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8-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 26, 1989 From Around the Region Bethany Hills Hunt club hosts trials The Bethany Hills Hunt Club hosted their eighth horse trials recently at Gage Valley Farms, east of Cobourg. One hundred competitors from Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba took part in the event along with Edie Travis who competed for Canada in Los Angeles in 1984. Threatens to move the Edwards from Cobourg Zachary Ringas, owner of the Edward, tied up at the docks in Cobourg and used as a restauraunt threatens to move to Kingston if a proposed addition is not passed shortly. The Edward has a formal dining room for 60 along with deck dining for 140 customers. Ri'ngas now wishes to enter phase 2 converting cabin space into 20 bed and breakfast units. Port Hope encouraging tourism in Town Port Hope is meeting with some success in attracting tourism to the Town on a day-basis. With the development of more bed and breakfast units it is expected expected that visitors will stay longer. Jobless rate increases in Port Hope-Cobourg The jobless rate in the Cobourg- Port Hope area increased in June to 6.4 percent which compares with the provincial rate of 4.9. The National National average was 7.5 percent. The Cobourg employment centre placed 84 persons in June 1989 compared wih 104 in June of 1988. Serious about NHL hockey in Port Hope Counc. Ron Smith of Port Hope has gained enough support from council that an application has been made to the NHL for a franchise for the Town. Smith points out a market of 700,000 people in the area which would include those living in Peterborough Peterborough and Lindsay. Smith feels that the .financial aspects could well fall into line if the support is there and it would include include a 18,000 arena complex. Cobourg bidding for Olympic Yacht race Cobourg, with a shot in the dark, has made a bid to host the 1996 . Olympic yatching competitions. Their hopes rest on having one of the nicest harbours on the lake. Coburg girl places second in provincial event Krissy Worden, 13, of Cobourg placed second in the juvenile division division of the recent Ontario Junior Ladies' Golf Championships held at the Kawartha course in Peterborough. Peterborough. Krissy was competing against 49 other hopefuls in her division from all across Ontario. Krissy has b$een playing golf for five years. Students need summer jobs for education The Northumberland County's social services committee was told recently that there is a need for a summer recess from school so that students can earn money to further their higher education. The statement was made in a presentation opposing the possible development of a full-year school term. - Hearing told waste ! seeping from dump §>: An environmental assessment > hearing board has been told at a :# hearing in Cobourg that contaminated contaminated seepage from the • $ Cobourg Eagleson dump is nearing farmland and flowing at à rate of 30 metres a year. Cobourg has outlined plans for measuring the spread and established established an early warning system to signal any threat to neighbouring properties. properties. Horsemen and track have come to terms Harness Horsemen and the Kawartha Kawartha Downs Raceway have come to terms on a contract between the two parties. Last Saturday the Ontario Sire Stakes were held at the track for the first time since 1986. Province provides $117,500 for library The Minstry of Culture and Communications is to provide $117,500 to the Oshawa McLaughlin Library for renovations renovations to include proper facilities for the preservation of its valuable Canadiana collection. The collection includes many items relating to the history of Oshawa as well as an original 1975 edition of Samuel Hearne's "A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean". Liberal Picnic, Camp Samac, August 11th David Peterson, Premier of Ontario, Ontario, will be present at the area liberal picnic to be held this year at Camp Samac on August 11th, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The ridings of Durham Centre, Durham East and Oshawa are cosponsoring cosponsoring the event. "Good Bears" travelling roads with O.P.P. All O.P.P. cruisers in the Peterborough Peterborough District including Newcastle Newcastle are now equipped with "Good Bears". The cuddly little Good Bears are used to comfort children in traumatic situations. The Good Bears have been provided through the generosity of of Telephone Pioneers Association of America and Good Bears of the World- Fergus/Elora den. To use warehouse for school classrooms The Durham Separate School Board intends this September to make use pf a warehouse for the housing of high school students in Whitby. The building, located in the Thickson Industrial Mall would be used the rest of this year and in ' 1990. Board wants a surtax on non-recyclable packaging Durham Recycling Centre Inc. would like to see legislation passed that would reduce household waste through a surtax on non-recyclable packaging and unnecessary packaging. packaging. The board is to approach both the federal and provincial government government on this issue. The Recycling Centre has also established a four-person committee committee to look into the matter of Continuing Continuing With Durham Recycling Centre Centre for the curbside pickup and handling of recyclable items. Pilot project in kitchen waste disposal According to Helen MacDonald, R.R. 1, Newtonville, a pilot project is to be undertaken early this fall on compositing kitchen waste at individual individual homes. Last week MacDonald was looking looking for interested home owners who would agree to take part in the pilot project where kitchen waste would be weighed and placed in a conr- positing unity be constructed in the backyard fey Durham Recycling Centre Inc. She said-a number of pilot pro-,, jects would be undertaken in Newcastle. Tli e Centre wiu monitor the results of Ibe project. Port Hop# and Hope Township agree on land Port Hope and Hope Township have come to agreement on boundary boundary adjustments that will allow 650 acres of Flope Township to be incorporated incorporated into Port Hofee. Port Hope would pay the Township some $900,000 by 1995 for the land to let Port Hope grow. Newtonville girl off to Florida Five-year-old Lindsay Walter of Newtonville is off to Florida in August to compete at Miami Beach in the model division of the 25th Miss Hemisphere Pageant. Generous donations from the public are covering the cost of the trip for Lindsay and the purchase of necessary outfits for the pageant. Lindsay will present an original 30-second commercial as part of the contest. Farmers badly in need of rain for crops The heat has been on farm crops during the month of July and with the lack of rain, in this area, over the last thirty days, a serious condition condition is arising for farm crops. The weather has affected strawberry production and now the hay crop. John Finlay, Minister of Agriculture representative for Durham, has said that there hasn't been rain since June 20th. Corn has started to wilt and later yields of peas have been affected. Ontario Hydro donates $100,000 to Pickering Hospital At $20,000 a year, Ontario Hydro will contribute a total of ' $100,000 to the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital building fund. The Hydro contribution will be used used to help build a new fracture treatment clinic in the expanded hospital's emergency and ambulatory ambulatory patient care department. WOODS, WATER AND WILDLIFE by Marion Strebig Nature in the City Normally we don't think of the centre of a busy city as an ideal setting setting for wildlife. But there are some species which have adapted remarkably to city conditions. Every May, from the window of my downtown apartment, I watch and listen for the return of the Chimney Swift. Once they return, I listen morning and evening for their feverish chittering high overhead, as they hawk for insects. In towns and cities, the Chimney Swift has taken advantage of man-made columns, columns, like chimneys and airshafts for nesting and roosting, to replace its traditional nesting places in large hollow trees. Chimney Swifts are creatures of the air; during the day they literally never touch the ground. In the spring, spring, when «they return with the swallows, they are easy to pick out from the swallows, even when they are high above. They have stubby little bodies and long, narrow wings which appear to. beat alternately, rather than together. But they are energetic and acrobatic flyers, gliding, turning and then, wings * beating, suddenly accelerating. Their nests are little shelves attach- ed to the rough edges of the chimney lining. Even the chicks, which are born naked and blind, are • soon able to cling fast to the nest or to the rough edges of the brick. When the Chimney Swifts are winding down from a day of .insect catching on the wing ' other intrepid high flyers begin their rapid erratic flight in search'of insects. On a summer night in the city, there is nothing quite like the explosive plonk of the Nighthawk's dive, or the high-pitched "Peent peent" of its call. This relative of the Whip- poor-will gathers, in its widely gaping gaping mouth, all sorts of insects as it flies. . ■ Like the, Chimney Swift, the Nighthawk has maduse of man's reordering of the world. Since it is a ground nester which' makes no real nest, the Nighthawk, has found suitable nesting areas on the numerous flat, gravelled rooves we have provided. Here both the female and the eggs blend so well that they are virtually invisible. Last summer I had a call from a worker who, in the course of laying new electrical cable for a buildirig, used the roof for storage of extra cable. On the roof, she had almost stepped on a perfectly camouflaged bird, apparently brooding eggs. The description fit the Nighthawk. The workers madé no attempt to move the stored cable until they were sure that the eggs had hatched. I had told her that I thought it unlikely the mother would abandon the nest once the chicks were hatched. hatched. After the hatching, the workers carefully moved the coil of cable without the mother leaving the . area. For the next couple of weeks I got regular reports on the progress . of the small family until the one surviving chick was fledged. Observers were astonished at the mother's ability to withstand the intense intense heat of last summer, sitting hour after hour in the broiling sun, mouth agape, panting. She never left the nest until evening when the male apparently returned to feed the chicks and the female cut loose to swoop and glide and gather insects. insects. Although these two species make good use of man-made structures for nesting, the Atlas of Breeding Birds of Ontario shows that both birds are widely distributed throughout the province, outside urban areas. If you have been unaware of these acrobats of the pir, Watch for them and listen for their calls. 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