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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 14,1996 - 7 Big Brother's Bowl For MillIons Big Brother's of Clarington kicked of the beginning of its "Bowl For Millions" Campaign with a flag raising at the Council Chambers last Monday. Bowl For Millions is the Big Brother's big fund raiser forthe year; if you would like to sponsor someone the Orono Weekly Times is sending a tearn of bowlers hopefully to defend our trophy as the newspaper that raised the most money (we are also supplying the T-shirts). Front row, 1-r: Coun. Pat Pingle, Nancy Scott, exec- utive director of Big Brothers, Mayor Diane Hamre, Sally Barrie, Big Brother's Board Member, Coun. Mary Novak, Coun. David Scott. Back row, I-r: Barb Williams, Committee Member, Coun. Ann Dreslinski, Coun. Larry Hannah, Tom Gatchel, Board Member. BOWMANVILLE TOASTMASTERS Don't be afraid to fail was the theme for our Toastmaster meeting. Its a rare occasion for lasting success to follow a first attempt. R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. Toastmasters at the head table shared their thoughts on failure. Toastmaster Irene Konzelmann Table Topics Master shared with us her philosophy that failure is only failure when you don't learn from it. Toastmaster C. Wonnacott declared that failure need not be permanent. General Evaluator Toastmaster Mike Sullivan spoke about the need to persevere even if you are judged to be a failure. He added, "the people that I admire most are those whose resolve is unfailing." The Table Topies session gave us all the opportunity to practice our listening skills. Four of the five participants were ushered from the room while the Table Topics Master read a story to the one remaining. Those who had not heard CLAnrE HiGH ScHooL Last week we ran a letter from a person who chose to remain anonyrnous about an incident at Clarke High School. Apparently, according to Clarke officials, certain facts were omitted or just plain wrong in the person's letter. Unfortunately the school is unable to clarify the situation as it is prevented from doing so by the Provincial Freedom of Information anç Protection of Privacy Act. The letter portrayed the school in a very bad light. There was also a comment on students leaving Clarke for Bowmanville High in droves. I personally would like to comment upon that. I am sure that if you looked at the history of all local schools you will see similar things have happened before. I remember when I was at St. Stephen's a horde of students transferred over from Bowmanville High. Does that mean Bowrnanville High is a bad school? No. Does that fact that Clarke lost a few students this year to Bowmanville make Clarke a bad school? No. All sorts of reasons exist for these "migrations"; unavailable courses, friends are transferring, etc. Students leaving one school for another should not be seen as a comment upon the quality of education available at a school. Rather than put the school down, maybe we should focus on all the good things that go on at the school. the story were ushered in one at a time and each consecutively repeated the story to the next. Gales of laughter shook the assembly as we discovered how each of us had deviated from and embellished the original. Area Governor Toastmaster Dave Chilvers made an informal visit to the club and heartily participated in the evenings activities. Winner of the Best Speaker trophy Toastmaster C. Wonnacott demonstrated the technique of reading a prepared speech while maintaining eye contact with the audience. Toastmaster Irene Konzelmann earned the best evaluator trophy for her insightful comments about Toastmaster Wonnacott's presentation. Come and visit us any Tuesday 7:30 p.m. to see Toastmasters in action. For more information please cal Irene Konzelmann at 983- 9423. Kendal Hall News The Men's Lodge met on Wed., Feb. 7th. Kendal Ladies Lodge met on Thurs., Feb. 8th. Sun., Feb. 25th has been picked as the day for the annual Bowling Tournament between the Men's and the Ladies' Lodges. Be at Bowmanville Bowling alleys at 3 p.m. Supper will be held at the Hall following bowling, a hot supper. Cost for bowling and supper is $10.00. The Ladies have set a tentative date of Sat., April 13th as a date for their Penny Sale. Grand Lodge of Ontario East will be held in Peterborough this year, on April 18th, 19th and 20th at Rockhaven Hotel on Lansdowne. The Kendal Ladies will be assisting the Peterborough Ladies in putting on the Degree and also the Seating Drill for Grand Lodge Officers. There were 9 tables in play at the regular Euchre Party on Friday evening. High score went to Jean O'Neil with 84, 2nd high Bill McNabb with 80. Third high Myrtle Gibson with 78 and there was a 3 way tie for 4th all with 77, Frank Crinkle, Allan Downes, Dean Polley, by cut of the cards Frank Drinkle won 4th. The fifty-fifty draw was won by Marian Sears and Wayne Lowery won free admission to the next card party on Fri., Feb. 23rd. The members of the Junior Lodge will be holding a sleighing party at Enniskillen Conservation park, weather permitting. Sorry to learn that following the passing of Bro. Roy Patton, Sis. Dolly Patton has moved back to the East coast. They will both be greatly missed. P. Lowery COMPLETE CAR &TRUCK REPARS DIESEL ENGINES • CUMMINS, DETROIT & CAT RADIO DISPATCHED TOW TRUCKS MOBILE MECHANICAL SERVICE TRUCK R.R 1, ORONO, ONTARIO 4 MILES NORTH OF 401 LOB1MO ON HWY.115& 35 PHONE (905) 983-9151 BALLS RADIO & T.V. REPAIR REPAIRS TO MOST MAKES STEREOS, COLOUR AND B&W T.V.s AND V.C.R.s P.O. Box 27 R.R. 2, Orono, Ont. 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