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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 4, 1987-5 Competing in Eastern Ontario Interclub Sectionals Two young skaters from the Orono Club are ready to win the hearts and votes -of judges in the Eastern Ontario Interclub Sectionals Sectionals being held in Brockville. The meet is being held on Macrh 7th and 8th. Pictured above (left to right) Melissa Colville who will be com- t in the Preliminary class while Fames competes in the Prc- The best of luck. 'Violence in Media' PD day topic Speaking to* primary teachers and administrative staff of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education, Maude Barlow, said, we are a society that doesn't like its kids very much. She was speaking on the topic of "Violence in the Media" at a Professional Development Development Day recently. Barlow was at one time an adviser adviser on women's issue to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and was involved in founding the Canadian Canadian Coalition Against Media Pornography. Pornography. She said current concerns and problems encountered with students by teachers involve rape, robbery, assault, suicide, abortion and bom bing. She said in 1V4U me issues involved involved running in the halls and chewing gum. < Barlow spoke of the increase of violence in the media and the image portrayed of women. Using the U.S. National Coalition Coalition Against Violence in Television statistics she said every five minutes there is an act of violence, every eight minutes an assault and every two. and a half hours there is a murder shown on television. The speaker said children spend twice as much time before television than they spend in school and by the time they are 18 they will have seen 28,000 violent deaths.. She also said sexual violence doubles every year and that pornography pornography has developed into a $50 billion industry. If we have free trade with the U.S. pornography will increase stating that in the U.S. there are 50,000 pornography titles in print. The speaker then presented a 30-minute video which was viewed by the 300 in attendance. It has been reported that after 15 minutes of the video showing' people people felt uneasy and began to leave. Here Barlow said everything shown had been passed by the censors and was particularly ■ popular with the kids. Barlow said, "You haven't seen anything yet, this is mainstream," The video showing was cut short and Barlow commented that when it started the imagery was soft. She said the audience had become tense as the video continued and if they had seen the video to the end the local audience would have been numb. Barlow stated that the women's teachers' federation and the separate schools were taking a strong stand against violence in the media. She suggested that when a televi sion program is seen as violent or pornographic the viewer should phone or write the television station. station. She said one call to the CBC is equal to 300 who have the same opinion. opinion. "Don't blame the kids", she. said, "they didn't make the films." Barlow said such violence must be dealth with in the classroom through a form of media literacy and she further suggested that teachers' get more involved in making making statements and writing to their members of parliament. "We have set a time bomb," she said. 40 TEMEPERANGE CTP.EET BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO 1987 The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE INTERIM TAX BILLS The 1987 Interim Tax'Bills have now been mailed to all ratepayers and are payable as follows: REALTY AND BUSINESS TAX 1st Installment PAYABLE March 9,1987 2nd Installment PAYABLE April 30, 1987 Pay Promptly to Avoid Penalty If you have not received your Interim Tax Bill, please telephone the Municipal Tax Offibe at 623-3379. 1987 Taxes are PAYABLE ONLY at the locations detailed on thé Tax Bill. Failure to receive a Tax Bill does not .eliminate the, responsibility for the payment of taxes or penalty. R.C. Bryden, Tax Collector Date of Publication: March 4, 1987 P.O. No. A1723 Orono Novice B lose out to Millbrook last round Manvers Tournament Orono 4 - Cannington 1, On Saturday, February 28th the ' Holiday Juice Novice "B's" took part in a tournament at Manvers. In our first game we came up against Cannington at 9:00 a.in. The Juicers were a little slow at the beginning of the period but part way through we pulled out of it then at the 3:00 minute mark Bryan Haines put' in our first goal unassisted. At 1:50 Cannington came back to tie it up. David Swan put us back in the lead again at 9:38 , of the second on a pass from Marc David. The Juicers put in two more in the third, both by Scott MacDonald MacDonald for Orono. Special mention to - Owen Taylor, Tomas Wakefield, Amanda Haines, Wade Peacock, Ryan Winning, Danny Buttigieg, Jonathan Noble and Brian Hogenhout for their efforts in helping win the game. Orono 1 - Kingsview (Oshawa) 7 In our second game of the day we came up against Kingsview, an entry entry from Oshawa. The Juicers just couldn't seem to get anything going in their favour at all the first period. Kingsview put in two in the first before Orono finally got on the board at 7:56 of the second when Bryan Haines tipped in Wade * Peacock's pass. The opposition put in f more unanswered goals, one , i in k_ second and four in the third. ' We are on the consolation side of the tournament coming up against Millbrook in our final game of the day. ' ■ Orono 1 - Millbrook 4 At 3:00 p.m. we took to the ice against Millbrook for the consolation consolation round. Just thirty seconds into the first period Millbrook opened their books. They added one more ill the first and anpthen in tft,e second second before Bryan Haines finally lit up the Juicers side of the board, the assist "went to Tomas Wakefield. Millbrook managed one more before the buzzer went signalling the end of the game. Roughley Tykes (Continued Ban page 4) wrestling losses. This night of Civic Mania was the most appropriate place to draw the winning ticket for the Grocery Hamper...and the winner was: K.Ci Hutton of Lakehurst, grandfather of ticket seller Michael Hutton. Special thanks go to the organizers of this most successful fundraiser, drink manager "Elizabeth" Bette Sawyer and "Fabulous , Mullah" Val Witheridge. Thanks go also to all the friencjs of the Orono Tykes who supported' the team in its effort to raise funds. Employers We'll pay you $ 1.25 an hour to hire a young person in a new job this summer. ASKUS! CALLTHE HOTLINE 1-800-387-1290 IN TORONTO CALL 585-7399 .. 1 . ® Ontario Ministry of Skills Development Minister, Hon. Gregory Sorbara , Premier, Hon. David Peterson