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2-MxroWDl hus Q RONO WEEKLY TMMEnS Subscriptions $21.50 + $ 1.50 G.S.T'. - $23.OO/year. Publications Mail Registration No, 000368 P'ublishing 50 Issues Annually at the Office of Publication 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB IMO E-Mail Address: oronotimes@à.speedline.ca Phone/Fax (905) 983-5301 Publisher/ Editor Marg Zwart Boom or Bust? 1 arn haif way through reading the, book titled: Boom, Bust and Echo, H-ow to Profit fr-om the Coming Demographic Shift by David K. Foot with Daniel Stoffman, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross, Toronto. This book, lent to me by Henry Sissons, and a book 1 have heard him refer to numerous times, is about demography, a study of human populations. Demographies can accurately predict school enroilments years in advance, which drugs will be in fashion ten years from now, and what sorts of crimes will be on the increase. The authors say that if Ontario Hydro understood demographics they would flot have buit the Darlington nuclear power station which they claim is unnecessary. Chrysler's success with the mini van was inevitable because when the MagicWagon came out in 1983, the largest segment of the population were having familles and the mini-van provided the desired extra room at anl affordable price. The authors of this book have divided the population into different segments according to age. If you were born between 1947 and 1966 you are a part of the Baby-Boomi gen- eration. If you were born from 1967 to 1979 you are in thie group called the Baby Bust, and if you were boni from 1980 to 1995 you are part of the Baby-Boom Echo generation. Foot and Stoffmnan predict that as the Baby Boomers, the largest age segmient, head into retirement, they will miove fromi big ciies ikie TFor-onto, to the smnaller cities and rural areas outside these smaller cities. Thesse people will want smiall- town 'atmnosphere without giviii n pamenities like good shop- ping and gYood restaurants. Baby Booimers will put away their tennis rackets and water skis and pursue more gentfle sports Gardening, iing. bïýrding, gamnbling and golf are alaivite thtwïillbe Very popuýlar wivth this ae roup. Th opulation shift il i1;have some 'serious -,implicaî- resùdenta oswiinrae te an, D tof man say. -he tme to plan for he sfiis now, 'not wheu the flois up'on s. OnTudht ý o aNtag e--o-,,, h u ethe asdi The prvopoher2. Ban aývak aon ,the FBuntr ndsrain Betn soupposed 'be hugevdran afr 1etia o hi pr. n Foresrx L nre o therstudy f rry gegrup wthoutureu f cultur ars we iltc bt for helown? r-a, vthr og heoeards o n other bay oers otewato theSuncia sroi deac.Boomrs? th pe arc nd qutetands e wod b t rorbia nt ree t rlThneeWilotrare e ont set whicuidrentlv n tpanikt n i in eiantersoceht will telhgli sogt ferb toe ih leetadw leR nture Th rooe Btnia-ar- nTHE oErLdInOrn September 20/97 Dear Editor: Tree days aftcr7 Wedncesday's Weekly Times hit the newsstandis and lim ous (though, fýertaln1y not to them)' to bordering on the ridiculous. Soitie of them even miake some sense, not one of whlch is the wannabe re- elected hydro oomnissioner's concern over the South Carolinian beaver population. (I KNEW 'it! 1 KNEW lb! Somebody just HAD to jump onto tha t one!). He ouglit to check to see if his own lights are on. Other concerns include traffic problems. noise pollution,, the pristine headwaters of Wilmot Creek, and, the loss of valuable agri- cultural land. Ah yes. the agricultural land. You wanna take a look at the property. What few weds and scrub brush does grow there is barely hanging on in the gravel. You couldn't graze livestock there, and, I can't imagine what crop would survive? How the Munlcipallty's three year old Officiai Plan ever deemned this area as agricultural land is beyond me, but, I suspect somebody was "tap-dancing", for fairly obvious reasonis. Next concern is the noise problem, for airpianes fling overhead. Apparently the annoylng (and, rightly so) buzzlng of area homes by Harvard Traîner aircraft is now a thing of the past. but, people are worried about what lies ahead. 1 hardly think the amount of air traffic will rival Pearson International, though, you neyer know. If 1 spot a low fly- ing DC9 out front of our house, l'Il realize 1 was tenribly wrong, According toe one reader, the surely ensuing traffic nightmarcs aloneshudb cnough to chase the Lisinans away. His concer-n ta uea parlour would be ncccd ànear ftheproposed, siteta arathr mrbid Mhuhtog ups would just be defeating the purpose. While speaklng about traffic, aren't ctilens concerned about the new occupants of the old Curvply and Plydcsign buildings tying up thlngs ln the south end of town? Neyer mind that they might have created a few new jobs. And whatever will hap- pen if the young, ambitlous promoters of the new Botanical Park and NattUre Centre go ahead withe their project? H- - -, we'll need traf- fie liglits at every corner on Main Street! 1 suppose if the thinking had been as nega- tive 20, 30 or 40Oyears ago, as lb Is these days, there neyer would have been a Curvply, Plydesign or Forestry ln the first place! As far as the headwaters of Wilmot Creek are concerned, 1 haven't heard of any fore- seeable problems voiced by the local Conservation Authority, thereby, assume the plans meet envlronmental laws. Apparently, Wilmot Creek is, and has been, "dry- lng up" for some years any- way. Whether the Lishmans plan, and the 27-home "sub- division", ever become reality or not. We even have a wrlter threatening (that's what it sounds like to me) not to, sup- port local councillors in the up-coming election If they don't get on board for this fight. Ouch! And a little bit of naine cafling and finger point- ing here and there too. Ouch agati! Thlngs could get cook- ing pretty good in the next weeks as the fence-sitters i was wion.dering where the Editor stands on tis thing?)"I start taking sides. Me? I'm, Just sitting here atnco Brïiitte Bardot andîherani fur protesters tiaiv, h was a knockout thirty vear ago, and I bet shc's stiill rt ti o!Maybe she'at- scr-Iousiv, when one c ruts KENDAL UNITED CHURCHi Kendal, Ontario "the heart of our comm unîtY" Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997 11: 15 a. m. '1Committed to Excellence" Pleasejoin us Minister: Rev. David Black 786-2950 St. Saviour 's Anglican Church MILL ST., ORONO, ONTARIO Miniister: Rev. Ann Tottenhamn Rectory 987-5678 - Clhurch 983-5594 Sunday Service, Sunday School and Youth Group 9:30 a.m lst & 3rd Sunday of Month H1-Y COMMUNION ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister Rev. Mervyn Russel Secretary Marlene Risebrough Church Office CHURCH SERVICES Kirby United Church a t 11: 00 ar. A.A . meets every Thýursda, 7~ . TICïET, Anniers 'Dnne 98~-55O r 9B-930 still not finished reading al the letters about the Lishinan proposaL. The aiiti-Lishman camp has really come out of the foxholes and unileashcd a miajor offensive. No puni intlendcd. Their arguments range from somcriwhat humror-