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OPM Wo.klv TImo, Wê....da........13191 ~ Letter to the Editor A letter written to the Honourable Bud Wildman, Minister of Natural Resources, Queen's Park. Dated October 28, 1991. Dear Mr. Wildman, To close the Orono Treç Nursery is couniter ecological and too costly! The buman race is finally recognizing the slow-death of our planet due to our greed and irresponsibility towards natural resources. How can we close down the birthing-centre of a renewable resource? The Ministry of Natural Resources at the Orono Tree- Nursery Station bas provided Southern Ontario with an inexpensive source of many species of deciduous and coniferous trees. Many private-landowners as well as provincial forests have benefited froin the close access to y oung bare-root stock. Over the past ten years 1 have grown White Pine, Wbite Spruce, Silver Maple, Carolina Popular, Black Locust and other species froin Iis source and now enjoy trees that have grown froin 10 inches (30 cm) to beights of up 10 25 feet (3-4 metres). 1 live on a lake shore farm and need wind-breaks, but I arn primarily a tree-lover. I believe anyone with one quarter acre or more should be able to buy trees cbecaply because trees are not a luxury; they are a absolute necessity for the continuance of dlean air on Iis planet. They are an absolute necessity for the survival of nearly ail birds and animais. We are only slowly beginning to ceut back on dangerous forms of air, waer and soil pollution. But legislating against polluters and fmning Ibern is not enough. Planting trees creates oxygen factories - our allies against smoke-stacks and taau- pipes. Everywhere 1 go in Durhamn ~_Region and beyond, more and more children and adulîs are suffering froin asthma and other respiratory probleins and allergies. We are ideally located on the north-shores of Lake Ontario te reap the unhealtby pollutants brougbtte10us from industries to our west by the "inversion" factor of our local almosphere. In the Town of Newcastle where population and bousing developinent have exploded in the last ten years, wbat greater reason have we 10 continue having access to a local inexpensive source of trees? Some people mighî suggest - Wby flot go 10 a commercial nursery for your trees?" Well, 1 do for more unusual or exotic species, but if 1 want the natural, native trees of this province who have successfully grown bere for centuries in lots of 200 or more. I just can't afford il! Trees also provide us with shade and wind-breaks. Our sun gives us light, beat, energy, joy and skin-cancer for free. In the summer trees provide us witb cooler temperatures (natural air- conditioners) and also protection froin the sun's radiation in the shade. ln the winter, trees in a wind-break near my house have belped te reduce on heating-fuel consumption. S The great American propbet of ecology Thomas Berry asks us to look ai every resource be it soil, water, rock, plant, tree, or animai 's "subjects" of the earth, not just ~'---objects .10 be exploited or O rono Figure Skating, News Report saine planet. We are ail related to the same planet. We are all related. When and ifthis nursery can no longer plantand harvest seedling trees, there will be many full-ime and part-lime employees affected. They will need unemployment and possibly welfare benefits. In a recent war last year, our "good" side spent over $1 million per hour bombing a Middle Eastern country. A million dollars an hour! Do we want to spend more money on deatb than on life? It'seems an irrigation-systera that would have cost just over $1 million was too costly 10 implement at the Orono Tee Nursery where employment, fresb air and some of our future could have been invested. Our younger skaters have been wo rking bard these past few weeks. We have six skaters wbo have passed badges. their progress is interesting to watch. Congratulations to the following skaters: passing Elementary: Nicole Marrett, Rebecca Delorme, Katie, Tinkier passing Novice Il:, Erin McGliynn passing Basic: Amnanda Morris, Did someone say its just 100 expensive Io continue tis Nursery Station? 1 say î's far more expensive 10 waste a human and plant potential! Our planet cannot afford short-cuts. Maria Kordas - Fraser Julie Peacock 1Our club was well represented at the Cobourg Skate Competition Novemnber 2nd and 3rd. 1 hope ail participants had a fun lime. Three of O.F.S.C. skaters placed in t.he competition. Adamn Colville placed lsa in elements and lst in freeskate in Novice Mens. Michelle Moffat placed 1 st in elements and 4th in FLOWERS PLUS FLOWERS G IFTS and CRAFIS 46 King Street East NewegstJe, Ontario 987-1500)* Betty Lycet! 983-5908 W~ida MUddeton 983-9819 freeskaîe in Beginners. Melissa Colville received a Bronze Medal in her flight for Prenovice Competitive. Congratulations for a job well done. Last ditch pîtch by Winters (Contmnued froin page 1) of tbe pamphlet says "Don't be fooled. Mayor Hubbard has referred to the incident as a smear campaign and tbat if Winters was responsible he should have put bis naine to it. Winters makes dlaim that the pamphlet was not directed at any one candidate. He said others were involved and he just wanted 10 make people aware of the issues. e e