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Foggy conditions lead to collision ellesley and St. Clements firefighters, Waterloo Regional Police and other emergency services were on the scene of a serious multi-

Hutchison Road and collided with a burgundy minivan.

The female passenger in the minivan was taken to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries after being extricated from the vehicle.

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vehicle collision at the intersection of Weimar Line and Hutchison Road early Thursday morning. The accident occurred in thick fog just before 9 a.m., when the driver of a GMC Yukon turned onto

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hemtura Canada Co. will foot the bill for any cleanup costs associated with a chemical release over parts of

Elmira Monday afternoon, the company said this week.

Residents around the plant reported a tar-like substance speckled over their cars and homes

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following the incident shortly after 3 p.m. Sept.

27. The cause of the release is still under investigation, but Chemtura has identified the compound as BLE 25,

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a mixture of diphenylamine and acetone used as an antioxidant in the making of some rubber products.

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cal is unlikely to have any health impacts, the company said in a statement Wednesday night.

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the incident: 519-6691671, ext. 313.

While residents assess the damage, Woolwich Township officials are

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Farmer seeks zone change to expand fertilizer operation

Election moves into higher gear

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WHAT'S AT ISSUE Charles Dawson (centre) and Mike Neudoerffer (right) of the Conestoga

Winterbourne Residents Association have endorsed Woolwich mayoral candidate Todd Cowan (left) and Ward 3 councillor hopeful Bonnie Bryant in the upcoming election. They chose Cowan and Bryant for their vocal opposition to the proposed Hunsberger gravel pit. The CWRA was specifically formed to fight the gravel pit applications in the area.

he neighbours are leery, but the owner of an on-farm business in the north end of Woolwich Township argues a proposed expansion would address some of the current concerns.

Robert Brubacher, who operates Wellington Fertilizer from his farm at 7021 Sideroad 5 W., is seeking a zone change to permit the construction of a new warehouse on the 56acre farm property. His application was heard at a public meeting in council chambers Tuesday night.

Currently designated an on-farm business, the operation would have to be reclassified as “farm related use” due to the change in scale. Brubacher wants to add a 1,367-squaremetre warehouse to a site that’s now home to a 330-sq.-m. building

and a 71-sq.-m. office.

That sizable increase requires a zone change, director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley explained to councillors.

Two letters objecting to the change were received by the township.

One of the neighbours, Darren MacMillan, attended the meeting to speak out against the application.

“When I bought, I bought next to a dairy operation. Now it’s a fertilizer company,” he said, noting there are already ongoing issues with odours, dust and garbage blowing on to his property.

As well, he said he’s worried about the potential long-term impact on his family’s health due to all the chemicals present. The company brings in raw ingredients such as potassium sulphate, potash, copper sulphate and gypsum, mixing

them to create various fertilizers that are then sold to farm customers.

With an expansion, there would be even more of the existing problems and increased potential for causing an impact on the watershed and his well.

Furthermore, there’s been no effort at creating a buffer – trees or berms, for instance – between the operation and neighbouring homes.

A planner acting for the applicant, however, argued the larger building would permit more of the activities to be carried out inside, reducing the potential for problems.

Bob Black of RBA Planning Consultants said the owner is aware of the neighbours’ concerns, and is willing to do what he can to

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BRIEFS The agency that oversees access to health care in the region has ousted its CEO. Sandra Hanmer left the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (WWLHIN) Monday following a board decision.

No additional information about the split was released by the organization.

Chair Kathy Durst said the change is a personnel matter, saying she was unable to provide more details.

Hamner, who was paid $280,000 last year, was under contract until 2013. She had been with the WWLHIN since its inception in 2005.

Durst said the organization has launched an immediate search for a new leader, hoping to have someone in place within four months. Senior director Bruce Lauckner will act as interim CEO. “This does not affect our focus on patient care,” Durst said of the decision, which comes at a time when the province’s controversial LHIN system is taking heavy political fire.

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THINKING IN SHADES OF GREEN Riverside Public School in Elmira is one of the participants in Capital Paving’s Green School Contest. Students Joey Metz, Sara Ratcliffe and Kyle Rintoul get a jump start on being green by helping out with the school’s recycling .

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n a study released last week

by LifeWay Research, nearly nine in 10 young U.S. adults say it’s up to their generation to clean up the environment, a mess left behind by past generations. In Woolwich, Grade 5 and 6 students across the school boards are getting a start on doing just that as they compete for the title of Capital Paving’s ‘Greenest School.’

A number of schools in the township kicked off the competition with assemblies and interactive environmental trivia for the students, all part of the launch of the competition. During the three-month contest period, middle school

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students are being asked to design the ideal green school.

To win the competition, their design should be energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and sustainable for years to come. The winning school will receive at minimum a $6,000 grant that will be used towards improvements to their school.

“At our company we try our best to be environmentally responsible,” explained Capital Paving’s George Lourenco.

“So this year we wanted to organize something that is fun for kids, but also a learning experience. It’s important to teach people at a young age about environmental protection and we hope this is a fun way to do that.”

Both the Waterloo Region District School Board and the Waterloo Catholic District School Board are participating in this event, as the contest concept fits nicely with their current science curriculum. The students involved will see real world application of their science education in their design concepts.

“That’s the amazing thing about the project; it is going to tap into all areas of the curriculum,” explained Leslie McNabb, principal of Floradale Public School. “It’s going to tap into design technology, and it’s going to tap into science and language and math.

It will teach them about a lot of different things.”

Other participating schools

in the area include Conestogo, John Mahood, Park Manor, Riverside, St. Teresa and Breslau PS, where the final round of judging will be held in early December.

During the finals, schools will present their projects in three formats. Each group will present a written description of all the ‘green’ characteristics their school design has to offer, and how each of those items positively impacts the environment. Then, they will display their constructed model illustrating the green design. Finally, the students will have the opportunity to show other schools a short video clip about the process

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> Elmira singer is Wellesley Idol Elmira’s Maggie Wang took home the title of Wellesley Idol and the top prize of $350 at the Wellesley Apple Butter and Cheese Festival held in the village Sept. 25.

Wang began the process June 27th at the open audition at the Wellesley Community Centre, with 14 contestants singing for a spot in the semifinals. From there, the group was narrowed down to six competitors, then to only three. Wang, Jessi Elgood, and Emma Bender each sang two songs for a final round of judging before Wang was announced as the winner.

Wang, an EDSS student, was also a contestant in this years’ Shinin’ Star competition on the Faith FM radio station.

> Algae clears Warning signs advising people to be cautious around the water are being removed from Conestogo Lake Conservation Area.

Test results showed extremely low levels of the toxin microcystin in the reservoir water. That means there is little risk to swimmers, boaters and anglers from microcystin, which is produced by blue-green algae.

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Police seeking man after suspicious approach in New Hamburg Elmira District Secondary School called police to report that a group of students had left the school in order to have a fight in Gibson Park. Police arrived at the park before the fight began and it was broken up without incident.

>>5:30 PM Two pickup trucks

collided as one began backing up in a parking lot at a business in Elmira and struck the other vehicle.

There were minor damages to both vehicles but nobody was injured.

No charges were laid.

>>8:12 PM Police approached a 23-year-old Wallenstein man who looked suspicious in a St. Jacobs parking lot. Upon further investigation, police found a small amount of drugs on the man and confiscated it. The drugs were sent for destruction but the man was not charged. >>10:25 PM A vehicle driven

by a 29-year-old Elmira man was pulled over by police for erratic driving on Arthur Street in downtown Elmira. The man was accused of impaired driving, but by the time he arrived at the

aterloo Regional Police are investigating a report of suspicious activity at a New Hamburg park.

On Sept. 26 at around 4:30 p.m., an unknown male in a van was observed speaking with a nine-year-old boy playing in the park near Hincks Street. During a brief conversation the boy was asked if he would like to get into the vehicle. The boy declined and the male left the area.

The male is described

station for blood-alcohol testing, his blood alcohol level was below the legal limit. Provincial charges for Highway Traffic Act offenses were laid, but no criminal charges.

SEPTEMBER 24 >>7:05 AM A man was taken to

hospital in Kitchener with head injuries after falling from a garbage truck driving on the expressway, south of the Arthur Street and Sawmill Road roundabout, while crossing the Conestogo River on the way into Elmira. The man was

as white, 40s, short brown hair, very large build, sporting eyeglasses and wearing a green or gray shirt. The vehicle is described as a newer model Kia van, silver in colour.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the major case unit at 519-650-8500, ext. 8674 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Parents are reminded to review street proofing strategies with their children. For safety tips, visit www.wrps.on.ca.

smoking a cigarette while riding as the passenger in the truck when he accidentally knocked the door handle, opened the door and fell out of the moving vehicle. He was later transported to Hamilton General Hospital.

>>7:45 AM A 21-year-old Palmerston woman lost control of her red Pontiac on Yatton Sideroad.

Her car caught the gravel at the side of the road, spun, then went into the ditch and hit a hydro pole.

The woman was not injured but was charged with ‘careless driving.’

Firefighters tackle pickup blaze

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Firefighters were called to a truck fire at the corner of Benjamin Road and Farmers Market Road in St. Jacobs around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

The fire is believed to have started when a tire running flat caused friction. The truck was towing a lifestock trailer, which received minimal damage.

>>2:10 PM A bus designed just outside Elmira. The 24-year-

to transport people who are physically disabled was driving in the roundabout in St. Jacobs when another vehicle entered the roundabout without yielding appropriately. The driver of the bus was forced to slam on their brakes, causing the vehicle to be rear-ended by a pickup truck that was following behind. There were no injuries, as the driver was the only one on the bus at the time.

There was minor damage to both vehicles.

>>3:00 PM A blue SUV and

a grey Nissan collided in the roundabout. One driver, a 46-yearold woman, suffered minor injuries but refused to be taken to hospital by ambulance. One of the drivers was charged with ‘careless driving.’

SEPTEMBER 25 >>2:12 PM Police arrested a young offender who they believe might be involved in a string of vehicle break-ins. Police are still investigating as they do not believe he is the only party involved.

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>>2:52 AM Small change and vehicle ownership documents were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Flamingo Drive in Elmira. The owner of the vehicle believes the thefts happened sometime early that evening. >>3:11 PM The driver of a white minivan put her seven passengers in danger when she quickly changed her mind as to the direction she was turning at Middlebrook Road and Line 86

old driver was carrying seven passengers, four of whom were children with special needs, when she began to turn left from Line 86 onto Middlebrook. She then changed her mind and turned the car right, colliding with a car that was driving behind her. The second vehicle was a Ford Taurus, driven by a 19-year-old man. No one was injured in the collision.

>>6:15 PM An employee at

Lazer Video in Elmira called police after witnessing a young male burning a hole in the chair outside the Arthur Street store. The youth was dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

>>7:30 PM A burgundy Sportek mountain bike with a 26-inch frame was stolen from a residence on Herbert Street in Elmira. If found, please call WRPS or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

SEPTEMBER 27 >>8:00 AM An unlocked vehicle

was entered on Pintail Drive in Elmira sometime between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. the previous day. A wallet with identification was stolen from inside. Police have identified a suspect whom they believe is tied to a string of vehicle break-ins in the area.

>>9:30 AM An employee at a

business in St. Jacobs called police to report a sweater stolen from the store. The sweater was valued at $90. Police have not yet identified any suspects.

>>11:00 AM A red mountain

bike was found on Meadowlark Road and was brought to Division

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3A. Police are holding the bicycle until its owner comes to claim it.

>>12:30 PM An elderly Elmira woman was walking on Wyatt Street in Elmira when she came across bullet shells on the ground and called police. There is no indication that the bullets were used, they seem to have been dropped by accident. They were taken by police and sent for destruction.

SEPTEMBER 28 >>8:20 AM Police were called to a residence in St. Jacobs where the homeowner had found marijuana. The previous evening and into the early morning hours, a bush party had happened at the back of a Mennonite residence.

When the homeowner went to the location in the morning, he located 13 grams of the drug, which police confiscated and sent for destruction. >>11:30 AM A police officer

went out to the parking lot at Division 3A and found his cruiser had a flat tire. Upon further investigation, he found that a knife blade had broken off in the tire and was causing a slow leak.

The investigation is ongoing.

>>9:00 PM An Elmira woman

called police after her car was egged near Gibson Park. She was driving from Snyder Street onto First Street when she heard a smashing sound and she thought her window had been broken.

Police say there were several reported incidents of egging in the area that evening. If anyone has information, please call or visit Division 3A.

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urrounded by a group of local seniors Tuesday morning, KitchenerConestoga MPP Leeanna Pendergast unveiled a new provincial tax credit aimed at offsetting rising electricity prices.

Seniors stand to gain the most under the proposed new Ontario Energy and Property Tax Credit, though the measures will apply to some 2.8 million low- and middle-come residents. Ontarians who own or rent a home could receive up to $900 in tax relief, with seniors able to claim up to $1,025.

The program is an enhancement on tax credits introduced last year, increasing the number of eligible recipients and boosting the total amount mailed back to citizens, Pendergast explained.

“This is a welcome program for seniors. It’s to help them run their households and stay in their homes.”

Both property taxes and utility bills in most municipalities have been increasing at rates far above inflation. For those with lower earnings, particularly seniors on fixed incomes, the

credits help with higher bills. The new measure in part addresses higher electricity bills now subject to the HST. “Helping seniors is a key priority for the Ontario government,” she said. “We value the great contributions seniors have made in making Ontario a great place to live for all, and today’s announcement will help seniors on fixed incomes live a little easier in their own homes.”

In announcing legislation to enable the credits, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan noted the new measures are part of an overall taxrelief plan. Income tax cuts that came into effect last January have lowered income taxes for 93 per cent of residents, representing an average tax savings of $200 per year.

If the credit goes ahead, it would be paid as a lump sum starting with the 2010 tax returns.

In subsequent years, it would be paid quarterly.

In combination with other quarterly tax credits, including the HST program, some residents could receive a cheque in their mailboxes pretty much every month, Pendergast suggested.

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THE DRIVE IS ON Grade 7 students at Park Manor Public School get set to sell, sell, sell at the assembly that kicked off their annual magazine drive Sept. 28. This year's target is $45,000.

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nstead of reading the classic ‘Death of a Salesman,’ students at Elmira’s Park Manor Public School are getting a lesson on how to be a salesman as they launch their annual magazine fundraiser this week.

Students are encouraged to fundraise by selling magazine subscriptions through the Canadian Community Reading Plan, in which the company donates 37 per cent of every subscription back to the school.

If the funds raised aren’t enough of an incentive, the CCRP also provides prizes that go to students who raise the most money.

Typically, the two-week fundraising blitz raises about $35,000 for the school, which staff hope means that it won't be necessary to fundraise at other times throughout the year.

This year, Val Soehner, leader of the 18-person magazine drive volunteer committee, has set a goal of $45,000 – money to be used on projects such as a meet the teacher night, the Grade 8 graduation trip, year-end field trips, library programs and the subsidization of school planners and yearbooks.

“It’s a great fundraiser for the school,” she explained.

“The money goes back to the students through activities and supplies. A lot of the kids

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wouldn’t be able to afford some things without the fundraising.”

Park Manor has been running this event for 10 years and the dedication of staff, students and volunteers has made the school one of the top three schools in the country in terms of fundraising in this fashion.

“This is the big event at our school that really gets the kids motivated,” said Soehner.

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Chemtura: Concerns linger over delay in notifying municipality > CONTINUED FROM COVER fuming over the fact it took Chemtura more than four hours to notify the township of the release. The company did, however, inform the Ministry of the Environment and Waterloo Region’s spill centre immediately after the incident.

With the township out of the loop for so long, it was almost 10 p.m. before the Community Alert Network system was activated, with automated phone calls going out to some 850 households in the area nearest the plant. As a precaution, notification also went out to locations deemed more vulnerable, such as schools

and nursing homes, explained township chief administrative officer David Brenneman.

The day after the incident, he was already hearing complaints about the delay in notifying the public. He laid the blame on the company, noting the municipality acted in a timely fashion once they knew about the spill.

“There’s a need for timely communication.

It was unacceptable that the township first learned about the chemical release four-plus hours after the fact,” he said Tuesday. “We’ve discussed our concerns with the company, and addressed that it was unacceptable. We wouldn’t expect this to

happen in the future.”

The bigger concern right now is dealing with the chemical release and making sure residents know the extent of the problem and what should be done, he said.

That sentiment was echoed by Pat McLean, chair of the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC), who said the health and property concerns have to be the first priority.

“The good news is that it’s been some number of years since we’ve had a fire, spill or anything from Chemtura that’s affected the community. The bad news is there’s been this release – the company needs to get more information

out to the community, needs to take responsibility.”

Residents are advised to avoid contact with the material and to take precautions such as discarding any vegetables in gardens exposed to the chemical fallout.

Chemtura needs to tell people what they’ll be doing for them in terms of cleanup, Brenneman stressed.

“A person should be able to get answers to their questions. What if my child’s toys need cleaning? What if my car needs cleaning.”

Following a meeting with township officials Wednesday, Chemtura issued a statement saying it has arranged to do a cleanup in the affected

areas. Cars can be taken to two inspection sites in Elmira– Rudow’s CARSTAR Collision Centre and Savage Autobody – while homes and other items will be tackled by a property restoration service.

Meanwhile, the company and the MOE continue to look into what happened Monday afternoon, calling any information circulating “speculative.”

The investigation into the incident is ongoing and when it is complete the findings will be shared with the public and media in full detail, said Dwight Este, the plant’s environment, health safety and security manager, in an email Wednesday night.

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1989: Elmira discovered that industrial chemicals from the Uniroyal factory had poisoned the town’s water supply.

2004: A fire ignited in a

wastewater holding tank and exploded. It soon spread to a second tank, which also exploded.

2006: Fire at the

plant. A tank used in the manufacturing of synthetic oil ignited, sending a thick black plume into the sky visible for more than 20 kilometres.

2009: Chemtura files for

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Township staying the course at fitness centre Money-losing venture to be monitored as plan put in place to turn things around by year's end osing money since its new fitness centre opened a year ago, Woolwich is holding the course, confident it can turn the operation around.

The facility, part of the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira, opened in September 2009 after the township struck a deal with Caledon-based Personal Best Health and Performance Inc. to operate it. Rather than accept other bids to simply pay rent for the space, Woolwich opted to pay the company $11,000 a month, with the idea of having more control over the programming offered at the centre.

In the first year of operation, however, there was a shortfall of more than $90,000, as the facility failed to generate anywhere near enough memberships to cover the costs. Revenues were only $42,000.

The facility needs to sell 275 annual memberships just to breakeven. While 298 memberships were sold in the first year, most of

runs Personal Best with her husband Barrie, acknowledged there have been some difficulties getting membership numbers to the desired level. It’s not run as a conventional gym. The goal involves more than simply selling memberships, as many of the programs cater to the wider community, not just club members.

“The fitness industry isn’t an easy business,” she explained.

“Going forward, I’m confident that we can generate a profit.”

New measures such as including use of the pool as part of the membership package and the use of preauthorized monthly payments should help turn things around, said Horndl.

Staff has already seen an increase.

Since Aug. 16, there have been 126 new members, though only 21 of those were

for a full year. Given the tendency towards short-term memberships, the three-month option may be dropped to encourage longerterm commitment to the facility, she added.

“It’s too easy to let their memberships expire.”

In voting to maintain the relationship with Personal Best for the time being, Coun.

Mark Bauman praised Shepley’s staff for the enthusiasm brought

to public events as the Try a Tri, a minitriathlon organized as part of last April’s Healthy Communities Month.

For Mayor Bill Strauss, the positive public feedback warrants giving the company a chance to get on track.

“I’ve heard nothing but compliments – just give it a little more time and everything will go forward,” he said.

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those were short-term.

Since June, the facility has made changes and ramped up marketing to increase membership, WMC business development manager Jen Horndl told councillors meeting Tuesday night.

Following her presentation, councillors agreed to keep in place the agreement with Personal Best on a month-by-month basis.

Caron Shepley, who

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Residents of Chateau Gardens gathered the afternoon of Sept.

29 to celebrate the official opening of a new sun shelter in their courtyard. The shelter was dedicated to the residents after a generous bequest from the late Walter Metzger and funds from the Chateau Gardens Auxiliary. On hand to cut the ribbon were Rita Brubacher, Bonnie Wright, Audrey Gleesen, John Hill, Lynne Hipel and Lynne Martin.

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of building their project and the creativity that went into the final product. Some schools have already started brainstorming their ideas, and McNabb says that the ideas are coming from a wide range of places.

“The kids have already started taking a look at our school and the energy saving measures that we have in place now, and are thinking about what other kinds of features that we might want to include that would help us to be even greener than we already are. It’s a very neat opportunity for them.”

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Dust and odour issues will likely be front and center when the township’s planning staff reviews the application before bringing back a recommendation to council at a later date, said Kennaley.

Noting that MacMillan’s home is just some 90 metres from the farm operation, Coun.

Mark Bauman asked Kennaley to determine if minimum distance separation (MDS) regulations come into play in this case.

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 02 minimize the impact.

In fact, Brubacher has already taken steps to reduce the chance of odours spreading.

Odours, for instance, are most likely to occur when trucks deliver ingredients or when the finished product is transferred to customers’ fertilizer buggies.

The mixing already occurs in an enclosed area; putting more of the operation inside should help.

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The magazine drive began this past week and will run until Oct. 13. More information about the fundraiser is available from the school. Subscriptions can be purchased from Park Manor students.

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 05 gram did not even have a child enrolled in the school, begin planning for this event in the summer.

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If the 1,100-page proposal is approved by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), it would equal a five per cent increase over the entire bill.

It is the first time since 2004 that any major changes have been made to the rates.

“We froze our rates for a while a few years back, now we’re trying to put in a rate increase to play catch-up,” said Mayor Bill Strauss, Woolwich’s representative on the utility’s board.

Officials at Waterloo North Hydro, which was a non-profit venture that delivered electricity at-cost prior to 2000, echoed the mayor’s comments. They say that the increase in rates would generate $5 million a year, which is necessary to maintain a reliable system of distributing electricity and promoting conservation, and to help pay for a new $26-million head office, slated to open in Dec. 2011 in Woolwich Township. “[The money is going] back into the business; back in to replacing old assets such as poles, transformers, and lines,” says Albert Singh, vice-president of finance.

He stressed that only a small portion of the revenues would be used to pay for the new building, saying it will be amortized over a 50-year period.

The utility say that the OEB has regulations against making incremental increases in costs each year, which the hydro company would prefer rather than dumping such a large increase at one time on customers.

Under the proposed increase, a bill this time next year will be 12.2 per cent higher than a bill from 2004, which works out to less than a two per cent increase each year, says Rene Gatien, president and CEO of Waterloo North Hydro. But under current regulations, the OEB has determined that companies can only submit a new cost-of-service study every few years, and in 2011 it will be Waterloo North Hydro’s turn.

“We don’t like the process where we have to catch up all of a sudden, and we have said to our regulator that this isn’t a good way to treat the customer,” said Gatien.

“Folks can understand if we say to them ‘our rate increase is going to be two per cent this year and next year it’s 1.5 per cent.’ They can understand that. When you come along and say 18 per cent, to try and understand the mechanics of how we reached 18 per cent, they don’t care. ‘Why are you hitting me with 18 per cent?’

“We are the size of Toronto Hydro in terms of the area we cover, and we’re replacing stuff that’s 50 years old. And that’s what we’ve got to continue to do. We’ve got to continue to raise the money and continue to ensure we have a good reliable system.”

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Hahn, 23, joined the Canadian military in 2005 as a reservist following high school. After a few years of weekly training sessions at a facility in Kitchener, he decided that he was ready for travel and signed up for a tour in Afghanistan.

“I do presence patrol,” explained Hahn, who worked as an electrician before flying overseas. “It is basically just maintaining a Canadian presence in the country; we talk to the locals a lot and the kids like to come up and talk to us too.”

Currently, he is home for a 17-day break from duty; corporals are given the option of taking a vacation anywhere

in the world with their next of kin or using that time to go home for a visit. Hahn chose the second option, noting that his hometown is familiar and welcoming, but also very different from his life overseas.

“It feels a bit different being back,” Hahn noted. “You learn to appreciate the little things like plumbing, sleeping in a real bed, and being able to go to the grocery store and buy your own groceries.”

For neighbours, and friends, it is just nice to have him home safely.

“We are proud to have him as our neighbour and friend,” said neighbour Scott Harris. “Serving our country is not something that many people do, and it takes a lot of sacrifice.”

Harris says that kids who live on Brookmead have sent Hahn pictures and letters while he is in Afghanistan and were excited for his return home as well.

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can’t imagine being told by my mom I can’t swim in the river. The idea of that is appalling to me. ... We need better and independent research, because the water monitoring has been funded by the oil industry.

> Director James Cameron laments the state of the Athabasca River and says he'll help First Nations groups in oil sands battles

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his week’s chemical release ended a long incident-free string at Elmira’s Chemtura Canada Co. One officials there would undoubtedly like to have seen continue.

The BLE 25, a compound to prevent rubber from oxidizing, that rained down on an area near the chemical plant was the first notable incident since a fire in the spring of 2006. Complaints about odours have become all but nonexistent.

It’s been a fairly smooth ride in the interim.

While the company has been through the process many times in the past, there’s still much to be learned, apparently. Chemtura alerted the provincial and regional spill centres in short order, but neglected to inform Woolwich Township until some four and a half hours later. Neighbours weren’t kept in the loop, and the delay in

notifying the township meant the Community Alert Network (CAN) system wasn't implemented until about 10 p.m., almost seven hours after the chemical release.

Township officials were understandably miffed. Dealing with the impact of the incident and resultant cleanup are the top priorities, but the municipality is already pressing the company to explain how the communication process broke down.

The spill appears to have been minor, with no perceived immediate health threats, but officials are pondering what might have happened if the incident had not been so benign.

In addition to determining what went wrong such that the chemical made its way into the environment, Chemtura will have to review its communication strategy. Again, because this isn’t the first time the

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To be fair, there have been improvements. But given the quiet times of the last few years, a stretch in which management has been all but invisible, there’s a chance things may have become a little complacent.

The company isn’t the only one under scrutiny. There have been grumblings about the CAN system, with some in the immediate area of the plant indicating they were never contacted by the automated phone calls that went out.

Township administrators were put in the position of defending their actions, noting the company was responsible for the resultant delay in activating the CAN system.

On the upside, officials have been able to find some soft spots in the communication system during a

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relatively minor incident. Better to discover the problems in that circumstance rather than in a real emergency.

As previous experience with Chemtura-related incidents have shown, the public isn’t always up to speed with the alert system. During the fire in 2006 and the big explosion two years earlier, many residents disregarded or failed to understand the significance of the warnings, opting instead to go about their business or, more alarming still to officials, to flock down to the site to have a look. If they had encountered a toxic spill instead of something more innocuous, the results could have been devastating.

While the company would have preferred to avoid this week’s incident altogether, the emergency response and communication systems may be improved because of it.

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In autocracies, the son also rises

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ext week, according to North Koreawatchers, the Korean Workers’ Party (i.e. the Communists) will hold an assembly in Pyongyang to anoint Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, as the successor to his father and grandfather. There is already a song, “Footsteps,” that praises the young man’s qualities as a leader, and lapel badges with his image are already being churned out so that every North Korean citizen can wear one.

Egypt is not quite so weird, in the sense that the three generals who have ruled the country for the past 54 years were not actually blood relations, but it is getting weirder. It is universally believed that President Hosni Mubarak, now 82, is grooming his 46-year-old son Gamal as his successor. There were public protests about that in Cairo and Alexandria last week, though the police soon broke them up with the usual arrests and violence.

But where does this all come from?

How can anybody believe that none of the 85 million Egyptians is better suited to be president than the son of the present incumbent, or that the “Young General,” Kim Jong-un, is the only one of North Korea’s 24 million people who is qualified to rule the country?

In fact, nobody does believe it, and neither of these men has a powerful personal following of his own. Moreover, these countries are republics, not monarchies. They may be dictatorial, repressive republics, but the whole notion of dynasties is alien to republics of any sort. So how can this sort of thing happen?

In monarchies, the son is supposed to inherit power from his father. In modern monarchies, they don’t usually get much power anyway, since the job

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International Affairs GWYNNE DYER is largely ceremonial, but at least there is a theoretical basis for passing power down in this way. In a republic, on the other hand, there is just no room for the hereditary principle in politics.

Power does pass down within families in democratic republics from time to time, as with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in India and the Bush family in the United States, but only if the would-be successor can win a real election.

The first modern case of an inherited dictatorship was Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez as the president of Syria in 2000. The way he got chosen is quite instructive.

Hafez al-Assad was a former air force general who had ruled Syria with an iron fist for 30 years. He did want to keep power within the family, but it was his older son Basil whom he was grooming to succeed him. However, Basil died in a car accident in 1994, and Bashar (who was studying ophthalmology in London at the time) was ordered back to Syria by his father and put into an intensive programme of military and political training.

When his father died six years later, Bashar, at the age of 35, was swiftly chosen to succeed him – but how did that happen? Hafiz al-Assad had wanted it to happen, but he was now dead. Why did all the other major players in the Syrian regime, a notoriously ambitious and ruthless group of men, agree to make this inexperienced nobody their leader?

Because they wanted to preserve their own privileges and power, and that could best be guaranteed by letting the old dictator’s son take power. In a oneparty regime, there are no real rules for the succession, and the risk that a struggle between rivals for the leadership will destroy the unity of the party and bring the whole regime down is ever-present.

Unless the son of the late leader is a murderous megalomaniac, he is the safest choice no matter how poor his qualifications are for the job. He can lead in name while the real decisions are made elsewhere, and all the powerful people within the regime get to keep their accustomed places at the trough.

That is the logic that brought Bashar al-Assad to power in Syria 10 years ago, and it is what creates support within the North Korean and Egyptian regimes today for the elevation of the current dictators’ sons to supreme power after their fathers die. It really doesn’t matter who is up on the reviewing stand taking the salute, as long as the thousand most powerful people in the regime keep their jobs.

So Kim Jong-un (now 27 years old) will be acclaimed as the next leader of North Korea by the Party congress – and will probably take up the job quite soon, since his father had a stroke two years ago and is now very frail. Gamal Mubarak will run for president in next year’s “election” in Egypt, and will win because the regime always fixes the elections. But despite the extraordinary durability of these regimes, they are not indestructible.

If you can credibly say about some situation that “it cannot go on like this forever,” then the only logical alternative is that it will eventually stop. Just not right now.

THE VOICE The NHL season starts next week.

Who do you want to see win the cup?

“Well, I would like it to be the Toronto Maple Leafs but I don’t think it will be.” > Valerie Morris

“I would like to see the Leafs take it – everyone around here would, but I don’t think that will happen.” > Doug Read

BY SCOTT ARNOLD

“I am going to go with Buffalo. It sure won’t be Toronto.” > Roger Lichty

Chemtura officials have been trying to determine the scope of the damage since a rubber additive rained down on parts of Elmira Monday afternoon.

“I am not really into hockey but I would have to say the Montreal Canadiens.” > Anya Janzen

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It’s time to challenge the growth mantra M

unicipal elections have long been plagued by low voter turnout.

Don’t expect this year to be any different. And that’s a shame, and not only for the obvious reasons. Looking ahead, it just might be that small local democracies play a big role in preserving our way of life.

Small and local are already buzzwords in farming: we’re catching on to the fact food produced close to home on family farms provides widespread benefits.

In the bigger picture, a return to localized activities and small-scale farming are part of the degrowth model, an alternative to the growth mantra that permeates our culture.

Take an issue in the upcoming election, light rail transit. The entire rationale for spending more than a billion dollars – it will top that price tag if it goes ahead, no matter what you’re being told – depends on continued growth. Proponents tell us the train is not needed today, but will be when the population increases by half again. Even at that point, buses might still serve us better, but the train will encourage growth – there’s that word again – in the downtown corridor.

This is not an isolated issue. The entire system of government and the economy are both predicated on growth. None of our politicians at any level is talking about reversing that trend, even though constant growth is by definition impossible. Life on a

From the Editor Steve Kannon finite planet makes that clear.

The environmental impact of human activity is the clearest indicator of where growth is a problem. We use up nonrenewable resources and we spew pollutants into the air, water and soil. That can’t go on forever.

Nor can we continue to pave over land, especially productive farmland, in perpetuity. That, of course, is one of the arguments made in favour of the transit system: the war on suburban sprawl.

As French economist Serge Latouche, one of the leaders of the degrowth movement, points out, we live in a society that is obsessed with growth economics – growth for growth’s sake. It’s an obsession that no longer serves us.

“What if the very idea of growth – accumulating riches, destroying the environment and worsening social inequality – is a trap? Maybe we need to aim to create a society that is based on quality not quantity, on cooperation and not competition,” he writes in one of his recent treatises on the subject.

Our current lifestyle has a dramatic impact on the Earth. We consume at a

rate beyond sustainability, with each of us putting a claim on an increasingly large chunk of the planet’s surface to make possible our consumerist tendencies.

The average person in the United States consumes the equivalent of 9.6 hectares of land, in Canada 7.2 and in Europe 4.5. We are a long way from planetary equality and even further from a sustainable civilization which would require consumption levels below 1.4 hectares, even before accounting for population change, he says.

While we’ve recognized some of the perils, if only in little ways, our efforts have been largely ineffective.

Yes, we separate our trash into various recyclable components. Yes, we look at ways to make items with fewer materials. Yes, we try to get greater fuel efficiency out of our vehicles.

But the ecological damage of extreme growth continues because there are more of us consuming more goods as increasing numbers of products come to the market. With technology, we see built-in obsolescence and rapid turnover fueled by our desire for the latest and greatest, for instance.

It adds up to trouble today, with more to come if we continue down this road, Latouche argues.

“The growth society causes inequality and injustice to rise; the well-being it does produce is often illusory; even for the rich, society is neither convivial nor agreeable, but an anti-society,

sick with its own wealth. The high quality of life that most people in the North believe that they enjoy is increasingly an illusion. They may spend more on consumer goods and services, but they forget to deduct the costs of these things: reductions in the quality of life because of poor air and water and a degraded environment.”

With this, Latouche takes aim at what economists have long called externalities: transferring to society the costs of production while the profits go to individuals and companies. If we’re going to change the system, we’re going to have to take aim at that practice.

Along with controls over the worst of capitalism’s excesses – what we’ve just seen first-hand in the market meltdown led by the greed of the financial sector – we may have to use market mechanisms to mold the corporate structure into a more civil form. That, says Latouche, means making companies responsible for the total cost of their activities, not just pollution but transportation costs, employment programs and education, for example.

The system depends on society – governments and citizens – to bear the cost of the infrastructure, both hard and soft, without which corporations couldn’t operate. Forced to take that into consideration when making business decisions, companies would likely take a different tack, one more local, decentralized and human in scale.

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Biogas plan, like all development, should be vetted first To the Editor,  I respond here to a statement in your article in last week’s issue of the Observer concerning the biogas information meeting held on Sept.

22. Your reporter included a remark from Mr. Bert Frey at that discussion that the people who are concerned about the installation of the proposed plant are “against all development and change,” but neglected to mention the admirable repudiation of the accusation by Mr. Ed Speers.

He clearly demonstrated that no one involved in the current investigation of this one particular project has been in public action against any other development or change. I have

not heard any such talk from any of the “stop-the-stink” supporters. The legal, orderly objections of residents to the Victoria Glen proposal were influential on the township council, who did indeed vote against it. And local residents who have protested the ongoing polluting practices of Uniroyal/ Crompton/Chemtura have always been in favour of change in the sense of cleanup and remediation, not of destructive actions or a desire to run the company out of town.

Mr. Frey’s claim is unfair because it is based only on assumption, and all the more disingenuous because he is a shareholder in the Bio-En

venture. He is self-interested. The citizens who are worried about the effects of the biogas process are likewise self-interested, because they fear their property values will plummet if heavier truck traffic, odours, noise, and safety problems prove to be the price to pay for Mr. Frey’s and Mr. Martin’s future profits. However, these property owners do not pose a threat to the quality of life to other people in town. In complaining, they are trying to protect themselves and others. Development and change are not in themselves acts or instances that are categorically positive or negative, and citizens have the right to question developments or changes

Dyer uses dubious arguments to bolster attack on Catholicism To the Editor,  It is a shame when a well-educated columnist like Gwynne Dyer chooses to let his own anti-religion biases spew forth, as demonstrated in a recent article blasting Pope Benedict and the Church (Observer, Sept. 25/10).

First, I question whether Dyer ever read the Pope’s speech in Scotland. I did and I did not see how, as Dyer claims, the Pope equates “God, religion and virtue on one side: Nazis and Communists and a

selfish, hedonistic wasteland of sex and secularism on the other.” The Pope simply compliments Britain’s Christian heritage and its valiant fight against the Nazis. I encourage everyone to go to the source and see for yourself if Dyer is being fair in his accusations.

Now, consider the “hundreds or thousands of priests who raped little boys,” claimed by Dyer. According to Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (Philip Jenkins), less than one

per cent of American priests were accused of these terrible acts. A recent Psychology Today article by Michael Castleman (Mar. 1, 2010), using statistics from the 1996 National Sexual Health Survey involving 8,400 respondents, showed that seven per cent of all respondents were molested. Of these, teens made up 49 per cent and children aged 6 to 10 were 34 per cent. The main culprits who molested children under

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that might affect them adversely.

An emergency call from the fire department Monday night to inform of us of yet another Chemtura accident, not the dissent of the people already here, is clearer evidence of what keeps people from coming to Elmira.

Let’s not confuse effect with cause.

And let’s not support developments that harm and disturb residents and further degrade the environment.

I have heard that Mr. Martin feels that community opposition prevents the development of such businesses as a feed mill, pet food plant, feed ingredient processing or agricultural processing, an ag society, foundry, chemical producer or aggregate related, Walmart, Tim Hortons, a grocery store or green field retail development and any that involve the use of trucks in the transport of their goods. Yet local government has already given us most of these businesses (and we weep for downtown Freiburgers). He has every right to develop his property, but please, let’s not have to regret this development because we did not assure its benefits and identify its shortcomings first.

Oh, one more thing, about emissions: carbon dioxide is not “harmless.” It’s a greenhouse gas. So is water vapour.

> Shannon Purves-Smith, Elmira

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Maple syrup has economic and cultural impacts WLU study looks to measure the importance of the industry and what’s at stake in climate change

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s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival goers know all too well, Mother Nature has a way of making her presence known at the annual springtime event. Not only can rain or snow put a damper on the festival day, erratic weather conditions throughout the season can take its toll on syrup production.

This is the topic of interest for a small group of researchers from Wilfrid Laurier University who have spent the past few years conducting interviews, gathering data, and synthesizing a wealth of information in order to assess the importance and value of maple syrup to community wellbeing and the potential impact climate change may be having on the industry.

“Virtually no research has been done on maple syrup,” explained WLU researcher Brenda Mur-

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WHAT IT MEANS WLU researchers Brenda Murphy and Annette Chretien are investigating the maple syrup industry as part of their study on its importance and value to community wellbeing.

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phy. “There was work done on the technical end; biology and syrup grading and all that kind of stuff, but nobody was looking at the value of maple syrup to communities, the effect that climate change would have on syrup and what’s actually happening to the trees. There was a huge gap in the literature.”

Murphy, alongside a group of educators, masters students and other researchers, have spent a large portion of the past few months chatting to anyone whom they thought might be able to shed some light on the syrup festival; its history, the methods of sap extraction, anything which may be applicable to their study. Festival organizers and volunteers, farmers, equipment salespeople, business owners and township repre-

sentatives were among those interviewed.

“It’s amazing to see the social network that has formed around the maple syrup industry here,” said Murphy.

“It’s incredible to see the amount of volunteerism, the way it brings community together, the way it gives economic opportunity for people to get their product out there, the way it brings out all the different service groups. And it all revolves around maple syrup.”

Climate change, however, may play a larger role than simply forcing festivalgoers to dress accordingly; research shows that it may threaten the region’s ability to produce syrup at all.

“My family makes maple syrup from a very traditional context and people keep telling me that the trees are dying,” said Annette Chretien, who is of Métis heritage and who is also

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Safety measures make local food even better T

hanksgiving’s pending arrival gives us a cause to think about the origins of the food on our plates, and recognize those who put it there. Sometimes it’s a farmer down the road or down the highway, and sometimes it’s a farmer halfway around the world. Whatever the case, there’s a farmer somewhere to thank for dinner, no matter if it’s a holiday or some other wonderful day that we have on this Earth.

Origin-based food choices – particularly local food – continue grabbing the spotlight. Local food advocates got a boost last week when an internal auditor chided the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for not being more watchful of food imports, especially

Food For Thought Owen Roberts from a food safety perspective.

The auditor said the agency relied too much on inspectors in other countries to deem exports of bananas and other tropical fruit safe. That pronouncement became a headline and a rallying point for those who claim local food is safer than imports.

Now, there’s every reason to think inspectors from any country would want importers to receive nothing but the best. Competition

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is fierce, and if anything goes awry, sales dry up.

On the flip side, we can’t afford nor reasonably expect a risk-free food system. That doesn’t mean we accept low standards. It means we acknowledge that nothing is perfect and that problems are inevitable.

The key is to be as vigilant as possible. The inspection agency’s auditor cast doubt on other countries’ vigilance, suggesting that we should count more on our own expertise than theirs.

Safety can be a political football. It can be used to keep out exports by putting unreasonable, irrational demands on them – in some cases, demands that not even domestic producers could meet.

As consumers, we seem prepared to pay for quality (well, sometimes). But I wonder if we’re really prepared to pay for safety?

Or do we just expect it happens because we entrust the government to keep us out of harm’s way?

The inspection agency didn’t say much about the safety of domestic food, perhaps because there’s an army of government food safety employees working behind the scenes to keep breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks as trouble-free as possible.

Usually they’re invisible, even though they might be right under your nose. In fact, you might have brushed against them as they shopped quietly for products that for some reason have caught the

attention of their employers, and are destined for extensive testing.

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the University of Guelph keep an eye on provincial food safety, conducting voluntary and mandatory testing, and helping producers and processors with quality control to abate or address problems.

A couple of items they watch are those many people have on their tables on the holiday weekend, maple syrup and apple cider. That’s local food at its finest, as long as safety measures as followed during processing and preparation.

Depending on growing conditions and processing, apple cider can contain a toxin called patulin. Lab services can screen for it before it becomes a problem.

Maple syrup came under scrutiny several years ago in New England when inspectors there found it contained unacceptable levels of lead, a result of solder used on older equipment. Producers everywhere became aware of the problem and fixed it by upgrading their gear. As a result, over the past four years, maple syrup samples in Ontario that were over the acceptable limit (0.5 part per million) dropped to one per cent, from six per cent.

Local food is fantastic. As Thanksgiving approaches, let’s show our appreciation for those who produce it – and those who help keep it safe.

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working as a researcher on this project.

According to a study done at the University of Vermont Proctor Maple Research Center, changes to the industry to date are relatively small and subtle but will have major ramifications in the not-too-distant future.

The maple sap flow season is starting and ending earlier. The growing season is somewhat longer. Although on the surface, these would seem like positive effects, the distribution of plants is dictated primarily by two climatic factors, temperature and precipitation. If the forecasts of models of temperature and precipitation are cor-

rect, and the northeast regional climate continues to warm as projected, researchers expect that the maple industry in the U.S., and similarly areas in southern Canada, will become economically unsound during the next 50-100 years as the conditions for sapflow become less prevalent.

“If the projections are correct, we are going to lose the trees in the south; the lower range of the maple syrup producing area,” said Murphy. “The trees will migrate north but by the time you reach the Canadian Shield, you have a mixed-forest area with rocks and acidic soils and conifer trees. They will no longer have the lovely area for maple trees

that we have here.”

But despite a growing concern about the effects of climate change on production, the team has found local producers of syrup and the community that surrounds the truly Canadian product to be quite resilient. Since starting the Elmira portion of their study this past summer, the team is even more motivated to pursue the research and publish applicable findings.

“We want to understand what maple syrup is to us. It is part of our Canadian identity, it’s part of our heritage, part of our legacy,” said Chretien. “And the thought of losing that is something that we need to explore, it’s important.”

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» SUBMITTED more than just a beer festival, however. Throughout the nine-day festival, there are more than 40 events for people to attend, including barrel races, helicopter rides, a bocce ball tournament, and even a 100-km bike race called the Tour de Hans near Hubertushaus, with the winner given the privilege of tapping a keg at the end of the race.

“It’s hard to find something not to do during the festival.”

And the father of three appreciates how the festival caters to all age groups, from grandparents down to the smallest child.

“There are a lot of family and cultural events to the point that we don’t just tap beer out of the keg. We do have kegs that we use for non-alcoholic events. We will even do root beer.”

hat would happen if we lived in a world where everyone took 100 per cent responsibility for their health and well being? What would happen if we all decided to eat healthy, real, local or organic foods, drink only purified natural water, exercise every day, get some sun, sleep eight hours a night, take a chill pill, meditate, love more and hate less? What would that look like?

Do you think we would have less disease and illness?

Do you think we would have fewer issues with health care?

Do think more people would be happy? I do!

What would happen if we all decided to take care of ourselves and stopped relying upon someone else to give us the next new drug or our government to come up with a health care plan to take care of our very sick, overweight, de-conditioned out of shape population? Hmmm, makes you think, doesn’t it?

I have been in the health and fitness industry for almost 10 years and now, more than ever, it’s apparent that we all need to wake up and start taking control of our health, our lives, and our happiness. Stop blaming your schedule for your sedentary lifestyle. Stop blaming your partner for your unhealthy eating. Stop blaming those around you if you are unhappy. I have heard all the excuses. The only one you can ever blame is you: take a look in the mirror.

ANoTHEr oKToBErFEST IS oN TAP Kevin Schmitt (left), Brigitte Budaker, Miss Oktoberfest Jessica Wulff and Art Primosch ready the keg for tapping

at last year’s Oktoberfest celebration.

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side from Onkel Hans and Miss Oktoberfest, one of the most recognizable faces of the annual Bavarian festival are the keepers of the keg – the men who watch over the iconic beer keg at the festival.

For more than 10 years, Elmira resident Kevin Schmitt has had that honour. With the annual festival set to get underway again next week, he’s got his hands full again.

“There are times when you have to keep an eye on it, because people like it as a collectible,” said Schmitt. “We tap the ceremonial keg to open the festival, and at the end of the festival we actually put the bung back in the keg to close the festival. There is a certain mystique that goes with the keg.”

As the keeper of the keg, Schmitt is entrusted to ensure that not only the kegs remain safe, but that the beer that goes

into the keg is fresh, and that the participants enjoy their time at the festival, because “it’s all about the experience.”

Yet there isn’t as much testing as one might assume – “there are liquor laws against that,” Schmitt said with a laugh – but the keepers do ensure the beer is properly handled by keeping the contents at the correct temperature and with the right amount of pressure.

“Because the worst thing is bad beer.”

Schmitt has been a volunteer at the Oktoberfest in Kitchener for 15 years, and has a strong family tie to the event. His father emigrated from Hamburg, and was involved with the first Oktoberfest in the region back in 1969 at the Concordia Club in Kitchener.

But it takes more than just a little family history to become a keeper of the keg. It is a lot of hard work, and is a serious

commitment. There are only two primary keepers of the keg, with several others training to some day reach the position.

Yes, training.

“You don’t want it to be too warm, otherwise you get too much foam,” Schmitt explained about the beer. “There is a balance point between pressure and temperature, so it takes years of experience and learning to handle it properly.”

And all that training is certainly necessary for the opening day of Oktoberfest. The festival starts around 6:30 a.m. for the keepers of the keg, and it doesn’t end until 12:30 a.m. the following morning, with nine different kegs tapped over those 18 hours.

“It’s a long day, and each one [keg tapping] is a ceremony of itself. There are a lot of things that go on.”

Despite his role, Schmitt is adamant that Oktoberfest is

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he provincial government is currently reviewing a plan to build a biogas facility in Elmira. If the company gets the go-ahead, Bio-En Power Inc would build a $12-million facility at 40 Martin’s Lane.

The cogeneration unit would produce 2.8 megawatts of renewable electricity – enough to power 2,200 homes – and 3.4 mW of heat.

The system uses an anaerobic digester to convert organic material into biogas and fertilizer. It will be fed by waste material, including livestock manure, food waste, used cooking oils and other fats and the like. A diesel generator converted to work with methane will generate electricity to be sold back into the grid, while steam heat produced could be sold to neighbours such as the pet food mill.

The project is based on Austrian technology in widespread use in Europe, where there are some 7,000 biogas facilities in operation.

In its application to the Ministry of the Environment, the company is seeking to use up to 12 million litres of water annually. As well, the facility would handle up to 750 tonnes of organic material daily, though the average would be about 245 tonnes.

The biogas process involves a multistep fermentation process: the breakdown of organic substances until they become methane, employing a highmoisture anaerobic environment.

The proponent points to a variety of advantages of anaerobic digestion: > Landfill and land application diversion > Pathogen reduction > Protects groundwater and surface water resources > Captures nutrients for reuse and reduces use of inorganic fertilizers > Reduces greenhouse gas emissions > Promotes carbon sequestration An entirely closed system, there is little chance of odours escaping, the company maintains. The entire process would be carried out indoors, with the only emissions being the exhaust from the generator – similar to a household furnace – and the venting to exchange the air, as trucks will drive right in to the building. All outgoing air will pass through a biofilter.

Because its anaerobic digester uses water as an input and not as part of the processing, Bio-En expects to make little if any demands on municipal services: Water will come from rainwater and runoff collection, as well as from water extracted from the process itself.

Each megawatt of electricity generated though this renewable process diverts 7,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Add some warmth to a salad now that fall’s arrived A

s far as we’re concerned, now is the best time to go to market (and yes, this may contradict what we may have said in the past while shopping at market during the summer!). Nonetheless, nothing beats a Thursday market trip when the sun is still hot, the air is cool, and the farmers’ stands are full to the brim with giant squash, leafy kale (look for this recipe next week!) and perfect carrots.

Nothing beats a good butternut squash soup, but because we like to take the ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary, a fantastic method to cook squash is to ‘ribbon’ it with a vegetable peeler to produce long, thin strands. Then one simply has to sauté it (quick cooking over high heat) in a little bit of butter.

This ensures that the squash gets slightly cooked and coated with all of the lovely butter flavor, but still retains a bit of a crunch.

To enhance the squash flavor even more, try ‘browning’ the butter first: add cold butter to a medium-hot pan, let it melt and sizzle until the butter ‘foam’ calms down, and then a light brown colour will appear as well as a nutty aroma. At this point add the squash to stop the butter from burning.

What we’ve done here is combined the sautéed squash with mixed greens, a unique vinaigrette with nuts and dried fruit, and topped it off with some crumbled goat’s

Apricot and Pistachio Vinaigrette

From The Chef's Table

> 2 tbsp pinot grigio vinegar

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> 2 tbsp Lemon juice > 1 tsp local honey > 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard > 6 dried apricots > 1/4 cup pistachios, soaked in water for

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15-20 minutes

> 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil > Salt and pepper, to taste

> 2 cups of butternut squash, peeled into ‘ribbons’

> 1 large carrot, peeled into ‘ribbons’ > 8 cups mixed greens or spinach > 1/2 cup crumbled goat’s cheese > Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste > 1 recipe Apricot and Pistachio Vinaigrette (see below)

cheese. A salad worthy enough to start an elegant Thanksgiving dinner.

In a large frying pan melt butter over medium-high heat; allow to brown lightly then sauté squash and carrot, just until tender crisp; season with salt and pepper; Divide greens between 8 plates; top with warm vegetables and then drizzle with vinaigrette; top with

goat’s cheese.

Blend together the vinegar, lemon, honey, mustard, apricots and pistachio; Drizzle in 2 tablespoons of oil a few drops at a time, then gradually whisk in remaining oil in thin stream; Season to taste with salt and pepper.

> Chefs Kirstie Herbstreit and Jody O’Malley

are both Red Seal certified chefs. Together they run the company YouCanCook2, specializing in interactive dinner parties. You can also find them cooking at Entertaining Elements in St. Jacobs,where they hold private dinners for eight people. To contact the chefs, visit their website www.youcancook2.com.

Fitness: You’re responsible for you > CONTINUED FROM PG.19 Somewhere down the line our priorities got mixed up and our cars, our homes, our iPods, laptops and cell phones became more important than our health and happiness. We are a nation of people who need to look within and start realizing we are the answers to some very serious questions. We have the power to heal our bodies, our minds, our hearts and our world. It starts with taking complete responsibility for our lives. Once we make that decision we will start a chain reaction of change. A very needed change.

Start drinking more water; Start exercising more (at least 30 minutes, 5-6 days week); Start eating foods that will nourish you (organic fruits, vegetables, meats and nuts); Start sleeping more (8 hours); Start believing in yourself and loving yourself; Start a daily prayer time or meditation or just take time to slow down and breathe!

You have the power to change your health, how you feel, what you think and your destiny. Take complete responsibility for your life.

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Oktoberfest: The largest event outside of Munich > CONTINUED FROM PG. 19 Oktoberfest isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a nine-day festival for Schmitt, either, but a 365day commitment. He is the chairman of the Convention Committee for Oktoberfest, the committee that oversees the kegs, and their job is to organize and execute Oktoberfest celebrations throughout the year.

Schmitt said he has tapped a keg at nearly any event imaginable, from stag-and-does to company mergers, and that he attends between 40 and 50 events each year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on top of the nine-day festival in October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I travel as far south as Sarnia and Buffalo. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been up to Kes-

wick, Collingwood and Creemore.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just being the keeper of the keg; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being an ambassador of the festival so we can deliver the best experience.â&#x20AC;?

For Schmitt, the job and the title are well worth the effort. The Oktoberfest celebration in KitchenerWaterloo is the largest one outside of Munich; overseeing its kegs something he would never trade.

More than 700,000 people attend the festival annually, delivering about $1.5 million back into the community and to local service groups. Altogether, the festival will raise $18 million directly and indirectly through economic activity in the region such as restaurants, ho-

tels, shopping and the like.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just the economic boost that makes it such a valuable part of the region, though. Schmitt is proud of the role he plays in visiting schools and helping spread the Bavarian culture to those who might not get the chance to taste the fantastic food or hear the wonderful music without Oktoberfest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a lot of us say is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re throwing a party for our closest 700,000 friends,â&#x20AC;? he said with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you imagine the logistics behind that? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we do.â&#x20AC;?

This years Oktoberfest celebrations kick off on Oct. 8 in Kitchener Civic Square at 11:15 a.m.

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Kings win back to back Elmira squad follows road win in Waterloo with 6-3 home victory over Leamington

A

fter last weekend’s performance on the ice at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena, perhaps a better name for the Elmira Sugar Kings would be The Comeback Kings. The local team trounced the Leamington Flyer’s after being down 2-0 at the end of the first period. The rebound in play was capped by three goals in the final five minutes of the game, bringing the final tally to 6-3.

Coming off of a 4-0 win against the Waterloo Siskins the previous night, the players began Sunday’s game a bit less prepared than they should have been, said head coach Geoff Haddaway.

“When we play a good game like the one against Waterloo, it’s easy to think, ‘Well, we played well last night.

Why wouldn’t we do the

same again tonight?’ But we need to remember that what happened yesterday means nothing.

Each game is a new start and it could go either way.”

When the puck dropped at the top of the first period, the Flyers took charge quickly.

Less than 30 seconds in, a giveaway by the Kings’ defence led to a pass to Leamington’s Kody Polin, who connected with forward Marco Canzoneri for an easy one-timer which put them on top early.

Throughout the first five minutes of play, it seemed as though the Kings were simply trying to keep up with the Leamington team. A high sticking call at the seven-minute mark undid a clean tipped-point shot, keeping the Kings off the scoreboard.

» KATIE EDMONDS

Newcomer Cory Genovese takes the puck down the ice to score his first goal of the season as Sugar Kings beat the Leamington Flyers 6-3 Sept. 26 at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.

Katie Edmonds

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NOTCHING NUMBER ONE

IN SEARCH OF AN OUTLET Jonathan Rizzo looks for an open

But when the Kings came out of the dressing room for a second time, they were a whole new team. For the last two periods of the game, the Sugar Kings outplayed the Flyers and outshot them 30 to 17.

“I didn’t say anything too dramatic in the change room between periods,” said Haddaway with a laugh. “I could go in there and yell and scream, but I didn’t. The leaders on our team did a great job of motivating the other guys. We could let the first period continue to be negative throughout the game, or we could respond and push back and in the end, that’s what we did.”

The Kings were playing more quickly, more sharply and more confidently, with their efforts paying off around eight minutes into the second period. Some solid forechecking along the

man during game action last Sunday.

> SEE KINGS ON PG. 26

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This round is on me: lending a rifle has its perils A

Not-So-Great Outdoorsman Steve Galea and, by sheer will, turned it into a giant slayer of the highest order. He’ll probably kiss it once or twice too.

Following this, he’ll ask what I have taken with that rifle lately.

And when I mention that it’s my back up deer rifle – since I much prefer my little .243 – he’ll suggest that I give the rifle to a good home – namely, the one that he lives in.

visits your place and the talk gravitates towards firearms. Then, when you bring out the old H-5000 and he asks what it has taken, you very matter-of-factly say “oh just moose and deer.” You don’t provide details or even a story. Instead, you just look off into the distance, remain vague and smile ever so slightly – this behaviour, by the way, is the mark of a veteran gun lender.

Despite all this, in the end you just have to help a fellow hunter out when he or she asks. It’s really just a matter of common decency and, as sad as it is, there’s nothing you can do to change the outcome.

Except, maybe ask to borrow his new shotgun while he’s gone.

With all this going on, you might wonder why lend a rifle to anyone at all? Well, the answer is simple. First, if he or anyone in his hunting party does manage to tag a moose then he’ll feel obliged to provide me with a few steaks and roasts, which are excellent. This effectively doubles my chance of eating moose this year.

But there’s another more insidious reason too. You see, this particular rifle has never killed a moose – it has only been used on deer. Still, it would be nice to be able to honestly say that my old H-5000 has taken moose too. That’s the kind of subtle thing that you appreciate when another hunter

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bout a month or so ago, my brother asked me to lend him a rifle for an upcoming moose hunt.

If it were anyone but my brother, I might have said no.

You see, despite all appearances, lending a rifle is a very delicate matter. Aside from the fact that I need to provide the registration card with it, there are certain responsibilities that are suddenly thrust upon the lender.

It’s quite complicated, in fact.

For instance, if my brother shoots a moose, he’ll readily attribute this feat to superior hunting skills, incredible marksmanship, clean living, stellar woodsmanship, an intimate knowledge of the animal’s behaviour and anatomy as well as a vast, unearthly intelligence far beyond the understanding of mortal man.

If he misses, he’ll blame me for lending him a lousy gun.

Forget about the quality of the rifle – in this case a customized Husky H-5000 in 30-06 with an excellent scope. Forget that, from a bench rest at the range, its nice 3.5-pound trigger will help me place my pet hand-loads into 1.5inch groups all day long at 100 metres. Forget that the barrel and stock have been shortened to make it handier in the bush. Or that its Mauser bolt action is as slick as butter.

If he misses a moose, that rifle and me are solely to blame.

Don’t get your hopes up either; things won’t be much better if he shoots a moose.

In fact it might be worse. Heck, every time he visits after that, he’ll ask to see the rifle so he can recount the story of how he took a mediocre bit of wood and metal

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Kings: Teams shows perseverance in comeback > CONTINUED FROM PG. 24

James Jackson

» JAMES JACKSON

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boards led to a 2-on-1 situation close to the net; a give-and-go between Brady Campbell and Spencer MacCormack gave MacCormack just the chance he needed to get an easy tip-in for Elmira’s first goal of the game.

Then, just moments later, Brennon Pearce managed to score a rebound goal off a quick shot through traffic on the faceoff to tie the game up at 2-2.

Elmira’s new recruit this year, Cory Genovese, scored his first goal of the season, just before some more strong fore-checking from the Flyers allowed Leamington forward Matt Ogden to rifle it to the top shelf before the second buzzer rang.

The third period looked like it might push the teams into overtime as the score stayed at 3-3, a stalemate, for the majority of the period. But the Kings stepped up their game even further and notched yet another two points, with Jarred Parent and Andrew Smith scoring one apiece.

With time running out, Leamington gave it a last ditch effort and pulled the goalie, which led to an open-net goal by Zach Salomon with just one second left.

“As a coach, you look for benchmarks as you go through the season, and one thing you want to be able to say is that you can come from behind and win a hockey game,” said Haddaway. “We were able to take a situation that could have been a negative, and turn it into a positive.”

» Saturday, October 02, 2010

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES The Kings make merry after doublling up on the the Leamington Flyers, coming back from being down by two in the first period.

fter the Apple Jacks opened the season with a loss to the Tavistock Braves, coach Kevin Fitzpatrick said his team showed there hadn’t been enough time to practice early on. Last Sunday, the Port Dover Sailors fell victim to a refocused Wellesley squad – a 10-2 drubbing.

Coach Kevin Fitzpatrick said the lopsided victory was the result of hard work, and some practice.

“We’ve had one practice since then [loss to Tavistock],” he said. “And even after one practice you can see a big improvement in our breakouts and with our special teams.”

The Jacks scored twice on the powerplay, as well as added a shorthanded goal in the second period.

They also killed off all five Port Dover powerplays.

Fourteen players picked up at least one point, with seven players collecting more than one. Michael Forster led the charge with two goals and three assists.

Wellesley dominated each period of play,

doubling up on the shots 64-32. They registered 19 shots in the first, 23 in the second, and 22 in the third, and if it not for Sailors goaltender James Kerst, who stopped 37 of 44 shots before he was mercifully pulled in the third period, they could have had even more.

“Their goalie played very well,” said Fitzpatrick.

Wellesley opened the game by scoring early and often. Corey Way (Rob Hinschberger) scored 4:19 into the first period on the powerplay, and the Jacks closed the period with two quick goals from Justin Roeder (Spencer Aspden) at 17:18, and a second from Way (Michael Forster, Mark Hamilton) just 19 seconds later.

Fitzpatrick said the lopsided score had little to do with his coaching strategy.

“I just stressed at the beginning of each period that it was a nothing-nothing game. That they just go out and play hard every shift.”

Other goal scorers for Wellesley were Forster (Way), Roed-

> SEE JACKS ON PG. 29

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390 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA (Hwy 86 & Road 21)

519-669-2015

49 Industrial Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1631

Fire safety helps out everyone in your community 24 Church St. W., Elmira • 519-669-1647

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ach Station Open House will be holding a contest for Woolwich school children to do a home fire safety inspection check sheet. Each station will draw from the sheets entered to win a bicycle.

The inspection sheets will be distributed through out Woolwich schools.

Anyone not receiving a inspection sheet may contact the Woolwich Fire Department at 519-664-2887.

There will be public education information on all aspects of fire saftey, includent smoke alarms, use of candles, and home escape plans at all Open Houses. There will be Fire extinguisher demonstrations, Auto extrication Demonstrations, Police cruser and ambulance displays.

Each station will hold a BBQ, Door prizes and Safety Quizzes for anyone who wants to partake.

FIRE HALL OPEN HOUSES

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BUILDING CONSULTANTS • SITE PLANNERS brian.blshantz@golden.net

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BACK IN ACTION Woolwich Sledge Hockey hosted their

second annual season opener Sept. 25 at the McLeod Arena at the WMC. Here, players Brendan Blanchard and Cameron Sinclair take to the ice.

The Quality You Demand, the Service You Deserve.

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A FINE DISPLAY An exhibition game between the 2009

Ontario Sledge Hockey League Champions, the Windsor Ice Bullets, and the 2010/11 Canadian Women’s Sledge Hockey Team highlighted the event. Christina Picton shows the fans how it’s done.

Conestogo Fire Station

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Be sure to stop by and see the displays, smoke house, fire extinguisher training, demonstrations, safety videos, door prizes, refreshments & more!

Linwood Fire Station

Friday, October 8, 2010 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Be sure to stop by and see the displays, smoke house, fire extinguisher training, demonstrations, safety videos, door prizes, refreshments & more!

Wellesley Fire Station

3044 Sawmill Road, St Jacobs, ON., N0B 2N0

519-664-3796

Read’s SINCE 1961

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Specializing in Paint & Wallcoverings

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Elmira Insurance

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Stay Fire Smart

» Saturday, October 02, 2010

Be sure to stop by and see the displays, smoke house, fire extinguisher training, demonstrations, safety videos, door prizes, refreshments & more!

PHOTOS

Saturday, October 9, 2010 10:00am - 12pm noon

45 Arthur St. S., Elmira • 519-669-5484

DEMO TIME Following the game, the public was invited

to come out and try sledge for themselves. Here, Ashley Goure demonstrates fine form during the exhibition game.

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The basketball season has officially begun at EDSS T

he senior and junior girls opened their seasons on the road on Tuesday afternoon against Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute. The junior girls won 5126, led by Tessa Charnuski with 16 points and Krista Weirs with 11.

The senior girls had a different result, however. They lost 5326, led by Lydia Frey with 10 points and Kaitie Martin with 6.

“We lost a few girls from last year and we’re still trying to get the new girls up to speed, but we’re not expecting a big dip, and I think by the

end of the year we’ll be back to where we were last year,” said the senior girls head coach Brian Carter, adding the team has been very competitive the past few years and has represented the region at CWOSSA the past two years.

EDSS are also hosting their 7th annual girl’s basketball tournament yesterday (Friday) and today.

Carter encourages the public to come out and watch.

“There is no admission, we aren't looking to raise money,” he said, adding that a small entry fee for teams is used to cover referee costs. “A few people in the com-

munity might want to come by and catch a couple games.”

The tournament this year features 10 teams, six from the junior level and four from the senior level, and each team is guaranteed three games with their entry fee.

“The basketball season is so short, so we organized the tournament just to help with the development of the player’s skills, and to face some greater competition,” Carter explained.

The tournament began at 12:30 p.m. yesterday (Friday) and wraps up with the championship game tonight at 8:30 p.m.

Jacks: Team bounces back, now preparing for its home opener > CONTINUED FROM PG. 26 er shorthanded (Rob Hinschberger) and Justin Milne (Eric Parr, Jake Steenson) in the second period, and Shawn Fitzpatrick (Forster, Geoff Parr), Forster on the pow-

erplay Way, Stephen Lewtas), Fitzpatrick with his second (Lewtas, Forster), and Matt Aspden (Josh Herd, Parr) in the third.

Almost lost in the victory was the performance of Jacks goaltender Zak Wager, who

BRC Mechanical Inc. is introducing our new line of Carrier heat pumps.

Come see us at the Rockton Fair for show specials.

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was solid while stopping 30 of 32 shots, including 14 in the first period.

The Jacks home opener is Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wellesley arena when they take on the Burford Bulldogs.

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James Jackson

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Joseph Read & Joseph Psutka What are you guys up to?

We are running laps as our gym class warmup. We do three laps around the school.

Is gym your favourite class at school?

Yeah, definitely.

What is your favourite gym class activity?

We are celebrating our

FIRST

ANNIVERSARY! Join us October 2-9 for refreshments

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519.648.2222

Number one in home comfort...naturally.

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Locally owned and operated.

92 Woolwich St., S. Breslau, Ontario

We really like Arena Football. I think we are playing today.

What advice would you give to someone who is just starting out as a runner?

Set a goal. Run a little farther than you did the last time. Keep pushing yourself.

Bauman Laser & Electrolysis

Pre-order your Thanksgiving centerpiece and we’ll enter your name into a draw for a gift certificate.

Contact us for more information.

RUNNERS

Creative Floral Designs / Home Decor

PhotoRejuvenation: For Younger Looking Skin

PhotoRejuvenation is a series of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatments that diminish imperfections that make our skin look aged.

IPL treatments can reduce sun damage, brown spots, rosacea, generalized redness, wrinkles, spider veins and broken capillaries. IPL offers immediate results with a pleasing overall skin tightening effect and glowing skin with little or no downtime. A highly effective treatment alternative for active acne and acne scarring .

Call 519-669-0237 to book your appointment today!

Hours: Closed Monday | Tues-Thurs 9:30-5 | Fri 9:30-5:30 | Sat 9:30-4:30

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519-669-9761

35 Arthur St. N., Elmira

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hELP WANtEd

tRAINING & LESSONS

Learn Guitar

Our St. Jacobs Distribution Centre currently has the following opportunities...

Material Handlers

BRING IN THIS AD FOR 2 FREE LESSONS*

Part-time Students 10 - 20 hours/week

Forward your resume, referencing “Part-time Student - Material Handler” in the subject line, by October 8, 2010 to: Dayna Walton, Recruitment, Human Resources Department, Home Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry St. W., St. Jacobs, ON, N0B 2N0, E-mail: hr@homehardware.ca Ph: (519) 664-4975 (Microsoft Documents Only)

hELP WANtEd

hr@homehardware.ca

Rate of pay: $10.50 per hour

Mike’s Music 519.669.5885

hELP WANtEd

Welder & Fabricator Needed We are looking for a mechanically inclined person to do welding and fabricating work. Candidate must have MIG welding skills, and brake & shear experience would be an asset.

We offer competitive wages, steady hours, benefit package, and a great work environment. If you are a self-motivated team player please submit your resume to:

Bauman Manufacturing Ltd 3 Industrial Drive Elmira Ont N3B 2S1 Fax: 519-669-2431 sales@baumanmfg.com

hELP WANtEd

>>Full

Time Sales clerk required. Must be able to work Saturdays adn one evening a week. Apply in person with resume to Stemmler Meats & Cheese, 3031 Lobsinger Line, Heidelberg.

>>Mar-Dale Transport (1985) Ltd. Full time AZ Livestock Driver. Clean abstact, local/long distance. Contact Neil 519-669-3392. >>Help wanted in Bakery.

Hillcrest Home Baking.

Call 519-669-1381.

WORK WANtEd

>>Looking for fulltime work.

North Waterloo, Elmira area. Roofing & general labour experience, Fall Arrest Certified, drivers licence. Call Rob 519-664-2161.

Journeyman Electrician Commercial, industrial and residential experience required. Valid driver’s licence required.

Competitive wage and benefit package provided.

Send cover letter and resume by

FAX to 519-698-9920 ESA Licence # 7000438

COMPUtERS

tRAdES & SERVICES

COMPUTERS - LAPTOPS

Sales and Service

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

CALL FOR DETAILS

>>Experienced

Mennonite Cleaning lady. In Elmira area only. Call Darlene at 519-669-2285, evenings.

FOR SALE

>>Seasoned Firewood. Call 519-669-4108.

Come see our showroom at:

>>Wallenstein General Store Inc Fall Sale, Oct. 4-16. 15% off clothing & fabric, 10% off housewares, giftware & fleece throws. While quantities last. 519-6692231. >>Women’s Golf Clubs – Professional Tourney quality.

Drivers, irons, wedge, putter, bag $135. Men’s Golf Clubs – Deluxe Package McGregor tourney. Drivers, irons, wedge, putter, bag. $135.

226-749-3584. >>Mattress/Boxspring, new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195. Delivery available. 519-635-8737. >>Matching Set, light oak crib and change table.

Noah’s Ark bumper pads, crib skit and curtains. Call 519669-0265. >>M a t t r e s s / B o x s p r i n g .

Plush quilted orthopedic quality. Twin size, A1, can deliver. $185. 226-7493584. >>Passport Photos, Gun licences etc. $10. Brian’s Photo, 57 Arthur St. S., Elmira.

519-210-0608.

We get you

Results.

519.669.1501

100 Union St., Elmira, ON Toll Free 1.877.467.3478

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519-669-5551

*Valid for New Students ‘til June 2011 One per person.

>>Dining Room sideboard Buffet. As New! 48”w x 42”h.

Solid golden honey pine. Paid $985; sell $385. 226-7493584, St Jacobs.

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

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

•Personalized, one-on-one •Various styles & methods •Beginners to advanced •Competitive Rates

As a member of the Warehouse team, you will help maintain service levels to Home’s Dealers, pick/pack product for orders, and load/ unload product on/off trailers.

You are at least 16 years old, able to perform physical activities including walking, standing, bending, and lifting, and are available to work every Friday, and Saturdays and Public Holidays as posted.

Excellent attention to detail, and good reading, writing, and number skills are required.

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

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FOR SALE

>>Fall

Sale – Wallenstein General Store Oct 4 – 16.

Schneider’s Mozarella Grillems’ 600g $3.99; Mushroom or white popcorn 50 lb $28.99; 5 lb $3.45; Bergeron margarine 2 lb $2.49; Little John oats 25kg $$27.99; Ital Pasta macaroni $1.39; Schneider’s Blue Ribbon Bologna $2.59 whole, $2.69 sliced; peanut butter 10kg $35.99; Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk 300 ml $3.59; Quaker Harvest/Life/Corn Bran 540750g $3.59; Lipton’s onion/ chicken noodle soup mix 4 pack original 2/$5.00; cake mix 510-515g 3/$5.00; Hunts pudding cups 3/$4.00; Nature Valley or Quaker granola bars 2/$5.00; Club House seasoning mix .99; Mazola 100% pure corn oil1.42l $4.99; Giant Roasters marshmallows 790g $3.99; Kraft Miracle Whip 890ml $4.49; Dole Pineapple juice 48oz $2.49; Green Giant frozen vegetables 750g $2.89; Uncle Ray’s chips 130-300g .99 - $1.89; Ravine mushroom pieces and stems .89; Shirriff pie filling 160-175g $1.29; Hershey Chipits 300g $2.69; Cream of Mushroom soup 284ml $1.00; Glad Easy Tie garbage bags 10 pac 2/$5.00; Pine Sol all purpose cleaner/ VIM spray 750-828ml $3.29; Mean Green degreaser cleaner 948ml $4.29; Palmolive dish detergent 500-625-850ml $2.49’ Majesta jumbo 8s bathroom tissue $5.99; Glad Easy Tie kitchen catchers 24s $2.39. While supplies last.

519-669-2231.d

www.reistindustries.com

PEtS

FOR SALE

RENtALS

>>Bunkbeds! New! All solid >>Cute,

wood, golden honey pine.

Twin/twin $360; twin/double $460. Custom mattresses twin $89; double $139. Total prices, delivered. 226-7493584.

>>Gogo Travel Scooter, rechargable battery; Patriot wheelchair, padded seat, high contour back; Tens+ Stimulator Kit. All in good condition. 519-669-5956. >>Fall Sale – Wallenstein General Store Oct 4 – 16.

Hardware Specials – 15% off all fencing wire, fencing hardware, tee posts, wooden snow fence (excluding fence posts); Estwing hammers, Lufkin tape measures, Fatmax tape measures, Fatmax chaulk line, all tin snips, 5” vise grips & pouches, 17 pocket carpenter aprons, smoke alarms, reflective safety harness-betls, Garrity life lightes, phones, volley balls, all thermometers, all barn forks, all wheel barrows.

Specials: Shopro 16’ & 25’ 2 piece tape measure set $7.99.

Heavy duty utility knives $1.99. Heavy duty white plastic mail boxes $58.99; custom name plates $12.95 each. While supplies last.

519-669-2231.

LIVEtStOCK

cuddly farm pups. >>Elmira – 2 Bedroom Collie/balck lab cross. Ready apartment for rent. $850/ to go. Call 519-638-2642. mth + hydro. Available Oct. 1, references. 519-669-5751.

GARAGE SALES

>>MOOREFIELD - one bedroom apartment, furnished, laundry facilities, parking, electric heat, cable tv, no pets, adult building.

References. $695/mth inclusive. First & last. 519>>GarageSale – Sat. Oct. 638-3013.

2 at 7 a.m. Rain or shine.

Children’s clothing and toys. 9 >>Upstairs Office Space - 3 Nighthawk Lane Elmira. rooms available from $450 per month depending on size. tRAINING & LESSONS Includes heat & hydro. Main floor in an active real estate >>Yes You Can! Play guitar office. Call Mildred Frey, 519now witha prfessional trained 669-1544. well established teacher.

Bob Wilhelm Guitar Studio >>Apartment For Rent. now accepting students. Large beautiful one bedroom Classical, electric, bass and apartment in St. Clements. accoustic guitar, all styles. Newly redone paint, floor, Phone 519-669-5371. etc. Floor heating! Reserved Approximately >>Tutoring from a certified parking!

10 mins from Waterloo. teacher. First two months $5 Appliances, heat and water off per session. 519-591-1666 included. No smoking, no or www.oneofakindlearning. pets. First and last required. com $785/month, available Oct. 1. 1-519-404-8879. >>Garage

Sale – Sat. Oct. 16, 7 a.m., 1122 Geddes St. Hawkesville. Silver, furniture, glassware, baby items and much, much more.

StORAGE

>>Off Season Storage. 519638-2756.

BUSINESS OPPORtUNItY

>>10

Canadian Arcott ewe lambs born in Feb. 2010.

Also 2 ram lambs. John M. Martin, 7224 Blind Line, RR4, Elmira, On.

Meet the teacher night at Conestogo PS

>>Interested In Running Your Own Business? Elora Gorge Animal Hospital is currently looking for a groomer to set up their own business in our veterinary hospital. We are a new facility that is growing in clientele & services. Pet grooming is another service we would like to offer. Our facility has a raised tub, ample sized room with grooming table, steel cages and large runs for larger pets. Our own laundry on site. Please contact Dr. Linda Franchetto @ 519-846-8400 or email: eloragorgeah@ gmail.com

tRAdES & SERVICES

>>CDR Accounting Services – Income Tax (E-file0 Services. Small business accounting, payroll & gov/t filings. Chuck Downs, 95 Aspen Cres. Elmira. 519669-1498, cell 519-5691744. >>House Sitter Available for Snowbirds in Elmira.

Non-smoker, retired business professional.

Very responsible, reliable, respectful of people’s belongings. Available for 1-6 months. References available.

Email: dziner2003@rogers.com or 1-647-987-8776.

fun at meet the teacher night at Conestogo Public School on Sept. 16. Hadley Mustakas (left) and Danny Schaefer (middle) get their faces painted, while Jaden Rundstedler tries her hand at mini-putt.

PHOTOS

A FUN StARt tO thE YEAR Children and parents alike came out to enjoy the fall fair

» JAMES JACKSON

>>Welcome To Grant’s Hands On Therapy. Gentle touch or deep muscle treatments, WANtEd tO BUY excellent for recent injuries or >>Wanted - 6ft used long term ailments. Call 519snowblower, single auger, 577-3251. Grant Brubacher, reasonable. Call 519-884- Certified Deep Muscle Therapist.

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WOOLWICH MEMORIAL CENTRE Fitness Centre Open House Join us at the WMC on Monday October 4th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm And 7:00 to 9:00 pm for a Fitness Centre Open House Come out, have a tour of the facility and take some time asking our expert trainers all of your Fitness Questions.

There will be a variety of draw prizes as well as a chance to Win a free 1 month Fitness Membership Fitness Centre 519 669-1647 x 7011

MUNICIPAL ELECTION WORKERS NEEDED! The Township requires election workers for the Breslau and Maryhill areas as well as spares to work the Municipal Election on Monday, October 25, 2010. To be eligible to work you must be able to attend one of the training sessions scheduled on October 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. and October 20, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at the Township Administration Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira in the Council Chambers, 2nd Floor.

If you are interested in working the Municipal Election please contact the Township office at (519) 669-6009 to obtain an application form.

NOTICE OF WATERMAIN FLUSHING OPERATION The Township of Woolwich will be engaging in a watermain flushing program from Monday October 4th, 2010 to Friday October 8th, 2010 And again from Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 to Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Watermain flushing is performed at this time of low water usage to minimize its impact on water service. Please refrain from using excessive amounts of water during this time period (i.e. doing laundry, using the dishwasher, etc.)

DIDN’T RECEIVE A BILL? Non-receipt of a tax bill does not waive your obligation to pay and you may incur a penalty. If you did not receive a bill, contact the Tax Collector as soon as possible at (519) 669-6016.

The flushing process may cause discoloured water and a reduction in pressure. It should be noted that both of these conditions are temporary and not harmful. If discolouration occurs, open a cold, hard water tap in the basement until the water runs clear before resuming regular consumption. In some situation this may take 5 to 10 minutes. If, however, either of these conditions persist, please contact Roy Garbotz, Water and Wastewater Supervisor at 519-669-6045 or 519-6642613 ext. 6045 or Cynthia Lean-Martin, Administrative Assistant at 519-669-6041 or 519-664-2613 ext. 6041

Marion Pollard, CMTC (A) Manager of Revenue/Tax Collector

The Township of Woolwich appreciates your patience as we work to improve the quality of drinking water throughout the Township.

THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF 2010 FINAL PROPERTY TAXES IS DUE FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 2010 SUPPLEMENTARY TAX DUE DATE OCTOBER 29, 2010 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BUILDING ALERT: If you have been paying taxes on land only, you may be subject to a Supplementary Tax Bill later this year.

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2010 MUNICIPAL ELECTION Election Day is October 25, 2010 between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. You are entitled to vote for Mayor, Regional Chair, Municipal Councillors and French Public School Board Trustee.

Some residents are also eligible to vote for the Fluoridation Question.

Advance Vote #2

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Township of Woolwich Administration Building - 1st Floor 24 Church Street West, Elmira

NEW FOR 2010!

Advance Vote #3

Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Breslau Community Centre - Fire Place Room 200 Woolwich Street, Breslau

Voter Identifi cation Requirements Voters voting at a voting place must show ID prior to obtaining a ballot.

Each of the following options is prescribed as the proof of identify and residence that a person may present for the purposes of subparagraph 52 (1) 1 ii of the Municipal Elections Act: Option 1: An original copy of a document, if the document shows the person’s name, qualifying address and signature. (example: Ontario Driver’s license or Ontario Health Card (photo card) Option 2: An original copy of a document, if the document shows the person’s name and signature, presented together with an original copy of another document, if the document shows the person’s name and qualifying address. (example: Canadian Passport and Property Tax Assessment Notice or Certifi cate of Canadian Citizenship and a utility bill for hydro, water, gas, telephone or cable TV) Family Friendly Voting Locations Please note that children are welcome to accompany you at the Township’s poll locations.

If you are not available to vote on Election Day you can vote at one of the Advance Voting Days, which are: Advance Vote #1

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Woolwich Memorial Centre - Community Room 24 Snyder Avenue South, Elmira

Find out if you are on the Voter’s List The Preliminary List of Electors for the Township of Woolwich, indicating the names of those persons entitled to vote at the Municipal Elections, is currently available for review upon request at the following locations: • Township of Woolwich Municipal Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira • Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Ave S., Elmira • Elmira Library, 65 Arthur Street South, Elmira • St. Jacobs Library, 29 Queenway Drive, St. Jacobs • Bloomingdale Library, 680 Sawmill Road, Bloomingdale (rear of Bloomingdale United Church) You may also contact the Municipal office by phone at (519) 669-6009 to find out if you are on the Voters’ list.

Applications for inclusions, additions, corrections to, or deletions from the list may be made by an elector by completing and filing a form available at the Office of the Clerk, 24 Church Street West, Elmira during regular office hours, Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 18, 2010 On Monday, October 18, 2010, at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Offices, 24 Church Street West, Elmira to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson at 519-669-6040 or 519-664-2613 (ext. 6040) regarding meeting details. Email: nthompson@woolwich.ca.

The Committee will also consider signed, written submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Submissions can be forwarded by mail or hand delivery to: Township of Woolwich, Attn: Jeremy Vink, P.O. Box 158, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6 or Fax 519-669-4669 or Email jvink@woolwich.ca.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A21/2010 – Martin Hagen PROPERTY: 158 Woolwich Street South, Breslau, GCT Part Lot 115 PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to: • recognize the existing reduced lot frontage of approximately 25 metres, whereas 30 metres is required; • recognize the existing reduced lot width of approximately 25 metres, whereas 30 metres is required; and • recognize the existing reduced side yard setback of approximately 1.1 metres whereas 1.2 metres is required; in order to permit a 173 square metre addition to the existing single family dwelling.

The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and contains a single family dwelling and accessory building. The attached garage and frame shed are proposed to be demolished and replaced by the addition.

Further information about the applications may be obtained from Engineering and Planning Services at 519669-6038 or 519-664-2613 (Ext. 6038).

DATED this 2nd day of October, 2010 Jeremy Vink, RPP, MCIP Senior Planner Engineering & Planning Services

MUNICIPAL ELECTION NOTICE AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL) INTERPRETER SERVICE AVAILABLE AT ADVANCE POLLS Election Day is October 25th. Electors who cannot make it to their Poll on Election Day can vote at any one of the three Advance Polls that the Township is holding before Election Day. As a service to residents who communicate using American Sign Language (ASL), the Township is providing an ASL Interpreter at the following locations to provide assistance if needed: Thursday, October 7th Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Avenue South, Elmira In the Community Room ASL Interpreter will be available: 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Advance Poll Regular Hours: 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Friday, October 15th Township of Woolwich Municipal Office, 24 Church Street West, Elmira Main Floor ASL Interpreter will be available: 2:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Advance Poll Regular Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 16th Breslau Community Centre (Fireplace Room) 200 Woolwich Street South, Breslau ASL Interpreter will be available: To Be Determined Advance Poll Regular Hours: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The ASL Interpreter will only be available at the dates and times shown above.

The Interpreter service will not be available on Election Day, October 25th.

If you need additional information on this service or have comments about the provision of the service, please contact the Township’s Accessibility Coordinator at vhummel@woolwich.ca.

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At the amusement park, too much round-and-round riding is starting to make you feel queasy.

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12 were parents, caregivers, other relatives or caregivers.

Others mentioned by the victims included teachers, neighbors, doctors and parents’ friend/coworker.

Dyer would probably find it difficult to explain how not one of those victims in the survey mentioned Catholic priest.

Dr. Charol Shakeshaft, who penned a report on sexual misconduct for the U.S. Department of Education, has been quoted by CBS News as stating “the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.” The fact that sexual abuse of children should happen at all is a horrific fact, but to paint priests in this manner is grossly unfair when the overwhelming majority are innocent of such charges.

Dyer then attacks Pope Pius XII for helping the Nazis, as if this were a historical fact, ignoring the great deal of scholarly work examining this issue. Again, even a quick read of the literature reveals that scholars are still debating this topic and for Dyer to make this statement as a historical fact is irresponsible.

Finally, Dyer totally jumps into left field by claiming that Benedict and many other leaders of religion believe that “only fear of God makes people behave morally.” I

defy Dyer to find this in the catechism of any faith. The catechism of the Catholic Church does not state this. Protestant churches, through Sola Fide, would vehemently deny this. I suspect almost all world religions would disagree with Dyer.

Again, Dyer does not cite any sources, for the simple reason that there is none. In fact, Dyer further claims that “Religion does not make people behave better; It makes them behave worse …

The more religious a particular society or region is, the more of that sort of stuff happens.”

He then quotes Gregory Paul, whose work has been questioned by many reputable scholars.

Gregory Paul, by the way, is a paleontologist, not a sociologist, by training.

A n t i - C at h o l i c i s m , and anti-Christianity as a whole, appears to be the last bias that the media allows to be printed without needing to be checked for facts. It is a shame that the Observer, which I highly regard as a newspaper, has chosen to print Mr. Dyer’s poorly researched and inflammatory column. Perhaps there is a reason why Mr. Dyer’s column has been slowly discontinued in papers across Canada. I urge the entire Observer’s readership to go to the sources and decide for themselves whether any of Mr. Dyer’s article has merit.

>>David Wang, Elmira

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FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

Happy 60 Anniversary th

Edgar & Rebecca Martin

ANNIVERSARY

Happy 60 Anniversary th

Vern & Gerrie Porter

ANNIVERSARY

Happy 40 Anniversary th

Mom & Dad

We are celebrating on

Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 with an Open House from 3-5 p.m. at Wallenstein Bible Chapel.

Best wishes only With Love: Your Family

Otto & Sue Plein

Oct. 7, 2010

Love your family WEddING

BIRthdAY

October 3, 1970 Love, Chris & Sarah Plein, Matt & Melissa Guerin & your 5 grandchildren

StAG N’ dOE

Stag & Doe

Happy 80th Birthday

Joel Rickford & Alyssa Flood

Bernice Metzger

Happy 50th Anniversary Peter & Margaret Metzger October 1, 1960

Congratulations on reaching this milestone!

You’ve shown all of us the true meaning of love and commitment. Your love and devotion to each other, your family, and your community is truly inspirational.

Much Love Always ~ Your Family and Friends

REUNION

RITTER REUNION October 17, 2010 at St. Jacobs Community Centre

For further information contact Alethea 519-780-5496 CARdS OF thANKS

Their family is pleased to invite everyone to an

OPEN HOUSE

Oct. 9, from 1:30-4:30pm at Elmira Legion.

The parents of Melanie Downey and Aaron Livings are pleased to announce their marriage.

The wedding took place in a beautiful outdoor ceremony in Jasper, Alberta on Sept. 10, 2010.

Best Wishes CARdS OF thANKS

Card of Thanks

Saturday, October 9th, 2010 8pm-1am Elmira Lions Hall 40 South Street West, Elmira Come join us for a night full of fun!

Games, dinner, raffles, and lots of dancing!

Tickets: $10/person available at the door or call 519-616-7174.

Thank You

A very special thank you to our children, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, families wedding party for making our 50th anniversary a special occasion, also our many friends & neighbours, family from Nova Scotia.

We thank you for the many cards & gifts.

Perc & Joyce dEAth NOtICES

Lending a tidy hand

>>BASt, Anna Mae – Anna Mae Bast, 84, formerly of Akron, Pennsylvania, entered into rest at Maple Farm Nursing Center , on Tuesday, September 14, 2010. She was born in Wellesley, Ontario.

Devries

>>BRUBAChER, Sarah (Mrs. Melvin B.) – Surrounded by her loving family, Sarah passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at Grand Reiver Hospital in her 71st year, of Elmira.

» JAMES JACKSON

Please continue to pray for our family as we daily live our lives remembering Andy, Dad & Grampa in so many small ways. He is and absolutely will be missed. Praise God for eternal life. Lucy Devries, David & Sandra, Matthew & Melissa, Stephen & Kahley & families.

>>BAUMAN, Aden h. – Passed away in Elmira on Thursday, September 23, 2010, at the age of 82.

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Please accept our deepest and most heart felt thanks to all of you. We’ve felt your prayers, held your hands, received your hugs, listened to your kind words of sympathy and encouragement and so much more. As a family we will never forget the sincere love and devotion we have received from you over the last 2 & 1/2 years. We are especially thankful for the care Andy has received over the past years from Dr. Neable, Dr. Omole, Dr. Boutell and nurses at LMH and Grand River Cancer Clinic. We are truly grateful for the love, support and tender care from the CCAC nurses, Adrianna, Carol-Ann and Teresa, we are truly blessed with having you in our lives. To our friends and neighbours in the Briton area, thank you for the beautiful Sunburst Locust Tree, it will be a reminder of Andy’s bright and positive outlook on life. Our church family at Woodside Bible Fellowship, Pastor Dan, the praise team for the wonderful celebration of Life and Faith for Andy. The ladies who served the wonderful luncheon, thank you. To Monty, Dan & Grace at Dreisinger Funeral Home for your caring and professional help through this difficult time. To everyone else for the food, flowers, cards and donation to Youth for Christ, your thoughtfulness is very much appreciated.

LIONS SERVE Erik Westermann (left) and Dennis Lougheed were part of a group of St. Jacobs Lions Club members who took to the road Sept. 18 to clean up garbage along Sawmill Road between the roundabout and Conestogo.

>>MARtIN, Urias M. – Peacefully on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at Listowel Memorial Hosptial, Urias M. Martin, in his 80th year, formerly of Floradale. >>PERKES,

Brenda, diane (nee Zettler) – Passed away on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at Sunnyside Home at the age of 50 with her family by her side.

Local relatives are her daughter Mallory Martin and her husband Derek of Elmira.

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COMMUNItY EVENtS CALENdAR “A GOOD JOB DONE EVERY TIME”

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Cell: 519.581.7868

2204 Floradale Road, Floradale

Truck & Trailer Maintenance

BUILdING dESIGN

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dEAth NOtICES PERKES, Brenda Diane (nee Zettler): Passed away Sunday, September 26, 2010 at Sunnyside Home at the age of 50 with her family by her side. Cherished mother of Dr. Christopher Perkes of Toronto and Mallory Martin (Derek) of Elmira. Beloved daughter of Helen Zettler and the late Gerald (2004). Dear sister of Barry Zettler of Elliott Lake, Sharon Jacquot (Henri) of Kitchener, Bryan Zettler (Cat) of Hamilton and Jason of Kitchener. Brenda will be fondly remembered by former husband Robert Perkes. Also missed by many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles.

Brenda’s family received relatives and friends on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 pm at the Henry Wasler Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener, 519-749-8467. Prayers were offered at 8:30 pm Tuesday evening. A funeral service was held in the chapel on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:00 am followed by a reception. Cremation. A memorial mass was held at St. Annes’ R.C. Church (268 East Ave., Kitchener) on Friday, October 1, 2010 at 10:00 am with Fr. Mark Sullivan officiating. As expressions of sympathy, donations to Sunnyside Home Foundation would be appreciated by the family in recognition of the loving care they provided for Brendas at Pioneer Tower (cards available at the funeral home).

Visit www.henrywalser.com for Brenda’s memorial.

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>>Chip n’ Dip Book Club is for 10-12 year olds and is held the

>>Tom Howell’s Fish Fry at St. last Tuesday of the month from Teresa of Avila Parish Hall, 19 Flamingo Dr. Elmira. Two sittings 5 & 6:30 p.m. Adults $14, children (ages 5-12) $6; children under 6 free. Advanced tickets can be purchased at the Church Office (519-669-3387) from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Monday to Friday until Sept.

29.

>>Revelations Quartet 7 p.m.

Music with a strong gospel message and an evening with an abundance of laughter. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, 400 Northfield Dr. W. 519-888-7870.

>>Park Manor P.S School’s 10th

Annual Magazine Fundraising Campaign. Students of Park manor School are once again offering magazine subscriptions (new or renewals) as their main fundraising inititative. The monies raised help fund several in-school programs, offset the expenses of off campus activities, update our reading programs and so much more. Should you wish to place an order, please contact either a Park Manor student or call Valerie at 519-669-4708.

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7-7:45 p.m. Ask library staff for details. Space is limited. For more information call the Wellesley Branch of the Region of Waterloo Library at 519-656-2001.

>>BNI,

Business Networking International K-W chapter guest speaker, Dr. Elsie Frickey, Chiropractor. East Side Marios, 450 King St. N.,Waterloo 11:30 – 1 p.m. Guests Welcome. For more information contact rreed@ barrycullen.com

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>>Storytime for children ages

3-5 at Linwood Branch of Region of Waterloo Library. A story time program for children 3 to 5 years old.

Join us for stories and fun activities on Thursday afternoons from 2-2:45 p.m. starting Oct. 7. Space is limited. For more information call or visit the library 519-698-2700.

>>Health Education Series 10:45-

11:45 Topic: Substituting ‘good” fats for “bad” fats in cooking and baking. Presented by Karen Reitzel, Registered Dietitian. No registration required. Free event. Woolwich Community Health Centre.

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Elmira & Surrounding Area

>>Caregiver Coffee Hour at >>H.U.G.S Program 9:15-11:45 Chateau Gardens from 10-11:30 a.m.

Topic: Communication Strategies – presented by Cara from the Alzheimer’s Society. For more information call Cara at 519742-1422 or Lorraine at 519-6643794.

a.m. For parents and their children (0-5 yr). Topic: Talking clearly. How to recognize he need for speech therapy and where to go for help.

Presented by Laurie Wiseman for Kidsability. Woolwich Community Health Centre, 519-664-3794.

3-5 at St. Clements Branch of Region of Waterloo Library. A storytime program for children 3 to 5 years old. Join us for stories and fun activities on Wednesday afternoons from 1:45-2:30 p.m. starting Oct. 6 or Thursday mornings from 9:30- 10:15 a.m. starting Oct. 7. Space is limited.

For more information call or visit the library 519-699-4341.

>>Children’s

Programs at Wellesley Brand of the Region of Waterloo Library. Toddler tales for children 24-36 months held Wednesday mornings 9:30-10:15 a.m. starting Oct. 6.

>>Storytime is for children ages

3 – 5 held Wednesday mornings 10:45-11:30 a.m. starting October 6 or Thursday afternoons 2-2:45 p.m. starting Oct. 7.

SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763

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>>Storytime for children ages >>Come Read With Me – 6:45-7:30

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p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. An evening family storytime program recommended for patrens/ caregivers and children 3-7 years old. Join us Thursday evenings.

Read, play games and learn about literacy in fun ways. Drop in! It’s free! For more information call the Elmira Branch Library 519-6695477.

519.669.2884 Summer is Here!

21 Industrial Dr., Elmira

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>>Canadian Bible Society Gospel

Sing – Fri. Oct. 15 with “Rescue Junction” & “Schwartz Family Ministries.” Sat., Oct. 16 with “Schwartz Family Ministries” & “Watchman Quartet.” Woodside Bible Chapel, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira. No tickets required. Freewill offering. For more information: Gladys at 519-669-1292.

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