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Apple Season Approaches The Clarington Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, September 3,1994 11 There will be fewer visits to the family doctor, as early McIntosh apples apples dot the trees throughout Durham Region. Pick-your-own, features and roadside markets are expecting another another beautiful season. McIntosh apples, deep red with a splash of green on one side have a slightly tart flavour, are excellent for both eating raw or cooking in tarts, pies, dumplings, crisps, applesauce, or sautees to accompany ham, pork or game. When selecting, look for firm apples apples with a smooth, bright, clean, well-coloured skin free of wrinkles and bruises. Keep your apples in a cool, dark area. Warm temperatures will hasten the ripening process, and may reduce in Durham Region. For your free copy please call the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Affairs office at (905) 985-2003. Archibald Orchards Hosts Fund-Raiser To Support Local YWCA Programs Once Upon a Time ... Once upon a time a man with a very bad stammer had no alternative but to try his luck as a salesman. Understandably, Understandably, this deepened his lifelong lifelong concern over his speech defect. In therapy, he was helped to see his problem in a new way. He was reminded reminded that salesmen are generally disliked for their slick, clever ways of trying to talk people into buying something they don't want. Many sales people are trained to deliver an Whether you're looking for top quality apples and cider, country crafts, home-baking, wagon rides, crispness and flavour. Store your ap- fun fair games, petting farm, live roupies roupies away from other fruits because s i c and theatre, or just a quiet stroll in almost uninterrupted sales talk and he they can speed up ripening in most the orchard with a hot cup of coffee - was asked if he hadn't experienced other fruits. One bad apple spoils the it's all here! And it's for a good how annoying it can be to be exposed cause. Proceeds are going to the local to that insistent barrage of words. Y.W.C.A. to support vital, ongoing He was asked if, on the other programming. hand, he'd noticed how patiently and Be a part of it, Saturday, Septem- carefully people will listen to some- ' " body with a handicap like his. He was invited to imagine the incredible difference between the usual, fast, high-pressure sales talk and the slow, careful way he would, of necessity, communicate as a salesman. It was bunch, so be sure to remove any apples apples with a soft spot or one that is overripe. Prepare your apples just before using. using. To prevent cut surfaces of the ber 17th - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Àrchi- apple from turning brown, dip them bald Orchards, 6275 Liberty St. N., in a mixture of citrus juice and water. Bowmanville, Ontario. (10K North Many roadside, pick your own of 401). For more information please and farmers markets can be located call (905) 263-2396. Free admission in the Guide to Farm Fresh Produce and parking. 1933 Bickle Fire Truck Makes Appearance at AutoFest è wsmfci y/ WE MAKE A GREAT IMPRESSION You'll be impressed by the quality of our work and our personalized service too! We're a multi-faceted print shop providing complete services from graphic design and typesetting through printing and binding, so no part of your job ever leaves our capable hands! We offer consistent results with quick turnaround time at competitive rates. Try us for all your personal and business needs. Phone: 623-3303 Fax: 623-6161 JAMES PUBLISHING LTD. 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario Dave Forrester and Jack Mercer Mercer were at last Sunday's big AutoFest AutoFest in Oshawa showing the 1933 Bickle fire truck. The pumper, which still works, has its original engine, equipment and paint. It shows a mere 8,359 miles on the odometer. The truck is the property of the Orono Firefighters Firefighters Association. Handling It By Lloyd Scott suggested to him that his handicap could become an advantage in his new occupation. As he began to see his problem in a new and almost ludicrous light, he "was instructed to maintain a high level level of stammering, even if in the course of his work as a salesman he began to feel a little more at ease and therefore less likely to stammer spontaneously. spontaneously. Thus, gradually, he began to stammer less and began to feel more at ease, slowly acquiring control control over his stammer, rather than being being controlled by it. By "using" his liability liability rather than trying to disguise it, he significantly reduced his inner struggle. Similarly, .occasional insomnia sets up an inner struggle, a fight to go to sleep. The more we fight it, getting impatient that sleep doesn't come, the less likely it will. Gradually, the worry that may have caused the insomnia insomnia in the first place becomes less acute than the anxiety over losing sleep, as one tosses and turns. "Going to sleep" is a spontaneous behaviour, not something to be achieved by will-power. Staying awake, on the other hand, is a matter of will-power. It usually induces further further fatigue, facilitating return to sleep. So, instead of feeling controlled controlled by sleeplessness, it's often useful to end that feeling by taking control of wakefulness - for example, by getting up and doing something - perhaps about the troubling worry itself. itself. Worry itself overtakes and controls controls the thoughts of many people, reducing reducing their productivity and peace of mind. One way to deal with it is to schedule time to "worry", to think constructively about each worrisome item. Taking notes while making firm plans for appropriate action can further help. Once again, one is taking taking control, in this case of worry which is, itself, notorious for taking control. The meaning of any incident or event depends on the frame in v/hich we perceive it. When we change the frame (a gradual process), we change the meaning. Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is famous famous for reframing his drudgery into pleasure for others. He convinces one boy after another to pay money for the privilege of whitewashing part of the 30-yard long, nine-foot high board fence, a job that he's been "sentenced" to complete. Most jokes also shift the frame from the expected to the unexpected. Charlie McKenzie, leader of the Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Party, makes remarks that derive their humor from surprise (and sharp insight). "It sometimes seems that the country is going nowhere and we've already arrived." "The only way to get a decent highschool education education in Canada these days is to go to university." The philosopher Epictetus expressed expressed it as early as the first century A.D. "It is not the things themselves which trouble us, but the opinions we have about these things." Or as a character in Shakespeare says, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." The illustration about the stammer has been taken from the book, Change, by Paul Watzlawick. Lloyd Scott is a marriage and family counsellor in private practice in Oshawa and in the Orono Medical Centre. He welcomes letters from readers. Write him in confidence at this newspaper, The Canadian Statesman, Statesman, P.O. Box 190, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9. On behalf of the citizens of Clarington, I would like to thank the many volunteers who participated in the Great Ganaraska Adventure during the weekend of August 27 and 28th, 1994. Special thanks go to Elva Reid and Kristen McCrea for the organization of the event which promotes our Municipality in the best way possible - giving visitors the opportunity to meet our friendly people and see first hand the natural beauty of our community. This is an excellent event which allows many of our other organizations to promote their events and activities as well. During my tour, I met people from around the Greater Toronto Area and as far away as Montreal. Congratulations to the Great Ganaraska Adventure organizers for another successful year. Again, a sincere thank you to everyone. 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