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THE HERALD Wednesday November Page Arts Ideas Acton artist Acton artist and Chechoslovakian native Mark Kalous will be show iiu this acrylic painting entitled Birds and of his other works it the Cultural Centre in Georgetown from Nov to Dec This is the second exhibition and Mr has held at the centre in two years The show reception during which the artist will be In attendance Is Nov from to 9 Mr Kalous said he will also be at the show every other day during the afternoon Herald photo Elvis lives at York U TORONTO Elvis Presley is alive and attending York Well not really but that was the rumour around campus last year And that in Itself Is tant says Caroe Carpenter Director of the Ontario Folklife Centre at York It says that York has become such a big institution that somebody who is as great a celebrity as Elvis Presley could be here anonymously says Carpenter who teaches folklore courses in the university Divi sion of Humanities The centre founded four years ago and incorporated as a non profit charitable institution in 1988 documents and preserves Ontario folklore Folklore con of cultural artifacts which are passed on by word of mouth observation and imitation and with which a group of people identify and are identified by others Carpenter says One of the most interesting things about folklore is that while it reflects our differences it shows us how much we all hive in common Carpenter says example in 1989 the centre on contract with the Archives of On tano documented people stones including some from On tano Approximately people from a wide of backgrounds were interviewed he themes which emerged from the interviews were the ferences in culture gender race and langu These themes include such topics as the first who was to them in mistakes made while leirn the language a sense of usually combined with a memory of someone crying The project s results will be published in a book that should be out within a year Carpenter says Unfortunately Canadians especially those living in Ontario don t recognize folklore as the important cultural matter it is Carpenter says We identify culture as being the great works of literature the arts and high music We think culture is what elevates human beings above the beasts Carpenter says We don t see ourselves as being the active possessors of it This situation is very different from that In the United States where culture is perceived as those factors which distinguish a particular way of life she say They have a sense of their having these traditions of having Christmas Fiesta The Halton County Radial Railway located outside is holding the Ladies Annual Christmas Fiesta Dec from 10 a m m Santa Claus will to see the children about noon leave at 2 p m He will set all the children in his own room iboard old car 107 in car built for Montreal and Southern w in The car has been deconted for and will run over the miles of scenic property while children tdlktoSjtnt All children ride free on this it students S3 00 ind mors ride for lndies of the will disphy special food gift and books ind bake table There will be homemade chili con came and rolls will be made available To get to the Radial Railway from Hwy 7 off Wellington Rd then go south for about km Three environmental laws Two months ago I wrote a col umn that was entitled Mankind must become caretaker of the planet This column drew a greater response than any of my others Some people wrote to me and some approached me in the street and in stores They asked me what one could do to become a caretaker Of course I am far from having all the answers But I know that if we are concerned about the environment we have to ask ourselves if the way we live Is sensible Isnt there a better way a less wasteful one There sure is I have three environmental laws try to live by Here they are Law No Try not to use a machine where muscle power will do Law No Try not to put in the garbage what might be beneficial to your garden Law No 3 Try to recycle as many things as possible you take some time to think about these three laws you will I am sure be surprised how many things you could do differently Take law No which is in many ways the most important one since muscle power is something we all have more of than we need yet we use it less and less Law No 1 will change your life the most It means that you should try to use cars motor cycles motorboats dishwashers dryers anything with a motor in it as little as possible or not at all In order to walk or bicycle to stores and friends it better to live within a settlement not miles away in the country Strictly speaking only farmers have any business in the country all others should try to live in villages towns and cities The closer we live together the better Canada is a multicultural democracy For that kind of system to work we have to trust each other To live in splendid isolation behind walls somewhere in the country is anachronistic to say the least Isn t life much nicer if you have a community around you Dishwashers and dryers make sense if you have a huge family The socalled nuclear family of mother father child doesn t need them How fresh smell garments for instance that have been dried in the open air And nothing is more educational for children and men than household chores To law No I have this to say The trees on your property give you a huge gift every fall their leaves If you accept the gift and turn it into compost the compost will fertilize your garden natural ly and far less expensively than artificial fertilizer could What every garden needs is an area behind a hedge where the compost pile is located You don t need expensive chemicals to decompose leaves grass cut tings and kitchen leftovers just plenty of water and some lime You need a bit of muscle power to set and sift your compost pile every year but it better for your health than jogging Finally to law No 3 Everything that s manufactured uses up energy and raw materials in process Therefore we should try not to throw what has still some Poetry readings Poet Ray Jones will lead Hilton Peel Branch Canadian Authors Association N Coffee Evening Nov 27 TO p m at Oakville Public Library Navy St Poets both professional and beginners are invited to read their poems Ray Jones who will conduct a reading of his own poems is a Toronto poet who has just taken a year s abence from his work as a business analyst to pursue his creative writing John Sommer use in it Paper glass metal is already returned for recycling but whole buildings are demolish ed for no other reason but that a new company has decided on a different corporate image Thousands of service stations that were built in Canada only 25 years ago have all been torn down carted to the dumps and been replaced by others of a ferent design What a waste of energy and material If newspapers and businesses are sending huge amounts of paper in the form of adver tisements and junk mail into our homes should they not also be responsible for removing and recycling them Do we need newspapers In the age of radio and television a newspaper once or twice a week often enough Do we have to cut down whole forests for these thick bundles of paper that we hardly ever look at and quickly throw away Stores like the Salvation Army are my favorite stores Almost everything I need in the way of clothes I will find there Only at the Salvation Army do I have the feeling that I get value for my money without adding to our garbage problems because I reuse what somebody else had no use for anymore These are some of my ideas on how we could live simpler and take care of our planet better We got into the habit of demanding more and more in goods and ser vices Isnt it time that we say we want less there a lot we can do for ourselves without the con slant demand on the govern ments for more services it be splendid to pay fewer taxes on fewer services and live in a world that is not en FREE GOLFERS POCKET DATE BOOK Includes golf facts and figures 1991 tour 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