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Surveying your garbage Marcia Blaschke, Orono, is part of a team of students who for eight weeks this summer are undertaking a Waste/Resource Exchange survey in the Town of Newcastle. The program is sponsored by the Town with student employment funding and headed up by John Veldhuis and John Rzeszut. The students are visiting commercial commercial and industrial operations discussing their waste and waste programs and with the thought of making use of unwanted waste through a Waste/Resource exchange. exchange. All information is to be computerized computerized in an endeavour to provide provide information as to waste exchange exchange to utilize one waste for a use elsewhere. Other features of waste management management are also being discussed with operators within the Town. THEY DANCE IN THE STREET The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen held their annual Street Dance in Orono on a section of Park Street last Saturdy evening with an age-mix taking to the pavement from seven to one in the morning. The Kinettes served Hot Dogs, Beef on a Bun along with Pop Corn. There were more adults this year in attendance but the crowd was down slightly from former years. MAYOR FOR THE DAY IN NEWCASTLE Mrs. Ruth Yeo was announced as Mayor For the day in Newcastle on Monday when she took the Mayor's chair to observe the council action. The opportunity was purchased at the Clarke Museum auction held the first of July at the Orono Arena. The Orono citizen had a long session in this position with a meeting going from nine a.m. to well after three o'clock with a half hour break for lunch. Bill Bramah's Ontario People who move with the flow of nature have learned one of the great secrets of life. They don t fight or mutilate their surroundings. surroundings. They cherish ancl protect them. You sense this deeply-rooted consciousness consciousness up at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. Those who live around the Tobermory area are quietly proud proud of the gifts nature has given them and especially of their wild orchids. orchids. The district is one of the best on the continent to, see a variety of the magnificient plants that have been growing there since the last ice age. Every year from May' to' October, October, hundreds of naturalists called called "orchid hounds" travel from faraway places to see the orchids. Armed with their binoculars and cameras, they roam the trails for miles looking for some of the 48 species that may be peeking out from escarpment cliffs or nearby - limestone bedrock shores. We visited the Bruce when the yellow lady slippers were in bloom. Naturalist Mark Wiercinski was our guide. He's a lean, bearded young man who's been at one with nature since childhood. He took us to Dorcus Bay near Tobermory. The yellow lady slippers slippers were scattered in patches. There were thousands of them. Others, such as the ramshead, were harder to find. We were able to locate a couple, but also say various different kinds of , wildflowers like cytrnivourous ' insecritrapping pitcher plants. , Along the way, Mark was telling us "that the Bruce is blessed with so many species of orchids because of the varied habitats available. We went back to Tobermory and took a boat over to Flower Pot Island. There was a northwest wind blowing and Georgian Bay was rough.'Terry got some great pictures pictures of Jenny and myself bouncing jardund in the boat. After we docked, wè walked a nature trail for about a mile, and finally located what Mark had been looking for a calypso orchid. "It's one of my favorites," he said, "rare in this country, and even in North America." I've always thought of orchids as delicate flowers that have to be cultivated with care. Mark pointed out that only tropical orchids need pampering. Those thqt grow at the Bruce are hardy plants. The only pampering they get is the adulation of admirers^,' admirers^,' intrigued by the wild orchid's sheer flower power. Durham East Agri - News vrono weekly limes, Wednesday, July 19, 1989-7 Red Meat II - Details e>f Red Meat II have been announced by Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food Jack Riddell. One of the key components of the Ministry's strategic plan is to improve Ontario's competitive position in agriculture. The new Red Meat II program will contribute contribute to further advances in competitiveness competitiveness and productivity. The Red Meat Plan was introduced introduced in 1984 as a five-year program designed to boost the quality and productivity of beef and sheep industries. industries. As a result of the plan, improvements improvements have been identified in several areas. Red meat producers in Ontario have improved productivity of their beef herds and sheep flocks. Reproductive rates, weaning weights and average daily gain improved improved as a result of adopting available technology. More than 80 beef and sheep improvement improvement clubs were established across Ontario and provided invaluable invaluable service to their members. The clubs provided weigh services and sponsored educational meetings and field days to demonstrate new ideas and technology. Red Meat IT will build on the strengths of its predecessor, but it will be more extensive in scope. The program will be targeted at beef, veal, sheep and meat goat producers. producers. It will encompass genetic improvement, technological transfer, quality assurance, a farm business management association and analysis program, as well as research to ensure competitiveness within the red meat industry. This program was developed through extensive dialogue with representatives of the beef, sheep and meat goat industries and their organizations. Producers will continue continue to be involved in the development development of the program details through producer advisory committees. committees. Red Meat II will encourage the continued implementation of the techniques initiated by the Red Meat Plan. A further objective of OPP first to instal radar detectors If you're a speeder who has been using a radar detector to avoid being being caught, your false sense of security could be coming to an end. The Ontario Provincial Police will be the first police force in North America to operate radar detector detectors in an effort to deter speeding - one of the major causes of fatal motor vehicle accidents. accidents. A number of devices have been purchased for the Force's pilot project project and will be distributed to detachments throughout the province. province. Tested in the Sudbury area last year, the device identified 107 detectors during 61 hours of operation. operation. In the Oak Ridges area, 183 detectors were pinpointed during a 62 hour period. The media is invited to a demonstration Thursday, July 20, 1989 at 10 a.m. at the Downsview detachment, at Keele Street and Highway 401. Details on the device . will be available at that time and the manufacturers will be on hand to provide technical information. In 1987 and 1988, officers seized more than 10,000 radar warning devices without the aid of the device. Red Meat II is to , eventually privatize some program services. Applications for Red Meat II will be available at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 234 King Street East, Bowman ville, Ontario L1C ÎP5 by September 1989. 0R0N0 WEED CONTROL & DRIVEWAY SEALING • WEED CONTROL • FERTILIZING A • INSECT CONTROL CHINCH, GRUB, ANTS, ETC. 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