B4 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, April 26, 2000 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Local musicians launch new CD Two Oakville musicians - David Johannesson, drummer and blues artist, and Brian Legere, guitarist and teacher - will be on hand on Monday, May 1st when John MacMurchy cel ebrates the official release o f his newest CD. Product `58, at The Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, 194 Queen St. W,, Toronto, from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Johannesson, who once played in Hagood Hardy's band as a drummer, played drums and Legere played gui tar on Product '58, which features such familiar tunes as Music o f the Night, Ado, and A Child is Bom. Also appearing on this CD are Brian Wray on keyboards and Victor Bateman. The CD party will include perfor mances by MacMurchy's group as well as by Hampton Avenue and his group, which is also celebrating the release of its CD, Everybody Sing. © CCAC HALTON The Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) o f Halton The Community Care Access Centre of Halton (CCAC) has recently completed the Request for Proposal (RFP) process to determine the organization(s) that will provide and deliver nursing services to CCAC clients for the next three years commencing July 1, 2000. Bette Martin, Chair, Community Care Access Centre of Halton Board of Directors, is pleased to announce that subsequent to this RFP process the Board has approved the awarding of contracts to the following three organiza tions: · Victorian Order of Nurses Halton Branch for 50% of the volume of service requested · SEN Community Health Care for 30% of the volume of service requested · ParaMed Health Services, Oakville Branch for 20% of the volume of service requested The implementation of the Request for Proposal process is in keeping with the mandate of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to introduce a process to ensure the purchase of the highest quality care at a reasonable price. The CCAC looks forward to working closely with these agencies to continue to provide hig^i quality community based care for Halton citizens. The Community Care Access Centre of Halton coordinates home care services for Halton residents, offers information and referral to community services, and provides information and placement into long-term care facilities. Services accessed through the CCAC are funded by the Ministry of Health and Photo by Riziero Vertolli Nicole Lauermeier, who creates candles, will be selling them at Saturday's Art and Artisans by the Lake. The Oakville artisan donates 10% or profits to a local charity each year. i Candlemaking was her destiny By Scott MacArthur SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER W For further information contact: Jane Galbraith, Purchasing Manager 440 Elizabeth Street, 4th Floor Burlington, Ontario L7R 2M1 (905) 639-5228 ext. 8742 o r... if long distance dial 1-800-810-0000 hen local artist and entrepreneur Nicole Lauermeier decided on the name Divine Intervention for her new business in Sep tember, 1998, she did so believing that it played a part in her venture. Lauermeier, who had recently retired from a merchan dising position with Bell Canada, was shopping at Oakville Place when she ran into an old high school friend. "We hadn't seen each other in 20 years," she said of her friend Marion Elliott. "We got to chatting and rekin dled our friendship and things got going from there." Lauermeier had received a candle-making recipe from another friend and decided to put it to use. Elliott designed Give your life guidance. Digital Cable TV from COGECO is here! COGECO Digital Cable comes with the Digital Navigator, an on-screen interactive viewing guide that lets you plan your viewing in advance. Program it to find your favourite shows, remind you when they're on, and automatically switch channels. You can even use the Digital Navigator to block out programs you don't want your kids to see. The Digital Navigator from COGECO. It's the guidance you've been looking for. Bundle it up -i and save up to 35%! 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"Candles are still the majority of my business," said the mother of one. "However, I now do some dried floral arrangements and pot-pourri." Lauermeier, who works out of her basement and does not have any paid employees, stresses that her business is not about making money. "My household are faithful Christians and my minister told me that candles are a divine light," she said. "Every year we donate 10% o f our profits to a local charity, with Helping Hands being the beneficiary last year. "My whole family has helped me out wonderfully," she said. "My husband, mother-in-law and other friends help out, and I've found my business really revolves around spirit and family." , Lauermeier enjoys the fact that she conducts a small business because it allows her to have flexibility in ways that she didn't before. "First of all, it allows me "Generally, you to work when I want, so when my son is sick, for can bum a candle example, I just don't make safely for an hour candles and tend to him until for every inch o f he gets better," she said. "After we got started I had its diameter. So, 20 stores carrying my prod if a candle has a ucts and that got to be too two-inch diame much, so I've cut back con ter, you can bum siderably and do almost only consumer shows." it for two hours; if After being in business it has a three-inch for almost 19 months, diameter, it can Lauermeier has learned a thing or two about candle bum for three safety. hours, etcetera * "First of all, obviously, you never leave a candle unattended," she said. "Before lighting a candle for the first time, trim the wick to a quarter-inch. That creates a smaller flame, which allows the candle to bum longer and safer." The diameter o f a candle determines the length of time it can safely be left burning. "Generally, you can bum a candle safely for an hour for every inch o f its diameter," she said. "So, if a candle has a two-inch diameter, you can bum it for two hours; if it has a three-inch diameter, it can burn for three hours, etcetera." Lauerm eier's work will be on display this Saturday (April 29th) at the May Court C lub's third annual A rt and Artisans by the Lake show and sale at Appleby College. She encourages anyone interested in her work to contact her at 339-1545. Lauermeier feels a sense o f satisfaction with her life, believing that she has found the perfect balance between family, spirit, and work. "I was always told to do what you love and love what you do," she said. 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