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The new school year at Conestogo PS included a new playground, the culmination of some $50,000 in fundraising by the parent council, which is holding a fun fair this evening (Thursday) at the school. Checking out the fruits of their labour are Sara MacNeill (principal), Karen Forsyth, Julianna Oitment, Meredith Misener (student), Katie Misener, Josie Hofbauer (student), Colleen Heinrichs, Ian Howlett,
the ideal outcome. Still, Collins sees plenty of upside in the play of what is a very young Elmira team.“Itwas a better game. I think we had every bit as much opportunity to win that as they did – they just came out on the upper end. There’s nothing to
would have been nice, but at this point in the season he’s still looking to get a full roster in place. There were a few more in the lineup than was the case the previous weekend.
By the end of September, the region will have 16 automated speed enforcement (ASE) sites up and running. These sites feature automatic cameras that take pictures of drivers’ license plates if they are driving over the posted speed limit in school zones. Fines issued are the same as those given out by police, says Bob Henderson, the region’s manager of transportation engineering.
Gerber Observer Staff THE REGION OF WATERLOO IS trying out a new pilot program to slow the speed limit in school zones this year, and is fully operating its automated speed enforcementTheprogram.speedlimit will be flexible depending on the time of day, week and month to reflect when kids are in school. It will see some school zone areas reduce speed by 10 to 20 kilometres per hour, and set it at 40 kilometres per hour in others. Areas already set to 40 kilometres per hour will Region morespeeds,school-zonereducingrollingoutcameras
ment of the team’s game in Listowel last Friday, leaving the new squad idle for a couple of days before a rematch with the Stratford Warriors Sunday at the WMC, a 2-1 win for theThatvisitors.wasan improvement over the 4-1 margin a week earlier, but not
Kings focus on where young roster is headed
The Kings led Sunday’s game for a while, scoring the lone goal of the first period. That was a power-play marker from Madden MacDougall at 15:17, assisted by Jayden
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“We had more of our guys, that’s for sure. Not quite a full lineup, but
not be further reduced. The adjusted speed limits will be in effect Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. from September to June.
Denise Witmer (Woolwich Community Lions), Christine Sanchez, Agnes Lehtonen, Steph Forte (Optimist Club) and Addison Heinrichs (student). Find the full story on page 6. Steve Kannon
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IT WAS A WEEKENDQUIETER than expected, and quieter than Elmira Sugar Kings head coach Rob Collins would have liked.Problems with the ice caused the postpone-
be disappointed about, it was a competitive game. We look forward to facing them again,” he said.
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Lammel and Brock Reinhart.The 1-0 lead was relatively short-lived, however, at the Warriors tied it at 2:11 of the second period, the 1-1 score standing until a Stratford power-play goal at 4:18 of theForthird.Collins, the win
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ITS OFFICIAL arrival in Waterloo Region there is still plenty of summer left in the air, according to Environment Canada.
KIDS IN REAPEDWELLESLEYTHE rewards of their hard work over the summer as the Wellesley Horticultural Society handed out its junior gardener awards this week.“We had 20 junior gardeners this year, and for a year where we hadn’t had it for a few years, that’s great,” said society member Anne Koch.
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the society’s garden hero of the “I’myear.very honoured that people nominated me to be the gardener of the year. I’ve gardened for a long time. Well, I’ve been gardening most of my adult life,” Culp said.
masses arriving in the fall, they’re tempered somewhat, they’re moderated because of the summer warmth that you’ve had that kind of stored heat,” he
“We had keen gardeners that were in higher grades that were planting things that they wanted for their
patternber.weatherperiodsfalltotemperaturessaysNetwork.weektheintonormalnormal,maybecallingsomethingThebethinkcontrolafternoon,ingit’sfallWeouttohethat’stheyou’dlikethinktimeIt’syouryouweather,”weathershirtsItexplained.won’tbe“muscleandtanktops,”but“comfortablePhillipsadded.“It’senergy-freetime:don’thavetohaveairconditioningon.reallymyfavouriteoftheyear,andIalotofOntariansthefall.It’sjustthatlikeittogoonuntilendofDecember,butnotoftenthecase,”said.Precipitationisexpectedbenearnormalthrough-theseason.“Weneedprecipitation.alwayshopeitdoesn’tonweekends,andthatmore2inthemorn-ratherthan2inthebutwecan’tthat.However,weprecipitationwillkindofnearnormal.Americansaresayingsimilar;they’reitforawarmerandalittledrierthanbutgettingnearaswemovealongthefall,”Phillipssaid.HistakeissharedbyforecastreleasedlastbyTheWeatherForOntario,itwarmer-than-normalareexpecteddominatemostoftheseasonwithextendedofpleasantthroughOcto-However,themildercouldbreakdown
At the same meeting Monday night in Wellesley, society member Suzanne Culp was named
The junior gardeners have become more creative over the years the program has been running, Koch said.
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“And for the horticulture society to have junior gardeners is a bonus because it grows our membership too, because we have an aging population amongst the horticultureWinnerssociety.”for each age group included Atticus McCormick, (Grades 1-4,) Georgina McKormic (Grades 5-6) and Tamara Nenadov (Grades 7-10).
Conestoga Meat Packers expects to add 170 new jobs at its Breslau plant thanks in part to $5.3 million from the province. The investment, which is expected to bring an increase in jobs over a seven-year term, is coming through Ontario’s Food and Beverage Growth Fund, a subsection of the Jobs and Prosperity Fund. From the Sept. 21, 2017 edition of The Observer
Police this week made arrests linked to the death almost 14 years ago of 18-year-old Lucas Shortreed, who was struck by a car Oct. 10, 2008 while walking on Wellington Road 17 near Alma. On Sept. 21, OPP executed a search at an address on Mapleton Sideroad 21. David Halliburton, 55, and Anastasia Halliburton, 53, now face charges in connection to the incident.
parents, like they would do pickled beets with their dad or something like that. That’s why [we didn’t] put parameters on what kind of garden they can have,” she said.
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Having a garden teaches kids that their efforts pays off with results, Koch added.“Ifyou weed from when the plants are young, if you take the weeds away when they’re little then, you can keep the weeds away better. And then a year like this if you didn’t water, some of the things didn’t happen,” she said by way of example.
Culp said she loved the enthusiasm of the kids who grew their own gardens“Thebest part is going to different homes like country homes and town homes seeing the families work together and creating this garden. It just makes you love living in Wellesley.”
From the archives
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Wellesley Horticultural Society fetes award winners
The Wellesley Horticultural Society handed out junior gardener awards Monday evening. Bill Atwood
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comes from is so wonderful for them,” said Koch.
“To be interested in gardening from a young age is beneficial because, first of all, they can assist their parents. To go from garden to table and to see where our food actually
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“We start early in the spring with growing little seeds, and we’re at it until November usually.”
“One of the advantages of having a warmer-than-normal summer, and particularly in September ... September has been almost three degrees warmer than normal, and probably the most anomalously warm month of the entire summer,” said senior climatologist David Phillips.“So it certainly was warmer but the dryness continues and I’m sure that is a concern to farmers. Although they’re into obviously finishing up the harvest season, but they want some moisture for planting winter wheat and some of the stuff they do around the Althoughfarm.”fallwill be warmer than usual, it will not be overly hot, Phillips noted.“We can’t expect July temperatures to come back in October. We can sometimes see temperatures above 30 degrees in September. We can sometimes see it before Thanksgiving but it is very rare. I think because the summer was warmer than normal and things haven’t cooled off dramatically, the ground still has a lot of heat, the rivers and the lakes have residual heat. And so sometimes when you get those cool air
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A community under construction on the west side of Elmira is the kind of issue the Nith Valley EcoBoosters discuss in a free webinar Oct. 4. It looks to equip people with the tools they need to engage in public decision-making to help shape their communities, say the organizers. Leah Gerber
My name is Eric Schwindt. Over the next few weeks I would like to introduce myself, and talk about our community and why I am running for Ward 2 Councillor in our Township.
Eric
When asked if speed ing near her school is a problem, she said, “I have observed most drivers respect the posted speed limit,” and that, “I have not been approached by staff or parents regarding a concern with speeding near our school.”
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The net fines collected from the automated speed enforcement program go to the region, says Henderson.Sofarin2022, the ASE program generated $100,000, said Hender son. He said that ASE cost $700,000 to install, and costs $150,000 a year to operate, he said. “So if someone wants to make the argument that this is a cash grab, it’s not, based on those numbers.”
Woolwich is transitioning from being a relatively small, rural municipality to a mid-size, more urbanized community. Council needs to understand this transition and manage growth whilekeeping our small town community feel. My commitment is to be engaged on the issues that matter to you. I will ask questions of staff, of delegations, and fellow councillors. I commit to being prepared on the issues at each meeting. I commit to attending St Jacobs BIA meetings and bringing the message back.
“The safety, security and wellbeing of our students, staff and visitors is always our top prior ity, and so we are always concerned about speed ing, distracted driving (people on cell phones, etc.) and even inci dences of road rage near
introduced to the region this“Basedyear. on our data collection and obser vations, we’ve seen an overall average reduction in driver speeds,” he said of the difference ASE has made in the region. “We’re anticipating sustained reductions going forward as drivers get more used to speed enforcement in schoolAccordingzones.”to the Highway Traffic Act, Automated ableofschooltoofhassurveillance,ASEcouncilpendingandmoretodepartmentthemhavethezones.safetypermittedEnforcementSpeedisonlyincommunityzonesandschoolHendersonsaysregionmunicipalitiesoptedtoonlyallowinschoolzones.HendersonsayshisislookingexpandASEtoeightlocationsin2023anothereightin2024,fundingandapproval.TopeoplewhothinkrepresentstoomuchHendersonaresponse.“We’vetriedanumberavenuestogetpeopledecreasetheirspeedinzonesforthesafetykids,ourmostvulnercitizens.We’vetried
also paying into the oper ation of a ticket process ing centre in Toronto that is jointly paid for by multiple municipalities, where provincial offences officers review and issue the tickets, among other costs.Inthis year’s pilot
An automated speed enforcement site on Three Bridges Road outside Clearview parochial school. Leah Gerber
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program with the adjusted speed limits during school hours, people will be tick eted in person via police officers. A list of the loca tions can be found online at the region’s zone-speed-limits.pdf.ca/en/resources/school-www.regionofwaterloo.website, maintains
Planning proactively for balanced growth.
police enforcement, we’ve tried other traffic-calm ing measures, and there continues to be a number of people that feel it’s OK to speed through school zones and other places.
Protecting farmland.
COMMUNITY NEWS | 5Thursday, September 22, 2022 | THE OBSERVER WOOLWICHCOUNCILLOR,WARD 2
Better and more in-depth discussion during Council meetings will lead to better decisions and is at the core of why I am running in this election. I want to work for you, as Councillor in Ward 2.
We all appreciate living in our Township. I see the benefits of small community life but easy access to larger centres. As our community continues to grow, Council will be making decisions on issues that are important to us:
To illustrate that speeding is still a problem in school zones, Hender son shared a data set from Katherine Street in Winterbourne near Foun dation Christian School with a posted speed limit of 50 km/hour from Tues day, May 14, Throughout2019.the day, 457 vehicles travelled 60 km per hour and over. This included one vehicle trav elling over 120 km/h per hour at 8:30 that morning.
Another example from Thursday May 14, 2015
“I get calls and complaints from a number of people, parents of school children, people that live on these streets near schools, there continues to be speed ing problems in these areas. Automated speed enforcement has been the most effective piece of technology, or the most effective countermeasure and reducing speed of drivers in these areas. So, this initiative is simply all about safety.”
on Westmount Road near Laurentian Public School with a 50 km per hour posted speed limit showed 2,867 vehicles traveling 60 km per hour and over throughout the day.According to a May report to the regional planning and works committee from the transportation and environmental services department, the auto mated speed enforcement program has reduced speed between two and 15 per cent depending on location, with an overall average in speed reduc tion of nine per cent, or 5 km/h.“Rural school zones have in general seen more speed reductions,” the reportPaulastated.Pizarro is the principal of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Elementary School, located on First Street in Elmira.
schools, and any efforts to reduce both are certainly welcome,” she said to The Observer via email.
The same May report to the planning and works committee stated that staff anticipate that ASE will generate about $200,000 in net revenue perHendersonyear. said the operating dollars go toward paying the vendor, called Redflex, that oper ates the machines, and
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Providing key services and infrastructure that we value.
Being financially responsible.
“We always seem to have a good turnout,” said Heinrichs, noting the fun fair helps raise money that allows the parents’ council to “meet the needs of the school” for supplies and projects not covered by the school board.
The event gets under
THE FUN FAIR ON TONIGHT at Conestogo Public School will be rais ing money for something other than a new play ground, $50,000 worth of equipment having just been installed after a fiveyear fundraising push.
Along with the food offerings, the event provides the likes of minigolf, Plinko and other games, as well as a chance to check out the fire trucks thanks to an onsite visit by Conestogo firefighters.
The playground was installed last month, just prior to the start of the school year, thanks in large part to some big-time support from the Optimist Club of Conestogo-Winter
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Both are strong teams, says Collins, noting they’ll be a challenge for a young team still looking for its first win of the season. It’s about getting some expe
out at the fun fair, firing up the barbecue in support of the fundraising event.
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The team is heading south for some out-of-con ference action this week end, taking on a pair of Golden Horseshoe Confer ence squads. First up are the defending Sutherland Cup champs, the St. Cath arines Falcons, on Friday, followed by the Caledonia Corvairs on Sunday.
way at 5:45 p.m., mark ing its return after the pandemic-led interlude.
The new equipment adds to the playground offerings at Conestogo PS, with options for some of the older students. Steve Kannon
Residents attending the Thursday night event will in fact have a chance to check out the fruits of that fundraising effort.
“We’re confident. We like what we’ve got, so we get to take it one game at a time.”The Kings are hoping to have returning player Liam Eveleigh, who’s been out with a broken wrist, back in the lineup as soon as this weekend.
Conestogo PS hosts fun fair Thursday, celebrates new playground equipment
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bourne and the Woolwich Community Lions that pushed the campaign over the top, said parent council member Colleen Heinrichs.“Boththose donations helped us get it (the play ground) in this summer rather than having to wait another year,” she said.
The Optimists will be
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that’s OK – there’s many games we’ll play this year without a full lineup, so they have to get used to that,” he said. “That was still an inexperienced group trying to find our footing, but we’re confi dent that we will. We might just need a little bit longer of a runway to get the plane off the ground.
rience.“I’mnot putting too much weight on our record right now – it’s the inputs. Our staff’s just excited about what we’re seeing and about what we’ve got as far as a full team, because we haven’t seen our whole team play together yet.”
The victim then meets with the fraudster and arrangements are made for the sale of the vehicle.
10 : 05 PM | Waterloo Regional Police received a report that a vehicle had struck a deer while trav elling on Katherine Street North in Woolwich Town ship.
The accused is sched uled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Stratford at a later date to answer to the charges. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or online at anonymousShouldwww.opp.ca/reporting.youwishtoremainyoucancall
the vehicle is stolen.
There is no used vehicle information packages (UVIP) provided by the purported seller, usually only a make-shift bill of
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• Carefully review the Used Vehicle Infor
• Request the seller provide valid shipcompareidentificationpersonalandittotheowner-theymustmatch.
• Beware of sellers
Once the victim has a safety completedinspection(andpays for required repairs), they attend the MTO to obtain license plates and a permit and discover that
to transfer the vehicle into their name, the victim was informed that the vehicle was stolen. The victim contacted police who confirmed that the vehicle had previously been reported stolen from York Region.Toprotect yourself and others from this scam, consider the following when purchasing a used vehicle:
4 : 35 PM | Waterloo Regional Police received a report of a collision at the intersection of Hessen Strasse and Moser Young Road in Wellesley Town ship. The first vehicle was travelling west on Moser Young Road when the second motor vehi cle, travelling south on Hessen Strassse, failed to yield to traffic from the stop sign. As a result of the investigation, a 60-year-old Waterloo woman was charged with ‘fail to yield to traffic on through highway.’
Emergency crews responded to Conestogo Tuesday morning after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Bill Atwood
The driver was subse quently charged with ‘dangerous operation’ and ‘mischief - destroys or damaged property.’
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the used car sale scam to contact police by calling 519-570-9777 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477. Anonymous tips can also be submitted at toppers.com.www.waterloocrimes
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device.anregisteringdaydent,WoolwichoneclesApproximatelyTownship.50vehiwerecheckedanddriver,a23-year-oldTownshipresireceivedathree-suspensionafteran“alert”onapprovedscreening
In one instance, a Kitch ener resident arranged to purchase a used vehi cle from a seller in the Greater Toronto Area. After paying $5,000 for the vehicle, the victim received a bill of sale and a signed ownership slip. The victim then further paid $1,500 to complete the repairs required to obtain a Safety Standards Certificate. When the victim attended the MTO
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7:00 PM | Perth County OPP are urging motorists not to veer for wildlife after a collision on Line 52 in the Township of Perth East. The investi gation found that a vehi
sale. The vehicle is sold “as-is” and the buyer is told they will need to have a safety inspection completed by a mechanic before registering the vehicle with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO), police say.
Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 (TIPS) or leave an anonymous online message at www.P3tips.
Waterloo Regional Police issue used car sale scam warning
1:00 AM | An 18-yearold Wallenstein man is facing charges after his vehicle collided with two parked cars. A Perth
3:00 AM | Officers with the Wellington County OPP were conducting a Reduce Impaired Driv ing Everywhere (RIDE) program on Sideroad 15, Mapleton
‘driving while under suspension.’ The defen dant is scheduled to appear in the provincial offences court at a later date.
2 : 40 PM | Wellington County OPP received a report that a person was lying along the Irvine River in the Elora Gorge. Emer gency crews responded to the scene, where the male victim was pronounced dead. Police later identified the victim as a 67-year-old Waterloo resident. The cause of the death is still under inves
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tigation. OPP are assist ing the Office of the Chief Coroner with the investi gation.
mation Package (UVIP). In Ontario, sellers must legally provide this pack age to a buyer when sell ing a pre-owned vehicle.
County OPP officer was conducting stationary radar on Line 86 and Road 140 observed the vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed and driving dangerously. The officer also observed the vehicle lose control in a turn colliding with two stationary vehicles. No injuries were reported.
Police have issued a warning to the public to be wary of an emerging used car sale scam.
who want to close the sale as quickly as possi ble. Take time to think the purchase through, ask questions and consult with a professional.
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in Woolwich Township. The suspect(s) gained entry into a building and stole property. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 519-5709777, ext. 8255 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.
10 : 20 AM | Waterloo Regional Police received a report of a break and enter at a business in the area of Fountain Street North and Kossuth Road
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cle was travelling on Line 52 when the 17-year-old driver swerved to avoid a collision with an animal. The vehicle left the road, entered the ditch, and struck a tree. The driver did not suffer any injuries.
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stance that was common on the radical right in both Europe and the United States. With the fragile Italian economy teetering on the brink of recession, she is promising good behaviour to Brussels.Sonota complete disaster, then. Continued access to the EU’s COVID recovery fund, which has promised Italy 191 billion euros over the next six years, should keep Meloni from straying too far from orthodox economics. If the EU withholds those funds, her prospects of remaining in power would be slim.Brothers of Italy will probably be the largest Italian party after this election, but with only 25-30 per cent of the vote she will not be able to govern alone. The problem is that the two parties she will need to make a coalition with, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia! (Go Italy!) and Matteo Salvini’s Lega (The League), are direct rivals of her ownBerlusconiparty. at 85 is still a big political player thanks to his huge media empire. Salvini is willing to bring any coalition down if it improves his chances of being prime minister in a different one. Both men will be trying to claw back the popular support that Meloni’s Brothers of Italy has stolen from them, so
Essentially, the introduction photo radar in school zones is a cash grab masquerading as a public relations exercise. We know that by asking a simple question: what problem does this solve? There haven’t been scores of deaths, injuries and collisions in school zones, so that’s not the problem in question, despite what will be repeated appeals to safety. Speeding? Sure, that occurs, though the region itself will acknowledge the calls it receives from the public are often due to perceptions of speeding, not the reality of the situation, as actual traffic monitoring typically reveals.
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More widely, photo radar being deployed because the technology exists is symptomatic of a wider trend in which we’re sliding into a surveillance state because the tools are available, there are profits to be made, officials don’t care to protect civil rights and, frankly, many people are their own worst
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What reports thus far do talk about is increasing the size of the bureaucracy, which is always the primary concern of bureaucrats. No worries, though, as the costs will be covered by revenues from fines. Those rising staff costs will mean the fines have to worked into the budget – a quota system, as it were. And if people stop cooperating by slowing down in the school zones – the purported rationale for the invasive technology – the region can always add more cameras or make the radar more sensitive or simply boost taxes to pay for increased administrative costs that add no value to the public.
here’s an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power.Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right populist politician who is likely to win that election, rejects any comparison with that ugly past. The party she leads, Brothers of Italy, has some ‘nostalgic’ neo-fascists in its ranks, but she prefers to compare it to Britain’s post-Brexit Conservative Party or the US Republican Party as rebranded by Donald Trump.
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will include those members of the public who’ll argue that there’s nothing to worry about if you don’t speed in school zones, for instance.
The cameras are put in place because they exist. Once installed, the revenue they generate becomes part of the budgeting process, and must be maintained and increased to pour money into municipal coffers – hardly a reason to support them, unless you’re a bureaucrat looking for alternatives to extract more from the already overburdened public.
It’s into that environment that red light cameras and schoolzone photo radar needs to be debated. We’re already suffering death by a thousand cuts, so we need to prevent one more, rolling each back until we’ve got a freer society. There is thus far no talk of such privacy and civil rights concerns, of course.
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Simply axing the program and the associated staff aren’t on the, well, radar.
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The region’s existing red-light cameras have been shown to cause collisions, though whether they deter drivers from running red lights – as opposed to beating yellows – is another matter. Certainly, other jurisdictions have shown the cameras to be flawed, open to corruption and, yes, simply money grabs.
She now claims to support both the European Union and the NATO alliance. Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she avoided the pro-Putin
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“Our present travails are just the beginning. Putin, noting the success of his hybrid warfare strategy, will seek to destabilize the West further, perhaps by attempting to influence the outcome of the next US presidential election and/or strengthening ties with China, Iran, Belarus, Myanmar and other totalitarian states.”
The brutal simplicity of these slogans works just as well with lower-income, poorly educated Italians as it does with the same sort of people in ‘heartland’ America or ‘red wall’ Britain. The goal is to distract them from the fact that their populist heroes really govern in favour of the rich (which explains why those leaders must be shamelessGiorgialiars). Meloni lies too, but when you compare her to populist peers like Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Donald Trump in the United States, she actually doesn’t seem that bad.
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She shares her hostility to the European Union with Britain’s Conservatives, her hatred of immigrants, gays and Muslims with the US Republicans, and her truculent nationalism with both those parties. She is also militantly Christian, and she dabbles in ‘Great Replacement’ paranoia. And just like them, she wages a non-stop culture war.“There is no middle ground possible,” Meloni told a rally last June. “Today, the secular left and radical Islam are menacing our roots...Either say yes, or say no. Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobbies. Yes to the universality of the Cross, no to Islamist violence. Yes to secure borders, no to mass immigration.”
Despite regular government failures, nobody’s watching the watchers. With photo radar and red-light cameras, government joins the rank of the voyeurs.
As with each effort to strip away privacy rights, there are those who will argue they’re fine with each new measure because they’ve got nothing to hide. Only those with something to hide – only criminals, for those of this misguided mindset – would argue against more surveillance.
Governments care not about the unethical drive to boost the state’s ability to collect, track, store, aggregate and use information that represents a huge power imbalance. A lack of control on what happens to the growing amount of information collected poses future risks as technology evolves, while today it threatens to circumvent laws that protect our rights in traditional encounters with authorities.
he region’s plan to expand its use of photo radar is symbolic of what ails government and society in general.
Though foodservice remains one of Canada’s top employers, challenges filling labour vacancies leave the industry lagging behind other national industries when it comes to job recovery. In June 2022, there were 171,715 job vacancies in the foodservice industry, a threefold increase from pre-pandemic levels. Restaurants Canada report
An overstatement for something that proponents will say protects children? Not at all.
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Like them, she has no permanent political principles, just a bundle of cynical techniques for attracting distressed and desperate voters. But she needed to shift towards the centre ground to build her Brothers of Italy party up from four per cent of the vote in the 2018 election to a predicted 25 per cent this time – so that’s what she did.
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Well beyond the pale is the simplest solution of all: drop the idea before it becomes another burden on the wallets and rights of the public.
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increases such as the one Ottawa tacked on five years ago make matters worse. Annual automatic increases in federal excise duty is making things tougher for brewers and the hospitality industry in general, with more than $100 million in estimated additional costs for indus try and consumers since the escalator was added in 2017.“With this year’s CPI, the deferral portion of taxes on beer could rise by up to seven per cent in April 2023, which would be a record. Some provinces have expressed sympathy by not raising their tax portion on alcohol prod ucts, but not the federal government – at least not yet,” Charlebois writes. The beer industry has taken issue with that tax from the start, but has been especially keen for a rever
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Beer pricing, like that of wine and spirits, is part of the ongoing effort to sepa rate Ontarians from their money.That’s the reason there’s ongoing contempt for the government in general and, specifically, with a longstanding dissatisfac tion with the handling of alcohol sales in the prov ince, from absurd pricing to rigged sales restrictions.
The nanny state is never more apparent when it comes to booze. Ontarians apparently would become hardened alcoholics with out minimum pricing and fettered access. All we have to do is look at the prob lems in nearby provinces and states to see that. Oh, wait, that’s not what you’ll find. And the government doesn’t want you to look elsewhere, lest you become even more upset about the poor state of things here.
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much better prices found elsewhere.IftheLCBO really wants to be accepted, cut the prices significantly, offer a much better selection and offer more convenience.
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he summer of 2022 is now in the books. It was in some ways a return to normal after two years of pandemic-led reductions in the likes of festivals, concerts and the like.
State of beer industry reflects pandemic woes, inflation and nanny-state taxes
Much of the ire is simply a reflection of our inherent
sal since the pandemic began. To no avail.
The province, of course, has no interest in any of that.With alcohol, as with cigarettes, governments suffer from multiple personality disorder. On the one hand, they’re addicted to the revenues, on the other they want to discourage consumption. The nanny state prevails, but they do love the money. (There’s a similar issue with gasoline, electricity and water, where govern ment preach conservation, but decry the losses when we actually cut back.)
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Premier Doug Ford tapped into that ire with his buck-a-beer push and populist booze-re lated stances before first coming to power in 2018. He followed up with some tweaks to the archaic beer-selling rules, but the system has remained largelyRollingunchanged.backthetaxes – and befellesthaveityand,helpneededspending,commensuratepartofmuch-overall–wouldthebrewingindustrymorewidely,hospitalandtourismsectorsthatbeenamongthehardhitsincethepandemicusall.
The tourism and hospi tality industries aren’t cele brating just yet, as shifts in our behaviour continue to dog their sectors. The impact can be seen among the country’s brewers, for instance.BeerCanada, which represents the makers of some 90 per cent of domestic beer sold in the country, report sales were down 7.3 per cent from last year, which wasn’t exactly a benchmark period. The downward trend that started with the pandemic in 2020 marched on.
Beer industry sales volume declines accelerated in 2021, with overall sales fall ing a further 1.9 per cent.
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The automatic escalator that kicks in every April is another policy that fills government coffers with out regard for the impact on the economy, people’s jobs or other detrimental effects.InOntario, where beer sales are down 3.3 per cent in the past year, there’s little relief in sight.
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dissatisfaction with taxes and paternalistic liquor laws, coupled with our distrust of pretty much anything overseen by bureaucrats and politi cians. Tax increases are seen as another reason to privatize the operation, stripping government of its outdated controls of alcohol.Yes,the LCBO stores themselves have come a long way over the years. They’re much nicer places to shop, espe cially compared with the Beer Store, that even more antiquated ofisinglyselection.otherthebuthourssellingment-sanctionedgoverncartelusoursuds.Thehavebeenextended,there’snothinglikeconveniencefoundinjurisdictions.NortheAnd,mostgallgiventhattheLCBOtheworld’slargestbuyerspirits,nothinglikethe
Now, inflation is hitting the sector particularly hard, driving up the cost of production while prompt ing consumers to make different choices.
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During that first year of COVID-19 response, draught beer sales declined by 55 per cent, with total overall beer sales declining by 1.4 per cent, in large part because of the shutdowns of restaurants and bars.
To the Editor, I learned in Woolwich Minor Hockey from some truly amazing coaches, teammates and compet itors what it meant to be part of a team – how we all had different skills, attitudes, but most impor tantly, how much better we were working together uniting our strengths.
We could use more attention to the Golden Rule
Meloni can’t afford to play that game, and the expected post-election coalition of far-right parties is unlikely to last
My first hunting gun was a pump shotgun that I used for everything from snipe to bear hunting. And, yes, that was my only gun. For years in fact.
To the Editor, I heard Patrick Merlihan again on CBC radio and I was really disappointed that his proposition for the rainbow crosswalk was rejected.It’ssad that leaders could present that nega tive point of view, but I am not surprised. None of my friends have LGBTQ2Swillfederalnotteousness.thefederalaboutitpeople(them)anyonearenotwhite-supremacistsuchideas,narrow-minded,aspeoplewhothinkthatunlikethenormistobeexcluded.Ifwedon’tdosomething,aregoingtoleaveasisandstartthinkingPoilievre,andtheelection.Moreofsameobsoleteself-righThissubjectshouldbedropped.Ifso,theelectioncandidatesbelikelytoattackthepeoplewhowill
ably the worst shot in the world. His shooting led me to believe the phrase was actually meant to be, “Beware the hunter with one gun, unless you are standing right in front of his intended target. “
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When I started hunt ing, there was a commonly held belief that was often repeated. It said, “Beware the hunter with one gun. For he knows how to use it.”
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Time with him convinced me to forget about limiting myself to oneAnd,gun.for this, the gun industry owes him a huge debt of gratitude.
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Truth: Her actual birthday was April 21 and her official birthday was held on a Saturday in June when the weather is better.
Both men have been Putin fanboys in the past. Berlusconi sees the Russian dictator as a personal friend, and Salvini called him “the best statesman on Earth” three
years ago. Now Salvini soft-pedals his admiration for Putin, but he demands an end to the sanctions against Russia because they are allegedly hurting Italy more than Russia.
“What type of team do you want to be when you grow up?”
Regardless, for the longest time, this phrase worked on the most gullible members of the hunting community. Or at least that was my excuse.
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Luckily, a good friend gave me a good reason to buy a second hunting firearm.Forhe owned just one gun too and was argu
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economically this winter, however, the obvious strat egy for far-right parties is to advocate a softer line on Putin’s war in Ukraine.
If you’re not on a diverse and inclusive team, you are going to lose. If you are going to continue having religious signs around the country-side promoting one group while marginal izing others, you are going to Showlose. you care: paint the rainbow crosswalk ...and feel free to send me the bill. I’ll happily pay for it.
On the flipside, that theory also indicated that if you had more than one firearm, your brain would be bogged down with all the complexities of each, and you wouldn’t be as good as you could be with any of them.
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and provided the opportu nity to grow into the person they were born to be. It takes a community to raise a child, and I ask Woolwich this:
It turned out none of these things diminished my level of competency in the least. None of them
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As I’ve grown – and I was no saint – I’ve come to realize how important these lessons are in my life, and how important it is to recognize our differ ent members, including 2SLGBQTI+, for their strengths and their incred ible gifts that they can offer the rest of the community. We only need to recognize and learn from them.
Soon after, I purchased a bolt-action .22. This was followed by a deer rifle for heavy cover and then a long-range deer rifle for use across open fields and then a bear and moose rifle followed by an overand-under 20 gauge and lever-action and semi-auto .22, a .222, a 5 mm, a semiauto 12 gauge, a couple of very expensive air rifles and so on.
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But whether any game animal thought they needed to beware of me is questionable. I can say with certainty, however, that the clay pigeons of the day certainly did not. And many ducks flew over me with more confidence than I would have preferred.
For instance, I got very good at sneaking firearms into my house. And this sort of stealth also comes in handy in the field. Heck, I’m pretty sure I could tip-toe through a herd of skittish deer, if I pretended I was carrying a new and expensive shotgun in the house.I’dalso like to say that the freedom to buy more firearms allowed me to contribute to the econ omy on a scale I never dreamed of before. You’re welcome. Because of me, several firearms industry salespeople’s kids went to university.Thereare other advan tages of owning several firearms too. The more firearms you have, the less you use each, which makes easier to sell as almost new, when your spouse finds out about them.
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very long. She has suffi ciently detoxified herself that she could lead a coalition with other parties instead, and that may well happen.Post-fascist parties in power in Italy are still bad news, but the damage to the European Union and the NATO alliance can probably be contained.
To the Editor, The roads and streets in Woolwich Township are public property.
Truth: She was the longest reigning monarch, ever. Queen Elizabeth’s reign ended September 8, 2022, when she passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle, Scotland.
suffer more for doing no harm. It needs to be said that Elmira is too small to fear people who are different. Gay people don’t murder or get murdered here, nor do they get young people to change gender.
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In hindsight, I suspect this phrase was invented by spouses who thought that the money spent on one gun was enough. I also believe the archery indus try was in on it.
I have many friends who are what those letters mean, and they are kind, gentle, very intelligent, and talented. They sometimes come to my house and stay overnight. We laugh and laugh.This is 2022, not the Middle Ages. Some of us are not what was expected. We don’t get a choice of gender when we are born. People with deficiencies have to live with something that can’t be remedied. Be it blindness or missing legs, neither should be laughed at, hurt, or shunned. No one wants to live with the hate of others. I think a little more Golden Rule should be remembered in Elmira.
Residents pay for the construction of these roads, the maintenance of the roads, the snowplowing, the repair, the painting of traffic lines, the painting of crosswalk lines from one side of the road to another, and so forth.
We, the people, pay our taxes every year for these services.Thisis an inclusive act of the residents for the common good of creating a safe road to drive on and a safe area to cross the road. This is a community work ingPublictogether,property that is cared for by the public must only be used for the public as a whole. To use any part of this property for group messages or private messages will be a divisive situation for our commu nity.Let’s allow the roads to be roads and the crosswalks to be crosswalks, to serve us as they have for many years
To the Editor, How absurd in this day and age to not want to allow a rainbow crosswalk in Elmira, never mind the remarks made against the LGBTQ society by a local politician.Iamsure his remarks have made a lot of people think twice about investing in a bigoted society where all individuals are not welcome.TheMennonites were also a group that was persecuted for their religious beliefs, and had to flee Europe to escape the hatred. Should this not have been enough to have made the politician welcome all groups, includ ing LGBTQ. Let us choose not go down the road that the United States has chosen for themselves.
GALEASTEVE OutdoorsmanNot-So-Great
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But they did make me a better hunter in unex pected ways.
The phrase was meant to suggest that if you had only one firearm, you would be very familiar with its idio syncrasies, operation, how it shot and handled. And since you only used that gun, you would grow to be very fast and more accu rate with it in the field.
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there will be tears before bedtime.Innormal times, their chosen tactic would be to undermine Meloni’s party by pushing for harsher policies on immigration and bigger conflicts with the EU. With the Russian energy blockade promis ing a hard time for Europe
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Cross says the company could use 20 or 25 more drivers to position the operation where he’d like it to be in terms of staff numbers. That includes covering five or six open routes, and having spare drivers to cover absences.Totackle the problem, Cross says efforts to recruit drivers have been massive. “We’ve never trained as many people as
Kindred Credit Union and Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) have announced the upcoming launch of the Affordable Housing Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC). The deposits contribute to support lending for long-term, owned or rented permanent affordable housing for residents of Waterloo Region.
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The CFIA says there’s no evidence that avian flu can be transmitted to humans through cooked poultry or eggs. That’s
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Avian flu has reappeared in Canada, and poultry producers on edge. If you’re counting on serving turkey for Thanksgiving, you should be OK, but it’s probably wise to get a bird sooner than later, given the possibility of pricing rising further and supplies get scarce.
Staff in the bus driving industry are continuing to deal with a chronic shortage of school bus drivers this year due to a combination of boomers retiring, higher turnover rates, and an ongoing general worker shortage. Staff with the Student Transportation Services of Waterloo Region say across the region, there are over 25 routes needing drivers, plus more drivers are needed to function as spares. Leah Gerber
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Les Cross, regional manager of Student Transportation Canada, the parent company of Elliott Coach Lines, says the industry has faced driver shortages for a few years now. He doesn’t see the situation getting better any time soon due to the number of baby boomers who are leaving the job market
STAFF IN THE SCHOOL BUS industry are continuing to deal with a chronic shortage of Bourgault is the general manager of the Student Transportation Services of Waterloo Region, which organizes the bus driving needs for the two English-speaking school boards in the region.
altogether.“Ithasbeen a struggle. Not just here, everywhere – pretty much across North America. You can find stories about driver shortages pretty much everywhere. And, really, employee shortages in every industry,” he said.
product imports from troubled regions.Onceit takes hold in closely confined flocks, avian flu spreads rapidly. As of Monday, it had infected more than 2.3 million birds in Canada, mostly in Alberta (one million). Ontario, with 560,000 cases, is the second most-infected province with avian flu.
good, but on the farm it’s a different story. The United States Department of Agriculture says the virus has infected humans who inhale it – typically, producers or handlers –and it can make them very sick.
Across the region, Bourgault says there are some 25 routes in need of drivers. That’s about five per cent of the 470 routes. And besides needing to have all the routes covered, the organization also aims to have an additional 10 per cent capacity of spare drivers to cover absences when others get sick or need to take time off.
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For the first time in the 53-year history of Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, the search for the next Oktoberfest ambassador will take place during the festival and be announced after the it has ended. Along with the shift in application deadlines, the program has expanded to persons of any gender identity between the ages of 19-29 in the Region of Waterloo (within 40km).
“The school bus industry is one where it’s a part-time job. For two months in the summer, drivers are laid off and either collecting EI or looking for other jobs. It’s a permanent part-time job that most returned to, but with the changes in cost of living, some people are needing full-time work, so they’re leaving the part-time jobs to take full-time jobs as they come available.”
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Infected birds can get as sick as people with a bad case of human flu. Whole flocks are taken out of production and destroyed. That sounds extreme, but it’s a necessary measure to try to keep the disease in check.
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But the bigger prob lem is the nature of bus driving. It’s not full-time work, or year-round and it includes early mornings.
Will changes need to be made to how bus driving is “Well,organized?weare seeing that already in some areas where they are chang ing bell times, so that it becomes a bit more of a full-time job. Right now we pay a minimum of four hours a day in wages, it doesn’t matter how long the route is. If it’s three hours, they still get paid for four. And if it’s more than four, they get paid for all the time they work,” he explained.
Cross and his team cover the cost of training, and provide a sign-on bonus after three months’ work. Cross says the bonus is arranged like this to deter people from gaining their B license and then quickly leaving to take a truck-driving job. “Which, unfortu nately, does happen.”
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→ FROM 11 million turkeys, have been destroyed.Worse,officials have seen it jump species –this spring, the avian flu virus was found in a dead bottlenose dolphin in Florida. A similar finding had occurred earlier in Sweden. Previously, avian flu was not suspected of affecting anything other thanSo,birds.what to do? First off, know that regulatory officials are on top of this. Meat or meat by-prod ucts from infected birds doesn’t enter the food chain… which is a bless
ters. Producers didn’t need any more stress this fall, on top of skyrocketing feed and energy costs and chronic labour shortages they’re experiencing. So while you’re shop ping for your Thanks giving turkey, consider getting your Christmas turkey at the same time and freezing it. A commodity tracker in the US says because of avian flu, turkeys in cold storage are at “alarmingly low” levels. Don’t be surprised if the same thing happens in Canada, considering the disease is running amok.
Certainly school boards have stepped up and helped in the last couple of years – they recognize that this is an industry problem and we’re work ing together to find ways
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“It’s a difficult job. It’s high responsibility. It’s not long hours. It’s not full-time. It’s not around through the year, it’s only 187 days of the year. So it is that much more diffi cult to recruit and retain drivers.“Itfits in at one part of your life. Whether it’s early retirement, whether it’s when you have young children, whether it’s you have other employment or projects going on. So it has always been diffi cult to recruit and retain school bus drivers. In a tight labour market that we face right now, it just compounds the chal lenge.”Cross says the turn over rate at Elliot Coach Lines used to be about 10 pe rcent each year, “and that’s now approaching 20, 25 per cent.”
able. But again, it’s got to be funded somehow. Through the Ministry of Education, they obviously are the sole provider of the revenue that is available for drivers and bus companies. So there is work going on behind the scenes to try and get that kind of acknowledge ment and support, but it’s tough.“The one thing about school bus driving, it is a job with real purpose – it’s fulfilling to be part of the education system, to meet these kids every day, and be a part of their lives. The families depend on them.”
Elliot Coach Lines is paid by the Ministry of Education through the school boards, said Cross. “So we’re a bit of a captive group on the way our ability to increase wages.
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Even with the extra effort to recruit and train more drivers, it’s still not enough. There are still routes without drivers, and they don’t have any extra drivers to cover absences, he said.
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Training takes about 50 hours. That includes the training people need to earn their B-class driver’s license to be able to drive a bus. Drivers also need to pass medical and vulner able-sector screenings.
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“There has been discussion around the industry of moving it to a six-hour day, something like that, where there’s just more wages avail
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to attract people into the industry,” he said.
ing, considering the virus can stay alive even when frozen.Aswell, it’s killed by cooking at more than 165 degrees F. I’m not sure anyone cooks poultry at that low of an oven temperature. So even in just-in-case scenarios, you and your family should be fine if you handle and cook poultry like you usuallyFinally,do.spare a thought for the birds, and for the producers, and for the professionals like veteri narians and mental health workers who help them through potential disas
Finally, Cross wants parents and other drivers on the road to know that they also play a role in this.“[Bus driving] is a tough job. The drivers that are out there need their support, patience, and kindness. So if you have a regular driver, you should be very grateful and appreciative and support ive of those folks, espe cially at the beginning of school. The routes are all new to a lot of people and they run a little late and having a parent angry with a driver for road construction issues is not helpful.”
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we have this summer.” He says his company covers the cost of train ing and offers signing bonuses to the drivers. He also recognizes that bus driving is a step ping-stone job for many new Canadians, so he tries to get more people in the door to be trained, increase the number of trainers available and accept a higher turnover rate that comes with bus driving being seen as a temporary job.
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Currently, more than 90 per cent of Canadians eat meat regularly.
The industry recognizes that there is work to be done. But it’s a safe bet that our animal choices will be more ecological in 10 or 20 years. We must give them time to adjust.
politicized and pushed by certain political and non-political groups to encourage citizens to adopt a diet with less or no meat to save the planet. Some groups are even sanctioning research to support a certain anti-animal protein narrative.
With the massive arrival of vegetable proteinbased products in recent years, veganism and vegetarianism continue to fuel debate. As a result, consumers have really emerged as winners in someFirst,ways.wehave more choice. Before the Beyond Meat ‘invasion,’ the trifecta of meats, beef, chicken, and pork, had gotten boring. Our protein literacy has improved over the past few years with more excitement, more debates, and more options. We have a better appreciation of the nutritional values of each of the available sources. The vegan movement that was completely marginalized a few years ago is now socially normalized. This is an important gain for ourButsociety.forsome time now, proteins have been
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meat-heavy diet to a more plant-based diet to help Canada meet its 2030 and 2050 climate goals. This partially or fully federally funded study is one of many others of late.
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But politicizing proteins is certainly another story. Whether we like it or not, animal proteins play a very important role in our food culture, especially in Canada. Just think of turkey at Christmas or barbecues with a piece of meat or two. Animal proteins have always brought us together, building communities along the way. Beef, pork, chicken,
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That said, one must admit that the science is clear. The production of animal protein generally emits far more greenhouse gases. Milk, beef, pork, chicken – the findings in recent years are abundantly obvious. But these sectors are also adjusting and expect to reach ambitious emission reduction targets by 2030 or 2040. Some even plan to become carbon neutral. Maple Leaf Foods, the country’s largest pork processor, is already operating as a carbon-neutral enterprise.
Some studies even blame men for climate change because they tend to eat more meat. It’s just getting silly. In short, protein is increasingly being used as a political weapon to fight climate change, not just for nutrition.
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A telehealth line that makes mental wellness support available to all Ontario farmers is now live. It is part of the Farmer Wellness Initiative, which addresses growing mental health concerns in the agricultural sector by offering more accessible mental health and wellness support to farm families across the province. The mental health helpline for farmers can be reached at 1-866-267-6255. meets in Hamilton line goes live the campaigncurrentinQuebec, one political party recently proposed a protein shift in the public cafeterias and institutions by offering a menu made up of 50 per cent plant-based protein meals.Inthe same vein, the party also suggested that 70 per cent of food products served in public institutions be local. Local is certainly a desirable policy for most, if access and affordability aren’t compromised of course, as it is one of the best ways for a government to stimulate the local economy.
seafood, cheeses and other dairy products – these products are part of our country’s food heritage.
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Case in point: the Climate Institute of Canada, a centre that received $20 million from Ottawa to conduct research on climate change, released a report this past August on protein. The report suggested a shift from a
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The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) works in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) and AAFC on BMP development and to produce detailed guidebooks for farmers on how to implement those BMPs on farms across Ontario.
personal and cultural choices. To see a political party or other organizations using protein – in short, food – as a tool to fight against climate change creates unease among many. Currently, more than 90 per cent of Canadians eat meat regularly. Humans have been eating meat for millennia.
collective curiosity. It’s been wonderful to watch Canadians explore new culinary frontiers. But as a society, we have never pushed public institutions to ban the consumption of any food, especially meat. The approach has always been quite inclusive. Playing with our culinary mores is an extremely dangerous game.Food remains an inherently personal choice.
BMPs are developed by government and industry experts using ongoing research and best available science, and help guide farmers on the best ways to approach everything from managing pests, controlling soil erosion and proper land drainage to nutrient management planning, no-till crop production and managing irrigation.
nized in source water protection called the 4Rs: applying the right fertilizer in the right amount to the right place at the right time.
With resources for environment, habitat, soils and water, the site is also searchable by the type of problem you’re wanting to solve on-farm and by crop or farm type or what to do in specialty situations, such as if you’re working with land that you’re renting from another landowner.
Many BMPs have also been incorporated into the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP), a voluntary program launched by farm organizations with support from government in 1993 to help farmers assess where and how they can make environmental improvements on their farms. More than 40,000 people have participated in the EFP since its launch, which further highlights the strong commitment our sector has long had to continuous environmentalBMPimprovement.information is updated on a regular
BMPs are going to be of even greater importance for farmers as government policies designed to mitigate climate change impacts become more prominent. We’ve already seen the announcement earlier this year by the federal government of a 30 per cent nitrous oxide emissions reduction target for agriculture, for example.Moreand better use of on-farm best management practices that focus on improving fertilizer use is an excellent way for farmers to continue the environmental stewardship work they’ve already been doing voluntarily forReducingdecades. tillage, adopting anfarm.synthetichelpmentexamplesingtechnologiesprecisionorplant-covercropsareallofbestmanage-practicethatcanmanageandreducefertilizeruseonAnotherexampleisapproachalsorecog-
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F armers more than most people have a very close relationship with the environment. We depend on air, soil, and water to grow our crops and raise our livestock, so we know first-hand how important it is to care for and nurture our natural ecosystems as best as we can.In fact, farmers are sometimes called the original environmentalists because of the many things we have long been doing to look after the land that is in our care – and the new practices we’re adopting on an ongoing basis as part of a long-term approach of continual improvement.
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My husband and I farm in Dundas County, south of Ottawa, where we grow crops and have a small beef herd. The environment has always been important on our farm, where we’ve planted cover crops to build soil health and minimize erosion and built fences to keep cattle out of our creeks and streams to protect water quality. We also actively participate in environmentalfarms.itiesmanybuildquality,benefitronmentalandarea,ourforclimatefortoanduniversities,researchenvironmentalprojectswithgovernment,industrypartnershelpinthesearchsustainabilityandchangesolutionsfarmers.I’malsoinvolvedwithlocalconservationsupportingfarmerslandownersinenvi-practicesthatsoilandwaterandhelpingtoawarenessofthestewardshipactiv-happeningonourInagriculture,thesesteward-
In 1967, Pierre Trudeau declared that there was no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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Over the last few decades, we have adopted new diets with less of this or more of that, bringing more variety and dietary inclusiveness through immigration and our
History would give some merit to his claim, but his words should also apply to our nation’s kitchens. The state has the right to guide us in our food choices through education and awareness respectslimitsmotives,choices,notmustNevertheless,campaigns.foodbeprioritizedandpoliticized.Imposingregardlessofgoesbeyondtheofademocracythatitspeople.
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basis as science and environmental priorities evolve. The most recent change has been digitizing all the BMP resources to make them available online. Working with OMAFRA and AAFC, OFA led the development of a new website called BMPbooks.com, an online library of how-to guides for sustainable agriculture and rural living.
ship activities are called Best Management Practices (BMPs) and began as an initiative of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in 1992.
I encourage all farmers to visit bmpbooks. com and take a look at the wide range of digital resources that are now available. Additionally, most county and regional federation of agriculture offices also have printed copies available. WellbeingMental Centre Food choices remain with the individual
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The musical We’ll Meet Again is a Drayton original production and the brainchild of Mustakas. It features songs from the wars years spanning the First World War and the second. “We’ve subtitled it Music
“People that are coming out are loving the experience,” said artistic director Alex
“So for them to be able to sing this music is a real learning experience for them as well.”
THE MAJORITY OF its productions this season, Drayton Entertainment has a better handle on the pace of the post-pandemic recovery, colouring it as easing back into things.
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‘we will meet again’ and she was really quoting Vera Lynn and this song as well, because it tends to send a message that you we will all come together again – even in dark times, we will meet again,” Mustakas explained.
The production is also a tip of the cap to those Canadians who were
Audiences have been returning, with upcoming shows such as We’ll Meet Again providing more opportunities
performers who probably weren’t familiar with a lot of this music,” Mustakas said.
“It’s not only a tribute to the music of the era, but in some respects, it is a tribute to the thousands of Canadians that were involved in the war years, so it’s a bit of remembrance too.”
“We still have a number for productions. We’re about to open Driving Miss Daisy [St. Jacobs Country Playhouse Theatre] and Good Ol’ Country Gospel in Cambridge. And then our two holiday shows are The Sound of Music in Cambridge and our annual panto this year, Wizard of Oz at Playhouse, which is always very popular with families,” Mustakas added.
As the projection has a five-part harmony, something that Mustakas said is rare for modern musicals, they have to not only perform at their best, but also perform well with the other cast members.
Royal City Musical Productions will be presenting Matilda the Musical on the main stage at the River Run Centre in Guelph. The show, which runs from Nov. 23-27, is a musical based on the 1988 children’s novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. www.rcmpi.ca
We’ll Meet Again runs from September 28 to December 3 at St. Jacobs Schoolhouse, with tickets ranging from $32-$53, available at the box office (519-747-7788) or toll free at 1-855-drayton (372-9866), or online at nentertainment.com.www.drayto-
Hodgkinson has been able to strike a balance between putting his own spin on the songs and keeping close to the original.“At the end of the day, anyone that is familiar with this music will want to hear it kind of the way they remember it, but we try to be a little clever with it sometimes just to keep it fresh. We add little twists in it that will keep fresh.”
“So it’s been a great history lesson for them.”
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“They’reMustakas.enjoying being back, having a communal experience in a theatre. That’s been very refreshing because, as you know, it’s been very difficult in the theatre industry, and arts and culture, during the last two and a half years, so it’s nice to be recovering and gathering again. I think it’s just going to get better and better.
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involved in the wars, Mustakas added.
We’ll Meet Again, the brainchild of artistic director Alex Mustakas, is the next production from Drayton Entertainment. It stars Laura Mae Nason, Keely Hutton, Michael Cox, Andrew Scanlon and Malinda Carroll. Submitted Mirth and Memories of the Wars. It’s a nostalgic look back and it will bring back a lot of memories for a lot of people. It features some of the greatest music in history but also some of the trickiest music in history….but I think audiences will love it,” he explained.Thetitle song has both history and recent significance attached to it.
“The singer Vera Lynn made it very famous and when Queen Elizabeth addressed the nation about the pandemic right at the end of it, she said
Music direct Jim Hodgkinson brings a lot of experience to production, he“He’sadded.arranged a lot of shows. And this is a period he’s very familiar with, he’s been able to make some great musical arrangements for this show.”
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Steven Page will release the album Excelsior digitally on Sept. 30. It’s his first solo album since 2018. The album on Page’s Fresh Baked Goods imprint will be available on CD Nov. 11, with a 2-LP vinyl version out early in 2023. The album’s 11 tracks were composed and produced entirely by Page, who co-founded Barenaked Ladies before departing on a solo career in 2009.
Drayton’s summer season saw an easing back into theatre
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1.55 ACRES, MORE or less, surrounded by farmland. Paved driveway, 14 X 20ft. vinyl sided shed. Beautifully landscaped. HOUSE – Built in 1992. Approx. 2400 square ft. (main floor). Spacious brick bungalow, attached 2 car garage, deck and front porch, good steel roof, good flooring including hardwood, eat in kitchen with updated granite countertops, dining and sitting rooms, family room with stone fireplace (electric insert), 2 bedrooms including master with ensuite, laundry.
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NOTE – A beautiful property with wellmanicured grounds, an attractive home with many upgrades. Country living 15 minutes from Elmira, 25 minutes to Waterloo & Listowel, 35 minutes to Guelph. Call Gerber Auctions Ltd. at 519-699-4451 with questions & to view. See photos at www. gerberauctions.net
Through our customized tender process, at 6678 Wellington County Rd. 12 Mapleton Twp. (5 km north of Macton, 12 km northwest of Elmira, 12 km southeast of Drayton), for Geraldine & The Late Cliff Schill
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Welcomehome!to255 SOLD NEW PRICENEW PRICE ↆ PU ZZLE SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE ADDRESS: 3 Arthur St. S., ELMIRA | DIRECT: 519-503-2753 EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated 234 Elma Street E., Listowel This is your opportunity to break into the housing market.. This cute well maintained, 2 bedroom, one bathroom Semi is the perfect first home. Eat in kitchen with Stainless steel Fridge and Stove, walk out to your deep private backyard! The basement has room for you to finish with your own Lot$1,120,000.0066Middlebrook Road, West Monrose 10 beau�ful acres backing onto the Grand River!!!! 10 beau�ful acres, with gentle rolling hills backing onto the Grand River, (approximately 1214 � of shoreline) prefect place to build your dream home. Wishing to escape the city, and own your own piece of paradise? 2 acres clear with 2 acres of bush and 6 workable. Ideal spot for a hobby farm! Book your appointment today! MLS# 40301824
MILLBANK - Looking to escape the big city for small town living? This charming recently updated, 3-bedroom 2-bathroom bungalow is exactly that and more. Located in the quaint town of Millbank, only 30 minutes from all the big city amenities that Waterloo or Stratford have to offer. You are welcomed through the front door into a bright living room that flows into the dining and kitchen area. From the dining area, slip out through the large sliding doors to your back deck, (complete with propane hook-up), relax and enjoy your large .3 acre corner lot with mature trees, ideal for family gatherings and summer BBQ’s. Or head out to the covered front porch, perfect for enjoying morning coffee or an evening beverage. Upstairs you will find three updated bedrooms and a newly refinished bathroom. The basement with a double door walkout and large windows provides an abundance of natural light, giving a main floor feel. The basement offers just as much as the main floor, rec room, workshop, 2 piece bathroom, laundry room, large cold room, bonus (play) room, loads of space for your family and guests to enjoy. You could easily convert this space into an in-law suite. Updates include, new LVT flooring drywall, potlights, bathrooms, most windows, all trim and interior doors all done in 2022 as well as Furnace & A/C (2021), this house is move in ready! With an insulated garage, (new door on order), oversized shed, and ample parking, you will have tons of space to store your “toys” or entertain.
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MOOREFIELD - This private 50 acre property is located on a quiet street near Teviotdale. Follow along the winding laneway through a picturesque cedar rail fence surrounded by greenery to acres of open space including a spring fed pond. You will be greeted by a bungalow and a small barn to house any animals you have or may wish to have. This property so much more to offer a with green house/shed and a detached 30 x 40 heated and insulated shop (built in 2009) surrounded by fruit trees. The 1459 square foot bungalow has a retreat like master bedroom (added in 2008) with vaulted ceilings, in suite laundry, a propane fireplace and walk-out to the deck and hot tub! The kitchen is open to the dining room and living room, with a fireplace and loads of natural light with sliding glass doors to the front and back deck. The walk out basement has a 3 piece bathroom, rec room and office space which could be easily transformed into an in-law suite. The deck wraps around the house to the master bedroom and connects the outdoor bar with bar fridge, hot tub (2017) and on ground pool (2019). Be prepared for all of your friends and family longing to hang out here! Hop on your off road vehicle and explore the back 40 acres of your own private bush where you will find wildlife and a mix of trees. This serine setting could be just what you have been dreaming of!
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20 | CLASSIFIEDS THE OBSERVER | Thursday, September 22, 2022 5 Thrush Court, Elmira $899,900.00 MLS BROKERAGE BRAD MARTIN Broker of Record, MVA ResidentialR.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. Office: 519-669-2772 Brad Direct: 519-741-6231 Jenna Direct: 519-760-2265 45 Arthur St. S., www.thurrealestate.comElmira JENNA MARTIN Sales Representative 35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE YOU CAN RELY ON! CALL FOR YOUR FREE MARKET EVALUATION 22 Meadowlark Rd., Elmira $874,900.00 MLS17 Maple St., Drayton $774,900.00 MLS 12 Park Ave. W., Elmira $849,900.00 MLS 40 Bristow Creek Dr., Elmira $689,900.00 MLS LISTINGNEW Spotless semi-detached dwelling – joined only at the garage wall. Stunning private rear yard, very well landscaped, backing onto a park! 1480 sq. ft. 3 bdrms. Master bedroom offers a 3 piece ensuite & walk-in closet. Cathedral ceiling – open to the upper hall, in the “Great” room. Walkout to deck. Mn flr mud room & 2 piece washroom. Huge “country” kitchen with appliances incl. Finished basement with a rec room & hobby room. Roughed-in bathroom. Attached garage – double driveway. You won’t be disappointed! New MLS ↆ R EAL ESATE Sue 226-750-9332From SALES suefrom17@gmail.comREPRESENTATIVE Alli 519-669-5426Bauman ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Emily 519-504-6247Minielly SALES emilyminiellyrealestate@gmail.comREPRESENTATIVE 3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426 SELLING? CALL US FOR A FREE MARKET EVALUATION. ELMIRA - Check out this 5 Bedroom Bungalow in Birdland! This unique opportunity gives you the option of multi-generational living or a single-family dwelling...you choose! The main floor has 3 bedrooms, a fair-sized kitchen, a dining room, a living room with big bright windows overlooking the covered front porch, 4 piece bathroom, and a main floor laundry room. Walk out from the dining room to a shaded deck and relax in the yard with the view of mature trees. The open concept basement has 2 bedrooms, its own kitchen and laundry room, 4-piece bathroom, dinette area, 2 living room spaces, and lots of storage. You will be impressed with the overall open feel of this home. The doublewide, concrete driveway provides parking for 2 and the oversized single garage is perfect for the car enthusiast and is equipped with a hoist. Come and see this nicely finished and well-kept home that is sure to impress! $849,000$849,000
LISTOWEL - Welcome to 255 Elm Ave N, Listowel! This well maintained, 3 Bedroom, all brick bungalow is located on a beautiful tree lined street, walking distance from downtown and all that Listowel has to offer! The main floor with its large windows, offers plenty of natural light with a floorplan that flows easily from room to room -- living room, dinette, and open kitchen. You will also find three bedrooms plus a full bathroom on the main floor. The large basement offers a finished recreation room with fireplace and plenty of storage! The separate access to the basement from the attached garage is a bonus if you are thinking of adding an in-law suite. Step out back and enjoy the large backyard with plenty of green space and a garden. This quaint bungalow has so much to offer – move right in and call it home or add your own personal touches! Listowel is a growing community offering all the big city amenities including a movie theatre, grocery stores and shopping centres! Only a short 30-minute drive to Elmira and 45 minutes to Waterloo! Don’t wait to call this beautiful place
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Died suddenly on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at the age of 84. Franklin was the beloved husband of Marlene with whom he celebrated 63 years of marriage on August 29th. Much loved father of Christine and Jack, Jennifer and Neset, and Julie. Adored by his eight grandchildren Jesse, Jordan, Noah, Jonah, Madison, Kyle, Emma, and Ethan in heaven. Predeceased by his parents, Vernon and Catherine, and his sisters, Nancy (Larry) and Carol. Brother to Jo-Anne and Gloria (Jim). Franklin will be missed by his sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, many nieces, nephews, friends, neighbours and his church family. Visitation took place on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A funeral service was held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, 131 Flax Mill Dr., Conestogo followed by a luncheon. As expressions of sympathy, donations to St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church would be appreciated and can be made through the funeral home.
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With family at his side, Paul Knarr, 78, of Kitchener, passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Grand River Hospital. Paul was born in St. Jacobs to Norman and Susannah Knarr. He later met the love of his life, Sandra Knarr (neé Schnarr), and the couple wed and moved to Elmira where Paul began working as a truck driver. After retiring over 50 years later, Paul was honoured by Challenger Motor Freight as a Million Mile driver for his exceptional work in driving over one million miles without a preventable collision - something he took pride in, even in his final days. Paul will be deeply remembered by his loving wife of 56 years, Sandra; his three sons Barry, Darrell (Petrina), and Steven; his grandchildren Cora (Jakeb), Cylie, Cassi, Stephanie, Mercedes, Tabatha, Samantha, Bailey; and his greatgrandchildren Violet and Lucas. Will be missed by brothers Allen (Janet) and Irvin (Darlene). Predeceased by his parents and sister Vera Bowman. Visitation will be held on Friday, September 23, 2022 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira. A funeral service will take place on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel, followed by interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. The service will be livestreamed and can be viewed on Paul’s tribute page of the funeral home website. Donations in Paul’s memory to MCC would be appreciated, and may be made through the funeral home. A special thank you to the staff at Grand River Hospital for their excellent care.
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Passed away peacefully on Saturday September 17, 2022 at Waterloo Hospice after a courageous battle with cancer, at the age of 75 years. Loving wife of James ( Jim ) Mundt of Heidelberg. Dear mother of Tammy Sargent and her husband Trevor of Elmira, John Mundt of Oakville and Jeff Mundt and his wife Alison of Waterloo. Proud and devoted grandmother of Maggie & Annie Sargent and Ava & Audrey Mundt. Dear sister of Roy Eicher (Betty), Shirley Lorentz, Walter Eicher (Dianne), Jack Eicher (Gail), Robert Eicher, Don Eicher (Judy) and Bill Eicher (Eleanor). Marlene will also be missed by many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents Helen and David Eicher and brotherin-law Robert Lorentz.
Peacefully, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 in his 92nd year. Predeceased by his loving wife Dorothy in September 2016. John will be missed by his son Tom and wife Stephanie of Gananoque, his daughter and caregiver Nancy and husband Peter of Waterloo, and son Dan and his wife Shannon of Elmira. He also leaves a long-lasting legacy with grandchildren Leigh, Erin, Brian, Leah and James along with four great-grandchildren Archer, Jude, Olivia and Clara. He loved to hear how the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren were doing with video calls, paintings and pictures being a favourite part of his day. Much loved brother of Barb Amos of Waterloo and sister-in-law Maggie. Predeceased by brother Bill and parents Jack and Mayme (Horan) Shillington.
Dad – you got your wish – to die peacefully and join mom. We’ve let her know you are coming and you can now watch the Toronto Blue Jays games together!
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John served in the Canadian Army Militia with the Scots Fusiliers of Canada from 1949 to 1965 and attained the rank of Major. He instilled a sense of responsibility, organization and your “word is your bond – do what you say you are going to do and do it well” among his children in their upbringing.
Thank you to the staff at University Gates (Egerton) Village and St. Mary’s Emergency and Acute Care teams. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home in Elmira. Cremation has taken place. A celebration of life service will be planned later in October. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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He was a long-serving employee of Marsland Engineering and Leigh Instruments in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Upon moving to Port Dalhousie from K-W, he retired in 1996 after ten years of service with Kelsey-Hayes Canada in St. Catharines. He attended Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Port Dalhousie and was an ordinary member of the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 350) in Port Dalhousie.
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Faye passed away peacefully with her family present on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at Hospice Wellington, Guelph at the age of 70. Faye is now reunited with her husband of 50 years, Ken Douglas. She leaves behind her beloved children Lisa and Dirk Molenaar of Yatton and Paul and Betty Douglas of Drayton. Also lovingly remembered by her grandchildren Anika and Eduard, Adrianna, Payton and Parker. Survived by sisters and brothers Catherine and Bill Dickison of Walkerton, Dennis and Barb Foerster of Hanover, Sheila and Paul Karl of St. Jacobs, Carol and Bill Scott of Harriston, Debbie and Brad Richardson of Clifford, Steven and Connie Foerster of Clifford, Heather Roth and her friend Brent of Harriston. Remembered by Ken’s brothers Bill and Joy, Bob and Jean, Mike and Christine, Don and Lorie, and by sister-in-law Louise Douglas. Also remembered fondly by Aunt Barb and Uncle Paul Foerster, many nieces and nephews and their families, and by many special friends. Predeceased by her parents Milton and Marie Foerster, Ken’s parents William and Dorothea Douglas, brother-in-law John Douglas, niece Darlene Douglas, her aunts and uncles, and godparents Carl and Ruth Herbst. At Faye’s request, cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 1 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira, followed by a private interment in Elmira Mennonite Cemetery. The service will be livestreamed and may be viewed on Faye’s tribute page of the funeral home website. Donations in Faye’s memory to Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kurtzville or Hospice Wellington would be appreciated by the family, and may be made through the funeral home. A special thank you to Dr. Lund and Hospice staff, Bayshore nursing staff and to Jodi for her compassionate care and support.
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The family wishes to thank Sheila Brooks and Nurse Terry for all their compassionate care and support during Marlene’s final days. As well, they would also like to recognize the hard work of the amazing people who are the nurses and support staff at Hospice Waterloo Region and Grand River RelativesHospital.andfriends are invited to call at the Graham Giddy Funeral Home 617 King Street N Waterloo (519-888-7700) on Friday September 23, 2022 from 10-11:30 a.m. A memorial service will take place at 11:30 in the chapel. Cremation has already taken place. Condolences for the family and donations to the Hospice of Waterloo Region or Grand River Regional Cancer Center may be arranged by contacting the funeral home at www.grahamgiddyfh.com.
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Woolwich Township’s climate action initiative will be launching a “Talk to an Owner” event series where interested parties can gain first-hand knowledge from electric car, electric bike, and cargo bike owners. The first event in the series will be held on Saturday, 12-3 p.m., at Canadian Tire in Elmira.
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Thomas drove in her van all over Ontario looking for stories of Black settlers, especially women, who moved through Ontario as they sought freedom from slavery. Thomas calls the project the “Sankofa 100 Miles to Freedom Tour.” Sankofa is a word that means, “to go back and fetch what was left behind,” and here, Thomas is applying it to mean retracing and regaining the province’s largely forgotten Black history.During her journeys, she went to Buxton, Oakville, Amherstberg, Port Burwell, Owen Sound and Bancroft, to name just a few of her stops. Her original goal was to find passed down oral stories of Black
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Nicola Thomas is back home after her series of road trips to discover the lost history of Black diaspora in Ontario, of which Wellesley Township plays a part. Stops included Negro Creek Road in Chatsworth Township and Sandwich Baptist Church in Windsor, the oldest active Black church in Canada.
Nicola Thomas recently completed a project she calls the “Sankofa 100 Miles to Freedom Tour”
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going on a pilgrimage to retrace Black history in Ontario. Other people are on similar journeys, such as Zwena Gray, a Black woman from Detroit who walked the Bruce Trail to Owen Sound this summer to retrace the steps of people on the Underground Railroad. Owen Sound is known as the Railroad’s last stop.
Black settlers escaping slavery cleared some land in the Queen’s Bush, which was the name given to the large area between Waterloo County and Lake Huron. Some of their notable settlements were along
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Local descendents of Black settlers fought to keep the name of the road as is, because they felt renaming was a form of erasure of their history, sheThomassaid. has saved Wellesley Township until last. “There’s so much to get into here,” she said.
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Home from the road with tales of Ontario Black diaspora
the mud from the Detroit River. They made the clay to build it,” she said.
She also found that she is not the only one
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Baptist Church in Windsor, the oldest active Black church in Canada. It was built by former slaves.
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BACK HOME after her series of road trips to discover the lost history of Black diaspora in Ontario, of which Wellesley Township plays a part.
compounds and more than 100 cannabinoids are in a marijuana plant.
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: For years, I have been hearing about the advantages of taking CBD products for sleep, pain and just about anything that ails you. I now see these products everywhere being sold over the counter in drug stores. Is CBD beneficial, and does it live up to its claims?
“I think I had a very wide, big wish list,” she said. “Firstly, starting to think that I could find oral stories from the 1840s, which is very difficult.
Thomas also spoke about Negro Creek Road in Chatsworth Township.
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3. Sprinkle chilled butter over flour mixture. Pulse until mixture looks like coarse crumbs, about 10 seconds.
▢ 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1⁄4- inch pieces and chilled
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7. Use a bench scraper (or butter knife) to cut circle into 8 wedges. Transfer scones to a bakingparchment-linedsheet.
Serve these buttery scones with your favourite jam
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1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 425 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
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▢ 2 cups (10 ounces) all- purpose flour 3 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon 1⁄2
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9. Remove baking sheet from oven and place on a cooling rack. Let scones cool on baking sheet for 15 minutes.
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5. Transfer mixture to a clean counter and use your hands to gather and press mixture
which help the scones turn out super flaky.
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hey may be called cream scones, but a big part of the magic of this treat comes from the butter. Adding little pieces of cold butter to the flour mixture (with the help of the food processor) creates little pockets of butter in the dough. When the scones are baking, the water in that butter turns into steam. That steam creates little pockets of air,
▢ 1 cup (8 ounces) heavy cream
Simple Cream Scone
2. Place flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a food processor. Process mixture for 3 seconds.
8. Bake until scones are light brown on top, 10 to 14 minutes.
6. Use your hands to pat dough into an 8-inch circle, about 3⁄4-inch thick.
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until dough forms and holds together, 5 to 10 seconds.
10. Transfer scones directly to a cooling rack. Let cool for 30 minutes before serving.
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The cream is not for nothing: It makes the scones taste deliciously rich. We like to serve these scones with our favorite jam – and sometimes even more butter!
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4. Transfer flour- butter mixture to a large bowl. Add cream and use a rubber spatula to stir until just combined and no dry flour is visible. Do not overmix.
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tarting a new school year can be both an exciting and anxious time for students and caregiv ers.It is normal for both to experience several emotions, questions, and some concerns about heading back to school.
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effects are decreased appetite, fever, increased liver function tests, anemia, fatigue and gait disturbances.Thehighlytouted pain relief indication of CBD has not been shown by current research.
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Having tools and strat egies to address a poten tially stressful situation can diffuse anxiety and lead to a calmer, more positive start to the new year.Here are some tips that caregivers can use to support their children.
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“no,” try, “What thoughts are coming up when you think about heading back to school?,” “What feelings have you noticed thinking about back to school?.”Finally, make space for the unknown. As a family, consider discuss ing unknowns you are all thinking about. For exam ple, “What questions do you have about back-toschool or what things are you unsure about heading into this school year?” You can talk about this or have everyone in your family write their uncertainties down and take turns reading them out. It is important to acknowledge the fear that underlies the unknown and allow time to sit with this before going into problem-solv ing mode. “Wow, I hear how worried you are about whether you’ll be able to keep up with work in class after being online this past year. Tell me more about that.” From there, focus on identifying and validating your child’s emotions.
want me to just listen? Do you want some help in planning to try to manage this?” This demonstrates that you are listening and understanding them, and sometimes providing them with some ideas about what to do next. If they are unsure, try brainstorming ideas and exploring these together. Remember, our children are not always looking to us as caregivers to fix the situation. It makes a world of difference to them to know we hear them when they share information and understand what they areAmidexperiencing.risingrates of childhood anxiety, you as a caregiver can be a valu able support system for your child. Don’t hesitate to talk to your doctor or mental health professional if you or your child could use additional support.
You can check in with your child about what they need to manage their emotions: “Do you
Before getting to using these with your family, allow yourself some time and space to check in with your own perspectives about back-to-school. Think about the feelings you are experiencing right now and whether these are the feelings that you want to project in conver sations about back-toschool with your children. If not, this is the time to check in with others to manage these emotions. For example, if you are feeling confused and have questions, seek out these answers from the school
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yet, the funeral directors are involved with every person in a community and so they’re important to the community,” said Roes in the video.
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“When I was interviewing the undertakers and realizing that their stories aren’t usually told, and people often say they don’t like going to a funeral home, which is understandable, and
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Roes has been featured in a docu-series from Waterloo Region to highlight her work telling the history of the funeral business in the region.Theseries is Waterloo Region’s contribution to Doors Open Ontario, an event to celebrate heritage and architecture across the province. This year, the event is once again completely digital, as was the case over the last two years due to the pandemic.
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Roes began writing the book, “Death as Life’s Work,” about the history of the funeral business in the region from about 1850 until 2020 while she was working on another research project in 2014.
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To participate, the region staff have created a series of videos, about ten minutes each, that feature a less well-known story about the region. This includes the story about Roes, who was part of the Dreisinger Funeral Home legacy in Elmira.
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Local historian Marion Roes is the author of Death as Life’s Work. File photo
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the Peel and Wellesley township border, Glen Allen, Wallenstein and Hawkesville. The Cana dian government later surveyed the land, and priced it too high for the Black settlers to afford. By 1850 the Black settlers
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Thomas says this fall she will be working with a local historian to retrace the plots originally cleared by Black settlers and learn about who they were.
BLACK HISTORY: Finding the good stories to relate
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However it is not quite time to worry about winter tires or putting away lawn furniture,” emphasized Phillips“Ithink there is still a lot of good weather to enjoy here in southern Ontario to enjoy the harvest, to enjoy the colour-change season and to worry about winter when it arrives.”
Though there are some signs of change, the real fall colours lie ahead.
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it’s crappy history, there’s also always good stories in there. And we just want our truth, so that we can recognize and honour the people that made it so that we can enjoy the part of our communities that we do now. And people want that.”
“You wish you would have this thing all figured out, but the only carryover from summer to fall is the early arrival of fall or winter-like weather. And because we’ve had such a warm summer…a lot of that residual heat is that is the gift that keeps giving and so that we will be seeing that it will kind of temper some of those air masses that come from the west. The polar vortex will have not quite the strength that it has here as it went out west because of the residual heat and the lakes and the land and the rivers and things like that.”
began migrating out of the Queen’s Bush settlement.
