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s x. r r « a t-p s v -y- a v a ,-5 1 3, f> S H ? = H t î 4 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 4, 2003 Places I've Done Time by Clifford Francis The land of 'No' Everywhere I go the word 'no' pops up. Out on the street the other day I saw the signs, 6 'No Skateboarding', . 'No Parking', .'No 1 Smoking'. Out for a drive in the country, up conies more signs, 'No Hunting', 'No fishing', 'No Trespassing'. Down the highway to Bowmanville, 'No Bicycles', 'No Hitchhiking', just walk along. Go to the motel -- 'No Vacancy'. Down the street, 'No Stopping', 'No Standing', 'No Staring'. How can you . look at the girls? Down to the beach. 'No Swimming', .'No Nudity', 'No Littering' : -At the park, 'No dogs', 'No Gats', 'No driving on the Grass'. Signs in the windows of houses, 'No Beggars', 'No Salespeople', 'No Soliciting' -- of what I wonder. In the mall signs saying - 'No Food', No Beverages', 'No Running'. Signs in the stores, 'No Money Down'* 'No Credit', 'No Charge'. Signs in the library, 'No Talking', 'No Laughing' -- don't read anything anything funny I guess. Everywere you look there are signs. 'No Passing', 'No Pointing', 'No Service'. The country is full of 'No's'. I went into a store and asked for credit. The clerk pointed to the sign 'No Credit'. Several other signs stuck out there also. 'No Refunds', 'No Returns', 'No Remittance', and 'No Remorse'. I just said 'No S- and went home to 'Oro No'. jHiijij. ■ !! ill, till Bifill Hill li ip 11 JZï if] a.'uL "j NEWCASTLE FUNERAL HOME Family owned and operated by Carl Good, Funeral Director, and Joyce Kufta 386 Mill St. S., Newcastle 987-3964 www.newcastlefuneralliome.com "Caring for our Community " Piiiii: 1 Jamie Smith, application technician with Wilmot Creek last Thursday afternoon. DFO checks lampricide application rate in the DFO continues to battle sea lamprey O' C/J For additional information please call 905-623-3379 A healthy great lakes commercial commercial fishery is dependent on the control of sea lamprey. While the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) call their sea lamprey program a success, current technologies technologies will not eradicate the species from the Great Lakes according to Mr. Brian Stephens, Fisheries Biologist with DFO. "The sea lamprey Nominate a beautiful front garden, nominate your own residence, your friends, your neighours, or a local business. Use the form below and get your nomination in by Friday. June 13. 2003 before 5:MPM. Please note: Only front gardens that are visible from the roadside/curb will be judged. How to Enter Fill out the entry form and mail, email, drop-off or fax to: 2003 Apple Blossom Awards Communications & Tourism 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, ON L1C 3A6 www.municipality.clarington.on.ca (online form) fax: 905-623-0584 I nominate: Address: Town: Postal Code: Owner (if known): _ Category (please check one) Residential [ ] Business [ ] Please identify if this garden is professionally landscaped. YES [ ] NO [ ] Nominated by: -- Telephone: 905 * Forms may be copied for additional nominations control program began in 1958 in Lake Superior, and in 1971 in Lake Ontario. "The sea lamprey population is 10 per cent of what it was before control measures were undertaken," undertaken," stated Stephens, last week when the 15 member lamprey control crew were in Orono treating the Wilmot Creek. Beginning in mid April DFO's Sea Lamprey Control crew out of Sault Ste Marie, commence their lampricide treatment of steams that feed into the Great Lakes, where the juvenile sea lamprey live. They treat about 175 Great Lake streams and their tributaries tributaries every three to five years. Treatment intervals are based on assessment data collected collected determining the size and age of the lamprey larvae. The annual treatment program which also includes streams in New York concludes in mid October. Sea lamprey, a primitive fish native to the Atlantic Ocean were first observed in the Great Lakes in the 1830s. The adult lamprey attach themselves to fish with their suction cup mouths and feed on the fish's blood and body fluids. The lamprey population in the Great Lakes exploded in the 1940s and 50s and were instrumental in the collapse of the commercial lake trout and whitefish fishery. ^O's annual $6 million s tamprey control program focuses on the lamprey larvae which live in steams and creeks for up to six years, before they undergo their transformation into adulthood, developing eyes and a suction cup like mouth. The small worm-like larvae burrow into stream bottom and feed on debris and algae for an average average of three to six years before they transform into their parasitic parasitic adult stage and migrate into the Great Lakes. In the lake the adults spend up to 20 months feeding on fish, killing up to 40 pounds of fish before returning to streams and creeks to spawn and die. It is in these steams where DFO attempt to control the sea laiuprey population with applications of the lampricide chemical TFM (3-trifluo- romethyl-4-nitorphenol). TFM, according to DFO, kills sea lamprey larvae in their nursery steams with litle or no impact on other fish or wildlife. This week's lampricide treatment on the Wilmot Creek and its tributaries was the 11th since 1971. The TFM treatment which is lethal at five parts per million based on a nine hour exposure, was last SEA LAMPREY continued page 5