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PAGE 4 ♦ THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ JANUARY 25, 2006 durhamregion.com Little girl's bracelets will help send Sri Lankan children to school BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer NEWCASTLE -- The Christmas gift Emma Ward received from her dad's work Christmas party has turned into a present for many Sri Lankan children. The eight-year-old St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School ' student received a bracelet-making kit for Christmas, and since then, has been making and selling the braided circlets at school and to friends, for $2 each. . Twice each year, a family family friend, Benedict Gomez, gods to Sri Lanka to do mission mission work. According to a letter written by Emma, the Sri Lankan government requires all children to wear a uniform to school, but due to impoverished conditions, attaining one is not always possible. "Three hundred dollars will allow Ben to buy enough material in Sri Lanka to send 30 children to school," she said. Charity is not new to Emma. "I've done it since I was four-years-old," she said. "I used my birthday money to buy baby food" for charity. charity. "It actually feels great to help others," said the eight- year-old. Public backlash just too much for Liberals to overcome, says Moffatt BY CHRIS HALL Staff Writer PORT PERRY - In the end, there was just no stopping the Conservative juggernaut. juggernaut. In conceding his defeat to incumbent Conservative candidate Bev Oda, the Liberals' Liberals' Doug Moffatt acknowledged that public backlash from the ruling Grits' wrongdoings during their 13-year tenure eventually came back to haunt them. "We ran a really good campaign, but it was a strange election," said Mr. Moffatt just outside of his Port Perry campaign office late Monday night. "Locally, I thought we would have done better in Port Perry but there was just so much animosity with regards to the Liberals Liberals having misspent (taxpayers' money through AdScam) and that we had done so many things wrong. It just kept coming and coming and coming. You can't change people's minds." While disappointed disappointed with the public's call for a Doug Moffatt Conservative minority government, Mr.; Moffatt pledged that his colleagues in Ottawa will keep Prime Minster-elect Stephen Harper in check. "Whatever comes out of this election, (the Liberals) will hold Mr. Harper to some of his promises and hopefully stop some of the foolish promises to tear down the social fabric of this country," said Mr. Moffatt. "Anything Mr. Harper does, he'll have to tread very, very carefully." Durham's NDP candidate, Bruce Rog- . ers, noted he was "somewhat disappointed" disappointed" by his loss, but applauded his party's gains. "We're in a position where we can exercise exercise some very real leverage and advance some of our paramount concerns in the : House where no one really wants another election... for a long time. 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