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Orono Weekly limes; Wednesday, March 22, 1989-11 Bill Bramah and his Ontario The game of crokinole which orginated in Ontario in the last century century is making a comeback. It became a favorite parlour game in Victorian days and was still popular up until the fifties when it seemed to die out. But as I mentioned, it's experiencing experiencing a revival, and there's a plant in ' the western Ontario village of Neustadt that's now producing thousands of crokinole boards a year. We went to Neustadt recently. It's a few miles from Hanover and happens to be the birth place of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. The plant called Abba Wood is located about four miles from the village. It's operated by the Bieman family - two brothers and their sons. They're all experienced woodworkers, woodworkers, but a few years ago the furniture company three of them worked for went out of business. Ken Bieman and his son Tim began making the round wooden boards and small wooden discs that players shoot to get points in the game. They started in a small way at first. They found they didn't have much competition other than a firm at St. Jacobs in Mennonite country near Guelph that turned out expensive expensive custom boards on a part-time basis. They also discovered that big companies like Eaton's and the Bay were interested in well-made crokinole sets. They talked to other members of the family about joining them in the venture. They made plans, got additional additional equipment and bought the rambling old unused building where they now operate. We watched them at work. They make the boards from scratch using pine, redwood and oak. A punch press puts the familiar octagonal angles on the bottom and does the playing surface. A, silk screening process puts lines and numbers on the boards, and the pegs are inserted inserted by hand. The company cur-. rently employs 16 people and produces produces about 40,000 boards a year. Why the revival in crokinole? It appears to be a desire by people to return to simplicity. There's also an element of nostalgia for this homey old Ontario game that so many people people have enjoyed in the past. Oshawa mental health receives funding Community mental health and addiction programs across the province province will receive more than $2.8 million in funding, including $26,000 for Oshawa, to hire more staff and acquire needed computer technology, Health Minister Elinor Caplan and Allan furlong, MPP for Durham Centre, announced. Thirty-two programs, one of them in Oshawa, will obtain $1.34 million to expand staff and services. The Crisis Intervention Team, a short-term counselling and referral service, will receive $13,000 to hire a part-time secretary. The. remaining $13,000 in funding funding will go to the Community Involvement Involvement Program and the Education/Family Education/Family Support group for new computer technology. In all, 167 programs province-wide will get $1.48 million to meet the requirements requirements of a computer-based, service delivery information system implemented by the , ministry in April 1988, . "This is part of the government's commitment to bring about considerable considerable growth in community mental health," Mrs. Caplan said. The number of programs in the province has nearly doubled in the last five years to 488 from 248 in 1983-84. In August 1987, Premier David Peterson announced the doubling of funding for community mental health and addiction programs over three years with annual expenditures expenditures to reach $174 million in 1990-91. Programs were allocated $121 million in 1988-89 The establishment of an information information system for all community mental mental health and addiction programs was recommended by the Provincial Auditor. The ministry now will be able to more efficiently gather and analyse financial and client statistical data from the various programs. This, in turn, will allow improved program evaluation and planning -- which was suggested last fall by both the Task Force on the Use of Illegal Drugs (the Black report) and the Provincial Community Mental Health Committee (the Graham report). The new computer technology will also help the local programs to reduce administrative workload and enable staff to better serve the needs of its clients. DURHAM THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM HOLIDAY CLOSURE of Sanitary Landfill Site The CARTWRIGHT TRANSFER STATION will be closed on Good Friday, March 24, 1989. Normal operations will resume on Saturday, March 25, 1989. This site will also remain open on Easter Monday, March 27, 1989, W.A. TWELVETREES, P. Eng. COMMISSIONER OF WORKS THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM DURHAM NOTICE OF LANDFILL CLOSURE The SCUGQG LANDFILL SITE will close permanently on March 31, 1989. Facilities to accept residential household refuse only will be provided at the site starting starting on April 1, 1989. Thé hours of operation will remain unchanged at: Monday to Fridaÿ - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. W.A. TWELVETREES, P. Eng. COM MISSION ER jOF WORKS 1989 ORONO. SUMMER SPORTS REGISTRATION Place - ORONO ARENA Monday, April 3rd and Wednesday, April 5th 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. SOCCER $30.00 - GIRLS' SOFTBALL $25.00 BOYS' BASEBALL $25.00 Pee Wee EOBA Baseball players will be charged an additional additional fee upon making the team , To enter all teams in the different leagues, all players MUST PLEASE registerfen the above dates. All late registrations will be at the discretion of all convenors convenors and the Orono Amateur Athletic Association Interested Coaches, Referees, Umpires please contact the Orono Amateur Athletic Association on or before the above dates. Junipr age Soccer Players (under 19 years) contact Tony Wood 983-5329 SOCCER - Gord Lowery 983-5840 . , BOYS' BASEBALL - Peter Maartense 983-5645 ' GIRLS SOFTBALL - Betty Lycett 983-5908 Orono Amateur Athletic Association