An accountant with perfect pitch Prominent Travel rorrull Professional Upper Middle Rd. Shopping Centre Service Call 1011 Upper Middle Road 849â€"874 7 accommodate his other hobbies â€" like travelling with his wife, directâ€" q q on a diet. All natura groducts and you don‘t We have a product that can hel your body to lose weight withou LOSE WEIGHTIT! (Continued from page 3) have to change your lifestyle. Ask for Cathy or Case (416) 847â€"5489 Call Nature‘s Corner 100% Satisfaction ing the Ennisclare condominium glee club, and playing organist/choir director for Knox Presbyterian Church on Lakeshore Guaranteed! "Some of the very old pianos are hard to get parts for and must be handâ€"made," he says. The whole business is labor intensive, he adds. Some people don‘t feel it is worth the expense. Sometimes it isn‘t, he agrees. "I find it fascinating," the tuner says, "the various vintages of piano I run into." He claims that tuning a piano is "not that difficult". It is the repairs that are difficult. When it comes to his new career â€" piano tuning, it‘s more than a job he asserts gently; it‘s a labor of love. Also, a great way to meet girls. Sorry, sorry, I meant to say ‘people‘... a great way to meet peoâ€" ple, and pianos â€"â€" an instrument he has played since the age of 12. Pianos, of course, come in a variâ€" ety of shapes and sizes with assortâ€" ed manufacturers. Our man has, also, become active with the Rotary Club since coming to Oakville. Service clubs are a terrific way to help the comâ€" munity, he says, and claims he doesn‘t mind a bit getting "volunâ€" teered to arrange the music" for special events. Wednesday, April 7 _ Thursday, April 8 Thurs, April 15* Tuesday, April 20* Acton High Hugh Foster Hall Bishop Reding Halton Region School (Milton) High School Auditorium Glen Abbey Brookville Hall Georgerown High _ â€" Lord Elgin High Recreation Centre (Milton) School School Attend one or more of the following open houses (all start at 6 pm): Wed, March 24 _ Thurs, March 25 _ Wed, March 31 _ Thursday, April 1 Cedar Rd *Preliminary results of the Halton Urban Structure Review will be presented at these two Open:Houses as well. Planning and D; 1151 nt, ‘Regional Municipality of Halt le, Telephone: 825â€"6161, Fax: 825â€"8822 rom: Acton 853â€"0501, Georgetown 878â€"8113, Aldershot 639â€"4540, Streetsville 823â€"6720 Send in written comments by June 30, 1993 20 Side Rd Main St 4 Oe nt, ‘Regional Muniapaliry of Halton, Because he is a relative newcomâ€" er in the business, he considers any piano "a challenge" and, he doesn‘t mind if you watch. "I like to be pretty thorough," he says, "when I‘m finished, I like the piano to look like new, as well as, sound like new." "Ideally, a piano should be cleaned and tuned annually," he notes. On average, it may take an hourâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half to two hours to do a straight forward job. The piano is a complex instruâ€" ment, Hamel asserts. It has 88 keys and some 280 steel strings stretched between adjustable tuning pins. The tuning pins loosen over time â€" through use and atmospheric condiâ€" tions â€" which is why they must be readjusted regularly. These instruâ€" ments should never sit in direct sunâ€" light, the expert points out. On the other hand, sometimes he is expected to do miracles with a piano that hasn‘t been looked after for many years. There are limits, he suggests, to any man‘s skill. ‘For the most part," he explains, "if you can tune one piano, you can tune them all." $ | Main St In fact, if there are children in Speakers help parents prepare for problems facing teenagers The arrangement seems to suite this dear man right down to the ground, having always enjoyed a broad range of styles from popular show tunes to classical and sacred church music. He draws the line at jazz, however. (Heavy metal we don‘t even touch). The parent education series is sponsored through Montclair‘s Better Bridges Coalition which has arranged for the community proâ€" fessionals to be available to parâ€" ents about issues 1mportant to teens and preteens. "Youth Suicide Awareness" will be spoken to by Ross Plant, a White Oaks Secondary School social worker from 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. March 24th. For more information contact John Lowrey at Montclair at 845â€" 9590; Hm, I‘m starting to think "borâ€" ing" isn‘t half bad. Maybe there is something to be said for "fresh and friendly" over "creaky and crotchâ€" ety". He tells me that he, also, moonlights as a freelance organist for weddings and funerals. What a guy! Parents of preâ€"teens and teens are invited to a series of speakers at Montclair public school disâ€" cussing drugs, alcohol, teenage sexuality, youth suicide awareness and what to do before kids leave home. All sessions take place at Montclair Senior Public School at 1235 Montclair Drive, Oakville. "What to Do Before Your Kids Leave Home" will be addressed April 14th, 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. by marriage and family counsellor Marilyn Belleghem. He seems to have the best of all worlds with his church choir which is mostly serious, and the (approâ€" priately named) Ennisclare Glee Club, whose members really just want to have fun. (And so they shall). He says he finds choir work very interesting and satisfying. "You‘re working with people of all degrees of talent and qualities of voice." For the past five years, Bill has been organist and choirmaster at Knox. He is fairly passionate about his church music and has written some music himself for the choir. Bill married his wife, Betty (Bet, Betsy), a Montreal girl, some 37 years ago. They have a daughter who inherited Bill‘s musicality and studied opera at McGill, and a son whose aptitudes tend more to busiâ€" ness and computers. the house and they are curious about what is inside a piano (absoâ€" lutely no house pets, we hope), this particular piano tuner is happy to let them in on the secret. Up to a point. Though Bill was born in Kitchener, Ontario, he was raised in Montreal and went to school there. He played the trumpet and tromâ€" bone in high school, in addition to the piano. His parents were quite musical. He took a Commerce degree from Sir George Williams (now Concordia University) and started working for the telephone company while still at college.