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Your holly jolly guideto the Holidays

17 Create an Energy-efficient Home for the Holidays

18 Christmas tidbits to putyou in the holiday spirit

19How to maintainworkout routines during the holidays

21Tips for a Successful, Stress-free Holiday Travel Season

22Holiday Gift Ideasfor the New Parent in Your Life

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It’s officially autumn, and that means chefs are looking to the fall harvest for inspiration.

For Jonathon Gee, executive chef for Pretty Estates Resort, that means taking advantage of all the wonderful foods that surround us. “The pumpkins and squash are fantastic,” he said, and they come from a place called Hole in the Clouds, just across from the resort on the Harrison River. For their salmon, Pretty Estates has partnered with Sts’ailes and Scowltiz communities and fishers to bring local salmon directly to the plate. “We’ve got a bounty of all the local ingredients around us,” Gee said. “We

really want to support everyone who is around us.” With the best, freshest ingredients on hand, along with Gee’s love of creating comforting dishes, the fall menu is divine. “With this menu, I really went back to the classics,” he said. The bistro-style menu features dishes like Salmon Wellington and Beef Bourguignon. Customers are loving the salmon, delicately wrapped in a puff pastry, topped with a lemon dill cream. Each entrée has had a wine selected for the perfect pairing, too. For the salmon, you may like the Chaberton Bacchus, for example. With the beef, perhaps the Amancaya Malbec.

But it takes even more than great ingredients and beautiful presentation to keep a restaurant top-of-mind for diners. It takes hard work. “That’s number one,” Gee said. “A lot of it is just staying true to what you believe in.” Gee grew up in Rosedale, and graduated from Chilliwack Senior where he studied under Chef Reece. That included a one-year apprenticeship. He eventually earned the Red Seal certificate and worked many years as one of the chef’s at another large resort. But he knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a chef. “I used to make dinners for my mom

when she came home from work,” he said, learning how to put together Ukrainian dishes under the direction of his grandma. “I always knew I wanted to be a chef,” he said. Working so close to where he grew up was an easy choice. And the scenery from Rivers Edge is the perfect pairing to Gee’s classic menu, with the river flowing by and colours of the leaves turning to deep reds and warm oranges. “You couldn’t ask for a better backdrop,” he said. Open seven days a week. For more information visit www.prettyestateresort.com

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‘Tis the season to be festive, and that usually means stringing up hundreds of twinkling lights to create a welcoming glow on dark winter nights. Some people view the holiday season as their chance to go all out with regard to decorating their homes with an abundance of lights, inflatable lawn ornaments and maybe even some mechanical figures.

While these decorations certainly may be symbols of the season, it’s easy to forget just how much energy and resources they consume. A typical strand of lights uses around 300 watts of electricity. Multiply those figures by the dozens of strings of lights people use and it’s easy to see how quickly energy usage can add up.

In addition to lights, lit candles, ani-mated dolls, wreaths, trees, and scores of imported ornaments contribute to the energy consumption per household. Even so, environmentally conscious individuals need not skip the holiday décor and enter-taining. Fortunately, there are various ways to be energy efficient with holiday décor this season.

• Switch to LED lights. LED lights con-sume a fraction of the energy traditional incandescent bulbs do. While a standard string of 50 lights consumes 300 watts, LED sets only consume four watts. This not only saves energy, but also consider-able amounts of money over the course

of the holiday season.

• Use fiber-optic decorations. Fiber optic items are lit by one light. The illumina-tion carries through the fiber optic cables to the entire decoration.

• Use a power strip and timer. Plug deco-rations into a power strip (be sure to follow the recommended power load for safety) and hook everything up to a timer so lights are not on when no one can see them.

• Check light strands. Always inspect lights for frayed wires and any damage. Frayed lights are less efficient and pose a con-siderable safety risk.

• Enhance decorations. Use mirrors and reflective ornaments to give the appear-ance of more lights without actually adding more.

• Turn off ambient lighting. Christmas tree lights or the lights framing a picture window should be sufficient to light up a room. Keep lamps and overhead light-ing off while the tree is lit to save money and energy.

• Lower the thermostat. When enter-taining, turn the thermostat down a few degrees. Having extra people in your home will raise the temperature. Similarly, heat generated by the oven and other cooking appliances can warm

up a home. Don’t waste energy by keep-ing the heat turned on high.

• Invest in rechargeable batteries. According to Energy Quest, 40 percent of all batteries are purchased during the holiday season. To power those many gifts and devices, use rechargeable bat-teries which can be used again and again.

• Change your cooking practices. Smaller appliances use less energy. Put those toaster ovens, slow cookers and electric fryers to good use. Only use the oven if you are cooking a large meal.

• Wait until the dishwasher is full. Pack in the dishes from holiday meals, and only run the dishwasher when it is full.

• Reuse items when-ever possible. Many items around the house can be put to good use as decorations, holiday servers or gifts. Take inventory of what you have before you go out and purchase new decorations.

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The holiday season has arrived, and millions of peo-ple across the globe will be celebrating Christmas with their families and friends. The following are some interesting tidbits to share with your loved ones this holiday season.

• Each year, more than three billion Christmas cards are sent

• In 350 AD, Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome, pro-claimed December 25 the official celebration date for the birth of Jesus Christ. Many historians and theologians have surmised that Christ really wasn’t born this time of year, thanks to imagery and information from the Bible.

• Christmas carols began as an English custom called “wassailing.” Individuals toasted neighbours to a long and healthy life.

• Despite the common tale that three wise men paid homage to baby Jesus, the Bible never specifi-cally calls out a number. Similarly, there’s no specific indication that they visited the infant Jesus. Their visit may have

occurred when Jesus was older.

• Santa Claus’ modern look was inspired by writings from The Knickerbockers of New York and imag-ery from Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” Moore denied authoring the famous poem for 15 years after it was published anony-mously, feeling the poem was beneath his talents.

• Santa has his ownofficial postal code.It’s H0 H0 H0.

• The song “Jingle Bells” was originally written for Thanksgiving and not Christmas. People loved it so much that the lyr-ics were changed to fit Christmas.

• Christmas trees typically grow for 15 years before they’re cut and sold. This means the trees sold today were likely planted in 1999.

• Before turkey, the tra-ditional Christmas meal served in England was a pig’s head and mustard.

• Male reindeer tend to shed their antlers in the winter. This means

Santa’s reindeer are likely female.

• Christ may have been born in a cave rather than a manger. According to the gospel of Luke, the shepherds that helped find shelter for Mary to give birth kept their flock in a cave. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is built over a cave called the Grotto of the Nativity, where Jesus is believed to have been born.

• Many people may be less inclined to stand under mistletoe waiting for a kiss if they knew what “mistletoe” means in the ancient Germanic lan-guage. It literally means “dung on a twig,” for the bird who eats the berries and then leaves seeds in droppings to propagate new plants.

• Each holiday season, PNC Wealth Management calculates the costs of the gifts in the song, “The 12 Days of Christmas.” The price index for the gifts went from $12,673 in 1984 to more than $24,000 in 2011. The most expensive gift is the swimming swans.

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Between decking the halls, visiting family and attending holiday parties, it may seem like there is little time to maintain a workout

routine during the holiday season. While the holiday season is an especially

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from one pound to a few pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although that might not seem like a lot of weight, a report in The New England Journal of Medicine noted that many people never lose the weight they put on during the holidays.

Those who struggle to keep the weight off understand the importance of maintain-ing both a consistent fitness schedule and healthy eating habits. This may be challeng-ing when the rich foods and parties synony-mous with the holiday season are around to threaten healthy habits. Here’s how to stay on course.

• Establish a regular exercise date. Treat exercise as any other obligation on the cal-endar. Make it a necessity and not a luxury. Schedule time for workouts, even if it means removing something else from your agenda.

• Don’t worry about the length of your workouts. If you’re accustomed to an hour-

long workout but cannot fit in more than 20 minutes on some days, don’t skip the workout simply because it’s shorter. Make the most of that time by targeting larger, core muscles.

• Change your schedule. You may need to alter your daily schedule to fit in gym work-outs or other exercise. Try getting up earlier and heading out prior to work or school. This will open up time throughout the rest of your day, and you can use that time to meet the demands of the holiday season.

• Get a trainer or a workout buddy. It’s far easier to blow off a workout when you go it alone. However, if you have a workout partner who is counting on you and vice versa, you may be less inclined to miss a workout — even when you’re not especially motivated to hit the gym.

• Try new activities. Workouts need not be limited to exercises in the gym. Plenty of activities work the body and burn calories. Sledding, ice skating, skiing, and snow-boarding are just a few winter sports that can help you stay in shape.

• Choose a hotel with a pool or gym. If holiday travel is on your itinerary, select a hotel that has fitness equipment. This way you can keep up with your routine. Even swimming a few laps in an indoor pool can provide a cardiovascular workout while you’re on vacation. Remember, it only takes a two-week break from exercise to experi-ence a fitness regression, and you will only have to work harder to get back to your

current fitness level if you let exercise slide too long.

• Add short, high-intensity exercises. Burn more calories in less time with high-intensity workouts. This way you won’t need to schedule as much time for workouts but will still get the benefit of exercise.

• Transform chores into exercise opportuni-ties. See that vacuum cleaner, rake or broom as a piece of exercise equipment. While cleaning up for holiday company, turn on the radio and get your heart pumping, too. Do leg raises while you’re preparing meals or do some pushups off of the kitchen counter.

• Use your bodyweight. Even if you can’t make it to the gym, rely on your own body resistance for a thorough workout. Pushups, squats, burpees, mountain climbers, jump-ing rope, and lunges are some exercises that rely on bodyweight for effectiveness.

• Periodically exercise during the day. If you have a few free moments here and there during the day, use these opportunities to exercise. By the end of the day, you may find you squeezed in an entire workout’s worth of exercise over the course of several 10-minute intervals.

Exercise and fitness do not have to play second fiddle to other holiday activities. Make time for workouts, and you will be ahead of the game come the new year.

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• Reserve early. Fares only rise as the holidays draw closer. It’s unlikely you will score a last-minute deal by waiting until the last minute to book holiday travel, as discount fares are largely a thing of past. If your travel schedule is inflexible, book as early as pos-sible. You might be able to save some money if you have some flexibility with regard to your travel schedule.

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Many parents fondly recall their first holiday season as a mom & dad. While youngsters may not remember much about their first Thanksgiving dinner with family or where their first Christmas present was placed under the tree, parents tend to cherish such memories, making their first holidays with children in tow very memorable.

Loved ones of new parents can take steps to make this holiday season even more special. The following are some gift ideas for holiday shoppers who want to make this season even more memorable for the proud new parents in their lives.

• Photo album: Today’s new parents have more pictures & video of their bundles of joy than any previ-ous generation of moms & dads, as smartphones, tablets & other devices have made taking pictures much easier than in years past & are always close at hand. But family members also have more access to such photos than ever before, mak-ing it easy to put together a special photo album of the new parents & their new child. Pull pictures from the parents’ social media accounts or make an album of the numerous photos you have no doubt received since your loved ones became par-ents. Parents likely don’t have time to make albums, so your efforts will almost certainly be appreciated.

• Camcorder: Many smartphones are capable of taking video, but such

devices are not ideal for shooting longer home videos new parents will want to watch for years to come. An HD camcorder with suf-ficient internal flash memory can allow new parents to take longer, higher quality videos with superior audio to those that are shot on smartphones. Such a camcorder may be costly for those shopping on a strict budget, but it’s a gift new parents are sure to love & uti-lize for years to come.

• Nursery sound system: New parents are no doubt anxiously anticipating the day when the newest addi-tions to their households sleep through the night. Help speed up the arrival of that glorious night with a nursery sound system that provides soothing sounds to create a perfect sleeping environment for newly born boys & girls. The results may not arrive overnight, but par-

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• Spa treatment: Not every gift you buy for the new parents in your life needs to focus on helping them cherish their first holiday season as parents. New parents tend to expe-rience lots of exhaustion in their first few months on the job, but a spa treatment can be just the relax-ing break they need from catering to their bundle of joys’ every need. Moms may prefer the full spa treat-ment, while dads may simply want a massage & some relaxing time in the steam room. Book a treatment for both mom & dad so they can spend some time relaxing during this hectic time of year. And then YOU can do the babysitting & make your own memories!

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