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i Section Two The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, May 21. 1986 3 Clje Canabian Statesman 623-3303 (*ck Durham County's Greet Family Journal Established 132 years ago in 1654. Tt. ■ m Dowmiv ntwi The Nswcaa The Orono Naive rroouceo every weoneeoey oy THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY UMTTED S2-SS King St W„ BowmanvNta, Ontario L1C 3KI JOHN M. JAMES Editor--Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. PETER PARROTT Associate Editor DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. produced by the employee» of The Canadian me» Publishing Company Limited are protected emission of the publishers. i pul foreign--$50.00a year All layout» and composition of advertisements Statesman, The Newcastle Independent and The James I by copyright and must not be reproduced without permission i $15.00 a year--6 months $6.00 strictly in advance Allhough every precaution will be taken to avoid error. The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable for any error in the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof ol such advertisement is requested in writing by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertiser and with such error or corrections plainly noted in writing thereon, and in that case il any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost ol such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. Fund-Raiser's Life Not an Easy One The life of the fund-raiser is not an easy one. Just ask the organizers of the recent Salvation Army Dinner and they'll tell you. It looked like an excellent fundraising fundraising venture. The "Army" would give out "free" tickets to a roast beef and turkey supper at the Darlington Arena and those in attendance at the meal would be encouraged to make a suitable donation to the Salvation Army. There was even Canada's most-famous most-famous marching band playing in Bowmanville Bowmanville to help publicize the event. Unfortunately, it seems as though the minds of most Town of Newcastle residents was on enjoying the glorious glorious weekend weather through bar- beques, gardening, and all the rest of the summer pastimes. In any event, the turn-out at the Salvation Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal banquet banquet was dismal, to say the least. If it's any comfort, we might point out that the banquet is not the only instance of a fund-raising venture gone wrong. Nor is it likely to be the last. In fact, just within the past few weeks we have heard of two smaller- scale efforts which would have welcomed welcomed the crowd of 200 or so which finally made it to the Salvation Army banquet. They had even fewer supporters supporters at their events, i We understand, also, that the Bowmanville Bowmanville Lions Club is suspending its annual carnival for a year because it (feared that the response might not justify the effort. The Club does, however, however, plan an alternate youth- oriented project to take the place of the traditional carnival. Fund-raising, as we have said before, before, is fraught with headaches. It's a matter of finding the right date for the event, choosing the appropriate event, pricing the tickets, selling the tickets, promoting and advertising, finding the necessary volunteers, and much more. Anybody who attempts such a massive massive chore should be commended for the effort. Getting back to our observations on the Salvation Army Dinner, we can only add that it's not too late to help. If you were one of the ticket holders who couldn't make it to Darlington, why not send in a donation now? It will help ensure that the Salvation Army has something to show for its effort and a few dollars to contribute towards its worthwhile social programs. programs. It will also show that the efforts of the many volunteers who worked on the project have not been for nothing. You may also help the Salvation Army by sponsoring a swimmer in a fund-raising swim-a-thon which has been set up to help keep this year's Red Shield Campaign afloat. Or, better better still, why not volunteer to swim yourself on June 21st. And, finally, a big thank you is in order for the many people who already already have contributed to the Red Shield Campaign through the May 6 house-to-house blitz and through the dinner. Regardless of final fund-raising tallies, tallies, your support should not go unnoticed. unnoticed. Thanks are also due, in advance, advance, to those who will continue to take up the Red Shield Appeal chal- Sea Gulls Still Doing Their Thing at East Beach r- \ Byline... by Peter Parrott j Y ■ ^ _ f \ > lenge. Province Passes Stick cm Beer ;X m-m-eti™ .k,f wtio knows better than the Tocafl'fr derman. mayor, or councillor whether or not the public is ready for wine and beer on the shelves of the neighbourhood store? It could, of course, be argued that the sale of alcoholic beverages is a matter closely related to public morals morals and health and that it's not a matter matter for every little village to make up its own mind on the subject. Laws against murder, theft, and other crimes don't vary from place to place. Some would say that the sale of intoxicants intoxicants should also be a matter decided decided by the more senior government. And a number of mayors quoted in , news reports last week said they don't relish the thought of making the decision. decision. Local politicians possibly feel they can get into enough trouble with rezoning or parking metres. They aren't going to welcome this political hot potato. The question of beer and wine sales in the corner store will certainly be around for some time to come. But by proposing that the matter should be the choice of local municipalities, the Ontario Liberals have neatly defused the issue. The suggestion that ^municipalities have the last word on whether or not beer is sold in corner stores is a stroke of genius on the part of the provincial provincial Liberals. The entire issue has the potential to become a political minefield. By now, we all know the case (pardon the pun) against beer in the corner store. It's been said, for example, that the easing of restrictions on beer sales will lead to increased drinking. It will make booze more accessible to , minors. It could leave young people under 18 without jobs in the convenience convenience shops or make the shops more vulnerable to robberies. It could result result in layoffs in the regular beer and wine outlets. But the Liberals may have hit upon the perfect solution by turning the matter over to the local municipalities. municipalities. ; It is undoubtedly a case of passing the buck. But the suggestion is not entirely entirely without merit. For there are some very logical reasons why thé towns and cities should make their ; own decision on the matter. After all, the local councils are the best judges of community standards. Post Office Is Up to Something The daily ritual of looking into the ^ The environment may not be safe for Freda and Fennel. SM'tii' referring, of iispiirseV. to the pair of email 'goldfish recently acquired by our three- year-old. The clerk at the pet store warned us to make sure that we kept them in the store's water for 24 hours before placing placing them in regular tap water. The reason? Well, it seems that the chlorine has to escape from the tap water. Otherwise it will burn the little fishes' gills and before too long they could be found floating on top of the water rather than in it. In other words, tap water 1 has to stand for 24 hours JÔijUl >x it's" : safc enough for tropical fish to swim in it. And, need I remind you, that this is the stuff we are drinking, brushing our teeth in, etc. Now, I'm not saying chlorine should be removed removed from drinking water. In that case, we'd probably face far worse perils from cholera or some other dreaded disease. disease. But I am suggesting this story of the effect of tap water on goldfish is a good example of how we have managed to foul up the environment. If tapwater is unsafe for goldfish, how many other things surrounding surrounding us in everyday life are potentially harmful to bur health? It seems to me as though we only see the big environmental disasters disasters such as Chernobyl or the Bhopal, India, incident incident as endangering health. People have to be injured or forced to evacuate their homes and then be filmed for the six o'clock news before before we clue in to the idea that something harmful has happened. And for some untold reason, we consider a nuclear reactor to be far more dangerous than the fallout occurring every day from routine emissions emissions of smokestacks, car exhausts, pesticides, and the like. It seems to me that environmental environmental issues are ignored because they represent a very distant threat. There is no immediate immediate and visible danger from too much pollution in the atmosphere. atmosphere. People won't take action on an environmental environmental matter in the way that they will take steps OUR POET'S CORNER to have a stoplight installed installed at a busy intersection where children have to cross en route to school. : ' Moreover, • ■ ■ environmental environmental issues in the past seem to have been monopolized by fringe groups. In some minds, an environmentalist is a rather naive individual who eats granola, wears his hair and beard too long and still carries a picket sign to protest rallies. rallies. In other words, environmentalism environmentalism is somehow somehow linked to the now- unfashionable 1960s. Perhaps it is time that we brought it back into fash ion. And maybe it's time that concern for our land, water, and air was expressed not only by latter-day flower children children but also by a wider, cross section of the public. public. I enjoy electric lights, central heating, automobiles, automobiles, and chemicals chemicals that kill weeds in my lawn. But, increasingly, I'm wondering about the price of these things. After, all, if the environment environment isn't safe for the goldfish, Freda and Fennel, Fennel, how long will it remain remain safe for my daughter? daughter? mailbox to see what the postie has brought us may soon become a thing ; of the past. , Already, many new subdivisions lack the door-to-door postal service . provided in older neighbourhoods. The postman on his or her rounds has been replaced by a row of big, green boxes with locked cubbyholes. And a more recent development suggests that daily postal delivery may be replaced by postal service three days of the week. Or, at least, that's the proposal that has been suggested by the experts as a way of : making the post, office more cost-efficient. cost-efficient. In view of the changing nature of communications, this option may be feasible. Certainly few can deny the fact that the use of the mails is different different now than it was 25 years ago or more. x It seems to us that the use of the ' telephone is far more common than jthe habit of personal letter-writing. And, while a few anniversary cards, birthday cards, and other special occasion occasion greetings may find their way through the mail slot there are very few people who correspond to one another on paper. i; And, for that matter, some busi- ■ nesses don't seem,to rely on the mail ' the way they used to. Countless TV ,, advertisements for courier com- I panies remind us that important ? packages should be handled by specialists. specialists. Others extol the virtues of "telemarketing", "telemarketing", which basically refers to selling things by telephone. Where does all of this leave the post office? Well, newspapers and magazines still rely on the mail for delivery and probably will continue to do so. Bills for charge accounts will still come through the mail. And, of course, the mail will be used to deliver deliver all of those unsolicited letters, brochures, and catalogues so widely circulated. It is probably in this area of unsolicited unsolicited mail that the greatest growth has occurred. And what is the hurry to receive this kind of information on the doorstep? Mail order businesses still continue continue to record large volumes of sales -- perhaps because nobody can resist racing home to discover that the long- awaited bulky package has at last arrived. arrived. None of today's mail usage really requires day by day or house to house delivery. And yet, one cannot help but wonder if the cessation of household household deliveries or weekday deliveries deliveries is another step in the piece- by-piece destruction of the post office. office. The post office has built up a wealth of expertise, not to mention a considerable network for delivery of printed material. It would be most unfortunate if this very important institution were to fall by the wayside. And, of course, the slow death of the post office would result in thousands of trained and qualified people losing their livelihood. Rather than cutting back on postal service, it seems to be more appropriate appropriate to modernize the post office, making the changes that are needed to see this institution through the 21st century. The following poem was borrowed from the Parish Magazine of a church in Oshawa. Ten thousand paths may lead to God, What right is mine to say That he who fails to walk with me Has missed the only way? What right of mine to arrogate Such grasp of finite mind, And boast, while others vainly seek The God I seek and find? How could the God I love and trust Point out to only me The way which travel, all men must, Or die eternally? I'm not so wise that He denies The light to all save me, While other hearts as true as mine He loves with less degree. So, if the path we tread should lead Where bright cathedrals rise Or weathered church, or rustic shrine Point upward to the skies ; Each sincere traveller will arrive Where lights of welcome shine, And myriads will be there who walked A different path than mine. Anon. Still More Festival Participants on Flute I : i ' • s si : 1 \Mt ' ■ i* 1 vy. <VV • '* -, >* sut These are just a few of the students of Lynda Shewchuk who recently received awards at the Oshawa Kiwanis Music Festival. The front row, from left, consists of Michelle Tremeer, Melizza Avila, and Cathy Smart. The middle row includes Tina Bryant, Veronica Harris, Jennifer Robinson and Paula Rees. In the back row are Chris White, Nancy Vanderbelt, Michelle Lowry, and Anita Vandrunen. More Festival Winners at Oshawa These four students of Mrs. Langley were among the winners in the piano competition held at the annual Oshawa Kiwanis Music Festival. In the back row are: Chris Langley, who placed third and Michelle Smith, who finished second in her class. The front row includes Nathan Rckker (left) who won a third prize and Ryan Leppert, who also placed third in his category. Joel Siebenga, another winner of a third place certificate, is absent from the photo. Many of Lynda Shew- chuk's music students participated participated recently in the Oshawa Kiwanis Music Festival. Festival. In the beginners' Flute Solo, Jessica Stevenson, Pam Mosies, Cathy Smart, and Veronica Harris performed performed very well. Sharon Cully, Paula Rees and Michelle Tremeer participated participated well in the pre- grade II flute solo. In the grade II flute solo there was lots of competition competition (13 soloists). Alison Brown, Phillip Brown, Michelle Lowry, Amy Logan, Kim Oldejans, Jenny Rohr, Anita Vandrunen (1st prize) and Tracy Vatchcr (second prize). All performed performed very well in this group. Jennifer Brooks, Lynn Bailey, and Laurie White played nicely in the grade IV group. Jennifer Robinson and Lara Shaw performed successfully successfully in grade II clarinet solos. Melizza Avila did excellent excellent work in a grade IV piano solo and Chris White placed fourth out of sixteen in a grade III piano solo. In (lie clarinet duct class, S liera Hastings and Janet Myers played beautifully, placing first. A very good quartet was performed by Shera, Janet, Jennifer Robinson, and Lara Shaw (second place). The following flute , groups performed very well in the festival: Amy Logan, Phillip Brown, Tammy Maclvor, and Sharon Cully (3rd place); Jenny Rohr, Michelle Tremeer, Leanne Aptcd, and Sharon Shaw; Laurie White, Tina Bryant, Nancy Vanderbelt, and Paula Rees (second place); Anita Van Drunen, Michelle Lowry, Alison Brown, Kim Oldejans (1st place); Debi Bizi, Jennifer Brooks, Trisha Veo, and Dory Strikwcrda (1st); and Karen Hamblin, Laurie Morton and Debi Bizi (1st).