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Wishful thinking conditioned room, and yes, thoughts of snow and ice As the thermometer creeps slowly but surely into the 30's this week, summer lovers and winter haters had the same thing in mind. Thoughts of swimming in the Bay, sipping a tall drink in the shade, relaxing in an air entered our minds. On April 2nd, when one of the worst spring blizzards to hit the area dumped 20 inches of snow, how many of us thought we'd wish for it again! by Ray Baker How do you keep fit. 'That's the burning question, sparked off by a couple of news items that emerged recently. 1) Miss Finland 1930, now in her 74th year, has retained the same vital statistics that won her the title decades ago. Her secret. Drink water, exercise, and 'think slim'. 2) The incidence of overweight babies under one year old is on the increase. Reason: - too many fond mothers pushing too much solid food down Junior, too soon. So what will we get. A nation of females getting wolf whistles at three score years and ten. Plus a generation of 'Samuri Warriors' force fed from birth. What are the options. Keeping fit is big business. As an impressionable youth in England I was drawn to the "Don't let the bully kick sand in your face" kind of deal. Unfortunately our beaches were so crowded you could not find room to lay down and wait for the bully. Like Ontario 'A place to stand'. Some of the alternates tried were mountain clim- bing, potholing, hiking, weight lifting, Judo and wrestling. But these were basically for the females. Seriously, have you tried a 'water diet'. Drink 10 glasses of water a dey, plus steak, cottage cheese, eggs and cheese with an occasional shrimp cocktail. If you BS Project encounters temporary difficulties Bay Search and Safety Force has run aground by Rob Ludlow The proposed Not- tawasaga Bay Search and Safety Force modelled after the highly suc- cessful Oakville Water, Air Rescue Forece was run aground temporarily as a result of financing and organizational dif- ficulties. Co-ordinator of the project, Alistair Lessels, has been working on the program for the past eighteen months and indicated last week that the planning has gone too far now to be abandoned. The proposed force has advanced to the point where mooring facilities have been made available at the Collingwood Yacht Club D and office accomm@ition has been provided at the Collingwood Terminal Office Building. ~~' Oakville Deputy Police Chief Fred Oliver who founded TOWARF, the Town of Oakville Water Air Rescue Force, and Harold Bartman who currently commands the force have visited Collingwood to offer their expertise in setting up and operating such a force. The Blue Mountain Power Squadron and the Collingwood Yacht Club have been attempting to organize a similar patrol which would encompass Nottawasaga Bay and involve the Coast Guard, the OPP, local police, private boat owners, scuba divers and radio operators in the event of a boating accident or tragedy which would call for an air-sea search. Mr. Lessels emphasizes that the project is far from operational in the way it has been ideally planned and even the target for next year may. have to be revised. Last year the Collingwood Police Department was provided with a rescue boat by private con- tributions and donations but it has yet to be completely paid off. Because of this, Collingwood Council is reluctant to release any funds for further development of a co- ordinated search and rescue operation in the Collingwood-Nottawa- saga Bay area. Ever since 1954, when the Oakville patrol was initiated as a result of the drowning of two Sea Scouts and their Scout Leader, financing problems have not been a stumbling block for the worthwhile project. In the early days, funds were provided by service clubs and private donations, but» more recently: -Oak- ville Town Council has supplied annual budget funds as a matter of course. Other Centres in Ontario such as Mississauga, Grimsby and Pickering did not wait for a boating tragedy before setting up an organization to handle marine emergencies. At present "in the Nottawasaga Bay area, the only facilities of this type are a Coast Guard cutter in Meaford; the Collingwood Rescue Boat and the Wasaga Beach OPP vessel which operates out of: Sturgeon Point. It is obvious that an effective communications system is of vital im- portance to the effective functioning of such an organization.' Private vessels can provide the much-needed coverage in a search but radio communication must be tied in with other craft involved in a search. The Oakville Force works closely with private boat owners, private pilots, citizens Mllicrossword answer band radio operators and in extreme cases, the Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces Air Sea Rescue Unit at Trenton. Currently, the Collingwood Rescue Boat has no built-in com- munications equipment. Rescuers would use only hand-held low-power walkie-talkies tuned to the Collingwood Police frequency. The OPP boat at Sturgeon Point is only equipped to communicate with OPP aircraft and police vehicles. A co- ordinated communica- tions network for emergency use is the foundation of a successful search force. All vessels must be linked to a_ central command if each function of a rescue operation is to know what the others are Time is of utmost im- portance and valuable time is wasted tran- sferring information from one communication system to another via conventional methods such as telephone. In addition, two or three search vessels have an almost Herculean task ahead of them in sear- ching the vast expanse of water in the bay. The TOWARF is equipped to comb about 1500 square miles of water extending from the Scarborough Bluffs along the shore of Lake Ontario to the Niagara River. Central to this ef- ficiency is the volunteer participation of private boat owners, radio operators and_ aircraft. Collingwood Mayor Harry Bell is Chairman of the existing Collingwood Safety Boat Committee. He says that even though the new Rescue Boat is not the property of the Municipal Council, it hasn't been paid for and Council will have to decide whether or not they will allocate funds for further development of a Collingwood-based Search and Safety Force. He indicated that a Council decision in this matter may come as early as this week. "Council will be obliged to raise some money and perhaps about half of the required amount could come from a service club."" Mayor Bell said. "In addition, because other Townships and municipalities are af- fected in an_ all-out search, they would have to be levied accordingly, to' help" offset the operating cost," he ad- ded. 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Mayor Bell agrees that the financing will not be as much as Oakville's but is looking at a $1,000 figure as more realistic from Council's end. The present rescue boat is staffed by police and fire personnel but the Mayor agrees _ that volunteers are going to be needed. "We've had assurances from the Collingwood Yacht Club and other volunteers," he said, '"'and we realize that "these men are Con- scientious in life-saving. We appreciate what they've done and what they can do. I feel better now that we have this available." The Mayor says it is not yet been This year we can expect the forest tent caterpillar to be active again. If you now have the familiar fuzzy caterpillar on your hardwood trees and don't want to have the leaves stripped off, here's what the Ministry of Natur u Resources says to do about it. The forest tent cater- pillar feeds openly on its preferred species of trembling aspen and oak or hard maple. When high numbers are present, caterpillars leave their favourite host trees after stripping them of foliage and feed on other broad- leaved trees. When caterpillars run short of food or when they are full grown they wander and it is at this time that they become a real nuisance for bush- workers and campers. Residents in areas wooded with trembling aspen may also be can't stand it, settle for cocktails and a water bed. Health foods for fitness, that's the thing,m plus exercises. Sunflower seeds and contortions, or yogurt and yoga, give it a try. There are 'excellent chiropractors in the area. A war time diet will sharpen you up. Minimum butter and excessive carrots. Meat at Christmas and Thanksgiving, with candies on ceremonial occasions only. At the end of the 39-45 people had never been as fit (once you got used to the fainting spells). A friend of mine swears by karate. 45 minutes of calisthenics that would kill a Spartan, and the work beings. He has never been as agile. He is also so deeply tanned that the bruises hardly show. Another rides a (single speed) bicycle to work. Another one walks. My own personal secret is an aggressive, violent game of badminton every other night, with my two sons and a neighbours boy (Grades 8-12). All it's cost to date is as follows: one broken raquet, two dead 'bir- dies', three holes in the net, four bald patches on the lawn and five pound weight gain. You have supper, rest, play violent badminton, rest - and eat supper again. Every other day you recover. "173 lbs. lost by will power alone"' said the ad, 'loose 10 lbs. a day without diet, exercise or will power," says another (what do you do, go into a coma). How about the skinny ones though who need fat to be fit? Aha...here it is "increase your bustline from 32"' to 45" decided whether organized search, safety and rescue force should an be a Committee of Council or a Committee reporting to Council as is the case in Oakville. In any case, there are no regular patrols of the Bay areas as there are in Oakville, especially during races and regattas and when boating activity is heavy during the summer. Mr. Lessels has suggested that it is. possible for even the most experienced sailors and yachtsmen to be subject to the vagaries of rapidly shifting; winds and " ' currents. 4) "Safe Boating Week" ag eee which runs from July 1 to July 7 seems like an ideal time for public concern to be focussed more closely on the need for adequate emergency preparations to protect boaters in the Nottawasaga Bay area before a needless tragedy underlines the need. Only one part of the patrol proposal Expect some caterpillars pestered by caterpillars crawling on their buildings and premises. The egg bands of the tent caterpillar, each containing about 140 eggs, the foliage. However, diameter growth in the trees is greatly reduced. Control begins with knowing a_ potential problem exists. This can overwinter on the small be determined for a twigs of host trees. Inthe specific location by spring when leaves are examining small trem- about to appear, eggs bling aspen trees until hatch and tiny black you recognize the egg caterpillars begin to feed on the opening buds. Usually by mid-June the caterpillars become bands, then by searching the branches of larger trees for eggs using binoculars to ascertain os Keeping fit is big business | t i full-grown and the results of their feeding becomes noticeable as trees ap- pear stripped of their foliage. However this year the recent warm weather has accelerated the pace of even this. In late June larvae construct silken cocoons and pupate. The pale brown moths are in flight during July. 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For the same $25 you could have an exerciser that is attached to a door knob. But that is fraught with possibilities, either A) fasten it the wrong way ... the door flies open. B) Fasten it the right way ... the door knob flies off. C) Fasten it securely and the door ... wall combination falls down. D) Fasten it with too much tension ... you fly to the door knob. Dynamic tension is the secret. You push and pull against yourself, so if your back goes out, you put it back in. It can be used anywhere, anytime. Of course if you are 'doing your thing' at the supper table it looks ridiculous when a pained expression crosses your face every ten seconds. How about 'fit as a fiddle'. The problem there is that a human stradivarius would reach his or her prime at around 400 years old Or 'as fit as a lop' (definition LOP, a minute creature living in human hair, similar to 'nit'. Very agile and hard to catch). Which reminds me of the story of a pair of lops living on hairy man on a desert island His name was Robinson Crusoe, whom, you may recall was very hairy indeed ' So anyway. One lop said to the other lop "Gotta go now, see you on Friday"' Ray Baker is a manager at Midland's R.C.A. plant and a freelance writer for Markle Community Newspapers. He and his family live in Penetanguishene. 14 Flavours - Diets, Too! (That's 11.2c per bottle) Midland - Hwy. 27 & Hugel fruit bushes are 2-5= setting -- the effective general- Purpose insecticide e Kills most types of sucking and chewing insects that attack vege- table crops or fruit bushes. ¢ Contains Rotenone-- poisons insects on con- tact. leaves no residue. ¢ Keeps fruit and vegetables safe for human consumption. One of 61 problem- solving products from Green Cross GREEN Wednesday, June 25, 1975, Page 5