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NEWS1THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
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IT’S ALL IN THE WRIST Elmira forward Brady Campbell tries to flick the puck past Owen Sound goaltender Nicholas Caldwell during second-period action at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena Jan. 8. The Kings won 5-2. See page 16 for the full story.
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Positioning the township for growth trumps auster-
ity, says Woolwich’s mayor.“If we want to be a town-
ship that’s moving forward,
No austerity in Woolwich’s 2012 budgetSteve Kannon then let’s move forward,”
said Todd Cowan, follow-ing an introductory budget meeting Tuesday night that includes no significant cuts, plans for a tax hike and per-haps a new tax levy to help
fund infrastructure projects.The mayor also skirted
around wage freezes for gov-ernment staff, as called for by Premier Dalton McGuinty, saying upcoming union ne-gotiations will be handled by
chief administrative officer David Brenneman – “we as council don’t want to micro-manage that issue.”
Given new development, forecasted population growth and public demand
for programs and facilities, now is not the time to make cuts that would reduce ser-vice levels, he argued.
New development in Elmi-
> SEE AUSTERITY ON PG. 02
NEWS 2 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
ra, St. Jacobs and Bre-slau will require more time from planning and engineering staff up front – the depart-ment is planning to hire another employee as well as draw on more outside consultants – and ultimately create a greater demand for services.
While there are no cuts and tax relief in the works, Cowan said the township is making better use of tax dollars than was the case pre-viously.
“People weren’t feel-
ing they were getting value for the dollar. I think they’re starting to get value now with things running more efficiently.”
On top of growth, the township also faces rising costs of its own, he added, noting new provincial regulations continually add to ex-penses without any corresponding money. Many of the costs come with no benefit to tax-payers, who foot the bill nonetheless.
The province is es-sentially download-ing by another name, Brenneman told coun-
cillors meeting Jan. 10 to discuss depart-ment business plans, a prelude to 2012 budget deliberations. That in-cludes such things as excessive water moni-toring, fire department guidelines and paper-work and accessibility legislation
The same more-cost-for-no-benefit scenario applies to the fire depart-ment, where the town-ship is “spending more and more money” with little in return, Cowan said Tuesday night.
For township fire chief Rick Pedersen, a long list of new regu-
lations have created more paperwork and higher costs. Over the years, he explained, the department has taken on responsibility for mandatory emergency planning measures, for instance. Increased communication re-quirements and new standards for training – more of it, more often – have also driven up costs. New standards for fire trucks have meant higher prices when replacing vehi-cles, and on and on it goes.
With so many pres-sures, including man-
datory costs, there’s no way to make real cuts to the budget without service reductions, said Cowan, noting res-idents are looking for more, not less.
In pre-budget consul-tations, he heard calls for a skateboard park in Elmira, upgrades to the township website to make it more user friendly, support for an accessible playground – the Kate’s Kause proj-ect – but not much call for cuts beyond reining in spending at the Wool-wich Memorial Centre: “We have to keep on tar-get with our costs.”
A business plan ta-bled this week by Karen Makela, the township’s new director of rec-reation and facilities, includes a reduction in staffing and work hours at the WMC. Overall, however, fore-casts are for greater spending on wages and salaries across most de-partments. Cowan said he has no plans to push for cutbacks or freezes in the single-largest ex-pense item in the oper-ating budget.
“We feel we’re doing what we were elected to do: we’re delivering change and growth.”
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NEWS 2 Saturday, January 14, 2012
We all know that some of the great-
est hockey legends had their start playing on outdoors ponds or backyard rinks. Walter Gretzky built a rink for his son Wayne to prac-tice on, while Bobby Hull honed his skills on the frozen-over Bay of Quinte.
But despite being an important part of Ca-nadian culture, pond hockey seems to be in decline: not because the love of the sport has faded, but due to ponds and outdoor rinks sim-
Outdoor rinks a casualty of not-so-wintry weather
A long history of pond hockey faces challenges from milder winters
Colin Dewar ply not freezing over. More often than not these days, kids are forced to go to indoor rinks. There’s always ice, but they can be dif-ficult to get to and the cost can be prohibitive for a game of shinny.
Pond hockey has al-ways been a casual game, often played with three or four players aside. Body-checking is against the rules. It’s just players with hel-mets, sticks and skates on the ice for the love of the sport. But it does require ice, which means some coopera-tion from the weather.
There hasn’t been much of that this year.
Dave Phillips, senior climatologist at Envi-ronment Canada, said this has been one of the worst winters on record for those who enjoy an outdoor skate.
“We did have winter: it was last Tuesday (Jan. 3),” jokes Phil-lips explaining that the temperatures dropped below normal for that day but were above normal 24 hours later.
Most people have be-gun to cancel not just postpone making back-yard rinks, giving into the fact Mother Nature
is just not in the right mood.
Last year was the best winter in a decade for making ice and taking advantage of the outdoor rinks and frozen ponds in the re-gion. From December 2010 though the end of January 2011, 51 of 62 days provided tempera-tures well below freez-ing, perfect for skaters looking for a game of pond hockey, said Phil-lips.
Compare that to this winter where we have only had a total of 11 days of below-freezing temperatures.
The worst year for pond hockey was in 2006-2007, when the en-tire winter saw a total of 21 days where the thermostat dropped below zero. Hardly enough to even consid-er making an outdoor rink.
While Woolwich and Wellesley townships operate indoor arenas, they don’t directly pro-vide outdoor rinks. That work falls to rec-reation associations, as well as a host of private ice surfaces, some open to the public and some confined to residential backyards. No one’s
have much luck this year.
In Wellesley there are five outdoor rinks in the township that are operated with the help of community groups and volunteers, including St. Clements, Wellesley, Linwood and Hawkesville with a shared rink at Hei-delberg. Each of those rinks has been closed for most of this season.
“They were open for a while but since we have had such mild temperatures over the last few weeks we have
> SEE RINKS ON PG. 04
NEWS3THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
> Woolwich waives fee for troops game
> MSCU gives $5K for Foodlink project
Hoping to build on a successful first outing last year, the Elmira Sugar Kings will host a support the troops event at the team’s Jan. 22 game versus the Cambridge Winter Hawks.
Again, all proceeds will go to the London Military Family Resource Cen-tre (LMFRC). The organization’s aim is to enhance the quality of life of military families in southwestern Ontario. Last year, the Kings contributed $4,300, raised through ticket sales and the auc-tioning of special game-worn camou-flage sweaters.
This year, the camo makes a repeat appearance.
Getting in on the action this week, Woolwich council agreed to waive rental fees for the day at the Dan Sny-der Memorial Arena, which typically costs about $180 an hour.
“I think it’s a great thing that the Kings have done – supporting the troops and the families of the troops,” said Mayor Todd Cowan.
> Small expansion for Crowsfoot area
Foodlink Waterloo Region’s social media campaign in support of local food and local farms this week got a $5,000 boost from the Mennonite Sav-ings and Credit Union Charitable Fund, part of MSCU’s “stewardship in action” program that advances peace, social justice and mutual aid in the communi-ties it serves.
The grant will be used specifically to expand Foodlink’s capacity to deliver a number of online initiatives, including Facebook, Twitter, the ‘Local Dish’ blog, farm profiles and Foodlink’s e-newslet-ter ‘Local Harvest.’
It’s not the kind of growth lined up in Breslau or Elmira, but the Crowsfoot Corner settlement will have two new residential lots, Woolwich council de-cided this week.
Meeting Jan. 10, councillors ap-proved the creation of three lots from a 22-acre farm parcel at 5044 Crowsfoot Rd. Two 2.5-acre residential lots will be, created, leaving the remainder as farm-land outside of the settlement area.
One of the lots is currently home to the applicant, Ryan McCall Stroh, and fronts onto Crowsfoot Road. The other lot fronts onto Meadow Heights Drive.
The arrangement is subject to con-ditions, such as drainage and grading requirements and provisions governing the existing septic system.
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It may have been 10 years in the making, but three
Wellesley-area authors have finally published their first novel, and they have big plans to expand it into a tril-ogy in the coming years.
A unique combination of fantasy and science fic-tion, Galaxy 2,000,000,000 Darkness Falls was writ-ten by Andrew Kipp, Jack Crowston and Kyle Golubo-vic.
“The idea of this book isn’t just one genre, it’s a hybrid of classic fantasy with knights slaying drag-ons blended in with modern science fiction,” said Kipp.
The book documents the rising rebellion against the evil Blood Emperor Nars-Klan, who rules with an iron fist the reptilian planet of Rilles and the Gensheen
outing last year, the Elmira Sugar Kings will host a support the troops event at the team’s Jan. 22 game versus the Cambridge Winter Hawks.
London Military Family Resource Centre (LMFRC). The organization’s aim is to enhance the quality of life of military families in southwestern Ontario. Last year, the Kings contributed $4,300, raised through ticket sales and the auctioning of special game-worn camouflage sweaters.
appearance.
Woolwich council agreed to waive rental fees for the day at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena, which typically costs about $180 an hour.
Kings have done – supporting the troops and the families of the troops,” said Mayor Todd Cowan.
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in Breslau or Elmira, but the Crowsfoot Corner settlement will have two new residential lots, Woolwich council decided this week.
Years of imagining pay off
Stories that started out in the playground of Wellesley PS a decade ago took shape, evolved and formed the basis of newly-released novel
FERTILE GROUND Wellesley authors Jack Crowston (left), Kyle Golubovic and Andrew Kipp are the literary minds behind the fantasy adventure novel Galaxy 2,000,000,000 Darkness Falls, which takes place on the distant planet of Rilles.
James Jackson people who inhabit it.Gex, a veteran of a tacti-
cal military force called the Gensheen Agency Academy, rebels against the Emperor with his twin brother, Garn-telth, a convicted criminal and mercenary for hire who has just escaped from the inescapable Harfell Prison.
“The book starts with Garntelth’s escape from prison, meanwhile Gex and the army is getting ready for a rebellion against their ty-rannical overlord, who has been ruling for 300 years,” said Kipp.
Darkness Falls has cer-tainly been a labour of love for the trio. It started out as just a fun activity for Kipp and Crowston, now 21 and 19 years old respectively, to do together while on the playground of Wellesley Public School in the second grade.
Eventually, Crowston suggested they start writ-ing some of their ideas down, and by Grade 7 Kipp had grand plans to turn their idea into a movie – a thought that was quickly quashed.
“I realized that was un-achievable because YouTube didn’t exist yet, and I had no idea how to start,” recalled Kipp.
“So this was the next best step, and I started off by writing short stories of 40 or 50 pages which slowly progressed into a full chap-ter book.”
When Crowston and Kipp started attending high school at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School they met Golubovic and he joined the writing team before the year was out.
The story is a blend of historical and cultural ele-
ments with clear science fiction influences. Kipp said he spent a lot of time study-ing the tactics of World War II, as well as Roman history and aspects of Japanese and Canadian culture, all of which are evident in the text.
The events of the book are revealed to the reader through a combination of letters, journal entries, flashbacks and real-time events.
The authors also relied on their exposure to sci-ence fiction and mass media like Star Wars, video games and comic books to inspire them.
Three years and three re-writes later, Kipp was sitting in the library with Crowston looking over a draft of the story when fate struck – along with one well-
> SEE NOVEL ON PG. 07
NEWS 4 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
LAW & ORDER
January 6
>> 10:45 PM | A 26-year-old Kitchener man driving a 2005 Honda southbound in Breslau on Fountain Street North near Menno Street lost control of his vehicle when a car heading north entered his lane, causing him to swerve and hit a road sign. Minimal damage was reported to the passenger side of his vehicle. Police are continuing to investigate.
>> 11:00 PM | Police received a call about damage to the old variety store on Sawmill Road in Conestogo. An unknown suspect broke the store’s two front windows with marbles. The investigation continues.
Police suspect pro thieves in thwarted Breslau heist
call about a group of suspicious people with flashlights at a home on Killdeer Road in Elmira. When police arrived they did not find anyone but discovered a pickup truck that had been reported stolen in the driveway. The police also arrested a 32-year-old Stratford man at the residence on outstanding warrants.
January 9
>> 12:45 AM | Police were called about five suspicious people throwing objects at the windows of an appliance repair shop on Floradale Road. The five males left in a Dodge pickup truck
January 7
>> 1:30 AM | Police pulled over a 39-year-old Kitchener woman on Arthur Street in Elmira for having a headlight out on her 2002 silver Honda Civic. The officer then detected an odour of alcohol when they spoke to the woman, subsequently giving her a breathalyzer test. She blew a warning reading, so her license was taken away for three days and her vehicle was seized.
January 8
>> 3:15 AM | A security guard at Chemtura Co. on Erb Street in Elmira called police about a suspicious man wandering through the parking lot looking
into car windows. The man was described as six feet tall wearing a dark jacket and dark hat. The man left before police arrived.
>> 3:50 AM | Police received a
Suspicious behaviour brought police to a nursery in Breslau about 5 p.m. Jan. 8.Employees from Belgian Nursery on Victo-
ria Street called police about a group of suspi-cious people, three males and four females described as Middle Eastern. The group was attempting to distract the employees but left once they were told the police were called. They were seen in a blue or green minivan with its license plate flipped around and a grey Mercedes Benz.
Police suspect the group to be professional thieves who had been spotted in the area a week before.
Rinks: Little chance for ice so far> CONTINUED FROM PG. 02
and were picked up by police a while later. Police interviewed the suspects, ranging from the ages of 15 to 17, who had been throwing snowballs as a prank and will be apologizing to the storeowner.
>> 3:15 PM | A 42-year-old Milverton man fell off a flatbed truck and hit his head, briefly losing consciousness and receiving a cut on the back of his head. The man was taken to the Listowel Hospital and the Ministry of Labour is investigating.
>> 4:30 PM | A single-vehicle collision occurred on Shantz Station Road near Hopewell Creek Road in front of the golf course in Maryhill when a 62-year-old Breslau man lost control of his Cadillac SUV and hit a hydro pole, causing his vehicle to rollover. The man was taken to the Guelph General Hospital. The vehicle sustained extensive damage. The road was closed for several hours as power lines were down across the roadway. Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
January 10
>> 6:45 AM | A 22-year-old Conestogo man driving a 1997 Ford Escort on Crowsfoot Road swerved to miss a deer, lost control of his vehicle and slid into a ditch, causing his car to roll over. Damage to the vehicle was severe, but no injuries were reported. No charges were laid.
January 11
>> 6:49 AM | A 45-year-old Drayton man driving a pickup truck southbound on Herrgott Road was T-boned by a 52-year-old Kitchener man driving a Suzuki who failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of Herrgott Road and Ament Line in Wellesley Township. The Kitchener man was taken to Grand River Hospital with a shoulder pain, and subsequently charged with “failure to stop.’ The fire department was called to the scene to deal with fluid leaking from one of the vehicles. Both vehicles sustained extensive damage. The road was closed for several hours as police investigated the accident.
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had to close them, but hope to have them oper-ating soon,” said Brad Voisin, Wellesley’s ex-ecutive director of fa-cilities.
The wait may not be long, as temperatures are expected to drop well below the freez-ing mark this weekend. Environment Canada is calling for a return to winter conditions, with between five and 10 centimetres of snow arriving by Friday.
“It will feel and look
more like winter this weekend,” said Phil-lips. “We will see some lasting snowfall this Friday and tempera-tures are not expected to rise above minus six for the next four days. This weekend could be the window people are looking for to make ice.”
Those colder temper-atures are not expect-ed to last, however, as Tuesday’s high will be two degrees above.
“Even if the tem-peratures rise during the day those that have
made an outdoor rink should be able to keep and use them because they will stay frozen overnight,” said Phil-lips. “It might be a bit slushy with the warm-er temperatures but it will freeze again.”
In the past a snow base was needed to make an outdoor rink, but kits are available now with plastic liners to hold in the frozen water, allowing people to enjoy their home made rinks even if there is no snow on the ground.
NEWS5THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
A mixture of cuts and fee hikes helped
Woolwich staff find the five per cent in ef-ficiencies requested by councillors, but taxpay-ers shouldn’t expect a break this year.
Some $400,000 – much of it the result of new fees, including an ex-pected increase in parking tickets –will go into general revenues, to augment a planned 2.5-per-cent tax hike for 2012. Residents may also be digging even deeper into their pock-ets if council approves an additional levy to
Woolwich finds efficiencies in budget, but no real cuts comingCombination of redirected spending, new fees and charges to help fill coffers
Steve Kannon pay for infrastructure projects – no figures have been discussed at this point, but the fur-ther tax hike will be on the table during delib-erations this month.
As a result, there will be no austerity measures at town hall, despite the lingering malaise in the economy, including ris-ing unemployment. In-stead, the township plans to increase spending on wages and salaries – the biggest part of its oper-ating budget – including hiring a new engineer-ing technician ($55,000-$66,000 a year) and ex-panding some part-time jobs to full-time.
The six-digit increase in salaries more than offsets planned decreas-es in staff hours at the Woolwich Memorial Centre as the recreation and facilities depart-ment looks to bring its budget under control.
The combination of cuts and fee increases in the rec. department amounting to $177,000 leads the way in some $395,000 in efficiencies identified by staff as councillors this week dis-cussed the 2012 budget.
New director of rec-reation and facilities Karen Makela expects reduction in staff-ing levels and hours
of work to pay big dividends this year, countering recent bud-get-overruns in the de-partment. Eliminating staff from the fitness centre during the day, Mondays through Fri-days, will save $41,000, while reducing aquatic staff hours adds $47,000 to the bottom-line. A further $16,000 is fore-cast due to cuts to are-na maintenance staff.
Engineering and planning services is the second-largest contrib-utor at $171,600, largely the result of plans to reduce works projects by at least $88,000 by go-ing to tender earlier in
the year in order to get lower bids from con-struction companies.
Department director Dan Kennaley said mak-ing a push to get the en-gineering portion of the projects done upfront would allow the tender-ing process to take place when contractors are “hungry for work,” es-timating the savings at three per cent.
In other measures, shifting the installa-tion of water meters to builders rather than keeping it a township responsibility will save some $20,700 a year, while raising fees and charges is expected to
bring in an additional $29,000 in 2012.
The rest of the bud-get efficiencies identi-fied by staff amount to much smaller amounts in other departments, including a plan to see bylaw enforcement officers work more evening and weekend hours, bringing in per-haps another $2,500 in parking ticket revenue.
A great reliance on technology, including electronic billing, is also in the works.
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Elmira’s Sandra Bray has taken a different
approach to making art. Putting down her pen-
cils and paints, the art-ist has turned to found items to create her latest work using tin can lids as her medium.
Working with mem-bers of the community during Canada Culture Days, Bray created a work of art that she felt best represented the community, a four-foot-long speckled trout sculpture.
The speckled trout,
Artist’s Speckled Trout on display as a symbol of WoolwichColin Dewar also known as the brook
trout, was chosen as an icon of Woolwich Town-ship because the habitat for trout is also a habi-tat where humans can thrive, said Bray.
“In our local water-shed, we have lots of freshwater springs which keep the creeks and streams cool enough to suit the speckled trout. There are a lot of trout in the area and everyone knows about the fish, so I thought it would be more fun to create something that everyone was aware of.”
Bray had been col-
lecting tin can lids for a while before the project started and likes work-ing with the reclaimed metals. An environmen-talist at heart, reusing materials to create art that can eventually be recycled itself suits her just fine.
“My initial motivation in artistic pursuits was to challenge my techni-cal ability, to see what I could achieve with the medium that fascinated me at the moment,” she said adding she wanted everyone to be able to participate in the piece collaboratively and see
what they would create.Since the trout has
small scales, she recruit-ed some help in the form of Ron Cressman, Su-san Gray, Susan Bryant, Annalise, Natasha and Katherine Walton, Trev-or Lowry and Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan, who hammered the small scale and fin patterns into the 221 lids before assembly began.
Cressman solved a construction problem by experimenting with pop rivets, which were even-tually used to attach the lids to one another. The group ran into some dif-
ficulties finding the co-lours they needed for the speckles and decided to use black pop rivets and black paint to signify the speckles.
Bray said the sculp-ture was a dry run for a larger project she is hop-ing to create next year with community help, based on the green dart-er fish that lives in the Canagagigue Creek.
“There were only about 10 of those fish in the creek not so long ago but it has flourished over the last few years and al-most 400 live there now,” said Bray. “That is a real
success story and I think we should be celebrating its return.”
The artist is going to need a lot more tin cans as she plans to build a 20- to 25-foot sculpture of the little fish. She is looking for tin can lid donations, which can be dropped off at the Elmira library and the township office.
The Speckled Trout sculpture is currently on display at the To-ronto Dominion Bank in downtown Elmira and will be moving to its permanent home, Wool-wich’s administration building, later this year.
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aimed book.“I looked up at Jack
and said ‘I’m going to rewrite it again’ and then he hit me in the head with an atlas and said ‘Stop it. Just work on that one.’”
Last February Kipp finally took the fin-ished manuscript to a professional editor in Paris, and four months later they had their final draft which they sent to Volumes in Wa-terloo for printing.
The trio also had a book signing at the Coles bookstore in Conestoga Mall in August and again on Nov. 20, and they were among the best book signings the store has ever had.
Two more novels are in the works to complete the trilogy – they are already hard at work on book two and hope to have it done within two years.
They meet every Tuesday night over coffee to hash out ideas and concepts – and even get a little writing done.
“Sometimes we get a
lot of work done, other times we get really far off topic and don’t get any work done,” said Golubovic.
As for the main characters in the book, the authors caution readers from getting too attached to them.
“In most shows or
books most people know that the main characters can’t die, but in this book that isn’t so,” hinted Crowston.
Galaxy 2,000,000,000 Darkness Falls is avail-able online at www.amazon.com or local book stores.
Novel: Sequels in the works> CONTINUED FROM PG. 03
Conrad Grebel Univer-sity College is mark-
ing the first 50 years of Mennonite writing in Canada by hosting a nine-week reading and lecture series and play-ing host to some of the worlds top Mennonite authors and poets.
The series kicked off Wednesday when world-renowned Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe read some of his work and provided a retro-spective view on his 57-year career.
Wiebe is largely cred-ited with starting the Mennonite writing movement back in 1962 with the release of his novel “Peace Shall De-stroy Man,” credited as the first Canadian Men-
Mennonite writers the subject of Conrad Grebel seriesJames Jackson nonite authored book
published by a national publisher and widely available in English.
He has twice been awarded the Governor General’s Award for fic-tion, and in 2007 he won the Charles Taylor Prize for his memoir, “Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest.”
Wiebe was born in Saskatchewan in 1934 as part of the last genera-tion of Mennonite home-steaders to settle the Ca-nadian west. He did not even speak English until the age of six.
Other speakers in the series include Canadian novelist David Bergen on Feb. 29, who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2005 for “The Time in Between”, David
Waltner-Toews on Jan. 18, an internationally known epidemiologist and a poet and novelist will talk about how sci-ence and a Mennonite upbringing inform his work, as well as Magda-lene Redekop on Feb. 1, Rob Zacharias on Feb. 8, and Paul Tiessen on Mar. 14.
“This particular series is the first we’ve ever done of this magnitude,” said Hildi Froese Ties-sen, a professor of litera-ture at Conrad Grebel for the past 25 years and a scholar of Mennonite writing.
She acknowledged that Mennonite litera-ture continues to be a minority form of writ-ing to this day, and that there are only about 25 or 30 prominent writers
in the world today, but also noted that it is gain-ing momentum which is demonstrated by the quality of writers taking part in the lecture series.
“The Mennonites ef-fectively shunned cre-ative writing for hun-dreds of years because it was seen as not truth-telling,” she said. “So it’s certainly significant for the Mennonite com-munity to have this blos-soming of literary fig-ures.”
According to Tiessen, it was a confluence of several factors that led to the genre’s growth. Certainly the release of Wiebe’s book in 1962 started it all, but other events during that time period also contributed.
During the 1920s mi-gration of Mennonites to Canada, and earlier migrations dating back to the 1870s, Mennonites began moving into the cities and eventually they become more com-fortable with English and gaining an educa-
tion.By the 1960s those ex-
periences, combined with the growing sense of multiculturalism in Canada and the post-Trudeau years which gave birth to a renewed sense of nationalism helped give rise to Men-nonite writers and poets in the 1980s and 1990s.
“The writing of the earlier era was very much what I would call writing of diaspora, where we had people who in effect were bridg-ing two cultures,” said
Tiessen.“Now they’re very
much in the main-stream, writing about experiences that are most familiar to them but would have parallels throughout the country.”
The remaining eight weeks of the literature series run on Wednes-day evenings in the col-lege chapel of Conrad Grebel.
For more information and a complete list of the participating authors, visit www.grebel.uwa-terloo.ca.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS Renowned Mennonite writers Julia Kasdorf (left), Patrick Friesen (top), David Waltner-Toews (bottom) and Darcie Friesen Hossack (right) will participate in Conrad Grebel University College’s nine-week lecture series on Mennonite literature and poetry.
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It hasn’t actually made economic sense to conquer other coun-tries for at least a century now – but old attitudes die hard.
There’s no tax relief in sight for Woolwich residents despite an
economy that continues to stagnate. Instead, they can expect sizeable increases from the township and Waterloo Region, including being hit with the full cost of the lightly-used Grand River Transit bus service to St. Jacobs and Elmira.
Charged last year by the new council to find five per cent in budget efficiencies, staff came up with some $395,000, though a good chunk of that simply reflects increased fees and charges, which compound the com-ing tax hikes. Still, there were some actual savings identified. That’s the good part. There’s a downside, howev-er, in that those savings – along with the extra fees residents will pay – will just be rolled into general revenues rather than being used to ease the tax burden. In other words, you won’t see those savings.
Instead, there’s a longstanding goal of raising taxes 2.5 per cent this year, with operating expenses continuing to rise. There appears to be no real effort to cut operations in order to free up some money for the growing infrastructure deficit, the tens of mil-lions of dollars that will be needed to replace aging roads, bridges, sewers and the like. What is on the table, however, is an additional tax levy to fund just those kinds of projects. No figures have been discussed, but Wool-wich had a similar multi-year levy representing an extra 1.5 to 2 per cent tax increase to help with its recent spree of new buildings, including the Woolwich Memorial Centre.
A special levy makes sense under the circumstances: we have to start saving now to pay for some very expensive projects in the future. And with federal and provincial assistance less likely – both senior governments
face massive deficits of their own – costs will fall on the local tax base. But beyond the special levy, munici-pal governments will have to cut back on the operating side – programs and soft services – in order to offset the sting of infrastructure renewal.
There’s no room for delay when it comes to failing bridges and wa-termains. If residents are not going to face even more exorbitant tax increases than have been the norm recently, then the dollars will have to be reallocated rather than simply going to the well for more, the usual fallback plan for all governments.
But rationale approaches are seldom embraced by politicians who would rather promise more, spend more than to oversee reductions: ribbon-cuttings trump budget cuts every time among that group.
Cutting is not as easy as it sounds, of course. Just look at the trials and
tribulations of Mayor Rob Ford in Toronto. All the gravy he campaigned on amount to spoonfuls, not train loads. Faced with real cuts to real ser-vices, he’s come up against a steady stream of opposition – there are supporters for every expenditure, no matter how few people are served or how removed from the government’s mandate.
In Woolwich, there are expendi-tures – some of the substantial – that provide few if any direct benefits to the public, but for the most part cuts would mean some service reductions to some residents. Leaders deter-mined to set priorities would need to balance expectations with reasonable levels of taxation, essentially selling the merits of more prudent spend-ing. That’s more work, however, than taking the easy road: spending more, and taxing everyone as a matter of course.
More taxes the easy course for local politicians
OPINION9THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
> SEE DYER ON PG. 10
THE VOICE
THE VIEW FROM HERE
A caveman mentality still guides defence policies, especially in the U.S.
GWYNNE DYER
InternationalAffairs
defence policies, especially in the U.S.
GWYNNE DYER
International
BY SCOTT ARNOLD
Going through its first full budget process, new Woolwich councillors seem to have discovered change that benefits taxpayers is a whole lot easier to talk
about when you’re on the outside looking in.
If you’re not allowed to enslave people anymore, or even loot their resourc-
es, then what is the point of being a traditional great power?
The United States kept an army of more than 100,000 soldiers in Iraq for eight years, at a cost that will prob-ably end up around a trillion dollars. Yet it didn’t enslave a single Iraqi (though it killed quite a lot), and throughout the occupation it paid full market price for Iraqi oil. So what American purpose did the entire en-terprise serve?
Oh, silly me. I forgot. It was about “security.” And here it comes again, on an even bigger scale.
Last week at the Pentagon, Presi-dent Barack Obama unveiled Amer-ica’s new “defence strategy.” But it wasn’t actually about stopping anybody from invading the United States. That cannot happen. It was about reshaping the U.S. military in a way that “preserves American global leadership, maintains our military superiority,” as Obama put it.
Curiously, President Obama was not wearing animal skins and wield-ing a stone axe when he made this announcement, although his logic came straight out of the Stone Age. Back when land was the only thing of value, it made sense to go heavily armed, because somebody else might try to take it away from you.
It doesn’t make sense anymore. China is not getting rich by sending armies to conquer other Asian coun-tries. It’s getting rich by selling them
(and the United States) goods and services that it can produce cheaply at home, and buying things that are made more cheaply elsewhere. It hasn’t actually made economic sense to conquer other countries for at least a century now – but old attitudes die hard.
If you analyze Obama’s rhetoric, he’s clearly torn between the old thinking and the new. The new U.S. strategy is all about China, but is it about China as an emerging trade partner (and rival), or is it about China as the emerging military su-perpower that threatens the United States just by being strong? A bit of both, actually.
“Our two countries have a strong stake in peace and stability in East Asia and an interest in building a co-operative bilateral relationship,” said Obama. “But the growth of China’s military power must be accompanied by a greater clarity of its strategic intentions in order to avoid causing friction in the region.”
Would it help if China were to promise that it has no intention of attacking anybody? Of course not; it already does that. “Clarity about its strategic intentions” is code for not
developing military capabilities that could challenge the very large U.S. military presence in Asia. After all, the Pentagon implicitly argues, every-body knows that the U.S. forces are there solely for defence and deterrence and would never be used aggressively.
Well, actually, the Chinese do not know that. They see the U.S. main-taining close military ties with prac-tically all the countries on China’s eastern and southern frontiers, from Japan and South Korea to Thailand and India. They see the US 7th Fleet operating right off the Chinese coast on a regular basis. And they do not say to themselves: “That’s OK. The Ameri-cans are just deterring us.”
Would Americans say that about China if Chinese troops were based in Canada and Mexico, and if Chi-nese carrier fleets were operating just off the U.S. west coast all the time? No. They’d be just as paranoid as the Chinese are. Indeed, they are pretty paranoid about the rise of China even though the shoe is on the other foot.
For the first time in history, no great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great pow-ers became economic nonsense more than a century ago, and sheer suicide after the invention of nuclear weap-ons. Yet the military establishments in every major power still have a power-ful hold on the popular imagination.
In effect, the new U.S. defence strate-gy says that for the United States to be safe, everybody else must be weaker.
Are you more or less optimistic about the economy for 2012?
I am usually quite an optimistic person so I think the economy will get stronger and we will have a good year.
> Bev Branje
I am very optimistic about the economy. I feel it is already getting better especially for younger people looking for work, I feel that there are more part-time jobs out there for them.
> Nancy Davies
I am not optimistic about the economy for this year. A lot of jobs are disappearing and I am very concerned knowing people in the banking industry that are losing their jobs, it is very scary especially if you are 50 years old because it will be very hard to find a new job at that age.
> Karen Murkovic
I am an optimist so I want to believe we will have a good 2012.
> Meghan McIntosh
OPINION 10 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
Another case of Harper’s short-term thinking
Steve Kannon
From theEditor
Another case of Harper’s short-term thinkingFrom the
Lost in the current debate over pipelines from the Alberta tar
sands are the big-picture issues. Yes, the government appears to be taking a decidedly undemocratic position, yes there are economic ad-vantages and downsides, yes there are environmental concerns. But none of these can be looked at in isolation, nor from this overarching consideration: who benefits and at what cost?
Both the Keystone XL and North-ern Gateway pipelines come with a hefty price tag, political baggage and a long list of environmental caveats. Proponents point to the eco-nomic benefits: investment, jobs and profits from building the pipelines and carrying away Alberta bitumen to foreign markets.
Opponents cite the environmental peril of running a pipeline through pristine B.C. wilderness en route to the coast. Construction alone will be damaging, as will the increased tanker traffic. A spill could wreak havoc. There are also concerns about developing the tar sands in general, both for its impact on the local environment and its contribu-tion to the larger matter of climate change.
There’s money and environmental health at stake. So, who benefits if we roll the dice?
Clearly, those pushing hardest for the project have the most to gain: the oil industry, its lobbyists and government supporters. They’ll reap the profits. Those who work in the industry, provide supplies or benefit from direct spinoffs also have pretty good motivation to back a new pipeline.
At some level, of course, we all benefit. We live in an energy-based world, dependent on oil in particu-lar. Every time we heat or cool our homes, drive our cars or use any form of transit, make use of tech-nology or enjoy something to eat we’re buying into that status quo.
That (not so) little moral piece aside, however, projects such as the Northern Gateway pipeline (the Keystone project being on hold south of the border) provide bene-fits to some while the risks are more widely dispersed. Pragmatically, will the project pay more than the potential costs to society as a whole? And, will those profits be short-
lived, with the downside stretching well into the future?
Those are prime considerations in debating royalties paid for natu-ral resources, not only oil and gas but a host of others, from potash to nickel. If we look at the Norwe-gian model – the country has been setting aside most of its huge oil revenues into a fund for future generations – then we’re certainly falling down on the job here. Non-renewable resources are by and large a short-term windfall for both the companies involved in extract-ing them and the provincial gov-ernments who collect royalties for taking from the public trust.
“We’re not getting good value for our natural resources,” says Erin Weir, an economist with the United Steel Workers who’s made a study of the royalty issue. “Norway is an outstanding example of managing natural resources.”
Norway collects high royalties. It also puts all but four per cent of its earnings into the Government Pension Fund, the largest pension fund in the world, valued at $525 billion at the end of 2010. None of the money can be touched for de-cades, until the oil runs out, and the fund invests outside the country in order to avoid making the economy dependent on oil profits and to ease inflationary pressures. (Whether that investment should be in purely speculative form – the troubling financial markets – or in the form of direct investment and asset-buying – see, for instance, China’s bid to buy up technology and resources, including Canada’s – is another discussion.)
It’s a great example of long-term thinking in the public interest, says Weir, noting there’s little of that in this country, as even the heritage funds in Alberta and Saskatchewan, which do set aside money for the future, pale in comparison.
Higher royalties, combined with a Norwegian outlook, would do wonders not only for Alberta, which
generates the largest revenues due to oil and gas reserves, but also in every province where resources are extracted.
“We should be charging higher royalty rates and then there might be a bigger public benefit from those projects,” he says of the pipeline debate.
That’s especially true during a time of high commodity prices: profits grow, but the public doesn’t share in the good times. In fact, Alberta has been pushing royalty rates lower, unlike what it did dur-ing the boom times of the 1970s when its Heritage Fund was grow-ing in leaps and bounds.
Through the Eighties, there was downward pressure on royalties in Alberta. There have been some spikes, but most recently the trend is down yet again. From collecting total royalties of $12.26 billion in 2006-07, the take fell to $6.1 billion in 2009-10.
“The industry has a very strong interest in keeping royalties low,” says Weir, noting the oil, gas and mining industries have been very successful in playing one jurisdic-tion off of another, threatening to go elsewhere if royalties are in-creased.
““There’s a belief that provinces have to give the resources away in order to get them developed.”
While that has been the case with manufacturing – leading to the gut-
ting of Ontario’s economy – it’s a far less compelling argument with natural resources, which have to be extracted where they’re found. Of course, there are other locations in the world, but as supplies dwindle – be it for oil and gas, or a host of other resources – the “we’ll go else-where” argument holds less water.
Even today, Weir notes, there are a variety of factors at play in choos-ing where to develop resources, including the size and quality of the reserves, accessibility, infrastruc-ture, a skilled workforce and politi-cal stability.
“Canada stacks up very well in those other factors,” he says in urging governments to resist the divide-and-conquer strategy.
The tactic is at play within the country, as resources fall within the provincial sphere: there’s no nation-al standard.
“I would like to see a bit more inter-provincial cooperation to get higher returns.”
That remains unlikely, however, as lobbyists are relentless and the in-dustry spends large sums of money to influence politicians. There is no corresponding effort on the other side on behalf of the public interest, he notes.
“I’m hopeful that people can learn more about the issue, get engaged and push for better returns on their natural resources. The resources belong to the public.”
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This displays a profound ignorance of human psychology – unless, of course, it is just a cynical device to convince the American public to spend a lot on “defence.”
The armed forces are the biggest single vested interest in the United States, and indeed in most other countries. To keep their budgets large, the generals must frighten the taxpaying public with plausible threats even if they don’t really ex-ist. The Pentagon will accept some
cuts in army and Marine Corps manpower, and even a hundred billion dollars or so off the defence budget for a while, but it will defend its core interests to the death.
Obama goes along with this be-cause it would be political suicide not to. Beijing has its own power-ful military lobby, which regularly stresses the American “military threat,” and the Chinese regime goes along with that, too. We left the caves some time ago, but in our imaginations and our fears we still live there.
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BUSINESS11THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
BUSINESS
Carsharing still waiting to catch on in Woolwich
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Grand River CarShare's ef-forts to expand into Wool-
wich may have stalled a little bit, but members of Elmira Mennonite Church want to help jumpstart renewed in-terest in the program.
The church has already agreed to provide one of their parking spots at 58 Church St. W. to be used by the group once it gets up and running in the township, but that’s where the inherent problem lies.
In Woolwich, 17 people have joined, but that number has not increased in almost a year and is only about a third of the 50 that the GRCS is looking for in order to sup-port three vehicles in Elmira.
For organizers and car-share hopefuls, the situation has become somewhat of a chicken or the egg scenario: people are hesitant to sign up until they can be sure that the program will proceed, yet the program cannot proceed until enough people have signed up.
“We hope to start with three cars; we certainly won’t start with one. It’ll be at least two cars,” said GRCS president Jason Hammond.
“We need a network,” he added, meaning the group wants at least two vehicles available from the beginning to ensure enough people get a vehicle when they need one.
The last thing they want is to have people backing out of their commitment because there weren’t enough cars to meet demand.
The township has backed the carshare program by giving them a $30,000 line of credit last fall following the announcement that the Grand River Transit route 21 would become permanent.
That money, paid back with interest of two per cent, will provide the nec-essary working capital and help keep costs down. Park-ing locations have also been arranged at the UPI service centre on Church Street East and the Foodland store in the south end.
Typically, GRCS buys off-
lease cars that are about two years old, and vehicles are chosen base on what’s most suitable for the location. GRCS currently has more than 500 members who have access to a fleet of 17 vehicles in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cam-bridge and Hamilton.
Grand River CarShare and Hamilton CarShare is a single non-profit co-operative that provides its members access to vehicles on a self-serve, pay-per-use basis. The co-operative was founded in 1998 and operated first in Kitchener-Waterloo, adding service to Cambridge in 2007, and Hamilton in 2009.
The mission of the GRCS is to deliver a carsharing service and to promote car-sharing as an important component of a sustainable transportation system with-in the Region of Waterloo and the City of Hamilton.
The co-op seeks to reduce overall transportation costs, traffic congestion and air pol-lution, thus improving our communities.
For as little as $10 drivers
c a n place a deposit on their membership to join, which would help the GRCS gain a clearer under-standing of just how many people are interested in the service.
Once the program is up and running the application fee ranges from $30 to $99, and are fully refundable. A com-plete breakdown of prices is available online.
Despite being a nearly 30 people short of their goal, Hammond said once they do reach 50 they can be operat-ing in Elmira with very short notice.
“As soon as we have enough people, that’s when we launch. If 35 more people sign up tomorrow, we would launch next week.”
For the parishioners of Elmira Mennonite Church, assisting the GRCS become viable in Elmira and the township is an important part of their new “green” mandate.
The church formed a green
team in the summer of
2009 to help create awareness about the im-
pact that their parish and their congregation has on the environment.
Since then the group has grown to include six mem-bers, and they have under-taken some pretty big tasks.
“There is a wonderful sense of frugality at the church, through the thrift shop that is across the street from us, and through our recycling,” said pastor Steven Janzen.
To that end, the team has installed low-flow toilets and energy-saving CFL light bulbs at the church, they had an assessment done by REEP Green Solutions to locate any drafts in the building, new double-paned windows have been installed, they’re in the process of mounting solar panels on the roof, and they’re even working on es-tablishing a community gar-den on one of their vacant lots this summer.
Elmira Mennonite Church sees helping initiative as part of its new green mandate
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A SHARED FUTURE The parking spot at Elmira Mennonite Church designated for the Grand River CarShare may be empty now, but Pastor Steven Janzen (left), green team members Larry Martin, Sara Wyngaarden, Arlene Wyngaarden, Rob Brooks, and GRCS president Jason Hammond hope to have a vehicle in it soon.
BUSINESS 12 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
New livestock research facility good for farmers, economy
CarShare: Part of a green future
Food ForThoughtOwen Roberts
New livestock research facility good for farmers, economy The wisdom of separating politics
and research was clearly on display earlier this week when the prov-ince, farmers and the University of Guelph announced they were getting together to construct a multi-million-dollar livestock research facility near Elora.
The Research and Innovation Centre, unveiled Wednesday, will be dedicated to sustainable animal agriculture production. Commodities being eyed within the livestock sector include dairy, pork, beef and poultry.
The initial focus will be dairy. Bill Emmott, chair of the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, said his group’s involve-ment “represents a firm commitment to collaborative research with our industry, government and university partners.” Rich Moccia, the univer-sity’s associate vice-president (stra-tegic partnerships), said the facility “will position Ontario at the forefront of innovation and technology devel-opment in agri-food, particularly for livestock research.”
Exactly. It’s all about working to-gether to stay ahead.
Here's why. It’s no secret the world is putting pressure on Canada to drop its commitment to supply manage-ment, a unique feature of this coun-try’s dairy, egg and poultry produc-tion.
Some of our trading partners, and some participants in the food produc-tion value chain in Canada, feel sup-ply management is unfair because it restricts access to Canadian markets.
producing the kind of food Canadians want and need – safe, nutritious and affordable.
“We are the envy of other jurisdic-tions with our partnerships,” says Stewart Cressman, chair of the Agri-cultural Research Institute of On-tario, which owns the station. “Mod-ernizing our research infrastructure with partners from government, the University of Guelph and industry is the only way we can work towards a prosperous, productive economy fuelled by the quality foods that our innovations yield.”
We must certainly be the envy of our American counterparts, at the very least. At the same time Ontario’s Agriculture Minister Ted McMeekin was making the announcement at the Dairy Farmers of Ontario annual meeting, the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture was trying to figure how it was going to manage closing 259 regional offices and cut-ting $150 million from its budget.
In some states, it’s even worse. In Texas, for example, the department of agriculture’s budget has been slashed by 40 per cent.
Tough times call for tough mea-sures. But it’s a mistake to carve up the sector that’s the most important to your economy. In Ontario, agricul-ture has taken a lead role in economic recovery. It contributes $33 billion to the province’s gross domestic product and sustains more than 700,000 jobs, all over Ontario.
For example, locally, the Elora project is expected to provide 100 short-term construction jobs and 25 full-time positions.
It’s a wise investment, indeed.
Others, though, think we need to – and have the right to – manage the supply of these commodities within our own borders, for our own food security.
Time will tell how this matter bal-ances out. It’s extremely intricate, and without question fundamental to our farm sector. It needs a lot more airing out.
Meanwhile, though, the world is moving ahead. Canada has a stellar global reputation for dairy genetics and it’s primarily thanks to pioneer-ing research efforts that have helped its farms and companies produce some of the world’s finest livestock.
Those gains need continual rein-forcement and reinvestment, and research is the way to go.
That’s particularly true with approaches such as the new Elora research enterprise, for which con-struction will begin later this year.
The collaborative approach being taken to this facility brings practical challenges from the farm immediate-ly to the research community. It gives researchers the kind of support they need to meet these challenges and find new opportunities for the sector.
And it helps keep the dairy sector
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“It’s an investment,” Janzen noted of the improvements. “We’ve talked about the produce that we could gather from the garden and we could have a wonderful potluck that we can call the 50-foot meal, instead of the 100-mile diet.
“These aren’t saving us huge mon-ey, but they’re promoting ways of be-ing green and meeting the challenge of helping our environment.”
He likened that mentality to the expansion of the carshare program in Woolwich. Instead of everyone re-
lying on their own car sitting in the driveway, if residents instead took into consideration the environmen-tal benefits of sharing a car, we’d likely end up further ahead.
Janzen also recognizes the inher-ent challenge in trying to get people to share their transportation.
“That takes coordination and com-munication, and there is also a sense of respect for taking care of a com-monly shared vehicle that other peo-ple will drive,” he said.
For more information on the GRCS, visit their website www.grandriver-carshare.ca or call (519) 578-1895.
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Heifer sale a major fundraiser for MCC
The 31st annual heifer sale spon-sored by Ontario Mennonite Re-
lief Sale Inc. will be taking place on Feb. 17 in Listowel to raise funds for the relief and development work of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).
All the money raised on auction day goes directly to relief, develop-ment and peace work locally and in some 60 countries around the world.
MCC’s mission is to addresses the basic human need for water, food and shelter while working alongside churches and communities in a vari-ety of efforts to build peace. Working within a community the MCC tries to build bridges to connect people and ideas across cultural, political and economic divides.
Plans are well underway for this year’s auction and the organizing committee is currently seeking do-nations from local farmers and agri-businesses who donate heifers, sale facilities, trucks, staff, feed, straw, veterinary and auction services.
“After 30 years of raising funds for the MCC, volunteers for the heifer sale are still going strong,” said Clar-ence Diefenbacher, sale chairperson.
The sale relies heavily on volun-teers to make it a success year after year.
“People tend to gravitate to our
cause because they know that our or-ganization does some very good work at home and abroad,” said Diefen-bacher. “This is an excellent opportu-nity for farmers and agribusinesses to support MCC programs.”
Last year the auction sold 117 heif-ers, several lots of semen, bales of straw, and other miscellaneous items. The heifers sold for $150,250 averag-ing $1,284 a head. The total proceeds including additional cash donations brought the sale total to over $166,000. Since its inception in 1982 the heifer sale has raised well over $4 million through the auctioning of 3,500 heif-ers.
More than 400 farmers, buyers and businesses attended last years auc-tion in support of the relief work.
Topping the sale last year at $5,000 were two heifers: Quality Minister and Hanalee Shottle Dawn donated by Irvin and Ellen Jantzi, and the Men-nonite Savings and Credit Union.
“We have farmers that donate year after year, without question. It’s a good feeling when you ask for one heifer, and someone offers two in-stead. Stuff like that motivates you to keep doing it,” said John Brenneman, secretary of the heifer sale commit-tee.
This year’s sale will take place at Carson Auction facilities, 5531 Perth Line 86, Listowel on Feb. 27, starting at 11 a.m.
Colin Dewar
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Pedal powerElmira’s Tracey Crewe doing some serious training, fundraising for Ride to Conquer Cancer
GETTING READY TO ROLL In memory of her mother, Tracey Crewe will be participating in this year’s Ride to Conquer Cancer. She’ll be holding numerous fundraisers for the next few months to raise money for the cause.
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ment training on her road bike for the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer event to be held this summer.
Crewe is riding in the event to remember her mother and raise money to “continue the desperately needed research that will one day stop cancer from taking our loved ones.”
The two-day ride from To-ronto to Niagara raises funds for the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
Crewe’s mother, Eliza-beth Marsh, succumbed to breast cancer at the age of 59. Marsh was the type of person who always strived to take care of herself: she ate healthy, exercised frequently and paid close attention to her health. In November of 2000 she went for her annual mammogram and was told that she was fine but that her right breast seemed dense. Six weeks later, just before Christmas, Marsh suddenly began to feel pain in her right breast, starting a long and de-manding journey that ended in her passing in September 2003.
“Surgeons performed a bi-opsy on the breast and found cancer. By the time they oper-ated the tumor was eight cen-timeters,” said Crewe.
Marsh had a full mastec-tomy on her right side and started a regiment of chemo-therapy. Numerous trips to the doctor revealed the can-
grandmother who passed away of stomach cancer just before Christmas.
Crewe is holding local fundraisers to help with the minimum of $2,500 entry fee. So far she has raised $900 to-wards her goal.
On Jan. 21 she will be hold-ing an all-day scrap-a-thon in the basement of the New Apostolic Church starting at 10 a.m. The cost is $20 per-son with all proceeds going
days a week to improve her cardio and her leg and upper-body strength.
The event will start in To-ronto on June 9, stopping in Hamilton for the night before the riders continue on to Ni-agara Falls and the finish line. Riders will be expected to travel 100 kilometres each day.
Crewe will not be cycling alone, as her friend and teammate Lisa Stockie will be alongside her, riding in the event in memory of her
decided to raise funds to help research all cancers as more and more people around the world suffer or know some-one suffering with the dis-ease.
She signed up for the Ride for Cancer in September.
“I find it so peaceful to just get on my bike and hit the road. Just me and bike going at my own pace, it helps me clear my mind.”
Crewe now clocks close to 40 kilometres a day and works out at a local gym five
cer had metastasized to her liver and her bones. Marsh started monthly treatments for the newly discovered can-cer, however in March 2003 she discovered a lump on her leg that turned out to be skin cancer, which in turn had spread to her spinal fluid.
“It was 22 months from the time she first felt something until she passed away,” said Crewe. “My mother always joked and told us she just wanted to get to 60 so she could collect her Canadian Pension Plan; she had a great sense of humour.”
Crewe was there every step of the way, taking her mother to every cancer treatment and appointment. She said she feels very fortunate to have been able to do that.
When she turned 40 last summer, Crewe pledged that she would get back to being healthy and fit and began working out, taking part in Woolwich’s Try a Tri event last June and joined the Wa-terloo County Wanderers, a local cycling club.
“I have always wanted to do something, but I have asthma and other health issues – I be-gan to think ‘what can I do to get healthier and make a dif-ference?’ Over the last couple of years I have done a lot to get my health back to the way I wanted it and just recently I decided that I was going to participate in the ride for my mom and for myself.”
Last summer her hus-band’s father passed away with a blood cancer, and she > SEE RIDE ON PG. 15
LIVING HERE 14 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
How and what we cook with often begins with where
we live and what lessons have been passed down to us from generations previous. Now, however, we also have to con-tend with global influences from around the world, wheth-er they be good or bad.
Growing up, our mothers never used things like olive oil, sea salt and other Mediter-ranean products that we see in recipes so often today.
We have, like most people, embraced the use of global products, but with that comes some confusion. Olive oil, for instance. When and where should you use it? In Canada we have so many choices for fats, everything from lard to canola oil to butter to different types of oil. Here’s where we use olive oil, and when we say olive oil, we mean extra virgin.
Olive oil has more flavour and character than other cook-ing oils. So therefore we use it when that matters, and adds to our recipes. It is often added at the beginning, and at the end. A final drizzle of olive oil on any dish (soup, pasta, roast chicken) adds flavour, shine, mouth-feel and some good-for-you unsaturated heart
Lentil Soup>> 1/2 a yellow onion, finely chopped
>> 2 small carrots, diced
>> 4 tbsp olive oil
>> 1 celery rib, finely chopped
>> 2 small carrots, finely chopped
>> 1/3-cup diced pancetta
>> 1 cup canned Italian tomatoes, with their juice
>> 1/2 lb of green or brown lentils, washed and drained
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>> 3 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese
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“I had a thought that everyone has taken Christmas photos but they just end up on the computer, so why not have a day where ev-eryone can come and spread out their photos and work with oth-ers to help create a nice page in their photo album,” she said. “A lot of people find it hard to find
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Cher Wylie, a consultant from Creative Memories, a scrapbook-ing supply company, will be on hand and will offer a selection of tools to use as well as supplies available for purchase with 15 per cent of sales going to Crewe’s fundraising efforts.
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Christmas is over but the Elmira Sugar Kings are
still in the giving mood, at least to their fans.
The Kings went undefeated in their first two games of 2012, beating the Cambridge Winter Hawks 4-3 in a shoot-out Jan. 7 and the Owen Sound Greys 5-2 on home ice during a Sunday afternoon match-up.
The holiday break may have been a bit too long for the Kings, who looked a little rusty in struggling against Cambridge at the Galt Arena during last Saturday’s con-test.
“We were scrambling initially but that is to be expected after a two-week break and getting away from things, but over all I was pleased with the effort the boys gave during the game,” said head coach Dean DeSil-va. “The mistakes we were making were consistent with
Kings shake off rust to open the year with pair of winsTouch-and-go victory over Cambridge was followed by more convincing play at home against Owen Sound
Colin Dewar
TAKING IT TO THEM Kings forward Riley Sonnenburg finds a hole between Owen Sound Greys’ Ardis Doug (9) and Brooks Nelthrope (7) during action at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena last Sunday. The Kings defeated the Greys 5-2.
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Smith deep in Hawks terri-tory. Smith circled around the net before spotting Brad Kraus out front; his feed was quickly chipped over the glove of Cambridge net-minder Lucas Machalski, finally putting the boys in green on the board.
The third period would
start with the Kings down by one but that changed within the first minutes of the frame when Smith fired a shot over the right shoulder of Machalski to make it 2-2.
Cambridge responded quickly, however, potting an-other goal against Horrigan when Hawks forward Brock
Campbell flicked the rubber bouncing against the post and into the net.
Down 3-2, the Kings went into full swing and managed to add another to their tally during a powerplay that had Lukas Baleshta scoring the
> SEE KINGS ON PG. 17
being off and trying to force things and trying to do too much rather than reacting properly to what was coming at them.”
The first frame saw both teams with good chances but neither could connect until Cambridge found themselves with an advantage when two Kings – Mitch Dunning and Brett Priestap – were sent to the box with two sepa-rate penalties seconds apart, giving Hawks defenceman Marselis Subban the chance to pot the only goal of the pe-riod by beating goalie Nick Horrigan at 15:58.
Cambridge returned to the ice after the first inter-mission with a fire in its belly and caught the sleep-ing Elmira squad off guard when former King Brennon Pearce tallied the Hawks’ second goal of the night.
The Kings defended for the rest of the period until Will Cook broke out of his own end and found Andrew
SPORTS17THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
Outdoorsmen enjoy the simple pleasure of having an axe to grindNot-So-Great
OutdoorsmanSteve Galea
Outdoorsmen enjoy the simple pleasure of having an axe to grindNot-So-Great
Outdoorsman
There are certain dangers associ-ated with the type of cabin fever I
am currently suffering from. Dur-ing times like this a man arrives at impulsive and often dangerous deci-sions that have far-ranging personal and environmental consequences. Yesterday, I decided I should buy a hatchet.
Like any outdoorsman, I already own an axe and a hatchet, in theory at least. I’m just not sure where they are.
They could be stuck in some dis-tant stump, waiting there like King Arthur’s sword in the stone for some for some lucky outdoorsman to find and claim. For this, I am truly sorry. But more likely, my partner did the responsible thing and hid them. Call it an act of love and caution.
Though I believe in letting Dar-win’s theory work itself out natu-rally, I will concede that because of this, I have all my digits and the local woods have not been clear-cut. And this is probably a good thing.
You see, buying a new axe or hatchet is akin to childbirth in that, if you remembered the pain and suffering that the delivery caused, you might not ever do it again. Also, sometimes you need forceps and lo-cal anesthetics to remove them.
Fortunately, as anyone who has ever heard a hunting or fishing sto-
ry can attest, we outdoorsman have short memories. So we continue to support the hatchet industry.
While we’re on the topic of sharp-edged weapons of mass destruc-tion let me explain the difference between an axe and a hatchet. That being, you injure yourself higher up your legs with the latter. This is a selling point, by the way, if you happen to be an internationally ac-claimed foot model or a clogger.
The hatchet I’m thinking of buy-ing is Swedish-made, so you know it has to be good. Any hatchet made by the descendants of Vikings prob-ably has all the things a man needs to take down a sapling or pillage a small village – either of which could conceivably happen.
Not likely you say? Well, then you’ve obviously never felt the raw power that comes from holding a scary sharp hatchet in your hands. I can attest firsthand that you can’t walk for 10 feet in the woods with a new hatchet before you are looking for a reason to build a log cabin or a bridge across a creek. In extreme
cases, an outdoorsman might even find himself daydreaming about being attacked by a bear. Such is the power they hold over us.
Technically, the outdoors survival books say a hatchet is the only tool a woodsman truly needs. With it, you can fashion a lean-to and spear or cut firewood. Then with the right stone, you can warm yourself up by trying to create a spark over your tinder, thereby causing a fire.
I’ve never quite figured that part out. I never get past the part where
you strike the stone, sharply down-ward, on the back of the hatchet and injure your thumb.
This simple skill, by the way, has saved many outdoorsmen from a horrible fate. You see, this typically leads to spontaneous dancing, which warms you up, and an Emer-gency Room visit – which is a nice way to catch up with those good folks,
Oh, and your hatchet being hid-den. Which causes the cycle to begin anew.
TOUGH BATTLE The Wildcat Atom LL4 travelled to Clifford Jan. 7 to compete in a one-day, eight-team tournament making it to the finals by the end of the day. The team beat Lucknow in the morning, Midland in the afternoon, and lost a tough 3-2 battle in the final minutes to Minto. Back row: Parker Merlihan, Seth Horst, Jacob Wiseman, Caden Sellars, Jesse Martin, Tyler Horst, Ryan Moser, Coaches Kevin Moser, Terry Martin, Ken Martin. Middle row: Ben Martin, Dante Del Cul, Ryan Martin, Cameron Martin, Jordan Dickieson, Alex Devore. Front row: Benjamin Witmer, Nick Lee, Nicholas Lunz.
Atoms come close at Clifford tourney
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Bantams get their revenge in Hespeler
OFF TO THE SILVERSTICK The Major Bantam A Woolwich Wildcats team participated in the Regional Silverstick tournament in Brampton Dec. 27-29. They went undefeated, earning a berth at the international competition in Port Huron, Michigan starting Jan. 27. Back row: manager Mike Lenaers, asst. coach John Lunney, Matt Leger, Jason Gamble, Harrison Clifford, Connor Peirson, Alex Uttley, Josh Kueneman, trainer Matt Snyder, asst. coach Pat Shantz, head coach Joe Amlinger. Middle row: Grant Kernick, Nic Pavanel, Luke Brown, Cole Lenaers, Scott Martin, Cole Conlin, Liam Gangl and Troy Nechanicky. Front: Thomas Vickers, Jayden Weber.
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tying point, with Wade Pfeffer and Michael Hasson collecting the as-sists.
The teams headed into overtime but neither would manage to find the back of the net, setting up a shoot-out.
Both Baleshta and Smith missed the target, leaving Riley Sonnenburg to score the only goal of the shootout, as Horrigan managed to shut down the Hawks. The Kings would finish the victors of a hard fought battle.
The next afternoon the Kings played host to the Owen Sound Greys at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena.
The homeboys got off to a great start, scoring two goals in the first minute of play.
Cash Seraphim got things rolling 30 seconds into the contest, beating Greys netminder Nicholas Caldwell, with Wade Pfeffer and Dunning col-lecting assists.
Moments later the Kings were once again on the scoreboard when Kraus potted one at 0:58.
The Greys were not to be counted out, getting one back before the end of the period when forward Brad Pitt stole the puck at centre ice and fired a wrist shot above the stick of Elmi-ra goaltender Justis Husak to keep the Greys within one going into the first intermission.
The second frame saw the Kings take unnecessary penalties, with the team clocking 18 minutes in the box.
“We got a little selfish and were try-
Kings: Home to Listowel on Sundaying to be fancy and we got a little un-disciplined, especially in the second period where we were taking silly penalties. We talked to the guys dur-ing the break and said the only thing you can control is your emotions: you can’t control the calls or what is going on with the other team, but you can control your emotions and your work ethic and that is how you win games,” said DeSilva.
Even though they were keeping the penalty box bench warm, the Kings still managed to score their third of the match when Sonnenburg scored his first of two on the night.
Grey defenceman Brooks Nelthor-pe made it close again by beating Hu-sak during a mix up in front of the Kings’ net at 16:05, the second and final goal of Owen Sounds’ night.
“[Husak] would love to have those two goals back, he should have saved both goals on him but he did what he had to do to give us the win,” said DeSilva.
The third period would see the Kings gain control of the game scor-ing twice off the sticks of Cook and Sonnenburg.
The Kings out-shot the Greys 62-18 for the win.
“We did better in the third period and still have to find our footing, but that happens in games after a long break; we will deal with it and move on from there,” said DeSilva.
The Kings are back in action to-day (Saturday) against Brantford and will be on home ice on Sunday against Listowel Cyclones.
> CONTINUED FROM PG. 16
SPORTS 18 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
The Elmira Sugar Kings and the Woolwich Memorial
Centre played host to game one of the annual Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League all-star match on Monday night, where some 800 fans certainly got their money’s worth as the Mid-western Conference all-stars skated away with a 6-5 win over the Golden Horseshoe Conference.
The Kings’ Andrew Smith picked up a pair of points, including the game-winner midway through the third period. Midwestern Confer-ence team captain and Kings teammate Riley Sonnenburg collected a pair of assists in the win, as well.
Defenceman Craig John-son also suited up in the game, and goaltender Nick Horrigan played the first two periods, allowing four goals on 22 shots. Forward Brett Priestap was named to the team but did not play be-cause of injury.
“I would not want to be a goalie in any all-star game, and Nick Horrigan saw a lot of point-blank shots early on in the game, but I thought Nick played well,” said Kings head coach Dean DeSilva, who was an assistant coach on Monday night.
“I thought Andrew and Riley skated well, and Craig Johnson was solid on de-fence.”
The action started early as Smith and Sonnenburg col-lected the assists when Wa-terloo Siskins forward Adam Campagnolo opened the scor-ing at 4:46 of the first.
The Golden Horseshoe re-sponded with a pair of quick goals at 12:36 and 12:50, both high glove side on Horrigan, to take a 2-1 lead.
Midwestern Conference wins fast-paced GOJHL all-star gameKings players make strong contributions in match played before home crowd in Elmira
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Shane Kinsella of the Guelph Hurricanes briefly knotted the match at two with a goal at 14:20, but the Golden Horseshoe regained the lead at 16:34 on a shot past a screened Horrigan.
Despite a total of five goals, the period was marked by long stretches of sloppy play and a relaxed approach by the players, which frustrated DeSilva and the other coach-es.
“We were looking for some-thing more intense, and in the first period there was no effort, there was no intensity, there was no skating, every-one was just being fancy,” he said.
“There were a lot of NCAA schools and OHL teams there, and I’m not sure how many of them stuck around after the first period,” he added.
In the second period, how-
ever, the players seemed to grow more accustomed to their new teammates, result-ing in quicker play. The teams traded goals in the period, with Michael Christou of the Cambridge Winter Hawks ty-ing the game 3-3 at 10:57 by finishing off a terrific tick-tack-toe play with his Winter Hawk teammates Josh Tim-pano and Ryan Clarke.
Just under two minutes later, however, the Golden Horseshoe’s Riley Jakob-schuk gave his team the lead by beating Horrigan with a shot at 12:35.
In the third period, after the Golden Horseshoe took a 5-3 lead at the 3:07 mark, the game finally began to develop some intensity. Players start-ed racing for loose pucks and the match began to resemble a playoff match rather than an all star game.
The Midwestern Con-ference capitalized on the change in the style in play and scored three goals in a span of seven minutes to take a 6-5 lead, headlined by Smith’s eventual winner at 11:21 from Sonnenburg and Campagnolo.
Sonnenburg went wide to the left of the Golden Horse-shoe net, and threw the puck into the slot where Smith fired it top corner.
Following that goal, fans and players bared witness to a rarity in an all star game, a fight, which drew the biggest cheers of the night.
Defenceman Calvin Thom-son of the Midwestern Conference checked Cam McLean in the corner of the Midwest zone, and after trad-ing a few slashes the pair dropped their gloves.
Both players received a game misconduct and a two minute slashing penalty.
“I think a lot of it had to do with pride,” said De Silva of the higher tempo and more intense third period.
“Everyone wants to say that their conference is bet-ter than the other […] and I think that’s what picked the intensity up a little bit.”
It’s also no coincidence that once the game got more intense, Smith emerged as one of the best players on the ice.
Following his goal, he had a prime chance to extend the lead to two, but was robbed by the glove hand of goal-tender Matt Coloumbe with just under four minutes left on the exact same play that he scored on a few minutes earlier.
Smith was also stopped on a clear breakaway with 2:34 left on the clock at the end of a long shift.
“When the game gets chip-py and aggressive, Andrew Smith plays the best in that situation. He’s a big power forward and the type of play-er that is willing to give that hit or take a hit to make a play,” said De Silva.
Game two of the all star series is set for Jan. 23 at the Valley Park Arena, hosted by the Stoney Creek Warriors at 7:30 p.m.
The Sugar Kings also had two players named to the GOJHL top prospects game scheduled for Jan. 16 at the Vollmer Recreation Complex in LaSalle.
Defenceman Clayton Greer (one goal, 14 assists, 47 penalty minutes) and for-ward Will Cook (13 goals, 16 assists, 44 penalty min-utes) have been named to the Midwestern Conference team.
Brett Vickers notched a hat trick to lead the
Wellesley Applejacks to a 5-0 home win over the Burford Bulldogs Jan. 6. Not to be outdone, Co-rey Way followed that up the next night with a hat trick of his own to pace the home team to a 10-1 victory against the Norfolk Rebels.
Last weekend’s vic-tories improved the
Jacks commanding in winning two at home last weekendPair of hat tricks make it look easy as Wellesley dominants Burford and Norfolk
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MAKING IT OFFICIAL Team captains Riley Sonnenburg (left) and Zach DeConcilys take the ceremonial faceoff prior to the all star game on Monday night. Leno Santarossa, GOJHL chairman Shawn McKelvie, assistant Midwestern Conference convener John East, convener of the Golden Horseshoe Conference Blake Evenson and GOJHL commissioner Mark Ellis also participated in the puck drop.
Jacks’ record to 17-7-2, placing them in the third spot in the divi-sion standings behind the first-place Delhi Travellers (20-6) and the Hagersville Hawks.
“The boys played ex-ceptionally well over the weekend, and Fri-day night’s game was easily the best the boys have performed all sea-son,” said Wellesley head coach Kevin Fitz-patrick. “They played a
complete 60 minutes of hockey both offensively and defensively, and you can’t ask for more than that.”
Vickers opened the scoring against the Bulldogs at the seven-minute mark of the contest courtesy of an assist from Way. It would be the only goal scored in a hard-fought first-period battle.
After the second in-termission the Jacks
came out flying, tak-ing it to the Rebels who seemed sluggish re-turning to the ice after 20 minutes of play. Kev-in Horworth found the back of the net just 1:23 into the frame. Forward Blair Witmer stole the rubber from a Bulldog defenceman, slipping it over to Shawn Fitz-patrick who would find Horworth alone on the right of Bulldogs’ goal-tender Riley Carr. Hor-
worth fired a one-timer below the glove of Carr to give the Jacks a 2-0 lead.
Vickers finished off the second frame by scoring two goals for the Jacks – who had been attacking vigorously for the remainder of the period – to give the home side four heading back to the room.
The third period saw a lot of action from both teams with nobody able
to best the goalies until 22 seconds left in the frame when Rob Hin-schberger would get the puck deep in Jack territory and move it to centre ice before find-ing Mitch Metzger, who beat two defencemen on his way to the net only to pass it at the last second to Tyler Eckert catching Burford’s Carr off guard as he slipped
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it just inside the left post for his team’s fifth of the night.
Netminder Josh Heer had an outstanding night in stopping 40 shots on net for the win and his first shutout of the season for the Jacks. Heer was recent-ly named to the SOJHL all-star team as the top goalie of the league.
“[Heer] is an out-standing player; he gives us chances to win and always makes the big saves to keep us in the game. He is just a fantastic kid all around and we a very happy with his performance for us this season,” said Fitzpatrick.
The next night, again on home ice, the Jacks would dominate the visiting Norfolk Rebels, scoring seven unan-swered goals in two pe-riods of play.
Hinschberger got things rolling at 9:55 in the first period, single-handedly beating Rebel goaltender Jeff Still-man.
Two minutes later the
Jacks went on the pow-erplay when Norfolk’s forward Dillon Hulton was sent to the box for tripping. The Jacks wasted little time tak-ing advantage of the penalty, as Way tallied his first on the night on assists from Metzger and Geoff Parr.
Eckert would finish the period by beating Stillman low on the glove side, making it 3-0.
The Jacks were fir-ing on all cylinders in the second frame with Way scoring his second of the night unassisted at 5:31. Nine minutes later Way completed his hat trick, scoring his team-leading 20th goal of the year assisted by Metzger and Vickers.
The Jacks would reg-ister two more goals in the last minute of play in the period from Josh Herd at 19:21 and James
Mildon 19:33.Returning to the ice
for the third the Jacks were a little at ease, making decent plays and keeping out of trouble when during a struggle in front of Wellesley’s net Nor-folk’s Jason Bruckler beat Jacks goalie Jor-dan Bauman to give his team their first point on the board.
That goal returned the Jacks to their fight-
Jacks: Coach praises team, hopes to keep them firing on all cylindersing ways and they scored three goals less than two minutes apart: Vickers, McLeod and Bobby Gray.
The weekend wins move the Jacks within four points of first place
in the division.The Jacks are on
home ice today (Satur-day) to face off against the Hagersville Hawks, with one point separat-ing the two teams in the standings.
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COLLISION COURSE Wellesley forwards Spencer Geoffrey (left) and Bobby Gray collide with Burford’s Ryan White during action at the Wellesley arena Jan. 6. The Jacks defeated the Bulldogs 5-0.
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SPORTS 20 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
SCORECARDWOOLWICH U12 PETITE HOUSELEAGUE - GIRLS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 6, Kitchener 2Goals: Jocelyn Martin x2, Maddy Waters x2, Carola Bromberg, Kate Martin (Mackenzie Beacom x2, Jocelyn Martin, Carola Bromberg, Ava Henderson)
JAN. 8
Woolwich 10, Hanover 5Goals: Carola Bromberg x4, Alison Schultz x2, Maddy Waters x2, Kate Martin, Hannah Bettke (Alice Wang x3, Alison Schultz x3, Mackenzie Beacom x3, Maddy Waters x3, Jocelyn Martin x3, Carola Bromberg, Hannah Bettke, Kate Martin)TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #2 - GIRLS
JAN. 8
Twin Centre 2, Woolwich 0Goals: EmilyKrueger, Claire Higgins, (Mia Thompson, Katy a Pym, Reese Looser) Shutout: Kirtsen LivingstonTWIN CENTRE ATOM LL #7547 - GIRLS
JAN. 8
Twin Centre 2, Grand River 0Goals: Blythe Bender, Taylor Hartung (Olivia Bolender)Shutout: Kylee ZacharczukWOOLWICH ATOM B - GIRLS
JAN. 8
Woolwich 2, Oakville 2Goals: Hannah Petrosino x2 (Jade Lipczynski, Mya Brubacher, Cassidy Moser)WOOLWICH BANTAM B - GIRLSGUELPH TOURNAMENT
JAN. 6-8
GAME 1:Mount Forest 6, Woolwich 2Goals: Brooke Mulder, Emily Schuurmans (Hannah Weber, Ciara Hea, Emily Schuurmans, Brooke Mulder)GAME 2:Woolwich 3 Penninsula 1Goals: Emily Schuurmans x2, Brooke Mulder (Lindsay Glofcheskie, Jessica Schopp, Taylor Duench, Ciara Hea, Hannah Weber, Emily Schuurmans)GAME 3:Brantford 2 Woolwich 0WOOLWICH BANTAM BB - GIRLS
JAN. 6
GUELPH THUNDER TOURNAMENTWoolwich 0, North Halton 0Shutout: Megan Harron
JAN. 6
Woolwich 5, Brampton 0Goals: Randi Paul x2, Emily Willms, Meghan Martin, Cassandra Tuffnail (Michelle Bauman x2, Maddie Wang x2, Marlee Kernick x2, Kendra Harold, Megan Lair) Shutout: Megan Harron
JAN. 7
Woolwich 5, Guelph 0Goals: Michelle Bauman x2, Megan Lair, Claire Hanley, Rachel Weber (Maddie Wang, Emily Willms, Randi Paul, Kendra Harold, Michelle Bauman, Maddie Wang)Shutout: Megan Harron
JAN. 8
Woolwich 3, North Halton 1Goals: Randi Paul x2, Meghan Martin (Emily Willms x2, Michelle Bauman x2, Maddie Wang)TWIN CENTRE MIDGET LL #2 - GIRLS
JAN. 8
Twin Centre 1, Woolwich 1Goals: Twin Centre: Jayme Marshall Woolwich: Kayla Wilging (Twin Centre: Ali Hergott Woolwich: Mandy Martin, Maggie Lariviere)
JAN. 9
Twin Centre 3, Waterloo 3Goals: Meagan Smart, Shelby Smit, Stacey Frey (Shelby Smit x2, Megan Kroetsch x2, Taylor Holst)WOOLWICH MIDGET B - GIRLS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 2, North Halton 0Goals: Jasmine Fritz, Victoria Horst (Torie Martin, Marissa Woodburn)Shutout: Lauren LesageWOOLWICH TYKE (MINOR NOVICE) SELECT - BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 3, Ancaster 1Goals: Ian Speiran, Tyler Brezynskie, Andrew Gear (Reid Burkholder, Sebastian Garrett, Mitchell Hartman)
JAN. 8
Centre Wellington 4, Woolwich 0TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #1 - BOYS
JAN. 7
Twin Centre 2, St. George 1Goals: Alex Erb, Connor Doerbecker (Mathew Gedke, Carson Lichty)
JAN. 8
Twin Centre 2, Paris 1Goals: Connor Doerbecker x2 (Seth Bailey, Noah Bailey)WOOLWICH NOVICE LL #2 - BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 3, Ayr 3Goals: Liam Eveleigh x2, Carter Cousineau (Liam Eveleigh, Ryerson Chamney)
JAN. 8
Woolwich 3, Tavistock 0Goals: Liam Eveleigh x2, Lucas Carson (Andrew Buehler, Carter Cousineau) Shutout: John KilgourWOOLWICH NOVICE LL #4 - BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 4, Plattsville 2Goals: Simon Shantz x3 Dustin Good (Oscar Fitch, Owen Hackert, Tanis Uhrig, Sam Siopiolosz, Daniel Kelly, Dustin Good, Nolan Karger, Jackson Dumart)WOOLWICH NOVICE AE - BOYS
JAN. 8
Stoney Creek 4, Woolwich 1Goals: Evan Roth (Cameron Leonard)WOOLWICH ATOM LL #1 - BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 3, New Hamburg 0Goals: Matthew Brubacher x2, Blake Richardson (Kyle Deyell, Matthew Deyell, Nathan Curtis)Shutout: Cal SchellWOOLWICH ATOM LL #3 - BOYS
JAN. 8
Woolwich #3 1, Woolwich #2 0Goals: Ian McGregor (Sullivan Keen and Kyle Rintoul)Shutout: Liam OBrienWOOLWICH ATOM LL #4 - BOYS
JAN. 8
Embro 6, Woolwich 3Goals: Jesse Martin, Tyler Horst, Benjamin Witmer (Cameron Martin)
JAN. 9
Woolwich 7, New Hamburg 0Goals: Jesse Martin x2, Cameron Martin x2, Tyler Horst x2, Benjamin Witmer (Cameron Martin, Jacob Wiseman, Benjamin Witmer, Jesse Martin) Shutout: Ryan MartinWOOLWICH MINOR ATOM AA - BOYS
JAN. 6
Woolwich 4, Georgetown 0Goals: Connor Bradley, Dawson Good, Ryan Elliott, Isiah Katsube (Isiah Katsube x2, Colin Merlihan, Nathan Taylor, Brett Allen, Connor Bradley, Brady Brezynskie)Shutout: Simon Huber
JAN. 8
Oakville 2, Woolwich 1Goals: Dawson Good (Blake Roemer)WOOLWICH MAJOR ATOM AA - BOYS
JAN. 6
Woolwich 2, Caledon 0Goals: Lukas Shantz, Sam Davidson (Mackenzie Willms, Justin Taylor, Kurtis Hoover, Brody Waters)Shutout: Cyrus Martin
JAN. 7
Woolwich 5, Brampton 1Goals: Josh Martin x2, Brody Waters, Mackenzie Willms, Justin Taylor (Owen Harnock, Sam Davidson, Justin Taylor, Josh Martin, Kurtis Hoover)WOOLWICH PEEWEE AE – BOYS
DEC. 23
Woolwich 3, Centre Wellington 1 Goals: Nick Campagnolo x2, Alex Turchan (Mitch Rempel, Jonny Martin, Cade Schaus, Aaron Logan, Daniel Gallant, Alex Turchan)
DEC. 27
TOURNAMENT Woolwich 2, Centre Wellington 1 Goals: Earl Schwartz x2, Riley Shantz
DEC. 27
Woolwich 2, Orangeville 1 Goals: Benton Weber x2 (Matthew MacDonald, Tim Mayberry)
JAN. 2
LEAGUE GAMEWoolwich 5, Acton 1Goals: Mitch Rempel x3, Alex Metzger, Brett Henry (Nick Campagnolo x2, Mathew Uhrig, Mitch Rempel, Cade Schaus, Brett Henry)
JAN. 4
Woolwich 3, Arthur 2 Goals: Cade Schaus, Daniel Gallant, Austin Whittom (Mitch Rempel, Austin Whittom, Matthew MacDonald, Cade Schaus, Alex Turchan)
JAN. 7
Woolwich 4 Acton 1 Goals: Tegan Schaus x2, Matthew MacDonald, Daniel Gallant (Riley Shantz, Alex Turchan, Brett Henry, Earl Schwartz, Mathew Uhrig)
JAN. 8
Woolwich 5 Acton 0 Goals: Daniel Gallant x2, Nick Campagnolo, Riley Shantz, Brett Henry (Tegan Schaus x2, Mathew Uhrig, Matthew MacDonald, Daniel Gallant, Riley Shantz, Aaron Logan)Shutout: Ryan ConradWOOLWICH BANTAM LL #1 - BOYS
JAN. 8
Plattsville 3, Woolwich 1Goals: Jacob CornwallWOOLWICH BANTAM LL #2 - BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 7, Twin Center 0Goals: Nathan Schwarz x3, Luke Charter x2, Brodie Kean, Spencer Anderson (Joe Hanley x3, Alex Bean, Nathan Schwarz, Jeff Talbot, William Mewhiney, Luke Charter)Shutout: Kurt Michael
JAN. 9
Woolwich 5, Paris 2Goals: Nathan Schwarz x2, Chris Taylor, Luke De Corte, Luke Charter (Dylan Arndt x2, Jeff Talbot x2, Luke Charter)WOOLWICH MIDGET LL #1 - BOYS
JAN. 6
Ayr 5, Woolwich 2Goals: Tanner Horst, Zach GoetzWOOLWICH MIDGET LL #2 – BOYS
JAN. 7
Woolwich 15, Tavistock 3Goals: Blake Cabeldu x5, Lucas Nosal x3, Cole Burkhart, Kadison Hipel x2, Spencer Inglis x2, Brendon Taylor, Cameron Strickler (Simon Baleshta x2, Lucas Nosal x2, Shane Young x2, Trevor Bauman x2, Spencer Inglis x2, Blake Cabeldu x2, Cole Martin, Cameron Feronte, William Frank, Cameron Strickler)WOOLWICH BANTAM MINOR A - BOYS
JAN. 5
Caledon 7, Woolwich 3Goals: Connor Runstedler, Ryley Cribbin, Connor Goss (Brant McLaughlin, Jayden Hipel)
JAN. 7
Woolwich 4, Centre Wellington 3Goals: Ryley Cribbin x2, Connor Runstedler, Mathieu Fife (Ryley Cribbin x2, Danyal Rennie, Colby Bond, Connor Goss,Mathieu Fife, Brant McLaughlin)
JAN. 8
Woolwich 3, Guelph 2Goals: Connor Runstedler, Colby Bond, Brant McLaughlin (Greg Huber, Mathieu Fife, Connor Runstedler, Tyler Townsend)WOOLWICH BANTAM MAJOR A - BOYS
DEC. 27
INTERNATIONAL SILVER STICK BRAMPTON REGIONALWoolwich 2, Whitby 1Goals: Josh Kueneman, Cole Lenaers (Alex Uttley x2, Josh Kueneman, Harrison Clifford)
DEC. 27
Woolwich 7, Southpoint 2Goals: Harrison Clifford x2, Matthew Leger x2, Alex Uttley, Josh Kueneman, Luke Brown (Alex Uttley x2, Harrison Clifford x2, Josh Kueneman x2, Cole Lenaers)
DEC. 28
Woolwich 5, Bradford 2Goals: Josh Kueneman x2, Alex Uttley, Grant Kernick, Jason Gamble (Alex Uttley x2, Cole Lenaers x2, Josh Kueneman, Harrison Clifford, Nathan Schlupp, Matthew Leger)
DEC. 29 (SEMIFINAL)
Woolwich 5, Newmarket 2Goals: Josh Kueneman x2, Alex Uttley, Harrison Clifford, Matthew Leger (Luke Brown x2, Alex Uttley, Scott Martin, Josh Kueneman, Harrison Clifford, Grant Kernick, Jason Gamble)
DEC. 29 (FINALS)
Woolwich 4, Whitby 1Goals: Josh Kueneman x2, Harrison Clifford, Nicholas Pavanel (Luke Brown x2, Josh Kueneman, Alex Uttley)TWIN CENTRE PEEWEE B – GIRLS GUELPH THUNDER TOURNAMENT
JAN. 6
Twin Centre 0, Ancaster 0Shutout: Tiffany Towns
JAN. 7
Twin Centre 5, Hamilton 3
Goals: Sophie Jantzi x3, Lauren Quehl, Jocelyn Oja (Jocelyn Oja x2, Madelyn Jantzi, Leah Sebben, Sadie Diebold, Delanie Kidnie)
JAN. 7
Twin Centre 0, Guelph 0Shutout: Tiffany Towns
JAN. 8 (SEMIFINALS)
Twin Centre 4, Mount Forest 0Goals: Jocelyn Oja, Deanna Mainland, Lauren Quehl, Leah Sebben (Madelyn Jantzi x2, Leah Sebben, Lauren Quehl, Sadie Diebold)Shutout: Tiffany Towns
JAN. 8 (FINALS)
Twin Centre 5, Ancaster 1Goals: Sophie Jantzi x2, Leah Sebben, Lauren Quehl, Madelyn Jantzi (Lauren Quehl, Sadie Diebold, Jocelyn Oja, Deanna Mainland)WOOLWICH TYKE (MINOR NOVICE) SELECT - BOYS
JAN. 10
Woolwich 2, Brampton 2Goals: Reid Burkholder, Tyler Brezynskie (Zack Bender, Mitchell Young, Mitchell Hartman, Sebastian Garrett)WOOLWICH NOVICE MAJOR A - BOYS
JAN. 6
Woolwich 12, Brampton 1Goals: Spencer Young x3, Owen Lee x2, Tyler Martin x2, Jake McDonald x2, Cole Slade x2, Brett Moser (Colton Schmitt x2, Gavin Roemer, Owen Lee, Cole Slade, Weston Bradley, Spencer Young, Nolan Steringa)
JAN. 7
Woolwich 15, Brampton 0Goals: Kyler Austin x5, Jake McDonald x2, Gavin Roemer x2, Cole Slade x2, AJ Mitchell, Colton Schmitt, Nolan Steringa, Owen Lee (Kyler Austin x4, Owen Lee x4, Gavin Roemer x3, AJ Mitchell x2, Brett Moser x2, Spencer Young x2, Nolan Steringa, Cole Slade, Tyler Martin)Shutout: Quinn BrownWOOLWICH ATOM LL #1 - BOYS
JAN. 10
Woolwich 4, Tavistock 2Goals: Ryan Parrot x2, Kyle Deyell, Matthew Brubacher (Matthew Deyell x2, Nathan Curtis)WOOLWICH ATOM B - BOYS
JAN. 9
Wilmot 1, Woolwich 0TWIN CENTRE ATOM AE - BOYS
JAN. 6
ELMVALE AE TOURNAMENTTwin Centre 4, Elmvale 1Goals: Curtis Butler x2, Alex Kaufman, Brock Krulicki (Josh Hubert, Jack Koebel, Ben Hayden, Dylan Hehn)
JAN. 7
Twin Centre 6, Goderich 1Goals: Brock Krulicki x2, Jack Koebel, William Weber, Curtis Butler, Cameron Hoy (Ben Hayden, Brock Krulicki, Josh Hubert, Peter Holmes, Caleb Wellman, Tyler Zyta, Dylan Hehn, Cameron Hoy)
JAN. 7
Twin Centre 1, Illderton 1Goals: William Weber
JAN. 8
Twin Centre 5, Tavistock 1Goals: Curtis Butler x2, Cameron Hoy, Josh Hubert, Alex Kaufman (Tyler Zyta x3, Alex Kaufman, Devon Lee, Brock Krulicki)
JAN. 8 (FINALS)
Twin Centre 3, Elmvale 2 (Shootout)
Goals: Brock Krulicki, Cameron Hoy (Ben Hayden, Curtis Butler)WOOLWICH MAJOR ATOM AA - BOYS
JAN. 9
Woolwich 2, Flamborough 1Goals: Mitch Lee, Josh Martin (Brody Waters)WOOLWICH BANTAM MAJOR A
JAN. 6
Woolwich 2, Brampton 2Goals: Connor Peirson, Harrison Clifford (Troy Nechanicky, Nicholas Pavanel, Alex Uttley, Josh Kueneman)
JAN. 7
Woolwich 11, Georgetown 3Goals: Josh Kueneman x3, Jason Gamble x2, Matthew Leger x2,Alex Uttley, Nicholas Pavanel, Luke Brown, Harrison Clifford (Alex Uttley x4, Josh Kueneman x2, Troy Nechanicky x2, Harrison Clifford x2, Nathan Schlupp x2, Connor Peirson, Luke Brown, Grant Kernick, Jason Gamble)
JAN. 8
Centre Wellington 3, Woolwich 2Goals: Matthew Leger, Josh Kueneman (Grant Kernick, Jason Gamble, Alex Uttley, Cole Conlin)WOOLWICH MINOR MIDGET A - BOYS
JAN. 6
Centre Wellington 3, Woolwich 2Goals: Johnny Clifford, Tyler Seguin (Owen Griffiths, Timmy Shuh, Wes Martin)
JAN. 8
Woolwich 6, Guelph 5Goals: Wes Martin x3, Tyler Seguin, Owen Griffiths, Timmy Shuh (Alex MacLean x2, Jasper Bender, Jason Joostema, Wes Martin, Tyler Seguin)WOOLWICH MAJOR MIDGET A - BOYS
DEC. 27
BRAMPTON SILVER STICKWoolwich 6, Newmarket 0Goals: Jordan Moore x2, Matthew Schieck, Ryan Ament, Justin Neeb, Matthew Townsend (Matthew Schieck x3, Ryan Ament, Jordan Moore, Sebastein Huber)Shutout: Blake Ziegler
DEC. 27
Woolwich 4, Georgetown 1Goals: Matthew Schieck x3, Justin Neeb (Ryan Ament x2, Logan White x2, Evan Yantha, Jordan Moore)
DEC. 28
Ajax 3, Woolwich 2Goals: Logan White, Weston Morlock (Weston Morlock, Ryan Ament, Matthew Schieck)
DEC. 28
Woolwich 7, Duffield 0Goals: Ryan Ament x3, Jordon Moore x2, Matthew Schieck, Matthew Townsend (Mitch Kernick x2, Matthew Schieck, Eric Hanley, Weston Morlock)Shutout: Tyler MacGregor
DEC. 29
East Gwillimbury 4, Woolwich 3Goals: Ryan Ament x 2, Weston Morlock (Matthew Schieck, Jordon Moore, Weston Morlock, Matthew Townsend)
JAN. 7
Woolwich 4, Hespeler 0Goals: Justin Neeb, Sebastein Huber, Jordan Moore, Ryan Ament (Dalton Taylor, Adam Cook, McKinley Ceaser, Matt Lair, Matthew Schieck, Logan White, Jordan Moore)Shutout: Tyler MacGregor
ENTERTAINMENT21THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
ENTERTAINMENT
Elmira residents will have the chance to hear one of
Canada’s most acclaimed choirs later this month when the Canadian Cham-ber Choir performs at St. James Lutheran Church on Jan. 21.
Formed in 1999, the CCC is unlike any other group in the country in that it features singers from every region of Cana-da, many from smaller communities just like Elmira.
“We give them an opportunity to have a place to form con-nections and build a network across the country,” said Julia Davids, artistic direc-tor for the CCC and who has been with the group since its inception.
Next Saturday’s concert will be the group’s last on their southwestern Ontario tour, which kicks off tomor-row (Sunday) with a per-formance in London. From there, the group will travel to Oakville, Kitchener and Guelph, ending in Elmira for an evening concert.
The group typically tours once or twice a year to vari-ous parts of the country, and relies solely on donors and
With voices from across the country, group has a unique focusAcclaimed Canadian Chamber Choir’s latest tour brings them to Elmira Jan. 21
James Jackson workshop fees to fly their singers to their performanc-es. Members are not paid to be in the choir and often have to sacrifice work or family
to Oakville, Kitchener and
Canada’s most acclaimed choirs later this month when the Canadian Chamber Choir performs at St. James Lutheran Church on
Formed in 1999, the CCC is unlike any other group in the country in that it features singers from every region of Canada, many from smaller communities just like
tor for the CCC and who has been with the group since its inception.
Next Saturday’s concert will be the group’s last on their southwestern Ontario tour, which kicks off tomorrow (Sunday) with a performance in London. From there, the group will travel to Oakville, Kitchener and
have to sacrifice Canada’s most acclaimed choirs later this month when the Canadian Cham-ber Choir performs at St. James Lutheran Church on
Formed in 1999, the CCC is unlike any other group in the country in that it features singers from every region of Cana-da, many from smaller communities just like
-tor for the CCC and who has been with the group since its inception.
Next Saturday’s concert will be the group’s last on their southwestern Ontario tour, which kicks off tomor-row (Sunday) with a per-formance in London. From there, the group will travel to Oakville, Kitchener and
have to sacrifice work or family
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“We do try to get around to every region of Canada, but as you can imag-ine it takes a little while and it’s a very expensive endeav-our when you’re flying in all your singers from all over
the country,” said Davids.The program at St. James
will run about 90 minutes and is one of the few full-
length performances the CCC will
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their busy tour. It will in-
clude works by Ca-nadian composers Eleanor Daley, Imant Raminsh and Orlando Gibbons, as well as several pieces by Elmira composer Jeff Enns.
“It’s just a great group and
it feels very much like a fam-ily,” said Enns, who had a number of works commis-sioned by the CCC before joining their ranks about four years ago. He also works as the music coordinator at St. James and teaches music about one day a week.
“I’ve gotten to know every-one in the group quite well and they’ve all become very good friends. This is a great opportunity and it’s not very often that a choir like this visits our town.”
One of the pieces by Enns to be per-formed will be the tour premier of “She’s Like the Swallow,” a new arrangement of the classic Canadian East Coast folk song.
The show will also in-clude the world premier
of a newly commissioned piece by Toronto composer Erik Ross called “Icarus in the Sea,” which tells the tale of Icarus, not as he rises too high to touch the sun, but after he has plummeted into the sea.
The piece was commis-sioned by an anonymous do-nor, and includes the poetry of Toronto’s Lorna Crozier.
“It’s a major work and it’s never been performed be-fore,” said Davids.
“It was written specifically
for our choir and we’ll be starting to learn it this week-end and getting to know it and hopefully really bring-ing it off the page for our au-dience.”
Anyone who loves mu-sic is encouraged to come out for the evening. Davids said that even those who don’t share an interest in choral music will still find the evening to be an excel-lent display of music and song.
“It really showcases what breadth of music is being created in our country and the sort of background that people bring to their music,” she said.
“We have music that sounds like it’s from The Lord of the Rings, music that sounds more like tradi-tional Latin pieces, and hu-mourous dance poems set to music.
“Come prepared to laugh and cry and to have a great time.”
The Canadian Chamber Choir performs Jan. 21 at St. James Lutheran Church in Elmira located at 60 Ar-thur St. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $10 each or $5 for students. For more information visit www.canadianchamber-choir.ca or call (519) 669-3315 for tickets.
ALL TOGETHER
Jeff Enns, composer and musical director at St. James
Lutheran Church, will be part of the Canadian Chamber Choir
concert when the group performs Jan. 21.
CLASSIFIEDS 22 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, January 14, 2012
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b) Sidewalks adjacent to back-lotted properties on Kressler Road between Apollo Drive and Alten Way in Heidelberg;
c) Curb-faced sidewalks where snow has been pushed onto the sidewalk to a depth of at least 12 inches by road clearing operations. Curb-faced sidewalks are defined as sidewalks adjacent to the curb face or not more than .25 m from the curb face.
Questions about sidewalk snow removal in Elmira should be directed to the Township’s Engineering Department at (519) 669-8706, Extension 6041. Questions about sidewalk snow removal in all other areas should be directed to the Municipal Law Enforcement Division at (519) 669-1647, Extension 6007 or 6008.
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>> Office Space. Elmira South End. 2nd floor, 1400 sq ft office space in professional building, w/shared front access. 6+ offices, board room reception area. Opportunity for administrative services and furnished. Call 519-669-3192 for details.
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>> Deep Muscle Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy at 33 Mill St. Elmira. Call 519-669-9929.
>> Seniorcise ‘SOS’ Stronger 4 Longer. Exercise for seniors but all will benefit. People with Parkinson’s Diabetes, Early Alzheimer’s, Aging and Range of Motion. St. James Lutheran Church, Tues & Thurs - 10:00 11:00 a.m. and 6:30 7:30 p.m. $5, no membership. Call 519-503-6622, MJ - Mary Jane Berry CSFI - RCA-HCA.
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Elmira - This open concept, raised bungalow is currently being built by Huron Homes in mature area. Close to downtown, walking distance to restaurants & banks. Complete w/deck, MF laundry, spacious master w/lg closet & 4 pc ensuite. Double garage (17.5 x 20 ft) perfect for storage & still easily have parking for 3 vehicles. Convenient separate side entrance. MLS Call Paul direct.
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Elmira - This open concept, raised bungalow is currently being built by Huron Homes in mature area. Close to downtown, walking distance to restaurants & banks. Complete w/deck, MF laundry, spacious master w/lg closet & 4 pc ensuite. Double garage (17.5 x 20 ft) perfect for storage & still easily have parking for 3 vehicles. Convenient separate side entrance. MLS Call Paul direct.
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West Montrose - On picturesque setting. Only 20 min to Waterloo. Spacious grand foyer w/curved oak staircase & french drs leading you to through this exceptional home. Complete w/sep DR, MF laundry, LR, FR& fin'd basement. Master w/FP, walk in closet & captivating ensuite complete w/stand up shower & corner whirlpool bath. Sit back & enjoy the lg deck overlooking inground kidney shaped pool w/brick privacy wall & country setting. MLS Call Paul direct.
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Woolwich - Loc’d on 20 acres. Spacious 2400 sqft bungalow equip’d w/MF lndry, sep dr, huge fin’d bsmnt & walk up to garage. Open kit & FM w/wood fp. Master w/huge walk in closet & attractive slider to 3 tiered composite deck w/hot tub. 25x36 ft insulated, heated shop, 100amp w/bathrm & phone. 20,000 sqft 2 storey barn equipped for chickens or turkeys, currently empty. 17 acres of bush w/trail, mostly hardwood & poplar. MLS Call Paul direct.
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COUNTRY LOTS .5 acre don’t miss this chance to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Within 40 minutes KW, or Guelph. High speed internet is available with fibre optic. Starting at $68,000 MLS
Gorgeous home, 3 bedroom back split, on a large landscaped lot, with an awesome family room, eat in kitchen, 2 bath, central air, gas fireplace. $229,900.00 MLS
Hobby Farm with 7 stalls and 7 individual pastures, brick bungalow with country kitchen, oversized recroom. $510,000. MLS
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$289,500 - Larger than it looks, four level back split semi detached. 3 bed, 2 bath home. This lovely home is ready to move in! PropertyGuys.com Sign # 59051.
LET OUR 50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WORK FOR YOU!
NICE OLDER HOME on the edge of town. Natural staircase, pocket doors. Oak kitchen & spacious dining area overlooking the deep yard. Family room and living room. 2 bathrooms. Some replacement windows. Detached garage. MLS $249,900.
Brad Martin Broker of Record, MVA Residential
Res: 519.669.1068
Julie Heckendorn Broker
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CONDO TOWNHOME In clean, quiet complex! Private patio backing onto courtyard. 2 bdrms, 2 bths, finished rec. rm. Appliances incl. Low mthly fee. Parking incl. NEW MLS $143,500.
OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE - Approx. 3000 sq. ft. Large open room, private offices, board room and washrooms. Lots of parking. Great exposure on a busy highway between Elmira & St. Jacobs. MLS $2,500/MONTH.
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$379,000
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Two adjoining offices in Multi-Tenant Plaza. Also 920 s/f unit consisting of two offices, reception area, kitchenette and bathroom. Located in busy plaza 10 minutes from Waterloo. MLS. Call Bert to view.
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REAL ESTATE
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SHANNA ROZEMABroker.
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$172,500. Affordable semi in small town of Drayton! Spacious main floor with living room addition, dining room and eat in kitchen. Walkout from main floor to deck and deep backyard. Single car garage with double driveway, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, gas fireplace. Room to renovate! 5 appliances included! MLS
WHY RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN!!
$799,900. Fantastic edge of town property bordering two side of mature bush. Sprawling Bungalow with 2 Bedrm loft, generous sized rooms with major renovations in 2011, some of which include Kitchen, flooring and much more. Pool, treed yard, heated shop, please call for further details. NEW MLS
ELMIRA 3.74 ACRES
$329,900. Beautifully appointed almost new home. Welcoming foyer to sunken Family Room, Rich Striking Kitchen open to dinette and walkout to covered porch and deck. 2+Bedrooms, 3 Baths, with basement almost finished. Lots of space and move in ready. NEW MLS
DRAYTON
$284,900. Welcome to 4 levels of finished living area, open concept kitchen/dining with loads of cabinets, front den/living room. Family and Rec/play rooms. 3 Bedrooms, 2Baths, lovely yard with deck and pergola. MLS
ELMIRA SEMI
$319,900 Breslau. Many nice features thoughout this neutrally decorated home, gas fireplace, 5 appliances, fin walkout basement, master ensuite bath, upper floor laundry + much more. MLS
WONDERFUL HOME!
$299,900. Great single detached home backing onto walking trail/creek, 1.5 car garage, dbl driveway, finished basement with recreation room & 4th bathroom, large kitchen/dinette, living rm w/gas fireplace and walkout to fenced yard, master bedroom ensuite, central air, central vacuum. MLS
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Bill & Rich Sones
Laughter is a gift, as evidenced by those without itQ. If you’re a standup comic,
what’s your likely attitude toward the agelasts in the crowd? Let’s hope there aren’t too many of them.
A. From the Greek “agelastos” (not laughing), an “agelast” (AJ-uh-
last) is that rare mirthless person who never laughs, says Anu Garg in Another Word a Day.
As Jodi M. of Parker, Colorado told the tale, her family was in a terrible car accident, after which their son required four surgeries in six days to
save his arm. His arm was saved, but his laugh was completely gone. “One evening, months later, we were watch-ing the season premiere of ‘Friends’ and he laughed. It was the most amaz-ing sound, which came back to us then and blesses us still. Laughter is a gift.”
Q. In which European nation does “drinking and driving” take
on a whole new meaning? And on a soberer note, what’s one New Year’s drinking resolution we’d all do well to observe? Finally, how does the Drunken Monkey Hypothesis shed light on this issue?
A. In Sweden, surplus wine is dis-tilled into ethanol, mixed with
gasoline and sold to service stations, says LeeAundra Keany in “Discover” magazine.
Resolution for 2012: Don’t stare at the cork. The carbon dioxide in cham-
pagne bottles creates 90 pounds of pressure per square inch, three times that in automobile tires. Flying corks can cause retina detachment, double vision and blindness.
And according to the Drunken Mon-key Hypothesis, “our zest for alcohol-ic beverages derives from our distant ancestors’ impulse to seek the ripest, most energy-intensive fruits.”
>> Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at
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19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira • 519-669-3387
St. Teresa Catholic Church
No God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope!Celebrate Eucharist with us
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Finding The Way Together
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47 Arthur St., S. Elmira • 519-669-3153www.thejunctionelmira.com
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519-669-2319 | www.wbconline.ca4522 Herrgott Road, Wallenstein
Discovering God Together
Jeff MartinSeeing The Unseen
Gospel in the OT
St. Paul’sLutheranChurch
27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593
10:30am Worship Service
Pastor: Richard A. Frey
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9:15am Sunday School
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FAMILY ALBUMBIRTHDAY
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BIRTHDAY
SERVICE PROS
>> GALLANT, Rose Marie- Peacefully at Freeport Health Centre, Kitchener on January 10, 2012, at the age of 74 years. Local relatives are her son Wayne John Gallant and his wife Corinne of Conestogo.
>> HOLLAND, Everett- Passed away at his home in Harriston on Monday, January 9, 2012 in his 84th year. Local relatives are his daughter Linda Hoffarth and her husband Allan of Breslau.
>> JOHANNS, Martyn - Passed away tragically on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, at age 44. Martyn dedicated himself to his family and to Simpson Print, Bloomingdale
>> ROPP, Edna Edna Ropp, 77- of Tavistock, passed away in Stratford General Hospital on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Local relatives are sister-in-laws and brother-in-law Madalena Poole of Wellesley and Wayne and Dorothy Lichti of Elmira.
>> ROSE, Olivia- Peacefully at Nithview Homes, New Hamburg, on Friday, January 6, 2012, Olivia (nee Lotz), formerly of Gadshill, in her 77th year. Local relatives are her son Paul Rose and her sister-in-law Doris Lotz of Wellesley
DEATH NOTICES
Happy 70th Mom
Love From Your FamilyLove Mom, Dad & Maddie
Happy 16th Birthday Alex
Nifty Nifty
Guess Who’s 50!Love - Kate, Scott & Sheldon
BIRTHDAY
Kaleb Richard James Reger - Nov. 7th. 2011Proud Parents: Dean & Sarah Reger
Jessica Irene Reger - Dec. 12th. 2011Proud Parents: Chad & Shannon Reger
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and Mike & Debbie Hagan.
Audrey Marie
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>> SAMIS, Christina Marion (nee Newstead)- It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Christina on Monday, January 9, 2012, in her 90th year. Christina had been an active resident of Chateau Gardens in Elmira.
>> TAYLOR, Thomas (Tom) Edward- 1956 - 2012 It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Tom Taylor, peacefully in his home in London, Ontario, on Sunday, January 8, 2012, at the age of 55. Tom was the son of Barbara and the late Walter Taylor of Elmira.
>> WARNER, Awilda Lorraine (Marshall)- Passed away peacefully in her sleep at Chateau Gardens, Elmira after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s, on Monday, January 9, 2012, at the age of 81 years.
>> WEBER, Violet (Snyder)- Peacefully passed away on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Palmerston Hospital, in her 89th year, of RR 1, St. Jacobs, formerly of RR 1, Harriston.
>> YOUNG, Marjorie- Passed away at Twin Oaks of Maryhill, Maryhill on Wednesday, January 04, 2012. She was 93.
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JANUARY 13
>> H.U.G.S. Program 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Kindergarten readiness – what skills does your child need to know before starting school? Jennifer Elliott, teacher and parent will present. Held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794 for more information.
JANUARY 14
>> Smart Serve Certification course being presented at Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. 9 a.m. Cost $45. For more information call 519-669-2932.
>> Please join us for “An Evening of Song” with the Waterloo Regional Police Male Chorus with special guests: The Foundation Christian School Children’s Choir; 7 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Church – 30 Shaftsbury Drive, Kitchener. Admission is free. A free-will offering will be taken – all proceeds to benefit Foundation Christian School. For more information call 519-664-0110.
JANUARY 16
>> Rise Up – 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. A 4 week structured class room style group program that will help you manage the negative symptoms of mild depression. Classes will run Jan. 16 – Feb. 6th at the Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr. St. Jacobs. For more information call 519-664-3794.
>> Seniors Club Lunch, Woolwich Memorial Arena, 24 Snyder Ave. S., Elmira ( community room) at noon. Cost $6. Join us for a noon day meal and fellowship. For more information call Community Care Concepts at 519-669-3023.
JANUARY 17
>> Tuesday Luncheon, Gale Presbyterian Church, 2 Cross St., Elmira; 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Menu: Quiche and Vegetarian Quiche, spinach salad, four-layer lemon dessert, beverage $9.
JANUARY 18
>> Storytime for Children ages 3 to 5 – at Bloomingdale Branch of the Region of Waterloo Library. Joins us for stories and other fun activities on Wednesdays 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 18 to Mar. 7 or Thursdays 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 19 to Mar. 8. For more information call the Bloomingdale Branch Library at 519-745-3151.
>> Stamp Camp 7-8 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. Join us for beginners stamp collecting. Free for ages 5 to 1- 15. For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477.
>> eReaders and More: A Holiday Guide: 7-8 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. Did you get a new mobile device for Christmas? This informative session will look at various mobile devices – ereaders, tablets, smartphones – and how they work with the library’s ebooks and audiobooks. Space is limited. For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477.
JANUARY 19
>> Weekly Bingo 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-500-1434.
>> Storytime for Children ages 3 to 5 – at St. Jacobs Branch of the Region of Waterloo Library. Join us for stories and fun activities on Wednesdays 10-10:45 a.m. from Jan. 18 to Mar. 7 or Thursdays 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 19 to Mar. 8. For more information call the St. Jacobs Branch Library at 519-664-3443.
>> Boost Your Immune System Naturally 10:15-11:15 a.m. This topic will be presented by Lisa Clements. All Health Education Sessions are held at the Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. For more information call 519-664-3794.
JANUARY 20
>> Games Night 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. Play or watch Animals Games such as Mother Sheep, Galloping Pigs, Penguin Ultimatum, Snakes and Ladders and more! For more information call the Elmira Branch Library at 519-669-5477.
>> Robbie Burns Dinner – Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. W., Elmira, downstairs; 6 p.m. – first come first served. Steak pie, mashed potatoes, turnip and mushy peas; $7/person.
JANUARY 21
>> Money Troubles? Check out the “Journey to Financial Freedom” by Crown Financial Ministries, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (hosted at Woodside Bible Fellowship. Cost $45 (includes lunch). For more information www.crowncanada.ca.
>> The Canadian Chamber Choir – Concert of Canadian Choral music. 7:30 p.m. at St. James Lutheran Church, 60 Church St. S. Elmira. Information: please call the church office 519-669-5591 or 519-669-3315.
JANUARY 23
>> Needle Sisters Quilters Guild meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Monday of the month at the Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W, Elmira. Guests welcome ($5). Next meeting on Jan. 23. For more information call 519-669-3244.
JANUARY 25
>> Dealing with Anxiety and Depression. The congregation of St. Paul’s invites you to hear Mike Lugosh of Burlington speak on coping with anxiety and depression at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 27 Mill St., Elmira. The event is open to the community. The evening begins with a meal from 6-7 p.m. followed by Mike’s presentation from 7-8 p.m. Time for questions will be offered afterward. A free will offering to cover meal expenses will be taken. For more information: 519-669-2593 or [email protected].
>> Smart Serve Certification course (required to serve alcohol in Ontario). 6:30-8:30 p.m., Elmira & Dist. Curling Club. Cost $35. Limited spaces. For more information call manager at Curling Club 519-669-4220.
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