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Fage, 4,WhJtby FreiePress, WenesÜay, *Dctober 1 à, I bé6 L Wanted: For Nov. 16 to 23, YMCA World Peace 'Week, the YMCA would like* to recognize a Durham Region peacemaker, - someone or some group who helpe makes the community safer and heaithier for everyone, and whose acions have Pe, motivated the community to work together for a more peaceful and just world. The mndividual or group will receive a YMCA peace medallion in recognition of their peace efforts. To obtain a nomination form, contact the YMCA acemakers Oshawa Family Resource Centre at 434-3831 or the Durham Reagion YMCA office at 668-6868/686-7849. Nominations should be submitted by this week to the YMCA Oshawa Family Resource Centre, 500 Mfayfair Ave., Oshawa or fax them to this same address at 434-3803. The YMCA peace medailion will be awarded at a 4 pan. ceremony on Nov. 19 at Club Carib in Oshawa. Maryanne Shoidra c Sa. ct 9t t e d- e Oct Sth7Oshawa is one of 11peopl 5:30- 8:0 p nig tlywho received an Ontarii Medal for Good Citizenshii oo The medals, presented bj nEvening of Witches, Got. Gobins.Uy Ontario Lieutenant-Gover nor Henry N.R. Jackman VN akthe are iven to nidut ~1j~IFAJçwho h ave shown ec PT'irau tional generosity andse nauntvu sacrifice, and contributed t and kids receive « Enjoy a Safe the common good of fellowi HÀALLOWEEN TREATS Halloween jin citizens. thdrvn Cullen Gardens Shoidra wasth rvn Alil kids, must be in costumne. Haunted Village force behind the campaigzi to locate a cancer centre in - * Oshawa. She has also served on - volunteer boards for such Aorganizations as the Osh- awa Housing Com pany and s *. Oshawa-Durham Sym- phony Orchestra. "Heck of a car., SATRN- Slioe, ofLlfe As l'm sure you're aware, our local library is currently engaged ln a fundraising campalgn for a new building. As a regular and constant visitor 1 can only applaud their ambition. Their slogan, "A library says a lot about a town,'is, in my view, right on. Uike ai fundraisers you can pledge money, buy a sweatshirt, etc. But its their latest twst on revenue of g eneration thqat 15, in my view, sheer genlus. Ves, Rt is e inspired, a guaranteed money-maker, bound to bring io in buckets f cash. You may be wondering, is it a ip lottery, a bingo or a giant yard or bake sale? No, it's fax more effective than that. They have simply eliminated the date due cards that go ln the back of the books. Thats rnght, irs simple but ' ingenious. lnstead of having each book that you and yours take out clearly marked with a due date,- you now get a paper receipt, like a grocery bill, that lists al te books you have just taken out No malter how many books, you only get one piece of paper. You g take eight books out for your lads, two for your spouse and three for yourself, you get one piece of paper.* «What is going to happen to this paper? Ifs going to >get lost f course. Iril disappear into the maelstrom of papers and sohool work that fuIlmte house. The result of this cunning plan of the libraries-is crystai clear. Vast increases in overdue fines. The money is just going to pour in. Think of Rt, little pieces of paper floating around peoples' homes, vanishlng into the woodwork like socks out of a dryer. Books piling up, people not sure when they took themr out, you won't know they're overdue until -you get a notice in mhe mail. Our family alone will have a room in the new library paid for in overdue fines (well, me anyway). Yes, mhe consultant who came up with mhis. technolgical advance should' be- canonized by libraries everywhere. 0f course the staff is trying to put a- positive spin on this new development. "Just put it on the fridge," they happily carol to unsuspecting patrons. The fridge?. Have you see the front of my fridge? 'Ive stihi got pictures mhat Sarah did in preschool five years ago.. Not to mention fridge magnets fro *m1 every organization and service known to mankind, as weîî as a collection of four-year-oîd For Botter or Worse' cartoons. Theres no room and even if there was, i4f would just sit mhere, just like meé mrysterious containers filled wth who knows what mhat lurk in the back of fridges until they evolve into a new life form. 1 thought I had the library outfoxed by putting mhe date ýlip in mhe pocket of one of the books 1 took out. But then 1 suddenly realized they won't be putting pockpts in the backs of the new books they get. l'm" doomed, mayte I can work out some sort of rnonmily payment schedule, maybe even deposit money in advance, sort of like running a tab. Or even better, l'il just get Wendy to take mhe books out. Thars iR, put them on her caxd, that way it won't be my fault and it mifiht even be safer, for mhe next while anyway. Update: Congratulations to-,Simply Yummy, the' all1ergyfriendly bakery mhat I wrote about last winter. 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