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r 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 10,1984 SMALL TALK By Donna Fairey Giant Vegetables Show Up This Year Pepper squash at five for a dollar is just one of the Fall veggie bargains bargains which has caused me to seriously reassess reassess the justification for planting a home garden. garden. This Spring was my first real attempt at cultivating cultivating a full fledged plot. And nobody, but nobody, will ever be able to suggest that the project wasn't an industrious industrious one. Friends have regarded regarded the emergence of my green thumb and farmer's-wife character character with a good deal of amusement. The situation situation has, in fact, inspired inspired a number of them to explode in undisguised undisguised laughter. A year ago, explained one of the amused friends, you were gadding gadding about in your sports car and fur coat. Now you're stuffing potatoes into burlap bags and hanging onions onions for winter storage. Guffaw. Guffaw. This chiding I'm taking taking compounded by the current proliferation of bargain basement vegetables vegetables are developments developments to be pondered. Certainly I spent enough in insect powder powder alone to stock our make shift root cellar a couple of times over. Then there was the J Ont. Minister Reaffirms His Position on Eldorado Waste Ontario's Minister of the Environment has re-affirmed his position position that Eldorado Resources Resources Limited should submit plans for disposal disposal of radioactive waste at Port Granby and Welcome to a public public hearing. The Minister added that a federal environmental environmental assessment review review process would be appropriate. Comments from the Hon. Andrew S. Brandt were conveyed to the municipality through a letter originally sent to the Regional Munici pality of Durham. The Region of Durham has stated that any plan by the crown corporation for the decommissioning decommissioning of Port Granby should be scrutinized by an independent independent environmental environmental assessment review panel. At a meeting October 3, the Port Granby Waste management Facility Monitoring Committee met at the Newcastlè Village Hall and agreed to send a letter to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, advising advising him of data related Assn, for Bright Children Plans Meeting in Port Hope The gifted child does not always flourish without extra help from teachers and parents. That's why a provincial organization called the Association Association for Bright Children Children is working towards improving improving the public's understanding understanding and acceptance of bright children at home, in school, and in the community. community. A chapter of the association association has been operating in , the Northumberland and ' Newcastle school system since 1982. Contrary to common belief, belief, the child of exceptional exceptional intellectual ability is not necessarily the child who excels in school. Such a student may have the potential potential to be at the head of the class, but he or she frequently frequently becomes bored, disruptive to other pupils, or simply uninterested in school altogether. The purpose of the Association Association for Bright Children Children is to help "exceptional" "exceptional" children receive the education they need in order to fulfill their potential. potential. "We are a support group for parents," said Sue Silver, past president of the Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle chapter of the Association Association for Bright Children. She explained that the group can help parents Van Bene Floral Shoppes ... much more than a flower store! 4 STORES • Highway No. 2 • King St, E., Oahawa • SlmcoeSt. N„ Oahawa - • King St. W., VANBEUE- Bowmanvlll* • Trademarks ot Van Belle Gardens Ltd learn ways of dealing with their gifted child. And, in addition, the organization urges educators and trustees trustees to implement programs which will best serve these children. Mrs. Silver explained that the group has 35 members from the western and the central area of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. Anyone with an interest in the welfare of children is invited to join the organization. organization. "The group is open to anyone interested and concerned concerned with the development development of bright children," she said. Mrs. Silver stated that schools in the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle system currently provide some special activities for the gifted. However, they do not offer full-day classes for exceptional exceptional students who are deemed to be gifted. At the moment, gifted students students work with a special education resource teacher regularly on projects which are over and above regular classroom work. The Association for Bright Children has been encouraging the board of ecucation to expand educational educational opportunities for the gifted. For example, ABC has suggested that one day of classes be offered to gifted children each week. The board of education identifies gifted children through a testing procedure conducted with the consent of parents only. The IQ test is only one of many ways in which school board staff can evaluate a child. While all children are different different and generalizations are difficult, bright youngsters youngsters demonstrate characteristics characteristics such as long concentration concentration spans, advanced reading ability, keen powers powers of observation, a sense of humor, superior judg ment, curiosity, and an ability ability to rapidly master basic skills. After a child has undergone undergone tests, his or her case will be considered by an identification, placement, and review committee which helps the school system system to decide the best way to educate the student in question. Further information on The Association for Bright Children is available at an upcoming meeting of the group on Monday, October 15, at the library of the Port Hope High School. At the meeting, Director of Education, Dr. Gary Tushingham will explain programs available for the gifted child. Anyone with an interest in education is welcome welcome to attend the meeting. In addition, the association association will offer, for the first time, a series of four special Saturday morning programs programs at the Dr. Hawkins School in Port Hope. These activities are for children age six to twelve and include include topics such as crafts and magic. All students are welcome to attend these programs which will be offered offered each Saturday of November. November. Further information on programs offered by the Association Association for Bright Children Children is available by calling 623-6298. Newcastle council will be looking at the need to add an additional member of staff to its building department department in 1985. The town's general purpose purpose committee recommended recommended last week that staff be authorized to budget for the addition of one building inspector who has the capability capability of doing plumbing inspections inspections in the absence of the plumbing inspector. JfcupfUf, fcintlidcui QUe/ufi What! 40 Already? You don't look a day over 39! tynom the Q<z*tf fertilizer, the seed, boxed plants, stakes, plowing cost and the added water to keep the plot moist during drought. Neither can the hours of hunched- back weeding go unconsidered. unconsidered. What keeps you going, sometimes, is the thought that your labor will be rewarded with hampers brimming with pure, pesticide- free food. Moreover, when the garden begins to bear fruit and the quality of the harvest surpasses your wildest expectations, you begin to determine that you're a farmerette extraordinaire. extraordinaire. The same friends I mentioned earlier now call me Rebecca Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms. However, my reputation reputation as a budding ag- to the Port Granby facility. facility. The committee will also send the Durham Region a resolution recently recently passed by the Town of Newcastle. That motion asks that the federal government institute a nation-wide search for a permanent low level nuclear waste site. In addition, it requests requests that a fund be established established to cover the cost of the clean-up at waste management sites at Port Granby, Port Hope, and Welcome. Welcome. The Pope ... The Queen . , ■ And Guess Who? The Pope came to visit. The Queen came to visit. Jesus was and is here too. I wonder how many recognize him As He lives His life through me, and through some of you. How many people would line the streets If Jesus... They could SEE? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, The evidence of things unseen. (Heb. 11:1) To everyone is given a measure of faith. Have you exercised yours? Do you know what it is to look into someone's face And see Jesus shining through? Have you seen Him looking at you? When you look in a mirror Can you see Jesus in your eyes? Is He shining through your smile supreme? Does your countenance shine and glow? Do you reflect Jesus? If not, who do you see? The wages of sin are death. Are your eyes dull, without life? Do you find it difficult to look even yourself in eye? Do you love yourself just as you are? Jesus is alive and He accepts you just as you are. He loves the sinner bqt hates the sin. He doesn't condemn and reject, He forgives and restores. Ask Jesus to take control of your life, to forgive your sins, To come into your heart and live His life through you. i I did and I've never i egretted it. He increased my self esteem, ) j 1 He loved me and changed me so t iL-ould love my self too. [ I Now I am Tree to extend His love to others. People like you. I'm a vessel He simply flows through. Jesus wants you to be happy and I do too. That's why I'm encouraging you to get to KNOW Jesus personally. His sheep know his voice. He is calling you. You saw the Pope and the Queen, but when you see Jesus, Will He be seen in you? , He is coming for His bride, the church; The born-again believers who trust and obey (John 3:3) As they walk in His steps, submitting to Him, Resisting the devil, receiving direction and guidance via the Holy Spirit. Will you be ready on that glorious day? My prayer for you Is that you have heard Jesus knocking on your door; That you will open up and welcome Him Because He is more willing to give than you are to receive. May today be a new beginning for you as you walk hand in hand with Guess who? -- Linda Blumbergs, Bowmanville, Ont. Council Briefs The board of management management at the Orono Town Hall has received the resignation resignation of board member Roy Forrester. Mr. Forrester's resignation resignation was received by council council this week, with regret. Mr. Forrester will receive a letter of thanks from town council and his successor will be chosen by the a standing committee which selects personnel for municipal appointments. The St. John Ambulance has applied to the Town of Newcastle for funds to help it operate the newly-established newly-established division in the Town of Newcastle. "St, John has serviced the Town of Newcastle for many years from Oshawa Branch Headquarters, but now this Division will be able to extend an ever growing growing demand for this type of service to our citizens," said Branch Chairman William William Clarke, in a letter to council this week. The new division is ) equipped with a mobile first aid unit purchase through the generosity of local service clubs, Mr. Clarke said. The St. John Ambulance request for municipal funding funding has been received by council and the organization organization will be advised of town policy governing municipal grants. Dr. Charlene Lockner B.sc„ m.d., c.c.f.p. would like to announce the opening of her practice in Family Medicine Located at Oshawa Clinic 117 King St. East, Oshawa 723-8551 riculturist, I fear, was seriously affected Saturday when another Canadian made national national news with the pumpkin he grew. A Nova Scotia gardener gardener and four time world champion pumpkin grower placed second in this year's international competition with a 564 pound specimen. It was just another among the recent comeuppance responsible for making me humble. I stroke my jealousy by believing that a veggie that big couldn't possibly be tender. Anyway, who cares about the weeding, the teasing, vegetable stand prices and the smart aleck who reared the giant pumpkin. No matter what, there's nothing nothing quite like home grown. At least, the squash, turnip and potatoes on the Thanksgiving table set by Rebecca of Sunnybrook Sunnybrook Farm were tops in taste. There seems to be an epidemic of giant vegetables around Bowmanville this fall. In the past few weeks we've received a number of calls about everything from enormous pumpkins to huge puff-balls. One local grower, Bruce Colwell (left) discovered a 150 pound squash in his garden - you can make a lot of pies with that! Mr. Colwell is pictured here at his vegetable stand on Hwy 2, with his friend Joe Bouna. F.A. 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