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Blieck your home now for these fire hazards A few minutes checking your home for fire hazards, and getting getting rid to them, could save your family's lives. Fire hazards in the form of clutter clutter and flammable materials such as paint thinner can accumulate in die cleanest of homes, and can be lethal. Electrical wiring can wear out and become dangerous, heating equipment - particularly 'wood stoves - requires regular safety checks. Fire officials at the Ministry of the Solicitor General recommend regular checks of your home for fire hazards. Start in the kitchen -- kitchen fires arc the most frequent type of home fires. Can window curtains graze your stove top, toaster or other hot surface? Is the stove and the hood above it collecting grease? Do you store, paper, products products close to the stove? Doijfcu keep a pan of fat*on the back burner? Don't - if you turn on the wrong burner by mistake, you could have a bad fire. The kitchen is an excellent place to keep a multi-purpose foe extinguisher. Be sure it's bracketed bracketed to the wall at an exit, and make sure everyone in the family knows how to use it. Read the label, it tells you every thing you need to know. Faulty» wiring and electrical equipment arc the second major cause of fatal home fires. Frayer! or damaged electrical cords, extension extension cords used as permanent wiring or draped over nails or hidden under the rag, damaged or spliced appliance cords, bare wires, appliance plugs that heat up-these are examples of fires waiting to happen. If you regularly use "octopus plugs" (sockets which multiply the use of one socket), or exten- Rc me in her that big Canada Savings Bond issue that paid 19.5 per cent interest when it: first went on sale in 1981? . That was Series 36 and it comes due this Nov. 1. , A $100 Compound Interest Bond of this series will be worth $221.99 on Nov. 1. These bonds no longer earn interest after that date, so go to your bank, trust company,: credit union or stockbroker -- wherever you bank or invest --- and cash them in. < "Investors should also be aware that there's a new deadline for buying Canada Savings Bonds this year,"' advises John Campbell, a director of the CSB Payroll Savings Organization. Sion cords; or if you frequently blow fuses, or die lights dim when the fridge kicks in, your household wiring may bo overloaded. overloaded. It's time to have it checked and upgraded by a qualified qualified electrician. The cost is minor compared to the damage a fire can cause, Check the basement (particularly (particularly around the furnace) for clutter clutter and flammablcs such as floor wax, paint thinner, tins of varnish varnish and so forth. Do not store combustibles under the stairs. Be especially vigilant abolit oily rags, which can ignite by themselves themselves and start a fire. Have the furnace serviced regularly by an expert, and keep tire air filler clean. . If you have a woodstove or fire place, make sure the chimney is cleaned frequently - at least once a year. Creosote - the gummy, tar-like material that builds up in chimneys -- can be set on fire by heat. Make, sure that all site doors are free from obstructions, and that the windows open easily. If you need to escape, during a fire, that isn't the tim$ to unstick the window window you painted shut last summer. summer. Children must be taught that it is OK. to smash a window or screen with a suitable object il the window is. stuck. During your inspection tour, check the smoke alarms - make sure they are free of dust, and test them by hblding a lighted incense incense stick or a bit of smoldering string under them. Invite your children to join you as you check for fire hazards, and take some time to make sure they understand what to do in case of a fire. Regular fire inspections don't ■take long, but if a fire kills you, you're dead for a long time. "Nov. 1 will be the last day you can buy Canada Savings Bonds at fate value -- if they're still on sale after then, and there's a good chance they won't be, you'll have to. pay accrued interest," says Campbell. Because of this and the size of the maturing issue -- about 1.5 million million Canadians hold roughly $6.3 billion worth of Series 36 bonds --t special arrangements have been made to allow bondholders to go'to their favorite financial institution starting Oct. 20 -r- the first day the new bonds go on sale -- and do all the paperwork associated with the redemption and, if they wish, the purchase of the 1988/89 issue. The same arrangements apply to holders of Regular Interest Bonds who want to reinvest the proceeds of their interest cheques in the new issue. Even if you don't hold any of the maturing bonds or Regular Interest Bonds, says Campbell, you can still go to any financial institution and do all the paperwork in advance -- from Obt. 20 on. "As long as your application form is accompanied by a cheque, which you can postdate to Nov. : 1 -- that's when the new issue starts earning interest --■ your purchase application will be honored even if the new bonds are withdrawn from sale before Nov. 1." Sales made through the Payroll Savings Plan will not be affected by this change. He also noted that there is about $175 million worth of Canada Savings Bonds that have matured but have not yet been cashed. These can be redeemed at any time, no matter when they matured. "Because bonds don'team interest interest after they mature," he added, "investors should make it a regular practice to check their safety deposit boxes every year to review their CSB holdings. A list should be drawn up, containing the serial number of each bond and its maturity date." This will ensure that all bonds are redeemed when they come due and the funds reinvested to provide investors with a continuing return on their money. As a stockbroker for many years, he can recall a number of instances where CSB holders failed to cash in their bonds on Nov. 1 and were disappointed disappointed to find that the new issue was no longeron sale when they got around to redeeming them a few weeks later. Canada Savings Bonds can be purchased for cash wherever you bank or invest or in instalments on the popular Payroll Savings Plan where you work. Strengthen your step family Reap the rich benefits step family. living can offer! A Step Family is a unique kind of family which like all families needs education and support. Stepparenting Stepparenting is different from birth parenting. parenting. Being a re-married parent is different from being a parent in a first marriage family and growing up in a step family can be more complicated than growing up in a biological family. The Family Education Resource Centre of Durham House is offering offering a 6 session parent study group focussing on the advantages and positive aspects of being a stepparent, stepparent, and the adjustment issues faced by both parents and children in blended families. The group will meet at St. Joseph School, Oshawa from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings starting October 27th. The cost is $21.00 single or $36.00 per couple. For further information and to register, please call 579-2021 or 686-4353. Big CSB issue due this fall In every crowd there is a young person aged 6 to 18 years, who involved in worthwhile community service, overcoming ysical or psychological limitations, or has performed ah act of roism. You can honour this young person, with the help of madian Airlines International and the Ontario Community wspapers Association by nominating them for an Ontario Junior izen of the Year Award To nominate a young person in pour community please contact this newspaper Canadien Ontario community Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 5, 1988-11 Mcmomerrts and Cemetery Markers FOR OVER 140 YEARS FACTORY OUTLET DISCOUNT PRICES RUTTER GRANITE COMPANY * ' LIMITED 73 ONTARIO STREET, PORTROPE^ ONTARIO TELEPHONE 885-5216 AFTER HOURS 372-0263 COMPARE OUR LOW PRICES BEFORE YOU DECIDE Date of Publication: October 5, 1988 P.O. No. A 2256 papgrUfpfpS . Jr ' ™hbhh™ Public Notice To Its Citizens 1 Last'Day For Revision Applications ■ pj ' 1988 Municipal Elections NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, for the purposes of the upcoming municipal elections, the last day for making application application to revise the preliminary list of electors has been determined to be SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1988 and not Monday, October 17 as previously indicated. The Clerk's Office, 152 Church Street, Bowmanville, Ontariowill Ontariowill be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on October 15, 1988 for the purpose of accepting revision applications and nominations for the election. Patti L. Barrie, A.M.C.T.(A) Acting Clefk Town of Newcastle . 4Q»Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6 Our File: 10.50.6 The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE TENDERS SEALED TENDERS, clearly marked as to contants, for the following requirements listed below, addressed to the Corporation Corporation of the Town of Newcastle, Office of the Clerk; 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, L1C 3A6, will he received on the forms and in the envelope provided until the specified closing time and date. ■■ Tender Documents can be obtained from the Purchasing Office at 68 King Street East, Bowmanville, Ontario (The Veltri Complex). Tender T88-26 ' AGGREGATE MATERIALS Closing Time and Date: 12:00 Noon (Local Time) Wednesday, October 19,1988 The following quantities are approximate only: 22.000 Tonnes - Crushable Material (Hampton Area) 15,0Q0 Tonnes - B.Pit Run (Hampton Area) 10.000 Tonnes - Crushable Material (Orono Area) Note: Stockpiling is required at Contractors Pit Location for pick up by Town of Newcastle. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Mrs. Lou Ann Birkett, Purchasing and Supply Agent Telephone: (416) 623-3379 ex.*267 Published October 5, 1988 P.O. No. A 2302