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Between You and Me By RUTH COLES w M Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than wedo. Michel de Montaigneo (1592) We must add a postscript to the column about Wayne Conrad and the Ion Energizer. Wayne was anxious that the misconception that he was the in- ventor of the energizer bo corrected. He -is the designer, not the inventor. The- word "linventor" came out in the printing as inventory. Wayne has several models of the energizer now at Envirenmnntal 'Electronics in. Brooklin. I., had asked him if I could buy his first car model and this week ho brought it down with the figure " one" on it!1 Roughly, it's about three by three and one and a quarter inches thick with an outer covering of teak wood which we chose. Good looking and neat, it fils into any decor, modemn or antique. So you see, apart from being designod to be usedqin a vehicle, it aiso can be used anywhere. In the car it is plugged into the cigarette lighter and in a building the or- dinary household plug is used and I might add, little power is used. An added advantage is that the unit c'an be carried in a bag or purse to bè used when travelling after the day's driving is over. As I said beforç, my husband and I are very inter- ested in the study of ions, a new interest for me but one my husband understands. I listen and try to learn when he and Wayne discuss things far above my head. I was, really astounded to be told by Wayne that the ions from the energizer travel at 10,000 miles per hour. However, as my husband ex- plalned, light travels at, the speed of 186,000 miles per second so whýi was I so vory surprised by the speed of ions? .Since the boginning of timne, small, silver fish are washed ashore from the lake, dead, every spring with the peak coming in mid-June. 1 cail them shad but they are alewives and tis is a natural part of their 111e span. Nothing to do with pollutionjust an end to a natural life cycle. The numbers vary yea r by year. Sometimes the beaches are covered much to the birds' delight and much to the horror of people who say the lakes are.deadly and then the media will often take up with the topic and print or show pictures. There is no mistake about the smell, which can be almost overpowering as the sun 'beats down on the decomposing fish. Tis odor only lasts a short time and can be overcome if you use the fish as fertilizer and tis is much cheaper than bono moal. Dig them in around your bushes and fiower beds but be care- fui if there are dogs living close by because they love to dig them up. For tis reason, we just leave them to rot on shore, rather than digging themn in. They can be raked up and thrown into a fire, outside 0f course. The birds, especially the gulîs, gather from near and far as the fish wash in. They will often drop them as they fiy overhead and that means there are and new ideas. Mary wouid now like to invite her oid clients to corne and see her at 404 Brock St. S. Whitby 666-1212 sometimes flsh on the lawn and Sam, our tiny dog, loves to roll around on dead flsh. A much nicer and quite delightful happening at this time of the year are the small,> baby rabbits who are much ln evidence ln the garden. Destruc- tive beyond belief lt.means you, must take the good with the bad. They chew away at bushes and plants from early dawn to dusk. It's impossible to protect everything and apart front that I would rather re- place certain thlngs than takre-the beauty of the gar- den away -with wires and stakes. Sam sits close to the rabbits, large and small, and there neyer seems to be any anxlety on either side. We like to look at the squirrels, especially the grey ones with their big ýbushy tails, but we can't stand having them in the garden. They, too, are very destructive and s0 bold. They empty bird feeders in no time fiat by eating great amounts of seed and scattering the rest. If the feeders are not refilled, they chew themn ana at this Urne I have about ten feeders which have been chewed beyond repair. Now we only put out two or three feeders at a time and put only a small amount of seed in early in the morming to last through the day. We could fix the feeders up with metal and what have you but again I would rather lose seed than take away the overail look of a feeder made of wood. Last week, my husband saw a Mallard duck way up onl the lawn near the house, a ffrst time for this. We also have two Canada Geese who cail nearly every afternoon. They stand by the road and honk or cail, probably for food. This is not a good prac- tice as they are not especially dlean in their habits. Next week we hope to buy our season's tickets to Cullen Gardons. Driving along Taunton Road, we- are able to see some of the color. Their flowering, bulbs are so beautiful and in such numbers. Hope- fully everyone in Whitby will be able to visit often and remembor thero is room for wheelchairs, evorything is accessible. A very important correction in last week's column. In reference to the paragraph about L.A.C.A.C. I used the word extant, which means in this case, existing buildings. Extant is to exist. In- stoad of that word, extinet came out, which turned the meaming rîght around. Extinet, non-existent, or failed to exist. cm: THECORPORATIONOF /4THE TOWN OF WH ITBY' NOTICE 0F 'INTENTION NOTICE Is hereby given that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Whitby intends to pass a by-law to stop Up, close and seli an unopened waikway ln the Pringle Creek Phase 1 Subdivision descrlbed as foilows: WHIT BY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1982, PAýGE 9 WHSto meet n.ext week By DOUG ANDERSON W.H.S. The May 25 meeting of the Whitby Historical Society wil feature Mrs. Kay Moorcroft speaklng on the history of the Women's Insti- tute. The Whitby Womens Institute was founded as an organization for rural women in 1899 and was only tho second such organization in the world. Begun in Stoney Creek, Ontario two years earlier, the move- ment developed into an international ôrganiza- tion, the Associated Country Women of the World.1 Moorcroft will speak on tis development and on the contributions of the Women's Institute to the istory of Canada and the Whitby area in particular. Moorcroft, who, is a teacher at Anderson Collegiate, was born and raised in rural On- tarlo near Madoc. After Normal Schéool, her first teaching job was in a one-room country schoolhouse. Apart from her rural back- ground, her knowledge of the- history of the Women's Institutes Stems from' a research paper she did on the sub- ject as part of her Master's degree. (She is presently working on a doctorate in education) The meeting will h held in the auditorium of Fairview Lodge' at the corner 0f Cochrane-and Dundas in Whitby start- ing at 8 p.m. The public la invlted to attend. The Women's Insti- tutes have, through the years, played an insétru- mental role in improv- ing the standards of agriculture and of rural life. Someo f their inno- vations have become a way of 111e for us. The Whitby Women's In- stitute is stili active an- d their contribution to tis communlty and to the country should ho of interest to any istoric- aily minded person. Ambulance calis During the week that ended at midnight last Thursday, the Whitby Ambulance Service res- ponded to 100 cails for service. According to co-owner BOl Cocker, the service responded to 36 routine cails and to- 34.standby cails for other ambu- lance services in Oshawa and Ajax. >The service also res- ponded to 24 urgent-calls and to six emergency cails, including one motor veicle accident. The numbor to cail for ambulance service is 723-5232. That unopened waikway, as shown beiow, bounded on the east by Ander- son Street and on the west by Rib- biesdale Drive and being more parti- cularly described as Block 'G', Registered Plan M-1110. MIANNINO G . A4iIi1 The Town of Whitby originally acquir- ed these walkway lands to provide pedestrian access between the An- derson Street sldewalk system and the lands iocated at the southeast corner of Manning Road and Ribbles- dale Drive. However, recently approv- ed development proposais for proper- ties located north of the unopened walkway make provisioffi for pedes- trian movement similar to that which was to be providpd by the walkway. ln view of this, the subjeot walkway, lands are no longer required'by the municipality. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the Operatons Committee of the-Council of the Town of Whltby wili, at the hour of 7:30 p.m. on the 7th day of J une, 1982, ln Committee Room 2 of the Whitby Munici- pal Building, 575 Rossland Road East, Whitby, On- tario, hear ln person or by his counsel, solicitor or agent, any person who claims his land wiIl be pre- judicialiy affected by such a by-îaw and who ap- plies to be heard. DATED at Whitby, Ontario, this l2th day of May, A.D, 1982. Donald G. McKay, B.A., A.M.C.T. Town Cierk The Corporation of the Town of Whitby 575 Rossland Road East Whitby, Ontario Li N 2M8 Phone: 668-5803, . lop 'SUN'ROOF" SPECIAL