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SWINGING INTO 2016 - Award-winning Cosmos photographer John Cavers captured this photo of a gibbons ape at the Toronto Zoo on Monday afternoon.According to the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2016 is the Year of the Monkey. While gibbons are not considered monkeys (monkeys have tails, apes are larger)they are popular in Chinese culture. Happy New Year! Photo by John Cavers
by Roger Varley
Reeling from four losses in a row,the Uxbridge Bruins took outtheir frustrations on the lowlyGeorgina Ice over the holidays,outscoring the Ice 16-1, first in a6-0 shutout and then in a 10-1shellacking.
The last of the four losses cameSunday, December 27, in LittleBritain, where the Merchantsdowned the Bruins 4-1.
In a game which saw the teamstake only four penalties each,Alex Siblock opened the scoringin the first period, assisted by
Brady Baker and Marco Mas-trangelo. After that, the Mer-chants shut the Uxbridge squaddown while scoring a tying goalin the first period, the winninggoal in the second and two morein the third.Coming back home to meet the
Ice on Tuesday, December 29, theBruins were in no mood to showmercy to the cellar-dwelling Ice,who have only two points so farthis season on a tie and an over-time loss. The Bruins battered theIce - who were four men short onthe bench - both on the score-board and physically. The two
teams took a total of 30 penaltiesin the game, including four gamemisconducts, three of them toUxbridge.
Although Patrick Bolahoodscored a hat-trick, Mastrangelowas the team's spark plug. Mid-way through the first period, hepicked up the puck behind hisown net, streaked down the iceand almost jammed it into theGeorgina net. Five minutes laterhe delivered a solid hit to knocka Georgina player off the puck,leading to Bolahood's first goal,assisted by Baker and Jordan Nes-bitt. Near the end of the period,
Mastrangelo and Siblock assistedon Aiden Reilly's goal. Duringthe period, the Bruins survived adouble minor assessed to Bakerfor slashing and cross-checkingand a two-man disadvantage of77 seconds.
Early in the second, Bolahoodscored again, assisted by LiamTimewell. This was followed byanother Reilly-Siblock-Mas-trangelo goal. Mastrangelo almostscored again when he stole thepuck off a defender in theGeorgina zone. The period alsosaw goalie Jake Joosten make asensational save as he covered one
side of the net and then managedto get across to the other side toblock a shot.The third period saw an increase
in chippiness, leading to a scrapinvolving everyone on the ice ex-cept the two goalies. When thedust settled, the Bruins had theman advantage, leading to Mar-shall Lockhart's power-play goalwith just over a minute left in thegame. Siblock and Mastrangeloassisted once more. Thirteen sec-onds later, Bolahood capped offhis night with his third, assistedby Nesbitt and Robert Freckelton.Not content, the Bruins went to
Georgina on Sunday and demol-ished the Ice 10-1. Mastrangeloand Siblock once again put on anexhibition, with the captain scor-ing one goal and assisting on fiveand Siblock notching two goalsand earning thee assists. Theother goal scorers were Timewelland Reilly with two each, Nesbitt,Thomas Sheedy and NicholasSribny. The Bruins scored four inthe first, four in the second andthen bracketed Georgina's lonegoal in the third.
His holiday points productionput Mastrangelo into secondplace in the OHA Junior C Cen-tral Division scoring race, twopoints behind Cody Keane of theClarington Eagles. Mastrangelohas 17 goals and 36 assists for 53points. Nesbitt has also quietlybeen racking up the points and isthe top scoring defenceman in theleague with seven goals and 24 as-sists.
The Bruins return to action onFriday, January 8, hosting the Ea-gles at the arena at 7:45 p.m.They then make the trek to Aps-ley to face the North KawarthaKnights on Saturday evening.
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If your thoughts turn to major events or projects in 2016,make it a point to come visit early in the new year.Weddings, home decor, outdoor furniture recovering.
They all take planning. I can help.Best wishes for a wonderful holiday and Christmas.
keeping our resolutions. For Rotar-ians around the world the resolutionis to continue to contribute toachieving the end of polio throughthe Polio Plus campaign. iswould be only the second humandisease to be eradicated, after small-pox.
Last year in 2015, there were only60 new cases reported in the twocountries of Pakistan andAfghanistan, compared to 316 casesin nine countries in 2014. A poliofree Africa and India is the result ofover 30 years of work by Rotary, theWorld Health Organization WHO,UNICEF and the Bill and MelindaGates Foundation. is joint effortdemonstrates the approach RotaryInternational and the Rotary Clubof Uxbridge use to meet challengeshead on, by bringing together lead-ers who step up to take on thetoughest challenges both locally andglobally. To date, $1.4 billion USDhas been contributed to end polio,including $3,000 raised in 2015 bythe Rotary Club of Uxbridge. Costscovered include not only the pro-duction of the vaccine but the trans-portation and delivery to every child
regardless of where they live. Forexample, Rotary sponsored the de-sign of special paniers for the backsof donkeys to carry vaccines into re-mote corners of the world.
e Rotary Club of Uxbridge hasalso made other resolutions for2016. As part of the internationalRotary organization, the UxbridgeClub is connected to over 1.2 mil-lion men and women in 34,000clubs in over 200 countries. eirresolve to continue to assist familiesin our community is ongoing.However, there is also an ongoingresolution to enjoy the opportunityfor fellowship and fun within Ro-tary. We do love to eat, as a sump-tuous spread at the Christmas partyheld at Wooden Sticks clearlydemonstrated. Rotary also facilitatesfellowship groups where Rotarianswho share a common interest in arecreational activity, sport, hobby orprofession come together to deepenfriendships outside of individualclub’s social connections . Examplesof fellowships are authors, railroad-
ers, singles, cricket, canoeing or jazz.Any Rotarian can join and partici-pate in activities focussed on thatparticular interest. ere are alsoRotarian exchanges of cottages, hol-iday retreats and trips. For UxbridgeRotarians the fellowship in ourhome area includes our weeklymeetings as well as euchre nights,the occasional bowling party or fes-tive meals - all part of our resolutionto enjoy life and our Rotary friends.
If your New Year’s resolutions in-clude a goal to participate in serviceopportunities in the Uxbridge com-munity, to make new friends and tocontribute to the eradication ofpolio please join us any ursdaymorning at 7 a.m. at Jerseys’ Restau-rant at 104 Brock Street West.Check out our web sitewww.uxbridgerotary.com for moredetails on our projects within thelocal community or just drop in anyursday after the first meeting of2016 on January7.
Thursday, January 7, 20162The Uxbridge Cosmos
with Deirdre Gibson
As we all begin the new year of2016 we are filled with hope for
for him to perform. When Kaza’sdad came home the other day hecouldn’t find Kaza because hewas lying in his favourite chair.His dad did not think to look inthat chair because Kaza had notbeen able to get up on it formonths.So far I have only treated arthri-
tis and ligament problems, butthere are a lot of other medicaluses for laser. Soon all of our sur-gical cases will be treated with
laser to speed up the healing oftheir skin incisions. ere is a vetin the U.S. who treats skinwounds, pancreatitis, inflamedbladders (cystitis), chronic kid-ney disease, inflammatory boweldisease, wounds, dementia andmore. I’ve been in touch withhim in the hopes of learning how
to use laser to treat these condi-tions. I’m looking forward to im-proving the lives of many of mypatients and exploring a newchapter in my career as a vet.Pun intended, as this all cameabout by reading a chapter in“e Brain’s Way of Healing”.
Part 4: Low Intensity Lasertherapy (or…I Saw the Light)
I love, love, love my new Bioflexlaser unit. I have been using iton my cat and dog patients for afew months now and have hadpositive results all around. Be-cause the treatment itself is com-fortable, pets don’t seem to mindit and some actually enjoy it.
Loo is a 19-year old cat whowas already on daily pain med-ication for arthritis. When hestarted to limp on one of hisback legs we decided to try laser.Now, Loo is not always the mostco-operative cat at the vet’s officeso he grumbled through his firsttreatment in clinic. We decidedto treat him at home after thatand it has been smooth sailingsince. He stopped limping afterone treatment, which is a veryfast response to laser treatment,and he now walks and climbsstairs with comfort.Kaza is another patient who re-
sponded very quickly to his lasertreatments. He had always been
a very active Border Collie butnow, at 13 years old, he was hav-ing problems with his back end.He had back pain, tight musclesand a few very sore spots in cer-tain muscles. We treated hisback and those sore spots and hehas resumed a lot of the activitiesthat were becoming impossible
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Pets and their Peoplewith Dr. Karen Bardecki, Pet Hospital on Main
Thursday, January 7, 20164The Uxbridge Cosmos
The Optimist Club of Uxbridge'sFantasy of Lights is over for anotheryear, and what a fantastic season wehad!
We would like to thank all thosewho helped by putting in displays, tothose who volunteered to help us inthe park, to the town for their unwa-vering support, to the men whomove the trailers back and forth, tothe lady who brought us a couple ofbags of rock salt on our very slipperynight, to those folks who camethrough with hot drinks for the thoseof us working the shift, and to allthose who donated while driving andwalking through our winter wonder-land of twinkling lights.All the money the Optimist Club of
Uxbridge raises stays in Uxbridge tosupport our youth. We thank you allfor your support and your very en-couraging words of praise and lookforward to the Optimist Club Fan-tasy of Lights 2016.
Bigger and better? We'll certainlytry.
Jan WilsonSecretary
Optimist Club of Uxbridge
Another Christmas season has comeand gone, and although times are
tougher for people all across theboard, the residents of UxbridgeTownship have pulled together andsuccessfully supported a lot of differ-ent initiatives this Christmas.
The generosity from the commu-nity in support of the UxbridgeChristmas Hamper Campaign, inparticular, was heartwarming.As co-ordinator of this campaign, in
cooperation with the Department ofSocial Services and Public Health,and the Uxbridge Loaves and FishesFood Bank, we did our best to ensurethat every family who applied for as-sistance received a Christmas hamperor food vouchers.We would like to take this opportu-
nity to thank the churches, localbusinesses, service clubs and organi-zations, schools and individual resi-dents who prepared hampers, (whichincluded all the fixings for Christmasdinner, extra food and goodies, andgifts for the parents and children),and delivered them to the many fam-ilies in our community.
We would also like to thank thosewho so generously donated food andfunds to the Uxbridge Loaves andFishes Food Bank.
Without the spirit of kindness andcaring by the many volunteers, we
would not have been able to spread alittle extra Christmas joy to 158 fam-ilies in our community.
Thank you again for caring andsharing and giving. You support wasvery much appreciated.
Susan GilbertCo-ordinator
Uxbridge Christmas Hamper Campaign
Re: Roger Varley column on Dec.17, 2015Just a comment on the column.(Roger) is bang on with this town-ship. Our mayor and council con-tinue to live in the past and are afraidto make the tough decisions to fixour area. We have lived here 35 yearsand built a retirement home and nowcannot afford the property taxes tolive here. I cannot understand whythis mayor and council do not ad-dress the major issues facingUxbridge today.
Thanks for your column andUxbridge is no longer a great place tolive. We will be forced to sell our re-tirement home and move away soon.Thanks for getting the informationin the open.
John KleckerUxbridge
Letters to the Editor
Well, it arrived too late for any of us to enjoy one of those authentic Currierand Ives postcard moments over the holidays. Snow just wasn’t to be partof the celebration this year. It wasn’t even to be thought about. Green grassprevailed, and visions of mud men (no allusion to the Celtic-rock band ap-pearing in Port Perry next week) gracing front lawns was far more realisticthan snowmen. But snow it finally did, and it brought icy temperatureswith it. And it never fails to amuse us how we, as Canadians who live inOntario, never fail to complain about weather, no matter what may begoing on outside. It was Christmas time and it was plus 11 and it was greenand we were upset because it wasn’t very Christmas-y. Holiday shoppingminus the big boots and parkas - we felt cheated of the right to gripe andcomplain in the mall as we effortlessly carried about only our packages.Christmas Day - why, it’s to be spent indoors, huddled around a roaringfireplace that only hours before held bulging stockings on its mantle. It’scertainly not to be spent hanging around a bonfire outside in the gardenwearing little more than trainers and t-shirts. That’s what we do in the sum-mer (while angrily swatting mosquitoes).
We need to complain the temperature. Need to. Now that it’s more sea-sonally chilly (although it is supposed to climb over the zero mark againby the weekend), we are doing what we are programmed to do at this darktime of the season - complain. And happy we shall be doing so.
Happy, too, are the people whose livelihoods rely on the coming of thefrosty weather. Happy now are those who own, operate and work at SkiDagmar, Ski Lakeridge, and Ski at Skyloft. Happy are those who have longsported plows on the front of their trucks, only to be denied the opportu-nity to shove around more than air. Happy are the snowshoers, the trekkers,the diehard mountain bikers, the cross country skiers, and all those whorejoice in the white powder that, frankly, we’re lucky to get. Think for amoment of the poor souls who never experience snow once throughouttheir entire lives. A little part of you feels sorry for them. Admit it. The fluctuating temperatures likely mean that many parts of the ecosystem
will take a beating. Birds are more than a little confused, as are buds andbees, and, well, just about everything. Including us Canadians, because wedon’t know what to complain about. Some may say this is all because ofglobal warming - it would be wise to note that a similar winter befell thearea half a century ago, and temperatures weren’t what was expected at all.And that was way before global warming was even suspected.Whether it’s climate change or Mother Nature’s way of keeping us on our
toes remains to be seen. For the time being, let’s just keep our warm socksand scarves handy, our boots at the ready and our ice scrapers and shovelson standby. But let’s keep up a bewildered hope that we may just scrapethrough this winter relatively unscathed, and only have to use the dreadedimplements mentioned above one or two times at most before April. Yeah right. We should get so lucky. We’re Canadian. Bring it.
Our two centsBaby, it’s cold outside. Oh, yeah!
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More seasonal weather has arrived,and with it the opportunity for win-ter sports. As of the weekend the newskating rink in Leaskdale Park hasbeen flooded, and, weather permit-ting is now ready for use!
Hope everyone enjoyed Christmasand New Year's celebrations.
e Allison Family enjoyed spend-ing time with Colleen's family inNew Brunswick during the Christ-mas season. Welcome back, folks!You are reminded that W.A. will not
be meeting during the winter
months.e Udora-Leaskdale Lions' Club
will hold their first meeting of theyear on Monday, January 18 at 7p.m., with dinner at 7:30 p.m. in theHistoric Leaskdale Church. If youare interested in the work of theLions' and would like to learn more,please feel free to attend. emonthly Spaghetti Dinner is sched-uled for Friday, January 22, from5:30 - 7 p.m. in Udora CommunityCentre.
All weekly programs at St. Paul's
Leaskdale Church have resumed, orare scheduled to begin shortly. Con-nection Café - January 10 at 10:15a.m.; ‘Soup's On', January 17 afterthe second service. Sermon Series iseach Wednesday at 7 p.m., andursdays at 1 p.m.; Serenity is onurdays at 8 p.m.; Stephen Min-istry is ongoing, and Grief Share willbegin at Uxbridge Baptist Church onFebruary 18. For more info, pleasecontact Judy Atkins (905)852-5921Ext. 21, or [email protected]
Leaskdale News with Helen Harrison
Thursday, January 7, 20165The Uxbridge Cosmos
There are those in my world who firmly believethat Star Wars (1977) changed the film businessforever in a negative way, ushering in the block-buster mentality that ended the period of greatcinema in the seventies. They believe that filmat that point became all about merchandisingand box office. I disagree with that belief, buthave different reasons for believing Star Warsand what followed had a negative impact onthe film world.The 70s was a period of enormous courage in
cinema, when movies were about something,when they meant something. Filmmakerscould explore subjects which had previouslybeen taboo, with startling honesty. Suddenlyfilms were topical, their messages urgent. Withthis came a new breed of director: Francis FordCoppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg,Brian De Palma and George Lucas, all friends,weekend buddies who used to gather at a beachhouse in Malibu to talk film and discuss up-coming projects. Lucas was the quietest of thegroup, an intellectual introvert who followedCoppola around, hanging on his every word.Yet Coppola believed in the young man andwould help him with his first two major films.THX 138 (1970) was a flop, but his secondfilm, the nostalgic American Graffiti (1973) wasa huge success, both with the audiences andcritics. Nominated for five Academy Awards,the film established Lucas as a major new talentand he made the break from Coppola to go italone.Star Wars altered the course of his career in
such a way he no longer needed the studios tomake his films, he could finance them on hisown, which gave him staggering freedom.When Star Wars opened the summer of 1977it took America, and eventually the world, bystorm, becoming a huge pulp culture phenom-enon. Seeing the film for the first time, I re-member vividly the words “A long time ago ina galaxy far, far away...” - the title crawl, andthat star destroyer that passed at the top of thescreen eventually filled the screen with its enor-mous size. One was swept away in the story, itsexotic locations, its original characters with theinteresting names, and its villain Darth Vader.It was a western in space, the good guys versusthe bad guys with the good guys triumphing,and left opening for a sequel. Nominated forten Academy Awards it would win seven, losingBest Picture to Annie Hall (1977) the revolu-tionary Woody Allen love story.
Three years later, The Empire Strikes Back(1980) opened to enormous box office and
even better reviews than the first. It was deeperand darker than the first film, with a secret thatleft audiences audibly gasping at the end whenVader was revealed as Luke’s father. By nowLucas had more than enough money becausehe controlled all the merchandising for the firstfilm. Every dollars spent on soundtracks, actionfigures, bed sheets, anything Star Wars, wentinto his pocket. He was soon a mulitmillionaireheaded to being a billionaire. Lucas did not di-rect The Empire Strikes Back; he chose his friendIrvin Kershner to direct the picture, and theman did a splendid job. To this day it remainsthe best Star Wars film made.
The final film was Return of the Jedi (1983)which of course would deal with the confronta-tion between Luke and his father, further theromance between Han Solo and Leia, andbring an end to the evil empire. Aside from thetoo cute Ewoks, the film was a smashing enter-tainment, but the least of the first trilogy.As audiences clamoured for another Star Wars
trilogy, Lucas lined his pockets by releasing thetrilogy on video, then back into the theatres,then on laser disc, then back into theatres, thenon DVD and Blu Ray, remastered with new ef-fects, over and over milking the public withnew and creative ways to release the same films.When he finally decided to make the prequelssome of us had had enough of the whole StarWars legacy. Lucas had directed since the firstStar Wars, but the 22 years in between haddone nothing to sharpen his skills as a peopleperson. He was better off creating new soundsystems or pioneering new cameras and thistime it showed...terribly. The prequels, in aword, sucked. The Phantom Menace (1999) wasdreadful, Attack of the Clones (2002) a mess andRevenge of the Sith (2005) though the best ofthe three, a weak entry. Yet they made Lucasricher, and richer and richer.
And then he sold Lucasfilm, Star Wars andIndiana Jones to Disney. Perfect, the greediestman in the business sold his legacy to thegreediest studio in existence. And within daysa new Star Wars film was announced, to be di-rected by JJ Abrams.Whatever I may feel about the film The Force
Awakens, I am angry at George Lucas for takingsomething very special away from the first threefilms...greed is not good, George, ever.
Here’s a title crawl: A long time ago in adecade far, far away there was a filmmaker whogave the world something special, and thenstripped it away with his incessant greed....
We met over the Red Maple Leaf. Or, I guess itwas actually under it. We had only been herneighbours for a while, when she looked up atthe Canadian flag hanging at my front door andtook exception to it.
“You’d better take that down,” she said sternly.“It’s against the law for the national emblem tobe that tattered.”Originally resentful that she should call me out
on the physical condition of my flag, I soonlearned that my neighbour – Rodine Doris MaryBuckley-Beevers Egan – had every right to de-mand that I replace the flag. Not just to ensurethat I wasn’t charged by the Government ofCanada or the Queen herself for disgracing a na-tional symbol, Ronnie felt personally obliged tofix such things. Indeed, I sensed it wasn’t onlyher nature, but her occupation. One occupation,along with her husband Willis Egan, had beento raise four children; however, I’ve learned overthe years that Ronnie had several additional oc-cupations with equal importance and authority.
In charge of the Women’s Royal CanadianNaval Service barracks in Halifax, during theSecond World War, Chief Petty Officer Egan en-sured that all WRENS did their wartime jobs ef-ficiently and that they were tucked safely intotheir HMCS Stadacona barracks every night bycurfew. She ran, as the Navy liked to say, a tightship. Additionally, Ronnie took great pride run-ning her female charges through routine march-ing drills.“I even drilled the men,” she told me. “Putting
the men through their paces on the paradesquare. I really enjoyed that.”
But as mischievous as her demeanour on theparade square might have seemed, Ronnie wouldneither be trifled with on duty nor on the streetsof Halifax. Once, while walking through down-town, she came upon a junk dealer whipping ahorse that had collapsed on the street. Thehorse’s ribs were protruding, the animal clearlyin distress. In uniform, Ronnie intervened, push-ing the man aside and placing her foot gently onthe horse’s neck.
“This horse will be shot or it will be attendedto properly,” she told bystanders. Finally, Ronniesaid, a police officer arrived to put the horsedown and only then was it taken away.
After the war, when she and husband WillisEgan settled in his hometown, Uxbridge, Ronnienot only raised four children, she worked in theoffices of Dr. Russ St. John. I hear she ran apretty tight ship there too, ensuring that every-one and everything performed appropriately. Welearned this week, when Ronnie went into hos-pital for treatment of a heart condition, that likeher wartime commitments, she never shied from
frontline duty at the doctor’s office either. BrianEvans explained, as a boy in the midst of a snow-ball fight, that he’d fallen on some broken glass;so with no doctor available, Ronnie took it uponherself to stitch up Brian’s cut hand.Whether suturing a gashed hand or responding
to the needs of her community, Ronnie Egan hasnever shied from service. She gave time and ex-pertise to the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital Auxil-iary (in 1999 recognized by Ontario as a lifemember in the Hospital Auxiliaries Association);to Community Care of Durham Region (in2007 recognized for 20 years service); to theRoyal Canadian Legion (in 2010 acknowledgedfor lifetime of service); to time given at theUxbridge Baptist Church. Appropriately, in2012, she received the Queen Elizabeth II’s Di-amond Jubilee medal.“Without volunteers,” she told me the day they
pinned the medal on her blazer, “where wouldwe be?”
In November, Ronnie accepted my invitationto participate in our annual Remembrance Dayobservance at Centennial College. That Wednes-day morning, I drove her to the event duringwhich I would interview her and two other vet-erans in front of students, faculty and staff aboutwartime memories. As she has for 70 years, Ro-dine Egan, former Chief Petty Officer at HMCSStadacona in Halifax, had donned her beret andnavy blue jacket proudly displaying her QueenElizabeth medal.“How do I look?” she asked.“Like the Queen herself,” I retorted. And I
meant it. I had seen Ronnie in veterans’ parades,at Legion banquets, at her town-wide 90th birth-day party, and a thousand times on her livingroom couch or sunning herself at her back stoop.She was always appropriately dressed – casuallyor formally – always comfortable in her skin. Tome, the most attractive thing she wore was hersmile. It was genuine, yes, even regal. Tuesday morning, when I visited Ronnie in the
hospital, her granddaughter Heather told methat Ronnie had wakened, almost with militaryprecision, shortly after daybreak.“Is it sunny today?” she asked Heather.“Yes,” said Heather, opening the curtains so
Ronnie could see. “Sunny day with a bright bluesky.”“And is my flag there?” Ronnie asked. Heather
nodded. The Red Maple Leaf in perfect condi-tion flapped crisply outside her window. “Good,” Ronnie said with a peaceful resolve in
her voice.
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THIS WEEKENDFri., Jan., 8: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 9:30 a.m. WalkerWoods West. This is a fast, 2 hr, 10 km,loop hike with hills. Icers and or snow-shoes are a must. Meet at parking lot oneast side of Uxbridge Conc. 6, 2 kmsouth of Durham Rd. 21 at Albright Rd.Contact: Joan Taylor 905 477 2161Sat., Jan. 9: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1 hr.,
4+ km moderate pace hike; Join us forbreakfast after the hike. Icers and orsnowshoes are a must. Meet at the road-side parking on the west side of Conc. 6,1.5 km south of Durham Rd. 21. Contact:Joan Taylor 905 477 2161
NEXT WEEKSat., Jan. 16: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1 hr.,4 km moderate pace loop hike. No dogsplease. Icers or snowshoes may be re-
quired. Join us for breakfast after thehike. Meet at road side parking on thewest side of Conc. 6, 1.5 km south ofDurham Rd. 21. Contact: Russ Burton905 830 2862Sat., Jan. 16: Shindig Dance featur-ing Parental Discretion & Witness Protec-tion. Royal Canadian Legion,109Franklin St., LLBO.
UPCOMINGMon., Jan. 18: Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike. 9:30 a.m. Sec-ord/Goodwood/Glasgow. This is a slowto moderate 2 hr. hike with some hills.Well mannered dogs welcome. Join usfor lunch afterwards. Meet at Secordparking lot, 2 km south of GoodwoodRd. on Conc. 3 and east on Secord Rd.Contact: Brian & Wilma Millage 905853 2407Mon., Jan. 18: Pineridge ChorusGuest Night. 7:15 p.m., UxbridgeMusic Hall. For details call 905-852-6327. Also to be held Mon., Jan. 25.Tues., Jan. 19: Uxbridge SeniorCitizens' Club Pot Luck Lunch, 12
p.m. Dishes will be provided. Pleasebring a Mug. New members welcome!Membership $10 per person/year. Con-gratulations to the winners of the USCCQuilt Raffle, held Dec.15. 1st prize - Nel-lie Boag; 2nd Prize - Grace Dixon; 3rdPrize - Kelly Kerr. Thank you to everyonewho participated in the Raffle.Wed., Jan. 20: Oak Ridges TrailAssociation Hike. 9:30 a.m. GlenMajor West. This is a moderate to fast,12km, 4 hr. loop hike with challengingterrain. Icers or snowshoes may be re-quired. Meet at the parking lot on theeast side of Conc. 6, 0.6 km north ofUxbridge Town Line or 5.5 km south ofDurham Rd. 21. Contact: Russ Burton905 830 2862Fri., Jan. 22: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 9:30 a.m. Glen MajorWest. This is a moderate, 8km, 2 hr. loophike with some hills. Icers or snowshoesneeded. Meet at the parking lot on theeast side of Conc. 6, 0.6 km north ofUxbridge Town Line or 5.5 km south ofDurham Rd. 21. Contact: Kevin Lowe416 655 2256
Fri., Jan. 22: Udora-LeaskdaleLions Club Spaghetti Dinner,Udora Hall. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Threecourses, adults $12; children under 12,$6; and five and under free.Sat., Jan. 23: Oak Ridges Trail As-sociation Hike. 7 a.m. Al Shaw. 1 hr.,4+ km moderate pace hike; Join us forbreakfast after the hike, Icers and orsnowshoes are a must. Meet at the road-side parking on the west side of Conc. 6,1.5 km south of Durham Rd. 21. Contact:Joan Taylor 905 477 2161Sat., Jan. 23: Robert Burns Sup-per, 6 p.m. Uxbridge Legion Pipes &Drums hosts an evening of songs, poetry(including Address to the Haggis), toasts,and tributes to Scotland's bard. Hear thepipes & drums, feast on roast beef & hag-gis, and flaunt your tartan! Tickets $45,available atwww.uxbridgepipeband.com/#!burns-night, from band members, or at theUxbridge Legion bar, 109 Franklin St.,until Jan. 18. For more information con-tact Andrea Lehman at (416) 899 8412.
ONGOINGStarting Thurs., Jan. 7, from 2 - 3 p.m.,Uxbridge Senior Centre VONSmart Exercise Program. Light exer-cises to improve and strengthen musclesand joints, using a chair if needed forsupport. $2/session.A Refugee Family is coming toUxbridge, sponsored by Trinity UnitedChurch. If you would like to assist with afinancial donation or household goodsplease call Cindy at Trinity United Churchat 905 852 6213. A tax receipt will beissued for financial donations.Shuffleboard at Uxbridge Seniors Cen-ter, Every Monday and Wednesday at 9 a.m.COMING UP is a FREE community bul-letin board. If you have a communityevent for a charity or non-profit organiza-tion that you’d like us to mention (ASSPACE PERMITS), please contact us [email protected] or 905-852-1900. The deadline for our next issue is6 p.m. Sunday.
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UPS Store, UxbridgeUxbridge Shoe Sales & RepairsWilliamson GM and Chrysler Dealership
Greenbank RestaurantVince's MarketCanadian Tire StoreShoppers Drug MartUxbridge Motorsports Marine Ltd.,Doug & Guy Rogers
Total Contracting Group, Mike Robertson
Nancy Hill, Ken R. May RealtorBoston Pizza, Christine GranicUxbridge Shell Service,Tony Peck
Tim Hortons UxbridgeWalter Taylor, MusicianEileen Foote & Sandra Young, Christmas Decorations
Art Forms Int'l, Brad and Bill Ballinger
Branch 170 Royal Canadian Legion
Keith's FlowersJersey's RestaurantLegion Branch 170, Ladies Auxiliary
Neil Bacon, AuctioneerWine Kitz, UxbridgeAlterna Hair and EstheticsRandy Hoban, BarristerLow's Furniture, Kin John LowAudio Vision Plus, AhmadBrandon Ford DealershipDr. Vi Tu Banh, OptometristRutledge Jewellers, Scott Rutledge
Zehrs UxbridgeClem's Custom Wing ShopHowie Herrema
The Kinsmen Club ofUxbridge
extends a sincere THANK YOUand much appreciation to the busi-nesses and individuals listed belowfor their generous contributions ofitems or their time to our Christmasdinner and auction, which washeld on Thursday, December 3,2015.
To all the patrons who supported the fundraising and auction,our heartfelt appreciation. The proceeds have been distributed
to the Uxbridge Loaves and Fishes Food Bank and the local Salvation Army Unit.
Visit us at: www.uxbridgekinsmen.ca
7The Uxbridge Cosmos Thursday, January 7, 2016
SERVICESFURNACE, WATER HEATERS, HUMIDIFIERS,AIR CLEANERS - REPAIRS AND INSTALLA-TIONS. We install gas appliances also. Contact us at647-988-9101 (Myron). TSSA Licenced & Insured Con-tractor. 1/28QUALITY CUSTOM DECKS, Pergolas, Sheds, PoolCabanas, Gazebos, Shelters, Porches & other CustomYard Structures. Contact Steve at Northwood CustomDecks, 905-852-1750, or email [email protected] 1/28ELECTROLYSIS by Karen. Permanent Hair Removal.Call for Free Consultation, 905-985-9085. Waxingalso available 1/7HOUSE CLEANING: Do you need quality cleaningfor your home? Big or small, we clean it all! Call foran estimate today. 905-251-9961 1/7RON’S PAINTING SERVICES: “We take the ‘pain’out of painting!” Free estimates and friendly service.705-799-6255 1/7MATH TUTOR: Grades 9 & 10 Applied. Reasonablerates. Evenings and weekends. 416-254-3251 3/3FRENCH TUTOR SESSIONS Experienced Montes-sori French Teacher. For a free assesment text or call416-705-1169 1/21
PET CARE - Day and overnight care, no crates orkennels, reasonable rates. Uxbridge only. 905-852-4454 1/28ACCOUNTING, BOOKKEEPING: Freelance. Over25 years experience. Reasonable rates. Self-employed
to corporate clients. Lynn Catherwood-Eldridge. 905-852-7281 31/3PHOTOGRAPHY & WEB DESIGN: Wedding,Event, Portrait. Web Design for mobile, desktop.Graphic design & social media. Call Wright Web Photo,905-852-9520, www.wrightwebphoto.com 1/28ALEXANDER COMPUTER SERVICES: Quality re-pair and sales from a local, experienced professional.Call 416-629-6626 (ask for Kevin) or visitwww.alexandercs.com 1/28HOME-WATCH House Sitting Services: Dogwalking/Cat sitting/Home visits. Now in our 10thyear! Heather Stewart, 905-852-8525. Email [email protected], www.home-watch.ca 1/28THE HOME INSPECTOR wants to wish everyone afantastic year in 2016. Uxbridge's Registered Profes-sional Home Inspector, 416-567-4282. 1/28
WANTEDLUNCH ROOM SUPERVISORS needed atUxbridge Public School. Even if you are available forjust one or two days a week, please let us know. Ifinterested, please contact Rachel Harland at 905-852-9101 or [email protected]. 1/7GOT AN OLD SNOWMACHINE in your barn youwant to get rid of? call Frank 416-705-8427 1/7
HOUSE WANTED (TO BUY): Looking for a mod-est house to buy in Sunderland area. 3 bedroom or
the space to create 3rd bed-
room. 416-799-4467
FOR SALESEASONED FIREWOOD: $150 per 16” face cord.Delivered. 905-640-5977 1/28HORSE FOR SALE to excellent home only. 14 yr.old Bay Arabian mare. 15.1hh. Papers. Used as apleasure mount. Not for beginners. Wonderful, sweettemperament. Price to be discussed. Call for details416-799-4467 1/7CHEST FREEZER, 20 cubic ft. Works well. $75. 905-852-4242 1/7SNOWBLOWERS: Tractor, 18-hp; also “walk-be-hinds”, 22”. 647-391-0326 1/7
BAND INSTRUMENTS: U.S.S. Band Director sellingpersonal instruments. Brass, woodwind, etc. Best offeraccepted. Also, apt. size piano, excellent condition,$400. Conn organ, 2 manual, 2 octave bass pedals,w/ bench, $500. 705-228-8108 1/14
EVENTSSHINDIG DANCE featuring Parental Discretion andWitness Protection. Sat., Jan. 16, Royal CanadianLegion, 109 Franklin St. All welcome. LLBO. 1/14
FOUNDiPOD: Found on Nelkydd Ave. Thurs., Dec. 17, inthe evening. 905-862-0316. 1/7
CLASSIFIED
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Classifieds are $5/week up to 20 words; $10/week up to 40 words (plus HST). Payable in advance by cash, cheque, debit or credit card. Contact [email protected] or 905-852-1900 Deadline: Monday, 5:30 p.m. Ask about online link possibilities, too.
ISA Certified ArboristsEstablished 1981 - Fully Insured
• Bucket Truck & Crane, Professional Climbers
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UXBRIDGE MEMORIAL COMPANY108 Brock Street West, Uxbridge L9P 1P4
Dave & Lori Tomkinson
Tel: 905-852.3472 • 1-888-672-4364 • Fax: [email protected]
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Paul FraserCell [email protected]
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“This day belongs to theLord! Let’s celebrate andbe glad today.” Psalm 118:24
More Bible help at:www.biblesociety.ca/the_word_and_you
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RON BROWN AUTO
We will not be undersold.We service all
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DOOR SERVICE INC.
Garage Doors& Openers
MARTINSPAINTINGInterior & Exterior
Wallpapering, drywall& plaster repairs, Crown moulding, Home renovations416-347-6469
FOUR SQUARECONSTRUCTION LTD.
Fax: 905-862-0030
Builder of Fine Custom HomesRenovations & Additions Specializing in Carpentry
Chris Brunne
Tel: 905-862-0040
www.foursquareconstruction.ca
Get it in Writing from Chris!
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Framing • Insulation • Boarding • Taping • PaintingTexture Spraying • Water Damaged Ceiling Repairs & Tiling
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR NEW YEAR’S SPECIALS!
Thursday, January 7, 20168The Uxbridge Cosmos
Don't wait for Spring to list your houseBuyers are out looking now!!!!
For a free, confidential home evaluation call Judy.Judy Esmonde, Broker, Manager
905-852-4338 (bus) 416-677-8709 (cell)email: [email protected]
website: www.judyesmonde.com
ROBINGLADE ESTATES• Wonderful waterfront community• Over 1 acre of property • 3 bd./ 2 bath/ backsplit• heated double garage• 7 minutes to Port Perry
Janet Green, Sales RepresentativeDirect Cell 905-439-1799Email [email protected]
For Sale 4160 Concession Rd 7Private rolling, fully treed 10 acreproperty, 5 minutes south of Uxbridge.3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home, doubleattached garage with a 16'x24'Insulated workshop suitable for manyuses. Property features a windmill andreserve electrical storage systemallowing for "off grid" living.Dale O’Neill, Sales RepresentativeDirect Cell 647-924-0975Email: [email protected]: www.DaleONeill.com
SOLD15 Avonlea Rd, Uxbridge
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Gerald LawrenceSalesperson - REALTOR®, SRES®, SRS�[email protected]
Call/Text: 416-556-0238
Happy New Year, 2016!All the best to everyone in the new year.
Thinking of Buying or Selling?Have any Real Estate Questions?Give me a call or email me.
905-903-7965 or [email protected]
Judy EsmondeBroker
Gerald LawrenceSales Representative
Janet GreenSales Representative
Dale O’NeillSales Representative
Marie PersaudSales Representative
Shane CoxworthSales Representative
WE NEVERSTOP MOVING
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$439,900
$870,000 FARM
48.83 acres of farmland and hardwoodforest. 2 road frontages. Very well
maintained 2 storey brick house. Attached 3car garage. New roof on house, garage anddriveshed. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Largedeck from kitchen and 2nd floor family
room. 2 fireplaces. Security to all buildings.Driveshed has new siding
Call Marie Persaud, Sales Representative, at 416-970-8979 for more info.
