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Block Parent Week observed October 20-26 ' The "Block Parent Program has good reason to celebrate during Nation Nation Block Parent Week, October 20 to 26. At its most recent meeting, the Block Parent Program of Canada announced that over One Million people across the country are participating participating in this safety and crime prevention program. . "BE ONE IN A MILLION" is the National theme for Block Parent Week. Throughout Canada, .in every province and territory, residents of more than 300,(XX) homes recognize the benefits of having this volunteer organization in their communities. Most people know about the basics of the Block Parent Program. Program. But, the big questions often asked are: "Does it work?", "Who uses it?" and "What kinds of incidents incidents are Block Parents ihvolved in?". The Board of Directors of the Ontario Block Parent Program Inc., conducted a survey of their member programs to,find out. The results verified what organizers of the Program have known all along. The BLOCK PARENT PROGRAM'WORKS'and PROGRAM'WORKS'and people of all ages use it. Incidents reported in the survey ranged from a child, little more than an infant, who had 'escaped' from its home and was found wandering along the street in a new housing development and who was taken to a Block Parent home, to the 76 year old gentleman who became dizzy and fainted while out for a walk. He went to a Block Parent Home and asked that a family member be called. He was picked up and taken to hospital where he had a heart attack. He has since made a full recovery. The largest age group using Block - Parents proved to be 5 to 13 year olds. Incidents of bullying were the Help available for small businesses at College If you are a small business operator and are interested in increasing increasing your profits, then help is available. The Innovation Services Institute of Durham College has introduced introduced a unique program to help you reach the goals that you have set for your business. ' The small business segment of .our economy is facing a most difficult difficult challenge. Costs are high, competition is mote intense, and most importantly, a good idea or knowledge of a specific field is no longer a sufficient base to guarantee that a business venture will succeed. The small business operator must be able to secure, either through education or other resources, the necessary business skills to insure that his or her firm has a sound operable business plan for success. The goal of Durham College's Small Business Management Program Program is to assist your business in improving improving operational effectiveness. It is hoped that the participants will benefit in the following ways: The entrepreneur's knowledge and understanding of the economic and business principles upon which sound business decision are based will be increased. The entrepreneur's ability to effectively effectively utilize the decision-making, process in the management of his or her business will be enhanced. 1 The entrepreneur's ability to adapt his or her business to change in response to predicted business trends will be improved. The businessperson's knowledge of the technical aspects of his or her business operation will be increas-' ed. The entrepreneur's skills in performing performing the functions of management management and business operations will be improved. The entrepreneur's ability to recognize the use and values of auxiliary auxiliary services and agencies in the operation and management of his or her business will be helped. There will be increasing interest in the total welfare of the community community and increasing civic responsibility. responsibility. • The Small Business Management Program is not* the 1 traditional academic approach. Classroom instruction instruction is offered once per month, * emphasizing management techniques techniques or procedures that have application application to all participants. More importantly, individual instruction at your business location is scheduled scheduled once each month. This activity allows the instructor an opportunity to relate the classroom instruction directly to the 1 student's business, and to deal with problems that are 'unique" to the specific business. Class members will place a very jjigh value on this individual assistance. The program focuses on an adult population of self-employed entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and places a strong emphasis emphasis on productivity. How do you make a worker more productive? You make a self-employed worker more productive by focusing his/her attention on the more efficient efficient usç of human and material resources through effective management. These are precisely the objectives of the Small Business Management Program. By contacting Woody Manery at The Federation of Ontario Naturalists biggest single type of incidents reported, followed by bicycle accidents. accidents. Children also; reported being followed by cars and being asked to come into cars or homes of strangers. As well they reported fires and asked for shelter from bad ■ storms. A seventeen year old boy went to - a Block Parent . home asking for help because he was being beaten- up by two others while walking home from a. party at 1:00 a.m. Children and adults asked for directions and assistance because of sudden illness, accidents or vehicle breakdowns. , Although originally formed to help prevent child molestings and abductions, the Block Parent Program Program has grown and expanded since its inception in London, Ontario in 1968. Today in 550 Ontario communities, communities, residents of over 100,000 homes are Block Parents. Across Canada the familiar red and white sign is displayed in the windows of more than 300,000 homes designating them as places of temporary temporary safety and protection for anyone needing the help a Block Parent can and will provide. One Million people showing their concern for the safety of others. One Million people willing to help your child or you. Onê Million people helping to make (heir street, their neighbourhood and their community community a safer one. Each of them is "One in a Million". During Block Parent Week, October October 20-26, call your nearest Police Force or elementary school for the contact person in your community. Be a Block Parent. "Be One in a Million". FON Conservation Centre, Moatfield Park 355 l-esmill Hoad, Don Mills, Ontario, M3B 2W8 Phone; (416) 444 8419 \ WOODS, WATER AND WILDLIFE By Mike Singleton Logerhead Shrikes In Trouble It's a sight that makes you wince, then stare with fascination. Before you stands a craggy hawthorn, "decorated" as though for Christmas. But on closer inspection, inspection, the 'ornaments' are meadow voles and mice, impaled on 5 cm. thorns. Nearby, another hangs, impaled impaled on barbed wire. Shrikes are a group of intriguing, predatory birds, responsible for these decorations, most often seen in fall or winter. Like hawks and owls, they feed on mice, occasional small birds and even large insects. But unlike hawks and owls, they're song birds, with weak robin-like feet suitable for perching but not grasping. So they can't pick up prey in talons, or hold it there while it's eaten. Instead, shrikes have a heavy, hooked beak, which they use first to stun and then to pick up their struggling struggling prey. More elaborate fhan the hawk's beak, the shrike's has a notch which helps to hold the prey while it is carried to a nearby thorn (or wire barb) and impaled- It's prey transfixed, the shrike can tear the animal into bite-sized pieces. (Birds lack teeth and don't chew their prey.) If prey is abundant, the shrike may have several mice impaled, impaled, like frozen larders, awaiting the bird's needs. Shrikes are easily recognized. In addition to the bill, they're black and white, vaguely resembling a grey jay or robin in size and build. A stark-black mask, wings and tail contrast with the even-grey above and white below. There are actually two different shrikes in Canada, both of which enter Ontario - but only at different times of the year. The Northern Shrike breeds in a belt approximately approximately along the treeline from northern Manitoba to B.C., and across northern northern Quebec and Labrador. It winters in agricultural Ontario, along shrubby and treed fence rows whiçh provide both cover and lookout perches to survey the mouse-rich fields alongside. The other is the Loggerhead shrike - a slightly smaller version of the Northern Northern - which summer-breeds in those same southern Ontario fence rows, and winters in the central and southern U.S. Neither shrike was very particularly particularly abundant, but both played a valuable role in controlling pests, and could be readily located. Fifteen years ago, the loggerhead was in good shape, breeding fairly commonly wherever borderline agricultural land was allowed to go fallow and grow into an "old field" combination of grasses, herbaceous vegetation and hawthorn or apple. It was particularly common across the edge of the shield, in a broad belt through Orillia, Peterborough, Madoc, Westport and Belleville. Pockets also occurred - notably the Ottawa Valley. For some reason that we still don't understand, the loggerhead began a precipitous decline about* a , decade ago. This has been well documented by the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas project of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists Durham College, you can leârn the details of this exciting program. Woody would be,glad tofaddress any group concerning this program or the other services offered" by the Innovation Services Institute. Durham College is located at P.Ô. Box 385, 2000 SimcOe St, N. Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7L7. The phqne number is'(416) 576-0210, extension extension 479. (FON). Conducted in cooperation with the Long Point Bird Observatory, Observatory, it has involved over 1,800 volunteers and 100,000 hours of field research, to provide detailed information toward conservation. Through this intensive work, estimates put the 1983 population at 50-100 pairs. By 1986, the estimate was down to half that, or less. There has been speculation that changing pesticides might be the Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 22, 1986-7 ' ' culprit. Loggerheads act as bioac- cumulators, feed on mice in the fields when pesticides are applied, and move south to feed on more mice in other fields during our winter. Northerns (which appear to be doing alright) only feed near agriculture for part of the year, and then only in winter (by which time many pesticides have broken down.) The FON is trying to encourage analysis. If it is a pesticide problem, the shrike may be an early warning indicator (like Bald Eagles - DDT and Gulls - PCBs) of imminent problems; problems; for other creatures, and the ecosystem upon which we all depend. depend. Newcastle Hydro-Electric Commission ■ TENDER " Sealed Tenders/clearly marked as to the contents are being received by Newcastle Hydro-Electric Commission Commission for. the purpose of snow clearing maintenance for the 1986/87 season of their Office/Warehouse Complex, corner of No. 2 Highway and Lamb's Road, in the Town of Newcastle. Address all correspondence to the Attention of - M.J. Watson, P.O. Box No. 130, Bowmanville, On- tarip. L1C 3K9. Tender closes 4:00 p.m. November 12, 1986. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. ■ ^ M J. 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