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Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris says that the province is no further ahead fol-lowing the budget agreement be-tween the NDP and the Liberal’s ratified by Tuesday’s vote in the Legislature.

The New Democrats followed through on a promise not to de-feat the minority Liberal govern-ment by abstaining from voting on the budget, allowing it to pass 52-37. The PC party had already

VOices iN uNisON fOr kiwaNis Music fest

The John Mahood Public School choir participated in the Kiwanis Music Festival on Apr. 20. The competition saw 125 individual competitors over the course of the week. See results on page 6. [colin dewar / the observer]

Voting against provincial budget best course, says MPPjaMes jacksON said it would vote against the

budget after it was unveiled late last month.

“We’re in no better shape than we were at any other time, espe-cially moving forward,” Harris said on Wednesday afternoon.

The deal between the Liberals and NDP was struck following revisions to the budget by the Liberals to appease some of the NDP’s demands, including an agreement to increase Ontario Works payments by one per cent and to provide $20 million in

funding to help rural and north-ern hospitals achieve more ef-ficiency.

The highlight of the deal be-tween the two parties, however, is a so-called “tax the rich” plan that will charge a surtax of two per cent on Ontarians earning more than $500,000 per year, under the condition that the approximately $500 million an-nualy that would be collected by the tax would go towards paying down the provincial deficit, and that the tax would have a fixed,

five-year lifespan.Harris said that the deal was

further proof that Premier Dalton McGuinty couldn’t be trusted, and that the money raised through the surtax was “chump change” compared to the cost-cutting suggestions made by the Conservatives, such as a manda-tory public-sector wage freeze which would save upwards of $2 billion a year.

“The Premier said that he wouldn’t raise taxes, and he broke that promise again,” the

MPP added.“The area he should be focus-

ing on is the expenditure side of the ledger. That is where we feel he has the greatest ability to make an impact, and he failed to do so. We don’t have a revenue problem, but he’s always looking for new streams of revenue be-cause he’s a spendaholic.”

Harris also doesn’t believe the Conservatives were left out in the cold when it came to negotiating

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Both this year’s win-ners of Green Sacred Spaces (GSS) awards hail from Elmira.

Trinity United Church and Elmira Mennonite Church will be presented the GSS Award on May 12. The award recognizes the contributions the two churches have made to-wards making a more sus-tainable environment.

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cOliN dewar handed out annually two a pair of faith-based commu-nities in Waterloo Region.

Committed to the envi-ronment, Trinity United Church adopted sev-eral conservation methods throughout the church in-cluding installing energy-saving light fixtures and a low-flow toilet retrofit. The church also composts and has a no pesticides policy. Last summer the organiza-tion installed a 10kw solar

Illusionist Claude Haggerty performed a free show Monday for the students of Riverside PS in Elmira. Haggerty was in town in advance of his Illusion Show at Lions Hall on Wednesday to raise money for the Lions Club and collect perishable food donations the Woolwich food bank. [colin dewar / the observer]

Elmira Mennonite Church is one of two churches in Elmira that will be presented with the Green Sacred Spaces Award on May 12 for its contributions towards making a more sustainable environment. [colin dewar / the observer]

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Much has changed in Elmira over the past 100 years, yet one of the con-stants throughout the past century has been the 1st Elmira Scout Troop.

What began way back in 1912 with just 14 local youths who met in a club-house located above Philip Chrisman’s blacksmith shop has grown into two Beaver colonies (added in 1975), one Cub pack (1935), one Venture company (1968), and one Rover crew (1964), encompassing hun-dreds of local youth and at one time laying claim to the title of largest Scout troop in Waterloo Region.

“I think it’s pretty neat. It’s pretty cool,” said Bill

One competitor from Woolwich has made it through to the second round of the Shining Star vocal talent search held by Kitchener radio station Faith FM.

Breslau’s Daniel Gascho is one of 33 singers to make it through to the semi-final round this weekend, which represents almost half of the 60 singers who partici-pated in the preliminary round of competition in late March and early April.

“It feels great. I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m just grateful that I’ve made it through to the next round,” said the 16-year-old.

The competition, started back in 2007, is an oppor-tunity for undiscovered Christian singing talent in the region to be recognized by the musical community, said Faith FM general man-ager Dave MacDonald.

“Canadian Christian tal-ent hasn’t had much of an outlet in the past because Christian radio is still fairly new to Canada compared to the U.S.,” said MacDon-ald. “They have literally thousands of radio sta-tions, while we only have few dozen.”

The remaining singers will be broken into three groups and the semi-finals will be hosted by three churches in Waterloo Re-gion; the International Gospel Centre in Kitch-ener on Apr. 27, Koinonia Christian Fellowship in Bloomingdate today (Sat-urday) and Calvary United Church in St. Jacobs to-morrow (Sunday). Gascho performed in Kitchener.

MacDonald said that

Spring conditions were just the thing last week as the Region of Wa-terloo hosted a spring walk to school day to promote the importance of chil-dren walking to and from school.

An active transportation charter was passed last May by both the public and Catholic school boards in the region, with an empha-sis on walking to school throughout the year. Many schools have participated in international walk to school week, winter walk and the spring walk.

“Spring is a great time for children to get out in their spring clothes. If they have skateboards or bicycles they might want to bring out those pieces of equipment that have been in hibernation since the winter and make sure ev-erything is in proper work-ing condition and enjoy the outdoors,” said Ruth Dyck, public health nurse for the region.

Walking is healthy and contributes to the daily physical activity require-ments. According to the Canadian Society of Exer-cise Physiology, children aged five to 11 years old need a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity daily.

“It is a healthy activity and we know that active students are more alert and ready to learn,” she said. “The more daily physical activity students can get the greater health benefits they will have.”

Walking to school has

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More than 450 volunteers with the Mennonite Central Committee helped can pork at the Elmira Produce Auction on Wednesday. Some 40,000 pounds of pork were jammed into 21,000 cans as part of the Food for Relief program. Last year, 525,000 cans were distributed to third world countries. Organizers of the event hope to do the same this year. [colin dewar / the observer]

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Elmira’s Scouts plan a variety of activities for centennial year

Thuroo, chair of the cente-nary planning committee and who started as a Cub in Elmira, along with his brother Roger, in 1971 at the age of 10. It was their father, Oscar, who got them involved, and he piqued their interest when he explained how much fun they would have ex-ploring the outdoors.

“We lived outside of town and we had a cottage and things like that, so it appealed to us. We actu-ally had tried other ac-tivities in town – hockey, kung-fu – but we always went back to Scouting.”

Scouting Canada is nearly as old as the move-ment itself. In the spring of 1908, just months after the book “Scouting for

Boys” was published in England, Scouting came to Canada, and the Canadian General Council of the Boy Scout Association was of-ficially incorporated by an Act of Parliament on June 12, 1914.

The 1st Elmira Scouts have been working on planning a schedule of events and activities since January to properly com-memorate their 100 years in Elmira. On May 9 they will hold their annual “Go-ing Up” ceremony which promotes members to the next level of scouting and it will be held at John Ma-hood school.

Following that they will be planting trees at their new storage facility and den on May 12, located at

the end of Oriole Parkway East. They also have their upcoming group link camp in June held at Everton Cub Camp, and the official birthday bash will be held Aug. 25 in Gore Park which is open to the public from noon to 3 p.m.

“Just like anything else, it’s a big undertaking,” said Thuroo, who also helped plan the 95th an-niversary five years ago, adding that they are trying to keep the celebrations as low-key as possible.

After being involved for nearly 40 years, Thuroo said he has seen many changes in the Scouting world ever since he first enrolled as a Cub. He said

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Participants will navigate Elmira on foot to 10 differ-ent community landmarks with the help of cryptic clues. At each location they will have to complete a task or participate in a

Woolwich in for a wild challenge for WCS fundraising eventjaMes jacksON challenge to receive their

next clue, and racers will meet back at the Legion where those with the best time will receive a range of prizes, including gift cer-tificates and gift baskets.

The challenges contes-tants will face, as well as the landmarks they will travel to, are being kept a secret, but based on previ-ous years the competitors should be in for an enter-taining morning.

“One of the really fun events that we had last year was at the fire hall,”

said Leigh-Anne Quinn, community resources co-ordinator for WCS. “The teams dressed up in fire gear and had to drag a hose and had to turn the hose on and spray it at a target and knock it over.”

The fundraising goal this year is $8,000, with proceeds going to support the range of resources and support programs of-fered by WCS throughout the year, including the job board, the Family Violence Prevention Program, the backpack program, the

Woolwich food bank and the youth centre.

“The whole theme of the day is just to have fun. Some people are in it to win it and others are just there to have fun and help raise money for a good cause.”

The cost to register is $15 per person, and partici-pants will be given a pledge form where a minimum of $100 is required to par-ticipate. Pledges over $100 will have their entry fees returned and those with more than $200 in pledges

will receive a ballot to win a refurbished laptop cour-tesy of Reality Bytes.

Those with more than $250 in pledges will re-ceive an extra ballot for the laptop, and there will also be prizes awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd overall finish-ers. Participants will also receive a t-shirt, refresh-ments, snacks and lunch after the event.

Last year saw some 14 teams compete for the prize, and Quinn hopes for more this year.

“We encourage people

to bring their spouse out, bring their best friend out, bring a sibling out; it’s totally up to you who you might want to race with.”

The race starts at 9 a.m. at the Legion where par-ticipants are blindfolded and taken to various points throughout town, and the race should take about 2.5 hours to complete. To reg-ister a team stop in at the WCS office at 73 Arthur St. S. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more informa-tion contact Quinn at (519) 669-5139.

The Woolwich Youth Centre will mark its tenth anniversary on May 2 with a birthday party hosted by staff and members in the Woolwich Memorial Centre from 5-7 p.m.

It’s a landmark achieve-ment for an organization that got its start on the floor of the old Elmira Are-na a decade ago, and the woman who was one of the primary forces behind its formation hopes it will be around for decades more to come.

“I think it’s amazing that the township has a dedicated youth centre and a space for youth,” said Kelly Christie, the direc-tor of community support for Woolwich Community Services.

“We’re really pleased and proud that we’ve been able to establish that pro-

Youth centre to celebrate 10 years in WoolwichjaMes jacksON gram and that it’s so well

established. It will be there forever.”

The youth centre pro-vides year-round recre-ational activities geared to youth from Grade 6 to 19 years of age. It provides a safe, supervised atmo-sphere for youth to partici-pate in onsite and offsite activities ranging from Internet access and movies to a pool table, gaming sys-tems and a range of books.

Yet the centre has hum-ble roots, explained Chris-tie. It began 10 years ago as a summer pilot-project funded through a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. After the suc-cess of that initial summer program, Christie sought to maintain the youth centre and received an additional four years of Trillium fund-ing.

The youth centre moved from the arena floor to the

community centre above the old arena, but had to share the space with the seniors centre and the Sugar Kings’ Blueline Club, which was less-than-ideal, she said.

“Every day we would set up the couches and ping pong tables and foosball table, and every night we’d take it down and push it aside because we were sharing that space.”

When designs were sub-mitted for the new arena, the youth centre rallied for a space of their own by making presentations to the council of the day, eventually winning a spot on the main floor of the Woolwich Memorial Centre near the pool. About 130 different youth made use of the youth centre in 2011-2012, though that number has reached as high as 200 some years, Christie said.

“It’s been very well-

respected by the youth that use the centre and we’re thrilled to be in there,” she said. “I can’t believe we’ve almost been there for three years. Time flies.”

While it does provide an invaluable service to the community, the youth centre does come at a significant cost – around $55,000 per year to oper-

ate. Yet WCS is dedicated to the space and to the youth that are served by it, mean-ing they will support it in perpetuity, even if it means running a deficit some years.

“The benefits for the youth that come are that it’s a fabulous, safe en-vironment for them to experience growth within

themselves,” said Christie. “The conversations start up and we can have some very open and interesting conversations and they can have their ‘ah-ha’ mo-ments.”

The youth centre is open Tuesday to Friday from 3-5:30 p.m. and re-opens from 6 to 10 p.m., with some adjustments made to ac-commodate summer sched-ules or March Break. There is also one full-time youth centre coordinator who works about 28 hours a week as well as one part-time staffer who puts in between 12 to 15 hours a week.

The 10th birthday cel-ebration is open to anyone who would like to stop by for a free meal and to check out some of the activities that the centre has to offer. Past and current members are also welcome to join. Please RSVP by calling WCS (519) 669-5139.

The Woolwich Youth Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary on May 2, having come a long way from when it was a summer pilot-project on the floor of the old Elmira arena. [submitted]

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5:40 aM | A 21-year-old Kitchener man operating a green 1996 Pontiac Sunfire was driving along Fountain Street near Middle Block Road south of the airport in Breslau when he rear-ended a silver 2000 Hyundai Accent driven by a 58-year-old Mississauga woman. No charges were laid. No injuries were reported. Both vehicles sustained minimal damage.

5:00 PM | Police charged a 64-year-old Kitchener man with ‘used plates on unauthorized vehicle’ when

Police to auction off recovered items Saturday in BreslauPlenty of bicycles that never made it back to their rightful owners, along with a host of other items, will be up for bids Saturday (Apr. 28) at the Waterloo Regional Police Service spring auction, It will be held starting at 9 a.m. at M.R. Jutzi & Co., 5100 Fountain St. N. in Breslau.

Viewing will be on Friday from 1-4 p.m. and the day of the auction from 8 a.m. until things get rolling.

All bidders must register before bidding and are encouraged to pre-register on Apr. 27, from noon to 5 p.m. All items are sold as is. Taxes are added to the purchase. Cash, debit and major charge cards may be used.

Police do not have a complete list of items, but information can be found at the auctioneer’s web-site, www.mrjutzi.ca. The company can be reached at (519) 648-2111.

they pulled over the vehicle on Ebycrest Road. The man was operating a vehicle with dealer plates but was unable to provide ownership of the plate, owner-ship of the vehicle, insurance or proof of inventory for a car lot.

april 20

10:10 aM | Police were called to Sugar King Drive behind the Woolwich Memorial Centre in Elmira as a witness reported four youths drinking in the back parking lot. The boys had broken many bottles; when police arrived they had the boys clean up the glass and

where then returned to their parents. No charges were laid.

3:00 PM | An Elmira man reported a stolen or lost front license plate to police at the Elmira detach-ment. Police do not suspect foul play.

april 21

2:00 PM | A retired police officer reported some graffiti on the Optimist Club sign outside the St. Clements community centre on Green

Street in Wellesley. Area youth are suspected of painting a swastika on the sign. Photos of the tagging were taken and sent to detectives for further investigation.

april 22

3:40 aM | Police received a call about four young men walking along Robb Road near Church Street in Elmira that had stolen a stop sign. When police arrived they could not located the group. The region was

notified and responded right away, replacing the sign. The investigation continues.

april 23

8: 10 aM | Floradale firefighters and the OPP responded to a single-vehicle collision on Yatton Side Road. The driver of a brown Dodge pickup truck traveling along the road lost con-trol of the vehicle and flipped his truck, landing on the roof. The investigation into the accident continues.

april 24

4:30 PM | Police responded to a minor fender bender involving two pickup trucks on Ebycrest Road and Bridge Street in Woolwich. Both vehicles sustained minor damage. No charges were laid. Wet road conditions were blamed.

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6:25 aM | A 24-year-old Kitchener man was travelling south along Katherine Street when he drove through the intersection at Line 86 and lost control of his blue 2006 Chevy Cobalt and drove into a ditch. When police arrived they administered a roadside alcohol test. The man was charged with ‘careless driving’ and had his license suspended for three days.

4:00 PM | Police were contacted about an altercation and robbery occurring on Park Street in Elmira. Two 14-year-old boys were ap-proached by two older teen males who demanded several articles of clothing worn by the younger teens and threatened them with a weapon. The younger boys handed over the clothes. After investigating the occurrence police arrested a 16-year-old boy and charged him with robbery, possession of weapons dangerous, assault with a weapon and two counts of breaching YCJA probation.

Emergency crews attend to a Dodge pickup truck that flipped over into a field along Yatton Side Road on Monday. The investigation into the accident is still ongoing. [joe merlihan / the observer]

Dry April leads to call for water conservation

We had some snow earlier in the week – part of the mixed bag this spring – but April has been short on showers. That being the case, the Grand River Conservation Authority is asking water users to cut consumption by 10 per cent.

During the last three months the Grand River watershed has had only about half of normal precipitation and the current month has been

particularly dry. April showers have been only about a quarter of the normal 75 mm. Some locations have had as little as 10 mm of rain.

In addition, the light snow pack during the winter resulted in a smaller spring melt.

As a result, many rivers and streams are already at mid-summer levels, the agency reports.

Water levels in the seven GRCA reservoirs, which are normally rising at this time of year, are level or declining as water is released to maintain minimum flows in the Grand, Speed and Conestogo rivers. That

water is important to the operation of municipal water treatment and sewage treatment plants.

Casino night fundraiser clears $28,000

A casino night at Lions Hall Apr. 13 raised some $28,000 for a trust fund set up to help Michelle Krasovec, a 39-year-old Elmira woman recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The event helped bring the total

A troop of school children from Conestogo Public School trudged down a muddy trail leading to a cluster of small trees waiting to be planted at the dairy farm of Ed Frey in Elmira on Wednesday.

The children were there to participate in the Trees for Woolwich spring plant-ing campaign.

“We have partnered with schools across the town-ship; the program allows students make a difference one tree at a time,” said Inga Rinne, chair of Trees for Woolwich. “Students will receive a hands-on learning experience, teach-ing them the environmen-tal benefits of planting and nurturing trees.”

Woolwich campaign aided by tree-planting blitzcOliN dewar The official launch of the

tree-planting season begins Saturday (today) as the or-ganization will be holding its “Church Challenge” and are looking to have over 50 people from several El-mira church congregations get together to plant 235 trees on a bare two acres of township land off South Field Drive. The site will be forested with a variety of native pine, spruce, maple, oak and hackberry.

“The organization heav-ily relies on volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life,” said Rinne, adding the goal is to plant 23,000 trees by 2015 – one for each of the township’s residents.

Next weekend a dig is planned at a roadside project on Durant Road between Bloomingdale

and Maryhill, which will see Scouting members get involved.

On May 12 the indus-trial area of Elmira will see much-needed trees sprout up in two areas. Scouts will gather at their new build-ing at the end of Oriole Parkway to celebrate the 100th anniversary of El-mira Scouting. Part of that celebration will involve the planting of 100 trees.

Down the road at the corner of Oriole Parkway and Union Street, Wool-wich Rentals will partner with Trees for Woolwich to care for 55 trees that will be planted to green an empty corner lot. Members of the Woolwich Community Lions, who have supported Trees

Caylee Gallant (left) and Taya Beacom Grade five students from Conestogo Public School helped plant more than 50 trees at a dairy farm east of Elmira on Wednesday. The school children were taking part in the Trees for Woolwich program. [colin dewar / the observer]

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raised thus far to more than $40,000. Donations can be made to Krasovec at any TD Canada Trust bank under a trust in her name.

Curling club honours volunteer

Susan Martin was presented with the Outstanding Volunteer Award at the Elmira & District Curling Club year-end banquet held Apr. 14, receiving a plaque from club president Brian Henry.

She was recognized for the many hours of service to the club over the years, making it a better place for both members and visitors alike.

More than 15,000 Home Hardware dealers, vendors and corporate staff from across the country came to the Home Hardware spring market held in St. Jacobs this week. The market featured seasonal purchasing, product demonstrations and tours of the St. Jacobs distribution centre. [colin dewar / the observer]

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that the focus of the orga-nization has changed to be more multicultural, and that the types of badges that kids can earn these days vary from his days as a Scout.

“Now they have comput-er badges,” he laughed.

He also said that the rules and regulations sur-rounding the organization have increased dramati-cally, which has made it more difficult for kids to just hop in the car with their leaders and go camp-ing for the weekend.

“You can’t do that any-more, now everything has to be checked out,” he said. “Now you have to be a registered leader and police checks are a big thing.”

Despite the changes, however, he said that the organization and the tradi-tions inherent in Scout-ing continue to be passed down from fathers to sons and grandsons, and it makes him happy to see that tradition being car-ried on.

“The kids that I was in Scouts with, a lot of them still live in town and a lot of them now have kids in Scouts, and even grand-children.

“I don’t want to sound too clichéd, but it passes on and passes down.”

some environmental ben-efits as well, added Dyck, as no emissions are pro-duced, unlike riding in a car. The students will also learn about their local en-vironment while walking to school at the same time building a sense of inde-pendence.

The walk to school day is an activity of Active and Safe Routes to School (ASRTS), a comprehensive program that promotes safe, walkable communities. The focus behind the pro-

gram is to engage both the schools and communities to work together to make safe walking routes a reality for children. The student led walking school bus is also promoted by ASRTS.

“We encourage kids to get out there, it is spring time. We want students to walk with friends and use the walking school bus rather than have parents driving. Kids walking to-gether builds relationships and creates friendships through talking, laughter and the sense of explor-ing,” said Dyck.

a new budget by outright refusing to accept it when it was tabled last month. He said his party wasn’t will-ing to play political games with the Liberals, adding that the province has gone adrift and will only float further off course under the Liberal party.

“I want to clear up that misconception that we didn’t even bother to read the document, which is false,” he said. “We had to draw a line in the sand.”

Late last week Harris, along with several other PC members across the prov-

ince, submitted their nomi-nation papers for their rid-ings, a move that the Liber-als claimed was a clear sign that they were “gunning for an expensive [and] unnec-essary election” but Harris said it was merely a formal-ity and in no way signaled that his party wanted a sec-ond election in just seven months.

“The last thing folks want or need is an election right now. I’ve heard that clearly from our residents. However, I have heard that we can’t afford to continue down this path, either, or reckless spending.”

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Lord Baden Powell founded the scouting movement in England in 1908 and quickly caught on. Scouting in Elmira quickly adopted creating the first troop in 1912.Elmira Scouts prepare their centennial celebrations this summer.

Some 125 individual competitors partici-pated in the 2012 Elmira and District Kiwanis Music Festival, from Apr. 16-19 at Woodside Bible Chapel, with the final concert on Apr. 21. The competitors were joined by choirs from Park Manor and John Ma-hood Public School, as well as a band from Emanuel Christian School in Fergus. The winners in each cat-egory are as follows:

The Myrtle Wilfong Memorial Trophy and $200 Scholarship for Senior Piano: Madeline WeberThe Jack Price Memorial Scholarship of $100 for Senior Piano: Will AllenScholarships of $50 for Senior Piano: Nia Kang, Abigail Hamann, Thomas Chap-man, Sonya Martin, Cassia Deering, Danielle Johnson, Noah Steinmann, Ciaran Fast-SittlerThe Elmira Kinnettes Trophy and Scholarship for $150 for Junior Piano: Tony DomzellaScholarship of $75 for Junior Piano: Irian Fast-SittlerScholarships of $50 for Junior Piano: Savannah Weber, Al-ice Wang, Sam Domzella, Mi-chelle Lin, Mercedes Weber, Jasmine Thuroo, Ryan Woo, Roselynn Metzger, Matthew Beaudoin-Hayes, Cameron Beaudoin-Hayes, Connor Koster, Jaron BowmanScholarships of $50 for Strings & Flute: Grant Mun-dell, Shannon Metzger and Aidan ReidScholarships of $50 for Vocal: Linde Nabrotzky, Jodie Gunn, Jasmine ThurooAdjudicators: Strings & Wood: Kelly Parkins-LindstromSenior Piano: Janet FothergillJunior Piano: Clayton ScottVoice: Bethany Horst

Young musicians shine at Kiwanis Music Festival

On Apr. 21 the Kiwanis Music Festival held its final concert performance at Woodside Bible Fellowship in Elmira. (Top) Jasmine Thuroo sings a solo, Grant Mundell and Shannon Metzger play violins, Jodie Gunn sings and Tony Domzella, winner of the Elmira Kinnettes Trophy, plays piano. [colin dewar / the observer]

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Nate Vale, 4, was out with family and friends on Apr. 21 to participate in a community clean up at Gibson Park in Elmira as part of Healthy Communities Month. [colin dewar / the observer]

calVary hOsts fish fry

Hundreds of people showed up for the annual fish fry dinner at Calvary United Church in St. Jacobs on Tuesday night

Jim Delong, Ken Leach and Bill Schenkel served up a hearty serving of fish, corn and potatoes. [james jackson / the observer]

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those three churches were selected because they have the space to accommodate the competition, and have also been tremendous sup-porters of the event in the past.

“In St. Jacobs the church has always been extraor-dinarily supportive, as has Koinonia in Blooming-dale,” said MacDonald. “It’s really worked well for us to be outside the main streets of Kitchener and Waterloo.”

Following the semi-finals this weekend the field of competitors will be further reduced to between nine and 12 competitors for the finals, to be held on May 12 at Calvary Pentecostal As-sembly in Cambridge. The cost to attend the semi-finals is free with a good will offering, while the cost to attend the finals will be

$15, with tickets available through TicketWindow or local Christian bookstores.

The winner of the com-petition will receive a prize valued at $20,000 which includes a professional re-cording session at Revela-tion Sound in Guelph for a full 10-song album, along with promotional materials and marketing expertise including photography, video, and help in launch-ing their own website.

All competitors who ad-vance to the finals will also receive a free performance coaching session and a free vocal lesson as well.

MacDonald hopes to see a large crowd this week-end, as well as at the finals, where upwards of 1,000 people have attended in the past.

“The crowds get pretty vocal about who they’re coming to support, it’s kind

of neat because everyone brings their own family and friends along and it’s a fun time. Kind of like Canada’s Got Talent on a smaller scale.”

The large crowds do not intimidate Gascho either, as he has been performing since he was 11 years old in front of large crowds at church, and he leads the service each week at The Gospel Centre in Breslau where is father is the pastor.

“I don’t really have nerves; it’s more about what the judges are going to say.

“I think it’s going to be an interesting competition. There are some very good singers.”

For the performances this weekend, doors open at 6 p.m. and the competi-tion begins at 7. For more information visit www.faithfm.com.

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for Woolwich financially, will also lend hand with the planting, joining other com-munity members who appre-ciate the importance of trees in the community.

As always the Elmira Kiwanis will continue its annual program to green up the streets of Elmira by

planting another 50 trees on the streets and boulevards.

“There is a lot of activity right now and it’s just the beginning,” said Rinne. “The township has only half the tree cover that is considered ideal. These public plantings gives everybody the pleasure of planting a tree as it can be very satisfying but it also

reinforces the importance of planting trees.”

Trees will be planted on public and private land over the next few months. One of the group’s main goals is to construct natu-ral windbreaks along roads and between fields.

For more information or to volunteer contact the organization at Treesfor-woolwich@gmail.com.

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Elmira Kiwanis Club members Jim Stewart, John Kendall, Jim Schwindt, Ernie Robertson, John Craig, Tom Hendrick, Allan Poffenroth, Paul Henderson, Mark Wemp and Hugh Weltz were out planting trees along Riverside Drive on Apr. 21. [colin dewar / the observer]

array, helping to produce energy.

The church has also held several environmental community events includ-ing the Woolwich Healthy Communities’ environ-mental movie nights. Last week the church showed the documentary ‘Revenge of the Electric Car”. The film explores the electric car craze and the future of the automobile as a film crew go behind the closed doors of some of the major automakers to chronicle the story of the resurgence of the electric car.

Elmira Mennonite Church (EMC) has shown their appreciation for the environment through nu-merous environmentally-themed worship services and stewardship-themed Sunday school classes. The church underwent an ener-gy upgrade, installing addi-tional insulation, program-

mable thermostats and energy efficient lighting. It has also adopted a rigorous recycling program using green bins and rain bar-rels. The church has also installed a 7.2kw solar array to the roof of the building to produce energy.

“We are trying to meet the standard of being envi-ronmentally sound and we have always been a church that focused on being good stewards of the earth while advocating living a simple lifestyle,” said Pastor Steve Janzen of EMC. “We were very glad to learn that we will be receiving the award.”

There were three main criteria that had to be met to be eligible for the award which included completing an energy retrofit, mirco-FIT or community garden. Involvement in outreach programs in the commu-nity; educating other faith communities and engaging in local sustainability and

energy conservation edu-cational events.

“These two faith commu-nities were chosen because they both showed very ad-venturous leadership, both of those churches installed solar panels last year and both hold environmental events and help educate members of their commu-nity about environmental issues,” said Jane Snyder of the GSS Network.

This year’s local recipi-ents will receive the award at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Kitch-ener during a event called Powerful Investing: Plug in Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Opportunities in Waterloo Region, where a panel dis-cussion will be held about community power.

For more information about the Greening Sacred Spaces Network, go to www.greeningsacredspac-es.net/waterloo.

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Trinity United Church, which installed solar panels to the roof of the church last year, will receive a Green Sacred Award on May 12. [colin dewar / the observer]

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Just how many violations of ethical guidelines, Parliamentary rules and Cana-dian laws must a cabinet minister commit before Stephen Harper will call for his or her resignation? Quite a few, apparently.

Take International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda, for instance. This week we learned that she yet again in-dulged in some luxuries at the taxpayers’ expense while attending a conference last June in London. Not satis-fied to stay at the five-star hotel where the conference was taking place, she cancelled that booking and took a room at the ritzy Savoy. The room rate jumped from $287 a night to $665, plus a cancellation fee of the first night’s $287. The total bill for her three-night stay, then, jumped to $2,282 from $861.

On top of that, she spent almost $1,000 a day for a luxury car and driver to take her from The Savoy to the conference site, the hotel she was supposed to stay at.

Discovered this week by a Canadian Press investiga-tion, she hastily paid back the difference and, after at first denying any wrongdoing, later apologized as the political storm began mounting.

This was no anomaly, however. She’s been caught do-ing this kind of thing before, including eschewing a min-ivan for $6,000 in limo fees while in Halifax to attend the 2006 Juno Awards.

There’s been no action taken against her by a govern-ment that continues to argue it’s all about integrity and accountability.

Beyond living high on the hog at your expense, Oda lied to Parliament in the infamous “not” memo about the church-backed aid group Kairos. Even then, there was no action from the prime minister.

Likewise, there have been no repercussions for ethi-cal and legal breaches by, to name a few, Peter MacKay, Vic Toews, John Baird or Tony Clement. Harper himself, along with the Conservative caucus, has been found in contempt of Parliament. Electoral irregularities were the norm (think in-and-out scam), even before the robo-call scandal.

Any and all of the misdeeds – from helicopter rides and F-35 lying to misappropriated border funds and patronage appointments – is worthy of a firing, if the minister in question did not have the integrity to resign. Instead, we got nothing. Well, except more of the same ethically-challenged activities.

The latest revelations about Oda confirm that she’s not fit for a cabinet position. There’s a pattern here. The same is true of the others mentioned.

Conservatives have no grounds for the petulance on display every time the government is called out over the large collection of scandals and wrongdoings under its watch. Harper promised open and accountable gover-nance. He provided just the opposite. He promised to clean up Ottawa. Instead we have waste and corruption on a grand scale.

It’s clearly a case of Harper being hoisted with his own petard. In introducing the public prosecutor model in the 2006 election, he promised a new code of conduct. ”Bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.”

No one involved in the many Conservative scandals has been punished, let alone gone to jail. Accountability? No. Business as usual? Yes.

Another example of unethical acts by Conservatives

“my true adversary does not have a name, a face or a party,” said Fran-cois Hollande, France’s next president. “He never puts forth his candidacy, but nevertheless he gov-erns. My true adversary is the world of finance.”

No other leader of a major power would dare say such a thing. If Hol-lande, who will be France’s first Socialist president in 17 years, simply defies “the markets,” they will certainly punish him and France severely. However, it remains to be seen how he plays his hand.

Hollande still has one hurdle to cross before he is officially president-elect, but he beat the incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, even in the first round of voting last Sunday, when 10 candidates were run-ning. In the run-off vote on May 6, the polls predict that he will trounce Sar-kozy by a margin of 14-16 per cent.

Hollande is a shoo-in be-

In France, there’s more to Mr. Normal than meets the eyecause in the second round his centre-left party will collect almost all the votes of parties to the left of the Socialists, and also most of the votes of the centrist candidates. Sarkozy leads a centre-right party, but he has to pretend to be much harder right than he is for much the same reasons as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the United States.

If Sarkozy does not spout anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric, he will not even win over the 18 per cent of French voters who backed the far-right National Front last Sunday. If he does talk like that, he will lose the swing voters in the centre – and he may still not get the endorse-ment of National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who reckons that if Sarkozy los-es the presidency his party will disintegrate, making her own party the domi-nant force on the right.

So it will be President Hollande, who recently said that “if the markets are worried (by my poli-cies), I will tell them here and now that I will leave them with no space to act.” Tough words, but what

does “no space to act” actu-ally mean? Does it mean anything at all? The mar-kets don’t think so, which is why they did not go into meltdown as soon as Hol-lande’s election became a certainty.

Hollande is certainly tougher and smarter than the “Mr Normal” who he claims to be. His calm, modest manner presents a striking contrast to the hyperactivity, bad tem-per and sheer bling of Nicolas Sarkozy, but he graduated from France’s most respected post-graduate school for high flyers, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, and he has been in politics for more than 30 years.

For more than a decade he was the leader of the fa-mously fractious Socialist Party, and was nicknamed “Meccano-builder” for his ability to bridge the end-less personal and ideologi-cal disputes, a process he once likened to picking up dog turds. And he has not promised French voters the moon.

What Hollande has actu-ally promised is slightly less austerity than Sarkozy. He will balance the French

budget by 2017, rather than 2016. For symbolism’s sake he will introduce a new 75 per cent income tax band for people who earn more than a million euros, but he understands that bringing the budget deficit under control must be accom-plished mainly by cutting spending, not raising taxes.

The markets will not have it any other way, and they have France in a corner. In order to cover the interest on its existing debt plus this year’s budget deficit, France must bor-row almost one-fifth of its entire Gross Domestic Product this year, and the same again next year. Most of that enormous sum must be borrowed from foreign lenders, so Hollande can-not afford to frighten them by radically changing the austerity policy he inherits from Sarkozy.

He says what he must to get elected, but in office Mr Normal is likely to conduct business as usual – or at least, that is what the mar-kets think. It may be too simplistic a view. Hollande doesn’t agree with the cur-rent European orthodoxy,

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Green energy experiencing some growing pains, but renewables are the future

as a provincial policy, green energy has been something of a flop, at least in the short term.

With demand down and capacity growing, whole-sale prices have fallen, widening the gap between conventional sources and what Ontario is paying for electricity generated by feed-in tariff (FIT) proj-ects. Ontarians are subsi-dizing the use of higher-priced alternatives.

Peak and mid-peak rates are expected to rise by more than eight per cent May 1, courtesy of the Ontario Energy Board. Off-peak rates will rise by 4.8 per cent.

“Ontario’s power system is fuelled by consumers to the tune of about $16-bil-lion a year,” says energy expert Tom Adams. “That number is headed for $23-billion or $24-billion soon, by 2016.

“By the end of 2013, On-tario is on track to have the highest electricity prices of

any jurisdiction in North America.”

That’s hardly music to the ears of the McGuinty government, already being lambasted for its energy policy.

A budget that calls for the merger of the Ontario Power Authority and the Independent Electricity Sector Operator, touted by the government as a cost-saving measure, is less than a drop in the bucket. The savings amount to 16/100ths of 1% of our total electricity bill, notes the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

The government has also appointed Murray Elston, former president of the Canadian Nuclear Association (nuclear being the source of many of On-tario’s electricity woes), to search for ways to reduce the costs of electricity dis-tribution companies such as Waterloo North Hydro, which are responsible for 11 per cent of our total electricity bill.

The producers respon-sible for more than 80 per cent of the ever-rising electricity costs get a free ride.

Consumers and taxpay-

ers, as always, will pay the freight.

Methods for getting out from some of that burden, at least on a bi-monthly billing basis, will be front and center at the Green Living and Tech Fair on today (Saturday) at the St. Jacobs arena. Part of Woolwich’s Healthy Com-munities Month, the event focuses on energy-saving tips, from little changes right through to the alter-native technologies at play in the province’s much-maligned Green Energy Act.

Among those manning the booths in St. Jacobs will be Glen Woolner, general manager of Com-munity Renewable Energy Waterloo (CREW), an ad-vocate for alternatives and a supporter of Ontario’s support for sustainable energy.

“We’re on the right track. We’ve covered so much ground in the past two and half years, it’s phenomenal,” he says of the measures taken thus far, acknowledging there will be growing pains on what he sees as the inevi-table path for our energy

future.A long-term investment,

green energy projects lead to energy security and a thriving economy, he maintains. In the short-term, there are hurdles.

“We have to get over that hump somehow. We have to allow ourselves a transi-tion time.”

The big picture aside, CREW also focuses on what individual homeown-ers can do to reduce their energy use, and the bills that follow.

Woolner points to his group’s Power $aving Net-work (P$N) electricity self-audit toolkit, which can be borrowed free of charge from libraries in Waterloo Region. Equipped with meters, instructions and charts, the kits provide homeowners the chance to get a comprehensive pic-ture of their electrical use and how to reduce it.

The average user finds savings of 25 per cent, he notes, just through elimi-nating power-wasters he or she didn’t even know about, for instance.

“It helps you find things that are wasting your mon-ey, and everybody’s money

because overall demand drives ... more spending on things like nuclear plants.

“It does make a differ-ence. If we all did that, it would make a huge impact,” he adds of the changes identified by the audit and the subsequent lowering of demand.

An all-volunteer, non-profit group, CREW is es-sentially the creation of energy-saving enthusiasts, many of them engineers who were early adaptors of technologies that became advocates for conserva-tion and renewable energy sources.

Woolner, for instance, has spent years making his Kitchener home a model of efficiency that employs geothermal, solar hot water and photovoltaic systems.

He and other CREW members would like nothing more than to see others hop on the energy-saving bandwagon.

“If you have an interest in doing that, we’re happy to help you.”

The more people that get involved, the sooner Ontario – and, indeed, everywhere else – can

put costly non-renewable power options behind them. Instead, we’ll have free energy. Oh, the tools needed to generate that electricity cost something, but the price is falling all the time. That, of course, is the rationale behind the government’s green ener-gy strategy: spend upfront to foster an industry and watch the production costs fall even as more jobs are created.

We’re not there yet, but it’s only been a couple of years. Enthusiasts have been applying tech-niques and technologies for decades, but it’s only recently that we’ve seen a concerted, government-level approach. The ben-efits won’t be obvious for a while.

Perhaps in another de-cade we’ll look back and wonder what all the fuss was about – and why we didn’t go green sooner. Dalton McGuinty might prefer to see dividends sooner – it’s all about re-election, after all – but the widespread application of what people like Woolner have known for years is still in its infancy.

What are you doing for Healthy Communities Month?

Since the weather has been nice I’ve been walking more. I walk to school and work, that sort of thing.

» Alex Nicholson

This month my family just started buying local produce.

» Steph Sellers

We recycle everything and only put garbage out once a month.

» Charles Arndt

I’m recycling more

» Lea Olsthoom

My environmental science class is putting in native plants to make the EDSS courtyard more inviting.

» Barb Gaudette

"... council should at least have the courage of its earlier conviction and pass a motion in support of the BFCC" Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach | Page 10

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because it has put the euro-zone (the 17 out of 27 Euro-pean Union members that use the euro “single cur-rency”) into an economic death-spiral.

Germany’s huge and healthy economy gives it the whip-hand in the euro-zone. Berlin insists on sav-age austerity measures by EU member governments to bring their budgets back into balance, but if the austerity is so extreme that it kills economic growth, then the budgets will never balance. Hollande argues that growth, especially in the form of big infra-structure projects, must be stimulated by easier credit even while budgets are still in deficit.

Many European lead-ers agree, as do outside

observers like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who said recent-ly that Europe would “com-mit suicide” if it did not add reflationary policies to strict budget discipline. Hollande will not start printing money right away, because the euro means he cannot, but he is certainly going to argue for “quanti-tative easing” (as we now call reflation).

Without openly defy-ing Berlin, he is likely to become a rallying point for Europeans (and there are a great many of them) who believe that the eurozone will never solve its crisis without economic growth in other countries besides Germany.

“Change in France will allow Europe to shift direc-tion,” he says. He may be right.

In February, average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $886.45, up 0.2% from the previous month. On a year-over-year basis, earnings rose 1.8%. In February, the year-over-year growth in weekly earnings was slowed by a decline in hours worked.

» Bob Penner, president and CEO of Strategic Communications Inc., swears an affidavit that alleges that the misleading robo-calls during the last federal election could not have been accidental.

"There would be absolutely no legitimate reason for a political party to knowingly call the supporters of another party to encourage them to vote, or to alert them to a polling location change. Any such call must have another purpose, such as suppression of the opponent's turnout."

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

Linwood residents celebrated the opening of their new recreation centre and library May 1 and 2, 2004, the culmination of years of fundraising. The first campaign to raise money started in 1992, eventually aided by $460,000 from the province and $240,000 from Ottawa.

To the Editor,your editorial and cartoon of Apr. 14, 2012 suggested that the town-ship’s economic develop-ment efforts are a waste of time and money. I’d like to offer my two cents. 

Our  small com-pany works with dozens of other small businesses as a landlord in St. Jacobs and at the Farmers’ Market.  In general, we find township staff to be committed, com-petent  and enthusiastic. I haven’t met the lazy-minded bureaucrats that are con-jured up in your editorial.  

We’ve worked in Wool-wich for well over 30 years and are very, very grateful for the new focus on eco-nomic development at the township, for which the CAO and the EDO can take a fair share of credit. They have become great resources for us; great advocates for Wool-wich in the wider Region of Waterloo, and have helped

us connect with other Wool-wich businesses in helpful and productive ways.   

They’ve also helped bring new events to Woolwich by partnering with Foodlink on the Taste Local/Taste Fresh event. (Ironically, another editorial in the same issue of the Observer spoke favour-ably of local food initiatives and the Foodlink brand, but neglected to mention the significant role that the township has played as a partner in bringing Foodlink events to the township.)  

 Whether we like it or not, municipalities every-where are now involved in economic development in ways that take them beyond their traditional role of providing roads and sewers. Woolwich needs  to invest staff time and money on a variety of fronts, includ-ing forging relationships with regional industry groups (such as Commu-nitech and the Chamber of Commerce), and market-ing and branding. We also need to participate in wid-er regional strategies, in-cluding Grand River Transit and regional development strategies. If we don’t come

to the table, we won’t eat.  Our pattern in Woolwich

has simply been to react to new industries or busi-nesses when they are pro-posed – such as gravel pits, renewable energy, or tour-ism. Community conflict on these issues is understand-able and perhaps unavoid-able. But my hope is that an economic development strategy will start a new and more positive conversation in the community: What businesses do we want to encourage and attract to Woolwich? What are our competitive advantages? How do we want our towns and villages to evolve? 

With all due respect, the Observer has lately acquired a habit of un-constructive criticism. It opposes public transit, the management of the recreation centre, the new township hall, and now the economic development agenda. None of these proj-ects have been executed per-fectly, but at least they flow from a long-term vision for

the township.  I would love to see the

Observer move beyond criti-cism and actually outline a direction for Woolwich. Please tell us how you think the township should look in 20 years, and the steps we should take to get there.  

Marcus shantz | PrESIDEnT, MErcEDES cOrP.

Woolwich wise to take economic development path

the recent decision by Woolwich council to not launch an appeal of the Ministry of Environment decision to grant applica-tion of the proposed Bio-En digester at the north end of Elmira was frustrating.

When a group of citizens opted to take it upon them-selves to appeal the MOE decision and asked for sup-port at the Apr. 16 council session, they were denied. That has angered many of us as it is, in effect, a repudia-tion of council’s professed position of opposition to the proposed location of this

digester and a capitulation to Bio-En.

Not appealing and deny-ing support for a group that has no agenda other than to see the digester placed fur-ther away from residences and our already congested road casts doubt on coun-cil’s commitment on this vital issue.

Council’s decision is based on the advice of a single lawyer who believed that the likelihood of suc-cessfully appealing the decision was low. The town-ship accepted the implicit argument that the process would be a waste of taxpay-ers’ money. The Bio-Fuel Citizens’ Committee (BFCC) consulted several other lawyers and formed the op-posite opinion. Since when does Woolwich council make decisions on the basis of a single individual based in Toronto? Someone is not doing due diligence here, or was this a convenient excuse to cave in and still save face?

The decisions by council matter, as putting a digester,

even an anaerobic one, within Elmira will have an adverse impact on many members of our community. Digesters give off foul odour and supplying one of this capacity will increase truck traffic even more in Elmira’s core – with all the pollution and safety issues these rigs bring. Property values close to the plant site are bound to be affected. If Woolwich cannot bring itself to legally challenge decisions that will harm its citizens, council has abrogated its responsi-bilities to the community it purports to represent.

Since the deadline for an appeal has passed, council should at least have the courage of its earlier con-viction and pass a motion in support of the BFCC. Continue remonstrating politically, but also give at least moral support to those that have the will to fight for the long-term interests of Elmira.

sebastian siebel-achenbach |MEMbEr OF bIO-FuEL cITIzEnS’ cOMMITTEE

Council should back biogas fight

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SPORTSEDSS SPORTS / GIRLS’ SOCCER

Though young, EDSS girls’ soccer team gets a decent startCoach sees a fair bit of promise as season gets underway without a hitch, unlike last spring’s weather

COLIN DEWAR

EDSS | 15

Woolwich Youth Soccer celebrates 35 years this season

COLIN DEWAR

SOCCER / YOUTH

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Woolwich Youth Soccer Club. The sport has been in Woolwich for 37 years. The first two years soccer was run by the township’s recreation department, then headed by John Kingsley, who then turned it over to the club that formed a com-mittee in 1978.

Fundamentally, the game of soccer has seen few changes over that time: mi-nor tweaks here and there to rules have occurred, but for the most part it is still the same game that children played in the township al-most four decades ago.

Registration locally has increased tenfold since the first season that saw 110 players enroll. Now the club has more than 1,100 players, both boys and girls, coming out each summer to play the world’s most popular sport.

“This is fairly common for most clubs to see an in-crease like that over a time span of 35 years,” said Clare Cressman, who is in charge of soccer development at the club. “Right across Canada the number of kids playing soccer has grown just like the Woolwich club.”

There are many factors that attribute to the growth and success of the game in the township, with cost be-ing the main one.

“It is a cheap game to play. When it first started it

SOCCER | 15EDSS striker Alana Thoman gains control of the ball during a match with Preston High School on Tuesday. EDSS fell to the visitors by a score of 5-1. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

Last season the EDSS girls’ soccer team only played a handful of games because of poor weather. Record-setting levels of pre-cipitation last spring caused delays across the region as games were not permitted on the outdoor fields be-cause the ground was so wet.

This year Mother Nature has been kind, allowing the regular season to kick off without a hitch.

Unlike last year, the high school team only has a few Grade 12 students and a trio of Grade 11s, but so far the team is off to a reasonably good start. They managed to tie Glenview Park in their first game, 3-3, but a 5-1 loss to Preston High on Tuesday left EDSS with one point so far this season, placing them fifth in the standings. That’s not a bad start to the season seeing as the team has a large number of Grade 9 and 10 players, said coach Jen-nifer Amos-Harrison.

Given the number of young and smaller players on the field, Amos-Harrison is happy with the way her team is performing.

“I think we’re doing very well; I think we just have to believe in ourselves a little bit more,” she said. “This year I think we have a chance to do quite well and stand to do even better the following year.”

This year the team is play-ing in the second or blue

division.The girls tend to play

strongly for the first half of the game, but lapses in the second half have left them playing catch-up. Amos-Har-rison would like to see them work on their ball control for the remainder of the season, as that is the area where they tend to second-guess them-selves.

“We have two very strong forwards this year with Grade 11 striker Kristen Wiens and Grade 9 Kacie Martin, as both have proven themselves on the field and are showing good leader-ship.”

Although Martin is play-ing her first year with the team she does not let her smaller size deter her from taking much larger Grade 12 opponents as she is feisty, has great ball control and playmaking skills, said the coach.

Goaltenders Grade 11 Ser-ena Cressman and 13-year-old Michelle Wang replace Yi Wang, Michelle’s sister, who graduated last year. Both netminders have main-tained strong performances between the goalposts, showing they are quite ag-gressive.

“They know when to pick the right moments to challenge for the ball; they are both developing quite well. The goals they’ve had against them have been well placed shots,” Amos-Harri-

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NOTICE TO RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS REGARDING NOXIOUS WEEDS 2012The main purpose of the Weed Control Act is to reduce the impact of noxious weeds on the industries of agriculture and horticulture. Primarily, this Act applies to agricultural and horticultural lands that generate income or other benefits to agriculture; this excludes lawns, gardens and private areas used for personal enjoyment and leisure.

Under the Weed Control Act, you are required to destroy all noxious weeds on your property. The Weed Control Act can be viewed at www.e-laws.gov.on.ca

In Urban Areas:The destruction requirements under the Weed Control Act do not apply to noxious weeds or weed seed that are far enough away from any land used for agricultural or horticultural purposes as they do not interfere with that use. However, individual city Property Standards By-laws or Lot Maintenance By-laws may apply to these situations.

All properties within the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, including the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich and the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, are required to be in compliance with the Weed Control Act by May 15, 2012 and throughout the season.

Designated Noxious Weeds:

Noxious weeds may be destroyed by the following methods:

a) Pulling or otherwise removing the plants from the soil;b) Cutting the roots or stalks of the plants before the seeds has developed sufficiently to open after cutting;c) Cultivating the soil in which the plants are growing;d) Treating with herbicide that causes the plants to be destroyed or prevents the growth of the plants or ripening of their seeds.

Except for Giant Hogweed and Poison Ivy, the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo strongly encourage the methods of (a), (b), or (c) to control noxious weeds.

Property owners should review and comply with the Pesticides Act, 2009.

INFORMATION NOTICE TO RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS REGARDING GIANT HOGWEED AND EUROPEAN BUCKTHORN

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Giant Hogweed: can cause severe dermatitis and great care should be taken in handling or eradicating it. Contact the Area Inspector (below) or a certified land exterminator / pesticide applicator for advice. More information is available at: http://www.ontarioweeds.com/weed.php?w=hermz

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I’m not a fan of text mes-saging. Actually, I believe I stopped being a fan of any kind of personal commu-nication shortly after cell phones became smaller than toaster ovens.

The problem, as I see it, is that all this advanced tech-nology pulls people away from their surroundings and sucks them and their souls into a screen no bigger than a cigarette package. The sky could be falling around the average text-messenger and

they wouldn’t know it – un-less, of course, the person next to them texted this in-formation.

A great example of this lack of awareness came out in a news story last week. A man was so immersed in texting that he actually ran into a bear – a really big black bear.

For the record, this is the kind of thing that never hap-pened when young people used semaphore, Morse code or smoke signals to chat.

Then again, you’d never start a brush fire or pull out the signal flags just to men-tion that you had blueberry jam on pumpernickel for brunch … mmmm – which

is the kind of important riv-eting, social proclamations that people routinely text or tweet about.

To recap, the guy was walking along with his head buried in his phone screen, when he walked right into a bear. All I can say is thank goodness our ancestors never had cell phones.

After watching the video footage of the incident that a local news helicopter took, it occurred to me that this might become a growing issue right here in Ontario – after all we have cell phones with generous text messag-ing plans and we have lots of bears, the two major ingre-dients.

So, as a public service, I present this column. Its intent is to inform you what to do if you run into a bear while text messaging.

First, continue texting – there’s no need to panic unless your text plan is too expensive.

If you are like the normal texter, you’ll then text some-thing like: Sorry about your toenail. OMG, big black bear!

To which your friend will respond: LOL! U at zoo? U really think my toenail will grow back?

You’ll respond: Sure, give it a few months. Oh, not at zoo. BBB staring at me! Rude!!!!

Seconds later you’ll hear

bloop! This announces a text that says: I hope so – toe looks gross! Hey! Send pic of BBB.”

To which you reply: Not now, running 4 life! OMG, your toe nail not that gross.

In return you’ll get a reply that says: It is 2 (sad face emoticon). Where BBB now?

Here’s where you fi-nally acknowledge the bear: Gnawing on foot. Hey! (Smiley face.) My toe now like yours! LOL!

In a second or two you’ll get back a reassuring: Kewl! (Smiley face).

Of course at this point you need to get your priorities straight. That means fend-ing the bear off so he doesn’t maim your texting thumbs.

Otherwise, you’re going to need to get a voice activated app to text message and we all know how messed up those can be.

Suddenly, this bear has become an issue. Which is when another text message will come in.

OMG! Just had blueberry jam and pumpernickel. How’s the toe? LOL!

In the mean time, the bear will have had enough of being ignored and walk off so he can interact with a person who is actually ac-knowledging his or her sur-roundings.

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only cost $5 to sign up and if you compare it to other sports that are played there are not many costs, besides a new pair of boots every couple of years,” said Steve Lillico, vice-president of the club. “The fact that the children playing are receiv-ing fresh air and exercise is also another reason we have seen growth over the years.”

Both Cressman and Lil-lico have been with the club for 33 years, almost as long as the club has existed.

Over the years the club has elevated and built the sport locally while develop-ing local players such as Tyler Pasher, who is train-ing with the Toronto FC first team squad.

“If he makes it to the team that will definitely be a feather in our club’s cap and something that local kids could be proud of, as a lot of kids wear Toronto FC jerseys; there is an aware-ness of that program,” said Lillico.

Both men agreed that if Canada where to have more players on the world stage the sport would see an increase in growth both lo-cally and nationally.

Canada’s only appearance on the world stage of soccer was in 1986 when it com-peted in the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico

The club did experience some growth after Canada’s appearance and even though Canada has never made it to the final round

since then, the popularity of the sport still increases every year.

“If Canada makes it to the World Cup in 2014 I am sure we will see a spike in interest in the sport,” said Cressman. “If Canada had a few big players playing in the English Premier league, for example, I am sure we would have more kids play-ing as they would have someone to look up to.”

Given the increase in registrations and the lack of soccer fields in the town-ship, however, the club may

SOCCER: Growth in the number of kids enrolled with the club mirrors rise in sport’s popularityFROM | 13

EDSS: It’s still very early in the season as team comes togetherFROM | 13

son said. “(Wang) is still very small and is up against some

have to begin limiting en-rollment.

“At some point the club will reach a number that is the ceiling, but as long as there is growth in the township I suspect growth will continue at our club. The problem we face is that there are not enough parks for us to use,” said Lillico, adding the club could use three or four more pitches for teams to play and prac-tice on.

Registration for the club has already begun with many of the younger divi-

sions already filling up. The club is still looking for play-ers 13 years of age and older to fill the more senior teams. There are currently some 90 teams playing under the club’s banner, ranging in age from four to 18. The sport is co-ed up to age six and the oldest house league teams – 16- to 18-year-olds – are also co-ed.

The soccer season begins mid May and depending on the league can run through to late September or early October.

“There is a good com-

munity feel to this club as we have had a lot of former players become coaches and I don’t think you would get that from a bigger city. There are a lot of families involved in the club as well, which adds to the com-munity feel,” said Lillico. “I know we have kids that play on one team come out to watch other teams and that really adds something to the sport.”

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19 year old girls but she is handling it very well.”

Despite the zero in the wins column, the girls don’t

criticize or lose their en-thusiasm for the game, she added.

“It is still very early in the

season and it doesn’t matter, win, lose or draw, the girls are always happy and posi-tive.”

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Wind energy has been called the most divisive issue ever in rural Ontario. I’m not sure that’s true, and it’s hard to quantify. But there’s no doubt wind energy – or more specifi-cally, the turbines that turn wind into energy – have raised hackles with citizens here and elsewhere in rural Canadians, and with farm organizations concerned about health and the envi-ronment.

As evidence, look at the reaction from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. In January, it issued a mis-sive urging the province to stop approving new wind energy projects. The fed-eration says wind energy pits rural Ontarians against each other. Escalating concerns about industrial wind turbines means the province should suspend further development until farm families and rural residents are assured that their interests are ad-equately protected, accord-ing to the federation.

Further, it says it’s worked with government on regulations, cautioned farmer members on the pitfalls of wind leases, and expressed concerns about pricing.

“Many issues have not been addressed, causing tremendous tension among rural residents and com-munity neighbours,” says the federation. “We are hearing very clearly from our members that the wind turbine situation is coming to a head – seriously divid-ing rural communities and even jeopardizing farm succession planning. The onus is on our provincial government to ensure the

Wind energy predictions hitting new highs here in Ontario

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VENTUREPROFILE

BUSINESS: Master Craft Wood Turnings Ltd.

LOCATION: 69 Earl Martin Dr.,Elmira

PHONE: 519-669-0357

OWNER: Peter Hunter

One good turn after anotherCOLIN DEWAR

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Trends change all the time. Whether it’s fashion, design or woodwork, noth-ing stays the same.

That’s abundantly clear to Peter Hunter, owner of Master Craft Wood Turn-ings in Elmira, who’s seen many trends come and go over the last two and half decades.

Hunter is constantly re-inventing his business to accommodate the changes in fashion and product de-mands.

Master Craft’s roots were formed in the 1920s under the name Kitchener But-tons, which would produce intricate wooden buttons for the fashion industry, particularly for suit jackets and overcoats. With the introduction of plastic, the company’s focus turned to producing wooden tun-ing and volume controls for the radio industry in the 1940s. By the 1960s focus again had changed as the business became the national producer of the famous Yo-Yo.

In the 1970s, Master Craft was incorporated to produce wooden knobs, amongst other wooden turnings, using the special-ized technology that had been developed over the prior years.

Today the company is a supplier of face-grain knobs and specialty prod-ucts such as rosettes, key tags, and other forms of discs. They are also well known for their wooden cabinet and furniture knobs.

Master Craft’s specialty is the production of face-grain turned wood prod-ucts, offering more than 20 different styles of wooden knobs, from classic to con-temporary, in a variety of woods.

Face grain means the products come out of the face of the wood, with the grain in a plug to run the same way as a board would, which allow the plugs to be covered up easier. Stair and flooring companies use the product when they need

Master Craft Wood Turnings marks 25 years under current ownership, 10 years in Elmirato hide screw holes and want something to blend in easier.

“That is a part of our uniqueness, the fact that we make face-grain prod-ucts,” said Hunter.

The company ships more than 50,000 plugs a month.

Master Craft is also a supplier of wooden screw plugs, wooden dowel rods, hardwood dowel rods, and custom wood turnings. They also offer specialty products, such as rosettes, key tags, table legs, chair legs, novelty items and grandfather clock parts.

“When Canadiana was in its height in the 1990s, there were a lot of chairs in the country-style that we were making lots of parts for but that trend has changed to square legs and backs. It is just a fashion change and now we do not do as many chair legs as we use to do,” said Hunter.

The company uses cus-tom-built equipment that work 10 or 11 hours a day churning out screw knobs and floor plugs.

“The largest, most ex-pensive machine in the shop makes the smallest part,” laughs Hunter.

The business still uses many of the original ma-chines from the 1920s to fill smaller custom orders.

“The old machines are very labour intensive and very slow but the reason we keep them is for little jobs that may require only 40 plugs, it is easier to start this up the old machine than one of the larger machines that we have now. Plus the older ma-chines can actually make larger parts than our CNC machines cannot. The old machines allow us to manufacture up to a three-inch disc.”

The business operates with five employees who keep a close eye on the machines in the shop. Each employee is responsible to fill orders for start to end.

“I find it works better to have one person complete a whole project because they know exactly what must be done and when it has to be finished,” said

Hunter.One of the main cus-

tomers for the business is Home Hardware, for whom they fill dowel or-ders that are all UPC coded and painted for diameter recognition. Master Craft keeps ahead of the dowel orders by about six weeks, which allows them to ship the same day they receive an order.

All the dowels are manu-factured from soft maple brought in from Quebec and New York.

“The nice thing is that is

it white, it is straight and strong; some of our compe-tition does not have those qualities to offer,” said Hunter.

The business works with all kinds of lumber, includ-ing cherry, oak, ash, wal-nut, and maple for turning jobs like legs or spindles and knobs.

This May 1 the company will be celebrating a couple of anniversaries. It will be 25 years since Hunter bought the company back in 1987 and 10 years of it operating in Elmira.

The company moved from Kitchener to Elmira when its lease was up in 2001 and Hunter decided the business needed more room and a more modern

Peter Hunter has owned Master Craft Wood Turning for 25 years and moved the business to Elmira in 2002. Over the years Hunter has seen many trends change and has had to re-invent his business to keep up with the times. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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interests of rural Ontarians are protected.”

OK, but what about this? The pro-wind energy group, the Canadian Wind Energy Association (Can-WEA), said last week Can-ada is on track for another record year for wind energy development in 2012. Rural Ontario, the home of what the OFA says is a hotbed of wind-energy consterna-tion, will lead the way for new installations. And, says CanWEA, farmers will

continue their pivotal role as land-lease holders in the wind energy system.

Indeed, CanWEA predict-ed last week approximately 1,500 MW of new installed capacity will be added in Canada this year. The coun-try is sixth in the world for new installed wind energy capacity, and how has 5,403 MW of total wind power, enough to service more than 1.2 million homes.

Robert Hornung, Can-WEA president, says Canada (and in particular

Ontario) has emerged as a highly competitive destina-tion for wind energy invest-ment globally. He says the wind energy industry rep-resents billions of dollars in new investments across the manufacturing and construction sectors. And as Ontario struggles with economic recovery, failing as recently as Wednesday in the eyes of the financial lending sector as it down-graded the province’s credit standing, any glimmer of good news is welcome.

The wind energy indus-try is optimistic because it realized a record year in 2011 with about 1,267 MW of new wind energy capac-ity, representing an invest-ment of $3.1 billion and cre-ating 13,000 person-years of employment. CanWEA says Ontario leads Canada in installed wind energy capacity, accounting for 1,969.5 MW of wind energy installations. Quebec, with more than 1,000 MW, and Alberta with 891 MW, fol-low.

This is big news in rural Ontario. Naysayers can point to a runaway wind energy industry, one that is ignoring their concerns. Farmers who support wind energy, though, can get on board. Farmers, says Can-WEA, “play the most vital role in Ontario’s endeavor to create a cleaner, more modern electricity sys-tem.” It points to the wind energy benefits farmers derive through land-lease arrangements – the same ones they’re cautioned

against by the agriculture federation—with Ontario landowners alone on track to earn more than $1.1 bil-lion in payments over the 20-year lifespan of wind projects to be contracted between now and 2018.

It’s not all about money, and it’s not to say finan-cial concerns trump social concerns. But a $1 billion contribution in a climate of economic recovery speaks to decision makers. How do anti-wind energy groups counter that?

ROBERTS: Wind energy seen as a potential economic boon, with farmers to share in the benefits

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setting that would create a better flow for his work-ers. Elmira had the land to be developed and Hunter found the perfect spot in the South Field business park.

“We were the very first ones in the business park and have watched it grow over the years. Elmira is a great little community to do business in.”

Hunter, who worked as a mechanical engineer, always knew he would own his own business and was eventually offered Master Craft.

“The business was a profitable one and had a strong business plan with many clients and it seemed like the right fit at the time,” he explained. “It was easy to step in and carry on with business.”

The company had seen some low times in the early 2000s just after they moved into the new build-ing.

“In 2001 we were very busy making knobs and turnings, and then just af-ter 9/11 the bottom seemed to fall out of our market. Trends changed and when that happened we got lost

on the downside, which led to some lean years. It wasn’t until 2008 that we really reinvented ourselves and got the doweling going for our business.”

During the recession of 2008 Master Craft started to pick up more and more business as their competi-tors closed up shop.

“We managed to pick up customers from busi-nesses that closed and that helped us through the recession. It was their bad fortune that caused us our good fortune. We had to adapt and change with the trends and found our way.”

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THE ARTSON STAGE / COMMERCIAL TAVERN

A fitting ode to the Man in BlackThe unmistakable sound of Johnny Cash will fill the Commercial Tavern in show that also features duets with June Carter

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”

Well, Jim Yorifido, ac-tually, but the show will have the look and feel of the real thing when Yor-fido and his wife Pam, channeling June Carter, take to the stage next weekend at the Commer-cial Tavern.

Entitled Johnny Cash: From Memphis to Folsom, the touring production covers a good swath of the life of an icon, known to generations as the Man in Black.

It’s a role Yorifido has been honing for about seven years, the latest part of a music career that spans more than four decades, since his teen-age years growing up in Welland. While he’s al-ways included some John-ny Cash songs in his rep-ertoire –“Folsom Prison Blues” is a favourite – he really got into the swing of things when he joined The Sun Records Story, the official international touring show of the leg-endary Memphis-based record label that launched the career of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. Produced by Sam Phillips in the early 1950s, Sun Re-cords was the home base for many of Cash’s best known hits, including “I Walk the Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Get Rhythm.”

After the run of that show, the couple decided to keep the act going,

playing across the coun-try.

“It gets a great reaction. We’re really lucky that way – we keep working,” he said this week from his home in Fort Erie.

Yorfido’s portrayal of Cash, the music icon who died in 2003, has won him plenty of accolades. In fact, it got him the role

of the Man in Black in a film called Resurrection of a Guitar Hero, currently being shot in the Niagara Region. He also sings the title song.

From the makers of the award-winning Under Jakob’s Ladder, the film tells the story of up-and-coming guitarist Jimi Lazer who makes a deal

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It’s a brand-new experi-ence for Yorfido, who’s enjoying a behind-the-

scenes look at filmmak-ing. Shooting earlier this week and next, he should be wrapped up in advance of his jaunt up to Maryhill.

With Johnny Cash: From Memphis to Folsom, you can expect all of the hits –“All the classic John-ny songs and the duets with June Carter.”

Yorfido’s voice covers

the same baritone range as the man himself. The look is there, too.

“The older I get, the more I look the part,” he laughs.

The set list will include “Ring of Fire,” “Boy Named Sue,” “I Walk the Line” and the famous duet with June Carter “Jack-son” amongst other clas-sic songs. As well, Pam Yorfido will perform some country song favourites from Tammy Wynette, in-cluding the classic “Stand by Your Man.”

Also on tap will be some of Cash’s later recordings with producer Rick Rubin, particularly his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.” His covers of modern rock offerings exposed Johnny Cash to another genera-tion of music lovers, a fact reflected in the age mix at the shows Yorifido plays.

“It’s a real mixed bag out there,” he said of the crowds, noting that’s dif-ferent from some of the tribute shows he’s been involved with, where there’s definitely a much older audience.

The couple is looking forward to returning to the Commercial Tavern, praising the venue for keeping true to authentic country music and its per-formers.

Johnny Cash: From Memphis to Folsom takes to the stage at the Commercial Tavern May 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15, available at the venue, 1303 Maryhill Rd., or by calling 519-648-3644.

Jim Yorifido and his wife Pam perform as famed musical couple Johnny Cash and June Carter in Johnny Cash: from Memphis to Folsom, the touring show that comes to Maryhill’s Commercial Tavern next weekend. [SUBMITTED]

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Elmira - Perfect for empty nesters! Don’t miss out on this semi detached raised bungalow. Complete with main floor laundry, 4 piece ensuite and open concept eat-in kitchen and living room. All the conveniences on one floor. The small yard will be easy to care for! The large garage is 17.5ft x 20ft, perfect for storage and still have room for a vehicle. Located close to downtown, walking distance to library, restaurants and banks. MLS Call Paul direct.

Elmira - Don't miss this brand new, open concept semi. All the conveniences on 1 floor, main flr laundry, master w/ensuite, 2nd bedroom, eat in kit & sizeable living room w/garden dr. Fin'd basement w/3rd bedroom, 3pc bath & bright rec room. The small yard will be easy to care for! Large garage is 17.5ft x 20ft, perfect for storage & still have room for a vehicle. Located close to downtown, walking distance to library, restaurants & banks. MLS Call Paul direct.

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$314,000$314,000 $299,900$299,900

Port Elgin - is the location of this lake-view property. Relax on the front deck and enjoy the sunsets, Chantry Island and the peacefulness of Lake Huron. This year round home/cottage is situated on a 70 foot by 230.79 foot lot with plenty of potential. The location is a short distance to Port Elgin’s sand beach or Southampton and if you like to walk, run or cycle there is a paved trail across nearby. MLS Call Bill direct.

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Elmira - On this extremely affordable single detached on sizable lot. This quaint home is in need of your TLC. Complete with 3 bedrooms, office and airy kitchen there are many possibilities. Appliances in "as is" condition. MLS Call Paul direct.

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Woolwich - Loc’d on 20 acres. Spacious 2400 sqft bungalow equip’d w/MF lndry, sep dr, huge fin’d bsmnt & walk up to garage. Open kit & FM w/wood fp. Master w/huge walk in closet & attractive slider to 3 tiered composite deck w/hot tub. 25x36 ft insulated, heated shop, 100amp w/bathrm & phone. 20,000 sqft 2 storey barn equipped for chickens or turkeys, currently empty. 17 acres of bush w/trail, mostly hardwood & poplar. MLS Call Paul direct.

Elmira - 79.5ft x 274ft Lot. Call and design this home to fit your needs and wants. Spacious bungalow on large treed lot. Stairway from garage to basement. Custom designed kitchen. Huron Homes will entertain other plans for houses on this lot. Call 519-503-9533 to have a look at the blueprints. MLS Call Paul direct.

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Drayton - Luxurious, custom built home loc’d in quiet area. 3100sqft + huge fin’d bsmnt. Spacious kit designed w/cooking & entertaining in mind! Unique & exceptional home, spacious but still makes you feel right at home. Beautiful sun rm w/hot tub overlooking fabulous private yrd w/gazebo, pond & waterfall, beautifully gardens. Stamped concrete drive & lg patio w/retractable awning. MLS Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Elmira - Outstanding value for this 1800sqft custom built 1 owner raised bungalow. Fin’d basement incl: Rec rm w/wd burning fp, 3pc bath, bdrm, den/office or 5th bdrm possibility & lr workshop. Open living rm w/hardwd flr. Convenient main flr laundry. Separate dining rm w/walk out to yard. Fabulous big backyard complete w/interlock patio, hot tub & cute shed great for your family or entertaining! MLS Call Paul direct.

OVERLOOKING GREEN SPACEElmira - no backyard neighbours. This beautiful back split home with sunroom overlooking natural green space. Move in condition! Carpet free main floor with new hardwood and ceramic. Kitchen updates include granite countertops and new backsplash. Concrete driveway and over sized garage (1.5). Unspoiled 4th level perfect for games/playroom waiting for your finishing touches. MLS Call Paul direct.

$324,900$324,900

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Rare Find. 3 bdrm executive bungalow on a protected hardwood forest. Oversized 2 car garage with walkup from finished basement. Vaulted ceiling in Great Room,bright skylit kitchen. Raised panel oak cupboards. Master with walkout to deck & gorgeous ensuite. Front office or dining room. Main Floor Laundry. Lower level has a 3 piece bath and huge games room, gas fireplace & Bar area. Fully fenced. 35 ft x 12 ft Cedar Deck.. Step into your new beginning. $599,000. http://comfree.com/home-for-sale-elmira-ontario-323562

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$379,900. Spotless 1925 SQ.FT home with many extras and upgrades throughout. Bright ceramic foyer, spacious main floor living room, lovely kitchen w/island and pantry, dinette offers a walkout to the patio with pergola and fenced yard. Upper level boosts a great room with gas fireplace & California shutters, upper level laundry, great master with whirlpool ensuite! NEW MLS

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$276,900.Affordable price for a detached home! 50’ spacious lot. 3 Bedrooms, Living/dining room and kitchen. Hardwood in the bedrooms. Newer windows, furnace, air and roof. MLS

BUNGALOW$389,900. Fantastic Lot! .4 Acre. Welcoming gardens at front and garden at back. 1685 sq ft 3 Bedroom, living/dining room. Spacious 2001 natural oak kitchen, vaulted sunroom off dinette overlooks backyard and deck. Bathroom with Jacuzzi tub. Workshop behind heated garage. NEW MLS

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$719,900. Edge of town location, room for the family in this 4 Bedroom home offering beautiful new kitchen with built-in appliances and island. Generous sized family and dining room for entertaining. Spectacular yard with pool, cabana, deck loads of space. Heated shop for the handyman. MLS

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BACKS TO GREENSPACE & WALKING TRAIL. One owner home in good condition. Spacious front entry. Gas fireplace in L.R. W/O to deck - faces south. Upper level loft/office. 3 baths (ensuite privilege). Finished rec. rm. & 2pc. 5 appl. Incl. MLS $312,900.

LISTINGS WANTED! We have several buyers wanting to relocate. If you’re thinking of selling, why not find out how much equity you have in your existing home. Call for details.

CRESCENT LOCATION - Pride of ownership is evident! Updated windows, furnace, and CAC. Remodelled bathrm. Gas stove in rec. rm. 5 bdrms. 2 baths. Lovely front entry. Hdwd. in L.R. & D.R. MLS $349,900.

IMPRESSIVE - Fam. room addition w/cathedral ceiling & lots of windows! Newer doors, windows, furnace & deck. Gas heatstove. Large rec. rm, w/high ceiling. 3 bdrms. Spacious dining area. Long driveway. Close to downtown. MLS $269,000.

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BUNGALOW!Great location central to schools, parks, Rec Centre and 10 minute walk to down town. Three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, great room with addition, finished basement, triple wide paved drive, great for camper or motor home. MLS $329,900. Call Bert to View.

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SAMPLING A TASTE OF WOOLWICH

Hundreds of people attended the annual Taste of Woolwich, held at Breslau Mennonite Church on Apr. 16. Visitors could purchase local eggs courtesy of Loel and Phyllis Penner (top), buy local flowers, or taste local cuisine courtesy of Flow Catering. [JAMES JACKSON/THE OBSERVER]

Aidan Hickey, 2, pretends to drive a Cub Cadet lawnmower at the Woolwich Home and Garden Show on Apr. 21 at the WMC in Elmira. The event saw close to 2,000 visitors walk through the show over the three days. Vendors included home painters, furniture restorations, florists, landscape architects, hot tubs and a foot clinic. [COLIN DEWAR / THE OBSERVER]

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Fletcher, Mark ScottLoving father, husband, brother and friend to many, passed away peace-fully April 21, 2012 at his residence surrounded by his family following a courageous battle with cancer. Mark will be sadly missed by his cherished wife Brenda (Heikkila) Fletcher, and beloved sons, Eric and Ben, all of Elmi-ra, step-children, Melissa Savio and her husband Adam, and Robert Heikkila of Bolton. Dear brother of Paul Fletcher and his wife Sandy, and Kris Fletcher and her husband Dan Clemmer. He will also be lovingly remembered by his nieces and nephews, Patti, Holly, Craig, Kurt, and their families, and the Crandell family. Mark was predeceased by his parents Jean and Arthur Fletcher and his first wife Irene (Crandell). Mark was the owner operator of Marco 1049, a local computer company. He was ac-tive in the Elmira community in many ways: Elmira Theatre Company, Scouts Canada, coaching and refereeing soc-cer, and his church, St. James Luther-an. Mark’s passion was photography. The family would like to take this time to thank the wonderful supports that Mark had on this last journey; his home care team of nurses, the cancer centre staff, and his cousin Beth Snowden (Fletcher). Cremation has taken place. The family invites relatives and friends to celebrate Mark’s life with a Memorial Service on Friday, May 4, 2012 at 2 p.m. at St. James Lutheran Church, Elmira followed by a reception at the Elmira Legion. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to the Grand River Cancer Centre Chemo Suite. Ar-rangements entrusted to the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira.

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OBITUARY

Brian and Marion Chamberlain along with Brian Dodd of Sexsmith AB, are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Luke Chamberlain and Danica Dodd. Their wedding will take place September 1, 2012 at Elmira Pentecostal Assembly,

Friday, May 4, 2012 @ 8p.m. Lions Hall, ElmiraTickets $10.00DJ - Food - Prizes - Fun!Come Celebrate With Us!

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April 30, 2012HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

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GERBER, PAUL D. | Paul David Gerber, 70, of Tavistock passed away at LHSC University Hospital, London on Monday, April 23, 2012. He was born at Wellesley on September 16, 1941.

MILLER, REBECCA EILEEN (BECKY) (NEE SHANTZ) | Of St. Jacobs, passed away peacefully in her 85th year, with family at her side, on April 22, 2012 at the Freeport Health Centre of Grand River Hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Bloomingdale on July 19, 1927.

SARGENT, JOHN ERNEST (JACK) | Passed away peacefully at the Wellington Terrace early on Sunday, April 22, 2012, in his 90th year.

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It takes a village to raise a child, and Elmira’s Rachel Clark hopes her hometown community can help her ongoing work to support a Kenyan orphan-age when she holds a bene-fit concert today (Saturday) at Trinity United Church.

The variety show is titled “Until Alone is Over” and will include performances from 50 of Clark’s friends and family, and audiences can expect a show ranging from acoustic duets to solo dance routines. There will also be African jewelry and other items for sale, and all money raised will be sent to Kenya to help ongoing orphanage and community work.

Clark first travelled to Kenya back in 2009, but has returned every year since and made a deep con-nection with her host fam-ily and with the children at the Faraja Children’s Home in Ngong – about 40 min-utes outside the capital city of Nairobi.

“Even before I went I had always had a heart to help and I’ve been overwhelm-ingly blessed,” she said while sitting in her Elmira home.

“I can’t help but have compassion, especially af-ter being there and seeing how they lack the basics. It’s so overwhelming that we can live at such ex-tremes in our world, and it’s not fair.”

After her first trip with the Global Volunteer Net-work, Clark made the trek in 2010 with two of her friends, and last year she brought a group of nine

Trinity United variety show to support Rachel Clark’s work in Kenyan orphanage

other Canadians to volun-teer at the orphanage and to tour the Kenyan coun-tryside in conjunction with the Waterloo-based Bucket List Travel Adventures.

This year, however, Clark will not be making a return to the country she loves so dearly, for several reasons. The trained dancer and actress has been offered a role in the upcoming stage production of Annie – “I can’t perform forever and once you get your foot in the door at a professional theater you want to keep it there” – but she also hopes the money she saves from

not travelling will be put to better use by the Kenyan people.

She is helping her host family build a bigger house so they can accommodate more volunteers from around the world, and she hopes they can convert their existing home into a safe house for street kids or families looking for a fresh start.

This will be Clark’s sec-ond benefit concert for her ongoing work in Kenya. The first was in 2008 in preparation for her first trip, and the fact she can now speak personally

about the work being done there and show photos of her working with orphans will inspire others to do the same.

“It’s an interesting per-spective now, having gone three times,” she said. “They’re going to see pic-tures of me with the kids and it makes it more tan-gible.”

Her travels even inspired her cousin, Heather Clark, to write a novel incorpo-rating Rachel’s stories of Kenya. “Chai Tea Sunday” was published earlier this month and Heather will be at the show to read ex-

cerpts of the story and to sign copies of the book.

“We went through my journals and pictures and she videotaped me and interviewed me. We kept in touch while I was in Ke-nya the last two times, and she wrote a book based on some of my experiences there and characters that I’ve come in contact with.

“It’s literally as if she was there. I read the book and thought ‘these are my words’ and it’s still sinking in.”

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ALICIA SMITH, INTERNATIONAL FASHION model will present “The Perfect Lie,” 7 p.m. From her personal experience, she exposes the lies that the media and culture want us to believe about how women should look and present themselves. All women welcome (including junior & senior high). Free. Donations of toiletries (eg. Shampoo, lotions) for the care closet of the KW Crisis Pregnancy Centre will be received. Held at Woodside Church, 200 Barnswallow Dr., Elmira.

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GREEN LIVING AND TECH Fair – 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Free. Donations welcome, St. Jacobs arena, 29 Parkside Dr. Meet local business owners who specialize in green & healthy living, buy green products, attend workshops, drop off old bikes and e-waste! Children’s activities too! A Woolwich Healthy Communities Event. For more information visit www.healthywoolwich.org.

SUSTAINABLE LIVING TOURS OF REEP House 11 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Free. Bus departs St. Jacobs Arena at 12, 1 and 2 p.m. REEP House for Sustainable Living is REEP’s super-insulated, water-wise century brick home and education centre that has achieved 86% energy savings. A Woolwich Healthy Communities Event. For more information visit www.healthywoolwich.org.

ST. MARY’S, LINWOOD AND St. Joseph’s, Macton Catholic Women’s League is hosting a Fashions In Bloom Fashion Show at the Linwood Community Centre complex, 5279 Ament Line, Linwood; 1-4 p.m. Fashions by FB and Me at 2 p.m. Silent auctions, door prizes and light lunch served. Vendors will be present; $12/person. For tickets contact Gloria Kittel at 519-698-2577 or gkittel@golden.net or Laura Logel at 519-698-2398 or laurastax@gmail.com. Everyone welcome.

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SPRING VEGAS NIGHT. COME out and join the Maryhill Knights at the Bridgeport Rod & Gun, 1227 Beitz Rd., RR1, Breslau. Fun begins at 8 p.m. Food available. Many beautiful quilts & generous prizes to be won at the ‘Big Wheel.’ Other games of chance as well. A light lunch will be served at the end. All proceeds are given to charity. For more information call Mike Runstedler 519-648-3394 or Doug Zinger at 519-648-2939.

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Scientists are getting the poop on the next advances in biofuel research

Q.  What’s the latest eco-scoop on poop? A.  Since pandas and elephants eat mostly woody plants, their excre-ment could provide the key to cheap and effective biofuel, says Dashka Slater in “Sierra” magazine. The feces contain gut bacteria that efficiently convert the woody stuff in plants to sugars, possibly produc-ing cellulosic ethanol, say researchers at Missis-sippi State University and at the Dutch technology

company DSM. Putrefy-ing ponds of hog excre-ment are one of the U.S.’s fastest-growing sources of methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Recently, Duke University and Duke Energy teamed up to har-ness pig-poop power, using the methane from a 9,000-head hog farm in North Carolina to run an electri-cal turbine servicing 35 homes. And dried flakes of human waste fuel Thames Water, Britain’s largest wa-ter and sewage company. Resembling instant-coffee granules, the flakes come from dehydrated sludge, the “fecal goo” left behind after wastewater is treated.

Once dry and powdery, the stuff can be burned, pro-viding 16% of the utility’s energy and reducing itscarbon footprint by 550 tons a year. Quipped the magazine, “In the future, poop will solve all our problems.” Q. Maybe you’re a bit overweight but that doesn’t mean you’re fat, obese, big, plump, paunchy, corpulent, porcine, heavy...What terms might you prefer for yourself?A.  At one time “ruben-esque” was consideredcomplimentary, but few modern women would like that any more, says Anu

Garg, creator of Word-smith.Org. Of course, it’s all relative and certainly better than many of thealternatives. The retail industry prefers the term “plus- sized,” while the Yid-dish word “zaftig” sounds lovely and also a bit exotic. Or consider ample, cuddly, curvy, rounded, big-boned, full-figured, full-bodied and king- sized/queen-sized. “Heavyset is also a nice, straightforward term. But my favorite is ‘There’s more of me to love.”

Q. What are a few of the better sports adap-tations for the blind? Think basketball, tennis, bowling and chess (who

says chess isn’t a sport?).A. A tiny sound emitter inside a basketball canproduce a constant high-pitched tone to signal its location, while a lower-pitched off-and-on beeper on the backboard lets players know where to aim their shots, says DanielKrieger in “Wired” maga-zine. Tennis players swing a shortened racket at a Nerf-like ball with a rattle inside. They navigate via thick string taped to the floor of the badminton-sized court. The numberof bounces allowed (up to three) depends on the degree of blindness. Blind bowlers use side railings to line themselves up, but

beyond that the game’s the same. Twelve legally blind U.S. bowlers have scored perfect games; the record for a completely blind person is 263. In chess, black and white squares are set at different heights, with black game pieces marked with pins. Players learn to feel the difference between, say, a bishop and a rook. “And that’s how the visually impaired get their game on.”

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54. ___ Novo (Benin’s capital)57. “it’s not all __ and ___”61. Eye layer62. “Dear” one63. Come to mind64. dimensionless number that describes light70. one who preys71. ___ podrida72. “Catch-22” pilot73. Used as a fungicide81. “So ___ me!”82. “La Bohème,” e.g.83. Wearing84. Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.85. Corolla part86. Renaissance manDOWN1. Breach2. “To ___ is human ...”3. “Seinfeld” uncle4. Family head5. 1969 Peace Prize grp.6. Island in the Pacific Ocean7. Andrea Doria’s domain8. A hollow muscular organ

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KENYA: Looking forward to the next trip back to the orphanageFROM | 28

long, Clark has toured the world while working on a cruise ship, and is currently working as a waitress in Waterloo while also teach-ing Zumba dance classes and working at Reid Woods group home in Elmira – work that she says has helped make her transition from working in Kenya to returning to North America.

She hopes to return to Kenya in the next few years and take her parents with her to show them the work she has done and to teach them about the country she has grown to love so much.

The benefit concert on Apr. 28 will have two show times, 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children and students, or whatever you can. It will be held at Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N. in Elmira and the church is wheelchair accessible and care for young children will also be provided.

The Pork:1 (5 to 7 pound) pork roast, preferably shoulder or Boston butt The Rub:3 tablespoons paprika1 tablespoon garlic powder1 tablespoon onion powder1 tablespoon dry mustard3 tablespoons coarse salt1 tablespoon of canola oil2 tablespoons of ketchupThe Stock:

1 head green cabbage, finely shredded2 large carrots, finely shred-ded3/4 cup best-quality mayon-naise1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard1 cup diced Granny Smith Apples2 tablespoons sugar, or to taste2 tablespoons white vinegar1 tablespoon dry mustardSalt and freshly ground pepper

Pulled pork recipe:

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Mix all rub ingredients together in a small bowl. Rub the spice blend all over the pork and marinate for as long as you have time for, as little as 1 hour or up to overnight, covered, in the refrigerator;

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F;

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medium heat. Simmer gen-tly, stirring, for 10 minutes until smooth;

Remove the pork roast from the oven and transfer to a large platter. Allow the meat to rest for about 10 minutes. While still warm, take 2 forks and “pull” the meat to form shreds. Using 2 forks, shred the pork by steadying the meat with 1 fork and pulling it away with the other. Put the shredded pork in a bowl. Pour 1/2 of the sauce on the shredded pork and mix well to coat;

To serve, spoon the pulled pork mixture onto the bottom 1/2 of the hoagie bun, and top with the slaw.

Serve with your favorite leafy salad.

Rachel Clark has travelled to Kenya in each of the past three years, and the money raised through today’s concert will be used to help her host family build a larger home so they can house even more volunteers from abroad. [SUBMITTED]

Combine the shredded cabbage, carrots and apples in a large bowl. Whisk to-gether the mayonnaise, dijon, sugar, vinegar, mus-tard, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl, and then add to the cabbage mixture. Mix well to combine and taste for seasoning; add more salt, pepper, or sugar if desired. A dash of water never hurts.

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