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For very needy soles, Rituals’ callous remover scrubs away dead skin and smoothes heels. This combo is great for a simple, but sure, mid-week refresher.

Check them out at 701 Pembina Hwy, 452-1182

Green Challenge
Local natural bath and body boutique Tiber River Naturals has announced a Green Challenge contest. Owners Adriana De Luca and Michelle Lalonde are asking Tiber River fans to document how Tiber River products are a part of their lives. Submissions should have photos showing the products in the contestant’s home, list the reasons why they opted to buy local and explain which product is their favourite. The grand prize is $1,000 worth of Tiber River goods. The contest closes at the end of September. Visit them at

408 Academy Rd or call 474-2333 for more info

Dinner with Stephen Lewis
Face the Faces, a gala dinner benefiting Friends of Uganda, is taking place October 25 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. Friends of Uganda works with the Stephen Lewis Foundation to help support Ugandan people overcome by the impact of a 20-year civil war, poverty and HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Tickets for the event are $100 and are available by calling 253-4096

Gracious Golfing
Braving heavy rains, 145 golfers teed off for Health Sciences Centre’s 14th annual Employees’ Charitable Fund golf tournament on Friday, August 22 at Quarry Oaks. Tournament proceeds will purchase special reclining chairs for patients in HSC’s high observation units. The event was sponsored in part by Canadian Footwear. Since its inception in 1988, HSC’s Employees’ Charitable Fund has donated over $2.3 million dollars into the Health Sciences Centre Foundation and other charitable organizations.

Golf Donna Henry with Brian Scharfstein of Canadian Footwear.

Golf ECF Committee member Elma Carson with Val Buschau.

Enter and WIN!
We’re all time-crunched this time of year. The folks at Concierge One want to help you out. Tell us why you are in desperate need of some time-saving help and you could win a gift certificate for five hours of service from Concierge One—to be used for anything from dry cleaning pick-up to personalized shopping. This amazing prize is valued at $225.

To enter, visit our CONTESTS page.

For more information on Concierge One, visit www.conciergeone.com

Congratulations to last issue’s winner:
Susan Wight won a three-month gift certificate to the newly-opened Inches-Away Fitness Centre and Café!

Girls Night!
Grab your girlfriends for a Sex and the City themed fundraiser, October 8, at the Park Theatre in support of the Arthritis Society and Joints in Motion. Sip on cocktails and nibble on soft pretzels and cupcakes while you take in the SATC movie on the big screen.

Tickets are $30 each and are available at the Park Theatre, Candor Books & Music or by calling 998-0986

vitahealth Healthful News
Vita Health has opened a new Fresh Market location in the Tuxedo Village Mall. The store offers one stop shopping for organic produce, meat and dairy, along with other health-minded groceries.

Fresh Market, Tuxedo Village Mall, 180-2025 Corydon Avenue.

Mad Hatters
September 19-21, the Manitoba Red Hat Society is hosting a ‘funvention’ for Red Hat Society members at Club Regent. The meeting will bring together the more than 140 chapters in the province.

For more information, visit www.redhattersofmanitoba.ca

Bear Calling all crafters
Bake Bake & Blinkets needs your help for their 2008 Child Awareness Event. Donations of handmade blankets, hats, scarves—anything made with love—and new teddy bears are needed for this event October 4-5 at Assiniboia Downs. The event consists of a large craft and bake sale and silent auction where 100 per cent of the proceeds go towards helping to eradicate child deaths from preventable causes in Africa. The new teddy bears are donated to children in orphanages who are suffering from HIV/AIDS. Alongside the sales, will be a wide variety of children’s charities as well as health and safety information for the public.

For more information, visit www.members.shaw.ca /bakebakeandblinkets

Tavern in the Park
Tavern in the Park is taking on new owners and a bit of a new image. As of October 1, WOW! Hospitality Concepts will be taking over the local landmark kitchen. Aiming to reflect its lush surroundings in Assiniboine Park, the new menu will feature environment-friendly food from sustainable sources and use local product wherever possible.
Another WOW! newcomer, Dacquisto restaurant, which offers fine authentic Italian cuisine from executive chef and partner Michael Dacquisto, has also opened for business.

CONTESTS page.

She likes the Kona Blend, he likes Emeril’s Big Easy Bold. To combat the ongoing coffee argument at home, Gourmet Coffee Specialists have brought in Keurig Home Brewers. The Keurig brewing system offers gourmet coffee drinkers a top quality, coffee house cup of coffee with the convenience of brewing immediately in your own kitchen. The Keurig brewer makes a fine cup of coffee in under a minute and takes away all the guesswork from brewing a consistently great cup of coffee. Because of the individually contained K-Cups that are used for each cup of coffee, you and your partner can each have your preferred roast or flavour and not affect the taste of the next cup!

Tell us in 50 words how winning a Keurig single cup home coffee system could save your marriage and Gourmet Coffee Specialists could give one to you!