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2-OONO WEEKLYx TIMIES, JANUARY 23rd, 1974 orono weeky ti mes SeonICass Mail Registraion Number 6369 c\lsedeeyWensa at the office of publication SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada $.O USA 45 THE COST 0F REC'REAýTION!! It was flot too miany years ago that a municipality could build an arena for a sumn of $150,000. Early last week the Counicil of the Town of Newcastle discussed a price of Up to $750,000 for an arena in the Hampton area. Thiere is no doubt that the municipality of Newcastle is in need of additional ice facilities for hockey and skating. Hocke-y is the predominate spot for young boys in the winter as is Figure Skating for most girls. The need is here and an arena should be buit but an arena constructed only, for its prime purpose, that of housing an ice surface with such as dressing rooms and a snack centre. It should go no further than this as there is no reason to construct an ice palace, nor an arena with a large seating capacity and for this area 900 is considerable. If seating capacity is lieeded for any game or teamn then it could be moved to the Bowmanville arena. Few games or teams in this area will draw 900 spectators or evefi one hundred. A fourth arena in Newcastle will releive pressure on exising ice pads and adjustments could be made where other facilities are available. There is no need tor extra frills ... ail the action will be on the ice and thîs by the young of up to 15 or 16 years. It would be more sensible to build two small arenas with proper ice size than one grandiosa ice palace. Consideration in providing recreational facilities could, with reasonable sized properties extend into other age The way an environmentalist by Warren Lowes NO. 5- WILDLIFE AND) WILDERNESS In this era of industrial expansion and al of the hubbub that goes with airports, supermarkets, higlh rise apartment living, free love and commercîalized sports, it is significant that many television programs are finding large audiences for films that have to do with wildeness and wildlifè. Is this a rjearning for the past, a suppressed desire to escape from the turmoil of the rat race, or a human need for occasional interludes of solitude? Or, is it a symptom of something deeper One has only to turn the dials across a panel of stations and one can follow the cameras into the forests, down -turbulent streams, over the frozen tundra or to the depths of the ocean floor. Programs such as "Our Land"; "Wild Kingdom"; "Untamed World" and "The Nature of Things", takès use to the remote areas and the quiet places. We watch bemused at the mating dance of the partridge, we are surprised to learn iateresting tidbits such as the fact that wolverines neyer suffer from arthritis, and we marvel at the pattern of organization in an ant ill. There is something about wilderness that holds us in its thrall. But, if we think that these feelings are unique to people of this era, we are ignoring history. In times ostress, man has always returned to his beginnings for knowledge and guidance. Moses, Mohammed, Zoroast- er and Jesus retired to, the wilderness and came back with messages. John Stuart Mill wrote, "A world from whîch solitude has been extirpated is a very poor ideal." And evèn today, the botonists, zoologists, socialogists and ecology specialists are finding the answers to modern problems i the wlderness. The reasons are not liard to find. If we ponder the meaning of the word, "1recreation," possibly the picture wiil corne more clearly into focus. Recreation simply means to re-create, and recreation can best be seen taking place in the haunts of nature. In wilderness we can observe where we came from. But we can also get an idea of where we have gone and how far along the path we have traveiled. The point of interest that descends upon us with the greatesft impact when we go to the wilderness is the consciousness that everything seems to be alive. A marsh lias its complement of frogs, insects, muskrats, lily pads and wading birds; a tropical jungle is that habitat for small reptiles, brightly plumned birds, varieties of snakes and bands of chattering monkeys; the boreai forests of groups, curling, swimmiing. tennis. Lets rememiber iti is much better to be a participant than aý spectator. Fromi our, information it is understood that, in O ps Fonhpan arena is; being constructed for a priceý 'Somewhere arouind 5,0 but we woild not suggest thIir procedure as te are acting as their own contractor. This is an nain however tht there is a big difference between the price :In Ops and thiat proposed in Newcastle. By ail means lets have the arena in Newcastle soon for it xiii neyer cost less. But Jets remember it should only be an ice pad suitabiy housed... .and that is ail. LOSE 0F IDENTITY The Town of Durham in Western Ontario has won. A reprise in their first round to maintain their identity with the name "Durham"'. The court bas recognized their problem and are considering the matter further. The judge did state that apparently a problemn did exist and that possibly the region of Durham should have been namned the New Durham Region. No community, wishes to lose its identity and even though cases of the samne name being used for two municipalities do exist the degree of loss of identity results in the prominence of one over the other. This does exist hetween the Durham regýion and the Town of Durham. The Village of Newcastle could well be another example. The« area municipafity of the former four centres, Newcastle, Clarke, Darlington and Bowmanviile, have taken the name Newcastle and as time goes on the name Newcastle will certainly become more identified with the new area municipality. The existing village could weil lose its identity in this respect while other centres sucli as Orono, Bowmanville, Kendal, Hampton etc. will still hold their identîty. The problem may not be great today but it could increase in the future. secs it the Canadian Shield form a protective cover for herds of white tailed deer, browsing moose, ravens, noisy jays and fur bearing animais such as bear, marten, mink and fox. Regions may differ, topography and clîmates may vary, but la all areas of. wilderness, a delicate balanc~e is maintained between the animal inhabitants and the vegetation avaîlable to them, Before the advent of Western culture, the native Indian and Inuit peoples recognized this delicate balance and blended themseives into the skein of niature. "We love quiet; we suffer the mouse to play. When the woods, are rustled by the wind, we fear not." are the wordsof an Iroquois chief recorded in 1796. What are we, then, to think of a civilization which devotes its loyalties and gives its priorities over to a completely different set of values and a different type of balance -the balance of the financial ýstatement? And the words "loyalty" andl "priority" are the key issues that are germain to this discussion. Do we approve when governments set aside areas, designate them as National Parks andi then allow commercial logging firms to feil the tali stands of timber? Do w é remain silent when wide expanses of forest wilderness are flooded (as is proposed for the James Bay area) in order to create a few temporary "Jobs" and provîde a question, able source of power for export? Do we protest the fact that our elected political administrators consider wililife (particul- arly the ungulate herds) of our Northern forests to be expendable and invite wealthy thrill seekers from other parts to come and slaughter them in the name of the "tourîst industry"? Do we sit idiy by when the Native population of some areas (Kenora, for example) dare not eat the fish they catch because they may be poisoned by the lead content of the poluted rivers? These are auestinns that the environ- mentalist must ask. Hu must ask them 0iutai and lie must try to influence fellow cinzens into bringing some sense into the generai attitude towards wilderness before this ever-shrinking refuge for our social sanity is reduced to a drab, horrible skeleton, a gliostland for burnt out resources. At this stage of our cultural metamorphosis, possibly we have industrialized enough. If we can clamp a lid on population growth, possibly we can stabilize industrial growtli at a lower level, preserve our wilderness areas, relax and learn how to live. The problems of population growtli, appropriately enough, will be discussed in the next issue of this series. Canadian legion public speaking Branch 178 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Bowman- ville will hold its annual public speaking contest at the Legion hall Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. with aIl members of the public invited. The four categories of competition will be grades 4-6, 7-8, 6-10, and 11-13, with the junior level speeches lasting from three to five minutes and the senior from five to seven minutes. Winners of each category will be awarded a trophy and will advance to the zone contest, in Oshawa's Branch 43,.of the Legion on March 3. The people spea-k! By Shelley Loucks Thew village of Orono could be 'seeing a- great era of change and development if council decides to take a step forward and allow the instal- lation of a shopping center in town.1 It would be located in the North Éast end of the village with a number of some 15 stores and approximately 300 parking spaces. The proposal for this pro- ject has been forwarded to the Town of Newcastle Planning Board, but has not yet- been brought up for discussion. The general reactions of the people were greatly varied, when asked to give their opinion of the project, Businesses in the downtown area, such as Rolph Hard- ware, would not consider relocating in the new center, even though their profits would be lowered if they stayeci in their present build- ing. One reason being that their overhead would increase "drastîcally", and they would have to lease space if. they moved. Views from the othér side of the counter did not differ much. In the case of Ruth Chater, who is a student at Clarke High School and a local shopper. Being from ia farm, she is opposed to this projeet because she stàted, "I have seen too much good farmland get covered in concrete." She thînks that it wouldn't be too much trouble for the people to drive to Bowmanville to visît the same type of stores. "People will be crying for farmland in a few years, but they won't find it.". She added to that "Maybe I'm biased because I'm a farmer. Rev. Long found himself. caught between the two- the downtown area, and the shopping centre. He said that he like a wide variety of stores, which- probably would be located in the center, but, he feels very strongly aboût supporting local business. He says "the main thing is that it doesn't destroy loc,?' Shoppers fromr out of town, commented that they are altogether for the project, even though they- don'It know much about it. They come into town to do business, quite frequently and when asked if they would patronize the new shopping area, they said 1"yes"1, if it offered low priced products, but they would not shop there instead of down- town. Midtown Variety store would also stay in it's present location. Proprieter, Mrs. Swan was undecided as to whether or not it would be a beneficial project. Shedoesn't want to see downtown drained although she did not think it would be' harmful to other businesses in the' area. When more news about this topic has been re.feased, there will undoubtedly be much controversial talk, especially if and when the proposai is passed. Orono Building Contractor Brick - Block - Concrete Stone Work Carpentry -Cabinet Work Mlors - Tie 983-F-441 Oronoj Notice To, The Publice Effective January 2, 1974, the Bowman- ville Ambulance Service has been connected with the Central Ambulance Control Centre in I Oshawa for the purposes of dispatching ambulances in the regional area. This central control wiII provide for more effective and I efficient use of ambulances in our regional area. Residents requiring the services of an ambulance can caîl one of the three telephone nu mbers as listed below. These numbers should beclipped fromn this paper' and kept readily available by you in case of an emergency. I The Zenith 90000 num ber is used simply by I dia ling "0"; when the operator cornes on the line I ask for Zenith 90000. The other two numbers, I 623-3321 and 723-5232 are also direct numbers to j the central ambulance control centre. The i control is in constant communications with eur hospital and an ambulance wiIl be dispatched immediately. 966ees e s ( Pflease clip out) s s e es e AMBULANCE SERVICE 623-3321 723-5232 Zenith 90000