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Reforestation Ce, The junior and senior visît several greenlîouses to see On tlir way back, the students kindergarten classes from the seedlings at the tree nursery. They stopped by the Orono Weekly Orono Public School vîsîted the also learned how temperatures and Times to get their pictures taken as Reforestation Centre on May 22. moisture is controlled in the shown here holding red pine Catherine Staples, the greenhouses for successful seedlings in their bands, which organizer, invited the students to growing of small seedling trees. theywill plant at their homes. Gravel Company plants 15,000 trees at Mosport gravel pit site A once abandoned gravel pit to nature anid proidinga neéw use "We've really seen a big near Orono is being transformed that benefits both the environent transformation," says Cutmore. into a bealthy mixed forest. The and the local community," "Wben we arrived, there bad been transformation is the result of a Cutmnore says. severe erosion - the spring rains massive tree-planting effort being "The work we're doing at our had washed most of the topsoil undertaken tlis montb by Dufferin pit nuxnber three near Mosport is a away. So we had to begin fromn Aggregates which is planting more learning experience for aIl of us," scratch by moving topsoil back than 15,000 seedlings on the site says Cutmore. "Tree planting is a onto the site." north of Newcastle. science unto itself and it's been a The tree planting effort now Eight species of seedlings, from real team effort with the Ministry___________ spruce trees to olive bushes, will of Natural Resources." take root in the former gravel pit The rinistry has provided which Dufferin purchased more about 7,000 of the seedlings being IIEA.R E! thm four years ago. The 15 hectare planted at the site and govemment pit is loçated on Mosport Road foresters assisted in selecting the south of Regiona Road 20, eight varieties of trees suited for the soil kilometres north of Orono. and terrain of the Mosport area. "Although Dufferin has neyer Wiebe Brickman, a local taken anything out of this pît, we contractor who specializes in tree want to give sometliing back to thie planting and major landscaping local comrnunity," says Paul projects, is also assisting Dufferin Cutmiore, project coordinator for Aggregates i this project. Dufferin Aggregates. "In the Cedar, pine and spruce are easy future, this site coultl provide to picture. But olive bushes? e io habitat for wildlife and it could also As Cutmore explains, olive have an even greater role as a bushes are part of the science ofR recreational area." gravel pit rehabilitation. They R C S Area boy scouts are already improve the nitrogen level of the using the land as a temporary camp. soil by taking nitrogen out of the That camp could become air and storing it in their roots. permanent once tree planting and Hligh levels of nitrogen benefit the Lo on le 1 other rehabi lîtation work is other varieties of trees. completed. Olive bushes, with their dense "It's the perfect recreational branches, low to the ground, also area," says Cutmore. "The bilîs are provide good cover for birds to great for learning to ski and there's roost and small animals to hide. a nice pond on the site. The Black locust is a fast growing headwaters of Wilmot Creek also shrub which provides a good run through the property and the erosion control medium while theV stream offers great trout fishing." other trees mature. Tree planting began in Early Tree planting is perhaps the May. Several thousand more trees rnost visible result of the will be planted this fall and over the rehabilitation process. alteb next two or three years. Rehabilitation also involves alteb The seedlings planted range in stockpiling and replacing size fromn 20 centimetres to just overburden and tops oi andJun I - udrametre and include50 slopig the sides ofthe pit t make J n silver Maple, 300 Carolina Poplar, landscaping possible and to 2,000 White Cedar, 4,000 Black prevent erosion. Locust, 1,000 Green Asb, 3,000 "We've been working very Scotch Pine, 3,000 Red Pine and quickly," says Cutmore. "The 1,500 Russian Olive bushes. moment the bulldozers pull out, Tbree humdred and fifty metre we're in there planting trees." Don etrn 'B high spruce and pine trees are also Thomne, superintendent of Dufferm etuig B beig planted on the north slope Of Aggregate's Mosport area, bas tue pit. been responsible for coordinating (8:00 p.m. - 1:00E --- For Cutmore, the tree planting the beavy equipment and ensuring marks a major step forward in the that the site is landscaped properly rehabilitation program wbi ch prepared for the trees to flourish.10T Dufferi Aggregates is pursuing at In addition to planting tees on rnany of the pits and quarries the slopes of the pit, Dufferin basRE which the company operates grassed over many otuer areas toRE a 'sthe province. bold the soi in place and prevent mu goal is to return our sites erosion. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 29,1j991-7 Go rd 's Vi ew by Gord Mils "Welfare Bums" A couple of weeks ago, I had sorne folks corne into my office in Bownianville to tell me what the govemrment should be doing about "welfare bums." I heard thern out - politely, and then went about checking into their allegations. 1 thought 1 would share with everyone, both the allegations made and the resuits of my research. "Everybody's ripping the welfare systemn off." I fact, about 3 per cent of welfare cheques are for too much or go to people who aren't entitled. No one's ever been able to show more abuse in the welfare systern than there is with icorne tax or UIC. "People on welfare should be forced to get out there and work." To start with, almost haif of the people (42 per cent) who eat food bought with a welfare cheque are children. Seventy per cent of welfare cases are peoplewho are disabled, iii, single parents or elderly. umderway at the Mosport area pit is a long terrni investment in the site. "We're planning to bang onto this property well into the future and we want to try our best to, make it look as nature intended, says Cutrnore. "We want to make sure this site fits in with the local- enviroument." "Why should people bottier to work when welfare pays so weil?" In Metro-Toronto - one of Canada's rnost expensive places to live - the maximum a single employable welfare claimant can get is $6 18 a month. That's $154 a week! "Once people get on welfare they neyer get off it." In Metro- Toronto, for example, the average dlaim for an employable person lasts less tha 5 months. "Our welfare system pays so well that people will move here from other provinces to get it." Surprise. . . more people are moving out of Ontario to other provinces than the other way round. It's an established fact that people move between provinces because of job opportunities - not better welfare rates. "So -what is the government doing to get people off welfare?" Th e majority of people who get social assistance would rather work. We're now changing the system 5so 41 tpeople who want to get off welfare and back to work have a better shot at it. This includes job training, helping with daycare and transportation costs and assistance in finding that crucial first-job. Does that cost more? Yes it does - in the short run. But over the long haul it's an investrnent worth niaking. That's the way I see it anyway. age Week Presents: WION BUSTER DANCES No Admission!! Bmn at Door for Donations 31 - TEEN DANCE (8:00 p.m. to midnight) Atith weII known D.J. Bill Macintyre Mst of todays hits and special effects CASH BAR 1E VENTS AT THE NEW CREATION COMPLEX Hwy. #2& # 57, Bowmanville DOWN MEMORY LANE with Black Tie DAR. Doug Browning g Band Sounds' and memorable tunes from other eras Ir irir«q A V-% Ir 7-W-% a a.m.)