l > If you like art, and learning about art, you might be interested interested in the Docent Program Program at the Robert McLaughlin McLaughlin Gallery. Docents are tour guides, who after learning about art and touring techniques, techniques, conduct tours of the exhibitions for school children and adult groups, helping visitors visitors appreciate the gallery's exhibitions. Docents are active from mid-September to mid-June, They meet biweekly biweekly to learn about art and tour techniques • through seminars, workshops and films. New exhibitions are discussed at briefings, as are the workshops which accom- C the tours. A small urarium is provided per tour. To join the docent program, program, previous art education is not required. Interest in art, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are the pre-requisites. For more information, please visit the gallery, or contact Marg Jackson, the Education Officer at 576-3000. The 1983 season of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada will culminate in the Orchestra's only Toronto performance performance of this year, in Massey Hall on Friday, ' August 26 at 7:30 p.m. Since the third week in July, over 100 gifted young instrumentalists, instrumentalists, specially selected in Canada-wide auditions, have been engaged in an intensive program of rehearsals, workshops workshops and performances at the annual summer session of the National Youth Orchestra under the guidance of an outstanding outstanding international faculty of musicians. The talents of a 25 year old pianist, Christopher Kowal of 180 Glenwood Cres., have caught the ear of Oshawa Symphony conductor, Winston Webber. Kowal has been chosen as the guest artist of the Symphony's October 25 concert, the opening one for the orchestra's 27th season. He will play George Gershwin's Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the full orchestra. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at Eastdale Collegiate, Oshawa. The Durham Region now has its own travel guide. This booklet is the first of its kind for the Region and it will tell visitors just what there is to see and do when they are in the area, The guide has been produced by the Tourist Association Association of Durham Region in co-operation with the Central Ontario Travel Association and has been funded by the Regional Municipality of Durham and advertisers. 50,000 copies were printed and these have been distributed throughout the Region as well as to Tourist Information Centres. 6pot&gJit on The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. August 24, 1983 5 Fifth Wheel Holds Annual Country Round-Up If you missed the first Tropical Beach Party at the Flying Dutchman Hotel, there's still time to catch the one planned for this Saturday. Everyone reported a great time at the first one. There are only 16 more days before the cut-off for entries to The Sunday Star's short story contest with $5,000 Olivetti word processor as the top prize. Contest editor Pat Wilson says there still are many inquiries about contest rules and asked that they be reprinted. They are: Only one entry per person. The entry must be original, typewritten (double spaced, please), and no longer than 2,500 words. No entries postmarked later than Sept. 6 will be accepted. Mail your entry to Short Story contest, contest, The Sunday Star, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E- 1E6. There's a second prize of $500 and a $250 third prize as well as prizes of books, not to mention fame, to be had,... You are invited to attend "Creations Unique" presented by the Kemptville College of Agricultural Technology Alumni Association at the 1983 International Plowing Match on the Garnet Ralph farm near Richmond. Fashion Shows will be held in the Fashion Tent, as part of the women's program. The shows are scheduled for September 27, 28, 29 and 30 at 1:30 p.m. each day. The Fashion Shows will feature a selection of "Hand Made" and "Designer Garments" for all members of the family -- created by graduates of the College. Come and see our "Creations Unique." The Oshawa Art Association's Association's Second Annual Camp Samac Art Festival is a show and sale of approximately 45 artists of the Durham Region in the main council hall of beautiful Camp Samac. Works range in media from drawings and paintings to sculpture and prints. Most artists will be on hand to greet visitors and demonstrate their talents. The Festival runs for three days - September 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Admission is free with plenty of free parking. Hours are: Sat. Sept. 3 -10 a.m. to 9 p.m,, Sun. Sept. 4 -10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Mon. Sept. 5 -10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The annual Legion Branch 178 picnic will be held this Sunday, August 28th, at Thistle Valley Park. 1 Glenn McLeod has begun duties as superintendent of the Provincial Tree Nursery at Orono. He has been assistant superintendent ? there sincp 1978. BAHA'I ANSWERS How can the stability of the Cause of God be ensured? Be not of the foolish! He It Is Who created you! Judge ye fairly the Cause of God. Then will the Truth appear unto you as manifest as the sun In Its noon-tide Glory! Further Information P.O.Box 36, Bowmanville Branch 178, Royal Canadian Legion Bowmanville was well represented at the C.N.E. Warriors Day parade Saturday, Saturday, August 20, with our band and several members on parade. Sunday, August 21, members also attended District District "F" Drumhead Service held at Stirling in conjunction with the town 125th anniversary anniversary celebrations. Fall activities activities with the Legion are commencing commencing with Legion Week Sept. 18 - 25. Special events will be held that week and will be advertised so that the local community may participate. Harold Stainton of Kamloops Kamloops B.C. surprised many relatives whom he had never met in the Bowmanville and Oshawa area on the weekend. He is the son of the late Hillier and Molly Stainton, Nelson B.C. and namesake of Rev. Harold Stainton of Hillsdale Manor, nephew of the late Ida and William Trewin, Ethel and Elias Ashton and Allan Stainton. Pitch-ln and Keep Canada Beautiful Fellowship Baptist Church Courtice, Ontario Location: Courtice Secondary School SUNDAY SERVICE 10:00 a.m. - Family Bible Service 11:00 a.m. - Dibit: Ministry . For more information phone: 57.9-4523 TRINITY UNITED CHURCH Rev. John Peters, B.A..B.D. Minister Rev. Arthur Amacher, B.A, B.D. Assistant Minister John Crookshank Music Director Church at Division St. Office 623-3138 10 a.m. - WORSHIP SERVICE Blue Jeans Church School at 10:10 a.m. during August Summer Sermon Series '03 "Faith and..." August28- "FAITH AND HARDSHIP" Nursery Care will be provided We welcome the Members and Adherents of St. Paul's Church who will be worshipping with us during August. ■SB It was the late U.S. president president John F. Kennedy who made famous the words, "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." country." Had the word "community" "community" been substituted for "country," Ontario Hydro's retiring Bowmanville Bowmanville Area manager, Rex Walters, would exemplify that Kennedy philosophy. Because for more than three decades, the man whose name has been synonymous with rural electricity in the 400 square miles that constitute Hydro's Bowmanville operating area, has devoted much of his spare time to community service. 'Mr.'Walters supportsthe Rotary Credo of "Service above Self." He joined Bow r manville's Rotary Club in 1952, a year after arriving in town, for fellowship and involvement involvement in community affairs. affairs. He was president in 1958-59 and is still active, albeit albeit a little less now. He is a member of the board of the Bowmanville Memorial Hospital Foundation Foundation and sat on the Hospital Board during a previous campaign to raise funds to add a new wing. History, it's said, often repeats repeats itself. That new wing now needs twinning and the hospital board will again appeal to the public for funds. He will be involved, as a member of the M.H. Foundation in the next campaign. He is in his second year as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Trinity United Church and a member of the board of directors of Durham College. Thirty-two years of his 46 year Hydro career Mr. Walters Walters spent at the helm of Hydro's Bowmanville Area has been yet another example example of community service. It's been his job to ensure that the 10,000-plus rural Hydro customers in the area bounded by Oshawa Newmarket and Fenelon Falls, the Northumberland- Durham county line and Lake Ontario, have enjoyed an adequate supply of electricity. electricity. In his office on Scugof Street, north of Bowmanville, Bowmanville, hangs an oil painting of Gloucester Pool, purchased purchased in Prince Edward County, which to Mi\ Walters Walters is "The" county. While he still has a house in Prince Edward County, it's a hobby thing. Mr. Walters Walters says he and his wife. Mary, plan to stay in Bowmanville Bowmanville in their century home at 45 Division Street. They purchased it when they first arrived in town, "After all," says the 63- year-old, "we've been here since 1951 - that's longer than either of us has ever been in any one place in our lives - and our roots arc here. We're proud to call ourselves citizens of Bowmanville." Bowmanville." Fresh out of Picton High School in 1937, young Rex Walters began a career with Ontario Hydro in the utility's utility's Picton Area office as a clerk, at the princely sum of $12 a week for a 51 hour week. But, he says, those were Depression days so that was good money, ' However, like most other young men of his age, Mr. Walters had his career cut short with the outbreak of war. With the Hastings and Prince Edward llegi- wûiÀwmh ment, he saw service in Italy and northwest Europe. Upon his return, Mr. Walters Walters resumed his Hydro career, this time as a lineman's lineman's helper (a trade classification classification long since forgotten) forgotten) back in Picton. And his wages escalated all the way to 40 cents per hour. It was while he was serving serving time as a lineman's "gopher" that he was called to fill in for an ailing Norwood Norwood Area Manager for a few weeks. That few weeks stretched into 13 months and Mr. Walters never did return to the line crew. Rather became to Bowmanville. Bowmanville. His arrival marked the birth of the Bowmanville Bowmanville area office. ' .As he reininisces about his yearshere, he points out that until he arrived, the Area operation was merely an extension of Bowmanville Bowmanville Public Utilities Commission's Commission's operation. His office office was a back room in the PUC building on King Street. "I have had the rare privilege of selecting the entire staff, one by one, over the years. That's a pretty nice situation to find yourself yourself in, he said. "In this way, it is reasonably easy to put together a team of first class calibre and I'm pleased that this status has been maintained maintained to the present date." The first two people selected were patrolmen - fellows who walked transmission transmission line rights-of-way to look for line faults - who have long since been replaced replaced by helicopter patrols. patrols. Then came a clerk and so on until the staff levelled out at 50. But other than Mr. Walters, none of the originals originals are still at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Area office. When the Area was first formed, its customers numbered numbered 1,500. Over the years the total has ebbed and flowed to 10,000-plus and now remains in that range. Over the years, Mr. Walters Walters has seen some pretty spectacular changes in Hydro's ways of doing things, but the most noteworthy, he says is in the line construction techniques. "As recently as the 1950s it took about a dozen men using pike poles (12 to 14 foot long sticks with spikes on the end of them) to erect a pole. Now the hole can be angered,and the pole set in a matter of minutes with a ATTENTION STUDENTSI Grade 1 3 Texts for Bowmanville - Clarke and Courtice High Schools available at SAYWELL'S BOOK STORE 16 Simcoe St. South Oshawa Phone 728-8821 One of the feature attractions of the Fifth Wheel Truck Stop's Country Round-Up last Wednesday was the musical shows presented by The Robinson Robinson Family, a western group from Kentucky. The one day event at the Hwy. 401 restaurant and truck stop southwest of Bowmanville is an annual affair organized by the Fifth Wheel to thank truckers for their patronage. The all day event included musical shows, special draws and free meals for truckers. The Robinson Family is pictured above during one of their acts which not only entertained entertained truckers but a sizeable group of local people who turned out for the festivities. ENNISKILLEN and DISTRICT NEWS Rflu nnn Plnurl DntLlnlp r\_11 • 1 1 ... three-man crews using the most up-to-date line trucks and equipment on the market. market. And, a great deal of work is now performed from aerial equipment. "Customers today are far more sophisticated than they were when I first started," added Mr. Walters. Walters. It certainly would be very difficult to ignore the impact impact that computers have had on the day-to-day work in Areas. Many of the most repetitious operations such as billing, payrolls and stock records are now simple simple computer procedures. It is also) significant that we have (('almost unlimited amounts of information available available to us through'computer through'computer programs. Nowadays, he says, customers customers want to know everything everything about their electricity supply, including how it's billed, "and rightly so." Customers Customers of yesteryear were interested mainly in "getting "getting hooked up to the sys^ tern." But no matter how Hydro has changed over the years, Mr. Walters has had to change with it - there's one thing about the man who has occuppied the Bowmanville Bowmanville Area manager's chair for 32 years that will never change and that's the Rex Walters willingness to help others. As he enters retirement, Rex says he intends to "attempt "attempt to justify my continued continued existence as an active active member of this community. community. I believe that if a person person lives in a community he has a moral obligation to make a contribution toward the welfare of that community." community." Another of his beliefs is that "fate gives every individual individual at least one big chance to make it big once, and although I didn't detect it at the time, my big break was obviously joining Ontario Ontario Hydro in 1937. That's because of the people I've been associated with - both inside and outside of Ontario Ontario Hydro." He readily agrees that fate has been extremely kind to W. Rex Walters. Unfortunately a boutof ill health struck Mr. Walters in late July forcing him away from his desk a month before before his official retirement date of August 31st. According According to reports he is recuperating recuperating at home. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pethick, Scarborough were recent visitors visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wright and Betty. Mrs. Clarence Stainton and family and Todd Melford, Newtonville, Steve Thompson, Mitchell's Corners camped at Beavermead, Peterborough for two weeks. Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Stainton Stainton spent several days at King Cote Lake, Algonquin Park. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wright and Betty were among the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Art Leadbeater on Sunday in honour of Ross and Janet Parsons approaching marriage. marriage. We extend sympathy to the family and relatives of Mrs. Bernice Cole who passed away in Bowmanville Hospital on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Morrell and boys, Iroquois were Sunday Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Draper. On Sat. Tracy Howe had a surprise party for Tim. .. . .Mr. and Mrs. Paul Groene- vèld, Dari'"and Robyn, Ottèiv ville, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Depaepe, Delhi were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Groeneveld and family. Mrs. Donald Lamb, Bailie- boro spent several days with Mrs. Lome Lamb. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ormiston, Oshawa were Sat. evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wright and Betty. On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Howe had a birthday dinner for Tim with Rick and Sherry from Oshawa and Mr. and Mrs. Tim Howe attending, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Beckett visited with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Pollard at their cottage and also spent a couple of days with Mrs. Muriel Weaving, Ancaster. On Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leadbeater assisted by daughters-in-law, Candy and Karen, hosted a Jack and Jill party for son Ross and bride- to-be Janet Parsons. Family and friends attended from Bowmanville, Ajax, Oshawa, Haydon and Enniskillen also from Markham, Sutton, Islington, Islington, Downsview, Don Mills, Orono and Janet's family from Colborne. Our community extends sympathy to the family and relatives of Mr. Claude Smith who passed away in Oshawa Hospital last week. Claude will be missed by all who knew him. Sorry to hear that Mr. Lome Lamb is a patient in Bowmanville Bowmanville Hospital. Best Wishes Lome. CARNATION FLOWER SHOP HOSPITAL and SYMPATHY ARRANGEMENTS^® 5, Flowering Plants and Cut Flowers 623-7141 33 Division St., Bowmanvillè FOR THE MALE RETURNING TO SCHOOL OR WORK . . . Don't Woit For September To Lose Find Out Why It's In The Bog JOIN WEIGHT WATCHERS before September 2, 1983. Attend 12 consecutive weeks and receive a beautiful navy blue bag. 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