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Sunday, November 12, 2000 18 Oakville Beaver Weekend An O akville Beaver Feature To advertise in this section call 845-3824 Fax:337-5568 Travel Now is the best time for Canadian visitors to discover what's new and unique about the Orlando area. By calling 1-877-913-5477 or visiting www.orlandokissimmee.com/ Canada, Canadian visitors receive a free Vacation Planning Kit to find new ways to enjoy real savings on their Orlando area vacation. Included in the kit are the Orlando and KissimmeeSt.Cloud visitor guides; an orlando accommodations S ports · N ews · Entertainment Orlando Vacation Kit just a phone call away guide; a discount attraction ticket flyer; and the Orlando Magicard. More than 50,000 annual Canadian visitors already make their dream vacation come true by taking advan tage of the value-price vaca tion options available in orlando and KissimmeeSt.Cloud. Canadian visitors have come to rely on the Kissimmee-St.Cloud Visitor's Guide discount coupons as a means to save up to 50% at participating area accommodations, restaurants and attractions. And the Orlando Magicard offers up to $500 in savings at 85 attractions, accommoda tions, restaurants, dinner theatres, ground transportation and shopping malls. Those are just a couple of ways Canadian fami lies can stretch their vacation budgets, but the Vacation Planning Kit offers other helpful hints and price-saving suggestions.Canadian families who want to escape cold winters can enjoy low70s F (22C) to mid 80sF (27C) during the days and low 50sF (10C) to mid 60sF (16C) at night in the Orlando area. The area's newest addition, Discovery Cove, a reservations-only theme park, provides guests the opportunity to swim with dolphins and other exotic sea life, stroll through the bird aviary and enjoy a day on the sandy beach. Other new addi tions add freshness and new excitement to the Orlando area. Even the world-renowned theme parks -- SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Orlando and Walt Disney World -- are improving to the delight of Canadian vis itors and guests. SeaWorld Orlando unleashed Kraken, a roller coaster that suspends guests in mid-air as high as a 15-storey building. In April, Universal Studios Florida debuted men In Black: Alien Attack, where guest-trainees of Will Smith and Rip Tom use laser zappers to save the earth from intergalactic terrorists. At Islands of Adventure, The Flying Unicom, a child-sized roller coaster opened and Storm Force Acceleration opened providing guests a chance to help super heroine Storm harness the power of weather to battle archenemy Magneto. Walt Disney World Resort introduced the FASTPASS program, an innovative new system designed to reduce waiting times at popular attraction and shows. The free service is available to all park guests at 13 attractions across all four Disney theme parks. In addition, Disney Cruise Line's Disney Magic began a seven-day vacation cruise in the eastern Caribbean. Visitors looking to discover some thing they never knew about the orlando area can visit the new orange County Regional History Centre in downtown Orlando. The 65,000 sq.-ft. (5,850 sq.m.) Centre locat ed in the restored neo-classic 1927 cour thouse takes visitors through the history of Central Florida through interactive, hands-on exhibits. Also visitors in the area from now to October 2001 won't want to miss the invasion of the lizards. Just like moose in Toronto, visitors can view hundreds of six-foot lizards that have invaded the streets as part of a pub lic arts project. With more than 90 attractions, 300 lakes, 44 million Sq. Ft. of retail space, 3,800 restaurants and 100,000 hotel rooms, Orlando and KissimmeeSt.Cloud offer a wide variety of vacation options for any age or pocketbook. : Meet the Team A C O N T I N U I N G SERIES P R O F I L I N G T H E STAFF OF ' C A N A D A ' S BEST C O M M U N I T Y N E W S P A P E R ' Theresa Nielsen Theresa has been a C ustom er Service Representative w ith The O a k v ille Beaver C ircu la tio n D epartm ent fo r the past 8 years. A valuable team member, Theresa liaises w ith Beaver sub scribers, parents and carriers to provide d e live ry o f Canada's Best C o m m u n ity newspaper. Theresa finds interacting w ith people an e njoyable aspect o f her jo b . in the O T M H Classic run fo r the past 3 years and other running events to raise m oney fo r charity. She is cu rre n tly in her fourth year at York U niversity, and intends to fu rth e r her education in business adm inistration. H er hobbies in clu d e aerobics, jo gging and v o lle y b a ll. QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK SCHOOL PARENTS' NIGHT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2000 7:30 Meet and Greet - Meet with the teachers informally in Gyms A, B and C. Make an appointment for individual interviews in Gyms. 7:35 - 9:00 Individual interviews in classrooms. "It is a pleasure to work with such wonderful people here at the Beaver and throughout the community." 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