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THE NEW TANNER4THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010 Mayors eBook benefits hospitalA schoolboys essay, written more than four decades I hope the kids have as much fun reading it as I ago, about a charming, but thick, gentle giant who loves had writing it and that they will learn about the world cherry pie, will help raise money for the Georgetown and learn about being a good person, Bonnette said. Hospital Foundation.The book was unveiled last Tuesday at a launch in The author Halton Hills Mayor Rick Bonnette is Georgetown featuring a selected reading by the mayor, donating proceeds from the sale of his eBook (electronic a colouring contest and T-shirt give-away.book), The Incredible Adventures of Goon Sharoon to Bonnettes eBook, dedicated to the memory of his the Foundation, the hospitals fundraising arm.late mother, is available at www.goonsharoon.comGoon Sharoon, the main character in the book aimed at school-aged students, evolved from Bonnettes fer-tile imagination for a Grade six class assignment when he was approximately 13 years old. Bonnettes mother saved the assignment and gave it back to him many years later. He doesnt remember what kind of mark he initially got for the story.In 1997, I did a revision and added some chapters to it and I tried to get it published after 30 or 40 people read it to their kids who really liked it, Bonnette said recently, adding he took another look at it when his mother died last year, and decided again to try to have it published. My mom was a zany character with a zany sense of humour and she loved to travel. Travelling was in all our blood. My dad was with a travel company, and I owned a travel agency and this character is about someone who travels and creates all of the wonders of the world, Bonnette said, adding he doesnt know where the silly little name Goon Sharoon came from.Hes a bit of a lonely giant who wants to make friends. After teaming up with local illustrator Tamara Talbot Hes a little daft, but he has a good heart and wants to and editor Nancy Kovacs, the eBook was published Mayor Rick Bonnettehelp everybody, Bonnette said, adding that although by ebookguides4life.com an eco-friendly ePublisher, Goon Sharoon gets rejected, he never gets angry, but co-owned by two George-just tells people to have a good day.town women. eBooks can The theme is to be good to other people to be help-be read on a computer or ful to people and not take rejection personally, Bonnette other electronic devise, said, adding its prophetic that as a 13-year-old author, like a Blackberry, or he wrote about Goon Sharoon meeting a mayor.eBook reader. $2693-7 Stones$3993-7 Stones$4493-7 Stones$$4492993-7 Stones3-7 Stones$2493-7 Stones$2993-7 StonesCLOSE TO HOME FAR FROM ORDINARYOpen Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.310 Guelph St., Unit 5, Georgetown, ON905-873-4405