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OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR OF THE OAKVILLE WATERFRONT FESTIVAL Focus O akville/ V J a te r fr x m f e s t iv a l t fcsgc; Health-wise m CREATINE EXPIRES JUNE 30 */00 1 0 1 1 U o p k p M id d le H o a d L a s t "Illiper Oakville Shuppimi Centra' (9 0 5 ) 3 3 7 8 5 2 2 Oakville Beaver Focus Editor: WILMA BLOKHUIS 845-3824 Ext: 250; Fax: 337-5567; Email: blokhuis@ haltonsearch.com fla t ukeds Oakville business man sole Canadian importer of Glider UK push scooter By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR Colin Fell may have stumbled across the hottest thing on two wheels. The president of Target Marketing in Oakville is the exclusive Canadian importer and distribu tor of the Glider IIK folding push scooter. Out of the box and ready to roll, this light weight scooter brings back memories. "This scooter has a lot of nostalgia attached to it. And, it's functional. It's hip, it's c o o l.. It weighs only three kilograms and folds up to be carried. Reminiscent of the scooters that were popular with children during the 1950s and 1960s, and earlier, the Glider IIK comes with a telescopic steering handle attached to a long footboard equipped with two oversized rollerblade wheels, and a brake at the back. And, it comes in several colours - silver (shiny aluminum), red, blue, and green, with matching wheels. The scooter is the latest trend in cool, urban transit, and has make `sidewalk surfing' respectable from Tokyo to Vancouver. It is this summer's `must have' mode of trans portation in London, England, where 4,000 of them are sold each week. The scooter is gaining popularity in New York City, Zurich, California, Australia, Montreal, and has been seen in Toronto. The craze began in Tokyo, Japan, where scooter sales top 50,000 units per week. "People are using it to commute to work. It has captured people's imagination.. . it has cap tured my imagination." Fell came across the product at a trade show while on a spring buying trip to Taiwan, in search of new import product for his mostly pro motional merchandising business. "Every time I looked up, I saw another kid on a scooter. Walking out of a restaurant, I saw a woman assembling one on the counter." Fell believes handling a retail product as hot as the Glider IIK will take his Oakville based business on a new wave. "If we can ride this wave, we will." Fell, who runs Target Marketing with his mother Anne Fell and sister Susan Walkinshaw, believes importing the Glider IIK for the Canadian retail market "is too good of an oppor tunity to pass up." He started the company in 1979. "I first saw it in Taiwan, where a lot of the new trends emerge. That country is a spawning ground for new merchandise." Fell imports most of his product from Taiwan, where he has an office. "If I hadn't gone to Taiwan this past spring, I would not have found this product." Locally, the scooter will be available at Oakville Cycle and Sports in Trafalgar Village, said Fell, adding other sports retailers and depart ment stores are showing keen interest in the product. The scooter may retail for anywhere between $150 to $200, said Fell. Photo by Peter J. Thompson Colin Fell, president and founder of Target Marketing, takes the Glider IIK on a test run. Paddle for United Way, YMCA By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR It was a wet launch last Wednesday morning at the Burloak Canoe Club for the Millennium Challenge, a canoe trip to raise $25,000 for the Oakville United Way and the Oakville YMCA's capital campaign. David Angas and Mickie Daniel, both of Oakville, plan to paddle the Catarqui and Rideau Rivers from Kingston to Ottawa via Smith Falls. The pair will start their nine-day, 225-kilometre trip tomorrow, arriving in Ottawa on July 1st for that city's Millennium Canada Day celebrations. They chose to start their Millennium Challenge in Kingston, because that city was Canada's first capital. They will be paddling at their own expense, carrying with them all supplies required for the trip. Angas and Daniel have trained for about a year at the Burloak Canoe Club, paddling up and down Sixteen Mile Creek, and back and forth between Oakville and Bronte Harbours. "We were out last Sunday (June 10th) during that downpour," said Daniel, adding she and Angas will be making the trip regardless of the weath er. Last July they paddled from Seeley's Bay to the Brass Point Swing Bridge on the Rideau Waterway near Kingston. They began paddling after Angas had the winning bid on a 16-foot canvas covered cedar strip canoe donated at an Easter Seals fundraiser in Toronto in April 1999. "When I discovered the canoe was donated by the camp where I went as a boy, Camp Nominingue in Quebec, I started bidding in earnest," said Angas. `Then, I brought it to the Burloak Canoe Club and we started training." They trained under Olympic Gold medalist Larry Cain, who acted as their paddling coach. The club donated the use of its facilities. Angas, a senior investment advisor with Nesbitt Bums and a 25-year resi dent of Oakville, said the Kingston to Ottawa paddle would not only be "something personally significant for me, but the community should also ben efit." Daniel, his paddling partner, is the project manager of the new Oakville Trafalgar Memorial building expansion, and a 10-year Oakville resident. Both are members of the OakvilleTrafalgar Rotary Club. To make a pledge, send a cheque, payable to the United Way of Oakville, to David Angas, Nesbitt Bums, 1 First Canadian Place, 48th Floor, P.O. Box 150; Toronto, ON, M5X 1H3. Mickie Daniel and David Angas, in the canoe, will paddle from Kingston to Ottawa to raise funds for the Oakville United Way and YMCA. Sending them off, from rear, are Mayor Ann Mulvale, Bruce Ireland of the Oakville YMCA, and Clive Smith, United Way campaign chair. Photo by Barrie Erskine A N N O U N C I N G T H E W O R L D 'S B ody & B a th II N E W E S T C H E M IC A L GRAND OPENING FREE SAMPLES DRAWS & PRIZES R E FR E S H M E N TS S a tu rd a y J u n e 2 4 < * ila h * Shopping (Viiirc 3rd Lino «V Itolirrra Elf Atochem Canada Inc. is now ATOFINA Canada Inc. Although our name is new, we are still the neighbour you've known for decades. We remain committed to our customers, our employees and our communities in which we do business. Conducting ourselves as a good neighbour, with programs that enrich our communities, continues to be an important part of our culture. 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