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The Region of Waterioo is currently in budget discussions. Part of the budget process includes the approval of Water Rates, Wastewater Rates (Sewage) and Waste Manageâ€" ment Rates (Gurbage & Reeycling). Council will be discussing these user rates on: If the rates are approved on December 14, 2005 a byâ€"law will be immediately passed to implement the water and wastewater rates effective March 1, 2006 and waste manâ€" agement rates (garbage collection and tipping fees) effective July 1, 2006. Notice of these meetings is given in accordance with Ontario Regulation 244/02, made under Section 400 of the Municipal Act and Section 291 of the Municipal Act. Please visit our website (www.region.waterloo.on.ca) for more information on the Regional Budget and User Rates, or pick up a budget package at the Council & Administrative Services Office. 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor, Kitchener. To speak to a Finance Department person regarding the budget. please call Peter Holling at 575â€"4745. You are welcome to attend the Council meetings. Please contact the Council & Administrative Services Office at 575â€"4420 to register to speak. Kris Fletcher Regional Clerk DON‘T PAY TILL APRIL 2006 2006 REGIONAL BUDGET WATER, WASTEWATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT RATES INCLUDED www.brentonsinteriors.ca Body Craft Gyms See what we can do for your home at Becxtox‘s INTERIORS UPHOLSTERY 145 George Street, Cambnadge Refinishing and Draperies REGIONAL COUNCIL CHAMBER 150 FREDERICK STREET, 2nd FLOOR, KITCHENER 623â€"0565 Region of Waterloo PUBLIC NOTICE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14. 2005 4:00 p.m. O.A.C. Tunturi Ellipticals Rejection is a major obstacle, says woman Continued from page 10 and 1 that he‘s not going to make it until February," she pauses. "I was thinking at the time that it was October so we‘ve got at least until February." But it was just a few short weeks later when Carol had to rush him to the hospital after his body started shutâ€" ting down. "They told me to sit in the waiting room," Carol said, explaining when the doctor then came out to ask what her husband‘s last wishes were. "I didn‘t even get to say goodâ€"bye." Nine years later, Carol has managed to move on, although she still holds her husband‘s memory dear to her heart with her festive autumnal log that reads "Scrap Book" on the front. She can fondly look back on him whenever she pleasâ€" es, remembering his interâ€" ests in pool, cribbage and horseshoes. And she lets his memory live on through each of her talks. Now, and even during the time when Carol said she was still literally living the drama, she would travel to different high schools and other venues to present her story and talk about what it‘s like to live with HIV. Carol has done more than 150 presentations over the past several years, with the help of the AIDS Comâ€" mittee of Cambridge, Kitchâ€" ener, Waterloo and Area [(ACCKWA}, advocating preâ€" vention and safe sex meaâ€" sures, particularly to teens. "I remember two weeks after he died, I was in a Grade 9 or 10 class and this little girl put her hand up and said, ‘How can you be here?"" she said. "And I just looked at her and said, ‘This is where he‘d want me to Carol is always cautious though when telling her story that no assumptions are made about who infectâ€" ed who. be.‘" "I don‘t want people to assume that he infected me. That‘s what I get after the fact because he‘s not here anymore," she said. "But you can‘t assume that... the only thing I‘m guilty of is loving somebody and whether it was him or me, it doesn‘t matter, even if it‘s human nature to blame "They forget I have feelings, especially those who say they can‘t deal with it." diagnosed HIVâ€"positive ’Northdal Auto Bodv es3 Compiete Collision and Refinishing Service V\ 430 Albert Street, Waterloo 88 Titley & Rayal Rabbine Clathing, Waatrich, Ex Officia, Columbia Footwear, Lifectyte Clothing for men & wamen 1440 King St. in River Worke, St. Jacahe 664 2602 Head 2 Toe somebody." Having gone through so much pain and heartache, Carol, who is an avid creâ€" ative writer, hopes to someâ€" day pen her own personal life story. "I feel that one day when L write my book, I‘m going to title it Hiding In Plain Sight," she said, explaining how it feels like she has two differâ€" ent lives. Rejection is a huge factor she risks when telling peoâ€" ple about her HIV status, she said, where once she tells someone, it‘s not as if she can take it back. "There are the people who know about my HIV and are receptive of it, and then there are these people who I don‘t think could hanâ€" dle it." "What some people don‘t understand most is that some of them can‘t see past the HIV. My life‘s not differâ€" ent than anyone else‘s. They forget 1 have feelings, espeâ€" cially those who say they can‘t deal with it," she said. "But I deal with it every day. Just imagine what it‘s like to be me." * Chronicle freelancer Ryan Connell‘s threeâ€"part series, Facing AIDS, conâ€" cludes this week, in time for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. ? Voyage* to leg from your f}'-ofl and wear n toâ€"dinner. AMCE 2ASe2! SILKS