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Ld i } ! { { | i N i Keeping by Bil Thinking ahead © © know that summer is still some time away, but we're getting enough warm days to at least start thinking about it It shouldn't be too long and start up the back vard do. there's a better way of lighting the charcoal, I'm told. Just once. forget about lighter fluid and the electric starting gadget. T money and energy. Take a large tin can -- t tin is about right - the can holes down-in crumpled paper and top off Shove a match through one of the holes to ignite it from the bottom. The efficient draft gets without artificial assistance glowing properly. the can n coathanger or a piece of wire. The coals should just fall into place. Try it. It saves money, accomplished without the clouds of black smoke that bring complaints from the neighbors. I just heard about this a couple of months ago. I'm going to try it myself little warmer. I assume that when summer gels here we will still be able to afford to burn paper. } The price of good used paper has gone up substantially over the past few months and recycling groups are getting a welcon underwrite their operations. In fact. the price inc concern in areas like Metr there are municipal paper have begun to worry about paper pirates. lifting bundles off the streets before the municipal collection can gel them. Imagine that. The garbage you throw away is worth stealing. and cut off both ends. Punch a healthy number of holes ar It Clean | Dodds before you can get out barbecue. And when you hey're just a waste of he family size fruit juice ound one end. Then put the barbecue, put in with charcoal. the coals burning well and when they are all way be pulled out with a and the whole thing is when the weather gets a 1e increase in income to rease is causing some opolitan Toronto, where pickups. Officials there i il Church . PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Rev. R. Batten, - Rev. I. MacLean 10 a.m. Family Bible Hour 11 a.m. Praise & Worship i 7 p.m, Evang. Service e PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. John Duff SUNDAY, APRIL 7th-- 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Church School BURN"S CHURCH Ashburn Service at 11:30 a.m. Rev. John Duff United Church of Canada SCUGOG Pastoral Charge Rev. B. R. Pogue SUNDAY, APRIL Tth-- 9:45 a.m.--SCUGOG 11:15 a.m.--MANCHESTER & PORT PERRY PASTORAL CHARGE The United Church of Canada Rev. R. Brawn, Minister SUNDAY, APRIL T7th-- 10:00 a.m. - Port Perry Communion and Church School 11:30 a.m. - Prince Albert Communion and Church School PLUMBING - Sewer QUALITY ART'S Connections Services CHURCH OF ASCENSION ANGLICAN Rev. R. C. Rose, Minister SUNDAY, APRIL T7th-- Palm Sunday 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion and Church School. Maundy Thursday April 11: 8 p.m. Holy Communion Friday, April 12th: 12 noon Good Friday Devotion ST. JOHN'S, BLACKSTOCK SUNDAY, APRIL 7th-- Palm Sunday 11 a.m. Holy Communion Friday, April 12th: Good Friday Devotion PORT PERRY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. D. C. Payne, Pastor 9:45 - Bible School 11 a.m. Morning Worship "A Triumphant Entry" 7 p.m. - Gospel Service Wed. 7:30 - Family Prayer and Bible Hour . Welcome to All HEATING WORKMANSHIP PHONE 985-2581 ART PETROZZI Maple Syrup Time The sweetest sound of spring. in many parls of castern Canada, is the trickling of sap from thou- sands of maple trees. Whet- her it lands in the tradit- ional bucket or the more modern storage tank. ils destiny is the same to become tha ambrosial food known as maple syrup. I's a good time to shake off those late-winter blues and take part in what sounds like something out ol Hansel and Gretel: a trad- tional sugaring-off party From mid-March to late April each year, farmers from western Ontario (near Sault Ste. Marie) to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick reap their special harvest more than 1,500,000 gallons of maple syrup. Many of them hold infor- mal parties to which the public is invited. It's an excellent opportunity to view the modern and trad- itional methods of "milk- ing" the trees and boiling the sap. to sample some ol the delicious maple syrup and sugar products and, perhaps. to buy more for use at home. Some sugar-bush owners serve visitors hearty dishes like fried ham, omeletes, baked beans. mashed pota- toes and pancakes all. of course. dripping in syrup. IZssential to most parties is "la tire". To make il, some of the sap is boiled past the syrup stage. then poured hot onto a clean white bank of snow. The cooked talty-treat is then wound around a stick or fork "and eaten as -a delic: ious gooey lollipop. Dozens of Canadian cen- tres will stage maple syrup festivals or sugaring-off parties this spring. One of the largest -is held every vear al Elmira, Ontario. a small farm community 12 miles north of Kitchener. It usually attracts close to 20.000 visitors from Canada and the United States. This vear's date is April 6. On Maple Syrup Day. the main street is blocked off while rich. creamy flap- jacks smothered in amber- coloured maple syrup are served throughout the day. Nearby are wagons laden with more farm produce. in- cluding such delights as cooked cheese, sauerkraut. beefwurst. schmeer- case, summer sausage and shoolly pie Handmade. quilts, hooked or braided rugs. cookbooks, place mats, aprons and home baking are also sold Local artists display ther work and an old fashioned soap-making kettle 1s kept boithng. Tours through the sugar bush are available. Visitors will also be wel comed at such places as Crysler Farm Battlefield Park. seven miles east of Morrisburg, Ontario; Bruce's Mill Conservation Area. just north of Metro- politan Toronto: and Ples- sisville. in the Eastern Townships region of Que- bee. Dates depend on the weather and, in many cases. cannot be set long in advance. Some festivals like that at Elmira last just one day. Others, such as that at Plessiville. last a month March 15 to April 15). The production of syrup and candy from the boiled sap ob the maple tree is ex- clusively a North American activity. Only two of the 10 kinds of maples in Canada and 13 1 the United States give sweet enough to make syrup the sugar maple and the black maple The former is most common in Canada. North American Indians first discovered the sweet secret of the maples. Not only did they find its taste pleasing. they found it helped to ward off scurvy tthe sap is rich in Vitamin (Early explorers and settlers copied the gather- ing methods of the Indians and harvested the maple sap. using the boiled pro- duct as a cheap sugar sub- stitute. Today the produc- tion of maple products is a multi-million dollar industry in Canada. a profitable act- ity for many farms in an otherwise slow season. Weather conditions have a strong effect on the sap run. The best weather is when there is a hard frost at night followed by a sunny day with the temperatures ris- ing to 40 or 50 degrees F. This usually happens lo- wards the end of March in Ontario and Quebec. a few weeks later in the Atlantic provinces. A good run may last six weeks. Although "sugar bushes" tgroves of the trees tapped for sap) can be found from sap in Canada near" Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario to castern Nova Scotia, about 85 percent ol production is concentrated in the province of Quebec The Eastern Townships, be tween the St Lawrence Ri ver and the American bor der as a particularly pro ductive region Large commercial bushes. of as many as 20.000 trees. have been modern- ized in orecent vears. to cul Labor costs. A network of plastic tubing carries the sap directly to the sugar cabin where it is boiled to syrup by oil or gas heat. Most people. however, find the traditional opera- tion still practised by many farmers. more interesting to watch. It's romantic to walk through the woods and taste the sap as it drips from the spile or spout into an aluminum bucket. to see the steamy breath of the horses pulling the gathering tank on a cart or sleigh: and to sniff the mingling aromas ol burning wood and boiling sap in the old- tashioned sugar cabin Epsom Mr. and Mrs. Donald Asling attended the Mission Festival programme on Sunday evening at Sand- ford Church. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ashton and family of Sonya. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bushell and duahglers of Uxbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cather- wood and boys of Oshawa, Master Richard and sister Julie Ashton were supper guests on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ashton. Mr. Neil, Brown Sr.. Cindy. Scott and Miss Melody Brown have re- turned from Hollywood Beach. Florida. On Saturday afternoon Chris Brown attended a party at the Jaegar home, Chalk Lake, for the Sprite Hockey team who won the championship for the Atom Group in the Kinsmen League. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Houghland visited last Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Payne and her mother Mrs. McFee. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Aprildrd, 1974 - 23 Library name to change The new Library Board mel Wednesday night and chose their Executive for 1974 Mrs. Yvonne Christie 1s the Chairman, Mrs. Anne Ghiddon the Treasurer and Mrs. Patricia Sleep the Sec retary. with Mrs Nancy MacMillan and Mr Lawrence Malcolm comple- ting the Board: The Council had asked that the Board suggest a new name for the Library, since Jt now serves the whole municipality, and the members decided on the "Scugog Public Library." There 1s now no member- ship fee required. and the library hours are given else- where in this issue The Board hopes to en- courage more use of all library services. and hopes that people will become famihar with what the lib- rary can offer. With this mn mind. they plan to have an Open House mn the near future News Carl and son of Oshawa and Mrs. E. Houghland of Whit- by were Sunday dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Houghland. We are sorry to loose Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mitchell from Epsom but wish them every happiness in their new home. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Straughan and family of Uxbridge were dinner guests on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wilson. Mrs. Edna Silver of Oshawa and Mrs. Dorothea Koch of Port Perry visited Mrs. Cawker and Mrs. Jeff- ery on Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wilson, Marlene. Rick and Scott were Sunday dinner guests with Mrs. J.P. Wilson of Congratulations also to Mark Kerry who received a "Most Valuable Player for his team" trophy in Kins- men Hockey. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kendry attended a Convention at Nottawasaga Inn at Alliston on the weekend. (continued on page 24) Win at the Dairy Game Take a heifer calf through to completion of her first lactation Overcome the problems: take advantage of the opportunities with the help of the Shur-Gain Dairy Program --all in game form But it's the same sound advice that helps vou win i the real Lite dairy game. 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