The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

WH[IBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1M9, PAGE 19 ocalschol ýe Loca seoolgrowrlng space tomatoes Budding student scientisa in the 8B class at Adelaide McLaughlin pulc school in Oshawa are pltng gardens to experiment with tomato seeds from space. During the spring semester, students will grow and monitor space-exposed seeds and earth- based seed3, Searhing for differences caused by lcwg-term exposure to cosmic radiption. Resuits gathered by the students will be forwarded to NASA by June 15, for a final report. For nearly six years the seeds were exposed to the harsh environinent of space, subjected to coemic radiation, temperature extremes, weightlessnesa and the vacuum of space. Students will be looldng for possible mutations to the tomato plant, such as changes in fruit size and colour, growth rate, and leaf, stem, and stalk shapes and sizes. Theè pink grapefr-uit is a mutation resulting from irradiating the white grapefr-uit seed. The Space Exposed Experiment Developed for Students (SEEDS) was one of 57 experiments housed on the recently recovered il-ton Longt Duration ExpoSure Facility sa-tlite. After a nearly six-year voyage in space, the 125 milion tomato seeds were rescued by the crew of the Space Shuttie Columbia on January 12, 1990. SEEDS is a co-operative project between NASA sand Park Seed Company, Greenwood, S.C., offering te students a one-of-a- ind, banda-on experiment to study the effects of long-terni space exposure on living tissue. SEEDS has the potential to involve 4 million students and 40,000 educators. In March, NASA distributed 1LiO,000 SEEDSkidts containxn space-exposed seeds and an equa number of Earth-based seeds te 'teachers from the upper elemen- tary school te the university level for experiments and study. *WHýIT7iBY hydro commission members recently broke groun for the new office and service centre building on Taunton Rd. E., just east of Hwy 12. From left are commissioner Bill Lawler, contrac- tor Ralph Aquino,- Commission chairman Gerry Cox, architeet Douglas Milan and hydro general Imanager Tom May. FREE DELIVERY * FREE DELIVERY DISCOVERY BAY PHARMACY NOW OPEN SUNDAYS HOURS9ý 930 am,9 PM, 9:30 arn- 6pmr ,ljam"5pfl Discovery Bay1 303 Dreyer Dr.' Ajax n; 428-8322 r- .Canadian .-ràv-Iô CIGARETTES -wt coupon <exp. May 3et199)wgI