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4 ~ Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 23,2000 ^ ARTHUR BLACK IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY... I don't want to raise your hopes unduly, but it looks like the Canadian environmental movement may have discovered discovered a brand new offensive tactic to ram its conservation message home. Humour. High time, too. Environmentalists have had a rough ride trying to get our attention over the years. They tried shaming us - Brigitte Bardot crouching on an ice floe, up to her eyeliner in cute-as-a-bug seal pups. The public knew a PR guilt trip when they saw one and they didn't buy it. Next, they tried scaring us with doomsday statistics -- Principle (continued from page 2) mind. It happens whenever I see a picture of my favourite gun control spokespeople and their bodyguards. If guns are. useless for defense, as they persistently imply, then why do their security personnel carry them? Decoration? Or is there a double standard? standard? the rainforests disappearing at a rate of x acres per nanosecond; nanosecond; the ozone hole widening faster than Stockwell Day's bald spot. But that was a numbers game which politicians politicians and corporate flacks play better. The public didn't know whom to believe. So they yawned. Protest marches and sit-ins don't get results. Consumer boycotts are seldom effective. Placards, slogans, fundraisers and satirical folk songs only preach to the converted. So why not play it for laughs? That appears to be the rationale behind a brand new advertising campaign launched by a group called the British Columbia Endangered Species Coalition. They've created a series of comic strip panels for print and television called "When Wildlife Strikes Back!" - the theme of which is: suppose animals started doing to us what we've been doing to them / One panel shows an orca dumping a barrel of steaming toxic sludge into a kiddie's bathtub. They poison our water! reads the cutline. Another shows a BC salmon standing behind a (continued page 8) Euchre Results ORONO AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Saturday August 19 High - 1) Dirk Koke- 138, 2) Brian Allin - 131, 3) Mae Tabb - 128, 4) Joyce Cowan - 126, 5) Gerald Robinson - 111,6) Marion Sears - 110, 7) Joan Sutcliffe Sutcliffe - 110 Lone hands - Brian Allin - 10, 2) Jack Moffat - 8 Next Card Party is September 16, 2000. Oronu Figure Skating Club REGISTRATION (continued from page 1) and Company. Friday and Saturday nights will feature thé band Prime Time from Newcastle. Last call at the beer tent will be earlier than in the past, at 10:30 p.m. Bowmanville Zoo will be putting on an exotic animal show and elephant rides. The local model railroad club will have a display inside the arena. The number çf vendors in the area and outside outside are up this year, says Robinson.' Unchanged are the Fair Ambassador Contest and the milking competition on Thursday. evening, the Fiddler's Contest and Battle of the Bands and the light and heavy horse pulls on Friday night.. The Orono Amateur Athletic Association will continue continue to serve dinner in the Community Centre, but the Optimist Club has cancelled the dance they usually hold upstairs. Look for the usual display of rabbits, chickens, cows, horses, field crops, fruits and vegetables, flowers, baking and hand-made crafts. Entry forms must be in by Saturday, August 26, 2000. August 29 and September 12 7 to 9 p.m. at Orono Arena CANSKATE $235 ADULT SKATE $190 (2 hrs/week) (1-1/2 hrs/week) Tuesday & Thursday Sunday morning • $40 book of lottery tickets to be added at registration • 60% due at registration plus post-dated cheque for December 1st for balance. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL M. BLAKER 987-7297 OR JOAN MOFFAT 983-9561 SNOUTS YOUR LOCAL. 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