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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 30th, 1980-7 Students from the Pines Senior Public School were consistant winners at the recent Peterborough Kiwanis Music Festival. (Back row) David Rhodes, 1st with 83 p c. in the Baritone solo division; Joy Ritchie, 1st in elementary trumpet s'olo with 81 percent; Ray Kortekaas, of Clarke High School with 92 p.c. in alto sax solo; Todd Haynes, 79 p.c. trumpet solo alsp from Clarke High; Tony Fischer, 1st with 82 p.c. in tuba solo; and Mrs. C, Prole music teacher at the Pines; (front rbw) Wade Rowley, 2nd with 87 p.c. in alto sax solo; Kelly Wilson, 1st with 88 p.c. in elementary trumpet solo; Finding and Mining Natural Gas Tricia Frank, 2nd, 86 p.c. vocal duet; Steven Orme, 3rd 85 p.c. alto sax solo; The Pines Choir won third prize in their division of the competition competition with 84 percent. Red Cross fund raising The Red Cross asks tor your financial help once a year, during its annual fund-raising campaign, But it's there to help you and others in this community every day of the year. . How do birds find their way Migration time again, and the birds that have contented ly spent their winter in the 1 tropics are becoming increasingly increasingly restless.. Somehow, the birds seem to know when the time is right to head northwards. northwards. Some experiments suggest that the lengthening of the spring days provides this trigger to migration, by affectmg the pituitary and pineal glands. But what about those birds wintering near thé equator, where . day length hadly changes? The only answer here appears to be some kind of built-in biological clock," which revs up the endocrine system of wintering birds to prepare for reproduction and migration. For most species, an ■ essential pre-migration activity is building up a thick layer of fat to provide ^energy for the long flight ahead. The actual start of migration can often be influenced by weather weather for a few days, but many species are remarkably punctual, punctual, departing and arriving almost on the same day each year. How do they find their way? Again,, there appears to be no one answer. Daytime mig- rarits are thoûght to use the sun for direction; night flyers may "use the stars. But other ' theories have been advanced as well. Some species can see ultraviolet or polarized light. Others can hear low-frequency low-frequency sounds, so that a bird flying over the Mississippi Valley might be able to simultaneously hear a thunderstorm over the Rockies Rockies and the surf on the Atlantic coast. Some scientists scientists contend that birds can tune into the Earth's magnet- ic field for direction. Other theories are not so sophisticated. Migrating birds often await favourable winds, and the passage of broad weather fronts may help the annual northward push. Or birds in flight may simply use landmarks such as coastlines, rivers, or mountain mountain chains to guide their passage, Even so, the ability of young birds to navigate successfully over unknown territory suggests that more than just the memory of landmarks is involved. Perhaps we will never really know all the secrets of migration, despite our theories theories and our experiments. Perhaps we shouldn't, for it's a little humbling to think that while we can't even manage to get a letter to the next town in less than two days, even the , smallest sparrow can return thousands of miles with an accuracy and tipieliness that should confound our beloved Post Office. Mr. Denton Massey, Science Fair. The display by science teacher at the Riries' Senior Public School along with Murray Northam display display Murray's entry in the recent Trent University Murray Northam entitled, "The Finding and Mining of Natural Gas", won honourable honourable mention at the Science Fair and will be on display at the Pines Sr. Public School throughout Open House on Wednesday, May 7th during the period of Education Week. Prints and drawings at Samuel gallery An important exhibit of John Lander prints and drawings is continuing through through May 3 at the Margot Samuel Gallery. John Lander was born in Oshawa in 1951 and is a graduate of O'Neill Collegiate. Collegiate. He moved to Toronto in 1970 when he began his education in Fine Arts at York University. Since that time he has received visual arts awards from the Ontario Arts Council and a Brucebo . Bursary in 1975 which enabled enabled the artist to study and paint in Sweden. Lander's work has been exhibited throughout Canada and is part of major, collections collections including those of the Banff School of Fine Art, Toronto Dominion Bank, McGill McGill University, Canada Permanent Permanent Trust and Oshawa's îtobert McLaughlin Gallery. The present exhibition at the Margot Samuel Gallery includes John Lander's pencil ' drawings as well as silk- screen prints. The Gallery is located at 899 Nelson Street in Oshawa and is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4:00 n.m. Town not receptive to Splash proposal A proposal from Gail Rickard Rickard of the Splash committee in Bowmanville seeking ooun- cil to agree to appoint a Community Centre Manage ment Committee was ruled out by the Social Services comtnittee of the Town of Newcastle on Monday. The Towfi was being asked to appoint the Management Committee for the purpose of organizing suitable programs for the new Fitness Centre. Director of Community Services, Services, Bud Fanning, asked if it was not the intention of the ' Town to have the recreational department operate the complex. complex. He said the department hâd files upon files pertaining to programs and felt the department was capable of running the operation. Mayor Rickard said it was not the inteht of Splash to operate the project but rather to assist the recreational, department in arranging programs. programs. He was supported in an amendment to receiving the letter for information that the director of social services liasé with Splash for whatever whatever assistance they wanted to give. Counc. Cowman presented a further amendment in that council not set up a Community Community Centre Management Committee. This was also supported by the committee. Counc. Barr said the director director should be open to base with whom- ever he wishes as to the complex and should ■ have control of the project. 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