The Chip Wagon, Talbot Rd. (Hwy # 3, Close to the bridge.) Home of the healthy~ Coming Soon ~ Janice Burger! Details as soon as we have them.

We think Janice's burger is turkey on rye with lettuce, tomato and various other options including currie sauce.

Our theme of Health and Fitness caught up with us!

Cayuga trainer, Janice Jacobs, nudged us until this morning we checked into her class. No excuse for not getting into shape. Janice bends, bounces, shakes and lifts weights (yes, weights. You can choose 4 lb., 3 lb., 2 lb. or even 1 ~ go heavier if you wish...)
For over an hour, starting 9:00 a.m. sharp, every Wednesday morning, Janice "dances" her way through a fun workout.
To get to TC's Gym, find the Cayuga Stephan's V & S Department Store on Hwy. # 3 (near Hwy.54 or Munsee St.); go to the parking lot behind.
TC's Gym, 8 Mckay St., E.
905-772-9117

tcsgym@mountaincable.net
Tomorrow: Janice has a healthy turkey burger named after her.

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Your Smile for Today:

Work:

"The happiest people do not necessarily have the best things. They simply appreciate the things they have."
~ Warren Buffet

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
~ James M. Barrie

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it int0 small jobs."
~ Henry Ford

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
~ (Who else?!) George Burns

Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 2006

Community Closet, a new business on Cayuga Street, has everything from garden tools to a Sunday suit! Come by and visit the friendly staff.

HOURS:

Tues. & Wed. 10 - 4
Thurs. & Fri. 10 - 6
Sat. 10 - 3

5 Cayuga St. (The Blue Space)

Organized and operated by Community Living, Community Closet is a welcome neighbour, serving the community, asking the question, "What is in your closet?"

Their changing window features items for sale ~ Always something interesting. You can see it from the stoplight on Hwy #3. (They have BOOKS too!!)
For more information, call 905.772.3344. Ext. 227.

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Town of Haldimand has joined Facebook. The profile is hours old but the content is prehistoric. Check out Jeff Ballin's amazing photographs of the turtle. Up close and personal ~ look into the very old face of a snapper. Watch him walking. Who said turtles were slow!

Log in to Facebook. Search Town of Haldimand Tourism and follow the latest happenings around town.

Jane Austen Tested Prose on Visitors

According to author Eric Burns, any author who truly cares about his work will read it audibly. "The writer will make sure there are no missed beats to distract us from his literary designs."
"He will pick up his typescript,...listen as [the words] ascend from the page, bouncing off the walls of his study and back again, returning to him in what is, in terms of cadence, their natural state."

"I find it necessary," John Steinbeck (1902 -1968) once said of his recitations, "for the sake of the rhythms."

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) regularly held formal presentations in her parlor, serving tea and biscuits.
"As Miss Austen reads to friends and visitors, her eyes flit up, work the room, monitoring the effects of her prose. Is anyone yawning, looking away, scratching an imaginary itch? How many people are leaning forward hanging on the next words?

The author is like a comedian trying out new material on a weeknight at the Improv, sensitive to any nuance that will tell her whether it plays poorly or well."
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) travelled doing readings, tempering his work based on the mood of the time.

Moliere (1622 - 1673), the French playwright, got an initial reaction to his plays by reciting them to his cook.

Burns' observations leaves one wondering if our modern-day readings afford the author feedback of any kind or are book "signings" and readings simply photo-ops and promotions for books yet to be "tested."

Eric Burns, The Joy of Books, Prometheus Books, 1995.

Your Smile for Today:

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

~ Tom Clancy, American novelist, (1947 - )