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A GOOD TIME FOR THOSE WHO LOVE WINTER

It was a case of once bit-ten, twice shy as Woolwich councillors turned down an engineering and plan-ning budget with too little money set aside for legal expenses.

With legal costs hav-ing been well over budget last year, councillors are not prepared to take any chances this time around.

Driven largely by gravel pit battles at the Ontario Municipal Board, Wool-wich spent more than $361,000 on legal fees in 2012, far more than the $25,000 in the engineer-ing and planning services budget.

While the extra expenses were covered from supple-mentary revenue, includ-ing unexpected money from Waterloo North, last week’s budget discussion was an “I told you so” mo-

Worry about legal fees sees Woolwich defer planning budgetSome councillors push for “more realistic” figures given upcoming OMB battles over gravel pits

ELENA MAYSTRUK

STEVE KANNON ment for Coun. Mark Bau-man, who last year warned the money set aside for legal fees was inadequate.

In this year’s budget, that line item was bumped to $110,000, with staff ad-mitting that number, too, is likely just a placeholder.

“That placeholder fell well short,” said Bauman of last year’s budget, noting the township had to rely on unanticipated revenue to cover the difference.

“Our windfall went to lawyers,” he lamented.

Bauman pushed for a doubling of the $110,000 – “the placeholder ... is not a fair picture of where we’re going in the next year” – saying he couldn’t support the department budget in the form presented.

“I want to see a realistic number there.”

Director of engineering

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Winter's first real blast comes as a shock to residents

WINTRY | 2Not everyone is afraid of the frigid cold. Brandon Gerling, 6, and sister Taylor, 9, welcome Wednesday afternoon’s frost with some skating on the rink in the back yard of their Elmira home. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

So, cold enough for you? There was only one topic of conversation for anyone who stepped outside this week.

If you found the plummeting tem-peratures and biting wind came as a shock to the system, you’re not alone.

Environment Canada’s Dave Phillips says the cold can be rather shocking after last year’s non-winter and thawing temperatures we experi-enced through most of January.

“It really is cold. Normally we should see high of minus-4 in the afternoon and minus-12 in the morn-ing. Yesterday morning it was mi-nus-21,” he said on Thursday.

“We were seduced into thinking we wouldn’t have any cold air again. Last year was one of the warmest [winters] on record. Winter cancelled last year: you had just barely half of your nor-mal snowfall.”

But the cold start to the week is hardly breaking any records. On Jan. 23, 1948 temperatures plum-meted to minus-26.7. On the same day in 1976 the thermometer hit an icy

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and planning Dan Kennal-ey argued the placeholder was adequate, adding there are issues with putting too much money aside and then not having to use it. Finding the money would mean taking it from else-where or increasing taxes, even if the anticipated legal challenges – more aggre-gate-related OMB hearings – don’t come to pass.

That failed to sway Bau-man, however: “Next year I hope you can look across the table and say ‘I told you so,’” he said to Kennaley.

On the topic of finding more money for legal costs, Coun. Julie-Anne Herteis

suggested the funds be found within the current budget, perhaps by freez-ing wages or lowering sala-ries and benefits. Having employees pay more for their benefits would save the township some money, for instance.

Mayor Todd Cowan immediately dismissed that idea, while chief ad-ministrative officer David Brenneman warned that wage freezes and salary ad-justments could put Wool-wich at a disadvantage in comparison to other mu-nicipalities. That, in turn, could lead to a higher turn-over in staff and difficulty in hiring others.

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Council remained un-convinced, with Herteis and Coun. Allan Poffenroth siding with Bauman’s call for a deferral pending the inclusion of a “more realis-tic” number in the budget.

Cowan, who didn’t vote as he was chairing the meeting, was dismissive of Bauman’s motion, saying councillors have had the budget numbers for weeks and could have brought up the issue earlier.

“We’re talking about the budget tonight,” Bauman reminded him.

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BUDGET: Internal cuts, not increased taxes

A profit of $42,000 and a host of reduced expendi-tures, led by lowered utility bills, helped put the Wool-wich Memorial Centre on healthier footing last year. The entire recreation and facility services budget was in much better shape by extension.

Having concentrated on costs in 2012, the depart-ment will focus on boosting revenues this year, director Karen Makela told council-lors meeting in a special budget session January 17.

Overall, expenditures in the department are expect-ed to rise by 4.6 per cent to $4.02 million from $3.8 million in last year’s bud-get. On the revenue side, the $2.1 million approved last week is actually down from the $2.15 pencilled in for 2012, a drop of about 2.2 per cent.

Outside of the WMC, Makela expects her depart-ment to focus on a number of facilities, including ma-jor upgrades at the park in Conestogo. For the longer-term, planning will get un-

Reeled-in WMC expenses leave rec. budget in better shapeWoolwich councillors give nod to department’s 2013 plan, which includes a list of facility improvements

derway with the recreation association with a new community centre in mind. Similar work is expected in Heidelberg.

In the meantime, the roof of the existing build-ing in Conestogo, home to the Children’s Place Nursery School, will be replaced.

Given long-term plans to replace the building, Coun. Mark Bauman was hesitant about the roof project.

“I’m questioning how much we want to invest in that facility,” he said, noting a new roof would be expected to last well beyond the 2018 timeframe for a new building.

That date, said Makela, acts as a placeholder in the capital budget, with an actual replacement sched-ule to be determined with community input, as resi-dents would be expected to foot a third of the cost.

The existing structure is otherwise fairly sound, the result of work done in the past few years, she noted.

“There are still years left on that centre.”

A new roof with allow for

continued use. The nursery school, for instance, pays $2,300 a year in rent for the space, with the money going to the recreation as-sociation.

At the community centre in Breslau, meanwhile, an architect will look at upgrades to the former Empire Communities sales pavilion required before it can be used as a public building.

The building was turned over to the township last summer, well ahead of the original 2017 timeframe, forcing the rec. department to do some scrambling to put the facility into service. Thus far there has been poor response to its request for public input, though the consensus seems to be for multi-purpose recreation space, Makela explained.

She’s also speaking to the region about the possibility of introducing library ser-vices there.

Other projects on the books include a skateboard park in Elmira, introducing an off-leash dog park and upgrades at the library in Elmira.

WINTRY: Weather is not to everybody's tasteFROM | COVER

minus-31.1 degrees. “Minus-21 feels like a heat

wave compared to that, and yet we thought we were done in,” Phillips said.

Arctic air is dense and has come down from the north, plunging down into the United States, he explained.

Thursday and Friday’s temperatures were also

colder than the average, but Phillips said the week-end will bring chilly but normal temperatures while Monday looks to bring another thaw. Don’t get too comfortable, however, because Jack Frost is not done yet, as temperatures will fall by the middle of the week. Phillips predicts this time we might be a little bit better prepared.

“We were not condi-tioned for it, we were not acclimatized to it. We hadn’t been winterized yet and all of the sudden we see this cold air.

“There will be wild tem-perature swings; we’re go-ing from thawing to freez-ing to melting and more freezing. This is the pattern

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The first weekend of April marks the return of the Canadian Cancer Society’s daffodil fundraiser, but if the Elmira campaign can’t find more volunteers, the charity may lose some of its reach.

“We’re really, really des-perate for help,” said Sue Dean Martin, chair of the daffodil campaign in Elmira. “If we’re going to expand or even stay at the level that we are, we really will need more Elmira or Woolwich people to step up.”

Entering its 75th year in Waterloo Region, the daf-fodil campaign is scheduled for April 5, 6 and 7 – coincid-ing with Saturday’s Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. So far, booths with daffodil flow-ers and pins are scheduled to open outside Elmira’s No Frills and Foodland – flow-ers will be on sale for $7 per bunch, with smaller dona-tions earning a pin. But with volunteers dwindling in re-cent years, Martin has found the responsibility of mount-ing the campaign heavy on her shoulders.

“I have to go pick up the daffodils; I have to bundle them all for the presales, deliver them to all the busi-nesses that have ordered presales,” Martin Said. “Then, you have to set up

A new building to re-place St. Jacobs Public School and the closure of Three Bridges PS are under consideration as the school board reacts to shifting de-mographics.

The changes, part of a regular accommodation review of Woolwich and Wellesley townships, could also involve the catchment

New school for St. Jacobs proposed as part of reviewWRDSB looking at closing Three Bridges PS, adjusting boundaries for Floradale and Linwood

areas of schools in Florad-ale and Linwood.

In St. Jacobs, the size and age of the current school has the Waterloo Re-gion District School Board looking at a new building on the existing site. Future repairs and the ability of the structure to accommo-date full-day kindergarten are part of the evaluation process, senior planner Nathan Hercanuck said

this week.“There could be a case

made for the rebuilding of St. Jacobs Public School. Based on all of these things that the committee feels need to be addressed in St. Jacobs it might make sense to build a whole new school,” he said.

Built in the late-1920s the original schoolhouse has been added onto over the years, and its heritage

status may pose problems if the board chooses to de-molish it.

The need for a new school may also be tied to a proposal to close Three Bridges PS due to its small size: it accommodates just 85 Mennonite students. The argument is that the board is financing two schools in the same school boundary and the old building is too expensive to

maintain.Should Three Bridges be

closed, the schoolhouse built in 1872 would be kept as a surplus property and likely sold.

The board has heard displeasure from the Men-nonite community, which is satisfied with the school and would like to keep the property as is. Should the school be closed the WRDSB will likely lose

many students to the paro-chial school system, Her-canuck speculated, as the community made it clear they were unlikely to send Three Bridges students to school at St. Jacobs PS.

Mennonite community members did let the board know that they may be willing to look at Floradale as an alternative.

Cancer Society seeking co-chair for Elmira daffodil campaign

your booths at the grocery stores; you have to find vol-unteers to man them; you have to collect the money; you have to deliver the flow-ers …

“And plus, when I don’t have enough volunteers,

I have to do it. So, it just becomes way too much for one person to handle over a weekend.”

Karen Griffiths, unit man-ager of the Cancer Society in Waterloo Region, said the venerable campaign holds

special significance. “It’s a signature event of the Ca-nadian Cancer Society, be-cause the daffodil signifies hope,” she said.

Volunteers of any stripe are welcome, but in particu-lar, the Cancer Society hopes that someone will step forward to join Martin as a co-chair – a commitment limited to April 3-7.

“You need to do site coor-dination to make sure all the sites have flowers and have enough pins,” said Griffiths. “Make sure everybody has what they need, and make sure each volunteer shift changes.”

Martin has found that members of Elmira’s ser-vice clubs are tied up with the Maple Syrup Festival. Now, she welcomes anyone from the surrounding ar-eas – Breslau, St. Jacobs, or anywhere else in the region – to come pitch in. While she has hopes of expanding the campaign to surround-ing areas in the years to come, Martin said that more volunteers are an essential factor.

“I really feel that if some-body doesn’t step up to the plate, I’ll probably have to step back, and instead of Woolwich growing and expanding in this area, we probably will do the oppo-site.”

It saw modest atten-dance at its Wednesday night information meeting, but the Elmira Kiwanis Club hopes the half dozen students who came will be the rock on which an Elmi-ra Key Club could be built.

“I hoped there would be more. Maybe there will be more. The good news is, you’ve got very good odds of winning a Sub-way voucher,” said James Schwindt, division lieuten-ant governor of Elmira Ki-wanis before the meeting.

Key Club International is a student-led subdivision of Kiwanis International, in-tended to bring leadership experience to high school students through charita-ble endeavors. Founded in 1925, it is the oldest service club for high school-aged students in North America.

Wednesday’s meeting marked the first formal attempt to start momen-tum for a club in Elmira. Grade 10 student Lars Chen and Grade 11 student Annu Puri, from Cameron Heights Collegiate Insti-tute’s Key Club in Kitchen-

Kiwanis hopes EDSS students embrace concept of new Key Club

WILL SLOAN er, made their pitch for the student club at the Wool-wich Community Centre, which would provide a venue for the proposed club.

“It’s a student-led orga-nization,” said Chen. “That means, we create our own projects, and we run them. Anyone in our Key Club can make their own project if they have an idea for their own project.”

“You make a lot of new friends,” said Puri. “The thing is, Key Club gives you that opportunity to net-work with so many differ-ent people, and build your own skills. You grow as a person, and keep growing.”

“It looks great on a job application – if you’re ap-plying for universities, it’s great,” Puri added.

The Cameron Heights Club, which was founded three years ago, currently boasts 160 members – the largest enrolment in east-ern Canada. So far, mo-mentum has been slower in Elmira.

“Twenty-five is the minimum to charter a club

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Sue Dean Martin, Elmira chair of the Canadian Cancer Society’s daffodil campaign, says fundraising will decline if more volunteers don’t surface. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Families feeling the crunch of rising food prices as they send their kids off to school each day now have somewhere to turn in the form of Wool-wich Community Services’ new Lunch Crunch pro-gram.

Its goal is to help low-income families provide students with two healthy snacks per school day.

In regular food hampers, which have been a focus for the organization, children’s lunch foods were limited to five boxes of juice and five snacks per hamper, which did not even begin to meet the demand of two daily nutrition breaks at schools, said director of community support Kellie Christie.

For those families, those extra food demands come with a steep price tag, she said, noting many parents don’t have the option of sending their children home for lunch.

Launched last week, the program got financial support from United Steel Workers Local 13691, rep-resenting Trylon TSF and Chemtura in Elmira, after WCS sent out a request for donations.

Christie initially reached

New WCS program packs some crunch in lunchELENA MAYSTRUK out with a request of $3,200

to fund Lunch Crunch for a year. Union Local 13691 president John Douglas re-viewed the request, coming back with an offer to do-nate a third of the amount, roughly $1,067, and encour-aged affiliate companies to match that cost. Trylon went on to donate the same amount, both sums paid directly to the Woolwich Food Bank. Current funds will keep the program run-ning until the end of June, coinciding with the end of the school year. Christie hopes to again reach out for donations for the fol-lowing fall.

“I think the initial focus came from the union and the guys on the floor. They wanted to do something for the community that has been good to them,” said Terry Clarke, chief finan-cial officer at Trylon.

Lunch Crunch is run by four volunteers who use the money to shop for lunch-friendly groceries each week. Families can come Mondays from 11 a.m. to noon on a drop-in basis and choose enough ingredients for every stu-dent in their household. For each child families can take 10 fruits, five veg-etables, one loaf of bread

and two or three cans of canned meats. The Lunch Crunch hampers follow the Canadian Food Guide and include meat alternatives if needed.

Families eligible must be low-income and reside in Woolwich Township or the northern part of Wellesley, which includes Heidelberg, St. Clements and Linwood areas.

The public is also being encouraged to make cash donations to the program.

Those interested in donat-ing can still give lunch food items, like 100 per cent juice boxes and peanut-free snacks, such as fruit cups. Cash donations will go to-wards the purchase of fresh produce.

Christie is optimistic about fundraising efforts. She said small, frequent donations would help a lot, and even a donation worth one day of eating out “is all it will take” to keep the pro-gram afloat.

It may be a Valentine’s Day event, but it’s not love that’s driving organizers. The goal of the Conestogo Winterbourne Residents Association’s gala is to raise money for its fight against a proposed gravel pit.

Money raised will go into the group’s legal fund for an upcoming battle at the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB).

CWRA was formed in 2007 in opposition to a gravel pit proposed by Hun-der Developments, which hopes to gain an aggregate licence for some 150 acres of land on two farm proper-ties located at 128 Katherine St. S. and 1081 Hunsberger Rd.

Funds are funneled into legal bills and for payment to experts reviewing all of the reports Hunder is put-ting forward. Legal repre-sentation allows the group party status with the OMB.

“Basically, funding our fight against the pit, our ability to be represented at the Ontario Municipal Board hearing,” said as-

Valentine’s fundraiser to help community group fund its gravel pit fight

ELENA MAYSTRUK sociation president Keri Martin Vrbanac of the legal account

So far the group has raised $172,000, about 75 per cent of the overall goal needed to cover various costs. Martin Vrbanac esti-mates the additional sum to be raised at approximately $42,000. The money should be enough, she said, to carry the group through the OMB hearing.

“The goal is to fight this to the end,” she added.

The event, a dinner and dance, is scheduled for Feb-ruary 9. Visitors will enjoy dinner, a live band, silent auction, live auction and raffles. This isn’t the first time the CWRA has reached out to the community: the 15 CWRA committee mem-bers have had many fund-raising efforts in the past five years.

“I think that the biggest thing is that we’ve put all these fundraising things into place. We’ve sold lawn signs, we’ve gone door to door canvassing, mailed out post cards asking

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WCS’s Kellie Christie hold up some healthy lunch items with Trylon Manufacturing’s Lisa Edwards and Terry Clarke and United Steel Workers Local 13691 president John Douglas. Trylon and the union have donated more than $2,000 to keep the new lunch program running until June. [ELENA MAYSTRUK/ THE OBSERVER]

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A resident of Welles-ley Township was one of 33 charged after police conduct-ed an early morning gun and drug raid January 16.

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Fourteen of the people charged are from Kitchen-er, three from Cambridge and one from Waterloo. Po-lice say the people charged are not members of any specific gang or group.

The accused are sched-uled to appear in court at the Ontario Court of Jus-tice in Kitchener.

4:57 PM | A male driving a pickup truck was struck by a car on Arthur Street in Elmira. The pickup, travelling southbound, had stopped momentarily and was struck from behind by a car also travelling southbound. The driver was charged with careless driving. There were no injuries as a result of the collision.

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1:15 PM | A two-vehicle colli-sion occurred on Snyder’s Flats Road in Woolwich Township. One vehicle was making a left turn when a male driver attempted to pass from be-hind and struck the vehicle. He was charged with attempt to pass while roadway not clear – overtaking traffic under the Highway Traffic Act.

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12:00 PM | A Nissan travel-ling westbound on Lobsinger Line in Wellesley Township struck a horse-drawn buggy at the inter-section of Durst Road as the buggy travelled southbound. There were no injuries to the vehicle occupants or the horse. No charges were laid.

1:30 PM | A 19-year-old Listowel man hit a snowdrift and col-lided with a guardrail on Hutchison Road at Deborah Glaister Line in Wellesley Township. There were no injuries and no charges were laid. There were white-out conditions due to blowing snow at the time.

3:15 PM | A vehicle slid off the roadway on Hutchison Road near Deborah Glaiser Line in Wellesley Township. The accident was due to slippery road conditions and poor visibility. There were no injuries.

6:10 PM | A vehicle slid off the roadway on Gerber Road near Sandhills Road in Wilmot Township due to poor visibility and slippery road conditions. There were no injuries as a result.

and register,” said Shelley DeCoates, the Key Club advisor from Kiwanis. “You could continue to meet, but you wouldn’t be a recognized Key Club. You wouldn’t be covered by insurance. If you were out doing services, you’d have to do them under the aus-pices of the Kiwanis Club of Elmira. They have the liability.”

She continued, “The main reason you want to be a club is to gain the coverage of Key Club International.”

Regardless, the Key Club members remained opti-mistic that word of mouth could spread. “If you tell 10 people, I guarantee you, they’ll tell at least 10 more people, and then once people start generating that interest, they’ll tell even more people. Before you know it, you have 50, 60 people,” said Puri.

“We will have more of these meetings to get people interested,” said DeCoates. “Social media is another way that maybe the Elmira Key Club could reach out."

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Kitchener students Lars Chen and Annu Puri make a case for the Kiwanis youth service club at a presentation Wednesday night in Elmira. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

in funding for recreation projects in Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich townships under the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF).

Wellesley will get $59,940 for improvements to the Wellesley Community Centre and Arena and $48,285 towards the upgrading of the Hawkesville Community Centre. Woolwich gets $96,250 for retrofitting of the lighting at Snider Park, while Wilmot is the recipient of $256,500 for improvements to the New Hamburg Arena and $114,000 for the town’s community centre.

“These investments will help create

jobs and growth and will support the quality of life in Waterloo Region for years to come,” said Albrecht.

Deep freeze allows for ice fishing: GRCA

Too cold to go outside? Not if you enjoy ice fishing, as the deep freeze has caused some popular lakes to ice over, allowing anglers to get out.

The Grand River Conservation Authority’s Belwood Lake park opened its doors Friday.

Belwood Lake is about three

kilometres east of Fergus on Belsyde Road (Wellington County Road 18). The park is one of three where the GRCA offers ice-fishing. The ice is not yet thick enough at the other two parks: Shade’s Mills in Cambridge and Pinehurst Lake near Paris.

Those two parks, plus Laurel Creek in Waterloo, are still waiting for enough snow to support other winter activities including snow-shoeing and cross-country skiing.

Up-to-date information on winter activities is available on the GRCA website, www.grandriver.ca.

Cashing in on slots for $531K

The Township of Centre Wellington is another $531,367 richer thanks to its five per cent share of the third-quarter (October to December 2012) revenues for hosting OLG Slots at Grand River Raceway.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation last week issued third-quarter payments of $17,863,632 to 23 municipali-ties for hosting OLG facilities.

In 2012-2013, the province will allocate $120 million in gaming revenue to support charities through the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

we see over the next little while.…We’ll have another cold wave but I can always assure you that the second one is not as stinging as the first one because we’re used to it.”

On Tuesday the Region

of Waterloo issued a public health reminder to citizens to stay safe during these unusual conditions. Tem-peratures well into the negatives are when frost bite becomes a risk, the statement read, and other cold-related health risks are more likely to occur.

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“Majority said they would be more comfortable at Floradale Public School as it has a more rural char-acter than St. Jacobs,” Her-canuck said.

As a result, a look at boundaries between Flora-dale and St. Jacobs public schools is also on the list of possible changes.

The board will look at modifications to school boundaries in Floradale and Linwood, as some par-ents have expressed con-cern about long commutes

for students. Currently the review is in

its second stage following a 30-day waiting period after the official announcement, with the passing of a fourth public meeting Thursday night. The third stage will involve the accommoda-tion review committee presenting the finished report to the trustees, who will vote following a 60-day waiting period.

After that, Hercanuck said, the pace of the chang-es will depend on funding from the Ministry of Edu-cation.

For a charitable group looking to get the word out and reach a good chunk of the community, partnering with the Elmira Sugar Kings seems like an ideal place to start. That fact was not lost on Elmira resident Nancy Zajac, who last year col-laborated with the team on an ambitious branch of the Teens for Jeans campaign. This year she hopes the event will explode and pro-vide even more much-need-ed denim to the region’s locals who are in need.

“Last year I came up with the idea near the end of the campaign and the Sugar Kings jumped on it and they were so great. We did a night with the Sugar Kings where we told the fans that were coming to the game, ‘bring jeans,’” Zajac said.

The campaign started six years ago when cloth-ing brand Aeropostale, Zajac’s employer, partnered with DoSomething.org, a non-profit geared towards helping teens. Aeropostale’s Teens for Jeans campaign asks customers to drop off their unwanted pairs at various store locations so they may be donated to lo-cal charities.

In January 2011 the local Teens for Jeans Campaign, run out of the Aeropostale

Nancy Zajac (centre), co-workers and volunteers for the Teens for Jeans Campaign are reaching out for support from hockey teams in Elmira, Waterloo and Kitchener. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

store in Conestoga Mall, collected more than 800 pairs of jeans but the num-bers dropped significantly last year and that’s when Wajac decided to reach out to the local hockey team in her home town. She ap-proached Sugar Kings GM Paul Jennings with the idea and was surprised by his ex-citement to jump on board.

Zajac and volunteers asked the Kings to spread the word and stood outside the doors of the Dan Snyder Arena as fans came in to watch the Kings play the Waterloo Siskins, collecting bags of denim. The team was also a big contributor, too.

“The teams brought in their jeans from players, their families and members of the league. They were so supportive and they were so proud to walk up to us and give us bags of jeans,” Zajac said.

More than 300 pairs were collected that night, said El-mira’s Emily Jordan, Zajac’s co-worker and a volunteer with the project.

The Kings also reached out to their on-ice rivals the Siskins, who agreed to host the denim-collecting volun-teers in Waterloo.

The Teens for Jeans campaign got two collec-tions out of the effort last year, collecting a total of 1,001 pairs over the entire campaign, an all-time high, Zajac said. This year they have seven games to go to and hope to collect a total of 1,200 pairs. Teens for Jeans representatives will be at two home games in Elmira starting this Sunday at the Dan Snyder Arena and will be back in Elmira on Febru-ary 3. They will also set up at two home games each for the Waterloo Siskins and the Kitchener Dutchmen, who have joined the ranks

this year. Zajac said the outpour-

ing of support does not surprise her given what she describes as the Elmira community’s inclination towards supporting good causes.

“It’s the community feel, especially in Elmira. We help each other out. The charities that we are giv-ing to, they’ve helped even me: I’ve been in a situation where I’ve been there and they helped me out which is very nice to give back to them in a way,” said volun-teer and Elmira resident Rebecca Wiersma.

Woolwich Community Services are on the top of the list for charities that will receive the donated denim this year. Other charities that have received dona-tions over the years include ROOF, Mary’s Place and the House of Friendship in Kitchener.

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people to contribute. This is sort of a way to ask people to contribute but make it fun. It was a way to bring the community together and enjoy an evening to-gether being as we are all in this to fight a common cause.”

An ongoing process, the next step in the legal battle is an OMB pre-hearing scheduled for January 29. There, the parties will stake out their positions and plot a direction for the official hearing down the line.

The upcoming fundrais-ing is another step in fight-ing the good fight, she said.

“Our goal is to have that money secured so that we can just move ahead.”

The gala will be held at Conestoga Country Club, located at 400 Golf Course Rd. in Conestogo. Check out the CWRA website for more information at www.cones-togo-winterbourne.com.

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HAVING BROACHED THE ISSUE of ever-growing staff costs, Woolwich council should be encouraged to go beyond wage freezes – a given – to assessing staff levels and over-in-flated salaries.

Staff will resist, of course, but they’re clearly in a con-flict position and any comments contrary to the necessary direction should be disregarded.

In that light, it’s no surprise chief administrative officer David Brenneman was none too eager to embrace wage freezes and cuts to salaries and benefits as a way of bring-ing Woolwich’s budget under control when the subject was raised at last week’s budget meeting. Bureaucracies always look for more even when it’s not needed or con-trary to the public interest.

Councillors are on the right track, however, and should push ahead with those kinds of cuts, even if the Mayor and bureaucrats argue otherwise.

The first step is to separate wage agreements for union-ized and non-unionized workers. There’s a clear conflict when senior staff receives the same increases they negoti-ate with the unionized workers. Councillors’ pay should again be a separate matter. Each should be debated in the open, making the spending of public money truly trans-parent no matter how uncomfortable that makes public employees.

This is the way the process should work. However, we’ve seen a disturbing trend in some municipalities toward automatic annual increases, sometimes tied to increases negotiated with municipal staffers. Throw in a propensity for closed meetings and residents are not see-ing any accountability for what is surely the most conflict-ridden part of a councillor’s duties.

Each of the municipal employee groups – unionized workers, staff and council – should be handled separately in negotiations about compensation.

While negotiations with the union are typically confi-dential, it falls to council to set the tone early and in pub-lic. In this case, given recessionary times and the growing gap between over-inflated public sector wages and the incomes of those in the real, productive part of the econ-omy, freezes are appropriate. A line must be drawn, and council cannot depend on management to do that.

Last year’s budget is an indication of what happens if staff leads the process. Directed by council to find five per cent in efficiencies – i.e. cuts – staff came back with a few token spending reductions and a raft of fee increases. To its discredit, council went along with that.

Likewise, when wage freezes and rollbacks are dis-cussed, staff’s default assumption is that services will be cut, rather than doing away with unneeded manage-rial positions. Front line services are what residents are overtaxed to pay. Bureaucratic bloat is what management encourages to make its life easier and to pad the payroll. When it comes to choosing between the two, councillors have an easy decision.

The idea is to identify the most essential of services of-fered to residents, then to begin trimming away at every-thing else.

As with governments of all stripes, program bloat and internal entitlements become entrenched. In budget de-liberations, there is a rationale for every spending request. Taken in isolation, each may make sense, but it’s the role of elected officials to see the big picture, and to nip in the bud empire-building and incremental growth.

Time for council to take wage issue into its own hands

The real problem is continental drift: Brussels, the capital of the European Union, is getting further and further away from Eng-land. Or at least that is Brit-ish Prime Minister David Cameron’s line.

Cameron made his long-awaited speech promising a referendum on contin-ued British membership in the European Union on January 23, and he placed the blame squarely on plate tectonics: “People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken fur-ther and further away from them mean their liv-ing standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the con-tinent.”

The “frustrated” people in question are English, of course. Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 mil-lion of the kingdom’s 65

Little Englanders win big in Cameron's EU speechmillion people live in Eng-land.

The Scottish national-ists seeking separation from England in their own referendum take the op-posite tack. They promise the Scottish electorate that leaving the UK would not mean leaving the Eu-ropean Union (although in fact Scotland would probably have to re-apply for membership). Scottish politicians have to promise to stay in the EU, because otherwise very few Scot-tish voters would say “yes” to independence. But Eng-land is different.

The “Little Englander” glories in the notion of England being unencum-bered by foreign ties and commitments. It’s the kind of nationalism that Ameri-cans call “isolationism,” and the phrase is now used to describe strongly nation-alist, even xenophobic peo-ple on the right of English politics. Those people, al-ways present in significant numbers within Cameron’s Conservative Party, have now won the internal party debate.

Every Conservative leader has had to deal with these people. They al-

ways managed to contain them in the past, because the European Union is Britain’s biggest trading partner, and it is obviously in Britain’s interest to be-long to the organization that makes the rules for Europe’s “single market.” What has changed is that the long recession and relatively high immigra-tion of recent years have increased the popularity of the extreme right in England.

That doesn’t mean that populist demagogues and neo-fascists are about to win power in the United Kingdom. Far from it: they’d be lucky to get 10 per cent of the vote. But it does mean that the Con-servatives are losing their more right-wing supporters to the anti-EU, anti-immi-gration United Kingdom Independence Party.

UKIP could never win an election in Britain, but it could easily steal enough votes from the Conserva-tives to make them lose the next election. So there has been mounting panic in the Conservative Party, and not just among its instinc-tively anti-EU members.

Cameron’s promise of a

referendum on EU mem-bership is first and fore-most an attempt to steal UKIP’s thunder and win back the defecting Conser-vative voters. He doesn’t really want to leave the EU, but he really does want to win the election that is due in 2015.

His reluctance to be the man who took Britain out of the EU was evident in the way he hedged around his referendum promise. The referendum would not take place until after the next election, and only if the Conservative Party won enough seats in 2015 to form a government on its own. (Its current coalition partner, the Liberal Demo-cratic Party, opposes the whole idea).

Cameron says he will spend the next two years renegotiating the terms of Britain’s EU membership to “repatriate” many pow-ers from Brussels to Lon-don, and to make various changes in the way the EU is run. Then, if he is satis-fied with the outcome, he will support EU member-ship in the election and in the subsequent referen-

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Removing power from PM and premiers would give a boost to democracy

The Ontario govern-ment has shuttered the legislature since mid-October for two reasons: it’s besieged by scandals and doesn’t want to answer questions, and because it can.

Solving the first issue – politicians and wasteful spending seem insepa-rable – is a mighty task. The second, however, is easily remedied: establish written rules about how and when sessions of par-liament can be opened and closed.

Putting restrictions on the prime minister and provincial premiers would eliminate the kinds of prorogation inci-dents associated with the Harper government in Ottawa, and what we’re seeing with the McGuinty Liberals. Such measures are especially useful where there are minority governments, recently the case on Parliament Hill and currently the

situation in both Ontario and Quebec, the coun-try’s two largest prov-inces.

Without rules, politicians will continue to abuse the system to their advantage, argues the national edu-cational foundation Your Canada, Your Constitution (YCYC), noting Canadians want to see real democratic reforms.

“Canadians realize this is a very crazy situation,” says Duff Conacher, the organi-zation’s coordinator.

A new survey released this week backs up the group’s contention that we want to curtail politicians’ power for the sake of ac-countability.

The poll addressed 2,013 Canadians on the question of restricting the powers of the prime minister and provincial premiers with clear written rules that can be enforced. The results show that a very large ma-jority of Canadians – 84 per cent – want this change made, while only nine per cent do not want the change.

The survey asked 2,013 Canadians ages 18 or old-er whether they agreed

or disagreed with writ-ing down the currently unwritten constitutional “conventions” that cover decisions such as: when the prime minister and premiers can open and close parliament; what measures can be includ-ed in bills such as bud-gets; whether a govern-ment has lost a vote that should cause an election; whether an election should be called just be-cause a prime minister or premier wants an elec-tion, and; which political party, or parties, will be the government after an election.

New rules would elimi-nate the manipulation of parliament for political purposes, says Conacher, pointing to changes made in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

Fifteen years ago, when the Kiwis shifted to pro-portional representation they knew there would be minority governments, increasing the chances of the kinds of parliamentary tricks we see here. All par-ties met and agreed to a set of rules that ended the exploitation of the system

for gain.“It’s helped with their

governance very much.”Australia followed New

Zealand’s lead when it had a minority government, as did the U.K. when its current minority situation arose.

“These rules make it fair. It was all cleared up with writing down the rules,” says Conacher of the value of clear regulations versus the unwritten rules and conventions we have here, rules that even parliamen-tary scholars can’t agree on.

For the past decade, arbitrary opening and shutting down of parlia-ment by the prime minister and premiers, snap elec-tions, omnibus budget bills, questionable votes of confidence, and question-able pre- and post-election moves by various po-litical party leaders across Canada, have caused huge controversies that have been left unresolved, with constitutional experts ar-guing about whether the unwritten constitutional conventions were followed or violated.

“Will the prime minister

and premiers, and party leaders across Canada, respond to this national consensus and finally write down these key democratic government rules, as most countries in the world already have, to ensure that everyone knows the rules and can be clearly held accountable if they violate them?” he asks.

In Ontario, rules set out in other Westminster parliaments would have prevented Dalton Mc-Guinty from proroguing the legislature. If the NDP and Tories had pushed for clear rules – say, a two-thirds vote on pro-rogation or a two-week limit, for instance – the Legislature would not have been shuttered since October 15.

Minority governments are an ideal time to push for such changes, and the opposition parties should be taking the lead, he says.

“They should be pushing for these changes, or they will continue to be abused by the premiers.”

The benefits are clear – “Why wouldn’t you do

something that nine out of 10 voters want to see?” – but why haven’t politi-cians, especially those in minority situations, pushed for changes? The cynical – and likely – an-swer is that they want to be able to manipulate the system when they get their hands on the levers. Politicians talk a great deal about accountability, but seldom deliver on any of it.

“They all seem to want power without accountabil-ity. But the public doesn’t want to give them power without that accountabil-ity,” says Conacher, noting politicians tend to write rules that let themselves off the hook.

With the YCYC’s lat-est push, it remains to be seen just how many politi-cians will be embarrassed enough by their inactiv-ity to actually make what amounts to a simple but effective boost to democ-racy.

“Given the survey re-sults, any political leader who takes steps to write down the rules will be ap-plauded by almost every Canadian.”

How do you beat the winter blues?

Go south or stay indoors

» Teresa Rumph

Wait for the sunny days

» Ruth Vint

I don’t mind the cold. This is what winter is supposed to look like.

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Staying in a warm house

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"What if the 26 other EU members choose not to waste months in talks on changing Britain’s relationship with the EU?" Gwynne Dyer | page 8

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THE MONITOR VERBATIM THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

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» The Petro-Path Not Taken: Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth

dum, which will be held by 2017. But he had no satis-factory answer to the hard questions that followed his speech.

What if the 26 other EU members choose not to waste months in talks on changing Britain’s re-lationship with the EU? What if they do negotiate but refuse to tie them-selves up in knots just to ease Cameron’s local political problems? Would he support continued EU membership in the promised referendum if he didn’t have a “new deal” to offer the voters. He simply wouldn’t answer those questions.

There is much that could be done to improve the accountability and ef-ficiency of the European Union, but it is not helpful to open a negotiation with 26 other governments by standing at the exit door and threatening to leave

if you do not get your way. The time may well come when Cameron has to answer those questions, and he probably does not know himself which way he would jump.

So for the next four years, all those foreign companies that have been using the United Kingdom as a convenient, English-speaking centre to pro-duce goods and services for the European market will be re-thinking their investment strategies. If the United Kingdom may leave the EU by 2017, is this really the right place to put their money? It will probably be a long dry season for the British economy.

How did an allegedly grown-up country talk it-self into this position? It’s an attitude that was summed up in an apocry-phal English newspaper headline of the 1930s: “Fog in (the English) Channel; Continent Cut Off.”

The Norwegian government owns 80% of petroleum production, and retains roughly 85% of the net revenues mainly through a 78% company tax and through direct access mechanisms.In Alberta and Canada, foreign and domestic private interests have taken the lion’s share of the petroleum wealth. Alberta has averaged just 9% of the economic rent from the oil sands over the last 15 years. The federal government, 7%.

» Toronto deputy mayor Doug Holyday said councillors who buckled to the firefighters’ union had produced an “Ikea monkey budget” by jamming it with pet spending projects.

“If the councillors in this chamber haven’t got the backbone to stand up on their own two feet and make their own decisions, unpressured by unions and unpressured by special interest groups, then they shouldn’t be here. Find another line of work.”

» From the Jan. 24, 2004 edition of the Observer.

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SPORTS | 11THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013

SPORTSHOCKEY / JUNIOR B

Pair of losses makes it five in a rowMissing some key players due to injury, the Elmira Sugar Kings take consolation in keeping things close

Team now facing off against the Delhi Travellers in the first round of SOJHL playoffs

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KINGS | 12

Jacks drop final two games of the season

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JACKS | 13

CAMPBELL | 13

HOCKEY / JUNIOR C

Kings’ Brady Campbell drafted by Maine of the NCAAWILL SLOAN

The Elmira Sugar Kings are set to lose one of the gems in their crown next season. Brady Campbell, the Kings’ right-winger and top scorer, has been drafted to join the University of Maine’s Black Bears. Campbell, age 20, has scored a prestigious hockey scholarship with the Hockey East Confer-

With several of their key players recovering from injuries, the Sugar Kings continued to struggle last weekend, losing a pair of games by narrow margins. On January 18, the Elmira team fell to the Caledonia Corvairs, 4-3, and on Sun-day, they lost to the Cam-bridge Winter Hawks, 3-2.

While top scorer Brady Campbell recovered from a cheek injury, and players Justin Cooke and James Mildon were also out of action, the Kings had to make due with an abridged lineup. Head coach Dean DeSilva said the team has struggled to fill the gaps.

“We’ve got a band-aid and a bubblegum lineup together, so our players battled hard and we were within one shot of tying the game up,” said DeSilva after Sunday’s game.

Last weekend’s losses come on top of three previ-ous defeats, but head coach Dean DeSilva called the streak a temporary setback.

“All we can do is make it all very, very simple, and keep shooting pucks on net,” said DeSilva. “We can’t cheat, we’ve got to take a lot more pride in some of our play away from the puck, but it’s tough when players are playing in situations they’re not used to playing.

“But they’ll learn from it, and we’re going to be better in the playoffs because of

Any hope of heading into the playoffs with mo-mentum on their side was extinguished last weekend as the Wellesley Apple-jacks dropped the final two games of the regular sea-son. The team posted back-to-back losses on home ice against the Hagersville Hawks (6-4 on January 18) and the Ayr Centennials (8-1 the following day).

“We just have to play a lot better than we did,” said coach Kevin Fitzpat-rick, as he considered the team’s prospects in the upcoming playoffs. “The biggest thing for this team is to come play 60 minutes

of hockey.”In the January

18 game against Hagersville, the

visiting team was strong out of the

gate with goals at 2:56 and 4:57. Wellesley countered with two goals of their own in the first period – from Blake Hetherington at 11:09 (assists from Reid Denstedt and Tyler Eckert) and Steven Tait at 16:01 (assisted by Corey Way)

ence, a New England divi-sion of the NCAA.

At a press conference following the Kings’ Sun-day night game against the Cambridge Winter Hawks, Kings general manager Paul Jennings was excited about Campbell’s pros-pects.

“Maine actually puts more players into pro hock-ey than any other hockey program in the NCAA,”

it, because these guys will know what it’s like.”

Last Friday’s game in Caledonia started poorly for the Kings, with the Cor-vairs scoring three goals in the first period, at 3:34, 12:23 and 16:57. The Cor-vairs then added a fourth goal at 4:43 in the second, extending their lead to a daunting 4-0.

But at 10:33, the Kings showed signs of life, with Jake Weidner landing the first goal. In the third pe-riod, Rob Kohli scored at 6:45 and Brandon Stewart sank the puck at 14:17. It wasn’t enough to erase the Corvairs’ lead, but the Kings managed to narrow the gap to 4-3.

“I thought we played well enough to get a point in Caledonia Friday night, but we were down very early in the game,” said DeSilva. “We hit four goal posts. But the guys stuck with it, and this adversity is going to make us better.”

On Sunday’s home game, Elmira scored the first goal, with Mitch Wright assisted by Craig Johnson and Patrick McKelvie at 2:53. But Cambridge dominated the rest of the first period, with goals at 7:33 and 13:23. Cambridge made it 3-1 in the second period, landing the period’s only goal at 9:26.

Elmira managed a small bounce back in the third period, with Zac Coulter

said Jennings. “Sixty play-ers have gone from the Black Bear program to the National Hockey League, so we know that there are some really fantastic op-portunities out there for him.”

At the press conference, Campbell was presented with a Maine Black Bears jersey, while head coach Dean DeSilva praised the departing player.

“When you talk to Brady about this, he’ll tell you that a lot of this has to do with his teammates,” said DeSilva. “He passes recog-nition onto them, because that’s the kind of player that Brady Campbell is. He won’t tell you how hard he worked over the summer to prepare for this year to reach his goals.”

Campbell, who is en-rolled in the University of

Guelph, will be finishing up his third season with the Sugar Kings, having joined in 2010. Since then, he has racked up 91 goals and 79 assists in regular-season games, and has been ranked by the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League as its Midwestern Conference Player of the Month six times (including twice this season).

This season alone,

Campbell has already scored 38 goals and 29 as-sists, for 67 points in 35 games. He currently ranks fourth on the team’s list of all-time top scorers.

To Campbell, the transi-tion is bittersweet. “It’s different for sure,” said Campbell. “But this is my last year of Junior eligibil-ity anyway, so either way I

Steven Jakiela (front) and Adam Dauda lead the Elmira Sugar Kings’ “band-aid and bubblegum” lineup during Sunday night’s game against the Cambridge Winter Hawks. With some key players missing from action, the Kings lost 3-2. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

12 | SPORTS THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013

WOOLWICH WILDCATS

Tyke: SELECTJan. 19 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 4 Georgetown: 3Goals: Sam Hacock Joey Martin Dustin Good x2Assists: Austin Schnarr x2, Cade Beacom, Will LavigneJan. 20 vs. GuelphWoolwich: 0 Guelph: 2

Novice: MAJOR AJan. 20 vs. Owen SoundWoolwich: 5 Owen Sound: 7Goals: Sebastian Garrett, Tyler Brezynskie, Ian Speiran, Zack Bender, Brett MoserAssists: Nolan Bridge x3, Ian Speiran, Liam Eveleigh, Andrew Gear, Sam Goebel, Sebastian Garrett, Tyler Brezynskie

Novice: AEJan. 20 vs. HespelerWoolwich: 2 Hespeler: 0Goals: Lucas Carson, Sam SiopioloszAssists: Owen Brown, Aiden Von KannenShutout: Simon Bauman, Jordan Wang

Atom: MAJOR AAJan. 19 vs. St. Catharine’sWoolwich: 2 St. Catharine’s: 0Goals: Ryan Elliott, Brett AllenAssists: Keaton McLaughlin, Nathan Taylor, Isiah Katsube, Lucas HuberShutout: Zach VerweyJan. 20 vs. Stoney CreekWoolwich: 2 Stoney Creek: 1Goals: Ben Witmer, Lucas HuberAssists: Brett Allen

Atom: LL #2Jan. 19 vs. ParisWoolwich: 9 Paris: 4Goals: Jonathon Dingelstad x3, Simon Shantz x3, Patrick Perry, Tyson Kraemer x2Assists: Patrick Perry x2, Lucas Weber, Matthew Yorke x2, Cole Brubacher, Tyson Kraemer, Simon Shantz

Atom: LL #3Jan. 21 vs. Twin CentreWoolwich: 4 Twin Center: 0Goals: Cameron Martin x3, Nate CurtisAssists: Nate Curtis, Sam NitscheShutout: Ryan Martin

PeeWee: AEJan. 12 vs. New Hamburg

Woolwich: 6 New Hamburg: 2Goals: Devin Williams, Owen Lucier, Kyle Bruder, John Wang, Cade Schaus x2Assists: Cade Schaus x2, Ben Lenaers x2, Matthew MacDonald x2, Justin Uhrig, Kyle Deyell x2, Tim Mayberry x2, Devin WilliamsJan. 13 vs. Owen SoundWoolwich: 8 Owen Sound: 0Goals: Cade Schaus, Ben Lenaers, Austin Whittom x3, Devin Williams, Kyle Bruder x2Assists: Devin Williams, Noah Scurry, Kyle Bruder x2, Owen Lucier x3, Cade Schaus, Ben Lenaers, Matthew MacDonald x2, Owen Lucier x2, John WangShutout: Cal Schell

PeeWee: MAJOR AJan. 14 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 6 Georgetown: 5Goals: Cole Altman, Austin Flaherty x2, Riley Runstedler, Evan Gowing, Nolan McLaughlinAssists: Jordan Lee, Evan Gowing, Austin Flaherty, Riley RunstedlerJan. 19 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 2 New Hamburg: 4Goals: Brady MacDonald, Cole AltmanAssists: Garrett Reitzel, Jordan Lee, Riley RunstedlerJan. 20 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 2 Georgetown: 1Goals: Evan Gowing, Cole AltmanAssists: Sammy Huber, Brad Hale, Austin Flaherty

PeeWee: MINOR AAJan. 16 vs. OakvilleWoolwich: 3 Oakville: 2Goals: Austin Cousineau, Eli Baldin, Brody WatersAssists: Griffen Rollins, Sam Davidson, Austin Cousineau x2Jan. 20 vs. OakvilleWoolwich: 5 Oakville: 2Goals: Jake Code x3, Brody Waters x2Assists: Griffen Rollins, Nolan Hislop, Jake Code, Bart Sherrer x3, Sam Davidson, Kurtis Hoover, Brody Waters

PeeWee: LL #1Jan. 19 vs. St. GeorgeWoolwich: 3 St. George: 2Goals: Matthew MacDonald, Simon Zenker x2Assists: Hayden Fretz, Ryan Moser, Hanna Petrosino x2, Liam Hanley

PeeWee: LL #2Jan. 19 vs. Plattsville

Woolwich: 1 Plattsville: 3Goals: Blake RichardsonAssists: Jacob WisemanJan. 20 vs. ParisWoolwich: 7 Paris: 4Goals: Cole Bauman, Ryan Belanger, Matt Dunn x2, Nate Maier, Sullivan Keen, Blake RichardsonAssists: Nate Maier, Brannon Slade, Sullivan Keen, Ryan Belanger, Cole Bauman, Cole Campbell, Blake Richardson

Bantam: MINOR AJan. 17 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 2 Georgetown: 0Goals: Jonah Boehm, Mitchell NewsonAssists: Isaac Frey, Mitch WatersShutout: Evan MartinJan. 19 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 3 New Hamburg: 4Goals: Owen Read x2, Ryan ShantzAssists: Mitch Waters, Jordan GambleJan. 20 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 1 Georgetown: 0Goals: Connor MartinAssists: Jacob Uridil, Sheldon MetzgerShutout: Evan Martin

Bantam: LL #1Jan. 19 vs. Woolwich LL #2LL1: 2

LL2: 1Goals: Ryan Diemert, Joe HanleyAssists: Noah Rawlinson x2, Jordan Luis

Bantam: LL #2Jan. 18 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 0 New Hamburg: 2Jan. 19 vs. LL #1LL2: 1 LL1: 2Goals: Liam CattonAssists: Connor Atkinson, Jonathan MartinJan. 20 vs. BeverlyWoolwich: 3 Beverly: 1Goals: Dylan Smith x2, Connor AtkinsonAssists: Matthew Greene x2, Quinn Young x2, Liam Catton, Trent Brunkard

Midget: MAJOR AJan. 12 vs. HespelerWoolwich: 4 Hespeler: 1Goals: McKinley Ceaser x2, Bo Uridil, Tyler SeguinAssists: Matt Townsend, Adrian Gilles x2, Tim ShuhJan. 19 vs. BramptonWoolwich: 3 Brampton: 2Goals: Bo Uridil, McKinley Ceaser, Tyler SeguinAssists: Tyler Seguin, Tim Shuh, Matt Townsend, Sebastian Huber x2, McKinley Ceaser

Midget: MINOR AJan. 16 vs. Brampton

Woolwich: 4 Brampton: 5Goals: Alex Uttley x2, Nicholas Pavanel, Eddie HuberAssists: Matthew Leger x2, Alex Uttley, Ryley Cribbin, Eddie Huber, Cole Lenaers, Nicholas PavanelJan. 20 vs. GeorgetownWoolwich: 5 Georgetown: 2Goals: Matthew Leger x2, Nicholas Pavanel, Alex Uttley, Josh KuenemanAssists: Cole Lenaers x2, Matthew Leger, Cole ConlinJan. 22 vs. BurlingtonWoolwich: 3 Burlington: 4Goals: Alex Uttley x2, Ryley CribbinAssists: Cole Lenaers x2, Jason Dunbar

Juvenile: OVER 17Jan. 13 vs. GlanbrookWoolwich: 4 Glanbrook: 4Goals: Andrew Moore x2, Alex Albrecht, Dalton TaylorAssists: Tommy Bearinger, Justin Schlupp, Ryan Ament, Clinton DechertJan. 16 vs. BeverlyWoolwich: 4 Beverly: 3Goals: Clinton Dechert, Brandon Brubacher x2, Josh WadeAssists: Andrew Moore, Jordan Moore, Josh Wade, Brent Kron, Justin VanElswykJan. 19 vs. Caledonia

Woolwich: 4 Caledonia: 2Goals: Justin Schlupp, Justin VanElswyk, Alex Albrecht, Ryan AmentAssists: Ryan Ament, Clinton Dechert, Andrew Moore, Dalton Taylor, Justin VanElswyk

HOCKEY TOURNAMENTS

Novice: LL #2Novice Cup Tournament

Woolwich, ON – Jan. 19-20Game 1 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 2 New Hamburg: 2Goals: Nolan Karger x2Assists: Ryan BrubacherGame 2 vs. Woolwich LL #3LL2: 4 LL3: 1Goals: Thomas Hill-Ring x2, Ryan Brubacher, Nolan KargerAssists: Riley Snider, Thomas Hill-RingGame 3 vs. Woolwich LL #4LL2: 9 LL4: 0Goals: Ryan Brubacher x3, Nolan Karger x4, Thomas Hill-Ring, Parker AllesAssists: Tristan Kraemer, Daniel Kelly, Tanis Uhrig, Cale Waechter, Adrian Kocan, Jonathan Staken, Riley Snider, Evan CattonShutout: John Kilgour

Novice: LL #3Novice Cup Tournament

Woolwich, ON – Jan. 19-20

Game 1 vs. Noble KingWoolwich: 4 Noble King: 0Goals: Coleton Benham x2, Corbin Schmidt x2Assists: Michael Gear, Corbin SchmidtShutout: Connor DingelstadGame 2 vs. Woolwich LL #4LL3: 7 LL4: 3Goals: Michael Gear, David Taylor, Turner Duldhardt, Coleton Benham x3, Corbin SchmidtAssists: Corbin Schmidt, Ben Moyer, Ryan Buehler, Andrew BuehlerGame 3 vs. New HamburgWoolwich: 6 New Hamburg: 1Goals: Turner Duldhardt, Colten Benham x3, Corbin Scmidt x2, David TaylorAssists: Michael Gear, Turner DuldhardtGame 4 vs. Woolwich LL #2LL3: 1 LL2: 4Goals: Turner Duldhardt

WOOLWICH WILD

Novice: LL #1Jan. 20 vs. KitchenerWoolwich: 1 Kitchener: 1Goals: Annie SargentAssists: Claire Jacklin

Novice: LL #2Jan. 19 vs. WaterlooWoolwich: 6 Waterloo: 1Goals: Makenna McLaughlin x2, Braelyn Mac Pherson x2, Alison Martin, Gwyneth MartinAssists: Karli Gingrich, Tia Zettel, Braelyn MacPhersonJan. 21 vs. WaterlooWoolwich: 4 Waterloo: 0Goals: Braelyn MacPherson x2, Gwyneth Martin x2Assists: Payton Karn x2, Eadyn Meier, Faith Katsube, Alison MartinShutout: Lauren Gerth

Atom: BJan. 18 vs. KitchenerWoolwich: 3 Kitchener: 0Goals: Delaney, Maddy, AlanaAssists: Delaney, Sydney, Ali

Bantam: BJan. 19 vs. ZorraWoolwich: 2 Zorra: 0Goals: Jaycee Kaufman, Caitlin PickardAssists: Nicole Merlihan

Bantam: BBJan. 16 vs. CambridgeWoolwich: 1 Cambridge: 1Goals: Emily WillmsAssists: Erika MorrisonJan. 18 vs. AyrWoolwich: 1 Ayr: 0Goals: Megan ChapmanAssists: Rachel Weber, Sydney MeunierJan. 20 vs. LondonWoolwich: 3 London: 1Goals: Sydney Meunier, Megan Chapman, Jennifer McDonaldAssists: Rachel Weber, Michelle Wang

Midget: BJan. 14 vs. MitchellWoolwich: 2 Mitchell: 0Goals: Kendra Harold x2Assists: Lea OlsthoornShutout: Lauren LesageJan. 20 vs. MilvertonWoolwich: 2 Milverton: 0Goals: Sarah Church, Claire HanleyAssists: Lindsay BaumanShutout: Lauren Lesage

TWIN CENTRE STARS

Novice: LL #1Jan. 17 vs. TavistockTwin Centre: 5 Tavistock: 2Goals: Noah Strauss x2, Andrew Rouble x2, Charlie BirrellAssists: Hayden Foster x2, Cameron Butler x2

Novice: LL #2Jan. 13 vs. BeverlyTwin Centre: 2 Beverly: 2Goals: Jaxsen Lubbers, Thomas EggertAssists: Braydon Skipper, Owen Vanderspeigel

Atom: LL #1Jan. 5 vs. WoolwichTwin Centre: 6 Woolwich: 3Goals: Reid Henderson x2, Stirling Grubb, Isaiah Siewert, Connall Gillett, Ben BauerAssists: Connall Gillett, Christopher Jones, Josh Carere, Noah Bailey, Jaden PalermoJan. 6 vs. BeverlyTwin Centre: 2 Beverly: 2Goals: Connall Gillett x2Assists: Ben Bauer, Dawson Stevenson, Reid Henderson, Colby VanBargen

TWIN CENTRE HERICANES

Atom: REPJan. 21 vs. WoolwichTwin Centre: 4 Woolwich: 0Goals: Jordyn Torti, Emily Krueger, Abby Wolf, Lauren SkanesAssists: Emily Krueger, Kara DietrichShutout: Kara Mark, Lylee Zacharczuk

PeeWee: LLJan. 19 vs. Grand RiverTwin Centre: 1 Grand River: 1Goals: Kate SeipBantam: LLJan. 19 vs. StratfordTwin Centre: 3 Stratford: 1Goals: Melanie Barnard, Leah Sebben, Haley BurtonAssists: Hannah Charlton x2

Midget: REPJan. 21 vs. MitchellTwin Centre: 2 Mitchell: 2Goals: Mackenzie VanBargen, Autumn HergottAssists: Cassidy Pearce, Autumn Hergott

NOVICE LL2 WINS CUP TOURNAMENT

The Woolwich Novice Local League 2 team won the Novice Cup Tournament held in Elmira last weekend. They defeted Woolwich LL3 by a score of 4-1. Team members are Parker Alles, Tristan Kraemer, Daniel Kelly, Tanis Uhrig, Evan Catton, Cale Waechter, Adrian Kocan, Ryan Brubacher, Jonathan Staken, Nolan Karger, Riley Snider, Thomas Hill-Ring and John Kilgour. Coaches are Chris Kelly, Rob Alles, Greg Brubacher and Andrew Karger. [submitted]

THE SCORE | MINOR SPORT RESULTS

KINGS: Coach lauds players for battling back after going down earlyFROM | 11

scoring at 3:38, but despite a hard-fought late-rally (during which the Kings’ goalie was pulled for the last 30 seconds), Elmira was unable to over-come Cambridge’s early lead.

“We dug ourselves into a hole being down early in the game, but full credit to our

guys for battling back,” said DeSilva. “The good thing about it is, we’re not getting blown out. We may be down early, but we’re in every game, and it’s one shot away, and that’s going to turn around for us.

“I can’t say anything right at this point to make them

feel any better, but we will be better when the playoffs come along.”

At a post-game press con-ference announcing team member Brady Campbell’s scholarship with the Univer-sity of Maine, Campbell’s fa-ther Brad Campbell addressed the team’s recent track record.

“Keep it up, boys – this is going to be a good year. You’re going through a little adversity now, but it’ll right.”

After facing Guelph on Thursday, the Kings return to the Woolwich Community Centre to face the Waterloo Siskins on Sunday afternoon. Game time is 2 p.m.

SPORTS | 13THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013

NOT SO GREAT OUTDOORSMAN / STEVE GALEA

OPENCOUNTRY

Finding cold comfort as the temperatures plunge well below the freezing point

I woke up this morn-ing, checked the outside thermometer and noted that, around here at least, we were in the middle of a veritable heat wave.

“Have you seen my shorts?” I asked. “It’s mi-nus-24!”

I won’t publicize Jenn’s response, but suffice it to say that she wasn’t looking too hard for them.

I suspect this was be-cause she knew I would immediately attempt to

pair them up with sandals, white knee socks and a Ha-waiian shirt.

But it could have also had something to do with the incident two days ago when, in a rare attempt to be a gentleman I went out at 8 a.m. to scrape off her car. The temperature was 36 below that morn-ing, with a wind chill that would make a polar bear start planning a vacation in Florida.

It was not the kind of morning that a person should step into without a good pair of gloves. But I did.

The truth is I rarely wear gloves – I find them too

constraining and clumsy for most of the things I like to do. Instead I prefer to rely on that technological advancement called pock-ets. But this time it was a mistake. It’s hard to scrape off a windshield with your hands in your pockets.

Though I only spent 10 minutes scraping, I came dangerously close to get-ting frostbite. In fact, two days later, one of my fin-gers is still raw and a bit swollen. The only good part is that it is my middle fin-ger, so at least I get to giggle immaturely every time I show this to someone.

I should have known bet-ter. I’ve hunted and fished

in colder temperatures. But this time, I figured I was so close to the warmth and safety of the house that precautions weren’t required.

Luckily, no permanent damage was done.

That’s a good thing too. Outdoorsmen, more than most, need middle fingers. Without them, we’d lose at least half of our ability to communicate with fishing and hunting buddies. Lose that finger and what would we hit with a rock when pounding in tent pegs?

With that in mind, I fig-ure I’ll spend my day off (which begins right after I turn in this column) tying

flies. I’ll have a springer spaniel at my feet, a cat curled out in the big plastic bowl that sits on the table and a Labrador retriever gnawing on a beef bone in the corner of the room.

The furnace will be set to a comfortable level too and every now and then, I’ll sip on a hot coffee.

It’s not Florida, but it’s not bad either.

Besides, I’ve been mean-ing to tie a dozen or so Carey Specials to tempt our local rainbow trout when the lakes finally open up. After that, I might reload a box of .222 Remingtons so I’ll have something to shoot at the range next time I

visit.I like both of these activi-

ties, especially when winter temperatures get to the point of unbearable.

Each one allows me to daydream about what spring holds. The flies get me thinking of this little lake I know where, when you fish deep and loch-style, the rainbows like to cooperate. The .222 rounds get me thinking of open fields and long range shoot-ing at varmints with my friend Jerry who I don’t see nearly as much as I should.

All that’s cold comfort for a day spent inside. But at least I don’t have to wear gloves here.

JACKS: Losses disappointing, but team now focused on first round of SOJHL playoffs vs. DelhiFROM | 11

– but Hagersville pushed their lead to 4-2 at 18:19.

Wellesley scored first in the second period at 2:30, courtesy of Eckert and an assist from Devon Wagner and Michael Pollice, fol-lowed by two goals from Hagersville at 10:04 and 10:52. Wagner scored one for Wellesley at 17:30, but

with the Jacks unable to tie things up in the third pe-riod, Hagersville made its victory decisive with one last goal at 19:02.

But the Jacks collapsed on Saturday’s home game against Ayr, suffering a tough 8-1 defeat. Until the final minutes, Ayr totally dominated the game, scor-ing three goals in the first period (at 5:34, 6:44 and

12:18), two goals in the sec-ond (at 2:26 and 11:25), and three in the third (at 3:26, 5:42 and 14:53).

Finally, at 15:35, Josh Herd scored the Jacks’ sole goal, with an assist from Derek Lebold. Other statis-tics are not much cheerier: the Jacks managed only 17 shots on net compared to Ayr’s 42.

“I didn’t expect us to play

as bad as we played Satur-day,” admitted Fitzpatrick. “We just didn’t come ready. There isn’t one player that had a good game.

“At the end of the day,” he continued, “it was a nothing hockey game. My only disappointment is we had a good crowd, and we should have showed better as a team.”

The losses saw the team

finish the season with a record of 23-13-2, the 48 points placing them third in the McConnell Confer-ence.

The Jacks had a few days to regroup before enter-ing the first round of the SOJHL playoffs Wednesday night against the Delhi Travellers. Fitzpatrick said his team’s play will have to improve to contend with

what he expects to be a tough opponent.

“They had a rough first half but they’ve had a very good second half,” said Fitzpatrick of the rival team. “They made a coach-ing change, he’s an excel-lent coach. It’s going to be a tough round.”

Wellesley won Game 1 Wednesday night, defeat-ing Delhi 5-4 in overtime.

CAMPBELL: Maine a strong NHL-feeder school

FROM | 11

was going to have to move on after this season, but I’m happy I still get to fin-ish this out in Elmira.”

Cambell’s father, Brad Campbell, finished the press conference with

some warm words for the Sugar Kings. “I would have to believe, not knowing what goes on in other Ju-nior B centres, this has to be the envy of the rest of the Junior B league,” he said. “[For] 42 years, this community-run program

has continued to put suc-cess on the ice.”

“It’s a tremendous hon-our for both Brady, the en-tire team, the entire organi-zation and for our league,” added DeSilva. “Because it’s very, very important that others recognize the hard work that these boys put in to show how well our league does develop play-ers for that next level.”

When he joins the Black Bears later this year, the Kings’ most celebrated player already anticipates facing a new array of chal-lenges.

“Playing against bigger guys, that’s for sure,” said Campbell. “And at the next level, everybody will be just that much smarter and that much faster, so it will take some time to adjust.”

But before that, Camp-bell will finish off his season with the Kings. In recent weeks, he has been off the ice recovering from a broken cheekbone, but following the press confer-ence, DeSilva predicted he will be back in the next few weeks. “The injury came at a tough time for him and for the team, but he’s going to be healthy in a couple of weeks and is going to be back well before the play-offs start,” said DeSilva.

Top-scorer Brady Campbell will finish his season with the Elmira Sugar Kings after recovering from a broken cheekbone. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Applejacks forward Troy Williams tries to hold off the Hagersville Hawks on January 18. The 6-4 score was the first of two losses for Wellesley last weekend [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

14 | VENTURE THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013

VENTUREFOOD FOR THOUGHT/ OWEN ROBERTS

FIELDNOTES

NEW BUSINESS / ATTENTION TO DETAIL

Keeping it simple, by design

One night, in a dream (unfortunately), Eric Clap-ton and I were onstage somewhere, jamming 12-bar blues, Chicago-style. Of course, he was playing lead guitar. After a bit, he gave me the head nod universally understood by musicians to mean “your turn.” So off I ventured into an improvised solo, playing a few bars, then sending the spotlight back to where it belonged. Graciously, he again nodded, this time with his approval of my solo. That’s one way I knew it was a dream.

Switch to real life, on a Sunday night in St. Louis. I was out for a business din-ner with colleagues, and being in the hometown of Chuck Berry, we wanted to hear some music. We asked the cab driver to take us to any blues bar he could find, and ended up someplace we weren’t very welcomed wearing ties and sports jackets. But the bar did indeed have a great blues trio, Little Jimmy, whose band leader cautiously visited us during a break. He found out I was also a guitarist, invited me up to play lead on a few impro-vised bars of “Who Do You Love?” with his band, and the nasty looks from our fellow patrons turned to handshakes and pats on the back. It was the most localized and welcomed example of music’s healing power that I’d ever experi-enced.

Flash forward again, this time to Kitchener ear-lier this week. There, the first of a province-wide series of discussions took place about the value of university research and innovation, its significant

Creative solutions can help solve big problems

FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ OWEN ROBERTS

ROBERTS | 15

In creating work for his Silverado Signs business, Randy Boisvenue likes clean, crisp signage

SIGNS | 15

VENTUREPROFILE

BUSINESS: Silverado Signs

LOCATION: 2886 Lobsinger Ln.

PHONE: 519-699-0415

OWNER: Randy Boisvenue

WILL SLOAN

Randy Boisvenue, who creates custom signage at his Silverado Signs busi-ness in Heidelberg, does not hesitate when asked what makes him wince in his industry.

“Bad layout,” said Bois-venue. “Absolutely hate when people who have no experience do a bad layout. Your eye ... you’re trying to follow it all over the place, and it doesn’t make sense.”

In his brightly-coloured, rigorously symmetrical work, Boisvenue prefers simplicity. “I hate busy-ness. No need for that. Keep it simple,” he said. “Layout is crucial to any sign, and I think I gained a lot of experience at the commercial advertising course I took years ago. Many people today, they just buy a computer and jump into the sign busi-ness. Don’t have a clue.”

“I’m not the greatest at it,” he continued. “But there is a flow – there are rules for layout, and very few people know them.”

Of course, Boisvenue is being modest. Silverado Signs, which opened last April, is named for the vintage western movies and TV shows Boisenvue grew up with (his house is stocked with Gunsmoke and Have Gun, Will Travel memorabilia). Much of his work mimics the genre’s 1880-by-way-of-1950 retro-chic: his signs outside the Olde Heidelberg Res-taurant and Motel (3006 Lobsinger Line) suggest the décor of an Old West saloon, filtered through a pop art sensibility.

In addition to large-scale signage (hand-painted or vinyl cut), Silverado Signs offers designs for business cards, letterhead, logo design, and truck and mail-box lettering.

Boisvenue took an indi-rect route to a commercial art career.

“I started out life as an auto mechanic,” he said. “In 1970 I was in a car ac-cident and I banged myself up real bad, but I went back

to the trade. And in 1980 I got in another accident – flukey accident – and they said, ‘You’re retired from the automotive trade.’”

With his auto career on hold, Boisvenue decided to

enroll in a commercial art program at Mohawk Col-lege, earning his diploma in 1983. The following sum-mer, he refined his craft at an eight-week night-school course in sign painting,

and fell in love with the discipline.

In the ‘80s, he paid his dues working for the now-defunct Randall Advertising in Kitchener. “We weren’t allowed any ideas,” he laughed. “We were the grunt people. They came out with the work and said, ‘Here, you’re gonna do this.’ There was no freedom whatso-ever.” In his spare time, he satisfied his creative itch with freelance gigs and his own personal art.

Now, Boisvenue is his own boss, and that’s not the only difference. Today, the majority of his designs are composed by computer, with the aid of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. Still, he prefers the art and craft of hand-lettered signs. “Hand-lettering will last probably three or four times longer than vinyl,” he said. “I have two known signs in exis-tence that have been up over 20 years. In the indus-try, that’s quite amazing.”

Still, the computer layout offers artistic satis-faction of its own. “I love doing business cards,” he

said. “Someone comes in with a start-up business, they’ll have two trucks, you’ll letter the truck, then you’ll say, ‘Okay, now you need business cards.’ So you carry the artwork over to the business cards.”

His business cards pos-sess the same clean layout and retro/multicolour aesthetic of his large-scale signs. “Business cards to-day are not expensive to do. You can put all the co-lour into it that you want, and it’s not going to cost the customer a fortune anymore, so why not?”

As for just where his interest in art came from, Boisvenue is uncertain.

“I wouldn’t say I’m a doodler, but I think most

Randy Boisvenue, owner of Silverado Signs, at work in his home studio. His business produces hand-painted signage, plus business cards, letterhead and mailbox lettering. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Boisvenue’s handiwork includes vintage company logos, including the likes of Indian Motorcycles. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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influence on society and how it will shape the fu-ture – specifically, the year 2030. Among the featured speakers was University of Guelph Prof. Ajay Heble, a fine jazz improvisation mu-sician, who took the stage to talk not about scales, notes and other aspects of music, as you might ex-pect. Instead, he spoke of hope.

To him, musical improvi-sation offers a foundation for hoping and dreaming of different and better days ahead. Sharing the spotlight speaks to a sce-nario where people get along through flexibility, trust and mutual respect. Those principles can lead to dialogue, and a future where activists don’t need to shout to be heard, and to policy creation where artists are as involved as bureaucrats.

At the Kitchener gather-ing, Heble cited cultural studies scholar Ien Ang’s position on the future. She says one of the most urgent predicaments of our time can be described in decep-tively simple terms: that is, how are we to live together

in this new century? In-deed, before we figure out how we’ll exist in the next century, we’d better figure out how we’ll get through this one.

The early part of this century, the part we’re in right now, is pivotal for the future. Perhaps most notable is that we face the pending need to not only feed an estimated two bil-lion more people in 40-ish years from now, but just as pressing, we must figure out how to do so. By 2030, the year chosen as a focus for Wednesday’s discus-sion, it won’t be good enough to simply have plans in place. We’ll need to be actively working on

kids in the art field started out doodling, in school, right?” said Boisvenue. “I mean, all you saw was the teacher’s lips going, ‘Blah blah blah blah blah blah…’”

Silverado Signs is located at 2886 Lobsinger Line. Boisvenue can be contact-ed at 519-699-0415, or by email at gogglespisano@rogers.com. Silverado Signs also has a presence on Ki-jiji, where customers can order hand-painted signs of vintage company logos, including Harley Davidson and Indian Motorcycles.

them too. This doesn’t mean every-

one involved in policy for-mation and food produc-tion must suddenly agree on everything. But more voices must be heard. The Idle No More movement shows what happens when people are ignored. They too are part of the future. They deserve the chance to shape it.

Heble’s approach has as much relevance in rural Canada as urban Canada, onstage or off, in municipal councils or boardrooms. Musicians take risks when they improvise, and for the most part the results are new and fresh. To Heble, that’s the way to the future.

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Like a slapshot, it’s all about timingElmira playwright Mike Grant’s new award-winning comedy, Shorthanded, is the latest production from ETC

WILL SLOAN

Entire library shelves have been devoted to the delicate art of creating comedy. Conventional wisdom says that comedy is the most nerve-wracking of the dramatic arts, and the one with the highest potential for failure. Mi-chael Grant, writer/director of the new Elmira Theatre Company production Shorthanded, sees it differ-ently.

“I find it hard writing drama,” said Grant. “I tried several years ago to do a ‘30-Hour Theatre-a-thon’ where we had one night to write a script – a short, one-act script, a 20-minute play – and I challenged my-self to write a drama, and I found it so difficult.”

But of course, Grant knows firsthand that com-edy is fragile.

“There’s a rhythm to it, and the punchline doesn’t work when that rhythm gets broken,” said Grant. “It’s almost like a sym-phony. And all of a sudden there’s a line, either I’ve written it incorrect, or the actor is slow delivering it, it’s like the needle went across the record.”

Milton Berle once de-scribed the rhythm of a joke as, “Dit-dit-dit-dot,

dit-dit-dit-dot, dit-dit-dit-joke” (seriously, put any-thing in Jay Leno’s mono-logue against this rubric), and Grant sees the craft in similarly mathematical terms.

“I love the process of the setup of the joke then the payoff,” Grant said. “At times when writing comedy it’s almost, ‘setup-setup-setup, there’s your payoff / setup-setup-setup, your next payoff.’ So it’s just a series of setups and

payoffs.”Grant will now bring his

comic instincts to some sober topics. Shorthanded, which opens February 8, takes place in the dress-ing room of a hockey rink, where eight middle-aged men are each going through their own midlife crisis. Grant teased, “It’s about lost dreams, second chances; friendship, and how far a person would go for a friend; and the trials and tribulations an aver-

age middle-aged man goes through, such as divorce, or alcoholism, or drug abuse, or dealing with kids.”

Grant said he drew on the people around him to create something true to life. “In this case, I based the characters on my co-workers at my day job. I took elements of them and just blew them out of proportion and exploited them. So, by the end of it, there’s no connection to

them, but that’s where it started from.

“I just in general try to find the humour in stuff, which is ironic, because when I first started out as an actor, I was told I played everything too serious, and I had to lighten up. So maybe it’s something I did subconsciously where the pendulum swung far into the other end.”

Grant wrote two earlier plays with the Elmira The-atre Company – Hamish in

2007, and Bare Bear Bones in 2012. His new play won the New Comedy Award from the Playwrights Guild of Canada, but February 8 will mark its debut perfor-mance.

Grant said that working with the Elmira Theatre Company’s cast – including John Bigelow, Joe Brenner, Bill Calder, Andrew Frey and Brandon Maxwell – has further sharpened the award-winning script. “You have your script, but then as you go through the re-hearsal process, it almost becomes more of a work-shop. Changes are made on the fly, going, ‘Well, okay, this doesn’t work, what I intended on the page here isn’t transferring well onto the stage.’”

The Elmira Theatre Company production of Shorthanded opens at 8 p.m. on February 8, at 76 Howard Ave. The 8 p.m. shows will continue on Saturday and Sunday, then February 14-16. Matinees at 2:30 p.m. will be performed on February 10 and 17. Tickets are $18, available at the Centre in the Square box office in Kitchener by calling 578-1570 or 1-800-265-8977, online at www.centre-square.com. More information can be found at www.elmiratheatre.com.

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The Twin Centre Atoms were finalists in the Minto Mad Dog Tournament in Harriston on Jan. 19, where they won a pair of games. Front row: Michael Proper, Isiah Siewert, Sterling Grubb, Ben Bauer, Matt Gedke, Jonathan Gervais, Dawson Stevenson, Reid Henderson, Christopher Jones and Will Edwards. Second row: Noah Bailey, Josh Carere, Colby VanBargen, Jack Wolf, Conall Gillett. Coaches: Tom Carere, Mike Edwards, Brian Bauer, Brent Wolf. Missing: Tyler Rose, Jaden Palmermo. [SUBMITTED]

The Woolwich Wild Atom C girls’ team won silver in the Woodstock Tournament Jan. 4-6. Coaches: Paul Musselman, Steve Hebbourn, Matt Roth, Trainers: Sharon Keen, Kristine Hebbourn. Third row: Delaney Keen, Larissa Musselman, Liette Fife, Maddy Cruickshank, Maggie Sargent, Avery Durrer. Second row: Delaney Jacklin, Charlise Roth, Karissa Schouppe, Lexi Runstedler, Jillian McIntyre. Front: Bethany Hebbourn. [SUBMITTED]

Snowmobilers greet the return of wintry weather

You may have been among the majority grum-bling about this week’s freezing temperatures and snow flurries, but at least some people have a sparkle in their eyes just now: local snowmobilers are perking up at this winter’s first real sign that snow might be here to stay.

After soaring tempera-tures did away with the post-Christmas snowfall, members of the Elmira Snowmobile Club, part

of the Golden Triangle Snowmobile Association, are finally hopeful they can salvage a last chance to ride on local trails, which have so far been closed this season.

Elmira club president Darrell Sauder and other lo-cal enthusiasts spent most of last season as well as this one hitching their sleds to trucks and setting off to the north in search of the white stuff.

“Because of the situation they need to trailer and drive three, four, some-times five hours to find the

snow these past two sea-sons, which is obviously a little disappointing.”

But with colder tempera-tures and more snow on the ground hope still looms that the season is salvage-able for this area, part of district 5, the southernmost district within the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs.

So far, the Elmira club’s snowmobilers are heading an hour out of their way to trails in Dundalk, north of Arthur, which is a signifi-cant improvement. As the snow accumulates here,

there is hope that Elmira’s trails may soon follow suit, though the area is not ready to invite its locals back just yet, he noted.

Even in places like Dundalk, club members are still worried about poten-tial hazards and are mind-ful of protruding rocks or thawing creek banks that may present a danger to riders.

It may be worth the risk, however, especially for those who invest a hefty fee in the sport every year. Used snowmobiles can run riders a few thousand dol-

lars while new or gently used vehicles can go for as high as $10-12,000. In addi-tion riders must have insur-ance and pay for permits, fuel expenses and trucks and trailers for travelling.

Sauder said there are discounts for riders that purchase trail permits from the club before December 1 but drier, bare winters may cause riders to wait longer to purchase. This not only hikes up the cost, but also affects the revenues go-ing into the club, as its 20 active members still have to maintain the trails and

conduct various repairs. As far as locals who buy trail permits go, the numbers range into the hundreds.

There are extensive trails in the region. During a good season Sauder has ridden out from his back-yard in Elmira to as far as Listowel and Conestogo Lake before looping around (about a half-hour drive by car). Unlike others, he’ll be happy to see plenty of snow, putting mild weather behind us.

“I’m very optimistic and I hope we will never see win-ters like this again,” he said.

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MUNICIPAL | REGIONAL PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGThe Chemtura Public Advisory Committee (CPAC)

Meeting will be heldMonday, January 28, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.

(Please note new time!)Presentation by

Bob Masterson, Vice PresidentChemistry Industry Association of Canada in Council Chambers

24 Church Street West, Elmira

Notice of Public Information Centre PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO

SIGN BY-LAW

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:

www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices

If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca

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.

Nancy ButtonManager, Transportation EngineeringRegion of Waterloo150 Frederick Street, 7th FloorKitchener, ON N2G 4J3

West Montrose Water SupplyClass Environmental Assessment

Notice of Completion BackgroundWater services in the community of West Montrose are provided to its citizens through coordination between the Township of Woolwich (Township), being responsible for distribution, and the Region of Waterloo (Region), being responsible for supply. The West Montrose groundwater supply system has faced operational challenges that have impacted the optimum use of the existing sources.

Class EA StudyThe Region conducted this Class Environmental As-sessment (Class EA) study to identify and evaluate potential water supply sources for the community of West Montrose, and to recommend a preferred water supply alternative solution with consideration for environmental, cultural, social, natural, technical and economic factors. This study was developed as a Schedule “B” Municipal Class Environmental As-sessment (Class EA) under Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act.

RecommendationsThe preferred alternative identified through the evaluation process was to use surplus water capacity from the Conestogo Plains Water Supply System. The Region of Waterloo will be initiating a detailed Class EA study on the Conestogo Plains Water Supply System in early 2013 to further support the preferred alternative identified in this study.

Project File Report A Project File Report has been prepared to document the planning process followed, including conclusions and recommendations, and how public input was received and considered. The Report will be available for public review for a period of 30-calendar days, starting on January 24, 2013 and ending on February 25, 2013. The Report will be available online at www.region.waterloo.on.ca/water and at the following locations during regular business hours:

CommentsInterested parties are encouraged to review the Report and provide written comments. Written comments should be addressed to one of the following team members within the 30-day review period:

Ms. Pam Law, P.Eng. Project Manager, Water Services Region of Waterloo150 Frederick Street, 7th FloorKitchener, ON N2G 4J3Tel: 519-575-4095Fax: 519-575-4452Email: plaw@regionofwaterloo.ca

During the public review period, anyone who has any outstanding concerns with the project that cannot be resolved in discussion with the Region may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental As-sessment Act (commonly referred to as a Part II Order or “bump up” request). The Minister must receive requests for Part II Orders, at the address below (and a copy sent to Ms. Pam Law and Ms. Patty Quackenbush) by February 25, 2013:

The Honourable Jim Bradley, Minister of the Environment,Ministry of the Environment,

77 Wellesley Street West, 11th Floor, Ferguson Block,Toronto, Ontario M7A 2T5

If no Part II Order requests are received, the Region may proceed with design and construc-tion of the recommended works as presented in the Project File Report. Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

This notification and any future documentation for the project will be publicized in Wool-wich Observer and Elmira Independent (newspaper), through direct mail and posted on the Region’s website at www.region.waterloo.on.ca/water.

Ms. Patty Quackenbush, P.Eng.Senior Project ManagerAECOM 50 Sportsworld Crossing Road, Suite 290 Kitchener, ON N2P 0A4 Tel: 519-650-8691Fax: 519-650-3424Email: patty.quackenbush@aecom.com

Region of WaterlooClerk’s Office150 Frederick Street, 2nd FloorKitchener, ON N2G 4J3Phone: 519-575-4420

Township of WoolwichClerk’s Office24 Church Street WestElmira, ON N3B 2Z6Phone: 519-669-1647

Notice of Public Information Centre PROPOSED REGION OF WATERLOO

SIGN BY-LAW

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:

www.region.waterloo.on.ca - tab Newsroom, tab Public Notices

If you have questions concerning the By-law, please contact Nancy Button, Manager, Transportation Engineering at 519-575-4520 or by email at bnancy@region.waterloo.on.ca

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.

Nancy ButtonManager, Transportation EngineeringRegion of Waterloo150 Frederick Street, 7th FloorKitchener, ON N2G 4J3

West Montrose Covered BridgeManagement Project

The Region of Waterloo is hosting a Public Information Centre (PIC) on the proposed bridge improvement work under consideration for the West Montrose Covered Bridge.

Tuesday February, 12, 2013Woolwich Township -

Council Chambers24 Church St. W., Elmira

Drop-in from5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Presentation at 6:30 p.m.

The Region of Waterloo, in col-laboration with the Township of Woolwich and local residents, is committed to maintaining the West Montrose Covered Bridge as a viable open bridge with the appropriate limitations to ensure that the heritage integrity of the structure is conserved.

This PIC is an opportunity for the community to learn more about and provide input on options being considered for limiting access through speed, height and load restrictions and enforcement, fire protection, and ongoing bridge maintenance.

If you are unable to attend this meeting, please visit our website at regionofwaterloo.ca/heritage to review the public meeting materials and provide your input.

This event is accessible for people with disabilities. If you require assistance to attend or participate in these meeting, or to access information in alternate formats, please contact us at 519-575-4094, TTY 519-575-4608, or khagerman@regionofwaterloo.ca at least five days prior to the meeting.

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January 20, 2013. Wishing you another year full of fun adventures! Love Mommy, Daddy, Big Bro Sully and Finley.

Pollard, Kenneth George

Passed away at his residence in Elmira on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at the age of 68 years. Ken Pollard was the beloved hus-band of Marion (Kaippel) Pollard. Dear father of Kareen Pollard (Stephen), Brent (Sarah), and Grant (Sherry). Loved grand-father of Austin, Jessica, Natalie, and Ju-lie Pollard. Dear brother of Yvonne Irvine (John), Doug, Brian (June), and Brenda Fizell-Quehl (Jim). Brother-in-law of Eliza-beth Leuthold (Werner). Also lovingly re-membered by many nieces, nephews and their families. Predeceased by his parents George and Annie (Craig) Pollard, stepfa-ther Ken Wight, brother-in-law Gary Fizell, and niece Michelle White. Memorial visita-tion for relatives and friends took place at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 from 7-9 p.m. A memorial service was held on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel. Cremation has taken place. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to Grand River Regional Cancer Cen-tre and would be appreciated by the family.

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Logel, Margaret

Peacefully passed away on Monday, Janu-ary 21, 2013 at Heritage House, St. Jacobs, in her 96th year. Margaret was the loving sister of Kathleen “Kay” Logel of Elmira and sis-ter-in-law of Mary Logel of Peterborough. She is fondly remembered by her many nieces, nephews and their families. Prede-ceased by her parents George and Christine (Schiebel) Logel, her brothers Charlie, Alf, Oscar, Frank, Bill, Jerome and Edward, and her sisters Stella, Laura, Mary and Helen. Margaret was a member of the Carmel of St. Joseph Guild and the Catholic Women’s League for over 50 years. She was a faithful member of St. Teresa of Avila R.C. Church. She was a hardworking volunteer for the Elmira and District Horticultural Society as well as Chateau Gardens Auxiliary for over 25 years. The family received relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Parish prayers were offered at the funeral home on Wednesday evening at 8:45 p.m. Visitation took place on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at St. Teresa of Avila R.C. Church, Elmira from 10 a.m. until the time of mass at 11 a.m. with Father David Lewis officiating. Interment followed at St. Teresa’s R.C. Cemetery, RR 1, Elmira. In Margaret’s memory, donations to St. Teresa’s Building Fund or a charity of your choice would be appreciated as expres-sions of sympathy. A special thank you to all the staff at Heritage House for the loving care you gave to Margaret over the last year.

www.dreis ingerfuneralhome.com

Morden, Edwin

Passed away peacefully at Wellington Hos-pice, Guelph on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the age of 84 years. Ed Morden was the beloved husband of Joyce Morden (nee Hall) of Elmira. Loved father of Anne Tims (Trevor) of Innerkip, and father-in-law of Denise Morden of Mississauga. Loving grandfather of Jason Morden (Amy), Lau-ren and Erin Tims, and great-grandfather of Lindsay Morden. Dear brother of John Morden (Donna) of Brampton. Predeceased by his son Garry Morden (2008), grandson Shawn Morden (2010), sister Glenna Clu-nas, and brothers Russell and George Mor-den. Ed was a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Glenrose Lodge No. 628 A.F. & A.M., and Trinity United Church, all in Elmira. He was raised in the Shelburne area where he and Joyce farmed for many years. He was a long-standing and dedicated supporter of the Ontario Farmers Union. A memo-rial service to celebrate Ed’s life will be con-ducted at Trinity United Church, Elmira on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 11 a.m. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to World Vision or St. Mary’s Hospital Foundation, Kitchener. Edwin and his fam-ily would like to express their thanks to Dr. Hentschel and the sixth floor nursing staff at St. Mary’s Hospital, and Dr. Ward and the homecare nurses. Arrangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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DEATH NOTICES

AXT, HELMER | Peacefully passed away on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at Leisureworld Care Centre, Elmira at the age of 94 years.

GOOD, GAIL E. (NEE REITZEL) | Peacefully at Twin Oaks of Maryhill on Saturday January 19, 2013, at the age of 67.

MARTIN, MARY YVONNE (NEE SNIDER) | Passed away peace-fully with family by her side at Hospice Wellington, Guelph, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at the age of 65.

WAYLAND, LLOYD | At Saugeen Valley Nursing Centre, Mount Forest on Saturday, January 19, 2013. Lloyd Earl Wayland of Mount Forest, in his 75th year. Local relatives are his son Lee Wayland and wife Lori of Elmira.

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LIVING HERECHARITABLE ACTS / HELPING HAITI

A place where even the smallest contribution makes a difference

ELENA MAYSTRUK

Long before before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was in dire straits. Even by com-parison to the neighbour-ing Dominican Republic, the country was in desper-ate need. A volunteer in the DR, Hawkesville’s Sharon Leis was in for an eye-opening experience when she made her first trip to Haiti.

Leis and her husband Wayne, who do work with the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) orphan-age in the Dominican Re-public, first met a Haitian named Pierre a few years before the earthquake. Having met Leis on a fluke, he wanted her help with ef-forts to build a free school in Haiti, a country long ravaged by the elements, a destitute economy, and perhaps most tragically in this case, the targeting of children for the sex trade.

Back in 2007, Leis knew little of the efforts brewing outside of a small village about two hours from Port au Prince. But four years of Pierre’s persistence piqued her interest and she con-tacted the organizers in 2011 to arrange a trip.

“I started being in con-tact with them by e-mail and then last year in February my friend and I went. It was my first expe-rience of being in Haiti. It’s very hard to describe – it’s hellish,” she said.

Though conditions in

Although an aid worker used to poor conditions, Sharon Leis found Haiti an eye-opening experience

the country were deplor-able, she was soon touched by the perseverance of the people in a small village lo-cated in the Cayes Jacmel municipality, where the school was to be built.

A group of locals started the efforts for Jakdesa Community School in 2006. This was an attempt to stop con artists from the city from coming in to take young children from the village. Parents who couldn’t afford school fees were promised that their children would go to school and receive lodging and food.

“They found out that what was happening was the children were being put in the sex trade. This has been going on for years – since before the earth-quake,” Leis said.

The group of educated locals – mostly in their twenties and thirties – were tired of seeing chil-dren disappear and had been working on building a free school.

They had the teachers, but had no means of pay-ing their salaries, Leis ex-plained.

Leis warned that she did not have the money to build a school, suggesting instead that the group use available structures. A roof and four posts were being used as a classroom for the youngest children and she suggested that the struc-ture be turned into a closed building. Two weeks later

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Sharon Leis holds up a picture of a young student now attending Jakdesa Community School in Haiti. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

With this cold weather snap we are experiencing, I have been naturally making a lot of hearty dishes at the café and at home. Those clas-sic, stick-to-your-tummy dishes are what I’m refer-ring to. Now, I’m sure each and every one of you has that go-to recipe that you make when you’re feeling that winter chill. In fact, you may have quite a few up your sleeve already. As much as I love those clas-sics, I also like to step out of the box every now and then by trying different ethnic versions of comfort food.

This week I invite you to try a Greek comfort classic called moussaka. The great thing about this dish is that you can be as creative as you wish with it. You can make it vege-tarian-friendly or you can use really any variety of minced meat that you de-sire. There are three basic ingredients to any mous-saka: eggplant, béchamel sauce and minced meat or lentils. I know that many of you may shy away from a vegetable like eggplant, but this recipe is a perfect way to try it if you are not familiar with it already. This dish also features a ton of warm and cozy spic-

A great time to expand your list of comfort foods

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Individual life insurance, mortgage insurance, business insurance, employee benefits programs,

critical illness insurance, disability coverage,

RRSPs, RESPs, RRIFs, LIFs and Annuities.

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St. Teresa Catholic ChurchNo God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope!

Celebrate Eucharist with usMass times are:

Sat. 5pm & Sun. 9am & 11:15am

21 Arthur St. N., Elmira • 519-669-5560www.wondercafe.ca

Trinity United Church, Elmira“Our mission is to love, learn & live by Christ’s teachings”

Sunday Worship: 10:30 amSunday School during WorshipMinister: Rev. Dave Jagger

A Warm

Welcometo all!

Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

Sunday School during Worship

Minister: Rev. Dave Jagger

47 Arthur St., S. Elmira • 519-669-3153www.thejunctionelmira.com

Finding The Way Together

Zion Mennonite Fellowship-The Junction-

Sunday School 9:30amWorship Service 10:45am

REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER. Rev. Paul Snow

Service at 10:30am

Sunday School at 9:30am

www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s)290 Arthur St. South, Elmira • 519-669-3973

www.woodsidechurch.ca200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1296

Speaker: Harold Paisley

9:15 & 11:00 AM Sunday, Jan. 27th, 2013

“Daniel in Exile”

JANUARY 26

SPAGHETTI DINNER & SALAD Bar. Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. Two sittings – 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets purchased by calling 519-669-2932. Adults $10; children 5-10 yrs.;$4; under 5 yrs $2.

VISIT THE WTHHS HISTORICAL Room at the Old School, 1137 Henry St., Wellesley between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and enjoy displays and interesting historical facts about Wellesley Township. Free admission.

JANUARY 28

NEEDLE SISTERS QUILTERS GUILD meets at 7 p.m. on the 4th Monday of the month at Elmira Mennonite Church, 58 Church St. W., Elmira. Guests welcome $5. For more information call 519-669-3244.

JANUARY 29

PARADISE LIONS CLUB BINGO, 7 p.m. Upstairs at the St. Clements Community Centre.

ZUMBA GOLD – 4:15-5 p.m. at Woolwich Seniors Centre beginning Feb. 7. Cost $2.50 for members, $5 for non members per class. For more information please call 519-669-5044.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE HAS an art project planned after school, origami art specifically. At 7p.m. we are going to the EDSS gym for badminton. In the evening, we are making a snack with Anna. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

JANUARY 30

WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS going to see a comedic play, The Number 14, at The Centre in the Square! Make sure you bring your permission form, $5 and your student ID. That’s all you need. We are leaving the YC at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

JANUARY 31

WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS watching nature videos after school! In the evening, we are playing Cranium and then going outside for snow sprints. Today is also the day our Youth Council elections start. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

FEBRUARY 1

HOW YOUR THYROID AFFECTS your health. Susan Henderson, Nurse Practitioner with Woolwich Community Health Centre, will discuss health issues related to the thyroid gland. Friday February 1, 10:15-11:15 am at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Everyone welcome. For more information call Joy at 519-664-3794.

WCS YOUTH CENTRE IS going on a trail walk. We are leaving the YC at 3:30 and a permission form is required. For more information, contact Catherine or Anna at (519) 669-3539.

FEBRUARY 2

SNOFEST 2013 AT THE Linwood Recreation Centre. Fireman’s Breakfast starting at 8:30 a.m.: $5/plate, Snopitch, face painting, Erick Traplin, Casino-Fest, Karaoke and more! For more information for co-ed

sno-pitch tournie call Jocye at 519-698-1124, for more information on the Solo Tournament call Jerrry 519-698-2678.

ZUMBA GOLD – STARTING Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. at the Seniors Centre; $2.50 for members, $5 for non-members per class. For more information call 519-669-5044.

FEBRUARY 5

MOVIE AFTERNOON FOR ADULTS – 1 p.m. at Elmira Branch Library. Tickets are $1 each and every person attending must have a ticket. Admission includes light refreshments, please no outside snacks. Visit rwlibrary.ca for current movie listings. Event takes place at the library, 65 Arthur St. S., Elmira. For more information 519-669-5477.

PARADISE LIONS CLUB BINGO, 7 p.m. Upstairs at the St. Clements Community Centre.

H.U.G.S. PROGRAM – 9:15-11:15 a.m. Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Topic: Healthy Baby Brain: Kim Krueger Kischak from the Early Years Literacy Centre will relay ideas on how to introduce reading at an early age. No registration required. Childcare provided.

FEBRUARY 6

JOIN US FOR AN opportunity to learn about becoming a foster parent. Training, support and compensation provided; 7-8 p.m. For more information call Family and Children’s Services 519-576-0540 or www.fosteringkids.ca.

4522 Herrgott Rd., Wallenstein • 519-669-2319www.wbconline.ca

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Sun. Jan. 27, 11amGate Crashers

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27 Mill St., Elmira • 519-669-2593 www.stpaulselmira.ca

St. Paul’sLutheranChurch

Pastor: Richard A. Frey

Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love

9:15 Sunday School10:30 Worship Service

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SUNDAYS @ 10:30AM Services at Park Manor School

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STRANGE BUT TRUE / BILL & RICH SONES PH.D.

WEIRDNOTES

In dodging all those bullets, James Bond really is stretching credulity

Q. From a North Rid-geville reader: “Can you explain why so many people describing a near death ex-perience (NDE) are in a long tunnel with bright lights at the end and dead fam-ily members urging them forward? Dreams? Coinci-dence?”

A. As of 2006, there were 65 research studies of more than 3,500 NDErs from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, says University of North Texas professor of coun-seling Janice Holden, editor of the “Journal of Near-Death

Studies.” About one in five surviving a close brush with death report an NDE, which might perhaps best be described as an “equal opportunity transpersonal experience” -- transpersonal meaning “transcending the usual personal limits of space and/or time.” Why some people have one and others don’t is unclear. Most of those undergoing such an experi-ence report feelings of peace, joy, and love; only a minority recount feelings of fear or profound isolation. As for the contents of the experience itself, most NDErs report a transcendent light; many view the world from outside the body, seeing or moving through a tunnel and encountering deceased loved ones or spiritual entities. Some see an incredibly beautiful

landscape, others encounter a boundary that, if crossed, will not permit them to return to their body. “Less than a quarter report entering a light that is an all-knowing and loving being, having a life review, and seeing scenes of the future.” Not surprisingly, typical aftereffects are increased altruism and decreased materialism, a connectedness to something “higher,” and ca-reer changes to more service-oriented work. Analysis has shown that NDEs are different from dreams and hallucinations. Sums up Holden: “Researchers of every hospital-based study have concluded that physical-based explanations are not sufficient to explain NDEs.”

Q. Why would anyone be

interested in cubing the number zero? As you know, cubing signifies multiplying a number by itself 2 times, such as 0 x 0 x 0 = zero cubed. Why then?

A. The great mathematician G.H. Hardy, near the end of his life (1940), talked about the seriousness of any mathemati-cal result, such as “the fact that there are only four numbers (after 1) which are the sum of the cubes of their digits, viz.:153 = 1 cubed + 5 cubed + 3 cubed = 1 + 125 + 27 370 = 3 cubed + 7 cubed + 0 cubed = 27 + 343 + 0371 = 3 cubed + 7 cubed + 1 cubed = 27 + 343 + 1407 = 4 cubed + 0 cubed + 7 cubed = 64 + 0 + 343” Obviously, even though the cube of 0 is just 0 andwon’t change any of the sums, the 0 factor must be included

in proving this “curious and cute” 4-part statement (from “Mathematics for the Fright-ened” by Colin Pask).

Q. Given the thousands of bullets aimed his way, surely James Bond must qualify as one of the most shot-at cinematic heroes ever. So we ask, what are the odds of his NOT having taken a fatal hit over the past five decades?

A. Eagle-eyed Bond fan Gor-don Stanger of the Solomon Islands, responding to a reader request in “New Scientist” magazine, counted all the bul-lets fired in the 22 official Bond movies for a total of 4,662, a staggering improbability. (For the record, Stanger further estimated that Britain’s most famous agent 007 killed 198 of

his enemies.) Greatly complicating the survival calculation is thefilms’ ambiguity over who the shots were aimed at. Still, as Stanger figured it, a dead-on, well-aimed shot would have proved fatal, so he assumed all the 4,662 shots were “on the run” with a fatality estimate of about 5% per shot. This means the chance of a single shot missing Bond is 95%; hence, the chances of ALL of the shots missing can be stated as 0.95 to the 4,662 power, or 1.4 times 10 to the -104 power. Concludes Stanger: This computes to a number “so close to zero as makes no difference.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.” Send your questions to strangetrue@compuserve.com.

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es alongside lentils, which are a wonderful source of fiber and protein, so give it a try – you won’t be disap-pointed.

Vegetarian Moussaka1 large eggplant, cut into 1-cm (1/2-inch slices)

2/3 cup olive oil

2 cups canned lentils, drained & rinsed (or 1.5 lbs extra lean minced meat)

6-8 medium sized yellow flesh potatoes, peeled, thinly sliced and par cooked

1 onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 pinch ground cinnamon

1 pinch ground cloves

1 pinch ground ginger

1 can diced tomatoes (14oz)

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

1 tbsp chopped fresh oregano (or 1 tsp of dried)

Salt and pepper

Béchamel Sauce4 tbsp butter

3 tbsp unbleached all-pur-pose flour

3 cups milk

1 egg yolk

1 pinch garlic powder

1 pinch salt

1 pinch pepper

Moussaka: Add sliced

potatoes to pot with cold water and pinch of salt, bring to boil. Simmer for 5 minutes and remove from heat. Strain potatoes and set aside;

In a large skillet over me-dium heat, lightly salt then brown the eggplant, several slices at a time, using 125 ml (1/2 cup) of the oil. Set aside on a plate with paper towel to remove excess oil;

In the same skillet in the remaining oil, brown onion with the garlic (and meat) with spices and lentils, sea-son with salt and pepper. Add the tomatoes, oregano

and red wine vinegar; bring to a boil. Remove from the heat.

Béchamel: In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Dust with the flour and cook for 1 minute. Add the milk and bring to a boil while stirring add salt and pepper. Remove from the heat and stir in the egg, adjust the seasoning. Set aside;

With the rack in the mid-dle position, preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).

Assembly: Butter or oil a baking dish about 18 x 28-cm (7 x 11-inch) in size. Lay the eggplant slices on the bottom. Top with the lentil (or meat) mixture then layer with tomatoes and sliced par cooked potatoes. Spread the béchamel over the top. Bake until the béchamel turns golden in colour, about 30 minutes.

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HAITI: Helping school project get off the ground

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she was sent an e-mail which read that the build-ing had been completed.

“They found a way to do it. That’s one of the reasons I’m really anxious to help this group: they have the drive. It’s just they can’t afford to pay the teachers,” she said.

Because Leis does not have charitable status in Canada, she cannot raise money for the group just yet. Instead she and her husband are paying the school’s seven teachers $50 per month out of pocket.

A friend and NPH em-ployee who grew up in Hai-ti makes an unannounced trip to the orphanage once a month and reports on progress and makes sure the teachers are being paid.

Last year Leis sent the school 500 pounds of school supplies and later backpacks for the kids, filled with a homemade blanket and enough school supplies to last for a year.

Leis is working with her church, Eastwood Chris-tian Fellowship, to take the school on as a mission project. She still gets emo-

tional when speaking of the children and the efforts of the Haitian group.

“They desperately care about their children and they will do anything they can for them. That’s one of the reasons why, even though it’s physically and financially and mentally and spiritually exhausting to do this, it’s just worth it, because of what these people are willing to do for their children.”

Leis plans to return to Jakdesa Community School next month to help build a swing set for the students.

Last February Leis travelled two hours from Port au Prince to meet with the organizers of the school. She’s planning a trip back next month. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

DON’T WAIT! WHEN IT’S GONE, IT’S GONE!

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Less Fuel. More Power. Great Value is a comparison between the 2013/2012 and the 2012/2011 Chrysler Canada product lineups as applicable. 40 MPG or greater claim (7.0 L/100 km) based on 2012/2013 EnerGuide highway fuel consumption estimates. Government of Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. See retailer for additional EnerGuide details. ¤2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package – Hwy: 7.9 L/100 km (36 MPG) and City: 12.2 L/100 km (23 MPG). 2013 Chrysler 200 LX 2.4 L 4-speed automatic – Hwy: 6.7 L/100 km (42 MPG) and City: 9.9 L/100 km (29 MPG). 2012 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package & SE Plus 2.4 L 4-speed automatic – Hwy: 7.5 L/100 km and City: 10.8 L/100 km. 2012 Dodge Journey SXT 3.6 L 6-speed automatic – Hwy: 7.8 L/100 km and City: 12.6 L/100 km.Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, ∞, †, § The First Big Deal Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating retailers on or after January 8, 2013. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,400–$1,595), air tax (if applicable), tire levy and OMVIC fee. Pricing excludes licence, insurance, registration, any retailer administration fees, other retailer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Retailer may sell for less. •$19,995 Purchase Price applies to the new

2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package (29E) and includes $8,100 Consumer Cash Discount. $16,995 Purchase Price applies to the new 2013 Chrysler 200 LX (24H) only and includes $3,600 Consumer Cash Discount. $19,995 Purchase Price applies to the 2012 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package (22F) only and includes $2,000 Consumer Cash Discount. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select 2012/2013 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. ∞Bonus Cash of up to $1,000 is available on the following new 2013 models: Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Journey SXT/Crew/R/T (excludes CVP/SE Plus), Dodge Grand Caravan (excludes CVP). Bonus Cash will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. See your retailer for complete details. †4.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package (29E)/2013 Chrysler 200 LX (24H)/2012 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package (22F) models to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Auto Finance and Ally Credit Canada. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. Retailer may sell for less. See your retailer for complete details. Examples: 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package (29E)/2013 Chrysler 200 LX (24H)/2012 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package (22F) with a Purchase Price of $19,995/$16,995/$19,995 (including Consumer Cash Discount) financed at 4.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment, equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $115/$97/$115 with a cost of borrowing of $3,843/$3,266/$3,843 and a total obligation of $23,837.61/$20,261.08/$23,837.61.§2013 Dodge Grand Caravan Crew shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount and Bonus Cash: $27,940. 2013 Chrysler 200 Limited shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount: $24,890. 2012 Dodge Journey SXT shown. Price including applicable Consumer Cash Discount: $25,530. ■Based on Ward’s 2013 Small Van Segmentation. Excludes other Chrysler Group LLC designed and/or manufactured vehicles. ±Based on 2012 Ward’s upper middle sedan segmentation. ^Based on R. L. Polk Canada, Inc. May 2008 to August 2012 Canadian Total New Vehicle Registration data for Chrysler Crossover Segments. Start date based on the marketing launch commencing May 2008. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

+Your local retailer may charge additional fees for administration/pre-delivery that can range from $0 to $1,098 and anti-theft/safety products that can range from $0 to $1,298. Charges may vary by retailer.

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