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-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday,October 4, 1989 ©rono IBeettfp Stmes Second Oass Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Kvery Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Street, Orono RoV V. Forrester. Editor * Not me -1 should be exempt The Town of Newcastle has joined the refrain with all other municipalities within the Greater Toronto area calling for the provincial government to do away with the proposed Commercial Concentration Tax that is to be applied to all commercial parking lots and garages. The tax is to come into effect on January 1st, 1990 and will cost the Town some $50,000 for their three parking lots in Bowmanville on an annual annual basis. The Town of Newcastle is calling for an exemption for such municipal owned parking lots and garages. The move by the Town was predictable even though they themselves at the same meeting increased fees and charges much abovè the rate of inflation for services including including rezoning applications etc. Also sometime ago the Town set a fee for road name changes to curb the flood of such applications that were coming from the former Clarke Township area. The provincial tax, when announced during the past provincial budget had two purposes. One - to raise funds for transportation costs that have been skyrocketing due to increasing increasing road traffic and two - to set a course to discourage the use of the automobile or truck and thus reduce transportation transportation costs both for the province, the municipalities and for the public. If such does happen it will also reduce the pollution pollution of the environment. Municipalities should in fact be supporting the move for it is to their interest but this is looking too far into the future and there is only concern for what coins we presently jingle in our pockets. The automobile is one of the most expensive modes of transportation for everyone and one of the most damaging to the environment. One car one passenger is the norm especially on the shorter trips. Surely the tax may encourage some pooling and the use of public transportation if parking costs become exorba- tant. The tax is a step in this direction and one that will help to restrict the use of the uneconomical mode of transportation. transportation. We have to look to the long-term objective. It has much more meaning than just moaning and saying "Not Me Charlie." And this brings up the question of VIA rail service between between Peterborough, and Toronto which is possibly to be derailed by the Federal government. Certainly economics is something to be concerned about and 140 passengers daily is hardly no more than a warm up for the diesel economically let alone running the distance between the two centres. The rail line is a natural avenue of access between the two localities and those inbetween but both provincial and municipal planning failed in taking advantage ofthis line and the federal government as Well "failed in improving the service through modernization. There has been no resonsible dialogue between the parties involved in bringing some form of reason to development. As a result we all lose and the fight to survive is one of reaction rather than proaction. . The success of rail access is well demonstrated throughout the larger centres in the world. We have not even been able to learn by example and continue to race around after the developers who have actually been undertaking the initiative, to their bençfit, to make the planning decisions. It was interesting to read recently that black ducks in an area in Nova Scotia were suffering from lead poisoning. The particular area had always been free from hunters so there was no lead shot as a contaminant. But the area was next to a major highway intersection and over the years the exhaust from the internal combustion engine had causes the pollution in the large pond area. It is an indication of the pollution and ijts related cost to society. Its the same problem all over in a number of fields energy hut one and the building larger and larger generating stations at billions of dollars. Conservation is considered lightly when possibly even the supply of energy effieientaji- pliances would cost no more than to create more mega-watts of electricity through nuclear power. Unfortunately in the initial initial stages, its on the downside of economics, and is shoved to the back burner. " Giving the local Museum a boost We all have a opportunity this Saturday and Sunday to give the local Clarke Museum and Archives Board a boost towards their plan for an new needed addition at their Kirby site. The plans sound interesting and challenging.. The Museum is holding a book sac and state they have a lot to offer. The price for the books are right and then it does go toward a good and interesting project. Kendal News earth's vain shadows flee In file and death, O Lord abide with me. Perennial The world is full °J miracles And not the least <>j these Are bulbs I plant in autumn Beneath the drifting leaves. I feel a strange excitement As / place them in the sod-- Committing them, in dark and cold, To do the will of God. The sunny days grow shorter now October's breath is chill My faith by definition is-- Bulb equals daffodil! Norma Weuthersby Blank Shreveport, Louisiana Sunday morning October the first was a perfect sunny day. We were pleaded to have Mr. Donald Fonk of Woodstock worshipping with us at the morning service with his wife and Sheila. They had brought his grandmother Mrs. E. Foster home after visiting her daughter Judy for a couple of weeks. In the morning service the choir sang, "This is the day the Lord hath made." We also sang, "Happy Birthday to Mrs. Catherine Switzer. The sermon was entitled, "Mission in a Struggle." This was followed by World Wide Communion. The first frost on Monday night September 25 killed all my dahlias. However, a fine yellow chrysanthemum chrysanthemum and my petunias and gladiolias are still flowering. This is the week of coloured leaves. Plant your tulip bulbs this week. - Last week 1 decided to begin my news with a joke. You would not be expecting one so soon. If you got ■ the point at the end, the first time you read it; you have an IQ. of one hundred. If not, read it again, out loud and when you get the joke we'll say you have an l.Q. of fifty. The young R.C.A.F. Canadians that wanted to take ■ the Officer's ' training course at Belleville had first to try an l.Q. test. Only those with a high l.Q. were allowed to train. Before the United States entered the war there was a young American who came over, hoping to train in Canada for the R.C.A.F. He passed the test with one hundred per cent., In other words he was a genius. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Burwash of Font Hill, Ontario visited with Mrs. A. Cathcart the past weekend. Mr, & Mrs. Bernie Martin entertained entertained his mother from near London, London, Ontario. A Sunday school teacher asked, "How many would like to go to heaven?" All the class put up their hand but one little boy. "Don't you want to go to heaven,when you die Sammy?" "O yes! But I thought you were getting up a gang to go right now." The morning of September the fifteenth was a perfect morning , after the heavy rain during the night. I walked to the hilltop to look out on the lake. I had an uncle who lived lived at Wesleyville. He said, "If you ever watched the sun rise on Lake Ontario you would never sleep in another morning." When 1 was in training on the R.C.A.F. station at Trenton, late in. the fall we marched' in two, three miles to a high school for classes. We could talk along the way. It was a misty morning. The sun rose over the lake, One girl said, "Isn't that the most perfect picture you ever saw?" "No" another girl replied, "Not a . perfect picture without mountains," It was easy knowing which province was her hoYne. In Ottawa two ladies were talking. talking. One was moving to B.C. The other said, "They do have a lot of rain and fog I hear." A,little girl listening said, "1 come from B.C." 'So one of the ladies asked, "What's the weather like?" The little girl replied, "Wc have a lot of rainbows." rainbows." Let us be like the little girl. Look for the rainbows,, Abide With Me When Henry Francis Lyle a minister of the Church of England wrote this hymn for his parishioners he undoubtedly had little thought of its use in the world church in later years. Sickness had followed ' him all his years. A visit to a dying brother minister, inspired him to write his autobiography in the remarkable hymn, "Jesus I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee: Naked, poor, despised, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be." He wrote and published a small volume of poems among therri, "Praise my soul, the king of heaven." Little did he dream that a century later a future Queen of England, Elizabeth 11 would choose this as the opening hymn of her wedding to Lieut. Philip Mount batten,'because batten,'because it had been sung at the wedding, of her own parents King George VI and Queen.Elizabeth. He took charge in 1823 of a seashore parish Brixham, in Devonshire. Devonshire. There amid' rough seafaring men he toiled for twenty-four years till his death. He gathered a Sunday • School of several hundred scholars. Always being of delicate health he was obliged to spend his winters ' in thg warmth of Southern Europe. Greatly weakened on the 4th of . September 1847 he was about to leave,England, when he decided to preach' once more to his beloved people. After the service he walked down to.the seashore* and in the . gathering darkness soûght the benediction of the'Eternal upon his closing life and ministry., The sinking sinking sun over the sea was a symbol of his, owrt eventide. He was inspired to write the'loved Christian hymn. It was completed the same evening and handed to a friend. The following following day his spirit took' its flight to God. . The message is taken from the entrancing entrancing Easter story of the two believers who invited Jesus to their country home pleading, "Abide with us for it is towards evening and the day is now far spent." His matchless verses pass on to rhark the swiftness of life's, day, its foes and fears. It begins with the verse: Abide with me fast falls the eventide The darkness deepens Lord, with me abide When other helpers fail and comforts flee Help of the helpless, O abide with ' me And reaches it climax with Hold Thou thy cross before my • closing eyes Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies Heaven's morning breaks and St. Saviour's Anglican Church MIL' STREET ' ORONt, 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 Rev. Margaret F. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE n|S8F Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes 983-5502 Secretary: Marlene Risebrough Orono Organist: Stella Morton Kirby Organist: Martha Farrow OCTOBER 8, 1989' Thanksgiving Sunday Kirby Service and Sunday School . 9:30 a.m. Orono Service and Sunday School 11:00 a.m. EXPLORERS Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. All girls ages 8 - 11 are invited. Orono United Church Hall BIBLE STUDY Every Wednesday Ladies Group 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Mixed Group 8:00 6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. This week meeting at the Manse. For further information call 983-5508.