{"id":3337,"date":"2013-07-31T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2013-08-07T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T19:17:56","slug":"carriers-of-the-month-margaret-and-eleanor-clowater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/carriers-of-the-month-margaret-and-eleanor-clowater\/","title":{"rendered":"Carriers of the Month: Margaret and Eleanor Clowater"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have ever opened up your copy of The Auroran around Christmastime and found colourful, hand-drawn holiday greetings placed carefully inside the bundle, chances are you live in the Aurora Heights Drive neighbourhood.
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Margaret and Eleanor Clowater<\/p><\/div>
\nAnd chances are your papers were delivered by Margaret and Eleanor Clowater.<\/p>\n

Margaret and Eleanor, who deliver to over 100 homes in the surrounding area, are The Auroran\u2019s Carriers of the Month for July.<\/p>\n

Now over halfway through their summer vacation from Devins Drive Public School, Margaret and Eleanor are keeping themselves busy behind the keys of the piano, playing in their pool, hanging out with friends, and tending to their own vegetable garden boasting bumper crops of tomatoes, corn, beets, grapes, and even a few lima beans. <\/p>\n

Between all this, it is a wonder they still have time to deliver the paper, but the Clowaters are a tenacious duo. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really exciting,\u201d says Margaret, a Grade 6 student. \u201cWe just started a year ago. My dad signed us up because in the summer we didn\u2019t have a lot to do besides playing outside and stuff, so we decided to do papers to have fun outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going from door to door, rain or shine, the sisters say they love the chance to take the papers door to door to have a chance to visit and have fun with their neighbours. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe live close to the trails, forests and parks \u2013 and the candy store \u2013 so it is really nice to get out,\u201d says Eleanor. \u201cSome people are really friendly and are friends with us and it is really nice we have friendly neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Good Neighbour Policy is a two-way street for the sisters. While they save a bit of the money they make each week on their paper routes to feed their passions for collecting stuffed animals, a portion of their earnings are invariably set aside to help Diana, a little Peruvian girl they sponsor through World Vision. Diana is one of six children and their money goes a long way to help her flourish. <\/p>\n

Another portion often goes to charity works at Trinity Anglican Church, their place of worship. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe give some money to homeless kids and their families and we usually have a dinner where all these people who don\u2019t have food or homes come to our church and eat,\u201d says Margaret.
\nThrough their paper routes, the girls pride themselves on having jobs within the community and they have encouraged a number of their own friends and classmates to sign up to get a piece of the action. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a lot of fun, you get to meet your neighbours and you can have a job before your siblings or friends,\u201d says Margaret.<\/p>\n

Adds Eleanor: \u201cYou can meet friends you don\u2019t even know!\u201d<\/p>\n

Their father, Roger, is on a similar page.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this teaches a lot of things \u2013 chief among them is responsibility in the fact that if they do something, they do a god job, then they actually get money from it \u2013 and they\u2019re enjoying it as well, so it is the best of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Eleanor and Margaret!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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