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Hot on the heels of the refurbish-ing of the Howard Avenue water tow-er in Elmira, the tower on Floradale Road is now being overhauled.

Work started last week and is ex-pected to run through June. The tank is now offline while crews work on maintenance and painting.

While the tower is out of service, Elmira’s water system will receive its pressure from the booster station lo-cated below the spheroid water tank on Howard Avenue. The station will maintain pressure in the distribution system, with Woolwich engineering staff saying it is unlikely residents will notice any difference in water pres-sure unless there is a malfunction. In the event of a power outage or similar incident, homes may experience a pe-riod of minimal water pressure.

The Elmira west tank now offline usually provides the town with water pressure, said Bob Brown, water and wastewater supervisor with Wool-wich’s engineering and planning services.

“Water comes in to town via the [Howard spheroid water tank], down Arthur [Street] and then it goes out and fills that tower. As water rises in elevation it rises in pressure, so we actually use the pressure from that elevated tank [Elmira west tank] to supply the pressure for the town. Now we’ll be using pumps, which are what they used before the tower was built,” he explained.

Second Elmira water tower now being overhauled

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Make no bones about it: after a long and frustrating process, the Wellesley Lions Club is finally gearing up to build its temporary leash-free dog park. With a loca-tion at the Wellesley Com-munity Centre picked out and fundraising about to begin, club member Rich-ard Franzke is eager to see the long-discussed proposal finally come to fruition.

“I haven’t had anybody come to me thinking this was a bad idea,” said Fran-zke. “We’re going to show it works, we’re going to show we can manage a park, and then we’ll go from there to come up with a permanent park.”

The community centre’s centralized location was key to its appeal, Franzke noted. “We wanted to have mini-mal environmental impact, and minimal impact on the land. We didn’t want people driving here – we wanted to have a nice location where people could walk their dogs as part of their regular

Wellesley Lions set to launch campaign for new dog parkNext weekend’s home show will start “Buy a Bone, Build a Park” fundraiser

wILL SLOAN exercise routines.”The Lions Club will of-

ficially launch fundrais-ing for the dog park at the Wellesley Spring Home and Garden Show, which runs May 1-3. At the event, patrons will be able to “Buy a Bone, Build a Park” – of-ferings as low as $25 and as high as $250 will earn do-nors a permanent inscribed bone at the park. Business-es can donate $500.

The Wellesley Lions be-gan investigating the viabil-ity of this project in spring 2012, when it was raised that there is no leash-free dog park in the entirety of Wellesley Township. In-stead of driving to a nearby city, local pet owners often opt to simply let their dogs play in integrated public parks.

“The dogs need a good run – somewhere you can throw a ball,” said Franzke. “What’s happening right now is, people don’t have anything … the dogs are mixing with the kids, and

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Elmira Golf Club’s lifetime member Connie Kilbey took the first swing to open the season and celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary on April 25. She and her husband Ron Kilbey helped to form the club in 1963 prior to the creation of the golf course in 1965. [elena maystruk / the observer]

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Previous maintenance measures have already been carried out on the Howard Avenue tank. In November 2012 it was sur-rounded by scaffolding and concealed by tarps for re-surfacing, completed in December.

This time the west tank near Floradale faces similar maintenance measures, with the recently-refur-bished tank acting as a buffer for the township’s water.

“You would never want to be working on two water sources at the same time: you always need some backup. When you do have two towers it’s important to always keep one in ser-vice,” he said.

According to the Region of Waterloo, MacDonald Appli-cators Ltd. will be handling the re-coating of the tank.

Brown said the tank is not in bad shape when it comes to appearance, the region’s decision is likely a preventative measure.

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know what? When it starts to look bad then it’s more to paint,” he said.

He added the project came at a strategic mo-ment in the season; just in time for the spring flush-ing which took place April 22-24. Staff used the excess water – which had to be drained prior to painting the tower – for the annual three-day spring flushing of the township’s watermains.

“It worked out pretty well for us. Water is an im-portant commodity and it’s quite expensive.”

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Woolwich Healthy Communities Month cleanup activities around the township were largely cancelled due to the chilly weather last weekend, but some dedicated volunteers were still cleaning up the streets. In Elmira Brenda Mathieu (top) took her grandkids Zachary and Cody McConnell to clean up around Lions Park while Township of Woolwich Environmental Enhancement Committee (TWEEC) members (bottom) cleaned the roads around Elmira.

Controlled burn takes down home

Wellesley firefighters executed a controlled burn April 9 on a century-old home in Bamberg.

The building housed a nunnery in the past and later became the home of Charles F. Thiele, who in 1919 became director of the Waterloo Musical Society Band, according to former township councillor Dusan Cizman, a photographer who was on hand to capture the exercise.

Though spectacular, the blaze was no accident, as Wellesley Township firefighters carried out a controlled burn at a Bamberg property. [dusan cizman]

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It’s been an unlucky couple of years for the Waterloo Air Show, with poor weather leading to big financial losses. But as the aviation celebration gears up for its fifth year at the Region of Waterloo Inter-national Airport in Breslau, its organizers’ expectations are sky-high.

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Students who’ve not received their immuni-zation shots, or without updated records, face suspensions as the Public Health department begins enforcing the Immuniza-tion of School Pupils Act (ISPA) on May 7.

When the ice storm hit Woolwich on April 11 and 12, most of its citizens were at least temporarily incon-venienced. For the Elmira Kiwanis Music Festival, which was to hold events on those fateful days, the hassles led to several weeks out of key.

“When I got up in the morning, bright and early, I went up to the church, and of course the church had no power,” remembered Kiwanis member Murray Haight, who was to wel-come a strings competition that day. “There was noth-ing – the place was locked.

Because the show must go onKiwanis Music Festival concert cancelled by ice storm now rescheduled for May 4

At that point, a phone call went out to all the students that were competing.”

With a key competition in limbo, Haight and the Kiwanis Club were forced to cancel the festival’s cen-terpiece event: “Stars of the Festival,” an afternoon concert featuring the best performers in the Elmira Kiwanis Music Festival, as chosen by the adjudicators.

“The adjudicator for [the strings competition] lives in Kitchener-Waterloo,” said Haight. “Her husband was able to get a hold of her and save her coming all the way in an ice storm!”

Students without immunization records face suspensionRegion of Waterloo

Public Health this week mailed a request asking the parents and guardians of secondary school students to provide immunization records for those students whose records remain in-complete.

Linda Black, manager of the vaccine-preventable

diseases program at Region of Waterloo Public Health, said every year there are incidents of students who have all of their shots but have not updated their re-cords. On the other hand, many students miss out on the proper immunizations as well.

“It’s important to have

that information so that in case there is an outbreak we have accurate records, so we know who is pro-tected and who potentially needs to be excluded from school,” she said.

The annual procedure is a good reminder for those who have lost track of their immunization informa-

tion, she added. The procedure ensures

that the region is tracking the immunization status of all children under 18 as a pre-emptive measure to protect children from vaccine-curable diseases, including those covered under the act: tetanus, diphtheria, polio, measles,

mumps and rubella. Though this is a manda-

tory measure, exceptions based on religious or medi-cal reasons are allowed pro-vided all proper legal docu-mentation is presented directly to Public Health.

Students and parents

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Organizers hope new attractions – and some good weather – bring out the crowds to Breslau

wILL SLOAN excited!’ – but the truth is, we are really excited about the new acts we have this year,” said marketing man-ager Diane Spremo.

Canada’s Snowbirds will once again take to the skies as the feature attraction on June 1 and 2, but will be joined by several new draws. First, American wing-walker Jane Wicker will risk life and limb as she ventures mid-air to parts of the plane that are decid-

edly not the pilot’s seat.“To explain it verbally

to someone doesn’t do it justice until you see it,” said Spremo. “To see her climbing and hanging and sitting on the wing of an aircraft, with no safety line, no parachute, is absolutely breathtaking, mind-bog-gling, jaw-dropping.”

Also, the “Smoke-N-Thunder Jet Car” will race 400 miles per hour against one of the performing

aircrafts (“shooting out 20-foot flames and billowing smoke,” promises Spremo), while 71-year-old Thornbury pilot Gord Price will demon-strate that age need not be an obstacle to aerobatics.

All of which is badly needed for an event that has seen its viability come under question. Since its founding in 2009, the Wa-terloo Air Show enjoyed its peak year in 2010, when approximately 40,000

people ventured to the Bre-slau airport. Things weren’t so lucky in 2011. “I don’t know if you remember the tornado in Goderich, but it happened on air show Sun-day,” said Spremo.

An unusually cold and rainy summer weekend brought attendance down to 5,000 in 2012, and losses of $350,000 led to specula-tion that the show might be forced to close.

Are there any lessons

that Spremo learned from those difficult experiences?

“As a marketer, sure, I learn each year how to market the show to more and more people, but it doesn’t really equate to the weather,” she said. “The truth is, you can market the heck out of a show, but if people wake up in the morning and it’s pouring rain with single-digit tem-

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Riverside PS students Sophie, Erin and Grace helped give back to nature at a Woolwich Healthy Communities Month tree-planting event. Working with the Woolwich Clean Waterways Group, Riverside students planted 100 trees on Wednesday morning. Students from Floradale PS joined in the afternoon. [will sloan / the observer]

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mixing with the feces, and everything else. That’s why the Lions said, ‘Let’s put in a proper dog park.’”

Earlier this year, the Li-ons proposed buying and developing land at Nafziger Road and Gerber Road, and then donating the park to the township, but an envi-ronmental probe revealed “potential for questionable soil conditions,” and coun-cil declined the proposal.

Instead, Wellesley coun-cil last month approved the community centre location, but only on a temporary basis. Sharing space with an arena, baseball diamonds, and splash pad, the dog park will have to find anoth-er, permanent home in the township within five years. In the meantime, the Lions will work with council to find more public recreation land, currently lacking in Wellesley’s more populous areas.

“We’re ensuring that anything that we use here is going to be reusable at the new property. The fencing will be pounded in instead

of being cemented; the disposal systems will be on posts that we can remove; so any investments we make here are investments for the next park.”

Franzke sees the commu-nity centre location as an opportunity to demonstrate how the park will work. “We know there’s a groundswell

of support … Now we’re just going to prove it.”

The “Buy a Bone, Build a Park” drive will take place at the Wellesley Spring Home and Garden Show, May 1-3 from 5-9 p.m., at the Wellesley Community Cen-tre (1000 Maple Leaf St.).

The group hopes to have the park built by August.

DOG PARK: Project to start at community centreFrOm | covEr

Lions Club member Richard Franzke and son Timothy welcome one of the dog park’s future denizens. [will sloan / the observer]

A projected rendering of the temporary leash-free dog park, to be built this summer at the Wellesley Community Centre.

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Two little pigtails went to market when sisters Faith Peev and Sophie Peev donated their hair to Locks of Love at Destiny’s Hair Loft this week. The program helps make prosthetics for children who have lost their hair during medical treatments. [will sloan / the observer]

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Fees and charges for some services offered by the Breslau Recreation Association are on the rise to match rates at other Woolwich facilities.

At last week’s meeting of township council, recreation director Karen Makela reported that longstanding agreements and partnerships saw rates in Breslau lag behind township levels such that by 2012, some fees were 25 to 40 per cent lower. In order

to establish parity, councillors agreed to a three-year phase-in of higher fees.

Breslau ball diamond rental rates of $22.71 an hour, with or without lights, for instance, will be increased to match the township rate structure, currently $27.35 for a diamond with no lights and $34.18 with lighting.

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electricity as of Wednesday, thanks to the latest decision by the Ontario Energy Board. These increases set a new high for regulated electricity prices in Ontario. On May 1, smart meter prices will increase to: off-peak, an additional 0.4 cents to 6.7 ¢/kWh; mid-peak, an additional 0.5 cents to 10.4 ¢/kWh; and peak, an additional 0.6 cents to 12.4¢/kWh.

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8:03 AM | A garage on Saw-mill Road in Woolwich Township was entered sometime overnight and a variety of large tools stolen. Police are investigating. There are no suspects at this time.

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5:52 PM | A collision between a car and transport truck occurred at the roundabout at Arthur Street South and Sawmill Road near St. Jacobs. A 21-year-old man from

The County of Wel-lington OPP are remind-ing residents to “lock it or lose it” after receiving several reports of thefts from vehicles overnight at residences in Centre Wellington Township. No damage to the vehicles was reported, however a wallet, GPS and an iPod were re-ported stolen in Elora. The OPP continue to en-courage homeowners and vehicle owners to be vigi-

OPP remind residents to lock it or lose it when securing their cars

lant in securing autos when not in use. Police continue to respond to calls for ser-vice involving thefts from autos overnight.

The police offer up a few tips: never leave your auto unlocked while unattend-ed; never leave your keys in the vehicle; always park in a well-lit area; never leave valuable objects in plain view: remove them or se-cure them in the trunk; al-ways roll up your windows.

West Montrose was northbound on Arthur Street approaching the roundabout when he pulled up beside a transport truck being driven by a 28-year-old Alma man. The transport truck extended past the marked lane and made contact with the car. There were no injuries and no charges.

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12:31 AM | Police responded to a call on Bluejay Road in Elmira

after two males were seen trying to break into a vehicle. The men were attempting to enter the toolbox in the back when the complainant yelled out that he was calling the police. The suspects left in a black vehicle. Police are investigating.

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10:00 AM | Police received a call from a homeowner who found a vehicle abandoned in his field on Temperance Road in Wellesley Township. After an investigation, police located the driver of the vehicle. The vehicle had been southbound on Mallot Road on the previous day and failed to make

the turn at an S-bend. The vehicle entered a ditch and rolled, coming to rest on its wheels. The driver left the vehicle and was attempting to have it removed without reporting the accident to the police. The driver was charged with careless driving and failing to report an accident.

The driver of a buggy suffered a laceration to his hand when his horse went off the road on Monday morning while travelling on Hutchinson Road north of Deborah Glaister Line. Police speculate that the horse may have been spooked. [will sloan / the observer]

Three employees of Elmira-based Programmed Insurance Brokers Inc. (PIB) and RWAM Insurance Administrators Inc. (RWAM), owned by Home Hardware Stores Ltd., have been awarded with Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medals.

Bruce Burnham, CEO, Bruce Buchanan, director of commercial insurance, and Kelly Smith, provincial command insurance program coordinator, were recognized for their outstanding contributions to community life.

Buchanan received his medal through the Royal Canadian Legion,

Ontario Command on April 14 in Listowel in recognition of his leader-ship role in the community. 

Burnham and Smith were presented their medals by the London Police Association at a special ceremony in London on April 19. Burnham was granted the medal for his 35 years of service to the association. He was also recognized for his service to the Royal Canadian Legion by receiving a Certifi-cate of Merit in 2012. Smith received the honour for her involvement in the numerous charitable events the association and its members are involved with.

Police recover stolen property in drug, arms bust

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As a result of the warrants, a large amount of stolen property was recovered along with a quantity of drugs, cash, prohibited weapons and firearms.

Four Kitchener residents face charges: Jesse Nicholls, 22,, Michael Nicholls, 26, Cory McEvoy, 27, and Kayla Wiggers, 21.

Police continue to sort and inventory a variety of property seized that they believe stolen, including laptop comput-ers, bikes, video games and consoles. Attempts are underway to locate the rightful owners of this property.

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But now that the tree branches have been picked up and the frost-bitten fields are but a fading memory, the show must go on. Saturday, May 4 will mark the new date for the Stars of the Festival, and students of many musical disciplines will show their stuff.

“The performers get a chance to perform in front of a live audience, as op-posed to being just adju-dicated,” said Haight. “In a way, it’s another part of their education, being able to perform publicly.”

Winning participants will be awarded scholar-

ship money, ranging any-where from $50 to $250, that goes towards the stu-dents’ musical education.

Anyone who has ever sang in a school choir or played in a high school band class knows that the Kiwanis Music Festival is a time-honoured ritual for young musicians. Kiwanis Interna-tional’s self-stated mission is “serving the children of the world,” and their com-mitment to music education continues even as school systems continue to down-grade their arts programs. How important, exactly, is a musical education?

“It seems to be not seen as ‘core’ for their develop-ment, but for some people,

I would argue the oppo-site,” said Haight. “It en-hances an appreciation of music. Everybody listens to music, right? Twenty-four hours a day I see people walking around with ear-pads and earphones and everything else!”

He added, “It’s also good for character development. You have to perform, you have to train … you have to be willing to put it all out on a stage, and you have to take criticism, both positive and negative, and know how to deal with that.”

The “Stars of the Festi-val” performance will take place at Floradale Menno-nite Church (22 Florapine Rd.) on May 4 at 1:30 p.m.

peratures, they’re not go-ing to come.”

Spremo hopes that visi-tors may also be attracted by the show’s new partner-ship. For the first time, they are joining forces with the Canadian Aviation Expo, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary. On

KIwANIS: A chance for young musicians to shineFrOm | 3

the ground, visitors will see a variety of aviation-related booths and exhibitions, including a static display of vintage aircrafts.

“I could ramble off a bunch of names and let-ters – the B-17, the B-25, the C-123 … But really, the way I explain it is, they’re bombers and transport carriers, mostly from the

WWII era.”Spremo added, “It’s not

just about coming to the show, looking up, watching the air show, and leaving. The air show itself doesn’t start until about 1 p.m., but the gates open at 10, so we encourage people to spend the day with us. We’ve got lots of activity happening on the ground as well.”

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may face consequences should they not provide proper documentation by the May 7 deadline.

The ISPA dictates that students failing to provide an immunization record and/or legal exception may face a school suspension for up to 20 days or until the documentation can be provided.

In September, the depart-ment sends notices home

to remind parents and stu-dents to update their infor-mation. They review the records in March and send a second round of letters to those with incomplete im-munization information. Public Health gives parents about six weeks to update their information before sending a letter to schools a week prior to the final deadline on May 7, when all students who still have incomplete records are eli-gible for suspension.

Public Health recom-mends that guardians and students obtain their records from a family phy-sician or make use of one of two walk-in clinics set up for the purpose in Wa-terloo and Cambridge. The clinics are located at 99 Regina St. S. and 150 Main St. respectively, with both clinics running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Every time your child gets an immunization it is important to call or let us

know. We don’t get the in-formation from family doc-tors, we have to get them from parents,” said Black.

Records or exemptions can be submitted in one of three ways: by phone at (519) 883-2007, in-person at the walk-in clinics or on-line at https://e-immuniza-tion.regionofwaterloo.ca/.

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They may have been a few days late, but that didn’t stop students at Floradale PS from celebrating Earth Day with nature hikes on Thursday morning. Ashlinn O’Marra’s Grade 7 class struck a pose by the Woolwich Dam before departing. [will sloan / the observer]

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So far, there’S far more speculation than actual facts in the immediate aftermath of the arrests this week of terrorism suspects accused of attempting to derail a VIA Rail passenger train. That the plot comes on the heels of the tragedy in Boston only heightens the tension.

Both incidents involved Muslims, which will only serve to reinforce longstanding perceptions. Since the events of 9/11, anything linked to terrorism and Muslims has been under intense scrutiny. From kudos for the beleaguered RCMP and the imam who tipped off police, to calls for a crackdown on Muslims, public reaction has been swift and vocal.

Some of the hysteria will pass, of course, but the arrests do bring home a growing problem more often associated with European countries with much larger influxes of Muslim immigrants: assimilation into the population and the radi-calization of younger people, even those born in the host countries.

The trail derailment plot brought to light this week is said to have ties to al-Qaeda, the very mention of which adds an-other dimension to the backlash.

It’s going to be a tricky time for Muslims in this country. Already under a general blanket of suspicion, they face in-creased scrutiny.

Beyond the immediate reactions, we do need to under-stand the root causes of such acts. Some will point to radical-ization as an inherent part of Islam. Others will mention the history of Western colonialism and ongoing interventions in Muslim countries. Then there’s the issue of support for Israel, an issue at the heart of all Middle East affairs.

Those issues are not going to go away anytime soon, as there’s too much money and ideology tied up in the status quo. What can be addressed, however, is how we react to ter-rorism and the fear it breeds. There, too, there are vested in-terests with financial and other incentives to call for beefed-up security, military spending and even more restrictions to our civil rights and liberties.

Canadians were quick to spot the opportunistic move by the federal government in attempting to push through changes to Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act following the Boston bombings. The actions of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews are consistent with attempts to place more controls on Ca-nadians – if you’re not with us, your with the pedophiles, or terrorists, it seems.

You can bet events of the last couple of weeks will be used to justify more intrusions into our collective privacy.

Certain types have always had the urge to spy on people; in the post-9/11 world, the paranoid and dictatorial have found new ways to curtail public freedoms. Their attempts to play on current fears have many precedents – think of McCarthy-ism and the state police of hundreds of oppressive regimes.

Those who would take your freedoms argue such mea-sures are little grief if only one terrorist is thwarted or one criminal swept up. The argument holds no merit, as taking away the rights of everyone to round up a few smacks of a bad deal.

Information gathered will do nothing to deter real crime, but would serve as an excellent vehicle for public control. Misuse would be rampant. Throw in a lack of data security and the perils become even greater.

With computers able to crunch vast amounts of disparate data, we would be wise to provide government, agencies and businesses with increasingly less information about our-selves. Preventing more intrusion on our lives is where the real battle lies.

We can't let fear allow further erosion of liberty

George W. Bush wasn’t lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said that he was owe him an apology. Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction. We just didn’t read the small print.

When president Bush said in a speech: “Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof – the smoking gun – that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud,” we thought that he was talking about nuclear weapons. And many of us didn’t be-lieve him.

When vice-president Dick Cheney assured us: “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends…and against us,” we just assumed he was lying as usual.

And when Colin Powell, the secretary of state, told the UN Security Council that “Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing

A rather small weapon of mass destruction their efforts to produce more weapons of mass de-struction. ...We know that Iraqi government officials ... have hidden prohibited items in their homes,” we thought he meant nukes and poison gas and nasty biological agents. Poor old Colin, we thought. An inno-cent soldier, too gullible for his own good.

But we were all wrong. The real threat was pressure cookers, and there were thousands of them in the homes of Iraqi officials.

We shouldn’t be too hard on the Bush gang for not making full disclosure of what they actually meant by “weapons of mass de-struction” at the time. Imagine how silly Colin Powell would have looked at the United Nations if he had shown the disbelieving audience not a vial of suspi-cious-looking liquid (nerve gas? bubonic plague?), but merely a pressure cooker. But there can be no doubt now: there were “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.

These penitential thoughts are inspired by the charge brought against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother of the

two young Chechen-Amer-icans who detonated two pressure cookers stuffed with explosives and ball-bearings at the Boston Marathon last week, killing three and wounding several hundred. It was a wicked deed that brought great sor-row to many families – but are pressure cookers really “weapons of mass destruc-tion”?

The U.S. Department of Justice certainly thinks so. On April 22 it charged the 19-year-old Tsarnaev with “using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass de-struction against persons and property.” Not a nucle-ar weapon, or poison gas, or some filthy plague, but a home-made bomb that killed three people.

The U.S. federal gov-ernment’s definition of a “weapon of mass destruc-tion,” it turns out, is quite different from the one we ordinary mortals use. It covers almost any explo-sive device, specifically including bombs, grenades, mines, and small rockets and missiles.

The requirement seems to be that the weapon in question has to explode, so assault rifles with large

magazines, for example, are exempt, even though they have been used to kill much larger numbers of inno-cent American civilians on several occasions. (Mustn’t upset the National Rifle As-sociation.)

Of course, American bombs, grenades, mines and small rockets and mis-siles are not “weapons of mass destruction.” That would be unthinkable. Otherwise we would have to accept that President Barack Obama signs off on the use of drone-delivered weapons of mass destruc-tion on the guilty and the innocent alike in Afghani-stan, Pakistan and Yemen almost every morning.

What’s really going on here is just another mani-festation of what Americans themselves call “American exceptionalism.” In this context, it means that kill-ing Americans, especially for political reasons, is a special crime that calls for special terms and special punishment. It’s the same logic that has been used to justify imprisoning people indefinitely without trial and even torturing them in

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Ideal cities don't line up with choices we make as individuals

Can Waterloo region become a hip and vi-brant community? One filled with people merrily tackling their commutes, shopping trips and leisure pursuits by foot, bicycle or public transit? Not likely, but that won’t stop munici-pal officials from trying.

From limiting growth and encouraging inten-sification, from cycling lanes to an LRT boon-doggle, we’re going to see an increasing number of projects designed to make us cool. Or at least inconve-nienced, if nothing else.

Most of this will, of course, apply to the region’s cities. The townships will see fewer changes, though the costs will spill over.

The goal is admirable, at least in part.

Who wouldn’t like a vi-brant cultural scene, with great entertainment op-tions and a real nightlife in the vein of, say, Montreal or Vancouver? Without, of course, the congestion and

demographic nightmares of Toronto and its ilk. Curb-ing growth, however, is not on the menu.

With walking and cy-cling, who isn’t captivated by the street life of Europe-an centres? It’s great to see people going about their daily business under their own steam. We lack the beautiful old architecture, public spaces and way of life, but on we go.

As for transit, it’s fast and convenient – and sometimes even inexpen-sive – in other parts of the world. Why not here? Never mind the geographical dis-tances, car culture and pre-mium placed on our time ... we’ll plow ahead in a small, makeshift way, spending much in return for little.

OK, none of that pes-simism is on display at the official level. Just this week, there was talk of creating a vibrant, cultured and transit-friendly com-munity to rival California as part of the University of Waterloo’s Leadership In-novation Conference.

The region is pressing for-ward with its transit scheme.

The cities are looking at adding bike lanes.

More highrise buildings are being erected.

Tens of millions are be-ing poured into downtown redevelopment.

This is all driven by an optimism that these moves will bring change. Positive change. Hopefully, that is the case.

Happening, walkable, livable cities would be ideal.

All of this is predicated on ever-more growth, despite the fact constant growth – the Ponzi scheme that is our economy – is not sustainable. It also depends on separating taxpayers from even more of their money, despite spending that outstrips economic growth (there’s that word again) and people’s in-comes. Most troubling, it depends on people chang-ing their behaviours in large enough numbers to make any of it work.

The ideal of so-called compact communities puts me in mind of Europe, where densities are higher and people live within an easy walk or bike ride of most of the amenities of daily living. Because most communities developed

before the advent of the automobile, they’re very much people-centric as opposed to the car-centric towns and cities of North America.

People actually do walk and cycle as a means of transportation, not just recreation. Public transit is convenient and well used. In short, the antithesis of how we do things here. Living there, you can quite easily do without a car.

Of course, vehicles are more expensive, gas prices astronomical and parking spaces limited, putting a real damper on the kind of automobile enthusiasm seen in North America.

In all the talk of more human-scale communi-ties, there’s no mention of aesthetics. For me, that’s the make-it-or-break-it part of the equation: our ugly built environments foster neither pride of place nor a desire to be out on foot, interacting with the place where we live as something to enjoy in its own right. It’s going to take a monu-mental effort at creating something better to get us out of the suburban model: Shifting from our box of a

house to our box of a car to the box where we shop and the box where we work. The insides may be nice and comfortable, as we shut out the world and the others who happen to live in the same town, but the shared spaces are not con-ducive to creating the kind of community envisioned by proponents of a livable city.

For decades now, we’ve had a model of suburban sprawl – low-density living that relies on roads to con-nect our homes to shops and workplaces. In the region, it’s pretty difficult to get around without a car. The transit system is not particularly robust, espe-cially outside of the main transit corridors, which means pretty much the bulk of the area. The town-ships are beyond the pale. The LRT will not change that one iota.

Living in a large suburb, kilometres away from a mall or massive power centre, we naturally get in our cars to get there. And, when it comes to work, many of us commute great distances. Changing that reality could take decades, even if we opt

to do so. That would mean turning a 15-minute jaunt in the car into an hour or two on transit. And then there’s the part of standing around, perhaps in poor weather, before having to share your space with others.

The fact is that car own-ership is seen as essential in most communities – few North American cities, such as New York, actually make car ownership more expensive and less conve-nient than doing without an automobile.

And once someone is invested in a car, most of the costs such as monthly payments and insurance are fixed whether it’s sitting in the driveway or rolling through town. Transit is rarely faster, so people take their cars. While people tend to underestimate the cost of operating their vehicles – gas, wear and tear and the like – they still see it as cheaper than using transit.

The kind of city envi-sioned by pioneer Jane Jacobs – the international Jane’s Walk is set for next weekend, including events in the region – is an ideal. Can we get there? Maybe. But not any time soon.

Should the opposition parties push for a provincial election?

“No, I don’t think so.”

» Sharon Desmarais

“No! I don’t want another election.”

» Susan Barran

“I think the interim premiere should be given a chance to see how she conducts affairs. Elections cost money, and nothing gets done.”

» Rodney Martin

“I don’t think they should.”

» Brenda Traut

“Yes, I do.”

» Scott Grainger

"I would ask that the residents of Winterbourne be given some consideration in the face of our historical neglect ..." Paul Marrow | page 10

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the endless “war on terror.”Don’t get too excited

about it. One of the things that makes Americans completely unexceptional is that they are playing the same games with words and meanings that every great power has used to justify its actions since the dawn of time. Lewis Carroll nailed it a century and a half ago in “Through the Looking-Glass,” the sequel to “Alice’s

Adventures in Wonder-land.”

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $909 in February, up 0.9% from the previous month. In February, non-farm payroll employees worked an average of 32.9 hours per week, down from 33.0 hours in January, but up from 32.8 hours a year earlier. On a year-over-year basis, earnings increased 3.1%.

» BMO chief economist Douglas Porter on the "towering" gap between house prices in Canada and the U.S. as of March

“There’s nothing in the textbooks that says prices have to be identical between Canada and the U.S., especially in their own currencies. But a 62-per-cent gap is simply not sustainable for long.”

» From the April 26, 2008 edition of the Observer

The No Frills store in Elmira got the extra parking space it sought following and out-of-court settlement of a legal battle with the Township of Woolwich. Under the deal, part of a neighbouring residential property -- the home was eventually demolished -- was used to extend the parking lot to the south.

Winterbourne has already suffered enough

To the Editor,We moved to Winter-bourne in 1983 in order to live and raise our children in a rural environment. We were willing to sacrifice the urban conveniences and accept the extra travel in order to provide our chil-dren with the rural experi-ence that my wife and I had experienced growing up in Winona and Kincardine respectively.

We understand the concepts of ‘progress’ and NIMBY as well as the next persons, but how much should one community be expected to sacrifice?

Winterbourne is already the poor cousin in Wool-wich. We have no munici-pal services except a few scattered streetlights and a playground owned by a private school but “avail-able” for community use. The entire village probably has less than 400 metres of sidewalk. We do not even have the pleasure of Rogers or Bell Sympatico access and must obtain our televi-sion and “high-speed” in-ternet via premium-priced over-the-air and/or satellite providers.

Pending approval of not one but possibly three ma-jor gravel operations (Jigs Hollow, Hunsberger, West Montrose) we feel as though we are being scapegoated.

We had been resigned to the Jigs Hollow pit despite the fact that it is directly up-wind of us, but we thought we had the assurance of council that the recycling and topsoil functions had been eliminated. Apparent-ly we were misled, as both functions were approved. So not only do we have the eyesore of a pit along with the associated noise and dust,  but we have the extra nuisance of the sound and smell of concrete and as-phalt recycling.

Just this week the ex-cavator arrived to start on Winterbourne’s latest eyesore. A new transformer station courtesy of Hydro One and Waterloo North Hydro is about to be built on the immediate outskirts of our village. I guess I shouldn’t worry too much about it, though, as its in-fluence on our aesthetics will be overshadowed by the Hunder pit that will surround it.

The only reason we have not listed our property for sale is that our neighbour behind us has assured us that he has no gravel on his property. As it is, as seniors living on a rural property we are probably risking a significant drop in our property value when we decide we need to downsize. We have always been told that a Winter-bourne address was worth something on a property sale. With gravel opera-tions surrounding us, any advantage we might cur-rently have will no doubt

be eliminated.All of this has however

been secondary to our pri-mary concern, that of traf-fic. We front on Katherine Street. Since 1983, traffic levels have increased sev-eral fold. The Waterloo Re-gional Police are well aware of the problem of traffic speeding through the vil-lage. Adding a huge num-ber of gravel trucks cannot help the situation.

Our immediate neigh-bour is an Old Order Mennonite who breaks horses for buggy use. In our 50 km/h zone, we have his skittish horses in training sharing the road with students waiting for school buses, Old Order kids walking to the West Montrose parochial school, horse- and tractor-drawn farm equipment, buggies, commuter traffic, and large numbers of recreational bicyclists, along with com-mercial traffic trying to avoid the horror that is Highway 7 between Guelph

and Kitchener.Our stretch of Katherine

Street also has no side-walks.

I can’t imagine what the situation will be once we start adding hundreds of gravel trucks into this mix.

The Crowsfoot corner, already a mess during com-muting hours, is another concern. Our family has already been the victim of a rear-end collision at the Crowsfoot, along with sev-eral near misses. Adding gravel trucks in large num-bers to the mix is a recipe for disaster.

I would ask that the resi-dents of Winterbourne be given some consideration in the face of our historical neglect and the cumulative effects of that neglect com-pounded by the pressures of the transformer station and two or three major pit operations and the envi-ronmental and traffic deg-radation that will result.

Paul Marrow, winterbourne

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SPORTSball hockey/ the challenge is on

Having a ball with hockey Kings take a look at young prospects

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Girls hit the pitch as high school rugby returnsElEna Maystruk

Elmira ball hockey league now in its fourth year gets another season rolling

Last weekend’s camp a chance for new coaching staff to start building next season’s roster

ElEna Maystruk

Members of the Woolwich Ball Hockey League are looking forward to a competitive season, with four teams, bearing NHL emblems, playing each other for the championship trophy. Brock Zinken (captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs), Mike Bauman (captain of the Calgary Flames), players Adam Snider and Chris Esseltine, Chicago Blackhawks captain Richard Shantz and Tampa Bay Lightning captain Patrick Shantz. [elena maystruk / the observer]

The ice hockey season just wrapped up, it’s time for ball hockey to come to the fore. A four-team El-mira league kicked off its fourth season this week.

“Instead of playing in the leagues in Kitchener we started our own. This is year-four,” said goalie Chris Esseltine.

With “a lot of sweat, a little bit of tears and a little bit of blood,” according to

Elmira’s high school rugby program has much to prove this year as they tackle the first few games of the season.

EDSS players faced off against Bluevale Collegiate Institute April 22 in their first Waterloo County Sec-ondary School Athletics Association game, and left

the field with a disappoint-ing loss.

Girls’ rugby coach Matt Bauman said his team faced some pretty stiff com-petition.

“We lost pretty badly but it was to the first-place team in the division last year. We lost to a strong team,” he said Wednesday.

Though a disappoint-ing loss for the girls, for

coaches it was a telling match that will have play-ers focusing on improving a key skill.

“I think we mainly need to work on our tackling and making sure that we finish our tackles. That’s probably one of the biggest things,” Bauman said.

There was a strong turn-out of girls for this year’s squads, with about 30

years. “Not as many [senior re-

turning players] as I would like, but some of them were out because of injuries from other sports,” he explained.

Last year’s early loss in the WCSSAA playoffs has him aiming for a better run this season, and he’s hop-ing that the older players will take the lead.

Does Bauman have high

players per tryout. That allowed for the formation of a senior team as well as a junior team that will have a chance to play against other schools with similar rosters.

The main team is split pretty evenly between junior and senior girls, Bauman said, though he had hoped for more return-ing players from previous

hopes this year?“Oh yeah; just keep work-

ing as a team and hope-fully the senior girls will give good tips to the junior girls,” he said.

This year EDSS staff member Sara Gerth is also acting as a trainer for the girls.

“We need someone who

team captains, the league was created by a group of local men, some of them former Sugar Kings, others recruited from surround-ing ball hockey leagues.

Sixty players, aged ap-proximately 19 to 35, are spread over four teams in the league, each carrying a favourite National Hockey League emblem: Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Chicago Black-hawks and Calgary Flames. The captains for each team

– Brock Zinken (Leafs), Patrick Shantz (Lightning), Richard Shantz (Black-hawks) and Mike Bauman (Flames) – also double as coaches for their respec-tive teams. Bauman is also the league’s commissioner.

“We wanted to feel like we were in the NHL,” said player Adam Snider.

The league was formed as an alternative to out-side leagues in the region from a tight knit group of players who hold games

in the Jim McLeod Arena at the Woolwich Memorial Centre.

“Everyone pretty much knows everyone, so it’s still competitive but it doesn’t get stupid; there’s no fighting and slashing,” Patrick Shantz said of the league.

The league does have expansion plans to in-clude games against other leagues in the future.

The Tampa Bay Light-ning finished first last

year, earning the Elmira Ball Hockey League cham-pionship trophy. This sea-son, the captains had full rosters and the popularity of the league caused some prospective players to be turned away to try their luck elsewhere.

“This is the envy: ev-eryone wants to be in this league,” Esseltine said.

But why ball hockey as opposed to joining an ice

The Elmira Sugar Kings’ new head coach got a good look at some young players with a shot at making the team next season, as the hockey club held its spring prospect camp at the Woolwich Me-morial Centre.

Four squads of 20 prospects took to the ice throughout the day on April 20 and April 21 while coaching staff looked on. For new head coach Jeff Flanagan, the goal is to find players who work well together and exhibit key skills.

“The best players come in any shape or form. We’re looking for players that, number one, are the best personality types for the Sugar Kings organiza-tion and really want to be a member of the Sugar Kings. And, second, we’re looking for players, both forwards and defence, that have various skills, from being scorers or great passers to players who are not afraid to go into tough

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Some tips for young anglers as trout season opens

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Hunger can play a big part in the quest for a delicious roasted turkey

Anyone who keeps track of important events knows that turkey season opened on Thursday.

Even though it has been around for a while, there are people who still harbour some misconceptions.

For instance, I recently met a few people who think that turkey hunting is unfair. They say that the significant difference in IQ between man and bird makes the outcome practi-cally a foregone conclusion.

That’s untrue: We turkey hunters are a lot smarter than people give us credit for.

Besides, turkey hunting success does not depend on brain capacity so much as a stomach capacity. If it is empty, you don’t stand a chance.

You see, most of us, get out there very early in the morning, long before first light. If we are lucky, we grab a quick bite on the way out the door and maybe even a coffee. Then we head out into the field to sit and shiver with our backs against a tree. There we wait for legal shooting light and the turkeys to arrive. The

turkeys are well fed by this time.

We, on the other hand, are not. Worse still, shiver-ing and swatting at bugs takes a lot of energy, so before long your stomach commences to grumble.

That’s when you remem-ber that you’ve got a three-year-old granola bar in your turkey vest for just such an occasion.

Before you get all high and mighty about the prospect of eating a three-year-old granola bar, let me remind you that the French age game birds for a week. And granola is practically a French word.

So you give a soft yelp on

your call, then you quietly scan the woods around you. But just as you start to reach for that old granola bar, a gobbler sounds off. Before long, you see its head just out of gun range.

Needless to say, this does not help alleviate the pangs of hunger you are currently enduring. In fact, the mere sight of that bird brings back fond memories of roast turkey breast, covered with bacon along with all the fix-ings.

Now, no matter how tempting that three-year-old granola bar is, you know you can’t move. Your stomach says differently, however.

So you call softly as the gobbler meanders towards you, displaying all the way. Many people believe he’s doing this for the hens. I happen to think he’s just showing off all the delicious edible parts, in order to make a hungry hunter give in and involuntarily reach for that granola bar.

Needless to say, that old Tom will stop just out of range once again – prob-ably because he heard your stomach grumble. Or per-haps a drop of saliva hitting the ground.

You wait some more, but this time instead of calling, you start praying for one of two outcomes – either the

bird comes in so you can shoot it or leaves so you can satisfy that hunger with a delicious three-year-old granola bar. After all, it’s got character.

Right about this time, either option will work for you.

The bird, being well fed, takes its time and eventual-ly one of the two things does occur – which one, however, is anyone’s guess.

But, if luck is on your side, you’ll enter the turkey woods on Opening Day next year with a grumbling stomach, a vest full of calls and shells and a four-year-old granola bar in that very same pocket.

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Junior anglers will be getting some tips on reeling in a big one during Take a Kid Fishing Day on May 4.

Kids eager to put their fishing rods to use will be making their way to Bel-wood Lake Conservation Area to enjoy lessons from the pros at an event now in its ninth year.

The event is organized by the Grand River Con-servation Authority and staff at Belwood Lake. Su-perintendent Derek Strub is heading the event. He says the day attracts a good number of avid young fish-ing enthusiasts aged 8 to 14.

“I’ve been an avid angler for years and I figured we needed more [outdoor] events for kids; fishing

events, things like that,” he said.

The conservation area, located at 8282 Wellington County Road 18 (four kilo-metres east of Fergus), will be the scene of two ses-sions during the day, with space for 120 kids in each.

Over the years, the event has enjoyed some popu-larity with young anglers, with kids responding well to an opportunity to “just get out of the house,” he laughed.

Some 1,500 youngsters have taken part in Take a Kid Fishing Day since its inception. The numbers this year will depend on the weather, with organiz-ers hoping there’s more spring than winter by the time the event rolls around.

“We’ve had some very marginal weather over

the years. We’ve had some years when it rained. We’ve even had some years when it snowed. If we have nice weather we usually get 220 to 240 kids,” he said.

Those taking part will have a chance to learn some new tricks during a lesson period taught by experienced anglers, in-cluding local volunteers and staff from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the GRCA.

“We use 15 to 20 vol-unteers to come out and help me that day because I couldn’t possibly do it my-self without the help I get.”

Kids can then try their hand at some real fishing in a stocked pond on the conservation grounds. Two ponds filled with rainbow trout are reserved for kids. While on regular days kids are permitted to take two

fish home, the event will have a catch-and-release policy, Strub explained.

The event teaches every-thing from fish identifica-tion to casting techniques, fly-tying and environmen-tal education including a session run by the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters.

The event is free for registered participants with the exception of park fees ($2.75 for children and $5.50 for adults). The morning session runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon, followed by an afternoon session from 12:30 to 4 p.m. All young anglers must be supervised by a parent or guardian. A free barbeque lunch donated by Friends of the Grand River will be provided for both groups from noon to 1 p.m.

For more information

and to register for the event, e-mail dstrub@grandriver.ca by May 2.

Belwood Lake is one of

three GRCA parks open this week for trout season. Conestogo Lake and Rock-wood are the other two.

GRCA’s Belwood Lake Conservation Area to host Take a Kid Fishing Day next weekend

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hockey team? What is the appeal?

“You kind of grow up playing a lot of ball hock-ey, I think, and some guys can’t really skate but they can run and hack,” Snider said.

“Something to do in the summertime: we love hockey in the winter,” Es-seltine added.

And it’s a good workout, to boot, they say. There’s no gliding on skates in this sport, no “coasting” they joked.

With a new season un-derway, there’s more than a little friendly rivalry going on, as players draw on last season’s bragging

rights. “I think every one of

us can say that we want to win this [season] … the six months that you’re not playing ball hockey there’s a lot of chirping from your friends going on towards you that you lost the year before,” Esseltine said.

All four teams play on the same days against each other in 45-minute games, with league playing get-ting underway April 23.

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Ball HOCkEy: These players take the game very seriously

League play got underway this week, with memories of last season’s wins and losses serving to fuel rivalries right from the start. [elena maystruk / the observer]

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has first aid experience because there tend to be some injuries in rugby. She helps with the fitness and

she also helps if there are injuries.” Bauman said.

EDSS rugby players will have a chance to show their skills and improve their

standing in Monday’s road game against Grand River Collegiate Institute. Game time is 3:30 on the GRCI campus.

ruGBy: Girls looking to make adjustments after a tough loss to open the WCSSAA seasonfRom | 11

areas to be successful,” he said.

After a first-round exit from the playoffs to cap the 2012-13 season, with losses largely chalked up to a slew of late-season injuries, the Kings execs chose Flanagan to lead the charge next fall. He is looking for determina-tion and a team attitude in prospective players who showed up to the camp. As well, staff are looking to scout during future tour-nament games.

So far coaches have a ghost roster of 18 possible returning players, some of whom are still sorting out their plans for post-secondary education and other options, Flanagan said.

On the ice over the weekend staff were pre-sented with a large num-ber of younger players. The prospect camp invites players from the 1997 birth year (16-years-old) up to and including 20-year-

olds who may have played for Junior C teams in pre-vious years. But the large turnout of the youngest players will make the deci-sion tough on both coach-ing staff and Sugar King hopefuls.

“Some of them were OHL draft picks, some of them were free agents and unfortunately for us at our level we are only allowed to sign two 16-year-olds, so it’s a very difficult posi-tion,” Flanagan said.

Coaches also saw a lot of potential talent that might be gracing the ice this coming season, most of it coming from the area, including Woolwich, Kitchener, Waterloo and Guelph.

Flanagan added, “We definitely saw some play-ers who could end up play-ing in our league, either for the Sugar Kings or an-other team this year, and definitely some players who we’ll keep our eye on for next year. It makes our decision extremely hard, but it’s also good to know

that we’ve got a lot of tal-ent to choose from and talent that’s going to be available for the future.”

With 18 eligible return-ing players it’s too early to tell what form the team will take, and coaches are going to take their time making difficult decisions on the right players.

A number of standouts from last weekend were invited to the Sugar Kings’ main camp in August. In the meantime, the team’s scouts will be attending a number of upcoming tournaments in search of prospects.

All prospective play-ers, new and returning, were instructed to come to camp in top shape, as the coaching staff will be ex-pecting them to work hard, whether they’re fighting for a spot on the team or working to retain one.

“That keeps everybody on their toes and hopefully striving to be the best they can be.”

Flanagan was happy with what he saw last weekend.

“We’re glad to see that there’s going to be some tough decisions for us, be-cause it shows the talent of our local players and looks to be a good future on the way.”

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Some 80 would-be Sugar Kings were at the Woolwich Memorial Centre last weekend for the team’s prospects camp. Broken into four squads, the young players were put through their paces under the watchful eye of the coaching staff, who said they’ll have a tough time choosing from among the talented pool. [elena maystruk / the observer]

ball hockey April 23-Game 1

Flames: 5 Blackhawks: 5

Goals (Flames): Mike Bauman x3, Tom Hayes, Jesse Steenson, Assists (Flames): Mike Dunn x2, Jeff Bogar x2, Chris WolfeGoals (Blackhawks): Jeff Dumart x2, Brent Freeman, Chris Holland, Matt ShantzAssists (Blackhawks): Brent Freeman, Chris Reid April 21-Game 2

Lightning: 6 Maple Leafs: 3

Goals (Lightning): Pat Shantz x3, Mike Therrien, Kyle Frede, Matt Snyder Assists (Lightning): Mike Therrien x2, Kyle Frede, Kyle Brubacher Goals (Maple Leafs): Brock Zinken x2, Scott Hanley Assists (Maple Leafs): Sal Balla, Derek Nissen, Parry Martin

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The timeframes vary, but it’s estimated humans have consumed pulse crops (peas, beans, lentils and chick peas) for about 5,000 years. But in North Ameri-ca and Europe, these crops have never caught on with consumers the way they have elsewhere. We tend to get our protein from other sources, which means puls-es have taken a backseat despite their many health virtues – they’re high in protein, fibre and minerals such as iron, zinc, folate and other B vitamins. And they’re cheap.

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When Tiia Planert joined the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre’s Summer Com-pany program at age 19, her practical experience in the world of business was minimal.

“When I started the program, I had only taken a Grade 9 business pro-gram. That’s all I really knew about business,” said Planert.

“Through this program, I was taught how to interact with the public, and sell a product, and how to price things, and especially marketing. And even just starting a business bank account, which I had no idea you needed.”

All of this new informa-tion came in handy as Planert developed “Cup-cakes! Cupcakes! Cup-cakes!” – a business that is exactly what it sounds like. And, all of this informa-tion continues to come in handy, as her business is still running at the St. Ja-cobs Farmers’ Market.

Beginning this sum-mer, students between the ages of 15 and 29 will have a chance to follow in her footsteps. Summer Program is accepting ap-plications from students who want to get out of the McDonald’s kitchen and learn about how to lead their own company.

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Tiia Planert is still running the cupcake business she started in the Summer Company program at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Like many agricul-tural commodities that get marketing exposure and support abroad (such as food-grade soybeans and pork), Canadian pulses have gained renown in South Asian countries, China, Latin America and the Middle East/North Af-rica. Since the early 1990s, the value of pulse exports

to get people excited about my product,” she said.

“From day-one, I had a Facebook page, I had a website, and was just talk-ing to everyone I knew about it: ‘Hey, I have this new business, I love it, it’s a lot of fun and I think you should try it.’”

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“They actually have to go out, get customers, and deal with the customers,” said Clement. “They have to open a bank account, they have to keep up their books, journalize every-thing. … Everything that a full, proper business owner has to do.”

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has grown exponentially. In fact, Canada is now the world’s largest exporter of lentils and peas, and one of the top five in beans, reaching more than 150 countries.

But pulses are typically shipped as raw commodi-ties. The real money and growth is in processing and manufacturing, turning pulses into a further edible product, such as breakfast cereals, that would have more appeal in lucrative developed–country mar-kets (Canada, the U.S. and Europe, for example).

So Pulse Canada, the association represent-ing pulse crops here, has embarked on a new video campaign called Meal Planning for 9 Billion People. Its main appeal is to those who can benefit from pulses’ environmen-tal superiority – namely, the increasing number of companies that are paying

are able to pursue a wide range of business ideas.

While the program only lasts a summer, some en-trepreneurs have parlayed their success into longer-lasting careers. Kitchener resident Ian Lochbihler, who joined the program in 2002 as an undergrad, hit upon a successful idea with Waterloo Networks Inc., a computer repair business that has been his full-time livelihood ever since. And Planert, of course, can still be found in her usual place at the St. Jacobs Market on Thurs-days and Saturdays.

Inevitably, however, not all of the businesses will succeed. Figuring out why is not always easy.

attention to their products’ sustainability, either for marketing purposes or cli-ent demand.

The happy coincidence is that those companies are located in the same devel-oped countries where Pulse Canada wants a stronger presence. Denis Tremorin, director of sustainability for Pulse Canada, says food manufacturers in North America and Europe “are trying to improve the sus-tainability outcomes tied to the products that they sell.” It’s likely just a matter of time before environmental sustainability becomes an export requirement too, in the same way animal welfare is headed. Can’t prove that your product is produced in a sustainable manner? Then keep it.

The Meal Planning for 9 Billion People video cam-paign pushes just about every button imaginable. It sounds elementary, but

“I’d like to think it’s that they just weren’t antici-pating the gravity of the situation,” said Clement. “To think about it in the abstract is one thing; to get in on the ground floor is another thing entirely.

“We ask the students, ‘What do you think of the program?’ and the one I get most of the time is, ‘I understood it was 35 hours a week, but I didn’t un-derstand what 35 hours a week really was.’”

Added Planert, “You kind of have to devote your life to it. I spent a lot of time on my business and trying to promote it. I’m an introvert, so it’s hard for me at first to get out there, and I find some people

feeding the world with meals, as Pulse Canada suggests, rather than sim-ply saying food, is brilliant. For consumers, that brings the matter right down to the dinner table, where talk about food gets very practi-cal, very fast.

The fact Pulse Canada chose to cast its net us-ing video is noteworthy. Video is superb for widely introducing dramatic top-ics such as global hunger. And that’s where this video series starts, then goes on to position pulses as a big part of the answer for water depletion, land degrada-tion and over fertilization. Processors and manufac-turers, are your customers concerned about such mat-ters? Darned right they are. Eat pulses and you’re a part of the solution.

It’s a clever, accessible campaign, one from which the rest of the sector can learn.

never get past that.”Others, however, find

they simply fall out of love with their business ideas, or discover that their tal-ents lie elsewhere. All of this is understandable, ex-plained Clement. “That’s kind of the purpose of the program: to give young people who are interested in entrepreneurship a chance to really try it, in a situation when they’re not really putting themselves in a position to damage themselves.”

There are 17 spaces for Summer Company 2013, with the application deadline on May 17. More information can be found at www.ontario.ca/sum-mercompany.

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THE ARTSon stage / local theatre

It’s all about timing as farce meets murder-mystery in latest ETC playElmira Theatre Company eagerly mounts a very challenging show in Jack Sharkey’s The Murder Room

Will Sloan

If you’re looking to rush your way through a cheaply-mounted play (and in this economy, who isn’t?), Michelle Kreitzer, director of the Elmira The-atre Company’s The Mur-der Room, has a playwright for you to avoid.

“The thing I like most about Jack Sharkey is that he allows challenge for ev-eryone,” said Kreitzer “Ac-tors, directors, light, sound – every part of the produc-tion gets an opportunity to shine. I think it’s such a big challenge for everybody involved, and I love the way he creates that.”

The Murder Room, which opened Friday, is a full-on, door-slamming farce, requiring pinpoint timing and plenty of boisterous energy. This is the third time Kreitzer has adapted one of the late Chicago playwright’s works, and she finds that each time, her collaborators welcome the challenge.

“Everybody who comes out to audition or do lights and sound, they come because they love it,” she

“You’ve been working with the Larry Mercey Trio for close to ten years now, right?” I ask country music veteran Larry Mercey, who is performing at the Com-mercial Tavern on Sunday.

“Yes, well it’s around seven, I guess,” he says. “I thought it was around five, but they were telling me the other day it was seven. So it’s adding up.”

“Well, I guess time goes quickly,” I say, knowing full well the trio formed in 2004.

“Yeah, it really does. As you get older.”

At age 73, Larry Mercey is certainly a music veteran.

Coming to prominence as one third of the Mercey Brothers, Larry and his brothers Ray and Lloyd re-corded 17 albums in a part-nership that lasted from 1957 to 1989 (six of their singles hit number-one on the Canadian country charts). After the group disbanded, Mercey had suc-cess as a single, earning two Juno nominations for Best Country Music Vocalist for his two solo albums.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Mercey now tours as part of the Larry Mercey Trio (with fellow musicians George Lonsbury and Al Alderson), and also as a solo act. Sunday’s Commercial Tavern show will see Mer-

cey reviving many of the key songs of his career.

“There’ll be songs I’ll be doing that I’ve been doing since 1966,” says Mercey. “People will say, ‘God, I haven’t heard that song in a long time.’”

I ask, “After so many de-cades, do you ever get tired of some of them?”

Mercey pauses to con-sider. “Really, I don’t. Some you just drop … But I still enjoy the old country mu-sic. I still enjoy doing it. I don’t get tired of it.”

Mercey’s career has ebbed and flowed in his decades in the music indus-try, and has observed that his brand of “traditional country music” is not in

peak demand. Is there any explaining which way the pendulum swings?

“I would say it really is an age thing,” says Mercey. “If you grew up with a certain kind of music, then that’s the music that you loved. It’s the same if people grew up with the Beatles – that’s the kind of music they love the most. But the music changes.”

He continues, “People will ask me, ‘How do you like that New Country?’ And I like it, but at one point, the Mercey Brothers were New Country … I’ve been in the business for over 50 years, and at one time, we were the new kids on the block.”

“That must be a sober-ing thing to realize, that at one point, you become the grizzled veteran, not the kid,” I say.

“Yeah,” says Mercey. “You certainly know that that’s what it’s like. But you also know there are people who still like the music. And the Commercial Tavern is really the only bar that I know of that plays that kind of mu-sic. Any people that say, ‘I like classic country music, but I can’t hear it anymore’ – that’s the place.”

Larry Mercey will be per-forming on Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at the Maryhill Commercial Tavern, 1303 Maryhill Rd. Call 519-648-3644.

said. “So if you challenge them to push themselves further in something that they love to do, it creates internal motivation, and then they push themselves harder. Suddenly you’ve

got this challenge that they have succeeded at.”

The Murder Room tells the sordid tale of Mavis Templeton Hollister, a “villainess” having an il-licit affair, whose attempts

to murder her husband all end in failure. Every-thing seems to be coming up roses after she finally shoots her spouse three times, but fortune turns against her when it is

discovered her gun was loaded with blanks. With the body missing, all man-ner of shenanigans ensue, in what the Elmira Theatre Company promises will be a “three-act, British-style farce.”

“This particular show has that very fast, witty repar-tee, kind of like ‘Who’s on First,’ Abbott and Costello,” explained Kreitzer.

“It’s a farce, so you have to have the misrepresenta-tion, and the jumping in and out of doors, and ev-erybody appearing where you’re not expecting them to appear. And this show is a murder mystery, so we’ve also got people popping in and out of trap doors, and secret doorways…”

Getting caught up in what she was saying, Kre-itzer laughed. “There’s just so much happening, it’s hard to believe he can fit it into three acts.”

All of this requires Kreitzer and the cast – a six-person ensemble con-sisting of Lorne Flemming, Sue Jennings, Evelyn Barber, Laird Drexler, Deb Deckert, and Dale Kustra – to be on their toes.

“People think comedy is easy, but it’s very, very dif-ficult,” said Kreitzer. “The nice thing is, if you do it well, and you’ve got that timing and that connection with the audience, it looks easy.”

Kreitzer has directed community theatre in Elora and Guelph, but The Murder Room marks her first venture in Elmira. So far, the experience has been rewarding.

“They’re a great group. They’re very dedicated and very devoted. This is quite a challenging show for ac-tors – there are lots of lines and lots of movement and a little bit of acrobatics – and they’ve put themselves to the test. They’ve been fantastic.”

The Murder Room is now playing at the Elmira The-atre Company facility, 76 Howard Ave. Show times are tonight (Saturday), May 2-4 and 9-11 at 8 p.m., plus Sunday matinees on April 28, May 5, and May 11 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $18, and can be purchased online via the Centre in the Square box office (www.centre-square.com).

Debbie Deckert, Sue Jennings, Evelyn Barber, and Dale Kustra work their way through the ETC production of The Murder Room. [submitted]

Larry Mercey performs Sunday in Maryhill. [submitted]

County music goes traditional at the Commercial TavernWill Sloan

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OUTSTANDING AGENTS. OUTSTANDING RESULTS.

$295,000$295,000

Elmira - Exceptional home with many updates including: electrical, plumbing, bathrooms, windows, roof, fenced yard, and more. Main Bathroom has been totally renovated. 9 ft ceilings on main floor and main floor laundry. Carpet free with original hardwood floors throughout. 22 ft x 12.5 ft garage with basement walk up. Close to recreation complex and amenities. MLS Call Paul or Alli direct.

UPDATED TIMELESS BEAUTY

$389,000 $389,000

Elmira - Welcoming home with pool and hot tub. This Fantastic home is complete with 3 +1 bedrooms, living room and family room there is room for your family to grow. Many updates including kitchen and Brazilian cherry hardwood on main floor. Convenient double gate access to fenced backyard with 10ftx10ft shed, and pool house with hydro. The single garage is a great Man cave! MLS 1315013 Call Paul or Alli direct.

POOL AND HOT TUB!$464,000 $464,000

Linwood - Located on large lot this open concept home is equip’d w/sunken living rm, family rm & rec rm! Beautifully updated baths & most flooring. Master w/walk-in closet to cheater ens. Main flr laundry w/walkout to 40ftx11ft deck. Wood fireplace in family rm w/walkout to patio. Lg workshop w/garage dr to private back yrd. MLS 1317910 Call Paul or Alli direct.

EXCEPTIONAL BUNGALOW

$500.00DONATION

will be made with every home bought or sold by

Paul, Alli or Bill inWoolwich.

$272,000 $272,000

Elmira - Welcoming Semi detached home with single garage. Complete with neutral décor, Spacious bright foyer, open eat-in Kit, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Large living room could be used as dining room and living room. Master bedroom featuring ensuite and walk-in closet. Unfinished basement, waiting for your finishing touches. 5 appliances included. MLS 1322085. Call Paul and Alli direct.

FANTASTIC HOME

$285,000 $285,000

Elmira - Right beside greenspace with play ground in desirable neighbourhood. Open concept semi with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Vaulted ceiling in living room with walk out to patio overlooking landscaped, fenced yard with large shed. Appliances included. MLS 1317913 Call Paul or Alli direct.

LOCATION LOCATION!!

$469,000 $469,000

Elmira - Full of natural light. 4 bdrms, 4 baths & lg fin’d basement it is move in ready! Perfect for entertaining w/open foyer & huge sep dining rm. Fantastic living room w/2 storey ceilings, lots of windows, gas fp & open to upstairs hallway. Lg master w/2 closets, ens incl whirlpool bath & shower. Convenience at it best w/MF laundry & Mud room off garage. MLS 1317575 Call Paul or Alli direct.

EXTRAORDINARY FLOOR PLAN

NEW LISTINGNEW LISTING

$279,000$279,000BEST DEAL IN TOWN!!

NEW PRICENEW PRICE

Elmira - Single detached home. Don't miss this opportunity! MLS 1312112. Call Paul or Alli direct.

NEW LISTINGNEW LISTING

$265,000$265,000

Elmira - Zoned M-2, This 1850 sqft: Industrial/Mfg 1,460sqft, Office 400sqft. Bay Size 18.5X32'. Power/Amps: 208/220 Volts/200. Furnace 2007, East Roof New 2013, West roof 2004. New Windows 2012, Soffit 2012. Office & Warehouse Space 31x60 Building. Features: Ceiling Fans, Natural Light - Windows, Suspended Ceilings, Finished Office Space, Air Lines, Floor Drains, Fenced Yard, Paved Yard. Including: Hot water heater, air compressor. MLS 1321454. Call Paul or Alli direct.

COMMERCIAL

$298,000$298,000

Elmira - SENIORS DELIGHT, close to all amenities. This Bungalow has it all, tastefully decorated and finished top to bottom, complete with main flr master bdrm, laundry & 2nd bdrm/office. Enjoy your deck with privacy fence and enough backyard to get some exercise. Basement has a large recroom for entertaining & guest bdrm & bath ready for your out of town friends to visit you. For the man of the house a separate workshop to tinker in or simply another room for storage. MLS 1321463. Call Paul or Alli direct.

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Dale R. KellerSales Representative 17 Church St. W., Elmira • 519.669.1544 (Business)

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dale@kellersellsrealestate.com

DARE TO COMPARE$489,000. Exceptional value for this custom built full brick bungalow on a gorgeous 0.76 acre lot with a nice stand of trees and beautiful landscaping. Numerous windows endow this home with light. Upgraded features make for gracious entertaining or active family living. Dare to compare! MLS. Call Dale.

NEW LISTING | OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY!

$525,000. Purpose built 8 plex in Milverton. Recent updates and refurbishings. Separate meters. Showing good returns. These don't come along very often ! Good rate of occupancy. Mls. Call Dale.

$312,500.00. Immaculate brick bungalow with finished basement, gas fireplace open concept. Numerous upgrades. Plattsville. MLS. Call Dale.

NEW LISTING | GREAT FAMILY NEIGHBOURHOOD

OPEN HOUSE

NICHOLSONREALTY INC.

201-659 King St. E, Kitchener, ON N2G 2M4 519-571-0555

BRUCE NICHOLSONBroker of Record

TYLER NICHOLSONSales Representative

$349,555

UPDATED COUNTRY HOME 1600sq.ft. with original tongue and groove floors, updated kitchen & baths all sitting on half an acre of country serenity. Including a 4 stall horse barn and fully fenced paddock area. MLS

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156 MAPLE STREET, DRAYTON

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ANDREWS DRIVE, DRAYTON

GREAT VIEW

NEW BRICK BUNGALOW

CONTACT EDITH MCARTHUR TO VIEWedith.mcarthur@sympatico.ca

PREMIERREALTY & AUCTIONS INC. BROKERAGEIndependently Owned and Operated

Edith McArthur Sales Representative

519-741-6791 www.peakrealestate.com

59 Wood Street, Drayton

Office 519-638-0033

3 bdrm. Semi, backing onto greenbelt. Ceramic, laminate, breakfast bar on island, walkout to deck from LR, Gas fireplace,

Totally maintenance free 2 bedroom bungalow with hardwood floors, double garage and walkout from dinette to

$255,000

$347,500

cold-room and second floor laundry with cabinets. Great view from deck.MLS 1321821

large deck. Ideal location. Near school and shopping. MLS# 1317390 .

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FREE Market EvaluationEMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz

3 Arthur St. S. Elmirawww.remaxsolidgold.biz

Remax Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., BrokerageIndependently Owned and Operated

Your referrals are appreciated!

Bert MartinBROKER

DIRECT: 519-572-2669OFFICE: 519-669-5426

COMMERCIAL SPACE! This 856 s/f located in a busy plaza is currently set up for office use offering a reception area, kitchenette, private bathroom and security system. MLS. Call Bert Martin for more information.

PRIVATE OFFICE! Located in a multi-tenant lease space, this 144 s/f office offers privacy and convenience. MLS. Call Bert Martin for more information.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY! Start your own business in this 2,400 s/f of lease space in a multi-tenant plaza offering air cond., security, lots of parking and only 15 minutes to K-W. MLS. Call Bert Martin for more information.

BUSINESS IN LEASED PREMISES!

Great opportunity to own a non franchise hobby and crafts business. Lots of space and potential to grow. MLS. Call Bert Martin for more information.

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TEAMMcNeil

Warren McNeil - Sales Rep. | Melanie McNeil - Sales Rep.

$360,000

JUST MOVE IN! Don't miss this lovely 3 bedroom, 3 bath Elmira home backing onto greenbelt. Features include open concept layout, lots of natural light, carpet free throughout, walkouts to upper and lower decks. Inviting master bedroom with gas fireplace. Finished walk out basement with gas fireplace, 3 pc. bath and 25' x 24' deck with less than 2 year old salt water hot tub and fire pit. Other features are tile and laminate floors, oak staircase, central vac, rounded corners, c/air and cold room. A must see!

$764,5

00EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW backing onto Conestoga Golf Course. 3+2 bedrooms, 4 baths, spacious dining room, living room w/gas fireplace, eat in kitchen with walk out to large deck overlooking golf course. Large bedrooms, master suite with huge walk in closet and luxury ensuite. Finished walkout basement with 2 bedrooms, full bath, hobby room, recroom w/wood fireplace and family room w/wood pellet stove. Nicely landscaped with sprinkler system. Oversized dbl.garage & lots of parking. New front door. Shows Well!

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Thank you for visiting us at the Home & Garden Show.Congratulatuons to Jim & Norma Hanley on winning our gift basket!

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45 Arthur St. S., ElmiraBROKERAGE

JULIE HECKENDORN

BrokerRes: 519.669.8629

BRAD MARTINBroker of Record,

MVA ResidentialRes: 519.669.1068

TRACEY WILLIAMS

Sales Rep. Cell: 519.505.0627

519-669-2772Office:

$384,900

INGROUND POOL (saltwater) – well maintained, open concept home with numerous updates. Great location – close to all amenities & schools. Large master bdrm. Fin. rec. room w/gas stove, office & 4 pc. bath. Covered deck. Pool house. Well landscaped. MLS

$429,900

HAWKESVILLE – Operate your own business & live in the attached dwelling! Presently a catering business (seats 54) but this property offers endless opportunities. 1400 sq.ft. of commercial space. Spacious 3 bdrm., self contained residence. Single garage. Lots of parking. This is a well maintained and unique property. MLS

$419,900

CONESTOGA – Large lot on a quiet street with mature trees. Spacious kitchen/dining area w/walkout to patio overlooking the large back yard. Fireplace in L.R. Rec. room with stone fireplace (gas). Games room. Extra-deep garage. Dble. driveway. New septic system and well (in 2012). Only one block to the school. NEW MLS

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519-669-3192

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100YEARSSINCE 1913

2.94 ACRES – WITH SHOP$859,000. East of Elmira. This maturing property is bordered by farmland and the “Kissing Bridge Trail”. For the hobbyist or a hobby farm a 45’ x44’ 3 bay shop and shelter. 4 bedroom traditional styled home finished from top to bottom offering ample family space. Walkouts to wrap around porch and deck. Please call for your additional information. MLS

A MUST SEE BUNGALOW LOFT$559,900 | ELMIRA One of a kind custom built brick bungalow, Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors, maple kitchen with stainless appliances, garden door to deck, fenced yard and 10’x16’ deck, main floor master w/ensuite, large upper level loft with 4 pc bathroom, partially finished basement with walk-up to oversized dbl garage. MLS

ELMIRA /GOLF COURSE– ½ ACRE $649,000 3000+ sq ft contemporary styled home. Open concept design with natural hardwood and ceramic flooring. Two sided gas fireplace in sunken living/dining room corner fireplace in Master Bedroom. Double tandem style garage and workshop area. EXCL.

FOR SALE OR LEASE- ELMIRA$2,400,000/$12.23 sq. ft.Divisable options for the warehouse, separate entry/and over head doors. Call for additional details. Overall space of 21250 sqft includes warehouse and offices. Ideal location for easy access to Hwy#85 and expressway. MLS

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY APRIL 28TH 2-4 42 SECOND STREET, ELMIRA

GLEN ALLAN .85 Acre$679,000 To be built 2400 sq ft scenic elevated property overlooking farmland , tucked away on a dead end road. Walk out basement, double garage, option to bring your own plan. Artist concept Only EO&O. EXCL.

4 BEDROOM, 4 BATHS$539,000 ELMIRA. GRAND 2-STOREY offering amazing space nearing 2800 sq ft plus finished basement. Centre hall plan, formal and informal living. Generous kitchen open to family room. Double car garage. Backing to open land to the West. NEW MLS

WOW! IMPRESSIVE HOME$384,900 ELMIRA. Inviting ceramic foyer, spacious kitchen w/appliances/island, dinette offers walkout to covered deck & fenced yard, main floor living room with gas fireplace & hardwood floors, hardwood upstairs and in the upper level family room, master ensuite, 2nd floor laundry. MLS

Design Concept Only EO&E

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The family of Amsey & Mabel Martin invite you to an Open House to celebrate their 50th Anniversary at Crystalview Mennonite Church. Sunday May 5th, 2013 2-4pm.

Vlad Kovac, principal of Floradale Public School, accepts a cheque from John Chapman and Ron Wagner of the Elmira Kiwanis Club. Students Kyana Ellis, Anna Demerling, Jeremy Sauder, Katelyn Taylor, Martin Brubacher and Adam Bloch hold up some of the book purchases made possible through this recent donation. John Mahood, Park Manor, Riverside. and St. Teresa of Avila were all recipients of books courtesy of the service club. [submitted]

ELMIRA kIwANIS cLuB SuppORTS LIBRARIES AT LOcAL ScHOOLS

Century stone home on almost 1/2 acre. This home o�ers old world charm in Winterbourne, married with modern convenience. Updates include majority of wiring, plumbing, energy star windows, urethane

spray insulation, new drywall, custom maple kitchen with granite, gorgeous ensuite, stunning family room with vaulted ceilings in �oor heating in main �oor laundry room. Truly a unique home. MLS.

A MUST SEE!$529,900

NEW PRICE!

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TWIN CITY REALTY INC.,BROKERAGE

MICHAEL J.SAUNDERS

519-579-4110Sales Representativewww.KitchenerWaterloo-RealEstate.com

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WITH REAL INVESTMENT YOU WILL SEE A REAL RETURN. MAKE THIS SPACE YOUR NEW HOME. ADVERTISE WITH US TODAY.

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Friday, May 3rd 8pm-1am at the Lions Hall, Elmira. Raffle, food, games and more! $10 per ticket available at the door.

Thank YouWe would like to thank all of our relatives and friends for their expressions of sympathy.

We appreciate the beautiful flowers, cards, charitable donations and kind words offered on behalf of Jim.

A special thank you to Father Jim Valk and Donna Vollmer of St. Teresa of Avila Church and Dreisinger Funeral Home for their guidance and help.

Marcella Furlong and Family

Stroh, Luke

In loving memory of Luke, who passed away, April 25, 1996. 17 years ago you left us, your memory is as dear today as the hour you passed away. Forever remembered and always loved by Mom and Dad, brother Skye, Aunt Dianne and Uncle Brian and Uncle Scott and Aunt Michele, two cousins Cody and Jesse, Grandparents Irene Hamilton and the late Ken Hamilton.

Martin, Maryann (Mrs. Samuel B.)

April 7, 1928 – April 22, 2013

Peacefully passed away on Monday, April 22, 2013 at Chateau Gardens Assisted Living at the age of 85 years. Maryann, of Elmira, was the beloved wife of the late Samuel B. Martin (December 1, 2004). Dear mother of Keith and Christine, Gord and Damaris, Brian and Marilyn, Susan Midgley, Dwight and Jane. Maryann will be greatly missed by her grand-children Julia and Alyse; Anna and Sophia; Bradley (Laura), Wesley and Laura; Tyler (Louise), Jodi (Matt), Alisha; Phoebe and Si-mon. Sister of Wayne and Naomi, Lovina Rut-tan, Anson and Sharon, Mervin and Alma. Predeceased by her parents Ezra and Louisa (Bauman) Martin, sisters Adeline Martin and Elmina Brubacher, and brothers Onias, Leander and Milton. Maryann’s love for her Saviour was reflected in her gentle and loving spirit through her service to others. Whether it was raising her large family, serving at church, or assisting fellow residents at Cha-teau Gardens she did so quietly and faith-fully. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her. The family received their relatives and friends at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service was held at Woodside Bible Fellowship on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 1 p.m. followed by interment in Hawkesville Cemetery. Reflecting Mary-ann’s passion and involvement with chil-dren, donations to Woodside Bible Fellow-ship Children’s Programs or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated.

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campbeLL, meLviLLe | Peacefully at Heritage House Nursing Home in St. Jacobs on Thursday, April 18, 2013, in her 82nd year.

frey, aLvin | 85 years old, of Mitchell, Manitoba, passed away Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Bethesda Hos-pital in Steinbach. Local relatives are his brother Leonard (Mildred) Frey of Elmira.

Griffin, audrey (Lindsay) | Peacefully, at Leisure-world, Elmira, Thursday, April 18, 2013, Audrey Griffin (Lindsay) formerly of Thamesford, in her 96th year.

martin, maryann (mrs. Moses) | Peacefully on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at her home. MaryAnn (Martin) Martin of RR 4, Elmira, age 75 years, was the wife of Moses B. Martin for 55 years.

miLne, v. Joanne (nee Gallaugher) | Peacefully but unexpectedly at The Juravinski Hospital with family at her side, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at the age of 61.

sauder, annie (reist) | Peacefully, at Listowel Memo-rial Hospital, on Saturday, April 20, 2013, in her 96th year.

weber, howard earL 1925 - 2013 | Howard passed away suddenly, but peacefully with family by his side on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital. Local relative is his son David Weber, St Jacobs.

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auction saLe of Brick bunga-low on \’bd acre lot, camper, car, household effects, tools and miscellaneous items, to be held at 4833 William Hastings Line, in Crosshill, for Glenn Uhrig & Val Phillips, on Saturday, May 4th @ 11:00 a.m. PROPERTY: 3 bedroom, 34 year old, custom built brick bun-galow with attached garage, front porch & deck, situated on a nicely landscaped, private .57 acre lot. This recently reno-vated home has new North Star windows, 6 year old roof, central air & vac, open concept main floor with large kitchen, bright sitting room, bathroom, washroom, main floor laundry, good flooring, lots of closets, and finished basement with large rec-room, 2 bedrooms, office, 2 cold rooms & utility room. Heat - oil furnace & an air tight wood stove. WORK-SHOP/BARN - 30 X 40ft. well insulated 2 storey structure with concrete floor & coloured steel siding. Circular drive. Water\- Drilled well. Zoning -”SC” Settlement Commercial. NOTE- Plan to view this well kept property! An updated house and an enticing work-shop provide many options including various business opportunities. 10 minutes to Waterloo. See www.auctions-find.com/gerber for photos and terms. TO VIEW - Call 519-699-9461 Auctioneers - Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451 or 698-0138 2827 Hutchison Rd. R#1 Millbank (Crosshill) Gerber Auctions 519-699-4451.

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sat. may 4 at 11:00 AM - Farm property auction of approx 50 acres more or less with horse barns; fenced paddocks; race track; bush; 25 year old bungalow with in law suite to be held at 4784 Road 122 Gadshill Station Perth East Township (approx 6 kms north of Stratford) for Dan and Michelle Kaufman. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

wed. may 8 at 10:00 AM - Auction sale of furniture; household effects; antiques; tools; collectables; and miscellaneous items to be held at the St. Jacob’s Community Centre in St. Jacob’s for a Guelph Estate with additions. Jantzi Auc-tions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

auction saLe of Household effects, antiques, and miscel-laneous items, to be held at the K.W. Khaki Club, 2939 Nafziger Rd. 2 miles south of Wellesley or 2 miles north of Philipsburg, on Thursday, May 9th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

auction saLe of Antique tractors, tools, household effects, antiques and miscel-laneous items, to be held at 17 William St. in Elmira (off Arthur St. North) for Neil McDougall, on Saturday, May 11th @ 10:00 a.m. Gerber Auctions Ltd. 519-699-4451.

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sat. may 11 at 10:00 AM: clearing auction sale of prop-erty with 3 bedroom brick bungalow; truck; household effects; antiques; collectables; furniture; and miscellaneous items to be held at 4 Campbell Place in Wellesley for Aaron L and Katie Jantzi. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555. www.jantziauctions.com

wed. may 15 at 10:00 AM - Clearing auction sale of riding lawnmower; enclosed trailer; work trailers; small farm machinery; house trailer; scrap iron; and miscellaneous items to be held at 2411 Fischer Hallman Rd approx 3 kms east of New Dundee or 2 kms north of Roseville for Hans and Evi Strenzke. Jantzi Auctions Ltd. 519-656-3555 www.jantziauctions.com

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GaraGe saLe - Thurs. May 2, 9 -5, Sat. May 4, 8 a.m. - 1p.m. 20 Bauman St. Elmira. Tools, household items, old vinyl records - big & small, 8 tracks, cassettes, CD’s, movies, electric fireplace, stand up Cribbage board, welder, CB radio and more!

muLti famiLy. chiLdren’s clothing, mens suits, Tupper-ware, bedroom set, pedestal for Whirlpool washer, baking, lots more! May 3, 9-8; May 4th, 7-1. 118 First St. W. Elmira.

the st. teresa of Avila Catho-lic Women’s League is holding a Garage Sale at St. Teresa of Avila Church Hall, 19 Flamingo Dr. Elmira on Friday evening, April 26th from 7-8 p.m., and Saturday April 27th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. For more information please call Carol Kieswetter at 519-669-5392.

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muLti-famiLy GaraGe saLe. Saturday, May 4, 8:30 a.m. 31 South Parkwood Blvd., Elmira. Rain or shine.

ComING EVENtS

retirement reception for Rev. Dr. Linda J. Bell of Gale Presbyterian Church. April 27, 2013 from 2-4 p.m. (Presen-tation to be held at 3 p.m.). Gale Presbyterian Church Fel-lowship Hall. Rev. Linda’s last service will be held on April 28, 2013.

the eLmira & District Hor-ticultural Society will be holding their annual peren-nial plant sale on Saturday, May 11, from 8 a.m.- 12:00 noon at the corner of Industrial Dr. and First St. in Bristow Park (new location). Bring your donations to the park between 6 - 8 p.m. on Friday, May 10. You will receive one plan voucher for every two plants you donate! Just make sure you pot your plants in a clean container before the sale and make sure it’s labeled with either the botanical or common name. Include any other info that may be helpful ie. colour of bloom, sun/shade etc. No invasive plants please! Contact Louise Bexton at 519-210-2110 for more infor-mation.

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LIVING HEREWORLDVIEW / BUILDING BRIDGES

A real cross-cultural experience

Life is hectic. As a mother of two great “busy” children, a wife, and busi-ness owner wearing many different hats in a day, I know all about that.

Cooking for a living and owning a catering business doesn’t make it easy to handle all the other responsibilities in my life. There is no 9-to 5-shift, Monday to Friday. We create when we need to, and love to do it. That being said, there are many nights, ironically, where I say to myself, ‘what’s for dinner?’

Recently I saw a post online stating, “If you love your kids ‘til your last breath, why won’t you cook for them?” I didn’t know whether to be angry or agree. This is the kind of thing that makes us feel guilty about all the things we do or don’t do well enough for our family. Yes, we should be relying less on takeout and more on healthy eating. Where is your balance? Our soci-ety talks about stress and pressure constantly, yet our actions seem to create more of it.

Many think we have these amazing elaborate meals at our house. Most nights we keep it simple:

Confessions of a mom who cooks for a living

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KENYA | 31

Tarah Korir knows much about building bridges between very dif-ferent worlds. Growing up in St. Clements and attend-ing Elmira District Second-ary School as Tarah McKay, today she splits her time with her husband Wesley Korir’s family in Kenya.

The couple met when they were at the University of Louisville, where they were both runners. Early on, they started the Kenyan Kids Foundation, which helps with schooling costs for children in the area where Wesley hails from. Next weekend, they’ll be holding a local fundraiser with a Kenyan feel to it in support of the foundation. The Kenyan-style market will be taking place May 4 at Calvary United Church in St. Jacobs.

“The idea is that we will have different blankets for different items and sell them Kenyan-style where you can go up to different blankets and buy whatever you want. You’re essential-ly making a donation to the Kenyan Kids Foundation. You’ll go home with some-thing, as well as making a donation,” Korir said of the event.

Along with attending the sale, residents can also do-nate items prior to or dur-ing the event. All items will then be sold at the make-shift market, with proceeds going to the foundation.

The organization has undertaken various proj-ects in the Cherangany Constituency of Kenya,

St. Clements woman and her Kenyan husband supporting a foundation that helps school kids

including providing high school scholarships to about 100 students. More recently, the group has started sponsoring nursery school teachers, running the foundation about $500 per year. The couple is also in the process of receiving charitable status for their organization in Canada.

“Primary education in Kenya is free, but nursery

school you have to pay for and high school you have to pay for. We offer high school schol-arships, and that’s about $350 a year. One thing we notice is that it’s really dif-ficult to find poor students that receive good marks. If the parents are truly poor they may not have the money to take them to nursery school so then

when they start primary school they are already at a disadvantage. Or they may not be able to get into primary school if they don’t know the basic skills,” Korir said.

These are just some

of the projects that require funding within the foundation, she added.

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APRIL 26

PULLED PORK PARK HOOTENANY 5:30-9 p.m. at Alma Community Hall. This is a fundraiser event for the park in the community of Alma. Hosted by Alma Community Recreation Association – join us for a fun community evening of food, info and song! Donations welcome at the door to cover costs of evening and support the next park project.

APRIL 27

MARYHILL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Vegas Night at the Bridgeport Rod & Gun, 1229 Beitz Rd., RR#1 Breslau, 519-648-2633. 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. Light lunch served at the end. Arrive early to get a good seat. All proceeds are given to charity. Contact Mike Rundstedler 519-648-3394; Doug Zinger 519-648-2939.

THE ELMIRA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S JUNIOR GARDEN CLUB is starting up in May. Interested 8-10- year-olds should contact the youth leaders by May 1st. Call 519-669-8616 or 519-669-3244 for more information.

26TH ANNUAL INTERFAITH SILENT auction fundraiser, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wilmot Recreation Complex, 1291 Nafziger Rd., Baden. Over 400 fabulous items donated by local businesses. All proceeds go to support the work of the Interfaith Community Counselling Centre. For more information call 519-662-3092, email: interfaith@golden.net.

VISIT THE WTHHS HISTORICAL Room at the Old School, 1137 Henry St., Wellesley, on Saturday, April 27, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and enjoy displays and interesting historical facts about Wellesley Township. The Historical Room is open on the last Saturday of every month except in December. Free admission.

BBQ FUNDRAISER FOR RELAY for Life from 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Foodland parking lot. Help support the fight against cancer.

APRIL 28

BIRD WATCHING HIKE 2-4 p.m. Join Mark Bauman for birding and hiking on the Health Valley Trail in St. Jacobs. Meet at the kiosk at the trail entrance behind the fire station in St. Jacobs. Take King Street to Albert Street. Turn right or east on Albert Street and continue to the kiosk at the back of the parking lot located at 35 Albert St. E. Trail rating: easy, well maintained trail; includes gravel and earthen sections. Maps with meeting locations at www.healthywoolwich.org. For more info, contact Paul at 519-664-3643.

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ELECTRONIC BINGO, 7 P.M., St. Clements Community Centre, sponsored by Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information contact president Joe Brick 519-699-4022.

PROMISED LAND WITH MATT Damon is featured at another CREW Green Movie Night, 7 p.m. Already a winner of one of the year’s best pictures award, this movie takes on fracking and related issues, a

small-town look at the big business of hydraulic fracturing in our desperate search for more gas and oil. At The original Princess Theatre, Princess Street, Waterloo - displays and info starting 6:30 p.m. Special student pricing - with ID $5. Valuable Energy $aving door prizes. For more information go to www.crewzone.ca or e-mail info@crewzone.ca.

FISH FRY DINNER – The fish provided and cooked by Howell’s Fish of Wiarton. Calvary United Church, St. Jacobs; 4:30-7 p.m. Advance tickets: adults $14.50; children 12 and under $7; preschoolers free; takeout available. Call 519-669-5912 or church office 519-664-2311.

MAY 2

FOSTER PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT held at The Family Centre from 7-8 p.m. Join us for an opportunity to learn about becoming a foster parent. Training, support, and compensation are provided. For more information call Family and Children’s Services 519-576-0540.

MAY 3

TWIN CITY HARMONIZERS PRESENT their 2013 Spring Show – There’s a Meetin’ Here Tonight. May 3, 7:30 p.m.; May 4, 2 p.m. at Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church, 245 Lexington Rd., Waterloo. Tickets: adults $20 per person ($25 at door), children 12 and under $5. Contact John Duggan 519-621-2275 or tickets@twincityharmonizers.com. For more information visit www.twincityharmonizers.com.

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WEIRDNOTES

There’s a real advantage at times to having those dishpan hands

Q. You language lovers out there, try using the word “sky” as an adjec-tive.

A. Novelist John Up-dike, in “The Centaur,” wrote the following gem, a sentence that soars like the blue firmament itself: “I thought, This morning has never occurred before, and I jubilantly felt myself to be on the prow of a ship cleaving the skyey ocean of time.” Also from the master

wordsmith came “a sheet of skyey water.” Though there are scores of “sky” words, rare indeed is “skyey,” or “of, from, or resembling the sky.”

Q. What’s the toughest instrument to play in anybody’s orchestra? Let’s hope you’re “first water” enough to know.

A. “Second fiddle,” quipped famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, says Anu Garg in “A Word a Day.” In an orchestra, the concertmaster is the “first chair” violinist who sounds the notes from which all the others tune their instruments and take

their cues when playing without a conductor. So the second violin (second fiddle) occupies a subordi-nate position. Obviously, Garg explains, Bernstein wasn’t “commenting on the skill required to strum second violin in an orches-tra but on the difficulty for most of us to be in the secondary role.” Such “ordinal lan-guage,” as Garg terms it, expresses “the deep human need to arrange things in order, to sort, classify and enumerate them.” Here are a few other characterizing con-cepts, in ascending order: “First water” (best grade or quality, as in a precious stone like a diamond),

“third degree” (intensive questioning involving rough treatment), “fourth estate” (the journalistic profession), “fifth wheel” (useless), “sixth sense” (extrasensory perception), and “seventh heaven,” hopefully needing no explanation.

Q. What do your “un-sightly” hands have in common with your car’s tires? Clue: Think trac-tion.

A. Unsightly when the skin gets wrinkled and puckered after an extend-ed soaking in dishwater or the bath, etc. “This was long thought to be caused by osmosis-

induced swelling in the outer layer of skin,” re-ports “Science” magazine, but evolutionary biologist Tom Smulders of New-castle University, United Kingdom, points out that the actual purpose of the pucker on hair-free skin of the hands, feet and toes has been unclear. Unclear, that is, un-til 2011 when a team of neuroscientists hypoth-esized that “the wrinkles help enhance our grip on wet or submerged objects just as treads on tires help improve traction on wet roads.” Smulders decided to test out this “clever” hypothesis: He had volunteers pick up 45 submerged objects

such as glass marbles and lead fishing weights and perform several precise hand movements. Accord-ing to the journal “Biology Letters,” after a 30-minute soak, subjects with wet hands completed the tasks up to 12% faster than when their fingers hadn’t been soaked. Yet the wrinkly fingertips did not provide an advantage when han-dling dry objects. To paraphrase the com-mon road sign, “Not slip-pery when wet.”

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Korir also hopes to un-veil her self-published chil-dren’s book at the event. “Grandma and Gogo” tells the story of the couple’s daughter McKayla, 2, and her experiences in both Canadian and Kenyan cultures through her time with two very different grandmothers: her father’s mother in Kenya and her mother’s mother in Canada.

The short book goes through a comparison of

McKayla’s everyday activi-ties in both countries, from what she eats for breakfast (cereal in Canada and chai in Kenya, for example) to how she plays and where food comes from.

“What I want to get across with the book is that although she grows up in two different worlds she is accepted in both and she enjoys both equally,” Korir said.

“It’s emphasizing that different cultures may have different ways of doing things, but no one is better

than the other. In order to show this I show it through her eyes by showing her interactions with her grandmas.”

Korir hopes that the simple comparisons of life in both environments can help children understand and accept kids from dif-ferent cultures, and uses real photographs with her text.

“I thought about illus-trating it at one point but then different people told me that they like the au-thenticity of seeing a real child,” she said.

“Classrooms are becom-ing more multicultural and I want kids to not be afraid of differences and know that there is more than one way to do something.”

There will be copies available for purchase at the fundraiser on May 4 and more can be ordered. All proceeds from book sales will also be donated to the foundation.

Event organizers are ask-ing people to drop off do-nated items at the Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkes-ville Rd., on Thursday May 2 from 7-9 p.m., Friday May 3 from 7-9 p.m., or Sat-urday May 4 from 8-10 a.m.

Panko crumbsRed and green peppers, slicedRed onions, slicedSalsa or handmade veg-etable salsa

On baking tray, place tilapia, sprinkle Cajun spice, and coat in panko crumbs. Place peppers on the same baking tray. Bake in oven at 375 F for about 8 minutes;

Break fish into pieces and place on a toasted whole grain tortilla. Gar-nish how you choose: greens, cheese if your kids like it;

Serve with salad or veg-gies.

Cooked-fresh-in-no-time Pasta2 pints Floralane grape tomatoes1/2 a red onion3 tbsp olive oil Salt and pepperFettuccine10 leaves of basil Half a pkg of Boursin or goat

salad and a protein, pasta, casserole, or pad thai. Once in a while we will eat out.

Takeout can be habit forming. By the time you stand in line or place a drive-thru order and drive home, a simple meal could have already been made. Using takeout as a treat in-stead of a necessity may be easier on the pocketbook and waistline. Stop feeling guilty: find alternatives to the fast food. Choose reci-pes with five ingredients or less. This week’s recipes are quick and simple.

Move away from the pressure, carve out some time to make a menu. Take time to prepare ahead, such as cutting vegetables for the next night. Or try alternating full dinners and simpler dinners. No one asked you to make the meals grandma used to make – just simplify.

Fish Tacos8 oz. white fish such as tilapia Cajun spice blend

CHEF’S TABLE: Dinners don’t always have to be complicated, and there’s no reason to feel guilty

cheese

Cut grape tomatoes in half, spread on baking sheet;

Cut red onions into strips, spread on cookie sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Roast in oven at 400 F for approximately 15 minutes;

Place in bowl and crush slightly with a fork;

Cook pasta in a pot of boiling water as per the instructions on the box. Place drained pasta in bowl with tomato mix and toss;

Top with crumbled Boursin and torn basil. Drizzle with more olive oil and serve.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS Chefs Kirstie Herbstreit and Jody O’Malley are both Red Seal certified chefs. Together they run The Culinary Studio, which offers classes, demonstrations and private dinners. To contact the chefs, visit their website www.theculinarystudio.ca

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