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Orono Weekly Tlxnes, Wednesday. May 20, 1998-5 Kîrby school picks some wînners These Kirby Centennial School students read ail 20 books nominated for this years 'Best Canadian Chldren's Author' award. Pictured clockwise, from lefi to right are: Graeme H., L.T. H., Billy S., Paul R., Lauren P., and Derek S. FOOD COLUMN by Angela Dey RHUBLARBSTIRAWBERRY- BROWN BETTY 4 cups rhubarb, diced 1/8 tsp. sait 4 tbsp. margarine 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 cup pastry flour 1/4 tsp. cinnamon Dice rhubarb, mix with sait and 1/4 cup brown sugar. Bake ini oven for 5 minutes at 375 degrees F. Cream together remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar, margarine, add flour and cinnamon, blend until crumbly. Sprlnkle on top of rhubarb, return to oven. Continue baking until rhubarb is tender (about 20 min.). Serve with vanilla ice cream. RHUBARB SOUP 1 pint strawbenries 1 pound rhubarb 1/2 cup orange Julce about 1/2 - 3/4 cup white sugar Hull and sluce benries, trlm rhubarb dlscardlng any fibers that are tough. Cut stalks into bite-size chunks. Add fruit and orange julce in a large sauce pan over medium heat, when it cornes to a houl, simmer for 10 minutes. Then add sugar to taste, simimer for another 5 minutes. Allow to cool, serve chilled. Each year the Ontario Library Association nomi- nates 20 books, 10 fiction and 10 non-fiction, for this award. Students are asked to read the books and vote for their favourite in the two cate- Arthur Black SORRY, WRONG NUM- BER So I'm sitting on a wood- slatted bench in the middle of a park on a fine Spring day, lobbing breadcrumbs from a brown paper bag at a flock of freeloading pigeons and watching, out of the corner of my eye, popcorn clouds scud their way across the blue sky when suddenly, from the Jack Fraser-clad businessman on the next bench 1 hear... Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppppp! .It's his cellular telephone. The guy fishese around in his inside jacket pocket, extracts a piece of plastic, sticks it next to lis ear and for the next ten minutes 1 listen to this clown teiling some sales rep how they have to get twenty units of number four grade frammajammits to their warehouse before Tuesday. Celi phones. I'm sorry 1 had to be on the planet for the spawning of ceil phones. 1 recail distinctly how pleasant life was without them. Now, they're everywhere. Remember when dining in a restaurant, riding in your car and certainly sitting in a park -- was c onsidered personal time? Relief from the worka- day world? The cell phone gories. Three of the students will be going to Toronto on June 12, where the winner will be selected from votes received from schools across Ontario. has changed ail that. Now, we can take our work with us wherever we go. Whoopee. What's doubly ironic is: nine times out of ten, whatev- er business we're using our ceIl phones to take care of, isn't really ahl that crucial. A recent study of 1,800,celI phone users in Europe revealed that the Number One recipient of ahl cel phone calîs were ... spouses. Wives calling husbands. Husbands calling wives. Which reminds me of my brief flirtation with' celI phones. Yes, 1, too, was once smitten. 1 bought a celi phone because 1 feit it would be nice to 'stay in touch' with the rest of the world when 1 was on the road. And the TV ads made it very clear how easy and convenient the cell phone was. The ads didn't mention that you had to remember to charge the damnded thing every day. And to lug it around with you everywhere you went, because celI phone The books selected by the Kirby students were Silver Wing by Kenneth Oppel in the fiction category, and Anestasia by Hugh Brewster in the non-fiction category. thieves were making a spe- cialty of breaking into vehi- dles in which owners had lefi their cell phones. Nor did the ads mention the fact that cel phones tend to 'go off' at the most inopportune times. .Such as, during 'romantic interludes'. Or when you're in a washroom cublicle but your cell phone is in the pocket of your jacket, which is hanging on a clothes hook. Outside the cubicle. But 1 learned to handie th e petty headaches that carne with ceil phone usage because..well, because the celI phone was just so darned useful. 1 remember driving home one night from work with my shiny new ceIl phone on the seat beside me, and 1 was thinking: "Now this is exact-- ly why 1 purchased this piece of cutting edge technology -- 50 that I could phone up my sweet patootie from the com- fort of my car to let her know I'm on my way." 1 punched in my home number. It rang. ,Said Sweet Patootie picked it up. "Hi, h oney!" I trilled. 'm nfinished work! I'm on my way home!" A puzzled silence came down the line, followed by a familiar but sarcastic voîce saying: "Oh, goody. You mean, just like last night?" 1 sold my celi phone through a newspaper ad two days later. That was four years ago. 1 haven't needed - - or wanted -- a celI phone since. Tories introduoe shameless anti-union legisiation 'The days of feudalism are back," said OFL president Wayne Samuelson May 14 when the Harris govemnment introduced its latest'attempt to be the province's biggest unlon-buster. "If you are needy and poor in Ontario this government owns you body and soul." "An Act to Prevent Unionization with respect to Community Participation under the Ontario Works Act, 1997" was introduced in the Ontario Legislature May 14 and attacks basic civil rights - like the rlght tojoin a union, bargain collectively or strike. So if you're flot born rich and somethlng happens to your livellhood - look out! The provincial government has total control over your life. Peopie no longer have any say about their working condi- tions and no protection at al from abusive and exploitative bosses." 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