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[20 |, The South Marysburgh Mirror A “scary-tale” - Continued from page 4 a mild round of applause. They initiate a huge Anti-Garbage Pro-Wind Farm cam- paign. They warn of stench while the garbage is drying; of rats overrunning the County; of diseases being import- ed from Toronto; of huge power corridors that dwarf our houses; of trucks ruining our roads and making earsplit- ting rackets; of falling property values; of seagulls coming from all over to feed on garbage, screeching in the sky, leaving their droppings on roofs and decks and BBQs while we’re frizzling a steak. One writer predicts as the lake warms up because of hot water being discharged it’ll become a shark breeding ground: No-one will be safe to go swimming anymore. Oh yes, wind farms are actually good for birds! Cleaner air will give them healthier lives and they’II live longer! So will people! — England wants to clean up its air with turbines; on Spain’s Costa del Sol will-to-do retirees from all over Europe come to live beside wind turbines; Ger- many continues building more and more turbines, some as big as 7.5 mega-watts to be placed offshore, almost four times the turbine capacity they want to build here... The group organizes a bus trip to Western Ontario to look at turbines. Everyone is surprised how quiet turbines real- ly are, that houses haven’t crumbled, that residents don’t need hearing aids, and that cows are pasturing undemeath, contentedly chewing their cud. The Association calls for a protest march on Queen’s Park. Thousands of County residents participate carrying banners “No Toronto garbage for P.E.”, “Protect our En- vironment”, “We want wind power”. The Premier and Leona Dombrowsky appear to address the crowd. Both praise such a peaceful demonstration. And yes, you can have your wind farms! — And there will be no Toronto garbage trucked into the County!!! - So everybody claps, cheers and hollers and throws their hats in the air. But Joseph, the pessimist, keeps rubbing his eyes. He can’t believe what he sees. Leona Dombrowsky doesn’t look like the willowy blonde at Tim Horton’s that told them the story about a garbage incinerator for Toronto’s garbage at South Bay. Joseph informs the president that Leona Dombrowsky is- n’t the woman that told him about the garbage incinerator. The two kept puzzling who the tall blonde might have been. The president asks when exactly the blonde told Jo- seph that story. “Well, we had the vote on March 29" the next day, March the 30" we were celebrating so much I was too hung over to meet my friend on the 31 of March. I met him on the following day. That’s when the blonde told us about the garbage incinerator”. “Oh, darn...darn...darn...that would have been the 1“ of April... Some dame pulled an April fool’s joke on us... we better keep quiet on that one!!!” said the president — And they never told any-one what really happened... The president came back to the County a Hero. Our PUZZLE - SOLUTION a 23 [omIN] 4 25 7 WI(L) DER ERA-SURE-S DOWN 1 ALIEN- ATE 2 EMIT (time rev,) 3 UNH (anag, hun) ARMED 4 COUNTER-A-T-TACKED 5 6 [sm] x P (AID) UP PART-RIDGES 7 ALUM-NI (in rev.) DOWN-T-R-ENDS. THE-SPIANS (anag. pains) ACROSS 8 FLAME-NCO ARAB-LE 10 REST-RAINED faatiatelehaigal 11 TAME (anag, meat) x ween tN 12 BerT AND EMily EX (PLIC(anag. clip)) IT OW DRAFT DECAP (paced rev.) IT -ATE WRESTLED (anag, red welts) County Governor General initiated the president into the County Hall of Fame and make him an Honorary Member of the Order of Prince Edward County be- cause of his great contribution to “Saving the Plan- et”... - Fred Hassenbach