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Forty hours of non-stop gaming at LANWAR event this weekend Jillian Follert jfollert@durhamregion.com DURHAM -- The coffee and energy drinks will be flowing at UOIT this weekend, as hundreds of gamers gear up to play for 40 hours straight. This marks the first time the popular LANWAR event will be open to the pub- lic and organizers are expecting record- breaking numbers. “We’re hoping for about 1,000 people,” says LANWAR president and UOIT student Jonathan Yang. “There is no other event of this magnitude in southern Ontario.” LANWAR was started by UOIT students in 2011 as a way to create a community for video game enthusiasts on campus. The first event attracted about 100 people and the twice yearly gathering has steadily grown from there. “We wanted people to come together as gamers and meet people you wouldn’t nor- mally see in your daily life or have classes with,” Mr. Yang explains. “It’s a way to share your passion.” This weekend’s event will take over an entire three-storey building on campus. The gaming extravaganza kicks off at 10 p.m. Friday and runs straight through until about 2 p.m. Sunday. Gamers can choose to take part in orga- nized tournaments or simply play any game they enjoy. Organizers will even help participants connect with others who enjoy the same games. Mr. Yang stayed up for the full 40 hours the first few times he participated -- this time he plans to go home and catch a few hours of sleep. “A lot of people do stay up the whole time,” he notes. “Or maybe just put their heads down on the desk for a bit, then get back to playing.” There are also rooms set aside for nap- ping. Games on tap for the weekend tourna- ments include League of Legends, Super Smash Bros, Counter-Strike, Hearthstone and StarCraft. The event is run completely by students and proceeds will be donated to Simcoe Hall Settlement House. LANWAR runs from March 20 to 22 at the UOIT campus, 2000 Simcoe St. N. in Oshawa and is open to gamers age 16 and up. Visit www.lanwar.ca for more informa- tion or to buy tickets. OSHAWA -- Close to 1,000 people will spend 40 consecutive hours gaming at a LANWAR event organized by UOIT students this weekend. It’s the biggest gaming event in the GTA. Michael Argyropoulos got in a little advance practise prior to the event at the LANWAR information table set up in the UOIT science building. 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The proposed plan was presented for infor- mation only. If plans go ahead, it will come back to the committee for approval in the future. If approved, the subdivision will go on the northwest corner of Kingston Road and Rougemount Drive. The two properties where the subdivision would go currently contain a vacant sales trailer, building and a detached garage. The subdivision would include a total of 28 three-storey townhouse units accessed by a private road. The proposal includes 11 visitor parking spaces and an outdoor amenity area. The houses are broken up into three residen- tial blocks. One block is 10 units of traditional townhouses with parking at the front of the unit. The other two blocks consist of 18 units fronting Kingston Road and Rougemount Drive with parking at the back of the units. 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The original expropriation of lands for Seaton and the airport stipulated that if the land was to be sold, the original owner or the last known tenant had first option to purchase. I now see signs for Coughlan and Lebo- vic all along that area and I have found out that Dalton McGuinty traded that land to developers when he declared the Oak Ridges Moraine protected. I know that none of the last tenants were ever offered an option to purchase .... something stinks and it is not the old landfill. Kris Vdovich Pickering Swimming upstream to a healthier lifestyle It’s that time of year. This is when I hear how tough it is to stick to resolutions to eat healthier, exercise more and lose weight. Making lifestyle changes is like swimming upstream. Moving against the current is hard, especially when that current includes the dieting industry and the food industry, both conspiring against us to swim downstream. The dieting industry encourages a ‘quick fix’; the food industry tempts us to choose larger por- tions. And exercise? How to find the time, and make it stick? Swim with a registered dietitian! A registered dietitian provides reliable advice on nutrition and healthy eating. The titles ‘dietitian’ or ‘registered dietitian’ are protected by law. This means RDs practise according to standards and laws that protect the public. The terms ‘nutritionist’ or ‘registered nutri- tionist’ are not protected terms; anybody can call themselves a nutritionist and there are no stan- dards for their quality of care. In the meantime, here are some of the tips I share with clients to help them keep swimming against the current: * Keep a food journal either with pen and paper or with a smartphone app like eatracker. A food journal allows you to be more aware of your food habits, including what, where and how you eat. Using apps has been shown to increase the ‘stickiness’ of positive lifestyle changes. * Size matters: portions and plates, that is. The larger the portion, the more we eat. Revisit your portion size and your plate size; choose a smaller plate, and you will eat less food. * Exercise in increments: Use your journal to track incremental increases in activity. Start with 10 minutes a day, then gradually build on that. It all counts and it adds up. Set a goal for 150 min- utes of movement each week. Websites and Apps to keep you swimming: eatracker.ca, dietitians.ca, eatrightontario.ca, cookspiration.com , eatipster.com. -- Andrea Miller is a registered dietitian with a private practice in Whitby. Andrea Miller Guest column Health and Fitness Safely sharing the road in Durham Sharing the roads in Durham, even in the best of circumstances, can sometimes try the patience of motorists. Add commercial trucks into an already fluid mix of cars travelling hither and yon throughout the region and there is always the potential for personal injury or prop- erty damage. It is in this context that we salute the efforts of Durham Regional Police offi- cials -- and Constable Phil Steward in particular -- in ensuring that commercial vehicles used to ferry goods to places of business in communities across Durham are safely maintained and properly oper- ated. The good news, according to Const. Steward, is that fatalities involving com- mercial vehicles in Ontario are in decline, even as more such vehicles are added to provincial roads and highways. Similar efforts here at home involving the tow- truck industry have also shown improve- ments in maintenance and safety records. A January safety blitz in Durham with a focus on tow trucks saw about 10 per cent of vehicles inspected removed from the road. Const. Steward notes there was a 75-per cent out-of-service rate for such vehicles just three years ago. So, it appears that the safety message is being received by commercial truck com- panies. Indeed, in a recent Metroland Media outing with Const. Steward most of the infractions involved snowplow driv- ers with improperly completed forms, or obstructed licence plates. They are infrac- tions, to be sure, and responsible parties should be duly ticketed, but not the gross- ly negligent safety violations in past years that saw truck wheels flying off of moving vehicles. Clearly there has been an improvement in truck safety and maintenance in recent years, but everyone who drives -- for per- sonal or business use -- has a ways to go if Durham’s roadways are to be as safe for all motorists as they were engineered to be by those who designed and built them. Residents across the region can rest assured that Durham police officials will continue to provide monitoring and oversight on vehicle infractions, but the responsibility lies, as emphasized this week by Const. Steward, with the driver in command of the vehicle. Police, he adds, will remain vigilant in their pursuit of those who choose expedi- ency over safety: “That’s the way we do it in Durham.” Hello, my name is Neil ... I’m not proud of this and I confess I feel a little bit like someone at an AA meeting but I have become a bit of an online Scrabble addict. Hello, my name is Neil and I love a triple word score. We support you, Neil. In my defence, it all started quite inno- cently. The combination of a few slow days of work and a sore knee that was keeping me more or less housebound added up to Neil with more idle time on his hands than usual. And, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but idle time is not something that the world, and its evil sidekick, the Internet, wants you to have anymore. Gone are the days of real, one hundred-proof boredom. The kind of boredom that was actually good for you because it made you be still and actu- ally think. A lot of good things came out of that kind of boredom, even brilliant things. Can you imagine, for instance, how far behind we would all now be if Newton had been lying beneath that apple tree play- ing Angry Birds? You could’ve dropped an anvil on his head and he wouldn’t have noticed. Or if Alexander Graham Bell had been desperately calling Watson on the phone but Watson was like, seconds away from level six in Candy Crush Saga? There is definitely something to be said for real downtime. Nowadays however, that’s hard to come by. It takes resolve to shut everything off. And, this particular week I was at a bit of a low point, resolve-wise. Hello, my name is Neil. I have always enjoyed Scrabble. I am a reader and a writer and it is no surprise that I like wordplay. I take great pleasure from matching wits with another lexicon-lov- ing individual. But when I dipped my toes into the world of online Scrabble, thinking it would be a fun, short-lived diversion, I couldn’t have been more naively wrong. From the first game it was like alphabetic heroin. I started off playing against friends but soon that wasn’t nearly enough. Other people, apparently, had real jobs and lives that selfishly left me hanging at the key- board while they did things like feed their kids and chair meetings. It became hard- er and harder to wait around for my next turn. Soon I started playing with com- plete strangers. And one game was never enough. I’d have six or seven going at the same time. Dirty little games where we didn’t even talk and nothing mattered but scoring and scoring big. I found myself running with a pretty tough crowd. People who used words like ‘Qi’ and ‘Zo’ and ‘Ax’ without an e. Tough customers. There was a time, a million years ago, when we used to play across a real board, when somebody would be laughed out of the room for using words like that. “Use it in a sentence,” I used to smugly challenge them. Try that with some of these online word sharks and you’re likely to wake up with a smashed Boggle timer in your bed. A little warning from the Hasbro mafia. Anyway, things were getting out of hand. I knew I’d hit rock bottom one day when, while screaming at ‘Lexi458’ and her stu- pid 60-point score with ‘Hazmat’ (which anyone knows should have a hyphen), I realized that I had not fed the dogs in a couple of days and my underwear was at least a week old. I understood then that I had to get out. And that’s why I’m here. Hello, my name is Neil. -- Durham resident Neil Crone, actor, comic, writer, saves some of his best lines for this column. 10 Top 10 Blue Rodeo albums Let’s Talk Weigh in on topics of the day www.facebook.com/ newsdurham Poll BIG, BOUNCING BABIES: A story we carried last week about the higher-than-average birth weights of newborns in Clarington -- in comparison to the provincial average -- provided the start of a lively discussion. We’re not sure how the youngster above fared on the scale when he was born, but he is a natural when it comes to the camera. He’s seen here with other babies and moms at a recent Mom and Baby Yoga bootcamp. du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 7 AP Vickie Heard: We had big babies. Almost 10 pounds and 10 1/2 pounds, they are now 23 and 19 and our 23 year old is a normal healthy weight now and our 19 year old is under weight, both eat healthy and exercise. Turns out my hus- band’s family has big babies. What do you think of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ‘life means life’ legislation for people convicted of the most serious, violent crimes? I’m just not sure on this one.6% Current sentencing laws are sufficient. 14% Life should mean life. 80% Enter Laughing Neil Crone Actor, comic, writer BEHIND THE LENS OSHAWA -- Returning to the parking lot at Oshawa This Week recently, what I thought was a kind of dirty seagull swooped down from the roof directly in front of my car, close enough to be on my front hood. Turns out it was a young Horned Owl. After grabbing a photo I infomed the rest of the office who in turn photographed, Tweeted, Instagrammed and Facebooked our new friend. This is now the most famous owl in the Dur- ham Region thanks to the power of social media. RON PIETRONIRO / METROLAND Roy Wilson: What’s an ounce or two between baby and mommy....can’t believe someone is really tracking this! Lisa Marie Martel: I had a 6lb 13oz baby and had to be monitored the last month of my pregnancy because I was “measuring small”. Petra Scholz: It could pose a health risk later in life ? As long as the babies are healthy at birth..I don’t see a problem. By the time they might be at risk...they’re able to make their own decisions how to live a healthy life. Helen Rayner: These folks have waaaay too much time on their hands!! Dale E Hall: Omg what next. It used to be the big babies were the healthi- est and small were at risk. Now big babies are at risk for health prob- lems? CRAZY WORLD. 10. Small Miracles (2007) 9. Outskirts (1987) 8. The Things We’ve Left Behind (2009) 7. Nowhere to Here (1995) 6. Diamond Mine (1989) 5. The Days In Between (1999) 4. Tremolo (1997) 3. Lost Together (1992) 2. Casino (1990) 1. Five Days In July (1993) Source: www.besteveralbums.com du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 8 AP Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 13 AP du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Th i s W e e k • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 C LAKE HEALTH Durham, Northumberland lakefront communities see rapid changes in recent decades Karen Longwell klongwell@northumberlandnews.com DURHAM/NORTHUMBERLAND -- The putrid smell of rotting fish comes to fisherman Mel Barkwill’s mind when he recalls his first memo- ries of Lake Ontario. At 67 years old, the gregarious Whitby resident, operator of a registered fishing charter business since 1977, has watched the changes on the lake since his childhood in the St. Catharines area. Sports fishing is one of many of the ways people have benefited -- financially and recreationally -- from living on Lake Ontario. While scien- tists have recently noted a decline in lake levels on the Great Lakes, in his years on the lake, Mr. Barkwill has witnessed changes to the huge body of water all Durham and Northumberland residents depend on. The lake is not only a source of pleasure; developers invest in waterfront properties, but perhaps more importantly, more than 80 per cent of Ontarians get their drinking water from lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario, accord- ing to the Government of Ontario’s Great Lakes Strategy report. In his youth, Mr. Barkwill remembers going to an amusement park with his aunt and uncle in Port Dalhousie and seeing stinking, rotten alewives fish carcasses stacked six to eight feet high. “They were stacked up onshore,” he said. It was the late 1950s and years of commercial fishing, among other things, left an abundance of the alewives, Mr. Barkwill said. Other fish that normally ate the alewives -- indigenous lake trout and Atlantic salmon -- had dwindled, leaving their prey to die and float up onshore. “They wiped out the predators that ate the alewives,” he said. But by the late 1970s the lake changed once again and sport fishing industry “took off” after the provincial government started stocking the lake, he said. Not only charter boats but other spur industries developed, such as lure manufacturers. Fishing these days is as good as it has ever been, according to Mr. Bark- will. “There aren’t less fish ... people just don’t know how to catch them,” he says with a spark of mischief in his eyes. Since the 1800s Lake Ontario has seen significant change in fish species, says Andy Todd, manager, Lake Ontario Management Unit for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. “The lake today is a different place (than 200 years ago),” said Mr. Todd. The lake’s native species such as lake trout, Atlantic salmon and deep- water cisco died off due to a number of factors including overfishing. A big factor was the many small mill dams resulting from settlements in the 1800s and early 1900s, he said. The dams left no place for fish to go upstream to spawn. While these days the water quality is much better than it was in the 1800s and the Ministry is trying to restore native species, invasive species continue to populate the lake, he said. Today more than 180 non-native species have been introduced either intentionally or by accident into the Great Lakes. Some of these intro- duced species, such as sea lamprey, dreissenid mussels, alewife, rainbow smelt, round goby, and spiny water flea, have altered the Lake Ontario ecosystem, perhaps permanently, said Mr. Todd. Since the late 1960s, non-native top predators have been used to sup- press alewife abundance, including the introduction of Pacific salmon (coho salmon and chinook salmon in the early 1970s), he said. The strate- gy was successful in suppressing preyfish and it provided additional social and economic benefits from the non-native trout and salmon fisheries which now support a charter boat industry, local tourism and recreational fisheries. Mr. Barkwill notes the change the invasive species such as zebra mus- sels have made in killing lake algae. “The lake is clearer.” He changed the colour of his fishing lures in response to the clearer water, he said. While Mr. Barkwill knows what lurks beneath, retired naval commander and Cobourg Yacht Club past commodore Tony Pitts has kept a steady eye on Lake Ontario’s changing coastline. He spent 35 years in the navy from 1961 to 1996 and cruised the lake recreationally on his sailboat since the 1970s. He has watched the lake’s harbours change from commercial shipping to recreational uses. Great Lake levels sharply decline in 1990s As a shipping port, Cobourg had coal piles stacked up at the harbour, which came in from the U.S., shipped across the lake. “You used to get coal cinders all over your deck,” said Mr. Pitts. “You had coal piles that didn’t disappear until the 1990s.” Cobourg, like many ports around the lake, transformed when transport truck travel became more convenient along corri- dors such as Hwy. 401. For recreational boaters however, Cobourg was and remains a nat- ural stopping point for those travelling between Toronto and the Thousand Islands -- a popular boating destination, said Mr. Pitts. Seeing the difference in Cobourg from the 1960s and 70s to now is significant, he said. “It’s a huge, huge change.” A developer named James Hoffman invested heav- ily in cleaning up what is known as “brownfield,” at Cobourg’s Harbour, said Rob Franklin, manager of planning services for the Town of Cobourg. Industrial uses of the harbour included an Impe- rial oil shipping depot in the 1950s to the 1980s, said Mr. Franklin. Mr. Hoffman envisioned what many developers now know is valu- able waterfront property for condominium development. He didn’t make as much money as he had hoped from the investment but other developers soon followed and the land became a burgeoning residential and recreational area, said Mr. Franklin. The changes to Cobourg’s waterfront started when the Town created a harbour development plan in the late 1980s, he said. A public planning process laid out different concepts, which left the Town with a plan to create a place for residential and recreational uses. Developers who purchased the land were responsible for the environmental cleanup. “Cobourg was the earliest pioneer in doing rehabilitation at the waterfront,” said Mr. Franklin. Politicians from other communities have come to see Cobourg as a good example of a rehabilitated waterfront, he said. Mr. Pitts has seen the changes along the water in recent decades with many harbours around Lake Ontario incorporating recreation- al uses, with parks, trees and public spaces on the shorelines. “It’s been great for boating but as positive in building public parks,” said Mr. Pitts. While they are eyewitnesses to the changes both above and below the water, neither Mr. Pitts nor Mr. Barkwill has noticed a change many scientists have been watching very closely in Lake Ontario and all of the Great Lakes for the last 15 or more years. The Great Lakes have seen a marked drop in water levels from about 1995 until 2013, said Derrick Beach, senior water resources engineer with Environment Canada. In January 2013, Superior, Michigan and Huron reached record lows of 72 centimetres below the 1918 to 2013 average, said Mr. Beach. And while Lake Ontario hasn’t seen as much change, likely because of dams which regulate the water levels, in December 2012 Lake Ontario was 25 centimetres below average, he said. “There are lots of thoughts and theories as to why this might be happening,” said Mr. Beach. Research into why the lake levels decreased has long been a concern of Andrew Gronewold, a physical sci- entist with the Great Lakes Environmen- tal Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. Mr. Gronewold has researched factors such as outflow and inflow, precipitation and evaporation. He has found since the late 1990s, higher surface water tempera- tures have led to increased over-lake evaporation, decreased winter ice cover and a period of sustained low water levels. “In general, warmer water means more evaporation,” he said. A huge change to the 15-year trend of decreasing lake levels came in the last 24 months when water levels have risen, said Mr. Grone- wold. This two-year jump in water levels is the highest rise in any two- year period in recorded history since 1850, he said. “It rose dramatically,” he said. Scientists are now watching closely as to what will happen next. Communities in Northumberland and Durham have yet to notice much change in water levels. From a town planning perspective, there are no policies in place concerning water levels, said Mr. Franklin. At Port Whitby Marina, an award-winning marina for excellence in environmental practices, Keenan Watters, marina supervisor and harbour manager, has noticed a slight trend towards lower water levels in the last 30 years. With a passion for sailing, Mr. Watters has worked for marinas on Lake Ontario since 1987. It is important to keep a healthy environment around the water because it is a sensitive area, he said. When the water is lower, it is also warmer, allowing for more weed growth in shallow areas, he said. This can make it difficult for boat- ers to navigate the waters. “We are trying to find solutions for the weeds; dredging seems to help,” said Mr. Watters. Recreational boating -- sailing, kayaking, and power boats -- is thriving at the marina, Mr. Watters added. The marina brings in extra revenues, which benefit the Town of Whitby, he said. While many don’t know or understand the impacts of water lev- els, Donna Taylor, CEO at the Port of Oshawa, watches the changes closely. In commercial shipping, the lake level needs to be to pro- tected, said Ms. Taylor. “It’s really a grave concern,” she said. If the lake level decreases too much, the shipping industry would be at “a real economic disadvantage,” she said. The ship cargo weight might have to be reduced to accommodate the level, she said. The monetary implications could be huge, she added. As highway traffic congestion worsens, the Port of Oshawa con- tinues to be not only viable but expanding, said Ms. Taylor. In 2014, cargo volumes were up by 22 per cent over 2013. Ms. Taylor said $23 million worth of cargo is shipped annually from the Oshawa port to Quebec and European destinations. Great Lakes shipping, sometimes referred to as “High- way H2O” is expected to continue to expand, she said. Next: Part 3 looks at the uncertain future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes contain roughly one fifth of the world’s fresh surface water and their combined shoreline is equal to almost half the Earth’s circumference. Supporting 40 million people and eight of Canada’s 20 largest cities, the Great Lakes Basin is home to 90 per cent of Ontario’s population and 40 per cent of Canada’s economic activity. With water levels dropping in the Great Lakes and climate change-induced extreme weather events increasing, this series will look at the past, present and possible future of the Great Lakes and the challenges and experiences of the communities along them. This is part 2, looking at the present. Cl i m ate Cha n g e Part2Part2 a n d the Great L a k e s • Ontario’s annual population growth rate is six per cent but the fastest growing populations are in the Great Lakes jurisdictions. • Changing water levels impact lakefront property owners, recreational boaters and commercial shipping in addition to reduced habitat for aquatic species. • Bacteria at beaches can come from a variety of sources such as sewage, septic systems, waterfowl and runoff. • More than 80 per cent of Ontarians get their drinking water from lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. • The Great Lakes Basin is home to 40 million people. • There are more than 4,000 species of plants, fish and wildlife in the Great Lakes Basin. • Great Lakes waters replenish slowly, at a rate of less than one per cent per year. • It takes 300 years for a drop of water to travel from Lake Superior through lakes Huron, Erie, Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to the ocean. Source: Province of Ontario’s Great Lake Strategy report 2012 Tony Pitts, former naval commander and past commodore at the Cobourg Yacht Club, recalls sailing into Cobourg when coal piles still dotted the shoreline, reminders of Cobourg harbour’s industrial past. - In 2014, cargo volumes were up by 22 per cent over 2013. The port mov e d more than 357,000 metri c tonnes in 2014 Source: Port of Oshawa FACTS & FIGURES Last year, more than 167,000 metric tonnes of steel moved through the Port of Oshawa, we l l up from 94,000 metric tonnes in 2013 Source: Port of Oshawa FACTS & FIGURES FACTS & FIGUR E S lakefront communities see rapid when transport truck travel became more convenient along corri- dors such as Hwy. 401. For recreational boaters however, Cobourg was and remains a nat- ural stopping point for those travelling between Toronto and the Thousand Islands -- a popular boating destination, said Mr. Pitts. Seeing the difference in Cobourg from the 1960s and 70s to now is significant, he said. “It’s a huge, huge change.” A developer named James Hoffman invested heav- ily in cleaning up what is known as “brownfield,” at Cobourg’s Harbour, said Rob Franklin, manager of planning services for the Town of Cobourg. Industrial uses of the harbour included an Impe- rial oil shipping depot in the 1950s to the 1980s, said Mr. Franklin. Mr. Hoffman envisioned what many developers now know is valu- able waterfront property for condominium development. He didn’t make as much money as he had hoped from the investment but other developers soon followed and the land became a burgeoning residential and recreational area, said Mr. Franklin. The changes to Cobourg’s waterfront started when the Town created a harbour development plan in the late 1980s, he said. A Tony Pitts, former naval commander and past commodore at the Cobourg Yacht Club, recalls sailing into Cobourg when coal piles still dotted the shoreline, reminders of - FACTS FACTS & FIGUR E S & FIGUR E S The port g e n e r a t e s $6 million a n n u a l l y in federa l a n d provincia l t a x e s Source: Port of Os h a w a du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 8 AP Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 13 AP du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Th i s W e e k • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 C LAKE HEALTH Durham, Northumberland lakefront communities see rapid changes in recent decades Karen Longwell klongwell@northumberlandnews.com DURHAM/NORTHUMBERLAND -- The putrid smell of rotting fish comes to fisherman Mel Barkwill’s mind when he recalls his first memo- ries of Lake Ontario. At 67 years old, the gregarious Whitby resident, operator of a registered fishing charter business since 1977, has watched the changes on the lake since his childhood in the St. Catharines area. Sports fishing is one of many of the ways people have benefited -- financially and recreationally -- from living on Lake Ontario. While scien- tists have recently noted a decline in lake levels on the Great Lakes, in his years on the lake, Mr. Barkwill has witnessed changes to the huge body of water all Durham and Northumberland residents depend on. The lake is not only a source of pleasure; developers invest in waterfront properties, but perhaps more importantly, more than 80 per cent of Ontarians get their drinking water from lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario, accord- ing to the Government of Ontario’s Great Lakes Strategy report. In his youth, Mr. Barkwill remembers going to an amusement park with his aunt and uncle in Port Dalhousie and seeing stinking, rotten alewives fish carcasses stacked six to eight feet high. “They were stacked up onshore,” he said. It was the late 1950s and years of commercial fishing, among other things, left an abundance of the alewives, Mr. Barkwill said. Other fish that normally ate the alewives -- indigenous lake trout and Atlantic salmon -- had dwindled, leaving their prey to die and float up onshore. “They wiped out the predators that ate the alewives,” he said. But by the late 1970s the lake changed once again and sport fishing industry “took off” after the provincial government started stocking the lake, he said. Not only charter boats but other spur industries developed, such as lure manufacturers. Fishing these days is as good as it has ever been, according to Mr. Bark- will. “There aren’t less fish ... people just don’t know how to catch them,” he says with a spark of mischief in his eyes. Since the 1800s Lake Ontario has seen significant change in fish species, says Andy Todd, manager, Lake Ontario Management Unit for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. “The lake today is a different place (than 200 years ago),” said Mr. Todd. The lake’s native species such as lake trout, Atlantic salmon and deep- water cisco died off due to a number of factors including overfishing. A big factor was the many small mill dams resulting from settlements in the 1800s and early 1900s, he said. The dams left no place for fish to go upstream to spawn. While these days the water quality is much better than it was in the 1800s and the Ministry is trying to restore native species, invasive species continue to populate the lake, he said. Today more than 180 non-native species have been introduced either intentionally or by accident into the Great Lakes. Some of these intro- duced species, such as sea lamprey, dreissenid mussels, alewife, rainbow smelt, round goby, and spiny water flea, have altered the Lake Ontario ecosystem, perhaps permanently, said Mr. Todd. Since the late 1960s, non-native top predators have been used to sup- press alewife abundance, including the introduction of Pacific salmon (coho salmon and chinook salmon in the early 1970s), he said. The strate- gy was successful in suppressing preyfish and it provided additional social and economic benefits from the non-native trout and salmon fisheries which now support a charter boat industry, local tourism and recreational fisheries. Mr. Barkwill notes the change the invasive species such as zebra mus- sels have made in killing lake algae. “The lake is clearer.” He changed the colour of his fishing lures in response to the clearer water, he said. While Mr. Barkwill knows what lurks beneath, retired naval commander and Cobourg Yacht Club past commodore Tony Pitts has kept a steady eye on Lake Ontario’s changing coastline. He spent 35 years in the navy from 1961 to 1996 and cruised the lake recreationally on his sailboat since the 1970s. He has watched the lake’s harbours change from commercial shipping to recreational uses. Great Lake levels sharply decline in 1990s As a shipping port, Cobourg had coal piles stacked up at the harbour, which came in from the U.S., shipped across the lake. “You used to get coal cinders all over your deck,” said Mr. Pitts. “You had coal piles that didn’t disappear until the 1990s.” Cobourg, like many ports around the lake, transformed when transport truck travel became more convenient along corri- dors such as Hwy. 401. For recreational boaters however, Cobourg was and remains a nat- ural stopping point for those travelling between Toronto and the Thousand Islands -- a popular boating destination, said Mr. Pitts. Seeing the difference in Cobourg from the 1960s and 70s to now is significant, he said. “It’s a huge, huge change.” A developer named James Hoffman invested heav- ily in cleaning up what is known as “brownfield,” at Cobourg’s Harbour, said Rob Franklin, manager of planning services for the Town of Cobourg. Industrial uses of the harbour included an Impe- rial oil shipping depot in the 1950s to the 1980s, said Mr. Franklin. Mr. Hoffman envisioned what many developers now know is valu- able waterfront property for condominium development. He didn’t make as much money as he had hoped from the investment but other developers soon followed and the land became a burgeoning residential and recreational area, said Mr. Franklin. The changes to Cobourg’s waterfront started when the Town created a harbour development plan in the late 1980s, he said. A public planning process laid out different concepts, which left the Town with a plan to create a place for residential and recreational uses. Developers who purchased the land were responsible for the environmental cleanup. “Cobourg was the earliest pioneer in doing rehabilitation at the waterfront,” said Mr. Franklin. Politicians from other communities have come to see Cobourg as a good example of a rehabilitated waterfront, he said. Mr. Pitts has seen the changes along the water in recent decades with many harbours around Lake Ontario incorporating recreation- al uses, with parks, trees and public spaces on the shorelines. “It’s been great for boating but as positive in building public parks,” said Mr. Pitts. While they are eyewitnesses to the changes both above and below the water, neither Mr. Pitts nor Mr. Barkwill has noticed a change many scientists have been watching very closely in Lake Ontario and all of the Great Lakes for the last 15 or more years. The Great Lakes have seen a marked drop in water levels from about 1995 until 2013, said Derrick Beach, senior water resources engineer with Environment Canada. In January 2013, Superior, Michigan and Huron reached record lows of 72 centimetres below the 1918 to 2013 average, said Mr. Beach. And while Lake Ontario hasn’t seen as much change, likely because of dams which regulate the water levels, in December 2012 Lake Ontario was 25 centimetres below average, he said. “There are lots of thoughts and theories as to why this might be happening,” said Mr. Beach. Research into why the lake levels decreased has long been a concern of Andrew Gronewold, a physical sci- entist with the Great Lakes Environmen- tal Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. Mr. Gronewold has researched factors such as outflow and inflow, precipitation and evaporation. He has found since the late 1990s, higher surface water tempera- tures have led to increased over-lake evaporation, decreased winter ice cover and a period of sustained low water levels. “In general, warmer water means more evaporation,” he said. A huge change to the 15-year trend of decreasing lake levels came in the last 24 months when water levels have risen, said Mr. Grone- wold. This two-year jump in water levels is the highest rise in any two- year period in recorded history since 1850, he said. “It rose dramatically,” he said. Scientists are now watching closely as to what will happen next. Communities in Northumberland and Durham have yet to notice much change in water levels. From a town planning perspective, there are no policies in place concerning water levels, said Mr. Franklin. At Port Whitby Marina, an award-winning marina for excellence in environmental practices, Keenan Watters, marina supervisor and harbour manager, has noticed a slight trend towards lower water levels in the last 30 years. With a passion for sailing, Mr. Watters has worked for marinas on Lake Ontario since 1987. It is important to keep a healthy environment around the water because it is a sensitive area, he said. When the water is lower, it is also warmer, allowing for more weed growth in shallow areas, he said. This can make it difficult for boat- ers to navigate the waters. “We are trying to find solutions for the weeds; dredging seems to help,” said Mr. Watters. Recreational boating -- sailing, kayaking, and power boats -- is thriving at the marina, Mr. Watters added. The marina brings in extra revenues, which benefit the Town of Whitby, he said. While many don’t know or understand the impacts of water lev- els, Donna Taylor, CEO at the Port of Oshawa, watches the changes closely. In commercial shipping, the lake level needs to be to pro- tected, said Ms. Taylor. “It’s really a grave concern,” she said. If the lake level decreases too much, the shipping industry would be at “a real economic disadvantage,” she said. The ship cargo weight might have to be reduced to accommodate the level, she said. The monetary implications could be huge, she added. As highway traffic congestion worsens, the Port of Oshawa con- tinues to be not only viable but expanding, said Ms. Taylor. In 2014, cargo volumes were up by 22 per cent over 2013. Ms. Taylor said $23 million worth of cargo is shipped annually from the Oshawa port to Quebec and European destinations. Great Lakes shipping, sometimes referred to as “High- way H2O” is expected to continue to expand, she said. Next: Part 3 looks at the uncertain future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes contain roughly one fifth of the world’s fresh surface water and their combined shoreline is equal to almost half the Earth’s circumference. Supporting 40 million people and eight of Canada’s 20 largest cities, the Great Lakes Basin is home to 90 per cent of Ontario’s population and 40 per cent of Canada’s economic activity. With water levels dropping in the Great Lakes and climate change-induced extreme weather events increasing, this series will look at the past, present and possible future of the Great Lakes and the challenges and experiences of the communities along them. This is part 2, looking at the present. Climate Change Part2Part2 and the Great Lakes • Ontario’s annual population growth rate is six per cent but the fastest growing populations are in the Great Lakes jurisdictions. • Changing water levels impact lakefront property owners, recreational boaters and commercial shipping in addition to reduced habitat for aquatic species. • Bacteria at beaches can come from a variety of sources such as sewage, septic systems, waterfowl and runoff. • More than 80 per cent of Ontarians get their drinking water from lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario. • The Great Lakes Basin is home to 40 million people. • There are more than 4,000 species of plants, fish and wildlife in the Great Lakes Basin. • Great Lakes waters replenish slowly, at a rate of less than one per cent per year. • It takes 300 years for a drop of water to travel from Lake Superior through lakes Huron, Erie, Ontario and the St. Lawrence River to the ocean. Source: Province of Ontario’s Great Lake Strategy report 2012 Tony Pitts, former naval commander and past commodore at the Cobourg Yacht Club, recalls sailing into Cobourg when coal piles still dotted the shoreline, reminders of Cobourg harbour’s industrial past. - In 2014, cargo volumes were up by 22 per cent over 2013. The port mov e d more than 357,000 metri c tonnes in 2014 Source: Port of Oshawa FACTS & FIGURES Last year, more than 167,000 metric tonnes of steel moved through the Port of Oshawa, we l l up from 94,000 metric tonnes in 2013 Source: Port of Oshawa FACTS & FIGURES FACTS & FIGUR E S lakefront communities see rapid when transport truck travel became more convenient along corri- dors such as Hwy. 401. For recreational boaters however, Cobourg was and remains a nat- ural stopping point for those travelling between Toronto and the Thousand Islands -- a popular boating destination, said Mr. Pitts. Seeing the difference in Cobourg from the 1960s and 70s to now is significant, he said. “It’s a huge, huge change.” A developer named James Hoffman invested heav- ily in cleaning up what is known as “brownfield,” at Cobourg’s Harbour, said Rob Franklin, manager of planning services for the Town of Cobourg. Industrial uses of the harbour included an Impe- rial oil shipping depot in the 1950s to the 1980s, said Mr. Franklin. Mr. Hoffman envisioned what many developers now know is valu- able waterfront property for condominium development. He didn’t make as much money as he had hoped from the investment but other developers soon followed and the land became a burgeoning residential and recreational area, said Mr. Franklin. The changes to Cobourg’s waterfront started when the Town created a harbour development plan in the late 1980s, he said. A Tony Pitts, former naval commander and past commodore at the Cobourg Yacht Club, recalls sailing into Cobourg when coal piles still dotted the shoreline, reminders of - FACTS FACTS & FIGUR E S & FIGUR E S The port g e n e r a t e s $6 million a n n u a l l y in federa l a n d provincia l t a x e s Source: Port of Os h a w a du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Mar c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 10 AP Double garage with shop. Private yard. Open concept bungalow. Heated sunroom.$279,900 DETACHED SHOP 4 bed in desirable neighbourhood. Finished basement. Upgraded kitchen. Don’t delay.$279,900 PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP Nicely landscaped 3+1 plus finished rec room. Master with ensuite.Act fast!$339,900 50’ LOT 4 piece ensuite & large closets. Central air & vac. Appliances included. 3+1 bed. Shows well.$299,900 HALMINEN BUILT 4 bed fully detached. Finished basement. 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Recently launched by Metroland Media Group Ltd., the new Tradyo app is being called the next step in community classi- fieds by offering free listings and features such as instant chat, direct connections between local purchasers and the chance to locate nearby hidden gems. “The app represents a wonderful evolu- tion of the community newspaper’s buy and sell classifieds and takes our deep com- munity expertise into the mobile space,” said Terry Kukle, Vice President Business Development and Acquisitions, Metroland Media Group. “Tradyo offers a mobile-only experience that will allow people in our communities to easily browse, buy or sell items in their neighbourhood.” Tradyo has been designed for both casu- al and devoted consumers as well as deal hunters, allowing users to easily upload items, create their own listings or to browse for goods based on geographic proximity and specific categories. The app lists items closest to a user’s location and by product categories, including books, clothing, jew- elry, electronics, furniture and sporting equipment. Aiming to make communication fast- er and easier, transactions are negotiated through in-app private chat, eliminating the need to disclose phone or e-mail con- tacts. The app also allows users to set alerts for items by category and within their self- selected “Tradius” or trading radius. When there is a match, the user is sent a notifi- cation and can chat with prospective buy- ers regarding the item, price and meeting details. People can register with a Tradyo profile, or link with a Facebook account, allowing people to tailor the way they use the app to buy and sell. Each listing includes a one- kilometre security buffer, so buyers can see roughly how far away the item is without the app revealing the seller’s exact loca- tion. The Tradyo app is available for free download through the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Metroland Media Group Ltd. is a dynam- ic media company delivering vital busi- ness and community information to mil- lions of readers across Ontario each week, with 112 newspapers, numerous websites, other specialty and monthly publications, consumer shows and distribution opera- tions. Metroland Tradyo app to take classifieds to next level du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m New s A d v e r t i s e r • Mar c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 12 AP Join us on Facebook / newsdurham Jeff Mitchell jmitchell@durhamregion.com DURHAM -- This job involves a lot of u-turns. That became evident one weekday morn- ing in early March when Durham police Constable Phil Steward, a commercial vehi- cle safety expert, hit the road. Among his duties is to scan traffic, looking for potential safety infractions among the hundreds of commercial vehicles -- they include heavy trucks and, at this time of year, pickups outfit- ted with snowplows -- that travel each day on the roads of Durham Region. “If a truck catches my eye, I’m going to pull it over and do an investigation,” Const. Stew- ard said. How often does that happen? “Quite a bit,” he said, and just moments later, a truck travelling the opposite way on Lakeridge Road did catch his eye. The Dodge Ram had a mounted snowplow rig that concealed the front licence plate, an infraction under the Highway Traffic Act. Const. Steward made a u-turn and caught up with the truck. He informed the driver about the licence plate issue. This came as news to the driver, who was handed a $110 ticket. But fortunately for him, his truck fulfilled other require- ments of provincial legislation regulating vehicles like his. Snowplows, like other commercial vehi- cles on the road, are governed by the Com- mercial Vehicle Operators Registration regime, which regulates both vehicle safe- ty and driver conduct. During his morning patrol Const. Steward stopped several pick- ups outfitted with plows, checking to ensure their compliance. During one stop he directed a driver to a nearby church parking lot for an extensive inspection, during which he checked every- thing from the salt hopper in the bed to the tread on the tires. The officer used portable scales to make sure the truck was within its weight classification, and pulled a wheeled creeper out of the back of his SUV to do a thorough inspection of the vehicle’s suspen- sion and frame. The driver was found to be driving a fun- damentally safe vehicle, but failed to fulfill another CVOR requirement: completing a pre-trip inspection and properly filling out the forms that must be surrendered to an inspector upon request. The same infraction was detected several times in stops during the day as Const. Stew- ard inspected vehicles ranging from heavy pickups to tow trucks to dump trucks. In some cases, tickets were issued for both the drivers and their employers; the goal, he said, is to send a message that all safety require- ments must be observed and fulfilled. Cops in Durham are stringent about the rules, because they are the foundation of road safety, Const. Steward said. “When you’re above 4,500 kilograms, you’re not considered a light vehicle any- more,” he said. It’s the responsibility of operators to be aware of the regulations and follow them, Const. Steward said. If they fail, they’ll be ticketed. “That’s the way we do it in Durham,” he said. In addition to day-to-day patrols, Durham police often partner with OPP and the pro- vincial transportation ministry (MTO) for dedicated safety blitzes, often targeting a specific type of vehicle. For instance, a blitz conducted Feb. 11 and 12 in Pickering saw 30 tractor trailers and dump trucks pulled over; 13 were taken off the road for defects including faulty equipment and load security issues. During the blitz, cops and MTO workers reminded drivers they are responsible for ensuring the safety of their vehicles. Such efforts are an effective means of pro- moting both road safety and education in a province that had more than 56,000 regis- tered commercial vehicles as of the begin- ning of 2014, said MTO spokesman Ajay Woozageer. “Last year MTO and police partners removed approximately 1,200 unsafe com- mercial motor vehicles and drivers from provincial roads through joint commercial motor vehicle safety initiatives,” he said. It appears the efforts are paying off; Mr. Woozageer said fatalities relating to com- mercial vehicles are in decline, even as the number of vehicles plying the roadways increases. “From 2002 to 2011, the number of fatalities in large truck collisions declined 41 per cent from 171 to 101, despite an increase of 23 per cent in the number of large trucks registered in Ontario,” he said. “Seventy per cent of driv- ers of large trucks involved in fatal crashes were driving properly, as compared to only 46 per cent of all other drivers involved in the same crash.” Durham also undertook a safety blitz tar- geting tow trucks in January, inspecting an average of 10 per day and removing one from the road each day, Const. Steward said. That’s an improvement that has become evi- dent over time, he said. “Three years ago there was a 75 per cent out-of-service rate,” Const. Steward said, not- ing that even operators under contract with Durham police were found deficient. “They’ve learned that when they work in our jurisdiction we’re going to be targeting them,” he said. This beat comes naturally for Const. Stew- ard, who trained and worked as a mechan- ic prior to beginning his policing career 16 years ago. He spent several years as a front- line officer before taking MTO safety inspec- tion training. When a spot in the traffic ser- vices unit opened up, he applied for it. “This was a natural transition for me,” Const. Steward said. Of course, it’s not for everybody, he noted. This day, for instance, was cold and damp -- not the kind of circumstances that would encourage one to crawl under wet trucks, checking suspension and brake lines. But the work is important, he said, noting that promoting safety on Durham’s increas- ingly busy roads -- they teem each day with passenger cars and commercial vehicles -- is a growing challenge. Const. Steward had just ticketed a driver for speeding on Thickson Road in Whitby and was preparing to resume patrol when a fully loaded dump truck passed eastbound on Winchester Road. The truck was filled to the brim with fist-sized rocks; the load was not fully covered by a tarp that is supposed to contain it. Const. Steward found the load unsafe; the unsecured rocks, piled so close to the top of the truck, could easily come loose, he informed the driver. The driver tried to deflect blame to the guy who had loaded the truck; the cop wasn’t buying it. He ticketed the driver for carrying an unsafe load and, for the umpteenth time that day, for failing to properly fill out his pre-trip inspection forms. Throughout the patrol, the action was constant. Const. Steward had only to take to the roadway in a police SUV; the speeders and safety violations just kept driving by. “They kind of come to you,” he noted, and just then a pickup flew by. “Ninety-five in a 70 zone,” the cop mut- tered. He waited for a space in traffic, pulled a u-turn, and flipped on his emergency lights. DURHAM -- Const. Phil Steward of Durham Regional Police’s traffic management unit presides over commercial vehicle safety in the region. (Clockwise from top left) He takes a picture of a dump truck with an unsafe load, talks with a driver pulled over for inspection, does a computer check on a safety compliance matter, and inspects a tow truck. Jeff Mitchell photos / Metroland HOW THIS IMPACTS YOU Drivers whose vehicles fall under the jurisdiction of the Commercial Vehicle Operators Registration program are required to fulfill CVOR requirements. That includes presenting police offi- cers and inspectors with proper docu- mentation proving annual inspections and regular pre-trip vehicle examina- tions have been completed. In addition, ongoing safety blitzes and day-to-day enforcement are aimed at making our roadways safer. The Ministry of Trans- portation reports that fatalities involv- ing large trucks declined 41 per cent between 2002 and 2011. Durham police on patrol for commercial vehicle safety in the region du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 14 P Let us help you decide which program works for you! RealtRaining foR Real jobs! looking for a job in a custodial, restaurant or office setting? train for these jobs while earning credits and certifications in our Pathway programs. eaRn UPto 3 CRedits in jUst 9Weeks! Want to increase your computer skills, upgrade your english or math, or enjoy an art class? We offer all these and more in our credit classes. eaRn CReditsWhileWoRking! Want to retain your job and earn your high school diploma? Check out our Co-opWorks program to see if you qualify. 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One was armed with a hand- gun and demand- ed cash. The clerk was struck in the head with the pistol and cash was stolen. The two sus- pects were seen running to a near- by getaway vehicle. Responding officers searched the area, but made no arrests. The first suspect is described as a white man, 20 to 22 years old, about five foot seven inches tall with a thin build. He was wearing a balaclava, a dark grey win- ter jacket, black pants and black running shoes. He was carrying the pistol. The second suspect is described as a male, black with a light complexion, about five feet ten with a medium build. He was wearing a balaclava, a black puffy win- ter jacket, dark pants and orange running shoes. The third suspect, the driver of the get- away car, is described as a black man, about 20 to 22 years old. The vehicle is described as a newer model, silver, four- door Honda Civic. The clerk was taken to hospital for treat- ment and later released. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Det. Connol- ly of the Major Crime – Robbery Unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5361. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at www.durhamregionalcrimestop- pers.ca and tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000. Held in partnership with: Acceptable items include: Reusedays Passiton Saturday, March 21 9 a.m until 1 p.m. Waste Management Centre 4600 Garrard Rd., Whitby If this information is required in accessible format, please contact the number above. www.durham.ca/wasteevents 1-800-667-5671 Only good-quality items, deemed to be suitable for reuse by charities, are accepted. Garbage, household hazardous waste and unwanted electronics will not be accepted. Materials refused by charities must be removed by residents or disposed of at one of the Region’s waste management facilities (fees will apply). Usable lumber Counters and sinks Clean sheets of drywall Plumbing supplies Roofing material Clothing and textiles Windows and doors Toys and games Tools and hardware Housewares Hard furniture Gardening equipment Lighting fixtures Working appliances du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ma r c h 1 8 , 2 0 1 5 15 PSports Brad Kelly Sports Editor / bkelly@durhamregion.com / 905-215-0465 Hughes answered when Team Canada called to play at Deaflympics Hockey tournament will be held in Russia Brad Kelly bkelly@durhamregion.com AJAX -- Andrew Hughes can see himself walking into a dressing room, a Team Cana- da jersey hanging in his stall, and pulling it on, the maple leaf proudly emblazoned on his chest. Born deaf, sight is a sense he has to rely on heavily. The Ajax teenager will be part of the Cana- dian men’s hockey team that will be in Khan- ty-Mansiysk, Russia from March 25 to April 16 to compete in the 18th Winter Deaflym- pics. “Oh, I’m so excited,” he says from his home about the pending opportunity. “I can’t wait. The experience of going to Russia, to another country to play. Representing Team Canada will feel great. “Just putting on a Canada jersey will feel amazing.” Sick with meconium in his lungs and unable to breathe at birth, Hughes was air- lifted from the hospital in Ajax to SickKids in Toronto. As a complication to some of his medical issues, hearing loss occurred. By the time he was 16 months old he was wearing hearing aids. “Learning language was harder for him because you have to hear things to say things,” says his mother, Julie. “He’s done a lot of speech therapy.” Growing up with hearing aids, being a lit- tle different than the other kids, was hard at times. “When I was younger I was embarrassed that I had hearing aids,” says Hughes. “Now, I’m so used to it.” Where he was just like every other kid was in sports. In fact, he was better than most, excelling at cross-country running, and play- ing Triple-A hockey with the Ajax-Pickering Raiders from novice right through to his final year of midget this season. Throw volleyball into the mix as well, and the 17 year old col- lected athlete of the year honours in Grade 8 and again in grades nine and 11 at Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School. “People would ask where he gets his endurance from and I said he runs on Dura- cell batteries because he wears them,” jokes his mom, making light of him wearing hear- ing aids. It was while at the Ontario Hockey Fed- eration championships last season with the Raiders that a junior coach approached Hughes about trying out for his team. When the coach learned of Hughes’s circumstance, he contacted another coach with the Cana- dian deaf team and recommended Hughes. A tryout camp followed in August, and an invitation to join the national team in Russia came through e-mail in November. At the Deaflympics in Russia there are some modifications to assist players during the hockey games. Lights will flash around the rink, much like the flashbulb of a camera, every time a whistle is blown to alert play- ers of a stoppage in play. It’s a luxury Hughes doesn’t usually get on the ice, but is one of the challenges he has been able to over- come. “If the coaches are asking me to come off, I can’t hear the coaches,” he says of playing games without the use of his hearing aids. “Sometimes I can’t hear the whistle. If we’re doing a play, it’s hard for me to hear the play- ers telling me what it is on the face-off. “Even now I still go to the back of the line just in case I didn’t hear the coach in prac- tice. If I don’t hear him, I just ask. I’m usually at the front so I can see the board.” It’s one of the many intuitive things he does without even realizing it. “I think he compensates a lot. He probably doesn’t realize how much,” says Julie. On the upside, Hughes jokes, there haven’t been any unsportsmanlike penalties for ver- bal sparring with players on the other team when scrums ensue on the ice. “I can’t hear them at all. I just skate away every time. That’s why I never chirp,” he says with a laugh. His talent on the ice is undeniable. He was named the tournament MVP this season in Ottawa after his team won the champion- ship, scoring five times, four of them game- winners, and assisting on five others. On the season, he has 49 goals and more than 90 points. Ontario Junior Hockey League teams have had him out to practices this season, includ- ing Pickering, Stouffville, Cobourg and Oakville. He’s undecided about where he is going to play next season, but down the road, would like to play in the OHL or NCAA in the States. That, at least, is what he sees himself doing. AJAX -- Andrew Hughes was selected to represent Team Canada in hockey at the Deaflympics in Russia. He is a member of the Ajax-Pickering midget AAA Raiders. Jason Liebregts / Metroland Pickering’s Whitney Ellenor closes out career at Laurier by being named a CIS second team all-Canadian in basketball PICKERING -- Following one of the best all- around seasons in team history, Wilfrid Lau- rier Golden Hawks women’s basketball forward Whitney Ellenor was named a CIS second team All-Canadian at the All-Canadian ban- quet held at the Hilton Quebec. Ellenor, a native of Pickering, becomes just the second player in program history to earn All-Canadian honours, joining Meaghan Mcgrath who was named a second team All- Canadian in 2005-06. The fifth-year centre is coming off an out- standing season that saw her average 15.9 points per game, eighth best in the OUA, and 8.9 rebounds per game, fifth best in the con- ference. Defensively, Ellenor also averaged 2.2 blocks per game, which was best in the league. In her final year of eligibility, Ellenor left her mark on the Laurier record books as she set two single-season team records including rebounds in a season with 177 and blocks in a season with 43. Her 318 points were the third- highest single-season total in team history. 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AJAX NISSAN 500 BAYLY STREET WEST,AJAX TEL: (905) 686-0555 Latest victory by Oshawa Generals is a little bit deceiving Brad Kelly bkelly@durhamregion.com OSHAWA -- If the Oshawa Generals were looking for a gauge in regards to where their game is at heading into the playoffs, they didn’t get it against the Kingston Fronte- nacs. Oh they won. Quite convincingly in fact, crushing Kingston 9-1 on Sunday, March 15 at the GM Centre. But the end result is a little deceiving because it wasn’t the best lineup Kingston has to offer, sitting main attrac- tions Sam Bennett and Lawson Crouse, and starting backup goaltender Jeremy Helvig. If the message by the coaching staff to the players on Kingston was that this game wasn’t important, they got it loud and clear. The Generals jumped on them for five goals in the first period, chased Helvig with the sixth early in the second and came just one goal shy of hitting double digits for the first time this season. Nine goals did top their previous best of eight, reached twice this season. Regardless of the situation, Generals head coach DJ Smith knew his team would be engaged no matter what kind of lineup Kingston iced. “I wanted, and I think our guys did too, wanted to play against their real team. It’s unfortunate. We got the win and that’s really all we were looking for,” he said post-game. “At the end of the day we wanted to see where we are against them. With Bennett, (Spencer) Watson and Crouse, they’re as good a line as there is in the Canadian Hock- ey League. (Kingston) were rated number one overall to start the year. We wanted to see what we had against them. I’m sure in the playoffs we’ll meet up.” Will Petschenig, Tobias Lindberg, Brent Pedersen, Hunter Smith and Cole Cassels pumped in first-period goals for a 5-0 bulge. Matt Mistele counted a pair in the second to raise the lead to 7-0, while Michael Dal Colle and Mitchell Vande Sompel scored in the third to close out the scoring. The only shot to beat Generals netminder Ken Appleby came in the second period with Kingston on the power play, a high wrister to the blocker side by Juho Lammikko. The Generals held a 43-25 edge in shots on goal. Just three games remain on the schedule before playoffs start. Wednesday, March 18 the Generals are in Belleville, they head to Kingston on Friday, March 20, and close out the regular season on home ice Sunday, March 22 against Belleville at 6:05 p.m. Dealer Training The Great Blue Heron Charity Casino is offering for the fi rst time a 5 week training program on Blackjack, BJ Switch, Spanish 21, 3 & 4 Card Poker, Let it Ride, Texas Bonus Poker and Mississippi Stud. Location: Great Blue Heron Charity Casino in Port Perry. Training program starts: March 30 to May 1, 2015, 8am-4pm May 4 to June 5, 2015, 8am-4pm June 15 to July 17, 2015 , 8am-4pm Requirements: Excellent Customer Service skills. 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(Midtown Mall) Canadian Tire Pickering is Now Hiring EXPERIENCED l Service Advisor l Tire / Lube Tech l Drive Clean Inspector Part-time & Full-time positions avail. Dental & Prescription benefits available to qualified candidatesApply with resume stating position: 1735 Pickering Parkway Ph: 905.686.2309 cantire1c@bellnet.ca BOARD OF DIRECTORS A mid-size non-profit housing corporation in Ajax seeks volunteers to serve as directors. Individuals with an interest or experience in social housing, finance or property management are preferred. Applicants should have some familiarity with governance and be able to attend monthly evening meetings. Please forward resume to: Life Centre Non-Profit Housing Corp. 1 Marsh Lane Ajax, Ontario L1T 3W3 Email: lifecentre@bellnet.ca Mill Run is accepting applications for Experienced Line Cooks. Seasonal position involves daytime/evening/weekend shifts in restaurant kitchen and catering department. Please forward resume to shuntley@golfmillrun.com. 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Afton Aube c/o Brandon McBride Mason Bennett Johncox Professional Corporation 79 Baldwin Street Brooklin, Ontario L1M 1A4 (905) 620-4499 ext. 228 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS All claims against the estate of Joan Ann Moore aka Joanne Moorelate of Pickering Ontario, who died on or about the 13th day of November, 2014, must be filed with the undersigned Estate Trustee on or before the 4th day of May, 2015; thereafter, the undersigned will distribute the assets of the said estate having regard only to the claims then filed. DATED at Pickering Ontario this 18th day of March, 2015. Melanie A. Weber, Estate Trustee, by her Solicitors, PAQUETTE TRAVERS & DEUTSCHMANN, 10 Duke Street West, 2nd Floor, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 3W4 NEXT SALE:FRIDAY, MAR 13 at 4:30pm Greg CORNEILAuctioneer 1241 Salem Rd., Little Britain 705.786.2183 www.theauctionadvertiser.com/DCorneil With Our Computerized Auction Service or anything in between, big or small, we would appreciate a call! Estates, Farm, Business Liquidation.... FRIDAY, APRIL 3 at 4:30pm ESTATE AUCTION Stapleton Auctions Newtonville FRIDAY, March 20th, 5:00 p.m. Selling the contents from two homes, Wilmot Creek & Port Hope: 7ft. harvest table; Pine Corner Cabinet; Pine Shelving; Display Cabinets; Chesterfield: Leather Chairs; Power Lift Chair; Occ. Tables; Bedroom Furniture; Computer Desks; Wicker Pieces; Antiques; Collectibles; 19.5 HP J.D. Mod. 115 Riding Lawn Mower; Yardman 8.5 HP Snow Blower; Yard machines 8hp Chipper; Utility Garden Trailer; Chain Saw; Gas Trimmers; Stainless fridge & stove; etc. etc. Preview after 2:00 p.m Terms: Cash; Interac; M/C, Visa, Approved Cheques. 10% Buyers Premium Applies AUCTIONEERS Frank & Steve Stapleton 905.786.2244, www.stapletonauctions.comfb - Stapleton Auctions 'Celebrating 44 years in the auction industry' MacGregor's AUCTION SALE Sunday March 22 9:00am (viewing 8 am) Located in Orono. Take 401 to 115 Hwy, Exit at Main St, Orono. 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