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2-Ororio Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 6, 1988 / -..iiiiiiiil i I <Prtmo Wittldv Stmesi Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication ' I Main Street, Orono Roy C. Forrester, Editor - • fk - - mgj Problems erupt Almost everywhere one turns to-day they are facing another problem that defies àn economy that is buoyant in this country and especially in Ontario and the list of problems facing the government and society is ever mounting. Money is not the problem but the division of wealth, in many cases, indeed is the problem. Look around. There is a critical housing shortage especially for those in a low income bracket but on the other hand the sale price of homes, for those who can afford it, have increased by some 10 percent in March alone. We read of problems in the health care system again with overcrowding and rising costs. What about education and the many recommendations to put a fix on what is regarded in some reports as out of touch and possibly tired. Add to this the environment, the reaching of the eleventh hour as described by a federal house committee. How close is this nation, this region and the world as to the disposition of the problem of waste. This rubber ball, as is most evident in this area, bounces from one corner to another, with no real solution of any magnitude coming forth. The judicial system, overworked, underpaid and as such likely not always operating in the benefit of the general public. Some of these problems were not without warning. The aging society was well known to present new demands on a health care system which never really has been provided for. The garbage problem has been considered for years and yet where are we today in mastering our waste. Another study is not going to solve any of the problems without that it be backed by a political commitment for new ventures ventures and solutions. These political commitments cannot be destroyed, as they often are, by minority pressure interests, often to the detriment of the whole of society. And society itself must play its part picking up the slack that now clutters the educational system as it goes beyond its intended intended purpose and is expected to bring light to social ills. The question can be asked, would society support political commitment. commitment. If we may use as an example, the extending of funding for the separate school system and the intended sharing of existing existing facilities and services it becomes apparent that society is not prepared to work together. Across this province public boards and separate boards are at loggerheads over the use of facilities and one displays no more co-operation than the other. And this all takes place while the education of kids suffer. The most recent display of unco-operative action comes when the Peel Board of Education considers the refusal to hire teachers who direct their educational tax to the separate school system. Also operating in the Peel Region is the separate school board that asks their teachers on employment what religion they are and if their taxes are directed to the separate school system. There is a need «for political will but also a need for a social conscience, Orono Steward's Spring Supper- Tyesday, April 19 at 6:00 p.m. * Tickets phone 786-2425 Recycling (Continued from page 1) ing use of the program. , It is noted that such items as egg cartons, pizza boxes, plate glass and ceramics are not as yet suitable for recycling. Glenda Gies said the Recycling Centre is gettipg used to its increased increased volume and soon all problems should^be ironed out. The Centre is to extend the program program to Scugog and Uxbridge in the near future. Cavalcade (Continued from page 1) nuclear fuel cycle-from uranium mining and processing, to the KENDAL NEWS The Miracles of Easter The sleeping earth awakens, The robins start to sing, 1 lie I lowers open wide t heir eyes A ml tell us it is spring. ! lie bleakness of the Winter I mi lted In the sun, 1 he 11re iii.ii looked so stark and storage of spent nuclëâr fuel rods, to the transport q'f radioactive wastes", states a " letter from Nuclear Awareness. , The group points out that a recent recent all-party Commons Committee report on high-level nuclear waste, entitled "The Leventh Hour", recommends a moratorium op new ' nucleur_pow£t plants in Canada uadi uadi Canadian can agree on an acceptable acceptable solution for the safe disposal of nuclear waste. It is stated that many countries, including including Sweden, are already phasing out nuclear power because it's uneconomical and so many people have spoken out against it. The Durham Nuclear Awareness group ask help in the motorcade on Saturday as well as the assembly at the Darlington plant when Bob Rae is present at 4:45 p.m. They also ask that concerned .citizens write their local M.P.P. and M.P. Becomes a living one... These Miracles of Easter, Wrought with divine perfection, Are the blessed reassurance Of our Savior's Resurrection. Helen Steiner Riee There was a fine Easter congregation congregation and a full choir. They did exceedingly exceedingly well singing as their anthem, anthem, "fen Thousand .Angels." We were pleased to have Mrs. Pcd- dar Senior, D mother worship ping with us =md Rolf Hellebust back from Russia where he was married at Christmas time. There were also othei visitors. The scripture scripture reading " as Isaiah 25: 6-9; Cor. 15: 1-11 and Mark 16: 1-8. Sermon: "No P ne ever gets out of life Alive." There will be a Pancake Breakfast at Kendal United Church next Sunday, April 10th, 9:00-10:30 a.m., $3.00 adults and $1.50 for children under 12 years. Helpful hints: Rub a little shampoo shampoo on a shirt collar you are going to wash. It will remove body oils. Don't overcook your vegetables, especially carrots. They are more healthful underdone. In early pioneer days there was no such thing as schooling for. everyone. In the Grey-Bruce area where the Campbells and Macphails settled Agnes Macphail's grandmother, grandmother, learned to read by standing behind her uncle's chair and following following the finger with which he kept his place as he read aloud the weekly newspaper. At twelve she became one of the famly bread winners,..In her day writing was a frivolous accomplishment accomplishment for a young woman and she did not learn to write until her daughter Maggie married and moved away. At sixty-seven she became an accomplished pen- woman. (Agnes Macphail was Canada's first lady member of Parliament). My own great grandmother came to Canada when five years of age in the year 1837. She was lying awake one night when she heard her mother say to her father; "Elizà is five years old. She should be in school." Her father said, "We can't send her to school we haven't the money to pay the teacher." Her mother replied, "We must find the money some place, for you know she is a very bright little girl," And find the money they did, and sent her off with her Bible and a slate to school. Two maiden ladies taught school in their home just west of the 'Kendal 'Kendal House' in which Mrs. Pearl Clark lives today. • Eliza's Bible served as a primer. Before she was eight she had read her Bible from cover to cover three times. She was married to Wm. Elliott in 1850. A school was btiilt across from the McLean's Cemetery at their gate. Edgerton Ryerson editor of a Methodist paper, "The Christian Guardian" became the Principal of Victoria College in Cobourg. Finally Finally in 1844 he was named Upper Canada's first superintendant of schools. The first thing he did after his appointment was to take a year to travel in Europe and look at school systems there. Then he wrote a report with recommendation that would set the tone for Public School education in all of Canada's provinces. He said education should have a religious foundation, though he did hot approve approve of sectarian teaching. He laid down a curriculum that went beyond basics. It included grammar, grammar, geography, science and arithmetic but was to be enriched with music, drawing, history, civics, nature study, physical training and hygiene. Two little girls were discussing the relative weight as a fib compared compared with a lie. Said Nellie: "A fib is the same as a story and a story is the same as a lie." "No it's not," said the other. "It is too," replied the first. My father says so and he is a University professor." "Well," came back the second girl, "my father sells used cars and he knows more about lying, than your father' does." • i Scourge of the North woods by John Patrick Gillese A friend of miyc a trapper from north of the Athabasca, tells of the nme a wolverine "took" to his traplines, investigating c\erv set for 40 miles. Week alter week, he 'sprung traps and took the bait, robbed robbed the catches, ruined pelts - and what he couldn't take time to eat, he despoiled with his foul, skunklike skunklike fluid. In desperation the trapper trapper set out to hunt him down. He followed the trail for a week without luck. When he returned he found the wolverine had completely wrecked his cabin! Stovepipes were knocked down, every bag of food ripped open and he befouled and some of the cooking pots had been dragged outside by the preverse raider. They were never found He believes the legend that a wolverine caused Albert Johnson the "Mad Trapper of Rat River," all his grief. Johnson, accused of taking furs from Indian traps, chose to shoot it out with the Mounties in a gruelling battle in the north. Many trappers like the one I know think a wolverine robbed the Indians of their catch. Called Caracajou, Indian Devil and plain blunt, "Bearcat" the wolverine has a reputation for being the most anti-social member of the wild world - and if you believe those who know him', he came by it honestly. Actually a member of the weasel family he resembles a small. bushy bear or a badger. Though only about 30 pounds in weight, he combines all the ferocity • of (he weasel tribe with incredible cunning and an adaptability that is . nothing short of uncanny. He will sit patiently on a stump to drop on an uhwary deer coming along the trail. The short thick' legs with their sharp claws brace, the three foot body tenses and the deer dies as the "big weasel" sinks it's teeth near the ribs and chews thipugh to the heart. Reliable observers.have seen a grizzly bear yield it's prize when a wolverine approached. His defenders point out he is too clumsy on foot (almost , as ungainly as a porcupine) to make a living honestly. That they say, is why he must take it from those who have killed. It doesn't explain why, when food is very plentiful he automatically despoils what he can not eat particularly if he has first stolen it from some big rival like a grizzly! , A good animal psychiatrist might point out that he starts life With a bad family background.. He is usually born in a burrow in late June or early July. It is either some deserted lair (because his mother is too lazy to dig out one of her own) or a den that she commandeered from somebody else. There are four or six young, and whatever her defects may be, Mama Wolverine will defend defend these with her life. Any Indian will assure you it is far better to meet a she-grizzly with cubs than to molest a mother wolverine with young. (to be concluded) ORONO GATES OF PRAISE BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono, Ontario In ter-Faith Full Gospel SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry Rev. Margaret F'. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling. St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. Sunday, April 10, 1988 Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes Organist: Mr. Ross Metcalf Telephones: Church 983-5502 Manse 983-5208 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. YOUTH GROUPS ' Explorers - Wednesday 6:30 p.m. C.G.I.T. - Thursday 6:00 p.m. Upper C. E. Auditorium Explorer" Banquet, April 20th 6:30 p.m. BIBLE STUDIES Ladies Studies - Wednesday 1:15 p.m. at Marlene Risebrough's. home, Leskard Road. Call - Marion Milnes at 983-5208 or Marlene Risebrough at 983-5702. . ' Membership Class. - Wednesday " 8:00 p.m. - Friendship Room KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Sunday fchurch School 9:30 p.m. Morning Worship 9:30 p.m.