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6-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 24, 1988 Experience '88 students at local Tree Nursery The Experience '88 program provides provides funding for eleven students at the Orono Tree Nursery this sum- i nier. Most of the students are from 1 High School and from the area. Eight of the eleven work out on the nursery while positions of office staff, lawn cjtre and green house are filled by the remaining three. Pictured above Karen Kennedy of Kendal student, assists Darla Shields, permanent staff from Bowmanville, in trimming grafted white pine potted trees being grown to be used in seed orchards. These young trees will be transplated out to the seed orchards when four to five years of age. According to Dave Moore the Orono Nursery has one of the oldest White Pine Seed Orchards in the country and continues to be a viable orchard. Moore states that quality and production of the orchards are continually continually monitored so as to provide quality stock from the seed. Karen and Darla are working in one of the many cold frames operated at the Orono Nursery. Out 'in the field at the Tree Nursery Laura Oxenham and Leanne local Tree Nursery work out in the irrigation pipes to provide water for Lycett, two Orono students under field and are about to relocate the healthy trees, the Experience '88 program for the Dairy Princess to be crowned at C.N.E. Ontario's 33rd Dairy Princess 11 be crowned in Toronto on Agriculture.Day", August 31, at 30 p.m. at the Canadian National diibition Coliseum, Main Ring, yecial guests will include Gaétan oucher, 1984 Olympic Gold ledalist "who will crown the win- ;r; and Grant Smith, Chairman of he Ontario Milk Marketing The crowning follows a week of preliminary and semi-final competitions competitions at the CNE for the 42 contestants, contestants, who have each served as Dairy Princess in their county/district county/district over the past year. The preliminaries will be held daily August 24th through 27th at 6:00 p.m. in the Fraser Pavilion, Coliseum Coliseum East Annex, with semi-finals i,, ;i ' Xu'-iik! "'9th and 30fh at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Ring of the Coliseum. Coliseum. The public is invited to attend attend all events. Each night of the preliminaries, there will be free draws for baskets of dairy products. products. The contestants, ranging in age from 17 to 26, are judged on their public speaking ability, knowledge of the dairy industry, personality and poise. The Ontario Dairy Princess serves as a full time employee of The Ontario Milk.Marketing Board during her one year reign, undertaking undertaking public relations duties on behalf of Ontario's dairy farmers. Representing Durham County on Saturday August 27th in the preliminaries will be Wilma Benschop. . The group is holding a convention convention in Kingston in September at which citizen action plans for the. coming year are to be developed. It was pointed out at the Cobourg meeting that "zero discharge" was one of the goals of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed in 1978 by the U.S. and Canada^ Environmentalists Environmentalists now argue that very little direct action has been undertaken undertaken and funds for toxic waste research studies have either stabilized stabilized or have been decreased. Helen MacDonald of Newcastle's Citizen's for a Safe environment spoke to the Cobourg audience urging urging them to become more involved in decisions that affect the health of the environment. Jim Manning of the Cobourg ' Area Environmental Association said pollution will affect all of us whether we like it or not. "It will affect the air you and 1 breathe and the water we drink - that should make it a concern for all of us." & DRIVEWAY • WHO CONTROL • FERTILIZING • INSECT CONTROL CHINCH, OTUB, ANTS. E1C. ■■■ .. 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