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4-Orono Weekly, Times, Wednesday, August 22, 1984 SPORTS Lo w-cost housing cra tes employmen t Oshawa Merchants eliminate -Grîerson Kendal Eagles from pl ayoffs The Oshawa Senior hall teamn came te lîfe in the last two garnes with the Keridal Eagles to take two decisive winis and thus eliminate the Eagles from further O.B.A. playdowns. The wins also gave the Oshawa entry the E.O.B.A. championship and puts them in position to continuein the semi-finals for the Ontario championship-. In the first game of the E.O.B.A. finals the Eagles dumped Oshawa by a score of 13 to 3 but for the next two games in the series it was ail Oshawa with a 12-2 and 16-2 wrns. Keith Powell of Orono on the Oshawa mound came up wîth an excellent game on August l5th when Oshawa defeated Kendal decisively by a score of 12 to 2, The following night Gary Carroll was the winning pit- cher for Oshawa when the score saw Oshawa well out in front 16 to 2. Ten of the six- teen runs came in the first in- ning for Oshawa and fromn this the team custed to the easy win. Steve West registered a home run for the Kendal Eagles. The Eagles would like to thank their sponsors and the fans for their contîniued sup- port throughout the baIl season. Fan Appreciation Day at Kendal Park on Suni- day, September l6th at 1:30 Oxvrono E.O.B.A,. Bantams to Labour Day Ontario playoffs The Orono Bantam schedule in the E.O.B.A. the, ment will decide the Ontario E.O.B.A. hardball team will Orono Bantans, playing Championshîp in the division be playing in an AII-OnXario against teams from the larger in which Orono plays in the 3-day tournament to be held centres, placed in seventh /playdowns. There are seven in Flesherton on the Labour position,. teams entered in the tourna- Day week-end. The Flesherton tourna- ment. During the regular Gi*rI's Softball to-urniiamenlýut Ùin Oronlo this Saturday This Saturday at the Orono Park the Town of Newcastle Girl's Softball league are holding their playoffs with activities in the tournament te, start at 9:00 in the morn- ing. Orono is represented by four teams in the PeeWee division, two in the Bantarn division and a single team in TRUEMAN It-has been a strange spring in southern Ontario, but in Northumberland County, at least, it would have been hard to find fault w'ith a recent weekend morning. *We were wakened early, about 5:30 I think, by the heavy honking of a Iow-flying flock of Canada gees e. They were only a fewv feet over the house, and in that con- fused state somewhere betwveen being asleep and be- ing fully awake, I wasn't certain that they weren't corn- ing through the house rather than just over it. I wvas awake just enough to go back to sleep with a feeling of deep contentment. The weathermen and the calendar make mistakes, but the geese don't. When geese f ly north,.the land is waking up from another wvinter, spring is here, and the fleeting Canadian summer is almost within our grasp. When we did finally get out of the bed, it was just as the geese had advertised. And there were more of them through the morning. Several times I heard that faînt, growing gabble which meant another flight was comirrg, and I dropped what 1i was doing and peeled my eyes. I did a fast count on one undulating V forma- tion and estirnated seventy to eighty birds flying fast and high. There was one spring night, a few years back when wve heard the geese flying over the house right through the night. And tîhe next day, the sky wP.as almost black with them - one flight after another, as many as three Vs in view at a time. the Midget division. The respective champions will be declared sornetime in the afternoon for the three divisions. Roy Grierson wants to kilI two birds with one stone in Durham-Northumber land. Grierson, the New Demnocratic Candidate in Du rh arn-Nort hum berland, said that stepped up con- struction of low-cost housing in the riding would reduce unemployment and create af- fordable housing for those on fixed incomnes. "Too many people on fix- ed incornes are paying three quarters of that income and more, for a decent place to live," said Grierson, "and our unemployment rate here in Durham- Northumberland is eight per cent. There cer- tainly is plenty of room for improvement. " Grierson said the New Democratîc Party continues to press for breaks for small businesses so they can afford to grow and hire more employees. Breaks would in- clude lower interest rates f'or boans, more risk and venture capital, more aggressive "Buy Canadian" programsb, and changing the tax system so that smnall businesses would not have to pay a higher effective tax rate than large corporations. Printing Orono Times Phune 983-5301 Another year, wve were driving northeast from Castletonwhen we noticed a flight of geese 'just over the car, and co-incidentally, following the road. Because of that, 1 was able to clock them at more than forty miles an hour. 1I1 can't imagine what rural Canada wvould be like if the geese ever stop flying over in the spring. They are symbolic of everything 1 value most. -lVve been thinking lately that if 1 ever get out of this crazy business, 'd like to Write a book about Canada geese. WNe watched a film on the whooping crane on television not long ago. American researchers put a littie radio transmitter on one of the whoopers and followed the flight by car and aircraft f rom their winterîng ground on the Gulf of Mexico aIl the way to Canada. I'd like to do the same thing with a flight of geese sometime, starting with a wvirtering ground in Chesapeake Bay perhaps, and following a flight ail the way up to where t summers on some northern Canadian lake. 1 can see a book in that. Where they stopped and why. The topography of the country they flew% over. What they found to feed on. Howv long it took them. How they spent the winter. Where they niested. How long it took for the goslings to, hatch. How majny survived for the flight back. That kind of thing. If there is a book in a week in the life of Bill Buckley - and there is, a good one - there's'a book in a flight of Canada geese, and l'd like to write it. From the Dim and Distant Past c elà- Co"ONTESTANTS WANTED FOR OId Tyme Fiddle Contest ORONO FAIR Thursday, September 6 8:30 p.m. OPEN CLASS -18 &UNDER 12&UNDER -65 &OVER CASI4 PRIZES AND TROPH lES Telephone 983-5689 or 983-5214 BIC%"d*YC LE SAL E Ail Canadian Bulit B MX 16" Wheels $ 99.95 CHROMED BMX 20"1 Wheels 139-95 MEN'S DELUXE 12 SPEED 21 " & 23" FRAMIES 149-99 LADIES' DELUXE 12 SPEED 191/2FRAME 149.99 MOU NTAIN BIKE New for 1984 26" DELUXE 12 SPEED 199-99 ROLPH MAIN STREET, ORONO Dr. Diane Trevis Quinlan OPTOM ETRIST WVOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING 0F HER OFFICEr- AT THE ORON M(0MED iC AL CENTR9,E OF 'FICETEEHE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT 983-971l3 August 5, 1957 -The mnarriag-e of Joani Lor- raine Tennant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ten.- niant and Kenneth Carl Gimblett took place at the Orono United Church last week. Rev. Basil Long per- formed the ceremnony, Mrs. W.E.C. Workmian played the weeding music and Mrs. Ray- mond Chapman was the soloist. Nine young swimmers were successful in passing their swimmning tests at the Orono Pool and will move from beginners to juniors. Miss Mary Ann Armstrong was in charge of the tests. Those successful were: Gerhard Aalbers, Lindla Bowen, Elaine Forrester, Anne Gilbank, Sally Hinton, Bob Luxton, lanice Rutherford, Robin Taggart and Billy Todd. Corporal Marshall Keast of the Orono Air Cadet Squadron received word fromn the Department of Transport that he is now a qualified air pilot. Word was also received by F/L R.J. Tag-gart, Commanding 0f- ficer of the Orono Air Cadet Squadron, that Sargeant William Tamblyn passed his Senior'N.C.O. course at the R.C.A.F. station, Clinton. Sargeant Tamblyn received over 80 per cent in ail his sub- jects. August 11, 1938 The Orono Police Trustee Board met on Wednesday in the fire hall. Ail the miembers were present, Gibson, Mercer and Riddell. t was decided that a sidewalk be extenided front the Fairgrounds to Park Street and the walk from the tonhall to Armstrong's store be resurfaced. The benefit dance hield ini the Armouries oni Friday night for Harvey Davey was a success. The hall was filled to capacity and Galloway's six- piece band provided the music. 'A