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_ Kendal News But I say unto you, Love yoür .• : ' ; enemies, Bless them that curse you, Do good to them that hate • - you, „ And pray for them that depitefully use you and persecute persecute you. Matthew 5:44 What a strange January we have had with two weeks of very mild weather, on January January 15th the sap was running up into the maple trees, sq the sawyers told us, on January 17th it rained all day, then the last two weeks of January it 1 was extremely cold and still . is very cold as this goes to press. Farmers are busy thawing out water pipes, the frost has worked into some peoples cellars. There is no snow around the foundations of the houses. However the 1 month averaged 25 degrees F. and they tell us it will be below normal until Valentines Day. Winters coldest days are considered to be February 1st and February 2nd. Then the sun gets warmer and the days get longer. The attendance at church was smaller on February 3rd partly due to the extreme cold. Mrs: A. Tizzard sang as a solo, "Don't forget to pray", then she told the children a story entitled, "The boy and the hunters". .Then the special speaker Rev. Grant Swartz, chaplain of Whitby Psychiatric Hospital chose as his scripture reading, Luke 2 verses 21-39, He asked the thought provoking question, "What is it I want to happen before I die? Using the words of Simeon as a base he expanded on this thought, ' bringing a very fine message. Next Sunday the special speaker will be Cadet Sergeant Sergeant Larry and Mrs. Martin from the Salvation Army Training College in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Len Falls motored to Brampton on Sunday to visit her mother Mrs. 0. Wright who is in a rest home there and keeping very well. This weather makes one think of the early settlers around Kendal. One of the early Carscaddens said he remembered well before the time of the Lucifer match the fire in the fireplace going out at night. In the morning he was routed out of his warm bed and sent with an iron pot to the Wannons' to get some coals from their fireplace to light the fire at home. He School enrolment to drop 3500 The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education Education task force on declining enrolment has presented a four page report in which they make some thirty recommendations recommendations for referral to administration. The special task force was set up by the board early in 1978 to the extent of declining enrolment in the board's jurisdiction and to consider all matters relating to a drop * in enrolment, including school programs, accommodations, accommodations, staff and board policies. 8 '* It is now anticipated that the board will lose some 3500 students by the year 1985 and this would represent a drop of 118.5 teachers at the secondary secondary level and 67.1 teachers at the elementary level .providing .providing the decline continues as now apparent. In the recent report the task force included in their rêcom- mendations the following: -That each secondary school identify an alternate route which would be available available to students to continué studies in optional subjects no longer offered in the day school program ; -That administration be asked to study the use of existing methods of organization organization in some classes such as altering course offerings from year to year and combining classes and levels; -That^ the board direct the administration to establish an * inventory of teachers interested interested in internal and external' exchanges; -That earlier retirement of teachers be encouraged; -That a study be Undertaken 1 of the possibility of instituting carried them home in the iron pot. Early settlers like the Pattersons and Underwoods took up land on the ninth and cut the virgin pine in winter. Then mills sprung up on the creeks run by Comstock's Jackson's, Linus', Soper's, etc. Many of the branches of these families went farther west. One , lady from- Port Elgin has now begun a family tree of the Underwood family. One of the tragic stories that comes to mind is the habit of several daring school boys of grabbing the top spokes of a Orono Weekly Times, We wheel on a lumber wagon while they stood on the bottom rim of the wheel and then were carried around in a circlè as the wheel turned. As Mr. Thomas Underwood Sr. passed Kendal School one lad jumped on the back wheel and put his. head between the dnesday, February 6th, 1980-3 spokes, He* was killed. Mr. Underwood felt very badly and neighbours said it shortened shortened his days. Mr, Jack Carscadden had an operation on his hip in Oshawa General Hospital on February 1st. We wish him a full recovery. V a core curriculum for Grades 9 and 10 to encourage students to choose recommended programs programs and to indicate to schools • methods of limiting course offerings to students. In addition, the task force urges leaves of absence and sabbaticals for teachers. 1 The report says elementary arid secondary school teachers teachers suggest husband-wife split income, alternate-year teaching, alternate month teaching, semestered and split-day teaching as alternate alternate actions that could be taken in the ongoing struggle against declining enrolment. In. speaking with MV. W.H. Carman he pointed out that the Board and teachers are endeavouring to set* forth a retention policy at the secondary secondary level. He said this feature has been settled with the elementary teachers through negotiations. The issue is now in negotiations with the secondary school teaclfers federation. Presently Presently the negotiations with the secondary teachers is at a standstill, but that negotiations negotiations will continue. Carman said the 1 first priority will be to protect programs in the schools. He said that teachers seniority at the elementary level is on a board-wide basis, and this had been established in 1979 through negotiations with the teachers. This issue is now under negotiations with the secondary teachers. Carman pointed out that the Board favoured • area-wide seniority but that the secondary secondary .teachers were somewhat undecided on just what policy to follow. Look who's stealing Did you know that a quarter inch crack under the door is like having a nine square inch hole knocked through the wall? That's a lot of space for warm air to get out and cold air to get in. The easy solution is to replace worn weatherstripping weatherstripping around the door. Check caulking around door and window frames too. A filter clogged with dust forces your furnace to work much harder. Furnace filters should be cleaned or replaced at least once a month during the heating season. It's a good idea to have the whole furnace checked over too, before the cold sets in. Use Energy Wisely Turie-up, clean up. It's simple. Appliances that are clean and well-cared for last longer and qse less electricity. Over the long run, you can save money on appliance replacement. replacement. And of course, the less energy you waste, the more dollars you save. Don't waste your energy. .Ontario hydro^^ HŸÛ-6396 What's under the covers You are invited to find out from Mary Conroy on Tuesday, Tuesday, 19th of February at 7:30 p.m. at The Robert McLaughlin McLaughlin , Gallery, Oshawa. Canadian Quilts of the Victorian Victorian Era will be the subject of Conroy's lecture in the gallery's gallery's Canadian Lecture Series. Series. Conroy began to quilt in 1964. Her book, 300 Years of Canadian Quilts, Griffin House Press, was published in 1976 upon her receiving a grant from Ontario Arts Council. Researching the book has made Conroy a respected authority on her chosen subject. She now teaches quilting for Cambrian College in Sudbury, where she resides, and has given workshops workshops and lectures in Canada and the United States. Ad- • mission: $3.00 with discounts for gallery members, students students and senior citizens. Call the gallery for further inf or mation: 57,6-30001 Canada Utility Grade 6-12 lb. average Fresh Turkeys Family Pak Pork Chops HIGHLINER Frozen Ocean Perch Fillets 7 to a pkg. - lb. , 16 oz. pkg. lb..98c lb. 1.28 1.39 STOKELY Kidney Beans or VAN CAMP Beans with Pork Instant Sunspun Coffee Canadian Process Chedse Food SUNSPUN ■^3 11 6 t* S 6 SIlCGS 8 oz. individually wrapped e 89 C 14 fl. oz. tin, ' 6 oz. jar .39c 2.99 CORNISH'S Phone 983-53,01