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10 - Ormo ioWeekly Times, Wedneuday, becemnber 7, 1994- 2nd Orono Brownies hold enrolment On November 16, the 2nd Orono Broxvnies held their enroiment. Ouests were parents and siblings of the new Brownies. After the ceremony, Kelly Hughes, Shannon DeJong, Laura Beacock and Courtney Paxton served cake and juice. These girls were working on their Hostess Badge. The new Brownies enroied this year are: Elena Snow, Hilary Barnes, Kristin Blaker, Jennifer- LynGunn, Heather Maitiand, Emma Lunn, Robyn Henderson and Couriney Stevens. Trentis Spiing ProgrmM at Durham High Schoi students who graduate in January have a chance teo enrol inimediateiy ini first-year university courses evenings at Durham Coilege. Trent University wiil offer a 12-week spring academic pregrant front January 30th te April 27 at Durhant. Four intreductory courses in anthropology, cultural studies, history and sociology will be offered. Each course meets twe evenings a week. The session is open te ail part- time students, but is scheduled paiticulariy for the convenence of high schoei students graduating in January. Information about the courses, admission requirements and registration wiil be availabie at an information session January 4th in the Oshawa Public Library auditorium front 3 to 8 p.m. For more information or to obtain a copy of the spring progrant brochure, cali Trent's part-tinte studies office in Oshawa at 905- 723-9747 or in Peterborough at 705-748-1229. Christmas Celebration The Ciarington Older Adult Centre operating out of the Bowmanviile Lions Centre on s offering a Christmas Celebration on Tuesday, December l3th cemmencig at 12:30 p.m. 1The celebration includes a turkey dinner and entertainment at a cost of $ 10.00. Further information Annabelle Sissons cail 983-5877 or Doreen German cail 697-1863. Anyone who has spoken to me the other with lest or stoien In the news this week, tiiere is no more news being published by The Oshawa Timtes. On strike since early November, this 123 year-eld daily was officiaily closed by the Thomson famiiy on Sunday, December 4. A iittie over twenty-flve years ago 1 took on a paper route with The Oshawa Timtes. By the tinte1I ieft that job experience behind, my brother and sister and I had built a smali empire of customers te whom we were steadfastiy loyal, -and whe returned our commitment with great kindnesses. 1 iearned a lot about life in those years ... thanks te The Oshawa Times. 1 read the paper s0 that 1 could discuss with nty customers the news and events of the day. Neil Armstrong took that huge step for 'man' kind on the meon, while a terrible war stili raged in Vietnam. I became a chiid groupie of Pierre Trudeau, the charismatic Prime Minister who often graced the front pages of the news during those heady days of my politicai awakening. Woodstock was the gathering of a generation. Mosport entered into my consciousness as naked 'hippies' frolicked in the strawberry fields of the nearby countryside. The first naked man 1 ever saw adorned the pages of The Oshawa Timtes, as he streaked across the ice during a hockey game . .. wcaring ony . . a goalie ntask, and a smiie! 1 entered the homes of people whose lives were the stuff of drama and sadness. There were chil dren who weren't trcatcd weli. There were elderiy couples who wcre desperately ionely. There was one weman who wouid have been -in her 70's who iamented about the wanderings of her husband with the "housewife" next door. Her oniy comfort was a very old budgie and me. Beth wonten were leveiy. There were tips and Christmnas gifts and warnt hot chocolate offered me on a coid winter's night. There was aise the terrible night in 1971 that The Oshawa Times burned te the ground. At that tinte it was above Cherney's Furniture Store in downtewn Oshawa next door to the Genosha Hetel. Stili, the paper carried on eut of a cramped, messy office which invoked images of the early newspapers which forged a future in the frontier of a nation. - In less than a year, they broke ground for a new, modern building. The Oshawa Times wiii ne longer give veice te a cemmunity. A'comntunity which boasts as its own: Colonel Sam R.- McLaughlin, General Meters, Ed Breadbent, the CAW, Bobby Orr, the Oshawa Generais Jr. A hockey teant, and more. Someone from The Oshawa Times penned the phrase 'Oshawa: the City that Moto-vates Canada'. What now metivates the city that once claimed te moto- vate a nation? Aise in the news this week: the Gre tzky and Friends tour left North America te play. the big boys' gante in Europe. At their first stop in Finiand, they played what is caiied the Jokerit team, who net oniy provide cheerieaders with pompents on the sidelines, but whe aise make a rainbow fashien statement with their multi-pastei-coioured gear and silver heintets. Jokers it is, oui? Who said hockey was a serieus gamne? about the federai government's proposed gun legislation knows 1 dont ewn ene. At the invitation of hunt and fishing clubs Ive gone out and fired both long and hand guns te try and get a feel for the sport and Ive istened te the concerns of gun oWïners. The Hon. Alian Rock's iinisterial statement is his attempt at striking a balance between the legitimate rights of gun owners and secîety's demand for reduced crime where firearmns aie involved. When this debate started we heard rumeurs ail hand guns wouid be banned, there wouid be immediate registration and registration fees of as much as $100. We aise heard of the possibility of confiscating firearms. Pressure from MPs, myseif inciuded, have made Mr. Rocks proposai iess restrictive. Still many gun ewners will flot be happy with the Minister's plans. Part of this unhappi;ness stemts fromt frustration because they know restrictions like FAC requirements and satfe sterage regulations are adequate and maybe even tee enerous. But non-gun owners don't know about these regulations. Firstiy what the Minister has said is that problents with criminais, wil bc addressed. 1 pressed Mr. Rock te provide a five- year mandatory sentence for possession of iilegai, firearms. His response has been one-year mandatery and a four-year- mandatory sentence where the gun is used cemmitting a crime. Currentiy the one te 15-year conviction has net been enferced because it is net a mandatory sentence. The question on many gun ewners minds is why registratien? Originally 1 had problems with how mandatery registration would reduce crime. The answer is twe-foid. One deals with domestic violence and firearmns. Although many gun owners store their arrns safely, it is clear many do net follew FAC sterage regulations. In any ene year since 1983 anywhere between I,000 - 4,000 guns arc reported lost, stoien or pawned. How many arc flot reported? Firearms related robbery average between 6000 to 7000 per year and homicides averaged between 169 and 271 annually since 1983. During my recent trip 'to Mîlihaven 1 spoke with a three- time murderer who had used a gun. He said his was stolen 10 years ago and had been passed around over that tinte period. Although legisiation does flot say so now, it is. clear gun owners will bear some liability if their gun shows up in the commission of a crime. So store the gun as directed, remove the firing mechanism and iock it away. 'Me second way registration is reiated te reducing crime is in the area of famiiy violence. This is thought te be a urban issue but ini rural areas domestic homicide is higher on a per capita basis. Often homicide in the home is a spur of the moment crime. If the weapon was flot readily available we could save lives. Mr. Rock has assured me registration costs would be about $15 per gun. And that forms wouid be availabie i local stores and owners weuld have until the year 2003 to register. No one is happy when rights are infringed upon. Hopefully what is given up will compensate for ives saved, safer streets and neighborhoods. 1995 DOG LICENCES ARE AVAILABLE NOW CLARINGTON ANIMAL CONTROL REMINDER - PROTEOT VOUR DOG ALL DOGS ARE REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED ANNUALLY UNDER CLARINVGTON-BY-LAW87-156, SECTION 7 A. LICENCE FEES: $20.00 FOR THE 1 ST AND 2ND DOG PER RESIDENCE $30.00 FOR THE THIRD DOG Help us return your aost pet. Save the worry and the cost of impound fines and additional board fees. We regularly return licensed dogs home without needing to impound them. Clarington encourages owners to buy their annual dog licenses with discounts: SAVE - $ 2.00 FOR EARLY PURCHASE - BEFORE MARCH 1ST SAVE - $ 2.00 WITH PROOF 0F CURRENT RABIES VACCINE SAVE - $1 0.00 WITH PROOF 0F N EUTER Owners who purchase a license for their neutered, vaccinated dog before March 1lst will only pay $6.00. There are several outiets selling Municipal tags for your convenience: Michele's Grooming in Newcastle Rolphs Hardware in Orono Courtice Pet Clinic Licence Bureau in Bowmanville Municipal Administrative Centre Animal Control A DOG LICENCE MAKES A GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENT, PICK ONE UP TODAY. (~1MuNICIPALITY OF ONTARIO Dates of Publication: Wednesday, November 30, 1994 Wednesdlay, December 7,1994 P.O. 4872