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Orono Weekly Times, 29 Mar 2000, p. 10

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and re-christen it with something something more patriotic. Thus, tho town of Swastika renamed itself Winston, to honour Winston Churchill, the man whose image was about as far from Adolf Hitler as it was possible to get. Hère we are in a new millennium. millennium. The Beast of Berlin has been dead for better than half a century and yet his malevolent effect tin a morsel of graphic art lives on. Aside from skinheads and bikers 'With low foreheads, the very sight of the swastika still inspires revulsion wherever it arises. Pity. It's a fine emblem with (aside from one brief historical historical blotch) an honourable pedigree. I hope one day we can reclaim it and return it to its rightful significance. Of course it will take guts. The kind of guts I wish I'd had when I had a chance to buy that Acadian quilt. f. The Rainbow Trout, currently making their way up the Orono Creek, can not get past the Orono Mill Pond Dam. ours) that, in the 1920's, the stark and simple design with a history of positive associations associations caught the eye of a demented paperhanger from Austria. Hitler appropriated the swastika, claiming it as an emblem of Aryan superiority. Amazing what power a simple simple symbol can have. Away back in the early years of the twentieth century, gold seekers and hard rock miners settled in a small community community in Northern Ontario, near Kirkland Lake. They called it Swastika, and Swastika Tt was for the next for the next 40 years, until loathing for the Nazi dictator persuaded the town fathers to bury the name of their town by Arthur Black A CROSS TOO HEAVY TO BEAR A long time ago, in another another life, I was lucky enough one summer to take a gypsy trip right across Canada. Fetched up one day in a tiny town the name of which I don't remember, near the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border. border. Acadian country. The French started pioneer colonies here back in the late 1500's, It's still very French. The day 1 passed through that nameless was market day. The people were out in throngs. There were fiddlers and dancers. There were booths and stalls all along the main street and townsfolk were offering jams, jellies, preserves, woodcarvings, folk art doodads for the front yard. And in one stall, quilts. Including the most beautiful quilt I had ever laid eyes on. It was blinding white, with a single jet-black emblem repeated over and over. The quilt was meticulously Stitched; impeccably finished...! finished...! had just one small problem with it. The repeated black* design that wàs repeated repeated all over the quilt? Swastikas. The crooked cross that Hitler and his thugs made world famous. The beautiful quilt was covered covered with swastikas. Needless to say, 1 didn't buy it. Some of my best friends, etc. - and anyway, who would want to be associated associated in any way with the sin-, gle most repellent symbol of the twentieth century? Not me, Jack. And I had to won der about what Nazoid thoughts might be percolating among the citizenry in that bucolic little burg. Turns out I was overly paranoid, as usual. The Acadians knew, instinctively perhaps^ that the swastika was ■ a revered symbol thousands of years before the world ever heard of Nazis, Ancients in India drew swastikas to represent represent the trajectory of the sun across the sky. Ovér generations, generations, the ' swastika evolved into a kind of stylized solar wheel, an emblem of the sun's puréness and power of regeneration. Swastikas have appeared on Persian carpets, as garlands around the sacred Buddha - even on Greek and, Cretan coins of antiquity. Here in North America, Indians used dyes and pigments pigments to trace swastikas onto petroglyphs. Near as anthropologists anthropologists can figure, the New World swastika represented the four directions - the ones we call north, south, east and west. There's even a Gentile connection connection tq the swastika. In the time of the Romans, underground underground Christians disguised their familiar cross as a swastika to avoid religious, pérsecution. Billy Graham and the swastika? Hard to picture. Nevertheless, it can't be denied that the swastika has a long and honourable history as a symbol of peace and fruitfulness. It was the swastika's bad fortune (and THE NATURAL NUT HEALTH SHOP Free Evening Seminars, Wednesday, April 5 - Wholistic Psychotherapy (Core Energetics), Speaker - Sue Valentine, BA., MEd.; 7:00 p m. - 8:00 p.m. at 53 King St. E., Bowmanville, 2nd floor - 1st side door. We require advance sign-up, call 697- 9950. FOUR SEASON GARDEN TOUR Love to garden? Love to see other gardens? There will be a self-directed garden tour throughout Durham Region, highlighting highlighting numerous gardens from Beaverton to Oshawa, Pickering to Newcastle; and places in between. The gardens will be open on one Saturday in May, June, July and September from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and signs will mark each garden. Ticket price, which covers all four dates and includes detailed maps and written directions to all gardens, attractions and restaurants, is $20.00. The tour is presented by District 17 of the Ontario Horticultural Association. Call Lorna 983-5608 for tickets and further information. information. HISTORY OF POLICING On April 3rd at 7:30 p.m. in the Lions Room at the Newcastle Community Hall, My no Van Dyke, retired Police Officer, writer and historian will speak on the history of policing in Newcastle. Everyone is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served and a collection will be taken. ORONO SKATING CLUB CARNIVAL . Look for a special mystery guest at this years Orono Skating Club Carnival on April 1st. ' V J ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ GOLF CLUB ♦♦♦♦ Corner of Taunton Rd. E. & Bethesda Rd„ Bowmanville, Ontario • 263-2293 I'M after 12 S2L40 $16.05 $55.00 $40.00 $45.00 Walking Senior Walking Junior 2 People & Cart AM $32.10 $26.75 $70.00 Mon-Thurs Special: 2 People & Cart - Saturday Special: 2 People & Cart -- , Golf Salas Gloves regularly $8.95 now 3 for $20 e ' Golf Bags from $59.95 Cart Bags regularly $169.95 now $119.95 11 piece sets frorn $199.95 Bzeaklasi All Day Bacon & Eggs $2.75 plus tax Lunch Special Hot Hamburg $2.50 plus tax Eat In/Take Out Fish & Chips $3.95 + tax 2 Fish & CMps $5.95 + tax ne for tee in advance after 8 a.m.

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