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“Both the Kitchener-Wa-terloo and Kitchener-Cen-tre ridings are too close to call,” said Prof. Barry Kay, an associate with the Lau-rier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP). “Kitchen-er-Conestoga could also be in play, but it’s in the ‘prob-able Conservative’ category right now.”

Kay predicts a tight race between the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives overall, making swing rid-ings particularly crucial to each party.

“What is so unusual about this election is the similarity with the Liberals'

Developmental ser-vice workers took to the streets on Tues-day decked out in blue balloons, stickers, and whistles for the Walk for Dignity, part of a province-wide initiative. The group

Developmental service workers from Elmira did the Dignity Walk to create awareness about the funding crisis in their field. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]

Dignity is not optional, say developmental service workersWorkers from Elmira District Community Living take part in Walk for Dignity

WHITNEY NEILSON walked from Gibson Park to downtown Elmira rais-ing awareness about the critical need for increased funding for the develop-mental services sector.

Deb Powell has worked in the industry for more than 20 years and says they’re in crisis for funding.

“The waitlist across the province is 23,000 long, 12,000 of those are waiting for residential services, like placement,” said Powell. “And there are none.”

Workers from the Elmira District Community Living participated in the local walk. Most of them have

been in the field for 20-plus years.

Powell said they haven’t seen an increase in funding since 2007, which means they aren’t able to offer the quality of life people de-serve, especially with high

Local ridings reflect the tight race in upcoming Ontario electionKitchener-Conestoga trending towards Conservatives, say data compiled by WLU institute

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win in 2011,” he said. “Last time, the Liberals beat the Conservatives by 2.2 per cent, and right now we’ve got a Liberal lead by just under one per cent.”

That would correlate to another Liberal minority victory, this time with 48 seats compared to 53 in

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Hoping to speed up the process, chemical producer Chemtura Canada plans to install new wells in its treatment system remov-ing contaminants from the groundwater under Elmira.

Meeting Tuesday night, Woolwich councillors agreed to a pair of new extraction wells and as-sociated monitoring wells and boreholes on township property. The company says the wells will help it

New wells to accelerate cleanup of Elmira aquiferWoolwich approves Chemtura plan to add pair of extraction wells to help meeting 2028 deadline

STEVE KANNON meet the 2028 deadline set by the Ministry of the En-vironment for completing the cleanup process.

Chemtura has been using a pump-and-treat process to remove a pair of toxins – NDMA (nitrosodimethyl-amine) and chlorobenzene – from the former drinking water aquifers underneath the town. Discovery in 1989 of the carcinogenic NDMA precipitated the water cri-sis in Elmira, leading to the construction of a pipeline from Waterloo, which sup-

plies the town with water to this day.

An MOE control order sets out the company’s respon-sibility for dealing with the contaminants in the munici-pal aquifers, with a deadline of 2028. Having started in 1998, the process is now about halfway through the 30-year timeline, said Jeff Merriman, Chemtura’s man-ager of environmental reme-diation. A 2012 study deter-mined additional pumping was required to meet the 2028 timeline.

Noting the new pump-ing volumes would be two or three times higher than today’s, Coun. Mark Bau-man said the Chemtura Public Advisory Committee has concerns about the im-pact on the aquifer and the Canagagigue Creek, where the water is discharged.

Merriman explained pumping volumes will be determined by the capacity of the aquifer. As for dis-charge, the process ensures “non-detectable quantities” of contaminants, with water

in the creek downstream cleaner than the water up-stream from the site.

Dan Kennaley, the town-ship’s director of engineer-ing and planning, said the process of choosing loca-tions for the new wells in-cluded public consultations and efforts to minimize any impacts. One of the extraction wells, which will require pump-house build-ings, is near a residential neighbourhood on an un-opened road allowance on the east end of South Street.

The other approved site is in an industrial area on Ori-ole Parkway, west of Union Street. A third such well proposed for Pintail Drive met with strong opposition from residents, so it will be a monitoring location instead.

The monitoring wells and boreholes are innocuous, he added. There are scores of those around town.

in approving the plan, Bauman said, “The intent is heading in the right di-rection to remediate the water in the aquifer.”

2011, with the Conserva-tives jumping from 37 to 39. LISPOP data also shows a slight increase by the NDP, from 17 to 20 representa-tives at Queen’s Park.

Polling in Kitchener-Centre is especially valu-able for forecasters, since the riding has gone with the winning party in every election for more than 50 years.

“Kitchener-Centre is one of the best bellwethers in Ontario,” Kay explained. “It is close to the midpoint of the province in terms of representing trends, and indeed, it has consistently picked up on trends on both the left and right over the years.”

Three years ago, Liberal incumbent John Milloy topped PC candidate Dave Macdonald by just 323

votes. With new candidates running for each of the three main parties, expect another nail-biter.

Kitchener-Conestoga however, isn’t nearly as close.

“If the Progressive Con-servatives won last time when the Liberals won the election, there is no rea-son to think it’s in serious jeopardy,” Kay said, noting that Michael Harris has been a “very competent MPP.”

Last election, Harris cruised to a seven-point win over Liberal incum-bent Leeanna Pendergast.

Kay also predicts a de-cline in voter turnout.

“I don’t think the party leaders have really con-nected with the popula-tion,” he said.

Apart from Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 public sector jobs, which

has faced stiff criticism, party messaging has been “largely predictable and ineffective at influenc-

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ing public opinion,” Kay added.

But Kay does caution that it is becoming increas-

ingly difficult for pollsters to gage what the public is thinking.

“The most interesting

phenomenon to me has been that the polls are all over the place. You always see a range, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this, where polls conducted at the same time are show-ing an 18-point spread. That shouldn’t be happen-ing.”

Fewer and fewer people respond to telephone poll-ing, he says, leading poll-ing houses to seek new research methods.

“The bottom line is that different pollsters are using slightly differ-ent methods and criteria, and that might be what is producing the different results.”

Nonetheless, most prog-nosticators say we are in for another exciting elec-tion night, one that could be decided in large part by Kitchener-Waterloo area voters.

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The bright reds, blues, and purples of her piece catch your eye as you step in the room of quilts made by the Needle Sisters Quilt Guild of Elmira, of which Dickau is a member.

“It’s made with satins and brocades and silks and sashed with ribbon and put on point as opposed to straight across the box,” said Dickau. “It is a bed coverlet, as opposed to a quilt, although there is machine quilting to hold it and then it’s just backed with a solid dark backing. It took me a long time to do because I did it in stages.”

The process included machine stitching, free-hand embroidery, ap-pliquéing material, and sashing ribbon; a lengthy process that took her a few years to complete. She started quilting when she got married and moved to

Unlike the 2010 race, when council seats were won entirely through accla-mation, the 2014 Wellesley Township municipal elec-tion will be a competition.

Hawkesville resident

Another candidate enters race for Wellesley Ward 1All five spots on council were filled by acclamation in 2010, but that won’t be the case this time around

WILL SLOAN Murray Frey is the latest to join the fray, declaring his candidacy for councillor of Ward 1. He will be joined on the ballot by two-term councillor Shelley Wag-ner, who was elected by acclamation in 2006 and 2010 and is now seeking

re-election.Wards 2 and 3 have just

one candidate at this point.A self-employed contrac-

tor who also does snow removal in winter, Frey was also president of the Green-wood Rod & Gun Club in St. Agatha for six years,

and served tenures as en-tertainment chairman and treasurer.

“I was born in Hawkes-ville; I’ve been there since I was six; I raised my kids there, and I want to con-tinue to have that atmo-sphere,” said Frey. “Just

the quaintness – the small-town [feeling], you know almost everybody.

“Financially, I think Wellesley is in pretty fine shape. I think it’s impor-tant to keep our commu-nity centres and our parks, because we are country

towns. … Keep all our pub-lic stuff activated and ac-cessible for our community to use.”

When asked about going up against the incumbent, Frey said, “Shelley’s been

Experts are call-ing for the Township of Wellesley to acquire new parkland to address a 6.6 hectare shortfall.

Steve Langlois of Mon-teith Brown Planning Consultants (MBPC) deliv-ered the first draft of the community parks, recre-ation and culture strategic master plan during the May 27 Wellesley council meeting. The document, commissioned by council last year, serves “to guide the enhancement of leisure opportunities for current and future residents,” the report says.

“We like to call master plans a roadmap,” Langlois explained. “They are not an official plan, they don’t re-quire formal amendment, but they are the voice of your community.”

Through public consulta-tion and research, MBPC planners put forward 56 recommendations, includ-ing the need for more park-land.

The township currently has 2.4 hectares of park-land for every 1,000 citi-zens, well below the sug-gested minimum of three hectares per 1,000.

Wellesley needs more parkland, says new rec. master plan

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Lions Foundation of Canada’s Purina Walk for Dog Guides raised money with events in Elmira and Wellesley on May 25. Top: Cheryl Bauman got a kiss from Donut at the Elmira walk. Bottom: Emma and Kate Sommer keep Rowdy on his leash in Wellesley. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Quilts for display and for fundraisingQuilt and Fibre Art Festival wraps up Saturday; same day as MCC relief sale

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the Elmira area.She said she was in-

spired to create the quilt by “mainly the fabrics that I had accumulated, and the technique knowing that a crazy patch is easier to do. You don’t have to precut everything according to a pattern. You can just slap on whatever you like.”

Thirteen members of the Needle Sister held work bees over the winter to create three quilts being donated to the Lutherwood Home Group of Waterloo, a centre for youth to re-ceive mental health ser-vices. Each child who goes

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Irene Dickau created this “crazy quilt” for the Quilts of the World show at St.Jacobs Mennonite Church. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]


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there, and I’m not saying she’s not done a good job. Last time we voted, every-one got in by acclamation in the whole township. We’ve got some races on now, and I think it’s prob-ably good.”

With eight years on council, Shelley Wagner cites public property reno-vations among her proud-est accomplishments. “I’m proud of the fact the roads finally got done in Hawkes-ville, and I’m proud of all the work that we’ve been able to get done at the com-munity centre,” she said.

“I’m proud that the five of us that sit around the table work well together, and that we have made a lot of decisions for the bet-ter of the township because we work well together. We’ve had a lot of accom-

plishments in the renova-tions of all the community centres.”

Wagner shares some of the same priorities as Frey, noting, “There are always challenges. There are chal-lenges to keep the roads maintained, to keep our facilities up to date, and to meet the needs of a grow-

ing population. … With that growth, it always brings new ideas, and sometimes new frustrations, and I see that as a challenge: being able to meet the different kinds of needs people are asking for.”

The Wellesley municipal election is set for October 27.

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Murray Frey Shelley Wagner

“You are not quite achieving what we would like to see as an optimum level of parkland provi-sion,” Langlois told coun-cil, adding that the Village of Wellesley could use two additional full-size soccer fields.

Wellesley’s director of facilities Brad Voisin called the plan “very de-tailed,” adding that “a lot of research was done, and I think when it’s finalized it will be an excellent guide for us over the next 10 years.”

Mayor Ross Kelterborn,

however, said he was “a little bit surprised” that the plan doesn’t examine potential partnerships between the township, schools and churches.

“They have these large gymnasiums and class-rooms that sit empty all summer and they sit empty many nights during the week, and I think it’s time that things started to hap-pen between the [school] boards and the municipali-ties as to joint use of these things.”

Langlois responded by noting challenges related to priority of access and facility maintenance.

Ward 3 Coun. Jim Olender says the report will better position Wellesley for potential government funds.

“I still think the beauty of a plan like this is that things transpire with the government, money be-comes available, that you do have a plan that, ‘arena dressing rooms are a prior-ity,’ so you have that on the table ready to go in case the funding comes avail-able – it can happen with trails, it can happen with anything.”

The draft will be present-ed at a public open house at a future date.

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FINAL CUB FISHING PARTY

The 1st Elmira Cub Scouts concluded their year with some fishing at the Three Bridges dam in St. Jacobs. Front: Wade Ogram, Tyler Smith, Kariss Straus, Xander Straus, Annie Straus (Kim), Wyatt Diefenbaker, Monique Bertrand and Koen Perry. Back: Jay Straus, Brent Maxwell and Philippe Bertrand. [SUBMITTED]


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New municipal alcohol policy

Wellesley council adopted a new municipal alcohol policy (MAP) Tuesday. Using a template created by the Region of Waterloo and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, municipal staff updated the existing MAP to better township property and finances.

The document enhances facility rent-ers’ responsibilities, calling for greater security and staffing requirements at licensed events such as stag-and-doe parties.

Woolwich signs deal for gas tax money

Woolwich will receive $670,173.06 this year and next under a new 10-year deal that sees the federal government share gas tax revenues with municipalities. That number rises to $703,681.70 in 2016 and $737,190.36 in 2018 under a new indexing formula.

The township currently receives $603,009, and total payments have amounted to $3.89 million since the tax-sharing program began in 2006,

director of finance Richard Petherick told councillors meeting this week.

Also new with this agreement approved by council is a wider range of projects that the money can be used for, he said. There are, however, more reporting requirements, including details of the installation of signage.

The latter – think of all the ‘Canada’s economic action plan’ signs – has been something of a sore spot. Chief ad-ministrative officer David Brenneman noted such signs collectively add to millions of dollars across the country, money that could otherwise be spent on actual projects.

“It just rubs me the wrong way,”

said Coun. Mark Bauman, adding such signage “just clutters up the landscape.”

Meeting set for Wellesley development

A public meeting will take place at the Wellesley council chambers on June 24 at 6:45 p.m. to discuss a proposal to rezone part of Ferris Drive. Housing developer Lotco II is seeking to build three single-family homes, 32 semi-detached units and 13 townhomes in an area currently zoned

for institutional and urban residential development. The plans call for the single-detached units to have frontage on Ferris Drive, while all the other units would be located on a new private drive.

CCC earns rail safety award

Canada Colors & Chemicals, operator of the sulphur-production plant in Elmira, was among the recipients of CN Rails’ Safe Handling Awards for 2013, presented earlier this month.

It’s the 14th consecutive year the company has earned the award.

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10:39 AM |Police responded to a single-vehicle collision where a

In all, 143 companies were presented with the Safe Handling Award at a special ceremony.

Launched in 1992, CN’s Safe Handling Award is presented to customers who load freight cars with dangerous goods and meet strict standards for the safe handling and shipment of regulated products. The winners must meet established criteria, according to the total number of shipments of dangerous goods for all facilities.

The Safe Handling Award is an integral part of the Responsible Care Program – an ongoing performance improvement initiative in which CN is a partner, both in Canada and the U.S.

Police, other organizations to offer up safety tips for cycling seasonWaterloo Regional Police will be taking part in a cycling awareness event June 5 in Waterloo. Another event will be held in St. Jacobs the following week.

In preparation for the summer cycling season, the information session that gets underway at 7 p.m. will include the fol-lowing topical presenta-tions:• Overview of the

Thumbs Up! Campaign – City of Kitchener

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• Leading in the Cycling Movement in Waterloo Region – Waterloo Cy-cling Club

The event is being held at the Waterloo Recreation Centre, Father David Bauer Drive, and will include dis-plays and a question-and-answer period.

“Our service remains committed to demonstrat-ing leadership in road safety through an ongoing program of education and enforcement in coopera-tion with the community,” said acting Staff Sgt. Fred Gregory of the traffic servic-es branch. “Our collective goal is to help encourage a positive roadway environ-ment and to reduce injuries. Through mutual respect and the appropriate appli-cation of rights and respon-sibilities, we can increase safety for all road users.”

An additional public awareness event on June 14 will be combined with a special police enforcement initiative in the area of the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market.

female driving a blue Chevrolet Co-balt was northbound on Crowsfoot Road in Woolwich Township and

fell asleep at the wheel. Her vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree. The driver suffered minor injuries. She was charged with ‘careless driving.’

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3:15 PM | A three-vehicle collision occurred at Woolwich and Victoria streets in Breslau. The three vehicles were travelling westbound on Victoria Street when the first

two vehicles stopped for a red light and were struck from behind by a truck whose brakes failed. The driver of the truck was charged with ‘faulty braking system.’

6:08 PM | A collision brought police to Kossuth Road near Shantz Station Road southeast of Breslau, where a Honda Civic had rear-ended a pickup truck that had stopped to make a left turn into a private drive.

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There were no injuries. The driver of the Honda was charged with ‘following too close.’

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2:09 PM | Both vehicles were demolished after a collision between a Toyota truck travelling westbound on Menno Street and a Dodge Ram pickup truck travelling south on Fountain Street in Breslau. The Toyota driver had disregarded

the stop sign at Fountain Street. No one was injured, but the driver of the Toyota was charged with ‘fail to stop.’

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7:44 AM | Police responded to a collision where a black Acura travelling eastbound on Line 86 approaching Reid Woods Drive lost control on the curve in the road, drove into the ditch and flipped over before coming to rest against the side of the ditch. The car’s airbags were deployed, but the driver had fled the scene before officers arrived. The investigation continues.

8:00 AM | Sometime over-night unknown suspects entered a vehicle in the 1100 block of Church Street in Wellesley and stole a GPS.

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3:15 PM | A man driving south on Arthur Street caused an accident when he drove into oncoming traffic. A woman driving northbound was forced to swerve to avoid a collision, lost control and rolled her vehicle into a ditch. The man was charged with ‘fail to drive in marked lane.’ There were no injuries.

Woolwich firefighters poured buckets of water to extinguish a small fire in the woodchips at Lions Park in Elmira on May 26. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

David Weber says it’s time to protect Ontario farmers.

“Three hundred and sixty-five acres of farm-land are disappearing every day,” the Green Party candidate for Kitchener-Conestoga explained. “That’s the size of Toronto each year, and our current government officials don’t seem to care.”

Weber, a 26-year veteran of the Waterloo Regional Police, points to exploit-ative business practices as the biggest threat to the province’s food producers.

“Large agricultural busi-nesses are having a major impact on our farmers, pro-moting genetically modi-fied foods that become

Green Party candidate plots his own course in ridingSCOTT BARBER resistant to pesticides and

using neonicotinoids that are killing our bees.”

The provincial govern-ment needs to balance economic developments with resource preservation, he said.

“We need to rein in the aggregate industry who has been taking our resources at minimal costs. If we in-creased the aggregate tax to 9.9 per cent, the going rate in Saskatchewan, we could wipe out our deficit on an annual basis.”

Water conservation is an-other priority for the Green Party in this election.

“Our aquifers developed over hundreds of thou-sands of years, and instead of protecting this valuable resource, we’re letting cor-porations extract the water

for profit,” Weber said.Companies only pay

$3.71 per million litres of water, while they sell indi-vidual litres for about the same price, Weber noted.

But getting those mes-sages out to voters contin-ues to be a challenge for the Greens. In the 2011 pro-vincial election, the party received less than three per cent of the vote in Kitch-ener-Conestoga, roughly equal to their province-wide number.

Indeed, Weber faces a steep learning curve in his first political campaign.

“I’ve really started from the ground level, without funding or volunteers,” he said. “It’s not easy taking time off from my job to do this, but as I’ve watched the Liberals and NDP slide

to the right over the years, I found myself wondering, ‘Does anybody care about progressive values?’”

He believes the answer is yes, but the first-past-the-post electoral system distorts the public’s true values.

“I don’t think we’re going to see a lot of movement for the better until we get proportional representa-tion,” he said. “No one political party has all of the answers, yet we have one party with 37 per cent of the vote winning 53 of the seats at Queen’s Park, giv-ing them the power to do whatever they want.”

In a proportionally elected government, legis-lation would better reflect the goals of the elector-ate, eliminating the “wild

swings from left to right,” Weber said.

He also argues that the Green Party’s exclusion from the leaders debate stifles democracy.

“If the media is sup-posed to be getting infor-mation out so that people

can be educated and in-formed, how does denying [Green Party leader Mike Scheiner] facilitate that?”

The Doon South, Kitch-ener resident on the other hand, will take part in the Kitchener-Conestoga electoral forum at The Woolwich Memorial Centre on June 4 from 4-6 p.m., where he plans to offer fresh ideas.

“We aren’t doing enough to support farmers in getting their products to local markets, and more importantly, to have that food canned and processed locally,” he said. “We shouldn’t be growing food and shipping it off to China to be canned and then brought back to us. We need to grow, process and sell our food locally.”

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staff turnover rates.“Put it in places to retain

the workers because we cannot keep workers. It’s a revolving door, retention of staff. We’re trained and we’re trained well. Keep us around, we’re worth it.”

Developmental service workers and the union that represents them, the Ontario Public Service Em-ployees Union (OPSEU), met with provincial legis-lators on September 18 at Queen’s Park to discuss the challenges facing the field.

“They were all in agree-ment that there definitely is a crisis within this field,” said Powell. “They formed a select committee, which was representatives from the three parties. And their interim report came out and said ‘indeed these people, this field, this sector is in dire straits.’”

The Select Committee on Developmental Services released the 54-page report on March 6, which outlines the issues facing caregivers of people with develop-mental disabilities, such as being denied services because they turned 18 or being on a waiting list for services for 10 years, due to lack of staff and funding. Many people who offered testimonies for the report indicated they had sold their homes, quit their jobs, and gone into massive debt to care for their child, well into adulthood.

Powell said the Ontario government proposed an $810-million budget for the sector over the next three years, but they need it now. She said they’re also

pushing for the funds to go to non-profit agencies, instead of people making a profit off of looking after vulnerable people.

Their slogan, “dignity is not optional” hopes to inspire the government to increase funding, allowing these workers to instill dig-nity in the people they sup-port, and their families.

Approximately 62,000 adults and 28,000 children with developmental dis-abilities live in Ontario. Of them, 18,000 are supported in group homes.

“We are so short-staffed and many of the people are isolated in their own homes, they don’t get out,” she explained. “We can af-ford to care.”

Powell decided to follow this career path because it seemed like a challenge, something it remains more than 20 years later.

“In the bigger scheme of things, it’s all about human rights for me. Everybody should be treated the same, regardless of ability, dis-ability, creed, race, religion. It doesn’t matter to me.”

As someone passionate about human rights, she’s spent a lot of time fighting on behalf of the people she supports. Now, she’s hop-ing the people of Ontario will help this cause by vot-ing in the upcoming pro-vincial election.

“It’s very important for people to vote,” said Pow-ell. “Look at the platforms for the three parties. I encourage people to look at many different sources of information and make their decision, and most importantly, get out on June 12 and vote.”

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Fourteen years ago, EDSS drama teacher DJ Carroll took a stroll in Elmira’s Gibson Park and had an epiphany. “I was just walking through it one day, and I kinda looked and said, ‘Wow… this could be Sherwood Forest.’”

An erstwhile history teacher and former artistic director of Waterloo’s Royal Medieval Faire, Carroll had been transferred to Elmira and was consider-

Robin’s back in the Hood this weekendWILL SLOAN ing launching a similar

medieval festival in the town. “I was already think-ing I could do it here, then I said: ‘Robin Hood, Sher-wood Forest, boom, done!’”

Now entering its 14th year, Robin in the Hood has come a long way. The two-day theatrical/educa-tional/interactive festival has expanded in scale from 50 to 140 actors, 300 to 1,100 kids, and from half of Gibson Park to the whole area, plus part of John Ma-hood Public School.

“There are shows for people to see, there are games to play, activities to do,” explained Carroll. “You can come see the knights do battle; there’s a chance to shoot archery; and it’s a weekend out for the family.”

The theme of this year’s event is “Back to Basics,” and highlights a traditional knight tournament. “The fights every year are dif-ferent,” said Carroll. “Even though we have people who have done the shows

many times, we have some new people coming in and we’re making some chang-es, so it requires the same amount of prep time.”

But regular attendees can expect more of the same, including familiar faces in the annual theatri-cal extravaganza.

“We’ve encouraged a great return of previous years' actors, I think a lot of our audience base likes to come out and see what the actors have changed or added to their characters.”

Even though the knights have barely drawn their swords from their sheaths, Carroll is already looking ahead to 2015, when Robin

in the Hood will celebrate its milestone 15th anniver-sary.

“There’s going to be an incredible stage fight by our fighters, we’re going to do a big, epic battle,” he

predicted. “We’re go-ing to see the return

of King Richard, who’ll be coming back to probably

yell at his brother Prince John, because

he’s messed everything up for the last couple of years.”

The festival’s educa-tion day and community show got things underway Thursday and Friday (May 29-30). Festival day at Gib-son Park takes place Sat-urday (May 31), 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 per person, or $15 per family.

Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men turn Gibson Park into Sherwood this weekend.


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Property owners in the south end of St. Jacobs will have another chance to hook up to municipal services when King Street undergoes a major recon-struction in 2016. The town-ship will also make use of the work to carry out some improvements of its own.

The Region of Waterloo project will see new pave-ment, sidewalks and bike and buggy lanes, among

Decorative lights deemed too costly for St. Jacobs projectWith the region doing reconstruction in 2016, Woolwich has some work of its own planned for King Street

STEVE KANNON other changes proposed after a series of public con-sultations.

As part of the planning process, Woolwich council-lors this week agreed the township should carry out some work of its own while the roadway is ripped up, including the installation of a new watermain and the replacement of some underground pipes. They balked, however, at a staff proposal to spend $237,000 on decorative lighting in

downtown St. Jacobs, but were fine with $15,000 for some streetscaping, includ-ing such things as bicycle racks and trashcans.

Woolwich also plans to investigate the possible realignment of a municipal drain that passes through the construction area, said director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley.

With all the work going on, 16 property owners along King Street currently on private wells and septic

systems can revisit the idea of shifting to full municipal services, he noted. The idea was last rejected in 2009, as property owners balked at the price tag of $36,500 for the extension of water and sanitary sew-ers or $13,500 for water only. Residents would also have to cover the cost of a line from the roadway into their homes.

Given all the other work that would be underway at the time, Kennaley said the cost this time around could be considerably less. As part of the report approved Tuesday night, the town-ship will carry out a more detailed study to come up with a cost formula before going back to property owners for their input. An informal poll of residents shows eight of them have some interest in the idea, with another leaning in that direction, he noted.

Council rejected staff’s call for the township to pick up the $236,500 cost for decorate sidewalk light-ing in the village. The work would complete a project started 20 years earlier when the underground in-frastructure was installed,

but never finished, said Kennaley.

“As a taxpayer, I’m find-ing it hard to justify spend-ing a quarter of a million dollars on fancy lights in St. Jacobs,” said Coun. Al-lan Poffenroth, arguing that benefitting property owners should foot the bill, as was the case with im-provements in downtown Elmira.

Manager of engineering Richard Sigurdson noted that, unlike Elmira, St. Ja-cobs does not have a Busi-ness Improvement Area (BIA) to coordinate cost-sharing for such projects.

Kennaley added that the improvements in the core would be of benefit to the village as a tourism draw.

“The local economy in general will benefit from these types of enhance-ments.”

Poffenroth’s sentiment was shared by his col-leagues, however.

Coun. Julie-Anne Her-teis, pointing to the fact most tourists are gone from St. Jacobs by the time the street lighting comes on, argued against the ex-pense.

“They’re not going to be

of any use,” she said of the lights. “I can’t justify them for the price.”

Coun. Mark Bauman sug-gested the work go ahead if the township is success-ful in receiving a grant under the Rural Economic Development program to cover half the costs, with property owners downtown covering 25 per cent and Woolwich the remaining quarter.

“Let’s throw that formula on that table and see where it goes,” he said, adding that staff should talk with Mercedes Corp., the major commercial landowner in the village.

In a related matter, Bau-man led a separate resolu-tion calling on the region to look into loosening proposed parking restric-tions along King Street in the south end of town. He said he’s concerned about plans to eliminate on-street parking, particularly be-tween the Fairway Lumber site and Printery Road, as it could have an impact on truck movements.

“I foresee problems com-ing,” he said, noting now is the time to nip that in the bud.

through the program at Lutherwood gets to choose a teddy bear and quilt to take with them when they leave. The colourful quilts are on display until the end of the festival, when they will be put to good use.

“For the big ones, I’d say we have 25 to 30,” said Dickau. “Then you’ve got the small ones, like the crib-sized ones, it could be the same number. And then you’ve got all the small pieces. We have a lot this year because we had to go to the chairs to put them on. Otherwise, they would all hang.”

She estimates they’ll see 300 to 400 people come through to see the show be-cause despite being out of the way, a lot of bus tours make the trip there.

She said the St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre’s dis-play has a lot of art quilts, like landscapes that are painted or embroidered. That show runs until Satur-day (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and has guest artist, Martha Wiens from Leamington.

The Needle Sisters also did a mystery quilt this year.

“One of our members would bring in kits of the cloth and the patterns and then you had to go home and cut them and assemble them and you could only do so many at a time,” said Dickau. “And so the next month she would give you another set of something different and it wasn’t until the very end when you had everything all done according to directions and fitted together that you’d see the result.”

Dickau said the large quilts on display could range anywhere from $700 to more than $1,000, de-pending on the fabric and if it was hand quilted ver-sus machine quilted.

She bought her first quilt for $200 when she moved up near Drayton, shortly

after getting married, a steal of a deal nowadays.

“It was a big one and had almost 50 blocks and it was appliquéd cornflower,” said Dickau. It was in pinks and whites and all of that was hand-stitched and then it was hand-quilted. I think back for $200, all the work that went into making something like that.”

Some of the displayed quilts will go to the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale, at the New Hamburg Fairgrounds on Saturday (7 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

Rick Cober Bauman, ex-ecutive director of the Men-nonite Central Committee Ontario, said the relief sale is the most identifiable event people associate with the MCC.

“And I think that goes for people well outside the Mennonite world, who have been at the sale and are regulars or not," said Cober Bauman. “It oc-cupies a pretty prominent place in the region. That’s part of the long-term soft benefit to the organiza-tion.”

The money raised from the sale goes toward MCC’s work in relief develop-ment and peace around the world, specifically Bosnia and Nigeria, where Cober Bauman just returned from.

“We always say there’s a particular benefit to re-lief sale giving because it comes in as general giving. People do not designate where money is going to when they buy a quilt or buy a burger. That money can go for any of the dif-ficult to fund kinds of work that we do.”

He said it’s not always easy to raise money for places like Nigeria where they’re doing visible work but there’s ongoing con-flict. Members of the MCC from New Hamburg are in Jos, a Nigerian city hit by a series of bombs last week.

“They made the com-ment that the bombs that

QUILTS: Items popular when up for auctionFROM | 3 went off there last week, if

they had happened several months or even years ago before some of the peace-building work had been done that those bombs would have set off city-wide rioting,” said Cober Bauman. “That didn’t hap-pen. So while there was a lot of sadness that the bombing had happened, there was recognition that the ability to contain that was at least a modest sign of MCC’s impact there.”

The MCC has a long his-tory of working in Bosnia, helping to bring together people that were in conflict due to the civil war nearly 20 years ago. This includes veterans from the Serbian and Bosnian armies.

“Those veterans are working to understand ‘not only what was the impact on my people as a Serb and where are we putting up memorials where Serbian people lives were lost, but what would happen if we as veterans would also go to the memorials that have been put up by the Bosnian community, and how does it change our understand-ing of the war?’”

The MCC is working to reduce the violence they’ve seen in Bosnia and Nigeria. By doing this, they hope the long-term development in water, food, and educa-tion they’ve worked so hard at will remain intact and make a difference.

For Cober Bauman, some of the sale’s highlights are the doughnuts, watching the quilt auction, seeing the next generation grow up, and the festival atmosphere.

“There’s some pretty remarkable investment in difference-making, change-making that happens from the hundreds of thousands of dollars that get raised in one day at the sale.”

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With files from Scott Bar-ber.

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THE REGION OF WATERLOO is worried about red light cameras. Oh, not that they’re an invasion of privacy, responsible for mak-ing intersections less safe or a gratuitous cash grab. No, they’re worried about the loss of revenue because some of the units they’ve in-stalled – at great cost to citizens – are broken and aren’t soaking motorists for as much cash as officials had in the budget.

A harsh winter and construction projects have taken several units offline, resulting in $267,000 left in drivers’ wallets rather than siphoned off by the region.

But, no, the cameras aren’t about cash, say officials. Trust us, it’s about safety.

That’s the party line, but there are a growing number of studies showing that the cameras actually increase the number of accidents at intersections, particularly rear-enders. That’s especially true in jurisdictions where pri-vate companies are involved in the ploy, with U.S. reports of signal timing favouring quicker sequencing of yellow-to-red changes, the better to boost profits. (The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, for instance, reports camera vendors are aggressively lobbying to expand authorization for private traffic law enforcement to more states and are marketing enforcement systems to more communities.)

The reality is, the cameras, like photo radar, exist solely as a revenue stream, with the upfront lie (or story, if you will) being something about public safety. That other, more effective measures exist to safeguard Ontario’s drivers and pedestrians is a fact studiously ignored: they might actually cost money as opposed to producing rev-enue.

Proponents will argue red-light cameras – video moni-tors set up at busy intersections, purportedly to catch drivers running red lights – and photo radar traps penal-ize only those who disobey the rules of the road. That argument, however, disregards any extenuating circum-stances in favour of a static image, a system with no flex-ibility.

More insidiously, the devices become a state-sanc-tioned monitoring system aimed at the public, a clear violation of our right to privacy. Those rights, as we are all aware, are constantly under attack in this digital age – governments are doing precious little to protect us from the efforts of private information gatherers. With photo radar and cameras at intersections, politicians and unac-countable bureaucrats are in fact throwing in with those bent on curtailing our privacy. That is hardly acceptable, but it’s exactly what accepting such measures would mean.

We have become accustomed to financial outlets track-ing our spending habits via credit and debit cards; “secu-rity” cameras are commonplace everywhere from banks to convenience stores; using the Internet leaves a clear trail to those in the know. In the private sector, we still have something of a choice to avoid some of the tracing mea-sures, though not as large as we think – nor as large as we should have if regulators were doing their jobs. But when the government begins installing what are in essence tracking devices with gleeful abandon, we have the state sanctioning this dangerous and invasive practice.

Given the government failures, nobody’s watching the watchers. With photo radar, red-light cameras and the like, government joins the rank of the voyeurs.

Red light cams are about cash, not your safety

“There is no doubt that many populist, Euroscep-tic and even nationalistic parties are entering the European Parliament,” said the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, after all the votes in Sunday’s election for the European Union’s parliament had been counted. He did not say that the barbarian hordes were at the EU’s gates – but he probably thought it.

Boris Johnson, mayor of London, made the same observation rather more colourfully in the Daily Telegraph on Monday: “From Dublin to Lublin, from Portugal to Pomera-nia, the pitchfork-wielding populists are converging on ... Brussels – drunk on local hooch and chanting nationalist slogans and preparing to give the fed-eralist machinery a good old kicking with their au-thentically folkloric clogs.” There is much truth in what he says.

It is true that the EU’s

The pitchfork-wielding populists invade the EUparliamentary elections last Sunday produced a large assortment of na-tionalists, neo-fascists and hard leftists who are united in their dislike for the EU. Together they will account for almost a third of the members of the Eu-ropean Parliament (MEPs), a situation that was un-imaginable only five years ago. However, it is not true that this bloc of rejection-ist MEPs will paralyze the EU.

One reason is that the mainstream centre-right and centre-left blocs of MEPs still have a major-ity in the parliament. They will probably cre-ate a grand coalition that makes all the key decisions behind closed doors, and then rams them through with little real debate. (Of course, this will further alienate the millions who voted for anti-EU candi-dates.)

The second reason is that the “pitchfork-wielding populists” will never constitute a single bloc, since they disagree on practically everything apart from their policy on the EU. Some, like the National Front in France

and the United Kingdom Independence Party, want their countries to leave the EU. Others, like the far-left Syriza Party in Greece, just want to get rid of the com-mon currency, the euro, and end the EU’s policy of enforced austerity.

The Alternative for Ger-many wants to keep the euro but allow the Mediter-ranean countries to leave it. Jobbik in Hungary and the Danish People’s Party are viciously anti-immi-grant. Germany’s National Democratic Party and Golden Dawn in Greece are neo-Nazi. There is a fringe party for every taste.

The most important reason, however, is that the European Parliament has little authority over the bureaucrats who carry out EU policy and none at all over the national govern-ments that actually decide on the policies. The parlia-ment was created to add a dollop of democracy to the process, but it simply can-not paralyze the EU.

Yet this election has been a great shock, be-cause it has revealed a vast reservoir of hostility to the EU among the populations of half its member states,

including some of the big-gest ones. In France the anti-EU National Front got more votes than either of the mainstream par-ties, the Gaullists and the Socialists. In Britain the United Kingdom Indepen-dence Party beat both the Conservatives and Labour.

Precisely because the European Parliament has so little real power, how-ever, this was a cost-free protest vote. At least half the people who backed the National Front and UKIP in the EU election will probably go back to voting for the established parties when the next na-tional elections are held in France and Britain, because the outcome of those elections will matter to them.

Nevertheless, it was a very loud protest, and it has badly shaken the Eu-ropean elites who took it for granted that progress towards a more united Eu-rope was inevitable. What they now have to figure out is whether this was just a cry of rage and pain caused by six years of economic crisis and falling living

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You shouldn't need a doctor to tell you leisure is a better goal

Work less. Enjoy life more. Words you can take to heart. Literally.

A series of recent stud-ies that tie extra hours at work to an increased risk of heart disease should give us pause to put the rat race on hold, at least at times. That’s especially good advice now that we’re finally starting to see some good weather, the kind that lends itself to more leisure.

In one recent study, re-searchers compared people working a normal seven-hour day with those work-ing a minimum of three hours extra. They found that this level of overtime is associated with a 60 per cent increased risk of heart-related problems, in-cluding death due to heart disease, non-fatal heart attacks and angina.

Even after adjusting for socio-demographic charac-teristics (such as age, sex, marital status and occu-pational grade) and other risk factors, researchers

determined that working three to four hours over-time – but not one to two hours – led to that greatly increased risk of coronary heart disease.

Considering possible explanations, the authors of the study indicate that working overtime is associ-ated with type A behaviour pattern (a tendency to-wards aggressive, competi-tive, tense, time-conscious and hostile behaviour), psychological distress (depression and anxiety) and poor sleep patterns. In addition, researchers high-light undiagnosed high blood pressure associated with work-related stress; and “sickness presentee-ism” – employees who ha-bitually work overtime also tend to work when ill, may ignore symptoms and not seek medical advice.

The study also suggests that people working over-time, but in jobs where they have more freedom over work-related deci-sions, may have a lower risk of heart disease.

“The association be-tween long hours and coronary heart disease was independent of a range of

risk factors that we mea-sured at the start of the study, such as smoking, be-ing overweight, or having high cholesterol,” says Dr. Marianna Virtanen, an epi-demiologist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health who participated in the study.

The findings are in keep-ing with a thesis paper she prepared following a five-year study at the Depart-ment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London.

“The association be-tween long working hours and health outcomes with high public health relevance; coronary heart disease (CHD), type 2 dia-betes, depression and sleep disturbances. Working 11-12 hours per day (or >55 hours per week) at baseline, com-pared with working 7-8 hours per day (or 35-40 per week) was associated with an increased risk of CHD, depression and most types of sleep disturbances at follow-up.”

Our plugged-in lives pro-vide a measure of stress, especially when technol-ogy blurs the separation between work and home

life.“In modern society,

working time is no longer limited to hours spent at the workplace – especially in white-collar occupa-tions, work can be done at any time and at any place. An increasingly common opinion is that high de-mands at work result in insufficient time to get work duties done within a standard 7- to 8-hour work-day,” Virtanen finds.

“There is a concern that working long hours might be harmful for health.”

Another of the research-ers involved in a recent study, Gordon McInnes, professor of clinical phar-macology at the University of Glasgow, puts it more plainly.

“Overtime-induced work stress might contribute to a substantial proportion of cardiovascular disease. Physicians should be aware of the risks of overtime and take seriously symptoms such as chest pain, moni-tor and treat recognized cardiovascular risk factors, particularly blood pressure, and advise an appropriate lifestyle modification.”

And what is that appro-

priate lifestyle modifica-tion?

For that, McInnes goes to the famous British phi-losopher Bertrand Russell: “If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who consid-ers work important.”

While underscoring a serious issue, the study lends itself to a worthwhile pursuit, one made even more relevant in this most languid of months: idle-ness.

In his 1932 essay In Praise of Idleness, Rus-sell makes a case for less work and more leisure. He encouraged a four-hour workday. Even at that time, industrialization had left subsistence practices well behind: we could produce abundant supplies without working extraordinary hours.

Early in the industrial era we began to hear about the leisure society. That ideal became even more talked about in the com-puter age: we were going to have so much leisure time that society would actually have to make arrangements for it. That’s certainly not been the case. In fact, sta-

tistics from the last three decades show we’re typi-cally working increasingly longer hours for modest, if any gains.

Where leisure had once been the domain of only the most privileged, Rus-sell argues, industrializa-tion should have paved the way for a more democratic distribution of idle time.

“Leisure is essential to civilisation, and in former times leisure for the few was only rendered possible by the labours of the many. But their labours were valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And with modern technique it would be pos-sible to distribute leisure justly without injury to civilization,” he writes, though the postwar gains on that front were already fading out when Russell died in 1970 at the age of 97.

“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial

What are you most looking forward to with the arrival of summer weather?

Gardening.

» Barb Gill

Drinks on the patio.

» Melissa Oakley

Heading up to the cottage.

» Emily Oakley

Tanning at the beach.

» Leah Long

Spending time outside in the sun.

» Bonnie Nash

"Aggregate producers enjoy exemptions from requirements that apply to other types of development." Tony Dowling | 10

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NATIONAL VIEWDYER: Ultimate impact on EU's future remains to be seenFROM | 8

» Statistics Canada

standards, or whether it really is a protest against any further expansion of the “European project” – indeed, even a demand to roll it back.

The pain and rage are real enough: even six years later, few European economies are back up to where they were before the banking crisis exploded in 2008. Unemployment is still high right across the EU, and youth unemploy-ment is catastrophically high in some countries. (In Greece and Spain, almost half of the under-25s have no work.)

If the EU’s current un-popularity is mainly due to a poor economy, then a few years of economic growth and rising in-comes should make it go away. Most of the national

economies in the EU will grow at least a bit this year, and as the economic situ-ation improves the anger should subside. But what if the whole notion of an ever more united Europe is being rejected by the very people who were supposed to benefit from it?

As in many other parts of the world, the widening gulf between the few rich and the many whose liv-ing standards are stagnant or falling has created an incipient revolt against globalization – and the EU’s centralizing tenden-cies are widely seen as part of that problem. Renewed economic growth will not cure the EU’s malaise if the wealth does not trickle down to the majority.

In that case, there may ultimately have to be a re-treat to a much looser form of European union.

Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $933 in March, up 0.7% from the previous month. On a year-over-year basis, weekly earnings increased 3.1%. Total payroll employment fell by 45,300 in March, following a 24,200 decline in February. The largest decreases in March were in construction; health care and social assistance; transportation and warehousing; manufacturing; and educational services.

» Terry Boehm, chair of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Seed and Trade Committee, takes aim at Bill C-18, the Agricultural Growth Act, which the organization says focuses on corporate control of the industry

“While Conservative MPs speaking in favour of the bill claim it is about modernization and making the legislative environment more nimble, its effect is to empower corporations at the expense of all Canadians, especially farmers.”

» From the May 28, 2005 edition of the Observer

When Conestogo Public School opened, it was part of a chain of small elementary schools in the area. New Jerusalem, West Montrose, Balsam Grove and Winterbourne were its neighbours. All have since closed their doors, but Conestogo PS remains, having marked its 100th anniversary on May 28, as students and teachers, past and present, gathered to celebrate.

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

Ontario must stop preferential treatment of aggregate industry

To the Editor,Gravel pits have been, and continue to be, a con-tentious issue in Woolwich Township. Residents of On-

assessments, exemption from Class III industrial zoning, promotion of recy-cling of industrial waste on rural extraction sites, re-duced setbacks from adja-cent residential properties, and others.

This preferential treat-ment is to the detriment of the natural environment and the health, safety and quality of life of ru-ral Ontarians. The public deserves a fair, impartial review of all aggregate-related policy, and they deserve it now.

I am calling on all can-didates and all parties to stop this preferential treatment of the ag-gregate industry, and to announce their support for an expedited review of the applicable policies (Aggregate Resources Act and Provincial Policy Statement) if they are elected.

TONY DOWLING | WEST MONTROSE

Bottles are for recycling, not tossing

To The Editor,The weather on Sun-day was so gorgeous that I decided to leave my car at home and use my bicycle. On my way home to Elmira from St. Jacobs my rear tire went flat. As I was walking my bike towards town it became quite apparent that

countries is quite different from what always has been preached,” he writes. “Ev-eryone knows the story of the traveller in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun, and offered a lira to the laziest of them. Eleven of them jumped up to claim it, so he gave it to the twelfth. This travel-ler was on the right lines. But in countries which do not enjoy Mediterra-nean sunshine, idleness is

the most likely culprit was shards from the plethora of broken beer bottles on the side of the road.

The only reason that they would be there is that they are being thrown from moving vehicles. Whether it is youth dis-posing evidence before reaching home or people who get a kick out of chucking bottles on the road I ask you to please stop. Those bottles belong

KANNON: More evidence in the argument for a better balanceFROM | 9 more difficult, and a great

public propaganda will be required to inaugurate it. I hope that … the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.”

The medical studies and Russell’s advice bring to mind the warning about working yourself into an early grave. When the over-time demands get to be too much, just tell the boss your heart’s not in it.

tario have raised concerns over the special treatment given to the aggregate in-dustry, yet these concerns are not being addressed in recent government policy decisions.

Aggregate producers enjoy exemptions from requirements that apply to other types of develop-ment; for example, exemp-tion from environmental

in the recycling or better yet at the beer store to collect the deposit rather than the road or my bicy-cle tire. It should be noted that having open bottles of alcohol in a vehicle is illegal even if it’s just the passengers.

Lastly, to the person with the pickup truck who gave me and my bike a lift home, thank you again

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Jacks name Bill Grebinski as club’s new general managerFormer asst. coach takes the reins from Kevin Fitzpatrick, who’ll stay on as director of hockey operations

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Getting serious about things, for art’s sake

This week a Norwe-gian artist made head-lines after he ate his own hip. He was born and lived with a hip deformity until a recent operation cor-rected it. He filmed the procedure and the dis-carded flesh and bone for his graduation show at the Tromso Academy of Art. Then, he claims, he ate some of it at home.

If he was anyone but an artist, he would be under-going psychiatric evalu-ation right now. Instead, he is being touted as – pardon the pun – being on the cutting edge. The value of his art is probably rising too.

This – and talent – are the two things that have prevented me from be-coming an artist.

Think about it; some very famous artists are known primarily for self-inflicted injury. There is the celebrated incident when Van Gogh is said to have cut off his own ear, for example.

NOT SO GREAT

OUTDOORSMAN /

STEVE GALEA

It’s a changing of the guard for the Wellesley Applejacks as another long-time administrative staffer has announced his retire-ment.

Kevin Fitzpatrick will step down as general man-ager of the Junior C team, and Bill Grebinski, an as-sistant coach for the last two years, will take over the position. Fitzpatrick will remain onboard for the 2014-15 season as director of hockey operations in a mentoring role.

The news comes weeks after the announcement that Paul Wilkinson would succeed Rob Way as head coach for the upcoming season.

Fitzpatrick’s two decades with the team include 18 years as coach. He assumed the general manager posi-tion for the 2013-14 season, but cites time commit-ments as influencing his decision to step back.

“It started to really weigh on me in the last couple of years,” said Fitzpatrick. “What really struck home for me was when we went to Florida this year. We drove, and that was the first time we’ve taken two weeks’ holiday in 32 years of marriage, and it was the first actual weeklong holi-

BridgeKeepers golf tourney shifts focus to trailwaySCOTT BARBER

After years of provid-ing critical funding for the BridgeKeepers’ battle against a gravel pit pro-posed for a site in West Montrose, the Kissing Bridge Golf Tournament has a new cause.

“Since Capital Paving withdrew their gravel pit application last summer, we’re changing up the fo-

cus, co-venturing with the Kissing Bridge Trailway Group,” the organization’s Tony Dowling said. “The proceeds will be split be-tween the Kissing Bridge Trailway and the West Montrose Residents Asso-ciation.”

The four-person scram-ble tees off at noon on June 3 at the Ariss Valley Golf and Country Club, fol-lowed by lunch, dinner and

prizes. The event typically hosts

50 golfers and raises be-tween $6,000 and $10,000.

“The fundraising at this tournament is important for our group, with this year’s proceeds being di-rected to beautification efforts in the community,” Dowling said. “Now, it can play a role in helping to improve the Kissing Bridge Trailway as well.”

The trail runs for 45 ki-lometres through southern Ontario’s wetlands and ru-ral communities and sup-porters hope to extend the system even further.

“The goal is to develop a trail from Guelph all the way to Goderich,” Dowl-ing said. “They are going to need a lot of money to accomplish that goal, in terms of bridge upkeep and maintenance.”

The partnership between the Bridgekeepers and the Kissing Bridge Trailway group was an obvious match.

“It’s a perfect fit,” Dowl-ing explained. “The trail goes through West Mon-trose and the covered bridge, so it’s something we have been involved with as a community for a long time. Our co-chair is also very involved with the

Spring on the Trail event.”Aside from the fundrais-

ing aspect, “It’s a fun event on many levels,” said Dowl-ing.

“The folks down at Ariss Golf and Country Club do a great job putting together an excellent meal and an enjoyable golf course. And from a fundraising stand-point, people now have the opportunity of supporting two good causes at once.”

day we’ve had in more than eight years.”

He continued, “I just felt that last year in particular there were things that got missed. I can’t even point out one in particular, but somebody different might have done things a little differently.”

Grebinski, who served as assistant coach under Fitzpatrick and Rob Way, previously worked in Wa-terloo Minor Hockey in the AAA, AA, and Minor Midget teams. Fitzpat-rick’s new role as director of hockey operations will keep him involved in the transition.

“I’ll work with him for the year and get him fa-miliar with the OHA,” said Fitzpatrick. “I’ve been part of the Applejacks for over 20 years, and I wasn’t just going to abandon the team.”

“He will men-tor me in this po-sition,” said Gre-binski. “Kevin’s a very open book when it comes to working with the team and build-ing the team. He’s well-respected by the other organizations, and when I took the position I told him he’s by far one of

Before joining the Jacks as assistant coach two years ago, Bill Grebinski worked with various minor hockey teams. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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St. Clements siblings take top spots at national judo competitionTraining and preparation are keys for Martin and Natalie Rygielski, recently returned from Quebec event

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To become a national judo champion, it takes more than just hitting the gym. When St. Clements teenagers Martin and Nat-alie Rygielski made it to the Canadian Judo Cham-pionship in Saguenay, Quebec, at least half the fights were mental.

“You never underes-timate your opponent, but you have to be really confident walking into the fight,” said Natalie. “You have to focus a lot on what you’re going to do and plan out your fight. If you’re going with a tougher op-ponent, sometimes your coach will talk to you and put you in the right place.”

“You really get used to the pressure of the envi-ronment,” said Martin, who has been to the na-tionals five times. “I go into my fights thinking: I know what I have to do; I know the preparation I’ve done is good enough; I

know I’ve trained harder than my opponents; I know what I have to do to win.”

It seems the preparation worked. Natalie (who turns 15 in June) won first-place for the third year in a row in the U16 division, and second-place in U21; Mar-tin (age 18) took first-place for the second year in U21, and first-place in the Se-niors division.

“The first day I had three fights, and four fights the second day, and I had three or four really tough fights [overall],” said Martin. “There are a few of them who don’t train as hard.”

Added Natalie, “In the U16 division, there was one fight that was tougher, but the rest of them, they’re not really at the same level as I am, I guess. In the U21, the first fight was easy, but the semi-final and final were more difficult.”

Lest this sound like boasting, the Rygielskis do not let themselves off easy.

“I won my senior category, but I didn’t do as well as I wanted to. I kind of feel like I didn’t win easily enough – they had enough of a chance over me,” said Martin.

It’s that kind of standard that separates Bruce Lee from the henchmen that

Bruce Lee beat up, and that has prevailed for the Rygielskis since they took up judo nine years ago. “My brother played hockey and tried other sports, and it wasn’t working out as well as we would have liked,” remembers Martin. “My mom said, ‘Oh, you

should try judo,’ and ever since then we’ve loved it.”

“I put them on it, be-cause I did karate before and I was badly hurt,” says mother Eva Rygielski. “It’s throwing, but not punch-ing. I actually didn’t expect judo would be so hard – I thought it would be more delicate than karate – and no, it’s not!”

The Rygielskis are en-joying a few days of rest before it’s back to the mat. Natalie, who has her brown belt, will be aiming for the next level (a black belt is typically awarded after age 16, but she hopes to earn it earlier), and will take part in the summer games in August. Martin will be training for a European tour this summer, and the Commonwealth games in Scotland. “We have a week’s break before we start training again, but at Nationals, I just get really motivated to want to train even harder,” said Natalie.

When asked for advice for the aspiring champion, Martin offered: “Don’t hold back, because when you hold back, there are oppor-tunities for your opponent to do something. If you just go in there, fight the match like it’s yours, and don’t hold back, you can do re-ally well.”

Mental preparation is as important as physical exercise, according to judo champions Martin and Natalie Rygielski. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

ON THE RUN AT JOHN MAHOOD

Elmira’s John Mahood Public School took advantage of the summer weather with its annual track and field tournament on Tuesday. Simon Shantz (left) and Evan Roth were two of the athletes who participated in the events. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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the best general managers in Junior C hockey.

“They’re a very classy organization and they’re very well respected,” added Grebinski of the Jacks. “Kevin left pretty big shoes to fill, so I’m going to work very closely with him. The ultimate goal is to build a championship team.”

When asked what makes a good GM, Grebinski re-plied, “I think you have to be focused; you have to have great leadership and business practice; you have to work with others and be extremely personable, and have a knowledge of hockey.”

JACKS: A smooth transitionFROM | 11

My best friend is an art-ist, so I thought I’d inter-view him for this column, if only to gain some valu-able insight into the inner workings of an artist’s mind.

Here then is an excerpt.Me: Hey Tom, have you

ever injured yourself for the sake of art?

Tom: Steve? Do you know what time it is?

Me: I wasn’t tired and I needed this interview to complete my column.

Tom: For god’s sake. It’s 3 a.m.!

Me: Is that a no then? You’ve never injured your-self for your art once?

Tom: It’s 3 a.m.!Me: Look, I’m doing a

column on how artists achieve great fame by dra-matic acts of self-injury…

Tom: Great fame, you say?

Me: Yup, Van Gogh fa-mous. So, any self-inflict-ed injuries to report?

Tom: I once accidentally clipped a toenail too short.

Me: You don’t really want fame and fortune do you?

Tom: But …Me: Look, Tom, when

opportunity comes knock-ing at 3 a.m. some artists would answer happily …

Tom: Does pulling out my hair count?

Me: Not unless you did it with pliers and used it to create a sculpture.

Tom: It’s 3 a.m. I don’t know what you want me to say. Do you want to hear I intentionally severed off my foot yesterday using a weed whacker for the sake of art? Is that it? Is that it?! (Now screaming in that temperamental artist’s way.)

Me: Show a little consid-eration would you? You’ll wake your wife and kids. It’s 3 a.m., for goodness sake.

I won’t go into the rest of the conversation. Suffice it to say that it turns out my buddy, though he has been

GALEA: Conversation doesn’t do much to help the artist’s reputation as a serious contenderFROM | 11

Notice of Intention to Amend the Fees & Charges By-LawThe Region of Waterloo intends to amend By-law 14-002 (Establish Fees and Charges). The changes in the by-law include new fees for Home Child Care Rates.

The by-law will be considered at the Regional Council Meeting scheduled for:

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.Regional Municipality of WaterlooCouncil Chamber, 2nd Floor, Administration Building150 Frederick Street, Kitchener

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Stuart Martin will swim at the FINA World Masters Championships from July 27 to August 10. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

Gold and pair of bronze medals for senior swimmerStuart Martin of Conestogo has strong showing at the Canadian Masters Swimming Championships

SCOTT BARBER

Conestogo’s Stuart Martin swam for three medals at the Canadian Masters Swimming Cham-pionships in Windsor.

Martin placed first in the men’s 80-84 age bracket 100-metre freestyle and third in both the 50- and 100-metre breast stroke on May 16-19.

Martin explained how he continues to excel in sport at 80 years of age.

“Whatever activity you pursue you must be con-sistent with it. It’s got to go on the must-do list, not the to-do list. If you don’t make the activity a priority, it’ll get lost over the years to the point where you may not be physically able to take part any longer.”

People are far too quick to make excuses, he added.

“Physical fitness and cardiovascular health are instrumental in a person’s quality of life. So do some-thing, do anything that will improve that quality of life.”

It’s not always easy, though.

“There are plenty of cold winter days where I find myself driving to the pool at 5:30 a.m., it’s dark and my car is making the first tracks through the snow. It makes you wonder, ‘What am I doing here?’”

But his passion for swimming and the Golden Hawks masters swim club always prevail.

“Being part of a group en-hances your commitment,” he said. “You depend on each other and hold each other accountable.”

Martin grew up in Flo-radale swimming with

friends in the region’s many rivers and ponds.

“We would dog paddle around, bragging that we were swimming,” he re-called. “Really, we’d just be standing on the tips of our toes on the bottom.”

Eventually, he learned the basics, though it wasn’t until later in life that the skills became a defining passion.

“When I joined the mas-ters club 35 years ago, I could barely swim 600-700 metres without needing to hang off the pool deck for air,” he said. “Gradu-ally, I have been able to go further and further to the point where I now swim 2,000-3,000 metres during our hour and a half ses-sions.”

He credits the Golden Hawks coaching staff for teaching the finer points of

the sport.“The coaches are excel-

lent, especially Waldemar Augustyniak (August),” he said. “August is a techni-cian who could teach all day long.”

Although, at his age, he has pretty well “seen it all,” he said with a chuckle.

The competition contin-ues this summer with the FINA World Masters Cham-pionships in Montreal, where Martin is looking forward to the relay race.

“The excitement builds in the relay, as you eagerly await your teammates,” he explained. “The crowd gets into those races, which makes it a lot of fun.”

Martin will share his experiences in swimming with the Mapleton Seniors’ Centre for Excellence on June 11, at noon, at the Palmerston United Church.

a professional artist his whole adult life, isn’t all that serious about fame.

You don’t know how much this disappoints me – and not just because I own one of his originals.

I said as much to Jenn at breakfast.

“Tom is not committed enough to his art. How is he ever going to get fa-mous?” I asked.

Jenn reminded me of all the good times Tom and I had fishing and hunting together.

Suddenly, it struck me. That guy injures himself on almost every outing. Just off the top of my head, I remembered the time he took a hawthorn deep in the knee while we were grouse hunting. Then there was that incident he

did the splits between my boat and the dock. And who could forget all those wonderful emergency visits for a variety of out-doors-related reasons?

So sometime tonight, I’ll call and ask if he’d like to go wading for muskies.

If he says yes, I’ll hang the oil painting he gave me in a more prominent place …

MAKING THE GRADE

White Heron Martial Arts students moved to the next level at their belt grading ceremony on May 24. Corinne Hoover and Kurtis Hoover earned brown belts; Matthew Dunn earned a green belt; Anneliese Bromberg and Carola Bromberg earned yellow. [SUBMITTED]

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VQA wines now part of the local food movement

At election time in par-ticular, politicians jockey to get a photo op with a farmer, get pictured eating a burger or be seen some other way supporting agri-culture.

And so they should. Farming is a major eco-nomic engine and job gen-erator. Farmers continually rank among society’s most respected professionals.

And typically, they look great in photos. Robust and rugged. They represent so many desirable values, in-cluding humility and hard work. Politicians like to be seen keeping that kind of company.

Spotlight shines bright during first Local Food Week

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Pair of Niagara wineries among vendors at St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market under new pilot project

WINES | 15 Gabrielle Wertsch of Between the Lines Winery was at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market on Thursday. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

If you want to pick up a bottle or two of wine while stocking up on dinner in-gredients at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market, Woolwich council has no interest in stopping you.

Discussing a new provincial program al-lowing wineries to sell VQA wines at farmers’ markets, township coun-cillors this week took a staff report as informa-tion only. The new policy came into effect as of May 1. The St. Jacobs loca-tion is one of the spots involved in the two-year pilot project, and there have been no issues with the rollout, council heard.

That’s also been the ex-perience of Marcus Shantz, president of market opera-tor Mercedes Corp.

“To my knowledge, we’ve had only positive feedback about it,” he said in an in-

terview.Two Niagara-based win-

eries – Tawse and Between the Lines – have been offer-ing products at the market since May 8.

The change allows for the sale of Vintners Qual-ity Alliance (VQA) wines at Ontario markets. The two-year pilot program is part of a local food strategy to increase demand for goods that are grown, made and harvested in the province. VQA wines are crafted en-tirely from Ontario-grown grapes and must adhere to rigorous winemaking stan-dards.

According to an industry study, Ontario’s wine and grape industry contributed $3.3 billion to the prov-ince’s economy in 2011. VQA wine sales in Ontario have increased by $100 million since 2008 — from $168 million in 2008 to

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Dan Hadwen staffs the Tawse Winery booth at the market. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

This election, the On-tario Federation of Agri-culture has made it easier than ever for politicians to saddle up to agriculture, by steering them towards a web-based campaign called I Believe in Growing Ontario.

“Show your support for Ontario farmers,” the web-site implores hopeful fu-ture Members of Provincial Parliament. “Recognize the strength and opportunities in the agri-food sector for Growing Ontario food, fibre and jobs.”

With that brief invita-tion, candidates join the campaign by completing an online form that gets their name among those

who publically endorse Ontario agriculture. Their participation is then pro-moted by a tweet from the federation (e.g., Thanks @sebastiengoyer for joining OFA’s I Believe in Growing Ontario campaign!) to its 6,850 followers. Good ex-posure, for sure.

The quid pro quo for the federation is that when politicians join on, they are immediately associ-ated with support for the federation’s main priorities for rural Ontario: access to competitively priced energy, more realistic prop-erty taxation, food literacy for schools and agri-skills training.

And really, there’s no downside to that. What’s

not to like from that list? And even if this cam-

paign is all the candidates ever consider about agricul-ture this election, they will at least get some exposure to rural and farm issues.

Nicely done, OFA. Another gift to candidates

this election – albeit an inadvertent one – comes courtesy of the previous government. In November, it passed Bill 36, the first ever Local Food Act, which proclaims Ontario’s official Local Food Week, beginning the first Monday in June.

That proclamation is designed to highlight what the bill’s preamble calls Ontario’s “robust and resil-ient local food systems – a highly productive agricul-

tural land base, a favour-able climate and water sup-ply, efficient transportation and distribution systems, and knowledgeable, inno-vative farmers, food pro-cessors, distributors, retail-ers and restaurateurs.”

The bill says these resources help ensure lo-cal food systems thrive throughout the province, allowing Ontarians to know where their food comes from, and connect with those who produce it – that is, farmers.

When the bill passed in the fall, officials could not have predicted cam-paigning for a late spring election would be in full swing during Ontario’s first Local Food Week. Likewise,

I wonder if anyone con-nected the dots between Local Food Week and On-tario Tourism Week, which takes place at the exact same time.

The election could steal some of the spotlight from local food and tourism. But farmers should instead make hay out of the oppor-tunities it’s bringing to ru-ral Ontario and agriculture.

Locally, it doesn’t seem to be a distraction.

“Local Food Week is all about recognition of farm-ers,” says Christina Mann, TasteReal program coordi-nator for Wellington Coun-ty. “The Local Food Week campaign acknowledges and supports all types of farmers and includes

small- and medium-size operations with a variety of production and sales mechanisms, including farm gate sales, Commu-nity Shared Agriculture operations and farmers markets.”

As a prelude to Local Food Week, on Saturday, May 31, more than a dozen farms in Wellington Coun-ty are opening their doors to the public for self-guid-ed tours, as part of the 4th Annual Spring Wellington Rural Romp.

It seems right now ev-eryone is on some kind of a rural romp of their own, and I urge Ontario’s 57,000 farm-ers to soak it up. Despite its many assets, rural Ontario is not always such a draw.

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$268 million in 2013.There are some 140 VQA

wineries eligible to apply for sales at Ontario’s 200 farmers’ markets.

Shantz explained that the market is not in-volved in the process, as it’s up to the wineries to apply for an extension of the license needed to sell their wines from their own premises. That’s handled by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.

The market does, how-ever, have control over ap-plications for vendor space. in the case of wineries, the market had several appli-cations – “they apply like any other vendor” – from which they selected two, said Shantz.

That decision hinged on a couple of things: St. Ja-cobs sees this as something of its own pilot project and, due to the fire last year that destroyed the main build-ing, space is at a bit of a premium in the temporary quarters.

“Really, there isn’t a ton of space,” he said

In selecting the two wineries now vending at the market, the operators

wanted to go with winer-ies that aren’t extensively

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represented at the LCBO or grocery stores, in keeping with their philosophy of helping small businesses, Shantz explained.

The LCBO, for instance, isn’t always an ideal outlet for small wineries that don’t turn out large vol-umes. Farmers’ markets are a good outlet for those winemakers.

“There is a method to our madness when we do this stuff,” he laughed.

Shantz notes that people can buy wine at a grocery store, and because there are those who choose to buy their groceries at the market,

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While the program may not be in line with every-one’s sensibilities, the St. Jacobs market has a varied customer base, and there’s been nothing but good re-ports thus far.

“It’s been very positive. It’s an experiment –so far, so good,” he said, with the wineries fitting right in.

“They’re there the same as any other vendor.”

The pilot project was welcomed by the organi-zation representing local markets, Farmers’ Markets Ontario (FMO).

“This is a positive step forward in supporting FMO’s ongoing efforts to bring consumers what they want at the farmers’ market level,” said Bob Chorney, FMO executive director, in a release.

The organization had pushed for changes to the province’s liquor laws to include the sale of all lo-cally produced wines at farmers’ markets. Other provinces, most recently British Columbia, recog-nize the benefits to both fruit producers and their customers, and have al-lowed the sale of locally produced craft beer, wine and cider at its farmers’ markets.

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Putting some drama into the EDSS reunion As part of next weekend’s festivities, students will put on special performances of a pair of plays

WILL SLOAN

Elmira District Sec-ondary School is turn-ing 75; when an institution reaches a milestone like that, it tends to look at both the past and the fu-ture. Next weekend, the EDSS drama department will be doing just that with its evening of one-act plays, marking the school’s birthday with a new come-dy and a revamped classic.

Truth Beware, by Grade 12 student Chelsea Wilson, is a comedy about what happens when a group of teenagers lose the ability to lie. After that, the Head-less Horseman will rear his head for a new version of The Legend of Sleepy Hol-low adapted by Lindsay Price.

The plays are the result of the Grade 12 drama class’s summative project, which gave students an op-portunity to write or adapt a play.

“Elmira has had a huge theatrical presence for 75 years, and we made sure that the reunion had something dramatic,” said DJ Carroll, EDSS drama teacher. “Both of our plays take place in a barn, and we laugh, because that’s appropriate for Elmira.”

He added, “You don’t have to be part of the re-union – it can be anybody

from the town, we want people to come out to see these productions.”

Both of the plays come with pedigree: Truth Be-ware was a prizewinner at the school’s one-act festival, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was the school’s official entry in the Sears Drama Festival, where it picked up awards for its choral work and its stunts (notably those in-volving the horseman).

“The day that we did it in the competition was a storm day, so nobody from Elmira was able to come in and see it. We decided, ‘Why don’t we do it here at the reunion so our home town crowd actually gets a chance to see the play?’”

The anniversary perfor-mances will be the culmi-nation of several months of hard work. “It does take a bit of time to get it prepared and going,” said Carroll.

“For the Sears play, we spent three months re-hearsing. A very intense February, meeting three times a week for running things and rehearsing. Chelsea’s play was a little bit shorter – they’ve spent maybe two months, once or twice a week of practice time going over it.”

But Carroll adds the cast and crew have made the preparation easy. “The

crew, they know their jobs; the actors know their stuff. It’s one of those things where we push to the stu-dents: ‘What would it be like if you had to go out and do this for a living? Well, you’ve got to treat it like that.’ Because the audience is going to pick it up: Is this a really good, professionally-done show, or is this an amateur show? I always tell the kids, ‘You want to give them a profes-sional show every time.’”

What happens when an audience member says a show is professional qual-ity? “When the kids hear that, they go, ‘Wow.’ And I feel wowed too,” said Car-roll.

“I look at the kids and say to them, ‘Treat this theatre as your own; treat this space as your own. When you get out there, these people are your guests in your home, treat them that way, and make them want to come back. And that’s what we do: people leave and say, ‘That was really well done, we want to come back to see your next show.’”

Truth Beware and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow will be performed at EDSS on June 7 at 7:30 p.m. and June 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door, or free with the EDSS 75th anniversary package.

EDSS students will try not to lose their heads over The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Front: Carli Jones, Sara Martin, Rachel Scott. Back: Elaura Clements, Autumnrose Fielding, Matt Lalond, Madi Paleczny. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Rook, Helen (nee Olsen)Passed away on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket. Helen Rook, age 94 years, formerly of Elmira, was the beloved wife of the late Stuart Rook (1967). Dear mother of Larry and Anne Rook of Nova Scotia, Pat Rook of Newmarket, and Cathy Howlett of Elmira. Also lovingly remembered by her grand-children Dane (Amber), Tammy and Johnathan, Keith and Kevin, and by her great-grandchildren. Sister of Phyllis, Margaret, and Donald. Predeceased by her son-in-law Dan Howlett, granddaugh-ters Erin Howlett and Kim, sister Betty, and brothers Bernard and Emil. At Helen’s request cremation has taken place. There will be no funeral home visitation. A memo-rial service for family and friends to celebrate Helen’s life will be held in the chapel at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira, on Friday, June 6, 2014 at 11 a.m. In Helen’s memory, in lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario or Grand River Hospital Foundation, Regional Cancer Cen-tre would be appreciated as expres-sions of sympathy.

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3 Arthur St. S., Elmira519-669-5426

Paul Martin

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PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP!Elmira - This Elmira Beauty has been updated but still has the Character and charm of an older home. Attractive oak wood work and pocket doors throughout this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with finished basement. Complete with eat-in kitchen, Separate dining room, living room and recroom! Located on nice sized lot with concrete driveway leading you up to huge 20ft x 35ft detached garage/ workshop with hydro. MLS 1424232. Call Alli or Paul direct.

$389,000$389,000

STUNNING BUNGALOWDrayton - This Verdone Model Home has elegant and luxurious features including skylights, tray ceilings and 2 french door walkouts from master and dinette. Ceramic and hardwood throughout the main floor. Kitchen with granite countertops and glass backsplash overlooking dinette and open to great room. 2 walk in closets in the Master Suite and 4 piece ensuite. This home is complete with den, 2nd bedroom, mudroom/main floor laundry and huge finished basement with fireplace. MLS1418095. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

$425,900$425,900

Breslau – Approx 2700sqft house located on 3.15 acres. Enjoy sunsets from your bckyrd haven. Tree lined private drive. Complete w/main flr LR, FR w/wood fp, eat in kit & sep DR. Main flr bdrm w/kitchenette & 3pc ens. Side entrance ideal for home office/business. Master bdrm w/8ftx8ft walk in closet & 3pc ens. Fin'd basement featuring lg bar & location for wood stove. Bsmnt bath incl sauna, whirlpool. 648sqft unfinished bonus room above garage. TLC Required. MLS 1414121. Call Alli or Paul direct.

BEAUTIFUL BACKYARD$598,500$598,500

LUXURIOUS CONDO!Kitchener – Featuring controlled entry in welcoming lobby. Casual Elegance in this updated 2 bdrm, 2 bath, condo complete w/sep DR & in-suite laundry. Excellent location w/easy access to 401, shopping, Conestoga College & close to trails. Well maintained building w/indoor pool, exercise rm, party rm, sauna & underground parking! Recent updates: Laminate flooring, Baths 2013, Kit cabinets 2009. All appliances incl’d. Just move in & enjoy! MLS 1424165. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

$178,900$178,900

YET TO BE BUILT!Drayton - Beautiful Mansfield III Home. Various Prices and Plans available. Model Home is at 46 Bedell Open: Mon, Tues, Wed 1-7pm and Sat, Sun 1-4:30pm. MLS 1418101. Call Paul or Alli direct.

$338,900$338,900

Winterbourne - Located on a quiet street this 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home is equipped with large concrete driveway, double garage and additional storage area. Separate dining room and main floor laundry with walk out to patio. Huge upper floor family room with gas fireplace, lots of windows, sliders to deck and amazing view. Large fenced back yard with pool. MLS 1424241. Call Alli or Paul direct.

OVER LOOKING GREENSPACE! $329,900$329,900

BACKING ONTO PARKElmira - Located in mature area this home features open concept living room with hardwood floors and second floor addition 2009. Main floor full bath, Bright kitchen with new cupboards & counter top. Separate dining room with French door walk out to large concrete patio & yard overlooking park! Main floor laundry with skylight, 3 bedrooms including large master bedroom with huge walk in closet. MLS 1424631. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

$272,900$272,900MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

Elmira - This house is larger than it looks with great entertaining space! Equipped with fabulous sunroom or mudroom, separate dining room, main floor bath, living room and large main floor family room. Attached garage is equipped with hydro and gas heat. Sliding glass doors guide you to flag stone patio in fenced yard. Many updates include: Most windows, Furnace and A/C 2014, Roof 2009, ++. Fridge, stove, washer, dryer included. MLS 1424965. Call Alli or Paul Direct.

$249,900$249,900

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For info on these or any other real estate enquiries, Call Dale

Drayton Ridge | $359,900 The Brighton lll model, by Verdone Homes is one of many exciting models to be built. This two storey home boasts 1730 sq ft of open concept with main floor great room and 3 generous bedrooms upstairs with custom features. Various prices and options available. MLS Call Dale, to have the best selection.

Palmerston | $169,000Charming updated century home in a quiet neighbourhood, with a large fenced yard and stamped concrete patio to enjoy the outdoors. Inside is an eat in kitchen, a large open great room, office or den, gas fireplace, wood floors, and 3 bedrooms up. Loaded with character. MLS Call Dale

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www.alyssahenry.ca782 Tower St, S. Fergus, ON

Stunning 2000+ sq ft 2 year old home (Tarion Warranty). 3 beds, 3 baths, separate dining room, butler's pantry, open concept kitchen/living room with cathedral ceiling, master w/large walk in and 3pc ensuite. ALL appliances included as well as tv and wall mount in the liv. room. A definite must see!

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SOUGHT AFTER AREA$424,000 ELMIRA Wonderful tree lined street, inviting covered front porch, updated kitchen/2010, ceramic & hardwood floors, newer windows, main floor living & family room, walkout to patio & private yard, dbl garage. NEW MLS

STUNNING Executive freehold townhomes, bungalow & bungalow loft units, Priced from $322,900. 2 units available with 60 day closing, 2046 sq.ft offered at $345,900, 1977 end unit offered at $347,900. Features hardwood, ceramic, gas fireplace, gourmet kitchen, walkout, loft, double garage. Time to CHOOSE your colour scheme. MLS

$947,000 Entertain in Style & with Elegance. Beautifully appointed 3499 sq.ft executive bungalow with loft, grand foyer with open staircase, marble flrs & vaulted ceiling to upper loft extensive hardwood, gourment kitchen offers granite & Viking appliances, walkout to Muskoka room overlooking the 3/4 yard, inground salt water pool w/water fall, hot tub, pergola & detached heated shop! MLS

OPEN HOUSE | Sat May 31st & Sun June 1st 2-4pm, Wed June 4th 3-6pm | 168 Ridgeview Drive, Drayton

2344 SQ.FT LOG HOME$629,900 NEAR DRAYTON/MOOREFIELD Picturesque views from the large covered porch, private 13 acres, mature trees & spring fed pond. Custom built, exposed beams, cathedral ceiling, loft, 3 bdrms, 3 baths, eye-catching kitchen w/quartz counter tops, Elmira Stove Works appliances & island/breakfast bar, dining area, finished walkout basement. MLS

WELL MAINTAINED$399,900 ELMIRA Wow! 3 bedroom, 3 bath (including ensuite) two storey in great neighbourhood, large oak kitchen includes appliances, backsplash, slider to deck & fenced yard, living room has corner gas fireplace, finished rec room, double garage. MLS

100 ACRE PROPERTY$869,900 BETWEEN PALMERSTON/ HARRISTON 15 year old stone Citadel home with maple kitchen with island, dinette overlooks the countryside, 2 storey stone fireplace in the family room, 3 bdrms, 3 baths, 40 acres workable, 60 bush (cherry/maple & ash mix). MLS

OPEN HOUSE | Sun June 1st 2-4pm, 2 Eldale Rd., Elmira

NEW PRICE!

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Elmira Real Estate Services, Independently Owned & Operated. 519-669-3192

FOR LEASE - Small Business Location

$8.50/sq ft + CAM..Earl Martin Drive.1350+ sq ft main level w/ front office and back bay, 12' overhead door. M5 Industrial Zone, additional 2nd floor office space.Call for details. MLS.

BROKERAGE

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD.45 Arthur St. S., Elmira

www.thurrealestate.com519-669-2772JULIE

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Res: 519.669.8629

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Res: 519.669.1068

CALL FOR YOUR FREE MARKET EVALUATION

IMMACULATE home in a quiet area, close to walk-ing trails. Ceramic in entry & kit./dinette. Sliders to deck and patio (& backing to farmland). 3 spacious bdrms. with lovely hdwd. floors. Large, finished rec. rm. office/playrm. & 3pc. bath. Storage shed. Central air. New shingles . MLS $299,900.

A GREAT ‘FAMILY’ HOME. Open concept main floor. Hdwd. & ceramics on the main level. Lovely cherry kitchen w/island. W/O to 2 tiered composite deck (partly covered) & hot tub. Cheater ensuite bath. Fin. rec. room & ‘craft’ room. 3pc. bath. & 4th bdrm. Fur-nace, central air & shingles replaced. MLS $394,900.

QUIET AREA (with mature trees). Walkup base-ment. Newer windows, roof. Long asphalt driveway. Hardwood floors on the main level. 4th bedroom & newer 3 pieve bath in lower level. Rec. room (with large windows) & playroom. MLS $329,900.

COURT LOCATION – LOVELY WOODED AREA. Four bdrm. home with updated bathrms (3pc. en-suite). Main floor fam. room w/fireplace and walkout to huge deck with 8 person spa. Spacious liv. rm. and formal din. rm. Walkup from bsmt. Extra-long drive-way. Fenced yard. A must see! MLS $449,900.

LINWOOD – Unique, custom built home on over 1 acre, backing to greenspace & overlooking the coun-tryside. Main flr. master w/ensuite OR upper ‘loft’ w/master bdrm., ensuite & hobby room. 9’ ceilings in lower level w/lge. windows. Quality construction & lots of upgrades! Oversized garage. MLS $639,900.

STUNNING CHARACTER – Loaded w/character! Century home w/natural woodwork, hdwd. floors & 2 staircases. Cozy liv. rm. w/gas F.P., formal D.R. & main flr. fam. rm. w/built ins. Oak kitchen. Pri-vate master w/ensuite & dressing area. Updated bathrms. Detached garage & lovely yard. Very well maintained! MLS $539,900.

Workable land, recently tile-drained @ 30’ centres. Road frontage at front and back of farm. MLS $1,400,000.Productive Farmland 85 ACRES FOR SALE

in Wellesley Township.

NEW PRICE

Sat May 31st – 1-3pm | 8 Bitternut Place, ElmiraOPEN HOUSE Sun June 1st – 2-4pm | 5 Raising Mill Gate, ElmiraOPEN HOUSE

LOCATION! Desirable Southwood Park. Close to walking trails and across from a park. Lovely oak kitch-en w/’bump out’ dinette & walkout to concrete patio. Convenient side entry. 3 bdrms. Spacious finished rec. room & washroom in lower level. Private asphalt driveway. Storage shed. MLS REDUCED TO $274,900.

GREAT LOCATION – close to schools & rec. centre. Hdwd. in LR and DR. Walkout from dinette to patio & prof. landscaped yard. Lots of counterspace in kitch-en. Main flr. washroom. 3 spacious bdrms. Ensuite w/oversized shower, walkin closet. Large fin. rec. room and washroom in lower level. MLS $389,900.


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NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF ALL MUNICIPALITIESWITHIN THE REGION OF WATERLOO

AND THE COUNTIES OF BRANT, HALDIMAND AND NORFOLK

2014 NOMINATIONS & CANDIDATE CAMPAIGNSCONSEIL SCOLAIRE DE DISTRICT CATHOLIQUE CENTRE-SUD

(1 member to be elected)

The Municipal Elections Act, 1996 provides that a candidate's election campaign period begins on the day he or she �les a nomination for an of�ce.

Money, goods and services given to and accepted by or on behalf of a person for his or her election campaign are contributions. This can occur only after the individual intending to run for of�ce has been nominated.

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1) Nominations for the above of�ce, using the prescribed form, shall be �led only in the Of�ce of the City Clerk, 2nd �oor, City Hall, 200 King Street West, Kitchener, either personally by the candidate or by his or her agent,

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• during the hours 9am to 2pm on Nomination Day, Friday, September 12, 2014.

The prescribed form is available in the of�ce of any Municipal Clerk in Ontario.

2) The nomination shall be accompanied by

• a filing fee of $100.00 payable in cash, debit, certified cheque or money order (payable to the City of Kitchener), and

• a declaration of eligibility, in the prescribed form, signed by the person being nominated.

3) If insufficient nominations for an office are received by the deadline described above, additional nominations may be filed between 9am and 2pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2014.

4) The onus is on the person nominated for election to an of�ce to �le a bona �de nomination paper.

C. TarlingCity ClerkCity Hall, Kitchener

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DÉCLARATIONS DE CANDIDATURE ET CAMPAGNES DES CANDI-DATS - 2014 CONSEIL SCOLAIRE DE DISTRICT CATHOLIQUE

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La Loi de 1996 sur les élections municipales stipule que la campagne électorale d’un candidat débute le jour où il dépose sa candidature à un poste.

Les espèces, les biens et les services donnés pour la campagne électorale d’un candidat, que ce dernier accepte lui-même ou qu’un représentant accepte en son nom, sont des contributions. Les contributions ne peuvent commencer qu’après le dépôt de la déclaration de la candidature de la personne qui a l’intention de se présenter à un poste.

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• entre 9 h et 14 h le jour des déclarations des candidatures, soit le vendredi 12 Septembre 2014

On peut se procurer la formule prescrite au bureau de n’importe quel secrétaire municipal en Ontario.

2) La déclaration de candidature doit être accompagnée de ce qui suit :

• des droits de dépôt de 100 $ payables en espèces, carte de débit, par chèque certi�é ou par mandat à l’ordre de la Ville de Kitchener, et

• une déclaration d’éligibilité dans la formule prescrite signée par le candidat.

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4) Il incombe au candidat à un poste de présenter une déclaration de candidature en bonne et due forme.

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This is an easy recipe to make and is always a huge hit and very refreshing. If you don’t have leftovers from a cookout, you can always go ahead and use frozen lobster if you are craving one of these succu-lent sandwiches.

Now, a backyard, some wine and a hot sunny day is all you need to get this party started – have fun.

Now’s the time for a lobsterrific good meal

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WILL SLOAN

“What’s it like to be 100 years old?” I ask Edith Carr at her birthday party.

Carr, a resident of St. Jacobs Place retirement facility, pauses to con-sider while her family and friends cut the cake. “Well, it’s special… and it’s not special,” she says. “There are so many things you don’t understand.” Another pause, followed by, “And why are you here – answer that?”

“Well… why are any of us here in the first place?” I counter.

“Yes, I guess that’s true…” she replies.

It’s a heavy philosophi-cal question to ponder on one’s birthday, so here’s one that Edith Carr has had plenty of time to think about: How does one get to be 100 years old?

“I think it’s doing things, like those puzzles and reading and knitting,” she says, before adding a senti-ment that is something like her mantra: “I’m blessed.”

Carr was born May 21, 1914, and lived her early life on a farm in the small com-munity of Dashwood, On-tario (“picking’ potatoes,” she recalls). When asked if she has a first memory, Carr laughs, “Work!” but adds, “I had wonderful parents.”

In 1938, she married Bert Carr, a British-born barber, but after the couple had three kids, their life changed when he felt him-self called to the ministry. Bert’s life as a pastor for the Evangelical United Brethren (now the United

St. Jacobs woman ponders her blessings as she celebrates reaching the century mark

Church) sent the family to live in more than 20 towns and cities across Canada – including a nine-year stay in St. Jacobs in the 1950s, where they raised their children. “We moved so often, in good places no matter where we went,” says Carr.

“Her whole life, she shared with others,” says Carolyn Carr, Edith’s daughter-in-law. “They didn’t have much, but if it was a turkey at Thanksgiv-ing, she’d invite people; if she had an extra something in her garden, she shared it.”

In 1989, the Carrs settled in Elmira, but moved again in 2003 to St. Jacobs Place when Bert required care and Edith didn’t want to leave his side (he died in 2004). “That’s a big thing, when you lose your better half,” she says. “But I’m blessed, I can’t complain. I have my ups and downs.”

With 11-and-a-half years at St. Jacobs Place, Carr is now the facility’s longest-standing resident, but she also has plenty of loved ones outside: She has seven grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, most of whom were at her birthday party last Saturday.

“How do you keep track of them all?” I ask.

“Well, sometimes you have to think… because they grow so fast!” she laughs. “And I wouldn’t want to do without the Lord – He helps me in times I don’t even think about it, and that is a plus in my life.”

Now entering her elev-enth decade, Carr remains

an active member of the community – retirement being only a state of mind. “She has a really big social group,” says Carolyn Carr. “She gets together with five ladies that are 30 years younger, and until a year ago she belonged to a knit-ting group at the church.

Her social life has been very active, which is key to longevity.”

Carolyn adds, “The big thing is that she’s always stayed really active. She’s reading, she’s knitting, she’s doing word searches, and until very recently she went to exercise class twice

a week.”By now, the lure of the

cake is calling, and Carr is ready to bid me adieu. But before she goes, she takes a moment to sum up her 100-year journey: “I had a good life. I just can’t complain,” she says, before adding, “I’m blessed.”

CHEF’S TABLE/ RYAN TERRY, FLOW CATERING

Edith Carr and her late husband moved more than 20 times before settling at St. Jacobs Place in 2003. She celebrated her centenary with a party on May 21. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Doing a slow-burn on the energy we humans use helps us live longer lives

Q. For better or for worse, we are “data-generating machines,” leaving a steady stream of 1s and 0s in our “digital exhaust” wake. What kinds of data are now at our command?A. We are “self-trackers” who use technology to acquire, store and analyze our “life data.” As self-professed “data junkies,” we have access to plenty of apps and websites for “self-quantification,” making us “quantified-selfers” or simply “QSers,” says Paul McFedries in “IEEE Spec-trum” magazine.

So we’ve got a personal

“lifelog” of vital stats on our foods, location, exercise, sleep (how much? REM or non-REM?), moods and alertness, overall well-being, and much more, enabling us to put our lives under the “macroscope,” or “data-enhancer.” If that data tells you that you’re just as alert on days when you get only five or six hours of sleep, you’re clear-ly one of those lucky ones who don’t need seven or eight hours of shuteye. And a spike in your heart rate and blood pressure at din-ner might suggest the need for some family counseling.

Concludes McFedries: “But isn’t all this TMI (too much information) just narcissism for gadget freaks and data geeks? Are these sorts of overexamined lives worth living? Sorry, I don’t

have enough data to answer those questions.”Q. How would the energy you expend per day com-pare to that of someone in a traditional hunter-gatherer society?A. A Hadza hunter-gather-er of eastern Africa typically weighs about 103 lbs (47 kg) and expends about 2,200 Calories per day, whereas a typical Westerner weighs 160 lbs (72 kg) and expends about 2,500 Calories, ac-cording to Herman Pontzer and colleagues in the “Pro-ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” So, not surprisingly, the physi-cally active forager burns more energy per pound (21 Cal/lb versus 16), though a modern sedentary type burns more overall -- pre-sumably to sustain and lug around those extra pounds.

The researchers also found that, adjusted for body mass, primates as a whole (including humans, apes and monkeys) burn energy significantly more slowly than do other mam-mals. It seems that humans (and their evolutionary kin) live life in the slow lane -- no doubt, part of the reason why we mature, reproduce and age slowly, and live much longer than a mam-mal of our size has any right to expect.Q. What’s special about the “super recognizers” of this world? What sort of lasting mark might you make on one of them? A. It would be your facial look or visage, since super recognizers are people who never forget a face, a capability that has been

scientifically confirmed for about 1 of every 100 people, says Susan Gaidos in “Sci-ence News” magazine. Most people can instantly identi-fy family members, friends and even foes just by seeing their faces. Newborn babies prefer to look at faces com-pared with other objects, and a baby as young as three days prefers looking at its mother’s familiar face over a stranger’s.

Faces are special in that down through evolution they’re the only visual stimulus class where we humans have had to make very fine discriminations, says neuroscientist Irving Biederman. “If you see one tiger versus another tiger, you don’t really have to make a distinction. ... But for human faces you do.”

Not only are faces similar

in appearance, but they change over time and under varying circumstances. Yet super recognizers can spot those changes, even in near strangers whom they have not seen in years. It’s pos-sible their brains are better at “holistic” processing or viewing faces as a single unit.

Interestingly, adds psy-chologist John P. Davis: “If I were going to commit some criminal act, I might be deterred by the fact that there might be somebody out there recognizing me, or who later might see an image of me committing that act.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.” Send your questions to [email protected].

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When ready to serve, toast your buns and brush with butter, add lobster

Lobster Roll 1-1/2 cups cooked, cold lobster 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 lemon, juiced 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp Tabasco sauce1/2 cup red onion, diced1/2 cup celery, diced1 tbsp chopped parsleySalt and pepper to taste 4 of your favourite bunsMelted butter

In a large stainless steel bowl add the chopped lob-

CHEF’S TABLE: A sandwich fit for the season

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