Brant News - Volume 3 Edition 15 - Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fred Eaglesmith’s musical visionFred Eaglesmith wants to make southern Ontario a music capital. And to help make that happen, the Canadian singer-songwriter is embarking on a southern Ontario tour, stopping in smaller cities and towns throughout the month of April. He’ll make a stop in Brantford for a performance at the Brantford Artillery Gunners Club on April 22.

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Spring blooms at the StationVisual Artists Guild Spring Show runs throughout April SEE PAGE 20

Brant Conservative candidate Phil McColeman, left, answers questions during an interactive online forum hosted by Dave Carrol. Read about how Brant federal election candidates are taking their campaigns online inside this week’s Brant News. Election coverage is on Pages 3, 4, 6, 8 and 11. Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News

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The City of Brantford is seeking legal advice after learn-ing of a major delay

in moving forward with the $200-million Greenwich-Mohawk brownfield reme-

diation project.The city is in consulta-

tion with its lawyers after learning that two companies connected to Terrasan Corp. are in the midst of filing for bankruptcy, Brantford Coun. Marguerite Ceschi-Smith said on Wednesday.

Toronto-based Terrasan is the company working on the remediation plan for the Greenwich-Mohawk site.

“We are taking this very seriously,” Ceschi-Smith said.

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Setback for Greenwich-Mohawk projectBRANT NEWS

With two sitting members from Queen’s Park in attendance,

Brant members of the Pro-gressive Conservative Party selected their provincial

election candidate during a meeting on Saturday.

With a successful 35-year career in business behind him, Michael St. Amant went unchallenged in seeking the nomination.

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The weekend fire that destroyed the offices of Brantford’s Ball Media Corporation

was large enough that fire prevention officers will be “several more days” conduct-ing their investigation.

“Given the size of the fire involvement and the fact it required such an offensive from the firefighters, it will be a fairly sizeable dig out,” fire prevention officer Dwayne Armstrong said. “There is a lot of material to sort through.”

Crews responded to a fire at the Grey Street print and design shop at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Armstrong said fire officials were forced to remove the steel roof from the Grey Street building before going in after extin-guishing the blaze.

“We were worried about a collapse while inside doing the investigation,” he said.

The Ontario Fire Marshall has asked to be kept informed about the investigation.

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Ball Media Corporation vice president Darcy Scott

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“We are devastated by what happened,” Scott said. “But we lost a building, not a company. We’re still as ac-

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Left: Firefighters battle a blaze at Brantford’s Ball Media Corporation on Sunday. Photo by Ida Adamowicz, for Brant News

Right: John Ball, president of Ball Media Corporation, hugs his wife, Shelly, at the scene of Sunday’s fire. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

‘We are devastated by what happened’

Women attacked in two separate incidentsStaff RepoRtBRANT NEWS

Brantford police have issued a community alert following two instances of women

being attacked from behind while walking in open areas.

Police say a woman was walking on a path at City View Park at about 12:45 p.m. last Wednesday when she was approached from behind by an unknown man. The man threw her to the ground and the woman fought him off while screaming for help. She managed to escape and

was not injured.The man was last seen

running through the park toward Terrace Hill Street.

The suspect is described as white, between 25 and 35 years old, about 6’0” tall with a heavy build and wearing a dark jacket and blue jeans.

In a separate incident last Thursday, police say a woman was walking at the entrance to Waterfront Park near Eagle Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. A man approached her from behind, threw her to the ground and a struggle ensued. The man lost his grip on the woman and she fled the scene. The victim sustained minor injuries in the attack.

The man was last seen running into the park. A ca-nine unit from the Waterloo Regional Police Service was called in to assist Brantford officers, but the suspect was not located.

The suspect is described as being white, about 5’11” tall, with brown shoulder-length hair and wearing a dark jacket and blue jeans.

Although both incidents are similar, city police have not determined the attacks were committed by the same suspect.

“We are investigating these as two separate inci-dents at this time,” said Insp. Kent Pottruff of the Brant-ford Police Service. “We are appealing to the public for help.”

Police are encouraging women to be cautious when walking alone, especially in areas such as parks, paths or alleys.

Anyone with informa-tion about either of the two assaults is asked to contact Det. Jim Sawkins at 519-756-0113 ext. 2266 or Sgt. Scott Williams at 519-756-0113 ext. 2271.

Alert issued following attacksUnemployment rate holds steady

BRANTFORD – Brantford’s unemployment rate held steady at 9.2 per cent in March, according to statis-tics released by Brant Jobs.

March is the third consecutive month the city has recorded a 9.2 per cent unemployment rate. The rate jumped from 8.7 per cent in December to 9.2 per cent in January.

Nationally, the unemploy-ment rate dipped from 7.8 per cent in February to 7.7 per cent in March, according to numbers released by Statis-tics Canada. Ontario’s unem-ployment rate rose to 8.1 per cent in March, up 0.1 per cent from a month earlier.

Police launch seat belt campaign

BRANTFORD – The Brant-ford Police Service are par-ticipating in a province-wide spring seat belt enforcement and education campaign that began on Wednesday and will run until April 23.

The initiative will involve officers from across Ontario, who will be enforcing seat belt laws and educating driv-ers and passengers about proper use of the safety devices.

Police say citizens of Brantford can expect to see officers conducting random seat belt checks throughout the city. Motorists who fail to wear their seat belts, have it improperly adjusted or fail to ensure that their child pas-sengers are properly secured will face a $240 fine and two demerit points.

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With an unemploy-ment rate higher than nine per cent, bringing

jobs to Brant is a hot topic in the current federal election campaign.

Candidates from the four major parties all have ideas to share about the issue.

NDP candidate Marc Lafer-riere said lowering taxes for small businesses from 11 per cent to nine per cent and giv-ing tax breaks to businesses that create jobs are ways to lower the unemployment rate in Brant.

“We should not be giving out tax cuts willy-nilly with-out seeing job creation,” La-ferriere said. “We need to cut taxes for job creators, such as those with less temporary workers.”

Laferriere says he is the only candidate with a realis-tic job creation strategy. He said residents of Brant riding are struggling with the

quality and quantity of jobs available locally.

“This needs to be ad-dressed at the local level,” Laferriere said. “Small busi-nesses have a huge impact on our community.”

Liberal candidate Lloyd St. Amand said more funding should be allocated to train the hundreds of local workers who have recently lost jobs.

“We should be transition-ing into a green economy,” St. Amand said.

St. Amand said Brant needs to work on attracting green industries, such as the manufacturing of solar panels or wind turbines.

“There is no reason why these products can not be made here,” he said. “We have a strong manufacturing history, a skilled workforce and close proximity to trans-portation corridors.”

St. Amand said a Lib-eral government would not reduce the corporate tax rate further until the federal deficit is eliminated.

“Small business owners do not automatically draw the conclusion that if we lower taxes they can provide more jobs,” he said. “But I am not sure any of us think banks and oil companies should get further breaks.”

Incumbent Conservative MP Phil McColeman said extending his government’s

work share program is one way to keep jobs in the rid-ing.

“More than 46 companies in Brantford have used this program to keep their busi-nesses healthy during the recent economic downturn,” McColeman said. “This will keep jobs is Brant.”

McColeman said keeping taxes low will also attract new companies to Brant.

“The cost of taxation is key and within the low corporate tax environment we have created, we will actively pro-mote our region to interna-tional companies,” McCole-man said. “Businesses create jobs and we need to foster the environment where they can grow and thrive.”

McColeman said helping train displaced workers and extending employment insurance benefits to those who have lost jobs will also be priorities for him if he is re-elected. He said funding available through Enterprise Brant and other federal programs will continue to help companies innovate and reach new markets.

Green Party candidate Nora Fueten said there is a tendency to prop up indus-tries that “have had their day.”

“We should be taking that funding and supporting new industries,” Fueten said.

The economy and the federal election

Wayne Easter with Lloyd St. Amand and Brant Federation of Agriculture president Sandra Vos.Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News

sean allenBRANT NEWS

Aveteran MP from Prince Edward Island and former federal agriculture

minister on Tuesday told Brant-area farmers they are an important piece of the Liberal Party’s national food policy.

“Food is just one example of why people need to take this election very seriously,” Wayne Easter said during a

breakfast meeting with Brant Liberal candidate Lloyd St. Amand and local farmers. “Federal government deci-sions effect us every day.”

Easter and St. Amand shared breakfast with a dozen farmers at Kirby’s Bar and Buffet. The event allowed farmers to discuss their concerns and Easter to shed light on a policy highlighted this week by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.

“It’s based on five simple principles,” Easter said. “Healthy food, safe food,

sustainable farm incomes, farm land stewardship and international leadership.”

Many of the farmers around the table asked about the federal government’s potential buy-in as a partner to the extended risk manage-ment program announced in the recent Ontario provincial budget.

“Within our first year as the government, we would start with a clean slate and work with the farmers to find out what works best,” Easter said.

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County of Brant OPP have charged a Nor-folk County man in relation to a fatal

accident on Brant Highway 53 in the early morning hours on Friday.

Andrew Cherewka, 20, faces charges of impaired driving causing death and driving with more than 80 mg of blood

Charges laid in accident alcohol content causing death.Police say a black Acura

driven by the accused was travelling westbound on Brant Highway 53 just west of Middle Townline Road at about 3 a.m. on Friday. For unknown reasons, the vehi-cle entered the road’s south ditch and struck a tree.

Passenger Sheldon Howell, 20, also of Norfolk County, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Cherewka was taken to Brantford General Hospital with minor injuries and later released. He is sched-uled to appear in provincial court in Brantford on June 9 to answer to the charges.


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The issue of First Nations land claims has been front and centre on the federal

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Incumbent Conservative MP Phil McColeman said a “major briefing” on land claims was set to be held with federal Minister of Indian Af-fairs and Northern Develop-ment John Duncan on March 30, but the Conservatives were defeated in the House of Commons before the briefing could happen.

“(Our government) is work-ing with Six Nations elected band council Chief Bill Montour to get negotiations going again,” McColeman said. “Six Nations is talk-ing about a larger process because their clear desire is to negotiate all through the Haldimand Tract.”

McColeman said negotiat-ing individual, smaller Six Nations claims would not be as effective.

The incumbent Conserva-tive said the chances of real success on the land claims file are slim as long as there is a division between the Confederacy and elected band council on Six Nations territory. McColeman said

there needs to be a clear voice for Six Nations.

“There is no sense in sitting down if there is no reasonable prospect for re-sults,” McColeman said. “We are getting bogged down with who speaks for Six Nations.”

NDP candidate Marc Lafer-riere said he has proposed a land claims accountability act as part of his campaign platform.

“This is the first bill I would try to table if elected because it would mandate whoever is in power to nego-tiate,” Laferriere said. “Ev-eryone from this area knows how important this is.”

Laferriere said it is the fed-eral government’s responsi-bility to negotiate “no matter what.”

“The federal government has been stalling,” he said. “They have been throwing their hands up in the air.”

Laferriere said “shoving blame” onto the Confederacy chiefs and elected band coun-cil does not solve anything.

“Every MP talks about it, but where is the action?” he said.

Green Party candidate Nora Fueten said Six Nations has its own issues to deal with about who represents the territory, making land claims negotiations challeng-ing.

“Our role should not be a dominating role, but we

should walk along with them as they solve their gover-nance problems,” Fueten said. “The people of Six Na-tions need to be main players in the discussions.

“We must continue the talks (on land claims) be-cause this is a responsibility of the federal government.”

Liberal candidate Lloyd St. Amand said not one Six Nations land claim has been resolved during the Conser-vatives time in government.

“The 28 land claims filed by Six Nations remain unre-solved,” St. Amand said. “I don’t know if anyone knows if the talks have been fruitful or successful.”

St. Amand said the federal government must send a “clear signal” to companies and developers interested in Brant that a positive outcome is on the horizon.

“As of now, we are in the dark about when the talks are taking place,” he said.

St. Amand said if land claims negotiations are not successful over “a certain period of time,” an outside mediator should be required to continue them.

He also said the people of Six Nations must decide who speaks for them.

“Six Nations must come to the table with one voice,” St. Amand said. “Otherwise, veto power is given to any one group on Six Nations.”

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Toronto anti-poverty advocate Cathy Crowe spent Tuesday evening

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“I have to put my efforts in the right places (during the campaign),” Crowe said. “(Laferriere) gets the issues I care about.”

Crowe arrived by bus in the afternoon on Tuesday and Laferriere took her to visit Why Not City Missions

NDP highlights povertyyouth drop-in centre on Colborne Street.

Drop-in centre managing director Trevor Beecraft said there should be a much bigger focus on at-risk youth during this federal election campaign.

“They will become the homeless and needy demo-graphic in the future,” he said. “The sooner we can intervene, the better chance we have of putting them on a successful path.”

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Cathy Crowe and Marc Laferriere talk with Why Not City Missions drop-in centre managing director Trevor Beecraft. Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News

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Crowe and Laferriere also attended a public screening of the film Home Safe Ham-ilton at Sydenham United Church.

“The largest group of people who are becoming homeless are families with children,” Crowe said. “This documentary shows how industrialization and job losses affected families in Hamilton.”

Laferriere said lessons learned in Hamilton are worth learning in Brant.

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Taking the federal election campaign online was a no-brainer for local

candidates, but the virtual battle for Brant has gone well beyond websites and e-mail.

From conversations on Twitter and Facebook pages to online video discussions and iPhone apps, Brant can-didates in the May 2 federal vote have a constant virtual presence.

Most prolific among the online users is NDP can-didate Marc Laferriere. Other candidates signed up for Twitter and created their Facebook pages after the campaign started, but Laferriere has been building his online network since he was nominated as an NDP

candidate in 2009.“It’s one of many tools

we’ve been using for years,” Laferriere said. “We’ve been very successful at engaging people.”

Laferriere said a “very good” percentage of his campaign’s fundraising has come from online donations.

But Laferriere said the biggest benefit to engaging online is that an online fol-lower can quickly become a campaign volunteer.

“If you do it right and in a genuine way, people will become engaged outside of social media and help you in the community,” he said. “Many of our campaign workers found their way to us through social media.”

Former Liberal MP Lloyd St. Amand and incumbent Conservative MP Phil Mc-Coleman have waded into the Twitter universe since

Candidates wage virtual campaignBrant politicians take advantage of online tools and social media

the election was called.“I’ve been sending out six

or eight tweets a day,” St. Amand said. “It’s difficult to compress into 140 charac-ters deep thoughts about a particular issue.”

But St. Amand said he has been very pleased with Twitter as a quick means to maintain contact with fol-lowers as he is out knocking on doors.

St. Amand and McCole-man each have about 100 fol-lowers on Twitter. Laferriere has built a following of more than 600.

“I’m just starting now to get the hang of it,” McCole-man said. “It demands a lot of attention because you have to be mindful that if you are going to be on it, you have to be posting.”

While all of the campaigns are also active on Facebook, some have branched out into different online realms.

Laferriere said several people have used an NDP iPhone app to make requests for lawn signs.

“Just the other day, we had 14 signs that were ordered from the Jack Layton app,” he said.

McColeman took his cam-paign online on last week with an interactive video chat. Supporter Dave Carrol hosted a live-stream forum with McColeman that an estimated 200 people logged into.

McColeman answered questions about the down-town and his vision for Brant.

“We’ll be doing another one of these, but combining it with a telephone forum, McColeman said. “We call out to residents and ask them to also take part over the phone. It will hopefully have a much larger audience.”

McColeman said he had a telephone forum a few weeks before the election campaign and had more than 3,800 people take part, with 700 listening for the full hour.

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The City of Brantford is seeking legal advice after learn-ing of a major delay

in moving forward with the $200-million Greenwich-Mo-hawk brownfield remedia-tion project.

The city is in consulta-tion with its lawyers after

learning that two companies connected to Terrasan Corp. are in the midst of filing for bankruptcy, Brantford Coun. Marguerite Ceschi-Smith said on Wednesday.

Toronto-based Terrasan is the company working on the remediation plan for the Greenwich-Mohawk site.

“We are taking this very seriously,” Ceschi-Smith said. “We are waiting to hear back from our lawyers to

Setback for Greenwich-Mohawk projectFinancial difficulties for Terrasan Corp. will lead to delay

protect Brantford taxpayers and the city.”

Ceschi-Smith said she could not say when the city will hear back from its lawyers.

“We need to wait for advice and then reconsider all the options we have,” she said. “This is another delay we will have to endure. It is fortunate that we delayed signing the agreement with Terrasan.”

Though the situation with Terrasan is another setback, Ceschi-Smith said the proj-ect will be completed.

“People have been waiting

for decades for this to be done,” she said. “I am confi-dent this will happen.”

Terrasan was the sole bidder on the remediation and redevelopment project for the Greenwich-Mohawk brownfield.

The company has pro-posed a mix of residential, commercial, museum and park development on the 52-acre former industrial site.

The project is expected to take 10 years to complete.

The city has been in nego-tiations with Terrasan about the project since the summer of 2009.

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Brantford city council is hoping to engage in prelimi-nary discussions

with the County of Brant about shared municipal services.

Coun. Dan McCreary won support from city council for the idea of striking a joint committee with county

councillors to explore the issue.

“We have an opportunity to discuss with the County of Brant opportunities for shar-ing some of the things we provide for both our commu-nities,” McCreary said. “The list of things is extensive.”

McCreary argued that both the city and county have reached optimal ef-ficiencies when it comes to many services they provide and suggested that combin-ing efforts would be the best

City and county consider shared servicesBrantford, Brant councillors move to explore potential partnerships

way to find cost savings.“An example is police ser-

vices,” McCreary said. “The county currently contracts with OPP and there is no reason we could not consider sharing police services. We have a pretty good police department and they could make benefit of that. It would be cost effective for both of us.”

McCreary said fire ser-vices, planning, economic development and tourism could also be looked at.

“Everything should be on the table for discussion,” Mc-Creary said.

During a recent meeting

of county council, staff was directed to prepare a report on shared services, which will come before council at a future meeting.

“Anything that we can do together to benefit us is something we should be doing,” county Coun. Robert Chambers said. “All options are currently on the table.”

Once the county approves striking a committee, the city and county can begin discussions.

Chambers declined to provide examples of specific services that could be shared by the two municipalities un-til further discussion occurs.

VIEWPOINT 11BRANT NEWSTHURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011

Unemployment cause for concern

Unemployment statistics released last week show the continuation of a disturbing trend in Brant region. For the third consecutive month, the local unemploy-ment rate stood at 9.2 per cent in March, higher than

national and provincial unemployment rates and higher than unemployment rates in nearby municipalities.

While there have been fluctuations, the unemployment picture in Brant has not changed much during the past 12 months. A year ago, Brant’s unemployment rate stood at 9.6 per cent. The rate dipped as low as 7.6 per cent during August and September, but shot back up above nine per cent in Janu-ary this year, where it has remained since.

The picture nationally, provincially and in nearby munici-palities is somewhat brighter.

Nationally, Canada’s unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.7 per cent in March, down from 7.8 per cent in February. On-tario’s unemployment rate rose to 8.1 per cent in March, up 0.1 per cent from a month earlier. In nearby municipalities, London recorded an 8.3 per cent unemployment rate, Guelph stood at 7.3 per cent and Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo at 6.7 per cent.

Looking at the numbers, it would seem that there is some-thing holding Brant back. But how to explain the region’s high unemployment rate? The answer likely lies in a combination of events that have hit the local economy hard in recent years.

A severe global recession resulted in the loss of manu-facturing jobs, a blow to the City of Brantford’s traditional manufacturing-based economy. Local jobs were lost in other sectors, too. And along with the recession, the city faced the challenge of Six Nations land claims protests. These protests and accompanying questions about land ownership have cost Brant in terms of job growth. Look no further than Kingspan Insulated Panels abandoning its project in northwest Brant-ford as an example.

It’s scary to think that Brant’s unemployment rate could be higher if not for federal and provincial spending in the riding during the recent recession. As incumbent federal Conserva-tive candidate Phil McColeman has pointed out during the current election campaign, more than $100 million worth of funding for local building projects and organizations has kept people working.

But more needs to be done if Brant is to have a better eco-nomic future. The City of Brantford and County of Brant need to purse true partnership on a strategy to create jobs and grow our regional economy. This partnership should focus on attracting the knowledge-based jobs of the future, as well as increased educational opportunities so Brant residents can compete for those jobs. The city and county must also focus on a renewed effort to join with Six Nations and other munici-palities in the Grand River watershed in pressing the federal and provincial governments to once and for all address land claims. Despite the many seeming obstacles, the land claims issue can only be addressed by working together.

For those who want a frank discussion about these matters of economic importance, you’re in luck: Election campaigns offer the perfect opportunity to talk. Citizens of Brant riding should insist their political candidates address these crucial issues. Because if we don’t address them now, we risk falling further behind when it comes to employment and, worse, fall-ing further behind in creating a better economic future.

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I think NDP leader Jack Layton has an excellent proposal for a seniors retrofit plan to enable parents to share housing with their children as they grow older.

We have being doing this for almost 10 years now and I can see where it would help others in keeping a higher standard of living for older parents. We also get some help paying off the mortgage, too, which is an enormous relief.

We originally purchased a two-storey duplex for this

purpose, but it ended up being unsuitable because of a steep stairway that invited accidents in the upper apart-ment, where my wife’s mom and aunt lived.

We found and purchased a more suitable home with an on-grade level entry to a separate apartment for them, which was much safer. Our small children now pay regu-lar visits (through a common hallway) to grandmother one and grandmother two, which is a nice way of enhancing our sense of family.

Many homes need a retrofit for a separate granny flat, or other stairway and bathroom safety devices, in order to make them safe for seniors. The NDP seniors retrofit plan at a total cost of $90 million would cover 50 per cent of the cost of renovat-ing a home to accommodate elderly family members, up to a maximum of $35,000.

It is one of the most afford-able election promises on the table. It can reduce the high cost of seniors housing, in-crease the equity in peoples

homes and reduce long-term costs to the taxpayer.

With the cost of living eating up private pensions and the Canada Pension Plan projecting big shortfalls, I am glad our family went this way. The NDP has proposed a sensible, affordable seniors retrofit plan that will share with others the many ben-efits our family has found in keeping older family mem-bers close and safe.

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Brant MP praised for work on Home Child billI would like to say a few

words about Brant Conserva-tive candidate Phil McCole-man. I was very pleased, indeed, to meet person-ally with Mr. McColeman in Ottawa and in Brantford regarding the Home Child issue in Canada.

I am the founder and chair of the Canadian Centre for Home Children, located in Prince Edward Island. As volunteers, we have worked

tirelessly for many years to not only bring forward the plight of the Home Children, but to help the Home Chil-dren community reconnect with lost families in the United Kingdom.

Mr. McColeman is the first Member of Parliament in Canada to respond to the cry of recognition from the Home Children and their descendants by introducing a private member’s bill in

the House of Commons.With the unanimous

consent of all parties, the bill – which officially recognized 2010 as the Year of the Home Child in Canada – was passed.

There are some four mil-lion descendants of Home Children in Canada and the majority of those live in southern Ontario.

We greatly appreciate the efforts by Mr. McColeman in attaining this particular rec-

ognition for the British, Scot-tish, Irish and Welsh Home Children who were so cruelly uprooted from their homeland more than a century ago.

Thank you Mr. McCole-man for your sincere and genuine assistance. We look forward to meeting with you again in the future.

John H. WilloughbyCanadian Centre for Home Children

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BRANTFORD – Brantford police made three drug-related arrests last Wednes-day.

Officers executed a search warrant at a Gladstone Avenue address at about 3:30 p.m. Police entered the residence, arrested three men and seized 21.5 grams of crack cocaine with a street value of $2,150. Officers also seized a small amount of marijuana and just under $1,000 in cash.

A 38-year-old Bramp-ton man is charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and breach of recognizance.

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A 50-year-old Gladstone Avenue man is charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.

Two arrestedfollowing B&E and assault

BRANTFORD – Brantford police have made two ar-rests in relation to a break and enter and assault that occurred last Wednesday.

Officers responded to a break and enter at a Hart Street residence at about 9:15 p.m.

A 21-year-old male victim reported that two men known to him entered his residence looking for money. Police say the victim con-fronted the two men and was repeatedly punched after refusing their demands.

The suspects then fled the residence with the victim’s cell phone and some jewelry. The victim received minor injuries as a result of the assault.

Officers located two male suspects at a Colborne Street residence. Both men were arrested and taken to the Brantford police station. They were charged and later released.

A 22-year-old Colborne Street man and a 19-year-old Queen Street man face charges of break and enter and assault.


With two sitting members from Queen’s Park in attendance,

Brant members of the Pro-gressive Conservative Party selected their provincial election candidate during a meeting on Saturday.

“When I accepted the role of president, I promised to have a full process to find the best candidate,” PC

Brant riding president Kevin Magee said. “I also promised at the end of that search that we would have the best candidate.”

Magee said the Brant PCs started with a list of more than 50 names of potential candidates to challenge Lib-eral MPP Dave Levac in the coming provincial election.

From the search emerged Michael St. Amant.

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St. Amant nominated by Brant PCsProgressive Conservatives select candidate for provincial vote

Ontario Ministry of Industry and Trade and chief operat-ing officer of the Ontario De-velopment Corporation, St. Amant went unchallenged in seeking the local PC nomina-tion.

He accepted the nomina-tion during a formal gather-ing with 50 members of the PC party in attendance.

“My major concern is the number of tax increases implemented by the Mc-Guinty government,” St. Amant said. “It’s punitive to average working families, punitive to pensioners and it hurts students.”

In attendance on Saturday to congratulate St. Amant were Oxford MPP Ernie

Hardeman and Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett.

“You have a good candi-date here,” Hardeman said. “Many people believe it’s the party politics that decide the vote, but the numbers attributed to the individual candidate are anywhere from 10 to 15 per cent. That is why it is so important to have a good candidate.”

Levac has taken the past two provincial elections in Brant by margins of more than 20 per cent.

The provincial election is scheduled for Oct. 6. The NDP has yet to select a can-didate, saying the party will wait until after the current federal election.

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A Progressive Conservative MPP came to the Brantford General

Hospital on Monday to slam the Liberal government’s Local Health Integration Networks and “eHealth-style waste.”

“While Dalton McGuinty continues to waste precious health care dollars, Tim Hudak and the Ontario PCs would put an end to Dalton McGuinty eHealth-style waste, scrap his $14 million LHIN clubs and reinvest the money where it is needed most – front-line patient care,” MPP Jim Wilson said.

Wilson, MPP for Simcoe-

Grey, joined newly selected Brant PC candidate Michael St. Amant at the hospital for a media event. Wilson decried growth of the LHINs’ “sunshine list” in 2010. The list includes em-ployees who earn more than $100,000.

“For the first time since they were created, each of Dalton McGuinty’s 14 LHINs spends more than

$1 million annually on the high-priced salaries of its executives,” Wilson said.

Brant MPP Dave Levac called the announcement “an easy political cheap trick,” saying the LHINs are an important element of the Ontario health care system.

“The LHINs deliver health care at the local level,” Levac said.

Levac said the salaries

paid to LHIN executives are a reflection of the province wanting to “pay the best, for the best.”

Levac said the PCs avoid talking about improve-ments the Liberals have made to health care across the province, including a reduction of wait times.

“They just want to race to the bottom of wedge poli-tics,” he said.

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Brant PC candidate Michael St. Amant, left, and Simcoe-Grey MPP Jim Wilson. Photo by Jason Teakle, Brant News

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A Brantford mayoral candidate will not be barred from the next municipal

election if he can show his failure to provide financial statements in the required timeframe was inadvertent.

Former city councillor Mark Littell has to prove that his contravention of Ontario’s Municipal Elec-tions Act was committed “inadvertently or because of an error in judgment” in order to prevent suspension from the next municipal election.

Littell failed to arrive

at city hall on March 25 in order to formally present his financial statements to the city clerk. Littell said he had a “passport mix up” during a vacation in Mexico that forced him to miss his return flight the day before.

“I had the wrong passport in my possession when I ar-rived at the airport,” Littell said. “I was supposed to be back in time but I was un-able to be there to swear-in (my papers).”

Section 92 (6) of the Municipal Elections Act prescribes the ability for a candidate to appear before a justice of the peace to show their error was made “in good faith” in order to have penalties lifted.

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The penalty for failing to submit financial records properly is a suspension from the following munici-pal election.

Littell said he will be looking into the option of proving his “honest mis-take” to a judge.

“Yes, that is definitely something we will be ex-ploring,” Littell said.

While Littell hasn’t said he is definitely running in the next municipal election, he said he “doesn’t want any options closed to him.”

City clerk Darryl Lee said the process to have the penalty lifted isn’t clearly defined.

“It does provide him an avenue, it just doesn’t detail how that’s done,” Lee said. “It would be up to the candidate to get this before a judge.”

Lee said the municipal-

ity’s role is to apply the penalty in the act. There is no more for the city to do unless a candidate gets an order from a judge, Lee said.

In addition to Littell, may-oral candidate Rob McDon-ald, Ward 1 candidate Sieg Holle, Ward 5 candidates Don Haddow and Frank More and trustee candidate Michael Hurley did not submit financial records in time.


Raising awareness of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days cam-

paign is even more impor-tant for the organization this year because of a change in the program.

Instead of distributing live daffodils as a tool to raise awareness and funds in the fight against cancer, the cancer society has switched to a lapel pin.

“The live daffodils were incredibly expensive and we are always looking at ways to make sure our donor dollars are being used as appropriately as possible,” fundraising co-ordinator Beth Borody said. “Going to the pin was a much better financial decision for us.”

The local cancer society held it’s second annual Daf-fodil Day Brunch on Sunday at the Gunner’s Club. About

Cancer society launches Daffodil Days

200 people attended the event, which included an all-you-can eat brunch.

Those who attended were given a daffodil lapel pin to

wear throughout the April Daffodil Days campaign.

“The funds and proceeds from this go to cancer research and cancer support

programs in the area to make sure we join the fight and fight back as hard as we can against cancer,” Borody said.

Brooke Enslow, Peyton Gurney and Catrina Terpstra dance with the Graceliners at the cancer society’s Daffodil Days Brunch. Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News

Anything Goes at Sanderson Centre

Conductor Philip Sarabura, centre, and members of the Brantford Symphony Salon Orchestra acknowledge the audience following the orchestra’s performance of Anything Goes at the Sanderson Centre on Sunday. Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News


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It wasn’t as harsh as a dressing down from Simon Cowell, but five local bands that went

head-to-head in Saturday’s “Musical Smackdown” in Harmony Square all walked away with some construc-tive criticism.

“We are going to take ev-erything into consideration and we are definitely going to try and change things because we know those (judges) know what they are talking about,” drummer Aidan Bourgeois said.

A panel of four judges comprised of local musi-cians and producers gave each band detailed notes after their performance in an American Idol-style.

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Elementary school students from Brantford, the County of Brant

and Six Nations gathered at the Burford Fairgrounds on Wednesday to learn about where their food comes from.

The 16th annual Bite of Brant, organized by the Brant County Federation of

Agriculture, was designed to raise awareness among stu-dents about local agriculture.

“This is a real snapshot of the Brant County agriculture that feeds our community,” said Jean Emmott, chair of the Brant agricultural awareness committee. “Agri-culture also plays a vital role in our economy.”

Emmott said about 900 stu-dents were expected to attend Bite of Brant on Wednesday and Thursday. lauren Baron

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The Canadian Mili-tary Heritage Muse-um is now home to a rare Second World

War Japanese machine gun thanks to a recent donation made by a local family.

“It is a great addition to our collection,” museum chairman Rick Shaver said. “I don’t even think (Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum) has one of these.”

Brantford resident Gerry Gamble’s father, Edward J. Gamble, spent six months in the Aleutian Islands in 1942 with the Canadian Forces, defending the islands from Japanese invaders during the Second World War.

When he returned, Ed-ward brought with him the deactivated machine gun, a deactivated grenade, anti-aircraft shells, patches and other items from Japanese

soldiers. Edward passed away on

Dec. 4 last year at the age of 87. He left all of his wartime artifacts to Gerry.

“My father never really wanted anyone to know what he had,” Gerry said. “He left it to me to pass on as I wish. My thought was: Why leave it in my house and then in my son’s house when we can show Brantford and Brant County the little piece of his-tory my father had?”

Edward’s time in the fog-gy, desolate Aleutian Islands wasn’t the last wartime adventure for the Brantford soldier. After returning to Canada, he was awarded a Canadian Voluntary Service Medal and clasp and was soon sent to the United Kingdom, where he trans-ferred to the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.

Edward landed in Calais, France, one week after D-Day and was wounded by a German sniper during

battle. A captured German doctor, who was held at gun-point, performed emergency surgery on his leg.

By the time he settled back in Brantford, Edward had served 1,096 days.

“I feel very proud of my father for what he has done and not thinking about his own life, but thinking of Canada and the whole world,” Gerry said. “It was the duty of all the men in Canada. He thought it was going to be the adventure of a lifetime and boy was it.”

Edward’s service has been an inspiration to his 18-year-old grandson, Evan Gamble. Evan has become a budding war historian and hopes to one day join the military like his grandfather.

“When I first saw all this when I was young I wanted to know as much of his past as possible,” Evan said. “I want to be a young person who can tell people about what happened.”

Family donates rare artifact to military heritage museum

Gerry Gamble, Evan Gamble and Rick Shaver with a rare Second World War Japanese machine gun the Gamble family recently donated to the Canadian Military Heritage Museum. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

Students take a Bite of Brant

Sheep farmer Chris Kyle speaks to students at Bite of Brant on Wednesday.Photo by Jason Teakle, Brant News

“We are helping students become more aware of the source of some of their food, with an emphasis on food that is locally produced,” Emmott said.

The event consisted of 20 stations run by local farmers and volunteers. The stations were based on the four food groups in the Canada Food Guide.

Students learned about sheep, chickens, cows and fruits and vegetables.

“Students must take what they learn today and com-municate their experiences once they are back in the classroom,” Emmott said. “Students need to know that Ontario produces some of the best food in the world and people need to buy local to keep local people employed.”

Ayr sheep farmer Chris Kyle said he volunteers at Bite of Brant because it is important for students to see where their food comes from.

“There are not as many farmers around these days,” Kyle said. “There is a discon-nect between many of the students and where their food comes from.”

Mackenzie Wright, a Grade 5 student at St. Theresa School in West Brant, said the sheep station was her favourite.

“They are so cute,” she said. “I also learned how to grind apples to make apple cider today.”

Univernia

“Nice recovery from drop-ping your sticks,” music producer Jamie Prokop told RiFF RaFF drummer Ryan Luke. “That will happen from time to time, but I bet most people here didn’t even notice.”

Organized as part of a school project by Mohawk College student Huynh Tieu, the Musical Smackdown

featured bands Ravyns Fall, Univernia, Paper Beats Scis-sors, RiFF RaFF and Safe, Than Sorry.

“Since we wanted to bring the youth out, we part-nered with the Brantford Youth Council,” Tieu said. “They helped us recruit the bands and they had an-nouncements at all the high schools.”

Judges were tasked with scoring each band’s per-formance and selecting a winner.

“Really it’s performance and stage presence for me,” judge Scott Hendon said. “It’s one thing to make a CD, but it’s another to come out and rock the stage.”

Playing a cover of Rush’s Limelight to close their set, Univernia took home first prize, a new mixing board.

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For someone with such an impressive wrestling resume, Assumption Col-

lege’s Madison Parks has very few expectations about her upcoming trip to Europe to ply her trade.

The 17-year-old was se-lected to travel to Romania and Turkey later this year as a member of the Canadian junior national wrestling team.

Parks has already com-piled an impressive list of achievements including gold medals in the 52-kg category at both the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools

Association and Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association tournaments, but is humble about her upcoming trip.

“I’m not really sure how I’ll do,” Parks said. “I’m very excited. It will be a very different experience. I’ve never been outside of North America so it will be interesting.”

Parks and the team will travel to Romania from May 6 to 8 for a training camp, then return to Europe for a tournament in Turkey from May 13 to 15. If that wasn’t enough travel, they’ll be back on a plane to Romania from July 26 to 31 for the junior world championships.

The Grade 12 student is a member of the Guelph Wres-

tling Club and has already been accepted to attend the University of Guelph on a wrestling scholarship in September, but has never wrestled in Europe and expects the competition to be tough.

The junior competition is for athletes under the age of

21, so Parks will surely be one of the younger competi-tors.

“They have more develop-ment for wrestlers overseas,” Parks said. “The girls will be a lot older and probably more experienced.”

While she admits the com-petition will be experienced, Parks has a lot of wrestling under her own belt and qualified for the Canadian junior national team after winning the 51-kg division at the national championships in March.

In addition to competing at her first international com-petition, Parks has already set her sights on a podium finish in her division at the Ontario University Athletics and Canadian Interuniver-

sity Sport levels in her first year.

“It’s been done before,” she said. “I just have to keep training hard and keep up with everything. Right now I’m focused on Europe but I don’t have high expectations because it’s my first interna-tional competition. I’m just happy to go and see what happens.”

Parks is receiving some support from the Guelph Wrestling Club for her trip but is accepting donations to help cover the $2,500 she is expected to provide herself. Donors will receive a tax re-ceipt. Cheques can be made out to the Guelph Wrestling Club. To make a donation, contact Mara Schiavulli at 519-770-4251.

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People in the market for new window cov-erings can shop in the comfort of their

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Jerry LaFramboise says plantation and California shutters are still in high demand. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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or just a saucer sunk into the ground,” Hutchinson said. “But remember, you will also attract caterpillars, which can cause some damage to plants.”

Bird feeders, bird houses and trees or shrubs with

berries will attract birds to the garden.

Walter’s staff can help people determine where plants should be placed and which plants will best suit what they are trying to achieve.

“You definitely want some bones to your garden, which would be your shrubs. Then you want to add colour that comes back year after year, which is your perennials,” she said. “Then you want to add your pow, which will be your annuals.”

Hutchinson says gardeners should never underestimate the impact of annuals, no matter how established their perennial gardens are.

“You want to have good base plants and then you want to add variety with your annuals,” she said. “Your annuals are your ac-cessories, like jewelry with a little black dress. It’s the bling.”

People can accessorize further with items like bird houses, garden spikes and birdbaths.

“I always accessorize after the fact with one or two whimsy things like bird houses or night garden ac-cessories that are really big right now.”

Night garden accent pieces like solar, battery-operated or electric lights, or glow-in-the-dark gazing balls and spikes, enable people to create a bling factor in their gardens day and night.

Water features add a touch of whimsy to gardens. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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Spring weather is finally on its way and although it still seems a long way off,

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“Maintenance is some-thing that people with units in service for a year or two should consider doing now if they haven’t been looked at,” Villamere said. “It’s a great way to ensure efficiencies are at their peak.”

Renway Heating and Cooling professionals will come to the home to perform maintenance on central air conditioners, including checking refrigerant levels and cleaning the outdoor condenser unit to ensure dirt and debris trapped over the winter months are removed.

Villamere said people can determine if their unit is in need of repair or replace-ment by gauging how effi-

ciently it ran last summer.“If they have a recollection

of the previous season, when the unit ran continuously to keep up with the load or didn’t cool the home the way it normally did, it would indicate an issue,” he said. “But that might be as simple as maintenance. There are times when a little mainte-nance is all the unit needs.”

If it is time to replace the unit, homeowners should determine if they want some-

thing that is quieter than their existing model.

“There are units out there that you have to raise your voice over if you are in the vicinity of it,” he said. “The Tempstar units that we sell have very good reputations for their noise levels, which are quite low.”

When a professional is called in to offer a quote, ensure that the unit they are quoting on will meet the home’s cooling require-

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at the job should reassess the size of the unit if it was not keeping up with the needs of the home, if there was an addition put on recently or something else was changed in the house, or if the unit wasn’t sized properly in the first place.”

The higher the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio rating (SEER) of a unit, the more energy efficient it will be.

“Older units can be as low as eight SEER,” Villamere said. “With a new unit now the industry standard mini-mum is 13 SEER. If some-

body is looking at spending more and wants to go the ex-tra mile to save money, they should look at a 16 SEER unit. I always say if they are going to live in the home for an extended period of time, a higher efficiency unit will start to pay you back in the long run.”

Although Eco-Energy grants are no longer avail-able, homeowners will still benefit from some savings if they purchase a new air con-ditioning unit and furnace.

“There are still the On-tario Power Authority cool savings rebate programs and factory rebates from Tempstar right now,” Vil-

lamere said. “If people put in a top-of-the-line furnace and air system there are rebates up to $1,400 still available.”

If a furnace is 20 or more years old, homeowners would be wise to think about replacing their system now in order to save energy costs over the coming years.

But a newer system that is dirty won’t provide the energy savings consumers are looking for.

“A dirty system is costing more money every time it is on, even if they have a new unit,” Villamere said. “A dirty unit does not breathe properly and doesn’t work as efficiently.”

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With hundreds of granite slabs available for viewing in

Aallstone Granite’s Henry St. slab gallery, homeowners can take the guesswork out of choosing a new kitchen counter.

“I recommend to people that they bring in a cup-board door and samples of their floor, backsplash and paint colour so they can put them up to the slabs and see what colour tones come out,” owner Michael Coulter said.

Some homeowners want to complement the tones already existing in their kitchen while others prefer that the counter be more of a breaking point to the sur-rounding decor. No matter what their goal is Coulter advises against choosing a counter that detracts from the kitchen.

“You want it to be a com-plete kitchen experience so you don’t want your kitchen to be overpowered by the granite,” he said. “The goal is to make it a kitchen that flows effortlessly.”

Once they choose the colour, people can determine how they want their counter to be laid out.

“We can turn the counter and cut it in a certain way to manipulate the granite itself,” Coulter said. “Some people may not like a certain characteristic of the granite, so we can cut a piece out that they don’t want.”

Granite is a natural stone and veins in the stone itself create a type of movement that enhances its character and beauty. But that can cause problems during installation.

“It is extreme-ly important when the coun-ter has to turn a corner that the movement goes the same way,” Coulter said.

He advises talking with installation professionals to ensure there will be contin-ual movement in the grain of the stone if a seam is required.

gives homeowners peace of mind in knowing they are getting exactly what they had envisioned.

“Once you get over 60” we may have to put a seam in but we always talk about seam location with hom-eowners and let them know why we are doing what we are doing,” Coulter said. “We will also talk about under-mount sinks and if they want an overhang or want a

reveal, so ultimately in the end there are no surprises.”

In addition to offering hundreds of different granite slabs as well as a good variety of quartz slabs to choose from, people visit-ing the Aallstone Granite showroom can see different kitchen styles, counter edge profiles and other granite applications like flooring, shower walls and a fireplace surround.

People in the market for a granite counter also need to determine if they want two slabs laminated together or prefer one solid thickness. Slabs generally measure 120” to 126” by 72” high and come in thicknesses of 3 cm or 2 cm.

Various edge profiles are created to further enhance the character of the counter.

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“The quality of attendees is more important than the quantity,” Sales said. “The show is a success year after year due to the quality of exhibits displaying at the show and the integrity, knowledge and expertise of the exhibitors who are more than happy to share with the people attending the show.”

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From rope lighting for decks and stairs to whimsi-cal lady bugs and snails that light up the garden, the many variations of solar LED lighting is limitless, says seasonal department manager Laurie Giles of Home Hardware on King George Road.

Solar lights can be pur-chased individually or in packages of four or more, and can be placed virtually anywhere, indoors or out.

Rope lighting is one of the most versatile products because it can be weaved along stairs for added safety, placed along garden edges or intertwined into patio umbrellas to add sparkle to a summer night.

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“You can string these in the front flower garden and just tuck the battery pocket away,” Giles said. “You really don’t have to do any-thing else after you set the timer, in fact, I’ve had mine running constantly since last October.”

Solar spot lights can be directed to specific areas in the garden that homeowners want to showcase, such as flowering shrubs or planters filled with colourful blooms. Fence post lights create a soft, luminous glow to the entire perimeter of the yard that can be seen from the front street.

Other lights shaped like hummingbirds or flip-flops create whimsy in the garden or around the patio. New this year are solar tiki torch kits in sets of two, sets of three lighted palm trees and stone-look stake lights with stainless steel accents.

“You can get very elegant or very whimsical with these,” Giles said. “With all of the different designs and styles you can really get imaginative.”

Homeowners looking to further accent their outdoor escapes will find an assort-ment of items at Home Hard-ware like stakes that can be inserted into the ground to hold flower planters, Traeger Pellet Grills for barbecuing, smoking and slow-cooking meals, electric barbecues for balconies and patios and a wide range of barbecue accessories.

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Set to launch during Earth Week, the e-waste station enables people to dispose of

old and used computers and television sets without cost.

“Over the course of the years it was not uncommon for people to want to drop off their computers or TV sets with us,” said ReStore man-ager Linda Moyer. “We don’t sell those items so quite of-ten we were left with having to take them to a recycler.”

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Moyer said the launch of the e-waste program is a per-fect tie-in with Earth Week.

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“You’re going to see lots of colour, from fuchsias to purples, turquoise, blues and yellows,” Ashby said.

“One colour that is still very strong is your chartreuse green. By keeping your main spaces fairly neutral and adding pops of these colours here and there it will really make an impact.”

Don’t underestimate the power of white when acces-sorizing, however.

“I tell people they really need to add something white in their spaces, whether it’s in the form of ceramics or

flowers. You need to bring white into your space to neu-tralize the colour,” Ashby said.

Brightly-coloured artwork adds interest to a room while helping to emphasize neutral backdrops like grey, which is coming on strong as the main neutral tone.

“Your main basic colour is grey this year, it’s your big neutral,” Ashby said. “Grey has replaced your browns and creams.”

Although colour is a must when it comes to accessoriz-ing, it shouldn’t be the main focus in a room.

“Keep your bones neutral in every room,” Ashby said. “That allows you to go with these trends without invest-ing a lot of money.”

Wood grains are also tak-ing up lighter, greyish tones to resemble driftwood, she added.

While contemporary is still strong to pair with the clean lines of trendy accessory pieces and dulled silver tones, traditional furnishings are on the rise in popularity.

“But try to keep them to classic pieces like your Queen Anne’s chair or Bergere chairs,” Ashby said.

Crystal is still very popu-lar and can be paired with traditional or contemporary furnishings. While metals also continue to dominate, they are less shiny and brassy.

“You’re going to see a rise of warmer metals like cop-

pers and golds,” Ashby said. “You’re going to see more dulled finishes, which is beautiful mixed with matted finishes of the silvers.”

Homeowners will find an array of colourful acces-sories at Insight to Interiors West Street location. Ashby will soon retire the store and focus on interior decorating consultations to help people accessorize, renovate and furnish their homes.

“I will still be able to order custom furniture pieces and people can still hire me for their projects from start to finish,” she said. “I will come in and do an entire floor plan if required, or help choose paint colours. I want to help people bring their visions to life, or create a vision for them.”

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Think bling when choosing new lights for the home this yearColleen TomsBranT news

When it comes to lighting trends for spring, think bling.

“Bling is still in,” says Sherree Canning of Avenue Lighting on St. Paul Ave. “Crystal and sparkle is still pretty much the front run-ner in lighting trends this season.”

Chrome accents and oversized light fixtures are also coming on strong in the lighting world as homeown-ers strive to inject their homes with character and personality.

“There is also a lot more gold coming back into the picture but it’s more of a dis-tressed, aged gold so people who already have antique brass can merge that with their new pieces without clashing,” Canning said.

Homeowners often express their individual styles and tastes with accessory pieces and lights are taking on that role to a greater degree.

“People are willing to go larger in all areas of the home. This is an application where bigger is better be-cause then the light becomes more of a decorative acces-sory,” Canning said. “Now people want lighting to be

the focal point; people want that conversation piece.”

While some people still choose more conservative pieces, others go all out to ensure their light fixtures make an impact.

“They’re willing to go a little more edgier with their lights,” Canning said. “People are putting hanging light fixtures in their liv-ing rooms over their coffee tables and bringing them down lower. A hanging piece can be quite nice and makes more of a statement than a lamp.”

People are leaning heavily towards hanging and semi-flush lanterns with clear glass shades when choosing lighting options for the foyer. They are also looking at new ways to incorporate light fixtures in their kitchens and dining rooms.

“A new trend is that in-stead of having three smaller pendants over an island, people are doing two. Or, they will have two medium sized fixtures over the din-ing table instead of one,” Canning said.

Drum shades continue to make an impact but now they are becoming more elaborate with lots of metal. Square fixtures are a new trend that also become con-versation pieces.

Canning said people are taking their looks outdoors as spring approaches, but they want to remember to create just as much of an impact outside as they do inside.

“When it comes to lighting their entranceways every-body goes way too small with their outdoor lights,” she said. “Because of the scale of the house you want a big fixture to give the entrance more of a grand look. It draws attention and adds curb appeal.”

Homeowners can also co-ordinate their outdoor lights with their mailboxes and house number plates.

“When you co-ordinate the mailbox, the house number plate and the exterior light it gives the home a whole new makeover for spring,” Can-ning said.

Exterior fans for sun porches and gazebos are another way to bring light-ing options outdoors while making a statement.

“Exterior fans not only provide a breeze on hot summer days but help keep the bugs away because of the movement,” Canning said.

A new line of ethanol flame spikes for the garden will also add ambience and beauty to the outdoors on warm summer nights.

Sherree Canning says bigger is better in outdoor lighting.

Bling is still in for spring lighting trends. Photos by Colleen Toms, Brant News


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Mark out the location of the patio, walkway or driveway. Call the utilities (i.e. gas, electricity), phone company and cable T.V. for locates. Tools required: Wheelbarrow, rake, shovel, plate compactor (with protector), guillotine and/or masonry saw, tape mea-sure, gloves, safety glasses, ear protection. In some cases heavy earth moving equipment may be required depending on the scope of the project and the materials being worked with.

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Excavate the minimum required depth depending on your application (your local experts or contractor can make recommendations for this based on specific questions regarding your soil content and by referring to a Base Thickness Chart). For walkways, excavate a minimum of 3” wider than the area. For driveways and patios excavate a minimum of 6” wider than the area you are applying pavers to.

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After the installation is complete, including edge restraints, the pavers must be swept clean and then compacted with a plate com-pactor (and protector). This helps settle the pavers into the bedding sand and creates a flat surface. (For patterns, such as circles, you may want to put some jointing sand in first to stabilize the smaller pieces.) We recom-mend a minimum of three passes with the compactor going in different directions.

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Homeowners can be proac-tive when it comes to lawn and garden maintenance by following some simple steps that will keep their properties looking beautiful all summer long, said Syd Antler of Antler Services on Roy Boulevard.

He offered the following tips for do-it-yourselfers to help tackle invasive weeds and insects:

1. Give the garden a kick start in spring with an ap-plication of corn gluten, a natural product that will help stop most weeds and crabgrass seeds from ger-minating. Corn gluten can be applied sparingly where weeds and crabgrass grow,

such as along hot, dry edges of the lawn, or on the entire lawn. Water into the soil for fast results.

Corn gluten can also be used in flower and garden beds to stop weeds and crab-grass from germinating, but will not kill existing weeds. It is safe for children and pets and can be applied by hand for small areas, or by a fertilizer spreader for larger areas. This product should also be applied in early fall.

2. If weeds have taken over the lawn, Weed-B-Gon can be used in conjunction with corn gluten. This selective weed killer will not harm children or pets but they should be kept off the lawn until the product has dried. This usually takes about two hours on a sunny day.

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4. Lime will reduce acidity of the soil to enable fertil-izers to work better and pro-vide favourable conditions for earthworms, which are said to be nature’s natural aerators. Lawns will also be less susceptible to the growth of mushrooms, moss and fungal disease.

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Cooper eyes Team CanadaSean allenBRANT NEWS

For some athletes, a karate tournament in Brantford is the first step on a jour-

ney to make Team Canada and compete on the world stage.

One of the athletes at last weekend’s D&D United Martial Arts open chal-lenge was 13-year-old Kelsey Cooper. Already a decorated competitor on the world stage, Cooper is one of the best martial artists to come out of Brantford.

“She was the first under-18 competitor in Brantford to make Team Canada three

years in a row,” sensei Bryon Davis said. “As a junior black belt, she was the first athlete from Brantford to win a gold medal and mul-tiple medals in the tourna-ment last year.”

Cooper, a Grade 8 student from Mount Pleasant School, has been training with D&D United since 2004. She has competed in six events on the world stage.

“To put that into hockey terms, it’s like making the all-star team as a centre, left wing, right wing, defence-man and goalie,” Davis said.

Cooper credits her success to hard work and discipline.

“It’s just a lot of practice and time put into it,” Cooper

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for the tournament.“If you can come out and

perform very well at this, you’ve just pointed yourself up pretty high,” Davis said. “To show that you are re-ally good off the bat not only makes you look better, but it scares the competition.”

Cooper placed second in the forms, weapons and open musical competition for black belts. She has a lofty goal for this year’s world championships.

“I want to win the triple crown, which is at least three golds,” she said.

Davis said between 15 and 20 athletes from D&D Martial Arts have set a goal to make Team Canada this year.

Redemption for major novice MD 99ers

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The major novice MD 99ers entered provincials with redemption in mind

and it served them well.The team went on to sweep

the Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario MD provincial championships.

The 99ers previously lost their league championship playoff to the Hamilton Tigers, but knew they would meet again at the provincial tournament in Stratford last weekend.

“Redemption is the word we used,” coach Bryan Bibby said. “We let the Hamilton Tigers enjoy the champion-ship for a week, but we used

that loss as motivation.”The 99ers trounced Ham-

ilton 7-3 in pool play at the provincial tournament, as well as beating the Oakridge Arrows 5-4 and home team Stratford Warriors 9-1.

The three pool wins advanced the 99ers to the championship game, where they faced the Arrows again and beat them 4-2.

The championship game saw the teams locked 0-0 at the end of the first period before goals to Brantford’s Colton Iarrusso and Ellis Rickwood gave the 99ers a 2-0 lead in the second. But the Arrows scored two late goals in the period to tie the game.

In the third, Brantford’s goalies did all the talking.

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novice MD 99ers, as it was their fifth title during the 2010-2011 season. They also won their divisions in the Wayne Gretzky International Hockey Tournament, tourna-ments in Buffalo and Lindsay and finished first in their di-vision in the regular season.

Also over the weekend, the Brantford Minor Hockey As-sociation’s novice select 99ers claimed the Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario provin-cial select championship.

The major novice MD 99ers. Submitted photo

Galaxy accepting late registrationsThe Brantford Galaxy Youth Soccer Club is accepting late registrations for its inau-gural house league season. The summer program offers equal time for league play and professional instruction. Boys and girls divisions aged eight to nine and 10 to 11, for players born from 2000 to 2003. Contact registrar Julie Taylor [email protected] or visit Brantford Galaxy Youth Soccer Club at www.brantfordsoccer.com for application or call 519-865-7827 for more information.

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Anchored by their strong backstops, the 99ers pushed through the third period and took a 3-2 lead with four min-utes left after a goal to An-drew Casasanta. Brantford’s Connor MacPhee closed the game with an empty-net goal.

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www.brantnews.com THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011 PAGE 19SPORTS

Jake Romano is an 18 year old Grade 12 student from St. John’s College who is actively involved in rugby and football.

Jake has been playing rugby for the past five years. He is a member of the St. John’s College rugby team and is also a junior boys rugby coach. In 2009, Jake helped his team bring home the bronze medal for OFSSA boys rugby and they also won three Brant County Championships.

His team took home yet another victory in 2010 when they won the Hawaii tour tournament.

Jake is a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo U18 rugby team. In 2009 he won the U18 team MVP award and in 2010 was awarded the U18 Coaches Award. Jake and his team were silver medal finalists in 2010 for Waterloo County Rugby.

He plays on his school’s football team and is a football

coach for the Brantford Bisons. He also helped the St. John’s football team win the Brant County Championship title.

Jake is a good student and an active member of the community. In the future he hopes to make the Ontario Men’s Rugby Team and is looking forward to attending the Conestoga College Police Foundation program this fall.

Congratulations Jake and good luck.

Profile: Jake Romano

Each featured athlete will receive a gift package of items donated by the following sponsors: Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Sullivan Bay, Galaxy Cinemas Brantford, Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton Brantford, Wild Wing Brantford, Lynden Park Mall. Do you know an athlete that deserves recognition. For further details about the Athlete of the Week program contact Brant News, Loren Butler 519-753-1157 ext. 202.

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Abbey Sayles, a Grade 10 student at North Park Collegiate, serves at a Badminton tournament held at Assumption College on Tuesday. The North Park Col-legiate junior badminton team continued its tradition of winning at Assumption College, claiming its seventh consecutive Brant County high school title. The Trojans led the charge with a total of 109 team points, followed by Paris District High School with 60, Assumption College with 39 and Pauline Johnson Colle-giate and Brantford Collegiate Institute at 38 points each. St. John’s College had 30 points and Tollgate Technological Skills Centre rounded out the group with two points. The Trojans will now compete at the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association championship at Conestoga College in Kitchener, where they will aim for their third consecutive title next Wednesday. Photo by Jason Teakle, Brant News

Softball registrationsBrantford Minor Softball will hold its final house league registration this Saturday from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the Brantford Tour-ism Centre. Registrations can also be made online with a credit card at www.bmsa.ca or by calling 519-304-5294. Divisions still open are tim-bit co-ed ages four and five, junior mite co-ed ages six and seven, senior mite boys or girls ages eight, nine and 10, squirt/novice (peewee) boys or girls ages 11, 12 and 13 and bantam boys or girls ages 14 to 18.

Lady Galaxy tryouts

The Brantford Galaxy invites competitive women soccer players to try out for the new Lady Galaxy soccer team. The tryouts will take place this Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Ricter Web Printing field located at 111 Easton Road in Brantford. For more information or to tryout, e-mail [email protected].

Summer hoopsThe 15th annual Brantford Summer Basketball Camp is scheduled for this summer at North Park Collegiate. The camp will run for two weeks from July 4 to 8 and July 11 to 15. It runs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and costs $150 per week with discounts available for families and campers who attend more than one week. Registration can be done by mail or at NPC on May 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more informa-tion please contact Todd Andrew at 519-759-2560 or [email protected] and you can also visit www.brantbasketball.ca.

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ENTERTAINMENT ARTS | CULTURE | MOVIES | MUSIC

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Brantford Artists Guild’s Spring Show runs throughout AprilLauren BaronBRANT NEWS

Spring is in the air at the Station Coffee House and Gallery.

Paintings of tulips, lilies, blossoming trees, gardens and bunnies line the walls of the gallery as part of the Brantford Visual Artists Guild’s Spring Show, running now until the end of April.

“My idea of spring is open-ing up the cottage,” said

Sean aLLenBRANT NEWS

ICHTHYS Theatre kicked off its 11th year by bringing in some local inspiration for its

troupe of actors.Brantford native and

Spring blooms at Station Coffee House and Gallery

artist and guild member Beverley Bowen.

Bowen’s watercolour painting called Spring Blooms and Birches depicts signs of spring blooming

Fellow guild member and artist Pam Kong’s waterco-lour painting, Tulip Time, depicts a pot of colourful tulips. Kong said having a spring theme for the show demonstrates the many tal-ents of guild members.

“The theme gives the show some cohesion and it shows what people can do with dif-ferent mediums,” she said.

Brantford firefighters Garth Dix, Ray Jackson and Bob Ruttan stopped for a cup of coffee at the Station on Tuesday. The three said the paintings were a nice addi-tion to their morning break.

“We think it’s an absolute-ly fabulous opportunity for these ladies and gentlemen,” Jackson said. “It’s very good for the community.”

through branches in a forest of birch trees.

“I was thinking of spring and all the fallen branches,” she said. “Through the branches you see the spring

flowers coming through. I just love that sort of land-scape.”

The show features works by 30 guild members, using mediums including water-colour, acrylics, pastels, oil and mixed media.

Guild president Paula Farnworth said the show is a way to promote local art and let people know that spring is on its way.

“It helps get the commu-nity interested in knowing there’s a lot of talent in the guild,” she said. “It’s amazing how much talent we have and how diversified it is.”

Farnworth’s contribution to the show is a watercolour on acrylic gesso painting called Jazz. She said she chose her painting because music reminds her of spring.

theatre star Evan Buliung returned home for an infor-mal chat at the Brantford Arts Block on Sunday.

“I discovered acting very young,” Buliung said. “It was in a play at James Hillier elementary school called ‘The Canada and the Goose.’ I played Canada.”

Buliung inspires at Arts BlockICHTHYS Theatre hosts stage star Evan Buliung to kick off 11th year

Buliung has since per-formed as part of Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival and Chicago Shakespeare Theater pro-ductions.

He told a crowd of 40 in attendance that the most important asset for an actor is confidence.

“Sometimes, it doesn’t come easily and you have to fake it,” Buliung said. “But confidence in what you do and who you are is 99 per cent of it.”

ICHTHYS Theatre is cur-rently working on its spring touring show Cinderella Confidential.

Above: Busy Bee by Connie Moyer.Below: Spring Breeze by Val Aleksiuk.Left: Brant Visual Artists Guild members Beverley Bowen, left, Paula Farn-worth and Pat Kong at the Station Coffee House and Gallery.

Photos by Mike Machado, Brant News

Blossom Time by June Sutherland.

Evan Buliung talks to ICH-THYS actors at the Brantford Arts Block on Sunday.

Photo by Sean Allen, Brant News

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There’s a lot of ar-tistic talent in the County of Brant.

And eight local artists have set out to prove just that through the St. George Art Show and Sale.

Our Language is Beautiful runs until May 8Lauren BaronBRANT NEWS

Language is identity and once it’s lost that identity could be gone forever, says

Shane Powless, co-curator of Woodland Cultural Centre’s Our Language is Beautiful exhibit.

The exhibit, running now until May 8, is a multimedia showcase that immerses viewers in Six Nations lan-guages.

“Language is a piece of you,” Powless said. “It’s one of those things that make you who you are. You have your culture, you have your land and you have your language.”

The exhibit takes viewers on a journey through time, enticing each of the senses. It begins in the era of residen-tial schools, a time when Six Nations languages were being taken away.

“It’s gloomy and it takes you back,” Powless said.

Showcasing Brant’s artistic talent

Running Sunday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the St. George Arena banquet hall, the show will feature the work of Helen Mulligan, Margaret Knowles, Barb Dz-sudzsak, Christina Hajiioan-nou, Carol Parafenko, Betty Stephan, Sheila Taylor and Sandy Coté.

“There’s a tremendous

amount of talent around, not only in painting but in glass as well,” said Knowles, who will feature her oil paintings in the show.

Up for sale and on display will be watercolour, acrylic, oil and mixed media paint-ings, as well as stained-glass art and pottery.

An annual showcase held

in St. George during the 1970s and 1980s inspired the idea for the upcoming show and sale.

Painters Parafenko and Mulligan decided to restart the tradition to give artists a chance to shine. They hope to make the new show a new tradition.

“Artists are always look-

ing for a place to support their habit and show their wares,” Mulligan said. “The show is an opportu-nity to meet the artists and talk about how they have achieved what they have.”

Mulligan took up paint-ing as a child. Over the years, her artistic style has evolved, moving from creat-ing realistic scenes to a more “freeing” style where lines are blurred.

“If you go with the flow, you might come up with something completely dif-ferent,” Mulligan said. “If someone had told me I would be standing at my canvas and throwing paint at it, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

Fellow artist Knowles took up painting in her adult

years. For her, painting is like an escape.

“It’s nice to be able to just paint and stop the world,” Knowles said.

Both artists said they want to use the show to get feedback from the public and show the community what they have to offer.

“It’s always interesting to hear comments on what you’ve done,” Mulligan said. “It’s interesting to find out what other people’s percep-tions are of what you’ve painted.”

For more information, or to participate in the show, contact Mulligan at [email protected] or 519-448-1729 or Carol Parafenko at [email protected] or 519-837-4187.

The next section of the ex-hibit focuses on rebirth and features Powless’ interpreta-tion of a womb. There are snippets of lights and audio with a welcome speech in the Cayuga language, a speech traditionally given when a baby is born.

“It’s about how language is being kept alive,” Powless said.

The tour ends in the home of a mother, father and their four children. They are all speaking one of the Six Na-tions languages.

“It’s present day and it shows that language is still here and we’re keeping it.”

Visual art by Six Nations artists Shelley Niro, Arnold Jacobs and Neal Powless line

the walls of the exhibit.The final piece is titled the

Tree of Peace, inspired by the work of the late Mohawk elder Jake Swamp.

The tree is an interactive piece where visitors can trace their hands to make leaves. Swamp travelled the globe planting pine trees to promote his vision of world peace.

“I want people to come away from this exhibit feeling hope,” Powless said. “Hope that the language is still being spoken.

“If we don’t have language then we become like every-one else. It’s the final step toward assimilation. Once you lose your language, you’re done.”

Exhibit highlights preservation of Six Nations languages

St. George Art Show and Sale takes place Sunday

Margaret Knowles and Helen Mulligan will showcase their paintings at the St. George Art Show and Sale on Sunday. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

Shane PowlessPhoto by Mike Machado, Brant News

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Singer-songwriter performs in city April 22Lauren BaronBRANT NEWS

Fred Eaglesmith wants to make southern Ontario a music capital.

“In Texas, every town, every weekend, everywhere is full of music,” he said. “We have all these great halls in southern Ontario and all these people. We want to bring that here.”

To help make that happen, the Canadian alternative-country singer-songwriter is embarking on a southern On-tario tour, stopping in smaller cities and towns throughout the month of April.

He’ll make a stop in Brant-ford for a performance at the Brantford Artillery Gunners Club on April 22.

“We have the Ginn Sisters with us, so it’s a six-piece band,” he said. “It’s got comedy, music, it’s fun and it’s funny,”

The last time Eaglesmith was in Brantford, he was showcasing his other artistic ability, painting. Since a November art show at the Station Coffee House and

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Gallery, he’s returned to the music that made him famous and hasn’t stopped perform-ing.

Over the past three months, the Port Dover resident has toured the back-woods bars, fancy theatres and big casinos of North America.

“People are just coming out of the recession and these are the times musi-

cians need to tour because people take that last 20 bucks and come to the show and say: ‘Thank you. It really helped me out and made me happy tonight,’” Eagle-smith said. “A lot of times, when things are good in the economy, people go see the new guys. When times are tough, they go see the old guys. And that’s me.”

Inspiration struck Eagle-

smith while recently on tour. He said he hasn’t stopped writing new songs.

“I hadn’t been writing a lot and I managed to turn on the tap,” he said. “They start running around in my brain and I wake up every morn-ing with a song in my head, singing it.”

When it comes to song-writing, the 40-year music veteran, who has 18 albums under his belt, said it’s like training to be an athlete.

“The more you write, you get better at it,” Eaglesmith said.

Eaglesmith has come up with so many songs during the past few months he said he could fill a number of albums in different genres, from bluegrass to rock or country.

He’s not sure which sound his next album will feature, but he plans to go back to a 1960s style of recording. His studio has only one micro-phone and a recorder. Each track will be recorded in its entirety with no sound mixing.

“It means we have to play really well,” Eaglesmith said. “I think it’s making my band better. I think it’s mak-ing us all better. It makes you feel very alive.”

Tickets to see Fred Eagle-smith are $25 and can be purchased at www.fredeagle-smith.com.

Fred Eaglesmith’s musical vision

Fred Eaglesmith will perform in Brantford on April 22. Submitted photo

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Spring fashions at Lynden Park Mall

Left: Joseph Hemingway, left, and Jasiek Romaniewski model clothing from Tip Top Tailors and eyewear from Pearle Vision during a spring fashion show at the Lynden Park Mall on Saturday.Right: Kate Moore models shoes and accessories from Payless ShoeSource. Photos by Sean Allen, Brant News

Fourth annualevent takes place April 20Colleen TomsBRANT NEWS

Downtown Busi-ness Improvement Association board members are

calling on the public to help clean up the downtown core during the fourth annual

Preparing for the Great Downtown CleanupGreat Downtown Cleanup.

Held as part of Earth Week events in Brantford, the cleanup is expected to draw about 150 people from down-town businesses, Laurier and Nippissing universities and the wider community, said BIA treasurer Keri Korfmann.

“City employees have always come out and taken this on with great enthusi-asm,” Korfmann said. “It’s great to see how committed they are to the improvement of the downtown.”

Initially started as a way

for tenants and merchants to show pride in the downtown, the cleanup has become an event that fosters civic pride in the entire community, Korfmann said.

“The first year we got 200 bags of garbage and last year we collected 50 bags,” she said. “The first year, we were finding that people living downtown didn’t even sweep outside their residences. We have raised that awareness and the downtown is a lot cleaner now, so this allows us to get into some of the al-leyways and back roads and

areas not seen on a regular basis.”

During the event, the downtown will be broken into sections. Businesses can sponsor a block of the downtown as their cleanup project or people can join with other groups to tackle specific areas.

The event runs from 9 a.m. until noon on April 20.

“We have so many people come out that it doesn’t usu-ally take that long,” Korf-mann said.

Some groups stay for an hour and return to work.

Others will continue on to clean up different areas of the city. An appreciation lunch will be held at The Piston Broke when the event wraps up at noon.

Korfmann said the cleanup is a great networking event for businesses and shows people that Brantford cares about its downtown.

“We’re trying to attract businesses and potential investors to come downtown and invest in our down-town,” she said. “If they see that the community isn’t proud of it and looking after

it, then they think ‘why do we want to come there?’”

People don’t have to work or live in the downtown to help.

“They can just show up anytime after nine in the morning in Harmony Square,” Korfmann said. “We give them supplies like garbage bags and picker-up-pers and have snacks. Then they expand out to their blocks and clean.”

To sign up a team in ad-vance, contact Korfmann at 519-770-9666.

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north Ward indoor garage saleNorth Ward School in Paris will hold its second annual indoor garage sale on Satur-day, April 16, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendor tables are avail-able. Call 519-442-4988.

Fundraising volleyball tournamentA fundraising volleyball tournament will be held on Saturday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brantford Christian School. Funds raised will help a local cou-ple fly to Haiti to help build homes. Entry is $150 per six-person co-ed team. Call 226-388-9298 or e-mail [email protected] to register.

Polish Alliance Ladies circle easter bingoThe Polish Alliance Ladies Circle Branch 10 will host an Easter bingo and perogies sale on Saturday, April 16, at 126 Albion St. Everyone is welcome.

Paris central Ladies night outParis Central School will host Ladies Night Out on Tuesday, April 19, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is $2 for an evening of spring shopping from local vendors including Epicure, Avon, Body By Vi, Melaleuca, Ev-eryday Style and more. All proceeds will be donated to Paris Central School.

eagle Place seniors club garage saleThe Eagle Place Seniors Club will hold a garage sale on Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Doug Snooks Eagle Place Community Cen-tre, 333 Erie Ave. Tea and coffee are available.

Antiques appraisal dayAn antiques appraisal day will be held on Sunday, April 17, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Old Town Hall in Paris. Appraisals cost $5 per item with no limit on the number of items. Refreshments will be available. All proceeds go to saving the Old Town Hall. Call 519-442-7331 for more information.

euchre and Bridge luncheonBalfour UCW will hold a Euchre and Bridge Soup and Sandwich Luncheon on Tuesday, April 19, beginning at noon at Balfour United Church, located at the corner of Catharine Avenue and Balfour Street. Tickets are $10. Call 519-752-0389 for information.

good Friday sunrise serviceBurtch Baptist Church, at 352 Cockshutt Rd., will hold a Good Friday Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 22. Guest speaker is Jeremy Rushton. The Burtch worship team will provide music. Breakfast will follow.

green Party AgmThe Brant federal Green Party’s annual general meet-ing will be held on Monday, April 18, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Brantford Police Service community room, 344 Elgin St. Guest speaker is Adam Hislop. All are wel-come and refreshments will be provided.

gimme the money at gunners clubThe Gunners Club of Brant-ford will host Gimme the Money on Friday, April 15, beginning at 5 p.m. Schnitzel on a bun will be served at 6 p.m. A meat roll will be held on Saturday, April 16, at 3 p.m. The Gunners Club is located at 115 Henry St.

Bridge and euchre at Paris Lawn Bowling clubPlay bridge and progressive euchre at the Paris Lawn Bowling Club, 169 Grand River St. N. in Paris, every Friday night from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Cost is $3 per person.

Help A child smile FundraiserThe Brantford Navy Club, at 54 Wadsworth St., is holding a Help A Child Smile Fund-raiser on Saturday, April 16, from noon until 4 p.m. at Lions Park.

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Unfortunately, dental amal-gam has a couple of characteris-tics that give it a bad rap. Besides the fact that it usually turns an ugly black colour as it corrodes over time, it also expands slight-ly after several years and has a tendency to crack teeth espe-cially if the filling is a large one. Being a metal the material also reacts with other metals, which in the presence of saliva, creates an electric current just like a bat-tery. This affect is known as gal-

between mercury exposure and heart disease although others have failed to confirm the con-nection.

It has also been shown that the level of mercury measured in the brain, blood and urine cor-relates to the number of amal-gam fillings in the mouth and these concentrations increase markedly with increased chew-ing such as occurs with nicotine gum.

Here’s where it all gets really confusing. The dental organi-zations such as the American and Canadian Dental Associa-tions continue to endorse silver amalgam fillings as safe mate-rial for most patients because the quantity of mercury vapour released into the body is so minute. In fact, it is considered unethical in Ontario for a den-tist to suggest that people have

The biggest issue with amalgam is the fact that it

contains 50% mercuryvanism and the resulting galvan-ic shock is well known to anyone with amalgam fillings who’s ever bit down on tinfoil – yikes.

However, the biggest issue with amalgam is the fact that it contains 50% mercury. There has been in recent years a very pas-sionate debate as to whether or not the amount of mercury va-pour produced as we chew on our amalgam fillings is a health hazard. As the debate contin-ues to rage on there has been a significant shift away from amalgam as a filling material. In fact numerous dental prac-titioners have stopped using it altogether.

Mercury is classed as a highly toxic substance which can lead to kidney and central nervous system damage especially with chronic exposure. Some studies have also shown an association

their otherwise sound amalgam fillings removed and replaced with other materials. Yet, den-tists across Canada are required by law to install special equip-ment that separates amalgam waste out of their suction sys-tems. That waste then has to be collected and disposed of by a company certified for hazardous waste removal. Failure to comply with the regulations can result in fines and closure of the dental practice.

It defies logic that the same material that’s classified as a haz-ardous waste outside the mouth is at the same time considered safe inside.

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Sitting at a kitchen table scattered with colourful handmade greeting cards,

11-year-old Dillon Vyn ap-peared somber while speak-ing about the devastation in Japan.

“I’m selling lots of things to make money for Japan,” he said. “I want to help out after the earthquake and tsunami.”

Dillon first heard of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that ripped through Japan during March break.

“I wanted to do something about it,” he said.

After ruling out holding a garage sale at his St. George home, Dillon decided to put his creative talents to work and made a collection of greeting cards that he sells for $1 each. He has also sold multi-coloured Popsicle stick baskets and to date has raised about $170.

“I hope it will help build


Brant residents should start dusting off their running shoes.

The 29th annual Rotary Classic Run is set for May 15 and preparations are nearing completion, event committee chair Paul Kneale said recently.

“We are hoping to raise $75,000 this year, with the majority of that money going to the Lansdowne Children’s Centre and the Boys and Girls Club of Brantford,” Kneale said.

About 60 Rotary Club of Brantford members and event supporters attended a race kick-off and donor award ceremony at the Brant-ford Golf and Country Club.

Since the Rotary Clas-sic Run began in 1983, $2.3 million has been raised for charity.

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Creating crafts for Japan relief

the town up and help feed the people who are homeless now,” Dillon said.

Neighbours helped Dillon create some of the cards and several neighbours, family members and friends have purchased his cards and crafts.

“They all think that it’s a good thing that I’m doing

and said to keep up the good work,” Dillon said. “It makes me feel important, I guess, because it helps one another out. I’m really happy for the support.”

Dillon’s mother, Ellen Vyn, said she is proud of her son’s efforts.

“He kind of just does this on his own,” she said. “You

just want to encourage them when they do something like this.”

Dillon hopes to raise $200 after surpassing an initial goal of $50. Money raised by Dillon will be sent to Japan through the Calvary Christian Reform Church in Flamborough, where he attends service.

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Eleven-year-old Dillon Vyn with samples of handmade greeting cards he is selling to raise money for Japan relief.Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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Burford Legion book and movie sale The Burford Legion will host a book and movie sale on April 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The legion is located on Park Street.

United Empire Loyalists meetingA meeting of the Grand River branch of the United Empire Loyalists Associa-tion of Canada taking place Sunday, April 17, will feature guest speaker Shirley God-free. The meeting begins at 2:30 p.m. at Friendship House, 452 Grey St. Visit www.grandriveruel.ca for more information.

Heritage United Church Easter sale

Heritage United Church, 360 Colborne St. E., is holding an Easter sale on Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. until noon. The sale includes Eas-ter baking, birdhouses and specialty chocolates. Coffee, tea and hot cross buns will be served.

Best Start Parent Information Fair

The Best Start Parent Infor-mation Fair runs Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Branlyn-Notre Dame School gym. Free

entertainment for children includes Reptile Man, Studio 5,6,7,8 dancers and the Ecole Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys violin group and singers.

St. Patrick’s School spaghetti dinner St. Patrick’s School is hosting a spaghetti dinner in support of the Parent Council Play-ground Campaign on Friday, May 27 at St. Pius Parish Hall at 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Silent auction, door prizes and penny sale. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door for adults or $5 in advance, $6 at the door for children 10 and under. Advanced tickets are avail-able at St. Patrick’s School or by calling 519-758-8474.

Kiwanis Club of Grand River meeting

A Kiwanis Club of Grand River meeting taking place Thursday, April 21, will fea-ture Mark Simpson speaking about smart meters. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. in the Beckett Building on Colborne Street. Call 519-753-6855 for information.

Dunsdon Legion meat roll

Dunsdon Legion Branch 461 on Tollgate Road will hold a meat roll on Saturday, April 16, beginning at 3:30 p.m.

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Members of the Onondaga Parents Association, along with students from Onondaga-Brant school, accept a cheque for $3,000 on behalf of Zehrs Markets Brantford and Caledonia locations. The money will help update the school’s playground. Pictured in the back row are Jim Stroh, Joann Papplle, Laura Beechey and Brad Gutscher. In the front row, Hailey Papplle, Nolan Smith, Julie Villamere and Allison Villamere. Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

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Business owners were educated on providing better customer service to

people with disabilities dur-ing an event last Friday at Brantford’s Hampton Inn.

The workshop drew 20 business owners and manag-ers interested in learning about the provincial govern-ment’s new requirements for private businesses to provide accessibility standards for customer service.

The regulations, which come into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, were developed by the Ontario Ministry of Com-munity and Social Services. Public sector organizations were required to comply in 2010. Private businesses and non-profit organizations must do so next year.

“Any business with more than one employee must comply,” said Dianne Vanstone, master trainer with the Ontario Tourism Education Corporation, who led the workshop.

Vanstone said further accessibility requirements, in addition to customer service regulations, will be rolled out over time by the Ontario government, but no compliance dates have been established.

Future standards will relate to transportation, in-formation and communica-tions, employment and built environment.

Vanstone said one of the most important aspects of last Friday’s workshop concerned how to set up a feedback process for people with disabilities.

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• Permit people with disabil-ities to use a support person.

• Where admission fees are charged, provide notice ahead of time on what admission, if any, would be charged for a support person for someone with a disability.

• Provide notice when facilities or services that people with disabilities rely on to access or use goods or services are temporarily disrupted.

• Train staff, volunteers,

Local business owners educated about new provincial regulations

Meeting accessibility standards

OTEC master trainer Dianne Vanstone speaks to business owners about new provincial accessibility standards.Photo by Mike Machado, Brant News

Services Offered:• Resource and Information• Job Search Assistance• Access to Funded Programs

(Second Career, Self Employment)

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Question:Why is Now the Time to Boost Employee Morale?

Answer:As the economy improves and businesses begin to see an increase in sales, employers are now struggling to boost employee morale in a workforce experiencing burn out. Lower morale can translate into ‘recession fatigue.’ This is a situation where the company experiences a series of problems that include a decline in productivity, deteriorating customer service, increased sick days taken, falling sales, higher costs and lower profits.

It is clear morale affects performance. So when things seem to be looking brighter on the business end, but employees still feel underappreciated in the workplace, employers must find ways to reengage their top talent. Now is the time to be proactive within your company before your workplace is plagued with “employee fatigue.”

This is why it is time to “Refresh Your Leadership”. Express Employment Professionals is proud to present this exciting opportunity to join business leaders from throughout our community for a special event featuring speakers who have built distinguished careers based on the principles of leadership.

Our speakers will discuss the challenges leaders face in keeping people focused, productive, and motivated what they have learned over the years about leadership, teamwork, and success and how to use every situation to your advantage and work to your full potential.

If you are a leader in your company and are interested registration is required. For more information, contact Annette Grant Branch Manager of Express Employment Professionals 519 750-0111.

contractors and any other people who interact with the public.

• Establish a process for people to provide feedback on how goods and services are provided to people with disabilities.

Ela Stypa, tourism market-ing and services assistant with the City of Brantford, said a lot of businesses are not aware of the impact of the accessibility legislation.

“We believe this is about common sense, fair treat-ment and respect for all people,” Stypa said.

Linda Hunt, owner of Brantford business Grelin Apparel Graphics, said the workshop helped her gain resources and materials to train her staff.

“I am certainly more familiar with the depth of the requirements,” she said. “Now I know what to expect under these regulations.”

Linda Moyer, manager of the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, said she attended the workshop to learn how to better serve everyone who walks into the store.

“This will affect how we train our team of volun-teers,” Moyer said. “The documentation we leave with today will be invaluable in how we move forward on training staff. I am amazed at how much I did not know.”

“Business owners here today will know how to set up a feedback process for customers with disabilities and how to document it online.”Dianne Vanstone

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BraNtFord Kia214 lynden road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$21,681* was (72 mth @ 6.99%) + taxES

2007 Ford Explor r Sport

(72 mth @ 6.99%) + (72 mth @ 6.99%) +

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BranTFord Kia214 Lynden road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$17,981* was (72 mth @ 6.99%) + TaXeS

2008 Kia Sedona eX-Power(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T

nowonLy (72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + Taa(72 mth @ 6.99%) + Ta(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + Ta(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T XXeeSS(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T(72 mth @ 6.99%) + T

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2009 Honda CiviC dX-GAuto, air, power windows, 51,363km, former rental

BRanTFoRd Kia214 Lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$15,281* was

$57 /WEEK(84 mth @ 6.99%) + TaXES

2009 Honda Civi

$$57 (84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T

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2009 Kia Rio EXHeated seats, 50 MPG, 4 door, 66,073km, former rental

BRaNTFoRD Kia214 Lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$11,321* was

$37 /WEEK(84 mth @ 6.99%) + TaXES

2009 Kia Rio EX

$$37 37 37 (84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T(84 mth @ 6.99%) + T

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2009 impala ltPower seat, alloy wheels, 3.5L, former rental, 58,885km.

BRaNtFORD Kia214 lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$15,321*

was$52 /WEEK$$52 52 NOW

*plus taxEs(84mth @ 6.99%)

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2007 Chrysler 300 limitedAWD, leather, sunroof, alloys, 99,871km

BrANtFOrd KiA214 lynden road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$15,981* was

$69 /WeeK$$69 NOW(60 mth @ 6.99%) + tAXes

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2010 Kia Forte LX-PLusAuto, air, power group, former rental, 54,506km

BraNtForD Kia214 Lynden road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$14,881*

was2010 Kia Forte LX-P

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$48 /weeK

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2009 Ford Focus sEAuto, air, Sirius radio, power group, 70 035km, former rental.

BrANTFord KIA214 Lynden road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$13,481* was

$43 /WEEK

2009 Ford Focus

$$43 43 43 NoWoNLy (84 mth @ 6.99%) + TAXEs

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2008 Kia Rio5 EXAir, power group, heated seats, 5 speed, 76,050km

BRaNTFoRD Kia214 Lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$9,900* was

$45 /WEEK(60 mth @ 6.99%) + TaXES

2008 Kia Rio5 EX

$$45 45 45 45 (60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T

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2006 Kia Sedona eXLeather, sunroof, power equipment, 101,024km

BRanTFoRd Kia214 Lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$12,981* was

$57 /WeeK(60 mth @ 6.99%) + TaXeS

2006 Kia Sedona

$$57 (60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T(60 mth @ 6.99%) + T

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2009 NissaN altima sAuto, air, power group, 2.5L, 75,184km, former rental

BRaNtFORD Kia214 lynden Road Brantford519.304.6542 | [email protected]

$16,481* was

$54 /WEEK(84 mth @ 6.99%) + taXEs

2009 NissaN altima

$$54 (84 mth @ 6.99%) + (84 mth @ 6.99%) + (84 mth @ 6.99%) +

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2009 versa

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$12,888 +HsT

$116 bi weekly

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2010 300 touring

FORMER RENTAL

$19,388 +HSt

$142 bi weekly

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2008 fusion

$14,998 +HsT

$133 bi weekly

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2008 mx5

$21,398 +HST

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2007 300 limited

HAS NAVIGATION SYSTEM

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2009 JOURNEY SE

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2008 RAM 4X4

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2010 sebring

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2007 nitro sxt

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2010 pt cruiser

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Hockeyfest 2011 tickets are nowavailable at the Brant News!

Call 519.758.1157 or drop by the office at101 Charing Cross St.

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WITH 70,514KM. THIS WeeK oNLy. SToCK # L812004ASK joe HuNT FoR DeTAILS. [email protected]

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2007 LINCoLN MKZ

85 LyNDeN RD BRANTFoRD519.756.6191

WITH 77,105KM. THIS WeeK oNLy. SToCK#R644008ASK NICK CAPALDI FoR DeTAILS. [email protected]

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2007 DoDge CAliBeR R/T

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2002 GMC SIERRA


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n Cleaning Services Experienced house cleaner looking for new clientele. Call Roxanne @ 519-756-8887

n Coming Events WOODSTOCK MODEL TRAIN SHOW Sunday, April 17, 10a.m. to 3p.m. Au-ditorium, Woodstock Fairgrounds featuring Model Train dealers, railroad memorabilia and several operating layouts. Over 150 vendor tables. Also featuring selected vendors selling die cast toys. Southern Ontario’s largest train show. Admission $5.00. For more info email: [email protected] or call 519-426-8875

Brant Federal Green Party annual gen-eral meeting Monday April 18, 7pm community room Brantford Police Headquarters. 344 Elgin St Btfd. Guest speaker Adam Hislop, all welcome. Refreshments provided www.brant-greens.ca

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n Lawn CareWill do lawn mowing, yard clean up & odd jobs at reasonable rates. 519-752-3819

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corals & snails $1-$15. 752-0936

Complete computer $80. 304-5152

Golf Clubs sets $40. 752-7550

Scooter & bike $10 & up 752-7550

Barn sale by appointment 752-7550

Drum table 2cabinets writing desk 519-759-0176 ex condition

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(519) 752-4331

Dennis Toll Funeral Home (519) 753-8655

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Connect today and learn more about how Early Childhood Educators make a difference!

•Many are involved in the care of your child during the first few years of life – a time when brain-building is most crucial. Early Childhood Educators are important partners in your child’s development and learning.

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A celebration of life and

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and friends will be held on

Saturday, April 23, 2011 at

12 p.m. at The Best Western

Brant Park Inn,

19 Holiday Dr, Brantford.

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Xander John Barton (Buscombe) was born on April

2nd at 1:54 a.m., weighing 7lbs 12oz. First born to Tasha Buscombe and John Barton. Grandson of Nora and Byron Buscombe, Judy and the late

Dennis Barton. Home safe and sound. Special thanks to everyone involved.

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Love George & family

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Happy Birthday

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AlisonHappy 40th Birthday

Craig, Alex, Abby, Nicholas & Gixxer

Debbie“Gixxer Girl”

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n FOXTROT By Bill Amend

n GARFIELD By Jim Davis

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Top QualiTy producTs, lifeTime warranTy guaranTees wiTh

friendly and professional service

are jusT a few reasons why hanksTer’s

is The number one choice for windows,

doors and siding.Hank Brouwer’s meticulous work and

commitment to customer satisfaction is making Hankster’s Windows Doors and Siding a

recognized name in local home improvements.

Now in its eighth year, Hankster’s has grown even beyond the expectations of Hank and his

wife, Marsha Johnston. Word of mouth endorse-ments from pleased customers have been effec-

tive promotion for the thriving company.

“Brantford and the surrounding communities have been especially good to us in their support,” said Marsha. “We get great referrals because we get the job done right and make people happy.”

Hank has close to 20 years of experience in home renovations and the window business. Hankster’s offers several services to improve

your home’s exterior to ensure it looks its best. Hankster’s provide vinyl energy star rated win-

dows, entry doors, storm doors, patio and garden doors, vinyl siding, soffit, fascia, eavestrough,

aluminum railing and columns.

Hankster’s Windows is a member of SAWDAC (Siding and Window Dealers Association of

Canada), the Brantford Homebuilders Association, and the Better Business Bureau.

Hank’s extensive knowledge and research guarantee customers are receiving top-of-the-line products that exceed industry standards. Topped

with affordable prices, Hankster’s is quickly becoming known for its amicable and honest approach to business. The staff at Hankster’s know that the world of home improvement products can be complex and are ready to

address customers’ questions and concerns. The company is a firm believer in honest pricing.

“We want customer’s to be happy with their choice and to know that they made a

strong choice.”

Contact Hankster’s Windows, Doors and Siding for your

Free Estimate 519-751-0648

Visit the website www.Hanksters.ca S0

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