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VOLUME 14, ISSUE 12
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009
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Latest act of vandalism has The Gardens eyeing surveillance Owner wants to keep area open to public, but tired of repeated cleanups MARC MIQUEL HELSEN After several acts of vandalism on his business property the owner of The Gardens in Elmira is working with another local company to make the scenic space more secure. Last week the garden portion behind Mooder Horticultural Inc., the design and project management firm on Dunke Street, was broken into by unknown suspects. The perpetrators broke into a storage shed housing plants and supplies and threw them outside the building. Though this is not the first break-in to occur at The Gardens, owner Doug Mooder is now looking to add video surveillance equipment to the site. “I have to. I’ve got two kids at home: I can’t be sitting down here babysitting the place all the time,” said Mooder. The Gardens is a plot of landscaped land featuring stonework, ponds, trees, shrubbery and creeks located behind the company’s office. An interactive outdoor space that offers potential customers a virtual display of the firm’s services, it also offers local residents a quiet and scenic space to enjoy from dawn until dusk. Though The Gardens are private property, Mooder allows the public to use the space free of cost See VANDALISM page 06
Sittler takes on advocacy role for Colon Cancer Canada Hockey great a spokesman for public education campaign MARC MIQUEL HELSEN
MaINTaINING aN OaSIS While he wants to keep the gardens open to the public, Doug mooder is taking steps to tackle the acts of vandalism inflicted on the elmira site that showcases his landscape designs.
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His wife having succumbed to colon cancer, Darryl Sittler knows firsthand the importance of early detection in fighting the disease. That experience made the hockey hall of famer an eager recruit for Colon Cancer Canada’s public education campaign, which features other celebrities such as Anne Murray and Pamela Wallin. The advocacy role is a good fit for the St. Jacobs native, who has supported the cause since losing his wife Wendy in 2002. “Wendy, her message was that if she could prevent one person from not having to go through what she went through, then it would be worthwhile,” said Sittler in an interview. When Wendy was diagnosed at 50 with colon cancer neither she nor Darryl knew much about the disease. They were both, however, startled by information that depicted the colon cancer as both potentially fatal and highly curable. “We found out quite quickly that colon cancer was the number two killer of cancers See SITTLER page »02
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