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Michael Wilson opens Bowmanville P. C. office Michael Wilson, fédéral finance minister, assisted with the opening of the Durham Conservative committee committee rooms on King Street West in Bowmanville on Thursday evening of last week. „ The Minister and Durham candidate candidate Ross Stevenson spent an hour knocking on doors in the area prior to the official opening. Pictured above Ross Stevenson, candidate, Michael Wilson and Dr. Derry E. Hubbard of Bowmanville prior to the ribbon cutting. In a brief address to those present the Minister of Finance talked of the economy and its growth bringing bringing prosperity since the conservative had taken over four years ago. He said it resulted from sound economic achievements. Wilson said he expected greater growth in the future. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 12, 1988-3 Jackman speaks to Durham East Society Mark Jackman, curator at the Clarke Museum and Archives, was guest speaker at a recent meeting of the East Durham Historical Society when he outlined elaborate funerals and grieving ritual dating back to the Queen Victoria era. Jackman said that at that time it was a social fashion rather than "a grief process. Tfe said mourning consisted of three stages, heavy, medium and light, with each stage continuing for some six months. The speaker also said that each stage had an appropriate style of dress for the period. Women wore only uriornamented black garments made of dull fabric during the heavy mourning period. Jackman said it was easier for men for they usually dressed in dark clothing and during the funeral would wear a black arm band if they were mourning for a distant relative. The Clarke curator said fancier materials with some ornamentation like braid were worn during the medium mourning stage along with black jewellery made from lignit, commonly known as jet. Jackman said many women never got out of the heavy mourning period due to the high death rate. He said in the 1800s even in the high income bracket people seldom lived beyond 44 and that the infant mortality mortality rate was at 95 percent. Jackman said that the attire for the Varions mourning stages was a (Continued page 8) Elect HAL. MCKNIGHT Mayor The first Geometry lesson Events around home with Donna and I determined to finish a project started some 35 years ago brought back memories of our first geometry lesson provided by, then, Grampa Bouck. The current project is the completion completion of a garage, breezeway and canopy over the length of the front of the house completed sojme thirty- five years ago. The orginal plans are still intact but the work was just never completed. One might wonder just why it has taken so long but it may have been a matter of money or an agreement Marg. Wilbur NOP Candidate (Continued from page 1) part of the decision-making process at all levels of government. She said as being a member of the Scugog Committee Care committee she recognized the problem of older women in society. She said she would like to help solve these problems problems for. these older women. The NDP candidate said she supports supports many of the recommendations recommendations of the Bruntland Commission on the environment and felt the protection of the environment was a real issue in the election. Wilbur stated the redommCndation of sustainable sustainable development by the commission commission was a need to protect the environment. "You can trust the NDP and Ed Broadbent when it comes to the environment", environment", she said. On the issue of free trade, "and it is an issue", she said, there will be a loss of some industrial jobs and unfortunately unfortunately the loss of the family farm. " There is no doubt that water is on the agenda", she stated. The NDP have opened an office in Osliawa on Rossland Road just west o I Simcoe, telephone 11-0.176. on just how it should be done. As to the money question the garage bit is going to cost more than the house did in the early 1950s. Getting back to how this is associated with our first geometry lesson and grampa Bouck it has to do with roof trusses for the garage and breezeway. As a matter of fact I forgot to order them not realizing it may take some time to have them ■prefabricated. Builders apparently much prefer the prefabs rather than starting the process from scratch. There was no such thing as prefabs in my.grandfather's day. The geometry lesson surely dates back to the late'1930s and as you may now expect came frofti grampa Bouck, an English teacher but also one with a keen interest, as a hobby, hobby, in working with wood. Indoors his specialty was book cases and tea wagons and there is still one of his tea wagons in the family, being passed down from generation to generation. In the thirties sister Jeanne and I /each spent one month at the Bouck cottage on Lake Simcoe of which all .the inside finishing work had been completed by grampa Bouck. It then came time for a boat house with living quarters above and this project was a total Bouck work program from start to finish. It was during the construction of the roof that a geometry book appeared appeared along with the steel square and it was explained to me that the whole process of cuts, angles' and lengths for the roof rafter's was but a matter of geometry and grampa Bouck took great pride in not foqling any of the cut angles or lengths. ft is rather amazing but I still remember that the hypotenuse (the long side) of a triangle equals in length the sum of the other two sides . . . that the angles of the triangle total 180 degrees ... if one angle is 90 degrees and two sides are the same length the other two angles come in at 45 degrees each. His lessons w,erc more detailed than this of coursç but he always took the op portunity to convey knowledge in this direction and by the time the project and my stay at the lake I hadTjeen through more than half of the geometry book. Well, back to Orono, and the late 1980s and a garage and breezeway to be attached to the house. It was our intent that the roof of the garage and breezeway Would have the same pitch and the same height and thus be continuous to the house. I often get the opportunity to think about things while the printing printing press is running and just recently recently this was the case. My thoughts were about the roof trusses and I did recall some of the lessons of grampa Boucks. It all of a sudden dawned on me that by making the garage two feet wider we had changed the hypotenuse of the triangle but had not done so fof the breezeway. Well the press stopped right then and out came paper and pencil and it took very little figuring to resolve that the height of the garage roof was going to be higher than the height of the breezeway unless of course we now extended the length of the breezeway to that of the width of the garage. This would have solved all problems problems but with a higher height on the breezeway its roof would pass through the stairwell window on the house. Unfortunately one cannot bend the formulas of geometry to meet individual needs . . . the length of the hypotenuse is the sum of the. other two sides and the insdie angles of a triangle still add up to 180 degrees. If I haven't forgot the geometry lessons of the 1930s to this point of time, it is not likely now I ever will. Open the door Ganaraska Forest tfalk this Sunday Another Ganaraska Forest walk is slated for this Sunday afternoon commencing at 1:30 p.m. This is the third of a series of four walks planned for the forest this fall. The last walk was meet with drizzle drizzle rain. Harry Williams will again be on hand to conduct the walk with a strength of knowledge of the forest and its plants. upen we uoor on Main Street and experience a delightful blend of treasurer from days long past, beautiful jewellery , and contemporary giftware in the heart of Orono-Downtown R e f , Downtown Orono 983-9757 OPEN SUNDAYS i, 'N JUDI'S JOIE VISA J You are invitpd to attend the OFFICIAL OPENING of the • DOUG MOFFATT Liberal Campaign Headquarters,, 133 Taunton Rd. W„ Oshawa (at Sommerville) on Monday, October 17,1988 at 7:30 p.m. 432-3500 Authorized by Robert Marshall,