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Orono Weekly Times, 25 Jul 2001, p. 6

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■■■8 - Orono Weekly limes,- Wednesday, July 25, 2001 ■ Community Events Tuesday, July 31 - Free - Village Music Fest 2001 presents Ganaraska Cloggers & Keren, 7:00 p.m. at Orono Library Gazebo. Bring your chair, food bank donations accepted. Monday, August 13th - Friday, August 31, 2001 - Gain creative and effective job search skills in the Job Finding Club. Meta Vocational Services Inc. in Bowmanville is offering a three-week j ob search program, sponsored by Human Resources Development Canada - contact Cathleen Lycett at (905) 697-8887. Tuesday. August 21st - Sunday, August 26th - Kids Summer Adventure, for boys and girls 6-12 years of age, 9:30 a.m. to noon daily, theme "Rally Days 2001", donation of a loony per day. Sponsored by Crossroads Christian Assembly, 978 North Street, Newcastle. Call 987-9955 to register. Till Tuesday, August 28th - Heritage Craft Days, Bowmanville Museum, every Tuesday, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m., children ages 7-11 are welcome. For more information or to register call Laura at 905-623-2734. A fresh coat of paint The empty garage at the comer of Station and Main in Orono recently received a fresh coat of paint. The paint job was required by the Municipality to bring the building up to property standards. standards. Clifford Francis of Pro Painting was contracted to give the building the required face lift. Two Ms of Canadians not meeting nutrition requirements Ottawa, July 25,2000 - A and take action," says Liz newly released national sur- Pearson, registered dietitian vey on vegetable and fmit and spokesperson for "5 to consumption revealed that 10 a day - Are you Getting only 36 per cent of Enough?", a partnership Canadians consume the between the Canadian Health Canada Food Guide Cancer Society, the Heart recommended five to ten and Stroke Foundation of daily servings of vegetables Canada and the Canadian and fruit, despite knowledge Produce Marketing that there is a direct link Association, between eating vegetables Pearson points to itnpor- and fruit and preventing dis- tant findings from a study ease. published in June 2001 in the canned vegetables and fruit are very convenient and offer great nutrition. And there are so many easy ways to make vegetables and fruit taste even better than they already do. In essence, fruits and vegetables are a lot more convenient, affordable and tasty than people think and they are a great way to help prevent cancer and heart disease." disease." • FREE ESTIMATES • COMPETITIVE RATES• • INSURANCE CLAIMS • FRED'S AUTOBODY (SOS) 623-6353 163 Baseline Road, Unit 1 Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3L4 Complete Collision Repair, proprietor ' Restoration and Refinishing | N Northcutt Elliott 3 E Funeral Home THOUGHTFULNESS, SERVICE & CONCERN A Family Owned Business, Offering: Traditional Funeral Services Pre-arranged &. Prepaid Services - Cremation Arrangements Alternatives to Traditional Funerals - Out of Town Shipping CORY KUIPERS - PRESIDENT 53 Division Street 623-5668 Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 2Z8 OFF STREET PARKING Fred DeVries Approximately 70 pef cent of those surveyed were aware that eating vegetables and fruit can help prevent cancer, 1 heart disease and stroke. But just over 40 per cent of women and only 22 per cent of men indicated they consume the required number of servings to be effective in fighting disease. The survey, undertaken by ACNielsen, interviewed 2007 people during the month of June. "Mounting evidence of thé link between vegetable and fruit consumption and lowering incidence of heart disease, cancer and stroke should make people stand up SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIMES $30.00 a year. Annals of Internal Medicine that show consumption of vegetables and fruit, particularly particularly green leafy vegetables and vitamin-C rich vegetables vegetables and fmit can reduce the risk of heart disease by at least 20%. The study involved over 80,000 women and over 40,000 men. "There is a lot of research that shows that vegetables and fmit can help prevent cancer, but this is one of the one of the largest studies to support the benefits of vegetables vegetables and finit in preventing preventing heart disease." Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death in Canada so why are people not taking some simple simple steps to protect themselves themselves from these diseases? "The time, the cost and the taste of vegetables and fmit are three of the most common reasons given for not eating more of them," says Pearson. "Arid yet, there are so iriany things consumers consumers can do to overcome these percéived barriers. Convenience items like prewashed, prewashed, bagged salads and baby carrots are now widely available.. Frozen and Tell them the life and death. one killer of teens Canada is car crashes! Collisions! Bad driving! Then tell them you giving them the Young Drivers of Canada program, program, the most demanding driving course in North America. They'll learn risk perception. Emergency braking. secrets of collision avoidance. Add so much more. Kids are always thrilled to get Young Drivers as a present. 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