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10 | 06 | 2016 VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 39
WELLESLEY PS PUTS MILK BAGS TO GOOD USE LIVING HERE PAGE 28
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THANKSGIVING NOT A TIME OF PLENTY FOR EVERYONE
More leeway for food trucks as Wellesley approves new bylaw
AUTHORS / SPREADING THE WORD
Speaking out for books
WHITNEY NEILSON MOBILE FOOD VENDORS WISHING to set up shop in Wellesley Township will have an official set of regulations to follow as of Apr. 1 as township councillors meeting Tuesday night approved the final draft of a new bylaw. A public meeting held in June regarding the proposed bylaw was well attended by residents in support of the Odd Duck food truck which had opened on Queen’s Bush Road and started the conversation around mobile food vendors in the township. Other residents had concerns and questions. The revised bylaw attempts to address those concerns. Municipal clerk Grace Kosch outlined the comments from the community that had been considered in drafting the bylaw. “Organized farmers’ market vendors will be exempt from the proposed provisions of this bylaw,” Kosch said, noting refreshment vehicles operating in conjunction with a special event are also exempt, providing the organizer of the event applies for a special event permit. Coun. Herb Neher relayed some questions regarding this exemption he heard from residents. FOOD TRUCKS | 5
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Elmira’s Nan Forler one of 10 champions in head-to-head battle as Waterloo Reads! Author Nan Forler is one of 10 participants in this year’s Waterloo Reads! Battle of the Books on Oct. 18. She’ll be defending K.D. Miller’s All Saints: Stories, which is a collection of short stories. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
WHITNEY NEILSON ELMIRA CHILDREN’S AUTHOR NAN Forler is ready to put up her literary dukes. Forler is one of 10 local “champions” who’ll be participating in Waterloo Reads! Battle of the Books on Oct. 18, defending one of the books nominated for the Evergreen Award.
The Evergreen Award was introduced by the Ontario Library Association in 2005 and lets the public vote for its favourite nominated work of Canadian fiction or non-fiction chosen by librarians across Ontario annually. Forler will be defending and arguing for All Saints: Stories by K.D. Miller, which she was given at the beginning of the
summer to read. “The book I was assigned is a book of short stories. It’s centered around the Anglican church. So all the stories, even though they’re unrelated, they’re all stand alone short stories, they’re all connected through some association with this church or the Anglican priest there,” Forler explained. The other nine books are
They Left Us Everything: a memoir by Plum Johnson, Punishment by Linden MacIntyre, Local Customs: a novel by Audrey Thomas, The Hunger of the Wolf by Stephen Marche, Seconds: a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley, The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant, That Lonely Section of Hell: the BOOKS | 32