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Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 9 Nov 2001, p. 12

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12-The Canadian Champion, Frlday, November 9, 2001 WHAT'S' ONIN MILTON! Est more, min more with the KFC Chicken Scratch Game. You coutd win one ofllen huge $1 million prizes and theres millions more in cash snd food. Every card ls a inner. See jo-store for details. 276 Main St. 878-4171 SAT. NOV. 177" POjf TURNVAMENT Potarts at 2:00 PM Wednesday Night Entertainment Wendei Fergison Thursday Nulghts - 1540 Wn j Prhme Bib & Yorkshire Dinner on Friday 5-lOpm &ea «4 'î74"4 2V4«44a 9:00 111ii a 11111 - 1 1 Il- I. 201 Main St. E. 905-876-4899 (ýk C OME ~ JOIN us A T THE DICKENS 189 Mill Street a 878-6680 The Grand Chalet Exceptiom f.asual Dimfmg a Aatbentic Itllum Cuisine Every Wednesday Night is Spiducci Night Our (amous signature dish Barbeque Iantb shish keboh 4e nre «Pkiîterainment Photo by GRAHAM PAINE Melissa Kotack wiII seli her microwavable slippers at the On. of a Kind Christmas Show in Toronto. ,Microwavable slippers a toasty creation by university student By FANNIE SUNSHINE The Champion Sometirnes the best inventions corne frorn the heart. After nrying to find a way t0 make life bearable for ber mother, who suffers from a neuromuscular disorder thal leaves ber witb freezing cold feet, Melissa Kotack invented a special kind of stipper - the microwavable type. "t have a neuromuscular disease thal leave me with freezing cold feet," explained Pal Kotack, Melissa's mother. 1 couldn'l find stippers that kept my feet warm and t just can't put on regular socks and stippers. So Melissa said she would design a pair of stippers that would belp me." The bootie style, polar fleece stippers are made wiîh wbole 051 grain - perfect for conducting and retaining beat, sbe said. So for those wbo need a kick-slarl of warmtb for Ibeir feet, Ibese stippers will belp, Ms Kotack said. "Body beat and the grain feed off each other," she explained. "The beat will lasI a couple of hours; before you would need 10 re-beat the stippers." She said ber stippers bave been popular amnong people suffering from diabetes, artbritis, muscutar dystropby, cerebral palsy and multiple selerosis. or for people witb cbronically cold feet. "I1ls been going well s0 far." she said. "t've sold about 800 10 900 pairs. Ms Kotack recommended wearing a tim pair of socks with the stippers. in case the slippers are 100 warmn for the bare fool. For the pasl year, Ms Kotack, a universi- îy student, bas been selling ber therapeutic stippers at various craft shows at a cost of $39.99. The stippers can also be ordered from ber Web site, www.cosysoles.com, for $49.99. "It takes me about one bour 10 make a pair," she said, adding stippers corne in small, medium and large and in burgundy, bunier green and beige colours. "We gel a lot of moîbers writing 10 tbe Web site wbo toIl us tbeir cbildren's feet are so cold tbey tum purple and the slip- pers bave really made a difference." Ms Kotack will feature ber stippers at the 2'7tb annual one of a Kind Cbristmas Show at the National Trade Centre, Exhibition Place in Toronto. The show will lake place November 22 t0 December 2. Choristers to open season November 24 The Milton Choristers is gearing up for anoîber season of music as the singing group announces concert dates for ils 33rd year. The season opener - Britten's Ceremony of Carols - will take place November 24 aI Si. Paul's United Cburch aI 7:30 p.m. Special guesîs barpisl Julia Seeger and soloist Marianne Bodrug will join the Chorisîers on stage for the works of Britten. Admission 10 the event cosîs $12 for aduits, $6 for children aged 6 years and under, and $ 10 for seniors and students. Tickets are available ai the Postal Zone aI Milton Mail, Delacourt's on Main Street and by calling (905) 876-2401 or (905) 698-0646. The second performance of t6e year, îiîled 'Requiem for Easter'. will retun te, St. Paul's United Cburcb March 24 aI 3 Joining t6e Chorisîers on stage 10 per- form John Rutter's Requiem and other Holy Week selections will be a guesl soprano and a small orchestra. Closing the season witl ho Standards and Gems: Gershwin. Berlin. Porter and more. The June I evenl will takc over the Gambrel Barn aI Country Herilage Park aI 7:30 p.m. wiîh songs from some of the 201h century's most loved composers. Formrly Scaraneil Exhaust Everyday Low Prices eFriendly Service e Locally Owned 701 Main St. E. 905-875-3740 I s 1 324 STEELES AVE. MILTON 905-878-7934'

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