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16--The Canadian Champion, Friday, May 28, 2004 Help - I need someone who knows how to sew! Remember when you were a kid and someone replied to somne- thing you said by saying, "So?" And your reply was, "Sew buttons." That doesn't have anxrhiw, t' o dewjDh DXti'x-tr It has caused me considerabte prablems throughout my life. Once, for example, many years ago, 1 ripped my suit pants in an inappropriate spot while at work. Somebody had a sewing kit, which was useless ta me. A woman ini the office offered ta take me to bier home. wbich was close by, wbere 1 could take off my pants and she could sew them for me. Bemng married at the time, 1 didn't know if it was okay to do that, sa 1 declined. Speaking of embarrassing moments witb pants, last week 1 went out in the moming ta get a coffee, and when I was leaving tbe cof- fee sbop I noticed my nephew sitting with is girlfiend at a table by tie wmndow. He waved, 1 waved, and away 1 went. Later he informed me that I had tucked my shirt inside my underwear. He didn't want ta tell me at the time because hie tbought I'd be embarrassed. Goad thnkig. (t wauld be mucb less embarrassing just ta go around town ail mommng with my under- wear sticking out of my pasts. Anyway, getting back ta sewing. 1 can't sew, sa when something needs sewing I hald onta thse item because you can't just throw something out because it daesn 't have a burton. Un the pOe ý~U~a kid my mom would 1oo s e always bave me thread the needie. 1 *was quite good St it, one of my top skills ta this day. But wben it cames ta doing thse actual sewing, 1 don't have a dlue. Sa, I've got these pants that need a burton. They've needed a button for about a year and stili they just sit there. WelI, I decided I wasn't going ta take it anymore and on tbe spur of tise moment, 1 marched downstairs and asked my daughters if they knew bow ta sew. They bath said yes. "Well, who taught you?" 1 asked. 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For more information, cail Halton Region at (905) 825-6000, VTY (905) 827-98-33 or visit www.regian.halton.on.ca. 9 9987 Unit 2 - 15 Martin Stret 905-876987carniage square plaza, iton 1 You see the complications that came up with sewing. 1 had nei- ther, have neyer had either, and probably neyer will. And as for finding a button, forget about that. oo. iî uioOfici muni., iI~ Iý2 scd lio bc advliîscd on I Ides ioII)--K-Ii or something. 1 watched those commercials probably a thousand times, and each time marveled at the ease of putting on a burton with one of those contraptians. I've searched higb and law, 1 bet for 20 years, trying ta fmnd one af them. t've checked out garage sales, discount stores, and 'As- Seen-On-TV' racks. Notbing. Samething that great must surely stili be made. Next ta thse com- puter and all-you-can-eat Chinese food restaurants, it's one of thse greatest discoveries nf aur tinie. Apparently, bowever, it's lie trying ta fmd a needle in a stack of clathes. But, I will neyer give up. Neyer. In the meantime, could somehody please sew a burton an my pants? Unused pesticides can be dropped off