The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

2-Orono Weekly T mes, Wednesday, September 9,1987^ ©ronu Heefolp Si Publish. id Class Mail Registration Number 000368 m i Every Wednesday at ,fee officeuf Publication Main Street, vi ono . Roy Forrester. Editor It an 1 s all in y Thirty-ei; leader of the mi viricial election Thursday, Sept their decision on four years. Its a choii): 1 ty should not election in Durh turned out on v> polls recorded ticular election, tion process direction for the Provincial even though in the direction of level of govern limited without Issues as tion, health ant province and th Our gov torate, make it. ing the consider^ leader and the Participt on Thursday, because you are And jusi election day is thrn runs throi enjoy with you dur hands g ht days ago Premier David Peterson, it ority government in Ontario called a pro- and the count down to zero comes this ember 10th when the voting public makes who governs in this province for the next :e only ybu can make and this responsibili- left to someone else. In the most recent ïam East some 54 percent of the electorate >c ting day but in .the Orono area some of the only a 28 percent turn-out for that par- It does reveal a lack of interest in the elc- in helping to determine the course, of province in which we live. legislation does affect our daily lives many cases services are provided through he municipality. But even at the municipal ment operation of services would be quite the financial support of the province, the environment, transportation, educa- welfare all come under the thumb of the e list goes.on to housing, planning etc. ' ;rnment is only as good as we, the elec- It requires your vote this Thursday follow- ition of the issues, the local candidates, the ijyarty. te in your province by casting your ballot Make Ontario a better place to live . . . . involved. a reminder that Thursday although being also the opening of the Orono Fair which gh to Sunday afternoon. Its something to neighbours and friends. Kerida My bit of garden's But all the sumi I keep it colourf With flowers I seem to have grçejn I brighten up I like the good old fi And talk to tt And, best of all, p I've something nice They tell me that News nothing much, 1er through il and sweet just a few. finger^ -- so my plot, shioned blooms em a lot, ost every'day, to give away! potatoes gre a poor crop this year around here; not enough rain, so secure your supply early. Last year there was too much rain especially in the last half of September a lot of them rotted rotted before the growers could get them dug on level land. This has been a summer of record heat. All kinds of records have been broken. Sunday School begins next Sunday, Sunday, September 13th. On Sunday morning the ch'oir sang "I've got a mansion just over Sponsored by Durham Ea3t PC Association the hilltop, in that bright land where we' never grow old." The scripture readings Exodus 19:16-24 Romans 13:1-10 Matt. ■ 18:15-20, Sermon: "Standing on Sacred Ground." Plans had been made that a special guest would be there Mr. Alex Hoy. Rev. Bryan Ransom thanked him for a generous gift he had made to Kendal Church recently. recently. Since Tuesday Sept. 8th was Alex's birthday we all sang Happy Birthday. . After the service we went into the church school for a social hour. Then Alex was asked to cut the beautiful cake that had been made by his niece Mrs. Helen Wood. On it was written Happy 80th Birthday. Then pictures were taken. Other guests were Miss Hilda Sleeman, Mrs. Cbra Fallow of Whitby, and Mr. Carman Foster who is Mrs. Thelma Westlake's father. The United Church Women met at the home of Mrs. Peggy Frank on Wednesday, September 2nd at 1:30 p.m. with an attendance of fifteen. fifteen. Our president Mrs. D. Youngman read the poem The Races'of the Earth. We sang 348 "O Lord and Master of us all." Then she said, "The Bay of Quinte Conference will hold their executive meeting in Kendal United Church on October 7." We have been asked to provide the banquet at noon. So the menu was planned: meat loaf, mixed vegetables, scalloped potatoes and pie. Moved by Mrs. E. Foster sec. by Miss C. Stewart that we purchase a playpen for our nursery school, carried. carried. Mrs. F. Cathcart volunteered to purchase it. The devotional was given by Mrs. P. Frank. The scripture was Matt. 1 verses 18-25. She asked, "What can we do to make a better world?" The Prince of Peace is still the hope of the world. She spoke on "Peace". , Mrs. L. Downes read the Financial Financial report. Donations of money had been received from the Carscadden family and from Mrs.. Lenora Stapleton and family. Offering Offering $54.00. Roll Call "Tell of a pleasant memory from your summer trip or holiday. One lady said that she and' her husband took a trip to the south for a week, when they returned the family had papered and painted the kitchen. Another lady and her husband husband had gone with the Victoria Cattlemen's Association to Edmonton. Edmonton. Mrs. N. MacKenzie had gone around N. America. Miss C. Stewart introduced the speaker Dr. Norman MacKenzie. She said he had been born in China, his parents were missionaries and he had served as a missionary in China for many years and in India for twelve years. He now has a summer home in Kendal Kendal but still takes aconducted tours to China they will leave next Week ' on a tour. Dr. MacKenzie said that one quarter of the world's population was Chinese. One out of every four children born is Chinese. One lady told him that she would never travel to an uncivilized country. Why China had a wonderful civilization five thousand years ago, they could even read and write. He turned to the chart and told us that he'd show us how to write Chinese. He asked, "How many legs has a man?" Two, then this is the symbol X for a man. He explained and wrote the symbol for woman and boy. The symbol for China is most interesting. They thought the world was flat and had four corners so the wprld was a □. China was the centre of the world, so the symbol for China was Cj3. In very early times long before Amer'ca was discovered European merchants wanted tea and silk from China so they traded cotton for tea and silk. Then China learned how to grow its own cotton so they said, "We don't want your cotton." What could they sell to China? india india grew opium so the European merchants took opium to China : -.and traded it for tea and silk. The Chinese government passed h law stopping all foreign, ships from entering their ports. The opium war followed. The Chinese lost and in 1840 the western powers were given freedom of entry. Then our missionaries missionaries came in. They of course were very opposed to the terrible harm that opium was causing. In 1860 another war over opium took placé with the foreign devils as white men were called. Again China lost. Western missionaries brought in modern medicine, and began schools and colleges they also brought in better goats. Christian churches were built. Then in 1949 the Communists began to take control. control. The MacKenzies were living in Cheng-to. Word came that all missionaries missionaries must evacuate within 24 hours. The communists had surrounded surrounded their town, each adult could take 30 pounds. Mrs. MacKenzie and their little son left. Rev. N. MacKenzie and the lady doctor Dr. McTavish stayed. She felt a doctor was badly needed when so many were jvounded. Dr. MacKenzie felt he must stay to help her with the language problem. This was an extremely trying time. Would the MacKenzie family ever be reunited? Mrs. MacKenzie said, "No word was received from him for 3 years." He and Mrs. MacKenzie told us many more interesting things. Mrs. E. f oster thanked them. The meeting closed with No. 445 • "All the way my Saviour leads me." Remember Those Harvest Excursions By Frank 'Croft (Continued) ' This was threshing on à grand people -- including - westerners - know what a pike-pitcher is? He was the man who stayed at the mill all day, climbing on pne wagon àftér another as they drew up, helping helping the driver pitch off his load. The ' Stock wagon man had a, res( when going to and from the mill and often when waiting for the load ahead to be pitched off. But the spike pitcher threw bundles from sunrise to sunset. He was paid a dollar a da*y. more than the going rate and he didn't haye to bother about a team. Field pitchers were in the same class, staying out in the stock rows, helping the drivers load up. The lord of the mill was the tractor tractor man. He had engineers papers and his pay was sometimes double what the rest of us got. He twisted valves and peered at gauges and kept things humming with constant blasts of the whistle by which he called for more water, more fuel, more bundles. He 'paid for his dominance on Sundays though, when he had to make repairs, clean the flues, patch the fire clay and pamper his black monster in a dozen ways. ' The .homeward journey began for some as the thirty day minimum time, limit was up. Perhaps they found the going too tough, or the alkali water too unpalatable or they may have struck a place where the food was bad. There were such places. Two men who joined the Cypress River outfit the day before! I arrived had come over from Land- seer where they were fed on bread plum preserves and tea -- for breakfast, dinner and supper. The field snacks were bread soaked in the syrup of the preserves. They had been sleeping in a loft. Such places become chilly in October. One man slept between his horses on his last two nights. (continued) There were more candidates for the office of elder than there were vacancies so an election had to be held with secret ballotting. A little girl was by her mother's side and watched her mother mark her ballot. Afterwards she said: "Do you always vote for the man you love the most?" "Why whatever do you mean? What makes you think that?" he mother asked. "Because I saw you put a kiss by his name," the little girl said. St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Sunday Service and Church School 9:30 a.m. ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday September 13 th 12:30 Gospel Sing at Orono Fair No Service at Church September 20 11:00 a.m. Horticultural Sunday Sunday School 11:00 a.m. September 20 11:00 a.m. Stewardship Sunday • EXPLORERS Wednesday Sept. 16 Orono Church Mid-Week Fellowship Wednesday 8:00 p.m. Home of Velma Armstrong Telephone 983-5812 KJRBY UNITED CHURCH Morning Worship 9:36a.rrt. ORONO, ONTARIO 983-500ê Î.