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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>In case you don’t see this book review in today’s Record. Community activism can take many forms…<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Susan K <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1>Books: This Soil, This Water <o:p></o:p></h1><p>This Soil, This Water — Text by Susan Hodges Bryant, paintings by Ed Schleimer, edited by Judith Maclean Miller (Stonegarden Studios, $20 softcover) — Do not let local artist Ed Schleimer’s lovely, abstract and floral watercolours in this modern day “chapbook” fool you into believing all is well in Elmira. Time has not healed the wounds of the decades-old chemical contamination of Elmira’s water and soil by Uniroyal Chemical, a company now called Chemtura Corp. <o:p></o:p></p><p>In <i>This Soil, This Water</i>, Schleimer’s artwork is paired with the words of a presentation local eco-hero Susan Bryant made in 2001 on behalf of the group Assuring Protection for Tomorrow’s Environment (APT) to hearings held by the Walkerton Commission of Inquiry, which was established by the Ontario government.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Bryant’s words may be spare and matter of fact, but it is impossible not to feel horror at the lack of responsibility shown by the corporations and government regulators that were asleep at the switch in protecting Elmira’s water supply. <o:p></o:p></p><p>As the book’s editor, Judith Maclean Miller, notes in an epilogue, although “the company has excavated more (Canagagigue) creek bank hotspots on their site, reducing the amount of DDT and dioxins eroding from its property,” the cleanup is still an ongoing matter. <o:p></o:p></p><p>My hope is that this attractive and clever little book will help to dredge up what has been buried for too long. It is sold by non-profit publisher Stonegarden Studios at <a href="http://www.stonegardenstudios.ca" target="_blank">www.stonegardenstudios.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p><i>Susan Koswan is a Kitchener writer.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.therecord.com/whatson/books/article/654183--books-this-soil-this-water">http://www.therecord.com/whatson/books/article/654183--books-this-soil-this-water</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>