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Page 8 The Clarington/Courticc Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, July 18,1998 Lake Scugog Regatta Celebrates 70 Years ï ' rjiim . <v/ iM Downtown Auction Raises Almost $2,000 for Hospital Shirley Robson (right), Vice President of the Memorial Hospital Foundation, accepts a cheque from Lori Allin who made a donation to the Foundation op behalf of the Downtown Bowmanville Business Improvement Area (DBIA) on July 9. The funds -- amounting to $1,850 -- were raised during an auction held at the recent Fabulous Fifties Sidewalk Sale in downtown Bowmanville. New Kit Provides Early Warning On Zebra Mussels A new warning kit is available to waterfront residents residents and cottagers to determine if the dreaded zebra mussel has invaded their lake. The kit will help scientists track the spread of the destructive mollusc and aid home owners in protecting their property from damage caused by zebra mussels. Zebra mussels, transported transported in the ballast water of ocean going ships, were first spotted in Lake St. Clair in 1988. Since the zebra mussel has few natural natural enemies in. North-.. American waters, their numbers have exploded in a relatively short time. In just a decade they have managed to invade all of the Great Lakes as well as several inland waterways. A tenacious filter feeder, feeder, the zebra mussel removes from the water 1 the tiny plant and animal life called plankton. The huge numbers of mussels have drastically altered lake ecosystems by increasing water clarity and outcompcting native species for food and habitat. habitat. The mussels seek out water intake pipes, dam structures and even boat motor intakes. In one case in 1989, the Lake Erie community of Monroe, Michigan, lost its water supply due to mussels clogging water intake equipment. Damage caused by the striped invader is estimated at more than $69 million and climbing. "Currently there is no active monitoring program for zebra mussels in Ontario, and, due to dwindling dwindling funding, we must rely on volunteers," said Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Invading Species Program Liaison Francine MacDonald. "By increasing increasing awareness and understanding understanding about zebra mussels mussels we can improve our efforts to prevent their spread to other bodies of water," she added. The specialized kits contain a plankton- net, sample bottles, wash' bottles, bottles, a depth contour map of the subject lake, thermometer thermometer and explanatory video and manual. Volunteers traverse their lake taking water samples with the plankton net. The samples are analysed by the O.F.A.H. to determine if the immature zebra mussel mussel "veligers" are present in the water. If zebra mussels mussels are detected, the O.F.A.H. will advise affected communities immediately. Sponsoring this important important O.F.A.H. initiative are the Ministry of Natural Resources, Shell Environmental Fund, the Federation of Cottagers' Associations and Ontario Hydro. The O.F.A.H. has been very active in controlling the spread of zebra mussels mussels and other invading species such as purple loosestrife, sea lamprey, round goby, spiny water flea and ruffe. The O.F.A.H. frequently sends out information advisories and, as Ontario's largest conservation organization, it is a partner with the Ministry of Natural Resources in running the province's only toll free Invading Species Hotline at 1-800-563-7711. by Joyce Kelly The Lake Scugog Regatta will be held this year on August 1,2 and 3. This event will be celebrating seventy • years as it began in 1928. Do mark your calendar so that you will take in at least some of the many activities connected connected to the Regatta. Blackstock Fair Prize lists arc now ready and can be picked up at the home of the secretary Janice Bccchey if you live in the Blackstock area. The Richard VanCamp family certainly had a very busy weekend. On Friday evening a large crowd attended'the Come and Go Tea in honour of bride-to-be Jill VanCamp. An entertaining entertaining programme was M.C.'d by Merrill VanCamp. On Saturday morning Ailcen VanCamp hosted a VanCamp family shower when many members of the clan gathered for a visit and to present best wishes to Jill along with more place settings settings of her china. This china will be delivered to her new home in Bermuda which avoids the problem of transporting transporting it there. On Saturday evening Ruby and Richard hosted a surprise Retirement Dinner in honour of Doreen VanCamp who has recently retired from "active Ministry with the United Church. Congratulations to Christa Jamieson who graduated graduated from Humber College in the Social Work programme. programme. Best wishes to you. Congratulations to Ivan and Sondra Duivcstyn on the arrival of a new baby boy on Sunday morning. No doubt grandparents Margaret and Tony will be looking very pleased with a new addition to the family tree. Better health is wished for Eldon Fee who has been under the doctor's care for several weeks now. About 50 friends and relatives relatives enjoyed a hot afternoon afternoon at the home of Nancy and Bob Bryans, Cadmus by the pond for a Bryans family picnic. The children of the late Jim and Ina Bryans of Courtice and celebrating Blackstock News brother Bill and Orlce Bryans of Fcnclon Falls 50th wedding anniversary as a surprise. Family members were present front Lions Head, Kanata, Haliburton, Fcnclon Falls, Cameron, Osltawa and surrounding areas. On Sunday _ afternoon Harvey and Joan Graham, Gerald and Joyce Kelly, Cheryl Graham attended a Graham family picnic at the home of Esther and Francis Peelers of Fcsscrton. Other members of the family from Lake Dalrymplc, Lindsay and Orricmce attended this happy event. . Dave and Ingrid Larntcr attended their 20 year Reunion of their class from Guelph University. Many plans arc being made for the 125 annual Worry picnic which will be held in Blackstock next Saturday, July 18. For further further details contact Glenn and Marian Larntcr at 986- 4257 or any member of the Worry connection. There were eleven tables at the weekly card party with the following winners - Doris Hill, Marie Gibson, Elaine Bailey, Richard Potter, Merv Storrie, Verna Robinson and Alma Manns. Lucky draws were won by Joan Sutcliffe, Vera Fawns, Gary Nottcnboom, Les Johnson, Verna Robinson and Lyle McMahon. Federated Women's Institute of Ontario Conference - 98 by Dora Martyn, District P.R.O. What a wonderful conference. conference. Everything was well planned. Loyalist College proved to be a perfect place for the conference in Belleville on July 3, 4 and 5. The theme was "Today's Family Shaping Tomorrow's World". The opening ceremonies began at 7:30 p.m. with the Institute Ode and the Mary Stewart Collect. The parade of Hags was impressive followed followed by the singing of "O' Canada". A fonnal welcome was issued by the college President Doug Auld, Warden of Hastings County Albert Vadcr and the Minister of Agriculture the Hon. Lyle Vanclicf. A variety of workshops were held along with panels. Following a delicious roast beef dinner, Saturday the evening speaker was Maud Barlow, a political activist, author, critic and outspoken crusader for Canada. She was certainly a dynamic speaker. Entertainment by the Maundcll Family followed. followed. Sunday morning we enjoyed an address by Roy Bonistccl. What a speaker! He told of his boyhood in the Quinte area and that his mother had been a Women's Institute member. After the service Maud Barlow returned to throw out the challenge to deal with "Economic Globalization". She said that we arc the most highly educated but politically politically illiterate people of the world. Slop the erosion of social programmes, battle the emissions from toxic waste and find out how we can all work together to combat economic globalization. globalization. That was her challenge to the Institute women of the world. Make sure you attend the next Ontario convention in two year's time in 2000. As you know the World Institute Convention meets every 3 years and will be in Hamilton, Ontario in 2001. St. John's News by Colin Beal On Sunday, July 12th, at St. John's Father Hugh baptized baptized and received into the church, Jason David Thompson. Jason is the son of Nancy and David Thompson and grandson of Marjorie and Don Green and of Dianne and Kelsey Thompson. Following the service, at coffee-time, the grandparents grandparents were featured in the musical greetings since Marjorie and Don arc celebrating celebrating their 35th wedding annivcrsaiy this week. Don has just celebrated a birthday and Dianne Thompson is celebrating a birthday too; with Jason's Baptism in for good measure, things arc pretty hectic at the Green home this week-end. But the Greens and Thompsons didn't didn't get all the attention, for Kerry Umphrcy was also saluted musically since he too has just celebrated a birthday and, to push the coincidences coincidences a bit further, it was on the same day as Don's! Congratulations to Olive Grtincrt, a well know parishioner parishioner and frequent contributor contributor to our church newsletter, Sharing and Caring. The current current issue of "The Anglican", the Toronto diocesan newspaper, newspaper, carried an article written written by Olive which had been published earlier this year in Sharing and Caring. Nancy Bongard now has the reserved tickets for all those who signed up for the matinee performance of Anne of Green Gables on July 28th at Sutton's Red Barn Theatre. If there arc other people who would like to join our group they arc more than welcome, however however they will have to handle their own ticketing. The next Seniors' Luncheon at St. John's will be on August 6th at noon. If you plan to attend, please phone the church office (986-0557)...it is really helpful to know how many will attend in order that enough food is available. If you will need a ride to the luncheon, please phone the church office. There is an answering machine so you may leave messages. Again, in August, St. John's will have a booth at the Blackstock Fair. We will again be in the fair building between the. hall and the arena. Looking a little further ahead, this year's Memorial Service will be held during the afternoon of Sunday, September 13th. The guest speaker will be Reverend Susan Sheen, Trent Has New President Trent University's new president and vice-chancellor Bonnie Patterson, vice-president academic and provost Graham Taylor and vice-president administration Sally Young assumed office July 1,1998 following a year of interim administration administration led by former Queen's Principal David Smith. Continuing with the senior team will be Colin Taylor as dean of arts and science after serving as interim dean for the past year; Paul Mealy, dean of research and graduate studies; and Susan Macklc, vice-president advancement. "I'm looking forward to joining the Trent community, participating participating in the broader Peterborough community and becoming becoming much more familiar with the area over the summer," says Patterson, who relocates to the area this month. She will be Trent's sixth, and first female, president. 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