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r rom around Two Doctors ** Honoured Two Os haw a doctors, Dr. H. . Roy Rowsell and Dr. Claude Vipond have been ^honoured with the Paul Harris Harris Fellowships awards by the Oshawa Rotary Club. The awârds, the highesi possible, have been presented in recognition of the doctors' help to people in Third World countries. Stan Lovell in presenting the awards said the two had gave of their talents in fighting disease around the world. Vipond has served in , foreign countries since 1961 , touching Malawi in Africa, St. Lucia, Haiti and serving with the East Africa Flying Doctors Corps. Rowsell has worked in isolated communities in Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador as ' well as in Nigeria, Honduras, Domipica Republic, St. Vincent's Vincent's and other areas where need existed. Fairview addition official opening Sept. After eight months of construction construction the $3 million addition addition to Fairview Lodge in Whitby is now open for residents. The official opening opening is to be held on September 7th. The new two-floor wing links two older wings and creates an inner courtyard. Fairview Lodge has 223 beds and a staff of 152 fulltime fulltime employees. Hopes to form federation Bob White, director of Canadian UAW, hopes to form a federation of a number of individual unions that would represent upwards of 300,000 union workers. White said it will not be easy but he would hope to in-. itially bring together five or six unions including the UAW, the United Steel : Workers of America and the United Rubberworkers. He said the proposal could lead to jointly bargaining and a more effective lobby on political issues. . O'Donnell heads Oshawa Hospital Marion O'Donnell is the first woman to head the Oshawa General Hospital Board and last week wps appointed appointed to the position. O'Donnell is a past chairman chairman of the Durham Board of Education and has been active active in other community services services such as the United Way, the Distress- Centre and the Red Cross. ■ * The appointment is a three year term heading a board that administers a 595-bed hospital in the City. Largest in the world Knob Hill Farms opened - the largest food terminal in the world in Oshawa last week. The expanse has amazed most shoppers who crowded to the store on opening day. LACAC asks Bowmanville Hall be preserved The Town of Newcastle has asked for a staff report as to the feasibility of declaring the Bowmanville Town Hall a historical building under the Ontario Heritage Act. The LACAC committee ,has asked that council consider consider the preservation of the building which was officially opened on February 24, 1904 at a cost of $12,306.00. LACAC'States the building is the best example of civic architecture architecture left in the Town. Support Dome Stadium in east Durham Region is expected to give support to the location location of a Dom£ Stadium in the Markham-Pickering area using lands that are presently owned by the Province of Ontario. Although Durham will not ' be making an individual presentation they intend to support à bid by Markham. The presentation will be made to a special provincial committee in September and is expected to be one of four such submissions from Toronto, Etobicoke, and Mississauga. Ajax firm to be involved Bayly Engineering Ltd. of Ajax is expected to be selected to build electrical systems for the six new frigates which have been ordered for the Canadian Government. The Ajax firm will be working on power distribu- . tiqn systems for the six frigates over a three year period starting in February of 1989., Recommend classroom rentals increase The Property and Finance Committe of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education , has recommended 1 that rentals be increased to those making use of vacant classrooms to at least cover costs. In a majority of cases for sue)) as hursery schools the' board is now charging $30.00 a month an'd in one case there .is no charge at all for a Community Community Care group. It is recommended that rentals be increased over a period of one year to reach $300.00 a month. In most cases the $30.00 charge would increase to $100.00 a month as of the first of September 1983. , The recommendation will be considered by the Board later this month. Opposed to increased fishing licence fees Outfitters in the Rice Lake area have come out strong against a proposed increase in non-resident fishing licence fees for next year. The outfitters state this will cause U.S. visitors to look elsewhere foe their fishing op- 1 ; Chicken noted for its intelligence? WOODS, WATER shaped our arrogant ap~ AND WILDLIFE prouch to the natural world by Arlin Hackman - Federa- over centuries. We have con- tion of Ontario Naturalists eeived the natural world as a hierarchy : of inter-species Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 6, 1983-5 dominance with ourselves at soon that our scientists are the top, and the entire struc- confirming that this delusion ture designed to maintain our alone sets us clearly apart position. It allows us to from the rest of the natural "reclaim" marshlands and world. "recover" mineral, deposits I don't know. Somehow I and decimate wildlife popula- can't-ever see respecting a tions with no doubt as to the chicken for its intelligence, propriety of our actions. No But then, the modern chicken delusion was ever more tragic is one, of our own brilliant and it is not a moment too 1 creations. Hmm. Conventional wisdom still has it that intelligence, as demonstrated by conscious adaptive behaviour or, learning, learning, safely separates we humans from the "lower orders" of the "animal kingdom". We fancy ourselves as evolving ever faster towards perfect rationality rationality while other sorry creatures straggle blindly into one of nature's dead ends. Well we haven't yet managed to outwit the wily cockroach. And more seriously, ethologists, the scientists who study animal behaviour, are observing enough examples of humanlike humanlike intelligence that, they are beginning to wonder if some of our winged and four- footed friends may literally have minds of their own. In other words, is it possible that other, animals can reason? Consider the humble heron. With a brain less than one-tenth the size of qurs it uses a feather as a fisherman uses a fly, dropping it qn the water with its bill, then -snatching -snatching the minnow which rises to feed. Traditionally this type of behaviour was explained explained away-as genetic programming, programming, or blind instinct. Nowadays there are just too many astounding events of this kind to be dismissed so easily, in fact, a recent conference conference in Washington, D.C. drew a host of scientists who do research on the thinking and feeling process of animals. Their stories arc of birds that bury food in hundreds hundreds of different locations and return a year later to the very same spots; of ants that gesture, demonstrating the kind of service they want their colleagues to carry out; and fish that show community community spirit by protecting the nests of unrelated fish which have' to be away from their young. One honey bee -expert, James L. Gould, reported experiments experiments in which he moved a food source progressively further from a hive and was afnazed to find that the bees bbgan to anticipate his pattern pattern of movement, arriving at the new location in advance and wailing for him. These revelations are not comforting to everyone because they challenge some cherished beliefs that have life a hoot! 133 picture perfect playgrounds for you to discover. 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