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- .3- WHITY PREE PRESS, WEDNEÉSDAYJANI 1,19,PAE2 Leaf composting project is described as s'uccess, The 1988, leaf composting demonstration prject heid in Whtywas a huge success, acorig to Durham -Region offi- ciais. A report to Durham's works committee shows 143 tonnes of leaves were collected during the five-week leaf collection period. The leaves were coliected by Whitby staff from Oct. 24 to Nov. 25. According te the report, the leaves represented 10 per cent of the resi dential waste generated by Whitby residents. Works staff wili now meet with other municipalities in Durham te see if'thiy-Wî*àt to participaté- in a sirnilar program in 1989. Committee was also informed that works staff will be making available, free of charge, drums for backyard composting. Andrew Lepiriski, from the workçs department, told commit- tee an Ajax company had been dumping the drums at the Brock West.landfill site. The Region is now accepting the drums from the company an d wili be makirxg them avallable to Durham resident in May. The drums also wiii include dlrawings on how to convert the drum s0 it wili compost such items as Landfill to he discussed Jan. 20 A proposed meeting between the Province and the five regionai municipalities faced with a garbage problem bas been pushed up to Friday, Jan. 20. The meeting had been scheduied for Monday, Feb. 6. The earlier meeting bas sent Durham officiais scrambling to learn what the agenda for the meeting will be. Region chief administrative officer Don Evans was to meet with provincial officiais Tuesday ni ht and discuss an agenda. Kwiil then report to the newly commissioned waste management committee which will hiold a speciai meeting Thursday, Jan. 19. 'Round the world voyage related FROM PAGE 23 the backwaters. "We found everything in the Arnazon on a very huge scale," said Howard, as a iater slide photo sbowed Peter iaying on a ilypad. But it was a quick photo when a guide warned àbout the pirana-infested waters and numerous crocodiles. Water leveis could change as much 40 feet in the rainy season, and McCall remembered that the «sounds of the jungle were over- wheiming.» They met one woman who ciai- med to be 128 years old, and who said she had eight children from seven different men. "She said the secret to ber bappiness was neyer to get married," -related McCaii. On a visit to French Guyana, Lorcha made stops at Devil's Island as well as at other nearby isiands wbere there once were penai colonies (ceil blocks at Isle St. Joseph were used until 1953). Some ceil buildings are now being reconstructed, and on Isle Royale the chapel and infirm- arqrare feing restored. aThey are beautiful isiands," said Howard. They then saiied west to Panama, a trip taking them through the mild Caribbean waters and thousands of flying fish. Once through the canal, thcy vizited tho Calapagos Islands: "As impressive as one believes they are," said McCali after mcntioning Darwin's Origin nf-the SDecies. There they swam witri sea lions ("They love to play"), saw the famous tortoises (decimated in numbers by hunters over the P ast 100 years), and played with extremely curious" penguins (whicb came, to the equator via a cold current). From there it was a 29-day, 2,900-mile sali west to Pitcairn Island, east of Tahiti. "After 29 days it feels good to see land," said McCali. Only about a dozen yachts venture eacb year to Pitcairn which has no harbor. Isianders take boats to transport visitors to the island, and one of those on the weicoming committee was the governor, a seventb generation descendant of one of t he Bounty mutineers. "We did a lilde show (of voyage 50 far) for the islanders - ail 61 of them turned out," said McCall. During the stay at Pitcairn the children attended a well-equip- ped school ( island is adminis- tered by New Zeaiand) and were somewhat reluctant to leave wben it was time to head for French Polynesia and Tahiti, later discovered to be very tour- ist-oriented and very expensive. It was then west to the Pal- merston Atoll and then Tonga where they attended an inhabi- tant's funeral lasting days and including a huge feast. The voyage there ended for yacht club members as Howard described the boat repairs that took place, followed by several questions. Howard, who- had heen an experienced sailor, noted. that brightly-colored clotbs, fisb hook s, small wood carvings and especialiy scents, such as Avon products, were excellent for trad- ing. 'They were very happy to get anything we had,» sai dHoward of the natives of the isolated islands they visited. Another amusing anecdote centred on the elaborate set-up to get rid of a rat on board. McCall and Howard estimate theyset$1,0-$12,000 in eacof their five years, a figure that includes the film, film-pro- cessing and postage costs. They carried no firearms dur. ing their voyage, only a flare pistol since Howard noted that islaniers would take them away shouid they ever be found on board. VU F communication was often made with nearby freight- ers that went by, some of them coming to within haf a mile merely to see the Lorcha and what kind of sailing craft it was. leaves, potato peels and grass. The com posted material can then be used for fertilizer. 1 "In three weeks you can have a perfect soil out of any organic material," said Lepi nski. The drums wifllbe available from the leaf composting site at the Durham recycling -building on Conlin Rd. free of charge. THEt LUNG ASSOCIATION [ DURHIAM REGION WE GREATFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE MEMORIAL DONATIONS RECEIVED - IN ]REMEMBRANCE 0F -' MR. GERRY ABRAMOWICZ MONA ALLEN MR. BILL BADOUR MR. JACK BAWKS MARTHA BLAKLEY MR. PETER BOBYK E. BOWLER MR. FRED) BROWN MR. FRED BRYANT BARBARA BUFFAM MRS. EVELYN CAMPBELL MR. STUART CANDLER MR. GEORGE CLARK MRS. EVELYN CHAVE MR. E.A. COLLINS MR. W. COULTER MR. VIC CUTT ING S MR. GEORGE DePRATTO MR. SAMUEL DUROCHER MARY EDWARDS ODELLA FERGUSON MR.GIBNER MR. KEITH HARRISON MRS. JOYCE HODGES MR. B. HOPKINS MRS. LOIS JOHNSTON MRS. MARlON JACKSON MRS. KILDONK MR. WILBUR KINGSTON MR. PHILIP LAKAS DOROTHY LANDE R MR. ROBERT LEE MRS. LENNY MR. LOBB MR. LOUDFOOT DORA LYCETT MR. Wm. MacINTYRE MINNIE MALCOM MR. J. McCLURG MR. GEORGE McKINSTRY MR. CHESTER McQUAID EDNA MERCER MR. JOSEPH MICALLEF MR. IHA RRY MILLEN MR. JOHN MONAHAN MR. Wm. WESTFIELD MUIRHEAD D. YEO MRS. NEELY MR. L. PARR MR. GEORGE PATTERSON MR. WILFRED PEARCE MR. BERTRAM PICKETT MR. DOUGLAS PHILLIPS MR. ROSS PRENTICE MRS. MARIA REBECO Hi MR. CHARLES ROBSON MRS. MAUD RORABECK MR. MARK SELLECK MRS. SHIRLEY SHEWRING MR. JOHN SILLS MRS. CORA SIROT SHIRLEY SLOPER MR. TE RRY SMITH MR. FRED SNELGROVE MR. CHARLES SPRAGGETT MR. 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