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f Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, December 19, 1990-1 ffme. CNIB brings services This is the hill of Enterprise. Tt is located at mhe junctions of Highway 115 and Highway 35. It poses no problems for vehicular traffic today; as witnessed by the thousands of cars that travel its wide and paved expanse each weekend. In earlier days this road was commonly referred to as the "Gravel Road." This meant the road was a thoroughfare leading north to Lindsay, and passing such places as Pontypdôl and Ballyduff of its way. At Enterprise Hill there was a frame school mhat seemed to encompass the community from McReas church on the north to Ransberry's hill on the soumh. The original hill provided a fairly gentie, w inding "S" turn to its summit. This hill seemed to pose one problem; il was quite sandy on bomh sides of mhe road. A sidelight to this story then, is an early attempt to slow mhe wind erosion from mhe blowing sand. kn 1924, two men were engaged to plant the sand to a plantation of coniferous trees. Cecil Malley and 'a Mr. Tremaine did the planting but mhey devised what seemed at that lime an ingenious method of planting. wimh a teamn and a single plow they made vertical furrows and plowed the young seedlings in mhe ground. This method today accounts for many of our reforested areas giving the somewhat unnatural appearance of a forest standing in rows. There were certainly a few skeptics at mhat tirne, who felt the Enterprise plantation woutd neyer grow. Well, Mr. Malley proved the trees grew too well. They were planted much too closely togemher and a lack of thinning muade them. tail and spindly. An old lmnberman watching the early experiment made the comment, "A planted tree wilI pever make a stick, of timber." Well, 1 doubt if the'Enterprise plantation did make sticks of timber but in later plantings there are plenty of sticks of timber. At the base of the hilI there is a small industry, building log homes. The Enterprise project did show the benefit of tree planting to erosion. I would imagine the small seedlings planted on that day came from the Orono Nursery. The Nursery was started by Meredith Linton in 1921. Indirectly the story of Enterprise hili has a sequel. In 1924, the Ganaraska and its many tributaries experienced a devastating flood. The headwaters in the spring freshet tore out bridges and trees. At Kendal, both on the Seventh Concession and on the road south of the village the bridges were swept away. In the darkness, a horse and buggy were swept downstream. The flood itself swept through the streets of Kendal and of course wreaked more havoc along the way into Port Hope. Although there is no guarantee of future floods much has been done to restore the uplands of the Ganaraska Moraine. There were a few far-sighted men who planned the planting of the forest. Leader among the conservationists was Professor Stuart Ryan. Professor Ryan was a Pori Hope resident and a few years ago he returned to speak to the annual meeting of mhe Conservation Authority. I well remember his admonition that evening. "It was Our intention to see twenty- thousand acres of that Moraine planted to trees. We have fallen short;, there are only slightly over doser to hon The Center, located in Oshawa, offers a wide range of rehabilitation services to over 750 blind and visually impaired clients throughout the region. These services include: Rehabilitation Teaching - instruction in braille, typing and leisure activities Social Services - Counselling and referral services for newly blinded and existing clients Vision Rehabilitation Services - Counselling and demonstration of the latest in low technology vision aids. There are only a few of the services and programs available twelve thousand acres wimhin the Authority." Mie picture 1 hope to show of mhe 1924 flood shows John Lowery of Kirby sitting perilously close to mhe flood waters. Obviously he survived that one as he resides at Kirby today. 1 like mhe lines of Joyce Kinuner, I think that 1 shaîl neyer see, a poem-r more lovely mhan a tree." through the Durham Region Service Center. Until now ail CNIB services to, persons living in Durham Region were provided through the Markham office. With more than 320 blind and visually impaired persons in Oshawa alone, as well as a growing client population in Ajax, Pickering, Newcastle and other cornmunities in the area, the need to establishi a local service cener has been obvious for some Until additional funding can be found, staff resources will flot be increased. However, for those persons able to travel independently, CNIB services will be much closer to home. Only with the ongoing support of the ,Oshawa/Whitby, Ajax/Pickering United Ways, private donations and funding from some municipalities has the establishment of the Durham Region Service Center been made possible. For more information c all or drop by the office at 81 King Street E., Unit 2, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 1B4, (416) 436-7732. STYLE& IMAGE CONSULTING Pearson Lanes, 105 Mary Street West Whitby, Ontario Li N 2R4 Unique Chistmas qift! i~f Certificate for A Comiputerized Style & Image Makeover 60 page personalized printout on STYLES' FASHION, MAKE-UP ETC. Colour Analysis and Golour Coded Make-up also available Please cali Britt or Margareta for more Information 430-8686 THE REGIONAL ~VMUNICIPALITY 0F DURHAM DURHAM HOLIDAY CLOSURE 0F SANITARY LANDFILL SITE The CARTWRIGHT & SCUGOG TRASNSFER STATIONS wiII be closed on Tuesday, December 25 and Wednesday, December 26, 1990, for the Christmas Holidays. Normal operations wiIl resume on Thursday, December 27, 1990. These sites will close again on January 1, 1991 and for New Year's Day, and re-open on January 2, 1991. W.A. Twelvetrees, P.Eng. Commissioner of Works