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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 21, 1989-3 Celebrated first birthday BLACK, Carl Robert Thomas Big brother Carman helped Carl Grandsons of Ken and Joan celebrate his first birthday on June Gimblett of L'eskard. 17th with mom and dad in Calgary. fove from your family. Last week in this column I outlined outlined some of my interests in a six-day outing at the Queen University Biological Station on Opinicon Lake and noted an interest in a session session on Geology. Now I'm not interested in rocks to any great extent and was not too keen on the subject, as it appeared on the agenda. I was not aware of the course the lecture would take or that recent events as to present conditions on this planet would have as to my thoughts on the subject. Today there is the matter of the Ozone Layer which is deteriating and pbssibly resulting in drastic Letter to the Editor Garbage Tax Dear Mayor Hubbard: Welcome home do hope you had a good trip. •| I am so pleased to read that my '. old home town, Toronto, is : honourable, has seen fit to meet its obligations and is rebating on the much discussed garbage tipping fees | at Brock. As stated by Town Staff and reported in the Statesman approximately approximately $62,000 per month or $744,000 for the year (or is it seven months equalling $454,000) will be changing living conditions. There is also a host of other environmental problems that we seem to be facing that again have damaging results for that which survives today including including man. We have noted great change in i this land over the past few decades which really do not have to be listed. It was with this background that a professor took us through some 2.5 million years in a three hour session. session. The major portion of the session session dealt with a period (basically in the Kingston area) dating back to some 20,000 years ago, a short period back in history if one considers considers the 2.5 million year span. The outline of glaciation over this period and the resulting land formations formations and deposits was interesting interesting as was the development of the waterways as we now know them in both Canada and some of the northern states. The Wisconsin Glaciation, the latest, ended its influence on the landscape only a mere 9000 years ago. 9000 years is a long time measuring measuring on the life span of man but as to the existance of this planet it is but a fraction of a minute. So much has evolved in that 9000 years that really it is mind-boggling and we are but a part of it for a fraction of a planet second. We shall move from glaciation to the only flying mammal - the bat. This subject consumed another night session and we sat in a classroom with three bats, a big brown and two small browns, the latter the common bat, flying about us in the room. Of course we all put on a nonchalant nonchalant air as if the bats didn't exist as they flew from end to end. But here again the subject was interesting. interesting. After, the session the instructor, instructor, who had trapped 45 bats the night before, and painted flores- rebated to our Town. Taking the. lessor amount the residential and commercial rebate should be a minimum of$30.00 this year. To save the additional cost to the Town of mailing these rebates to every taxpayer, may I suggest...Taxpayers just deduct the rebate from their final tax bill payment payment this September and the Town staff stamp our tax bills "Paid in Full, Thank You". , ■ . Sincerely, Lorraine Lover cent dust on a section of their wings, let them go in the outdoors. We were able to trace the course of the individuals as they skirted around the trees in the dark of night. . , Since returning I was telling Len Pears about this experience and how their sensors are so acute that they have no trouble in flying in the dark and in missing objects. Len then related on an article in which bats were capable of flying through a wall fan without injury. No doubt a two blade fan. In a session on insects we were introduced introduced to the present, newsworthy newsworthy subject of Lymes disease. A disease transmitted from, deer to humans by a tick which pupates from mice. The instructor said the destruction destruction of deer as proposed for the Long Point area is not the answer. It is stated that there is a need for further research, but at-this time all research money, or most of it, is being directed towards AIDS. Another session at the Station in which we participated', was brought to mind on Monday at council meeting. The Ministry of Government Services Services in' malting application.. for a rezonihg change to lands they own east of Mearns Avenue and north of Concession (a portion of the old Training School property) for a major major residential proposal had an Environmentalist Environmentalist present to speak in support of the proposal and what was to be done to protect the Bowman ville Creek. There had been some concerns expressed from the general public. The session at Opinicon was presented by an Environmentalist who is employed by M.M. Dillon, a consulting firm, which incidentally did the Orono hamlet plan and devised a plan for the Valleyland park. The Environmentalist noted the- Ask rezonings for over 1000 residential units On Monday through the public hearing process at the Town of Newcastle committee méeting residential proposals for Bowman- ville were seeking rezoning applications applications to allow well over 1000 residential units along with a further further multiple housing block. Masthead International Properties Properties Inc, seek rezoning to allow some 632 residential units in the south of Bowmanville through which' flows the Bowmanville creek, off'Baseline Road. The proposal includes 77 single units, .115 semi-detached, 96 townhouses, a high density block with 62 units and two apartment blocks with a total of 285 units. The proposal also includes a commercial block with 132 units on the comer of Spry Avenue with Baseline Road. Concerns were expressed to the density as well as damage to the Bowmanville Creek and its capacity for Salmon trout. Concerns have been submitted by the Public Works department as to substandard street widths and the Conservation authority notes a few areas of environmental concern. A good portion of the valley land is to be developed for passive recreation and a ball diamond. It was noted by the proponent's Environmentalist Environmentalist that the valley lands would be enhanced and the stream banks stabilized. At the present time, he said, the lands were being Used for cattle grazing. The density figure of 58.1 units per hectares, states the planning department would be unprecedented unprecedented in the Town. The application has been referred back to staff to further comment and a final report. present day concern for the environment environment and that she had been hired by M.M. Dillon to comment on environmental issues in respect with thçir undertakings. She outlined many of the features in protecting the environment and some of the projects undertaken with the means of protecting the natural aspects of the land. Wetlands were included in her presentation. It is an indication that the environment environment is gaining some significance as we, like the ice age, change the face of this planet. Clarke Museum & Archives Giant Second Hand . BOOK SALE JUNE 24 & 25 1:00 to 4:00 both days Hundreds of Books Hardpover - Paperbacks - Novels - Histories Texts - Manuals - Childrens * and more For Information 983-9243 Highway 35/115 at Reg. Rd. 9, Kirby