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Ç Orono Weekly I'iinc-.S. Wedivo.sd.tj" December 5, 2001 m Places I've Done Time The ups and downs of Eddy Arr by Clifford Francis A few years ago I met Eddy while working on a farm. Eddy came from somewhere "Down Home" near Halifax. He was a more than pleas-, ant chap with the constitution constitution of a bulldog. The first stubbornness that I witnessed in him was when we were innoculating cattle that had shipping fever. These cattle had come from western Canada and weighed between five and six hundred pounds. It was late October and had been cold and rainy for a week. In a one acre area we had about three hundred head. We would walk through the calves and when we saw one coughing or looking listless, Eddy and I would lassoo it with two ropes. When the calf stood quiet, one of us would needle it. Eveiything was fine until one we were roping bolted and my lassoo fell on the ground. Eddy hung on for dear life and was pulled through the manure on his back. Give Eddy credit: he never let go. The second mishap occurred a week or so later. We were building steel roscoe bins to store grain or shelled com in. The silos were maybe fifteen feet wide and twenty five feet high. They were put together in sections with bolts, and each section was sixteen inches high and six feet long. The farm only had three hundred acres, so we built the silo right beside a Community Events MUSIC EXAMINATIONS - The following students of Phyllis Dewell were successful in their music examinations earlier this year: Conservatory Canada - Gr. 2 piano - Jake Nesbitt (honours): Royal Conservatory of Music - Gr. 6 piano - Sara Koene (pass) ; Gr. 4 piano - Billy Savage (honours): Gr. 3 history - Jenny Krabi (first class honours with distinction); Gr. 3 harmony - Tom Kerr (first class honours). WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR ATTIC? The Durham Central Fair will be celebrating its 150th Anniversary in September 2002 with a "Harvest Homecoming historical display." We are looking for artifacts relating to the fair's bygone years to create a display of photographs, ribbons, buttons, posters etc. to allow our visitors a chance to visually time travel. Anyone interested in contributing to the display can contact Robert Robinson at 905-623-2210 or Judy Plummer at 905-983-5327. Saturday, December 1st - The Community Care Adult Day Program in Newcastle will be hosting a Craft and Bake Sale and Tea Room, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., 20 Robert St. W„ Newcastle (comer of Robert and Mill Street). For more information call 905-987-3000. Thursday, December 6th - Disappearing live Siberian Tiger and levitating bodies! Clarke High School, 7:00 p.m., Claude Haggerty Magic Show. Admission is $12 per person and tickets are available at Stedmans in Newcastle, The Apple Blossom Shop in Orono and at the door on show night. Friday, December 7th - The Newcastle & District Chamber of Commerce presents Free Skating, Newcastle Arena, 1 p m - 3 p.m. Saturday, December 8th - Euchre.tournament, Orono Community Centre and Arena, 7:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Proceeds to the building fund. The Newcastle & District Chamber of Commerce presents Breakfast With Santa, Newcastle Community Hall, 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. For more info or to buy tickets contact Diane at 905-987-5653. Tuesday, December 11th - Blood Donor Clinic, Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church, 130, Scugog Street By appointment call 1-888-2-donate. , " Wednesday, December 12th - You're invited to a Seniors' Tea, Orono Public School, 1:00 p.m., gymnasium, RS VP 905-983-5006. Clarington Public Libraiy, Clarke Branch - Join Ruth Clarke, author of Before.The Silence (history of the Ojibway people), 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Clarke's husband, Ojibway artist Rick Beaver, will join her. The evening is free and please register by calling 905-9Ô3 5507. pile of lumber that was drying. drying. Things went well until it was fifteen feet high. Eddy complained about the cold and the wind but I was working working on the inside so it didn't bother me. He would put the pieces up and put the bolt in and I would tighten them. The wood pile had come in handy until this time. Eddy's "Down Home" experience then came into play. He put a fourteen foot ladder on top of the wood pile and climbed up the ladder with a piece of steel. There he was, with a piece of steel above his head and eight feet of ladder above that. I yelled for him. to let go of the steel but it was too late. The wind took him, the steel, and the ladder backwards backwards and Eddy landed on his back on the pile of lumber. lumber. When he got up the air was blue as he touted the virtues of the job. Meanwhile, the ladder had gone down over the edge of the lumber pile, and, acting like a teeter totter came back over the edge and struck Eddy in the head, knocking him down again. The air was more than blue. That second mishap probably probably saved Eddy's life. I went and bought Eddy a hard hat and had "Boss" blazoned across the front. He wore the damn thing everywhere. A few days later, we were doing repairs at the farm. I was putting a front end loader loader on a tractor, and Eddy was putting a new pump on a water tank that sat on a tower thirty or so feet in the air. He had climbed up and started to remove the broken pump. Every few minutes he would call down for another wrench or bar or something and I would throw them up to him. Most of the time he missed them, and they would fall again. Finally I told him to come down and get a rope and I would tie on what he needed and he could pull them up. He went to the shed and came out with a rope and an old wash tub. Eddy put wire on the two handles and drilled a couple of more holes for more wire. The rope was tied on the tub and Eddy climbed back up the tower to put the rope through a pulley that was already there. Eddy then threw it down to me. Eddy was coming along fine. When he wanted something something he would yell down and I would pull the tub up and tie the rope with a lralf hitch on the draw bar of the tractor. tractor. Everything was good. When the job was completed Eddy piled all the tools and the old pump in the wash tub and climbed down. When Eddy undid the rope. I heard him yell and I looked up. Eddy was going up and the. tub was coming down. Not too fast, but it was happening. happening. I yelled for Eddy to slide down the extra rope but he held on. Half way down, the tub bounced off his hard hat and hit him in the shoulder but he still hung on. When he got to the top, I heard another clunk. His head hit the water tower and the tub hit the ground. The tub then spilled over and the tools and other things fell out. Now Eddy was on his way down a lot quicker than when he was going up. When they met in the middle. Eddy got,struck in the hand but he still held on. When he hit the ground he finally let go. Then down came the tub again and whacked him on the noodle for good measure. Eddy ended up with a broken broken hand, a cracked collar bone, and two bruised heels. Eddy doesn't climb any more. He's a carpet layer in Halifax and still wears the hard hat. EUCHRE RES H Wednesday Night NOVEMBER 28th High Scores Bill Mann - 80 tie Marie Couroux - 78 Joyce Cowan - 78 Robert Bubar - 77 tie Charlie Campbell - 76 Minnie Taylor - 76 Shirley Bubar - 76 Draws: Marjorie Williams, Norma Moffat, Minnie Taylor, Ross Taylor Next Card Party Wed., December 5th at 8:00 p.m. Admission free with donation- to the food bank. Fri., NOVEMBER 30 High Scores: Myrtle Alldred - 87 Cleo Dey - 82 Marion Sears - 77 Doreen Green - 75 Jean Holmes - 74 Cecil Dey - 73 Draws: Tom Massey, Barbara Irwin, Jean Kondrachuk, Marie Couroux, Helen Simpson, Reg McCool FREE ADMISSION AT NEXT CARD PARTY December 14th - 7:30 p.m. Next Tournament is December 15th at 1 o'clock. Request for Prequalification Submissions FROM GENERAL CONTRACTORS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL TRADE CONTRACTORS KAWARTHA PINK RIDGE DISTRICT SCHOOL. BOARD FOR CHEMONG PUBLIC SCHOOL - ADDITION & RENOVATIONS BRIDGENORTH, ONTARIO PROJECT #22-14039 This project involves the construction of a 650 sq.m, addition addition (5 classrooms) and related site work) interior renovations renovations and mechanical retrofit of existing mechanical system. The project has a budget of $1.8 million dollars. Questions regarding the project shall be directed to Laurence Cudlip, Totten Sims Hubicki Associates Limited, lcudlip@tsh.ca or telephone (905) 668-4021 ext. 291. This project shall be tendered January 2002. Construction shall be completed by August 3, 2002. ■ General Contractors and Mechanical and Electrical Trade Contractors interested in prequalification for tendering on, this project are requested to submit two completed copies of the latest edition of C.C.A. Document No. 11, the CANADIAN CANADIAN STANDARD FORM OF CONTRACTOR'S QUALIFICATION QUALIFICATION STATEMENT FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. Submissions shall also include a letter authorizing the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board to obtain information information from references listed in the completed C.C.A. No. 11 document together with a copy of the most recently updated Workplace Safety Insurance Board Experience Rating Form. All submissions must be received at the offices of Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, 1994 Fisher Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 7AÎ, clearly marked "Prequalification Submission for Chemong Public School - - Addition & Renovations" not later than 2:00:00 pm local time, Tuesday, 18 December, 200Î Note: Submissions by fax are acceptable @ (705) 76Û- 8700. Submissions should restrict the information provided to show relevant experience in the immediate past 5 years. Experience in school projects of similar size and construction construction value would be an asset. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. This advertisement advertisement may also be accessed on the Internet at www.vaxxine.com/opba/. R.L. Willsher Chairperson of the Board 1 R. (Dick) T. Malowney .Director of Education Kawartha Pine Ridge District School