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# !~ = 1 = p’\rfl £1â€"27 Do0 M ag Ime > ex 4) tm & {fne 7 «oont ,§ \ vop i & j.‘ co y * mal %‘ fur § E‘ Ph :‘ ed S los | The Waterlou Chronicle is published every Wednesday by the hairway | Group, owned by CityMedia Group nc . a subsidiary of Torstar Corp The content of this paper is protected by ‘ vopyright and may be used only tor ')!'I’Sl!lld] nonâ€" commercial |)l.ll'pthl'\ All other rights are reserved and |_ commercial useas profubited To * make use of this matenal you must \_ firstobrain the permission ot the owner of the copyright ‘ Phone: 886â€"2830 Fax: 886â€"9383 www.waterloochronicle.ca | editorial@waterloochronicle.ca sports@waterloochronicle.ca sales@waterloochronicle.ca ‘ composing@waterloochronicle.ca WATERLOO CHRONICLE 279 Weber St., North, Suite 20 Waterloo, Ontario N2J 3H8 The views of our columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the newspaper. A.. 9 Rob Leuschner _ DwayneWerdendorf Group Publisher | Group Sales Director? 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A young Chatham mother had to deal with the terror of realizing her oneâ€"yearâ€"son had been kidnapped by her boyfriend, and the gutâ€"wrenching grief of later finding out the boy had been murdered. What brought this story close to home was the discovâ€" ery of little Donovan Clubb‘s body in a wooded area near Cambridge â€"â€" right here in Waterloo Region. * The mother‘s boyfriend. Shawn Palmer. has been charged with firstâ€"degree murder in the case, after police found him last Friday at a Kitchener home. Reports have since come out that Donovan‘s mother. Courtney Catton, was packing to leave her boyfriend when she allowed the man to take her son for one last visit. Last, indeed. And that‘s a choice the mother will have to live with for the rest of her life. Her only vindication may be to know her son‘s killer will pay for his crimes. It‘s no doubt this tragedy will resurrect the debate over whether capital punishment, also known as the death penalty. should be an option in the cases of those conâ€" victed of killing children. â€" Some see it as a dangerous step, and one that goes against all this country stands for in terms of peace and progress, while others are of the "eye for an eye" mentaliâ€" ty in hopes of preventing future crimes. "It may help.if people hang charms on their bedposts." The matter certainly deserves further investigation Quote of the week...© NEIHNoN .. GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY THERE SHOULD BE MORE ... MORE PEOPLE TO BLAME ... WATERLOO CITY COUNCILLORS .., A Uptoun Waterloo Jazz VIEWPOLINT ‘Renter beware‘ during summer cottage season he summer holiday I season is here, and like a lot of people I‘m going to recharge my batterâ€" ies at a cottage retreal. My wife. Tara, insists that since I‘m an Aquarius, a water sign, it‘s important that 1 get back to the water to stave oif some of the burnout 1 usually feel at this time of year. But nothing gets this water spirit‘s blood boiling faster than trying to find a decent place to stay during the few weeks of serenity 1 get every year. You try to do the right things, like visit the cottage you rent before you put a deposit down, or get all the references and referrals you can from people who will vouch for a place, but you‘re never sure of what you‘re getting until you get there. In the past. I‘ve never rented a cottage sight unseen or without a referral from someone I trust. But this time, since we were geing a little farther afield in the Muskoka area, we were a little more depenâ€" dent on Internet searches to find the right place. can still miss the most important points like is it clean, is it updated, and why are they using a closet for a bathroom? More important ly, does a bed full of dead flies cut as linens and bed ding? And the only thing I can say is though pictures can tell a thousand words, they HRONICL 1 found out these were all questions you should ask when our advance party, my inâ€"laws, got up to the cotâ€" tage they‘d rented for two weeks, last Saturday. Even my usually taciturn fatherâ€" inâ€"law had more than a few words to say when he saw a cottage that looked nothing like it was advertised. A threeâ€"bedroom cottage which could fit into my bedâ€" room back home looked much bigger on the web site. The fact it looked like it hadn‘t been cleaned since the 1950s when the bathâ€" room _ was _ obviously installed didn‘t help matters. At least they thought they‘d find some refuge on the private beach attached to a private lake, but they had a problem finding the beach since it was over grown with weeds and brambies BOB VRBANAC That turned the inâ€"laws into outlaws by this time. and they decided there was no way in "Hâ€"Eâ€" double bhockey sticks" they were staying there. They spent a rfight in a hotel before getâ€" ting my brotherâ€"inâ€"law to call the rental agent. Luckily, the rental agent was a standup guy and got my inâ€"laws into his own priâ€" vate cottage for two weeks, where we joined them on the weekend. It would be funny if this was the first time this has happened, but 1 remember a family trip to my birthâ€" place of Sault Ste. Marie in which we decided to spend a week in Sauble Beach on the way back. We ended up renting the perfect cottage, right across from the beach with all the amenities you could ask for in a vacation home. Obviâ€" ously, the cottage owners agreed with us because they showed up the next mornâ€" ing and fiterally kicked us out of bed. We spent the rest of the week in a less than ideal place. after some profuse apologies from the rental agent. But sorry doesn‘t cut it when you‘re on holidays. although we made the best of a bad situation But just make sure vyou know what you‘re in for before you open that cof tage door Don‘t let my experience dissuade from you‘re own summer sojourn.