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Weston-York Times (1971), 12 Jul 1973, p. 9

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Glen Wood, assistant coâ€" ordinator of music, is looking Korward to his new position as coâ€"ordinator of music education in North York schools next September, following his appointment by the Board of Education for the Borough of North York. He believes that North York has achieved a great deal in music education and feels it has potential to achieve even more. < Recycling together And the town has backed the project, providing a works department garage it no longer uses. This is the committee‘s main recycling depot. In Kanata, a town of 6,000 on the outskirts of Ottawa, Kanata Pollution Probe is enjoying success similar to Burlington‘s and that group too is enthusiastic about the support from municipal goverment. Since 1970, the recycling project there has grown to the point where in 1972, they handled 228 tons of paper alone. Burlington‘s _ Citizen‘s Committee for Pollution control, a volunteer body with a wide range of enâ€" vironmental interests and an extensive recycling project, give a lo}! of credit to the willing assistance of the Town of Burlington. ‘"‘We‘ve been told we should ask for _ local Knritiatives grants and government funds," said recycling chairman Angus MacKerzie. ‘"We‘re inâ€" terested in doing the job as volunteers." A‘ _ BY BILL DODDS To make a success of a recycling operation, a volunteer group needs the wholeâ€"hearted support of its community and its municipal _ government, according to two groups who should know. A native of Toronto, Mr. Wood attended South African College School in CapeTown, South Africa. He is an arts graduate in music and ob Keeping it clean Music coâ€"ordinator Glen H. Wood And in both Kanata and Burlington, the volunteers responsible for the recycling programs feel it has been worth the time and effort. But in Kanata, the township is assuming full operating responsibility for curbside collection of paper and glass and for the glass recycling station established by the volunteers. Success didn‘t come easy in either Kanata _ or Burlington. It takes enâ€" thusiasm and hard work to get things rolling and municipal officials have many responsibilities that can keep then from em hracing the problems that fledgeling _ recycling operations can bring. ‘"We are not suggesting that every municipality start curbside collection of glass," said Mrs. Diana Pilsworth, founder of Kanata Pollution Probe. "You have got to have a market close enough to be practical. But waste management is becoming more urgent all the time and we can‘t just sit around until some _ total _ recycling program may be inâ€" troduced." And the group is proud of the success of its glass recycling operation. They use a hand built crusher, assembled by a March Township councillor in the township garage from plans designed by engineering students from a U.S. college. tained his A.R.C.T. from the University of Toronto. He began teaching in 1954 at Thomasburg Public School, and has taught at MacKillop, Beverley Acres and Crosby (viceâ€"principal) Public Schools at Richmond Hill; Toronto Teachers‘ College; chairman of music at Northâ€" mount Junior High School; head of music at Northview Heights Secondary School; and was supervisor of music for the Board of Education for two years. He is president of the North York Music T eachers‘ Association. CAC recommends that rubber _ gloves, â€" safety goggles and a face mask or damp cloth covering nose and mouth be worn when All oven cleaners bear corrosive warnings in acâ€" cordance with the Hazardous Producst Act. They are all dangerous if they come in contact with skin or eyes. Heavy labor appeals to few _ Caustic oven cleaners can homemakers; most turn to damage clothing, floors and one of the specialty products other surfaces. Most oven on the market for cleaning cleaners are safe to use on ovens. However, this strong stainless steel and porcelain medicine route is risky. The enamel on steel, the types of caustic strength of today‘s surfaces most commonly oven‘ cleaners makes it used for ovens. However, essential to follow manufacâ€" drippings are practically turers‘ instructions and inevitable. And CAC advises warnings precisely. To placing newspaper on the ensure complete safety, floor under the oven door to Consumers‘ Association of protect linoleum, asphalt, Canada recommends sup tile, plastic surfaces, varnish plementary protective or paint. 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The most readily available antidotes for swallowing are three or four The Times, Thursdav, July 12, 1973â€"Page 9 Brian Williams glasses of water or milk. According to the Ottawa Poison Control Centre, diluted vinegar, while acceptable as an antidote, may present problems. When a caustic substance is swallowed, it darmages the cesophagus on its way to the stomach.

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