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6-Orone Weeldy Tins, Wedoudiay, November 28, 1984 Junior Gardener Prize Winners Last Thursday the Orono Junior Gardeners held their winter show along with that of the senior association and during the course of the even- ing the awards were presented by their leader. Pictured above are: Mrs. Helen Robinson, leader, Kevin Scott, Peter Cowan Jackie Cowarf, the latter be- ing winners of the numerous awards. Pines Senior Public conditions of variou- careers. Many students have aiready made up their minds News Rpr News eportabout which job thiey would like 'to observe,' with the Last Thursday, November half-a-day in order to take a assistance of a co-opei 'ive 8, 1984, our school hosted look at occupations that may educaton student. The Northumberland & interest them. Mr. Moore So, some years from Newcastle Board of Educa- states, "This, briefly, is an many of these students shah tion on its annual visit to the opportunity for our grade fot be the observers of these Western Area section of the eight students to observe ac- jobs, but theyll be the Board's jurisdictiosn. tuai working experiences and observ-ees. The Board was welcomed by our principal, Mr. Moore, who, in turn, introduced the band and four speakers, namely, Tammy Hansen, Lisa Vickers, Rod Pierce and Shana Hillis. In commemora- tion of Remembrance Day, the speakers read their poems and essays which emphasized their thoughts about November Ilth. The band, under the direction of Mrs. Carter, played the following numbers: "Abide With Me", "O God Our Help In Ages Past" and "Pleyel's Hymn". Students Go "Job Shadowing" During the course of the year, Grade 8 students at The Pines will be involved in a programme called "Job Shadowing.' This pro- gramme allows the students to escape from the school for SOLWAY I have some favorite cities. They are my favourites first, because I happen to love city life, but more a "big" city, to me, is one with people. Not just people driving around looking for a place to mark, or people lined up at super- market check-outs, or packed 20,000 into a stadium. That's crowds! That's not "people". Real people in real places are what make a city. Street life. Eye contact. A variety of styles, shapes, sizes and voices and accenis. You can only get it in a real city. Which excludes places like Los Angeles that was once described as a "filling station next to a palm tree." I suppose we have developed two kinds of peo- ple: those who agree with me and lust for the slightly polluted turgid aid of the core of a great city; and those who have moved away to find their version of peace in a small town or sprawling suburb. Only one problem. The people who have made those wastelands where all you get are plazas and subdivisions, are now awakening to the fact that they have paid a high price for their imagined comfort. The price is that they have lost the hubbub so necessary for the human spirit. So everywhere towns with 'vision" or "looking for- ward" or any of those "come-and-build here" slogans, are looking for an identity. They desperately want a "downtown". They also want shopping mal. Not just the old fashioned open-to-the-street plazas (which developers are spen- ding millions to cover over) - by Larry Solway they want the real thing- their own equivalent to the Eaton Centre. Good luck. Good luck to every town that is trying'to rehabilitate the centre that made it a "place" in the first place. Latest in the downtown regeneration sw.eepstake is Whitby. Government money has been promised to revitalize the downtown core. Maybe, Whitby is jealous of Port Perry, which still has a good- looking' Queen St. (try it some Sunday and see) or Bowmanville which is fighting to make downtown a real place and (unless the new mall takes over) may succeed, or Pickering that is trying to reestablish its sense of being a village, or Cobourg with Vic- toria Hall al rebuilt and shiny at the centre, or Port Hope, where I think is one of the nicer downtown streets still functioning. Maybe "jeolous" is the wrong word. "Eager" would be better. According to a survey what Whitby really wants is more parking. Tens of thousands of dollars has come along to "beautify". It won't work. All the boosterism in the world just won't work unless there is a will to make it work. The will comes from the people who will one day walk around downtown and not have to drive the last inch and park at the front door. The car has injured the will to make a place a people place. The supermarked, the shopp- ing mail and the subdivision have turned injury into mor- bidity. We have married ourselves to the joys of the station wagon and the housing development and staying at home unless you have to break that habit to go the cot- tage. The Whitby Chamber of Commerce (and any other chamber of business im- provement organization) had better face the truth of it. You can't counterfeit at- mosphere. You cgn't create an ersatz setting and make it work. Oh, you can fill it with people like they do at a shop- ping mall, but you have filled it with plastic, portable peo- ple looking in the windows of plastic, portable chain store operations. There is no style, no flair, no contact. Yes, you DO need to report and rebuilt. But you need the people who will use it. Business bankruptcy is made of depending on surveys where people say what they want and will do. Don't count on them. If you want to see how it works -- walk along Bloor St. or Yonge, or even the new Market Square. Or try Min- neapolis, where it is so cold you think you have died and been crayovaced. It was always a people place. To make it even better they join- ed half , the downtown buildings with aerial walkways so people could still walk and see and enjoy when its Artic outside. t am going to raise a bit of Harry with the boosters and politicians who think that all we need is money to turn a desert into an Eden. For the next few weeks I'l take on a few of those at- titudes. Before you start curs- ing, remember, J have a big stake in one small town myself. I'm not leaving. On the left?Bill and Kim, the twins, baby Sarah. They've re- vitalized their furnace with an electric plenum heater; its one ofthe most economicalways to cutwinterfuelbills. And they've turned the drafty old attic room into a warm nursery with in- sulation and inexpensive, easy- to-instalI baseboard heaters. There's a separate thermostat, so babys room can be kept at exAtly the right temperature without overheating the rest of the house. On the right? Mike and Stella -empty-nesters. They've installed an add-on electric heat pump to help save money and heat their home in winter and they're looking forward to the com- fort of air conditioning next summer. It was easy to add, cuts their heating costs and adds to the value of their home. Electric heat provides home-owners with many options for either total or partial conversion. Whatever your needs, theres an electric system that's just right to help you cut costs, without cutting corners on comfort. Once you understand the flexibility of electric heat, other heats just don't look so hot. Write to Ontario Hydro and ask for your free booklet about satisfied families who installed electric heat, Ontario Hydro, 620 University Avenue, Dept. U4E3 Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X6. 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