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^ Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, .January 30. 2002 i by Roy Forrester . It's about rare birds but it's not that I saw them. It did however get Don Lycett and myself on the move spending most of Monday afternoon touring portions of the countryside. countryside. It all started with a phone call from an Oshawa birder somewhat excited , about the sighting of a Peregrine Falcon down Brownsville way on Highway 2. He gave evciy indication that he knew the bird and was sure of the tag he put on this bird. He is a relative of the Fices on Hwy. 2. « Don and I meandered our way through the back roads down to the area of the sighting with very limited limited success in seeing anything anything interesting in the bird world. Reaching the mid-point of Brownsville we turned north on a dead-end road to view a barnyard of deer along with some elk. It was here we saw a line-up of over 25 Doves on a hydro wire and there were a few others out-and- about, doves that is. Perhaps this could have been a drawing card for a Peregrine, Falcon to visit this particular area. A long shot, no doubt. We need however to go back a few years when the Peregrine Falcon was a feature feature of high window sills in downtown Toronto. Part of the attraction in the downtown downtown area was also the 4 bounty of strefet pigeons. Of course I returned again to the Richard's book and the Falcon is a rare and irregular winter visitor in the area but these sightings were back in the '60s and '50s. On Sunday I met up with a husband' and wife birding team in the Ganaraska. The Bowmanville couple stated they had sighted a Carolina Wren. Again its to the Richard's book whére it is stated that the bird is a rare visitor with the limited limited number of sightings being in the winter. An excited John Witheridge flagged me down oft the street a couple couple of days ago with a report that he had sighted a Robin in the first part of the Walking Trail at the fqrmer Tree Nursery land. Our Monday road running running did take us along the lakefront ending up at the lakefront in Newcastle. ' From one of the advan- Remembering Peter Gzowski Due to the lack of snow outdoors, Timothy Graham and the rest of the Orono Playgroup made their own paper snowmen. The OroncyPlaygroup meets every Monday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Orono United Church. By: Timothy Tufts On Thursday the 24th of January, Peter Gzowski passed away in Toronto after a protracted battle with lung disease. Although he always preferred preferred to be known as a writer most of Canada will remember remember him for his years as the host of CBC radio's mid morning national broadcast. I've been sitting here listening listening to the tributes from all the famous people he interviewed interviewed over the years and I was suddenly reminded how I first met Peter Gzowski. Thé CBC had always been a part of my family's daily life; Elwood Glover, Rawhide, The Breakfast Club, background noise for a Canadian childhood. But it didn't become my radio network network until the summer of 1973. While working on a research project in central New Brunswick with a gang of hippies, lumberjacks, entomologists, entomologists, and other assorted UNB undergraduates I discovered discovered the CBC radio show "This Country In The Morning". For the first few days there was a lot of moaning about no Rock & Roll & "Who cares about this stuff anyway? " But by the second week in, that New Brunswick bush camp if the truck radio wasn't turned on & turned up by 9 am everything stopped till "Peter" was there telling us how the rest of the folk in the country were doing. The CBC was, at that time, more a national brqadcaster than the Canadian version of CNN. The corporation was busy stitching the patchwork of our country together rather than giving us the worldview of global events. When Peter came on the air at 9 he wasn't just broadcasting broadcasting from Toronto to the rest of us. He was in that farmhouse in Saskatchewan, on that boat in the Bay of Fundy, or somewhere high tage points we were able to see a sizeable winter duck flock in full flight just ' above the surface of the; water. There appeared to be no BuffleHeads included included in the flock. One interesting' point had to be the large number of Mallard Ducks j ust offshore offshore in the lake. The mild weather no doubt has much ' to do about' this. There is no reason to go farther south to feed in this mild wèather. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Isaiah 61 : l NEWCASTLE COMMUNITY CHURCH Sun da y Worship 16:30 a.m. "Little White Ci'ilrch at THE top Of THE HILL" Holy pommunion first Sunday of the month - all welcome. ~ Mill Street North to first right - up the hill ~ Can we help you? - worship - weddings - baptisms - funerals - Sunday School and nursery - refreshments after every service ~ a gentle church ~ you will see a great many smiles. Minister - Rev. David Chisling B.A., B.Ed., M.Div. Phone: (905) 987-4384 or (905) 987-4561 above the Arctic Circle and we were all there having coffee coffee with Peter and W.O. Mitchell and ' Stephen Lewis and Pierre Trudeau and all the rest. He always seemed to know the right questions to ask. The kind of stuff we wanted to know. Not only the important, get to the nitty gritty, stuff but the "How's the family", "What's your dogs name", "What book are you reading", stuff. The interviews weren't necessarily earth shaking or life altering but he spoke word pictures that floated off through the ether and brought us together in ways that had not been • done before and aren't likely to ; happen again any time soon. After that Mr. Gzowski pretty well talked me through the nekt twenty years or so. He was along for the moves across the country, the births and the rearing of our family, the terrific and the tragic that go to make up our lives. And now he's gone. As I write this it's Robbie Bums day and you can bet yottr brogue's that when it's time to toast the haggis a lot of us will be saving a sip to tip in honour of a fine broadcaster broadcaster and a great Canadian. Ladies & Gentlemen I give you Peter Gzowski!! ORONO & KIRBY UNITED CHURCHES Reverend Dorinda Vollmer Orono Church Office 905-983-5502 , Kirby United Church 905-983-9385 ❖ ❖ ❖ Kirby United Church . at 9:20 a.m. Orono United Church at 1J:00 a. in. Nursery and Sunday School at both churches. ♦> St George's Anglican Church Church of Comfort, Joy and 'Warmth 'Welcomes fou 250 Mill St. S„ Newcastle ■ Rev.. Canon David R. Saunders 987-2019 8:00 am - Holy Communion 11:15 am - Holy Communion 1st & 3rd, 11:15 am - Morning Prayer 2 nd , 4th & 5th 11:15 am Sunday School Coffee & Fellowship to follow St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL ST., ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. David R. Saunders, CD 983-5594 • 987-2019 Sunday Service, Sunday School , & Youth Group 9:30 a.m. , sfc ^ H' 4 s -sf* 1st & 3rd Sunday of Month HOLY COMMUNION * *'* * * 2nd & 4th Sunday MORNING PRAYER Sf i Peter would like to welcome his wife, Tanya, as she joins him in managing Armstrong's IGA. We would like to thank our customers for supporting us in this change. Oïjçin you, 7cV<?/' andUanya 1 S Main Street, Orono Proprietors: Gary 'S Carol Vreeker *, Wedding Cakes • Cakes for all Occasions • Pastries - Donuts - Pies • Bread & BukjS 905-983-9779 Closed Sunday and Monday