Friday, June 9, 2017 7 Brooklin Town Crier For more information about this feature contact the Brooklin Town Crier at 905.655.7642 Meet Your Local Merchant BTC's First Annual Essay Contest Grand prize $150 courtesy of BAM Lions Club! Other prizes include gift certificates: $50 + free writers breakfast from Writers' Community of Durham Region (WCDR) $30 - Copper Branch $25 - Michael Kellys Eatery $25 - Coffee Culture (Brooklin) $25 - Brooklin Pub Free 30 min. guitar or drum lesson with Patrick Pidek (patricksguitarstudio.com) Essay Theme - in honour of Canada's 150th birthday: "Canada is…" New Deadline: June 15, 2017, 11pm Contest Rules: Must be a resident of Brooklin (or student whose home address is in Brooklin). Non-fiction essay (no poetry) of under 800 words on the theme "Canada is..." Minimum age of writer is 16 years old as of June 15, 2017. BTC columnists and their families are ineligible. Essay must be previously unpublished non-fiction (school or post-secondary institution papers will be accepted). Essays with any plagiarized material will be rejected. Please be sure to attributes quotes where necessary and to check facts. Writer must provide a title. The theme is NOT necessarily the title. No gratuitous violence, sex, racist or similarly hate-inducing commentary In English only Maximum of two submissions per writer More positive consideration will be given to essays with proper spelling, grammar and punctuation. The decision of the judging panel will be final How to submit: Essay is to be in the body of an email to: editorofbtc@gmail.com with the subject line: essay contest submission No attachments, please. They will not be opened At the beginning of the email, provide: Writer's name + Brooklin address + phone number + short bio of under 100 words (Submissions without these will be rejected) Pseudonyms are not allowed. If submitting two essays, one should follow the other in the same email Winners agree to allow their names and photos to be used in the BTC After publication in the BTC, writer retains full copyright and ownership. Only winners will be contacted by in June. Winners to be published in summer issues beginning June. The Town of Whitby would like to advise residents and local businesses of the upcoming Henry Street bridge replacement project led by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Beginning Monday, June 12, MTO will replace the Henry Street bridge over Highway 401 to accommodate the future widening of the highway. The project includes a Town-related component that will add a multi-use path across the bridge for cyclists. The project is expected to be com- pleted by September 30. A full closure of Henry Street, from Arthur Street to the North Whitby GO Station and OPP entrance, during the project is required. MTO also expects one overnight closure of Highway 401 on Sunday, June 18, between midnight and 8 a.m. In the event of inclement weather, the full closure will take place the following weekend on June 25. The detour route will be marked leading up to and throughout the project. Construction signs will be placed in the nearby community by MTO to provide up to date information including road closure dates. Action around the net! BHS hosted the Road Hockey for the Cure tournament on May 9, a fundraising event on the school grounds featuring students and staff. The event was the Independent Study Unit (ISU, in Ontario high school lingo) for Carolyn Toll's grade 12 Fitness & Leadership class. The 27-student class, sporting tee shirts that read "Stick it to cancer," handled team registrations, snack sales, officiating, and "rink" setup. With 14 teams of 5-10 players apiece, the event raised $705 for cancer research.