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it was scary business Saturday at the first scarecrow conte her sister Tina, 6, wowed the judges with their ent Megan Noonan, Andria Terry, Kristy Coates, berly Coates. st. Dana MacPherson, 5, and ry. Other winners included Justin Koury, Michael Koury, Chris MacPherson and Kim- Music award recitals On the evenings of October 17 and 18 the O.R.M.T.A. (Ont. Registered Music Teachers Association) will be hosting their Fall Award Recitals. These recitals are designed to pay recognition to the private music students of O.R.M.T.A. teachers, who have achieved a First Class Honour mark in their music examinations held in ac- cordance with the Royal Conser- vatory and the Western Conser- vatory of Music. These pupils will be given opportunity to perform at the 'Arts Resource Centre" in Oshawa. 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Chemi- cal pollutants coupled with the breakdown of the ozone layer, acid rain and the Greenhouse Effect, may reduce our ability to produce food and find drinking water. A recent television documentary said "Life is in balance," and warns that the present loss of species and habitat "paral- lels in magnitude a cataclysmic event that once destroyed two- thirds of all sea life." Our ecosystem may be on the edge of destruction. Loss of tree life is jeopardizes our oxygen supply. The destruction of the rain forests of Brazil and Borneo, is denuding the planet of our main source of oxygen. The very air we breath is being threatened. In Mexico City the air quali- ly is so bad people are dying by the hundreds. All have heard of the air pollution problems in California referred to as smog. Recently, the U.S. Forestry service has introduced a plan to plant 100 million trees in urban areas over the next two years. Itis hoped that these trees will help combat the carbon dioxide from cars and industries that is choking many cities. In addition to supplying us with oxygen, trees provide many vital services and benefits to our ecosystem. for exam- ple, the American forestry Association says that three correctly positioned trees around your home can cut air-conditioning costs by 10 to 50 per cent. At a recent international confer- ence, a European scientist said that trees filter our noxious pollutants, cool the air, raise air humidity, absorb noise pollu- tion and produce oxygen. One full grown tree can produce enough oxygen to support 10 people, but they are carelessly cut down, and the resulting paper products often misused. More on why we should protect our trees next week. Arthritis News Arthritis Society-funded resear- cher, Dr. Cy Frank, associate pro- fessor in the Department of Surgery, and Chairman of the Joint Injury and Diseases Research Group at the Universi- ty of Calgary, and his colleagues, Dr. Doug Bell, orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. Raj Rangayyan, electrical engineer, are develop- ing new non-invasive diagnostic technology that may help many people with joint problems avoid surgery. "What we are trying to invent is a way of putting microphnes on a knee joint to find out if those pops and snaps and grinds made by the joints mean anything in terms of cartilage damage," says Dr. Frank. "This would allow doc- tors to diagnose cartilage changes early and help to prevent secon- dary osteoarthritis." Cartilage is the body's shock absorber, an elastic tissue that coast the surface of bone-ends that comprise a joint. 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