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I 24 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 15,1989 Christmas Bazaar Held in Solina An entertainment treat is coming coming to Blackstock Recreation Centre Centre on this Friday evening, November 17, when comedian Rodd Beattie will present his "Letters to Wingfield Farms, Part 1" Anyone who has seen either of his monologues has nothing but rave reports of this hilarious performer. At the time of writing this column tickets are still available from O.N.O. Treasurer Sandra Hoskin at 986-5574. On Saturday, November 11, Donna and David Kyte, Mike Venerri attended Karen Kyte's graduation at York University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Pyschology. Congratulations, Karen. Dr. Robert McClure was an overnight Saturday guest of Re v. and Mrs. D. Davis before attending attending Nestleton United Church Anniversary Anniversary where the former United Church Moderator was guest speaker for a capacity congregation. congregation. Many from here attended attended this special event. The Christmas is just around the corner and to help held. All money raised will go back into the communi- Sdwith toeNœtletonquintèt people get ready for it, the Solina Junior Women's In- ty for various projects. Getting into the Yuletide spirit [or special music stitute held a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, Novem- are (from the left): Patti Robinson, Gail Hoskin and ber 4. This is the fourth annual bazaar the group has Gail Clark. Comedy on top at Centre Students and Staff Busy with Events At Vincent Massey THE WALLPAPER CENTRE'S Buy One Oet One DOUBLE (D.R.) ROLL Sale Continues •ON A BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF IN-STOCK WALLPAPER* THE WALLPAPER CENTRE OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL NINE CT OSHAWA 140 SIMC0E ST. S. (JustS. of John) 579-1655 AJAX 37 HARWOOD AVE. S. (BETWEEN HWY. 401 & HWY. 2) 686-0719 SCARBOROUGH 793 MARKHAM ROAD (BETWEEN ELLESMERE & LAWRENCE) 431-4458 On Thursday evening, May Shortridge represented Blackstock Women's Institute who nominated Jill Van Camp for the Junior Women of Durham of Distinction along with Jill and her mother Ruby Van Camp attended attended the Awards Dinner held at the Polish Hall, Oshawa. Many from this area have attended attended or will attend the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Helen Dorrell is visiting relatives in the area while her son Darcy is showing showing his sheep at the Royal. On Sunday Roy and Edith McLaughlin were noon dinner guests of their daughter Deb and Ron Vice, Emily, Rachael and Sean of Solina celebrating Sean's first birthday. On Sunday afternoon Nancy 1 and Bob Bryans visited with Marg and George Bryans, Cameron and had supper with Bill and Orlee Bryans in Fenelon Falls along with Cliff Perryman, Hamilton. Later all went to pay their respects to John Sheehey, 36 year old son of longtime friends Peg and Vern (Swamp) Sheehey of Fenelon. John had had a ten year battle with a brain tumour. His funeral was held on Monday. Also on Monday evening a close friend of Nancy and Bob's died in Princess Margaret Hospital after only she months illness. Janeen Prout of Bowmanville was buried on Wednesday at Zion Cemetery with Bob acting as a pall bearer. Our thoughts are with Nancy and Bob at these.times of loss of loved ones, iO " , '. On Sunday afternoon Roy and Edith McLaughlin joined the many friends of: Grace Smith celebrating Grace's 75th birthday at Tyrone Hall. Grace was Edith's neighbour from Long Saulte Days. On Sunday Gerald and Joyce Kelly visited his mother Mrs. Edna Edna Kelly at Bobcaygeon. Gerald's sister Barbara Park of Mississauga and his aunt Mrs. Ted Gilmour of Lindsay also were present. Better health is wished for. our neighbour Joe Gauley who suffered suffered a painful injury to his foot. Blackstock Senior Citizens' Tuesday evening card party had only 7 tables due to a poor night weather-wise. Winners were 1. Betty Barnett, 2. Eileen Warder, 3. Jean Mahaffy, 4. Leslie Taylor, 5. Ann Taylor, 6. Verna Robinson. Low - Ruby Cochrane. Draws - James Emerton, Leslie Taylor, Earla Hill, Jim Gibson. Muriel and Henry Wotten recently moved into their beautiful new home on Purple Hill road on their farm. Best wishes for much happiness in your new home. WE 66 FORGOT 95 THE AIR CONDITIONING Great Savings 1990 Astro Van Two-tone maroon, V6, automatic 8 passenger, power locks and windows, cassette. A beauty. special O/iflnn List $22408.00 FORGET-ME-NOT PRICE Terry Holmes, Sales Manager - Ed Coull - Phil Watts - Scott Eakins - Howard Smith J. E. QUANTRILL Chevrolet • Oldsmobile • Cadillac Ltd. Hwy. No. 2 East 885-4575 Port Hope On November 5, little 6t4 week old Cassandra Wickiam was baptized baptized at St. John's Anglican Church by Rev. Charles Bull. She had many guests at the service including including her sponsor Catherine Corden of Port Perry, her grandfather grandfather Brian Storey and cousin Katie Collins of California her aunt Joanne and uncle Rick Kim- merly and cousins Brandie, Tyson and Derrek from Selby, Ont., her uncle Wayde and Kathy Storey and cousins Stev and Laura of Ajax, her godmother, her greatgrandmother greatgrandmother Anne Prescott and her grandmother Ruby Wickiam of Cadmus. After the service Daniel and Lorena Wickiam and Klarisa and Daniell entertained all the baptism guests at a luncheon luncheon at their home south of Blackstock. Other luncheon guests were Joanne Russell, Lacey, Dana and Eric and Marg and Heinz Vehof. With the local arena having opened for operation, the winter sports have begun. There are still openings in the curling schedules and various others. If you neglected registering, there is still time, so you are urged to call someone on the executive to join. Blackstock W.I. Nov. 1/8» After a lovely dessert and social time, President Jean Adams opened the meeting after which she read the poem "In Flanders Fields" minutes were read and the Treasurer's report was given. Carol Thornton and Edith McLaughlin, our area Convention delegates gave informative reports. Centennial Poster to promote promote W.I. members, old, middle- age and young with children are already being made. January 16-19, there will be workshop in Guelph for Presidents and Secretaries. $407.00 were received received from Pennies for Friendship. At the Convention dinner the speaker was a native of nearby Solina, Rev. Nancy Knox. We .received glowing reports of her speech. A gift will be given at the Commencement Commencement to Sharon Dyer as the most improved student. May Shortridge will accompany accompany Jill Van Camp, whom the W.I. nominated for Young Woman of Distinction to the Awards Dinner in Oshawa. Margaret Van Camp replied to the Motto - Waste Not, Want Not, Roll Call was a pattern or a made- up quilt block. A wide variety of crafts were displayed - knitted sweaters, bead work, crocheted afghans, quilts, latch hook Christmas tree skirt and including a couch cushion that unfolds to a cover. Meeting closed with O'Canada. Helen Bradburn P.R.O. Mrs. Read's class is a very good class! They are Clifford crazy right now. Clifford is a big red dog and is featured in books by Norman Norman Bridwell. They have seen a movie about him and they are making puppets ana pictures of Clifford. The children have enjoyed listening listening to Clifford books and reading some, for themselves. themselves. Mrs. Read has a giant Clifford on her bulletin board. Every day they write in their journals. The class is continuing their unit on colours. colours. The colour white is the special colour of this week. If anyone has something white, it is taped to a chart and a sentence is written about it. They certainly are busy workers. ' by Allison Coe Last Wednesday, I interviewed interviewed Mrs. Gahagan. She told me that the class was doing lots of Remembrance Day activities. They were singing Remembrance Days songs, writing poems and stories and making posters for the Royal Legion contest. The class was reading a book called Uncommon Courage. Courage. It is about Canadian secret agents. In Environmental Studies Studies they have started a unit on Transportation. Each student student will do a project on one type of transportation. In math they are adding and' subtracting with large numj. bers. by Gregg Ogilvie' Many things have been going on at our school over, the last few weeks. The let*' tering has been removed! from the side of the porta bles. We were really glad to! see that eyesore vanish. The construction has begun begun for our addition. Eventually, Eventually, six more portables will be needed to house the classes that will have to move during the work. Volleyball try-outs are now being held. Mrs. Strong is coaching the girls and Mr. Ralfe is coaching the boys. by Tammy Bunce. ABORTION It's time for the facts to be known Abortions arc performed to preserve the physical MYTH: health of the mother. FACT: In a recent book, Dr. Henry Morgentalcr states that "medicine has over the last few years made so much progress that is is now possible for a very sick woman to complete a pregnancy and give birth in spite of serious illness." Except in rare instances, such' as ectopic pregnancies, the medical evidence suggests that abortion is more dangerous than continuation of the pregnancy. MYTH: Anyway, the fetus is not really a person. FACT: Words such as 'embryo' or Yetus' serve the same purpose as calling human beings 'infants', 'children', 'adolescents' or 'adults' at other stages of their lives; they arc simply scientific terms used to indicate where a person is in his or her development; in no way do they moan that the unborn child is not human. The promoters of abortion claim that the unborn child is a mere clump of colls. But scientific facts arc that a living, unmistakably human organism exists from the moment the ovum is fertilized; it will not develop into a cat, or a plant--only a human being, because it is already a human being. Just 9 weeks after conception, all internal organs of the unborn child arc present, including functioning heart, kidneys and liver; the nervous system and brain are also functioning and tho child reacts to touch or painful stimuli. Furthermore, the unborn child, while still in the womb can now be viewed by ' ultrasound and have many of its functions monitored by various sophisticated techniques; ho or she can receive blood transfusions and medications and even be treated surgically. Abortion brings that young life MYTH: to an end. / FACT: Legal abortions arc safe abortions. Tho fact that a licensed physician performs the abortion docs not guarantee safety; no abortion is without very real and serious risks to tho physical and emotional health of a woman. Early complications, such as perforation of the uterus, hemorrhage and infection occur in 3% of hospital abortions. The long term problems include infertility, cervical incompetence leading to premature labour and delivery, and increased risk of immature babies in subsequent pregnancies. Unfortunately, there has been a medically indefensible conspiracy of silence about tho risks attending legal abortions. Abortion helps prevent child abuse. 90% of children battered by thoir parents were wanted and come from planned pregnancies. Actually, studies have shown that many children who arc abused after birth were initially very much 'wanted', but for tho wrong reasons. It is interesting to note that the two provinces (Ontario and British Columbia) with the highest rates of abortion arc also tho provinces with the highest . rate of child abuse, Every child a wanted child. This slogan is not as loving as it sounds, as it reduces children to objects with a right to exist only if someone Svants' them more than other 'things'. It also fails to take into account the fact that the feelings of a woman towards her pregnancy often differ markedly during tho early months of the pregnancy from what they will be at a later stage of the pregnancy or after the birth of her child. On the other hand, while there many be parents who do not want children, there arc really no unwanted children; witness the countless and often desperate couples who have to wait years and at times spend thousands of dollars before they can adopt a child. Lastly, human life has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do witji the fact that the bearer of that life may or may not be wanted. Accepting the principle that the 'undesirables' can be eliminated is most dangerous; for if every child is to be wanted, our society might very well one day come to think and decide that every grandmother and every handicapped individual should also bo wanted. Abortions cannot be immoral, since they arc performed by doctors. Medical ethics since the time of Hippocrates have upheld the traditional role of doctors as preservers of human life. The Hippocratic Oath states clearly: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone, if asked, nor suggest any counsel; furthermore, I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce an abortion." And the Declaration of Geneva, a modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath adopted by the World Medical Association in 1948, states specifically: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life, from tho time of conception." A growing number of doctors fool it is their duty to speak against the 'new' ethic of killing many of our unborn children and causing serious consequences to thoir mothers;- It is a fact that every abortion destroys an unborn girl or boy. Can't wo offer the woman with a problem pregnancy more than the death of her child?. Of course we canl The real question is: DO WE WANT TO? Personhood and Discrimination The darkest moments of history have occurred when people failed to recognize other human beings as persons and, therefore, as equals. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that slaves were human beings but denied denied that they were persons; yet it was "personhood" upon which their legal rights depended. depended. During the Third Reich, the Reichsgericht, the highest court in Germany, refused to recognize Jews living in Germany as persons in the legal sense. In Canada* women were not considered persons until October 18th, 1929 when Emily Murphy and foùr other women won a judgement from the Privy Council of England in the famous Persons case. That judgement was a reversal of a previous judgement rendered rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada and decreeing that WOMEN WERE NOT PERSONS within the meaning of the British North America Act. THE CHILD IN THE WOMB IS THE MODERN-DAY VICTIM OF THIS TYPE OF DISCRIMINATION It is most ironic to find some women among those who arbitrarily deny the unborn child the legal status of "person", when 60 years ago women themselves were arbitrarily arbitrarily denied personhood. Weren't women persons before the Privy Council declared them to be so? Of course, they were. Women were always persons, society simply refused to grant them legal recognition. IS THE CHILD IN THE WOMB A PERSON? OF COUBSE! Yet, despite the irrefutable scientific evidence that the UNBORN IS A LIVING HUMAN HUMAN BEING, the youngest Canadian members of the human family remain beyond the protection of the law, deprived of their fundamental rights and privileges. Once again, personhood is being used as a device to create a class of human beings who may be discriminated against and thereby deprived of their most fundamental right: THE RIGHT TO LIFE Call your Federal M.P. Ross Stevenson at 571-5430 or Zenith 9-6130 HELP US PROMOTE RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE. Bowmanville Concern For Life Box 76 RR.#2 Newcastle All contributions to B.C.F.L, , educational work are tax-creditable