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Orono Week ly Times, Wednesday, June 12, 1991-3 Newton'ville Post closing An era cornes to an end this Tbursday, June l3th witb the closing of the Newtonville Post Office at the end of the work day. Services that have been provided at the Post Office are being available at the corner Convenience Store as of lune lOth and continuing after the clesing of the Canada Post-entity in the little brick building. The retail. postal outiet wîll previde a full range of products and services to the community with extended hours of being open. Community mail boxes are already in service being located on Churcb Street adjacent to the back of the Post Office building. Customers have been assigne« individual compartments and have been s0 inferrned. Residents of Marydale, Trailer Park continue ýte cellect their mail at the ,post office until lune l4th. As of lunie 17 Marydale mail is being delivered to the Box Delivery Centre in the Park. Customers on Newtonvilles rural route will continue to receive their mail as in the past being delivered by a rural contractor. Guess Who's Birthday, So you are 50 and stili getting better The Loss of- the Last Nut Over mhe past number of years Donna bas been in a constant battle with pesky black, grey and red squirrels who one way or another have always seemed to reach mhe bird feeder. They would clirnb up a greased or plastic covered pole, jumnp from mhe over bang of mhe roof or just pass over any obstruction mhat was placed i their way. She bas developed a real dislike for squirrels while on the other bands 1 bave always felt mhey were part of nature - just let them be. Beat them if you can at their own tricks but on mhe omher band they bave te live by mheir owii senses. You miay remember mhat these pesky varmits dýîd me in througb mhe taking of over 700 spring bulbs as mhey were left to&dry in tme cicken bouse. Now 1 fmnd mat was not al. Last fall we picked up some fifty black walnuts, and a sirnilar number of cbestnuts and ickery nuls bomh f-rom Sid Rumherfords lawn and out in the Ganaraska It was the beginning of a little project te grow some seedling trees of species not possibly normially grown. Mfter mhe preparation of a small garden in the backyard the nuts - -re planted last fal according te all mhe rules. i was apparent mhe next morning after the planting mhat the squirrels bad raided mhe garden but we had felt mhey had only taken Yo ur Friends WFSS a few of the nuts. As a resuit the garden was covered over witb a small mesb screen and we would wait this spring for the resuit. It bas been evident for the past three weeks that the squirrel. damage was more extensive than originally tbougbt and in fact after scuffling through the plot on Sunday we found but one lone hickery nut out of a possible 100 nuts altogether. Itfs apparent when the squirrels do a job on you tbey show no mercy. The remaining hickory nut was pushed back into the greund, Sunday and the location noted with a marker. As is habit we do take a walk into the back yard every morning before breakfast and on Monday found a hole beside our marker and, of course, the loss of the last nut. These squirrels are certainly equipped witb the best sonar system that bas ever been devised. But we are not giving up and are preparing now for the fall planting. A Few Notes There was a good turnout for the Clarke Museumh walk in the Ganaraska Forest on Sunday, 25 to 30 and Bill Bunting did a commendable job of introducing the group te tree identification and' pointing out the Ginger.piants, the Soloman Seals and other plants now in bloom, As far as birds mid-day is not mhe best of tùne to make sigbtings or to even hear tbem. But an Ovenbird did sound off with its "teacher teacher" caIl. This bird of the lower forest area is ramher secretive and it's by chance mhat you make a sigbtig. Bomh Bill and 1 have found out miat mhere is no sense in treking in to fmnd it. T 'he Red Eyed Vireo, another bird of the forest and most often sighted in mhe top of deciduous trees was in full voice Sunday for a period of turne., Its song is*tmat of a robin but, to me, phrased in triplets, and always coming from mhe very top of a tree. At Young Drivers of Canada, we offer one of tbe nmost thorough defensive driver tradining prograins in the country. We believe the best way te leara is with one instructor and oue student W the car. You'll leain bow to drive defen- sîvely with our proven approacb to accident-free driving. /AAiL You'll also receive Another bird of the forest, the Rose Breasted Grosbeak, also sounds the, same as a Robin and it travels in the lower, middle or top stories of mhe bush. It does give itself away, however, for once it gets going with song it just doesn't shut up. The Vireo, the Grosbeak and the Ovenbird are common to this area. We did' have an interesting venture recently when driving out of the forest just after dusk. With the car lights on-twe small red reflections some 300 feet ahead appeared on mhe road. Immediately we knew what it was for Sid Rutherford and 1 bad witnessed this years ago in tme forest. I was able to drive within possibly seventy feet of mhe two red reflections which were mhe eyes of two Whipperwills who bad been feeding on the sandy road. They stayed for at least four-to five minutes before flying off into mhe woods. 1 remained in the area for.a period of turne for mhe birds were in full song at that tuîne of evening and mhere were certainly more than two in the area. Only once have we seen a Whipperwill in mhe daylight and it was crouched beside a broken limb of atree. If you are still wimh me just one more commnent.,Mter bearing somne words of praise of mhe work in tme Orono Woods Walk Park and what we migbt expect in mhe future I did take a trip inte the park. 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