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Egmondville
asked to vote
on choice for
sewer system
Susan Hundertmark
A ballot asking Egmond-
ville residents if they want
to extend the Seaforth sew-
age works to Egmondville and
whether they want a tradi-
tional gravity sewer or a sep-
tic tank effluent gravity sys-
tem (STEG) was mailed out
last week.
The ballot comes after a pub-
lic meeting where Egmond-
ville residents were given the
prices of four different sewage
systems, including two tradi-
tional sewer systems and two
alternative systems.
Anticipated costs per unit
include $19,900 for the tradi-
tional gravity sewer, $18,100
for modified - gravity, $19,400
for the STEG system and
$18,700 for the STEP (Septic
Tank Effluent Pumping Sys-
tem) system. The costs for the
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The Virgin Mary, played by Amy Bannon, holds the baby Jesus, played by her daughter
Amelia Bannon, during a reenactment of the Christmas Story at St. Thomas Anglican
Church on Sunday. Susan Hundertmark photo
Working on Christmas Day can
be just part of the job
Dan Schwab •
While most adults are given the day
off work and kids are on holiday from
school, there are plenty of people who
still have to go to their jobs on Christ-
mas day.
One job where at least some employ-
ees are always working is the police
force.
OPP Const. Joanna Van Mierlo is one
officer who hasn't had Christmas off
for a few years.
"I have had to work the last four
Christmases in a row," she says. "Al-
though it's not my preference, it is typi-
cally tranquil as far as calls for service
go.
Van Mierlo says she's worked on
Christmas Day for at least 75 per cent
of her 21 years with the OPP.
"My preference would be to have
Christmas off. However, signing up for
See CHRISTMAS DAY, Page 11
$1.25 gst included
Purple hippos
bring
Christmas
smiles at
Seaforth's
hospital
Susan Hundertgmark
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Decked out in a brand-new purple
dress shirt and purple tie over his
Christmas pajama bottoms, 12 -year-
old Cameron Morton helped hand out
stuffed purple hippos to the patients
in Seaforth hospital on Christmas Day
last year.
It's an activity he and his 14 -year-
old brother Macaulay and their grand-
parents Sheila and Don Morton have
turned into a family Christmas tradi-
tion over the past three years.
The Mortons join Bob and Donna
Broadfoot, of Brucefield and their
daughter Brenda, who created the
Keepsmiling Alliance, which was re-
cently registered as the charity Heal-
ing with Smiles, which has distributed
over 5,000 purple hippos to hospitals
in the 'Toronto area.
Brenda, a graduate of •Seaforth Dis-
trict High School who lives in Milton,
owns a framing store in Mississauga
and.donated some surplus stuffed ani-
mals from her store to a hospital in
Brampton seven years ago.
After she was diagnosed with lung
cancer, Brenda started distributing
purple hippos - all of them named But-
tercup - in the hopes that the stuffed
toy would help patients remember to
smile. •
"It became very obvious when I got
sick that I was spreading smiles, not
hippos," she says.
Brenda is often the person dressed
in a purple hippo suit, dancing down
the hospital corridors to a recording of
"I Want A Hippopotamus for Christ-
mas" as a crew of Seaforth volunteers
hand out the stuffed toys to both pa -
Bee CHRISTMAS, Page 2