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eters i: BT ll pe Students from more than 600 Ontario secondary schools are expected to register for the second youth conference on the environ- "'mentonAugust28,29and 30in Kingston, . Co-sponsored by Queen's University and Ontario's new Ministry of the Environment, * the annual conference has been dubbed "The Straight: Goods." "will "Students have often com- plained that it is difficult for them toget to the heart of our environmental _ problems," said _.Hon,...James Auld, Minister of the Environment for Ontario. "This conference give students that opportunity by exposing them to an impressive array of experts in all fields of -the environment." Each secondary school has AREY As | see it BY JOHN B., McCLELLAND OK, let's go. Up out of that easy chair. Up off the sofa. Away from the kitchen table, Get the old sneakers on and jog twice around the block, briskly. Not in the mood? Maybe some othertime? Well, all right then. How about a two mile run just to get the cirulation flowing? Not interested? I See. (Of course I know there are other ways to get the circulation flowing, but a two mile run would be good for . . . . .. oh well, never mind) So, you're not interested in jogging around the block, and just thinking about a two mile run leaves you breathless; maybe you might consider a 26 mile jaunt on a Monday afternoon with nothing at the end of those 26 miles but a dish of hot stew. Yep, that's what I said, 26 "miles. (and 385 yards to be exact.) Believe it or not, there actually are people these days who go out on"a-Monday afternoon and run for 26 miles. In fact a week ago Monday 1,081 of them including nine women set out to do just that in a famous 76-year old foot-race known as the Boston Marathon. . Maybe at this time of year, what with all the hub-hub over hockey\finals, and with a new baseball season just getting nosey, itmight befitting tosaya . few words about those individuals who participatein the most gruelling and demanding of athletic endeavours. been invited to send one official delegate from Grades 110r 12, Return to school next term is' a condition of acceptance. The conference - committee hopes delegates will be selected by : the students themselves. : "What the university and theprovincearetryingtodois simply create the setting and make resource people avail- able to the students. To what extent they benefit is entirely up to them," said conference Co-Chairman Rob Buller of Queen's University. The first Straight Goods conference at Laurentian University last year was such an overwhelming success . that government was obliga- ted to make this an annual event", added Dave Booth, Educational Resources Co- ordinator for the new Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Several renowned - key speakers will deliver short stage-setting papersof 10to 15 minutes. Emphasis is being placed on informal dialogues between the students and about sixty resource people from. business.and industry, government, and community groups. The resource people are Somebody who has never done any distarice { HW running, or never done any running period; is probably asking the question why. Why, in the name of heaven would anybody be foolish enough to want to run 26 miles for nothing more than a bowl of gruel, and a few thin . lines on the back pages of the newspapers? Why would anybody want to push his body to the outer limits of A physical exertion? Why would anybody run a minimum 15 miles daily for several months prior to the Marathon? Th ere are no healines involved, no great television exposure, no interviews with national magazines, no financial rewards, little, if any glamour. Why, indeed. The answer to all this is impossible to determine because each person who has ever run distances has his own deeply personal reasons for doing so. But a general answer is probably akin to the answer given by a m an who has just scaled a mountain - "because it is there for the doing, and because nobody else has done it before. Distancer runners are a peculiar breed, unique among athletes, unique among men. Distance running is the loneliest sport in the world. Unlike team sports, there is no camaraderie, there is no "team spirit" because there are no team mates: nobody to congratulate when things go well, or reprimand when a "mistake is made. There are no screaming, idlolizing crowds to excell in front of. Training and practice for a long distance race is just as painful as the real thing. And one puzzling aspect from a psychological point of view is that the loner element of distance running is a contradiction of the male group bond theory. I used the word "painful" because running distances is just that: painful. Unlike most other sports that require a concentrated effort for a brief period of time followed by a rest or break, running demands a prolonged concentrated effort. The idiom of prolonged pain never being severe, and severe pain never being prolonged doesn't apply because distance running cause both prolonged and severe pain. Human conditioning can only reach a certain point, and beyond other than muscle and tissue. By necessity, a distance runner is an outcast of sorts, and is sometimes treated as such. In T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, a solitary runner treading through the grey dawn beside a roadway will get funny stares from passers-by, who raise their eyebrows, shake their heads, or even toss out a rude remark. Despite the fact that distance running is a very old athletic event, it attracts very little interest other than those who actually participate. Even a race as prestigious as the Boston Marathon doesn't really generate that much publicity. A lot of people turn out to watch the finish, but in most cases the winners names are quickly forgotten, the publicity dies, and for the remaining 364 days in the year, precious little is said about distance running. But maybe this is how it should be. Maybe this is how distance runners want it. With the track and field season here, there are a lot of high school athletes training for local and regional meets etc. Training means running, and I've said before, running is not easy; it's lonely, discouraging, sometimes heartbreaking. But I know why they're doing it. INNIS ~~ A _ that point the strength must be derived from something --{-- . Students get straight goods on pollution being invited to contribute their time by being available for impromptu bull sessions called © spontaneously by groups of students in meeting rooms and lounge area in the new Faculty -of Education buildings. The entire conference will be sglf-contained on the Queen's.campus with dormi- tory and dining facilities provided at nominal cost. Schoolssending delegatesare encouraged to involve all the students in fund raising projects to finance transpor- tation and accommodation. There is no registration fee. On the final day, Wednes- day, August 30, a Plan for Action will be presented by the speakers and delegates. Thisclimaxto the Conference will generate specific ideas for enviornmental action by high school students. Tours of the Kingston area will be conducted Wednesday afternoon and will feature visitstoenvironmental points of interest. PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 3, 1972-23 Sale of Holstein herd attracts buyers from USA A large crowd gathered at the farm of Fred. Leask, Uxbridge, Ontario, April 19th, when the Holstein herd was dispersed, with bidders coming from a 'wide area including points from Timis- kaming district and Penn- - sylvania. Sale Manager was Lloyd Wilson, Uxbridge. Bid- ding was brisk, with fifteen head , bringing at least $1,000.00 each: The total was $52,860.00 for 59 lots, for the excellent average 'of $896.00 each, Thirty milking females averaged $1,013.83 each; thirteen bred heifers $873.00 each; seven open yearlings averaged $608.00; eight heifer calves averaged $518.00; one bull sold at $625.00 and six calves sold with dams averaged $345.00 each. The top price of $1,900.00 was paid by Romandale Farms, Unionville, Ontario, for a three-year-old "Good Plus' daughter of the 'Very: Good" sire Madawaska Citation Radar, and out of the "Very Good' dam Lea Glen Ormsby Lochinvar, There -- were two, cows = classified "Very Good' in the How does your Lawn and Garden grow? At Crest Hardware = we have just about everything necessary to make your ~ Lawn and Garden grow and grow and "GROW" See our new large selection of Lawn Furnitu * { re WE RENT: | FERTILIZER SPREADER RUG SHAMPOOER .herd, one a senior three- ,year-old daughter of .the. "Very. 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