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4 The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, January 27, 1996 Rotary Club Hears from Public Relations Rep at St. Marys Jim Schell by Lorraine Manfredo Rotary Club members and guests heard the classification speech from Jim Schell, (public (public relations, St. Marys Cement) Cement) at their Thursday, January January 11th meeting. Mr. Schell was bom in Richmond Richmond Hill, the third eldest of nine children. He came to Bowmanville in 1972 with his wife, Pat, and their children after after establishing a varied career in accounting, sales, and computers. computers. A desire to keep up with changes in his field led Schell to take many refresher courses. He even completed a theology program at U of T and is now a lay preacher at St. Martin's Anglican Church of Courticc. Schell started his working career career in 1962 in the accounting department at American Express. Express. When that local office closed a few years later, he hitched up with a snowmobile company as credit manager. In this new job, he travelled around Canada and the United States helping set up distributorships. distributorships. Schell has vivid memories of exhilarating snowmobile races at Mosport and tracks in Northern Ontario. But in 1970, the snowmobile operation closed. Schell soon landed a job selling business machines with Olivetti. In 1974, Schell joined St. Marys. Cement in the accounting accounting department. Today, he admits he "wears a lot of hats" at the company, but if is primarily his role as public relations 'officer that keeps him in the public spotlight. St. Marys has been making concrete building materials for close to 85 years, he told fellow fellow members. The company has been quarrying quarrying limestone at the Bow manville lakeshorc site since 1967. Throughout its operations in Canada and the United Stales the company employs 2,500 workers -- 250 of them at the Bowmanville plant. The demand for Canadian limestone is strong. "The north shore of Lake Ontario has deposits deposits that can't be found anywhere anywhere in the US," says Schell. A good deal of this Canadian resource is highly sought-after for construction projects in the Chicago area and purchasers come from as far away as California. California. "We arc the only privately owned cement company in Canada - the others arc owned mainly off-shore," he noted. St. Marys estimates it will be at least 80 years before deposits deposits of the Bowmanville aggregate aggregate will be depleted. At that time, the finished quarry will be rehabilitated. The plan is to open up Lake Ontario to flood the property to create a large marina and beach park. OLDER ADULTS MEET - The Clarington Older Adult Program for independent seniors will hold its next meeting Tuesday, January 30th. It takes place at the Lions Centre, 26 Beech Ave., in Bowmanville. It will include a presentation on healthy eating for seniors at 10:15 a.m. Dietician Christina Lamothe, of Memorial Hospital Bowmanville, will make the presentation. At 1 p.m., Gail Rickard, of the Centre for Individual Studies, will discuss programs available at the school for older adults. Transportation can be arranged at a nominal cost. Lunch must be ordered in advance by Monday noon. For information, call Community Care at 623-2261. QUILT SHOW AND TEA - The UCW will host a fund-raising Quilt Show and Tea at the Orono United Church on Saturday, January 27th. It takes place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., in the basement of the Orono United Church. ANNUAL MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY - The Durham Central Agricultural society will hold its annual meeting at one p.m. in the Orono Community Centre on January 27th. Committee reports and elections will be the order of the day. Anyone with a current membership is entitled to vote. Non-members are welcome. Refreshments will be available. ROBBIE BURNS NIGHT - On January 27th, the Purple Hill L.O.L. will hold their eighth annual celebration of Scottish poet Robbie Bums. The event begins with a social hour from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. It will be followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m., at which time the haggis will be paraded into the room, accompanied by a piper. Following a roast beef dinner, there will be entertainment by the Bowmanville Legion Pipe Band and Scottish dancers, along with a dance. For tickets, call 623-3521 (7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Saturday) or 623-2405 (after four p.m. any day.) Saturday, January 27. MAYOR'S LUNCHEON PLANNED - The Oshawa and District Chamber of Commerce and the Clarington Business Group will sponsor the annual Mayor's Luncheon at the Bowmanville Recreation Complex on Tuesday, January 30. This event will take place at noon. In her annual address to ) Durham businesses, Clarington Mayor Diane Hamre will be taking an in-depth look at the fiscal realities facing Ontario municipalities. Hear how Clarington plans to deal with provincial cutbacks. The topic of the mayor's presentation will be "The Politics of Downloading." To reserve your place, please call Deborah at 728-1683. You may also fax the form which appears in an advertisement on the Lifestyles page. ANNUAL MEETING AT VISUAL ARTS CENTRE - The annual general meeting and election of officers for the Visual Arts Centre will be held Tuesday, January 30, at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is in the Visual Arts Centre, 143 Simpson Ave., Bowmanville. Margaret Rodgers, the VAC administrator, will speak on "Art at the Front: A Case Study of the Visual Arts Centre, Whitby Arts, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery." This is a paper which she presented at the Third Penn Slate Symposium on the History of Art in Education in October of last year. The public is welcome to attend. KIDNEY FOUNDATION NEEDS CANVASSERS - The Central Ontario Branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada is looking for about 100 enthusiastic volunteers in the Bowmanville area to assist with various tasks connected with the 1996 Kidney Foundation campaign. Canvassers, team leaders, and tag day volunteers are needed. For more information, please call either Joan Montgomery or Lisa Jackson at (416) 445-0373 or 1-800-387-4474. BREAST CARE PROGRAM - Free one-on-one breast self- examination sessions with a trained female health professional are being offered the last Saturday of every month at Memorial Memorial Hospital Bowmanville. Sessions are one hour long. To take advantage of this service, call the hospital's Diagnostic' Imaging Imaging Department at 623-3331, Ext. 5400. The next session is JAMES R. 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There will also be a turn-of-the-century display of folding Valentine cards from the museum's collections. The fee for the workshop will be 50 cents for seniors and children or $1 for adults. The family rate is $2. MILL GALLERY OFFERS NEW SHOW - An exhibition by Adrienne Trent entitled Cell/Mess Series opened January 14th at the Visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville. The work remains on display until February 2nd. The medium in. this exhibition is colour xerox on acetate and her subject matter combines micro-cellular images and "household mess." Over the past decade, Trent's work has been exhibited extensively within the parallel gallery system in Ontario and Quebec. The January exhibit will be followed by the Centre's twelfth annual "Winter's Harvest" show February 18 to March 8. ORGANIC FARMERS SPEAK IN PORT PERRY - The second talk in the "Scugog Green Team" series will be held Thursday, February 1st. 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