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Wastewater users likely face increased costs due to lagoon upgrades by Chris Daponte MAPLETON TWP. Drayton and Moorefield residents should prepare for either another increase in local wastewater rates or another capital expenditure bill. As a result of the new lagoon cell construction at the municipality’s wastewater treatment plant, Mapleton Township will have to borrow $950,000 to cover the purchase of 59 acres of land on Concession 9, adjacent to the current plant. Past reports have indicated about 30 acres are required to construct a fourth lagoon cell. In his report to council on Tuesday, Finance Director Mike Givens said the loan means, a “review of wastewater rates for both Moorefield and Drayton users will need to take place prior to 2012 to take into consideration the additional costs associated with the loan payments or council will need to consider a separate capital billing.” Givens offered councillors three choices for the Infrastructure Ontario loan application (all based on the $950,000 principal amount with semi-annual payments): - a 20-year term at 4.3%, with payments ranging from $44,230 down to $24,250, for total interest paid of $419,076; - 25 years at 4.46%, with payments of $40,243 to $19,422, with $540,662 in interest; and - 30 years at 4.56%, payments of $37,552 to $16,191,
with $661,162 in interest. Based on the 25-year term, Givens provided council with the following breakdown of what the township’s first $40,243 payment might look like, “based on the assumption that the payments related to this loan will be made utilizing funds raised through taxation and user fees”: - $19,920 or 49.5% from tax dollars; - $15,852 (39.4%) from Drayton wastewater users; and - $4,471 (11.1%) from Moorefield users. “As well, the taxation portion will need to be taken into account during 2012 and future budgets,” Givens said in his report. Councillor Andy Knetsch said he prefers the 20-year term because of the savings it provides the municipality (over the other options). Councillors Mike Downey, Jim Curry and Neil Driscoll agreed. “We are saving in the long run on the interest,” Mayor Bruce Whale added. Givens told council the interest rates change all the time and he could not guarantee the actual rate for the township will be 4.3% when the loan is approved. Council unanimously approved a resolution directing Givens to proceed with an application for an Infrastructure Ontario loan in the principal amount of $950,000 with a fixed loan term of 20 years.
Rotary Club hosting 21st annual dinner theatre DRAYTON - The Drayton Rotary Club is inviting locals to join in celebrating the club’s 21st annual dinner theatre night on June 9. The evening gets underway at the PMD Arena in Drayton with a great country meal served by the Mapleton Arena eXpansion (MAX) committee between 5:30 and 6:45pm. Guests will enjoy a tasty meal, complete with a quality Ontario vintage beverage, and great fellowship. During the evening the club will be awarding door prizes, and provide guests an opportunity to win a beautiful handmade quilt. At about 7:30pm guests will make their way to the Drayton Festival Theatre to settle in for the production of Dance
Legends, a salute to movers and shakers conceived and directed by Alex Mustakas. This presentation is brimming with music, comedy, and plenty of emotion. The funds raised in this event will be used by the Drayton Rotary Club to support international causes like Polio Plus (polio eradication), and also for local service projects sponsored by the club. The cost for the dinner and theatre is $65 per person, Dinner only is $40 per person, and for Dance Legends only the cost is $35 per person. To secure tickets contact Rotarian Bob Bignell at 519638-2736 or bignell@kw.igs. net, or Rotarian Jim Curry at 519-638-3363 or curry@bell. net, or any Rotary member.
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Local meets legend - Students from Listowel’s Promar Karate, including Sensei Alida Hesselink, far left, of Moorefield, were in London recently to work out with martial arts legend and former UFC Champion Royce Gracie, centre. Joining Hesselink and Gracie, from left, are: Sensei Dustin Dickison, Sensei Becky Schweitzer, Jason Koetsier, Sensei Tamara Yates, Shihan Mark Yates and Trudy Jackson. More photos on page 8. submitted photo
Former pig farmer enjoying success in bait industry by David Meyer MOOREFIELD - When it comes to determining what is good and bad about farmland, a family from just northwest of here has a reliable indicator the humble dew worm. That worm serves as a metaphor for environmental conditions and it even suggests social implications for immigrants, reflects high gas prices and can indicate to farmers they might be using too much or the wrong type of cattle feed. The dew worm, surprisingly, is not even native to North America, according to Dirk Dekker, the owner and operator of Country Bait. As an immigrant himself, Dekker knows a few things about a business he has been involved with since 1986. He moved to Canada from the Netherlands and shortly after got into pig farming. It was a social indicator of those days that he soon decided he did not enjoy the ups and downs of the pork market and began looking around for other ways to make a living. It was also in those days that scam artists were touting African worms for the bait industry but, being careful, he checked with Agriculture Canada and learned he could make more money picking dew worms. Then he found a man from Arthur who had been in the bait industry for years and
was ready to retire. So Dekker switched from pork to dew worms and never looked back. The average dew worm sales operation is 1,000 square feet. Dekker recently completed a zone change on his property and he has two buildings that are 5,000 square feet each, and he has ten acres from which he picks his own worms. The sheds have conveyor belts, bedding boxes, styrofoam flats that contain 500 dew worms apiece, a setup for loading trucks and some areas for testing bedding. “We’re always experimenting with bedding,” he said, citing recent trials with cardboard. “We really think we’ve got a winner. It took us a couple of years to get the formula, but we think we might have something.” Think of it this way: the worms can actually eat the cardboard if they run out of other foods; the cardboard is clean so anglers don’t get dirty hands rooting around for a bait; and clean hands mean a cleaner boat. Dekker chops cardboard and adds other items (a trade secret). He recycles used bait boxes from his shipping division, and he also picks up cardboard from a company in Listowel. “Instead of more and more, we’re trying to sell different-
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ly,” he said. Than means being sensitive to the environment, and “better fields, better pickers.” Dekker moved his fledgling worm business west of Moorefield in the 1980s, and said with a laugh that leaving the pork industry was “probably desperation.” His operation includes hiring worm pickers, and he said many immigrants have their first jobs picking dew worms. Even that industry has changed. When Dekker began worms were picked at golf courses; today he will not even accept worms from them. First, the chemicals used on the grass made those worms smaller, and many of them are now black. He said a desirable worm is one that is pale or translucent. Two or three black worms in a flat of 500 might be okay, but more than 30 and the entire flat could die. For some reason, and Dekker thinks it might be chemicals or changes to cattle feed, some entire farm fields produce black worms, which he believes are “sick.” He is toying with seeing if someone at the University of Guelph is interested in finding out why that is. Instead of golf courses, Dekker and his son, Ryan, rent five or six fields from farmers from Moorefield to Tilsonburg - up to 20 and 30 acres. Farm
owners benefit, too. What he pays can be worth up to more than the crop they harvest. Dekker calls it a second income for many of them. In the fall, after the third cut of hay, Country Bait runs a special mower developed by his son, Ryan, over the stubble and calls in worm pickers. Dekker said clover and alfalfa are the best fields for dew worms, and Ryan noted rye grass is something they do not seem to like. He added some farmers now work worm picking into their field rotation. It is quite a sight to see 30 or 40 people (the Dekkers hire Vietnamese pickers through an agent) on a field. Pickers tie cans to their legs, one for worms and one with sawdust, and strap lamps to their heads. Sawdust takes the worm slime off their hands so they do not miss when they pick. Each carries plastic bags and special ties; when their cans are filled, they are emptied into the bags, tied with the distinctive tie, and left in the field until morning. Then, they go back and collect the bags and tie them to a pole they spread across their shoulders, and carry them to a collection point. Each picker is paid according to his productivity, and Dekker said grabbing someone else’s bags has led to a scrap or two over the years. Continued on page 3
PAGE Two The Community News, Friday, May 27, 2011
Minto tees it up for hospital start. The $110 entry fee per golfer includes the 18 hole scramble, prize, cart, putting contest, and the closest-to-thepin contest for a lawn tractor sponsored by North Wellington co-op. The emcee for the day is Joey Martin of 94.5 The Bull.
The Palmerston Lions Club has announced that the proceeds from the ninth annual Minto Charity Golf Classic will go to the Palmerston and District Hospital Foundation. The Minto Classic will be held on June 22 at Pike Lake golf course with a 1pm shotgun
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Bait business - Ryan and Dirk Dekker show off a few of the worms they sell at their bait operation, Country Bait, which is located just northwest of Moorefield. photo by David Meyer
FROM PAGE ONE There is some lore in the bait industry that one picker collected 50,000 dew worms in a single night, but Ryan Dekker said that has never been verified and he suspects the record is lower. He noted, though, that on May 5, 30 pickers harvested 240,000 worms - and he called that “an average night.� From the field, the worms come to the Dekkers’ storage sheds, are culled and sorted on an assembly line, placed into containers of a dozen each and then are ready to be boxed for shipping. There are hundreds of flats in the cooling sheds. Dirk Dekker said 80% of all the dew worms sold to the United States come from southwestern Ontario, and he credits the large amount of clover and alfalfa farmers for that. The Dekkers also harvest in the spring if they can find land that is not tilled. It is good for picking until it is plowed. But most of the picking is done over 20 to 30 days in the fall after crops are harvested. Dekker said he has checked the cardboard-filled containers with a dozen worms and after a year they are not only alive, but lively. Country Bait, like any farming operation, has an interest in international sales. Dekker said a few years ago American anglers bought red wigglers from Europe. They are short and stubby. He reasons American anglers are more experimental than Canadians, who ignore them. He brought some to Canada, and is raising them in his sheds. He ships
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them to the U.S., where they are snapped up by avid anglers. There are also about one billion dew worms or, as the Americans call them, night crawlers, sent to the U.S. from Canada every year. Dekker prefers to ship smaller lots and focus on quality. Still, he sells about 20 million worms every year from his farm. Some go to Europe, others to Australia, but the majority go to the U.S. He also sells to bait dealers in Canada. He experiments with the worm, too, and offers green worms. Translucent dew worms are fed a green dye, and take on that colour. Ryan noted that, in theory, the farm could create a rainbow of colours, including a favourite fishing colour, chartreuse. “I hear they work very well on pickerel,� he said. Dirk Dekker said dew worm sales are often a harbinger of
shifts in society. For the last ten years, “The whole bait industry is in decline.� He said there are a number of social indicators. Golf became popular, for one thing. “Society is changing,� he said. “People are not as outdoorsy as they used to be. In the last ten years ... a lot of customers we deal with are buying less worms, and minnows, too.� The Dekkers also supply spawn, but he said that is in short supply because trout and salmon eggs are being eaten as caviar. Still, he used to think when he retired, that would be the end of his business. But Ryan wants to work in it, and he is optimistic. “There will always be fishermen,� Ryan said. Keeping an eye on the dew worms and their social indicators will probably show him the way.
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Food concerns Dear Editor: Recently I have become very concerned about the food we eat. A year ago, our Women’s Institute branch started investigating the situation whereby small abattoirs and meat plants were closing at an alarming rate in Ontario. Since then, we have done much research and
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While many of us in our neighbourhood remained home on the long weekend, sensibly realizing we would rather be comfortable for three days rather than wet and freezing cold, a rather remarkable thing happened. For the first two evenings there was no rain. Smiles were in abundance around the town. Some nice weather, finally, had everyone in a good mood. On the Saturday, we happened to meet a neighbour who was overseeing her son’s first forays on his twowheeler - albeit with a pair of training wheels. She allowed that the entire neighbourhood had apparently been turned into a campground the previous evening, and wasn’t that fun. She was correct, of course. Our family had hauled the chain saw to a bush where we had permission to clean up deadfall, and we had brought home a trunk load of wood. It was neatly stacked in the back yard, and when the weather stayed nice (we’re skeptical about that these days) we soon had a nice blaze going in our newly-built fire pit. We noted the neighbour over the back fence had a fire going in an old wood stove, and the neighbour to our immediate south was also feeding flames with his pile of cured wood. It was pleasant getting the fire to a point that all that was needed was to toss on an occasional piece of wood. Despite the rain, our wood was mostly dried from being down in the bush for two seasons or more, and it burned well. We sat on the back porch, completely relaxed. We could hear the murmur of talk from the neighbours, without being able to discern the words, which is probably a good thing. And we pondered that Canadian phenomena: the campfire. Actually, it is a rather human thing. Man has been fascinated by fire ever since the first caveman discovered brontosaurus burgers and marshmallows taste great done over an open fire. We stare into the flames - since we don’t need great night vision to stave off an attack. Kids love to poke fire with sticks, and they love to get the end of the stick glowing and wave it around like sparklers - despite the number of times we explain to them that fire is a tool, not a toy. Of course, for our weekend, it was a little of both. And fire pits are growing in popularity. We teased the neighbours about obtaining their permit - we all have to have them these days. The auto wrecker owner where we picked up our tire rim informed us that he will sell about a hundred a season and has been doing that for several years now. The township issues hundreds of fire permits each year. Pierre Burton, that most Canadian of writers, once declared Canadian males will cede first place to no man in three areas: driving a car, building a fire and guess the third. We do indeed take great pride in our ability with a campfire. We cannot remember the last time it took us more than a single match to build a perfect fire. Newspaper at the base, carefully selected and piled kindling wood over that, the tire rim carefully placed on three bricks to allow just enough oxygen to feed the fire from underneath, and then some carefully placed larger pieces of wood that are perfect to help form that first bed of coals. The result is often just enough smoke to deter the mosquitoes, and a very pleasant evening sitting back after a busy day. Watching flames flicker through the fence from our neighbours’ backyards, and hearing the voices of excited kids from time to time simply made the entire experience one of the best. Our neighbour summed it up the next day when she suggested it would have been sinful to waste the first really nice night that we have had all spring. That is a sentiment with which we agree. We have always loved handling wood, from the cutting and splitting to the stooping and stacking. Now, it seems, everyone else likes it too. Welcome to summer in the backyard. David Meyer
was grown, and likely processed somewhere other than in Ontario - and that can be anywhere, and using anything. The packaging likely costs more than the food itself, so it can be called a Canadian product. For example, a can of peaches bearing a Canadian label likely has fruit which was grown and processed somewhere other than here, and cost
the packager about 25 cents. It arrives in Canada in barrels and is put into a can or jar in sanitary conditions and labeled Canadian. Following the Canadian standards, a farmer here cannot produce those peaches for 25 cents a can - nor would I expect them to. This year, by Feb. 12, the average Canadian family had earned enough to buy all the Continued on page 6
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learned much. The standards for food produced in Ontario are very high - producers are restricted as far as chemicals, processes and facilities they can use to produce our food. But that is not the case in other places around the world. Look at what you are buying. If the label says “Packaged for” [a company in Ontario] that likely means that the food
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Donated food - Students from the Vacation Bible School pose last year with donations to the local foodbank. This year’s Bible School mission project will benefit those in Haiti.
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This year’s Vacation Bible School mission project to benefit Haitians
More than a year after the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January of 2010, and then the subsequent outbreak of cholera, the people of Haiti are still trying to rebuild their lives and reach some sort of “normal” existence. It is because the people of Haiti still need so much that the Vacation Bible School (VBS) committee has decided its mission project this year will be to collect items for the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) “Health Kit”. Each year the community of Drayton comes together for a fun-filled week of VBS at the Reformed Church; and each year the VBS committee finds a local charity with which it works. When kids come to VBS they are encouraged to bring in specific items to be donated to
whichever charity VBS has decided to support. In the past VBS has sent stuffed animals to the Dominican Republic, school supplies to northern Ontario and last year over 180 items were collected for the Drayton foodbank. This year VBS is working with the MCC to collect items for their “health kit”. These kits will be assembled and sent to the people of Haiti later this year. Organizers are asking children attending VBS to bring in the following items: toothbrushes (adult size, in wrapper), toothpaste (min. 130ml, leave in box), large bars of bath soap (110g min.), fingernail clippers and hand towels (dark colours). There will also be donation boxes in several of the local churches (CRC, Reformed, United, Presbyterian and Com-
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ing, VBS requires over 70 volunteers to run smoothly. Anyone who has completed grade six or higher is welcome to volunteer. This year’s theme is “PandaMania: Where God is Wild About You.” Through songs, crafts, games and Bible stories, kids will learn that: God made you, God listens to you, God watches over you, God loves you – no matter what and God gives
good gifts. Children will meet fun characters like Boomer the panda bear and Pogo the snow leopard cub, who will help the kids to learn each day’s Bible point. The kids also enjoy a snack each morning, and the VBS committee invites parents to contribute to the kitchen, to help keep costs low. Items that can be dropped off during the week of VBS
include: peanut-free chocolate chip cookies, drink crystals, rice krispie squares, fruit (bananas, grapes, watermelon etc), veggies (carrots, celery, cucumber, cauliflower etc.), cheese and crackers. For more information please contact Teresa Rumph by email at rumph@hsfx.ca. To volunteer or register children on-line visit www. groupvbspro.com/vbs/ez/drayton.
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By Laurie Langdon
God cannot change In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end (Psalm
102:25-27). When you are disconsolate you have a consolation: God does not change, even when all else seems to. God cannot change with regard to His essence: God is spirit; He always was, now is and will always be ... spirit. The natural or physical realm, no matter how fierce, will not overcome Him. No demon in hell will affect Him. God cannot change with regard to His consciousness:
the feelings He has now will be there tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that and the day after that ... His impressions will remain constant and His passions will be the same ten trillion years from now. God cannot change with regard to His attributes: all power and knowledge will continue to be His ... forever. His presence, love, holiness, righteousness, etc. has been and will continue to be ... for-
not really enjoy Ontario berries in season (if you can find them in your grocery store) and freeze, preserve or make jam for the rest of the year? And this applies to much more than berries. Think about where we buy our food. There are 100-mile stores which sell only food produced locally. Some independent stores also sell locally produced food as much as possible. Ask! Buying directly from the producer allows you to see where and how the food is produced and to ask questions. Farmers’ markets often make this easy. Your local Food Link or Culinary Association will be able to help you find local food producers. CSA (Community Shared/ Sponsored/Supported Agriculture) is also out there. As a consumer, I pay the producer a set amount for my share of the season’s produce - and I can see it growing. Grow our own. Maybe share with a friend - I put tomatoes in pots or bags on my sunny deck while one friend grows beans and another has room for carrots and onions.
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We can talk to elected officials and those looking for our votes this fall - what are they going to do about honest labeling of our food so we can choose to buy local, accountable food if we wish? And how would they support local food supply? Watch for information meetings in the area and come out to learn. We have found a number of groups who are interested in secure food supply for us Ontarians - Sustain Ontario, Weston A. Price Foundation, Women’s Institutes, Food Links, Culinary Associations, general farm groups such as CFFO, EFO, NFU, OFA, to name a few. Consider signing petitions, writing letters or whatever you can. As consumers, we must think about what we put into our stomachs. Our health depends on it and our families deserve safe, healthy food. Barb Klages, R.R#1, Elmwood
WELLINGTON CTY. – The OPP are launching a new program with Aviva Canada Inc. that will assist OPP officers in comforting distressed children they encounter. Thanks to the sponsorship of Aviva Canada, the Community Bear Program will equip OPP cruisers with plush black-and-white teddy bears that officers will hand out to children who have experienced trauma and devastation. Traumatic situations such
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had a kind of homely wisdom that refreshed him. One morning Douglass walked in and said, “Well, what’s the good news today?� Putting down the violin, the teacher stepped over to a tuning fork suspended from a chord and struck it a sharp blow. “There is the good news for today,� he said. “That, my friend, is the musical note ‘A’. It was ‘A’ all day yesterday, it will be an ‘A’ next week and for a thousand years.�
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Letter to the Editor FROM PAGE FOUR food they will eat all year. How long do you suppose it took us to earn enough for all the things we don’t need? At least, we don’t need it as badly as we need healthy food. And what are we doing to our ability to feed ourselves in this country? There are things we can do as consumers. Talk to the employees, managers and owners/franchise-holders where we buy our food and push for honest, valid answers. For example: meat that displays the crest and the words “Canada Grade A� will also have a number in the circle. That number can tell the vendor what country the meat came from. “Canada Grade A� only means that it met Canadian standards for things such as marbling - nothing to do with where it came from or what chemicals and processes might have been used in its production. Consider what we buy - do I really need strawberries all year round? Especially when they could have been irrigated with sewage-infested water? Why
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Meeting martial arts master - Sensei Alida Hesselink, who lives in Moorefield and offers self defence classes at Bodyworks Fitness in Drayton, was among a group of about 40 individuals in London earlier this month to work out with martial arts legend and former UFC Champion Royce Gracie (posing with Hesselink, above, right). Hesselink was with a group of about seven people from Promar Karate, which is now located in Listowel. submitted photos
County has hired new head librarian WELLINGTON CTY. The County of Wellington’s Chief Administrative Officer, Scott Wilson announced last week that Murray McCabe has been hired as the new Chief Librarian. That position was formerly held by Janice Hindley, who has since taken over the position of Wellington Place Administrator. McCabe brings over 19 years of public library experience to his new role. He attended the University
of Western Ontario, where he obtained a Masters degree in Library and Information Science. For the past 11 years, he worked for the Township of King City as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Librarian. “I am pleased to announce that Murray McCabe has accepted the position of County Chief Librarian,” said Wilson. “Murray brings a lot experience to his new role. We are quite proud of our library system in Wellington County;
I am confident that Murray will continue the great work Janice Hindley did.” McCabe’s is also a past board member for the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries of Ontario, past chairman of the Administrators of Medium Size Public Libraries of Ontario, past Federation of Ontario Public Libraries representative, and a member of the Canadian Library Association’s President’s Council. McCabe will begin his new role on June 13.
Canada to honour fallen firefighters
OTTAWA - Construction has officially begun on a permanent, national memorial to pay tribute to Canada’s fallen firefighters, thanks to a program by the Government of Canada. The announcement was made last week by MP Pierre Poilievre, on behalf of Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore, as part of an official sod-turning ceremony alongside the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
firefighters, will be located at the exact location where the Great Fire of 1900 was finally brought under control after destroying 1,400 buildings and killing seven people in Ottawa, and destroying 1300 buildings in Gatineau. The government announced funding of $2,529,800 for the construction of the monument in 2009. That funding is being provided through the Commemorate Canada component of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
“No job is more important than protecting the lives of Canadians and their families,” said Moore. “This memorial will be a permanent reminder of the sacrifices firefighters across Canada make to keep us safe.” The Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation is building the monument in the Lebreton Flats area of the National Capital Region, near the Canadian War Museum. The monument, the only official memorial to Canada’s
Police have already begun campaigns against distracted drivers ing, has prompted one of the largest enforcement campaigns in recent OPP history. Last week, May 16 to 22, was the first of four one-week enforcement campaigns focusing on distracted driving, over the next 12 months. Education efforts are also being stepped up, using a number of innovative resources. “People need to understand the level of risk they are dealing with; distracted driving kills. We know it is seriously underreported in our jurisdiction,” said Chief Superintendent Bill Grodzinski, Commander of the OPP Highway Safety Division. Distracted driving is defined as engaging in any secondary activity that takes a driver’s attention away from driving and can include: adjusting the radio, searching for something in the car; eating while driv-
ing, watching an entertainment monitor or using a hand-held communications device or other entertainment device. Using a cell phone or device capable of texting while driving can result in a fine of $155 under the Highway Traffic Act. Watching an entertainment device can result in a fine of $110. Other forms of distracted driving can result in a charge of careless driving with fines ranging from $400 to $2,000, a possible licence suspension of up to two years and possibly a jail term of not more than six months. “Driving while distracted is bad judgement, plain and simple. There is no place for it on our roads. It is every driver’s responsibility to devote their full attention to driving,” said OPP Deputy Commissioner Larry Beechey, the Provincial
Commander of Traffic Safety and Operational Support. OPP personnel are be working with the media, schools, other law enforcement partners, road safety advocates, the Ministry of Transportation and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to educate drivers over the coming year about the dangers of distracted driving. The OPP has added distracted driving to its list of Big Four causal factors for death and injuries on Ontario highways. The other three are: aggressive driving, failure to use restraint devices, and driving while impaired. In 2010, the OPP charged 8,522 drivers for using a handheld device while driving. Police began enforcing the new distraction legislation in January of that year.
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driver car crashes remain the leading cause of permanent injury and death in Canada, the United States and almost every industrialized nation world wide.” The main culprit is teenage overconfidence in emerging driving skills and a failure to acknowledge personal limitations. Teenagers falsely believe they can “drive distracted” without increasing the risk of a serious collision. To read the University of Utah study, visit http://www. psych.utah.edu/lab/appliedcognition/publications.html. For the Canadian Automobile Association Poll, visit http:// www.caa.ca/newsroom/newsroom-releases-details-e.cfm ?newsItem=38&yearToSh ow=2010, and for the Ontario Health E-Bulletin, go to http:// www.ohpe.ca/node/198.
Last year, there were 7,733 collisions on OPP-patrolled roads where the driver was deemed to be inattentive or distracted, resulting in 35 deaths, 1,040 injuries, and considerable property damage. Those statistics refer to all forms of distracted and inattentive driving, not just the use of handheld devices. A recent study by researchers at the University of Utah concluded that drivers on mobile phones are more impaired than people driving over the legal alcohol limit. A Canadian Automobile Association poll of 6,000 Canadian drivers found that “texting while driving” is the single biggest traffic safety concern of drivers while on the road. A recent Ontario Health E-Bulletin indicated, “Teen-
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ORILLIA – Police in Ontario are wondering how many people would knowingly get in a vehicle with a drunk driver? And would they speak out if a friend, family member, or loved one was driving while impaired - or would they just sit and wait to be a victim? And would they intervene if a friend or family member was talking on a hand-held phone, or texting while driving? Research conducted in Canada and the U.S. has identified and documented the increased risks and negative impacts associated with distracted driving. The OPP has declared, “Enough is enough.” The lack of voluntary compliance by many motorists regarding the use of hand-held devices, and other forms of distracted driv-
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