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2-Orone Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 17, 1988 A well used facility If you attended the annual beef barbeuce at the Orono Park on Wednesday of last week you could not but help be impressed with the physical condition of the local park and especially its use and activity by all age groups of this community. community. We were impressed. The park on that particular night was hosting the annual barbecue in a setting not to be outdone. outdone. But this was only part of the show and the use; The younger set, an Orono baseball team of both boys and girls in the age bracket of five, six and seven were entertaining entertaining a similar age group from Port Hope. The kids were certainly all wrapped up in the game and serious about the whole thing. They also were most entertaining. At the same time, on the big diamond, the Orono PeeWee baseball team were in competition with a visiting team and here again it was apparent that the kids were really enjoying themselves. But all the activity didn't stop here for the tennis courts were in full swing and we understand the local tennis club is having an. excellent and active year. Of course the swimming pool and the wading pool were well in use by another set from the community. And when the kids were finished with the ball diamond LOBB' ball took over with a local team playing Tyrone. The park was literally alive and all sectors of the community community were part of that activity as far as age groupings were concerned.. It was fostering a family togetherness. It made us think back to some of the history of the Orono Park and those who were instrumental in the beginning beginning and of maintaining the facility with improvements. The would be pleased to see what has happened, the joy the facility facility brings and its use by the community. There were many involved in the park prior to the setup of the Region and we do owe them a debt of gratitude. The environment going down the tubes Canadians, in growing number appear to see the environment environment going down the tubes and this apparently so this summer. Possibly this sweat over the environment comes from an exceptionally hot summer, high levels of pollution in the atmosphere as experienced recently in Metro, wide-spread coverage of an international conference in Toronto on climate change and the greenhouse effect and of course the drought. It has Canadians thinking. It is interesting to note .that such groups as the Canadian Canadian Wildlife Service, Greenpeace, Pollution Probe, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club of Ontario and even Environment Environment Canada have logged more calls and enquiries this year than ever before. • Canadians are wanting to know if this is the beginning of the greenhouse effect. The trouble is no one really knows but it is cause for concern and Canadians are joining up in groups to further express their concèrns and also donating money to environmental concerns they may have. Environmental concerns are high on the list of ^oters' priorities according to recent opinion polls. Environmental .damage is not something new for scientists scientists have been telling us for years that there is cause for con- 'cern yet no one has been listening. Governemnts only listen when the number of concerns relates into too many votes to ignore. Write letters let the politicians know your concerns. We can't pitfall the blame on the Americans because there is an interconnection between acid rain, toxic wastes, municipal dumps and holes in ozone layer. They are .not separate issues and it's a shared resptinsibility. ' Letter to the Editor: Dear Roy: I have anxiously awaited for the availability 'of biodegradable garbage garbage bags for some months now. I am now pleased to find that such are available at Armstrong's IGA ih Orono. Kudos to Armstrong's for* providing a product which is environmentally environmentally friendly. It is refreshing in these times of garbage crisis to find such a product in our KENDAL NEWS Learn to make the most of life Lose no happy day, Life will never give you back Chances', swept away; Leave no tender word unsaid community. Hopefully, the example will be followed where biodegradable garbage garbage bags- will be available everywhere. Even though using .recyclable paper grocery bags is more environmentally sound, I wonder if a biodegradable plastic grocery bag is on the horizon? Yours truly, (Mrs.) Helen MacDonald Love while life shall last For the mill can never grind With water that is past. A most welcome electric storm Sunday- evening brought us much needed rain after all the over ninety heat of the past week. "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye," and the cobs are filling out. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Frank returned returned home from a trip- by motor, to the Yukon on Sunday evening. They report a fine vacation. Mrs. Edna Dobson and Mrs. B, Soper had Sunday dinner at the home of Mrs. A. Cathcart. My mountain ash trees are most beautiful this morning but in September the birds eat all the berries. berries. I am sure many of you will be interested interested in the sculptured butter at the Exhibition. The last time 1 was there it was a milk maid and her dairy cow, very life-like all made of butter. Pierre Burton tells us about, "In- gersoll's Mighty Cheese." Three years before Confederation, Confederation, the Canadian cheese industry, had its beginning in Ingersoll, Ontario, Ontario, with the opening of the first factory. Indeed in 1866 Ingersoll was able to produce for display the largest cheese ever fashioned by ' man - a mammoth production weighing three and a half tons. In- gersoll's "cheese poet" James McIntyre one of the great unconscious unconscious humorists of his time, celebrated the feat with this ode: We have seen thee, queen of cheese, Lying quietly at your ease Gently fanned by evening breeze Thy fair form no flies dare seize. Cows numerous as a swarm of bees, Or as leaves upon the trees, It did require to make thee please An stand unrivalled, queen of cheese. May you not receive a scar as We have heard that Mr. Harris Intends to send you off as far as The great world's show at Paris. Of the youth beware of these, For some of them might rudely squeeze And bite your cheek, then songs or glees We could not sing, oh! queen of cheese. Wert thou suspended from balloon, You'd cast a shade even at noon, Folks would think it was the moon About to fall and crush them soon. This great rectangular V/i tori block of cheese was mounted on a flat top wagon pulled by a team of heavy horses with a third horse hitched hitched tandem out in front. There were seats on top the cheese where people sat as the parade moved along the route. Canadian cheeses are the finest iri the world, as anyone who has nibbled nibbled a piece of sharp cheddar or Baby Gouda knows. Baby Gouda is a Dutch cheese now made in Canada. For flavouring foods buy medium cheddar, grate some on top your hot soup. Use it with your vegetables instead of meat. It supplies supplies the protein we need. At the Bon Air Nursing Home at Cannington, a nearly 100 year old resident was being urged to buy a five year bond. His reply: "Heck, at my age I don't even buy green bananas." Overheard in Sunday School: The teacher had just finished reading the story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15: 11-32 when she asked: "What does it mean to waste your substance in riotous living?" Six year old Tommy spoke up: "It means spending all your money on bubble gum." ' This writer as a five year old saw other children buying candy at the store in Kendal during the noon hour. So I took 25 cents, from my bank and bought gum. It was an awful lot of gum and I thought mother would never quit telling all the visitors that came and having a big laugh at my expense, about my riotous living. Dorothea Mitchell (continued) As written by Bill McNeil in the book 'Voice of the Pioneer.' I got tired of the boarding house after a while, I wanted to; do something different. That's when I went to Silver Mountain in Northern Northern Ontario, and bought a little , general store and a little later, a saw mill. The First World War happen- , ed while I was there, and there was quite a shortage of men. It was mostly local people that 1 employed in the mill, but soon even they were inclined to take advantage of the fact that if I fired them, I couldn't find anybody else to take their place because so many of the young people people had gone off to, war. A few time, I had to fire somebody and I times, I had to fire somebody and I One time I was the fireman/engineer for three months. My gosh, it was hard work. These boilers had to be fired up with nothing but wood and I had to make up the fire every twenty minutes, and carry the wood from the cross-cut saw to the boiler. That was really hard work, but at one time or another I did all the jobs at the mill. One thing I am proud of is that I never wore men's clothes even though I was doing men's work. A lot of the. .women in the bush did, but I had a riding skirt, kind of a divided skirt, and I'd wear that, but never trousers! That's where I drew the line. There wasn't much in the way of recreation in Silver Mountain, except except once in a While when they'd have dances. If the train ran off the track and it was delayed somebddy'd put on a dance, and somebody else would go around on horseback, telling everyone in the district that there was a dance on. 1 thought the country dances were awfully funny and I'm afraid I disgraced myself at the first one by laughing when I heard them calling off the dances. Half the time I couldn't make out what the man was saying anyhow, and it seemed so ridiculous to be told what to do when we'd been taught to dance from the time we were very young, arid we knew what to do. - I enjoyed lumbering very much and I learned to do all the jobs, from cutting the trees to making thpm into railroad ties and lumber, but after a, while I began to feel it was time to move on to something else. So I sold my sawmill, and went to the Lakehead, the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William (Thunder Bay) where I took this course;at the business college. After I got through they asked me to stay on for the summer and take the place of the teachers who were away on vacation. Well I'd been only there for a few days, wheri one of the regular staff came over to me and said, very snippy, "Don't wor' , so hard? 1 I told Fer I wasn't and sX, y said, 'You must be the girl who had that job before you took a day and half to do it, and you're through in the middle of the afternoon, and looking' for something more to do.' So I said, 'Perhaps it's because I don't talk.' I don't know if she liked liked it or not, but I didn't care. What she was calling working hard, was nothing at all to me, after my years working in the bush. (to be concluded) OÂONO GATES OF PRAISE , BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono, Ontario Inter-Faith Full Gospel SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry Rev. Margaret F. 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