the voice of pelham, december 11, 2013

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Vol.17 No. 39 Wednesday, December 11, 2013www.thevoiceofpelham.ca

The 22nd Pelham Com-munity Food Drive was a moving experience for everything and everyone Saturday.

Starting at 9:30 a.m. crews fanned out from the Fonthill and Fenwick Lions Club halls in trucks, vans and cars to cover more than 40 routes in the built up areas of Font-hill, Fenwick, Ridgeville and North Pelham.

They picked up bags, boxes and sacks of food placed in front of homes.

“I was amazed by the generosity,” said first-time volunteer Gary Nicholls.

Volunteers stuffed pick-ups into the trucks and checked back at the Lions halls to ensure all routes were covered.

“We have plenty of vol-unteers and drivers,” said coordinator Sylvia Berk-hout at the Fonthill Lions Club Saturday. “It’s all moving quickly.”

The crews then carried the donations to the Old Pelham Town Hall in Rid-geville.

At the back of the hall,

they unloaded the bags, boxes and sacks.

Soon, the donations ex-tended along the outside of the hall, into its back corridor and filled the stage.

From there, dozens of volunteer sorters along a series of tables arranged the food items, checked expiry dates, placed them in boxes by category --- peas with peas, rice with rice, soup with soup --- and called for carriers to take them out the front door to waiting trucks.

“It went incredibly well,” said Pelham Cares presi-dent Jane Gilmour about the in-the-back-door and out-the-front system.

“We cleared the hall by 4 p.m.”

In the past, the food drive used the old Fen-wick fire hall for sorting and storing. Problems at the firehall including mice led to a change.

To use the Old Town Hall, Pelham Cares had to create a one-day sort so as not to interfere with rent-als.

“Doug Burr up on the stage kept everyone mov-ing and laughing,” said Gilmour. Burr was from Tim Hortons the official sponsor of the drive.

In addition to Pelham’s two Lions Clubs, the food drive was helped by the Fonthill and District Kins-men, the town’s volun-teer firefighters, Sobeys, The Blue Star, Country Corner Market, army ca-det corps, students from area schools and new and returning volunteers.

From the Old Town

Hall, food was shipped by trucks to Pelham Cares of-fice and food bank on Re-gional Road 20 in Fonthill. Some of the donations also went to food banks at the Hope Centre, Open Arms Mission and Salva-tion Army in Welland.

“It’s hard to judge how much we collected,” said Gilmour, “but the drivers tell me there was more than ever before.”

She said the community food drive has become a great success and fills great need.

Gerry Berkhout founded the drive 22 years ago. He continues to guide it to serve the local food bank and those in neighbour-ing communities.

“I think it gets better every year, he said. “Many people realize it’s a great way to start the Christmas season by doing some-thing for those less fortu-nate.”

Each year, he said, he worries about whether there would be enough volunteers and enough donations.

“But the community always comes through and you have to be pretty proud of that.”

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Like a choir of angels, local students will be raising their voices this

Christmas season.Students from Pelham

will be among 11 schools

in the Welland region will take part in Choir-Fest this week until Friday, Dec. 13.

Schools from both the District School Board of Niagara and Niagara Catholic District School Board will be performing Christmas carols in the hallway between Ernie Allen Court and Winners at Seaway Mall.

Performances are sched-uled to take place each day from 11 a.m.-12:30

p.m. except for Pelham’s Maple Crest Preschool which is from 2:30–3 p.m. on Friday.

Pelham schools include Pelham Centre Public School and A.K. Wigg Public School.

Other schools are Quak-er Road, Ross School, Port Colborne High School, St. Augustine, St. Therese, St. Andrew, St. Elizabeth and St. Patrick Catholic schools.

Paul Ryan rebuilds his hometown when he con-structs Temperanceville replicas.

“I was born just over there,” he said pointing toward Pelham Street from the village of models at the Fonthill bandshell. “We lived in a house where Beamer’s store is now.”

For 10 years, he has put together wooden models of Pelham buildings in his basement woodworking room on College Street.

Some of them, such as

this year’s Davis Hall, no longer exist.

“It takes awhile,” he said about the work to scale.

Small cedar shingles for the hall roof took more than a week to cut and almost as long to place.

Davis Hall, a local com-munity centre stood back from Haist Street North.

Ryan and Gail Levay, Ro-tary Club of Fonthill his-torian, remember it as a popular spot for parties.

“You never asked me to dance,” Levay teased Ryan about teenage gatherings.

“You never asked me,” he replied.

It is the memories at-tached to old structures, that spurs Ryan on to craft

the models. He has done seven of

the 14 replicas. They are: Keith’s Restau-

rant, which was Rogers’ General Store; Klager’s Meats that dates back to 1934, Sharpe’s Meat Mar-ket; the original Fonthill bandshell, which stood at Highway 20 and Pelham Street; the first Fonthill Library, once on Canboro Road; the 1862 Holy Trin-ity Anglican Church; and now Davis Hall.

“The bandshell was a real challenge because of its shape, but we worked it out,” said Ryan.

He remembers his father playing in a Ridgeville band on the band stand.

The Rotary Club has sponsored the Tem-peranceville display in Pelham Peace Park since 1993 as a community enhancement project. It started with four build-ings and the club called it Temperanceville, an old name for Fonthill.

At the beginning of the month, the club put up the model village and signs for each building.

In addition to Ryan’s seven, the other replicas

are: The Chrysler Home-stead on Hollow Road; Maple Acre Library in Fen-wick; the Temperancev-ille Printshop, which was at 1469 Pelham St.; The Maple, a Hurricane Road home; The Fonthill Ga-rage, at 1450 Pelham St.; First Presbyterian Church in North Pelham; and the

St. John’s School House, which dates back to 1804.

Ryan is always looking for good photographs of former buildings to con-struct the replicas.

He has a wish list of proj-ects.

On it are: Fonthill Pub-lic School; Fonthill Town Hall, which stood where

the Arches are now; Pel-ham Friends Church on Haist Street South; the Gretsinger building that dated back to the War of 1812; a former Hudson’s Bay Store that was behind Fonthill United Church; and the Fonthill Nursery.

“I’m trying to find some good pictures of them.” Jane

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Judy and Don Snider, centre, present Pelham Cares treasurer Sandra Warden, left, and president Jane Gilmour with $875 worth of gift cards. As gifts for his 70th birthday, Don asked for cards he could give to Pelham Cares. Gilmour said the cards will be used to buy items for Christmas hampers as well as supplement food bank non-perishable food with fruit, vegetables and other items. She said Pelham Cares appreciates such birthday contributions.


Charity in the cards!

The Niagara branch of the Ontario Provincial Police Auxiliary set up Saturday at five Sobeys grocery outlets in Fonthill, Welland, Niagara Falls and St. Catharines to collect food and donations for local food banks. Fonthill donations go to Pelham Cares. The an-nual partnership between the OPP Auxiliary and Sobeys began in Fonthill. Holding some collected items are: from left, Sgt. Kathleen Bornn, Constable Jeff Nichols, Constable Aaron Olah and Constable Chris Kruczynski.


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As the Christmas season approaches, it is time for us to celebrate as a com-munity.

Despite the affluence as shown through our rich farmlands and spec-tacular housing, there are those who do not benefit from the riches that many of us have.

There are two Niaga-ras: there is the “drive-through” Niagara which is very prosperous and there is the “live-through” Niagara which affects those less fortunate who struggle for day to day survival.

We are blessed to have Pelham Cares in Pelham to be concerned about

those in need.In particular, they are

critically important dur-ing the holiday season. As December begins we can all participate in some way to serve those less fortunate.

Last Saturday, Decem-ber 7, was the annual Christmas food drive. Local papers and highly visible signs asked for volunteers to assist in the collection Saturday morning and encouraged households to be pre-pared to donate groceries for pick up by volunteers in the urban areas or to drop off at the Pelham Cares facility (for those who live in the rural parts of the town).

I brought along my pickup truck to aid in this food drive and, from past

experience, I can tell you that it was very helpful

Also, throughout the week our firefighters will be collecting toys for chil-dren. In our household we hold on to all our Canadian Tire money to pick up two gifts for boys and two gifts for girls each year.

The toys should be un-wrapped so that the vol-unteers can pass them on to the boys and girls of appropriate ages. Plan to drop off your presents at the Fonthill fire hall this weekend or during the week ahead.

At Holy Trinity Anglican Church, we have begun a campaign to provide support to those in need. Your church, school, ser-vice club or neighbour-hood may want to do

something similar. We requested an anonymous profile of three families in need from the staff at Pelham Cares.

There is a family with a single mother who strug-gles to provide for her children who range in age from elementary school to university. There is a senior couple who have lost out on some pension earnings and struggle with medical and dietary needs. The third family is led by a husband who has been unemployed for medical reasons and attempts to provide the basic necessities for his wife and children.

These profiles have helped our congregation understand that poverty does exist in Pelham de-spite the overwhelming appearance of affluence.

Beyond the food needs and the toy needs as sup-ported by our community drives, these family pro-files provide some direct needs depending on the ages and genders of the children. Gift certificates are recommended for teenagers. Some individ-uals require gluten free foods.

Sobey’s and Giant Tiger gift certificates allow in-dividuals and families to focus on specific needs and a Seaway Mall gift cer-tificate opens the door to an even wider selection . As well as providing fam-ily profiles for immediate needs, our appeal is for the long-term sustainable needs of all clients of Pel-ham Cares.

Our family drive will last for the first three Sundays in December with distri-bution to families on De-cember 18. However, our fundraising campaign will continue until the end of December for tax receipts for 2013.

For non-church at-tenders you may make cheques payable to Holy Trinity Church with a no-tation to direct the funds to Pelham Cares. All do-nors will be welcome at a complimentary pasta luncheon in January at the church.

Brian Baty is a Niagara Regional Councillor for the Town of Pelham and Co-Chair of the Public Health and Social Servic-es Committee. He can be reached at [email protected].

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On behalf of Pelham DOGs, I would like to send out a heartfelt thank you to all who have helped us in our efforts for our Pelham dog park (especially to Giant Tiger, Fonthill and The Lazy Loon Restaurant and Ice Cream Bar, who both generously hosted a fundraising event for our future dog park). We are very grateful for your support and commu-nity spirit!

We started fundraising in September, and we are now just over a quarter of the way to meeting our commitment of raising $10,000. So many have helped

in numerous ways to get to where we are—too many names to mention here.

Pelham DOGs still has a long way to go to reach our fundraising goal, so we encourage anyone interested in helping to contact us. Business and personal contributions of many kinds are helpful! We can be reached through our web-site, www.pelhamdogs.com or e-mail at [email protected].

Pam DeFazio,Fonthill

Tail-wagging gratitude

Both prosperity and poverty in PelhamBY BRIAN BATYRegional Counsellor

Waxing poeticThank you so much, Tina Chivers,For news about your teen achievers.It’s good to learn how much they raveAbout the talk by Mayor Dave.But in the end, it’s rather messy,Those students had to write an essay! Brian Calvert,Fenwick

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Since town council approved our 2014 Capital Budget last week and regional council is set to approve our 2014 op-erating, capital, and rate budgets this week, I wanted to inform you about some major improvements planned for Pelham next year.

“Uptown Fonthill” Reconstruction:Regional council’s 2014 capital budget

includes $4.0 million (including nearly $1 million from the town) to reconstruct Regional Road 20 from Peachtree Park to Lookout Street, and to reconstruct Haist Street from Canboro Road to RR20. The works will include adding bikelanes,

adding new sidewalks, upgrading the watermain, road reconstruction (includ-ing a turning lane to Haist Street North), and a new traffic signal.

Regional staff hopes to begin work in early-spring and be done in early-Sep-tember. Because of significant develop-ments between Haist and Lookout on Hwy 20, I refer to this area as “Uptown Fonthill.”

Downtown Fenwick Revitalization:While Council budgeted funds to revi-

talize Downtown Fenwick in 2013, staff ran into delays with design, with added work (storm sewer to Church Street) and with utilities. In 2014 we budgeted $4.0 million to reconstruct the roads, bury the hydro lines, and make the Down-town more pedestrian friendly.

The consulting engineers will meet with the public on Dece. 19 to review the final design with the hope that work can begin in early-spring. Council directed staff to ensure as little negative impact on Downtown businesses as possible.

Peace Park:Council earmarked funds to landscape

and improve Peace Park so that the overwhelming success of the Fonthill Bandshell, the Farmer’s Market, and Summerfest can grow. The plan includes tiered seating (for lawn chairs) around the Bandshell, fully-accessible internal pathways, enhancing the cenotaph, and opening-up the park for more multi-use activities. Council directed staff to ensure these improvements do not interfere with the June start of the Bandshell.

East Fonthill & Port Robinson Road:As you know, the Town has been plan-

ning for growth and development in the East Fonthill area for several years. This area includes more than 450 acres from

Regional Road 20 and south along Rice Road, past Merritt Road.

The area could accommodate 5,000 people over the next 20-25 years and includes significant commercial / mixed use lands along Hwy 20. Council insists on a great development that is walkable, cyclable, fully integrated to Downtown Fonthill and existing neighbourhoods, and adds to our small-town feel.

The town will reconstruct Port Rob-inson Road from Station Street to Rice Road next summer and will begin con-structing services and internal roads in late-summer / early-fall.

I look forward to working together with you on these and many other im-provements in 2014.

You may contact Mayor Dave at [email protected] or read past columns at www.pelhammayordave.blogspot.com.

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Pelham Cares has seen a sharp increase in requests to help children partici-pate camps and sports.

Funds in a youth recre-ation subsidy program have depleted.

The Pelham Girl Guides and the leaders will step up when they step out at this week’s Pelham Santa Claus in Fenwick on Sat-urday.

“So far this year we have provided 82 subsidies to 51 youth,” said cli-ent services coordinator Betty Brown at Pelham Cares This is an increase of 28% over 2012 where we provided 64 subsidies

to 35 youth for the whole year”.

For many children liv-ing in poverty, going to camp, playing hockey or learning to swim, is not always possible. Each year Pelham Cares subsi-dizes Pelham children to participate in recreation and educational opportu-nities.

Some of the 2013 spon-sored programs include: camp (6), soccer (13), hockey (5), tennis (2), swimming lessons (19), gymnastics (5), and music lessons (1).

In 2010, Pelham Cares received a $29,700 grant

from the Mayor’s Gala for youth subsides.

“These funds are almost gone.” Pelham Cares is now looking to raise more funds through events and grants.

To help, the Pelham Girl Guides will don sports and recreation uniforms and walk in the Pelham Santa Claus Parade on Saturday. Parade begins at 1 p.m. in downtown Fenwick.

Monetary donations will accepted with 100% going directly to the Youth Rec-reation Subsidy program, said Brown.

Parade for kids in need

The Fonthill-based Peninsula Orchestra will perform a concert of light classical music for dona-tions to Pelham Cares Sunday, Dec. 15.

The 4 p.m. concert at Fonthill United Church is free but donations to Pelham Cares will be ac-cepted a the door.

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the church will offer a take-out turkey dinner for $10. Seating is still avail-able. All proceeds from the dinner will go to Pel-ham Cares.

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Those who predicted a December “shiverfest” to contrast a July Summer-fest weren’t far off.

Pelham’s first Under the Arches Outdoor Christ-

mas Market faced a stiff drop in temperatures Fri-day night.

While it drew a changing crowd of hundreds of se-niors, teens, parents and children, they huddled around six outdoor heat-ers.

The evening of shop-ping, entertainment, food

and Christmas cheer ran from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

It featured a flip of a switch by Mayor Dave Augustyn and council-lors John Durley, James Lane and Gary Accursi to light the arches over the entrance to Pelham Town Square.

The town last year re-ceived funding from Ni-agara Region’s Smarter Niagara – Public Domain Incentives Program for the construction, winter-ization and sphere bulb lighting of the arches.

This year, the town up-graded hydro service and installed full illumination of the arches.

“We hope the communi-ty enjoys the illuminated arches during the holi-days and throughout the entire year,” said Mayor Dave Augustyn.

The computerized light-ing system allows for many variations in the colours and style of lighting, said Vickie vanRavenswaay, director of recreation, culture and wellness.

It can be programmed for colours of holidays and special observances such as red and green for Christmas, green for St. Patrick’s day, blue for anti-bullying and pink for breast cancer.

The Friday evening in-

cluded entertainment by local singers, bands and school choirs. The Font-hill Lions Club provided volunteers, and ran a bar.

Pelham Cares collected donations and provided information at a booth. The Active Transporta-tion Committee handed out about 500 “be seen in Pelham” reflector lights.

About a dozen local arti-sans and businesses sold chocolates, soup, sausag-es, carvings, scraves, jew-ellery and various unique gift items.

Children were attracted to a pair of alpacas and Santa Claus’s knee. They made Christmas requests while posing for photos by their parents.

Outdoor Christmas market glows red and greenBY

WAYNE CAMPBELLfor the VOICE

(Top) The choir of Maple Crest Early School entertains during Under the Arches Outdoor Christmas Market Friday. (Above) Pelham Town Square Arches are lit in green and red for the Christmas season. The computerized lighting system can change colours for any occasion.

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At this weekend’s Ni-agara Regional FLL (First Lego League) robotics competition, Pelham was well represented having 3 teams out of the 13 com-peting.

The Lego Da Vincis took the First Place Cham-pion award, in addition to the Robot Performance award, while their mentor team, Legolas, won the Rising Star award.

The competition con-sisted of four categories: the robot game obstacle course, robot design, project research and so-lution and core values, which includes problem solving skills, team work and ethics.

This year’s topic was “Nature’s Fury” so the teams had to research natural disasters, identify a problem and develop innovative solutions. The Lego Da Vincis have de-veloped a solution to con-nect neighbours in the event of an emergency, so they don’t have to call 911 as often, and efficiently care for others in their community in times of crisis.

This initiative consists of a website to raise aware-

ness on local emergency situations, how to plan a “block party” and how to construct an emergency preparedness kit. They have presented this idea to the Mayor of Pelham and have been invited to present it to Pelham town council on Dec. 16.

Teams are also judged on their robot design, with one judge comment-ing that the Da Vincis “set the standard for program-ming efficiency.” The robots compete against

each other to complete autonomous tasks on the obstacle field.

Three teams advance to the East Provincials Competition on Jan. 18 in Oshawa at the Univer-sity of Ontario Institute of Technology.

The Lego Da Vincis (a team from the home schooling community), the Fonthill Fury (com-

posed primarily of St. Al-exander Catholic School students) and the Princess Margaret Panther Bots from Niagara Falls.

The third team from Pelham, the St Ann’s Stal-lions, made Pelham proud and took home the Robot Design award and put in a stellar performance in all other areas.

In Art Connection II, Toye Chanpen Hayes and Di-ane Slaight say they want to show the progress of their style.

Their second show in the Festival Room of the Pel-ham Public Library touches an evolution of styles and subject matter in acrylic painting since their first in February 2011.

Chanpen Hayes continues to use her Thai heritage by mixing it with a Canadian environment as in her work Benjarong and Maple Leaves.

She is also working with crackle, that is, finding paint-ing patterns in cracks in acrylic.

Slaight has developed a story-telling technique of painting people into backgrounds.

She draws them from people she has seen in her trav-els.

“Expression of movement in their poses offers the challenge to show emotion and body language on the canvas,” she said.

She is also trying abstract work in acrylic and other mediums.

The exhibition continues until Dec. 30 at the library’s Fonthill branch.

Artists show off evolution

BY WAYNE CAMPBELLfor the VOICE

Artists Toye Chanpen Hayes, left, and Diane Slaight are hold-ing an exhibition, Art Connection II, in the Festival Room of the Pelham Public Library until Dec. 30.


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Two Pelham robotics team, Lego Da Vincis and Fonthill Fury, won a regional robotics compe-tition at Niagara College. They will advances them to a provincial tournament in January.

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The Pelham Panthers Bantam NBC team, sponsored by Mossimo’s Pizza and Subs, had an outstanding effort at the Bradford Bulldogs Blue and Gold tournament held November 15-17, making it to the finals, with a very exciting fin-ish that went down to the wire in a 2-1 loss.

The Panthers faced teams from Oakville, Erin-dale, Aurora, Nepean and Powassan (N.Bay) in the 8 team tournament.

All games were fast-paced, hard fought and extremely close.

The Panther team con-tinually dug deeper game after game ultimately leading them to the finals, just falling short of that last victory.

The Panthers kicked off the tournament with a come from behind vic-tory in the first of 2 Friday games.

Down 2-1 against the Aurora Tigers in the last minute, the Panthers’ Da-

vid Coyne scored 2 un-answered goals 8 seconds apart with 51 seconds left in the game, earning David a hat trick for the game and a 3-2 win for the Panthers.

Chris Slobodzian had 2 assists and Jeremy Col-angelo added another. This game established the “never say die” attitude that carried throughout the weekend.

The following game was against the Oakville Roy-als 3 hours later. While

the Panthers had numer-ous scoring chances, they could not solve the Royals goalie and the game re-sulted in a 1-0 loss.

A well-rested squad then took to the ice again on Saturday afternoon against Erindale 93. Josh Oussoren was the first to strike with a great shot set up on another great pass from Chris Slobodzian. Ethan Ratcliffe added 2 more goals, turning 2 blocked shots into break-aways the other way.

Ethan capitalized on both breakaways with some great moves to beat the Erindale goalie to help put the game away in a Panthers 3-1 victory, giving the Panthers a birth in the Sunday semi-finals.

The Panthers then faced the Nepean Team in the semis. In a fierce, see-saw battle, the teams ended the game in a 2-2 tie in regulation, leading to overtime. Chris Slobod-zian setup the first goal with a perfect pass to Jer-emy Colangelo across the

middle, seeing Jeremy put it away for the goal.

The dynamic duo of Josh Oussoren and David Coyne added the second goal which led to over-time.

The overtime rules saw both teams continually decreasing their skaters every 3 minutes until a winner was decided.

In 3-on-3 action, David Coyne fed a perfect lead pass to Josh Oussoren, who made no mistake and put it away for the game winner.

In a fast, gritty, hard fought final against Pow-assan, the teams remained 0-0 after 2 periods of play.

Powassan, scored 2 power play goals in the 3rd period to go up 2-0. The Panthers, with their “never say die” attitude that carried throughout the tournament battled even harder to come back.

With 3 minutes left, Da-vid Coyne scored from a pass from Peyton Learn to

close the gap to 2-1. The Panthers continued

to pressure and pulled the goalie with about 1 minute to play and creat-ed many scoring chances, but ultimately could not convert.

An integral part to the Panthers success in this tournament was due in large part to the Panthers goalie, Jason DiPaola.

Jason had an outstand-ing weekend, giving the team a chance to win ev-ery game.

The defensive core of Thomas Citrigno, Blaise Zatinge, Peyton Learn, Christian Harford, Nick Song and Raj Sohi were simply outstanding as usual. The forwards did a great job fore-checking and back-checking.

The forward core in-cluded Spencer Reynolds, Jacob Combe, David Coyne, Jared Young, Josh Oussoren, Jeremy Colan-gelo, Ethan Keus, Ethan Ratcliffe, Chris Slobodzain and Sam Abbott-Tate.

SPORTSIt couldn’t have gotten any closer.The Pelham Panthers E.S. Fox Peewee Rep hockey

team almost made it three tournament wins in as many tries this weekend in Fort Erie.

The team already has tournament victories in Cale-donia and Thorold and came as close as they possibly could without winning this past weekend in Fort Erie at the Andy Passero Memorial Tournament.

The line of Ethan Mergl, Josh Glen and Mitchell Car-michael combined for 12 points as the Panthers began the tournament with a 7-3 victory over Scarborough.

Carmichael had the hat trick, Glen a pair of goals and Mergland Connor Walton each scored once.

In game two on Saturday morning the Panthers rolled over the Erie (Pennsylvania) Lions by a score of 8-0.

Mergl led the offensive charge with four goals while Liam Sodtke, Alex Repar, Tyler D’Angelo, and Glen also found the back of the net.

The final game of the round robin was against the undefeated Riverside Rangers.

After a slow first period the Panthers found their legs and dominated the rest of the game winning 6-0.

D’Angelo scored twice including a highlight of the night end to end rush. Garrett Jackson, Quentin An-nunziata, Repar and Cameron Crysler also scored.

In semi-finals the Panthers were up against the home town Fort Erie Meteors and responded with a terrific defensive game.

Team goaltender Michael Rossi was outstanding in the Pelham net and defensemen Campbell Veld, Joey Natale, Evan Lacroix, Sodtke and D’Angelo did not give the Meteors much room to operate in the Panther zone.

Jackson, Repar and Mergl each scored for the Pan-thers in the 3-1 Pelham win.

The final against the Sarnia Jr. Sting was a thrilling

game from start to finish. The Panthers spotted the Sting a two goal lead but

never quit and began to dominate the play in the sec-ond and third periods.

D’Angelo with another hard shot from the point and Connor Walton on a terrific solo effort tied the game 2-2.

Key saves by goalie Evan Macpherson kept the game tied through three periods and five minutes of over-time settled nothing.

Mitchell Carmichael was the lone Panther able to solve the Sting goalie in the shootout while Sarnia scored twice.

It was a tough way to lose but the boys will take this experience with them to Ottawa at the end of the month to compete in the Bell Capital Cup against teams from across North America and Europe.

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ONGOING• until 1 p.m. Saturday

December 7th. Chairific Fundraiser. Bid on a hand-painted vintage children’s library chairs with gift bas-ket. Pelham Public Library.

• Mondays at 7 p.m. Sing Niagara Women’s A Cap-pella Chorus at Paroisse Immaculee Conception Church, 99 Garner St, St. Catharines. Call 905-892-1640 or visit www.singni-agara.com.

• Mondays 7:15 p.m. Peninsula Orchestra invites players to join them every Monday at Holy Trin-ity Anglican Church. No audition. For info. please contact Bev @ 892-0583.

• Tuesdays 6:00p.m.-9:00 p.m. SPAN (Single Professional Association of Niagara) is a social club for mature singles who meet at Bailey-Obrady’s,111 Hwy 20, every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Offers mem-bers a monthly calendar of social activities. Further

information, call Lynie @905-788-0359

• Alternate Wednesdays. 1:00-3:00 p.m. Drop-in Bridge at Pelham Library. Ask for Schedule at front desk.

• Thursdays (first Thurs-day of every month) 1:30 p.m. to p.m. SOS (Survi-vors of Stroke) Everyone is welcome. Info call Ann 905-892-1621

• Fridays 1:00-3:00 p.m.. Knit Wits - Knitting Club. Work on your pres-ent project while spending time with other knitters. All levels are welcome. Cro-cheters welcome. Knitting tips will be shared at each session.$2.00 includes re-freshments. Drop in at the Fonthill Library.

• 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Legion Dinner

• Alternate Saturdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Computer & Gadget Drop-in: For beginners to advanced learners. Learn new tips and tricks and

share ideas and skills with others in an informal set-ting. Some laptops will be available or BYOG (bring your own gadget). $2.00. Drop in. Pelham Public Library.

• Ontario Senior Games Association (OSGA) for fellowship, friendly com-petition and a more active lifestyle. Info www.ontari-oseniorgames.ca

• Newcomers Club of St. Catharines & District welcomes women new to the region to participate in a variety of activities. Call Maureen 905-397-7593 or Gwen 905-641-9816 for details.

•Volunteers Needed in Fonthill, Fenwick, Ridgeville for the Meals on Wheels program. Friendly Visiting program and also requires volunteer drivers to take seniors to appointments. Offer flexible hours and mileage reimbursement. Call Laura Dumas at 905-788-3181 ext. 27 or email

[email protected]. Friday & Saturday, Dec

13, 14• ‘Home For Christmas

Adoption Event’ at the Fonthill Pet Valu, 20 Can-boro Rd., Great cats look-ing to come home. Special N~SNAP adoption fee: $50 Includes spay/neuter, microchip, parasite control, vaccines. Contact 289-897-8514

Saturday, December 14 • 1:00 - 4:00 pm Pelham’s

16th annual Santa Claus parade. Parade travels through Fenwick and ends at Centennial Park (999 Church St., Fenwick). Lions and Lioness are serving chili, hot dogs, hot chocolate and cider (all free of charge). Hayrides, pony rides, train rides, face painting and of course the chance for kids to get their last minute requests in to Santa.

Sunday, December 15 • 4:00 p.m. The Penin-

sula Orchestra presents a Benefit Concert for Pelham Cares at Fonthill United Church. Admission is free but donations for Pelham Cares will be welcomed at the door. Following the con-cert the Church will offer a Take-out Turkey Dinner for $10. All proceeds will go to Pelham Cares.

Monday, Dec. 16 th • 10:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

Hearing Clinic, Pelham Public Library. Free but please schedule your appointment ahead: 905-892-6068

Friday, Saturday, Sun-day Dec. 20, 21, 22nd

• 11:00a.m.-4:00p.mJoe Barkovich will sign

his book, From an Report-er’s Notebook, a collection of selected columns from his 43 years as a local daily newspaper editor. at Sobeys in Fonthill, Region-al Road 20. Sobeys will donate $2 for every book sold to Pelham Cares.

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Obituary

GARNER, Robert Scott Thomas Passed away at his home with his loving family by his side on Sun-day, December 8, 2013, in his 69th year. Loving husband and best friend of Betty (nee Wilkinson). Lov-ingly missed by his mother Doris Garner and prede-ceased by his father Victor. Dear father of Kelly Garner, Jennifer Russell, Michael Garner and Ryan Holm. Cherished grandfather of Brayden and Julia. Dear brother of Susan (Bernie) and Jim (Wendy). Bob will also be greatly missed by many nieces, nephews and friends. Friends will be received by the family on Wednesday, December 11th from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm at the JAMES L. PED-LAR FUNERAL HOME, 1292 Pelham Street, Font-hill. The funeral service to celebrate Bob’s life will take place on Thursday, Decem-ber 12th, 11:00 am at the Fonthill United Church, 45 Churchill Street, Fonthill. A private interment will take place at the Fonthill Cem-etery at a later date. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to the Fonthill United Church or the Juravinski Cancer Centre. Online condolenc-es may be placed at www.pedlarfuneralhome.ca

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In loving memory of Jonas Novak and Dean Emerson.

Both tragically killed in an automobile accident before their 21st birthdays.

The accident occurred December 11, 1993 at t he intersection of Niagara Street and Woodland Road in Welland, Ontario.

On the twentieth year an-niversary, They are deeply missed and always remem-bered and prayed for by:

Dad Novak, Mom Wal-lace, brothers Sean Novak, Ryan Novak and families.


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