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6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, August 23.1989 tK&t Canadian statesman (Jcna Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by James Publishing Company Limited ■ * ' ' T3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1Cc 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 Foreign -- $60.00 per year Although every precaution will bo taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable for any error In the advortisemont published hereunder unless a proof of such advertisement is requested in writing by the advertiser and returned to 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 it any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error boars to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. wm mm Editorial Comment , Port Hope Wants the NHL Never mind the question of whether or not the Toronto Blue Jays can win The World Series. Forget the fortunes of the struggling CFL. Ignore, for a moment, the question of whether the Toronto Maple Leafs can find a successful successful manager, coach, trainer, owner or entire hockey team. The really hot question these days has to do with whether the Town of Port Hope can acquire a National Hockey League franchise. For those of you who are newcomers to this saga, the background is something something like this: Port Hope's town council council - possibly on a day when the agenda agenda was particularly dull -- passed a resolution asking that the NHL consider consider a full-fledged franchise for the town of 11,000. The latest twist to the story is the fact that an NHL vice-president has responded to the enquiry and noted that the town's request will be passed on to the committee having jurisdiction jurisdiction over such matters. This hardly amounts to a solid endorsement of the proposal but proponents of a Port Hope NHL team are, no doubt, happy to learn that the NHL management at least hasn't said no. We're not sure exactly what claim Port Hope can have on an NHL franchise. franchise. Supporters of the idea have noted noted that the community has a population population of 700,000 within nearby driving range. This fact may, at first glance, indicate indicate that there's some merit to the proposal. proposal. But let's not forget that practically practically every hamlet and crossroads within earshot of Metro Toronto can make the same claim. For instance, what is true of Port Hope is equally true of Hampton, Solina, Mitchell's Comers, Crooked Creek, Newtonville, and many other centres. To date, none of these has announced plans to apply for an NHL franchise, although perhaps perhaps the Port Hope application will open the floodgates. While there's no doubt that central Ontario is a hockey heartland, it's unlikely unlikely that mere enthusiasm can make up for such things as a lack of an NHL calibre ice surface or_the wheelbarrow loads of money needed to attract hockey hockey players. It's more probable that Canadian centres such as Saskatoon, Halifax, Hamilton and Kitchener' who have already already expressed an interest to the NHL would obtain a franchise before Port Hope. However, you've got to admire admire the energy and enthusiasm of a town of 11,000 which would even consider consider the idea. If you will pardon the repetition of a well-worn joke, we might add one final reason why Port Hope's expectations of an NHL hockey franchise are a overly-optimistic. You have to remember remember that if Port Hope was given a professional professional hockey team, Toronto would want one too. St. John Ambulance Crew Always Prepared This veteran crew of St. John Ambulance volunteers volunteers were on the job at the Orono Fairgrounds Thursday Thursday evening where a large crowd was enjoying ham- burgs, corn on the cob, entertainment and fellowship as guests of MP Boss Stevenson and MPP Sam Cu- reatz. Fortunately, no major accidents occurred to require require their services. They are, 1-r, Morris Weston, Alf Brown, D. J. Sharpe, Sandra Williams and Had Lux- ton. Cancer Society Says Thanks To Donors Dear Editor: Once again, due to the hard work and dedication of everyone concerned, the Canadian Canadian Cancer Society Bowmanville Bowmanville and District #108 surpassed its 1989 objective of $53,000.00 by. almost $6300.00 to date. I would like to thank the generous people who live in the Town of Newcastle and all the door-to-door canvassers, canvassers, without whom a campaign campaign could not function. Thanks to the zone captains captains who make the campaign campaign chairman's job much easier. Vera King and Linda Thompson, zone #1, Norm Irvine zone #2, John: and Ann Cook zone #3, Sophia Pridie zone #4, all within' the town of Bowmanville. Bill and Donna Nesbitt zone #6 (Clarke Twp.), Don Yeo zone #7 (Darlington Twp.), Henry and Kate Tenhaaf zone #9 (Pontypool), Rhonda and Les Smales zone #10 (Wilmot Creek) and Ted Dadson and Bert Johnston, Business and Industry. Also the team captains who work with the zone captains and did an admirable job, thank you. The Society's campaign year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. Any monies received received up to Sept. 30, will be added to our 1989 campaign. Our main drive for donations donations is carried out in April but your contributions are welcome any time. Yours truly Ernie Eves 1989 Campaign Chairman Andrea Adair No Sense of Reality It's 7:30 a.m. I'm in my car, preparing myself for the task I am about to face. Before pulling out of the driveway I check in all my mirrors to make certain nothing is obstructing obstructing my vision there. My lights are on, my seatnelt secured, and the radio is tuned to the second second installment of the news for the day. Driving away from my house and through my subdivision, I'm amazed about how relaxed I feel and wonder, if all drivers facing their morning trip to work feel the same. Traffic is beginning to build as I,maneuver the streets of my town and once again, I consider myself myself fortunate to be head ing east rather than west.. Quickly rolling my window up, I descend upon the "on-ramp", commanding commanding my eyes to look sharp and telling my senses to be awake. Increasing speed on the ramp, I check my mirrors, mirrors, check my shoulder, check my mirror again and pray that I'll live through the merge. Welcome to the 401. Since construction began began a few weeks ago on Highway Two, between Courtice Road and Highway Highway 57, I've made the 401 my route to work. Every day I meet a new experience on that course that either amazes or exasperates me. For example, there are the indifferent drivers V whe the right hand lane when someone is trying to merge or the aggressive monsters who weave their way in front of cars leaving little or no room for a driver to stop in, the event of an emergency. Seeing this daily travelling travelling east to work and west on the homeward swing, it's amazing that I'm still shocked at some sights I witness. Such as the scene I saw last Friday. I had hardly been on the highway, two minutes when I noticed a traffic jam in the ' westbound lanes near th e Park Road off ramp in Oshawa. There had been an accident. accident. (Surprisingly, it was the first I'd s seen Of course, you wouldn't admit to reading Ann Landers. But possibly someone has pointed out to you a recent letter to the popular popular advice columnist on the subject of soap operas. It seems as though a couple of avid soap fans had an objection to the fact that news bulletins sometimes interrupt interrupt the plot to stories such as 'The Days of Our Lives"; "The Young and the Restless", "As the World Turns" and all the others. It seems that these soap watchers objected to a bulletin announcing the execution of dissident students in China. China. They claimed that the unrest in China was old news anyhow. What they really wanted was a chance to watch their favorite soap without being being rudely interrupted by reality. Ann Landers' only advice was for the fans to write their local TV station or network if they objected to the pesky pesky bulletins. But she made no mention of the fact that the readers' complaints seemed just a tad unwarranted. Most human beings have a natural curiosity about what is going; on in the world around them -- a curiosity that would usually take precedent over the story line on a TV show. The fact that some people prefer soap operas to a news bulletin indicates indicates that they've developed a rather backward sense of reality. They seem to have reached the state in which the events transpiring on the tube are more real than anything else in their lives. Will such people remember to feed the cat or put out the garbage? Will they remember to sweep the floor or feed themselves? Or will they become so caught up in the lives portrayed on the screen that they forget to live? Will they, in fact, expect TV news anchorpersons to interrupt newscasts with, special bulletins from the soap opera? Although everyone is addicted to television programs to some degree, we cannot help but wonder if there's a distinction between legitimate télévision télévision use and television abuse. Perhaps, Perhaps, dependence on TV is every bit as unhealthy as dependence on drugs or alcohol. And we all know about the efforts efforts under way to treat and prevent addictions to drugs, booze, and cigarettes. cigarettes. But how does one know when one has crossed the line between using the television for legitimate entertainment and using it to create a surrogate reality? reality? Well, let's put it this way: If you'd rather see your soap opera, sportscast, situation comedy, movie, or miniseries miniseries than the latest news bulletin, there may be cause for concern. If something like the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle doesn't grab your interest more strongly than the latest chapter of the afternoon soap, you'd better take drastic action. You should hurl a brick through the picture tube, or move to some place in the Yukon territories' which is about 100 miles from the nearest cable hookup hookup or wall outlet. You should take up jogging or stamp collecting or needlepoint. needlepoint. You should go find a part time job or volunteer to assist some worthwhile worthwhile project in the community. In short, anyone who finds TV becoming becoming more interesting than real life should take quick action to ensure that his or her real life does not get swamped in the waves of televised trash. Act now. Before it's too late. Writer Feels Caregivers Deserve More Attention since the highway became became my main motor route.) The car off at the side didn't look too badly damaged, fortunately. I never slowed to investigate investigate and forgot about the scene until I witnessed two other cars only a couple of exits down the way also pulled off to the side. Again, this accident was not, from where I could see, severe. But they confirmed the feeling that I take my life into my hands every time I get behind the wheel of a car. Not because I doubt my driving prowess, prowess, but Because I doubt everyone clse's. ' ! " There has to be ways to make the situation on the highway and other roads in Ontario less of a hazard to those who practise practise safe driving techniques. techniques. Better use of the public transit system is one place to start. When the Whitby GO Train station opened it was met with a number of great successes. Imagine Imagine the advantages when the train finally rolls into Oshawa and then, perhaps, Newcastle. The development of more industry and businesses businesses east of Toronto would also do much to improve traffic congestion because such businèsses would enable people, to live near their workplace rather than commuting. The best method, though, for improving our highways is to set compulsory. compulsory. driving tests. These should begin at age 25 and continue every five yéars thereafter, c Once people have been driving for a couple of years, their skills start to slip. They become more relaxed while driving and perhaps begin to think they are the best drivers and won't fall victim to an accident. Last winter, my brother brother was in one. He is a great driver and I trust his abilities completely. (He's one of the few drivers drivers other than myself that I trust.) He was stopped on Highway Two in WTiitby, facing west, preparing to make a left hand turn. His signal was on and he was waiting to turn when he noticed a truck approaching from the rear at a fast speed. When he realized the driver wasn't slowing down and wasn't moving to the other lane fast enough, he tried to move ahead, out of the way. Unfortunately it was too late and ,the driver mangled mangled the right hand side of the rear of my brother's brother's car. Rob was lucky that was all that happened. , I've heard many people say that women are too cautious when they are behind the wheel of a car and that they are the ones who cause accidents. I don't agree. I'd rather be cautious than dead. Tax Will be Everywhere One of the political advantages to he imposition of the nine per centfed- ral tax on goods and services is the act that nobody really understands he full implication of the scheme. Since the tax is brand new, its ef- ects are unknown. But, gradually the facts are getting iut. Two news releases which crossed lur desk this week added a couple of idditional pieces to the taxation jigsaw jigsaw puzzle. Ontario Hydro stated in in announcement on August 11 that .lie legislation will mean a nine per lent increase in Ontario's hydro bills from 1991 onwards. 'The nine per cent would be applied an top of any rate increase utilities need to maintain reliable electrical service," said Ontario Hydro. In other words, we could be facing :iii electrical rate increase of five per cent in 1991 plus an additional 9 per cent courtesy of the folks in Ottawa, That means a net increase in the 1991 electric bill amounting to about 15 per cent. Magazines and books are totally unrelated unrelated to hydro bills but they will, nevertheless, be a tax target in 1991. A coalition which includes publishers and sellers of books and magazines has pointed out the fact that these reading materials are currently free of federal tax. Under the proposed tax on goods and services, they'd be slapped with the same nine per cent tax as other commodities - a move which will reduce reduce public access to information and education. You don't have to look far to sec exactly exactly where the planned goods and services services tax will hit. It's everywhere, Dear Sir: The enclosed article is respectfully respectfully submitted for your consideration. It is my hope that this article, if published, published, may raise the public's public's awareness of the caregiver's caregiver's plight and encourage those in need to seek help. A little background may be helpful. I am a freelance writer from Toronto, living with my husband and son on a farm in the Bowmanville area, which, incidentally, we find to be a lovely place with marvellous people. In speaking with a number number of health-care workers and with Reverend Lockhart of Trinity United Church, I have been encouraged to try initiating a support group for caregivers in this community. community. Plans are only tentative, tentative, yet, simmering mainly mainly in my own completely unqualified head, but if this project gets off the ground we will be providing further information, through advertising, advertising, in "The Canadian Statesman". Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. Sincerely, Mary Fraser. Caregiver's Plight "Have a nice day!" a bright young face behind the counter smiles at Emma, and Emma, as she places the groceries in the cart, smiles back. Emma's smile is a thing apart. It has nothing to do with her, anymore than docs having a nice day; yet the days are better than the nights. Emma takes care of her invalid mother. At night her mother refuses to get into bed because she. is convinced convinced the bed she has occupied occupied for the last five years is not hers. Emma's mother weeps because she does not know this frightening stranger, on whom she is totally totally dependent. This woman, woman, who claims to be her daughter, plays tricks on her, forcing her to use a bathroom full of laughing, leering people. Where is Emma? Why doesn't she conic and help her? Emma drives out of the parking lot and joins the stream of traffic. From the beginning she has felt such compassion for the mother who once cared so lovingly for her, and is now so old, so confused, so frightened. But, gradually, inevitably, Emma has come to know other feelings feelings -- feelings of resentment, resentment, frustration, bitterness, bitterness, and something far worse. Guilt. It is there every every time Emma longs for the day "when all this will be over", knowing that it will never be over until her mother is dead. Now, as Emma waits at a red light, she thinks of nothing, nothing, feels nothing. She is drained, empty. Each day is the same as the one before and the one to come. This odd numbness makes it easier. easier. She smiles at store clerks and laughs politely with friends who stop to enquire about her mother's health. She listens as someone says, Tmma, you're marvel- lous....don't know how you cope. Well...have to dash...got a big weekend at the cottage, you know. You should pop up sometime and see us..." Emma glances at her watch. Mrs. Fletcher, who sits with her mother once a week while Emma shops, will be anxious to get away. She'd better hurry. Jeiry glances at his sleeping sleeping wife and feels the familiar familiar ache. Why can't he curb his temper? Evelyn doesn't deserve his anger. She has been such a joy all through the years-a warm, vital woman-friend, lover, mother, mother, comforter...Now, the victim victim of a stroke, she sits in a wheelchair, dependent upon him for her every need. Her silent, vacant stare drives him nearly insane. Jerry's heart muscle is slowly failing. failing. One day he won't be able to look alter the house, prepare the meals, and care lor nis wife, Jerry is afraid. What will happen to Evelyn when he can no longer cope? Family and friends try to be helpful, but Jerry knows they have responsibilities of their own. Ho doesn't want to be a burden. He doesn't want them to put Evelyn in a home. He doesn't want to die first. Jane is at home with her autistic and often violent child. Jane's husband works late much of the time now. Home is too depressing; his wife, too preoccupied. Lately he has been confiding his unhappiness to someone else. The accident left May's husband permanently blind. He is adjusting poorly to the frustrations of nis handicap. His hostility toward May grows daily with'his dependence. dependence. Janet is a single parent who works full-time to support support herself and her teenage teenage children. Every night she visits the nursing home where her mother is slowly dying of cancer. She brings her mother home on weekends weekends as often as she can. Her mother cries when Janet Janet takes her back. Her children children are resentful when Janet brings her home. These people, and thousands thousands like them, are the caregivers. Lonely, exhausted, exhausted, depressed, and often guilt-ridden, they are trapped in a world apart. Though it's true that not all caregivers feel this way, there are too many who hide their real feelings behind a cheerful smile, and do it so well that no one ever hears their silent cries for help. Health-care workers, however, however, are well aware of the growing need for more support support services to keep people who are barely coping from becoming casualties themselves. themselves. Perhaps you know a caregiver caregiver or perhaps you are one. Perhaps this role lies waiting for you in the future or is part of your past. Surely Surely this is a problem that touches the lives of most of us to a greater or lessor degree degree at some time or other. How can we help or be helped? What is being done through our churches, synagogues synagogues or service organizations? organizations? What can wo do ns individuals? individuals? Is it possible that with a little thought, and some action, you and I might bo able to help n caregiver caregiver to have a nice day -- or at least a bettor one? Everyone Can Recycle ■ Dear Sir: Is it possible for large, multi-tenant, multi-use buildings to participate in recycling? We are often told that because the building is so large and made up of so many tenants, that recycling is impossible. The facts are very different! different! In Toronto there is a 72- storey building which produces produces 40 tons of garbage each day yet only 10 tons reaches the Brock landfill site! 75% of the waste is recycled!! recycled!! Cardboard, fine paper, wood pallets, glass and food waste from the 100,000 people who occupy the building is recycled. The waste is collected on a regular basis and recycled to reduce storage requirements. requirements. No additional staff has been hired to operate the programme! Ever other day, 12-14 1,200 pound bales are prepared for pick up. Food wastes are collected in white plastic bags and stored in a refrigerated room from where it is picked up by a pig farmer. Glass bottles are stored in 50 gallon drums and picked up twice per week by Glass Reclaimers of Canada. The building manager is planning to install a glass crusher soon to reduce the volume of the collected glass. Wood pallets are reused. Fine paper is also collected collected and recycled according to Mr. Ben Leon. Sr. Property Manager, the revenues from recycling cover the costs of disposing of the remaining garbage. Where is this incredible place? Right in the heart of Toronto! It is known as First Canadian Place. It is Canada's Canada's largest office building owned by Olympia and York Development Ltd. Olympia and York should be proud in showing that big size is no impediment to recycling recycling and that multitenant multitenant buildings, or apartment apartment buildings can in fact participate in the recycling programme. All it takes is a commitment to try it. It makes good business sense. Olympia and York states that any profit from the sale of recyclâmes is returned to the tenants in the form of a rent rebate. Recycling benefits everyone! everyone! J. Veldhuis. Mary Fraser. "Frozen Onk" by Ursula Dexter Honorable Mention in the Visual Arts Centro's Juried Photography Contest and Show