Southpoint Sun July 17, 2013

MedQUEST returns to Leamington

By Bryan Jessop

MedQUEST has once again proven to be a valuable learning – and teaching –experience.

Three local students of Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry returned to their origins for the sixweek elective program providing the opportunity to job shadow and learn alongside physicians. The fifth week of the sixweek program allowed the three – Peter Burke of Essex, Jordon Charlebois of Windsor and Chris Goodman of Cottam – to share some of what they learned with 13 high school students who are also considering the pursuit of a medical career.

For Goodman, the program has come full circle. Several years ago, he was one of the high school students signed up to the program and has since never looked back.

“It’s really cool because they come in not knowing exactly what they want to do. We expose them to as many aspects of the profession as possible, which makes it easier for them to make a career decision,” Goodman said.

The MedQUEST program is open each year to high school students in grades 10 and 11. In Leamington, the MedQUEST Health Career Exploration Program began Monday, July 8 and wrapped up Friday, July 12 with a mock disaster situation staged in and near the Leamington Municipal Marina pavilion. During the disaster, nine students were split up into groups of First Aid, EMS and hospital staff while the other four volunteered to act as victims of a three-vehicle collision immediately east of the pavilion. The scenario was an opportunity for students to

learn about taking vitals and accessing patient history to learn about charting.

Also during the final day of the secondary school students’ learning experience were competitions including an IV race using licorice strips as arteries, a suture competition with pig feet and x-ray diagnostics. During the previous four days, the baker’s dozen of students learned about labour and delivery, communicable diseases and several other fields within the medical profession. MedQUEST is available to rural and regional high school students across Southwestern Ontario, aiming to offer realistic, hands-on exposure to an as-

sortment of health care disciplines including medicine. MedQUEST, run by the Southwestern Ontario Medical Education Network (SWOMEN), is supported in various regions by respective organizations and individuals. MedQUEST Leamington has been financially supported by the Communities for Doctors committee, a network of volunteers from Leamington, Essex and Kingsville as well as the Leamington Hospital Foundation.

Leamington District Memorial Hospital also stepped forward through involvement from all departments and medical staff members including Dr. Robert

Stapleton and RN Yvonne Champion, taking on roles as physician champion and

medical liaison, respectively.

From left to right, high school students Jaweria Batool, Rachel Nicholson and Riley Garno suture pig hoofs while fellow high school students look on. Thirteen high school students learned some of the ins and outs of the medical field guided by three Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry (Western University) students enrolled in MedQUEST. (SUN Photo)

High school students participating in this year’s MedQUEST program react to a mock traffic accident staged near the Leamington

Caldwells offer thanks to Pelee staff

By Bryan Jessop

Members of the Caldwell First Nation have offered thanks to Point Pelee National Park staff members with the area’s wildlife that will become the main beneficiaries.

On Friday, July 12, members of the local First Nation band arrived at the park’s Visitors Centre to join staff members in planting domestic species of grasses and plants. The flora was planted mostly at the Visitors Centre garden by about 20 people representing the Caldwells and Parks Canada staff.

Afterwards, the Caldwells treated park

staffers to a barbecue lunch.

“It’s a great stewardship gesture,” said public outreach and education officer of Point Pelee Jenny Kehoe. “It’s the celebration of a lot of hard work.”

The two-hour planting session on July 12 was part of the park’s five-year savannah habitat restoration project. Species planted during the most recent Caldwell visit included dense blazing star and Indian grass, two indigenous species that haven’t been seen in Point Pelee since 1904. The group also planted multiple varieties of milkweed, each plentiful sources of nectar for the park’s excess of 50 butterfly

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species.

“They’re hardy species that should do well,” said Kehoe.

The planting session at the Point wasn’t the first by the Caldwells, whose community wellness worker

CarriAnn Peters contacted Kehoe about two weeks earlier to again offer assistance with the restoration project.

During the July 12 visit, Caldwells and Parks Canada staff members also cleared invasive and excessive plant life to protect species at risk such as the Eastern prickly pear cactus.

“Just like any other garden, it needs some weeding,” said Kehoe. “We’re trimming back species like goldenrod to diversify while at the same time keeping it all natural.”

Earlier this year, Parks Canada arranged a presentation for youths at the Caldwell band office on Orange Street in Leamington, including the planting of additional plants and grasses around the building.

“These are nice opportunities to collaborate and

share what we know about plants in this area,” Kehoe noted. “I’m hoping it (the Visitor Centre project) takes as a really nice variety garden and hope that it will

serve as a reminder that the Caldwells helped restore a national park.”

The savannah restoration project at Point Pelee is now less than a year away from its completion — it is scheduled to be wrapped up on March 31 of next year. Although the VC garden is one of the smallest areas treated to native species planting and the clearing of invasive plants, it is one of the best locations to witness butter-

fly migrations.

“It sounds strange that the parking lot would be one of the best butterfly hotspots, but they like the accessibility of open areas,” Kehoe explained.

The Visitors Centre garden was created by a team of volunteers about 10 years ago and is a popular destination for butterfly species such as the gaint swallowtail, which commonly lays eggs on the nearby hoptree.

Tyler Wilson and Point Pelee National Park public outreach and education officer Jenny Kehoe plant milkweed varieties at the park’s Visitors Centre during a visit by the Caldwell First Nation Friday, July 12. The Caldwells planted grasses and plants throughout the Visitors Centre garden and organized a barbecue as a means of thanking park staff for its cooperation with past events and projects.

(SUN Photo)

Council allows unusual rezoning situations

Requests for rezoning are fairly common. Typically, when a report reaches Council the recommendation is that it be ‘deemed complete’ and scheduled for a public meeting to hear any public objections; if there are none, the rezoning is likely to be passed.

Monday evening, July 15, two such requests were presented to Leamington Council by the planner, but the recommendation attached to each was that they be deemed complete, but denied — not even go to a public meeting. To understand this unusual stance, it is important to understand the governing legislation on which such local decisions are made.

How you can use land you own is dictated by Leamington’s Zoning By-law. Its specifics are built upon general goals and principles set out in Leamington’s Official Plan. That document is a child of the County Official Plan which in turn is given direction by the Ontario Planning Act. So basically, Leamington can do only what the Provincial Plan-

ning Act permits them to do. The Planning Act contains policy statements that state the Provincial priorities, and local plans and bylaws must conform to those policy statements. One of these is relevant to the two requests recommended for rejection. The statement says (in part) “Lot Creation and Lot Adjustments 2.3.4.1. Lot creation in prime agricultural areas is discouraged and may only be permitted for:

(c) a residence surplus to a farming operation as a result of farm consolidation, provided that the planning authority ensures that new residential dwellings are prohibited on any vacant remnant parcel of farmland created by the severance. The approach used to ensure that no new residential dwellings are permitted on the remnant parcel may be recommended by the Province, or based on municipal approaches which achieve the same objective;” In addition the policy states, “The creation of new residential lots in prime agricultural areas shall not be

permitted, except in accordance with policy 2.3.4.1(c).

In the case of a farm on County Road 37, a residential lot was created back in 1997. Since then there had been some shuffling of land, but the fact remains that the lot created precludes another lot being severed from the farm for residential use. In the second case of a farm on Mersea Road 3, the proposal was to merge the farm with another, but in the process, a residential lot would be created — a lot that would have been in conflict with the second statement if there had just been an application to create it. Thus, in both cases Leamington’s Planner, Danielle Truax, had no option but to inform Council of the conflict with the Provincial policy statement and recommend refusal to consider the rezoning.

Of course every story has two sides, and this is no exception. In the case of County Road 37 the farm was sold and the purchaser

Leamington Council shorts - July 15

Draft Plan of Subdivision Extended

A three-year extension has been granted to a plan of a subdivision behind and north of the Leamington Fairgrounds. Development of the subdivision is blocked by the Ministry of the Environment insistence that sanitary sewage from the subdivision be discharged into a new, dedicated sanitary sewer whose development is still years away.

New Equipment for Fire Services

Leamington Fire Services’ existing jaws of life auto extraction equipment is being replaced. Replacement of two sets was put in the budget for this year because the existing equipment needed replacement and upgrading. Quotes for the replacements have been studied, and the low price came from Darch Fire Equipment.

Beer in the Streets

The International Hotel would like to participate in Leamington BIA’s Sidewalk sale by applying for a special liquor licence to serve beer on the sidewalk outside the hotel for the two-day event. To apply, they require a letter from Leamington Council indicating ‘no objection’ to the proposal. Seeing that the proposal was really quite modest — to serve patrons on the sidewalk outside the hotel on the afternoons of the Sidewalk Sale and then to clean up and pack away everything before the street is

BILL CHAPLIN

Municipal Correspondent

wanted only the greenhouse operation and not the house; the people living in the house wanted the house and not the farm. The only impediment to severing the house was the cap: there had been two severances in the past. Recognizing that the house is there, and what the situation is, Leamington Municipal Council decided in a split 4-to-3 vote to send the matter to a public meeting (and ignore the rule).

In the second case, the lot that would be created has not been farmed for years and is planted in trees. Moreover, it is right next to a whole row of residences on Road 3. Again, Council decided to ignore the recommendation and the rule and allow the matter to proceed to a public meeting.

Leamington cottage fire suspicious

Leamington firefighters along with Leamington OPP were called to a cottage fire on Bayview Place near Seacliff Park on Monday, July 8 at 8:13 p.m., which was later deemed to be suspicious.

The blaze was contained to the bedroom and living room area and caused roughly $35,000 in damage. OPP secured the scene and investigators from the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal attended to investigate. OPP Essex County Crime Unit is now investigating as well. No one was at home at the time of the blaze and no injuries were reported.

Police are asking anyone with information regarding this fire, to contact the Leamington OPP Crime Unit at 519-326-2544.

Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2000.

re-opened in the evening — Leamington Council voted unanimously to send the letter and see how successful the idea would be.

result in the plant having a ‘firm’ capacity to handle peak flows, preventing any backup in the sewer system during rainy weather.

More Work at the Pollution

Control

Leamington Council has voted to hire Stantec Consulting to do the engineering design work to install two more screw pumps at the Pollution Control Centre. The addition of these two final pumps to the six already in operation will

In addition, a building will be constructed to permit chemicals to be added to the sewage being treated to ensure optimum operation of the plant, an operation that is currently being done manually with indifferent success. This work will also be designed by Stantec at a budgeted cost of $30,560 (plus applicable HST).

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Fridge cleaning and expiry dates…

We’ve had company staying with us every weekend for the past four weeks. We enjoy the company and the company certainly enjoys the pool. It’s like a little ‘vacation’ for our visiting family and friends. It’s great to have people enjoying the pool as much as we do.

boiled eggs and some feta cheese left over from Greek night. It was a mish-mash of leftovers that actually tasted very good, and of course, I cleared out a lot of room in the crisper, not to mention I used up the final squirt of ranch dressing (another bottle out of the fridge).

For the past month we’ve bought groceries and loaded up the fridge week after week. Last week I finally had a chance to empty the fridge, and by empty I mean use up all the almost-empty containers and items. On Monday for breakfast I had half a glass of orange juice and half a glass of apple juice. Two containers done! I had the last English muffin with a thin spread of cream cheese scraped from the bottom of the tub. I was already gaining space in the fridge.

I pretty much spent all week tackling leftovers and finishing up items. In the cupboard there were two cracker boxes, which combined created a little snack with the last slice of cheese.

At lunch I came home and enjoyed the last two pickles with a sandwich made of the last hamburger bun with the remaining two slices of ham and two squirts of mustard, which finished off the bottle. I washed it down with a glass and a half of skim milk so I could throw out the 2-litre jug. It’s funny how no one wants to eat the last of anything. I, on the other hand, enjoy finishing things up and getting them out of the fridge to make way for fresh items. One night I made myself a salad which used up the remaining peppers, carrots, lettuce, a couple of pickled beets, two

Once in a while I do a sweep of the fridge and check expiry dates. We like a variety of salad dressings, but it doesn’t take long for them to become outdated. A month or two I don’t worry about (unless it’s milk, yogurt or sour cream), but I found a balsamic sun-dried tomato bottle that was dated for Leaming2010… it definitely got pitched. I guess if we hadn’t used it up in that amount of time, it wasn’t a popular one anyways. I find expiry dates interesting though. I wonder how does a bottle of white vinegar really ever expire? Have you ever cooked stale penne noodles? Just a thought.

Angels amongst a troubled healthcare system

Editor:

In February 2013, my mother was admitted to Leamington District Memorial Hospital (LDMH) and subsequently transferred to Windsor for specialized services. After 8 weeks in Windsor and after it was determined that no further treatment would be of benefit, my mother returned ‘home’ to LDMH, where she would spend her final six weeks.

Despite all of my schooling and over 23 years of experience working within disability management, I was

not prepared for the learning I would undergo throughout my mother’s illness and resulting hospitalization. On a personal level, I learned that no matter what you do or who you are, one cannot prepare oneself for the depth of pain experienced in losing a loved one. On a systems level, I learned the truth that my clients speak when they describe the frustrations, the shortcomings and the injustice of our suffering Ontario healthcare system.

While it would be so easy for this to be a letter of frustration over our healthcare system, to do so would be to

undermine the great work of the angels that work within it. I cannot imagine just how difficult it would be to work as a nurse or a caregiver, witnessing illness and death while being caught within the frustrations, shortcomings and injustice. These professionals are truly worthy of public acknowledgement and praise for the work they do and the care they provide.

LDMH may be a small community hospital with limited resources, but the nurses at LDMH, in my opinion, rank among the best there is. LDMH nurses cared for my mother like she

was their own — ensuring her comfort, respecting her dignity and doing everything they could to ease the heartache of a family losing a cherished mother.

For this, I thank every one of the nurses at LDMH especially nurses Vanessa, Tammy, Lauri, Cindy, Stephanie, Louise, Gina and Claudette. These nurses took their care and compassion beyond what would be expected and showed me what it truly means to receive healthcare services in Ontario. Renee Daudlin-Iacobelli, Leamington

The Leamington and District Agricultural Society Saturday Farmers Market has been a busy place this summer. Open year round from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the market features fresh produce and local wares.

SHEILA McBRAYNE

McThots

Local author releases second book

Edmond Gagnon was a city police officer for over 31 years. When he retired he traveled the world, then wrote about of his adventures and misadventures in his first book called “A Casual Traveler.”

After catching the writing bug, Gagnon decided to share some of his police stories and he wrote his second book called “Rat.”

Synopsis:

Informants exist in a netherworld that very few people dare venture into. They reach out from the darkness to the police, shedding light on the worst of criminals. Their anonymity is the key to their success and survival. In “Rat” one cop uses his arsenal of police informants as secret weapons in his fight against crime.

“Rat” is filled with police action, but it focuses on the individual police informants, who they were, and why they informed to the police. The story follows one cop’s career, revealing the glorious and ugly sides of police work. With the help of his informants, the cop is able to make hundreds of criminal arrests, as well as seizures of narcotics, guns, and stolen property.

Gagnon will be at Aleksander Estate Winery on Sunday, July 28 from 2 to 5 p.m. Both books, and specially labelled wines will be available for signing.

Skateboard Park Committee hosting information night

The Leamington Skateboard Park Committee is hosting an Information Night on Wednesday, July 24 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex, 249 Sherk St.

The purpose of the Information Night is to:

• Gather information and community opinion;

• Educate and raise community awareness about the Skateboard Park Committee

• Gauge level of commu-

nity support. Committee members will be available to address the public and answer questions related to the feasibility of constructing a skateboard park on municipal property in Leamington. A survey will be available for residents to complete.

About the Leamington Skateboard Park Committee: The mandate is “To investigate the feasibility of the construction of a skateboard park in the commu-

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nity.” Committee members include Councillor Hilda Macdonald, Ted Wigfield (chairperson), Jeph Magdeleyn (community representative) and youth representatives Lenny Martinez and Daniel Dick. The committee was established in 2013 following a report to Council recommending that administration and community members review the feasibility of providing a skateboard park.

SUNsational free summer concert at Seacliff Park

Seacliff Park is the venue for a SUNsational Summer Concert featuring Twisted Logic on Saturday, July 20 from 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

The concert takes place at the bottom of the hill. Bring your lawn chairs and sit on the hill or enjoy refreshments on the concession patio.

The event is free and all ages are welcome.

For more information visit www.leamington.ca or call 519-322-2337.

Ed Gagnon

AT RIGHT: The younger group of day campers, ages 4 – 7, are enjoying their daily swim in the Complex saltwater pool. With daily “activity electives” and with a different theme each week, there’s never a dull moment and the kids love coming back for more day camp excitement! The counselors are trained in HIGH FIVE principles of healthy child development. Upcoming themes include: safari adventure, going cruising, cook up some fun, and goin’ green! Visit the Complex website day camp page to learn more details.

Summer Day Camp fun at Complex

AT LEFT: Complex Summer Day Camp at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex is off to a vulcanizing start! Day campers, ages 8 – 12, were building volcanoes and learning all about eruptions and pressure, magma chambers and volcano vents!

Rare chance to ride a tall ship this weekend in Kingsville

This season Tall Ships America’s Fleet will be visiting the Great Lakes Labour Day Weekend. As a precursor to the Tall Ships 1812 Tour, Kingsville will host the Tall Ship Liana’s Ransom the weekend of July 19-21. Liana’s Ransom is an 85-foot, steel hulled schooner built in Houston. Her design is typical of the type of vessels commonly used by privateers and pirates throughout the 1700’s and early 1800’s.

This is the only one of the tall ships visiting the port of Kingsville licenced to carry passengers. If you are you looking for a swashbuckling adventure, book your passage now. There is a 90-minute tour aboard Liana’s Ransom at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and a sunset cruise at 7 p.m. daily. Tickets are only $40 per person for this once in a lifetime adventure.

This is a rare chance to hoist the sails, man the helm, and even fire the canon, while at sea.

Tickets can be purchased at Kingsville Arena, located at 1741 Jasperson Lane, or the Kingsville BIA located in the Carnegie Visitor Centre located at 28 Division Road South or online at www.bigsilverinc.ca/Kingsville-TallShipsFestival.

Please call 519-733-2123 or visit www.kingsville.ca for additional details.

On Friday, July 12 Associate Mandy Morris, left, along with Dragonboat team captains Lisa Mastronardi, centre, and Store manager Rob Wright reveiled to the rest of the staff that they had raised $23,000 - a lot more than their goal of $15,000. Leamington Shoppers had two teams, which both won one race, but did not advance. The participating staff are pictured here in front of the tree planted in memory of the late Katherine Mastronardi. (SUN Photos)

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ANSWERS ON PAGE 33

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Aries, work to strengthen a relationship with a coworker or acquaintance. Developing this relationship now will bear fruit down the road.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

Taurus, take some time for quiet contemplation this week. You have a lot of things on your mind and need to work through them before you can focus on other things.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21

Gemini, you may find yourself on a spending spree and it may be difficult to know when to put your credit cards away. Bring a friend along to help you reign in your spending.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

Cancer, with so many big decisions looming on the horizon, you may be thinking of running away from it all. But all of your problems will still be waiting for you when you get back.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

Leo, people have been coming at you from all angles and you're ready for a break. Retreat to a quiet place sometime this week and pamper yourself.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

A change of scenery breathes new life into your daily routine, Virgo. Although it may be temporary, you will embrace the opportunities to recharge for a while.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Libra, a new job may give you a new perspective on life. Make the most of this new perspective and apply it to both the personal and professional parts of your life.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

Scorpio, sometimes people just do not get your sense of humor, so don't be upset if a joke doesn't garner the laughs you anticipated. Your closest companions will still share a laugh.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

Sagittarius, you will host a house full of guests this week. This role suits you well, so don't worry as the party draws closer and the pressure begins to mount.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Capricorn, the final countdown until big changes are in store has begun. Are you ready for all of the things you still have to get done? If not, get busy and enlist a few helpers.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

Aquarius, you are often supportive of those around you and they appreciate that support. Continue to be a valued friend and confidante, and you'll be happy you did.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Pisces, you may have to ask for some help this week. Accept this support and recognize it's necessary to get the job done.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

JULY 14

Jane Lynch, Actress (53)

JULY 15

Lana Parrilla, Actress (36)

JULY 16

Jayma Mays, Actress (34)

JULY 17

Luke Bryan, Singer (37)

JULY 18

Wendy Williams, TV Host (49)

JULY 19

Campbell Scott, Actor (52)

JULY 20

Julianne Hough, Actress (25)

Baseball memories triggered by loss of teammate

They always say that as you get older, you attend more funerals than weddings. In my case, the past year has proven that true and then some.

I think I’ve gone to two weddings in the past year, one involving a child of my own and the other involving a child of a friend.

On the other side of the coin, I think I’ve been to Reid’s and other funeral homes more than I care to think about.

The kicker here is, these aren’t old people that we’re losing. They are what I would consider relatively young.

In recent weeks, the death of my old co-worker and baseball teammate Paul Smyth caught me by surprise. He was only 50.

Smitty was one of life’s characters. In the past couple of years, he had been battling Multiple Sclerosis and the last time we spoke was at the funeral of Scott Sovie in February.

Someone posted an old photo on Facebook last week that reminded me of some good times. It was an old baseball photo from the year that the Leamington Juveniles won the Ontario Baseball Juvenile C championship in 1980.

That brought back fond memories of Smitty and that whole bunch of misfits that surprised everyone and took the provincial title that year. You see, we had nowhere to play, since juvenile baseball had all but disappeared from the Essex County landscape by then. It seems juvenile aged players were more interested in chasing skirts than baseballs and the lack of interest in this part of the county put us in the position of having to enter a Windsor league, where competition was a lot stiffer.

My dad was the manager for that championship. He and Bob Wiper took over from Ted Bewley, who began the season as the manager but a work transfer forced him to give up the reins.

They had their work cut out for them with this bunch. It had been about 11 or 12 years since my father last tasted the OBA title and it wasn’t looking like he’d wrap up his coaching career with anything but disappointment from the get-go. They entered us in the Connie Mack Juvenile loop in Windsor and the agreement was that all games had to be played in Windsor. None of the snooty Windsor teams would come to Leamington for any games. Our home games were played there and we felt like a bunch of outcasts, playing up there with the ‘fancy

kids’. I played with teammates that I had never played with before. We had our usual group of myself, Tracy Wiper, Ron Martin and the Balkwill brothers, Larry and John. But new faces joined us as the younger group moved up to play alongside us. That infusion of youth and talent helped us immensely, but the results weren’t great until late in the season.

Greg Winger, Joe Tell, Pat Dibbley and Todd Hodgson were among the talented players that joined us and helped get us to the title. We also had a couple of players from Kingsville, Rick Thurston and Greg Nelson, who would both play a pivotal role in turning the season around.

We toiled through a tough schedule in Windsor, losing almost every game up there. We put together a couple wins toward the end of the season and as it turned out, playing against the talented Windsor teams helped us in the long run. The last place finish in the Connie Mack league was all but forgotten when we faced Wallaceburg in the first round of the Ontario Baseball Association playdowns.

They don’t have playdowns anymore. All of the teams across the province meet in a tournament on Labor Day weekend to determine a champion. In those days, you played a best-ofthree series with your opponent.

We beat Wallaceburg two games straight to advance. We then received a bye into the Ontario “C” finals against North Bay.

A coin toss determined that we would play game

one up there with games two and three (if necessary) in sunny Leamington.

To say it was cold in mid-September in North Bay would be an understatement. We arrived on the Friday night with the game scheduled for Saturday afternoon. It rained all day Saturday and temperatures hovered just above freezing for the whole weekend.

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Rib’s Ramblings

the bases so I had to put the bottle back. ‘Wipes’ then induced a pop-up to first baseman Larry Balkwill to secure the championship and the celebration began.

On Sunday, a huge effort was put forth to get the rain soaked diamond ready for a ball game. Both teams and coaching staffs were at the diamond early, employing pumps, shovels and even a fair amount of gasoline to get the playing field dry enough to play.

And play, we did. After falling behind 2-0, we rallied for a 3-2 win and left the great cold north with a victory.

The following weekend, we convened in Leamington’s warmer climate to take the title at the fairgrounds. After winning only two games in the Connie Mack League all season, here we were, poised to be OBA champions.

Todd Hodgson blasted a two-run homer into the trailers over the left field fence to give us an early lead but the visitors pulled even and the lead went back and forth over the course of the afternoon.

I remember running into the arena to get the bottle of champagne out of the dressing room as Tracy Wiper took the mound for the final inning, clinging to a 4-3 lead with two out. North Bay proceeded to then load

Southshore Communications want to construct an 80foot tower on County Road 18. This construction is regulated by Industry Canada, not by local Cuncil. However, Industry Canada has requested support from local Council before granting their okay.

Consequently, Leamington Council was approached Monday night with a request for their endorsement of the project. Almost in the blink of an eye, Council voted to endorse the project.

End of story, right? Not quite.

There is always a moral to every story, and for this group of misfits, it’s more of a fitting tribute to a great guy.

This is where it comes full circle.

The eventual winning run was supplied by a pinch-hit single off the bat of the one and only Paul Smyth.

BANK NOTES

SUMMER CAMPS AT TBT

Theatre Ensemble is finishing up its two-week summer theatre camp at TBT and you are invited to attend the FINAL PRODUCTION. Admission is by donation, a toonie is suggested. For further details please contact joel.lewsaw@gecdsb.on.ca

Erin Armstrong’s Music Moves Kids “WHIMSICAL”Two one-week music, drama and puppetry camps at TBT for youths ages 6 to 12, July 22 to 26 and July 29 to August 2. For more info, email musicmoveskids@gmail.com or call 519-890-7463.

The MUSIC MOVES KIDS day camp will be providing a special showcase of their talents. This year they are offering their support to The Bank Theatre Renovations by entertaining you with their "Whimsical" show along with a pasta dinner to be held at Leamington's Portuguese Club on Thursday, Aug 1st. Advance Tickets Only. $18 for Adults, $10 for children 12 and under. Please contact Penny at 519-326-0586 for tickets before July 29. Doors open at 5:30, dinner at 6:00 with the show to follow at 7:00. Sonshine Puppet Camp sponsored by Sonshine Lutheran Church – A week-long Christian experience in Christian drama using puppetry as the vehicle. For youths ages 6 to 14. August 5th to 9th from 9:15 to 11:45 am. Cost $20. To register call 519-984-3553. HELPING HANDS PUPPETRY MINISTRY OF MILWAUKEE, WI. IS A PUPPETRY AND DRAMA EXPERIENCE.

A big Thank You to all the musicians, volunteers and audience who made the PICKIN' ON NEIL YOUNG event at Two-Creeks a great success.

OFF-SITE MUSIC SERIES IS COMING!

The Bank Theatre's OFF-SITE MUSIC SERIES begins this coming September 7. Our monthly music events will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, Leamington, while Phase 2 of our renovations are underway at the theatre. The Series will be on Saturday nights with the doors opening at 6:30 and the performance starting at 7:00. There's a stellar line-up in store so check-out next week's BANK NOTES for further details.

THEATRE HISTORY

Sarah Bernhardt, aka THE DIVINE SARAH, is considered the world's most famous actress of the last century. Born in France in 1844 she graced the stages of Europe with her prodigious talent and golden voice. She was one of the first actresses to appear in silent movies turning the tables on the time-honoured tradition of men playing female roles on the Shakespearean stage when she appeared as Hamlet both on stage and in a 2 minute duelling scene filmed in 1900. Miss Bernhardt has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Volunteer! Sun Parlour Players Community Theatre and The Bank Theatre appreciate the many hands that put on each of our productions. We are always looking for volunteers to bring their excitement and enthusiasm to share and learn the crafts of acting, singing and dancing, AND, it isn’t just about acting on stage… We need volunteers for all aspects of directing, technical, backstage and front of house duties. If you are interested in having a good time while helping put together high quality community Arts events, we can put your talent and enthusiasm to work! Send us an email or give us a call – banktheatre@gmail.com / 519-326-8805

9:45 a.m. - Nick Tiessen

10:45 a.m. - Sydney Matlock

11:30 a.m. - Jessica Desantis

12-1 p.m. - Kids Zumba by Leamington Fitness

1:15 p.m. - Mahlia Rosati & Demyrah

1:30 p.m. - Jessica Venenza & Nicole Colasanti

2:30 p.m. - Devin Garganta

2:45 p.m. - Jonah Sawatzky

3:00 p.m. - James Enns

3:15 p.m. - April Lafrance

3:30 p.m. - The Translucents’

4:15 p.m. - Kyle McGrath

9-9:30 am spots still available – contact shelly@gabrieles.com

Migrant workers treated to Pelee visit

By Bryan Jessop

In helping migrant workers enjoy some much-deserved rest and relaxation, two community groups got right to the ‘Point’.

The Full Gospel Tabernacle Family Church and Migrant Workers Community Program teamed up to treat more than 30 migrant workers to a Sunday, June 9 visit to Point Pelee National Park from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. During the first of its kind event, the busload of workers were taken to the Marsh Boardwalk, Visitors Centre and the tip in a journey that also included a picnic lunch prepared by FGT volunteers. About two thirds of the participating workers were Mexican residents while the remaining third have made the journey from Jamaica for employment in the Leamington area this summer.

“We wanted to find a way to better connect with the community and to celebrate the migrant workers who are a large part of the community,” said FGT Family Church pastor of missions and multiplication Gary Laing.

The church is host to a committee of nine members who converge to brainstorm ways to reach out to the Leamington community with no strings attached. After the idea to offer a Point Pelee trip to migrant workers surfaced, Laing and other church members began planning the event. FGT Family Church member Jeff Cocks led the visit, as Laing was out of the country on June 9.

“It was very well received,” said Cocks. “Even the ride on the park’s shuttle was like being at an amusement park to them. Some of them have been here for five or six years now and have never seen the Point.”

One of the church’s members, a former resident of El Salvador, attended as an interpreter, along with about half a dozen other FGT volunteers. The number of workers who expressed interest in attending the trip actually exceeded the three-dozen who were able to make it, but last-minute employment commitments kept the number under 40.

“We’re learning as we go,” said Cocks. “If work is available, they work. There isn’t always a lot of advance notice for them.”

Several of the workers who took part in the trip explained to MWCP chairperson and program supervisor Lorraine Gibson that they enjoyed the experience, prompting the two participating groups to consider partnering and making it an annual event.

The picnic was one of multiple community programs involving FGT Family Church members and volunteers, who also organize ‘Loving Leamington’ events such as free car washes, oil changes, minor home renovations, childcare, haircuts and other services both on and off church grounds. The church also sponsors an annual Family Day Skate at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex, has painted baseball diamond dugouts and works with groups like the Salvation Army and Pregnancy Crisis Centre.

For more information on the church’s programs and events, visit www.fgtchurch.com

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Migrant workers enjoy a walk along the beach during a picnic visit to Point Pelee National Park, arranged by the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church and the Migrant Workers Community Program. More than 30 migrant workers attended the event.

Leamington-area migrant workers are treated to a free picnic lunch during a trip to Point Pelee National Park Sunday, June 9. The event was organized between the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church and Migrant Workers Community Program. More than 30 migrant workers attended the event.

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FGT Bible School continues to grow

By Bryan Jessop

Any program with the world ‘school’ in it may not sound too tempting for youths who started their summer vacations less than two weeks earlier, but an exception exists at the eastern boundary of urban Leamington.

The Full Gospel Tabernacle (FGT) Family Church hosted its annual Vacation Bible School last week, a five-day event that attracted an average of about 140 local youths per day. Each Monday to Friday session ran from 9 a.m. to noon, wrapping up with a water games day and barbecue for youths and their families on Friday, July 12. Central themes within previous days included wacky hair day, favourite jersey day and orange and green ‘Gotta Move’ day.

The group of four- to 11-year-olds gathered as a group to start each day before being split into four sub-groups according to age. Form there, the divisions rotated between four stations — a snack area, activity room, Bible lesson class and crafts centre. In previous years, kids spent each craft session towards creating one item, but with some unable to attend each day and some working faster than others, the school switched to a different craft being made each day.

The VBS program is offered by the FGT church free of charge each year with no pre-registration required. Youths from Kingsville, Leamington, Wheatley and surrounding areas attend the school, which includes different snacks, games and crafts for each of the five days. The program began more than 20 years ago with more modest turnouts of about 40 youths per day.

“It keeps growing every year,” said FGT Family Church kids director Cora Girard, who is assisted with the organization of VBS events by pastor in training Cynthia Ferguson. “We’ve got a great volunteer base that we couldn’t do this without. This year, we’ve had an abundance of volunteers. It’s been fabulous.”

This year’s theme was dubbed ‘Fruits of the Spirit’, designed to promote love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, self-control and kindness among participating children. The youths put the latter into action by collecting donation items from home to be sent on future missionary trips to the Central American nation of Guatemala. On Tuesday, youths were encouraged to bring stickers, crayons and coloured pencils. For the following days, featured donation items included pacifiers, socks, rattles, small toys, hair clips, toothpaste, bar soap and washcloths. Each day (Tuesday to Thursday), the winning age group was treated to a candy toss.

The Full Gospel Tabernacle Family Church wrapped up this year’s Vacation Bible School with Water Day (Friday, July 12). The slip and slide was one of the day’s most popular features, where kids held onto the centre of a rope pulled by volunteer supervisors who sent them across a pre-soaked tarp. The day ended with a barbecue for kids and their families.

(SUN Photos)

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Clematis a popular flowering vine

This flowering vine requires a minimum of six hours of full sunlight every day. Without it the plant will produce fewer flowers and in general will not look healthy

Secondly, organic soil that is heavily mixed with compost is just as important. Planting in clay soils or hot sandy soils will not allow the vine to grow to its full potential.

Plant the root ball so the original soil line is three to five inches below your garden soil line. If the vine has any active growth or bud swelling that gets covered during planting, raise the root ball accordingly so you don’t to cover active growth.

Most clematis purchased come with a stake in the pot. Do not remove the stake on newly planted vines. Removing any support will lead the vine to flop around in the wind, damaging the plant.

Clematis produces shallow roots and prefers to be cool and moist. The best way to maintain these conditions is to mulch three to four inches around the base of the plant. Do not use rocks or decorative stone, and keep the mulch back from the base of the stem to avoid any rot.

Watering is also important, at least once a week. This vine likes even moisture so check under the mulch during the heat of the summer to ensure the soil is damp.

These vines are heavy feeders and require lots of compost for nutrition. Using fish emulsion will show great results. If you are using pre-mixed garden fertilizer, be careful not to

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Sunday July 28 • 12:00 - 3:00 pm at Colasanti's Tropical Gardens, Kingsville. Best Wishes only.

use too much nitrogen as this will stop the blooming and enhance huge vines at the expense of flower production. Nitrogen is the first number listed on fertilizer mixes, so the smaller the first number is the better it is for your clematis.

A major problem for clematis is a fungi that causes the vine to suddenly wilt. This fungi gets into the stem causing the leaves to turn black and die. Unfortunately there is no spray for this. Simply re-transplant the vine deeper and use large amounts of compost. The deep planting and compost will help the clematis strengthen and outgrow the fungus. If the entire vine shows wilting, cut off the dead branches and remove from the garden in a plastic bag, being careful not to spread fungal spores around on other healthy plants. Disinfecting clippers with alcohol or strong detergent before they are used on other plants is also a good idea, especially before using on other healthy clematis.

Clematis vines are very showy and blend in nicely in most garden settings as long as you give them some basic care.

Rosemary& Ernie Purr of Leamington and Ann & Scott Maynard of Oakville are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage of their children Renate and Ryan. A summer wedding is planned. They will reside in Toronto. BestWishesfromyourfamilies.

BILL PLUMB

In the back yard...

Let’s Dance!

This summer, Loren Mastronardi is instructing Kids Dance Class for children age 6-11. Dance has been an important part of artistic expression, ceremonies, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since the earliest civilizations. Joining Loren’s class, front row left to right: Janessa Abraham, Gabriella Mastronardi, Lily Wass, Christina Cabera, Madelynn Enns. Back row: Xander Mastronardi, Marissa McInnis, Adrianna Raffoul, Yessica Raffoul, Jayden Morais. (Photo Submitted)

Celebrate Parks Day at Point Pelee

Celebrate Parks Day July

20-21 at Point Pelee’s Paddle Weekend! On Sat. July 20, become a voyageur and go for a paddle in a 20-passenger Montreal canoe.

Members of the WindsorEssex County Canoe Club will be on hand from 1-4 p.m. to teach visitors the basics of paddling through the marsh. Sign up onsite the day of the event. Free with entry.

Wonder what it would be like to kayak? On Sun. July 21 join the staff of Pelee Wings Paddlesports from 1-4 p.m. at the Marsh Boardwalk and satisfy your curiosity about the sport. Kayaks will be available for 15 minute trials. Sign up onsite the day of the event. Free with entry.

While at the park, visitors can also take part in one of Point Pelee’s summer programs:

• 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. – Creature Feature at the Visitor Centre. From the comfort of the theatre, touch a snake, see a lizard or turtle.

• 12:30 p.m. – Feeding

Time at Marshville, Marsh Boardwalk. Help feed the fish and “scoop” new insects for the Bug Bowl.

• 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. – Rove through history and discover recent restoration efforts at the DeLaurier Homestead.

• 3:20 p.m. – Tip Hike. Catch the 3:20 shuttle from

Friday, July 19 & Saturday, July 20

the Visitor Centre then take a guided walk to the most southern point of mainland Canada.

Point Pelee National Park hours are 6 a.m.-10 p.m. The Visitor Centre is open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Shuttle is available from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

• Treasure Hunt maps can be picked up at Carnegie Arts and Visitor Centre (both days)

• Carnegie Concert - 7pm at Carnegie Park

• Pirate Costume Contest - 7:15pm at Carnegie Park

• Liana’s Ransom docked July 19 - 21. Daily Sails available

Pirate Palooza in Kingsville

Kingsville BIA is hosting Pirate Palooza – Talk Like a Pirate Days – July 19-20.

Businesses will be offering great open air sales or go inside and browse. Join the BIA Treasure Hunt by simply pick up a treasure map at the Carnegie Arts & Visitors Centre, 28 Division St. S. You have two days to solve the puzzle and return the entry to the Carnegie. The winner will be drawn at the free Saturday night Concert at the Carnegie which begins at 7 p.m. Bring your lawn chair and enjoy the entertainment. During the concert there will also be a costume contest.

For more details call Kingsville BIA at 519-733-6250.

THELEAMINGTON MERSEA HISTORICAL SOCIETY presents the 16th ANNUAL leamington

Nominations are now being accepted for:

1. HERITAGE or HISTORIC FIRST FAMILIES, GROUPS or ORGANIZATIONS: First families, groups or organizations who have made significant contributions to this area’s history or heritage.

2. HERITAGE or HISTORIC RESTORATION or PRESERVATION: Any person, group or organization who has preserved or rehabilitated a structure, object or artifact pertaining or adding to the heritage or historic quality of Leamington and the former Mersea Township.

3. HERITAGE or HISTORIC CONTRIBUTION (POSTHUMOUS): Acknowledgement of early pioneers, leaders, professionals, inventive and creative persons, organizations, teams or groups who, although they may no longer exist, are not to be forgotten for their contributions to our history and heritage.

4. HERITAGE or HISTORIC CONTRIBUTION (LIVING): Any individual who, by virtue of their contribution(s) to the heritage and history of Leamington and the former Mersea Township is deemed worthy of recognition.

or

categories. ALL nominations must include your name, address, telephone number, plus the name, address and telephone number of the nominee. In the case of posthumous nominations, please give a name, address and telephone number of a close relative or friend who may receive the award. Nominations must include a

1949 “Moose Jaw” Mercury

now a “Sheriff” car

James Dean drove a black 1949 Mercury coupe with wide whitewalls, dual exhausts, and fender skirts in the Hollywood classic, “Rebel Without a Cause.” Ever since that movie was released in 1954, the 1949-51 Mercurys have probably been customized more than any other make or model, with many of them rendered identical to the one driven by James Dean. A more recent movie, “Cars”, inspired the transformation of the 1949 Mercury coupe owned by Dale McNinch of Tillsonburg:

He writes: “Hi Bill, I was looking through a copy of the ‘Old Car Trader’ in 1983. In it was advertised a 1949 Mercury coupe for $500. I called Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and talked with the man who owned it.

“He said: ‘I go farm to farm buying scrap. At this one farm, they asked if I take whole cars. I said yes and they took me to the barn. In it was this 1949 Mercury. The kids had been jumping off the hay mow onto the roof. It had 1962 Saskatchewan plates. They also gave me a 1951 Merc front end with rounded hood corners and frenched headlights.’

“We made a deal and I sent him $500. Two weeks later, I had extra holiday time so I took my 12-year-old son in our 1969 Blazer and a rented trailer, and 1330 miles later, we arrived in Moose Jaw. With roof bent and rear window gone, I decided to make a convertible. With skill saw in hand the top came off. I drove it for several years as a convertible.

“When the movie ‘Cars’ came out, I decided the car should become a 2-door hardtop. With that in mind, I went to work, making it a ‘Sheriff’s’ car. It doesn’t have ‘Radiator Springs’ on it. Instead, it has ‘Big Springs, Texas’ with an oil derrick on it. The young people really like it. Sometimes they mistake it for ‘Mater’ (from the movie).

‘You built the whole car!’ (knowing it wasn’t just a cartoon but a real car).

“I installed a 350 Chevy V8, automatic, Camaro rear axle, dual spotlights, siren, eyes on the windshield, skirts, loud duals, a top from a ’49 4-door sedan, light fixture for the light on top (that always gets a laugh), two speakers on each side, and a magnetic sign for Sheriff. I’ve had fun with it as one of the best $500 I’ve ever spent. Thirty years later, the mythical Sheriff has it right: ‘Crazy Hot Rodder!’ And Bill, I’ve enjoyed your book! Thanks!”

One young boy stood with his mouth open and said:

I’m always looking for more stories. Email billtsherk@sympatico.ca or write Bill Sherk, 25 John St., P.O. Box 255, Leamington, ON N8H 3W2. Everyone whose story is published in this column will receive a free autographed copy of my latest book: “Old Car Detective Favourite Stories, 1925 to 1965.”

HIGH QUALITY LICENSED CHILD CARE

Offered at 4 schools in Leamington & Kingsville. Ages 18 months - 12 years 6:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. • Subsidy available. For details call 519-733-8202 www.discoverychildcareschools.com

SUMMER AT LEAMINGTON

LIBRARY - Family Storytime at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays until July 31. Join us this summer for a great session of stories, songs and activities for children 0-6 years of ages. Or Thursdays, until August 1 at 3:00 pm. GO! Summer Reading Club - Kids, get ready to have an adventure this summer with this year's TD Summer Reading Club “Go!” theme! Join us for a great summer of reading, games, activities and crafts! You will journey to places near and far and have lots of fun! Dewey ChallengeTuesday, July 30 at 10:30 am. Learn to Knit with LeeLee HatsSaturday, July 20 at 10:30-11:30 am. Thursday, July 25 at 10:3011:30 am. Saturday, August 3 at 10:30-11:30 am. Please register online or at the library for all these programs - www.essexcountylibrary.ca.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 - Inside Bake & Yard Sale, 9:00 a.m.12:00 noon. The Meadows of Wheatley, Pier Road. All proceeds to the Residents fund.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 - LIVE and LOCAL music will continue this summer with the fifth Homegrown Saturday, 7:00 p.m. at Wheatley Legion. Acts for the evening are...

The Translucents, Marty Lowman, Sam Neufeld-Dick and Lucas Driedger, Reese Garant and Andrew St. George, and Justin Latam. We will be "passing the hat" with the donations divided up between the night's acts. It's an all ages show. Everyone is welcome.

SATURDAY, JULY 20 & SUNDAY, JULY 21 - The Arts Society of Kingsville will be holding its inaugural members' show and sale of fine art and fine crafts on the lawn of Pelee Island Winery in Kingsville. The event will have original art from local artists and live entertainment. Go to www.artssocietyofkingsville.com for more details.

MONDAY, JULY 22 - Food & Fellowship Supper, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Leamington United Church, 9 John St. would like to invite all those who are alone or having trouble making ends meet to come and share a meal together. No charge.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 - Hey kids! VBS (Vacation Beside Seniors) at the Day Away program held at the Sun Parlor Home, 175 Talbot St. E., Leamington. Starts Thursday, Aug. 1, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Leamington United Church, then Aug. 2, 8, 14, 20, 26 from

Leamington Br. 84 Legion news

By Pat Simpson

The building sign is up and the paperwork has been completed. Thanks to the municipal by-law enforcement officers for their assistance and also to Steve Peters Construction for volunteering their time and equipment to install the sign. Special thanks also to all of the members that contributed to the creation and painting of the sign.

Thanks to Betty Fitzpatrick and her helpers for another great Seniors Dinner. Next month the Seniors Dinner will be held August 14 and the meal will be a cold plate. Plans for a steak barbecue at the Branch are underway. The winners of Friday night darts on June 28 were Richard and Paul, with second place going to Bonnie and Simp.

9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Sun Parlor Home. Call Trina by July 23 to register 519-326-9461. Sponsored by Leamington United.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 - The Pelee Past Questers #1498, an organization for the study of antiques, preservation and restoration of artifacts, existing memorials, historical buildings, landmarks and education, will meet 1:00 p.m. at the North American Black Historical Museum, 277 King St., Amherstburg. Curator Kenn Stanton will lecture on black history in the area, share a story and lead the tour. Meeting to follow at Waterfront Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt. Guest are encouraged. For info call Jackie 519-326-1361.

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS JULY & AUGUST - Not Quite Carnegie Concert Series: Free outdoor summer concert series for all ages at Carnegie Arts & Visitor Centre, 28 Division St., S., Kingsville, on Wednesday evenings, 7:00 p.m., throughout July and August. In case of rain the Epworth United Church Hall will host the event. Bring your lawn chair or a blanket and enjoy the evening. Concerts are free but the hat is passed. Tax receipts for donations over $20.

The winners on July 12 were Spanky and Deb O., with second place going to Betty and Don. Friday night darts is a fun get-together. No experience necessary, just stop in and join in the fun. Mark your calendars: Executive Meeting July 17; Provincial Service Officer visiting the Branch on July 26 at noon; and the Ladies Auxiliary 60th Anniversary Celebration on July 28 from 1-3 p.m. at the Branch.

Dale McNinch’s 1949 Mercury coupe transformed into a “Sheriff” car. Note the “Dean 49” license plate.

Grade 7-8 summer school program arrives in Leamington

By Bryan Jessop

Reaching Forward has reached Leamington.

The Greater Essex County District School Board has for the first time introduced the program Reaching Forward to Leamington and surrounding area Grade 7 and 8 students. The system is designed to help elementary school students approaching their secondary school years to better transition between the two educational institutes. Reaching Forward has been hosted by Kingsville schools in past summers — including Kingsville District High School — but until now, has not been available within Leamington’s borders.

“The more prepared they are for high school, the more successful they will be,” said GECDSB summer school principal Larry Ash. “When there are learning gaps between elementary school and high school, this is a great way to fill in those gaps.”

Leamington District Secondary School is hosting Reaching Forward for a three-week period covering 14 weekdays from Tuesday, July 2 to Friday, July 19. Each day, math lessons are taught from 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. and following a 10-minute break, literacy and English skills are honed from 10:25 a.m. to noon. Lessons are being taught by Colchester North Elementary School Grade 8 teacher Kevin Klassen.

“Feedback has been very positive,” Klassen said. “They’re finding it very helpful and they know this will help them next year, whether they’re going into Grade 8 or 9.”

Klassen has taught Reaching Forward during previous summers, using modern technologies including an I-Pad to display lessons on a projector screen.

The group of 16 students is roughly a 50/50 split between Grade 7 and 8 students, most of whom attended or are attending Gore Hill, M.D. Bennie, Queen Elizabeth and Mount Carmel-Blytheswood along with a couple students making the journey from Harrow. Three of the 16 students are taking math lessons only, leaving for the day at the midlesson break.

Reaching Forward is available to GECDSB Grade 7 and 8 students for an application fee of $20 and is also being taught at Windsor’s John Campbell Public School. Ash explained that the board sets up the program at its high schools whenever possible, noting that doing so also gives students a

Greater Essex County District School Board Reaching Forward teacher Kevin Klassen provides instruction on a writing lesson to a group of just over a dozen local Grade 7 and eight students Wednesday, July 10 at Leamington District Secondary School. Reaching Forward is a program designed to help Grade 7 and 8 students bridge any learning gaps between elementary and high school. This year marks the first time the program has been offered in Leamington.

chance to acclimatize to the high school atmosphere. Many of the 16 students currently enrolled in Reaching Forward in Leamington plan to attend LDSS.

In order for the course to take place at any location, a minimum of 15 students must register. In cases where fewer than 15 sign up, the lessons are cancelled and the $20 fee is returned to parents. The program is promoted during the school year with flyers that are posted in GECDSB el-

Vacation Beside Seniors – bringing kids, seniors together

By Sheila McBrayne

Leamington United Church is changing up its traditional Vacation Bible School and is offering a new intergenerational program called Vacation Beside Seniors.

Last year Leamington United Church Youth Coordinator Trina Hoekstra decided to try something different from the usual week-long Vacation Bible School. The idea to pair children with seniors took the children to various nursing homes. “It was very well received. We’re going to try to do more of these programs. The seniors enjoy the interaction with children and the children have fun with the seniors as well,” said Hoekstra.

This year the Vacation Beside Seniors program is partnering with the Day Away Program at Sun Parlour Nursing Home. Children ages 6 to 12 will participate in an orientation session on Thursday, August 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and then they will spend five mornings (Au-

ementary schools from April to June. Each student registers through his or her host school.

Although the school board encourages students to attend every day of the three-week program, Ash explained that there is flexibility for families who have planned summer trips or events that do not coincide with the Reaching Forward schedule. The board will seek parent/caregiver feedback on the program in Leamington during the final week — July 15 to 19.

“Typically, the feedback we’ve received has been very positive,” said Ash, who has been the board’s summer school principal for the past five years and vice-principal for the two years prior.

gust 2, 8, 14, 20 and 26) at the Sun Parlour Home with the Day Away Program, a program for seniors living at home who come to the nursing home for the day.

“I think there’s a big need for kids to socialize with seniors,” said Hoekstra.

Registration is being accepted for this free program until July 23. To register, call 519-326-9461.

Leamington resident Doug Simpson has written four books in ‘The Dacque Chronicles’ beginning with Soul Awakening and most recently including Soul Connections. He has written a fifth book for the series, for which he is awaiting approval from The Edgar Cayce Foundation before publication with 5 Prince Publishing. (SUN Photo)

Simpson releases fourth book in ‘Dacque Chronicles’

By Bryan Jessop

The ‘spirit’ of writing has kept local author Doug Simpson busy over the past year.

Simpson, well-versed in the readings of early 20th century psychic Edgar Cayce, has written, printed and published three books since last summer’s release of Soul Awakening — the first of what are now four

completed books in The Dacque Chronicles. The most recent of the four, Soul Connections, is based on the continued spiritual missions of protagonist Dacque LaRose. Though each of the four books is a work of fiction, Simpson explains that they are each inspired by actual documented events.

Like Cayce, who communicated with people up to thousands of kilometres

Two Creeks welcomes The Laws

The Weil Stage, located at the Two Creeks Conservation Area, welcomes Wheatley’s own singer/songwriter duo The Laws on Sunday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m.

The husband-wife team has been performing throughout Canada and the United States for the past ten years. Their original songwriting is a blend of folk, bluegrass and acoustic country. Their tight-as-a-glove, flawless harmonies have been compared to that of the Everly Brothers. The Laws also exhibit exceptional audience rapport by describing the inspiration and influences behind their songs.

John and Michele operate Rebel Cowboy Music in Wheatley and Kingsville where music lessons are given on many different instruments as well as selling guitars and other music related supplies. The couple has also produced a cookbook and some of their shows include cooking as well as performing.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket to the area’s only natural outdoor amphitheatre and enjoy John on acoustic guitar and Michele on electric bass as they blend their silk and sandpaper quality voices.

During the concert season, the hat is passed for donations to pay performers and continue maintenance at the site. Tax receipts and a button designating donors as a Two Creeks Concert Supporter for 2013 will be issued for donations of $100 or more.

Wheatley Scouts operate a concession stand and containers are provided for battery recycling.

For further information visit the website www.twocreeks.ca or telephone 519-324-6988.

er, a publishing company known for helping authors to get started. The terms of the Booklocker contract allowed Simpson to discontinue their partnership in the event that he found another group offering a more favourable deal. Where Simpson and Booklocker shared the expenses involved with releasing Soul Awakening, 5 Prince takes care of all costs involved minus a portion of publicity.

away through self-induced trances beginning in the early 1900s, Simpson is a firm believer in reincarnation.

These beliefs are reflected in each of the four Dacque Chronicles books, which pending approval from the Edgar Cayce Foundation, will soon be joined by a fifth. Titled ‘The Soul of Jesus’ for the time being, contents include documentation from Cayce’s readings and therefore are subject to a two-tier approval process by the ECF based in Virginia Beach, Virg. — the town where Cayce died of a stroke at age 67 on Jan. 3, 1945. Simpson, who has written more than 20 articles about Cayce’s readings, is confident that the book will not require significant alteration.

“They’re (the Edgar Cayce Foundation) quite familiar with me and I’m familiar with the process of approval,” Simpson said. “It should require minimal changes, if any.”

Simpson’s new publisher, 5 Prince Publishing of Denver, Col., informed him that as long as the fifth book is approved by the ECF, it would be printed and published.

Simpson originally signed a contract with Booklock-

After acquiring a copy of Soul Awakening, 5 Prince informed Simpson they would sign him to a fourbook deal if they were satisfied with a second book. Impressed with Soul Rescue, the new publisher signed the deal with Simpson, who had already completed Soul Mind and was working on Soul Connections at the time.

“When I started (Soul Awakening), the thought of a series never even crossed my mind,” Simpson said. “Then I realized that there was more story to be told than would ever fit in one book. That’s when I had the idea for a second book. A lot of writers have a general idea on what they want to write about when they get started, but along the way, it can take on a life of its own.”

The first four books feature the same three main characters, who meet new individuals as each story progresses.

“None were particularly hard to write,” said Simpson, a retired high school teacher. “The most difficult part came from looking into many past lives of the characters — I had to make sure the genealogy works. When I get stuck, my soul relays information to me that gets me going again.”

Soul Connections was completed in January of this year and published in April. Like its three predecessors, it is available to order at bookstores around (Continued on page 23)

The Laws, John and Michele.

Body found in Leamington confirmed to be missing man

The body found Wednesday, July 10th by a fisherman at Towle’s Marina in Leamington has been identified as a missing Leamington man, Kenneth Stockwell. Police have determined that the death is not suspicious and the investigation is concluded. The Essex County Emergency Response Team (ERT), and the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit searched the area along with Leamington OPP officers. The West Region Mobile Command Unit (MCU) was also called in to assist with the investigation. The 66-year-old Leamington man was last seen at 11 p.m. Sunday night (July 7) by family. His e-bike was located in the area of 590 Essex County Road 33 (also known as Point Pelee Drive), which is where police focussed their efforts.

Simpson releases fourth book

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the world. Print copies sell at $11.95 each while E-book versions are being sold at $2.99. Amazon.com has also been selling Simpson’s books, at a 10 per cent discount since Christmas.

Copies of Simpson’s books are made on a ‘print on demand’ basis, making it difficult to keep up to date on how many copies have been sold. He hasn’t yet planned any book signings or other promotional events, noting that such strategies are often costly.

“It’s a slow process,” Simpson said. “You’ve got to be careful with what you spend.

For the most part, Simpson promotes his works through his website www.dousimp.mnsi.net/. The website is regularly updated by one of his daughters.

“As I promote my books on free websites, people have been contacting me with fantastic stories,” Simpson said. “It’s amazing the stories I’ve picked up since I went public with my beliefs.”

One of Simpson’s first articles based on Cayce’s readings was published in the quarterly Venture Inward Magazine, the publication representing the Association for Research and Enlightenment founded by Cayce. Simpson explained that between 300 and 400 books have been written on Cayce’s 15,000 readings, two-thirds based on medical diagnoses of patients he had never met. Cayce, Simpson explained, was reported to have used medical terminology he had never heard during his trances, retrieving information through a combination of soul to soul communication and access to the Akashic Records — a spiritual hall of information where every sight, sound, thought and action of every soul is stored.

Public Meeting Scheduled

To add parking spaces to the commercial building at 141 Talbot Street West, Council has been approached by the owners of 60 Grace Avenue to re-zone a wedge of their back yard to highway commercial in order to add the land to the Talbot Street property. The addition will allow the commercial property to add a few more parking spaces to the back of the building. Provisional consent was granted by the committee of adjustment, but that consent depends on the re-zoning.

Councillor MacDonald was the only member of Council to voice any concern at this point about the idea, saying that she perceives this as an intrusion into Grace Avenue residential property: a single straight fence line along the backs of the properties will now be disrupted by the removal of a chunk of land to accommodate commercial interests on Talbot Street. She indicated that it was a move she would not support.

The rest of Council felt it was appropriate to send it to a public meeting for public reaction.

Public Meetings Re: Zoning

The Monday, July 8, Council meeting began with two ‘housekeeping’ public meetings. The first was to properly zone land near Leamington’s border with Wheatley for the development of a greenhouse range. A narrow ribbon of land is being transferred from an agricultural-residential zoning to the A2 restricted agriculture zoning. Because of limited opposition, Council passed the zoning amendment at the end of the evening.

The second public meeting was to re-zone a surplus residential lot to be severed from a farm on Mersea Road 1 near Mersea Road 19, taking it from general agriculture to agricultural-residential zoning. Again, no objections were raised by the public, and once again the zoning amendment was enacted at the end of the meeting.

The Leamington Arts Centre (LAC) is calling for submissions for the annual Heinz Ketchup to Art Show that will run from August 6 through August 31.

The exhibition is open to all amateur and professional visual artists. All mediums are accepted in 2D and 3D (painting, photography, sculpture, textile, installations, etc.). Entries are limited to a maximum of 4 per artist. All artwork MUST be in the theme of Heinz, tomatoes or ketchup.

The deadline to submit is August 4 at 4 p.m. There is $600 in cash prizes to be awarded plus Heinz swag prizes too. More information and entry forms are available at www.leamingtonartscentre.com

The Heinz Ketchup to Art Show’s focus is to celebrate the proud heritage and culture of the great town of Leamington as the Tomato Capital of Canada. This exhibition combines two vital parts of the region, agriculture and the arts. Grown with creativity and uniqueness, in this exhibition and community event, ketchup becomes a work of art!

The exhibit is sponsored by Heinz Canada and Cavendish Appetizers.

An opening reception will be held Friday, August 16 from 7-9 p.m.

Since writing his first articles, Simpson has been interviewed by media outlets from around the world. So far this year, his works have been published on 12 different occasions while he has been interviewed by nearly a dozen different sources. His articles and interviews are available to read on his website.

Four-year-old (almost five) Trent Szorvas of Leamington was one of approximately 300 children who lined the Wheatley dock for the 10th annual Kids Fishing Derby on Saturday, July 13. Trent and his brother Joel were fishing with their dad Jason Szorvas and Grandpa Jack Szorvas. The Derby is sponsored by the Southwest Outdoors Club and provides prizes and hotdogs in addition to the hours of fun fishing.

Kids Fishing Derby

RIGHT: Four-year-old Harmony Wood of Wheatley was fishing with her parents Joe and Patience on Saturday at Wheatley Dock as part of the 10th annual Kids Fishing Derby.

(SUN Photos)

Local athletes going to triathlon worlds

By Bryan Jessop

There’s something in the water — not to mention on the bike trails and sidewalks — in Leamington.

Twelve athletes hailing from Canada’s tomato capital will make the trip to London, England from Sept. 15-17 for the annual ITU (International Triathlon Union) Triathlon World Championships. Individuals within the group of nearly a dozen qualified for the international event in either last year’s Tomatoman Triathlon or a similar event held later during the summer in Toronto. Qualifying for each year’s triathlon worlds is conducted the previous year.

The group of Leamingtonites will be among a sum of about 300 Canadians travelling to London, England for this year’s competition. Although only about one in every 1,320 Canadians lives in Leamington, approximately one in every 25 Canadians planning to compete in the global event is a resident of the municipality.

“I’m really proud of Leamington. For a town this size to generate that many athletes for our national team is amazing,” said Dave Campbell, one of the Tomatoman board directors. “They’ve worked hard to get this far. Some are

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Leamington’s Natalie Morse reaches the homestretch in the 2013 Tomatoman Triathlon.

From left to right, Kirstie Kniaziew, Emilie Potvin and Sheri Mazzella completed a Leamington sweep for the top three overall women in the 2013 Tomatoman Triathlon, held on Father’s Day. Potvin and Mazzella will be attending this year’s Triathlon World Championships in London, Eng., Sept. 15 to 17.

Leamington’s Brad Reiter approaches the transition area after completing the biking portion of the 2013 Tomatoman Triathlon in the duathlon event.

Andrew Bridgen of Leamington completes the cycling segment of the Tomatoman Triathlon held on Father’s Day. Bridgen finished eighth overall among 132 participants and will take part in the Triathlon World Championships in London, Eng., Sept. 15 to 17.

Winning team at the Erie Shores Tuesday night ladies league fun night, from left to right, are Mary-Jane Parent, Priscilla Iacobelli, Judy Butler, Cheryl Rutgers (league coordinator), Gloria Adamson, Jo-Anne Smith, Candy Westlake and Erna Wright.

Storm stymies ladies golf night

A special team fun night July 9 for the Tuesday night ladies league at Erie Shores was interrupted by a passing storm, one of many that has frustrated area golfers of late.

At the dinner at Flamingo Restaurant following the partial round of the skills/scramble, the winning team was determined based on differentials for the holes played. Team 8 took top prize – a large box of UNICO products.

Three players, Brenda Fischer, Carol Russelo and Linda Verhoeven, also took home prizes for dressing in the UNICO theme. UNICO has been a generous supporter of ladies golf in this area for many years, and the annual event is held as a tribute to them for their many contributions.

An additional door prize donated by Pelee Island Winery was also awarded.

Congratulations to all who participated.

The league will hold its next team night on August 13 with a Canada theme.

One of the most heated arguments in all of sport is whether or not motorsports are, well, sports.

Racing any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine certainly doesn’t require the endurance of a marathon runner, the strength of a power lifter or the agility of a gymnast. But to suggest that piloting a stock car, dirt bike or baja ATV isn’t physically demanding would certainly be a misrepresentation of the truth. One of my favourite examples of evidence was a televised NASCAR feature where a pit crew was showing the ropes to a group of professional football players, most of whom appeared to be linemen. The pit crew members, each of whom appeared to weigh in at about 170 pounds soaking wet, could slide a jack under a car and have the left or right side tires off the ground in a split second. The football players couldn’t get the job done.

Sooner or later, heat will challenge the fortitude of practically any athlete who engages in a summer sport. Few, however, will be forced to endure temperatures of 50ºC (122ºF) for in excess of four hours. NASCAR and other stock car drivers are among the exceptions. Unfortunately, many motorsports require deep pockets to compete. Certain offshore racing boats cost in excess of a cool $1 million to build. For many, even localized amateur stock car racing is more than the bank account can handle without significant support from sponsors.

This is what turned my attention to drag racing, a motor sport that essentially costs what you want it to cost. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a top fuel dragster or nitro methane funny car backed by more nitrous oxide than most dentists use over the course of their careers to compete. Yes, the average NHRA dragster consumes about 11.2 gallons of the stuff per second (and you thought your SUV’s mileage was bad) for 56 gallons in a five-second quarter mile run. At a cost of $30 per gallon, that’s $1,680 to move the vehicle 1,320 feet (0.4km). That’s expensive, but it certainly would be convenient to drive from Leamington to London in about 20 minutes. Impractical (fuel costs would be about $1.2 million), but convenient.

The good news is that you can get involved with drag racing with the family minivan if you choose to do so. Giving it full throttle will result in trap speeds (the speed your vehicle has reached once it reaches the end of the quarter mile) of about 70 mph rather than 300 mph, but that’s the purpose of bracket racing. It’s a form of the sport that basically gives the slower of two head-to-head vehicles a head start based on pre-elimination round time trials — runs each racer gets to ‘predict’ how quickly his/her car will complete the race once elimination rounds begin. Whoever finishes first without running faster than their dial-in time (called ‘breaking out’) wins and moves on to the next round.

Bracket racing isn’t considered as ‘spectator friendly’ as head up racing, but it allows anyone with a G class driver’s license to get involved. It’s less demanding for your ‘pit crew’ too. I’ve been told that the vision of NHRA crew members blurs considerably during burnouts and launches — not because of raw exhaust spewing from open headers, but because the sound waves actually cause the eyeballs of anyone standing close enough to rattle in their sockets. The 150 dB (decibels) of dragster engines have been known to register readings of up to 3.2 on the richter scale, so it could very well be true (physical pain is inflicted at 125 dB and exposure to 185dB can render a human permanently deaf). The first drag racing event I ever attended as a spectator was a Mopar Day at Grand Bend Motorplex. Most of the contesting cars were street legal, meaning they had full exhaust, including mufflers. During a mid-event break, a Camaro funny car (nope, not a Mopar) did a demonstration run. A friend and I watched from the beer garden (behind and to the right of the burnout boxes) as it rolled up to the staging lights. About .040 seconds after the vertical row of three ambler lights were illuminated on the staging tree, a very unusual thing happened — about half a dozen nearby spectators simultaneously dropped their beers to shelter their eardrums from the unfathomable roar that emitted from that big block V8. Drop your beers and cover your ears, everyone!

Some shudder at the thought of subjecting a car worth thousands of dollars to the assumed risks of drag racing, yet won’t hesitate to plow across a flooded section of street or highway on their daily commute. A foot of water can turn your car into a floatation device that’ll travel in which ever direction the water is flowing or the wind is blowing. That’s also plenty of depth to stall and possibly destroy your engine, making that pre-stage burnout seem like small potatoes in the ranks of mechanical risk factors.

In the relatively new world of ‘extreme’ sports, dirt bike racers have become the front runners in the motorized versions, and for good reason. While never challenging the raw speeds of drag racing, they wow audiences with far greater risks. Early on, they seemed to mimic some of the judged freestyle competitions performed by skiers, but have since expanded their X Games repertoire to include dirt bike high jump, an outstanding spectator sport if there ever was one. Like monster truck drivers, they put a lot of faith in their suspension. Getting back to stock car racing, I can’t help but roll my eyes every time I hear someone say “it’s just four left turns every lap.” These aren’t cutting-edge, amenity-laden Cadillacs being raced. They have a basic version of power steering, but the luxuries of street cars are sacrificed in the name of performance and safety equipment. Keeping a 3,400 pound car under control at 200 mph amid a handful of other 3,400 pound cars close enough to reach out and touch is not a chore for the faint of heart or a ‘pretty good’ driver.

BRYAN JESSOP

Jessop’s

Local ballplayers off to Cooperstown

Nine Leamington District Minor Baseball Association baseball players are headed to Cooperstown, New York, this weekend to compete in the Dream Park National Invitational Tournament.

They will be part of the Sun Parlour Selects fourteen man roster, a team comprised of players from Amherstburg, Kingsville and Leamington.

Coached by Sid Doe of Amherstburg, the players were invited to a try-out in October and selected to play for the Sun Parlour Selects.

“This will be quite an experience for the kids,” said Doe. “They have worked real hard to get to this point. They have been actively fundraising to cover the cost of this trip and seen the culmination of their goal. I think they will have a lot of fun.”

The team consists of players 12 years of age and under and will battle teams from across North America. Over 100 teams will compete in the weeklong tournament.

“As well as playing at least seven games, the players will tour the Baseball Hall of Fame and visit Doubleday Field where the first game of baseball was first played in 1839,” said assistant coach Bill Amlin.

The locals players include Russell Derbyshire, Eric Dominguez, Michael Wiebe and Eric Wright from the Leamington Uni-Fab Enclosures Mosquito Lakers, and Jonathan Fehr, Billy Friesen, Hayden Pilmer, Collin Wall and Eric Willan from the Leamington Dominos Pizza Peewee Lakers.

The players leave Friday morning for Cooperstown.

James Taylor Fishery gets bashed

Southpoint Men’s Softball League Game of the Week: The week 11 edition of the game of the week features James Taylor Fishery versus the Bashers. Game 1 started with the fishmen’s bats wideawake as they went out to an early lead. Their defense could not hold up against a solid Basher team as their bats would fall asleep and Bashers exploded in the 7th winning by a final of 24-8. Game 2 was much of the same for James Taylor Fishery as the Bashers beat them handily 11-1. Kevin “the Matador” Clark made four unbelievable plays in the losing effort for the fishmen. (That was a text he sent me knowing that he did not make those plays!)

Southpoint Men’s Softball League (SMSL)

Around the League: Saw Monkeys lost both to Guardian dropping them to 500 on the season. Game 1 was 9-6 and Game 2 was 7-6… Car Barn split with Dirty Farmers as both teams remain tied for last… Cartel slammed Hutchins Monuments 10-8 and 15-3… Jose’s Grinders easily took care of Team Unit 10-2 and 19-0.

Next week features make-up games from the June 27th monsoon.

Thursday, July 18th Games

Local members of the Sun Parlour Selects pose with head coach Sid Doe during a break in an exhibition game on Saturday as they prepare to play in the Dream Park Invitational Baseball Tournament in Cooperstown, New York, next week. In front, from left to right: Billy Friesen and Jonathan Fehr. Back row: Collin Wall, Eric Willan, Michael Wiebe, Russell Derbyshire, Hayden Pilmer, Eric Wright and Eric Dominguez.

Jared

to the semi-finals at the

Brett Enns, Anthony Fehr, Kyle

Bantam Minors advance to semi-finals at LaSalle tourney

The Leamington Lakers Bantam Minors baseball team recently participated in the Golden Turtle Tournament in LaSalle.

In round robin play the Riverside Royals defeated the Lakers 4-0. Starting pitcher Mitchell “Miggy” Nicholson held the opposition to two runs. Kameron “Squints” Wall finished the game.

The Lakers squad defeated the North London Nationals 7-3. Needing three pitchers to handle the Nationals, starter pitcher Lucas “Crabman” Lamotte got relief from Anthony “Speedy” Fehr and Brett “Verlander” Enns.

Their second win came against the London-Tecumsehs 3-2. Starter Aiden “Ace” Massad pitched five scoreless innings. Crabman and Verlander came in for relief.

This record advanced them to the semi-finals on Sunday against the host team, LaSalle Titans. Starting pitcher Aiden Massad pitched well into the fourth. The Titans were leading 1-0.

In the bottom of the fifth, both Aiden and relief pitcher Anthony Fehr worked hard but LaSalle scored four.

In the top of the sixth, Aiden drew a walk and with bunts from Devin Mills and Ryan Wall, Aiden scored for the Lakers.

Anthony Fehr continued on the mound, keeping the Titans close, but Leamington was unable to score. Final score 5-1 for the LaSalle Titans.

Great defensive plays by Jared Hillier, Jessica Jeffrey, Kyle Wall and Branden Teichroeb.

Local athletes going to triathlon worlds

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doing about 10 workouts per week.”

Campbell and his wife Liz Campbell will soon head to Toronto with hopes of qualifying for next year’s Triathlon World Championships, to be hosted by Edmonton, AB As directors for the Tomatoman, they were unable to race in Leamington’s qualifier. Along with one of their fellow qualifiers, Brad Reiter, the Campbells will also head to Ottawa Aug. 10 for the World Duathlon Championships. Liz finished fourth last year in her age category for the international duathlon, hosted by Nancy, France. Liz participates in the ‘Olympic’ version of the event, starting with a 10 km run, followed by a 40 km bike route and completed with a five km run. Dave and Brad will enter the ‘sprint’ event with a five km run, 20 km bike route and 2.5 km run.

The list of Leamington athletes heading to London in September, along with their respective age divisions, are as follows:

• Emilie Potvin — 20-24F;

• Andrew Bridgen — 25-29M;

• Sheri Mazzela — 40-44F;

• Natalie Morse — 30-34F;

• Jennifer Fox — 35-39F;

• Liz Campbell — 60-64F;

• Linda Penner — 60-64F;

• Pauline Kniaziew — 60-64F;

• Bill Folliott — 65-69M;

• Dave Campbell — 65-69M;

• Richard Kniaziew — 60-64M; and

• Brad Reiter — 30-34M.

With a vast age range, the group represents a diverse background making it difficult to train together. Although many of them often meet for swimming workouts at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex pool on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and gatherings at Northwest Beach, they train as individuals on their own time when cycling or running. Among the group are an Essex-Windsor EMS paramedic, a physiotherapist, pharmacist, fitness instructor, hair salon owner and operator, chartered accountant, optometrist, real estate agent and a Laurentian University student. Only Penner and the Campbells are retired.

“Liz competed in the Canary Islands and when she got back and told me how beautiful it was, I gave my sixmonths notice,” said Dave, a retired teacher and principal.

In the mid 1990s, as many as 16 Leamington residents attended the international triathlon meet per year. That number fell to a low of five or six per year before the Tomatoman became an official qualifier for the annual ITU competition. With next year’s meet to take place in Edmonton, Dave Campbell explained that as many as 20 or more Leamington athletes may attend. This year’s group could have been as many as 14, but costs and scheduling conflicts made it difficult for some to plan the trip to England.

Some of this year’s Leamington Triathlon World Championships entries are members of a newly-formed group dubbed the LKW (Leamington-Kingsville-Wheatley) Runners, stemming from a Tuesday night swim class at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex. The group has more than 100 friends on Facebook.

Six of the 11 preparing for this year’s TWCs — Potvin, Bridgen, Mazella, Morse, Fox and Penner — will be competing internationally for the first time. Richard Kniaziew has been competing on the world stage since 1989 while the Campbells have been doing the same since 1991. World events have brought them to countries including Hungary, Spain and New Zealand.

“We’ve really enjoyed this for the travelling it gets us to do,” said Dave. “Everyone says ‘you’ve got to win gold medals’, but no, we’ll be there to have fun.”

The event in England will feature between 4,000 and 5,000 entries in the various age categories. The Campbells will rent an apartment for two to three weeks while the others will stay in the UK for an average of 10 days to enjoy the sites during their trips overseas. Dave Campbell noted that each athlete is paying for his or her own expenses without sponsorship.

About two-dozen athletes from across Essex County will attend this year’s TWC event in England.

“We’ve got quite a reputation, even though this area is mostly flat and a hard place to train,” said Campbell.

Leamington Lakers Bantam Minors made it

Golden Turtle Tournament in LaSalle. From left to right are: Devin Mills, Mitchell Nicholson, Coach Chris Lamotte, Kameron Wall, Ryan Wall, Branden Teichroeb, Lucas Lamotte, Aiden Massad,

Hillier,

Wall, Coach John Wall, Jessica Jeffrey and Coach Jeff Enns.

Lavoie medals at provincial swim championships

Local swimmer Cody Lavoie, 16, recently competed at the Ontario Provincial Swim Championships against the best swimmers from across the province.

Lavoie had a dominant meet with three gold medals, one bronze, three all-time team records, and qualified to compete in Montreal later this month at the Canadian National Swim Championships.

Cody swam to recordsetting golds in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 IM. Cody’s win in the 200 backstroke marked a three-year reign as provincial champion in this event. His bronze medal, a personal best and team record, came in the 400 IM.

“I am really happy with my meet, but especially the win in the 200 back! To be the provincial champion in this event for 3 years in a row, well, that is pretty cool,” said Cody.

It has been a very hectic time and only gets busier for the soon-to-be grade 12 student at Leamington District Secondary School.

“The NCAA USA recruitment window opened on July 1st and schools have been calling,” said Lavoie. “University of Hawaii and Brigham Young University have been pretty active with their contact and also a bunch of Canadian schools.”

Cody is now in training for Nationals later this month in Montreal. Three hours in the pool and one hour on the weights every day will have him at peak performance.

Immediately after his return, Cody and his father, Bob, are hosting a Swim 2 Win swim camp in early August in Tilbury. The camp is open to any area youth interested in improving their swim skills. Local kids can attend the one-week camp at a discount rate, part of Cody’s efforts to give back to a community that has been so supportive. “It is two hours a day for one week and will be skill set, so all abilities can participate,” said Cody. “The discount price for local kids is to just say thanks for all the support I have received.”

Ladies ball hockey

By Emma Hannigan

In ladies ball hockey, the first game of the night on July 15 was battled out between the Car Barn and Johnston Electric. The first and only goal of the first period was scored by Lindsey Turner from teammate Elsie Leili for the Car Barn, but Johnston Electric came back in the second period with a goal from Sue Ricci. The Car Barn was quick to retaliate and Leili scored another goal assisted by Brenda Lambe. Ricci scored her second goal of the game, assisted by Tracey Sample, tying it up at 2 for both teams and making the final score 2-2.

In the second game, Anthony-Keats Marine was quick to score their first goal against the Journal. The goal was scored by Mandy Pearce, and was quickly accompanied by another goal for AnthonyKeats by Jenn Janzen. Jill Dawson was able to score the first goal for the Journal, making the score 2-1. Brenda Vink scored later in the first half for the Journal, with an assist from Marianne Vergeer. Vergreer scored right after the puck drop in the second period, bringing the Journal ahead

of Anthony-Keats. Anita Vanrooyen scored for the Journal, with an assist from Vink, fol-

lowed by another quick goal from Vink leading the Journal to a 5-2 victory.

Rookie Lakers

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The Harder Heating & Cooling Leamington Rookie Lakers travelled to Blenheim this past week to face the newcomers to the Sun Parlour Baseball circuit.

The Lakers’ hitting attack was led by Nathan Krahn who went 4 for 4 with a double and by Jason Friesen going 3 for 4 with a bases-clearing triple with the game still tight in the fourth inning.

The combined defense of the Lakers proved very effective against the Blenheim team, allowing only four runs in the contest, and the Lakers went on to win the game 11-4.

On Sunday the Lakers visited the LaSalle Majors on a hot and humid day. The team knew they were in for a tough contest against a talented LaSalle team. The Lakers’ left side of the infield was up to the task throughout the game with Kanaan Gale twice turning inning-ending double plays from short and Jason Friesen keeping the LaSalle team at bay by knocking down some ripped balls to the hot corner at third. However, the defensive counterpart of LaSalle was tough to match as they managed keep the Lakers from scoring in this contest.

Jesse Teichroeb had a great performance hitting the ball hard every time but the LaSalle outfield was equal to the task on this day and the Lakers lost 6-0.

The Lakers travel to Chatham this weekend for some open tournament action against some larger centres. Should be a fun one!

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Kanaan Gale turns double play versus LaSalle Majors on Sunday.

Cody Lavoie in full stroke during his gold medal backstroke swim at the Ontario Provincial Swim Championships.

Mosquito Lakers edged by Windsor team 12-10

The late, great Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell used to say that errors will come back to haunt you. If that is true, many of the Leamington Uni-Fab Enclosures Mosquito Lakers may have had a restless night on Thursday, July 11 — a night sprinkled with some scary nightmares.

The visiting Lakers provided little defensive support for their pitchers as they dropped a 12-10 decision to the Windsor Stars at Maurice Belanger Park.

Eric Tavares led the Lakers offensively with three hits. Tavares has been on a tear his last five games, batting .767, 10 for 13, scoring nine runs, and posting an on-base-percentage of .833.

Michael Wiebe and Eric Dominguez had two hits each, while Benny Bueckert, Brayden Zuidema, Thomas Jennings, Eric Wright and Austin Neufeld rounded out the Leamington attack with single tallies

Junior Girls Club Welcomes Alyssa Getty

Participants of the Junior Girls Club at Erie Shores Golf Course welcomed Alyssa Getty to their opening clinic on Wednesday, July 10. Sixteen-year-old Alyssa recently took home a share of third place in the low amateur honours, and placed 45th place overall in her first women’s professional golf tournament in the C.N. Women’s Tour. The newly-formed girls club for girls aged 4-15 is a fun way to get more girls involved in golf. From left to right are Tea Hutchinson, David Owens (Junior Golf Coordinator), Kloie DeJong, Kendra Epp, Cameron Mantha, Hannah Chacko and Alyssa Getty. For more information on the Erie Shores Junior Program, call 519-326-4231 ext. 22. – Submitted photo

Russell Derbyshire and Tavares shared the pitching duties. Jennings and Dominguez both snuffed out Windsor rallies with exceptional catches in the outfield.

“Our defense just had one of those days,” said coach Terry Misener. “This coming off two good defensive games, I am hoping it is just a fluke.”

The Leamington UniFab Enclosures Mosquito Lakers next home game is Thursday, July 25 at 6:15 p.m. against the Tecumseh Major Rangers.

Junior Golfer to Participate in Drive, Chip and Putt Qualifier

Hannah Chacko of Leamington will be participating in the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship local qualifier at Cog Hill Country Club in Chicago, Illinois. Chacko participates in the Junior Program at Erie Shores Golf Course. The two top finishers in her age bracket advance to the regional qualifier, and the winner of that moves on to the National Championships being held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia during the week of the Masters Golf Tournament. Hannah Chacko is pictured here with David Owens, Junior Golf Coordinator at Erie Shores.

Mid-season championships at South Buxton

By Mike Bennett

Leamington’s Joel Dick and Kingsville’s Rob Quick continued their winning ways by capturing mid-season championships on Saturday night at South Buxton Raceway.

Dick took the lead with five laps to go and went on to win the Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modified feature, his third in a row and fourth of the season.

Quick took the midseason checkered with a dominating performance to win the Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature. It was technically the third straight feature he’s run that he has won, as he did not start the June 29 feature because of motor issues.

“It’s awesome,” Dick said. “A win is a win, they’re all pretty important, but this one happens to be one of the bigger races of the year, so it’s a great feeling when you cross the checkered flag in a race like this,” he said after his first career mid-season win.

Dick was locked in a three-way battle with Chatham’s Darryl Hoekstra and Taylor, Michigan’s Clayton Smith for 20 laps behind Merlin’s Joe Brosseau, who led from the drop of the green.

A restart following a caution with five laps to go changed everything as Brosseau washed up the track coming out of turn two and dropped back to fourth place.

Two laps later, Brosseau and Wallaceburg’s Drew Smith were involved in an

accident as the Merlin driver wound up with a DNF and a 17th-place finish after dominating the first 24 laps.

“I don’t know if he (Brosseau) washed up or what really happened to him,” Dick said. “I got a great run off the restart and cleared him.”

Dick admitted he didn’t know if he could have caught Brosseau without the late caution. “He had a really fast car and was getting a good drive off the corner,” Dick said. “I was trying to go where he was running but I couldn’t get the same drive.”

Dick said because it was a 30-lap race, he was saving his tires. “We had a few long green-flag runs and the tires were just starting to come in. I was going to let it all out the last eight laps but the caution came out and that’s the way the race played out,” Dick said.

Hoekstra held off Smith in a photo finish for second while Belle River’s Mario Toniolo was fourth and Chatham’s Eric Vanderiviere was fifth. Tilbury’s J.J. Beaulieu finished sixth, LaSalle’s Mike Demars ninth, Essex’s Gerald Martin 12th, Windsor’s Emerson McIntyre 14th and Dan McIntyre 20th.

Quick took the lead from Dresden’s Matt Sorrell on lap seven and led the final 18 laps, including the final 15 caution-free, in a dominating performance to win the Tirecraft Mini-Mod mid-season championship.

“That’s what I like to see, no cautions,” Quick said. “That way, I don’t lose any

of the ground that I gained. I can just keep my rhythm going.”

Quick weaved his way through the lapped traffic, building almost a half-track lead over Merlin’s Steve Shaw Jr. and Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano, who badly needed a caution to have any shot at a win.

“I owe this to P.J. (Wolters), he did a lot of work on the car, he spent a lot of hours on it,” Quick credited his crew chief and engine man.

Quick won the June 15 and 22 features before he scratched from the June 29 feature after they found a motor issue following his heat race win. “We didn’t want to take a chance on blowing it up,” Quick said. “As long as it holds together, we’re going to the Winner’s Circle.”

Quick came into the night a distant 11th in the points standings, as he sat out one race night and posted two DNFs and two DNS’s in features, costing him of a chance at a division title.

But Quick has his sights on two other targets. “We want to win all the trophy races… we won the championship race last September, we’ve got this (mid-season) and we’re going for the championship race again,” he declared. “And we’re going for the most checkered flags,” added Quick, who also won the crack-thewhip earlier in the night for 11 flags on the season, four shy DeSerrano who won his heat race.

Quick dedicated the win to his father Bob, who turned 77 on Sunday but couldn’t attend Saturday’s races.

Kingsville’s Norm DeSerrano finished seventh in

the Mini-Mod feature, Amherstburg’s Rick Orum was 11th and Kingsville’s Larry Hart 17th in the 20-car field. Merlin’s Eren Vanderiviere won his fourth straight feature and fifth of the season in the Windride Transportation Sport Stocks’ midseason championship race. Harrow’s Patrick Lajeunesse finished second, his brother Doris was fourth, Windsor’s West Bertozzi fifth, Cottam’s Tiffany Ellis eighth, her father Jim ninth and Wheatley’s Steve Cle-

ments 10th. Kingsville’s Rob Young placed 13th, LaSalle’s Bob Visnjic 15th and Belle River’s David Bacon 16th.

Patrick Lajeunesse and Jim Ellis won their heats.

Erie Shores men’s league enjoys team best ball scramble

The Erie Shores Golf Club’s Men’s Thursday Night League had their second Fun Night Team Best Ball Scramble and Meal Event of the season this past week, with 90 players showing up for the competition.

While each team of 6 to 11 golfers split up into two separate groups and added the two 9-hole round scores together, the importance of putting was emphasized as all putting strokes taken per each hole – up to a maximum of 5 – had to be counted until the ball went in the hole.

Leading the way with a 6 under par score was Team Arnold Palmer. That gave them a one-shot victory over Team Bobby Jones who finished second at 5 under par.

The only two other teams managing to break par in this difficult event was Team Ben Hogan at 3 under par and Team Gene Sarazen at 1 under par.

Finishing alone in fifth place at even par was the lefthanded shooting team of Bob Charles, while Team Harry Vardon was next at 2 over par.

Team Jack Nicklaus had the seventh best round ending up at 5 over par, with Team Tom Watson finishing another two back at 7 over par.

The final two squads really found this format difficult with Team Sam Snead coming in at 13 over par and Team Lee Trevino finishing way back in last place at 20 over par.

The next Thursday Fun Night and Meal Event takes place on August 8 at 5:30 pm.

In the weekly salute of teams and golfers who played in the Men’s Thursday Night League 30 years ago, this week Erie Shores remembers Team Nine of the Apple Division where only one player from that team, Paul Bunnett-Jones, is still golfing in the league today.

Other members from that team in 1983 included Bill Bakes, Eric Dutot, Ron Henderson, Ron Koop, Bob

Tom

and Hugh Wright.

Lynn, Bob Moran,

Naeyart, Side Pike, Bill Plumb, Al Slater, Elmer Scratch, Murray Shilson, Randy Verity

Cottam’s Rob Quick receives his Mini-Mod mid-season championship trophy from South Buxton’s Amy Dale. (James MacDonald photo)

Leamington’s Joel Dick (middle), with second-place finisher Darryl Hoekstra (left), and Clayton Smith (right), formerly of Woodslee and now resides in Taylor, Mich. (James MacDonald photo)

Ridgetown’s Dale Glassford won the Lube Tech/ Great Canadian Oil Change UMP Late Models mid-season race, his third straight feature win.

Erie Shores senior golf

By Gordon Wonnick

This has been a golf summer that requires a lot of flexibility on the part of the golfer. The rain just keeps on coming, which has caused the course superintendent to forbid the use of power carts on several occasions. In the case of the senior league this has quite a negative impact because a number of senior golfers require the use of a cart in order to compete. Such was the case last Monday; however, despite this there was still a very respectable turnout.

In the 50/50 draw Charlie Brablec won first prize and Tom Bondy won second.

Closest to the pin competition saw Dave Wilkinson closest on hole #3 and Ross Clark was closest on hole #16.

In the longest putt competition, Jim Sudds rolled in the longest putt on hole #2, and Jack Russell had the longest putt on hole #11.

In the team competition: 1st - Jerry Teed, Ron Tremblay, Ross Clark and Clark Richardson; tied for 2nd –the Bob Park team with Garth Dennerly, Barry Miller and Jim Hodgkins, and the Jim Sudds team with Pat Irwin, Dave Wilkinson and Gary McRae; 4th - Neil Reimer, Tom Klassen and Bill Stackpoole.

Don’t forget the annual Senior Invitational tournament on July 31.

Wet conditions damper TT senior golf

By Bob McLean

On Tues. July 9 there were 30 seniors who tested their golfing skills at the Talbot Trail Golf Course. As a result of excessive rainfall and soaked playing conditions, no carts were permitted on the course. The seniors who did challenge the wet, grassy fairways and rough enjoyed the day with their playing partners.

Jim Pearson didn’t have too much difficulty as he led all the golfers with an impressive 41. Two shots back with praiseworthy 43s were Dave Dent, Doug Langlois and Bob McLean. Al Matthews and Paul Brown played very well to merit solid 44s. Other golfers who achieved less than 50 were Bummy 47, Tom Sasso 48, Al Zanuttini 48, Pat Hill 49, Tom Bondy 49, Larry Schmidt 49 and Ray La Pierre 49. Paul Harrison scored the sole nifty 50!

Kenneth Stockwell

In the 80y+ group, Dave la Bonte fired an excellent 46 and Dave Krueger a commendable 49. Super senior Bill Hutchinson also played very well!

Here is a list of the other “brave seniors” (That’s what Bummy called them. Others would probably describe the group differently!): Joe Moracci, Walter Balsam, Andy Orsini, Bill Mayville, Dave Carter, Gerry Becigneul, Bill Leveille, Jerry Paine, Richard Humber, Mac Hyatt, Dan Tymec (new and upcoming member to the league), Stanley Brophey (the league’s local political analyst), and finally, the one and only Wiz.

There were only three birdies and special congratulations to Al Matthews who scored two of these. Hitting excellent shots, Al achieved the birdies on #8 and #9. Doug Langlois hit his tee shot on #9 to within two feet of the pin. Unfortunately, my assistant forgot to put out the closest to the pin

Kenneth “Ken” Stockwell, 66 years, passed away in Leamington. Beloved husband of Hanna (Vanhorn). Dear father of Shannon Stockwell (Melissa), Carrie Stephens (Scott). Loving grandfather of Dalyn, Laine and Paolo. Dear son of Marjorie and the late Dewey Stockwell. Dear brother of Wayne (Connie), Karen Gobbo (Dino) and the late Ron (Kaye). Several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends also survive.

Ken retired from Chrysler Canada after 35 years of dedicated service.

At Ken’s request there will be no visitation or funeral service.

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Ken’s family wishes to extend their sincere thanks to their friends and family for their support the last few days, and to the Leamington O.P.P. for the exceptional services they provided to Ken’s family.

Memorial donations in Ken’s memory can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Friends may send condolences at www.reidfuneralhome.ca

marker. A gimmee was awarded and graciously accepted by Doug because of the outside interference from his playing partners and the huge distracting gallery witnessing the putt.

In the upcoming days, Derek, Robert and the other outside workers will be working very hard to catch up with all the grass cutting and cleanup. Their diligent work in making the TT course so much fun to play is appreciated.

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