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7 orne Rozovsky at seminar Lome Rozovsky a renowned expert, expert, who works exclusively in the Health Law Field, will conduct a one day seminar at Durham College, College, Friday, November 25. The seminar, which will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the College lecture theatre, is designed' to present an overall understanding of the legal problems that could potentially face any person, agency, or institution involved in providing emergency care and emergency measures. Entitled Emergency Care and the Law, the information provided provided by the seminar should reduce the fear of legal problems, and assist the participants in taking practical steps to reducé the possibility of law suits. The Seminar has a broad attraction attraction for health care professionals, including Physicians, Nurses, Health Administrators, Ambulance Attendants, Paramedics, Health Technologists, Health Consultants, Police and Fire Officials, Military Personnel, and Athletic Support Staff. The fee for the dynamic one day seminar is $101.00 which includes tuition, breaks, materials and lunch. It is tax deductible. To register, or for further information, information, call Ann Stapleford at Durham College (416) 576-0210, ext. 312. Registration is requested by November 11. Raising responsible kids no spanking - spoiling Raising Responsible Children Without Either Spoiling or Spanking Spanking Them The subject of the discipline of young children causes a great deal of confusion, among parents. So often our attempts to control children revolve around coercing, threatening, nagging, depriving, isolating and spanking. Parents employ thèse tactics even if they do not seem to work very well, and produce all kinds of bad feelings for both them and their children, because they do not know of anything better to do. The Family Education Resource Centre of Durham House is offering offering a workshop on Thursday, October October 27 from,*7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Queen Elizabeth School, Oshawa in which parents will be introduced to some almost magical alternatives to traditional methods of punitive discipline. The cost is $8.00 per person. person. For more information and to register for this or any of the other study groups and workshops offered offered by the Centre please call 579-2021 or 686-4353. r v V Tbe Federation of Ontario Naturalists _ 1*ON£onstation Centre, Mpatfiêld Park 355 Les®?!'! Ro^d, Don iVÿfts, Ontario, M3'B 2W8 Phone: (4>6) 444-8419 by Marion Strebig A Question of Value How important to us are our surroundings? surroundings? As development and "planning" reshape our landscape, are we willing to fight to save small neighbourhood woodlots, wetlands and ancient trees? Recently I visited Thornton Bales, a mature woodlot on the Oak Etidges Moraine north of Metropolitan Toronto. The mojraine, formed from glacial debris, is a ridge which runs from the Niagara Escarpment to Trenton. Trenton. Although this particular woodlot is not ancient (few trees in Southern Ontario escaped the axe or the chainsaw) it has a number of large trees which are more than 100 years old. Woodlots of this quality are uncommon close to Metropolitan Toronto and are certainly certainly not replaceable in our lifetime. The wood sweeps down the steep sides of the ridge into a valley moist from the slope seepage. Trees on this slope soar up like pillars to a vault which is the leafy canopy of oaks, maples and beeches. Underneath this canopy grows a rich variety of understorey plants. Along with the saplings of the parent trees there is Christmas fern, whose fronds will still show green next spring when the melting snow uncovers them. White baneberry, festooned with clusters of black- dotted white berries which give it its common name of doll's eyes, gleams in the muted light of this densely canopied section of the woods. Farther down on the cooler slopes large hemlocks replace the beech and maple, and in the rich ; bottomland black walnut grows. , Signs of other seasons bloom in everywhere. There are dark glossy leaves of the hepaticas, carpets of Canada violet leaves and the heavy red berry cones of the Jack-in-the- pulpit. This is a natural wootilot in the sense that to date fallen trees have been allowed to lie where they fall, and snags have remained the domain domain of woodbeetles and shelf fungi and woodpeckers, whose excavations excavations provide nesting sites for other creatures like the whitebreasted whitebreasted nuthatches which were honking all around us. One log ' across the trail was decorated with large colonies of delicately fluted - cream fungi, one of the many organisms which will eventually cause the log to crumble back to earth. However, this natural forest may be about to change. This particular woodlot falls under the jurisdiction of the South Lake Simcqe Conservation Authority and would seem to be safe from the 'forces of change all arôünd it. Not so. The conservation authority decided that the woodlot must be managed, which means logged. logged. Although the logging will bring the authority * minimal financial return, the cut, which will be 30% by volume of the wood in tfie lot, approaches the extent of a commercial commercial cut, and will change the very complexion of the forest. Strenuous objections to the logging logging have induced the authority to have the job done in the old way - in thé, winter, with horses to drag out the logs. This simply evades the basic question. Why is there to be a Durham East Agricultural News by Barbara A. Weese r O.S. Specialist 4-H At Durham Central Fair: A highlight of the 4 H Show at the Durham Central Fair was the Interclub Interclub Championship Livestock Competition. The eight competitors representing the top Showman from the Durham East Beef, Sheep, Swine and Dairy Clubs as well as Hope Calf - each had to prove their ability to show all types of livestock. Champion Showman was Shelley Holliday, Blackstock and Reserve Champion Showman, was Brian Goble, Goble, Janetville. Honourable mention goes to Rene Heeringa, Enfield. Durham Central Fair was also the scene of the Junior and Senior Dairy Clubs' Achievement Day. Under the leadership of Donovan Smith, R.R. 1, Blackstock, Walt Vice, R.R. 2, Blackstock and Neil Allin and George Sikma, R.R. 1, Orono. Twenty-seven 4-H members displayed their dairy calves and demonstrated their showmanship abilities. Top Senior Showman, winner of the Altona Lea Holstein Trophy was Rene Heeringa, Enfield. Enfield. Top Junior Showman, winner of the Riseborough Refrigeration Trophy, was Tom Benschop, R.R. 4, Bowmanville. Champion Showman of the Dairy Clubs was Rene Heeringa and Reserve Champion Champion was Glenn Barkey. Top Junior Calf was shown by Robert Warren, Welcome; Top Senior Calf by Eric Barkey, Enfield. Top Summer Yearling by Tom Benschop, R.R. 4, Bowmanville and Top Junior Yearling Yearling by Wilma Benschop. The cut at all? Since there is no restriction restriction on the diameter of trees to be cut, trees that have been, around since before Confederation will disappear. At present there is a wide gap between the. philosophy of the mainline forester who treats trees as a crop to be cut at their "optimum" growth, and the average citizen who views forests as wildlife habitat, and places of quiet recreation, and as refugees from the stress of modern living. Often the forester's view has prevailed in Ontario, and has largely largely shaped its landscape. Even the advice given by the Government to landowners seeking to reforest their property is to plant trees like a crop in tidy rows. One disillusioned man Who received this advice from the local office of the Ministry of Natural Resources commented, "That's not a forest. What would want to live there?" As they become more scarce, areas of old growth forest are increasingly increasingly important. They offer greater diversity of species and size and age of trees than even-age artificially artificially regenerated forests. Older growth forests also offer the opportunity opportunity to study the progression of a natural forest and soil formation processes which have not been subjected subjected to repeated tilling and fertilization. fertilization. Trees which exceed the now normal 60 to 90 year cutting - cycles give us information about the past and enable us to reconstruct forest history and climate patterns. The 700 year-old white cedars recently discovered on the cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment at Kelso Conservation Area are expected to yield crucial information about Ontario's Ontario's past climatic patterns. ' The naturalists group which opposed opposed this specific cut used forester's language to point out that "management" of the woodlot as an natural forest ecosystem is a valid form of management, and one which would be well suited to a conservation conservation authority. Champion Dairy Calf was shown by Wilma Benschop and Reserve Champion Calf by Eric Barkey. Another 4-H feature at Durham Central Fair was the Wether Lamb Show. Ted Stacey, Bowmanville had the first place lamb and Mike Coombes, Bowmanville had the top selling lamb. The Agriculture exhibit hall also featured a number of educational Orono Weekly l imes, Wednesday, October 5, 1988-7 exhibits as well as a Poster Competition Competition and Photo Competition open to 4-H members. Much Ado About Meat: The Fall 4-H project is a cooking project in which members will learn to buy, store and prepare beef, pork and lamb in a variety of ways. At a recent workshop, the leaders taste- tested recipes such as Pizza soup, Honey-Garlic Spareribs, Beef Stir- Fry and Dijion Lamb Chops. Twelve clubs, in turn, are being organized in various parts of Durham East over the next few weeks. Any young person 12 - 21 years of age as of July 1, 1988 is invited invited to join. 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