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Orono Weekly Times, 29 May 1991, p. 9

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Earns Most Improved Award Kristin Plumnmer of Orono was Cadets on Sunday. Above Mrs. presented with the Most Improved Sheila Brooks, president of the Cadet award at the annual Bowxnanville Brandi of the Navy Inspection of fth Bowmanville Sea League makes the presentation. learned from all of this, it is.flot the answers in life that are important, it is the questions that yau ask that are important! If you don't ask the right questions there is littie hope for the future. I seemned to have sermonized in this, article and told no story. 1 have a collection of George Brown's fort nightly newspapers published in 1865. Tbey were entitled "The Canada Farmer," this was along with bis "Toronto Globe." In this article lie writes (1865) "The agricultural question of the hour in Great Britain is how ta convert the waste of its towns and cities into available fertilizing materiai for farm and garden. Wbat a deadly picture it is! Nature moves i a circle. Life, decay, and reproduction foliow one another endlessly. But if man checks the operation at any of its links, if lie breaks the chain, lie feels the punishment." This ini 1865, and today we are "thinking" about recycling and composting. Oh, a word for this Orano editor and publisher. George Brown, even Orona Weekly Tinies, Wednesday, May 29, 1991-9, Lakeshore A rt Festival 'A Celebration of Life"1 by Vicki Gaudreault On Thursday, May 16 the Bowmanville High School presented the 3rd Annual Lakeshore West Arts Festival sponsored by Peterboroughi Victoria Northumberland and Newcastle Separate School Board. The schools that participated in this arts showing were Msgr. Leo Cleary Elementary School front Courtice, St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School from Newcastle, St. Josephs and St. Stephen's Elementary Scbools from Bowmanville, and St. Stephens Secondary School also from Bowmanville.' 1 The themne of the evening was "Celebrating Life" with thougli he was a Father of Confederation was assassinated at his desk. Readers beware! performances from students of various grades shawing their talents in the form of dramas, dancing, choirs, and music. Much bard work was put into organizing the festival by co- ordinator Debbie Cavanagh and assistant co-ordinator Mary Helen Moes. The night was full of butterfly stoniacbs but aIl in ail it was a nice showcase of talent from the s tudents. Free Trade with Mexico opposed Oshawa Councillors voted unanhxnously, recently, to oppose a new free trade agreement, and asked the federal goverument to hold an election or a plebiscite before any deal witli Mexico is struck. Reading and writing could be boring subjects i todays world. Oniy the minority do much of either. Why should they? If it is entertainment they are seeking, tien turn on the television or reach for the nearest videa. Neither requires much energy, mnentally or physically. Well this article, like the others, is about history Sa I had better return ta that topic anid leave the modemn media for the history of future generations. 1What was mhe state of reading before we even had crystai sets for radio isening. Miany, miouglit mhey cauid ill afford it, subscribed ta a daily newspaper, - The Globe if you were Lilberal, mhe Maiî and Empire if you were Conservatives and a weekly that bad sa many general items from farming ta housekeeping. It was the-Faiily Herald. For those of us who were very young it contained Thornton Burgess seriais where you couid frolic wimh Peter Rabbit, Brier Fox, and Jimmny Skunk. As well as ail their reading, there was the "Orona News, printed and publlshed by the late Samn Cutteli. Ail any of these publications needed was tbat yau leam ta read and since it was goad entertainment, yau usuaily iearned ta read early in life and read weli. I recail that I started schoai at four years of age without any benefit of Kindergarten or Junior Kindergarten. It was truc ibat on clark, winter days it was difficukt ta sec th blackbaard, which in itseif was indeed black and clere was n0 elecrificattoit ta provide artificial lighting. Despite ail of this, wc learned ta med early and weil. In fact, when your class was cailed ta thc front to-read, you read aioud oraily Sa ibat al your classrnates became instant critics if you stumbled or stuttered over a word. Psychoiogically, ail of ibis should bave made us al self- consciaus crippies but instead we icamcd eariy ta enjoy reading. Wbat did we read? A tny, aid pine cupboard initme camner or k back of the classroom was aur library. The few books were aid aud tattered. They were usualiy left mhere by some aider member in tie community wio had passed on and the book or twa they left was given ta the library. The resuit of this paucity of books was that each book was read and re-read many times. In my small memory we had John Ruskins "King of the Golden River," a favourite ta be read at least five or six times. A Horatia Alger book where the young person in the story rose fromn abject poverty ta figlit us way over all odds ta great success. This book was like "every child can become President." There was one book, athougi I read it dutifully, neyer really turned me an. It was John Bunyan's "Pilgrims' Progress.' I have already explained at home it was reading from the newspaper. My grandfather, as stauncil "grit", lectured me about the great benefits of "Reciprocity" - free trade. It occurred witi United States in 1854 but was canceiled by the Americans before its ten- year terni. What a difference i Political affiliations, and the merits of free trade taday. Iu 1854 it brouglit shart-lived prosperity ta Canada. Our best source of reading was tie standard readers - five of them from Primer ta mhe Fourtb Reader. Their staries and poems were gospel. Yau began with "The Little Red Heu" who plantcd tme wheat, tmat grouud tie grain, that baked the cake etc. Wbat we failed ta recognize here was haw positive these tories ýwere. âuccess was important. 0f course there bad £0 b. a few tear- jerkers like the "Wreck of mhe Hesperus." That poem was for the senior reader wben your emations cauid liandle it!i* I bave kept my books, ail these years, anid acquired many. They are old friends tat you enjoy, but books are somethiug much more. You get inside tic writers and your imagination carrnes you ail over tic worid and into thc deepest recesses of your mnd. It is from iis source you get your ideas, your dreams, and without meose aur civilization wauid go backwards. One thing I have

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