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Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Orono Weekly Times - 9 Church Directory ; iihüii ;; Ill iilpii-: 11: 1 iiiiiii!! ™!B TT • * r Orono United Church Reverend Dorinda Vollmer Orono Church Office 905-983-5502 905-697-9715 - Minister * * * * * June 13 Worship - Regular Service We celebrate the Sacrament of Baptism Vacation Bible School August 16 to 20 9 am to 12 noon "3-2-1 PENGUINS' 4 years & up Sat,, June 19 - Yard Sale/Bake Sale/ BBQ 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ST, ANDREW'S Presbyterian Church 47 Temperance St., Bowmanville Welcomes you to Worship! Sunday, June 6th • 11 a.m. Communion Celebration Sunday School • 11 a.m. "...do this in remembrance of me." 1 Corinthians 11:24 Rev. Noel Gordon 905-623-3432 The United Church of Canada NEWTONVILLE-SHILOH PASTORAL CHARGE Rev. D.A. Stiles, B.A., B.D. 905-786-2950 Newtonville - 9:45 a.m. Shiloh -11: 15 a.m. "A warm welcome to all" iipi III I • • 1 I St. George's Anglican Church )f Comfort, Joy & Vtomtjj Welcomes You 250 Mill St. S., Newcastle Rev. Canon David R. Saunders, CD (905) 987-2019 8:00 am - Holy Communion 11:15 am - Holy Communion 1st & 3rd 11:15 am - Morning Prayer 2nd, 4th & 5th 11:15 am-Sunday School Coffee and Fellowship to Follow St. Saviour's Anglican Church 27 MILL ST., ORONO Rev. Canon David R. Saunders, CD (905) 983-5594 Sunday Service, Sunday School & Youth Group 9:30 a.m. ***** HOLY COMMUNION 1st & 3rd Sunday MORNING PRAYER - 2nd & 4th Sunday COFFEE HOUR NEWCASTLE UNITED CHURCH 84 Mill St. S., Newcastle LIB 1H2 905-987-4515 • nuc@durham.net Rev. James Feairs, B.A., M.Div. June 13 • 10:30 am Worship Guest speaker Marilyn Fortin, recently returned from United Church tour of Kenya concerning HIV/Aids crisis. Nursery Care ■ Welcome guests & future friends Kendal United Church Worship 10:30 a.nu "Friendly Church in the Vale" Rev. Dr. Frank Lockhart MA, MDiv, Mth, ThD • 905-623-6793 June 9th - Orange Lodge Service Helen Dacey - Music Director Sunday School • Nursery Refreshents following service Bible Study Tuesday Night • UCW 1st Wed. of month Hill I!! I Women Continued from page 8 advantaged. The researchers emphasize emphasize that social policies policies outside of the 'health care silo' - including finance, labour, social services and transportation, can have as much influence on health and health status as service provision. provision. "It's time for health policy to reflect health research by recognizing recognizing that economic and social investments are investments in health," McPhcdran argues. Invisible women: rural women ignored by Canada's policy makers Margaret Haworth-Brockman, lead author and Executive Director for the Prairie Women's Health. Centre of Excellence says that "recent health reforms in the provinces and territories may have disproportionately disadvantaged disadvantaged rural and remote women." Rural women, she believes, are largely invisible to policy makers makers who operate out of urban contexts and rarely take into account the perspective of rural women's lives and concerns. concerns. "They are the 'invisible women,' of health policy" Haworth-Brockman adds, "whose voices and concerns are rarely heard." Rural, Remote and Northern Women's Health is careful not to make the same mistake. Women interviewed for the study were given the opportunity to share their major concerns and contribute their insightful solutions to the health care crisis. From suggestions for local or mobile services, services, to embracing a wider range of health practitioners, such as midwives and nurse practitioners, their creative creative and thoughtful ideas for the future form the backbone of the study recommendations. recommendations. "This study demonstrates demonstrates that including rural and remote women in the policy decision-making process process that directly affects their health, and the health of their families, families, is an essential first step," says Haworth-Brockman. "Many women told us they had not ever had a chance to speak about what is important to them. Despite living in very different circumstances, circumstances, there was a great deal of similarity similarity in their desire to be heard, to be respected and to contribute their practical solutions to the health care debates," she adds. "It is time wc listened." listened." Basic Black by Arthur Black Confessions of a junkie Okay, for starters, the headline is misleading. I've never done junk - heroin. Never even saw any, as a matter of fact. Ditto for LSD, PCP, Angel Dust, Peyote, Ecstasy, Quaaludes, crack, horse tranquilizer, rat poison, charred banana peel and crystal methamphetamine. As for conventional habit-forming mindben- ders, hard booze puts me to sleep, (right after it makes me stupid), beer makes me pee all night and the last time I tried pot I stared at a geranium geranium for three hours and consumed a two-quart tub of Caramel Mocha Fudge ice cream solo. So I shy away from drugs, but I'm addicted just the same. The monkey monkey on my back? Crossword puzzles. Fiendish device, the crossword puzzle. Just a simple little grid of black and white squares and a list of clues as to what words might fill those white squares. The crossword crossword isn't even a hundred hundred years old (the first one appeared in the pages of the New York World in 1913) but it's as Ubiquitous as dandelions dandelions and Dixie cups. There are different kinds of crosswords, of course. Most newspapers newspapers carry a standard version with straightforward straightforward clues and only the occasional knuckleball ('Southwestern Indian tribe - three letters.' Answer: 'Ute'.). The New York Times carries a daily puzzle that most crosswordophiles consider consider to be pretty challenging challenging - although Bill Clinton fills it in in ballpoint ballpoint and times himself with a stopwatch. And then there's the cryptic crossword. CROSS WORDCOL04 BLACK TWO... This is where terminal terminal crossword junkies go to die - or at least to be misleading and coded. Example: the clue is "Crumpled paper leads group of spies to start thrilling expedition for treasure". The answer is "APPRECIATE". Here's why: 'Crumpled 'Crumpled paper' refers to the first five scrambled letters letters of the answer - 'APPRE'. 'Group of spies' gives you the next three - 'CIA'. 'Start thrilling expedition' twigs you to take the letters letters that 'start' the next two words --to wit, 'T' and 'E'. And finally, 'treasure' is a synonym for the answer - 'APPRECIATE'. And to truly appreciate appreciate the innate deviousness deviousness of the genre you need to know that a lot of serious cryptic crossword crossword solvers would dismiss dismiss that clue as 'way too obvious. Cryptic come in various various strengths. The Globe and Mail's can be a real brain teaser. The National Post's is pretty lame. And the Times of London crossword? Fuggetabouddit - unless you were born in Blighty and eat dictionaries dictionaries for High Tea. But why would anyone anyone subject him or herself herself to the daily challenge challenge and all too frequent frequent humiliation of crossword puzzles? Well, it's a good workout workout for the brain. The late great radio broadcaster broadcaster Peter Gzowski used to kick start his mental processes by solving the Globe and Mail cryptic each morning before work - and his working day started at 4 A.M. Doctor Ronald Stuss, a researcher specializing in Alzheimer's, was asked what people can do to avoid the disease. His answer: "the best way (to avoid the slide into dementia) is to do crosswords." CROSS WORDCOL04 BLACK THREE... Maintaining mental agility is the upside of the addiction. The downside? Same as for most drugs - the Himalayas of utterly wasted time. Even if you're a whiz who can knock off the daily crossword in half an hour, that's still getting on for four hours a week, which is two full working days every month, which adds up to two weeks out of your year. Keep that up for a couple of decades and you will have spent the equivalent of ten months hunched over a diagram puzzling out a seven-letter seven-letter answer for 'Not in one's cups'. Don't' strain...the answer is 'braless'. Some of us strain less than others. Consider the case of Ronald Knox. He was a British Roman Catholic priest, an author and one other noteworthy thing: a cryptic crosswords solver of genius proportions. proportions. Having boarded a train going from Oxford to London one day, Knox sat down, opened his copy of The Times and proceeded to stare intently at the cryptic crossword puzzle. puzzle. He did this for perhaps perhaps two or three minutes, minutes, making no effort to fill in the answers, until a fellow passenger offered to lend him a pencil. "No thanks," said Knox, looking up with a smile. "Just finished." finished." I never knew Ronald Knox but I'm sure I would have hated him very much. driven crazy. 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