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2 - Orono Weekly Ttoes. Wednesday, July is. 20Ô0 ' O ro V^Aweekli NO Weekly Times East Clarington and beyond since 1 937 Subscriptions $23.36 + $1.64 G.S.T. = $25.00/year Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 Publishing 50 Issues Annually at the Office of Publication 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB 1M0 E-Mail Address: oronotimes@speedline.ca Phone/Fax (905) 983-5301 Publisher/Editor Marg Zwart Remember that challenge? Remember last year I promised to enter something in the Orono Fair this year, and challenged everyone else to do the same? Well the Fair is only seven weeks away. I bring up the subject now, because my project is in its final stages, and will be completed in time for this year's Fair, September 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. In fact I will have time to try and carefully camouflage any deficiencies in my project; a knitted knitted sweater, before subjecting it to the scrutiny of the judges. While I see the need for some kind of a rating system, developing the skills needed to produce entries, is where the real competition lies. Over time, these' skills are getting so watered down, are losing their meaning. Last Sunday afternoon, CBC Radio's Inside Track program aired an item concerning the Arctic Winter Games. These gapies were developed based on traditional ways of preparing oneself for the harsh environment Arctic people live in. They teach participants how to endure pain, how to use their strength, and how to make it out on the land and survive on your own. The games, once played in igloos, are now played in large gymnasiums, and compete for attention with less traditional sports such as hockey and basketball. The purpose of the Arctic sports is taking a back seat to how they are to be played. The intention is not to please the audience, audience, but to do the best you can, at a certain skill. It is in that spirit, I will enter my sweater into the Orono Fair, and encourage all others to do the same with their own sets of skills. Letter to Editor J July 14, 2000 Dear Editor: Last evening I attended a concert given by the Clarington Band in their new bandshell in Orono and would like to say how much I enjoyed it. I would like to thank the members of the band, their directors, and everyone responsible fot making it possible for the audience to enjoy such a fine evening. It took me back eighty years when the Orono Band played on Saturday nights in thé bandshell at the comer of Main and Mill Sts. every summer and we always attended and an ice cream cone was the big treat of our , week. My father played tuba in the band and later in the Qsbawa Civic Band, as well as string bass in the Sunday School Orchestra. I hope to heat the Clarington Band again this summer, so hope the weather weather co-operates as the outdoor setting is so congenial to the music. Yours truly, Dorothy (Rowe) Payne Treasures (continued from page 1) themselves of their hunting grounds. Coming into contact with the Mississagas, the Mohawks massacred small parties of them, and endeavoured endeavoured to drive them off. It being a matter of life and death to the Mississagas, they held a great council of war, and decided to attack th^. Mphawks and, if possible, drive them away. The Mohawks fought well, but the Mississagas were just as good. Before pursuing the main body of the Mohawks further after the attack at Cameron s Point, a party of the Mississagas went up country north of Trenton, where a party of Mohawks dwell, and wiped them out. f In an advance against the Mohawi'. beyond the great Lake, tw Mississagas came upon the ir f ort on Mohawk river aW^ hdd siege to it. After &. long time the Mohawks, who resisted with great bravery, sent out two old men to see if peace could not be made, it being a pity that two brave enemies should fight till both were upon the point of extermination. It was evident, however, that there could be no certainty of peace for the future, since the Mohawk, as well as the Mississaga children, would surely take up the quarrel and continue it. It was decided by treaty, therefore, that the children children of the Mohawk and Mississaga warriors would be given and taken in intermarriage, intermarriage, and in this way peace was assured for the future. The Mississagas then returned. European contact brought disease, bringing an overall decline to the native population. population. As European settlements expanded, Indians retreated from encroachment, moving west. A great number of artifacts have been found around Port Darlington, says Jackman, though the closest large Indian village was at Garden Hill. By 1776 all attention was focused upon the threat of the "Big Knives and the British easily aroused Indian hostility hostility against the land-hungry. American settlers who were rapidly expanding over Indian territories. Mississaga participation in • the revolutionary wars was considerable. Support was once again sought during the War of 1812. Thereafter the Mississagas were rounded up on reservations for the purpose purpose of "civilization" while the colonial government proceeded proceeded to take the land. Halminen in default of trust fund Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority (GRCA) trustees of a fund set up to protect the Wilmot Creek, can do nothing till all parties pay their share. On July 16 of last year, Mr. Bill Woods agreed to withdraw withdraw his appeal at the Ontario Municipal Board, to the rezoning of the former Bennett Gravel Pit, on thé condition a trust fund be set up to protect the Wilmot Creek. Hannu Halminen and,Bill Lishman along with Woods, agreed on that day to establish a $6,000 fund to protect the trout spawning grounds of the Wilmot Creek Watershed. The agreement was signed by all three parties on July 22, 1999, with the contributions to be paid on or before October 15, 1999. According to the agreement, agreement, Hannu T. Halminen was to pay $2,500, Paula Lishman Ltd. was to pay $2,500, and William Woods was to pay $1,000. To date, Halminen's portion portion is still outstanding. Paula Lishman Limited was proposing to sever arid rezone the former Bennett Gravel Pit, currently owned by Halminen, to a "Prestige Employment Area" allowing for a fur garment manufacturing manufacturing plant, in an earth integrated integrated building. Last month, Mr. Halminen explained to the Orono Times that he had been waiting for the Conservation Authority to come up with a trust agreement, agreement, which he did receive three weeks ago. "They will have our portion by the end of the month," Halminen stated at that time. Warren Coulter, Water Resource Technologist with QRCA, states, "As trustees of the fund, we are not in a position position to enforce the terms of the agreement." Bill Woods hopes that the $6,000 fund will be just a beginning, anticipating that other environmentalists, naturalists, naturalists, anglers and sports enthusiasts will be encouraged encouraged to contribute, with the ultimate view to preservation in perpetuity. GRCA have put together a Terms Of Reference for a way of allocating the funds. "But, we can't do anything official till we get the money," stated Coulter. Further to the implementation implementation of the Trust Fund, Woods also got Paula Lishman Limited to agree to rehabilitate rehabilitate the smaller tributary trout steam on their severed parcel of land, and remove or reduce the sediment pond, with possibly possibly a fish ladder in future. 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