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8 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 21, 2003 a ' Kawartha Pine District School Board reaches tentative agreement The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and its elementary school teachers have reached a tentative memorandum memorandum of agreement which modifies parts of the current collective agreement and addresses salary and certain working conditions. Details remain confidential until ratification by both parties. parties. Ratification is expected by the end of this week. Holiday weekend sees decline in drunk driving The Durham Regional Police Traffic Services Branch will continue with the R.I.D.E. program at various locations throughout the year. This past weekend over 1,500 vehicles were stopped. Only five drivers were charged with driving with over 80mgs and six were given 12-hour suspensions suspensions for registering a "WARN". Please continue to "Think Before You Drink". The dinosaurs are coming The Royal Ontario Museum's Travelling Dinosaur Dinosaur Exhibit will be at the Clarke Museum from May26th until June 2nd. The Dinomobile is an unique exhibit that showcases reconstructions of full-sized dinosaurs in their habitats with full sound effects. The Schoolhouse at the Clarke Museum will offer hands-on activities for chil dren and adults featuring replicas of dinosaur skin, teeth and claws. The Clarke Museum is located at the Kirby exit of Highway 35/115. During this exhibit the museum's hours are 9:00AM - 5:30PM & 6:30 - 8:30PM. Group tours are available. For more information, please call 905-623-2734. 11:16 PM The paramedics arrive. Medic Alert Speaks For You. www.medicalert.ca • 1-800^668-1507 Big Brothers & Sisters of Clarington [ Invites members of the community to attend their ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, May 21, 2003 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Big Brothers and Sisters of Clarington House 23 Scugog St., Bowmanville EETING 16 ORONO EUCHRE Wed., May 14 Results HIGH SCORES Dorothy Olan - 89 Jane Tomlinson - 87 Shirley Gordon - 86 Mae Tabb -85 Joyce Cowan - 81 DRAWS ' Bill Mann Eleanor Perrin Clara Meuleman Norma Moffat Mon., May 12 Results HIGH SCORES Elaine Doty - 80 Arvilla Partridge - 77 Theresa Langstaff - 72 Dora MacDonald - 72 Marie Couroux - 71 Murray Falls - 68 Helen Couroux - 68 DRAWS Doris Falls Helen Couroux Mon., May 19 Results HIGH SCORES Doreen Green - 100 Norma Moffat - 87 Gladys Greenwood - 84 Violet Dunlop - 81 . Theresa Langstaff - 81 Clara Meuleman - 81 DRAWS Helen Couroux Norma Moffat Doreen Green z Can't see a way out? If you arc concerned about your own, or someone else's use of alcohol or drugs, the Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART) can guide you to the help you need. Call us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 1-800-565-8603 y&dw, Q&t la&t, <vwd Regulated hunting preserves animal populations and habitats. Help us prevent poaching. Salari Club nlmialiona I'bimdalion HOG T/V SHOO v, S it n iCluhtournJ.it ion mg Pauline Johnson--100 Years Later by Myno Van Dyke The Epworth League was formed in 1889 to help young people develop a loyalty to the Methodist Church. The Epworth name came from the home-town in England of the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley. In 1903, Orono Methodist Church (now Orono United Church) had an Epworth League. The President was Miss Aloah Walsh and the first Vice-President was Miss Ida Jaynes. For some reason, they decided to invite a woman named Pauline Johnson, and known as "The Indian Poet Reciter" to perform in Orono. The performance occurred on a Monday night. It was May 25, 1903. Johnson traveled by rail across Canada nineteen times doing her very special and unique act. The performance in Orono was held in the almost new Township Hall (later called the Town Hall) at the north-east corner of Main and Park Streets. Back in 1903, Orono's Main Street was fairly busy. It was the main route from Newcastle to Lindsay. You would have seen, horses and buggies as the automobile was a rare sight in those days. If you look at the Orono Town Hall today, both outside and inside, it still looks essentially the same as it did in 1903. And, Orono is still a beautiful,, quaint village, off the beaten path of the 115/35 highway. Johnson performed with her good friend Walter McRaye, and the performance lasted about two hours. She started by doing recitals dressed in a ballroom gown. After the intermission, intermission, Johnson would come out dressed in her native costume costume with a necklace of bear claws. This was a costume she had made herself with Mohawk metal work, rabbit pelts, a hunting knife, a tomahawk, wampum belts, feathers, her grandfather's scalp as well as another native scalp that an R.C.M.P. officer apparently gave her. She had the ability to frighten audiences and move them to tears. Her performances performances were split in half, not only to draw people to her performances performances but to demonstrate that she too was split between two ways of life. A Mohawk Princess and an English-Canadian Lady. Just ten years after her performance in Orono, Johnson died of breast cancer in Vancouver. She became one of Canada's most famous poets. She is the, only person who was (allowed to be) buried in Vancouver's Stanley Park. The Clarington Museums and Archives are doing a wonderful wonderful thing by sponsoring a special re-enactment of the Pauline's Johnson's recital at the exact same location, one hundred years later, to the day. Except now its Sunday. I wonder if those are the same chairs... Purr-Feel Solution www.dart.on.ca