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6-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 12, 1987 At the Orono Fair Grounds $14 million increase for home for aged A small view of some 59 trailers taking part in the Samboree at the Orono Fair Grounds over the past week-end. A great time commented those participating. It is understood from harold Ransberry that there are other such clubs negotiating to make use of the grounds in a similar manner. 4-H Reach for the Top The 4-H Reach For The Top Competition was held Wednesday, July 29 and a 4-H Dairy Team went home the champions. Carolyn Barkey, Elaine Barkey, Eric Barkey and Linda Heeringa all from Blackstock, skillfully answered the difficult questions to beat out the nine other teams in the competition. Each of the ten teams competed in two games. The two teams with me highest total score played the final game. The competition quizzes the 4-H members in the areas of agriculture, 4-H and life skills. The competition was held at the Solina Community Centre. A four member tearp will now be selected to represent Durham East in the Regional Competition to be held in Durham Region on October 17th. ON ALL MERCHANDISE 20 % OFF Thursday, Friday, Saturday REFLECTIONS DOWNTOWN ORONO PHONE 983-9757 IT'S A PARADE ORONO THEME tt AROUND,THE WORLD" MULTICÙLTUÀALISM Saturday, Sept. 12th The Durham Central Agricultural Society is holding a parade to leave the cemetery corner at 11:30 for the Orono Fairgrounds PRIZES FOR: Best Theme Float $30 Best Group Float $30 Best Musical Float $30. Best Marching Group $10. Best Rider & Horse, Adult-Child $15. President's Choice Restored Vehicle $25. Couple Representing Old Fashioned'Country Fair or Multiculturalism Costume WANTED Clowns, Floats, Marchers, Vehicles For further information: MRS. CAROL BAILEY 983*5058 MR. RON HADLEY 983-5623 A $14 million annual funding increase increase for municipal and charitable homes for the aged in the province will be introduced this year, announced announced John Sweeney, Minister of Community and Social Services. The funding is intended to help administrators and other staff meet the increasing financial demands of services to seniors. In Ontario there are 88 municipal homes for the , aged with 18,653 beds and 93 charitable homes with 10,166 beds. All will benefit from the 5.5 percent rise, retroactive to January 1, 1987. Happenings . . . REACH NEW PLATEAU AT CLARKE MUSEUM ' Over the past week-end a Toronto mother and daughter, Cathie and Jillian Howard* were the 1000th visitor at the Clarke Museum and Archives at the Kirby School House for this year. Attendance has increased by 18 percent over that of last year. In Charitable homes certain existing existing programs will now receive enhanced funding. Including programs programs that assist residents to maintain maintain and improve their physical and psycho-social well being as well as staff development programs. The Ontario Government is in the process of examining closely the Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act, the Charitable Institutions Institutions Act and the Nursing Homes Act. Thé funding provided now is considered an interim measure until the study of inequities and disparities in funding are corrected. The Federation! of Ontario Naturalists FON Conservation Centre, Moatfield Park 355 Lesmiil Road, Don Mills, Ontario, M3Ô 2W8 Phone: (416) 444-8419 J Woods, Water and Wildlife By Marion Strebig CICADAS Now the dog days of summer are upon us, hot and oppressive. Gone are the sounds of an earlier, cooler time, the frog choruses and the birds' operatic spring songs. During the scorching heat of the day, there is really only one persistent song, the buzzing throb of the heat bug or cicada. The song of cicada has no melody, only an insistent percussive drone. The song rises to a vibrating crescendo and then fades gradually, rather like the heat shimmer on pavement which melts away as we approach. Although the cicada is the leader of the daytime chorus, there are other intermittent singers like the grasshopper. And the nights are ruled ruled by the pulsing tempo of the cricket. All these songs of love, the male is singing to attract a mate, are not songs at all but percussive sounds made by the scraping or vibrating of body parts. The technical term for this is stridulation. stridulation. The insects that scrape their Calls, like the crickets and grasshoppers, grasshoppers, need wings as resonators, the actual sound being made by the scraping of wings or legs. However, the apparatus producing the cicada's long drawn-out buzzing drone is located on each side of the thorax near the base of the abdomen, abdomen, and is composed of a vibrating membrane that is stretched stretched over a pair of small chamber that act as resonators. No external movement shakes the body of the singing cicada. The contraction is internal. Once the male has successfully attracted attracted a female and has procreated, procreated, the female will slit a twig with her ovipositor and deposit her eggs. As soon as it hatches the nymph drops to the ground, bur- - rows into the soil and feeds by sucking sucking the juices of tree roots. This will be its life for some- time; the periodical or seventeen-year cicada, does not emerge until the seventeenth seventeenth spring. During this time its appearance, rather like a mechanical toy with comically large front feet, does not change much. When the time finally comes for it to emerge, any time from late May to early July, it will dig its way out with its enlarged front feet. Its casing will split down the back to allow the adult cicada to emerge. The adult cicada will have but a brief week of-life above ground to recompense it for all those years of underground ' burrowing. The cicada is of the order Hemoptera to which belong those banes of the gardener's existence, the aphid and' the whitefly. Like them equipped , with sucking mouthparts, it is in many respects a large aphid. The adult is more than an inch long. Fortunately for the rose garden the cicadas prefer trees to flowers which are, more suited to their size. . ' This month, as the heat rises and with it the pulse of the insect chorus, remember that the singers we are hearing were, likely born in . 19*70. Home Energy Circuit By Keith Wilson Q. I am planning a renovation. renovation. What should I do before I hire the contrator? A. First' make a list of your expectations. Prepare a collection collection of photos or pictures. Research Research the bylaws in your own community for what you can and cannot do. Q. How do I find a contractor for a renovation? A. Check with friends and local building associations to get names and references. Get estimates estimates from at least three contractors. contractors. Check how long they have been in business and get their business license number. Q. Who acquires the permit? A. The contractor should arrange arrange for the permit before any work begins. Building inspectors inspectors may visit the site periodically periodically to make sure that each trade is doing its job properly. EVERYBODY NEEDS A PIGGY .ora BEAR, KITf EN, BUNNY, LAMB . . i The Apple Blossom Shop has a new selection of Piggy Banks for you to see ... and for you to save. 5 m This week"s introductory special. ' . : 10 % OFF The Apple Blossom Shop 983-5291