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FLYER DELIVERY Quantities as low as 1000 6 $ 905-845-3824 FOfllSJr ^ FOURTH LINE AUTO good/ y ea r For All Your Car's Needs Drive Clean Emission Testing Government Safety Inspection Tune-Ups · Brakes · Exhaust · Cooling Systems CAA Approved Shop Official Media Sponsor V______________________ !____________________ 559 Speers Road (905) 842-3001 y Editor: Wilma Blokhuis Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 250) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: blokhuis@haltonsearch.com Girl Guide commissioner shares youthful enthusiasm By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FO C U S EDITOR "I was pregnant with my fourth child at the time, so I joined a year later," said the mother of two daughters and two sons. `You Go Girl' Mary Jane Howie has hiked pristine areas of northern Ontario, has gone canoe ing. built wood duck nesting houses, cub cars and rockets, went rock climbing, and horseback riding. "You name it, I've done it." Howie lives up to the Girl Guides of Canada's new motto, `You Go G irl' and exemplifies, youthfulness, adventure and having "fun with a purpose." ' "I had never been in a canoe before, and now I've gone on wilderness canoe trips. "I've been to places where the forest comes right to the edge of the water, and felt like I was the first person to see this the way God made it. I've seen many, many places the way God made it and came away feeling I might have been the first person to see it. This is a very power ful feeling." Howie joined Girl Guides almost 30 years ago, at age 30, when one of her daughters expressed an interested in join ing Girl Guides but there was no leader, explained Howie, reflecting on an oppor tunity that changed her life. " While with Maplebrook, I ran a group at Oaklands Regional Centre for 11 years. That was a very interesting experience. There was no infor mation available for running units for disabled people so I flew by the seat of my pants. I learned these kids are the most cheerful people." · Mary Jane Howie The enthusiasm of the girls in her group was "infectious," and Howie become hooked on Guiding. She started as a volunteer leader in the Maplebrook District of the Silverthom Division, named for Rebecca Silverthom, wife of Col. William Chisholm. Today, she's the White Oaks Area Commissioner, a volunteer position. The White Oaks Area covers all of Halton - except Burlington, plus Mississauga and Brampton and has two divisions, Silverthom and Trafalgar. The dividing line is Sixteen Mile Creek. White Oaks has about 1,700 leaders and 8,000 girls enrolled in Girl Guides. Oakville has about 1,127 enrolled in Girl Guides, with some 227 leaders in 67 groups. Howie volunteered as a leader for 25 years before m oving up to become Silverthom Divisional Commissioner five years ago. About two years ago she became White Oaks commissioner. "While with Maplebrook, I ran a group at Oaklands Regional Centre for 11 years. That was a very interesting experience. There was no information available for running units for disabled people so I flew by the seat of my pants. I learned these kids are the most cheerful people. "When I asked: `Who wants to go hik ing?' every hand went up. "These people try to challenge them selves. "It took them about a year to learn the Guide promise, compared to one month for a normal unit. These people reached out to me and I thoroughly enjoyed it." She discovered there was a whole lot more to the Girl Guides movement then "camping and cookies, although camping and cookies are a big thing with Girl Guides." (See `Lot' page C2) Jamie Smith* Special to the Beaver Mary Jane Howie is proud of her Girl Guides of Canada camp T-shirt from Camp Wyoka, the White Oaks Area camp north of Harrison. Quit smoking, win a Honda Like to win a car? A Honda Civic DX-G is the grand prize in Ontario's Quit Smoking 2002 Contest endorsed by the Halton Council on Smoking or Health (HCSH). Smokers who kick the habit from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15 will be eligible to win the car or one of' seven Samsung digital cameras. Over the past two years, more than 800 smokers in Halton have entered this province-wide con test. Now in its third year, HCSH aims to encourage 760 smokers to quit for one month and hope fully continue to live smoke free. "It's not easy to quit smok ing," says Cathy NelsonThompson, HCSH Chairperson. "It helps if you are mentally pre pared and you have supports in place for when the going gets tough." Nelson-Thompson says a smoker who wants to quit should begin by thinking about why they smoke, why they want to quit and how they will cope with the urges and pressures to smoke after they have quit. Contest participants are required to enlist the help of a non-smoking buddy who will give them support along the way. Buddies of confirmed winners also win a cash prize. "The ways of quitting are as varied as the people who smoke," says Tanya Kulnies, Health Promoter, Halton Region Health Department. "We do know that all smokers go through five stages to being smoke-free - having no thought of quitting, thinking about quit ting, getting ready to quit, quit ting and becoming and remaining smoke-free. The goal of this con test is to provide incentives to help smokers move to the quit ting stage and then give them the supports to help them quit." The Quit Smoking 2002 Contest is open to all daily smok ers aged 19 years of age or older. Entries must be received by mid night Oct. 15. For more information about the contest or for an entry form, call the Quit Smoking Contest Information Line at telephone number 905-825-6179. Smokers can also enter by going on-line to www.quitsmokingontario.ca. "Everyone who enters the contest and quits - even if it's only for a month - comes out a winner, whether or not their name is selected in the draws," says Nelson-Thompson. For more information, call Tanya Kulnies at the Halton Region Health Department, 905825-6060 Ext. 7525. Peter C. McCusker* Oakville Beaver Cathy Nelson-Thompson, Chairperson of the Halton Council on Smoking or Health, holds brochures to enter the Quit Smoking 2002 Contest in hopes of winning a Honda Civic DX-G, as Yvonne Everard-Parr of the Halton Region Health Department and Monica Marquis of HCSH celebrate. The Honda Civic in this photo was supplied by Halton Honda in Burlington. The win ner's car has been donated by Blue Mountain Honda of Collingwood, Ont. 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