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Consider this a public announcement.

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Ed says, "Six days a week (Tuesday through Saturday) we feed about 40 people at Fresh Start Housing Centre and Gallery 150. Every evening our fridges are filled with sandwiches, soups and meals returned from canteen trucks. We pick them up daily and they are generally all eaten by 1 p.m. the next day."

Location: 150 Wyndham Street.

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I was in the mall yesterday (yes, the mall, sigh) and found myself contemplating Sue's Monday blog.
As I was trapped amidst the shopping crazies -indeed ONE of them - it became glaringly evident that I felt oh so gratefully out of place.
I am too loud, too inappropriate and too happy a person to be caught up in the melee and grump of the season and yet still fell victim to the mad consumerism.
This I must keep in check, review, revise and challenge.

And then I received an email today from an amazing organization called AVAAZ.
Here's just a little piece of what they had to say,

Dear friends,
Right now, a major UN summit in Bali has just a few days left to hammer out an agreement on stopping catastrophic climate change. But instead of helping out, Canada is actually sabotaging the UN talks! On Saturday, experts gave us the global "fossil" award for being the worst country in the world on climate change.

Seriously? THE WORST?
Time for a new government.
Time for a revolution.

Please click on this link to find out more....

So todays series of photos - for a variety of reasons - has Blog Guelph looking out, from within.

-Downtown Lynn-

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If you want a stable friendship, get a horse. ~ Author Unknown

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Today Blog Guelph takes a gander at the magical, mystical, marvelous Number 3.
Everywhere you look, even in our photo pools, the number three seems to rear it's significant head.
trio...triad...triplet... triptych...trilogy...tricycle...triplicate...triumverate...
it goes on and on and on...

So behold (and click!) a smattering of images and reflections on the first odd prime number:

Pythagoras called three the perfect number, basically because it expressed all - beginning, middle, and end.

When something happens three times, there is a pattern.

Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System.

In the constellation Orion, his belt is made up of 3 stars in a row.

Third time's the charm.

A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts.

Now, on the count of three...

-Downtown Lynn-

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For the last nine years, my book keeper, Sharon Smith, regularly came to my home office to do my books. Always punctual, I would have her coffee ready to pour, paper work organized and my prehistoric iMac cranked on in anticipation.

Like a tradition, we would start the monthly visit pretty much the same way every time. Sharon would settle in the office chair and gently pat the computers dusty head - I would offer up specific accounting needs that I had identified and we'd both comment on the state of the universe. Then I would leave her to the task of coaxing data into the belly of the beast of 'artificial intelligence'.

When Sharon didn't appear last Thursday morning, I immediately started to worry. It was 9:15 and in the entire time we'd worked together I had never known her to be late.

I called her home and left a message.

When her sister called back a short time later to tell me the sad news of Sharon's sudden death earlier in the week, I was stunned to say the least. Now I'm deeply saddened.

Today's series of several images is dedicated to my friend and wonderful book keeper Sharon Smith. She saw me through some magnificent highs and excruciating lows over our years together - always steady as eddy. Indeed, she helped managed many of Guelph's artists and community group finances and guided even more befuddled people through 'tax madness' each year. Sharon loved dancing, singing and being outdoors by the shore of any body of water.

She is and will continue to be greatly missed. Gilchrist Funeral Home Visitation and Memorial service details are here.

Sue Richards

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The blue eyes of Goldie Mill ruins in Guelph.

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The Guelph's good old Speed River does it again, this time reflecting beautiful St. Georges Church.

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