WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JIJNE 25, 1986 PAGE 13 Students find faiir com&L.petition stifft PRiUivi n. i1 a number of large spools of wire by manpower. However, knowing that pulling the wire at a low angle would move the spool toward the operator, and pulling it at a high angle would rnove it away, "would rnake it easier to move the spools anywhere. " The 15-year-.old said his idea is being tested riglit now by a company in Calgary which also uses big spools. "If the results are good," he said, I1 hope to presenting it to Bell îiext month." Commenting on the application of this prin- ciple, lie said, "It's sim- ple, -but nobody's ever tried it before. " One word, "9ex- cellent" sumns up Mc- Pherson-Brecht's im- pressions of the fair. "lIt was quite a show; we were seeing things you'd see comning out of universities, " Reeves- Hall said of the projects displayed. More than 370 students from grqdes 7 to 13, represen- ting 78 regions across Canada took part in the Canada Wide Fair. Al participants there had to first win at their school fair, and then at the regional level. "It was unlielievable what people were doing there. " "It was really fun and there was a good variety in every field you miglit be interested in. I leat- ned quite a bit seeing what other kids across the country had done," McPherson-Brecht said. Ail the students came back with several pen pals as well. "The earliest we went to bed, " Charlinski said, "was midnight because there were SO many ac- tivities planned." The only thing Calgary planners had not counted on, he said, was two feet of snow. Charlinski, travelling with T-shirts and shorts, hadn't expected it either. They had some extra excitement on arrivai. When tbey drove in from the airport, Charlinski said, bandits took over their bus. "These guys on horses came out shooting. They had old rifles and pistols and theybhad bandannas covering their moutbs. They came on the buses and took some people off - my mom was taken hostage. They hung one guy - they put bim on a horse and put a noose around bis neck, then as the horse rode away the rope broke. " But it was ail in fun - just part of the wild Western playacting laid on for the entertainment of Science Fair par- ticipants. "It was scarey at fir- st. I didn't think tbey lad cowboys that did that, but..." Tbere were trips to Banff, to a foothlîs ran- ch, science seminars, guest speakers, and representatives from big companies like Bell and IBM. One speaker, Dr. Ken Money of the Canadian Astronaut Program, af- ter talking to McPber- son-Brechit about bis Speaker eriticizes truck By MIKE JOHNSTON Free Press Staff Downtown Merchants should consider the in- credible business poten- tial created by ail the new homes being built in the area. That was just one of the ideas. a conceptual- planner' for' downtown areas left with members of the Business Im- provement Area (BIA) at their annual meeting Tuesday, June 10. Guest speaker, Fred Reynolds, addressed the downtown and many of tihe tricks of bis trade that can help create a vital and attractive core area business com- munity. Focussing on the daily rush of tran- I. sports passing through the heart of Whitby, Reynolds suggested the town take action to put stop to the traffic. "Fifteen wheelers and pedestrians don't mix," said Reynolds. He told bis audience that a recent traffic count in tbe area in- dicated that 700 large trucks a day pass by the stores. "Now if you could turn that into people you've really got it made and think of what those fumes are doing to thse plants." Reynolds said the trucks have a harsb im- pact on downtowns and in some cities have been know to create ghettos. "I like to caîl tbem rocket roadways," he said. He suggested the town re-route the trucks off the main streets, a course of action tbe town bas attempted to pursue only to come up against a brick wall at Queen's Park. The Ministry 0f Tran- sportation and Com- munications recently in- formed the town tbey would not restrict trucks from using Highway 12. Apart from clearing the streets of tractor trailers, the stores should be attractive to entice people into the downtown area, be ad- ded. 5 Year Guaranteed Investment Certificates 1O 1% 87 Annual Interest Rate subiect 10 change * NATIONAL TRUST 1A Division of National Victoria and Grey Trustco WH ITBY - 352 Brock St. 666-1800 308 Dundas St. W. 668-9324 AJAX --Harwood Place Mail 683-7344 OSHAWA - 32 Slmcoe St. 723-5207 PICKERING - Pickering Super Center 1792 Liverpool Rd. 831-6501 shuttle designs, asked hlm to send them to hlm. The 25th annual Canada Wide Science Fair beld from May lil to 18 gave away $55,000 in prizes, including summer research jobs, scholarsbips, and inter- national science-related trips. Other winners from Durham Region were Karen Chien, a grade 10 Dunbarton student who won a silver medal with ber examination of the effect » f rinsing frequency on ger- minating green mung beans, and Steve Lon- don, a grade 10 Port Perry student, who won an honorable mention for lis project on snow control. Reeves-Haîl is looking forward to taking grade 13 physics and cbemistry at the On- tario Science Centre School in September. He will complete bis grade 13 in second semester at Henry Street. "F'il get to fool around, I mean lil get to use ail the equipment at the Science Centre, too, " he said. To attend the sehool which. only takes 25 students in each of the two semesters, Reeves- Hall said he had to sub- mit marks as well as go through a series of in- terviews. After grade 13 lie is thinking about entering computer science at the University of Waterloo, 50 that award money will come in handy. McPherson - Brecht will continue to grade il next year, but will take four grade 12 subjects, following on from the four grade il subjects lie took this year in grade 10. 0f lis future plans, lie said, "I'd like to get my PhD in Physics. " Cbarlinski plans to put lis award money toward a computer. He isn't sure what lie wants to do for a career, but thinks he'd like to work with Bell Canada, like bis dad. Joni Heard, teacher fromn West Lynde and a member for the 1986 Science Fair Committee for Durham, attended the Canada Wide Fair witb the students. "Durham always ranks very highiat the Canada Wide," she said. "It is an indication of ex- cellènce in science of our students." Chairman Lafarga. noted it also reflected on the teaching of science in the region. I ERITAGE FLOOR FASHIONS RETURNS WITHTHE ORIGINAL 100% UPO'NT 315 q 5 . LIVING ROOM DINING ROOM AND HALL OR STAIRS. Addililnai roquIrmmnts '1.11 sq. il. 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