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Come to the 8th annual Her-itage Farm Show at the BackusPage House Museum this week-end and experience 19th centurysummer fun.

See antique farming equip-ment, heritage demonstrationsand get a taste of old-fashionedBBQ. Visit the house museumwhere rare items, not usuallyavailable for public viewing, willbe on display from St. Peter’s An-glican Church, celebrating its184th anniversary this year.

“It is important that we don’tlose track of where we camefrom and the history of our coun-

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Old-time agricultureSee heritage craftspeople at work at the Heritage Farm Show in Wallacetown this weekend.

Hospital gets govern-ment approval for re-development plans

The St. Thomas Elgin GeneralHospital received the OntarioGovernment’s official okay to goahead with its major redevelop-ment project. Minister of Healthand Long-Term Care DebMatthews made the announce-ment at the hospital August 24.

“We are very pleased to an-nounce that STEGH has thegreen light to go ahead on itsmajor development,” she said. “Iwant to be very clear. This moneyhas received Treasury Board ap-proval and is in our fiscal plan.”

The $100 million dollar project,estimated to begin constructionin 2014, includes a new 15-bedacute mental health inpatientunit, new emergency depart-ment, new ambulatory care andsurgical departments and im-provements to the hospital'smain entrance and circulationthrough the hospital.

"This is truly an exciting day forall of the citizens of St. Thomasand Elgin County," MPP StevePeters said. "We have been wait-ing for these types of improve-ments to our hospital and localhealth care services for sometime and today shows that all ofthat hard work has paid off."

The province will be funding

90% of the capital costs to buildthe hospital, with the communityexpected to come up with theother 10%, plus money to equipthe new areas.

When asked what will happento the funding if the Liberals arenot re-elected October 6, DebMatthews said the next govern-ment can choose to undo it buthopes they will keep it on thebooks.

PC candidate Jeff Yurek saidthat the Liberals could havemade this announcement earlierand is sad to see it made anelection issue. He said if the PCsare elected, they would look at allworthy projects and prioritizespending.

Liberal candidate Lori Baldwin-Sands said that the PCs have ahistory of closing hospitals. "Weare supporting them," she said.

STEGH president and CEO Paul Collins thanks Deb Matthews, Minister ofHealth and Long-Term Care, after she announced government approval forthe St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital redevelopment project August 24.

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Three local organizations have received a total of$172,600 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation inits second round of grants.

The Elgin Stewardship Council received $84,600over 36 months to coordinate the completion of 12land restoration projects throughout Elgin County.

The Elgin-St. Thomas United Way Services re-ceived $38,300 over 12 months to hire a consult-ant to guide them through the planning process ofchanging their grant making culture.

The Port Stanley Legion, Last Post, Br. 410, re-ceived $49,600 over six months to fully upgradeits kitchen to ensure that it meets all health stan-dards and increases its functionality.

MPP Steve Peters, who announced the grants

August 26 at the Legion, said he is looking forwardto coming back for one of the Legion’s famous fishfry lunches when the new kitchen is completed.

Ann Lapchinski of the Trillium Foundation and MPPSteve Peters honour recipients of grant money August26: Sherry Ball and Paul Shaffer for the United Way, KitBrown and Graham Decow of the Elgin StewardshipCouncil and Ron Hillman and Morgan Kennedy of thePort Stanley Legion.

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Restaurants around Elgin County will be helpingthe fight against multiple sclerosis on the firstWednesday of every month. The next ‘A Bite forMS’ day takes place September 7.

“The concept is that on this day, a percentage ofthe day’s sales on the food portion of a customer’spurchase will be donated to the MS Society of ElginCounty,” says Remo Di Cesare of the MS Societyof Elgin County.

The money collected on behalf of the ElginCounty MS Society will go to help research andthose afflicted with the disease. It is estimated that50,000 Canadians have MS.

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One hundred more jobs will beavailable to locals before the endof the year.

Formet Industries, which man-ufactures auto parts, announcedAugust 25 that its facility in St.Thomas has diversified its cus-tomers, products and processesand thereby generated growth,allowing the company to hiremore workers. Fifty to a hundrednew jobs will be created by theend of the year, in addition to the150 new employees alreadyhired since January.

“Two hundred and fifty newjobs is fantastic,” said St. Thomasmayor Heather Jackson-Chap-man. “If building things betterand stronger defines St. Thomas,this facility certainly demon-strates that.”

Formet, an operating unit ofMagna International, and a sisterdivision to Presstran also in St.Thomas, first opened in St.Thomas in 1997 assemblingframes for GM. But when theeconomic downturn hit in 2008,

the company decided to beproactive and do business differ-ently.

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John also joked that they aregetting into Hollywoodproduction, with thefilming of industrialscenes for Colin Far-rell’s new movie ‘TotalRecall’ at the plant inJuly.

He credits Formet’semployees for muchof the company’s suc-cess for the turn-around. “The skill set

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Ralph Counsell leaveslegacy to Valleyview Homeand Parks & Recreation

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Cliff Barwick, trustee for the estate of Ralph Counsell, (second from the right)presents two cheques of $400,000 each to St. Thomas mayor Heather Jack-son-Chapman August 25. Don Beleutz and Al Hughson, co-chairs of the Memory Garden (left), and director of nursing at Valleyview Joyce Gonyouwere also in attendance.

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The current controversy aboutbackyard chickens has got me tothinking. What could possibly bewrong with a sincere effort to re-turn to the 18th century? As longas there is no rooster to crow youawake at 4:30 in the morning, who

could possibly object to a ready supply of free-range eggs?

There are those who believe that chickens aremessy, but they gotta go somewhere and I have yetto see a chicken that can use a flush toilet.

Most factory-raised chickens live their entire shortlives in small, tight wire cages. They are force-fedand imprisoned for their entire existence. If theSPCA recognized chickens as cruelly-treated, therewould be fewer chickens in every pot.

I regard myself as an expert on this subject be-

cause I have actually experienced chickens in myuncle’s back yard. Of course, my uncle had a farm.The chickens were allowed free movement every-where, but told not to cross the road. They could al-ready see what was on the other side.

At any rate, I was present when my older cousins,Raymond and Roland, were sent out to fetch achicken for that evening’s supper. I watched in fas-cination as one held the chicken’s legs and theother swung a hatchet to decapitate the creature.Immediately after, they released the bird and it dida wild dance around the yard for several secondsbefore it finally collapsed into a heap. It was the onlytime I have not enjoyed eating chicken.

Should we allow chickens in the backyard? I havemixed feelings about this, but as food prices con-tinue to rise and as more people grow their ownvegetables, it may become a necessity somewheredown that road that chickens try to cross.

Editorial by Ric WellwoodGuest

Fun and gamesBlue Bell (aka Marie Reynolds from Rodney) made an appearance at the Clown Parade during the Iron HorseFestival in St. Thomas last weekend. (Photo by Wanda Taylor)

Terry Carroll

What one citizencan do

Arguably, if Paul Corriveau hadnever taken an interest in St. Thomas, there wouldbe no Iron Horse Festival, no CASO Station restora-tion and no Railway City Brewing Company.

Paul didn’t start with any of these as the executivedirector of some well-established organization or anelected official. He began as a citizen and went fromthere, often wearing that characteristic smile of hisand staying with something long after a less com-mitted person would have frowned and walkedaway.

The Iron Horse Festival, just completed, is an ex-ample of the fulfillment of one of Paul’s almost im-possible dreams. The idea came to fruition in 1994and arose out of the On Track effort to bring com-peting railway groups together. In the first couple ofyears, the Festival ran too long, had too many dis-parate activities located throughout the city, andthreatened to implode in a Hatfields and McCoysfeud over downtown parking and loss of business.

Instead of being defeated over these issues, Pauland his group of volunteers soldiered on, refiningand simplifying the concept to make it into the streetfestival it is today, essentially a fall fair – without thelivestock and exhibits but with a whole lot moremusic.

The Festival is now a not-for-profit organizationwith its own Board of Directors, and Paul Corriveauis a past president. The torch is passing as it should.While he was always the visionary and had thetenacity these projects require, he never workedalone, and it took lots of other people to make hisvisions come true.

I strolled around the Iron Horse Festival last week-end with family members from Chatham and Van-couver. “Why is it called Iron Horse?” they asked. Itold them about its origins and the railway heritageof the city.

But on the street, the Festival had little visible con-nection to that tradition. For that reason, I’m temptedto recommend a name change to something likeCorri-Fest.

That’s a little over the top, but at the very least, it’sgood at this time of year to pay tribute to a man whohas given St. Thomas so very much.

Dorothy Gebert

Changing our storyWith the impending Ford plant

closure, a sense of doom andgloom is in the air that almost overshadows the goodnews stories happening around us.

Wake up, folks, Ford is not the only employer intown.

Masco came to the area last year to take over partof the former Sterling Truck factory. Hydro One ismoving south from London to take over some of theother Sterling buildings. Not to speak of all thesmaller businesses that have opened in ElginCounty.

Several large government projects are in theworks, including the Regional Mental Health Centreand the Elgin County Courthouse reconstruction. TheSt. Thomas Elgin General Hospital got the go aheadlast week for its redevelopment project, which willmake it the second largest employer in St. Thomas.

And last Thursday, Formet Industries, one of the

major employers in St. Thomas since 1997, an-nounced it will be hiring 250 employees this year.

These are all good news stories we should be cel-ebrating.

I’ve been reading about the power of story in peo-ple’s lives and how the stories we tell ourselves af-fect our reality. We don’t have to stay with a badstory if we don’t want to. We have the ability tochange it by telling a new story.

So if we as a community are telling ourselves,“Woe is us, Ford is closing, so St. Thomas and ElginCounty are doomed,” it will probably happen evendespite all the good things going on around us.

If we want things to change for the better, maybewe should be retelling our story. I’m not saying thatthere aren’t challenges and problems that we needto face, but how we look at things can make a dif-ference.

People want to be around others who are upbeatand optimistic, not around people who complain andfeel sorry for themselves. It works the same waywith communities.

Good things are happening here. Let’s celebratethem.

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Paul McKeeverfor the Freedom Party

Paul McKeever believes the bigissues are important in an elec-tion, but they're not what peoplevote on.

"People vote on issues that arepersonally relevant to them, thatthey understand and that theybelieve you can actually dosomething about," he says.

Paul is the leader of the OntarioFreedom Party and is running inthe Elgin-Middesex-London rid-ing in the October 6 election. Heis an employment lawyer with apractice in Oshawa, but who hasties to the area because he at-tended the University of WesternOntario in London.

He says the Freedom Party,which promotes rational govern-ment based in scientific fact, is infavour of getting rid of the healthpremium, the gasoline tax andthe beer tax. "Only the FreedomParty will put wine and beer in

convenience stores," he says. Paul is in favour of increasing

speed limits to 120kph on theprovince's highways, makingthem more reflective of whatpeople are doing, as well as pro-moting inexpensive fuels, suchas clean coal, instead of the moreexpensive nuclear, wind andsolar energies.

"And we think it's irresponsibleon the part of the PCs and theLiberals, that they are not goingto touch religion in schools," he

says. "Organized religion shouldnot be a part of secular schoolsand the government should notbe using taxpayer money to fundprivate religious schools."

Closer to home, Paul feels thehospital funding announcementis a false promise because it iscontingent on money coming infrom a community that has beenhit very hard. "Bricks and mortarare not going to solve the prob-lem," he says. "We need to getrid of the artificial restriction on

medical schools and get moredoctors."

Paul says the Freedom Party isthe best party and the best optionfor Ontario. "The people of St.Thomas and Elgin County get theopportunity to elect someonewith a personally relevantagenda into the Legislature."

Find out more about the provin-cial candidates before makingyour decision on October 6.Come to the Meet the Candi-dates event, presented by theSt. Thomas/Elgin Weekly Newson September 21, and ask yourquestions directly to the candi-dates.

IF YOU GO…Meet the CandidatesWhen? Wed., Sept. 21,6:30pm doors open, 7pm startWhere? Fellowship ChristianReformed Church, 641 Elm St., St. Thomas

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Clowning around[left] Gordon Taylor shows off the handiwork of Mary MacVoy (face painting)and Ray the balloon twister at the Kids' Junction during the Iron Horse Festivalthis weekend. (Photo by Wanda Taylor)

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New minister at KnoxPresbyterian Church isready to roll

After being without full-timespiritual leadership for almost fouryears, Knox Presbyterian Churchin St. Thomas has finally hired apermanent minister.

Rev. Mavis Currie came onboard July 1 and says people havebeen very welcoming. "I am start-ing to get to know people and getthe lay of the land," she says. "Isee lots of potential and possibilityhere."

When she was growing up,Mavis was inspired by a minister'swife who had encouraged her indifferent experiences in thechurch. She felt an inner calling tobecome a pastor and attendedKnox College at the University ofToronto to get her Master's of Di-vinity degree. She was ordained in1992 and looked after twochurches in Manitoba. She andher husband moved to Albertawhere they raised three children,but returned to the London area13 years ago where Mavis minis-tered at Westmount PresbyterianChurch in child and youth work.

"I came here [to Knox] on a visitby the presbytery," said Mavis."So they knew me. They werelooking for someone to focus onworship, crisis visiting and Chris-tian education. And that was myskill set."

Mavis comes to a church with alot of history in the community.Presbyterianism began in St.Thomas as early as the 1830s,with the congregation occupyingseveral buildings before the pres-ent church was built in 1883 atthe corner of Wellington andHincks Streets.

"Harry Rodney was ministerhere for over 50 years. He shapedthe church," Mavis says. "ThenAndrew Human came, but he leftfour years ago. Since then, they'vehad interim ministers to see themthrough."

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that the congregation wants to bea community church and wants tohelp them be that kind of church."People are looking for the sa-cred," she says. "Our lives aregetting busier and busier and peo-ple are looking for something to fill

the void. Knox offers a welcomingcommunity, a sacred space and aphenomenal music program."

Even though she only started atthe church two months ago, Mavishas already jumped in with bothfeet. Because she coordinates thearea youth ministry, she took agroup of local youth on a missionstrip to work at the Winnipeg InnerCity Mission, which is largelymade up of First Nations and newimmigrants. "It was an experiencefor our kids to interact with a dif-ferent culture in their own coun-try," she says. "These areexperiences that shape people'slives."

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Join us at City Hall Friday09/09 for FASD Awareness,Bells ring at 9:09am to re-mind pregnant women toremain Alcohol Free.

Sept 9, Beef Supper, OddFellows & Rebekahs Hall,54 Moore St. Doors open4pm, serving 5-7pm. Adult$10, child 6-12 $5, under 5free. Tickets at door, eatin/take out. 519-631-3494.

Open Auditions for ElginTheatre Guilds presentationof "Anne of Green Gables".Sept. 9, 7pm; Sept. 10,2pm; Sept. 12, 7pm. Males12-75, females 5-75. 40Princess Ave. 519-633-8530.

Women's Beth MooreSimulcast Conference, Sat-urday, September 10, 9-5,$30. Faith Church 345Fairview Ave. Call 519-

633-0976 for more infor-mation.

Saturday, September 10,9am, the Elgin CountyPlowing Match will be heldat 29963 Silver Clay Line,one concession North ofWallacetown. 519-765-4410 or 519-773-8531.

A “Fabulous Fall Fair” witha variety of vendors, baketable & silent auction, Sep-tember 10, 9am-2pm, St.James PresbyterianChurch, 44936 FergusonLine. Contact 519-631-1141.

Saturday, Sept 10,Wardsville Golf & CountryClub, Golf day 10:30am-6pm. 18 holes + cart, Buf-fet, silent auction & ticketsgalore - all for $75 each.Contact Penny 519-854-0393.

Sept. 10 & 11 HawkcliffWeekends - raptor identifi-cation with raptors on dis-play and monarch butterflytagging at approximatelyllam & 2pm daily, weather

permitting Info 519-633-4235.

Central United Church -Rally/Children’s Sunday,10:30am, Corn Boil, HotDog Luncheon with SpecialGuest Artist Saidat. Sun-day, September 11.

Ham & Turkey Bingo Sun-day, Sept. 11. Doors open12:30pm. St. Thomas Le-gion, Br. 41. 24 John St.Everyone welcome.

The St. Thomas Ladies'Choir "Gloria in Excelsis"beginning September 12,7:15pm, First Christian Re-formed Church, invitingladies to join us. No audi-tions. Call Anna 519-633-2659.

New to Canada? PermanentResident? Want to learnEnglish? Classes Tuesday-Thursday 9am-3pm, start-ing September 13, YWCA,16 Mary St W, Call 519-631-9800 to register.

Low Impact Circuit Train-ing Classes at the Union

Sports Club begins on Sep-tember 13, 8 week session,Tuesdays from 7-8pm, formore info. Call Vicki 519-

631-3840.

The Alzheimer Society ishaving our Coffee BreakKickoff September 14,

9am-12pm at the AylmerChristian Reformed Church,

194 South Street W,Aylmer.Community Bulletin Board

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Corner of Southwick & WellingtonSummer Service for

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BRUDER, WILBERT “WIB” of London and formerly of St.Thomas, passed away on Friday, August 26, 2011 inhis 81st year. Visitation Wednesday, August 31, from2-4 and 7-9pm. Mass of the Christian Burial at St.Michaels Roman Catholic Church (511 Cheapside,London) on Thursday at 1:30pm. Prayers recited at thefuneral home on Wednesday at 4pm. Williams FuneralHome Ltd.DONKERS, ADRIANUS “ED” of St. Thomas, passed awayMonday, August 22, 2011 in his 59th year. A funeralservice was held August 27, 2011. Williams FuneralHome Ltd.LAING, DOROTHY (PETERS) of St. Thomas, formerly ofRichmond, ON, passed away Friday, August 26, 2011,in her 94th year. A memorial service will be held at St.Mark's United Church, 38 Aldborough Avenue, St.Thomas on Thursday, September 1st at 11am. Visita-tion one hour prior to the service. Sifton Funeral Home.MCFARLANE, VIOLA MAE of Port Stanley and formerlyof Orwell, passed away Friday, August 26, 2011 in her91st year. A funeral service was held August 30, 2011.H.A. Kebbel Funeral Home.RADIX, JOSEPH MICHAEL of St. Thomas and formerlyof Aylmer passed away Thursday, August 25, 2011 inhis 75th year. A graveside service was held August 30,2011. H.A. Kebbel Funeral Home.REYMER, BILL of RR 1, Aylmer, passed away Saturday,August 27, 2011 in his 80th year. Funeral mass at OurLady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, Aylmer on

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11am. H.A. KebbelFuneral Home.SAUVE, SALLY ANN JANET (NEE JOHNSON), passedaway Friday, August 26, 2011 in her 75th year. Visita-tion Wednesday, August 31 from 1-2pm. Memorialservice in the chapel at 2pm. Shawn Jackson FuneralHomeSMITH, LEE LANCE of Port Stanley, passed away Tues-day August 23, 2011 in his 67th year. A memorialservice will be held at a later date. Williams FuneralHome Ltd.STOKES-RHODES, MYRNA of St. Thomas, passed awayMonday, August 22, 2011 in her 46th year. A publicmemorial service was held August 25, 2011. WilliamsFuneral Home Ltd.TOOGOOD, MARIA ELIZABETH of St. Thomas, passedaway on Friday, August 26, 2011 in her 71st year. Afuneral service was held August 30, 2011. WilliamsFuneral Home Ltd.

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St. Thomas Public LibraryTuesday, September 27, 8pm

(doors open at 7:30)Princess Ave. Playhouse

40 Princess Ave., St. ThomasWith Linwood Barclay, author of The

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Library, Adult Department, Elgin Malllocation. For more information, call 519-631-6050. (Tickets at the door,

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STITCHESLadies’ & Men’s Denim $15 when

you buy 2 or moreLadies’ & Men’s Hoodies 2/$35

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