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B4~' THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, March 1, 2000 )little Caesars Pizza 1 Medium Pizza UNLIMITED TOPPINGS plus tax Father and son share Leap Day birthdays By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR D ouglas Sanderson shares a special bond with his son Charlie. Both o f them are `L eapies.' They celebrated their birthdays yester day, Feb. 29th. "Charlie had his second birth day," joked Sanderson, w hose son turned eight yesterday. B om in 1992, Charlie cam e a day late, making him a second generation Leap Year baby. Sanderson, the second youngest o f seven, was bom on schedule in I960, and has seen 10 birthdays - `L ea p ies' alw ays jo k e ab o u t celeb ratin g their birthdays every four years, w henever Feb. 29th show s up on the calendar. Both o f them were born at O akville T rafalg ar M em orial Hospital. O ther years, `L eap ies' cele brate on Feb. 28th, and last year Sanderson organized a huge skat ing party at Ice Sports. "W e had about 60 people com e, som e from M an ito b a and E n g lan d ," he reflects. This year it was a quiet cele bration at home. His seven-yearold daughter M egan had her ton sils rem oved last w eek, "and we have a 12-w eek old baby, A ngie." H ow ever, adds S an d erso n , "I bought C h arlie a G am e Boy, som ething h e's alw ays w anted." There are an estim ated four m illion `L eapies' w orldw ide, and 21,000 in Canada. N ot only do father and son share the sam e birthday - both attended M aple G rove School, "and sat in the sam e classroom s. I w as there for the school's 100th anniversary, and C harlie was there for its 125th." L eap Year occurs every four years to correct a glitch in the earth's rotation around the sun, as decreed by Pope G regory X III in 1582. T he 365-day calendar is off about one-quarter o f a day annual ly, hence the four-year adjustm ent to keep statutory holidays in line w ith the seasons. T he actual time it takes Earth to circle the sun is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 m inutes and 4 6 seconds. T he glitch was first discovered in 46 BC by Julius Caesar, how ever his solution o f adding 10 days to the then 355-day year did not solve the problem , as the cal endar continued to slip backw ards by one-quarter o f a day annually. G regory's solution w as to im m e diately drop 10 days from O ctober 1582 and ruled, in order to keep the calendar on schedule, that a century year m ust be divisible by 4 00 to be a leap year. Thus, the first leap century year was 1600. T he year 2000 is only the sec ond century leap year, and the first to fall at the beginning o f a new millennium . H ow ever, no calen dar produced to date has ever identified Feb. 29th as L eap Day. T he H onour Society o f Leap D ay B abies w ould like to see the day officially recognized, sim ilar to Valentines Day and G roundhog Day. For m ore inform ation, visit the g ro u p 's w eb site at: http://w w w .leapdaybabies.com - With file s fro m Torstar Network 2ND MEDIUM $ 5.99+TAX 2441 Lakeshore Road w e s t (B ro n te Village Mall) 827 -7 7 7 8 511 Maple Grove Road (Maple Grove Village) 84 2-1 1 1 4 Photo by Peter C. McCusker D ouglas Sanderson and son C harlie were both born on Feb. 29th at O akville Trafalgar M em orial H ospital, and both attended M aple G rove School. h e a rt & soul. (if y o u r s c o u l d u s e a b i t o f a j u m p s t a r t , g e t p l u g g e d in ) Women's Centre breakfast to launch T he W om en's Centre will host a breakfast on M arch 8th to celebrate International W om en's Day and to launch the cam paign kick-off o f the World M arch o f Women 2000 to be held this fall. T he breakfast will be held at the Tow ne Restaurant, 467 Speers Rd., 8 to 9:30 a.m. C ost is $7. Bev LeFrancois, executive director o f the Halton Rape Crisis Centre, will speak about W omen Taking Action for Change. This march will be supported by hundreds of Canadian w om en's groups, churches, students and labour groups, w ho will be participating in this event dem anding international action to achieve equality and justice for women. The world M arch o f Women 2000 represents an international collection o f 3,000 w om en's organiza tions from 143 countries in protesting poverty and violence in w om en's life, and promises to be the largest w om en's dem onstration in history. This M arch was initiated by the Federation des femm es du Q uebec (Quebec Federation o f Women) following the success o f the 1995 W omen's M arch in that province and the 1996 National W om en's M arch for Bread and Roses in Canada. A ccording to som e h istorians, International W om en's Day traces its roots to labour strikes by fem ale textile w orkers held on M arch 8th in both 1857 and 1908 to protest poor w orking conditions and low pay in New York City. Since then, the w om en's m ovem ent has been instrum ental in im proving w orking conditions and recognizing fundam ental rights, including for exam ple, the right to vote. Alberta, Saskatchew an and M anitoba becam e the first provinces to grant w om en the vote in provincial elections in 1916. They gained that sam e right in British Colum bia and O ntario the follow ing year, follow ed by N ova Scotia in 1918. N ew Brunsw ick follow ed in 1919, and Prince Edw ard Island in 1922. A ll w om en over 25 gained the right to vote in N ew foundland in 1925. Q uebec finally granted this right to w om en in 1940. All w om en over 21 were granted to vote federal ly in 1918, after that right had already been granted to w om en w ho w ere close relatives o f arm ed forces personnel the previous year. For inform ation, call the W om en's C entre at 8475520. /Chartwell Church \2 2 8 Chartwell, Oakville, ON .March 4, 2000 - - Coffee @ 5:00 Gathering @ ! Asking & listen in g to Cod th ro u g h m usic, d ra m a & te a c h in g from th e Bible. Dream s Take Flight! T he F ollow in g is a L ist o f Item s and O p p ortu n ities W aiting for Your Bid at THE OAKVILLE FIELD HOCKEY CLUB'S DREAM-A-TH0N SILENTAUCTION at St. Thomas Aquinas High School Saturday, March 4th - 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 2 Toronto Maple Leaf Playoff Tkts. Kelmat Graphic Designs We wiH pay _ _ Chocolate Bundt Cake Ashley Bissonnette PAINTINGS & PRINTS (all items are framed) 2 Saturday Tickets to the Bell Canadian Open <m *M . Sailing School Instruction Bronte Harbour Yacht Club Royal Canadian Golf Assoc. Flynn Produce Co. 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