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Call (905) 985-6397 Vol. 5, No. 02 CIRC. 13,500 28 pages Tuesday, August 15, 1995 Professional Falconer Dirk Hoesterey with 'Gypsy,' a red tailed hawk which along with other £1) birds of prey has been keeping songbirds out of the blueberry patch at Wilmot Orchards, near Bowmanville. See story below. Standing guard in the blueberry patch For years, Judi and Charles Stevens watched in dismay as song-birds ate their way through their blueberry bushes at Wilmot Orchards, east of Bowmanville. They tried coriventional ways of scaring away the cedar wax wings and robins.. But the neighbours didn't like the boom of the "bird bangers," and "paper hawks" didn't seem to work as the pillaging birds were smart enough to ignore them. Last year, Judi and Charles decided on a new plan. They called Golden Creek Bird Farm and brought in several birds of prey to keep the song birds away from the plump blueberries. Gyr'falcons, Harris Hawks, red-tailed hawks and Kestrel falcons (also celied sparrow hawks) now patrol the eight acres of the blueberries at the Stevens farm, and the results have been very positive. "We were losing up to 25 per Crash takes life of Sunderland sz: teen-age girl The Durham Region Police Traffic Unit is still probing an accident early Sunday morning that took the life of a 17-year old Sunderland girl. Brooke Andrea McDonald was a passenger in the rear sent of a 1989 Jeep that hit a hydro pole on Durham Road 57 near Williams Point Raad just east of Caesarea. According to police she was thrown from the vehicle on impact. The 5:40 AM crash sent the driver and a second occupant to Port Perry Hospital A police spokesman said the westbound vehicle apparently went out of control, struck a laneway culvert and then slammed into the hydro pole. Members of the Scugog Fire Department in Caesarea were called to the scene to remove the injured driver from the wrecked vehicle. Dale Guinard, 20, of Sharon was taken to Port Perry Hospital and was listed Monday morning in stable condition. The second passenger in the front of the Jeep, 17-year-old Bonnie Benstad of Sunderland was released Monday morning from hospital in Port Perry. A police spokesman said the Durham Traffic Unit will be re- constructing the accident in an effort to determine the exact cause. Weather conditions at the time included fog patches but the road was dry, said the police spokesman Billyjo on his way to Hall of Fame by Heather McCrae Bil)yjojimbob, the champion trotter owned by Lori Wade of Little Britain and trained by her husband, Mike, was elected to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame last month. : In the bay gelding's harness racing career, Billyjojimbob, or BJ for short, had 62 starts, of . which he.wori 39 races, including the Breeders Crown, bringing "his career earnings to $945,741. Also setting 2 world track records with life time marks of 1.55.1 on a five-eighths track and 1.57.3 on a half mile track BJ won the O'Brien Award for Aged Male Trotter twice and also conquered the Harness Tracks of America Top Male Trotter But, probably, BJ's" best remembered when he became the first hofse from Canada to win the prestigious Elitlopp Trot in Sweden in 1992. With Murray Brethour of Sunderland driving, BJ first trotted to victory in the elimination race in a record setting speed of 1.55.1, then a few hours later carried on to win 'the Elitlopp Trot. "That was the first time he'd Turn to page two Scugog The fishing was a bit slow during the Top Bass tournament Sunday on Rice Lake. But that didn't stop Peter Davidson and Hector Peach from weighing in five fish at 15.96 pounds to take first place in a field of 147 boats. And it was a very pice pay day for the Scugog anglers who came away with $4,000 to push their season earnings this year to almost $20,000. "The fishing was slow. It was very calm and the bass were 'buried' in deep cover under . hook $4000 anglers the weeds," said Hector. "We had to drop the bait right in front of their noses and fish them very slowly." Hector and Peter were getting the strikes off Berkley Power Jigs and Crawls, blue and black in colour. This coming weekend the pair will return to Rice Lake for a two-day GM tournament. The weekend of August 9-10, Hector and Peter will be close to home fishing Lake Scugpg in the Top Bass Classic. This should be a good one as first prize is $8,000. cent (of the blueberry crop) Last year our loss was about five per cent," said Judi last week as falconer Dirk Hoesterey watched over "Gypsy," a large female red tailed hawk with a mean looking beak and set of talons. Dirk is'a fourth generation falconer. He and his father ScucoG HAPPENINGS SEE CALENDAR ON PAGE TEN Friedhelm operate Golden Creek Bird Farm and School of Falconry at Severn Bridge, north of Orillia. About a week before the blueberries are ready to pick, he brings these birds of prey to the Turn to page seven