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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 5, 1989 |r 1 1 ' ©rono aSctfetp Œtmesi Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Street, Orono Roy C. Forrester. Editor ^ . . - Can we afford a Cadillac? The question facing the Town of Newcastle and even the Region is like asking ourselves, "Can we afford a Cadillac?". The Cadillac, in the case with the local municipalities including including Newcastle, is the 911 emergency phone dialing system. The cost is some $1.7 million in capital funds at the Regional level along with $1 million in yearly operation. The Town has a further capital expenditure possibly in the area of $200,000 and an annual operating cost for the Town's taxpayers of anywhere from $150,000 to $175,000. Then as Counc. Hooper states costs have a habit of escalating. , There is little doubt that 911 is likely a superior emergency emergency call system as to those in existence at the present time. But we hear little complaint from the general public on the present system. It works and does so reasonably well. It is a matter of local citizens to be armed with the pertinent pertinent information as to emergency calls either near their phone at home or on their person when out of the home and travelling. It would be simple and, by far a lesser cost, to have emergency numbers at all public phones. Improvements can certainly be made to the present system. But maybe that is not keeping up with the Jones. What's wrong with 983-9111 to call the fire department in Orono and 623-9111 in Bowman ville. It's already in use in this part of the municipality. For an annual cost of at least $150,000 we can drop off the prefixed first three numbers. Do we have to be spoon-fed just because the technology is available to Bell Canada and this company can make a bundle out of the system across this province. Surely we have learned something from our educational system in ways to protect ourselves in emergency situations and especially in the use of the telephone system. And speaking of emergencies we were of the opinion that the Region had emergency situations in garbage disposal, in roads, in social services, all needing greatly expanded funds which they expect, of course, grow on trees oh the lawns of Queen's Park. The Regional politicians mqde sure they were evident at the recent emergent meeting of the OMA when the province took a real bashing for funding which municipalities across, at least the south of Ontario, say is badly needed. Maybe 911 should be hooked into Queen's Park. Although the Town of Newcastle councillors, with the exception exception of Hooper, on Monday gave no real indication of their stand it did appear that they are somewhat hesitant in jumping into the luxury of the new technology. One thing is sure we are ready to support the Town in saying 'NO'. A Chevy or Ford will do just as well as the Cadillac. ADD ONE MORE NAME A couple of weeks ago we listed the names of those in the Keith Wood orchestra who will be playing at the Heritage Hoe-Down and Box social at the Orono Town Hall. We left out the well-known fiddler, fiddler, Norm Andrews, who also will be a member of the local group. SELF-HELP GROUP TO MEET • The self-help group for Depressive and Manic Dépressives will mçet Thursday, April 13, 1989 at 111 Simcoe Street N., 2nd Floor, Osliawa, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. for a regular meeting. A video will be shown. Friends and family members welcome. For more information call Judy at 436-8760. Kendal N ews Give this some thought. Blessed are they who understand That age doesn't make me less ^ man. Blessecf are they who expect of me The very best that I can be. Blessed are they who take the time To learn what I was in my prime. Blessed are they who know my needs And the things on which my ego feeds. Blessed'are they who make it known 1 can make decisions on my own. Blessed are they who hear what I say And know that I still am seeking a way To be somebody to have my day Before the world's pleasures have faded away. ( >n Sunday morning April 2nd there was a line turn out to the 'Pancake Breakfast' and it followed 't-ruliil number at church. The choir sang a new song from their new choir books entitled, "Hymns for the Family God," The anthem , they Sang was, "Why should- He love me, so?" The Sunday school enjoyed their story and music by Rev. B. Ransom then they all sang a song for us. Scripture: Acts 5: 27-32; Rev. 1: 4-8, St. John 20: 19-31. Sermon: It's a Cruel World, if Christ is not in it! Announcements: On Saturday, April 8th there will be a gala evening of.dinner and music. Special guests - the Northumberland Northumberland Chapter of the Sweet Adelines, the Chapter Quartet, and the Pineridge Barbershop Quartet to be held in Newtonville United Church. Limited space is available. Dinner and performance is $16.00 each and the' show only is $6.00 each. April 15th - Youth Rally at Newlonvilie United Church beginning beginning at 9:30 a.m. Kendal Bean Supper Supper is April 16th. Tickets are available from Joyce Boudreau 797-2962 or Cathy Switzer 7 797-2630. Cost is $6.00, under 8 years $4.00. April 11th - Kendal Board Meeting 7:30 p.m. April 15th • , Dance at Soli™ llal * with the Wood's Orchestr 3 - Friday, April 28th The Couples,. Club now called The Party Animals Adult Oft-oup will be meeting in the home of Judy arid Rick Hewitt. The group will go to the performance of Bernie Martin who is staging "The Return of Joe-floss". A pot-luck supper first is contemplated, definite plans next week. What happened in Kendal on March 19th in the year 1870? Answer - Village lot 5 was purchased purchased from Theron Dickey on which to build a church. From the corner of Mill and Church Streets. It being on the east side of Church Street. Commencing at a post planted running north one chain. Thense easterly one chain and 25 links, thense southerly one chain. Thense westerly one chain and twenty-five links. The Surveyor Art The chain of sixty-six feet was the standard from which our modern measurements are taken...This unit of measure was invented in 1620 by an English mathematician, Edmund Gunter... And although the "Chain" sounds quite strange to us today, many of our modern measurements are taken from it... For example do you know why a mile is 5,280 feet? A mile is eighty chains. 80 x 66 = 5,280. And do you know why an acre happens to be 43,560 square feet? It is the sum of ten square chains: 66 x 66 x 10 = 43,560. I was looking at the original deed of the land on which Kendal Church stands. It was made out in March 1870. It is one eighth of an acre and Theron Dickey was paid $50.00 for the land, Village lot 5.' Rev. C. F. Waite has sent me some riddles from the Sunday School department: Question: Why was Job always cold in bed? Answer: Because he had such miserable comforters. S.S. Teacher: What do you think the "land flowing with milk and honey will be like? Student: Sticky. Question: What was the tower of Babel? Answer: That's where Solomon kept his wives. Pupil: Teacher, did you know that Job spoke when he was a very tiny baby? Teacher: No, where in the Bible does it say that? Answer: It says, "Job cursed, the day he was born." Question: Do you know the name of Isaiah's horse? Answer: Is Me. He said, "Woe is me." Question: Where was the devilled ham mentioned in the Bible? Answer: When the evil spirits entered the swine. Rev. C. F. Waite says: Counselling Counselling the emotionally depressed is one of the pastor's continuing jobs. Out of his experience in this area come a few simple practical rules of approaching approaching problems: 1) Never accept accept any present mood as permanent. permanent. Remember the New Englander's expression, "If you don't like our weather, wait a minute." Wait Until the present clouds roll on arid the sun shines again. 2) Tell it to somebody. A problem shared with another is a problem halved. 3) Use tension reducing exercises everything from chopping wood to jogging. 4) Link your emotions with affirmative thoughts about thè power, goodness, and greatness of God. He has seen you through in the past. He'll do it again, ,5) Set yourself, some reasonable program of action', preferably helping som.eone. else. Visit the hospital and realize you arc not as badly off as others, then express gratitude in a prayer or song. Love is still the great healing emotion and Christ the great Physician. Physician. Life is hard by the yard. But by the inch, it's a cinch. One of lhe tnosi difficult things I had to learn during basic military training was tying a tie. On one occasion, occasion, after tying and untying my tie umpteen times, I threatened, in complete frustration, to go on parade without it. One of my roommates roommates offered to help. But she said 1 would have to lie flat on my back on my bunk. "But why?" 1 asked. "Well," she said, "my father was an. undertaker and I was his helper." This and That ' (by L.R. McK.) Superfluous Words: Going down town early one morning morning in a packed car with the business people, 1 was in such close proximity to two young women that it was not possible to avoid hearing part of their conversation. One of them prefaced almost every remark she made with the words, "After all," and I am sure she must have said those words scores of times before we got to Queen Street. "After all, she's "a nice girl"; "After all, it is a sad story"; "After all, he's a married man," and so on. And I began to think of all the overworked words one hears in every-day conversation-wonderful , (this one is in tatters), streamlined, fussy, absolutely, certainly, very, darling, hangover, colorful, swell, classy, soused, strictly, positively. Let's see if we can't draw the blue , pencil through the most of these and give them a rest for a vyhile. How' about trying to find substitutes when necessary, and when nqt heeded- as is so often the case-just leaving them out of our conversation? I .am a terrific offender offender myself. From the One-Room School ■ < by M. Fair Although our school had no mailbox our mail carrier, an elderly man, visited the school daily even if he had to announce, "No mail today!" today!" I told him his visit would have to be at recess. I'm- sure this meant that the rest of the route got their mail late. He , knew all the gossip of the route, some of which he learned from the mail. This was common knowledge but he was a neighbour so people accepted his failing. One day 'with a special knowing look on his face he handed me a letter in a hand writing I did not know. He said, "You'll be interested in this." Then he waited for me to open the letter. Something told me not to open it. He waited until I rang the recess bell a little early to get rid of him. Back of the farm where I boarded lived two elderly bachelors. (.They looked elderly to me but were probably probably in their forties.) One of them made regular evening trips to our farmhouse but the thought never entered my mind that I was the reason. When I opened Ihe letter aller lotir I was astonished to read a proposal of marriage from this bachelor! He promised me a settlement settlement of $10,000 in my own name if 1 would marry him. This was riches beyond my wildest dream. But I was not pleased - I was filled with anger and embarrassment I knew the rural teacher had many duties v but this wasn't one of them. St. Saviour s Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. ORONO GATES OF PRAISE BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono, Ontario Inter-Faith Full Gospel SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry Rév. Margaret F. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE ' Minister: Rev. Fred-Milnes Organist: ;. Orono Joyce Gray Organist: Kirby Mrs. Martha Farrow Secretary: Marlene Risebrough REGULAR SERVICES' April 9, 1989 Kirby 9:30 a.m. Orono ' 11:00 a.m. Guest Speaker Marion Miinës, , EXPLORERS Wednesday, April'5, 1989 6:30 p.m.' Main Hall, Orono United Church