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Fire investigators believe that a candle is the prob-

able cause of the mid-morn-ing fire at 19 Grosbeak Rd. in Elmira on Tuesday that re-

Blaze started in shed that contained flammable materials; damage tops $200KJames Jackson sulted in more then $200,000

in damage to the semi-de-tached house.

Woolwich fire chief Rick Pedersen said the call initially came in as a shed fire around 9:45 a.m. When four Elmira

units arrived on scene, how-ever, they found the fire had spread to the home itself.

“(We) requested Floradale to respond very shortly af-ter, when it proceeded to get worse,” Pedersen said.

The shed contained vola-tile substances such as gaso-line, propane, and aerosol cans, which likely led to the fire spreading as quickly as it did, he said. Damage to the home and contents was

pegged at $220,000.It took crews about an hour

to extinguish the blaze. The attached property, 17 Gros-beak Rd., suffered only smoke

Fire claims Elmira home

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damage and some dam-age to the roof.

“The cinderblock fire-wall saved that proper-ty,” said Pedersen.

The home is uninhab-itable, with the back portion of the property most likely slated for demolition, he added.

Dozens of specta-tors gathered from all around the neighbour-hood as about 30 fire-

fighters were on scene. The thick column of black smoke was vis-ible across town.

Deputy chief Dale Martin said that this fire emphasizes that hom-eowners should take ex-tra precautions to store flammable materials properly to avoid any po-tential danger to them-selves or their property.

“Propane should be stored outside, and gas-oline should be stored

in a metal container,” he said. “The big thing is to be wise as to where you store it; it can’t be stored close to any flammables or any source of ignition.”

Martin also stressed the importance of hav-ing smoke detectors on every level of the home, adding they should be tested regularly.

“That’s what we preach, and they do save lives.”

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There was no sap flow-ing given the cold

weather, but there was no end of enthusiasm at the ceremonial tree-tap-ping that opened maple syrup season in the area on Feb. 25

The Maple Crisp farm, on the border between Woolwich and Wellesley townships, played host to local members of the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association (OMSPA), the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival committee and a list of politicians that included Waterloo Region Chair Ken Seiling and MP Har-old Albrecht.

Attending his first-ever tapping, recently-elected Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan was given the honour of drilling the hole for the first tap.

“It’s a great event,”

First tap a sign that spring is on the wayThe weather may not be cooperating, but the sweet stuff will be flowing soon

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GETTING STARTED Woolwich Mayor Todd Cowan prepares the first tap at Maple Crisp Farm Feb. 25 to mark the beginning of maple syrup season in the area.said Cowan, who plans to be out flipping pan-cakes in Elmira Apr. 2. “I want to work closer with the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. Last year I was in the Knights of Co-lumbus tent, but this year I’ll be doing the flipping and the mayor’s breakfast.”

Cowan has been pro-moting the festival to

other councilors in the region, some of whom have never been to the event.

“I am really pushing members like (Cam-bridge Mayor) Doug Craig to get themselves down here,” he said.

For Cowan, who is “tired of winter,” the

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> Gold medal for St. Teresa Lego skills

Grade 7-8 students at St. Teresa school in Elmira took home a gold medal in the Lego Robotics category of the Waterloo Region Technological Skills Elementary Competition, held Feb. 24-25 at Conestoga College.

The competition offered five differ-ent technology challenges for students in Grades 4-6 and 7-8. The Waterloo Catholic District School Board fielded 24 teams that won gold, silver or bronze.

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Linwood Public School is one of 900 additional schools province-wide that will offer full-day kindergarten classes starting in September 2012.

Phase three of the province’s plan to roll out full-day kindergarten will see almost half of Ontario’s four-and-five-year olds, a total of 120,000, in the program by next year.

Along with Linwood, 25 other Wa-terloo Region District School Board are involved in phase three of the program.

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Foodlink Water Region executive di-rector Peter Katona has left the agency to join Martin’s Family Fruit Farm in St. Jacobs, taking a position in marketing and sales.

Elmira dancers ready to take to the stage

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to take to the stageStudents at Elmira’s En-

core Dance Studio began their competitive season last week with a dance showcase on Feb. 26 and their first competition – the Bedazzled competition – being held at the River Run Centre in Guelph Mar. 5.

The competition group, lead by the studio’s new owner Chrystal Mazzotta, will feature dancers from ages eight to 18, who are set to compete in four events this season. Showcasing everything from traditional tap and ballet to the funkier jazz and hip-hop, Mazzotta is excited to be entering her tenth year as an instructor in compe-tition.

“They show a lot of enthu-siasm and energy on stage,” she said. “I think they’re going to do extremely well.”

The team won first place in the group performance category at last year’s Bedazzled competition, but neither the kids nor Mazzot-ta seem concerned with how they will place this year.

“I don’t have any expecta-tions as far as trophies are concerned. I like to think of it more as a learning experi-ence for the dancers,” Maz-zotta said. “The trophies are just a bonus.”

Tyler Hergott, 8, will be competing in several num-bers including a group tap category and a solo tap performance he describes as funky. Competitive dancing is all about having fun with his fellow dancers, he said.

“My favourite part is hav-ing fun and having people cheer for me. I like seeing my group members dance.”

Competitive dance re-

quires more practice time for the students in order to build a higher skill level than recreational dancers. Instead of building a pres-sure-filled environment for

TAKING FLIGHT Students at Encore Dance Studio in Elmira prepare for competition season, which opened last weekend with a dance showcase and continues Mar. 5 at the River Run Centre in Guelph with the Bedazzled competition. Above, Jennifer Fletcher and Katie Morgen fly high rehearsing a jazz number. Below, Alicia Menary, Haylie Kerr and Erin Knipfel demonstrate their fast feet while practicing a tap number.

children, Mazzotta believes it improves basic skills they will take with them throughout their lives.

“It gives them a better sense of self-confidence

if they’re able to go up on stage, especially in front of judges and a large audience” she said. “It helps build their self-confidence in everything else that they do and it’s a great physical activity to keep the kids in shape.”

A lifelong dancer, Maz-zotta began dancing at two years of age and competing at seven. She graduated from student to teacher at 18.

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days. “Before you get on stage

you have butterflies in your stomach, you get all nervous and sometimes you forget your entire routine. Then

as soon as the music hits, you just remember all

of it.”Competitive

dancing comes with higher costs than the recreational kind. Comparable to hockey costs, students will pay for multiple costumes, travel expenses and entry fees on top of the classes. Mazzotta feels the investment is worth it, exposing eager kids to a different level of dancing.

“Competition dancers dance five hours a week compared to recreational dancers who only do maybe and hour a week,” she said. “You’re spending more time within the dance world.”

For the Encore students hoping to make a career out of dancing, Mazzotta said competition will prepare them for parts of the indus-try that aren’t covered by traditional schools, like the National Ballet School.

“There are some people who would rather be per-forming on stage or in com-mercials, which is a com-

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The Grand River Conservation Au-thority will spend half a per cent more this year than in 2010, as the agency last week approved budget expendi-tures of $33.6 million for 2011.

About $9.47 million, or 28 per cent of the cost of operating the GRCA in 2011, will come from residents of the watershed who pay either through their local property taxes or their mu-nicipal water bills. That works out to about $9.90 per person. Overall, the amount charged to municipalities will rise three per cent compared to 2010.

Projects in this year’s budget include completion of a major upgrade to Con-estogo Dam near Drayton to improve its capacity to safely handle high flows, construction of a new workshop at the Conestogo Lake Conservation Area and a study of the Hopewell-Chilligo subwatershed near Kitchener and Cambridge.


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>> 5:20 PM | A buggy driven by a 19-year-old Wellesley man was waiting to turn onto Manser Road from William Hastings Line when the horse was spooked by an oncoming van. The horse ran into the van driven by a 42-year-old Atwood man. There was no damage to the buggy and no injuries reported to the horse. Only minor damage was reported to the van. No charges were laid.

February 24

>> 7:39 AM | A car driving on Chilligo Road swerved to miss a dog and hit a speed limit sign before ending up in the ditch. There were no injuries reported and only minor damage to the car, while the speed limit sign was wrecked. Police said the officer would have been suspicious had the dog not returned to the scene.

>> 8:57 AM | A van driven by a 60-year-old man hit a pole on Kossuth Road near Chilligo Road. The pole was repaired by hydro crews. No charges are being laid due to bad weather.

A 44-year-old man was arrested and charged with ‘possession of a weapon’ at the Region

of Waterloo International Airport in Bre-slau Tuesday evening after he tried to board a flight to Edmonton while carrying brass knuckles. The item was seized by police.

February 25

>> PM | Officers were called to the area of John Mahood Public School in Elmira due to a report of a youth loitering in the area in possible possession of marijuana. Police patrolled the area, however the suspect was never found.

February 26

>> 10:30 AM | A chimney fire was reported on Line 86 at Lavery Road. Smoke filled the chimney, attic and second floor of the home, however the fire department was only required to ventilate the house. There were no injuries, and only minor damage was reported.

>> 12:27 PM | A vehicle driven by a 31-year-old Waterloo man collided with that of a 54-year-old Scarborough man on Weber Street near Farmer’s Market Road in St. Jacobs. The

Scarborough man was stopped at a yield sign and was struck from behind. There were no injuries. Only minimal damage was reported to the vehicles, and no charges were laid.

>> 7:10 PM | A 60-year-old Conestogo woman was eastbound on Sawmill Road near Weeby Place when she lost control of her vehicle and slid into the ditch. There was moderate damage to her vehicle. No charges were laid due to road conditions.

February 27

>> 1:45 AM | A 25-year-old Elmira woman was given a three-day licence suspension for being in the warning level after taking a breathalyzer test. The woman was found to have been consuming alcohol prior to driving after her black pickup truck was spotted stuck in a snow bank on Killdeer Road.

>> 7:00 PM | A 21-year-old Heidelberg man struck the back of a transport truck while driving on Lobsinger Line, causing severe damage to his car. The truck was undamaged.

No injuries were reported and no charges were laid due to poor weather conditions.

February 28

>> 1:58 PM | A tractor-trailer

loaded with machinery parts rolled over on Powell Road near Line 86. The parts stayed secure in the trailer and only minor injuries were reported to the driver. No charges were laid, as police report the road was very icy.

March 1

>> 12:30 PM | Shoplifters were reported at the Wal-Mart store near St. Jacobs. Security personnel spotted three thieves putting several hundred dollars worth of cosmetics into a burgundy Saturn. When approached they fled the scene. Police are continuing the investigation and are looking for one male and two females who appear to be of native descent.

March 2

>> 10:48 AM | An unoccupied vehicle was reported to be on fire on Killdeer Road in Elmira. Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames, but the 2000 Grand Prix was destroyed. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but police are not treating it as suspicious. No one was injured.

CLEAN-UP EFFORT Icy conditions were to blame when a silver van slid off the road and collided with a hydro pole Monday morning on Crowsfoot Road, near the intersection of Crowsfoot and Maryhill Road. The front of the van was demolished. Waterloo North Hydro crews were also on scene to repair the damaged pole.

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END OF THE ROAD Elmira fire crews were called to the apartment building at 19 Killdeer Rd. on Wednesday in response to a vehicle fire. There were no injuries, but the 2000 Grand Prix was a write-off.

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The Region of Waterloo will be holding a public information centre to introduce a draft Regional By-law respecting signs on Regional roads. The proposed Sign By-law addresses all types of unoffi cial signs on Regional roads including election signs, business accessory signs, farm accessory signs, mailbox accessory signs, open house signs and poster signs. The proposed Sign By-law establishes requirements for unoffi cial signs including:

• Location and placement; • Size, shape, construction and content; • Impacts to the function of the road; • Number of signs and timing of placement; and • Sign removal.

Staff are also proposing an amendment to the Region’s Tourism and Essential Services Signing Policy to allow tourism signage on Regional roads for agri-toursim activities.

When: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, drop in 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.Place: Regional Administration Headquarters (lobby) 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener

This public information centre is being held for the purpose of providing information and receiving comments from the public. A copy of the draft By-law is available for review in the Clerk’s Offi ce, Region of Waterloo, 2nd fl oor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener or on the Region’s website at:

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If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at [email protected]

If you require accessible services to participate in this meeting, please contact the above noted person by Tuesday, June 10, 2008.

All comments and information received from individuals, stakeholder groups and agencies regarding this project are being collected to assist the Region of Waterloo in making a decision. Under the Municipal Act, personal information such as name, address, telephone number, and property location that may be included in a submission becomes part of the public record. Questions regarding the collection of this information should be referred to the person indicated above.

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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PASS A FEES & CHARGES BY-LAW

The Region of Waterloo intends to pass a By-law to Establish Fees and Charges.

The by-law includes new fees and charges as well as amendments and/or removal of existing fees and charges. Some of the changes included in the by-law are for Waste Management, Airport Services, Emergency Medical Services, Waterloo Region Museum, Seniors’ Services, Planning Maps/Data/Publications, and Child Care.

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

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:00 p.m. Regional Municipality of Waterloo Council Chamber, 2nd Floor Administration Building 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener

A copy of the proposed fees and charges is available for review in the Regional Clerk's Office, Region of Waterloo, 2nd Floor, 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener. If you have questions concerning the amendments, please contact Peter Holling at 519-575-4705. If you require accessible services to participate, please contact the Regional Clerk’s Office at least five days in advance of the meeting.

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last month as the On-tario government an-nounced more funding under the Greenbelt Grant program.

Some $250,000 will go to the Kitchener-based 100 Mile Market to pro-vide daycares, schools, hospitals and other public institutions with local food. The grant comes as part of the initiative by the province to ensure On-tario institutions are supporting local agri-culture.

Elmira’s Floralane Produce, which grows beefsteak and grape to-matoes as well as straw-berries, has become a part of the local food movement, providing wholesale produce to many local sellers, su-permarkets and the 100 Mile Market. Owner Stuart Horst thinks the emphasis on eating lo-cally grown food is here to stay.

“I think it’s impor-tant for people to eat locally; it’s good to keep the dollars in the local economy,” he said. “If food is grown locally, you can harvest it when it’s ripe right on the vine.”

Horst believes food that is allowed to ripen naturally instead of on a delivery truck con-tains more nutrients and often requires less chemical usage to keep it from rotting before it gets to consumers. This has the added bonus of making local food more nutritious.

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Provincial grant helps local food producersElmira’s Floralane Produce among suppliers to benefit from support for 100 Mile Market

Elizabeth Bate able year-round, Horsts’ produce is al-lowed to fully ripen before it’s handpicked and contains no chemi-cal pollinators. The large greenhouse con-taining the food is also home to many colonies of bees, whose sole job is to pollinate the fruit.

“They’re my biggest help,” Horst said of his bees.

With 1,500 items from more than 150 lo-cal producers of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, dairy and grains, the 100 Mile Market is hop-ing to make it possible for consumers to get all of their local food from one source. In addition to supporting local in-stitutions, the company is taking online orders directly from custom-ers, who can pick up

their order within days at their convenience.

Co-founder of the 100 Mile Market Albert Knab said the grant money will go towards building the infrastruc-ture required to make food available to insti-tutional users.

“It’s basically more people and a couple more trucks and to cover the cost of slowly getting more and more product into Ontario schools, hospitals and larger pub-lic sector places.”

The 100 Mile Market has been operating for about two years, serv-ing restaurants, cater-ers and small retail shops. Knab, a local farmer, and co-found-ers Chris McKittrick and Paul Knechtel started the market af-ter reading the book

the 100 Mile Diet.“It occurred to me that

we are capable in Ontar-io of growing just about everything we need to survive,” said Knab. “We’ve wandered away from that as farms have

gotten bigger and more specialized and small towns disappeared and the infrastructure to support local agricul-ture disappeared.”

Knab said the idea they had was not new,

and in fact drew upon old-fashioned markets for inspiration.

“Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk into a store and everything in that store would be from within 100 miles?”

pletely different form of dance,” she said. “Students can travel and dance and perform on cruise ships. Some may want to be in mu-sic videos.”

Whether the students at Encore are having

Dance: Competitivefun for now or look-ing to pursue a longer career, they are excited to be spending time together this competi-tion season.

“It’s a home away from home. It’s really important for them to have that connection,” Mazzotta said.

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IN FINE FORM Encore dancers practice a tap number in preparation for competition. From left, Liam MacDonald, Alicia Menary, Sydney Detweiler, Haylie Kerr and Tyler Hergott.


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In a bid to bridge the divide between Welles-

ley residents regarding the development of a walking trail through the Schweitzer Cres-cent and Molesworth Street area of Wellesley, the township has enlist-ed the help of some ru-ral planning graduate students from the Uni-versity of Guelph.

The trail – referred to as the Bast Bush Trail – has drawn the ire of concerned citizens in the proposed area, voic-ing their concerns to council about lowered property values, dimin-ished scenic views, and delinquent activity in the area.

The trail has divided the village and pitted neighbours against each other since it was first approved by the township back in June.

Since Wellesley coun-cil last discussed the topic at the end of 2010, chief administrative officer Susan Duke has been working to resolve the issue.

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University study to help with Wellesley trails debate

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Graduate students from U of G will be coordinating public input on what has been a divisive issue in the village

UNIVERSITY STUDY GROUP As part of Wellesley Township’s ongoing trails debate, University of Guelph Prof. Wayne Caldwell (left) and graduate students Jeff Medeiros, Shannon McIntyre, Cristal Heintzman, Rob Sissons and Reuben Joosse will be holding an open house on Mar. 9 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Wellesley Community Centre.

pushing forward with any trail in Wellesley Township […] we take a step back from all of that, and that council not give up ownership of the land but rather work on the concept for a trails master plan.”

Duke had been in discussion with Prof. Wayne Caldwell of the University of Guelph and arranged to have five of his students from the Advanced Planning Practices course work on this project for the municipality as a com-

ponent of their studies.The students will be

responsible for con-ducting literature re-views of the impact of community trails as well as case study comparisons, public meetings and consulta-tion, and they will ulti-mately prepare a report of their findings which their instructor hopes they will present to council or to township staff.

“That’s the direction that I’ve asked them to pursue, to set up a meet-

ing with council or if council isn’t available, certainly with staff to present the report,” said Caldwell. “The problem, of course, is making sure that they can fit it into a sched-ule.”

Tentatively the class is scheduled to appear at the Apr. 4 session of council to present their findings, with their fi-nal report delivered on Apr. 15, the end of their school term.

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The tradition of serv-ing pancakes on Shrove Tuesday began as a way to use up ingredients such as eggs, milk and butter before the reli-gious fast of Lent. Now the day provides and op-portunity for local orga-nizations to provide fun and filling fare for good causes.

Gale Presbyterian Church in Elmira will be one of several groups holding a pan-cake supper, complete with Elmira maple syr-up. Residents can take part in the feast held in

first tap was a good in-dication spring is on its way, but for Ontario maple syrup producers, the long history of their livelihood means much more.

Doug Cassie, presi-dent of OMSPA, said more than $21 million comes into the province annually through ma-ple syrup sales, but the sweet stuff is more than a money maker.

“We’ve seen a very good demand and it’s been growing in the last couple of years,” he said. “It’s a big part of our heritage: how can you put a price on that?”

The most challeng-ing issue producers face is the changing cli-mate. Farmers typically look for temperature swings from high to low to get the sap flowing, although Cassie said playing the weather guessing-game is not an exact science. What one producer thinks is good weather, may be less

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Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Leeanna Pender-gast was excited to learn more about the local ma-ple syrup season during her fourth tree-tapping event.

“This year is the cold-est it’s ever been for me, but it’s good weather for (the syrup producers)” said Pendergast. “It’s a

lot of science, includ-ing trial and error. It’s a complicated season.”

Hot packed into glass bottles at 180 degrees Celsius, fresh Ontario maple syrup should last about a year in a sealed container. Perfect for enjoying year-round on favourite treats, like the pancakes served to at-tendees after Pendergast hung the first bucket.

The EMSF will cel-ebrate the season in five weeks, and is expected to bring about 70,000 visitors to Elmira for the day.


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The historical society will receive $1,545 through the Heritage Organization Development Grant, part of the governments $6.5 million investment into provincial heritage this year.

Maryhill historical society among provincial grant recipientsJames Jackson “This support will help

to ensure that these local heritage organizations have the resources to con-tinue as stewards of the province’s irreplaceable heritage collections,” said Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Leeanna Pendergast in a statement.

Diane Strickler, secre-tary and genealogist for the historical society, was pleasantly surprised by the news of the grant, say-ing that president Marjo-rie Zinger and treasurer Marjorie Watson were out of the country until the end of the month.

Due to a mix-up at the ministry office, the letters that were supposed to go out last week informing the recipients of their grant money were delayed.

Strickler said that the money would certainly go towards the continuation of the group’s mandate – to preserve the history and genealogy of the Maryhill, Breslau, Bloomingdale and Ariss area.

“I’ve done over 1,300 fam-ily trees from our church records,” she said. “People come in from the begin-ning of June until the end of September to trace

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“Preserving our history is what we do.”

The organization also maintains Edward Halter House in Maryhill as a re-source centre for the rest of the community.

As part of the McGuinty government’s Open On-tario Plan to strengthen the economy and create new job opportunities, the provincial government has invested $650,000 more into the Community Mu-seum Operating Grant,

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Trails: An exchange of information

“I think it’s good for the kids in our church to realize we’re part of a global community,” he said. “I feel very strong-ly that the church must support the community. A church can’t exist just for itself.”

The Waterloo Orien-tal Band, a Shriners group, will also be hold-ing its first pancake supper to raise money for the Shriners’ Hospi-tal for Children.

Shriners’ Hospitals specialize in treating burns, skeletal, spinal and cleft palette condi-tions in children, with all care costs including

transportation, accom-modations and meals for parents begin cov-ered until children are 18 years old. Cur-rently seven children in the Waterloo Region are transported by the group.

Christopher Bradley, band member and or-ganizer of the event, thinks the supper will see at least 100 partici-pants judging by pre-sales, but will still be selling tickets at the door.

Held at Mason Hall in North Waterloo, the supper gets underway at 5 p.m.. Most Shri-ners’ events are couples only, however Bradley

hopes to see more chil-dren on Tuesday.

“This is a family event open to everyone, Shriner or not,” he said.

Bradley said the band primarily uses dona-tions solicited from ap-pearing in parades as a source of fundraising.

“The idea for this event came when we were looking for some options besides pa-rades,” he said. “They do this on a grand scale in the U.S.”

Also holding a pan-cake supper is the Wilmot Mennonite Church in New Ham-burg. The church can be contacted for more details.


Pancakes: On the griddle for a cause

Caldwell has been conducting tours of the township with his class for several years now, but this is the first time any of his students have been directly in-volved in a project of this nature.

“This is a real project, it’s hands-on, and it has potential of being as-sistance to the commu-nity. It is a big enough project that it justifies their involvement, but it isn’t too large to fit into the timeframe of the course,” he said.

The students will be conducting a pub-lic meeting and open house on Mar. 9 from 4

to 8 p.m. at the Welles-ley Community Centre. Members of the public, including Wellesley Trails Association, are encouraged to attend and share their con-cerns or their own vi-sion for what the future trail system of Welles-ley should look like.

In the end, the stu-dents will not be pro-ducing the trails mas-ter plan per se, and township staff is under no obligation to accept the students’ report as part of any master plan that may be developed in the future.

Rather, the students are working towards providing information

that will be of assis-tance to the munici-pality and the general public when the town-ship does decide to look further into the issues surrounding the trail in Wellesley.

“Our hope is that (the open house) will be an exchange of informa-tion, and I really hope that people won’t come with a predetermined idea that there is some-thing else being forced on them,” said Duke.

“It’s an opportunity for them to provide the students with their is-sues, with their wants, wishes, and desires, and their ultimate goals.”

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> Director Kevin Gaudet discusses the Canadian Taxpayers Federation National Debt Clock tour, making its way across Canada

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The last time the federal government ran defi cits, they continued unabated for 27

consecutive years. We know from past ex-perience that unless taxpayers demand law-makers balance budgets, the country will once again spiral into prolonged defi cits, a permanent increase in the size of govern-ment and higher taxes to pay for it all.

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Stage is set for opposition to force an election

Bonnie Brenner letter on page 12

If we don’t stop the waste, I guess we deserve a place that stinks up our town because the smell is unavoidable.

The federal government will deliver a budget Mar. 22. It would be a good

time for the opposition parties to vote against it, sparking a spring election.

The only hurdle at this point remains polling numbers, which show the Conservatives are still out in front, though not far enough to achieve a majority. Essentially the same position for the last fi ve years. Canadians, it seems, don’t trust any of the parties enough to hand them the keys.

That said, there are some good reasons to bring the government down. The opposition can and should make political hay over this week’s Federal Court of Appeal decision that upholds charges of wrongdoing by Elections Canada against the Conser-vative party in what’s known as the in-and-out scandal. The party is said to have violated spending limits in the 2006 election by moving money

into accounts held by 67 individual candidates, then using that money in the national campaign. Phony in-voices were subsequently submitted to earn reimbursements for election expenses.

Last week, four senior Conserva-tives, including two senators, were charged in connection with violating spending limits in the 2006 election.

The Conservatives have attempted to bury the issue for the past fi ve years, but the events of the past couple of weeks have brought the scandal back into the light.

Couple that with the Bev Oda affair, and the opposition has something to work with in clearly refuting Stephen Harper’s claim to run an open, honest and accountable government.

In the Oda case, Harper has stub-bornly refused to oust the Interna-tional Co-operation Minister from her post despite the fact that she altered a

document and then lied to Parliament about doing so.

According to Queen’s University political studies professor emeritus Dr. Ned Franks, one of Canada’s lead-ing scholars on Parliamentary issues, Oda must be forced out.

“My belief is she has to go. There is no excuse for what she did. She altered a document to misrepresent a recommendation – and then she claimed she hadn’t done it. Those are two of the worst offences a minister can do,” he said.

Then there’s the budget itself. Giv-en the massive overspending that’s been the hallmark of previous Tory budgets, the cupboard is bereft of goodies the government can use for that time-honoured tradition: bribing voters with their own money.

Opposition arguments against continuing corporate tax cuts, which Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has

vowed to defend, have resonated with Canadians feeling increasingly besieged by taxes on all fronts.

This line of criticism goes to the heart of government policy to shift the tax burden away from corpora-tions and higher-income citizens onto the backs of the middle class. Both Conservatives and Liberals have been guilty of such measures at the federal and provincial levels, but Harper has been most adamant about it, reducing rates even as he pushed the country into its largest-ever defi cit.

Despite so many strikes against it, the Harper government’s poll numbers remain consistent. Perhaps Canadians are distracted by the antics of Charlie Sheen. Or perhaps opposition leaders have been too passive. Forcing an election would counter that trend, shining a light on the sleaze factor in Ottawa, rather than Hollywood.

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THE VIEW FROM HERE

Arab revolution could spill over into China

GWYNNE DYER

InternationalAff airs

Arab revolution could spill over into China

GWYNNE DYER

InternationalWould you support paying higher taxes to keep the bus route 21?

While local taxpayers welcome the fi rst, the second sign of spring that comes with budget time is nowhere near as sweet.

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“I would rather see them raise the bus fares than taxes.”

> Lynn Roberts

“Yes, it’s great for the kids so they’re not stuck in town. It gives them more freedom, like going to Conestoga Mall to watch a movie.”

> Larry Dubue

“Yes, I think it’s good for those peo-ple who might not have a car to get around town.”

> Nicole Ottmann

“I think the bus is a valuable ser-vice, so raising taxes – as long as it’s reasonable – is a good thing to do.”

> Scott Jantzi

Moammar Gadhafi ’s speeches grow ever more delusional: last week he

accused al-Qaeda of putting hallucino-genic pills into the coffee of unsuspect-ing Libyan 17-year-olds in order to get them to attack the regime. But he also said something important. Defending his massacres of Libyan protesters, he pointed to the example of China, argu-ing that “the integrity of China was more important than [the people] on Tiananmen Square.”

The Chinese regime will not be grateful to him for making that comparison, but it is quite accurate. Gadhafi , like the Chinese Communist Party, claims that there are only two choices: his own absolute power, or chaos, civil war, and national disinte-gration. The “integrity of Libya” is allegedly at stake. Also like the Chi-nese ruling party, he is willing to kill hundreds or even thousands of his own fellow-citizens in order to main-tain his rule.

Ruthlessness will not save Gadhafi now: he has already lost control of more than half the country, and the oil revenues that enable him to reward his allies and pay mercenaries will soon dry up. But ruthlessness certainly did save the Chinese Communist regime in 1989, when the army slaughtered between 300 and 3,000 young pro-de-mocracy protesters in Beijing’s central square. Might it need to deploy such violence again in order to survive?

So far the current wave of revo-lutions has been an entirely Arab phenomenon, apart from some faint echoes in Iran, but the example of successful non-violent revolution can cross national and even cultural fron-tiers. It won’t matter that it’s a very long way from the Arab world to China

if large numbers of young Chinese conclude that the same techniques could also work against their own local autocracy.

It is very unlikely that that sort of thing is brewing in China now. There were online calls for a “jasmine revolu-tion” last week, but few people actually went out onto the streets of Chinese cities to protest, and those who did were swiftly overwhelmed by swarms of police. Even the word “jasmine” is now blocked in internet searches in China, and tranquillity has been restored.

The reality is that few Chinese under the age of 30 know much about the savage repression of 1989. Moreover, despite a thousand petty grievances against the arbitrariness and sheer lawlessness of state power in China, they are just not in a revolutionary mood – and they will not be so long as the goose keeps laying the golden eggs.

But what if the Chinese economic miracle stalled? Then the situation could change very fast, for the regime is not loved; it is merely tolerated so long as living standards go on rising quickly. And what could cause it to stall? Well, the economic side-effects of the current wave of revolutions in the Middle East might do the trick.

Sometimes, it really is all about oil. The last two times the world economy really took a nosedive, way beyond the normal, cyclical recessions, were both

oil-related. In 1973, after the Arab-Israeli war of that year and the subse-quent embargo on Arab oil exports, the oil price quadrupled. In 1979, when the Iranian revolution cut that country’s oil exports, the impact was almost as severe. So could it happen again?

Non-violent revolutions should not affect oil exports at all. Heavy fi ghting of the sort we are now seeing in Libya can damage oil-producing facilities and drive out foreign workers who are needed to run those facilities, but Libya is not a big enough producer to affect the global supply situation much by itself.

What drove the oil price up to $120 a barrel at one point last week (it later fell back to $110) was not the loss of Libyan production, but the fear that, as the contagion of revolution spreads, one or more of the major Middle Eastern oil exporters may fall into the same chaos. Then, the oil pundits predict, the price could hit $180 or even $220.

Never mind the direct impact of such an astronomical price on the Chinese economy (although China im-ports a lot of oil). Far worse for China would be the fact that the whole global economy would go into a period of hyper-infl ation and steeply falling con-sumption, for China is now integrated into that economy.

So the Chinese goose stops laying its golden eggs, and young Chinese start looking around for someone to blame. They would, of course, blame the regime – and at that point, the Middle Eastern example of successful non-violent revolution becomes highly relevant.

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Is it the endof the wash line?

Making dollars and sense of transit optionsThe debate over the future of bus

service in Woolwich is a micro-cosm of the far bigger – and more expensive – issue of light rail transit in Waterloo Region. Neither stands up to a cost-benefi t analysis.

Few people will argue against public transit. But few people will ride it.

In Woolwich, residents are being asked to pay out $457,000 a year to subsidize a bus route that currently sees about 300 riders a day. Yes, it’s nice to provide that service, but is it worth $35 a year to the average household in the township? Would that money be better left in tax-payers’ pockets? Or, looking at the opportunity costs, if residents col-lectively wanted to spend $457,000 a year, could that money be spent on something bringing greater value to far more people? In the case of the latter question, the answer is undoubtedly yes.

The same applies to the region’s plan for light rail transit: the bil-lions of dollars could be better spent elsewhere, if they must be spent at all.

There are good reasons for mass transit, mostly having to do with providing transportation to those without cars. Grand River Transit’s own numbers bear that out: the ma-jority of riders are students. In the two-year pilot project that brought the bus to Elmira and St. Jacobs, few of the riders are commuters leaving their cars at home. Youths, students and seniors, yes, but not commuters.

The lack of commuters under-

mines two standard arguments in favour of transit: reducing traffi c on the roads and helping the environ-ment. Studies have shown neither is the case.

When a transit system serves pri-marily those who do not have cars – low-income residents, students and seniors – it does nothing to reduce the number of cars on the road. Traffi c and the resultant congestion remain the same.

As for the environmental argu-ment, that only applies when the transit system is working at or near capacity. But full buses – or trains – are more the exception than the rule. Near-empty runs at all but peak times mean the system as a whole could be using more energy and causing more pollution than would be the case if those riding transit made the trip by car. (A recent study in the U.S. showed current ridership levels for light rail at 14 per cent, commuter rail at 21 per cent and trol-ley buses at 16 per cent.)

None of this is to say that we don’t need public transit in the region. But the less-than-convincing numbers are what have made LRT proponents here and elsewhere trot out the development arguments: the train will help reshape the cities by

encouraging people to live and work along a transit corridor. That is to say: ridership numbers will never justify the expense, but there could be some intensifi cation of some ar-eas of the cities … if people decide that’s how they want to live, revers-ing a decades-old trend.

The if-you-build-it-they-will-come supposition also extends to rider-ship when advocates speak of light rail transit: people don’t like to ride the bus, but they will fl ock to the train. Again, that fl ies in the face of other examples, where build-ing LRTs simply transferred rid-ers from the buses to the train, at greater expense. Moreover, in some cases that created longer travel times, as riders were forced to take a bus to a central train corridor, wait for a train, travel along a fi xed route, then transfer to another bus to complete their journey.

That model, of course, simply eats up more time. And time is of the es-sence when discussing public transit.

I had a very applicable example of that this week when my own car was in the shop for service for the day. Rather than take the bus to the Observer offi ce in Elmira, I rented a car. Far more expensive? Yes. But far more convenient. A 20-minute drive to work made far more sense than perhaps an hour and a half by bus. Especially as that had to be replayed at the end of the day.

Therein lies the rub about in-creasing public transit: if it isn’t some combination of faster, cheaper and more convenient, it just doesn’t

make sense when you’ve got the op-tion of taking a car.

The time factor is precisely the issue touched on by University of Wisconsin professor Steven Dutch.

“Apart from the cost of wages, economic planners rarely acknowl-edge the value of individual time, but that has absolutely no impact on the reality that people themselves do put value on their time,” he says. “One of the fi rst thing people do when they acquire some affl uence is begin to buy back their time. They hire out boring or unpleasant tasks like food preparation, housekeep-ing, child care and repairs.

“Failure to recognize the value of time to individuals leads to unpro-ductive results.”

Making transit palatable to people would involve a major shift, he notes, observing that once someone decides to buy a car, the economic balance shifts sharply in favor of driving. The only way to shift the economic balance in favor of mass transit is to create a system where it becomes feasible for large numbers of people to give up owning a car.

For that, it must be faster, cheaper and more convenient. That includes safer and more comfortable (diffi -cult here, where it means standing or walking in the rain or snow).

A GRT bus route in Elmira, as with the proposed LRT, will be none of those things. As such, ridership numbers will be correspondingly low. Is that the best use of $457,000 in Woolwich? Of $1billion, to start, in the region?

Dyer: A party ready to kill

Which is not to say that non-vio-lent revolution is really possible in China. The party has always been willing to kill its opponents, and there is no proof that it has changed, even though another generation has passed since 1989 and none of the original killers is still in offi ce.

But the current generation of Chi-nese young people barely remember 1989. They would not be deterred by the memory of what happened to their predecessors.

To the Editor, A week ago Wednesday (Feb. 23)

was a beautiful winter’s day. It was cold in the early morning, about mi-nus-10 but I decided to wash and hang out the bedding. It froze then dried perfectly and had a fresh fragrance no dryer sheet could possibly dupli-cate. As I was making up the bed, it occurred to me that I should really enjoy this small pleasure because if that biogas facility is allowed to be built less than one kilometre from my wash line, I’ll be using my dryer instead of clothes pins.

This may seem small in the scheme of things but, damn it, what gives one person the right to take that away from me? Oh, yeah, mon-ey! There is only one person who is going to benefi t monetarily from this and the rest of us will be paying higher utility bills. From my back-yard I can see four homes, counting mine, that hang their laundry out at least once a week, some several times a week, especially in warm weather. How many more are there?

I don’t know but probably many dozens. This facility may be able to produce cheap, but not clean energy,

but it can do that fi ve or 10 or 15 km from town limits just as easily.

Many of us care about the envi-ronment, although there are some who don’t give it a second thought, and it is those folks who have caused the need for places like Bio-En facil-ity to begin with. Not just individu-als but companies, too, need to work harder to save energy. Don’t leave all those lights on all the time or that machine running when not in use.

If we don’t stop the waste, I guess we deserve a place that stinks up our town because the smell is unavoidable. And what about the traffi c and the diesel pollution that causes so many breathing and health problems?

Come on people, we can’t let this happen. Not just for the sake of my laundry but also for our health.

> Bonnie Brenner, Elmira

To the Editor,Travel back in time a few years for

a thought experiment. It’s 2007, and the Bush administration announces that it is launching some inquiries

AGW proponents unwilling to face inconvenient truth

to report on its conduct in the Iraq war. The panels will be staffed by a) Republican party members; b) admin-istration staff; and c) personnel who served in the confl ict. The adminis-tration will choose what reports and events are to be examined. No critics of the war or of the administration will be allowed to testify, comment, ask questions, or even attend the inquiries.

Very quickly, all the panels com-plete their inquiries and submit glowing reports exonerating the administration of any wrongdoing and congratulate it for the good work. How much value or credence would you give to reports generated in that manner?

Generally, this describes the inqui-ries launched into the conduct of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University. This was not a conspiracy, but it was a massive exercise in “cov-ering your ass” by the people who were profoundly embarrassed by the inconvenient truths revealed when the climate-gate fi les were released (not “hacked” -- now, that’s a conspir-acy theory!) on Nov. 17, 2009.

The climate-gate fi les continue to be an embarrassment to the purveyors of global warming ... oops, climate change ... oops, climate disruption ... oops climate challenges ... sigh, maybe someday they’ll get their story

straight. I’m not quite sure I followed what

Mr. Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach was trying to say about the use of the null hypothesis. He does state “The null hypothesis is used in statistics to show that a correlation has not been established ...” I agree. The hypothe-sis of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been “proven” through statistical analysis, not experimen-tation. The null hypothesis, that observed warming is due to natural causes, has not been disproven, there-

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New markets eyed for genetically modified food near you Food ForThought

New markets eyed for genetically modified food near you

Owen Roberts

Some of the food you see growing or being raised locally does indeed

end up on our own dinner plates. But depending on the commodity, half of it or more is exported. So, when a wrinkle appears (or disappears) in the global food market, it’s worth noting.

That’s what’s happening under our collective noses right now. Europe, a long-time stronghold against genetically modified food and more recently, a major target for increased Canadian exports, looks like it’s tak-ing a softer line on some aspects of food-related biotechnology.

Here’s why. Last week, the Eu-ropean Union member countries approved a proposal to allow the import of animal feed containing trace elements (up to 0.1 per cent) of genetically modified material.

That opens the doors a little wider to the lucrative European market for animal feed, which, coming from Canada, may indeed contain some genetically modified crops.

At the Ontario AgriCentre in Guelph, home of several commodity groups which export grain, they’re

not quite ready to break out the champagne. They know the proposal must still be approved by the conser-vative European Commission, which has traditionally struggled with a broad-brush approach to genetically modified food or feed.

That said, from their perch, there’s reason for optimism. Don Kenny, chair of the Guelph-based Grain Farmers of Ontario, joined federal agriculture and agri-food minister Gerry Ritz and others in Europe in January to stump for this very thing. The fact that it’s happening on the heels of that visit may be a combina-tion of good luck and good manage-ment, but the fact remains that the EU is the largest export market for Ontario soybeans.

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The mood is less cautious in Ot-tawa, where federal trade minister Peter Van Loan said prying open Europe’s borders to freer trade with Canada would generate an estimated $12 billion in economic activity. He’s encouraged by the EU’s interest in accepting feed with trace amounts of GMOs, calling it “a sign of the increasingly strong commercial relationship [Canada] has with the European Union.” The U.S. has traditionally been the focus of our exports, which makes sense. But there are nearly twice as many Euro-peans as Americans, and in agricul-tural circles, that overseas market is generally regarded as a modern day Constantinople.

Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Ritz wants to claim it. Even if the European Commission

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He says access for feed and indus-trial use is not enough for Canadian farmers, and vows to keep advocating for greater access.

“We will continue to push for a solution that respects sound science and reduces the trade barriers to our safe, high quality Canadian crops.”

Ritz wants the EU to avoid arbi-trary, precautionary rulings against biotechnology products. His argu-ment mirrors the position he took in the January trade talks in Europe, when he, Kenny and others worked to convince their European counter-parts that biotechnology can exist within a conventional agriculture environment, with traditional crops.

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Known for its collectible statues of doe-eyed children, many of the Pre-cious Moments items were discontin-ued last year. They are being reintro-duced to Canada, but Yeo is hesitant to say whether she will carry them. It will depend on the price point of the figures, which was “quite high” when they were taken off the market.

“When Englert’s stopped carrying Precious Moments, the average was anywhere from $55-$69,” she said. “They started getting quite pricy.”

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anywhere else.“I go all over looking for new and

different things,” she said.Among those different items is a

wooden, hand-painted collectable Fon-tanin nativity imported from Italy. Not just for Christmas, Yeo thinks the na-tivity pieces make a good wedding gift.

“The young couple they can start with the holy family and then they just add to it,” she said. “The nativ-ity set can cost quite a bit of money and this way they can get a piece each year.”

The traditional and intricate set fea-tures small items, like animals and the baby Jesus and large items like the foot-long manger.

In addition to the nativity, the small side room of the store features wood-en Santas and a Christmas tree still decorated with glass angels.

“I’m not going to put Christmas away,” said Yeo, although she does get more items in when fall approaches, including Christmas cards in hard-to-

find languages, such as Italian, Portu-guese and Ukrainian.

The store is open seven days a week and currently Yeo is its only employee,

save for the occasional help from her husband or mother. But she doesn’t mind the hours. “I like what I do,” she smiled.

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> SEE STEWART ON PG. 18

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Real team spirit

For a man who maintains he was “thrown into” the

general manager position with the Elmira Sugar Kings four years ago, it’s safe to say that Keith Stewart has done a remarkable job at the helm of the team.

Earlier this season, howev-er, Stewart came to the deci-sion that it was time to step down and give someone else a crack at the job.

“I think I’ve done my time, and now it’s time for some-one else to step in,” he said with a smile.

In his five years with the team, however, Stewart has enjoyed tremendous success. He joined the Kings in 2005 as a scout, and then moved up to the general manager position the next season, taking over from Graham Snyder.

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“I was leery about it at first, but the way things turned out, I guess I did alright,” he laughed. Stewart says he had no experience as a scout or in managing a team prior to joining the Kings, but has spent most of his life at the rink either as a player or a coach.

And to say his time as GM turned out “alright” would be an understatement.

The Kings were Cherrey Cup finalists in his first sea-son as general manager in 2007, but in 2008 the team had what is probably their best season under Stewart, finishing first in the league standings and winning the Cherrey Cup to advance to the Sutherland Cup finals, where they lost to Tecum-seh Chiefs in six games. That year the team was also named the winner of the leagues administration

award, and Geoff Haddaway took home coach-of-the year honours.

The following season the team lost in the first round of the playoffs in six games, and last year the Kings were eliminated by the eventual Cherrey Cup champions, the Brantford Golden Eagles, in six games in the league semi-finals.

This year the Kings fin-ished second overall – three points behind conference-leading Guelph – and ap-pear poised to make another strong run at the league title.

Of all the memories he has made as the GM, it is the Cherrey Cup victory that re-ally stands out for him.

“There is no other feeling in the world like that. It was unbelievable, just the people in the community and how they supported us. I think that was the big one,” he

said.Yet the job of managing

a Junior B hockey club cer-tainly doesn’t end when the season does, and Stewart will be the first to tell you that. On average, the job adds another 25 hours of work per week to his sched-ule, on top of his regular job working for North Dumfries Township at the Ayr arena. There are rookie camps to arrange, players to scout and recruit, and parents to meet.

“Luckily, I’ve got a boss that lets me take a lot of night shifts off, because it is a 12-month a year job,” he said of the GM’s post.

He also has enormous praise and gratitude for the work of the countless vol-unteers who help the Kings throughout the season, whether it’s the club execu-tive and directors, or the booster club that feeds the

team each game day; with-out them, the team wouldn’t have enjoyed the success it has, he noted.

Perhaps at the top of his list of people to thank, how-ever, would be his wife Cindy. Throughout three decades of marriage, she has constantly supported him and always been there to help whenev-er she could – particularly when the job required him to be on the road five days of the week scouting players and watching games, Stew-art explained.

“In 30 years since we were married, she’s been a hock-ey wife. She’s helped out at events, she sang the national anthem, she’s cut oranges, she helped paint the dress-ing room when we moved, sewn on name bars if I’ve made a trade, so without her

A TIME OF CHANGE Keith Stewart says that he will take some time at the end of the season to decide his future involvement with the team, but the outgoing general manager hopes to have a new GM hired by the end of the playoffs so that they can get right to work preparing for next season.

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ACROSS1. Level connectors

6. “It ___ All Velvet” (Mel Tormé autobiography)

11. Evergreen tree of West Indies

20. Dickens’s ___ Heep

21. “Tomorrow” musical

22. Cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate

23. Cutting so as to separate into pieces

25. Juliet, to Romeo

26. A mechanical damper

27. Greek letters

29. Chipper

30. Highland toppers

31. Dish with seasoned rice

33. ___ of the Unknowns

36. Gather on the surface, chemically

39. Express

41. Electrical unit

44. .0000001 joule

46. ___ generis

47. A street of Westminster in London

48. Animal house

49. Burglar

51. A male monarch or emperor

52. “Empedocles on ___” (Matthew Arnold poem)

53. A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

54. Aromatic yellowish brown balsam

55. Far from ruddy

56. To the same degree

57. Engage in

58. Barley beards

60. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade

63. Beep

64. Persia, now

65. “Not only that...”

66. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India

67. ___ grecque (cooked in olive oil, lemon juice, wine, and herbs, and served cold)

68. A native or inhabitant of San Francisco

79. After expenses

80. Delay

81. “Who, me?”

82. Approval

83. Pakistani city

85. Cord fiber

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90. Cotton fabric

91. “Cogito ___ sum”

94. Church song

96. Pigged out

100. An extemporaneous speech or remark

104. A delayed reaction indicating surprise

106. Soak in marinade

107. Boredom

108. Met expectations?

109. Masks

110. A notation written at the beginning or end of a passage

111. Romance, e.g.

DOWN1. European freshwater fish resembling the roach

2. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” e.g.

3. Fail to see

4. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan

5. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays

6. Light bulb units

7. “Gimme ___!” (start of an Iowa State cheer)

8. High-hatter

9. Part of some splits

10. An examination of the characteristics of something

12. “The Joy Luck Club” author

13. “By yesterday!”

14. “Coriolanus” setting

15. Lifeless, old-style

16. ___ Novo (Benin’s capital)

17. “Harper Valley ___”

18. Auction offering

19. Victorian, for one

22. MasterCard alternative

24. Band

28. Brews

32. In favor of

34. A soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto

35. Bring up a topic for discussion

36. Heretofore

37. Because of

38. Used of the language of the deaf

39. Located at or attached to

40. The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet

42. Objective male pronoun

43. Objective form of “I”

45. An industrial city in the European part of Russia

50. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimetre

51. Exchange

58. Dismay

59. person in charge of or employed at a particular thing

61. Avid

62. Related maternally

69. A master’s degree in arts and sciences

70. Not in any degree or manner; not at all

71. Hale

72. Dangerous biters

73. A nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains

74. Amusement park

attraction

75. The 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

76. To a very great extent or degree

77. Breathing

78. Convention handout

84. Zimbabwe’s capital

86. Excellence

87. Inclined

89. Sonata, e.g.

90. Salk’s conquest

92. F.B.I. operative

93. Chooses, with “for”

95. ___ bean

97. Like, with “to”

98. Binge

99. “___ quam videri” (North Carolina’s motto)

100. Babysitter’s handful

101. Fold, spindle or mutilate

102. Grand ___ (“Evangeline” setting)

103. Athletic supporter?

105. Dog holder Akee Almond Apple Arnot Avocado Betel Biffin Calabash Charentais Cheston Cobnut Colmar Costard Cox Crab Cubeb Damson

Date Durian Eleot Elk nut Fig Gage Gean Grape Grout Haw Hep Hip Kaki Lemon Lime Lychee Mahaleb

Mammee Mandarin Mango Mast Medlar Melon Merry Morello cherry Naartje Nutmeg Ogen Orange Papaw Peach Peanut Pear Pecan

Pome Queening Raisin Rasp Rhubarb Samara Satsuma Skeg Sloe Ugh Uva Walnut Whort Whurt

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Letter: Making statistics fit the hypothesis

fore the correlation between hu-man activity and warming trends has not been established.

In university, we had a name for our statistics course: we called it “sadistic.” It’s crazy-hard math, and I’m glad I only had to take it for one year. The goal of the sta-tistical analysis of a body of data is usually to answer the question: “What do the numbers say?” It doesn’t matter if it’s temperature

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 12 readings, stock prices, or pork belly futures, if there is a pattern in the data, statistical analysis will try to find it.

But there is also a second ques-tion that statistical analysis can answer: “What do you want the numbers to say?” With carefully selected data, finely crafted weight-ings of values, and other “tricks” (a term from the climate-gate files), it is possible to make the data reach any desired “conclusion.”

Repeating what I’ve said in an

earlier letter, it has been shown that the famous hockey stick graph was designed to answer the second question, not the first.

Meanwhile, regular research continues to demonstrate (Clegg et al. (2010)) that the current warm-ing trend has not reached the heights observed for the Medieval Warm Period or even the Roman Warm Period.

How inconvenient.

>> Alan Findlay, Elmira


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>> 1/4 tsp kosher salt

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seed is fantastic, as well as rolled spelt grain. We used natural nuts (not roasted or salted) to also keep the sodium and fat levels lower.

Pre-heat oven to 300 degrees F;In a bowl mix together rolled oats,

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In a small saucepan bring to the boil the maple syrup and the grape-seed oil; turn off and add vanilla and then pour over oat mixture;

Stir thoroughly and then spread out onto a large baking sheet; sprinkle with salt;

Bake for about 1 hour, stirring occa-sionally. Remove from oven and mix in dried fruit. Cool.

We like this granola as a healthy afternoon pick-me-up: sprinkle gener-ously atop plain organic yogurt and then drizzle with a little local honey.

>> Chefs Kirstie Herbstreit and Jody O’Malley are both Red Seal certified chefs. Together they run the company YouCanCook2 and The Culinary Studio. You can also find them cooking at Entertaining Elements in St. Jacobs,where they hold private dinners for eight people. To contact the chefs, visit their website www.theculinarystudio.ca.

Stewart: On to new things


and having her support I could have never done it.”

Kings coach Geoff Haddaway – who was hired by Stewart four years ago – also has nothing but praise for the outgoing GM.

“Around here we put our minds together when we have to come up with a decision, and that includes tough decisions, to see what is ul-timately best of the Elmira Sugar Kings,” said Haddaway. “Most of the time we’re on the same page, and if not it comes down to what he decides and at the end of the day he knows I’ve got his back and he’s got mine, so I think that’s generally what makes him successful.”

As of now, Stewart isn’t sure of what his future involvement will be with the team. He says that he would like to remain with the team, either as a director of hockey op-erations or as a scout, but hasn’t had time to figure that much out.

With the team fighting for a playoff position, he has been a little preoc-cupied planning for what he hopes will be a long postseason run this spring.

“I have a real good feeling (about the playoffs). We get the support from the fans, and it’s a whole new season. Any of the eight teams can win a series at any time, but I think we’re going to have a real good run.”

In a season which saw the team celebrate its 40th anniversary, as well as hold its successful Support the Troops game on Jan. 30 that raised more than $4,200 for char-ity, and after all of the work and sleepless nights that Stewart has put into building the best team pos-sible, there could be no greater gift for the team to give its outgoing GM than a return to the Cherrey Cup fi-nals, and possibly even the Suther-land Cup.

“I hope two months from now I’m planning a parade, and it’s not the Christmas parade,” he laughed.

ON THE MOVE One of the biggest changes in Stewart’s tenure was a move to new digs at the Woolwich Memorial Centre, which provide a more inviting home for the team.

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FEATURE 20 THE OBSERVER » Saturday, March 05, 2011

March 13-19, 2011Canadian Agricultural Safety Week

FARM SAFETY

Unlike most other industries, in farming, the workplace is also usually the home. Adults

frequently work with their children nearby and that can increase the risk of children get-ting injured.

“Plan • Farm • Safety” is the three-year theme of the Canadian Agricultural Safety campaign. Each aspect of the theme is being promoted with a year-long campaign. Last year the campaign highlighted “Plan" with safety walkabouts and planning for safety. This year, the focus is on "Farm" including implementa-tion, documentation and training. And next year, emphasis will be on "Safety" including assessment, improvement and further develop-ment of safety systems.

The year-long “Farm” campaign will be launched with Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW), March 13 to 19. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and Cana-dian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) deliver CASW in partnership with Farm Credit Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Cana-da.

“Farm life can put families in situations that are uncommon to the average household,”

explains Greg Stewart, President and CEO of Farm Credit Canada (FCC). “As a result, learning to recognize hazards and practicing farm safety is essential, especially with young children around.”

Each year in Canada an average of 115 people are killed and another 1,500 are hospitalized due to farm-related incidents. A study done by the Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting (CAIR) program found that between 1990 – 2005, there were 217 children aged 14 or younger killed on Canadian farms. An alarming num-ber of them, 99, were five or under.

For children aged fourteen and under, ma-chine runovers were the predominant cause of death (42 per cent), followed by drownings (15 per cent), machine rollovers (11 per cent), animal-related injuries (7 per cent), and being caught in or under a non-machine object (5 per cent). For this age group, the first three causes, (machine runovers, drowning sand machine rollovers), were associated with two-thirds of all child deaths.

To make your farm more child safe, here are several things you can do to protect them and yourself:

• Inspect your farm for hazards that could lead to injury. Involve your children in the inspection and explain the potential hazards.

• Build a fenced-in safe play area for young children and ensure they are supervised at all times.

• Give older children age-appropriate tasks. Remember they are children – not small adults.

• Make sure children receive and understand safety training before each activity.

• Never allow extra riders on any equipment!• Check your provincial laws to learn the

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vise children in and around water. • Teach children the safe way to handle

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• Keep work areas neat and clean and ma-chinery in good repair.

• And most importantly, be a good role model for safe practices. Kids learn by example.

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“Plan • Farm • Safety” is the three-year theme of the Canadian Agricultural Safety campaign. Each aspect of the theme is being promoted with a year-long campaign. Last year the campaign highlighted “Plan" with safety walkabouts and planning for safety. This year, the focus is on "Farm" including implementation, documentation and training. And next year, emphasis will be on "Safety" including assessment, improvement and fur-ther development of safety systems.

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Prevention and problem solving bring ben-efits not only of better knowledge, skills and attitudes, but also better quality, productivity and cost control without losses due to injury or illness. Here are six key questions to ask yourself as a general guide to this process.

1. What could go wrong? Agriculture has many variables such as weather, equipment and human resources, among others. Try to anticipate possible problems.

2. What skills and abilities do your workers have? Find out. Offer upgrade opportunities. Keep a record. Offer incentives.

3. How have you prepared to minimize the variables? Set priorities in terms of how seri-ous it might be if it happens, and how prob-able it is that it might happen.

4. What are your contingency plans in the event of an incident? Write them down and let everyone you work with know where they are.

5. Are you prepared to learn from the close call? Note lessons learned and share them with the people who need to help improve safety on your farm.

6. Do you involve everyone in identifying and controlling safety risks? Hold regular safety meeting. Depending on the number of employees, set up a safety committee. Listen. Learn and act.

In farm safety, the old adage, ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ is as true as ever. And it all starts with a plan fol-lowed by action.

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James Jackson

Call it poetic justice. Call it karma. Or just call it play-

off hockey. The Kings will call it a win, and that’s all that matters.

After Brennon Pearce took a questionable goaltender interference penalty with 1:35 left in the third to allow Cambridge to tie game one of the best-of-seven series 2-2 with only 0:48 seconds left on the clock, Pearce atoned for the penalty by scoring the game winner just 0:14 into the overtime period to lead the Kings to a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night.

Pearce rounded the back of the Cambridge net and took a shot on goal from just past the icing line, banking it off a Winter Hawk player and past goalie Colin Fur-long.

“We were probably being a little too fancy tonight, and I said ‘boys, let’s just throw something on the net quick and get out of here early,’” said head coach Geoff Had-daway following the win. “I told Pearce that listening to the coach finally paid off. It was nice for him to get

The Kings may have had their eyes set for the play-

offs, but with the opportu-nity to finish first in the conference still very much within their grasp, they had to be careful not to look too far past their final two regu-lar-season dates.

The first was in Stratford to take on the Cullitons Feb. 25 and the second came against the Cambridge Winter Hawks the follow-ing night in Cambridge. Elmira responded with a 5-2 win against Stratford, but fell flat in a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the Winter Hawks to wind up second in the conference standings with 70 points, just three behind Guelph for first overall.

In the Friday night game against Stratford, the Kings scored the only goal of the first period courtesy of

Kings draw first blood in opening playoff seriesPearce notches overtime winner to put Elmira up by one against Cambridge Winter Hawks

rewarded, because he de-served it.”

The game offered up ex-actly what the coaches and staff expected – a hard-hitting and close-checking game with excellent goal-tending at each end. Fur-long finished with 42 saves in the defeat, while Matthew Smith made 27 saves for the win.

Furlong held his team in the game, and throughout the first period in particular when Elmira peppered him with 23 shots but only man-aged to score once, cour-tesy of Ryan Clarkson on the powerplay from Lukas Baleshta and Wade Pfeffer at 17:51.

“You need good goaltend-ing to win in the playoffs. Their goalie held them in, especially in the first period, but made some big saves in the third,” said Haddaway. “You look through the his-tory of playoff hockey, and you need good goaltending.”

The Winter Hawks captain Ryan Clarke tied the game at 8:36 of the second with a tremendous shorthanded

>Wideman now a CapitalAfter the dust settled at 3

p.m. ET on the NHL trade dead-line day Feb. 28, Elmira-native and former Sugar King defence-man Dennis Wideman found himself on the move for the second time in eight months.

Wideman was traded by the Florida Panthers to the Wash-ington Capitals in exchange for prospect Jake Hauswirth and Washington’s third-round pick in the 2011 draft. A total of 35 players changed teams in 16 deals over the course of the day.

The 6’0”, 200 lb defenceman

was in his first season with the Florida Panthers after being traded by the Boston Bruins on June 22. Wideman had nine goals and 33 points in 62 games for the Pan-thers. He was originally drafted back in 2002 by the Buffalo Sabres in the 8th round, 241 overall, and has recorded 55 goals and 198 points in 439 career NHL games. The Capi-tals will be his fourth NHL team.

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James Jackson Josh MacDonald at 5:35, assisted by Wade Pfeffer. Elmira doubled up the shots on Stratford 10-5 after 20 minutes.

Lukas Baleshta made it 2-0 at the 5:35 mark of the second period from Clay-ton Greer and Ryan Clark-son, and the team appeared ready to cruise to a ninth straight victory before they got into penalty trouble just a minute later.

With Shane Smith given a 10-minute misconduct for head contact, Stratford managed to tie the game with a pair of powerplay goals, the first at 6:31 from Jake Ryan and the second from Ray Huether at 9:16.

Greer, however, would re-spond for the Kings and put them up 3-2 at 12:23 of the second period, from Brady Campbell.

Josh Woolley scored a pair of goals in the third,

and Matthew Smith made 22 saves to seal the victory.

“I thought we played a re-ally disciplined, good road game,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway. “Whoever won that game had a step up (in the standings). If we won, we would have stayed ahead of those guys, and if they won they would have moved past us.”

The following night, the Kings rolled into Cam-bridge to take on the sev-enth-seeded Winter Hawks and looking to run their winning streak to 10 games, entering the playoffs on a high note.

Playing in front of their home crowd, however, Cam-bridge scored first just 0:58 into the first period. Pfeffer would tie it up for the Kings on the powerplay at 8:06, as-sisted by Woolley.

Pfeffer added a second goal at 1:27 of the second

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The change would work to Cambridge’s benefit. They scored twice before the end of the second, and three more times in the third to win the game 6-3. Furlong kicked aside all 20 shots he faced to steal the win, while

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Not-So-GreatOutdoorsman

Steve Galea

Not-So-GreatOutdoorsman

Steve Galea

For anglers, this is the month to March or DieLong ago, in the days before time

and Twitter, there was this old movie called March or Die. If memory serves me correctly, it was about a group of Foreign Legion-naires forced to trek across the end-less desert sands. Or perhaps it was about a high school pipe-and-drum band led by a sadistic gym teacher. I’m not so sure anymore; my memo-ry isn’t what it used to be. The point is it had a great title.

It’s too bad that this title was taken though. You see, those three words sum up the way I feel about March and, if I were to ever write a book about my thoughts on winter, that would have been a perfect title.

March is not the be all and end all of winter, but from this point on, at least you can see the light – the glorious, warm light – at the end of the tunnel.

It’s not that I dislike winter or outdoors winter activities. It’s

more like, as someone of Mediter-ranean descent, I am genetically programmed for only so much ice fishing and snowshoeing. And by that I mean none.

So when March comes, I begin preparations for spring and hope it comes early.

I start by tying even more flies. These last few days have had me ty-ing a few dozen wet flies. Next week, I’ll probably fashion a couple of dozen dry flies or nymphs, but only because my streamer box is already full and raring to go.

If all this sounds a desperate plea

for open water, it is. Somehow, in my mind, it seems that the more flies my boxes accumulate, the quicker the ice will be off the lakes. It makes no sense but, then again, neither does placing skis on your feet and letting gravity have its way with you.

After the pleasant pastime of preparing tackle, you need to get serious. And that means, cleaning up the dog’s work in the side yard. This, by far, is the most important task any dog-owning angler needs to attend to.

March is the poop-cleaning month. February has too much snow. April has too much rain. Turkey hunting occupies May.

You have no choice.So my advice to you is to get out

with your shovel and begin a con-trolled archaeological dig, hopefully with a crew of eager students. I know this doesn’t appear to have

anything to do with spring fishing but it does. You see, over the years I’ve learned that no one will let you go fishing until this job is done.

And yet, most outdoors magazines write very little on this essential as-pect of preparation. A lack of spon-sorship could be one reason. But I suspect there’s something more.

It could be that they are writing to a smarter demographic – anglers who don’t own dogs. Or it might be that this part of the preparation ritual is not nearly as romantic as editors would like it to be. Some things, like the shelf life of a fart in a wader, are, after all, best left alone.

Still, just once, I’d like to see a feature article in my favourite out-doors magazine entitled Poop and Scoop to Lake Trout Success or The Real Dog Days of Fishing.

It won’t happen though. And I guess that’s best. Some memories, I suppose, are best left frozen in time.

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Head coach Steve Karn

EDSS girls out early in hockey playoff actionLoss a disappointment to team coming off a strong season

James Jackson summed up the result with one word.

“Disappointment, but what do you do? The girls played re-ally well and we worked hard,” he said. “It was back and forth. We took the lead with about eight minutes left, we were up 4-3, and then we gave up two breakaways and they scored on both of them.”

Elmira goal scorers included

Kristen Kaster, Emma Davi-son, Kaitlin Doering and Nata-sha Runstedler, while Yi Wang was in net.

Karn said that Resurrection – which finished tied for sixth in the league standings with a 5-6-2 record – was a much bet-ter team than the standings indicated.

“Half the time (in the regu-lar season) they didn’t show up with all of their players. It was a bad seed for us to end up play-ing because any time that they did have their players, they were strong.”

The result is a dishearten-ing one for the lady Lancers, who won the Waterloo Coun-ty championship’s last year against the favoured South-wood Secondary School 3-1,

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ONE GAME AND OUT Elmira’s Emma Davidson takes a shot on net during the first period of the Lancers’ 5-4 quarterfinal loss to Resurrection Feb. 24.

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In the lull between the end of the regular season and

the start of the playoffs, the GOJHL’s Midwestern Con-ference doled out its awards Monday night at a banquet in Cambridge. Two Elmira Sugar Kings were recognized for their outstanding perfor-mance this season.

Forward Jarred Parent of West Montrose took home the Leroy Jamieson Memo-rial Trophy, which recognizes a player’s outstanding con-tributions to one team, and defenceman Wade Pfeffer of Palmerston was named to the conference’s second all-star team.

“Wade came over from Guelph, and we needed him to provide some offence from our defence, and he has done

Entering a do-or-die match in the first

round of playoffs against the Ayr Cen-tennials Feb. 26, the Wellesley Apple Jacks managed to eek out a victory in overtime, buying themselves at

Two Kings among award winners at conference banquet

that,” said head coach Geoff Haddaway. “Wade likes to jump into the rush – there’s no secret there – and his de-fensive game has come a long way, and I think that’s why he was recognized.”

The 5’10” defenceman led the team in scoring from the

back end with nine goals and 39 points on the season, good for eighth in league scoring among defence, and he was particularly effective on the powerplay where he scored four goals and added 13 as-sists.

Of Parent, now in his fourth year with the Sugar Kings, Haddaway said it is all of the little intangibles about his game that really stick out in his mind, and are what made him the ideal can-didate for the award.

“I’ve coached the kid for three years and I’m not sure if he’s ever taken a shift off,” said the coach. “He’s played poorly – not very often – but every shift he plays hard. It makes him more coachable and endears him to his team-mates.”

Parent, who registered

a career-high 15 goals and 30 assists, was fifth in team scoring, but Haddaway said it isn’t his skill that beats op-ponents most nights, but his work ethic.

“In terms of pure skill he isn’t going to win a lot of one-on-one skill battles, but he’s a

James Jackson

WADE PFEFFER JARRED PARENT

champion and he’s got heart. That’s the way he plays ev-ery single game, and it’s just contagious,” said Haddaway. “You can’t play on his line and not compete the way he does, or else you’re going to be embarrassed because he’ll be a one-man show out there.”

Other big winners on the night included Erik Belanger of the Guelph Hurricanes who took home the Unique Embroidery trophy as the Midwestern Conference scor-ing champion with 34 goals and 76 points in 48 games, and Stratford’s Mitchell McCrank who captured this year’s R.J. Noble Memorial Trophy as the rookie of the year after leading his team in scoring with 16 goals and 62 points while playing in all 51 games this season.

Jacks win game-four to stay alive in seriesWellesley needs overtime to outlast Centennials in match that ended 7-6

Elizabeth Bate least one more postsea-son game.

This is the first playoff action many of the current Jacks have seen, as the team has not been a contender in the past two seasons. Down 3-1 in the series with Ayr, Wellesley scored in overtime, win-

ning the match 7-6.Coach Kevin Fitzpat-

rick said the game was good, but hopes they have a stronger show-ing against the Centen-nials for the rest of the series.

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nals. We’ve always gone on to the semis or the fi-nals, so that leaves a bad taste in your mouth,” Karn said.

However, the end of the season does bring about a sense of optimism for the coach. The team is only losing three players from this year, with the bulk of the roster comprised of Grade 9 and 10 girls.

“We always take who-ever the best 15 players are, and that’s always been our motto,” Karn said. “Being a young team we didn’t have as much experience maybe in the big games. Hope-fully it’s a learning expe-rience for them and now they know that they have to work that much hard-

er next season to stay on top.”

Karn also sees women’s hockey growing enor-mously throughout the region. He said that there are a lot of good up-and-coming players who are in Grade 8 now, just wait-ing to make the jump to high school hockey, and he believes that this year was the most competitive that the league had ever been as a result.

“There were probably seven teams that had the potential to knock any-body out at any given time.

“That’s one of the good things; it used to be that there were only three teams that had a shot at the championship, but not this year, which is good for the league.”

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effort. Using his speed, he broke away from Shane Smith, who couldn’t keep the puck in at the point, and cut in front of the net and tucked the puck past the sprawling Matthew Smith.

The teams would enter the second intermission tied at one, with Cambridge out-shooting Elmira 12-11 in the period.

In the third, Clarkson scored his second of the night at 9:59 on the power-play on a deflection from Colton Wolfe-Sabo and Baleshta. The Kings looked poised to win the hard-fought game in regulation before the pen-alty against Pearce with just 1:35 left. Pearce had a partial break against the goalie and appeared to be shoved from behind into the Cambridge

goalie, leading to the goal-tender interference call.

“That penalty was bor-derline, at best,” said Had-daway. “I just don’t think that call should be made, but that’s going to happen.

“It was deflating, but we know things are going to happen in the playoffs, it’s bouncing back and respond-ing to that adversity and re-sponding to the things that go against you. It’s never a smooth ride in the playoffs.”

The Winter Hawks pulled Furlong for the extra attack-er to tie the game and force overtime, before Pearce end-ed the game just 0:14 seconds into the extra frame.

Game two of the series goes tonight (Saturday) in Cambridge at the Galt Are-na, before shifting back to Elmira Sunday. All games in the series start at 7 p.m.


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Nick Horrigan finished with 20 saves in the loss.

“They were better than us. We went up 3-1 and we were playing well, and I just thought maybe we took our foot off the gas a little bit,” said Haddaway of the loss. “Things have gone well for us lately and in the games before that in the winning streak, there weren’t a lot of times we took our foot off the gas, and we did there.”

The loss meant Elmi-ra would finish behind Guelph for first overall in the conference standings. Both teams had 34 wins on the year, but Guelph had the edge thanks to three more overtime losses than Elmira.

As it turns out, that season finale against Cambridge was only a preview of what is to come – Cambridge and Elmira are matched up in the first round of the play-offs, which got under way

on Wednesday night at the Woolwich Memorial Cen-tre, and Haddaway knows that the Kings are in tough against the Winter Hawks.

“It’s going to be an ex-ceptionally tough matchup because of what they offer. We know their goaltending is solid and they have two goalies I think they believe in, and they have some re-ally gifted offensive hockey players.”

Haddaway also said that his team doesn’t have the skill to win a run-and-gun style of series against Cam-bridge, and that they will have to outwork and outhit their opponents to gain the upper hand.

“We’re going use all four lines and six defence. That’s how we were successful in the regular season and in the playoffs the intensity gets amped up, but you’ve still got to play to your strengths and that’s the way we have to play to be successful.”


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should be at the point where it went to overtime,” he said. “I’m surprised we were down three to one and I think that’s a credit to the way Ayr has played. I expect we’ll see a Saturday (game).”

The Jacks started the game strong, scoring three goals in the first period. Tim Stern took advantage of an early powerplay and scored at 2:09 assisted by Spencer Aspden. Ayr evened out the score at 11:25, but the Jacks’ Read Shantz (Michael Forester and Stern) would score again at 14:55 with a one-man advan-tage. Eric Parr, assisted by Matt Aspden, topped off the period with a third goal at 18:56.

Fitzpatrick cited an im-provement in the Jacks’ special teams as the series moved along.

“It’s the first time we’ve really scored powerplay goals and not given up short-hand-ed goals. You can’t continue to kill penalties, and Satur-

day we didn’t,” he said. The second frame opened

with the Jacks up by two, but would close with an even score. Ayr potted goals against Wellesley goalie Jordan Bauman at 5:16 and 16:30, while the Jacks came up empty. The teams went back to the room at 3-3.

The third saw three goals a piece for the teams, creating a few tense moments for the fans. The Centennials began the last period with two goals at 1:33 and 1:51, bringing the score to 5-3.

“We had both good and bad spurts and we had a bad one there in the third,” said Fitz-patrick. “We can play better and we have to.”

Wellesley’s Jake Steenson put the Jacks back in the game at 9:14, assisted by Mi-chael Forster and Spencer Aspden. Justin Roeder tied the period at 13:19 assisted again by Forster and Stern. Ayr scored their sixth and fi-nal goal at 14:17, but the Jacks quickly responded with a

Jacks: Team hopes it's gaining momentum as opening-round series moves along

> CONTINUED FROM PG. 25 goal by Rob Hinschberger (Roeder), ending the period tied at 6.

Fitzpatrick credits the win in part to the 53 stops Bau-man made during the 72-min-ute match.

“He made saves when he had to. We’re two offensive teams and when you have two offensive teams sometimes people question the goaltend-ing, but he played well enough for us to win the hockey game. He made one great save in the third period and it bought us the overtime,” he said.

The overtime period went 10 tense minutes without a winner until at exactly the halfway mark, Roeder, as-sisted by Josh Herd and Parr, slipped the puck past the Cen-tennials’ defense and scored.

The Jacks are 3-1 in the first round of the playoff series and hoped to stay in it Thurs-day night. Results were un-available at press time. Game five, if necessary, would be played Saturday night in Wellesley.

Game # Home Away Date Time2 Cambridge Elmira March 5 7:00 p.m.3 Elmira Cambridge March 6 7:00 p.m.4 Cambridge Elmira March 8 7:00 p.m.5 (if necessary) Elmira Cambridge March 9 7:00 p.m.6 (if necessary) Cambridge Elmira March 12 7:00 p.m.7 (if necessary) Elmira Cambridge March 13 7:00 p.m.

FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFF SCHEDULEELMIRA SUGAR KINGS vs CAMBRIDGE WINTER HAWKS

Regular Season Record

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SCORECARDWOOLWICH NOVICE U10 - GIRLSPARIS TOURNAMENT FEB. 25

Burlington 7, Woolwich 2Goals: Ava Henderson, Cassidy Moser (Madison Waters, Caylee Gallant)FEB. 26

Woolwich 10, Tillsonburg Burgundy 0Goals: Madison Waters x3, Cassidy Moser x3, Madelyn Camm x3, Ava Henderson (Hannah Gramlow, Ava Henderson, Cassidy Moser, Erica Buehler) Shutout: Caylee GallantFEB. 26

Woolwich Storm 8, Tillsonburg White 1Goals: Ava Henderson x2, Brianna Jacobi x2, Erica Buehler, Madison Waters , Cassidy Moser, Madelyn Camm, (Erica Buehler x3, Cassidy Moser x2, Ava Henderson, Madison Waters)TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #1 - GIRLSFEB. 26

Wilmont #2 2, Twin Centre 1Goals: Blythe Bender (Katie Lee)TWIN CENTRE ATOM C - GIRLSFEB. 26

Woolwich 3, Twin Centre 2Goals: Madelyn Jantzi, Jade Lipczynski (Jayna MacDonald, Tyana Bruns)WOOLWICH ATOM LL - GIRLSFEB. 19

Ayr 2, Woolwich 1Goals: Holly Faries (Paighton Uridil, Meagan Langer)FEB. 26

Waterloo #2 1, Woolwich 0WOOLWICH PEEWEE C - GIRLS FEB. 27

Kitchener 4, Woolwich 3Goals: Nicole Merlihan, Caitlin Pickard, Jaycee Kaufman (Taylor Duench, Nicole Merlihan, Morgan Douglas)TWIN CENTRE BANTAM C - GIRLS FEB. 20

Twin Centre 3, Waterloo 1Goals: Casey Hodnett, Jessica Reitzel, Cassidy Pearce (Jill Sebben, Breanna Michael)TWIN CENTRE BANTAM LL - GIRLSFEB. 23

Twin Centre 2, Waterloo #2 0Goals: Dominique Bruns, Brooke Davenport (Marissa Kurtz, Rebecca Giovanniello) Shutout: Kathryn SutherlandFEB. 27

Twin Centre 1, Waterloo #1 0Goals: Marissa Kurtz (Stephanie Temple, Dominique Bruns) Shutout: Kathryn SutherlandWOOLWICH BANTAM LL - GIRLSFEB. 27

Woolwich 2, Grand River 1Goals: Jessica Townsend, Lize Schuurmans (Emily Schuurmans x2, Cassidy Bauman, Erin Graham)WOOLWICH BANTAM BB - GIRLSFEB. 16

Woolwich 2, Waterloo 1Goals: Emily Chapman, Rebecca LuisFEB. 19

Woolwich 1, Windsor 1Goals: Claire HanleyFEB. 19

Windsor 4, Woolwich 1Goals: Emily Chapman (Landis Saunders)

FEB. 20Waterloo 3, Woolwich 1Goals: Gillian OlsthoornTWIN CENTRE MIDGET LL #1 - GIRLSFEB. 27

Twin Centre 4, Stratford 0Goals: Janessa Heywood x3, Holly Lorentz (Emily Detzler, Meagan Smart)Shutout: Lindsay DietrichFEB. 28

Twin Centre 1, Waterloo # 4 1Goals: Shannon Lorentz (Holly Lorentz)TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #1 - BOYSFEB. 26

Twin Centre #2 3, Twin Centre #1 2Goals: Tyler Zyta, Alex Kaufman (Zach Lipczynski, Michael Hayes)TWIN CENTRE NOVICE LL #3 - BOYSFEB. 26

Twin Centre #3 12, Woolwich #2 0Goals: Jacob Thompson x6, Hayden Martin x2, Dylan Hehn x2, Dawson Stevenson x2 (Dylan Hehn, Jack Wolf, Jacob Thompson, Jayden Palermo, Conall Gillett, John Buddiger, Reider Henderson)WOOLWICH NOVICE TYKE SELECT MAR. 1

Woolwich 2, Flamborough 2Goals: Jake McDonald x2 (Tyler Martin, Brett Moser, Tyler Brezynskie)WOOLWICH ATOM LL #1 – BOYSNOTTAWASAGA TOURNAMENTFEB. 18

Woolwich #1 1, Simcoe 0Goals: Kyle Rintoul (Matthew G. MacDonald)FEB. 19

Woolwich #1 4, Ottawa Blackburn 2Goals: Matthew MacDonald x3, Daniel Bullock (Bruce Martin x2, Matthew Dunn x2, CJ Sider x2)FEB. 19

Woolwich #1 5, Sudbury 2Goals: Tim Brunkard, Matthew MacDonald, Matthew Dunn, Matthew Radler, Tyler Horst (Matthew MacDonald, CJ Sider, Chad Hoffer, Bruce Martin, Tyler Horst)FEB. 20

Woolwich #1 3, Ottawa Blackburn 2Goals: CJ Sider, Bruce Martin, Tyler Horst (Jacob Good)FEB. 26

Woolwich #1 4, Plattsville 1Goals: Matthew G. MacDonald, Matthew MacDonald, CJ Sider, Simon Zenker (Matthew MacDonald, Simon Zenker, Joseph Boehm, Brannon Slade)FEB. 27

Woolwich #1 6, New Hamburg 1

Goals: Tyler Horst x2, Matthew MacDonald x2, Bruce Martin, Simon Zenker (Matthew MacDonald x2, Brannon Slade, Simon Zenker, CJ Sider, Bruce Martin, Jacob Good, Kyle Rintoul)WOOLWICH ATOM LL #2 - BOYSFEB. 19

Woolwich 1, New Hamburg Atom LL #3 1Goals: Kyle Gingrich (Austin Whittom)WOOLWICH ATOM LL #3 - BOYSFEB. 26

Woolwich 3, New Hamburger 3Goals: Hunter Schmitt x2, Kayden Zacharczuk (Corbin Kaufman, Kyle Deyell, Ryan Parrott, Johnny Wang)WOOLWICH ATOM AE - BOYSFEB. 13

Grimsby 3, Woolwich 3Goals: Kieffer Beard x2, Ryan Belanger (Kyle Bruder, Zac Pickard, Justin Uhrig, Cameron Maillette)FEB. 16

Grimsby 3, Woolwich 3 Goals: Zac Pickard x 2, Luc Haugerud (Riley Shantz, Jackson Hale, Kyle Bruder) FEB. 18

Woolwich 3, Dundas 1Goals: Riley Shantz, Luke Haugerud, Kyle Bruder (Ben Lenaers)FEB. 25

Ancaster 3, Woolwich 2 Goals: Kyle Bruder x2 (Zac Pickard, Ben Lenaers, Luke Haugerud, Riley Shantz) FEB. 27

Ancaster 6, Woolwich 2Goals: Ben Lenears, Justin Uhrig (Jackson Beard, Kieffer Beard)WOOLWICH MINOR ATOM A - BOYSFEB. 26

GAME #1 - OMHA SEMI FINALSWoolwich 4, Grimsby 0Goals: Austin Cousineau, Griffen Rollins, Ethan Young, Josh Martin (Brody Waters, Josh Martin, Griffen Rollins, Sam Davidson, Ethan Young) Shutout: Cyrus MartinFEB. 27

GAME #2 - OMHA SEMI FINALSWoolwich 4, Grimsby 1Goals: Brody Waters x2, Jake Code, Eli Baldin (Austin Cousineau x3, Jake Code, Josh Martin, Sam Davidson)MAR. 1

GAME #3 - OMHA SEMI FINALSWoolwich 5, Grimsby 4Goals: Brody Waters, Eli Baldin, Lukas Shantz, Josh Martin, Austin Cousineau (Griffen Rollins x2, Ethan Young, Josh Martin, Kurtis Hoover, Austin Cousineau, Mackenzie Willms, Justin Taylor)WOOLWICH MAJOR ATOM A - BOYSFEB. 26

Woolwich 3, Guelph 2 Goals: Sammy Huber, Daniel Carr, Cole Altman (Liam Hartman, Riley Runstedler, Daniel Carr) WOOLWICH MINOR PEEWEE A - BOYS

FEB. 26 Woolwich 3, Caledon 2Goals: Jacob Uridil x2, Ryan KieswetterFEB. 27

Woolwich Wildcats 6, Guelph Storm 4Goals: Mitch Waters x2, Tyson Bender, Connor Martin, Sheldon Metzger, Jacob Uridil (Tyson Bender x2, Ryan Kieswetter x2, Isaac Frey, Owen Read, Sheldon Metzger, Keegan Saunders, Mitch Waters, Jacob Uridl)WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL #1 - BOYS

FEB. 26Woolwich #1 7, Woolwich #2 2Goals: Adam Elliot x3, Jeff Talbot x2, Luke Charter, Matt Greene (Will Mewhiney x3, Jeff Talbot x2, Nick Campagnolo x2, Jordan Luis, Max Bender)WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL 2 - BOYS

FEB. 19Woolwich#1 9, Woolwich#2 2Goals: Alex Metzger, Connor Graham (Joe Hanley, Walker Schott)FEB. 20

Plattsville 6, Woolwich#2 1Goals: Matthew Uhrig(Alex Berry, Joe Hanley)FEB. 26

Woolwich#1 7, Woolwich#2 2Goals: Jared Beacom, Dylan Smith (Alex Metzger, Connor Graham)WOOLWICH PEEWEE AE - BOYS

FEB. 26Woolwich 6, Acton 2Goals: Aaron Weigel x2, Gareth Rowland x2, Nathan Schwarz, James Cooper (Jake Lewis x2, Tyler Martin, Aaron Weigel, Alex Turchan, James Cooper)FEB. 27

Woolwich 6, Erin Hillsburgh 2Goals: Alex Taylor x2, Cameron Brown, Nathan Schwarz, James Cooper, Aaron Weigel (Jake Lewis x2, Aaron Weigel x2, Alex Turchan, Cameron Brown, Earl Schwartz, James Cooper)WOOLWICH BANTAM LL #2 - BOYSFEB. 25

Twin Centre #1 3, Woolwich #2 1Goals: Marty Metzger (Brendan Taylor, Trevor Bowman)FEB. 27

Woolwich #2 3, Twin Centre #1 1Goals: Matt Lalonde x2, Marty Metzger (Calvin Cressman x2, Nick Berlet x2, Jacob Cornwall, Andrew Stoltz)WOOLWICH BANTAM MINOR A - BOYS

FEB. 26Woolwich 4, St. Thomas 3Goals: Alex Uttley x2, Harrison Clifford, Jason Gamble (Alex Uttley, Cole Lenaers, Matthew Leger)FEB. 27

Woolwich 3, St.Thomas 2 (OT)Goals: Troy Nechanicky, Jason Gamble, Grant Kernick (Alex Uttley x2, Luke Brown, Nathan Schlupp, Jason Gamble)WOOLWICH BANTAM MAJOR A - BOYS

FEB. 25Woolwich 3, Burlington 1Goals: Sebastian Lane, Ryan Schinker, Alex MacLean (Bo Uridil x2, Timmy Shuh, Ryan Schinker, Matt Lair)WOOLWICH MAJOR MIDGET A - BOYS

FEB. 13Brampton 3, Woolwich 2Goals: Alex Albrecht, Ted Sebben (Ted Sebben)

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Our St. Jacobs Retail Storecurrently has the following opportunity...

Retail Sales Associate #837 Approx 24 hours per week.

Responsible to the Retail Store Manager, you will provide courteous and efficient service and product advice to the public and staff customers. You will process cash, credit, and debit card payments by using PRISM and Royal Bank Debit card machines, ticket and replenish merchandise, and provide general housekeeping of shelves and merchandise on display. Some heavy lifting and unloading truck shipments will be required. You will consistently demonstrate a friendly and helpful attitude toward customers. You have good communication skills; knowledge of plumbing, electrical and general home repairs would be an asset.

We offer a competitive salary and great working conditions. If you are interested in becoming part of Home Hardware, please forward your resume, quoting Retail Sales Associate #837, to: Human Resources Department, Hardware Stores Limited, 34 Henry Street West, St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 519-664-4711 (Microsoft Products Only) h

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EGS Electrical Group Canada Ltd.99 Union StreetElmira, Ontario, N3B 3L7Attn: Human ResourcesEmail: [email protected]

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No telephone calls please.

EGS Electrical Group Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of industrial electrical equipment is seeking an Assembly worker. Prospective applicants must have a Grade 12 education with proficient English verbal, reading and written communication skills.

Must have the ability to use the following equipment: air gun, air screw driver, silicone machine, various hand tools, electric drill, high pot tester, packing machine, other testing devices, hand truck.

Physical requirements: standing, walking, lifting up to 30 pounds, proficient hand dexterity skills.

Please forward your resume in confidence to:Administrative Assistant

PositionThe position requires good communication skills, proficient with various software, and

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Send resume to [email protected] or fax to 519-669-7603

ORDER DESK PERSONNEL

A local company requires an order desk person to work in an office environment. This individual will be responsible to answer all incoming calls, distribute phone calls accordingly and process orders. Some light administrative duties will be additionally required. This position will be approximately 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. The successful candidate will be organized, responsible and capable of working independently. Competitive wage and benefit packages are provided.

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2008 Chev Impala LT2008 Chev EXPRESS 3500 Van

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2005 Chev Impala2006 Toyota Tacoma SR52005 Ford F150 SXT 4x42005 Chev Astro Wagon

2004 Ford F150 XLT Ext 4x42003 Crown Victoria2002 Grand Caravan

2002 Chev 3500 Diesel Van2002 Protege ES

2003 Ford F150 Harley-Davidson Crew2000 Chev CORVETTE Cony

Journeyman ElectricianCommercial, industrial and residential experience

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>> Cosmetics Company hiring $25/hr to start p/t. Flexible schedule, great incentives, fun & enjoyable. Must be 18 years or older with reliable transportation please. Reply to Lori 519-210-0301 .

>> E X P E R I E N C E D CARPENTERS WANTED. Established contracting company now hiring - full time work. Reliable transportation a must. Summer help also needed. John Witzel Contracting Ltd. Fax resume to: 519-662-4239 or email: [email protected]

>> Foster Transport Inc. Looking for a full time driver to haul livestock. A DZ licence is required. Please fax resume to 519-698-2444.

>> Full time Sales clerk required. Must be able to work Saturdays and one evening a week. Apply in person with resume to: Stemmler Meats & Cheese, 3031 Lobsinger Line, Heidelberg.

>> Touch Of Scotland Mature sales lady required for weekend shifts. Knowledge of British goods an asset. Bring resume to: 1441 King St., St. Jacobs.

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>> Pain Relief with bowen therapy - a natural, yet highly effective treatment. Great for back/neck pain, carpal tunnel, migraines etc. 519-574-0515 .

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>> Clearance Sale. 10% off all furniture. 15 - 50% off all other goods. Mar. 5, 10 - 4; Mar. 10, 10 -6; Mar. 12, 10-4. Dis N Dat Treasures, 15 Dunke St., N., Elmira. 519-669-5005.

>> Landscaping Trailer, double axle. 519-669-5966 .

>> Spring Sale at Hilltop Fabrics. 10% off storewide. March 7 - 12. Perth Line 67, Fire # 4785. 519-595-4344 .

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>> Farm Tractor, INT.3088, 2WD, open station, no cab, 5800 hrs, good condition $11,500. 519-647-2729.

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>> CLEARANCE SALE 25 - 50% OFF pet apparel & select pet supplies at Creature Comfort Pet Emporium. 1553 King St. N., St. Jacobs. 519-664-3366. www.creaturecomfort.ca

>> M E G A M U T T S Information session March 22, 6:30 p.m., Elmira Library. No dogs, pre registration required. www.megamutts.com or call Holly Teahen 519-669-8167 .

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>> 2 Bedroom Apartments for rent - 27 Robb Street, Moorefield. Fridge and stove included, washer & dryer avail. in building. No pets. Lower apartment $695 plus utilities and upper apartment $725 plus utilities. Leave message at 519-291-2590 or 519-291-4453 .

>> House for Rent in north Waterloo. 3 bedroom. Main floor living. Large yard. Washer and dryer. $1095 per month inclusive. Available March 1. 519-746-1557.

>> Upstairs Office Space - 3 rooms available from $450 per month depending on size. Includes heat & hydro. Main floor in an active real estate office. Call Mildred Frey, 519-669-1544.

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>> McPEAK, Charles Henry – June 8, 1924 – February 26, 2011. It is with great sadness the family announces his sudden passing on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Heritage House in St. Jacobs. Charles was in his 87th year, formerly of Elmira and Sarnia.

>> PRIVATT, Harold – Passed away in his 83rd year, on Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at the Freeport Health Centre. Harold resided in Heidelberg and was formerly of Kitchener.

>> STROME, Stephen Willmer – It is with great sadness Steve’s family announces his passing on Sunday, February 20, 2011, after suffering a severe stroke. Steve age 69 of Perth, ON. Local relatives are his brother Kelly Strome and his wife Terry of Paradise Lake.

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March 21, 2011

On Monday, March 21, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Offices, 24 Church Street West, Elmira to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson at 519-669-6040 or 519-664-2613 (ext. 6040) regarding meeting details. Email: [email protected].

The Committee will also consider signed, written submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Submissions can be forwarded by mail or hand delivery to: Township of Woolwich, Attn: Jeremy Vink, P.O. Box 158, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6 or Fax 519-669-4669 or Email [email protected].

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A2/2011 – Marvin Weber (Martindale Church)

PROPERTY: 1210 Durst Road (Church address 1150 Durst Road), GCT Part Lots 12 and 13

PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the building line setback, as it applies to the parking area for the church, from 23 metres to approximately 16 metres measured from the centre line of the road, with the intent to maintain a 6 metre setback to the front property line. The property is zoned Agricultural with site-specific provisions permitting a church.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A3/2011 – Clare M. Martin

PROPERTY: 1051 Buggy Lane, Crooks Tract Broken Front Concession Part Lots 1 and 2

PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the building line setback from 7.6 metres to 0 metres measured between the wall of the manure storage area and the property line adjacent to Buggy Lane in order to permit the construction of a roof over the existing manure yard and trench silo. The property is zoned Agricultural and contains a single family dwelling and beef operation.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A4/2011 – Francisco Parronchi

PROPERTY: 38 Menno Street, Breslau, Plan 892 Lot 10PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the rear yard

setback from 7.5 metres to approximately 5.5 metres to permit the construction of a second storey addition on a portion of the existing dwelling. The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and contains a single family dwelling.

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A5/2011 – Maria Arvanitis

PROPERTY: 1040 Bisch Street, GCT Part Lot 30PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the By-law

required Minimum Distance Separation (MDS) of 120% of the calculated MDS from 136 metres to approximately 119 metres measured between the existing horse barn at 1021 Bisch Street and the proposed new dwelling at 1040 Bisch Street. The calculated MDS is 113 metres. The property is zoned Agricultural and contains an inground swimming pool. The dwelling on the property was recently demolished.

CONSENT APPLICATION B4/2011 – 957859 Ontario Limited

PROPERTY: Vacant land to the rear of 300 Woolwich Street South, Breslau, GCT Part Lot 115 and 116

PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to sever an irregular shaped parcel of land containing approximately 6.07 hectares and convey it as a lot addition to the adjacent property at 300 Woolwich Street South (Safety Kleen Canada Inc.). The proposed severed lands are vacant and subject to a Zone Change application to rezone the lands from Extractive (E) to General Industrial – Dry (M-1) and Open Space (O-2).

Further information about the applications may be obtained from Engineering and Planning Services at 519-669-6038 or 519-664-2613 (Ext. 6038).

DATED this 5th day of March, 2011

Jeremy Vink, RPP, MCIP Senior Planner Engineering & Planning Services

THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF 2011 INTERIM PROPERTY TAXES IS DUE

FRIDAY MARCH 11, 2011NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BUILDING ALERT: If you have been paying taxes on land only, you may be subject to a Supplementary Tax Bill later this year.

DIDN’T RECEIVE A BILL? Non-receipt of a tax bill does not waive your obligation to pay and you may incur a penalty. If you did not receive a bill, contact the Tax Collector as soon as possible at (519) 669-6016.

Due dates are March 11, 2011 and May 6, 2011.

Marion Pollard, CMTC (A)Manager of Revenue/Tax Collector

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Bill & Rich Sones

All those extra burgers wreak havoc on gas mileageQ.What are “moonbows” and

why are they rarely seen?A. They’re rainbows at night, oc-

curring during rainfall if the drops are directly illuminated by moon-light, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics.

These bows are generally white or silver, and fainter than the daytime sunlit version because our eyes don’t detect colors well in the dark. So most people don’t get into the habit of looking for moonbows and don’t no-tice them when they occur. Actually, you have a better chance of seeing a moonbow in the spray of a waterfall on a clear night when the moon is full (so that it is at its brightest). You can make the colors appear in a photo-graph with a long exposure.

In fact, moonbow spotting is a promising idea for a first date. You get to be out late at night, in moonlight, and near a waterfall, waiting for that special moment when the moonlight happens to illuminate the spray di-rectly. “All on the excuse that you are doing physics. Do I need to spell this out for you?”

Q.If you do something so special they want to name a bridge

after you or a stadium or type of car ..., which of your names are they NOT LIKELY to choose?

A. Many people have had words coined after their last or first

names, but only Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) -- barrister, report-er, writer of detective fiction -- had his middle name used, says Anu Garg in The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two.

He wrote “clerihews,” or humorous pseudobiographical verses of four lines of uneven length, with rhyme scheme A-A-B-B, and the first line

containing the name of the subject.Here’s one of his first, penned ap-

parently while bored in a chemistry class: “Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium.” And another of Clerihew’s clerihews: “George the Third Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.”

Q.When referring to the Earth, why do we generally say “the

Earth” rather than just “Earth”? After all, we don’t say “the Mars” or “the Jupiter.”

A.Certainly nothing in physics ex-plains why we do this, and there’s

probably no good semantic reason either, says Richard Muller in The Instant Physicist.

It’s not as if there were a whole bunch of Earths needing to be dis-tinguished. “English is just strange sometimes. We might similarly ask why we say ‘the Bronx’ but not ‘the Manhattan.’”

Q. What’s a laugh sound like?

A. That’s tough to say, given how much our laughs and giggles can

vary, says acoustician Trevor Cox in New Scientist magazine. For one thing, we can change the vowel sound from “tee-hee” to “ho ho ho,”

>> Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected]

though “ha ha ha” is most common (Journal of Acoustical Society of America).

We can also vary the stress, rhythm and intonation within and between laughs, helping us convey anything from joy to ridicule. Shrieks of laughter, with the vocal folds vibrat-ing at a distinctive pitch, differ from “unvoiced” snorts, grunts and pants that seem less popular with listeners.

All of this underscores the diffi-culty of generating a bionic chuckle via a robot. While such laughter synthesis is currently under experi-mentation, the challenge is to make the computer sound more natural. A Berlin researcher is using “linear predictive speech coding” to gener-ate individual laughs (“ha”), with an algorithm for timing; a Belgian sci-entist is manipulating single laughs drawn from real laughter. Yet given the complexities of human laughter, such efforts face seriously daunting odds.

Q.It’s not like we’re all driving around with our car trunks

crammed full of blubberburgers. So why such heavy eco-criticism of U.S. motorists?

A. We’re the blubber in the sense that trimmer/lighter drivers

nationwide would mean burning less fuel, as calculated by University of Illinois researchers, says Constance Holden in Science magazine.

With Americans traveling 4.5 tril-lion miles (7.2 trillion km) per year, each extra pound (.5 kg) of flab means 40 million more gallons (150 million litres) of gas. With the average adult nearly 30 lbs. overweight (14 kg), teens around 8 lbs. (3.6 kg) and children 3 lbs. (1.4 kg) -- all this excess adds up to anywhere from 0.7 billion to 1.1 bil-

lion gallons (2.6-4.2 billion litres). Concludes George Mason Univer-

sity economist Kenneth Button: “We are essentially transporting a lot of blubber around and damaging the environment because of it.”

Q.You and your hockey “fanatic” friend argue over whether it’s

better to bet AGAINST a team mired in a losing streak or to bet ON a team on a roll. Who’s right?

A.Both these strategies are wrong, says Professor Alain Hache in The

Physics of Hockey. He used the Monte Carlo method (computer simulation) on 100,000 virtual games, with as-sumed winning percentages of teams factored in.

Amazingly, when Hache compared his predictions to the actual perfor-mances of a dozen teams over an entire season, he found the winning streaks fell short of expectation, just as the losing streaks did.

Why would winning streaks be shorter than the numbers would seem to decree? Maybe it’s psychol-ogy, with winner overconfidence and carelessness setting in; or maybe losers put in extra effort due to pres-sure from management, coaches, fans. For pro hockey players, it’s not just money but a matter of pride and personal satisfaction, so teams play-ing an opponent with three losses in a row had better beware. Hence a tip for those hockey wagerers: “Bet on a team in the middle of a losing streak (or bet against a team on a roll). This is actually when a losing team has a better chance of winning!”

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MARCH 4

>> World Day of Prayer service presented by the women of the churches of Elmira. 7:30 p.m. Hosted at Woodside Bible Fellowship, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira. Guest speaker: Ruth Bauman. Focus country: Chile. All are welcome.

>> K2K Dance being held at the St. Jacob’s Community Hall from 7 – 10 p.m. Dance is for students in Grade 5 to Grade 8. Parents must escort their student through the front door.

>> Woolwich Community Services has trained volunteers available to complete your income tax reurn. This service is offered for free of charge to people with limited income. To find out if you qualify, drop by or call Woolwich Community Services at 73 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5139.

MARCH 5

>> 8th Annual Conference: “Coping With Crisis” mental health; 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Grand Valley Golf & Country Club, 1910 Roseville Rd, North Dumfries, Ont. Questions call 519-766-4450, ext. 224 or email [email protected].

>> Hungryman’s Breakfast with the 1st Elmira Ventures. Serving 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. $6 All You Can Eat. Elmira Legion, 11 First St. E.

>> Babysitting Course for 12 years old offered at the Kids & I Resource Centre. Course runs 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Fee $30. Please phone 519-669-3043 for more information. Enrollment is limited.

>> Waterloo Region Lyme Disease Group presents a screening of the documentary movie “Under Our Skin” which is a dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money, this eye-opening film investigates the untold story of Lyme Disease. Held at Church of the Holy Saviour, 33 Allen St. E., Waterloo. Doors open at 10 a.m. Minimum $5 donation which will go to the Waterloo Region Lyme Disease Group. For more information please call Jackie 519-210-0274.

MARCH 6

>> Close Connection 7 p.m., Dinner 5 p.m. tickets $12. Come and enjoy an evening of good old southern gospel music with this popular all-female quartet. Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, 400 Northfield Dr. W., Waterloo. Free-will offering, wheelchair accessible. 519-888-7870.

MARCH 7

>> Men’s volleyball (free) Mondays 7 p.m.. Drop in at Woodside Bible Fellowship, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira.

MARCH 8

>> Mixed adult volleyball (free) Tuesdays 8:30 p.m. Drop in at Woodside Bible Fellowship, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira.

MARCH 11

>> H.U.G.S. Program 9:15-11:15 a.m. Come meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Children Love Music – Presentation by Kindermusik. Introduce your child to rhythm and song! Held at the Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call Heidi at 519-664-3794 ext. 237 for more information.

MARCH 15

>> Living with Stroke Series – Mar. 15 – Apr. 19 10 a.m. - noon This series will provide practical education about stroke and stroke recovery. Information about strategies for coping with changes caused by stroke will be discussed as well as reducing the risk of another stroke. Tiffany Krahn, Registered Dietitian, Bernadette Vanspall and a trained peer will lead this series. Held at The Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Call 519-664-3794 for more information on this FREE series.

>> Gale Presbyterian Tuesday Lunch, 2 Cross St., Elmira. 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Irish Meat Loaf, homemade bread, salad, chocolate dessert, beverage $9. If you would like to pick up or take out your lunch please call 519-669-2852 by Mar. 14.

MARCH 17

>> How big? How fast? How many times? Guinness World Records Quiz Event 3-4 p.m., at Elmira Branch Library. For kids ages 9-15. Up to 3 people per team. Questions will be based on the 2011 edition of the Guinness World Records. Bonus points will be awarded to players wearing green. For more information contact the Region of Waterloo Library, Elmira Branch located at 65 Arthur St. N. Elmira. 519-669-5477 or email [email protected].

>> Community Diabetes Health Education – Learn more about Diabetes at this upcoming video conference seminar being held at the Woolwich Community Health Centre in St. Jacobs. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. This session will discuss kidney disease and diabetes and will be presented by Ruby Weresch, RN, CDE from the St. Joseph’s Dialysis Unit in Hamilton. For more information call 519-742-1481 ext. 221.

>> Woolwich Community Services has trained volunteers available to complete your income tax reurn. This service is offered for free of charge to people with limited income. To find out if you qualify drop by or call Woolwich Community Services at 73 Arthur St. S., Elmira 519-669-5139.

MARCH 18

>> Come to the Cabaret! St. Teresa of Avila Church, 19 Flamingo Dr., Elmira. 7:30 p.m. in the Church Hall. This event will include a history of St. Teresa’s Parish in song, skits and jokes featuring Katalin Puscas, Ron Eagle, Bob Reinhart & company. Tickets $15 per person. Please call St. Teresa of Avila Parish office at 519-669-3387 for tickets. Proceeds will go to the St. Teresa of Avila Kitchen Renovation Fund.

MARCH 19

>> Roast beef dinner & dessert bar, 5-7 p.m. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. Two sittings, 5 and 7 p.m. Advanced tickets only by calling 519-669-2932. Adults $12; children 6-10 $5; 5 and under free.

>> Diabetes awareness breakfast, 9-11 a.m. Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., W., Elmira. 3 speakers with information on living with Diabetes. Hosted by Woolwich Community Lions Club, free will offering. Proceeds to the Canadian Diabetes Association.

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