“The spray pads are a safe way for children to keep cool and play outside on warm days,” says Lynn Loubert, Manager of Aquatic Services.

“The spray pads are activated by a push of a button and the water rotates between the different water play features.”

The following spray pads will be open May 17 to September 1 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

· Rowntree Park ~ on Whetter Avenue off Wellington Road
· Fork of the Thames ~ off Riverside Drive and King Street
· West Lions Park ~ on Granville Avenue beside Kinsmen Recreation Centre
· Lambeth Centennial Park ~ on Beattie Avenue across from the Lambeth Arena
· Kiwanis Park ~ off Hale Street
· Jesse Davidson Park ~ off Monte Vista Crescent or Ensign Crescent
· Bonaventure Meadows ~ at the school 141 Bonaventure Drive (this site has different hours)
· Gibbons Park ~ next to the Saturn Playground

“This funding will help to enrich the city’s understanding of its diverse heritage, and to encourage a strong sense of community”, says Andrea Lisa Hallam, Executive Director of the London Heritage Council.

Projects benefiting from the funding include: promotion of community integration within the wider Canadian multicultural society with the African Southern Sudanese Canadian Association; posting Home History Signs on 200 homes throughout SOHO; presenting the story of ‘The Road of Freedom’ an important story of hope, courage, and victory with the Karen Schuessler Singers; and the development an interactive program that will allow high school students to experience the lives of Canada’s WWII radar vets with The Secrets of Radar Museum.

These initiatives are prime examples of the creativity and civic pride shared throughout the community.

“We are thrilled to lend a hand in the inception of these innovative and inspiring projects”, explains Hallam. “We are looking forward to watching these projects flourish.”

CRIME STOPPERS
London * Elgin * Middlesex
~ 20th Anniversary ~

1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

The male proceeded to strike her on the head repeatedly with the handgun.

The woman was able to flee the residence and call London Police.

Investigation has revealed that the three accused assaulted the victim when he went to apartment 608 to speak to the occupants about loud noises coming from the unit. None of those charged resided in the building. The victim remains in hospital in critical but stable condition. The investigation continues.

Police are urging anyone with information to contact London Police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). You can also provide your tips online at www.londoncrimestoppers.com.

On arrival, police found the 41-year-old-male building superintendent with life-threatening injuries.

This male was taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment. Police have arrested three persons in relation to this investigation. Investigation ongoing.

INSIDE: East-end bullies, break and enters and attempted robbery at Mount Pleasant Variety in west London

There is an image of him on his website with Al Gore and he has presented "An Inconvenient Truth." He has recruited Green Party candidates onto his team.

So why did he vote against your right to know and in favour of genetically modified foods being hidden in the ingredients of what you eat?

How do those former Green Party candidates reconcile what Glen Pearson says with how he votes?

I WAS LISTENING to the CBC this morning when there was a report about the London Chapter of the Council of Canadians (CoC) seeking a moratorium on new drive-thru windows in London.

The report said that London is second only to Toronto in terms of the number of smog days.

The CBC interviewed the CoC's Cory Morningstar who promoted a voluntary idling period of not more than one minute while the City reviews the current, unenforced by-law.

She also called for a moratorium on new drive-thrus. The CBC then interviewed Ward 8 Councillor Paul Hubert, the pride of West London.

Hubert, of course, didn't recognize the problem of the hundreds of cars idling at Tim Hortons every morning or at the many fast food restaurants serving up obesity, heart attacks and type-2 diabetes both day and night. No, the big concern is drive-thru pharmacies. All one of them.

Other nominees include Ambassador London, Storybook Gardens, Orser's Junk Removal, The Beer Store and London-born, Academy-Award winner Paul Haggis.

The prize package for the winner includes a week's paid vacation in Honduras installing used teeter totters, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken each week for a year, a dinner for two with city council at city hall's 12th-floor cafeteria and two tickets to see Stompin' Tom Connors at the Sony-Hummingbird Performing Arts Centre in bustling downtown Toronto.

Before Melonville gets its own performing arts centre, it'll have to abandon its official slogan of "The Town that Fun Forgot" and its official philosophy of "No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished." Additionally, it'll have to jettison its pathetic penis envy of every major city in Canada, most notably Toronto.

RE: Board of Control Report; $70,000 feasibility study for a Performing Arts Centre

WITH RESPECT to the $70,000 feasibility study regarding a Performing Arts Centre, I'm currently satisfied with Council Chambers as a top-drawer theatre-in-the-round for local entertainment.

Future upgrades to Council Chambers should include more elaborate lighting such as spotlights and mood lighting.

Personally, I'd be interested in handling the concession sales in the public gallery on a 80-20 revenue split since the quality of the Rogers TV-13 delayed broadcast is so lousy with those new-fangled cameras.