Durham Region Health Dept, encourages healthy nutrition WHITBY, ON, March 19, 2003 - Including good nutritional nutritional habits into everyday living is often a challenge for today's busy families. In recognition of Nutrition Month, Durham Region Health Department invites area families to wrap-up the month of March by reinforcing reinforcing the importance of healthy eating and achieving good nutritional balance. "Many stresses such as lack of time, the cost of feeding a family, access to healthy foods and other pressures can affect a family's family's food decisions and ultimately ultimately their health and nutritional well-being," says Adrienne Baltadjiah, a public public health nutritionist with the Health Department. "Our goal is to assist families in tackling their tiutrition challenges challenges so they can move forward forward and make healthy eating eating both tasty and easy." One way to help identify practical suggestions for determining food and nutritional nutritional needs is to join the Health Department for a free, fun-filled and informative informative grocery store, tour on March 31 at Sobey's Ready to Serve, 260 Kingston Rd. W., Ajax. The tour will begin 7 p.m. and last for approximately two hours. Using Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating, the tour will provide participants with tips and suggestions for achieving balanced nutritional nutritional requirements through the purchase of a variety of foods. All participants will receive a free gift bag and be ini.** fs w entered in a draw to win a copy of the Dietitians of Canada "Cook Great Food" cookbook. To register for the tour, please call the Health Department at (905) 723- 8521 or 1-800-841-2729, ext. 2125 by March 28. Other Health Department events include a number of displays at libraries throughout throughout the Region where a public public health nutritionist and a volunteer from the Durham Region Community Food Advisor program will be on hand to answer questions on healthy eating and nutrition: March 24, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Oshawa Public Library - McLauchlin Branch, 65 Bagot St.; March 26, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Clarington Public Library - Courtice Branch, 2950 Courtice Rd.; March 27, 10 a.m. to noon Beaverton Public Library, 401 Simcoe St.; March 27, 2 to 4 p.m. - Scugog Public Library, 231 Water St., Port Perry; March 29, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Pickering Public Library - Central Branch, 1 The Esplanade. Draw prizes, giveaways and resources on nutrition will also be available at each display. For more information on healthy eating and nutrition or to find out about other local Nutrition Month events, please call Durham Region Health Department at (905) 723-8521 or 1-800- 841-2729, or visit our website: www.region.durham.on.ca. Orono Country C*fe k- Full Menu The First Orono Guides represented by Charmaine Watson (R) and Erika Lewis (L) donated a set of curtains for the ladies washroom at the Orono Town Hall. Main Street., Orono, Ontario • 983-9009 r • Pedicures/Manicures • Waxing • Nail Extensions • Air Brushing • Eyelash Tinting • Electronic Muscle Stimulate (EMS) • Paraffin Wax 'Brigitte Brown *** ESTHETIC STUDIO Ceitificatcs Available 171 Mill Street, Orono, ON LOB 1M0 • 905-983-8169 ^ 15% DISCOUNT with coupon I The Orono midgets bring home the hardware for the second consecutive yean L to R: OMHA /O a A J ■ Regional Representative, Jack English, Tanner Millson, Justin Szymczak, Ryan Sutton and Peter Heerschop.