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Karla Wilker Moves on to Stratford After Eight Years in Wellesley

Apple Jacks Season is Over!

Maybe Summer Will Be as Green as This Winter Has Been White & Long!

Skatepark Development:The Wheels Are Still Turning

SHIPWRECK! Region’s Museum Puts on aRemarkable Display

Clearing 10 feet of snow along Wilmot-Easthope Road

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Community Health Worker, Karla Wilker (above left) has accepted a full-time position with L’Arche

in Stratford after more than eight years working 2 1/2 day weeks with the Wellesley Township Community Health Centre. She is being replaced by Lisa Parker (above right) who will work part-time here and part time with Guelph Independent Living. She will continue to support the current programs estab-lished by Karla.

Karla has been instrumental in Wellesley starting the Youth Advisory Council which has been working more than seven years to establish a permanent skate park in Wellesley Village.

She helped establish the Seniors Network-ing Group in 2007. They have been quietly pursuing local accessibility and mobility issues. She says that youth and seniors is-sues have a lot of similarity.

She has also been holding health edu-cation sessions at Pondview, twice a year covering a vast array of topics such as ‘How to get a better sleep’ and ‘Stress.’

Karla was also working on a new pro-gram called KALM—Keeping Anxiety Level Manageable for Grades 6-8 students at three schools in the township, . In the one hour sessions explains what anxiety is, how it feels and how to manage it.

Lisa can be reached by calling the Health Centre at 519-656-9028 ext 224. ❖

Wilker Moves to Full Time Position in Stratford

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2 Karla Wilker Takes Position at L’Arche in Stratford

4 Lions Distribute Tree of Light Donations

4 WNEH Fall Fair Holds AGM

5 Jolly Oldsters Donate to Township

5 Wellesley P.S. Book Fair Has Record Sales

6 Editorial: Is There a Silver Lining in Skatepark Issue?

7 Do You Need to Learn to say “no”?

8 Festival Garden Focus of Horticulture Meeting

9 K&K Liquidation Moves into Wellesley Village

10 Region Museum Offers ‘March Break Madness”

12 BOT Gets Update on Kids and Cops

13 Arena Gets Better Sound System

14 Skatepark Meeting Moves Project Forward

16 The Energizer Winter… Will It Ever End?

19 SHIPWRECK! See Shipwrecks, Pirates & Treasure

22 Apple Jacks Done for Another Season

24 Kids & Cops Still Having Fun After 15 Years

26 Photo: Has Winter Turned You Upside Down?

Kids & Cops Have Fun With Hockey Skills

Annual event has a sim-ple premise: Have fun, meet police officers, Kitchener Rangers and Apple Jacks, practise hockey skills, go home. 24

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Winter! Have You Had Enough Yet?

Its been cold, snowy, windy, blustery and just won’t take a break. Isn’t it great to be Canadian?

Waterloo Region Museum Has Great Shipwreck Display

It’s amazing what’s on the oceans’ bottom. You can see some of it in Waterloo Regions Museum’s SHIPWRECK! Presentation. 19

Skatepark MeetingWellesley Village is deal-ing with its skatepark is-sues. Volunteer groups are becoming a team. Can they maintain the benefits of working to-gether after it’s over?14

While we didn’t get a tremendous snowfall, the weeks of non-stop high speed winds created amazing natural sculptures out of the drifts. There were areas, such as Wilmot-Easthope Road—on our cover—and Notre Dame Road that had drifts so deep, plows had trouble dealing with them. With-out snowblowers, a lot of our roads would have been impassible for a lot longer.

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Wellesley-North Easthope Fall Fair

Holds AGM

Lions Distribute Tree of Light Donations

Lions Club president, John Pym, left, presents Tree of Light donations to

Community Care Concepts (CCC)execu-tive director, Cathy Harrington, centre and Sue Martin, family outreach work-er at Family & Community Services Wellesley Township. In back are execu-tive members, Terry Hogan, left, and Darrell Kirby.

CCC uses the funds to support its Meals on Wheels program for seniors. Sue Martin’s programs supports low in-come families in the township.

The $3250 in donations received dur-ing Christmas 2013 was down from $4100 in 2012 and $5287 in 2011. ❖

The Wellesley-North Easthope Fall Fair held its AGM in January. The

members re-elected Jim Stueck, Bill Johnson, Murray Schlueter, Joanne Stewart as directors and elected Fall Fair Ambassador, Kelsey Bisch as a new director, following the resignation of Hal Schneider as director and first vice-president.

They approved their financial statement, which showed an income of $3035 for 2013 and a bank balance of $15,161. They reported that their books had been audited January 17 by Derek Brick and Richard Cook.

The fair theme for 2014—being the International Year of the Family Farm is “Hands Across the Fence.” ❖

Middle Photo: Attending the AGM were: (l-r) Murray Schlueter, Mary Lich-ty-Neeb; Susan Seyler; Ruby Hackbart; Lorne Hackbart; Jim Stueck, Bill John-son, Karen Schlueter, Peter Brennan, Beth Schlueter and Kelsey Bisch.Bottom Photo: Newly elected director and Fall Fair Ambassador, Kelsey Bisch poses beside her ambassador pho-to which was installed in the display frame during the meeting by Lorne Hackbart.

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Jolly Oldsters Present Cheque To Wellesley Twp

Volunteer-Managed Book Fair Sets Record Sales

Brad Voisin (left), director of recre-ation for Wellesley Township accepts a

cheque for $600 from Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Koch and President Ed Heise on behalf of the Jolly Oldsters.

The Oldsters have 22 members and meet in the small hall at the Community Centre, each Thursday to play cards or board games from 1-4:30 p.m.

The group has no membership fees but does charge 50¢ for coffee and a cook-ie or cake served during each meeting. Newcomers welcome. Just come out to join!

The township does not charge them for the use of the hall and will put the funds toward the hall. ❖

Wellesley Public School had its an-nual book fair last November.

Its a popular fund raising event allow-ing students to view and purchase from hundreds of new titles brought in by Scholastic Book Club Limited. The 12-hour, one-day event sold more than $5000 worth of books and raised a record $1400 for the school’s library.

Katie Hamm, school librarian, said that the event was the most successful book fair they ever held and that it outsold all previous 3-day fairs.

The event was organized by volun-teers (middle photo) (l-r) Becky Hill and Claire Birrell. Volunteering on sale day was Mary Jo Leggo.

All students, from JK on up had an opportunity to purchase books. Parents could purchase books after school hours.

There was a broad variety of book di-visions—hard cover; young adult; books for boys/girls; reference; explore and dis-cover; creative fun; ‘chapter books’; sea-sonal topics; French; and pre-school.

Some of the more popular titles in-cluded: Diary of a Wimpy Kid—Hard Luck; and Pete the Cat. And there was diversity in the titles, such as: Annie the Apple Pie Fairy; and Fly Guy and the Frankenfly.

The event was widely promoted as an opportunity to purchase gifts. ❖

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The Skatepark Issue: Is There a Silver Lining Rolling Around In There Somewhere?

The effort to establish of a permanent skatepark in Wellesley Village has created a bit of a roller coaster ride for the many adults and youth that have been working for the last eight years to bring that project to fruition.

Karla Wilker, the former outreach worker for the Wellesley Township Community Health Centre played an instrumental part in the cultivation of this project. She worked to create the Wellesley Youth Advisory Council in 2007-8. It was the first organization to recognize that there was a need for a skatepark and began making presentations to council and others, seeking support.

Council bought into the project and the formalization of the project began. Of course Councillor Jim Olender whose son Trevor is a skate-boarder (or skater, for short)), was publicly in support of the project since he was first elected. The project has gone through many iterations since it began, including a temporary skatepark set up in the arena with wooden jumps and a half-pipe—all constructed here. Even this limited set of equipment, has drawn lots of local youth as well as 8-10 local adult skaters (ages 18-30 years old) and perhaps twice that many from other communi-ties, as far away as Guelph, to use our facilities. It is a common practice in skater circles to travel to different parks for the vari-ety of experiences. Even one 50-year-old has skated our ramps.

Initially, the skatepark and the multi-use sportspad were separate projects, but somewhere along the line they got com-

bined. It was this combination that proved to be the catalyst and trying to find an area that could accommodate both, proved to be problematic.

Parents of young skateboarders want the park to be centrally located, but the only centrally available space was the area that the Fall Fair formerly owned and generously ‘sold’ to the township for one dollar and an agreement to preserve the space for future use by the fair. This same space doubles for parking for all events that occur in the arena and/or the Community Centre area. The multi-use sports pad was just too large.

Historically, the problem has been complicated by the fact that there is no new rec-reation land available. Council has accepted cash from residential developers in lieu of land (council’s option) for about the last 20 years and so the available recreational land for new projects was ‘used up’ and there was little land available for purchase.

When Wellesley’s volunteer leaders realized the actual size and location of the multi-use sportspad (when they saw the asphalt torn up) alarm bells went off and galvanized them into action. Their organizations began to function as a team to resolve this problem.

The township, under director of recreation, Brad Voisin and Janek Jagiellowicz, Wellesley rec committee chair, organized meetings to get the project back on track.

The groups focused on adding a skatepark yet maintaining the parking. Many solu-tions were offered, both conventional—rectangular, flat solutions—and non-convention-al—such as Danny Bisch’s kidney-shaped design that would utilize the existing profile of the land, establish a multi-level skatepark, maximize the utility and minimize the im-pact on parking. Danny, who has learned to ‘think outside the box’ when conceptualizing projects sees how the design could reduce noise and provide an opportunity to add a trail alongside the skatepark. The trail would allow access to the lower level of the skatepark and then continue on to access the lower soccer field. This, he says, would allow grandpar-ents and parents with a stroller or in a wheelchair, to easily access the lower soccer field and avoid the steep access currently available.

So is this new level of interaction by members of these volunteer groups the silver lining hidden inside the frustrations of developing the skatepark?

Our youth will finally see a benefit after years of waiting, but what about the next issue? It would seem imperative that our volunteer community leaders meet at least once a year to keep channels of communication open, to not duplicate services or over-utilize resources. Wellesley Village now has more than 3000 residents. It's time to think and work like a larger community. Perhaps the Lions Club, being such an active organi-zation, could lead the charge on this one. What do you think? ❖

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Do you need to learn to say “no”? Me too!I’m just a girl who can’t say “no”…but I’m learning!

These famous lyrics from the musical “Oklahoma!” have come back to haunt me so many years after the 1955 release of the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. In the movie the sweet young thing was having trouble saying no to romantic advances from her handsome singing suitors. Of course in her case she really didn’t WANT to say “no.” Handsome singing suitors do that to a girl!

My circumstance is somewhat different but I hear my friends warning me, “Don’t say yes to another thing” I even hear the voice of one of my deceased mentors whispering in my ear. The voice says “Mavis, you try to put quarts into pint pots” (A metric version would be “You try to put a litre into a 500 ml. measure!”… but it really doesn’t have the right ring does it?)

So what is prompting all this concern? I have announced my retirement from my psychotherapy practice at Southern Ontario

Counselling Centre in St. Agatha after more than 20 years. My retirement project is to learn to say “no” I am being warned that once the word is out, every volunteer organization that I have been involved with will smell ‘blood’ and try to get me to take on projects that will make poking my eyes out seem like fun. I really doubt I am such a valuable resource, but I have been warned and I am in training just in case.

As a therapist you spend a lot of time helping people to be assertive (as opposed to aggressive) and to learn to protect their boundaries. Assertive behaviour contains two skills: making requests and saying “no” to other people’s requests. So I must practise what I preach.

Let’s look at what it takes to say “no”. You may benefit from joining me for my challenge.

First of all, you need to believe that you have the right to say “no”. Many people really don’t claim their right to their own time and resources. This is common in people with a submissive personality or people who have learned it is risky to say no. You see this learned pattern in folks who grew up in a repressive punitive home where saying no led to bad stuff. It could be physical punishment or shaming hurtful words that the child learns to avoid by being compliant. Or it could have been a parent who acted hurt and wounded when a child refused and triggered the child’s guilt. Withdrawal of approval and love is an ugly, powerful tool. It can be very difficult to relearn as an adult to change the automatic impulse to say “yes” and not make waves, even if every fibre in your body is screaming “no” This is a typical reason why someone might work with a therapist.

If you have trouble saying “no” you may hold beliefs that are undermining your ability to change. Do you believe that it is rude or hurtful to say “no”? In this case, your model of saying

“no” may be one of aggressive nastiness, not a clean, assertive, considerate version. No need to be unkind to the person who asks. Do you believe saying “no” is selfish? Perhaps you have been taught an ethical code that values giving and self sacrifice? Sometimes that can be overdone to the point of self defeat. Remember, if you do not take reasonable care of your own energy and resources you will burn out and be useful to no one.

Someone I know told me she deliberately chooses friends whom she knows can say “no” easily without difficulty or awkwardness. She pointed out to me that this frees her up to ask her friends for lots of things, knowing that both she and her friends will be clear and comfy with their boundaries and their willingness to give of their time. She had a good point. Wouldn’t you rather get a clear “no” than a hollow “yes” without follow through? Or a “yes” that you suspect your friend resents?

So what are some good scripts? The rule I have learned is “Buy time.” If you have the slightest hesitation, say, “If I do this I want to be able to do it well, so I would like to think about it. I will get back to you by Saturday” …Then leave town. —Just kidding!

You do not owe the person a long explanation or apology if you come back with a “no”. Don’t say, “I can’t” if it is more a case of choosing not to. Perhaps use, “That’s unfortunately not going to work for me” or “Turns out I am not available at that time. I have already set that time aside.” You may have decided to set the time aside to paint your toenails blue, polish your bowling trophies, or sort your socks, but you are under no obligation to reveal your plans. It is important to schedule “unscheduled” down time to give your life some elbow room.

Don’t forget to say “yes” to the things that nurture you and feed your soul. I urge people to volunteer for the things they love to do. If you are asked and would be available and eager at another time, make sure to say that. It worked in the now-extinct world of dating. “Ah shucks, I am busy Friday night (going out with your brother) but I would LOVE to go to the movies with you another time. Saturday is free.” It no doubt works for lots of other situations to communicate your interest in that person, if not that specific invitation.

If you want more practical input for saying “no” in a wide variety of situations, Google “Saying NO assertively.” This yields a lot of good resources in assertiveness skills. A couple of useful sites I found are below:

http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/docs/Assertmodule%206.pdf

http://www.assertiveness.org.uk/

Remember, If you don’t have a “NO”, your “Yes” is meaningless. You have a right to ask and I have a right to refuse. ❖

Do You Need to Learn to say, “no”?

Mavis Kerr

Mavis Kerr is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice at Southern Ontario Counselling Centre — http://www.socounselling.com — in St. Agatha, Ontario. She has lived in the rural countryside just outside Wellesley (close enough to hear the church bells) for more than 28 years.

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Stratford Festival Gardener Presents to Wellesley’sHorticultural Society

The picturesque Perennial Garden is in front of the Festival Theatre.

The Carpet Garden was formerly a 17’ circle. Now it’s a rectangle.

Anita Jacobsen invites interested gardeners to tour her gardens and enjoy a performance discount too.

About 40 attended the fine presentation by Anita Jacobsen, head gardener for the Stratford Festival’s five specialized gardens: Grass; Elizabethan; Carpet; Rose; and Perennial

(Arthur Meighan).The 80-minutes of slides and verbal descriptions covered

well in excess of 100 varieties of plants and included useful dis-cussions on planting, composting, insect pests, pruning, cultiva-tion and clean-up practices and aesthetics.

One interesting adjunct of her descriptions was the histo-ry of the festival theatre as it affected the gardens. She even gave the history behind many of the plants, such as the Sweet Briar Eglantine Rose which became Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite rose.

The Grass Garden was established in 1999 and includes 20 different varieties of ornamental grasses. The Elizabethan garden was designed in 2000 and is 12 m square. It has 17 different beds, lots of antique bulbs and perennials and boxwood hedges. It in-cludes the shiny stainless steel statue of William Shakespeare, or “Steel Willy” as they like to call it.

The Carpet Bed Anita describes as unique and formal. It of-fers a puzzle to visitors, as it includes plants in shapes that re-late to plays that are being currently performed at Stratford. The

Carpet was originally a 17’ circle which made it troublesome to trim in the centre. The new design is 50’ by 6’ and solves that problem.

There are two different Rose Gardens with more than 80 plants requiring care. The Ann Casson garden has hybrid teas and floribunda roses. The Michael Lawson Memorial Garden has a collection of old and antique roses such as might have been found in Elizabethan gardens of ‘olde’. This is where you’ll find the Sweet Briar Eglantine Rose. There were a lot of tips on rose care, both when and how to do it.

The Perennial Gardens were added in 1997 and are also known as the Arthur Meighan Gardens. The contain 250 differ-ent varieties of perennials that display from early spring to late fall. A feature plant is the 80-year-old ginko tree at the bottom of the garden, under which native plants and wild flower grow.

Anita finished her presentation with an invitation to book a tour of the gardens and receive a discount on a performance at the Festival Theatre. Tours have been from 1-30 visitors at a time. ❖

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Home for K&K Liquidation

Sheila Jantzi was happy to see K&K’s new location and likes the products.

Over 100 vehicles were in theirparking lot throughout most of the morning.

Top photo: (l-r) Rik Louwagie, Wellesley Township’s Chief Building Official, Kevin & Kathy Statia, the owners of K&K Liquidation and Mayor Ross Kelterborn celebrat-ed the official opening with a ribbon cutting. Above photo: Seconds after the ribbon cutting, dozens of visitors streamed into the 8,000 square-foot showroom.

Two years ago, Kevin and Kathy Statia began the process that would move K&K Liquidation and Auctions Ltd. from St. Clements to Wellesley. The popular retail outlet had out-

grown its sales area and parking space in the seven years that it was open in St. Clements.

On opening day, customers were responding very positively to the business relocating to Wellesley and by mid-morning, the parking lot had more than 100 vehicles parked in and around the 15,000 square-foot building. The business is open 10-6 on Fridays and 9-4 on Saturdays and carries a broad variety of products: jew-ellery, watches, furniture, office and school supplies, electronics, bedding, pillows, lighting, foodstuffs and chocolates. It is located at the corner of Hutchison Road. and Queen’s Bush Road.

The company’s supplier packs up one or two tractor trailer loads a week. Kevin says they don’t know what is in the trucks un-til they arrive on Wednesday, so items change each week.

He says, “We’re very fortunate to be in the whole Wellesley Township area. St. Clements certainly treated us very well and we were made very welcome here.”

About K&K, he says, “We really do appreciate our employees. They have been a vital part of our growth. Without good employ-ees, you can’t have a good business.” ❖

An early customer does her best ‘Vanna White’ beside the furniture.

Handbags, candles, electronic items and more were on other shelves.

Shelves included foodstuffs—canned goods, cookies and chocolates.

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March Break fun takes place at the Waterloo Region Museum over the

March break holiday week from Saturday, March 8 to Sunday, March 16. Hours are: Monday through Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm and Saturday & Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm.

“You’ll find an adventure for the whole family during March Break at the Waterloo Region Museum. There is some-thing for everyone,” said Wendy Connell, Supervisor of Visitor Experience.

MARCH BREAK FEATuRES:Saturday and Sunday

March 8, 9, 15, 16 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Wandering pirates entertain visitors.

Wednesday, March 1210 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Wandering pirates entertain visitors.1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Ballet Jorgen Show & Tell – Ballet 101

Monday, tuesday, Thursday, FridayMarch 10, 11, 13, 14, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pirate magic show & demonstrations

Hands-on museum gallery fun Regular admission includes the

main Waterloo Region Museum gal-lery and the feature gallery, now show-ing SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure. (See story pp 19-20, this issue)

Waterloo Region Museum is located at 10 Huron Road (just off Homer Watson Blvd.) in Kitchener, Ontario. Note Doon Heritage Village is closed for the season and will re-open May 1. For hours of op-eration and admission prices and more in-formation call 519-748-1914 or visit

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Wellesley and District Lions Club

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FOLK NIGHT IN WELLESLEYFOLK NIGHT IN WELLESLEYSaturday, March 29, 2014 at 7:00pm

Wellesley Community Centre - 1000 Maple St., Wellesley

Admission: $20.00Tickets available at Pym’s Village Market,

Wellesley School’s main office, or by calling Peter at 519-656-3474.

Sam Turton has been delivering his soul-fired vocals and ringing slide guitar to stages and studios for over forty years.

Jane Lewis, a published author and founder of the All Together Now music series in Guelph, brings her mastery of language and a

clear and powerful voice to her piano-based compositions. Supported by the world-class rhythm section of Adam Bowman on drums

and Jesse Turton on bass, they will inspire you to listen, move, and sing along!

Proceeds of this event to be donated in support of classroom improvements facilitated through the

Wellesley Public School Parent Council.

Ticket price includes coffee, tea and snacks.SILENT AUCTION. Cash bar.

“Jane Lewis and Sam Turton live—oh, these guys are GOOD!” —Jim Marino, CFMU

“Jane Lewis and Sam Turton live—oh, these guys are GOOD!” —Jim Marino, CFMU

Waterloo Region Museum Announces Its ‘March Break Madness’ Activity Schedule

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At the January Board of Trade (BOT) meeting, Wellesley Business Man and BOT member, Danny Bisch, gave members a presentation on the Kids and Cops event that he has run for 15 years. He explained that the goal is for the kids to have a fun day and give youngsters the opportunity to get to know the police in a non-threatening scenario. (Story on Page 24)

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Storer of SoundCo out of Kitchener. The original speakers were in-stalled as a supplementary system. The ‘sound processor’ is a ‘smart’ system that will drive the existing amplifiers, and allow the sound to be tailored to the arena space. The previous setup didn’t allow custom adjustments. ❖

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Visitors to the Wellesley Arena should experience better sound now that a new sound

system has been installed.Funded by the Don Green

Memorial Fund, Jim Green pre-sented $4000 to the Recreation Department to cover 80 percent of the cost of the purchase and instal-lation. The balance will come from the department’s operating budget for repairs and maintenance.

A Bose SP-24 Sound Processor and complementary 500-watt speakers were installed by Jerry

Arena Gets New Sound System

The grey unit is the Bose sound processor. It drives one or both amps underneath and can be tailored to give the best sound.

Controls have been added to the announce-ment booth to balance mike & music volumes.

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by Larry Kryski

A determined but somber crowd of 41 community mem-bers arrived at the Community Centre, January 15 to hear the results of the council’s November 27, Open

House meeting. That meeting was organized as a response to protests from many community service clubs and some indi-viduals, that the Multi-use sports pad project—already under construction and digging up asphalt—was going to seriously im-pact Community Centre and Arena parking resources, already stretched by many activities.

All of the outspoken organizations stated that they are in fa-vour of the construction of a skatepark in Wellesley, but voiced concerns that the project underway was not as they thought it was to be and that it would seriously affect the viability of many of the annual and other events that use that area.

Indeed, although construction was underway, not all of the details for the multi-use pad had been determined, such as which sports were to be included and how much space was to be allo-cated to each. Many individuals felt that this was unusual, since approval of construction project details are usually tightly regu-lated by council, when moving through the approval process.

At the November meeting, the township presented all of the documents and drawings related to the multi-use pad concept as well as a chronology itemizing each step in the process. After an evening of reading township documentation and discussions between the various organization, it appeared that for the first time, all individuals or groups had a common knowledge base about the issues. Questionnaires were available to submit with suggestions to the recreation department.

The January meeting began with director of recreation, Brad Voisin, presenting a summary of the suggestions. Separating the multi-use sports pad from the skate park was the most popular suggestion and it was this possibility that allowed the process to move forward.

For the first half hour or more, the discussion danced around the issues, people venting their frustrations with the pro-cess to date. The meeting got back on track when Mary Lichty-Neeb spoke, pointing out that time was being wasted and sug-gested that everyone get back to work solving the problem.

Six skateboarders were in attendance and kept the discus-sion relevant and focused. Their respectful, low-key participa-tion and suggestions motivated community leaders to arrive at the basis for a solution: A separate 3600 square foot area near the splashpark that did not impinge much on the parking lot. An ir-regular (non-rectangular) shape was a consideration. ❖

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PIG TAILS!Community leaders sitting around the main table were: (CCW from right): Janek Jagiellowicz, Wellesley Rec Commit-tee Chair; Karla Wilker, outgoing community health worker; Lisa Parker, incoming community health worker; Bob Reid, ABC president; Murray Schlueter, WNEH Fall Fair president; Marilyn Olender for the Optimists Club; Carrie Siewert, for the Splashpark; John Pym, president of the Wellesley Lions Club; and Murray Bremnar, head of the Wellesley Trails Association.

Brad Voisin, centre, has been working hard to move the pro-cess along. He wants the right solution and hopes that they can meet the deadline for federal grant available.

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Above: Three optional shapes (light blue) that have been ap-proved by the GRCA. A fourth concept—proposed by Danny Bisch—is kidney-shaped and would utilize the natural profile of the area to generate a multi-level skatepark and reduce noise. Councillor Jim Olender was given copies of the con-cept and expressed interest in the concept. The groups are awaiting a formal evaluation of Danny’s proposal.Below: Councillor Jim Olender points out how a curved pe-rimeter to the skate park would reduce the number of park-ing spaces lost when the new skatepark is built. The con-cept was accepted in principle by the community groups present. They asked to see final plans before approval.

Mary Lichty-Neeb, standing, got things moving with her forthright comments about the discussion in progress.

The four most vocal skateboarders gave legitimacy to the discussions. Their re-spectful input impressed the adults and kept the discussion focused. They are (l-r) Blake Thompson, Luke Schering, Myles Longrigg and Tyler Vandergaag.

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by Larry Kryski

It’s been a cold, snowy winter with wind chills being as low as -45C and 156.60 cm (5.1 feet) of snow since November, when the snow arrived and never left. High winds, with

gusts often in excess of 50 kph have created a lot of drifting and the high wind chills. There have been minimal breaks in the weather and no big January thaw like many years.

We were snowed in for two and a half days. Here are the photo results we experienced on Wilmot-Easthope Road during that period. ❖

The snow was penetrating and sticking to every-thing and produced many beautiful scenes.

Luckily, nobody had to dig out… we had to dig in.

Watching the birds struggling at those temper-atures, we kept their food up.

Some poor soul thought they could make it through the road cut on Wilmot-Easthope Road near Hutchison Road.

Even the snowplow got stuck! The plow on the left, came to help but had to jerk the stuck plow six times to free it.

This snow blower came to the rescue! The cab top is 10’ 2” above the ground. It took four hours to open two lanes.

At -28C, with winds exceeding 50 kph (-45C windchill), warm dress was essential. The drift was centred along the road.

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These snowshoes live up to their name.The sun sets on January 07, 2014, after the

coldest three days of the season.

Above: There was little in the field across the road to slow the wind. The wind, which blew for days without stopping, began to reshape the snow, making it resemble waves along the shore. In 2008, the Waterloo Region received 287.2 cm (9.4 feet) of snow according to Environment Canada. Gander, Newfoundland holds the Canadian record at 443.13 cm (14.5 feet)!

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Even Jean’s 7-inch clothespin pot had a mini-drift!

Alex left this artistic drift in place as he cleared his walk.

Alex contributed this photo, taken when he first opened his door.

700 feet down Wilmot-Easthope Road, Alex and Jean Horne experienced a drift as high as the eave of their house.

Canadian Olympic patriotism was evident with at least four variations of this message painted on snow banks in the Re-gion. Here Shane, Nicole, Adrian and Glenn (in car) Bozic posed

on their way to snowboard in the Blue Mountain area.

High bush cranberries provide some visual

satisfaction in the cold and snow.

Our fire place glass cracked after providing hours of cozy heat.

From this angle, the Horne’s home is reminiscent of scenes of chalets high in the Swiss Alps.

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Kids find this activity engaging.

Boarding a captured ship was danger-ous. Here are a few pirate weapons.

Pirates fired few cannon balls if the ship was the intended prize. They caused too much damage

and might even sink it.

The iron swivel gun allowed pirates to fire shrapnel across the deck of a ship they were trying to capture.

The Odyssey members that set up the museum display are: (l-r) Liz Shows, Corporate Communications; Fred Van de Walle, Conservator; Adam Tate, Exhibit Super-visor; and Ellen Gerth, Archeological Curator. They are posing beside the first silver bars that Zeus recovered.

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc out of Tampa, Florida has a remarkable display at

the Waterloo Region Museum, show-ing more than 500 artifacts recov-ered from shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Flor-ida Straits and the Mediterranean Sea.

When visitors get past the mock pirate corpse—once hoisted in an ‘iron gibbet’ at the entry to a port to warn off would-be pirates—they arrive at fascinating displays of ar-tifacts, informative posters and in-teractive activities. Try to sail a ship through a hurricane, create a pi-rate and then experience 78.5 mph winds, characteristic of hurricanes.

You’ll see silver and gold bars and coins recovered from ships such as the SS Republic, a U.S. Civil War-era twin paddle wheeler that sank with a fortune on board.

A replica of Odyssey’s under-water explorer, the Zeus, shows how the unit manoeuvres down to 8000 feet below sea level and picks up items with a robotic arm, a version of which visitors can operate.

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Lisa Herrewynen wore a parrot hat and served popcorn and pirate punch to guests at the grand opening.

Stamped pure gold bar surrounded by ancient silver coins.

First World War II silver barrecovered—91.7% pure.

Bottles of all shapes and sizes were on display. Note barnacles on one.

Corpses of hanged pirates were placed in ‘iron gibbets’

at entrances to harbours to discourage piracy.

Replica of the 8-ton Zeus, the deep sea remotely operated vehicle that can dive to 8200 feet. Its 400 hp motor drives eight hydraulic

thrusters at 3.46 mph. It has recovered over 20,000 artifacts and more than 600,000 coins. The yellow top provides slight buoyancy.

Two styles of comb artifacts were on display.

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After the game seven 6-2 loss in Norwich, coach Rob Way said, “It sinks in and then you let it go.

You can’t change it.”Way thought that the game was much

closer than the score indicated. It was 3-2 at one point in the 3rd period, but once they scored and it was 4-2, they had to open it up and start taking chances. “If we could have gotten one more goal, made it 3-3, it might have gone differently,” he said.

With the Jacks not having home ice advantage, they didn’t get the last line changes and couldn’t optimize which Jacks lines played against particular Norwich lines. “That’s why we were more effective at home,” he stated.

So with the 2013-14 season complete, thoughts turn toward next season.

“Sean McEwan (#20) and Cal Jeffries (#12) are first year players and are play-ing key roles at centre ice, so we have good strength coming up the middle for the next three or four years, for sure,” Way said.

However, each team is only allowed four over-age players (22 years old) and the Jacks will lose four of their best: Josh Heer (#1), Devon Wagner (#21), Luke Rose (#19) and Cody Tapsell (#17). Seven more

players will be over-age next season, so se-lecting four will be difficult.

Way agreed that penalties were a problem this year, taking penalties when they shouldn’t have. Injuries, too, played their part. The Jacks never played a single game all season with a full roster.

Getting Parker Wood (#27) on de-fence was “like gold”. He ended up be-ing Rookie of the Year for the league, Way said. “He’s a great find for us.” ❖

Merchants Took Series 4-3 But Never Beat Jacks in Wellesley During PlayoffsApple Jacks Fought to the Last Second in Final Game

Apple Jacks coach Rob Way, left, and club president, Rick Grebinski worked hard getting the Jacks ready for their Junior C experience. The Jacks made it to the first round of the playoffs.

The Jacks were ecstatic winning game six in Wellesley against the Norwich Merchants, but lost game 7 in Norwich.

Left: The Wellesley bench in Norwich. The Jacks wear their red jerseys for the away games. Below: The gang’s all here! During the regular season, the Jacks were unable to beat Norwich at home or away. But in the playoffs, they pulled off three wins at home. It looked like they just might do it. But too many unnecessary penalties were their nemesis. Above: A Heer-o by any other name. Goalie Josh Heer was spectacular in many games, keeping the Jacks alive when they were being badly outshot.

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Top: Too many unnecessary penalties for Wellesley? A bigger pen-alty box is not the answer, maturity might be.Above: It was an uphill battle in Norwich, but the Apple Jacks played with heart and though exhausted, never gave up. Below-left: Coach Way stands steadfastly behind his players; Below-Right: After the loss, Rob Way shakes hands with Norwich’s coach, Blaine Schell. Bottom: The two teams shake hands after the game. Norwich was defeated in round two by the Paris Mounties, four games to none. Apple Jacks in the Community—Top Photo: At the

Wellesley Public Library, Brett MacDonald reads to three-year-old, Craig Sindall, sitting on his Mom Ash-ley’s lap; Centre Photo: Justin Lebold, back on, reads to Tyler (3) and Spencer (5) Reis while (l-r) Chris Beauchesne, Jake Ariss and Josh Heer look on. Bottom Photo: Apple Jacks Bad Boys, Jake Ariss, left, and Blake Hetherington had 40 percent of the pen-alties of the 20-player roster. But off the ice they con-tribute to the community along with the other Jacks. Here they’ve just finished helping with Kids & Cops.

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Kids & Cops — Fifteen Years Old and the Fun Continues

It started 15 years ago when Danny Bisch was coaching his son during his first year of hockey and his daughter in ring-ette. The players spent all their rink time practising and never play-

ing a game, which Danny saw as wearing on the young ones. He conceived a day of fun as a break for the young players and invit-ed the Waterloo Regional Police, thinking it was an opportunity for kids to interact with police under relaxed circumstances. The Apple Jacks and a few Kitchener Rangers (today the whole team is there) were also included and helped make Kids and Cops the massively successful on-ice social experience that it is.

Thanks to Tracy Schnarr, Danny’s right-hand with Kids & Cops, the police have continued to generously provide their time, thus making this a stronger, more respectful community.

Danny points out that it is truly the support of so many gen-erous individuals, organizations and sponsors, year after year, that allow Kids & Cops to continue to be a healthy community experience for both boys and girls in their formative years. ❖

Apple Jack Alex Stoody, left, record re-sults as Sgt. Jason MacDonald helps the kids try to score on the Puck Hog game.

Officer Eric Weltz plays it cool at the Anger Management site. Apple Jack Blake Hetherington records the results.

Brock Schultz successfully knocks over the all the pen-guins in the Penguin Bowling game.

Apple Jacks vs Kids & Cops tug-o-war: The Jacks wouldn’t be tricky and let go, would they?

Officer Robert Wallace races to avoid the kids in the

Cops & Robbers chase game.

The anxiously awaited Kitchener Rangers disembark from their bus.

Officer Jeff Westrop in goal, moves to stop Barett Wilson’s shot. Apple Jack, Cody Tapsell waits to return the puck.

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Clockwise from the top left: Officer James fingerprints Owen McAdam (5) of Heidelberg; St. Jacob Printing provides the certificates and adds each player’s photo, taken the day of the event. In the photo: (l-r) is Nicole Kuepfer; Owner, Keith Kuepfer; Sheryl Kuepfer; and Marilyn Bisch; Waterloo Regional Police Officer Tracy Schnarr, has been the liaison and co-coordinator between Danny Bisch, Kids & Cops organizer, and the Waterloo Regional Police Force. Tracy was one of Dan-ny’s first recruits and has continued in this invaluable role for 15 years; Makayla Patey is the first runner up in last Fall’s Wellesley Idol contest. She has been active in the community is one of many volunteers that make Kids & Cops work. Here she was distributing ‘boodle bags’ and chocolate milk.

Clockwise from the top left: Colton Henderson gets to wear Ranger Logan Schmidt’s white #10 jersey; Blues score in joint Rangers-Kids game; A scuffle breaks out and the two players end up in a wrestling match. The rangers fill a kind of big-brother role; It’s au-tograph time after the game. Wesley Graham stands still while Ranger Curtis Meighan signs Wesley’s Kids and Cops T-shirt; The players pose for a joint team photo.

The snow this winter has turned a few lives upside down… so Janessa Pretorius thought she might turn a

bit of winter upside down.

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