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Orono Weekly Tiîmes, Wednesday, Juy7, A hot selling item at Peddlar's Cove Seeks study to revamp Lynn Couch is in her third week in business in Orono with Peddlar's Cove located on the east side of the business section. On Saturday she points to one of the hot itemüs over the past few weeks for local customers, decorative m asks by Claude of Montreal. Shesaid they have truly been a Ihit and many had been sold on the opening week. Mrs. Couch is not really a stranger to the downtown having bad ber sterling silver and pewter jewellery available at Crystal Pages before opening herown store in Orono. The store also featues gour- Mo re by Helen MacDonald Because we live in the Ganaraska watershed, Nature- learning and loving form our daily living experiences. And, these experiences have aroused in our children an eccentric tendency to amass unusual treasurers. Hikes through the woods and down 10 the river are neyer without wonder and amazement. We have pursued raccoons, porcupines, deer, beaver, great blue herons, turkey vultures, rabbits, and a variety of smaller mammal, bird and fish. We have learned about life and deatb as Nature understands them. Their collection consists of boxes>of feathers, shelîs, rocks, interesting twigs, fungus and moss, and Kyle bas secreted home an assortment of skulls (none resembling homo sapiens). And, on occasion, our freezer has served as temporary morgue for dead birds and hampster.. preserved for injured birds of prey which find their way 10 Avicare, the bird rehabilitatiïon 'centre,. Early last spr ing, when the ice bad broken from the river and ils flow was fast and frigid, we came upon a mummifiedý coyote imbedded in the mud on the river bank. It was in perfect form, having been enveloped in a pocket of snow and ice fora good part of the season. This was- considered an adventurë of the ighest degree., Kyle and Garrett inspected. every inch of the 'find', and will neyer forget the- seemingly menacing look at the wholly frozen creature, rendecredpowerless by Natures hantu. 1 was not at alfsurprised when they excitedly inquired if we could take the 'find' home for sharing at school. "It's stuck in the muck," I noted. "Why don't we just let iu 'compost' into the Earth?" Besides, 1 thought to myself, don't schools ha ve regulations about dead bodies? Furthermore, living in an agricultural comnmunity provides other kinds of 'nature' education. "Oh, that's just the bull mating", Kyle will nonchall.antly telhis little brother. 1 have yet, however, 10 be interrogated about humnan technique. Whew! When we v isit 'at the farm', that is, with family in Omemee, the boys affirm their kinship 10 the John Deere, Allis Chalmers and Massey-Harris famiies. And, in spite of allergies 10 hay, there's nothing like a romnp in thehay mow. On a visit to the farm'ast summer, we discovered a raccoon in a roadside ditch fuily stiff with rigormortis. Kyle asked if Unche Bll couhd keep an eye on il u ntil il was- fully strippedof fur andu flesh, and then recover the skufl for bis collection. As lime went by, Uncle Bil forgot about the raccoon, and its skulh neyer made its way into the box of treasures. However, this weekend, none of us got off so easy! Last week, Unche Bil's tractor (and nose) led bim to the best find yet a buck's carcass. Bouncing along on his John Deere, hay falling mb owîndrows met foods, Limited Edition Prints along with band-crafted collect- ables. AIl cotton country Throws are on displ ay in the store along with bird feeders, baskets, T-Shirts, Puzzles, candie holders and a host of other items. behind as he mowed the field, the machinery nearly fell victim 10 indigestion as Bill narrowly missed the dead body in the field. It clearly had sated the appetite of a pack of wolves. So, how, you wonder, dîd we end up with the head of a buck sitîing atop an ant hilI in our backyard? "Can 1 have it's head, p 1 e a s e?", asked the eccentric collector of strange treasurers after hearing the tale. Yup, someone (not me) relieved the dead buck of bis head, and another skull will soon find its way into Kyle's box of treasures. 1I try 10, imagine what, worthwhile career opportunities my sons' unconventional hobbies might Iead to: Archaeologist? Curator? Surgeon? Butcher? Coroner? Meanwhile . .. wanna see a buck's head, stripped of flcsh and, fur. ... unmounted? There's an ant hill in my back yard ... no admission charge! School board to pickup pieces? The chairperson of the Durham Board of Education, Louise Farr, asks if school boards will be the ones 10 pickup the pieces if the Social Contract fails and fail-safe provisions core ne mbforce after August lt. The fail-safe provisions places authority for such as school1 boards to set financial agreements with their employees t10 savesome $2 billion in 1993, '94 and '95. Seen as a "big city -disease" A'rccent survey of teens in Peterborough reveals that three out offour-have had intercoursewith less than half using condoms. The study was undertaken by the Youth Outreach Project in the city. The report states that Aids education has bad some effect but in most cases Aids is seen as a "big city disease" and youth outsîde4ýhe big cities are insulated from the disease. Two residents of Hope Township are calling for a study, as t0 whether there could be benefits for Northumberland County through a split in the educational syste.m with the Town of Newcastle. Carrol Nichols, a former school board trustee with the Durham Board and Jack Foote are calling for some study on the suggestion. The concerned parties have furnished a resolution for councils consideration which is to be deait with in August. There is a feeling that witb a smaller board better control could bc undertaken. Over the years a split between the former Town. of Newcastle and Northumberland County has corne from both sides. There are those in the now Clarington, especially in the western section who would feel more comfortable with Clarington having association with the larger Durham Public, Board. Hope Township has always been a hot bed on various educational issues none the least parting company with the former Town of Newcastle. Mr Wilsher, trustee from Clarington , Ward Three has stated that residents in the west of Clarington has made note of possible joining with the Durhamn Board Mr. Willsher states other boundaries feel- that Clarington does subsidize Northumberland tax- payers as to the educational systein. Mr. Willsher feels that Northumberland and Clarington benefit from each other and that the present system does offer services and programs in a cost- efficient way. 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