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38 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, August 11,2000 M a n n in g J ew ellers T oad vertise inth issection ca ll 845-3824 F ax:845-5516 Business GOLDSMITH & DIAMOND MERCHANT ------------------------- ^ -------------------------- · Finest Quality · Reliable Service for 20 Years 125 CROSS AVE. · TRAFALGAR VILLAGE · 844-2668 Cogeco adds Excite to @ Home Network By W ilm a Blokhuis OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Thanks to the merger of Excite and the @Home Network in the United States, Cogeco's cable Internet clients can now access Excite. Excite, an Internet content provider, allows clients to customize their own home pages, says Ken Smithard, Cogeco's marketing director. The @Home Network is an Internet service provider used by cable companies. The new service will be known as Excite for Cogeco @Home. "They can change the look of their home page," said Smithard of the web page that comes on as clients access the service. "They can change the colour of the page, and customize some of the con tent, such as which news stories they would be interested in reading first." The channels, of which the news ser vice is just one, can be categorized into (S e e `Customized' page 40) CHAMBER GATHERING: The presidents of five Golden Horseshoe Chamber of Commerces were among the 500business people Ron Kuzyk Photo attending a Joint Chambers'After Hours networking event at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington Wednesday nighL Picture here are (left to right) Shawn Chamberlin (Hamilton), Dave Vann (Stoney Creek), Douglas Goodrow (Burlington), Kim Piper (Flamborough), and Bob Griesbach (Oakville). V Mattamy wants to deal a full house for Oakville YMCA Recently, Mattamy Homes' employees and suppliers per formed a trial run for the First Annual Mattamy Homes "Ride fo'r the Y -- Motorcycle Poker Run," which will raise funds for the Oakville YMCA Capital Campaign. The company will host this event on Sunday, Sept. 10th, to raise funds for the completion of the brand new $12.3 million Oakville YMCA slated to be unveiled in late fall, 2001. Conceived by Mattamy Senior Builder Jurgen Emmrich with help from cycling colleagues at the company and their suppliers, the Motorcycle Poker Run repre sents another lap in the race to reach this important goal. The event begins and ends at the Oakville YMCA on Rebecca and to the entrant who came the farthest to participate. Don Walker, executive vicepresident and CFO of Mattamy Homes and vice-chair, finance of the YMCA Board of Directors, was on-hand as riders revved up to test the circuit for this special event open to the public, which will send participants along the picturesque Niagara Escarpment through Milton, Guelph and Campbellville. Mattamy Homes is a long-time supporter of the Oakville YMCA, as Peter Gilgan, Mattamy presi dent and CEO, is capital cam paign cabinet chair. For more information on Public Registration and Corporate Sponsorship opportunities, con tact Jurgen Emmrich at Mattamy's Upper Glen Abbey, at 847-8944. Mattamy Homes Ride for the Y Motorcycle Poker Run participants recently held a trial run of the route. Street, with coffee and donuts BBQ commencing at 1 p.m. Poker hand enroute. Awards will provided during registration, 9 to Drivers ante up $15 and passen- be presented for the top hands 10:30 a.m., and a Finish Line gers $10 to collect a five-card collected, plus the worst hand, Top Brand Names with purchase of All Fram es S to re w id e y0U IR xlenses 1Large selection of frames Doctor's appointment arranged We accept all vision care programs o f e y e g la s s e s . SPACE OPTICAL S p a c e O p tic a l in v ite s y o u lo c o m e in a n d s e e a ll th e n e w la te s t s ty le s V isit us fo r p e rs o n a l a n d p ro m p t service . Trafalgar Village, 125 Cross Ave. (across from GO Station) 842-2821