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At the Orono Public School Orono Public School received a visit froin Fariner Richard and bis sidekick Shelley froin the Visual Arts Centre, last Tuesday. Richard Toms and Shelley Holiday of the Visual ArtsCentre are currently visiting area schools which replied to a questionnaire sent out by the VAC in Bowmanville. 1 actually think IVve done it. 1 tbink I have found the world's stupîdest invention. It is not only stupid, it's a waste of money and it's derived froin a rather bizarre concept- Introducing the self-flushing toilet.... If you care to sec this marvelous creation first band., hop on the GO-train and travel to Union Station. Stop there. You need go no further. No transfer to catch a subway or bus to the Science Centre necessary. Don't get a connecting train that will take you to the Museumn of Man- Made Wondrous and Weird Inventions in Whatsville. No merely get off the train and walk froin the platfonm to the bathroom. Here you wilI find the amazîng "Toilet of the Future." 'Mis thing is the biggest pain in the... neck. (Whew, almost had a really bad pun, there.) In less than two minutes, this dumb thing had self flushed about ten limes. 1 guess that when you move you break a laser beain that activates the flush mechanisin (or mhat's the explanation they gave for the self- tap-turning faucet.) Weil, when trying to tuck a t-shirt into a pair of jeans while hanging out in a space mhat doesn't really have ail that much elbow room, a sort of ceremonial dance is required. This, it seems breaks the laser beain and thus... flush. Just tucking in my shirt, prompted five flushes. 1 thought there was a group The students, unde r the guidance of Richard and Shelley made animal masks from paper bags. They started willi a rousing set of Old MacDonald to set the mood. Shelley Holliday of the Visual Arts Centre, dresses as a cow to stimulate the imagination of students at Orono Public School. somnewhere that is telling us that freshi water is becomning more and more scarce. Maybe they should protest at Union Station. Gallons and gallons of wasted water. But as 1 eluded to in a prior parenthesis, the faucets were also automnatic, and the haniddryers as well. The whole bathroomn was automnatie. Why? Its not as if we were going into performn surgery afterwards. In fact, the only thing that didn't work automnatically was thec door. The nerve. You go to the bathroomn>, you clean your hands, and then you have to open the door by yourself using a door handie that everyone else in the world has used. Go figure. How much do you think they spent to revamp the bathrooms at Union Station? 1 could hazard a guess, but it uPsets me to realize that the money they spent might be a whole lot more than the arnount of money that I will make in this lifetime. So there you have it. The world's stupidest invention. So next time 1 find that I've Missed my train by mere seconds (a bad habit), and find mhat 1 must wait a full hour for the next one to aPpear, I'm going to the bamhroom. At least there's some sort of entertainment there. People have a fit when there looking for a tap that doesn't exist. And it's really funl when the water just suddenly aPPears. Hey, look, it's a miracle. 1 got water froin a faucet that has no tap. The Lifesaver course is designed to teach essential lifesaving first aid skills to people of il ages. Three and a haîf hours of your time could save a life. Cal! St. John Ambulance f-or détails. St. John Ambulance Tales ToId Twice (Contmnued iîom page 7) and fire chief Ross Mercer presented a cheque in the amount of $700.00 to Mr. Charles Gray, chairman of the fund raising committee. The Orono Jamboree for April lst to be held at Clarke Higb School bas been postponed until further notice due to circumstances beyond our control. March 1969 At last Thursday's board meeting of the Northumberland- Durhamn Board of Education permission was given to the Great Pine Ridge Festival of Arts to distribute application forms in the bigh school of the area to interested students to use lighting and other equipinent from. Clarke Higb School and also"to use the Newcastle Public School auditorium for rebearsals. March is Red Cross month and the District Branch, is again conducting an appeal for funds to carry on its work. Mrs. Wm. Grady and bier teain of volunteer canvassers plan to canvass the Village of Orono during the week of March 1îom. Last Friday and Saturday the Saracens Car Club, Orono, conducted a Model Car Show and competition wbich was lodged in the McKenzie Store in the Orono Business section. Ken Cowling won the trophy for Competition group, Alan Pears won the trophy for the Rod group and Jim Mcgill won the trophy for Antique cars. Miss Sharon Allin, Peterborough, is spending this week with ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Allin. The Orono Figure Skating Club presents its 23rd Annual Carnival on Friday and Saturday, Marcb 28th, and 29th at 8:00 p.m. Adults $1.00, children under 12 years 500. Early Thursday m orning, fire broke out in the paint plant of Curvply Wood Products. The heat from the sinaîl fire operated the sprinkler system which quickly put out the fire. The twenty-first annual meeting of the Durham Farmer's County Co-op was held in the Oddfellows Hall, Orono, Friday, evening, March 21st at 8 p.m. About 100 were in attendance. "Charlie Brown Week" at the Clarke Library was quite successful with over two hundred books being taken out by students during the vacation week. Book winners during this week were: Michael Gibbs, Sandra Taylor, Laurie Schmid, Jeffrey Gibbs, Joyce Werry, Sidney Feddema, Richard den Hollander, Wendy Watson. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ransben-y, R.R. 2, Orono. wold like to invite friends and neighbours to a dance in honour of their parents' 25th Weddîng Anniversary at the Oddfellows Hall in Orono ont Saturday, April 5th at 8:30 p.m. Support Bail Season ajoy for al a.0. and tfs here now Ah, baseball. After a cold winter of hockey, it is great to get into basebaîl once again. And with eacb warm sunny day it raises the joy in children and adults for a nice long season of, catching, throwing, fielding, stealing, and batting. The Orono Pee Wee Girl's Softball teamn is off to a start in the spring of '93 at the softball diamond beside the fairgrounds. byMNike Smith 2 WEEKS to go until our 3rd Anniversary Sale May 25th - 29th, Located in The Vanstone Mill at King & Scugog, Bowmanville 623-0351 PUBLIC NOTICE RECONSTRUCTION 0F PRINICE STREET (flberty Street to Simpsç)n Avenue) Bowmanvilleï The Town of Newcastle has awardedi the ConIract for the reconstruction of Prince Street Io CaIdei H ill Contracting Limited, Thornhill. The Contractor shall be mobilizing his equipment and personnel on site and commelncing work the week of May 10, 1993. The General Contractor's initial op erations wiIl include watermain installation. Traffic wilI be restrîct-ed but the street wiIl be open to local traffijo at ail times. Emergency access to the Hospital wiIl be available f rom Liberty Street at ail times. Access to homes within the contract limits will also be maintained'. The construction administration shall be provided on behalf of the Town of Newcastle by Totten Sims Hubicki Associates, Consultants. Mr. Glenn Rusaw, Residenit Supervisor, will be on site throughout the duration of the contract and wilI assist residents as required. We recognize that construction operations will create some inconvenience to motorists and pedestrians. With the cooperation of aIl parties, it is anticipated that such inconveniences can be kept to a minimum. Please contact Mr. Rusaw (416-434-0744) or Mr. Don- Patterson (416-623-3379> any time should additional details be required'. ~as(û'. Walter A. Evans Director of Public Works The Corporation of the Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville,'Ontaria Li C 3A6 Date of Publication: Wednesdlay, May 12, 1993 P.O. 3940 - 'n S UGARB USH NURSERY & ORCHARDS For MOTHER'S DAY Give pleasure ail summer long. 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