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Pair of Wellesley firefighters heading to Calgary for national FireFit competition
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LIZ BEVAN AFTER PUTTING HOURS INTO training, and with a lot of heart, two firefighters from Wellesley are heading to Alberta, where their colleagues from all over Canada will be competing in the national FireFit competition in Calgary. The competition takes aspects of the job and turns it into a grueling competitive course, run in full firefighting gear and tracked to see who gets the best finishing times. Ryan Dosman and Madison Lavigne, both volunteer firefighters with the Wellesley Fire Department, scored low enough times in regional competition to earn themselves a spot going up against Canada’s best. The pair competed in the individual category race in Wasaga Beach on July 2 and 3, as well as the pair relay race. Dosman qualified for nationals his first time on the course. That didn’t mean he sat back and relaxed, however. “The rest of the time that we were there, I just kept on racing to try and see if I could make my times a little bit better. I ran that first one in basically two minutes flat. It wasn’t bad,
Dr. Lolita Brain from Mad Science was at the Elmira Library on Wednesday morning, sharing the magic of fire and ice. Here, Dr. Brain shows the kids in the library a shivering polar bear by placing a Toonie in a chunk of dry ice, making it vibrate quickly and loudly. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
Townships still in the midst of fairly busy construction season Largescale reconstruction project in St. Jacobs continues, while region is wrapping up in Crosshill
LIZ BEVAN SUMMER IS HALF OVER but construction season rages on. Luckily for township residents, it’s nothing like the turmoil fuelled by the LRT project in Waterloo and Kitchener. Some projects are wrapping up, others are winding down until next year. In St. Jacobs, King Street has been ripped up in dif-
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ferent spots since the end of April, and while certain aspects of the project are nearing completion, project manager Ian Young says crews will be working until the fall. The Region of Waterloo project is on schedule, he notes. “We are currently in our second stage of five. We completed most of the downtown work a while CONSTRUCTION | 28
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