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SECTION TWO WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1989 s&t Canadian gtatmtati 62 Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Producecfweekly by . James Publishing Company Limited King Street West; Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Donald Bishop Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. All layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. 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Tulip Festival Starting at Cullen Gardens Blue Jays are Grounded Over the last few years when Toronto Toronto sports fans were mired in yet another another dismal Maple Leaf season, many looked ahead to the warmer months with anticipation. Not just because the Leafs would be put out of everyone's misery but also because the Blue Jays woula replace them as Toronto's team. During the first decade of major league baseball in Toronto there was optimism and excitement: initially, just to see if a bunch of second-rate players could avoid losing 100 games. Eventually they did and the next goal was to play .500 ball, winning as many contests as they lost. Soon that goal, too, was realized and a pennant seemed the logical next step. In 1985, but for a wind-blown Jim Sundburg triple at Exhibition Stadium, Stadium, the Jays could have represented the American League in the World Series. Series. As it was, they ended the season as the champions of the American League East, not the patsy division it is today. Since that glorious moment when George Bell went to his knees to secure secure the final fly ball out against the fabled New York Yankees, the Jays seem to have been cursed by the Maple Maple Leaf bug. Losing is becoming an epidemic. As the best team in spring training 1989, the Jays provoked numerous predictions that they would rise to the top once again. Cited was the impressive impressive pitching, their raw talent, and the general weakness of the remainder of their division. , Rolling over suspect spring competition, competition, the Blue Jays gave no indication that such predicitions were fanciful flights of optimism, the products of nothing more than hopes and dreams. One fifth of the way through the season, season, nearly every hitherto strength has become a glaring weakness. The vaunted pitching staff has lapsed horribly. The Terminator, Tom Henke, is terminating only Toronto leads these days. David Wells is a left- handed version with less experience and velocity. The starters are inconsistent inconsistent and must be wary of turning over any game to so-called relief pitchers. Inconsistent pitching can be overcome overcome in part by booming bats, as the Yankees have shown in the past few years. Scores of 12-10 and 9-5 are not particularly pretty, but (no baseball comment is complete without a cliche) a win is a win. Unfortunately, the Blue Jays' team batting average is dropping dangerously dangerously low and is approaching baseball clown Bob Uecker's lifetime average which he describes as "2something." The Blue Jay hitters are tearing up the league in one category, however: strikeouts. Jesse Barfield, one of the chief culprits, now is swinging through pitches for the Bronx Bombers, and it remains to be seen if his former teammates teammates will pick up the strikeout slack which he left behind. The much heralded kangaroo court was to be used by players to playfully encourage each other to raise their sights and to improve morale and relationships relationships with manager Jimy Williams. Williams. Unfortunately, that court would be sitting for hours after nearly every game if mental gaffes, incompetent execution, execution, and general indifference were punished consistently. In short, the Jays are reeling. Only in the weak American League East can it be said that their season is not already over. Flip the Jays into American American League West and the gala June 5 Skydome opening would be more of a wake-than a celebration. As it is, however, however, they might well be in first place on that day, riding a six game losing streak and gaining ground on their nearest opponent. Never Ending Story on Taxes Isn't it about time somebody told the truth about taxation? ; The truth of the matter is that we really want more of it, not less. Basically, we want all of the government government services that we can get. We have evolved to the point where we cannot survive without government. We want government to do our living for us. We want government to clean ûp pollution, end drug addiction, correct correct the behaviour of our children and make us better when we're sick. We think government should give pensions pensions at the individual level and bailouts bailouts at the corporate level, v Moreover, because of the central importance importance of government in our lives, there's a pretty good chance that many of us rely on government for our daily bread. i-, In many cases, we work for government government agencies of some description or else we belong to a business which gets at least some of its revenue from government. So, let's face it. What we really need is growth in government spending to keep the system going. I Of course, we don't openly say such things. ' ; Whenever it's time for the passing of a municipal budget or a federal budget budget or the budget of any other organization organization which receives money from the public purse, we go through our usual routine. First, we say that government spending is excessive. Then, we say that the poor and the middle-class taxpayers taxpayers will never survive these continued continued assaults on their income. And then we do absolutely nothing until the next year rolls around ana it's time to repeat the same arguments all over again. And government, for its part, talks iible about the need for responsible spending spending and budgetary restraint. Then it proceeds with spending as usual for the upcoming year, It files away the speeches on restraint until the next budget. -i Let's admit the truth. Let's admit s the fact that government is but a 'slightly twisted reflection of the people it serves, And we are all accomplices in the government spending sweep- stakes. Let's also admit that with all its flaws, there still remains vast reserves 'of "fat" in the economy. lt is true that there are many people living below the poverty line in Canada - especially true in certain regions of this country. But it is also true that we are a nation nation of many double car garages, Florida Florida condos, sports cars, sailboats, and other assorted luxuries. With a few exceptions, exceptions, even our poorest citizens have a better standard of living than probably half of the world. If our government had enough nerve, it could attack expenditures with a chainsaw and eliminate deficits in a matter of years. And, if citizens of : this country had an equal amount of nerve, we would probably let them do it. But what we want is what we've got. At the local level, we have combined taxes levied by school boards, the Durham Durham Region and the Town of Newcastle. Newcastle. They're up by over 15 per cent this year. And other municipalities are facing facing a similar increase. The provincial government is bound to introduce similar tax grabs and we already know what has happened at the federal level. All of these things are happening because we live in a democracy where people always get the government they deserve. And, if we didn't want tax increases, they wouldn't exist. Today, the dialogue between the politician and the taxpayer is about as predictable as an old vaudeville routine. routine. Each player has repeated the part so many times that he or she has it word-perfect. But, in short it works like this. We, the taxpayers, pretend that we don't want high taxes but then go ahead and pay them, while demanding that the government give us more services. services. The government pretends to take drastic cost-cutting measures while continuing its deeply-entrenched habit of spending, spending and more spending. spending. Several dozen elections prove that this is the system which works best. And it seems to be the strategy followed followed by all of the mainstream political political parties. It seems to us that any meaningful changes in fiscal policy are out of the question and the economy will continue continue to be laden with debt until something something snaps. In short, it will probably get worse before it gets any better. 7 There were no indications indications that anything out of the ordinary was going to happen last Saturday. It was a beautiful spring day. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and lawns were being cut throughout my neighbourhood. When my father went out on an errand with my uncle, I never suspected that when they returned, life in my house would be fundamentally altered forever. At 9:30 Saturday morning, my family became became the first on the block to own a composter, The arrival of this invention invention surprised me a little since my family has Young Letter Writers Air V arious Concerns Dear Editor: Following are a number of letters to your newspaper regarding local concerns of my grade 5, pupils. The thoughts are all theirs. The idea to write letters to a local newspaper came from a story in one of their readers. It is hoped that these pupils' pupils' concerns will be printed for your readers to see. Yours truly, B. Berry (Gr. 4/5 Teacher) Dear Editor: ■ I am angry because I don't like the idea, about putting dogs to sleep. I think it's cruel and mean. A couple of years ago my nana had her dog put to sleep and I miss her. I don't want my dog put to sleep onless its a good reason like its really sick. Some people buy dogs and then they don't want them and put them to sleep. How would it be if people were treated like this? Would you agree with it? Yours truly, Chris Grigg. Dear Editor, I would like to tell you what has happened to my neighbourhood. They built subdivisions down the road. They drained our wells. We had no water, for two days! Around that time, mud was coming out of our taps. What is really bothering me is that they put the price of city water lip so high that some people can't afford it. In the summer people come to check our well. Our well water isn't as healthy for us as city water. I think Durham Durham Region should lower the price of city water. Just this morning the pipe started started making different sounds. It sounded like a coin saw. My family has to be careful taking baths. If you take a shower for too long you will drain the well. I hope that Durham Region does something something about this. Yours truly, Heather Snulga. Dear Editor, The ditch in front of our house is full of garbage. I'm getting sick of it because I have to clean it up all the time. It's always McDonald's garbage that's in our ditch. Actually it's in everyone's ditch. The whole road's ditches are full of garbage. My Dad said to write a note to McDonald's. We wish' people would throw their garbage into the. refuse containers. Sincerely, Elizabeth Ncttinga. Dear Editor, Do you treat your dog badly? A dog lives up the street from me and when the owners owners go to work they always leave the dog outside. Sometimes Sometimes they don't leave the dog food. If they do the food always gets knocked over. I'm really' fed up with this. Sometimes we leave him food. He always has to go into the garage to get warm. Sometimes the owners don't get home until 12:00 a.m. I feel really sad about this. Please take care of your animals. animals. Yours truly, Sara Sears. y .vSvi. , Dear Editor, - I am very upsefabout the pollution and litter in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. When I moved to Bowmanville Bowmanville 3 years ago Bowmanville Bowmanville was nice and clean. Now the fields, creeks, rivers, rivers, forests,streets and parks are full of garbage. Inconsiderate Inconsiderate people are throwing litter on the ground. How would you like to be thrown into a sewer? That's how the people in Bowmanville Bowmanville feel. Sincerely, Dan Seiden. Dear Editor, I don't like the dogs running running around our houses. My dad said, "Our house (lawn) looks like a manure pile." The dogs could have rabies rabies or be sick. They could bite little kids. Dogs run around our house. That gets us mad. I hope their owners will do something about it soon before a child gets hurt. I wrote this letter because because I think you and other people think the dogs should oe chained up. Sincerely, Shawna Blancher. Dear Editor, I'm very upset about people people putting the dogs to sleep. I really don't think the dogs like it and neither do I. how would you feel if you or any animal you owned was put to sleep. I once had a dog he had to be put to sleep and now I got two new dogs and if they have to be put to sleep they will have to have a good reason to put them to sleep. I miss.alex my old dog. I feel so sorry for the dogs that were put to sleep. I wish that nobody heard of putting the dogs to sleep at all. Yours truly, alexsander tasevski (alex) Councillor Says Post Office Will Not Close Recent reports that the Hampton post office will be closed are false according to Newcastle Councillor Arnot Wotten. The councillor on Monday said that ho had contacted Canada Post in Ottawa along with Durham Member' of Parliament Ross Stevenson. Stevenson. "He said that ns far ns ho could find out there were no plans to close the post office," office," the councillor said. There have been some staff cutbacks, he explained, but the office will not be closed. never given much thought to the garbage we create. Yes, we have been making fantastic use of our blue recycling box but we haven't taken that initiative any further. further. But this new addition to our family will supposedly supposedly diminish the amount of garbage we normally put near the curb as well as changing the way my family thinks about trash. Already my father chastised me for throwing orange peelings into the garbage rather than saving saving them for the composter. composter. I can see the benefits this invention will bring to my house already. First of all, as I said, the garbage we will be putting out for collection will diminish. I read that up to one- third of household waste can be used in the corn- poster. This includes kitchen scraps such as egg shells, carrot tops and coffee grinds. But outside wastes such as grass clippings and leaves also work well in the composter. Since Ontario is running running out of areas to put its garbage, any amount of reducing is better than none at all. The second advantage to composting is the fact that it will make my father's father's garden grow much better. I'm sorry to admit this, but that's our main reason for becoming the owners of a backyard composter. My dad has been an avid gardener for many years and has always done some form of composting. composting. Grass clippings, leaves, egg shells, and coffee grinds have all found their way into his garden at various times in the gardening season but they have never been used to the extent that they will be now. .Compost, (the decomposing decomposing organic material that is used to grow plants) will improve soil conditions by adding nutrients nutrients and improving the capacity of soil to hold nutrients. The compost is held in this large plastic barrel. As I understand its workings, workings, the barrel has to be rotated to allow the micro-organisms micro-organisms that are eating the orangic food to increase in numbers. The rotation allows oxygen inside inside and it's the oxygen that makes the microorganisms microorganisms multiply. As I said, kitchen scraps can be used in the device but scraps such as bones, fat and meat shouldn't because they take too long to break down. Composters work best when the temperature is above the freezing point. When there are temperatures temperatures of 20 C the average time it takes for compost to form is three weeks. Once formed, compost can be put directly into soil. I never thought I would be excited about the prospect of reducing waste but suddenly I am. I don't know if I'm'ex-" cited because I'm actually doing something to help further reduce waste or if it's because I'll be eating better tasting vegetables this summer. Whatever the reason, my life, my thinking and my garbage bin has been unmistakably altered forever. forever. Letter to Editor Dear tiir, As a Canadian, I smugly believed we had the best form of democracy possible. Even when one party had a large majority, I believed that any measure affecting the Canadian people had to be fully explained and discussed discussed in the House and then voted upon by all present (even when the results results were a foregone conclusion). conclusion). I guess I was naive. I was truly shocked and horrified horrified that a Minister of our government could come on television and announce that his budget was in effect as of 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 26. As of this date, the budget budget has still not been voted upon, let alone decided whether, due to the leak, it is a valid budget. The discussion discussion will continue ( I hope) for several more days and yet the government is already collecting the new tax. If this is legal, it turns our Parliament into a farce and the majority party in to a totalitarian dictator. I strongly urge - no, I strongly demand that this loophole be removed as soon as possible. possible. It should NEVER be possible for the party in power to bypass Parliament in this manner! The Conservative Party led a huge outcry when the War Measures Act was used in a situation of public safety safety and terrorism and yet they have bypassed Parliament Parliament simply to collect money money and cover their backs (and other areas) over the leak of their budget. The Opposition parties have both called for the resignation resignation of the Minister of Finance because of this leak. Unless he is shown to have caused or allowed this leak deliberately to distract the public from its contents, or through gross negligence in security. I don't believe he should be forced to resign over this issue. I DO believe he should resign immediately immediately because of nis conduct on Wednesday. His bungled attempt attempt to hide the leak from the members of Parliament until after a House reading by asking for an unexplained unexplained extension of hours shows his contempt for the House. His hasty press conference conference and putting the, as yet unread, budget into effect effect that evening, shows his contempt for our whole sys- . tern of government and for the Canadian people (further (further demonstrated by the budget itself). Such behaviour behaviour by a Minister of the gov- "ërhmënt is so unethical that - he should be removed from office if he hasn't enough integrity integrity left to resign on his own. With concern, Sheila Bateson Bowmanville, Ontario. P.S. If any document made public before House reading were automatically void, proper security would be provided in future. Iron Sculptures Star in Movie Role by Chris Clark Nestled unobtrusively in the midst of a clump of trees, just down the road from Bill Lishman's Scugog home and sculpture workshop workshop is a state-of-the-art movie movie set. A crew of 20 is working working feverishly, seemingly in several directions at once, to achieve perfection on film. The centrepiece of the effort effort is the world's most advanced advanced camera, the Canadian-made Canadian-made three dimensional Imax. Weeks and weeks of tedious work will culminate sometime this summer in a 30 minute 3-D film commissioned commissioned for Expo 90 in Osaka, Japan. Bill Lishman is known around the world for his inspired inspired iron sculpting. He has created several pieces for Canada's Wonderland including including a 12 metre steel dragon. He also created "Au- tohenge", a full-scale replica of Stonehenge made from automobiles, near Port Perry. Director Stephen Low is a Montreal native who has worked with Bill in the past. During work on a film called Beavers, the two creators came up with the concept for their current project, Iron Ark. There is no script, and experimentation experimentation is the watchword watchword on the set. Bill says the story is about natural life forms and their development. development. The underlying message message is that of the beauty and fragility of nature. Several Several of Bill's sculptures are the main characters in the film, Along with the animals is an iron sculptor, driven by his desire to create, working in a dingy factory, circa the Industrial Revolution. Finally, Finally, in desperation, he steps back and agonizes over what man has done to the world and its creatures. The sight sickens him and he reacts by turning himself to iron. Nature fascinates Bill. "When you're doing sculptures sculptures of animals, you realize how intricate nature really is, The design on n crayfish, for example, is so fabulous. It is taking many weeks Watching as smoke and You end up; studying it in to produce the half hour pro- light come together and are minute detail." duction. Roughly a week of captured by the enormous The 3-D Imax is the per- shooting and related work Imax lense, the uneducated feet medium for expression, adds up to approximately might wonder how a feature he explains.^ "A_ sculptor is one minute of actual footage, film ever will emerge from After a lengthy stay in the fall, Stephen Low and his crew have returned for the final session before they sit down to edit and create the finished product. made to make three dimensional dimensional things; that's what we live to do. And now we've got the best lighting guys in the world and the best camera in the world." the frantic work. Visitors to Expo 90 in Japan will witness witness the magic of the process, process, and the creative flare for which Bill Lishman is renowned. renowned. .JfilaSu.- " . i IT, V s* » » uMir.-V * --_ Blackstock iron sculptor, Bill Lishman, is busy these days working with director Stephen Low on a three dimensional feature film which uses several of his creations creations for showing at the Japanese 1990 World Fair.