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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 9, 1977 Section Two & eCnaana' n tatteman Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 123 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62 66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES Editor - Publisher JOHN E. JAMES General Manager LA GEO. P. MORRIS BRIAN PURDY DONALD BISHOP Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appearing on this proof. Permission to reproduce in whole or in part and in any form whatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset process in a puoIcaton, must be obtained f rom the publisher and the printer. Any unauthorizea reproduction will be subject to recourse in law." $10.00 a year - 6 months $5.50 foreign $21.00 a year strictly in advance Although every precaution will be tai.en to avoid error, The Canadian Statesmran accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable for any error in the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof 0f such advertisement is requested in writing by the advertiser and returned 0 The Canadian Statesman business Officerduly signed by the advertiser and with such error or corrections plainly noted n writing thereon, and in that case if any error so nofed is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shahlflot exceed sucha portion the entire cos f such advertiseen as the space occupied by the noted error bears fo the .1.lespace occupied y such dvrtisMent. We'il Never Forget By C. Veenstra It was a gorgeous day in May of 1945. Rumors of allied progress were dancing from neighborhood to neighborhood. People huddled in corners of the street speculating When? and If? Suddenly the ominous rumblings of tanks petrified all motion and suspended all conversation. Hope alternated with fear. Were they the long awaited Allies or renforce- ments for the faltering Third Reich? The tanks rounded the bend. Allied forces berets waved greetings and the front tank carried a Union Jack. Freedom at last! Cheers mingled with tears of joy. There were kisses, hugs and hastily contrived bouquets for total strangers from a usually reserved people. With voices trem- bling in emotion the national anthem spontaneously burst out. Freedom! Freedom! At what price! In Arnhem, Flanders and many other places in free Europe, acres upon acres of crosses silently proclaim the cost of victory. Multitudes, griz- zled veterans of both wars, fathers of growing families, and smooth- skinned youngsters sacrificed them- selves to bring peace and liberty across the waters. 73 Alonna Street, Bowmanville Dear Editor; I would like to continue a little further the dialogue on the arenas and pool,Cnoting that the Cuwman Column (Newcastle Independant) has now joined with you in questioning them. It seems to me that most of your firecisheading in the wrong -direct ion. 1 deait, al too briefly, with the cost'in a recent letter, saying that your energies would be better directed elsewhere. It seems further elaboration may be called for. Should the arena fund raising committees fail in their attempted goals, Wintario will only match what they do raise. The remainder of their target, no matter what the figure, will be paid out by the town ý(thetïaxpayer) at the rate of three dollars ($300) for every one dollar ($1.00) of unattained target. This is where I feel your guns should have been brought to bear, however, they were not, the taxpayer is stuck with the fact, and it has met O.M.B. approval. S.P.L.A.S.H. does not have this shoulder to fall on. The only approval it has from the town is the approval needed to raise funds in the town. No one is under any obligation, the project is 100 per cent volun- tury. t is a three year project, the fund raising committee is confident the money is there, all we have to do is get out and work to raise it. At no time have we presumed to ask Council for any form of financial asistance. Should the committee be incorrect with its appraisal of our area, and our target is not reached, the amount raised wil be kept in trust until such time as the town builds a pool, (looking at Darlington we can imagine how costly that would be) within five years possibly. 1 do flot feel the committee is wrong in its estimate of Our area and your endorsement of the S.P.L.A.S.H. project would certainly have been an asset. It seems to me, we are sufferingsa backlash from the arena situation. Two small urban areas decide to assert their independence, in an amalgamated town (that isn't) and have one arena each rather than a twin pad (1p manager, 1 ice makerp 1ice cleaner, etc. etc. far cheaper)n close to Clarke High School.- "We'll never forget you! Never! The shouts followed the tanks as they lumbered on in their task of liberation. "We'll never forget you!" November 11, 1977 - Remem- brance Day. Around the monument stand a squad of veterans, children representing Scout, and Guide or- ganizations, relatives of the fallen and a sprinkling of by-standers. Where were the many residents of the Bowmanville area who them- selves owe their life and liberty to allied forces? There is something very wrong when the fallen soldier. is remem- bered only by family and comrades- in-arms. Then the cry "We'll neyer forget you!" rings a little hollow. We may never forget, and we must never let our children forget, the awful priée of freeedom, lest we do not guard it diligently. If we forget the price of liberty we will not cherish it and we may lose it. A mother and a little girl walked away from the monument last year. The little girl had heard ail about the reason for being there. She asked "Where were ail the others Mom? Don't they care they're free?" Don't they? As for the squash courts, Uxbridge clears a profit of $5,000 per year per court and Ajax aboute$10,000. As you can appreciate they will help defray pool maintenance costs, thus the reason for their inclusion. In discussions with various people I have been assured that- though the, town is committed financially to the arenas it in no way sets a precedent for any other similar projects. The people include our Mayor and Clerk. Sir, just as the squash courts would beantasset to the maintenance costs, your en- dorsement of the project would be an asset to us volunteer canvassers as we seek voluntary donations and pledges from our area citizenry. As for Mrs. Cowman's Column and the Courtice areas lack of any real town recreation, maybe she can initiate a program with the Town, the C.A.C.A. and all those developers to build a total recrèational complex utilizing the beauty of the creek valley? How about that, Bowmanville? We have a creek valley right behind an arena that needs twinning.? Money? Money. Money! Thank you, Dennis Dear Editor: In the past two or three weekstmuch as been said pro and con in regards to the pressurized growing pains of developing a community, under Regional government. thWe are now disillusioned by three levels of governing and were told at all meetings pertaining to informing the public as to how the Regional Syste functions; that input into this area would avoid overlappings of facilities, land use, laying out and improving roads etc., would be balanced for the needs of every man, woman and child. Your editorials indicated developments which will have an nflow of people (hopefully not going beyond 60,000) requesting more and more from the Town of Newcastle Recreation Department,who will be re-screening their ' programs, updating, adjust- î ing to new standards, to meet s the needs of people. Examples of changes local- s ly which came about by lI population, were updated in i nize and appearance and met c hew standards are: (A) new a. high school - auditorium - r gymnasium etc. (B) Fire Hall andmPolice Building - court rooms .. . (C) Arena - The Town of Orangeville at one time talked also of frills before they built a pool and twin arenas -Ubig added an arena and squash courts and had a similar outlook over the years. These communities with less than 30,000 inhabitants are proud of their new facilities, rein- forcing their programs. The Red Cross and Royal Life Saving Societies too have set new testing standards' along with the Canadian Amateur Swimming Associa- tion, requiring a certain size pool to have sanctioned meets and have moved all distances to metres. (50M - 100M - 200M) (2L's - 4L's - 6L's of a twenty-five metre pool). The Pine Ridge School may be phased out in five years and the 200 acres- which it occupies may be available, however 150 acres or so cut off three years ago has been rented out for farming and no sign of anything definite developing. Too, Queen's Park could for instance decentralize its operation and move the minis- try of something or other to Pine Ridge to relieve cramped and limited office space. (A) The Pine Ridge pool has been greatly appreciated since 1946 by swimmers from Pickering to Colborne and north to Blackstock through the generosity of the minis- tries concerned. Instructors have endured and accepted the lack of ideal accommoda- tions there, in order to aid and teach adults and children how to enjoy the water and swim, pass tests and be exposed to Water Safety knowledge, to save themselves and others in distress, in, on and around water. Our area has an enviable record, per capita in drowning statistics for the province. Pine Ridge pool measures (60' x 20'), decks on three sides 3' and 6'6" on diving board end. A working surface of 1200 sq. ft. A shallow end of 2'9" to a deep end of 7'. (B) The size of new pools is 25 metres in length (app. 82.3') y 42' wide. Decks 10' - 15'5 vide. A shallow end of 3'6" to a deep end of 10'. A working6 urface of app. 3,444 sq. ft.o7 The increase of distances to8 wim and skill tests froms rntermediate Red Cross level s cutting down the numbers in lasses increasing the time Ilotted per period, in order to ,asonably teach the candi- si é4< a<a neiaô' Give 'Us afBreak!e 0K, God. We get the message. We give up. You may stop weeping any time over the silliness of your favorite creation, man. Although at, l date the various requirements and prepare them for pre- testings. There are 10 levels above this test. (Check in- structional listings). Instrue- tors have had to control the size of classes for several years by limitingoregistra- tions. Some underwater tests were curtailed due to pools not being deep enough, moving to metric lengths plus the above would make a 60' pool extremely difficuit to work in, regards number of lengths to swim and where to finish various distance races. The Scarborough Recrea- tion Dept. who already have 14 indoor pools (25 metres) and 4 scheduled to be built, are not building another outdoor type. Reasons: Indoor pools have Test Level 1. Mothers and Toddlers 2. Moms and Tots 3. Pollywog I 4. Pollywog II 5. Pre-Beginner 6. Beginners 7. Advanced Beginner 8. Junior 9. Survival 10. Juvenile 11. Intermediate 12. Intermediate 13. Life Saving I & II 14. Senior 15. Life Saver 16. Bronze Medallion 17. Bronze Cross 18. Award of Merit 19, Distinction 20. Leaders Course 21. National Lifeguard Service times I'm not so sure it's weeping You're up to. I guess You tried to give us a little warning last winter, when you proven they can handle their summer programs under ideal conditions An outdoor Pool weatherwise only allows an average of 38 teaching days. Outdoor pools are de- teriorating the remainder of the time and not being used. The Town of Newcastle could use a multi-purpose indoor pool for a 12 months of the year operation. It will compliment existing outdoor programs enabling candidates to move along in the testing levels and-or be re-tested where they failed and thus keep pace with their peers. An indoor pool will give men, women and children of a ages another physical activity to enjoy and keep fit, at the Origin Dept. Dept. Dept. Dept. Red Cross Red Cross Dept. Red. Cross Red Cross Dept. Red Cross R.L.S.S. R.L.S.S. Red Cross Dept. R.L.S.S. R.L.S.S. R.L S.S. R.L.S.S. Red Cross level at whîch they wish to indulge. Many good instruc- tors emerge via female candi- dates. A multipurpose pool means ramps for handicapped pro- grams to assist them in a flowing manner into and out-of the building for more indepen- dence and greater enjoyment. The canvassers for the Newcastle indoor pool found citizens were not totally aware of the scope of an aquatic program which might be scheduled. The following list- ings are suggested as a possible program. The New- castle Recreation Dept. and Swimming Instructors would present a suitable instrue- tionalandutilitarian program for aillages. Prerequisite 2 yrs. old (toilet trained) 3 and 4yrs. 5 yrs. - able to stand unaided 6 yrs. - able to stand unaided 7 yrs. old or Polly Cert. Pre Beginners Card Beginner Card Ad. Beginner Card Jununior Card Card JunJunior Card Card Juvenile Juvenile Int. R.L.S.S. Int. Red Cross and 12 yrs. old Sr. Red Cross and 13 yrs. old 14 yrs. old (Dept. Health Life Guard Status Level) Bronze Med. & 14 yrs. old Bronze Med. & 15 yrs. old Award of Merit 15 yrs. old and hold a current Bronze Medallion. This step prepares candidates for Instructors School 17 yrs. and hold a current Bronze or Red Cross Leader Award. 22. Red Cross and Royal Life Directly set by the Water Safety Saving Society instructorsDivision of Red Cross School Other Activities: 1. Recreation Clubs for disabled adults and children - ramps provided re - easy access to and from dressing rooms and pool. 2. Public Recreational Swimming - (Children's groups) - (Adult groups) 18 yrs. and over 3. Private Pool Parties - birthdays, sports groups, church parties, plan a social get-together. Rentals at specific times and life guard. 4. Competitive Swimming - (e.g.) Newcastle Swim Club - competitors from novice to national events. 5. Springboard Diving - progressively - programs for children (5 - 16) (designed to enable everyone to advance at their own level) 6. Synchronized or Ornamental Swimming Club 7. Underwater Club - (min. age 18 yrs. of age. Certified divers are invited to join. 8. Form a Community Recreational Swimming Club - (e.g.) Limited to 50 people - swim at specific times - yearly fee. Repeat: These listings are merely suggested programings in a new pool of the size indicated would handle each activity listed.- Red Cross and R.L.S.S. instructor for 30 years. dumped more than 16 feet of snow on my humble abode. But wayward children that we are, we ignored Your broad hint and went right on sinning the sins of pride and presumption, as we have done through thousands of years of floods and plagues and droughts and famines. So You decided to sock it to us, beginning about the middle of August. The wheat is rotting in the fields. The vegetables lie deep and putrefying in the mud. And the overcast is so bloody low that even the birds are walking. Enough, Your Heavenliship. Don't let it rain no more. I've been searching my own soul to see where I went astray, and for the life of me can't admit that I've been more sinful than usual, to call down Your wrath in the form of 40 days and nights of rain. Maybe it's nothing drastic, but just a sort of general slippage over the years, throughout Thy people. Let us now undo our shirts contemplate our navels, and medi- tate on our sins, and perhaps You will stop the sluice and turn on the luice. Personally, I've slipped a bit, and I don't deny it. Oh, I haven't lusted after my neighbor's wife, I haven't, stolen anything except hat pumpkin out at Foster's Farm the other day, as a Hallowe'en treat for my grandsons, and I haven't murdered anything larger than a mosquito for years. I haven't borne false witness, except to the Department of Revenue, which doesn't count. Maybe I haven't honored my father an my mother, but there wasn't much point, since they've been with You for years. Well, that takes care, rather roughly, of the Commandments. But what about the Seven Deadly Sins. Maybe that's a horse of a different hue. Let's see. What are they? Oh, yes, I remember what the rector said one day in church. Pale Gas. Now, I am not suggesting for one moment that the rector was emitting from the pulpit colorless hot air. No, it was his way of remembering the Seven Deadly Sins. This might be useful for my readers, if they are still with me, contemplating their navels and wondering wherein they have erred and are like lost sheep. Wet lost sheep. PALE GAS. P for pride; A for Anger; L for lust; E for Envy; G for Gluttony; A for Avarice; S for Sloth. Now if we can just prove that we are Scot free on those counts, I don't think, God, that you have any right to go on watering us like so much asparagus. I can vouch for myself, and I'm sure for most of my readers, if I eny the first sin, Pride. What is there to be prideful about when you haven't done anything to be proud of? Does it count if you're proud of your kids for coming first in the music festival or growing the biggest squash for the Fall Fair? Anger? No way. Well, maybe a little peevishness, like that litany of damnation hurled at the turkey in the blue Pontiac who tried to cut in front of you in traffic. Or a few barks at the old lady once in a while when she presents you with a $60 long-distance phone bilL. Or a slight scream of rage at the kids when they calmly say they are quitting school and going to Europe to find themselves. But real anger? A firm "no" there. Lust? Most of us over the age of 30 don't even remember what it means. A fig for lust. Or a fig-leaf, if you want to be prim about it. Envy? Not a chance. Not among me and my readers, at any rate. Oh, we may turn a little green when we see someone smarter, more hand- some, better dressed, or richer than we, but there is assuredly no envy involved. We enjoy being stupid, ugly, shabby and poor. Gluttony? Out of the question. What do you think we are, pigs? Oh, there might be the odd one of us who has one or two or three over the eight when it comes to drinks. And I did hear that a few of my readers had to be hoisted from the table __to -the chesterfield by a block and tackle after Thanksgiving dinner. But you'll find a few bad apples in every barrel. And by the way, McIntosh apples are only $6 a bushel this year, and you can get through a bushel, the pair of you, in about three nights before the TV set. Avarice? Ridiculous? There isn't an avaricious soul in this fine land of ours. Except the doctors, maybe. And the businessmen. And the lawyers and the teachers and the union workers and the dentists and the politicians and the civil servants. But I can't think of one avaricious three-year-old. As for Sloth, you can scratch that one off the Canadian list right now. Migosh, you'd think we were lazy or something. It's common knowledge that the gross national product of this country is only slightly behind that of 14 other develope nations and well ahead of one of them. Lazy bedamned. Well, God, I think you've got Your signals crossed somewhere, and it's time you stopped wetting on us from a great height. Knock it off. We are beginning to get peed off as well as peed on, and if You aren't careful, we might all go to the Devil. I wonder if the rector was right about that Pale Gas? Maybe the letters stand for: Promiscuous, Asinine; Lazy; Epicurean; Greedy; Apathetic; Silly. Boy, if they do, we're in trouble. And I apologize, God. @NA