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Mysterious Object Puzzles Local Historians V ■ ■jr* ■ '^1 This photograph was taken in July of 1987 on the property of what people still refer to as the Bowmanville Boys Training School property. It is cast out of concrete, hollow in the back, with a very evident tiled cross design on its front. Speculation leads us to believe that it might have been used as an "altar" • for outdoor church services; yet in conversations with several individuals who were employed at the training school, no one claims to know what it is. The object in question is water damaged and growing lichens in several areas. It is located quite a distance east of the main entrance road. If you can solve this little mystery, please call the museum at 623-2734 during regular office hours. Waverley School Happenings Terrific Teacher Assistants By Kelly Browne Logo We have four Teacher Assistants Assistants at Waverley, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Peldiak, Mrs. Cooke and Mrs. Adley. Mrs. Wilson works in Mrs. Ough's grade one classroom. She works with the students individually individually with words and helps them get ready for gym, library, recess and. hometime. She also helps Mrs. Ough mark math and spelling, make booklets for "the students and clean-up. Mrs. Wilson took a college course called Behavioral Sciences. Sciences. She has been at Waverley Waverley for two weeks now and she has enjoyed them. Mrs. Peldiak is working with our Junior Special Education Education Teacher, Mrs. Carmichael. Carmichael. She spends a lot of her time with one student who needs help getting around, but she still nas time to help the other students in a lot of subjects. She has been a parent parent volunteer for seven years, and she enjoys working working with children. She has been a Teacher Assistant since November and she likes it. Mrs. Cooke works in Mrs. tenWesteneind's Kindergarten Kindergarten classroom. She helps the children with all of their activities. activities. She supervises outdoor outdoor play and she does singing singing with the class. Mrs. Cooke took her college courses because she likes working with children. Mrs. Adley helps Mrs. Robinson Robinson and her Junior Kindergarten. Kindergarten. She listens to the children's stories and writes them down to staple to the child's painting. She plans ONTARIO GOVERNMENT NOTICE HIGHWAY 401 WIDENING BROCK ROAD TO Irn COURTICE ROAD PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRES Your Views Are Invited On Widening Highway 401 From Pickering to Newcastle Background In response to transportation demands in the Region of Durham, a major preliminary design study was initiated in January 1987 by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation to examine potential improvements to Highway 401 between Brock Road in the Town of Pickering to Courtice Road in the Town of Newcastle. The two-phase study is investigating ultimate widening requirements requirements to maximize highway capacity and determine the future locations and configurations of interchanges. Current Status Phase I of the study is nearing completion. Conceptual widening widening alternatives have been developed and evaluated on a preliminary basis and the results of this exercise have been presented to representatives of the affected municipalities. Public Involvement The study is being conducted under a process which meets the requirements of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act. Accordingly, public information centres will be held as follows: 1. Tuesday, February 9,1988 » 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Main Foyer Whitby Municipal Building 575 Rossland Road East Whitby, Ontario 2. Wednesday, February 10,1988 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Ontario Room Ajax Community Centre Centennial Road Ajax, Ontario 3. Thursday, February 11,1988 4p.m.to9p.m. Oshawa Holiday Inn (Guild Room East) Bloor Street East Oshawa, Ontario The purpose of these sessions is to introduce the study and provide all interested parties with the opportunity to review and comment on the conceptual widening alternatives under investigation, as well as the results of the preliminary evaluation. evaluation. If you would like additional information, please contact: Mr. P. Shaver Senior Project Manager Ontario Ministry of Transportation Planning and Design Section Central Region 500 Yonge Street Willowdale, Ontario M2N 6E9 Tel: (416) 224-7579 or Mr. A. Minchev Project Manager Fenco Engineers Inc. Atria North --- Phase II 2235 Sheppard Avenue East Willowdale, Ontario M2J 5A6 Tel: (416) 756-1333 Fair meeting was well-attended Bleoketook end Arm News by Joyce Kelly The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville. February 3. 1988 7 New Board ofDirectors for Visual Arts Centre V/ V a r Nf \, Ministry of Transportation crafts, and has suggestions for the children who don't know what to do. She sometimes sometimes cooks with them and helps the children get their outdoor clothes on. Mrs. Adley Adley was a Kindergarten teacher in England and enjoys enjoys working with children. Have fun, Teacher Assistants! Assistants! Mrs. tenWesteneind and Her Kindergarten Class By Heather Watson Mrs. tenWesteneind has a senior kindergarten in the morning and a junior kindergarten kindergarten in the afternoon. The classroom has a lot of colourful colourful paintings and drawings. The class is making octa- pusses. They have a fishing centre where they pretend that they are in a boat wearing wearing life jackets and are fishing. fishing. They have a climber which is similar to a monkey bar. They climb and play gymnastics on it. They also have a baking centre. Today at the baking centre they were making boats out of cheese, celery and a toothpick. toothpick. They have a water and sand centre. They pour the materials into a-jar and pour it out again. They have a reading and püzzlè' céntre. Both centres are a quiet centre. centre. They always have a computer in their class. Each student uses the computer. Today they were doing a leap frog game. Have fun with your sea activities. • Conservation Officer By Mark Brooks Save Wildlife! If you'd like to know how some wildlife wildlife is saved, listen to A1 McFaden and other conservation conservation officers. On Monday, January 25, A1 McFaden came to Waverley and gave a slide show presentation on his job. He told us what habitat habitat means, which is food, liquid, liquid, shelter and space. He mentioned that he needs a f un to shoot deer that have een hit by a car. Some endangered endangered species are the osprey, osprey, red tailed hawk, types of fish and_ the beaver. We had the presentation in the gym. The conservation officers officers headquarters is in Lindsay. Lindsay. Conservation officers are the reason we still have quite a lot of wildlife. Library Helpers By Mark Brooks "Look at ail the books we have to put away!" exclaims one of the library helpers after after he checks his name off on the list. They dust and tidy up for Mrs. Anyan in the library. library. The library helpers card tons of books then help in putting the books on the shelves. Everyday making the library each morning except except for Friday they card, put books away ana sometimes sometimes they dust and wash the shelves. Everyday people think our library is attractive and it's very neat. Locating books, magazines ana records in the Waverley library library would be a cinch. If you're a little student you will easily find a book in the easy section. Waverley's library library is the best! Central Public School News Skating We went skating on two Wednesdays, January 20 and January 27, with Mr. St. John, Mr. Hobson, their helpers and their students. It was fun. We skated with orange orange pylons that plowed the snow and made the ice slip- pier. The small pylons were one foot tall and tno big ones ' were about two feet tall.' Then wo loft the pylons on the ice and people skated around thorn. Some of us did power skating. You put one hand behind vour back, curve one foot and push rind then you glide with the other. You melt the ice! The skating was really worth the walk! Darryl Humber, Gr. 2 Annual Meeting Blackitock Agricultural Society A large number of members attended attended the annual Blackstock Fair Board meeting at the Recreation Centre on Thurs. evening. After a warm welcome was extended to everyone by President Roily Coy and Grace said by Dale Van Camp. A bountiful pot-luck dinner was enjoyed. enjoyed. David Petrie introduced the Head Table and other guests, and introduced introduced the guest speaker Mr. John Lester from Lindsay. John is Secretary-Manager of the Lindsay Exhibition and also the Assistant Director of the District 4. In his informative informative and entertaining speech, John emphasized the important of fairs to relive rural Ontario in this space-age. Fairs are the best value of entertainment and education for the price of admission. He also spoke of the importance of image and the need to present a pleasing one. John also talked of the need of a positive and enthusiastic attitude for all the fair organizers. Elizabeth Kelly thanked John on behalf of those present and presented him with a gift of appreciation. , Joan Bayley and Evelyn Trapp of the Blackstock Lioness cjiib presented Roily with a 1500 cheque to be put towards the sprucing up of the fair grounds. An Agricultural Service Diploma was ready to be presented to Herb Swain for excellent and long service to our agricultural society. Unfortunately Unfortunately Herb was ill and unable to be present for this special presentation presentation of the highest award in Agricultural Societies. Treasurer Joyce Kelly presented a favourable financial statement. Reports were given by the Committee Committee Chairman and the Homecraft Director covering all aspects of a very successul 1967 Fair. ' Dale Van Camp, chairman of the Field Crops Competition presented to the winner Dave Frew of the Don Frew & Sons Farms, the Hall Trophy and a cheque. Second prize was won by Richard Van Camp and accepted by Lawrence while third place was won by Lawrence McLaughlin. In his President's remarks, Roily Roily appreciated the efforts of many hard-working directors and excellent excellent weather to make a very successful successful fair. The fair is one of the community's remaining family- oriented events. He is pleased with the large number of young people taking an active part in Blackstock Fair. He called a Fair Board meeting for Thurs. Jan. 28th to make plans for the coming year. John Lester presided for the election election of the Directors and Associate Directors. Lawrerice and Linda McLaughlin were appointed the auditors for 1968 and Joyce Kelly as secretary-treasurer. Betty Lester, Convention Manager of the upcoming O.A.A.S. Convention in mid-February spoke of the highlights planned. A list of directors hoping to attend was made. Ileen Crawford, retiring District Homecraft Representative brought greetings from the District and also urged Fair Directors to visit at least one other fair to pick up new ideas. She also congratulated Elizabeth Kelly for becoming Assistant Homecraft Representative of the District. Barbara Weese of the O.M.A. brought greetings and spoke on the 4-H parts of our fair. Joan Graham showed slides of the 1987 Blackstock Fair that she and Harold Wright had taken at the fair. The evening concluded with notes of appreciation by President Roily to those who had contributed tojhe success of the evening. j," There were twelve tables at the Tuesday evening of cards with the following winners: 1. Nerta Masters; 2,-Mary Foots; 3. Carl Gimblett; 4. Ethel Goble; 5. Loraa Swain; 6. Albert Watts; Low- Reta Storie; Draws- Gladys Potts, Georgina McLaughlin, Harold Burgess, Ethel Goble. '• . . - ,, /. < , The Visual Arts Centre's Board of Directors for the upcoming year is shown here following the Centre's annual meeting held Monday, January 25. Seated in the front row, from left, are: Eva Kraft, treasurer; Marianne Zakarow, president; Patricia Best, vice president; and Elfriede Haunsberger, sec- At St. John's Anglican Church on Sunday morning, quite a number of former members and other visitors joined the congregation on the occasion occasion of Rev. Ansley Tucker's last service as their regular minister. Following church a reception was held when Ansley was presented with two china mugs from the ACW. The congregation joined with its sister congregation at Port Perry and presented her with a compact disc player and a hand woven chasuble chasuble with embroidered and appliqued symbols. We wish Ansley well in her new position at the Church of the Redeemer at Bloor St., & Avenue Rd., Toronto. The interim Priest at St. John's will be ReV. Cannon Bob Kuyler. Jamie and Mark Attfield of Pickering spent a few days last week with their grandparents Merrill Merrill and Norma Van Camp. Last week Mrs. Mildred Hope hosted a Business and Planning Meeting for the Friendly Visitors. Helen Jewell, President conducted the business of planning programmes programmes for the next six months for this group which represents Mental Health. Seven volunteers attended. The Y.M.C.A. Floor Hockey has resumed following Christmas holiday holiday time. In the Junior section the Leafs defeated the Bombers 9-5. The Leaf scorers were Tommy Waters 4, Dillon Weber 2, Jason Logan 2 and Doug Lynde 1, while Brad Morton 4 and Carle Davis 1 scored for the Bombers. In the Senior Division the Bruins outscored the Canadians 12-4. The scorers for the winners were Dan- I -• . " - retary. In the back row, from left, are the following directors: Larry O'Connor, Sue Stickley, Bob Shafer, Alison Strike, Blaikie Rowsell, Joan Greenway, Patricia Patricia Eyman, Pat Irwin-Lycett, and Mike Vatcher. Absent is Joe Dalrymple, also a director on the Visual Visual Arts Centre Board. Oshawa Ski Club Racing Results On Saturday, January 23rd at Oshawa Ski Club, the Oshawa Mountain Dew Yahoos Yahoos defeated Skyloft Silver 119 to 77. The top five male racers were: Rob App 102.19, Kenny Kenny Bycok 5, Mike Hepburn 3, Paul Bycock 2, Chris Bryant 1, Jocelyn Agnew 1, while Brendon Agnew, Kendall Chorostecki, Peter Simms and Mike Leach each scored one for the Canadians. Mrs. Keith Van Camp visited her daughter Leanne and Jim O'Donnell and Ashley at Kitchener last week. Glad to report that Baby Ashley is feeling much better again. dal Chorostecki 104.48, Rob Hercia 105.17, Ken Mac- Phearson 107.37, Brian Anderson Anderson 110.07. The top female racers from Oshawa Ski Club were: Kerri Scheider 111.74, Kristin Kristin Miller 115.72, Andrea Vallancourt 119.25, Lindsay Hadcock 121.39, Sarah Armstrong Armstrong 122.08. Sunday's Races On Sunday, January 24, 1988 at the Oshawa Ski Club the Chedoke Gold from Hamilton Hamilton defeated the Oshawa Ninja's 123 to 69. If You Hate To Pay Sales Tax ...READ THIS! 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