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v 12-Orotao Weekly Times,' Wednesday, December 14, 1983 From Around the Region by Brian Groot Clarke Co-operative Student 3 armed robbers get penitentiary terms Three Cobourg area men have been sentenced to the penetentiary after holding up Jeffrey's Superette on Liberty Liberty Street South in Bowman- ville last April. One of the men walked into the store with a masked face and a .22 calibre rifle. He escaped with $191 into a waiting car and sped off. The car was stopped later at an Oshawa service station and the cash, rifle, and mask were found. Two of the three were also charged with assaulting another prisoner in Bowman- ville's cells. The three of them received approximately 2'A years for their crimes. Unemployment help A 128 page document published by the Canadian Mental Health Association will cover the mental arid physical health consequences, and the high costs of unemployment. A brief of the publication is to be submitted submitted to the MacDonald Commission and a day-long forum will be sponsored by the Durham Distress Centre and the Canadian Mental Health Association. • The forum is set for February 25th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Steelworkers Hall on Albert Street, Oshawa. The document will help people cope with unemployment, unemployment, alcohol and other related problems. GM workers to punch out again GM employees in Oshawa will again have to punch the clock before leaving* their jobs for the day. Union leaders are angry of the policy change that began Monday. UAW leaders have been fighting for decades to stop clocking out and during the past two months clocking out was not necessary without it. GM officials told the union that if the noclocking noclocking out procedure was abused by workers it would be taken away, so it has. Thé UAW will file a level three grievance on the matter. Decrease in people on welf are Diane Hamre, chairman of the region's social services committee, said there was a drop in the people on welfare last month compared to November 1982. There was a decrease of 7.7% from November 1982 and a decrease in welfare assistance .of $50,000 according to Hamre. Last month 6,423 people received welfare, in November 1982, 6,846 were Serve a Tea Wassail this festive season Tea punches for safe arid happy holidays Çuests who prefer not to "drink and drive" this festive season will appreciate appreciate the offer of a nori- alcoholic drink. Here are two tea-based punches that are non-alcoholic alternatives alternatives to serve throughout the holidays -- Tea Wassail ' and Festiv.e Party Punch. The word "wassail" was derived from the Old English "wes hal" or "Be. in good health". Originally meant as a toast to someone's someone's health, it became a toasting brew with baked, clove-studded apples on top. It was a tradition in the yuletide season and singers would go "a wassailing" from house-to-house singing singing carols in return for a cup of spicy wassail. The "wassail bowl" is still a symbol of hospitality and a good way to say welcome. Served hot, this Tea Wassail is an inexpensive inexpensive and interesting drink to chase the chills of winter and warm a holiday gathering. gathering. Festive Party Punch is a delicious cold punch that will keep any party going. These will help make this festive time a happy and safe one for family and friends. Tea Wassail 8 tea bags 4 cups boiling water 4 cups apple juice 1/4 clip sughr 2 cinnamon sticks 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg Baked Apples (recipe below) Pour boiling water over tea bags. Cover and let steep 5 minutes. Remove tea bags. Meanwhile combine apple juice, sugar, cinnamon cinnamon sticks and nutmeg. Simmer ^ minutes to blend flavors. In a large punch bowl, combine apple juice mixture, tea and baked apples apples with syrup. Serve hot. Makes 8 cups punch. NOTE: To keep wassail warm, place in a chafing dish or slow cooker, set on low. Baked Apples 8 small cooking apples 16 whole cloves 1/2 cup orange juice 1 /4 cup brown sughr 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter Wash and core apples, do not peel. Stud wjith cloves and place in a shallow baking baking dish. Pour orange juice over apples. Combine brown sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over apples. Dot with butter. Bake, uncovered, uncovered, at 350°F about 20-30 minutes or until apples apples are almost tender. Baste often with syrup from pan. Keep warm. Festive Party Punch 5 tea bags 5 cups boiling water 6 oz. can frozen concentrated concentrated lemonade 6 oz. can frozen concen- , trated-grapefruit juice . 750 mL bottle chilled ginger ale Ice Pour boiling water over tea bags. Cover aricf let steep 5 minutes. Remove tea bags. Spoon frozen lemonade and grapefruit juice into punch bowl, stir in tea, blending well. Just before serving add ginger ale and ice. Stir to blend. Garnish punch with sliced lemons or oranges. Makes 10 cups. helped. She said this is good news for the 1984 budget as welfare costs could be dropping. dropping. Impaired drivers - Look Out! Police ill Durham Region will be taking a harder look this season to keep them of the roads. The Durham Regional Police Superintendent Superintendent said they will be using any additional manpower to find impaired drivers. During December the Durham Regional Police will have a minimum of nine officers and a maximum of 15 doing spot checks. The OPP will also carry roadside screeriing devices for alcohol level. Police say there is a lot more pressure put on people to behave themselves this year. If a driver fails the roadside roadside test, he is taken to the detachment for a breathalizer and his licence is automatically automatically suspended for 12 hours. . Last December there were 85 impaired driving charges laid. Crime rate down Jon Jenkins, Chief of Durham Regional Police, said the region's crime rate is down about 1 ZiVo below last year's crime rate at the end of October. Jenkin's suggested rising employment or police department crime prevention programs could help bring the percentage down. There was a five percent decrease last year. Assaults rose from other years, 136 assaults occured in October, compared to 76 for October last year. There were 143 burglaries in October, down 17 from the same month in 1982. Pilches tent in front of Town Hall A homeless Cobourg woman pitched a tent on the front lawn of the Town'Hall last Tuesday in protest because she can't find a house for herself and her 3 children. She said she has been searching for 3 Vi weeks' but landlords turn her away because of her dog and children. The three children ages 8, 10, 14 have lived in a slum house until November 13th, with their mother. A better house became available which she could afford but was advised to move out 3 days later on the advice of the chief building official. Since then the family has been staying with , different relatives. Fifteen minutes after she pitched her tent Cobourg police offered temporary temporary lodging but she refused refused because she wants a permanent permanent home. Parkwood Showplace A "Christmas Showplace" is on exhibition at Parkwood Estate, at the home of the late Col. R.S. McLaughlin on Simcoe Street 'North, Oshawa. The Estate's secretary says this is the first year Parkwood has gone all out with seven decorated rooms on the first floor. It is called a Christmas Showplace featuring displays by area businesses/ , Tours are, available for $1 per person until December 16th. GM and Ford to hand out profit cheque^ Early next year profit sharing sharing cheques will be handed out for the first time to autoworkers at GM arid Ford Motor Co. The cheques will range in amounts from $250 to $600. This is dosé to what they would have received if they had retained the industry's industry's 3% wage boost.. Ford workers will receive $250 to $300. The ÜAW agreed to profit sharing last year instead of the three percent increase in concessions contract bargaining bargaining because 1982 sales had sunk to their lowest level in 21 years. loosing proposition. There is an indication that 1 area municipalities wishing the service returned mtiÿ have to foot'tiie bill or a portion of the loss in operation costs. New Chancellor for Trent University John J. Robinette, one of Canada's leading constitutional constitutional and criminal lawyers, will be appointed Chancellor of Trent University in Peterborough Peterborough within a few weeks. Robinette, 77, will replace Canadian author Margaret Laurence who is retiring after a three year stint with the University as Chancellor. To discuss revival of Via Rail service A meeting is to be held in January at which time interested interested municipal leaders are to meet, with Lloyd Axwor- thy, federal Transport Minister, with the aim to reestablish reestablish the Via Rail service that ran from Havelock to Toronto along the northern borders of many lakeshore communities. The service was discontinued in 1982 at which time it was stated it was a Elect new chairman for Separate Board Michael O'Toole of Omemee has been elected chairman of the Peterborough-Vicoria- Northumberland and Newcastle Separate Board of Education, O'Toole has served with the board for eight years holding positions on all committees. committees. Margaret (Peggy) Mahon has been apppointed vice-chairman for 1984. (Continued page 14) ' I may, be the last adult in North America to know nothing about computers and until a few days ago, I 1 figured that I could get through the remainder of my working'years without them. Now I'm not sure. Last summer, my boat-designing buddy and exnewspaper exnewspaper colleague, Bruce Kirby, tried to sell me on word-processors. It wasn't Kirby's fault, I think, but I came away from his demonstration thinking that his machine was just a glorified Typewriter; He had another go at me about them over the telephone recently and I said, "Look, until they design one which will do a comment comment for you, at the push of one button, I'll stick to the old Underwood/' Two days' later, in Ottawa, I began to change my mind. John Burke, one of bur Ottawa correspondents, showed me a very small, light, portable machine that he'd bought for about the same price as a cheap electric electric typewriter. As I understood him, this machine can store a couple of thousand words jn its memory circuits. circuits. In other words, if you were going out of town on an .assignment, you could stuff some salient background facts into the thing before you left. Better than that, it has a telephone connection, so that if the home office were compyterized, you could call up old scripts, old stories, etc., whatever tbe office librarian had the foresight to store. • In the field, you could punch a script into the thing on the spot, and when j$ \Azas letter-perfect, have the • machine print it out for you. If you had access to a telephone, you could also h|ve the machine send the script to the office, so they'd know exactly what words they'd begetting before you microwaved or satellited the completed visual story. And you could store that day's script in the machine for ready reference on subsequent days. So what you have, in this, modest machine, is at least a combination of the following: addresses addresses and phone numbers, background m&terial, a script file, a telegraph keyboard, and of course, a .typewriter. It will run,off batteries and alào off a standard standard electrical outlet. It's very quiet, of course, which . means you coulti usé it on an aircraft or in other public . places where you couldn't very well use a typewriter. You don't run the. risk of losing notebooks, key scraps of paper, files, pens, and all the other stuff that tends to go adrift while you're moving,rapidly from one place . to another. 1 These things-are not yet a. substitute for brains, but I can see how they might be a great help to someone with 16 years to go to retirement and whose mind is increasingly absent. I'm begining to think I might not make it to 65 without one. .