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ëceive Long Service Certificates Last Friday the Board of Directors Directors of Memorial Hospital, Bowman ville, presented long- service certificates to both part and full-time employees. The certificates certificates represented five, ten and fifteen years of service at the hospital. Pictured above are part-time employees receiving certificates: (front row) Shirley Rutherford, Mary Brown, Lynne Lemieux, Sharon Farrow, Judy Nimez, Hazel Raby, Louise Hughes, Judy Devitt, (back row) Marti Luxton, Mary Tait, Barb Hughes, Judy Cooper, Carol Bradley, Ruth Yeo, Marion Sneed, Sheila Raynard, Rosemary Rees, Betty Downing, Linda Chambers, Donna Tennant and Dorothy Cuffe. The Federation off Ontario Naturaliste --„ .. -™-: *T *-- ... FON Conservation Centre, Moatfiéld Park 355 Lesnÿil Road,' Don Mjlls, Ontario, M3B 2W8 Phone: (4-16) 444-8419 J y by Marion Strebig Island Dream Last weekend at Pelee Island I experienced experienced naturalist's burn-out. I went on a Federation of Ontario naturalists Membership Trip to this small island lying off the north shore of Lake Erie midway between Ohio and Ontario, and found that even dedicated naturalists do have an exhaustion point. 1 This most southerly point in Canada funnels migrants from both the Atlantic and Mississippi fly way. If conditions conditions are right as they were last Sunday Sunday the number and variety of birds resting and feeding here can be staggering. staggering. Islands are like places in a dream. A one and a half hour ferry ride' separates Pelee Island from the rest of the world. Even though we had the luxury of comfortable vans waiting to transport us to an old house that had been converted into an inn, we still had the sense of having having escaped for a time from that ' other world of traffic jams and noise and bustling' impatience. Qtt.m island one steps back in tune. Human interference has been less drastic here. This is one reason islands often shelter species which are rare or uncommon elsewhere. Besides the birds Pelee Island shelters rngny species of amphibians' and reptiles, including the common American toad which was singing amorously all weekend. From the van someone spotted the sinous motion motion of the Lake Erie watersnake. Head breaking the water, it undulated undulated like a flexible torpedo along the drainage ditch. This subspecies of the Northern watersnake is now so rare that it is on Ontario's endangered endangered species list. In the newly warm May sunshine turtles basked everywhere. The common painted turtle in all sizes from fist to dinner plate packed every available spot, heads extended extended to gather in all the warmth. Every so often the curious humped toroise-like shape of the Blanding's turtle reared among the painted. With his neck extended he displayed his lemon yellow neck patch like a flash of neon. Often on the forest floor the unwinding unwinding black whiplash of the mclanisiic garter snake flashed rieflv into view. One that didn't move quite so fast was trying to ingest ingest a reluctant toad. This unusual color variation is uncommon elsewhere. On an old log near the beach, draped like a piece of ancient ancient grapevine, a fox snake took its ease. This large handsome snake with the dark brown markings on a yellow ground is large enough (4 feet) to intimidate. Although it is " venomless and generally mild- mannered, its size and copper- coloured head have lead to his being illed in mistake for the venomous copperhead. Because it shares its range and vibrates its tail when annoyed, annoyed, it is also mistaken for the Massassauga rattler. With this sort of persecution the fox snake is not a common snake outside protected e areas like the island nature reserve. But the stars of the natural show last weekend were the returning migrants. On Saturday, a bright clear day, birds wer# sparse and silent. On Saturday night cloud cover and light showers moved in and with them the birds. Sunday morning before it was light enough to distinguish colour, they called all around us. One whitethroat gave its melancholy melodious whistle, another answered and another. Tiny shapes danced and flitted and hung from branches as the warblers fed in a frenzy on the new- ■ ly active insects. A dozen species, including bay-breasted and Cape May, worked over a single tree. On their northern breeding grounds both species will gorge on the spruce budworm. Farther on a scarlet tanager and an indigo bunting bunting perching on the same branch redefined colour. From a vine tangle the Carolina wren blasted his three note song. How can anyone thât tiny be so loud and aggressive? In the swamp the buzz of the golden-winged warbler cut across the cheerful outpouring outpouring of the common yellow throat. Finally I could look no longer. I had birder's neck and my eyes were burning. The early rising was catching catching up with me. Imitating the turtles and snakes 1 propped myself against a log and basked in the sun, wondering drowsily if any life could be better than this. FÇN membership trips which are day,or weekend trips cover many OPP on alert for impaired motorists during Victoria Day holiday weekend According to a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision, the most effective deterrent to drinking and driving is the strong possibility of detection. In an effort to detect and apprehend apprehend drivers who drink and drive this Victoria Day Holiday Weekend (May 21 - 23), the Ontario Provincial Police will operate 16 RIDE checkstops across the province province as part of the enhanced year- round OPP RIDE program. This will be the first holiday weekend for the 16 new OPP RIDE teams to stop and check motorists for drinking and driving offences across the entire province. "Motorists travelling in the suth- mer resort and cottage areas can expect expect to encounter an OPP RIDE checkstop," said Insp. Bill Wicklitod, Traffic and Marine Section. Section. "Violators who flaunt drinking drinking and driving laws will face the full consequences of this illegal and deadly behaviour." The year-round OPP RIDE program program began in April with the commitment commitment of $14 million by the Ministry of the Solicitor General. In addition to the special RIDE teams, the OPP will increase regular patrols on provincial highways during the holiday weekend and this is the first long weekend that OPP radar-equipped motorcycles will be on patrol. Force motorcycles are no equipped with the sophisticated Moving Digital Radar (MDR-1) that is capable of being operated while the motorcycle is in motion. OPP traffic officers will also be looking for traffic offences such as not wearing a seat belt. "Approximately 67 per cent of Ontario motorists wear seat belts," said Wicklund. "Drivers not wearing wearing a seat belt will be charged because we believe that drivers who are concerned about safety wear seat belts. Seat belts save lives." areas as interesting and as generally unknown as Pelee Island. In the next couple of months there will be trips to look at orchids on the Bruce, to canoe on Luther Marsh, and to watch the turtle migration at Long Point. These are only a few of the places you can visit op FON Membership Trips. If you would like to receive a brochure, send a stamped self-addressed envelope to Marion Strebig, Federation of Ontario Ontario Naturalists, 355 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Ontario M3B 2W8. urono weexiy i unes, Wednesday, May 18, 1988-9 Orono-Lockhart School News Lockhart School is starting track and field this week. The grade 3-4 class will have one recess and the grade 5-6 class will have another recess for practicing. Then the teachers will choose the top kids to go to Clarke High School to go against the schools for ribbons. On Tuesdays and Thursdays the school has gym outside and we practice together getting ready for the day the teachers choose the kids to go. Here are some poems from the grade 5-6 class. Mr. Siddson There was an old man his son who continued to sit in the sun He was sitting in a pail when he got his mall which made, the old man start to run! by Tyler Sokolijuk Friends I like my friends my friends are nice my teacher has friends Here is a poem on friends Breaking up, staying together good friends, bad friends funny friends, dull friends serious friends, gentle friends your friend by Reina Lad Summer Holiday Interviews Tyler Sokoljuk - I am going to my cottage by car to water ski, swim, fish and I'm leaving the day after School. Ryan Lockè - I am going to Canada's Wonderland, Niagara Falls, and places in the United States. I am going to swim, go to amusement parks and also to have fun! Reporter Jarrett Hooper CLASSIFIED ADS WORK Phone 983-6301 Orono Weekly Times y Unique J WEDDING GIFTS 9 f 4) I 4) i ______ 4> REFLECTIONS Keirstiead Prints German Crystal Glassware Silverware Stoneware f Downtown Orono Phone 983-9757 I P*-\=5r®v The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE TO ITS CITIZENS NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS TO DESTROY NOXIOUS WEEDS Under the provisions of the Weed Control Act the Province Province of Ontario," Public Notice is hereby given to all owners* and occupants of .subdivided lands or lots not exceeding 10 acres whether or not the lots are part of a subdivision within the Town of Newcastle,,that unless the noxious weeds or weed seeds on any such subdivided lands or lots in the Town-, of Newcastle are destroyed by Friday, June 3, 1988, and throughout the season, the Council of the Town of Newcastle has directed the Weed Inspectors for the Region of Durham to cause said noxious weeds or weed seeds to be destroyed in such a manner as they may deem proper, and that the expenses expenses incurred by the said Weed Inspectors in the discharge of their duties shall be placed on the Collector's Roll of the Town of Newcastle against the respectiye parcels concerned and that such amounts shall be collected in the same manner as takes under the Municipal Act. * The co-operation of all citizens ib earnestly solicited. Weed Inspectors Name - Mr. Arthur Hamilton David W. Oakes, B.A., A.M.C.T., C.M.O.J Town Clerk Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street Bpwrfianville, Ontario. L1C3A6 File: 35.23.4. Date ot Publication: May 18, 1988 P.O. A1712