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12-0Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 26, 1990 Round and round Public speaking contest staged, at the Royal Come and -display your public speaking skills at the 199 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair public speaking contest. Your vision of an environmentally. sustainable agriculture, the farmer of the '90s or the marketing of Ontario's agricultural 'products are three' topics you can speak about. Sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the, Farm, Credit Corporation, contestants aged 17 to 24 are invited to participate. Speakers mnust pre- sent a speech five to seven minutes long, in English or French, on one, of the topics mentioned above. Speakers will go through preliminary rounds on Saturday, The midway at the fair continues event for the young attending the as it ha% for decades to be a popular , annual event in Orono. OntarjoHydro had something for al November 17, 1990, from 9:00 a. M. - 5:00 p.m. in the Trophy Room, upper level, east annex, Coliseum, at Exhibition Place in Toronto. The finals are at 7:00 p.m. the same day on the Ministry of Agriculture and Food stage, in the lower level of the east annex in the Colîseum. The first prize is $300 plus an event-filled day at the ministry; se- cond prize is $150; and third prize is $50. Ca,ýh prizes are awarded by the Farm Credit Corporation. ýTo register, contact: Ted Young, Farm Credit Corporationi, Suite 201, 450 Speedvale Ave, W., Guelph, Ontario NlH 7G7, (519) 821-1330. Registration must be postmarked by October 12, 1990. Bill Bramah's and his Ontario The Indian Village, overlooking Little lake in the southern Georgian Bay town of Midland, is a reconstruction of how our native people lived 400 years ago. Althoughevery year hundreds of thousands of people visit Ste. Marie Among the Hurons and the Martyr's -Shrine just a few miles away, the Indian Village is slightly off the beaten track and is rarely overcrowded. But it gives you a wealth of inform ation about Huron life before the Europeans arrived. The village was built in, 1954. by an archeological team from the University of Western Ontario supervised by Wilf Jury, the expert who reconstructed Ste. Marie and many other historic sites. It's completely authentic. The village is surrounded by palisades for defence, and near the entrance are examples of pottery and a graphic explanation of totem masks. Inside, when in season, there's a small patch of corn and another of tobacco. About 65% of their diet was made up of corn,, augmented by bernies and nuts. Tobacco had a spiritual signifi' and wa s believed to clear the h-ea- for deliberation at council. Nearby is the Me dicine, Man's lodge with its masks and herbs. The Medicine Man was a spiritual ad- visor and administered herbs and, ointments for ailments. Herbs wereý highly regariled for both prevention and cure of disease, as the-y are to- day by many people. In another hut is the sweat bath, also thought to contribttte to health. Beside the door was a fire where stones were heated, then roll- * ed into thie hut. After the bath the Hurons ran to plunge into the nearest streamn or roll in the snow. The focal point of any village was the longhouse. Il was a meeting place and also provided sleeping ac- commodation, In this village bunks are covered with furs, and firewood stored below the bunks. In the cen- tre of the building are a row of smouldering fires. Two families shared each fire. Children learned from example - the girls to pound corn and other household duties, the boys to shoot bows and arrows and to fish. Near the longhouse is a Algonkian type birchbark canôe. Bark was secured to white cedair ribs by hemlock gum and pitch. A 'Huron could travel over 50 miles a day by canoe. Along the way 1 learned an in- teresting tidbit of information from one of the guides. The nante< "Huron" isn't an Indian name at aIl. The people called themselves "Quendat". The early French ex-, plorers coined the terrn "Huron." Ontario Hydro did themselves proud at the Orono Fair with their display under the big big top. Indeed there was something for everyonie and above Joel Jacob, R. R. 2 Orono, takes great delight in playing in the small house complete with telephone. Sehool enrolments hold firm for 1990-91 term by Kristen Plumm er Lockhart cones alive this year with a total enrolment of,120 students due to the fact that they now have joined up with Newcastle Public School. Lockhart now has a total of six. classes, three of themn are Senior -Kindergarten and the other three are Junior Kindergarten. Most of the other schools have had a slight increase in enrolment this year with the exception of Orono. The followîng is enrolment figures for 1990 for schools in this area with comparative figures for Wl!! be using clear plastic garbage bags Clear plastic garbage bags are go- ing to bc a mtust il Durham Region residents expeeItol have their fal leaves picked up this year. DuIrharn Region's operat ions director, Art I itch, hais becu mak- illgaraguet wit h the local Imuicipalities su that this proposaI is carried oi. Thicleiar bags wýill make il possible thait the garbage 1989: School Orono Clarke Newtonville St. Francis Newcastle/ Lock hart 1989 287 508 122 315 Due to the fact that Newcastle Public School has recently joined up with Lockhart, we can not make any comparative figures for these schools. Since Lockhart has a total enrolment of 120 students, Newcas- tle would therefore have an enrol- ment figure of 300 students. collectors will be able to see just what the bags contain and that it is only compostable leaves. Leaves in green or orange bags will be left ai the curbside. 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