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Bringing Together
Hugon & Bruce
yer Canada at Special Olympics
same time very exciting,
said Samantha's. mother,
Joanne Mayer. ;
The Special Olympics
themselves celebrate the
year round efforts and
achievement of the
movement's athletes.
For Mayer it will be 'a
stage where she can
showcase her talent and
her enthusiasm for the
sport of alpine skiing.
Special Olympics
Idaho will be the organi-
zation taking care of the
event in Boise.: it's a
organization that has
never relied on funding
from local, state or feder-
al governments..
All ' of their support-
conies
upportcomes from people -who
donate: There is no . ptes-
sure to please sponsors
and it lets the organiza-
tion give .total support to
its athletes.
Mayer has the support
ofLucknowand all of the
organizations involved
and with her excitement
and dedication- for the
games, she will make
everyone proud of her.
BY GARIT REID
Sentinel Staff
Samantha Mayer of
Lucknow will be compet-
ing in the 2009 Special
Olympics • World Winter
Games, from Feb. 6-13 in
Boise, Idaho, USA. It
will be an opportunity of
a life time for Mayer,
who is excited about the
event.
Mayer will be be com-
petmg in Alpine skiing,
while representing
Canada.
The games will also be
a place where Mayer can
meet a lot f new, differ-
ent people from around
the world. ' Up to 3,000
athletes from more than
5 countries will compete
in the seven sports being
offered.
Mayer has done a lot of
training in preparation
for the Special Olympics
and she hopes it pays -off
in Boise.
really excited and
I have trained very hard
for this. Igo to the gym
pretty much everyday. I
swim and I bike with my
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Photo by Gorit Reid
Samantha Mayer of Lucknow is seen here dressed in her Team Canada garb that she
will be wearing as she represents the nation at the 2009 Special Olympics World
Winter Games. Mayer will be taking part in the alpine skiing events.
mom to get ready for the program in Collingwood, experience in world cow-
Olympics," said Mayer. ON with the Blue petition with skating , so
With her own training, ,.Mountain. Special . she has some experience
Mayer took part in a six Olympics Club with and knows it can be
week dryland training She has had some . overwhelming, but at the
Wind farms still a concern
BY GA1UT MUD
Sentinel $taff
Some Huron-Kjiiloss
residents say wind turbines
are having a serious impact
on their health.
They went to council's
Jan. 19 meeting requesting
council's help in their talks
with Suncor and Acciona.
Sandy MacLeod said the
turbines are the cause of a
rash of health problems
including high blood pres-
sure, terrible headaches,
sleep disturbances, the sen-
sation of bugs crawling on
the skin, humming in the
head, non-stop ringing in
the ears and hart palpita-
tions.
MacLeod wants council
to work with . the affected
residents and help them
return to the environment
they knew before the wind
turbines became opera-
tional.
Huron -Kinloss Mayor
Mitch Twolan said he real-
izes there is a problem and
that council will study the
situation.
MacLeod said the situa-
tion is better since power
lines were buried, but there
is still a constant hissing
sound in her home and it is
more intense when the
wind is high.
Following the meeting,
the residents declined an
interview e with the
Lucknow Sentinel, at this
time.
On the other side of the
story Eric Schneider, head
of marketing and media
relations of Acciona
Energy, said in a telephone
interview that he is aware
of the health concerns sur-
rounding the Ripley wind
farms.
Schneider said the com-
pany has done all it can do
as far as studies go, but he
said evei hing is within
normallimits, except for
some audible acoustics that
are over the limit by three
to five decibels.
Schneider also went on
to say Acciona has been
involved in turbine proj-
ects in countries all over
the world for almost 20
years and this is the first
time they ve had problems
like this.
Continued on page 2
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Submitted photo
On Friday Jan. 23, Brookside Public School's Grade 1l2
class presented one page plays to the Grade I class. Each
student was responsible for learning their lines and cre-
ating actions, gestures and voices to compliment their
character. Brody Taylor was a Cowboy and Alana
MacDonald was a Princess.