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Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, Auguat 16, 19w5, page i Jason Collier HENRY ST. H.S. Vandals strike VANDALS bent this Anderson CVI football standard to the ground sometime over the Aug. 5 weekend. Sohool custodians say they also broke 20 windows. Photo by Mark Rleesor. Whilby Free Press Whîtby remembers VJ Day A memorial service commemorating the Sth anniversary of VJ (Victory in Japan) Day was held at the oenotaph in Whitby on Sunday. Participating were the Town of Whitby, Whitby Brass Band, Whitby fire departmnent, Whitby Sea Cadets, Durham Regional Police, Ontario riding MT Dan McTeague and Durham Centre MPP Jim Flaherty. The service was conducted by Legion Past Padre Harry Inkpen and wreatbs were laid by Mayor Tom Edwards, Whitby Branch 112 Legion president Robbie MeGuire and Brooklin Legion Branch. 152 president Joan Cosgrove. The proclamation, requested by the Departinent ofVeteran Affairs, was delivered by Edwards. Lottery golf fin Alex Grubb of Whitby won $2,000 and la the regional champion in the $ 100,000 Lottario golf tour grand championship.. The tour is a putting contest li 10 Ontarlo cities, including -Oshawa. Grubbi area contest anc the final Sept. 31 Grubb, 47, Canada Ltd. ~BROOKLIN } Sports Exehange comte By Steve Leahy Meadowcrest Public School, along with St. Leo Catholie achool, will hold the annuel Sports Exchange on Saturday, Sept. 9, 9 te 11:30 a.m. Everyone la invited te bring their new and uaed sports equipment and clothing Items such as Scouting and Guldlng unilbrms (always li short supply - and this year especially), Halloween costumes. (better te plan ahead than sRaxnble), bicycles (trikes, too) will be gladly accepted. This la how the exehange works: You bring the stuff you waxit te seil to Meadowoeest sehool gym the Friday before the sale, either 1 te 3 pin. or between 6 and 8 p.m. You put wbatever price you want on your items - be sure te mark tbem clearly. On the day of the big sale, the parents of both sehools will mnan/woman the tables and seli your atuff for you. After the sale you oen pick up your cash and eny unsôld items. For this wonderful opportuxiity te dlean out your basemexit/garage and make a little cash, 20 per cent of each sale is beld back and will be used te fund various student programe at both schools. For more information, contact Sonja Graham at 655-4079. 0f course,. everyone is welcome te come shopping. There la bound te be lots and lots of great stuff at prices you woxit believe. F24U TRAGEDY It ia bard to uxiderstand, but last week the remains of an emu that bad beexi stelen ended up at the Brooklin post office. The emu had apparently beexi takexi from its owners on BaIdWixi Street north of Brooklixi. This la a sorry end -for a gawky, fiightless desert bird that calîs Australia its home. Standing just under six feet taîl and weighing 120 te, 150 pounda, an emu is a calm and rather defencelesa big bird. Sometimes confuaed wlth the much larger - 300 pounds and seven feet - and more much more aggressive ostrich, emus are part of a wave of alternative agriculture- sweeping North American farma. Although it la illegal te export emus from their native Australia, the "emu farmlng" industry got its start 10 te 15 years ago when zoos li North America sold tbeir excesa animais. The beat knowxi locally and one of the firt te get inte emus i Ontario, Bob and Barbara Hunter have about 800 of the birds roaming their Thickson Road farm. xIn anawer te the usual questions -why would anyone raise emus - they are beixig domesticated for a number of reasons. A typical emu bide makes a very fine and supple leather for shoes, purses, belts and other apparel. The fat they xiaturally store ixi their backs la made inte an oil that reportedly bas unusally-high penetrating qualities. It is being used for burx rehabilitation, arthritis and tendonitia. Professioxial sports tearn have apparently added it to their medicinal arsenal. The oil la also starting te be used i the cosmetics industry and la teuted te have a "akin regexierate factoe" bgher than the so-called 9'anti-egixig' creama made from collagexi. And, apparexitly, there la a new market for the lean, low-fat red meat that tastes like beef in upacale restaurants. There are emu fermas in North America and Europe these days - and there la a lot -of interest and money ixivolved. three-moxth-old r cost $5,000. The varies and depen pedigree, but average. The emu that have beexi worth H-owever, the ree the financiai bs I killing of a barmli fouxid itself a loni the deserts of Aus .JUST TWOl' Remember the f summer of 199~3 states were badl, Mississippi valle Many Brool organlzed by Bob Rogers, came t Missouri farmei themselves witbot seven tractor-trail Brooklin hay was te Missouri barns. It was a gexierou worth rememberii olwcf For those of you who read this column regularly, you probably noticed a change, specifically the absence of Chelsea Balzan. An influential student at Henry Street High Sehool, she was responsible for this colurnn as well as being involved with our school newspaper, Hawk Talk. The past achool year was ber lait at Henry, and sbe left some tall shoes to fill. I wish her, as well as the reet of the class of '95, ail the best in their future endeavours. In these times of financial cutbacks, the art of bartering is alive and well at Henry.ý Henry is a school that boasts many sports teanis, most of which require time on the one available sports fieldi. To better address the needs of the sports teams, some Henry teachers are currently in the prooess of adding a second sports field to the back of the school while, at the same time, performing repairs to the existing field. The project bas been undertaken completely by the school's physical education department with no funding from the board of education. lI an effort to cut costs, Henry bas instituted the barter system at its best. LUII~ ~ In exchange for the gravel was able te, obtain the topsoil won the Oshawà required te ready the fields for i will compete in sdding. They also reoeived, free of at th <J~* required for the marking of the works at IEBM boundaries and the placement of the goalposta. Mr. Slean, one of the- teachers in charge of the project, described the old field as "dangerous" and like concrete." This was. one of the main reasona for the projeet, along with tbe fact that having two new and improved fields will benefit al the user teams greatly. At this point, only one problem g remains ... sod. The fields will be 9 ready te be sodded by the beginning of the 1995/96 achool Not long ago a year, but the cost of tbe sod male chick would remains a problem. price these days With no funding available, the da on the chick's cost of an estimated 16,000 rolîs $500 is about required, at approximately $1 a roll, poses a major obstacle te, the waa 'illed may completion of tbe project. To this more than that. end, the Sod Buster Marathon was al tragedy la not created. but the senseless Students, staff and alumni are esa creature that hittlng the streets in search of g, long way from pledges te, cover the coat of the sod. stralia. For every dollar pledged, the person receiving the pledge must V'EAR AGO... then lay one roll of sod. In this manner, organizers hope flooda during tbe to sod the fields for use in the faîl. ?The midwest This is an excellent exampfle of ly bit when the ýy was flooded. klin fermera, >Heron and Don o tbe rescue of rs who found ut any hay. Over ilers loaded wlth soon on its way as effort and one rg. Steve Leahy's colurnn appears evey week He an be reached at 655-4398 or 655-5888 (fax). Flower show in Brookln The Brooklin Horticultural Society will hold its annuals show and general» meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m., at Brooklin United Church. Speaker Shirley Mohammed will diseuss pressed flowers. working together for a common goal an d la oertainly a project deserving of community support. Anyone who bas, not been approached, and 18 interested in supportirig this project with a pledge, xnay contact the school either by telephone (668-2731) or by mail: Henry Street High School, 600 Henry St., Whitby, LiN 5C7. Answers to Wbitby Trivia from page 5 1. Mayor Tom Edwards is Whitby's longest serving political figure on the present council. He became a school trustee in 1960 and a Town councillor in 1964.- 2. John Wilson Bengough, who grew up in Whitby in the 1850s and 1860s, was a member of Toronto City council in 1907. 3. Whitby's first church was a Baptist Church built about 1827 at the corner of- Dundas Street and Kendalwood Road. It was destroyed in a storm in 1855. 4. Whitby'sfirst shopping centre was the Whitby Plaza on Brock Street between Dunlop and Gilbert streets, opened in 1955. Country Mcarket BRING HOME SOME COUNTRY EVERY WEEKEND aFree Parking & Admission e*ANTIQUES* *COLLECTABLES *CRAFTS e GIFTS WOODWORK & MORE SUNDAY 9- 5 THICKSON RD. NORTH INSTRUCTOR TRAINING St. John Ambulance Durham Region Branch is recruiting people inter- ested in becomin g first aid, 0FR and habysi tting instructors. Cali 434-7800.