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/ 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 20,1989 Pathfinders Welcome Two New Members Station," she explained. ; She pointed out that there are still unaddressed issues between Ontario Hydro relating to building permits. at tlie Darlington Generating Station and the fire emergency plan required for Darlington. • Mayor Hubbard said that if Darlington Darlington is chosen as the site of a second second CANDU plant, there will be more studies needed. "When Hydro first came to the Town of Newcastle, they had many impact studies in place. We will now have to implement more im-. pact studies," she said. She stated that she hoped the Town and Hydro have léarned much about the operations and management of a mega project through experience in . dealing with each other over Darlington. ; Durham East MPP Sam- Cureatz said that he foresees an expansion at Darlington through the construction of the four-unit Darlington "B" generating generating station. Like the Pickering Generating Generating Station, Darlington would acquire acquire an additional four reactors- under this scheme. Mr. Cureatz said the present government government has been lax in addressing the problem of adequate electricity for Ontario. "It is evident that Ontario Hydro has been given no direction in planning planning for the future needs of the province province when we are already experiencing brownouts," Mr. Cureatz added, in reference reference to Hydro's recent requests that Ontario residents conserve electrical energy during the cold snap. Mr. Cureatz noted that several local plants had closed during the last few weeks due to the lack of power. Lasco Steel and St. Marys Cement, who are on "interruptible power billing" billing" were shut down periodically for several days this month due to the additional additional electrical demands posed by the uncommonly cold weather. The natural gas combustion turbine units mentioned in Hydro's 25-year plan would have an output totalling 4400 megawatts at four stations. These would be designed to help Hydro Hydro meet peak demands for electricity A BETTER DEAL 1st, 2nd and 3rd Mortgages 1 Open privileges > Samo day service ulwixl f CALL NOW FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION WHITBY 666-4986 HOURS: Mon. ■ Thuts. 9 a.m. lo 7:30 p.m. Fri. 9 a.m. lo 5 p.m. £l Tidbits from Around the Region Histoiy Behind Christmas Cards such as those experienced in the past few weeks. They would burn a mixture of fuel and air, producing hot gases which then turn the turbines and generators. generators. . . "We've taken into account our customers' customers' expectations for reliability, reasonable cost and limited impact on the environment," said Hydro President President Robert Franklin in this week's announcement. He added that the number one priority priority is to encourage customers to use electricity more efficiently. "We are introducing introducing a conservation and energy efficiency program which is among the most ambitious in North America," he said. "It could reduce future growth in demand by more than 25 per cent." As well as the demand management program, all three plans considered by Hydro prior to this week's announcement announcement assume a contribution from five other key components. They were summarized as follows: • purchasing electricity from inde pendent producers, including purchases purchases and generation that would displace electricity normally supplied by Hydro; Hydro; v ' 1 " •rehabilitation of existing generating generating stations; •increased development of existing and new water-powered generation; • a major purchase of electricity from Manitoba Hydro; •new CANDU nuclear and fossil generating stations. Over the next 25 years, Hydro foresees the need for a grand total of 10 nuclear units at three stations and 32 gas-fired combustion turbine units at four stations. Because customers' needs for electricity electricity could vary greatly over the next quarter-century, Hydro's plans are designed designed with maximum flexibility so that certain components can be advanced advanced or delayed, depending on the need, Mr. Franklin said. Forecasts for the future show growths in demand varying from 1.5 per cent to 2.7 per cent per year between between 1990 and 2014. THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE TO ITS CITIZENS MAYOR'S LEVEE Everyone is cordially invited to attend the Mayor's Levee to be held on New Year's Day, January 1,1990, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the Bowmanville Recreation Complex. Patll L. Barrio, A.M.C.T. Town Clork Town ol Newcastle 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3AG Dato ol Publication: Docombor 20,1989 Docombor27,1909 Fllo: 10.2.20 OSHAWA -- An early morning fire on Sunday gutted the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Oshawa at 94 Bruce Street. The John Howard Society office and • Rickerr Concrete Products were also damaged in the blaze. The captain of the Salvation Army in Oshawa said about 500 customers visit the store a week and added that they may be looking for temporary office space. The Ontario Fire Marshal and the Durham Regional Regional Police are investigating. Two new members were enrolled in 2nd Bowmanville Pathfinders on Monday evening, Dec. 18th at Memorial Park Clubhouse and here, Melissa Beach arid Elizabeth Elizabeth Dickey are being welcomed by leader Charlynne Tillcock. More Nuclear Reactors From Page One WHITBY -- Allan Furlong, the MPP for Durham Centre Centre announced recently that Whitby will be the spot where 122 non-profit rental houses are going to be built under a provincial housing program. The houses are planned in conjunction with the Oshawa YMCA. Roughly 70 per cent of the units will be available to people needing rent assistance while the remainder will be offered at market rent. OSHAWA -- Oshawa firefighters were surprised last week when their plans for a mock disaster at the Oshawa airport were changed by an actual emergency. emergency. A cargo plane with a pilot and co-pilot on board lost the use of the starboard engine as it was coming in for a landing. The plane landed safely. OSHAWA -- Oshawa will be the place Eric Lindros • will call home when the much-talked-about 16-year- old hockey player will join the Oshawa Generals in January. Oshawa will be sending three players to Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in exchange for Lindros. In addition, the Generals have agreed to give the Greyhounds second round picks in the 1990 and 1991 drafts and have paid $80,000 for the player. SCUGOG - Township residents were urged to conserve conserve their electrical power, especially between the critical hours of five p.m. and seven p.m. Scugog's Hydro Hydro manager, Terry Adderley, was asked to urge local customers to cut back in order to help the utility cope with the power shortage. Letter Writer Offers Insight Into Increased Cigarette Addiction by Andrea Adair Christmas has traditionally traditionally been the time for friends and families to express express Yuletide greetings through the mail. Hallmark Cards of Canada reports that Christmas is the largest card-sending holiday and the firm expects more than 148 million cards will be exchanged this year. Cards have always been a method of letting someone near or far know that they are being thought of during the holiday holiday season. Surprisingly enough though, it wasn't that long ago the card was invented. invented. Mark Jackman, curator curator of the Clarke Museum and Archives, runs Christmas card wood block printing workshops as part of the museum's outreach programming. He explains that although although the card was invented invented early in the last century it wasn't until the late 1800's that the idea of mailing greetings took off. A museum director, in England, Sir Henry Cole, has been credited with creating the first greeting card in 1843, the same year "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens. Sir Henry asked his artist friend, John Cal- cott Horsley, to design it. One thousand cards were printed that year to be sold for a shilling apiece. (Mr. Jackman said six of those original cards survive today.) The first card had three scenes on the front. The middle scene pictured pictured a family drinking wine and being festive. The pictures on each side depicted some sort of act of charity - sentiments reflecting society of the day. Inside, the simple greeting of "A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You" was the message. There is evidence prior to this, Mr. Jackman says, of schoolboys who were away from .home sending their family a "Christmas letter". It would be full of all the news that they didn't have time to write about during the school year. Sir Henry, he said, wanted to do something a little more ornate. Oddly enough, though, this new fad didn't catch on quickly. "It was very expensive to mail a letter and this was something extremely new," Mr. Jackman said. "It takes time for fads to catch on." In 1870, Sir Henry ap proached the postmaster and asked him to offer a special Christmas card rate. The rate for cards was dropped from a penny to half a penny. Ten years later, the postmaster was asking people to mail early because because the post office was being "flooded" with Christmas greeting cards. The cards came into North America through the United States by the work of a German print- . er, Louis Prang. During the 1870's, Mr. Prang ran contests each year in which people would send him their ideas ideas for Christmas cards and he would select the best to be printed. His cards were different different from the type Sir Henry created. The original card was flat and very similar to a postcard. These cards were very "ornate" with pictures and delicate fringes around the border. The themes of the cards at that time too, were extremely different from the themes of cards today. Christmas was viewed as a celebration, Mr. Jackman said. It did not always have the religious associations that are common common today. The cards of the day then, rarely mentioned Christmas. "The cards mainly said things such as "Happy Holidays" or ."Happy New Year", Mr. Jackman said.; The most popular illus-: tration on the early cards was the robin. By the late 1890's and èarly 1900's, the style of cards started to change and they began to contain the pictures with which we are so familiar today: Santa Claus and Christmas Christmas Trees. "Santa has changed a lot since then," Mr. Jack- man said. "He was very much a product of this century and commercial advertising...he advertising...he was seized on and used." During World War II, Hallmark Cards notes that Santa cards came out with sayings such as "Missing you" and "Across the Miles". The 50's sparked an interest interest in humor and the studio cards with funnylooking funnylooking Santas and reindeer reindeer became popular. In the 80's the fitness craze hit the card market and Santa looked just dashing in jogging shoes and sweatsuits. Hallmark reports that traditional settings and religious cards are still popular themes today. Dear Mr. James: column , but it does give me the lead in I have been looking looking for. Your item states that it will be the "suckers" I.E. the drinkers and smokers who will be paying the most for the proposed G.S.Tax. I wish I could take offence offence at the word "sucker" as I am a smoker, but I think the word "victim" is closer. In the last few months it has become apparent that while the Government has insiste.d on a Mrge warning sign on cigs, slowly but surely, the tobacco Co's have been adding more nicotine nicotine and tar to the most popular popular brands. I wish I had kept track of the figures, but I know that Players Light has gone up 3 mgs. Du Mauri Mauri er Extra light has gone from Tar 8 mg, Nic. 0.8 - to Tar 9 mg- Nic. 0.9 , to the newly warned package containing containing Tar 10 mg, Nic 1.0- Co 10 mg. In other words, the Government Government is warning on one hand, while the tobacco Go's are addicting us further on the other. I suppose to keep us hooked for revenue because so many people have quit. Also, most of the smokers I've talked to say they feel they have been smoking more without knowing why. I spoke to a tobacco salesman salesman the other day and he said it was because the Government Government was enforcing stricter measuring techniques techniques of Nic. and Tar. After our little heated argument he agreed that I was partially partially right. He also suggested I write the^Job. Co's. I said I preferred tolmforrn the Public-first Public-first iani$|thcn' we could all write the [companies. Anyway fellow suckers, beware. It will soon be impossible impossible to ouit on our own. However, the government will be opening clinics we can go to to "dry out". ( At a great cost, you can be sure.) Well folks I'm mad as hell but the only thing I can do is to inform you and hope that you tell a friend, and.they tell friends etc. etc. Sincerely Kae Piper Bowmanville. Mark Jackman, curator of the Clarke Museum and She will then apply it to the wood. Jenni- nSBS^S ÎTcSîÆ! ^fane of heHDhristmas card ™ & ^ 35 ^ ** card from wood blocks. Jennifer is putting the paint P a S e ofher Chnstmas carcL : ...from the management and staff of Ontario Motor Sales. Wishing you and your family best wishes and a joyful festive season.