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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010 7GRAPEVINESanta letterssaid Acton was chosen for the The 340 Acton area kids new residence because housing whose letters to Santa were is more affordable, and to meet collected at the Acton Santa the local need.Claus parade, and hundreds Intergenerational partymore, will each receive a per-Participants in an intergenera-sonalized response from the tional, interdenominational pilot North Pole if they include project funded by a $25,000 a return address thanks to federal grant will meet for jolly elves at the Acton Post the final time on Saturday, office.December 4, at the Churchill Citing Canada Post rules and Community Church annual Santa secrecy, Acton Super-English Tea and Bazaar. Lo-visor Janet Lovegrove would cal students and elders at three only say that current and retired Acton churches (Churchill, St. employees are helping Santa Joseph and Bethel Christian answer each letter approxi-Reformed Church), took part mately 700 are expected with in the pilot project that taught FAIR FUNDS: Acton Agricultural Society President John Miller (left) recently presented a a pre-printed letter, which they students how to capture sen-cheque for $700 to Acton FoodShare officials Arlene and Norman Humphreys. The donation personalize. Its the 29th year iors life stories and spiritual was proceeds from the Elvis show at the Acton Fall Fair. Submitted photothat Canada Post employ-heritage.ees, called Postal Elves, have Project co-ordinator Nora helped Old St. Nick answer let-Zylstra-Savage said the New ters that should be addressed to Horizons grant allowed them to Leaders rally for tigerNorth Pole, HOH OHO.teach students how to conduct Dont forget a return address an interview, how to turn the By David Suzuki With the tiger, we have seen Lovegrove has a big envelope information into a life/spiritual Sciencewith Faisal Moolasome small successes that of Acton letters without return story and how to produce it in Mattersshould give us hope for the pos- By David Suzukiaddresses that they will try to an anthology or booklet.The Year of the Tiger ends in sibility of turning things around. poachers, in part because of their respond to.Were holding the final early February. Chinese zodiac In 1947, Russia became the first use in traditional Chinese medi-aside, this hasnt been a good country in the world to protect ***hoopla and celebration to get cine. Increasing conflict with year for the tiger. Even golfer the tiger, and the countrys The New Tanner is curious together one last time, Savage people as human populations Tiger Woods has had a better population of Amur or Siberian what local kids want under the said recently, adding the exer-expand is also putting the tiger year than his namesake ani-tigers grew from a low of about Christmas tree this year, and cise allowed the students and in danger.mal. And, as you know, his year 30 to 250 in the mid 1980s. As would like to publish a selec-seniors to develop real, mu-As Vancouver writer John Vail-sucked.the Soviet Union started crum-tion of their letters to Santa, tual respect for each other.lant notes in his excellent book The situation for the tiger bling in the late 1980s, the tiger which could be e-mailed or Celtic ChristmasThe Tiger: A True Story of Ven-worldwide has become so precar-again became threatened be-geance and Survival, its not just dropped ofious that politicians, scientists, f at cause of the ensuing corruption the Tanner office The Oakville Celtic Fiddle for the tigers sake that we should conservationists, and bankers and illegal deforestation and on Queen Street, before being Club performs a Celtic Christ-be concerned. Vaillant writes that from 13 countries where tigers poaching. In 1992, Russias forwarded to the North Pole.mas show at Trinity United the tiger represents an enormous live met in Russia in November government implemented new School fundraiserChurch on Friday (Decem-canary in the biological coal to discuss ways to save it from conservation measures, which Students at St. Joseph Cath-ber 3) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are mine. When a large predator extinction. Government lead-led to recovery and stabilization olic School raised over $200 available at the door. Call 519-like the tiger, or the grizzly here ers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, of the tiger population at about last week, and continue to raise 853-2090 for details. in Canada, is healthy, its a sign Cambodia, China, India, Indo-450 today.money with Wthat the habitat and prey that sup-inter Wonder-Warm welcomenesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, World leaders now appear to port it are also healthy.Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, and be taking the tigers fate ser-land pictures that are a hit with The Acton Town Hall Cen-In a recent article, Vaillant Russia signed the St. Petersburg iously. With efforts and funding the kids who pay $2 to don tre will be a warming station writes that the tiger is a bell-Declaration, with the aim of from a number of governments winter hats and mitts and pose and horse-drawn buggy stop wether for what scientists are doubling the world tiger popula-and conservation groups such for pictures with their friends. during the Acton BIAs Old calling the Sixth Great Extinc-tion by 2022 the next Year of as the Wildlife Conservation Proceeds will help pay for the Fashioned Christmas on De-tion: the massive, human-driven the Tiger. The agreement calls for Society, Global Environment schools Boys Running Club cember 11. The fun includes loss of species currently under-improved habitat protection and Facility, and the World Wild-to enter a Salvation Army decorating gingerbread houses, way across the globe. He adds enhancement, and a crackdown life Fund, along with donations that If the tiger is allowed to go marathon in Guelph on Satur-a full costume dramatic read-on illegal poaching and trade in from individuals including mov-extinct in the wild (and allow is tiger parts.ie star Leonardo DiCaprio, the day.ing of a scene from the classic the operative word here), it will Three of the nine subspecies of tiger may be facing a brighter Right to LifeA Christmas Carol by the Ac-represent the first time in 10,000 tiger are already extinct and the future. Five local youths will no ton Town Hall Players. Centre years that such a large predator remaining six are endangered, If it is true, as Vaillant points longer live on the street or in volunteers are also beginning has disappeared from our collect-two of them critically. A century out, that tigers are the bellwether sub-standard housing, thanks to sell tickets for the second ive landscape.ago, more than 100,000 tigers for the Sixth Great Extinction, to a recent deal for a five bed-annual New Years Eve family Scientists believe the Earth roamed the Eastern Hemisphere then we really have little time room Acton house for at risk night festivities.has experienced five mass ex-from the tropical forests of Ma-to lose. Our planet and its nat-Stress bustertinctions in its history, all caused laysia to the subarctic woodlands youths enrolural systems are resilient, but led in a Right to by physical forces. This time Dealing with of Siberia. Now, scientists be-they have only recovered from family stress Life program that supplies humans are the cause. Biolo-lieve only about 3,200 remain past extinction events when the will be discussed at a parent transitional housing and early gists estimate that we are losing in the wild. Like Canadas large cause of those events dissipated. seminar at McKenzie-Smith intervention.about 30,000 species a year, or iconic predators, including griz-We absolutely must change the Bennett School on Monday A Halton housing official about three every hour, through zly bears, tigers are threatened way we treat the natural systems (December 6). Hosted by the would not identify the prop-alteration of the landscape and especially by habitat loss and of which we are very much a schools Parent Council, the erty to maintain some privacy atmosphere, pollution, over-fragmentation.part, or we, as the cause of this free seminar with a public exploitation of plants and for the residents of the pro-But tigers are encountering impending extinction and as the animals, and introduction of health nurse will offer tips to additional pressures. Tiger skins top predator on the planet, will gram that gets funding from the alien species into ecosystems.and body parts are valued by suffer the consequences.help kids deal with stress.United Way of Halton Hills. He