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" Orono weekly time*. Wednesday, March 8.20C0 )■ The Clarington Concert Band played to a generous audience Sunday afternoon, in a benefit concert to raise money for a replica Victorian Band Stand for Orono. The concert raised $1,300, which, added to the funds previously raised, brings the total very close to the $8,000 cost of constructing constructing the Band Stand, which will sit on the lawn of the Clarke Library. The Concert was held at the Orono Town Hall. Out of Africa - Part 7 , The kindness of strangers V' ° :By: Aubrey and Koren Kassirer Travelling on the cheap necessitates a certain immersion immersion in a country impossible when insulated by vehicles and hotels and packaged deals. Those people encountered along the way are the people of the country, not just the tour operators. Often getting there is more fun than being there. Severely limited in our local travel plans by the Zimbabwean diesel crisis (easily averted if the government government would pay down the large foreign debt), we finally managed a weekend away from the Howard Hospital Compound. Staying at Howard every day meant working every day, and we were all in need of a break tb appreciate the start of a new month. Unsure of the promises* promises* of the Chief Administrator, we took the certain lift that left today, rather than the possible possible rental tomorrow. We were driven to Harare on Friday morning and met the Hippo Pools owners on the way to pick up their children children from boarding school. After a rainy, bumpy, crowded crowded van ride, we arrived inside the safari area after dark. The best night of sleep since our arrival in Africa (and in our tent, no less), preceded preceded a four hour hike through the (mostly) marked bush and tall sharp grasses. Climbing an enormous Baobab tree was the highlight of the walk. Scratched and, itchy at the end of our hike, we relaxed in a pool of water, then avoided the rain on a mostly wildlife-free (but pleasantly breezy) game drive. The weekend was made by a sundowner (drink at sundown) at the Mazowe River, watching four hippopotami hippopotami doing their typical daytime daytime lazing about in the water. Later, bushbabies high up in trees and kudu and duikkers (dykers) on the ground in the distance were all seen by the gleam of their eyes in the spotlight. What followed was the worst night sleep since our arrival in Africa, due to loud music played until past three o'clock. The day was overcast and dreary, and our scheduled, afternoon canoe trip was cancelled cancelled due to rising water levels. levels. So now we had to find a way home again. If the river settled down (rainstorms upstream had raised the level by almost 1.5 metres), we could hitch a ride with two Brits involved in a natural wilderness experience in the development stage across the river. Something like Jungle Junction with larger larger game. She has some money and was inspired on an earlier trip to Zim to fundraise in England to build a local primary school so 1 the children won't have to walk over an hour each way, as they do now. The Shoiia man coordinating the wilderness area project had suddenly died of illnesses related to AIDS and she was here to get things going again. The owner of Hippo Pools had suggested we call his brother Rob Jarvis once we arrived in Harare. He often commutes to Glendale, the nearest town to Howard. But I forgot to get the number. A call across the Mazowe, fifteen fifteen minutes, and a canoe ride later I had the number in hand and we left. Unfortunately, the vehicle laboured along at 60 kph, hindered by the sediment sediment in the bottom-of-the- .barrel diesel that filled the gas tank. Once settled at a backpacker's backpacker's hostel with our tent (continued on page II) ♦♦♦♦♦♦ REALIZE YOUR POTENTIALr--INCLUDE CHIROPRACTIC Ernest Schroeder, B.Sc. D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic 7486 Thompson Road, Kendal, ON LOA 1E0 Telephone (905) 983-5510 Let us help finance your dreams! DUCA Mortgages* 6 month closed 7.25% 6 mbnth convertible ....... *. .7.25% 1 year closed 7.25% 3years closed . .7.90% 5 years closed .8.00% *Rates subject to change without notice CREDIT UNION Oshawa & Bowmanville Branches, Manager Paul Muller 15 Charles. Street Phone: (905) 728-4658 E-mail: duca.info@duca.com 136 King Street East Phone: (905) 623-6343 Internet: www.duca.com (>/1 iV i X ^ 1 ♦♦W GOLF CLUB ♦♦♦♦ Corner of Taunton Rd. E. & Bethesda Rd., Bowmanville, Ontario • 263-2293 Pro Shop IB Snack Bar Open Saturdays/Sundays 10am - 4pm 00000000 Manning Adults - $20 & tax Juniors - $15 & tax After 12 Neon Adults - $15 & tax Juniors - $1.0 & tax OPEN FOR PLAY • WEATHER PERMITTING CALL 2 DAYS IN ADVANCE FOR TEE TIMES