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( Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September With a new session in Parliament underway, there is a host of issues, some new, most olId that mnust be addressed. Among these issues is that of spousal benefits to homosexual couples, namely Bil 42. Defeated in Ontario, this past sping, the Bill's success romains uncertain stili. This may be attributed ia part to a large portion of this society's hil-billy homophobic tendencies. "It's Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve." Well, in my opinion there are many, too many la fact, rolationships that just are net natural. A gay couple that loves and cares for one another unconditionally, in my mind is more natural than an abusive relationship. A relationship where one member uses force, violence or abuse, ither physical, mental or Blue Birds entertain at coffee time by Roy-Forrester Over the past six weeks I have beeni ratier grounded as far as birding outings are concernied s0 personaily have nothing to report. As such I have to depend on others bringing words of their sighting to my attention. Royal Lee visited mne in Bowmanvile Memoniai last week and said having coffee that particular morning on the back porch ho was entertained by fourteen blue birds at a bird bath. Since "that timo ho tells us the birds have been daily visitors for the coffee break turne. Royal doos have a number of boxes on his o wn property and as well has placed box es around the community. If wo remember correctiy ho did tell us la the spring that the return of the blue birds to his preperty'had beon rather spotty. Maybe so, but twelve at the bird bath shows that things must have changed. Ho also speaks of his wife and himself sighting four Ospreys in a treo and as well had sighted a Red Headed Woodpecker. These sighting, I understand, were out round Rice Lake. 1 can make a report from northernOntarîo due to a note -from Mary Rutherford. She '-aks of a BaId Eagles, a host of %_,.osbeaks and a pair of nesting Pilated Woodpeckers back of their cottage that made their presence known and were flot too receptive to humans coming to close to the nest. WC take it NMary was 0on the move this summer and reported on the viewing of wales off the west coast. Along with Bill Bunting 1 did stretch my legson Sunday with a psychelogical to gain control over the other mcmber is in my mind not natural. YetI littie is being done la this area. Change is often a long time coming unfortunately. Once, not too long ago, it was unheard of for races, religious, ethnic backgrounds to mix, faîl in love and enter together the holy bonds of matrimony. Thankfully today, though there will'always bc some backwoods philosopher who believes with kooping the race pure (and porhaps la tho farnily) opposition t'o "the mixed marriage" has declined. Perhaps some time in the near future, the hemophobia that lurks la our society, and clearly ia our governments, will subside, providinÉ an equal opportunity for tho gay and leshian community toeonjey the same nights that we la the heterosexual community do. Thank you for reading. visit te Cranberry Marsh south of Whitby at the location of the Hawk counting station. Although we left Orono with some sunlight showing it was overcast at the Marsh and hawks were just not la migration during our stay of over an hour. t was too overcast and did not allow for the thermals to rise on which hawks like to travel. But if the hawk watch was a disaster for Sunday mnorning the beauty of the area was entirely another thing. The fields on both side of the pathway were a mass of white, blue asters-and topped off with the bright yellow of the Golden Rod. This colour array came with the background of the leaf-green of the plants. Everyone we met remarked of this beauty that possîbly only nature could devise., If we were taken with the colour and beauty of the wild fal flowers the Monarch Butterfiies were having a feast producing energy for their trip south. They had to he in the hundreds. The butterfly seems to bo oblivious to the breezes and it being so frail. And the trip south to its wintering grounds has to ho one of the marvels of nature. The crossing of the Great Lakes is within the ability of the Monarch where most of the bird sp ecies look for the easiest of crossings. 'Me autuma is a great period to enjoy and there are a number of weeks y'et to Comec. Women who face breast cancer (Continued from page 6) ourselves," advise Toni. "Our bodies, our breasts, must ho looked at from a healthy point ef view ..-. they are not just sexuai objects." Pat reminds us that ". . . our bodies are what we are given la this lifetime to house Our soul and spirit and the botter we care for them, the longer we can stay to make choices and decisions. Sometimes, when we get an illness, I don't think that it's the body breaking down, but the soul that's trying to tell us something . -te make change, te listen teoOur bodies, that if our body is breaking down maybo w're not folowing Our spiritual path." More than anything, these women ýdon't want to ho considered as statisties. When Pat attends the funeral of her friend, Judi Chad, who died last week of breast cancer-related illness, she wants to remember ber as she knew ber: "Judi fought the good fight and she was courageous ... and we ail appreciatod her hats. She was a member of this community . . . Of Our Orono family. Not a statistic."' by, Helen MacDonald Letter to the Editor On Tuesday of last week it was found nocessary to evacuato the students of Clarke High School and The Pines. Thank goodness nothing senlous happened, but il makes one wonder. Doý they have an evacuation plan in place? Are the students and their parents aware of what should ho done? I was told by one of the students that the students were properly evacuated from the building, the toachers could acceunt for ail the studo nts but thon some of the students walked away from the schools on the highway. I saw them walking towards Oreno on the southbound lane beside the barrier and on the side of the road as well as on the northbound side of the highway. It is my undorstanding that ail buses were dîspatcb' ed te pick up the students. These schools are lnaa bad situation as ail buses must enter and exit the saine diveway and thon proceed north, what if the entrance was blocked, if thero was a toxic spili in front of the school, where would the students be picked Up. La somne instances a student may need to be driven to school and picked up by other than a school bus, where docs that student go? The parent arrives near the school and is prevented from getting to the school, that parent has no idea where their child is. I bolieve that an officiai plan should bo drawn up and a copy be given to each student and for their parents. There should bc 1 or maybe 2 stated areas, deponding whether they go south or north, ail students should ho transported thero and thon sortod out as to their correct bus. The Orono arena and tho Newcastle arena would bc appropniate sites, from thoro those not travelling by bus could be picked up by thoir parents or they could at least phono home. In these days no student should ho walking on the highways especially ia time of crisis, when the parents do not know where their child is and may not'realize that their child is missing for some hours. P. Lowery PUBLIC NOTICE TO ITS CITIZENS At its meeting held on April 11, 1994, the Council of the Municipality of Clarington passed a resolution which states that once each quarter, one regularly scheduled Council meeting wiII be held at a suitable location in either Ward 1 or Ward 3. Accordingly, the Oouncil meeting scheduled to be held on Tuesday, October 11, 1994, at 7:00_ p.m., will be held at the Newcastle Town Hall, in the Village of Newcastle. ONTARIO Date of Publication: Wedlnesday, September 28, 1994 Patti L. Barrie, A.M.C.T. Clerk Municipality of Clarington 40 Temperanoe Street Bowmanville, Ontario Li C 3A6 P.O. 5030 Early detection better the chances <Studies show that the carlier one detects breast cancer, dhe better the chances. Although men do get breast cancer, the major-rîsk factor for breast cancer is being a woman. .Women over 50 years of age should have a mammogram at least every two years, but breast cancer is net just a post-menopausal disease. Ail women, regardless of age, should bo familiar with Breast Seif-Examination techniques. Your family physician can show you, or you can request literature from your local Public Health Office (Bowmanville, 623- 2511) or the Canadian Cancer Society. Memoriai Hospital, Bowmanville will ho holding one of their quartorly Breast Health Seminars on Thursday, October 20, 6:30 p.m. at the hospital. Pre-registration is required. Caîl the X-Ray Dept. at 623-3331, Ext. 5400. The 3- hour seminar includes instruction in Breast Self Examination, discussion of Mammography, the physician's role in women's breast health and diet and it's role, as weII as a Survivor's Story. For those unable to attend, the ncxt seminar takes place Wednesday, November 9th. Satu rday October let 5STAR VIDEO Downtown Orono, in'Patner Building HOURS: 10:00 a. m. ta 10:00 P. M. SEVEN, DAYS A WEEK 983-1164