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$ i c i hg IO Incoming tourists This helicopter was at the annual Sum- merama festival in Penetang last weekend, taking all who dared for a stunning five- minute ride over the bay. The trip cost $14 each. Two new faces on college board At the last meeting of the Georgian College board of Governors, two new members were welcomed as appointees to serve on the college governing body. They are replacing two members whose term of of- fice have expired. Han Witt is replacing Midland representative John Leitch (former Board Chairman), while Peter Lemon comes to the Board - from Owen Sound. Witt is general manager and vice-president of Engineering for Ernst Leitz (Canada) Limited in Midland. He has an exten- sive business and com- munity background, in- cluding positions as direc- tor and advisor of the Junior Achievement Pro- gram in Midland and director and president of the Midland Chamber of Commerce. aa Lemon recently returned to university after working in radio news for 15 years. He is now running his own business in financial and managerial consulting after graduating from University of Guelph with his honors degree in Agricultural Science. Cur- rently, Lemon serves as an alderman on Owen Sound city council and has held numerous senior office positions including branch chairman for St. John's Ambulance and director of the Grey Bruce Regional Tourist council. John Fennell of Midland is chairman of the Board of Governors, and the two vice-chairmen are Marilyn Schinbein, Hanover, and John Christensen, Graven- hurst. Other Board members include: Harry Barons, Orillia; Dr. Ed- ward Beator, Oro; Ar- chibald Brown, Barrie; Bradley Davis, Tobermory; Eleanor Ley, Shelborne; Dora Logan, Parry Sound; and Mary Erichsen-Brown, Collingwood. Uniting the visual and literary The cover of 'Oasis in Time" an elegant hard- cover book of poetry and photographs, is graced by a picture of a seagull in flight at Woodland Beach. Photographer Jim Ford took the shot while visiting his parents, Jim and Marg Ford, Allenwood Beach Jim Ford residents. "TI grew up in Pine Grove, but I spent all my summers as a kid up here at Woodland Beach,"' says Ford. "Quite a few of the photographs (in the book) were taken around this area. Page 16, Tuesday, August 4, 1987 Ford's photographs are complemented by poetry by Ruth Churchill Peppler of Hanover, Ford, a relief pharmacist, met Peppler while working in Hanover. "IT was working in Hanover across the hall from a doctor's office. Ruth works in the doctor's of- fice. In discussion we talk- ed about our creative outlets. Hers is poetry, mine is photography, so we decided to get together, says Ford. Ford says Peppler was a bit apprehensiveg about showing her works, .writ- ten over many years. She had no need to be, as Ford cannot praise her poetry highly enough. "Her poetry creates word-pictures in your mind." The poems were match- ed to photographs from Ford's collection, number- ing in the thousamdsm he has taken over the years. Many, says Ford, were taken on the way to phar- macy jobs all over Ontario. He uses a Olympus OM1 camera, "the old manual style,' which he says he carries everywhere he goes. According to Ford, the idea for the book started about six years ago and it has been a full-time project for the last year and a half. "Every step of the way this book has been one pro- blem after another," says Ford. The book required a lot of patience. We tried to ge6t it out for several deadlines, but it seemed this book had a life of its own. However, Ford says all the delays have made for a better book and 500 copies were sold before it was even released. "Oasis in Time"' is co- published by Summerhill Press and Woodland Press, both of Toronto. It will be distributed nationally by Collier Macmillan Canada. Signed copies are available in the Village Store (formerly the Gala Gift Shop) in Elmvale and at Huronia Office Supplies in Midland. Caterpillars still have damage to do The population of tent caterpillars is on the in- crease, and while that may not mean a big problem this year, there will be more area damage in the next few years. "Infestations come and go in something like a 15 to 20 year cycle," explains Ed Sutherland, Management Forester with the Ministry of Natural Resources. "The population is on the in- crease so there will pro- bably be more damage next year and in the next few years." Sutherland says the Muskoka region has had far more damage than Sim- coe County. The two most prevelant types of tent caterpillars in the County are the forest and eastern tent cater- pillars. The eastern tent caterpillar spins a tent-like web for protection during the larval stage, while the forest tent caterpillar doesn't really live in a tent. "The forest tent cater- pillar is the one that is most destructive when we have high populations," says Sutherland. It is bothersome enough to be rated among Canada's' six forest enemies. It is generally more familiar to- people than other destructive forest pests because of its tendency to migrate in large masses during the lar- val stage and to appear in massive moth flights dur- ing outbreak years. - Outbreaks of forest tent caterpillars may last from three to six years, depen- ding on weather condi- tions and other natural control factors. Outbreaks of the other species are seldom as severe and widespread. Tent caterpillars are not too particular about their diet. They feed on the foliage of tembling aspen and other members of the poplar family, and on sugar maple, birch, ash, oak and many other deciduous trees and shrubs. Fortunately, the cater- pillars seldom kill trees outright, even when they completely strip them of foliage. Radical growth of the tree is reduced, Park cars a problem Midland's board of park management has been ask- ed to review the creation of a parking area in Woodland Park. The request came from the Town's public safety committee. The committee noted that cars parked on Woodland Drive and Present this coupon HWY. 92 EAST WASAGA BEACH Howard Street by users of the park are creating a safe- ty. and a traffic problem. however, and it is almost certainly weakened, mak- ing it more vulnerable to disease. Development of the tree may be affected for two years following an attack. In the County, Sutherland says that while some trees have been damaged, they will certain- ly recover. Tent caterpillars feed in colonies and while the eastern variety forms tent- like webs for protection, the forest tent caterpillar does not make a tent but clusters in masses on the stem of the host tree, living on silken mats and spinn- ing silken paths for travelling. Fortunately, the cater- pillars are controlled by various natural factors. Starvation often wipes out populations that have "ex- ploded" under ideal condi- tions and subsequently ex- hausted their food supply. Also, the caterpillars are attacked by more than 40 types of parasite. Mechanical means of control, without the use of chemicals, are often suffi- cient to remove tent cater- pillars from single trees and small groups. Egg masses may be knocked off twigs, and twigs bearing colonies of caterpillars cut off and burned. Lutherans have chance at church Lutherans are getting closer to having their own church in Midland. On Sept. 9 a rezoning ap- plication for land on Yonge Street adjacent to the ex- isting Alliance Church will be heard. Members of the Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church meet for Sunday services in the Athenian Hall. 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