Oliver Horn, Dominic Lovenuk, Logan McLachlan, Grant Rintoul, Matthew Wilkie, Coach Jamie Crummer, Trainer Jeff Kinzie, Asst.

Trainer Tymon Hardman

Sebastian Abate, Ryder Bauman, Tyler Bauman, Cohen Clemmer, Aaron Dolson, Benjamin Hacock, Wade Holland, Jackson Kellough, Johnathan Petrone, Ezekiel Schwartz, Finn Smith, Max Staines, Coach Nate Holland, Asst. Coach Donald Smith, Trainer Salvatore Abate, Asst. Trainer Andrew Bauman

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WILDCATS | MAJOR PEEWEE A

WILDCATS | MAJOR PEEWEE AE

Tyler Fisher, Joshua Gibson, Hudson Haycock, Eric Kane, Kane Kruschat, Nathan Martin, Tyson Moran, Tyson Roth, Isaiah Shantz, Seth Shantz, Justin Strohoff, Beckett Wadel, Cale Waechter, Mitchell Walker, Owen Weber, Elijah Weiss, Coach Jordan Moore, Asst. Coach Dalton Taylor, Asst. Coach Blake Ziegler, Trainer Tyler Martin, Asst. Trainer Jasmine Roth

WILDCATS | MINOR PEEWEE A

Ethan Adams, Tanner Armstrong, Tyson Bauman, Hunter Brown, Jamie Ferretti, Ethan Gilbert, Preston Hackert, Carter Harrow, Keegan Martin, Jake Patterson, Matthew Ramage, Jack Rozema, Evan Sauve, Owen Tettman, Joshua Uhrig, Coach Darren Martin, Asst. Coach Randy Bauman, Asst. Coach Brad Hackert, Trainer Steve Uhrig, Manager Dwayne Sauve

WILDCATS | MINOR PEEWEE AE

Hunter Bender, Joshua Carson, Riley Dettweiler, Thomas Ferguson, Connor Goebel, Blake Mayer, Jakob Noot, Mitchell Roemer, Ayden Schaap, Danny Schaefer, Karsten Smith, Carter Snider, Carson Staken, Haiden Wagner, Evan Woods, Coach Nathan Woods, Asst. Coach Matthew Roemer, Trainer Chris Ferguson, Asst. Trainer Nathan Schaap, Manager Chelsea Schaap

Wesley Aitken, Reid Deyell, Blake Dueck, Nathan Dyck, Brandon Fishman, Tyler Gingrich, Brooks Lehtonen, Graydon Martin, Patrick McCarthy, Austin Roth, Bryson Rozema, Gavin Sager, Andrew Snyder, Owen Wepler Coach Kirby Gingrich, Asst. Coach Matthew Fishman, Trainer Dave Deyell, Asst. Trainer Ben Snyder, Manager Jeffrey Dyck

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WILDCATS | PEEWEE LL1

WILDCATS | PEEWEE LL2

Connor Airdrie, Gryphon Archer, Carson Duldhardt, Jakob Geimer, Jack Hacock, Hunter Lance, Ryan Lashbrook, Benjamin Lipp, Carter Lipp, Evan McDowell, Cruz Renon, Joseph Scheifele, Ryan Scheifele, Adam Short, Coach Jeff McDowell, Asst. Coach Phil Hacock, Asst. Coach Keith Scheifele, Asst. Coach Jason Short, Trainer Kevin Duldhardt

WILDCATS | PEEWEE LL3

Dylan Burkholder, Isaac Dineen, Hayden George, Brandon Girling, Caelan Haley, Connor Haley, Benjamin Hibbard, Alex Hiller, Connor Huber, Myles Hunter, Brody Schaefer, Zachary Snider, Seth Weber, Coach Ryan Schaefer, Asst.

Coach Tony Leighton, Trainer Blair Haley

WILDCATS | MAJOR BANTAM A

Dawson Brubacher, Clyde Chico, Brody Downs, Casey Dronick, Nicolas Giron, Hudson Habermehl, Evan Hori, Matthew Hutchison, Lucas Moore, Max Schwartzentruber, Evan Yorke, Andrew Zettler, Coach Mark Downs, Asst. Coach Mike Schwartzentruber, Trainer Derek Hori

WILDCATS | MINOR BANTAM A

Zack Bender, Coleton Benham, Lynden Blanchet, Griffin Boerner, Mitchell Brubacher, Reid Burkholder, Carter Cousineau, Connor Dingelstad, Andrew Gear, Mitchell Hartman, Cohen McIsaac, Brett Moser, Dyson Parker, Donovan Shantz, Jonathan Staken, Aiden Von Kannen, Coach Jordan Shantz, Asst. Coach Garrett Martin, Trainer Nolan McLaughlin, Asst. Trainer Caleb Reitzel

WILDCATS | MINOR BANTAM AE

Parker Alles, Cade Beacom, Ethan Bickerton, Drew Birmingham, Ryan Brubacher, Teagan Cadeau, Evan Catton, Jordan Chang, Ian Darroch, Eric Hutton, Will Lavigne, Denver Martin, Ethan Martin, Joey Martin, Keenan Martin, Jacob Potter, Emmett Weissenboeck, Coach Michael Birmingham, Asst. Coach Greg Brubacher, Asst. Coach Kelby Martin, Asst. Coach Trent Martin, Trainer Peter Chang

Tucker Armstrong, Owen Brown, Brennan Catton, Parker Collingwood, Jonathon Enns, Evan Gruhl, Samuel Hacock, Haiden Idzik, Nathan Lipp, Evan Lucier, Benjamin Moyer, Jett Renon, Brock Rouse, Riley Snider, Mason Spark, David Taylor, Benjamin Wilkie, Coach Kurt Wilkie, Asst. Coach Josh Gruhl, Trainer Rob Moyer, Asst. Trainer Chris Taylor, Manager Devin Williams.

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WILDCATS | BANTAM LL1

WILDCATS | BANTAM LL2

Oscar Fitch, Sam Goebel, Gabriel Hicknell, Jonathan Horst, Luke Mann, Joshua Moore, Ethan Murr, Nicholas Ritchie, Carter Rollins, Corbin Schmidt, Jackson Smith, Jonathan Thiessen, Jordan Wang, Ashton Weber, Coach Robert Hicknell, Asst. Coach Donald Smith, Trainer Jeremy Weber, Asst. Trainer Gerry Horst

WILDCATS | BANTAM LL3

Colin Bray, Michael Charbonneau, Sebastian Garrett, Owen Hackert, Liam Hunter, Adrian Kocan, Tristan Kraemer, James McCormick, William McDougall, Zachary McMurray, Andrew Palmer, Adam Pauls, Lucas Radler, Nathan Whittom, Coach Terry Kraemer, Asst. Coach Brad Hackert, Asst. Coach Dan Pauls, Trainer Michael Palmer, Asst. Trainer Chris Garrett

WILDCATS | MAJOR MIDGET A

Simon Bauman, Logan Beard, Nolan Bridge, Andrew Buehler, Ryan Curtis, Daniel Grant, Thomas Hill-Ring, Daniel Kelly, John Kilgour, Avery Leech, Kate Ratcliffe, Shelby Rempel, Dominic Roth, Tanis Uhrig, Coach Chris Kelly, Asst.

Coach Gerry Beard, Trainer Dan Ring, Asst. Trainer Jasmine Roth, Manager Tim Bridge

WILDCATS | MAJOR MIDGET MD

Jacob Clemmer, Austin Cousineau, Jake Good, Owen Harnock, Griffin Hergott, Nolan Hislop, Lucas Huber, Simon Huber, Eric Martin, Keaton McLaughlin, Colin Merlihan, Kyle Rintoul, Griffen Rollins, Lukas Shantz, Barton Sherrer, Brett Springer, Joel Washington, Coach Zack Barriage, Asst. Coach Jake Radcliffe, Trainer Carson Kyte, Asst. Trainer Evan Martin, Manager Lukas Baleshta

WILDCATS | MINOR MIDGET A

Kieffer Beard, Kyle Deyell, Trevor Ferretti, Jackson Hale, Kurtis Hoover, Alexander Hutton, Connor Kroetsch, Cameron Martin, Ryan Martin, Ryan Parrott, Hunter Schmitt, Cody Short, Jack Short, Cole Slade, Matthew Thaler, Zachery Verwey, Ethan Young, Coach Bradley Schopp, Asst. Coach Jasper Bender, Trainer Patricia Schopp

Kyler Austin, Ethan Birmingham, Ian Geffros, Griffin Goodfellow, Easton Gowing, Michael Hayes, Kristopher Hutchings-Hahn, Kyle Kraemer, Eric Lacey, Owen Lee, Cameron Leonard, Kody Lewis, Tyler Martin, AJ Mitchell, Nathan Snyder, Brett Strohoff, Owen Troyer, Coach Mark Lee, Asst. Coach Derek Austin, Asst. Coach Steve Martin, Trainer James Mitchell, Manager Curtis Pfisterer

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WILDCATS | MIDGET LL1

WILDCATS | MIDGET LL2

Adam Anstett, Eli Baldin, Mac Benham, Connor Bentley, Braxten Breen, Tyler Brubacher, Matthew Fleischmann, Sullivan Keen, Matthew Kraemer, Cody Kroetch, Tyson Mifflin, Maxwell Nitsche, Samuel Nitsche, Nathan Taylor, Andrew Weber, MacKenzie Willms, Coach Grady Keen, Asst. Coach Barry Keen, Asst. Coach Brodie Keen, Trainer Thomas Vickers, Manager Alex Bean

WILDCATS | MIDGET LL3

WOOLWICH SUNRAYS

Cole Bauman, Noah Bauman, Matthew Brubacher, Nathan Curtis, Jordan Dickieson, Benjamin Fretz, Andrew Kieswetter, Tyson Kraemer, Tanner Mann, Jesse Martin, Grayson McGirr, Tyler Newton, Evan Roth, Danny Soehner, Gavin Wilson, Colin Bray, Coach John Wilson, Asst. Coach Terry Kraemer, Trainer Trudy Newton, Asst. Trainer Zachary McGirr

First Row Left to Right: Joshua Stoermer, Jennifer Howells, Shawn Koenig, Kyle Halsband, Robert Howells, Jordyn Cooper, Shawn Beaupre, Ashlan Dibben Second Row Left to Right: Tyler Ruppert, Enver Prcic, James Howells, Wyatt Westman-Fritjers, Jorey Evans, Wojtek Monkiewicz, Taryn Mikjaniec, Jessica Carr, Asst Coach Dan Southwell Third Row Left to Right: Coach Rick Moser, Trainer Marjorie Bearinger, Joel Bauman Absent: Haley DeCorte, Ashton Musselman

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Dante Del Cul, Zackery Downs, William Edwards, Brendan Gilles, Brendan Grant, Corbin Kaufman, Nicholas Lee, Nicholas Lunz, Matthew McArdle, Benjamin Metzger, Liam Moyer, Blake Richardson, Malcolm Sager, Colton Schmitt, Connor Waters, Hunter Weigel, Kolin Weigel, Turner Willoughby, Coach Tim Waters, Asst. Coach Greg Kaufman, Asst.

Coach Marc Richardson, Trainer Michael Grant, Asst. Trainer David Lee

April 12-14

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THE BEATLES' HITS

A TRIBUTE TO CCR

Your local hub for our creative communities. Let us know when inspiration strikes.

Fans of Creedence Clearwater Revival will want to take in Green River Revival, the top international tribute to the legendary band. Concerts will be presented at three Drayton Entertainment venues this year, including the Hamilton Family Theatre in Cambridge on Apr. 27 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. www.draytonentertainment.com

Online: observerxtra.com/showtime

The touring company of ONES - The Beatles #1 Hits makes its way to Kitchener’s Centre In The Square Saturday for an 8 p.m. show that include a 22-piece presentation with the finest performers in Canada. ONES is the Beatles songs done live by five lead vocalists hand-picked for their striking similarity to the voices of the Fab Four. There are period correct instruments as used on the original recordings, and a 16-piece string and horn section. www.centreinthesquare.com

O N STAG E / C O M M U N I T Y T H E AT R E

Director Allan Strong with the cast of Willow Quartet, David McNorgan, Lori Hoelscher, John Settle and Mary Beth Jantzi, during rehearsals for the upcoming Theatre Wellesley production.

[VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER]

Sometimes life needs getting on with

Theatre Wellesley’s spring production brings to the stage a dramatic telling of grief and loss in Willow Quartet

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Grief, loss and family make for dramatic fare, especially in the personal and intimate productions put on by Theatre Wellesley, where the setting lets audience members feel like they are right in the scene with the actors.

The community theatre group is set to stage Joan Burrows’ Willow Quartet, which follows the story of protagonist Kim, played by veteran Lori Hoelscher.

Kim finds herself back in her childhood home – a

quiet farm, far from the city – after a tragedy that ends her marriage to Ben. She invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with her in a bed-and-breakfast arrangement, much to the chagrin of Ben and Marjorie, Kim’s mother.

It’s not long before Kim becomes infatuated with Jim’s charm and sophistication, along with his talent for helping her forget about her pain temporarily – until it inevitably boils to the surface. With Jim by her side, she struggles to navigate her unresolved grief, rediscovering what can be her

new normal.

“The spring shows have the depth and the meat and the drama. The fall ones are the [comedies], with the bigger cast and the farces,” said Hoelscher. “This is more intimate, with the more intimate setting – it gets a lot meatier, which is great. This particular play has a really fascinating story: it’s got the drama, it’s got some humour, the dynamics of family. It really touches you. It challenges you.”

Joining Hoelscher is experienced amateur theatre actor John Settle as Ben, former drama and English

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teacher and Theatre Wellesley newcomer Mary Beth Jantzi as Marjorie, and jackof-all-trades Dave McNorgan as Jim to make up the quartet.

“This is the best character I’ve ever played,” said Jantzi. “She’s got more depth. She’s funny. And she’s got really contradictory motivations. So she’s a little pushy, a little controlling, but very protective as well.”

The production is directed by Alan Strong, who has been a fixture of Theatre Wellesley since its inception 25 years ago. Strong

previously played the dad in the fall show, In-Laws, Outlaws, and Other People (That Should be Shot).

While he enjoys acting, his real passion lies in directing the performances.

“I don’t have to memorize lines, I just get these guys to do it,” said Strong with a laugh. “There’s always that fear onstage that you’re going to forget something.

And then once the run starts, I’m done. My job is to get these guys ready to do that.”

With this play, in particular, the Willow Quartet cast was especially grateful

to Strong for uncovering the layers of depth of each character. He added that it’s a fun environment that welcomes anyone to come out and try their hand at acting.

“We’re always open to new members,” said Strong.

“If you enjoy theatre or just want to do something, come on out.”

The show runs April 26, 27 and 28 and May 3, 4 and 5. Friday shows are at 8 p.m., Saturday shows are offered at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday shows are 2 p.m. matinees. Tickets are $17 and can be ordered online at www.theatrewellesley.com.

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Please call Donna for a quote.

Deadline: Wednesdays by 10am

HELP WANTED

PART TIME RECEPTIONIST required for busy medical office in Woolwich Township.

The successful candidate will have excellent people skills, be able to work well with others, and be flexible to cover vacation, sick days etc.

Please submit your resumé to:

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General Labourers Labourers to assist shoveling, raking and running small equipment. Willing to train motivated individuals. Full time employment, competitive wages $ Benefits.

is accepting applications for the position of:

Public Works Summer Student Laborer

HELP WANTED

Apply via email to info@kieswetter.com, Fax to (519)699-5924.

For a detailed job description and instructions for applying please refer to the Township of Woolwich website at www.woolwich.ca.

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

Full Time General Construction

Wanted Tri-Axle Dump Truck Drivers A-Z, D-Z Dump. Full time employment, competitive wages and benefits.

Apply via email to info@kieswetter.com, Fax to (519)699-5924.

HELP WANTED

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We are looking for individuals with the ability to work at a variety of duties. We do construction projects in agricultural, residential and commercial and you will be participating in all aspects of construction work from foundation to finish work.

Previous experience in construction or other related fields would be an asset. If you are a person who loves to learn on the go with a desire to grow and advance within our growing company, we think you’d be a great addition to our team!

This is a full time year round position and we offer competitive wages, as well as a benefit package.

If you have strong teamwork qualities, ability to learn on the job, familiarity with construction equipment, then please apply to: Fermon@fermonconstruction.com or call 519-699-4095 to speak with Fermon.

Wanted: AZ Driver

We are looking for a full time AZ driver Monday to Friday 7AM to 4PM. Some additional hours required.

Clean Abstract and experience required.

Competitive compensation.

Apply with resume to: info@willowbraepallets.com

Part time DZ Driver wanted.

Must have clean driver’s abstract, be physically fit, and be able to drive standard transmission.

Perfect for retired person. Local freight, Toronto, London, Stoney Creek areas

Call: 519-574-4141 or Fax resume to: 519-669-3845 or Email: haffnertrucking@rogers.com

HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

Lorentz Farms Ltd. Looking for a responsible employee to run pellet mill and computer controlled drying system. Must be mechanically inclined and able to run loader and to drive truck in yard to load and unload trucks.

Our St. Jacobs Furniture retail store currently has the following opportunities...

Home Furniture Sales Associate (#962)

Resume and references can be faxed to: 519-699-4469, call 519-575-8441 or 519-577-2889

Full-time and part-time permanent positions

HELP WANTED

Responsible to the Home Furniture Store Manager for providing courteous and efficient customer service, while selling furniture, appliances and accessories. You will greet and assist customers with all aspects of their Home furnishing and appliance needs, and process customers’ transactions. You will order merchandise from stock and suppliers, assist with inventory counting, and merchandise displays.

Must have previous retail sales experience preferably in furniture, mattresses and appliances. Must get along well with others, be service oriented and able to multi-task, and have good computer, mathematical and communication skills. Must be willing to work weekends. Fluency in both English and French would be an asset.

JOIN OUR TEAM! Frey’s Hatchery has an immediate opening for a motivated general laborer. Seasonal April to September.

Duties include: chick handling, egg handling and clean-up.

Store Hours:

Email resume to staff@freyshatchery.com or call Marty at 519-897-3209 for more info.

Eligible for benefits and staff discount!

We will accommodate the needs of qualified applicants under the Human Rights Code in all parts of the hiring process.

10FT DELI COOLER IN GOOD WORKING CONdition, new compressor. $1200 o.b.o. Hilltop Acres Poultry Products 519-743-6884.

AUCTION SALE OF TRACTORS, MACHINery, pickup, 3ph backhoe, sap equipment, straw & miscellaneous items, to be held at 1625 Gerber Rd., Wellesley Twp.

Competitive wage.

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Saturday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. – Sunday

Visit www.homehardware.ca/careers for a listing of all available jobs.

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One part-time permanent position (32 hours per week) and one full-time permanent position. *Your regular working hours will correspond with the requirements of the Furniture Store hours, including weekends.

We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Home Furniture Sales Associate (#962) to: Recruitment, Human Resources, Home Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry St. W., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 E-mail: hr@homehardware.ca

HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC NEEDED. Welding an asset. 519577-7101.

MATTRESS AND BOX SPRING, NEW, NEVER used, still in sealed bag.

Sacrifice $195. Delivery available $35. 519-6358737.

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HELP WANTED

COUNTRYSIDE R.V. IS LOOKING FOR SOMEone for this season, for trailer set ups, including some skirting. Phone 519-669-3595, email

d.gingrich@hotmail.com NOW HIRING AT THE CORNER STORE IN Linwood, 3 full days per week. Call 519 698 2600.

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SMALL ADS, BIG IMPACT. THE OBSERVER CLASSIFIED ADS

CARPENTERS AND GENERAL LABOURERS NEEDED

We are looking for Carpenters and General Labourers to join our team! We offer competitive pay, steady year-round work and great employee benefits. If you’re a team player and looking for an excellent environment to work in, we’d love to hear from you!

Resumes can be emailed to tess@hfhinc.ca or give us a call at 519-821-2040.

Check out our website at www.hfhinc.ca.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

AUCTION Annual Spring, Police, Municipal, Turf & Truck

AUCTION to be held at

BRESLAU AIRPORT ROAD AUCTION COMPLEX 5100 FOUNTAIN ST, North, BRESLAU (Kitchener)

Sat April 13th 9:00am JD 344J 4wd Loader JD 325 Skid Steer CASE 1840 Skid Steer MF 4243 Tractor Ldr Heracles T920 4x4 Ldr 2015 Chev 3500 Cargo Van 9-13/16 Taurus/Charger AWD’s 3-10/13 Suburban/Expedition/Explorer’s 6-07/11 Ram/Ford/Chev P/U & 4x4’s 7-09/13 Sorento/Murano/GLK/Escapes 5-06/11 Caravan/ Kia/Odyssey’s 2-09/11 Accord/Acura’s 2-07 Ford/Sprinter Cargo Vans 2001 Elantra & 97 Volvo 850 (Estate) 98 Cadillac Horse Pace Car 94 IHC 4900 Pumper Fire Truck Dethatchers * Seeder * Concrete & Chainsaws * Mixers W/B, Lawn Mowers & Tractors * Snowblowers * Tiller Hedge/ Line Trimmers * Leaf Blowers * Genrators Asphalt Pothole Patcher * Leaf Vac Trailer * Aerator Post Hole Augers * Water Pumps * Clipper * Sanders Lawn Roller * Equip Trailers * HORSE Ambulance Car Hoist * S/S & Loader Forks & Snow Pushers Water Tanker * Quantity of 3pthEquip

Check Website for Daily Updates No BUYERS Premium or Penalty!!! TWO RINGS!!!

VIEWING: Friday April 12th, 2019, 1 pm to 5 pm TERMS: $500 Deposit on Vehicles, Balance in 48 Hours or as announced.

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AUCTION

AUCTION

AUCTION SALE

DAVID CARSON FARMS & AUCTION SERVICES LTD.

Of 3 wheeler, riding lawn mowers, guns, tools, household, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at the Linwood Community Centre, 5279 Ament Line in Linwood, for Ralph & Maryann Steckley, Wellesley, Dieter Bartke of Kitchener & additions, on SATURDAY, APRIL 20TH @ 9:30 A.M.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:

10ft. utility trailer with ramps. Honda Big Red 3 wheeler.

Mastercraft 18hp, 42in. riding lawn mower with “Shift on the Go”, 2 in 1 mulching, bagger.

Yardworks 200 Series riding lawn mower, 46in, “Shift Go”. LawnBoy self-propelled mower, 21in. deck, bagger. Ryobi RGC 1100 straight shaft c/w tiller, weed trimmer, etc.

White 10.5hp snow blower, 30in., cab. Stihl 034 chain saw. Coleman Powermate 3500 watt generator. Moto Master Powerbox 800. Stainless pickup truck tool box. Fishing rods, reels and tackle. Foster gun cabinet.

Crossbow. 2 bows (recurves). Mastercraft mig welder. Drill press. Work benches. Tire rack. Assortment of hand, power & garden tools. Men’s & ladies Super Cycle bicycles.

Camping supplies.

HOUSEHOLD: Fridge. Kenmore 700 washer

& 600 dryer. Black leather matching sofa and loveseat. Queen & double beds. Cherry dresser. Bedroom furniture. Wicker furniture.

Wooden table & 4 chairs. Samsung TV. Black TV stand c/w electric fireplace. Cedar chest.

Bedding & linen. Wooden marble game.

Cookware etc.

COLLECTIBLES: Krug walnut 8pc. dining

room suite, very nice. Fainting couch.

Washstand. Library table. Teak dresser & chest. Fainting couch. Buggy seat blanket box. Round top trunks. Framed sampler.

Pequegnat “Sydney” mantle clock. Steeple & OG clocks. Sugar moulds. 2 wooden wall phones. Old rotary phones. Assorted trains & accessories. Loose stamps and albums.

Folky tobacco cutter. Candle mould. Wooden wall boxes. Miniature anvils. Milk bottles.

Coffee grinder. Tinware. Rope pulley lamp.

Few 1/16 scale toy tractors. Costume jewelry.

Green glass Hoosier set. China & glass. “First Gear” Waste Management toy trucks. Small Canadian coin collection to sell at approx. 10:15 a.m. 8 GUNS (riffles & shotguns – see web or contact auctioneers for info, valid PAL needed).

See www.gerberauctions.net for photos, complete list & terms. 10% buyer’s premium.

AUCTIONEERS:

Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138

2827 Hutchison Rd., RR#1 Millbank (Crosshill)

100% LOCAL

CLASSIFIED LISTINGS

SAT. APRIL 20TH – 11:00 AM – Beef Cow &

Calf Sale. Offering cows, breeder bulls, and cow/calf pairs. Cull cows at 11A.M. followed

by Stocker sale. Consignments Accepted!

MON. APRIL 22ND – 10:00 A.M. - Clearing

Farm Machinery Sale for Roppel Farms Limited of Tiverton. Sale will be held at the Farm located at 2691 Bruce Road 20, Tiverton, ON. Offering Tractors, Tillage, Seeding and Harvesting Equipment, Trucks and Trailers.

See website for sale listing.

FRI. MAY 10TH – 9:30 A.M. - Machinery

Consignment Sale. On offer will be tractors, haying & harvesting, tillage & seeding equipment and misc. items also Hay.

Carson’s Auction Service R.R.#3 Listowel, ON N4W 3G8

Tel: 519-291-2049 | Fax: 519-291-5065 Website: www.davidcarson.on.ca | Email: info@davidcarson.on.ca

AUCTION

CONSIGNMENT AUCTION To be held at the Baxter Transport Yard 4881 William Hastings Line in Crosshill or approx 6kms NW of Wellesley for area consignors on: SATURDAY JUNE 1 AT 9:30 AM

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: farm machinery;

horse drawn equipment; woodworking equipment; lawn and garden equipment; wagon loads of miscellaneous items. To consign call Gary 519 656 3555 or Calvin Kuepfer 519 272 3290

AUCTIONEERS:

Jantzi Auctions Ltd. Wellesley | 519-656-3555 www.JantziAuctions.com;

CALVIN KUEPFER • 519 272 3290 CLASSIFIEDS CONT. FROM PG 24

(approx. 1 ½ miles east of Wellesley off Nafziger Rd.), for Mervin and Wanda Wagler, on Friday, April 12th @ 10:00 a.m.

Gerber auctions Ltd. 519699-4451 or 698-0138

SAT APRIL 13 AT 10:00 AM - CLEARING AUCtion sale of household furniture; effects; antiques; primitives; and miscellaneous items held at 1021 Gerber Rd. St. Agatha (5kms E of Wellesley or 5 kms SW of St. Agatha) for the estate

of George and Mary tions Ltd. 519 656 3555 Brenner. Jantzi Auc- www.jantziauctions.com tions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF TRACTOR, STARCRAFT AUCTION SALE OF RID- Fishmaster boat, lawn ING LAWN MOWER, mowers, tools, collectearly Canadian coins, ibles, household goods miscellaneous household goods, and antiques and miscella- items, to be held at 2215 neous items, to be held Herrgott Rd. Wellesley at 7504 Wellington Rd. Twp. (corner of Herrgott 8, Mapleton Twp. in & Hessen Strasse, 1 mile Goldstone, 6 miles east south of St. Clements), of Drayton (east of the For Donna Lynne & the roundabout), for Abner Late Ted Lamont, on SatMartin, on Saturday, April urday, April 27th @ 10:00 13th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber a.m. Gerber Auctions Auctions Ltd. 519-699- Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519-698-0138 4451 or 519-698-0138 AUCTION SALE OF 3 WHEELER, RIDING lawn mowers, guns, tools, household, antiques and miscellaneous items, to be held at the Linwood Community Centre, 5279 Ament Line in Linwood, for Ralph & Maryann Steckley, Wellesley, Dieter Bartke of Kitchener & additions, on Saturday, April 20th @ 9:30 a.m.

Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 519698-0138 WED. APRIL 24 AT 9:45 AM CLEARING AUCtion sale of furniture; antiques; primitives; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre (29 Parkside Dr.) in St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions.

Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com FRI. APRIL 26 AT 5:00 PM TOY AUCTION OF precision; literature; Nascar; banks; trucks; tractors; machinery and much more held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for area collectors. Jantzi Auc-

FERTILIZER AND SEED GRAIN - AT COMPETItive pricing. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519574-4141.

MARK'S SMALL PICK UP TRUCKING. 5LBS to 2000lbs, all Ontario, Quebec and cross border. Trailer and boat towing. Reasonable rates.

ICE SALT & ICE MELT Call 519-577-2518.

- ICE SALT COMES IN 20 & 40kg's, Ice melt RON'S DRYWALL AND comes in 20kg bags. Call RENOVATIONS. OVER George Haffner Trucking, 35 years experience.

519-574-4141 or 519- Please call 519-496-7539 669-2045. or email ron.spncr@ gmail.com

KILN DRIED CORN & CORN SCREENING Delivered by Einwechter.

Minimum 15 ton lots.

Call George Haffner Trucking 519-574-4141 SAT. APRIL 27 AT or 519-669-2045.

10:00 AM CLEARING auction sale of tractor; ORGANIC FERTILIZER machinery; household FOR SALE. SULFUR 90 effects; antiques; and and Sulfate Potash. Call miscellaneous items George Haffner Trucking for Beatrice Wideman at 519-574-4141 or 519at 4093 Temperance Rd 669-2045.

Elmira. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.

WANTED jantziauctions.com ROLEX, OMEGA, AUCTION SALE OF TUDOR, BREITING ETC. FARM MACHINERY, Silver & gold coins, jewelhorse related equipment, lery, diamonds, sterling and miscellaneous cutlery or R & R records . items, to be held at 1961 Honest prices. Call Terry Alps Rd. North Dumfries @ 519-242-6900 or gallaTwp. corner of Alps Rd. more@golden.net and Dumfries Rd, 1 road south of Highway 97 AUTOMOTIVE (Cedar Creek Rd.), HalfCHEVROLET way between Ayr & Cam- 2017 EXPRESS. DARK GREY, bridge, For Mill Creek Stables, on Monday, April 15 passenger, Krown factory 29th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber undercoated, Auctions Ltd. 519-699- warranty. Excellent for school or church groups.

4451 or 519-698-0138 Certified. 519-579-7199.

FARM SERVICES

BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS AGRICULTURAL Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg.

Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519574-4141 or 519-6692045.

RENTALS

COMING EVENTS

KARATE! SESSION 4 BEGINS APRIL 22ND SCHWEITZER'S MARTIAL ARTS Self-defense, Self-discipline, Self-confidence. Beginners welcome! GROUP CLASSES FOR AGES 4 TO ADULT Taught by Sensei Becky Schweitzer, 3rd Degree Black Belt & World Karate Champion Location Heidelberg Community Centre 2915 Lobsinger Line 10 weeks $90 + HST 519580-1418 becky_schweitzer@hotmail.com YELLOW BELLIES IS AN HISTORICAL DRAMA that highlights the experiences and public response to Mennonite Conscientious Objectors during WWII. On Friday April 26, at 7:30 pm, the play is being performed at Floradale Mennonite Church. For tickets ($20) contact Tony Bowman at 519-504-8160 GARAGE SALES

ELMIRA - LARGE ONE BEDROOM. VERY quiet 6-plex, nice unit.

Require single, non smoking, pet free individual. Laundry and parking on site. Available May 15. Call 519-669-2212.

MOVING SALE APRIL 12, 12PM - 6PM, APRIL 13, 7am - 2pm. 218 Arthur St. S., Elmira beside Food Basics.

Wood table & hutch, sofa & chair, garden tools tiller etc, patio furniture - chairs, table, umbrella, wicker furniture and lots FOR RENT: LARGE of assorted stuff. We are MODERN 2BEDROOM sizing down. apartment on main street, appliances includ- THE ELMIRA COMMUed, A/C, One parking NITY WIDE GARAGE spot, $1,200/month + Sale is set for May 11, utilities. Call 519-669- 2019. Details to follow 5533 after 6pm. Avail- in the Observer closer to able June 1st. the date.

TRADES & SERVICES

EXPERIENCED, KIND PSW AVAILABLE. Mon-Fri., part time, $15/ hour. Cooking, freezing dinners, laundry, cleaning, driving to appointments. 226-201-2941.

GENERATOR REPAIRS. JOHN AT 226-6224598.

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

Saturday, April 13th, 1 pm- 3 pm

1 Nighthawk Lane, Elmira

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61 Crane Cres., Elmira

Sun April 14th 1 pm-3 pm

30 Parkside St. , Drayton

$484,900

$409,900 Elmira - Birdland semi-detached home with garage! Built in 1980, this one owner, well cared for home is ready for your decorating ideas and personal touches. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, finished basement with office, furnace 2017, a/c 2017, water softener 2018, roof 2017, windows 8-9 years old, spacious corner lot. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity!

Drayton - Welcome to 30 Parkside St. in Drayton! Beautiful single detached home, built in 2006, has much to offer! 3 bedrms, 4 bathrms, ensuite & walk-in closet, some new flooring, upper floor laundry, appliances included, walk-in pantry, mudroom, gas fireplace, open concept feel, finished basement with wet bar, double car garage with ample parking, huge deck, large corner lot....with all of this and more, don't wait to preview this home! Call us today!

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$699,900 Elmira - Looking for a spacious home nestled on a quiet, sought after street in Elmira? Then this just might be the one for you! This home offers 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, an airy main floor with large beautiful kitchen plus island and a finished basement with office and full bathroom. Fall in love with the spa-like newly remodelled ensuite bathroom (March 2019) and the heated floors through out the entire house. The 71 foot wide lot provides a large driveway that can fit 3 vehicles wide! The oversized double car garage has extra storage space in the attic and stairs leading right into the basement. With the private rear yard and newer deck, summer lounging will be a must!

$434,900 Elmira - This detached bungalow is perfect for a small family or empty nesters. Enjoy the open concept living room, dining room & kitchen with loads of counter space and storage. The main bathroom boasts a jet tub for a spa like experience. The basement has a large rec room as well as an office/den space with a 3 piece bathroom and separate laundry room. There is plenty of parking for all of your guests who will enjoy your back yard next to green space with a giant deck. Roof and solar panels /2018. Appliances included.

ELMIRA - Elegant 5 bedroom home with in-law

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519-577-6248 allibauman17@gmail.com $789,900

3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426

suite and separate entrance. Located in Elmira’s South Parkwood area, this 2016 Emerald home is sure to impress you. Starting from the large front foyer into the beautiful custom kitchen with huge island, bright dining rm & spacious living rm. Conveniently located off the garage is the main floor mudrm, laundry rm and 2 piece bathrm. The covered deck with built in speakers makes hosting a delight. With many tall windows throughout, natural light shines through this home giving it a fresh feel. The upper floor has 4 good-sized bedrooms with a 4 piece bathroom, a 3 piece master ensuite and walk-in closet.

The lower level has been cleverly utilized as a one bedrm in-law suite with a separate entrance, sound proofing, separate laundry, & beautiful kitchen of it's own! There is also a unique storage space under the garage. Need a space for your home business? This might just check the boxes. Come see this beautiful home for yourself, you won't want to miss it!

$699,900 Heidelberg - A spectacular bungalow located in the small village of Heidelberg, just minutes from KW. This all brick bungalow is situated on an oversized corner lot providing both space & privacy. The well thought out floor plan allows tons of space for your family to gather from the front family rm to the finished games rm with wet bar. Walk out from the dining rm to the private back yard, or enjoy sitting out front watching the birds. Some recent updates include: Garage doors-2018, Furnace-2015, Electrical panel-2014, Chimney liner replaced-2015, Water heater & softener-2014, Kitchen-2010, Septic tank-2006, Metal roof with lifetime warranty-2003. Come & enjoy the small community feel located steps away from the park!

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POLICE REPORT

Young students can vie to be Waterloo Regional Police "Chief for a Day" Waterloo Regional Police are looking for a new chief ... at least for a day.

Its annual ‘Chief for a Day’ contest, which launched this week, is open to all Waterloo Region students in Grades 5 to 7.

Students are asked to write a short essay describing what they would do to make a difference in their community if they were chief for a day.

A winner will be announced May 13 during the kick-off to Police Week in Ontario.

“This is a great way to foster youth engagement and to encourage youth to think about policing in their own community,” said Chief Bryan Larkin in a release.

“We were so impressed by all essays that were sent in during last year’s contest and are excited to see what ideas are sent in this year.

Involving youth in events like this is important because they play such a vital role in the future of our community.”

Once chosen, the youthful chief will have the opportunity to tour police headquarters, check out the inside of a cruiser, visit with our canine unit, interact with

police officers throughout the day, and take part in a media conference.

Essays can be submitted to police headquarters, located at 200 Maple Grove Rd. in Cambridge, through Facebook messenger (@ waterlooregionalpolice) or by e-mail to cherri.greeno@ wrps.on.ca. Applications must be submitted by May 11, 2019 and include a name and contact information.

APRIL3 ■■2:30 PM | Members of the Wellington County OPP responded to a residence in Fergus for a female in medical distress. Joslyn Nellis, 23, of Elora was transported to a local hospital by Guelph Wellington Paramedic Service, where she was later pronounced deceased. A post-mortem was conducted, and the death was deemed suspicious. On April 5, police arrested a 32-yearold Elora man in connection to the death. Tony Harris was charged with ‘criminal negligence causing death’ and ‘adult trafficking a controlled substance (four counts).’

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Wellington County OPP Crime Unit at 1-888-310-1122. Should you

wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a tip online at www.csgw. tips. You may be eligible for a reward from Crime Stoppers of up to $2,000.

APRIL 4 ■■8:00 AM | Perth County OPP are currently investigating the theft of a chainsaw from a rural residence that occurred sometime overnight in the Township of Perth East. The owner went to use the Husqvarna 445 model chainsaw and noticed that an unknown suspect had taken it.

Police ask residents to report suspicious vehicles, persons or activities immediately to police by calling 1-888-310-

1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit a secure web-tip at http://hc-cs.ca , where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.

■■2:45 PM | A Wellington County OPP officer was monitoring traffic and conducting radar on Wellington Road 7 in the area of the Ponsonby Public School when they observed a small white sport utility vehicle travelling northbound at a speed that appeared to be well above the posted 80 km/h speed limit. The vehicle was locked on radar in excess of 180 km/h. Further investigation revealed that the female driver was suspended from driving.

A white transport truck rear-ended a GMC SUV on Listowel Road on April 8.

There were no reported injuries and the SUV was towed from the scene. No [VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] charges were laid.

The 44-year-old Guelph woman was charged with ‘race a motor vehicle’ and ‘drive while under suspension’ and is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Court on June 5. Her vehicle was seized for a period of seven days as per statute.

APRIL 8 Listowel Road near Arthur Street was closed for repairs after a silver Honda struck a hydro pole on Sunday morning. The 20-year-old female driver from Wingham was travelling eastbound, crossed into the westbound lane, left the roadway and hit the hydro pole at around 8:30 a.m. There were no injuries reported and the driver was charged with ‘careless driving.’ [JOE MERLIHAN]

■■12:50 PM | An 80-year-old man from Elmira driving a red GMC SUV west on Listowel Road slowed to make a left turn onto Steffler Road when

he was struck from behind by a 60-year-old man from Clifford who was driving a white Peterbilt transport truck. The SUV was pushed into the north ditch and the transport truck came to rest in the south ditch near Steffler Road. Witnesses were able to help the driver and his two passengers out of the SUV as it was in a precarious position in the ditch. There were no reported injuries and the SUV was towed from the scene. No charges were laid.

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SATURDAY APRIL 13, 1:30 - 3 PM 212 PARK AVE. W., ELMIRA OPEN HOUSE 212 PARK AVE. W., ELMIRA This spacious home is great for a young family! Fenced yard. Open concept great room (gas F.P. &hdwd. floor) to a large dining area w/walkout to deck. Lots of cupboards, granite counters. Main floor laundry & 2pc bath. Oversized master bdrm., ensuite & walkin closet. Fin. rec. room (fireplace), playroom/4th bdrm., office & 3 pc. bath. Replacement windows.

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44 PINTAIL DRIVE, ELMIRA OPEN HOUSE 44 PINTAIL DR., ELMIRA

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Community Information Page NOTICE OF COMPLETE APPLICATION AND PUBLIC MEETING Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

Township Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira

Regarding the following applications: Zone Change Application 6/2016 and Draft Plan of Subdivision 30T-16701 – Hawk Ridge Homes Inc. Take Notice that in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, the Township of Woolwich has received an amended application for a proposed Zone Change and the Region of Waterloo has received and circulated an amended application for a proposed plan of Subdivision more specifically described below. This notice will summarize the details of these applications and includes a location map. Please be advised that this notice does not indicate whether the municipality is in support of, or in opposition to the proposal. That determination will be made at a later date.

The Township of Woolwich will hold a Public Meeting, under Sections 34 and 51 of the Planning Act, to consider the following Zone Change and Draft Plan of Subdivision applications. No decisions will be made at this meeting; its purpose is to provide additional information to the public and agencies and to receive comments and information from them.

In 2016 the Township circulated a Zone Change application and Draft Plan of Subdivision submission from Hawk Ridge Homes Inc. for the property located at 36-68 Union Street in Elmira (see Map 1). The property is designated Residential and Ancillary Use and Restricted Land Use Area in the Township’s Official Plan and is zoned Residential Mixed Medium Density (R-4) and General Industrial – Urban (M-2). A portion of the property, which contains a creek / storm drain at the north end, is subject to Floodway (FW) and Flood Fringe (FF) provisions in the Zoning Bylaw. The 3.2 hectare property contains the remains of a two storey dwelling and concrete foundation of a demolished chicken barn as well as two sheds, all of which are to be removed from the property.

The applicant has made a minor revision to the development proposal, and a significant amount of time has passed since the application was first submitted, and therefore requires recirculation and a second public meeting. The revision as proposed is outlined below in bold text.

The Zone Change application proposes to retain the Residential Mixed Medium Density (R-4) zoning on an approximate 0.2 hectare portion of the property and rezone the balance of the lands (approximately 2.1 ha) to Residential – Mixed Medium Density with Design Guidelines (R-4A) and Residential – Mixed High Density with Design Guidelines (R-5A) for the proposed residential development and Open Space (O-1) for a proposed park block. The remaining 0.9 ha portion of lands within the Floodway area, adjacent to the creek / storm drain, are proposed to be rezoned Open Space (O-2).

The effect of the Zone Change application is to facilitate the development of a residential subdivision, which will consist of 12 single detached and 24 semi-detached dwelling units, totalling 36 units. All lots will be accessed from First Street and the extensions of College and Bauman Streets. The development will also include a park block of approximately 0.16 ha. The lands retaining the R-4 zoning, located at the corner of

P.O. Box 158

24 Church St. W. Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6

Phone:

519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820

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519-575-4400 www.woolwich.ca

First Street and Union Street, are a future development block proposed to be rezoned / developed separately at a later date.

Please Note:

APPEALS: Zoning Amendment If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Council of the Township of Woolwich in respect of the proposed zoning by-law does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Council of the Township of Woolwich before the by-law is passed: a) the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Township of Woolwich to the Ontario Municipal Board; and b) the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

Draft Plan of Subdivision If a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of the proposed plan of subdivision does not make oral submissions at the public meeting, if one is held, or make written submissions to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo before the proposed plan of subdivision is approved or refused, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss the appeal.

Individuals are requested to submit a written outline of any oral submissions made at the Public Meeting to the Township Clerk.

NOTIFICATION: If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed official plan amendment, or of the refusal of a request to amend the official plan, additional Township public meetings or Township staff reports regarding these applications you must make a written request to Engineering and Planning Services at the Township of Woolwich.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in respect of this proposed plan of subdivision you must make a written request to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Attn: David Welwood, Planning, Development and Legislative Services, 150 Frederick Street, 8th Floor, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 If you cannot attend the meeting, you can express your concerns/comments about the proposed change in writing to the Township of Woolwich. Any comments received on or before April 30, 2019 (Note that this date is before the public meeting) will be included in a report prepared by Engineering and Planning Services and presented at the Public Meeting. Any comments received after the Public Meeting, but prior to Council making a decision on the applications, will also be considered.

The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. This information is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public at the Committee of the Whole and Council meetings. Please note that while the Committee of the Whole and Council may redact some personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers, your submissions will otherwise be made public in their entirety. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 519-669-1647 or 1-877969-0094 ext. 6005.

MORE INFORMATION: The public may view planning documents and background material relating to this application at the Township of Woolwich, Engineering and Planning Services Department between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, or on the Township website at www.woolwich.ca.

Questions or written submissions may be directed to: Township of Woolwich Engineering and Planning Services Department Box 158, 24 Church Street West Elmira, Ontario N3B 2Z6 Dated at the Township of Woolwich this 11th day of April 2019.

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LINGELBACH, DON - Passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at Victoria Hospital, London at the age of 60 years.

MARTIN, BETTY (NEE HOFFER) - Peacefully passed away on Monday, April 1, 2019, at Grand River Hospital, at the age of 66 years.

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Passed away peacefully on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Spruce Lodge, surrounded by her beloved sons and sisters. A devoted Mom, Nana, Sister and Friend, she was born in Galt on November 28, 1953 and grew up in Hespeler. She is survived by her sons and her precious daughtersin-law, Paul of Waterloo, Ben (Danyele) of Owen Sound and Ethan (Tracey) of Stratford. She will also be missed by her adored grandchildren, Jacob, Julia, Wyatt and Hunter. With a lifelong love of being near water, she was very fond of her home away from home, her RV on Mountain Lake near Wiarton. Fond memories for the entire family were made around the campfire at Mountain Lake. She also treasured her “girl time� with her cherished sisters, Linda (Patrick) Harrington, Dianne Hamilton (Dan Beckett) and Marilyn Hamilton (Don Clink). Her hearty laugh and sense of humour will be missed. Debbie was predeceased by her parents, Harold & Doris Hamilton of Hespeler. There will be a celebration of life at the W. G. Young Funeral Home, 430 Huron Street, Stratford on Friday, April 12, 2019 from 2-4 p.m.

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Gingrich, Edgar Passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 7, 2019, at Lanark Heights Long Term Care, Kitchener, at the age of 89 years. Beloved husband of Mary (Martin) Gingrich for 65 years.

Loving father of Earl and Karen Gingrich, Marilyn and Ozie Martin, Darrell and Rhonda Gingrich, Arnie Gingrich and Kelly Atkinson, and Rose Ella and Ron Martin. Loved grandpa of 14 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Dear brother of Orton, Ian, Rufus and Verna, Almeda and George Frey, Vernon and Joyce, and brother-in-law of Mary Gingrich, Hope Gingrich, and Sally Gingrich.

Predeceased by his parents Noah and Katie (Martin) Gingrich, sister Irene Gingrich, brothers Wilmer, Lloyd, and Oscar, and sisters-in-law Elvina Gingrich and Luida Gingrich.

The family received relatives and friends on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A family service took place on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 9 a.m. in the funeral home chapel, followed by burial and public service at Elmira Mennonite Meeting House, 68 Church St. W., Elmira. Special thank you to the staff at Lanark Heights for their compassionate care.

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Passed away peacefully at her home in Elmira on Friday, April 5, 2019, at the age of 64 years. Trish was the beloved wife of Bert Golding for almost 45 years. Loving mother of Brad and his wife Shelby (the girl child) of Waterloo.

Dear sister of Shawn Dahmer and aunt of Mary Warren, Laura Dahmer and Michael Dahmer. Great Grandma Fish to Ehren, Aven, Elliott, Silas and Nathan. Will be missed by her many â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;furbabiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, especially Bruce and George. Trish loved to laugh.

She was a true entertainer, keeper of things, collecting many things for her old house. She loved her family and friends, travelling, and spending time in her garden. She was a warm and welcoming person, her door was always open. Trish was predeceased by her parents John and Doreen (Miller) Dahmer, and brother Michael Dahmer. At her request, cremation has taken place. A celebration of life will take place at a later date. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

Passed away at his residence in Red Bay on Monday, April 8, 2019, after a courageous battle with Chronic Kidney Disease, at the age of 86 years.

Lloyd, formerly of Elmira, was the beloved husband for 25 years of Jane Duke. Dear father of Donald Fraser and Jaci Mulvey and their children Emily, Ben and Ella; John Fraser; Patricia Fraser and Jeff Jackson and their children Oliver and Quincy; and Kathleen Fraser and Simon Thorburn.

Fondly remembered by the Buffalo/ Fort Erie nieces and nephews and their families. Predeceased by his sister Betty Luthringer (2018) and brother Douglas (2008). Before retirement Lloyd was Senior Vice President for the Royal Bank for 43 years. A private family service was held at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira. Interment followed in Elmira Union Cemetery. In Lloydâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory, donations to The Kidney Foundation of Canada would be appreciated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cribbage torch has been passed.â&#x20AC;?

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Passed away peacefully at Derbeckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heritage House, St. Jacobs, on Sunday, April 7, 2019, in his 85th year. Leander B. Martin, formerly of Linwood, was the beloved husband of Melinda (nee Bowman) Martin for 63 years. Dear father of Paul and Sharon of Elmira, Lester and Kathy of Lloydminster, AB, Alice of Wallenstein, Mary of Linwood, James of Linwood, Oscar and Janet of Harriston, and Gerald and Valerie of Port Elgin. Fondly remembered by 13 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 4 stepgreat-grandchildren. Brother of Owen and Elvina of Floradale, Elmeda and Edwin Sittler of Linwood, and Ivan and Salome of Wallenstein. Brotherin-law of Reta (Mrs. Ira) Martin of Wallenstein, and Fern (formerly Mrs. Tilman Martin) and Melvin Weber of Linwood. Predeceased by his parents Absalom and Lydia (nee Bowman) Martin, stepmother Susannah (nee Bauman) Martin, a grandson, sister Melinda and Melvin H. Martin, and brothers Melvin and Elvina (and Elvinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second husband Leander R. Martin), Ira, and Tilman. Visitation for relatives and friends was held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from 7-9 p.m. and will be held Thursday, April 11, 2019 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A family service will take place in the funeral home chapel on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 9 a.m., then to Fair Haven Mennonite Meeting House, 7386 Perth Rd. 121, RR 1, Newton, for burial and public service. A special thank you to the staff at Heritage House for their loving care.

Peacefully passed away on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at The Village at University Gates, Waterloo, at the age of 90 years.

Jerry, formerly of Elmira, was the loved husband for 61 years of the late Audrey (Schmidt) Brown (2014). Loved father of Barb and Bruce Finn of Elmira, Mark of Cambridge, Grant of Stratford, Bruce and Angela of New Hamburg, Nancy and Keith McGlone of Waterloo, Evelyn and Don Vezina of Waterloo, and Beverly and Steve Bugarsky of Elmira. Lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Heather Finn (Eric Oh), Rob (Lynea) Finn; Hilary Brown (Brad Fuller), Emily Brown (Tyler Durand); Derek Brown, Daniel (Emilie) Brown; Heather Weatherup, Garrett Weatherup (Shayna Devoe), Jacklyn Weatherup; Colin, Allan, and Meghan McGlone (Jacob Page); Jenifer and Hailey Vezina; Alyssa Bugarsky (Matt Kennedy), and Nichole Bugarsky (Matt Szczerba); and great-grandchildren Finn, Nellie, and Oscar Oh; Ben and Kaitlyn Finn; Bennett DevoeWeatherup; and Zoey Geisel-Phipps.

Dear brother of Shirlene Stephens of Florida. He was predeceased by his parents Jacob and Alma (Schmitt) Brown and his brother Don. The family received their relatives and friends on Sunday, April 7, 2019 from 2-5 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A funeral service was held on Monday, April 8, 2019 at 11 a.m. at St. James Lutheran Church, 60 Arthur St. S., Elmira. Interment in St. James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira. In Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory, donations to Research Institute for Aging (RIA) would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. The family would like to give special thanks to all the staff at University Gates for their excellent care and compassion.

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4-H Canada this week announced the launch of its newest club outreach initiative, Discover Science, which offers 4-H youth members an opportunity to develop their skills and interest in the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). For the first year of this initiative, 4-H clubs will take part in a science experiment ‘in a box.’ The Discover Science kit will contain all the components needed to build a wearable health monitor following the engineering design process to build, test and refine the device.

Members of the public can comment on the Draft Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Grand River watershed. The plan has been prepared under the Clean Water Act, 2006 to protect municipal sources of drinking water and ensure their sustainable use into the future. www.sourcewater.ca

THE JOY OF SINGING Beyond the barbershop, the ladies of the St. Jacobs-based Chord Spinners are looking to take to the international stage

BY FAISAL ALI fali@woolwichobserver.com

Singing a capella is a bit like eating chocolate, says Linda Liddle, a charter member of the Chord Spinners chorus. Like chocolate, it’s sweet and uplifting and a treat for the senses.

“It makes you feel good and wonderful. The weight of the world goes away.

Same thing when you come to sing barbershop.”

The ladies of the St. Jacobs-based barbershop chorus, the Chord Spinners, certainly know how to spin a sweet tune, and they’ll be taking those joyful harmonies with them to the provincial women’s barbershop contest next month, with an eye to performing at the internationals later this year.

“We sing two songs in the competition,” says Kathy Hanneson, chorus director.

“We're singing When You Wish Upon a Star, which is the one that we did last year; it's something that's familiar to most audiences.

And then this year we're learning a new song to go with that, the one that we just sang called It's a Good Day. So they're both very uplifting message songs.”

The Ontario contest is run under the umbrella of the international notfor-profit Harmony, Inc., which supports womens’ barbershop and a capella choruses in Canada and U.S. In Ontario alone, there are 16 registered chapters with Harmony, from the local Chord Spinners to the Nickel City Sound in Sudbury and the Capital

Chordettes of Ottawa.

The Ontario groups will be performing on May 2426 in Scarborough, where they will have to wow judges enough to advance to the 2019 Sandusky Harmony Inc. International Convention and Contests.

“There'll be 15 choruses in the competition, and they're from all over Ontario. And if we achieve a certain score, then we are eligible to go onto the next level of competition, which is an international competition,” explained Hanneson. “It'll be held in the states, in Ohio this year so it's fairly close to home, and then that will be 25 of the top scoring choruses that compete there. So that's what we're shooting for to be able to go onto the next level of the competi-

tion.”

While the Chord Spinners will be aiming high, the group contends the joys of singing are in the act itself. The group rehearses weekly at the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church on Monday’s, enjoying good company and arguably one of the most buoyant forms of music out there.

“You can come here with a headache and feeling like work was so overwhelming, and you get here and it all goes away,” says Liddle, who is the last member of the original Chord Spinners which were founded in 1981. “You're here with your sisters, with your barbershop family, and everything goes away. It feels wonderful, absolutely wonderful. And you leave here in such a good mood

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compared to when you arrived. It's really good for the soul.”

“And there is something about the a capella singing where it's just our voices blending with each other that creates something more than the sum of its parts,” adds Hanneson.

“It's a bigger sound than just the voices that are singing. To be a part of that is very exciting.”

But fun aside, the Chord Spinners are serious when it comes to self-improvement and bettering the chorus. And because the entire performance hinges on creating pitch-perfect harmonies, using voice alone to create layers of sound that build off each other, it’s an art that requires a lot of practice and refinement.

Still, like eating a bar of chocolate, the end result is almost guaranteed to make people smile.

“One of the things I notice about barbershop, you can be the smallest choir on stage or you can be the biggest choir,” says Sheila Schmidt, president of the Chord Spinners. “The audience applauds you and is thrilled for you. You can make boo-boos or whatever, they still outpour that clapping and love.”

The Chord Spinners will be preparing for their upcoming contest in Scarborough next month, but the group is always happy to accept newcomers hoping to lend their voice at their weekly practices at the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church, which run on Monday evenings at 7 p.m.

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APRIL 11 EVERGREEN SENIORS' FELLOWSHIP AT WOODSIDE Church, Elmira at 10:30 a.m. "27 minutes" The story of her amazing recovery from "death" on the 401 by Ashlyn Krell.

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APRIL 12 HANDEL'S MESSIAH AT WOODSIDE CHURCH, ELMIRA. 7:30 p.m. Second Performance on Saturday April 13, 7:30 p.m. $5/person. All Proceeds go towards 3 local Charities.

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APRIL 14 HUNGRYMAN BREAKFAST AT THE ELMIRA LEGION. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All-you-can-eat. Adults $6, children 6-10 $3, children under 5 free.

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HANDEL'S MESSIAH AT FLORADALE MENNONITE Church, 3 p.m. $5/person. All Proceeds go towards 3 local Charities.

APRIL 15 SENIORS' LUNCH CLUB AT WOOLWICH MEMORIAL Centre, Elmira. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a light lunch and fellowship, $7. Call 519-6641900 by noon April 11 to sign up.

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ELMIRA & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PRESENTS: Speaker Wolfegang Bonham “Lighting Design As It Applies to Outdoor Spaces” Join us at Trinity United Church, Elmira, 7:30p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Free for members, non-members $2.

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APRIL 13 WELLINGTON COUNTY 4-H ANNUAL BEEF DINNER AND Silent Auction at Alma Community Centre, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Slow-cooked Lasagna 227 g (8 oz) extra lean ground beef 1 onion, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 tsp. dried oregano 1/4 tsp. hot pepper flakes 1 jar (700 mL) tomato passata 250 mL (1 cup) water 10 whole grain lasagna noodles 1 tub (475 g) light ricotta cheese 1 container (142 g/5 oz) baby spinach, washed, chopped 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil

or parsley 2 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella 1. Lightly spray inside of slow cooker with cooking spray.

2. In a large nonstick skillet, brown beef breaking up with spoon. Scrape out beef into a colander and let drain. Wipe out skillet and return to medium heat; cook beef, onion, garlic, oregano and hot pepper flakes for 5 minutes or until softened.

Add passata and water and remove from heat.

3. In a bowl, stir together ricotta cheese, spinach, basil and Parmesan cheese.

4. Spread some of the meat sauce over bottom of slow cooker. Lay lasagna noodles in a single layer, breaking as necessary to fit. Top with one quarter of the sauce and one third of the cheese mixture.

Repeat layers twice ending with meat sauce on top.

5. Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 8 hours or on High for 3 to 4 hours. About 15 minutes before serving lasagna, sprinkle mozzarella over top, cover and let cook on Low until melted.

Serves 8. Freezer friendly.

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A FLIPPIN' GOOD TIME AT THE WMC

Teams brought their best spatulas and put on their best diving flippers Saturday at the WMC for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pancake flipping contest at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. Competing teams included Waterloo Regional Police, local councillors, MPP Mike Harris, MP Harold Albrecht and the chamber of commerce.

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Ink library a boon for the Sherlock Holmeses of the world Q. In this library collection are more than 11,000 ink samples, each with its own unique â&#x20AC;&#x153;fingerprint,â&#x20AC;? as well as pens from almost a hundred years ago. Can you name the library?

samples worldwide, with the most commonly used ones dating back to the 1920s.

A. Since the 1960s, the International Ink Library has been collecting samples of pen ink from around the world to use in crime forensics, says Dan Lewis on his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I Knowâ&#x20AC;? website.

The Secret Service, which investigates financial fraud as well as threats against the President, now controls the library, and its agents also regularly collect pen

Johns Hopkins audio engineers addressing this dreadful situation?

limitations with the commercial stethoscope: first, the chest piece has to be positioned in just the right place on the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chest and back, but local workers typically lack basic training in how to use the tool effectively. Second, background noise in a busy clinic can interfere with accurate interpretation of the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s condition.

A. By giving â&#x20AC;&#x153;the humble stethoscope an AI upgradeâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;IEEE Spectrumâ&#x20AC;?).

Working in collaboration with doctors and public health experts, engineers Mounya Elhilall and James E. West have focused on correcting several major

Their stethoscope includes apps deemed crucial for developing world clinics: The first dials down the level of noise.

The second one, that makes this stethoscope â&#x20AC;&#x153;truly smart, automatically screens for cases of pneu-

that the Secret Service can trace the ink.â&#x20AC;?

Would-be forgers, be forewarned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Or,â&#x20AC;? concludes Lewis, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you could just not doctor the document in the first place.â&#x20AC;?

Today, the library has a digital database of ink types, and an ink sample can be matched against one in its collection in a matter of hours. For example, in the case of suspected document forgery, all the Secret Service needs is a sample of ink used and, employing various tools like ultraviolet and/or infrared light and â&#x20AC;&#x153;thin layer chromatography,â&#x20AC;? they can pinpoint the manufacturer creating the specific ink.

Moreover, â&#x20AC;&#x153;most ink manufacturers now add tags so

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Q. Worldwide, nearly one million children die each year from pneumonia and other lung ailments, more than from malaria and HIV combined. Yet fewer than five per cent of people in developing countries have access to x-ray imaging , and many sick children are never able to get to a clinic for treatment. How are two

monia by distinguishing normal from abnormal breathing patterns, looking in particular for the wheezing or crackling sounds that can indicate liquid and inflammation in the lungs.â&#x20AC;?

The authors hope that by enabling on-the-spot screenings with a cheap device that can be handled by local health workers, their reengineered scope will â&#x20AC;&#x153;make a difference in the global health crisis of childhood pneumonia.â&#x20AC;?

Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strange But True.â&#x20AC;? Send questions to sbtcolumn@gmail.com

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It was pencils up for teachers this weekend, as the Waterloo Region District School Board hosted the annual Ed Tech Summit on Sunday at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School. More than 350 educators from across the province attended to learn new ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER]

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Residents voice concerns about application for sawmill near Linwood

BY VERONICA REINER vreiner@woolwichobserver.com

Plans to operate a sawmill near the village have some Linwood residents worried about the impact on their quality of life. From noise and dust to potential environmental issues, they aired their concerns last week at Wellesley council.

Wayne Sauder has applied for a zoning change to allow for a sawmill on a 93-acre agricultural property at 5055 Ament Line, adjacent to the Linwood settlement area. As Sauder rents the land, and neither owns nor farms it, the bylaw amendment is necessary to allow the sawmill to continue as a secondary use by someone other than the landowner.

Neighbours, however, are concerned about the operation’s impact on nearby residences.

Paul Norris, a Linwood resident whose property line is some 120 metres away from the sawmill, raised concerns about noise.

“When the sawmill went in last summer, it was a game-changer for us,” said Norris. “We’ve really enjoyed our backyard, but last summer was the first summer in 23 years we were not able to enjoy our property.

“Several times when the sawmill was running, we couldn’t sit out back.

It wasn’t necessarily the sound of high decibels, it was the pitch.”

A noise impact study was conducted earlier last month to measure noise levels, finding it does meet standards set by the Ontar-

io Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, but Norris said that the noise test did not take the pitch into account.

Sauder maintained that he has tried to address every concern neighbours have had regarding the sawmill – efforts were made to reduce the sound emissions, including putting up walls, which one neighbour said did improve the issue.

“All last year, in our instance, we had never been chased away from noise, dust, anything sawmill-related,” said David Cressman, who lives directly across from the sawmill.

The sawmill could be permitted to operate between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. from Monday to Friday and all day Saturday under Wellesley noise bylaws, though it’s currently operated on a part-time basis.

While the proposed zoning amendment would allow council to regulate the land use and the number of sawmills, it could not restrict the number of days per year that the sawmill operates.

Several residents brought up their concern about the precedent that would be set if the township permits non-owners to set up commercial businesses relatively close to residential properties.

“Once it’s established its foothold, it’s quite possible that you’ll see this kind of establishment popping up everywhere around all the small settlements in our township,” said neighbour Don Mitchell. “And I’m here to protect our township from

all this stuff happening.”

Other issues brought up by several other residents included inadequate setbacks between residential properties and the sawmill, the potential for a vermin infestation, the possibility of growth, and the effect it could have on surrounding property values.

“The distance from the sawmill to the neighbour’s property is around twice the buffer distance than is allowed between the sawmill and the town,” said resident Ron Leis.

“Where there’s going to be a lot more interactions, by the sheer numbers of it. If there is a concern with rats coming in, you might have 50 neighbours affected as opposed to just one farm property. They’re migrating into the town and will find suitable habitat there."

Sauder said he did not intend to expand the operation, noting that it is a portable sawmill and that he would keep the area tidy, as has been the case in the past.

“Our intentions are to keep a very clean environment, clean up the sawdust when we’re done cutting.

Not always, but normally the lumber we cut is green – there will never be dry wood,” said Sauder.

“Green lumber gets cut and delivered out on a flatbed trailer. So there are no big lumber trucks coming in and out there.”

Councillors listened to the presentations but made no decision on the request.

Planner Geoff Vaanderbaren will draft a report for consideration at a future meeting.

DYER: Making use of Trump while he's still around FROM 9

‘Unauthorized’ Jewish settlements – often no more than a couple of trailers, a lot of razor wire, a small arsenal of weapons and an Israeli flag – sprang up on a lot of hilltops in the West Bank.

If Netanyahu includes them and the roads that connect them in his ‘annexation,’ it will be a final land grab that probably brings the portion of the West Bank under Israeli sovereignty above 50 per cent.

Netanyahu is doing this now because his re-election campaign was running into a bit of trouble. He is under indictment on corruption charges, and his Likud party, which used to be seen as hard right, has ended up looking ‘soft right’ without ever changing its policies. It’s the centre of gravity in Israeli politics that has moved, with

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Likud will never form a government on its own; it would be doing well to win a quarter of the 120 seats in the Knesset (parliament).

The country’s electoral system of proportional representation means all governments must be coalition governments, and Netanyahu’s potential coalition partners after the election are almost all further to the right than Likud.

To compete with them for votes during the election, and to draw them into a new coalition afterwards, requires Netanyahu to look ruthless and ultra-nationalist himself, and he has shown no reluctance to play that role. He also knows that his good friend Donald Trump will give him cover internationally when he

annexes the West Bank.

Trump has already moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, an implicit endorsement of Israel’s annexation of the Arab-majority east of the city after it was captured in the 1967 war. More recently he has formally recognized the illegal Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, a part of Syria also conquered in that war and now a territory where Israeli settlers make up half the population.

So would Trump also recognize an Israeli annexation of half the West Bank? Why not? Netanyahu might as well exploit Trump’s political strategy at home, which includes accusing the Democratic Party of being ‘anti-Semitic’, to get U.S. approval of Israeli expansion while he is still in office. He might be gone in 19 months.

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