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May 2014
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Art ● The Urban Market ●
Local Foods ● Tea Benefits ●
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Business Inspiration
Inspiring community and identity in Downtown Barrie.
Welcome to
The Heart of Barrie
What Everyone Should
Know About Exercise
May’s Magical Word
Welcome to our first “The Heart of Barrie” issue. We are so excited about a publication that
will highlight the downtown businesses. As we
work together as a downtown community, we
will change and raise the vibe to a pulsation that
can’t be refused. The positive energy and the
creative ideas are just starting to bloom. Enjoy
this inaugural issue as we begin our journey into
heart of the community of the Downtown Barrie
businesses. Here we go...
● Jacqui Derbecker
The Waterview Space
www.thewaterviewspace.com
Affinity [uh-fin-i-tee]
Definition
1. a natural liking for and understanding of
someone or something
2. a similarity of characteristics suggesting a
relationship, especially a resemblance in
structure between animals, plants, or languages
If you get along with someone very
well, you have an affinity with them.
Sometimes opposites attract, so you might
feel a strange affinity to someone who is
seemingly very different from you.
LONGING FOR TRANSFORMATION
Claudia Mandler McKnight - acrylic on canvas (framed) 24 x 24”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps”
- Confucius
● Teresa Zacharias
YMCA Barrie
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Best of all, compared with food grown far away
and ripened in transit, local food is fresher and
simply tastes better.
Why Eat Local?
More and more people are joining the local food
movement, and for good reasons. Eating locally
is better for the environment as local food doesn’t
travel as far to arrive on your plate, reducing its
ecological footprint.
Local food also helps the local economy. If every Ontarian spent $10 per week on local food, it
would support 10,000 new local jobs and infuse
$2.4 billion into our provincial economy each
year.*
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• Strength training makes your bones stronger.
• Strength training increases your muscular
strength, which makes daily activities easier.
Through the aging process we lose muscle,
and strength training helps slow or even reverse that process.
• If all us simply took time to walk more, the
health of Canadians as a whole would improve greatly.
• Exercise really is the best medicine.
• You don’t need a formal exercise program to
lose weight or become healthier. It can be
as simple as finding an activity that requires
movement that you enjoy.
• If you exercise and don’t make any dietary
changes, rarely will it lead to weight loss.
• Doing an exercise like a crunch or sit-up
won’t lose fat from that area or shrink it.
• Exercise increases blood flow to the brain
and increases a chemical, BDNF, that acts
like fertilizer for proper brain function. If
you want to help prevent cognitive decline,
then be sure to remain physically active on a
regular basis.
• Most important of all, I want to be sure that
everyone knows that if you’re not losing the
weight you want, it’s unlikely to be an exercise issue, but more so a diet-related issue.
Local Foods Mart features food sourced mainly
from within 100 miles with a goal to provide the
best from our region in one place. It is centrally
located in the heart of Downtown at 123 Dunlop
St. East and new foods are arriving daily.
● Sarah Jensen
Local Foods Mart
www.localfoodsmart.ca
And above all, watch with
glittering eyes the whole world
around you, because the greatest
secrets are always hidden in the
most unlikely places. Those who don’t
believe in magic will never find it.
* Numbers compiled by Dr. Kevin Stolerick of
The Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, and
Doug Vallery of Experience Renewal Solutions, Toronto.
[email protected]
The Heart of Barrie
- Roald Dahl.
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