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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010 7GRAPEVINEFringe benefitsbegins October 13 and runs until Who would have thought that November 3 at the Acton Hub at the Towns decision to spend McKenzie-Smith Bennett School $1.3-million to buy five acres from 10 to 11:30 a.m.of surplus school board land at Run by SAVIS the Sexual McKenzie-Smith Bennett would Assault and Violence Interven-improve road safety?tion Services of Halton the It did for Acton Councillor meeting is an opportunity to Jon Hurst who said he could meet other women and share now see out the back window experiences. For details call of my van because Ive finally 905-825-3622.taken the MSB Not For Sale Jazz concertsign down. The next concert in the ac-Storytime movesclaimed fall jazz series at Halton The stories, fun and music of Museum is Sundays (October the librarys popular Storytime 10) performance of the Fern drop-in program is offered in a Lindzon Duo in the Hearth new location this fall at the Room. The concerts are a fund-Acton Hub by the pool entrances raiser for the Halton Museum of McKenzie-Smith Bennett QUIET BEAUTY: As the season changes, Fairy Lake takes on a stark beauty. Submitted photoFoundation. The Museum is in School. The free, 30-minute Kelso Conservation Area, a site program for parents and young originally settled in 1836 by children will run Wednesdays, Scottish immigrants.Protect the local farms, fields, from October 20 to November Breast health24 at 2 p.m.Breast health is on the agenda ***during Breast Cancer Awareness and fisheries that feed usStaff at the Acton branch will Month as Acton homeopathic screen Atlantis Disneys first doctor and breast program edu-By David Suzuki to see more people take great-sci-fi animated movie at a cator, Dr. Cynthia Simmons, is ScienceMwith Faisal Moolaer responsibility for the food unch at the Movies PD Day the guest speaker at two lectures Mattersthey eat by choosing to buy lo-activity at noon tomorrow (Fri-in Georgetown. By David SuzukiAs we move into fall, the cal, we cant let governments day). Kids are invited to bring On October 26, at 7 p.m., Dr. bounty of Canadas farms, to reduce its over-reliance on off the hook. Politicians need a lunch. No registration is re-Simmons will present a Breast fields, and fisheries is filling lo-imported food, along with the to support local agriculture by quired, but seating is limited and and Digestive Health lecture at cal markets across the country: associated costs and insecurity implementing policies and laws there have been packed houses the Georgetown library, and on artisan cheese in Montreal, fresh of supply, by promoting back-that protect farmland, ensure at past movie/ lunches. October 19 at the Georgetown sockeye salmon in Vancouver, yard gardens and, on a larger that Canadian farmers receive a ***CURVES, she speaks at 7 p.m. An plump blueberries in Thunder scale, farming of local acreage.fair price for the food they grow, informal Friday afternoon For details call 519-853-8950.Bay, and scones, biscuits, and The social and environmental and remove regulatory barriers book lovers group resumes Chiefs contract extendedmcountless other treats made from benefits of eating local are also that hinder farm-gate sales.eeting at the Acton branch Happy with his performance, heritage Red Fife wheat grown compelling. The globalization The protection of Canadas on October 29. The program is the Halton Police Service Board on the prairies.of food supply means that, on rich agricultural soil from urban billed as a fun and informal chat has extended the employment No question about it, Can-average, most of our food has sprawl, roads, industrial de-about books, new library materi-contract of Chief Gary Crowell adians are embracing the idea of to travel some 2,400-kilometres velopment, and other land use als, and refreshments. You can until June 2012, with an option eating food produced closer to from field to table, resulting must be central to any govern-register at the circulation desk for a further one-year exten-home, a sustainability movement in enormous emissions of ment local food strategy. Study for the monthly Coffee, Books sion.that has been dubbed locavor-greenhouse gases and other after study has shown that Can-and Conversation program. Call Chief since June 2006, with ism. Proponents of eating local atmospheric pollutants from adas best agricultural land is 519-853-0301 for details. a five-year contract thats up Harpist rargue that we need to increase the millions of trucks, container being chewed up and paved over eturnsin June 2011, Chief Crowell is food security and reduce our Eduard Klassen will ships, trains, and other vehicles because of poor urban-planning of-praised for his strong leadership, dependence on other regions required to transport food decisions that value parking lots, fer Christian harp music from progressive crime prevention or nations for supplies of milk, around the planet.new highways, and larger strip around the world, interspersed programs, law and safety inia-wmeat, vegetables, fruit, cooking For many people, the desire malls over keeping our precious ith personal testimonies of tives that have made Halton one Goil, grains, and other staples, as to eat local is motivated by bank of fertile soil for current ods work in his life, which of the safest municipalities in well as luxury items like fine the need for more information and future generations of farm-began in remote Paraguay, at Canada.Kwine and fancy cheese.about how the food they eat is ers to steward for our benefit.nox Presbyterian Church on Racer visits ActonOctober According to the experts, the produced and prepared. Today, 17. Klassen A report by the David Suzuki is back by Sobeys/Minute Maid race planet faces looming scarcities we are so disconnected from our popular demand after his Foundation, Ontarios Wealth, lively car driver Dave Connelly and music of almost everything necessary food: processed and packaged and natural sense of hu-Canadas Future, found that an his fast car will be in Acton on mto sustain high crop yields foods, vacuum-sealed chicken ouralarming 16 per cent of farm- were a hit at Knox two October 12 with pit stops at St. water, land, fertilizer, oil, and breasts, garlic imported from years ago.land in the Greater Toronto Area Joseph Catholic School and Aa stable climate. A disruption in China, apples from New Zea-was lost to urban encroachment free will offering will be Sobeys, which has adopted global trade brought on by crop land, and the plethora of other gratefully accepted, and fellow-between 1996 and 2001. This the school.failure or skyrocketing oil prices cheap imported foods have be-shrepresents the loss of thousands ip and refreshments will After a show and tell at the could have serious consequences come little more than delivery follow the 2 p.m. concert.of acres of some of the most fer-school, Connelly and his car will in many regions of Canada, es-systems for nutrients, calories, SAVIS meetingtile soils in all of North America. head to Sobeys for a fundrais-pecially in communities in the sugar, salt, and fat. If you buy The same is happening in other Acton women are invited to ing barbecue from 3 to 7 p.m., Arctic and coastal Canada that your meat and fruit and vege-growing communities across attend A Womans Voice A with proceeds earmarked for St. have to import food largely from tables at a local farmers market, Wthe country like Ottawa, Cal-omens Group program which Joseph.elsewhere.you can talk to the farmer or gary, and even smaller towns For example, in Powell River, producer and find out what the like Fort St. John in northern B.C., most food on the super-chicken ate or how the potatoes B.C.market shelves has to be trucked were grown before you choose We should all be concerned and then shipped by boat from to put them on your dinner about these issues if we want CORRECTIONdistribution centres in the Low-table.to maintain local food security er Mainland and Vancouver Many people would also argue and minimize the environmental The pride and joy of Acton firefighters is a 1926 not 1962 Island every day. The Powell that local food, because it is usu-costs of the food we eat. Studebaker fire truck as was reported in last weeks issue. River Food Security Project is ally fresher, tastes better.Learn more at www.davidsu-The New Tanner regrets the error.an initiative by the community Although it is encouraging zuki.org.