Almost before the paint was dry on his newly renovated office inside the new home of Gemini Store Fixtures in Peffer-law, vandals destroyed the exterior face and side of president Jeff Usling’s new home with graffiti obscenities in bright yellow paint. “This is obviously very embarrassing for me to bring a customer here when the front of my building has F...Y..spray painted on it,” Mr. Usling said. He said this type of welcome to the com-munity was very disappointing after mak-ing the decision to move his custom design store fixture manufacturing operation to Pefferlaw.

“I was 17 years in Stouffville and nothing and now I am obviously worried about what next. Are they going to break the win-dows, break the doors, are they going to slash my machinery? Continued on page l0...

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Crate Marine in receivership, receiver to sell operation by spring A notice to the courts by the Crate fam-ily asking for time to restructure their company and avoid bankruptcy has failed. On December 8, the court ruled that Far-ber Financial Group be a court-appointed receiver for the five compa-nies that make up Crate Marine. The move by the Crate family to be given time to restructure their business was opposed by creditors. In an affidavit filed by Benn-Jay Spiegel on December 7, 2014, a controller for Crawmet Corp., he stated that 90 per cent of the monies owed by Crate Ma-rine to creditors was owed to his com-pany and another creditor identified as Dwight Powell. In his affidavit, Mr. Spiegel said the total debts owed by the Crate Marine holdings was $30 million. “This amount does not include Crate Marine’s obliga-tions to Canada Revenue Agency for unremitted HST of at least $4-$6 million as a result of false reporting by the Debt-ors...,” he said. In an information circular prepared by Farber Financial and sent to all creditors, they gave notice to apply to the court for approval to initiate the sale of the busi-ness as a going concern with a court-approved closing that would have a new

operator in place prior to the beginning of the 2015 boating season. “The Receiver continues to collect the out-standing accounts receivable due to Crate Marine,” the circular states. “Any 2015 slip rentals received by the Receiver from and after December 8, 2014 will be held in trust by the Receiver…” The circular went on to say that “To the Receiver’s knowledge, Crate Marine did not hold the 2015 slip rentals paid to Crate Marine prior to December 8, 2014 in trust;

accordingly, those customers that prepaid their 2015 slip rentals would appear to be unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy and will be sent the corresponding bankruptcy documents.” The Receiver noted that the proceedings do not include the companies that own or op-erate Crate’s Belleville or Crate’s Orillia. It is believed that the 80-year old family business headquartered in Keswick, Crate Marine Sales, employed approximately 70 people during the boating season.

Graffiti dampens spirits of new business owner

Hello…2015! I don’t really know how we got here—last time I looked it was 2005. I cannot believe how quickly the years have flown by since I decided to start this paper 10 years ago. In my last issue I announced the name change for the paper to The Georgina Post and while many of you support the change, I did receive emails from Pefferlaw residents who were upset with the news. Here are a few of the comments I received:

“After reading the editor’s mes-sage I feel very disappointed. I have always been so proud of the Pefferlaw Post, finally something in Georgina that was ours…”

“I am just writing to say that I think that it is sad and wrong of you to change the name of the Pefferlaw Post to the Georgina Post. The name Pefferlaw Post sounds special and makes Pef-ferlaw special…”

“Keep up the great work with your publication. I am going to miss calling it the Pefferlaw Post but I’m so glad that you are branching out to include all the areas of Georgina…”

“Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of the Pefferlaw Post! Have been a reader since the very beginning and I always read your paper from cover to cover. Great editorials and comprehensive coverage of the town events. I wish you the best of luck with the expansion!...”

I am so proud of the emotional attachment Pefferlaw residents have to the Pefferlaw Post. Their passion for it is tremen-dously moving and it tells me that there is true ownership for this paper and that is an ex-tremely enviable position for a any newspaper to be in. In my response to these readers I have assured them that the paper will continue to tell their

stories as it has always done—its editorial mandate remains intact. I will always make sure that Pefferlaw is fairly repre-sented within the pages of the publication as it rightfully de-serves to be. That will not change. I have always known that Pef-ferlaw does not take kindly to being ignored nor being invisi-ble among the affairs of Geor-gina and those were the reasons I took on this job in the first place. You have to know I won’t let that happen. And so, as we welcome a new year, a new council, a new highway and new business op-portunities, I am also welcom-ing a new decade of publishing a community newspaper that will remain topical, informative and inclusive. So let’s raise a glass to this new era! Happy New Year! Karen Wolfe, Editor

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When local builder Tim Dan-brook learned that Georgina’s new council went behind closed doors on December 15 to discuss the status of a Leave to Appeal Motion that the Town’s lawyer filed to try and overturn a Supe-rior Court decision in favour of Mr. Danbrook, he experienced a bit of déjà vu. “As much as they campaigned on ‘change’ to get elected, it felt like nothing had changed,” Mr. Dan-brook said. Mr. Danbrook said he was hoping that promises made during the election campaign regarding his three and a half year legal battle with the Town over lots of record development charges, would be kept. “Ms. Quirk specifically said dur-ing the election that she wanted to sit down with all parties involved to try and resolve the matter and make it go away,” Mr. Danbrook said. “She said the Town needed to admit that mistakes were made and she condemned the amount of money being spent on law suits. Yet, when they had the chance in closed session to do just that, they didn’t.” When council convened to go into a closed door meeting on Decem-ber 15 to discuss the development charges appeal, Regional Council-lor Dan Wheeler, Ward 1 Coun-cillor Naomi Davison and Ward 5 Councillor Dave Harding all de-clared a conflict of interest and were not parties to the discus-sions. When the four remaining council members emerged to report out,

they passed a motion to only re-ceive the information provided by staff and the Town lawyers. “I was extremely disappointed,” Mr. Danbrook said. “I think under the Municipal Act they have an obli-gation to tell the public what deci-sion they made or what decision they didn’t make and why and that is not sensitive information. That is transparency and I think they have been ill-advised.” He said further that he was ex-pecting them to make a motion to either sit down and work things out or drop the motion for Leave to Appeal. “Not once over the three and half years that we have been going through this, has the Town agreed to sit down with me to try and resolve this. Instead, they con-tinue to spend our hard earned tax dollars on expensive lawyers.” Mayor Margaret Quirk said the closed session meeting on the matter was to provide new mem-bers of council with an update on what had transpired in the past. “The problem is the four mem-bers of council that are able to deal with this, we are all new to this and we needed time to hear the Town lawyer’s side of things and mull that over and figure out what we wanted to do,” she said. However, she said she is anxious to bring this file to a close, “We need to get this settled and move on. There are so many other issues that we need to deal with and we need to put this issue be-hind us,” she said. “I want it re-solved and that is my intent.” Continued on page 10...

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It’s not about age, it’s about safety, site administrator says When 13-year old Keswick youth Wesley Hamilton was told he would no longer be able to post buy and sell items on a lo-cal, virtual garage sale site be-cause he was not 18, he cried ‘foul’. “Over the last seven months I earned enough money to buy two pairs of basketball shoes and pay for my basketball summer camp,” Mr. Hamilton said. “Sometimes I find things at the end of the road after a garage sale and I take them home, clean them up and then sell them again.” He said he was having a lot of fun exercising his entrepreneu-rial spirit until the administrator for the Varage Sale site asked him to remove himself from the group because of his age. “I am not a kid,” Mr. Hamilton says. “I’m 13 and old enough to use Facebook, therefore old enough to use Varage,” he said, adding, he believes the policy is discriminatory and “I think it’s wrong.” But administrator Staci Bassie said there is an age limit of 18 on the site for safety reasons. “I wasn’t comfortable with young children being on there because they are meeting with adults. People are meeting either in public places or at home to exchange goods and it is not a safe thing for children to be do-ing,” Ms. Bassie said. “Many, many other groups have an age rule of 18 and I think that is quite normal.”

She said she commends young Mr. Hamilton’s ambition to make extra money and she en-couraged him to use his father’s Varage Sale account for his buy and sell activity. “ There isn’t anything wrong with that. It is a very simple and safe solution and it is what many other parents on the site do,” Ms. Bassie said. “If a parent allows their children to use their ac-count, then they are under their supervision.” She also said many of her mem-bers are uncomfortable dealing with young children. “They don’t want to show up to buy an iPhone from someone and it’s a 13 year-old boy with no parents there. It just makes them uncom-fortable,” she said. But, Mr. Hamilton is not inter-ested in using his father’s ac-count. He wants to do it all on his own and his father, Andrew Hamilton, say he should be al-lowed to. According Andrew Hamilton, Facebook requires users to be 13 years old and Varage, he says, is a Facebook page. He says Wesley is a responsible young man who is running a business and claims there are many users under the age of 18 using the site. Ms. Bassie says Varage is not a Facebook page but an app en-abled through Facebook and she has been weeding out under-aged users since she imple-mented the age limit eight months ago.

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Pefferlaw ice pad good to go

After extensive repairs were finally completed on the Pefferlaw Ice Pad late last year, this popular outdoor skating facility was reopened on De-cember 19. The protective glass surrounding the rink was destroyed during a wind storm on October 31, 2013 and has been replaced with chain ink fencing. Both recreational skaters and pick-up hockey players were able to use the facility daily over the holiday season. The facility is managed by a volunteer organization known as the Pefferlaw Ice Pad Com-mittee (PIP) whose members work to support clearing the

ice of snow and positioning hockey nets when required. According to PIP spokesperson Joanne Cutler, the group is in need of weekend volunteers and she is urging anyone will-ing to help out to call (705) 437-1080 or email pipmember@sympatico.ca.

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New playground equipment installed at two Pefferlaw locations Pefferlaw area children visiting the Peffer-law Lions Park next summer will be able to enjoy newly installed playground equip-ment. And visitors coming to Holmes Point Park will see new equipment there as well. The installations are the result of a 2014 commitment by the Town of Georgina to upgrade the playground equipment at both

locations and at Hollywood Park in Kes-wick. According to Dan Murnaghan, the Man-ager of Parks and Facilities at the Town of Georgina, the new installations were com-pleted in December 2014 and have resulted in all three playgrounds now being in com-pliance with CSA guidelines. “We do our CSA inspections monthly and

we have a third party that comes in every couple of years just to make sure that we have a good replacement schedule,” he said. He said the Pefferlaw Lions Park equip-ment totaled a cost of $95,000, $40,000 was spent for the Holmes Pt. Park installa-tion and $50,000 was budgeted for the new equipment at Hollywood Park.

New playground equipment has been installed at the Pefferlaw Lions Park (left) and at Holmes Point Beach (right).

The Pefferlaw Lioness sup-port various not-for-profit community organizations but one of their long-standing beneficiaries is the 1st Peffer-law Scouting Troop. The Lioness has been spon-

soring this youth organization for more than XX years and troop members volunteer help out when the Lioness stage a community event. In addition to offer-ing bursaries, pro-viding financial sup-port for community upgrades and spon-soring a range of charitable contribu-tions, the Pefferlaw Lioness cater com-munity events. Pictured here are Steve Clementson,

(left) the Group Commis-sioner for the Troop who is accepting the Lioness annual contribution to the club of $500 from Gayle Middleton (right), President of the Pef-ferlaw Lioness.

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Scouts and the Lioness Leaf Alumni hockey game

He shoots...he doesn't score...but the game was no less thrilling for the hundreds of fans that packed into the Ice Palace on De-cember 29 when the Georgina Firefighters faced off against the Toronto Maple Leaf Alumni hockey team for this annual charity event. The draw for fans this year appeared to be Alumni players Wendel Clarke and Bernie Nichols. The game ended with a score of 9 to 5 in favour of the Alumni team. Proceeds from the event support the Children’s Wish Founda-tion and with nearly 700 fans in attendance, approximately $3,500 was raised.

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Ministry opens herring fishery for Lake Simcoe After 14 years of bans, anglers on Lake Simcoe will be able to catch and keep their limit of cisco this year. Also known as laker herring, the Ministry of Natural Re-sources and Forestry (MNRF) has re-introduced the cisco season which allows a cisco limit of two with a sport fishing li-cence and a limit of one with a conserva-tion licence. According to a MNRF media release in December, the cisco fishery on Lake Sim-coe was closed in 2001 to protect the cisco population in the lake. “Lake Simcoe’s cisco population once provided a major food source for several species of sport fish as well as a significant recreational fishery,” MNRF stated. “However, by the late 1980s their numbers decreased due to a lack of natural repro-duction.” It is believed that habitat degradation in-cluding low dissolved oxygen, was the primary cause of “recruitment failure” for many coldwater species in Lake Simcoe. However, conditions have since improved and have resulted in cisco natural repro-duction,” MNRF says. MNRF made the decision to re-open the cisco fishery after evaluating fish commu-nity monitoring data over a nine year pe-riod. The data supported a strong increase in cisco populations, particularly over the past three years. After verifying the positive trends in Lake Simcoe’s cisco population, MNRF worked closely with its partners to determine the logistics of opening the fishery. These partners included the Lake Simcoe Fisher-ies Stakeholder Committee and the Lake Simcoe Fisheries Management Committee. Pefferlaw resident Dave Clyde is an avid Lake Simcoe ice angler and says the re-introduction of the cisco limit is a good

idea. “There are lots of them out there and it gives you something else to catch and keep,” he said. “There are a lot of people who like them and the limit is rea-sonable,” he said. The cisco season will run from January 1 to March 15 and will include the second Saturday of the month from May until September 30. Both the cisco season and limits reflect those imposed on Lake Simcoe whitefish and lake trout. “I think it’s good because people were catching herring and mistaking them for white fish and this way they will be able to keep them and at least they won’t get into

trouble for not knowing what species they have,” said Jerry Kurharchuk, operator of Pefferlaw Fish Huts at the Peninsula Re-sort. “With the numbers last year, people were complaining because there were so many down there,” he said adding, with the loca-tion of his huts customers will catch perch, herring and whitefish.

Thank you, Georgina!!!! Alf Judd from the Georgina Food Pantry says volunteers were dealing with a “very positive problem” when they helped or-ganize and distribute over 20,000 lbs. of donated food over the holidays. Mr. Judd said food started coming in for the Christmas rush in late November and by the time Christmas rolled around, 400 hampers had been organized. “We were kept quite busy stocking shelves and organizing the food,” Mr. Judd said. “Georgina families have always been generous and it is always appreci-ated. Everyone was very happy.” In addition to the donated food, the Food Pantry handed out nearly $15,000 in gift cards from financial donations received. “This way, people could go and purchase a turkey or whatever else they needed,” Mr. Judd said. The Food Pantry also collected new, un-

wrapped toys for their clients and imple-mented a new mode of delivery this year which worked very well. The toy dona-tions were taken to the Keswick Christian Church on Woodbine and parents were encouraged to pick them up there. “Instead of preparing a hamper with toys, we had the parents come in and pick out three or four toys they thought their chil-dren would enjoy and there were a lot of happy campers,” he said. “We will defi-nitely do that again next year.” In addition to the support provided by the Georgina Food Pantry for families in need during the Christmas season, Mr. Judd said he is aware of the many other not-for-profit organizations which also provided food and toy hampers across Georgina. He said this type of support made it possi-ble for families to access donations closer to their homes.

MNRF photo

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Witnesses reported seeing anglers out on the ice between Virginia Beach and Georgina Island as early as January 3, 2015. Given that we didn’t have enough consecutive days of sub-zero tempera-tures up until that time to make a decent amount of ice, I wondered at the wis-dom, or lack thereof. A release from Durham Regional Police on January 5 reported the death of a fisherman who drowned in Lake Scugog after falling through the ice. For your sake and the sake of your family, why not wait until ice conditions improve. Happy 50th birthday to a great gal, Sue Milley. The family celebrated her big day with her Mom from England and close friends on New Year’s Eve. Much love and greetings come from Terry and Don. A report from Paul Harpley with the South Lake Simcoe Naturalists demon-strates that 54 different species of birds were sighted during the Annual Sutton Christmas Bird Count conducted on Sun-day, December 28.

Mr. Harpley said 19 birders and 18 feeder watchers participated in the count circle area which included Georgina, parts of East Gwillimbury and Old Scott Township. The count began at 7:10 am and ended at 4:30 pm. “Highlights included 12 bald eagles on and around Lake Simcoe and 17 snowy owls and unexpected lingering migrants like single gray-cheeked thrush, flicker, osprey and 8 red-winged blackbirds. Also, 52 tundra swans and trumpeter swans were seen on the lake,” Mr. Har-pley said. Other notable species were nine red-bellied woodpeckers, a raven, 106 snow buntings, a belted kingfisher and a caro-lina wren. This is the 29th year for the Sutton Christmas Bird Count. I just heard that Debbie Littleford (905) 960-1596 is the Welcome Wagon repre-sentative for new residents moving into Sutton, Jackson’s Point and Willow Beach. If you have a new neighbour in these hoods, give her a call.

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Wind and ice mix it up on shore

This photo comes to us from Judith Saliani who lives on Blue Heron Dr. on McRae Beach in Pefferlaw. According to Ms. Saliani, this mound of ice blew up on shore and reached be-tween 25 to 30 feet high in some areas. “The extreme winds over two days, Christmas eve and day, pushed the ice pack from the lake up on shore,” Ms. Salaini said. “This is very unusual for this time of the year—expected in spring but not early winter!”

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Graffiti...continued from page 1.

Continued from page 3. In July last year, Mr. Danbrook won a Superior Court decision which found that the Town denied his right to be heard when they passed a develop-ment charges by-law in 2011. The by-law included levies on previously exempted lots of record, a change which local builders condemned. All three superior court judges who heard the case ruled that the Town did not give notice to the affected builders of its inten-tion to pass the by-law and as a result, the Town was directed

to repay the levies that were unlawfully collected and to pay Mr. Danbrook’s legal fees. The total cost of the decision amounted to approximately $110,000, Mr. Danbrook says adding, the majority of those costs includes the money the builders were required to pay to the Town in error. The Leave to Appeal motion filed by the Town, which could send the matter back to court, is expected to be heard at the end of January. The Town’s legal fees to date top $430,000.00.

* Employees of Langstaff Cards, Buchner Manufacturing and Braids & Laces and the many residents of the area who donated to the boxes and coin jars at the following locations and the busi-nesses who accepted boxes for the col-lection of new unwrapped toys and money: BMO Bank of Montreal, Sutton Branch Belvedere Cookhouse, Pefferlaw Bodley’s Furniture & Appliances Kibble Pet Food Store Lim’s Variety Store, Pefferlaw Maxi Marina Market Hwy. 48 Pefferlaw Dental Office Pefferlaw LCBO Pefferlaw Medical Centre The Pefferlaw Canada Post Office Pefferlaw Supermarket Pefferlaw Pizzeria Store Residents of Rixon Manor, Pefferlaw Teachers—Sutton District High School Sutton Curling Club Udora Gas Bar & Convenience Store Udora General Store & Post Office

A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY...The Pefferlaw & District Lioness Club is so proud of our community for the great support received for the CHRISTMAS ANGELS PROGRAM in December. We wish to thank the following businesses and people for their generosity. We could not have done it without you.

Donations to Toy Boxes and Coin Jars Donations of Money for the Food Boxes and Other Items

Roger Allaby Margaret Almack & Paul Rothfels Edward D. Anderson Breakaway Fuels Ltd. Buchner Manufacturing Inc. Judith Butler Deborah & Richard Crook Sherry Chee-A-Fat D.R. Concrete Bernie & Isobel Fairbarn Johanna Card, Garnet Machine Inc. Georgina Auto Parts Georgina Veterinary Clinic Limited Debra and Merline Godfrey Diane Golding—Pefferlaw Chiropractic Joanne Grozdanovski & Scholastic Nancy & Albert Henderson Shirley Jakonen J.B. Construction (Jack Beaudrow) Kathy Kavanagh Doreen A. Lister John Lloyd—Lloyd’s Refrigeration Maxi Marina Market

Verna & Ross McArthur Brian and Sharon McConnell Jackie McEachern My Mechanic—Mike Lamanna Mary Norton Pefferlaw Arts & Crafts Club Pefferlaw Club 55 Pefferlaw & District Lions Club Pefferlaw Post—Karen Wolfe Port Bolster Hall Board Paul & Elaine Reeder Garry & Dorothy Reevie Marilyn & Ron Reid Shearer Homes Incorporated Terry & Denise Sheedy Shepherds Utility Equipment Sales Allan & Edna Slater Dave & Debbie Van den Brink VIP Tire & Battery Inc. Nancy Walker Paul & Dianne Wakelin Faye Wilkinson Wright’s Tree Service

ALSO THANK YOU to Jane Clyde, Brenda Camplin, Dianne Wakelin, Steve Askew of Steve’s No Frills for co-ordinating and assembling food boxes; to Glen Dixon, Howard Jobin and the staff of Giant Tiger for donations and to Faye Wilkin-son and the Wilfrid Hall Board for the use of the hall; to Don Philp, Ted Rennie and Ron Robinson for pick-ups and deliveries. THANK YOU ALL!

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“And now, unfortunately we have to spend a lot of money to put video cameras around the place. That is the only thing I can think of that will deter it and it is just another expense I don’t really need right now.” Mr. Usling said he has con-

tacted York Regional Police in hopes that the perpetrator(s) left a clue which might help the police identify who was respon-sible. “All I can hope for is the person responsible to come and clean it up.”

Members of the Island View Beach Association needed a front end loader to collect over 725 lbs. of food for the Georgina Food Pantry on December 18. “That was 150 lbs. more than we collected last year,” said association president, Van Carter. Thanks go out to Elves, T.J, Bryan, Jim, Lynn, Jennifer, Camden and Chris at Canadian Pro Carpet.

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Members of the Sutton Curling Club held their Christmas cele-bration on Friday, December 19 and four new club members and their band known as The Lucky Charms, were there to en-sure everyone had a rocking good time.

Elaine Coats (left) Fred Crittenden (centre) and Mary Kay (right) celebrate gift basket raffle winners who helped to donate more than 500 lbs of food at the Black River Coffee shop food drive over the holidays. The win-ners were: Debbie, John Langan, Sue Johns-ton, John Houston and Dan Merrill. Con-gratulations to everyone who helped out.

Alena Murphy, 4, delights Santa with her colouring talents at the Wilfrid Hall on December 13.

Zoe Basnicki from Keswick builds a Christmas decora-tion at the Port Bolster Hall.

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Coming Events & Announcements

The Mayor and Council of the Town of Georgina invite you to help them ring in the New Year by joining them at their An-nual “New Year’s Levee” on Saturday, January 10. Everyone is invited to come out for pancakes and sausages prepared by Enbridge Gas Distribution Service at the ROC from 9:00 am to 11:00 am.

Mark Wednesday, January 14 on your cal-endar and join Ekko, the hearing ear dog, at the Cedardale Church at 10:00 am. Catherine O’Connor, a hearing care coun-cillor, will give a presentation on hearing and hearing loss. There is no charge and lunch will be provided.

The Kinette Club of Sutton is hosting a fundraising Zumba Beach Party at the Egypt Hall on Thurs. January 17 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Tickets are $20 and funds raised go toward community projects.

Angel Morgan, a quirky, high energy psy-chic hosts a Rogers TV program called Raising Energy and is inviting participants to take part in the next taping of the show on Saturday, January 17. You can contact her at (705) 220-2151.

Come to the Tuesday, January 20 General Meeting of the Georgina Historical Soci-

ety at 7:00 p.m. for a discussion with GHS founding president, Nena Marsden. Learn about the history of the organization and the creation of the Georgina Pioneer Vil-lage. PLEASE NOTE: The meeting will be held in the Meeting Room of the York Regional Police Headquarters located on Baseline Rd. in Sutton. Everyone is wel-come and there is no charge to attend, however a small donation for coffee and snacks would be appreciated.

Hospice Georgina is partnering with the Georgina Training Centre to sponsor a seminar entitled “Healthy Eating for One” at the Sutton Kin Hall each Monday of January 12, 19, 26 and February 9 from 10:00 am to noon. Topic are: Eating for Energy, Boosting your Immune System, and How to Beat the Winter Blues. Call (905) 722-9333 or (905) 722-6300.

There is lots to do and hear at your local library this month: 1. Join a Book Club—2nd Tues. of the month in Keswick at 7:00 pm; 1st Thurs. of the month in Pefferlaw at 1:30 pm; 2nd Wed. of the month in Sutton at 7:00 pm. 2. Captain Underpants Program—Dress up, join in for games, activities and lots of potty humour on Sat. Jan. 24 from 10:00 to

11:00 am at the Keswick Branch. 3. Tues. Jan 27 is Family Literacy Day and activities, including a puppet show, will be held at the Keswick branch on Tues. Jan. 27 at 6:30 pm. 4. 3D printing has arrived at the Library and starting in January, the 3D MakerBot Mini will travel to libraries throughout Georgina where you can print your 3D items for a small fee. Call your local branch to find out when it will be in your local library. 5. Winter Play Day– try snow painting, make snowshoes, build a Japanese Snow Cottage, play Native American Snow game, bubble magic, or make an Eskimo Yo-Yo, have a Marshmallow Sculpture Contest and make a Snowflake Mobile. Call Jennifer Day (905) 476-5762.

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