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Fareshare’s Easter food drive begins this SaturdayOakville’s Fareshare Food

Bank will kick off its annualEaster Food Drive Saturday.

The first of its two largeannual food drives will contin-ue until Sunday, April 15.

Fareshare depends on thisfood drive to stock its shelveswith non-perishable fooditems to last much of the year.

So far in 2007, Fareshare is

assisting an average 310 fami-lies, or 1,100 people, half ofwhom are children. The fami-lies visit the food bank onceper month and receive about aweek’s worth of groceries.

It is possible to donate tothe Easter Food Drive in anumber of ways.

Fareshare will be openfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday

to Saturday during the drive.Usually Fareshare is open onlyon Monday (from 10 a.m. to 2p.m.) and Thursday (from 3p.m. to 7 p.m.)

All Oakville fire stations willalso accept donations toFareshare and the food bankhas bins at Oakville grocerystores into which residents can

contribute food. Student volun-teers will hand out paper bagsto be filled with donations atthe Real Canadian Superstore.And many local schools alsohold food drives for Fareshare.

“While donations of all non-perishable foods will be wel-come, the items we invariablyrun short of are canned fruit,

canned vegetables, except corn,canned tomatoes and instantcoffee,” said Fareshare volun-teer director Dudley Clarke.

Donations of money are alsowelcome and are used to buyperishable items and vouchers

given to clients to buy milk andfruit at local grocery stores. Todonate visit Fareshare at 1240Speers Rd., Unit 6, call 905-847-3988, or drop donations atany fire station or grocery storeFareshare bin.

Bronte CreekOpportunity to Comment

Draft Vegetation Management PlanOntario Parks (Ministry of Natural Resources), invites your comments on the draft vegetation management plan for Bronte Creek Provincial Park.

This draft plan outlines the preferred management approach to promote the persistence and restoration of naturally occurring vegetation communities within the park and the natural processes that occur within them. You have an opportunity to comment on the draft vegetation management plan for a period of forty-five (45) days after its release. Comments will be accepted until May 14, 2007.

A copy of the draft vegetation management plan may be viewed at the Ontario Parks’ website at: http://www.ontarioparks.com/english/invit.html or are available from the contact listed below.

For further information or to submit comments please contact:

Dave Boddington, Park SuperintendentBronte Creek Provincial Park1219 Burloak DriveOakville, ON L6M 4J7Tel.: 905-827-6911, ext. 223Fax: 905-827-8706E-mail: dave.boddington@ontario.ca

Comments and personal information regarding this vegetation management planning process are collected under the authority of the Provincial Parks Act to assist MNR in making decisions and to determine further public consultation needs relating to future park management. Comments and opinions which do not constitute personal information as defined by the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, will be shared within the MNR and may be included in documentation that is made available for public review. Personal information will remain confidential unless consent to disclose is obtained. However, this information may be used by the MNR to seek public input on other resource management surveys and projects. For further information regarding this Act, please contact Brian Huis, Parks Planning Specialist, at 519-873-4617.

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