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> 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 8, 1987 Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 Pul.llshHl Kvery Wednesday Si I he office of Publication Mein Street^ C-vono Roy C. Forrester, Edite» Another Meech Lake-miracle? Some writers are now questioning if we are not being set up for another Mulroney Meech Lake miracle only this time related to the Free Trade issue with the United States. Since the begining of the trade talks the general public have been certainly kept in the dark and it would appear from recent comments both from the Prime Minister and Simon Reisman that some doubt edge in as jo a successful settlement on the negotiations. The Canadian comments blame the U.S. in not being receptive in anyway to a form of international tribunal for trade disputes which may arise between the two countries if an agreement is reached. On the other hand wé hear nothing of the concerns that the U.S. may have with Canadian subsidies, lack of interprovincial trade, social programs as medicare and the marketing boards which control production production and prices of certain commodities in this country, especially in the agricutlural sector. There has been no indication that Canada has addressed some of its own internal problems that would, certainly hinder any free trade agreement with the U.S. Lets hope it is not another Mulroney Meech Lake miracle when the Prime Minister gave away what was necessary to get an Accord to gain Quebec's signature. ' What price would Canada pay for a trade deal with the U.S. The ball game may be all over before we find out. Not too long ago I watched close to 100 grown men and women building sand castles at Wasaga Beach on Georgian Bay. But they weren't just fooling around having fun in the sun. And the sand castles weren't just ordinary ordinary sand castles. Some were over 50 feet high! The builders were professional sand sculptors from various parts of the continent and Europe molding a new permanent attraction attraction called The Temples of Time. When completed the project will . be the biggest of its kind in the world, and the only one depicting buildings and temples of ancient civilizations. ; You can see such wondrous things as the tomb of Rameses the Second. It consists of four heads carved in sand that gaze down toward Highway 92 which leads into Wasaga. Nearby is the Acropolis, a temple site in Greece for thé goddess Athena. In the background is a Greek fortress and the Parthenon. Tffcre are replicas of famous buildings which existed in Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek civilizations, including the Temple of Thebes and the Great Pyramids of Giza. * The idea was the brainchild of Happenings ... BABYSITTING TRAINING COURSE Due to popular demand Durham Family Education Resource Centre is offering, a second Babysitter's Training Course at the Bowmanville High School. The course starts Tuesday, July 14 and runs for five mornings, 9 to 12 noon. The cost $28.00 and there are a limited number of spaces still available. - A limited amount of busing available through the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. To register pleaSe call 579-2021 or 983-9800. London-based sculptor Paul Dockins who has won international awards for the works he has created in sand and snow. He approached the Wasaga Beach chamber of commerce last year with plans for the unique attraction. It seemed to be a natural for the resort town, and Dave and Rhonda Smith, who operate Water World, found a backer for the estimated $2 million price tag. The buildings and temples of . sand are built in an ingenious way. Steel forms are erected which match the dimensions of the structure and sand is poured into the forms. Water is added, and the sand is compacted with a special machine. The artists then sculpt the structures structures working from carefully researched diagrams. The finished products are sprayed with an epoxy to protect them against wind, rain, frost and show. They hope to have the whole thing lighted during the Christmas season. I talked to some of the'V k olunteers who were helping the artists. One of them said,,"The interesting part of.it is that instead of just making castles on the beach, we're working beside professional sculptors making history in sand." Kendal News CANADIAN That's, me -- all through and through: The Land of the Maple I've lived in, And there I was born, too; And right glad am I of the heritage, Which fills me with pride anew. There are lands of glorious beauty, And of boundless wealth, 'tis true. There are land's that give us many things: But for me they'd never do: I'd be satisfied with none of them, Not e'en with the choicest few. For the heart of me is tied right here. I'm Canadian through and through. MADGE E. B. JONES July 5th was a perfect summer day. It is holiday month so no service service at Kendal but there will be an open , air service at the home of Carole and Pat Gardner on July 26th. They live on the sixth line one and a half miles east of the Newton- ville Road. Mrs. E. Foster and your scribe at- ' tended the Kirby service. Before service there was a hymn-sing led by Mrs. Bert Reid with Mrs. Martha Farrow and the electric organ. The choir sang al an anthem "We'll Talk It Over" Scripture Phillipians 1:1-11 Sermon: "For me to live is Christ." A fine service we especially enjoyed the music. Four members of Kendal L.O.L. 405 entered a lecture competition in Toronto. Wayne Lowery and his son Richard Lowery placed first, and brothers Chad Switzer and . Brad Switzer took second place. Congratulations to all four. I can remember when bluebirds . were as plentiful as robins with their song of "Truely, truely, truely, spring spring is here". Then came the English starling and claimed all the nesting sights in old fence posts and hollow trees. They started nesting long before the bluebird got back from the south. The bluebird was in danger of extinction. Bird boxes are now being built for them. A bluebird needs a box 5" x 5" and 8 inches deep, the hole should be one and a half inches across. There must be no perch. They love short grass in an open area. Cats are their worst enemy because they often light on he grass. Put tin or barbed wire around the post to keep the cat from climbing the post reaching in and eating the baby birds. An old pail with no bottom, opened up will prevent cats from climbing trees if put arouiid the tree trunk. Owners of cats in Aylmer Ont. may be fined $30.00 if trapped by a neighbour and taken to the pound. A new preacher had just begun his sermon. He was a little nervous and about ten minutes into his talk his mind went blank. He remembered what they had taught him in seminary when a situation like this would arise -- repeat your last point. Often this would help you remember what is coming next. So he thought he would give it a try. "Behold, I come quickly!" he said. Still his mind was blank. He thought he would try it again. "Behold, I come quickly!" Still nothing. He tried it one more time with so much force that he fell forward', knocking the pulpit to one side, tripping over a flower pot, and falling falling into the lap of a little old lady in the front row. The young preacher apologized and tried to explain what happened. "That's all right young man," said the little old lady. "It was my fault. . I should have gotten out of the way. You told me three times you were coming!" Down North 1942 By The Most Rev. R.J. Renison Herodotus the Greek is called the "Father of History". He wrote the story of the fall of the most brilliant civilization that the world has known. His tale flickers out with this Observation "Soft lands breed soft people, but Empire belongs to lands that are. poor and to people who live hard lives." After 50 years the eyes of the world are turned to the Canadian North again. It is. true that the mines of Yellowknife are sending out gold bricks with" regularity from Great Slave Lake, but from hundreds hundreds of miles farther north comes uranium from Great Bear Lake, oil from Norman Wells, and the Dew Line and radar stations across the Arctic add to the romance and wonder of the incredible North. This land is different. The rivers run down to" thé north, In < December the sun never rises, and . in June it never sets. You can be sunburned without beiqg warm. The waters of Great Bear Lake are icily green. The rivers are khaki- dyed. the summer .flowers bloom on a carpet of moss with frozen earth beneath. Man has no surplus energy for worry. He has to hustle to keep alive. At the end of May 1942 at the invitation invitation of Bishop Flèming, Bishop of the Arctic, 1 left with Mrs. Renison for Edmonton en route to Aklavik to do the Western half of the Episcopal work of the Diocese of the Arctic while Bishop and Mrs. Fleming took an icy honeymoon on the Nascobie in the Eastern Arctic. The doctors said that Mrs. Renison might go as far as Edmonton, Edmonton, and suggested she should go to Vancouver and wait for me there. They said the V.Q.N, could look after her in all "civiclized places". When we got to Edmonton the district manager of the Hudson's Bay Company said to my wife. "You are going to take this trip down to Aklavik as the Company's guest." The alluring maps and charts which he showed her were too much for any flesh and blood and the next thing I heard was a, persuasive voice saying: "The manager tells me there is a nurse going going as far as Fort Norman which is only 510 miles from Aklavik". We went from Edmonton on the Northern Alberta Railway to Waterways, the' end of steel. Because of the lower freight rates the line had never been completed to Fort McMurray and the company company could truthfully make the statement that the road was under construction. A truck took us eight miles over a bumpy road. We stayed at the hotel on the banks of the Athabasca, while we waited for our boat, "The Distributor", to come up from the Arbtic. She was caught in die ice on the MacKenzie River. The hotel was a'wooden two- storey building w'ith no plumbing, no electric lights, the hegt was terrific terrific and the dust and flies equally so. , One morning the R.C.M.P. officer officer in charge said: "Sir if you and Mrs. Renison will "be at the station .in an hour, I think you will see something to interest you." We found the local bank 1 manager, the mayor and the Anglican and Roman Catholic missionaries. We were to see the American invasion arrive. So perfectly had the secret been kept that the people, were thunderstruck. The Indians were terrified of the Negroes. We heard thçir soft voices from Alabama and Georgia --- "Yes ma'am, this sure is some country!" ."And how these skeeters can bit!" The corps of American engineers was to go eventually to Norman Wells on the west side of the MacKenzie to lay a pipeline across the river and on the Whitehorse. At the same time an entirely different task force of'American engineers headed northwest from Edmonton to build the Alaska Highway. Eventually Eventually the pipeline connected with the highway. The colonel in charge of the troops and his wife were temporarily temporarily quartered at our hotel. Almost overnight three thousand tents were pitched, electric lights were blazing, shower baths were rigged up. The eight miles of railway were completed completed by American engineers. The government of Canada had given them carte blanche to requisition anything they wanted. Jeeps roared up and down the dusty road. "Is there anything I an do for you before you leave?" said the colonel's wife. To which Mrs, Renison replied, "Ask me for f bath." x '-- Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Martin and Miss Catherine Stewart attended the Highland Games in Cobourg on July 4. Mrs. Barb Holland and a neighbour have gone to Prince Edward Edward Island. This is the week that the ladies of Kendal Women's Institute spend at the Couroux cottage near Halibur- ton. The immediate family of Mr, and Mrs. Reg Elliott met around a large dinner at noon on June the thirteenth thirteenth to celebrate their fifty-first wedding anniversary in the Bowmanville Hospital dining room. The Kendal friends wish to extend their best wishes also. St. Saviour's Anglican Church ■. MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. James Small itector 987-4745 Sunday Service and Church School 9:30 a.m. ' ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE L Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes Telephone: Church 983-5502 Manse 983-5208 SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1987 Morning Worship 10:00 a.m. Orono United Church Mid-Week Bible Study Fellowship Wednesday July 8 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Lola Kennedy Wednesday July 15 th 7:30 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Everett Brown Wednesday July 22nd, 7:30p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Orville Challice Regular Summer Services July 12 & 26 Orono United Church July 19th. Kirby United Church at 10:30 a.m. • Month of August Newcastle United Church 10:30 a.m.