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V 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 6, 1983 ©rono Mleefelp Œtmes Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 • Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Stréet, Orono Roy C. Forrester, Editor , TO RIGHT TO MAKE À LIVING , The City of Oshawa through a 1951 by-law regulates the hours a gas service station may remain open during the week and allows only certain selected stations to open on Sundays. The by-law at the time of passing was a request from established service station operators and in effect reduced reduced competition throughout the service being provided. The request at the time did also receive the support of the majority of operators. Of recent weeks there has been demands for hours other than the 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday closing. closing. A few operators want to even provide service station station amenities around the clock while others now remain remain open on Sunday. The City has stated they will prosecute prosecute but over the past month have not taken such action. action. This surely will not continue and one can expect the City to enforce their by-law. The City by-law has no other reason for its existance than to protect the established operators from competitors competitors who may wish to. extend their service other than the twelve hour period. It really hampers the free enterprise enterprise system and 'binds anyone who may feel aggressive enough to promote their business, in what we call a free society, by working some hours longer. If laws can be set up to establish the hours of work it should be also reasonable for service stations to petition the City to control the cost of gas coming / from the pumps and why not because this could be a form of competition as is the extended hours. This country has just passed a Charter of Rights and surely the freedom to work in your own business beyond the forty hours a week is a right if one so desires. We rather boast in Canada that we have what we have due to the free enterprise system. But our freedoms are locked in many cases not the least being the closed Union shops. It would be interesting to see where the new charter stands as to the right to work. c WALTER PITMAN TO SPEAK AT CLARKE? Clarke High School expect to have Walter Pitman speak to the students on April 27th when the school promotes promotes their annual Open House. Pitman will speak at a student assembly. Plans are also underway for an evening evening program of events in which the school expects parents and students to be involved. TO ELECT CONVENTION DELEGATES The Durham-Northumberland Progressive Conser- vative : A$sociation are expecting a turn-out of some 400 to their meeting in which delegates to the June leadership leadership convention will be elected. The* meeting has beert set for Saturday afternoon, April 16th at 2:00 p.m. and will be held in the Clarke High School. / The meeting will elect four voting delegates and six alternatives. The Young Progressive Conservatives will elect two delegates with their meeting also being held on April 16th at 1:00 p.m. at the Clarke High School. Dr. Peter Zakarow expects a large turnout and has been reported to haye said that he expects Amway Corp agents to be on hand but knew 'of no concerted effort*by the group to elect delegates. LAWRENCE WILL MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT The Oshawa Times has reported that Allan Lawrence, M.P. for Durham-Northumberland, will announce this week if he is to be a candidate for the leadership of the Federal Progressive Conservative Party, Lawrence, who has been thought as a possible candidate, is expected to announce one way or another the first part of this week. G M employees exhibit at gallery 22 April to 1 May 1983 A variety of art work and crafts will be included in this, the ninth annual unjuried exhibition exhibition co-ordinated by the art committee of General Motors of Canada, Oshawa. Entries include paintings, sculpture, woodworking, weaving and ceramics by employees from Ontario and Quebec. The exhibition will be opened by G.M. President, Donald Hackworth, Friday evening, 22 April at 7:30 p;tn. Members and friends are in-, vited to attend the opening Letter to Editor Dear Sir; It would be appreciated if you would print the following letter for me. 1 am attempting to trace the family and believe there may be persons in the area who could supply the vital details. I thank you for your co-operation. Is Adna Bates (born in Upper Upper Canada 1807) who farmed farmed in Clarke Township on your family tree? If so, I would very much like to contact contact you in the matter of our family history. Adna Bates' daughter, Lurenia, married William A. Harrison in the township and moved to the Goderich area in 1859. Other known children from the marriage of Adna and Maria Bates were Margaret Stoddard (Stodard) and Helena. Maria Bates was also born in Upper Canada and like her husband was a member of the Wesleyan- Methodist Faith. If you have any knowledge of this family or are a descendant descendant of any one of them would you please be so kind as to acknowledge this letter. Cordially yours, Carol Steyn, Joan van den Broeck P.O.Box 1021, Tilbury, Ontario NOP 2L0 Student Art at McLaughlin Gallery Over six hundred pieces of art work produced over the past year by students of the Durham Region Separate Schools will be on display at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa from the 7th to the 19th of April 1983. The theme, Flowers in Our Garden, will tie together two and three dimensional works by youngsters from kindergarten to Grade 13. This is a bi-annual exhibition of student art. Alternate years are set aside for both the, Durham Board of Education Education and the Durham Region Separate School Board. An opening will be held on Sunday, Sunday, the 10th of April at 3:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. Teachers wishing to book school' tours for their students are advised to call Marg Jackson - 576-3000, as soon as possible. and meet the artists who will be present. Demonstrations of work- in-progress will be on view Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and evening, and Sunday afternoon after the opening. Gallery hours have been extended for the opening weekend of the exhibit,- Friday Friday evening and Saturday to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Kendal News All flowers speak a language, Each one in it's own way, But only the pure, white lily Could speak for Easter Day. God gave the lily majesty, So regal and so tall; It stands among the flowers The purest of them all. When our dear Lord came down to earth, To share our human lot, He used the lilies of the field In parables He taught. And so we choose the lilies Our altars to adorn, To bring the Saviour's message Once more this Easter Morn. Beatrice Telfer On Easter Sunday, April the third it was a surprise to awaken to the ground covered with snow and underneath slush. One needed needed rubbers or overshoes to wade through it. In fact as one looked over the attendance attendance at church winter coats were more in evidence than Easter bonnets. We enjoyed a solo entitled "I Believe", by Patricia Frank accompanied by Mrs. K. Wood. Reverand A. Tiz- zard entitled his sermon "Up , and gone." It was a fine message especially suited to the young folks who became church members one week ago. They came back into the church after their attendance was recorded to hear the message and take part in the sacrament of the Lord's supper. supper. The scripture reading was St. Matthew 28: 1-10. . We were pleased to have ,i two of those who had surgery back to worship with us namely Mrs. R. Frank and Mrs. M, Carscadden. Most of you are familiar with the poetry of Edna Jaques. Jaques. This is what she tells about her childhood. Looking back across the years of my lifetime I always seem to think that the year 1900 (the turn of the century) was also the turning of a new page in the history of the world. People born before that are different from the race who date their birthday after 1900 as different as day is from night, almost. We think differently, our ways of living are different. We belong to the unhurried times, the quiet ways of life. When I was a little girl there were no cars or radios. Telephones were just coming in, electric lights were few and far between. There were no neon signs, no street cars, no trucks bearing down upon us as we paddled barefoot in the white dust of the road, leaving footprints there like the webbed prints of sparrows sparrows on new fallen snow. We walked to church sedately beside our grandmother grandmother and felt /somehow in our childish hearts that here was dignity and grace and we too stepped proudly, in our dimity dresses and leghorn , hats trimmed with forget-me- • nots and 'blue ribbon. Candies were still 'a rare treat, no counters lined with them tempting the ni'ckels out of our pocket, lndeçd these were no nickels in them, just now and then a smooth brown cent, if we were lucky and had been good for a week. Our mothers had time for us in those far off days, time to take us on little picnics to the Pretty,River near Coll- ingwood or out to Smart's berry farm, or to visit a friend on another street ' where she used to live. She had time to sing with us and laugh at thé first snowflakes tumbling out of a December sky, time to comfort comfort us when we were hurt or felt sorry for. ourselves, time to "mother" us in the happiest happiest sense of the word. We too had time for things. No one was pushing us around and teaching us new ways to amuse ourselves. We took care of that with no help from anyone. Didn't we have a large back yard to dig in, a board fence to walk, a dozen trees with inviting branches to climb into, a little creek to fish for minnows in, a lawn to roll on, and at last when dust settled, over the sleepy town, a home to come into with a mother ever ready to read us a story for she always had a book on the go and always left it in the most exciting place you could imagine- imagine- Little things meant much in those days. Christmas was a simple day that began in the dark of the morning with the opening of our stockings -with an orange in the toe, a few nuts, a paper of dried raisins, and .maybe a toy, just one', for how could Santa bring'môre bring' môre when he had a whole world of little boys and girls to remember. There was the big family dinner at my grandmother's, everyone in festive mood, happiness that needed no liquor, liquor, to hearten it along, laughtjèr "was clean and wholesome and the only after effects of -Christmas was another memory to store in , the bottom of our hearts. But âfter the run of the twentieth century the wheels of fate began to turn with lightning speed. Automobiles were invented with all their noisy family. Trucks and buses demanding super highways. Two brothers on the Atlantic Atlantic seaboard had made their first world-shaking . flight. Men scoffed at the rickety little little machine: that swerved ar wavered and almost tumV. upside down. But the air was shortly to become the servant of man, ah age old dream had become à reality and now they fly them faster than the speed of sound. Telephones began to be common and radios came along to shatter distance and make the world a little neighbourhood where one could whisper and be heard around the earth in the twinkling of an eye. Now we have television and flying saucers and Heaven knows what new wonder will burst upon us next. Mrs. E. Foster, Mrs. J. Jackson, Miss C. Stewart, Mrs. A. Cathcart and Mrs. Arthur Thompson attended the Good Friday seryice at Newtonville to hear the guest speaker Mrs. M. Schamerhorn of Bowman- ville, * St. Saviours ANGLICAN CHURCH Orono, Ontario Regular Sunday Worahlp Service • 9:46 a.m. Rev. Allan Haldenby B-A.L Th. United Church Oron* Pastoral • Charge IJBhMj Minister Rev. VlW Wayne Wright, B.A., M. Dlv. SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1983 Orono United Church Church School 11:15 a.m. Morning Worship 11:15 a.m. Kirby United Church Church-School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 9:45 a.m. A. St ult's P h a r m a c ij MAIN ST., PHONO.. ONT. 983-5009 J. H. STUT1 ■' - E. j| SHUT