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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 27, 1985 Second Cluss Mai Registration NiimberOOOSOe Published Every Wednesday at the office of Pubication Main Street, Ormo Roy C. Forrester' Editur Smal4 Business the Catalyst Oati an election and the first thing you announce is help to small business which is claimed to be the road to economic recovery. Frank Milter was no exception carlier this week with his announcement of the provincial election on M y 2nd.- If one recails A parties in the federal 5; Ptember '84 elec- tion were as well going to do wonders for the small1 business com- munity which in turn would create the jobs needed to put Canada back back to work. There is no doubt smalt business, those with less than 100 employees, do create a large number of diversified jobs. Judging from the ail the hetp they receive or--are supposed to receive should be travelling the golden path to a lucrative prosperity. Such, of course, is not the case and we fear the bolstering of small business is no more than political rhetoric. Loans over the past few years from the government have become more difficult to obtain and do not to-day give interest redflction benefits they did some years ago. 1 lnterest rates are flot adjusted for the small business and this rate is set by the market place, the U.S. dollar and U.S. in- terest rate. No interference by governments. Small business both manufacturering and commercial face local taxes that are adjusted upwards over residential both as to assessment and mil rate and further are then charged a business tax as just another source of revenue for those making the expent- ditures. Loans to smali business have often been the downfall with over capitalizing and not being able to meet the future payonents. Many such cases do show up in not only small business but also in the agricultural industries where money was just to easy to corne by from the governmrrent side of the economy. A good small business venture will likely take care of itself- and those that are niot to succeed, over a number of reasons, wilt neyer make it. Its onty policiat rhetoric you hear. Orono players receive ESSO awards Last Wednesday evening durinig the annual Bob Best Memoriat Midget tourna- ment presentation of the ESSO Medals of Achieve- ment were made to various players of the various Orono MVP Tyke Jamie ShetierJ Novice....... Daryl Reid 1 Tri-C Atoms. . Chris Yeo OMHA Atoms Dustin Reid Tri-C PW .... S. Vandershee OMHA PW. Shawn Hardy OMHA, Bants. Stuart IýwinF Tri-C Midget' . Ken Cam eron OMHA Midget Keith Vey teams. The medats are presented in recognition for the Most Vatuable playçr, the Most Improved player and as well for the Most Sp ort- smanlike player. Improved Jason Lawrence Mike Landers Adain Wallace Shane Jones Shawn Knapp David ShetlerJ Patrick Woods Mike Lane Sportsmanlike Somer West Paul Woods J.B.Tousignant S. McAllister A. Rorabeck Jason Burnham Brent Hutton Darren Lewis Steve Lycett Dave LaFrance S. McCullough COLOURING CONTEST CONTINUES Be sure to get your colouring sheets for the children at any downtown store in Orono this week-end. Contest closes on Aprit 4th when colouring charts are to be tretuirned to the Orono stores for judgeing. Winners wiIl be announiced Saiturday, April 6th when bunnies and chicks will be extending greetings to everyone visiting downtown Orono. Be part of the fun in Orono and have your cfildren compete in the colouring contest. Sheets in. the stores near the balloon displays. TELýirrHONE UNES DISRUPTED Laie Monday afternoon telephone service to the Orono Estates was disrupted due to an underground cable being cut by mnistaie. Service was not restored until the following day, Tuesday. APPOINT MEDIATOR FOR BOARD-TEACHERS The Education Relations Commission has appointed Prof. Brian Sharples of Kingston to act as mediato r in the negotiations between the secondary Teachers and the Trustees of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. The Board and teachers have been in negotiations for the past fifteen months over.-a one-year contract and three weeks ago the teacher negotiators were given authority by local secondary school teachers to implement sanetioQns through a vote in w;hich 10-percent vote-d in favour of a strike. The teachers- it-ugh District 49 O.S.S.T.F. have stated the board has not made any significant miove on the key issues of wages and benefits. KENDAL NEWS The stars like jewels shine at night, The Alps are crowned with snow; How'wondefful a springtime wood, A field where daisies grow. But to the housewife what's so fine As her washing drying on the line? The first day of sp rinàAas a beautýfuil day this year. Two years ~c we had such a heavy r9in that most of the cellars were flooded. One year ago the first day of spr- ing began with an electric storm, followed by a rainy day, then fog, then snow. This year Newfoundland had winds of ninety kiiometers an hour; sixteen inches of snow feul filiing al roads. Saskatchewan too had blocked highways. Correction from last week: Mr, Walter Northop and Miss J-elen Wright lost their lives (not his wife) at the Har- mony bridge in 1929. On Sunday morning we were pieased to have worship- ping with us Mrs. Lynda Ki ng's son and his lady friend from Oshawa, also Stephen Peacock from Guelph. Mr, Vernon Peacock tells us next Sunday he wiIl be attending the Christening of fis great grandson in Garden Hill church. Dr. and Mrs. An- drew Peacock are returning from Newfoundland to have their son tbaptized. The choir sang "Take the naine of Jesus with you." Mr. Don Peddar told the chiidren a story about sheep. T he story Jesus told of the " ninety and nine". The 'cripture reading ,was ý eremiah 31: 10-13, John 12, 0-33. The sermon was entitl- d "The New Covenant". It really is surprising How many people fail, To put their own return address ,On envelopes they mail. Perhaps that accounts for some of the letters that are neyer answered. My neighbour was telling me that when her father came to this country he could speak several languages but not Eniglishi. He totd his fami- ly hack home that when he got located he would send themi his address. Whien lie got settted he asked a muan at his work how he should write his address. The man wrote it out but ieft the second line a blank. He said, "On this line put the umber of your house, then go the the end of your street and write down the name on thie board". He did; but when the letters ar- rived in Oshawa, this was what they said: 75 One way, Oshawa, Ontario. However the Post Office used ta do their best to locate people. and he received ail his mail. 1 have received letters address- ed to my name in Kendal Sask, witb. a littie note, "Try KeonTal, Ontario". I)ur neighbour in the west eld, when he settled on his nomesteadjn the west he was six miles fron; the Post Of- fice. He only 'bad oxenï so each week he wàtked to the Post office, noemail. Each, time he told themn Ns namne was Shoal. Finally in dbýpera- tien he said, -I know my people are writing toaftqe. "Well," the post mistresç said, "There is only mail for two strange names a G. Wasilewski and a Mr. T. Soli. That was his mail a whole sheaf of letters for Sjoti. It is unfortunate that in the early days of immigration that our government 'didn't review each name at the port of entry and rewrite it sa it could be pronounced. 1 knew a young man in Sioux Lookout who had his teacher's certificate but he couldn't get a school because his name was unpro- nouinceable. He was a fine looking fellow but he had to apply by letter. Eventually he changed' his namne to MacKay. It cost him $10.00 at that time in the thirties and he got a school in a short time. If you are baking with wood you mnust learn how; to control your fire. Keep some ashes in a tin pail for that purpose. Have the oven hot before you put in your cakes.' Use the best of dry hardwood. If it gets too hot put a shovelful of ashes or sand on it. A small dish of cold water put in the oven will help cool it down. Always keep two boxes of soda on hand in case of a chîmney fire. Throw it on the coals. Many a prize loaf of bread or cake was baked in the oven of a wood stove. My grandmother's stove had no thermometer. She would just put her hand in thie oven, then the bread, THE PASSENGER PIGEON In pioncer days our nation was plagued by pigeons. In the summer thcy lived In Southern Ontario, Quebc and Nova Scoti:a. lin winter they migrated as far SOuIth as Texas and Florida. In 1813 John James Audubon, an authority on birds wrote after Letter to Edit or Dear Mr. Forrester: Please may 1, through your newspaper, warn children and their parents -of a frightening experience my son had. On Thursday, March 22nd, Daniel, who, is in grade five at Orono Public Schoot. was cycling homne from school when he wasforced'off the road by somneone driving a pickup truck. Daniel feIl off his bike, bruising hîs face,and damaging his front teeth. The driver did not stop. Daniel was badly frighten- ed, but we are thankful that his injuries were s0 slight. It terrifies me to think what miight have haropenied to him or might happen to some other unsuspecting child. If the driver of that plckup truck reads this, may I s.ay to humn or her, that whilst they might not approve of cyclists being allowed to use the road, they have a legal right to be there, and deserve the samne sort of courtesy and con- sideration as any other road user. There is nowhere on earth that you could have been going in such a hurry as to menit endangering the life of a child. Please be more careful in future so that Orono my remain "A Good - Place To Live". Yours sincerely, Ann Dilks gazing into the Kentucky sky, "The air wasý literaily f'illed with pigeon-s. The light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse and with a noise like thunder they rushed ia compact mass." Audubon estimated there were more than a billion birds in a single flock. In the forest where millions congregated during their faîl migration branch space evidently ran out until birds were actually standing on top of other birds to form pyramnids three feet high. Then the branches would break under the enormous weight, saplings bent to the ground and the floor of the forest'would fuI with pigeon droppings 6" deep. By the 1860's news of the ftiht or nesting of pigeons was flashed to bounty hunteas by teiegrams. HarvesteEs wouid swarmn to the nestinge site. They used 'sacks and netç and suphurous fîres to asp yxiate the roosting pigeons. Hunters would labour day and night until the woods had been stripped dlean. Earning a penny a bird, they made thousands of dollars a week. During one 40 day nesting in Michigan, eleven million birds were shîpped east, three car loads a day. Feathers were used to fill mattresses, inards for mnedicine, and the meat of pigeons was eaten. Fifty years later in a Cinn- cinatta zoo there was just one Passenger Pigeon left.* She received the best veterinary care. "Martha" is 29 years old, quite old for a pigeon. For 15 years since the turn of the century there has been a standing offer of $1 ,000 for anyone who c an provide a mate for Martha. No mate was found. On September 1, 1914, Martha died. She and ail other Passenger Pigeons are very different from any pigeon you have ever seen or ever will see. The Passenger Pigeon had a slate blue head, grey back and wine coloured breast. No passenger pigeons will every pass this way again... St. Sa vîour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO REV. ALLAN HALDENBY Rector MARCH 31, 1985 9 a.m. Morning Prayer Church School 6:00 p.m. Pîlgrimage at Eastertide -CFTO- Channel 9 Cable 8 ORONO UNITED ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 198 4 ORONO UNITED * CHURCH Morning Worship 11:15 a.m. Church School 1 1:15 a.m. BIBLE STUDY Wednesday 8 p.m. Friendship Room FOCUS ON FAMILY Film "What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women: Money, Sex and Children" Sunday,March 3lst: 7:00 p.m. Orono United Church GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE April 5 7:30 p.m. Joint Service with Kirby Holy Communion Orono United Church HORTICULTURAL 1MEETING Thursday, March 28 8:00 p.m. Main Hall KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Morning Worship 9:45 a.m. Church School 9.45 a.m. Easter Gifts Novelty Candy Gund Animais Cologne & Perfurne 1928 -Spring Collection Necklaces & Earrings Remember those Photos Cards by Carlton Ait At Special Savings -Mgt M. î . . . . . . . . . ... --r- - -