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6- The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday July 21, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont. L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax: 337-5567 Classified Advertising: 845-3824, ext. 224 Circulation: 845-9742 The Oakville Beaver is a member of the Ontario Press Council. The council is located at 80 Gould St., Suite 206, Toronto, Ont., M5B 2M7. Phone (416) 340-1981. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, that portion of advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate.The publisher reserves the right to categorize advertisements or decline. Editorial and advertising content of the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Commentary Guest Columnist Take a guided tour of Halton's farms Gary Carr Halton Regional Chair alton Region values its farms ­ they are part of our heritage and a valuable part of our economic makeup. To help support our local farms, Halton Region is proud to publish A Guided Tour of Halton Farms. This handy guide features information on where you can find all the farmfresh produce, nursery products and recreational activities that Halton farms have to offer. Buying and enjoying Halton-grown produce offers many benefits. When you support local farms, you're helping to keep our agricultural industry and our regional economy healthy and prosperous. Enjoying locally-grown produce is also a tasty way to make better eating choices, and picking it yourself is a fun way to be active. Horse farms are a key part of Halton's rural economy. In fact, the annual economic impact of Halton's horse farms is $24.8 million. There are almost 14,000 horses at more than 1,000 horse farms in Halton. A Guided Tour of Halton Farms will direct you to horse farms that are open to the public and offer riding trails, lessons and camps. Also included in the guide are listings of local greenhouses, so you can find nursery or greenhouse products that have been grown in Halton. Greenhouse products have the highest gross farm receipts or sales of any type of agriculture in Halton. A Guided Tour of Halton Farms was produced by Simply Local, a regional initiative to promote Halton's agricultural industry, and to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. Simply Local involves the Halton community through a work group consisting of local farmers, dietitians and other professionals. The initiative was originally funded by the Ministry of Health and Longterm Care through Choices 4 Health, a group of individuals and organizations within Halton working together to promote healthy eating, physical activity, smoke-free living and stress management. For more information about the Simply Local initiative, visit www.halton.ca/simplylocal. There are plenty of opportunities to enjoy a real farm outing, all within our local municipalities of Oakville, Burlington, Halton Hills and Milton. We hope that this guide will help you navigate Halton's scenic, rural routes to find wonderful tourist destinations and opportunities to taste the bounty of the seasons and be active with family and friends. To get a free copy of A Guided Tour of Halton Farms, drop by the Halton Regional Centre at 1151 Bronte Rd., contact Access Halton at 905-825-6000 or toll free at 1-866-4HALTON (1-866-442-5866), or e-mail accesshalton@halton.ca. The guide is also available for pick-up at tourist centres and chambers of commerce throughout the region. 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The word is "floordrobe." Floordrobe (noun): Items of clothing that are not put away in drawers or hung up in a closet; carpet-like floor covering made up of pants, shirts, socks and underwear that have been scattered in a seemingly random pattern. Usage: Dad, have you seen my favorite pink socks? Last time I looked, honey, they were atop the eastern rim of the northwest pile of your floordrobe. Finding this word, and discovering its meanings and connotations, was particularly apropos to a procrastinating writer who had just spent 30 minutes in a room occupied by one of his precious progeny cleaning up the clutter. As a neurotic neat freak (I seriously put fussy Felix Unger to shame) it pains me to make this admission, but there are people living under my roof who are, well, less than fastidious when it comes to cleanup. Oh, hell, let's be honest: these people are piggies (all apologies to sensitive swine everywhere). Now, I can't mention which inhabitants of this house are pig- A gies for fear of reprisal. I won't say that I've actually been threatened into silence. But I have! However, I can say with some impunity that there is more than one room around here sporting substantial floordrobes. And while I personally find such chaos and clutter to be both abhorrent and unfathomable, some people think floorAndy Juniper drobes make total sense. For starters, they're definitely economical: consider the money you save just by saying to hell with hangers. Secondly, they're great time savers: any idea how long it takes to actually put a shirt or skirt or a pair of pants on a hanger? Well, multiply that by eight-billion times over the course of a lifetime and I'm sure you'll save yourself a day or two. Further, in our household there exists amongst the slovenly souls a philosophy that goes like this: Why make a bed when you're just going to sleep in it again? Or, in the case of the floordrobe: Why hang up a pair of jeans when you're just going to wear them again? Of course, this logic is fatally flawed and as twisted as a pretzel. As I tell the repeat offenders around here, if you're going to wear an item of clothing that has crashed on the carpet and spent the night on the floor, then you might as well just sleep in it for all the wrinkles it will sport. Oh, and if that item has co-habitated with other clothing, or well-worn sweat socks or a wet towel or two, on top of being wrinkled it will likely smell like exotic cheeses stored for months in the bottom of a hockey bag. All of which brings me to the ungodly items of dirty clothing lurking in those floordrobes. Unbeknownst to some, we do have a laundry hamper in our house. And, crazy concept: the clothing that goes in that hamper gets taken to the laundry room and gets, well, laundered. Conversely, the clothes that repose in mounds on the floors of bedrooms ­ in floordrobes, if you will ­ stay on the floors. Creased. Unlaundered. And fit to be Tide -- at least until Felix has one of his fussy fits and magically turns dirty floordrobe back into clean wardrobe. Andy Juniper can be visited at his Web site, www.strangledeggs.com, or contacted at ajuniper@strangledeggs.com.