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Skate Elmira seeking public input on proposed park WILL SLOAN As anyone who has ever put their feet on a skateboard can attest, wheels just don’t travel well on grass.

That's one reason why on February 28, the youth-led group Skate Elmira is holding a public consultation to solicit opinions about a proposed Elmira skate park, which the group hopes to have built by the end of 2014.

At the meeting, the group will introduce the public to four locations where the park could be built, including the one heavily favoured, Bristow Park. Skate Elmira believes the Bristow location is large enough and wellsituated to be the most beneficial option for the community.

Skate Elmira was conceived two years ago by 16-year-old Kyle Wilton, who tried to generate interest when he was only in the ninth grade. “I’ve been skateboarding for a long time, and I thought it would be a great idea to have a skate park in Elmira,” said Wilton, who usually travels as far as Guelph.

Wilton pitched a skate park to council, but as he remembered, “When it was just a group of us kids and we were in Grade 9, it was really difficult, because they kinda just looked at you like, ‘What can you do to really get that going?’” But Wilton found an adult ally in Robin Hansford, who handles fundraising for the SKATE PARK | 2

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Woolwich leans towards hosting an OLG casino; debate continues Staff report recommends gaming option; councillors to get more input before making a decision on Mar. 5 STEVE KANNON

With support from Woolwich council, Skate Elmira hopes to have a skate park built in the township by the end of 2014. Kyle Wilton, the 16-year-old who launched the initiative, had been joined by Robin Hansford, Luke Frey, Zack Krasovec, Zack Barriage, David Paisley and Dustin Martin.

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The certainty of millions in revenues versus perhaps, maybe the possibility of some problems that we may already have?

For Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan, at any rate, there doesn’t appear to be much of a debate. Where council falls on the issue of a casino in the township, however, will have to wait a couple of weeks.

And a few more speakers, pro and con, will have to be trotted out, as they were at this week’s council meeting.

Woolwich administrators have already weighed in, recommending that councillors agree to be a host community as the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) looks to bring to the region a casino with 1,200 slot machines and 55 gaming tables.

A report tabled by chief

administrative officer David Brenneman highlights the revenues, conservatively estimated at $4 million a year, plus the township’s share of $3.5 million in taxes. He acknowledges some of the concerns raised by opponents – problem gambling, increased demand on social services – but concludes the benefits outweigh the potential downside.

Some of the delegates at Tuesday night’s meeting took exception with Brenneman’s findings, pointing to the negatives.

As he has done at previous public meetings, Rob Simpson, the former CEO of the Ontario Problem Gaming Research Centre, argued the increase in problem gambling and the net outflow of dollars associated with a casino will do far more harm than good.

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CASINO: Opponents cite problem gambling, cash drain; supporters see economic benefits FROM | COVER

The report, said Simpson, cherry-picked statistics to downplay the negative impacts. But even the economic benefits don’t add up, he added, estimating some $216 million in revenues would come at the expense of the existing entertainment, food and beverage, recreation and accommodation businesses.

“Gambling money is not hidden under beds waiting for a casino to be built: it is reallocated from other consumer purchases.”

On the issue of gambling’s impact on public health, his arguments were backed up by Dr. Liana Nolan, Waterloo Region’s chief medical officer of health.

“Problem gambling will increase in Waterloo Region with the proximity of a casino because of increased access,” she told councillors.

Statistics show 5.5 per cent of slot gamblers would be at risk for high-severity problem gambling, while 12.1 per cent of table game players would be at risk.

Using those figures, she estimated there could be some 8,800 high-severity problem gamblers in Waterloo-Wellington, and a further 26,300 moderatelysevere problem gamblers.

Contrary to OLG’s claims it takes pains to reduce problem gambling, she said preventative measures have proven inadequate, as a substantial amount of revenue is raised on the backs of those with gambling problems.

“The revenue generated relies in part on problem gamblers and current measures to prevent problem gambling have limited effectiveness.”

Cowan, however, challenged some of the assumptions about how much of an impact a new casino would have on gambling rates, pointing out that people in the region already have access to gambling. From bingos to online gaming, off-track betting and facilities nearby in Elora and Brantford, those looking to gamble have a number of options.

Plenty of people from the region fly out to Las Vegas,

he added.

“Should we restrict flying to Vegas? We live in a free country. We have free choice.”

As gambling already happens here, the addition of a new casino wouldn’t be a fundamental shift.

“We can’t pretend that we live on an island, that we don’t have gambling,” he said.

For Mark Bingeman, head of the Waterloo Regional Tourism Marketing Corporation, the addition of a casino could be a tourism draw, especially if packaged as part of efforts to draw conferences and conventions to the region.

Such overnight stays would inject more than $4 for every $1 a daytrip to the region provides to the local economy. Right now, the region’s lack of offerings, including entertainment choices, means it’s losing out on attracting that kind of business.

The area is “not on the grid as far as conventions go,” he said.

In his presentation, however, Simpson was quick to dismiss the tourism

angle, which was cited in Brenneman’s report.

“The authors continue with the canard that people from outside Waterloo Region will choose it as a destination because of the casino. This is absolutely no justification for this,” he said. “Recall that OLG has plans for similar casinos in Hamilton, London and Halton, smaller ones in Woodstock and Huron County, the casino in Brantford and two gigantic casinos in Toronto. Why would Waterloo Region be a destination when each of these will offer exactly the same games?”

Having been through the gambling debate the last time around, Woolwich resident Melissa Snyder urged councillors to stick to economic issues rather than emotional arguments in making a decision.

A member of the Woolwich Agricultural Society board during the Elmira Raceway slots debate more than a decade ago, she said the decision is not about values but about business.

“I don’t need councillors to tell me what my values

should be,” she said, noting during the previous round many emotional arguments against the slots proved to be unfounded.

Based on those arguments, the raceway moved to Elora, where Centre-Wellington Township reaped the economic benefits. If there are any social problems due to gambling, then Woolwich is already having to deal with them – “there’s no wall between Woolwich and Elora” – without any of the money.

“Make this a business decision, not an emotional decision. Don’t make this good versus evil again,” she said, referring to the Elmira Raceway issue.

Her arguments in favour of the casino were countered by Richard Frey, pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Elmira, who said the potential harm to the community should trump thoughts of the money.

“I don’t think this should only be about money,” he said of the decision, echoing arguments the casino would just siphon off money destined to be spent on other pursuits.

In gathering input from the public, the township received mostly negative feedback: of the 1,954 responses through a mail-in postcard survey, online questionnaire and emails, 62 per cent said no to the casino option, while 38 per cent were in favour.

That overall number potentially represents some 11 per cent of eligible voters in the township. However, there were no controls over multiple voting or across platforms, such as someone sending in a postcard, filling out an online survey or writing councillors directly.

Given how the input was solicited, there’s no way of knowing if the response was a representative sample of residents’ feelings about hosting a casino.

Councillors did not deliberate on staff’s recommendation. Instead, they’ll hear from more delegates, including Brantford Mayor Chris Friel and Waterloo Regional Police chief Matt Torigian, at a meeting March 5 before making a decision about whether or not Woolwich will be a host community for an OLG casino.

SKATE PARK: Woolwich prepared to help process, but group needs to raise the needed $500,000 FROM | COVER

group, and Dustin Martin and David Paisley, two Elmira residents in their twenties who have become Skate Elmira co-chairs.

“We knew that this was an idea that a lot of the youth in the town had tossed around for years,” said Martin. “And we figured, we’re at an age now

when we can push these things through, so we decided to try to give it some legs.”

To have the park built by the end of 2014, Skate Elmira needs to raise $500,000. The group hopes to generate money through private donations, provincial recreation programs, and corporate sponsorships (the name of the park

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“It is our hope that the township will designate township-owned land so there won’t be a cost associated with that,” said Hansford. “The $500,000 will pay for a contractor to build the park, and then we will gift the park back to the township.”

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who works on Skate Elmira’s promotion. “If they’re not into team sports, they can get out there skateboarding. And with a facility like a skate park, you’ll get more kids outside more often.”

Skate Elmira’s public consultation will take place on February 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Woolwich Memorial Centre.

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encompass more than just skateboarding: the space will also double as an outdoor concert arena and a skating rink in the winter.

But what, exactly, are the benefits of putting your child on a wheeled board that your anxious mother might have warned you against? “It gets kids out there,” said Zack Krasovec,

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While the skate park is not an official township project, Woolwich council has offered to lend support and resources. “I’ve been a big supporter of Skate Elmira since day one of their journey and I will continue to assist them and advocate on their behalf,” said Mayor

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Local schools maintain average in annual rankings ELENA MAYSTRUK Schools in the townships are largely holding steady in the current edition of the Fraser Institute’s annual ranking of Ontario’s elementary schools.

The Fraser Institute has come out with its elementary school rankings for the 2011-2012 school year showing steadiness and

some growth in Woolwich and Wellesley Township school standings.

Eight Woolwich and Wellesley township schools were assessed using the most recent scores compiled by the province’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) in tests of reading, writing and mathematics.

Peter Cowley, director of

school performance studies at the institute, said though the rankings aid parents in choosing the right school for their kids the study does not take many other important aspects of school, such as athletics, into account. In analyzing the results, it’s important to look at fiveyears of data on the schools as marks tend to vary from

year to year, he added.

As an example, Elmira’s St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School ranked an 8.2 last year but received a 5.7 this year, which is closer to its average rating of about 6.0 in the last five years, Cowley explained.

With an average of 6.0 for all 2,714 of Ontario’s schools included in the study, three local schools

have performed above the standard in the past few years: St. Jacobs PS scored a 7.7, while St. Clement Catholic school came in at a 7.3 this year, reflective of its past rankings, and Conestogo PS received a 7.0.

With the exception of Wellesley PS, Cowley says there has been little significant change in local schools’ EQAO standing

in the past five years. This year Floradale PS received a 5.5, Breslau received a 5.3 and Linwood received the lowest of local scores at 5.0.

Wellesley PS is on the road to solid academic improvement, according to the Fraser Institute. Up from a 4.0 in 2008 Wellesley has earned a 5.4 over RANKINGS | 4

MPP Harris gives thumbs down to Throne Speech ELENA MAYSTRUK New Premier Kathleen Wynne’s attempt to reach out to the opposition parties, a move to prop up a minority government, failed to sway the local MPP, along with the rest of his Progressive Conservative caucus.

Michael Harris said he was unimpressed with the Throne Speech delivered Tuesday at Queen’s Park.

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario David C. Onley read the speech, outlining the responsibilities of the new provincial government lead by Wynne. It concluded by urging parties to work on differences on key issues affecting Ontario’s economy and find “common ground that transcends partisan politics.”

Harris said he did not hear anything new or encouraging from the speech. He had expected Wynne to outline more solutions to issues faced in the province.

“Yesterday was actually a moment of truth. We felt that it would have presented an opportunity for this government to make the necessary and urgent decisions to put Ontario back on the right track because right now we are

not on the right track,” he said in a phone interview February 20.

Specifically Harris wanted to see the government plan out a course to reduce spending due to the province’s deficit and create jobs given current unemployment rates.

Though the speech invited all parties to put forward ideas and participate in a creative process to govern the province, and “turn a page in history,” Harris saw the speech as more of the same.

“It would have been better if the Premier had used this time of opportunity to reverse the track Ontario is on – it was really an opportunity to entrench the Dalton McGuinty agenda that simply has led Ontario to the biggest job and debt crisis of our lifetime.”

Onley said in the speech that legislature must be a place for all voices to be heard as politicians are the voices of people in their respective ridings.

The speech touched on promises by the Ontario government to restrain program spending, to reduce Ontario’s debt-toGDP ratio, and recommit to eliminating the deficit by 2017-2018.

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HOW TO REACH US

EDSS students Jill Wiersma, Maggie Boine, Kristen Fisher and Mitch Devos get their hands dirty planting trees in the school’s greenhouse on Wednesday.

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EDSS students to nurture seedlings for Trees for Woolwich project ELENA MAYSTRUK The Trees for Woolwich project, which aims to plant 23,000 trees by 2016 – one for every resident of the township – got a boost this week courtesy of some local high school students.

The Township of Woolwich Environmental Enhancement Committee (TWEEC) has launched a community nursery project in collaboration with Elmira District Secondary School, which offered the campus’ greenhouse and students to aid with the effort to grow 400-500

seedlings.

TWEEC nursery project leader John Mathers and EDSS science teacher Barbara Gaudet, who will be monitoring the project at the school, helped students to start the first stage by planting the seeds on the morning of February 20.

Mathers said the idea came from previous planting efforts at the school as well as plans to increase tree cover in the township.

“We had a big tree planting last year and we used a lot of bare root stock. We just got talking about how much more successful we’d be if we had rooted stock

from pots and I got started on how we could maybe do something like that locally at a nursery.”

Bare root stock, he explained, involves removing soil from the roots and planting the tree into the new ground with its roots exposed. This time around efforts are being made to optimize tree growth by planting potted trees, where the tree roots are placed into the earth covered by a ball of soil.

“The success is hopefully going to be a lot higher with transplant shock and stuff like that for the trees that have got a potted, solid

root base,” Mathers said.

During their stay at EDSS, the seedlings will be monitored by Gaudet as part of the curriculum for her students, providing academic and hands-on learning opportunities, she said of the project.

After germinating in the greenhouse until May, the four- to eight-inch seedlings will be transferred to pots and planted on township land for a maturity period of two years, when irrigation and regular care will be essential for success.

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Following that, the government will put restrictions on overall spending increases to one per cent below GDP growth until the province’s debt-to-GDP ratio returns to the pre-recession level of 27 per cent,

Onley stated.

“Members of provincial parliament must be conduits for their constituents, so this legislature can hear all the voices of this province and represent all of its diverse needs,” he read.

While the speech con-

tained some tidbits of interest to the Tories, it didn’t go far enough, said Harris.

“A little bit of the NDP and a little bit of the Progressive Conservative, but a whole lot of the Dalton McGuinty simply doesn’t add up,” he said.

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Daniel Cockburn, Austin Padaric and Steph Sellers fill honeycombed containers with soil and plant various species of trees native to the township. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

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“Once we plant them out, that’s going to be the key through the hot summers: keeping them well irrigated,” Mathers said.

“That’s where the last time this was tried, it kind of died at that point. There weren’t people to take care of the plants on a regular basis, so that’s going to be key.”

Elmira’s Scouting groups have offered their services in caring for the plants following the May transplant.

They’ll be organizing an irrigation plan.

Initial budget estimates

place the project’s cost between $1,450 and $2,325 according to the TWEEC 2013 project proposal. Township trails coordinator Ann Roberts said the funds for the projects will come from TWEEC’s budget and the project has been brought to the attention of possible sponsors such as TD Canada Trust Friends of the Environment Foundation and the region’s Environmental Community Fund. EDSS is offering to provide supplies and the greenhouse facilities, while John’s Nursery is offering planting tips and pots for the spring transplant.

“We’re taking another

stab at it,” Mathers said of the project aimed at educating youth as a primary goal.

Apart from increasing tree coverage young participants will have a chance to increase their awareness of environmental issues while making an impact, he explained. EDSS students will be taking care of the seedlings as part of their curriculum and marked on diligence and proper care of the plants.

“There’s a thrill in watching things grow, and knowing you had a role in it,” Gaudet said while helping students in the school’s greenhouse on Wednesday.

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the last three years.

Cowley said that the institute’s results are up to each individual school and parent to interpret and gauge whether or not the scores are as important as other aspects of academic development. He also noted that rankings don’t take into account the number of special needs or ESL kids at each

school, factors that may affect EQAO test scores.

To that end, local school boards do not put much stock in the institute’s findings, painting them as incomplete and misleading.

“We are proud of all of our staff and students who work very hard to achieve success not only in reading, writing, and math, but with critical thinking, problem-solving, and char-

acter development,” stated Waterloo Region District School Board superintendent of education Mary Lou Mackie in a release.

At the Catholic board, chief managing officer John P. Shewchuk explained that while EQAO tests provide key data for educators, findings by the Fraser Institute are not used or referenced by the board.

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THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Twp. cleared in closed meeting complaint Called on one of its growing list of closed-door meetings, Woolwich council was cleared of any wrongdoing in relation to a secret deal that reversed course on the Jigs Hollow Gravel Pit. Ontario’s Ombudsman, reacting to a complaint from a member of the public, determined the subject of the meeting qualified for a closed session, as the township discussed a deal with its lawyers.

In addressing the subject of the Nov. 12, 2012 closed meeting, the Ombudsman recommended some changes to the township’s handling of such meetings in order to ensure greater transparency.

Discussing the letter from the Ombudsman’s Office at Tuesday night’s council meeting – as suggested in the missive from the open letter law enforcement team – clerk Christine Broughton said the suggestions have already been implemented.

Events to close Elmira roads

In support of the cycling race through Woolwich and Wellesley townships March 24, Woolwich councillors this week approved a bylaw to close a portion of Snyder Avenue in Elmira – between Church and Brubacher streets – from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Cycle Waterloo Steaming Nostril Race will begin at Lions Hall, with cyclists travelling 68 kilometres through the townships before ending up at a finish line on Snyder Avenue.

In a similar vein, councillors also approved a series of road closures in conjunction with the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, to be held April 6.

Portions of Hampton, Wyatt, James, South, Walker, Dunke and Mill streets, along with Park Avenue, will be closed from 1 a.m. to 8 p.m. that Saturday. As well, parts of the municipal parking lots on Mill Street, Wyatt Street and at the Woolwich Memorial Centre will be closed to accommodate the festival.

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Police to use social media to seek public’s help with wanted list The Waterloo Regional Police Service this week launched “Warrant Wednesday,” a new initiative to raise awareness in the community about criminal activity while encouraging public assistance with current police investigations and crime prevention measures.

Each week, investigators will release information about an individual who is wanted on an arrest warrant. The information to be provided will normally include a photo, physical descriptors of the accused, charges laid and a brief description of the incident.

“Releasing information using our social media channels in addition to traditional media, Warrant Wednesdays provide

FEBRUARY 11

7:55 AM | A driver slid off the roadway and struck a sign while travelling on Rider Road near Shantz Station Road in Woolwich Township. There were no injuries and no charges.

9:04 AM | A woman driving on Erbsville Road east of Kressler Road in Woolwich Township lost control on icy roads and hit a guardrail. She sustained minor

a further opportunity for our community to assist with investigations,” said Inspector Kevin Thaler, executive officer. “With information at their fingertips, social media users and concerned citizens have the opportunity to provide a valuable crime prevention service to the entire community by spreading the word and helping generate new leads for unresolved cases.”

Current Waterloo Regional Police social media channels available for the community to visit for Warrant Wednesday information and crime prevention tips include: www.twitter. com/wrpssts; www.facebook.com/wrpssts; www. twitter.com/WRPSToday; and www.wrps.on.ca.

injuries. No charges were laid.

6:18 PM | A driver travelling on Arthur Street near Seiling Road in lost control of the vehicle on icy roads and hit a sign. There were no injuries and no charges were laid.

FEBRUARY 14

4:04 PM | Two vehicles were involved in a collision on Ament Line near Gordon Hain Street in Linwood.

One of the drivers was charged with

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The driver of a red hatchback was travelling on Northfield Drive near Conestogo February 20 when the vehicle slid off the roadway and turned over into a ditch. Icy roads were cited as the cause.

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Union Street in Elmira. A vehicle stopped at a stop sign and then entered the intersection but did not see another oncoming car. The driver was charged with failing to yield the right of way. There were minimal injuries to one driver.

Two cars collided on the corner of South Street and Snyder Avenue in Elmira on Wednesday afternoon. Police, fire and EMS crews were on the scene. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

failing to yield the right of way.

There were no injuries reported.

5:05 PM | A 36-year-old Niagara Falls man failed to yield the right of way to a 45-year-old Breslau resident at the stop sign at Union Street and South Field Drive in Elmira, resulting in a collision. There were no injuries but both vehicles had to be towed from the scene. The

Niagara Falls man was charged with failure to yield the right of way to traffic on through highway.

6:09 PM | A driver travelling northbound on New Jerusalem Road swerved as a result of an oncoming vehicle passing a horse-drawn buggy. The driver lost control and ended up in the ditch.

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were pressed.

10:32 PM | A woman drove her vehicle off the road and rolled over in the ditch. She sustained minor injuries as a result.

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8:17 AM | A collision involving two vehicles occurred at the intersection of South Field Drive and

11:10 AM | A 28-year-old man driving a red Audi was struck by a 54-year-old Brantford man driving a transport truck. The 28-year-old man had been travelling northbound on Herrgott Road towards the Lobsinger Line intersection and did not stop at the stop sign, at which point the two vehicles collided. Police say the sign was completely obstructed by snow.

There were no injuries to either driver and no charges were laid.

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10:55 AM | A vehicle carrying a group of people slid off Wilmot-Easthope Road, resulting in a rollover in which three people suffered minor injuries. Icy conditions were cited as the reason for the incident. No charges were laid.

Police launch anti-bullying contest for region’s youth WILL SLOAN For those of us who grew up back in the days of old-fashioned playgroundbeatings and lunch-moneyrobbing, today’s Facebook, Twitter and email-dominated bullyscape seems both intangible and overwhelming. For the kids involved, it is much worse. With the task of combating bullying always in transition, the Waterloo Regional Police Service is looking at new ways to better communicate with the region’s students.

“Stand Up, Speak Out,” a

new police-sponsored contest, is looking for poetry, videos, visual art, essays, or any other art media submissions from Waterloo Region students age 18 and younger, on the topic of standing up to bullying.

“There’s always a request from the schools for us to come and do a bullying presentation,” said Constable Cynthia Martin, resource officer and elementary school specialist with the regional police. “We decided: You know what?

We’re going to get the kids’ messages, because peer-to-

peer messaging is far more impactful than us blabbering at them.”

“Stand Up, Speak Out” was introduced by Halton Regional Police, where it is now entering its third year. WRPS has taken on the Halton program after having success with its own multimedia project, “It’s Your Call,” a 2012 initiative that used art submissions to promote a drug-free lifestyle.

In her anti-bullying presentations at local schools, Martin has incorporated videos from the Halton

contest, and is pleased with the results. “The kids are far more entertained, because they get bully-presentationed out,” she said.

“Stand Up, Speak Out” is not the only recent attempt to combat the changing face of bullying. In November, the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council launched “Project THINK,” which encouraged students to think before posting anything harmful on social media (the acronym stands for, “is it True, Hurtful, Illegal, Necessary, Kind?”).

This program, which began

at St. Mary’s High School in Kitchener, supplied students with blue elastics to tie around their phones, as a reminder to follow the THINK guidelines.

Even before the dawn of Facebook, it’s fair to say that parents have not been known for their abilities to stop bullying in its tracks.

In the social media age, is there anything mom and dad can do?

“For the parents, a lot of the time it’s just making sure they have an open dialogue with their children,” said Martin. “If they don’t

even know what they’re doing on the computer, that’s where the kids are getting in trouble. They just need to pay attention to what their kids are doing online, because it’s amazing how quickly things can build online and how instant it is.”

“Parents are a little shocked when their kids are involved with something,” she added.

Rules and regulations for “Stand Up, Speak Out” can be found on the WRPS’ website, www.wrps.on.ca.

The deadline for submission is May 26 at midnight.

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Reel in spending before thinking about a casino TO NO ONE’S SURPRISE, Woolwich is leaning towards throwing its name into the hat as a candidate for an OLG casino. A staff report discussed at council this week recommends becoming a host community. Mayor Todd Cowan is an advocate.

Councillors have yet to vote on the issue – that’s expected March 5 – but the lure of millions in essentially found money may prove to be too hard to resist.

We’re certainly going to hear more about the township’s $63 million infrastructure deficit, an issue just crying out for an influx of cash. There’s a long way to go before any of the money dancing like sugar plum fairies in Woolwich’s dreams actually makes its way into township coffers, but it’s not too soon to be thinking about the consequences of such a windfall. No, not the negatives trotted out by opponents – more about that later – but about ensuring that gaming revenue estimated at some $4 million a year doesn’t become a crutch.

If it ever starts flowing, the revenue would have to be earmarked strictly for capital projects, not allowed to creep into the operating budget. Likewise, councillors uneager to tackle runaway spending, particularly on staffing, shouldn’t see this as a way to let bureaucratic bloat continue: cuts must be made, with the money channeled into pressing capital projects while affording some tax relief to residents.

Citizens already see precious little in the way of accountability for their tax dollars, as witnessed by the passing this week of the 2013 budget. Councillors seem pleased with themselves about a 1.5 per cent tax increase (with a 0.5 per cent special levy for infrastructure boosting the total hit to 2 per cent), but studiously fail to mention ongoing assessment growth, adjusted this week to 4.54 per cent from 4.16 per cent, adding another $29,000 to the hundreds of thousands in new revenue that simply gets absorbed into the budget – staff bloat, unquestioned raises – without councillors questioning how growth brings negatives to the township without the benefit of tax relief due to the extra revenue.

The growth assumption – growth is good – is never challenged, despite growing proof today’s growth brings more negatives than positives.

Unable and unwilling to rein in spending and taxes under current conditions, councillors may be inclined to be even more laissez faire – i.e., willing to leave the bureaucracy unchecked – when there appears to be plenty of money to spare due to quarterly cheques from OLG. Such issues are, of course, putting the cart before the horse. Council has yet to vote on whether Woolwich will be a host community. After that, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation will be soliciting proposals from private companies to build and run gambling operations in 29 new gaming zones across the province. Here, the zone labelled SW1 includes Woolwich Township, Wilmot Township, Kitchener, Waterloo, a portion of Cambridge and, in the neighbouring county, Centre Wellington Township, currently home to a slots facility at Grand River Raceway and the only municipality that’s said it would host a new casino. Cambridge and Wilmot are out. Kitchener and Waterloo appear to be in the no camp, but have made no formal announcement.

Even if Woolwich says yes, it will be up to a private developer to decide if it makes sense to launch here. If it does, the doors might not open for another four or five years. Too far off to start counting the money. And this council, and the one that will replace it, have to get their fiscal house in order long before that time.

With dollar signs in their eyes, it comes as no surprise to anyone that a report recommends Woolwich offer to host an OLG casino.

WORLD VIEW / GWYNNE DYER

Does rise of Asia mean the decline of the West?

WORLD AFFAIRS You know the storyline by now. There are one million U.S.-dollar millionaires in China. (“To get rich is glorious,” said former leader Deng Xiao-ping.) Seventy per cent of the homes in China are bought for cash.

China’s total trade – the sum of imports and exports – is now bigger than that of the United States. “They’re going to eat our lunch,” whimper the faint-hearted in the West.

It’s not just the Chinese who are coming. The Indians and the Brazilians are coming too, with economic growth rates far higher than in the old industrialized countries, but it doesn’t even stop there. There’s also Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia and half a dozen other big countries in what used to be called the Third World that have discovered the secret of high-speed growth. The power shift is happening even faster than the pundits predicted.

As recently as 2009, the “Brics” (Brazil, Russia, India

and China) accounted for less than one-tenth of total global consumption. The European Union consumed twice as much, and so did the United States. But by 2020, the Brics will be producing and consuming just as much as either of the older economic zones, and by 2025 considerably more than either of them.

In fact, if you include not just the four Brics but all the other fast-growing economies of the ex-Third World, in just a dozen years’ time they will account for around 40 per cent of world consumption. As a rule, with wealth comes power, so they will increasingly be calling the tune that the West must dance to. Or at least that is the Doomsday scenario that haunts the strategists and economists of the West. It’s nonsense, for at least three reasons.

First of all, a shift in the world’s centre of economic gravity does not necessarily spell doom for those whose relative influence has dwindled. The last time the centre shifted, when the United States overtook the nations of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it did not dent Europe’s

prosperity at all.

It’s true that by the latter half of the 20th century there were American troops all over Western Europe, but that would not have happened if Europe had not come close to destroying itself in the two world wars (which can be seen as a European civil war in two parts). In any case, the U.S. troops have mostly gone home now, and Europeans live at least as well as Americans.

Secondly, the new centre of gravity this time, while mostly located in Asia, is not a single country with a coherent foreign policy like the United States. The four Brics will never become a strategic or economic bloc. They are more likely to split into rival blocs, although one hopes not. And the Mexicos and Turkeys and Indonesias of this new world will have their own fish to fry.

So it will be a more complicated world with many major players, and the centre of economic gravity will be in Asia, but there’s nothing particularly strange about this. More than half of the human race lives in Asia, so where else should

the centre of gravity be?

Asia is very far from monolithic, and there is no logical reason to suppose that its economic rise spells economic decline for the West.

Thirdly, descriptions of the future that are simply extrapolations of the present, like the ones at the start of this article, are almost always wrong. If the widely believed forecasts of the 1980s had been right, Japan would now bestride the world like an economic Colossus. The one certain thing about the future is surprises – but some surprises are a little less surprising than others.

Take climate change, for example. The scientific evidence strongly suggests that the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world, home to almost all of the emerging economic powers, will be much harder hit by global warming than the temperate parts of the globe, farther away from the equator, where the older industrialized countries all live.

There is already much anger about this in the new economic powers. Eighty per cent of the greenhouse DYER | 8

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Should Woolwich Township offer to host a casino?

»»James Sexton

»»Jennifer Laverty

No, [Elmira] it’s more of a small town feel and Yes. We can only protect people from I don’t think a casino will add to that. themselves so much.

»»JC Bautista

»»Cheryl Martin

»»Canessa Bradley

It would save the trip to Elora.

Absolutely not, the social aspect of it outweighs the jobs that would be created.

No, it promotes gambling.

"The one certain thing about the future is surprises – but some surprises are a little less surprising than others." Gwynne Dyer | page 6 HIS VIEW / STEVE KANNON

Beyond unsustainable public sector wages, pension gap a growing concern EDITOR'S NOTES We can expect to see many more studies like the one released this week by the Fraser Institute showing the compensation gap between the public and private sectors. With governments facing deficits and a maxed-out tax base, cuts to the single-largest expenditure – payroll – are absolutely necessary.

Given the generous nature of most public sector wages, rollbacks are the first place to start.

Quantifying the gap, the Fraser Institute study – we’ll hear plenty from them on this subject, given the organization’s bent – found public-sector workers (federal, provincial, and local) in Ontario earned wages 13.9 per cent higher, on average, than their private-sector counterparts in 2011.

“Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario” examines wage and non-wage

benefits for government employees (federal, provincial, and local) and private-sector workers in Ontario. It calculated the wage premium for public-sector workers using Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey from April 2011, after adjusting for personal characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, education, tenure, size of establishment, type of job, and industry. When unionization is included in the analysis, the public-sector “wage premium” (i.e., the degree to which public-sector wages exceed private-sector wages) declines to 12.4 per cent from 13.9 per cent.

“As the Ontario government struggles with deficits and finding ways to constrain spending, publicsector compensation is one area that should be closely scrutinized,” said Fraser Institute president Niels Veldhuis.

“The fact is government workers in Ontario enjoy a wage premium over their private-sector counterparts.”

Aside from higher

HOW TO REACH US

wage compensation is in the public sector by comparison to the private due to a lack of transparency.

Pensions, as indicated, are a big issue.

Another report released this week, this one from CIBC, shows Canadians are increasingly at risk of falling behind financially given the precarious state of their retirement savings.

The bank’s economists estimate that almost 60 per cent of adults in their late 20s or early 30s can expect to experience a significant decline in their standard of living when they retire. Many young Canadians – especially those with lower incomes – can’t afford to buy the average home, so they will also be deprived of the benefits of the forced savings represented by home ownership.

They’re also coming of age in an era when private pension plans are increasingly scarce. And they’re finding it hard to replace what those private plans offered: scale, obligatory participation, expert investment management,

locked-in contributions, a long-term horizon and certainty of outcome, says the report.

This situation accentuates the gap between well-heeled civil service pensions and those footing the bill for them, many of whom have little prospect of anything resembling a decent pension.

About two-thirds of Canadian workers don’t have a company pension plan. In fact, about a third don’t have any retirement savings at all – about 30 per cent of eligible workers didn’t contribute to an RRSP last year, for instance.

For those who have no savings of their own, relying only on government sources, retirement will be a meagre affair. Or simply put off altogether.

The Canada Pension Plan provides 25 per cent of a worker’s average annual earnings – hardly enough for a comfortable retirement. That level has been consistent since the program was introduced in 1966. Payments for current recipients come partly from invested reserves and

partly from contributions from today’s workforce.

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

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

The CIBC report calls for reforms to CPP to allow for greater voluntary contributions. A good step, but not one likely to move the plan towards a much higher level of income replacement.

Higher mandatory contributions, on the part of both employees and employers, is what’s needed.

Governments getting their fiscal houses in order and eliminating unnecessary spending – including reducing both staff and compensation levels – would go a long way in freeing up money to allow Canadians to increase CPP contributions without any overall change in their payroll deductions.

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wages, the study also found strong indications that public-sector workers enjoy more generous nonwage benefits than the private sector.

As of 2011, 76.5 per cent of public sector workers in Ontario were covered by a registered pension compared to 26.0 per cent of private sector workers.

In addition, 97.3 per cent of Ontario’s public sector workers who were covered by a pension plan enjoyed a defined benefit pension plan (i.e., a plan guaranteeing a certain level of benefits) compared to 53.5 per cent of private sector workers.

On average, between 2007 and 2011, public sector workers in Ontario retired more than a year earlier (1.3 years earlier) than private sector workers.

Public sector workers also enjoyed far greater job security. In 2011, 3.9 per cent of private sector workers lost their jobs compared to 0.7 per cent of those in the public sector.

The report notes that it’s difficult to quantify just how much higher non-

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THE MONITOR

VERBATIM

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The growing use of tax havens is costing Canadians an estimated $7.8 billion annually. Cayman Islands, Barbados and other jurisdictions sheltered $160 billion in Canadian investment money in 2011. These havens offer little or no taxation and a complicated, if not totally secretive, reporting system. A single five-storey office building in the Cayman Islands, for instance, is “head office” to 18,000 companies.

“The Conservatives have clearly tried to let this information trickle out in order to keep Canadians from seeing the big picture. The result has been ministers unaware of what they’ve actually cut, a Parliamentary Budget Officer who can’t get the information he is legally sanctioned to have, and increasing evidence that front line services are bearing the brunt of the cuts.”

Protests from residents of St. Jacobs' Water Street helped convince Woolwich council to change the name of Water Street in Elmira at a meeting Feb. 22, 2000 as the township moved to deal with conflicts in the region's new 9-1-1 emergency response system. The Elmira road would eventually be renamed Wyatt Street.

»»Canadians for Tax Fairness in a presentation this week to a Parliamentary

»»Liberal Treasury Board critic John McCallum on the latest reports of the

»»From the Feb. 26, 2000 edition of the Observer.

committee

government's attempts to be anything but transparent and accountable to the public

DYER: Climate change likely

NATIONAL VIEW

to change global dynamics CONTINUED FROM | 6

gases of human origin in the atmosphere were put there by the old-rich countries, who got rich by burning fossil fuels for the past two centuries, and yet they get off lightly while the (relatively) innocent suffer. But even if the newly rich wanted revenge, they are too disunited – and will be too busy coping with the warming – to do much about it.

The centre of gravity of the world economy is undoubtedly leaving the old “Atlantic” world of Europe and North America and

moving towards Asia, but how far and how fast this process goes remains to be seen. And there is no reason to believe that it will leave the countries of the West poor or helpless.

True, economists in the West often ask the question: “what will we sell the emerging countries in the future that they cannot produce for themselves?” In the runaway global warming scenario, the answer would be “food,” but the real answer is sure to be more complex than that. Never mind.

They’ll think of something, because they’ll have to.

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Question mayors about casino To the Editor, I am curious that in spite of all the supposed benefits to a casino – revenue and jobs (I think economic spinoffs are

way overblown) – yet Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener have not actively pursued this casino.

I think Woolwich council would do well to hear from these three mayors prior to making their decision.

TREVOR BAUMAN, ELMIRA

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Kings drop another pair of games But the coaching staff likes what it sees as players step up to deal with string of injuries in advance of GOJHL playoffs WILL SLOAN It is true that, in recent weeks, the Elmira Sugar Kings have racked up more losses than wins, and it is also true that last Friday (February 15) and Sunday, the boys in green fell to both the Stratford Cullitons and the Listowel Cyclones (scores were 5-2 and 6-3 respectively). But for head coach Dean DeSilva, to focus on stats like these is to miss the forest from the trees.

“I know everybody kind of looks at the wins and losses,” said DeSilva.

“But as a coaching staff, we’re looking at the work ethic our guys are putting out, and we’re very, very pleased.”

It is well known that the team has suffered from a surplus of injuries, and top players have been slow to trickle back from the recovery room to the dressing room, but DeSilva stresses that the last few months have been an instructive learning experience.

“It’s given players that are in the lineup an opportunity to try and step up their game, and a couple of our players have,” said Desilva. “I mean, Mitch Wright and Zac Coulter have been very, very good and really stepped up their game.

“And, it’s allowing other players to get some experience – they now understand that we might have players going against lines they wouldn’t normally go

Elmira forward Matt Schieck struggles to keep control of the puck during last Sunday’s match with the Listowel Cyclones. The Kings lost 6-3.

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against when our top guys are out. So they’re seeing that challenge, and they’re learning what it’s going to take to have success in that role.”

Even though the Kings lost to the Cullitons on February 15, they did manage

to tie the Stratford team for number of shots on net (35 each). The Cullitons potted the game’s first three goals – one in the first period, two in the second) – with the Kings finally making it to the board at 17:11 in the second, with a goal by Rob

Kohli (assisted by Cass Frey and Matt Harding).

Elmira also scored first in the third period, with Adam Dauda (Brodie Whitehead, Jake Weidner) burying the puck at 3:44, but Stratford managed two more goals to seal the victory.

“Friday night against Stratford, they scored in the first minute of the first period on a bad line change,” said DeSilva. “But the rest of the period, I thought we completely outplayed them. We hit goalposts and we hit crossbars.”

Back on home ice on February 17, Elmira actually managed more shots on net than the Listowel Cyclones (49 versus 42), but the tenacity didn’t translate into points.

series, but fell behind towards the end, succumbing to Hagersville in their final two matches. Now it’s all over for the Jacks until the 2013-2014 season revs up in October.

Head coach Kevin Fitzpatrick looks back with frustration on a series that could have gone either way.

“Game seven was a fantastic game to watch and participate in, just a frus-

trating end – disappointing,” said Fitzpatrick. “So we move on and get ready for next year.”

On February 13, the Jacks met the Hawks on Hagersville ice, and scored their final victory of the year. The team was strong out of the gate, dominating the first period with four goals. Corey Way scored 48 seconds in (assisted by Reid Denstedt and Troy Williams), fol-

lowed by Denstedt at 5:52, Shawn Fitzpatrick (assists: Devon Wagner, Josh Herd) at 6:03, and Cody Tapsell (Wagner, Fitzpatrick) at 6:15.

Hagersville scored twice in the first period, and caught up with two more goals in the second, but a goal from Josh Herd (Tapsell, Wagner) at 5:55 in the second, and Tapsell (Wagner) at 8:46 in the third,

helped push Wellesley’s winning score to 6-4.

But the Jacks’ momentum stalled when they returned to home ice on February 15. In this sixth game of the series, the Jacks managed only two goals – one by Devon Wagner (Tapsell, Fitzpatrick) at 12:24 in the first period, and one by Tapsell (Fitzpatrick, Wagner) at 14:38 in the second. Hagersville proved a

daunting opposition, scoring twice in the first period, once in the second, and twice in the third for a final score of 5-2.

The make-or-break home game last Saturday proved to be a nail-biter. Hagersville scored the first two goals, but replies from Tapsell (Steven Tait, Williams) at 8:31 and Ryan Michael

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Jacks eliminated in second round of SOJHL playoffs WILL SLOAN It was a hard-fought series that extended all the way to an overtime period in game seven, but on February 16 the Hagersville Hawks finally booted the Wellesley Applejacks out of the SOJHL playoffs in the second round.

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NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

Finding the heroic in the epic battle of man against wood OPEN COUNTRY I walked into the hardware store wearing the desperate look of a man who had just returned from some great war. Provided, of course, that the struggle was so violent as to sprinkle you with sawdust, almost induce perspiration and set the stage for what might one day be a real-life callous. But did I make a big deal of it?

No, I did not.

In fact, when Doug the trusty sales assistant walked by, I only mentioned this because he

hesitated.

“You tripped me,” he said.

“Well Doug,” I countered, “No doubt, you’re probably wondering about the heady aroma of oak and manliness.”

And then, just to punctuate the point, I raised my pinky and showed him my boo-boo.

“Have you been using tools again, Steve?” he asked hesitantly.

I stared off into Aisle 13 thoughtfully, then took a deep breath and began my epic saga. After all, Doug had asked.

“I have just returned from my basement, Doug, where I have used a skill saw successfully to sever an

oak board into pieces that approximate what I originally intended. That’s right, Doug, I fought with oak, the manliest of all woods – probably a distant relative of the same tree that was used to build the great warships and some high-end washroom vanities. And, Doug, I have mastered that oak. The pine is another matter entirely.”

“Can I hel…,” he interrupted.

I immediately put my finger across his lips and continued.

“I’m here now, Doug, in this temple of manliness, to wander aimlessly through the aisles, look at power tools and perhaps purchase a spade bit that will al-

low me to drill a hole and perhaps even countersink something,” I said sternly.

“I am building a fly-tying case.”

Doug nodded solemnly and pointed me to the back. When I turned back to thank him, he was gone.

“I see,” I muttered.

“Some journeys a man must do alone, huh?”

And so it was that I bought that spade bit along with a quarter-inch drill bit, a dowel and a handful of one-inch wood screws and once again, drove home and deliberately threw myself back into harm’s way.

When I walked through the door, Jenn looked at me, I suppose as people

look at their heroes, and said, “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”

Of course, I didn’t. Like most men of my woodworking ability, I was in uncharted territory from the word countersink on. And while my original intent was to build a small, tabletop, fly-tying station, I was dealing with woodscrews, power tools and only the vaguest sense of how to use them, so it could have just as easily turned out to be a garden shed.

As fate would have it, however, I finished my flytying station yesterday – although as with all woodworking projects, it evolved slightly from the original design. When it was done,

the sound of whirring blades and drill bits was replaced by the sounds of me muttering and trying to free my index finger from the hook and vise I had just lashed it to.

Minutes later, Jenn cautiously walked downstairs and peaked around the corner.

“Thank goodness, you’re OK,” she said, as she put down her first aid kit.

“Huh?” I smiled.

“Well, when the power tools stopped abruptly I naturally assumed …”

“It’s finished,” I said. “Do you like it?”

“Uh, sure,” she replied.

“But how on earth are you going to get that garden shed through the door?”

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(Brett MacDonald, Corey Way) at 10:03 tied things up.

Hagersville and Wellesley both scored in the second period (the latter courtesy of Wagner at 14:41), keeping the teams on equal footing.

In the third period, goals from Williams and Tyler Eckert at 3:12 and 10:56 seemed to give the Jacks the edge, but the Hawks fought back, just barely tying the game with goals at 18:22 and 19:23. At 4:57 in overtime, the Hagersville Hawks dealt Wellesley a final blow.

“We had a two-goal lead with a minute and forty seconds to go,” said Fitzpatrick.

“We were playing fantastic, and there was a penalty called against us that the referee later apologized for

– which does no good at all – and that led to the fourth goal.

“The fifth goal, we made a mistake – we had control of the draw and we made a couple of mistakes. But the fact is, there were attempts to get the puck through, and it deflected at least three different times. It could have went either way.”

Fitzpatrick added, “We had our chances to bury them, and we didn’t, and they kept at it.”

With the season over, Fitzpatrick is already looking at ways to improve for next year. “We have to be way better at home,” he said.

“I’ve been wracking my brain basically all year about this: we had a decent

home record, but a better away record … There’s definitely a comfort level when they’re in their dressing room, and they have a weight room and a big screen TV and a big stereo system. I don’t know.”

Though his boys fell in the second round, Fitzpatrick believes the team has a good future.

“This team is young, and there are a lot of tough players back next year,” said the coach. “That’s different from past years. When I took over four years ago, you couldn’t get people to come here. Now, these guys have bought into the program, they’re proud to be Applejacks, and this team is built for the next two years.

We’re in good shape.”

Applejack Corey Way tries to fend of the Hagersville Hawks on February 15. The Wellesley team saw their playoff hopes dashed in game seven’s overtime period. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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THE SCORE | MINOR SPORT RESULTS WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECT Feb. 15 vs. Caledon Woolwich: 0

Caledon: 6 Feb. 19 vs. Milton Woolwich: 3 Milton: 0 Goals: Dustin Good x3 Assists: Denver Martin, Keenan Martin, Sam Hacock Shutout: Ian Darroch, Parker Collingwood Shutout: Ian Darroch, Parker Collingwood

Novice: AE Feb. 15 vs. Dundas Woolwich: 0

Dundas: 6 Feb. 17 vs. Stoney Creek Woolwich: 5 Stoney Creek: 4

Woolwich: 3 New Hamburg: 2 Goals: Jonathon Dingelstad, Patrick Perry, Dante DelCul Assists: Cameron MacLachlan, Simon Shantz, Ryan Shantz Feb. 17 vs. Beverly Woolwich: 6 Beverly: 0 Goals: Jonathon Dingelstad x2, Tyson Kraemer x2, Patrick Perry, Ryan Shantz Assists: Jonathon Dingelstad x2, Lucas Weber, Ryan Shantz, Patrick Perry Shutout: James Berti

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Miltenburg Assists: Carling Cisecki, Kim Finn, Sarah Miltenburg Feb. 18 vs. Stratford Twin Centre: 1

Stratford: 1 Goals: Stephanie Lorentz

Atom: REP Feb. 16 vs. Brantford Twin Centre: 1 Brantford: 0 Goals: Emily Krueger Assists: Avery Bender Shutout: Kara Mark

Atom: LL# 3

Midget: B

Feb. 16 vs. Embro Woolwich: 2 Embro: 1 Goals: Nate Curtis, Cameron Martin Assists: Nate Curtis

Feb. 16 vs. Zorra Twin Centre: 3

Zorra: 2 Goals: Carly Bender, Lauren Brick, Jill Sebben Assists: Taylor Holst x2, Cassidy Pearce, Jill Sebben Feb. 18 vs. Woolwich Twin Centre: 2

Woolwich: 2 Goals: Breanna Michael x2 Assists: Ali Hergott x2, Lauren Brick x2

Atom: AE Feb. 9 vs. Hespeler Woolwich: 2 Feb.11 vs. Paris Hespeler: 1 Woolwich: 1 Goals: Grayson McGirr, Tyler Paris: 2 Newton Goals: Coleton Benham Assists: Nathan Snyder Feb. 16 vs. LL# 2 Feb. 12 vs. Caledon LL 3: 2

Woolwich: 0

LL2: 0 Caledon: 1 Goals: Corbin Schmidt Coleton Feb. 14 vs. Caledon Benham Woolwich: 0

Assists: Turner Duldhardt, Ben Caledon: 3 Moyer, Ben Wilkie Feb. 16 vs. Caledon Shutout: Connor Dingelstad Woolwich: 4 Caledon: 3 Goals: Matt Brubacher, Andrew Kiewetter x2, Grayson McGirr Novice: LL# 4 Assists: Tyler Newton Feb. 2 vs. LL# 1

Novice: LL# 3

LL4: 3

LL1: 1 Goals: Ryan Curtis x3 Assists: Jackson Smith, Teagan Cadeau, Will McDougall, Haiden Idzik, Joshua Moore Feb. 14 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 4 Ayr: 2 Goals: Ryan Curtis x4 Assists: Nolan Williamson, Brennan Catton, Teagan Cadeau, Josh Moore, Jonathon Horst, Will McDougall

Atom: MINOR AA Feb. 16 vs. St. Catherines Woolwich: 0

St. Catherines: 6

Atom: MAJOR AA

Feb. 17 vs. Embro Woolwich: 1 Embro: 1 Goals: Matthew Brubacher

Feb. 16 vs. Georgetown Woolwich: 1 Georgetown: 1 Goals: Isiah Katsube Assists: Jake Clemmer Feb. 17 vs. Ancaster Woolwich: 5 Ancaster: 1 Goals: Ryan Elliott x2, Jake Clemmer, Ben Witmer, Brett Allen Assists: Blake Roemer x2, Trevor Ferretti

Atom: LL #2

PeeWee: AE

Feb. 12 vs. Plattsville Woolwich: 3 Plattsville: 3 Goals: Simon Shantz, Matt Yorke, Patrick Perry Assists: Dante Del Cul, Rowan Spencer Feb.16 vs. New Hamburg

Feb. 17 vs. Oakville Woolwich: 1 Oakville: 2 Goals: Austin Whittom Assists: Cade Schaus Feb. 19 vs. Oakville Woolwich: 3 Oakville: 7

Atom: LL# 1

WOOLWICH RINGETTE The Woolwich Storm U14 Ringette team played in the Kitchener Golden Ring tournament last weekend and came home silver medalists Back row: Hannah Bettke, Kenzie Beacom, Aristana Paleczny, Kate Martin, Alyssa Martin, Steph Knoerck, Paisley Wass, Rylee Restivo, coach Laura Schultz, manager Laurie Martin. Middle row: Carola Bromberg, Ashley Elliott, Monika Daultry, Ali Schultz, Megan Scheuring, coach Sandi Bromberg. Front: Paige Thompson. Missing: coach Doug Bettke. [SUBMITTED] Goals: Noah Scurry, Cade Schaus, Matthew MacDonald Assists: Kyle Bruder, Matthew MacDonald x2, Justin Uhrig, Cade Schaus, Ben Lenaers

PeeWee: MINOR AA Feb. 16 vs. Garden City Woolwich: 2 Garden City: 2 Goals: Nolan Hislop, Eli Baldin Assists: Brody Waters, Lukas Shantz, Jake Code Feb. 17 vs. Brampton Woolwich: 6 Brampton: 0 Goals: Nolan Hislop, Bart Sherrer, Justin Taylor, Brody Waters, Jake Code, Lukas Shantz Assists: Austin Cousineau, Justin Taylor, Brody Waters x3, Bart Sherrer x2, Jake Code, Kurtis Hoover, Eli Baldin Shutout: Cyrus Martin/ Zachary Verway

PeeWee: MAJOR A Feb. 16 vs. Caledon Woolwich: 2 Caledon: 2 Goals: Brad Hale, Austin Flaherty Assists: Nolan McLaughlin, Riley Runstedler

PeeWee: LL #2 Feb. 16 vs. Paris

Woolwich: 5 Paris: 4 Goals: Ryan Belanger x2, Sullivan Keen, Ryan Parrott, Owen Hill-Ring Assists: Corbin Kaufman, Ryan Belanger, Ryan Parrott, Cole Bauman, Tim Brunkard, Brendan Knipfel, Adam Anstett

Bantam: LL #1 Feb 10 vs. New Hamburg Woolwich: 2 New Hamburg: 2 Goals: Joe Hanley, Nick Campagnolo Assists: Mike Devries, William Mewhiney, Adam Elliott

Bantam: LL #2 Feb. 16 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 1 Ayr: 0 Goals: Nick Kieswetter Assists: Nick Langer Shutout: Quinn Young Feb. 17 vs. Beverly Woolwich: 2 Beverly: 2 Goals: Matt Greene, Liam Catton Assists: Jonathan Martin, Nick Langer, Trent Brunkard

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Feb. 15-16 Game 1 vs. Durham Woolwich: 1 Durham: 3 Goals: Mike Devries Assists: Nick Campagnolo Game 2 vs. West Carleton Woolwich: 1 West Carleton: 1 Goals: Luke Decorte Game 3 vs. Flesherton Woolwich: 4 Flesherton: 6 Goals: Luke Decorte x3, Ryan Diemert Assists: Mason Buehler, Noah Rawlinson

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Assists: Maddy Savage, Carly Bauman Feb. 11 vs. Waterloo Woolwich: 2 Assists: 0 Goals: Amy Dueck, Carly Bauman Assists: Haylee Clemmer, Carly Bauman

PeeWee: LL Feb. 16 vs. Grand River Woolwich: 4 Grand River: 3 Goals: Jenna Duimering (x4) Assists: Maddie Waters (x3), Abby Hanley (x3) Feb. 17 vs. Waterloo Woolwich: 0

Waterloo: 2

Novice: LL# 7108 Feb. 17 vs. Waterloo Woolwich: 5 Waterloo: 0 Goals: Madison Martin Ayla Brubacher Paige Woods McKena McLaughlin x2 Assists: Ayla Brubacher, Kayla Shantz, Madison Martin, Emily Sargent, Avery Leech, Taya Diefenbacher, Kyla Bloch Shutout: Sophia Hanley

Novice: C Feb. 10 vs. Waterloo Woolwich: 1 Waterloo: 2 Goals: Amy Dueck

Atom: B Feb. 16 vs. Cambridge Woolwich: 4 Cambridge: 1 Goals: Ali, Sydney, Alana, Delaney Assists: Mya, Cassidy, Lauren, Sydney Feb. 18 vs. Wilmot Woolwich: 1 Wilmot: 0 Goals: Delaney Assists: Julia

Bantam: BB Feb. 13 vs. Ayr Woolwich: 2

Ayr: 1 Goals: Rachel Weber, Brooke Mulder Assists: Sydney Meunier, Megan Chapman, Meghan Martin, Emily Willms

Midget: B Feb. 12 vs. Norfolk Woolwich: 2 Norfolk: 0 Goals: Claire Hanley, Gillian Olsthoorn Shutout: Lauren Lesage

Midget: B Feb. 16 vs. Norfolk Woolwich: 3 Norfolk: 0 Goals: Rebecca Luis, Sarah Church, Cora Kieswetter Shutout: Lauren LeSage Feb. 18 vs. Twin Centre Woolwich: 1 Twin Centre: 2 Goals: Claire Hanley Assists: Gillian Olsthoorn

TWIN CENTRE HERICANES

U12 Feb. 6 vs. Mitchell Woolwich: 7 Mitchell: 2 Goals: Madelyn Camm, Ava Henderson x2, Madison Waters x3, Alice Wang Assists: Mackenzie Beisel x2, Madelyn Camm, Ashley Brubacher, Ava Henderson, Rosie Martin x3, Maison Waters, Alice Wang x2, Abby Murr x2, Brianna Jacobi Feb. 9 vs. Dorchester Woolwich: 2 Dorchester: 4 Goals: Madelyn Camm, Ava Henderson Assists: Madelyn Camm, Sarah, Abby Murr, Ava Henderson Feb. 14 vs. St. Marys Woolwich: 4 St.Marys: 2 Goals: Madelyn Camm, Ava Henderson, Madison Waters Assists: Ava Henderson x2, Erica Beuhler Feb. 17 vs. Mitchell Woolwich: 10

Mitchell: 9 Goals: Madison Waters x2, Madelyn Camm x3, Rosie Martin x2, Ava Henderson x2, Mackenzie Beisel Assists: Ava Henderson x2, Abby Murr, Alice Wang x2, Mackenzie Beisel, Madelyn Camm x2

Intermediate: LL Feb. 17 vs. Waterloo Twin Centre: 2

Waterloo: 2 Goals: Janessa Heywood, Sarah

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Elmira’s Steven Jakiela landed the first goal at 15:37 (with assists by Matt Schieck and Adam Brubacher), but Listowel countered with six seconds left to go, and then scored four goals in period two.

Zac Coulter scored Elmira’s only goal of the second at 6:35 (assists from Schieck and Dauda), and then scored again at 7:41 in the third period, but one more goal from Listowel pushed the score to 6-3.

“With Listowel, I thought

we were very good with them, very competitive,” said DeSilva. “We certainly have to get better at staying out of the penalty box, because five-on-five, we can be a very good hockey team. It’s tough taking the penalties that we’re taking,

and if you put players in situations where they’re going up against more experienced players, it’s tough for them, and they’re going to take some of those hooking and holding penalties.”

The Kings are set to play two more games before the

playoffs, where DeSilva hopes the hard knocks will lead to tough play. “We’ve got a very young team,” said DeSilva. “We’ve got a lot of rookies that are now in situations where they’re going against the top players in other teams. Ideally,

it’s going to help us down the road.”

The Kings are on the road tonight (Saturday) to face the Cambridge Winter Hawks before returning to home ice on Sunday to play the Kitchener Dutchmen.

The puck drops at 7 p.m.

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Working past retirement age likely to be more common

New study shows fewer of us expect to retire by age 66, and many of us worry about our savings WILL SLOAN If you’re someone who gazes out the window of your place of employment, dreaming of spending your autumn years never far from the cottage, a new survey from Sun Life Financial might just prove to be a rude awakening. In a study released on Wednesday, the number of Canadians who expect to retire by age 66 has declined by nearly 50 per cent since 2008. With changing lifestyles and an uncertain economy, more and more of Canada’s seniors have been eschewing the ceremonial gold watch and retirement cake.

“People are working now for a couple of reasons,” said William McBay, financial planner at Kitchener’s Sun Life Financial. “They haven’t planned enough and they’ve lost a ton of money; and they’re realizing that working for 40 years and just stopping probably isn’t very healthy either.”

McBay, who has worked as a financial planner for 15 years, has seen considerable change in clients’ retirement strategies during his tenure.

“When I first started, I rarely had clients suggest that they would have an income during retirement.

And I would say that at least 50 per cent of people I deal with now talk about it – from consulting, or selling some crafts on the

weekend, or doing some fence-building for a few years, just something to keep them busy so they don’t go from work, work, work to Oprah.”

The statistics in Sun Life’s study are dramatic and revelatory. While 37 per cent of respondents desire to work past 66, a full 63 per cent said they expected to whether they liked it or not.

Some 38 per cent of those who plan to retire in the next 20 years believe they may outlive their savings, while 31 per cent believe they will not have enough money for all medical expenses.

And, consider this: only 23 per cent of Canadians say that saving for retirement was their top priority, with that number falling to 12 per cent among Gen X-ers. Compare that to the nearly half of Canadians whose top priority is paying off debts and credit card charges.

The Sun Life report attributes many of its changing statistics to the financial collapse of 2008, which continues to send shockwaves even in this period of recovery. Still, McBay said that during the crisis and its aftermath, Waterloo Region has been relatively lucky.

“Even in the last couple of years, we have had just the tail end of what other regions saw in 2008 and all of 2009,” said McBay. “With some of our companies –

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Sun Life financial planner William McBay has seen a dramatic increase in the number of his clients who are working in their autumn years.

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with the RIM layoffs, and some of our employers saying, ‘Whoa, we gotta look at things’ – that took a couple of years to sink into us. By that point, a lot of people had said, ‘I think I’m going to make some changes,’ and even then we weren’t af-

fected as much.”

But whether inside Waterloo Region or out, the collapse undoubtedly changed the way retirement savings are accumulated. Today, McBay finds himself frequently dealing with misconceptions from

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The local food movement’s growing influence on all aspects of the agrifood sector hit me earlier this month, when I heard the managing director for a multi-national animal nutrition company tell farmers to develop their own brand and make their presence known locally.

To companies, the brand is everything – their integrity, their profile and their distinction, all rolled into one. It’s methodically developed and guarded with the utmost care ... or should be, anyway.

But it’s only been within the past few years that farmers have started branding themselves, and it’s mainly thanks to the local food movement.

It’s made food more than something that comes from the grocery store, and drawn the public’s attention to farmers’ role in the food chain and their presence among us.

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al North American lecture tour in Waterloo earlier this month, the first of 22 stops they’ll make on the continent through March 1.

First, the company acknowledged the magnitude of the chore that has actually always fallen at the feet of agriculture, but keeps expanding as the population grows.

“We are faced with a daunting task of feeding 7.6 billion people by 2020,” said Ty Yeast, Alltech Canada managing director.

Then he added the clincher. “The only way we are going to achieve success,” he said, “is if we remain curious, embrace new technologies and brand ourselves among this grow-

ing population.”

Curiosity and technology are naturals for Alltech. After all, the company is built on research, whose very foundation is curiosity, and the support of which creates new technology.

Alltech has long sponsored groundbreaking feed-related research at the University of Guelph.

Among others, Alltech has helped world-renowned mycotoxin specialist Prof. Trevor Smith and his lab determine how to boost nutrition for farm and companion animals.

But telling farmers that branding themselves is essential for a unified ap-

proach to feeding the world was new to me. And I liked it.

When farmers succeed, so do their suppliers. Emily Kay, regional marketing manager for Alltech, said branding builds customer loyalty and fetches a higher price and volume for products. Identifying new products by name gives the media some specifics to talk about, she says. It’s all part of telling your story.

“Stories are how people connect,” she says.

“They’re what people remember, learn and share.

Are we telling our stories?”

Some people are, that’s for sure. The buzz around a Dodge Ram ad dubbed “God Made A Farmer” that

ran in the U.S. during the Superbowl has more than captured the public’s imagination. In fact, it’s reached an incredible 18 million views, and led to a $1 million donation to the Future Farmers of America there.

Initiatives such as this open the door for farmers to further connect with the public. By branding, people can put a name to a face and a farm name to a farm product, even if they don’t buy it directly from the farm. Successful farmers are good customers, good neighbours and good for the economy.

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Mercedes Corp., which in 2009 tabled a plan to build 14 townhomes at lots on 10 Front St. and 1441 King

St. N., changed the project to a design that features ground-floor flats with twostorey lofts above.

Meeting Tuesday night, Woolwich councillors approved Official Plan and zoning changes to permit the project to go ahead, redesignating part of the land

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more risk,’” said McBay. “I said, ‘Change websites and newsfeeds, because I don’t know what you’re reading.’

“The old way of investing – buy equities and hold them for a long period of time and they will outperform income-based investments – that’s gone the way of the do-do bird … The new theory, and it was really carved in 2008, is buy an income-producing asset that pays you regularly to hold, whether the value goes up or down. You’re being paid to wait, and sometimes you wait a little bit or long, but you’re getting paid.”

McBay added that one challenge facing retirees is maintaining a standard of living. At the start of his career, he saw that more were satisfied with cutting out the fat from their lives.

“Now it’s, ‘Well, I need a data plan on my Blackberry, and I need high-speed Internet because we travel’ …

I would say it’s the keep-upwith-the-Joneses theory.

‘Well, we should get a new house, because we can, or we want to.’ Or, ‘They travelled, so we should travel.’”

However, some others aren’t maintaining a lifestyle so much as setting up a new one. “When you get to 65-years-old, you’ve accumulated the largest amount of holidays you would ever have in your career, so why not use them to do things other than garden? The costs of those lifestyle choices are getting higher and higher.”

So save early and save often, because as the old song goes, “It’s later than you think.”

to the system, said senior planner Jeremy Vink.

Mercedes president Marcus Shantz said the company has been looking at ways to develop new uses for commercial spaces in St. Jacobs, expanding beyond the tourism model.

“We want to round it out and augment it – it’s a piece of the puzzle,” he said of the brownstone apartments.

“We think it will be a really unique project in the township, and even the region.”

known as The Mill property. The decision essentially converts commercial space used for bus parking into a residential area.

The township also allocated sewage capacity for the building, enough for 26 people.

Development having been on hold for a number of years due to a lack of capacity at the wastewater treatment plant, the village now has enough room for 883 people to be added

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A lotta reasons to have the blues Iconic guitarist-singer Paul James discovered ‘em early on, and he’s been adding to the experience ever since WILL SLOAN The image of the old, grizzled blues player is such a vivid cultural trope that the layman might think a lifetime of hoppin’ tracks, livin’ hard, breakin’ hearts, and solemn introspectin’ would be a prerequisite. But for Canadian blues veteran Paul James, who is performing at Elmira’s Central Tavern on February 25, the music’s power is not limited to any one age or lifestyle.

“With anything, more experiences play into the colours of the palette,” said James. “But I think when you’re young, you can certainly have the blues in a different way. … Blues is a funny thing – you can have them when your baby leaves you, and you can have them when she comes back again.

“We’re struggling somehow through our whole lives,” he continued.

“When you’re a baby, you’re struggling to be born, and walk, and talk.

You’re struggling with love and emotion when you’re young, then you’re coping with relationships and life when you get older, and I guess you have to deal with death at some point. It’s just a never-ending thing, and the blues engulfs all of that.”

He knows from firsthand experience. James first

Canadian blues veteran Paul James has been releasing his music independently since 1973, when Bo Diddley encouraged him to bypass the record companies. He plays Elmira’s Central Tavern Feb. 25.

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James discovered music at the time of the British Invasion, and became drawn to “the sexuality and the primitiveness and the raw energy of the blues” through the Rolling Stones. Poring over the band’s liner notes, he discovered the long trail of American blues masters they covered – Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Jimmy Reed, and others. “It is the cornerstone of all popular music,” he discovered.

James is now 62, and to a small circle of Canadian blues fans, he is a national treasure. He won a Juno for Best Roots and Traditional Music, received the Maples Blues Lifetime Achievement Award for blues music in 2012, and has played with many of the blues greats – Bo Diddley, Mink De Ville, Spencer Davis, Lightin’ Hopkins, and Sunnyland Slim among them. And, through it all, he has spent his career just under the radar, being “almost famous” ever since he released his first album independently in 1973.

“Now, everyone is an indie artist, but back then, if you didn’t have a record deal, it was game over,” said James. “I played with Bo Diddley early on in my career, and he said, ‘Y’know Paul, if you can’t get a deal with a record company, do it yourself.

You don’t have to get on your knees and all that.’

Though he has never received a strong publicity push, James has slowly accumulated admirers from decades of travelling across the country.

Among his fans: a certain troubadour named Bob Dylan, who has shared the stage with him about ten times. “I don’t know how it happened, because I’ve had no agent, no manager, no record company, no publicist, so I don’t have someone pushing me. But somehow I cross paths with these people and play with them.”

He has also eluded the corporate culture of the music industry, and is motivated entirely by the work.

“There has to be some kind of need to express yourself. You have to go off on your own and practice, and then once you get it down, you have this need to go out and play and express yourself.

“I’m here to make a living at doing something that I love, and I’ve been doing it for 40 years at least,” he added. “I’m very fortunate to do that, and I don’t do anything else.”

An Intimate Acoustic Evening with Paul James begins at 8 p.m. on February 25 at the Central Tavern. Tickets are $15 at the door.

Playhouse construction part of construction spree by Drayton Entertainment ELENA MAYSTRUK A little fairy dust may have worked for the fictional Peter Pan but it takes much more to hoist an actor playing the part on stage.

No one knows it better than the theatre staff at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse, who’ll be operating with a new fly tower this summer. The structure will add one and a half storeys to the building and increase flexibility on stage for actors, directors and prop masters.

The work can be seen

underway now at the Benjamin Road facility.

“It will allow all of our set pieces, props, even people, to be flown in as opposed to just being pushed in from the wings of the theatre,” Drayton Entertainment’s executive director Steven Karcher explained.

This is the last of Drayton’s theatres to be renovated, capping off a threeyear construction project to expand the company’s locations, said Alan Card, facility manager for the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse.

The tower will allow for

more technical flexibility on stage and provide greater space for directors and actors to perform. The changes will widen the number of productions open to the theatre in the future.

“We will be able to do shows that up until this point we haven’t been able to do, due to the size of the show or the technical challenges,” said Card.

Prior to construction actors and props were able to fly thanks to a complicated system of riggings and fly equipment that would take up a significant amount of

space on stage.

“With a fly tower we can take the scenery and elevate it straight up vertically,” Card explained. “We can free up a lot more stage space for the choreographer and director to use for the acting part of it, and the other thing that happens is that we can stack things up and very quickly change the scenes.”

At the playhouse often the stage is transformed from scene to scene in front of the audience’s eyes, creating an engaging effect in itself, but it does

take up time, Card said.

“With a fly tower we are able to transition from scene to scene much smoother … it actually expands the ability to do more complicated shows.”

Shows like Peter Pan, done previously at the playhouse, will have an easier time with the new tower as the structure will already have pre-installed flying equipment in place instead of staff having to install a framework to support the actors and props.

Construction on the tower began last month and

will be completed for the first summer production of Monty Python’s Spamalot on July 17.

The Playhouse renovations will cap off Drayton’s construction spree, which saw the building of the Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge, the addition of new theatres to various Drayton locations and extensive stage and seating reconstructions and renovations.

“The final part of the project will be to put the fly tower onto the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse – it’s been a longterm plan,” Card said.

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We are now accepting applications to fill the following position: Part time DZ truck driver Reqiurements: -Valid AZ/DZ license -Forklift training and previous experience in agriculture are definite assets The successful candidates must be able to function well in a team setting and be motivated to provide exceptional customer service in this agriculture business.

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Afternoon & Night Shift Positions Responsible to the Shift Foreman for helping to maintain service levels to Home Hardware Dealers, you will contribute to the smooth flow of merchandise through the Distribution Centre by picking and packing, while complying with all health and safety regulations.

You pay excellent attention to detail, have strong reading, writing and number skills, and are able to perform strenuous physical activities, including walking, standing, bending and lifting. A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred.

We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Material Handlers #967, by Monday, March 4, 2013 to: Human Resources Department, Home Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry St. W., St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 E-mail: hr@homehardware.ca Fax: 519-664-4711 (Microsoft Products Only)

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RETAIL OPPORTUNITY PARTtime! We are looking for a self motivated, energetic and responsible individual to be a part of the newest retail establishment coming to ELMIRA! This person should have strong customer service skills, be available to work evening and weekend shifts, a mature student with previous retail experience is an asset.

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SKILLED SELF STARTING employees needed immediately for multiple tasks, agriculture based business.

Will train. Call 519-272-5348 to set up an interview.

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Bridgeport/Hartford Milling Machine Shop Equip => 2- Metal Band cutoff Saws * 2 Abr. Cutoff Saws Canox/Miller AC Welders (1ph) * 4 – Powcon Mig Feeders 5 Ridgid 535/400/300 Power Vises * Impacts * Hd Drill Bits Van Shelving * Wrenches * Axes & Mauls * Taping Heads Office & Misc => Show Display Units * Desks * Chairs Credenzas * 4- Aprt. Pianos * Pastry Shell Press * AV Carts Contents of 20’ Seacan Storage unit (Household ???)

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HELP WANTED WE ARE SEEKING a qualified individual for a full time position in our administration group, responsible for A/R and A/P, payroll as well as other administrative functions. Preference will be given to candidates with experience and knowledge of QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office. If you are a detail oriented person with experience with the above please send your resume to dgerber@flashfreight.ca

CHILD CARE MARCH BREAK MUSIC Camp, Mon - Thur, piano and guitar lessons, crafts, games, lunch provided. Conestogo, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Call 226-750-6265.

CHILD CARE HOME DAYCARE. FULL and Part-time spaces. Nutritious meals, snacks, activities. 13 years experience. Call Becky at 519-669-0856.

FOR SALE FIREPLACE CHERRY WOOD. Height 47” width 56” depth 16”. Excellent condition. $100.00 o.b.o. Phone 519669-8428 after 5 p.m.

HILLCREST HOME BAKING Spring Sale Feb. 14 Mar. 2.

Selected fabrics buy one meter get one free. Grocery specials. 519-669-1381.

QUILTED HEIRLOOMS FEBRUARY Sale - 15% fabric, patterns and notions. 10% off food and books. Thurs. & Sat. 8-4. St. Jacobs Farmers Market 519-884-2938.

AUCTIONS FARM TOY AUCTION Of Tractors & implements (including custom & scratch built pieces), farm memorabilia & literature, plus many other interesting items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley or 2 miles north of Philipsburg, for Gerry and Mary Maier, on Saturday, March 2nd @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

AUCTION SALE OF Charolais & Limo cross steers, feed, machinery, and miscellaneous items, to be held at 6516 Sideroad 17, Mapleton Twp. bordering Glen Allan (Highway 86, north on Sideroad 17), for Amsey & Erla Brubacher, on Friday, March 8th @ 9:30 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

RENTALS MOOREFIELD - ONE bedroom apartment, furnished, laundry facilities, deck, electric, heat, cable TV, no pets, adult building. References. $695.00 inclusive. First and last. 519-638-3013.

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GARAGE SALES INDOOR GARAGE SALE Woolwich Memorial Centre. Sat. April 13, 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTER Hopewell Creek Extension of Services Class EA Thursday February 28, 2013 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Drive, Breslau The Township of Woolwich is initiating a study to identify the preferred route for the extension of municipal water and sanitary services across Hopewell Creek to service lands on the east side of the creek in the Breslau settlement area. The timing to extend services and the ultimate land use of the study area will be determined as part of the Breslau Secondary Plan process that was initiated in 2012.

This study will be conducted in accordance with the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) Process. An integral component of this study will be public consultation with various interested stakeholders (both public and agencies). One Public Open House will be held to present the project details and to collect community feedback and input before finalizing the preferred strategy.

Staff from both the Township and Stantec will be available at the Public Open House to provide information related to the project and address any questions or concerns that you may have. Display boards of the Class EA information along with information packages and comment forms will be available for your review and comment.

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NOTICE OF PLANNING AND WORKS PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO SIGN BY-LAW COMMITTEE MEETING

The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unofficial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house signs and poster signs.

The proposed Sign By-law establishes requirements for unofficial signs including:

HUTCHISON ROAD AND WILLIAM HASTINGS LINE RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENTS VILLAGE OF CROSSHILL, TOWNSHIP OF WELLESLEY

• Location and placement;

The• Regional Planning and Works Committee will consider endorsing the Recommended Size, shape, construction and content; Design Concept improvements Hutchison • Impacts tofor the function ofon the road; Road and William Hastings Line in the Village of Crosshill consisting the following: • Number of signs and of timing of placement; and Replacement of the existing two lane pavement structure on Hutchison Road and •• Sign removal.

William Hastings Line; Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services • Construction of semi-mountable concrete curb and gutter on each side of Hutchison Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities.

Road and William Hastings Line; When: Tuesday, June 2008,curve dropatinthe 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

• Improvements to the17, roadway intersection of Hutchison Road and WilPlace:liamRegional Administration Headquarters Hastings Line to provide for better passage of(lobby) large trucks around the corner; 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener • Construction of new 1.50 metre wide sidewalk on the west side of Hutchison Road from Lobsinger Line to William Hastings and on each side of William Hastings This public information centre is being held forRoad the purpose of providing information and receiving from the public.

A copy of the350 draft By-law is available for review in Linecomments from Hutchison Road to approximately metres westerly; the•Clerk’s Office, Region Waterloo, 2nd floor,on-road 150 Frederick or onside the Construction of 1.50ofmetre wide reserved cycling /Street, buggyKitchener lanes on each Region’s website at:Road and William Hastings Line within the project limits; of Hutchison • Removalwww.region.waterloo.on.ca of on-street parking on each side- of Hutchison Road tab and William Hastings tab Newsroom, Public Notices Line within the project limits and construction of a 35m long parallel parking area If you havenorth questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, on the side of Hutchison Road; Manager, Transportation Engineering 519-575-4520 or Hastings by email • Installation of a new storm sewer system onatHutchison Road and William Line; andat bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca • Street lighting upgrades (as required) on Hutchison Road and William Hastings Line project limits If you within requirethe accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above noted person by Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the person indicated above.

Nancy Button Manager, Transportation Engineering Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 7th Floor Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3

TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 the Council of the Township of Woolwich will hold a public meeting pursuant to Section 12 of the Development Charges Act, 1997, to present and obtain public input on a proposed amendment to the Township’s Development Charges By-law.

The purpose of the proposed amendment is to provide a development charge credit for a period of 48 months for the commercial property at 19 Church Street East in Elmira.

All interested parties are invited to attend the Public Meeting of Council and any person who attends the meeting may make representations relating to the proposed by-law amendment and background study. The meeting is to be held: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, Township Administration Building 24 Church Street West | P.O. Box 158, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 2Z6 In order that sufficient information is made available to the public, copies of the proposed by-law and the background study are being made available as of March 1, 2013 from the Engineering and Planning Services Department at the above location (519-669-6040).

Interested persons may express their concerns at the Public Meeting or in writing, addressed to the Township Clerk, at the above address prior to March 14, 2013.

Woolwich Family Day Thanks our generous sponsors: Baden Coffee • RBC Pumps Plus Woolwich Community Lions Your Neighbourhood Credit Union

Over 1500 people enjoyed Family Day at the WMC!

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC) Meeting will be held Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers 24 Church Street West, Elmira

Details of the Planning and Works Committee meeting are as follows: Date: Time: Location:

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:00 a.m. (time approximate) Regional Council Chambers, 150 Frederick St., Kitchener Members of the public who have an interest in the project are invited to attend this meeting to express their view on the Recommended Design Alternative. If you wish to speak at this meeting, please register with the Region’s Council and Administrative Services Division at 519-575-4420.

All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision.

Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to Frank Kosa.

Accessibility: This event is accessible for people with disabilities. Accessible parking is available. If you require assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, or to access information in alternate formats, please contact Frank Kosa prior to the meeting.

Please direct questions about this study to: Frank Kosa, P. Eng., Senior Project Manager Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 6th Floor, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3 Phone: 519-575-4757, ext. 3185 Email: fkosa@regionofwaterloo.ca

Written comments may be submitted to: Kris Fletcher Regional Clerk Region of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor Kitchener, ON N2G 4J3 Fax: 519-575-4481 E-mail: regionalclerk@region.waterloo.on.ca

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Elmira - Don't miss this modern home featuring warm, neutral décor throughout and rich ceramic tile. Bright living room, open to dinette with slider to spacious fenced yard. Finished basement could be used for rec room or very large bedroom just off the fabulous 4 piece bathroom complete with corner tub.

Appliances included. MLS 1312112 Call Alli or Paul direct

Elmira - Century home boasting original woodwork and hardwood throughout, 9ft ceilings, and pocket doors. spacious main bath and bedrooms with bonus room off master. Fully finished attic with skylights and gas fireplace. Within walking distance to all amenities. Detached workshop. MLS 1241191 Call Alli or Paul direct.

OPEN HOUSE

NEW PRICE

Paul Martin

VERDONE MODEL HOME!

Sat. Feb. 23 | 2-4pm.

38 Oakcliffe, Elmira

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

CALL CALL DIRECT DIRECT

519-503-9533 www.homeswithpaul.ca

OPEN CONCEPT

$495,900

$404,900 - 3 bdrms, Elmira - Bright 2045 sqft Open Concept Home built in 2007. LgElmira bright foyer, 3 baths, lg living rm, upper floor family room with gas fireplace and vaulted ceiling.

Convenient mudroom just off garage and main floor laundry. Ceramic tile throughout foyer, hall, Eat-in kitchen and all bathrooms. Master bedroom, walk-in closet & elegant ensuite. Large 20x21ft double garage. Fenced yard. Appliances included. MLS 1311866 Call Alli or Paul direct.

Alli Bauman

Elmira - Attractive upgrades and finishing touches throughout this 4-bedroom home.

Convenience at its best with main floor laundry/mudroom, walk-in pantry and completely finished basement with gas fireplace. 9ft ceilings throughout main floor.

Bright eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, cupboards to the ceiling and island.

Large livingroom with wood floors, gas fireplace and French door walk-out to yard.

MLS 1312001 Call Alli or Paul direct.

OUTSTANDING AGENTS. OUTSTANDING RESULTS.

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

CALL CALL DIRECT DIRECT

519-577-6248

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Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage

Bill Norris

Independently Owned and Operated

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

CALL CALL DIRECT DIRECT

519-588-1348

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

www.elmiraandareahomes.com

BROKERAGE

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.

Bert Martin BROKER

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

COUNTRY LOT .5 ACRE | $73,500 Country lot .5 acre don't miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. MLS

519-669-2772

BUILD TO SUIT

4 BEDROOM HOME! | NEW PRICE $259,900 4 bed room home with a big eat in kitchen, new windows, some new floors, new detached garage, on an oversized lot, in a small town 15 minutes from Waterloo. The perfect spot for your family. MLS

45 Arthur St. S., Elmira Office:

$267,900

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 OFFICE: 519-669-5426 Broker of Record,

JULIE HECKENDORN

TRACEY WILLIAMS

Res: 519.669.1068

Res: 519.669.8629

Cell: 519.505.0627

BRAD MARTIN MVA Residential

Broker

Sales Rep.

EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

FREE Market Evaluation

ELMIRA Tastefully decorated 3 bdrm. townhouse (only attached at the OVERSIZED garage). Oak kitchen with built-in dishwasher. Ceramic on the main flr. (except L.R.) Main floor washroom. Spacious master bdrm. w/dble closet. Walkout from D.A. to deck and fenced yard with shed.

Central air. Shows well! NEW MLS.

LOG HOME!

Beautiful, private 15 acre property with trout pond, pitch & putt golf course, reforested area with a 3,250 s/f open concept home featuring a double floor to ceiling fieldstone fireplace, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, walkout basement, large deck and loft overlooking the Grand River. MLS. $899,900 Call Bert to view.

LISTOWEL Spacious 3 bdrm. semi

$189,900

in ‘move-in’ condition. Tastefully decorated. Oak kitchen w/ceramic floor, open to fam. rm. w/hdwd. floor. Washrm. on the main level.

Walkout to lge. deck.

Long driveway. Single garage. MLS.

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OPEN HOUSE

Sat. Feb. 23 | 12-4

15 Flamingo Dr. Elmira |$425,000

Backing onto school playground and beside huge and quiet parking lot. Great for a family with growing kids or older couple. Close to Catholic church and walking distance to all local schools. 3 big bdrms, 3 bthrms. Open concept design, updated with modern touches.

New kitchen with island bar, Cathedral ceilings. Finished basement., new flooring throughout. Stone touches inside including aquarium surround. Mn flr laundry, a/c, natural gas heat and 2 fire places. Enclosed yard includes sauna, hot tub, playhouse, shed, fire pit, side deck and stamped concrete patio. First open house showing Feb 23, buyer agents welcome on negotiable terms. 519-669-2896

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Broker of Record

FRAME-ABLE FEATURES

Broker

SUN. FEB. 24 | 2-4 p.m.

SUN. FEB. 24 | 2-4 p.m.

CENTURY BEAUTY!

149 Killdeer Rd., Elmira

3659 Lobsinger Line, St. Clements

GRACED THE PAGES OF THE OBSERVER? OPEN HOUSE OPEN HOUSE

BEAUTIFUL CENTURY HOME $349,900 Well maintained and updated 2 storey with

old century charm! Spacious 4 bedrooms, 3 baths including a master ensuite, bright eat-in kitchen with a walkout to patio and 220’ yard, large separate dining room offers pocket doors to living rm., main floor laundry plus unspoiled basement for future rec. room! MLS

MOVE IN READY $324,900 Newer 1625

sq.ft two storey, wonderful layout with inviting foyer, open concept main floor, ceramic flooring, maple kitchen with appliances included, walkout to deck of the living room, spacious master, cheater ensuite, unspoiled basement has extra-large windows. MLS

11 x 17, FULL COLOUR ARTICLES ON PHOTO PAPER

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW LOFT $569,900 Many exciting features throughout include

Brzilian hardwood floors, maple kitchen with stainless appliances, pantry and island/breakfast bar open to the large dining area, patio doors to tiered deck, oversized shed and fanced yard backing onto greenbelt, main floor master offers an ensuite and private walkout, impressive loft with full bathroom, walk-in closet and pretty window seat overlooking the backyard. MLS

ONLY

$35 + TAX

CONTEMPORARY STYLED HOME $649,900 Elmira Area.

3000+ sq ft home on a private lot. Natural hardwood and ceramic flooring. Walkouts to deck, patio and upper balcony. 2 sided gas fireplace in sunken living room/dining room and corner fireplace in master bedroom. Double tandem style garage with rear access and shop. MLS

EMPTY NESTERS $387,000 Conestogo.

2+ bedroom bungalow with in-law set up situated on almost ½ acre park like setting.

Uniquely designed home, original owners, 3 season sunroom overlooks beautiful landscaping with pond/bridge. Awaiting your creative touch. MLS

COUNTRY SETTING $859,000 Elmira.

45’ x44’ 3 bay shed is ideal for a car buff includes a hoist plus a shelter to hobby farm. This maturing property is bordered by farmland and the “Kissing Bridge Trail�. 4 bedrooms finished top to bottom. Wrap around porch MLS

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ELMIRA INDUSTRIAL 2.07 ACRES $2,400,000 Elmira.

4x6

21,250 sq ft 2003 building with energy efficient features. Spacious 7500 sq ft 2 storey offices plus 3500 sq ft finished basement. All floors are infloor heat.

Warehouse offers 13,750 sq ft, 18’ ceiling height, loading docks and drive-in docks.

Lease option available. MLS

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TIRE

WHERE TIRES

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AFTER HOURS

519-669-3232

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ARE A

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

RUDOW’S CARSTAR COLLISION CENTRE

AUTO CLINIC 21 Industrial Dr. Elmira

24 Hour Accident Assistance Accredited Test & Repair Facility

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519.669.8917

Quality Collision Service

1-800-CARSTAR 519-669-3373

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BODY MAINTENANCE AT:

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STORE HOURS: M-F: 8-8, SAT 8-6, SUN 12-5

24 Hour Service (Emergencies only) 7 Days A Week

GENERAL SERVICES

CUSTOM MACHINING CNC LATHES • CNC MILLS CNC BRAKE • PLASMA & LASER CUTTING

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES

BAUMAN PIANO

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In Home Consultations

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GENERAL SERVICES

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OBSERVER SERVICE DIRECTORY HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

AMOS

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WINDOWS & DOORS

Residential & Agricultural • Barns / Shops • Decks & Railings • Poured Concrete • Driveways & Sidewalks • Siding, Fascials, Soffits • Interior Renovations Call Lawrence Metzger (226) 789-7301

HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES

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BACKHOE SERVICES

FOR RENT

•Tamper (Jumping Jack) •Power Drain Cleaner (Electric Snake)

Call Clare at 519-669-1752

COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

• Lawn Mowing Packages • Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping • Top Dressing/Overseeding • Mulch Delivery & Installation • Commercial & Residential Full Flower Bed Maintenance • Snow Plowing & Ice Control • Tractor Snowblowing

Call Jeff Basler, Owner/Operator, today 519.669.9081 mobile: 519.505.0985 fax: 519.669.9819 | ever-green@sympatico.ca

Outdoor

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OUTDOOR SERVICES

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OUTDOOR SERVICES

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FARMING SERVICES

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Call Murray Schlueter (519) 656-2731 Cell (519) 897-8776 E-mail: bluebird@cyg.net 29 Welwood Ave. Wellesley, ON

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OBSERVER FAMILY ALBUM BIRTHDAY

BIRTHDAY

IN MEMORIAM

OBITUARY

Happy Sweet 16th Birthday Justine!

Happy 90th Birthday Aunt Salome Reist

Patricia Irvine

Code, Ruth (Bauman-Wight) (nee Willmot)

February 25, 2012

February 28, 2013

In the world we shall not find A heart so loving and so kind So soft a voice, so sweet a smile An inspiration so worthwhile You left us precious memories Your love is still our guide.

And though we cannot see you You are always at our side You always were ready to drive. Now finally you can! (well, maybe) Love, Mom, Dad, Brooklyn, and Jackson

The Loving Family of Pat From your Nieces & Nephews.

Jean, Grace, David & Merle

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Code, Ruth (Bauman-Wight)(nee Willmot), passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord at home on Monday, February 18, 2013, surrounded by her family in her 69th year.

Cherished wife of Melvin Code. Predeceased by two beloved husbands, Willis Bauman (1994) and Charles Wight (2004) and parents Mancel and Alice Willmot.

Dearly missed by daughters Amy Beth Brubacher, husband Colin and their daughters Zoe and Stella, and Shelley Anne Shantz, husband Aaron and their son Griffen.

Also dearly missed by stepdaughter Shelly Kearns, husband Glen and their daughters Allison and Emma, stepson Jeff Wight and his daughter Amber, and stepson Stephen Code, wife Barbara and their children Sarah and Blake Hagedorn, Laura Code and Matthew Code.

Lovingly remembered by her sisters Linda and John Miller, Mary and Paul Pilkington, Dorothy and Herman Meyer and stepmother Esther Willmot.

Also fondly remembered by the extended Willmot and Bauman families.

Ruth’s life goal was to know Jesus Christ and to make Him known to others.

Saturday February 23, 2013 Lion’s Hall Elmira ON. 8pm to 1:00am Dancing, food, games, prizes, lots of fun. $10 a ticket

Saturday March 2, 2013 Lion’s Hall, 40 South St. W., Elmira. Doors open at 8pm.

Prize table & midnight buffet. $10 a ticket

Lion’s Hall, March 9th, 8:00p.m. Please join us for Raffles, Games, Midnight Buffet and FUN!! Tickets available from the bridal party or at the door.

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Schmidt: Dr. Norman Philip D.V.M

Nicholas Smith & Sabrina Friend

March 9th, 2013 at 7:00p.m.

Conestoga Place 110 Manitou Dr, Kitchener Tickets $10.00 at the door

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Passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at the age of 97; leaving to mourn son Robert (Carol), grandchildren Mike (April) Schmidt, Jen Schmidt, Morgan Beare, Andy (Joanne) Schmidt, Steve (Anabelle) Schmidt, great-grandchildren; Brodie, Keelin, Jordan, Josh, Hailey, Calvin and Thomas; nieces Katherine (Ken) Girling, Margaret (George) Strack, Nancy (Bill) Gillespie; nephews Carl (Charlotte) Mueller, Doug (Erlma) Schaus, Norman (Ella) Freund, Terry (Lynn) Heppler and Philip Steinke. Predeceased by his wife of 66 years, Wilhelmine (nee Steinke), his father, Henry in 1920, his mother Katherine (nee Soehner) in 1949, his sister Lorina and her husband Fred Mueller in 1979.

Norman was employed for 40 years by Agriculture Canada and has been retired for 32 years. He was interested in curling, lawn bowling and fishing. Norman was a member of the Retired Business and Professional Men’s Club and was a devoted and supportive member of Reformation Lutheran Church.

He was a quiet leader at Reformation serving in many roles. Recently, Norman was a member of the St. Peter’s T.V ministry congregation. Norman and Wilhelmine shared a love of their cottage and life in Red Bay. They also enjoyed numerous trips to Europe and getaways to Florida in winter during their retirement years. Norman was a well-loved resident in recent years at Winston Park Retirement Residence, Kitchener. Our family wishes to thank the caring staff at Winston Park Retirement Residence for their compassionate care of our Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather throughout his time as a resident at Winston Park. We recently enjoyed celebrating Norman’s 97th birthday party in Winston Park’s beautiful library. Our family would also like to thank the nursing staff and doctors in Emergency and on floors 5A and 6C for their excellent care during Norman’s last days at Grand River Hospital. The Schmidt family will receive relatives and friends from 2-5 pm on Sunday at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener, 519-749-8467. Funeral Service at Reformation Lutheran Church, 456 Krug St, on Monday February 25, 2013 at 11:00 a.m, Rev. Neil Thomsen officiating. Interment St. Peter’s Lutheran Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to Reformation Lutheran Church, Winston Park Foundation or Waterloo Lutheran Seminary would be appreciated (cards available at the funeral home).Visit www.henrywalser.com for Dr. Norman Schmidt’s memorial.

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After serving as a teacher-librarian with the Waterloo County Board for several years, Ruth devoted herself to speaking ministry for thirty years under the name of Ruth Rebecca Ministries. During this time she traveled across Canada speaking at women’s events, was involved with the organization Women Alive and produced a DVD seminar series call The Vibrant Woman.

Visitation will take place on Friday, February 22nd and Saturday, February 23rd from 3-5 and 7-9 pm at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St., Kitchener, 519-749-8467. Visitation will also take place from 1-1:45 pm on Sunday at Benton Street Baptist Church.

A celebration of Ruth’s life will take place at 2 pm on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 at Benton St. Baptist Church, 90 Benton Street Church, Kitchener.

A private family interment will take place on Monday, February 25th.

Donations in Ruth’s name can be made to Pioneer Missions and Faith Orphanage Foundation (cards available at the funeral home). Visit online for Ruth’s memorial.

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COMMUNITY SPIRIT / A FESTIVE TIME

Keeping the tradition alive With the countdown on to this year’s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival, Ken Jessop is enjoying his time at the helm, having been first introduced to the event as a child attending with his grandparents ELENA MAYSTRUK As a kid Ken Jessop remembers the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival as one long line. Even back then the festival attracted people from far and wide who came to sample the very Canadian sweet stuff and celebrate a community.

“The festival is running for 49 years now; I didn’t get to the first one, I can tell you that,” laughs this year’s festival chairperson.

“I remember my grandparents taking me into the festival and I remember lining up to get into town.

I remember trying to get a pancake at the time and not getting one because there’s such a lineup. It just seemed a little bit more quaint back then.”

Though it is his first year as chair, after nine years with the festival in various roles, Jessop is no stranger to the event or the tireless efforts of a volunteer-oriented community.

A native of Kitchener, Jessop visited the township frequently but when he moved to town with his family in 2004 he quickly caught the volunteer fever that runs high in many rural communities.

“Being a member of a smaller community I felt that volunteering in the community would be a great idea,” he explained.

Starting from humble beginnings, as organizer of the annual pancake-flipping event, Jessop worked his way up to a facilities position and eventually

vice-chair before becoming chairperson of this year’s event, scheduled for April 6. Through his time with the festival he’s had an opportunity to directly participate in the gargantuan process of putting together the largest oneday maple syrup festival.

“As a kid I knew it was quite a large event, but I think as part of the committee and volunteering you really realize how much work it is to put it together and actually how many people we do attract,” he said.

Jessop said the last weeks leading up to the festival is when the pressure really adds up. As for the string of successes, well, he chalks that up to teamwork and an army of dedicated volunteers and the “hundreds of hours of volunteering that these people put in just to put on the event.”

A member of the Waterloo Regional Police Service for 22 years, Jessop is no stranger to serving the community, but it’s through the festival that he has been able to connect with a smaller, tightknit community in Elmira and Woolwich Township, he said.

Organizing the festival is a good outlet for Jessop for whom the year-round effort is made even more worthwhile with the opportunity to be near his family and especially his two kids, now 14 and 12, who volunteer with the FESTIVAL | 27

Homemade granola a great way to start eating clean RECIPE NOTES

This year’s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival chairperson Ken Jessop is gearing up for a busy few weeks before the big day, set for Apr. 6.

Eating clean – have you heard of it? It seems to be all the rage these days, which is a great thing. Eating clean is a very easy concept: you make all your food from scratch instead of buying food that is stuffed full of preservatives.

Seems easy enough, right? Well, for some people this may already be a way of life, but for most people it isn’t. My partner and I challenged ourselves to eat clean for a whole month – and it was a great experience. It has actually got us back into making home-cooked recipes instead of always grabbing food on the go. Now that we got back into the groove of making stuff from scratch, it’s really easy to keep going with it.

One of the things that we really enjoyed making was homemade granola. These recipes are packed full of awesome ingredients and are my personal favourites.

However, the best thing about this recipe is you can be creative with it. I have included the recipe for plain unsweetened granola, which is what I use as a base for the final product.

You can ‘cheat’ by picking

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THE RENAISSANCE SINGERS PRESENT “Tango Encore” at 8 p.m. in the Rotunda of Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St. E. Back by popular demand, the choir presents an evening inspired by the great dance music of Latin America. Tango dancers, a Latin instrumental ensemble, and smouldering choral numbers make this a not-to-be missed event. The evening also features a silent auction, and great snacks. For tickets call 519-745-0675.

PARADISE LIONS CLUB BINGO, 7 p.m. Upstairs at the St. Clements Community Centre.

COMMUNITY SPRING FLING DANCE 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. at Alma Community Centre. Music by AJ the DJ. Tickets $10 each at the door. Hosted by the Alma Optimist Club.

VISIT THE WTHHS HISTORICAL Room at the Old School, 1137 Henry Street, Wellesley, on Saturday, February 23, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and enjoy displays and interesting historical facts about Wellesley Township.

The Historical Room is open on the last Saturday of every month except in December. Free Admission.

FEBRUARY 25 NEEDLE SISTERS QUILTERS GUILD meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Monday of the month at Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W., Elmira. Guests welcome $5.

For more information call 519-669-3244.

SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Woolwich Memorial Centre, 24 Snyder Ave S., Elmira (community room). Join us for a noon day light lunch and fellowship. Cost $6. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 by Feb. 21 for more information.

ELMIRA & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL Society Bus trip to Canada Blooms & the National Home Show. March 21. Bus leaves Elmira 8 a.m., returning at 6:30 p.m. For more information call Reta at 519-669-5330.

UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH Menopause – A two-week series will present the physical and emotional aspects of menopause (week 1), as well as offering naturopathic alternatives and physical activity suggestions (week 2) to alleviate symptoms and help you to understand and cope with the changes you are experiencing. February 26 and March 5, 7-8:30 p.m. at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Please call 519-664-3794.

FEBRUARY 28 ELMIRA LIONS CLUB WEEKLY Bingo 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira.

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6:30 p.m., Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr. Contact Michelle Buckner at 519-772-1016 or mbuckner@kdchc.org for more information.

MARCH 1 WORLD DAY OF PRAYER services for Elmira and St Jacobs will be held at Elmira Mennonite Church at 7:30 p.m. The guest speakers are Nelson and Teresa Larrota.

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

Robbing a bank more likely to be a path to jail rather than a road to riches

Q. Is bank robbing worth the risk involved?

A. Such a question has ac-

tually been studied by economists Neil Rickman and Robert Witt of the University of Surrey and Barry Reilly of the University of Sussex for the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society, reports Dave Mosher in Scientific American magazine.

After reviewing confidential records of 364 bank heists in the United Kingdom from 2005-2008, researchers concluded that

criminalsâ&#x20AC;? who plan much better in advance, and Rickman acknowledged that he lacked sufficient data to rule this out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new report, economists say, underscores the need for more and better data on bank heists,â&#x20AC;? Mosher concludes.

Q. You know about synonyms, antonyms and homonyms but how about â&#x20AC;&#x153;toponymsâ&#x20AC;?? Clue: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serendipityâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;elysianâ&#x20AC;? are examples.

A. They are words derived

from places, from Greek â&#x20AC;&#x153;topo-â&#x20AC;? (place) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;nymâ&#x20AC;? (name), answers Anu Garg in his A.Word.A.Day at Wordsmith.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serendipity,â&#x20AC;? for â&#x20AC;&#x153;making fortunate discoveries by chance,â&#x20AC;? was coined by

in a family of smokers, the authors of this column (both non-smokers) pretty much ignored second-hand smoke.

Smoking bans in restaurants and workplaces struck us as an overreaction. So we were intrigued by a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine that compared heart attack rates in Olmstead County, Minnesota, for the 18 months preceding the ban with the 18 months following it. This was the longest study to date measuring the effects of a non-smoking ordinance on heart health.

As reported by Nathan Seppa in Science News, the heart attack rate dropped a remarkable 33%, from 151 to

ments from banning smoking in public places

101 per 100,000! No doubt the ban reduced secondhand exposure but likely also reduced the amount of smoking, making it unclear which factor was more important.

But as internist Pamela Ling of the University of California, San Francisco, summed it up: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Initially when these ordinances were passed, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anyone expected such a rapid cardiovascular effect. But the evidence now -- particularly linking smoke-free policies and real medical outcomes -seems really quite strong.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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actually measurable or are they just a lot of wishful thinking?

novelist Horace Walpole based on the fairy tale, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Three Princes of Serendip,â&#x20AC;? where the trio made happy but unexpected discoveries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elysianâ&#x20AC;? comes from Elysium (or the Elysian Fields) in Greek mythology, considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;the final resting place of the souls of heroes and the virtuous.â&#x20AC;? So â&#x20AC;&#x153;elysianâ&#x20AC;? refers to something blissful and delightful.

About.com adds the following toponyms: â&#x20AC;&#x153;duffel bagâ&#x20AC;? (from Duffel, Belgium), â&#x20AC;&#x153;sardinesâ&#x20AC;? (the island of Sardinia), â&#x20AC;&#x153;tuxedoâ&#x20AC;? (Tuxedo Park, New York) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;bikiniâ&#x20AC;? (an atoll in the Pacific where the atomic and hydrogen bombs were tested).

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ACROSS 1. Eyes, poetically 5. Metric unit of weight 11. Cupidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boss 16. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cool!â&#x20AC;?

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the bars of a jail cell are more likely to follow than mountains of riches: Cumulative statistics showed that the average British bank robbery was committed by 1.6 thieves and netted only $31,900 per heist, or some $19,900 per robber. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roughly equivalent to a coffee shop baristaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual salary.â&#x20AC;?

In fact, about 33% of British bank heists ended up with no money taken and 20% ended in capture. Plus, the more robberies, the more likely capture became. On a fourth heist, for example, odds compounded to 59%. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somehow I expected most bank robbers to be doing much better than the data showed,â&#x20AC;? Rickman said.

Critics countered that the profitable loot is largely raked in by â&#x20AC;&#x153;professional

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up some plain granola if you’re pressed for time as this can be a lengthy process. Once you have your base made up, you can start adding some of your favorite things to it.

Plain Granola 8 cups oatmeal 4 tbsp honey 2 tbsp maple syrup 1/4 cup oil 1 tbsp vanilla

Mix everything together.

Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes, then 225 degrees for 30 minutes twice. Stir in between.

Leah’s Granola 4 cups unsweetened plain granola 2 tbsp ground cinnamon 1/2 cup unsalted pumpkin seeds 1/2 cup sliced almonds 1/4 cup unsalted cashew pieces 1/4 cup dried cranberries 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut 1/4 cup unsalted pumpkin

FESTIVAL: The entire family gets involved

seeds 1/4 cup flax seeds 3/4 cup hemp seeds 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup maple syrup 1 tbsp vanilla 1/4 cup coconut oil (melted)

Preheat oven to 300F (150C). Evenly spread granola in a 9 x 13 inch (3L) glass baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes; Place coconut oil in small saucepan and heat for 1 to 2 minutes on high until melted, remove from heat and add honey and maple syrup vanilla until mixed; Add remaining ingredients to granola and mix well; Drizzle honey mixture over the granola, mixing well until evenly coated.

Spread evenly and bake mixture for another 20 to 25 minutes, stirring occasionally; Cool to room temperature before storing in an air-tight container. Makes 8 cups (2L).

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Chef Ryan Terry owns FLOW Cafe & Catering in Elmira. More information can be found at his website www.flowcatering.ca

Jessop, holding up the Mayor’s Cup awarded to the winner of the pancake-flipping contest each year, has been volunteering with the committee in various roles for nine years.

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event every year.

“My entire family is involved with the festival.

The day that I walked into the committee was the day that they started. They were just little tykes helping out with the festival.”

On that note, he added that getting youth into the tradition of the festival is essential to keep the

event alive in future years.

Though the festival has made many fresh changes in recent years, both in its execution and business plan, veteran members will have to retire at some point and the festival will always need new faces and new ideas to carry on this demanding Elmira custom.

“We want to bring new

people in but be very aware of the tradition that we have for the festival and that’s something that we want to cherish and keep in this community.

“As our slogan says: Come Taste the Tradition.

That’s basically what we are trying to achieve. At the same time we’ve got to make things a little more refreshing out there.”

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Finished in White 139,850km

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