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Wellesley seeking input on “lofty” conceptual plan for parkland in the village

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FAISAL ALI AN AMBITIOUS CONCEPTUAL DRAWING for a new park in Wellesley village was rolled out this week as township council met in Crosshill.

Drawn up as a college project, the plans include a long list of potential uses for the 40-acre site at the corner of Hutchinson and Queens Bush roads.

Rather than act as a plan for what a future park at the location would contain, the drawing was presented as a rough demonstration of the types of facilities the park might include.

“It’s very, very lofty,” director of recreation Brad Voisin said before the meeting Tuesday night.

He emphasized that the drawing included structures that the township might never build, depending on its preference.

The drawing is certainly quite busy.

The conceptual plan includes a single-pad arena, community centre and gym, a swimming pool and splash pad, skateboard park, sports fields and two regulation softball diamonds, an off-leash dog area, naturalized children’s play area and a fair amount of open fields. Circumscribing the park and the facilities are a set of loop trails that cut through the clear and wooded sections of the lot alike.

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With temperatures soaring above 30 degrees on Tuesday, the Elmira splash pad was a popular destination for local kids.

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STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES IN reading, writing and mathematics continue to be a problem provincially, but local schools are typically ahead of the curve, according to schoolby-school results released last week.

The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) is responsible

for conducting the tests in which Grade 3 and 6 students are assessed on reading, writing and mathematics, while Grade 9 students are assessed in mathematics.

“EQAO scores are one of many tools we use to judge our progress as a school system. But they are just one snapshot in time and, recognizing the uniqueness of every school and each EQAO | 7

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Exhibit provides the Mennonite take on the War to End all Wars Running through Remembrance Day, Mennonite Archives display at Conrad Grebel University College provides local perspective on WWI Archivist-librarian Laureen Harder-Gissing created the exhibit on local Mennonites’ experiences during the First World War. [FAISAL ALI / THE OBSERVER]

FAISAL ALI IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE sacrifices made and struggles wrought during the First World War, the Mennonite Archives at Conrad Grebel University College is displaying exhibits both international in their scope and distinctly local.

From September 25 until Remembrance Day, November 11, the archives are devoting an exhibit specifically to the experiences of the Mennonite communities during the Great War a century ago.

Titled “The Sites of Non Resistance: Ontario Mennonites and the First World War,” the exhibit aims to

tell the stories of men and women of the province’s pacifist communities, as they grappled with the social and political climate of the time.

“For the first few years of the war, I think Mennonites just generally tried to stay out of it. They had this long tradition of pacifism, and they wanted to maintain that,” explains Laureen Harder-Gissing, archivist-librarian at the Mennonite Archives and creator of the exhibit.

However, as the war wore on in Europe and the battle lines remained obstinately in place, the Mennonite’s status of conscientious objector, which

exempted them from service, became far more contentious.

By 1917, volunteer enlistments for the war had dwindled amongst the exhausted Canadian populace. Appeals by Canadian politicians to British and imperial solidarity were yielding diminishing returns, even as the war showed no signs of abating.

Determined to reinforce the Canadian forces on the battlefront, then-prime minister Robert Borden made the difficult choice to enact conscription. Preceding that, Borden passed the Wartime Elections Act, which stripped conscientious objectors and newly

immigrated Canadians of the vote, while enfranchising the wives, sisters and daughters of soldiers who would, conceivably, support conscription.

“Mennonites needed to kind of swing into action and advocate to government to make sure they still had their conscientious objector status. So some of them travelled to Ottawa in order to speak with government in order to do that,” says HarderGissing.

“But also ordinary Mennonites, starting during this time of conscription especially, really found it a challenge to think about their peace position in

light of the fact that their neighbours were being sent off to war. There was just so much more questioning of, ‘Why are young men on the street? Why are they not in uniform?’”

Harder-Gissing says she was motivated to tell the public about the often overlooked Mennonite community, which in 1921 numbered about 13,000 in Ontario, and 60,000 across Canada. This would have included both Old-Order Mennonites and the “assimilated” denominations, who would have shared in their pacifist ideology.

“What I’ve tried to do is dig through the archives and find stories of indi-

vidual Mennonites, both men and women, who had experiences during the war where they had to confront some of these difficult things, and just have them tell their stories in their own words as much as possible,” says Harder-Gissing.

“So we have 12 different stories and each of them associates with a specific location, and that’s why we call it ‘Sites of Nonresistance.’”

The experiences of Mennonites during the war varied considerably, says Harder-Gissing, from inner-struggles with church doctrine and belief to difEXHIBIT | 28

Wellesley Apple Butter & Cheese runs for the 42nd time this Saturday

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not really wanting to go and sit down for a fairly big meal,” says Reid, who has been the chair of the festival’s planning committee for about 15 years.

Besides the foodstuffs, which get full billing in the festival’s name, are the equally compelling events and activities. There’s clog dancing off and on throughout the day, pony rides, inflatables, a bouncy castle, various rides and a puppet show for the youth.

The competitive horseshoe tournament will open

to spectators, as will the finals of the Wellesely Idol, which will see the last three contestants – Anastasia Bilodeau, Christian Economides and Taylor Kelly – compete for the coveted title.

For tourists and locals alike, there are numerous vendors artisans selling their crafts to the wider public.

“There’s no charge to go into the arena where ... we have vendors in there selling their products. Everything from cheeses to meats to homemade gadgets, I would think some jewelry. A good

the events that are going on,” says Reid. “If you don’t come with a lot of money, all you got to do is eat and enjoy the sights.”

Besides musical numbers from the Idol competitors, there will be performances throughout the day from a variety of musicians.

The festival has been a major draw for the town over the decades even as tastes change over generations. Reid notes that the ABC FEST | 5

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Most of the events are being kept free, notes Reid, including the tours of the cider mill and farms, the antique car and tractor displays and parade, the model boat regatta and music performances, in an effort to keep the event as accessible as possible.

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THE WEATHER MAY NOT be as summery as last weekend, but Saturday should see Wellesley village chock-a-block with visitors for the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival.

The annual event, the signature festival of the year for Wellesley and one of the biggest in the townships, goes for the 42nd year.

The mouth-watering morsels on offer are reason enough to attend the festival, which typically draws

in anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 people, says organizer Bob Reid, essentially boosting the population by a factor of 10. Apple butter and cheese are only the beginnings of what’s on the menu for the day, which will be starting early at 7 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, and run the gamut from apple sauce and fritters to kettle corn and the smorgasbord roast beef.

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WCS launches new gender-based program aimed specifically at men and boys ALI WILSON FOR THE FIRST TIME in the township, the Woolwich Youth Centre will be facilitating a program exclusive to male caregivers and their boys.

The free semi-structured program is open to 8-12 year old boys and their fathers, grandfathers or male mentors, focusing on leadership and healthy masculinity through games and activities.

William Fujarczuk, an educator with the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region, will be leading the program. His work is focused on public education to teach men and boys in engaging conversation around healthy masculinity, consent and gender-based violence.

“This program specifically is looking to engage male caregivers and mentors,” he said. “It’s from our partnership with the YWCA Cambridge, they have been doing workshops with mothers and daughters for a long time where they talk about body image issues, they talk about gender and sometimes it’s just artsbased activities, just creating a space for [them]. They recognize the need to have a similar programming for men, so it was a natural fit to work with us male allies.

“We thought that it would be great to work with different partners instead

William Fujarczuk will be leading the new male-oriented caregivers’ program to be offered at the youth centre in Elmira through WCS. of running our own programming and just finding a space. Instead, finding agencies that already exist that are known in their communities, promoting through them through their contacts that they already have,” he explained.

After connecting with Tina Reed, coordinator of community support with Woolwich Community Services, Fujarczuk felt that he had found a great partner for a Woolwich-led group.

“Tina was so excited about the prospect of this programming. It is not something that you really see offered much in the world, much in the region, for male care givers explicitly to spend time with LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED

youth. So it just felt like a really natural fit,” he said.

For Reed, the program extends WCS’s current programming.

“A large part of our Family Violence Prevention Program is the building of healthy relationships and the program offered

by Male Allies provides the niche of the male relationship component,” she explained. “We felt that we had the perfect space at the youth centre for a program like this. Having a pool table, games and all we have there can give them something to do together while opening the door to growth in the relationship.”

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the success of the program, Fujarczuk explained.

“Here we have video games and we have a pool table and puzzles and all sorts of room for creativity, so there is definitely a lot of time to make use of the space,” he said, noting that the workshops are created to fit with this intergenerational group of participants that will be attending. “[We’ll be] looking at our role as men in ending gender-based violence, what it means to be an ally to women in this work and recognizing that these really rigid notions of masculinity that society places on us, that we sometimes place on ourselves, are really harmful to men’s mental

and emotional and physical health. They are things that aren’t talked about a lot.”

The program is focused on creating a space for men to feel comfortable to talk about what it mean to be a guy, what healthy masculinity look likes, and promoting that with youth.

“We know men want to be caregivers. We know they have different pressures, so I think that this is kind of bridging these two things and saying, ‘let’s create space to do this,’” he explained.

Although the program is set around open conversation, Fujarczuk says people won’t be launched into it.

“Let’s talk about this a bit, we aren’t going to sit

here for two hours and talk, but we are going to talk about it a bit and then let’s play some video games and let’s just hangout and have a good time together,” he said. “I am not here to push people to points where they are extremely uncomfortable but I really want to just open room for dialogue and guide us bit by bit.”

Dialogue is important to motion change, however he says he understands that there may be barriers people are facing to get there – those he would like to help whittle down.

“I think it can be tough. I think men don’t know what to expect from these kinds of things and if they do it can be an uncomfortable conversation.”

Specifically to Woolwich, Reed says the program fills a void to male caregivers that currently isn’t being addressed.

“Sometimes male caregivers or male mentors don’t know what to do to spend time together, and options in a small town can feel limiting. Now we can share this space with Male Allies to allow the men and boys to make connections, communicate, and focus on positive relationship building and role modeling,” she explained.

The first session will be a low-key one, allowing participants to get comfortable with each other, playing games and using the facilities.

The new program is starting at the Woolwich Youth Centre October 2, and happening the first Monday of every month thereafter running from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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No streetlights for Bloomingdale The night sky will continue to reign supreme in Bloomingdale, with Woolwich council voting down a proposal to install streetlights in part of the village.

The split decision came at a meeting last week following a plea from resident Deanna Zenger, who argued against the plan, pointing to the impact of light pollution.

“Dark skies have many benefits,” she said, noting there are no safety issues in Bloomingdale that would warrant the move.

Having divided the village into three zones for the purpose of polling residents about streetlights, the township nixed the idea in two of the areas due to opposition. Though there was a close split in the third zone, Woolwich had proposed going ahead nonetheless.

Already balking at the underwhelming support from residents and the price tag, Coun. Patrick Merlihan was even more convinced when told the estimated $37,000 cost had almost doubled to $72,600 for just 14 lights in one section.

“I think that is ridiculous for the very few people that it’s going to serve,” he said of the price tag, noting that

overall only about a third of those who responded to a township survey wanted streetlights.

“I think we need to respect the ‘yes’ people,” countered Coun. Mark Bauman.

He was supported by Coun. Murray Martin, but with Coun. Scott Hahn opposed, the motion failed as the result of tie vote.

GO decision to be probed by AG Questions of political tampering linger over the provincial transportation minister’s involvement in pushing for two GO stations over recommendations

they not be built.

Now, Ontario’s Auditor General will look into the issue.

That move follows a motion spearheaded by Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris, the PC transportation critic. The motion approved this week

by Public Accounts Committee asks that “the Auditor General conduct a value for money audit on proposed Metrolinx GO stations at Kirby and Lawrence East.”

“Given the serious questions that remain unanswered relating to ministerial decision-making potentially influencing this process I think we’ve had a win for taxpayers today in having our provincial watchdog dig into the numbers before this moves any further ahead,” Harris

said following the vote. “While I had hoped we would have that information for taxpayers before the next election, I’m glad to see all committee members understood the seriousness of this issue and the importance of getting to the bottom of it.”

Harris initially wrote the auditor after reports surfaced that MTO overruled Metrolinx recommendations and analysis citing longer travel times, fewer passengers, more highway traffic and losses in approving the $100 million Kirby station in Steven Del Duca’s riding.

The value for money audit on the two stations will now be a focus of the 2018 annual report of the Auditor General, noted Harris in a release.

PARK: Plan envisions many options not necessarily within township’s budget

Woolwich backs options for WNH To nobody’s surprise, Waterloo North Hydro is pushing ahead with options for mergers and acquisitions following a sparsely attended public consultation phase.

The limited feedback indicated customers are largely concerned about any impact on rates, which have been climbing dramatically for more than a decade.

Meeting last week, Woolwich council endorsed the direction. The utility is jointly owned by Woolwich, Wellesley and Waterloo.

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The Township of Wellesley is asking for the community’s input on a revised conceptual drawing for a new park in the town of Wellesley. The drawing, created by the student team at Fanshawe College in London, is only a rough outline of the types of facilities that the park could contain.

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There are no cost projections associated with any of facilities in the drawings just yet – Voisin says they are not that far along in the project at the moment.

The plan was produced by students at London’s Fanshawe College as part of a school project. The

students had initially come out with 10 concept drawings that were presented to the community at an open forum for feedback. After listening to the residents’ ideas, the creative team at the college went back to revise their ideas and put together a single drawing.

Voisin says they are now

hoping for feedback from the community for this newest proposal.

“We are looking for people’s input. We don’t just want to sit on this, we want to keep it moving along and keep it going.”

The drawing has been put on the Wellesley website (www.wellesley.ca), and he encourages people

to take a look and contact him with new ideas.

The work stems from a township recreation master plan that identified the need for more parkland in Wellesley. The village site includes 32 acres purchased by the municipality for $905,000 and an additional eight acres donated by the seller.

horseshoe tournament, for example, isn’t as big as it used to be, as interest has declined amongst the youth. The traditional quilt auction has also likewise been cancelled. Yet Reid is not rushing to modernize the festival significantly as it continues to run successfully.

Even without entrance fees and the like, the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival is still a significant fundraiser for the town, which raises money by charging participating vendors a fee.

Reid anticipates that they will likely generate somewhere between $20,000$30,000 over the day.

“All that money goes back into the festival’s coffers and then we distribute the money to wherever we feel meets our mandate,” he says.

“We’ve donated money towards both the splash parks the Lions put in and also the ability playground that the Lions put in. We’ve added money towards beautifying uptown when they put in new sewers, we put money into that so there could be a little bit more [bricking].”

The festival starts bright and early in Wellesley at 7 a.m. and runs until about 3 or 4 p.m. this Saturday.

RWL to begin work on expanding headquarters building FAISAL ALI THE REGION OF WATERLOO approved a $970,000 expansion proposal for its library headquarters in Baden. The work expected to get underway in October will add 1,120 square feet to the office building, including an additional washroom. The building will undergo some renovations and maintenance, as

well. The parking lot will be enlarged.

A growing staff contingent led to the decision to expand the space at the headquarters building, which was originally constructed in the 1990s.

“We’ve added to our staff compliment here at headquarters, so right now we’ve used up what was previously meeting place – we’ve put desks and offices in

there,” said Kelly Bernstein, manager of library services for the Region of Waterloo Library.

“We have pretty cramped quarters in parts of the building and we have no meeting space, no collaboration space, no kind of shared work space. So the expansion will allow us to have all of those spaces back.”

Bernstein estimates the

headquarters have added four new positions to the staff in the last year-anda-half alone. Moreover, the way the office operates has changed as well, says Bernstein, with work being a lot more collaboratively organized – hence the need for more common workspaces.

The building meanwhile has not seen any notable changes in the past 25 years.

“We have teams of staff

who work on different projects together, like our programming team, for instance. They don’t have a space to store half the stuff that they have, and they don’t have any kind of dedicated space to do their collaborative work, and their work is very collaborative. So we’ve included in the new design a space for that,” said Bernstein.

In terms of benefits to the

community, Bernstein says she expects the expansion will help library staff deliver more programming and manage new libraries, like those being considered for St. Clements and Breslau, currently deemed “unconsidered capital projects.”

Construction at the headquarters, being carried out

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EQAO: Math scores remain the biggest area concern, despite a few improvements here and there Key points from results locally

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cohort of students, they need to be analyzed carefully. We are particularly pleased this year to note that where we have had the opportunity to provide intensive or increased support through the renewed math strategy, we are seeing positive gains,” said Loretta Notten, director of education for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board. “Our students deserve nothing but excellence in their classrooms, and we realize there is much more work remaining to be done.”

Across both the WCDSB and the Waterloo Region District School Board, math scores showed the most growth, the trend encompassing Wellesley and Woolwich area schools from both boards.

“Success in math reflects a strong commitment and focus by the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, to use a wide array of data (primarily EQAO), to identify learning needs and address them through focused and job-embedded professional development,” said superintendent John Klein. “It reveals a purposeful attention to collaboration and support for our teachers and students.”

John Bryant, director of education with the WRDSB, indicated that he is pleased to have been able to close the mathematic gap to the provincial level, but says there is still work to do.

“We set ambitious targets to improve student outcomes and experiences last year, and we have placed a significant emphasis on implementing strategies to help us achieve those goals.

These results illustrate our commitment to improving the outcomes and experience for WRDSB students is beginning to take root.”

Elmira District Secondary School Applied mathematics Percentage of students at or above the provincial standard.

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Academic mathematics Percentage of students at or above the provincial standard.

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Provincially, fluctuating scores leaves boards scrambling for answers, and some parents with more than a few questions.

More than 130,000 Grade 3 and Grade 6 students participated provincially, with just over 96,000 Grade 9s participating in academic course and over 34,000 in applied.

Key points from the WRDSB results

Mathematics in elementary school students continues to stay low.

With around 50 per cent of Grade 6 students at or above the provincial standard and Grade 3s dropping a per cent to hover at 62 per cent.

There has been an improvement in literacy over the past five years in elementary students Decline in mathematics success over the past five years in elementary students An increasing percentage of students who met the mathematics standard in Grade 3 did not do so in Grade 6 In academic mathematics courses 52,459 students (66 per cent) had met the provincial standard in both Grade 3 and Grade 6. Of these, 94 per cent (49,193) met it again in Grade 9 In applied mathematics courses 2,987 students (12 per cent) had met the provincial standard in both Grade 3 and Grade 6. Of these, 84 per cent (2,496) met it again in Grade 9

The percentage of Grade 9 (applied) WRDSB students in mathematics who met the provincial standard increased by 15 per cent over last year while the provincial average dropped by one per cent.

Grade 6 WRDSB students who met the provincial standard in mathematics increased by two per cent over last year.

students saw growth in all categories and maintained above average results.

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Grade 3 students results showed an increase in all categories in comparison to the prior year, while they scored higher than the board, they were just below par in reading compared to provincial results.

Grade 6 students saw a drop in all three categories, while still maintaining above the board and provincial results.

Park Manor saw a drop in all results compared to the last available year, while still maintaining higher than average results over provincial and board levels.

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results. The school did see a 9 per cent increase in their mathematics, to etch out both the board and provincial ranks.

Grade 3 students ranked higher than the board and province across all three categories, reading writing and mathematics, but dropped in both reading and writing in comparison to their own results last year. While Grade 6 students saw a drastic jump all across the board, exceeding both the WRDSB results and provincial results.

Riverside PS Only 27 per cent of Grade 6 scored at or above the provincial standard in mathematics, with both reading and writing below average. Grade 3 students fell in both reading and writing ranks, but stayed on par with the board and just below provincial

Some 94 per cent of Grade 3 students scored at or above the provincial standard in writing, a whopping 30 per cent higher than board results, and just over 20 per cent higher than provincial results. 32 per cent of Grade 6 students met or scored above provincial standard in mathematics, down 30 per cent from the prior year.

Linwood PS Grade 3 and 6 students scored lower than the Board and Provincial results in all categories, although they did see a rise in Grade 3 and 6 reading from the prior year.

St. Jacobs PS Grade 6 students scored 96 per cent in both reading and writing, both are up from the prior year, while Grade 3

John Mahood PS John Mahood PS saw students drop in all categories, with 39 per cent of students at or above the provincial standard in mathematics.

St Boniface Catholic school St Boniface saw a drop in all results for Grade 3 and Grade 6 students, coming in below board and provincial averages.

St Teresa of Avila Catholic school Stayed at par or rose above their prior results in all categories for Grade 3 and 6 students, seeing 95 per cent of Grade 6 students at or above provincial standard in writing.

St Clement Catholic school Grade 3 results dropped across the board, but saw Grade 6 students results come in with 94 per cent of students at or above provincial standard in reading and writing, and 88 per cent in mathematics.

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Her record poor, Wynne steps up the propaganda IT’S CLEAR TO ALL but the most myopic that the Wynne government has completely mismanaged Ontario’s electricity system. Facing growing public anger – and an election next year – Wynne has been making increasingly panicked moves to appease voters.

Last year’s eight per cent reduction – equivalent to the provincial portion of the ill-considered sales tax on electricity bills – the government went into full desperation mode in the summer, cutting 25 per cent from bills by way massive borrowing costs – putting off today’s pain for a much bigger one tomorrow. After the election, all a coincidence, of course.

Then there’s the mindboggling sell-off of Hydro One, injecting a minor amount of short-term infrastructure money at the permanent expense of the public good.

The moves are expected to add at least $40 billion in extra costs to ratepayers in the province.

Altogether, it’s one bad idea after another. All at the public’s expense. Now, we can add $5.5 million into the mix, the cost of an ad campaign cooked up by Wynne to sell us on her schemes.

That revelation comes courtesy of the freedom of information request filed by the Ontario NDP – not a word from the government otherwise, naturally. The documents also reveal Wynne’s mindset in claiming that the advertising is needed to combat “negative media coverage of rising electricity bills.”

The truth hurts. More specifically, the truth about Wynne’s incompetence hurts the one thing she cares about: reelection. “$5.5 million is an eye-popping number, especially when the Financial Accountability Officer has said this Liberal scheme is going to do more harm than good in the long run when it comes to families’ hydro bills,” said NDP leader Andrea Horwath in response to the FOI findings. “Why doesn’t the premier take that money and actually use it to help all those who are struggling to pay their hydro bills every month?”

While the pay-me-later moves began lowering bills earlier this year, along with a promise to cap years of massive increases at something like the inflation rate, Ontarians have every right to be skeptical about both the outcome and the motivation (hint, it’s not your wallet Wynne is concerned about, but your vote).

This week’s findings cement the fact Wynne has zero credibility on the energy file.

When first elected, the Liberal strategy held some promise, including giving a boost to alternatives such as wind and solar power, but it quickly became apparent the province was being far too generous.

Yes, Ontarians had for years underpaid for electricity, the massive boondoggles and price overruns for nuclear power and a host of other errors (see, particularly, overly generous employee compensation) being subsidized from general tax revenues. That had to change, but the Liberals chose poorly and then fiscally mismanaged the system beyond even what the most jaded of watchers expect of government.

All of Wynne’s desperate moves do nothing address the underlying problems with Ontario’s electricity system, the origin of which can’t all be laid at her feet. Just most of them.

And her government has made every problem worse with poor policy decisions aimed at providing benefits only to themselves and their financial backers, not the public.

Doing the math on the three Rs is apparently particularly hard for Queen’s Park, the school boards and their staff.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Rise of the right in Germany part of troubling trend WORLD AFFAIRS ANGELA MERKEL’S SLOGAN IN her campaign for a fourth term as chancellor was terminally bland and smug – “For a Germany in which we live well and love living” – but it did the job, sort of. Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is back as the largest party, so Merkel gets to form the next coalition government. But the neo-fascists are now in the Bundestag (parliament) too, for the first time since the collapse of Nazi Germany.

It’s not Merkel’s fault, exactly, but the numbers tell the tale. The CDU had its worst result ever, down from 40 per cent of the vote at the last election to only 33 per cent this time. And it looks like the seven per cent of the vote that the CDU lost went straight to the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the neo-fascist party, whose support was up from just under five per cent last time to 12.6 per cent this time.

That makes the AfD the third-biggest party in the Bundestag. All the other

parties have sworn to have nothing to do with it, so Merkel’s party will have to seek its coalition partners elsewhere. It will take at least a month to make the coalition deal, which will probably link the CDU with the business-friendly Free Democrats and the Greens, but that is not the big story.

The rise of the hard right is.

‘Rise’ is a relative term, of course: only one German in eight actually voted for the AfD. But that is still shocking in a country that thought it had permanently excised all that old Nazi stuff from its politics. And if you look more closely, the AfD’s support was strongest in the same parts of the country that voted strongly for the Nazis in the 1933 election that brought Hitler to power.

The AfD was founded by an economics professor who just wanted Germany to leave the euro currency, but in the past four years it has been taken over antiMuslim, anti-immigrant ultra-nationalists, and they do sound a little bit like You-Know-Who at times.

Alice Weidel, the AfD’s co-leader, has described Merkel’s government as

“pigs” who merely serve as “marionettes of the victorious powers of the Second World War, whose task it is to keep down the German people.” And the party’s other co-leader, Alexander Gauland, said in an election speech last week: “We have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars.”

That sort of comment might be interesting to debate in a university seminar on German history, but 72 years after Hitler’s death it is still too soon to say out loud in a Europe that was ravaged by German armies in the Second World War. Gauland, Weidel and their AfD colleagues are playing with fire and they are well aware of it.

The truly alarming thing, however, is not the occasional echo of the Nazis in AfD rhetoric. It is the fact that Germany is conforming to a general trend towards the authoritarian, ultra-nationalist right in Western politics.

Each country does it in its own historical style. The pro-Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom last year was actually led by isola-

tionist “Little Englanders.”

Their implausible promise of a glorious free-trading future for the UK outside the European Union was just a necessary nod in the direction of economic rationality – but the Brexiteers won because enough people wanted to believe them.

Similarly, Donald Trump fits comfortably into the American tradition: he is channelling American demagogues of the 1930 like Huey Long and Father Coughlin. The economic situation of American workers and the lower middle class today is close enough to that of the 1930s that they responded to his mixture of nationalism, dog-whistle racism and anti-big-business rhetoric by voting him into the presidency.

In France, Marine Le Pen appealed to nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment and the resentment of the long-term unemployed to win almost 34 per cent of the vote in last May’s presidential election. She lost, but the more important fact is that one-third of French voters backed the DYER | 10

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What is your favourite football team?

» Connor Janzen

» Tanner Mann

» Adam Schill

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“Toronto Argonauts.”

“NY Giants.”

“Denver Broncos.”

“New England Patriots.”

“Buffalo Bills.”

“Let’s start listening to our people and start taking action on what matters in our hometown of Elmira.” Judy Hillier | 10 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Politicians banding about class issues for all the wrong reasons EDITOR'S NOTES DISCUSSION OF CLASS – the middle one, in particular – is a large part of the federal government’s attempts to wrest more tax dollars from Canadians. They’re focusing on loopholes that involve incorporation to lower the tax burden, an issue that particularly rankles the likes of professionals such as doctors.

PM Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Bill Morneau and the rest of the caucus sent out to defend the changes all talk about tax fairness and the plight of the middle class, never mentioning their own profligacy and how the tax burden increases on the very middle class they claim to be defending.

Of course, the whole idea of a middle class remains muddled. Politicians and bureaucrats carefully avoid defining it, knowing many people see themselves as middle class despite their paycheques being lower

than the median family income of $70,000. Many of us are more aspirational than actual middle class earners.

Instead, they prefer to maintain the fiction that as many people as possible will benefit in an “us” versus “them” scenario when invoking class.

There’s lip service to populism making the wealthy and corporations the target of the failing middle-class and growing underclass, the kind of thing that gave rise to Donald Trump in the U.S., where the class distinctions are more pronounced, coupled with more than a touch of racial issues.

What we’re seeing, however, is more faux populism.

What the U.S. – and indeed much of the West, including Canada – needs is more class warfare. Oh, not in the sense of the riots we’ve seen in Greece, Britain and France in recent years, but in the sense that we recognize the system is not as advertised. As with Trudeau’s Liberals, governments attempt to sell us on the idea that they’re

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classes. Everybody continues to pay, but fewer and fewer profit.

Conservative governments, funded by those who’ve seen the most benefits, have certainly led the charge against the types of advances that came out of the Depression/Second World War experience, including regulations governing minimum wages, working conditions, the environment, corporate ownership and financial services, to name a few.

But they’ve been joined by their major opponents here (Liberals), in the U.S. (Democrats) and the UK (Labour) as money influences the debate.

Decision after decision that has been harmful to the middle class has been couched in just the opposite terms – supporters knowing full well you can’t sell policies by saying a handful will make out like bandits at everyone else’s expense. From financial deregulation to free trade, from outsourcing to corporate welfare, we’re told the changes will make us all better off. Or, if that doesn’t work, we’re

told the sky will fall if we don’t go along with the prescribed course of action. For the latter, look no farther than the billions of dollars funnelled into corporate hands in the form of bailouts following the 2008 collapse, often paid to those responsible for the crisis in the first place.

Large sums of that cash were paid out in bonuses, with banks and investment companies quickly returning to profitability while taxpayers were on the hook for the money, all the while suffering from unemployment and underemployment.

The central myth revolves around the free market, which typically boils down to privatizing profits and socializing losses, witnessed time and time again.

In Trump’s America, there’s another recourse to trickle-down economics.

Such voodoo economics – the label of former president George H.W. Bush – is what we’ve been living with for more than three decades. It’s founded on the belief that what’s good for the wealthiest classes

is good for everyone. Bank profits are at an all-time high, financial services are raking in billions and corporations have rebounded nicely. Unemployment remains high in much of the West, personal debt levels soar and the standard of living falls. But it’s the latter group that gets to pay for the austerity measures we’re told we need in order to pay for the profits of the former.

“When Barack Obama was president, congressional Republicans were deficit hawks. They opposed almost everything Obama wanted to do by arguing it would increase the federal budget deficit,” notes former Clinton labour secretary Robert Reich in a blog post this week. “But now that Republicans are planning giant tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, they’ve stopped worrying about deficits.”

He notes a Trump budget will have difficulty reconciling increased military spending, massive amounts of post-hurricane rebuilding and a pledge for KANNON | 10

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protecting our interests when they’re simply selling themselves for the next election – appear to be doing something to garner votes, while actually benefiting those of the more elevated classes.

That reality is precisely what’s missing from political debate, here as assuredly as in the U.S. Today, the framework is based on austerity measures: how much to cut from social spending in order to balance the budget. But that’s really just a distraction from the bigger issue, namely the framework of our civil society. That has more to do with regulatory matters than it does with particular spending choices.

In short, it’s about who benefits from the political and economic systems we’ve created – and let’s be clear: they are manmade, not pre-ordained. For much of the postwar era, it was a large segment of the population. For more than 30 years, however, the number of beneficiaries has grown smaller, increasingly in favour of the wealthy and corporate

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In 2014, 27.5 million Canadians filed a tax return; 33% (9.1 million) paid no income tax; 67% (18.4 million) paid all the federal and provincial income tax. Those with incomes under $50,000 accounted for 86.4% of all tax filers and paid 13.2% of all federal income tax. Filers between $50,000 and $99,999 represented 23.3% of all filers and paid 35% of all federal income tax. Those with incomes at $100,000 and above represented 8.4% of all filers and paid 51.8% of all federal income tax.

“Ontario’s scarce rental housing supply combined with escalating house and condo prices have created a housing crisis in our biggest cities. The only solution is for Ontario to build itself out of this situation. This begins with our provincial leaders working with industry to identify and implement policies that create more purpose-built rental units, not less.”

The Region of Waterloo made a decision to restrict all vehicle and buggy traffic on the West Montrose Bridge as a safety precaution. A floor beam that supports a portion of the bridge deck has failed likely due to overloading by heavy vehicles, despite weight restrictive signage. The damage to the bridge was reported by an observant resident who was kayaking under the bridge last week.

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neo-fascist candidate. And now, in German, the AfD. The common thread that runs through all these events, beyond the racism, nationalism and xenophobia, is economic distress.

The economies may be doing well, but a large proportion of the people are not.

The gap between the rich and the rest was tolerated when everybody’s income was rising, but that has not

been true for 30 years now, and patience among the “losers” has run out.

This is still early days, but the direction of the drift in Western politics is clear, and it is deeply undesirable. The only thing that will stop it is decisive action to narrow the income gap again, but that is very hard to do in the face of the currently dominant economic doctrine.

Houston, we have a problem.

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infrastructure improvements with tax cuts for top earners.

“So how do Republicans propose to pay for any of this, and a big tax cut for corporations and the wealthy – without exploding the federal deficit?

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To the Editor, WHEN RUNNING INTO A friend and his wife from Elmira we were able to do some catching up on life. I noticed they had sold their home and I was interested as to where they had relocated and how they were doing. After 70-plus years in Elmira and being very involved in the community, they had to move to Kitchener due to the fact that Elmira didn’t have much to offer in a senior/retirement living, with nothing projected in the future.

It has been on my mind for quite some time as to what does Elmira have to offer when I wish to sell

my property? I enjoy going into town and walking the streets just to say “hello” and meet up with the folks that have been a part of Elmira for generations.

What is Elmira becoming?

Does anyone wonder or are we too busy in our lives to care? Where are people of the 60-plus generation having to go in order to live a more simply comfortable lifestyle? We are moving them out. What a shame.

We have had in the past some land that could have been used as beautiful location for condos. They were sold for individual homes. Fortunately there are still a couple locations that could be used for one-floor condo units with lovely center-core gardens if someone would just use their imaginations. According to my friend, township council is saying it’s the builders’ fault and the

builders are saying it’s the township’s fault. Do we need to point fingers? We should be working together to make “our Elmira” home for all.

I look around us and see that Elora, St. Jacobs and even Floradale have taken into consideration the aging population, with Elmira people moving there. Elmira is continually building single-family homes – two-storey, putting them on smaller lots all the time in order to build more. Why can’t we be a bit more creative?

We have drug stores, banks, post office, restaurants, jewellery stores, hardware, health stores, convenient store, library, medical buildings, thrift stores, transit, LCBO and even ice cream and coffee shops, just to name a few, all within walking distance.

Who’s going to use these in the future? If a huge

cuts will cause the economy to grow so fast ... that they’ll pay for themselves, and the benefits will trickle down to everyone else.”

It’s a take on economics that differs in approach from, say, Canada’s, but not in terms of unsustainable spending and false promises to the fuzzy middle of the class system. percentage of our building is for young couples and young couples with families, they will go to the city for shopping, the arenas and the parks.

My question to you all is, do we not want to hang on to the people that love Elmira or do we want to lose them to other small towns, communities and cities?

We gave Elora the raceway and look how they have grown. Maybe we need to observe and learn from this. Let’s learn to hold on to what we have and figure out how to best use it – hold on to the opportunities that are given us and be proud of what we have been blessed with: families and community caring.

Let’s start listening to our people and start taking action on what matters in our hometown of Elmira.

JUDY HILLER | ELMIRA

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Kings nab first win of the season After a slow start, Tuesday night’s victory in Kitchener brings the team’s record to 2-5 ALI WILSON AFTER A SLOW START, going 0-4 to start the season, the Elmira Sugar Kings have won two of their last three games, including a 5-2 win over Kitchener Tuesday night.

The first win of the season came last Friday night in Stratford, where the Kings beat the home team 5-2. The celebration was short-lived, as the team fell 3-2 on home ice to Guelph on Sunday evening.

Still, no one is hitting the panic button just yet. With 10 returning players on the roster who made history by being the first wildcard team to win the Sutherland Cup, they aren’t worried about a challenge, or being the underdog.

“We will be looking to our veterans to get us out of this little rut were in right now, and I have full confidence with some more preparation and attention to detail that we will,” said head coach Trent Brown.

A reoccurring trend during discussion, Brown goes back to the “details.” As

a former player himself, Brown has seen teams both on the ice and from behind the bench, and he is happy with the makeup of the current roster – he just wants them to find their stride.

“Our strengths are our forwards. We have a lot of depth up front with guys who can play multiple roles if needed. We have two rookies and five 20-year-olds and a strong leadership group. Our team plays how our leaders play.

I believe that’s the same way for any team,” he explained.

The team’s first win of the season September 22 saw Spencer Comelli, assisted by Tyler McBay and Ethan Skinner, and Ethan Wiseman (Ty Biles and Matt MacKay) score early on in the first. Goals were followed by Stratford netting their first of the game at 1:45, answered by Skinner, from Jeremy Goodwin and Wiseman to end the second.

The last period of the game went Elmira’s way, but only after the visitors

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The Elmira Sugar Kings fell to the Guelph Hurricanes again at home on Sunday after posting their first win of the season two nights earlier on the road. [ALI WILSON / THE OBSERVER] scored from Goodwin and the team at their own let the Warriors score a Matt Murray. They were home-opener, only to find power play goal to bring shortly followed by another themselves shortchanged the score to 3-2. At that Guelph goal to extend the again despite putting in a point, Biles, from MacKay visitors’ lead. Elmira’s stronger performance. and Tyler Beauparlant, Mason McMahon (Jonah Guelph potted one on widened the lead, and Burley and Niki Molson) a power play midway Ryan Takamatsu took a responded, but that was it through the first to get pass from Beauparlant to for the night. Despite pullthe game started, and was put one in the empty net to ing their goalie for a lastshortly followed by a secseal the deal. minute push, the Kings ond Guelph goal. With his Sunday, the Kings were back at home to take on the team down two heading KINGS | 12 into the second, Skinner Hurricanes, who defeated

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The first campaign of the newly merged United Way in the region, which absorbed United Way Cambridge and North Dumfries and United Way Kitchener Waterloo and Area, has yielded a fundraising goal of $7 million.

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Teams performed activities in six area locations including at the Wellesley Community Centre during the United Way Waterloo Region Communities’ Race Around the Region. [ALI WILSON / THE OBSERVER]

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THIS WEEK I’LL BE heading to duck camp for a few days. In that time, I will be hanging out with my oldest friends – who also happen to be family – and we will hunt ducks, tell stories and probably do it all wearing shorts and tee shirts. Apparently, it’s going to be hot.

I only mention the heat because it will probably mean that we will hunt less than normal and spend more time telling stories and re-living the old days, since, as a group, we have been at it for 41 years. And though those of us in the original gang have heard all the stories countless times, the youngest in our group, my son included, have only heard the stories seven or eight times. That’s OK, though, because not one of us has ever heard a single story told in the same way twice.

The evolution of a duck camp story goes like this.

Actual version: Three wood ducks cupped into the decoys. I got one on the way in and the other another on the way out. The third was too far out to shoot.”

Actual version plus six hours: “Three wood ducks swept in with the wind at their back out of nowhere.

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one on the way out, also from the hip. I let the third go, because, how many ducks do you need?”

Actual version plus two days: “Three wood ducks were flying 60 miles an hour through the fog.

I heard wing beats approaching and calmly put down my coffee, loaded

my shotgun, took a casual shot, dropping the first bird in the blind. Then I called the other bird back and shot it and then caught it as it fell. I could have taken the third, but I am a conservationist.”

Actual version plus one duck season: “I was shaving in the duck blind when I noticed three wood ducks approaching in the

reflection of my mirror.

Interesting side note, I have never heard a duck break the sound barrier until that morning. Naturally, I didn’t have time to put the mirror down so I picked up my shotgun and shot the first by sighting with the mirror. Then as the second bird flew off, I called it back using what I had learned in my off-

season study of the wood duck language, and it spun around behind me to my mirror side and I made a nice crossing shot on it at 60 yards. I then called in the third bird twice but didn’t shoot it because it wasn’t banded like the other two. Plus, I thought that this one is now educated, so he can teach other ducks so that future hunts are a

bit more challenging.”

After that, the stories start to get a little farfetched and very often include things like wrestling bears for the duck you shot or that time a flock of ducks declared war and charged.

I won’t lie to you, this gets a little confusing for the new duck hunters in our camp. I mean, outside

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THE SCORE

WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Novice A 09/20/2017 vs. Burlington Home: 7 Visitors: 1 Goals: Liam Strausx2, Zack Forwell x3, Evan Hall, Colton Brito Assists: Zach Wiseman, Rhys Taylor, Evan Hall x2, Colton Britox2, Liam Straus, Max Krasovec x2, Lucas Frey

Novice A 09/22/2017 vs. Guelph Home: 8 Visitors: 0 Goals: Nolan Martin x2, Mason Gear x2, Rhys Taylor, Zack Forwell x2, Lucas Frey Assists: Zack Forwell, Mason Gear x3, Colton Brito, Max Krasovec, Evan Hall Shutouts: Cohen Patterson, Cohen Hamburger

Novice A 09/23/2017 vs. Milton Home: 7 Visitors: 0 Goals: Liam Straus, Zack Forwell x2, Evan Hall, Cameron Fisher, Lucas Frey, Nolan Martin Assists: Evan Hall, Lucas Frey, Reese Martin, Liam Straus, Colton Brito, Zack Forwell Shutouts: Cohen Patterson, Cohen Hamburger

09/23/2017 vs. Caledon Home: 0 Visitors: 3

Major Atom AE 09/24/2017 vs. Milton Winterhawks Blue Home: 7 Visitors: 1 Goals: Nate Dyck x2, Tyler Gingrich x2, Bryson Rozema, Thomas Ferguson, Gavin Sager Assists: Carter Snider x3, Patrick McCarthy, Wesley Aitken

Minor Atom AE

09/23/2017 vs. Flamborough Sabres Home: 2 Visitors: 5 Goals: Harrison Hartwick, Luke Forbes Assists: Owen MacGregor, Owen McAdam

Minor Atom AE 09/24/2017 vs. Centre Wellington Fusion Home: 2 Visitors: 4 Goals: Sam Houston, Cam Dawson Assists: Sam Houston

Peewee Major A

Major Atom A

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Major Atom AE 09/21/2017 vs. Guelph

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09/09/2017 vs. Owen Sound Home: 1 Visitors: 1 Goals: Ethan Burkholder Assists: Brandon Fishman, Jakob Noot 09/23/2017 vs. New Hamburg Huskies Home: 1 Visitors: 5 Goals: Danny Schaefer Assists: Keaten Kidd, Evan Woods

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of duck camp our kids were taught that we, as parents and uncles, were nothing if not credible. Now, they enter camp and they see this has all been a façade.

Or, if we raised them right, they’ll believe us.

I’m happy to say, my own boy has never expressed any doubt. But, just in case, I am packing a shaving mirror.

The Woolwich Wild Bantam BB team brought home the gold last weekend from the St. Thomas Panthers Pre-season showcase. Front row: Kayla Desormeau, Krista Bentley. Middle row: Sharon Keen, Delaney Keen, Haylee Clemmer, Kara Dietrich, Madeleine Goss, Avery Bender, Jocelyn Pickard. Back row: Bob Clemmer, Trish Bentley, Nicole Hehn, Ria Hamilton, Karrisa Schouppe, Landyn Meadows, Delaney Jacklin, Sydney Dettweiler, Ella Campbell, Charles Roth, Matt Roth, Megan Jantzi, Craig Schouppe.

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Early Bird Garden City St Catharines Game 1 vs. Orillia Terriers 09/15/2017 Home: 4 Vistors: 7 Goals: Evan Woods x2, Brandon Fishman, Riley Dettweiler Game 2 vs.Cambridge Hawks Home: 2 Visitors: 1 Goals: Riley Dettweiler x2, Assists: Connor Goebel, Keaten Kidd, Ethan Burkholder Game 3 vs. Barrie Colts Home: 0 Visitors: 6 Game 4 vs. Burlington Bulldogs Home: 1 Visitors: 3 Goals: Carson Staken Assists: Danny Schaefer, Riley Dettweiler

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TOURNAMENT

Midget Jr Sugar Kings Game 1 vs. King Township 09/15/2017 Home: 2 Vistors: 1 Goals: Griffin Hergott, Evan Gowing Assists: Cole Altman, Ethan Young, Griffin Rollins, Owen Harnock

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Atom B 09/22/2017 vs. Cambridge Home: 3 Visitors: 1 Goals: Kara MacPherson, Sara Forwell, Lexie DeJeu Assists: Sara Forwell x2, Lexie DeJeu, Kara MacPherson, Charlotte MacMillan

TOURNAMENT

Bantam BB Woolwich Wild #7104 St Thomas Game 1 vs. Haldimand River Cats 09/22/2017 Home: 0 Vistors: 1 Game 2 vs.Clearview Ice Cats Home: 7 Visitors: 0 Goals: Ella Campbell x2,

Madeleine Goss x2, Haylee Clemmer, Landyn Meadows, Delaney Keen Assists: Delaney Jacklin x2, Landyn Meadows, Avery Bender, Kara Dietrich, Charlise Roth Game 3 vs. Wilmot Wolverines Home: 3 Visitors: 2 Goals: Delaney Keen, Madeleine Goss x2 Assists: Haylee Clemmer, Landyn Meadows, Kara Dietrich, Jocelyn Pickard Game 4 vs. Haldimand River Cats Home: 1 Visitors: 0 Goals: Madeleine Goss Assists: Jocelyn Pickard Shutouts: Kayla Desormeau Game 5 vs. Wilmot Wolverines Home: 3 Visitors: 0 Goals: Haylee Clemmer x2, Delaney Jacklin Assists: Charlise Roth, Nicole Hehn Shutouts: Krista Bentley

couldn’t take advantage of the extra man.

The game ended 3-2 in Guelph’s favour.

Sunday night’s game was disappointing for the coach. “Our effort wasn’t there for 60 minutes and we need to find a way to bring that consistency every night.”

Heading into Tuesday night’s game, Brown said if they wanted to win each player was going to have to have execute their role for the entire game.

“Commitment to detail, our systems are designed specifically for our team. It’s not rocket science either, we think they are pretty straightforward. It’s just execution and being committed to be disciplined enough to execute them every time they are on the ice,” he said.

And it looks like that attention to detail paid off as the team defeated the Dutchmen 5-2 in their own barn – meeting for the first time since the semi-finals last season.

Elmira’s Keanan Stewart led the way with goals in the first and second, and helping Beauparlant out with an assist in the third. The team looks to have found that flow, with two of their goals being scored on the power play, which had struggled thus far in the season.

Stewart’s goal late in the first was answered by Kitchener. Heading into the second, Stewart, from Beauparlant and Takamatsu, scored on the power play. Followed later on in the second by Goodwin, from Jordan and Beauparlant to extend the lead to 3-1. The third saw Elmira’s Beauparlant pull the team ahead with another at 13 minutes in, from Takamatsu, Stewart. Kitchener answered, and were shortly replyed by Jordan – on the power play – from Biles and Goodwin to secure the Kings’ second win of the season.

The team is currently sitting at a 2-5 record heading into their game against the Siskins in Waterloo Saturday night.

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Win over Mounties sees Jacks’ record improve to 2-1 Dominant play early on sees Wellesley pot three in the opening frame en route to a 5-1 final in Paris FAISAL ALI THE WELLESLEY APPLEJACKS ARE 2-1 in this young season, winning for the second time in a row via a 5-1 tally versus the Paris Mounties last Saturday.

The Jacks dominated the opening frame with three goals and never looked back.

Kyle Soper potted their team’s first at 9:45, assisted

by Liam Hartman and Brady Gerber. Four minutes later, Hartman made it 2-0 with a goal of his own, assisted by Soper and Tomas Azzano. “[Soper] is actually leading our team in scoring right now,” said head coach Brad Gerber. “He’s a very versatile player, Kyle. We got him from the Sugar Kings last year halfway through the year, so he’s played at a higher level. He can play defense and he can play forward as well, which is every coach’s dream, right? ... Not only is he getting points for us, but he’s also playing a very good defensive role right now.”

Will Martin (Corey Restoule and Zach Ribeiro) rounded out the period to send the team to room up 3-0. Shots were 12-8 in favour of the visitors.

“I thought our goalie played really well, Ryan Hergott. He made the key saves that he needed to and kept the game at 3-0. Again I thought we played a patient game with defense first, and we capitalized on a couple of their mistakes after the second,” said Gerber.

“We had a really good start. I thought we carried the play in the first period and then got out to the 3-0 lead, which was really good on the road. The second period, obviously Paris being the team that they are, they’ve got some really good returning players on that team, they picked it up a notch and they played much better in the second.”

The Mounties pushed back in the second, peppering Hergott with 17 shots but failing to make any of them count. The Jacks, however, potted two of the nine they launched at Davis McLean.

Team forward Seasmus Mooney scored the team’s fourth point with a power play, supported by Ribeiro

and defenseman Kyle Fischer; while forward Sean Pickering scored their fifth of the game with Brady Gerber lending the assist.

The Applejacks opened the final frame with a 5-0 lead on the scoreboard and not a lot to stop them. It was almost a perfect game, but for one unassisted goal by Mounties player Alex Ritchie. However, it would be the only break for the Mounties because the timer ran out with a final count of 5-1 in favour of the Applejacks.

Paris did outshoot the visitors 32-27 on the night, but to no avail.

“Ryan (Hergott) played a good game,” notes Gerber.

“But also our defensemen and our forwards are really chipping in and helping out in our end, getting the puck out and doing the little things right. So it’s a team effort in the end.”

The 2-1 record thus far in the young season has the Jacks in third place in the South Doherty Division standings behind Tavistock and Woodstock, who are both 3-0.

With a win against the

New Hamburg Firebirds, Wellesley will keep pace with leaders.

“It’s a close rival here (the Firebirds), just down Nafziger road. So every time we play New Hamburg it’s always an exciting game,” said the coach.

“They’ve got quite a few new faces in their lineup this year, but at the same time they’re just a very good club and we have to prepare this week and practice and make sure we’re ready to go Friday.”

The New Hamburg game is being played just a short distance away at the Wilmot arena on September 29 at 7:30 p.m. The Jacks then head to Burford Saturday night to take on the Bulldogs.

“As long as we keep getting better and keep moving forward every game ...

I think that’s what we’re striving for right now,” said Gerber.

“Obviously, it’s a long season and we want everybody to be on the same page and everybody playing the same game come play-off time. So far, very pleased- but we still have a lot of work to do.”

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Peeling back the cancer-fighting potential of Ontario-grown onions THERE’S A NEW REASON to cry when you peel back the layers on a local Ontario onion in your kitchen … tears of joy, that is.

New research at the University of Guelph has found a way to safely extract the free-radical fighting properties of Ontario-grown onions, creating new opportunities for Ontario farmers and the nutraceutical and food production industries.

In the not-so-distant future, you could be enjoying the healthy properties of onions through supplements, additives and creams.

Scientist have long known that onions carry the highest content of quercetin (an antioxidant flavonoid) of nearly 40 different fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids like quercetin attract and neutralize free radicals – the naturally-occurring molecules in

human tissue that can lead to cancerous cells.

Suresh Neethirajan, a bioengineering researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, is in the final phase of an Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) funded project examining the varying levels of quercetin in Ontario-grown onions.

“This is the first study that’s looked specifically at the 17 or 18 major varieties of onions grown in Ontario to determine if the level of flavonoids varies among varieties,” says Neethirajan.

After extracting flavonoids from the Ontario onion varieties using a new water-based extraction technology developed in Neethirajan’s lab, there was a clear winner.

“We put the onion flavonoids in direct contact with

human breast and colon cancer cells, and measured the rate of apoptosis (cancer cell death) among the different varieties. Red onions have a four-fold increase in the ability to trigger cancer cell death compared to any other variety,” he says.

For Ontario onion growers, the news gets even better.

“Onions grown in Ontario, especially in the Holland Marsh, are able to retain more nutrients and antioxidants,” Neethirajansays, attributing this largely to good management practices and soil type.

With the strong demand for antioxidant nutraceuticals, Neethirajan sees potential for a new highvalue crop potential for farmers and a residue-free, onion-based antioxidant for manufacturers.

“We want farmers to know what manufacturers

might be looking for, so they can be ready with sufficient supply,” he says.

The extraction process removes most of the onion smell and taste, opening options for adding the substance to drinks, bakery items, encapsulating in a pill form, and even skinbased products.

“Now that we have developed a new, safer protocol

for extracting flavonoids from onions, and scientifically verified the activity on breast and colon cancer cells, the next step is to look at economical ways to produce and manufacture products with onionextracted flavonoids,” he says.

And if you’re wondering if you could just add more raw onion to your diet for

ABOUT 20 PER CENT of Canadian meat is mechanically tenderized, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).

Mechanical tenderization is performed by cutting through the muscle fibres and connective tissues with small blades or needles to improve meat tenderness. While this might bring pounded,

swiss or salisbury steak to mind, modern tenderizing equipment can pierce meat so finely that customers don’t even notice it.

In Canada, mechanically tenderized meat has to be labelled as such, because without proper cooking, the process can introduce bacteria, like E.coli, deep into the meat, which

might not be cooked to as high a temperature as the exterior of the cut.

“If the work we do to identify safe cooking conditions prevents one person from getting sick from eating undercooked meat, I would feel well rewarded for our team’s efforts,” says Dr. Xianqin Yang, a research scientist, food safety and processing,

meat microbiology, with the federal ministry.

Yang and her team at the AAFC Lacombe Research and Development Centre have studied how to best kill E.coli in three cuts of mechanically tenderized meat: steaks, roasts and minute steaks. It turns out the evenness of the cooking plays a big role.

For steaks, in addition to

reaching an internal temperature of 63° Celcius, the team found that flipping the steak at least twice while grilling eliminated more bacteria than a single flip did. Multiple flips create a more even cooking temperature, and as a bonus, the “eating quality” was improved too.

Researchers also studied tenderized roasts cooked

Suresh Neethirajan, a bioengineering researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, sees local onions as a good source for producing antioxidant nutraceuticals. [SUBMITTED] the same healthful effect, it’s not that simple.

Neethirajan says you’d need to eat a few kilograms of raw onion a day to realize the potential cancerfighting effects from onion flavonoids, compared to levels concentrated through the extraction process.

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Recommendations for cooking mechanically tenderized roasts in either a conventional or convection oven are very clear: meat be cooked at 140 to 180°C oven temperature to an internal temperature of 63°C. For minute steaks, also known as cubed steaks, a 63°C internal cooking temperature is not enough.

Research shows that the internal temperature of this cut of meat should reach 71°C (the same internal temperature recommended for hamburger), and that the meat should be turned twice during cooking. As it happens, most Canadians already cook minute steaks this way.

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of the visitors had travelled from out of town, all looking for real-life examples with a specific short- to medium-term plan to build a natural home, or a specific green project,” he said, noting they were committed individuals who mostly came to his open house to be able to walk into the working home of a professional builder, an invaluable experience.

There have been over 500 natural homes, offices, additions and even institutional buildings constructed in Ontario over the last several years.

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IN OUR COUNTRY, REFERENDUMS are rare, and not for the faint of heart. Remember the Quebec separation votes? They nearly tore the country apart.

It’s a different story in Switzerland. Here, referendums, like the one on food security that concluded on Sunday, are common. It’s not unusual to have four or more referendums take place in a year, owing to what’s called the country’s direct-democracy style of government. They have referendums about topics most other countries would deal with in less democratic ways.

But despite their frequency, this latest referendum – a five-point proposal for a constitutional change – was especially pertinent to agriculture.

It was billed by its champions (in particular, all parties in the government and the Swiss farmers’ association) as a prescription for at least some of the country’s agricultural ills, social concerns and economic challenges.

And some people think it could be a template for food-related referendums in others countries …

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Tour organized by the Ontario Natural Building Coalition put the spotlight on growing environmental movement

Ben Polley in the kitchen of the Carter House, his Guelph home that was showcased on the annual Ontario Natural Homes Tour.

ALI WILSON ON AN UNSEASONABLY HOT and muggy September day, Ben Polley’s Guelph home was a welcomingly cool, dry place to visit.

The straw bale house where the natural light reflects off polished concrete floors and a one-of-a-kind outdoor cob oven was one of the stops on annual Ontario Natural Homes Tour last weekend.

The self-guided tour, which opens the doors to inspiring and innovative natural homes and buildings in Ontario equipped with unique green technologies, was a perfect fit for Polley, founder of Evolve Builders Group. He’s a fullservice general contractor and homebuilder that specializes in green construction and eco-friendly renovations.

His home, the Carter House, is a straw bale structure with heritage designation, exposed wood finishes, recycled wine cork flooring in new bath and backup space heating by antique wood cook stove, among other things.

Although still fairly rare, a straw bale home is constructed with a post-andbeam frame that is in filled with bales placed with the straws running vertically, then purged or plastered on the inside and outside before being painted and sealed.

Some three dozen buildings opened their doors to the public during last weekend’s tour.

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in, while striving to keep energy consumption and its’ associated emissions as low as possible. The tour was a way of promoting natural building, showcasing examples of straw bale, rammed earth, cob, timber frame, off grid, passive solar and many other natural building methods and alternative technologies.

Facilitated by the Ontario Natural Building Coalition, a grassroots organization dedicated to the promotion of natural building, coordinator Cheryl Keetch says the tour is in both parts an educational, and entertaining avenue to showcase the work the coalition does.

“It is an entertaining means of providing education to the general public and we have found that people who go on these tours are sometimes just

curious, but often they are people who are interested in building a natural home themselves,” she explained.

“Often they will find ideas about who to contact to have one of these homes built, so there is some spin off business for builders of these homes although that is really not the intent of the tour, but rather it is to educate general public on the benefits of natural building.”

For Polley, that rang true of this year’s tour. He had about 16 visitors roll through his home during the open house. Although attendance was lower than has been in prior years, he was pleasantly surprised by the intent of each.

“In past years we have had a larger quantity of people, mostly consisting of people who are vaguely interested. This year, each

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Interested citizens and incumbent members are invited to apply for appointment to any of the following: Active Transportation Advisory Committee (ATAC) Three persons are required for a term of up to four years ending December 31, 2021; applicants from Cambridge or Waterloo are strongly encouraged to apply to provide a balanced regional perspective on cycling and pedestrian issues.

The Active Transportation Advisory Committee will serve as a forum for the public to raise their viewpoints on particular active transportation issues and to advise Regional Council and staff on cycling and pedestrian issues. Residents with interest and demonstrated expertise in cycling and pedestrian areas of concern are encouraged to apply.

Ecological and Environmental Advisory Committee (EEAC) Up to Five persons are required for a term of up to three-years ending December 31, 2020. Persons with knowledge, interest, professional and/or technical qualifications in environmental issues related to such disciplines and policy areas as biology, ecology, hydrology, hydrogeology, forestry, agriculture, environmental law/policy, wildlife management and urban/rural planning are encouraged to apply.

Heritage Planning Advisory Committee (HPAC) Three persons are required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2020. The Heritage Planning Advisory Committee advises on Regional heritage issues and policies, in accordance with the Regional Official Plan. The Committee also assists the Region in promoting Regional heritage and in increasing public understanding of heritage issues.

Kissing Bridge Trailway Advisory Board Two persons are required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2020. Persons who are farm and non-farm landowners in proximity to the Kissing Bridge Trailway in any of the communities in which the Trailway is located are encouraged to apply. The Trailway Advisory Board advises the County of Wellington and Regional Council on the development and management of the Trailway.

Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally Sensitive Landscape Public Liaison Committee (LCHESLPLC) Up to Six persons are required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2020. Persons residing or owning property in the Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally Sensitive Landscape in the Townships of Wellesley, Wilmot or Woolwich or the City of Waterloo are invited to apply. The Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally Sensitive Landscape Public Liaison Committee serves as a community-based forum to monitor, discuss and provide periodic advice to the Region on how best to implement the objectives of the Regional Planning Policies for the Laurel Creek Headwaters Environmentally Sensitive Landscape.

Public Art Advisory Committee (PAAC) Two persons are required for a three-year term ending December 31, 2020. The Region of Waterloo Public Art Advisory Committee develops and recommends policies for the selection, acquisition, display, retention, maintenance, storage and de-accessioning of public art which is owned by or on loan to the Region.

Specialized Transit Services Advisory Committee (STSAC) Three persons are required for a two-year term ending December 31, 2019. The Specialized Transit Services Advisory Committee will advise and provide assistance relating to the development of Special Transit Services policies and service that best meet the needs of the community. The Committee requires three individuals that are members of MobilityPLUS. These individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Persons interested in serving as a Committee member must file an application with the Regional Clerk prior to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 6, 2017. The application form and the Terms of Reference for the listed Committees are available on the Region’s website or by contacting the Regional Clerk’s office.

To view the application and the Terms of Reference for the various committees on the Region’s website: • Go to www.regionofwaterloo.ca • Select the “Regional Government” drop down menu • Select “Agendas/Minutes” • Select “Advisory Committees” • Scroll down page for “2018 Citizen Appointments” This information may also be obtained from the office of the Regional Clerk by contacting Tim Brubacher at 519-575-4493 or by emailing tbrubacher@regionofwaterloo.ca.

Advertised vacancies on a particular Committee may be filled by incumbents whose terms have expired and, therefore, the number of actual vacancies may differ from the number of advertised vacancies. All applicants will receive written notification about the outcome of their application. It is expected that all appointments will be finalized and approved by Regional Council no later than December 13, 2017.

Kris Fletcher Director, Council & Administrative Services / Regional Clerk 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act and will be used to determine suitability for appointment. Questions regarding the collection of personal information should be referred to Tim Brubacher at 519-575-4493, Office of the Regional Clerk.

maybe even ours, because the issues are not totally dissimilar.

For example, many Swiss people are alarmed that their country’s population is on the rise – up 1.1 per cent last year, mainly due to immigration. That’s an eye-opening leap for a relatively small country.

Along with ongoing concerns about globalization, disappearing farmland and food safety, a debate has ensued about how the country is going to feed its citizens if that population growth continues.

An associated worry is how Switzerland’s farmers, who do not have economies of scale on their side, will cope with competition from imports and struggles from low prices.

They’re especially concerned about what they claim are dismal prices for one of the country’s most popular and important commodities, milk.

A mitigating factor in all this is that Switzerland has known hunger and isolation through the ages. So these days, it takes its food supply and image seriously. For example, mountain farmers get huge subsidies to raise animals in challenging alpine regions, tending to verdant pastures and pockets of livestock on what seem to be impossibly steep slopes.

In doing so, they preserve the alpine farmland that creates the incredible, unparalleled postcard-like vistas that draw awestruck foreigners by the millions to Switzerland.

Without such commitment by farmers, this pasture would give way to the natural forests there that would start crawling

back down the mountains.

That would bring an end to increasingly popular tourism events such as the alpine cattle descent that’s been officially celebrated in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch for the past 14 years.

So all things considered, the farmers union figured it had a timely case to make to Swiss citizens for supporting agriculture.

In the weeks leading up the final day of voting, the referendum drew little opposition, except from the urban media. Its members did what media is supposed to do – namely, probe and disrupt comfortable opinion leaders who figured they had the referendum in the bag. A few sources came forward to call the referendum unnecessary, meaningless, confusing and politically motivated. But it was mainly the farmers’ union, not the farmers themselves, that drew fire.

In the end, farmers won.

The final tally showed an impressive 78 per cent support, almost 20 per cent more than earlier polling had predicted. The wide interpretation is that Swiss people support their country’s farmers and the need for an affordable, sustainable food supply.

All this is worth gold to the Swiss farmers’ union.

The strong referendum numbers give it a solid platform to go forward later and propose more meaningful measures that could help support farmers’ sustainability.

This could mean even more subsidies for Swiss farmers, who globally are already at or near the top of the food chain when it comes to government support.

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natural home, but environmental reasons would be the one that is the top of the list for most people.

Most people are very conscious of climate change and hoping to somehow not add to that by building a home that is using natural materials; there is not a lot of energy that is typically used in the production of these materials,” she said. “And then, of course, when people are thinking about alternative technologies they are often more environmentally

friendly than conventional technologies.”

Although the tour has come and gone for this year, the coalition’s website houses information from board members contacts to a full business directory of professionals in the industry who are available to answer questions.

Included in the directory is Polley’s Evolve Builders Group. Not all of the of their work is focused on straw bale homes, but other natural formats as well, now being put to work at a project in Wellesley, for instance.

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THE ARTS ON STAGE / LIVE MUSIC

Taking a page or two from the Canadian Songbook Singer Eleanor McCain will perform from her True North project this weekend with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony In a photo by Tony Hauser included in True North: The Canadian Songbook, Eleanor McCain sports a Canadian designer dress with some Banff scenery serving as the backdrop. [SUBMITTED]

STEVE KANNON HAVING RECORDED A COUPLE of tracks from True North: The Canadian Songbook with the KitchenerWaterloo Symphony, singer Eleanor McCain will kick off the orchestra’s new season with her take on some iconic Canadian songs.

True North: The Canadian Songbook long percolated in McCain’s mind before becoming something of a multimedia labour of love released in the spring.

Musically, it features the likes of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, Jann Arden’s Good Mother, Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind, Sarah McLachlan’s Angel, Gold in Them Hills by Ron Sexsmith and

Rhythm of My Heart written

by Marc Jacob (the latter two recorded with KWS).

The songs were re-imagined by 14 arrangers from coast to coast and recorded with 10 of the country’s orchestras, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, KWS, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony New Brunswick, Symphony Nova Scotia, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

The music is accompanied by a coffee-table book filled with landscape and fashion photography, again with contributions from photographers and fashion

designers nation-wide.

It’s Canadiana through and through.

The idea of a Canadian songbook started some years ago, with McCain coming up with a couple of dozen of her favourites. The final format sprang from the changing nature of the music business, now driven by a digital presence. Like many younger people, her daughter downloads music rather than buying physical formats, but she did buy a couple of CDs that came packaged with books about bands she enjoys.

That inspired the multimedia approach. “Iconic music and a book to celebrate our landscape,” said McCain, capturing “what it felt like for me to be Canadian.”

THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

The project started to become real in January 2015.

She brought Don Breithaupt onboard as producer and they started building a team, including photographer Tony Hauser.

Calling the effort “logistically complicated” is a bit of an understatement, as the project involved not just dealing with symphonies across the country, but coordinating other elements of the arts community, from photographers to fashion designers.

“This is something I could not have pulled off by myself.”

The project was funded

by McCain herself, however.

She simply had to do it.

“It’s a project that I’m passionate about. The mu-

sic, I lived with it for a long time – I couldn’t let go of it,” she said of the “pan-Canadian concept.”

There were plenty of songs to consider – the long list was very much that before being whittled down.

She and Breithaupt looked for the iconic value, personal favourites and even geographical references – think “There is a town in north Ontario ...” from Neil Young’s Helpless. There’s also a nod to McCain’s East Coast roots – she hails from Florenceville, NB, her mother’s family from Nova Scotia – with the likes of No Change In Me by Murray McLaughlin and Ron Hynes.

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songs that I chose for the album.”

Having performed a couple of times with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, she wanted them to be involved in the process.

“I had a personal connection with them,” she explained. “They’re fabulous to work with.”

She last appeared with the KWS in the 2015/16 season for the Pops Series concert The Music of Love.

Led by Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, True North: The Canadian Songbook runs September 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. at Kitchener’s Centre In The Square.

Tickets can be purchased online at kwsymphony.ca or by calling 519-745-4711 or 888-745-4717.

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COUNTRY LANE FABRICS Fall Sale - Oct. 2 - 21, 10% discount on all fabrics, quilt batts, tableflex, hosiery, rubber stamps etc. Clearouts at half price. 519-664-0701.

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

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AUCTIONS FRI. SEPT 29 at 5:00 PM - memorabilia auction of approx. 1000 pieces of Toronto Maple Leaf jerseys; bobbleheads; figurines; dolls; hockey cards; rare nesting dolls; clocks; lawn chairs; cars; banks; and other hockey memorabilia to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for the complete collection of Ron Stephenson. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com SAT. SEPT 30 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of furniture; antiques; collectables; household effects and miscellaneous items to be held at 905979 Township Rd 12 in Bright for the Mcfarlane Family. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com WED. OCT 4 at 10:00 AM Clearing auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacobs Community Centre in St. Jacobs for an area estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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PROPERTY AUCTION OF 1 storey brick house, to be sold at 5 Cobalt St. North (off Mill St near the public school), in Milverton, For Barb and the Late Richard Kramer, on Friday, October 6th @ 6:00 p.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138.

WED. OCT 11 at 4:30 PM Clearing auction sale of woodworking equipment and miscellaneous items to be held at 366 Arthur St. in Elmira for Tom Jones. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com FRI. OCT 13 at 5:00 PM - Toy Auction of approx. 400 toys including cars; American Muscle; franklin mint; Maisto; banks; Pepsi; Coca Cola; and many other collectables for the Mcorkindale estate with additions. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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HORSES DUTCH HARNESS AND Trottingbred sale to be held at OLEX Saturday, September 30th. Horses sell at 9 a.m.

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WILL BUY OLD and used horses and ponies to go direct to plant in Quebec.

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SAT OCT 14 at 10:00 AM Clearing auction sale of tractors; machinery; tools; equipment; household effects and antiques to be held at 1474 Carmel Koch Rd in St. Agatha for Robert Preidt. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519 656 3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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FARM SERVICES BAGGED PINE SHAVINGS Agricultural Spray Lime, 22.5kg. bag; feed grade lime, 25kg. Delivered. Call George Haffner Trucking, 519-574-4141 or 519-6692045.

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COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT NOTICE OF HEARING Pursuant to the Planning Act and Ontario Regulations 197/96 and 200/96 On October 16, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications.

All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – Township Services – Mayor and Council – Agendas and Minutes and select the applicable meeting date.

The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Phone: 519-669-1647 or 877-969-0094 Fax: 519-669-1820 After Hours Emergency: 519-575-4400 www.woolwich.ca Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 10, 2017 (Note that this date is before the meeting). Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email jvink@woolwich.ca or by fax 519-669-4669. Any submissions received will be included in a comment package and presented at the meeting. Any submissions received will be included in a comment package and presented at the meeting. This information is collected and maintained for the purpose of creating a record that is available to the general public at the Committee of Adjustment hearing. Please note that while the Committee may redact some personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers, your submissions will otherwise be made public in their entirety.

Minor Variance Application A 20/2017 – Nelson Martin, 1775 Listowel Road Zone / Use: Agricultural (A) / single detached dwelling, livestock operation, farm sheds and a 382 square metre on-farm business The applicant is requesting relief from Section 6.22.2 of the On-Farm Business regulations to permit the reconstruction of the 382 square metre farm-related manufacturing operation on the 46 hectare property, whereas the maximum floor area permitted is 350 square metres. The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing shop and construct a new building on the same footprint to continue the existing manufacturing of farm equipment parts.

Minor Variance Application A 21/2017 – Howard and Carolyn Wideman, 126 Timber Trail Road, Elmira Zone / Use: Residential Mixed High Density with Design Guidelines (R-5A) with site specific provisions / semi-detached dwelling The applicant is requesting relief from Section 11B.3.7 of the Residential (R-5A) Zone to reduce the required rear yard setback from 7.5 metres to approximately 5.3 metres in order to permit the “PROUDLY REMEMBERING OUR PAS T; CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING OUR FUTURE.” construction of an enclosed elevated sunroom.

Minor Variance Application A 22/2017 – Margaret Thompson, 115 Woolwich Street South, Breslau P.O. Box 158 Zone / Use: Settlement Residential (R-1) / vacant residential land 24 Church St. W. Elmira, Ontario The applicant is requesting relief from Section 8.3.2 of the Settlement Residential Zone to recognize N3Bpermit 2Z6 the existing lot width of approximately 25 metres whereas 30 metres is required, in order to residential uses. The applicant is proposing to construct a new single detached dwelling on the property.

NOTICE OF THE DECISION: Within 10 days of the meeting, a copy of each decision will be sent to owners, agents, those who submit written comments, and people who sign the register at the meeting. If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Committee of Adjustment in respect to an application, you must submit a written request (to the Secretary-Treasurer – Nancy Thompson ext. 6040) or sign the register at the meeting. This will also entitle you to be advised of a possible Ontario Municipal Board Hearing.

APPEAL OF MINOR VARIANCE AND CONSENT APPLICATIONS: Anyone in opposition to a decision may appeal the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board. The Board may dismiss an appeal without holding a hearing if the appellant did not make oral or written submissions to the Committee of Adjustment before a decision was given, or does not provide a reasonable explanation for having failed to make a submission to the Committee.

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FAMILY ALBUM OBITUARY

OBITUARY

Kronschnabl, Georg

Martin, Joyce Darlene

Passed away peacefully with his daughter Rose by his side, on Friday, September 22, 2017 at Chartwell, Elmira, at the age of 77 years. Forever loved and missed by Elfie Kronschnabl of Milton, and their children Tanya (Glenn) King of Mississauga, Rose (Paul) Rabidoux of Elmira, and John Kronschnabl of Mississauga. Proud granddad of Olivia and Nathan King.

Remembered by his brother Walter Kronschnabl and family, niece Renate Stiller and family, and many relatives and friends both here and in Germany.

Predeceased by his parents Georg and Sophie (Kilger) Kronschnabl, sisters Maria (aka Mal) Kepiro and Lina Czifra. At Georg’s request, cremation has taken place. A celebration of life will be held in Oakville at a later date. As expressions of sympathy, donations to World Vision would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

Passed away suddenly at her home on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at the age of 56 years. Joyce (nee Martin) was the beloved wife for 37 years of Murray Martin of Elmira. Loved mother of Travis and his wife Janet, and Corey and his wife Leslie. Adoring grandma to Kya. Dear daughter of Lena Martin of Floradale, and sister of Elroy and his wife Sue Martin. Lovingly remembered

by Murray’s siblings: Ruth and her husband Allie Misener, James and his wife Susan Martin, Paul and his wife Janice Martin, and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her father Mervin Martin (2009) and her mother and father-in-law Minerva and Harvey Martin. Joyce was a longtime employee of Floradale Feed Mill and a member of Floradale Mennonite Church. Visitation for relatives and friends took place on Sunday, September 24, 2017 from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. at Floradale Mennonite Church, 22 Florapine Road, Floradale.

Interment took place on Monday, September 25, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. at Floradale Mennonite Cemetery, followed by a memorial service in the church at 11 a.m. A reception followed in the church hall. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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von Milke, Erich Oskar

www.dreisingerfuneralhome.com DEATH NOTICES Twasnick, Diane Passed away on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at Grand River Hospital, at the age of 59 years. Diane is lovingly remembered by her aunts and cousins in the Oshawa and Ayr areas. She was predeceased by her parents Edward and Veronica Twasnick. Diane was a longtime employee of the Grand River Raceway and will be missed by all of her friends at the raceway as well as the LCBO and Food Basics in Elmira.

At Diane’s request, cremation has taken place. There will be no funeral home visitation or funeral service.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date. In Diane’s memory, donations to the Regional Cancer Centre or Kiwanis Transit would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy and may be obtained by calling the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira (519-669-2207).

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OBITUARY

BRUBACHER, MARY MARLENE MARGARET | Passed away quietly in the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at Grey Bruce Health Services in Lion’s Head, nine days short of her 78th birthday.

TRAUTRIM, EDWIN MARTIN | March 1, 1937 - September 18,

2017 Edwin Martin Trautrim, passed away peacefully at his home in Collingwood on Monday, September 18, 2017 at the age of 80. With his family he owned and operated the Steddick Hotel in Elmira.

WAGNER, ELIZABETH “BETTY� NEE BUSCH | June 26, 1944 - September 24, 2017 Passed peacefully at her home in Wellesley.

September 17, 1928 – September 25, 2017

Shantz, Mervin B.

Peacefully departed this life shortly after celebrating his 89th birthday with family and friends. Dear son of Theophil and Elsa (Sperber) Milke of Bottrop, Germany, brother of Heinz and Helmut. He came to Canada in 1951 to start a new life. As a bricklayer and master stonemason, he found work in the growing construction industry in Canada, first working in Halifax, then Hamilton, Galt, and later in Waterloo Region. His specialty was fieldstone fireplaces and fieldstone veneer, and he left many fine testimonials to his work in Waterloo Region and surrounding area. Early on in his travels, he met Margaret Mary Snyder in a music store in Galt, Ontario, and they married on February 13, 1954.

Soon after they were married, they bought the Snyder farm on Middlebrook road from Margaret’s parents and shared many of life’s adventures together until Margaret passed away in 2008. Besides doing masonry work, he was also a hobby farmer for a few years, and kept a few cattle, ponies and horses. As the “castle builder of West Montrose�, he worked for many years on a fieldstone castle which remains as a monument to his dedication and love for the “old country� and is truly an expression of idealism and individualism. In his retirement years he pursued his hobby of family genealogy, researching family history for friends as well as his own family.

In 2015 he moved to Trinity Village in Kitchener, where he received excellent care from the nurses and health care staff. He is survived by his two daughters, Carolyn Snyder Milke and Tatjana Christina Parniak, grandson Alexander Parniak and brother Helmut Milke (Ingrid) of Bottrop, Germany. A family interment has taken place beside his wife Margaret at West Montrose Church Cemetery. A memorial visitation for family and friends will be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira, with reception to follow. In Erich’s memory, donations to Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada or Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

After a long and rich life, Merv died peacefully, after a brief stay at Grand River Hospital, on Tuesday, September 26, 2017, at the age of 91, surrounded by his loving family. Beloved and caring husband of Grace (Stevanus) Shantz for 68 years, and cherished father of nine children: Murray (Colleen), Larry (Marilyn), Connie (David), Susan (Tony), Wendy (Cliff), Robert (Nancy), Karen (Christopher), Brenda (Mike) and Jeffrey (Julie). Adored grandfather of 20 wonderful grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Loving brother of Eugene Shantz (Sally) and Muriel Hayes; and brother-in-law of Mary Schiedel, Christine Shantz, Lorna Shantz, Clifford Snider (Vivian), Doris Stevanus, and Richard Stevanus.

Merv will also be fondly remembered by his many nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his parents Ivan B. and Irene B. (Bauman) Shantz; his sisters Vietta Shantz and Gladys Brubacher; his brothers Floyd and Wilfred Shantz; his brothers-in-law Abner Brubacher, John Hayes, George Schiedel, Myron and Paul Stevanus; and his sisters-inlaw Mary Schiedel, Ethel Snider and Diane Stevanus. Merv was born on October 4, 1925, in Waterloo County.

On April 20, 1949, he married the love of his life, Grace. A team from the start, they spent their early life together on a farm near Alma. With seven children in tow, they moved to West Montrose, where the family grew to nine. Merv was a family man – foremost – and a wonderful provider. Always flexible, he was successful at many jobs over the years, with the majority of his career spent as a financial advisor, retiring at age 78. At Merv’s request, cremation has taken place. A celebration of life for relatives and friends will be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at 3 p.m. at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church. The family would like to thank all the staff at St. Jacobs Place for their kind and compassionate care over the past two years. In Merv’s memory, donations to the Mennonite Central Committee would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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LIVING HERE VOLUNTEERISM / MAKING GOOD NEIGHBOURS

Habitat seeking help with final push for Wellesley build Volunteer numbers dropped off when September brought a return to work and school routines ALI WILSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO Region’s build in Wellesley is looking for volunteers to help complete the homes in time to get their families in before winter.

The semi-detached homes are the first the organization has undertaken in Wellesley Township.

Organizers broke ground in April with the site seeing volunteers begin their build in June.

“We look for things that make it a community setting: it is easily accessible to things, because we don’t want people to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere.

We want them to be close to amenities and stuff of that sorts, and Wellesley is a nice little town, it is an outstanding town,” said Debbie Hind, volunteer services assistant at Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region, of their decision to take up the build in Wellesley.

The summer months yielded many enthusiastic volunteers for the project.

“In Wellesley it has been great. It has just been people around the town knew, everybody just knew – we have had a lot of local people volunteering, which has been lovely,” she said.

But since September rolled in, the organization has seen a dip in volunteers able to help with the build.

It was not unexpected, with people getting back to work

Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region is asking for volunteers to help finish their Wellesley build, which they hope to complete before December. [ALI WILSON / THE OBSERVER] and school routines, but the timing was unfortunate for the build, said Hind.

“It just kind of dropped off, so we are looking at ways right now to encourage people to come out.

Summertime is nice: the weather is nice, people have vacation time they can use. I think September, especially the beginning of September with school can be busy, but it has dropped off a little bit, so we are hoping to encourage people to come back out again,” she said, noting that their homes take longer to build

and are at this time unsure of when it is going to finish. “It is dependent on the amount of volunteers they have; we are hoping before December.”

Habitat for Humanity homes are 98 per cent built with volunteer labour, with the team bringing in trade workers to do the plumbing and electrical.

Hind says they welcome volunteers from all backgrounds, skill levels and stages of life, over 16 years of age.

Build volunteerism can come from a few different

sources, the first being an individual volunteer.

“We want our volunteers to have a really good experience,” she said. “We talk about building homes, helping to build communities and as a non-profit who is building homes for low income families we are trying to make it a community endeavour to help do this, so it’s the experience for the volunteers that we are offering.”

Alternatively, Hind says if you have a group in mind – whether that be neighbours, company employees

or friends – there is the option to participate in a team build for the day.

“Teams pay to come, but it’s for a good cause,” she said noting that team rates are $2,500.

Hind explains that it is a great way to change a corporate businesses scenery, shifting employees tasks to work together and bond out of the office.

“And then they bring back good feelings to the company. They find that the staff tend to be more productive and they feel energised, and they feel positive about the company that they are working with. The team days are paid for – it is another way to donate as well.”

Although the homes are built based on volunteer efforts, those receiving the homes are required to also contribute a total of 250 volunteer hours each over the course of the build.

“When they are spending time on their house, they see their home being built, they are more likely to take care of it and take pride in it. And that is something that we encourage,” she explained.

Focused on providing a hand up and not a hand out, Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region has worked to built more than 100 homes for low-income families. For more information on volunteering opportunities visit www.habitatwr.ca.

CHEF’S TABLE/ DONNA GINGRICH

Almost October, so prime pumpkin time RECIPE NOTES THIS WEEK MY SISTERS and my Mom and I went for a daytrip to St. Mary’s, a picturesque town southwest of Stratford. It’s a wonderful time of year to go for a drive in the country – but when isn’t it? – with fall displays and decor popping up everywhere.

Have I told you I adore fall decor? I’m guessing I have!

Of course, pumpkins steal the show. The new white pumpkins are becoming quite popular, even showing up in a local grocery store today. Last week, as we were picking small pie pumpkins in the garden, my nephew told me in all seriousness that to grow white pumpkins you have to water them with milk!

I use pumpkin in baking year around, but especially in the fall. Try the Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins in my cookbook on page 13 – they are fabulous! Today’s recipe is Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes and they are great for breakfast with coffee, school lunches or an anytime snack. This makes a large batch – I got 29 cupcakes – but they freeze well.

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OCTOBER 3 BUILDING RESILIENCY: DEALING WITH Life’s Challenges.

Explore various approaches to coping with and riding the waves of life. Learn how self criticism can keep us stuck in detrimental, automatic patterns. Woolwich Community Health Centre, St. Jacobs from 7-9 p.m.

OCTOBER 4 “YOUNG AT HEART” EUCHRE Tournament. Whether you are a seasoned player or just learning. Please join us and bring a friend to the St. Clements Community Centre from 1-4 p.m.

OCTOBER 5 DRAYTON UNITED CHURCH TURKEY Supper from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at P.M.D. Community Centre, Drayton.

Tickets are at the door. Adults $15, Children 5-12 yrs $5, Preschoolers free.

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SENIORS COMMUNITY DINING. COMMUNITY Care Concepts invites you to join us for lunch, fellowship and entertainment at Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs at noon, $11. Call 519-664-1900 by noon Oct. 10 to sign up.

OCTOBER 12 WOODSIDE EVERGREEN – 10:30 a.m. Woodside Bible Fellowship, 200 Barnswallow, Elmira. “Still With Us” former refugee’s life story offers hope – Msenwa Oliver Mweneake. “Tone of Joy” music by Tonia-Joy Skipper. Suggested donation $7 includes lunch. For information call 519-669-8752.

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NEW HORIZONS A GROUP for boomers, zoomers and seniors. Join us at 10 a.m. at the Maryhill Community Centre. Joe Mancini, Social Advocate from the Working Centre. Topic: Creative Spirit - Engaging in Creative Action for Social Justice.

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BLADDER AND BOWEL CONTROL as We Age. Presented

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SENIORS LUNCH CLUB. COMMUNITY Care Concepts invites you to join us for a light lunch and fellowship at Breslau Community Centre at noon, $6. Call 519664-1900 by Oct 10 to sign up.

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OCTOBER 13 COMMUNITY CAN DINE, 6-7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Church, Elmira. Where the community comes together to meet and eat! Join us for Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Free of charge, donations accepted to cover the cost of dinner.

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SENIORS LUNCH CLUB. COMMUNITY Care Concepts invites you to join us for a light lunch and fellowship at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, Elmira at noon, $6.

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OCTOBER 24 FAITH-FULLNESS: SPIRITUALITY AND MENTAL Health. This interactive presentation seeks to explore the connection, dispel some myths and learn an integrated approach to faith and mental health. Join us form 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, St. Jacobs.

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

Elephants are big in size, but keep it short when it comes to sleeping WEIRD NOTES

Q. Lightning is better

understood than people think. When was the electrical nature of lightning first understood and by whom?

A. As early as the 1750s, Benjamin Franklin and French physicist ThomasFrancois Dalibard (17091778) were drawn to the subject, says lightning specialist Brian Burrows of Oxfordshire, UK, writing in â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Scientistâ&#x20AC;? magazine.

Franklin is also credited with suggesting use of an elevated, earthed metal rod to protect buildings, an idea â&#x20AC;&#x153;quickly taken up

by the Royal Navy, which had lost many wooden ships from fires caused by lightning strikes.â&#x20AC;?

Further adding to our knowledge was the invention of the Boys camera (1926), which allowed sequential photographs of lightning flashes. In South Africa, Basil Schonland took numerous photos at a rate equivalent to 26,000 frames a second to reveal some of lightningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previously unknown aspects, including that a typical thundercloud has both positive and negative charges.

As for Franklin lightning conductors, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything much to prevent lightning or to discharge the cloud; instead they provide a preferred attachment point to a building

for a downwards leader, so the lightning current can be conducted safely to the ground.

Q. Nature is filled with superlatives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the oldest, the tallest, the stoutest. How is Thimmamma Marrimanu one of the crown jewels of sorts?

A. This banyan tree with its numerous trunks and complex root system has the biggest tree canopy on the planet, spreading out nearly five acres, reports Ben Crair in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smithsonianâ&#x20AC;? magazine. The banyan tree is the national tree of India. Legend has it that this particular one grew from the spot where Thimmamma Marrimanu threw herself on her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral pyre in 1433 and â&#x20AC;&#x153;because of her sacrifice,

And in Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sequoia National Park stands General Sherman, a giant sequoia declared the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest tree in 1931, with a wood volume of 52,500 cubic feet.

Q. Is it true that elephants, because of their enormous size and weight, need a lot of restorative sleep?

one of the poles supporting the pyre grew into a tree with mystical powers.â&#x20AC;? The local forest department supports the treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued growth, making it still remarkably healthy at more than 550 years old.

Other superlatives of the leafy variety include Hyperion in Redwood National Park in California, the tallest tree at 3,791 feet; Methuselah in Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s White Mountains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a 4,765-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine germinated during the Bronze Ageâ&#x20AC;?; El Arbol del Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, a Montezuma cypress whose trunk measures 148 feet around; and Echo Caves Fig in Ohrigstad, South Africa, a wild fig whose roots reach 400 feet underground.

A. Actually, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite the opposite. A recent study shows that wild elephants may set the new sleep record of needing only two hours per day, beating out horses at two hours, 53 minutes, says Susan Milius in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Science Newsâ&#x20AC;? magazine. Much of that sleep occurs standing up, with their lying down only once every three or four days; in fact, elephants can even

skip a nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleep without needing extra naps later, report neuroethologist Paul Manger and colleagues in â&#x20AC;&#x153;PLOS ONE.â&#x20AC;? On the other hand, those in zoos and enclosures have been shown to snooze from three to seven hours in a 24-hour period.

Generally, it appears that larger species need less sleep and smaller species need more, with some bats, for example, routinely sleeping up to 18 hours a day. Perhaps, says Manger, â&#x20AC;&#x153;building and maintaining an elephant body may take more feeding time than maintaining a little bat body.â&#x20AC;?

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

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CHEFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TABLE: Putting pumpkins on the menu FROM | 25

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cupcakes 4 eggs 2 cups white sugar 1-1/2 cups cooking oil 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 14oz. pumpkin 3 cups all purpose flour 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice 2 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt Topping: 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 250gr. cream cheese, softened 1/3 cup white sugar 1 large egg 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Beat eggs until light and frothy.

Add sugar gradually and continue beating.

Add cooking oil, beat again.

Add pumpkin, and dry ingredients. Fold together gently.

Line muffin tins with paper liners.

Fill each one 3/4 full with batter.

For topping, beat cream cheese and sugar until light.

Add egg, beat well.

Fold in chocolate chips.

Top each unbaked cupcake with cream cheese topping. If it appears to be too much, just pile it on.

More is better!

Bake at 400Âş F for about 20 minutes or until no longer jiggly in the middle.

Cool completely, then store in a airtight container.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donna is the author of A Taste of Nostalgia Cookbook, which is available by calling 519-638-5791 or email donna.atasteofnostalgia@ gmail.com.

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EXHIBIT: Putting the situation in perspective FROM | 3

ficulties with the wider Canadian society.

“There was a couple farm boys in East Zorra(-Tavistok) Township working out in the fields, for example.

And they were taken by military police and put in the military camp in London, Ontario, and basically held for six weeks where they tried to persuade them to enlist. (The farm boys) held out for that time and they were finally released,” she notes.

Other instances saw Mennonite men conscripted through “overzealous recruiting” as well, by officials not always aware of their exemption from service, and the churches had to argue for these men’s release and return to civilian life.

In the end, Harder-Gissing says she is not aware of any Mennonites who were conscripted and forcibly sent to the front, though there were some Mennonites who did volunteer for the war effort, and often left the church because of it.

“So there’s these stories of these young men. There’s also women who were seeing women around them, non-Mennonites, being involved in providing knitting for soldiers and that

kind of thing, or becoming nurses in the military,” says Harder-Gissing.

“And they wanted to respond and aid in suffering, but they wanted to do it from a pacifist perspective.

So there were a lot of women’s sewing groups formed to sew, but for the relief of civilian suffering, not military suffering.”

Harder-Gissing says she hopes her exhibit will help demonstrate the enormous social impact the war had on Canadian communities through the experiences of these 12 Mennonites.

“I think by telling the stories of individuals who wrestled with their consciences, it reminds us that there was not just one story of the First World War where all the young men went off to war, and all the women stayed home and they contributed to the war effort.”

Rather, there were tremendous changes going on across all sectors of the Canadian population.

“The French Canadians were very opposed to conscription. Many new Canadians, so many Canadians of non-British origin, had some ambivalent feelings about the war, and we know here in Kitchener – which

ST. JACOBS

was formerly Berlin – that actually resulted in that name change happening.

So when you dig deeper into these stories, there’s a lot more going on than we realize, and the more understand about what that conflict did to Canadian society. I think it really helps to explain and helps us to understand who we are as a country.”

While the Sites of Nonresistance exhibit is running, the archives will also be taking part in The World Remembers Project, an exhibit being run in 60 locations around the world that attempts to name all of the 661,818 soldiers and nurses killed on both sides of the conflict. The exhibit projects all 661,818 names over the course of 48 days, in an effort to remember every individual lost in the conflict. A database of every name and the exact time their name will be displayed in the exhibit can be found at www.theworldremembers.org.

The Mennonite Archives is located at the Conrad Grebel University College, at 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo. The exhibits will be available for viewing Monday to Saturday during regular library hours.

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