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' r i L I 1 i ' 12 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, November 17, 2004 On Monday November 29th, between 6 7:30 pm, the Pineridge District Girl" Guides will be going door to door in Orono to collect food for the East Clarington Food Bank. Please have your donation ready and help those who are less fortunate than we are. Well, I see Bâsic Black by Arthur Black Never on Sunday Nova Scotians came down--narrowly-- SfllW! IWIIUUI I\1I/IIV1/I IUi/1 Nl/IIUI/1 I\1I/!!W!IUI/!I11I/INIM| Santa is coming \ to Stutt's Pharmacy Saturday, December 4th 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. Phone to book your FREE photo session 905-983-5009 5 5 5 5 against Sunday plebiscite last shopping. In a month 55 per cent of the citizens who voted said 'NO' to being allowed the option of to fill a shop- 2 ping week. 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To many Americans it must have been just one more pathetic example of Canoehead Frostbacks stubbornly clinging clinging to their quaint and antiquated antiquated 19th century quasi-feu- dal lifestyle. "Nova Scotia voters reject Yankee materialism" simpered simpered the newspaper, USA Today. Most Halifax retailers, who were (not surprisingly) in favour of open Sundays, went nuts when the voting results were announced. "We've just kicked a $25 million boost to the economy in the face" grumbled one store owner. "A victory for the Amen corner," corner," sneered another. another. I'm sure if those wee-hours yukmeis- ters Ralph BenMurgui and Mike Bullard (remember them?) were still around, they would be chortling hugely into the late-night ether about those bumptious bumptious Bluenosers and their backward ways. Imagine! . Actually choosing to deprive yourself of a basic human right the rest of North Americans take for granted! Well I say: good for Nova Scotia. They may be the last remaining people on this continent who have not been shucked and jived into believing that shopping twenty- four-seven is what life is all about and nothing is real unless you can buy it at the mall. Just a reactionary Old Fart ranting? Well, may-be. It's true that I'm antique enough to remember when Sundays in Canada were truly a day of rest. There were no baseball games to line up for, or movies to go to. You couldn't buy a lüliil 111111 hi iiilliiliiyiiiiii! ||1 beer or a book of stamps. All stores were closed and if you turned on your TV, all you got was an Indian Head test pattern pattern to watch. Sounds boring, but a funny thing happened with those Sundays. We took advantage of them to do things we couldn't couldn't do on the other, more frenetic frenetic days of the week. We actually used to make long, lazy afternoon-length visits to people in their homes even have them back to our place. As families, I mean. Sing- alongs around the family piano were not unheard of. Books got read and gardens got weeded. Peaceable chores got tended to. Mom darned and sewed. Dad tinkered away at his basément workbench, doing no large damage to various various malfunctioning household household items. There was plenty of down time too an hour or so in the hammock if the. weather allowed; otherwise a snooze on the. chesterfield with only the hypnotic tick-tock of the mantel clock to lull you even deeper into sleep. I remember old pastimes that don't seem to be around anymore. Whistling. Whittling. Whittling. Drowsy games of crib < and canasta around the kitchen table. Well, who's got time for that nowadays? And who needs home-grown entertainment, entertainment, really, when you've got a beeping cellphone on your belt, 500 channels on the boob tube and an ever-boinking computer in the den reminding you that YOU'VE GOT MAIL! Besides, it's not as if Nova Scotians have entirely consigned consigned themselves to the Dark Ages. As Bill Harrison, president president of the Hotel Association of Nova Scotia puts it, "Nova Scotia is a place where you can't buy a shirt on Sunday, but you can sure lose your shirt." That's right - Nova Scotia casinos will still be wide open for business on Sunday. The Nova Scotia government, government, which gets a Mafia- esque rake-off from the casinos, casinos, knows that a principled stand on Sunday shopping is all very well. But some things are sacred. 905-697-2856 ORONO LUMBER ud Personalized Project Planning Since 1935 85 Station Slreel Orono, ON LOB Bus: 905-983-9167 Fax: 905-983-9467 WtTTviVv ; ! : : ; : ' ; lull! |||j ! ill Mil 'IlijilllPlI l| I CHATTERTON ELECTRIC RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL POLE LINE CONSTRUCTION Davo Chatterton Orono, Ontario Tel: 905-983-5646 If no answer; 906-983-5940 Itjilj. ! 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