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6, Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 24, 1982 Pan cake Eating Cont est And the winner is .. Tom Sotiriadis was the first person to finish his ten large pancakes during the pancake eating contest on Thursday, February 18, 1982. Wendy's Poem To Sheila: A Lifekng Friend As 1 look back at my old photos, 0f, all the things, done through the years. It makes me wonder, what tomorrow will bring, And if, those things will still be here. The time will soon be com- ing, For we'll soon be leaving Clarke, When everyone, goes on their ways, To make a brand new start. I've known you now, for four long years, IMinister baeks off Port Hope project In finishing first, Tom won himself two. tickets to the Goddo Concert -being featured at Clarke on Thurs- day, February 25, 1982. And our friendship still keeps growing, Although we've changed, it's for the better, You're a friend 'm -glad, for knowing. It's sad, when people get older How they live, just for to- day But for me, 1 need my yesterdays, For they're what made me, me today. It was announced last week by the chairman of the Ganaraska Region Conserva- tion Authority, Gerry Houston, that the Ministry of Natural Resources had postponed any funding for channelization of the Ganaraska in Port Hope in- definitely.' It had been intended that work costing some $1 million would be undertakeni this year in channelization of the river in downtown Port Hope. The province was to furnish $850,000, whîle Port Hope was to corne up with the remaining $150,000. Channelization of the Ganaraska is to reduce flood damage in Port Hope. Over $1 .5 million has already been spent in the purehase and demolition of buildings in downtown Port Hope to Ontariulo Ed theme-g at P The busiest high school in the entire Northumberland- Newcastle area on Friday, February 26, 1982 will be Port Hope High School. On that day the High School Teachers of District 49, On- tario Secondary School Teachers Federation will meet for their annual Profes- sional Development Day ac- tivities. The Keynote address dur- ing the morning session will be given by Mr. Stephen Lewis, former Ontario Leader of the New Democratic Party. His themne wilI be "Ontario Education - The Best Possible Education,- a theme which promises to be both thought- provoking and controversial. Following Mr. Lewis's ad- dress a panel of concerned and informed individuals will dialogue with the speaker on the theme of the morning ses- sion. The panel will be made up of Mr. Peter Grieve, an in- make way for the final stage of the program, channeliza- tion. The cost of the purchase was shared 85 percent by the province and 15 percent by the Town. Representatives of the Authority and Howard Shep- pard, local M.P.P. are to meet this week with the Minister of. Natural Resources, Alan Pope, to seek reconsideration of the project. Late in 1981 the Ministry had put a hold on the con- struction of a new ad- ministration building for the Ganaraska in Port Hope. Through the efforts of the Authority, MP.P. Sheppard and M.PP. Cureatz the minister reversed his decision and allowed the Authority to proceed to construct the new centre. Dday dustrial representative fromr Weetabix of Canada Ltd., Mr.- David Parker, a hiigh school representative fromn Port Hope High School, Mrs. Sheila Parker', a parent and Administrative Director, Hilîs Business Products, Mr. Walter Pitman, post- secondary representative and Executive Director of the On- tario Arts Council, and Mrs. Linda Greenwood, the moderator and President of District 49, OSST F. There will be an opportujni- ty during the panel presenta- tion for audience participa- tion. The afternoon will be devoted to workshops in the various subject areas, in- cluding - Art, Businiess Education, Dramatic Arts, English, Famnily Studies, Geography, Guidance, History, Library, Man in Society, Mathemnatics, Modern Languages, Science. (Continued Page 7) If you're a gardener you've likely heard of Domin- ion Seed House. It's one of Canada's largest mail or- der companies, and its huge black and white frame building has been a landmark on Highway 7 in Georgetown since 1928. You can't just walk in off the street and buy seeds. If's strictly mail order. You order seeds and garden supplies f rom their catalogue. And you have quite a choîce -- over 1,000 different varieties! Last week 1 went in to see the big operation. In peak periods it takes up to 120 people to fuIl the hun- dreds of thousands of orders they get every year. I guess you get on to it, but to a stranger the whole thing is mind-boggling! The seeds are shot into little packages by automatic machines to assure the right quantity. But the more expensive seeds are scooped into the packages by hand. From there they are put into what seems an endless line of pigeon holes. That's the order depart- ment. There's a lot of rushing around. People who ob- viously know what they're doing, grab an order form and begin gathering packs of seeds from those in- numerable pigeon holes. Where the order is filled it goes to other departments to be parcelîed and mail- ed. The process goes on and on. Douglas Peck, the general manager, started in the order department 37 years ago. He was telling me that Dominion limits its business to Canadian garden- ers. Some of them have been dealing with the com- pany for over 50 years. To most of us springstarts late in March. But to all those home gardeners it comnes a lot earl ier than that. It begins the day the Dominion Seed House catalogue arrives In the mail! Cia -rke Hîgh Schoo-l Looking for a new direction? The Student Services Department. at Clarke High School is offering Career Counselling for adults. To set up an appointmnent cal Ms. J. McCann Student Service Department- 987-4771 ............. ... . .... . .. .......... ..........