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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, July 27,1994 7 Money t* causes sparks Ground Broken■ for Rotary Park For Toastmasters Meeting __ 1 It was almost as if Fragment G (the 3km-thick piece of comet that hit Jupiter on July 18) had touched down on the Bowmanville Toastmasters meeting on Tuesday, July 19. Sparks were, flying during the business meeting over everyone's favorite favorite topic - money. The Chair of the audit committee, Toastmaster (TM) George McKessock presented the annual audit report, which in turn prompted many questions. TM Sher Leetooze won the Spark Plug award for invoking the most thought- provoking discussion.' Two dynamite speakers hit the stage during the second half of the meeting. TM Sher Leetooze detailed how to lay the foundation for a bestselling bestselling murder-mystery story. Her formula for choosing characters and their motives made novel-writing seem elementary (my dear Watson). TM George Glasbergen presented his thought-provoking findings on the economic ups and downs of North America since World War II, and concluded with some forceful recommendations on how to get out of the slump we're in now. This marked George's 10th speech - congratulations congratulations to TM Glasbergen on earning his CTM (Competent Toastmaster)! Toastmaster)! Toastmasters provides a forum to discuss any number of topics - politics, politics, business, current events, social issues - or to just hear a good story and have a good laugh. Come to Bowmanville Toastmasters and be enlightened, educated, and entertained entertained - guests are always welcome. Our next meeting is August 2 - a pot luck to be held at the home of one of the Toastmasters. For more information information or directions, please call Stephanie Isert-Kohek (905) 432- 1373 or Irene Konzelmann (905) 983-9423. Regular summer meetings resume • on August 16 and August 30 at (7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.) St. John's Anglican Church at the comer of Queen and Temperance in Bowmanville. All are welcome! ,',X <> ■ 'J f £l . ê < - ' Host Families Needed for Foreign Exchange Students Work Begins on Bowmanville's Downtown Park Five more families are needed to host foreign exchange students who will be coming to Canada from Asia, Europe and South America. The students have already been selected by the Youth for Understanding Understanding Exchange program to live in Canada for 11 months and attend school, however, there is a chronic lack of host families. Students will be arriving in August August from Finland, Germany, Holland, Holland, Mexico, Brazil and Japan, but so far they will have no host families to settle down with. Each year, the Youth for Understanding Understanding organization and its hundreds hundreds of volunteers co-ordinate international. international. exchanges for more than 4,000 students around the world. "My experience as an exchange student was thrilling," said Stefan Durham Region Students Invited To Apply for Agricultural Scholarships Students living in East Central area (Victoria-Haliburton, Durham Region, and Peterborough Counties) and attending 2nd, 3rd or 4th year at an agricultural college or the University University of Guelph may apply, for a $400 scholarship. This scholarship is sponsored sponsored by the East Central Soil and Crop Improvement Association. One or two $500 awards will be made to students who are entering the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year of their studies at the University of Guelph or agricultural college in Ontario while studying soil and crop production. Selection will also take into account the academic performance from year one as well as other contributions to the community, particularly those with emphasis on conservation and environmental goals. Application fomis are available available for the agricultural offices in Lindsay, Port Perry and Peterborough, Peterborough, and they should be returned to the Secretary-Treasurer, ECSCIA, c/ o OMAFRA, #1-60 VanEdward Drive, Port Perry, L9L 1G3, no later than August 15th, 1994. A reminder to those interested in the Monsanto scholarship that the deadline to apply is August 15, 1994. This scholarship is for high school students from a family farm who have successfully enrolled at a Canadian Canadian university in first year Agriculture, Agriculture, Agri-Science, or Management. Application forms arc available at agricultural agricultural retailers, the Port Perry Agricultural Agricultural Office, or by calling Monsanto Monsanto at (204) 985-1000. Klien, an exchange student from Germany. Germany. "I had an impression about how America would be from watching watching movies before I came here. I quickly learned that there were many small but important differences." Through participation in the program, program, host families get to learn about the place their student comes from, their cultural differences, geography and language. The students aged 15-18 years are expected to participate in their host families as though they were another member of the family. The students attend high school full time during their placement. Families interested in,more information information about hosting a student can contact YFU's Canadian Office in Kitchener, Ontario by calling (519) 896-2523 or in the Toronto area Keith Wick at (905) 655-4434. Work crews have been busy in Bowmanville this month laying the groundwork for a downtown park many say has been long overdue. "Rotary Park will be a badly needed showplace," says Jim Cameron, Cameron, Clarington Parks Superintendent. Superintendent. "It's meant to be a main meeting meeting area." Located at the foot of Temperance Temperance Street, at the old arena site, the new park will be within easy walking walking distance of the central shopping district and administrative buildings. A wooden bridge and staircase built this year across the Bowmanville Bowmanville Creek ravine links the residents in the south of town with the park. The park gets its name from the Rotary Club of Bowmanville, which donated the land to the municipality for a recreational park. This month the storm and sanitary sanitary sewers are being installed as are the stone foundations for buildings and curbs. Plans include public washrooms, a clock tower with a 60 foot wide pad around it for a natural skating rink, and a park pavilion. Landscaping is being contracted out by the Town and should include several gardens. The final phase of construction should be completed by fall of 1995. For those who mourn the loss of the empty field for parking, Mr. Cameron points out that there is ample ample parking in the downtown core mere blocks away. Dairy Winners from Bowmanville "Learn to Do by Doing" is the 4- H Motto and recently 95 4-H members members from Central and Eastern Ontario Ontario put the motto to practise. These 4- H members participated in the 1994 E.B.1.4-H Showcase. Members used their 4-H Beef or Dairy Calf Project to fine-tune their skills in clipping and showing, and completed quizzes and exercises to determine individual and team winners. winners. In the Dairy Section, Michael Metcalf of Bowmanville was the overall winner with the top score for quizzes and second in showmanship. The third overall winner was Donna Benschop also of Bowmanville. 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