WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1987, PAGE 21 BrooklinProfil ROXANNE REVELER News & Features Editor Phone 655 3637 To sait or flot to sait? That is the question, at least 11 aip-According to those who are supposed to know about pears to be since the Supreme Court of Canada recently these things, this method stops the sailt/sand mixture ordered the Province of Ontario to compensate two or- from easily sprayng onto nearby buildings and and by chard owners for damage done to their trees and crops the traffie flow. over several decades by road sait. Well, Illtell ya, that's a lot of hooey. I've lived on Bald- It's like being caught between a rock and a hard place. IE W P win St. in beautiful downtown Brooklin for almost 15 Road sait is widely used to melt snow and ice. For years, by Roxanne Reveler years. The aluminum siding at the front of our home looks this has been the basic way all municipalities haveas though it as been peppered wth buckshot. The cleared their roads. It is easy, it is effective and it is wrought iron railing around my front porch is scraped and cheap. But its damaging effects on cars and the environ-prn ment have prompted some municipalities to search for an re-painted witb that rustproof paint every spring. By alternative to keep roads and highways safe during the December it bas bubbled and by the end of the winter as winter. And to be quite truthful, there is no substitute for Thensthere i th ca itt good old road sait. Then there is the car. My littie blue Omni bas been saitasttaken off the road. Not that it didn't run. It was just that I The most promising alternative to sait is calcium r was afraid I would be running along with it, Freddy Flin- mahesms promAisgooderntiv oslt isrcatcium tstone style, before too long. What used to be a floor, is no magnesium (CM A)L It's good, and it doesn't create the more. Just large patches of air, if you catch my drift. Oh, havoc that road sait does, but it's darned expensive. the wonders of sat! Preliminary tests conducted last winter on an unnamed highway in southern Ontario by the Ministry of Transpor- num. Just a bit of a difference. tation indicated CMA is less harmful to cement, struc- Durham Region is naturally in the same predicament as Now we come back to the rock and a hard place bit.ie tures, cars and the environment. But it would cost the every other municipality inthe province. Right now, they would love to see the Region, and al other municipalities Province 20 to 30 times as much as they are paying now to use a combination of sait and sand to de-ice their roads. In for thatomatter, switch over to CMA. It would sure save switch over from sait to CMA. the southern portion of the region, they use a combo of 25 me a lot of bot spent figting the rust that road sait causes. But to be realistic, it would more than likely cost The cost of salting Ontario's roads is about $15 to $18 per cent sait to 75 per cent sand. In the northern areas of me a heck of a lot more on my tax bill to help pay for the million a year. Salt runs about $30 to $35 a tonne. CMA, Scugog, Uxbridge, Brock, and in Newcastle, the ratio is 45,000 tonnes of CMA Durham would need a year at $1,045 which is a concoction of acid and dolmite lemiestone upped to 30-70. In both cases the salt/sand combination is a tonne. rings, is a whopping $1,045 a tonne. Simple arithmetic tells washed down with a mixture of calcium chloride and To sait or not to sait? What the heck...go for it, there you the price tag for clearing those same Ontario roads water to adhere the mix to the road and stop it from doesn't reahly appear to be much choce rght now using CMA would escalate to nearly $870 million per an- freezing. --Newlook unveiled Reflections of a Golden Age By MABEL M. McCABE All Hallow's Eve, or in the venacular, Halloween, is upon us once again. Times have changed a great deal since you and I went out trick or treating. The world we live in today is just too dangerous for kids to go out alone and it is a sad sign of our times. The tricks now. are on the young and unsuspecting. If they are not careful it could even be their last Halloween. Most young parents are good and make sure they are there with the children on the streets. Remember when it was just you and friends and the dark night? We really did trick many in our neighborhood. We knew who were the grouchy ones and left them little tokens such as soaped windows. In rural areas it was the old standard of turning over the outhouse. I can recall many good times, and into my teens memories were built that give me a smile today. I remember a dear friend who was studying art at the Toronto Gallery who went to the Beaux Arts Ball as a bronze statue. It was a Saturday night and she painted her complete body with gold body paint. All went well until the next morning. After her late night she arose to go to church and discovered she could not wash off the gold paint. She had been so tired she fell into bed upon getting home. She worked until she was almost late for Mass and then encased herself in black clothes and heavy veil. She even wore elbow length gloves. Of course we all noticed this and after church we made her take off the gloves and veil. I'm sure the laugh could be heard as far as the High Altar. This dear girl has been gone from this earth many years but her joyous spirit still can bring smiles to those of us who are still around and that is the way she would have wanted it. Do you have someone in your memory bank who was similar and has left you a legacy of happiness? In the City of Toronto during the depression we could not afford to buy costumes for parties so there developed a practice of "Hard Times Par- ties." Anyone out there remember them? Everyone brought something to eat and the outfits were fashioned from whatever you could find in an attic or an old trunk. Some of them were very ingenious and clever. it was the person who got to the attic or trunk first who was the winner of the small token prize for best costume. We really made strange looking Cleopatras and Neros but we did not lack for good times and happy company. Generally the walk home was weird because the poor beat cop would not be sure whether to run us all in to the station in the pad- dywagon or join us in playing spOoks. We always managed to have an enjoyable time on very little cash outlay and I feel sorry for the young today. From what IFve seen they do not know how to have fun anymore. They must have a car and gas money, or the price of a movie which is too high. It's time we tried to show them that fun is where you find it and to be happy you have to learn to smile and make friends. Good companions are the answer to loneliness. In this day and age it seems too many folks are suspicious of their next door neighbor and afraid. One has to be open and ready to respond to a friendly gesture before they can be accepted by others around tbem. However you spend Halloween I hope you have a good time and don't be afraid of the little hobgoblins. for Memorial Park A new look for the Brooklin Memorial Park was unveiled at an operations committee meeting last week, a look that does not include the race track. At a presentation by Pat Bollen- berghe of Milus, Bollenberghe. Topps and Watchorn, four alter- natives for the redesign of the park were shown. All four included an additional arena, two soccer fields and an extra baseball diamond. Two of the designs retained the race track while the other two, one of which was preferred by the committee and the consultants. did not. The main user of the park is the Brooklin Spring Fair board which holds the annual fair at the park in June. Races are held on the track during the fair. But that is only for half-a-day. according to the consultants. "It became evident that we need more space at the park to satisfv everyone. If the track is to be main- tained it has to be on a more active role,' said Bollenberghe. The redesign for the park has the Town purchasing 10 acres of land directly west of the present arena. The second arena would be built on that site. Bollenberghe also said a show track would be built on the grounds giving the fair board the oppor- tunity to show animals. The Town of Whitby assumed ownership of the park from First City Developers in 1982. Jack Woodward. former chair- man of the fair board, said par- mutual betting had been held at the track for 20 years. He added the track has been at the park for at least 40 years. Parks and recreation director Larry Morrow told the committee the Town is under no obligation to maintain the track. Morrow could not give any estimate for the work. saying the plans are long term. "It will be at least 10 years," he said. Council gave approval 10 the design on Monday night. A master plan for pected to go before theendof theyear. the park is ex- council before AMBUIANCE ATTENDAXNTS transfer a vouing girl to hiospital after she was struck by a truîck on Baldwin Street last week. lee Pros 1l"' Hit and run A man has been charged in connection witha hit-and-rui accident in Brooklin last Wed nesday which sent a young gir to hospital. According to an OPP spokesman. Krista Carter, 15. of RR 1 Uxbridge, was stan- ding on the road bebween two parked cars in front of 71 Baldwin St.. at around 3:40 last Wednesday. When she proceeded to cross the highway. she was struck bv a 1985 GMC white tractoi truck. The truck, which had been leased, was allegedly travelling at 60 km/hr. Police indicated the driver stopped momentarily after striking the Victim and then left the scene. John Hoffman of Vinemount. Ont.. has been charged with failing to remain on thescene. Carter was taken to Whitby General hospital by ambulan- ce after being treated al the site for cuts and contusions to her arms. legs and head.