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the tbibune thursday april 27 iks tte rtbune john montgomery editor established ism charles k nolan publisher bar re beacock advertising manager editorial dcpt aanearet lamar kwi boleoder display advertising oept loll wideou art oimoo usineh office jwmmtua ooreea deacon eua glover published every thursday at 14 mala st stovffvth oat th m02mi toronto phone mimm smalt copies mc svbscripbaas tmoo par year la cauda utm elsewhere mmbr of audit bureau ol circulation canadian coaimimity newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration aatw mm the tribune is one ol the inland publishing co umltm group o suburban newspapers which includes the aiaawhifbypickeriag news advertiser brampton ouardiaa burlington post etobicoke caiette markham economist aad sua newatarketaurora era oekville beaver othawa this week and mississauga news 6402100 3611680 editorial support bike-a- thon 1 so far this year there has been a very poor response to the stouffville lions club bike-a- l thon only one registration session is left and i only about 70 riders have signed up part of the problem is that we seem to be constantly solicited for contributions to one charity after another many of these are worthwhile endeavours and are deserving of support but still it seems like an endless stream of handouts j we feel though that the bikeathon is i especially worthy of support because the money is used to help people who live right in t editors mail jpollute water i- then drink it dear editor in his letter alternatives to big pipe jbruce searle states in part in the event of jthe failure of such a large sewage treatment plant as the oneproposed for duffins creek ithe effects on lake ontario would be quite disastrous april 13th i suppose any condition can always worsen but it is no longer debatable whether lake ontario can get any more dangerously polluted than it is at the present time i i the great lakes water quality board has called ontario the dirtiest of the great lakes the journal of the fisheries research board has said that as a fishery ontario is on its death bed the director of cornell univer sitys water resources centre says the great lakes are dying the canadian chairman of ithe international joint commission says the pollution of the great lakes is- a problem forever stuart smith has said that the i chloroform content of bellevilles drinking j water- is the highest in ontario it is common knowledge that ontario lake is loaded with iroad salt mercury lead mirex pcb farm i runoffs of manure fertilizer insecticides and herbicides i whenever anyone fertilizes his lawn or sprays it with weed killer washes his car flushes his roadway or disposes of his gar- jbage or industrial waste in any of our dumps portion of it eventually leaches its way by means of the aquifers rivers and sewers into jfhe great lakes basin and this basin takes jthe drainage from millions of acres and millions of persons in canada and the usa the most astonishing and irrational jaspect about this condition is that the majority of the people who pour this pollution into lake ontario have it pumped back into jtheir homes by means of public water systems and then they drink it this is what is commonly called progress or in scientific circles known as modern technology yours sincerely i john livingstone locust hill the community charity begins at home is still a sensible maxim the lions money goes to help the blind the deaf the elderly and other of our neigh bours who need help another plus for the lions is that all their labour is volunteered and all the money goes where it is needed with some of the professional charities a disproportionately large amount of the cash gets eaten up by administrative costs looking at the situation pragmatically it is also good to support the lions because if they didnt help out it is extremely likely some level of government or other would be slipping its hand into our pockets for the requisite funds and then watch the administrative costs soar the tribune supports the bikeathon and this year for the third time in a row the editor will snivel and whine his way around the course this year we have been assured there will be less to snivel and whine about as there have been some major alterations in the route last years course tended toward deep wheel- miring sand or bonerattling washouts but the route this year has been planned to stick to pavement and avoid traffic as much as possible after a long winter of inactivity the bike- athon is also a challenge to start shaping up for the summer many families ride together take a lunch and indulge in an idyllic spring picnic at the roadside the 35 kilometre ride can easily be completed in a couple of hours and most people are actually finished long before noon last registration is this saturday from 9 am until noon at he back of the municipal building 3q yea rs ago this week excerpts from the april 22 1948 issue of the tribune a forest is born approximately 200000 trees are now in process of being planted at the vivian forest on lands purchased by the county council of york through the reforestation committee the seedlings going in are white red scotch and jack pine white spruce red oak european larch and carolina poplar the work this year is being done by hand whereas last year a similar number of trees were set out with the aid of a mechanical planting machine and which may even yet reach the vivian forest before the planting is completed the county of york owns over 2000 acres of land in whitchurch and the dept of forest and mines plants and cares for the growing trees over a period of 30 years as sort of a joint owner stronger in the mirror by john montgomery when i had finished i found myself staring this boyish pinkcheeked baby faced fellow in the face it just so happened the fellow was yours truly sans beard although i am closer to 30 than to 20 years old without a beard i look like a kid last wednesday i broke an five and a half year streak and shaved the effect has been dramatic to say the least my poor face feels awful though for all the world as though somebody had dragged a razor across it several times by the time i shaved a second time i had raised a large number of welts on my neck and my misery was made complete whenl had to go out during last thursdays freakish and sadistic snow storm i have been getting rather odd reactions from people some dont notice any difference others stare with mouth wideopen and people ive known for two or three years look at me and silently glance away when i greet them in passing on the street as everyone knows the tribune editorial offices consist of an outer dungeon and an inner dungeon what i jokingly refer to as my office is the inner dungeon the other morning i was sitting in the outer dungeon slumming with the reporters when a man i have dealt with on many oc casions came in he stuck his head around the corner and looked right at me thenturnedand looked into my office only to discover i wasnt there he stood looking puzzled for a moment before he finally realized it was me in disguise a few times last week i felt like jimmy stewart in that old movie they show on television every christmas where he goes to commit suicide because he thinks his life was a failure gets saved by an angel and then is allowed to see his town the way it would be if he had never been born he wanders around and meets his mother friends wife etc and of course none of them recognize him that is quite a bit more drastic than anything that happened to me of course and in fact my own mother did recognize me and she was overjoyed basically like a lot of other conservative people my mother doesnt like any beards unless they are on mountaingoats and thats what she says i look like with one on alice on the other hand finds me barely tolerable without a beard and described kissing me as like hugging a barbedwire fence then she added and i wouldnt hug a barbedwire fenced others realize something has changed but cant quite pin it down i was asked if my decade old motorcycle slide scarred leather jacket was new it wasnt the face was another annoying thing is people keep commenting on my rosy cheeks this state is not due to a natural peaches and cream complexion but more to the fact that i scraped off about three layers of skin with my razor my sideburns are perennially unbalanced and my chin glowed in the dark for about the first three days as now that i think of it did the buttocks of three teenagers who mooned alice and i one night when we were stopped at an intersection in front of green wood race track my skin is beginning to return to a more natural colour as it gets leathery from con stant scraping but it is annoying when my younger brother eight years my junior claims he looks older how would anybody feel at being told they look like the kind of 14yearold high school virgin you pick up at the p r burger uninvited i found people playing guessing games about how old i look worse the highest estimate was 18 those were only amateur guesses for tunately i came up against a pro the other night when i went to a bar to my relief there was no question about asking for id at the door i may have to start frequenting establishments of that ilk only for the pur poses of reassuring myself of course window on wildlife trout theyre the best by artbriggsjude kids stuff make a face with wild roiling eyes ili most of us have at one time or another cardboard which is just wide enough to fit seen a picture with staring eyes no matter through the slits where you go in the room the eyes seem to draw two thick zig zaggy lines on the to follow you get the creepy feeling the strip to make sure they will show through things almost alive the eyeholes it might be a good idea to well heres a very silly little thing that measure where you want them first and does much the same except better on a piece of light cardboard or a large envelope draw a large head it can be of anything you fancy try making a cowboy a hungry lion a fierce crocodile a wicked witch or perhaps a mischievous cartoon character colour the features and then make two slits one just above the head one below it also cut out rather large holes for the eyes next take a strip of long paper or pencil the place in lightly a ruler helps here black marker works well for the wriggly lines its also fun to colour the rest of the strip where it shows through the eyeholes blue green brown and even yellow and pink let one colour merge gradually into the next when you draw the strip slowly through the slits the lines will give the effect of moving eyes put the fish in the bowl heres another little optical illusion to make it you need a stiff piece of cardboard and some string draw a fish on one side ard a bowl on the other make sure you draw the bowl upsidedown now attach the strings twirl it up and pull gently the fish is now safely in his aquarium of course you dont have to use fish you can match up a bird and cage flowers and vase or even your name print half the letters on one side and the rest on the other whats so special about a speckled trout my son asked as our little boat drifted along on the strength of a fresh spring breeze actually his tone of voice seemed to challenge our very presence at this remote place and after a day of fruitless fishing the lads im patience could have become contagious after a few more casts i came up with an answer when you see a good one up close bob youll never have to ask that question again we had arrived at this springfed lagoon after several portages through some rugged timagami landscape pleasant lake was wellnamed a long sliver of pristine beauty that mirrored the emerald of the surrounding countryside down towards the centre a boulderfringed island rose above the shadowed surface it was our campsite near the waters edge and protected irom the sun by a rocky overhang chunks of ice- still resisted the warming trend it took little time to fashion an icebox by scooping out the mossy soil and using a large cookie tin as a liner now with ice packed all around and a soil and leaf covering we had the ideal arrangement for keeping our fish but what fish it was now 7 oclock and none of us had raised as much as a fin while changing lures for the umpteenth time it all started the calm surface now erupted on all sides the trout were feeding immediately we began casting with new vigor at the largest rings spoons spinners devil baits streamers were all tried without the anticipated results how frustrating to be in the centre of a school of feeding trout and to come up empty almost routinely i put on a little gold spinner with a redfeathered hook it sailed out like all the previous casts but possibly a little closer to shore the lure settled into the depths and after a long pause i began my retrieve taking up the slack i felt the line stiffen and i instinctively struck back hoping the lure hadnt snagged a sunken limb in an instant an answer came back on the line fish it was a good four letter word and by the way the line was moving the let ters were all capitals it headed for its favourite hole in a deep part of the lake and it took most of the bend in the 7 foot rod to try and restrain it the slipclutch squeaked a little as the fighting fish demanded and got extra line finally i was able to turn his mad dashes into short frenzied bursts he began to tire and after surfacing several times near the boat we were able to get the net under him in the fading sunset the boys face beamed like a full moon smiling happily he said now i know what you mean dad theyre the best there are several features that make the speckled trout number one in my book with its dark olivegreen back showing a light marbled pattern its lighter sides marked with a hue of multicoloured spots and reddish bands and the lower fins fronted with white there is no question the speckled or brook trout is a thing of beauty but apart from its attractive appearance the speckled trout stands for everything that is pure and clean in our outofdoors for when you locate a stream or lake that contains these fish you know that pollution has not made its ugly inroads there and whereas all trout in a way signify clean water the speckled trout especially is a natural monitor unfortunately its silent presence is offer overlooked in the rush of development for the sake of a term called progress starting april 28th at midnight ontarios trout fishermen will be out in force from the icechoked waters of the far north to the little gurgling streams of the southern counties up on the beaver river at thornbury shoulder to shoulder enthusiasts will be landing some big rainbows while down in the lowerrapids of the niagara the locals will be out after some trophy sized browns there will be canoes cruising the clear lakes of algonquin park and the waters of lake ontario off vineland will be dotted with trolling fishermen and somewhere in between in this paradise we oftern lake for granted a boy and his dad will spend some time together drifting worms into the quiet pools of a silver stream and when they turn for home with some ten and twelve inch speckles in their creel the lad will lift the lid again and smile hell remember the excitement of every tug and jump and if i know kids at all hell probably murmur gee dad theyre the best tinder n embers two coyotes have been seen north of gormley an osprey is fishing at rogers reservoir newmarkettheres a pair of pileated woodpeckers at braces mill park