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HatsOnDufferin, the local non-profit’s second annual campaign is a huge success, with 2575 hats, 353 pairs of mittens, and 130 scarves made to ensure that every child, person and family in the community is kept warm for the winter.

“It’s heart-warming,” said founder Stepha-ny St. Louis, who started this initiative after learning of the growing rate of poverty in the county. She also sat on the Poverty Reduc-tion Task Force. “I got to be apart of those steps and processes to see where the needs were.”

A recent report indicates that one in 10 people in Dufferin County are living in pov-erty. A homelessness enumeration report indicated that nearly 50 per cent of its re-spondents are youth. To help combat this, the County held a poverty reduction summit in January.

“When you see a whole community of services and people coming together to work together for one-end goal, it’s super heart-warming,” commented Stephany, who added she didn’t think this organization

would be so big so quickly. She explained that last year 1,600 hats

were picked up, “which was pretty signifi-cant,” and come May this year, had 2500 hats

made, focused a bit more on mittens and scarves.

Since partnering with several businesses,

organizations, and municipalities, HatsOn-Dufferin has taken the community by storm. Last year, the organization received recog-nition at the 2017 Dufferin Board of Trade Business Excellence Awards and the 2017 Orangeville Arts and Culture Awards. This year, Ms. St. Louis said people have even come from Toronto to drop off hats.

Along with adding scarves and mittens this year, the organization is going out to service providers including Choices Youth Shelter, Dufferin Child and Family Services, and Family Transition Place. “We are put-ting hats in all of those service providers, because there has been an ask for it.”

The hats, scarves and mittens have now been distributed to Dufferin’s 29 elementary, high schools, and colleges.

Ms. St. Louis said there is clearly a need, and the organization has grown this year with “a lot more people reaching out.”

She hopes that with this busy year, Hat-sOnDufferin can help alleviate the issue of poverty, and even end the stigma surround-ing it. “I’m happy in helping the community.”

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4th Tuesday of every monthThe Lord Dufferin Chapter IODE holds their

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Sat., Nov. 17, 9am-1pmChristmas Bazaar

Orangeville & District Seniors Centre 26 Bythia St., Orangeville

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Horticultural Society Meeting Please join Trish Symons as she speaks about ‘colors to live for’! Orangeville Senior’s Centre

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Tues., Nov. 13th, 9:30am -11:30amShelburne Christian Women’s Club Meeting

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Nov. 11th, 11amRemembrance Day Service

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‘Hard work starts now,’ says DM elect Andy MacintoshHaving spent the past 10 days reflecting on

the results of last week’s municipal election, deputy mayor-elect Andy Macintosh says “the hard work starts now” for Orangeville’s next council.

After overcoming local political veteran Nick Garisto in the two-way race for deputy mayor, Mr. Macintosh has called for his fel-low electees to deliver on their promises to instill much needed change at town hall. As one of seven brand-new, first-time faces set to make up the fabric of Orangeville’s next council, Andy says he fully intends to “give the people what they want” and inspire a complete overhaul of attitude and mentality within council chambers.

Sitting down with the Citizen this week, Mr. Macintosh congratulated local voters for “getting it right” on Oct. 22.

“I think the general feeling around town right now is one of relief,” he said. “It has been a long four years for taxpayers and, I think, at the end of the day, they grew sick and tired of what was happening week after week at town hall. There was a real desire

for change, and with this next group I think the community is going to get it.”

In truth, not one of the three incumbents seeking re-election came close to gaining

a seat in last week’s vote. Jeremy Williams finished a distant third in voting for the mayor’s spot, while Mr. Macintosh received more than double the number of ballots tal-lied for Mr. Garisto. The lone man running for a councillor position, Don Kidd, finished seventh overall in voting – more than 1,000 votes shy of a council berth.

Real estate agent Sandy Brown will be sworn in as Orangeville’s next mayor on Dec. 3, with Todd Taylor, Grant Peters, Deb-bie Sherwood, Joe Andrews and Lisa Post making up the numbers alongside Mr. Mac-intosh.

“I’m very impressed by this council. There’s not any individuals I would change at all,” Andy told the Citizen. “They’re all peo-ple I know I can get along with and people who, I feel, will be able to come together as a team. We haven’t met yet as a council, but I think our ideas are pretty intertwined and we’re all on the same page when it comes to working together.”

He added, “It’s important now for us to show unity. We have to bring respect back to council. Over the last term, I feel citizens have lost respect for council. It was almost considered a joke towards the end. People would tune in at home waiting to see what was going to happen next – I have told the cable guy that his ratings would likely drop now because I don’t anticipate things being nearly as exciting. I intend on getting things done in council chambers, not wasting time on petty arguments.”

As he discussed in his pre-election arti-cle with the Citizen back in May, the num-

ber one issue Andy intends to tackle is the municipality’s ballooning residential tax rates. Since 2014, residential taxes in Oran-geville have grown by more than 13 percent. If followed, the Town’s official five-year plan calls for taxes to rise another 20 percent by 2022. Andy says he will do what he can to ensure that does not happen.

“Unfortunately, freezing or reducing taxes isn’t really realistic in today’s world. I’d like to keep tax increases in and around annual increases to cost of living – 1.4 percent, or around there,” Mr. Macintosh said. “People talk about police and the money we could save there, but the town has a lot of debt. We’re already heading into this next term behind the eight ball because of decisions this current council has made.”

He added, “The overhaul of council cham-bers came in well over budget. We have to find around $500,000 annually to pay for the eight full-time firefighters council added. We have our work cut out for us. So, as far as a reduction goes, I just don’t see that being a possibility right now.”

Another of Andy’s main focuses is repair-ing broken relationships at county council. He believes Orangeville’s representatives need to be “less confrontational” and more mindful of the thoughts and opinions of the members representing the seven other municipalities within Dufferin County.

“I don’t think we’re particularly well liked on that particular council,” Mr. Macintosh said. “Orangeville has always been seen as the big bully at the county level, and I really want to change that.”

Andy said he would be meeting with all of his fellow county council members in the coming months in the hopes of striking up a relationship that will lead to “better cooper-ation” in the future.

Switching his focus back to Orangeville, Mr. Macintosh discussed one of the issues that took centre stage throughout the elec-tion campaign – the need for the munici-pality to invest in a new fire station. Having served with the local department for more than 30 years, Andy knows only too well the issues prevalent at the current facility, but he wants to explore all avenues before com-mitting to a multi-million dollar investment in the near future.

“Obviously, we need to do something there. That station was built in 1972, it’s too small for the vehicles we have now, there’s a lot of full-timers working out of that space. It’s a concern.

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Ride the Bus!Orangeville Transit offers service on three routes throughout Town, meeting at the Fourth Avenue transfer point every half hour – at quarter past the hour and quarter to the hour.Transit hours: Monday – Friday, 7:15 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.Saturdays, 7:15 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.(no service on Sundays or holidays)Visit www.orangeville.ca/transit to download the schedule and route map.

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Saturday, November 10, 20181:30 p.m. @ Mill Street Library

Pathways to Publication panel featuring authors M.J. Moores, Harry Posner, Nicola Ross & Richard Scarsbrook

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Thursday, November 22, 7-9 p.m. Location: Tony Rose Memorial Sports Centre,

For details & registration visit orangevillebusiness.caor call 519-941-0440 Ext. 2286. Cost: $15

Banquet Hall

Collection of loose leaves commenced on October 30. Collection begins in the areas with large mature trees, working back into the subdivisions as time permits. The Town cannot guarantee that all streets will have loose leaf pick-up. Therefore, residents are asked to continue to put leaves out in paper waste bags for the regular pick-up by the County of Dufferin if you live in a newer subdivision area. Please have your leaves raked to the boulevard, NOT the road, to avoid impeding road drainage. Please do not include debris or branches. Any pile found to have debris or branches will be left until debris and/or branches are removed.For further information on loose leaf pick-up please call 519-941-9124 Ext. 4520.

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The Corporation of the Town of Orangeville invites applications for the position of

Casual Crossing Guard Infrastructure Services Department

The Town of Orangeville regularly looks for highly skilled and dedicated individuals to join the Town as Casual Crossing Guards. Interested individuals are invited to submit an application to be kept on file for the next round of hiring. Visit www.orangeville.ca for full job description.Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resumes, in confidence, to Sarah Alexander, Human Resources Assistant, to be kept on file for the next round of hiring. Applications may be submitted online, emailed to [email protected], or submitted in person to the Town Hall located at 87 Broadway. If submitting a resume via email, please quote the job title in the subject line. The Town of Orangeville is an equal opportunity employer. Accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Questions about this collection should be directed to the attention of the Human Resources Manager at 87 Broadway, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 1K1.

Seeking Nominations for Municipal Senior and Youth Awards

For more information contact Lori Szarmes at [email protected] or 519-941-0440 Ext. 2244.

Complete a nomination today for Orangeville’s 2018 Municipal Senior and Youth of the Year Awards.Orangeville Council annually recognizes and honours an outstanding senior and youth who have made significant contributions to the community in one or more of the following categories: Volunteerism, Arts & Literature, Community Service, Education, Preservation of History, Fitness/Recreation/Sports, Humanitarian Activities, and Environment/Science.Nominations are open to Orangeville senior residents 55 years of age or older and Orangeville youth residents between the ages of 14 and 21. Nomination forms are available at Customer Service desks at Orangeville Town Hall, recreation centres or libraries, or can be submitted online at www.orangeville.ca. Submissions deadline is Friday, November 9, 2018.

Winter I & II registration is now open!

The Corporation of the Town of Orangeville invites applications for the following position of:

Winter Control Operator Infrastructure Services (Contract position, 40 hours per week)

The successful candidates will perform duties associated with the winter road maintenance function, operating large equipment and perform manual labour as required to carry out the winter maintenance responsibilities with the Infrastructure Services Department. Visit www.orangeville.ca for full job description.The successful candidates will have a secondary school diploma or equivalent, and a valid Ontario Class DZ driver’s licence. Preference will be given to those candidates with six (6) months previous winter control and road maintenance experience as well as experience operating a combination truck/plough sander.This is a four (4) month contract position, starting November 26, 2018 to March 29, 2019Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resumes, in confidence, to Sarah Alexander, Human Resources Assistant, no later than 4 p.m. on November 5, 2018. Applications may be submitted online, emailed to [email protected], or submitted in person at the Town Hall located at 87 Broadway. If submitting a resume via email, please quote the job title in the subject line. The Town of Orangeville is an equal opportunity employer. Accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Questions about this collection should be directed to the attention of the Human Resources Manager at 87 Broadway, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 1K1.

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Girls’ ClubAges 8 – 11 • 6:30 - 8 p.m.Thursdays, Nov. 29 – Jan. 31

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Lord Dufferin Centre celebrates 20th anniversary in town

The Lord Dufferin Centre retirement resi-dent will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this Saturday, November 3rd, to celebrate all the centre has done to provide a homey feel for seniors.

Dubbed a ‘Monte Carlo’ afternoon, the cen-tre will be hosting a special “toss the dice for charity” for Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC). Throughout the year the centre has held various fundraising initiatives to help reach their $10,000 goal in support of “Keep-ing Cancer Care Closer to Home” at HHCC as part of their “Helping Hands…Caring Hearts” fundraising campaign. So far, $6,000 has been raised.

Family owned and operated since 1998, Lord Dufferin Centre is located at 32 First Street, on the site of Orangeville’s first hos-pital. The centre offers 76 uniquely designed private suites. Accommodations include a dining room, common areas, activity hall, library, café, theatre room, games area, 24-hour supervision, and weekly housekeep-ing services are just some of the things the centre has to offer.

“I can’t believe that 20 years has gone by so quickly,” reflected Dave Holwell, the Lord

Dufferin Centre’s Managing Director, who has been there since the beginning. “It seems like yesterday we were knocking out walls, and in the middle of major renovations.”

The centre also offers a variety of planned activities and exercise programs, entertain-ment and social events tailored to meet indi-vidual’s needs. Convenient on-site amenities include a hair salon, café, and Tuck Shoppe and Dental Clinic. They also provide com-munity outreach programs including Meals on Wheels, CommuniDine Seniors Lun-cheon, and the Bridging You Home Program.

Mr. Holwell said that although they have slightly changed their approach over the years, “We’ve come up with a bit of formula to provide the best services and amenities for seniors.”

“It’s all about the staff,” he said on why the centre is unique. “I think that our staff is sec-ond to none. They provide amazing service to our residents.”

Also located in the building are the Sun-flower Daycare School, Big Brothers Big Sis-ters of Dufferin, and Lord Dufferin Dental Centre.

Mr. Holwell added that being a smaller facility they can easily provide a more “homey” feel, more personal attention and

needs.The event runs from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25. For more information, visit www.lorddufferincentre.ca.

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‘Hard work starts now,’ says MacintoshHowever, the only reason we’re talking

about building a new fire hall and not adding onto our existing one is because Credit Valley Conservation has declared that land as sitting on a flood plain. I’d like to find out if we can get that site out of the flood plain.”

He continued, “I worked there for more than 30 years and never once has the facil-ity come close to flooding. Then you look at some of the other areas of town, such as First Street, where there isn’t a flood plain designation, yet we have issues with flooding all the time. I want to see if we can sit down with CVC and get this changed.”

Respect is an important word for Mr. Macintosh. Having been trusted by the community to serve as deputy mayor over the next four years, he says he will be mindful of the effect every single one

of his decisions will have on taxpayers during his time on council.

“I think I have some good ideas of how we can change things for the better in this community, and I know I have a council who will be willing to listen, engage and offer their thoughts in a productive man-ner. I’m excited for these next four years, and the community should be excited too. A lot of us have had to stand on the sidelines and watch on as things deterio-rated over the past four years – now is our chance to jump in and do something about the issues affecting the community.”

He concluded, “For the people who put their trust in me, I won’t let you down. For those who didn’t vote for me, I will prove to you I can do the job. Now, I’m just looking forward to it. I can’t wait to get started.”


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Victory House Association to hold first fundraiser galaVictory House Association of Dufferin

Caledon will host their first annual fundrais-ing gala on Friday, Nov. 2.

The event will feature raffle prizes, music and dancing and live and silent auctions at the Royal Ambassador, 15430 Innis Lake Rd, Caledon East. Doors open at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Funds from the night will go towards the organization’s efforts to create a safe, sup-portive home for women and children in times of crisis.

“All the approval from the Town is in place now and from the government. Because we’re a charitable organization we’re able to do fundraising to move forward with it and get the community involved,” said Patricia Valliere, executive director and founder for Victory House.

The organization is planning to refurbish a 5,000 square foot building. The goal is

to raise $350,000 to transform the Victory House. More than 50 volunteers have joined, working together to make the Victory House a reality.

“We have a building that has been donated to us by the Caledon Hills Fellowship Baptist Church on Airport Road. They donated the building with no lease cost for 25 years to start this house for women and their children in times of need. We’re raising the money to renovate,” said Valliere.

Victory House started from an inspired vision of a group of people in the Dufferin and Caledon area. After assisting several women in need, it became obvious that a safe home for healing had to be built. A building has now been made available in the hills of Caledon and once updated to meet the need, will be able to accommodate several women and children in their time of need, according to a news release.

The Dufferin and Caledon area sees on average 100 women and 50 children in emer-

gency shelters each year, with 30 per cent of these admissions as return visits, according to Statistics Canada.

“As I was walking with them, driving them and being with them, I realized that they have a very short period of time when they go into a transition home. Like 60 days to get themselves together, get a house, find a liv-ing space, which is very difficult to do within 60 days and while they’re still in a very hurt-ing spot, said Ms. Valliere.

“I just thought it would be time for a house like. I had a vision seeing this house as women who would come there with their children in times of need for up to a year. It could be six months or a year while they’re going through programs and counselling and healing and then we’ll be in a position to hopefully help them with some of the areas they are maybe not strong in like perhaps budgeting, child care, working, trying to find a job, trying to find a house; we won’t have the answers to everything but we feel that

through the counselling and support and help we will be giving them, they will be in a better place when the time comes for them to leave.”

The property has access to over 40 acres of ponds and tranquility trails. The building will feature an upper floor that will be most suitable for the private rooms for the women and their children. A tour of the property is scheduled for the spring.

A variety of items donated by local busi-nesses, contractors, professionals, churches and individuals will be displayed and avail-able to bid at the gala. A jazz quintet will pro-vide live music for the evening.

Individual tickets are available for $100 or as a group of eight for $800. Tickets can be purchased at www.thevictoryhouse.ca.

The Victory House also accepts dona-tions with cheques payable to Victory House Association of Dufferin Caledon or online at www.victoryhouse.ca. Tax receipts will be issued for donations over $10.

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Investigating the paranormal right here in Ontario“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes

they come uninvited.”– Stephen King, Bag of Bones

Drawn by “the other side,” Ontario para-normal investigators are like treasure-hunt-ers. You’d be surprised at the riches they have uncovered.

One “spiritualist” has dedicated his efforts to investigating the paranormal.

David Gibb, founder and director of the Canadian Haunting and Paranormal Society (CHAPS), is intrigued by the extraordinary.

Some 25 years ago, Mr. Gibb visited Get-tysburg, Pennsylvania, where he witnessed what seemed to be a flash from gunpowder go off in his car, after seeing a lamp roll down a hill. He became hooked after this civil war “haunting.” He formed CHAPS in 2005.

CHAPS is made up of enthusiasts of the other side, and its connections with this side.

“We attempt to come face to face with some of the answers many are afraid to con-front,” according to their website.

They are consummate professionals and conduct all investigations free of charge.

Mr. Gibb admits he and his team have been to some “very cool places,” like the-atres, hotels and even asylums. “We have found documents linking hospitals to patient neglect; newspapers of people dying on the properties we investigate,” he said.

Paranormal occurrences can vary widely. Mr. Gibb said one standard is known as a “residual haunt,” where events take place

with no rhyme or reason and no real “con-sciousness.” He likens it to a cassette tape playing.

A responsive occurrence tends to take place when something triggers it. Noises, perhaps a muffled voice, has an air of intelli-gence to it. This, he said, is an “actual know-ing body of something.”

While some paranormal investigators claim to have encountered demonic entities, Gibb said in the over 400 cases he’s been involved in, he’s never come across anything wicked.

“Frankly, I doubt I will. Seems everyone else has,” he said.

Ghosts, spirits, apparitions, are all linked to the departed. They are non-physical enti-ties.

Investigators are armed with an array of technological devices, to measure the pres-ence of spirits.

Mr. Gibb said electromagnetic field (EMF) is one way to measure. It’s used as a base read and a barometer during investigation.

“We don’t place too much in it. It is just a reason to ask more questions. You can mea-sure temp, radiation, breeze. Just don’t read too far into it,” he said.

Despite a lack of hard evidence, do spirits really exist?

“Personally I have faith that something is there. I have heard EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) that couldn’t have existed. I have seen and felt, chased even. But would I say I have proof of that? No. I am looking for it.”

Why do ghosts continue to hang around

and even haunt various dwellings?Mr. Gibb doesn’t have a definitive answer.“Maybe to spend time with loved ones.

Maybe they have not ascended to what I am not sure.”

If they are, indeed the spirits of the departed, we don’t need to fear them.

“We should embrace them and learn as much as we can from them.”

CHAPS relies on the public to report para-normal occurrences. website www.chap-sparanormal.ca or on Facebook, just look them up. They’re also on Instagram and Twitter.

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“The spectre’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.”

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* * * * *A first-hand glimpse into the unknown

sparked Kim Hadfield Verheul’s interest. She started Halton Paranormal just for fun and her own interest.

“I was photographing abandoned buildings and went home to look at my photos, and found a shadow in the top window. I went back to see if I could recreate it. I thought it was a curtain or a broken glass. I could not recreate this picture. I told a few friends and they were interested so we went out one night, posted it on Facebook and we soon became a hit.”

Like many eager investigators, Ms. Had-

field Verheul was anxious to see something concrete and experience “demons” and other paranormal phenomenon. She soon realized there are many dimensions out there and there’s a host of “interdimensional beings” travelling back and forth.

“They come here to feed off our energy,” she said.

This can bring some unwanted conse-quences. Hadfield Verheul has witnessed “darkness” and seen an investigator being “taken over” by an entity.

“I watched in complete darkness as this darker than dark being approach him. Our investigator was asking for help, he almost fell down the stairs at one point. It truly shook him to the bone. It was as if he was drawn into their world. I pulled him back. Some people call these entities ‘shadow peo-ple,’ I call them the ‘dark ones.’ I now deal more with these beings as they are truly great teachers.”

We are constantly emitting energy, good and bad. The living are contributing to a force that can be felt by others.

Some people, Ms. Hadfield Verheul argued, feel residual energy being left behind from the living. People who are living a life of abuse, addiction, illness, or who are just plain negative will leave behind energy that is very negative. It will feel like dread and heaviness and people who are experiencing it may trace it to demons and negative spir-its.

“I believe everything that is our ego (our thoughts and beliefs) are left behind when we pass and that is what the living are feel-ing.”

You cannot destroy energy, and whether you are dead or living you leave behind traces of yourself, she contends.

“It plays itself out over and over again; people can feel it, hear it and will experience ‘symptoms’ of that energy. Let’s say you buy a house and the people in that house previ-ously were abusive and angry, or a tragedy took place in that home. They move out and you move in but traces of that energy stay in that atmosphere. You, as the new owner will feel and experience that energy. Many peo-ple believe they are experiencing a demon or a ‘ghost.’ All they really need to realize is that they are living inside the energy of the previ-ous owner so they should cleanse their new home and make the energy in it their own.”

In her view, when we die, our spirit returns to that “unconditional loving energy of the universe” and we become one again.

“We come back in the form of how we were so that we are recognized by our loved ones. Harming and scaring them is forbidden as we are just love. Apparitions are just brief sightings of our loved ones.”

Investigators use many tools to uncover the paranormal, but Ms. Hadfield Verheul said we should be using our five and six senses instead.

Do spirits exist? Yes, according to Hadfield Verheul.

She pointed to an incident when she was nine years old in the hospital. She saw her deceased grandfather and ever since she just needed to know more about the next level of existence.

She doesn’t think our spirits remain after we pass away.

“We all return home.”She practices Buddhism now, and believes

in karma. She has become a healer and helps people with physical and emotional pain.

“We tend to have an irrational fear of the unknown. I have overcome many things from my time ghost hunting. There is noth-ing to fear.”

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Investigating paranormal activity right here in OntarioBut, she said there are interdimensional

beings who come in and out to prey on our fears our negativity. “The point is to face them, be a loving being and they will disap-pear. All of these beings have much to teach us, there is nothing to fear.”

After all of her experiences, Hadfield Ver-heul has a greater sense of peace and doesn’t fear death.

“Live life to the fullest, live in the moment and most of all harm no one. That is what I have learned, from sitting in abandoned houses and helping people with their para-normal encounters.

“I would like to educate people that ghosts and spirits, whatever you want to call them, are not harmful, they have much to teach us. If we could educate people that this is part of history, part of who you are and the spirits will not be disrupted or get angry, it would make it much easier for us to continue with our passion for it.”

For more, visit http://haltonparanormal.wixsite.com/haltonparanormal/our-story

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Harmless, in no way ‘evil’

According to Rachel Cross, of Paranormal Seekers, 99% of spirits are harmless and in no way evil.

“We have also discovered that 99% of experiences are only perceived as evil. 99% of experiences are harmless, but people are terrified of the unknown.”

She’s been interested in the paranormal all of her life and formed PS 14 years ago.

Since then, she and her team have discov-ered a lot of amazing history and have con-nected a lot of things together for locations.

The Paranormal Seekers categorize types of paranormal occurrences as followed:

Ghosts – someone who has died, usually rather suddenly (accident, murder, sick-ness), and does not realize they have passed.

Spirits – someone who has died, crossed over the other side, and come back to visit their favourite people/places/things.

Poltergeists – an energy, that has no form, that can cause things to move, be thrown, dropped, etc. Can be harmful or harmless.

Residual Haunting – a recording and play-back of an event in time. These playbacks don’t interact with every day life, like a ghost or spirit can.

Orbs – a form of energy. It is said that this is the easiest way for ghosts and spir-its to manifest. However, 90% of the time, orbs have a natural explanation such as sun, water, dust, hair.

“I can 100% say ghosts and spirits exist. I have physically seen and heard them. I have been touched. I have also sat down and did a ‘Ghost Box’ session, asked questions, got answers. With those answers, I started my research and found out exactly who, what, when and where.”

Some people don’t want to leave and some just don’t know how. Ms. Cross is happy to let them hang around.

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There is zero need to be afraid of them, she stressed, noting that Hollywood has made it appear that all ghosts and spirits are evil and out to get us.

“Embracing them would be fantastic and learning their stories would be great.”

Calm and peace is one of the many things they give. They also give life back to stories that are lost. There is nothing more amazing that finding things out through research.

Ms. Cross encourages the public to share their stories, experiences and ask questions. They are always around for anyone who wants to talk. Paranormal Seekers also do public events that anyone can attend and get involved. A lot of people come out to our events terrified of what may happen, but when they see what goes on and how ghosts and spirits communicate, they leave with a sense of understanding and they let go of the fear.

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Theatre Orangeville’s Victorian Christmas Gala coming Nov. 17“These are unique opportunities!” David

Nairn, Theatre Orangeville’s Artistic Director declared. “You can’t get tickets for what we have to offer with these trips. Can’t get these tickets anywhere where you sit with the cast after the show.”

He was referring to the fabulous Live Auc-tion items that come under his hammer during the course of the dinner and wonderful enter-tainment that patrons enjoy so much, once a year, at the Victorian Christmas Gala, taking place at the Best Western Inn and Suites on Saturday, November 17.

Among those Live Auction items are those very theatre trips to the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival and The Harold Green Theatre.

Here is what happens: the winners who have bought the experience, choose a date and the show at either Stratford or Shaw, whichever they bid on. Once the details have been sorted, escorted by David Nairn and one other from the theatre executive, you are all driven to Stratford or Niagara-on-the-Lake for a wonderful, unforgettable experience, unique for so many reasons.

Perhaps, it is lunch at one of the fine restaurants in Stratford and then the matinee or dinner and then the evening show.

“We get the best seats in the house – the absolute best – that’s one experience and,

then, to sit down after the show with Rod Beattie, for example. He’s acting in Stratford but anyone who also loves Wingfield would be thrilled. That’s possible because we’re a theatre everyone knows about and respects.”

There will be a trip back stage to sit with the director of the lights or the technical designer of the production who will actually take the time to tell you how it all works, a tour of the costumes and a true get-together with the stars.

Mr. Nairn outlined what this means: “When we went to see The Rocky Horror Show, Dan Chamroy, who plays Frank N Furter, came out and we had a chat for half an hour. It was a completely unique experience.”

Theatre Orangeville staged an open house on a Saturday late in September during the farmers’ market, which takes over the end Second Street at Broadway. The open house was a first for the theatre and they took it on because they became aware that too much of what the theatre does within the community is not well known though vitally important.

There is a video on the Theatre Orangeville website that tells a lot of it. For our purposes here, mention must be made of the youth pro-grams both after school and during the sum-mer months.

Programs for children and teens from grades two through to grade 12, divided into sensible age groups. During the school terms,

the young person’s choir Theatre Orangeville Youth Singers – T.O.Y.S. – comes together to sing, learning harmony and the skill of blend-ing their voices. T.O.Y.S. has been singing at the Victorian Christmas Gala for many years. It brings the joy of music of singing to young people and has launched many young singers to go on to great ambitions and results.

The Young Company summer sessions, music in July, drama in August, stage auditions for theatre loving young people from about 12 years old to the end of high school. They are professional level auditions, rehearsals, crowned by a production on the main stage, for which there is a professionally made set, costumes, every detail as it should be.

Since 2008, as the website tells us, a part-nership grew up between the theatre and Community Living Dufferin, to establish Cre-ative Partners on Stage; C.P.O.S., by which adult members of CLD, adults with special needs, perform wonderful shows in the the-atre; it is theatre completely re-thought.

So too is the productions delivered by the younger special needs teens, Theatre Oran-geville Exceptional Players – T.O.E.P.- bring-ing all the benefits of theatre arts to young-sters 11 to 17 years.

Theatre Orangeville is a place to go for the best plays and shows, actors who also act in every major theatre in this country and inter-nationally. The entertainment is comedic,

serious, musical, thoughtful, can’t wait for the next.

All this and all the rest we have just out-lined.

As a reward for coming to the very fine Victorian Christmas Gala, with its opening oysters and sparkling wine, hors d’ouevres, Silent Auction, followed by a splendid din-ner (vegetarian meal an option; please say so when you buy your tickets), entertainment by young singers, who Mr.Nairn assures us all, will the next stars on stage and film in the near future – a chance to dig into the live auc-tion items with David Nairn as take-no-pris-oners auctioneer, draws, surprises, you have the chance to support this theatre, the heart beat of the town, always looking outward to see who else needs to be included in the safe haven of theatre arts: all of us..

This theatre – “Your theatre,” as David Nairn refers to it, is known across Canada and in many other countries, as being the only one of its kind. Unique.

So, rush to buy your tickets for the Victo-rian Christmas Gala at the Best Western on Saturday, Nov. 17, and come for one of the best parties of the year. Tickets, as usual, at the Box Office at 87 Broadway, the Informa-tion Centre at Highway 10 and Buena Vista Drive, and by telephone at 519-942-3423.

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Caledon Townhall Players to present The Amorous Ambassador“Our audiences like comedy,” commented

Jen Massicotte, publicist for the Caledon Townhall Players community theatre group, “and this farce is just hilarious.”

As one of the actors in this production, Ms Massicotte was pretty clear about why she likes farce so much: “You can go as far over the top as you want, take liberalities – things you can never do in real life. You can pretty well do anything.”

She did admit, “The timing is important –

if you don’t get the timing right, it’s just not funny. It’s fun though, you just let yourself go.”

Up this time is The Amorous Ambassador, a farce by Michael Parker, an American play-wright. The last one of his was Sex Please, We’re Sixty.

“We play British farces as well,” she com-mented. “We love those too.”

Considering this is the Caledon Townhall Players’ 55th season, they may very well have the right recipe for pleasing audiences.

To be very brief about an outline for the

show, as farce delights in surprises. The new American Ambassador to the UK, tells his wife and daughter that he is off for the week-end to play golf in Scotland.

They reply to that news with their own plans for other activities, likewise taking them away from the residence. The ever stoic butler, Perkins, watches on as each of them returns to what is presumed an empty home for their own assignations. Naturally, with all the comings and goings in and out of doors, barely missing a view one of the other, which contributes so beautifully to

farce’s hilarity, it becomes clear the house is full, not empty: to Perkins, and to us, the audience, but not the would-be philander-ers.

However, a bomb threat dictates closing the embassy down, and leads to all the very funny pitfalls, for which good farce is, quite rightly, well-loved.

Stephanie Baird is back in the saddle again as director for this production, fitting it in with her busy radio and television life, for the sake of her passion for the theatre. Typically, rehearsals for community theatre productions are two or three times a week in the evenings for some months, and one day at least over the weekends. So, for Ms. Baird to come up from the city to direct Amorous Ambassador shows her true enthusiasm for the art and the this theatre group.

As Ms. Massicotte told us, “Stephanie is an Erin girl. She loves this, like anyone. But she has a career in radio and television; pro-duces and writes TV series; she is a graduate of Randolph College. She’s driving up here two and three times a week as a volunteer. She feels this is her home turf.”

She continued to remark about actors, too, who come from a reasonable distance, as well, to act, to entertain and amuse audi-ences, “Some actors move about from com-munity theatre to theatre. For this show, it is mostly local. One couple, though,” she added, “comes from Barrie.”

About farce and the romp for the actors to play it, she told us the old theatre saying, “the audience doesn’t have a script.”

A big attraction of the Caledon Town-hall Players is always the pre-theatre din-ner, served at the Knox United Church on Charleston Sideroad, across from the the-atre. It has been so popular, so quickly sold out that, for this show, they have decided to serve dinner for both Saturday evening per-formances.

Said Jen Massicotte, “We’re really look-ing forward to this to see how it goes. The dinner on the first Saturday, November 3, is sold out but there are still seats for before the performance on Saturday, November 10.

“The one dinner in February is already sold out -we’re doing Glitter Girls, a comedy by Mark Dun.”

The Amorous Ambassador is showing at the Caledon Townhall Players theatre on Highway 10 in Caledon Village on the two weekends from November 1 to November 10.

Call for tickets at 519-927-5460 or for tick-ets and details, the website is www.caledon-townhallplayers.com.


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“India is shrinking the flow of water into Pakistan,” said Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Saturday, renewing a ban on show-ing Indian TV shows and Bollywood films on Pakistani television. “They are trying to [obstruct the construction] of our dam and we cannot even close their [television] channels?”

On the face of it, this is a decision that invites ridicule. Let us suppose for a moment that India really is stealing Pakistan’s water. How does banning Indian content from Paki-stani television hurt India back?

It’s self-defeating and stupid – but the quar-rel behind it is deadly serious. The planned Diamer-Bhasha dam on the upper course of the Indus River will be the third-largest in the world if and when it is completed, and the 4,500 megawatts of electricity it produces would almost double Pakistan’s hydro power. That would help a lot in a country so short of generating capacity that it has ‘electricity riots’.

The big dam has become more urgent, as Pakistan’s new prime minister Imran Khan pointed out recently, because without it there may be a serious shortage of water for irriga-tion by 2025, leading to drought-like condi-

tions in most of the country. But construction on the dam has still not begun because the money is not there.

Pakistan’s previous big dams have all depended on huge investments by interna-tional organizations like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. This time they are not forthcoming, because the projected dam would be in the part of Kashmir province controlled by Pakistan, but claimed by India.

Pakistan seized the northern part of Kash-mir when the British-ruled Indian empire was partitioned in 1947, while India grabbed the southern part including the densely populated Vale of Kashmir. For all practical purposes the Kashmiri border is permanent, but India’s persistent claim on the northern part scares international capital away.

That’s what made Chief Justice Saqib Nisar so cross. It’s also why Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched a campaign seeking con-tributions from Pakistanis at home and abroad in order to get the dam started. The renewed ban on Indian TV and film is really a way of getting the Pakistani public’s attention for this campaign.

Like everything else about this dispute, the appeal for voluntary contributions is mostly symbolic: you can’t raise the $12 billion needed to build the dam that way. What is not symbolic is the 2025 deadline for more water storage capacity to avoid a collapse in food production in Pakistan.

It’s not clear from the public debate in Paki-stan how much of this expected water short-age is due to climate change, and how much to the relentless growth of Pakistan’s popu-lation. (Pakistan has one of the highest birth rates outside of Africa, twice as high as India or Bangladesh.)

The future of the Indus river system’s six tributaries in a warming world is to flood for a decade or two while the glaciers that feed them melt, and then to dwindle in volume when the glaciers are gone. Five of those six tributaries (though not the one the Diamer-Bhasha dam would be built on) cross Indian territory before they enter Pakistan.

The 1960 treaty that shares out the Indus system’s water between the two countries never foresaw that the flow might drop dras-tically. It just said that India could take out a

fixed volume of water for irrigation and other purposes before letting the rest flow onwards to Pakistan.

If the flow should drop drastically due to climate change, there-fore, India would still be entitled by treaty to take the same amount of water as before from those five tributaries, even though that would leave little for Pakistan. If India did that, how-ever, Pakistan would start to starve, because 85 percent of its food production depends on irrigation from the Indus system.

It’s hard to believe that an India which was also facing food shortages – a predicted 25 percent loss in food production at 2 degrees Celsius higher average global temperature – would voluntarily give up water it is entitled to by treaty. It’s equally hard to believe that Paki-stan would let its own people starve without threatening war with India.

Both of these countries have nuclear weap-ons. Their problem-solving abilities, as cur-rently displayed, do not inspire confidence.

Pakistan: Damned if they do or don’t GWYNNE DYER OUR WORLD TODAY

This past weekend, 11 people were killed in a synagogue in Pittsburgh by a Nazi.

A Nazi killed Jews, in America, in 2018. In another event, a white man gunned down

two black men when he was unable to enter a predominantly black church to carry out an attack.

After reading the news, I messaged a friend of mine who is Jewish, to check in. I should have been flabbergasted that in 2018, Jews were being hunted by a Nazi. But I wasn’t, and neither was she. Because anti-semitism is still rampant. And because now, it’s allowed. It’s “protected” under free speech. Because we are being de-sensitized to hate and act of violence from hate due to its increasingly com-mon occurrences.

White supremacism, no matter how much the far-right wants to argue, is on the rise. It continues to be on the rise because of a U.S. president who will not disavow it and govern-ments who allow it to continue to be perpet-uated. That very mentality continues to seep over into our own beautiful country, where we have also seen a rise in hate crimes, directed not just at minority communities, but at Jewish ones as well.

Acts against the Jewish communities were said by Global News to be at an all-time high for Canada in 2017. Along with swasti-kas on post-it notes being placed on doors throughout an apartment building in Toronto, anti-Semitic hate-mail targeted synagogues

in Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and Hamilton, anti-Semitic graffiti at Toronto schools, and much more.

Acts of violence, aggression, and xeno-phobia towards Muslims, or anyone Cana-dians choose to perceive as Muslims, have also increased drastically. One group began spreading posters designed to foster hate and fear towards Muslims across the Danforth and planned to hold a rally about the “evils” of Muslims. There have been videos after videos emerging of people in the GTA and beyond literally telling anyone brown to get out of the country, that “if this were America, you’d be deported.”

In a recent report released by the CBC regarding the increase of right-wing extremist groups and the growth of hate crimes in Can-ada, it is cited that hate crimes have increased by 30 per cent since 2015, and right-wing extremist groups have grown to a minimum of 130 across the country. While that number may not sound large, keep in mind many of these groups will have chapters country-wide. The group is counted on the whole, not just as individual pockets. The most popular hate groups centre around hatred based on religion and race, with Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish groups existing in the highest numbers. From there, it filters down to “hate against immi-grants, Indigenous people, women, LGBTQ communities and other minorities.”

Of the increased hate crimes, police

data shows 43 per cent qualified as violent offences in 2016, which includes assault, uttering threats, and criminal harassment. But that’s just what was reported. Data from Sta-tistics Canada highlights that “two out of every three people who believed they were victims of hate crimes did not report these incidents to police.”

With the rise of Neo-Nazi groups in Canada, a large number are festered online, but some are still resorting to traditional methods. Earlier in October, an alt-right group put up posters in the Bathurst/St. Clair area geared towards recruiting members.

In the article from CBC, Dr. Barbara Perry, an expert on hate crime, stated that while Canadians are slowly becoming more aware that alt-right groups exist in our own back-yards, we remain mostly ignorant. “Canadians are very complacent. It’s worse [in America], but we can’t deny it here any longer, it’s just blatant.”

Nothing should be more telling than the fact that a white supremacist, one who promotes the idea that immigrants are responsible for “white genocide” not only ran for Mayor of Toronto, but managed to accumulate more than 25,000 votes. Even our premier, Doug Ford, who is a fan-favourite of many of the far-right, eventually tweeted a lack of support for Faith Goldy, though it took some time for him to make the move.

In his tweet on September 26th, Ford wrote,

“I have been clear. I condemn hate speech, anti-Semitism and rac-ism in all forms – be it from Faith Goldy or any-one else.”

The world, not just us, has been complacent in the past when hate groups were on the rise and were empowered. And what has resulted are some of the worst moments in history. The Holocaust, the Crusades, the treatment of First Nations peoples, of blacks, of immi-grants. This hate, when allowed to fester, always perpetuates action.

And when governments, cities, and towns are allowing these hate groups platforms, approving permits to hold their hate-filled ral-lies, they are telling them hate, Nazism, and White Supremacy are okay. That their ideas and spreading their goals of genocide, superi-ority, and harm are acceptable. That their plat-forms deserve equal weight.

The more we allow this, the more actual violence and destruction we will see. History repeats, but only because we let it.

It’s 2018. A generation of people who weren’t even around those directly affected by the last acts of complacency by our countries shouldn’t have to be the ones crying out for complacency to end.

It’s 2018. How in the hell does anyone still think Nazis are an acceptable group of civil-ians?

Why are Nazis a thing in 2018? TABITHA WELLS REBELLING WITH WORDS

There are a few life hacks that should be taught by your parents, or maybe even in a school, that seem like pretty common sense, but not everyone follows the same rules all the time. Here’s a few.

If someone is pointing a gun at you, you should never stop talking. Apparently it’s harder to shoot someone who is still engaging with you.

Of course this advice only comes from a movie, and in the movie the guy still got shot mid-sentence.

In the same vein, if you’re a criminal who is in the habit of selling guns – never sell the buyer the bullets at the same time. See Tuco, in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

When getting a tattoo, never explain to the tattoo artist in the middle of his work that you haven’t got the full amount to pay him at the moment, but you’re getting paid next Tuesday and you’ll get the money to him them.

Most likely he’ll wave off the rest of his fee rather than try to hunt you down for the $50 later. Of course that tattoo you’re getting of a portrait of your girlfriend or first-born child will

probably end up looking like Mickey Mouse drawn by a six-year-old.

I saw that one happen first-hand! When you are looking for a used car and the

lot salesman says “make me an offer,” get back in your old jalopy, deliver an appropriate hand gesture and continue on to a reputable dealer. If he can’t give you a reasonable and educated price for a car on his lot, he probably has his mechanic putting sawdust in the transmission to make it run smoothly – Barney Fife learned that one the hard way.

If you’re a guy, any age, and you enter a store and a beautiful 20-year-old girl behind the makeup counter gives you big smile and says ‘hello’, don’t start planning to leave your wife or figure out where you are going to take her on your first date. That’s her job.

This greeting phenomenon started in the 80s as a way to make customers feel welcome – it also caused a lot of grief for beautiful 20-year-old makeup counter girls who found that most of the guys they were greeting mistook a friendly (and paid) welcome for a personal interest.

When you’re just out of school and starting

your first job in an industrial situation, never willingly accept an assignment from the super-visor or foreman to go to the maintenance department to a) ask for a bucket of the striped paint. b) inquire about the ‘cold steam’ pipes.

If you’re the driver and you have passengers in your car, never assume everyone else must have the same great taste in music as you. You may like Chinese gong music, or AC DC played super loud, but unless your passengers are like-minded teenagers, you’re probably just going to make everyone’s trip to the business conference rather unpleasant.

Restaurant etiquette should probably be taught from a young age. Most of us have been to a steak house where there’s always one guy who orders a T-bone steak “well done.” Most experienced servers have heard this before and will suggest something slightly different to avoid having to go to the kitchen and ask for an expensive stake to be ruined.

If you insist on having your steak ‘well done’, don’t be surprised if it arrives at the table look-ing like a large charcoal briquette.

When dining in a restaurant that specializes

in ethic fare, listen to your server.

I once saw a friend shoot flames out of the top of his head and steam out of his ears like a boiling tea kettle after insisting he have the ‘real thing’ when it came to ordering soup in an Indian restaurant. This happened after the waiter politely told him that perhaps the North American version might be a little more agreeable to his taste. Nope, he had to have the real thing.

He paid twice for that meal – once when the bill arrived, and a second time later that eve-ning when all the spices really hit their mark.

If you’re ever in a person’s home or even an art gallery or public venue where there is a painting of someone hanging proudly on the wall, never do a Fred Flintstone and say “I don’t know what the artist got for painting that, but they should have gotten life!”

Variations aren’t acceptable either. No matter what, always say something pleasant.

Funeral etiquette, well, that’s a whole new column.

A look at life hacks BRIAN LOCKHART FROM THE SECOND ROW

It is difficult to plan for tomorrow when there’s no hamburger on the plate today.

I’ve just completed yet another article on global warming, one of many in the news most days. For many, such news pertains to future disasters. When living from hand to mouth the idea of investing millions towards salvag-ing the future environment is not a convinc-ing approach for spending taxpayers’ dollars now. Even for individuals who believe action today is essential, that is not enough to pro-mote change in societal thinking when we are already profiting from fossil fuel production.

Scientists have determined that even changing to the use of renewable sources of energy will not result in lowering carbon emis-sions affecting global warming, hence climate change, in the atmosphere for probably the next 100 years. This is not the information needed for changing people’s desire towards solving immediate problems, though of immense value in slowing additional contami-nation. Society must be made more aware of benefits to be achieved in the present as well as in the long term.

One of the greatest benefits is fresh water. Vegetative cover and particularly trees, direct a

significant quantity of precipitation into ground water to be released in a regulated fraction via root canals. Ground cover and litter also minimize the rate of evaporation, preserving moisture essential for agricultural production.

Nature’s contribution to quality of life is a much overlooked aspect of human deci-sion-making. In my early years, Toronto was noted for its urban forests. A flight beyond Hogg’s Hollow revealed a sharp boundary between what was hidden by city trees and the undeveloped world of North York. The addition of landscaping has since expanded greatly with shaded new developments fur-ther north. The lure of cities has been based on greater opportunities for employment and material wealth. The role of nature for many consists of a weekend visit to see fall colours, cutting a Christmas tree or experiencing maple syrup production in the spring.

Forest industry looks to trees for timber products but society as a whole must develop a greater understanding of the functions and services provided by the natural world. It is important to recognize that First Nations and rural communities of the north are able to play a major role in creating more innovative jobs

than for just harvesting timber for pulp pro-duction. The fields of climate change, water quality and quality of human life appear more promising.

Renowned biologist E.O. Wilson in his book “Biophilia” noted that people must regain their innate love of nature if society is to cope with many serious problems based on a lack of understanding of and attention to the natu-ral environment. Many people, especially in Western societies, spend less time in nature than ever before despite the fact that most feel happier, healthier and more productive when they are connected to nature.

There is a need to expand our thinking and subsequently the toolbox for ways to mitigate many of our environmental problems, includ-ing climate change. These include wetlands which help to sequester greenhouse gases within plants and in particular forest cover. According to Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests, there are about 87 billion trees in Ontario, each producing an annual ring of wood, stored carbon taken from the atmo-sphere, accounting for 20 to 25% of emissions created by mankind.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century

Ontario was produc-ing and planting over 35 million trees annu-ally. Rehabilitation of the deserts of the Oak Ridges Moraine is a sterling example of the resilience of nature. What was once wasteland is now productive communities with agricultural benefit to the nation. Today there are over 30,000 acres of county forest lands in southern Ontario. Unfortunately the provincial government has disposed of its nine nurseries and largely elim-inated public restoration of its low productivity land as cost cutting measures. While many countries around the world are waking up to the potential of increased forest cover, Ontario appears to going in the opposite direction.

Working closely with nature, actions taken today contribute many benefits to society. Full management of land, regardless of own-ership, helps to solve many of our ecological problems not only for future generations but also providing much to mankind’s quality of life today.

Nature continues to contribute DOUG SKEATES FROM THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM

Great turnout at Orangeville blood clinic

We had a great turnout at our blood drive last night in Oran-geville, collecting 121 units of blood – that’s enough blood to help 15 leukemia patients through treatment for one week!

Thanks to all those who came out, shared the message of need and encouraged those around you to donate.

You may have noticed our new look and a new logo for Cana-dian Blood Services. It’s more than just a new logo though. On Sept. 28, 2018, we celebrated an important milestone, our 20th anniversary.

For over two decades, we have earned the privilege to serve Canadians. We thank you for being part of this journey. Our re-branding is centered on our promise to Canadians. It builds on our legacy and will continue to earn that trust with a renewed commitment to champion and safeguard Canada’s national sys-tems for blood, plasma, stem cells, organs and tissues.

Our promise is to help every patient, match every need and serve every Canadian, and we can’t do it without you. Together, we are Canada’s lifeline.

Elaine St. PierreCBS Territory Manager

War Amps marking 100th anniversary

As Remembrance Day approaches, I would like to pay tribute to the amputee veterans who founded The War Amps, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.

On returning from the First World War, they came together to help each other adapt to their new reality. They then welcomed the next generation of amputee veterans following the Second

World War, creating the Key Tag Service to provide them with meaningful work and a service to Canadians that continues today.

Recently I joined a young child amputee named Tiffany in lay-ing a rose at the grave of Curley Christian, the only quadruple amputee to survive the First World War. Tiffany benefits from the Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program, just as I did as a teenager following a train accident. We paid tribute to Curley both for his sacrifices at Vimy Ridge and for helping to start a program that has assisted us and amputees across the country.

Though they considered themselves to be “ordinary guys,” these war amputees served their country in wartime and con-tinued to serve when they came home. I can say with pride that their legacy and sacrifices will be remembered through genera-tions of amputees, like Tiffany and me, long into the future.

Rob LarmanDirector, PLAYSAFE/DRIVESAFE Program, The War Amps

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Trump, social media a lethal coctailACCORDING TO Sarah Huckabee Sand-

ers, U.S. President Donald Trump’s current press secretary, it was “outrageous” that some in the media were blaming her boss for the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that took 11 lives.

Without naming any media, Ms. Sanders claimed that they had blamed Mr. Trump for both Saturday’s massacre and the pipe bombs that had been mailed earlier in the week to Democratic politicians and CNN.

“The very first thing that the president did was condemn the attacks, both in Pitts-burgh and in the pipe bombs,” she told a White House news briefing Monday. “The very thing the media did was blame the pres-ident and make him responsible for these ridiculous attacks. That is outrageous that that would be the very first reaction of so many people across this country.”

She may have been referring to a state-ment by CNN President Jeff Zucker, who said last Wednesday that there was “a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media.”

Ms. Sanders said it was “outrageous that anybody other than the individual who car-ried out the crime would hold that respon-sibility.”

Although obviously the two perpetrators ultimately will be held responsible for both incidents, we certainly reject the press sec-retary’s implication that the president bore no responsibility whatsoever for the two acts of domestic terrorism.

As we see it, there is no coincidence in the fact that no similar incidents occurred in the previous 16 years during the administrations of Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama. Unlike the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001 and more recent terrorist incidents where the perpetrators were radicalized Muslims, last week’s per-petrators, and before them the killers in Las Vegas and schools in Connecticut and Florida were all U.S. citizens who used auto-

matic weaponry or home-made bombs.Never before has the United States had a

president whose many lies included a por-trayal of publications like the New York Times and Washington Post as “enemies of the people” and purveyors of “fake news.”

Fifty years ago, such conduct probably wouldn’t have led to the behaviour now being witnessed, one major reason being the absence of the Internet and websites preach-ing hate. It was surely no coincidence that both the bomb maker and the synagogue shooter were attracted to “alt right” web-sites that targeted Democrats and/or Jews.

One thing we know for sure is that the bomb maker, Cesar Sayoc, was a Trump sup-porter whose van had a host of pro-Trump placards. The president’s tweets portrayed him as “insane a long time before” he sent the bombs to Mr. Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, former Attorney General Eric Holder, actor Robert De Niro and other Trump critics..

In the circumstances, is it much of a stretch to suggest that Mr. Trump’s repeated attacks on the Democrats in rallies he is holding before next Thursday’s mid-term elections could have had a role to play in the bomb mailings?

As for the Pittsburgh massacre, where one of the 11 victims was a native of Toronto, there is no doubt that the Internet had an important role. Robert Bowers spewed murderous hatred and bigotry online. For months before the shooting, he unleashed a torrent of anti-immigrant and anti-Jewish invective and conspiracy theories on Gab, a social media network embraced by white nationalists. Police say he had 21 guns regis-tered in his name and carried out the mas-sacre with an AR-15-style assault rifle and three handguns.

The main difference between the two men seems to be the killer’s apparent lack of political involvement.

AS WORK WAS PROCEEDING on the new Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC) on Orangeville’s eastern out-skirts, a lot of people must have been won-dering what would happen to its predeces-sor, once named Lord Dufferin Hospital.

Thankfully, a local family with a long history of serving area seniors came for-ward to purchase the building and com-plete the needed renovations to make it a splendid retirement home that would be known as the Lord Dufferin Centre (LDC).

Now, 20 years later, the LDC is about to

mark its 20th anniversary this Saturday. Dubbed a ‘Monte Carlo’ afternoon, the event’s activities will include a “toss the dice for charity” for the new hospital.

Throughout the year the LDC has held various fundraising initiatives to help reach their $10,000 goal in support of “Keeping Cancer Care Closer to Home” at HHCC as part of their “Helping Hands…Caring Hearts” fundraising campaign.

It would be hard to imagine a more appropriate second life for a community hospital.

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A valuable second life

Recently, I hung out with a childhood friend. He and I grabbed a bit to eat, and saw a movie. It was the first time in five years we interacted.

Friends create some of the happiest moments of your life. And some of the worst.

Growing up, I had a group of friends. The core six of us did a lot together, both as a group, and amongst two or three. We had birthday parties, hung out on the weekends playing video games, going outside, and just having the time of our lives.

No friendship is perfect; you have fights here and there, differences of opinions. You can’t all like everything the exact same. But a friend-ship is not one where everyday you’re mis-erable, you hate going to school. That’s what happened to me.

It all started during the early months of Grade 7. A friend of mine moved and was put on my bus route. I thought it was great, because I considered him my closest, best friend. How-ever, he interacted more with the older kids, who were a bad influence on him. He changed. In a matter of months, he became my biggest, most hated enemy. My bus ride was an hour long, and let me tell you, those were some very long, difficult rides.

The influence that took my friend soon spread to the rest of the group. Soon, I was

alone, cast out. I truly hated those last two years in elementary.

To this day I can’t fully pinpoint where it all fell apart. I wonder, was it my fault? Was it something I did? Why did this happen? It’s not unusual for friends to drift apart, but this wasn’t right.

Come high school, I was relieved. I thought this was a chance for a fresh start. But my old scars started to re-open almost right from the beginning. My nightmares came back to haunt me.

Those long, miserable days became just ordinary life. Looking back, I truly wish I had a better high school life. I just drifted from group to group, never feeling truly in. One point, I was with a group that didn’t really care how I felt about being treated, if I was a friend or not. But wanting interaction, I stayed with them, with some good days and most, bad.

However, I was able to make some (sup-posedly) new friends. Things got better come Grade 11. At that point, I actually mended my friendships with some members from the old group, not hanging out, but just talking. Others I began hanging out with.

During university, I kept relatively to myself. But come third year, I became part of a group, and it was great, though it didn’t last long.

During my graduation ceremony, I thought as I said bye to some friends, “This is it. Last time I’ll ever see you.” Because I knew from experience that friendship was over because it was only strong with school. And unfortunately for most, it was.

Throughout my time, I’ve lost friends for many reasons, the worst being my paranoia. It constantly got the better of me. I lost all trust in anyone. I shut potential friends out; people I realize now were genuine. It caused me to be a scar on one of my oldest friends. For two years, Kevin and I didn’t get along, and it pains me to think of those times, when I was the one doing the hurting.

Friendship today has certainly changed. I believe those in my time (starting mid-90’s) have allowed technological communication, particularly social media and cellphones, to hinder friendships, make them weak.

Friends don’t just ‘Like’ or ‘Comment’ on Facebook.

Using a cellphone to talk, I would get par-anoid when I sent the text. I don’t know how that person will respond to my message, or what they truly mean. This one friend, she and I were really close during high school, still kept in touch. But this one night, sending texts back and forth, she misinterpreted a text of mine.

Instantly, the friendship was gone. It was like watching myself, and I was unable to do any-thing. I tried my best to salvage the friendship, but there was nothing I could do.

I try to have a conversation with friends face-to-face. Sometimes, I’ll even call and talk to them, which is better than text. I’ll call to wish a Merry Christmas, or Happy Birthday. Friends are not just a name and number in a phone; they are a person with feelings.

Today I have a handful of close friends. Kevin and I still hang out. I still see a couple from high school, and university, those who were true, made the effort. One friend, Mar-cus, was actually someone I had hated (his feeling was mutual) since the early days of ele-mentary, but in a weird – but very good – way, became close friends in high school.

The friend I saw recently, he and I never went to school together, we became friends through our mothers. He went through some personal problems, and shunned me and oth-ers out. Now though, I have hope that all is not lost.

Friendship JASEN OBERMEYER READY, SET, REPORT


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At Brewer’s Haven, Steve Graham invites you to make good wine

You can make good wine and watch every step of the way from basic ingredients to bottled finish, promises Steve Graham, owner and manager of Brewer’s Haven, at 27 Robb Blvd, Unit #4, Orangeville.

He stresses that his cut-off date for Christ-mas winemaking is November 15.

After attending George Brown College culinary courses with a view to making a life as a chef, Mr. Graham took a couple on the subject of wine pairing and the reason why some wines go better with some dishes, a matter of hundreds of years of developing good food and wine.

The distraction of work took him away from school but altogether from the idea of being involved with the wine and food busi-ness. He commented, “I’d been working for others and wanted to start my own thing. Just by chance I learned that Ken Young was looking to sell Brewer’s Haven. So, we fig-ured the finances and went for it.

“We opened in 2012 and were doing well when it came to a point where we had to move.”

The place at 27 Robb Boulevard is smaller but still very workable and Mr. Graham is excited to see his cliental moving with him, more all the time.

“It was a bump in the road because of being quite a different location. But people are coming and, of course, so is Christmas and everyone wants to have good wine to serve friends and family over the holidays.

But my cut-off date is November 15. That gives the wine time to develop to what you want.”

Winemaking this way has its rules. In fact, as he told us, “By law, it stipulates that our clients have to participate, must be there for the fermentation and the bottling (both ends of the process). Some like to put in their own tasting at the right point.”

If you want to make your own wine and purchase quantities at a much lower rate per bottle than commercial outlets, you have to be involved. The law insists and it is more fun and, even, educational.

“For people that don’t know much about wine, there’s a little quiz about what they like to eat that tells me what wort of wine they will enjoy drinking.” He was referring to information in a couple of wine books, that provide information for wine beginners, as it were.

The juice from the grapes that comes to the Brewer’s Haven for wine making, comes from a parent company like Peller Estate Winery.

“I’m finding people, in a trend, are really enjoying the blend of grapes, Cab, Merlot, Grenache – the trilogy plays to a different audience. Dry, others like it smooth - we can do them too.”

“A good percentage of the grapes,” so Mr Graham informed us, “comes from Italy but it is all processed here in Ontario. Along with the juice that comes to the Haven, comes also the “jam pack,” which is the fruit with, sometimes, some augmentation, some

surprising, to add to and enrich the flavour of the wines – a custom made element to the whole.

“The jam pack is for the higher-end wines,” Mr. Graham explained. “Aging is done in bulk, in glass, but only up to a point. Most aging is done in the bottles. New wine is better in the bottle. That way, bottle aging is done at home, 30 bottles at a time from 23 litres of wine. Wines can age from one to three months for most and, for others up to six months.”

To judge your wine for yourself, Mr. Gra-ham prescribes, “enjoy a bottle a week. As it ages, then you can figure out where you like it, that’s the ideal wait time. When it sings to your palate ; you say, ‘That’s really nice.’

“We love to supply corporations and spe-cial events. A wedding party came here one time, rolled up their sleeves and did it all, as much as they could do themselves, they did. They were really impressed with the wine and came back to tell how much everyone at the wedding enjoyed it.

“Corporations as well, planning an event reasonably well in advance, come to us to supply the wine. That’s conditional on them sending people to be here for the fermen-tation and the bottling but that’s fine and interesting for them too. As long as the wine is freely offered and not being sold at the event, it’s ok.”

Of the truly higher end, “Amarone is top seller but it’s very expensive. When we make it with the customer, it costs a lot less.”

For the future, Mr. Graham sees the busi-

ness offering courses to groups of two to ten to see every step of the process and learn how to make their own wine in their own homes.

“We’ll walk them through every part of the process and they’re doing it while I’m watching them, over a four-week course. Once they’re ready, they can buy their the juice and all the equipment from me.”

Visitors are always welcome at Brewer’s Haven, just to look around and have a chat. The establishment offers gift certificates to those who already enjoy making their own wine or those who might love to learn all about it.

The new premises for Brewer’s Haven is at 27 Robb Boulevard, unit #4. Pop in or call for more information at 519-942-2510. Online at https://brewershaven.ca/



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‘The Royal’ opens at CNE fairgrounds in Toronto this Friday“Get Agricultured” is the advice from this

year’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, opening tomorrow, Friday, November 2 and running for 10 days until Sunday, November 11.

The Royal brags, quite rightly, that it brings the country to the city. For those of us living in a town setting within a rural area, there is also lots to enjoy about the fair. Lots that make the trip to visit it well worth while.

This is the Royal’s, the Grand Old Lady’s 96th birthday. There is a collection of photos going pretty well all the way back, lining a wall just off Heritage Court, to prove the longevity of this esteemed annual celebration of what goes on in the green spaces. Farmers bring their ani-mals, vegetables, wonderful and strange, and their bright new ideas on how to farm better in the future.

Said Charlie Johnstone, CEO of the Royal, now in his fourth year in the job, “Honestly, it’s pretty special. I’ve done a whole bunch of high-powered events, like the Honda Indy, but I’ve never seen an event as big and special as this.”

As though still under the spell of his first impressions, Mr. Johnstone went on to say, “People come here for generations. It’s whole-some, real, authentic. People come in and breathe deeply; they breathe in the farm and the animals – they say, “Ah, that’s the Royal.”

He had high praise for the participants: “The pride and passion people here have for what they bring to the Royal. People work all year to prepare for this and we need to be on that thought and say: This is what the Royal is. It is the largest indoor agricultural fair in the world.”

He told us, “We’re dealing with a million square feet of space. And it’s also the biggest indoor international horse show in North America.”

Mr. Johnstone is right on all counts. People have been coming to the Royal for generations, with their cattle and horses. In the Coliseum, they present their fine horses and the ponies their children ride; they bring their fabulous carriages and equally glamorous heavy horses to pull them, groomed to gleaming, high-step-ping, a sight not often seen anywhere else on this side of the Atlantic. The thrill of the show-jumping horses flying over walls and tailgates, the many other equine competitions that one would hope for in a celebration of this calibre, are all part of what is going on in the Coliseum.

Additionally, on Sunday, November 11, is the Ontario Toyota Dealers Rodeo.

Some shows require tickets, others are included in the price of admission.

Very exciting for fans, too, to learn that Amber Marshall of Heartland is coming back to the Royal, as well, on November 10 and 11,

to meet visitors to the Royal and give auto-graphs.

Other farmers transport their rabbits, and birds of so many breeds. Sheep, too, and goats hang about in pens and flirt with visitors, baaa-ing and looking for tidbits. Llamas, for the last several years, have been another attraction to the world of farm animals taking time out in the city.

In the cattle barn, the hay, the straw, the grooming and cleaning. The pride of good hus-bandry. The fascination of walking through a farm, this is all brought to town for just these ten days.

“Part of what we see as our job is to pres-ent the farm to table story – how does the food come to the table?” Mr. Johnstone explained. “We become that authentic voice with school groups and for more than one generation. Some new Canadians can come and see all aspects of what is Canada under one roof. We are world-renowned for what we’re doing.”

With the main thrust of the show focussed on agriculture, the Royal’s partnership with the University of Guelph really makes sense. The university has an interesting exhibition at the Royal that relates to much of interest there.

“There are First Nations chefs here” partic-ipating in the culinary academy that has been such a favourite “taking traditional menus with a modern twist on them.”

Food is a huge part of the Royal with, not only the animals and the chefs but the farm-ers who come to with real explanations about growing food, the importance of the green belt and the issues around GMO’s.

Said Mr. Johnstone, “I think that one of the advantages is that people can talk to the pro-ducers, specifically about GMO – what is it? Free range, organic?

“We’re not taking a position. Come and learn and decide for yourself. When you can actually talk to a farmer, it gives you a better under-standing. Ask the questions and be answered by coming to the Royal.”

Speaking of eating, a person could fill up

over and over with the number of eateries set up at the Royal, enough to please every taste and wallet, from the food court down in Hall D to the other establishments all around the Royal, looking so beautiful, they appear to be fixtures, not only there for the ten days.

There is, not surprisingly, a very large mar-ketplace for shopping with a tremendously broad variety of shops, while still keeping to the nature of the show. It is real pleasure to browse and buy from the very many vendors who have, like everyone else, worked long and hard to prepare for these wonderful 10 days.

Everything for the equine and equestrian is to be found, as one would expect but there is so much more as well. Many merchants have stock that requires story telling and explana-tion, all part of the great experience the Royal promises. Each will offer items of good quality, yet, in this too, every budget will find some-thing of beauty or interest to take home.

Down in Hall D is the fabulous President’s Choice Animal Theatre, wherein an astonish-ing variety of clever doing their things amazes and amuses audiences very day. From the dogs herding, Mediaeval Times, a horse whisperer, and, most famously, The Super Dogs. All the entertainment in the Animal Theatre is free with admission.

Although the towns in this whole region are surrounded by farms, there is still much to learn at the Royal for the many of us who do not stray far from our somewhat urban lives. Once visited, the desire to return is strong, so extraordinary is this very traditional, yet always up to date Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, on at Exhibition Place at the western end of central Toronto.

Says Charlie Johnstone, “We would focus on how special the Royal is to share time with the family. The GO train drops people off right at the back of the building. It’s the perfect way to come and GO does special rate tickets to include the price of admission.”

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The first incident occurred on October 15, on Dufferin Road 109 when a cement truck passed a school bus on the shoulder while bus’s emergency lights were flashing and then stopped after the bus. Dufferin OPP are following up on this incident

The second incident occurred on Octo-ber 24, at 3:35 p.m. on Dufferin Road 3. A large flatbed commercial vehicle passed the school bus on the right, again with its lights flashing, but the bus driver was unable to get details relayed to police.

Dufferin OPP travels school bus routes every day observing for aggressive driving and drivers who fail to stop for the red flash-ing lights of the school bus.

When there is no median, motorists trav-elling in both directions must stop for a stopped school bus that has its overhead red signal lights flashing. Drivers are not to proceed until the lights on the school bus have stopped flashing. The stop arm is not required to be extended.

Vehicle owners can also be charged if their vehicle illegally passes a stopped school bus, regardless of who is driving the vehicle at the time.

Bicycles (which are considered vehicles under the Highway Traffic Act) are also sub-ject to the same laws as motor vehicles, so they must also stop for the red overhead sig-nals of a school bus.

Penalties include fines from $400 to $4000, up to six months in jail and six demerit points upon conviction for drivers.

The next time you are driving and see a school bus, give it space, ease off the gas, and remember that it could stop at any time.

Arrest in rash of break-insOrangeville Police have charged a 38-year-

old man with breaking and entering after an incident at a Townline residence on Sat-urday, Oct. 20. They say the same man may be responsible for a rash of other such inci-dents.

At approximately 7:15 p.m., police received a call asking them to go to an address on Townline as the complainants

had just returned home and discovered that their residence had been broken into. The incident happened sometime between 2:00 pm and 6:30 p.m. The culprit gained entry by breaking a glass window in the front door. A quantity of cash was stolen.

During the subsequent investigation, police viewed security video footage at a nearby business. The targeted residence was captured on video and a male suspect was identified.

On Tuesday, October 23, at 3:00 pm, the suspect was observed in the area of Broad-way and First Avenue. Police approached the man and placed him under arrest for the break-and-enter incident. At the time of the arrest the suspect was in possession of a bicycle and a pillow case containing elec-tronic equipment and other items.

At approximately 5:40 p.m., police received a report that a residence on Green Street had been broken into. The description of the property stolen matched that of the property that the accused man had in his possession.

Normand Ronald Tremblay, 38, of Oran-geville, is charged with break and enter into a dwelling house, possession of property obtained by crime and two counts of breach of probation. He was held in custody pend-ing a bail hearing regarding the allegations.

Police say the accused may be responsible for approximately 10 residential break and enter incidents that occurred in the same area of town in the past two weeks.

Break-in property recoveredThe Orangeville Police Service has recov-

ered various items as a result of the arrest of an Orangeville man believed to be responsi-ble for several break-ins.

Police would like to return a small amount of rare coins, two jewelry boxes containing various items of jewelry, and two building keys on key chains, to their respectful own-ers.

If you believe you may be the owner of any of the items mentioned please contact the Orangeville Police Service, Criminal Investi-gation Bureau- 519-941-2522.

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Refrain from doing any online shopping so as to protect your credit card information.

When downloading apps, read the privacy and permission agreements. These outline what information of yours is shared with the developer when you agree to their terms.

Stay tuned for our upcoming National Senior Safety Week release, where we’ll be sharing information about common scams impacting seniors. Visit the Canada Safety Council’s website for more safety informa-tion and a showcase of safety through the century as the organization celebrates 100 years in safety.

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MEMORABLE WIN: The Orangeville District Secondary School Bears Jr. cross country team finished first at CWOSSA on Oct. 25, cementing their place in this weekend’s provincial championships. The team, made up of male and female competitors from Grade 9, will travel to Christie Lake Conservation Area in Dundas on Saturday to par-ticipate in OFSAA. According to coach Rob Berg, this marks the second time in 14 years a Bears cross country team has made it to OFSAA. Good luck, runners!

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Two Orangeville District Secondary School cross country teams came out on top at the Central Western Ontar-io Secondary Schools Association (CWOSSA) competition on Thursday, October 25.

The regional event was held at Bechtel Park in Waterloo.

CWOSSA brings athletes from around the region to compete at the regional level after winning their Dis-trict.

The course takes runners over a 4-kilometre course through the park. It is a full competitor start with around 200 athletes leaving the line in the boys race and around 120 in the girl’s division.

The grade nine girls team went to CWOSSA after a second place finish at District 10 competition in Guelph.

On race day, the girl’s team of Chantal Channing, Megan Mills, Fio-na Johnson, and Alex Gittens, scored 46 points to win the CWOSSA title.

Chantal Channing finished with the fastest time for her team coming in second in the race with a time of 15:44. This is her first year competing at the high school level after starting in the sport in grade seven.

“I had a teacher in grade seven that pushed me toward cross country. I liked it and started running a lot,”

Chantal said of her start in the sport. “I really like the CWOSSA course. There wasn’t any gravel or anything so it wasn’t hard. There were hills but it wasn’t that hard.”

Chantal’s experience taught her how to start the race and pace herself for the full four kilometers.

“At the start you want to get a good spot so I try to push myself at the be-ginning then ease off for a good pace that I can sustain. There is this one last hill that I always worry about but even though I’m hurting a lot I try to put as much as I can into that hill. Towards the end I went as hard as I could for that last 300 metres.”

The grade nine boys team followed up with a second ODSS CWOSSA win for the day.

The team, Jack Gillies, Kristian Thompsett, Gregor Lawson, Javi-er Martinez, and Andrew Burnside scored 38 points in the competition for the win.

Jack Gillies not only had the fast-est time for his team, he finished first over all in the boy’s division with a time of 13:39.

Jack has been racing since he was very young then started training and getting serious about the sport when he was in grade eight.

He had already met his current teammates from previous meets so putting an ODSS team together was a good fit.

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SUBMITTED PHOTOThe Orangeville District Secondary School Bears cross country team took part in regional CWOSSA championships at Bechtel Park in Waterloo on Thursday, October 25. Both the grade nine girls team and grade nine boys team came out on top to win the championship. They will now go on to compete at the provincial level at OFSSA which will be held at Christie Lake Conservation Area in Dundas on November 3. Team members, in front, Javier Martinez, Gregor Lawson, Kristian Thompsett, middle, Vivian DiBerardino, Fiona John-son, Megan Mills, Alex Gittens,Keira Pherson, Chantal Channing, Andrew Burnside, Joanna DiBerardino., Behind, coach Rob Berg, Jack Gillies, and coach Derek Snider celebrate the CWOSSA championship.

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The Westside Secondary School Thunder senior boys volleyball team are tearing up the court this season going undefeated after nine matches on the regular season schedule.

The team has proven to be such a cohesive unit they have only lost one set in all the matches they have played this year.

Currently in first place in the Dis-trict 4 standings, their closest rival is Emmanuel Christian High School from Fergus who are in second place with an 8-1 record.

Those two top teams met on Wednesday, October 31, with results not available at press time.

The Westside team as several play-ers who have the experience of be-ing on last year’s CWOSSA winning

junior squad.“Half the team are in grade 11 and

half in grade 12. All those grade 11’s were on the junior team last year. They were the CWOSSA champions,” explained coach Jessica Shortt. “The strength in today’s game is the team-work. That’s what I’m trying to em-phasis. A lot of them are so talent-ed that I could never help improve their skills, but I can help them to be more positive and work as a team and shake off the mistakes they make, so once mistake doesn’t turn into two. I think teamwork is the strength.”

The team is determined to go all the way and they are a dedicated unit practicing ‘three or four times a week.’

“Friday’s at lunch are our serves practice,” Ms. Shortt sad. “Our serves have gotten a lot better since the be-ginning of the season. Sometimes we just practice different rotations so they know who’s beside them, and

Westside Thunder senior volleyball team undefeatedSquad has lost only one set all season

By BRIAN LOCKHART

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PHOTO: BRIAN LOCKHARTCHAMPIONS: The Westside Secondary School Thunder junior boys soccer team won the District 4 championship win a 3-2 win over Norwell District Secondary School on Monday, October 22. The Thunder won the title after going undefeated for the season. The West-side team earned the right to represent the District at the regional level at CWOSSA.

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ANDREWPAOLUCCITeam: Orangeville District Secondary School Bears Jr. SoccerPosition: Striker

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Thunder volleyballwho the hitters are and things like that. Usually I try to see what one area we can improve on. From today, I guess I still need to reflect a lit-tle bit because there weren’t lot of weak areas. We have a good dedicat-ed team. We really want to succeed.”

Once the regular season schedule is completed the top four teams will move on semi-final playoff match on Tuesday, November 6.

The two remaining teams will meet of the District 4 final on Thursday, November 8.

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hard, and could stay up to that pace. I caught up to the leader and passed him. He passed me again and we went neck and neck to the finish. We walked the course prior the actual race so I had an idea where I want-ed to start my kick. I started inside the forest as much as I could. When we came out the forest it was about 200 metres to the finish. There wasn’t much actual technique there, it was just pushing everything you had left.”

Coach Rob Berg said the quad has seen a lot of improvement through the season. The team started out with not everyone being able to run a four kilometer course to the entire team being able to accomplish that goal.

Both teams will now advance to the all-Ontario OFSAA competition that will be held at the Christie Lake Con-servation Area in Dundas, on Satur-day, November 3.

PHOTO: BRIAN LOCKHARTThe Westside Secondary School Thunder senior girls basketball team host Wellington Heights Secondary school in the gym at Westside on Monday, October 22. The Thunder came out on top with a 43-20 win. The Thunder are in second place in the District 4 stand-ings with 6-2 record.

PHOTO: BRIAN LOCKHARTWestside Thunder’s,Alex Dimitrakopoulos, puts the ball over the net during game against the Centre Dufferin District High School Royals during junior volleyball action on Wednes-day, October 24. The Thunder won this match 3-1 and are in third place in the District 4 standings.

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Dipping into the past150 YEARS AGO

Thursday, October 29, 1868(From the Orangeville Sun,

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ranth and Caledon will, in a few days, be called upon to say whether or not they are willing to aid the Toronto, Grey & Bruce Railway by respectively granting bonuses of $15,000, $30,000 and $45,000 toward its construction. Toronto, as the capital and centre of an extensive railway system, is the chief market of Ontario, the natural and

most direct outlet for the produce of the country, and the opportunity of establishing direct and immediate communication with it by rail should not be allowed to pass un-improved. The grants, if approved, will only add a few mills on the dollar for 20 years. Taking all the facts into consideration, we should be exceedingly remiss in our duty should we not advise the ratepayers of Or-angeville, Amaranth and Caledon to vote in favour of the proposed railway subsidies, and thus secure the road.

• The Orangeville Races came off over the Queen’s Course on Friday and Sat-urday, and notwith-standing the unfa-vourable state of the roads, was well attended. The track being on gravelly ground, was not much affected by the snow and rain of the preceding days, and some fast hors-es being entered, the running and trotting were, in the main, good.

100 YEARS AGOThursday, October

31, 1918• Shelburne

opened the cam-paign for the fifth Victory Loan in grand style. At 9 a.m. Monday all the bells in town were

kept a-swinging and the Citizens’ Band dis-pensed patriotic music in a downpour of rain. Shelburne’s objective in the Dufferin County Campaign for $900.000 was set at $60,000. Up to noon Tuesday the follow-ing amounts had been reported – objective (secured): Orangeville $120,000 ($35,050); Shel burne $60.000 (42.850); Grand Val-ley $30,000 (10,050); Melancthon $140,000 ($20850); Mulmur $130,000 ($14,000). There were no reports from the other four town-ships with the following objectives: Mono $140,000; Amaranth $130,000; East Garaf-raxa $85,000; East Luther $65,000.

• S. A. Shaw, one of Alton’s best known businessmen, died at Lord Dufferin Hospi-tal, Orangeville, on Tuesday of last week from pneumonia, caused by Spanish Influ-enza, after an illness of about eight days. Diseased was 25 years of age. After an ill-ness of three days with influenza, Samu-el Elmer Rusk, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Rusk, of Ruskview, died at the Base Hospital, Toronto, on Sunday, October 20. He was 22 and had been a resident of Toron-to for nearly two years.

75 YEARS AGOWednesday, October 28, 1943

• Dufferin County still has a long way to go to reach its Victory Loan objective of $800,000. Grand Valley was the only one of the nine municipalities to reach more than half of its objective in the first week — $28,700 of $54,500, having been subscribed by Saturday night. The percentage reached in the other eight municipalities was: Mel-ancthon, 19.4; Mulmur, 24; Mono, 22.4; Am-aranth, 25,1; East Luther, 31.8; East Garaf-raxa, 13.8; Shelburne 14.7; Orangeville 31.6.

• Hallowe’en will be celebrated in Shel-burne on Saturday night, when the usual big parade will be followed by a party at the Curling Rink, where a new type of program will follow the scrambles. The parade will assemble at 7:30 p.m. at the west end of Main Street and start for the Curling Rink at 8:00, led by the Citizens’ Band.

50 YEARS AGOWednesday, October 29, 1968

• The official opening of the new Mul-mur-Mono Public School, located just west of Violet Hill, was held Friday night with ceremonies held in the school’s spacious

gymnasium. Close to 600 guests, parents and children enjoyed a well-handled pro-gram over which Board Chairman Ken Wal-lace presided. Rain fell most of the evening, but failed to deter attendance and plenty of space for parking took care of the larg-er-than-expected crowd.

10 YEARS AGOThursday, October 30, 2008

• While Mayor Rob Adams acknowledg-es that implementation of a controversial pay raise for Orangeville’s mayor and coun-cil could have been handled better, he main-tains that the raises were necessary. Acting on a report prepared by a private consul-tant, council passed a bylaw Oct. 6 to in-crease the amounts paid to the mayor, dep-uty mayor and five councillors. Starting in January, Mayor Adams’ pay will go up 61.3 per cent, to $50,000 from $30,992. Deputy Mayor Warren Maycock gets a 49.1 per cent pay hike to $30,000 from $20,117, and the five councillors will each get a 36.4 per cent raise, to $23,000 from $16,566. One-third of the honoraria is not subject to income tax-es. As members of Dufferin County council, the mayor and deputy mayor also get a ba-sic stipend of $14,279 and more if they serve on committees. Council came under sharp criticism for passing the bylaw late at night after the public meeting had ended. While the actual passage was open to the public, it came after a closed session, prompting many to feel it was done in a clandestine manner.

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DEAD END COURT IN CALEDON EAST5 level side-split, 3+1 bedrooms, 2 baths, newly open concept fl. plan w/modern kitchen incl. hardwood floors & granite counter, living rm. w/hardwood floors & open to the kitchen, family room w/fireplace & walk-out, spacious master has hardwood floors & walk-in closet, main floor laundry, updated main floor bath, oversized 2 car gar & 60x121 ft. lot. Caledon East. $974,000

905-584-0234 Caledon519-942-0234 Mono1-888-667-8299 Toll Freewww.remaxinthehills.com

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NOVEMBER 4TH 2:00 – 4:00 PM

9215 10th Sideroad, Adjala

PRIVATE COUNTRY LIVINGPeaceful, private country escape on 5 picturesque acres just south of quaint Hockley Village on a little dead end road. Tree lined driveway leads to a 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 storey home with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, forest and fields. Family room features hardwood floors, fireplace and walk-out to a screened 3 season Florida room, eat-in kitchen with bay window and master bedroom has a double closet and French doors. Sit with your coffee, smell the campfire and watch the leaves float by! $699,900

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DETAILERThe right candidate will have a clean,

valid drivers license, and is detail-oriented. We offer competitive pay and benefits.

Please apply in person or email your resume to [email protected]

General Sales Manager or [email protected] Sales Manager.

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busy environment. Experience in a service department is preferred.

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customer service oriented,has a keen attention to detail

and takes direction easily. The role requires evening

and Saturday hours.

CALL AMAR @ 905-893-9908

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PETE AND FERN’S 30TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CRAFT SALE, 10 Dean Road, Springwater Lakes, Mulmur, October 27th & 28th and November 3rd & 4th from 9am – 4pm each day. Primitive and Rustic Home Décor and much more.

EVENING CLEANERto work three times a week doing

general shop clean up.

Duties include: Washing Floors

Emptying GarbagesEmptying Oil Drain Buckets

Please apply by email or in person [email protected]

12435 Highway 50 S, Bolton, ON L7E 1M3 905-857-7888

Rapidly growing Chrysler dealership in North GTAimmediately requires a:

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LAWN & GARDENMAINTENANCE &

RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE• cleanups • pruning• lawn rolling • rototilling• fertilizing • aerating

• dethatching

30 years in the areaA lifetime of experience

Call Mike519-928-3417

or Patrick519-217-6222

PAINTERINTERIOR • EXTERIOR

• PAINTING • WALLPAPERING• WOOD AND DECK RESTORATION• DRYWALL AND STUCCO REPAIR• MOULD AND STAIN REMOVAL

WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEEDQUALITY YOU CAN COUNT ON!

CALL GEO. FOR A FREE ESTIMATE 519 943 3297

OBITUARIESOBITUARIES

BOGGS, MargaretPeacefully with her family by her side, at Spencer House, Orillia, on Sunday, October 28, 2018, Margaret Boggs (nee Hoare), in her 93rd year, beloved wife of the late Al-vin Boggs. Loving mother of Gwen and her husband David Holland. A special Nana of Gregory (Bri Thornborrow), Lee (Rob Gordon). Proud Great-Nana of Rhys and Davnait. Dear sister of the late Murray Hoare. The family will receive their friends at Westminster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville on Friday, November 2 from noon until time of funeral service at one o’clock. Interment Greenwood Cemetery, Orangeville. Arrangements by Egan Funeral Home, Bolton (905-857-2213). If desired, memorial donations may be made to Westminster United Church, P.O. Box 34, Orangeville L9W 2Z5.

Condolences for the family may be offered at www.EganFuneralHome.com

Carriers WantedThe Shelburne Free Press is currently seeking

newspaper carriers to deliver once a week.

For Shelburne routes contact Debbie519-925-2832

Willow St.,Simon Ct.,

Main St.,

Simon St.,

Homestead Dr.,

Russell Ct.,

Longbow St.,

Marie St.,

$20 signing up bonus!!!

MRS. MOPPIT needs a

RELIABLE CLEANER to work 4 days one

week/3 days next week. Must be flexible.

Suit University student with car. $17/hr + gas.

Call 519-942-6405.

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The Lord Dufferin Chap-ter IODE holds their meet-ings at the Lord Dufferin Centre on the 4th Tues-day of every month. We are looking for women who would like to help in the Community. Call 519-941-1865.

TOPS (TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY) meets at 6:15 pm every Wednesday night at the Avalon Retirement Cen-tre, 355 Broadway. For more information call Trudy Rockel 519-941-6146.

IF YOU WANT to keep drinking, that’s your busi-ness. IF YOU WANT to stop drinking, that’s our business. Call Alco-holics Anonymous Hot Line, 1-866-715-0005. www.aanorthhaltonerin.org.

ALZHEIMER SUPPORT GROUPS meet monthly for spousal & family support. Call (519) 941-1221.

FOR INFORMATION regarding HEART and STROKE, call Dori Ebel (519) 941-1865 or 1-800-360-1557.

DRUG PROBLEM? We’ve been there, we can help! Narcotics Anonymous meets every Friday & Sun-day at 7:30 pm, Westmin-ster United Church, 247 Broadway, Orangeville, or every Thursday 8:00 pm at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 312 Owen Sound St., Shel-burne, or call 1-888-811-3887.

ARE YOU A WOMAN living with abuse? For safety, emergency shel-ter, and counselling call Family Transition Place, (519)941-HELP or 1-800-265-9178.

LA LECHE LEAGUE Or-angeville offers breastfeed-ing support. For more info call Erin at 519-943-0703.


When helping you buy or sell a home, we’re proud to be a community partner to support Headwaters

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TEAM MEMBERS Fred Aitchison Sales Representative Louise Montgomery Administrative Assistant

THE SETTING IS CAPTIVATING! - At this beautiful 4 level side split on almost a 1 acre Lot located near schools, rec centre and walking distance to downtown shops. Quality finishes throughout include updated kitchen with stainless steel Fisher Paykel appliances. Enjoy relaxing in your private backyard with stream running through and walk the trails in the rear of the yard which backs onto a parkette. The List goes on…

ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY! - 54 acres in the hills of Mulmur you will find this charming Century farmhouse with original bank barn plus 60’x80’ driveshed. Updated with spacious principal rooms, great room with fireplace, kitchen with centre island & Heartland cookstove, walkout to patio & walkout to 3 pce sunroom + much more. Enjoy fantastic views, open meadows, rolling hills, easy access to skiing, golf and hiking.

BIG FAMILY, NO PROBLEM! - This sprawling bungalow has it all. Located in mature estate subdivision, 6 bedrooms & 3 baths has room for everyone, with great access to major highways. Features include spacious principal rooms, kitchen with w/o to deck, open concept to family room with fireplace, access to 3 car garage, hardwood floors in living room, dining room & bedrooms. Master has 5pce ensuite. Loads of living space in professionally finished basement.

HOME SWEET HOME! - Located in central Orangeville, is this spacious, well maintained bungalow on a great 48’x110’ lot on a dead-end street. Home features open-concpet kitchen, dining & living room. Kitchen boasts lots of counter space pantry & convenient breakfast bar. Lower level has additional storage area in laundry/utility room. Enjoy beautiful gardens, & stone walkway that lead to a side entrance.

PICTURESQUE PROPERTY IN MONO MILLS! - Charming and unique is this beautiful limestone church which has been transformed into a warm & efficient home while maintaining the architectural integrity. Open concept floor plan with elevated kitchen at the original Chancel with gothic windows overlooking the yard. Soaring oak staircase leads to the upper level hosting a romantic master bedroom, gas fireplace with large sitting area and 3pce ensuite bath. Plus stone patios, walkways and numerous perennial gardens.

YOUR PRIVATE GETAWAY AWAITS! - This unique property with winding drive through the

forest leads you to this charming reclaimed log cabin in Hockley Valley with the Nottawasaga

River running throughout the rear. Great room features vaulted ceiling, stone fireplace &

picture window overlooking south meadow. Master bedroom on main floor with w/o to side

deck & 4 pce bath with clawfoot tub. Plus upper loft/bedroom with great storage.

PICTURE PERFECT! - Is what this gracious residence is. You will find many unique

architectural details throughout. Large principle rooms, hardwood flooring, formal dining

room, living room with wood burning fireplace, access to sunroom with w/o to yard. Bright

kitchen, with w/o to deck, den with fireplace & library wall, large master bedroom, lower level

rec room with fireplace. Huge lot 65’ x 155’. The list goes on…

LOOKING TO BUY NEW? - Then watch as this home is being built in mature area of

Orangeville, approximately 1671 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, 2nd floor laundry, gas

fireplace in living room, access to garage, separate entry to basement from outside. Buyer

can choose from Builder’s samples and colours. Compact lot means less lawn maintenance.

Easy access to transit stop and short walk to downtown.

BREATHTAKING VIEWS ON 93 ACRES! Rolling land, open meadows, hardwood bush &

the Nottawasaga River running through south corner of property. Great views to the south

and east. The property features an original barn, drive shed, farm house & maple sugar

shack. Also over 20,000 trees planted. Access to golf skiing, restaurants and more.

FINDING THAT PERFECT LOT! - Here is your chance to own this 7 Acre Lot in Amaranth to build that home you always wanted. Located just south of paved road. This parcel of land is open, sloping and has clear views in all directions. Drilled well and driveway are in.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY! - At this 2.49 acre Lot, located approximately 16km from Orangeville and south of paved road. The lot is open and slopes toward frontage. There are many new custom homes built in the area. Bring your building plans!

PRIVACY FOUND! - On this picturesque land with approx. 41 acres just .5 km from paved road & 2 km north of Hwy #89. It offers the ultimate in privacy, long westerly views, mature landscape, rolling & treed with an abundance of varied terrain, trails throughout & mixed forest including spruce, pine, cedar and hardwoods.

BUILD YOUR RETIREMENT HOME? - Just about 10 minutes outside of Orangeville, you will find this great 45 acre vacant land parcel. This is an exciting opportunity for property that offers open meadows, mixed bush and a large pond, as well as a site for that special home you have always wanted to build.

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