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Now an experienced hiker, she laughs about participating in a 45â€" kilometre marathon from Port Colborne to Port Dalhousie â€" a distance not considered part of her ‘Niagara to Tobermory‘ trek â€" "just because I felt like it. I wanted to challenge myself, and the last few kilometres felt longer than the first few!" The marathon took nine hours, eight hours of hiking plus one hour for lunch and three stops! By the time Platiel joined the group, she found herself doing a lot of ‘makeâ€"ups‘ with two others in the group, the aforementioned Bill Browne, and 58â€"yearâ€"old Ann Oakville has a strong presence in the Bruce Trail Association, with four local residents serving on its 20â€" member board of directors. Its viceâ€"president, elected at this year‘s midâ€"September annual meeting in â€" Collingwood, is Ernie Kuechmeister, its fundraising comâ€" mittee chair. Directors at large include Robert Lee, and Douglas Coate. And, representing the _ Blue Mountains Club is Marietta Service, who is also active in the Iroquoia club. The Bruce Trail is managed and maintained by its memâ€" bers, about 7,600 of them divided into nine regional clubs â€" Niagara (Queenston to Grimsby); Iroquoia (Grimsby to Milton); Toronto (Milton to CE 7, *Ws The Bruce Trail boasts 300 species of birds, 53 mammals, 35 reptiles and amphibians, 90 fish, and a wide variâ€" ety of insects. Its flora includes all varieties of trees including 900â€"yearâ€" old cedars on its rocky cliffs. Its terâ€" rain, mostly rock, also includes lakes, caves, stacks, waterfalls, and rivers â€" many of them found in the almost 50 conservation areas that line the trail. In 1990, the United Nations declared the Niagara Escarpment as a World Bioâ€"Sphere Reserve, ensuring the preservation of this mostly undisturbed natural environment for future generations. The Bruce Trail is managed and maintained by its memâ€" bers, about 7,600 of them divided into nine regional clubs â€" Niagara (Queenston to Grimsby); Iroquoia (Grimsby to Milton); Toronto (Milton to Cheltenham); Caledon _ Hills (Cheltenham to Mono Centre); Dufferin Hiâ€"Land (Mono Centre to Craigleith); Beaver Valley (Craigleith to Blantyre); Syndenham (Blantyre to Wiarton) and Peninsula (Wiarton to Tobermory). The concept for the development of the Bruce Trail was first suggested by Ray Lowes to the Hamilton Naturalists, and in 1963, the Bruce Trail Association was incorporated. The Bruce Trail was officially opened in 1967, and it continues to be the oldest and longest marked hiking trail in Canada. Also located at 4155 Fairview St., Burlington 681â€"WARM 406 SPEERS RD., OAKVILLE 24 HRS. ANSWERING 338â€"9276 LAST CHANCE ~ 10 TAKE ApVANTAGE OF U MnE ! * 5 H 1 rcts! Coate. And, e â€" Blue Marietta rain, mostly Bioâ€"Sphe the preserv; nadietrhod not regional )Jueenston to a (Reimeku tA Holman of Mississauga, formerly Oakville. "The three of us were going great guns since last September, and quite often during the summer, it was only two of us, Ann and myself, hiking up to 60 kilometres a week (just to get caught up with the rest of the group). "The two of us (women) hiking alone gave us a lot of confidence. We managed, just the two of us, to follow the trails and figure out our distances. One day we did 32 kiloâ€" metres!" Lunch was enjoyed at trail side, and a well used Bruce Trail guide book became both her ‘leadâ€" er‘ and diary. About oneâ€"third of the trail, along the Niagara Escarpment, crosses priâ€" vate property. Handshake agreements allow hikers to walk over these lands. When the entire group is out on a hike, "we enjoyed a lot of camaâ€" raderie. We talked. We listened to the birds, we learned to watch for different trees . .. "We‘re are peace with nature, Membership in the Bruce Trail Association is $35 per household, and Bruce Trail guide books are available for $19.95 for members and $14.95 for nonâ€"members. The Bruce Trail Association also has a general store which carries hasty notes, calendars, Tâ€"shirts and other items of interest to hikers; and the organization publishes a newsletter. The Bruce Trail headquarters, Rasberry House, is located at the Arboretum of the Royal Botanical Gardens on Plains Road in Hamilton. For information, call 1â€"800â€"665â€" HIKE. Your Union Gas Bijj OA want FUTURE FLAMES Q.E.W. and I‘m feeling so incredibl healthy . . . it‘s not only good physi cally, but also good for your men health, your sanity!" There‘s more to life than th everyday hustle and bustle of subu ban living.says Platiel, "hustlin here and there," and going to wor! A former nurse at Oakvill Trafalgar Memorial Hospital an later a doctor‘s receptionist, she qui her job to help look after her ailin parents in Peterboroughâ€" and jug| gled her hiking with their care. "We walked at a good pace," sh continues. ‘"You challenge yoursel and something incredibly good hap| pens inside of you. By now I woul: have been incredibly stressed o without my hiking." Platiel adde she‘s been on several vacation around the world, "but nothing h been an refreshing and exhilarating as hiking the Bruce Trail. "Even in the wet, rainy mise able weather, we‘ve found some thing good about challenging eac other to go on. We‘ve hiked i snow, we‘ve hiked all through th winter." When not hiking, she voluntee at Rasberry House, the Bruce Trail headquarters at the Royal Botanic Garden‘ Arboretum. A resident Oakville with husband Rudy; Globe and Mail writer, since 196. Platiel has also been a Canadia Girls in Training leader for 1 years, was president of the Oakvnll Youth Symphony, and board c of Knox Heritage Place semom home."I do these things to giÂ¥ something back to a town that offered us so much." ® When hiking far from Platiel and the others stayed in B Breakfasts, or "at a lovely llttl cabin along the way. A few week ago, four of us (Roma, Bill, Ka and herself) stayed in a cottage :0 Hope Bay on the Bruce Peninsul It only costs us $15 each. W cooked our own meals, and w hiked to Lion‘s Head. = "It‘s a wonderful experience, I can‘t stress it enough: Become member of the Bruce Trai Association, get a book, and st walking!" i MEMORIAL GARDENS (CANADA) LIMITED But for now, she‘s hooked 0 hiking. uis "We‘ve seen trilliums. There«i nothing so beautiful than to hik: through the hills when you can s¢: yards and yards of trilliums, red an white ones . . . We discovere« chives along the trail one day, an added some to our sandwiches!" °. One day, Platiel may find herse a partâ€"time job, "but I‘ve change my lifestyle â€" I‘m setting asid. time for hiking â€" during the week! Also spotted along the way wer) hummingbirds,a great horned owl," new born baby elk, gold finche milk snake, butterflies, rattlesnak various wildflowers, and breath ing scenery. The proposal conforms to the != provisions of Zoning Byâ€"Law ‘» 1984â€"63, as amended. * Information pertaining to the (= proposed mausoleum addition~ is available by contacting C. Provost, Clerk‘s Department, 338â€"4179. Persons wishing to express thei comments may do so by writing to the Town Clerk, Town of Oakville, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, L6J 5A6. Submissions must be received no later than November 4th, 1994. . This public notice is to advise that Memorial Gardens Ontario Limited intends to make applicaâ€" tion to the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations â€" _ â€" Cemeteries Branch of Ontario, to construct Phase 3 to an existingâ€" mausoleum on the lands marked "Subject property" on the map below, known as Glen : Oaks Memoria! Gardens. Phase 3 will contain 668 crypt spaces. . Highway No 5 Burnhamthorpe Road PLAN