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The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanvillc. September 9. 1987 II Orono Fair fiddler's contest commencing at 8:30 pm. Saturday's activities include: the Dairy Princess competition; horse, rabbit, poultry and farm implement shows; and plenty of homebaked goodies. Sunday wraps up with harness horse racing starting at 1:30 p.m.; a sheep show; gospel singing; and a. country and western jamboree. The evening's entertainment is a hunter and jumper show in front of the grandstand starting at 8:30 p.m. The Durham Central Fair dates back to 1936. From Page One Prior to that, there were fairs in Bowmanvillc, Newcastle Village and Orono. Organizers decided to group together in 1936 and have repeatedly come up with a very popular annual fair. Last year's attendance topped the 12,000 mark, and organizers expect a similar response this year. The "excitement of the fair" is what draws people year after year, according according to Mr. Ransberry. "There is no place you can find the interests for the dollars." he says. "There is something for everything for everyone at the fair." Rotarian Recalls his Youth in the Canadian West Harvey Partner thanks Rotarian Doug Park for his insightfull talk on life in the old Canadian west. Mr. Park spoke at last Thursday's Rotary Club Meeting. by Grelchen Ballantync Stories of life in Canada's old west kept the Rotarians of Bowmanvillc entertained entertained last Thursday when Doug Park gave a lunchtime lunchtime talk during the Rotary weekly meeting. Having joined in July of this year, Mr. Park is the newest member of the Rotary Rotary Club of Bowmanville. Mr. Park and his wife moved into the area after his retirement retirement from a successful career with Ontario Hydro .as controller for Central Region's Branch. Northern Saskatchewan, not the most developed area in Canada in the 1930's, was where Doug Park grew up. His home was in a small community with 327 inhabitants inhabitants -- a location he described as "smack dab in the middle of three Indian reserves." The conveniences of home ended with the roof over one's head, explained Mr. Park but that was a way of life in Canada's North West . ■ "There was no running water, no sewers or indoor plumbing. We prayed a lot for rain back then. Heating consisted of a gravitational furnace which sent hot air up in columns and only run-, ning around the room would circulate it. My sister and I would fight over who got to get dressed over the vent!" recalled Mr. Park. One thing that hasn't changed in northern Saskatchewan Saskatchewan are the harsh winters. Mr. Park remembered remembered snow arriving in early November and bringing bringing all travel to a standstill until April or May. Batteries Batteries were hauled out of cars and the roadways filled in with snow. No one lutd ever heard of a snowplow! "We would settle in for a long cold winter. Our houses were not insulated and the floor was dirt, so with temperatures falling to 30 and 40 degrees below zero keeping warm became top priority," said Mr. Graduate Park. Often the tiny community was oblivb ous to what was happening in the rest of the world. But when the Second World War began, men in even the remote corners of Canada were called on to serve, their country. Mr. Park was only a teenager teenager at the time but the boys in the community felt the ef-' fects of war as they became responsible for more of the labor in the town, while the older men were at war. Even with the war raging, summers were still full of adventures for the youth. "Hunting and fishing were all within walking distance distance of our home. On some HAYDON Anita Arora. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arorn, formerly formerly of Courtico, graduated from the University of Toronto Toronto with a bachelor of science degree in Pharmacy. A former student of Courtico Secondary School, Anita, is presently completing her internship internship and has accepted a position at; Toronto General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Garrard and Barry attended the fortieth fortieth wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Nelson (Leona) Wright at the Solina Hall on Sunday, August 30th. Mr. and Mrs. Jim (Verna) Nelson, Oshawa, and Mr. and Mrs. Micky (Joan) Burns and family from Blackstock were Sunday supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Millson. Mr. and Mrs. Roy (Lil) Ashton, Ashton, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernie (Liz) Adams and family, all of Blackstock, were Friday evening visitors with John and Diane Adams. Jr. John Bertrim was a Friday, Friday, visitor with Mr. and Mrs. J. Adams. Mr. and Mrs. John Adams called on Mr. and Mrs. John (Cora) White, Courtice, on Sunday. Mrs. Norma Kennedy called on Mrs. Janet McCormick McCormick and Jessica, Newcastle, on Thursday. Mr. ana Mrs. Charles Campbell, Orono, visited on Sunday and had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Kennedy and family. We hear Mr. Donald Pickles while holidaying in England has decided to stay. We wish him well. Mr. and Mrs. Ross (Jean) Ashton attended Bethesda Decoration Sunday services at Bethesda Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Alt (Jean) Garrard took in the Port Perry Perry Fair on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Deb Potts, Barbara and Stephanie, of Long Sault, were with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Potts for the Labour Day Weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Spry and Ashley, Toronto, who have been vacationing on the East Coast, were weekend visitors with Jack and Gladys Potts. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jones, Maureen and Heather were on their way home from the trailer and Mr. and Mrs, John Jones, Peter and Susan, Oshawa, were Sunday callers callers and supper guests with their parents, Jack and Blanche Jones and Sandy. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Potts, Dob and Sue Potts and girls Jim and Mary Spry and Ashley were Saturday supper supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. Bill (Kim) Potts and John. Retires from 31 Years of Mail Delivery Near Orono by Grelchen Ballantync Since 1956, Jean Allen has driven over one quarter of a million miles delivering delivering mail. But on August 31 she drove her early morning mail route for the last time and has now begun a well- deserved retirement. Mrs. Allen began collecting collecting the mail from a liny office office in Lcskard and delivered delivered it through rural Orono. She started her route making making 68 stops with 88 customers customers At the time, she earned $1,200 a year. Thirty-one years later, Mrs. Allen was delivering to 301 stops with 309 customers on the very same route. But by this time, she was making $12,000 a year. The postal service has always always been a part of Mrs. Allen's life. She started helping out her father in the Kendal Post Office as a young girl. After her marriage marriage to Vance Allen she took on the R.R. 2 delivery in Orono. "I loved the job but it wasn't always easy. When I started there were no automatic automatic cars, so I'd have to keep my foot on the clutch and brake, yet still lean across the seat to get the afternoons my father would take me for a drive around the countryside and we would meet the farmers and listen to them talk about the world or the community," said Mr. Park. But the north could no hold onto Doug Park. He headed east and was hired by Burlington Hydro. He moved through the ranks of Hydro from mail boy to his final position of keeping two vice-presidents in line with a $500 million budget. Now in the early stages of retirement, Mr. Park is busy with Rotary and helping certain disabled people towards towards a better life. mail in the box," said Mrs. Allen. "But I never ran into any serious trouble, I got stuck in the snow a few times and rained on a lot with my open windows, but I only had one accident in my 31 years of driving." It's a good record for someone who has driven the equivalent qf 10 times around the world, and that accident wasn't even Mrs. Allen's fault! Over the years Mrs. Allen has seen a lot of changes in Canada Post and the countryside countryside she's driven through. In the early years, with fewer deliveries, Mrs. Allen got a chance to know her customers. "When I was working out of Lcskard, there were a couple of old bachelors with only a team of horses and no car, so if they ran out of bread or milk they'd just phone over to the store and ask me to bring over the supplies on my delivery," recalled Mrs. Allen. "Every now and then on the colder days I would be asked in for coffee." With over four limes the number of deliveries and the constant arrival of new residents, Mrs. Allen has lost touch with a lot of her customers. According to Mrs. Allen a few of the other changes in the post haven't been for the best. "When we delivered mail in the early years, it was a situation where the mail had to go through, it was a special job. Now the at titude is different," Mrs. Allen explains. "People are working for the money now, not because they provide a vital service to the public,"she says. Mrs. Allen adds, however, that the Orono Post Office is part of the "old breed" and that staff there care about their work. The satisfaction of the occupation occupation for Mrs. Allen was doing a good job. "People used to be able to set their clocks by my delivery, although although it's not the same with all the deliveries today." Mrs. Allen said she will miss the job but is really looking forward forward to the time to herself. No doubt the Orono Post Office Office will miss Mrs. Allen's reliable service as well! Y.l : X V, I Jean Allen makes her last postal delivery on the vice to Canada Post, Mrs. Allen is now beginning her RR#2 Orono route. After 31 years of dedicated ser- retirement. ngratuli Miss Emily Dewsbury who turned one year old early in August and to Sarah Dewsbury Dewsbury who had her birthday on Aug. 26 and is now five years old. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd (Jean) Slemon accompanied by Mr. Stanley Taylor, Blackstock, were Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Taylor of Norland. They also went to the Kin- mount Fair for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Fred (Reanna) Ashton, Miss Marlene Marlene Madore and Jo Anne and Elliotte from Toronto were Sunday dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Bert (Freda) Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Graw- barger and girls spent the weekend in Gananoque at their parents (Mr. and Mrs. P. Walsh's) cottage for a family reunion. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Read, Cambridge, were Sunday luncheon guests with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ■ Weir Swain. MacDonald Fifth in Latest Race Randy MacDonald continued continued his assault on the Players Challenge Series with a fifth place finish in a recent race in Mont Tremblant, Tremblant, Quebec. , The Hampton resident qualified his Cliff Mills Pontiac Pontiac Firebird, 12th overall in the seventh race of the series. Randy is presently ten points out of sixth place in the standings, and with the final race being held at Mos- port Park, September 18-20, Randy hopes to catch the sixth spot. In the race in Quebec on September 6, Randy came from behind, advancing a position per lap. in his quest for a top five finish. On the famed Navarone corner, Randy made the same move on five different competitors as he drove around the hair pin turn. 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