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Elmira environmental scientist 

named to Order of Canada 

Retired UofT professor Henry 

Regier honoured for his 

longtime conservation efforts 

JONI MILTENBURG 

Elmira’s Henry Regier has been named to 

the Order of Canada, in recognition of more 

than half a century of work on ecosystem 

management and environmental conservation. 

The environmental scientist said the surprise 

of being named to the Order was something 

like being struck by lightning 

“Five weeks ago I got a phone call out of 

the blue and somebody introduced himself 

and told me I’d been named to the Order of 

Canada. He expected me to fall on the fl oor 

and I did, of course.” 

Regier was a professor of zoology and environmental 

studies at the University of Toronto 

for 30 years, and later director of the 

school’s Institute of Environmental Studies. 

He’s served on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 

the Great Lakes Science Advisory 

Board and co-authored papers with a wide 

range of researchers. 

“I think … I’m the designated recipient 

for a whole network of people who’ve collaborated 

over the last half-century on this 

issue,” he said of receiving the Order of 

Canada. 

Regier said his interest in ecology grew out 

of a fi rst-hand understanding of nature. He 

was born in 1930, in a log cabin built by his 

father in northern Alberta. 

“It was the edge of civilization. For the 

fi rst 13 years of my life, we kids got our fun 

in the bush. I’ve always felt more at home 

in the bush, in the woods, than in the centre 

of Toronto, where I lived for a couple of 

decades.” 

His family moved east in 1943, to a house 

that was a kilometre away from Lake On- 

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Builder of 

St. Jacobs, 

Milo Shantz 

dies at 76 

Celebrated entrepreneur 

and philanthropist had a 

lengthy battle with cancer 

STEVE KANNON 

The man whose 

name is synonymous 

with St. Jacobs 

passed away 

Tuesday after a 

lengthy battle 

with cancer. Milo 

Shantz was 76. 

Beginning with 

the opening of the 

Stone Crock Restaurant 

in 1975, he 

eventually transformed 

the village 

into an interna- MILO SHANTZ 

tional tourist destination. 

In 1981, he launched Mercedes 

Corp, which focused on property development 

and promoting tourism. Along 

with brother Ross Shantz, he amassed 

extensive holdings in the village, including 

the St. Jacobs and Waterloo Farmers’ 

Markets, the Ontario Livestock Exchange 

and the St. Jacobs Outlet Mall. 

The company also ventured into other 

fi elds, such as nursing homes. 

Shantz was also well known for his philanthropy, 

as he was involved in a variety of 

organizations, from Habitat for Humanity 

to The House of Friendship and the Mennonite 

Economic Development Associates. 

“His real legacy is the contribution he 

made to the church and to various faith- 

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Shantz: Remembered as a visionary 

» From cover ing force” behind the nity a stronger commu- 

based organizations,” creation of the interprenity.” said Larry Martin, prestive centre. 

While there were 

ident of the St. Jacobs “He was aware that changes to the village, 

Country Inn who worked there’s a fine line be- there were many ben- 

with Shantz for more tween inquisitive and efits, including jobs and 

than two decades. “He invasive. He wanted to a strong tax base for the 

was a man of passion be sure to be respectful township, Bauman add- 

and of compassion.” of the Old Order Mennoed. Turning around a “dynites.” Those benefits were no 

ing village” with the His vision for St. Jacobs accident, said a longtime 

work of Mercedes Corp., caught on, and business colleague who served as 

Shantz was always inter- boomed in the village. in-house legal counsel 

ested in putting commu- “He put St. Jacobs on the for Mercedes. 

nity first, he added. map,” said Gingrich, not- Tom Jutzi, now with a 

Shantz’s vision for St. ing visitors from some K-W law firm but having 

Jacobs centered on the 150 countries have passed retained professional 

Old Order Mennonites, through the centre. ties with Shantz, said 

whose culture many visi- The enormous success business ventures were 

tors to the area marveled wasn’t always univer- entered into with the 

to see. Using the models sally embraced, how- community benefit in 

for support he’d seen in ever. Longtime residents mind and with a sense 

use by the Mennonite who were happy to live of stewardship – “Those 

Central Committee at in a sleepy little village were things he talked 

work in the developing sometimes found the about a lot.” 

world, he saw the possi- changes difficult to deal Though sometimes 

bilities for a business in- with. But as an equilib- misunderstood, his encubator 

approach in the rium set in, the tourism trepreneurial spirit was 

village, encouraging ar- business has proved to channeled into doing 

tisans to form the basis be mostly a boon, sug- good, on which he fo- 

of what would become gested lifelong resident cused his complete at- 

a budding tourist area. and Woolwich counciltention. The idea was to provide lor Mark Bauman. “Milo was a unique 

a launching point to en- “He was someone who person. He was creative. 

joy the Mennonite expe- had a vision, who could He was visionary. And 

rience 

look at something and see he was disciplined – if 

Central to this plan, things others couldn’t,” he had an idea, he knew 

however, was the need to he said of Shantz. “At how to stick to it and not 

be respectful of the cul- the end of the day, most get distracted.” 

ture, noted Del Gingrich, people would say it’s He saw opportunities 

who runs the Mennonite been a positive impact others didn’t, staying 

Story Visitor Centre. on the community. the course even if others 

Shantz was the “driv- “He made the commu- couldn’t initially see the 

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same outcome he had envisioned. 

Shantz’s industrious 

nature came naturally, 

surfacing early on following 

his birth in New 

Hamburg in 1932. 

At the age of 13, he 

started buying and 

selling pigs. At 21, he 

bought 500 turkeys. By 

1958, he had made it a 

family business with his 

father and brother, and 

involved employees as 

shareholders. The business 

eventually evolved 

into Hybrid Turkeys, 

one of the largest and 

most innovative companies 

in the field. It was 

sold in 1981. 

“He had a gift of entrepreneurship, 

a gift he 

wanted to use … to benefit 

others,” said Jutzi. 

Through all his successes 

and philanthropy – including 

many personal 

acts that he wanted to remain 

private – Shantz remained 

humble and true 

to his roots, he added. 

“Milo went through 

his life with a fair bit of 

gratefulness for the success 

he had. He was not 

a man of a big ego.” 

Shantz is survived by 

his wife Laura, and children 

Jenny, Christine, 

Sandra, Margaret and 

Marcus. 

THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 10, 2009 

Holiday RIDE checks 

net more charges 


Waterloo Regional Police 

handed out dozens more 

12-hour suspensions during 

holiday RIDE checks 

this year despite stopping 

fewer vehicles. 

Using a new strategy 

that focused less on 

roadblocks and more 

on random stops, police 

checked 5,026 vehicles 

between Nov. 28 and 

Jan. 3 and handed out 

55 12-hour suspensions. 

That’s a significant increase 

over last year, 

when 6,318 vehicles were 

checked and 13 suspensions 

issued. 

“It’s difficult to draw 

any real solid conclusions 

from a small sampling 

like this, but any 

time the numbers go up, 

we’re more concerned 

than when they go down,” 

said police spokesperson 

Olaf Heinzel. 

However, he said police 

aren’t sounding the 

alarm just yet; the numbers 

don’t necessarily 

mean more people are 

driving impaired. 

“We cannot generalize 

from this really limited 

number, toward the 

general population. We 

know the vast majority 

of people are not drinking 

and driving, and this 

is a small percentage of 

the total. … Some of it is 

the luck of the draw. It 

really just depends who 

comes through the line 

that particular night.” 

Using teams of cruisers, 

often near bars and 

restaurants, police were 

able to spend more time 

with each vehicle than 

at a roadblock, where 

the emphasis is on keeping 

traffic flowing. 

The mobile RIDE stops 

also resulted in increased 

charges for Highway 

Traffic Act violations – 

113 this year, compared to 

25 in 2007. Another nine 

drivers were charged 

with having a bloodalcohol 

content over 80 

mg, and two were given 

impaired charges. 

“The increased suspensions 

are an anomaly 

given the long-term trend 

has been toward fewer 

drinking and driving incidents,” 

Heinzel said. “Having 

said that, we always 

have to remain vigilant in 

terms of our enforcement 

and our messaging to the 

community.” 

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“I usually take the ones that need extra care, that are sick or injured 

or deformed. Basically the ones that nobody wants.” 

Kayla Lamers 

WARM AND FUZZY Kayla Lamers has a passion for taking in unwanted animals, often those in need of medical and other attention. She’s looking to parlay that into a career as a veterinarian. 

All creatures great and small 

Elmira resident Kayla Lamers’ love for animals sees her take in a variety of unwanted critters 


When she was in Grade 9, Kayla 

Lamers rescued a rabbit from 

a meat farm and adopted it as 

a pet. When he saw it, her dad 

put his foot down: “No more,” 

he told her. 

“No more” has turned into 

three hamsters, a gerbil, four 

rabbits, eight degus (which 

look like large, bushy-tailed 

gerbils), two budgies and a rat. 

None of them would be considered 

prize specimens, and 

that’s exactly why Lamers has 

them. 

“I usually take the ones that 

need extra care, that are sick or 

injured or deformed. Basically 

the ones that nobody wants,” 

Lamers says. “I have one rabbit 

now that has a cone on his 

head because he had surgery 

and he can’t chew his stitches. 

I’m getting another bunny on 

the 15th. It has no ears; the 

mother chewed them off at 

birth, so it’s a little deformed.” 

Lamers, now 19 and an employee 

of the Village Pet Food 

Shoppe, takes in aggressive 

pets that need a calm home 

and sick animals that need 

nursing. 

Some of the animals come to 

her through work and some 

by word of mouth, from people 

who know her only as the 

“hamster lady“ or the “bird 

lady.” When she can, Lamers 

finds homes for pets she’s 

nursed back to health. 

Lamers has always had a passion 

for animals, especially 

small animals. Small animals 

are often the ones that need a 

home, because they’re more 

likely to be impulse buys. 

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“People are also less willing to 

pay vet bills for a $5 pet when it 

gets sick than a dog or cat. If 

the animals she takes in need 

surgery, Lamers takes them to 

a friendly vet at the Waterloo 

West Animal Hospital and pays 

for it out of her own pocket. 

Looking after so many animals 

takes time as well as 

money. She estimates she 

spends two or three hours a 

day cleaning out cages and litter 

boxes and giving the animals 

individual attention. 

“I monitor how much water 

they’re drinking and how 

much they weigh and they go 

for annual vet checkups. The 

degus I have are prone to diabetes, 

so my vet taught me how 

to test for diabetes in them. 

And if they do [get it], then you 

have to give them insulin.” 

She also researches animal 

care on her own time. Lamers 

does it because she cares about 

the animals, but also because 

it’s good practice for the future. 

She plans to study science at 

the University of Guelph and 

then become a vet herself. 

She’s also planning to get her 

wildlife rehabilitation licence 

so she can care for wild animals 

as well. She works with a 

local wildlife rehabber, taking 

care of squirrels, raccoons and 

wild birds. 

Many of the domestic pets she 

takes in – like her three hamsters 

– have been abandoned by 

their owners because they’re 

aggressive. Lamers explained 

aggressive pets aren’t born 

that way: they become aggressive 

because their owners don’t 

know how to handle them. 

“A 10-year-old kid’s not going 

to understand, OK, the hamster 


sleeps all day so I can’t grab at 

it. It’s sleeping, it wants to be 

left alone. Of course it’s going 

to bite you.” 

When she was young, Lamers 

hated cleaning her hamster’s 

cage because she was afraid of 

it. As she got older, she understood 

why it was sometimes 

mean. Now, Lamers said, she’s 

been bitten so many times it 

doesn’t faze her. 

“I was helping a friend bathe 

a hedgehog the other day: 

it wasn’t impressed and it 

clamped on.” 

It took some coaxing for her 

parents to let her take in animals 

and they won’t let her 

have an unlimited number, but 

they’re generally understanding. 

“A lot of parents, I’m sure, 

wouldn’t let their kids have that 

amount of animals.” 

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»FrOm THe eDiTOr | STeVe KAnnOn 

Another year, another crop of celebrities to mourn 

There’s something 

about year-end wrapups 

that gets me 

thinking about death. 

Apparently I’m not 

alone, as lists of celebrities 

and other 

notable people who’ve 

died in the past calendar 

year abound as 

one year rolls into the next. For 2008, as 

with every year, I was caught off guard 

by some of the names on the list. 

I’d caught the fact that Heath Ledger 

had died of an accidental drug overdose 

– pretty hard to miss that one. 

George Carlin’s passing was much 

sadder: we’d be much better off if he 

was here to continue his biting and always 

funny critiques. 

Speaking of funnymen, Harvey Korman’s 

death was another great loss. 

Also well publicized was the passing 

of Paul Newman, of course. And of 

Jeff Healey. Put Chuck Heston in that 

category too. 

A big fan of The Bob Newhart Show, 

I hadn’t realized Suzanne Pleshette 

had died last January, just shy of her 

71st birthday. She had been married 

to another Newhart fi xture, Tom 

Poston, who was on the list in 2007. 

What brought it home this time 

around was seeing the name Ivan 

Dixon: Sgt. James ‘Kinch’ Kinchloe on 

that classic series, Hogan’s Heroes. The 

actor/director died of kidney failure 

Mar. 16 at the age of 76. Stuck in the 

time warp of rerun TV, he couldn’t be 

76, let alone dead – but there the name 

was on that list. Reading that caused 

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that contains a variety of goals, objectives and policies to guide land-use planning in Waterloo 

Region over the next 20 years. The Region is developing a new ROP to address the many 

challenges and opportunities affecting our rapidly growing community, including new Provincial 

policy and legislation that affects where and how we plan. Reviewing the Draft ROP now will 

allow Regional Council to consider adopting a recommended new ROP in June 2009. 

Draft Regional Official Plan (ROP) 

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Regional Council would like to invite 

all community members to come and 

share their thoughts on the Draft ROP 

at a public meeting on: 

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 

at 6 p.m. 

150 Frederick Street, Kitchener 

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No decisions will be made on the Draft 

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a little piece of childhood to suffer a 

cold, hard kick. 

Those of us born in the TV age grew 

up with a wide social circle invented 

by Hollywood and beamed into homes 

round the clock. In many ways, we’re 

more attached to the people we see 

on TV than to those around us – our 

Friends are more real than our friends, 

in some instances. And when they die, 

either as actors or characters, the grief 

can be as real as if somebody close to 

you had died. 

While movies had launched the notion 

of celebrity, our attachment grew 

in leaps and bounds with television, 

which brought them into the intimate 

confi nes of our homes. The phenomenon 

is linked to the suburban growth 

that followed the war. 

Television families “helped ease what 

must have been for many Americans a 

painful transition from the city to the 

suburb. But more than simply supplying 

a tonic for the displaced suburbanites, 

television promised something 

better: it promised a mode of spectator 

pleasure premised on the sense of 

an illusory – rather than a real – community 

of friends,” according to Lynn 

Spigel, a professor in the School of 

Communication at Northwestern University 

in Illinois. 

“It held out a new possibility for being 

alone in the home, away from the 

troublesome busy-body neighbours in 

the next house. But it also maintained 

ideals of community togetherness 

and social interconnection by placing 

the community at a fi ctional distance. 

Television allowed people to enter into 

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an imaginary social life, one that was 

shared not in the neighbourhood networks 

of bridge clubs and mahjong 

gatherings, but on the national networks 

of CBS, NBC and ABC.” 

Beyond just reacting to television, 

the growth of celebrity worship and 

attachment is also well studied as a sociological 

and psychological development. 

There is a certain irony in that 

the more crowded and populated our 

cities become, the more isolated we 

are from others. That’s especially true 

as families become smaller and more 

prone to spreading out across large 

distances. 

For professor Michael C. Kearl of the 

Department of Sociology and Anthropology 

at Trinity University in Texas, 

“the rise of celebrity also corresponds 

with a public increasingly devoid of 

total relationships with others, individuals’ 

connectedness with others 

and the broader society dampened by 

the anonymity of urban life, reduced 

civic involvements, increasing rates of 

singlehood and living alone, and by the 

instrumental relationships demanded 

»AbOuT FACe 

PETE GALWAY 

Breslau Art Glass 

How long have you worked here? 

25 years. 

How did you get started? 

I needed a job and I got a job here. Ever since 

then, I’ve been doing it for a living. 

What do you like about the job? 

Every project’s a bit different; it blends craftsmanship 

and creativity. 

What are you working on right now? 

It was an old window. A fellow fell down his 


by the workplace and marketplace.” 

Celebrities are seen as living more interesting, 

glamorous, or important lives. 

Thus the public may know more about 

the celebrities’ stories than they do of 

those of their neighbors and associates. 

“But the grief over celebrities … the 

sense of loss is more like that of a 

friend because these are not so much 

role models as refl ections of who we 

are or who we want to be. These are 

individuals whom one has paid to see 

or who have been frequent televised 

‘guests’ in one’s home.” 

We spend more time with fi ctional 

characters – and the actors portraying 

them – than we do with many of 

the real people in our lives. When old 

aunt Cora, who you saw occasionally 

at family functions over the years, 

passes away, you’re likely to feel little, 

if anything at all. It seems that’s not 

the case if the actor you watch daily 

in reruns shuffl es off this mortal coil. 

People who don’t shed a tear at a family 

funeral might bawl like babies over 

the death of a character on TV or in 

the movies. 

stairs and damaged it beyond repair, so I’m 

remaking it. 

What do you like to do in your spare time? 

I’m a collector of all kinds of different things. I 

like to play darts, I like to play golf. Probably 

put golf ahead of darts. I’m president of the 

Elmira dart league. 

How do you deal with stress? 

Get together with friends and try to do things 

that aren’t stressful. 

Anything you’re looking forward to right 

now? 

Spring. Golf season and spring.


Wellesley to 

benefit from 

gas taxes 

Wellesley Township will receive 

just over $300,000 per year from 

2010 to 2014 in federal gas tax 

funding. 

The four-year extension to the 

gas tax agreement was officially 

signed Dec. 23. under the agreement, 

Wellesley Township will 

receive $301,109.64 each year in 

two equal payments made in july 

and november. 

Woolwich Township will receive 

$604,680.08 per year over the 

four-year period. The City of Waterloo 

will receive $2,998,331 per 

year, while the City of Kitchener is 

slated to get $6,295,587.68. 

Linwood gets 

two recruits 

Council approved the appointment 

of two new volunteers to 

the Wellesley Fire Department’s 

Linwood Station at the request of 

district chief Frank Karley. 

Catherine Steckly is enrolled part 

time in the pre-service fire fighter 

program at Conestoga College. 

The other new appointment is matt 

Karley, a resident of Linwood. 

The two new recruits will bring 

Linwood fire station up to a full 

staffing complement; Linwood 

currently has 18 fire fighters, while 

the township’s level of service normally 

supports 20 fire fighters. 

Sudden retains 

vice-chair role 

Former Woolwich councillor 

grace Sudden was re-elected this 

week to the position of vice-chair 

of the Waterloo regional Police 

Services board. Tom galloway, a 

regional councillor, was re-elected 

chair. 

Sudden has been a member of 

board for the past nine years; 

2009 will mark her seventh term 

as vice-chair. 

The other members of the board 

include regional Chair Ken Seiling, 

Wilmot Township mayor Wayne 

roth, brian Heggie, Patti Haskell 

and myrta rivera. 

The Police Services board is a 

civilian oversight body that governs 

how police services are provided. 

The board is made up of 

three elected members from regional 

council, three provincially 

appointed members and one 

community-at-large member appointed 

by council. 

Wloo workers 

talking strike 

City of Waterloo outside workers 

voted unanimously Wednesday 

night in favour of strike action if 

they can’t reach a deal with the 

municipality. The members of the 

Canadian union of Public employees 

local 1542 could be in a strike 

position as early as jan. 15. 

A strike could affect snowplowing, 

arena operations and other 

services, including water distribution 

and park operations, carried 

out by unionized workers. 

Council’s latest financial mess – 

$1.8-million in retroactive wage 

top-ups for managers and nonunionized 

staff – has come back 

to bite it again, as the union calls 

offers to its members unfair by 

comparison. 

mediation talks are scheduled 

for Tuesday. The 110 workers’ last 

contract expired on Dec. 31. 

»SOmeTHing eXTrA in THe STOCKing 

Fundraising push nets an extra $10K 

Challenged to raise $100,000 by year’s end, Gale congregation meets that goal 


After being challenged to 

raise $100,000 in a little 

over a month, the congregation 

of Gale Presbyterian 

church stepped 

up and met the goal. 

In late November, an 

anonymous donor approached 

the church offering 

$10,000 toward the 

construction of a new 

building – provided the 

congregation could raise 

10 times that before the 

end of the year. 

By Dec. 31, the final total 

was $100,215.76. 

“It was a stretch, that’s 

for sure,” said fundrais- 


Wellesley is looking 

for ways to recover its 

expenses following a 

drug-related fire at a 

duplex in the village 

last month. 

Township firefighters 

spent a total of 273 man 

hours battling a blaze 

at 1020 Molesworth Rd. 

Dec. 9. 

All three stations responded 

to the fire, 

which was reported 

shortly after 8 p.m. 

Wellesley station had 14 

men at the blaze, some 

until 1 a.m. St Clements 

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tario, where they went 

swimming. At that time, 

the shoreline was slumping 

into the lake, taking 

with it a series of summer 

cottages. And a few 

years later, swimming 

in Lake Ontario was 

banned because of polio. 

“People were getting 

it – some people I knew 

had polio – from pollution 

in Lake Ontario. So 

I became aware of the 

health risks of the Great 

Lakes,” he explained. 

Regier finished his B.A. 

at Queen’s University in 

1954. One of the professors 

there, Wes Curran, 

was interested in conservation 

and encouraged 

him to take a job with 

the Ontario government 

studying streams in the 

Toronto area. 

“I caught the bug to be an 

aquatic ecosystem freak 

from those surveys.” 

ing chair Vicky Hammell. 

“I think everybody 

dug deep to make 

us get there. In fact, I 

heard that somebody 

had called who wasn’t 

in town to make sure we 

had made it because if 

we hadn’t they were going 

to donate some extra 

that they planned on doing 

in January.” 

The church has now 

raised more than $500,000 

toward construction of a 

new church, which will 

cost an estimated $2.3 

million. The land, located 

at Church Street and 

Barnswallow Drive, has 

already been paid for. 

The congregation has 

After a short stint 

teaching high school, 

Regier completed his 

PhD at Cornell University 

in 1961 and took another 

job with the Ontario 

government, this time 

researching fisheries in 

Lake Erie. 

Many of the problems 

facing the Great Lakes 

today, he first encountered 

in the 1950s and 

‘60s. 

While studying streams 

flowing into Lake Erie 

in 1955, he learned about 

the problems caused by 

exotic species. Smelt, 

a non-native species of 

fish, was moving into 

Lake Erie and causing 

problems for commercial 

fishers by tangling 

in their nets. 

At the same time, dead 

zones started to appear 

in the shallow waters of 

Lake Erie. The colder, 

bottom waters were being 

starved of oxygen by 

been looking at building 

a new church since 

2003. The present location 

is landlocked, with 

no parking, and not very 

visible. 

Kim Denstedt, co-chair 

of the church’s steering 

committee, said the anonymous 

donor isn’t a member 

of Gale, but was impressed 

with the congregation’s 

energy and support of the 

new church. 

“It was extremely generous 

of this person to 

do that,” she said. 

Gale rallied behind the 

fundraising drive; there 

were a large number of 

donations, ranging in 

size up to $15,000. 

decaying organic matter 

falling from the warmer 

surface water. Lack of 

oxygen forced out coldwater 

species such as 

trout. The surface water 

was overly fertile, fed 

by phosphates coming 

from sewage, industrial 

chemicals and agricultural 

runoff. 

In the early 1970s, there 

were major programs to 

reduce the amount of 

phosphates ending up 

in the lake. Those efforts 

were partly successful; 

the dead zones were reduced 

in size, and coldwater 

fish started to 

come back. 

In the late 1980s, a new 

non-native threat moved 

in: zebra mussels and 

their relatives, quagga 

mussels. Carried in the 

ballast water of ships, 

the mussels are prodigious 

eaters and rob a 

lake of nutrients, while 

depositing waste on the 

“We were very happy 

and pleased that we were 

able to end the year on 

such a high note,” Denstedt 

said. “Our next major 

step will be at our annual 

meeting when we 

present an idea of what 

it could look like and 

costs and so forth.” 

Currently, the building 

committee is looking at 

draft plans and offering 

feedback to the design 

process. 

Fundraising is ongoing, 

as the church still 

has a long way to go toward 

the final total. 

“We’d like to keep it to 

two or three major fundraisers 

and then there’s 

lake floor. A new type of 

dead zone started to appear. 

“Just about the time the 

lakes were coming back 

from the phosphate overburdening, 

this thing 

happened,” Regier said. 

“The Lake Erie story is 

far from over. Billions 

have been spent on trying 

to rehabilitate it and 

many things have been 

done. It’s not over.” 

After he retired in 

1995, Regier and his wife 

Lynn, a psychotherapist, 

moved to Elmira. Regier 

had long associations 

with people at Wilfrid 

Laurier, Waterloo and 

Guelph universities, 

but they were looking to 

get away from the city. 

One of their daughters 

lived in Elmira and the 

other wasn’t far away 

in Georgetown, so they 

settled here. 

After moving to Elmira, 

Regier got involved with 

a bunch of smaller 

things that we’re doing 

as well, so we’re not taxing 

people too much. We 

do a lot of “fun-raising” 

as well as fundraising.” 

Planning for the new 

church has brought people 

out to meetings and 

committees, which has 

helped bring people together, 

she said. 

“I’m meeting people 

that I’ve sat across from 

in church for years, but 

I didn’t really know. I 

think that’s happened for 

a few people. When you 

do things together, you 

get to know each other 

and that builds community, 

builds caring.” 

Wellesley seeking to recover fire costs 

Council hoping to recoup expenses related to suspicious Molesworth St. fire 

backed up the Wellesley 

station with 18 men 

and Linwood responded 

with 16. 

Wellesley station 

also had four people 

assisting Waterloo 

Regional Police in investigating 

the suspicious 

blaze. That 

investigation is still ongoing. 

Until charges are laid 

or insurance coverage 

determined, the township 

is left footing the 

bill for fighting the 

blaze. Volunteer fire 

fighters are paid for 

the time they spend at 

a fire or accident, and 

any supplies used in 

fighting the fire, such 

as oxygen cylinders, 

will have to be refilled 

or replaced. 

“We don’t at this point 

know whether there’ll 

be any compensation 

coming back to the municipality,” 

said township 

chief administrative 

officer Susan Duke. 

“It has to be a specific 

set of circumstances 

for the insurance companies 

to come forward 

with compensation.” 

Duke said she can’t estimate 

the cost of battling 

the fire because 

she doesn’t yet have all 

the figures related to 

the man hours and the 

equipment used. 

“We haven’t done the 

breakdown on who’s being 

paid what amount,” 

she said. “The district 

chiefs and captains are 

paid different rates. 

There’s a whole calculation 

that has to go 

into that, as well as the 

equipment.” 

A 28-year old woman 

escaped the blaze and 

was taken to hospital 

to be treated for smoke 

inhalation. Two males 

were seen emerging the 

house with flames coming 

from their clothes. 

They rolled in the snow 

to extinguish the flames 

then fled, one on foot 

and the other in a darkcoloured 

pickup truck. 

The investigation 

turned up five containers 

of marijuana and 

equipment used to extract 

hashish, hash 

resin or hash oil. 

Police spokesperson 

Olaf Heinzel said at 

this point no arrests 

have been made and no 

charges laid. 

“We’re still looking 

for any tips and any 

information that could 

help us. That’s still an 

ongoing investigation.” 

Regier: Early exposure to issues led to career path 

a citizen’s group pressing 

for cleanup of the 

former Uniroyal Chemical 

site. He also works 

to restore First Nations 

fishing rights, which he 

says have been “grossly 

abused,” and continues 

to write papers and editorials. 

Regier has also done 

work on climate change, 

writing his first paper 

on the subject in 1984 

and authoring a chapter 

of Climate Change 

1995 for the Intergovernmental 

Panel on Climate 

Change. Trying to get 

action on environmental 

issues can be a frustrating 

prospect, he said, but 

there is greater awareness 

these days of the 

health cost of pollution. 

“It may be that the climate 

change issue will 

be the first major environmental 

issue that 

can’t be set aside by anyone.”

6 | NEWS 

THE YEAR IN REVIEW: 2008 

Looking back at some of the top news items that made the pages of the Observer in the past 12 months 

JANUARY 

Water and sewer 

rates on the rise 

Waterloo Region announced 

a 9.9 per cent increase 

in water rates and 

a 14.9 per cent increase 

in sewage rates for 2008, 

adding $12.72 and $14.98 

respectively to the average 

household bill. 

Flooding widespread 

as winter disappears 

A brief respite from 

what would be a snowy 

winter brought flooding 

to parts of the township 

during the early part of 

January. Warm temperatures 

and heavy rains 

saw rivers spill over their 

banks in West Montrose 

and Conestogo, among 

other locales. 

Woolwich tax 

hike at 6% 

Woolwich residents 

learned they’d be facing 

a six per cent increase in 

the township portion of 

their property taxes, representing 

an additional 

payout of $27 a year on 

the average home. Councillors 

approved a 3.95 

per cent jump in the general 

levy, plus another 

two per cent to put towards 

a slate of new recreation 

facilities. 

Regional levy 

up 2.7% 

Meeting Jan. 16, Waterloo 

Region councillors 

approved a take increase 

of 2.72 per cent, adding 

another $36 a year to the 

average property tax bill 

in 2008. 

Blaze destroys 

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with total damages 

pegged at $500,000. The 

farm’s owner suffered 

smoke inhalation as he attempted 

to remove a new 

combine from the building. 

An investigation determined 

the fire started 

on a faulty block heater 

in one of the tractors. 

Head-on collision 

closes Line 86 

A 39-year-old Linwood 

woman was airlifted to 

a Hamilton hospital in 

critical condition Jan. 

23 after the van she was 

driving collided with 

another van on Line 86 

near Herrgott Road. A 

St. Clements man was 

driving westbound on 

Line 86 when he lost control 

on the icy roadway, 

striking the eastbound 

vehicle head-on. 

New arena to 

honour McLeod 

A longtime community 

volunteer will have his 

name affixed to a new 

arena when the Woolwich 

Memorial Centre opens 

in the fall of 2009, Woolwich 

council decided 

Jan. 24. The Jim McLeod 

Memorial Arena will recognize 

the contributions 

of the Elmira man who 

succumbed to cancer in 

March at the age of 58. 

Elmira tenants forced 

to find new lodgings 

Residents of Pilgrim’s 

Provident Retirement 

Home in Elmira learned 

Jan. 28 many of them 

would be forced to move 

out after the Region of 

Waterloo cut subsidies 

to the business, citing 

violations of health and 

safety standards. 

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FEBRUARY 

Council backs 

removal from CPAC 

Deemed a disruptive influence, 

Alan Marshall 

was formally removed 

from the Chemtura Public 

Advisory Committee 

by Woolwich councillors 

meeting Feb. 5. The longserving 

member was 

voted out by other committee 

members following 

a struggle involving 

CPAC’s consulting hydrogeologist. 

As CPAC is 

a committee of council, 

the township had the final 

say. 

Power centre clears 

final hurdle 

Woolwich signed a 

cross-border servicing 

agreement with the City 

of Waterloo Feb. 5, giving 

the official go-ahead 

to the long-delayed construction 

of a Wal-Martanchored 

power centre 

adjacent to the St. Jacobs 

Farmers’ Market. 

Feds chip in for 

Riverside project 

The federal government 

agreed to kick in 

$600,000 toward the reconstruction 

of Elmira’s 

Riverside Drive West, 

representing a third of 

the then-estimated cost 

of $1.8 million. Kitchener-Conestoga 

MP Harold 

Albrecht made the 

pledge Feb. 19 in Woolwich 

council chambers. 

Fire destroys 

Wellesley harness 

shop 

An explosion at a Linwood-area 

harness shop 

Feb. 22 caused a raging 

inferno that saw firefighters 

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plus assistance 

from Floradale, converge 

on the scene. Damage 

to the building and 

inventory was estimated 

at $800,000. 

Collision claims truck 

driver’s life 

A 37-year-old Kitchener 

man died Feb. 27 after two 

tractor trailers collided on 

Line 86, west of Wallenstein. 

One driver perished 

in the resultant fire. 

MARCH 

Jacks take first round 

to seven games 

Coming back from a 

slow start to make the 

playoffs, the Wellesley 

Applejacks ultimately 

fell in the first round, 

losing in seven games 

to the Burford Bulldogs. 

The deciding match, 

played Mar. 1, was a 2-1 

squeaker. 

Heidelberg barn goes 

up in flames 

Some 130 hens and six 

horses died in a barn fire 

on Kressler Road south 

of Heidelberg Mar. 4. 

The building was completely 

destroyed in the 

blaze, with damages estimated 

at $400,000. 

No to troop decals 

There will be no “support 

the troops” decals 

on Wellesley Fire Department 

vehicles, township 

councillors decided 

Mar. 18. The decision 

was part of a series of 

debates involving emergency 

vehicles across 

Waterloo Region. 

Wellesley gets $2.2 

million from province 

Wellesley Township 

secured $2.2 million in 

funding from the province 

to help fund the reconstruction 

of Hawkesville 

Road. The money 

was allocated from the 

Municipal Infrastructure 

Investment Initiative. 

APRIL 

Husband charged in 

Elmira murder 

Valerie Ferguson, a 

44-year-old mother of two, 

was murdered in her Elmira 

home Apr. 3. Her husband, 

Kenneth Michael 

Ferguson, 41, was subsequently 

charged with 

first-degree murder in the 

strangulation death. 

Kings claim 

Cherrey Cup 

The Elmira Sugar Kings 

capped a first-place season 

by defeating the Cambridge 

Winter Hawks to 

take the Cherrey Cup in 

six games. A 6-1 decision 

Apr. 5 clinched the Mid- 

Western Junior Hockey 

League championship. It 

was the Kings’ first title 

since 2002, and their fifth 

since 1978. 

Wellesley taxes up 

Wellesley taxpayers 

faced a 5.5 per cent hike 

in their township property 

taxes as council approved 

the annual budget 

Apr. 7. The increase 

meant an additional 

$37.63 a year to the average 

tax bill. 

MAY 

Kings call it a season 

After making it through 

the round-robin portion of 

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the Elmira Sugar Kings 

fell in four games to the Tecumseh 

Chiefs, the deciding 

game played on May 3. 

Hall of Fame 

welcomes Don Martin 

Elmira’s Don Martin, 

a prominent businessman 

and philanthropist, 

was inducted into the 

Waterloo County Hall of 

Fame May 11. He earned 

the recognition for his 

entrepreneurship and 

community service. 

Water study 

approved for Breslau 

Ongoing groundwater 

woes in Breslau prompted 

Woolwich council to 

approve a $100,000 study. 

The project, approved 

May 13, will help the 

township come up with 

a long-term solution to 

wells running dry, including 

the possibility 

of extending municipal 

services to the older 

parts of the village. 

JUNE 

Seniors petition for 

apartment project 

Elmira seniors, making 

a pitch for an apartment 

complex on the former 

Procast Foundries site, 

presented a petition to 

township council June 10. 

The Woolwich Seniors’ 

Association says the location 

would be ideal, 

located within walking 

distance of downtown. 

The township, however, 

would prefer to see commercial 

development on 

the vacant lot. 

Former councillor 

dies 

Former Woolwich 

councillor Howard Shuh 

passed away June 13 at 

the age of 83. Shuh served 

two terms on council, 

1994-1997 and 1997-2000. 

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taking a ride with seven-time 

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June 13-14. The 

13-year-old raised more 

than $10,000 for cancer 

research to earn a spot 

in the special fundraising 

event. 

EMSF doles out 

grants 

A strong turnout at 

the 2008 Elmira Maple 

Syrup Festival allowed 

the organizing committee 

to distribute $42,000 

in grants to community 

groups June 18. The 

Elmira and District Association 

for Community 

Living was the largest 

single recipient at 

$16,800. 

JULY 

Wellesley seeks 

reduction in traffic 

Following complaints 

from Wellesley council, 

the Region of Waterloo 

agreed to review its use 

of a municipal well in 

St. Clements. The township 

expressed concerns 

about truck traffic as the 

region hauls water from 

the well to augment other 

parts of the region. 

Bloomingdale raid 

nets drugs, weapons 

Two men were charged 

with drug and weapons 

offences following 

a police raid July 4 on 

a Bloomingdale-area 

farm. Cocaine, marijuana, 

stolen goods and 

weapons were seized. 

Elmira man dies in 

Alberta collision 

An Elmira man involved 

in a bus crash 

north of Fort McMurray, 

Alberta died in an 

Edmonton hospital July 

9. Randy Wilkin, 55, was 

a driver with Cherrey 

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Dan Snyder tournament 

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The fifth and final Dan 

Snyder Memorial Golf 

Tournament played out 

under sunny skies at 

the Elmira Golf Course 

July 14, netting another 

$115,000 toward the construction 

of the Woolwich 

Memorial Centre. 

The event easily surpassed 

the $500,000 goal 

set when the tournament 

began in 2004. 

Elmira boy 

drowns in pond 

An innocent summer 

swim in a Hawkesvillearea 

pond turned tragic 

July 15 when 10-year-old 

Joshua Weber of Elmira 

died after sinking below 

the surface. Wellesley 

firefighters from the St. 

Clements station searching 

through the murky 

water believed the boy 

may have been underwater 

for more than 20 

minutes. 

Damaging downburst 

strikes Elmira 

In a summer memorable 

for being wet and 

cool, July 21 had an 

added touch in Elmira. 

A violent rainstorm that 

lasted just 10 minutes 

brought tornado-like 

winds that uprooted 

trees and knocked out 

power lines, leaving a 

significant amount of 

damage in its wake. 

AUGUST 

Ernie Kendall 

celebrates 100 years 

Elmira stalwart and 

longtime EDSS teacher 

Ernie Kendall celebrated 

his 100th birthday Aug. 

1. Born in Guelph in 

1908, he moved to Elmira 

in 1933 to began a career 

that would span 35 years 

teaching science at the local 

high school, followed 

by another 15 years as a 

supply teacher. 

Jobs on the 

chopping block 

Workers at the Price 

Chopper in Elmira 

learned Aug. 12 they 

would be out of work by 

Sept. 9, as parent company 

Sobeys decided to 

close the grocery store 

after just over two years 

in business. 

Trying to keep 

groceries downtown 

Worried about the impact 

on Elmira’s core, 

a group of citizens 

launched a petition 

aimed at stopping the 

move of the Foodland 

grocery store to the 

soon-to-be vacated Price 

Chopper location at the 

south end of town. 

SEPTEMBER 

Three killed in twocar 

collision 

A two-vehicle collision 

at the intersection 

of Hawkesville and 

Kressler roads Sept. 7 

claimed three lives, including 

that of an infant. 

It was the second fatal 

crash at the intersection 

in as many years, 

prompting Woolwich 

council to press Waterloo 

Region for improvements, 

including rumble 

strips, at the location. 

Floradale gets new 

fire station 

Awaiting a new home 

for more than two decades, 

Floradale firefighters 

moved into their 

new building Sept. 8. 

At 6,400 square feet, the 

$1.3-million facility on 

Florapine Road was a 

welcome replacement for 

the cramped 2,400-sq.-ft. 

predecessor on Ruggles 

Road, so small replacement 

fire truck purchases 

were put on hold because 

newer vehicles wouldn’t 

fit in the facility. 

A century of 

firefighting 

The Elmira station of 

the Woolwich Fire Department 

celebrated 100 

years of service with a 

community bash Sept. 

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Elmira VIC to 

close its doors 

After crunching the 

numbers, Woolwich 

Township opted to close 

its Visitor Information 

Centre in Elmira, concentrating 

instead on the 

VIC in St. Jacobs. Meeting 

Sept. 30, councillors 

decided some of the 

functions served by the 

Elmira centre would be 

handled at the township’s 

new administrative 

building, to be opened by 

the end of 2008. 

OCTOBER 

Albrecht re-elected 

in landslide 

Conservative MP Harold 

Albrecht cruised to 

victory in the Oct. 14 federal 

election. The incumbent 

took almost half of 

the votes cast; his 23,525 

votes easily outstripped 

Liberal candidate Orlando 

Da Silva’s 11,876 votes 

(24.9 per cent of 47,698 

total ballots). Rod Mc- 

Neil of the NDP earned 

7,173 votes, while Jamie 

Kropf of the Green Party 

got 5,124. 

Former planning 

director succumbs to 

illness 

Dave Gosnay, who 

shaped the pace of development 

in Woolwich 

Township as director of 

engineering and planning 

for 17 years, died 

Oct. 11 after a lengthy 

battle with scleroderma. 

He was 54. 

Amalgamation a 

no-go in Woolwich 

More than two years 

in the making, the final 

report from Citizens for 

Better Government recommending 

a single-tier 

government in Waterloo 

Region met with a frosty 

reception from Woolwich 

council Oct. 20. The 

township indicated it’s 

not buying what CFBG 

is selling. 

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Wellesley chief 

resigns 

Wellesley Township fire 

chief Dave Geil, a firefighter 

for 38 years and 

chief for eight, stepped 

down from the job effective 

Oct. 27, citing personal 

reasons. 

NOVEMBER 

Project to reshape 

northwest Elmira 

Plans for a 1,400-unit 

residential subdivision in 

Elmira’s north end were 

unveiled at a public meeting 

Nov. 3. The Lunor 

Group development is 

slated for some 180 acres 

of what is now farmland 

on the north side of 

Church Street West. 

Sgt. Knechtel retires 

Waterloo Regional Police 

Sgt. Merv Knechtel, 

in charge of the Elmira 

detachment for a decade, 

retired Nov. 14 after 35 

years with the department. 

He was succeeded 

by Sgt. Siegfried (Sig) 

Peters. 

New township 

hall opens 

A $4-million facelift 

completed, the former 

Glencree building on 

Church Street West became 

the new Woolwich 

Township administration 

building when the 

doors opened on Nov. 18. 

Foodland makes 

its move 

The Foodland supermarket 

in downtown 

Elmira made the move 

to the south end of town 

Nov. 21, opening in the 

former Price Chopper 

location. A grocery store 

had anchored the core 

for more than 60 years. 

DECEMBER 

Cyclist dies after 

being hit by truck 

A Woolwich man rid- 

Since 1929 

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ing his bicycle to work 

early on the morning of 

Dec. 4 died when he was 

struck by a pickup truck. 

Melvin Martin, 34, was 

pronounced dead at the 

scene of the collision 

on Arthur Street near 

Florapine Road. He had 

been hit from behind on 

a poorly lit stretch of icy 

road. 

Drugs linked to 

suspicious fire 

Police were searching 

for two men following 

a suspicious fire that 

caused $200,000 damage 

at a Wellesley home Dec. 

9. The two men emerged 

from a duplex at 1020 

Molesworth St. at the onset 

of the fire, both with 

flames coming from 

their clothing. They extinguished 

the flames, 

and then ran off. Police 

subsequently discovered 

marijuana and drugextraction 

equipment at 

the house. 

Wellesley admin 

building renovated 

After some seven 

months in cramped temporary 

quarters, Wellesley 

Township staff moved 

into the newly renovated 

administration building 

on Lobsinger Line. 

The 3,200-square-foot 

addition, with a budget 

of $800,000, doubled the 

size of the building. 

No need to dream 

about it 

There was no doubt 

about a white Christmas 

to end the year, as a wave 

of snowstorms passed 

through the area, leaving 

us with a December 

snowfall total in excess 

of what we saw in 2007. 

That winter went on 

to set records not seen 

since the early 1970s. 

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Not a great start to the new year 

A resident of Martin 

Grove Village near 

St. Jacobs reported 

a break-and-enter 

about 10 p.m. on Jan. 

1. Entry was gained 

through a garage man 

door. It, and the door 

into the house, had 

been struck with a 

heavy object. 

The intruder disturbed 

only the master 

bedroom, making 

off with some jewellery, 

including a gold 

ring with a blue stone 

and engraved with 

the name “Wilf.” Footprints 

were found at 

the scene, and the ID 

branch made imprints 

of the evidence. Police 

report they’ve seen 

this type of jewelleryspecific 

crime several 

times in the past six 

months. The investigation 

continues. 

» DEcEmbER 29 

4:26 PM | A Ford pickup truck 

parked at a Sawmill Road, 

Conestogo residence was 

keyed along both sides of the 

box and the tailgate. There are 

no suspects. 


2:15 AM | Flagged for speeding 

on Arthur Street south of 

Elmira, an area driver subsequently 

blew a ‘warn’ on a 

roadside screening device and 

had their license suspended 

for 12 hours. 

4:20 PM | As the result of a RIDE 

program check on Lobsinger 

Line near Martin Creek Road, a 

46-year-old Waterloo man was 

arrested after he was administered 

a roadside breathalyzer 

An unwanted off-road experience 

ICY CONDITIONS A Cambridge man was northbound on Line 86, approaching Lavery road, Thursday morning 

when he lost control on an icy patch. The vehicle began fishtailing, crossed to the south shoulder of the road and 

entered the ditch, coming to rest on its roof. There were no injuries and no charges laid. 

test. He was subsequently 

charged with ‘over .80.’ 

ing driver was charged with 

‘careless driving.’ 

» JANuARY 3 

11:03 AM | A collision took 


12:46 AM | Police were called 

to the construction site at the 

new Woolwich Memorial Centre 

in Elmira when two men 

were seen loading metal pieces 

into the back of a pickup 

truck. Responding officers intercepted 

the men. No charges 

were laid. 

9:42 AM | A Winterbourne 

resident discovered a .22 calibre 

handgun while searching 

through their basement. It was 

turned over to police, and sent 

off for destruction. 

» JANuARY 1 

9:02 AM | Police discovered 

a vehicle abandoned at Floradale 

Road and Eighth Line. 

The vehicle had apparently 

struck a guardrail before it 

was left behind. It was traced 

to an address in Arthur. The 

investigation continues in 

conjunction with Wellington 

County OPP. 

1:23 PM | Police and firefighters 

responded to the Cedar Barn 

Restaurant on Lobsinger Line 

following a report of a minor 

electrical fire on the roof. 

place at Three Bridges and 

Hawkesville roads. A local 

man westbound on Hawkesville 

Road lost control on the 

shoulder of the road and entered 

the ditch. 

11:29 AM | A rear-ender collision 

occurred at Arthur Street and 

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Shantz leaves a remarkable legacy 

From the comments that followed the 

news of his death this week, Milo Shantz 

has left behind an assortment of legacies. 

Some cited his entrepreneurial acumen, 

some his philanthropy. Still others 

pointed to his support for faith-based organizations. 

His list of accomplishments 

was long. He certainly put St. Jacobs on 

the map. He was instrumental in bringing 

Habitat for Humanity to Canada. 

And helped many small businesses flourish, 

just to name a few. 

The most visible of Shantz’s many 

achievements was the reshaping of St. 

Jacobs. It’s no exaggeration to say the 

village is what he made it. The restaurants 

and shops of the downtown have 

his fingerprints all over them. The influence 

is seen even more clearly a little bit 

further south on King Street, where his 

Mercedes Corp. owns the St. Jacobs and 

Waterloo Farmers’ Markets, the Ontario 

Livestock Exchange and the St. Jacobs 

Outlet Mall. 

Together, the package that helps showcase 

what has become known as St. Jacobs 

Country and the rural, Mennonite- 

“The UN is suspending its aid operations in Gaza until we can get safety and security 

guarantees for our staff. We’ve been co-ordinating with them (Israeli forces) and yet 

our staff continue to be hit and killed.” 

UN spokesman Chris Gunness after Israeli fire killed an aid worker 

influenced lifestyle has made the area an 

international tourist destination. 

While some may chafe at the thought 

Shantz saved a dying village – preferring 

instead that St. Jacobs had remained a 

quiet, bucolic location – there can be no 

doubt the community risked going the 

way of so many small, rural settlements: 

fading away. 

Yes, there were more visitors and more 

traffic, and that meant change for the 

longtime residents. But the downtown 

was revitalized, and there were jobs for 

the people who lived there, including 

many students who passed through one 

or more of the Mercedes businesses. 

Today, St. Jacobs is cited as a model for 

other small communities to follow. 

St. Jacobs is a good example of what 

Fred Dahms, a retired University of 

Guelph geography professor who’s spent 

more than three decades researching the 

changing function of rural centres, calls 

a resort, retirement, amenity community. 

To be successful in this category, a 

town must be able to offer a combination 

of nice features and interesting heritage, 

such as local architecture or culture. And 

the community must be readily accessible 

to people from urban areas. Throw 

in some dynamic entrepreneurs who are 

willing to make the place a destination 

and you have a recipe for prosperity. 

“What really killed many towns was the 

motorcar in the ‘30s – farmers could bypass 

their local service centre and go to a 

bigger town. They’d skip St. Jacobs and 

go to Elmira, go to Kitchener-Waterloo,” 

he said following the release of a book 

about Ontario towns. 

“Many of these places that were bypassed 

were left with all kinds of wonderful 

housing stocks-big, old houses-as 

well as really good downtown buildings, 

nice old hotels, beautiful churches and 

so on,” he said. “Settlements that have 

some combination of heritage architecture, 

entrepreneurs such as Milo Shantz 

in St. Jacobs, access, rural ambiance or 

amenities have done well.” 

Channeling his entrepreneurial talents 

into ventures with a community benefit, 

Shantz is remembered as someone who 

was driven by a desire to see his successes 

translate into a greater good. A fitting 

legacy. 

Civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in the Democratic Republic 

of Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies 

in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian emergencies 

in the world, according to the MSF list of “Top Ten” humanitarian crises. 

Médecins Sans Frontières

THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 10, 2009 COMMENT & OPINION | 11 

»HARD TALK | RAFE MAIR 

There were plenty of warnings along the road to a depression 

I watch the automobile 

giants lurch towards 

bankruptcy, 

slowed – but only 

slowed – by government 

handouts. I 

see the economy 

continuing its slide 

into depression. 

And I can’t help 

asking this question: If my wife and I 

had had enough of the bull market in 

2003 and sense to get out accordingly, 

how come the seven-figure prognosticators 

in New York and Toronto 

didn’t know? 

I’m not trying to toot my own horn 

in times of such pain for so many 

people. I simply ask why the signs we 

saw weren’t seen by those who make 

markets go? (I’m bound to tell you 

that when people say how lucky we 

were, I emphatically reply that luck 

had nothing to do with it.) 

When we started to get scared, we 

knew no more than anyone else, indeed 

much less than the “experts.” 

We’d had the savings and loan scandal, 

bailed out by the U.S. Congress 

and the Enron stench. 

We could see that the U.S. trade deficit 

was $750 billion, mostly to China, 

which held most of the outstanding 

U.S. dollars. 

We knew that unlike Japan in former 

times, China wasn’t a benign 

creditor and it would use its leverage 

to best advantage. 

To us, the U.S. economy looked like 

a big glass ball with a jillion little 

cracks in it. You knew that a relatively 

slight blow would smash it. 

We knew that the U.S. was running 

»INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | GWYNNE DYER 

U.S. offer of friendship could finally lead to change in Cuba 

I have learned one 

thing from my various 

visits to Cuba 

over the years, and 

that is not to predict 

the demise of 

the regime. I did 

that sometimes in 

the past, if only to 

offer a bit of hope 

to various despairing individuals 

who thought that a visiting foreigner 

might know more about their future 

than they did themselves. But the 

brothers Castro are still there, ever 

more moth-eaten (in Raul’s case, almost 

mummified), and they have just 

celebrated the 50th anniversary of 

their revolution. 

Nevertheless, change may be lurking 

around the corner at last, for 

Barack Obama represents the greatest 

danger that the regime has faced 

since the collapse of the Soviet Union 

and the end of its subsidies 17 years 

ago. The survival of the regime is 

due in large part to the unremitting 

hostility of the United States, which 

lets it appeal to Cubans’ patriotism, 

and to the trade embargo that gives it 

an excuse for its economic failures. 

Obama is clever enough to understand 

that the best way to kill the 

Communist regime in Cuba is with 

kindness, and he has no domestic 

political debts that would keep him 

from acting on that insight. In par- 

a massive annual deficit and was 

nearly eight trillion dollars in debt. 

That’s as if Canada’s national debt 

was $800 billion. The U.S debt is now 

more than $10.5 trillion and climbing. 

The U.S. debt and deficit had, since 

Reagan’s time, for the most part financed 

a false prosperity. 

This was no secret. Anyone who 

looked could see that far from reducing 

the debt and deficit, the American 

economy was adding to it with ever 

more cheaper and cheaper money being 

loaned out while the politicians 

and the man in charge of money, 

Alan Greenspan, acted as if everything 

was peachy. 

The housing market was red hot and 

you had to know that it was riding for 

a fall. I would look at all those real 

estate ads and ask: How many people 

are there with credit ratings of a million 

dollars or even several million 

dollars? 

We were to learn that there were 

not nearly as many as the market 

thought there were, with foreseeable 

consequences. 

What happened? 

It probably started when “junk 

bonds” passed muster in the moneyraising 

business. Then we had derivatives 

and hedge funds and a host of 

other “investments” that weren’t really 

investments at all but wagers. It 

was gambling with all the certainty 

and speed of a floating crap game. 

In 2003, it was obvious that the war 

in Iraq was a hugely expensive and 

ongoing mistake. In short, in 2003 

when Wendy and I made our move 

out of the market, all signs pointed 

ticular, he owes nothing to the Cuban 

exile establishment in Florida, which 

mostly voted for Bush. 

He could start right away by ending 

the rule that allows Cuban-Americans 

to visit their families on the island 

only once every three years, and 

limits their remittances to $300 every 

four months. Even within the Cuban 

exile community in the United States 

those restrictions are controversial, 

as it is hard to see how they hurt the 

Cuban regime. 

Once the question of where to send 

the remaining Guantanamo detainees 

has been resolved, Obama could 

close the base down entirely. Indeed, 

he could give the land back to Cuba 

as a free gesture, since it has no 

economic or strategic value to the 

United States. That would seriously 

undermine the Communist regime’s 

argument that the United States is an 

implacable enemy that Cubans must 

confront with discipline and solidarity. 

Then he could get to work on the ridiculous 

embargo on trade and travel 

to Cuba. The sanctions have been 

written into law in recent years, so 

he would need Congress’s assent to 

remove them. But if he got it, all the 

mechanisms of control built up by 

Fidel Castro over the past 50 years 

would probably begin to crumble. 

The real question is: what happens 

then? The last time the fall of the Cas- 

to very bad economic news ahead. 

The answer as to what happened has 

I think, two levels. 

First off, the monetary system 

around the world is a nest of optimism. 

Every banker and financier 

must loan money or he’s not in the 

game. When money is not “tight,” 

that is, the prime lending rate is low, 

financiers have more money available. 

Because times seem to be so 

good, optimistic lenders find optimistic 

borrowers and the race is on 

to see who can loan the most money 

at the lowest rate. If the people and 

businesses see nothing but big profits 

ahead, the sky’s the limit and it’s 

not long before a sturdy economy becomes 

a house of cards. 

The crash of 1929 ought to have 

taught us that if moneylenders on 

the stock exchange allow too much 

margin or leverage, which is to say 

they require “investors” to put up 

less and less money, sooner or later it 

all hits the fan. 

Stockbrokers never tell any but the 

most sophisticated of their clients 

to “sell short.” Selling short means 

selling what you don’t have and buying 

the shares later when they have 

dropped in price. This transaction 

acts as a brake on the market. One 

has to wonder why a broker will 

advise you to bet on stocks going 

up even when the better bet is that 

they’ll go down? 

Secondly, because everything 

seemed to be so perfect, RRSP portfolios 

swelling, and the price of homes 

going up 30 per cent a year, what was 

there to worry about? 

Why, nothing much happened to 

tro regime seemed likely, a couple of 

years after the collapse of the Soviet 

Union in late 1991, I went to Cuba in 

the guise of a tourist (there’s nothing 

like having a baby along to make you 

look innocent) and talked to a great 

many people informally. 

Most of them expected the regime 

to fall soon, and a majority (though 

not an overwhelming majority) welcomed 

the prospect. However, they 

were all frightened of what might 

come next, for two reasons. One was 

the fact that at least 10 per cent of the 

Cuban people – more than a million – 

were true Communist believers, and 

they were armed to the teeth. Would 

they let their dream die without fighting 

to save it? 

The other was that the exiles would 

come back from Miami and take over. 

Their money would let them buy up 

everything of value, and those who 

had endured decades of poverty under 

Castro would stay poor and marginalized. 

Even the few good things 

about “socialist” Cuba, like the health 

care system, would be destroyed. 

Well, my last trip to Cuba was less 

than two years ago, and things had 

changed. The poverty, the oppression 

and the despair were the same, 

but the true believers who would kill 

and die to save the revolution were 

noticeably scarcer. 

This visit was part of a project in 

which various Western embassies, 

these good things when the U.S. government 

bailed out the savings and 

loans corporations, did it? 

The Enron scandal didn’t seem to 

hurt the economy much, did it? 

Why worry? The “dot com” collapse 

only really hit the high rollers, didn’t 

it? 

If the markets and the players all 

said that they could police themselves 

and that if the government 

poked its nose in it that would ruin 

everything, why not believe them? 

What could go wrong with companies 

like Merrill Lynch and Lehman 

Bros. looking after things under the 

watchful eye of Alan Greenspan. He 

was a financial genius, wasn’t he? 

Lastly, we were convinced and let 

ourselves be convinced that things 

were much different than in 1929. 

There were safeguards in place – 

though no one seemed to know what 

these were. 

In fact, 2008 isn’t much different 

than 1929. Over optimism bred careless 

credit controls and in due course 

the bubble burst. The more things 

change, the more they stay the same. 

It’s all governed, of course, by 

Mair’s Axiom I, which is, in case 

you’ve forgotten: “You make a very 

serious mistake thinking that people 

in charge know what the hell they’re 

doing.” 

We will have a depression. We’ve 

felt the earthquake, but the tsunami 

has yet to arrive. In the agony, we’ll 

tighten our rules so it will never happen 

again. 

And, as sure as God made little 

green apples, it will happen again. It 

always has and it always will. 

thinking that Fidel Castro’s illness 

might mean that big changes were on 

the way, brought in “experts” to talk 

to the Cuban elite about how things 

were done in democratic countries. 

It was pretty pointless work, frankly, 

but it did offer unusual access to 

the apparatchiks who really run the 

show in Cuba. 

Most of the officials were about 

what you’d expect: loyal, fully institutionalized 

servants of the regime. 

But very few of them were passionate 

ideologues who would launch and 

fight a civil war to save it. Generational 

turnover had done its work, 

and these were just people who were 

glad to have their jobs and the few 

privileges that came with them. 

Generational turnover has been at 

work in Miami, too. Fifty years on, 

the original generation of Cuban refugees 

is gradually giving way to an 

American-born generation that still 

cares about the country, of course, 

but are much less interested in going 

back and re-creating the Cuba of the 

1950s. 

So change is a lot less dangerous for 

Cubans than it would have been if 

the regime had collapsed in the early 

1990s. If Obama sets out to destabilize 

the Communist regime with offers 

of help and friendship, it might 

well work. And even if it doesn’t work 

right away, it would make the lives of 

Cubans a lot easier.

12 | COMMENT & OPINION 


»LETTER TO THE EDITOR »OBSERVER Q&A 

In light of the recent deaths in Afghanistan, should Canada speed up withdrawal of its troops? 

In Gaza, enough is 

certainly enough 

To the Editor, 

“Enough is enough,” 

say Israeli leaders as 

they continue their intentional 

assault on 

Gaza. I certainly agree 

and ask myself, enough 

of what? Especially, 

since 30 Israelis and 540 

Palestinians have died, 

plus another 2,400 Palestinians 

wounded, not 

to mention the horrific 

emotional toll this form 

of humanitarian crisis 

is taking on both Israelis 

and Palestinians. 

Does “enough is 

enough” apply to the 

rockets Hamas fires into 

Israel’s area of Ashkelon? 

This has to stop, as terror 

is not helpful in seeking 

a peaceful solution. 

Ashkelon, north east of 

Gaza is built on the site 

once occupied by Palestinian 

residents known 

as Al-Jura and taken 

over by immigrant Jews 

in 1948. Many surviving 

residents displaced from 

Al-Jura became refugees 

in Gaza and remain part 

of the refugee population 

there today. 

“Enough is enough” also 

applies to Israel, which occupied 

Gaza from 1948 until 

2005, when it gave Gaza 

some separate status. The 

occupation isolated and 

restricted many people 

within Gaza from the rest 

of Palestine, plus allowed 

for the establishment of 

Jewish settlements. Refugee 

camps became the 

homes for many Palestinians, 

forcing them to live 

in an environment characterized 

by isolation depression, 

poverty and no 

hope. A long term plan is 

needed to bring healing to 

their broken spirits so as 

to give them some capacity 

for positive change. 

“Enough is enough” applies 

to the international 

community when in 2006, 

as a result of a carefully 

monitored and internationally 

observed democratic 

election Hamas 

were elected to power 

only to be rejected by Israel, 

United States and 

other countries, including 

Canada, on the basis 

of Hamas being terrorists. 

Granted, Hamas had 

an objective to get rid of 

Israel, which I personally 

do not support. I don’t be- 

lieve Hamas was given 

the time and respect to 

officially modify that position 

to a more tenable 

and accountable position 

for a peace process. 

The ongoing recognition 

of the Fatah leadership 

continued by Israel and 

the U.S. resulted in fragmenting 

the Palestinians 

one from the other. 

The subsequent effect of 

the imposed blockades, 

trade barriers and the 

withdrawing of financial 

aid has done nothing less 

than paralyze this people, 

driving them into desperate 

unacceptable living 

conditions. 

“Enough is enough” applies 

to the “Wall” created 

and built by Israel, that 

literally cuts off Gaza 

from the rest of world, 

and the miles of the wall 

that isolates, restricts, 

maims and negatively 

impacts all Palestinians 

throughout the rest of 

the West Bank. The wall, 

an illusion of security, 

blockades and limited 

aid and intentionally relegates 

the people of Gaza 

to starvation diets, oppression, 

minimal health 

care, limited utilities and 

freedom of movement. 

Sadly, one’s inhumanity 

toward another feeds a 

breeding ground for more 

unrest, anger and hatred, 

which ultimately seeks 

unhealthy alternatives. 

The time has come for 

Israel and Palestine, with 

all the diplomacy the 

non-self-serving nations 

of the world can muster, 

to implement a peace 

plan. This plan will need 

to affirm both Israel and 

Palestine as autonomous 

states, and have a plan 

that addresses the issues 

of borders, settlements, 

the rights of Palestinian 

refugees, plus the use of 

utilities, roads and other 

essentials needed for 

survival by Palestinians. 

All this will need international 

monitoring and 

support. 

“Enough is enough” is 

more than an expression 

of false desperation, it is 

the call for creative wisdom 

in the search for a 

just solution. 

Letters to the Editor 

are always welcome. 

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»FURNISHING TRENDS 

Nesting appears to weather the economic storm 

Home Furniture store dealers converge on St. Jacobs to check out what’s hot for 2009 


With the recession word 

on everyone’s lips and 

the January doldrums 

looming, shoppers are 

on the hunt for bargains 

as retailers slash prices. 

One place where the bottom 

dollar doesn’t hold 

sway is the furniture 

store. 

“You’d think they’d be 

looking for the cheapest 

thing possible, but not 

really. We find that the 

better product sells when 

the economy softens,” 

said Morgan McCabe, 

merchandise manager 

for Home Furniture. 

“When we look back at 

some of our best sellers 

in the last half of 2008, 

it’s not the promo products 

that are our best 

sellers, it’s the better 

product. The proof is always 

in the numbers.” 

McCabe said customers 

would prefer not to 

spend money at all, but 

if they have to, they 

want something that 

will last, and they don’t 

mind paying fair dollar 

to get it. 

This week, the Home 

Hardware distribution 

centre in St Jacobs 

played host to dealers 

from Home Furniture 

stores across the country 

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looking to get a handle 

on trends for 2009. The 

three-day “Live and in 

Colour” show drew buyers 

from three-quarters 

of the 78 Home Furniture 

stores. 

One of the big trends for 

2009 is eco-friendly furniture, 

made from used 

and reclaimed wood, 

chromium-free leather 

and soy foam. McCabe 

said they’re also rolling 

out a program in Brazil 

where pieces are made 

without glues and chemicals 

that are harmful to 

the environment. 

Mark and Elizabeth 

Coyles, owners of Kitchener 

Home Furniture, 

said they’re starting to 

see a little demand for 

eco-friendly furniture, 

but even more people 

are looking for a “Made 

in Canada” tag. 

“A lot of customers ask 

where it’s made,” said 

Elizabeth Coyles. “It’s 

nice we can say a lot of 

this product is Canadian-made.” 

McCabe said the same 

is true of stores across 

the country. 

“They have had consumers 

that are coming 

in specifically and asking 

if it’s Canadian. The 

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good, the Canadian dollar 

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With the turmoil in 

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per cent of their products 

are North American-made. 

On the style front, the 

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“People don‘t want 

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McCabe said. “A 

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I’m trying to resist, honest, I am, 

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Pair of weekend losses extends Wellesley’s losing streak to 14 games 


The Wellesley Applejacks 

dropped another 

pair of close games 

last weekend, bringing 

their record to 5-18-4. 

A 5-2 loss got things 

going on Jan. 3. The 

game was closer than 

the score showed, 

courtesy of two empty-net 

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seconds. The next 

day, Wellesley lost 5-4 

to Lucan. The Jacks 

struggled with penalty 

killing that game, as 

Lucan converted on 

three of four power 

plays. 

“It seems like every 

goalie we’re playing 

against is the best 

in the league [that 

night],” said team 

captain Scott Litt after 

Saturday’s game. 

“We couldn’t bury our 

chances.” 

On Dec. 27, Wellesley 

lost 5-4 to St. George, 

staging a dramatic 

comeback in the third 

period, but ultimately 

too late to change the 

result. 

St. George dominated 

the scoreboard in 

the first two periods, 

notching a power play 

goal at the end of the 

first and pounding in 

three more goals in the 

second. Seven minutes 

into the third period, 

St. George added a fifth 

goal to make it 5-0. 

Wellesley’s scoring 

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Eric Parr scored 

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At 8:12 in the second, 

Robbie Brooks made 

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With two and a half 

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Parr (Chris Givlin, 

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BLOCKED PASS Matt Snyder swipes the puck away from an Ayr player during the Wellesley Applejacks’ game against the Centennials Jan. 3. 

Jacks: Still in search of turnaround game 

» From page 19 

the bench in the penalty 

box, but Lucan 

made good on three of 

four power plays. 

Wellesley drew first 

blood, as Parr scored 

on the power play at 

6:53. Doyle and Rob 

Bolger logged assists. 

With just over a minute 

left in the first period, 

Lucan answered 

back with a power 

play goal of their own. 

Alex Regan (Chris Van 

Kasteren, Zack Yeo) 

notched the point. 

Van Kasteren added a 

power play goal of his 

own midway through 

the second, on a pass 

from Yeo. With two 

minutes left in the 

second frame, Bolger 

(Doyle) answered back, 

to make it tied at 2-2 as 

the teams headed to 

the dressing rooms. 

Lucan took the lead 

41 seconds into the 

third, when Nick Engel 

(Kevin Dean, Mike 

Spenser) knocked one 

past the keeper. Parr 

evened things up once 

again at the sevenminute 

mark, scoring 

on a feed from Doyle 

and Bolger. 

But the Irish built 

their lead back up 

Now in play at international tournament 

again, as Adam Hartman 

(Alex Regan, 

Engel) scored on the 

power play with two 

minutes left. 

At 18:42, Lucan’s Yeo 

was handed a slashing 

penalty, giving Wellesley 

the man advantage 

for the remainder of 

the game. Tsai pulled 

the goalie and poured 

shooters on the ice in 

search of a tying goal. 

But with a minute left, 

Van Kasteren slid the 

puck into the Jacks’ 

unguarded net for a 

fifth goal. 

Doyle (Parr) scored 

on the power play in 


the final second of the 

game, but it was too 

little, too late and the 

game ended 5-4 for Lucan. 

With the losses, the 

Jacks’ losing streak 

deepened to 14 games, 

which Litt said has the 

players frustrated. 

“It’s tough when 

you’re on a losing 

streak, but you’ve just 

got to relax and not 

clench the stick so 

tight,” he said. “We 

just have to keep working 

hard. That’s the 

way to win games, is 

keep working hard. 

There’s no real trick.” 

GOLDEN AT SILVERSTICK The Woolwich Minor Peewee A Wildcats swept their second straight tournament Dec. 29, winning the regional Silverstick 

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manager Mike Lenaers, assistant coaches Jeff and Jason Blaxall. Third row: Alexander Uttley, Jason Gamble, Harrison Clifford, Nicholas Pavanel, Cole 

Lenaers, coach Matt Kirkwood and trainer Dave Gamble. Second row: Luke Brown, Scott Martin, Bailey Nickel, Nathan Schlupp, Greg Huber, Cole 

Conlin, Evan Martin and Adam Jokic. Front: Grant Kernick, Jayden Weber and Jared Wilson. 


erate enthusiasm for 

the voting part of the 

contest, said Snyder, 

confident it’s a matter 

of “when” not “if.” 

“We have to be prepared, 

when we’re 

named to the top 10, 

to hit the ground running. 

“We want people to 

know they can get involved,” 

he added of 

the voting process, to 

be in place by Monday. 

The contest is part of 

the Kraft Hockeyville 

reality show that appears 

on CBC television. 

The town or city 

that is named Hockeyville 

will have an 

NHL preseason game 

played in their community, 

a CBC Hockey 

Night in Canada broadcast 

from the game, 

and $100,000 to upgrade 

their home arena. 

Now its fourth year, 

the Hockeyville title 

has previously gone 

to Salmon River, N.S., 

North Bay, Ont. and 

Roberval, Que. 

Events on Jan. 17 kick 

off at 7 a.m., as a group 

of “Local Legends” take 

to the ice. At 9 a.m., a 

procession is planned 

from the Woolwich municipal 

building to the 

Elmira Arena – everyone 

is encouraged to 

show up with a hockey 

stick in hand, dressed 

in appropriate hockey 

mode. The official opening 

ceremonies go at 10 

a.m. 

After a Minis game, 

what’s being billed 

as the “largest minor 


Hockeyville: Plans 

for the next phase 

hockey family in Canada” 

will be on the ice 

at 11:30 a.m. The group 

includes Elmira’s Wang 

family, with its eight 

kids, and other large 

families in the area, 

Snyder explained. 

There’s no charge to 

participate in any of 

the day’s events. It’s 

also free to come out to 

watch, though they’re 

accepting donations for 

the Friends of Hockey, 

an organization that 

helps ensure minor 

hockey is accessible to 

all. 

Local service clubs 

will be taking part to 

make sure there’s food 

available throughout 

the 24-hour period upstairs 

at the arena. 

“We want lots of people 

there,” said Snyder. 

“It’s a great day out for 

the fun of the game.” 

Players and teams 

looking to take part in 

the marathon are asked 

to contact Val Martin 

at 669-2789. Organizing 

the Mennonite squads, 

Del Gingrich is at 669- 

1138. Graham Snyder, 

looking after the seniors’ 

hockey and the 

learn-to-play segment 

(the 5 a.m. time slot), 

can be reached at 669- 

1407. 

Information about the 

Woolwich Hockeyville 

effort can be found online 

at www.woolwichhockeyville.ca. 

The official 

Hockeyville entry 

can be seen at www. 

cbc.ca/sports/hockey/ 

hockeyville/communities/DanSnyderMemorialArena.html. 

EDSS junior girls take it to the net 

ALL LINED UP Lydia Frey, 

left, sends the ball back 

over the net against Cameron 

Heights Tuesday. 

The junior girls’ volleyball 

team lost in four sets, 25- 

13, 22-15, 15-25, 24-26. 

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MAKING HIS MOVE Paul Thompson advances on a Stratford defender in the first period of play against 

the Cullitons Jan. 4 

Kings: Trade deadline looms 


lead, and the game ended 

7-4. 

The following day, the 

Kings built up a three-goal 

lead only to watch Stratford 

whittle it away to 

nothing, eventually forcing 

a shootout, which the 

Cullitons won. 

“I thought we were the 

better team and we just 

didn’t finish them off, and 

we probably had an opportunity,” 

said coach Geoff 

Haddaway. “I thought we 

had a lot of good chances 

where we either missed 

the net or didn’t pull the 

trigger.” 

The Kings got off to a 

fast, aggressive start, peppering 

the Stratford net 

with shots. Five minutes 

in, Kyle McNeil ripped a 

slapshot past keeper Jordan 

Ruby. Trent Brown 

and Josh Ranalli had assists 

on the power play 

goal. Thompson added 

a second goal three minutes 

later, smacking in a 

rebound from Parent and 

MacEachern. 

Elmira made it 3-0 early 

in the second frame, 

when McNeil deflected a 

slapshot from Jon Jutzi 

(Ranalli) over the netminder 

and into the back 

of the net. 

Stratford climbed back 

into the game at 8:43, 

when Kyle Wilhelm (Cohen 

Adair) carried the 

puck across the net and 

knocked it past keeper 

Brandon Wysman. The 

Cullitons built on that momentum 

to make it two 

just over a minute later; 

Craig Dalrymple (Pat Looby, 

James Graham) fired a 

shot that deflected off another 

player and into the 

net. The period ended 3-2. 

The Kings fought hard to 

hang on to their slim lead 

in the third period, drawing 

disappointed groans 

from the home crowd with 

a number of narrowlymissed 

chances. It was 

the Cullotins that found 

the mesh, tying things up 

with a power play goal 

from Wilhelm (Mitch 

Good, Adair) at 7:32. 

Neither team was able 

to break the tie in the remainder 

of the period or 

five minutes of overtime, 

forcing a shootout. The 

teams went through five 

shooters before the Cullitons’ 

Eric Millisor got the 

puck past Wysman to win 

the shootout. 

“In terms of controlling 

the play, I thought we controlled 

most of the play,” 

Haddaway said. “But they 

played a good, sound road 

game and that happens on 

WANTED 

the road sometimes, you 

have to find ways to win 

and they did.” 

Haddaway said he was 

mostly satisfied with the 

team’s defensive play; the 

team’s penalty killing performance 

improved from 

the previous night, allowing 

only one goal on seven 

chances. 

“I think on average 

teams are allowing more 

than three goals per game 

this year, so if you can go 

65 minutes and only allow 

three, then I think for the 

most part, you’re doing 

your job. Are we 100 per 

cent satisfied? Obviously 

not. Certainly if you only 

allow three goals, especially 

at home, then you 

should give yourself a 

chance to win.” 

Today (Saturday) is the 

league’s trade deadline, 

but Haddaway couldn’t 

say if the Kings would be 

making any changes to the 

roster ahead of the cutoff. 

“I don’t know if we’re going 

out of our way to try 

and change anything,” 

he said. “If we think we 

can make a move that will 

benefit the Elmira Sugar 

Kings, of course we’ll 

make it. We’ll consider 

it, but we’re not going to 

make a change for the sake 

of making change.” 

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Novices take it all in Hespeler 

NUMBER ONE AGAIN The Woolwich Major Novice team swept the Hespeler tournament on Dec. 28, continuing 

their unbeaten tournament streak. 

Atom girls return victorious 

WINNING WAYS The Woolwich Wild Atom girls won the Jason Cripps tournament in Kitchener Dec. 30, 

defeating Waterloo 3-2 in the final game. Cara Kyte scored the game-winning goal in double overtime. 

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WOOLWICH MINOR NOVICE LL#1 

Dec. 20 

Woolwich 7 Paris 2 

Goals: Brody Waters x3, Bradley Hale x2, Garrett 

Reitzel, Noah Scurry (Jacob Code) 

WOOLWICH ATOM LL#1 

Dec. 27 

Woolwich 5 Ayr 5 

Goals: Walker Schott, Ryan Shantz x3, Jake Lewis 

(Ryan Shantz, Jake Lewis, Nic Campagnolo x2) 

Jan. 5 

Woolwich 3 Embro 2 

Goals: Walker Schott, Jake Lewis, Benton Weber 

(Ryan Shantz, Quinn Young, Tim Mayberry, Nick 

Campagnolo) 

WOOLWICH NOVICE GIRLS 

Jason Cripps tournament 

Dec. 27 – Game 1 

Woolwich 6 Grand River 0 

Goals: Kambel Beacom x2, Morgan Hanley x2, 

Claire Hartman, Taya Beacom (Julia Code) 

Shutout: Chantal McMurray 


Woolwich 10 Kitchener 0 

Goals: Taya Beacom x5, Kambel Beacom x3, 

Chantal McMurray, Nicole Snyder (Nicole Snyder) 

Shutout: Holly Faries 

Game 3 


Goals: Morgan Hanley x2, Kambel Beacom, 

Chantal McMurray, Delaney Douglas, Nicole Snyder 

(Delaney Douglas) 

Shutout: Taya Beacom 

Dec. 29 

Woolwich 5 Kitchener 0 

Goals: Morgan Hanley x2, Taya Beacom x2, 

Kambel Beacom (Chantal McMurray, Morgan 

Hanley) 

Shutout: Liette Fife 

Dec. 30 – Semi-finals 

Wilmot 2 Woolwich 0 

WOOLWICH NOVICE LL#2 

Christmas tournament 


New Hamburg 7 Woolwich 4 

Goals: Hunter Schmitt, Austin Cousineau x2, 

Isiah Katsube (Isiah Katsube, Austin Cousineau) 

Game 2 

Woolwich 16 Milverton 0 

Goals: Travis Weber x2, Kieffer Beard x4, Kayden 

Zacharczuk, Austin Cousineau x2, Bryce Sellars 

A reason to be proud 

x2, Luke Haugerud x2, Devin Williams x2 (Bryce 

Sellars, Devin Williams, Blake Roemer, Travis Weber, 

Bruce Martin) 

Shutout: Nathan Maier 

Game 3 

Woolwich 2 Ayr 0 

Goals: Austin Cousineau, Isiah Katsube 


Consolation Game 

Woolwich #2 2 Woolwich #4 0 

Goals: Hunter Schmitt, Austin Cousineau (Austin 

Cousineau, Matthew MacDonald) 


WOOLWICH MIDGET LL #1 

Dec. 28 

LL#2 6 LL#1 2 

LL#2 goals: Shawn Patten, Christian Calenda 

x2, Jason Young, Trevor Fulcher, Steven Trask 

(Scott Young x2, Aaron Hoffer x2, Kyle Hoffman, 

Yo Wang, Steven Trask) 

LL#1 goals: Brett Shantz, Zack Bauman (Devin 

Church, Darrin Brubacher, Jake Hahn, Justin 

Weber) 

WOOLWICH MINOR BANTAM A 

Hespeler Minor Olympics tournament 


Woolwich 4 Guelph 4 

Goals: Ryan Ament, Nathan Playford, Brayden 

Stevens, Weston Morlock (Shane Young, Ryan 

Ament x2, Stephen Kardasz, Justin Neeb, Nathan 

Playford) 

Game 2 

Hamilton 3 Woolwich 2 

Goals: Clinton Dechert, Ryan Ament (Weston 

Morlock, Nathan Playford) 


Kitchener 6 Woolwich 0 

Quarter finals 

Woolwich 3 Saugeen Shores 2 

Goals: Alex David, Stephen Kardasz, Ryan Ament 

(Justin Neeb, Stephen Kardasz, Weston Morlock, 

Logan White) 


Guelph 2 Woolwich 1 (SO) 

Goal: Clinton Dechert (Brayden Stevens, Justin 

Schlupp) 

Consolation final 

Woolwich 4 Hamilton 2 

Goals: Clinton Dechert, Justin Neeb, Weston 

Morlock, Ryan Ament (Justin Neeb, Shane 

Young, Ryan Ament, Dalton Taylor) 

WOOLWICH PEEWEE HOUSE 

LEAGUE GIRLS 

Jason Cripps Tournament 

Game 1 


Goals: Lize Schuurmans x2, Emily Schuurmans 

x2, Jessica Townsend, Leslie Quinn (Erin Graham 

x2, Sydney DeRose, Jessica Townsend, Blaire Snyder, 

Emily Schuurmans, Brianna Schlupp, Brooke 

Davenport, Cassidy Bauman, Marlowe Schott) 

Game 2 

Woolwich 5 Waterloo 2 

Goals: Emily Schuurmans x4, Brooke Davenport 

(Jessica Townsend x2, Lize Shuurmans, Brooke 

Davenport, Erin Graham, Sydney DeRose) 

Game 3 

Woolwich 2 Cambridge 2 

Goals: Lize Schuurmans x2 (Emily Schuurmans) 

Semi-finals 

Woolwich 2 Cambridge 0 

Goals: Breanna Campbell, Erin Graham (Lize 

Schuurmans, Sydney DeRose, Emily Schuurmans, 

Kendra Yantha) 

Shutout: Sarah Brunkard, Carrisa Truax 

Championship 


Goals: Kendra Yantha, Jessica Townsend, Lize 

Schuurmans, Erin Graham (Emily Schuurmans 

x2, Graham x2, Kendra Yantha, Lize Schuurmans, 

Marlowe Schott) 

Shutout: Carrisa Truax, Sarah Brunkard 

Jan. 3 


Goals: Brooke Davenport x2, Lize Schuurmans 

x2 (Jessica Townsend, Marlowe Schott, Cassidy 

Bauman, Erin Graham, Emily Schuurmans, Blaire 

Snyder, Sydney DeRose) 

WOOLWICH MINOR MIDGET A 

Vaughan Silverstick tournament 


Ted Reeve Thunder 4 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Ben Brown (Alex Albrecht, Ben Mitchell) 


Vaughan 4 Woolwich 2 

Goals: Ted Sebben, Ben Mitchell (Ben Brown, 

Graham Colby, Ted Sebben, Alex Albrecht) 

Game 3 

Woolwich 3 Orillia 2 

Goals: Ben Mitchell x 2, Jake Martin (Alex Albrecht 

x 2, Ben Brown, Brandon Nickel) 

WOOLWICH MINOR BANTAM A 

Dec. 22 

Centre Wellington 4 Woolwich 2 

Goals: Jake Moggy, Adam Brubacher 

VICTORS On Dec. 13, the Woolwich Atom LL#2 team won first place in the Plattsville Pride tournament. Team members 

are Jared Beacom, Max Bender, Liam Catton, Luke Charter, Dylan Creelman, James Cooper, Michael DeVries, Ryan 

Diemert, Nathan Horst, Jonathan Martin, Tyler Martin, Chase Mooder, Dylan Smith and Alex Turchan. 

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(Kaitlin Doering, Mitch Kernick, Matt 

Bannon, Matt Townsend) 

Jan. 4 


Goals: Evan Buehlerx 2, Kyle Bauman x2, Eric 

VanGerwen, McKinley Ceaser, Jake Moggy (Matt 

Schieck x2, Kaitlin Doering, Matt Townsend, Matt 

Bannon, Jake Moggy x2, Evan Buehler x2) 

WOOLWICH ATOM LL#2 

Jan. 3 


Goals: Jared Beacom, Luke Charter 

WOOLWICH MAJOR ATOM A 

Jan. 3 

Woolwich 7 Acton 1 

Goals: Connor Runstedler, Connor Bauman x2, 

Danyal Rennie, Garrett Schultz x2, Tyler Moser 

(Blake Doerbecker x2, Connor Goss, Kelby Martin, 

Jayden Hipel x2, Liam Dickson) 

Jan. 4 

Woolwich 4 Brampton 3 

Goals: Connor Goss x2, Danyal Rennie, Greg 

Huber (Mason Buehler, Jayden Hipel, Garrett 

Schultz) 

WOOLWICH PEEWEE B GIRLS 

Dec. 27 

Woolwich 1 Niagara Falls 1 

Goal: Emily Chapman 

Dec. 29 

Woolwich 1 Stoney Creek 0 

Goal: Emily Schuurmans 

Guelph Thunderstorm tournament 

Jan. 2 – Game 1 



Woolwich 3 Niagara 1 

Goals: Rebecca Luis, Kendra Harold, Megan 

Thoman (Kendra Harold, Emily Chapman x2, Megan 

Thoman x2) 

Game 3 


Goal: Landis Saunders 

Shutout: Lauren Lesage 

Jan. 4 – Semi-finals 

Woolwich 3 Ancaster 2 

Goals: Kendra Harold, Lauren Lawson x 2 (Gillian 

Olsthoorn, Cora Kieswetter, Rebecca Luis x 2) 

Championship 

Niagara 2 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Claire Hanley (Cory Hinsperger) 

WOOLWICH RUSSELL ATOM AE 

Dec. 20 

Woolwich 4 Erin Hillsburgh 1 

Goals: Gareth Rowland, Cameron Rose, Brant 

McLaughlin x2 

Hespeler tournament 


Woolwich 6 Barrie 1 

Goals: Alex Taylor x2, Cameron Rose, Aaron Weigel 

x2, Nick Kieswetter (Nathan Schwarz x2, 

Cameron Rose x2, Sheldon Metzger x2, Brant 

McLaughlin x2, Nick Kieswetter, Jacob Dubue, 

Aaron Weigel) 

Game 2 

Oakridge 4 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Aaron Weigel (Gareth Rowland, Sheldon 

Metzger) 


Hespeler 2 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Brant McLaughlin (Sheldon Metzger, Aaron 

Weigel) 

Jan. 4 

Woolwich 3 Erin Hillsburgh 1 

Goals: Nathan Schwarz, Aaron Weigel, Colby 

Bond (Mathew Uhrig, Colby Bond, Gareth Rowland, 

Nathan Schwarz) 

WOOLWICH MINOR PEEWEE A 

Vaughan Silverstick tournament 


Woolwich 6 Toronto 1 

Goals: Harrison Clifford x2, Alex Uttley x3, Nic 

Pavanel (Grant Kernick, Cole Lenaers x3, Adam 

Jokic, Alex Uttley, Bailey Nickel and Harrison Clifford) 

Game 2 

Woolwich 4 Barrie 0 

Goals: Cole Conlin, Grant Kernick x2, Greg Huber 

(Alex Uttley, Nathan Schlupp, Bailey Nickel x2, 

Harrison Clifford x2) 

Shutout: Jayden Weber 


Woolwich 2 Humber Valley 1 

Goals: Evan Martin, Harrison Clifford (Adam Jokic, 

Alex Uttley, Cole Lenaers) 


Woolwich 3 Brampton 2 

Goals: Adam Jokic x2, Harrison Clifford (Luke 

Brown, Greg Huber, Evan Martin, Jason Gamble) 

Championship 

Woolwich 3 Erindale 2 

Goals: Harrison Clifford x2, Alex Uttley (Cole 

Conlin, Luke Brown, Nic Pavanel, Grant Kernick) 

WOOLWICH MAJOR NOVICE 



Woolwich 6 North London 0 

Goals: Sam Davidson, Keanan Stewart x2, 

Liam Hartman, Riley Runstedler, Jordan Lee 

(Riley Runstedler, Cade Schaus, Cole Altman, 

Keanan Stewart) 

Shutout: Mathew Turkalj 

Game 2 


Goals: Cole Altman, Riley Runstedler, Tyler McBay 

(Sam Davidson x2) 


Woolwich 4 Hespeler 3 

Goals: Keanan Stewart x3, Tyler McBay (Austin 

Whittom, Riley Runstedler, Kyle Bruder x2, Matthew 

MacDonald) 

Championship 


Goals: Tyler McBay, Keanan Stewart x2, Cade 

Schaus, Sam Davidson, Daniel Carr (Kyle Bruder, 

Sammy Huber, Liam Hartman, Tyler McBay, Austin 

Whittom) 

WOOLWICH BANTAM AE 



Woolwich 4 Stratford 4 

Goals: Jeff Martin, Jordan Moore x3 (Aaron Burkhardt) 

Game 2 


Goal: Jeff Martin (William Frank) 


Southpoint 4 Woolwich 3 

Goals: Jordan Moore x3 (Evan Yantha) 

Game 4 

Woolwich 2 Cedar Hill 1 

Goals: Evan Yantha x2 (Josh Simpson, Connor 

Jansen) 



Goals: Jordan Moore, Sebastian Huber (Evan 

Yantha) 

Finals 

Southpoint 2 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Josh Simpson 

Jan. 3 

Centre Wellington 4 Woolwich 2 

Goals: Evan Yantha, Dalton Wojik (Josh Simpson, 

Tyler Martin x2, Jeff Martin) 

Jan. 4 

Woolwich 7 Acton 2 

Goals: Evan Yantha, Jordan Moore x3, Josh Simpson, 

Tyler Martin, Sebastian Huber (Jeff Martin 

x3, Sebastian Huber, Tyler Martin, Mackenzie 

Martin, Blake Zeigler) 

WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL#1 

Dec. 20 

Woolwich 5 Beverly 2 

Goals: Marty Metzger, Dylan Arndt, Brodie Keen, 

Keaton Sanders, Isaac Fishbein (Matt Lalonde, 

Jake Bruder x2, Jeremy Hanley x2, Dylan Arndt, 

Christopher Taylor, Brodie Keen, Keaton Sanders) 

Dec. 27 


Goals: Jeremy Hanley x2, Brodie Keen, Spencer, 

Anderson, Jake Bruder (Matt Lalonde, Marty 

Metzger, Duncan McDonald, Keaton Sanders x4, 

Brodie Keen) 

Dec. 28 

Beverly 3 Woolwich 2 

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Goals: Matt Lalonde, Jake Bruder (Jake Bruder, 

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WOOLWICH ATOM B GIRLS 

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Goals: Taylor Rempel x2, Marlee Kernick x2 

(Cassandra Tuffnail, Marlee Kernick, Megan 

Chapman, Taylor Rempel) 

Game 2 

Woolwich 1 North Halton 1 

Goal: Caitlin Pickard (Meghan Martin) 

Jan 3 – Game 3 

Woolwich 0 Orangeville 0 

Shutout: Dana Colombo 

Jan. 4 – Semi-finals 

Woolwich 2 Hamilton 0 

Goals: Marlee Kernick, Jaimee MacDonald (Dana 

Colombo, Taylor Rempel) 

Championship 

Hamilton 2 Woolwich 1 

Goal: Taylor Rempel (Cassandra Tuffnail, Leah 

Bauman) 


Jan. 3 


Goals: Bryce Sellars x2, Austin Cousineau, Devin 

Williams (Austin Cousineau x2, Bryce Sellars, 

Bruce Martin) 

WOOLWICH PEEWEE LL#2 

Jan. 3 


Goals: Zach Perry x2, Troy Nechanicky, Ryan 

Devries, Zeke Schneider (Matthew Jessop x2, 

Nathan Dowdall x2, Zach Perry, Stephen McCabe) 

Shutout: Noah Taylor 


Jan. 4 

Woolwich 6 Twin Centre 3 

Goals: Nolan McLaughlin x4, Keaton McLaughlin, 

Ethan Young (Mackenzie Willms x3, Brady 

Brezynskie) 

Jan. 5 

Woolwich 2 Tavistock 2 

Goals: Nolan McLaughlin, Mackenzie Willms 

WOOLWICH MINOR ATOM A 

Jan. 2 

Woolwich 10 Brampton 1 

Goals: Ryan Shantz, Matthew Urhig, Daniel 

Gallant, Sheldon Metzger, Isaac Frey x2, Cameron 

Brown, Jacob Uridil x2, Noah Zeller (Jacob 

Uridil, Sheldon Metzger x2) 

Jan. 4 


Goals: Mitchell Rempel, Isaac Frey, Jacob 

Uridil (Cameron Brown, Jordan Gamble, 

Owen Read, Noah Zeller x2, Ryan Shantz) 

Shutout: Evan Martin 

TWIN CENTRE MIDGET BB GIRLS 

Jan. 3 

St. Thomas 2 Twin Centre 1 

Goal: Contessa Brenner 

Jan. 5 

Twin Centre 4 Milverton 0 

Goals: Ainsley Smith, Stephanie Straus, Melanie 

Freeman, Laurie Reid (Steph Baril x2, Brittany 

Straus, Contessa Brenner, Kori Martin) 

WOOLWICH MIDGET A 

Jan. 3 


Goals: Devon Mantler, Nick Roth, Josh Wade, 

Jonathon Weber, Troy Bauman, Nick Timmerman, 

Alex Dunn x2 (Steve Clement x2, Nick 

Timmerman x2, Alex Dunn x2, Caleb Redekop, 

Devon Mantler, Kevin Howorth, Nick 

Roth, Jonathon Weber, Troy Bauman) 

WOOLWICH MAJOR PEEWEE A 

Jan. 3 


Goals: Grant Kernick x2, Matt Lair (Adrian 

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The shows, the brainchild of 

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The company’s 12th production 

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“I always knew I wanted to 

be involved with live theatre.” 

Starting out with a handful 

of helpers, Goldberg has seen 

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the business blossom – there 

now more than 140 full-time 

employees. He receives some 

50 job applications each week 

from performers around the 

globe. Much of his time these 

days is spent travelling the 

world in search of talent. 

The type of spectacle that 

has evolved will be familiar to 

those exposed to the Cirque du 

Soleil, which has brought the 

style to international prominence. 

There are plenty of differences, 

however, Goldberg 

stressed. 

“They’ve certainly changed 

the public perception of the 

genre, but our shows are very 

different,” he said, pointing 

to the Broadway format (in 

fact, the troupe has appeared 

on Broadway for a successful 

run). 

Over the years, Cirque 

Dreams has developed a show 

that aimed at captivating 

young people in the audience 

with eye-catching acts while 

weaving in elements of the 

theatre for lovers of live musicals 

and the like. 

“The demographics are five 

to 105. Everyone always says 

it, but there really is something 

for everyone – it’s really 

a smorgasbord for the audience.” 

Cirque Dreams – Jungle Fantasy 

appears on stage at the 

Centre In The Square Jan. 12 

at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $55- 

65, available at the box office 

by calling 578-1570 or toll free 

1-800-265-8977 or online at 

www.centre-square.com. 

starting from 

$ 2 95 

2009 

calendars 

Large assortment 

Selection will vary 

$ 1 99 

Normally $15.99 

Mon., Tues., Wed. 9-7 

Thurs. & Fri. 9-9, Sat. 9-5; Sun. 10-5

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Local villagers carried the baby to the meeting 

house and fed him barrels and barrels of milk. 

It took ten people to burp him, and when he 

finally burped, it nearly blew the roof off the 

meeting house! 

STORMALONG 

ALFRED 

BULLTOP 

TIDAL 

CLIPPER 

BLEW 

GIANT 

FATHOMS 

BOSTON 

MAST 

SWAB 

CARGO 

PASSAGE 

NEST 

STEM 

Puzzle answers, games, opinion polls 

and much more at: 

www.kidscoop.com 

Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was called Stormy for short, but there was nothing short about this legendary tall tale character! 

How many of these words 

can you find on this page? 

“Get all the soap you can 

find!” bellowed Stormy. 

“Swab the sides of the ship 

until they are as slippery as a 

wet fish!” 

Stormy was able to slide the 

slippery hull of his ship 

through the passage. The 

soap scrubbed the cliffs so 

clean that they are sparkling 

white to this day. 

One day, in the early 1800s, a tidal wave 

washed a giant baby onto a Cape Cod beach. 

The baby boy was three fathoms tall! 

Stormy’s ship carried cargo across the 

Atlantic. Once, when he came to a narrow 

passage in the English Channel near the 

town of Dover, the crew quickly determined 

that the ship was too wide to fit 

through the passage. 

When Stormy turned 12, he was six fathoms tall. He didn’t fit into the 

school house and was too tall to work in a store. They sent him to Boston 

because it was a lot bigger than Cape Cod. 

Sadly, in Boston he found an even sadder sight. 

While Boston was a bigger city, the houses and 

buildings were just as small. He walked to 

Boston Harbor and headed for the largest 

clipper ship. The captain welcomed him 

aboard and Stormy started work as a 

cabin boy. 

While Stormy loved the sea, the 

clipper ship was not big enough 

for him. It nearly tipped over 

when he stood near the rail. He 

heard that the plains of the 

Midwest stretched for miles like 

a sea of land and he headed west 

to try his hand at farming. 

The sailors of Boston Harbor missed Stormy and Stormy 

missed them and the sea. After a while, he headed back 

to Boston Harbor. The sailors were so happy to see 

him that they worked together to build a ship that was 

big enough for him. Stormy named the ship The Coarser. 

Find three 

measurements in 

today’s newspaper. 

Rewrite each one in 

fathoms. 

Find the words in the puzzle, 

then in this week’s Kid Scoop 

stories and activities. 

A L E R E P P I L C 

S T E M G B E P N D 

G N O L A M R O T S 

I O A W L S R T S M 

A T S Y F S T L E O 

N S C A R G O L N H 

T O B L E W E U A T 

T B L A D I T B A A 

L E E G A S S A P F 


Are you an eagle-eyed reader? 

Read the articles below and correct the 

11 spelling and grammar errors you 

find. The first one is done for you. 

When Stormy first become a cabin boy 

on the ship, The Lady of the Sea, the 

sailors was unsure about the 36-foot 

tall lad. but that all changed when 

Stormy saved the day. 

It started when the captain called out, 

“Hoist the ankor!” The ship was 

anchored off the coast of South america 

at the time. The crew pulled on the 

anchor chain, but nothing happened. 

They pulled and pulled, but the anchor 

would not budged. 

“I’ll fix it!” stormalong said. He stuck 

a knife between his teeth and dived 

overboard. He created a mighty splash 

that caused a tidal wave in China! 

Soon the water rolled and the ship was 

tossed on wild, foaming waves. The 

sailors were sure they would all be 

pitched into the sea, when suddenly the 

Sea became calm and Stormy’s head 

broke through the waters surface. 

“What happened?” the crew cried out. 

“Just a little tussle with a two-ton 

octopus,” Stormy replied. 

“I tied his tentacles into knots. It will 

take a month of sundays for him to 

untie himself!” 

Stormy was the most popular saylor on 

board after that! 

Tell about something that 

happened to you recently. 

Then tell it again and 

exaggerate as many things in 

the story as you can, adding 

silly or outrageous details.

2007 

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HELP wANTED 

LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED 

HELP WANTED 

Experienced carpenter required for 

custom millwork shop. 

Experience in building and 

installing cabinets and stairs an 

asset. Competetive wages and 

benefit package. 

SALES & SERVICE 

AUTOMOTIVE 

2005 

2004 

2003 

2001 

1999 

SALES & SERVICE 

2008 

HONDA CIVIC Auto. moonroof, alloy wheels. 

69,500KM. Finished in Grey. $12,500. 

SATURN VUE FWD Auto. A/C. 77,207KM. 

Finished in Blue. $8,995. 

FORD F150 XL EXTENDED 2WD Auto. 

84,000KM. Finished in Tan. $9,500. 

LINCOLN NAVIGATOR 4WD 170,000KM. Finished 

in Gold. $8,995. 

WINDSTAR Auto. 7 passenger. 192,000KM. 

Finished in Green. $3,995. 

TOYOTA CORROLLA Auto. 188,000KM. Finished 

in Tan. $500. AS IS. 

GMC CARGO VAN 212,502KM. Finished in Red. 

$2,500. Certifi ed & Etested. 

AUTOMOTIVE 

» 2001 Dodge Caravan 

Sport - 3.3L V6 auto, 

full load including quad 

seating, pwr right sliding 

door, AM/FM cassette 

radio. Finished in silver. 

155,000 kms. Sale Priced 

$5,900. Voisin Chrysler 

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» 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 

SLT Quad Cab 4X4 - 5.7L 

hemi, auto, pwr windows, 

pwr door locks, pwr driver 

seat, tilt/cruise, AM/FM CD 

radio. Finished in Lt. blue. 

ONly 62,000 kms. Sale 

Priced $16,900. Voisin 

Chrysler 519-669-2831. 

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» 2008 Dodge Avenger 

SXT 4dr. 2.7L V6 Auto 

Trans. AM/FM CD Radio, 

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road wheels, finished 

in Lt. Sandstone. Only 

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$ 16,900. Voisin Chrysler, 

519-669-2831. 

» 2005 Dodge Gr. Cara- 

van SXT - 3.8L V6 auto 

trans, fully equipped including 

Stow N Go seating, 

O/H console, rear 

air/heat, pwr door group, 

pwr driver seat, pwr. adj. 

pedals, AM/FM 6 disc CD 

radio, one owner. Finished 

in linen gold. Only 52, 

652 kms. $14,900. Voisin 

Chrysler 519-669-2831. 

FOR SALE 

Elmira’s LARGEST selection 

of major brand computers 

COMPUTERS 

COMPUTERS 

LAPTOPS 

MONITORS 

SERVICE SERVICE 

Come see our showroom at: 

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RENTALS COMM/IND FOR 

1996 

LEASE 

» 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 

space included. 

Apply in person with current resume to: 

1990 

SLT Mega Cab 4X4 - 5.7L 

» St. Jacobs - Upscale » Retail /Office space 

hemi, auto trans, fully load- 

apt. in village core. One i n E l m i r a c o r e . 

Fairway Lumber Carpenter Shop, 

ed including all pwr op- » 2008 Dodge Gr. Cara- + bedroom, controlled 519-590-4110. 

1205 King St. N. St.Jacobs. 

tions, pwr sunroof, chrome van SE - 3.3L V6, auto entrance, includes 5 ap- 

47 Northside Dr., St. Jacobs, ON 

tube step bars, trailer tow trans, fully loaded inpliances, ensuite laun- 100% 

Ask for Marlin Sauder or Mike Bender. 

519-664-2281 

group, bed liner, tonneau cluding Stow N Go seatdry, A/C. 1,064 SF. Rent 

cover. Finished in min. ing, rear air/heat. Pwr $1,200 per month (utili- Local. 

gray, only 17,000 kms. driver seat, finished in ties extra). Available im- 

HELP wANTED FOR SALE FOR SALE CHILD CARE 


Period. 

black. Only 35,175 kms. mediately. Steps away 

519-669-2831. 

» Attention Work From » 43’ Park Model Trailer » Oak Kitchen Cabinets, » F/T & P/T Positions 

$18,900. Voisin Chrysler, from excellent shopping, 

Home. Up to $5000 a for sale $39,900. 1989 light stain, “U” shape with Av a i l a b l e . N u t r i t i o u s » 2 0 0 6 D o d g e R a m 519-669-2831. 

restaurants, theatre, na- MEDIUM 

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+ full time. www.income- 12’X43’ with 12’x30’ fac- condition. Great for cot- pet free. Near park and 4X4 - 5.7L MDS auto RENTALS 

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addition, sun porch, tage. Best offer. Also, schools. Call Monica, trans, fully equipped with 

 

» Country Farm House 

» RMT Needed at busy 

covered rear deck, stor- dishwasher and stove for 519-669-2219. 

all pwr. options, trailer 

 

47 Northside Dr., St. Jacobs, ON 

with upper fl oor 1 bedroom 

Wellness Centre, Mon. 

age shed, fridge, stove, sale. 519-699-4606. 

tow group, chrome step 

 

apartment available Feb- 

9-2, Tues. & Wed 2-8. 2 

air conditioner. Clean » Renovating: 519-664-2281 PETS 

bars, bed liner, tow hooks, 

»SUDOKU 

Lots of 

ruary 1, 2009. 4 kms north 

 

year term, may extend, 

condition with numerous 

one owner. Finished in lt. 

used furniture has to go. 

Feb. 1st start. Fax resume 

updates. Located on a 

» Train In Your Own 

of Waterloo at the edge 

 

khaki. Only 79,002 kms. 

Sofa, Love Seat, and chair 

to 519-669-3251. 

shaded lot with paved 

Home. M e g a m u t t s 

of St. Jacobs. $800/mth, SOLUTIONS 


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driveway in GreenAcre 

dog training - next ses- 

heat and hydro included, 

519-669-2831. 

» Wellness Centre look- 

4 - chrome kitchen chairs, 

Park, Waterloo. Must be 

sion starts January 21. 

non-smoking, no pets. 

ing for evening reception- 

2 - end tables, 2 - lamps, 

» 2007 Jeep Commandvacated 

2 months in the 

www.megamutts.com or 

Call 519-664-3799. EASY HARD 

ist 2 nights a week 4:15 

free standing Richelieu gas 

er Limited 4X4 - 5.7L 

winter. Park rental may be 

519-669-8167. 

» Elmira - 2 bedroom 

to 8:45, $10 to start. Must 

fi replace, 4 drawer fi ling 

MDS, auto trans, fully 

continued, or trailer may 

town house. Please, no 

have great phone skills & 

cabinet, Nikon F60 camera, 

be moved to your location. 

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smoking, no pets. $875 

 

multi task abilities. Imme- 

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519-575-6314. 

plus utilities. Suitable for 

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quiet tenants. Call 519- 

519-669-3251. 

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PLACES 

OF FAITH LOCAL CHURCH SERVICES DIRECTORY 

Sunday, January 11, 2009 

9:15am & 11:00am 

Series: Exploring Life’s Great Questions 

About God 

“Is God for real?” 

519-669-1296 

Check out our website www.woodsidechurch.ca 

Trinity United Church 

Sunday School 

During Worship 

ELMIRA 

Minister: 

Rev. Dave Jagger 

Sunday Worship: 10:55am 

Visit our new website on: www.wondercafe.ca 

 

 

building relationships with God, 

one another and the world 

SUNDAYS, 8:30 & 11:00AM 

WEDNESDAYS, 7:00PM 

(with Childrens’ Programs) 

IMPACT YOUTH: Fridays, 7:30pm 

TWENTY20: Sundays, 7:00pm 

(2nd & 4th Sundays monthly) 

Pastors Steve & Beth Fleming 

850 Sawmill Rd, Bloomingdale 744-7447 www.kcf.org 

519-669-3973 

www.ElmiraAssembly.com (Across from Tim Horton’s) 

JOIN US 

SUNDAYS 

AT 

10:30AM & 6:30PM 

Bloomingdale 

Mennonite Church 

Pastor: Mary Mae Schwartzentruber 

Sundays - 9:45 am Family Worship Service 

11:00 am Sunday School for all ages 

519-745-2411 

www.bloomingdalemennonite.com 


Community Information Page 

THE TOWNSHIP OF WOOLWICH 

"Proudly remembering our past; 

confidently embracing our future." 

COMMITTEE OF ADJUSTMENT 

NOTICE OF HEARING 

JANUARY 20, 2009 

On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet in the Council Chambers of the 

Municipal Offices, 24 Church Street West, Elmira to consider the following applications. All persons 

interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson at 519-669-6040 or 519- 

664-2613 (ext. 6040) regarding meeting details. Email: nthompson@woolwich.ca. 

You may make written submissions in favour of or opposition to any application by mailing your comments 

to: Township of Woolwich, Attn: Jeremy Vink, P.O. Box 158, 24 Church Street West, Elmira, ON 

N3B 2Z6 or Fax 519-669-4669 or Email jvink@woolwich.ca. 

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A1/09 (Alvin M. Brubacher) 

PROPERTY: 6020 Line 86, GCT Part Lot 127 

PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the required setback between an 

On-Farm Business and an adjacent residence from 150 metres to approximately 70 metres to recognize 

the existing meat processing operation and to permit the construction of a 68 square metre addition. The 

36 hectare property is zoned Agricultural (A) and contains a single family dwelling, livestock operation 

and a 175 square metre meat processing operation. 

MINOR VARIANCE APPLICATION A2/09(Glenn Ward and Doris Winfield) 

PROPERTY: 5961 Crowsfoot Road, GCT Part Lot 78 

PROPOSAL: The applicant is requesting permission to reduce the building line setback from the 

centre line of the road (Durant Road) from 23 metres to approximately 15 metres to permit the construction 

of a second storey addition on a portion of the existing dwelling and to permit the reconstruction 

of the existing front porch. The property is zoned Agricultural and contains a single family dwelling and 

an accessory building. 

Further information about the applications may be obtained from Engineering and Planning Services at 

519-669-6038 or 519-664-2613 (Ext. 6038). 

DATED this 10th day of January, 2009 

Jeremy Vink, RPP, MCIP 

Senior Planner 

Engineering & Planning Services 

OVERNIGHT PARKING BAN 

Effective December 1st to April 1st, parking is prohibited on all Township roads and streets from 2:30 

a.m. to 6:00 a.m. to facilitate winter road maintenance operations. Vehicles found parked overnight 

on Township roads during the parking ban or on Regional roads at any time will be ticketed. For 

further information, please call 519-669-1647 Extension 6009 or 6005 

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P.O. BOX 158, 24 CHURCH ST. W. 

ELMIRA, ONTARIO N3B 2Z6 

WEBSITE: www.woolwich.ca 

ACCELERATING 

Your Spiritual Growth 

We Grow Together 

SUNDAY, JAN 11, 2009 

Sundays @ 10:30am 

John Mahood PS 

519-669-1459 

www.elmiracommunity.org 

TEL: 519-669-1647 or 519-664-2613 

FAX: 519-669-1820 

SIDEWALK SNOW REMOVAL 

BY-LAW #85-2006 

HEARING 

ASSISTED 

NURSERY 

PROVIDED 

Welcome to 

CALVARY UNITED 

St. Jacobs 

519-664-2311 

“Making Faith 

Live” 

Sunday Worship 

9:15 am - 10:15am 

Faithsteps 10:30am - 11:50am 

519-669-5030 

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AFTER HOURS 

EMERGENCY: 

519-575-4504 

Notice to all Property Owners in St. Jacobs, Heidelberg, Breslau, Conestogo, Maryhill, Bloomingdale, Winterbourne, 

West Montrose, Floradale, Stockyards Area. 

Woolwich Council has adopted a Sidewalk Snow Removal By-law requiring property owners to clear adjacent 

sidewalks of snow and ice in all settlement areas, except Elmira. 

The Sidewalk Snow Removal By-law requires the owner to clear away snow and ice from the sidewalks in 

front of or alongside their property within twenty-four (24) hours after a snowfall ends. Non-compliant property 

owners can be ticketed under the by-law ($100 fine) and the cost to have the Township clear the sidewalk can 

be charged to the property owner (approximately $100). The by-law does not apply to: 

a) Sidewalks in Elmira; 

b) Sidewalks adjacent to back-lotted properties on Kressler Road between Apollo Drive and 

Alten Way in Heidelberg; 

c) Curb-faced sidewalks where snow has been pushed onto the sidewalk to a depth of at 

least 12 inches by road clearing operations. Curb-faced sidewalks are defined as 

sidewalks adjacent to the curb face or not more than .25 m from the curb face. 

Questions about sidewalk snow removal in Elmira should be directed to the Township’s Engineering 

Department at (519) 669-1647 Extension 6041. Questions about sidewalk snow removal in all other 

areas should be directed to the Municipal Law Enforcement Division at (519) 669-1647, Extension 

6005 or 6016. 

Your co-operation in keeping the sidewalks cleared of snow and ice is greatly appreciated. 

Dog Tags for 2009 are now available to be purchased at the following locations: 

Township of Woolwich Office at 24 Church Street West, Elmira. 

Village Pet Food Shoppe, 10 Church St. W., Elmira 

Creature Comfort Pet Emporium, 1553 King Street North, St. Jacobs 

Eldale Veterinary Clinic, 150 Church Street West, Elmira 

Breslau Animal Hospital, 2057 Victoria St. North (Unit 3), Breslau, Ontario. 

The fees BEFORE APRIL 15th are: 

Neutered/Spayed - $20.00 

Non-neutered/non-spayed - $25.00 

2009 DOG TAGS 

A replacement tag costs $5.00 

And AFTER APRIL 15th are: 

Neutered/Spayed - $25.00 

Non-neutered/non-spayed - $30.00 

If you have found a dog or lost your dog please call the Township Office at 519-669-1647 Extension 6106. 

WHEELCHAIR 

ACCESSIBLE 

SUNDAY 

SCHOOL 

Upbeat Family 

Worship & 

Sunday School 

10:00 am 

 

St. Teresa 

Catholic Church 

No God, No Hope; Know God, Know Hope! 

Celebrate Eucharist with us 

Mass times are: 

Sat. 5pm, Sun. 9am and 11:15am 

519-669-3387


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1. Full house, e.g. 

5. Brother of Cain 

9. Plucked ancient 

instruments 

14. On the safe side, at sea 

15. Fizzy drink 

16. Ammonia derivative 

17. Come into view 

18. Travel through water 

19. Hyperion, for one 

20. Andrea Bocelli, for one 

22. Point or cause to go 

24. Cajole 

26. Aggravate 

27. Common sense 

30. 100 kurus 

32. “It’s no ___!” 

35. “Field of Dreams” setting 

36. Inebriate 

37. “China Beach” setting 

38. Free 

41. Characterized by energy 

and vigour 

43. Fold, spindle or mutilate 

44. Baffl ed 

46. “___ on Down the Road” 

47. Amber, e.g. 

48. Luxurious 

49. Fruit juice (especially 

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when undiluted) 

51. “Gee whiz!” 

52. Mossback 

53. Without expression 

57. Santa’s reindeer, e.g. 

61. Theme of this puzzle 

62. Foot 

65. ___ lamp 

66. Spoonful, say 

67. The America’s Cup trophy, 

e.g. 

68. Arabic for “commander” 

69. ___ of roses 

70. “Do ___ others as...” 

71. Drop 

DOWN 

1. “Stop right there!” 

2. ___ vera 

3. Advertising sign 

4. Left leaning 

5. Balaam’s mount 

6. Fiddle stick 

7. Do some cutting, maybe 

8. Dalai ___ 

9. The literary intelligentsia 

10. Eskimo boat 

11. South American monkey 

12. ___ cheese 

13. Clinton, e.g.: Abbr. 

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21. “Baloney!” 

23. Bolshoi rival 

25. At the same time that 

27. Fraternity letter 

28. Fable fi nale 

29. Cognizant 

30. Percolate 

31. Verb to be 

32. A member of the 

Uniat Church 

33. Chip dip 

34. Arab leader 

39. Inhabitant of an island 

40. Smelled badly 

42. Use again after processing 

45. World superpower 

49. A negative 

50. I, to Claudius 

51. Kind of ray 

53. Dugout, for one 

54. A deadly sin 

55. In ___ of (replacing) 

56. Open wide 

58. Break 

59. “... there is no ___ angel but 

Love”: Shakespeare 

60. Container weight 

61. “Harper Valley ___” 

63. Big Apple attraction, with “the” 

64. “My man!” 

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»STRANGE BUT TRUE | BILL & RICH SONES 

Catchers have tried a few odd, and painful, stunts 

Q. From how 

high up might 

a dropped baseball 

be caught 

by someone 

down below? 

A. In 1908, a 

couple of major 

league catchers nabbed baseballs 

tossed from atop the 555-foot Washington 

Monument, says Jearl Walker in 

The Flying Circus of Physics. 

Thirty years later, Cleveland Indians 

catchers Frankie Pytlak and Hank 

Helf waited beneath Cleveland’s 

Terminal Tower as balls were dropped 

from 700 feet up (213 meters). They 

wore steel helmets for protection as 

the balls reached an estimated 140 

mph (225 km/h). Helf caught the first 

ball, claiming there was nothing to 

it, but the next five for Pytlak went 

astray. One bounded up to the 13th 

floor and was fielded by a police sergeant 

after its third bounce. “On the 

sixth try, Pytlak made his catch and 

shared the record.” 

In 1939 Joe Sprinz of the San Francisco 

Baseball Club tried to catch a ball 

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Signs & Banners 

Vehicle Lettering 

Logos & Graphics 

Large format printing 

Decals & Safety Stickers 

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dropped from a blimp 800 feet or more 

up; on the fifth try, he gloved one, but 

the impact drove hand, mitt and ball 

into his face, fracturing his jaw in 12 

places, breaking five teeth and knocking 

him unconscious -- and he dropped 

the ball. 

More ludicrous was a 1916 toss from 

an airplane at 400 feet by Brooklyn 

Dodgers trainer Frank Kelly. He 

pretended to launch one toward manager 

Wilbert Robinson below, though 

in reality he had substituted a red 

grapefruit. “When the fruit exploded 

on impact, its red contents drenched 

Robinson, who cried, “It broke me 

open! I’m covered with blood.” 

Q. What bizarre sight might a 

climber see from atop a high mountain? 

A. Serious mountain climbers have 

long known that thin air and reduced 

oxygen to the brain can bring on acute 

mountain sickness at altitudes above 

2,500 metres (8,000 feet), say Sandra 

Aamodt, PhD, and Sam Wang, PhD, in 

Welcome to Your Brain. At these 

heights, “mountaineers report perceiving 

unseen companions, seeing 

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CLEAN • DRY • SECURE 

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light emanating from themselves or 

others, seeing a second body like their 

own, and suddenly feeling emotions 

like fear.” 

Neural structures in and near the 

temporal and parietal lobes of the 

cortex can be affected, triggering 

seizures that elicit intense religious 

experiences, such as feeling that one 

is in heaven or in the presence of a Supreme 

Being. Generally, such visions 

are associated not only with 

mountains -- Moses encountering a 

voice from a burning bush on Mount 

Sinai -- but with other remote areas 

such as deserts where environmental 

conditions and stresses are extreme. 

Q. There are 56 known species, 

including browns and blacks of 

various shades, their teeth growing 

4-6 inches per year -- at least they 

would if not constantly worn down 

from gnawing on pipes, cement, 

brick, wood, bones for dinner. 

A female can mate 500 times in 

a six-hour period, and a pair of 

browns could produce 2,000 descendants 

in a year if unchecked. Flush 

PAINTING 

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experience 

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estimates 

interior/exterior painting 

wallpapering & Plaster|Drywall repairs 

519-669-2251 

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Septic Tank Cleaning 

Inspections for Real Estate 

Septic System Repairs & Restoration 

Catch Basin Cleaning 

Waterloo Region • Wellington County 

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TRUCK REPAIR 

Qualified Licensed Mechanics Ready to Serve Your Needs. 

OPEN 

Monday-Fridays 

6am-6pm 

Saturday 

6am-2pm 

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Elmira, ON 

TRUCK & TRAILER REPAIR & MAINTENANCE 

Mobile Services | CAT and Cummins Diagnostics 

Government Emissions Testing | Air Conditioning 

Aluminum and Steel Welding | Hydraulics 

Government Safety Inspections 

CALL KIRBY, Service Manager | 519.669.8420 

After Hours Cell: 519.577.1459 

one down the toilet and it can tread 

water for three days and survive, or 

it could fall 50 feet and land uninjured. 

Its favorite city eats are scrambled 

eggs, macaroni and cheese, cooked 

corn. Absent these, its own feces 

will do in a pinch for nutritional 

value. Killing one or many was 

popular sport for man and dog 

in 19th-century London, with one 

13-pound bull terrier doing in 100 

in 5 1/2 minutes. “Drats” has nothing 

to do with them, being a short 

form of “od rat,” a euphemism for 

“God rot,” a sort of profanity. Owing 

to their skill at stowing away on 

ships, they enjoy a nearly worldwide 

distribution. Haven’t you already 

guessed this anagram and palindrome 

for “star”? 

A. Oh, rats! (Liza Lentini and David 

Mouzon of Discover magazine.) 

(Send STRANGE questions to 

brothers Bill and Rich at 

strangetrue@compuserve.com) 

PLUMBING 

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SPECIALISTS! 

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SHARPENING 

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HEADQUARTERS 

Have your skates 

sharpened with us 

four times, and the 

fifth one’s FREE! 

Knife and Scissor Sharpening 

See store for details. 

wINDOw COVERINGS 

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For all your 

Plumbing Needs. 

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Coach House Realty 

Inc. Brokerage 

OFFICE PHONE: 519.343.2124 

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage 

*SALES REPRESENTATIVES: 

Independently Owned and Operated 

159 William St., Palmerston Edith McArthur * 519.638.2509 

4B Arthur St. S. Elmira www.remaxsolidgold.biz 

(Across from Home Hardware) Kathy Robinson * 519.343.4816 

OFFICE: 519-669-5426 

HOME 

HUNTERS 

ELMIRA 

REAL ESTATE 

Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage SERVICES 

BONNIE 

BRUBACHER 

Broker of Record 

SHANNA 

ROZEMA 

Broker. 

DARREN 

ROMKEY 

Sales Rep. 

LAURIE 

LANGDON 

Sales Rep. 

519-669-3192 

90 Earl Martin Dr., 

Unit 1, Elmira 

N3B 3L4 

DALE 

KELLER 

Sales Rep. 

THIS WEEK'S FEATURE PROPERTIES 

MONIQUE 

BRUBACHER 

Sales Rep. 

OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 2-4PM 

42 ROBERTA STREET, ELMIRA 

PARADIGM MODEL HOME 

$320,000 | Base price. Attractive open 

concept plan with all main floor conveniences. 

Full ensuite, stunning kitchen. 

Also other plans to choose from. Excl. 

OPEN HOUSE | SUN 2-4 P.M. 

14 ROBERTA STREET, ELMIRA 

$337,000 | Wow, almost new, this 

attractive home offers a multitude of 

upgraded features that will please any 

buyer, including 6 newer appliances, and 

almost finished basement. NEW MLS. 

OPEN HOUSE | SAT 2-4 P.M. 

49 BRISTOW CREEK DR. ELMIRA 

$367,900 | Impressive 4 bedroom, 

4 bathroom home with many extras & 

upgrades, large kitchen, seperate dining 

room, family rm w/gas fireplace, hardwood 

& ceramic flrs, huge finished basement, 

lavish master ensuite. ++++MLS 

ELORA STREET 

1.9 ACRE BUILDING LOT 

$74,900 | ELORA | Located between Alma 

and Teviotdale just East of Rothsay, natural 

gas available. MLS. 

MOBILE HOME 

MARTIN GROVE VILLAGE 

$96,000 | 2 Bedrooms, next to the new 

Wal-Mart and Farmers Market, soon to be 

bus service. Shows very well with many, 

many updates. MLS. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 

$249,900 | DRAYTON | A gorgeous 

home on a large lot; main floor laundry; 

patio/deck; backyard play set included; 

central air and vac; seperate dining room; 

loads of family space; 3 bedrooms and 2 

bathrooms. MLS. 

NOT TO BE MISSED! 

$299,900 | ELMIRA | beautiful lot in 

a great location. Spacious 5 level split 

home requires some updating. MLS. 

PARADIGM HOMES 

2020 SQ FT 

$349,900 | ELMIRA | 4 Bedroom family 

home, 2nd floor family with gas fireplace, 

huge country kitchen, sitting room and 

mud room. New construction with a 

March closing. NEW MLS. 

SPRAWLING ELMIRA 

BUNGALOW 

$549,900 | ELMIRA | Desirable wooded 

court location, 1883 sq ft, plus finished 

basement. Triple interlock drive with oversized 

double garage. MLS. 

COUNTRY PROPERTY 

WITH SHOP 

$209,900 | Affordable country living not far 

from Arthur. This spacious bungalow offers 

3 bdrms, oak kitchen, mainflr laundr and 

detached shop with hydro! Some updates 

completed. Needs some TLC. MLS. 

Further Information: WEBSITE: www.royallepage.ca 

EMAIL: Elmira@royallepage.ca 

DIRECT: 519-572-2669 

EMAIL: bert@remaxsolidgold.biz 

$239,000 

$127,000 

$1,450,000 

BERT MARTIN, BROKER 

COUNTRY BUNGALOW! Good home on large 

lot with mature trees oers three bedrooms, 

country kitchen with custom cabinets, family 

room, recroom, detached garage/ workshop 

and paved double drive. MLS. 

GREAT STARTER! Great home in small 

community oers main oor family room, three 

bedrooms, formal dining and living rooms, 

renovated bathroom, some new windows, 

hi/e gas furnace. MLS. 

FARM! Square 100 acres, 90 workable, cash crop 

and hog operation with nishing and nursery 

barns, drive shed, older livestock barn, 1500 s/f 3 

bedroom bungalow with new kitchen and 

attached double garage. MLS. Call Bert to View. 

LEASE SPACE! Approximately 2,000 s/f of 

commercial with oce and warehouse. 

Zoning allows many uses. Located in a busy 

plaza with lots of parking. Only 10 minutes to 

Waterloo. MLS. Call for details. 

Your referrals are 

appreciated! 

LEON MARTIN 

Solid Gold Realty (II) Ltd., Brokerage | Independently Owned and Operated 

16 stall horse barn and 80 foot by 

180 foot arena on 36 acres. A shed 

and house are also allowed to be 

built. It is located within 35 min 

of Waterloo. The Barn and Riding 

arena are to be built. MLS. 

LOTS FOR SALE Country lots with high speed internet access, 

40 to 45 minutes from K-W or Guelph. They are located in the small 

hamlet of Carthage. Individual well and septic. Great opportunity 

to build your own house or get us to customize a home for you. For 

more information please call Leon Excl. 

Minto Twp Country bungalow only 

13 years old on an acre of property. 

Three large bedrooms, good sized 

kitchen and dining area, open 

concept. $254,900. MLS. 

ADDRESS: 4-B Arthur St. S., ELMIRA • EMAIL: leonmartin@remax.net 

DIRECT: 519-503-2753 • OFFICE: 519-669-5426 

Call your realtor now! 

OPEN HOUSE 

Sun. Jan 11,- 2-4 pm 

Paul Bowman owner/operator 

Work: 519-669-2282 

Cell: 519-895-6958 

“Quality Built Right In!” 

11 Coral Gables Cres. Elmira 

Huron Homes 

quality built 1670 sq. ft. bungalow. Well appointed rooms 

accented with arches and unique ceiling details. Detailed 

kitchen with solid maple cabinetry and large pantry, ensuite 

boasting soaker tub and walk-in tiled shower, fi replace, 

upgraded faucets and lighting throughout. 

#8252 CONC 12, MARYBOROUGH, 

MAPLETON - NEAR DRAYTON) 

OPEN HOUSE 

SAT JAN, 10 1-3PM 

BRAD MARTIN 

Broker of Record 

MVA Residential 

Res: 519-669-1068 

DRAYTON 

BROKERAGE 

JULIE 

HECKENDORN 

Broker 

Res: 519-669-8629 

ALLI 

NORRIS 

Sales Rep. 

Cell: 519-577-6248 

OPEN HOUSE 

DRAYTON - SPACIOUS 4-level 

back split. Oversized kitchen 

-walkout to covered deck & deep 

lot. 3+1 bedrooms, 2 baths, dble 

garage. MLS. $234,900. 

COMMERCIAL Bldg. approx. 

3450 sq. ft. (2 storey addition - 

1987) Retail & office space. Gas 

heat & air cond. MLS. $289,900. 

“NEIGHBOURING LOTS ALSO 

FOR SALE FOR COMMERCIAL 

DEVELOPMENT” 

NEW HOME (nearing completion) 

1521 sq.ft. Open concept main 

floor -kitchen, dinette and great 

rm. w/cathedral ceiling. HUGE 

master bdrm! MLS. $269,900. 

INVESTMENT PROPERTY 

ELMIRA maintained 5 plex, always 

fully occupied! Laundry in each unit. 

One 3 bdrm. unit. Roof (‘05). Lots 

of parking. Shows a good return on 

your investment! MLS. $509,000. 

New brick bungalow 1.29 acres. 

Choices available from specs. Open 

concept, 3 bedrms, ensuite bath. 

Exceptional features including 

walkup from basement to garage, 

door to deck from mbedrm, 

cathedral ceiling, lots of pot lights. 

Easy commute to KW or Guelph. 

Call Edith McArthur 519.638.2509 

MLS. 0844324 $379,900. 

Look no further! This is it! Finished 

from head to toe. 5 bedrm brick 

bungalow, ready for growing 

family. Separate diningrm, kit w/ 

breakfast nook, livingrm w/gas 

fireplace, central air/vac, finished 

basement w/gamesrm, bar room, 

bathrm, bedrms & office. Call 

Edith or Kathy 519.343.2124 

MLS. 0847252 $369,000. 

R.W. THUR REAL ESTATE LTD. 

45 ARTHUR ST. S., ELMIRA 

519-669-2772 

BILL 

NORRIS 

Sales Rep. 

Cell: 519-588-1348 

TRACEY 

WILLIAMS 

Sales Rep. 

Cell: 519-505-0627 

SUN. JAN 11 th , 2-4 PM 

71 Edward St. S., Drayton 

GREAT STARTER HOME - 

eat-in kitchen w/ walk-out to 

large deck and fenced yard, 

convenient side entry, finished 

rec. rm., huge master bdrm, 

storage shed, 2 bdrms, 2 bths. 

NEW MLS. $202,900. 

MOVE IN! New home w/walkout 

bsmt! 3 baths (ensuite). Large 

kitchen. Main flr. laundry. 

Upper level fam. room. Lots of 

upgrades. MLS. $355,000. 

EXISTING CHURCH! Seating 

capacity 175+. Addition in 

1986, incl. full basement. Ideal 

for office, lofts, etc. 1 block 

from downtown. C-1 Zoning. 

MLS. $649,000.

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FAMILY ALBUM 

HOME 

HUNTERS 

EASY 

MEDIUM 

HARD 

THE FREY TEAM 

Len Frey 

SALES REP* 

frey@golden.net 

Mildred Frey 

BROKER** 

ELMIRA $299,900- Large lot with mature 

trees. Presently being used as 2 units with sep. 

metres, furnaces & hot water tanks. One unit 

has some updates. 2nd unit has unique older 

fi xters. (ie) cookstove with pipe to chimney. 

Carpet free. Roof replaced 2006. Main fl oor 

laundry & cold cellar. MLS CALL WENDY 

TAYLOR** TO VIEW. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

519-669-1544 24hrs 


www.thefreyteam.com 

Wendy Taylor 

BROKER** 

wendy@thefreyteam.com 

BY THE NUMBERS 

 

©2008 Cathedral Communications Inc. 

Mary Lou Murray 

SALES REP* 

marylou@mmrealestate.ca 

$209,900 - ELMIRA | GREAT DEAL. 

Perfect for first time buyer needing lots 

of space. Nice open kitchen with large 

dining area. 3 bedrooms, 1 in finished 

basement, rec room, gas heat stove 

and moveable bar w/fridge. MLS CALL 

MARY LOU** TO VIEW. 

OPEN HOUSE - ELMIRA 

Sun Jan 11, 2-4PM - 13 Aspen cres., 

MAPLETON $299,900- Approx. 1/2 acre 

in the country backing to farmland. 3 + 

1 bdrm, 2 bth in small rural community. 

Renovated kit w/island. Newly fi nished 

basement with stone fi replace. Walkout to 

deck, fenced yard and inground pool. MLS. 

CALL WENDY TAYLOR** TO VIEW. 

HOw TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 

through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. 

REMEMBER: you must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box. 

Find the answers to this week’s puzzles on page 25. 

Telephone....................519.669.5790 

Toll Free .......................1.888.966.5942 

BIRTHDAY 

ANNIVERSARY 

Happy 70tH 

anniversary 

Elam & Louisa Martin 

~From the Family 

THANK YOU 

Happy 11 tH 

BirtHDay 

~ Love Mom, Dad, 

Nicole & Colin 

I would like to thank 

all of my friends and 

family for the flowers, 

cards, gifts, and best 

wishes celebrating my 

65th Birthday. A special 

thanks to my husband 

Stuart Lawarance and my 

children for surprising me 

with a “drug store” party. 

~ Jackie Good-Lawarance 

Fax...............................519.669.5753 

Email............................ads@observerxtra.com 

BIRTHDAY 

Happy 1 st 

BirtHDay 

sWeet pea! 

~Love Mommy & Daddy 

ERICA GRACE FREEMAN 

January 11, 2008, 8lb. 1oz. 11:22am 

BIRTHDAY 

IN MEMORIAM 

Happy 1st 

BirtHDay 

ERICA 

We Love You 

Grandpa, Grandma, 

Uncle Anthony & Erin 

FAMILY ALBUM 

Tell 

someone 

that 

you 

care 

for as little as 

$ 15 

call 

519.669.5790 

ext 104 

to order 

or stop into 

our office 

In Memory of 

abner Wideman 

who passed away January 10, 1989. 

Twenty years have come and gone 

Since that brisk winter day 

When we were gathered round your bed 

And watched you slowly fade away 

Many things have changed since then 

And time has really flown 

But there are days we miss you so 

And long to sit and chat awhile 

We thank God for His great love 

And trust that some sweet day 

We will all be gathered yonder 

Singing praises around His throne.


EVENTS CALENDAR » DEATH NOTICES 

“A GOOD JOB DONE EVERY TIME” 

Kleensweep 

Rugs and 

Carpet Care Upholstery 

Skilled craftsmanship. Quality materials. 

CONSTRUCTION STARTS HERE. 

Since 1987 - DentureTech 

Since 1995 - Denturist 

DENTURE 

Home 

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Auto 

Agent/Owner 

COLLEEN 

•Residential 

•Commercial 

•Personalized Service 

•Free Estimates 

West Montrose, ON 

T. 519.669.2033 

Cell: 519.581.7868 

3435 Broadway St. Hawkesville 

519-699-4641 

www.freybc.com 

Allen Morrison 

Life 

Insurance Inc. 

Investments 25 Industrial Drive, 

Elmira, ON N3B 3K3 

Group 

Bus.:519.669.2632 

Business 

Fax: 519.669.4282 

FREE CONSULTATION 

After Hours Emergency 

Farm 

Services: 1-800-465-2667 

Travel • Total Denture Care Email: 

allen_morrison@cooperators.ca 

Disability • Same Day Service www.cooperators.ca 

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• Implants 

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• Since DENTURE 1995 - Denturist SPECIALIST 

DENTURE 

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• ELMIRA Total Denture Care 

• 519.669.1535 

Same day service on 

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• Elmira Metal Partial - Soft Relines 1995 - Denturist 

• (Behind DENTURE Bank SPECIALIST 

of Montreal) 

KITCHENER 

519.744.9770 

FREE CONSULTATION 

• Total ELMIRA Denture Care KITCHENER 

519-669-1535 

• Same Day Service 

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519.669.1535 Wonderful Wines 

15 Memorial Ave., 

Elmira 

(Behind Bank of Montreal) 

KITCHENER A Fine Wine 

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519.669.0799 

24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE 

TOTAL 

HOME ENERGY SYSTEMS 

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL 

YOUR OIL, PROPANE, 

NATURAL GAS AND 

AIR CONDITIONING EXPERTS 

New to the Community? 

Do you have a new Baby? 

It’s time to call your 

Welcome Wagon Hostess. 

Elmira & Surrounding Area 

11 HENRY ST. - UNIT 9, ST. JACOBS 

519.664.2008 

SHARON GINGRICH 519.291.6763 

elmirawelcomewagon@sympatico.ca 

SANYO CANADIAN 

MACHINE WORKS INCORPORATED 

33 Industrial Dr., Elmira 519.669.1591 

Be Prepared 

For Winter! 

519.669.2884 

21 Industrial Dr., Elmira 

»CROSSWORD 

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NANCY 

KOEBEL 

Bus: 519.895.2044 ext. 217 

Home: 519.747.4388 

Individual life insurance, mortgage insurance, 

business insurance, employee benefits programs, 

critical illness insurance, disability coverage, 

HOUR 

BAUMAN, Ivan S. 

MARTIN, Amos 

– On Wednesday, December 

31, 2008, at St. 

Mary’s Hospital. Ivan S. 

Bauman, age 66 years, 

of RR1, Wallenstein. 

BRUBACHER, Sarah B. 

– On Saturday, January 

3, 2009, at Freeport 

Health Centre. Amos 

Martin, age 79 years, of 

RR4, Elmira. 

ZINGER, Helena “Helen” 

(nee Bowman) 

- Peacefully went home 

to be with her Saviour 

on Tuesday, December 

30, 2008, at St. Mary’s 

Hospital, at the age of 

87 years. 

– Passed away peacefully, 

at St. Mary’s Hospital, 

Kitchener, on Thursday, 

January 1, 2009, at 

the age of 87 years. 

Local relative is Ron 

Zinger of RR2, Elmira. 

Truck & 

Trailer 

Maintenance 

Cardlock 

Fuel 

Management 

CARDLOCK 

JANUARY 11 

» Elmira Sugar Kings Hungry Man’s Breakfast – serving from 8:30 a.m. – 1 

p.m. Elmira Canadian Legion, First Street, Elmira; $5 per person. All you can 

eat. 

JANUARY 13 

» Storytime for children ages 3-5 at St. Clements Branch Library. Join us for 

stories and fun activities on Tuesday afternoons from 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 

13 to Mar. 3, or Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 14 to 

Mar. 4. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Call or visit the library, 

519-745-3151 or email stclemlib@region.waterloo.on.ca. 

JANUARY 13 

» Women’s Group “Building Self-Esteem” – Group meets weekly for eight 

weeks, starting Jan. 13 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Offered by the Wilmot Family Resource 

Centre and held at the Wellesley Township Community Health Centre. 

Services are provided free of charge and group membership is confidential. For 

more information, contact Karen at 519-662-2731. 

JANUARY 14 

» Storytime for children ages 3-5 at Bloomingdale Branch Library. Join us for 

stories and fun activities on Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-2:15 p.m. from 

Jan. 14 to Mar. 4, or Thursday afternoons from 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 15 to 

Mar. 5. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Call or visit the library, 

519-745-3151 or email bloomlib@region.waterloo.on.ca. 

» Storytime for children ages 3-5 at St. Jacobs Branch Library. Join us for 

stories and fun activities on Wednesday mornings from 10-10:45 a.m. from 

Jan. 14 to Feb. 18 , or Thursday afternoons from 1:30-2:15 p.m. from Jan. 15 

to Feb. 19. Pre-registration is required, space is limited. Call or visit the library, 

519-664-3443 or email stjaclib@region.waterloo.on.ca. 

SHANTZ, Milo Daniel 1932-2009 

– Milo Shantz died at home Tuesday, January 

6, 2009 at the age of 76. 

Beloved husband of Laura Shantz (Martin). 

Loving father of Jenny Shantz (Willem Moolenbeek), 

Christine Shantz, Sandra Shantz (Tania 

Benninger), Margaret Shantz (Greg Bezzo), 

Marcus (Lisa) Shantz. Cherished grandpa of Jacob, 

Kira, Laura, Timothy, Nathan and Martin. 

Milo is survived by his brother Ross and Erma 

Shantz. Also sadly missed by Laura’s family, 

Florence Wideman, Viola and George Wallace, 

Ellen Moyer, Abner and Shirley Martin, 

and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased 

by his parents, Irvin and Lovina Shantz (Roth) 

and grandson, Adam Daniel Shantz. 

Milo spent his early years working on the family 

farm and at the age of 21 purchased his first 

500 turkey pullets. Milos’s early involvement 

in the poultry business developed into Hybrid 

Turkeys, a global turkey breeding company, 

which he was actively involved with until 

1981. In 1975, Milo and Laura opened the Stone 

Crock Restaurant in St. Jacobs. As Chairman 

of Mercedes Corporation and the Stone Crock 

Inc., Milo was instrumental in developing St. 

Jacobs Country into a popular destination. A 

special project was The Mennonite Story in- 

» Cooking Up Foods that Fight Diabetes 7-9 p.m. with WCHC registered dieticians, 

Robin Hicken and Jane Weber. Call 519-664-3794 for more information. 

» Woolwich Caregivers Group, 10-11:15 a.m. at Woolwich Community Health 

Centre for education and support. Call Lorraine at 519-664-3794, ext. 229 for 

more information. 

JANUARY 18 

» In Concert – Hank & Janet Sonnenberg. Lifting his name in song; 7 p.m., 

Waterloo North Presbyterian Church, corner of Northfield and Westmount 

roads. Free-will offering; 519-888-7870. 

JANUARY 20 

terpretive creative renovation despite his failing 

health. Milo served on many boards and 

organizations throughout his life, among them 

Mennonite Economic Development Associates, 

Habitat for Humanity, St. Mary’s Hospital, Associated 

Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Conrad 

Grebel College, Community Futures and the 

Woldemar Neufeld Art Collection. Milo was 

often recognized for5 his entrepreneurship and 

community involvement including the Queen’s 

Golden Jubilee Medal, the Confederation Medal 

and an Honorary Doctorate from Wilfrid Lau- 

» Toddler Tales is for children 24 to 36 months old and runs Tuesdays 10:30- 

11:15 a.m. from Jan. 20 to Mar. 10 at Elmira Branch Library. For more information, 

visit the library at 65 Arthur St. S., Elmira. 

» Lunch At Gale Presbyterian Church – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 Cross St., Elmira; 

519-669-2852. Menu: beef stew, coleslaw, roll and peach cobbler, beverage 

$9 per person. Also soup and roll to go, $3. Takeouts available, wheelchair 

accessible, everyone welcome. 

rier University. The family received friends 

and family at the Waterloo North Mennonite 

Church, on Wednesday, January 8. Funeral 

service was held at the Church on Friday, 

January 9th, followed by interment at the St. 

Jacobs Mennonite Cemetery. 

Condolences for the family and donations to 

MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development As- 

JANUARY 21 

» Storytime for children ages 3-5 at Elmira Branch Library. Join us for stories 

and fun activities on Wednesday afternoons from 2-2:45 p.m. from Jan. 21 to 

Mar. 11 or Thursdays 10:15-11 a.m. from Jan. 22 to Mar. 12. Pre-registration is 

required, space is limited. Visit the library located at 65 Arthur St. S., Elmira. 

JANUARY 22 

» Health Education Session – 10:15-11:15 a.m. Building Better Bladder Health 

with a nurse continence advisor at St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton. Everyone 

welcome. No registration, no fee. Call 519-664-3794 for more information. 

JANUARY 23 

sociates) or Mennonite World Conference can 

be arranged through the Erb & Good Family 

Funeral Home, Waterloo 519-745-8445. 

» Robbie Burns Dinner – Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira, downstairs. 

6 p.m. – first come, first served. Steak pie and all the trimmings, $6/ 

person. 

» Greenwood Hill Band – Bluegrass and gospel music; 7:30 p.m. Please join 

us for an evening of outstanding entertainment at West Montrose United 

Church, 42 Covered Bridge Dr., West Montrose. Light refreshments after concert. 

Free-will offering. 

JANUARY 31 

» Spaghetti Dinner & Salad Bar – Royal Canadian Legion, 11 First St. E., Elmira. 

Two sittings, 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. Tickets purchased in advance at the Legion. Call 

519-669-2932. Adults $10; children 5-10 yrs. $4; under 5 yrs. $2. 

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