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www.insideHALTON.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Thursday, February 7, 2013 · 6 The Oakville Beaver 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. 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont. L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax: 337-5566 Classified Advertising: 905-632-4440 Circulation: 905-631-6095 Neil Oliver Vice-President and Group Publisher, Metroland West David harvey Regional General Manager JILL DAVIS Editor in Chief, Halton Region Daniel Baird Advertising Director ANGELA BLACKBURN Managing Editor Riziero Vertolli Photography Director Sandy Pare Business Manager RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE BY: Ontario Community Newspapers Association MARK DILLS Director of Production Manuel garcia Production Manager CHARLENE HALL Director of Distribution KIM MOSSMAN Circulation Manager Website www.oakvillebeaver.com The OakvilleBeaver is a division of Guest Column All you need to know about waste collection in calendar Gary Carr, Halton Regional Chair y now, Halton residents should have received a copy of the 2013 Waste Management Guide and Collection Calendar. The calendar started last Friday (Feb. 1), and contains everything you need to know about waste collection in Halton Region, including: a schedule for Blue Box, GreenCart, garbage, bulk waste and yard waste collection; information on the Halton Waste Gary Carr Management Site located in Milton; and details about upcoming waste collection changes that begin April 1. Starting on that date, the Region is excited to expand the Blue Box to include more acceptable materials. I am proud to say that Halton residents continue to divert 60 per cent (or 124,654 tonnes) of residential waste away from the landfill by participating in weekly recycling, organics and other diversion programs. That is an incredible achievement, but there is always more each of us can do. The new waste collection changes will assist in increasing Halton's diversion rate to 65 per cent and help extend the life of Halton's landfill site, resulting in long-term savings of $15 million to future taxpayers. With the expanded Blue Box, residents will now be able to recycle items like clear plastic clamshell containers (for example, berry and lettuce containers), single-serve yogurt cups, empty metal paint cans (lids removed), cardboard cans (such as, frozen juice cans/chip cans) and plastic plant pots and trays. Together we can make a difference by recycling and composting more to produce less garbage. For more information about the upcoming waste collection changes please visit www.halton.ca/waste. If you have not received your copy of Halton Region's 2013 Waste Management Guide & Collection Calendar, please access Halton by dialling 311 or use the Online Service Request Tool at www.halton.ca/wastetools. Residents can also access the Region's new Waste Collection Calendar Tool at www.halton.ca/wastecalendar and search by address to confirm their next waste collection day, see what materials are being collected and sign up to receive e-mail, phone or Twitter waste collection reminders. As always, if you have any Regional concerns or comments you would like to share, please feel free to e-mail me at gary.carr@halton.ca. You can also find me on Twitter @garycarrhalton or on Facebook. B Canadian Community Newspapers Association Suburban Newspapers of America THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR: United Way of Oakville ATHENA Award SUBMITTED PHOTO DRAWing Support: The Oakville Knights of Columbus held its first draw for the 2013 Lottery Calendar in support of the new Oakville hospital on Jan. 25. Five draws were made for weekly and monthly prizes. Rod Rafauli and Margot Cudmore (pictured here), as well as other council members were among the attendees to draw winners. Winning numbers are listed at www.kofc-oakville.ca//did-I-win. Draws will continue monthly all year, including the $2,000 grand prize draw in December. Calendars are still available. Go to www.kofc-oakville.ca/otmh-lottery-calendar. Boys keen on cooking because suddenly cooking is cool oung men take heed. The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach. Who knew? Seriously, who knew? All these years I thought I'd won my wife's heart with my astonishing intelligence, my rapier-like wit, my hunky good looks, my six-pack abs and, of course, my immeasurable modesty. Turns out, she was just into me for my French toast. Now, I don't profess to be a master chef. But by all accounts I have come a long way from the days when about all I could create in the kitchen (beyond chaos) was that aforementioned French toast, which I perfected at a young age, or regular toast. Although, I had a tendency to burn the latter. Honestly, I grew up in a sadly sexist age where gender stereotypes stood strong, where the public school system funneled boys into shop classes -- in which I spent a year butchering the carving of a wooden doggie doorstop -- and girls into home economics; an age where very few grown men ever ventured into the kitchen, unless it was midnight and they were looking for leftovers. Of course, there were exceptions. My father, for instance, could whip up a plate of the best bacon and eggs imaginable. Still, if you wanted anything beyond an all-day breakfast, you set off in search Y of my mother, the crowned Queen of Comfort Food. Further, I had a friend who learned out of necessity at a very tender age how to make a tasty meal. From a singleparent family, with his mom often working odd hours, he taught himself how to make killer casseroles and such. "It's cook or starve," he once said. Andy Juniper Imagine: a young man making that clever connection, that the food on your plate is actually prepared by someone (it doesn't just magically appear). And, there's no reason on Earth why that someone cannot be you. I recently read an article that suggested more and more boys are making that connection. Spurred on by continual cuisine coverage on The Food Network, by high-pressured cooking competitions that turn cooking into sport, and by a generation of celebrity chefs who are treated like rock stars -- Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsey, Wolfgang Puck, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse, to name a few -- boys are apparently congregating in the kitchen, flocking to culinary classes, and cooking up perfect storms. Suddenly, cooking is cool. Admittedly, it wasn't the `cool' factor that I was after when I got hooked on honing my cooking skills. It was a desperate need for a little variety at mealtime -- I wanted to be more than just the go-to guy for French toast -- and a growing desire to flex creative muscles through culinary expression and experimentation. Somewhere along the line I discovered that (gasp) I actually like to cook. And somewhere along the line I discovered cooking has innate rewards (rock-star cool aside), and that the better you cook, the more creative your creations, the bigger and better the rewards. Young men take heed. If you're not already cooking, there's something you should know. The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach. Which is to simply say that nothing lights up a woman's face at the end of a long, cold winter day better than the following words: "Hey, hon, I've made some soup...." Andy Juniper can be contacted at ajjuniper@gmail.com, found on Facebook www.facebook.com, or followed at www.twitter.com/ thesportjesters.