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10 - OrnoWeekly TYmes,Wýednesday, April 29, 199& e~FRO& PARLIA MENT Students at Ki rby Centennial School celebrated Earth Day by planting trees along the Kirby Trail. Thle entire school participated in either planting trees, or watering them. In the Earth Day assembly, Mrs. Westhuizer re peated the Chiief Seattle, "We did flot weave the web of life, we are mnerely a strand in it. Whiat we do to the web, we do to us.,, After students took care of the newly planted trees, they joined inito a circle and sangaa song entitled 'Signs of Hope&. These grade five students from Newcastle Public School - LeA to Righit: Jordan Bowen, Alex Farrow, Codie Worsley, Robert Piggot and Chiris Winistonl took an active role in the planting of 13,000 trees at the Wilmot Nature Area last Thursday. Nicki Ramnjass,. a grade 8 student at St. Francis of Assisi plant-, ed this tree and many more at the Samuel Wilmot Nature Area on Thursday. The munLd on hier face is evidence of what a good timie can be hiad planting trees. Live near a river, streamn, lake or ocean? Want to be a part of an international clean-up campaign to find out what debris is in our waters? Oetailed information on PITCH-IN CANADA's Web Site www.pitch-in.ca HILL Alex Shepherd HEPATITIS C 1 suppose it's riatural to ernment's health care want to compensate people sentatives dld know b who, through no fault of thetr test blood for Hepatitis( own and regardless of how govemmients are riow1 weIl off they are, have con- responstbility for their tracted a disease such as gence. Hepatitis C? Let's be honest But the realities of govemn- Admittttng responsi tig and having to make the would not have occur decision of who gets compen- the federal governmer sated is qulte différent. flot prodded the provin We can't let availability of get on side. Now some 1 money influence our every are saying tt's flot enou decistori, but ti the final anial- There are countless( ysis, as a government we have i our Communlties ai only so rnuch rnoney to go with diseases which]1 around. care officiais canriot pr, I don't hear ariyorie saylig Flesh eating disease,c let's ticrease ticorne tax to and heart disease coi cover the cost. mind. Should goverr The Hepatitis C compensa- compensate these peopi tion package was riot an easy Anid if we are willtig1 dectsion for govemmerit arid more moriey irito comp the dectsiori was flot made tiori packages are we v wlthout Compassion for the to do that rtsklig a g( vtcttrns. decline i the health car Persorially I have a very vices that already existý hard Uirne with tt, and 1 feel a People have beeri ci great deal of compassion for me. TheY warit to ensurE people affected prior to 1986- health care systern rer But we have to be clear intact for wheri they net about the fact that there was Drawing a lie in the no known testing for Hepatitis is neyer easy and gove C prior to 1986. Some wilI mean maktng decisionç point to a process in Gerrnany at first glance people wd but that process was riot callous. Twelve governr approved by the Gerrn gov- have coricluded the s, ernmerit. ment is reasonable. The consequerice was that Remember the affec goverriment's health care pro- Hepatitis C are oflen rai fessjorials had no way of and cari adversely affect knowtig thatab1ood was con- rnore thari others. It ts tamlinated. How cari govemn- possible to live long lives ments be resporisible for the out any serious effects unknown? 0f course after 1986 gov- (continued page repre- 10W to C. And taklng rnegli- here. sibility ýrred if nt had nces to people ugh. Sothers Lffected health revent. cancer )me to iment )e too? to put pensa- villing seneral re ser- ts. lear to -- their' ,mains ed it. esand ýrning isthat 111l cail iments settie- ýts of indorn sorne ,quite swith- 3from e1) The Heritage Communîty Recognition Program is offered annually by the Ontario Heritage Foundcation to recognize individuat con- tributions and commitment in the field of heritage conservation. Nominations are being aiccepted until June 30, 1998 in the fol- Iowing categories: Cultural Heritage: Natural Heritage: Built Heritage: efforts to, preserve and protect customs and traditions efforts to preserve and protect significant naturail sites such as wetlands, woodlands, grasslands and geological land formations efforts to preserve and protect provincially- significaint heritage buildings If you know of an individuai who should be rewarded in one of these categories, please contact the Clerk's Department, Municipality of Clarington, 40 Temperance Street, 'BowmanvilIle, LI C 3A6. (M1MUNICPALITY OF ONTARIO Date of Publication: Wed. Aprl 29, 1998 Patti L. Barrie, À.M.C.T. 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