Between Yo uand Me By RUTII COLES Bits and Pieces, Odds and Ends. Have you noticed this past week how very cold the flowers, the grass and the trees look? They have cill lost their glow, their radiance, especiaily the willow trees with their aura of amber and gold. Rebirth in the spring is a glorious thing to see but this year it is, painful and slow. However within a week or so ail should be well and we along with ail other living things wiil be reborn again. Mary Hart's letter to the editor, Cornmunity Care, interested me and reminded me of previous colurn- ns written on this subjeet. Our world has changed, especiaily when it cornes to food shopping but will it ever revert to the past and give a good living to rnany people'? The supermarket, we were told, would be the an- swer to everyone's prayer, everything under one roof and cheaper produce. Someone suggested- to me years ago that I give this some thought and flot accept this prernise wiily nily. Tank Up the car, be your own delivery man, ail the whfie heaving paper bags of sorne weight in and out of the car. There are babies to be cared for ail the while this is going on, and they cannot be left alone in a shopping cart or the car. Supermarkets are great for some people andI'm flot trylng to degrade them but alternates should be available. Only once in my life did I live within walking distance of a store or stores and that was for a few years after I was married. A long block from Yonge Street in north Toronto and after the babies came we ail pushed prarns every day if we could, good for the babies and good for us. Yourý green grocer, grocer, butcher, hardware man, florist and druggist could be cornpared almost to your doctor!1 He knew you and you knew him. First of ail you hadto meet these purveyors, size UP, their stock and prices. They in turn had to know you, your likes and dislikes. You built a mututal trust and understanding. From then on ail you had to do was phone and ail your - needs :were, met. There were suggestions made as to special prices and your favourite cut of beef. Service was the name of the game and it was a game weil played.' It was lucrative for the store owners who on the whole did weil. Everything is relative and no doubt deliveries would be possible1 again if people changed their shopping ways.t So much for us who are light of foot and have a car parked outside. I personaily think walking up and down supernarket aisles is a terrible waste of time t and I disllke hauling it ail in and putting away such N vast amounts of food. We bave to admit that thet psychology of placement of products in the stores2 get Wo us; we are enticed by colour, shape and size. t For the elderly or for those who are flot well it must be horrendous. In other words they are cap- 0000. Armed rubbery A 22 year old man, arrned with a shotgun, robbed Silver Variety and Milk, 1624 Brock Street South in Whitby, late Tuesday night. Durham .Regional Police say the man walked into the store and robbed the owner of a large arnount of cash and was observed leav- ing the scene in a car driven by a female. He then proceeded to rob another store in Oshawa and was ob- served by police in the Waverly Street area in Bowrnanville. When police attempt- ed to stop the vehicle, the man, Kelly J. Knap- ton of no fixed address, pointed the shotgun at the police diuser. Police say that the* cruiser then rammed the fleeing vehicle, which went out of con- trol on Waverly Street and flipped over. After the collision, police say the shotgun went off, blowing. a hole in the roof of the car. Knapton and the fernale driver, Susan Beaulieu, 19, o0f Scar- borough, were arrested shortly before midnight and charged with -two counts of armed rob- bery, possession of stolen goods, and pos- session of a firearm while committing a crirninal offence. Bicycle thefts A Whitby youth bas been arrested in connec- tion with the theft of two 10-speed bicycles from a residence at 221 Trent Street. Durbamn Regional -Police say that 'Harold Wayne Pearson, 20, of 1128 Byron St. Southiin Whitby, bas been charged wlth break, en- ter and theft. Police say that Pear- son bas also beenî charged with two counts of thef t dating back to April 4. These two charges.are for the theft of fishing equiprnent frorn a truck in Osbawa and speakers frorn a van in Whitby. WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY APRIL 27, 1983, PAGE 7 tive these days and generaily unable to flnd alterna- tives. We see maple trees dylng ail about us, flot ln huge numbers but too many. We have one whlch is to be taken down veryshortly and maybe another to corne. In the cities and by the highways sait does cause a lot of damage but where we live sait is neyer used. 1 consulted Pat Mils of Cuilen Gardens who always seems to corne up with the right answer to any ques- tion. Native trees which just grow up in our gardens or the woods are apt to faîl prey to viral diseases which can give them a much shorter life span. Grafted hybrid from pure stock are disease free. Acid rain, he doesn't think so because up north where rnany of the laktes are dead the trees and' foliage and beautiful and healthy. The effect of acid ramn cannot be easily rneasured as far as trees go but if they thrive by dead laktes it cannot be too bad for thern. Some of us were disappointed in the Wintario T.V. broadcast this week frorn Whitby. Why wasn't it held in the large gym at Henry Street High School rather than the small one? .WHITBY MARIGOLO FESTIVAL From now on we wil update and give you the- latest news about the festival. Ail the school children have likely received their For Get Me Not packet of seeds and so have we. How are you going to plant thern, inside or our? Youths arre sted Three local' youths have been arrested in connection with the theft of a safe contain- ing $1,000 frorn the.Gain Gas Bar, 400 Dundas St. East, April 6. Durham Regional Police say the safe was located in a burned out farmhouse on Regional Road 23. The contents had been rernoved. John David Pearson and Michael Joseph Bis- sett, both 19, of 1128 Byron St. South, Apart- ment 1, have been charged with break, en- ter and theft. Dale Shawn Horvath, 18,. Of 1128 Byron St. South, Apartment 2, was charged with possession under $200. SILK SNFRESHARRANGEMENIS CRETEDESPECIALLY FOR HER. Free delivery in Oshawa & Whitby 108 Brock St.L-N., Whltby e e e 0 000000 L ibrary gets new books There are 124 new ref- erence books in the Whitby Public Library courtesy of a $5,53W.20 grant from the Ministry of Citizenship and Cul- ture's BILD, Resources Enrichment Fund. The library bas been able Wo buy some new encyclopedias as well as reference works covering subjects from art, badges of the World Wars, a new Canadian tax and lnvestment guide, atlases, director- ies, Who's Who in Cana- dian business, stock market dlrectory, and many, many more. Don't forget if you want W flnd out about anything, cail or visit the library. Chances were good that they'd have the azuwer and now the chances are even better. e "t r. e G1ve Mom on ico creomf l ove letter. The Baskin-Robbîns Mother's Day Cake. Fllled wlth Mom's favorite 3lderful flavors. Or cake 'n bce cream. Elther way, we'li top it with your own speclal love letter. 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