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Exeter Times -Advocate
Wednesday,October 19, 2005
Sonja Seiler, co-owner of Midwest —The Save A Lot Store, stands in
front of a display at her Thames Road Iocation.The business is holding a
grand opening week until Saturday. (photo/Scott Nixon)
Midwest discount store
celebrates opening
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — One of Exeter's newer
businesses is celebrating with a
grand opening week until Saturday.
Midwest — The Save A Lot Store
opened during Mother's Day week-
end and carries a variety of new
items at discount prices. Owned by
Les and Sonja Seiler of Exeter, Sonja
says business is going well.
"It's interesting," she says. "You
meet a lot of nice people."
Sonja says she and Les, both expe-
rienced business owners, already
had their location at 96 Thames. Rd.
W., and decided The Save A Lot
Store was something Exeter needed.
While they at first started out as a
surplus store, the Seilers changed
their minds and decided to go with
all new discount items.
Items include electronics, tele-
phones, TVs, furniture, tools, garden
and home decorating products, gen-
erators, microwaves, fridges and
freezers, housewares, appliances
and more, with new stock arriving
weekly. The business orders its stock
from all over North America.
Sonja likes her business's location,
adding there is lots of parking and
many tourists driving through town
stop in to shop.
Operation Christmas Child
EXETER — With Christmas season
coming up, local residents can do
their part to help out those who
need it.
Once again, Operation Christmas
Child will deliver millions of gift filled
shoe boxes around the world to boys
and girls suffering because of war,
natural disaster, poverty, illness or
neglect.
You can participate in this project
of Samaritan's Purse by filling a shoe
box and by praying for the child who
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will receive your gift.
With your help, joy and hope can
be delivered to millions of children
around the world this Christmas.
The collection centre for Operation
Christmas Child will be at the Exeter
Pentecostal Tabernacle from Nov. 8-
12. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Nov. 8-10; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Nov.
11; and 9 a.m. to noon on Nov. 12.
Shoe boxes and instructions are
available. Call 235-2991 for more
information.
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CLINTON - Head Office/Branch
48 Ontario Street
(519) 482-3466
EXETER
118 Main Street N.
(519) 235-0640
LISTOWEL
Smith's Market Square
(519)291-6189
Volunteers needed for Rummage Sale
EXETER — Father Ray Lawhead had a 7
p.m. Mass on Tues., Oct. 11 at Precious Blood
Church and 22 ladies attended the C.W.L.
meeting at 7:30 p. m. Mary Van Rooy intro-
duced Wayne De Luca who spoke about doc-
tor recruitment in South Huron. His commit-
tee has many ideas on attracting new doctors
to this area. On Nov. 12 and 13 a job fair will
be held at the Oakwood Inn in Grand Bend to
promote their hard work. We all need to be
very supportive because if we do nothing, we
get nothing.
Volunteers are needed this week for the
annual hospital rummage sale on Oct. 19 and
20. White ribbons will be available at the back
of the church on Sun., Oct. 23 for the "White
Ribbon Against Pornography Campaign".
The Huron Perth regional meeting will be
held at Precious Blood and registration starts
at 8:30 a.m. on Wed., Oct 26 and Mass will
end our day at 3:00 p.m. Mark your calen-
dars and plan to attend.
Our charity of the month was our youth
group. The annual Penny Sale will be on
Wed., Nov 2 at 7 p.m. Volunteers are needed
on Tues., Nov. 1 following Mass and also
through the day on Wednesday and after the
Penny Sale. Bring a friend and help out!
Monique's group is in charge of the Nov. 8
meeting and there will be a potluck dinner
held on Nov. 29 and Willie will be running this
with her group. Jacqueline Hansen won the
door prize.
Why can't we recycle...
Mixed Plastic
Because., iN part it costs
i1,479/tonne
to recycle these containers
While it only costs
1161/tonne
for your current blue box program.
It is not always the case that a specific material is not
recyclable, however, it is not always feasible to recycle
that material. When making decisions to add new
materials to the blue box, the Bluewater Recycling
Association must look at any new products from a
variety of perspectives to maintain the integrity and
success of the current program.
For one, unless the "new" material has three solid established markets within reach
it will not be considered. We do this to ensure that we will have a sustainable long term
market in place in order to be able to guarantee you that all recyclables collected at
curbside will be recycled.
Secondly, it has to make economic sense to collect, process and ship the material. Unless
you are one of the few people that believe that recent fuel increases are no big deal
because you can afford them, we like to keep the recycling costs to a minimum.
Lastly, we want to make sure that recycling a material will make a significant impact
on the environment to justify the infrastructure and investment that will be required to
handle the material differently than it is today. Often, we look to see if consumers have
alternative choices available to them that could be used to avoid the material in the first
place to determine the urgency and viability of adding the material. count,
We would like to apologize for not being able to recycle everything 4.;',.C.`
to,
you generate at this time. However, we make every effort to divert
as much as possible and according to the Recycling Council of a,,
Ontario, we do a pretty good job at it. We, really you, have been cC
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level in the Province of Ontario for each of the last seven years. o'o WIC ER `rm
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compared municipalities
waste generation l ed up to 5% diversion when rates.Congratulations to �`�sre Minimi a�*�
everyone for this accomplishment. We really could not have done it without you.
Space provided through the Canadian Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association and
their members as part of Stewardship Ontario's Blue Box Program in co-operation with Waste Diversion Ontario.
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awarded the honour of achieving the highest waste diversion