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DAVID BEBEE WATERLOO REGION RECORD SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021 SERVING KITCHENER, WATERLOO, CAMBRIDGE AND THE TOWNSHIPS Variable cloudiness High 15 Details, C8 Ontariospeeds uppaceof seconddoses //CANADA& WORLD,B1 WATERLOOREGION--Starting inJune, po- lice fromnorthdivisionwillbeginwear- ing body cameras to record the inter- actions officers have with members of thepublic. Theuseofthesecameraswasapproved by theWaterlooRegionalPoliceService Board last fall. The pilot program is scheduled to run until the end of the year and is intended to test if the cam- eras shouldbemadeavailable toall offi- cersacross theservice. For the purposes of the pilot, 70 body- worn cameras will be provided to indi- vidual officers to keep anduse through- out the program.Aspart of the pilot, 40 in-car video systems will also be in- stalled inselectcruisers--33vehicles in neighbourhood policing and investiga- tions unit and seven within the traffic servicesbranch. Becausethepilot isonlyrunningoutof north division, officers with cameras will mostly be seen in Waterloo, not Kitchener or Cambridge. Of the four platoons at north division, one group will be given body-worn cameras, one will be given body-worn cameras and Body camera pilot begins in June WRPS officers in north division will be wearing body-worn cameras until year end CHRIS SETO WATERLOO REGION RECORD CAMERAS continued on A7 WOOLWICHTOWNSHIP--ABetter Tent City is moving from Kitchener to Spitzig Road in WoolwichTownship. The land,whereup to40resi- dents will be living in small houses,isownedbytheDiocese ofHamilton, said JeffWillmer, Kitchener's former chief ad- ministrative officerwho is now partofa leadershipteamwork- ing tomove the residents from Lot42to theirnewhome. "It's a fresh new start in the countryair,"hesaid. Not everyone is thrilled with theirnewneighbours. Woolwich Township Mayor Sandy Shantz said she's re- ceived plenty of emails from residents in nearby Breslau who are concerned about pre- viously homeless residents liv- ingnear them. Woolwich Township Coun. ScottMcMillansaidonTwitter Friday that many emails are oming into the township "de- A Better Tent City moving to Spitzig Road in Woolwich Township But not everyone is thrilled about their new neighbours LIZ MONTEIRO WATERLOO REGION RECORD WATERLOO -- When Canada's Olympicteammarchesintothe Waterloo entrepreneur supplying Team Canada masks for the Olympics 'For me, this is fantastic,' says former Olympian of his company's contract for the Tokyo Games BRENT DAVIS WATERLOO REGION RECORD When I spoke earlier with Rosel De Guzman as she opened Rosel's Fla- vours for Life at Wooden Boat Food Company on Hurst Avenue, where I en- joyed her pandan chicken, not a soul had any idea the pandemic would strike. De Guzman had been on Hurst for about a year, and her takeaway and catering business were doing fine and growing slowly. Until COVID-19 made a lot of nas- ty decisions for a lot of hard-working food entre- preneurs and everyone else. Happily, Flavours for Life has resurfaced - bigger and better - in Waterloo, across from the Wilfrid Laurier athletic centre, in the former Shawerma Plus space. Needless to say, De Guz- man is pretty happy to be able to share her resilience, as well as her food. A graduate from culi- nary arts training at St. Louis school who has worked in Waterloo's Proof Kitchen and Lounge, De Guzman was born in Mari- kina City, northeast of Ma- nila, where she grew up as part of a Filipino family who cooked and sold food for a living. She came to Canada in 2012, and her quest was to share that food with the Waterloo Region communi- ty around her. It's some- thing she continues to be dedicated to at her new ven- ue. "I've wanted to own my own business since I was a kid. Inside the Wooden Boat was great, but here we can be open more and serve more people. And I can con- tinue to do what I love," says De Guzman. Rosel's is part of the re- cent upward nudge in the presence and popularity of Filipino cooking that - while I suspect it has al- ways been here - we see di- rectly in new bricks-and- mortar restaurants, cater- ing companies and pop- ups. She loves cooking and tweaking her family's dish- es: for instance, the sisig - it's onomatopoeic of the way it's cooked - is a dual protein meal that often in- cludes offal. "It's a sizzling lunch or dinner in many places and varieties in the Philip- pines," according to De Guzman. Served on an oval of piping-hot cast iron, sisig sizzles. Lean pork shoulder is quickly deep-fried crisp, chopped and mixed with simmered and ground chicken livers that have been seasoned with what she calls the "usual" Asian spices and ginger. "We grind the livers and some hot pepper and add white onions, some mayonnaise and salt and pepper." Sisig is mounted with a soft-fried egg, whose yolky- runniness adds another layer of sauce flavour and texture to the dish. The liv- er adds a slight and distinc- tive iron taste. Alongside is a cabbage, cucumber and tomato sal- ad with red onion and Di- jon-based dressing. Its cool, sturdy and crunchy texture accompanies crispy-garlic fried rice, something of a "signature," as she refers to it. I also tried the special: chicken inasal is overnight- brined chicken with lemon- grass, ginger and pandan leaves that gets a slow grill- ing at order for a bold cara- melized flavour and a cap- ture of the soy and mild vin- egar flavours that's charac- teristic of the cuisine. A certain boldness to plan a restaurant opening when the end of the pan- demic is unknown also characterizes De Guzman's fearlessness, but she says her customers helped her make the decision. "I was concerned with the pandemic and not hav- ing a patio and reduced numbers inside, but my customers have done what they can to support us. So let's see what happens," she says of diners she's happy to be able to see face-to-face again, despite masks. "I can see them smile when they are eating, and I feel like I am more connect- ed with them." Rosel's Flavours for Life is open Tuesday to Sunday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visit rosel- s.ca. Andrew Coppolino is a Kitchener-based food writ- er and broadcaster. Visit him at www.andrewcoppo- lino.com. RESTAURANT RESURFACES, BIGGER AND BETTER Sizzling sisig. Andrew Coppolino Photo OPINION ANDREW COPPOLINO Column