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The third annual busiâ€" ness boot camp, to be held April 26â€"29 on the UW camâ€" pus, will help students and alumni assess their techniâ€" cal and business skills and evaluate whether they might be ready and able to start their own ventures. Coâ€"sponsored by KPMG, Sun Life Financial and Miller Thomson, the event is open to students and alumâ€" ni from any UW academic program, ranging from computer science to engiâ€" neering and arts. "I am _ continually amazed by the creative and practical business ideas developed by Waterioo coâ€" op and regular stream stuâ€" dents and our alumni," said John Cullen, boot camp Ron Hare watches his tenmus bail fly at the 8th hole of Chilly Golf at the Spring Rush Festival Saturday outâ€" side Federation Hall at the University of Waterloo. Chilly Golf is an outdoor winter golf event where teams of four or five gathâ€" ered pledges and competed for prizes on an outdoor course that encouraged use of any piece of sports equipâ€" ment to move the ball. Parâ€" ticipants then came in from the cold and enjoyed hot chili provided by local restaurants and the Kitchenâ€" er fire department, and evaluated by surprise celebrity judges. Money raised from the event went to Waterloo Region Track 3 ski club and KidsAbility. Organizers raised $40,000. UW‘s business boot camp looking for recruits for spring session niversity of Waterloo l l Innovate‘s Business Startâ€"Up Boot Camp, a program aimed at helping students and alumni find their way to entrepreneurial success, is seeking particiâ€" pants for this coming spring. MCEACHNIE Plansing Specciabst Russ McEachnie Retirenien: & Tax CEP Fore! IhS ©kout 1MEA OTDIES Fhon 4M #201â€"80 King St. S. + Waterloo, ON « N2J IPS Office (519)886 2360 eut 232 IEmail russell moeachnie@investorsgroup com Pheâ€" corce ut the Einancial Plannime Fip ol the Das. on The business insights, to be shared at the upcoming camp, will help participants assess their technical and business skills and evaluate whether they might be ready and able to start their own ventures. The past two camps, and the followâ€"up services coorâ€" dinated by UW Innovate, have helped several particiâ€" pants get their new ventures off the ground. Other camp participants have reported that they are still using the information and insights gained at the Most of the 60 particiâ€" pants of the previous two business boot camps have given rave reviews to UW Innovate, including one of the organizers, along with the 17 entrepreneurs and discussion leaders at the camps. coordinator. "I wish to thank our coâ€"sponsors for their vision and generosity in supporting UW‘s third annual Business Startâ€"Up Boot Camp in April of 2004." f Invvstors‘ Lroup LIFESTYLE The business boot camp is being organized by UW Innovate, UW Enterprise Services and Enterprise Coâ€" op, a division of UW‘s highly successful coâ€"op program. For details, including comments by past particiâ€" pants, visit http://innoâ€" vate.uwaterloo.ca/bootâ€" camp2004.htm . Professional speakers and discussion leaders from on campus and the local Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo enterâ€" prise community will run the workshops. About 15 to 20 particiâ€" pants are expected to regisâ€" ter for the inâ€"residence camp, at a cost of $450 for UW undergraduates and $560 for other participants. The business boot camp participants will spend four days at intensive, handsâ€"on workshops at the St. Jerome‘s University Conferâ€" ence Centre. camp to assist in their planâ€" ning for a future business startâ€"up. ,PL’I(IIS &E Pots mc Gary Miller UW Enterprise Services Kitchener 725 Offawa St S Call 742â€"7221 7. IRI OO CHRONICLE Enterprise Coâ€"op at UW has successfully approved 40 enterprising ventures for startâ€"up. The Enterprise Coâ€"op is an Innovate Inc. affiliate. The onâ€"campus business startâ€"up services were designed to work together to increase the "enterprise friendly culture," for which UW has already been widely recognized. Over the past three years, about 300 students have applied to Enterprise Coâ€"op for assistance with their business plans. The program, â€" now expanded to assist regular stream enterprising stuâ€" dents, has helped applicants move their plans forward. and Enterprise Coâ€"op seek to provide both regular and coâ€"op undergraduate stuâ€" dents with the tools, and yearâ€"round support they need,. to turn their business ideas into new companies during their coâ€"op or sumâ€" mer work periods or after they graduate. Waterion 65 Unwersity Ave F Flower & Gift Shop 905â€"689â€"7347 Hwys. #5 & 6 at Clappison Comers, Waterdown, Ontaric The church is located at the corner of King and William Streets in Waterloo. The Canadian Federation of University Women will hold its regular meeting March 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Hilliard Hall at First United Church. For more information, contact St. Francis Church at 745â€"7301 during the day or Shirley at 742â€"3248 in the evening. Dr. Michael Higgins, president of St. Jerome‘s Uniâ€" versity, will present a talk entitled "Media: The Air We Breathe. Issues and Themes Current in the Media." The St. Francis Catholic Women‘s League will be holding a Family Communion Brunch on this Sunday, with mass at 11 a.m. and brunch to follow at 12:30 The event will be catered by Conestoga Catering, and the menu will include ham, chicken, scalloped potatoes, mixed vegetables, coleslaw, dinner rolls and dessert squares. uP n tm 0 ne e mh t Presenters will include Bridget Stirling, RN, MPH, Ph.D.. HIV/AIDS research associate at the Centre for Global Health Research; Dr. Robert Remis, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto; Dr. Brian Cornelson, assistant professor at the Department of Family ad Community Medicine at the University of Toronto: and Kimberley Hope Johnson, the director of Reach Communications, Lifting Spirits. The guest speaker at the brunch will be Don Cameron, the longâ€"time voice of the Kitchener Rangers, who will be speaking on the topic "The Chalâ€" lenges of Keeping Your Faith After You Leave Home." Everyone is welcome and tickets are available for $10 per adult and $5 for children under 12. The University of Waterloo‘s first allâ€"student orgaâ€" nized HIV and AIDS seminar, Students Handâ€"inâ€" HMand, will take place this Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. in the University of Waterloo‘s Arts Lecture Hall. The seminar will conclude around 6 p.m.. with a break at noon. Issues being discussed range from the global HIV and AIDS crisis to the efforts in Canada to better understand and control the spread of the disease. The event is free and will bring together a number of pertinent scholars and activists from across Southâ€" ern Ontario. "Our goal is to attract a diverse group of students, teach them about the current situation. and empower them to act." said Olivia Tow, event organizer and UW student. Although the aim of the event is predomiâ€" nantly focused on students, Yow said, any involveâ€" ment from the community is greatly encouraged. NOW ON! PREâ€"SEASON SALE Meeting‘s discussion period focuses on media Don Cameron to speak at Sunday brunch UW hosts allâ€"day seminar on HIV/AIDS Liddles . AUTOMOTIVE & SPORTS LTO Commrs Iota c Atamotne ESones ind