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See Page 8The Best Way To Connect With Niagara See Page 12 Green movement Bug-a-liciousBug-a-licious gains momentum By RYAN MCLEAN winning in British Columbia, so I Staff Writer know I’m not running in B.C.” As the environment becomes a “If we can get a core of MPs hot issue in Canadian politics, the elected, ideally more than 12, we surge in popularity for the Green could start impacting policy. I feel Party of Canada is getting people’s Harper was elected by accident attention. because democracy was not The London federal byelection working. We need to rescue our on Nov. 27 was the fi rst opportunity system from a Harper majority for Canadian voters since January government, which is a huge risk of 2006 to send some signals back to everything we care about.” to Ottawa about how they felt their May pointed out that the Green government was doing, explained Party is a global movement with Elizabeth May, Green Party leader “70 parties around the globe, and a recipient of the Order of including France and Germany.” Canada. “We draw on a lot of support and May said the fact she fi nished a strength, which most people don’t close second ahead of “the hand- know about.” picked Conservative candidate, The party runs on the common Dianne Haskett” confi rmed the sense approach and avoids the public is not happy with how strange process of being on the left Stephen Harper’s government is or right, explained May. working. The Green Party, similar to other Asked if she would return to her small parties, has little to no power. London North Centre riding after However, with the Ontario Citizens the recent success, she replied, Assembly traveling Ontario’s “It’s pretty tempting, but I’m not electoral districts to determine sure yet.” whether the current winner- Speaking to a roundtable of takes-all voting system should be students and community members changed to a possible version of at Brock University in St. proportional representation, this Catharines on Jan. 12, May said, would benefi t smaller parties like Lindsay Nobuto, a Niagara Culinary Institute student, serves up scorpion pizza at the Niagara “Former prime ministers Brian the Green Party. Parks Butterfl y Conservatory Bug-a-licious festival on Jan. 20. Mulroney and Paul Martin said Photo by Nadine Webster I would have the best chance of Continued on page 9 Whooping cough on rise ‘Get Loose’ puzzles Niagara By SHAWN DIXON parents seek medical assistance. Staff Writer Antibiotics help to “reduce the By KRIS DUBE font, and most are accompanied have appeared in other local On Dec. 22, 2006, Dr. David risk of transmission” and curb Staff Writer with a smaller sub heading that newspapers. McKeown, Toronto’s Medical symptoms. The illness usually lasts All bands like publicity, usually reads “GYS.” In most of them, there have been Offi cer of Health, issued a warning two to four weeks. The disease as a result of people liking their It is the specifi cs of each tag that some “bogus explanations,” says to parents that whooping cough is usually affects infants and young music and eventually buying their leads O’Connor to believe that O’Connor. on the rise. children. album or T-shirt. it is “defi nitely someone who is Continued on page 2 In 2005, 176 cases of whooping In 2005 the Niagara region had The band Get Loose has been referencing our band, because of cough [Pertussis] were reported. 23 confi rmed cases of whooping getting a lot of attention lately for our song Get Your Skate.” Between Jan. 1, 2006, and Jan. 11, cough. In 2006 the number of all the wrong reasons. They’ve O’Connor is not excited about 2007, 669 cases of the disease were confi rmed cases dropped to fi ve. been defunct for over a year, but everyone talking about his former reported. The number of children in the it’s obvious that someone in the band, nor is he boasting about , but Index According to the warning region getting vaccinated for Niagara region wishes the band he is pretty sure that “this is about issued, the likely reason for the whooping cough is at 81 per cent. were still together. us.” This attention is all coming as hike is infants who are not fully This is lower than the Health Several landmarks in Niagara a surprise to O’Connor, since he Columns pg. 7 immunized and children without Canada recommended 95 per cent Falls and St. Catharines have been spends most of his time living in any immunization. level of those vaccinated. Children vandalized with what one might Toronto while attending college. Politics pg. 9 Whooping cough cause many are to be vaccinated at two, four see as free advertising since many While O’Connor was home over symptoms: a runny nose, a severe and six months of age and again at people are talking about it. the holidays, he noticed it for the Health pg. 10 cough and high-pitched gasping four years old. Dave O’Connor, 20, who was fi rst time. spells. Illness can occur within “Sometimes, because we don’t the singer in Get Loose, says that He was driving to the Pen Entertainment pg. 16 three weeks of contact with the see the infectious disease, people this is “good publicity for the band, Centre from Fort Erie, which is respiratory infection. forget [about it],” said Lois but bad publicity for punk rock.” his hometown, and “saw one along Noise@Niagara pg. 17 Dr. McKeown suggested in Lacroix, manager of the Infectious Every tag is exactly the same in the route, I think on Thorold Stone the warning the children with the Disease Program for the Niagara its message. The name of the band Road.” Sports pg. 20 disease stay home from school and region public health. is scribbled in varying styles of Other stories about this situation Page 2, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 Former band receives attention for wrong reason Your voice Continued from page 1 “A lot of people think that it has some kind ahead and do it.” counts! of underlying message about drinking or The members of Get Loose have never doing drugs. I guess it’s just an easy scapegoat spoken of a reunion any time soon because for people.” everyone has moved on to play in other bands Although this is being considered as a such as Like You. O’Connor’s current band, chain of serious offences and O’Connor does called Our Father, is based in Toronto. not condone it, he still isn’t offended by it. “Since all this happened, I have noticed He does feel that “some of the landmarks the profi le views going up quickly on our vandalized are a little extreme.” myspace page, but, if anything, this will only “If you feel passionate about something prolong a reunion, rather than make it happen and have an idea for an artistic endeavour, go sooner,” says O’Connor.

Beginning February 5th, students will have the chance to complete the Ontario College Student Satisfaction Survey – a survey that the Ontario government asks each college to conduct.

The survey results are important! They show how Niagara College compares to the other colleges when it comes to student

Residents throughout the Niagara region are growing more offended by several related satisfaction – with your program, our facilities and graffi ti tags in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Photo by Kris Dube services, and the college as a whole. Government sees the results, the media report them, and Co-op student ‘excited to go back’ prospective students use them to help choose a

By JULIANNE VAN DYK be spending three hours a week almost every college. Staff Writer day in this semester. Following this she was As colder weather strikes, so does the peril given the rundown of the children’s schedule, of something new for the fi rst-year Early and the two prepared for their arrival. Childhood Education students. As could be expected, the fi rst day was mostly In 2006, we ranked # 1 overall in Melissa Rauwerda, 19, travelled on Jan. spent observing the activities. Rauwerda says 15 to her fi rst day as a placement student she did participate in helping with the craft student satisfaction – a tribute to your at Beamsville Co-op. She was fi lled with time, when the children sprinkled strawberry doubts and worries such as where to enter the Jell-O onto paper strawberries. building. At the end of the day she breathed a sigh professors and staff who work hard to make your “I don’t know if I can do this” was another of relief that the day was not fi lled with the thought that would push its way forward. horrors that plagued her mind on her journey experience here a valuable and enriching one. Rauwerda was relieved instantly upon to a placement. arrival when her supervisor was ready and “I’m excited to go back.” waiting for her at the door. Rauwerda was given a tour of the room in which she would The in-class survey will be administered BAD WEATHER? between February 5 and February 16. Please During instances of inclement weather, please make sure you listen to plan to participate. Thank you! these local radio stations for updates on campus closings and highway/ 62289238 road conditions. 101.1 FM Niagara Falls 610 AM St. Catharines 1220 AM St. Catharines 105.7 FM St. Catharines 97.7 FM St. Catharines Student Satisfaction Survey 91.7 FM Welland 900 AM Hamilton February 5 – February 16 Closures usually announced between 6:30 and 7 a.m. for DAYTIME Welcome to success! Closures usually announced between 4 and 6 p.m. for EVENING NOTIFICATION OF CLOSURES WILL ALSO APPEAR ON THE NIAGARA COLLEGE WEBSITE www.niagarac.on.ca news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 3 Study says public Open wide and say, ‘ahhhh’

By MICHAEL DACH Another co-ordinator for the program, Irene Staff Writer Sebastianelli, spoke of how proud she was of her speaking feared Welcome to the world of dentistry. students, not forgetting the second-year students who For 146 dental students, the fi rst annual White Coat were on hand to assist in the ceremony. Ceremony at Niagara College on Jan. 22 recognized “Congratulations on your transition into the clinic their move to a clinical dental position. and I hope you’ve enjoyed your time here at the The ceremony was adopted from the Division of college,” she said, before administering certifi cates more than death Surgeons at Columbia University, in New York City, and a crest that identifi ed the student’s role in the By KEITH LAING program founded in 1924 and has beginning in 1993. It is performed in about 50 to 60 college dental community. Staff Writer been successfully educating public schools in North America to mark the transition After the students received their crest and Death is number 2. speakers for over 80 years. between pre-clinical and clinical client care and certifi cates, an oath was recited. Since 1988 Dr. Michael Telch, Bolton says she has been an “from didactic to client work, with the placing of “This is the most formal and important part of the Laboratory for the Study active participant in Toastmasters the white coat symbolizing the commitment of of the ceremony,” said Barr-Overholt. of Anxiety Disorders in the for years. values and principals according to Niagara The ceremony concluded with coffee Department of Psychology at The The program’s popularity is College’s dental programs,” said dental and cake before several of the graduates University of Texas at Austin, has spreading world-wide. program faculty member, Carol Barr- headed to the clinic to begin working been researching treatments for “There are Toastmasters clubs in Overholt. on clients. anxiety-related disorders. almost every country of the world; Ruth McMullan, co-ordinator Staff members assist students The studies concluded that 15 I’ve even met one participant from for the Dental Hygiene program, during client appointments; 24 per cent of people admit to public Russia.” thanked the graduates. students work at a time. speaking being their absolute worst People with serious public “You worked hard on your There are three staff fear; death is their second worst. speaking phobias have the chance mannequins and each other, members who work with Niagara College has recognized to turn their fear into a faith, a and now in your transition eight students, with a this phobia and is taking a step to challenge which may mean more to client services, that technician and dentist address the issue. to people whose jobs involve some of you will start also on hand. The step is aptly named the conducting meetings. today,” she said. Toastmasters Program, which Fanshawe College Business encourages people to speak Marketing student Nathan Fortune, effectively and confi dently in front of Stratford, Ont., says he used to of crowds, conduct meetings and be fearful of public speaking until manage a department. his program forced him to cope Project Manager of Leadership with the phobia. Niagara Dianne Bolton says the “I used to hate talking to crowds. program is not only an excellent Those speeches in elementary way for people to gain confi dence school used to scare the hell out in front of crowds, but also a tool of me. Now that I have to do for developing life skills. presentations for the class almost “People use it [Toastmasters] for every week I’ve gotten a million lots of different reasons, not just times better at it. I’d almost say Students from both dental programs assembled in the Hamilton Room at Niagara College’s Welland for teaching and public speaking, that it’s one of my strong points campus for the fi rst annual White Coat Ceremony. The ceremony symbolizes the student’s transition but to gain confi dence and learn now.” from pre-clinical to clinical client care. skills that can be used in everyday Fortune, 22, says that experience Photo by Michael Dach life.” is benefi cial when it comes to Bolton, of Niagara Falls, says the presenting business models to a program is based on “participatory class of over 60 people. learning” and is not solely for the “I think it’s a fear the average benefi t of the teachers at Niagara person can overcome. The more Students offered different paths College. you do it, the more comfortable “The program is open to you get doing it.” everybody. We are trying to attract Meetings for Toastmasters are more students to participate, as it’s held every Tuesday at Niagara to complete secondary education a great way to prepare people for College, from 12:15 p.m. until 1:15 the outside world, a way to gain p.m. in the Simcoe Wing, room confi dence for job interviews.” S207, at the Welland campus. By ROSE SOMR care about their education. Co-operative education is a Toastmasters is an international Staff Writer Krista Montgomery, 22, of St. program that allows high school Student success is being Catharines, says she thinks 18 students the experience of on-the- redefi ned, and the narrow approach is the right age for students to be job training while attending high of in-class learning is being allowed to drop out. school. reshaped. “I don’t think students should It provides a more hands-on Score! Launched in 2003, a new $1.3- have an option. Post-secondary approach than any classroom billion initiative under the Ontario education is your choice, but setting can. McGuinty government aims to see high school is required,” says the Montgomery, a former university 85 per cent of students graduating Educational Assistant –– Special student, says that the hands-on by 2010. Needs Support student at Niagara approach, especially in college, is The plan offers several options to College’s Welland campus. a “very important aspect” to the students looking for a more hands- The government plan offers education she has received. on experience while learning. several options to students Finally, steps have been taken One of the key points in the looking to get the most out of their to implement a new requirement Student Success Strategy is the secondary school experience. for students to get their driver’s requirement for students to learn Schools are hiring better guidance licenses. until they are 18. counsellors to help students decide All 16- or 17-year-olds applying This means students are not where they want to go after they for their licenses must be able to permitted to quit school until graduate. either prove they are attending they are legally adults, or have Ducharme says of the counsellors high school or have an excuse for graduated. at her high school, “If you need leaving, before they are allowed to Stefani Ducharme, a 17-year-old help, they’re going to get you all receive their licenses. Grade 12 student, says she thinks the help you need. Our counsellor On whether all this will this is a good idea. has all the answers in her head; help students achieve success, “I’m very pro-school,” says the whatever we ask her, she’s got the Ducharme says, “I’m overwhelmed Welland Centennial High student. answer right there for you.” at the opportunities being thrown “High school is a great experience. High schools are taking steps to at me; with all these opportunities, I’m really involved.” increase attendance. it’s actually harder to fail than to Ducharme says she doesn’t From offering prizes such succeed.” understand how big a burden high as movie tickets for perfect Ontario’s education website school could be to students wanting attendance, to enforcing strict details six steps to help more A student enjoys a game of foosball in the Niagara College to drop out. punishments for frequent lates and students graduate high school. residence common room. She says she thinks that most absences, schools are showing just For more information visit http:// Photo by Andrea Dyer students who do drop out just have how important attendance is to www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/6ways/ problems with authority and don’t success. welcome.html. Page 4, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 New textbooks for Ontario Ardell has remarkable career elementary students By SHAWN DIXON hired from within the company Black and Radler were not By MICHAEL SPECK Staff Writer and became president and CEO of happy with the profit margins Staff Writer “My time at Southam ended Southam Inc. He was the fi rst non- of the company and decided to When it comes to reading, everybody loves new books. having to deal with the Hollinger family member to hold the CEO make some drastic changes. On About 500,000 Ontario students in Grades 4 to 6 are receiving $10 group, in particular [Conrad] position of the ailing company. July 22, 1996, Ardell chaired a million in new textbooks and learning resources, according to an Black and [David] Radler,” says “It was in very tough shape. ... shareholder’s meeting. Black and announcement on Dec. 21 by Premier Dalton McGuinty and Minister of William Ardell. Advertisement sales were going Radler used him to show their Education Kathleen Wynne. It was a remarkable path Ardell down, the cost of newsprint was power and ability to fire at will. “New and exciting materials can spark a passion for reading and took as a youngster from Leaside, rising at an unprecedented rate, “Some of the older directors learning among our students,” said McGuinty. “And passion is key to Ont., to the boardroom of Coles the company had incurred a great that had been there preceding success in school and in life.” Bookstores. deal of debt. … There was an Black were asked to step down, “This is not just about putting books on the desk, but about making In 1989, Ardell went to Harvard extraordinary amount of capital to which they refused,” said Ardell. sure our students have the tools they need to learn,” said Wynne. “Every University in Boston, Mass., for service,” said Ardell. “I was the chairman at the meeting school board in the province will benefi t from this investment.” a three-month advanced manager The turning point in Ardell’s because the previous chairperson With the funding, school boards can purchase textbooks, magazines, program for chief executive illustrious career with Southam was to be deposed. So I chaired that computer software, CD-ROMs and DVDs. A total of $15 million for offi cers (CEO) managing was in 1996. Conrad Black, CEO meeting, sort of indicating to my new library books was also invested earlier last year. companies with operating budgets of Hollinger Inc., Peter White fellow directors that they were no The McGuinty government is investing in resources to improve in excess of $100 million. longer welcome, which I did with literacy achievement in Grades 4 to 6. The total this year is over $525 “It was an interesting some diffi culty, nonetheless did, million. experience,” said Ardell. “I’m just and then met with David Radler The government’s goal is to have 75 per cent of the province’s a young guy from Canada that’s after the meeting. He indicated that elementary students meeting the provincial standard in reading, writing trying to be seasoned with all these he and Black and the Hollinger and math in 2008. Last year, 64 per cent of students met or exceeded the brilliant PhDs. It gets to be very directors were no longer interested standard, a 10 per cent increase from the previous year. much a growth experience, in that in my continuing on as president of McGuinty and Wynne visited students and staff at Burnhamthorpe not all PhDs are leaders and [not Southam. That was done in the lobby Public School in Burlington. The school plans to use its funding to all] for a successful organization. of the Prince Hotel, in Toronto, purchase reading materials, math textbooks and computer software. Leadership is probably arming which was typical of Radler and “Providing my students with good-quality textbooks and learning people for success.” Black.” resources are important ingredients to boost their achievement and In 1990 Ardell was approached After this, Ardell weighed his enrich their learning experiences,” said Coster McCann, a Grade 4 and asked to help found the literacy options and did what he calls teacher at the school. foundation ABC Canada. “retiring.” For the past 10 years McGuinty and Wynne also highlighted some of the government’s “The initiative started off from Ardell has sat on numerous investments to support student achievement such as funding for more being president,” said Ardell. boards that include Humber teachers, programs to improve low-performing schools and student “What Coles would do is they College, Apollo Gas, Somerset achievement targets. would challenge the industry. Entertainment and Canadian Public Whatever the industry raised, Storage Properties. At the age of Coles would double that amount. Submitted Photo 63, Ardell also sets time aside for I was founding chairman, and the WILLIAM ARDELL golf, woodworking and traveling purpose behind that was to gauge all over the world. and convince business that literacy and David Radler, both co-chief “After Southam I basically Where’s winter? was a serious issue.” operating offi cers of Hollinger retired. I looked at a number of Ardell’s business track to the Inc., bought controlling shares of various opportunities and then head offi ce followed his father’s Southam Inc. decided that I had a very good run footsteps. At the age of 12, Ardell “Black on a one-on-one was a in the business environment and I moved to Montreal where his father very delightful person. When more became involved with a number of worked. Ardell attended Sir George than one person was in the room, he different boards and have continued William University [Concordia] held court. He was very bright. He that since.” where he not only kept up with his did not understand the complexity classes but also accompanied the of the Southam business,” said university’s hockey team to four Ardell. “Radler, on the other hand, I straight Canadian university fi nals. spent little time with at all.” By the age of 32 he was running a “He was probably one of the company. By the age of 38 he was most dislikeable people that I have vice-president of Coles Bookstores encountered. An interesting fact, and became president in just four from my perspective, was that they months. had no plan. It’s kind of obvious Top 10 In 1992 Southam hired external that the only plan that they had help to fi nd a new president and was to fi nd ways to line their own RealTraxTM ring tunes CEO of the company. Ardell was pockets.” Week of January 15 1. 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Warmer climates during the winter season left this waterfall in Counselling Services Hamilton running its natural course. Photo by Michael Dach We’re Here To Help! news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 5

By STEPHEN DOHNBERG rules and regulations to it and taking it to the next level. No one has ever Staff Writer done it before.” Stacey Case, St. Catharines native, Canadian rock veteran and impressario of Those ready to scoff can read the regulations at www.pillowfi ghtleague. zine conventions and many other DIY-styled events, has a dream. com. Bouts last a maximum of fi ve minutes and, as noted, a combination It’s born of “12 hours of van boredom travelling through Austria in 2004” of methods are employed to win the bout. As Case notes, “If you are while on tour with his band, the Tijuana Bibles (“Mexican wrestlers in a unable to decisively win within those fi ve minutes then it goes to the rock and roll band.”) It’s essentially one of those crazy ideas that emerge judges.” from the alcohol-and-delirium-fueled chats that prevent band mates from For those who scoff, crowd favourites have been emerging from the resorting to “cannibalism for fun,” but as the talk and action to make it bouts, including names like Polly Esther and Betty Clocker. happen was put into place once, the dream became less implausible. When I asked Case to elaborate on some of the moves used by particular The dream was world wide pillowfi ghting league (PFL). fi ghters, Case indicated that Clocker has been studying Brazilian Jiu Jistu The early genesis of PFL came in 2005 as Case’s band played its and mixed martial arts training. When he tried to paint a picture of the brand of wrestling: rock at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel in the background, elaborate moves that can be employed by any one fi ghter, he said that while “professional” pillow fi ghters, essentially hired Bluesque performers, tactics are from either a “ground game or a stand-up tactic.” graced the stage and battled to accompany the music. The real seed of Case’s Four more PFL bouts are on slate. ambition was planted when he saw that other female audience members Asked if worldwide domination was the ultimate goal, without missing were just as eager to engage the hired PF’ers (Pillowfi ghters). a beat, Case responded, “Oh, absolutely.” He offered an opportunity for audience participation and was PFL will be engaged in TV interests worldwide, from India, Russia, met with a rabid response: other women shouting, “Me, Me!” As Germany, and Japan’s FUJI TV, famed for its Iron Chef competitions and events unfolded, and Case saw they took the battle seriously and programming. Case knows that FUJI TV has a 98 per cent saturation rate in actually fought, he became witness to a possible and very real Japan. If Japanese tastes for the esoteric are any indication of the potential phenomenon. success of PFL, then success is clearly on the horizon. “I literally woke up the next morning realizing that’s what it Challenged that worldwide domination isn’t implausable, Case restates, had to be: real women having real fi ghts, with pillows.” “We’re the fi rst people to even think of applying rules and regulations to After four seriously sanctioned PFL battles pillowfi ghting.” ranging from questionable locales up the scale to Boozy Suzy, “We’ve turned down 57 television deals, but we’re likely going to go with a the Courthouse, a high end Toronto venue often Veteran PFL Fighter Canadian production company because they understand us, they don’t want to used by record and media companies to hold their change us, much like the National Hockey League.” Case’s business acumen parties. PFL 4.5 happened at Toronto’s Mod Club as a band member (and out of necessity a businessperson) has clearly paid on Jan. 12. off in this regard, where ultimately right will be licensed to the carrier. Case is quick to point out that this is serious Still scoffi ng? business. The Pillow Fight League makes its grand entrance at the Boom Boom “Be aware, this is not strippers bouncing around Room in Windsor-Detroit on the weekend of March 30 as part of the on beds. We have actually applied rules and Wrestlemania weekend, and returns to Toronto for April. regulations from other fi ght sports like boxing, Keep your pillow, and ambitions, handy. wresting, UFC and mixed martial arts. We’re News of coming Pillow Fight League events is available at www. taking the concept of pillowfi ghting, applying Photo submitted by: Chris Blanchenot pillowfi ghtleague.com.

The Offi cial Pillow Fight League Rules Event Details Women Fighters Only. NO EXCEPTIONS. 1 AUSTIN TEXAS 2 Fights have a fi ve-minute time limit and are won via pinfall, surrender or March 2007 referee stoppage. If a fi ght ends at the time limit with no winner, a winner is Venue TBA declared by a three-judge committee. WINDSOR-DETROIT Friday, March 30, 2007 3 Punching, leg drops, clotheslines, submission holds and other moves are Boom Boom Room allowed as long as a pillow is used to execute the attack. 315 Ouillette Ave. 4 Preventing an opponent’s pillow Windsor, Ont., Canada strike by holding her pillow TORONTO, CANADA results in a warning from the April 2007 referee. Judges may choose Venue TBA to include these warnings as part of their judging Contact Information criteria if a fi ght goes the E-mail: distance. thepfl @gmail.com

5 No eye-gouging, biting, Snail mail: scratching, hair pulling or PFL 101 Niagara St., low blows. Box 32 Toronto, Ont., Canada 6 No rude, lewd or M5V 1C3 suggestive behaviour. PFL Studio Phone: 7 Loading a pillow with a 416-203-2389 foreign object such as a Monday to Friday brick is strictly forbidden. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Photo submitted by: PFL/Dawn Weaver Page 6, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 NEWSEDITORIALS@NIAGARA

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Winter baffles Canadians Social life strained It’s here. After a freak October snowstorm that left either a mound or just a dusting of snow in your part of the region, winter is here. Rarely has this region not seen a white Christmas. Canadians have been for journalist teased into bringing out their shorts and T-shirts at the slightest sign of spring, and, up to a few weeks ago, one could see people clad in shorts, spring jackets As our workloads increase, our time for friends decreases. and even fl ip-fl ops. This is something the students of Journalism-Print deal with in their What gives most people something to complain about had most bewildered fi nal semester. when it didn’t show up as usual. Vancouver, a city that rarely sees snow, was With more newpaper editions being printed, a lot more preparation buried in the white stuff, while Ontario, a province so used to cold and snow is going into news@niagara. that Halloween costumes are designed to fi t around bulky snow suits, waited. We spend countless afternoons and evenings in the newsroom as we And waited. journalists-in-training scurry to fi nd interviews and gather quotes. The lack of snow made many suddenly aware of global warming. It’s Unfortunately, this means friends not in the program are regulated something scientists and environmentalists have talked about for decades. Few to a back seat. have taken any action since global warming had yet to affect our daily lives. This is in no way a message telling all of our friends that it’s over, The green grass and slightly cool air had small animals, such as squirrels, but instead a message to help them understand. birds and snakes, coming out of hibernation, thinking it was spring. Ski lodges We are busy people, so busy in fact I returned to my hometown began laying off workers. only twice last semester. We are in a program where we have to keep Snow sets Canada apart from other countries. While we may scoff at hearing a week or two ahead of ourselves to escape the pressure of deadlines. how Canadians live in igloos and ride sleds to town, secretly we love to hear Once we miss a deadline, we might as well have missed a radiation it. Snow is the one thing we can grasp, one thing we can count on for eight treatment. months of the year. 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For advertising, contact Laura Tait at The Tribune Phone: 905-732-2414 ext. 281 CODY MCGRAW E-mail: [email protected] news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 7 NEWSCOLUMNS@NIAGARA A&E makes reality television interesting to watch I am Christine Kennedy, and I’m an see various of my classmates indulging to hit rock bottom. I guess it takes watching beats out of my chest. The intensity and addict of the Arts and Entertainment (A&E) themselves in the world of drugs and their suffering to smarten me up in my own passion for solving the case and putting it to channel. alcohol. choices. rest is incredible. Until this year I didn’t care much for To be honest, it looks like a pretty good Another program on A&E I can never tear As the clock ticks away, my muscles television. I admit now I can lie in bed time, but most of these teenagers and 20- my eyes away from is The First 48, which tighten, but it’s always a relief seeing the zoned out for hours watching A&E. There is somethings aren’t in as deeply as the addicts details the steps taken by police within the words appear across the screen charging something hypnotic about it. on the program. fi rst 48 hours after a murder victim is found. someone with the murder, although the For instance, I religiously watch I watch intervention as a wake-up call to I am from a small town of 9,000 people, person is, we are reminded, innocent until Intervention, a program involving the remind myself that although so murder is foreign to me. proven guilty. intervention to change the behaviour of drug these kids look as if they’re I’ve always had the belief that The third show I love to watch marathons addicts, binge eaters, alcoholics and self- having a grand old time it could never happen to me of is Dog, the Bounty Hunter. In this program mutilators. Families sign the addict up to now, it will all go downhill. or anyone I know and love; Duane “Dog,” along with his family, Leland, have an intervention. The show’s producers The pain and suffering however, murder is very real Duane Lee, Beth and Tim, hunts fugitives lead the addicts to believe they are part of the families and friends and it happens every day. and brings the wanted criminals into the a documentary about addictions until the go through watching the On The First 48, a murder justice system. interventionist arrives offering safe counsel addicts kill themselves is victim is found and identifi ed. I watch this show purely for entertainment and a rehabilitation program designed for the unbearable. I would never By CHRISTINE KENNEDY The offi cers then speak to the purposes, although it’s nice to know there addict. want to do that to my family Columnist family to fi nd out the last time are real people who want to help the justice The heart-breaking, gut-wrenching, tear- or friends. the victim was seen. They system, especially an ex-convict like jerking program shows what real addicts As a viewer I think the track the victim’s events to Dog, who wants to redeem himself for his must go through every day just to survive, addicts’ loss of personality, of money, of self- fi nd and interrogate possible suspects. The criminal past. In Dog, the Bounty Hunter, whether it be stealing money from a family satisfaction, of motivation and of so much police try their best to get a confession before viewers follow the clan into sketchy scenarios member to get their fi x, hiding bags of vomit, more should be enough to make them want the fi rst 48 hours wind down because after of homes of drug lords and slummy boroughs drinking themselves into a raging stupor, or to turn their lives around. Even at the time that, their chance of fi nding the murderer is of towns to fi nd out information about the watching themselves bleed just to feel OK. of the intervention, though, they are always cut in half. wanted criminal, track him down and seize You may ask what kind of a sick-minded apprehensive about leaving their addiction I enjoy watching The First 48 to understand him. Dog and his family keep me on the person would sit through an entire episode of behind because it is the only way they know the process of unraveling homicide cases. edge of my seat every time I watch. this and continue to watch. how to live. The urgency and pressure is fi erce during To make a long story short, I’m an A&E As a 19-year-old college student, I I never want to live like that. I never want the program. My palms sweat and my heart fi end. Tuition hurting Celebrities over-shadow non-profi ts students could Bono feed with the money and Gabbana jacket? he spent on his sunglasses? He Why does a man with millions Why must Canadian college most 20 cents per litre of probably has more than one pair. of dollars get endless amounts of and university students pay up gasoline. Those sunglasses he wears dur- airtime, but the pro bono worker at front for their education, when “The drive from my house ing his famous visits to Africa, the the soup kitchen devoting his/her the career goal is to school costs me country he wants absolved of debt, life to the suffering, or the Doctors to make money to about $20 to $30 By KRISTIN RASILE are worth more than my bi-weekly Without Borders personnel work- Columnist support themselves [weekly], depend- paycheques. ing in the depths of disease-fi lled the rest of their ing on the traffi c,” Pro-bono is forgotten, but Bono Of course, the cost of Bono’s countries or the middle-class sin- lives? says Journalism- lives on. famous look is purely specula- gle mother giving $10 a month to It is disturbing Print student Adam In today’s world, we are bom- tion, but can you really see Bono charities end up forgotten? since post-second- By STEPHEN Gamble. barded with ads to help those wearing sunglasses, clothes, shoes Those workers aren’t looking ary students don’t BOSCARIOL If the student in need. or hair gel from a middle-class de- for praise ... maybe that’s the dif- have money to be- Columnist pays rent, the av- Spare some change for the home- partment store? I can’t. ference, after all. gin with. We learn erage due at the less person on the street. Back to my couch. High-profi le celebrities open to master our craft but also to end of the month is about $400. Give some food to the parents I’m sitting here watching Bono. doors and eyes to the world and mature, grow and fend for our- The average academic year is unable to feed their children. A He knows more about the issues in its issues, but maybe the message selves. eight months. This student pays dollar a day can save a life. A dol- Africa than I do, or probably ever shouldn’t be “do more.” Our government is increasing $3,200 just on a room, bath- lar a day you won’t even miss. A will. He seems well educated on the Maybe high-profi le faces should the price of tuition yearly to the room and a kitchen, not includ- dollar a day goes a long way. matter and speaks with a convinc- focus on what the general public point when we will not be able ing other living expenses that Apparently, a long way is never ing voice. He wants us to believe is doing. to go directly from high school vary from student to student. long enough. him. Though I’m beginning to see Maybe Bono should ease up on to the next step of higher “I spend a lot of money on U2 front man Bono is active in the light, there’s something about his public relations appearances education. fun. Everything costs these the fi ght against AIDS. He visits him that has me unconvinced. and do his thing behind closed Does this make sense? Our days,” says Fitness and Health Africa and speaks about how we, He has millions of dollars — OK, doors as many of us do. government doesn’t want us Promotions student Dave Fehr. the collective world, should be do- hundreds of millions — and he’s Maybe I’m just jealous because to avoid paying, but why put Other ways to address this ing more. passionate about Africa, or so I’m dollar signs glowing around my people in the position of having problem could be devised so As I sit on my couch watching led to believe. Why, then, whenev- Dolce and Gabbana jacket are what a massive debt to start off their students can focus on paying for Bono on Larry King Live, I be- er I see him on TV, does an aura of I so desperately want. adult lives. living expenses instead of wor- gin to wonder: How many people dollar signs glow around his Dolce Should this really be the way rying about the loan they just to go about things? took out or the massive amount I have asked many people in of debt they’ll graduate with. the past about this. “I’ve spent an entire sum- Column Criteria “I fi nd that when I’m at mer’s worth of work wages, for Journalists, including those in the Journalism-Print program at the Niagara College, are taught that their school, my money just disap- what?” asks Law and Security reporting must be balanced, fair and objective as possible. That rule must also exist for columns written pears. It’s insane,” says broad- Administration student Kevin by reporters. In columns, the feelings and opinions of reporters are welcome, but balance, fairness and casting student Jory Lyons. Ramsbottom. objetivity must never be disregarded or treated lightly. Our columns, which are clearly identifi ed as A student who commutes Who is going to solve this such, do not refl ect the opinions or feelings of the administration of the news@niagara. from St. Catharines to Welland problem? Columns refl ect the opinions of only one person: the writer. has seen a cost increase of al- Page 8, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 Magical holiday in ‘The Big Smoke’ istorical architecture, an infl uential music the coastline. The roads are so narrow and winding, castle that Lord St. Levan resides in. The island is scene, a prominent literature and art that cars, although they are much smaller, almost attached to a natural causeway that is only passable Hsociety, an amazing night life, one of the graze each other as they pass. during low tide. trendiest shopping districts, and some of the world’s Our fi rst night in Cornwall, Lynda decided to show On Wednesday morning Chatwin and I began most talented celebrities. It’s not heaven, but the us “how the English live.” By this she meant she would our trek up to London. We were supposed to catch majestic home to the Royal Family: England. help us experience the local pubs. Since England has a train that left the station at about 11:30 a.m., but On Dec. 8 my journey to this magnifi cent country such a pub-based culture and atmosphere, it seemed at 11:45 a.m. a man in a uniform informed us that commenced. My boyfriend Riley Chatwin and I only right. Each village has its pub. The villagers there were no trains today, so we had to take a bus boarded the plane at the Lester B. Pearson Airport usually gather there on weekends, after work, and to Truro and then board a train there. Our train was in Toronto. Our fl ight left at 8:20 p.m. As soon as when a football match is playing. supposed to leave at 12:15 p.m. By the time we the plane was prepared for takeoff I fell asleep and The pubs were quite small, but quite busy, but after a few stopped at every station we had missed the train. didn’t awaken for the six-hour plane ride until I heard Guinness Blacks I was introduced to the whole town. We had to take the next train, leaving at 1:30 p.m., the captain announce, “We are preparing for landing Saturday I was introduced to a Cornish delicacy, the and arriving at 6:30 p.m. in London. to London Heathrow, please fasten your seatbelts.” I Cornish pasty. It is a traditional pastry, stuffed with In London we met Chatwin’s aunt, Patti Thomas. looked out the window to experience the lush green meat, usually steak and potatoes. Legend has it that We stayed with her for the rest of our travels. She landscape and cool blue waters beaming up at me. English miners used to eat pasties when they mined gave us some advice on where to go and what to do After claiming our baggage we attempted to go for nickel, since their hands were dirty the pastry was with the remainder of our vacation. through immigration. It was an just used as a Thursday morning, bright and early, we boarded the interesting interrogation, to say casing for their train with Thomas on her way to work and purchased the least. Chatwin and I were meal, the meat tickets for the Big Bus Company’s London tour. We visiting his mother, Lynda, and and potatoes. sat in a brilliant red double-decker bus and toured sisters, Maddie and Allie. Sunday at London from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The immigration offi cer, 7 a.m. was The bus tour took us to all the famous attractions or drill sergeant, belted out a our scheduled in London. We could get out and hop back on when plethora of questions: “Why wake-up time. we saw something we wanted to do as a bus came to is your family here? Why are We planned on each stop every hour. Our tour guide revealed homes you here? When is your family travelling to a or previous homes of celebrities such as the Beatles, leaving? Do they have visas? village about Elton John and Sherlock Holmes and rare facts about Do you have any other family an hour away, London and its history. in Canada?” Then she decided Newquay, for We visited all the major attractions, such as to ask where we were going. breakfast. Lynda Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the London Bridge, I told her we were going had planned on Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abby, the Houses of to Cornwall and then she Parliament, Leicester Square, Trafalger Square, St. asked where in Cornwall? It was a brisk Paul’s Cathedral, the London Eye and Harrods. Well, neither of us had a afternoon in the We stopped at Harrods, an upscale department clue. The look on her face historic Trafalger store, halfway through the tour. I was amazed just screamed, “I’m going to Square. when I entered. Its motto is “All things, for all deport you back to Canada.” people, everywhere.” Let me tell you, that’s I explained that we weren’t exactly sure where, the truth. but I did know the name of the complex that they Harrods is equipped with six fl oors of goods lived in. After making me write it down and sign a and services to cater to anyone (who can afford document, giving me a stern look and lecturing me it, that is). The store has everything from precious on “coming prepared next time,” she fi nally let us jewelry to a sushi bar to designer clothing to through the gates. a chocolate factory. The store is owned by Even with an extensive immigration questioning, Mohamed Al-Fayed. He purchased it for 615 we still arrived early, at 8 a.m., and Lynda was million pounds. In memory of Princess Diana, nowhere in sight. An hour and 15 trips walking and his son, Dodi Al-Fayed, a monument was around the terminal later, Lynda and her friend, David erected in Harrods. Cummins, arrived apologetically explaining that they A classic building on the streets of London showcases The next day we went to Madame Tussaud’s, were stuck in traffi c and our fl ight was early. its age and beauty. a wax museum with real-looking wax fi gures of Now we were to begin the six-hour trek to celebrities, dignitaries and famous villains. In the Cornwall. After getting cozy in the back of eating at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant, Fifteen. Oliver is a evening we toured Oxford Circus, a trendy shopping Cummins’s Volvo and about an hour of catching popular English chef on the Food Network. Breakfast area in London. up, I fell asleep. With a fi ve-hour time difference, was served until 9:30 a.m. We didn’t arrive until 9:37 Saturday morning we took the tube into downtown it was 4 a.m. in Canada. I woke up some hours a.m. because we didn’t really know where we were London to see the Phantom of the Opera at Her later, with a stretch of luxurious countryside in going, got lost and were stuck in construction. Majesty’s Theatre. Since we had some time before view, forever it seemed. We arrived at the posh restaurant and asked if we the show, we walked around and toured the area and We stopped for lunch at a quaint café in the could still get breakfast. The hostess told us we were met back at the doors before the show started, but no middle of nowhere. It was previously a horse too late, even though I claimed I had come all the one was to be found. Thomas’s roommate dodged at stable, but turned into a bed and breakfast with a way from Canada to eat here. After that escapade, we Chatwin and me and frantically explained that Lynda’s café. After refuelling, we were back on the road for found somewhere else to eat and fuelled up for a day wallet had been “nicked.” Theft is quite prevalent in a few more hours. of shopping. London. There wasn’t much anyone could do about The road began to get bumpy, winding and narrow; Newquay is a surfi ng village, since there is a beach it at that point, except watch the show. That evening Lynda told us that’s how we knew we were in Cornwall. on the ocean. Even in December there were a few we ventured to Covent Gardens, a strip of pubs aimed It is in southerly England, along the Atlantic Ocean, brave or crazy people willing to test the tide. for the younger generation. We went to a Canadian and is a popular destination for Londoners because of The next few days consisted of more shopping and pub, the Maple Leaf, to get our minds off Lynda’s its quiet countryside and tranquility, much different exploring the Cornish lifestyle, which consisted of stopping stolen wallet. from the hectic London way of life. every hour for tea. We visited Truro and Penzance. It was our last day in England, and as I board Once we reached Lynda’s village, Falmouth, the Penzance, the closest village to Land’s End, is a the plane home, it hits me: I forgot to have tea sky became clear, and the countryside glistened in the well-known historical landmark. It accommodates with the Queen. sunlight. Falmouth is a harbour town running along St. Michael’s Mount, a tidal island that houses a Story and photos by Tara Brady news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 9 NEWSPOLITICS@NIAGARA Greenbelt freeze helping South Niagara By RYAN MCLEAN the area. It travels as close to this people of Ontario by delaying.” South Niagara, and they are.” doing to attract and keep young Staff Writer region as Hamilton.” “This is essential to the Southern The Conference Board of Canada people in Niagara, Partington The coming four-year term looks A regional study estimated the Ontario economy.” estimates St. Catharines-Niagara’s stressed, “We have to work with positive. planned population and economic The Region has had to deal with economic growth will jump 3.1 per Brock University in St. Catharines Peter Partington was re-elected growth over the next 30 years would the 2004 Greenbelt legislation, cent in 2007, because of two major and Niagara College to diversify as chair for the 2006 to 2010 term outgrow the current transportation which permanently contains urban construction projects in the energy the economy.” of the Regional Municipality of system along the Niagara to GTA. sprawl in the Golden Horseshoe sector. Partington understands the Niagara Council. “We will continue to press the to areas below the Niagara The fi rst, Northland Power’s importance of this fi rst hand. In a telephone interview, Ontario government for the Niagara escarpment. 236-megawatt Thorold co- His eldest son attended Brock Partington said, “It feels good to to the GTA corridor.” “It’s frozen North Niagara, and generation plant on the site of University for political science. be re-elected by the council, which The Niagara Region Economic there will be no more severances Abitibi Consolidated’s pulp and “The region must provide jobs, means support to move things Development Committee put until they review the legislation in paper mill, Partington said, will especially for young people,” so forward.” “$100,000 into the Niagara- 10 years,” Partington explained. “provide construction for over a they don’t have to move away from Transportation, economic and Hamilton economic impact study,” On the other hand, a positive to year and keep the jobs currently at Niagara. community development are the which will fi nish in early February, the legislation, the chair said, is Abitibi, which is good.” Partington also said the Region main focuses moving forward, the the chair explained. that the tender fruit lands and grape The second project is the Niagara this term will devise “a plan to deal 67-year-old explained. Partington said he believes and wine industry will be protected Falls tunnel project to bring water long-term with solid waste” as well Partington acknowledged this study will show the Ontario by the urban freeze. from Niagara Falls to Queenston’s as addressing the obesity issue in improving public transportation government the positive and It focuses the growth southward, hydroelectric generating complex. society. links between municipalities is negative effects of delaying the but it “allows us to show the “Projects generate other projects “Not just exercising, but having important. project. province that they will have to pay and help Niagara to be known.” communities provide better “The GO Bus needs to come to Also, “it will show the cost to the attention and support our growth in When asked what the Region is alternatives.” May speaks at Brock ghts Code und Continued from page 1 the successful European model.” i e “We favour a form of proportional May wants Canadians to know the Green R By RYAN MCLEAN rm representation, perhaps a hybrid model. Party is about more than one issue. n Staff Writer “You want to have a mix of a local person “We want to make education a top The provincial act to amend the Human Rights i who knows the issues in your community priority.” a Code is being met with heated opposition. n and another list of candidates based on the That would be done by directly under- Bill 107 was introduced to “reform and modernize the e popular vote.” writing the cost of education by improv- m Human Rights Commission,” explained Royland Moriah, a policy

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Speaking to a group of 49 at the St. Catharines Centennial Library ing to lower tuition rates H and giving students ac- on Jan. 11, Moriah explained, “When we [ACLC] looked at Bill 107, we cess without huge debt saw discussion, but nothing really more.” loads, May stressed. On the third day of the public hearings, government offi cials invoked a “Pay your money, closure or time allocation motion on Nov. 21, and all debates were stopped, get your ticket and hit Moriah explained, even though they were promised participation. Bill 107 the workforce. This is received royal assent Dec. 20. not the same as when I “Needless to say, groups, including stakeholders, were angry and felt they attended school.” were deceived.” “Our platform will Moriah described how in the past if an individual wanted to fi le a address better fund- complaint against an employer regarding race, sexual harassment, gender and ing for universities to many other forms of discrimination, the complainant would go before a commission, avoid the increasingly which would investigate for the individual at no cost, if the commission deemed it The leader of the Green Party of Canada, Elizabeth May, beholden model to at- necessary. speaks with students at a Brock University roundtable tracting corporate dol- Now the discrimination victim will have to investigate his or her own case and pay discussion on Jan. 12. lars through intellec- for a lawyer or hope a lawyer would take the case at no charge. The government Photo by Ryan McLean tual property protected cut out the commission so the individual will now go straight to the tribunal, research that goes to a which will speed the process up, a positive feature the Ontario government As the self-described party of the corporation.” emphasizes. environment, May discussed the need to The party’s platform on education will “When an individual shows up without a commission lawyer, they overhaul Via Rail Canada to help reduce be fi nalized by the end of January. will go up against the opposition, who you can bet is paying $500 an the number of vehicles on the highways. May admitted she “is a very big fan” hour to a high-priced lawyer.” “We have a strong commitment” to of the Irish model in which university Moriah pointed out that the commission previously had the right passenger and freight rail, she says. education is free. to demand documents and records from employers. Now it has no legal right. “For someone who is poor, uneducated or speaks English as a • Elizabeth May became involved in the environment in the 1970s. second language, they will have a severe disadvantage.” • In 1989 became executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada. Ron Walker, a retired 57-year-old, explained, “Legislation • In 2001 she participated in a 17-day hunger strike in Ottawa. like this is a travesty.” • August 2006, she became the Green Party’s 9th leader. This bill affects people of all age groups, explained • She is also a writer, activist, lawyer and mother. 18-year-old Samantha Battersby, a fi rst-year student enrolled in the Early Childhood Education program at “Ideally we would build high-speed rail May was in St. Catharines Jan. 12 and Niagara College in Welland. in the Windsor-to-Quebec corridor. We visited Laura Secord Secondary School, “There needs to be more public awareness and education can’t do this all at once, so we could start the Green Bean Café, Brock University for young people. I’m going through a human rights case with the used areas in Toronto to Ottawa and a fundraising event for the Green myself.” or Toronto to Montreal.” Party at the Holiday Inn at Lake Street and People don’t think about human rights in Ontario being an issue, said Slow passenger trips have turned off the Queen Elizabeth Way. a woman who asked to remain anonymous. travellers, so to speed trips up, “we need A recent poll indicates the Green Party’s President of Local 214 Ontario Public Service Employees Union to dedicate rail lines to passenger rail. This popularity is at 11 per cent nationwide and Judy Robertson expressed concern over changes made would give Canada a rail system similar to growing. to the bill regarding “how to represent at the workplace and within the community.” Page 10, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 NEWSH@EALTHNIAGARA Eat your fruits, vegetables Health at cost of

By TARA BRADY carbohydrates because they are the Daniluk outlines the dangers Staff Writer fuel source for the body.” of trans fats in particular foods. free choice Maybe your mom was right. Daniluk adds that a low- Young people, especially college Remember when you were carbohydrate diet may show students, have busy lifestyles and younger and your mom annoyingly effective weight loss results in the tend to choose “fast food” because told you to eat all your fruits and beginning, but long term, can have it is more convenient than cooking vegetables? Instead, you put them severe effects on your kidneys. It a meal. in your mouth and when she wasn’t can also cause hair loss, fatigue At those times when you’re in a looking, spit them out into your and irritability. food court, Daniluk says Japanese napkin. “Every part of the Canada food is the healthiest option Julie Daniluk, nutritionist at The Food Guide should be taken in because it contains many important Big Carrot Natural Food Market moderation. When looking at your nutrients. A stir fry containing rice, in Toronto, encourages people to plate, it should be one half fruits vegetables and a protein such as eat the proper amount of fruits, and vegetables, a quarter protein chicken, contains many much- vegetables, grains, dairy and and a quarter healthy grains.” needed vitamins and minerals. By KRISTEN COUGHLAR proteins. Daniluk says vegetarians lack Foods such as margarine and Columnist “It is important to hit off nutrients found in meat potato chips are made Communism is slowly rearing its ugly head in Canada. all the vitamins, minerals and products. Vitamin with hydrogenated oil, The Canadian government and health organizations across the macronutrients. The Canadian B12 is found a type of trans fat. Trans nation are striking out at the fast-food industry for the high levels of Food Guide is laid out to ensure only in fats are plastic fats found trans fats found in fast food products. Canadians get the recommended in oils where hydrogen Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) recently announced its plan to amounts of each food group.” fi lls up empty spaces on phase out trans fats in all its 786 restaurants in Canada following Paul Dushesne, media relations the fat. a lawsuit launched by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest offi cer for Health Canada, explains, “Hydrogenated foods disapproving of the restaurant’s high levels of trans fats. “Following the Canada Food clog arteries. The younger Frankly, I think the approach taken by this health organization on Guide can reduce the risks of generation has the arteries this issue borders on the extreme. A fast-food restaurant’s objective osteoporosis, some cancers, of a 40- or 50-year-old is to provide customers with time-saving, tasty concoctions while type two diabetes and heart and are more likely to get turning a profi t in the process. Individuals who wish to make health- disease. heart disease because of conscious food choices have the option of going somewhere else or According to Niagara the way they eat.” cooking at home. The point is the onus of making healthy lifestyle Region Public Health, Eating a bag of potato choices lies with the individual and not fast-food organizations. you need to eat from chips is a full days worth In Hamilton, Ashley Johnson, a 21-year-old McMaster University each food group to get of calories. Potato chips student in the Bachelor of Science and Nursing program, disagrees all the nutrients your lack nutrients, making one with my position. body needs. Some hungry for the proper vitamins “I feel it is about time something be said about fast-food restaurants foods are higher in fat and minerals. and the role they have been playing in the increased population of and calories, so use For busy college students, overweight individuals. The lawsuit against KFC does not surprise these “other” foods in Daniluk recommends buying food me. Maybe it was a drastic measure that was needed to push fast- moderation. Canada’s Food Guide in bulk. food restaurants to realize that their actions have consequences.” Daniluk explains She explains that purchasing The battle against trans fats has been taken to the next level in that even in the land rice and organic products in bulk the form of a government presence. New Democratic Party MP Pat of plenty, they focus on one food animal products. She also explains is about 10 cents per serving Martin has launched a new grassroots campaign in an effort to ban group. There are many overweight many vegetarians have zinc and compared to $3 or $4 when trans fats altogether. In a CTV news article, Martin said, “We know people in Canada because often iron defi ciencies, because protein is purchasing already-packaged food. trans-fatty acids are really bad for you, and it’s our duty and obligation people choose to ingest unhealthy hard to obtain, and should eat bean She also recommends hitting the to eliminate them from the food supply system altogether.” carbohydrates found in cookies, and seed products to ensure that the produce aisle because it is cheap This statement made by Martin only supports my viewpoint. Most cakes, carbonated soft drinks and appropriate levels of vitamins and and has tremendous nutritional individuals are aware that fast food is not good for them, and it is ice cream, which are plagued with minerals are attained. benefi ts. their choice to consume such products. Their choice of lifestyle is refi ned sugars. Daniluk explains that not only is Daniluk says healthful eating a decision they should be able to make on their own, not under the Refi ned sugars are found in it important to eat health foods, but encourages concentration and forced hand of the government. white fl our, which strips wheat of drinking water is also an imperative stress management. Johnson says the government’s involvement could be an effective its nutrients. During the process component to one’s diet. “When studying for a test, eat solution. “If the government was to monitor an issue such as the of refi ning whole wheat into “If you are thirsty, you’re already fi sh and dark leafy greens. They banning of trans fats, it would be something that may actually have white fl our vitamin B, vitamin E, dehydrated. Without water, your are sources of Omega 3, a healthy a positive outcome, and with their controlling the issue, it might calcium, zinc, fi ber and potassium brain fuzzes and it causes lack of fatty acid that encourages the brain actually stick.” are removed. Health is sacrifi ced concentration.” to focus.” A different approach to the situation has come from McDonald’s, for taste in this instance. She advises drinking water for a She also proposes eating proteins with the introduction of its lighter-choices menu. I feel this is a far “White fl our products hinder headache because it causes one to like chicken breast, chicken soup better solution because it provides customers with a choice. They attention and concentration.” be “more centered and better able and albacore tuna. have the option of eating from the regular menu or choosing to eat She advocates that people select to focus.” For those who dislike the Eating from each food group from the more healthful menu. whole wheat and whole grain taste of water, she advises adding is an essential way to sustain a Johnson gives McDonald’s credit for its lighter choices menu, but products instead because they a splash of lemon, lime or a fruit- healthful lifestyle and provide says she doesn’t think it will do much to solve the child obesity contain vitamin B and healthy fats. fl avoured tea bag. This adds fl avour you with the proper amounts of problem. “It is dangerous to eliminate all without calories. nutrients, vitamins and minerals. If anything, I think the blame for that problem should be on the parents. Children are eating more fast food because, instead of sending a homemade lunch with their kids to school, many parents Nutrition websites are sending them with lunch money. You can’t monitor what your children eat unless you’re providing it. • For nutrition advice, fact sheets, a virtual grocery store tour and the location of On another note, the physical activity level among children has a registered dietition in your area, go to www.dietitians.ca. declined as well, with more time spent in front of the television and computer than outside. Getting kids more active would surely help to combat the issue. • For food safety facts, visit the University of Guelph’s Food Safety Network at While fast-food organizations may be part of the problem, there www.foodsafetynetwork.ca/en. is plenty of blame to go around. Teaching individuals to make more health-conscious decisions is the angle to tackle in this problem, not • To fi nd information on nutrients such as calories, iron, calcium and saturated taking away their free choice. fats, go to www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/fi che-nutri-data/index_e.html. news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 11 Flu shot fi ghts Stronger energy drinks for you attract caffeine addicts By JILLIAN GRENIER energy drinks occasionally. “Maybe one or two cans a require hospitalization. It tends Staff Writer month, to help me wake up at school when I’m really By RACHEL TATTERSALL to be worse in babies and the It’s a legal drug that many of us ingest daily to wake tired and can barely keep my eyes open. It gives me an Staff Writer elderly. The fl u virus is spread up or get a quick boost, but some are taking it too far. energy boost quicker than coffee to help me get started Fever, chills, cough, runny through coughing and sneezing Caffeine, a stimulant found in coffee, tea and energy for the day.” eyes, stuffy nose, sore throat, or by direct contact with a drinks, has become more popular, especially with She says she used to drink a lot more but had to stop. headache, muscle aches, extreme contaminated surface. teens. “I’m not sure if that was really healthy. They used to weakness and fatigue. Also recommended on the Health Canada’s website recommends that a person give me stomach aches and make my hands shake.” If you are experiencing these website is getting a fl u shot from drink no more than 400 to 450 milligrams of caffeine a Since September of last year there has been a new symptoms then you probably your family doctor or community- day, equivalent to about three cups of brewed coffee. drink on the market with a controversial name aimed at have infl uenza, also known as based fl u clinics, where it is free Coffee and tea have been popular for a long time. teens. Cocaine, made by Los Angeles drink company the fl u. of charge. The best time of the Each cup of brewed coffee contains 107 milligrams Redux Beverages, has 280 milligrams of caffeine per Rhonda, a registered nurse year to do so is October to mid- of caffeine, and each cup of brewed tea contains 47 serving. from Telehealth Ontario phone November before the fl u season milligrams. The drink’s website, www.cocainedrink.com, tells services, says the prevalence begins, but you’re still able to get Jon Klassen, 21, of Tillsonburg, Ont., says he drinks consumers, “This beverage should be consumed by of the fl u is like this every year, the shot this time of year. two to four cups of coffee daily because it helps him responsible adults. Failure to adhere to this warning and people call in “all the time” Catharine Burden, 20, of feel “less groggy” when he wakes. He also drinks it may result in excess excitement, stamina, fun and with fl u-like symptoms. She says Welland, says when she had the socially. possible feeling of euphoria.” the number of infected people fl u in December, it was “like a Lauren Beard, 19 of Hamilton, Ont., says she, The drink is marketed to older teens as a legal “doesn’t get worse year to year. nightmare.” too, drinks coffee daily, but she’s trying to switch to alternative to the illegal drug of the same name. It’s It’s the same every time.” “It felt like I was glued to my tea. “Coffee is an aid for my lifestyle. I wouldn’t get supposed to give a rush and leave a tingling numb “A lot of people get the fl u bed. Every time I tried to move through work and school without it.” sensation in the back of the throat. around this time because the body or get up I would just collapse. I Coffee and tea aren’t the only caffeine products on Available in select stores in bigger cities, it is already doesn’t have time to adjust to the just laid in bed for a week straight the market, nor are they just being used to help the banned in 7-11 stores. weather becoming colder.” and drank water like every 10 consumer wake up a little bit. It is available through the Internet and can be sold to She recommends calling the minutes.” Teens are turning to energy drinks such as Red Bull anybody with a credit card. Telehealth line before going to She had some common and Rockstar for a quick energy boost and mood lifter. Another drink with a similar controversial name is the hospital’s emergency rooms. symptoms, such as coughing, Red Bull contains 80 milligrams of caffeine per sold only via the Internet. “People don’t need to go the sore throat and a fever, but she serving less than coffee, but there are drinks that Meth Coffee claims to “cut boredom like a razor” hospital. Everyone just wants to tried to let it pass on its own for a contain up to 372 milligrams per cup, making it easier and “may promote feelings of mania, zania, euthanasia, be fi xed, so they end up clogging few days before going to see her for teens to abuse caffeine. fantasia and all manner of paranoia.” up emergency rooms.” doctor. According to the Health Canada website, many Manufacturers warn it should not be consumed by Staying at home and treating “I hate going to the doctor, so problems can occur from drinking too many energy minors, but those are the very people who will try it. the fl u yourself is recommended I just tried to let it fi x itself, but drinks. Shulz says, “I probably would try it, if maybe to help prevent the crowding of that didn’t work. After a couple One is dehydration. People will drink before they someone else was drinking it and offered some to hospital waiting rooms. of days I thought I was going to participate in heavy physical activity, but the energy me.” According to www. die, I made an appointment and drinks won’t hydrate their body the way sports drinks Why wouldn’t children be tempted to try it? The wrongdiagnosis.com, ways to do he put me on some medication. I do. drink claims to spruce up even boring activities such this are by getting a lot of rest and wouldn’t recommend waiting. If Other problems are electrolyte disturbances, nausea, as household chores. drinking a lot of fl uids. you think you have the fl u, go see vomiting and heart irregularities. There is a warning on the site telling consumers not You should not be on antibiotics a doctor because they make you Teens need to know that mixing energy drinks with to quickly drink fi ve cups of it the fi rst time they try it. unless you are being treated for feel better really fast.” alcohol can increase their chances of suffering these There is no illegal substance in the special blend of complications from the fl u, but it Refusing to get a fl u shot problems. coffee, but there are unknown amounts of caffeine with is safe to take Advil and Tylenol. because needles “freak her out,” Becki Shulz, 18, of London, Ont., says she became a blend yerba mate. Also antiviral medications will she says she may think twice addicted to the energy drink Rockstar when she went Coffee was one thing, but now there are drinks on work effectively if prescribed by about it next year. to Taste of Chaos, a big concert tour. the market being promoted to children as an alternative your family doctor. “I hate needles with a passion, “Last year they were handing it out for free, and to drugs. The caffeine potentially makes these products According to www. but I will probably get the fl u then you could take as many free cans while you were addictive. healthyontario.com, the average shot next year because I don’t leaving. Very, very addicting, but it tastes good too.” The new drinks with the high amounts of caffeine fl u lasts two to seven days, unless ever want to go through an awful Shulz says she buys Rockstar whenever she can make it easier for anyone to abuse caffeine and have you develop complications or experience like that again.” because she “loves the taste” and it “perks” her mood. health problems. Maichina Veri, 19, of St. Catharines, says she drinks Cheap, fun exercise brings sexy bodies back are two of the most popular resolutions Make sure to pick something upbeat Pilates, Tae Bo, or Sweatin’ to the Oldies people make. and fun. Mellow and emotional songs are with Richard Simmons. These DVDs are However, not everyone can afford to get probably not the best choice because they fun, affordable and easy to follow. a gym membership, especially struggling might slow you down or make you cry when Don’t be afraid to go outside in the cold college students like me. Don’t worry, you realize you’re actually exercising. and do winter activities such as snowshoeing, though, because there are other ways to help Try to go for something you can grove to snowboarding, tobogganing or skiing. Just yourself and your body. or that you would dance to at your favourite make sure you bundle up well if we actually By RACHEL TATTERSALL For instance, I have started to go for 25- club. I like to mix it up between Britney get enough snow to be able to pursue these Columnist minute walks at least four times a week. Spears’ Greatest Hits: My Prerogative activities this winter. Carrying around two-pound hand weights and Justin Timberlake’s Future Sex Love This also relates to the countless things and listening to music are added touches to Sounds, because the songs on those CDs you can do to keep the weight off in the The new year has come, and spring is this workout. encourage me to be stronger and know that I summer months such as any type of sport quickly creeping its way into all of our lives The great aspects about going for walks can bring sexy back. like basketball, baseball, golf or volleyball. once again. are that it is free, it’s easy to do when you’re Next time your friend invites you over or You can also try bike riding, horseback OK, it’s not exactly here yet, considering not an athletic person and it relieves stress you have to run to the store for something, riding, taking hikes, swimming and so much we are just now getting our winter snow, but and clears your mind. walk there instead of driving. This will help more if you’re not really into sports. it will be April before we know it. If you are a person who is a little more you get in your daily cardio and reduce It is easy to get into sport if you have a As I rang in 2007, I made four New Year’s driven and in shape, then consider jogging pollution. friend or signifi cant other who can teach you resolutions: to stop biting my nails, to get or even running around your neighborhood You can also build up your own home how to play without having to be a pro. better grades in my last semester of school, or local track. gym easily if you shop around and fi nd all The next time you get down on yourself to save money and the age-old to lose weight You must remember that music is key; the bargains available. Also, if you’re the about your weight or feel as if you need a lot of for the summer. listening to the music of your choice helps type who doesn’t like to leave home, there money to start getting into shape, remember A lot of people I know also made this you stay motivated and entertained while are plenty of exercise DVDs such as actress all you have to do is grab your favourite CD resolution; losing weight and being healthier exercising, no matter what your activity. Carmen Electra’s strip tease workouts, and use two feet and a heartbeat. Page 12 news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 13 Making Room for me’

By LAURA NARDUCCI France. About a dozen prom dresses, suspended from the ceiling, are lit with Staff Writer inner lights. Artists and musicians unite. Ed Pien created Big Orange Bird for the show. “Big Bird, a tarpaulin cut, is “Making Room for you, making room for me, making room for more. made exclusively for this two-day exhibition,” says Pien. “Heather offered me Making room for bigger, stronger, sassier, sexier. Making room for sculpture, a 20-foot wide by 12-foot high wall to show work, and I just couldnʼt resist. installation, performance and new media. Making room for music, video, Big Bird is 12 feet high by 18 feet wide cut on orange tarp. It is very diffi cult Jon McCurley and Amy Lam’s Sad drawing and painting. Making room for Dorkbot. Making room for eating and to create because my studio wall size is eight feet high by 12 feet wide, so the Furniture. drinking beer and exchanging ideas, fan mail, phone numbers and manifestos,” image had to be cut in sections.” says Heather Nicol, curator of Making Room, where more than 50 artists and Other artists and their works include John Oswaldʼs video projection Veiled, musicians gathered in early December at 224 Wallace Ave., Toronto. Barbara Astmanʼs Clementine Part Two, Josh Averyʼs Failure To Surrender, Shelly Alder had two works displayed in the show. Both were untitled, eight Michael Bartosikʼs King Juda, Shelly Rahmeʼs Mountain Landscape, Tanya feet by six feet oil paintings. They depicted a young womanʼs face, one in Readʼs Mr. Nobody, Jess Perlitzʼs Subsume, JP Robichaudʼs untitled piece, monochromatic blues and the other in greens and pinks. UP BAGʼs The Soft City of Upburg and Jenn Sciarrino with many small Paula Braswell displayed Cotton Fields Two, which is a large white screen installations called Relief Model: Proposal for Future Mountain Formation. with about a dozen transparent and inked sheets hanging in front of it and Others included Bruno Billioʼs Book Tower, Adrian Blackwellʼs Monster, many video projectors. Braswell says she used three sound stations in the Ilona Staplesʼ untitled installation, Gloria Steinʼs Blue Corridor, Orest piece. “I did this so it would bring people into the installation to look for the Tatarynʼs suspended light Ceiling Sky-scrape Colour Field Four, Kristin sound,” Braswell says. Tretheweyʼs Junkyard Stories, Jennifer Wardleʼs painting called Apocalypic Jennifer Cherniack created Ruminate for the show. The two-part video Dream and Susan Chrysler White, who had three large-scale accordion Ed Pien’s Big Orange Bird is featured in Making Room, the art show held over the Dec. 2 installation features two cows, eating one for each video. The videos are a drawings. and Dec. 3, 2006, weekend at 224 Wallace Ave., Toronto. few inches in diameter, drilled right into the wall of the space. Cherniack says Others included Bill Burnʼs Boilersuits for Primates, Rendition TRravel Kit she got the idea from the space itself, as it used to be a sweatshop, and from a and Guantanamo Bay Foodstuffs, Carlo Cestaʼs Silent Endings, Janis Demkiw, video about depressed cows she found on the Internet. “The piece ruminates Emily Hogg and Olia Mishchenkoʼs Terranea, Dyan Marieʼs Containing This, about cheap labour.” John McCurley and Amy Lamʼs Sad Furniture and Lisa Neighbourʼs The Eye. Fran Freeman created an untitled piece about 12 feet high and four feet wide Guests from the United Stated included Robin Kahn, who gave away made of aluminum mesh and wire. “Itʼs hand-sewn. I lost a lot of layers of skin balloons with special messages, James Leonard with a video installation called doing it.” Snap! And Oui: Becca Broughton and Andy Coppola, who performed in their Susan Rowe Harrison created Thickless solely for the show. The piece installation called W/NU W/OUTI. consisted of hand-cut sign vinyl on two of the large windows in the space. She Other video artists selected by Paulette Phillips included Max Dean, says she cut all of the pieces by hand. Eastwurms, Nichola Feldman-Kiss, Kelly Mark, Liss Platt, Sheila and Nick Katharine Harvey created Fountain for the show, an installation standing Pye, Evan Tapper, Laurel Woodcock and Dorkbot. about 12 feet high, made entirely of plastic bottles, transparent containers and Musical performances went on throughout Saturday night. The Lansdowne Katharine Harvey’s Fountain. other items. “I actually clocked my hours,” she says, “It took 60 hours on site, Sax Quartet, excluding fourth member Dana Gray, and The Last World Trio not including the preparation and collecting of materials.” Harvey was also played intermittingly from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. John Farah performed on the featured at Rodman Hall Arts Centre at 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines, and piano at 8 p.m. Darabazi, a Georgian music choir, performed after Farah at at 56 Berkeley St., Toronto. 9 p.m. The Interrobang Ensemble performed with Farah, Raffi Altounian on Maria Legault created The Republic of Love. “The Republic of Love is guitar, Allison Wiebe on piano, Rob MacDonald on guitar, Andrew Staniland about the worldwide promotion of love.” She says in her biography, “Moving on guitar, Rebecca Turner on cello and Anastasiya Filippochkina on violin. beyond peacekeeping missions or confl ict resolution, we actively and The Ensemble is three members: MacDonald, Staniland and Turner. seductively aim our Cupid arrows to spread love in the world. The Republic of The show required a $5 admission to offset costs. Nicol says she was Love likes its eyelashes as long as its nights. “breaking even.” Saturday evening there were drinks served and Sunday “We wear the fi nest lingerie, don the messiest bed head and serve the morning pastries were served with coffee. sweetest cake. We serenade strangers and celebrate with bubbles in all forms, One visitor, Shery Leeder, of Toronto, says she enjoyed every piece. “Oh, because we believe that, ultimately, to love is loving, to love love. my God, the space is amazing. The space is so big you feel like youʼre at the “The Republic of Love is about the revolutionary power of love. The end but youʼre not. I think we have built-in space parameters. My favourite Republic of Love is about making love not war. Oh, and darling, The Republic piece is the Oui piece; I just stood there for half an hour watching. I loved the Lisa Neighbour’s The Eye. of Love hopes you remember that The Republic of Love loves you.” interaction with the people in the piece and watching the physical responses of Nicol, artist and curator, installed Pick Me, a piece created for a chateau in the audience.”

‘Making Room for you,

Susan Chrysler White’s Im-migration.

Adrian Blackwell’s Monster.

The inside structure of Shelly Rahme’s Mountain Landscape, Homage to Ansel Adams.

A detailed view of Susan Chrysler White’s Im- Shelly Rahme’s Mountain Landscape, Homage to Ansel Adams. migration.

Heather Nicol’s Pick Me. All photos and pagination by Laura Narducci Page 14, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 ‘Not being able to cure this kills me’ By KRISTIN RASILE warms McLoughlin’s heart with very frustrating when she doesn’t row. “To see that she is sick scares and sing along makes it seem Staff Writer every look. But fi ve years ago, at remember that she called already,” me because I fear that she will not longer. In an old Scarborough apartment, the age of 64, that spirit began to she admits, “and it kills me inside be around to see me marry. But she “Every time I see her smile I six-year-old Mary McLoughlin is slip away. when I lose my temper with her.” has a big heart, so I know she is know she lives one day longer.” playing dress up. “My Yiayia has dementia, McLoughlin’s frustration with trying her best to pull through.” Although Glosmas lives with In her grandmother’s old dresses, diabetes and is legally blind.” her Yiayia is about more than her Although McLoughlin doesn’t her husband of 50 years, her days pearls and high heals, she prances Dementia, or want to think about are often spent alone. “If you were around like the woman she dreams Alzheimer’s disease, her death, she wants by yourself all day, you would go of being with the woman who is a progressive brain her Yiayia to know crazy too,” McLoughlin says. will guide her to whom she will dysfunction affecting “before she goes that I “It would be nice to have her become. memory, the ability am happy, and without over at our house every weekend Caterina Glosmas, Yiayia to learn, reason, her I would not be who so she can have some company, to McLoughlin, is the typical make judgments, I am today.” but with everyone’s busy schedule European woman. She spends her communicate and carry With a shaky voice, sometimes it just isn’t feasible.” days cooking and cleaning and out daily activities. she admits she thinks On the days when McLoughlin fi nds immense joy in spoiling her As the disease about her Yiayia’s can’t have her Yiayia over, she grandchild. progresses, changes death a lot and the tries her best to phone her every As a child, McLoughlin enjoyed in personality and impact it will have on day, “or, for that matter, pick up daily visits with her Yiayia while behaviour, as well as her life. “She means the phone when she calls for the her mother was busy at work. delusions disrupt the the world to me.” 27th time.” “We would have adventures individual’s life, and She fi ddles with Hearing about school, friends downtown on the subway and play weigh heavily on family her fi ngers and looks and her boyfriend, brings a smile dress-up.” members. away. “I just can’t to Glosmas’ face, a smile that Glosmas would express her “Sometimes I don’t imagine not having slowly slips away after only a few desire to see McLoughlin wed and even think she knows her here.”The sound seconds. often spoke of the successful career what happiness is.” Mary McLoughlin and her Yiayia, Caterina Glosmas, of Glosmas’ favourite “It doesn’t take her long to woman she hoped McLoughlin Twenty-two-year- pose happily together for a Christmas photo. Greek song fi lls the forget, but for those seconds when would become. Although they old McLoughlin Submitted photo room and a smile she knows about my life, I can see were inseparable, much of their explains the diffi culty emerges on both their how proud she is of me.” time together is a blur to her. of watching her Yiayia faces as they stand up Five years after Glosmas’ “To be honest, I only remember slowly become someone else. illness. It’s about her fears. to dance. diagnosis, McLoughlin is worried those times with her.” With a memory span of about Since she was a child, she has “Sometimes she gets these spurts she has lost her grandmother Glosmas is a short, Greek fi ve minutes, McLoughlin says dreamt of walking down the aisle of energy. It’s the cutest thing.” forever. woman with the spirit of an angel. her Yiayia will call the house on her wedding day and seeing her The two dance and sing for mere “Not being able to cure this She has a glow in her eyes that “like 100 times” a day. “It gets grandmother sitting in the front seconds, but watching them giggle kills me.” Chiki honoured with top award Alzheimer’s Fact Sheet ♦ Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person’s ability to carry out daily activities.

‘Working with students and getting to know them ♦ The most common form of Dementia among older people is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which initially involves parts of the on a one-to-one basis is a great part of my job’ brain that controls thought, memory and language. ♦ AD is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German doctor. In By MARCUS YOUNGREN ployed youth, eventually moving into the counselling 1906, Dr. Alzheimer noticed changes in the brain tissue of a Staff Writer department before settling in administration in 1994. woman who had died of an unusual mental illness. Niagara College’s student services director is She testifi es the CCSS is a committee dedicated to honoured with a top award in the fi eld. providing the best student services. ♦ Scientists also have found other brain changes in people with On Oct. 19, Brigitte Chiki, of Welland was “We (CCSS) are always trying to create the best AD. Nerve cells die in areas of the brain that are vital to memory presented with the Art King Award, recognizing possible environment.” She adds, “There is no way I and other mental abilities, and connections between nerve cells the outstanding contribution and leadership of an could do my job without this committee. are disrupted. individual to students and/or the fi eld of student By not being part of this committee (CCSS), I would services in the Association of Colleges of Applied put the college and myself at a great disadvantage.” ♦ There also are lower levels of some of the chemicals in the brain Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO). Chiki asserts her favourite part of working in that carry messages back and forth between nerve cells. AD may “I feel very honoured to receive the student services fi eld is the impair thinking and memory by disrupting these messages. this award,” stated Chiki. connections she makes with the Scientists do not yet fully understand what causes AD. There Not one to hog the limelight, students. probably is not one single cause but several factors that affect Chiki asserts there are many “Working with the students and each person differently. people within the Co-ordinating getting to know them on a one- Committee on Student Services to-one basis is a great part of my ♦ Age is the most important known risk factor for AD. The number (CCSS) who do great work, adding, job.” of people with the disease doubles every fi ve years beyond age “I respect the group and admire my Chiki states the department is 65. colleagues.” “always adapting” to students’ The CCSS is a provincial needs. ♦ AD begins slowly. At fi rst, the only symptom may be mild committee responsible for She relates back to the mid-’90s forgetfulness, which can be confused with age-related memory providing leadership to the when the food bank was created as a change. Most people with mild forgetfulness do not have AD. ACAATO system on all aspects direct response to the government’s relating to student services and cuts in Ontario Student Assistance ♦ The early stage of AD, people may have trouble remembering student development, according to Program grants. recent events, activities, or the names of familiar people or CCSS’s mandate. In 2006 a non-denominational things. They may not be able to solve simple math problems. The provincial committee meets prayer room was added to the Such diffi culties may be a bother, but usually they are not serious annually for a three-day convention Niagara-on-the-Lake campus to enough to cause alarm. and two or three additional times fulfi l the spiritual needs of students throughout the year. Submitted photo and faculty. ♦ Many different medical conditions may cause symptoms that “Brigitte has made an outstanding In September 2007, a universal BRIGITTE CHIKI seem like Alzheimer’s disease, but are not. Some of these contribution to students and to bus pass will be presented to every medical conditions may be treatable. Reversible conditions can student services in the Ontario full-time Niagara College student, be caused by a high fever, dehydration, vitamin defi ciency and College system,” stated Cathie Auger, chair of the enabling him or her to travel for free on all buses in poor nutrition, bad reactions to medicines, problems with the CCSS, adding, “She is a student services leader who the Niagara Region. Students will also receive a tax thyroid gland, or a minor head injury. truly exemplifi es the values held and demonstrated credit for this service. by Art King.” Student Services is continually expanding the ♦ Today, the only defi nite way to diagnose AD is to fi nd out Chiki has worked in the Student Services services available at the college. whether there are plaques and tangles in brain tissue. To look department at Niagara College for 26 years. “We are trying to provide students with the best at brain tissue, however, doctors must usually wait until they do She started working as a job counsellor for unem- possible college experience,” asserts Chiki. an autopsy. news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 15 $30,000 wine sale creates industry buzz you know these are high-profi le he relayed to his By STEPHEN DOHNBERG individuals ... $30,000 is a lot of wife, Charlene, Staff Writer money for a lot of people, but for his excitement Few bottles of any type of these individuals, this kind of money for his company, alcohol could create such a buzz is almost like pocket change.” but again, reveal- for so many. “I was fl oored.” ing his nation- Add a price tag of C$30,000 and The Cherry Avenue Royal alist sentiment, a little mystery during the course DeMaria winery certainly has the stated, “This is of a sale to an anonymous Saudi pedigree to garner such attention, and great news for businessman, one will fi nd vintners, money, for its icewines. As DeMaria Canada.” the media, and the general public explains, they have “254 awards Certainly the catching some level of a buzz from and seven vintages, have received sale is good news of this 2000 Chardonnay ice 77 golds from 66 competitions, and news for Can- wine. 22 varieties, more varieties than adaʼs icewine Noting it normally markets for any other maker.” industry, but itʼs about C$74 per 375 ml bottle, Royal DeMaria garnered international safe to assume DeMariaʼs Joseph DeMaria clearly attention previously when it was that icewine enjoys relating the story of the sale learned that Queen Elizabeth makers are hop- and its seemingly clandestine nature made a request for his icewine in ing for tempera- to members of the media. 2002, and you have something tures of minus 8 “We hooked up with the broker, comparable to a marketing coup in Celsius as the we stayed near Central Park, New the world of icewines. real good news, York — that area near the Dakota With the sagging fortunes of allowing the — signed the bottle, and he [the icewine makers in the face of mild icewine harvest broker] looked over at me and said, temperatures, too mild for icewine to continue. ʻDo not follow me, Joeʼ because Joseph DeMaria garners international attention for his company’s production in Niagaraʼs wine Royal De- I wanted to get a picture or some icewine. region, he notes that DeMariaʼs maria can be memento.” Photo by Shawn Wilson company will garner the immediate visited on- Disappointed at the stern attention, but holds out that he “did line at www. directive from the middleman, memento from the occasion, asked, was sternly rebuffed. it for Canada.” royaldemaria. DeMaria, seeking some kind of “Can I get anything, please?”, but As was explained to him, “Joe, Upon returning from the deal, com. Mossimo’s celebrates By ALEX EDDIE but very small. We also had no Staff Writer parking, but we still managed to Only the best places can stand have great success.” the test of time in a small town. Their new location is much Mossimoʼs Pizza and Subs, bigger, and Citrigno says they now at 1440 Pelham St. in Fonthill, handle between 1,000 and 1,500 Ont., has recently passed the 14- customers a week. year mark and isnʼt planning on There have been over 18 pizza stopping anytime soon. places come and go over the 14 “Great product, great customer years Mossimoʼs has been around, service and consistency are the keys says Citrigno. He says that the to our success,” says Massimoe best part of owning the business is Citrigno, owner and creator of the meeting new people and seeing the restaurant. people who have been coming for Citrigno came up with the idea of years. opening his own pizza place from “Kids come through here all the a friend already in the business. time and have grown up with the Mossimoʼs was fi rst located on the store. Some of the kids who have corner of Pelham Street and Hwy. moved away still come back for a 20 in a much smaller place. slice.” “It was a good place to start out, Continued on Page 22 62148918

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By STEPHEN DOHNBERG poisons, as avid readers of Hunter S The wealth of anecdotes within 1 1/2 oz gin Staff Writer Thompson know that Wild Turkey the book include such zany and 2 tsp superfi ne sugar After perusing the some 43 was one of his “legal” poisons. drink-inspired antics of writers 1 1/2 oz lemon juice drink recipes and the anecdotes Hemingway confi rms this notion. O’Hara having Papa Hemingway 4 oz chilled Champagne of some of the 43 more prominent “It was mostly stuff that had been smashing a piece of a Blackthorne 1 slice orange 20th-century American writers, written down in memoirs or diaries walking stick over his own head in 1 maraschino cherry one might get the impression that or biographies as far as the kind a fi t of bravado. writers love to drink. Chances are, of stories of the heady days of the Ultimately, it’s not that just the In a shaker half-fi lled with ice cubes, combine the the reader would not be too far off Algonquins and the Left Bank and authors were selected because they gin, sugar and lemon juice. Shake well. Pour into the mark. the ‘20’s and ‘30’s as far as the were heavy drinkers, but rather, a Collins glass. Top with the champagne. Stir well What better way to secure this kinds of anecdotes and actions,” as Bailey notes, “Most of the and garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino impression than by speaking with Bailey playfully indicates that “the writers of that period were heavy cherry. the authors of Hemingway and cocktails we researched ourselves drinkers.” Bailey’s Bartending Guide, Mark ... tested, and retested.” Hemingway readily concurs. “A Bailey and illustrator Edward As far as selecting the content for huge, vast number of America’s Hemingway, the grandson of writers were heavy drinkers, the famous author, a frequent and when you see it in a imbiber of the ‘mojito’? matter of just simple math, Bored by gore In Bailey’s words, “We like it’s pretty astonishing.” to think the book is for those So, before you embark TCM isn’t exactly a scary who like to drink and read, or on your goal to write movie. Everything is predictable, both. It’s a book about famous the next great novel of there are no real surprises. The American writers, and the your generation, whether thing that makes this movie coctails that they love.” Canadian or American, do different is the level it took by As Hemingway points take this as a tongue-in-cheek showing extremely graphic death out, this demographic and its service announcement that sequences. appeal, cuts a large swath. writing can be hazardous to We are all used to seeing Each of the 43 featured your health. graphic death scenes in movies authors has a two-page It’s not as hazardous as it By ALEX EDDIE like Hostel and Saw, but TCM spread dedicated to the was to some authors such Staff Writer takes it a step further. recipe of their favourite as William S. Burroughs or Movie Review I actually felt sick after watch- drink with illustrations and Jim Carroll, who employed Blood, guts and more blood are ing a group of kids being mur- prose contributed by Mark a different muse entirely, but the only things that were stuck dered. I have seen it before, but Bailey and further anecdotes hazardous nonetheless. in my head after seeing the latest the scenes looked so real that I either relayed to Hemingway Since you have been instalment of the Texas Chainsaw thought I was right there watch- by his grandfather or his forewarned, consider some Massacre (TCM) series. A series ing these people torn apart. After grandfather’s compatriots, of the more offbeat drinks that started in 1974 and one that seeing this, I think it’s easy to say coupled with some research. available to the penslinger hopefully will be ending soon. that we are starting to take mov- As Hemingway reveals, today. As we have seen many times ies too far. How much gore and “It’s the kind of book where Hemingway and Bailey before, fi lm executives thought blood do we need to see to be en- you’re going to have a would have you note that there was still life in this franchise tertained these days? bunch of pals over for a dinner the book, Bailey and Hemingway this concoction, though sounding and decided to make a prequel. Fans of the TCM series will or something and you’re going to explain the limits and constraints volatile, might just be delicious In the Texas Chainsaw Mas- love this movie. There are plenty want to make a fun cocktail for they put on themselves. enough for you to start your career sacre: The Beginning, we get to of chase scenes through the forest the night that maybe none of them “We had two hard and fast rules with. see how the chainsaw swinging with the sounds of screaming and have tried. as far as choosing the writers — It was popularized in France be- killer was born and raised. From a chainsaw ripping through the “So you’ve got a recipe in there that they are just American writers, tween the two Great Wars and was a butcher’s factory to the base- air like every other TCM. true to the way the author would and that they are no longer living.” thus named after the French 75mm ment of an old run-down house, For me, however, there was Bailey inserts a third rule, Howitzer Gun which gives an indi- have made these classic cocktails.” we follow the child as he grows nothing special except for the It could be something like, as which makes itself apparent cation of it’s impact. up to become that maniac who over-the-top detail in its death se- Bailey hints at, “a ‘French 75,’ the when going through the names As Hemingway says, “It’s a gin- has scared fans for over 30 years. quences. I don’t look away from ‘Hemingway Mojito,’ a ‘Faulkner of such luminaries as Thompson, champagne cocktail, but they to- The fi lm lets us enter the world the screen too often, but TCM Mint Julep,’ a ‘Ward 8’...” Hemingway, Faulkner, McCullers, tally balance each other out. The of one of the most notorious and The research for a book like this or Fitzgerald; “And also that they gin brings the sweetness of the pushed it past my limit. gruesomely terrifying families I like leaving a movie feeling can come from a wide range of were hard drinkers ... no medium champagne down ... it really packs ever seen in fi lm history. sources, but as avid readers know, drinkers, no Sunday drinkers,” a punch.” entertained, not like a murderer. writers often like to share their says Bailey. Bailey agrees, “Itʼs lovely.” Beer pong players enjoy carrying on college tradition By STEPHEN BOSCARIOL 20-year-old Police Foundations usually around 10 minutes,” says Staff Writer student Pat Kennedy. Dameren. Its origins are a mystery. It’s Rules vary from table to table, “I’ll usually have taken the been played in fraternity houses all or house to house, thus creating challenger down within 10 over North America since the early “house rules” that opponents or minutes,” says 20-year-old 1950s. challengers must follow. broadcasting student Jory Lyons. A favourite pastime game “The craziest rule that I’ve ever A typical misconception among enjoyed by mainly college played with is defi nitely when we beer pong players is that one students, Beirut (or beer pong as play using the walls. Banking shots plays better when they have been it’s normally called), is not only off the walls and ceiling has got drinking. a fun way to drink. It’s a passion to be the worst,” says 20-year-old “I play better when I’ve had a shared among friends. Law and Security Administration few. It relaxes me and I focus on “My fi rst match was really this student Kevin Ramsbottom. the ball a lot better,” says Rams- year when I moved into my house,” A normal game of beer pong bottom. says 20-year-old Police Foundations usually takes good players between Alcohol will cloud a player’s student Cory Dameren. 10 and 15 minutes to fi nish. The judgment, so shots the player “I’ve been playing since I found size of the table, type of ping pong would normally not take are being out about it last year in residence. ball used and skill level of a player taken. Cory Dameren gets ready to return a serve from his opponent. Beer A couple of guys from Bermuda determine the length of the game. “I play for the beer,” says pong has become a welcomed pastime for students. had a table in their room,” explains “I like to fi nish quickly, Kennedy. Photo by Stephen Boscariol news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 17 NEWNOISES@ @ NIAGARNIAGARA A The Cliks fi nd perfect fi t By CODY MCGRAW to what I was feeling at the time. I shocks me every time when a guy Staff Writer related to it in an intense way. The says, ‘Wow, that was so awesome.’ With a solid new lineup, Toronto- lyrics are so angry, you can tell. It means we are creating universal based trio The Cliks fi nally do “I knew I could evoke the energy music, which is our main goal.” just that. even though it’s an R&B song.” Using David Bowie’s sexual “The new lineup is more solid Unfortunately, Silveira admits ambiguity in the late ’60s and and experienced,” says Cliks Timberlake has yet to hear it. early ’70s as an example, Silveira vocalist Lucas Silveira in a phone While writing a song, Silveira admits sexuality can be used as a interview. “The old one was pretty confesses there is no way to prepare. gimmick. good, but they needed direction. “It’s as if a bug fl ies inside my ear “Music has been fi lled with Now, we are more independently and I just know. I feel an itch and queers since the beginning of time, strong.” then I sit with my guitar alone. but now it’s people just being who New members bassist Jordan Lately, melodies have been coming they are. People try to pin it [as a B. Wright and drummer Morgan to me while driving.” gimmick], but it isn’t.” Doctor join Silveira as “a powerful “It’s very simple actually,” He adds that Bloc Party lead energy on stage.” laughs Silveira. “It’s not this singer Kele Okereke waiting until “The main comment I get is that big ‘going home, lighting some his band was established to come we fi nally ‘have it.’ The energy candles, looking at myself in the out was a good idea and escapes level has changed. Morgan is the mirror’ thing.” labeling. best drummer I’ve ever known, Though biologically born a The Cliks have just fi nished a and it’s just so solid.” woman and living transgendered, video for Oh Yeah that will be On their new album, Silveira says sexuality isn’t a posted on their offi cial website Snakehouse, The Cliks cover factor in The Cliks, but states, soon. To listen to their music, Justin Timberlake’s smash hit Cry “People make it a factor because visit http://www.thecliks.com Me a River making it a rock song. we’re queer.” and be on the lookout for tour The Cliks members Jordan B. Wright, Lucas Silveira and Morgan “It is such an awesome song,” says Their main fan base being dates soon. Doctor fi nally click. Silveira, excited. “It was similar straight males, Silveira says, “It Submitted photo

News@Niagara‘s online music Policies and Procedures returns magazine spin-off articles, reviews and pictures Pop-punk band plays Welland after three years By JILLIAN GRENIER their fi rst full-length album, The accomplished producer who has Staff Writer City Burns, released on Affl uence worked with big bands before. A Niagara Falls pop-punk band Music Group. The City Burns will be available fi nally played a show in Welland “All we’ve wanted to do for three in stores across Canada through Sonic after a three-year absence. years is put out a record, and now Unyon distribution in February, but www.noiseatniagara.com Policies and Procedures haven’t we’re doing it,” Sirianni says. until then you can pick it up at any of been in town since they were a They had recorded demos before, their shows for $15. three-piece. On Jan. 6 they rocked but never got them fi nished and They will be playing at The out at The End Lounge on 300 distributed. End Lounge again on Feb. 2. King St. with a new line-up and a The recording process of The To fi nd concert dates before Without Y’s play at The End brand new record. City Burns took a long, but then, go to www.myspace.com/ The singer-guitarist of the band, they enjoyed working with an policiesnadprocedures. By JILLIAN GRENIER Lucas Smyth, says this show was Staff Writer better than the last they played here, A young hardcore-rock band is and Patrick Sirianni agrees. They making its way to the End Concert say they weren’t well received by Lounge in Welland. the last crowd, who were mainly Founded a year ago, Delhi-based there for the heavier style of music Without Y’s has gone from a four- bands played. piece to a fi ve-piece, recorded twice and played a lot of shows. The band started in the summer The EP released in October was of 2002 with Smyth, Sirianni and recorded in a basement with the Mark Campaner, the bass player. current line-up. Playing guitar The band members met each other are Adam Ferrara, 17, and Derek Lampman, 16. On bass is Aaron during high school. They knew Harrison, 18. Josh Bouw, 16, is the drummer, and Sean McGahey, 17, each other through friends and is the vocalist. from other bands they played in. Before the EP, a six-song demo was recorded with the original Then their second guitar player, members. Bouw and Lampman are the only two members remaining Mario Bozza quit the metal band he of the original four. was in at the time, At the Mercy of McGahey says things are more fun now, but songwriting has gone Inspiration. They all decided not to downhill since the former singer left. “We have to get used to writing go to college and to stay together in our own songs.” a band. Being a band from Niagara The boys are working hard playing shows and writing songs for Falls has its advantages, one of their next EP. They plan to record four or fi ve songs at Mastermind them being it’s so close to Toronto. Studios in Hamilton and to release them within the next few months. Smyth says being that close has They’ve been playing successful shows around their hometown in given them the opportunity to play Port Dover as well as travelling to Toronto to play a “badly promoted show” to a crowd of other band members. The important thing is they with a lot of “cool bands” such are having fun and doing what they love to do. as Boys Night Out, Death From Above 1979 and The Unicorns. For now close-to-home shows are good enough for them, but they Policies and Procedures joined bands Shotgun Rules and Blind In would like to go on tour in the summer, possibly to the East Coast. After playing many shows, they’ve fi nally been able to put out One Eye at the End Concert Lounge on Jan. 6. Check out Without Y’s at www.myspace.com/withoutys. Photo by Jillian Grenier Page 18, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 Knights of Columbus feed 200 at dinner By MICHAEL DACH Staff Writer It was a gathering that captured the community by the taste buds. The Knights of Columbus (KOC) held its monthly pasta dinner at St. Alexander’s Parish Hall on Pelham Street in Fonthill. A smorgasbord of gnocchi, sausages, salads, topped off with coffee and desserts was catered to about 200 guests, according to Mike Wilson, the Knights youngest member. He was responsible for ticket sales. Ivan Roden, a Grand Knight with KOC Council 13903, helped organize this event. “We have been running pasta dinners since June 2006, so less than a year,” said Roden. One of the ways the Knights give back to the community is by helping out struggling families. The Knights provided several complimentary dinners to a selected few, with assistance from surrounding area schools. “Five free dinners were given out to unfortunate families, families under hard times,” said Roden. He mentions every little bit helps, especially when they served as many people as they did. That was hardly a problem this evening. People occupied two separate rooms, while others popped in occasionally or to grab dinner on the run. “This is only one of the [many] scheduled events that will be held at the parish hall,”said Remo Battista, social committee chairman. Battista also mentions the relationship that the Knights have with the church — not only helping this particular parish, but by helping organizations in Pelham and the surrounding area. Knights of Columbus Council 13903 hosted a gnocchi dinner on Jan. 21. About 200 people were in The newest council in the area, KOC Council 13903 was founded in attendance. All-you-can-eat dinners are held at St. Alexander’s Parish Hall every month. September 2005. It hosts pasta dinners at St. Alexander’s each month. Photo by Michael Dach Niagara pilot lands smoothly with new job offer By ADAM GAMBLE opportunity for building Pilot in Command time and really “You have achieved a rank amongst a very elite Staff Writer learning how to fl y.” group of aviators. Be proud, be confident, but most Members of the St. Catharines Flying Club gathered at the Richardson has fl own for Cargojet and Jazz, and recently importantly, be safe.” Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Center in Niagara got a call from Cathay Pacifi c Airways to fl y for its airline. At the end of the banquet, the trophy for Recreational Pilot Falls, Ont., for their Annual Wings Banquet, on Jan. 13. On Jan. 18, Richardson left for Australia, and from there of the Year was presented to Todd Whitwell, of Fort Erie, and Wings were given to new pilots and pilots who have went to Hong Kong. the trophy for Private Pilot of the Year was presented to Scott upgraded their skills within the last year. “I had always dreamed of fl ying for Cathay Pacifi c Johnstone, of Fonthill. Doug Richardson, a club graduate, was on hand to tell the Airways, and that dream has become a reality for me.” If you are willing to put in several hours of hard work and group how his lifelong dream of being a pilot was achieved Richardson congratulated all the pilots for their training, being a pilot is not out of reach. and how he learned to fl y 10 years ago at the age of 16. accomplishments, and said, “You are all here because of a For information on how you can make your dreams of Richardson says, “At age 19, I left Niagara for Pickle Lake dream you followed. fl ight come true, contact Mike Neave, manager/chief fl ying in northwestern Ontario. “Whether it be a dream you have had for some time or instructor of the St. Catharines Flying Club, at 905-684-9447 “Bush piloting was very exciting and provided an excellent recently is irrelevant. or visit the website at www.stcatharinesfl yingclub.com. End impaired driving By MICHAEL SPECK are permanent. Staff Writer This driver wasn’t the only one to Don’t drink and drive. That’s make the mistake of drinking and sensible advice you hear so much driving during the holidays. During it is almost a cliché, but is it the Niagara Regional Police’s getting across? festive season R.I.D.E. program, A 19-year-old man from Thorold, 4,748 vehicles were stopped with Ont., who wishes to remain 202 roadside tests being conducted, anonymous, crashed his 1993 Ford resulting in 42 12-hour license Probe on Dec. 23, on Westchester suspensions and 11 arrests for Avenue in St. Catharines, Ont., at driving under the infl uence. around 9 p.m. Speed and alcohol According to the Ontario were factors. Community Council on Impaired While travelling at a high speed, Driving (OCCID), most impaired his car drifted into the wrong lane drivers charged this holiday and collided with an oncoming season wouldn’t get a regular vehicle, a Chevrolet Cavalier with valid license in Ontario until about three occupants. It then began February 2009. to spin and struck a hydro pole, Other consequences include ejecting the driver 150 feet. having a criminal record and The man was taken to St. paying a minimum of $20,000 in Catharines General Hospital costs for fi nes, conditions, fees and for treatment of life-threatening increased insurance premiums. injuries. The occupants of the The OCCID launched the “Shut other vehicle were treated for Out Impaired Driving” campaign minor injuries. this past Dec. 1. The campaign “I’m hurt and I feel like a combats impaired driving with cripple,” said the man. “I’ll never a public service announcement drink again.” featuring Antoine Vermette of the In the accident, the man suffered Ottawa Senators urging partygoers a broken hip socket, a broken femur, to plan a safe ride home ahead of a crushed vertebrae and a crushed time. Safety and awareness are the lumbar. His hip required a surgery primary issues. where a metal plate was screwed The Thorold man has yet to be into the bone fragments to keep charged. According to Mothers them in one place as they heal. Against Drunk Driving (MADD), There was also a metal rod statistics show about four Canadians inserted into his femur to help it are killed and about 190 are injured as heal straight. Both of the procedures a result of drunk driving every day. news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 19 Downey seeks input about higher education ‘I believe the council has great potential to help make a fi ne system of higher education even better.’ By ROBYN HOPPER administrative posts including chair of the Department of English, dean of Staff Writer the Faculty of Arts, vice-president academic and temporary president. There is a fi rst time for everything. From 1980 to 1990, he was president of the University of New The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) has Brunswick. In that decade, he served terms as president of the Canadian appointed its fi rst president and chief executive offi cer. Bureau for International Education, chair of the Association of Atlantic On Jan. 4, James Downey announced that he had accepted the council’s Universities and chair of the Corporate Higher Education Forum. offer. From 1990 to 1993, Downey acted as special adviser to the premier of A press release states that Downey possesses an “extensive record” of New Brunswick, special adviser to the Association of Universities and leadership in higher education across Canada and internationally. Colleges of Canada and co-chair of the New Brunswick Commission “I am delighted that an individual of James Downey’s calibre has on Excellence in Education, which published two reports that directed accepted the position of president,” said Frank Iacobucci, chair of the educational reform in that province. council. He served as president of the University of Waterloo from 1993 to 1999. The HEQCO is an independent Crown agency dedicated to ensuring During the 1990s, he served terms as chair of the Council of Ontario continued improvement of the post-secondary education system in Universities and chair of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Ontario. Since leaving his position as president of the University of Waterloo, The council’s mandate is to advise the minister of training, colleges Downey has founded and directed Canada’s fi rst centre for the study of and universities on improving all aspects of post-secondary education, co-operative education, taught in the English Department at the University including quality, access and accountability. of Waterloo and acted as a consultant for the provincial government. The council is planning to start research and help provide enhanced Additionally, Downey led an annual seminar for new university accountability through regular public reports. presidents sponsored by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Submitted Photo “His (Downey) proven leadership skills, enthusiasm and experience JAMES DOWNEY Canada, contributed essays to professional journals, commissioned and in working with colleges and universities will be a tremendous asset as co-edited a book of essays by 30 of Canada’s top researchers. we move forward with our plans for conducting research on higher education, establishing He holds eight honorary degrees. He received the Symons Medal for outstanding service targets for improvement and reporting on outcomes,” stated Iacobucci. to higher education in 2000 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities. In 2003, Downey has been president of three Canadian universities: Ottawa’s Carleton University, he was awarded the David C. Smith award from the Council of Ontario Universities for his the University of New Brunswick and the University of Waterloo. He earned a PhD in English contributions to universities and public policy in Canada. Literature while attending the University of London as a Rothermere Fellow. In addition, he “I believe the council has great potential to help make a fi ne system of higher education even is a graduate of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Memorial University. better,” affi rmed Downey adding, “I look forward to working with colleges and universities Downey began his career at Carleton University where he held a string of academic and and all others who have an interest in strengthening higher education in Ontario.” Former deputy chief iPhone makes grand debut ‘This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two of police heads up and a half years. It’s a real revolution to bring real security at Brock Web browsing to a phone.’ — Apple CEO, Steve Jobs By KATELYN GALER new technology and stuff. I usually get carried away By LESLEY SMITH Staff Writer with buying new products.” Staff Writer The iPhone has fi nally Dave Astles, 22, The deputy chief of police for the Niagara Regional Police come to life. of St. Catharines, Services (NRP), Donna Moody, has left her position and become On Jan. 9, Apple Inc. says he wouldn’t the Director of Campus Security for Brock University. unveiled the newest spend that much She assumed her position at the St. Catharines university on invention of an Internet, money on a cell Jan. 1 when the former chief of police and director of campus mobile and musical phone. security, Gary Nicholls, retired. device all in one. The “If I wanted “The environment of young people and education has always lightweight and compact to browse the been an attraction of mine, so I fi t well into the environment at gadget will hit consumer Internet, I’d go the school,” said Moody, in an e-mail interview, about why she markets in June. home and use my was interested in working at Brock. The iPhone combines computer, not “I was certainly nearing my life expectancy as a deputy chief, a cellular phone, wide stare at a tiny little having been in the position for almost six years,” she explained. screen iPod with touch screen.” “So when the opportunity arose for the job at Brock University screen and an Internet Some of the as the director of campus security, due to the fact that the former communications device. features include director was offi cially retiring, I decided the timing was good for Cingular Wireless has visual voicemail, me to apply for the job.” teamed up with Apple which is a system By taking the job, Moody remains involved in policing, which, and will carry the device. that allows you she said she was still interested in. Cnet.com reported that to pick which “It was not that I wanted to retire from policing in total, and if I the four-gigabyte model messages you waited a few more years the position at Brock may not have been will cost US$499 and the want to listen to available, so I applied.” eight-gigabyte model by choosing from She was notifi ed she had been given the position last will retail at US$599, a list. November. each accompanied by a It is also much Moody, together with the rest of the security force at Brock, two-year contract. like the Apple made up of about 30 people, is in charge of safety and security at The iPhone has only iPod, which uses both the university’s St. Catharines and Hamilton campuses. one manual power the iTunes service With nearly 18,000 people at the school, she likens the button, a “home” button, to download songs university to policing a small city. and is largely controlled and media. It Throughout her 33-year career with the NRP, Moody worked by a 3.5-inch display doesn’t, however, in St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and Welland. She began as a with a resolution of 320 include the click police cadet at the age of 18. by 480 by 160 pixels The Apple iPhone was unveiled on Jan. 9 and and will hit wheel that the iPod Moody is a graduate of Niagara College’s Law and Security per inch. consumer markets in June. has. Administration and Police Foundations programs. CNNmoney.com The iPhone Her other schooling includes graduating from the Criminal reported Apple CEO Steve Jobs saying the iPhone is also includes a two-megapixel camera and a photo- Justice Program at the University of Virginia, as well as graduating “a revolutionary mobile phone.” management tool. from the U.S. Department of Justice F.B.I. National Academy in When asked about the launch of the device, he said, “Sounds to me like the next reason for a car Quantico, VA. “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two accident,” says Gayle River, 38, of Hamilton, Ont. In 2002, she was awarded the International Association of and a half years. It’s a real revolution to bring real Web “It’s just another unnecessary distraction.” Women Police Award for Excellence in Performance and in 2006 browsing to a phone.” Technology buffs everywhere are raving about the was the recipient of the Ontario Women in Law Enforcement’s Matt Policelli, 22, of St. Catharines, says he would long-anticipated iPhone, but the real test will come Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement. consider buying the phone. in June when the highly innovative tool is available “I work at Best Buy, so I’m always surrounded by to own. Page 20, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 NEWS@SPORTSNIAGARA Flyers oust Cougars from Tribune tournament By JASON PETZNICK ended with Eden leading 46-37. Staff Writer The Cougars made a comeback The Centennial Cougars of attempt in the fi nal quarter as Welland entered familiar territory Sessom scored nine points and on Jan. 10. Benson added six, but it was not A loss to the Eden Flyers of St. enough to overcome the defi cit as Catharines in the fi rst round of the the Flyers won the game by a fi nal 52nd annual Welland Tribune high score of 63-55. school basketball tournament sent “We played terrible in the Cougars into the consolation everything,” said Centennial Coach side of the tournament bracket and Rod Richards. down the path to defend their 2006 Richards said the Cougars would consolation championship title. need to fi nd more energy as the The Cougars started the game tournament progressed. strong behind fi fth-year guard Centennial’s player of the game Randall Sessom. Sessom opened was Benson, scoring 17 points in the scoring in the game with a the losing effort. three-pointer and went on to score Eden’s Jonas Regier, a Grade 12 12 points in the fi rst half, all of forward, was named as the Flyers’ them coming from behind the player of the game. Regier led the three-point arc. Flyers on offence with 22 points, Centennial’s forward controlled including two three-pointers. the rebounds at both ends of the Eden’s coaching staff said court during the fi rst half. Rory good shot selection and good ball Benson was the most dominant, movement were the keys to their scoring seven fi rst-half points to team’s win. keep the Cougars ahead 27-26 The Flyers were ousted from the going into halftime. tournament by Welland’s Notre Things turned around in the Dame Fighting Irish. second half. The Cougars went on to defeat The Flyers went on a fi ve-point the Laura Secord Secondary run to start the quarter. Centennial School Patriots before losing to the answered with two quick three- E.L. Crossley Cyclone of Fonthill pointers from the hands of Justin in the consolation semi-fi nals. Young and Mike Vallee, but the See the next edition of the Centennial High School’s Rory Benson drives the basket for two of his 17 points in the opening game Flyers kept pushing with another news@niagara for championship of the 52nd annual Welland Tribune basketball tournament. 10-point run. The third quarter results. Photo by Jason Petznick Down, but not out Knights victorious at Lambton It was a good week for the Niagara College women’s volleyball team and the men’s basketball team in Ontario College Athletic Association (OCAA) action. The women defeated Sarnia’s Lambton College on the road in three straight sets 25-21, 25-19 and 25-10. Niagara’s Heidi Bench, the OCAA leading scorer, hit for 15 points in the match with eight kills, one stuffed block and six service aces. Power hitter Tracey Knowles added eight kills. Bench leads the OCAA in scoring with 92 kills, 28 service aces, 20 stuffed blocks for 130 points. The Niagara College Knights lead the OCAA West Region with a record of eight wins and only one loss. The women return home this Friday for a match against North Bay’s Nipissing University Lakers. The Knights hosted the second annual Killer Instinct Classic last weekend, but failed to advance to the playoff round after losses to Oakville’s Sheridan College and Etobicoke’s Humber College. In the Classic, Humber defeated the previously undefeated Nipissing in HEIDI BENCH four sets to capture the event. Because of her performance, Bench was named last week’s Boston Pizza female Athlete of the Week. The six-foot, one-inch power forward led all scorers. Meanwhile, the men’s basketball team defeated Lambton College on their home court 92-83. First-year forward Brendan Cato was impressive in Niagara’s come- from-behind victory, scoring 20 of his 29 points in the second half to lead all scorers in the game. Four other Niagara players reached double digits in scoring, including Phil Ramirez with 15 points, Ian Harriott and Anthony McAlesse with 13 points and Anderson St. Valle with 10 points. The men will play an exhibition game against a Western New York division three college when they travel to Rochester on Saturday to play Munro Community College. Brock University, in St. Catharines, held its annual open wrestling They return home for a league game on Tuesday, Jan. 30, against tournament on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13, hosting other schools and Ancaster’s Redeemer University College Royals. clubs. Because of his effort, Cato was named last week’s Boston Pizza male Photo by Katelyn Galer BRENDAN CATO Athlete of the Week. news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 21 NEWS@SPORTSNIAGARA All-Star coaches earn their place behind bench By CHRISTINE KENNEDY tenured coach in the league, meaning he’s been with Buffalo “He pushed all the right buttons and was fully deserving Staff Writer longer than any current coach has been with his team. of the award. His players love him and the results show,” This season’s National Hockey League all-star coaches are “The Rigas family, the former owners, got arrested for says Petrucci, a second-year Niagara College student in the Lindy Ruff and Randy Carlyle. fraud, leaving the team without an owner a couple of years Educational Assistant — Special Needs Support program. Ruff’s Buffalo Sabres have dominated the top spot in ago, and he survived the owner change and is amongst the Three of Ruff’s Sabres were named starters, including the eastern conference, whereas Carlyle’s Anaheim Mighty most-respected coaches in the league.” Ryan Miller, Brian Campbell and Daniel Briere, and one of Ducks are No. 1 in the west. This will be Ruff’s second appearance as coach of an all- Carlyle’s Ducks, Scott Niedermayer. “Ruff won the Jack Adams trophy last season, and his star team, but will be Carlyle’s major debut, although Carlyle “Buffalo is amongst the hardest-working teams in the team is fi rst place in the conference. He deserves it,” says was an avid participant in the past as a player. league, and Ruff has a lot to do with that,” says Petrucci. Alex Varney, 19, of Welland. “Lindy Ruff is the coach of the fi rst-place team in the east These all-star coaches led each conference on Jan. 14 in and Carlyle the coach of the fi rst-place team in the west. Dallas in the National Hockey League’s (NHL) annual all- They are all-star coaches,” says Kris Dubé, a second-year For more information on this week’s All-Star Game, star game. Journalism-Print program student at Niagara College. go to http://www.nhl.com Dan Petrucci, 22, of Thorold, says Ruff is the longest- “Ruff was named coach of the year last year in the NHL.

Upcoming Niagara Knights Home Games

Women’s Volleyball Men’s Volleyball Men’s Basketball vs. Nipissing Jan. 26 Team GP MW ML GW GL +/- Pts Team GP W L PF PA +/- Pts 6 p.m. Central East Division Central Divison Humber 10 8 2 735 545 190 16 vs. Canadore Jan. 27 Durham 10 7 3 25 11 14 14 Sheridan 8 6 2 639 533 106 12 Seneca 8 6 2 21 12 9 12 5 p.m. Centennial 9 6 3 655 645 10 8 Georgian 7 4 3 13 10 3 8 Seneca 9 4 5 637 607 30 8 Cambrian 9 3 6 12 20 -8 6 vs. Redeemer Feb. 14 George Brown 8 1 7 478 598 -120 2 Boreal 10 1 9 8 28 -20 2 Georgian 8 1 7 438 654 -216 2 6 p.m. Central West Division East Division Mohawk 7 7 0 21 1 20 14 Men’s Volleyball St. Lawrence K 11 9 2 916 750 166 18 Nipissing 6 4 2 14 8 6 8 Algonquin 9 8 1 757 608 149 16 Humber 6 3 3 10 11 -1 6 vs. Nipissing Jan. 26 Cambrian 10 7 3 745 727 18 14 Canadore 6 1 5 5 15 -10 2 Fleming P 12 5 7 816 928 -112 10 8 p.m. Sheridan 7 0 7 2 21 -19 0 Durham 10 4 6 727 809 -82 8 East Division La Cite 10 2 8 651 700 -49 4 vs. Canadore Jan. 27 Algonquin 8 8 0 24 3 21 16 Loyalist 12 2 10 791 881 -90 4 7 p.m. Loyalist 7 6 1 18 7 11 12 West Division Trent 10 6 4 23 19 4 12 Fanshawe 8 8 0 657 481 176 16 vs. Redeemer Feb. 14 La Cite 8 2 6 9 20 -11 4 Niagara 7 5 2 575 499 76 10 Fleming P 9 0 9 4 27 -23 0 8 p.m. Algoma 9 5 4 687 670 17 10 West Division St. Clair 6 4 2 474 456 18 8 Women’s Basketball Redeemer 7 5 2 16 9 7 10 Mohawk 10 4 6 838 844 -6 8 Niagara 7 4 3 14 12 2 8 Lambton 8 3 5 638 644 -6 6 vs. Redeemer Jan. 30 Fanshawe 5 3 2 9 9 0 6 Redeemer 7 2 5 504 521 -17 4 St. Clair 9 3 6 15 20 -5 6 Sault 9 1 8 555 814 -259 2 6 p.m. vs. Fanshawe Feb. 2 Women’s Volleyball Women’s Basketball 6 p.m. Central East Division East Division vs. St. Clair Feb. 16 Team GP W L GW GL +/- Pts Team GP W L PF PA +/- Pts 6 p.m. Durham 11 10 1 32 10 22 20 Seneca 11 11 0 907 514 393 22 Cambrian 11 8 3 29 11 18 16 Algonquin 10 8 2 635 516 119 16 Men’s Basketball Georgian 9 7 2 23 10 13 14 St. Lawrence K. 9 6 4 582 509 73 12 Boreal 12 3 9 14 29 -15 6 Humber 10 6 4 573 531 42 12 Seneca 9 1 8 11 25 -14 2 Durham 10 5 5 547 600 -53 10 vs. Redeemer Jan. 30 George Brown 12 0 12 2 36 -34 0 George Brown 10 4 6 572 611 -39 8 8 p.m. Central West Division Loyalist 9 2 7 485 545 -60 4 Georgian 9 2 7 535 613 -78 4 vs. Fanshawe Feb. 2 Nipissing 8 8 0 24 1 23 16 Fleming P 9 0 9 266 663 -397 0 Humber 7 6 1 19 5 14 12 8 p.m. Mohawk 9 6 3 20 12 8 12 West Division Sheridan 9 3 6 11 20 -9 6 Algoma 9 7 2 549 405 144 14 vs. St. Clair Feb. 16 Canadore 8 2 6 8 20 -12 4 Sheridan 7 7 2 519 440 79 14 8 p.m. St. Clair 6 3 3 322 304 18 6 East Division Niagara 6 3 3 343 334 9 6 Algonquin 9 8 1 24 5 19 16 Fanshawe 7 3 4 345 366 -21 6 Loyalist 8 7 1 21 7 14 14 Mohawk 8 2 6 370 415 -45 4 Admission to all Fleming P 10 6 4 19 13 6 12 Redeemer 5 0 5 188 372 -184 0 Trent 10 3 7 10 26 -16 6 league home games is La Cite 9 2 7 10 23 -13 4 $4 for adults, $2 for West Division students with ID, and Niagara 10 8 2 27 9 18 16 FREE admission for Redeemer 10 8 2 25 7 18 16 news@niagara publishes Fanshawe 8 5 3 18 10 8 10 children 15 and under Lambton 11 2 9 7 29 -22 4 next on Feb. 2, 2007 when accompanied St. Clair 10 2 8 8 26 -18 4 Sault 10 0 10 2 30 -28 0 by an adult. Page 22, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 Family organizes St. Catharines swim team for kids By T.J. LUCIANO aquatics department for St. Catharines. “It’s learn how to swim.” Staff Writer the biggest single program in the city.” “We teach the kids how to build up their As long as the Majtenyi family has “In the summer, children have such strength, speed and muscle so they are lived in St. Catharines, they have taught sports like soccer and baseball. We provide better swimmers.” Building up the kids their swimming skills and techniques to an alternative for them that is good for their “athletically” is essential. the St. Catharines Piranhas of the Niagara body and keeps them fi t, and the parents Majtenyi says the team competes in Regional Summer Swim League. enjoy it.” swim meets. Joseph Majtenyi is the father of the fam- Majtenyi says the team teaches “For competitive racing, they learn the ily and co-ordinator for the Piranhas. He “competitive swimming” at the Port four strokes: front stroke, backstroke, says that all of his children, who coach the Dalhousie pool. breaststroke and freestyle (butterfl y). team, participated in competitive swim- “We teach the basic techniques of proper There are different races for each stroke ming when they lived in the United States. swimming.” They improve the swimmer’s and special races like the 100 Individual “All of my kids are excellent competi- strokes, so the swimmer is “much faster.” Medley.” The medley is a combination of tive swimmers.” “For our fi rst year, we had 47 swimmers,” all four strokes in four laps. “The coaching for the team is a family Majtenyi says. “We fi nished sixth out of 12 “The fi rst lap would be butterfl y, the affair,” says Majtenyi. “Beth is the head teams in its fi rst season.” He expects the second would be backstroke and so on.” He coach, Chris is the assistant coach and Nick number of swimmers will “double” next says his brother and sister are key elements teaches his age group.” year. to the squad’s success. When they moved here, Majtenyi says, “The league is open to the public and Nick Majtenyi, who is also an assistant there was “no summer swim team” for St. runs for two months from the start of July head coach, was ranked seventh overall Catharines. until the end of August.” Every two weeks in Canada last year for 15-year-old Majtenyi says the swim league started there is a competition. swimmers. over 50 years ago and has 12 teams from “There is a season-ending league Originally born in Atlanta, Ga., the 16- regional municipalities including Niagara championship with over 600 swimmers.” year-old swimmer has been “competitively Falls, Port Colborne, Welland and Jordan. It’s a “very popular event.” swimming” in national meets and races in “The biggest city in the region, St. Cath- Chris Majtenyi, 20, is the Piranhas’ the United States and Canada for years. arines, didn’t have a team,” he says. assistant coach. He is responsible for He teaches his techniques to swimmers “Because of all the fundraising, the pro- teaching children eight and under. He says because he’s a “swimmer himself.” gram pays for itself.” The taxpayer “doesn’t the ages for swimmers on the team range “We get kids interactive in the pay.” The team has car washes, fundraisers, from four to 15. summer. We make them very active,” Chris Majtenyi, a Niagara College student, is dinners and banquets for the community. “We develop the strokes of swimmers, Majtenyi says. the assistant head coach for the St. Catharines He says it’s not costly at all. especially the younger ones.” He says they “We defi nitely can teach someone to Piranhas for the Niagara Regional Summer “It’s $90 for eight weeks. That’s $2 a work on breathing, arm movement and swim if they couldn’t before.” Swim League. day.” He says the team is a success for the kicking, “all the fundamentals needed to Photo by T.J. Luciano United Way celebrates achievements A 14-year anniversary By KELLY ESSER drive for 2006, introduced the lights” for this year’s campaign in- Staff Writer campaign chair for 2007, Angela cluded John Deere Welland Works, Continued from page 15 amount of cheese, sauce, crust and Breakfast anyone? Carter. CAW and Lakeside Street, the Greg Dilts, 18, who is studying toppings on each slice.” On Jan. 16, about 100 support- This year, the theme was again City of Welland, Meals on Wheels for a Bachelor of Business “I’ve seen places come and go in ers of the United Way enjoyed “1 for 1 – One Gift for One Bet- and the CTFS with its record cam- and Accounting in Business Fonthill. I would like this place to breakfast in the Seaway Mall in ter Community.” This year, the paign pledge of $306,926.46. Administration degree at Brock become a landmark in this town,” Welland to celebrate the achieve- volunteers called the target the Every fall, the United Way University in St. Catharines, says says Citrigno. ments. Communities Need, which was South Niagara raises money for he has been going to Mossimo’s for For more information on The United Way executives $1,119,000. charities in the community for the the entire 14 years that it has been Mossimo’s Pizza and Subs, you announced their achievement of “This goal includes the 12 per year. Every dollar donated stays around. can reach staff at 905-892-7777, or $1,031,115.72 raised for the fall cent that it costs to administer the in the community and is used to “It’s an amazing place. The pizza visit the store. 2006 campaign. United Way each year,” says De- support programs United Way is always great, and the service is “Mossimo’s put Fonthill on the Also at the breakfast, Dan gazio. funds, directed to where the com- always friendly,” says Dilts, who map. Once you try a slice, you will Degazio, chair of the fundraising Five of the most powerful “high- munity needs it the most. adds that Mossimo’s “puts the right be hooked,” says Dilts.

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The UPS Store® The UPS Store® 200 Fitch Street, Welland Mailbox Service with Street Address by the Welland Plaza Worldwide Ground & Air Shipping 905-788-0770 Direct Digital Printing | Fax Sending & Receiving | Custom Packing Service Port Colborne Binding & Laminating | B&W & Colour Portal Village Photocopies | Postage Stamps 905-835-0770 A home just misses damage from the collapse of tree branches under the heavy weight from last week’s storm. Photo by Kelly Esser 62177319 news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007, Page 23 Big Brothers Big Sisters bowling with kids By ROBYN HOPPER The event, which began 37 years ago, King and Queen of Mardi Gras. There will A new event for 2007 is the Niagara Staff Writer was known as Bowl for be two time slots College Day, which has been set aside for Lace-up your bowling shoes. Millions and was started to bowl, the fi rst Niagara College students and faculty to The 2007 Tim Hortons Bowl for Kids Sake by the Big Brothers of starting at 2 p.m. participate. The event is on Saturday, March fundraising event is open for registration. Metropolitan Toronto. and the second at 10, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Bowl-O-Rama Bowl for Kids Sake is the largest Of the 150 Big Brother 4:30 p.m. Lanes in Welland. fundraising event for Big Brothers Big Big Sister agencies in On Wednesday, Students are recruiting teams and issuing Sisters of South Niagara. Canada, 120 agencies Feb. 21, Bingo challenges to other programs within the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Niagara are involved in a Bowl Bowl, which is a college. provides a wide variety of mentoring for Kids Sake campaign, lunchtime bowl With more than 200 participants last year programs to the communities of Welland, Port states Greg Whelan, from noon to 1 in South Niagara, the event raised $27,000. Colborne, Pelham and Wainfl eet. Established executive director of the p.m., will take place “This year’s goal is a lofty $40,000 as a in 1964, the organization has been funded by Big Brother Big Sisters at Eastside Lanes result of the inclusion of Niagara College United Way since its inception and it receives of South Niagara. on Division Street Day,” said Whelan. more than half of its funding from it. The main event is on in Welland. Pizza To register, set up a team or gather pledges The organization strives to enhance the Saturday, Feb. 17, at the will be available to visit www.bbbsinniagara.ca or phone 905- lives of children by providing them with Bowl-O-Rama Lanes bowlers and there 735-0570. opportunities to achieve and grow into on Niagara Street in will be 10 fi ve-pin “Thanks to the contribution of Niagara productive citizens of the community and Welland. lanes available. College students Stephanie Landers, country. It offers four basic programs with the The theme of the event The last com- Kimberly Flick and Kelly Donnison. We are help of community volunteers to achieve its for 2007 is Mardi Gras, and participants munity bowling day will be Saturday, Feb. hopeful that Niagara College Day will be a mission of “building the capacity of children are encouraged to come dressed up. Top 24, at the Bowl-O-Rama Lanes starting at smashing success,” said Whelan. through positive mentoring relationships.” fundraisers of the day will be crowned the 2 p.m. Satisfi ed and successful Clashing classmates By ADAM GAMBLE By ANDREA BARRETT kids who need it. It’s always their (the Staff Writer Staff Writer parents’) fault if the children’s parents can’t Niagara College is not only No. 1 in student satisfaction; it is also No. 1 in job It’s the same program, but they are two keep them or control them, and I want to be satisfaction. As a graduate of Niagara College’s Offi ce Administration — Executive different people with two very different able to help them through their problems.” (Co-Op) program, Lana Hardwick, 27, of Welland, Ont., has found a satisfying job as opinions. Brittney Rundle is a 19-year-old Niagara a fi nancial aid adviser here. “I love my course. It is exactly what I College student, also in the second year of Hardwick says, “I had a co-op here at the school in the Justice Studies division and thought it was going to be like,” says Alisha the same program. returned to fi nish my fi nal term and began my second co-op working here part-time. Markle. Markle is a 19-year-old Niagara Rundle, on the other hand, says she does I was in the General Studies division part-time for about two years before becoming College student in her second year of the not like her program as much as Markle full-time. Child and Youth Worker program. does. “I have worked as a fi nancial aid adviser for a year and a half full-time and have The only thing Markle says she doesn’t “It’s not that I don’t like it. I just don’t worked for the college for about fi ve years now. I really enjoy it for now, and I can see like about her program is the lectures. think it’s a very useful course.” myself staying in this position for a long time.” “I really don’t like taking notes. I am not Rundle says she would like to work in a She says, “There are lots of benefi ts to the job. I am able to provide accessibility good at taking them without the notes being public school as a counsellor. “I don’t think to students coming into the college, provide resources to students and answer any written on the board.” I would feel very comfortable deciding questions they have. Our job is to administer advice to students.” When Markle graduates, she would like where a child should live. If that situation There are, however, as with any other job, certain stresses. to get a job as a social worker. She says didn’t work out, then I don’t know what I “Unfortunately, we have to give students information they don’t want to hear, she would like to working fi rst hand with would be able to do. I want to be able to [information] which may halt their plans to come to the college. We encourage students children. help kids work their problems out with their to apply as early as possible for OSAP. They need to provide any proper identifi cation “I really fi nd it very rewarding helping parents.” in order to start the processing for the loan. They do a credit check, Ministry of Transportation check and Social Insurance Number check. It takes at least two weeks from start to fi nish as long as all documents are provided to us.” The normal offi ce hours are weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “Sometimes we work weekends for Information or Discovery Days to answer Divine designs questions for the public. We get one week off for Christmas break and all other statutory holidays off as well.” Hardwick says, “Overall, I am quite satisfi ed with my job. If a problem arises and I need to talk to my manager about it, he is open to it. I can easily express my opinion or point of view, and that’s what I like most about this job.” Contact Hardwick at 905-735-2211 ext. 7618 or visit SE103 at the Welland campus for more information. Last chance to opt out Feb. 2 The last chance to opt out of the Student Health and Dental plan for all January start students is Friday, Feb. 2. The Health and Dental plan includes coverage for prescription, vision and accidental benefi ts. Full-time students are automatically charged the coverage fee for the plan. By opting out, they can receive some of their money back. Students may opt out of either the health or dental portions. Proof of other insurance is necessary when fi lling out the form available at the Student Administrative Council offi ces (SAC). Refund cheques will be available for pick up March 2007 in the SAC offi ce. For more information see Niagara College’s student handbook or visit the SAC offi ce or website at www.ncsac.ca. news@niagara Don’t miss our next edition of news@niagara Friday, Feb. 2 In the Black Walnut building of the college’s Welland campus, fi rst-year Art and Design Fundamentals students practice greyscale. Photo by Cody McGraw visit us at http://www.newsatniagara.com Page 24, news@niagara, Jan. 26, 2007 MALANKA

Ukrainian New Year

Zirka, a Ukrainian folk band, plays after dinner during this year’s Malanka celebration in Hamilton. Malanka is the name of the Ukrainian New Year. It’s celebrated on Jan. 13, a week after Ukrainian Christmas. Ukrainians celebrate these two holidays according to the Julian calendar, as do several other European cultures. All photos by Michael Dach

By MICHAEL DACH the house brings the water home, believing that it will protect are chosen to refl ect good or evil spirits. It is customary for Staff Writer the homestead. a male to dress as a woman. This is the character Malanka, New Year’s in January may sound unusual, but for St. Basil’s Day comes the day after Malanka. It for whom the festivities are named. Celebrators surround Ukrainians this is the time when they celebrate it. commemorates St. Basil’s contribution to the church and the the Malanka in a village procession, stopping at homes to Stephanie Baran, a Ukrainian teacher at Holy Spirit School Christian way of life; however, Malanka is still celebrated sing carols along the way, performing the vertip or nativity in Hamilton, Ont., says Malanka is an ancient custom cel- today as the offi cial day of the New Year for Ukrainians. while offering good luck to the home and family for the ebrating the winter solstice. Festivities originated during pa- “They bring in the New Year at midnight, and the youngest coming year. gan times when Christianity was sweeping across Europe. person in the family, usually a male, would take some wheat Some areas of Ukraine end their Malanka march at a Instead of New Year’s Eve being celebrated on Dec. 31, and throw it around the home, wishing everyone a plentiful fi eld, where competitions take place. The contest places Ukrainians mark the beginning of a new year on the eve of harvest. It was a custom that the fi rst person to enter the good against evil. If good wins, this signifi es good fortune Jan. 13, according to the Julian calendar. house on New Year’s Day should be a boy, because that was for the year. Baran says, on the eve of Malanka, a farmer or head of said to bring you luck,” says Baran, “But don’t let a girl go One of the largest Malanka celebrations took place at the the house would go down to the river with a loaf of bread over the threshold fi rst,” she adds jokingly. Mississauga Convention Centre this year, with over 1,500 where he would dip the bread into the water and say that it Oksana Korol, a Ukrainian teacher at Holy Spirit, says tickets being sold. isn’t bathing in water but in health and strength. The water that Malanka resembles Mardi Gras. By tradition, everyone The dance is catered for those ranging in age from from the river represents holy water. The farmer or head of must be masked for the entire festival. Masks and costumes 16 to 35.