Pumpkin Hike

Posted on October 19, 2012 by admin

The Annual Pumpkin Hike is taking place on Friday October 26th! The hike is a collaboration between the G.R. Allen home and school association, SCSN and Smiling Over Sickness.

For full details, please see here.

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Public Lecture – JERUSALEM, or: How an Ordinary Royal City of the Ancient Southern Levant Acquired Extraordinary Holiness

Posted on October 15, 2012 by admin

Please join the Department of Religious Studies as we welcome this year’s Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor to our department.

Dr. Michael Zank, currently Professor of Religion and Acting Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, will give the following lecture: 

 

 

 

 

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Christmas Corner Store – Binkley United Church

Posted on October 15, 2012 by admin

Free Admission!

  • Variety Of Artisans
  • Church Bakery
  •  Silent Auction
  •  Tiny Treasures
  •  Jewelry Table
  •  Penny Sale
  •  Church Crafts
  •  Draws
  •  Luncheon & Tea Room
  •  Santa And More !!!!
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Annual Fall Cootes Clean-up

Posted on October 10, 2012 by admin

This is Nel from the McMaster Outdoor Club. I just wanted to let you know about our upcoming annual environmental clean-up of Cootes Paradise. We will be meeting Saturday Oct 20th at 1pm at the following locations:
-The Alpine Tower on McMaster Campus
-The Aviary in Churchill Park
-Parking Lot M besides Cootes Drive

Following the clean-up (3pm) we will be meeting for a BBQ at the Alpine Tower.

Please help get the word out about this event by passing on the information. I have also included a poster for this event with all of the important details.

Thank you for your help and I hope to see you out at the event!

Nel Vandermeer
Environmental Coordinator
McMaster Outdoors Club  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fee for service for waste bylaw violation to continue in September

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

Ainslie Wood Westdale

In April (2012), staff conducted a pilot project to recover service costs when an address was in violation of the Solid Waste Management Bylaw. A “Notice of Direction” was posted on the front door by a Customer Service Representative. Upon re-checking the following day, if an address did not follow the Direction, collection crews were dispatched to collect the waste. A user fee was applied to the tax roll of that property in the amount of $297.25. Prior to the start of this initiative, each address in the neighbourhood received a mailout outlining the process and the penalties for non compliance of the direction.

Due to the success of this project, staff will again be monitoring the Westdale Ainslie Wood neighbourhoods starting on September 5th, 2012. They will monitor through September and follow the same process as in the spring.   Staff will provide the results in October, 2012.

The statistics below outline the results of the April project.

Notices Of Direction Issued

April 2-6:  29

April 9-15:  12

April 16-20:  13

April 23-27:  36

April 30-May 4:  64

May 7-11:  152

Total:  306

Summary
263 properties voluntarily complied with the Direction.
43 did not comply.
$13,079.00 is being recovered for collection services via the final tax bill.

The Solid Waste By-law is at http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/12A7DDE0-B9AF-4D16-82A9-168FB2F6C545/0/09067.pdf

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Dale Brown
Executive Assistant to
Councillor Brian McHattie
Ward 1, Chedoke – Cootes
City of Hamilton
phone:  905-546-2226
www.brianmchattie.ca
www.facebook.com/CouncillorBrianMcHattie 

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The Hamilton Poetry Centre and Bryan Prince Bookseller present James Langer (Gun Dogs).

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

The Hamilton Poetry Centre and Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King St. West, present James Langer (Gun Dogs).  Free, everyone welcome.

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Bryan Prince Bookseller presents a book-launch celebration for Dr. C. Barber Mueller’s Excalibur.

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

DR. C. BARBER MUELLER is one of the founding fathers of McMaster University’s medical school and was the chair of the Department of Surgery from 1967 – 1972. Now professor emeritus, Dr. Mueller is the founder of the Friends of McMaster Health Sciences Library, a group dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the Library as a vital resource. His philosophy of philanthropy is to support education. “Education is our future and the benefits of the library to student education and graduate work are great and all pervasive’ says Dr. Mueller. “ I want to feed the mind”.

EXCALIBUR: THE SWORD OF SCIENCE THAT RESHAPED THE WORLD brings an overview of ideas generated during the Age of Science, ideas that have forever changed our perceptions of the universe and man’s place on Earth. The past 400 years have seen the keen blade of the ‘sword of science’ carve out a redefined world. As a scholar, thinker, surgeon and now a nonagenarian, Dr. Mueller explores the development of science as a cultural phenomenon that began in a climate of opposition and now dominates many features of our daily lives.

Please join us for what will be a stimulating and engaging presentation.

Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King St. West, presents a book-launch celebration for Dr. C. Barber Mueller’s Excalibur.  As space is limited, RSVP  to 905-528-4508 or staff@princebooks.net.

 

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Bryan Prince Bookseller presents a book-launch celebration for David Collier’s Hamilton Illustrated.

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King St. West, presents a book-launch celebration for David Collier’sHamilton Illustrated.  As space is limited, RSVP to  905-528-4508 or staff@princebooks.net.

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The Hamilton Poetry Centre and Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King St. West, present Amanda Jernigan (Groundwork)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

The Hamilton Poetry Centre and Bryan Prince Bookseller, 1060 King St. West, present Amanda Jernigan (Groundwork).  Free, everyone welcome.

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“Searching for Signatures of Life in Astrobiology” with Gregory Slater

Posted on October 9, 2012 by admin

The Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art presents “Searching for Signatures of Life in Astrobiology” with Gregory Slater.  McMaster University Medical Centre, Ewart Angus wing, Room 1A1.  Free. 

The field of astrobiology focuses on one of the most profound and enduring questions that science can dare to answer:  Does life exist beyond our own small planet?  Key to answering this question will be our ability to identify evidence or signatures of life, extant or extinct, on astronomical bodies.  But will we know it when we see it?  We must begin with life on Earth.  By understanding the range and formation of biosignatures on Earth and comparing these to non-biologically created signatures we can start to build our understanding of how to interpret data from other places in our solar system or even from planets around other stars.

Dr. Slater is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster.  His research deals with the sources and cycling of organic molecules in the environment.

For more information, see www.haalsa.org

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