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Letters to the Editor Section Two The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, February 22,1984 Scout-Guide Flag Raised on Sunday 14 Gertrude Place Toronto, Ont. M4J 1R3 (415) 463-5334 , February 7,1984 Dear Sir or Madam : I am trying to reunite twin sisters who have been separated for more than 80 years and would be most grateful if you would make their story public. Eliza (on whose behalf I am working) and Harriet Flynn (['[were born August 1st, 1901 in '^Hexham, Northumberland, England to Dorothy Ann, wife ,'of John Flynn, a plasterer. Shortly after birth Eliza was ^adopted privately. Harriet )and her mother came to 'Canada round about 1912. Eliza, who still lives in Hexham is very anxious to find her long lost twin. Through research in the U.K. it has been established that the last news of Harriet occurred in 1953 when she was reported to be living in Toronto with her husband and three children, two boys and a girl. Unfortunately there is no record of Harriet's husband's last name. It seems likely that Harriet and her mother may well have settled originally in the eastern provinces. The ladies have an older half brother Bill McGarity who is known to have worked for C.P. in the early 1930's. If Harriet or her children recognize themselves from this outline or if any one else has information about Harriet and her family please write to me at: 14 Gertrude Placé, Toronto M4J 1R3. i Thank You. Yours sincerely, Juliet Mannock Our Statesman is well read, in fact, it is worn out by the time the last families receive it. Word from home is appreciated, appreciated, even when it's concerning tax increases. It seems the higher the salaries of Councillors and Politicians, the less work they do. The school board, when it worked for nothing, seemed to accomplish more, than the present overpaid underworked parasites of society, we now endure. See you soon, Ranee Dilling February, 1984 Dear Friend: Since 1922, The Easter Seal Society (formerly the Ontario Society for Crippled Children) have been providing rehabilitation rehabilitation services for physically disabled children in Ontario. The major fund-raising event to provide these services is the annual Easter Seal Campaign and I am writing to you at this time to ask you for your support in publicizing the campaign. I am writing to all media in the province enclosing publicity materials in support of the campaign. The 1984 Easter Seal Campaign commences March 1 and runs until April 1, 1984. The campaign objective for the province is $3,050,000. On behalf of the children and families we serve, may I express appreciation for past support and if further information is required, please feel free to contact us. Sincerely yours, John Butler Co-ordinator, . Easter Seal Campaign i Euties, Florida : February 12,1984 Dear Johnny: The Canadian Statesman's photographer should be congratulated. The photo (Late Afternoon Shadows at Beach) is an excellent display of shadows; in color it would be sensational. The fact it portrays my favorite spot (I sail out and in daily, all summer) and even a winter shot, brings back pleasant memories. ■ I haven't painted anything for approximately eight years, but that picture really got me excited. Do you have the negative, in color? If so, how èould I procuré same? Editor's note: Sorry, it was black and white film. Spring can't be far away, the birds are gathering together and grass and leaves are turning green. Last week we had weather in the 20°F the last two days 80°F. It will be nice to return home, so turn up the heat. Editor's note: The following, following, most interesting letter, was received recently by Mr. and Mrs. J. Lewis, Prospect Prospect St., Bowmanville, from their niece Catherine Barry of Hastings, who for the past year has been in Nicaragua on church missionary work. We are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis for passing the letter along for our readers Dear Uncle Jack & Aunt Norma, Merry Christmas from 11 degrees north of the Equator, from Nicaragua .Libre land of lakes and vol- . canoes', the Patria of San- dino. It's a clear November morning. The temperature is about 25 degrees C, but that is guesswork because I have not seen a thermometer thermometer in Nicaragua. The sky is blue with the odd cloud scattered here and there. None of them look too TELEPHONE 623-6555 JOHN MANUEL, C.G.A. Income Tax and Related Accounting Services 118 King St. E., Suite 2 Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1N4 WELCOME... employees of CRAFT CABINETS LIMITED to a Blue C H I P Basic Plan. threatening. Winter (i.e. the rainy season) is just coming to an end - so one can have a hot summer day, or be immediately immediately surprised by a torrential downpour that blows out of nowhere. By January the weather straightens itself out and the days are hot and sunny straight through until May, when winter once again begins. begins. Don't think winter means it's cooler though, just more rain. Thirteen months have rapidly flown by since I came to Nicaragua. I'm sure international news may have you wondering just what is happening in this country but I assure you I am safe and sound. The political sitution has become become worse since September September with an increasing number of contra revolutionary revolutionary attacks on centers such as airports, fuel reserves, reserves, . and harbours, as well as frequent combat in the hills. I think it's sad that it has to come to this. The Revolution had such good ideas and proposals to benefit benefit the people but now everything everything this poor country earns goes to support the war. There is fighting both on the north and the southern southern borders. Stricter rationing rationing of gasoline and electricity electricity was announced in November. November. Obligatory military service became law in October October for all boys between 17 and 21 years. The staples, i.e. rice, beans, sugar, oil and soap are still strictly rationed. This country produces produces sugar for export and its citizens are only allowed one pound per person per week. Figure out some time how much sugar you consume consume in an average week????? My work is going extremely extremely well. The students have made considerable progress in one year. In January January they will write government government exams from which they will hopefully gain their primary certification. We started out with 4 females and 2 males ages 17-25. Two of the originals have left and one replacement replacement came so we are holding holding tight at 5. It often seems a bit ridiculous that we have 5 students and two teachers. However, due,, to thé isolation here, life is much easier with two people. Furthermore we teach adult literacy night classes and we help the "Padre" with accounting and secretarial tasks. I've taken on two new teaching tasks. One is a small boy who comes here twice a week. The other is a woman who lives about 15 minutes from Pentecostes. I go to her house on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. I feel very exotic going to her house because I have to cross a river on a tree. I'm no tarzan! In one year my 'equestrienne' skills have improved noticeably. In April there was an attempt made to put a road into Pentecostes Pentecostes but it failed badly. So what we have now is a nicer mud path for the mules to travel to the real road. (2hrs.).Travellingthis Boss Freer Suite 204 Peterborough Square 360 George Slreel Norlh /Peterborough, Ontario K9H7E8 j S(705)743-0677 : ■ ONTARIO l 6310-8 STOP DON'T BUY A CAR UNTIL YOU DRIVE A SUBARU® LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT US WE'LL SURPRISE YOU! Starting at s 8,295. Rated No. 11n Owner Satisfaction C & C MOTOR SALES 155 King St. W. OSHAWA 579-6224 time of year is always an adventure adventure since the paths are so muddy. Twice recently my 'beast' has taken a flip in the mud with me still on top. I'm becoming an expert mud wrestler. I've fallen off twice. First time I fell off an ox and thought I broke my rib and the 2nd time I just slipped off the mule easily. I am desperately waiting for the fruit to ripen these days. The trees are loaded with papaya, oranges, and grapefruit. We just need a few more days of sunshine and I'll be in my glory. We haven't had any fruit in quite a while. It does wonders wonders to cheer up the thrice daily routine of rice and beans. I should count my blessings because we don't have rationed beans. People in the towns do. Quite often lately we've had armadillo meat added to the menu... locally hunted. My life here.often feels like one of absurb contrast. This country is at war but I live contentedly here in the hills. I hear lots of spine chilling stories but personal personal accounts are nil. Days can be boring at times with the hum drum of every day nitty gritty nothingness, but • at the same time the weeks and months fly by at an incredible incredible rate! I shall now detail an ordinary ordinary little trip downtown. It goes like this. Monday morning up bright and early, well not so bright since it was 3 a.m., with the stars shining. We were on the trail by 4 a.m., at the road by 6:30 a.m. Dona Cristina kindly offered me a cup of coffee. She surely knew how badly I wanted one. She lives in the little shack at the road where we wait. Within an hour along came the local public transport transport jalopy. Since we are at the end of the road the advantage advantage is that the truck leaves empty ... the disadvantage disadvantage being the truck often often doesn't come this far. Well three hours later we arrive in Acoyapa with four men riding on the hood, four women plus the driver and two children riding in the front seat, myself and three women in the back seat and about 90 people jammed in the back of this truck. That ,was the easiest part . . . getting to town. Coming home two days later was the test of patience. patience. I arrive at the market market in Juigalpa at 5 to 10 a.m. to catch the 10 o'clock truck which leaves for Acoyapa; by 10:30 I thought I must have missed it, by 11:30 I was sure, by 12:30 I was exasperated, sunburnt, bored stiff and tired of standing; by 1:30 we decided decided to get a bus that was going part way and thumb to Acoyapa. That part was relatively easy . . . From Acoyapa a small datsun truck with racks on it, into which, jump, climb, push, squeeze, and shove, chickens, chickens, sacks of corn, babies, grannies, drunks, pregnant women etc., etc. Well I didn't even get into the truck, but I managed to get my feet on a piece of plywood at the back of the truck, hanging on for life to a rope and grabbing the edge of the rack. There was a lady less fortunate than I who was hanging on only to my waist, as if she and I were water-skiing. As if things weren't cozy enough, God decides to open the clouds at the precise moment moment which made the water skiing image even more realistic!!! Now this country doesn't get cold but on a cool cloudy afternoon blowing blowing along in the back of a truck with the rain pouring down can do a lot to cause goose pimples. Unfortunately Unfortunately this "joy ride" wasn't taking us all the way to our destination. Fortunately we thumbed a ride and arrived at our destination just in time to be told "The boy who was waiting for you just took off. . ." so we tore off over the hill yelling like crazy - luckily Manuel heard us and came back. We load things into the saddle bags, my luggage by this time totally totally irrecognizable due to the fact that six people sat on it, not to forget that it's totally soaked. Oh well am I complaining??? not at all. It's now 5:30 p.m., another two hours and we'll be home sweet home but that is easier said than done. First of all it's almost dark, the one mule refuses to walk, says she's lame, it's raining, I'm cold, then the sacks my mule was carrying falls off in the middle of a big mud hole. Oh joy, oh bliss . . . Give me my nice comfortable hazzle free Canada ... or at least hot coffee and a dish of rice and beans and my bed. I've had enough cultural adventure for one day! Well to give the story a "happily ever after ending" I made it, and as always always was warmly greeted by the kind people here. In 10 hours I had travelled a distance distance of 80 kilometres. My Christmas plans are not too earth shattering by North America standards but if one really is concerned concerned with celebrating the true meaning of Christmas and just th'e material feast, then one should'be able to find the joy of Christmas in any remote corner of the world. I will not be going on an 8 hour mule ride to celebrate celebrate this year. I will be staying here in Pentecostes with our students. We will prepare Christmas festivities festivities for the people in this area. We won't be going overboard but it will be a celebration since for 6 years there has been no .Christmas religious celebration celebration here. The priest spends Christmas in a small town at one of his parishes. If people celebrate here it's with an all night dance, when the men get rip-roaring rip-roaring drunk and chop each Hold Euchre Party TYRONE NEWS ( Intended for last week) Twenty-two tables of euchre were in play on Friday evening, February 10th, with the following results: 1st Wilma Goyne, 2nd Alice Beech, 3rd Doris Schoffield, 4th Bruce Tennant, 5th Joe Dielman, 6th Ethel Goble. Ladies low Marie Brooks, mén's low Adam Sharp. 50-50 draw Marion Bell, Molly Horstman. Specials Steve Artrim, Norm Woodcock, Hazel Murphy. On Monday evening at the Old Tyrone Hall there were 12'/2 tables of euchre with the following scores: John Broome 92, Ray Brown 85, Ruby ' Griffin 82, Nerta Masters 80, Ethel Goble 79, Earl Prescott 79, Myrtle Alldred 49, 50-50 draw Adam Sharp, Russ Wright. In observance of Baden Powell Sunday on February 19th the Tyrone Brownie Pack will attend church. Confirmation classes will begin on March 1,1984 at 7:00 p.m. for a total of seven sessions. At the Durham East Pork Producers' Association Annual Annual Meeting which was held at Nestleton Community Centre on Thursday, February 9, 1984, a presentation presentation of trophies was made to pork producers who had marketed the highest average index (grade) for market hogs in 1983. Association Secretary, Glen Ingram made the presentations to Lloyd Skinner in the category marketing "up to 500 hogs," to Paul Vaneyk marketing "between 500 - 1,000 hogs," to Garnet Rickard accepting on behalf of Ceresmore Farms marketing "over 1,000 hogs." Ontario NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TAKE NOTICE THAT a Public Meeting of The Liquor Licence Board ol Ontario will be held at the COUNTY COURT HOUSE, 470 WATER STREET, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO on THURSDAY, THURSDAY, MARCH 8th, 1984 at the hour ol 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the Board will hear applications, in accordance with the Regulations Sub-section 23(1) under the Liquor Licence Act, to increase the capacity ol licensed premises in respect ol the following licenced establishment: San Marino's Dell Cale Restaurant 96-98 Waverley Road, Bowmanville, Newcastle Additional Dining Lounge Facilities Licensee: Antoinette Ignagnl AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any person who Is resident in the municipality and who wishes to make representation relative to the application, shall make their submission to the Board In writing prior to the date ol the hearing, or in person at the time and place ol the hearing. (Copies ol written submissions will bo forwarded to the applicant). Liquor Licence Board ol Ontario lib l.akoshoro Boulevard East TORONTO, Ontario. MUE 1A4 MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS THE LIQUOR LICENCE ACT other to pieces with machetes. It's nice to participate participate in another type of celebration. I've decided not to arrive in Canada until the end of April. March just seemed too early to leave and after Easter is a more natural break in the year. Neil will be going home in March. I'll stay on alone until April 25. I'll teach part time and I'm sure I'll find lots of things to fill my day. This letter could go on and on because things that have become ordinary to me are so absurd, so foreign to our way of life in Canada; mail every two weeks, travelling by donkey, washing washing in the stream, cockroaches cockroaches and rats, war, boring boring food; and I would not have missed the experience for anything. There really has to be a better way to run our world. We in Canada, who are the less fortunate will never know the hardships of the daily lives of most Nicaraguans. I want to thank my dear friends and family for all the kind letters that I've received received in the past year, and I beg you to keep them coming coming until April 1. There's no better way to bridge that distance when home, family and friends seem so far away than a big fat letter. One of the reasons I've been so happy here in Nicaragua is because of all the support I've received from home. As you celebrate a "White Christmas", this year with the love of the Christ Child, the excitement of little children, children, the magic of Santa, surprise of presents, the mouth watering turkey and trimmings, please take 5 minutes minutes out to offer a prayer for the people of Nicaragua and all of Central America that someday they may know even a part of the peace and happiness that we just take for granted. My heart will be with you all. Have an egg nog for me. I'll hang my stocking and fill it with love and good wishes for each and every one of you for the coming year 1984. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Feliz Navidad and Prospère Ano Nuevo Catherine Barry Scout-Guide Week began on Sunday morning when the Scouting flag was attached and raised on the town's flagpole at the Court-Fire building. Here it is blowing in the breeze along with others, marking special events. The Canadian Statesman Patrick G. Deegan Advertising DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC Deadlines 5 GEORGE STREET Display- BOWMANVILLE Tues. 4:00 p.m. 623-4473 Classified • Mon. 4:30 p.m. or 263-2026 ANYSUB The Smaller Sub ■ACOKE Trademark Rug. TURKEY CLUBSUB MON.FEB.27GTUES.FEB.28 Save a dollar Monday Feb. 27th & TUesday Feb. 28th when you buy your favourite sub with a Coke' This offer applies to all subs, hot or cold, EXCLUDING THE SMALLER SUB, at any participating Mr. Submarine location, Limit two per customer. Offer available from 10 a.m. until closing on dates specified MR. 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