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Watershed Award Winners 1 THE GRAND STRATEGY NEWSLETTER Volume 11, Number 2 - March/April 2006 Grand River The Grand: Conservation A Canadian Authority Heritage River Features Watershed Award winners 1 Milestones Workshop addresses value of heritage 4 What's Happening Program aims to conserve natural areas 5 Brantford-Brant water Watershed Award winners festival new this year 5 ach year the Grand River Conservation This article, adapted from the script for the EAuthority recognizes the efforts of individu- show, highlights four winners of Watershed Now available als and groups by presenting awards for out- Awards. The other winners were featured in the standing examples of conservation and environ- previous edition of Grand Actions. Shunpiking in mental work. Waterloo Region 6 For 2005, the winner of the Honour Roll Hillside Festival, Guelph Award is S.C. Johnson and Son Ltd. of Brantford. Look Who’s The winners of the Watershed Awards are Hillside Festival has grown over the past 21 Taking Action Waterloo Region District School Board and years from a small, 11-hour festival to a three day event attracting 5,000 people a day. County of Brant Waterloo Catholic District School Board; It’s on the island at Guelph Lake Conservation preserves bridge 7 Greentec International Inc., Cambridge; Wilfrid Laurier/Mohawk Environmental Group, Area when the island’s quiet tranquility is trans- formed into a hub of activity. Sold out for the Grand Strategy Brantford; Hillside Festival, Guelph; John first time in 2005, it featured 45 bands. Calendar 8 Jackson of Kitchener, founder of the Great Lakes United; Vlad Jelinek, Rosewood Farm, Grand Music brings in the crowd, but Hillside is Cover photo Valley; and Arnold VerVoort and Family farm, much more than music. Fergus. The festival is possible because of the vision Arnold VerVoort and his Winners are honoured at a special ceremony of the Hillside board of directors, the staff and a family operate a farm during the GRCA annual meeting in February. As thousand volunteers. near Fergus where a lot part of the event, a slide show detailing the While they love music, they are fully commit- has been done to protect accomplishments of each winner was presented. ted to environmental leadership the environment. Photo The show was written and photographed by Janet All the food at Hillside is served on plastic by Janet Baine. Baine. plates with reusable cutlery that is washed by Plastic plates and cups used at Hillside Festival cut down on the amount of garbage generated during the event. The "green roof" on top of the Hillside Festival stage at Guelph Lake Conservation teams of volunteers. Area gets a watering. Beer is sipped from reusable mugs that patrons stow away from one year to the next. John Jackson, Founder photo taken after the hard-won 15-year These changes and sorting means of Great Lakes United, victory against a toxic waste facility. there was less garbage in 2005, even Many people asked at the time why he though there were more people. Kitchener bothered to take on an impossible battle, Buses run throughout the festival to ohn Jackson is an environmental but the group won. bring people to Guelph Lake Island, so Jactivist who lives in Kitchener. A member of the group has published patrons don’t need to drive. And, there’s For the past 30 years John has trav- a book to tell the story, while Wilfrid a bike lock-up, a Native area and envi- eled around the Great Lakes to advise ronmental expo. numerous groups. The main stage was powered by wind His favourite spot in his neighbour- and the Sun stage is solar powered. As hood is the grounds of Woodside, the one performer, Robert Priest, wrote in childhood home of Mackenzie King Now Magazine: “How inspiring to hear where he goes to walk and think. the numerous mics, amps and instru- His vision is bigger than the Grand ments running directly on the local rays. River, which empties into Lake Erie and Who knew such a small patch of sun- connects with the Great Lakes, but his light could be so loud, so lyrical?” work for the Great Lakes also benefits In 2005 the festival added a green our watershed. roof above the main stage. It was paid The work he gets paid for – such as for by Hillside and donations were col- teaching university courses and writing lected by the “green team” of volunteers. government reports – is secondary for Hillside shows what is possible. It John. leads the way in showing us that thou- His real work is taking what he has sands of people can come together for learned from one citizens’ groups and three days but leave a small impact on sharing it with the next. the environment. Among his many awards is a prized John Jackson 2 Share the resources - Share the responsibility Laurier University has all Jackson’s doc- umentation from this battle in their spe- cial collection. Jackson is a founder of Great Lakes United and has been on the board for 24 years. This organization strives to change policies so environmental battles no longer need to be fought in community after community around the Great Lakes. Jackson is heartened by the successes he sees around him. He says he’s fortu- nate to have the chance to see changes and this helps him to inspire other groups. Vlad Jelinek, Rosewood Farm, Grand Valley lad Jelinek died in 2004, but before Vhe did, he spent many years return- ing portions of Rosewood Farm in Members of the Jelinek family dig in during a tree planting. Grand Valley back to forests and wet- lands. He lived a simple life. He had no environment. He bought the farm in 1969 and phone and typed all his correspondence He uses low-till farming techniques and crop rotation to ensure his land worked as a meteorological technician on a typewriter. remains healthy. for the Canadian In the spring of 2004 he got news that Two years ago he put in fencing to government until the Wetland Habitat Fund would share the cost of excavating and building a keep his cows out of the Irvine River, he retired. dike to return the land to the wetland it which runs through his property. Already He knew once was. vegetation is growing up on the banks some of the land Jelinek died that July, a month before and animal waste doesn’t get into the wanted to go the bulldozers created the wetland. Now river. back to the wet- the trees are growing up and there is But land it once was already a diverse array of wildlife on the VerVoort’s and instead of wetland, including a beaver dam. biggest undertak- fighting nature, Vlad Jelinek’s dream of returning his ing was building he worked with land to wetlands and forests is an exam- an immense it. Vlad Jelinek ple for others to follow. manure tank so A map he cre- the liquid ated showed his long-term goals for the Arnold VerVoort and manure would property—including the forests and wet- not wash right lands. family farm, Fergus into the Irvine Arnold Vervoort Jelinek began turning fields into rnold VerVoort was one of the first River. forests by having the GRCA plant trees Afarmers in his area to do an envi- A trench 20 feet wide used to wash each year until he died. ronmental plan for his dairy farm, north animal waste into the river, washing There is now a 20-acre plantation of of Fergus. He is now a member of the away nutrients that Arnold would have mature trees. His two granddaughters Environmental Farm Plan Review preferred to spread on his fields. helped with tree planting in the spring of Committee, and the Wellington His farm is used in GRCA displays 2004. Jelinek was also there on planting Stewardship Council. about manure management. day, but by that time his health was fail- He had a long time interest in The tank is 12 feet deep and manure ing. decreasing his farm’s impact on the from the barn flows by gravity into it. GRAND ACTIONS • March-April 2006 3 All the manure and milkhouse wastes are totally contained and contaminated runoff no longer washes into the river. Not only is the river much cleaner now, but Arnold buys half as much fer- tilizer as he used to and organic fertilizer makes better crops, he says. His farm is used in GRCA displays about manure management. Efforts of farmers like Arnold VerVoort go a long way toward improv- ing the Grand River watershed. MILESTONES Participants in the Heritage Day Workshop discuss the value of heritage structures in a lecture theatre in the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Milestones are progress or products Cambridge. of The Grand Strategy Joint Work Plan. displays, tours of the school, and a itage designations. reception at the Design at Riverside ■ Municipalities must take a leader- Workshop addresses Gallery. Speakers included: Ken ship role in supporting heritage conser- value of heritage in Doherty, City of Peterborough; Laurie vation and development – others will defining communities Thatcher, Heritage Cambridge; Dr. follow. Examples where this has Robert Shipley, Chair, UW Heritage occurred are Quebec City, Peterborough, By Barbara Veale Resources Centre; Dr. Rick Haldenby, Owen Sound and St. Marys. On the GRCA Co-ordinator of Policy strength of its local heritage, Owen Planning and Partnerships Director, UW School of Architecture; Catherine Nasmith, Architect; David Sound has now become one of the top n an era where heritage is threatened Jackson, Toronto’s Distillery District; 50 places to retire in North America and Iby development pressures, many Jeremy Grant, Alton Mill; and Sean is promoting itself as the cultural capital Ontario municipalities and private sector Fraser, Ontario Heritage Trust.
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