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Happy to be back at school The younger set at the Ororio ning were more than delighted are just waiting for the door to Public School on Tuesday mor- to be back to school and above open for the new school term. Birders out-number birds Presquile Provincial Park just south of Brighton is one of the better better areas in which birders have in this area to come up with a new species or to add to their yearly count. Not only do birds flock to the area in migration but many breed in the area and raise their families. This along with the fact that once a bird is sighted that may be unusual the word soon spreads throughout the birders just when and where the bird was seen. - From mid August to this point. Presquile has seen the action of migrating birds south and the last couple of weeks have beep particularly particularly good for birders especially for shore birds. With fhe change in weather last Friday there was a infusion of birds along the shoreline Saturday promoting promoting many birders tq take up their positions with scopes and binoculars. Bill Bunting and 1 visited the park on Sunday but for some reason the birds had disappeared leaving possibly twenty or thirty birds looking looking for food. It's true that birders outnumbered the birds'on this occasion occasion but there was a plus. The Orono duo did add a new species to their life-list, a Buff Breasted Sandpiper, and this bird was causing lots of excitement among the birders and those photographers who were on the beach with all their equipment. The Buff-Breasted Sandpiper is termed a rare species arid as it generally uses a central fly-way (the mid-prairies) in its migration south and north was somewhat off course being in Presquile. The trip also provided us with a number of Common Moorhens and their teen-age offsprings as well as a wood Duck. Of interest was a Greater Yellowlegs that had Bill and 1 buffaloed buffaloed for a period of time. It is riot often that we see the Greater Yellowlegs but rather the Lesser of thespecies. This bird on Sunday was most'ac tive skirting about the shallows skimming off the top of the water whatever food it could. IT was this action that sided-tracked us for a number of moments. Neither one of us has seen this trait before by this particular bird. The Port Perry Sewage Lagoons continue to provide a mecca for birders an on a' recent visit we found a family of Ruddy Ducks that apparently apparently had spent the summer in the bull rushes to raise their family. In the same location four Common , Snipes and a host of American .Coots with their teenage offsprings. Of course there were many other species which would include the Bonaparte Gull and the Short Billed Dowitcher shore bird prodding into the bottom of the shallows for food. . - Bill reports five new species to add to his life-list having just returned from a' boat trip to the Yukon. His list now numbers 280. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 6, 1989-3 Donates artifacts to Clarke Museum On Wednesday; August 23, 1989, the Provincial Ministry of Transport formally donated a large power driver Massey-Harris Straw Cutter to the Museum. The straw cutter was discovered by Curator Mark Jackman hidden deep under the straw of the old barns at the end of the Museum road at Hwy. 35/115 and Regional Road 9 in Kirby. The Ministry had m purchased the property for the wid- deriing of Hwy. 35/115 and. was using using it aS a construction site office. Vacant since 1988 the property was slated to be sold. The heavy snow covering has protected the straw cutter like a Enough is enough - No more chicken The Town of Newcastle has been financing chicken dinners for raccoons raccoons of late but Town staff is saying saying enough is enough and suggest that council deny a $66.00 dollar chicken dinner for Mr, Raccoon. On two occasions the Town has paid owners of chicken destroyed by coons which has amounted to somewhere in the area of $200.00.' A third request for damage for the destruction of 22 chickens by coons may vest on deaf ears if council council agrees with a staff recommendation. recommendation. Staff would have the Town pay of livestock damaged only by wolves and dogs. Five to seek Fair Queen ' title Five local and area girls are seeking seeking the title of Miss Durham Central Central this Thursday evening at the Orono Fair. The contest will be the sixteenth annual contest that has been sponsored sponsored over this period by Mr. Garnet Rickard. Those entered in the contest are: Traci Mills, Newcastle, sponsored by Not Just Fashions; Cindy Reid, Kirby, sponsored by Mega mix; .Linda Douglas, Orono, sponsored by Kirby Burger; Marcia Blaschke, Orono, sponsored by Stutt's Pharmacy Pharmacy and Vanessa Wallace, Kendal, Kendal, sponsored by Cowan Poqtiac- Buick. The reigning Queen, Karen Pyke, will be present to crown the new Queen. giant 'blanket' over the years so that the wood and iron are sound and the paint is intack and undamaged. undamaged. Even the paper decals of the Massey-Harris Company are almost as fresh as the day they were put on. The power driven straw cutter will, with the Museum's other Massey-Harris farm machinery, become part of a permanent display in the Museum's proposed building expansion. The Museum wishes to extend it's thanks to the Ministry of Transport and to Ms. Ruth Jackson the Ministry's Heritage Advisor for their support and generosity. Mark I. Jackman, Curator Just George Fifty years ago the world went mad. Unfortunately those that remember those days now belong to a rapidly disappearing group for age is doing what the enemy couldn't. Regretfully, we who are left, still have to live with our memories. But time is a great healer. I am not going to write a "War Story" for we have men in this community who could possibly surpass any incidents incidents I might describe. « But who is interested now anyway? My only wish is that it never happens again - but I believe my father told me that some fifty years ago, and he too was a Royal Marine. Returning now to the present, I noticed this week that the leaves are already turning red on the trees on Main Street heading towards Taunton' Taunton' Road. "Whatever happened to summer?" ■ It has suddenly dawned on me that 1 no longer have an afternoon swim in my neighbours pool - that I haven't worn my shorts for some days - and that the evenings are drawing in far too early. What has happened? I must be getting senile in my old age. The Orono Fair opens this week end so that tells me 1 will soon have to cleanup the lawn mower and get the snowblowers primed up for its,' inevitable duties. A long-standing friend of mine "Young" Ken Smith (I beleive I'm a few days his senior) recently phoned to say what an excellent job the Postal Service had done with the boxes at the entrance to the Orono Estates. I reluctantly had to agree with him. They have done a good job (Picture in last week's Times). Thanks Roy. However Ken pointed out that they had neglected to include a container container for the "Junk Mail" which we all discard. Before I could get my teeth into that little problem I learned the subject subject was already being taken care of. (Darn it, foiled again). And so my friends, and it seems that there are so many of you Lynn and I have never been so lucky. But we appreciate your remarks and your criticism, although 1 can't recall any of the latter. But for now have fun, stay healthy and Don't "Do Anything 1 . Wouldn't Do - but if you do don't get caught. As ever - Just George Applies for Gravel Pit rezoning (Continued from page 1) but notes that the site distance for entrance onto Road 20 is substandard substandard and that the applicant should consider an alternative location. The Ministry of the Environment states that if the excavation proceeds proceeds below the water table it recomreiends that a hydrological report be submitted. The Ministry also notes that a licence is needed if water is to be taken for washing and/or dewatering. The Planning department states they have concern and will not accept accept a grassed pit as a satisfactory rehabilitation plan. The application will be processed further following the meeting on Tuesday evening. Camp grounds given one year to comply (Continued from ]3àge 1) and extention some concerns as expressed expressed in a former report have been addressed. Staff has suggested there are two issues to consider. One being the expansion expansion from 18 lots to the existing 29 lots and the other being seasonal occupancy as opposed to year- round accommodation. The report states that the operation is illegal both in number of units and the year-round accommodation. The planning department felt that the application had seceral fundamental fundamental problems with Official Plan conformity, By-law conformity, conformity, design guidelines and safety deficiencies. The Region of Durham calls for water and sewage services in such developments. The facility is served by a well and pump-out tanks. 30th Anniversary - Offer - * * # The time has come to upholster that chair or sofa that you have been putting off for so long. We now have a good selection of reasonably priced fabrics from which to* choose. 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