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< 4 G Tho Canadian Statesman. Bowmanvillc, June 21. 1989 Efit Canadian Statesman cn Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 © Also Incorporating ■ m The Bowmanville News Mil The Newcastle Independent n The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by James Publishing Company Limited 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Donald Bishop Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. All layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. Subscription Rates Six Months --$11.00 One Year--$20.00 Three Years -- $57.00 Five years -- $90.00 Foreign -- $60.00 per year Allhough every precaution will be laken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising In Its columns on the understanding that It will nol be liable lor any error In the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof ol such advertisement Is requosled In writing by the advertiser and relumed lo The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertiser and with such error or corrections plainly noted In writing thereon, and In that case H any error so noted Is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman Ils liability shall not exceed such a portion ol the entire cost ol such advertisement as the space occupied by the nolod error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. Brand New Career for Imelda? When singer Bruce Springsteen released released his much awaited live album a few years ago, the line-ups at record stores stretched into the hundreds. People surged to get one of the first copies of the coveted record. The scene was not unprecedented. Frequently a popular star's album release release mil provoke a frantic response from his fans, creating excitement which a promoter will translate into ticket sales for the star's next concert tour. The process is well-worn and may have been perfected by The Beatles Beatles when they transformed the face of popular music forever. The world's hottest new act has promoters promoters clamouring over themselves in search of a piece of the action. She is rumoured to be the greatest new talent talent since the Beatles crossed the Atlantic Atlantic and turned North America on its ear. Imelda Marcos has cut an album. The former first lady of The Philippines Philippines has teamed up with Imelda Papin, Papin, a Philippine music star, to produce produce an album with the creative title of: Imelda Papin Featuring Songs with Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos. The skin tingles. Not even a Harlequin Romance novel novel could have pieced together a story more touching than that of the Marcos family and their music. An emotional Mrs. Marcos explained at the news conference which kicked off the release of the album -- and sent fans swarming swarming to record stores in the Philippines, United States, Asia, and Europe -- that the selections are favourites of her ailing husband, Ferdinand. When she sang to her husband as . he lay in his hospital bed connected to life support systems, "his eyes slowly opened and he gave me a smile and he even blew me a kiss. It was everything to me," she admitted, misty-eyed. While the Marcos family was running The Philippines, borrowing a few dollars dollars here and there from the petty cash ministry, they often held private concerts at which Imelda sang to her adoring husband. The scene in the hospital must have brought it all back to him, warming his very soul, and helping him forget that he is near death. Mrs. Papin, the recipient of 25 gold or platinum albums in The Philippines, Philippines, obviously knows a good promotional promotional vehicle when she sees one. She saw - if no one else did -- how enormously enormously popular such a touching album would be. Who could resist a collection of Mr. Marcos' most precious songs performed by his loving wife? There are some unkind people inside inside and outside The Philippines who view the Marcos clan as thieves for siphoning siphoning off a few coins here and there from the country's economy each year. The wholly unfair implication is that the family is not charitable and doesn't care about the less fortunate. Pshaw. Mrs. Marcos is donating her proceeds from the album to the St. Francis Care Foundation. The spirit of charity is alive and well, as anyone plainly can see. The good people at the Care Foundation Foundation already must be laying plans for an expansion of their facilities based on the funds Mrs. Marcos shortly shortly will be turning over. After all, a music music video is scheduled for production and that will only heighten the worldwide worldwide thirst for this and other Marcos albums. In a world where any scruffy, longhaired longhaired punk can strike it rich with a lone hit, supported in large part by electronic instruments and studio mixing, mixing, it is comforting to see a real talent make good. At 59, Mrs. Marcos may have only 10 or 15 years of recording ahead of her. She will need to get cracking to make up for lost time. Although rumours in the entertainment entertainment world often prove unreliable, this one can't miss: Mrs. Marcos has decided to dump Mrs. Papin and make her second album a solo effort. The tentative title? My (1000 pairs of) Blue Suede Shoes. Confession Not "Perfect valour is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before before all the world."-- Duc de La Rochefoucauld Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) The concept of courage will suffer a serious blow if Canadians continue to judge Ben Johnson's emotional confession confession as a courageous act. Courage is personified in the Chinese Chinese students who dared to demand freedom and were either assassinated in Tiananmen Square or are hiding underground from the Chinese thought police. Terry Fox added to our understanding of human courage when he faced the loss of a leg with dignity and determination. He learned to cope with his disability, trained with a single-minded purpose, and began began his run across Canada. His honesty honesty and perseverance made him one of this country's greatest heroes. In our hospitals, the victims of diseases such as cancer and AIDS display courage on a daily basis, clinging to life with honour honour and unswerving diligence. Ben Johnson's courage was notica- bly absent when he first considered taking steroids and cheating to gain gold. It was absent each time he fooled a drug test following a win. It took no courage to stand on an endless series of podiums accepting the praise of the world and millions of dollars of endorsements endorsements with the full knowledge that it was all illegal. When he finally slipped up and was snared in a drug testing net last year in Seoul, his immediate Courageous act was to deny everything and hope it would pass. He flew to Toronto and held a press conference at which he. stated that he had never knowingly taken illegal drugs: the height of courageousness, courageousness, Now, after months of overwhelming evidence which threw floodlights on Mr. Johnson's history of steroid use, he finally has mustered the courage to admit that he has been living the big lie for eight years. He is no more courageous courageous than the armed robber who surrenders when surrounded by 15 police police officers all armed to the teeth. The Dubin Inquiry backed Mr, Johnson into a corner from which there was no escape. Having tried deception, avoidance, avoidance, and outright lies, his last recourse recourse was to admit the truth: not be- "Courageous" cause it is the proper thing to do, but because a multi-million dollar hearing had left him with no choice. Now this courageous athlete wants to tour schools and teach children that cheating in sports does not pay. Will Mr. Johnson be driving his Ferrari or his Porsche to these schools to deliver his timely message? He also suggests that without steroids steroids he would still be the fastest man in the world. We, therefore, are left to assume that the steroid use must have been just an insurance policy, designed designed only to lengthen his lead at the 1 finish line. Without drugs he would still have won, but not by such a margin. margin. . Canadians should not be fooled by Mr. Johnson's admission. There is little little courageous about it. Red Faces At Kraft Faces at Kraft Inc. went right past red and straight to purple last week when the company first learned about the enormous bungle which left thousands thousands of Americans believing they had won the company's "Ready-to-Roll" contest, which clearly was not. Newspapers across the United States printed contest forms which Kraft customers were to match with product labels. In the two days which followed, the lone $17,000 Dodge mini- van, which was to be the grand prize, had been won several thousand times. A printing error meant that nearly every entry form was a winner. Kraft's brain trust huddled with lawyers and declared the contest null and void. Americans who thought they had won a van, now are being asked to settle for $250. Apparent winners of lesser prizes arc supposed to settle for less. Thus far, three lawsuits are pending, and the number of winners keeps on growing. This year's shareholders' meeting should be quite an event. Weatherman Co-operates for Osliawa's Fiesta Week Parade On Sunday morning it was wet, but the weather well-known sports fan, lawyer Terry Kelly. The many ' th ' ' ' 1 changed by noon and the sun shone on the parade to open Oshawa's Fiesta Week. A huge crowd watched the fantastic floats and cheered Parade Marshall, pavilions will be in action all week around the city and no doubt many from this area will be joining in the fun. Reader Suggests: Another Election TO THE EDITOR AND THE PEOPLE OF BOWMANVILLE: BOWMANVILLE: I think it is high time that I voiced my opinion here in The Statesman, where it should have been voiced many weeks ago. I looked up the definition of the word MAYOR in my trusty copy of Thorndyke, Barnhart Comprehensive Dictionary and in the Colliers Colliers Encyclopedia. There are two kinds of mayors. The first is a titular head of an elected council. That means that the mayor has also been elected by the people people and sits as a chairman of that group - with little to no authority except as with all . chairpeople and that is to keep control of meetings, procedure, and to break ties during a vote. The other form of mayor is appointed by the council body from within its membership to sit as their chairman and therefore therefore has the same rights of decision-making as tne other other members of council. Now, the first kind of mayor is accountable to the people who elect him/her, while the second kind of mayor is accountable only to the council or body of people who appointed him/her. It is clear that we here in Bowmanville Bowmanville have the first kind of mayor. If we couple the local situation situation with the Provincial and Federal stupidity, we certainly do have a lot to complain about. Perhaps it's a good thing that everything everything has come to a head at the same time, so as to wake us up. Canadians are too complacent. We are known the world over as the nation who turns the other cheek. Yes, we just sit back and accept accept everything that's flung at us - because we are THE TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE!!! Well, not so free any more, and apparently apparently not' so strong, if a handful of greedy souls can dictate to so many. Canada is 30 million strong and we here in Bowmanville Bowmanville represent a cross section of all the people in Canada. The way we feel about things is the same hue and cry heard from coast to coast. But we can't just sit in our houses with the shades.'pulled andgrouse about things. We have to be heard. ' i; . '-.'6 When someone in public office receives a letter on any subject, it represents 100 other voices that feel the same way. So start writ- , ing, or phoning, or going in person to your local representative. representative. If we are to stop thoughtless over-spending and gouging then we have to do something about it ourselves, ourselves, not leave it up to someone else to do. We are not a foreign power to be dealt a blow, we are friends •j and neighbours ot those who ] are weilding the stick. ; There's another thoughts to be considered. In parlia-7 ment when the oppositional parties feel those in power Ij are creating a mish-mash of) things they cry non--] confidence. Well, our party j in power here in Bowman- *f ville is without a doubt3 creating a mish-mash not) only with our tax dollars but-i with their near-sighted town 9 policies and projects. I think it would be a good idea for us to cry nonconfidence nonconfidence - to renege on our .) ballots cast last November and do it all over - right way .{ round this time. Think:: about it. Revolution? Per-'/ haps! P.S. WELCOME BACK<1 ANN COWMAN. GIVE'EM", HELL!!! Sher Leetooze, 80 Roser Crescent, u,v Bowmanville, Ontario. Why Not Count Our Blessings? Dear Editor, Sometimes I think we all 1 complain so much about our.I problems, we forget to be: grateful for our blessings. I As I sit here on my back. deck overlooking rolling' fields, a gentle breeze is! wafting across my back. I: can feel the freckles on my' shoulders popping out in the warm sunshine. ! My little dog is lying con- • tentedly in the shade and I can hear the neighbours' little little boys shouting happily to each other. Our peas, tomatoes tomatoes and cabbages are grow-, ing steadily in the garden- and the ants have decided to, reside somewherè else. I have a wonderful barbe- qued dinner to look forward, to and I am still satisfied from my lunch. Two tiny birds are having, a shower in the bird bath and over in my neighbours' barn, the six new kittens are thriving. My husband has a job and my children are doing very well at school and seem to be happy. I am feeling healthy and well and we all love each other. We'll deal with the taxes, lightning damage and everything everything else that comes our way because we are truly blessed. Just thought you might like to hear about happiness for a change. Yours truly, Fran Baker R.R.2 Orono, Ont. L0B1M0 Editor's note: Now there's a letter to be treasured. Recently, I remarked to fellow reporter and friend, Chris Clark, that my dog has been having bad dreams. The response, as I normally normally anticipate from Chris, was a few moments moments of mirth followed by the knowledgeable declaration of: "Pet owners owners always talk about their pets as if they were human." I don't know if that is the case for all pet owners owners but for me it is quite true. I must state, however, my reasons for talking about my dog as a human are because she is human. human. Well, almost. She might not resemble resemble any person I know, but she does have some specific traits characteristically characteristically human. Samantha (Sam for short) started her life as ' a dog but quickly realized there were some benefits to being human. The first bonus she noted was that people are allowed to sit on soft, cushioned furniture rather rather than on hard, uncomfortable uncomfortable floors. It wasn't too long after she was given permission to share our furniture that she started taking over some human characteristics. characteristics. Yes, she still would lie on her stomach, putting her face on the top of her hands, er, paws, but sometimes, when she didn't think anyone was looking, she would lie on the couch, on her back with her head resting ever so lightly on a pillow. pillow. The gradual transformation transformation from puppy to person brought on some different personality traits as well. While lying on the couch, she would drift off into sleep. Heaven help whoever woke her from her dreams because she was capable of giving looks more glaring and filled with annoyance than I have seen from any person. Now, one may think that a dog taking control of the furniture in a person's person's house is a tad domineering domineering but she was and still is quite polite before she takes her spot. If there is someone in the room with her she will ask for permission before getting on the couch or chair. No, she won't literally ask but she will look at you and then look at the furniture and then back at you again waiting for your okay. Once someone says "Come on up Sam" or "Go ahead" she jumps on the chair and settles down just as humans do. Living room furniture isn't her only domain, however. She makes herself herself just as comfortable on beds. The one thing you need to know about Sam straight away is that she isn't that big. She stands about two feet high and is maybe three feet long. She is supposed to be a cross between a terrier and a spaniel but we just say she is mixed. Anyway, she isn't big like a shepherd nor is she tiny like a poodle. She is mid-sized and shouldn't take up much room on the floor, couch or bed. On the floor or the couch she doesn't. As soon as she jumps on the bed, though, its a completely different story. No matter what size the bed is, Sam sprawls herself out on it making it seem to be no bigger than the width of a matchstick. Now, if she were only a dog, she wouldn't care about stretching and making sure her night's sleep is as comfortable and relaxing as possible. This leads me to my next point: her dreams. Sam and I have never had any discussions about her dreams so I'm not too sure what she thinks about while she's sleeping. But I can assure you that she definitely dreams. While sleeping, (even the most doubtful will admit admit that dogs do sleep), she sometimes whimpers or growls or barks and her body becomes a jumble jumble of spasms. It's obvious that something something is disturbing her. I usually gently pet her head and tell her she is okay. She wakes up, her spasms stop and she looks at me as if she is trying to familiarize herself herself to her surroundings. I think this obviously proves that yes, she is dreaming. If she were not, and something was S hysically wrong with er, then the spasms would continue after waking up. I could fill the pages of the longest novel written about human traits my Sam possesses.-For .example, .example, there is her understanding understanding of the word "leash" or the phrase "Go get your leash" when she wants to go outside. Or about how she explains her need for water or food. I think, howèvér, that I have proven just how closely, except for physical physical characteristics, my dog resembles a human. So, the next time you hear pet owners talking about their dogs as if they were persons, give them the benefit of the doubt. Most pet owners don't keep pets unless they can think of them as part of their family and treat them as such. If the pet owner starts to talk, about his or her pet as if it were a brother , or younger child, let him. That's what caring for a pet is all about. Durham MP Greets 4-HMembers and Leaders on Parliam ent, Hill Four outstanding 4-H Club members from the Durham Durham area were guests of Durham M.P. Ross Stevenson Stevenson when they visited Parliament Hill recently during an Ottawa trip sponsored by the Durham Milk Committee. Committee. At the entrance to the I^use of Commons arc, from left to right: Raymond Massic and Joanne Handley, Handley, both from Campbellcroft, Dave Tamblyn, of Orono, Orono, and Tracey Welsh, of Bowmanville, with George Sikma, of Orono, President of the 4-H leaders and his wife, Sue. At right is Mr. Stevenson.