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by john montgomery norman tremblay is a pliimber turned entomologist whose passion for collecting insects has led him to such exotic places as the amazon basin and the west indies mr tremblay a stouffville area resident for theplast 30 years first became interested in entomology when he was seven years old and although he has never received any formal training he has avidly pursued it ever since a plumber by trade he abandoned this means of livelihood in 1971 when along with some partners they formed a company called world nature products the company which has a warehouse just south of ringwood sells insects and some novelty items mounted in plastic among the most popular items they sell encased in plastic are butterflies tarantulas south american beetles and pirhanas no longer a partner in the business mr tremblay now handles the purchasing of all specimens and he prepares themfor mount ing it is in the preparation of the specimens that his experience as an entomologist comes into play the tarantulas for example arrive crumpled and immersed in alcohol his is the delicate job of straightening the legsand body so they assume a life like pose a very slightly miscalculated move can rip off a limb and then the specimen must be repaired by glueing the appendage he says this is not particularly difficult but the most sensitive job is spreading the wings of butterflies you can always glue a leg back on a bettle but if you rip a butterfly there is nothing you can do about it and it is ruined it is rather a shock to walk into the world nature products building thefirst thing you see on entering are rows and rows of bettles and great ugly tarantulas mounted on the wall the most fascinating aspect of his hobby he insists on calling it a hobby saying when something becomes a job it is no longer any fun is his collecting excursions to the headwaters of the amazon river he has made several excursions to this area and hopes with the help of a fellow collector who will do the photography to eventually put out a book on insects of this area the area he has visited borders on brazil peru and colombia to get there he flies to florida catches another flight to bogota and then transfers to a small plane comparable to a canadian bush plane for the last leg of the trip to a town called leiticia the pilots on the last part of the trip fly in visually following themeandering amazon river bill lishman sits on the replica of a lunar module which he created- it sits on the land admoining the old mount pleasant school ted wilcox i got carried qway artist builds moon ship by ted wilcox brougham in michaelangelos day painters and sculptors were often popular figures today wed have dif- ficulty naming a single canadian sculptor or if we could telling anything about his work- at least one sculptor creates sculpts and promotes his work in this area bill lishman of near blackstock has a workshop at the old mt pleasant- school building on pickering airport property the most striking feature of the location is a fullscale model of the lunar module that carried american astronauts to the moon in 1971 thestructure had been started in 1972 just as a place for bill to escape from the family but as he put it i- got carried away now it is worth about 30000 and plans are underway to sell or lease it motorists passing through jhe country are reportedly stunned by the huge module when they come upon itto bill thats good sculpture should shock and turn people on he said bill has also made cast iron representations of animals which were displayed at the western fairground and made large murals for pascal hardware in montreal also he received a large commission v for a series- of signs he- made for a development in baltimore- maryland bill has also designed and manufac tured spaceage looking furniture- and has a scheme pending on a vehicle he calls the pie in the sky which would use a com bination of principles learned from hotair halooning hanggliders parachutes and frisbees on the- side he does some repair welding as well bill started out in woodcarving and 1 worked out of the old blacksmith shop in greenwood for awhile for six months he had attended the ontario college of art but most of his expertise he just learned from other artists he bought the mt pleasant schoolhouse in 1968 built 1858 but it was expropriated by the federal government in 1972 bill quips that federal mp norm cafik and i have similar problems we cant stand our landlords in the last federal election bill ran against cafik in ontario as the ndp candidate recently mr cafik has been reported to have had problems with his ottawa landlord having been alleged to have struck him twice with a broom his memories of the 1974 election are not pleasant ones i learned bill said not to do it again he added that he also learned that getting somebody elected is a case of proper merchandising between 75 and 90 per cent of the voters are very poorly informed- now bill puts his full efforts into his sculpting and designing in and around the n mt pleasant schoolhouse with antiques inside the building and the module outside both the past and future are represented there y whenpeoplesee the module bill says they realize theyre on a great planet travelling through space according to mr tremblay it is a wild frontierlike area complete with bandits which s now being exploited for lumber and minerals he usually goes down for about three weeks to a month and while there he lives with theticuna indians who also act as his guides on his relationship with the indians he comments you have to treat them with a bit of respect and they treat you with respect he admits to being scared the first time he entered the jungle because of the movies i saw vhsn i was a kid and he adds its all propaganda ive never been bitten byanything that ever bothered me he said as a precaution though he wears heavy boots although the natives travelabout in bare feet the first time i went down i was very careful but i found i couldnt collect anything if i was every tree and fern during the day the amazon jungle is no more dangerous than walking across high way 47 on a friday night but he was quick to add ihat not even the natives will travel in the jungle at night when the reptiles are feeding deadly poisonous coral snakes and scorpions have come into his tent at night and if they could they would crawl into sleeping bags for the warmth this cant happen though because everybody sleeps in mosquitoenetted hammocks well off the ground he catches moths and butterflies with a- net in the daytime but night work requires more sophisticated techniques working at night is a necessity as many moths and insects do not fly during the day mr tremblay uses a blacklight which attracts the insects but filters out the glare making it fairly easy to pick them up some collectors obtain high flying specimens by shooting them with shotguns loaded with dust shot he doesnt use this method as it damages the insects and when it comes to collecting he is a perfectionist his approach to this problem is to have the indian guides build a platform in a tree this can be rather- uncomfortable- as the treetpps are frequented by such monsters as birdeating spiders and snakes norman tremblay displays an indian saturnid silk moth that he reared from an ova saturnids are his specialty and he has devoted considerable time to studying them next month mr tremblay will gravel to the- one would think repeated trips to the same area would be pointless but according to mr tremblay he discovers between 30 and 40 new specimens on every trip his explanation is that some butterflies might be on the wing for only one week out of the whole year he plans to make as many trips to the area as he can and he in fact has a trip his fifth scheduled for next month this is in spite of the increasingly prohibitive cost when he first travelled there the cost was around 400 but it has now inflated to 1000 if youre real careful there is a sense of urgency to his work as this part of the world is very rapidly being exploited even now a highway is being amazon basin for a three week collecting expedition with a fellow entomologist he hopes to someday publish a book on the in sects of this region z john montgomery bulldozed through the jungle and he feels it is only a matter of time until it is all gone he likes the indians and it bothers him that they are being thrown off their lands the same as was done to the north american indians he has watched the town of leiticia boom from a population of 600 people a few years ago to about 8000 now and he says the place is crawling with american entrepeneurs who are dedicated to putting up hotels and other tourist attractions his private collection consists of over 5000 specimens and includes some butterflies with a wingspan of more than 10 inches at his mill st home he raises his specialty saturnids or silk moths j via councillor wjiiits it w durham region the land freeze around pickering airport property ought to be lifted pickering coun cillor alex robertson feels and last week he urged regional planning and development com mittee to take a stand on the subject mr robertson asked the committee to recommend to council that a resolution be passed asking housing minister john rhodes to 1 lift the freeze if the air- porhsnt to be built among those op- posing the suggestion was coun bill ballinger uxbridge who said we could make up our minds now and two weekslater the government has changed its mind mr ballinger told the tribune he believed the province should make it quite clear what their position will be before the region should take a stand on the issue recently 24000 acres of land was lifted from the ministers freeze order which in cluded land thought most likely to be affected by noise from a potential airport i mr robertson said that in the present situation that people affected by the ministers order are not free to do anything with their land impetus for his remarks was a letter received j by the com- mitteefrom the ministry of housing saying that the freeze had been revised mr robertson argued that people under the freeze have rights too another local politician who has gone on record as favoring lifting vhc freeze is pickering councillor jack anderson committee member keith ross of oshawa t told members he favored leaving the matter alone they started playing the game let them play em he said date set for dec 8 cops face court trial durham region charges against 11 durham region police officers will be heard by a halimand county judge dec 8 in whitby the decision was reached at a meeting of the regional police commission after a 1v4 hour closed session last week according to com missioner chairman j p snow white plans parade float uxbridge councillor- eleanor todd as snow white mayor carl puter- boughas one of the children in the old woman in the shoe there is a chance we may see one or the other of those possibilities at this years santa clans parade injuxbridge after councillor todd was appointed head of councils float com mittee shp offered two suggestions in one the male members of council plus clerk ron kester would be the seven dwarfs while mrs todd would be snow white the other plan would have mrs todd cast as the old woman in the shoe with the other councillors serving as the children mrs- todd said she hoped something silly like that doesnt seem undignified but the mayor told her we will cooperate clerk ron kester remarked that if i cant make it ill send my assistant- as part if the old woman in the shoe scheme mrs todd suggested councillor bill ballinger being the youngest could play the part of the baby with a bottle coun ballinger said lie was agreeable to the plan provided there was beer in the bottle another item of discussionwas who would play santa claus this year mr ballinger said i hope he has better breath than he had last year last years santa was apparently coun cillor maustyn mcknight council also voted at last weeks meeting to donate 500 towards the operation of this years parade r kelly thereason for the decision was sothat the public and the officers have someone who is independent of his commission and this area commission member jack anderson however fears the public trial will have a detrimental effect on the officers families he- told the tribune that the commission itself should lave been able to set down penalties for them only one criminal charge had been laid mr anderson saidr that was against const dennis simcock a 12th officer who since resigned after a charge of gross in- decency hearing the charges against the 11 officers will be county court- judge wilfred leach ten of the officers face charges of discreditable conduct barn burns l near brougham brougham t a barn fire here last week may have been caused by two juveniles according to pickering firefighters the highway 7 bavn owned by jim alfred was valued at 2000 apparently youths were playing in the barn shortly before the fire was reported while the 11th is charged with damaging equip ment the charges were laid after a stag party for a police officer in a durham region hotel approval granted first subdivision uxbridge this- municipality- has had its first plan of subdivision approved since regional government was established on jan 11974 construction on about40 homes at the leaskdale subdivision in the former township ofscottis expected to begin in the spring according to councillor bill ballinger expected population of the sub- divisidnjmll be 152 servicing for the homes are tobe by drilled wells and septic tanks the development had first been approved by uxbridge council in august- of this year the plan was approved last week in the regional planning and development committee architects hired plan for region offices durham region management committee the design of the chose the firm last week regions future over five other possible headquarter buildings will be handed over to the architects the firm will be toronto architectural expected to conduct a firm of neish own feasibility study on the rowland and roy resp onse use of space at the current rossland road whitby site as well as estimating future space requirements next would be a study of how to bring together varidusrcgional services under one roof at present public works planning and develop ment and social services are located elsewhere than at the rossland road location 6 planners urge region to oppose cedarwood uxbridge this councils resolution in t favor of the pickering airport brought a quiet response from federal andprovicial officials mp norm cafik replied in a letter that it was up to the province to decide to support the airport and that the federal government would belquite ready to reconsider their decision at a later time v the response from mpp- bill newman was simply to thank council for taking the lime to present their view on the matter pickering durham region planning and development com mitteewants regional council to come out on record against the north- pickering project the committee passed the recom mendation unanimously last week r pickering councillor alex robertson said that since the project would incorporate farm land that he couldnt in good conscience support i counc jim gart- shore said i fecl this region should take a strong stand in fighting the north pickering project he added that it was time to stop the mass population growth around the lakeshorearea in the view of ux- bridge councillor bill ballinger the project should be abandoned and -represents- unwarranted planning- from the top everybodys nlanning for picke y t p cri