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You'll Love Shopping V-iv kJbf In the-SPof Bowmanville * Lishman Responds to Comment that "He's Out of Here" if Plan Isn't Approved Continued from Page 5 who wants to profit Iront is my home and a part of its degradation it makes me. When I see someone me very angry. Mark Send your Valentine Love & Kisses. Valentine's Day is Saturday, February 14. The HERSHEY KISSES'" Bear Bouquet from Tclcflora features a fresh Bower bouquet and a lovable, huggablc bear cradling a stuffed replica of HERSHEY KISSES® chocolates. Show how truly sweet your Valentine is. To send this charming gift almost anywhere in Canada or the U.S., just call or visit our shop. Response from Bill Lishman Dear Mark: I'm sorry you feel that way but you should check a number of facts before you become so angered. There arc businesses that do take a responsible attitude and actions toward the environment. Our business business is one of them. It is a business of mostly crafts people working with the minimum of technology in harmony and using 98% natural materials. My saying that "we arc out of here" is only' because we now have spent almost four years and a great deal of expense responsibly trying to answer everyone's concerns concerns and we cannot afford to let it drag much longer. Mark, I was raised on a farm in Pickering. My great great grandfather cleared the land. That was excellent farm land and every time I drive by and sec it covered in houses I wish it could be that lovely farm again so I understand your feelings, but the Hawke farm is an abandoned abandoned worked-oul gravel pit and what we arc planning planning in terms of building and parking area will occupy little more than 5% of the property. The rest we plan to re-forest with a variety of original tree species. We have done the same with the 100 acres we live on here at Purple Hill - when we first moved here in '73, the property was a worn out farm with many patches of blow sand and very little top soil. Today, there arc thousands of trees: Oak, Red Pine, Aspen and Maple, which •we planted. You should read about earth integrated buildings. They harm the environment environment the least. The cost of building them is at least double the cost of a con ventional box, but this type of structure does the least harm to the land and can be recycled for other uses without further damage. Our reason for wanting to build at the Hawke farm has nothing to do with saving saving money, if we had wanted wanted to do that we would have picked industrial land and built a conventional conventional energy-wasting building. I don't know how you came to the term "fair weather environmentalist". environmentalist". We actively searched for a piece of property that needed rehabilitation and it grieves me greatly to receive all this negative reaction. Please check the facts on what we arc planning planning before you gel too upset. Hill Lislunan Ontario Street P.S. News Jasmine Florists 16 Temperance Street S„ Bowmanville Olelelloni 697-0030 |fi By Mary Shrives and Monique White At Ontario Street last year, we had a big problem. problem. We couldn't do any composting at all because that year the compost bins kept breaking open and they attracted bees and wasps and got all over the ground. You arc probably ask- r TJ'S MOTORSPORT CAFE presents The Ultimate Auto Racing Corniest!!! You could win a trip for two to the "Southern 500" in Darlington, S.C. including hotel accommodations. Prizes awarded for 2nd and 3rd place plus weekly prize for top point-getter. j: Join the "Fantasy Cup" £ Nascar Challenge Only $30.00 for the year! 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They agreed to use $200 of that to do the composting and the other $300 to plant trees. The classroom pails in which the compost is put when they have compost were donated to the school by TML Industries Ltd. and organized by Suzanne Elston. The composting program program at Ontario Street (and all other schools using the composting program) program) helps to reduce the amount of garbage brought to the garbage dumps every year and Ontario Street, for all we know, helps to Iced the pigs. So, if your child's school has a composting programme, encourage him/her to use this program program to help the environment. environment. In each room we have pails to put the compost compost in. Each week children come to collect the compost. compost. In the primary halls the grade 2/3 class comes to pick up the garbage in the primary hall, and the grade 4/5 class picks it up in the junior hall. This year the grade sixes had two volleyball teams. At the inter-school tournament at BITS the girls won third place. Vincent Massey school got first place. The boys' team also played very well. In choir news, both the junior and intermediate choirs will be competing in this year's Kiwanis festival festival in April. We wish all of the members of both choirs the best of luck. We have a new French monitrice at our school named Christina Boyard to help the children in their classes with their work. We arc very grateful to have her with us at Ontario Street. This year, with the new grade sevens here at Ontario Street we will be having a separate science fair on Tuesday, March 3rd, 1998. The Primary and Junior science fair will be held on Monday, March 9th, 1998 through Wednesday, March 11 th, 1998. The Primary and Junior science fairs are not competitive, but the Intermediate science fair is competitive. The Royal Canadian Legion public speaking contests will be held soon. The children will he reading reading their speeches in their classes for the next week or so. The three divisions are the grade 2/3 do storytelling, storytelling, the grades 4/5/6 will be doing a speech. On Friday the 6th of February, 8 students from our school went to a chess tournament al M.J. Hobbs Senior Public School. The seniors were Michelle Farnousch, John Shrives, Lee Patterson and Stcfanic Virag. They placed second as a team with John finishing finishing second in the individual individual placings. The host school won. The juniors were Monique White, Cheyenne Cranncy, Billy Ballik and Martin Hcslop. Our team came third and S.T. Worden P.S. won. On January 20th, the Optimists had a dinner for children who had done lots of work for their school. Four children from our school went to the dinner to receive a certificate for their work on student council and as ' peer helpers: John Shrives, Leila Shaffaf, Jessica MacLeod, and Sarah Draper. Congratulations. 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