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2 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 6, 2002:: > Weekly Times 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 the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." - 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB 1M0 E-Mail Address: oronotimes@speedIine.ca Phone/Fax (905) 983-5301 flr Serving East Claiington and beyond since 1.9.37 Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart The Orono Weekly Times welcomes, 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 the opinions of The Orono Weekly Times. Letters must be signed and contain the address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will not be acknowledged or returned. We reserve the right to edit for length, 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 to print. The Orono Weekly Times will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. • Veterans immortalized on street signs The new veteran street signs have arrived, and municipal staff are installing them at the appropriate intersections. Last spring Councillor Trim put forward a motion to council to put the poppy symbol on all existing veteran street names in the Municipality as well as the on the new street name signs resulting from the 911 mapping. Honouring our war veterans in this way has been a long time coming for Veteran Bill Calver of Newcastle. Calver has lobbied lobbied diligently over the years to get the names of his fallen brothers recognized in some meaningful lasting way. For too long names of prominent citizens and politicians have been used to name public buildings, streets and even bridges says Calver. In fact he's very pleased to see many veterans veterans names used in the new subdivision being built on the east end of Newcastle. The names of Clarington's war dead are etched into cenotaphs cenotaphs in the villages and towns where they once lived, and are read outfeach year as part of Remembrance Day services. Naming streets and identifying existing veteran street names with the poppy symbol will ensure these names stay in our recent memory as part of our daily vocabulary. While the whole street re-naming scenario was met with resistance from affected residents, it did provide the opportunity to get more veterans names up on street signs sooner rather than later. While Bill Calver has been after the municipality for a long time to use veterans' names as street names, the push was on once the Municipality had to start renaming existing streets. Once the names of all Clarington's war dead have been used to name streets, they will begin working from the list of those who fought but did not die for their country. What an appropriate way to to ensure the memories of those who sacrificed themselves fof their country and our freedom are never forgotten. e War veteran street names in Clarke Township Newcastle: Bloom, Bridges, Brookhouse,'Cutler, Glass, Grady, Harmer, Milligan, Ravey, Shipley, Shipway, Williaiç Jose. Kendal: Hoy - street name change effective June 1st Orono: Bowen- street name change effective June 1st. Gates could be solution to ongoing A gate could be the solution solution to the safety issue currently currently facing students attending attending Clarke High School and The Pines Senior Elementary School. Renewed efforts by the Clarke High School School Council to seek an alternate exit off their property in case » of emergency have led them to look at installing gates in the concrete barrier on the Highway. Being the only school 'in the province on a divided highway has put them in a "unique situation," Council Chair Kaye McOustra told the Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board of Trustees last Thursday evening. When the Province upgraded Highway 115 to a • issue 400 series highway in 1984, iand built the barrier down the middle of the road, the schools were left with no escape route should an emergency emergency situation occur on the north bound lanes of the highway. highway. When Clarke High , School was built in the !96Qs there was no barrier separating separating the northbound and southbound southbound lanes of traffic. Recognizing that it will take at least 30 years before development in north Newcastle will reach the point that the Municipality will be in a position to build a road behind the school, the Council has turned their atteh- tion to 'a new approach. The School Council is now WEEK, 0)6 TOSUiNE&e®) M MW IN JIKMNSDM* „,TU 6NK YOU SOLDI®, DWBED (continued page 6) It is rather a sad day for those who have been enjoying enjoying an abundance of winter visitors at their feeders of late. Certainly there has been an abundance of visitors from the north especially those little Redpoles. Over the past week I have had four calls pertaining pertaining to dead birds in the area of their feeders. In all cases they have been the little Redpoles who halve been enjoying Niger seed at the feeder. I have also found two dead Redpoles at our. own feeder. In speaking with Jim Richards he said it has been' prevalent throughout the province and the c a rise is subject of studies being undertaken at Guelph University. He said it was also affecting Pine Siskins but to a lesser degree than that for the Redpoles. A disease outbreak among birds is not* something something new, for it has happened happened in the past and likely will happen again in the future. But you do hate to have your hands tied and not do something that might help the cause to keep the birds healthy and alive. After all they do bring enjoyment to many people. Cleanliness of the feeder and the feed must certainly help and has always been recommehded in the past outbreaks of disease. • This'is especially so .of the tube feeders with the dmall holes through which the birds must edge out : Niger seed with their bills.,A good washing of the tube inside and out must be of a help and Jim Richard sug gests that a flush with diluted diluted javex should help. I found this year that therg is a small buildup of residue from each of the slots where the birds have been edging out the Niger seed. Certainly they must scrape their bill around in the slot and any residue left would be there for the next bird. Jim Richards also notes that a lot of the Niger seed doeS fall to the ground below the feeder to mix with the droppings of perched birds. The birds also do feed from this.mix on the ground. Disease is a part of life for ill living creatures and this includes man as well as birds. There is no sure-fire medicine tp protect the birds, but keeping the feeder feeder clean may help some. The Redpoles are certainly certainly spreading a lot of joy tills year especially in their abundance. They are not a regular winter visitor as has happened this year.