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The Orono Public School Morrison, allison Cochrane Safety Patrol shown here are:, and Carl Brown (centre row) (back row) Principal, John Shannon Reid, Kim Reid, Nicole French, Tammy Gylytuick, Michele Cowling, Model Home at Wilmot Creek Danette Ward, Kristi Adams and Lyle West. The Sanders; (front row) Kevin students are taught safety for Roberts, Shawn Hardy, their duties of crossing Ricky edwards, Raymond guards and bus patrols. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 28, 1983-9 A few days ago, several hours before I heard of Clark Todd's death, I was thinking that Lebanon had become an international tragedy of the most grotesque dimensions. dimensions. Beside Lebanon, the hopeless ingrained animosities of Northern Ireland and its senseless bloodshed bloodshed become almost bearable, inside Lebanon, it is almost as if the international community had conspired to fan the flames and had then delivered shiploads of arms and ammynition to let man's boundless capacity for death and destruction have its head. If we had done that, the results could hardly have been much different. The Palestinian camp massacre has now been matched, matched, apparently, by a Christian massacre in a Shouf mountain village inside a church of all places. Bands of Syrians, Palestinians and Iranians are said to be fighting the Lebanese army alongside Druze and other left-wing, anti-government militiamen. And in the middle middle of all this, a Canadian from Saint John, New Brunswick, the father of five children, has died of his wounds in some mountain village near Beirut. To his widow and his children perhaps, none of this will make much sense. It probably didn't make much sense to .-Clark Todd either, if he thought of it much in the last hours of his life. He wouldn't be the first war correspon- • dent to think how stupid it would be to die for a bunch of words and pictures in a remote place that no one he knew or loved had ever heard of, in a war and a country whose looks and sounds were merely occasional occasional background accompaniment to the affluent rhythm of life in an uncaring North America. At a time like that, there is a tendency to think about all the phone calls and letters a television newsman gets, demanding happy news, nice news, news cff a world without death and failure and poverty and disaster. That world doesn't exist, of course, and never did. In my view, Clark Todd's death was not futile. He died trying to demonstrate that ,the Lebanons of this world won't go away if they're ignored; ignored; that the world is too small for a single act of bloodshed to have no impact on all of us; that what is Lebanon today, is Saint John, New Brunswick, tomorrow. tomorrow. Mr. Todd was born in Saint John during the Se- cpnd world War 38 years ago, and it is worth remembering that a Saint John at that time, was part , of the allied front line in the North Atlantic. Its streets were full-of haggard sailors, who had stumbled from their ships to shake off the nightmares of a North Atlantic Atlantic Convoy and lose themselves for a moment in civilian pleasures. They would understand that the madness in Lebanon, 38 years later, cannot continue.'Mr. Todd's déath reminds of that, and warns us much as the death of any man in uniform, fighting for his country, that we dare not forget. The Newcastle model at square feet and listed at master bedroom, 11'6"x7'9" room, 10'2"xir6" kitchen Wilmot Creek with 1,104 $54,990 with 15'l"xH'9" <den, 21'll"xH'6" living and 15'8"xll'6" dining area. WORK WANTED D & R Custom Fencing, and custom chain-sawing 983-9627 or 623-7353 Orono, Out. PUBLIC NOTICE DURHAM REGIONAL HEALTH UNIT 11 Lambert Street Bowmanville, Ont. 623-2511 Commencing on Monday, October 3, 1983 the Bowmanville office of the Durham Regional Health Unit will be closed daily between between 12 noon and 1 pm. Office hours will be Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The office is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and on statutory holidays. Deb's FASHIONS & FABRICS MAIN STREET, ORONO Senior Citizens & Home Economic Students 10% DISCOUNT Thanksgiving Specials Spepial Selection of T-Shirt Remnants ,.. each $1.50 Plain Brushed Regular $4.00 m Nylon Remanants .... for $3.00 Ideal for dust ruffles or quilt backing White Sheeting 81" Re g .$e.so$5.00 m New Arrivals This Week Jogging Fleece - Printed Brushed Nylon Tricots --«T-Shirt. Knits and Lace Prices effective September 28 through Oct. 12 t«-FLOWER DEN 28 DAVID'S GRES., ORONO, ONTARIO . TELEPHONE 983-5423 , Saturday, October 1st 0:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hallowe'en - Fall Flower Arrangements > Christmas Centre Pieces - Ceramic Gifts Bridal Bouquets and,Silk Plants All'sorts of beautiful gift ideas While browsing enjoy coffee and cake