The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

www.socmi.orgSPONSORED BY: ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL AND NEWALTA CORPORATION In concert with works by Brahms, Haydn, Ravel 8 p.m. | October 8 | St. Cuthberts Anglican Church | 1541 Oak Hill Dr. (at Maple Grove Dr.) Tickets: lAtelier Grigorian 905-338-2360 | Leslie Music Company 905-844-3109 $25 General,$15 Senior,$10 Student Presents: Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute The Mercer Park Trio Eight Trustpoints set Kitchen Tune-Up apart. We guarantee our estimates - guarantee our work - arrive on time - clean work areas daily - return messages within 24 hours - strive for harmony with your daily routine - tell you what were going to do before we do it - listen carefully, tell it straight and keep our promises. kitchentuneup.com Every Kitchen Tune-Up franchise is locally owned and operated. a. Renew your cabinets with our unique Tune-up. Our exclusive process restores and repairs the original fi nish on wood cabinet doors to 90-95%. Tuning-up your cabinets and replacing the counter top and handles is the easiest and most cost effective way to update your kitchen. Time: 1-2 days Mess: almost none Cost: about 10% of a replacement kitchen b. Re-Door for a fresh new wood or painted look. Choose from hundreds of door styles and finishes, precision made to fi t your existing cabinets. Time: typically 1-3 days Mess: very little Cost: less than Refacing or other cabinet changes c. Reface You may already own half of your new kitchen! If your cabinet boxes are in good shape, why pay to replace them? Choose from the largest selection of door styles and fi nishes available anywhere. See our website for ideas. Time: typically 2-4 days Mess: we clean every day and you never lose the use of your kitchen Cost: 40-60% less than the cost of a new kitchen d. Reface & Re-Style Turn the kitchen you have into the one you want. If you choose to Reface, we can change many other things you dont like about your kitchen. Add an island, pantry, molding or even new cabinets to match the refaced cabinets. Time: usually 3-5 days Mess: low disruption, thoroughly cleaned daily, often with no loss of use Cost: considerably less than replacement e. Replace Sometimes its the only way to get what you need. Our Designers will help you create a new custom kitchen that perfectly refl ects your personal taste, goals and budget. Check Out The FREE DESIGN IDEA TOOL on our website Free Design Consultation & Estimate Showroom 3480 Fairview St., Burlington (Hours: 10-5 pm M-F, Saturday 11-3) More cost-effective kitchen remodeling options than any other company! w w w . o a kv ill eb ea ve r.c o m O A KV IL LE B EA V ER W e dn es da y, O ct ob er 6 , 2 01 0 3 0 By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Burlington author Sharon McKay knows how to get her words out having published more than 30 books. And now shes teamed up with an Oakville group for the printing of another. The childrens author has pub- lished another title, this time a novel aimed at young adults, which is set in war-torn Afghanistan. To write the novel, titled Thunder Over Kandahar, McKay travelled to Taliban-occupied regions of the country and worked with a team of fact checkers to ensure absolute realism in her new adventure. To add to that, 40 per cent of the sales from the list price will go to the Oakville-founded organization Canadians in Support of Afghan Women (CSAW), which supports the education of women and girls in Afghanistan. What an amazing group of women. This is a group of women who said lets build a school in Afghanistan and then they did. I mean who does that? she said of the organization. McKay added the members of the group are the same people that not only fought for the education of women in Afghanistan, but stood up for womens rights in Canada 40 years ago, run womens shelters locally and more. They pick a topic and by God, they go after it, she said. Thunder Over Kandahar is the authors latest young adult fiction, following various others and award winners. She wrote it while she was in the two-year Canadian Forces Artist Program (CFAP), which took her on a 15-day tour of the country with armed forces in 2008. The novel is about two Afghan girls, who, for separate reasons, have to flee their homes to get to safety. They travel through Taliban territory in the hopes of finding safety and they face grave danger for travelling without male accom- paniment, in a place where women cannot be seen in public alone. For two girls on the run, the only way I could get them out is at night, McKay said of her story. But they still meet characters on the way. These are all realistic, theyre all people that exist. Theres no great white knights. Theres nothing that wouldnt actually have happened and the history has to be right. And how they would meet the military has to be right. McKay became a Canadian war artist with the military program, which took her to Afghanistan. A war artist is someone who is unpaid, there are no demands no one tells me how to write, how to do it no one reviews my work before its published. All the military does is they give us the experience of liv- ing with soldiers, she said. She was flown to Camp Mirage, a Canadian Forces base in the Middle East, where she stayed for a few nights. Then she was flown at night to Kandahar Air Fields and shortly after was taken by helicopter to the Pakistan border to a military base. We went out on foot patrol. It was fabulous. We were in tanks, she said of the experience. Once there she learned first- hand how locals react to meeting foreign military. Not only did she get to see and learn, there was also a team of fact checkers who worked on the novel and who would remove portions of it that could not conceivably hap- pen. Writing it on the line HARD-WORKING AUTHOR: Burlington-based author Sharon McKay, spent time in Afghanistan to write her lat- est book. McKay has more than 30 books to her credit. Her latest is Thunder Over Kandahar and a portion of proceeds will support the Oakville-based Canadians in Support of Afghan Women (CSAW). SUBMITTED PHOTO See On page 31