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Kendal 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1989 $19.02 a second If money is the root of all evil, there are some guys out there who should be hauled fn for an "evilizer" test. Some of the ultra-rich are richer than others, but it's breathtaking to think of any individual being worth $15 billion. But that's what Yoshiaki Tsutumi, a Japanese businessman, is , said to be worth. He is at the top of the list, a U.S. poll tells us. But some Canadians are not that far behind. Fellows such as the Reichman brothers, Ken Thomson, and K.C. Irving range from $4.5 billion to $8 billion. Ken Thomson, son of newspaper tycoon Roy, sits on an estimated $6 billion. Invested at 10 percent that much money would produce $600 million a year. That's $1,643,835.62 a day, $68,493.15 an hour, $1,141.55 a minute or $19.02 a second. So you won ten bucks last week in the lottery. A big deal. It's baffling In the spirit of high finance, as above, we find that the Town of Newcastle may not be that far behind. This week the town raised the charge of lot levies by 5.5 percent to the point of $2,974.00 for a single family and linked semi-detached residence. The existing charge had been $2,819.00. It works out to some $155.00 increase. There are four divisions in the schedule with the single families, Townhouses, and two classes of apartments. It is further further interesting that the increase is based on wfiat is called the Southam Obstruction Index. What becomes baffling is the fact that the Town hires Cam Watson and Associates to assist staff with the determination of the increase. Surely the Southam Construction Index is freely available*. Another of the governing factors surely must be necessary expenditures from the funds for municipal services. This could well vary due to what the Town sees as a need in the community. To adjust the four rates the Town budgets $19,000 to $25,000 as the estimated cost of consulting fees. With a 5.5 percent increase based on the Construction Index Index perhaps Watson should have been hired to set the fee increase increase for councillors when the rate of inflation could have been used. A neighbourly approach In a recent published interview with Gary Herrema in one of the city papers the subject was that of garbage and landfill sites. Of course the Region is investigating a site in north Pickering at Whitevale and the Regional Chairman was pointing out the millions of dollars available to Durham if they had their own site, under their control. It was apparènt that Metro would be allowed to dump in the site from which Durham would assemble most of these millions of dollars. The surprising point was that, in all likelihood, Metro would pay the full price per tonne now set at.Brock West at $85.00 per tonne. All of Durham, now using the Metro owned Brock West site, do now and.always have received a substantial rebate from the $85.00 per tonne price which wa.s recently raised from $50.00. One has to wonder what kind of a neighbour Durham is to Metro when Durham is ready to sting the big brother for full price, a price that is set far above operation costs. Lack of communication with St. Marys (Continued from page 1) be constructed in the expansion plans. Gordon White complained of increased increased noise, dust and blasting, all part of a history that -the area citizens were not pleased with. He also said that an environmental environmental assessment hearing had never been held over the operation and requested requested that any decision be withheld until such time as St. Mary's would meet with his association association to outline their plans and hear 'the citizens complaints. Other residents had similar complaints complaints to those of Wilson. Mayor Hubbard said that there were many complaints over blasting that actually moves the property and said there had been very little dialogue with St. Mary's over the years. She also said it v^as a surprise to learn recently that the company (jperated a dock on the lake which Wilson stated also brought in road salt. "What else do we not know," asked Mayor Hubbard. The Mayor was supported in that the matter be referred for a legal opinion and 'that a public meeting be held between St. Mary's, planning planning staff and the area citizens. She commented that the company company was not addressing the major concerns. It was stated at the meeting by a local resident that the dock had changed the conditions of the Bowmanville Beach and the water flow of the lake. The issue had been referred back to staff for a further report. The existing water docking facility facility extends 650 metres into the lake, was constructed between 1974 and 1979 on a'32.4 hectare Crown water lot. News Out of this life I gannoPtake Things of silver al)d gold I make; All I cherish and horde away When I depart on earth must stay. Anon Marriage Lines The first year of a marriage Holds excitement, joy and love, The bond you share together, Linked with help from God above, Each step you take in harmony Makes strong the threads you weave, Your faith and pleasure growing As you trust and not deceive Companionship and friendship Will develop through the years, And you will find life's pathway Filled with happiness, not tears. A Chinese proverb. The man who, removed the mountain began by carrying away small stones. In the thirties this writer went to the United Church Summer Camp at Oak Lake north of Belleville. One of the leaders at that camp was a Rev. H. Mellow we all liked him. The head man by the way was Rev. Roy Rickards who taught school in Kendal in 1909. In the thirties all camp leaders worked for free. Any teacher knows that means study, reading, preparing topics in other words work, not the kind of vacation vacation most of us would choose. A real sacrifice but what an opportunity opportunity to sow the good seed among teenage young folk. One of the girls I knew at camp (can't remember her name) told me years later when I met her that in the new sub-division in which she lived in Oshawa they had built a new church Northminister. They met to decide whom they would get for a minister. She suggested, "At Oak Lake Camp there was a fine young minister named Rev. H. Mellow. We all liked him. I'm sure he would attract many new families to our new church." They agreed to give Rev. H. Mellow a call. So he became their .first minister at Northminister. Northminister. . I doubt if he ever knew unless she told him why he was called to this new church. I see in the Oshawa paper that he died July 12, 1989 in his 91st year and a memorial service was held in Northminister at 7:30 p.m., July 17th. When Rev. Tommy Wallace was ill in the thirties his family needed his salary. Every Oshawa and. Bowmanville minister volunteered to come to the Newtonville Charge in turn on one Sunday afternoon each, for one union service during the winter. Each minister preached morning and evening services in his own church. I can't remember if Dr. H. Mellow took the service in Kendal or Newtonville. I remember it was a short, stout man that preached at Shiloh from Oshawa. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days. Proverb: 27:10. Perhaps Adam didn't have a funny-bone, but he sure had a lot of fun with a spare rib. He Grew His Dream by Margaret Mason Shaw Luther Burbank was born in 1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and educated there. While in his teens he read a book called Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication. It was by a scientist called Darwin, and Luther was so entrailed that he got more books by Darwin and other scientists op the same subject. This interest' became his life work. Although he worked in a factory in Worcester for a while, always at the back of his mind was the desire to experiment with plants and he saved his money to set himself up in that kind of work. When he was 21 he bought seventeen acres of land and became a market gardener, but his chief interest was in raising plants for their seeds, and in studying studying them with the idea of improving them. A few years later he moved to California where he operated a, nursery. This proved so successful that he was able to sell it and with , the proceeds to start an experimental experimental farm at Sebastopol, living at Santa Rosa not far away. This farm was the fulfilment of his dreams. There by cross-breeding and • selection he produced new varieties of vegetables, flowers and shrubs and improved old ones. In cross-breeding the pollen is collected from one plant and placed on the stigma of another of a different different species. The characteristics of both "parents". Only the best of these plants are kept for breeding again, while poor specimens are destroyed. In a few generations a new plant carries only the desired characteristics of the two parents. Burbank produced a new potato, named after him, new varieties of tomatoes, asparagus, squash and corn and improved varieties of apples, apples, peaches, cherries, quinces and nectarines. The Primus berry, a, cross between a California dewberry .and a Siberian raspberry was said to be the first fixed species, of which there was any record, directly created by man. Experiments Experiments with'plums and prunes were so successful that growers in California changed from the ones they had grown previously to the new varieties developed by Burbank. Burbank. One of his interesting crosses was between a plum and an apricot which he called a plumcot. A plum that tasted like at Bartlett pear was another development. In his work with flowers he used over 50 varieties of lilies for his cross-breeding experiments, producing producing many new varieties. Roses, petunias, dahlias, poppies and sweet peas were other flowers he improved. His shasta daisy, the result of crosses between an English daisy, a wild American daisy and a white Japanese daisy has become oné of the most popular perennials. For a number of years Burbank was a lecturer at Stanford University. University. He wrote seyeral books and articles articles on his work - among them Luther Burbank, His Methods and Discoveries; How Plants are Trained Trained to Work for Man in Eight Volumes; and collaborating with Wilbur Hall, The Harvest of the Years. , Luther Burbank died in 1926. He is remembered by a United States stamp of the famous scientists series issued in 1940. Sailor: "Waiter, bring me a glass of tomato juice for a pick up." Waiter: "Yes, sir, and what will you have for yourself?" . * St. Saviour's Anglican Church MIL' STREET ORONl . ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE • 9:30 a.m. ORONO GA TES OF PRAISE BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orojio, Ontario Inter-Faith Full Gospel * SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry Rev. Margaret F . West Res. 983-5962 Counselling ORONO Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes Organist: Orono Stella Morton Organist: Kirby Mrs. Martha Farrow Secretary: Marlene Risebrough 983-5702 SUMMER SERVICES ORONO July 23rd, 1989 Guest Speaker - Mrs. Marion Milnes KIRBY July 30th, 1989 10:00 a.m. Congregational Pot-Luck Lunch July 30th, 1989 '* NEWCASTLE August 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th * 10:30 a.m.