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Outlet mall wants to ease restrictions on tenantsOwners seeking official plan, zoning changes to bring St. Jacobs operation more in line with industry standards, provide wider range of retail options

STEVE KANNON ning discussions involving the outlet mall at its outset, no one from the public came to address the issue. The only speakers were a planner representing the applicant and a planner from the City of Waterloo indicating his department would submit written com-ments next month.

Marcus Shantz, president of Mercedes Corp., said in an interview the follow-ing day that the proposed amendments would bring no significant changes to the 100,000-square-foot mall on Benjamin Road.

“We’re not seeking to change the character of the mall in any fundamental way,” he said, explaining the goal is to be able to

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widen the list of prospec-tive businesses operating there. “We really do need to have the freedom to bring in some complementary stores to keep the place tenanted and fresh.”

Current zoning sees them having to turn people away. In some cases, the restrictions leave possible uses open to interpreta-tion, which forces prospec-tive tenants to face delays not seen anywhere else, he added.

In opening the public meeting, Dan Kennaley, Woolwich’s director of engineering and plan-ning, said the amend-ments would see the mall’s primary use remain as a manufacturers’ outlet. The

proposed changes reflect the shifting industry stan-dards for outlet malls.

In response to a question from Coun. Allan Poffen-roth about the extent of non-manufacturer’s retail space, the applicant’s plan-ner said those details are still under review.

“We don’t have a specific percentage in mind,” said Stephen Gardiner of the Lakeshore Group.

Unlike past planning discussions involving the outlet mall at its outset, no one from the public came to address the issue. In that regard, it resembles the 180-degree shift in attitude about the nearby power cen-tre, once the topic of raging debates and now a subject that doesn’t cause a ripple.

Coun. Mark Bauman

noted as much when he pointed out that he would typically expect to see law-yers from Conestoga Mall, Smart Centres and other nearby retailers at these meetings. While not pres-ent, they and other inter-ested parties can submit written comments.

Joel Cotter, the planner representing Waterloo, said the city would sub-mit written comments in September, pointing out the complexity of analys-ing the proposed changes, especially in regards to the cross-border servicing agreement that sees the Waterloo provide water and sewer services to the site.

Kennaley said there will be plenty of time for comments, but noted “the sooner the better” in get-

OUTLET MALL: Restrictions see mall turn away potential tenantsFROM | COVER

The speed limit will drop around four rural schools in Woolwich, a safety measure that will come into effect this fall.

Portions of Scotch Line, Jigs Hollow, Martin Creek and Spitzig roads will see speed reduced to 60 km/h, with school zone signs posted accord-ingly. The move approved August 5 by Woolwich council affects the New Jerusalem, Winterbourne and East Heidelberg paro-

Speed limits to drop in zones around rural schoolsSTEVE KANNON chial schools, along with

Woodland Christian High School.

The changes came as a result of a review of traffic and speed counts adjacent to the schools, following up on similar reductions made last year on Three Bridges Road, reported director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley.

The township is talking to the Region of Waterloo about a zone around the parochial school on Kath-erine Street, and a future study is in the works for

Floradale Road.The New Jerusalem pa-

rochial school will see the speed limit on Scotch Line Road drop to 60 km/h from 80 km/h some 200 metres west of the New Jerusalem Road intersection.

A traffic count in 2013 on Scotch Line Road between New Jerusalem Road and Northfield Drive pegged the average daily traffic of 208 vehicles, with the 85th percentile speed (the stan-

dard measure of the speed that no more than 15 per cent of traffic is exceeding) registered at 87.5 km/h. On the stretch of Scotch Line between New Jerusalem Road and Arthur Street, the numbers were 58 vehicles per day, and a speed of 53 km/h.

A traffic count in 2009 showed 1,707 vehicles per day on New Jerusalem road., with an 85th percen-tile speed of 102 km/h.

Around the Winter-bourne parochial school on Jigs Hollow Road, a 2009 traffic study found 216 vehicles travelled the road daily, though no speed data were collected. Safety concerns surrounding the potential for increased truck traffic due to a near-by gravel pit was part of the decision to reduce the speed limit.

For East Heidelberg School, a count on Martin

Creek Road in 2013 showed 249 vehicles per day, hit-ting an 85th percentile speed of 84 km/h. That was the same speed as found in the vicinity of Woodland Christian High School, though Spitzig Road han-dled 1,186 vehicles.

In supporting the chang-es, Coun. Mark Bauman stressed the key to making a difference is to have po-lice step up enforcement in the new zones.

ting submissions to the township.

For Shantz, the same market changes that saw Smart Centres, operators of the neighbouring big-box retail development, request zoning amendments meant it’s time for the outlet mall to broaden its options.

“For some time we’ve be-lieved that we need to get a little more flexibility in the zoning there. We have to operate under restraints that no other outlet mall in the province faces.”

This week’s meeting was simply for information pur-poses, the initial stage of the process. No decisions were made Tuesday night. Kennaley told councillors he expects to have a report back to them later in Octo-ber or November.

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A portion of Bisch Street will be closed for a couple of months starting in early September to allow for the replacement of an aging culvert over Beaver Creek.

Woolwich council this week approved the $466,000 project, which came in $116,000 higher than budgeted for. The bulk of the cost involves awarding a $396,000 ten-

Tanzania isn’t your typical summer destina-tion. Hiking uphill for 10 days is far from a relaxing vacation. Nevertheless, a group of 16 climbers headed off in July with the goal of raising $250,000 for MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Association). After a year of fundraising they surpassed this figure on the first day of their trek up Mount Kili-manjaro.

Allan Sauder, executive director of MEDA, was among the group and just returned home this week after travelling through Tanzania following the climb.

“It was pretty demanding physically, but as we went along I felt increasingly confident I had done the right things in prepara-tion,” Sauder said.

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An uphill battle of some noteGroup of volunteers return from summiting Mount Kilimanjaro as a fundraiser for MEDA charities

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months to prepare for the strenuous task of conquer-ing the fourth-highest peak on the globe. He hired a personal trainer, walked to and from work when weather permitted, and hiked challenging trails

with his wife.“Every seven years or so

we’re supposed to take a personal development leave and in my case it had been 27 years, so I was ready,” Sauder said with a laugh.

He and his wife hiked the

Adirondacks in New York and the Rockies in Alberta during his time off. He said he doesn’t think he could have done the climb with-out that preparation.

The peak reaches 19,341 feet above sea level, or

5,895 metres, making it the tallest mountain in Africa. The group started planning for the trip last August, hoping to raise a quarter million for MEDA’s various projects around the world helping to overcome

poverty. As of this week, $276,000 has been raised. He says this shows a strong sense of support from their constituents.

Two highlights stand out for Sauder upon returning from the journey.

“First, the spectacular scenery. I didn’t have it in my head just how beautiful it would be,” Sauder said. “Seeing the constantly changing vegetation, that part was just fascinating to me. The other part that was just a positive for all the team members, we just had such a strong camaraderie among the group. It was a lot of fun. We just really enjoyed each other’s com-pany.”

When Internet access allowed, Sauder would read messages of support from home and the MEDA website, passing around his Blackberry for the group to read at night.

“That was really impor-tant. The financial support was important but equally important was the moral support.”

The physical task of climbing the mountain wasn’t Sauder’s biggest challenge. For him, it was all in his head. The fear of not being able to finish

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GRCA demands push culvert project into deficitWoolwich juggles funds to cover additional $116,000 needed for Bisch Street project slated to close road in September

STEVE KANNON der to McLean Taylor Con-struction. Having received $32,000 earlier this year to carry out the engineer-ing design for the project, AECOM Canada will get another $21,000 to oversee the work.

The higher costs stemmed from a demand by the Grand River Con-servation Authority that the design for the culvert be changed to a more expensive option. As well, the road bed needs

to be raised, an issue not foreseeable at budget time, said director of en-gineering and planning Dan Kennaley at Tuesday night’s meeting, held in Maryhill.

Coun. Mark Bauman noted the shift to a so-called open box culvert versus the planned closed box structure adds another $100,000 while replacing the culvert with the same design that failed. He ques-tioned whether the original

design would have any more impact on the fish in the creek.

Kennaley said the town-ship argued its case, but ul-timately required a permit from the GRCA before going ahead with the project.

“In the end, we had to comply.”

Pointing to the extra costs, Coun. Allan Poffen-roth noted a bid disquali-fied on a technicality was more than $40,000 lower the winning bid, prompt-

ing him to ask whether the township’s tendering pro-cess could allow for some wiggle room to contact bidders to “fix up” their paperwork.

Director of finance Rich-ard Petherick, however, explained the whole pro-cess involves sealed bids opened at the same time, adding the township is looking at ways to provide more flexibility for such cases.

“It’s very disappointing,”

said Poffenroth of the cur-rent process. “We’re out $40,000 because of it.”

Weighing in to the discussion, chief admin-istrative officer David Brenneman said the pro-cess involves some “very exact” language and proce-dures. Straying from them could potentially open the door to unsuccessful bidders making legal chal-lenges, which could get

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SCOTT BARBER time,” said John Drum-mond, a volunteer with 4-H Ontario. “It’s a great way to learn about farm-ing and how to take care of animals. And the kids can’t wait to get out to the shows and compete.”

The 15th annual dairy show heads to the horse barn at the Grand River Raceway on August 23.

The contest begins at 12:30 p.m., with the show-manship class.

“Showmanship is the art of having your 4-H proj-ect (a heifer or a yearling) look her best at all times,” Drummond explained. “Members are judged on how well they can show their animals to their best advantage, how well and how quickly they can fol-low the judge’s instruc-

Matthew Schieck is off to UofG and Connor Venier to Carleton, each with an additional $2,250 in towTwo athletes receive Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarships

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Matthew Schieck and Connor Venier both have something to be grateful for just in time for school. The two are this year’s recipi-ents of an NHLPA Dan Sny-der Memorial Scholarship.

Each will receive $2,250 for their postsecondary education costs in the fall. They were presented plaques by Graham and Lu Ann Snyder, Dan’s parents, at their Waterloo home this week.

“We’re always very proud of all our recipients and I’m honoured they all ap-ply for the scholarship and get accepted,” Lu Ann said. “We didn’t have as many this year but fortunately for Connor and Matt that meant a little more.”

The Dan Snyder Memo-rial Scholarship was created

after Dan Snyder passed away as a result of a 2003 car accident in Atlanta, where he was a member of the NHL’s Thrashers. He grew up living and breath-ing hockey in Elmira.

The scholarship has pro-vided more than $40,120 to local students who are active athletes and commu-nity leaders.

Schieck will be heading to the University of Guelph in September to study business with a minor in kinesiology. The award is particularly special to him, as his family is related to the Snyders through mar-riage. He previously played for the Sugar Kings, as Dan did, but will be playing for the Wellesley Applejacks this year.

Schieck received the scholarship in the Wool-wich Community Open

category, while Venier was awarded in the Woolwich Minor Hockey category.

“It’s a huge honour to win it, to be honest. What it rep-resents ... it’s a huge honour to me,” Schieck said.

He’s been playing sports from a young age, including soccer, baseball, hockey,

ball hockey, and golf. “It’s good stress relief

I find. I’ve made a ton of lifelong friends, and that’s probably the biggest thing when I think of it,” Schieck said.

Venier is off to Carleton University in Ottawa this fall as a history major, con-

sidering pursuing a career in teaching. The Elmira native played baseball and then minor hockey for 10 years. He has his hockey gear packed in anticipation of continuing it recreation-ally at university.

“Hockey was something I could really focus my mind

on and I had a really good time playing,” Venier said. “It really helped me build my confidence up and over-all feel better playing as a team.”

The awards are given out on the basis of sportsman-ship, dedication, determi-nation, and scholastics; the qualities exemplified by Dan Snyder. Lu Ann says it’s important to continue the scholarship to carry on Dan’s legacy.

“Now the next generation is here and they need to know who he was and what he did,” Lu Ann said. “We’re already finding some kids are 12, 13 years old, they don’t know who Dan is. It’s trying to hand that over to the next group of kids and make it important. He was so much a community per-son.”

To qualify for the schol-arship, students must be enrolled in a postsecondary institution recognized by Resolve Canada. They must also live in Woolwich Town-ship and be active in sports, but not necessarily the top player on the team.

“That’s what Dan was all about, helping other kids and helping kids get better and be a better person.”

Connor Venier and Matthew Schieck are this year's recipients of Dan Snyder Memorial Scholarships, receiving the awards Wednesday at the Waterloo home of Graham and Lu Ann Snyder. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]

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tions, and how well they move with their animals.  A dairy 4-H Member will learn responsibility, patience, self confidence, teamwork, sportsmanship, problem solving and orga-nization skills while they are training and showing their 4-H project.”

The second class is con-formation, in which cattle are judged strictly on their strength and appearance.

It’s a contest that de-veloped over the last 100 years, Drummond ex-plained.

“It evolved in the early nineteen hundreds from the agricultural shows that were taking place at the time,” he said. “By the 30s and 40s, people were really starting to take an inter-est in how their animals

looked, and so the shows evolved to include that aspect.”

The dairy club is part of the larger 4-H program, which strives to teach “leadership skills such as public speaking, com-munication, decision making, parliamentary procedure, meeting man-agement and networking,” Drummond said.

The show at the Grand River Raceway kicks off the livestock show season for the group, who will later compete at the Cambridge, New Hamburg, Rockton and Royal Winter fairs.

More information about the show can be found at 4-Hontario.ca. Prize money ranges from $30 for first-place and $10 for sixth to tenth.

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Transfer station options explored

Looking at alternatives to the outright closure of the transfer station in Elmira next spring, Woolwich chief administrative officer David Brenneman has met with potential private operators Plein Disposal and Waste Management Canada.

Due to scheduling difficulties, he won’t be meeting with officials from the Region of Waterloo, which plans to close all of the rural transfer stations next March, until later this month, he told councillors meeting this week.

The township is open to looking at options with the region, he said.

Brenneman expects to have a report back to council in the fall, with recom-mendations likely to be addressed by a new council following the election on October 27.

Glasgow St. report due Aug. 12

Options for dealing with a culvert failure that’s closed a portion of Glasgow Street in Conestogo will be discussed at Woolwich council next week. Director of engineering and

planning Dan Kennaley said Tuesday he expects to bring a report forward August 12.

The failure of a headwall on the culvert forced the closure last month of the stretch of Glasgow Street North between Flax Mill and Misty River drives. The headwall collapsed into the creek, subsequently allowing a portion of the asphalt to wash away.

Conestogo resident and council hopeful Lisa MacDonald told councillors meeting August 5 in Maryhill that the road remains unsafe, as kids continue to use the crossing, which is blocked to vehicular traffic.

“We also regard it as a very urgent

situation,” Kennaley told her, noting emergency measures will be under-taken to carry out the unexpected and unbudgeted repairs and reopen the crossing as quickly as possible.

Wellesley eyes CAO consultant

With Wellesley chief administrative officer Willis McLaughlin set to retire after the end of 2014, township coun-cillors met at their Crosshill chambers on August 5 to receive presentations from three consultant firms bidding to help find a replacement.

Council is expected to choose be-tween Ward and Uptigrove, Ravenhill, and Bill Winegard by the next meeting on August 19.

Area home sales up 6% in July

There were a total of 662 residential properties sold through the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors in July, an increase of 5.9 per cent compared with 625 in July 2013.

Home sales in the month of July were also 16.6 per cent above the five-year average for the month.

Strong activity in July helped to bring

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5:45 AM | A single-vehicle collision occurred when a man driving a grey Toyota eastbound on St. Charles Street West near Maryhill lost control of his car due to heavy rain. The vehicle crossed the centerline and entered the ditch on the westbound side of the road, striking a tree. While the car was severely damaged, no one was injured. There were no charges.

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3:45 PM | Arthur Street and Whippoorwill Drive in Elmira was the scene of a rear-end collision. An Elmira woman driving a black 2005 Chevrolet Equinox was stopped behind traffic at a stop light on Arthur Street. A man from Elmira driving a grey 2003 Ford van was northbound on Arthur Street approaching the same intersec-

the total number of residential sales on a year-to-date basis closer to historical levels. The 4,069 residential transactions to the end of July are 1.6 per cent below the 4,135 transactions during the same period in 2013, and l.5 per cent above the previous five-year average of 4,005 units.

The average sale price of all residential sales increased 5 per cent last month to $335,858 compared to July 2013. Single detached homes sold for an average price of $378,459, an increase of 4.7 per cent compared to last year. The average sale price for a condominium was $223,302, an increase of 3.9 per cent compared to July 2013.

Police set to auction off recovered bicycles at M.R. Jutzi in BreslauLooking for a bicycle? Something recovered by the police might be just the thing. A bicycle-only auction is set for August 23 starting at 9 a.m. at M.R. Jutzi & Co., 5100 Fountain St. N. in Breslau.

Viewing of the bikes will be held August 22 from 1-4 p.m. and the day of the sale from 8 a.m. until the start of the auction. More infor-mation about viewing the items can be had by phon-ing M.R. Jutzi & Co. at (519) 648-2111.

All bidders must register before bidding and are en-couraged to pre-register on August 22 from 12-5 p.m. All items are sold on an

as-is basis. Check out www.mrjutzi.ca for more infor-mation.

Police advise that prop-erty being sent for auction has been verified as being unclaimed by the owner through serial number and investigative checks. Mem-bers of the public are asked not to attend the auction to claim any property they suspect may be theirs. Appointments for inqui-ries must be made with evidence management staff prior to the day of the auction to review relevant information regarding any claims. For more informa-tion, call 519-653-7700 ext. 8701/2296

tion. He failed to stop in time and collided with the rear of the Equinox. Both vehicles were badly damaged. There were no injuries, but the driver of the Ford van was charged with ‘careless driving.’

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8:00 AM | Sometime overnight, persons unknown broke in to a Golf Course Road address in Conestogo. The gate to a compound was removed and left against the fence. Taken was a diesel generator on a trailer valued at $50,000. Police have no suspects.

10:45 AM | A car-versus-buggy collision brought police to the roundabout in St. Jacobs. A woman driving a red 2013 Ford collided with a horse-drawn buggy operated by a West Montrose-

area man. There were no injuries (including the horse), very little damage and no charges.

3:45 PM | A collision occurred at Shade and Milton streets in New Hamburg. A man operating a red 1997 GMC pickup was westbound on Shade Street when he attempted to pass a vehicle that was stopped to make a left turn. While attempting to pass the stopped vehicle, the GMC pickup collided with an eastbound pickup truck driven by a man from Gads Hill. There were no injuries, but significant damage to both vehicles. The driver of the GMC pickup was charged with ‘pass on left, not in safety.’

5:00 PM | A woman from LaSalle was driving a black 2005 Pontiac Vibe northbound on Northfield Drive and stopped for a red light at Line 86 east of Elmira. A woman driving a black 2005 Ford van was northbound on Northfield behind the Pontiac. When the Pontiac stopped for the red light, the driver of the van failed to stop and collided with the Pontiac. Police report moderate damage to the ve-hicles and no injuries. The driver of the black Ford van was subsequently charged with ‘careless driving.’

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4:45 PM | A collision occured at Sawmill Road and Misty River Drive in Conestogo. A woman from Conestogo driving a grey 2008 Toyota Sienna van collided with a grey 2007 VW Rabbit driven by a Conestogo man. The VW Rabbit pulled onto the roadway and struck the Toyota. Both vehicles could be driven from the scene. The driver of the VW was charged with 'start from stop, not in safety.'

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4:15 PM | Arthur Street and Scotch Line Road just south of Elmira was the scene of a collision when a Listowel woman driving north on Arthur Street in a silver 2002 Dodge van failed to stop behind a grey 2003 Honda being driven by an Elmira man who was waiting attempting to turn into a private drive. There was moderate damage to both vehicles, with one vehicle towed from the scene. The driver of the Dodge van was charged with ‘careless driving.’

6:30 PM | A collision brought police to the roundabout at Fountain Street and Kossuth Road south of Breslau. Involved were a red 2011 Ford driven by a woman from Burlington and a white 2009 Pontiac Vibe driven by a Kitchener man. Light to moderate damage was reported. The woman was charged with ‘fail to yield to traffic.’

9:00 PM | A 61-year-old man from Elmira was driving a red 2003 Chevrolet pickup in the area of the intersection of Noah and Seiling roads in the north part of Woolwich Township when he lost control and the vehicle entered the ditch, becoming wedged between a hydro pole and a guy-wire. There was minor damage to the wire. The vehicle was seized and towed from the scene, as the driver was charged with ‘impaired driving.’

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8:00 AM | Two vehicles were broken into sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning in Wellesley Township, including on Geddes Street in Hawkesville. Taken was cash and an iPod.

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what he started caused him some concern, leading to insomnia before leaving for the trip.

Turns out he shouldn’t have worried, as they all completed the trek with-out incident. On the day of their summit they woke up at 5 a.m. and climbed for the first hour with head lamps on in the dark. After over eight hours of climb-ing, they reached the very top. They took photos with a banner and then began their three hour descent.

“I certainly had and I know a lot of us had a big grin,” Sauder said. “It was certainly a big sense of ac-complishment. I think we were really too tired to be ecstatic. It’s a neat feeling.”

Sauder’s wife joined him in Tanzania following the climb, spending some time relaxing by the ocean be-fore visiting one of MEDA’s three projects in the area.

No stranger to the land, Sauder lived there some 27 years ago when he

MOUNTAIN TREK: Funds raised support range of projects FROM | 3 first started working with

MEDA. This time he visited his old stomping grounds and met with some of the staff he had worked with.

The group of climbers met with the people run-ning the mosquito net proj-ect, which has been going for 10 years. Mosquito nets treated with insecticide are available now in 7,000 retail locations across the country to help protect against malaria.

The second project is in partnership with the Gates Foundation, working to find disease-resistant cas-sava seedlings to give local farmers which are efficient and affordable. Sauder de-scribed them as “tubers,” an important part of their diet.

“The third one is work-ing with sunflower seed oil and fortifying it with vita-min A and other nutrients that are missing from their diet, typically.”

The money raised will go towards research and development in MEDA pro-grams across the globe.

There was a lot of upward and onward for the MEDA team. [SUBMITTED]

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AN ENVIRONMENTAL MESS IN its own right, the failure of an Imperial Metals tailings pond that sent millions of litres of contaminants into a B.C. water system is another reminder that efforts to prevent spills are inadequate. It’s sure to spark another round of debates over oil pipelines, through B.C.’s pristine wilderness or elsewhere.

The collapse of a tailings pond at the Mount Polley mine released some 10 million cubic metres of water and 4.5 mil-lion cubic metres of toxic silt into Polley Lake and Quesnel Lake, according to early estimates. The toxins in the pond included arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.

The pollutants pose a potential threat to a breeding ground for wild salmon, with spawning runs set to begin later this month.

It will be interesting to see just how much of the blame and cost will be borne by the company. Reports say Imperial and the Ministry of the Environment have been warned for years about the risk of a breach of the tailing pond, which has continued to grow as more waste from mining was chan-nelled into it. The cleanup effort and the repercussions are very much germane to the Northern Gateway pipeline that would take Alberta bitumen from the tar sands to the B.C. coast for export overseas. Already unpopular, the project and other efforts to move bitumen will see increased scru-tiny even though this involves a company with gold and cop-per mines, not oil.

Moving bitumen or other oil products also poses an en-vironmental threat, despite constant assurances about the safety of pipelines. In Alberta alone there have been thou-sands of pipeline ruptures since 2005, spilling the equivalent of some 28 million litres of oil. In 2010, for instance, the province’s pipelines had some kind of failure every 1.4 days, releasing about 3.4 million litres of oil.

Pipeline problems aren’t rare, but supporters essentially tell us that the spills are the price of doing business, the busi-ness of feeding our oil addiction. As long as we’re so reliant on oil – and other mined products – we’ll be taking it out of the ground and moving it around in large volumes. That doesn’t mean, however, that we shouldn’t be more careful about how we do that while we go about finding alternatives.

In the climate of reduced environmental oversight, particularly in Ottawa, the government claims it's simply streamlining the environmental process, rather than stifling public input. However, reductions come even as numerous studies have shown efforts to date have been inadequate, with the situation only getting worse as tar sands production increases.

It’s no coincidence that the reduction in environmental regulations comes as the Harper government pushes for extremely controversial pipelines to send the bitumen south (Keystone XL) or to China via the British Columbia coast (Northern Gateway).

Such tactics reek of people with something to hide. Clear-ly, the oil industry is in a negative light. That goes double for the tar sands. Perhaps they fear an informed public would be even more hostile to oil. Oil offers us many advantages, which we may or may not choose to enjoy over the many negatives. While we use the stuff, we’re all complicit in the pollution, habitat destruction and increased cancer rates and other health problems that come with that arrange-ment. That’s no reason, however, to cut off debate about how we might start changing the situation.

Inevitable spills of mining toxins demand oversight

“It was not worth even one life,” said Harry Patch shortly before he died in 2009 at the age of 111. He was the last survivor of the 65 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, and by the time he died it was a normal, quite unremarkable thing to say. But he would never have said it in 1914.

Very few people thought that war was a bad thing in 1914. Losing a war could be a bad thing, but the obvious solution to that problem was to be very good at war. Human beings had always fought wars, military values were deeply embedded in our culture, and nobody expected those attitudes to change. And then they did change.

The First World War was a human tragedy, of course, but this was when the hu-man race began to question the whole institution of war: how useful it is, but also how inevitable it really is. And the answer to both questions is: not very.

A sometimes fragile peace the legacy of the Great WarThere are still a few

countries that owe every-thing to their ability to win wars: Israel comes to mind at once. But most coun-tries, and most people, now see war as a very undesir-able last resort. We have the First World War to thank for this great change.

The thing most people miss about the First World War is that it was a per-fectly normal political event. Ever since the rise of modern centralized states in 16th-century Europe, they had all gone to war with each other in two big alliances at around half-century intervals. The wars were effectively about everything: borders in Europe, trade routes, colo-nies in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The great powers fought other, littler wars as well, but these big events – the 30 Years’ War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years’ War and so on – were like a general audit of their status. Who’s up, and who’s down? Who can expand, and who must yield?

It was a perfectly viable system, because the wars mostly involved small pro-

fessional armies and did not disturb civilian popula-tions much. The casualties were low, and hardly any major player ever crashed out of the system entirely. Naturally enough, most people did not see this system as a problem that had to be solved. It was just another fact of life.

The only diplomatic dif-ference in 1914 was that the great powers coordinated their moves better than before. Almost all of them were at war in a few days, where it would have taken months or even a few years in the old days. The armies could move quickly to the frontiers by rail, so now you created your alliances before the war – and every-body had the telegraph , so the final decisions were made fast.

But once the war started, everything was different. The armies were ten times as big as they used to be, because these were now rich industrialised coun-tries that could afford to put most of the adult male population into uniform. That meant that the sol-diers getting killed were fathers, brothers, husbands and sons: part of the com-

munity, not the wastrels, drunks and men on the run who made up such a large part of the old professional armies.

And they were getting killed in unprecedented numbers. The new weap-ons – machine guns, modern artillery and so on – were very efficient kill-ing machines, and within a month the soldiers had to take shelter in trenches from the “storm of steel.” They spent the rest of the war trying to break through the trenches, and by the end of it nine million of them had been killed. That is what changed every-thing.

One response to the or-deal, inevitably, was to de-monize the other side and define the war as a crusade against evil. That way, at least, the ghastly sacrifice of lives could be seen as necessary and meaning-ful. But many people saw through the propaganda, and some of them were in high places.

The senior politicians and diplomats of 1918, liv-ing amid the wreckage of the old world, could see

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Lack of cool factor has WWI playing second fiddle to its sequel

Hard to miss all the commemoration events marking the run-up to the First World War. It’s been 100 years since the start of the War to End all Wars, which we know was a misnomer. As Gwynne Dyer notes in his column this week, however, there was paradigm shift that began then even though we suffered through an even worse war two decades later.

For Canadians, the first war was something of a coming-of-age event. Just a country of eight million at the time, Canada, joined by not-yet-member New-foundland, sent 650,000 men to the war effort. More than 60,000 fell. There were military triumphs and battles with names that still have deep meaning: Ypres, Vimy, Passchendaele.

Still, it’s a war that is largely overlooked, failing to resonate like the Second World War. WWI just isn’t cool.

Leaving aside the issue that war itself is not cool, despite the attempts to glamourize it, the Great War has little going for it by comparison to the one that followed.

Contrast, for instance, the huge collection of documentary film foot-age from WWII to what we see of the first. We’ve got no end of books, movies and videogames with the Second World War as their theme. The first? Not so much.

The image of WWI is not heroic: a meaningless war started by gormless mon-archs, presided over by in-competent officers who led millions to die in an intrac-table trench-based war of attrition. Jerky black-and-white film of old men with funny looking facial hair and even more comedic uniforms can’t compare to the infinitely more abun-dant and action-filled foot-age of WWII.

Throw in Hollywood’s in-fluence – from The Bridge on the River Kwai to The Great Escape, from The Guns of Navarone to Saving Private Ryan – and there’s just no competition.

The Hollywood angle is not insignificant, as it highlights the fact the United States was much more involved in the Sec-ond World War. As Canadi-ans, much of what we see comes through that filter. Our image of that war is cemented by the reams of material in popular cul-ture, most gussied up to be entertaining. For better or worse, everything from the weapons to the battles were presented as bigger and brighter.

While it can be argued the second war was more recent and thus more top of mind, at this point both occurred before most of us around today were born. It’s largely through the me-dia portrayals – how many WWI videogames have you seen, for example? – that many younger people know of the war, the direct fam-ily linkages shrinking with each passing year.

As a kid, I read extensive-ly about the Second World War (with the occasional book about Vimy Ridge or the like) without knowing anyone who had served in a war that ended many years before I came along. I chalk

that up to the second war’s much larger presence in popular culture. Again, the cool factor.

Not inconsequential is the fact the second war was much more clear-cut: good versus evil. Sure, in the Great War, it was easy to take sides based on where you lived, but the rationale for the war was convo-luted – it’s still debated today – and there weren’t really differentiated good guys and bad guys in retro-spect. With WWII, largely the result of unresolved grievances 20 years earlier, history has been more con-clusive about the parties involved.

On that topic, the per-sonalities involved also tip the scale. Compare the en-during images of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roo-sevelt, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso-lini to the monarchs who meandered into war fol-lowing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Who recalls the military leaders of the first war? But what of Montgomery, Pat-ton, MacArthur, de Gaulle, Rommel, Yamamoto, Eisenhower?

All of these factors dif-ferentiating the two world wars help explain why a survey done this sum-mer found 40 per cent of Canadians do not know what role Canada played in the Great War. The sur-vey, from family history website Ancestry.ca, also discovered that a further eight per cent of Canadians say they didn’t know that Canada participated in the First World War at all. At the time of the survey in June, nearly half of Ca-nadians (46 per cent) say they weren’t aware that the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War was occurring this summer.

More than a few of us could do with a refresher, it seems. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungar-ian throne, was shot and killed by a Serbian nation-alist during a visit to Saraje-vo. Convinced the Serbian government was involved in the plot, Austria-Hunga-ry, supported by Germany, sent a harsh ultimatum to Serbia. Although Serbia met nearly every demand, Austria-Hungary declared war anyway. The fire

spread. Russia mobilized in support of its fellow Slavs. Germany demanded prom-ises of peace from Russia and France. On Aug. 1, 1914, when there was no answer, she declared war on Rus-sia. Two days later, she declared war on France. Looking for support, France turned to Britain, who would join the war on August 4 when Germany’s attack on France took it through neutral Belgium.

As part of the British Dominion, Canada was automatically at war. How it chose to get involved was up to the government, which heartily endorsed the effort, as noted in the numbers above.

Though many historians question the reasoning behind the war, it left a lasting impact, altering countries, removing dy-nasties and crafting a new postwar Europe. Gone were three of the continent’s most powerful monarchies: the Hohenzollern dynasty in Germany, the Romanovs in Russia and the House of Habsburg-Lorraine in Austria-Hungary. The map

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that the old international system was now delivering catastrophe, and had to be changed. So they set out to change it, by creating the League of Nations. They outlawed aggressive war, and invented the concept of “collective security” to enforce the new interna-tional rules.

They failed, at first, be-cause the legacy of bitter-ness among the losers in the First World War was so great that a second one came only 20 years later. That one was bigger and worse – but at the end, everybody tried again. They had to.

The United Nations was founded in 1945, with slightly more realistic rules

than the League of Nations but the same basic goal: to stop wars among the great powers, for those are the wars that kill in the mil-lions. Stopping other wars too would be nice, but first things first – especially now that there are nuclear weapons around.

All you can say is that it hasn’t failed yet in its main task: no great power has fought any other one directly for the past 69 years. Ignore the headlines that constantly tell you the world is falling apart. The glass is more than half-full.

Gwynne Dyer’s new book, “Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014,” was published this week by Random House Canada.

Canadian consumers have continued to carry the economy in 2014, but rather than borrow to fuel spending, Canadians have increasingly been cracking open their piggy banks and dipping into their savings. Overall household credit is currently rising by just over 4 per cent on a year-over-year basis—the slowest pace of credit expansion since 1995 and the slowest pace for credit growth in any non-recessionary period over the past 40 years.

» Kitchener-Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife on the already slow-moving and pricey bridge replacement project delayed waiting for input from the province, which then decided no track upgrades are needed despite pledges about rail service improvements

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» From the Aug. 9, 2008 edition of the Observer

It was a weekend blitz long on warnings and easy on the charges, as Woolwich moved to crack down on off-road vehicles trespassing on land around Breslau. A few paid-duty Waterloo Regional Police officers and bylaw enforcement officials spent the holiday weekend stopping numerous recreational vehicle users on a stretch of land bounded by the village to the west and Greenhouse Road to the east.

of Europe was radically redrawn; borders were re-defined and new countries formed, carved from the Russian and Austro-Hun-garian empires, giving us much of what we know to-day. The effects spilled out around the globe given the colonial holdings.

Old powers were weak-ened. The U.S. began the

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lowing the Second World War, which came as a direct consequence of the grievances related to the first war and the Treaty of Versailles that capped it. Something to keep in mind while watching television (Bomb Girls), taking in a movie (Monuments Men) or waiting on the latest in-stalment of the Brothers in Arms videogame.

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Stepping up for the cause of raccoon conservation

If you have driven late-ly, you might have noticed raccoons have not been far-ing too well. You can hardly drive a kilometre without seeing another one dead by the side of the road.

I have given this a lot of thought lately and it occurred to me maybe we should begin treating raccoons as we do turtles. Rest easy; I don’t mean we ought to be making soup out of them or setting them up in rigged races against hares.

Rather, I’m suggesting we help raccoons improve their road-crossing survival rate.

Before I delve into this, let me say this has abso-lutely nothing to do with my new business venture – SG Raccoon Crossing Signage Inc. Nor does is have any connection with my plan to market bumper stickers, raccoon masks and tee shirts with my patent-pending raccoon crossing logo, either.

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Halfway around the track, Vintage Favorite sat in dead last. With a half mile to go and a $3,800 purse up for grabs, owner and trainer Carrie Clarke Scott thought it was over.

“He can’t get away last,” she explained. “You might as well turn around and go back to the barn.”

The Elmira resident felt like she was going to have a heart attack. Could this be it? Was Vinnie, a harness racing veteran at 13 years of age and just a season removed from mandatory retirement finally finished?

“I always try to watch for signs that maybe he doesn’t want to do it anymore,” Scott said. “If he doesn’t want to, than he shouldn’t. He is 13 years old, he doesn’t owe anybody any-thing.”

Without the sound of trailing horses, Vinnie, as he is affectionately called, normally loses interest.

“If they’re all ahead of him and he’s not in the game and there is no one behind him that he can hear, he doesn’t really want to participate,” Scott said.

But, like so many times in his career, Vinnie surprised his trainer.

The lead horse “started to quit going down the back-

side and kind of caused a bunch of traffic troubles,” Scott said. “That caused Vinnie to have to go three or four wide around them all… He was looking like he was going to go forward. I was surprised, but I was glad. I was hoping that maybe we could get a fifth out of the deal and it would be some pocket money or gas money even.”

By the three quarter pole Vinnie “kicked it into gear” and pushed by seven of his competitors, crossing the finish line in second place.

“It’s really something to watch when a horse goes from last to almost first like that,” Scott said, beaming with pride. “It’s the mark of a good horse.”

The $5,000-claimer at the Grand River Raceway August 1 netted Vinnie and Scott a crucial $1,000 pay-cheque. Housing and train-ing race horses is increas-ingly expensive, especially with shrinking prize pools across the province’s race-tracks that followed the On-tario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s decision to scrap the slots at racetrack program in 2012.

The racing season is short, and the winter is long. Racehorses need to earn their keep, and Vinnie,

Carrie Clarke Scott is the owner and trainer of Vintage “Vinnie” Favorite, a veteran harness racer. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

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well past the typical prime racing years, continues to produce.

His most recent perfor-mance at “The River,” the Elora track’s nickname amongst regulars, served to solidify his reputation as a special horse.

“Almost every start he pulls off something remark-able,” she said. “In this busi-ness they call it heart. They race on heart. It is amazing to watch. Every time he goes out on the track, he tries – he still loves to do it. So I’m not going to tell him he can’t. If he wasn’t sound, I wouldn’t let him do it. But he is an old warhorse, that’s for sure.”

And he has come a long way from when Scott pur-chased him four years ago.

“He’s been a claiming horse for most of his life,” Scott said. “I got him when he was nine and he was crippled. So we let him stand in a stall for three months.”

With a broken knee and a broken pastern, there was no guarantee Vinnie would ever race successfully again. But Scott had a feeling about him.

“He had two pretty seri-ous injuries, especially for a horse at the age of nine,” Scott said. “But I had watched that horse race that summer and he was a beautiful, beautiful ani-mal. He really is a stunning animal. The (kind of) horse that you dream all your life you would have. That’s what he looks like. He’s a great big horse.”

She followed his progress throughout the season, get-ting up close through her job in the racing barn at The River.

“He had a trainer that got down on his luck, and things weren’t going very well and it reflected in the way he was racing,” Scott said. “He wasn’t in very good shape when I got him. The injuries that he had were probably sustained years before but he never had time to heal them.”

So Scott gave him the

chance to rest, and it paid off.

Vinnie quickly got up to speed, training with Scott on the half-mile jogging track at her family’s prop-erty on Reid Woods Drive in Elmira.

“I can’t really teach a horse anything, but I can allow them the time to heal, and then once you get a horse like that sound, he’ll go, because he wants to go,” she said.

In his first season with Scott, Vinnie earned $10,000 in prize money.

“He kept me that year, because that was the year I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis,” Scott said. “He kept me; he afforded me that winter. Then the next year when he hurt himself, I kept him.”

Ever since, the two have shared a strong bond.

“He was what I needed at the time,” Scott said. “He gives me a reason to go out to the barn, and to get up and do something, because at one point, just before I was diagnosed with MS, I was pushing a wheelbarrow dragging one leg because I had horses to look after. That’s what kept me mov-ing.”

Scott has been around racehorses all her life. Her farther, Ted Clarke, owned race horses throughout the ’70s and ’80s and now man-ages the Grand River Race-way. But none of the others compared to Vinnie.

“An animal like him is hard to find,” Scott said. “After he’s done, I’m not sure that I will have another (race) horse, because I think it would be a disappoint-ment. … You would never ever want to compare your children to one another, but in horseracing, how could you not compare one horse’s abilities to another horse? They are horses and that’s what you do. It’s nice if you can love them uncon-ditionally and pet them on the head but these horses need to make money too. But (Vinnie) does it without being asked, and that is something.”

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Carrie Clarke Scott keeps Vintage Favorite fit by jogging him daily on the half-mile track at her family’s farm near Elmira. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]

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Elmira squad taking part in ISC World Fastball TournamentSCOTT BARBER

The world’s best fast-ball teams are headed to Kitchener for the Interna-tional Softball Congress (ISC) World Fastball Tour-nament, in support of the Children’s Wish Founda-tion, KW Habilitation and the Kitchener Minor Soft-ball Association.

“It’s by far the most pre-mier men’s softball event of the year and this is the fourth time (2002, 2006-7) it’s been in Kitchener,” tournament media and marketing chair Matt Al-len explained. “We have 48 teams that come from around the world in the world tournament, and we have two other divisions: The legend division, which is 50 and over, and the 21 and under division.”

The bulk of the teams come from Canada and the United States, Allen said,

but there is “a large con-tingent (of players) from South America, about five from Europe and there are a lot from Australia and New Zealand as well.”

This year, the Kitchener-Waterloo region is repre-sented by the Elmira Erb

Electric Expos, Diamond Jaxx, Tri-City Jays and the Kitchener Cubs, Twins and Outlaws.

It’s a great baseball area, Allen said.

“Kitchener-Waterloo is kind of a hotbed for fastball and it has brought a lot of

success to the ISC when it has come here because of the fan base and the com-munity support that it has here. It’s just such a hotbed in southwestern Ontario that we get so much fan support and community support with volunteers,

and obviously some great local teams competing in it as well.”

The Elmira Expos earned their spot in the tournament by finishing second at the Canada East qualifier in Mitchell, June 13-15. They also picked up

the 15th seed (used for the tournament’s bracket) with strong regular season play in the South Perth Men’s Fastball League, where the club has an 8-3 record.

“They should be play-ing, we hope, deep into the week,” Allen said of the Expos.

The event kicks off with a media versus the Kitch-ener Rangers softball game on Friday evening at the Peter Hallman Ball Yard. Afterwards, there will be an unveiling of the “Angels in the Outfield” memorial stone, in recognition of “eight cherished volunteers who helped to develop, fos-ter and advance the great game of fastball.”

The tournament runs August 8-16 at Budd Park and the Peter Hallman Ball Yards in Kitchener. Week passes cost $75, daily rates at $12, while kids under 16 get in for free.

Staying prepped and waiting for the callSCOTT BARBER

After spending the first half of the summer with Lansing United of the National Premier Soccer League, Elmira’s Tyler Pash-er is on the cusp of reaching North America’s top soccer league: the MLS.

Having played with the Toronto Football Club’s Youth Academy before age-ing out at 18, Pasher now has a shot with the big club.

The speedy defender was brought in by the Reds for a weeklong try-out last month and reports indicate head coach Ryan Nelson is con-sidering signing the 20-year-old to a professional contract.

During a brief stop at his family’s Elmira home before the Civic Holiday weekend,

Pasher was mum on any potential deal, simply stat-ing that he is “looking for a

pro-club to take me on,” and that he’s been told “to keep in shape and keep ready.”

While playing the waiting game, Pasher planned to head back down to Michi-

gan to re-join Lansing Unit-ed for a week of training.

The fourth-tier club serves as a summer league for players on NCAA schol-arships, Pasher said.

“The coaches were good and the staff was good,” Pasher said of his experi-ence with Lansing.”The setup was pretty profes-sional. They looked after their players really, really well and they found a lot of good talent for the team.

“I was home for the sum-mer and I didn’t have any-where to play, and the as-sistant coach there is a very good friend of mine. Mike Meyer got me involved with the head coach and got me in there for training and I eventually decided to stay for the season.”

Pasher excelled with United, scoring 3 goals and 6 assists in 10 matches to help the team earn a confer-ence title in its inaugural

year, while also being named to the “supporters XI,” the all-star squad se-lected by fans.

While home games brought in close to 1,000 fans a night, Pasher said it paled in comparison to his time with the Palloseura (PS) Kemi Kings in Fin-land’s second-division Kok-konen, where he spent the 2013 campaign.

But the best could be yet to come, as TFC often packs BMO Field at Toronto’s Ex-hibition Grounds with close to 20,000 faithful.

In the meantime, Pasher is keeping a positive atti-tude and using his experi-ence playing professionally in Europe to help his Lan-sing teammates.

“You have to help them out and give them good advice and information to keep them positive and help your team succeed,” he said.

Elmira’s Tyler Pasher spent the first part of the summer in Michigan with Lansing United of the National Premier Soccer League. [SUBMITTED]

The Elmira Erb Electric Expos are taking part in the International Softball Congress World Fastball Tournament starting this weekend in Kitchener. [FILE PHOTO]

nice ring to it.No, this concern comes

from the heart. I care about raccoons.

So, I’m putting you on notice; if you see a man with a flashlight sitting in a chair after dark by the side of a road, it’s probably me monitoring raccoon cross-ings. You see, I am going to begin my raccoon crossing study this week.

My project – the first of its kind – utilizes a three-fold approach.

First, I will watch cross-ing points, from midnight until my large pizza is fully consumed, and record the number of raccoons that have crossed. Next, if I see one dawdling near the cen-tre of the road, as they of-ten do, I will walk over, pick it up and move it to the other side, thereby saving it from a horrible death by automobile. Don’t worry; I’ll be wearing a head lamp and reflective vest and will handle them gently with bare hands. Nothing can

possibly go wrong.Lastly, I will approach

the province and let them know that they need a minimum of two raccoon crossing signs at that loca-tion.

I plan on doing this until all the raccoons are safe or until my inventory of rac-coon crossing signs is sold out, whichever comes first.

If the project goes as I envision, I’ll take this initiative province-wide and start an organization called Raccoons Unlim-

ited, which will champion the cause of the noble rac-coon and work tirelessly until the streets are safe for them. We’ll have ban-quets where, in homage to raccoons, we will only serve frogs legs and make it a custom for everyone to wash their paws and wear a mask.

I’ve got other good ideas too.

RU will also do habitat work such as creating chicken coops for raccoon families to raid. For urban

habitats, we’ll develop easier to access trash cans. Then, if donations really start flooding in, we might put those funds towards innovative projects such as building impassable roads in the middle of nowhere so raccoons can cross them at will in perfect safety. Or we might purchase rac-coon crossing signs from the oldest and most trust-ed name in the business.

Of course, it begins here, with me, The Father of Raccoon Conservation,

creating this awareness. And road signs.

There’s so much to do before those little masked darlings are safe. For one thing, we’ll need a mascot. So if you have a full body raccoon costume you’d like to donate, bring it in. We’ll gratefully accept it, no questions asked.

Eventually I’ll need vol-unteers too.

If you suffer from in-somnia and wouldn’t mind splitting the cost of a pizza, call me.

GALEA: Staying up late and eating pizza are all part of burgeoning new raccoon-based enterpriseFROM | 9

VENTURE | 13THE OBSERVER | SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014

VENTUREFOOD FOR THOUGHT/ OWEN ROBERTS

FIELDNOTES

ON THE JOB / CORDIAL IN THE OFFICE

Etiquette goes a long way in the workplace

Ontario farmers grow almost 260,000 acres of oats and barley. And while that sounds like an impres-sive amount, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to soybeans (a record three million acres) and corn (two million acres).

Why so little? It has nothing to do with

their quality or nutritional attributes. Oats and barley are regaled by nutrition-ists for being high in fibre, and for being versatile for cooking.

The problem is this: In the field, oats and barley have performance issues. Even some of those who admire them the most, such as members of Ontar-io’s Oat and Barley Repre-sentation Committee, call them “laggards” and shake their heads with dismay.

“Oat and barley yields lag behind yields of other field crops over the past 20 years,” says commit-tee chair Craig Martin of Wintermar Farms in Win-terbourne, “because of less research.”

The committee – three farmers and one repre-sentative each from the public seed organization SeCan and the powerful

Oats and barley fail to perform; quality not the issue

FOOD FOR THOUGHT/ OWEN ROBERTS

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Survey details some of the practices that drive us crazy, sees courtesy drop as people promoted

Raffi Toughlouian, Accountemps branch manager, says their new survey of workplace etiquette shows common courtesy still matters, even as you rise to the top.

If your co-worker’s exuberant inside voice has ever grated on your nerves, you’re not alone. But just how much does our workplace etiquette, or lack thereof, play into ca-reer success?

According to a new sur-vey by Accountemps, the majority think courtesy can help us advance, yet those surveyed also believe the higher up the corporate ladder we go, the less cour-tesy we use. So which is it?

Raffi Toughlouian, Ac-countemps branch man-ager, says it has a lot to do with perception.

“People tend to down-play the importance of office place courtesy and take it for granted,” Toughlouian said. “As people climb through the ranks they tend to put less emphasis on or become shorter or less courteous with people.”

He said if a company feels there’s been a decline in the general way people are treating each other they could implement training or awareness programs suited to their office.

The study, published by Accountemp’s parent group Robert Half, notes open office spaces are more likely to increase bad work-place behaviors.

“Are people speak-

ing loudly in open office concepts, are they using speakerphone, disturbing people around them? The first thing is to be cogni-tive of what’s happening and then addressing it as it happens.”

Despite this, he thinks there are great benefits to open office concepts and we shouldn’t return to per-sonal offices for everyone.

“It’s kind of nice to be in the heat of the day to day goings on of a business and on the pulse of what’s go-ing on,” he said. “It builds for more camaraderie among teams rather than having people in small of-fice rooms.”

He notes that the find-ings reflect what he’s seen in office environments and how he felt about the com-mon courtesy displayed. He notes that using speak-erphone and having smelly food are two commonplace annoyances in open of-fices.

“It’s being cognitive of your personal tone and volume when communicat-ing in the office, maybe not wearing scents that might be too strong, that might affect other people,” he said. “It’s when you micro-wave your food and eat it at your desk, make sure it’s not affecting people in the office. If your workplace is messy, it’s keeping it neat.”

More than 265 office

employees in Canada were surveyed about their thoughts on workplace etiquette and success. A huge majority, 91 per cent, said showing courtesy to co-workers impacts your career prospects.

However, 63 per cent of those surveyed said they believe people become less courteous as they get pro-

moted.The biggest annoyance

for office workers was co-workers who talk loudly on the phone or use speak-erphone, at 28 per cent of respondents.

“At any stage in your career, the essence of work-place etiquette is about always being respectful and aware of your actions,

and how they have the po-tential to negatively affect those around you,” said Dianne Hunnam-Jones, Canadian district presi-dent of Accountemps in a release.

“By the nature of their demanding schedules and external pressures, some executives may lose sight of how their actions affect their teams when it comes to exercising courtesy and leading by example.”

They were also asked “In your opinion, to what extent does being courteous to coworkers positively impact a per-son’s career prospects?” Nearly half, 49 per cent, answered “somewhat, but skills play a bigger role.” That was closely followed by “Greatly, it can acceler-ate advancement.”

“I think people do care,” Toughlouian said. “I think sometimes people don’t re-alize but I think that when it’s brought to people’s at-tention it’s something they address and work on, espe-cially if working up the cor-porate ladder is something they’re interested in.”

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Tegan & Sara closed out the night to a packed mainstage at Hillside Festival at Guelph Lake July 25. [PATRICK MERLIHAN / THE OBSERVER]

Grain Farmers of Ontario – believe research would help boost oat and barley yields to more profitable levels. So they’re leading the charge to have oats and barley represented by the grain farmers’ organiza-tion, which directly invests in research on its own, and helps leverage research funding from other sourc-es, particularly govern-ments. A vote will be held this fall among Ontario oat and barley growers to determine whether they want to join forces with

the grain farmers’ organi-zation, which represents 28,000 corn, soybeans and wheat in Ontario. It sup-ports the notion of adding the $82-million oat and barley industry to its ros-ter, and sees great potential for these underdeveloped crops.

But it wants oat and barley growers to lead the effort to join. So a vote is scheduled for November, to determine farmers’ desires, and see if they agree with the initiative’s research-oriented direc-tion … and what’s called

licence fees, proposed at $1.20 per tonne for barley and $1.50 per tonne for oats, which is how some of the research would get funded. It would be col-lected from oat and barley growers when they deliver their crop to a licensed receiving point, such as an elevator. On-farm use and farm-to-farm sales would be exempt from the licence fee. The consumer angles here include selection and price. Typically, higher yields help hold food prices in check. When farmers produce more, they can af-

ford to take a little less for their harvests.

And because oats and barley are highly consum-able by humans as well as by livestock, there’s a local food aspect to all this as well.

Farmers who grow oats and barley grow other field crops too, likely grains such as soybeans, corn and wheat, and will be familiar with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and its work. Be-sides funding research, the organization most lately helped Ottawa negotiate a free trade deal with Korea,

which opens the doors for exports there – particularly for food-grade soybeans – without giving away the pro-verbial farm in trade-offs.

As a result of the negotia-tions, farmers (primarily from Ontario, where the lion’s share of Canadian soybeans are grown) have the opportunity to export twice as many food-grade soybeans to Korea over the next five years as they do now. Such trade deals are important the moment they’re signed, but grow in value when traditional trading partners or pat-

terns change. And that can happen with the retaliatory stroke of a pen, as we’ve seen this week with Russia closing the door to Cana-dian agricultural goods.

An export-dependent country such as Canada needs solid trade deals such as the Korea agree-ment to help maintain stability in the face of up-heaval and volatility. That pursuit is another reason farmers need representa-tion by democratically elected farm organizations, such as the Grain Farmers of Ontario.

ROBERTS: Research will pay dividends, especially for an export-driven economy like Canada’sFROM | 13

LARGE CROWDS TAKE IN THE SOUNDS OF THE 31ST ANNUAL HILLSIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Basia Bulat, Kim Churchill, Dayna Feist. [PATRICK MERLIHAN / THE OBSERVER]

Elephant Revival played the main stage Saturday night. [STEVE KANNON / THE OBSERVER] Danny Michel [STEVE KANNON / THE OBSERVER]

Long Shen Dao [STEVE KANNON / THE OBSERVER]

Sam Cash

The Superfriendz [STEVE KANNON / THE OBSERVER]

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THE ARTSON STAGE / MUSICAL THEATRE

The music. That voice. Those songsDrayton Entertainment’s St. Jacobs Schoolhouse tells the singer’s story in A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline

SCOTT BARBER

Drayton Entertain-ment’s lineup of musical tributes continues with the return of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline.

The show written by Dean Regan and directed by Wade Lynch features 21 of Cline’s most memorable hits including, “I Fall to Pieces,” “Back in Baby’s Arms,” “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” and “Faded Love.”

Rebecca Poff stars as Cline, bring-ing new life to a show that has been playing theatres across North America for more than two decades.

“Every time I’ve (directed) the show I say we’ll never top this, we’ll never find an-other singer who sounds so much like Patsy,” Lynch, in his 13th run with the show, explained. “But this outing is spectacular. Patsy Cline’s husband Charlie Dick is still alive and we are obliged by our contract to send him samples of our rehearsals for approval. We sent him a sample of Rebecca Poff singing and he phoned us back and said, ‘This woman is Patsy Cline!’ That is the kind of endorsement you want to hear.”

Stuart Dowling plays “The Little Big Man,” a Winchester, Virginia disc jockey who leads the audi-

ence through Patsy’s coun-try music catalogue.

Dowling also serves as comic relief amongst all of the heartbreaking lyr-ics and the star’s untimely death.

“The journey of Patsy Cline is really told through concerts,” Lynch said. “We find her first on the radio, so when the audi-ence comes into the theatre they are really coming into the WINC Studio in 1953, listening to a radio show…

When we go on the musical journey and Patsy goes to Carnegie Hall, (Dowl-ing) plays the Carnegie Hall comic. When she goes to Las Vegas, he is the Las Ve-

gas comic. So ev-ery stop on the road there is someone who welcomes Patsy and it really adds so much to the story because it provides the levity. When you think about it, all of Patsy’s biggest songs were hurting songs, and then she dies. So if it didn’t have the levity it would be quite a downer.” (Cline died in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30.)

The actors also keep the audience engaged by get-ting them involved in the show, something the St. Jacobs Schoolhouse’s cozy atmosphere is perfect for, Lynch said.

“In the schoolhouse we only seat 100 people,” Lynch said. “I’ve done this show in 1,100-seat theatres

and 500-seat theatres, but doing it in such an intimate theatre really makes the audience part of the show because of the way that the radio DJ can actually get out and come up to you and ask question. And Patsy, when she does ‘Bill Bailey (Won’t you please come home),’ she can actu-ally find a Bill Bailey and seduce him in the audi-ence.”

The presentation also features plenty of nods to the time period, including the performance of radio commercials for Winston

Cigarettes, Mr. Clean and Ajax.

Of course the produc-

tion is all about the music, which is performed by a live band.

“It’s just the two (ac-tors) who carry the show, but throughout, there is a four-piece band who plays everything,” Lynch said. “We have four incredible musicians who have been at rehearsal since day-one, which almost never hap-pens in theatre. Usually you rehearse without the musicians and then you bring them in three days before opening. But be-cause the musicians are crucial to her success, we

brought them in early. So there really is a relation-ship there, when Patsy is on stage she is never alone.”

Drayton Entertainment’s presentation of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline plays the St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre August 5 through December 21. Regular per-formance tickets are $42 for adults, $25 for youth under 20 years of age, available online at www.draytonentertainment.com, in person at the Dray-ton Entertainment box of-fice or at 1-855-DRAYTON.

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Drayton - Located just outside of town this Swiss style home is nestled in this huge lot. Built with family in mind complete with living room, family room, rec room and 4 bathrooms... Lots of room to grow and run you will be impressed. Many updates include; updated bathroom, roof 2013, furnace 2014, paint throughout and flooring, 32 ft. x 24 ft. workshop with hydro. MLS1427516. Call Paul or Alli Direct.

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BETTER THAN NEW!Elmira - Attention first time buyers, just move in and enjoy! This well maintained semi detached home comes complete with deck, already fenced yard and fully finished top to bottom. Home features: large foyer with closet, sizable kitchen, dinette walkout to yard and open to living room, double doors to master bedroom with ensuite. MLS 1432136. Call Paul or Alli direct.

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Drayton - Located on 6 acres this extraordinary home is nestled in picturesque scenery. Featuring: Private lane, 1500 sqft, (30ft x 50ft) workshop with 60amp service, and 1600sqft home. Finished top to bottom with an open layout this rare find is extremely well kept. Wall paper to be removed and painted a neutral colour. MLS 1428181. Call Paul or Alli direct.

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Elmira - Fantastic Bungalow with Pool is just minutes from Elmira, St. Jacobs and Waterloo. The Large paved driveway guides you to the Double Attached garage, Single detached garage and 32ftx22ft heated workshop! This bright home has an updated Kitchen with double sided fireplace from dinette to living room, Main floor laundry, and Separate dining room. Master is equipped with ensuite and slider walk out to pool. MLS 1431647. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Elmira - Large home in sought after area. Fabulous property with perennial beds and mature trees. This 3+2 bedroom home is equipped with nice sized kitchen, separate dining room, living room and recroom. Updates: Roof 2008, windows, furnace, a/c. Appliances included: fridge, stove, washer, dryer. MLS 1431350. Call Alli or Paul direct.

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Mapleton – Nestled in 4.5 acres this home IS country living! Town is only minutes away. Updated home with a modern flair featuring: 3 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, separate dining room and completely carpet free. Large living room with Wood stove and recroom with wood fireplace. Bright Dining room with French door walk out to deck overlooking acreage. 30ft x 40ft outbuilding with electricity and second floor. MLS 1432341. Call Alli or Paul Direct.

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$589,000LINWOOD – Unique, custom home on over 1 acre. Peaceful setting, backing to greenspace & overlooking the countryside. Main flr. master w/ensuite OR upper master bdrm., ensuite & hobby room. Lovely kitchen w/huge island & built-in applianc-es. 9’ ceilings in lower level (partly fin) w/lge. windows. MLS.

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Long recognized as a champion for Ontario’s horseracing industry and a driving force behind the Grand River Raceway, Dr. Ted Clarke is now a member of the Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame.

Inducted in the builder category among the class of 2014, the former veterinar-ian and racehorse owner, and current general manag-er of the Grand River Race-way was honoured during the Hall of Fame Gala at the Mississauga Convention Centre August 6.

Clarke, well known for his humility, made sure to share the honour with the greater horse racing com-munity.

“I’m profoundly grate-ful for the award and as I’ve said a number of times and it bears repeating, this recognition is really the recognition of the efforts of many people who at a grassroots level have man-aged to see racing persist and have the opportunity to once again prosper,” Clarke told The Observer shortly before the induc-tion ceremony. “I think there were so many people over the last 30 years that have helped me out to help me get one thing or another done. There are so many that I can’t even begin to name them all. … But the fact is there are hundreds of people who have con-tributed to this award and I appreciate every one of their contributions.”

Clarke helped steer horseracing in the region through difficult times,

including the raceway’s move from Elmira to Elora in 2003. He is also widely credited with helping es-tablish the tele-theatre net-work that was critical to the success of small race tracks throughout the province.

Clinton Raceway man-ager Ian Fleming presented Clarke with the prestigious Hall of Fame ring during the ceremony.

“What sets him apart from the pack is that he just refuses to quit,” Fleming said. “When they wouldn’t

allow gaming in Elmira, that would have finished most tracks, but they went to the trouble of finding another place for a race-track. Of course they do an outstanding job there in Elora. It’s the benchmark for what a track is supposed to be like. Then two years ago when they announced all of the changes to gam-ing it sure looked like (the gaming) would move to Kitchener or Cambridge, and he’d be out of business again, but he’s fought that

back too and the track is still thriving over there.”

Despite all of the chal-lenges Clarke has faced in keeping his own track going, he always looks out for the entire horseracing industry, Fleming said.

“You always hear people say they’re doing things to help the (horse) industry,” Fleming told Grand River Raceway’s marketing and communications manager Kelly Spencer when this year’s class was announced. “What they really mean is

they’re doing it for their own cause and hopefully some benefit will trickle elsewhere. Not Ted. He’s always on the lookout for everyone: fellow tracks, all participants and custom-ers.

“He’s paid by Grand River Raceway and does a great job at that, but he actually volunteers for the rest of us. He genuinely wants everyone to succeed. He’s called on for advice by the entire industry, from top to bottom, and is avail-able for such 24/7.”

Clarke got involved in harness racing in the mid-’70s as a racehorse owner. Eventually, he became an official representative for horseracing participants, a role that has influenced his thinking as a racetrack manager.

“It lent a significant per-spective to the activity as a whole,” Clarke said. “So my focus wasn’t entirely driven by if you have x inputs you’ll have x outputs and as long as the inputs are more than the outputs it’s not necessary to consider the collateral damage that may take place. In purely a man-agement role, that probably would be the means by which you might look at things, but perhaps I’ve had a more holistic view of the industry.”

It’s a strategy that has paid off, he says.

“Certainly a good number of the successes we have achieved were achieved with the coop-eration of the horse people participating in the activi-ties that the track was ac-tive in.”

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AUGUST 12

BINGO UPSTAIRS AT ST. Clements arena, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information, contact Joe Brick at 519-699-4022.

WOOLWICH YOUTH CENTRE WILL be going on a trip to St. Jacob’s Farmers’ Market. Permission forms and spending money are required. We will also be going to the Youth Garden patch at 4 p.m. We will be having two “Minute to Win it” challenges at 7 p.m. For more information call the Youth Centre at 519-669-3539.

AUGUST 13

WOOLWICH YOUTH CENTRE WILL be having a basketball game outside at 4 p.m. and will be having a Round Table talk at 7 p.m. Come check out the Youth Centre when fighting that summertime boredom. For more information call the Youth Centre at 519-669-3539.

AUGUST 14

WOOLWICH YOUTH CENTRE WILL be playing Capture the Flag outside at 2 p.m. We will be heading to Waterloo Park for the Movie in the Park. Permission forms and spending money required. For more information contact the Youth Centre at 519-669-3539.

AUGUST 15

TODAY AT WOOLWICH YOUTH Centre we will be playing some board games at 2 p.m., having a pool tournament at 4 p.m. In the evening we will be playing “Pass the Ball.” Come out to the Youth Centre for more information or call 519-669-3539.

AUGUST 19

BINGO UPSTAIRS AT ST. Clements arena, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information, contact Joe Brick at 519-699-4022.

AUGUST 22

H.U.G.S. PROGRAM, 9:15-11:15 AM – Meet with other parents to discuss parenting and child health issues. Woolwich Community Health Centre, 10 Parkside Dr., St. Jacobs. Topic: Healthy lunches and snacks for JK/SK children. No registration required. Childcare provided. For more information, call Heidi at 519-664-3794, ext. 237.

AUGUST 23

MARYHILL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 3rd annual golf tournament; 7:30 a.m. at Grand Valley Golf & Country Club, 1910 Roseville Rd., Cambridge. It will be a “four person scramble,” shotgun start. Single golfer, $90 - you will get 18 holes of golf and cart, three-meat buffet and fixings, $20 tax receipt, participant prize and gift bag. Meal only: three-meat buffet, $25. For more information contact Tery Runstedler 519-648-3394 pr [email protected].

AUGUST 26

BINGO UPSTAIRS AT ST. Clements arena, 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Paradise & District Lions Club. For more information, contact Joe Brick at 519-699-4022.

SEPTEMBER 6

THE WOOLWICH COMMUNITY LIONS Club is hosting two events in the Foodland parking lot (Arthur St., Elmira).

Drive a Ford event, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Come out and take a car for a test drive (one test driver per household). Ford will donate $20 for each test drive up to a maximum of $6,000. Classic car show & shine; 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. $5 entry fee, dashboard plaque for first 25 cars. Classic car registration call Sandy 519-638-2523, Live band (Cowboy Up), food, drinks. All proceeds to Elmira District Community Living van project (for the purchase of a Ford wheelchair van).

SEPTEMBER 7

JOIN US FROM 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. for our Fall Mom-to-Mom sale. Moms will be selling their gently used baby and kids items. Find deals on everything from gently used baby equipment, gently used kids clothing and maternity wear, toys, books and much more! Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. Admission $2. All proceeds from the sale go to the Breslau Recreational Association to benefit community events like Winterfest and family Fun Day!

SEPTEMBER 10

SENIORS COMMUNITY DINING AT noon (doors open 11:30 a.m.). Calvary United Church, 48 Hawkesville Rd., St. Jacobs. Cost $11. Community Care Concepts invites you to join us for a hot noonday meal, fellowship and entertainment. Call 519-664-1900 for more information.

SEPTEMBER 11

SENIORS LUNCH CLUB AT noon (doors open at 11:30 a.m.). Breslau Community Centre, 100 Andover Dr., Breslau. 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.

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18 Mockingbird Dr., Elmira • 519-669-1459

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“Helping Them to Make Wise Choices”

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Andreas DimondDiscovering God Together

Sun., August 10th

11:00 am

The Perfect Plan

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St. Paul’sLutheranChurchSharing the Message of Christ and His Love

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CHEF’S TABLE: Dressing up a real favourite

ACROSS1. Bender6. To the point10. “Beat it!”13. Resize an image14. Wrist joint15. Near17. Begin18. In conflict with, with “of”19. Convex molding21. Sumerian goddess22. Not yet final, at law23. Been in bed24. Comic character “__ and Lois”25. Antique shop item28. Caught some Z’s29. Scandinavian punch32. Dendê oil

33. Skin problem34. Promotion36. Schuss, e.g.37. Spicy cuisine38. Flora and fauna39. Baseball bat wood41. Baby holder42. African capital43. Inch44. “Cousin __”45. River running through Vietnam and Laos46. Cold shower?47. Proofers’ catches49. Carbon dioxide absorber51. Actor Green of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”52. Bic filler53. Contemptible one

54. High school class55. Plural of “I”56. Upon57. Coxcomb59. Barbara of “I Dream of Jeannie”61. Ashcroft’s prede-cessorDOWN2. Pre-marriage contract3. Abbr. after a name4. “C’___ la vie!”5. Frugal6. Romanticism’s opposition7. Mason jar property8. Creating figures or designs in three dimensions9. Pfalz10. Hospital bathing

11. Virus that causes AIDS12. Duty16. “__ guy”17. Amniotic ___20. “Look here!”26. Foolhardy27. Breed30. Flock31. Birthplace of Solidarity35. Midsection40. Butt of jokes45. Loony48. Magnum50. Calendar square55. Symbol of thinness56. Available58. “___ to Joy”60. Ordinal number

Livin’ life by the numbers, including 1.3 million sheets of toilet paper

Q. When was baseball’s historic breakthrough into “dogless” no more?A. It was sometime before 1893 that Chris von der Ahe, plucky owner of the St. Louis Browns, took a no-tion to popularize the sport by building an amusement park around his stadium, reports “Mental Floss” magazine. This took baseball from a “highbrow diversion for gentlemen” to a game for the masses, with the lure of cheap tickets, hawked beer and German snacks, likely including frankfurters. “In no time, ballpark franks

became a fan favourite, and today, Americans scarf down more than 20 million hot dogs at games each year.”Q. Our possessions tend to define us as a species, and our ability to imbue them with rich mean-ing is a universal human trait that develops early in life. So try to put some rough numbers on “the stuff” of your life?A. By one British estimate, you will likely go through 310 pairs of shoes in your walk through life (UK National Statistics), as re-ported by “New Scientist” magazine.

175 are the pairs of jeans that you will “love and leave” before you die (UK National Statistics).

544: “the deodorants that will disappear under

your arms” (UK National Statistics).

13: the number of cars the average American will own in his or her lifetime (U.S. automotive statistics).

12: the different homes most Western people will live in during their lifetime (U.S. Census Bureau).

And 1.3 million is the number of “sheets of toi-let paper that you’ll flush before you fade away” (US data from Kimberly Clark, the Wall Street Journal and the CDC).

Our relationship to the things we own goes far beyond utility and aesthet-ics, says the magazine’s Michael Bond. Simply put, we love our stuff. As the 19th-century psychologist William James argued, our possessions define who we

are: “Between what a man calls me and what he sim-ply calls mine the line is difficult to draw.”Q. Baseball fans, are you a sabermetrician? Have you got a taste for the alphabet soup of statis-tics being served up in baseball these days?A. Historically, the holy trinity of baseball stats has been AVG (batting aver-age), HR (home runs) and RBI (runs batted in), says Steve Mirsky in “Scientific American” magazine. Now we also have “sabermet-rics,” a term from legend-ary stat man Bill James, combining “metrics” with an acronym for the Society for American Baseball Re-search. The term includes statistical measures such as OBP, OPS, UZR and WAR

to help evaluate player and team performance and front office strategy. “Sadly,” Mirsky jokes, “sa-bermetrics does not refer to exactly how far down onto his sword a general man-ager has to fall if his team underperforms.”

The movie “Moneyball” pitched to a large general audience OBP (“on-base percentage”), meaning “hits plus walks divided by plate appearances” be-cause, as the old baseball adage goes, “A walk is as good as a hit.” But this can-not be true when the hit is a home run, even though the homer counts only like a single for batting average.

A popular way to mea-sure hitting now is OPS (“on-base plus slugging percentage”), which gives

more weight to power and hence to scoring. UZR (“ul-timate zone rating”) is used to measure defense but has been criticized for its in-consistency.

WAR (“wins above re-placement”) purports to figure the number of wins a player adds to his team’s total over that of his replacement. “What is it good for? Perhaps not ab-solutely nothing, but less than it may appear,” Mir-sky quips. More broadly, as another observer put it, “I do not think these baseball stats mean what you think they mean.”

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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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chef Ryan Terry owns FLOW Cafe & Catering in Elmira. More information can be found at his website www.flowcatering.ca

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