Weekly Wag Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. - Thomas Edison - SERVING THE MAPLETON COMMUNITY COMMUNITY NEWS THE Volume 44 Issue 21 Drayton, Ontario Friday, May 27, 2011 1 Year GIC - 2.10% 3 Year GIC - 3.00% 5 Year GIC - 3.25% Daily Savings 1.50% For more info call 519-343-3640 or visit www.norgantheatre.com TIMES: FRIDAY & SATURDAY 8PM & SUNDAY 7PM Main St. W. Palmerston THOR Rated PG. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins & Natalie Portman. Thor comes to Earth and becomes one of its finest defenders. Local meets legend - Students from Listowel’s Promar Karate, including Sensei Alida Hesselink, far left, of Moorefield, were in London recently to work out with martial arts legend and former UFC Champion Royce Gracie, centre. Joining Hesselink and Gracie, from left, are: Sensei Dustin Dickison, Sensei Becky Schweitzer, Jason Koetsier, Sensei Tamara Yates, Shihan Mark Yates and Trudy Jackson. More photos on page 8. submitted photo DRAYTON - The Drayton Rotary Club is inviting locals to join in celebrating the club’s 21st annual dinner theatre night on June 9. The evening gets underway at the PMD Arena in Drayton with a great country meal served by the Mapleton Arena eXpansion (MAX) committee between 5:30 and 6:45pm. Guests will enjoy a tasty meal, complete with a quality Ontario vintage beverage, and great fellowship. During the evening the club will be awarding door prizes, and provide guests an oppor- tunity to win a beautiful hand- made quilt. At about 7:30pm guests will make their way to the Drayton Festival Theatre to settle in for the production of Dance Legends, a salute to movers and shakers conceived and directed by Alex Mustakas. This presentation is brimming with music, comedy, and plen- ty of emotion. The funds raised in this event will be used by the Drayton Rotary Club to sup- port international causes like Polio Plus (polio eradication), and also for local service proj- ects sponsored by the club. The cost for the dinner and theatre is $65 per person, Dinner only is $40 per person, and for Dance Legends only the cost is $35 per person. To secure tickets contact Rotarian Bob Bignell at 519- 638-2736 or [email protected]. net, or Rotarian Jim Curry at 519-638-3363 or curry@bell. net, or any Rotary member. Rotary Club hosting 21st annual dinner theatre by David Meyer MOOREFIELD - When it comes to determining what is good and bad about farmland, a family from just northwest of here has a reliable indicator - the humble dew worm. That worm serves as a met- aphor for environmental con- ditions and it even suggests social implications for immi- grants, reflects high gas prices and can indicate to farmers they might be using too much or the wrong type of cattle feed. The dew worm, surpris- ingly, is not even native to North America, according to Dirk Dekker, the owner and operator of Country Bait. As an immigrant himself, Dekker knows a few things about a business he has been involved with since 1986. He moved to Canada from the Netherlands and shortly after got into pig farming. It was a social indicator of those days that he soon decided he did not enjoy the ups and downs of the pork market and began looking around for other ways to make a living. It was also in those days that scam artists were tout- ing African worms for the bait industry but, being careful, he checked with Agriculture Canada and learned he could make more money picking dew worms. Then he found a man from Arthur who had been in the bait industry for years and was ready to retire. So Dekker switched from pork to dew worms and never looked back. The average dew worm sales operation is 1,000 square feet. Dekker recently com- pleted a zone change on his property and he has two build- ings that are 5,000 square feet each, and he has ten acres from which he picks his own worms. The sheds have conveyor belts, bedding boxes, styrofoam flats that contain 500 dew worms apiece, a setup for loading trucks and some areas for test- ing bedding. “We’re always experiment- ing with bedding,” he said, citing recent trials with card- board. “We really think we’ve got a winner. It took us a cou- ple of years to get the formula, but we think we might have something.” Think of it this way: the worms can actually eat the cardboard if they run out of other foods; the cardboard is clean so anglers don’t get dirty hands rooting around for a bait; and clean hands mean a cleaner boat. Dekker chops cardboard and adds other items (a trade secret). He recycles used bait boxes from his shipping divi- sion, and he also picks up cardboard from a company in Listowel. “Instead of more and more, we’re trying to sell different- ly,” he said. Than means being sensitive to the environment, and “better fields, better pickers.” Dekker moved his fledg- ling worm business west of Moorefield in the 1980s, and said with a laugh that leaving the pork industry was “prob- ably desperation.” His operation includes hir- ing worm pickers, and he said many immigrants have their first jobs picking dew worms. Even that industry has changed. When Dekker began worms were picked at golf courses; today he will not even accept worms from them. First, the chemicals used on the grass made those worms smaller, and many of them are now black. He said a desirable worm is one that is pale or translucent. Two or three black worms in a flat of 500 might be okay, but more than 30 and the entire flat could die. For some reason, and Dekker thinks it might be chemicals or changes to cattle feed, some entire farm fields produce black worms, which he believes are “sick.” He is toying with seeing if someone at the University of Guelph is interested in finding out why that is. Instead of golf courses, Dekker and his son, Ryan, rent five or six fields from farmers from Moorefield to Tilsonburg - up to 20 and 30 acres. Farm owners benefit, too. What he pays can be worth up to more than the crop they har- vest. Dekker calls it a second income for many of them. In the fall, after the third cut of hay, Country Bait runs a special mower developed by his son, Ryan, over the stubble and calls in worm pick- ers. Dekker said clover and alfalfa are the best fields for dew worms, and Ryan noted rye grass is something they do not seem to like. He added some farmers now work worm picking into their field rotation. It is quite a sight to see 30 or 40 people (the Dekkers hire Vietnamese pickers through an agent) on a field. Pickers tie cans to their legs, one for worms and one with sawdust, and strap lamps to their heads. Sawdust takes the worm slime off their hands so they do not miss when they pick. Each carries plastic bags and special ties; when their cans are filled, they are emp- tied into the bags, tied with the distinctive tie, and left in the field until morning. Then, they go back and collect the bags and tie them to a pole they spread across their shoulders, and carry them to a collec- tion point. Each picker is paid according to his productiv- ity, and Dekker said grabbing someone else’s bags has led to a scrap or two over the years. Former pig farmer enjoying success in bait industry by Chris Daponte MAPLETON TWP. - Drayton and Moorefield resi- dents should prepare for either another increase in local waste- water rates or another capital expenditure bill. As a result of the new lagoon cell construction at the munici- pality’s wastewater treatment plant, Mapleton Township will have to borrow $950,000 to cover the purchase of 59 acres of land on Concession 9, adja- cent to the current plant. Past reports have indicated about 30 acres are required to construct a fourth lagoon cell. In his report to council on Tuesday, Finance Director Mike Givens said the loan means, a “review of wastewa- ter rates for both Moorefield and Drayton users will need to take place prior to 2012 to take into consideration the additional costs associated with the loan payments or council will need to consider a separate capital billing.” Givens offered coun- cillors three choices for the Infrastructure Ontario loan application (all based on the $950,000 principal amount with semi-annual payments): - a 20-year term at 4.3%, with payments ranging from $44,230 down to $24,250, for total interest paid of $419,076; - 25 years at 4.46%, with payments of $40,243 to $19,422, with $540,662 in interest; and - 30 years at 4.56%, pay- ments of $37,552 to $16,191, with $661,162 in interest. Based on the 25-year term, Givens provided council with the following breakdown of what the township’s first $40,243 payment might look like, “based on the assumption that the payments related to this loan will be made utilizing funds raised through taxation and user fees”: - $19,920 or 49.5% from tax dollars; - $15,852 (39.4%) from Drayton wastewater users; and - $4,471 (11.1%) from Moorefield users. “As well, the taxation por- tion will need to be taken into account during 2012 and future budgets,” Givens said in his report. Councillor Andy Knetsch said he prefers the 20-year term because of the savings it pro- vides the municipality (over the other options). Councillors Mike Downey, Jim Curry and Neil Driscoll agreed. “We are saving in the long run on the interest,” Mayor Bruce Whale added. Givens told council the interest rates change all the time and he could not guar- antee the actual rate for the township will be 4.3% when the loan is approved. Council unanimously approved a resolution direct- ing Givens to proceed with an application for an Infrastructure Ontario loan in the principal amount of $950,000 with a fixed loan term of 20 years. Wastewater users likely face increased costs due to lagoon upgrades Continued on page 3
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Weekly WagJust because something doesn’t
do what you planned it to do
doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas Edison -
Serving the Mapleton CoMMunity
Community newsthe
volume 44 issue 21 Drayton, ontario Friday, May 27, 2011
1 Year GIC - 2.10%3 Year GIC - 3.00%5 Year GIC - 3.25%
Daily Savings1.50%
For more info call 519-343-3640 or visit www.norgantheatre.comTimes: Friday & saTurday 8pm & sunday 7pm
Main St. W. Palmerston
THOR Rated PG. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins & Natalie Portman.
Thor comes to Earth and becomes one of its finest defenders.
Local meets legend - Students from Listowel’s Promar Karate, including Sensei Alida Hesselink, far left, of Moorefield, were in London recently to work out with martial arts legend and former UFC Champion Royce Gracie, centre. Joining Hesselink and Gracie, from left, are: Sensei Dustin Dickison, Sensei Becky Schweitzer, Jason Koetsier, Sensei Tamara Yates, Shihan Mark Yates and Trudy Jackson. More photos on page 8. submitted photo
DRAYTON - The Drayton Rotary Club is inviting locals to join in celebrating the club’s 21st annual dinner theatre night on June 9.
The evening gets underway at the PMD Arena in Drayton with a great country meal served by the Mapleton Arena eXpansion (MAX) committee between 5:30 and 6:45pm.
Guests will enjoy a tasty meal, complete with a quality Ontario vintage beverage, and great fellowship.
During the evening the club will be awarding door prizes, and provide guests an oppor-tunity to win a beautiful hand-made quilt.
At about 7:30pm guests will make their way to the Drayton Festival Theatre to settle in for the production of Dance
Legends, a salute to movers and shakers conceived and directed by Alex Mustakas. This presentation is brimming with music, comedy, and plen-ty of emotion.
The funds raised in this event will be used by the Drayton Rotary Club to sup-port international causes like Polio Plus (polio eradication), and also for local service proj-ects sponsored by the club.
The cost for the dinner and theatre is $65 per person, Dinner only is $40 per person, and for Dance Legends only the cost is $35 per person.
To secure tickets contact Rotarian Bob Bignell at 519-638-2736 or [email protected], or Rotarian Jim Curry at 519-638-3363 or [email protected], or any Rotary member.
Rotary Club hosting 21st annual dinner theatre
by David MeyerMOOREFIELD - When it
comes to determining what is good and bad about farmland, a family from just northwest of here has a reliable indicator - the humble dew worm.
That worm serves as a met-aphor for environmental con-ditions and it even suggests social implications for immi-grants, reflects high gas prices and can indicate to farmers they might be using too much or the wrong type of cattle feed.
The dew worm, surpris-ingly, is not even native to North America, according to Dirk Dekker, the owner and operator of Country Bait.
As an immigrant himself, Dekker knows a few things about a business he has been involved with since 1986. He moved to Canada from the Netherlands and shortly after got into pig farming. It was a social indicator of those days that he soon decided he did not enjoy the ups and downs of the pork market and began looking around for other ways to make a living.
It was also in those days that scam artists were tout-ing African worms for the bait industry but, being careful, he checked with Agriculture Canada and learned he could make more money picking dew worms. Then he found a man from Arthur who had been in the bait industry for years and
was ready to retire.So Dekker switched from
pork to dew worms and never looked back.
The average dew worm sales operation is 1,000 square feet. Dekker recently com-pleted a zone change on his property and he has two build-ings that are 5,000 square feet each, and he has ten acres from which he picks his own worms. The sheds have conveyor belts, bedding boxes, styrofoam flats that contain 500 dew worms apiece, a setup for loading trucks and some areas for test-ing bedding.
“We’re always experiment-ing with bedding,” he said, citing recent trials with card-board. “We really think we’ve got a winner. It took us a cou-ple of years to get the formula, but we think we might have something.”
Think of it this way: the worms can actually eat the cardboard if they run out of other foods; the cardboard is clean so anglers don’t get dirty hands rooting around for a bait; and clean hands mean a cleaner boat.
Dekker chops cardboard and adds other items (a trade secret). He recycles used bait boxes from his shipping divi-sion, and he also picks up cardboard from a company in Listowel.
“Instead of more and more, we’re trying to sell different-
ly,” he said.Than means being sensitive
to the environment, and “better fields, better pickers.”
Dekker moved his fledg-ling worm business west of Moorefield in the 1980s, and said with a laugh that leaving the pork industry was “prob-ably desperation.”
His operation includes hir-ing worm pickers, and he said many immigrants have their first jobs picking dew worms.
Even that industry has changed. When Dekker began worms were picked at golf courses; today he will not even accept worms from them. First, the chemicals used on the grass made those worms smaller, and many of them are now black. He said a desirable worm is one that is pale or translucent. Two or three black worms in a flat of 500 might be okay, but more than 30 and the entire flat could die.
For some reason, and Dekker thinks it might be chemicals or changes to cattle feed, some entire farm fields produce black worms, which he believes are “sick.” He is toying with seeing if someone at the University of Guelph is interested in finding out why that is.
Instead of golf courses, Dekker and his son, Ryan, rent five or six fields from farmers from Moorefield to Tilsonburg - up to 20 and 30 acres. Farm
owners benefit, too. What he pays can be worth up to more than the crop they har-vest. Dekker calls it a second income for many of them.
In the fall, after the third cut of hay, Country Bait runs a special mower developed by his son, Ryan, over the stubble and calls in worm pick-ers. Dekker said clover and alfalfa are the best fields for dew worms, and Ryan noted rye grass is something they do not seem to like. He added some farmers now work worm picking into their field rotation.
It is quite a sight to see 30 or 40 people (the Dekkers hire Vietnamese pickers through an agent) on a field. Pickers tie cans to their legs, one for worms and one with sawdust, and strap lamps to their heads. Sawdust takes the worm slime off their hands so they do not miss when they pick.
Each carries plastic bags and special ties; when their cans are filled, they are emp-tied into the bags, tied with the distinctive tie, and left in the field until morning. Then, they go back and collect the bags and tie them to a pole they spread across their shoulders, and carry them to a collec-tion point. Each picker is paid according to his productiv-ity, and Dekker said grabbing someone else’s bags has led to a scrap or two over the years.
Former pig farmer enjoying success in bait industry
by Chris DaponteMAPLETON TWP. -
Drayton and Moorefield resi-dents should prepare for either another increase in local waste-water rates or another capital expenditure bill.
As a result of the new lagoon cell construction at the munici-pality’s wastewater treatment plant, Mapleton Township will have to borrow $950,000 to cover the purchase of 59 acres of land on Concession 9, adja-cent to the current plant.
Past reports have indicated about 30 acres are required to construct a fourth lagoon cell.
In his report to council on Tuesday, Finance Director Mike Givens said the loan means, a “review of wastewa-ter rates for both Moorefield and Drayton users will need to take place prior to 2012 to take into consideration the additional costs associated with the loan payments or council will need to consider a separate capital billing.”
Givens offered coun-cillors three choices for the Infrastructure Ontario loan application (all based on the $950,000 principal amount with semi-annual payments):
- a 20-year term at 4.3%, with payments ranging from $44,230 down to $24,250, for total interest paid of $419,076;
- 25 years at 4.46%, with payments of $40,243 to $19,422, with $540,662 in interest; and
- 30 years at 4.56%, pay-ments of $37,552 to $16,191,
with $661,162 in interest.Based on the 25-year term,
Givens provided council with the following breakdown of what the township’s first $40,243 payment might look like, “based on the assumption that the payments related to this loan will be made utilizing funds raised through taxation and user fees”:
- $19,920 or 49.5% from tax dollars;
- $15,852 (39.4%) from Drayton wastewater users; and
- $4,471 (11.1%) from Moorefield users.
“As well, the taxation por-tion will need to be taken into account during 2012 and future budgets,” Givens said in his report.
Councillor Andy Knetsch said he prefers the 20-year term because of the savings it pro-vides the municipality (over the other options).
Councillors Mike Downey, Jim Curry and Neil Driscoll agreed.
“We are saving in the long run on the interest,” Mayor Bruce Whale added.
Givens told council the interest rates change all the time and he could not guar-antee the actual rate for the township will be 4.3% when the loan is approved.
Council unanimously approved a resolution direct-ing Givens to proceed with an application for an Infrastructure Ontario loan in the principal amount of $950,000 with a fixed loan term of 20 years.
Wastewater users likely face increased costs
due to lagoon upgrades
Continued on page 3
Minto tees it up for hospitalThe Palmerston Lions Club
has announced that the pro-ceeds from the ninth annual Minto Charity Golf Classic will go to the Palmerston and Dis-trict Hospital Foundation.
The Minto Classic will be held on June 22 at Pike Lake golf course with a 1pm shotgun
start. The $110 entry fee per
golfer includes the 18 hole scramble, prize, cart, putting contest, and the closest-to-the-pin contest for a lawn tractor sponsored by North Wellington co-op. The emcee for the day is Joey Martin of 94.5 The Bull.
To enter, contact Dave Wil-son at 343-2317 or Jo Kloni-kowski at 343-2553, or any Lions Club member.
Hole sponsorships are avail-able for $100 by contacting John Fotheringham at 519-343-2837. To donate a prize contact Ron Elliott at 519-343-2330.
The Minto Charity Golf Classic has raised over $60,000 over the last eight years to support various organizations throughout Minto.
Past recipients include the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, minor hockey, Minto swim team, Clif-ford skating club and the Minto fire department.
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Public meetings set to provideupdate on water source protection
CAMBRIDGE - A series of public meetings will be held in May and June to give residents of the Grand River watershed an update on work being done to protect drinking water sourc-es serving municipal and First Nations water systems.
All meetings are from 7 to 9pm and will be held:
- May 30, Aboyne Hall, 536 County Road 18, Aboyne;
- May 31, Best Western Brant Park Inn, 19 Holiday Drive, Brantford;
- June 1, GRCA Head
Office, 400 Clyde Rd., Cambridge;
- June 7, Grand Valley community centre, 90 Main St. North, Grand Valley; and
- June 9, Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson Street, Guelph.
There are 49 municipal and First Nations water systems in the Grand River watershed pro-viding drinking water to about 780,000 people.
Over the next year, a Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Grand
River watershed will be devel-oped to provide additional protection for the wells and surface water intakes supplying water to the systems. The plan will identify the policies and programs needed to reduce the risks to the wells and intakes posed by human activities. It is to be completed by August 2012.
The work is being led by the Lake Erie Region source pro-tection committee and is being done under the Ontario Clean Water Act 2006.
There is some lore in the bait industry that one picker collected 50,000 dew worms in a single night, but Ryan Dekker said that has never been veri-fied and he suspects the record is lower. He noted, though, that on May 5, 30 pickers harvested 240,000 worms - and he called that “an average night.”
From the field, the worms come to the Dekkers’ storage sheds, are culled and sorted on an assembly line, placed into containers of a dozen each and then are ready to be boxed for shipping. There are hundreds of flats in the cooling sheds.
Dirk Dekker said 80% of all the dew worms sold to the United States come from southwestern Ontario, and he credits the large amount of clo-ver and alfalfa farmers for that. The Dekkers also harvest in the spring if they can find land that is not tilled. It is good for pick-ing until it is plowed.
But most of the picking is done over 20 to 30 days in the fall after crops are harvested. Dekker said he has checked the cardboard-filled containers with a dozen worms and after a year they are not only alive, but lively.
Country Bait, like any farm-ing operation, has an interest in international sales. Dekker said a few years ago American anglers bought red wig-glers from Europe. They are short and stubby. He reasons American anglers are more experimental than Canadians, who ignore them. He brought some to Canada, and is raising them in his sheds. He ships
them to the U.S., where they are snapped up by avid anglers.
There are also about one billion dew worms or, as the Americans call them, night crawlers, sent to the U.S. from Canada every year.
Dekker prefers to ship smaller lots and focus on qual-ity. Still, he sells about 20 mil-lion worms every year from his farm. Some go to Europe, oth-ers to Australia, but the major-ity go to the U.S. He also sells to bait dealers in Canada.
He experiments with the worm, too, and offers green worms. Translucent dew worms are fed a green dye, and take on that colour.
Ryan noted that, in theory, the farm could create a rainbow of colours, including a favou-rite fishing colour, chartreuse.
“I hear they work very well on pickerel,” he said.
Dirk Dekker said dew worm sales are often a harbinger of
shifts in society. For the last ten years, “The whole bait industry is in decline.” He said there are a number of social indicators. Golf became popular, for one thing.
“Society is changing,” he said. “People are not as out-doorsy as they used to be. In the last ten years ... a lot of customers we deal with are buying less worms, and min-nows, too.”
The Dekkers also supply spawn, but he said that is in short supply because trout and salmon eggs are being eaten as caviar. Still, he used to think when he retired, that would be the end of his business. But Ryan wants to work in it, and he is optimistic.
“There will always be fish-ermen,” Ryan said.
Keeping an eye on the dew worms and their social indica-tors will probably show him the way.
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June 11 Drayton Community Centre, 68 Main St. W., DraytonJuly 9 Grand River Raceway, 7445 Wellington Rd. 21, EloraJuly 23 Guelph/Eramosa Municipal Office,
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FROM PAGE ONE
Local bait operation enjoys experimenting
Bait business - Ryan and Dirk Dekker show off a few of the worms they sell at their bait operation, Country Bait, which is located just northwest of Moorefield. photo by David Meyer
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While many of us in our neighbourhood remained home on the long weekend, sensibly realizing we would rather be comfortable for three days rather than wet and freezing cold, a rather remark-able thing happened.
For the first two evenings there was no rain. Smiles were in abundance around the town. Some nice weather, finally, had everyone in a good mood. On the Saturday, we happened to meet a neighbour who was overseeing her son’s first forays on his two-wheeler - albeit with a pair of training wheels. She allowed that the entire neighbourhood had apparently been turned into a camp-ground the previous evening, and wasn’t that fun.
She was correct, of course. Our family had hauled the chain saw to a bush where we had permission to clean up deadfall, and we had brought home a trunk load of wood. It was neatly stacked in the back yard, and when the weather stayed nice (we’re skepti-cal about that these days) we soon had a nice blaze going in our newly-built fire pit. We noted the neighbour over the back fence had a fire going in an old wood stove, and the neighbour to our immediate south was also feeding flames with his pile of cured wood.
It was pleasant getting the fire to a point that all that was needed was to toss on an occasional piece of wood. Despite the rain, our wood was mostly dried from being down in the bush for two seasons or more, and it burned well.
We sat on the back porch, completely relaxed. We could hear the murmur of talk from the neighbours, without being able to discern the words, which is probably a good thing.
And we pondered that Canadian phenomena: the campfire. Actually, it is a rather human thing. Man has been fascinated by fire ever since the first caveman discovered brontosaurus burgers and marshmallows taste great done over an open fire. We stare into the flames - since we don’t need great night vision to stave off an attack. Kids love to poke fire with sticks, and they love to get the end of the stick glowing and wave it around like sparklers - despite the number of times we explain to them that fire is a tool, not a toy.
Of course, for our weekend, it was a little of both. And fire pits are growing in popularity. We teased the neighbours about obtaining their permit - we all have to have them these days. The auto wrecker owner where we picked up our tire rim informed us that he will sell about a hundred a season and has been doing that for several years now. The township issues hundreds of fire per-mits each year. Pierre Burton, that most Canadian of writers, once declared Canadian males will cede first place to no man in three areas: driving a car, building a fire and guess the third.
We do indeed take great pride in our ability with a campfire. We cannot remember the last time it took us more than a single match to build a perfect fire. Newspaper at the base, carefully selected and piled kindling wood over that, the tire rim carefully placed on three bricks to allow just enough oxygen to feed the fire from underneath, and then some carefully placed larger pieces of wood that are perfect to help form that first bed of coals.
The result is often just enough smoke to deter the mosqui-toes, and a very pleasant evening sitting back after a busy day. Watching flames flicker through the fence from our neighbours’ backyards, and hearing the voices of excited kids from time to time simply made the entire experience one of the best. Our neighbour summed it up the next day when she suggested it would have been sinful to waste the first really nice night that we have had all spring.
That is a sentiment with which we agree. We have always loved handling wood, from the cutting and splitting to the stooping and stacking. Now, it seems, everyone else likes it too.
Welcome to summer in the backyard.David Meyer
Back to basics
Letter to the Editor
TOWNSHIP OF MAPLETONCommunity Information Page7275 Sideroad 16, P.O. Box 160, Drayton, ON N0G 1P0
Looking for some people 35 years and old to play some simple, minimal equipment, non-contact noon hour hockey, 1or 2 times a week. Cost would be $5.00 each.
This is not competitive but would be of interest to middle age individuals looking to get some exercise, get back on the blades and have some fun re-living past glory days.
Please call Kym at 519-638-3313 ext. 21 to say “I’m In”.
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Looking for some people 35 years and old to play some simple, minimal equipment, non-contact noon hour hockey, 1or 2 times a week. Cost would be $5.00 each.
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Please call Kym at 519-638-3313 ext. 21 to say “I’m In”.
COUNCIL DATES
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:00 p.m.
COUNCIL DATESTuesday, June 14, 2011 7:00pm Regular Meeting of CouncilTuesday, June 28, 2011 1:00pm Regular Meeting of Council
NOTICE TO RESIDENTSROAD MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
The 2011 program for maintenance gravel placement and dust suppres-sion will commence on or about May 24. The primary work on Mapleton gravel roads will include areas inside the boundary of Wellington Road 17, Wellington Road 6, Wellington Road 109, Wellington Road 11, and Wellington Road 86.
Please use caution when approaching staff who are engaged in various spreading operations, grading of gravel and dust suppression operations.
BURN NOTIFICATION PROCESSQUESTIONS & ANSWERS
QUESTION: When do I need a burn notification form?ANSWER: For any burning area larger than 2m. x 2m.
QUESTION: How do I get a notification form?ANSWER: From the township office or the township website.
QUESTION: How much notice is required?ANSWER: At least 24 hours prior to the burning, to allow time for Mapleton to notify the fire dispatch.
QUESTION: What are the restrictions to burning?ANSWER: All open air burning shall be supervised, pose no risk to persons or buildings, shall not interfere with neighboring properties including smoke, ashes, or embers and shall not cause interference to roadways.
QUESTION: What if I get a notification form and the weather conditions are not favorable for burning?ANSWER: On the notification form, there is a phone number for the dispatching office to extend the notification.
QUESTION: What if I do not get notification and burn anyways?ANSWER: Any person lighting or igniting a fire in exceeding 2m. x 2m. without notification will be liable for the expenses incurred by Mapleton Fire/Rescue in accordance.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION contact Fire Chief Rick Richardson at 519-574-8387 or by email at [email protected]
CENSUS 2011Census information is important for all communities and is vital for planning services such as schools, daycare, police services and fire protection. The NHS is needed to plan family services, housing, roads and public transporta-tion, and skills training for employment. Since these surveys are an essential source of information about Canada and the people who live here, they must be complete and accurate. It is therefore imperative that everyone complete and return their questionnaires.
As you already know, population estimates obtained from the census are used to allocate transfer payments from the federal government to the province and from the province to municipalities. Obtaining every resident’s participation is key to ensuring your municipality gets the data that is needed to plan, develop and evaluate municipal programs and services such as schools, daycare, police and fire services, public transportation services, and housing and roads.
If you would like further information please visit their website www.census2011.gc.ca or call 1-866-773-2011.
Food concernsDear Editor:
Recently I have become very concerned about the food we eat.
A year ago, our Women’s Institute branch started inves-tigating the situation whereby small abattoirs and meat plants were closing at an alarming rate in Ontario. Since then, we have done much research and
learned much.The standards for food pro-
duced in Ontario are very high - producers are restricted as far as chemicals, processes and facilities they can use to pro-duce our food. But that is not the case in other places around the world.
Look at what you are buy-ing. If the label says “Packaged for” [a company in Ontario]that likely means that the food
was grown, and likely pro-cessed somewhere other than in Ontario - and that can be anywhere, and using anything.
The packaging likely costs more than the food itself, so it can be called a Canadian product.
For example, a can of peaches bearing a Canadian label likely has fruit which was grown and processed some-where other than here, and cost
the packager about 25 cents. It arrives in Canada in bar-rels and is put into a can or jar in sanitary conditions and labeled Canadian. Following the Canadian standards, a farm-er here cannot produce those peaches for 25 cents a can - nor would I expect them to.
This year, by Feb. 12, the average Canadian family had earned enough to buy all the
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More than a year after the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January of 2010, and then the subsequent outbreak of cholera, the people of Haiti are still trying to rebuild their lives and reach some sort of “normal” existence.
It is because the people of Haiti still need so much that the Vacation Bible School (VBS) committee has decided its mis-sion project this year will be to collect items for the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) “Health Kit”.
Each year the community of Drayton comes together for a fun-filled week of VBS at the Reformed Church; and each year the VBS committee finds a local charity with which it works.
When kids come to VBS they are encouraged to bring in specific items to be donated to
whichever charity VBS has de-cided to support.
In the past VBS has sent stuffed animals to the Domini-can Republic, school supplies to northern Ontario and last year over 180 items were collected for the Drayton foodbank.
This year VBS is working with the MCC to collect items for their “health kit”. These kits will be assembled and sent to the people of Haiti later this year.
Organizers are asking chil-dren attending VBS to bring in the following items: tooth-brushes (adult size, in wrapper), toothpaste (min. 130ml, leave in box), large bars of bath soap (110g min.), fingernail clippers and hand towels (dark colours).
There will also be dona-tion boxes in several of the lo-cal churches (CRC, Reformed, United, Presbyterian and Com-
munity Mennonite) for those wanting to make a donation but unable to attend VBS.
Vacation Bible School is scheduled for July 11 to 15 from 9am to 11:30am at the Drayton Reformed Church.
VBS is offered free of charge and is available to chil-dren who have completed JK, up to and including those who have completed grade 5.
With over 150 kids attend-
ing, VBS requires over 70 vol-unteers to run smoothly. Anyone who has completed grade six or higher is welcome to volunteer.
This year’s theme is “Pan-daMania: Where God is Wild About You.”
Through songs, crafts, games and Bible stories, kids will learn that: God made you, God listens to you, God watches over you, God loves you – no matter what and God gives
good gifts.Children will meet fun char-
acters like Boomer the panda bear and Pogo the snow leop-ard cub, who will help the kids to learn each day’s Bible point. The kids also enjoy a snack each morning, and the VBS commit-tee invites parents to contribute to the kitchen, to help keep costs low.
Items that can be dropped off during the week of VBS
include: peanut-free chocolate chip cookies, drink crystals, rice krispie squares, fruit (bananas, grapes, watermelon etc), veg-gies (carrots, celery, cucumber, cauliflower etc.), cheese and crackers. For more information please contact Teresa Rumph by email at [email protected].
To volunteer or register children on-line visit www.groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/dray-ton.
The Community News, Friday, May 27, 2011 Page FIVe
Saturday, June 4, 12:30pm at the Moorefield Optimist Hall
on Beautiful Ball Ave.
then thiS iS the Sale to attend.If you like bargains,
The Opt-Mrs club will be serving delicious snacks all day long
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Please call 519-638-3063 aFTeR 5pm. Please no appliances or anything that
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This year’s Vacation Bible School mission project to benefit HaitiansDonated food - Students from the Vacation Bible School pose last year with donations to the local foodbank. This year’s Bible School mission project will benefit those in Haiti. Community News file photo
God cannot changeIn the beginning you laid
the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end (Psalm
102:25-27).When you are disconsolate
you have a consolation: God does not change, even when all else seems to.
God cannot change with regard to His essence: God is spirit; He always was, now is and will always be ... spirit. The natural or physical realm, no matter how fierce, will not overcome Him. No demon in hell will affect Him.
God cannot change with regard to His consciousness:
the feelings He has now will be there tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that and the day after that ... His impressions will remain constant and His passions will be the same ten trillion years from now.
God cannot change with regard to His attributes: all power and knowledge will continue to be His ... forever. His presence, love, holiness, righteousness, etc. has been and will continue to be ... for-
ever.God cannot change with
regard to His will: His plans, purposes and promises will remain after every and all other enterprises have ceased to be.
When you are insecure, you have this confidence: any investment in His kingdom is guaranteed, whether that may involve worship, service or giving. When you are unsteady, you have a firm hand, for God is constant. When all oth-
ers have left you alone, God remains; closer than any other. In all stages and through all transitions, He’s by your side, moving with your every move-ment. During crisis, He stays put, becoming everything you lack. When you don’t have the presence of mind or ability, He is both your composure and your strong tower.
Author Lloyd C. Douglass used to tell how he loved to visit an old man who gave vio-lin lessons because the teacher
had a kind of homely wisdom that refreshed him. One morn-ing Douglass walked in and said, “Well, what’s the good news today?”
Putting down the violin, the teacher stepped over to a tuning fork suspended from a chord and struck it a sharp blow. “There is the good news for today,” he said. “That, my friend, is the musical note ‘A’. It was ‘A’ all day yesterday, it will be an ‘A’ next week and for a thousand years.”
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Celebrations
By Laurie Langdon
Cash Bar | Live Entertainment
Square &
Compass PubFriday,
June 3, 2011, 7-11pmConestoga Masonic Lodge Hall
65 Wellington St. Drayton
$12 all-you-can-eatwing night
Fishing DerbyChildren’sMoorefield optiMist
At Cosen’s pond f# 8408 Cty rd. 88:30am: registration 9:00am: derby Begins(up to 13 years of age)
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Saturday, May 28th, 2011Chicken Dinner 6:30pm.
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Food bank cheque - The Drayton Firefighters Association recently made a donation of $662 to the Drayton Food Bank as a result of “break-open” ticket sales at Daisy Mart. Store representative Tai In and firefighter Travis Walker were on hand for the presentation. submitted photo
food they will eat all year.How long do you suppose it
took us to earn enough for all the things we don’t need? At least, we don’t need it as badly as we need healthy food.
And what are we doing to our ability to feed ourselves in this country?
There are things we can do as consumers. Talk to the employees, managers and own-ers/franchise-holders where we buy our food and push for hon-est, valid answers.
For example: meat that dis-plays the crest and the words “Canada Grade A” will also have a number in the circle. That number can tell the ven-dor what country the meat came from.
“Canada Grade A” only means that it met Canadian standards for things such as marbling - nothing to do with where it came from or what chemicals and processes might have been used in its produc-tion.
Consider what we buy - do I really need strawberries all year round? Especially when they could have been irrigated with sewage-infested water? Why
not really enjoy Ontario ber-ries in season (if you can find them in your grocery store) and freeze, preserve or make jam for the rest of the year?
And this applies to much more than berries.
Think about where we buy our food. There are 100-mile stores which sell only food produced locally. Some inde-pendent stores also sell locally produced food as much as pos-sible. Ask!
Buying directly from the producer allows you to see where and how the food is produced and to ask questions. Farmers’ markets often make this easy. Your local Food Link or Culinary Association will be able to help you find local food producers.
CSA (Community Shared/S p o n s o r e d / S u p p o r t e d Agriculture) is also out there. As a consumer, I pay the pro-ducer a set amount for my share of the season’s produce - and I can see it growing.
Grow our own. Maybe share with a friend - I put tomatoes in pots or bags on my sunny deck while one friend grows beans and another has room for car-rots and onions.
We can talk to elected offi-cials and those looking for our votes this fall - what are they going to do about honest label-ing of our food so we can choose to buy local, account-able food if we wish? And how would they support local food supply?
Watch for information meetings in the area and come out to learn.
We have found a number of groups who are interested in secure food supply for us Ontarians - Sustain Ontario, Weston A. Price Foundation, Women’s Institutes, Food Links, Culinary Associations, general farm groups such as CFFO, EFO, NFU, OFA, to name a few.
Consider signing petitions, writing letters or whatever you can.
As consumers, we must think about what we put into our stomachs.
Our health depends on it and our families deserve safe, healthy food.
Barb Klages,R.R#1, Elmwood
Letter to the EditorFROM PAGE FOUR
OPP to aid distressed kids with bear programWELLINGTON CTY. –
The OPP are launching a new program with Aviva Canada Inc. that will assist OPP offi-cers in comforting distressed children they encounter.
Thanks to the sponsor-ship of Aviva Canada, the Community Bear Program will equip OPP cruisers with plush black-and-white teddy bears that officers will hand out to children who have experienced trauma and devastation.
Traumatic situations such
as car crashes, personal injury, domestic violence and abuse can have a profound effect on children, and the new Community Bear can help ease the pain and trauma they expe-rience in those situations.
Inspector Scott Smith, Detachment Commander for Wellington County, said, “The safety and well-being of chil-dren in our communities are paramount to the OPP, and being able to hand a distressed child a Community Bear at
a time when they need it can be highly effective in helping them cope with a traumatic ordeal.”
Aviva Canada Inc. has provided an additional 100 Community Bears which they are selling to their employees and from which the proceeds are being donated to the OPP Youth Foundation.
The May 18 province-wide launch of the program coincid-ed with Ontario Police Week (May 15 to 21).
The Community News, Friday, May 27, 2011 PAGE SEVEN
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County has hired new head librarianWELLINGTON CTY. -
The County of Wellington’s Chief Administrative Officer, Scott Wilson announced last week that Murray McCabe has been hired as the new Chief Librarian.
That position was for-merly held by Janice Hindley, who has since taken over the position of Wellington Place Administrator.
McCabe brings over 19 years of public library experi-ence to his new role.
He attended the University
of Western Ontario, where he obtained a Masters degree in Library and Information Science.
For the past 11 years, he worked for the Township of King City as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Librarian.
“I am pleased to announce that Murray McCabe has accepted the position of County Chief Librarian,” said Wilson.
“Murray brings a lot expe-rience to his new role. We are quite proud of our library system in Wellington County;
I am confident that Murray will continue the great work Janice Hindley did.”
McCabe’s is also a past board member for the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries of Ontario, past chair-man of the Administrators of Medium Size Public Libraries of Ontario, past Federation of Ontario Public Libraries repre-sentative, and a member of the Canadian Library Association’s President’s Council.
McCabe will begin his new role on June 13.
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Meeting martial arts master - Sensei Alida Hesselink, who lives in Moorefield and offers self defence classes at Bodyworks Fitness in Drayton, was among a group of about 40 individuals in London earlier this month to work out with martial arts legend and former UFC Champion Royce Gracie (posing with Hesselink, above, right). Hesselink was with a group of about seven people from Promar Karate, which is now located in Listowel. submitted photos
Canada to honour fallen firefightersOTTAWA - Construction
has officially begun on a per-manent, national memorial to pay tribute to Canada’s fallen firefighters, thanks to a pro-gram by the Government of Canada.
The announcement was made last week by MP Pierre Poilievre, on behalf of Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore, as part of an official sod-turn-ing ceremony alongside the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
“No job is more important than protecting the lives of Canadians and their families,” said Moore. “This memorial will be a permanent reminder of the sacrifices firefighters across Canada make to keep us safe.”
The Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation is building the monument in the Lebreton Flats area of the National Capital region, near the Canadian War Museum. The monument, the only offi-cial memorial to Canada’s
firefighters, will be located at the exact location where the Great Fire of 1900 was finally brought under control after destroying 1,400 buildings and killing seven people in Ottawa, and destroying 1300 buildings in Gatineau.
The government announced funding of $2,529,800 for the construction of the monu-ment in 2009. That funding is being provided through the Commemorate Canada com-ponent of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Police have already begun campaigns against distracted driversOrILLIA – Police in
Ontario are wondering how many people would knowingly get in a vehicle with a drunk driver?
And would they speak out if a friend, family member, or loved one was driving while impaired - or would they just sit and wait to be a victim? And would they intervene if a friend or family member was talking on a hand-held phone, or texting while driving?
research conducted in Canada and the U.S. has iden-tified and documented the increased risks and negative impacts associated with dis-tracted driving.
The OPP has declared, “Enough is enough.” The lack of voluntary compliance by many motorists regarding the use of hand-held devices, and other forms of distracted driv-
ing, has prompted one of the largest enforcement campaigns in recent OPP history. Last week, May 16 to 22, was the first of four one-week enforce-ment campaigns focusing on distracted driving, over the next 12 months. Education efforts are also being stepped up, using a number of innova-tive resources.
“People need to understand the level of risk they are dealing with; distracted driving kills. We know it is seriously under-reported in our jurisdiction,” said Chief Superintendent Bill Grodzinski, Commander of the OPP Highway Safety Division.
Distracted driving is defined as engaging in any secondary activity that takes a driver’s attention away from driving and can include: adjusting the radio, searching for something in the car; eating while driv-
ing, watching an entertainment monitor or using a hand-held communications device or other entertainment device.
Using a cell phone or device capable of texting while driv-ing can result in a fine of $155 under the Highway Traffic Act. Watching an entertainment device can result in a fine of $110. Other forms of distracted driving can result in a charge of careless driving with fines ranging from $400 to $2,000, a possible licence suspension of up to two years and possibly a jail term of not more than six months.
“Driving while distracted is bad judgement, plain and sim-ple. There is no place for it on our roads. It is every driver’s responsibility to devote their full attention to driving,” said OPP Deputy Commissioner Larry Beechey, the Provincial
Commander of Traffic Safety and Operational Support.
OPP personnel are be work-ing with the media, schools, other law enforcement part-ners, road safety advocates, the Ministry of Transportation and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to educate drivers over the coming year about the dangers of distracted driving.
The OPP has added dis-tracted driving to its list of Big Four causal factors for death and injuries on Ontario highways. The other three are: aggressive driving, failure to use restraint devices, and driv-ing while impaired.
In 2010, the OPP charged 8,522 drivers for using a hand-held device while driving. Police began enforcing the new distraction legislation in January of that year.
Last year, there were 7,733 collisions on OPP-patrolled roads where the driver was deemed to be inattentive or dis-tracted, resulting in 35 deaths, 1,040 injuries, and consider-able property damage. Those statistics refer to all forms of distracted and inattentive driv-ing, not just the use of hand-held devices.
A recent study by research-ers at the University of Utah concluded that drivers on mobile phones are more impaired than people driving over the legal alcohol limit.
A Canadian Automobile Association poll of 6,000 Canadian drivers found that “texting while driving” is the single biggest traffic safety concern of drivers while on the road.
A recent Ontario Health E-Bulletin indicated, “Teen-
driver car crashes remain the leading cause of permanent injury and death in Canada, the United States and almost every industrialized nation world wide.” The main cul-prit is teenage overconfidence in emerging driving skills and a failure to acknowledge per-sonal limitations. Teenagers falsely believe they can “drive distracted” without increasing the risk of a serious collision.
To read the University of Utah study, visit http://www.psych.utah.edu/lab/applied-cognition/publications.html. For the Canadian Automobile Association Poll, visit http://www.caa.ca/newsroom/news-room-releases-details-e.cfm?newsItem=38&yearToShow=2010, and for the Ontario Health E-Bulletin, go to http://www.ohpe.ca/node/198.
