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Students at The Pines Senior Public School selected Kenneth Oppel's Sunwing as their entry in the Ontario Library Associations Red Maple Awards. Each student read the 10 books nominated for the award, and selected the winner from their school. The Provincial winner will be selected on May 11, 2000. The Pines' Red Maple Team are - back row, left to right - Vanessa Maynard, Derek Sellars, Andy Bangay, Katie Knapp, Jenna Hossack, Gemma Shepard, Kallie McCarthy. Front row - Britanny Tessier, Lauren Porter, Jeff Stacheruk, Jackie Rose, Rachel Pears and Whitney Monaghan. INTERACTIVE HEALTH By Pat Irwin Lycett, R.N., B.Sc., R.N.C., Electronically-assisted JadE Colour Therapies 983-9475 Organic vegetables versus commercial Researchers at Rutgers University, in the U.S., recently set out to disprove the claim that 'organic is better.' better.' Organic foods are those grown 'without the use of chemical pesticides and/or artificial fertilizers. Non-organic foods (commercial) (commercial) are grown with a variety of chemicals that enhance growth or destroy pests, many of which are known or suspected carcinogens carcinogens (cancer-causing) and which cause greater erosion to the environment and wildlife. The researchers purchased purchased selections of produce at supermarkets and health- food stores and analyzed for mineral content. They expected the organic produce to be perhaps slightly higher in comparison, BUT THE RESULTS WERE ASTOUNDING!!! ASTOUNDING!!! They found that many essential trace mineral elements elements were completely absent in the commercially-, grown foods. On the other hand, the amount of Iron In organic spinach was 97% more than in the commercial spinach. The manganese (essential for healthy tendons) was 99% greater in the organic. Measuring the mineral content in foods is a rather difficult laboratory process; the measurements taken in tbiw study used 'mllliequiva- lents per 100 grams dry weight;' I find this rather difficult difficult to understand, and am content to go with the ratios, which are significant. I list them here: Please read - Food' - Mineral - Organic value in italics - comni. value in script. Snap Beans - phosphorus 10.45-4.04 - magnesium 0.36 - 0.22 - sodium 40.5 - 15.5, - manganese 60-14.8 - calcium 73-10 - potassium 60- 2 - iron 69-3. Tomatoes - phosphorus 14.2-6.07 - magnesium 0.35 - 0.16 - sodium 23-4.5 - manganese 59.2-4.5 Calcium 36-3 - potassium 68-1 - iron 53.0 Lettuce - phosphorus 24.48-7.01 - magnesium 0.43 - 0.22 - sodium 71-16 - manganese 49.3-13.1 Calcium 37-6 - potassium 169-1 - iron 60-3. These are the test results of just a few of our favourite veggies. As you can see, it would be necessary to eat vast amounts of the commercially commercially grown food in order to provide ourselves witli the equivalent nutrients found in organically grown foods. We eat for so many reasons, most of them to do with social intercourse, fun, and the immense pleasures of jiist 'tucking into food!' We often forget that food is also the gas we put in the car/body when we feel ourselves ourselves 'running on empty.' It can be high quality or nutrient-short nutrient-short fuel, as the above numbers suggest. Please be sure to see your health care provider for all your health care needs. References available upon request. associations mother's day gift For less than the price of one typical greens fee. Mom can enjoy great discounts at 42 area golf courses and driving ranges across Central Ontario for only $25! This great value is called Golf Privilege Book 2000, and includes access to nine courses in the Durham Region. The remaining 33 are located within Georgian Bay, Kawartha-Haliburton, and Peel and Toronto. To order please call 436- 1046 or to pick-up a book please drop by our office at 40 King St. W. in downtown Oshawa. All sale proceeds go to furthering our work in respiratory respiratory research and community community service programs for Durham Region residents. T/m's Fishin' Lines ^ by Tim Rypstra Finally! April 29 has little longer while Shaughn come, and trout and salmon Caswell slept, season has opened. I have After a while, we headed been waiting for that day for a back down stream to have our long, long, time. ' breakfast. Darrell Kennedy, Shawn I filleted the fish and Dejong, Shawn Rypstra, Shawn D. got the frying pan Shaughn Caswell and I, ready. We all ate the fish and camped out from 5 p.m. on then fished till 3 p.m. It was a April 28, till 4 p.m. on the fun fishing trip with my 29th. We all got a ride to the' friends, trail in the woods, then On April 30,1 went fishing walked from the road to the at my friend J.P.'s house on creek Wilmot Creek. I arrived The creek was cold and around noon and fished till 4 clear, with lots of steelhead. p.m. We fished for some nice We camped in a clearing steelhead in a deep log where the creek was swift and jammed corner of the creek deep, and had lots of logs in it. that held some, 10 to 15 fish We set camp - set up the from 3 to 15 lbs. JP. hooked tent, dug a pit and started a and landed a nice healthy fire. After all that work we steelhead down-stream of the were very hungty, so we ate pool. He caught another nice some hot dogs. fish, that was beat up and In the morning, Shawn white, so we tbok pictures of Dejong and I headed down to it and let it go to spawn again, the creek with my ultra light I finally hooked and landed rod to catch some breakfast, a female steelhead that We ended up catching a cou- weighed around 6 lbs. I took pie of small stream trout a picture of it, and let it too go weighing about five to six to spawn again. I was very pounds. ", grateful to JP's parents^for let- While we. were fishing ting me fish on their property, upstream of the camp, Darrell I *wish all the fishermen came and said he. had a nine good luck now that the season pound trout at the camp. The is open. And have fun. Shawns, Darrell and I fished a ■ ^ Community Events ART ASSOCIATION OF ORONO The Association is holding their next meeting on May 9, 2000, 7:30 p.m., Orono Town Hall. Guest speaker is Brad Haley. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE IS COMNG TO BOWMANVILLE In partnership with the Firehouse Youth Centre, St. John Ambulance is able to offer an Emergency First Aid & Heartsaver CPR training course to the Bowmanville Community. Date May 13,2000,132 Church St, Bowmanville, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Registration and inquires can be completed completed over the phone with a credit card, call 905-434-7800. * ' ; ]j îB-- Mia---- ■■■ MinwniHjj MORRIS FUNERAL CHAPEL LTD. SERVING DURHAM REGION SINCE 1841 ALL FUNERAL SERVICES PREARRANGED AND/OR PREPAID BURIAL - CREMATION - TRANSFERS "WHERE PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE IS IMPORTANT" FUNERAL DIRECTORS PAUL R. MORRIS ' GARY M. CONWAY DOUG R. RUTHERFORD DEBRA D. KELLEHER 623-5480 4 DIVISION ST.. BOWMANVILLE ■ AT QUEEN ST. II