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DEATHS MILLER, Neil Raymond Royal Canadian Navy - Veteran WW II Peacefully at the Village of Riverside Glen, Guelph, on Saturday, June 4th, 2011, following a lengthy illness. Neil was predeceased by his wife Ruth Smith (1992) and his wife Joyce Pickles (2010). He was the loving father of Nancy King, Mike and his wife Ingrid, Andy, and Pete and his wife Rachel. He was the proud grandfather of: Jennifer and Phil, Heather and Tom, Ronald, Lindsay and Alan, Loree and René, Lisa and Rob, Benjamin and MacKenzie and great-grandfather of: Avery, Neil, Nic, Iris, Landon, Isabella, Madeline, Emily, Gabriel, Evan, Lukas and Ethan. Neil will also be missed by Joyce's children and their families: Carol and Rick Baginski, Gary, Laurie and Henk Uiterwyk. Neil moved to Acton in 1957 and worked for Beardmore Tannery as an Engineer. He was active with Trinity United Church, the Lions Club and the Royal Canadian Legion. The family will receive friends at the MacKinnon Family Funeral Home, "Shoemaker Chapel", 55 Mill Street East, Acton, Ontario on Tuesday, June 7th from 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm. Friends are invited to meet the family at Trinity United Church, 70 Mill Street East, Acton on Wednesday, June 8th, at two o'clock where the funeral service will be conducted by the Rev. Hyuk Cho. The interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery. Remembrances to The Alzheimers Society or a charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. On line condolences and donations may be made at www.mackinnonfamilyfuneralhome.com 1-877-421-9860 - toll free Local youngster volunteers at Willow Park Ecology Centre The following article was submitted by Willow Park Ecology Centre (WPEC) volunteer and Grade 7 student at Stewarttown Middle School, Harnoor Gill. Please visit www.willowparkecology.ca to find out more; all are welcome to visit the park. It was a tremendous afternoon volunteering at the Willow Park Ecology Centre (WPEC) on Mother's Day because of the great weather and the awesome spring activities. As a WPEC volunteer, I helped the children make a frog/tadpole home and showed them the different types of wildlife/ plant life. At first, we went for a wildflower walk around the park and told the kids and their mothers about all the different invasive species and about all the different diverse wildlife that makes an ecosystem (just the basics). Through this tour, I helped these children learn about many things that are unique about this park. For example, WPEC is one of the many parks that offer a safe place to see wildlife with no poison ivy or anything else that can harm a human being. The activity we did was making a broken pot into a but we did see tadpoles, leechwhole new diverse habitat for es and small minnows. There is a wetlands creature. So if you a small boardwalk right beside ever break a flower pot this the pond that you can walk on might be really handy for you. that is really awesome. There First we decorated the broken are signs put up on the boardpot with different designs and walk that show all the different colours that showcased each amphibians, turtles and frogs participant's creativity. It was a that are in the watershed and fun activity. A frog or tadpole the surrounding area. will go inside the These signs, pot on a really whose graphics sunny day and were provided by by doing that it the Toronto Zoo will stay really and Environment cold and keep itCanada, were put self moist. Once up by WPEC as the pots were part of a grant decorated, they from the Ontario were ready to Trillium Foundabe placed at the tion, and these reedge of a pond ally show how to where they could differentiate frogs provide shelter Willow Park Ecology Cen- from one another. for a frog that tre volunteer Harnoor A minute after would allow it Gill's frog pot labelled glancing through to go back to the with a sticker that says to the signs I heard water safely (and save the planet is ready a "ribbit, ribbit" without a shock!) to provide a home for a sound which usuif it needed to. ally comes from a frog. Afterwards, green frog. I tried we went to look at the pond in to figure out where the sound WPEC that is right beside Silver might have been coming from Creek that flows into the Credit and there I saw the frog, camRiver. In this pond, we were ouflaged in a bunch of green not too sure of seeing any frogs algae. You could also tell that the frog was confused because no other frog was responding to its calls. It was great fun and I hope to participate/volunteer at this event next year as well. *** Please join us at WPEC's Father's Day (Big Daddy Festival) event on Sunday, June 19th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring Dad and the whole family along for some fun by the side of Silver Creek. We'll have demonstrations, games and creative activities: · Make and decorate your own drum · Native North American Drum Circle, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Join in and hear stories about the original inhabitants of the area · Create your paddler for the "Paddle to the Sea" race at the end of the day. · Join in our Scavenger Hunt and learn about the critters in the park · More activities (Please check the website for additional activities and to register to attend: http://www.willowparkecology.ca/current.html) 15 Independent & Free Press, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Dad's Day at WPEC IN MEMORIAM GRAY, Aubrey - In memory of Aubrey Gray who passed away June 7th, 2007. Always remembered One day at a time. Sadly missed by, Audrey, Jacki, Stuart, Deb, grandchildren and great grandchildren