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ELECTRONIC VOTING FACES SOME TOUGH QUESTIONS

Elmira’s Maureen Phillips named Oktoberfest Volunteer of the Year

ELECTION / WOOLWICH

VERONICA REINER YOU MAY NOT THINK of it while you’re doing the chicken dance, but the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest would not be possible without the hard work of hundreds of volunteers.

Among that group, Elmira’s Maureen Phillips is a standout, presented at this 50th anniversary outing with the organization’s Volunteer of the Year Award, an honour she shared with fellow recipient Marjorie Wood.

“It’s quite the surprise, I didn’t know I was getting it,” said Phillips of her reaction to the news. “It’s just an honour; it’s prestigious.

I mean, I was shocked.”

Phillips was nominated by the chair of the A Blooming Affair fashion show, Tara Hebblethwaite.

Hebblethwaite took measures to ensure that the award came as a complete surprise to her friend.

“I was aware of the award, about how every year they put the winner in a magazine,” said Phillips. “[Hebblethwaite] had kept everything under wraps.

She said ‘come to the president’s luncheon’ at the Waterloo Inn about a week ago. She hid a brochure on

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Elmira resident Maureen Phillips was named a Volunteer of the Year by Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, taking home a plaque, a bierfest mug with her name engraved on it, and a recognition in the president’s invitational luncheon brochure. She has been volunteering at with the organization for the past 20 years.

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Woolwich welcomes two new councillors to the table Scott McMillan in Ward 1 and Fred Redekop in Ward 2 will join Council FAISAL ALI

the table because it had my picture in it, and she wanted to make it a surprise.”

Hebblethwaite was also the recipient of an award

herself this year, claiming one of the Woman of the Year achievements. The award ceremony is presented at the presidential lun-

cheon every time, which took place on October 11 for 2018. KW Oktoberfest has OKTOBERFEST | 5

AFTER AN ELECTION BESET by last-minute delays and uncertainties, the Township of Woolwich finally has an outcome for its municipal election – 24 hours later than expected.

In Ward 1 (Elmira), which has two seats on Woolwich council, incumbent Patrick Merlihan will be joined by newcomer Scott McMillan. Ward 2 will see Fred Redekop take over the position from long-time councillor Mark Bauman, who is retiring at the end of this term.

“I’m really happy,” said McMillan, shortly after the results were announced.

Though a newcomer to the council, McMillan previously served as a local trustee and chair for the Waterloo Region District School Board. “You know, it’s a long campaign, and it’s a lot of work, and de-

laying the announcement of the results kind of just heightened the suspense.

So it’s a big relief, and I’m really excited.”

McMillan claimed the largest share of votes in the township’s most populous ward, winning 1,997 of the near-5,000 ballots cast in Elmira. Incumbent Merlihan won his second term in office with 1,665 votes.

Placing third and thus forfeiting her seat at the table was incumbent Julie-Anne Herteis with 1,336 votes.

Herteis, who previously served as Woolwich councillor from 2010 to 2014, stepped into the Ward 1 seat again earlier this year after the resignation of councillor Scott Hahn.

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ELECTION / WELLESLEY

Election sees all incumbents return to Wellesley council Mayor Joe Nowak edges first-time challenger Bernia Wheaton by just 23 votes; two councillors also win, two acclaimed VERONICA REINER WELLESLEY’S GOVERNING BODY WILL have a very familiar look, as all of the incumbents have been returned to office.

Joe Nowak held onto his seat in a very tight battle for the mayoralty, edging challenger Bernia Wheaton by just 23 votes.

In Ward 2, Herb Neher will be back after taking 150 votes to Mark Witmer’s 84.

Ward 3 incumbent Peter van der Maas faced three challengers, coming out on top with 593 ballots cast in his favour. That was followed

by Joyce Barker at 433, Grant Kingsbury with 338 and Philip Morris, who had dropped out earlier, at 27.

Ward 1’s Shelley Wagner and Ward 4’s Carl Smith

already knew they’d be returning, having been acclaimed.

“I’m pleased obviously, it’s humbling to have that number of supporters out there,” said Nowak after the results had been announced. “I think we had a very positive campaign. I’m just very humbled.”

Nowak received 1,271 votes to Wheaton’s 1,248 when the final tally came in Tuesday night, 24 hours later than expected due to technical problems with the online voting system.

The incumbent said his first order of business is to look at the township’s mix of housing.

“We need a little bit more diverse housing stock. We need entry level; we need seniors. I think each of the

communities has that same challenge,” he said, noting the issue will be part of the Region of Waterloo’s review of its official plan, an overarching planning document.

“It’s already started, so I’m looking forward to being a part of that. Hopefully, we can convince them that they should look at some of their communities and see how we can work together to address those shortfalls.”

One thing that both mayoral candidates agreed upon was the noticeable increase of community interest in the municipal election. Nowak and Wheaton said they spent plenty of time speaking to residents about township issues.

“What I feel like is people were paying attention in this election,” said Whea-

ton. “People were asking the questions. I feel like we ran a solid campaign. We worked hard; we had a lot of support, people asked questions. I would spend two hours a night responding to texts, Facebook messages, emails, people asking the questions that needed to be asked.”

“I did knock on an awful lot of doors,” added Nowak.

“And what I heard at the doors was a very positive response to some of the work we’ve been doing in the past. They wanted to spend more time actually talking.

I would easily spend 15, 20 minutes with some of the folks out there. They shared their vision, and I shared my vision, and for the most part, they were very similar.”

Taking the loss in stride,

Wheaton expressed her desire to run for a political position in the future.

“I truly have enjoyed meeting people, even knocking on doors – it’s hard work,” said Wheaton with a laugh. “But I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve enjoyed how receptive people have been.

That was one non-regret is to savour the moment all the way through and appreciate the opportunity and support that I had along the way to do it.”

These results come a day later than initially planned due to technical issues that occurred on Monday night at around 6 p.m. The online voting service operated by Dominion Voting System began experiencing difficulties accepting votes around this time, resulting in the

No such thing as a bridge too far

township extending the voting until Tuesday at 8 p.m.

The delay surprised both township staff and residents, a minor malfunction in their first-ever paperless, online election. Woolwich experienced similar difficulties, as did some 50 other municipalities.

Though the delay forced candidates to wait another day for the results, most took in it stride.

“I think the company did the right thing with the extension,” said Nowak. “I think the system worked well other than that glitch. I think we know what caused it; we just need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

For more details about election results, see the township’s website, www. wellesley.ca.

Group of Chartwell card players get their regular game on track via the Waterloo Central Railway VERONICA REINER A CLASSIC CARD GAME stirs up fond memories for seniors Harry Stewart and Betty Brown. They’ve continued a tradition of playing a weekly game of bridge in the games room of Chartwell Elmira Retirement Residence for the past two years. Last week, however, they took the game on the road with the Waterloo Central Railway in St. Jacobs.

“I used to play bridge on the train in 1951,” said Stewart. “I’ll tell you one thing, it’s the best game in the world.”

“Harry was on the train from Toronto to Vancouver back in 1951,” explained Jeff Beatty, who works in maintenance at Chartwell and joins in the tradition.

“He didn’t know anything about bridge, but some of the other players on the train needed a fourth because you need to have four players. So Harry offered to play. And they

played day and night from Toronto to Vancouver for three days. They only got a couple of hours of sleep.”

For last Thursday’s outing, they were joined by Carla Schott, who also works at Chartwell. Their passion for the game inspired her.

“I played bridge in Grade 7 and liked it, but never played again,” said Schott.

“I started up again when I heard these guys were playing I thought, ‘oh, maybe I should try that.’”

The trip was arranged in celebration of Stewart’s birthday, with both Brown and Stewart now being octogenarians.

“We were thinking of decorating the games room where we normally play, but it’d be much more difficult to make it look like a railroad car,” said Beatty.

“So we came up with the idea of ‘let’s just take a real train and do it!’ So that’s how it came about.”

The setting was also particularly special to Brown,

Chartwell seniors and workers took their two-year bridge tradition to the Waterloo Central Railway last week. Players pictured are Carla Schott, Betty Brown, Harry Stewart and Jeff Beatty.

[VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] in the 1930s. story during our game.” she has many fond memowho has a particular fond“Nobody knows much Bridge is a trick-taking ries of train experiences. ness for trains that dates about the game,” said Becard game that uses a stanEven going back to when back decades. atty with a laugh. “Three dard 52-card deck played the troops were going to “Betty was the real train of us here have got 50+ war. They would wait on the where four players in two fanatic,” said Beatty. “She years of experience playing divided partnerships aim platform and wave to the used to live in Belleville; bridge, and we still don’t to win as many tricks as everybody in Belleville used troops and hand out cigapossible. It became popular know anything about it.” rettes. She recanted that to work for the railroad. So

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Voting system bogs down in townships hours before polls close, forcing extension FAISAL ALI A FAIRLY BY-THE-NUMBERS MUNICIPAL election was through dramatically off kilter in the townships, after the exclusively electronic system used by both Woolwich and Wellesley suffered severe slowdowns hours before polls were set to close on Monday.

The unexpected delay forced both townships to extend voting by an additional 24 hours, as hundreds of voters were reportedly unable to cast

their ballots through the internet-based system used by both municipalities.

The resulting delay held up not only the final count of the politicians within the townships themselves by 24 hours, but also the election of the regional chair, which is chosen by residents across the Waterloo Region, in all three cities and four townships.

The system crash, which began around approximately 6 p.m. on Monday, just two hours before polls closed, caught municipal

staff and candidates alike by surprise. Shortly after 7 p.m., the decision was made to extend voting in Woolwich by 24 hours, and Wellesley similarly followed suit.

“I haven’t even connected with the regional clerk yet, but my assumption is they will hold the results until they get ours. I don’t know. It’s too soon,” said Woolwich Township clerk Val Hummel on Monday, minutes after the decision was made to extend the voting period. “I’m only 10 minutes into this decision,

so I don’t know yet what they’re going to do. They have been notified.”

By Tuesday morning, the Region of Waterloo said it would delay calling the election for chair until after the votes from Woolwich and Wellesley had been counted. The final results, released Tuesday at approximately 8:15 p.m., just after the polls closed, saw candidate Karen Redman win by a large margin over her three opponents.

The problem was not just unique to the town-

ships, however, but reportedly affected multiple municipalities in Ontario relying on the same voting service, provided by Dominion Voting Systems.

According to a media statement by the company, approximately 51 municipalities across Ontario had been affected by the system malfunctions.

The issue was blamed on an “unauthorized” limit being placed on the voting system’s bandwidth by a Toronto-based internet colocation provider, slowing down the system to a

crawl for voters attempting to cast their ballots.

The slow speeds caused voters’ browsers to time out before the voting process could be properly completed.

“Our company was unaware of this issue until our municipal customers and their voters reached out to us for assistance, or to share complaints,” said Dominion Voting Systems, in a statement.

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ELECTION / WELLESLEY

Hospital offload delays jump 57% in WaterlooWellington

Bottlenecks continue to put strain on paramedic services in region; delays come amidst rising demand FAISAL ALI HOSPITALS CONTINUED TO BE a major bottleneck for ambulances in the Waterloo Region, according to a new report by region’s public health and emergency services department. Between January and August of this year, offload delays – the amount of time spent by paramedics waiting to turnover their patients at the hospital – rose another 57 per cent in the Waterloo-Wellington area.

The delays put a major strain on the region’s already tightly stretched emergency services, which have only just kept up with rising demand in the region.

“That’s a continuing issue. Actually, last year we had a 102 per cent increase [in offload delays]. So this

is just a continuous rise in offload delay within the system,” said Stephen Van Valkenburg, chief of paramedic services for the region.

On average, the region’s ambulances lost a combined 22 days per month waiting at the hospital to offload their patients. That was up from 14 days in 2017 over the same period.

Put another way, almost a month-worth of ambulance services was spent delayed at the hospital.

“We’re really sort of at the mercy at the hospitals - if they can’t accept a patient, we can’t just dump the patient and walk away.

We have to stay with them in the hallway until they can actually take over the patient,” Van Valkenburg explains.

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With a blood drive in the name of their daughter Ella, seen here with mom Kristen and brother Cameron, the Dorschts are looking to reverse a trend in the number of blood donors in Elmira.

They’ll be taking part in a blood drive tomorrow (Friday) at Lions Hall.

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Dorscht family continues to pay it forward with latest blood drive VERONICA REINER The Dorscht family is continuing a five-year tradition to raise awareness for blood donations, something Elmira has been falling behind on as of late.

Kristen and Nick Dorscht are adopting the blood clinic at the Elmira Lions Hall on Friday in honour of their daughter,

Ella, who was born with a heart defect called pulmonary hypertension. As a baby, Ella had to undergo open heart surgery and used more than 50 units of blood.

“We’ve collected about 400 units so far in Ella’s name,” said Kristen Dorscht. “Our initial goal when we started was to get 50 because Ella had used

at least 50 as a baby, so we wanted to put back into the system what we had used.

But we’ve really surpassed that. And even though we’ve put back in the system what we’ve used, the need never goes away. “ Over the past five years, there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of blood donations in Elmira.

There was a monthly aver-

age of 132 units back in 2013, down to only 94 units in 2017. One unit is 488 millilitres of blood.

“Donations have really been down over the past couple of years,” said Tara Gutscher of Canadian Blood Services. “We’re hoping with the help of Ella’s family adopting the BLOOD DRIVE | 4

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tem load issue posed for both election officials and voters alike in today’s elections... We want to assure Ontario voters that we will work to ensure this problem does not occur in future elections. It is important to note that at no time was the integrity of the system at risk of compromise, or in any way insecure.”

Both the Townships of Woolwich and Wellesley had contracted Domin-

ion’s voting service for a cost based on the number of voters registered in each municipality.

For Woolwich, the cost was given as $1.50 per registered voter, for an estimated $28,350, based on an approximate 18,900 electors. The Township of Wellesley had agreed a price of $1.65 per eligible elector.

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The hospitals in turn are at the mercy of the prevailing health demands of Ontario residents, as well as the management practices of the province.

“The increase in offload delays is due to an increase in surge rates at our local hospitals. This surge in EMS (emergency medical service) has been seen across Ontario and is putting pressure on many Paramedic Services,” said a spokesperson for the Waterloo-Wellington Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN). The WaterlooWellington LHIN operates hospitals in the area under the direction of the provincial government.

“There are numerous factors causing this, including an aging population, increasing complexity of health issues

in the community, and individual’s choice to call 911 and request Paramedic transport to hospital.”

The region did see a slight improvement this year in paramedics response time, which increased on average ten seconds for the region. However, the improvement is not nearly commensurate with the number of ambulances that have been added to the region’s fleet in recent years. In February of this year, two new 12hour ambulances were put into service. Another three ambulances were added to the region’s fleet in July of last year and two more the year before that.

“It’s a bit of a vicious circle for us, that we add resources on when [regional] council approves resources, and we certainly don’t want them caught up in the vortex of offload

delay. We have modified our deployment plan, and we’ve really done as much as we can to try and create efficiency within the system,” said Van Valkenburg.

While ambulances and hospitals have similar roles in healthcare, the two are managed under by different levels of government.

The region handles the responsibility for emergency services and ambulances while the province operates the hospitals through the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).

“We do have the offload nurse program which is in effect, but that’s a band-aid solution for a much bigger system issue,” he says. “So we look to the government and the hospitals to figure out what they’re going to do on this... We’ve become caught up in the offload delay situation because of

the systemic issues in the hospital.”

The province has pledged to end “hallway medicine” and curb delays in offloading patients at hospitals, which Van Valkenburg says have been affecting municipalities throughout the province.

“There has been some advocacy on behalf of regional council towards the ministry, to increase the offload funding to our hospitals, and I’m sure there’s going to be some more advocacy with the result of the report,” said Van Valkenburg.

“But this is not just a regional issue here –it’s across the province, it’s across Canada. It’s a big issue, and as bad as our situation seems, there’s other municipalities that are five-times what we are.

So it’s a huge healthcare issue.”

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clinic that it will really bring some new folks in to donate, and help us save some lives.”

A person can donate blood every three months, to allow the body to restore its iron stock. The blood donated on Friday does not go directly to Ella, as she does not require any blood transfusions at this time.

It will go to whoever is in need.

While her condition cannot be cured entirely, Ella has experienced some positive changes since last year.

“Ella has been on oxygen

24/7 ever since she was a baby,” explained Dorscht.

“And this summer they’ve started trialing her on oxygen just at night. And that has made life wonderful for her. So she’s had a wonderful summer. She’s had a wonderful start to the school year. She loves the freedom, for sure. It’s a life-changing step for her.”

Not having to wear the oxygen at school has given her a fresh start to the school year. It allows her to pursue activities like bike riding and swimming with ease. Furthermore, a teacher is not required to follow her at recess with the oxygen.

This all came about when Ella was running around with excess energy in the doctor’s office waiting room.

“We were at our regular appointment at Sick Kids,” said Dorscht. “And she was running around the room like crazy. We were in the waiting room for hours and hours, and she just had the energy to burn. She was literally running laps with her brother.

“The doctors asked if she always had this much energy, and we told them, yes she does. So they suggested that we take off her oxygen in the meantime.

Because a kid with that

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We’ll keep her on the oxygen at night because you benefit from using it while you’re resting. It makes your heart work less hard.”

The blood drive will take place on October 26 from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 40 South St. W. There will be draw for prizes as part of the day’s activities.

“People can walk in or can make an appointment beforehand; it’s really what works best for them,” added Gutscher.

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said Herteis, after the results were called. Whether Herteis would consider running again in the next election she said was uncertain.

“That’s four years down the road. You never know what happens in life, right?

Life happens. Life happens when you make other plans,” she said.

First elected in 2014, Merlihan is returning for a second term.

“I feel great. I’m quite pleased with the result,” he said. “It’s kind of being invigorated for the next term. I had some initiatives that I wanted to champion, seniors’ housing being one of the cornerstone ones that came up during the election. And I kind of feel validated to continue working for Ward 1 residents.”

In Ward 2, which encompasses the northern half of the township, including the communities of Floradale, Heidelberg and St. Jacobs, but excluding Elmira, Fred Redekop emerged from the vote victorious. The firsttime candidate claimed 631 votes, ahead of his only opponent, Eric Schwindt, who garnered 469 votes.

Redekop, currently a resident of Elmira, previously lived in Floradale, where he also worked for many years as the pastor of Floradale Mennonite Church.

Rounding out the remaining members of Woolwich council are Mayor Sandy Shantz, and Ward 3 councillors Murray Martin and Larry Shantz, all of whom ran unopposed and were acclaimed to their positions.

With the election over, attentions are soon bound

to turn to the new electronic voting system that ran into technical problems on Monday, election day.

The service, provided by Dominion Voting Systems, experienced severe slowdowns just hours before polls were set to close on Monday, preventing voters from casting their ballots and forcing the election period to be extended an additional 24 hours in Woolwich and neighbouring Wellesley Township.

The malfunction was not exclusive to the area, however, but instead was reportedly experienced by 51 municipalities across the province that chose to use the Dominion system.

“Well, I was disappointed that the online elections were extended because of these issues,” said Merlihan. “I didn’t support online voting back when the

township decided to go this route, specifically for these types of concerns. And I would support going back to paper ballots in future elections.”

McMillan, too, was critical of the electronic voting system, saying a review was needed.

“It’s just too bad. I mean obviously we need to have a full report from Dominion to know exactly what went on. But I think most importantly we’ve got to tip our hats to the Woolwich Township staff. This was not their doing,” he said.

“It was a break-down on [Dominion’s] end, so hats off to the Township staff that worked through this the last 24 hours.

“We’ve got to find out what happened, and then make the appropriate decisions going forward after that,” he added.

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THE OBSERVER | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018

Museum to be named for Seiling Waterloo Region Museum will be renamed the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum in honour of the municipality’s longest-serving chair of 33 years.

The announcement and dedication was made Sunday night at a tribute event for the retiring chair. Regional council is expected to make it official at its November 14 meeting.

Community members that formed the Ken Seiling Recognition Committee

unanimously agreed that renaming the Waterloo Region Museum would be the most appropriate form of recognition given Seiling’s local heritage interest and his support of heritage preservation initiatives, according to a release this week.

GRCA hands out awards, grants

The Breslau Park ad hoc committee is one of five recipients of this year’s Community Conservation Grants, awarded last week by the Grand River Conservation Authority. Each is worth

$600.

In Breslau, the money is earmarked for trees and shrubs at Breslau Memorial Park and Hopewell Heights Park.

Other recipients include the Speed Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) to plant saplings and seedlings along Marden Creek at the north end of Guelph and the 31st Guelph Scouts to build bat houses that will be installed at their camp near Belwood.

The Grand River Watershed Awards took place October 18.

Among the award recipients was St. Agatha’s Jeff Grant, a Grade 10 student

who was recognized for his love of butterflies, especially monarchs. He raises hundreds of caterpillars of several species on his family’s farm.

After seeing hundreds of milkweed plants destroyed in his township, he began to volunteer at Laurel Creek Nature Centre, where he educates people of all ages about monarchs and their habitat.

Centre Wellington keeps cashin’ in The Township of Centre Wellington raked in $650,416 last week thanks to

second-quarter (July to September) non-tax gaming revenue payment from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation for hosting Elements Casino Grand River. That brings the year-to-date total to $1,245,193.

Centre Wellington has received more than $30.2 million to fill its coffers since the facility first opened in 2003.

These payments are made under a formula in the Municipality Contribution Agreement that determines the fee municipalities receive for hosting an OLG gaming facility and are based on an escalating scale of slot machine revenue that is consistent

across all sites in Ontario. Under the agreement, municipalities receive: 5.25% on the first $65 million of slot revenue; 3% on the next $135 million of slot revenue; 2.5% on the next $300 million of slot revenue; 0.5% on slot revenue above $500 million; and, the new element, 4% on table game revenue.

At approximately $2 billion annually, OLG provides the Ontario government with its largest source of non-tax revenue. Some $115 million has been allocated this year for distribution through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

POLICE BLOTTER

Police warn drivers to remain vigilant for deer on the roads MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO be attentive for deer on roads at this point in the season, with police cautioning drivers not to veer for the animals.

Deer-vehicle collision rates increase significantly 1.5 hours on either side of sunset and sunrise.

Although there is often signage to warn motorists of higher deer-travelled areas, drivers must remain aware in any area, police say. Deer activity is not limited to rural roads; the animals have been known to cross busy roadways as well.

If a deer enters your path suddenly, police offer the following advice: remain calm and in control; reduce your speed; steer straight – do not veer for

OCTOBER 19

1:18 AM | A Wellington County OPP officer conducting radar enforcement and monitoring traffic on Wellington Road 109 near Side Road 15 in Mapleton Township observed a male driving a grey pick-up truck at a speed that appeared to be well above the posted 80 km/h speed limit. The vehicle was locked on radar in excess of 140 km/h. The driver, a 27-year-old Brampton man, was charged

the deer. Changing direction quickly increases your risk of losing control, leaving the roadway and even rolling your vehicle. Your risk of serious injury and greater vehicle damage also increases.

Police also advise drivers look all around, not just straight ahead. Deer will often run across the road from ditches and protected areas such as stream corridors and woodlots. Where you see one deer, expect more. Deer often travel in herds. Slow down – slower speeds allow for longer reaction times. Anticipate higher deer movements in the fall and around sunrise and sunset. Watch for glowing eyes of deer at night.

INJURIES AT COLLISION IN ELMIRA

Emergency crews had injured to deal with after responding to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Arthur Street and Oriole Parkway in Elmira on Oct. 22.

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with ‘race a motor vehicle’ and is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Court on December 5. His driver’s licence and vehicle were seized for a period of seven days as per statute.

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2:00 AM | Members of the Perth County OPP, Perth County Paramedic Services, and Perth East Fire Department attended the scene of single-vehicle collision

on Perth Line 43, in the area of Perth Road 104 in the Township of Perth East. Both occupants were transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCI) attended the scene to assist and the collision remains under investigation at this time. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 1-888-310-1122.

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continued this tradition for decades.

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Past presidents who are also volunteers make the decision. They look at the nominations that come before them and select a couple of people, and it’s recognized at our presidential luncheon.”

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Mishap means more scrutiny for electronic voting WOOLWICH AND WELLESLEY VOTERS were left scrambling Monday when one of the pitfalls of electronic voting became a reality rather than a hypothetical in some 50 municipalities.

The online system became largely unusable for some 90 minutes starting just about the time the workday and/or dinner was winding down on election day. While internet and phone voting had been available daily for a couple of weeks prior, the bulk of the turnout was likely to come Monday.

Skeptics saw materialize one of the prime concerns about online voting – network problems – though the service provider, Dominion Voting Systems, said there were no concerns about the integrity of the vote.

Security, of course, is one of the major worries with online voting, which is subject to hacks, denial of service attacks, fraud and a host of other ills that don’t exist with traditional paper ballots. The lack of a paper trail for recounts or verification has also been a red flag for those opposed to the shift.

In particular, voting via personal computers adds another layer to the apprehensions. Maintaining ballot secrecy, for instance, becomes more difficult with the prospect of hackers and viruses, particularly if using devices in public places. Then there are the technical problems, from something as simple as a power outage to connectivity woes and the possibility of server downtime. The technical stuff was at fault in this week’s case, apparently.

On the security side, internet and telephone voting are more prone to fraud and coercion or vote-buying, critics noted. Both present problems for ballot integrity and the credibility of the one-person, one-vote system. The chance of fraud increases in electronic voting systems if voter notification cards, which contain unique passwords required to cast a ballot, are intercepted. In the case of ballots not cast in person it is more challenging to verify a voter’s identity.

Remote voter authentication can be a problem since it may be difficult to confirm that the person voting is actually who he or she claims to be. While digital signatures and passwords can help, they are not foolproof and could potentially be shared.

Moreover, technology adds more steps to the process and thus increases the possibility of error – such as clicking on the wrong spot – with each level of complexity.

As much of the hardware and software used in electronic voting is controlled by private companies, there’s less transparency and accountability than can be had with paper ballots. The workings of the technology used are opaque, with perhaps not enough public checks and balances.

And then there’s the issue of integrity of digital ballots, which are potentially much easier to game. Given the digital nature, the information is subject to much easier manipulation or (mis-)use by authorities or third parties. In Woolwich, for instance, candidates were provided with daily updates on who had voted once online voting opened on October 9. Traditionally, voters’ lists were available to candidates to scrutinize after an election, but the digital version makes it much easier to disseminate that information.

While the practice is part of the province’s Municipal Elections Act, it’s somewhat disconcerting given the apparently limited public benefit.

In light of this week’s mishap – an investigation and some financial penalties must follow – the townships will have to review the viability of electronic voting ahead of the next election, taking a serious look also at the integrity of the process and the risk to the public’s privacy.

The townships’ first foray into online voting ends up in not-uncommon territory.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

The INF treaty situation sees idiots on both sides WORLD AFFAIRS THE LAST TIME I wrote about the treaty banning ‘intermediate-range’ nuclear missiles was 31 years ago, and I really thought I’d never have to visit that tedious subject again. More fool me.

John Bolton, the ideologically rigid and badtempered man whom you send when you don’t want a negotiation to succeed, has just been in Moscow to tell the Russians personally that President Donald Trump is going to tear up the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.

That’s what you would expect from the new U.S. National Security Adviser and his impulsive and illinformed boss, but the Russians in this case are just as much to blame for creating the provocation in the first place. It’s one of those distressingly frequent occasions when the idiots are in charge on both sides.

The INF Treaty, signed

by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987,

bans land-based ballistic or cruise missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 km. What the Russians have actually done, it seems, is to take a perfectly legal sea-launched cruise missile, the Kalibr, which has a range of up to 2,500 km., and put it on a mobile land-based launcher.

The Kalibr is a quite useful weapon that can deliver about 500 kg of conventional explosives or a nuclear warhead on an enemy, although it would take at least three hours to reach a target 2,500 km. away. (Cruise missiles travel at about the same speed as airliners.)

In 2015, Russia made a show of firing 18 Kalibrs (with conventional warheads) at Syrian targets from ships in the Caspian Sea. Why would the Russians want to put these missiles on land-based launchers, which violates the INF rules? The only plausible explanation is that there are some Chinese targets that Russia cannot hit with its sea-based cruise missiles. (There are no U.S./ NATO targets that cannot already be reached by the

sea-launched variety.)

This is plausible, but it is not rational. Russia is perfectly capable of reaching those Chinese targets with ballistic missiles, both land- and submarinelaunched, that would get to their targets far faster than the new land-based version of the Kalibr cruise missile, called SSC-8 by NATO. Being able to do the same thing a third, slower way hardly justifies the potential political cost of violating the INF treaty for Russia as a whole. It may nevertheless appeal to the particular branch of the Russian armed forces that would control that third way, for inter-service rivalries are as sharp and stupid in Russia as they are in the United States.

From a Western point of view, the SSC-8, while illegal, does not pose any new threat. The real reason the INF treaty was needed three decades ago was that the Russians were then introducing intermediaterange ballistic missiles, the once-famous SS-20s, that could reach their targets in Western Europe within a few minutes of launch.

The border between

NATO and Soviet forces was then about 500 km closer to Western capitals than it is now, and there were huge tank-heavy armies stacked up on either side of the so-called Iron Curtain. An ultra-fast Russian strike by nucleartipped SS-20s on NATO army bases and airfields, followed immediately by an all-out ground invasion, could theoretically have succeeded (although only a fool would have chanced it).

In any case, the Russians and Americans negotiated instead, and ultimately agreed to scrap all the Soviet SS-20s and their American equivalents, the Pershing missiles. Since the U.S. had also deployed some land-based cruise missiles in Europe (the Russians did not), the INF treaty also banned those.

Almost 2,700 missiles were destroyed, and the whole issue went away for three decades. It isn’t really back now.

There are no massive tank armies ready to roll in Europe any more, and the Cold War is long over.

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What are you dressing as for Halloween?

» Everly Menary

» Taryn McIsaac

» Alanna Pickett

» Nick Pope

“I’m going to be a mermaid.”

“A witch.”

“I’m going to be a witch with green face paint.”

“I’d have to ask my wife. She usually makes us “Bacon.” do a couple’s costume.”

» Mitchell Krasovec

“It’s one of those distressingly frequent occasions when the idiots are in charge on both sides.” Gwynne Dyer | 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Feds making tepid changes to electoral laws, failing to tackle the real issues EDITOR'S NOTES HAVING JUST COME THROUGH a provincial election and, just this week, a municipal vote, we have a little respite before the next trip to the polls: 2019’s federal race.

That election won’t feature any changes to the first-past-the-post system, despite Justin Trudeau’s promise of electoral reform. He changed course in very short order, putting the kibosh on any kind of proportional representation.

What his government has done, however, is tinker at the margins of the Canada Elections Act, making a few useful changes but largely ignoring the big issues and major loopholes in provisions covering the likes of political donations and misleading campaigns.

Monday, as voters in Ontario municipalities went to the polls, Bill C-76 made its way back to the House of Commons from the Standing Committee

on Procedure and House Affairs. The bill stems from efforts to prevent foreign interference in elections – see, for instance, the likes of Russian manipulation and Facebook trolling – and to reel in third-party advocacy, especially with foreign ties.

Critics note, however, that the bill does not address domestic propaganda, false election promises and high donation limits that give more weight to wealthy and corporate donors.

Democracy Watch, which has testified before the House committee about Bill C-76, identifies a long list of shortcomings in the legislation. It’s calling on the government to decrease donation limits and not to increase the spending limits for third parties, the extension of federal privacy laws to cover political parties, and to actually stop often-secret, false online election ads, among other suggestions.

The bill does little to ensure fair, democratic elections, the group maintains.

Nor does it stop the unethical influence of big money

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extended to cover election surveys and “partisan activities” such as doorknocking, phone calls and rallies, but only citizen groups do those kinds of activities (businesses usually only spend money on ads). As a result, the limit should be increased only for citizen groups as the increase in the limit will more than double the amount of advertising businesses can do during an election campaign period, Conacher notes.

“The only way to stop big money in politics is to stop big donations and Bill C-76 does nothing to lower the federal donation limits that are much higher than an average Canadian can afford, and that allow lobbyists to buy influence with politicians and parties,” says Conacher. “Bill C-76 also more than doubles the ad spending limits for interest groups and lobbyists during elections, which will increase the power of wealthy interests to dominate election campaign debates with massive advertising campaigns. Canadian-based subsidiaries of foreign-owned businesses

should especially be prohibited from advertising during Canadian elections because they are owned by foreigners.”

Along with failing to rein in donations and spending, the act needs to strengthen the process and penalties associated with false election promises by parties and candidates.

Though already prohibited, such acts routinely go unpunished.

Such was the case with Trudeau’s about-face on electoral reform, for instance. And with online and social media manipulation a growing issue, the legislation should ensure that candidates’ campaigns can’t be undermined by false accusations.

Appeals to the likes of the Commissioner of Canada Elections and Ethics Commissioner have proven fruitless, Conacher notes.

“Bill C-76 must be changed to strengthen the rule in Canada’s election law prohibiting parties and candidates from violating voters’ fundamental rights by baiting them with false promises because the Commissioner of Canada

Elections refuses to enforce the rule,” he says.

“This is not the first time the Commissioner has failed to effectively enforce the federal elections law as the Commissioner has an overall weak record including many secret rulings.”

The bill’s failure to address the big issues is no accident. Politicians routinely exempt themselves from rules that apply to others. For instance, if a corporation lies in its advertising, it can be taken to the Competition Bureau. If corporate executives mislead their shareholders, the shareholders have the right to go to court and seek compensation. Likewise, there are laws requiring taxpayers, welfare applicants, immigrants and most professionals to tell the truth when they fill out government forms. But still there are no such rules for politicians.

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in Canadian politics. The bill doesn’t change the annual individual donation limits of $1,575 to each party and another $1,575 to the riding associations of each party (both increased each year by $25) nor does it decrease the $5,000 amount an election candidate can give to their own campaign or the $25,000 a party leadership candidate can give to their campaign.

These high donation limits are much more than an average adult Canadian can afford, says Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher. As such, they favour wealthy donors and candidates and facilitate funneling of donations from businesses and unions through their executives, which he says has occurred in every jurisdiction in Canada with such high donation limits.

As well, Bill C-76 more than doubles the spending limits for third-party interest groups and individuals during election campaigns (from approximately $200,000 up to $500,000).

The Liberals claim this increase is needed because the spending limit is being

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THE MONITOR

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While decreasing steadily for four consecutive surveys, more than one-third (37%) of home buyers continue to feel concern or uncertainty when buying a home. Affordability tops the list, with more than 50% of concerned buyers worrying about paying too much for their home while nearly one-third worry about rising interest rates and mortgage qualification. Some 85% of first-time buyers spent the most they could afford on their home purchase.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

“Apparently, the Ford gravy train has arrived at Queen’s Park and it’s all aboard for Ford’s friends, and those he owes a favour to.

Most Ontarians would be lucky to earn $75,000 a year, never mind getting a $75,000 bump in pay. And while Ford’s buddy gets that huge paycheque, Ontario families pay for it.”

The free ride may soon come to an end for community groups using Wellesley community centres. In discussing rental policy Oct. 26, the township’s recreation committee agreed to start charging a “nominal” fee to help cover expenses. For the most part, groups that have been getting free access will see a $50 charge if they use the kitchen facilities. There will continue to be no charge for meetings that don’t require use of a kitchen and run for fewer than four hours.

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» From the Oct. 30, 2004 edition of The Observer

NDP MPP Taras Natyshak on Doug Ford’s appointment of his campaign’s tour director to be the trade representative to Washington for $350,000 a year, $75,000 more than his predecessor, and even more than Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. is paid.

DYER: Things were different

NATIONAL VIEW

when adults were in charge

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The details of the RussianAmerican ‘military balance’ are of concern mainly to the experts, many of whom make their living by discovering some imbalance or discrepancy that will enable their (military) clients to demand more or newer weapons to counter the new ‘threat.’

The Russians have broken the rules by developing and testing the land-based SSC-8 cruise missiles, but they haven’t actually deployed them in meaningful numbers. They may never do so, because it would not give them any significant strategic advantage.

This was the logic that led former president Barack Obama to protest to the Russians about the new weapon in 2014, but not to abrogate the INF Treaty.

What would that gain, except to legalize what the idiots in the Russian military were doing?

Obama probably assumed that the adults were still in charge in the Kremlin, and that they were engaged in the same struggle to contain the random enthusiasms of Russian military planners that all U.S. presidents must wage against their Pentagon equivalents. But the White House has a different tenant now.

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system that has fallen into disrepute, but would take money out of their pockets, directly and indirectly.

As difficult as it would be to get politicians to move on those kinds of reforms, the effort would pale in comparison to trying to replace our current electoral system with some kind of proportional representation, which would be more democratic and could encourage more people to vote – most notably those who feel their ballots don’t count for anything.

After many years of pushing for reform, we had a stab at it a decade ago in Ontario, where the proposed mixed-member proportional system fell to the wayside. The current system didn’t win the support of those who bothered to vote in the referendum so much as it remained the devil we know. The MMP system offered up was not the best alternative, but its defeat is not grounds to give up on the reform process. That, however,

appeared to be the intent of the government at the time, which could say “we tried,” and drop the subject.

But the failure in effect lies with the way the process was conducted. The Ontario example clearly shows reform is a longterm project, one that requires a great deal of public handholding before a final decision is made.

Critics argue a proportional system would fragment the House, leading the way to more minority governments. Neglecting the fact that we’ve had a number of minorities under the existing system, the fragmentation is already underway due to the increase in the number of parties.

Left to their own devices, today’s crop of politicians will not make changes to benefit the public – oh, they’ll pay lip service to that, but that’s all. Clearly, reform is needed. Politicians and bureaucrats won’t move away from their culture of entitlement without public pressure.

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SPORTS HOCKEY / JUNIOR B

Rough week sees Kings drop 2 Elmira remains winless against both Stratford and Kitchener after losses of 5-1 and 2-1 respectively FAISAL ALI IT WAS A DISAPPOINTING week for the Sugar Kings again as the Elmira Junior B squad lost out to rivals from Stratford and Kitchener.

Facing the challenging pair of teams this week, first with a home game on Sunday against Stratford, followed by a Tuesday evening matchup against the Kitchener Dutchmen, the Kings came up short.

The two teams have beaten Elmira at every previous meeting this season, for a combined total of five games.

Hitting the home ice, Sunday evening, the Kings struggled to find their footing in the face of Stratford’s relentless onslaught, ultimately falling 5-1.

It was a rough outing for new Sugar Kings captain Damian Figueira. Though appreciative of the role, the new captain was still stinging from Sunday’s result.

“There’s lot of responsibility and big boots to fill, like Jeff Jordan did a good job last year. So we have high expectations for this group, and we’ve got to be better than we were tonight,” he said.

Right from the get-go, the Warriors claimed an early lead over the home Elmira

Damian Figueira was recently named captain of the Elmira Sugar Kings.

team, and never looked back. Less than three minutes out from the puck drop the Warriors were already putting numbers on the board, with the team’s Tyson Moore scoring at 2:41.

The game was not fiveminutes old before a second puck found the back of the Sugar Kings’ net.

Now two in the hole, the Kings ceded a third goal in the frame with two minutes left on the clock, and found themselves on the wrong side of a 3-0 chasm by the first intermission.

The second period saw a nominal improvement for Elmira’s side, with a single goal coming in the final 50 seconds of the frame. There was a lot of movement on the ice and a lot of action, but ultimately little scoring as the Kings only found the back once, coming off the stick of Jakson Kirk, with Tyson Hillier and Karson Massey providing the assist.

The Kings were now down by two as the second intermission rolled around, standing at a 3-1 disadvantage at the start of the final stanza.

Any hope of carrying through on the momentum of their first goal fell flat, however, as the Sugar Kings saw another puck buried into their net. With less than seven minutes to go in the third, Stratford’s Sean Ross potted the team’s fourth point, this time with the man advantage.

With the scoreboard now standing at 4-1, and the Kings were looking for a miracle to get back into the black. The

Matthew Tolton sweeps around the side of the Stratford net at Sunday evening’s home game, which the Kings lost 5-1.

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Elmira team drew their netminder in the dying minutes of the game, hoping to even the count, but ultimately saw a final goal scored against them instead, at 18:12, on the unguarded net.

The game was still not over, however, and tensions were finally starting to boil over. The Sugar Kings’ Kirk and Stratford’s Malcolm McLeod threw down in the last minute of the game, taking off the gloves and helmet for a bit of fisticuffs that saw each side get in a few decent digs. Ultimately, the blow-up blew over with the scoreboard remaining at a stubborn 5-1 slant for the remainder of the game.

The Kings had a tough time in all categories, falling early and hard against the Warriors. The power plays reflected the points on the board, with Stratford receiving five man-advantages and following through on one. The Kings, by comparison, got only three power

play opportunities, and scored on none.

After a few days rest and recuperation, the Kings were back on ice, this time at the Kitchener arena.

Though ultimately falling, it was comparatively a much tighter game, with the home team narrowly clinching a 2-1 win in overtime.

In the first 20 minutes of play, it was Kitchener that took the lead. The Dutchmen potted their first point of the match, just five minutes in. It would be the only puck to find its mark for most of the rest of the game.

There was no scoring in the second, while the third seemed to be going the same way.

It was only in the dying moments of the game, in the final frame, with less than a minute to go, that the Kings were able to procure a miracle.

Forward Zack Cameron proved to be the man of the hour. Joined by an extra

attacker on ice, Cameron saved the Kings from a shutout defeat. With Jonah Burley and Hunter Dubecki picking up assists, Cameron fired the magic shot that found its mark with just 29 seconds left on the clock.

The goal was enough to turn around a scoreless defeat into an even 1-1 match.

The game was ultimately forced into overtime thanks to Cameron’s marker, where the Kings had one last chance to take home the win.

Ultimately, the game fell to Kitchener, with a final puck finding the back of Elmira’s net two minutes into the extra frame.

Coming off back-to-back losses this week, the Kings will have a challenging time ahead as they take on the Waterloo Siskins for the first time this season, a home game at the WMC Saturday at 7:30 p.m. A second home game will be held the following night against the Cambridge Redhawks at 7 p.m.

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Honestly, I feel a little sorry for younger anglers and hunters these days.

For now that they have GPS units, computers, and phone apps that provide great satellite imagery, they no longer have any reason to carry a paper map. Or better yet, draw one of their own on a napkin.

Drawing your own map on a napkin after having used it to clear the egg yolk or ketchup off your chin was, in my day at least, the height of outdoors culture – especially if that napkin came from a greasy spoon restaurant in a rural area.

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such as an old outhouse.

With just one of these, you could plan an entire or fishing hunting season – and, if done right, this would only include one or two incidents involving search parties.

To cut right to the point, there was an adventure or two in any one hand-drawn map worth its salt – and many also had lots of salt

on them.

Sadly, the modern hunter or angler, who has a GPS or app on his or her phone and has never got lost as a result of a poorly drawn map, might look at one of these and ask silly questions like “Is a map like this accurate?”

The answer would be “Only if you think that water can flow uphill.”

In fact, the whole point

of one of these maps was not to provide geographical accuracy – for, at best, all the information written on them was third-hand from a guy who traded it for beer money.

No, maps like this served a higher purpose. They made the person drawing it appear as if he knew what he was doing.

My favourite example of a hand-drawn map was

given to me about 20 years ago, just before they went extinct. The whole point of the map was to direct me to a duck pond in the back woods that was supposedly filled with countless wood ducks and mallards.

Not knowing any better, I trusted the people who drew it and set off at first light to find the pond in question. When I finally stumbled on it, I recalled

the verbal description looked at the hand-drawn map and noticed that neither even remotely resembled the pond or the geographical features I was looking at. Also, it seemed to be home to three hooded mergansers.

I sat there for quite a while and enjoyed the view and was also quite pleased by the ammunition costs that I was saving. Then I

headed back.

The next time I saw the people who had drawn the map, I noted how different it was from their description.

“When was the last time you were there?” I asked.

“There?” one said. “Oh, I’ve never been there but I remember my great-uncle mentioning it once.”

I smiled and, after that, drew him a map.

A win and a tie for Jacks in pair of weekend games

Home ice was good to the Wellesley squad who skated to 4-4 decision with Paris before lopsided 9-2 win over Delhi VERONICA REINER TAKING THREE OUT OF four points, the Wellesley Applejacks had a mixedbag weekend at home.

After blowing a lead to settle for a 4-4 tie against the Paris Mounties Friday night, the Jacks blew the Delhi Travellers off of the ice Sunday afternoon in a 9-2 victory After giving up the first goal to the Mounties Friday night, the rest of the first period belonged to the home team. The Jacks scored three goals to take a lead that ultimately wouldn’t stand up, as Paris would mount a comeback.

The visitors were on the board first at 5:34. About five minutes later, Reade MacInnis tied it up at 1-1 on the power play, with help from Alex Uttley and Sean Pickering. Wellesley then surged ahead with a pair of goals just 16 seconds apart. Koby Seiling (Uttley) netted one at 15:13, following by Pickering (Uttley, Jordan Hoekstra) making it 3-1 at 15:29.

After the intermission, 16 seconds were all Paris needed to make it a one-goal game. The Jacks restored the two-goal lead before the period ended courtesy of MacInnes (Zach Ribeiro, Danny Hanson) at 7:26. That would be it for scoring in the second frame and for the rest of Wellesley’s night.

The third period belonged to the Mounties, who outshot their hosts for the first time – 15-6 en route to a 48-38 advantage by the time OT was done – while putting up two goals to knot things up 4-4 after 60 minutes.

The overtime saw no scoring from either team, resulting in a tie when the final whistle went. The outcome was markedly different from Wellesley’s 7-3 win the last time the teams met on October 6.

Penalties and special teams played a big role, as the Mounties were 3-9 with the man advantage, while the Applejacks were 2-8.

The following game on Sunday afternoon was

markedly different, the Jacks skating to a 9-2 decision over the visiting Delhi Travellers.

Well, there was one similarity, as the visitors again scored first, going up 1-0 before the game was a minute old. Wellesley replied less than two minutes later, however, as Pickering (Kyle Soper, James Ranson) returned the favour at 2:43. Delhi regained the advantage at 14:11 before Wellesley evened things out heading into intermission, with Warren Gorman (Uttley, Ranson) potting a goal with just 18 seconds left in the first period.

That was as close as the game would get, as it was all Wellesley after the break.

Ranson (Uttley) set the tone at 7:36. Despite being shorthanded, Wellesley netted two more with goals

by Uttley (Drew Mullett, Pickering) around 10 minutes in followed by Ribeiro (Gorman) at 11:23. Owning the period no matter how many skaters they iced, Wellesley pushed on. Seil-

Alex Uttley battles the visiting Paris Mounties for the puck at a home game Oct. 19 that ended in a 4-4 draw. ing (Uttley, Soper) scored another goal on a power play, followed by an unassisted power play goal by Uttley. Uttley scored one more with 46 seconds left in the period for good measure, making the score 8-2 for Wellesley heading into the final intermission.

The third period was relatively uneventful, with just one more unassisted goal by MacInnis at 11:02 to make it 9-2 for the hosts.

Home ice has proven to be somewhat of a good luck charm this season: the Jacks have not lost a single match at the Wellesley arena thus far.

With the three points, the Jacks maintained their third-place spot in the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s South Doherty Division. The top two teams switched places, however, as the New Hamburg Firebirds now

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sit in first, dropping the Tavistock Braves into the number-two spot.

They are looking to keep up this momentum this week against the Ayr Centennials in North Dumfries tonight at 7:30 p.m., their first game against the team. The following match will be closer to home at the Wilmot arena on Saturday against the first-place Firebirds. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m.

Thrashers mark ten years by dominating Buffalo in season starter FAISAL ALI IT WAS A TRIUMPHANT start to the season for the Woolwich Thrashers last weekend as the local sledge hockey team celebrated its tenth anniversary on ice with a pair of back-to-back wins against the Buffalo Sabres Sled Hockey team.

Playing their season opener on home ice Saturday at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, the Thrashers posted a 4-0 shutout against their visitors from south of the border. The team followed up the win with a second victory on Sunday, claiming another 4-0 shutout against the Sabres, this time playing on the team’s home turf in Buffalo.

The wins not only give the Thrashers a strong

four-point head-start in the 2018-19 season, but also showcase the young team’s exceptional prowess on ice.

While the Thrashers have been honing their skills on ice for the past decade, it was only last year that the organization had the players and the clout to ice a team on the competitive rep. circuit, playing in the Ontario Sledge Hockey Association (OSHA) junior development division, which is open to players of all ages.

“The organization itself has been around for ten years,” explained Drew Bomhof, a volunteer with the Woolwich Thrashers. “[But] they only entered a team into the Ontario Sledge Hockey league last year for the first time, because up until that time

there weren’t necessarily enough players to be able to ice a team. But as of last year, they did have enough numbers and it seemed like a good idea.”

The team’s first foray into competitive play proved a good move for the Thrashers, as the team made it into the top half in the standings over the regular season before striking out against Peterborough in the playoffs.

“So being our first year, it was quite extraordinary because we did make the A division playoffs, which was a little bit unexpected given that it was our first year in the league but we were really pleased with that,” said Bomhof.

“Because up until then, for eight seasons it had really just been come out on a Saturday and get some

exercise and have some fun on the ice, but there wasn’t necessarily the competitive aspect to it. So I think both the parents and the players last year really enjoyed being a part of the league and saw a lot of growth both on the ice and off the ice with these kids.”

The Woolwich Thrashers have seen growth across the board, however, beyond just the competitive teams, notes Bomhof, with a steady stream of young new players entering the sport.

“We’ve also added a few kids at our recreational level - so the youngest kids who are just being introduced to the game. And so that group of kids is growing really nicely,” he said. “Which is great because our ultimate hope is to create a feeder system all the way through,

so you know our recreational players can ultimately join the open non-contact team and as they become adults, join the intermediate team that we have that’s made up of a lot of adults and some of the parents of some of our players.”

It’s the addition of young, new players, many of whom often lacked the same opportunities in youth sports as their able-bodied peers, that will ensure that the Thrashers continue to grow and develop as an organization for years to come.

“It’s really how we’ve developed the organization [during] those first eight years when there was no league to play in and there weren’t enough kids,” said Bomhof.

“We continued to grow, and as more and more peo-

ple hear about the organization, we pull from all over the place. We have a player from Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo, Drayton, Fergus. So we’re really pulling from all over Waterloo and Wellington regions.”

In effect, Woolwich has become a hub in the sport of sledge hockey. The township was even selected earlier this year to be the host for the 2019 Canadian Sledge Hockey Championships, in large part thanks to the efforts of the Thrashers.

The Championships will be played in Woolwich in May of next year.

Those hoping to catch the Thrashers in action can do so at their next home game on December 2, from 3 to 4 p.m., when they’ll be taking on the Hamilton Sledgehammers.

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THE SCORE WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Novice: LL#1 Oct 13 vs Twin Centre Home: 6 Visitor: 4 Goals: Kolton Brubacher, Edwin Martin (3), Ethan Leveck, Zev Silverberg Assists: Kolton Brubacher (2), Ryan Ramage, Zev Silverberg

Novice: LL#1 Oct 20 vs Woolwich Wildcats LL#2 Home: 0 Visitor: 10 Goals: Braun Draper (3), Brentley Wideman (2), Madden Habermurhl (3), Nicholas Shardlow (2) Assists: Aiden Basler, Nicholas Shardlow (2), Braun Draper (3), Noah Gibson (1)

Novice: MAJOR A Oct 18 vs Centre Wellington Fusion Home: 2 Visitor: 2 Goals: Bryce McFadden, Owen Porter Assists: Carter Crane

Novice: MAJOR A Oct 19 vs Halton Hills Thunder Home: 10 Visitor: 0 Goals: Jackson Gillies (3), Cody Paquet (2), Arabelle Weiss, Nathan Seller, Kolten Noot, Bryce McFadden, Owen Porter Assists: Cody Paquet, Ethan Straus, Arabelle Weiss, Jack Wood, Jackson Gillies, Carter Crane, Bryce McFadden Shutouts: Maxwell Rintoul

Novice: MAJOR A Oct 21 vs New Hamburg Huskies Home: 1 Visitor: 3 Goals: Cody Paquet Assists: Jack Wood

Novice: LL#2 Oct 20 vs Woolwich Novice LL#1 Home: 10 Visitor: 0 Goals: Braun Draper (3), Madden Habermehl (3), Bentley Wideman (2), Nicholas Shardlow (2) Assists: Aiden Basler (2), Nicholas Shardlow (2), Braun Draper (2), Bentley Wideman Shutouts: Noah Gibson

Novice: LL#2 Oct 21 vs Beverley Home: 8 Visitor: 5 Goals: Aiden Basler (4), Braun Draper (2), Bentley Wideman, Madden Habermehl Assists: Bentley Wideman (2), Parker Bigwood, Logan Goodfellow, Nicholas Shardlow, Madden Habermehl

Novice: AE Oct 20 vs Brampton 45’s Home: 3 Visitor: 4 Goals: Liam MacGregor, Luca Abate, Grayson Schimus Assists: Boston Esbaugh (2), Brody Schaap, Nolan Cruickshank, Jackson Wolfe

Novice: AE Oct 22 vs CW Fusion Home: 4 Visitor: 1 Goals: Luca Abate, Hudson Lehtonen (2), Boston Esbaugh Assists: Boston Esbaugh (2), Jackson Wolfe, Drew Snyder, James Eckensweiler, Nolan Cruickshank, Liam MacGregor,

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THRASHERS TAKE BOTH SIDES OF HOME-AND-HOME

Atom: AE Oct 19 vs Calderon Hawks Home: 3 Visitor: 3 Goals: Harrison Hartwick, Luke Forbes, Cam Dawson Assists: Harrison Hartwick (2), Cam Dawson

Atom: LL

Atom: AE

Oct 21 vs Upper Maitland Mustangs Home: 2 Visitor: 2 Goals: Addison Fitzgerald (2) Assists: Michaela Blanchet, Lexi Weber, Keira Walsh

Oct 20 vs Erinn-Hillsburg Devils Home: 2 Visitor: 0 Goals: Owen Hallman (2) Assists: Fraser Allen, Brody Habermehl Shutouts: Mason Maurice

PeeWee: BB Oct 17 vs Orangeville Home: 2 Visitor: 0 Goals: Sara Forwell, Kiera Lavalee Assists: Caitlyn Gleason, Avery Grundy Shutouts: Makenna Kroetsch

Atom: LL#3 Oct 21 vs Hespeler Shamrocks #3 Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Goals: Cohen Clemmer (2), Tyler Bauman (2), Jackson Kellough Assists: Aaron Dolson, Max Stains, Finn Smith, Cohen Clemmer Shutouts: Ben Hacock

Atom: MAJOR A Oct 16 vs New Hamburg Huskies Home: 3 Visitor: 3 Goals: Sutton Meier, Mitchell Krasovec, Spencer Hume Assists: Carter Weir (2), Mitchell Krasovec

Atom: LL#1 Oct 21 vs New Hamburg Huskies #3 Home: 7 Visitor: 3 Goals: Zion Shadd (3), Evan Reger (3), Jonah Schmidt Assists: Bryden Schaefer, Jonah Schmidt, Carson Zinger, Cooper Jones

Atom: MINOR A Oct 17 vs Centre Wellington Fusion Home: 0 Visitor: 2

Atom: LL#2 Oct 20 vs Beverly Bandits 1 Home: 1 Visitor: 6 Goals: Anand Ghali Assists: Drew Diebolt

PeeWee: MAJOR AE Oct 16 vs Guelph Gryphons Home: 3 Visitor: 3 Goals: Preston Hackert (2), Josh Uhrig Assists: Tanner Armstrong, Ethan Adams, Jamie Ferretti, Preston Hackert

PeeWee: MAJOR AE Oct 18 vs Milton Winterhawks Blue Home: 4 Visitor: 2 Goals: Hunter Brown (2), Matthew Ramage, Josh Uhrig Assists: Ethan Adams, Josh Uhrig, Preston Hackert, Jake Patterson, Tyson Bauman

PeeWee: MAJOR AE Oct 20 vs Milton Winterhawks Blue Home: 2 Visitor: 4 Goals: Hunter Brown (2) Assists: Carter Harrow (2), Ethan Adams, Jake Patterson

PeeWee: MINOR AE Oct 12 vs Milton Home: 2 Visitor: 4 Goals: Brandon Fishman (2) Assists: Graydon Martin, Patrick McCarthy

Home: 7 Visitor: 2 Goals: Ava Weber (2), Eden Ropp (2), Kenzi Gunn (1), Tatianna Kocan (1), Bronwyn Rozema (1) Assists: Tatianna Kocan, Maria Martin (2), Kenzi Gunn, Vienna Cooney, Bronwyn Rozema

PeeWee: BB Oct 20 vs Orangeville Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Goals: Avery Grundy, Kayla Sargent, Claire Catton, Olivia Straus (2) The Woolwich Thrashers started their 10th anniversary season with back-to-back wins last weekend against the Buffalo Sabres Sled Hockey Assists: Sara Forwell, Charlotte team. The organization invited the American team for a matinee Oct. 20, winning 4-0, and then followed up with another 4-0 victory the McMillan, Kara MacPherson next day in Buffalo.

[FAISAL ALI | THE OBSERVER] Shutouts: Makenna Kroetsch Lucas Radler, Andy Palmer, Will Assists: Bryce Brubacher (2), Home: 9 Visitor: 0 PeeWee: MINOR AE PeeWee: LL McDougall, Owen Hackert (3) Sutton Meier, Mitchell Krasovec, Goals: Nolan Martin (3), Colton Oct 14 vs Oakville Oct 13 vs Kitchener Carter Weir, Declan Martin Sinclair (3), Matthew Kochut, Bantam: MINOR A Home: 2 Visitor: 4 Home: 1 Visitor: 2 Zach Wiseman (2) Shutouts: Reed Snyder Oct 21 vs Hespeler Goals: Tyler Gingrich, Brandon Assists: Cruz Balog, Mason Gear Goals: Rebecca Airdrie Atom: MAJOR A Fishman Home: 3 Visitor: 1 (2), Colton Sinclair, Nolan Martin Assists: Zoriana Kocan, Lauren Assists: Brooks Lehtonen, Owen Goals: Joey Martin, Teagan Oct 19 vs Essex Ravens (2), Matthew Kochut, Zach Weber Weppler Cadeau, Emmett Weissenboeck Home: 2 Visitor: 2 Carter, Jordan Martin Bantam: B Assists: Mason Spark, Joey Goals: Spencer Hume, Carter Shutouts: Cohen Patterson PeeWee: MINOR AE Oct 18 vs Grand River Mustangs Martin, Cade Beacom, Ethan Weir Oct 20 vs Flamborough Atom: MINOR A Bantam B Bickerton Home: 8 Visitor: 2 Atom: MINOR A Oct 20 vs Whitby Wildcats Blue Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Bantam: MINOR A Goals: Owen Weppler (2), Oct 19 vs London Jr. Mustangs Goals: Taylor Schmitt, Kaitlyn Home: 5 Visitor: 3 Blake Dueck (2), Tyler Gingrich, Oct 20 vs New Hamburg Purple Hyatt, Madison Meincke, Goals: Colton Sinclair (2), Brandon Fishman, Nate Dyck, Home: 5 Visitor: 0 Gwyneth Martin Home: 3 Visitor: 5 Matthew Kochut (3) Patrick McCarthy Goals: Mason Spark (2), Ryan Assists: Tia Zettel, Sophie Beyer, Goals: Rhys Taylor (2), Mason Assists: Mason Gear (3), Nolan Assists: Brandon Fishman Brubacher, Cade Beacom (2) Marlee Fraser, Emma Wiseman, Gear Martin (3), Tyler Gingrich (2), Owen Olivia Bloemberg Assists: Emmett Weissenboeck Assists: Cruz Balog, Josh Weppler, Austin Roth, Wesley (3), Jordan Chang, Ethan Martin, Wraight (2) WOOLWICH Shutouts: Katie Lee Aitken Mason Spark, Teagan Cadeau WILD

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Shutouts: Evan Catton

Oct 21 vs Caledon Home: 4 Visitor: 4 Goals: Tyler Gingrich (2), Brandon Fishman, Owen Weppler Assists: Owen Weppler (2), Brandon Fishman, Graydon Martin, Wesley Aitken

Bantam: MINOR AE

PeeWee: LL3 Oct 20 vs Tavistock Home: 1 Visitor: 2 Goals: Hudson Habermehl Assists: Lucas Moore

Oct 12 vs Orangeville Flyers Home: 1 Visitor: 4 Goals: Evan Lucier Assists: Owen Brown

Bantam: MINOR AE Oct 14 vs Ancaster Avalanche Home: 2 Visitor: 5 Goals: Tucker Armstrong, Evan Lucier Assists: Evan Lucier, Jett Renon, Evan Gruhl

Atom: MINOR A

Oct 19 vs North York Knights Home: 6 Visitor: 3 Goals: Mason Gear, Nolan Martin, Colton Sinclair, Rhys Taylor, Matthew Kochut, Jordan Martin Assists: Matthew Kochut, Colton Sinclair (2), Zach Wiseman, Zach Carter, Nolan Martin

Atom: MINOR A Oct 20 vs LPC Wild

Novice: B Oct 20 vs Huron Heat Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Goals: Isla McCoubrey, Ellie Clemmer, Chloe Futher, Lauryn Kidd.

Assists: Megan Nixon Shutouts: Elle English

Novice: LL#2 Oct 21 vs Twin Centre Hericanes Novice 1

Oct 21 vs PeeWee LL1 Home: 5 Visitor: 3 Goals: Andrew Zettler, Evan Yorke, Dawson Brubacher (3) Assists: Dawson Brubacher, Andrew Zettler, Evan Yorke, Clyde Chico

Bantam: LL2 Oct 20 vs New Hamburg Huskies LL1 Home: 10 Visitor: 2 Goals: Owen Hackert, Will McDougall, Nate Whittom, Adam Pauls, Liam Hunter, Lucas Radler (3), Andy Palmer, Zach McMurray Assists: Liam Hunter, James McCormick, Adrian Kocan, Adam Pauls (2), Seb Garrett (4),

Bantam: MINOR AE

TOURNAMENTS

Atom: MAJOR A Oct 19 vs Burlington Jr Cougars Home: 7 Visitor: 0 Goals: Mitchell Krasovec (2), Sutton Meier (2), Caleb Paquet (2), Spencer Hume

Bantam: B Oct 21 vs Grand River Mustangs Bantam B Home: 4 Visitor: 2 Goals: Tia Zettel, Madison

PeeWee: B Oct 19 vs Ayr Home: 2 Visitor: 3 Goals: Kayleigh Futher, Nora Beattie Assists: Emily Martin PeeWee: B Oct 20 vs Ilderton Home: 0 Visitor: 0 Shutouts: Sam Weber

PeeWee: B Oct 20 vs Twin Centre Home: 4 Visitor: 2 Goals: Emily Martin (2), Avigail Keagan, Nora Beatty Assists: Jordyn MacDonald (2), Ella Hicks, Maddie Maguire (2), Katelynn Gleeson, Kayleigh Futher

WATERLOO WOLVES

Atom: MINOR AA Oct 14 vs London Jr Knights White Home: 1 Visitor: 3 Goals: Emre Alves Assists: Preston Murray

Atom: MINOR AA Oct 17 vs Brantford 99ers Home: 1 Visitor: 1 Goals: Emre Alves Assists: Gavin Shaughnessy, Joshua Hicknell

WOOLWICH THRASHERS

Open Non-Contact Oct 20 vs Buffalo Sabres Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Goals: Gideon Chamberlain (2), Josh Chambers, Dillon Stuebing Assists: Snethlage, Brandon Lalonde, Logan Gillingham, Dillon Stuebing Shutout: Daniel Peters

Open Non-Contact Oct 21 vs Buffalo Sabres Home: 4 Visitor: 0 Goals: Gideon Chamberlain (2), Josh Chambers, Dustin Hoag Assists: Gideon Chamberlain, Jesse Chamberlain, Logan Gillingham Shutout: Daniel Peters

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Making a little hay with the Halloween festivities On-farm attractions offer potentially lucrative, if challenging, addition to some local operations FAISAL ALI IT’S A PARTICULARLY CHILLING time of year for those living in the Waterloo Region, and not just because of the unseasonably cold weather. Halloween is around the corner; and combined with the fall harvest, it’s a time of year that is ripe with opportunities for the enterprising farmer seeking additional sources of revenue.

Crops and produce are, of course, the mainstay of any agro-business. But there is a potentially lucrative, if challenging, market out there in the region for on-farm attractions as well, particularly amongst city-dwellers. From the classic corn maze to the pick-your-own pumpkin patches, to petting zoos and Halloween-themed experiences, families are keen to visit and enjoy the agrarian attractions of the countryside.

Local farmers, for their part, have taken notice of that demand, like the Wilmot-based Shantz Family Farm, located on 1544 Bleams Rd., Mannheim, which each year opens its gates and invited the public until the end of October.

Eschewing with the Halloween activities, the Shantz Farm augments their farm-business with public attractions such as the “kiddie-sized” straw bale maze, wagon rides

Dairy farmers, researchers turning to social media FIELD NOTES

and the like need go into the business with both eyes open, he says.

Liability insurance alone can run into the thousands of dollars, while extra staff are needed on site to supervise visitors. Then there are the costs of equipment used in the attractions to factor in, as well as a heav-

DAIRY FARMERS HAVE ALWAYS been a research-driven group. Milk production is a meticulous business, and even small advances can be very helpful for matters such as disease prevention and profitability.

Like other producer groups, they get together on occasion for professional development purposes, often to learn about research findings.

When it comes to connecting with other producers and researchers, there’s no substitute for being there. But when they can’t physically be in the same place because they’re tied up with their herd, they can turn to social media.

That’s one approach being taken to knowledge mobilization by coordinators of the National Mastitis Council, who held a regional meeting in the summer at the University of Guelph.

The meeting had been long anticipated – in fact, it had been almost 20 years since the last one – and

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St. Clements-based Nauman’s Farm opens its gates to the public each year with an offering of seasonal attractions and activities in the fall. While a good source of additional business, though, operating on-farm attractions are not without their challenges either. [VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] and pumpkin patches.

They also offer school tours specifically geared for Kindergarteners and Grade 1 students, giving kids a fun look at life on the farm.

“We have eight children, and we found growing up that stuff was quite expensive – to take them out and doing outings,” explains owner Kevin Shantz, of the impetus behind offering

on-farm attractions.

“And so they missed out on quite a few things, and we don’t want families to miss out on the opportunity to visit farms. So we try to open up our farm to the public free of charge, and we make our revenue from the produce. We don’t charge our admission for our corn maze or to see the farm animals. But we’re

hoping people will buy produce.”

It’s a good way to bring in customers and build connections between farmers and their consumers, but Shantz cautions that operating and managing the attractions is a heavily involving and costly proposition as well. Farmers looking to spur on more visitors to the farm with attractions

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drew an impressive 300 veterinarians, milk quality advisors and producers.

However, there are about 3,800 dairy farmers in Ontario alone. Organizers knew that regardless of the topic’s importance, attendees would only skim the surface of the industry pool that could benefit from the meeting presentations.

That’s where social media come in.

As a result of video recording the entire day-long meeting, organizers have now posted nine presentations from the event on the YouTube channel of Dairy@Guelph, a crossfaculty group created by researchers there, to improve contact and communication among the many University of Guelph research teams that conduct research work related to dairy.

“We’re using social media to try to leverage the

educational opportunities available to producers and increase their access to information from mastitis experts from around the world,” says meeting host Prof. David Kelton, who holds the Dairy Farmers of Ontario research chair in dairy cattle health at the Ontario Veterinary College.

The video-recorded presentations include topics such as reducing antimicrobials, improving bedding, composting, lipid structure and lameness.

Kelton notes social media tools, especially Twitter, are increasing among dairy practitioners.

“Many farmers are active in social media, so that interaction via Twitter and other tools seems to be growing in terms of information dissemination,” he says.

Indeed, landmark research called the National Dairy Study led by Kelton three years ago indicated

that about 20 per cent of Canadian dairy farmers were active users of Twitter. About a quarter of them were using it to solicit information about animal health issues.

Given the growth in social media, Kelton expects the numbers are likely double that now.

The YouTube mastitis communication initiative is one of several efforts underway by practitioners working to reach increasingly busy producers.

Researchers understand knowledge mobilization involves delivering messages and information in different ways, so it’s important to make communication as wide as possible through an assortment of social media tools.

Researchers are also learning more about the dynamics of communications between producers and practitioners. A collaborative research effort

last year between eastern and western Canadian researchers showed that despite the rise in social media, farm visits still have their place. In fact, they are considered highly effective for mobilizing knowledge from sources to producers.

“We’re not sure why,” says Kelton, “that’s the next phase of the research, but it may be related to producers feeling more relaxed on their own farms, so they’re more open there to information from practitioners, compared to a visit to a veterinarian’s office or other venue.”

Communication is among the topics that will be on the table when Dairy@Guelph hosts a dairy research and innovation day at the University of Guelph Arboretum Centre on November 21. And no doubt, social media will be a top item on the agenda.

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ily weather-dependant demand.

“It’s a tough,” says Shantz, on whether he would recommend the farm attraction business to his peers. “I pay over ten grand on your liability for people to go through my corn maze and for me to drive them around the farm. So you have to be a certain size to handle the insurance cost of it, and the liability of going out on the farm.”

The points are mirrored by Hugh Nauman, of the St. Clements-based Nauman’s Farms. Co-run with his wife Anne at 3250 Hessen Strasse, Nauman’s offers a variety of on-farm attractions, from the large corn maze to the pumpkin slingshot and “Straw Mountain.”

Like Shantz, Nauman’s also opens their farms during the season, and closes after October.

“You couldn’t have every other farm do it,” says Nauman.“And I don’t think a lot of people want to deal with the public and that kind of stuff. And then you have to have parking. It’s just not a thing that every farm wants to do.”

“There’s more to this then people really realize,” he adds.

But weathering the challenges, Shantz says the attractions also offer a great way for the local farm to advertise to the larger community.

“We’ve used the same signature bale with the happy face on for 18 years now, and of course we have our name right behind that. So people get their picture and we get free advertising whenever they take a picture, as well,” says Shantz. “We obviously encourage people to take pictures around the farm, and we find that a good form of advertising.”

Nauman for his part doesn’t discourage anyone from opening their farm to visitors either, by offering tours and activities, but he does offer advice: be prepared.

“I would never say no to someone, but they’d better be prepared with, like, dealing with the public.

That is probably the biggest [challenge],” he says.

“If they’ve never dealt with the public, they better be prepared to live with it.

That’s going to be the big thing.”

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Beginning this week, Real Farm Lives, a documentary web series, aims to challenge those misperceptions. The series will give Canadians a glimpse into the daily lives of real farm families from Ontario and Saskatchewan as they work to get food from their farms to our forks. The six episodes, released weekly

throughout October and November on realfarmlives.ca, will help Canadians better understand the complexities of modern farming in the face of climate change, population growth and evolving consumption habits, the organization says in a release.

“There is a lot of misinformation out there about food production and farming techniques, which can cause fear and anxiety,” said Pierre Petelle, president and CEO of CropLife Canada, the association that produced the series.

“By connecting Canadians with real farmers who sustainably grow our safe, high-quality food, we hope viewers will learn about the obstacles farmers have

to tackle and the tools they need to do their jobs well.”

The families cast in Real Farm Lives personify twenty-first century farming. Their actions, conversations, and emotions in the series are as honest and authentic as their labour.

The Renwick family of Renwick Ridgeview Acres in Wheatley, Ontario, have been farming for 200 years. Chris and Rachel Renwick grow soybeans and corn, while their young children learn the business by growing pumpkins, zucchinis and flowers, and selling produce at the roadside.

“Farming is in our blood.

My family has farmed this land for seven generations,

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The Englot family of Costa Lotta Farms in Montmartre, Saskatchewan represent three generations of farmers growing canola and wheat on a 3,000-acre grain farm. For 21-yearold Madison Englot, time spent on the farm gives her an edge in her academic studies, because she sees firsthand the applications of what she’s learning at university.

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“Growing apples is an art and a science, and we take our jobs very seriously.

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Kniaziew says the family’s initial interest in growing food stemmed from his parents’ first careers in health-related fields. Kniaziew’s father is a local optometrist, his mother is a nurse and his brother studied sciences.

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“There’s innovation not just in selecting the right variety, but in finding the best way to grow it, pack it, brand it and deliver it to the consumer,” Kniaziew says. “It’s important the consumer gets a full experience, and that the product isn’t being hidden in the back of the grocery store.”

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Taking a little off the (over the) top The audience-driven hijinks of Shear Madness are now on stage at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse VERONICA REINER THE AUDIENCE SEES A different play every night in Drayton Entertainment’s interactive adventure, Shear Madness.

Set in a hair salon and sporting a whodunit theme, the play’s outcome depends entirely on the audience.

“It’s an interactive comedy-mystery that brings audiences back, again and again, to help solve the crime,” said artistic director Alex Mustakas of the production.

The plot revolves around the murder of pianist Isabel Czerny, who is attacked on the second floor of the Shear Madness hair salon building.

Spectators are introduced to the flamboyant hairdresser Tony Whitcomb (played by Robbie Towns) and manicurist Barbara DeMarco (played by Jacquelyne French).

“There’s subtle cattiness between the two of them,” explained Kevin Sepaul, who plays detective Nick Rosetti in the performance. “There’s their favourite client, Eleanor Schubert, a rich socialite, played by Andrea Risk.

She comes into the salon, and they’re all fussing over her.”

They are joined by Barbara’s love interest, antique dealer Eddie Lawrence (Gord Gammie), goofy police officer Mikey Thomas (Gregory Pember) and his superior officer, Rosetti. It’s up to the audience to figure out who the

killer is out of these six cast members in this Cluelike experience.

“We involve the audience. I call them the audience, but now they become witnesses to that earlier event in which she’s murdered,” said Sepaul. “So we recreate the events with the help of those witnesses. Then they ask questions; they provide evidence; they’re really the seventh character. Everything goes in the direction they suggest.”

The plot is dependent on these witnesses, so much so that perpetrator changes with every new audience. However, the motivation for the murder always remains the same.

Much of the humour revolves around topical references to current events and improvisational comedy, which has been subject to change over the years.

“There’s a lot of ridiculous on-the-spot comedy,” said Sepaul. “There’s very much an environmental feel to the whole thing – that’s the magic of the show.”

Sepaul has been performing in the play since 1998. Since no one knows what the outcome of any given performance will be, there’s no chance of monotony setting in for the cast members.

After performing for two decades, he has seen plenty of changes to the script, significant differences in the outcomes, and even varying audience trends over the years.

Robbie Towns plays flamboyant hairdresser Tony Whitcomb in Drayton Entertainment’s production of Shear Madness. Kevin Sepaul , covered in shaving cream, plays detective Nick Rosetti.

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much activity going on in the salon it is challenging to keep track. But what happens if audience members disagree with one another?

“Sometimes they disagree, sometimes they can’t remember,” said Sepaul. “Fortunately, I remember and so does the rest of the cast. There are certain things written down in a book that we learn, so it’s not like a free-for-all.”

The cast follows a particular pattern and do their best to keep things in order. However, sometimes things get wildly out of order, and it’s up to cast members to roll with it.

The Guinness World Records lists Shear Madness as the longest-running play in American history.

German playwright Paul Pörtner penned the script in 1963.

“He wanted to explore the idea of the inaccurate witness,” said Sepaul.

“And that’s what the play is based upon – people watching a play and recreating it – but can they recreate it 100 per cent?

And a lot of times, they don’t. They miss out on stuff; it takes a different turn. There’s a whole heap of current jokes piled on top of that. A lot of topical references that we’ll say.”

Shear Madness runs at the St. Jacobs County Playhouse until December 23. Tickets can be purchased at www.draytonentertainment.com or by calling the box office at (519) 747-7788.

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WEDNESDAYS BY 10AM

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AUCTION

Truck & Coach Technician

AUCTION SALE at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs on:

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31 AT 9:45 AM

Needed Immediately!

Elmira Truck Service is a modern facility, equipped with all necessary tools and truck hoists for a healthy ergonomic working environment. We are proud of our great work environment with a Team effort being displayed in a challenging trade. Elmira Truck has diverse job opportunity with many different makes of trucks and applications in the Transportation industry. We offer great wages including half hour paid lunch, overtime at 40 hours, and shift premiums. R.S.P.s are available after a year of employment which are supplemented by employer according to years of service.

Depending on experience a 4 day week is available when working from 1:30 P.M. to midnights from Monday to Thursday evenings this includes a special hourly premium.

Please contact us by dropping off a resumé or calling: Tel: 519-669-5377 x227 Cell: 519-589-5197 or Email: glenng@elmiratruckservice.com

HELP WANTED

The Township of Woolwich has the following position available:

IT Help Desk Technician (One Year Contract)

Please visit our Careers and Volunteering page at www.woolwich.ca for full details

HELP WANTED

Bag Truck Driver The successful applicant will have: • A valid G driver’s license needed, with the D designation preferred • Strong oral and written communication skills • Ability to develop effective work relationships with co-workers, and • Ability to represent the company positively with customers.

At Floradale Feed Mill Limited we take pride in providing the finest in quality feeds and service to our customers in the livestock and poultry industries. Therefore, a background in agriculture is considered an asset.

We offer a competitive wage, pension plan and group insurance benefits.

To apply, forward your resume to: Human Resources Floradale Feed Mill Limited 2131 Floradale Road, Floradale, ON N0B 1V0 Or e-mail: ffmjobs@ffmltd.com We appreciate all who apply but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

HOW TO REACH US

suite (table, 6 chairs, china cabinet, buffet); oak hall stand with storage; dry sink; solid oak pedestal table with 4 chairs; corner what not shelf; maple table and 4 chairs; desk and chair; French provincial dresser; extension table with 4 press back chairs; glider rocker; double bed; 2 single beds with matching chest of drawers; dresser; night table; leather chair; glass top rattan table; glider lazy boy rocker; waterfall dresser and chest; pressback rocker; 2 pedestal tables; bookshelf; what not stand; wing back chairs; waterfall cedar chest; hall table; quilt stand; pine bench; 2 utility tables; wooden clothes rack; rocking chair; magazine stand; occasional tables; coffee and end tables; fur coat; jelly brass pail; copper boiler; 2 wing back chairs; drop leaf table; nesting tables; oak hall table; pine 3 piece end table set; old dresser; fox fur hooded jacket; amethyst rocks (collectors); new blankets; collection of vintage art posters; gorgeous silver plate cutlery set in orig wooden case (Complete for 10 + extras); quantity of collectable cups and saucers; large quantity of costume jewelry; intricately carved Burmese mounted carving; 2 large original modern sculptures; Belleek; crystal; Royal Bayreuth dinner service; Duke and Duchess of Windsor gift book set; small appliances; books; vintage posters; oil lamps; crocks; jugs; primitive’s vintage bedding; linens; quilts; etc.

We currently have an opening for:

Night Loader / Production Worker This fulltime position will involve shift work week days (Monday to Friday) with an occasional Saturday shift. Responsibilities will include night loading , warehouse duties and possible pelleting/batching.

• Strong oral and written communication skills • Ability to develop effective work relationships with co-workers, and • Ability to represent the company positively with customers.

HELP WANTED IMMEDIATELY Join our crews working with farm drainage, excavators, and backhoes.

No experience necessary, but good work ethics required.

At Floradale Feed Mill Limited we take pride in providing the finest in quality feeds and service to our customers in the livestock and poultry industries. Therefore, a background in agriculture is considered an asset.

We offer a competitive wage, pension plan and group insurance benefits.

To apply, forward your resume to: Human Resources Floradale Feed Mill Limited 2131 Floradale Road, Floradale, ON N0B 1V0 Or e-mail: ffmjobs@ffmltd.com

Floradale Feed Mill Limited is an independent, family owned and operated feed company serving livestock and poultry producers in Ontario.

This fulltime position will involve safe operation of a bag unit week days (Monday to Friday).

Floradale Feed Mill Limited is an independent, family owned and operated feed company serving livestock and poultry producers in Ontario.

The successful applicant will have:

Call Dan 519.577.9411

We currently have an opening for:

HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS; ANTIQUES; AND COLLECTABLES: 1940’s dining room

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: belt and disc

sander; biscuit cutter; dove tail jig; fencing jig; delta band saw; dremel set; skill saw; routers; Workmate bench; Craftsman router; Makita power tools; table saw; grinder; quantity of woodworking tools; Toro snow blower; fertilizer spreader; wheel barrow; extension ladder; grinder on stand; bar clamps; live trap; work table; and many other items found in this wood working shop.

We appreciate all who apply but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

EXPANDING PROPERTY MAINTENANCE COMPANY LOOKING TO HIRE

HELP WANTED

WINTER EQUIPMENT OPERATORS AND LABORER’S Full Time Positions available.

Competitive Wages and Stand-By Pay. Please Contact Mark at: 1-226-751-6760 mark@mitchellpropertymaintenance.com CLASSIFIED LISTINGS

CHILD CARE REQUIRED CHILDCARE WANTED: PASSIONATE about working with children? Looking for care for a one-year-old child. Starting September 2019 for approximately 10 days/month. Schedule for a full year available in advance. No summer/school holiday care required. Email brentandtessa@outlook. com. Call/text 519-291-8042.

FOR SALE LAWN FERTILIZER AND LAWN SEED - Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

MATTRESS AND BOX Spring, new, never used, still in sealed bag. Sacrifice $195.

Delivery available $35.

519-635-8737.

AUCTIONEER:

Jantzi Auctions Ltd.

Now Hiring full time

Wellesley | 519-656-3555

Buffet Cook

www.JantziAuctions.com

for evenings and weekends.

Cooking experience not a must but a definite asset.

Please apply within to Julie Beacom or Anton Heimpel, or send resumes to julie@crossroadsrestaurant.ca FOR SALE VINYL FARM HOUSE replacement windows. Energy Star rated and certified.

No extra charge for custom sizes. Installation available.

519-698-2059.

AUCTIONS FARM PROPERTY AUCTION. To be held at 3505 CarmelKoch Rd., Wilmot Twp. for Clearmist Farm Ltd. (Carl & Sarah Richardson) on Sat., Oct. 27 @ 11a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

AUCTIONS FRI OCT. 26 at 5:00 p.m. Toy auction of approx. 700 toys including Lionel trains; different scales of trains; train tracks; farm toys; cars; trucks; banks; meccano sets; and much more at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre exclusively for the estate of the late Bev Seigner of Georgetown. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

AUCTIONS SAT. OCT 27 at 10:00 a.m. - Clearing auction sale of 4 bedroom home on a spacious; gorgeous lot; household effects; furniture; antiques; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at 439 Lexington Cres. in Waterloo for Mona and the estate of Waldemar Betker. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com CONTINUED ON PG. 20

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AUCTIONS

LISTINGS CONTINUED FROM PG 19

AUCTIONS SAT. OCT 27 at 9:00 a.m. Annual Charity auction of quilts; donated house hold items; furniture; gift certificates and much more to be held at the Elmira produce auction 7400 Reid Woods Drive Elmira for the Elmira and District Association for Community Living. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF Riding lawn mower, snow blower, antiques, collectibles, household, tools, & miscellaneous items, to be held at the Linwood Community Centre, 5279 Ament Line in Linwood, for Mike & Colleen Baldwin, Plattsville & additions, on Wed., Oct. 31st @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451

Transport Supervisor Reporting to the Transport Manager this position will be responsible for the supervision of 25–30 drivers. The Supervisor will oversee training, performance and other transport related tasks while providing consistent, positive, solution focused communication.

The successful candidate will have the ability to lead, motivate and coach drivers. This person will also be detail oriented and comfortable juggling multiple priorities. One to three years of transport experience is preferred. The company is growing and so is our fleet.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the team and help us achieve our future goals.

SAT. NOV 3 at 3:00 PM - Real estate auction of a gorgeous; well built home on a scenic approx. 34 acre hobby farm to be held at 2000 Bleams Rd E in Petersburg for Ryan Hayden. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

SAT. NOV 3 at 9:00 AM Annual Charity auction sale of quilts; new donated items; gift certificates; furniture; tools; and much much more to be held at the Stratford Rotary Complex in Stratford for the Gospel Echoes Ontario Team. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

Where people matter and

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and thank all applicants in advance. Accommodations are available during all stages of the recruitment process.

WED. OCT 31 at 9:45 a.m.

- Clearing auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; tools; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St.

Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com AUCTION SALE OF Cockshutt tractor, riding lawn mowers, antiques, household goods and miscellaneous items,

to be held at 92 Baird St. in Bright, for the Richard Ward Estate, on Saturday, November 3rd @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-599-4451 or 519-698-0138

Serving a diverse population of over 560,000, the Region of Waterloo is a growing community where people matter and ideas grow.

Our mission is to serve, engage and inspire – residents, businesses and staff alike. This means delivering quality services while creating a positive, inclusive workplace where our employees are valued and respected for their talents and contributions to our success.

PUBLIC NOTICE “PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.”

Community Information Page

P.O. Box 158

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

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and thank all applicants in advance; however, we will be corresponding only with those selected for an interview. We will accommodate the needs of qualified applicants under the Human Rights Code in all parts of the hiring process.

LEAF DISPOSAL Please do not rake your leaves onto the road. This practice has been prohibited by bylaw in the Township of Woolwich since 1994. There is a fine of $125 for depositing any debris or refuse, which includes leaves, on Township roads.

Phone: 519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 519-669-1820 Hours Emergency: www.woolwich.ca These piles of leavesFax:are a safetyAfterhazard as519-575-4400 they encourage children to play on the road. They can also result in flooding issues when the leaves block storm drains.

LEAF DISPOSAL ALTERNATIVES NATURAL CHOICES Mulching and composting are the most economical and environmentally beneficial ways to deal with your leaves.

• Instead of disposing of your leaves, save them, mulch them with your lawnmower and gradually add them to your home composter. They will break down into a useful organic material that can be added to flower and vegetable gardens.

• Rather than raking your leaves, why not mulch them on your lawn or into your garden? When the leaves are dry, mow your lawn more frequently. The mulched leaves will soon disappear into your lawn or garden as fertilizer.

CURBSIDE LEAF COLLECTION PROGRAM Bagged Leaf Collection “PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.” • Bag leaves using only paper yard waste bags or returnable containers marked with a Region of Waterloo Yard Waste sticker.

P.O. Box 158 Church St. W. • Place out with yard waste materials on yard waste collection24Elmira, daysOntario separately from your garbage containers.

N3B 2Z6 • For more information call the Region of Waterloo at 519-883-5100.

Tip: Mulching your leaves with a lawn mower or other mulching device prior to bagging can reduce leaf volumes. (10 bags of loose leaves = 1 bag of mulched leaves) If you have too many leaves for your composter to handle, you may bring your leaves to the Regional Landfill Site located at: Gate 2, 925 Erb Street West, Waterloo Monday to Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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LOCAL http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/aboutTheEnvironment/Landfill_Operations.asp Phone: 519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820 After Hours Emergency:

519-575-4400 www.woolwich.ca

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HELP WANTED

To apply, drop off your resume at our office or send it via email to recruiting@wfs.ca.

Please respond no later than November 16, 2018.

AUCTIONS

SAT. NOV 10 at 9:30 AM - Toy auction of approx. 600 toys including tractors; precision; old tin toys; banks; tractors; trailers; pedal cars; and much much more for the exclusive collection of Eric and Helen Kints at 40733 Thames Rd outside of Exeter. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

ideas grow

LIBRARY ASSISTANTS (2 POSITIONS) These two temporary (for approx. 6 months) part-time positions, supporting various branches of the Region of Waterloo Library, are a great opportunity to combine knowledge of the local community and experience working with adults, children and books. Working approximately 15 hours per week, you will provide public library services, both branch-based and at other community locations, from customer service and circulation to helping with programs and events. We seek individuals who can use programs such as MS Office, library automation software (e.g., SirsiDynix Workflows), the internet, social media, mobile devices and digital resources, and troubleshoot hardware and software issues. These technical skills are coupled with the interpersonal ability to assist the public and library members, and promote library programs and services in person and over the phone. Your familiarity with library resources and operations will normally have been acquired through a Grade 12 education and 1 year of related experience as described above, OR Grade 12 plus an EXCEL Certificate in Small Library Management (or equivalent) and 6 months’ related experience. You must be able to travel within the Region, and work days, evenings and weekends, as needed.

Please visit our website for a detailed description of these positions (competition number 2018-1970), and to apply online before 11:59 p.m., Sunday, October 28, 2018.

www.regionofwaterloo.ca

AUCTION

DAVID CARSON FARMS & AUCTION SERVICES LTD. SAT. OCTOBER 27TH – 12 Noon – Carsons

Speckle Park Influence Sale Followed by a Simmental & Angus Production Sale.

A Speckle Park Influence Sale including Registered or Commercial Speckle Parks, Speckle Park crossbred or animals bred Speckle Park. Followed by a Simmental & Angus Production Sale for Carroll Creek Cattle Co.

MONDAY OCTOBER 29TH – 1:00 P.M.

– Carson’s Fall Stocker Sale. Offering all pre conditioned, bunk adjusted, and age verified calves of various breeds. Call now to Consign!

SAT. NOV 3RD– 11:00 A.M. – Beef Cow &

Calf Sale. Offering cows, breeder bulls, and cow/calf pairs. Offering a group of 37 Red Baldy & Charolais 1st Calf Bred Heifers. Cull cows at 11A.M. followed by Stocker sale.

Consignments Accepted!

WED. NOV 7TH – 11:30 A.M. – Registered Holstein Milking Sale for Centennial Home Farms & Dairy Consignment Sale. Herd offers approx... 25 Head of Milk Cows & Heifers. Followed by a Dairy Consignment Sale offering registered and grade, fresh and springing young Holstein cows and heifers.

Open & Bred heifers will start at 11:30 A.M. prior to the Herd Sale. Consignments Welcome!

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

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

AUCTION Retirement - Closeout

PUBLIC

AUCTION to be held ON SITE at

Auto-Serv Machine 351 Michener Rd, Guelph

Sat Oct 27th 9:30am Automotive Machine Shop Equipment

Crank Polisher & Balancer* Magnaflux Machines Cylinder Bore Line Hone* Mini Broach 2 - Boring Bars * Drum & Disc Brake Lathes Manifold, Flywheel, Head & Block Grinders 3 - Sunnen Rod Hones & Gauges * 2- Rod IDL Valve Guide Machine* Valve Grinder* Rod & Cylinders Hones* 100’s of Valve Seats Rod Heater, Aligners, Cap & Rod Grinder Hyd Arbour Press * Sand Blast Cab * 3/ 4” Sockets Chain Hoist * Air Tools Generator * Dip tank Mic’s, Dial Bore Gauges & Indicators Racks * Cranks & Cores * Cylinder Heads Welder* Vintage Display Cabinet* etc

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES

THOMPSON’S

Auto Tech Inc. Providing the latest technology to repair your vehicle with accuracy and confidence.

Accredited Test & Repair Facility

519-669-4400 30 ORIOLE PKWY. E., ELMIRA www.thompsonsauto.ca

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

TIRE

WHERE TIRES ARE A

SPECIALTY, NOT A SIDE LINE.

Farm • Auto • Truck Industrial On-The-Farm Service

 Drywall & Taping  Painting  Flooring Installation

 Trim & Moulding  Tiling  Appliance Installation & much more

FREE ESTIMATES ON ANY SIZE JOB

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Driveways • Sidewalks • Curbs • Patios Finished Floors • Retaining Walls • Steps Decorative/Stamped and Coloured Concrete

CALL US TODAY! 226-220-1196

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519-669-3232

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519-577-0370

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HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL

“25 years in Business”

ST. JACOBS

GLASS SYSTEMS INC. 1553 King St. N., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0

• Store Fronts • Thermopanes • Mirrors • Screen Repair • Replacement Windows • Shower Enclosures • Sash Repair TEL:

519-664-1202 / 519-778-6104 FAX: 519 664-2759 • 24 Hour Emergency Service

CONSTRUCTION INC.

• Residential • Commercial • Industrial

info@trappconstruction.ca www.trappconstruction.ca

(519) 569-0772

Randy Weber

• Commercial & Industrial General Contracting • Specializing in Concrete Work & Excavation • Retaining Walls

ECRA/ESA Licence # 7000605

www.rwelectricltd.com 18 Kingfisher Dr., Elmira | 519.669.1462

• • • •

Stamped Coloured Concrete Demolition Bin Service Machine Bases

Concrete Breaking & Removal

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

AMOS INC

R O O F I N G

- Design and build -

AGRICULTURAL | RESIDENTIAL FRAMING • ROOFING RENOVATIONS • EAVESTROUGHS

Wayne Martin | 519-504-2016 darwayconstruction@icloud.com | Alma, ON

• Specializing in residential re-roofs • Repairs • Churches

DESIGN CENTRE

KITCHEN, BATH & WINDOW FASHIONS

Blinds, shades, drapery & more • Custom cabinetry made in Canada Free In-home consultations • Our experienced designer will help you work within your personal taste and budget

Call someone you can trust - your local Home Hardware

A Family owned and operated business serving KW, Elmira and surrounding area for over 35 years.

Popular Brands Available

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CALL JAYME FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE.

22 Church St. W., Elmira

519.501.2405 | 519.698.2114

Tel: 519-669-5537 or 1-844-866-5537 STORE HOURS: M-F: 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 10-5

In Business since 1973 • Fully Insured

John Schaefer Painting FREE ESTIMATES Interior/exterior Painting, Wallpapering & Plaster | drywall Repairs

519-503-6033 (CELL) 519-669-2251

36 Hampton St., Elmira

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

Steve Co.

Plumbing and Maintenance Inc.

Visit our website

www.biobobs.com or call today!

519-648-3004

or

800-232-6396

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For all your Plumbing Needs.

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24 HOUR SERVICE Steve Jacobi

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APPLIANCES – FURNACES – FIREPLACES AIR CONDITIONERS – WATER HEATERS SPRING SPECIAL ON AIR CONDITIONING TUNE UP $99, INSTALLED FROM $1999 FURNACES INSTALLED FROM $2499 FRIDGES $499, STOVES $399, WASHERS $399, DRYERS $369, FREEZERS $199 Come visit our show room FREE QUOTES 1 Union Street, Elmira

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•Final grading •Lawn repair & complete seeding well equipped for large stoney areas •Spike Aerator/Overseeding •Natural & Interlocking Stone •Retaining Walls, Walks & Patios •Help for Top Water & Drainage issue

Murray & Daniel Shantz

ALMA, ONTARIO | PHONE: 519.846.5427

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REAL ESTATE

HAVE REAL ESTATE QUESTIONS? WE CAN HELP! BROKERAGE

R.W . THUR REAL ESTATE LTD .

$949,900 Sue From

SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT

226-750-9332 suefrom17@gmail.com

Office:

Drayton - A rare opportunity to own a custom built bungalow in a picturesque country setting only 30 minutes to KW. This meticulously maintained home has an open concept feel and is finished from top to bottom including in-floor geothermal heat and a generator hook up.

With the sprawling island, formal living room, family room and main floor laundry, this home has been well thought out. Entertaining is a breeze in this huge rec room, two bedrooms and an office in the basement. Nestled within beautiful evergreen trees and lush gardens, you will enjoy the peaceful evenings watching the stars or watching the flames flicker in your fire pit garden oasis. In addition to the single garage, the 24X24 ft detached workshop will impress.

Call today to visit this property!

Alli Bauman SALES REPRESENTATIVE CALL DIRECT

519-577-6248 allibauman17@gmail.com

3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426 Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

519 -669 -2772 45 Arthur St. S., Elmira www.thurrealestate.com

B RAD MARTIN

LUKE

LET OUR 65+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!

OPEN HOUSE NEW PRICE

SUN. OCT. 28 FROM 1-3PM 28 SECOND ST, ELMIRA

Custom built bungalow (almost 2000 sq. ft) Offers an open concept main flr-hdwd in LR. Dr. & office. Private Master suite w/2 closests & 4 pc. ensuite. Partially fin bsmt w/ huge rec-rm, 2 bdrms & 2 pc- No backyard neighbour! MLS Reduced to $749,000

SELLING? CALL US FOR A FREE MARKET EVALUATION.

Independently Owned and Operated

J ULIE

SHANTZ Broker of Record, HECKEND ORN Broker Broker MVA Residential Res: 519 .669 .1068 Cell: 519 .588.7562 Cell: 519 .584 .4 4 00

$749,000 $799,900 8 BUNTING PLACE , ELMIRA

Shanna Rozema

Brubacher

A portion of each sale commission is donated to The Woolwich Community Services.

BROKER

HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO…

OPEN HOUSE | SAT URDAY, OCTOBER 27TH

WELL MAINTAINED 2 STOREY $484,900 ELMIRA

Welcoming & inviting home, open concept main floor layout offers a spacious foyer, den/nook space, bright living room and kitchen/dinette with breakfast bar, walkout to a private deck, fenced yard and shed. Bonus 2nd floor great room and amazing space to hang out, 3 bdrms, 3 bathrooms including ensuite. Garage & double driveway, across from a park. MLS

Huge 58x220 lot backing to open space!

Original owners in this custom built backsplit. 3 br + den, 2 bath. Country kitch. walk out to two tier deck. family room walk out on grade to fenced inground pool. Formal LR/DR. Unfinished lower level waiting your design. Shows well! New MLS

BROKER

Bonnie 10 AM  12 PM • 74 MUSCOVEY DR, ELMIRA

NEW LISTING

$569,900 ELMIRA Meticulously maintained two storey finished top to bottom. New custom white kitchen offers quartz counter top, island/breakfast bar, built-in appliances, engineered hardwood floors, walkout to a backyard oasis, brand new Earthscape covered patio complete with BBQ, dining & sitting area, fenced landscaped yard & shed. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, finished rec. room w/gas fireplace. NEW MLS

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34 MILL STREET , ELMIRA NEW LISTING

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AUCTIONS WED. NOV 14 at 9:45 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; collectibles; tools; household effects; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre 29 Parkside Dr St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

KILN DRIED CORN & CORN SCREENING Delivered by Einwechter. Minimum 15 ton lots. Call George Haffner Trucking 519-574-4141 or 519-669-2045.

HORSES WATERLOO COUNTY HORSE Sale to be held at OLEX Saturday October 27th, 10 a.m. To consign or for more info call 519-595-3307.

WANTED BUYING: ROLEX, OMEGA, Bretling and others: pocket watches, all gold and silver jewellery and diamonds, silver and gold coins, silverware, Group of Seven paintings. Call Terry 519-2426900 or gallamore@golden.net Fair, honest prices. Elmira.

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FAMILY ALBUM ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY

Happy 50th Anniversary

Happy 50th Anniversary

Marilyn and Brian

Janet and Richard Beisel

Phares and Eileen Martin

IN MEMORIAM

Mitchell October 26, 1968

DECHERT, Shawn Del Jan. 30, 1965 – Oct. 26, 2009

Love, your Family

Please join us for an open house on Sunday, October 28th at the Listowel Agricultural Hall from 2 to 5 in honour of Phares and Eileen Martin’s 50th wedding anniversary.

Congratulations on 50 wonderful years of marriage!

We hold you close within our hearts And there you will remain To walk with us throughout our lives Until we meet again

Love, your children and grandchildren

Mom, Dad, Pamela & Paul

THANK YOU

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HAFFNER, Agnes Matilda

Gerth, Dorothy Mae (nee Beaty)

HOFFMANN, Erwin Henry

McAllister, Donald Thank you to all our family and friends for their caring remembrance of Don. A special thank you to all the staff at St. Jacobs Place, Care Partners and Innisfree House for the excellent care he received. Thank you to the Legion members for their meaningful service, to Reverend Sue Campbell for her caring message, to everyone who made donations to the Poppy Fund in memory of Don, and our sincere appreciation to Dreisinger Funeral Home.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com OBITUARY REGER, Milford C. Passed away peacefully following a stroke, at Innisfree House, Kitchener on Monday, October 22, 2018. Milford of Wellesley at the age of 88 years.

Beloved husband for 62 years to Shirley “Bunny” (nee Rabideau).

Loving father of Robin Reger and his wife Karen. He will be sadly missed by his brothers and sisters; Harold, Ken (Ruth), Paul (Josephine), Richard (Lynda), Elaine Greenhous and Shirley Beitz as well as many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his parents Harvey Reger and Salome (nee Snider), four brothers and three sisters. Milford was born in Elmira and retired from Procast foundry in Elmira. He was also a avid fisherman in his spare time. He was a great father and loved by all his family and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Innisfree House or Community Care Concepts would be appreciated. As per Milford’s wishes, there will be no visitation or funeral services. Cremation has taken place.

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Peacefully, on Monday, October 22, 2018, at St. Jacobs Place Retirement Home, at age 85 years. She suffered for five years with chronic pain and over the last few months she had terminal liver, lung and bone cancer.

Dear mother of Donna Kunkel and her husband John of Kitchener and George Haffner and his wife Crystal of Elmira.

Sadly missed by her grandchildren, Jessie and Chris Pachereva, Trevor Kunkel and friend Jen Doerner, Ryan and Brooklyn Haffner and greatgrandchildren, Brea and Ivie Pachereva.

Survived by her siblings, Bill Haid, Stanley Haid, Kathleen Herteis, Jerome Haid and Rita Murdock.

Predeceased by her parents, Joseph Haid and Theresa (nee Logel), brothers Joseph (at birth), Charles, Anthony, John, Al, Lawrence and sisters, Theresa Haid, Emmeline Rosenberger, Mary Beith, Rose Schlueter and Margaret Druar.

A special thank you to Dr. G. Jones, the palliative staff and the nurses at St. Jacobs Place Retirement Home for their care and understanding. A thank you also to Dr. Taylor and Dying with Dignity.

We thank God in his mercy for the peaceful end to her life and a new beginning in the next.

Relatives and friends may call at the Erb & Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King St. S., Waterloo on Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held in the Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. with a light lunch served immediately following the service in the funeral home’s Fireside Room. Interment at Parkview Cemetery, Waterloo for family only will be later.

As expressions of sympathy and in lieu of flowers, donations to the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre or the Hospice of Waterloo Region would be appreciated and may be arranged by contacting the funeral home at www.erbgood.com or 519-745-8445.

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Passed away peacefully on Friday, October 19, 2018, at Heritage House, St. Jacobs, at the age of 95 years.

Dorothy was the beloved wife of the late Harold Gerth (1989). Sister-in-law of John and Ruth Gerth and Murray and Aleda Gerth. Dorothy is lovingly remembered by her many nieces and nephews and their families.

Predeceased by her parents James and Wilhelmina Beaty, her brothers Harry (Tilly), Cliff, and Ken (Mabel), and her nephew Bruce Beaty. Dorothy was a longtime faithful member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and was a very active community member of Linwood. Dorothy and Harold were the founding owners of Gerth Transport which is now known as the Gerth Group in Linwood. Visitation took place on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 from 5-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. Funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 1036 Gordon Hain St., Linwood.

Interment to follow in St. Peter’s Lutheran Cemetery. In Dorothy’s memory, donations to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church or the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. The family would like to extend a special thank you to all the staff at Heritage House, St. Jacobs for the excellent care given to Dorothy during her stay with you.

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com IN MEMORIAM

Donald Klein & John Klein We will always love you.

From Debbie, Krista, Kurt, Alex and Blake and Doris of course

Passed peacefully with family by his side at Sunnyside Home, Kitchener on Sunday, October 21, 2018. Erwin, formerly of Wellesley was in his 95th year. Beloved husband of the late Margaret Neeb (1989). Loving father of Joanne (Gary Stewart) and Bernice (Warren Bechthold) all of Petersburg and Terry Hoffmann (Lynne) of Kitchener. Dear grandfather of Jennifer, Colin, Craig, Ian, Andrew, Stacey, Leslie, Stewart, Benjamin, Ainsley and great-grandpa of ten. He will be sadly missed by his brother-in law Clayton Neeb (Marlene) as well as many nieces and nephews. Erwin was the son of the late John C. Hoffmann and Emma L. Dammeier. Predeceased by his sister Helen Otterbein (Lloyd), brothers-in law and sisters-in law; Vera, Nelson, Edward, Erma, Art, Sid, Wilfred, Marie, Wallace and Marie. Erwin was a loyal and dedicated member of the Wellesley community. He farmed in Wellesley Township, worked at the former Pauli Home Centre in New Hamburg and Beaver Lumber in Waterloo, a member of the Wellesley and District Board of Trade, Wellesley-North Easthope Agricultural Society, Junior Farmers, local 4H clubs and Owls Nest Carving Club in Waterloo. He was a faithful member of St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wellesley. Special thanks to all his care givers. Friends may call at the FUTHER-FRANKLIN FUNERAL HOME, 1172 Henry Street, Wellesley on Thursday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held at St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1123 Henry Street, Wellesley, on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 11 a.m.

Following a time of fellowship and refreshment, interment will take place at Parkview Cemetery, Waterloo. Pastor David Hammer officiating. Donations to St. Marks Church or Sunnyside Foundation would be appreciated.

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OBITUARY

COLLINS BARROW CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 342 Gerrie Road,ELORA,ON N0B 1S0 Attention Tom Blonde CPA, CA A decision will be made as early as possible. Closing date to be May 31, 2019 but vendor will allow early access to work the farm land in the spring.

Note that the highest or any offer will not necessarily be accepted.

DEATH NOTICES LEIS, LORNE LAVERNE - The family is deeply saddened to announce his passing at Knollcrest Lodge, Milverton on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. Lorne Leis of Wellesley and formerly of Milverton in his 82nd year PENNY, THOMAS WILLIAM - On Sunday, October 14, 2018 at the age of 74, Tom passed away suddenly while on a hunting trip with very good friends.

VOISIN, JOHANNA - Passed away peacefully on Monday, October 22, 2018 at Barnswallow Place in Elmira.

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Passed away peacefully on Monday, October 22, 2018 at Barnswallow Place in Elmira. Johanna was born February 2, 1930 in St. Clements to the late John and Martha Herteis. She remained in St. Clements with her beloved late husband of 60 years Carl (2010), where they raised their children Steve, Greg (Cathy), Cindy and Christine. Adored and cherished Gramma of the late Michelle (2014) (Tony), Craig (Brandy), Melanie (Scott), Megan (Dom), Ryan (Kyrie), Jesse (Hayley), Colin and Kelsey. Loving Great-Gramma to Zack, Cam, Nash, Sadie, Hannah, Isla, Liam, Brynlee and Great-Great-Gramma to Allianna. Dear sister to Abbey (the late Marion), the late Joseph (Carol), the late Gerry (Arlene), Tony, Mary (Harvey) and Normie (the late Patricia). She will also be missed by her extended family and friends.

Johanna was a loyal member of the St. Clement’s RC Church and dedicated Christian Mother. She had a great smile and even better sense of humour. Her favourite time was spent with her family and friends, and she also enjoyed playing cards and bingo. Johanna lived a simple life, but it was full.

Johanna’s family will receive friends and relatives at Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur Street South, Elmira, on Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The memorial service will be held at Dreisinger Funeral Chapel on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Special thanks to the amazing staff at Barnswallow Place for their care and compassion. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the St. Clement’s RC Church or St. Teresa’s RC Church are greatly appreciated.

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LIVING HERE CHEF’S TABLE/ DIERRE ACHESON

ENVIRONMENT / GOING THE DISTANCE

Running the butterfly’s path Elmira distance runner part of film project taking participants on a route from Ontario to Mexico VERONICA REINER THE FIRST EVER VERYLONG-DISTANCE run to connect all three countries in North America, the Monarch Ultra will truly put runners to the test in a 4,200 km relay that takes participants through the migration path of the Monarch butterfly, a route mapped out by Elmira runner Clay Williams.

Participants will begin in Peterborough, ON and wrap up in Mexico. In doing so, they’ll also have the opportunity to tell their story to the public, as director and cinematographer Rodney Fuentes is filming the journey.

“The intention is not just to run this distance, it’s to create awareness about butterflies and conservation in general,” explained Fuentes. “So we didn’t want just to document the run; we wanted the runners to tell the story. So, there will be runners talking about it.

We will be talking to experts in the field. Ideally, this documentary will come out and learn about butterflies, learn about the environment, and raise awareness for pollinators.”

“We believe documentary projects about monarch butterflies is an invitation for us as human beings and global citizens to think about our place on this Earth,” added pollinator advocate and ultra-runner Carlotta James. “To leave a lasting impact that’s positive, that’s generative, that’s sustainable. That there’s a place for our children and

Elmira’s Clay Williams planned out the route, which will mirror the migration pattern of the Monarch butterfly. Organizers will take a road trip in November to test the route for safety.

[VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER] grandchildren.”

There has been a drop in the number of pollinators over the past years.

For example, the honey bee population has been noticeably declining since approximately 2006, known as colony collapse disorder.

This is due to a variety of environmental and biological factors, such as parasites and climate change.

Pollinators are crucial to maintaining habitats and ecosystems that many animals rely on for food and shelter. The population of pollinators, in general, has been suffering since the end of the 20th century, including Monarchs.

James said the idea came to her while she was out for a run along the forest trails in Peterborough and was surrounded by Monarch butterflies.

“They fly between 4,000 to 5,000 km,” said James.

“They weigh less than a paperclip. And yet they can make this incredible journey. And to me, we all need symbols of hope and resilience in our life right now because of how the world is.

“We’re also really trying to show the challenge of what the Monarchs go through. This is a lengthy migration. We don’t want it to be easy, either. We want it to become a little bit dif-

ficult. Because when we go through difficulties in life, that’s when we come out of it feeling like a renewed person.”

Fuentes predicted that the run would take approximately 40-50 days to complete - about the same amount of time as the butterfly migration.

Williams has mapped out the route for participants.

Destinations included are Toronto, Indianapolis, Im, Little Rock, Ar, Austin, Tx, and Mexico City. He planned this route using his experience from previous long-distance races, including organizing a 750 km trek to Ottawa. Google Maps

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“I have the main route that Google calculates,” explained Williams. “Then I use Google satellite view to get a little closer up picture of what the roads and paths actually look like. For example, going over a one-lane bridge over the Mississippi – not a really good idea to send a pedestrian over a mile-long, one-lane bridge.

“So I look at the course fairly close and then I can get an even closer look using Google street view. It’s cool doing that because I get to see all the things we’re going to look at when we’re running.”

The organizers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the project, as well as accepting participants who may want to get involved with the endeavour.

“The campaign is the big focus right now,” said Williams. “We’re letting people know we’re doing this and there’s an opportunity to support us. And ultimately, we’re doing something pretty wild and exciting and something to get attention.

The intention of getting that attention is to divert it to the cause of our pollinators that are dying off at alarming rates.”

The run is set to take place next year in the fall of 2019. Anyone interested in learning more can visit www.kickstarter.com/ projects/1818077578/themonarch-ultra-mappingthe-most-epic-run-on-ear.

Alternatively, email info@rodneyfuentes.com or carlotta.james@gmail.com.

It’s a cool time for mulling over a warm seasonal beverage RECIPE NOTES FEW THINGS BRING A kitchen to life like the sweet smells of autumn; cinnamon, apples, squash roasting – there is nothing like it.

It’s time for the comforts of home, knowing that the colder weather is coming.

We enjoy mulled cider this time of year, with Sunday afternoons in particular calling for an appetizer and warm drink. Our local drink feature at the Northfield Racquet Club is a new addition to the menu, for instance. Local ciders are by far the best. Wellesley apple cider and Filsingers are my favourite organic variety.

Taking these beverages and adding cinnamon, ginger and cranberries are the start of a magical drink.

Murphy’s Law of Elmira makes moonshine to complement cider. It’s one of the many local companies to enjoy. Shop locally and bring that flavour home to enjoy.

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HALLOWEEN DANCE. WOOLWICH COMMUNITY Lions and volunteer firefighters are hosting the dance at Lions Hall, Elmira, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets $10 per person, 19+ yrs - DJ - lunch - prizes. Advance tickets at Elmira Meat Market, The Window Box and Lions members.

EVERGREEN SENIORS’ FELLOWSHIP AT 10:30 a.m., Woodside Church, Elmira. Jesus and Advil - Facing Issues of Aging presented by Dr. Sandra Brickell Koke MD. Devotional: Pastor Gordon Wright. Suggested donations $7, includes a hot lunch.

HUNGRYMAN BREAKFAST AT THE Elmira Legion with Canadian Riders Bike Club. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Proceeds going to the local Food Banks.

COUNTRY JAM SESSION AT Elmira Legion from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Food available for purchase from 6 p.m to 7 p.m. $2 entry.

NOVEMBER 3 REMEMBRANCE DAY TEA & Bake Sale at the Elmira Legion from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Baking, deli table, tea room, raffle table and much more.

NOVEMBER 5 THE PRACTICE OF AUTHENTIC & Compassionate Listening. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, St. Jacobs. In caring for others there are times when caregivers neglect to bring their fullest selves to the relationship.

Strengthen your congruence as a caregiver enabling more sustainable & life-giving communication.

NEW HORIZONS FOR ZOOMERS, boomers and seniors.

Come see Audrey & Pat Gleeson and Marianne & Mike Kraemer, community leaders. Topic: A Local Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Join us, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Maryhill Community Centre. Admission $2/ person.

SENIORS’ LUNCH CLUB AT Breslau Community Centre at Noon. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a light lunch and fellowship, $6. Please call 519664-1900 by November 5 to sign up.

NOVEMBER 14 SENIORS’ COMMUNITY DINING AT Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs at noon. Community Care concepts invites you to join us for lunch, fellowship and entertainment, $11. Call 519-664-1900 by noon November 12 to sign up.

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NOVEMBER 7 YOUNG AT HEART CLUB. Join us for cards, snacks and friendship from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Clements Community Centre, upstairs.

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MARYHILL KNIGHT OF COLUMBUS Vegas Night. Come out and join us at the Bridgeport Rod and Gun, Breslau. Doors open at 7 p.m., admission is free.

Fast food available, prizes to be won, penny table and other games of chance. a light lunch is served at the end.

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NOVEMBER 21 SENIORS’ LUNCH CLUB. JOIN us at Wellesley Mennonite Church (new location) at noon.

Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for lunch and fellowship, $6. Please call 519-664-1900 by November 19 to sign up.

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YOUNG AT HEART CLUB. We invite you to join us in making Christmas crafts and enjoy some delicious Christmas treats. St. Clements Community Centre from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Card players welcome.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perhaps no surprise that a healthy lifestyle lets people live longer WEIRD NOTES

Q. What are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue

Zonesâ&#x20AC;? and why might you be interested in knowing about them?

A. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re places in the world populated by the longest-lived people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; centenarians and even some super-centenarians 110 years of age or older â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with relatively few years of disability, reports the University of California, Berkeley â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wellness Letter.â&#x20AC;? The name grew out of investigators using a blue pen on a map to designate these â&#x20AC;&#x153;longevity hot spotsâ&#x20AC;?: the Ogliastra and Barbagia regions of Sardinia; Okinawa, Japan; the

Greek island Ikaria; the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica; and Loma Linda, California.

In one village of about 900 inhabitants in Sardinia, for example, there have been 20 centenarians over the past 20 years, with men and women living equally long lives. And Loma Linda, California, the only Blue Zone in the U.S., has the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest concentration of Seventh Day Adventists, known for their healthy lifestyles. People there live 10 years longer than other Americans. Among the common traits of longlived people are eating plant-based diets, limiting processed foods, sugar and alcohol, being active, managing stress, and having a sense of community.

Interestingly, in the Blue

Zones, rates of smoking and obesity vary widely, which suggests that nature as well as nurture are at work here. In fact, one study identified â&#x20AC;&#x153;longevity genesâ&#x20AC;? common among 100+ year-olds, perhaps offering protection against a variety of chronic diseases.

Q. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We park on driveways, and drive on parkways,â&#x20AC;? we say. What sense can we make of such seeming â&#x20AC;&#x153;nonsenseâ&#x20AC;??

A. Let history help. First coined in 1839, â&#x20AC;&#x153;drivewaysâ&#x20AC;? were â&#x20AC;&#x153;roads that ran alongside barns, where vehicles like wagons could drive up and either offload cargo (like hay, food, or livestock) or take on cargo,â&#x20AC;? says Dan Lewis on his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now I Knowâ&#x20AC;? website, drawing on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Merriam

destroyed the part of her brain housing her visual system, leaving her blind. If you hold a ball in front of her she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it. Yet toss the ball to her and she will catch it. How?

Webster.â&#x20AC;?

Fast forward to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s automobiles, yet driveways are still â&#x20AC;&#x153;little private roads,â&#x20AC;? connecting our houses to the main road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parkwaysâ&#x20AC;? took a different route. Probably dating back to the 1870s, â&#x20AC;&#x153;parkwayâ&#x20AC;? is taken from the old English word â&#x20AC;&#x153;parkâ&#x20AC;? for â&#x20AC;&#x153;fence,â&#x20AC;? and is basically an enclosed place. With increasing automobile traffic, the need arose for car paths through the growing number of parks (hence, â&#x20AC;&#x153;parkwaysâ&#x20AC;?), typically direct routes where â&#x20AC;&#x153;cars could travel at pretty high speeds unabated.â&#x20AC;?

So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the explanation and, concludes Lewis, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if you think about it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still pretty weird.â&#x20AC;?

Q. Milena Canning was 29 when a stroke

A. Canning is an eager participant in a study of the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Riddoch phenomenon,â&#x20AC;? the ability to perceive motion while blind to other visual stimuli, reports Bahar Gholipour in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scientific Americanâ&#x20AC;? magazine. First described in 1917 by neurologist George Riddoch based on his experience with brain-injured World War I soldiers, the condition is very rare: Canning went from doctor to doctor until she was correctly diagnosed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and prescribed a rocking chair to help enhance her motion-

based vision.

Neuroscientist Jody Culham and her colleagues have studied Canning for 10 years, trying to understand how motion perception can take â&#x20AC;&#x153;indirect routesâ&#x20AC;? around the damaged region of Canningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These side roads most likely exist in all our brains as remnants of the early visual system that evolved to detect approaching threats even without full-fledged sight.â&#x20AC;?

Says Canning, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I can help them understand the brain more, I could understand why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m seeing what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m seeing.â&#x20AC;?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strange But True.â&#x20AC;? Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

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15. Pink, as a steak 16. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the King, thank-you very much.

17. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catch!â&#x20AC;?

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48. Beatle, Apostle

7. Fungal spore sacs

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47. Charlotte-to-Raleigh direction

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58. Come down from space

21. Inebriate

62. Spanish girl

61. Single strand world

23. Language of Pakistan

63. Harvest goddess

31. Away

63. Final notice

25. Erbium oxide

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65. Antares, for one

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54. Hoff, from the homestead

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29. Blows it

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60. Marks subject of destination

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