| Secret Garden for Humane Society
The Guelph Humane Society is ringing in summer with it's 8th annual Secret Garden Silent/Live Auction and Tea at the Italian Canadian Club of Guelph on Sunday, April 29. It starts at 12:30 p.m. at the club, 135 Ferguson St., with bidding beginning on items in the silent auction. Bidding ends at 2:45 p.m. when guests will be invited to enjoy afternoon tea while the bids are tallied.The live auction begins at 3 p.m. The main item in the auction is a group tour of five exclusive Guelph gardens. The winner and friends will be driven to each location in a limousine, said a news release, and have refreshments at a beautiful pool house en route. Guests will learn all about pet friendly gardens when guest speaker Denis Flanagan of HGTV's One Garden Two Looks and The Indoor Gardener makes a presentation at 3:15 p.m.
Buying a Home in Foreclosure: What You Need to Know
After years of steadily rising, home prices are starting to come down nationwide, while the foreclosure rate is rising dramatically. Meanwhile, over a million foreclosures are expected to be recorded this year. That means a would-be homeowner could potentially save even more money by buying a home that's been taken over by a bank or lender seeking to recover money still owed on the property. According to realtytrac.com , a real estate website that tracks trends including foreclosures, as recently as last year the national average when buying a foreclosure home was about 25 percent below the full market value of a home. But that average may not be quite as eye-popping this year since many of the new foreclosures stem from problems in the subprime mortgage market.
Tune bids farewell
Queensland rugby fans will farewell one of their favourites when Ben Tune plays his last home game for the QR Queensland Reds at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday.The Reds play the Cheetahs in week 12 of the Vodacom Super 14 before finishing the competition with two games in South Africa. Although Tune has had a rare injury-free season playing in the centres for the Reds, he says his body is telling him it’s time to retire."Towards the end of last year I honestly knew that the end was coming fairly quickly - the body had had enough."I’ve had a fantastic career. I’ve got no regrets and I’m moving into a very exciting second phase of my life," Tune told a media conference at Ballymore today.Reds backs coach Damon Emtage said it would be hard to replace 100-gamer Tune."Obviously he’s one of the greatest players ever to wear the red jersey, and also for Australia, but also what he provides off the field… he’s a very good role model," Emtage said.The Reds need no extra motivation to produce a win at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday afternoon, but Tune’s last home game for the Reds should provide the lift the team needs to send him out a winner on home turf.The Reds were rested early in the week to recover from the physical toll of Saturday’s clash with the Waratahs and are looking to play some attacking rugby against the eleventh-placed Cheetahs.The afternoon time slot (Australian time) is set to provide some attacking rugby for the Reds fans if last week’s game between the Chiefs and the Force is any indication."I think the afternoon rugby will be good for both teams, certainly up here in Queensland it’s a wet weather game at night with the sweat on the ball so I think both teams will really appreciate playing during the day," Emtage said."Last week at Hamilton there were 100 points scored in a day and I think it will be a really good spectacle on the day," Emtage said.
4TH ROUNDUP: Endesa bidding war hots up as board backs E.ON
Frankfurt/Madrid (dpa) - German energy giant E.ON AG scored major advances Monday in its long-running battle for control of Endesa SA with the Spanish power company's board backing its 42.4-billion-euro (56.5-billion-dollar) bid and a key shareholder agreeing to sell.
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Six injured in crash
SIX people, including two women and three children, all Indian nationals, were injured last night when the car they were travelling in collided head-on with another car, reports MANDEEP SINGH. The accident took place on Salmaniya Avenue, at the traffic lights near Manama Auctions, at around 9.30pm. Police said a speeding Saudi-registered car reportedly jumped a red light and rammed into the other car. The man driving the Saudi-registered car was not identified but he was reportedly in custody late last night. He was not injured. The injured have been identified as Lessone Lazanees, 23, who was driving; Siji, 35; Molly Yesudas, 31; her daughters, Amrita, 11 and Sneha, 7; and Krishnapriya Pradeep, 9. They were returning home from the Salmaniya Medical Complex after visiting Mr Lazanees' sister, who is in hospital after delivering a baby.
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