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Bell Canada Has Key Role in Canada's Olympic Events Section 'lwo The Canadian Statesman,1 Mowing and Raking He|p to Control Mushroom Growth Redently many homeowners their children naturally want have experienced the frustra- to get rid of these infestations. tion of finding their beautiful Mushrooms and toadstools lawns being invaded by mush- are very difficult to control rooms and toadstools. This is chemically, because they the result of prevailing warm grow primarily on rotting and wet conditions during the woody material below the turf past few weeks. With more where they form an extensive wet conditions being forecast, fungal growth. Present in- heavier infestations may be. formation indicates that fungi- expected. cides do not control them Many who believe that these effectively, nor does liming a mushrooms and toadstools lawn. may be a potential hazard to The most satisfactory Bowmanville, July 21, 1976 3S method of eradicaitinig - rooms and toadstoo,ýls f r,ý)r lawns is by mowing your lawn regularly and by raking those areas that are infested every morning, because rnushrooms and toadstools are formed overnight. Once raked, they will be killed by the sun. This method should be continued until your lawn is clean. A&e• hielps good tin, 1 Each television commentator covering events at the Olympie Games will be assigned a TV monitor of the type shown here. Bell Canada and its affiliates, Bell-Northern Research and Northern Telecom Limited, designed, built and installed the video transmission system consisting of 112 circuits for live or delayed coverage of all major events at the Olympic Games between July 17 and August 1. The 21st Olympiad, already underway in Montreal, is bringing together people from 133 countries. They will include 8,500 athletes, thou- ands of coaches and other national team officials, organ- izing personnel, a sizeable press corps and hundreds of thousands of spectators. But what makes the 1976 Summer Olympics one of the world's largest and most visible telecommunications operations is the fact that, for just 14 days, millions of people around the world will be watching the Games on TV, listening to radio reports and reading Olympic coverage in their daily newspapers. Organizing officials esti- mate that one billion people around the world will have access to live television cover- age of the opening and closing ceremonies. Back in 1973, Bell Canada was askedlto take on the job of designing and installing the total telecommunications net- work for the Games, including facilities for audio and video transmission of Olympic events as well as communica- tions facilities of all types to link Olympic installations, organization headquarters and the outside world. Bell Canada took on the job and, backed by the integrated efforts of its telecommunica- tion research and manufac- turing affiliates, Bell North- ern Research Ltd. and North- ern Telecom Ltd., delivered the basic telecommunications network, fully tested, by May 1, 1976. A number of personnel from this group of companies had been closely involved in pro- viding telecommunications facilities for several major events held in Montreal during the past nine years, including Expo 67, the World Cycling Championships in 1974 and, last year, the Montreal Inter- national Competitions. They brought their experience and expertise to the challenge of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Bell Canada established an Olympic Games Coordination Committee in 1973 to integrate the efforts of its marketing, engineering, plant and traffic departments with those of specialists with Bell Northern Research and Northern Tele- com Ltd. Following intensive consul- tations with COJO (The Olym- pic Games organizing com- mittee) and ORTO (the host broadcasting organization for the Games), it was determin- ed that the work effort needed to meet the telecommunica- tions requirements would fall into five categories:- tele- phone facilities with access to the telephone network; other non-network telephone facili- ties for inter-communication; video (TV Picture) transmis- sion facilities; audio (TV sound and radio) transmission facilities and, finally, a range of special services including data transmission facilities, teletypewriter lines, mobile radios, "Bell Boy" pageing units, walkie-talkie radios, public telephones, etc. A factor determining the design and location of much of the equipment and the instal- lation techniques that were used was the need to reutilize facilities and equipment, whether at the Olvmoic site, in adjacent municipalities or elsewhere, when the Games are over. It has been said that the Olympics have become "the television games". The 1976 Games in Montreal are per- haps the largest-scale tele- communications operation ever undertaken in North America. As a team-member of the organization that creat- ed these facilities, the chal- lenge for Bell Canada, with Bell Northern Research and Northern Telecom, is to pro- vide the organizers of the Olympic Games and the world's broadcasters with the most effective and efficient telecommunications system ever. The photographer will be In the sfor PORTRAIT PACKAGES ARE AVAILABLEI FOR ALL AGES Tells Lions About Two Year Teaching Assignmeniin Aretie by Liz Armstrong On Monday, July 12th, the Bowmanville Lions got to know one of their newest members a little better. John Lewis, the principal of instaled Maple Grove East Publie selfer Schooljoined the service club DjeCt All several months ago, and last -ning week he shared an interesting segment of his life in the field aces are of education with his fellow Lions by showing slides of a WR OOM two year teaching stint in the Arctic that he undertook IDAY between 1966-68. Going to the Arctic had been one of Mr. Lewis' dreams from the early days of his ~ US teaching career, but it wasn't just a matter of packing his 668-3192 bags and going north on a Street at Burns WHITBY whim.. At that time, teaching positions in the Northwest Territories weren't very plen- tiful, though Mr. Lewis found out that if he qualified to teach W e're unable to display a great deal of our merchandise on the street, So... 1OOff ANY ARTICLE Purchased during the SidewaIk Sale Th rsday, Friday, Saturday JuIy 2-32 MARR'iS Jewellery& Gift Shop 39 King St.,-West Bowmanville industrial arts. his chances of being hired would iniprove. With~this goal in mind he spent several summers taking courses to obtain his industrial arts certificate and then applied to the federal govern- ment for a post. Mr. Lewis also had a wife and three children to consider. Fortunately, as a registered nurse, his wife Norma pos- sessed skills that could be easily transferred north, and she obtained a position nurs- ing in the small community hospital in Inuvik with rela- tive ease. His children posed no pro blem at all because they simply registered and at- tended the same school that Mr. Lewis taught at during his two year stay. Photography is one of Mr. Lewis' hobbies, and his color slides make an excellent pictorial recordof is ex- periences. As the photos showed, the Lewis family departed for the nort' inAugust of 1966. From Edmonton, tbey flew north to Inuvik, and the trp included a four day stopover in Fort Smith, which enabled Mr. Lewis to take part in an orientation program. Inuvik is a government town which serves as the main administrative centre for the Arctic region. At that time, its population was about 3000, but according to Mr. Lewis,, Inuvik bas since grown con- siderably in size. Many families were accom- modated in large apartments wbicb were built on 'piles' or short sti"ts. The purpose of these elevated foundations was to prevent moisture from accumulating at the base of the buildings which would. occur as the heat from the structures would melt the permafrost. As an experi- ment, the Roman Catholie churcb was constructed on a foundation of concrete in°the shape of a saucer, but water gradually leaked through and eventually the structure had to be elevated on piles. 1000 students were enrolled at the government school in Inuvik with many of the students coming fromseveral hundred miles awa.y to attend classes. During the school year, these students were billeted in two residences, one for Roman Catholic students and the other for Protestants. A large percentage of tne students were native peoples, some of whom were over 20 years old. Mr. Lewis taugbt industriai arts and a few filler subjects during bis first year in Inuvik and then instructed academic subjects to students at the grade 7 - 10 levels during the second year. Missed His Car Though there were about 100 cars in the town, there were only two roads that they could be driven on; one going to the airport and another to the naval base located a short distance away. Mr. Lewis missed having a car while he was in the Northwest Territories, but he also pointed out that the extreme cold often made it impossible to operate one anyway. In temperatures below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the car engine couldi't warm up enough to ensure adequate lubrication. Midnight Sun Because of Inuvik's geo- graphical location, it's in the region known as the 'land of the midnight sun.' During the brief summers there would be daylight for close to 24 hours a day, and in order to get a good night's sleep, the Lewises covered the windows with tinfoil to block the light out. By contrast, during the long months of winter, the sun would appear for only a few brief hours. Fresh food was a rare commodity in Inuvik, . and making meals out of canned goods soon became a way of life for Mr. Lewis and hid family. One photo of the storage area in their apart- ment showed row after row of canned vegetables, meats and fruit, and it looked for all the world like the interior of a supermarket., By the time the second school year rolledaround, the Lewis family managed to escape from their almost total dependence on canned foods by having fresh products sent in from Edmonton every two months. Occasionally,fresh meat could be obtained after a reindeer was slaughtered, and members of the family looked forward eagerly to these meals.!' Though:life in the Northwest Territories differed tremen- dously from day to day living in Ontario, Mr. Lewis and bis family made the most of their two year experience in Inuvik, and returned south with mem- ories that will undoubtedly last a lifetime. Blod is needed EVERY 'DAY 5C M r5 KINC ST. 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