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8 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, April 11, 2000 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Thirty hour famine helps raise awareness of less fortunate By Chris Hall Port Perry Star Port Perry High School students went hungry for 30 hours last week in their effort to raise awareness of the problems the less-fortunate face around the world. A total of 125 students from Grade 9 through OAC went with- out food from 8 a.m. last Thursday (April 6) until 2 p.m. the following day as part of the 30-Hour famine, an effort through World Vision Canada. Participants were asked to col- lect pledges in support of their efforts, and-raised close to $5,000 to help those in the Third World as a result. Approximately 150,000 Canadian students were expected to participate in a 30-Hour Famine event over the past week. "This is pretty good, it's great to see so many young people taking part and being active in this event... supporting this cause," World Vision Canada representa- Humans and wildlife tive Rob Luxton said last Thursday evening in the PPHS gymnasium where the students were prepar- ing to spend the night. "The first meal you miss is the toughest; when that first meal time comes around and you miss it, it's tough because it's habit to eat at that time. "But, now you know what bil- lions of people feel each day and what we take for granted in Canada. When we want, we can go and turn on the tap and get fresh, clean water and we can go into the cupboard and get food. Not every- one can do that." World Vision is a world-wide, non-denominational Christian organization which strives to help, feed, and shelter those in Third World and other countries who need assistance to survive, as well as helping construct long-term community developments. "We work with the poorest of the poor in over 100 countries and with 5,000 projects... there is a lot of help going out there." Mr. Luxton estimates that World Vision helps more than 70 million people each year, in a wide variety of situations. "I've been to help out the Hurricane Mitch victims in Honduras and with the recent floods in Mozambique... what we do is the opposite of greed and selfishness. We're here to help everyone. "People here (in North America), we get caught up in our own problems... but when you put it into perspective, we're doing okay. Every day is survival for those people, they have to find the basics just to get by." As part of his 45-minute pre- sentation to the PPHS students, Mr. Luxton presented Kathleen Farquharson with a plaque of appreciation for the efforts of PPHS' 1999 30-Hour Famine, which raised more than $4,500 for World Vision. CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR On behalf of all the students who participated in the 1999 30-Hour Famine at PPHS last year, Kathleen Farquharson accepted a plaque of recognition from World Vision Canada representative Rob Luxton last Thursday evening. NUTRITION PROS NORTH RIDGE EXCAVATING (former location of Van Camp Contracting Limited) The Sunny Side of Eggs by Bronwen Tuck RD Eggs have gotten a bad rap in the past. But as the Easter Bunny knows, eggs are one of nature's most nutritious foods and fit very well as part of a healthy diet. | must share this habitat | Continued From Page 7 to respect nature but we also teach the deer not to fear Af! automobiles. Death is all too often the result of good \ intentions. One Grade A large egg (50g) provides: Energy 75 calories Protein 6 grams Carbohydrate 0.5 grams Total Fat 5 grams Saturated Fat 1.5 grams Cholesterol 215 mg | Feeding bread to an adult swan makes a scavenger of agnificent wild creature but it probably does little CBysical harm. Bread and French: fries seem to be the | favourite bait of people intent on close contact but it does | not supply nutrition. When fed to less hardy species in colder weather it fills them with bulk but fails to provide the necessary calories required to sustain the bird through the winter months. Birds that die from lack of food in'the winter do not starve to death ... they freeze. As Mr. Hvidsten so eloquently pointed out, we are blessed with the opportunity to observe nature in our own backyards. The wildlife that has been here for mil- lions of years shares this habitat with us. It is our obliga- tion to return the favour and keep our distance. ! 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