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Rotary Receives Attendance By Liz Armstrong "Service Above Self" is the Acmmon motto of Rotary Clubs around the world. One of thebest ways to ensure that a club's morale and devotion to the cause is kept high is to encourage all members to attend the weekly meetings regularly. Recently, the Rotary Club of Bowmanville was honored for the second straight year by being presented with the Basil Tippet Trophy. The award recognizes the club in District 707 which bas achieved the highest percentage of attend- ance by its members over the period of a year. It's not always easy for some of the members to make Trophy it to the Flying Dutchman every Thursday at noon, but come tain, snow, sleet or hail, they try their best. Dr. Howard Rundle, forý example, received a pin a few weeks ago honouring him for 31 years of perfect attendance. There were more than a few meetings he had to miss over the years, but in accordance with club rules, he was allowed to 'make up' his attendance by attending meet- ings at nearby clubs. Not only is the make-up an opportunity to keep the record unblemished, it offers all Rotarians a chance to meet fellow members from around the world, and pick up new ideas that they can take back to tlhe home cluo Ih 'hem. The banners that are visible in the background uf many photos taken at Rotary meet- ings attest to the fact that the Bowmanville Rotarians really get around. While the Basil Tippet trophy can't guarantee that a club will be successful in all its ventures, it's a good start. Congratulations, Bowman- ville Rotary., About 85 per cent o all Canadians have the Rh factor and are typed "Rh positive". The Rh factor is an inherited blood group of red cells first discovered by Landsteiner and Weiner who had been experimenting with the red blood cells of the Rhesus monkey. When you give blood through Red Cross, you'll receive a donor identification card with your blood type and Rh factor. Rotary Welcomes New Club Member hydro, thermal and nuclear power plants. In Ontario, our electric power is supplied by a few large plants, and there are problems because electricity- is a commodity which can't be stored or easily distributed. One solution to the problem of distribution is to build more small hydro-electric plants to supply local needs. Matt suggested that perhaps a small plant could be built on Wilmot Creek to provide electricity for the village of Newcastle. Another alternative to con- ventional methods would be to make use of wind power. With the aid of a generator and battery, the energy produced by the wind can be harnessed. Making use of solar energy costs too much at the present time to make it feasible for the average home owner, Matt said. Mr. Elsey told the students that the bill for installing an adequate system in his home would be $50,000, and even at that, there wouldn't be enough energy in the winter time when it was most needed. The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 12, 1976 5 Dog- Taggming Discussed by Peter Parrott Dogs may be among the municipality's best friends because of the money they bring in wben their owners bave to buy licences. The problem that came up in Monday afternoon's meeting of the Community Services Committee involved making sure that dogs in the munici- pality are properly licensed and tagged. Mayor Garnet Rickard said at the meeting that he can recall touring a street in Bowmanville where the first seven dogs he saw were untagged. The mayor said he wasn't in favor of a system in which some people pay the fee for dog licences while others get away without paying. Councillor Ken Lyall sug- gested that the best way of selling dog licences was by going door to door but that animal control officers don't have enough time to sell licences this way. Last summer, students went door to door selling dog liences at a commission of one dollar apiece. It was suggested that because the selling of dog licences entails travelling in tbe country, perbaps a retired person witb a car could sell them. The Community Services Committee decided to appoint the head of Newcastle animal control, Jim Hancock and Councillor Ken Lyall to look into the question of how to sell the tags. If animal control officers find a dog without a tag, the owner is asked to buy - a licence. Failure to do this is a breach of a municipal bylaw and could result in a fine of $10 plus the cost of a court appearance. So far, no one in the municipality has been charged under this by-law according to Mr. Hancock. Hours at the Newcastle dog pound are to remain the same as they have been during the winter. The pound is open Monday to Friday from eight to five and from eight to noon Bowmanville Rotary Club President Neale McLean, right, bids welcome to new member John Manuel who was inducted into the club at the April '29th meeting. Mr. Manuel is an accountant in Bowmanville and his Tax Corner column can be seen regularly in the Statesman. It didn't take long for Rotarians to put their new member to work, and Mr. Manuel was pitching in over the weekend to help out with the giant bazaar held at Bowmanville High School on May lst. The club believes it made over $6000 though the tally is still unofficial. At Rotary Club Students From Clarke High School Report On Environment Conference Working with young people She explained that the because some aircraft don't is one of the goals of Rotary atmosphere around us extends produce enough of the de- International. far beyond the earth's sur- structive nitrogen oxides to be Whether affording students face, becoming less dense as it dangerous and others don't fly an opportunity to travel and gets farther away. witbin the stratosphere. study abroad through the Stating that few are aware The effects of reduction of Youth Exchange program, or of the shielding effects of the ozone protection mean that providing aid for schools in stratosphere, Miss VanNiejen- there will probably be an foreign countries, Rotary huis pointed out tbat it increase in tbe percentage of keeps in touch with the protects us from most-of the people who contract skin younger generation. bigb radiation ultra-violet cancer. Though these projects rep- rays emitted by the sun. One answer to the problem i-to introduce legisiation to resent major commitments, Though ultra-violet rays ban spray cans, but as Miss the service club offers smaller aren't harmful in small VanNuijenhuls stated "we scale programs ,to young amounts (and in fact are the have to look at both the people as well. rays wbicb provide us with advantages and disadvan- Recently, the Bowmanville sun tans) without tbe screen- tages of such a move" since it Rotary Club sponsored four ing effects of the stratosphere, would leave many out of work. students from Clarke Higb the doses would be lethal. She suggested that a good School to attend a day long A molecule called ozone solution might.be to "replace Conference on the Environ- stops a large percentage of the the aerosol cans with those ment in Mississauga. ultra-violet rays from pene- that are non-aerosol. Tbough Last week, three of the four trating into the lower atmos- this wouldn't completely solve students were on hand at the phere. Witbout this protection, the problem, it would be a Flying Dutchman to tell their life on eartb could not con- good start." sponsors about the experi- tinue. Electric Power ence. Recently, it bas been de- Finally, Matt Luckbart, a AI Witherspoon, principal of bated tbat the ozone layer is year two student, gave bis Clarke High School and a being slowly destroyed. Asa impressions of a seminar member of the local Rotary result of using aerosol cans whicb dealt with electric club, introduced the guest and refrigeration, freon gasîs power. speakers by saying that atti- being released in large Tbe seminar was presented tudes toward our environment amounts, and this gas breaks by Rotarian Bert Elsey, an have changed drastically over down when ultra-violet rays electrical engineer, who told the past few years" and that reach it. This reaction causes the students thatelectricity is he was proud of the students the gas to attack ozone and who represented the Bowman- reduce its concentration. g uy ville club in this "fine pro- hotber fuels as these latter ject." sources become scarce. Darlene Elliott, a year three destroys ozone, tbough this Matt reported that electri- student at Clarke, attended problem is not as serious city is produced by utilizing the seminar on Agriculture and Food at the conference. She reported that Dr. Neal Stoskopf, a professor of crop science at the University of Guelph, told the students that there are 400 million people in the world who are starving. Without proper nutrition, these people are more sus- ceptible to disease, are mostly illiterate, and have a limited mental and physical capacity as a result of their undernour- ishment. 35 years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization made the problem obvious and tried to solve it, though despite the capabilities of North American agriculture, the challenge proved to be too great. An organization called the Group of 77 picked up the theme and questioned whether it was right to feed livestock 2000 pounds of grain per annum while people in under- developed countries try to survive with less than 400 pounds. In terms of aid to third world countries, Canada has spent over one billion dollars in several different ways including working to increase water supplies, communica- tion and transportation, agri- culture, emergency relief and donations to the World Bank. International research takes place through the services of the World Bank, and eight institutes have been establish- ed in Africa, South America and the East to work at increasing the yields and quality of various crops. Stratospheric Pollution Tena VanNiejenhuis, also a year three student, attended the seminar concerning the effects of stratospheric pollu- farobeyondurheeearth'senur