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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010 7GRAPEVINEBand celebrates ChristmasTeacher AwardsFrom Bach to Jingle Bell Nominations are now open for Rock, sounds of the holidays the Premiers Awards for Teach-filled Bethel Christian Reformed ing Excellence six different Church on Sunday during the award categories that recognize annual Acton Citizens Band a wide range of people and skills Christmas concert.within the Halton District School A large appreciate crowd that Board.gave the Band a standing ova-Teachers and support staff are tion at the end, sang along with eligible for the awards and nom-their favourites carols and kept inations will be accepted, before time to a smorgasbord of winter January 31, 2010, from students, songs, offered by Bandmaster parents, local business owners Dr. George Elliott, including and staff.The Little Drummer Boy, White For details visit www.ontario.Christmas and Feliz Navidad. ca/teachingawardsThe concert was a fundraiser for Actons FoodShare, and a large Tree salespile of non-perishable food was Better be quick if you plan to HEAR YE: The Town Hall Players were in a festive mood on Saturday presenting a dramatic collected at the free concert.get your Christmas tree from the reading of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. As part of the local BIAs Olde Fashioned Christ-***sales lot in the Hide House park-mas celebration, the troupe appeared at the Acton Town Hall Centre. Denise Paulsen photoFoodShare clients will also ing lot. In the first week, the Men reap the benefits of donations of Heritage Acton, formerly the made on Sunday (December Acton Kinsmen, have sold over Everything is illuminated19), by people enjoying a free half of the 400 trees. There is public skate at Acton arena, still a wide selection including wind, which can turn turbines to from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Balsam and Fraser firs and ColoBy David Suzuki -ScienceAs hosts, with Faisal Moolaproduce electricity.the Acton Fire rado Spruces.Fighters Association will Energy cannot be created or cover Tree sale proceeds they MattersDecember has traditionally destroyed; it can only be con-the cost, and asking skaters to raised approximately $5,000 last By David Suzukidonverted from one form to another. ate items of non-perishable year been a time for people in the Colour itself is created Most of the energy we use to-food which it will donate to wiNorthern Hemisphere to cele-ll help the Town Hall Cen-through our perception of light FoodShare.brate light. The nights get longer day comes from burning fossil tre, Acton Air Cadets and other waves at different frequencies. fuels. Because the energy has community organizations. Theuntil December 21, when the We see colour either as light Holiday FeastNorth Pole is tilted furthest from been highly concentrated over lot is open from 4 to 9 p.m. dur-waves emitted from an object Lookthe sun, and then light returns as millennia, these fuels pack ing for something to ing the week and from 10 a.m. to at a particular frequency or as doa real punch. For large-scale on Christmas Day? Check 6 p.m. on the weekend.the days start to grow longer. the waves that are reflected back ouChanukah is a Jewish cele-power generation, the energy is t the annual free community when the object absorbs other dinnereleased through heat and con-r at Bethel Christian Re-Calendars deliveredbration of light. Christianity frequencies. We see plants as celebrates the birth of Jesus, verted to electrical energy, and formed Church. If you would Its here! Its here! Check this green because chlorophyll pig-then transported through cables. like to attend, volunteer to help weekwho is often represented as s issue of The New Tan-ments absorb light photons in a oBut this process is inefficient and r donate a dish, call Ann at ner light. Our word yule comes for your free Heritage Acton way that makes the wavelength 519-853-3687.causes pollution and contributes calendarfrom the pre-Christian Scan-. The architects render-appear to us as green, and this dinavian tradition of lighting to global warming. ing of the proposed expansion to pigment masks less-dominant Community dinnerfires to celebrate the warmth and For example, for every three the Town Hall Centre, which will ones. In the fall, when leaves All tonnes of coal burned in a power are welcome light of the returning sun. Many to the include an elevator, balcony, new stop producing these pigments plant, two are wasted in get-community dinner tomorrow entrance and a Citizensindigenous people have also Hall, and the chlorophyll breaks ting the energy from the coal, (Friday) at St. Alban the Martyr graces the covercelebrated the shift to longer .down, other pigments are uncov-Angconverting it to electricity, and lican Church. The dinner, The calendars, a major days and the impending rebirth fund-ered, appearing as red, orange, of life when plants would spring transmitting the power to cus-the fourth so far, is co-hosted by raiser for the Town Hall Centre and yellow.tomers.the Acton Hub Team and St. Al-plans, are available at Homeup and animals would emerge Plants capture light from the banWhether we are lighting or s. The food, fellowship and Hardware, Halton Hills Furniturefrom hibernation. sun and convert it to chemical heating our homes or powering fun gets underway at 6 p.m.and The New Tanner offices.We get almost all of our light energy through photosynthesis. and energy from the sun. Most our vehicles, we must find more And we absorb, store, and con-of it is in the form of visible efficient methods to generate vert that energy to power our light, but some is higher-ener-energy methods that use most CHRISTMAS IS COMING!own cells when we eat the plants gy ultraviolet light and some of the energy for its intended or other animals that have eaten is lower-energy infrared light. purpose and that dont create a the plants.This light gets converted to other lot of waste or pollution through The staff at The New Tanner is looking ahead Hundreds of millions of years forms of energy through a var-procurement, conversion, and ago, some plants and animals iety of fascinating processes. transmission. We can also find and planning for the Christmas and New Year retained this energy when they People have been using energy ways to use less energy.issues. Our contributors and advertising custom-died. Buried and compressed for to create light in the same way Part of the solution to our ers should be aware of our deadlines for the two millennia, their energy concen-as the sun with heat for cen-energy-related problems may lie trated as hydrocarbons to form turies. From the fire of torches in finding more direct ways to final issues of 2010.coal and oil. We burn these and candles to the incandescent use the suns energy. And thats materials to release the energy light bulb, we have found ways something we can all celebrate stored within them. We say these to bring both light and warmth as we contemplate the suns re-Editorial Submissions.fuels are non-renewable because into our lives.turn to the Northern Hemisphere it would take millions of years to Light is produced by energiz-and the warmth, colour, and re- Dec. 23rd Issue - Submissions due Dec. 20th by Noon.create more of them. ing atoms. The most basic way birth it brings with it. Dec 30th Issue - Submission due Dec 23rd by Noon.So, fossil fuels are really to do this is to heat the atoms. At Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, forms of solar energy, because low temperatures, you get red, broadcaster, author, and chair their power initially came from but the more atoms you ener-of the David Suzuki Founda-Advertisingthe sun. gize, the brighter the light gets. tion and Dr. Faisal Moola is the The brightest is white, which is Director of Science at the David Dec. 23rd Issue - Submissions due Dec. 20th by 5pm.Wind energy is also a function not a colour at all but is made Suzuki Foundation. Dec. 30th Issue - Submissions due Dec. 22nd by 5pmof sunlight. When the sun warms up of many different colour fre-Learn more at www.davidsu-the Earths atmosphere, it creates quencies.zuki.org.