Adults with High Cholesterol Needed for University of Guelph Muffin Nutrition Study We are currently recruiting adults (35-70 years old) with high cholesterol but not taking cholesterol medication to participate in a Muffin Nutrition Study that is being run out of the University of Guelph. The study involves 6 weeks of consuming 2 muffins per day (made from soy or wheat flour). Participants will visit the University of Guelph each week to pick up their muffins and will have body measurements and blood samples at weeks 1, 3 and 6. Financial compensation is provided. If interested, please contact The Muffin Study at 519-824-4120 x58081 or muffin.study@uoguelph.ca. This study has been approved by the University of Guelph Research Ethics Board.

Art Green:  I SHOULD BE PAINTING On view until January 6, 2013 Gallery Stratford is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Stratford-based artist Art Green.  A respected painter whose work has been widely exhibited and collected in North America, the Gallery celebrates Green’s recent achievements with a selection of oil on canvas works and reflects on the artist’s influences dating back to Chicago in the 1960s.  With an expansive body of work marked by a complex layering strategy and a saturated palette, the project allows the viewer to explore the artist’s eclectic use of patterns and the sources of his inspiration drawn from commercial and personal imagery. The exhibition is the 20^th anniversary of Green’s last solo exhibition at Gallery Stratford in 1992. XXXX Collective: INSTANCE On view until January 6, 2013 Gallery Stratford is pleased to present an exhibition of multi-media works by the XXXX Collective, featuring art by Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif. Through painting, sculpture, photography and video, the Collective investigates why nostalgia has become a prolific theme in our culture, and the desire for artists to document their environment and experiences. Through archiving and manipulating found and personal imagery, the artists examine the significance of documentation and its impact on the construction of personal identity. Gallery hours 11 am to 3 pm, Tuesday to Sunday

Juno Award Winner at the Palmerston Legion Friday, November 23, 2012, 8pm Katie Butterill - a young, local farmer who just enjoyed her first season in the Palmerston area, has just finished her harvest and is now busy sewing seeds on another local project. She is helping to present a concert with the Juno Award-winning musician Fred Eaglesmith and his Travelling Steam Show on Friday, November 23 at the Palmerston Legion. Butterill, whose Smallholdings farm is a plot at the Mapleton’s Organic Dairy on Wellington Road 7, is excited to offer a taste of the music that helped cement her love of all things rural the first year she spent on a farm as an agricultural intern in 2010, “I met Fred when I helped put on a concert at a farm near Creemore, Ontario. That year, we spent an entire summer listening to a cd of his that was in an old farm vehicle. For me, his music is linked to my road to agriculture.” Those songs became the soundtrack of her summer, and her love of organic agriculture its link to the community. It is this same love that has motivated the twenty-something Markham native to organize this event, “Even though I am relatively new to the area, I am excited to help out on this concert in Palmerston and share his music with my new community.” Butterill sees Eaglesmith music, which has won many awards, been covered by artists such as Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Miranda Lambert and earned him a spot as a guest on David Letterman, as a perfect fit for her new community. The songs of Eaglesmith, a native of Port Dover Ontario, are especially relevant to people like those in Minto. For 40 years and on 19 albums he has recorded hundreds of songs, all of which are genuinely tied to the land, lives, labors, trials, tribulations and triumphs of everyday people. Says Butterill. “His songs tell stories about life; everyone will get something different and find something to which they can relate in their own life. Plus - he puts on a great show, so above all else, it will be a good time!” Tickets for the show are available at the Palmerston Legion and online at www.fredeaglesmith.com . $25 in advance, $30 at the door.