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~Oimo W.klTlmu W..sdy ~ovem. ' Kendal Bazaar fuit of charm One of the Founders of the acquaintances who had stopped in Clarke Museum and local Historian to the Bazaar on Saturday past, Catherine Stewart enjoyed Kendal's including David Scott who is a Bazaar this year as alwaqys. She had Candidate for Local Councillor,, the d istinct pleasure of meeting up Ward 3, and his wife Nancy. with many of her friends and The Kendal U.C.W. once again put on a lovely bazaar, welcoming friends and neighbours from the area. (1-r) Front: Lavia Downes, (UCW Treasurer); Peggy Frank Kendals Jack Westlake (left) and.Leonard Falls were rather like 'Maitre D's' of the most charming kind, as they greeted guests and The baked goods, fresh vegetables and eggs and an array of other goodies for sale, blended with the ftiendly folks up in Kendal, made for a sure recipe for a truly (Vice-Presidenit) and T'helma Westlake. Back Row: Dora Youngman, Janet Lean, Margaretta Stevens, Frances Cathcart, and her daughter Elaine. invited all to partake in the tempting lunch, which was included in the admission. enjoyable aftemnoon bazaar in the country, despite the blowing snow flurries threatening outdoors. ... and the pleasure was mine! Peggy Mullan OiI-eating' 1By John Eberlee Bacteria wve rely on to digest oil spills may not be doing as thorough a job as we'd like, warns an Edmonton scientist. Research by Dr. Phillip Fedorak and colleagues at the Univlersity of Alberta indicates thiat while microbes can degrade mnost of the organic compoxunds found in oil, they frequerntl create others as a result. Whats more, some of these wa ste products may be harmful to the environment. "We have to be aware that side effects can occur, in the sanie way that drugs can produce sîde effects in people,' Fedorak stresses. In one study, the U of A tearn examined the fate of sulfur-containirig compounds fed to microbes. It tumned out the bacteria removed the sulfur, but hardly changed anything else. About the only difference was that the new compounds were more water- soluble. "hus, they were more likely Io move away from the site of contamination and get into the food chain," Fedorak comments. He says the answer is not to stop An overcasi forecast strengthening in the economy rose from 5 per cent to 37 per cent over the same period. Until the economny is into a sustained period of growth, however, businesses will be looking to take up the slack in capacity and continue to keep a very tight rein on costs. The easing of small business--pes- simnismr is offset by the many adverse factors lying beyond their control and in the hands of government. The Goods and Services Tax, for example, was cited by 29 per cent as an impor- tant element behinrd their limited'sales expectations while 65 per cent of respondents said they are still strug- glingl to survive the crippling impact of the long period of highi interest rates (which stili remiain well above com- parable U.S. interest rates). The signais froin small business owners are clear-taxes have reached epidemnic proportions and the federal governiment's interest rate policy, designed to curb inflation created by their own tax policies, has devastated small firmns-these initiatives, comn- binied wi th a recessional economny, have overwhflelmied businesses to the point where employers are having to cut back on1 stating simply to survive. Sartling indications are that fuli-time job losses in the s mall business sector could easily reach 225,000 in the last half of 1991. Although small business owners are less pessimistic about the economyv today than they were at this tinte las t year, they're aware that unlike the last recession (when an upsurge in the P.S. economny pulled Canada out of, its depths) the process of economic recovery this time wiIl be slow. There is too miuch consumer debt and Canada's comtpetitive position relative to the U.S. has been hampered by higher taxes, higher interest rates and a higher Canadian dollar. CFIB president John Bulloch met with Finance Minister Don Mazan- kowski recently and outlined the strate- gies needed to kickstart the economy and help Canada's small business corn- mnunity put Canadians back to work: a reduction in, the G ST rate, reduced fed- eral spending, lower inflation, reduced initerest rates in relation to the U. S., an d a lower value of the Canadian dollar. At a time like this, the economy could use the strength and support of Canada's small business entrepreneur S. C FiB Feature Service bugs' don using bacteria aitogether. but Io help them finish the job they start. "Ini any contamninated environment, theres only so much you 'cani do using physical or chemnical methods. After soaking up as, much oul as possible, you eventually get ,o a point where you have to rely on bacteria." Howvevcr, there's no single bacterial strain that can dlean up a spill aIl by itself, hie adds. lnistead, wvhat's needed are ixeNd populations capable of digQsting organie compounds, and their byproducts. ini an assembly-line fashion. Fedorak says suitable microbes are ahl arouind us. "Weve neyer found a [contamnination site] that did tlot contain oil degrading bacteria. T'hey're thiere. its just a miatter of coaxing them to eat.' For starers, that means ensuring the bacteria get a ba]anced diet. The comiponients of oil contain lots of carbon, but microbes also need nitrogen and phosphorus, hc says. Ini addition, they f are better ai higher temertues and in acrobic 'help? environnients. "Mierobial activiîy is much faster when oxygen is present." Fedorak is currently investigating wheiher bacteria require anything else in order to break, down the initial byprodutcts of petroleumn digestion. Funding for his ýtudies was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Imperial 011, and Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. <Can adian Science News) FOR RENT 3 bedroom house in Bowmanville. Close 10 hospital, school and stores. Available immediately. $750.00 mn thly plus utilities. First and Last. 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