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A Christmas box at Town offices Members of council and staff Salvation Army and distributed Cnrtltosf~teetr joined in this week to open a during the Christmas sea son to being put forth. Christmas box at the Town's those in need. Pict1urd above Mafie Marano, Administration office where On Wednesday of this week Frank Wu, Walter EVgns, Chief items of food and toys may be left those at the office are to decorate Creighton and Patti PerrY (front by t hose interested to do so. the tree and a gourmet lunch is row) Larry Kotsçff, Ann The items contributed to the being served by staff with the Dreslinski,,Mary NoWlafl, John boxes will be donated to the main course hot whislte dogs. O'Toole, Diane Hamré. Barter syistem m ay corne back into vogue By: Helen Macvonal aotiars wiieiiuiciu. Lait Monday evening, a group Designied, to promote local self- of people attending a meeting in reliance, LETS is more than Bowmanville established a exchange li "green" dollars. LETS community barter system. Kcnown i "gremI" in its response to today's as LETS (Local Exchange and environmental concernis. Less Trading System) this system is dependency on imported products designed for you to do business and services (whether tliey are from with your neiglibours thus keeping as Close as Toronto, or as far away jobs and money in our ow as Taiwan), means less comMunity. And, the bonus - you transportation and less consumption keep some of those ever-decreasing of energy. dollars in your own pockets. In fact, LETS is designed in Co-sponsored by the Town of sucli a way that those services or Newcastle COPE programme and products which cost more in temis Durham Region Social Services, of environmental impact, will cost the LETS programme was launched you more federal dollars. If the as an offshoot of the Good product or service you purchase is Neighbour's programme - "people local, thus keeping more jobs and helping people". Speaker Dr. cash in this community, the split David Burman, a dentist who between federal/"green" dollars will established the LETS (Local work out to be less expenditure in Exchange and Trading System) federal (hard) dollar s, more ,green" programme in Toronto, told the dollars. Therefore, greater savings thirty-two paricipants that LETS is tO you. a means of people, helping For example, if -you, were thesselves; particularly, as we purchasing a kitchen cabinets made continue to struggle with a by a local cabinet-maker, the cost to seemingly endless recession. you mîglit be 100% "green" dollars. Not intended to be a means of No "hard" cash would be getting around various taxes, Dr. exchanged. However, if you were Burman called LETS a "second purcbasing an air ticket to Reno ec1101my" in which people can do from the local travel agency, the business while responding to others' cost miglit le 20 per cent "greeën" needs. "And, the recession need flot dollars, and 80 per cent federal choke ont individuals who find dollars. The travel agency would thesselves ont of work." Using pocket the cash, and then a a time any variety of skills and talents, you convenient to tliem, apply their can Continue to work and exchange ",green dol lars" to the purchase of a goods witbout the necessity of service or a product of a service or "hard" currency. a product such as Office -fumniture Participants register products or ïfromf the LETS Directory. services sucli as daycare; private As the buyer of products and nursing care; îawn maintenance; services from the LETS Directory, interior or exterior painting, you choose to do business with a sewing, swimming or riding local mnerchant who shows bis/lier lessons; automotive repairs; dental comm'itment to the community. As work; tutoring; catering; crywalling Janice Kroft, Administrator of - your product or service is onîy Newcastle COPE noted: "We can limited by your imagination. A sOlve Our own problems in our own directory is compiled, which also community ... we have the lists a "want ad" section as weîî as experience and the resources." cost Of products and services. Cost Kroft was "...pleased to see the is apportioned in percentages of interest in getting a LETS federal (liard) currency, and "green-" programme established in currency. AIl you have to do when Newcastle". COPE and Durham ".shopping the LETS way is cali and Region Social Services will pay the required federal/" green" continue to lend support to the development of LETS in our community. After al1, LETS i about »... people helping tliemselves in these recessionary tiles". Courtice-area resiflent Jenny Bilenduke who voluntÇered to act as administrator of th@~ Newcastle LETS stated: ".. the most attractive idea is tliat it is a community support sy9tem... this is timely given that there does flot appear to be any chance of an economic upturn in the immUedfiate future. We need to get to know Our community better, and to get more involved in our co0murnity." What better way than to pglticipate in LETS - your local exchange and: trading systemn? If you would lie té know more about LETS, contaCt: Jenny Bilenduke at 432-0054, or Janice Kroft at COPE, 623-4123. Registration fee is $10.QO. Gord's Ve w Gettin2 A Storv!!! My previous job often took me into Toronto, but for the last few months 1 have stayed back in the rustic, tractor-intensive regions of Orono, Kendal, Kirby and Newtonville. A few days ago 1 was li Toronto, and was surprised that Torontonians are really attemapting to be polite. 1 mean at least they are flot pretending to hate everybody. I noticed that car-drivers were very thoughtfully 'allowing pedestrians as much as .3 seconds to get out of the way, even though technically, a car lias no right on the sidewalk. Another example of politeness 1 noticed was that nobody ridiculed my clothes. Everybody in Toronto, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever F'm there, even i my sharpest funeral-quality suit, with no visible signs of gravy or ketchup stains, 1 feel as thougl I'm dressed in a green trash bag. Joyous Celebration at Durham Christian High School On Thursday, December 19, 1991 the Durham Christian High School (DCHS) Departmnent will be presenting their Annual Christmas Prograra beginning at 7:30 p.m. The school's Choir and Concert Band will be performing along with the Double Quartet Vocal Ensemble and the Durham Jazz Combo. Tickets for this musical extravaganza are available for $3.00 from any student in the DCHS Music Department or by calling the school at 623-5940. Tickets will also be available-at the door prior to the concert. The Music Department at DCHS is directed by Mrs. Glenda Hull and Mr. Dennis R. Ulîman. Durham Christian Hligh School provides quality education for students from Oshawa, Cobourg, Peterborough, Lindsay, Port Perry and Bowmanville communities. by Gord Milis Reporter 1Another thing 1 noticed in Toronto, was the fashionable guys had liaircuts which the liair is real long on top, but abruptly stops halfway down the head - like real cool!!,! This made me a little paranoid about my own hair, after al I have stuck with my "style'* now for over 55 years. Nobody, in Toronto bas had my style of haircut since the depression, yet nobody made fun Of it. As 1 walked around Queen's Park I noticed soute of the potiticians wîth worse haircuts dha mine, they looked so bad that they must have received them ftrm their consti tuency offices by fax machine. Contrary to general belief, Queen's Park is still the hub of Ontario's decision making, it lias been converted to luxury condominiums as some people would have you believe. It is SÛRl performing die vital function that it was establislied to perforra in our troubled times, namely, multi receptions for foreign dignitaries or closed for holidays. Since 1 was in the area of decision making, I decided to use some proven joumnalism techniques, like talking to a person standing next, to me. Me: "What are you doing down bere?" Person: I study economnics." Me: "How are things going- then?" Person: "Better." Unfortunately at that point the person walked away, but nevertheless I bad what we journalists call die "main thrust" of a story. It was defmnitely a load off my mind, I could now escape the wrath of the "Times Editor" and produce a story for the newspaper in tise to make this Wednesday's edition. Phew!!! What a relief- until next week. 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