SOME OF THE STUFF INSIDE 2013 V&DF Scholarship Winner 6-9 Gentlemen of Harmony 14-15 Strong, Free and Happy 3-4 75 Years of W.I. 7-8 Good Samaritan from Vittoria 30 Summer Holidays 19-20 Amanda in Laurier Hall of Fame 11-12 “Heart Strings” 29-30 Tia Releases new CD 9-10 Annaleise WOWSA Woman of Year 13 Hidden Valley Camp Expands 13-14 Touring by Bicycle & Bickle 22-24 Baptists Disbanding 5-6 Jim Simmons Strikes again 10-11 V&DF helps LVT, Hospital, Library 18-19 Bass Fishing for Children’s Health 15 “Knott Sailing” Launched 8-9 Walsh School Beachcombers 16-17 Birds of Norfolk - George and Vic 24-27 Lynn Valley Trail upgraded 15-16 Watermelons Big Business 12-13 Burning Kiln Winery Awards 30 NYCA Camp 20-21 William Mercer Wilson Plaque 10 Champion Chinook 28 Port Dover Library Fundraiser 27-28 Wooden Bear L Winery 2 Cornstock Donation 22 Puma at Port Ryerse 17-18 Wrap-up and Coming Events 32 CSA Farming 4-5 Rob Blake a King again 3 Zoomin’ in a Zodiac 21-22 NO. 34 – WINTER 2013-14 • PUBLISHED AT VITTORIA, ONTARIO (519) 426-0234 The Vittoria Booster The Vittoria Booster Newsletter is published twice a year by The Vittoria & District Foundation for its Members and Supporters. e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.vittoria.on.ca webmaster’s e-mail: [email protected] A n in front of a person’s name indicates that he or she is a member of The Vittoria & District Foundation Milestone Anniversaries Celebrated Sandra and Boyd Toft 45 years on July 27 nRose and Bill Pettit 60 years on August 1 In Memoriam Carrol and Robert Lambert 45 years on August 3 nBarb and nJim Melville 40 years on September 8 Allan Charles Thompson æ 91, on July 9 nBetty and Donald Egerde 45 years on September 21 Anton “Tony” Cewe æ 86, on July 13 nJoan and nKeith Johnstone 55 years on November 8 Nellie “Yvonne” (Fuller) Oakes æ 77, on July 16 nMarg and nKen Savory 40 years on November 10 Agnes Durie (Christison) Jackson æ 100, on July 19 James Arthur Aitken æ 71, on July 28 “OVER 60 YEARS MARRIED” CLUB Alice Vandriessche æ 95, on July ? n n n Stan and Frances Voigt 64 years on July 16 Dorothy (Smith) Inman æ 85, on August 14 Lois and Ray Butchart 61 years on August 2 Wayne Ryerson, on August 24 Lillian Eliza (Colwell) Moore æ 91, on September 7 nJoanne and nKenneth Smith 61 years on August 9 Marie Schaeffer, on September 11 Faye and Harold Jarvis 64 years on September 10 n Bill and Irene Nicoll 73 years on September 17 Pauline (Smith) Saracuse æ 91, on September 14 Edna and Cliff Frost 64 years on September 17 n Willy Pollet æ 78, on September 15 nLenore and nRoss Broughton 63 years on October 10 n Charles Bruce Monroe æ 91, on September 16 Shirley and nJohn Luke 62 years on November 10 Estella (Jewell) Butler æ 101, on September 23 Audrey Bingleman æ 100, on September 26 nMyrtle and nDouglas Smith 67 years on December 27 Jeanette “Jeane” (Watson) Crandall æ 77, on Sept. 29 M. Patricia “Pat” Shepherd æ 88, on October 2 George B. Watt æ 88, on October 6 Milestone Birthdays Celebrated nArthur Loughton æ 82, on October 8 Michael Steven Gustin æ 53, on October 16 Bruce Edward Wilson æ 82, on November 25 nElizabeth Price 80 years on August 29 Hannah Margaret Morris æ 88, on November 26 nEverett Lampman 75 years on September 10 Robert Milton “Bob” Shaw æ 86, on November 27 nArmin Kunkel 75 years on September 14 George Pudwill æ 71, on December 8 nClair Smith 75 years on September 27 Ross Scarrett æ 87, on December 8 nEleanor Watt 80 years on October 1 Shirley (Alward) Walker æ 77, on December 20 nGail Marr 75 years on October 8 James Lawson Atkinson æ 84, on December 23 nMabel Assel 75 years on October 24 “OVER 90 YEARS YOUNG” CLUB The Vittoria & District Foundation Inc. nNorah (Leece) Moore 93 years on August 2 nMarion Lockhart 101 years on August 4 Annual General Meeting Erna Tischer 94 years on August 13 Irene Hayward 91 years on August 27 will be held at the nGladys (Leece) Howe 92 years on September 9 Vittoria & District Community Centre nMarie-Jose Maenhaut 92 years on September 23 nViolet Monroe 91 years on November 17 at 7:00 pm on Thursday February 6, 2014 nTillie Wright 91 years on December 6 Frances Woolley 94 years on December 16 -1- Awards for Wooden Bear L Winery Apples and cherries produce award-winning wines - adapted from an article by Michael-Allan Marion in the Brantford Expositor When nKim Ludwig and Frank DeJonckheere took over two apple orchards that had been in her family for decades south of Simcoe, they were inspired to turn the fruit of wisdom into wine. The couple sold one orchard and pressed the other into service for their new company, Wooden Bear L Winery Inc., and joined the emerging Ontario South Coast Wineries and Growers Association as a company offering a difference from those concentrating on cultivating grape vintages. “Why fruit wine? It saved planting the grapes,” Kim said as she stood behind the bar in the wine store on Norfolk Street South and poured samples of some Wooden Bear L vintages that lately have won them several awards across their apple, cherry and cider Kim Ludwig of Wooden Bear L Winery, south of Simcoe, says that getting the public to appreciate wine made from products. fruit other than grapes involves a big education process. The fruits of their labours have yielded a bronze medal for their cherry wine in the Canadian Wine Access Awards in 2012. That was followed by a gold in alcohol per volume is the grape.” the All-Canadian Wine Championships, as well as a Kim and Frank market their wines as products bronze for their Gala Crisp and a bronze for their Bear emulating the quality of Norfolk County, an already Claw Hard Cider in the same competition. established name in the Ontario fruit sector, which It’s an impressive start for a fruit winery that began uses the moniker “Ontario’s Garden.” It signifies that production in 2008 and opened a retail store in Norfolk is listed as the number one producer of many September 2010. It was partly intended as a fruits and vegetables in the province. retirement business for Frank, 64, who is a “Norfolk boasts a sandy loam soil perfect for the long-distance trucker for Simcoe-based Ludwig production of these products,” said Kim. Transport. Wooden Bear L makes wines from McIntosh, Kim and Frank have faced the same challenges as Empire, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Ida Red and other South Coast winery owners, who are working Spy apple varieties. The Gala Crisp wine is produced together to develop a distinctive wine region in an entirely from Honey Crisp apples to achieve a light, already crowded market with established public tastes sweeter taste. and perceptions. They also have a pre-mixed apple wine/vodka They’ve also had to confront a public skepticism martini. faced by all Ontario fruit wine makers. Some fruit wine producers are beginning to get on “You run into snobs who can’t believe that fruits, the LCBO shelves. Wooden Bear L is not there yet. like apple or cherry, can be wines,” said Kim. “You have to build up a volume before they will take “We have to keep working on that, but the fruit anything,” said Kim. wine market is gradually growing despite that “Until then, we get our name out through shows challenge. It’s growing along with the entire Ontario and festival events. We try to go to anything in Norfolk wine industry itself, as more and more people are and Niagara. looking for something different. “We did well at the recent Grandelicious food and “It’s the main reason why in the fruit sector, cider is wine festival in Brantford. A few people came down the growing the most.” next day to buy some wines.” Getting the public to appreciate fruit wines requires The Ontario South Coast Wineries and Growers a bigger education process. Kim says it helps when she Association also has been helping Wooden Bear get its explains that fruit wine production methods are not name out, said Kim much different from those employed in grape wines. Bear Claw Hard Cider is a regular favourite at the “We press the fruit, use yeast, filter and ferment in Erie Beach Hotel in Port Dover, which attracts a lot of casks the same way, all with much the same tourists. equipment,” she said. Fruit wine producers are gaining ground with the “The one big difference is that we need to add sugar QC (Quality Certified) label, a standards program to bump up the alcohol content. The only fruit that introduced by the Fruit Wines of Canada. The program contains enough sugar to ferment up to 11% or 12% is much like VQA (Vintners Quality Alliance), which -2- Rob Blake rejoins L.A. Kings; and Ride for Mental Health has helped Ontario grape wine producers gain “The traveling will be very much similar to what it assurance in customers for quality products. was when I was a player,” he said. While Wooden Bear L Winery’s owners continue to The Simcoe native played 20 seasons in the NHL, cultivate their fruit vintages, they are also branching 14 of them with the Kings.