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Manager WEBSITE oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver is a division of Guest Columnist More blue and green for a better planet Gary Carr, Halton Regional Chair eginning April 7, there will be changes to your waste collection services. The most significant change being made is the implementation of the weekly GreenCart collection program. The GreenCart will collect kitchen food waste (fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, bones, pasta, fats and oils) and compostable paper (coffee filters, flour bags, paper coffee cups) creating valuable compost material that can be used in landscaping, agriculture and restoration projects. Currently, 45 per cent of the average garbage bag in Halton contains leftover food and compostable paper that can be turned into compost and diverted from our landfill site. You have the opportunity to learn more about the GreenCart program by attending a public open house. There have been six open houses to date with six more to occur throughout each of the local municipalities. Attend an open house to learn more about acceptable materials, easy ways to keep the GreenCart clean including acceptable liners, where materials go and why the GreenCart is important to a sustainable Halton. Visit www.halton.ca for specific times and locations. It is up to you whether you line your GreenCart and Kitchen Catcher. If you decide to use a liner you can use newspaper/flyers, cardboard, yard waste bags, paper food waste bags and certified compostable bags. Choose what is most convenient to you; however, regular plastic bags are not accepted (for example, regular plastic shopping bags). By excluding regular plastics, the composting facility will be supplied with a cleaner material resulting in a higher quality final compost product. For a list of paper bags and certified compostable bags accepted in the GreenCart program visit www.halton.ca. Along with weekly GreenCart collection, you will now have weekly Blue Box collection. Weekly collection of both the GreenCart and Blue Box will provide you with more opportunities to recycle and compost, reducing the amount of garbage going to our landfill. Many neighbouring cities and regions have implemented similar programs and are now achieving high rates of waste diversion from the landfill. Details about the new waste management services including your specific collection days and information about the GreenCart program can be found in the new Waste Management Guide and Collection Calendar which was delivered to all residents at the end of March. I encourage you to review the calendar as it contains a lot of valuable information about the upcoming collection changes. You can also visit Halton's website at www.halton.ca to use the new Search by Address tool simply type your address in and the collection calendar for your area will appear. To find out more information on the GreenCart program, call 905-825-6000, toll free 1-866-4HALTON (1-866-442-5866) or visit www.halton.ca. Gary Carr IAN OLIVER Group Publisher Media Group Ltd. 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Men are not trigonometry or even advanced math, and they sure aren't rocket science. No, according to Dr. Kevin Leman, the expert quoted in the article, "men are four-year-olds." Or so my wife related as she read the article aloud the other night. Now, I would have been insulted by this demeaning declaration I mean, seriously: "Men are four-year-olds!" only I was preoccupied, sitting on the floor in my Spiderman pyjamas, eating a peanut butter and jam sandwich, playing with my Tinkertoys and picking my nose (in my defence: I don't normally play with Tinkertoys and pick my nose, but my Etch-A-Sketch was on the fritz and I didn't know where my the heck my wife had put my Hot Wheels). Okay, men, we've been found out. Truth must be told. When women think we're brooding over deep emotional issues, we've probably just got gas. When women think we're contemplating international affairs, we're probably just wondering whether to have another burrito. And when women are certain that we are A reflecting on our relationships, we're just wondering whether the previous six burritos may have given us gas. So, yes, Dr. Leman, author of Seven Things He'll Never Tell You, is correct (although, I have to say he's something of a gender turncoat, surrendering our secret the way he did). Men are simple creatures. In fact, many men I know are simpletons! Andy Juniper Anyway, in the Elle article Dr. Leman dispensed six secrets "to getting inside your guy's mind." Here are my three favorites (and I hope you're writing these down, ladies): He needs to be respected. Apparently he has super-sized pride and a fragile eggshell ego. "And while he may look tough on the outside, on the inside he's a little boy looking for your approval." According to Dr. Leman: "Men are easily threatened." By vast, unsubstantiated and inane generalizations? He really can't multi-task. The article asserts that while you can watch the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy while folding laundry and discussing your day at work, he can't. Dr. Leman says: "Don't come in during the third period of a hockey game and talk to him about the need for fixing the garage door." Because men can't multi-task? Or because men might want to watch the most critical period of the game in peace, concentrating on the action? Which, by the way, is not just a guy thing: guys, try interrupting your better half in the middle of The Bachelor to tell her the kitchen floor isn't spotless, to see if you don't get a shoe thrown at your head. He craves excitement and fulfillment. And women don't? Ah, but in order to keep a relationship going smoothly, a woman needs to "make sure to satisfy her man's needs in the bedroom." And a man doesn't need to satisfy a woman's needs in the bedroom? Oh, and a woman should keep her man "wanting more" sexually (that's a real challenge) by employing techniques such as the harnessing of his imagination. Dr. Leman says that anticipation is greater than participation, and suggests slipping lacy panties and a sexy note in your guy's lunchbox to ensure you're in his thoughts all day. And to ensure that he gets mercilessly teased by all the other four-year-old men working around him. Enough Elle. I'm going back to finding Waldo. Andy Juniper can be visited at his Web site, www.strangledeggs.com, or contacted at ajuniper@strangledeggs.com.