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School N&APi St. Stephen's news by Lee-Anne Leslie on one of the scheduled exam days. Students will be listen- New this year at St. ln M to 94.9 FM on the radio Stephen's are "The Royal for information of this sort. Singers". They are a group of Recently, a new program talented girls led by Ms. was approved by the School Heffernan and they will sing Board. The Haiti Outreach songs of many sorts for all to Program is underway. Many hear. With serious practice, fundraising ideas will be put they intend to compete and into action to help support perform in the surrounding and raise both money for and communities. By the time you awareness of the third world read this, their first perfor- country of Haiti. Four indi- mance will have taken place viduals including two stu- on January 20th at the Grade dents, Amy Schumann and 8 Open House held at St. Simone Black; a teacher, Stephen's Secondary School. Miss McCarron; and our I hope you've heard some chaplain, Ms. Ross will be good reviews from those who travelling to Haiti for a week's were in attendance. stay over the March Break. As the Grade 8 students This endeavour is undertaken prepare for secondary school, hi order to help out those less both secondary and Grade 8 fortunate than ourselves, teachers are working to The music department is ensure that their years spent al so organizing a trip under at St. Stephen's will be sue- the direction of Miss cessful and rewarding. It's Harrison. The group will trav- always better to start off on to Boston for four days in the right foot and attending May. Permission forms and the annually held Open deposits are currently being House is a perfect opportun!- collected and the students ty for this During this are getting excited. This is the evening both. Grade 8 stu- }f nth annual music trip and dents and their parents get a ^ is anticipated that it will first hand opportunity to ° n Ç e again be not only fun, become familiar with the a great learning expert school and receive informa- en S5' , , , tion about the courses and The drama department will opportunities available at St. be holding auditions during Stephen's. Making decisions the first week of February for about secondary school is a students who wish to partic- major step in a student's edu- We in the production of "An cation. Evening of one Act Plays". Currently the students at This is yet another produc- St. Stephen's are busy tion directed by Mr. Sheridan, preparing for Semester One Head of our Drama final exams which are less Department. In order to audi- than a week away. The exams tion, students must memo- run from January 28 till rize and deliver a pre selected February 2. The following two monologue and be prepared days are P.A. days but they to improvise according to may be used for exams if directions that may be given, busses are unable to get Good luck to all aspiring through due to snow or ice thespians! Capitol Theatre presents Lome Elliott: Feb. 4th The Capitol Theatre pre- Lome Elliott's stage persona, sents LORNE ELLIOTT: The a contrast of crazed intellec- Collected Mistakes II, Friday, tual and extravagant fool is February 4th at 8 p.m. both outlandish and charm- Tickets are $22.50. ing. The performance is an Humourist, storyteller, evening of comedic mayhem comedian and musician, and superbly silly perfor- Canadian bom Lome Elliott mance art. has performed all across This performance is spon- Canada, the U.S. and sored , by Long, Kerr & Australia. His well-crafted Elmsley Insurance, and is the show of comedy and music first performance in the theatre is totally original, Spring Series sponsored by entertaining and uplifting. Textron Automotive. "THE COLLECTED MISTAKES MISTAKES II" is a one-man performance performance of humour, storytelling storytelling and music. The script is a work of thought-provoking thought-provoking contemporary satire: witty, clever and fast-paced. Orono Weekly Times. Wednesday, January 2ft, 2000- 11 PARLIAMENT Alex Shepherd I can't remember a time when so many people contacted contacted my office, as they did last week, to renounce the move by the federal government government to subsidize Canadian Bryden, chairman of the NHL teams. Ottawa Senators, Ken Your outrage was some- Diyden, president and gener- thing akin to the backlash al manager of the Toronto Rogers cable television wit- Maple Leafs, Harley nessed when they tried to Hotchkiss, vice chairman of push consumers around by the Calgary Flames, Ron putting a negative billing Corey, president of the option in place. Montreal Canadians and And like that Rogers fiasco , Gary Bettman, the commis- all of you who stood up to be sioner of the NHL. counted got the NHL decision After that meeting MPs reversed as well. were not convinced subsidiz- The point is people right ing the NHL was something across Canada, including the federal government some residents in Ottawa, should be getting into. The didn't want to see their hard- conclusion a lot of MPs came earned money going to subsi- to. I being one of them, was dize millionaires who employ that many of the financial millionaires. problems facing the NHL are Average player salaries in of the owners making. It has the NHL are now reaching nothing to do with taxpayers approximately $1.2 million. or the government. I don't want to wax anyone I also concluded - and nostalgic but I think back to found it hard to believe - that when I was a kid, and a Mr. Bryden failed to have a young man, following hockey. coherent business plan before Players like Keon, Baun, building the Corel Centre. A Bower, Armstrong, all stars business plan that should in their own right, worked for have taken into account exist- the same, or a little more, ing tax rates and payrolls in than the rest of middle class U.S. dollars. Canada. We respected them History repeats itself. But if and saw them as one of us. you're not paying attention It's not the same now. how do you learn? Remember If you're not an employee when taxpayers' money went of a large corporation, or a to build a new arena in client of one, forget about tak- Winnipeg to house the ing the family to the Air Winnipeg Jets? Canada Centre. There aren't The federal government, any Leaf tickets available. agreed to let the City of Last April I met with Rod Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba use federal infrastructure infrastructure money to build the complex. We received many calls in my constituency office against it, but that is how the province wanted to spend their (yours) portion of the money. At the time I wrote in my column, "I hope the taxpayers in that province are served well by their provincial and municipal politicians and their decision. Only time will tell." Now it's a few years later and the City of Winnipeg has the arena. The Winnipeg Jets are now in that great metropolis of winter sport Phoenix, AZ. It's shameful the Cabinet didn't listen to caucus. My understanding is that there was next to no support for the NHL subsidy. There wasn't last April. Health care, housing, education, education, productivity, family farms, the East and West Coast fisheries, these are the issues facing Canadians. These should be the government's government's priorities. Small and medium-sized businessmen and women struggle everyday to make a living and meet a payroll. They are pretty much the last bastion of pure entrepreneur- ship because they take 100 per cent of the risk making their businesses work. Canada's corporate elite could well learn a lesson from them. Luckily the federal government government hasn't lost all its marbles. marbles. Canadians are dead set against subsidizing fat cat team owners and they made the government reverse a very stupid decision. The. decision to support NHL team owners should never have been made. Used by RCMP A division of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uses AMSOIL products to keep cruisers on the road, improve performance and cut costs. The "Re-Life Program" has saved the Deas Island Highway Patrol and the E division Transport section, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police more than $650,000 and AMSOIL synthetic motor oils and filters are part of the program according to Blue Line (Aug/Sept 1999). "In May 1998," writes Blue Line, "E division division of the RCMP was hit with a major blow to the budget. Several million dollars needed to be cut. The result for both Transport Section and Police detachments was that vehicles needed to be kept longer and maintained better. In the past a vehicle would be driven 120,000 km with basic maintenance only, then replaced. In order to meet new fiscal restraints, the same vehicles are now required to go an additional 150,000 km before replacement. Preventive maintenance has become key to increasing the life of the vehicle." Also motivating the division to go beyond basic maintenance was Chevrolet's decision to stop production of the Caprice, a vehicle the officers wanted to keep in service. The goal, then, was three-fold: keep the Caprices in service service longer than vehicles had ever been kept by the division before, maintain and improve their performance and meet tight budgetary guidelines. guidelines. "The Caprice at 130,000 to 150,000 km of hard police use with basic maintenance... showed worn suspension, the power had decreased and the braking efficiency wds down." "The challenge was to' determine what preventive preventive maintenance would have thé most benefit benefit in order to extend the life of the Caprice without compromising performance or officer safety" at a cost of $8000 to $10,000 per vehicle. vehicle. "The engine, transmission, rear diff and power steering [of three test vehicles] were flushed and AMSOIL synthetic oils and filters were installed. AMSOIL synthetics are rated as #1 in the marketplace, and this added extra savings savings because oil service periods could be extended. It lubricates better and most importantly importantly it withstands higher operating temperatures temperatures better than conventional oils." "The test vehicles showed improved performance performance and handling and as a result, a decision decision was made to expand the Re-Life Program to make it available to RCMP Detachments throughout the prôvince of British Colombia." "As of January 1999, thirty 1994/95/96 Chevrolet Caprice vehicles have been re-fitted from Ft. Nelson to Vancouver Island. There has been nothing but favourable comments in the improved handling and overall performance of the vehicles." , ' For more information call your local Amsoil dealer 623-7107 or no charge 1-800-660-4358