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2 - Orono Wc -kly Times, Wednesday, February 20,' 2002 ©A Subscriptions $28.04 + $1.96 G.S.T, = $30.00/year , Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 Agreement No. 40012366 : Publishing 50 Issues Annually at the Office of Publication ■; We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through thp Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB IMA Weekly Times E-Mail Address: oronotimes@speedline.ca Phone/Fax (905) 983-5301 Swing tail Clai ington and boyond since I 9 3/' Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart The Orono Weekly Times weloii the opinions of The Orono Wee] We reserve the right to edit for to print. The Orono Weekly Tinh< mes letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. Opinions expressed to the editor and articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect . : iy Times. Letters must be signed and contain the address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will hot be acknowledged or returned. ] ength, libel and slander. If your retail or classified ad appears for the first time, please check carefully. Notice of an error must be given before the next issue goes es will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. The best commercial games Now that the dust has settl ;d on the scandal Which dominated dominated coverage of the first week of the Olympics, we turn our attentions once again to the athletes and their achievements. It's been said many times during the last week that if an event can't be timed, it's not a sport. There are those who believe there is no room for artistic interpretation in the Olympic ideals of faster, furtl er, stronger. Anyone who watched the pairs skating routine of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier knew they had put in a flawless performance. performance. Their conduct fbllowin % the judging scandal, as ambassadors ambassadors for their sport and as Ca îadian athletes, was equally flawless. flawless. While they did not cross a finish line there is no doubt they are superb athletes. The fact that these judged sp orts make for good TV will ensure their survival as Olympic sports.- There is no comparison comparison between watching a cross country ski race and a freestyle aerial competition. Our fascination with the fear factor probably had more to do with the inclusion of Skeleton" in this year's Olympic games than the popularity of the sport. This is the sport where the athlete athlete goes down the steep icy 1 rack head first on the slêigh. How does one discover they have an aptitude for this sport? It you make it past the finish line oi. your first attempt, you're a natural natural As long as commercialisa drives the Olympic movement, the lines between sport and e itertainment will get blurred over the years. The U.S. TV networks control to a large degree where the games are held, and what gai s e s we see at the events. The awarding of these games to Salt Lake City was done amidst another Olympic size scandal, on the heels' of the 1996 Atlanta summer games which will go down m history as the most commercial Olympic event ever. < No matter where Canada ends up in the medal round, these games will be remembered bsth for the judging scandal, which resulted in an outpouring of support for figure skaters and for the Roots Olympic wear, woi n by the U.S. British and 'Canadian athletes. . Volunteer g $66,000 in d :o Some new streamlining guidelines were implemented in the Municipal Grant Process to assist Claringtqn counc 1- lors as they moved through migrant migrant applications in good time, Monday morning. Clarington's policy to pr> vide financial assistance basçi on $1 per capita annually volunteer based organizations was greeted with 41 applications applications for a total of $160,710. Upon dealing with the fust grant application, from the Orono Crown Lands Trust, Mayor Mutton put forward $ in amendment to the grant crit ;- ria for next year. Areas whe e the provincial or federal government government is responsible through ownership of property or through school board budgets are not to be eligible for a grant. The Orono Crown oups net over grant mpney Lands Trust were requesting a $1,500 grant for assistance in managing the day to day operations operations of the 1055 acre former Orono Tree Nursery. Councillor Trim did put up an argument for the group saying they have provided a lot of volunteer hours. "I think if the 1 public can provideThis we certainly certainly can give them a little token, $1,500 is a small token," he- stated. With only the support of Councillor Robinson , and Trim, the request was denied. Councillors then agreed to deal with all applications from sports organizations by granting granting them $1,500 each. Orono and Sohna athletic associations associations were granted $2,500 each' because they run all the ' sports programs in their (continued page 3) On going back to the car I heard the geese above and within a short period of time "they were landing in the harbour waters close to the road. On the first sweep of ; I should read my col- pail cover with a stick. The the flock of perhaps 70 umn over before I let it go birds made, off into the birds the Blue Goose was to press. It was a Cardinal bush. sighted. With its white not a Scarlet Tanager that It is quite apparent head it stood out over all has been frequenting the there is no welcome sign the others, feeders at Wayne Bailey's out for the birds anymore Don Lycett and 1 left and David Staples'. or free lunches. Enough is .Orortb 7:45 a.m. Saturday With that out of the enough. * morning to join up with way I might say that last , Hit it rather lucky on .some 20 members of the week was full of birding Friday after hearing there Durham Naturalist Club events. was a 1 Blue Goose at for a bird outing on Travelling south on .Newcastle Harbour. It is Amherst Island just west of Shiloh Road, frpm the easily distinguished from Kingston in Lake Ontario. Ganaraska Road east of the Canada Goose. y It made for a'great day Kendal, I caught sight of a Don Lycett and I had fof both of us as it had number of Wild Turkeys on sought tfi e sighting pn , years, ago with Bill Bunting the road, 30 or 40. Over a Thursday but the piercing and myself on a couple of number of years, local resi- cold drove us back into the occasions. ■ dents have been feeding car and home. There were a The Island attracts these birds In this area, good number of geese, and hawks and owls due to the and it whs generally a pos- some slvans on this occa- prolific number of voles itive if wanting to see Wild sion. The weather was nei- and meadow , mice that Turkeys. ther fit for man nor bird. inhabitat the area especial- Travelling * closer to the Arrived at four p.m. ly in open fields. Their tun- group of bftds; a gentleman Friday finding not one nels can be seen every- emerged beating a garbage goose in the harbour. continued page 7 From Around Home by Roy Forrester