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When Chris Hadfield was nine years old, he watched Neil Armstrong land on the moon and, like millions of kids, decided to become an astronaut. Alas,

The Elmira Maple Syrup Festival celebrated its 50th year on Satur-day – an age when many people succumb to a mid-life crisis. For Ken Jessop, chairperson of the festival committee, the anniversary marked the end of an era for Canada’s largest one-day syrup festival … and the beginning of a new one.

“We put a business plan together two-and-a-half years ago with our vision of where we were going leading up to and past the 50th,” said Jessop on Wednesday. “Flap Jack, our mascot, was an initiative we were envisioning for the 50th. Those signs that we replaced on the north and south end of town, that was another vision.”

As the committee begins preparing for 2015 and fes-tival number 51, it will now contemplate the tricky task of evolving and expanding a time-honoured tradition.

“We always want to keep the tradition alive, and

Weather dampens turnout, but not spirit of the sap fest

An off-planet look at what it takes to succeedAstronaut Chris Hadfield offers a unique perspective to Home Hardware dealers in St. Jacobs

Canada’s most famous astronaut was the keynote speaker at Home Hardware’s annual spring market in St. Jacobs, applying his experience as captain of the International Space Station to business management on Earth. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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he faced an obstacle: Can-ada did not have a space program.

“I was setting my sights on something that was im-possible,” Hadfield said at Home Hardware’s annual spring market on Tuesday.

“But even then I realized, ‘Well, y’know, just look at what happened today on the moon – impossible things can happen. The only thing you can really control about impossibility is getting yourself ready.’”

Hadfield’s social media presence while in orbit made him the most inter-nationally famous Cana-dian not named Rob or Justin. On earth, Hadfield is using his experience as captain of the interna-

tional space station to offer advice on leadership and teambuilding at corporate events – including Home Hardware’s 50th anniver-sary market in St. Jacobs.

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A small business op-erating in violation of Wellesley bylaws now has a two-year grace period before its fate is ultimately decided.

Terry Rubach and his father Aaron Rubach have been running a woodwork-ing shop from the son’s home at 4915 William Hast-

Wellesley small business earns council reprieveWILL SLOAN ings Line. The use doesn’t

comply with the township’s zoning bylaw, as operating from a detached garage doesn’t qualify as a home business and the property, while zoned agricultural, is too small to meet the re-quirements for an on-farm business – at half an acre, it falls well short of the mini-mum of 20 acres, and there is no farm operation.

Still, councillors meeting Monday night agreed to let the pair see if the business is viable rather than forc-ing it to shut down.

The Rubachs requested a two-year grace period, so that if the bylaw amend-ment (which typically takes six months) is re-jected, they would be able to assess if the business is strong enough to support

finding a new property.“We’re simply asking

to be able to continue do-ing the business that we have already started here,” Aaron Rubach told council April 7. “We want to do it legally; we want to be a contributor to this com-munity; we want to do that which can make all of us proud that we are here.

“We’re believers that in

small business, everyone has to start somewhere, and small business should be judged on the basis of how they contribute to the community.”

The Rubachs specialize in trellises, and clients in-clude Home Hardware in St. Jacobs. Terry Rubach’s home is an agricultural property for home-based occupation. The wood-

working shop is officially designated as a hobby, and the Rubachs hope to expand to a full-fledged business.

Regarding the two-year grace period, Aaron Ru-bach explained, “One year isn’t sufficient to know whether a business is going to go.”

FAITHFUL TO THE STANDARDS IN MUSICAL INTERLUDE AT CHATEAU GARDENS

Mary Clemmer & Friends revived the Gospel standards of yore at Chateau Gardens Assisted Living Centre in Elmira on April 3. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Just in time for spring, fundraising plans for a Breslau splash park are be-ginning to bud with a new committee at the helm and some donations already rolling in.

“I think people are really excited because they would like to know what’s going to be done. I think people are really looking forward to it – it’s something that is not only needed in the com-munity but really wanted. With the great weather there are so many kids

Ready to make a splash (pad) in BreslauELENA MAYSTRUK playing outside and this

would just be a great facil-ity for them,” said JoAnna Brunnenmeir, Breslau Lions Club member and co-chair of the splash pad committee.

Residents already had a chance to vote on their favourite of three designs for the pad during Breslau’s Family Fun Day last June. Based on popular demand – a new committee which formed after the main or-ganizers moved away from Breslau last year – went with an airplane theme for the park by Open Space

Solutions Inc. The park is tentatively planned to be built near the Breslau Com-munity Centre.

“The people heading up the committee moved to Newfoundland so starting in November we had a new committee. The splash pad has been designed and certain commitments have been made but we didn’t really get a chance to start our fundraising campaign until November when we took over,” Brunnenmeir said.

After catching up on the details, the committee is

ready to start knocking on the doors of corporate donors hoping to glean most of the funds in this manner, but also looking at grants and private dona-tions.

“We have a packaged de-sign we are ready to pres-ent to donors. Mostly we are starting with approach-ing corporations. We have received at least one grant already. We are just ready now to go and start talking to donors. We think we are in a really good place,” she said. “We’re really ready to go full force, buy the end

of May for sure we’ll be knocking on doors.”

Ideas for the pad initially came out of an attempt to diversify one of Ontario’s fastest-growing communi-ties, Brunnenmeir added, with an emphasis on the Lions Club’s goal of cater-ing to families and kids.

“It could be the fast-est growing community in Ontario. There are still plans for thousands of new homes over the next ten years and we just don’t have any facilities like [the splash pad]. The park is older and so we just

thought because this is such a young community, with young families here, this would be a perfect project to tackle.”

To offset the approxi-mately $350,000 cost of the project, organizers also hope some companies will come forward with dona-tion offers for labour or materials.

The committee hopes to launch its new website this weekend where visitors can get more information or make donations online. For more information look for www.breslaugrandsplash.ca.

Lions Club eager to get project underway to help meet the needs of kids and families in fast-growing community


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“People talk about visu-alizing success all the time – I don’t really understand it. If success happens, that’s great – visualizing it doesn’t make it happen. Things go wrong all the time. … Visualize [failure] realistically, and then prac-tice, as realistically as you can, how you’re going to avoid failure from happen-ing.”

During their half decade of preparation, Hadfield and his crew “trained to take out each other’s ap-pendix and reprogram the computers onboard and make an IMAX movie and do spacewalks.”

He explained, “You can never be too competent, and things you were expert in a little while ago change over time. … Every skill that you can give to your team of people … improves the odds that you will sur-vive, that you will be suc-cessful in whatever you’re trying to accomplish.”

However, he added, com-petence extends beyond the crew and into manage-ment.

“You’ve all worked for someone who is incompe-tent, and it is immediately apparent if they haven’t done their homework. … If you were ever going to be trusted and expect yourself to do a good job leading anybody, then you need to do the work in advance."

For the astronauts, four-and-a-half years was no small commitment. What kept the crew going, Had-

field said, were the goals they united behind – much like how, 50 years ago, 122 independent hardware stores pooled their resourc-es into a co-op that became one of Canada’s most suc-cessful corporations.

“I set overall objectives, just like when I was a little kid,” said Hadfield. “Once you’ve given people the skills, they know where they’re trying to head, then you can set ‘em loose. They may not go exactly the same path you’d go, but they know which direction they’re headed, and you can trust them to make de-

cisions.”Realistically speaking,

few of today’s nine-year-olds who idolize Hadfield will become astronauts. How does one sustain op-timism when one has set a goal that is almost un-reachable?

Hadfield admitted, “Re-ally, I decided a long time ago, ‘I’m never going to fly in space, the odds are just too terrible. I cannot make that the measure of my life. Instead, that’s just a distant draw, like a magnet pulling me that way, and I’m going to enjoy all the stuff that happens along the way.’”

Hadfield met fans and autographed copies of his memoir, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life,” after the speech. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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Uniting behind a common goal was the theme of Hadfield’s speech, whether in outer space or at your neighbourhood Home Hardware. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]


POLICE BLOTTER

St. Clements intersection to be studied

A delegation from St. Clements appeared at Waterloo Region council on April 1 advocating for a traffic light at Herrgott Road and Lobsinger Line.

Between 2007 and 2011, the intersec-tion experienced eight collisions – twice the expected number – but last October, regional planners declared traffic levels to be too low to justify a light or overhead flashing beacon. The St. Clements delegation, which

included Wellesley Coun. Paul Hergott, argued that the proposed adjustments (including alteration to the curb and elimination of parking spaces) are not enough.

Regional council voted to send the matter to staff, who will prepare a report.

MennoHomes founder retires

MennoHomes, a charitable organiza-tion that builds and rents affordable housing in Waterloo Region, will host a retirement celebration for founding president Martin Buhr on April 15 at

Gale Presbyterian Church in Elmira.The retirement celebration is open to

the public beginning at 6:30 p.m.Buhr served as the executive director

of the House of Friendship in Kitchener for 20 years. Following a brief retire-ment, he volunteered to help create and lead MennoHomes. Since its founding in 2001, MennoHomes has provided 105 affordable housing units for seniors and families.

While the majority of MennoHomes’ housing is in Kitchener, MennoHomes has also provided seven units for families in Elmira since 2010.

In addition, the group has partnered with Woolwich Community Services to

purchase a vacant lot at the corner of Church Street and Memorial Avenue. MennoHomes is in the early stages of developing the property that will see 24 apartments built.

The retirement celebration is also a fundraiser with all donations going towards the new affordable housing project in Elmira.

SJK shines at science fair

Two St. John’s-Kilmarnock students are among nine heading to the Canada-wide Science and

Engineering Fair in Windsor next month, having scored well at the Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair.

Zoë Kovacs, Grade 10, and Parker Hoyes, Grade 8 were Award of Merit winners, allowing them to move on.

Some 295 Grade 7 through 12 students and their 220 projects took part in the WWSEF event April 8 at Bingemans in Kitchener.

Kovacs’ project, entitled The Diges-tion Question, earned a Best of Division Award in Physical & Mathematical Science. She also received a Gold Medallion – Physical & Mathematical Science, Intermediate.

Hoyes won the Gold Medallion – Physical & Mathematical Science, Junior for his project titled Trendsetter.

Both were recipients of a Sir Isaac Newton Award.

Bronze Medallion – Engineering, Intermediate went to SJK student Mattea Powell. Other recipients included Brendan Chin-Quee (Bronze Medallion – Engineering, Junior), Jonah Landry (Bronze Medallion – Physical & Mathematical Science, Junior), Megan Berry (Pewter Medallion – Engineering, Intermediate) and Conestogo’s Cara Webber (Pewter Medallion – Life Science, Junior).

Woman charged in connection with school bus collisionA 64-year-old Wallen-stein woman operating a Ford van was charged with ‘careless driving’ under the Highway Traffic Act this week after rear-ending a stopped school bus full of students near 3195 Ament Line in Wellesley Township on the morning of March 6.

The bus’ overhead lights were on and the stop arm out at the time. As a child was preparing to enter the bus, the woman’s van struck the rear of the bus,

becoming wedged under-neath and requiring emer-gency crews to extricate her from the vehicles. She was subsequently airlifted to Hamilton Health Sci-ences in critical but stable condition.

The 49-year-old school bus driver was not injured and out of 17 school chil-dren on board three com-plained of minor injuries. They were assessed by paramedics and released at the scene.

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Region of Waterloo moves on eastside lands

Waterloo Regional council this week approved its East side lands (stage 1) master environmental servicing plan (MESP), part of the framework for the development lands in the north part of Cambridge near the Region of Waterloo International Airport.

The MESP provides recommendations related to transportation, water and wastewater infrastructure in relation to some 750 acres of land to earmarked for industrial use.

Housing sales down in March

Residential property sales were down 12 per cent last month compared to March 2013, the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors reports.

There were 536 residential sales reported during the month of March, 23 per cent more than in February. Looking at the first quarter of 2013, there were a total of 1,293 residential sales, a decrease of 7.3 per cent compared to last year’s 1,395 sales.

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12:21 AM | A woman was charged with ‘careless driving’ after leaving the scene following a single-vehicle accident. She was northbound on Benjamin Road in a white pickup truck when she lost control, drove off the road and struck a fire hydrant. She was also charged with ‘fail to report collision.’

WORKSHOP: Home-based operation in contravention of bylaw gets grace period to establish viability

Coun. Paul Hergott ques-tioned if approving the re-quest could set a precedent for other small businesses to open on residential properties. However, Mayor Ross Kelterborn noted that council has ap-proved temporary bylaw violations when there is a plan in place to get back on

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9:15 AM | Three vehicles were struck by what appeared to be a beige or white vehicle that fled the scene at Centre Street in Elmira. Driver-side mirrors were knocked off of all three parked vehicles and police are requesting that anyone with information call 519-570-3000, referencing occurrence # WA14072928.

FROM | 3 track, such as when a sec-ond house is built on a one-house lot prior to demoli-tion of the other structure.

“That goes against our bylaws as well, but it cor-rects itself in time,” said Kelterborn. “We set a precedent when we did the business with the houses, as far as I’m concerned.”

“Everything is not al-ways precedent-setting,”

said Coun. Herb Neher. “You look at each case on its own merits, and assess what the peculiarities are. Just because we allowed one case, I don’t see that as precedent-setting.”

Added Coun. Jim Olender, “It’s part of our strategic plan to encourage business, not to thwart it. I know there are some tech-nicalities here, but I still

don’t think we shoot some-body down for trying.”

Council ultimately agreed to allow Rubach to operate a business contrary to the zoning bylaw for two years, subject to applying for the appropriate plan-ning act applications.

Terry and Aaron Rubach will apply for a zoning amendment for their home-based business. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

The Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) enforces vaccination for Waterloo Region students against tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and diphtheria. But with misconceptions about vac-cination running rampant, and diseases like measles flaring up for the first time in decades, Region of Wa-terloo Public Health needs to work extra hard to pre-vent disease outbreak.

“We try to educate daily with all of our phone calls that we take on our info line, but we also work closely with family doctors and the school boards to get our information out,” said Linda Black, manager of vaccine preventable dis-eases for Public Health.

“We’re reviewing how we’re communicating our

Region keeping track of students’ immunization shots

WILL SLOAN messages. This year, we’ll be doing a lot of online promotions. We’ll be do-ing some information on school websites, and hopefully working with the communications depart-ment in the school board to ramp up.”

Last week, the depart-ment mailed immuniza-tion record requests for students without complete records, and beginning May 7 will enforce the legislation at secondary schools. Parents will need to send proof of immuniza-tion directly to the region. Without an immunization record, students may be given a 20-day suspension.

However, Public Health will be allowing un-vaccinated students with a legal exception. “Any student can get an exemp-tion based on religion, philosophical, conscience,

or medical [reasons]. They have to be signed by a com-missioner, and when we get that form, we input it in our system so we know who is up to date and who is not.”

If there’s an outbreak in a school, students with-out vaccination will be excluded from school. “If they were exposed, I think there would be some quar-antining in effect to make sure they don’t show symp-toms,” Black added.

Walk-in clinics will be open Monday to Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Public Health’s Waterloo office (99 Regina St. S., 2nd floor), as well as Fridays at the Cam-bridge office (150 Main St.). Immunization records can be submitted at e-immuni-zation.regionofwaterloo.ca, by phoning 519-575-4400, or at the Waterloo or Cam-bridge offices.

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keep the festival the way it has been for 50 years,” said Jessop. However, “part of our business plan is, we’ve got to recruit new blood. Some of our older volun-teers are stepping down, we’re trying to recruit younger people so they can carry on the festival, ten or twenty years from now and beyond.”

A focus of the festival’s future will be the WMC, which this year included a magic show, the Birds of Prey, the pancake-flipping contest, face painting, and other activities. In the com-ing years, Jessop predicts the WMC will serve as a family-friendly comple-ment to the Arthur Street mall.

“We often get emails from people saying, ‘[The festival] is nice, but do you have any events where we can spend time with the children?’” said Jes-sop. “We brought a couple new people in, and we’re developing the area up at the rec. centre. And we’ve already started to do that.”

People who showed up

early on April 5 probably appreciated the WMC for its warmth. The morning’s subzero temperatures and light snow attributed to attendance that was down from recent years – some-where in the 55,000-60,000 range, compared to the approximately 70,000 who turned up in 2013.

“One thing we can’t have any control over is the weather,” said Jessop. “It was disappointing the weather was a little cold in the morning, but as the day progressed we got people, and as a committee we were pretty pleased.”

Regarding the pancake tent, “We did not sell out, as we did in previous years, which would indicate too that our numbers were down.”

Despite the thin initial numbers, the weather improved in the after-noon, and crowds grew big enough to make the festival a success. As for reports that syrup producers were experiences a tough year, Jessop said that didn’t af-fect the festival.

“In normal years, the syrup had been flowing earlier because of mild weather. So when people went out on the sugar bush tours, the syrup wasn’t flowing. Well, this year it was – people who went out to those bushes would have seen the true production of maple syrup.”

The Elmira Maple Syrup Festival is no small com-mitment, and requires advance preparations spanning much of the cal-endar year. But for now, the festival committee is taking a breather before looking to 2015. “I think we’re all just putting our feet up and relaxing,” said Jessop.

EMSF 2014: Fiftieth outing of the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival could have done without the snow, but now it’s all about the next fiftyFROM | COVER

Ryan Frey (top) sold some syrup, while Hannah and Heidi Locking sampled pancakes, and Caleb and Faith Dalley visited the sugar bush. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]


How sweet it is!A sure sign of spring, the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival draws 'em in, whatever the weather

Megan Elrick and Tarryn Swanek shared a well-earned memento of the festival; while Adrian went for a ride at the WMC. [ELENA MAYSTRUK AND WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Coun. Julie-Anne Herteis represented Woolwich at the Pancake Flipping contest; the Toronto Raptor Conservatory’s Birds of Prey took flight at the Dan Snyder Arena; Allie and Chiara Caldarelli and Wade and Erica Ogram waited to sample some taffy.

Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht had the sap on tap; J.P. Magic sent balloon animals into the wild; Doug McLean and Bruce Beirnes revved their engines at the toy show.

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The result of Monday’s provincial election would indi-cate Quebecers are pretty much like the rest of us: they want a government that concentrates on what’s impor-tant to them, not politicians focused on pet projects and pipedreams – and certainly not at the expense of practi-cal matters ... and their wallets.

In turfing the Parti Québécois in favour of a renewed Liberal party, voters in that province sent a firm message about the decades-old separatist debate and, to a lesser extent, disavowed the PQ’s divisive charter of values.

On the sovereignty issue, polls have shown Quebecers to be increasingly disinterested in the idea, which is why the PQ had been trying to downplay the issue – a familiar tactic. That went out the window with the ill-considered recruitment of media mogul Pierre Karl Péladeau, who immediately brought the prospect of a referendum back into the limelight, essentially dooming the 18-month-old minority government.

Likewise, the values charter – a document trying to pass off the positive concept of secularism as cover for playing up fear of immigrants, particularly Muslims – made Quebecers uncomfortable the more desperately the péquistes tried to drive home the wedge.

Nowhere is the issue of immigration and accommoda-tion more volatile than with Muslims and Islam. It’s that group of immigrants that prompted the government to consider banning overtly religious symbols from the ranks of the public sector. Not able to simply banish burkas and niqabs, the PQ included turbans, kippas and even crosses as a way of seeming to apply the rules to everyone.

The idea resonated with Francophones, but many balked at the hard-line implementation proposed as more details became available.

Its two main issues withering under scrutiny and the poll numbers falling, the PQ attempted to sling the mud of corruption on the Liberals, who left under a cloud. Even that went sideways, as the worst of it literally came home to Premier Pauline Marois.

Corruption is no small matter in the province, as on-going investigations continue to reveal. Longstanding systemic corruption, particularly in the construction industry, are surely high priorities for Premier-designate Philippe Couillard. More pressing, though somewhat re-lated, is dealing with Quebec’s economy. In that, potholes certainly trump sovereignty.

The most avowed federalist leader Quebec has had at the helm in decades, Couillard will certainly bring change to the relationship with Ottawa, focusing on what can be done to deal with problem areas familiar to resi-dents of every province: employment, health care, educa-tion and crumbling infrastructure. While some matters are strictly provincial jurisdiction, more can be done with a cooperative approach rather than the divisive policies and tactics of the PQ.

Certainly linguistic issues and the desire to protect the French language will never go away in Quebec, but at the end of the day people there want good jobs, a bet-ter future for their kids, a strong health care system and bridges that don’t collapse, the very things we here want. The very things that are top of mind from coast to coast, in fact.

With this week’s election, Quebecers now seem to share something else with the rest of us: they’re also tired of the Constitutional squabbles and the neverendum.

Quebec election shows we all want the same thing

“I prefer death to sur-render,” said Pakistan’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on April 1 to the special court that is trying him on five counts of high treason, but it’s a reasonable guess that he’d prefer exile to either of those options. The real puzzle is why he ever left his comfortable exile in England in the first place.

In theory, Musharraf, who seized power in Paki-stan in 1999 and finally gave it up under great pres-sure in 2007, could face the death penalty if he is found guilty, but in practice he is protected by the Important Persons Act, an unwritten law that operates in almost every country. High politi-cal office is a club, and the members look after one another.

Nevertheless, Musharraf is being greatly incon-venienced by the trial, and last week the Taliban nearly got him with a roadside bomb near Islam-abad. Doubtless he missed

Hapless countries see the return of the dictatorsPakistan, but what bizarre calculation could have led him to go home and put himself in the hands of his many enemies?

Musharraf said he was coming home to run in the 2013 election, which was delusional in the extreme. There was little reason to believe that many Paki-stanis would want to vote for him after living under his arbitrary rule for eight years. There was no reason at all to think that he would not be disqualified from running in the election and put on trial for grave crimes.

Yet Musharraf is not alone. Other ex-dictators, far nastier than him, have succumbed to the same de-lusion and gone home con-vinced that they would be welcomed back. Another recent case is Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who took over as Haiti’s dictator at 19 when his father “Papa Doc” died in 1971 and ruled it until he was overthrown by a popular revolt in 1986.

Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere when he took power, and still the poor-est when he lost it, but he took an alleged $120 mil-

lion with him into exile in France. His dreaded Tonton Macoute militia murdered thousands and drove hundreds of thou-sands into exile, and many of them were massacred in the revolution that ended his rule, but he lived on in Paris in great luxury.

Eventually Duvalier’s spendthrift ways and an expensive divorce got him into financial difficulties, but just going back to Haiti was not going to fix that. Yet he went home in 2011, after a quarter-century in exile. He said he was “just coming to help,” whatever that meant, but he arrived just as the recently elected president was facing charges of election-rigging, which led some to specu-late that Duvalier still had political ambitions.

He was arrested and charged with embezzle-ment, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity. Three years later the courts are still pursu-ing him on those charges, but in the meantime he is frequently seen lunching in the bistros of Petionville, and has even been wel-comed at the same events as the current president,

Michel Martelly. It’s safe to say that he will not die in jail.

And then there was Jean-Bedel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, later known as Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. He was a brutal soldier who had served in the French colonial army, and seized power from his country’s first president (a cousin) in 1966. For the next 13 years he ruled the country with great violence and practi-cally bankrupted it.

The mass murder of schoolchildren and ru-mours of cannibalism finally moved the French to intervene militarily and overthrow Bokassa in 1979 while he was travelling abroad. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1980 for the murder of many political rivals – but he re-turned from exile in Paris in 1986, seemingly confi-dent that he would be wel-comed with open arms.

He was put on trial and sentenced to death again – in person, this time. But the following year his sen-tence was commuted to

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THEIR VIEW / QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Myth of the skills gap gets in the way of dealing with real employment issues

Hot on the heels of a couple of accounts with ac-tual facts comes this week’s assertion by retired oil ex-ecutive and avid right-wing commentator Gwyn Mor-gan that Canada is facing a skills gap.

“The skills shortage is the biggest challenge our country faces. Meeting that challenge will require the determined and united commitment of every level of government, our edu-cational institutions and business leaders across the nation. A daunting challenge indeed,” he con-cludes.

Stating the obvious? Ev-erybody knows about the skills gap, right? It explains away chronically high unemployment numbers and batters the education system – degrees in basket weaving, anyone? – all in one tidy package.

Problem is, it doesn’t exist, at least not in any meaningful way.

“But the belief that

America suffers from a severe 'skills gap' is one of those things that everyone important knows must be true, because everyone they know says it’s true. It’s a prime example of a zombie idea – an idea that should have been killed by evidence, but refuses to die,” writes eminent economist Paul Krugman in a piece a couple of weeks ago, looking at the U.S. version of this particular undead creature.

Far from being an en-tertaining fiction – seen in many a TV show and movie these days – this zombie has consequences in the real world.

“Unfortunately, the skills myth – like the myth of a looming debt crisis – is having dire effects on real-world policy. Instead of focusing on the way disas-trously wrongheaded fiscal policy and inadequate ac-tion by the Federal Reserve have crippled the economy and demanding action, important people piously wring their hands about the failings of American workers,” Krugman con-tinues.

“Moreover, by blam-

ing workers for their own plight, the skills myth shifts attention away from the spectacle of soaring profits and bonuses even as employment and wages stagnate. Of course, that may be another reason cor-porate executives like the myth so much.”

The Princeton professor points to a scientific study carried out by researchers at M.I.T. and the Boston Consulting Group that found “worries of a skills gap crisis are overblown.”

“That shortage repre-sents less than one per cent of the nation’s 11.5 million manufacturing workers and less than eight per cent of its 1.4 million highly skilled manufacturing workers. What’s more, only seven states – six of which are in the bottom quartile of U.S. state manufacturing output – show significant or severe skills gaps,” reads that 2012 study.

That the shortage is a fallacy here in Canada was debunked that same week by the Parliamentary Bud-get Office.

“There is little evidence to suggest a national la-bour shortage exists in

Canada, although there appear to be regional and sectoral pockets of labour market tightness,” reads the report, entitled Labour Market Assessment 2014.

The PBO’s findings were in keeping with a report prepared last fall by TD Economics. That study downplayed predictions of large and persistent job shortages in Canada, as well as views that today’s youth will be a “lost gen-eration.”

To test for labour short-ages and mismatch, TD economists compiled data on unemployment rates, wage rates and vacancy rates (a measure of unmet labour demand) for around 140 occupations. Results uncovered some surprises. For instance, occupations widely thought to be in shortage – such as trades, engineers and health care workers – have recorded considerably lower unem-ployment rates than aver-age, but vacancy rates that are only moderately higher.

Like Krugman, the bank’s deputy chief econo-mist, Derek Burleton, iden-tifies the myth behind the skills gap.

“Perceptions can take on a life of their own with-out hard underlying facts supporting them,” says Burleton, co-author of the report. “Still there is room for improvement in Canada’s labour market, and we were pleased with the federal government’s focus on skills and train-ing development. Our view is a more concerted effort among all levels of govern-ment as well as employers, employees and educators will be needed to provide Canada with a world-lead-ing workforce for the 21st century.”

Observers such as Krug-man note governments need to do more – includ-ing encouraging corpora-tions now hoarding piles of cash – to abandon the myth and do more to help with the real structural issues behind high unem-ployment despite improve-ments in the economy.

For progressive econo-mists here, the PBO’s re-port that kills Krugman’s zombie – again – is the sig-nal that government needs to change the channel.

“So what should this rev-elation mean for govern-

ment policy? First, govern-ment needs to recognize that in much of Canada there is a job shortage, and an employer training short-age. Programs and poli-cies should be re-oriented around that reality,” says Canadian Labour Congress economist Angella MacE-wen.

The actual gap is be-tween reality and the gov-ernment/employer version thereof.

“Once we’ve accepted a job shortage, it would be fantastic if we could also accept a job quality deficit, and start talking about what we can do to foster well-paid and secure jobs for workers in Canada,” she adds.

Young people are par-ticularly at risk in the economy as it stands, with a shortage of good jobs. While Statistics Canada reports an unexpectedly strong increase of 43,000 jobs in March, many of those were in the service industry, rife with low pay, no benefits and part-time/precarious hours.

As for skills, there are

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The Detroit Red Wings.

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"These decisions just heighten the cynicism already rampant within the general public. " Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach | 10

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THE MONITOR VERBATIM THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

NATIONAL VIEW

DYER: Ex-dictators feel safe returning to scene of the crimeFROM | 8

» Statistics Canada

life in prison, and in 1993 he was set free. In 2010, President François Bozizé issued a decree rehabilitat-ing Bokassa and calling him “a son of the nation recognized by all as a great builder.”

Two things are odd about this phenomenon of ex-dictators confidently returning to the scene of the crime. One, obviously, is their belief that they are still loved (as if they ever really were). But that is less strange than it seems, for during their time in power very few people dared to tell them anything else.

What’s much more cu-rious is the fact that the countries they misruled eventually find it neces-sary to forgive them. They do this not so much out of sympathy for the man

who committed the crimes, but rather out of a need for the nation’s history not to be merely a meaningless catalogue of blunders and misdeeds.

Musharraf may have come back a bit too early to benefit from instant for-giveness, for some of the people he hurt have not yet retired. But he will not face really serious jail time or the death penalty, because Pakistan’s army would not permit it. And he will be forgiven by Pakistan’s his-torians and myth-makers in the end, because some-how or other the history has to make sense.

Municipalities issued building permits worth $6.1 billion in February, down 11.6% from January. This decrease followed an 8.1% gain the previous month and was mainly driven by lower construction intentions for multi-family dwellings in all provinces. Construction intentions for residential buildings declined 21.0% to $3.6 billion, following a 26.1% increase the previous month.

» Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, sees the universally criticized Fair Elections Act as an attempt to hide Conservative fraud in the last federal election

"This is appalling. In a disturbing parallel to the 1972 break-in at the Watergate office complex, Harper is trying to break into our democratic system with this legislation to cover up the truth about what happened during the 2011 election from ever coming out."

» From the Apr. 12, 2008 edition of the Observer

Elmira saw its first homicide case in decades as the death of Valerie Ferguson, 44, on Apr. 3 became a murder with the arrest of her husband Kenneth Michael Ferguson, 41, three days later. A postmortem examination revealed the mother of two young children died as a result of strangulation. [Ken Ferguson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and in February 2010 was given an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 20 years.]

YOUR VIEW / LETTER

KANNON: Killing the "zombie" a first step toward better policyFROM | 9

certainly mismatches be-tween the jobs available and what’s on the résumés of those seeking work, but much of that could be dealt with if young work-ers in particular could find businesses willing to give them a chance to earn the experience employ-ers are clamouring for – a classic chicken-or-egg conundrum. As with the well-documented woes of apprenticeship programs in this country, employers have shown themselves

unwilling to help workers get on a good career track (see, for instance, pretty much every critique of the Temporary Foreign Worker program and its abuses).

For those young people and other at-risk workers, the key is not just jobs but better jobs.

Doing away with the skills-gap myth that has muddied the waters would be a good first step.

As Krugman notes, “So we need to kill this zombie, if we can, and stop making excuses for an economy that punishes workers.”

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No Frills decision the opposite of Competition Bureau’s mandate

To the Editor,The federal Competi-tion Bureau’s decision to allow the acquisition of Shoppers’ Drug Mart by Lo-blaws on condition (among others) that Elmira’s No Frills grocery store be closed is just more grist to the mill about government. It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry about such an absurd decision.

The whole point of the Competition Bureau is to ensure competition in the marketplace. Logically, that means that it should be supportive of retaining the two grocery stores in a town the size of Elmira. And yet, it does the very opposite in ordering one of these stores to be shut down.

I have nothing against Sobey’s Foodland, but I do not believe the public interest is being served by giving them a monopoly in a town of 10,000. Sure, the closure will ostensibly be allowed once a new buyer is found. But the reality is for the grocery business to be exceedingly concentrat-ed as is; it might be wishful thinking for a third grocery

chain to come in as a white knight. Among the ironies, the decision will complete what Sobey’s had in mind for Elmira in the first place when it moved to the south end of town.

I would urge Woolwich council to issue another letter besides the one to the Competition Bureau, this time to MP Harold Albrecht to request a reversal of the decision or at least an exemption. This decision flies in the face of what the federal government professes. They should be at least predisposed to having a critical look at the decision.

These decisions just heighten the cynicism al-ready rampant within the general public. It reinfor-ces a prevalent belief that governments of whatever level and stripe are out of touch and make decisions that are not primarily driven by the public in-terest. It fuels a funda-mental mistrust which is corrosive in a democracy. A federal agency based in Ottawa should have done its due diligence by contacting Woolwich Township before making a decision that calls into question its competence and those of governments in general.

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Playoffs still going strong for these Woolwich playersTrio part of Waterloo Siskins team that claimed Cherrey Cup and is now in pursuit of provincial title

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How has the fishing been?

We live in a strange world filled with outlandish cus-toms and have developed all sorts of odd, meaning-less ways to greet each other.

There are hand gestures and nods. Then, there are the weird words like “hello,” “hey” or “hi.” Add to these more formal phrases such as “good morning” or “good afternoon.” And let’s not forget the local favourite that I’m hearing more often these days, “There’s that idiot.”

Every one of these greet-ings is unique but I think it’s fair to say that what each of them really means is, “How has the fishing been?”

I was explaining this to Jenn the other day after she pointed out that I answer every one of those thinly disguised greetings with a long-winded story of my latest fishing adventure.

“Glad you noticed,” I said.She then made a very

astute observation.“Don’t you see there is

something seriously wrong with answering a simple greeting with a condensed version of your latest fish-ing trip?” she asked.

“Yes, I do see that,” I answered. “But people are busy these days. They don’t have time for the full, de-tailed version.”

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Woolwich’s team fell out of the running, but three players from the township not only kept going, they were part of the squad that last week claimed the Cherrey Cup as the top team in the Greater

Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Midwestern Con-ference.

En route, Evan Buehler, Matt Schieck, Andrew Bru-bacher helped the Waterloo Siskins eliminate the El-mira Sugar Kings in the sec-ond round of the playoffs before vanquising the Strat-

Woolwich residents Matt Schieck, Evan Buehler and Andrew Brubacher shared in the Waterloo Siskins’ championship glory this week after earning the Cherrey Cup. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

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The Siskins are now play-ing the Caledonia Corvairs in the hunt for the Suther-land Cup and the Junior B crown.

“The win was great, it’s always fun winning, we played well,” said Schieck

this week of the Cherrey Cup victory.

The young forward was traded by the Sugar Kings last year.

Brubacher, who played with the Kings two years ago before joining the Sis-kins, says the team had a cohesive feel during a dif-

ficult season. “I think it was pretty dif-

ficult, it was definitely the most fun year that I had. It’s more of a younger team so we were well-bonded compared to some other teams.”

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After serving the Culli-tons their first home-game loss on April 1 and taking a 3-1 lead, the Siskins earned the cup in a 4-2 decision during the following Satur-day’s game at the Allman Arena in Stratford.

And their biggest compe-tition so far?

“I’d say Elmira was the biggest competition, the best rivalry. We went to seven games and every game we played against

them was a fight,” said Schieck.

Did coming into the Dan Snyder Arena to face jeer-ing and booing dismay the local players?

“It was a little weird at first, especially because I played there last year too, but it wasn’t too bad be-cause we had a lot of fans and friends and family who supported us,” said Schieck.

While understandably focused on the current se-

ries, the three players have some varied plans for next season.

“Grandpa Brubacher over there is retiring,” joked Buehler, who has always played with the Wa-terloo team.

Brubacher is heading to Conestoga College for marketing, while Buehler hopes to continue playing while looking for a job.

Schieck is taking it one day at a time as he looks at future school opportuni-

ties. Siskins’ president Curtis

Clairmont says players handled the season well. Clairmont has a soft spot for Woolwich sports after spending several years coaching locally at the mi-nor league level.

“From the standpoint of the players [the season] wasn’t difficult at all. We have a lot of good players with good character that made it maybe easier than the last one,” he said.

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Evan Buehler, Matt Schieck, Andrew Brubacher with the Cherrey Cup after beating Stratford 5-4 last weekend. [SUBMITTED]

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Game 1 vs. BurfordTwin Centre: 4 Burford: 1Goals: Curtis Butler x2, Tyler Zyta, Tyler MunroAssists: Aidan Krueger x2

Game 2 vs. HoneywoodTwin Centre: 6 Honeywood: 0Goals: Curtis Butler x2, Daniel Rudy x2, Cameron Hoy, Aidan KruegerAssists: Aidan Krueger, Brock Krulicki, Cameron Hoy, William WeberShutout: Brett Springer

Game 3 vs. MintoTwin Centre: 2 Minto: 1Goals: Aidan Krueger, Daniel RudyAssists: William Weber, Aidan Krueger, Josh Monk

Game 4 vs. StrathroyTwin Centre: 4 Strathroy: 0Goals: Alex Kaufman, Brock Krulicki, Curtis Butler, Aidan KruegerAssists: Josh Monk x2, Brok Krulicki, Cameron Hoy

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Last weekend, the Twin Centre Peewee Reps won the Annual Aylmer Tournament with a record of 4-1. They lost their first game to Strathroy 4-0 and then Beat Burford 4-1, Honeywood 6-0, Minto2-1 and then beat Strathroy in the final 4-0. Front: Brett Springer and Blair Gowing. Second row: Cameron Hoy, Blair Bender, Tyler Zyta, Will Weber. Third row: Curtis Butler, Brock Krulicki, Josh Monk, Tyler Munro, Aidan Krueger, Dylan Burton. Back row: Jensen Rudy, Jeff Kaufman, Steve Krulicki, Mike Krueger. Missing: Jacob Voisin. [SUBMITTED]

Woolwich Wild Atom C team took home bronze from the LLFHL Championship. Their final game after a period of overtime was still tied 2-2. The girls ended the game on top after a seven-player shootout. Goalie: Maggie Sabean. Bottom row: Teesha Weber, Jillian McIntyre, Avery Leech, Annabel Musselman, Kate Ratcliffe. Top row: Avery Durrer, Lexi Runstedler, Payton Ravelle, Brooklyn Wideman, Braelyn MacPherson, Faith Katsube. Coaches: Sue Durrer, Brent Ravelle, Steve Sabean, Mike Ratcliffe, Meg Bauman. [SUBMITTED]

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“You realize not every-one fishes?” she asked.

That, of course, is true. But it’s also precisely

why those people need a good fishing story to help them get through the hor-rible drudgery of their day-to-day existence.

Without a good fishing story, delivered mercilessly and without interruption at a grocery store lineup, by the gas station pump,

on the street or while blocking a strategic exit during a fire drill, those poor people would never actually know what the ice thickness is, what the lake trout are taking (blue and silver Williams Wablers or white and chartreuse tube jigs), water clarity, what the fish were coughing up, the best depth and structure to fish at or how skilled an angler you are.

Not to overstate it, but

I think we can all agree that, without the answers to these big questions, life is essentially a sad ordeal, devoid of meaning, direc-tion or purpose.

I, for one, cannot just look on silently while this happens.

That’s precisely why I take the time to return a fishing story to anyone who bothers to say hello to me, the person beside me or anyone in the general

vicinity. I’m just trying to give the masses purpose.

This isn’t easy. There are times, for instance, when the fish are not co-operating – or worse still, cooperating with everyone but me, no matter how incorrectly those idiots are fishing. Luckily, during dark moments like these, an angler can revert to old fishing stories so that no one ever walks away disap-pointed or with 15 minutes

to spare. It helps to have a few photos on your cell phone too.

Unfortunately, society seems to be getting more insular and helping people in this way is getting hard-er to do.

For instance, ever since the ice fishing season start-ed, no one, including the people who know me, says hello anymore. Heck, most folks I know don’t even make direct eye contact

with me. It gets worse. Lately, the

management at our local grocery stores have created a policy prohibiting a fel-low from hanging around the fresh fish section for the purpose of storytelling.

If this continues, I worry that there will be no one left for a humble angler to help. I can’t imagine what I will do if there’s no one to greet me – other than visit Walmart, I mean.

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St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School curlers were hoping for the cham-pionship win for the first time in three years of par-ticipating in the TimBits Elementary School Provin-cial Championship tourna-ment. Yet, when a team falls as close to victory as they did on April 6, the initial bitterness of loss has a silver lining, notes coach Marc Bernard.

“We ended up losing in the last shot, which was a little tough to take on Sunday. We were looking back on it on Sunday and we went way farther than we thought we would, we definitely exceeded our goals for the tournament,” he said this week.

The St. Teresa team be-gan its fight to the top after winning the tiebreaker game in their pool 3-1 and heading to the playoffs April 4-6, winning a close quarterfinal game. A big victory in the semifinals

led them to face Parry Sound in the final game of the Gravenhurst-area tour-nament.

“We managed to go 3-1 in out pool, and that was enough to be tied with an-other team in our pool. We took the tie-breaker spot to be the pool winners. That was what we were hoping to do: reach the playoffs by winning the pool spot. Then the team started play-ing even better after that,” explained Bernard.

The finals had players face off with an older, more experienced team.

“We had two Grade 7s, a Grade 8 and a Grade 5 on our team. The Parry Sound students, I think three of the four were in Grade 8, for sure – they were a fair bit older. We tied after the sixth end of the game and we went to an extra end, and we ended up losing in the last shot.”

It was a hard loss to swallow seeing as how a victory would have im-mortalized the team on

the wall of the Elmira Curling Club. It would have been a third cham-

pionship banner for the club.

“Certainly it’s heart-

breaking to go to the finals and to have a shot to win and not make it. To realize

you are that close to being a provincial champion ... definitely there was disap-pointment right after the game. But looking back on it now, we realize that to make it that far was a huge achievement,” he said.

To put things in per-spective, this was the third year of the team’s exis-tence, competing against 68 teams in the tourna-ment. Last year’s team won two regular-season games and lost three, fail-ing to qualify for playoffs. It was much the same in the first year, as well.

“Having a shot to get there is one thing; looking back over the tournament, [we] realize that if we hadn’t played so well we wouldn’t have had that op-portunity,” said Bernard.

The team will lose its Grade 8 players to gradua-tion next year, and coach-es are hoping for new stu-dents to take their place.

“The kids just love it. They have such a great time at it,” he added.

Earning second place at the Tim Bits Elementary School curling championships on April 6, St. Teresa’s Veronica Bernard, Thomas Kraemer, Kyle Henry and Matthew Kraemer went farther than they had hoped this season. [SUBMITTED]

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They really are the golden years for Conestogo manThree medals the latest accomplishment for octogenarian swimmer who’s part of WLU program

ELENA MAYSTRUK

“There’s actually two ways of winning, and that’s either become faster than your competition or you outlive them,” said Stu-art Martin.

Martin has been swim-ming hard for many years as part of the Wilfrid Lau-rier Masters Swim program. Now at age 80, it’s his first year in the 80-84 age group, and he’s coming out of last month’s Windsor-area masters swimming pro-vincials with three medals. He’s looking forward to the nationals, then the world competition this summer in Quebec.

The Conestogo resident contributed his wins to the 21 medals won by eight members of the squad March 28-30, taking gold in 100-metre freestyle and the 50-metre freestyle, and sil-ver in the 50-metre stroke.

Martin has been to the world competition seven times in his 35 years of swimming with the mas-ters. His first world compe-tition was also in Quebec in 1994 followed by Sweden, Germany, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand and California. This summer he hopes to come full-circle back to the 15th FINA World Masters Championships in Mon-

treal starting July 27 after competing in the 2014 Ca-nadian Masters Swimming Championships on May 16 in Windsor.

The biggest achievement for the seasoned swimmer

was in 2004, Italy where Martin took silver in a team relay. His best prior to that was coming 11th in a five-kilometre swim in Munich (2000). As he enters an old-er age bracket, his competi-

tion lessens, he notes. Still winning isn’t everything, he said.

“I go for the experience of it rather than necessarily the competition. Sure you like to do well and you train

hard and you swim hard, but that isn’t really the goal. The goal is the social aspect of it, the cardiovas-cular training, flexibility – swimming is just exercise as far as I’m concerned.”

The WLU program has about 40 masters swim-mers, with a few competing in the masters games while many others are triathletes and compete elsewhere in other sports. Like many clubs, it all started with a touch of boredom while watching kids have all the fun, said Martin.

“My son was in the Re-gion of Waterloo Swim Club as a teen and there were several parents who were sitting around by the pool early in the morning and were saying, ‘This is kind of pointless, what are we going to do?’ So we started pestering the coaches to give us a little bit of space in the pool and they al-lowed this for one lane and then they saw that there possibly might be some interest in developing a masters [program].”

After several years the university took on the program from ROW and the swimmers began com-peting under the Golden Hawks banner. Today Mar-tin is focused on continu-ing with his swimming and maintaining his times.

He joked: “As I move into the older age bracket there are fewer competing, but if they don’t show up, hey that’s their tough luck not mine.”

Conestogo’s Stuart Martin stands at the Golden Hawks swimming pool this week, after earning three medals at the Ontario Masters Provincial Championship 2014 in Windsor in March. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

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Kings see plenty to be proud of in 2013-14 hockey seasonWILL SLOAN losing streaks (as there were

in 2012-13), and fans consis-tently packed the WMC.

So, given these facts, how much should the team’s dis-appointing performance in the playoffs – falling to the Waterloo Siskins in Game 7 of the second round – co-lour the year?

“I think, overall, we had a successful season,” said general manager Paul Jen-nings. “We’re never pleased not going as far as we would like, which is eventually

getting the Sutherland Cup. That’s disappointing, but we have kids who are going to move on to play U.S. col-lege hockey next year, and if you’ve got kids doing that, you’ve got to qualify it as a successful season.”

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“In the second half of the season, we probably had some issues in our ability to keep consistent in our exe-cution. If we could go back, we’d maybe look at it a little differently. But we had lots of great individual success from our players – they were all great, upstanding citizens.”

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Flanagan agreed, add-ing, “He was called up in a backup situation and did an excellent job. Hayden Neu-man had the second-best goals-against average in Kings history, and Jonathan Reinhart had the third-best.”

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That accusation caught the province’s attention last summer and fall, when wildly fluctuating accounts of bee mortality – and the causes behind it – made headlines.

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Waterloo Region home to innovative ideas, often the result of youth looking to make their own opportunities

JOBS | 19Jennifer Kruger holds information on a youth program at the Waterloo Region Small Business Centre. Such local organizations and institutions are refocusing on youth as drivers behind Canada’s workforce, reflective of March Statistics Canada numbers. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

Heading into the prime job-seeking time for young workers, there are some signs of improvement in the Canadian employment market.

Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for March shows a downward trend in unemployment since the fall, with employ-ment growing by 43,000 last month. Overall, the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 6.9 per cent from 7 in January and February of this year.

Waterloo Region is some-thing of a Petri dish when it comes to young people in the workforce, said Jenni-fer Kruger, youth program coordinator at the Waterloo Region Small Business Cen-tre. She notes youth work-ers are showing strength in innovative business and using entrepreneurship as both a track to gain experi-ence for the job market or start their businesses.

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novation and the enthu-siasm and the drive that comes with being a youth are certainly taking that movement forward – be-coming actively involved in the community as well as wanting to start up on their own and seeing that pas-sion become their life,” said Kruger.

The influx of younger people into business is a sign of new ideas and in-novations that youth have to offer, she added, but the opportunity to gain experi-ence and stack a résumé is also an important factor for new entrepreneurs.

“A lot of companies want [employees] to have experi-ence. When you’re coming out of school you don’t have the experience: you’ve got the experience through your school studies but you don’t actually have the practical experience. That’s where I think students are strug-gling – they’ve got the skills to be hired by companies

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with the premier a few weeks ago, citing a broad range of 13 options for go-ing forward.

Banning neonicotinoids, the pesticides blamed by some for bee deaths, was not on the list. An outright ban was being sought by some parts of the agri-food sector, but the group said no single option would ful-ly address the issue. It also noted that although mor-tality rates climbed as high as 43 per cent in 2011, they fell to 12 per cent in 2012. That’s below the normal 15 per cent average.

The 13 options cover a range of actions. They include improvements

to growing practices and communications, envi-ronmental enhancements, technology advancements and training as well as regulatory approaches.

Going forward, farmers don’t have to start pesti-cide-use programs from scratch.

Pesticide use is highly regulated in Ontario. Farm-ers who want to buy or use commercial pesticides on their farm or woodlot, as well as those who sell pesti-cides, must be certified by completing a safety train-ing course.

The Ontario Pesticide Education Program at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus co-or-

dinates the course across the province. The pro-gram offers more than 300 face-to-face courses annu-ally; about 21,000 Ontario farmers are certified or trained in pesticide safety, as are another 1,000 who sell them. Overall, their goal is to control insects with as little impact as possible on the environ-ment.

Farmers use pesticides because insects never rest … well, except for those which hibernate for the winter. It was hoped the unusually long, harsh winter from which we’re emerging would act as its own pesticide, and take its toll on some of those hi-

bernating insects. Farmers might catch a bit of a break.

But that appears un-likely. Provincial field crop entomologist Tracey Baute of Ridgetown, author of Baute’s Bug Blog, says over-all there could be a reduc-tion in pest populations, but it probably won’t be significant, and key pests will endure.

Here’s why. Over centu-ries, some pests have found ways to adapt to harsh con-ditions. Some make their own anti-freeze, so when temperatures plunge, their cells don’t explode. Oth-

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Some, such as bean leaf beetles, flea beetles and slugs, play roulette with snow cover. They count on it for its insulating value as a defense against extreme temperatures. If snow is scarce, their numbers could be affected. But was snow scarce this winter? Hardly!

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other, new insects. Invasive species just keep showing up, such as stink bugs and spotted wing drosophila, to name a couple. Farmers need to keep them under control, and researchers keep looking for ways to help them do so.

Some approaches involve pesticides, and some don’t.

But as long as insects infest crops – which is likely to be until the end of time – crop protection will be vital. And in most cases, pesticides will be an impor-tant part of a farmer’s crop protection program.

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Kruger says institutions are starting to recognize the up-and-coming trend in business and employment, especially for youth.

“The colleges and uni-versities are really on board with this as well. Conestoga College has a centre of en-trepreneurship right now where they train and offer their students an oppor-tunity to pursue business entrepreneurial options. Laurier’s Launch Pad is another great one. Laurier has done some great work with entrepreneurial busi-ness courses and I believe [University of] Waterloo is involved as well.

“A lot of the IT industries are coming up with some brilliant ideas but we’re also seeing other industries growing for youth as well, whether it be hospitality, health and wellness is an-other big one as well, con-struction and some trades and retail; even things like import and export and mar-keting and online jobs,” she said.

In that vein, Statistics Canada shows increases in

employment in health care and social assistance fields as an upward trend – there were 24,000 additional jobs in March. Business, build-ing and other support ser-vices also rose by 15,000.

Kruger says government programs are promoting entrepreneurship as a way of creating jobs for youths because the sector is put-ting innovative ideas into action.

“We have certain com-panies that are starting to bring students on board and certainly the coop opportunities in the insti-tutional level help to gain some experience. But other students are looking at it as, ‘Well, if I can’t gain experi-ence then [entrepreneur-ship] is another opportunity that I can pursue.’”

Evidence of youth be-coming leaders in employ-ment this month is seen in the numbers. Employment for youth aged 15 to 24 rose by 33,000 last month, though largely due to more youth entering the work-force (youth unemployment remained at 13.6 per cent). There was little change in employment for older age groups though unemploy-ment also declined 0.2 per-centage points to 5.7 per cent for Canadians aged 25-54. People aged 55 and

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In context, unemploy-ment rates are gradually dropping. The last five years saw the highest unemploy-ment in August 2009 and 8.7 per cent (increased from 8.1 per cent in March 2009). Since then unemployment rates have dropped to 6.9 per cent three times in Sep-tember and November of 2013, and then last month as well.

The Small Business Centre works with people wishing to be entrepreneurs and to own or grow busi-nesses, offering resources consultations and guid-ance in starting or growing a business. Kruger says Waterloo Region’s business and employment gains are a community effort.

“The community is filled with opportunities,” Kruger said. “I’m looking at really creating com-munity. There’s a few of us on board—including the YMCA, a number of post secondary institutions—that are all coming together now trying to create a united force which is help-ing students either gain the experience for the jobs that they want or allowing them to step out on their own.”

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20 | THE ARTS THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014

THE ARTSON STAGE / LIVE THEATRE

On the Run, just for funDrayton Entertainment gets “patently absurd” with its production of the farcical Run For Your Wife

WILL SLOAN

Twenty-five years ago, Michael Lamport starred in the Toronto premiere of Run For Your Wife as John Smith, a taxi driver who secretly juggles two wives. On April 16, he’ll join the show again for Drayton Entertainment’s new pro-duction, this time taking on the role of Stanley, the peculiar neighbour. For Lamport, his experience has been like finding new rooms in an old house.

“It’s a completely dif-ferent role, so it’s sort of odd,” says Lamport. “When I was learning lines, the lines kind of came back … but I realized the lines that came back stronger were the lines of John Smith. So I had to switch out of that mode and concentrate on Stanley’s lines.”

But when asked if the passage of time has changed his perspective on the play itself, Lamport says no. “Without giving anything away, the piece is patently absurd. The events could probably never, ever, ever happen, so

I don’t have any different perspective. The perspec-tive I still have is that it’s very, very, very funny.”

He continues, “I’ve al-ways loved the show. When it was written in the early ‘80s, and then landed in Toronto in the late ‘80s, it was on the verge of being politically incorrect. Now, with a 2014 sensibility, some things are politically incorrect, but it’s so light-hearted that people will overlook that.

“I’ve always wanted to do it again, and having this opportunity is absolutely fantastic, because it really is a show that, in my opinion, just makes people laugh.”

First written in 1983, Run For Your Wife enjoyed a nine-year run in its first run in London’s West End. Like much of playwright Ray Cooney’s output, it’s a door-slamming sex come-dy with all the shenanigans that entails. It has been widely noted that timing is the essence of comedy, a statement doubly true of farce – and a particular challenge with only two weeks of rehearsal.

“We all do actually have a rapport and respect each other,” says Lamport of the cast. “You’ve got to re-ally trust your other actors more, perhaps, than in other plays, because once you get on this farce roller-coaster, you’ve got to trust that everybody is on the same train. You can’t pause to think about anything, you’ve just got to do it.

“In other theatres there is a longer rehearsal pe-riod, but we have basically just over two weeks here, so it’s very intense. You can’t really explore too much – you’ve just got to do it. But with farce, it’s not like, ‘What is my motivation for getting out the door?’ The reason to get out the door is to get off the stage.”

It’s also a common ob-servation that comedy is the most difficult kind of acting. “I think there’s a big truism in that,” says Lamport.

“Comedy is difficult act-ing, but farce is much more difficult, because farce is a heightened awareness, and in farce, timing and physicality are absolutely

everything. Although farce gets pooh-poohed a lot by some people, it is, in my opinion, the most difficult thing to do.”

One reason why farce gets pooh-poohed is because we’ve all seen it done badly. For example, an all-star 2012 film adaptation of Run For Your Wife turned the widely beloved play into “the worst British film ever” (to quote The Daily Mirror, in a typi-cal review). I ask Lamport if there is a temptation to go too far over the top.

“We don’t go over the top – sometimes we go to the edge. Going to the edge is funny, and going over the top takes it into a different realm, and it can alienate the audience. If you keep it right at the edge, people will say, ‘Oh my god, are they going to fall into the precipice?’”

Run For Your Wife plays April 16-May 4 at the Dun-field Theatre Cambridge (46 Grand Ave. S.). Tickets range from $25 to $42, and can be purchased at www.draytonentertainment.com, or by calling 1-855-372-9866.

The farce is strong with David Leyshon and Michael Lamport as they rehearse for Drayton Entertainment’s new production of Ray Cooney’s comedy. [SUBMITTED]

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TREE DEBRIS CLEAN UP PROGRAM

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Residents of Woolwich are being encouraged to take maximum advantage of the yard waste collection program through the Region of Waterloo’s Waste Management Program. Yard waste is collected bi-weekly on residents’ regular collection day. Information on your collection day or the yard waste program can be found in the yard waste calendar or by visiting www.regionofwaterloo.ca/waste or calling 519-883-5100

Tree debris larger than 3” in diameter will be collected by Township Operations staff beginning April 22 through to Friday May 2nd. Residents are to have all tree debris stacked on their boulevards by 7 a.m. on Tuesday April 22 to participate in this clean up program.

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On April 28, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. the Committee will meet to consider the following applications. All persons interested in the applications may attend and may contact Nancy Thompson regarding meeting details or visit the Township Webpage – News and Events – Current Public Notices.

The Committee will also consider submissions for or against the applications if submitted to the Township of Woolwich no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2014. Submissions can be forwarded to Jeremy Vink at the address noted at the top of this page, by email [email protected] or by fax 519-669-4669.

Minor Variance Application A 6/2014 – Colin and Opal Partridge, 37 Evening Star Lane, ConestogoThe applicant is requesting permission to increase the maximum height of the garage door on the accessory building from 3.5 metres to approximately 4.0 metres to recognize the existing garage door height. The property is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and contains a single family dwelling and detached garage.

Minor Variance Application A 7/2014 – Scott and Danielle French, 5364 Woolwich-Guelph TownlineThe applicant is requesting permission to:• constructanaccessorybuildinginthefrontyard;and• reducethebuildinglinesetbackfromthecentrelineoftheroadfrom23metrestoapproximately19.9metresin order to permit the construction of a 9.1 by 12.2 metre detached garage. The property is zoned Agricultural (A) and contains a single family dwelling and a storage shelter.

Consent Applications B 4/2014 AND B 5/2014 – Linda Pletsch. 166 Woolwich Street South, BreslauThe applicant is requesting permission to sever the rear lands of the existing property to create two new residential lots fronting onto Joseph Street on full municipal services. Each new lot is proposed to be approximately 16.2 by 61.9 metres (1,002 square metres) in size and have frontage on Joseph Street. The retained lot, located on Woolwich Street South, will measure approximately 33 by 62 metres (2,046 square metres). The property contains a single family dwelling and two accessory buildings. The proposed retained lot is zoned Settlement Residential (R-1) and the proposed severed lots are zoned Residential- Mixed Medium Density with Design Guidelines (R4A).

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MAKING IT OFFICIAL AT THE FIFTIETH ELMIRA MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL

The Elmira Maple Syrup Festival committee, including chair Ken Jessop (left), opened its 50th festival with a ceremonial first pancake in Gore Park on April 4. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

The GiGi Sisters hit the bandstand in advance of their performance on festival day. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

MPP Michael Harris and MP Harold Albrecht showed their syrup spirit, with Albrecht reading a greeting from Stephen Harper. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]


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3 Arthur St. S., Elmira | 519-669-5426

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Drayton - Beautiful Mansfield III Home. Various Prices and Plans available. Model Home is at 46 Bedell Open: Mon, Tues, Wed 1-7pm and Sat, Sun 1-4:30pm. MLS 1418101. Call Paul or Alli direct.

YET TO BE BUILT!$338,900$338,900

STUNNING BUNGALOWDrayton - This Verdone Model Home has elegant and luxurious features including skylights, tray ceilings and 2 french door walkouts from master and dinette. Ceramic and hardwood throughout the main floor. Kitchen with granite countertops and glass backsplash overlooking dinette and open to great room. 2 walk in closets in the Master Suite and 4 piece ensuite. This home is complete with den, 2nd bedroom, mudroom/main floor laundry and huge finished basement with fireplace. MLS1418095. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

$425,900$425,900

$424,900$424,900

Elmira - This home is a must see, you will be impressed! French drs guide you to bright living rm & sep dr beside lg eat in kit loaded w/cabinets. Upstairs has 3 bdrms, main bath & laundry. 4th bdrm & 2nd bath off family rm featuring cork flooring. Basement complete w/recrm & workshop. Sunroom walk out to lg deck w/covered dining area, overlooking on ground pool, hot tub & perennial gardens in lg fenced yard. 2 car garage w/walk up storage attic. MLS 1421043. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

LARGER THAN IT LOOKS

Palmerston – Move in & enjoy the summer in your new Home. Solid 1.5 storey brick 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home w/detached sngl car garage. Recently remodeled master & both baths. New roof 2010, orig hrdwd flrs, double French drs & spacious rms throughout. Lots of character & space for young or growing family. 3 decks, children’s playground & huge private/fenced & beautifully landscaped backyard make this property ideal for entertaining or simply enjoying some family time. MLS 1417276. Call Paul or Alli direct.

SPACIOUS!$176,900$176,900

$399,000$399,000

Elora – Freehold townhouse w/double garage situated on corner lot backing onto Elora Cataract Trailway. Large eat-in kitchen w/ceramic tile & abundant w/maple cupboards. Bright Living room w/hardwood floors, corner gas fireplace, 2 storey ceiling open to stairs & 2nd floor hallway. Fantastic master bedroom complete w/ensuite & lg walk in closet. Second floor laundry. Bright Finished basement w/recroom, bedroom & bathroom. 2300sqft + finished space. A must see home. Prepare to be impressed. MLS 1414406. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Breslau – Approx 2700sqft house located on 3.15 acres. Enjoy sunsets from your bckyrd haven. Tree lined private drive. Complete w/main flr LR, FR w/wood fp, eat in kit & sep DR. Main flr bdrm w/kitchenette & 3pc ens. Side entrance ideal for home office/business. Master bdrm w/8ftx8ft walk in closet & 3pc ens. Fin'd basement featuring lg bar & location for wood stove. Bsmnt bath incl sauna, whirlpool. 648sqft unfinished bonus room above garage. TLC Required. MLS 1414121. Call Alli or Paul direct.

BEAUTIFUL BACKYARD$629,900$629,900

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85 ACRES FOR SALE – Wellesley Township. Workable land, recently tile-drained @ 30’ centres. Road frontage at front and back of farm. MLS $1,600,000

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LOCATION! Desireable Southwood Park. Close to walking trails and across from a park. Lovely oak kitchen w/’bump out’ di-nette & walkout to concrete patio. Private asphalt driveway. Storage shed. Conve-nient side entry. 3 bedrooms. Spacious fin-ished rec. room & washroom in lower level. EXCL. $284,900.

CONESTOGO – This raised bungalow is in a quiet area, close to school and downtown. Walkout from dining area to patio. Stone fire-place in the living room (w/parquet flr) and a gas fireplace in the rec. room. Newer floor in games room. 5 piece bathroom. (ensuite privilege) 1.5 garage (extra deep!). Double driveway. MLS $395,000.

STUNNING CENTURY HOME – loaded w/char-acter! Natural woodwork & staircase. Hdwd. floors. Pocket doors. Oak kitchen, formal D.R. Cozy L.R. w/gas fireplace. Main flr. fam. rm. w/custom built-ins. Two staircases to upper level. Private master suite w/ensuite bath & dressing area. Updated main bathrm. Floored attic. 200 amp. serv. Detached oversized garage. Private, professionally landscaped yard. Expect to be impressed! MLS $539,900.

Move-in ready! This spotless 3 bedroom semi is renovated from top to bottom! Newer windows, furnace, flooring, kitchen, bath-rooms, driveway & railings. Tastefully decorat-ed. Door from kitchen leads to deck and patio. Cozy rec. room & 3pc. bath in lower level. Shed, central air & vac. NEW MLS $242,500.

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BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED!$279,900 ELMIRA Lovely kitchen and dinette w/lots of sunlight, spacious living room with walkout to fenced yard, large master bedroom w/cheater ensuite & his/her closets. Unspoiled basement ready for your finishing touches! 3bdrms, 3 baths (plus rough-in) central air, appliances included! MLS

BREATHTAKING COUNTRY PROPERTY$629,900 DRAYTON Gorgeous Pioneer log home near Moorefield on just over 13 acres w/river, pond & bush. 2344 sq.ft of character and charm. 3 bdrms, 3 baths, loft, open concept main floor and so much more! MLS

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OWN YOUR HOME TODAY!$272,900 Affordable 6 years new semi on quiet street in Wellesley! Welcoming foyer w/closet, open concept main floor, bright kitchen w/lots of cupboard space, walk-in master closet & ensuite! MLS

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OPEN HOUSE | SUN APR 13TH 2-4 pm204 Park Ave. W., Elmira

$419,000 Impressive 2-storey foyer, open concept main floor with large eat in kitchen w/ample cupboard & counter space, ceramic flooring, & walkout to deck & fenced yard. Master bedroom ensuite w/jaccuzi tub PLUS separate shower, finished basement, minute walk to park! Gas fireplace, central air, water softener, appliances included! NEW MLS

4 STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCES INCLUDED!$359,900 Impressive interior finishes built by Paradigm (Elmira) Homes. Open concept w/stunning kitchen, hardwood & ceramic flooring, gas fireplace, rounded corners, walkout basement and more! MLS

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Custom Bungalow | $434,900Numerous quality features abound. Soaring cathedral ceiling in great room and gourmet kitchen, arches, pillars, hardwood and ceramics, 3 gas fireplaces. Must be seen to appreciate all this beautiful Drayton home has to offer. MLS

Drayton Ridge | $359,900New Listing. The Brighton lll model, by Verdone Homes is one of many exciting models to be built. This two storey home boasts 1730 sq ft of open concept with main floor great room and 3 generous bedrooms upstairs with custom features. Various prices and options available. MLS Call Dale, to have the best selection.

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ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY

DEATH NOTICES

BIRTHDAY

IN MEMORIAM

Happy 50th Anniversary Noah & Doris (Hoffman) Metzger!

Love from Your Family

Stag & Doe Kaitlin Bauman &

Wilfred Shantz

Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 at Broadline Rentals, Mount Forest

5:30 - 10:30 p.m.Come out for an evening of games, prizes, food and fun for the family.

Pig Roast Dinner

Tickets in advance or at the door.

Larry GingrichOctober 6, 1950 - April 12, 1994

The Gingrich Family

It’s hard to believe you have been gone for 20 years.

Larry, you are always in our thoughts, forever in our hearts.

Still missing you.

STAG & DOE

Happy 40th Birthdayto the best daddy ever!

Love Andrew, Michael and Mason

Congratulations, Ashley Tindall

Ross and Brenda Tindall are proud to announce the graduation of their daughter Ashley from the University of Guelph. She

graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science Honours Degree in Child, Youth and Family. Congratulations Ashley, all your hard work

and dedication has paid off.We are all very proud of you.

Look at me, I’m three!

Happy 3rd birthday to our little man Bryson! Lots of love mommy, daddy,

big sister and family.April 14

GRADUATION

ACHESON, ISABELLE | At Caressant Care, Harriston, on Sunday, March 30, 2014, Mrs. Mary Isabelle Marie (Reist) Acheson, formerly of Listowel and Elmira, in her 87th year.

MARTIN, MARTHA | Peace-fully went home to be with the Lord on Monday, April 7, 2014 at Conestoga Lodge, Kitchener. Martha, formerly of Wallenstein, at the age of 77 years.

MCDOUGALL, COLIN | Passed away peacefully at the Grand River Hospi-tal on Friday, April 4, 2014, at the age of 86 years.

Happy 95th Birthday Harry Wasylycia

Lots of love from your family

April 15, 1919

“Time Goes By”

Asha and Joel’sStag and Doe

Saturday, April 19, 20148:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Lion’s Hall 40 South Street West

Elmira, Ontario$10/ Ticket

DJ/Games/Prizes/Lunch

BIRTHDAY

STAG & DOE

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28 | LIVING HERE THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014

LIVING HEREFUNDRAISING / THE TASTE OF TRADITION

Well we have another maple syrup day under our belt. It was a busy one. I have also witnessed the hard physical work of the sap run and the level of commitment it takes to get the syrup to the bottle.

Our chef Scott has been working nonstop at our busy store and at the sugar bush. I enjoy hearing his stories and all the joy he gets from the process that ends with a bottle of syrup on the table. It’s something he enjoys – he only does it for family and friends. When someone asks him to buy a bottle he won’t sell it, which makes it all that more endearing. You don’t come across that kind of passion very often and when you do it is a treat.

Of course, I, being the mother hen, worry about all the extra pressure and stress. But this too shall pass, and Scott will eventu-ally take a break. Scott’s talent and passion for food is inspiring.

This recipe is an easy treat for a Sunday after-noon. In our store we brew a locally roasted coffee to make this yummy bever-age. Support the local syr-up producers and all their hard work. Enjoy.

Getting up close and personal with maple syrup

CHEF’S TABLE | 31

WILL SLOAN

GUIDES | 31

Let’s pretend that, in 1927, a Girl Guide leader in Regina had never baked a batch of cookies for her girls to sell, and had never used the money to pay for uniforms and camping equipment. Let’s say, for the past 87 years, there had been no such thing as Girl Guide cookies. What would the Girl Guides look like today?

“We probably would not exist,” says Anna Mariani, provincial cookie advisor for Girl Guides Ontario.

“If we didn’t have a major fundraiser, we would have to find someone who would be willing to give us that kind of money on a yearly basis to keep us going. And cookies seem to be working since 1927.”

For many of us, cookies are the first thing we think of when we think about the Girl Guides. Indeed, it’s nearly impossible to over-state the snack’s impor-tance to the venerable insti-tution. With $5 boxes being sold today (Saturday) and tomorrow across the coun-try, Mariani points out, “It’s the way we raise money for everything we do.

“It is our major fundrais-er. We don’t sell anything else as a Girl Guide organi-zation to raise money. Our cookies bring in everything that will help us run all of our camps, training, and subsidies. It helps to provide all of their mem-bership pins, their craft supplies, outings, program books, you name it.”

Many of Ontario’s Girl Guide groups will be ped-

Classic cookies are here as Girl Guides launch their major fundraiser, going door-to-door in St. Jacobs

dling their sugary wares at Sears locations. In St. Ja-cobs, however, the girls will be going door-to-door, and Guide leader Angela Knox predicts that residents will have trouble resisting the allure. “One of our Spark dads had a person ask him for cookies who said, ‘I have a twenty, but I don’t have change.’ So he said, ‘Well, you’ll have to take four boxes.’ That’s a common thing.”

Adds parent Aimee Badali, “I just put a note

out at work saying, ‘I’ve got Girl Guide Cookies – who wants them?’ They were gone the next day. They’re nostalgic.”

Door-to-door salesman-ship is not a task for the weak-of-nerve, but the young girls say that St. Ja-cobs loves its sweets. “It’s a lot of fun, because we get to go up to people’s houses and ask if they want to buy them,” says Sophia Hanley. “It’s sometimes scary, but I think it’s fun.”

“Last year I went to this

house and the lady inside was so nice, she just kept buying cookies,” says Kai-lee Martin. “I think I sold four boxes to her. I was ner-vous when I went up to her door because it looked like an older house. ‘Alright, is it going to be a nice person living here?’ Then I opened the door and it was this re-ally nice lady.”

Today’s chocolate and vanilla sale is one of two annual cookie fundrais-ers (the girls sell mint-flavoured treats in Novem-

ber). They’ll be on sale for “eight months, or whenever we run out – whichever comes first,” says Mariani. “With the spring classic cookie, we’re almost out in most of the province. I be-lieve come near mid-May, there won’t be a cookie to be found in Ontario.”

Given the demand, it begs the question: If one has access to Girl Guide cookies, does this informa-tion get people excited?

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Like trick-or-treaters in reverse, the Girl Guides are bringing sweets to your house. Back: Sophia Hanley, Paige Harrow, Kailee Martin. Front: Grace Knox, Mackenzie Ellis, Paige Badali. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

Sweet treats take to the streets

LIVING HERE | 29THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014

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COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR E-MAIL: [email protected]

SUBMIT AN EVENT The Events Calendar is reserved for Non-profit local community events that are offered free to the public. Placement is not guaranteed. Registrations, corporate events, open houses and the like do not qualify in this section.

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APRIL 12

COMMUNITY CLEAN UP DAY 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Contact Ann at 519-669-6027 or 519-664-2613, ext. 6027 or [email protected] about a location near you.

E-WASTE COLLECTION DAY 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Woolwich Memorial Centre parking lot, 24 Snyder Ave. S., Elmira.

BETHEL MENNONITE YOUTH HOMECOMING, May 3 & 4. For registration information www.bethelyouthhomecomin.wix.com/bethelyouth or call 519-846-0180.

APRIL 14

ELMIRA & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL Society meeting with guest speaker Denise Huck from Colour Paradise in Mannheim - “New Plantings for the Season;” 7:30 p.m., Trinity United Church, 21 Arthur St. N., Elmira. Please bring shoes or slippers to wear.

APRIL 15

TIPS AND TOOLS TO Control your Blood Pressure – 6-8 p.m. Join our registered dietitian and learn how salt intake, portion size and weight management impact your blood pressure. For information on this free class, call 519-664-3794.

APRIL 16

SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m). Wellesley Community Centre, 1000 Mapleleaf St., Wellesley. Cost $6. Join us for a noonday light lunch and fellowship. Call Community Care Concepts at 519-664-1900 or toll free: 1-855-664-1900 for more information.

APRIL 17

THE LIONS CLUB OF Elmira Bingo – 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-572-2669.

FAMILY LEARNING FORUM: PRESENTED by the Alzheimer Society. A three-week series designed for family and friends of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. April 17, 24, and May 1. Register for all three sessions or select sessions. For more information and to register, call the dementia support counsellor at 519-742-1422. Sessions will be held at Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs.

APRIL 18

MARYHILL HERITAGE PARK ASSOCIATION, along with the former Ariss Take Out Staff, welcome you to join us for Good Friday fish & chips; 58 St. Charles St. E., Maryhill. Doors open 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. for in house fining. Take out available from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. More then 5 servings, please call ahead. Meals - one piece haddock $11; two piece haddock $13 - cash only, coffee, tea & pop. All proceeds to park improvements. For info: Sandra 519-648-2939; Jean Fromm 519-648-2401.

THE JUNIOR GARDEN CLUB is starting in May this spring. Interested 8-10 year olds should contact youth leaders before May 10 for more information. Fee $15. Call 519-669-3244 (Irene) or 519-669-8616 (Barb).

APRIL 23

THE WATERLOO REGIONAL POLICE Male Chorus will

host its annual fish fry at Parkminster United Church, 275 Erb St., Waterloo with continuous service from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Advance Tickets only - $15 per adult, $7.50 children under 12. Tickets available from all chorus members or email [email protected]. For more information www.wrps.on.ca/volunteers/male-chorus. For tickets 519-896-2142 (leave message).

SENIORS COMMUNITY DINING AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Linwood Community Centre, 5279 Ament Line, Linwood. Cost: $11. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a hot noonday meal, fellowship and entertainment. Call 519-664-1900 or toll Free: 1-855-664-1900 for more information.

APRIL 24

THE LIONS CLUB OF Elmira Bingo – 7 p.m. at Elmira Lions Hall, 40 South St., Elmira. All proceeds go to support the many projects of the Lions Club of Elmira. For more information call 519-572-2669.

HEALTH EDUCATION SESSION - Can You Hear What I Hear? Joyce Haynes, Canadian Hearing Society. 10:30-11:30 a.m., Breslau Mennonite Church, 226 Woolwich St., Breslau. Everyone welcome, no free, no registration. For more information call 519-664-3794.

CAREGIVER COFFEE HOUR – meets on the 1st Tuesday of the month (Sept. to June) 10-11:30 a.m. at Chateau Gardens, 11 Hebert St., Elmira. This support group is offered in conjunction with the K-W Alzheimer Society. May 6: guest speaker, Cathy Harrington, from Community Care Concepts. For more information call Lorraine at 519-664-3794, ext. 229.

9:00am Christian Education10:15am Worship with Holy Communion

St. JamesLutheranChurch

60 Arthur St. S., Elmira519-669-5591

Pastor: Hans J. W. Borch

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9:45am Sunday School

11:00am Worship Service

Hopping Thursday’s7-8:30pm Programs for all ages

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SUNDAYS @ 10:30AM Services at Park Manor School

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Sunday, April 13th

Facing Giants in Life and Work- Your Career

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Finding The Way Together

Zion Mennonite Fellowship-The Junction-

Sunday School 9:30amWorship Service 10:45 am

REACH WITH LOVE. TEACH THE TRUTH. SEND IN POWER.

Rev. Paul Snow

Service at 10:30am

Sunday School at 9:30am

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

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

Sunday, April 13, 2014

9:15 & 11:00 AM

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Speaker: Dr. Harold Paisley

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Deliverer and JudgeRichard Haverkamp

Discovering God Together

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

St. Paul’sLutheranChurch

Sharing the Message of Christ and His Love

Pastor: Richard A. Frey

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building relationships with God,one another and the world

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ACROSS1. Fold of loose skin7. Holdings13. Nobelist Hammarskjold16. “Seinfeld” gal17. Various rich cakes18. Balloon filler19. The senior petty officer21. Colourful ornamental carp22. Additional23. Husk24. Church song26. Drone, e.g.27. Pan, e.g.29. Barely get, with “out”31. Like “The X-Files”32. Mideast capital35. Javelin, e.g.37. “No ifs, ___ ...”39. Storm from strong air currents44. Mountainous republic46. ___ Today47. Mr., abroad48. ___ Appia49. Deep cavity50. Human immunodefi-ciency virus

52. Some tournaments54. “A pox on you!”55. Chest protector58. Backboard attachment60. Jocks’ antitheses61. Acid found in many fruits65. “... or ___!”66. 1970 World’s Fair site67. Like some mushrooms69. Formal ball72. Armageddon74. “___ calls?”75. Trick taker, often78. Cuban dance79. Not yet final, at law81. A-frame, photography83. “___ we having fun yet?”84. Remove controls of88. Bother89. California county90. Grosse ___, Mich.91. ___ grecque (cooked in olive oil, lemon juice, wine, and herbs, and served cold)92. Money demanded93. A tool used to thicken metal

DOWN1. Retire from military service2. Carry away, in a way3. Used to clean, combo4. Dietary, in ads5. Lack of energy6. The “p” in m.p.g.7. Biology lab supply8. “Socrate” composer9. Follow stealthily10. Always, in verse11. Cap12. Temporary cessation13. Senegal’s capital14. Garlicky mayonnaise15. Dirt20. (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man25. A badger’s burrow28. ___ grass30. Times to call, in classifieds33. Doctrines34. “Pipe down!”36. “To ___ is human ...”37. To the rear38. Ancient region of north-eastern Africa40. Unit of money in Nigeria

41. Leave undone42. Natural covering of food43. A shot in billiards45. Informal representative51. Bad habit, so to speak53. Leave in a hurry, with “out”56. Bank offering, for short57. Mountain ___59. Above ground level62. ___ of the Unknowns63. Large artillery gun64. Kipling’s “Gunga ___”68. Illegitimate offspring69. Life force in Hindu teachings70. Bucolic71. Alpha’s opposite73. Wild dog of Australia76. Hort narrative or tale77. Barely beats80. Check82. Hip bones85. Victorian, for one86. Jail, slangily87. Harvest goddess

Genteel vocabulary often gets set aside in painful situations such as childbirth

Q. Even if your Mom didn’t go in much for pro-fanity, on what occasion might she have dropped her guard and let ‘er rip?A. When she was giving birth to you, says psycholo-gist Richard Stephens of Keele University, UK, as reported by Tiffany O’Callaghan in “New Scien-tist” magazine. The brain processes swear words dif-ferently from more genteel vocabulary, and when an expletive is fired at us, it can feel like a slap to the face. “It’s almost like a physi-cal act,” adds psychologist Timothy Jay at the Massa-

chusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, and that visceral feeling might explain why we swear when we’re in pain.

This insight came to Stephens in the maternity ward where his wife was giving birth to their child: “She was in agony, and she was swearing her head off.” Yet each time the contrac-tions eased, she apologized to the doctors and nurses, Stephens recalls. But she needn’t have. “Swearing is a completely normal part of giving birth,” the hospital staff told them.

Intrigued, Stephens asked some undergraduates to take part in an ice water test, where they had to hold one hand in freezing cold water while reciting either polite descriptive words

or rude obscenities. Those shouting obscenities held their hands in the icy water longer and reported experi-encing less pain, suggesting that swear words trigger the body’s fight-or-flight response and its accompa-nying pain tolerance.Q. “Honey,” you brashly say to your girlfriend, “I love your new car but I sure hope it doesn’t have the engine knocking your old car did. Sometimes I wonder about your choice of gasoline.”A. “Well,” she begins, “as you know, not all fuels ignite at the same tempera-ture, so I choose a fuel able to tolerate my car’s com-pression process without igniting spontaneously – in other words, knocking. That’s exactly what I’m do-

ing when I buy the proper grade of gasoline. Fuels that are more resistant to knock-ing are assigned higher ‘octane numbers’ – I think regular gasoline has an octane number of about 87, premium 93. So choosing the proper fuel is simply a matter of finding the lowest octane gasoline that a car can use without excessive knocking.

“A little knocking in the most demanding cir-cumstances is, I feel, quite acceptable. Most modern well-tuned cars like mine work beautifully on regular gasoline. Since only high-performance cars with high-compression engines need premium gasoline, putting anything other than regular gasoline in a nor-mal car is usually a waste

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Bill is a journalist, Rich holds a doctorate in physics. Together the brothers bring you “Strange But True.” Send your questions to [email protected].

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of money. Any questions, sweetie?” (Adapted from Louis Bloomfield’s “How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordi-nary”)Q. What’s the “double-muffle” phenomenon behind the workings of a gun silencer?A. A gun uses hot high-pressure gas to propel its bullet through the barrel, as energetic powder inside the cartridge undergoes a sud-den thermal reaction, says Louis Bloomfield in “How Everything Works.” With the trapped gas pushing behind it, the bul-let experiences an enor-mous acceleration, and by the time it leaves the barrel, much of the gas’s thermal energy has been converted into kinetic energy in the

bullet. This is more com-plete for a long-barreled rifle than for a short-bar-reled handgun.

As the bullet emerges, the sudden release of pres-surized gas creates a shock wave producing most of the gun’s bang. However, if the bullet is supersonic, it will also produce a sonic boom as its own shock wave pass-es your ears. “A silenced gun uses baffles to prolong the release of gas from the barrel and thereby suppress the barrel’s shock wave” (Muffle #1). “It also uses subsonic bullets to avoid sonic booms” (Muffle #2).

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GUIDES: Cookies are an inseparable part of group’s imageFROM | 28

“They sit there and go, ‘Do you have cookies on you?’” laughs Mariani. “I’ve now learned not to go anywhere without carrying a few boxes of cookies in my purse, because people are forever asking me. I can give them their local number and say, ‘Call here if you want cookies,’ if they want more than I can give them.”

Kailey Martin adds, “Sometimes I’ll bring some for my teacher and the whole class will ask me, ‘Can I have some?’ And then I’ll say, ‘I wish you could, if you had five dol-lars …’”

If the St. Jacobs girls don’t knock on your door, you can where cookies are being sold near you at www.girlguides.ca and @girlguidecookie.

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1/4 cup butter, softened3 tbsp maple syrup8 slices of multigrain breadOld cheddar cheese, sliced1 royal gala apple

Heat cast iron pan on

low;Cream butter and maple

syrup together in an elec-tric mixer;

Generously butter the bread on both sides, add sliced apple and cheddar in layers, top with another slice of bread; Place in a preheated cast iron pan and keep on low so you don’t burn the maple but-ter. Once golden brown, cut into quarters and serve.

Maple Coffee8 cups freshly brewed coffee1 cup 10% cream1/3 cup maple syrup2 cinnamon sticks3 star anise 3 cloves

Combine all ingredients in a thermos and let stand for 10 minutes. Enjoy with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

CHEF’S TABLE: Sweeten upFROM | 28

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Grants from the Woolwich Community Fund will be awarded this spring. Special grants are available for youth initiatives through the Fountain of Memories Fund.

Charitable organizations whose services benefit the citizens of Woolwich Township are invited to apply. Grants will be provided for capital expenditures or as seed money for new initiatives (not for operating expenses).

Grant applications will be accepted until Friday May 16, 2014

The Woolwich Community Fund application form andinformation on how to apply are available at:

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Mac Benham promoted his foodie blog during Monday’s Taste of Woolwich event at St. Teresa of Avila Church in Elmira. Meanwhile Kelly and Miriam promoted Organic Loft Boxes with hearty vegetables, and Parker Malloy enjoyed a treat. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]

The cookie fundraiser pays for most of the Girl Guides’ year, including camps, uniforms, and craft supplies. [WILL SLOAN / THE OBSERVER]

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