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Seeing the Sights You can tell it's July because Sidewalk Sale in Bowmanville gets people are counting the days that underway in a few weeks and of remain before their summer course there are service club vacations on fingers and toes. The carnivals and other attractions highways are crowded and so are throughout the summer months. The the lakes, rivers, swimming pools Bowmanville Lions held their and campgrounds. annual Carnival and Car Show at the There's no doubt about it, vacation end of last month and we understand time is here. And in thinking about the Bowmanville Kinsmen and vacations, it occurred to us that you Newcastle Lions will be having don't really have to travel to some carnivals later in the month. Not to place expensive or far away to spend be forgotten are the soccer and an enjoyable day. We wonder if baseball games and play-offs which enough people make use of the continue throughout the season. tourist attractions that lie on our Moving outside the town but still doorsteps or at least a few miles within an easy drive of away. Bowmanville, you can visit the We're not saying that it's a good Clarke Museum and Archives in idea to spend the whole vacation in Orono, the numerous conservation your back yard, taking occasional areas or the Darlington Provincial trips to nearby attractions. Of Park or the Port Darlington Marina. course one of the main thingÉ about And finally, if you wish to make a holiday is the fact that you can get the trip to the bright lights of away from it all - often very far Oshawa, you will find attractions away. such as the Parkwood residence But while you're waiting for your which was the home of the late Col. major holiday of the year, it may be Sam McLaughlin, the Automotive a good idea to get yourself and your Museum, Art Gallery and more. family in the holiday mood by taking While we are not describing this in some of the local attractions. area as a vacationer's paradise, we First of all, let's look at draw your attention to some of the Bowmanville. You could visit the attractions which Bowmanville and Bowmanville Museum and take a the Durham Region have to offer. No look at some of the newest exhibits doubt we have missed some of them, on display. You could wander but we hope we may have sparked through the Bowmanville Zoo and our readers' interest in getting to visit t he friendly animals. know their community a littie The downtown merchants' better. Violence in Its Wake The energy problem has suddenly out that Canada nas not experienced become a crisis in reality. In the the supply crises predicted in 1974, United States, where independent but nether has the country achieved truckers find their livelihoods ail the technological and logisticai threatened by lack of diesel fuel, successes that were forecast at that sudden death has followed in the time. wake of economic uncertainty. Some The stories of mile-long iine-ups at of the non-striking truckers have American gas stations is not one we been shot by snipers from the ranks in Canada iike to contemplate. It of the strikers. behooves Canadian industrialists to This outbreak of violence may move us quickly toward a appear to be but another dependabie suppiy in fuel, and demonstration on the part of a motor car and truck manufacturers particularly militant group of have a parailei responsibiiity to operators says the Wingham improve the fuel mileage Advance-Times, but it does provide capabilities of their product. an indication of the wide-spread There are alternatives. economic catastrophe which may A St. Thomas man has proven the develop if energy shortages continue feasibility of using waste products over a longer period of time. as an energy source. Assisted by Of course there is far more government funds, he has tapped an involved than.the shortfall in old dumping ground, longsince earnings of the truckers themselves. filied in and covered, to provide a As their strike continues farmers big supply of methane gas. And that are left holding animals over-ready gas has been heating a 20 x 39 foot for the market; crops of fruit and greenhouse for some time. He says vegetables from the south are left in the supply of gas from that one the fields while northern importers, dump wil iast the present operation including Canadians learn to get for 15 to 20 years. along without those commodities or Installation costs of such a heat pay the much higher prices which source are high, says the greenhouse will result from sharply curtailed owner, but after installation the fuel shipnrients. itseif costs nothing. Oii-fired heating The immediate demand of the units cost their operators in the truckers is that President Carter range of $25,000 per acre per year. In and the oil companies release more addition, of course, the burning off of fuel for the trucking industry - and the trapped methane may welh there already is some sign of prevent a tragedy in the future when relenting. At the same time oil uninformed developers try to use the consuming countries in Western dump site for housing. Europe and the oil exporting Despite some public discussion on countries are angry with the United the use of waste product gases as States (and Canada) for gobbling up fuel sources, we have read of very shortening reserves of oil. few other practica applications of There is an increasing protest the proven theory. Some years ago abroad over the claim that Canada the Hon. Alvin Hamilton, former is dragging its feet in the journey minister of agriculture in the toward self-sufficiency in oil Diefenbaker government, was production. Other nations know reported to have invested in a plant about our abundant oil sands in the to produce methane from animal Canadian northwest and believe that manure out in Saskatchewan. It we should be expending more time sounded ike a tremendous idea, for and money to bring these fields into the extraction of the gas heft the meaningful production. fertilizing qualities of the manure Natural gas is another energy undiminished - and odorless into the source which we apparently have in bran abundance. Union Gas President Cetiythprcsofxtain W.G. Stewart, says, "Gas supplies mtaefo uiia up will be available in abundance for shudfimrtanoergt many years ahead . .. well beyond rqieet o u agrcte the end of the century." He admits aetyn nvi ofn adit that many billions of dollars will be whcthymyd pteiwats needed in the next few years to make I ulptnilcnofe h the gas available to the nusnevleogrbgwesud marketplace. Turning to the overall b on h eca o.rmt h ener~outittateCanadaStewarttDexntrience. One of the Area's Beauty Spots Sugar and ice Another Year Over Every year, when July rolls around, I breathe a pretty heavy sigh of relief. Not because school is over and there's a long holiday ahead. That's nice. But I can teach English with one head tied behind my back. And I'm not that wild about holidays. No, the reason for the relief is that I have managed to wiggle my way through another year of being a department head without having any deaths, suicides or nervous break-downs among my staff. Being head of a large department in a large high school would seem to be a rather enviable position. You are paid extra for it, and usually teach one less class than the other teachers. Those are the good aspects. But there are others, and they are not all a piece of cake. I won't bother moaning about the incessant paper work, the scrambling to stay within a meagre budget with cost of books soaring steadily, the taking of inventory of about twenty thousand books. Those are the drudge jobs, and everyone has some of this in his work. It's the personalities involved that make the job something less than a sinecure. A department head must be a combination of Momma. Polonius, Machiavelli, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a priest, Napoleon and a touch of psychiatrist. For one thing, English teachers are a bit more creative, articulate, and rebellious than most of their contemporaries, perhaps because they continually deal with ideas, not facts. Ideas are shifty things, and the conveying of them to students is more slippery than the teaching of more pragmatic subjects: science, math, geography, shops. As a result, the English department head must serve as a wailing wall for his teachers who loudly and sometimes tearfully vent their frustrations at their inability to impart their own skills to their students. He must oil the joints of his department frequently, when some of its members seem about to come to blows with each other. He must act as a buffer between them and the administration. And he must stand up for them vigorously when someone is trying to shaft them. Now, I hope you are not expecting me to say that I do all these things. A pat on the back here, a word of praise there, a shoulder to cry on, long one-on-one talks to restore their confidence, a stern reprimand when necessary, frequent department meetings where we "talk things out. Not at all. If I tried to do all those things, I'd have been committed or had a heart attack long ago. I just leave them alone, let them crack up or break down, and try to show them, with invincible calm, my old theory that there is nothing, absolutely nothing in this world to get excited about. It seems to work pretty well. I am rather shy and don't get involved in their personal lives, except to listen One Way is Not Working Recently, somebody came up with the idea of changing Silver Street to a one-way street northbound for one block only with a stop at Church Street, while still allowing parking for about four or five vehicles on the east side. There may have been logical reasons for the change, but to date our observations indicate that it is not operating satisfactorily. In spite of warning signs about the new Stop sign at Church, motorists are continuing to ignore them, traffic continues to proceed both north and south on Silver and sooner or later there will be accidents, hopefully only fender benders but possibly more serious. And we doubt if police enforcement is the total answer. In our humble opinion, it would be more reasonable to eliminate the parking on Silver, between King and Church and let the traffic continue to flow both ways. Only two or three businesses would be effected. And possibly the town might take a look at the property to the south of Darlington Auto only occupied now by a taxi and a Burger Bus to see if it could be expropriated for a parking area to solve any problems that might be encountered. Also pro- posed alterations might be made to Jamieson Tire's plans so they would have parking available without interfering with road or pedestrian traffic. We toss these suggestions out for consideration by all authorities concerned because the present situation leaves much to be desired. once in a while, if I can't avoid it. When they are seriously ill, I don't bug them, don't even go to see them. We've had three department members with serious heart trouble in the last three years. They're all back on the job, better than ever. Probably because I left them alone, didn't show any particular sympathy, and let them solve it themselves. When a cou ple of members are at each others throats, I tell them to sort it out themselves, not come running to me for help. We'd never think of having a meeting at which we "let it all hang out." We have the shortest department meetings in the school. Most of them are taken up with ribaldry, a little business, and a quick acceptance of a motion for adjournment We have quite an assortment. Three working mothers. One artist. One student who has been taking extremely difficult courses for several years. One poet. One guy writing a novel. One syndicated columnist. Three of us are former newspaper people. One lady teacher is a dogged and determined member of the salary committee. We have a devoted Catholic and a couple of agnostics. We have a mixture of racial backgrounds: Polish, Scottish, Irish, Greek, French-Canadian and German. Letters to Dear Editor, Queen's Park 1S2, or by vis The Traveller's Guide to the OHIP office. 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Simultan A free copy of the handy Canada booklet can be obtained by Ep's5""sI writing the Health Resource in collecting Centre, Communications educationai Branch, Ontario Ministry of for the new Health, Hepburn Block, realize that i t k, T sitin the M ounc adia w a com ders kno an he n eatur ;t a g at airs ario. eou taff g m displ wnmi man3 Occasionally, one or two members of the department need a good blast from their head for recalcitrance, mopery or gawk. But I am psychologically unable to ream somebody out, and the trouble usually goes away, like bad weather. Once in a while, when I become a little depressed at the way they are draining me, without knowing it, I take out a booklet entitled, "Duties of a Department Head." This gives me a good laugh, when I realize that I am a lousy department head, and I feel better. There is only one area in which I fulfil my function. And this is a holdover from wartime. A good officer always defends the men under him. Unless, of course, they are hopelessly incompetent. When somebody climbs on the back of a member of my department, the usually benevolent Bill Smiley unsheathe> his claws, and the attacker backs off. Some departments have lengthy meetings, terrific in-fighting and resultant smoulderings. We have the happiest, most relaxed department in the school. Just want to say thanks, guys, for a good year. And next fall, don't tell me your troubles, Tell your husband or wife or mother or kids, and we'll have another great year. he Editor oronto M7A have oid photos of cars, g your local costumes, newspaper ciippings and so forth stored away in their attics and basements. Here is their, opportunity to work for theý Canadian benefit of ail Canadians, useum in preserved and dispiayed in a ed plans to Canadian museum. ns with an We are wihing to work out ll-Canadian ban arrangements. Aiso, we: iplex, Auto wouid like to duplicate original materiai that donors may be would lîke to keep themselves. w that they We are dependent on exhibition Canadians to aid us in the ew museum accumulation of materiai for ing antique the new museum's dispiays "old street and iibrary. This new museum many of the will feature Canada's total throughout automotive history - its past, present and future. sly, Auto Please do fot hesitate to Operation contact us for further are involved information. aterial for With thanks, ay purposes Marylee O'Neill Houghton useum. we Co-ordinator -Operation a i Canadians Exposure"