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Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Invite us along! Win great prizes for healthy eating habits WHITBY, ON, August 31, 2004 - Durham Region Health Department invites you to enter the Invite Us Along! contest and tell us how you get your family to eat more vegetables vegetables and fruit for a chance to win great prizes. The. contest contest is a promotion designed to encourage healthy eating and meal preparation, and offers area residents an opportunity to share their healthy eating tips. "This contest gives people a chance to share the imaginative imaginative methods they use to get their families to eat more vegetables vegetables and fruit on a daily basis," says Eleanor King, a public health nurse with the Health Department. "A healthy diet relies on nutrients from vegetables and fruit. Despite this fact, our research indicates that only 34 per cent of Durham Region residents eat five servings of vegetables and fruit a day." Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating recommends eating five to 10 servings of vegetables and fruit a day. The guide was developed to assist people in meeting daily-recommended daily-recommended servings of vegeta- bles and fruit, and to help them make good dietary choices from the four food groups. Grain products, vegetables vegetables and fruit should make up the larger part of a healthy eating plan. People should choose dark green and orange vegetables, and orange fruit more often. "We look forward to finding finding out the creative ways people people include vegetables and fruit into their daily diet," explains Ms. King. "By adding more vegetables and fruit to meals and choosing them as healthy snacks throughout the day, everyone can reach the five to 10 recommendations." recommendations." Entry forms are available on Durham Region's Web site at www.region.durham.on.ca or at various locations throughout the Region including including libraries and recreation centres. There are four $75 gift certificates for local Eat Smart! restaurants and four $50 grocery store gift certificates certificates to be awarded through a random draw. The top tips and ideas entered into the contest will be published in a Health Department newsletter and posted on the Region's Web site. Contest closes Nov. 1. For more information on the Invite Us Along! contest or to find out more about healthy eating and nutrition, please call Durham Region Health Department at 905- 723-8521 or 1-800-841-2729, ext. 2125. Additional information information is also available online at www.region.durham.on.ca. MORRIS FUNPRAL CHAPEL LTD. SERVING DURHAM REGION SINCE 1841 ALL FUNERAL SERVICES PREARRANGED AND/OR PREPAID BURIAL - CREMATION - TRANSFERS "WHERE PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE IS IMPORTANT' vriNKBAL DIRECTORS PAUL R. MORRIS GARY M. CONWAY DOUG R. RUTHERFORD DEBRA D. KELLEHER 905-623-5480 a nix/lSIQN ST-, BOWMANVIl I F - AT QUEEN ST The junior class of the "Freedom of Dance" dance studio in the former Armouries building in Orono, held their pose following following a recital held August 20th. Northcutt Elliott 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 905-623-5668 Bowmanville, Ontario L1C2Z8 OFF STREET PARKING Bethesda House ' : " ■ ■ . :... Are you mart abusive relationshipf Call I; * ('pifilii!!! Bethesda HousS <5-623-6050: or , |l ; l| i 1 : " ! 1 *ÉjSjM 1-800-338-3391 (For women with ok||| HM/KW* children.) 1|J S I Visit Bev Oda at the 1 Durham Conservative Association booth PORT PERRY FAIR Sept 3 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Sept 4 10:00 am - 3:30 pm. Sept 5 11:00 am - 3:00 p.m. Sept 6 Noon - 4:00 pm. 1 fXRRIDGE FAIR Sept 11 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm. Sept 12 10:00 am - 12:30 pm. ORONO FAIR Sept. 9 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. (opening) Sept 10 10:00- 11:30 am Sept 11 10:30 - 1:30 pm. (parade) I Sept 12 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Ontario's new free vaccines will protect kids The government of Ontario is hnlpinM ^ ! ^ ( ^'j j | * lu u Hz; t lion s( , hl , (lù < lô^Hcre's t how U^works:^ 8 ' ' ' rrSL---. X- -- . K7«Sy 2005. Ij-your-oltlfi who I I™' ,** - *» ™" 1 "* " . 2000, SI, IfrU, hWU* ' « meningococcal meningitis vaccinations. 1-877-284-4343. TTY 1-800-387-5BB0. For more Information, talk to your doctor or local public health unit, Gall Or visit llcalthyOntario.com. /•,. - >" Ontario