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Wkifiy 1R" EPRI4M, WJIU)NEWAY, AUGUST 1 M.0 PAGE 5 Saturday afternoon fiids you in the backyard garden washing rocks. You have piled the rocks, one at a 'time, in your bright red and only sliÊhtly rusty wheeÏ W. It is a perfect size for the job. iThe 23 rocks inou collection vary from fist size tome abput half theze of aadult hea flnt;remndsyouàf ornonlyou e r rok hav eadta en letd o ô toeone YU 0w therock have ben coiectedover te pas garden projects. Digging fence post holes, for istan0e. Every time you dig a fence post hole, you emerge with one hcle and five rocks. Building a patio. Now theres the job. That's good for dozens of rocks, ail sizes. One will be twice the ize of an adult head. That; too, will remind you of someone you know. Excavating flower beds. Dozens of rocks. But what do you do with a rock collection? Well, you can wash them. In your wheelbarrow. Firstyohalf MIl the wheelbarrow with rocks. Then you ha]f il it - the same half -- with water. mhat somehow sounds like a governinent promise, filling the same half of the wheelbarrow twice with different stuif. Anyway. Then you swish the rocks around in the water, rocing the wheelbarrow back and forth, ail the while hosing the rocks down. This ail makes a lot of noise. Eventually, on the other aide of the six-foot high fence you built three years ago you will hear a voice. "What on earth are you daing over there?" I arn washing my rocks," you wiil say, "and don't bother me." "Washing rocks." It is not a question. You answer anyway. 'Yes." 'Might I ask whyr' "Would you want te live next domr te someone who has dirty rocks?" On the other ide of the fence you can hear a head WITH OUR PEET Up by Bill Swan Rocky reven ge scacing. noeonep p another can offizzly. "In neer thought ofit bfore," cornes the reply finally. "But dyothnk r4 could do it more quietly? We were trying to convers over here." Nights, you have la$n awake nights, just waiting for such a setting. See, oÙ the other aide of the fence aits this guy who owns thý world7s noisiest swimniing pool. Summer nights this guy's pool gurgles and sucks and makes other disgustîne noises that keep you awake. And he is now askring you te be quiet. "As soon as Pin done," you reply. "'Mat should be in a day or two." When the rocks are dlean you look around for additional noisy thinge to do. Clean a swimming pool. IF this guy's pool can bubble ail night, then whatfs a few minutes on a SatÙrday? On the other aide of the fence you can hear tlýe voices conversing and the pop cana popping. You get out the six-foot-acrosa, one-foot-deepplastic swimnming pool boughÏ last summer at ToyelR Us and lashed with loving care to, the top of the car for a jaunt down the 401, You haven't used it yet this year. ltes perfect for the job. You hold the thin plastic pool up on one edge and direct the full stream of the garden h ose squareljr* at it. This makes a sound not unlke that made by a 747 on takeoif. Over the fience you hbear voices. Loud, yelling veices. You can't ha a woijd they)re saying because! of the Pool noises. Eventually a head pops over the fence. A hand offers a beverae. "Would this sëhut you up? "Whe I fnishthispool" you reply. "And the rocks." "I daresn't oven ask about the rocks." 'Then don't4'* 've tried nýt te, believe me. Washing rocks?" 'This mnus burt a lot," you reply. "A lot.'9 'Ini that casl ' il tell you. It's for the birthday Party. The pool. The jashed rocks. Make sense yet?"f "The pool dde "And the rocks are for rock painting." "Rock painting?" "Paint brushes and tempera paint. Kids love it. And then at the end of the birthday party they ail get te take home the lovely rocks they painted." "Ingenious." 'Ergonomic or whatever. Gives the kids lots of fun, helps with the rock disposai problem. Saves the trouble of heaping them over the backyard fence one at a time after midnights." "So that's where they came from." 'They usually miss the' pool." "Tjsually." The head disappears, shing. And after midnight temorrow, you realize, you wiil make the victery complete by slami dunldng a five-pound painted rock over the backyard fence. No immediate anmoimoement on GO expansion By Mike Kowulik Contrary te previously pub- lished reports, there is no un- mediate announcement forth- comMi about GO train service in north Durham Rgon. Durham regional chan-man jGary Herrema teld The Free jPreas that recent remarks he made te a Toronto newspaper concerning expansion of G O ser- vice te Peterborough were taken out of context. . Herrerna, vice-chairman of GO Transit, denied that there are anycurrent plans for a. joint fedleral- provincial-municipal partnership te operate a train on 0 Strike delays opeming of Catholie hîgh sehool By Trudie Zavadovics The plumbers' strike earlier this suxnmer bas resulted ini a further delay in the opeing of Pr. Leo J. Austin School. The Whitby high school will not meet its scheduled opemng date of Sept. 4. The openmg wýJil be held later this fall. , mThe seven-week plumf>erWs" strike was resolved i aroundtne first week of July and we've had triple forces working (in the school) evrer since," says Gerry ONfeil, controller of planning for the Durham separate schoo board. "We hope to move in the fal sometime. Meanwhile the lease at the industrial site has been extended. Grade 10 and il stu- dents will continue at the indus- trial complex anid grade 9 stu- dents wil attend the old Denis O'Connor facility on Giffard St. in Whitb » ONeilrsays that parents were notified in June. The construction of St. Ber- nard's and St. Matthew Evangel- ist elementary schools is on achei- Trent Un iversity' at Durhamn College Fai-Winter. september f0 Aprilý Our 1990-91 programn includes38courses in 16 subjects. Each course meets one evening per week. By study in Oshawa alone, it is possible f0 obtain a Trent degree in AnthropoIogy, cultural Studies, Economfics, English, History, Politics. Psychology or Sociology. Brochu res are available at ibraries tbroughout the region. For a brochure, counselling or information on admission, please cali (4t6 723-9747. dule. According te O'Neill, they are moving furniture inte St. Bernard's achool at the end of July and both achools will be ready for students corne Septem- ber. the abandToned'VIA Rail route from Peterborough te Toronto. "Theres no way we)re talking about a joint facility, we don't have enough money,' said Her- rema. "There are no immediate plans that are going te be announced.» Herrerna said discussions were previousy held between various levels of germent about some formn of service on the abandoned VIA route but nothing is im- minent. Vic Phillips, a spokesman for Ontario Transport Minister Wil- liam Wrye, also denied that an announcement is pending. Phillipa said "everything is on hold for the next six weeks,» following Mondais provincial election caîl by Premier David Peterson. Phillins added that "nothing» MI(1UMNTIJ A I IR 1 Iii i AIlCONDITING HIEFFI3fENCY oEDUoe YOUR CARRIER GAS BLL0B. HIGH EFFICIENCY U O4% mlars right! Buy and install a CARRIER HIGH EFFCIENCY FURNACE today, and rvceiveCARE 7B 4,0 TJET a I Must b. lnstailed and Paid for by August 31, lOGOOffer Io good on a 77CB 24.000 BTU CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONER only.InstalLatIon laextra afid unit size changes are ia slgh it tra charge Core visit us in our showroom. HEATING & AIR CON DITIONUNG n i AUTH-ORIZED CONSUMERS GAS DEALER6 8M 11 M_111 INDUSTRIAL DRIVE, UNIT 23, WHITBY involvin'g expansion of GO ser- vice other than previously announced extensions "bas crossed my desk.» During last spring's budget presentation the governient said it will extend G O service te a number of Ontario communi- ties including Oshawa and Bow- manville. 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