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-u ~ Woekly limes, Wednssday~ February ~, 1994 by Carol-Ann Oster Hey, cookie loyers! Great news! Ibe Girl Guides wiil begi taking orders for their now ifamous cookies. 3rd year Newcastle Guide, Marisha Caswell tels me that she and her fellow 3rd year Guides have been busy making posters that wil bang ini Newcastle stores advertising the cookie sales. Guide leader Kathy Hisson explains that ibis current publicity carnpaign is part of the 3rd year program work. Orders will be taken throughout February, and cookies should arrive in April. Letter to the Editor Dear Mr. Forrester, How ironic to find Helen MacDonald's column and Carol- Ann Oster's on opposite pages i your ast issue! MacDonald's colutan deait with issues pertaining tg the elimination of (racial) prejudice while Oster's seemed to deal with the promotion of (sexual) prejudice. Oster's colutan dealt with the much-publicîzed trial of Lorena Bobbit. A victim of an abusive husband, Lorena Bobbit cut off John Bobbit's penis afier a brutal atack (And by the way, the word is "penis" not "friend' or "... How can someone who can't even verbalize the proper names for human anatomy feel capable of commenting on sexual matters?) "Most women .. . pick the side of Lorena Bobbit," Oster writes, adding men feel the opposite. Where did Oster get these statistics? Oster rotes Lorena' crime is an issue of right and wrong, guilty or innocent. The world is not so black and white. Lorena had "the right te contact the police" and "charge hlm with assault", writes- Osier. Black and white: that's truc. Shades of grey: Lorena had a history of being brutalized by her husband; as an immigrant from Ecuador, she may have feit she had no where te turn; she had an I.Q. in the mnid 80's, which could have contributed to her confusion in judgement. Maybe she really did temporarily go insane, that's certainly how the jury saw it. Oster then throws a bone to femiists, givig "kudos" te those "fortunate" rape victims, who while flghtig for their rights get to remain anonymous. Poor Mr. Bobbit doesn't get that right. Funny, but you don't see him shunnig the limelight as be does the talk-show circuit. Oddly, Oster condemans the press of turning the Bobbit case ie a "media circus" and then feels it necessary to comment herseif, despite the fact this over- publicized case took place in the U.S., and Osier herseif reports for a smnall Canadian weekly. Frankly, I look to the Orono Times for local reporting. Osier's column, through condemning John Bobbit's violence to his wife, manages to paint him sympathetically. Certainly, violence directed ai any sex is not condonable. But why alI the fuss, ail the outrage, for one man?. Why not direct that outrage towards more frightening statistics? According to Sandy Saunders of the Durham Rape Crisis Centre, approximately 6,000 calis were received last year on their crisis line. Only 71/ of those cails were from men. The centre saw 300 clients face to face, 75% of which were incest survivors. Another 200 clients were children. This is a local issue, of disastrous proportions. Yet the abuse of women and children seems to get press only on days set aside to remember a veritable legion of narneless victims. Is this because no one wants to hear about it, or because it has become so common-place? Either answer is a crime in itself. This whole "John Bobbit, the victim" viewpoint onlymanages to promote sexual prejudices by obscuring a very real social problem. Maybe Oster should visit the %lue store" herseif before she decides to tackle another complex social issue.. Sincerely Yours, Marcia Griffin Storm cancels overtime shifts General Motors cancelled two overtime shifts on Saturday due to the lack of parts which could not be shipped due to Thursday and Friday stormn. The truck plant was also closed for six hours on Thursday and six hours on Friday. Cobourg plant moves nMost of operation to Pickering The Mason Window operation that has ben located ini Cobourg has moved most of its operation to its Pickering plant. The move comnes due to a drop in construction and dwindling sales of new windows. Five worke-rs still work at the Cobourg plant for the time being. Other emnployees are to be offered jobs at Pickering. A serîous accident A tanker truck skidded off an exit ramp at the Waverley Road intersection with Highway 401, Bowmanville, at about 4:00 a.m. Friday momning. t was but one of many accidents Friday due to the storm but was one of the more serious accidents inthe area. The truck tipped over on its side. The truck was carrying liquid helium and a small leak was soon taken care of. Wind-chill The term i"Wind-chill" seems to be a terinithat fias crept into our vocabulary over the Past couple of decades. it ts described in a 1990 version of the dictionary as a cooling effect of wind blowing on a surfac&- Our second dictionary at the office, an older volume, does not contain the phrase wind-chiil. The fact is the terna wind-.chil has been around since 1939. Some American explorers in Antartica coined the phrase while measuring -thé time it took to freeze water outgide in the wind. There jg no argument that wind-chiil, as We know it today, has been aroutid for time ever- lasting. It has been the reason why we have been adding extra clothing tbroughout the years especially in wir'd-blowing winter days. t is part of the weather cast to- day and in high wind periods we are cautioned as te extended time outdoors whefl not properly clothed for the occasion. I cannot remnember "wind-chill" factors being part of the weather cast years ago. It may well have been however. There may be a number of elements to be considered other than the velocity of the wind in determining the "wind-chill" factor but we will leave that up te the weatherman. !he velocity of the wind does have a lot to do with the wind- chili factor and its results. This came tbrough to Bil Bunting and I a week ago last Sunday returning from an 'outing at Presquile Park. Indeed the temperature was away down and after twenty minutes of searcbing for a Barred Owl along the lakefront we gave up. It was ail about wind-chil. It was just too much to stay out in for any length of time. On driving home we observed the effect of wind-chill on the windshield of the car. t was something that neither of us had ever observed before. Driving at a constant speed of 100 km per hour and wi ,th a constant heat in the car and on the windshield 'a frosted area appeared on the 'windshield working down from the top. Perhaps it came down about six inches. When Bill reduced the speed to 90 kmn the frosted area reduced in size to perhaps five inches from the top and a further reduction with another lowering of the speed of the car. It was just proof that the velocity of the wind does have a lot to do with the degree of wind- chil and its cooling effect. This is not really a profound find on our part but it was rather interesting that it was played out right in front of us. With our weather conditions of late wind-chill has t took somne 16 hours to get the truck righted using three huge tow trucks and powerful inflatable air bags. The driver was not seriously injured. been in constant use on the televised weather reports. We know read that a wind of at least eight ilometres is needed top register a wind chili factor. As 1 have mentioned we did spend some lime looking for a Barred Owl that had been reported at 8 a.m. that Sunday morning. We didn't have any luck as far as the Barred Owl is concerned. 1 am about te count my first sighting of a Gyrfalcon, an artic falcon, that flew above us and i our sight for perhaps ten te fifteen seconds. Bill and 1 differ on this ID to some degree but I had put it down as a Gyrfalcon. There was no outstanding markings on the underside of the bird ai ail. It was mainly white and the body and tail were the shape of a falcon. TIhe dlincher for me came with an article in the Sunday Star that a Gyrfalcon had been sighted in the Brighton, Presquile area on that particular Sunday. It is rather rare that the bird would bc this far south even at this lime of year. The Gyrfalcon goes on my list. Police sargeant resigns from force A Durham Regional Police Sargeant with 19 years of police service has resigned from the force. He was convicted of helping a friend avoid being prosecuted for a drinking and driving charge in 1989. Sgt. Ian Garvock sent a letter of resignation to the deparument on January 24th and had 48 hours to reconsider bis course of action. With the elapse of the 48 hours police are commencing the process of withdrawing the charge of discreditable conduct. Interest in retiremelits The superintendent of human resources with the local separate school board is to undertake a study as to a possible increase in a desire for teachers to enter early retrement. It appears that interest in earlier retirement has arisen with both board's' teachers due te the three year pay freze. Mr. Quinlin of the separate school board said the good part is that those at the top of the pay scale can be replaced by teachers, at the bottom of the scale, resulting in a saving for the boards of education. 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