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« 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 9, 1988 Grotto Heefelp Stmes Second Class, Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Street, Orono R»y C, Forrester, Editor The community has spoken The response to the calling of a public meeting over the proposed closing of thd Clarke Library branch in Orono certainly was such as to express great concerns and objections to such a closing in this community. community. But the battle is not won by any means and much more has to be done. The Steering Committee has set a course, the first being a meeting with the Library Board seeking their re-appraisal of the closure of the Clarke Branch and ultimately lifting this part of the consultant's recommendation recommendation out of the report. From comments to CHEX-TV by the chairman of the library board it is unlikely that such will happen and that the consultant's report will stay in tack as far as the board is concerned. If the Library Board does not bend on this recommendation then the only recourse is with council and council must be asked to inform the Board that the Clarke Library is not to close and this should be done by a resolution of council. But the Library Board is considered an autonomuous board and as we understand could reject a petition from council, if so they wished. They do, however, depend on municipal funding to operate and to proceed proceed with capital expenditures, but closing the Clarke Library is not a fund requiring undertaking. In fact as the Clarke Library property deed is held by the Library Board and not by Town of Newcastle the closure of the branch would be a source of revenue upon its public sale to the Librarv Board As stated in tne consultant's report the board does need the support support of the community, council and administration to proceed on their venture as outlined. Likewise, if the board does not bend, then residents of this area will need a strong message from council that the Clarke Library is not to close. Another feature that was brought out at the public meeting last Thursday is the fact that a Store-front library would not supply a facility to the community as does now both the Newcastle and Clarke branch. It was stated that a Store-front library would not have available resource books and would only supply fun reading. The battle is far from over but Thursday evening has certainly set the tone from this community over any possibility of the library in Orono closing. As time goes on The Meech Lake Accord agreed upon by the first Minister some 1 nine months ago has not improved in its flavour over this period of time. Baked to bring Quebec into the constitution at a great cost to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms soft links in the accord are starting to show up. The Senate proposal change is taking control away from the federal government and of late this message has made itself evident with the determination of the Senate in some of their objections to federal legislation. In most cases no one is willing to consider change, at least those in a position to make change. Only Manitoba and New Brunswick may take a stab at some form of amendments. Even!,in a federal election all three parties abide by the decision made at Meech Lake by the light of the midnight oil. The public hearings now in progress in Ontario give little hope of change coming about from this province and the result is almost a foregone conclusion. Surely more debate is needed as well as more openness from our governing bodies. KENDAL , NEWS . May tne roof above us never fall in, and may we, friends gathered below never fall out. - Gaelic toast The first week of March has been perfect winter weather, cold sunny and calm. The fields ate covered with about a foot of solid snow, perfect for hiking. On Sunday morning the choir sang "The Old Rugged Cross." # Then later we were favoured with a duet by Chad'Switzer and Miss Ann Thertell of Port Hope entitled El Shaddie (God Almighty) based on Gen. 17:1. The scripture reading was Exodus 20:1-17; 1 Cor. 1:22-25; John 2:13-22. Sermon: Stumbling Blocks. A pastoral letter to all congregations congregations concerning sexual orientation and life styles, from the United Church Moderator Dr. Anne Squire was read. Mrs. E. Foster attended church on Sunday morning at Welcome with her daughter Carolyn (Mr. ànd Mrs. Jerry Byers). In a little church hidden away in the Erin Hills, the women of the congregation were trying to encourage encourage each other to lose Weight. They were all familiar with the famous Nobel Peace Pri^e so when, they awarded a recognition to the woman who had made the best progress progress in slimming down, they called it: The No Belly Prize. Mrs. Lenora Stapleton and Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Lotikwood visited Mrs. L. Downes on Tuesday even- , ing and had dinner with the family. Miss Catherine Stewart journeyed to Scarborough on Sunday Sunday to enjoy a second birthday celebration when the family gathered at the home of her neiee Mrs. Jean Keane. The United Church Women met at the home of Mrs. Peggy Frank on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. It was a fine mild day. There were eight ladies present. Mrs. D. Youngman opened the meeting with the poem, "Spring Song" and the hymn no. 249 "Jesus Shall Reign" verses 1,3,5, followed by the Lord's Prayer. Mi's. Cathcart read the scripture Luke lQ:29-37. Roll Call: Name one problem of the African farmer. The minutes Were read by Mrs. Ann Dilks, the financial report was given by Mrs. L. Downes. We were reminded of the bean supper on March 19th in Kendal -at 5 and 7 p.m. Offering $20.00 Plans were made for our U.C.W. service May 1st. Then Mrs. A. Cathcart gave her topic .entitled Creation in Crisis: Rural Life in Canada and in Africa. 'We all know there is something seriously wrong with our economy' when good farmers can not get a fair price for their produce and ■their mo^gages are foreclosed in Saskatchewan for example. Yet in" cities like Toronto hundreds have to depend on, 'Food Banks.' Inflation is one cause. Mrs. S. Eikens had told us at our Sept. Institute Institute meeting that in 1952 when they came to Canada cornflakes were 29 cents a box, now $1.73. They have increased more than five times but potatoes are exactly the same price as in 1952. Mrs. Balas of Saskatchewan said that they bought a three ton truck in 1975 and paid $15,000, today the same truck costs $30,000. It has doubled in price. Wheat was $6.00 a bushel in 1975 now it is $3.50 a bushel. Almost half the former price. If a young farmer borrows the $30,000 to buy that truck and his grain is hit by drought, or hail or grasshopper or army worms or frost he will be unable to pay the note and lose his farm. An average of 55 farmers go bankrupt in Canada each year. The rural church needs every family. Thç young farmers around here sày "We will beat the cost-price squeeze. We will get big machinery, wc; will farm three or four farms. Then we must grow a cash crop. We'll grow corn and sell it." So we sow corn year after year. Have we ever had in our history an experience experience in monocropping, (growing (growing one crop year after year)? Around 1840 the pioneers took up land on the Great Pine Ridge north of Kendal. The great primeval forest pines were cut down and floated overseas in rafts to make the masts for the Royal Navy. Then the settlers planted wheat because it was a cash crop. It could be made into flour in the Kendal flour mill' Year after year they planted wheat. A sample was sent to Queen Victoria's Jubliee in 1897 and won First Prize. The best wheat in the British Empire. But the land was light and the wind blew it into ■ heaps, and the big rains came and gullied out gullies big enough to bury a barn. So the big families had to move out. There were ten in the Quantrill Family six went to the Prairies. There were eight boys in the Cathcart family all left Kendal but two, Robert stayed on the home place and Alien bought land on, the Sixth Line. Now the Sixth Line farmers realized that if they continued to grow grain year after year their top soil would all be washed away so they wrote to Guelph. They were advised to do two things 1. Do not plough the water course. Leave the water course in grass. 2. Rotate your crops, plant oats and grass seed so this year you will have a crop of oats next year hay and the third year pasture. This they did till the present conventional conventional farming began. Now all the field is ploughed and corn is planted. When it comes up high enough to see the rows it is sprayed with acquisene to kill all the weeds and grass. The 2nd year corn is planted and the third year also as nothing else will grow. The expert's say for every pound of corn we export we lose ten pounds of top soil. When this conventional farming began many Canadian farms had 7 feet of top soil. Now they have 7 inches. inches. When a big rain falls on seven feet of top soil (perhaps 22" in a short time) most of it goes in. When a big rain falls on 7" of top soil the result is disastrous. The time is coming in the not too distant future when we must choose. We, can't have guns and bread. Fourteen" countries of the world reported less grain in 1986 than in 1950 (Rural life in Africa later). * The meeting closed with .hymn no. 256 verse 1.' A delicious lunch was provided by Mrs. L. Downes and Mrs. P. Frank. Next meeting April 6th at the home of Mrs, A. Cathcart. (continued: George M.. Robinson from ' Voice of the. Pioneer) . 1 found him (George, Prince of Wales) very; very nice to talk to. There was no airs about him at all. On one trip we went out to a club on the St. Margaret's Bay Road, about twelve miles from Halifax. He had a little fore and after peak cap, a shooting cap with the ribbons on top, y' know. He said, "How about swappin' hats?" I said, 'You're quite welcome to this one, Sir.' I had a larger head than he had so he put newspaper in mine. And I was going around all day with this little hat on top of my head. So about six o'clock we climbed back up, and he took the reins again. He drove it out himself you see and he drove it back too. I'd be just sitting there beside him. When we got to the dockyard he says, "If it's all the same to you I'll keep your hat and you keep mine." Then he marched aboard the ship with my old straw hat on. His hat was no good to me at all.- After a heavy snowstorm, my neighbor hired a man to plow out his driveway. He cautioned the man not to throw the snow on the lawn because he didn't want to damage his small evergreens, and not to put it on the other side of the drive because the fence would break under the load. Since it's against the law to throw snow into the street, the mi ^ just what he was supposed supposed to do". My friend said that that was his problem, and wei( to work. x ~ You can imagine my neighbor's consternation - and his language - when, upon returning to a clean driveway, he opened the garage doors 'to find the snow piled to the rafters inside. Georgia Harding St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister: Organist Telephones: Rev. Fred Milnes Mr. Ross Metcalf Church 983-5502 Manse 983-5208 ORONO GATES OF PRAISE BIBLE'MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono,, Ontario In ter-Falith Full Gospel SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341, Personal Ministry Rev. 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