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Oron o Wee.kly Tinmes, Wedniesday, Mlay 13,1983 Musîcians-place wel at Kîwanis Ashlen Morrison, daugliter of Donna and Bill Morrison, and Garett Wood, son of Glenn and Marie Wood, all of Orono placed well at the recent Oshawa-Whitby Kiwanis Music Festival. Ashlen performed in the 8-year-and-under vocal class, singing "Catch a Little Sunbeam." She was awarded third place with a mark of 81. Garett competed in the 1 -years-and-over Canadian composers piano class and received a mark of 83. He played "Mist" by Clifford Poole. For both musicians, il was their first appearance in the Music Festival. Ashlen and Garett are students of Mary-C lare McKinnon. Th-is column on birds is an easy one. But il did lake some effort. It was not like taklng a report over the phone nor havlng someone pick you up at the door to see wld turkeys., I had bo walk downîown for this one and like a soap opera il stretched out over a period of four or five days. It seems 10 be generally known that 1 pay a daily morning visit 10 Dulees for a coffee and a rehash of the news of yeslerday. 'and perhaps, a littie about birds. As a malter of fact Dulee hlmself (that's Ralph Mclnnes) is getting some interested ti birds.. "A sparrow-llke bird with three white stripes on it's head - what is il?" That was Monday. The day before it was a bird. robin size, with a flaming red breast? A stickler a monlh ago was a bird ith a bronze coloured head. During the wlnLer Railph purchased a large-sized feeder but when the Grackles returned along wilh some of the Jays and even smaller bird s lhey were tossing the seed on the ground. 0f course il happens especially feeding some of the mixed bird seed. "Ralph you should purchase one of my specially deslgned 'one-seed aI a lime bird feeders.' No fuss, no muss, no waste." "You even gel a wrack for suel and an the other side a flower pot in which you place peanut butter or flowers if you wish." "The birds do have a liking for peanut butter rather than the flowers." Afler a week of sales pitches and drinking a gallon of his coffeeRalph gives in. "Bring me one of those *one seed at a time bird feeders.' "It's on trial, of course." "On trial if you say". The deal is finalized and Ralph has the week-end 10 give il -a trial. Corne Monday I rather hesitated in opening the door to the smell of coffee. But I was interested ini the trial period and ready for the outcome. I had declded 10 let him bring up the subjecl. Naturally he did and to my relief the resuits were positive. "No fuss, no muss, no waste." And' furîher 1 received a report of birds 1aI the feeder. Everything went alon1g fine for a couple of days until 1 received a miorniing welcoming of "the sucker Iook mny flower pot'. "WhNlat sucker', I asked. -Why the squirrel and 1 have found out how he gels over 10 the feeder." I have looked ail around and can't find the flower pot anywvhere." "Forget it they only cosî 8 up at the craft store." On Monday of this week the real pay-off came. "I saw him with the flower pot", said Dulee. "The squirrel your talkcing about?" "I looked out the window and there sat the squirrel on a limb licking out the last of the peanut butter fromn the flower pot. I ran out of the house waving my arms and yelling at him hoping he would drop the flower pot. No luck. He scurried up the tree and what hie did with the flower pot 1 don'l know." Just another instance of the crafty, resourceful squirrel. Voirtual classroom Iaunched Imagine people like the Lieutenant Governor Hilary Weston, Steve Smith (Red Green), or members of the rock band Rust, dropping mbt your classroom for a chat. Thats virtually what happened last Wednesday at the Pines Senior Public School. The guests were part of the TVO Virtual Classroom. The grade 7/8 Language Class at the Pines took part in the Great Canadian Challenge with 22 other schools province- wide, which were chosen for this pilot project. While the challenge was being brought live to the classroom via TVO, each student was equipped with a telephone. so they could answer the questions of the challenge, and ask the studio guests their own questions. Charmaine Crooks, an Olympic track and field runner spoke about what it means 10 be a Canadian athlete, polar explorer Richard Weber, talked LETTERS TO EDITOR (continued from page 2) & HunIers (OFAH) was asked bo attend a meeting between MNR, the Claringlon Game Commission, South Central Big Game Commitlee and concemned hunIers, 10 sort ouI problems aI Kendal. Afler numerous meetings, a town hall meeting aI Kendal and discussions wilh John O'Toole, changes started to lake place aI Kendal. MNR spent about $20,000.0 b cul 100 metre buffer zones around problema properties- and post NO TPESPASS slgns on the buffer zones. The entire perimeter of the prop- erty was posted with sigris. Numbers were limited to no more than 25 hunIers during any hunting period and no more than 3 hunIers per dog, Outdoor Cards were surren- dered in exchange for a spe- cial number 10 be womn on ones bal, in order 10 weed ouI trouble makers. OFAHI pro- vided a traler bo house a daily Games Supervisor, also a celi phone was included. During the Controlled-Pheasant Hunt not one incident was reported bo MNR or OFAH. There were calîs before and afler the hunt. These could be mush- room plckers, wolf hunIters or people just walking onlo the properly 10 walk their dog. (The gale, mbt Kendal is locked before and after the hunt). Hunll-ng is our cultural and recreation heritage that has persisted since Columbus discovered Ibis great country. Today hunting is a sort of maIe bonding, being ouI- doors, no phone or fax ma chines just the great ouI- doors, sounds of your dog running. Should one be lucky enough bo harvest a pheas- ant, il ends up on the dinner table. Ail the hunIers I know are ethical sportsman, there about the north, while war vet- eran John Kilpatrick explained what being a Canadian mneans to him. "TVO Virtual Classroom allows our students to go to places they wouldn't dream of in their day-to-day lives," said principal David Gray. This technology is currently being used at the Pines for three courses - Science, Math and Language. TVO Virtual Classroom will also be offered for other educa- tional applications to both pub- lic and private sector groups. A Virtual Early Childhood Education Course is currently being taught 10 aduits in an evening course at the school. "It's a cutting-edge curricu- lum resource that really expands minds, gels students used to current technology and exposes them 10 endless learn- ing opportunities," says princi- pal David Gray. are a few knot heads out there creatlng the problems. The OFAH Is addressing this problema., To stop ali hunting south oflthe 8th Conc. would in my opinion create more problemas than it would solve. Llvestock predation by coyotes and wolves is substantiail in this area. Clarington township payed out to farrners for stock predation $102,930.00 in 1996, $87,580.00 ti 1997 and $13,995.00 so far thls year. This money cornes from lax payers. There are four licensed trappers working i Clarlngton. One coyote hunIer harvested 40 animais lasI fail. Mr. Atkins should rethink his remarks on no hunting south of the 8th Conc. OFAH and the Clarington Game Commissmn are striving bo make the Kendal Controlled Hunt even safer for hunters and local residents. I hope this will help i dis- pell some of the n-iisinforma- tion that has been brought forward. Plea se feel free to calil upon me at any lime if you want to be kept updatled. Yours ti Conservation Norm Junig Chair Zone 'E' Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters KEND AL UNITED CHURCU Kendal, Ontario "The Heart ojOur Community" Sunday, Mvay 17, 1998 11:15 ar. "Are You at Home With The Spirit?" Preacher: Ms. Susan Pleasance Pr ayer, Information & Support for Men Living with Prostate Cancer and their Families Tuesday, May 26, 1998 7:30 p.m. Everyone lnvited Pleasejomn us Min ister: Rev. David Black 786-2950 ORONO SPASTORAL CHARGE Min iste r E' Rev. Mervyn Russell Secretary Marlene Risebrough 983-5702 Chu rch Office 983-5502 CHURCH SERVICES Kîrby United Church at 9:30 ar. Orono United Church 11:00 a. m. Sunday School Classes and Nursery facilities available during Church Services A.A. meets evey Thursday 7:30 p.m. St. Saviour s Anglican Church MILL ST., ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. David R. 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