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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1990-03-14, Page 9THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1990. PAGE 9. Walton Students to plant 23,000 trees Compiled by Mrs. Betty McCall. Phone 887-6677 Illiteracy topic at UCW There was a good turnout when both units of the Walton United Church Women met for the general meeting in the church basement, Wednesday evening, March 7. The executive had met prior to this meeting. The Topic on Communications was well presented by Melva Fraser when she spoke on the 1990 International Year of the Illiterate. In Ontario alone there are 1.6 million functionally illiterate adults. Maxine Houston in charge of devotions from Walton Unit II led in different forms of communica tions with everyone taking part. Gloria Wilbee sang a song accomp anying herself on the guitar, then everyone joined in to sing “We are waiting, Lord”. The offering was received and dedicated. Dorothy Sholdice presided for the business, opening with repeat- ing the UCW Purpose. Doreen Hackwell read minutes and Leona McDonald gave the treasurer’s report. It was reported the kitchen ceiling has been repaired, the board will purchase the paint. Plans were made for the Daffodil Murray Gaunt to speak at WI meeting The Walton Women’s Institute is planning for its meeting on Agri culture, March 21 at 8:15 p.m. when the guest speaker will be Murray Gaunt. Surrounding Insti tutes are invited and men are most welcome to come and hear the speaker. Tea and Bake Table sale and miscellaneous articles on April 21 at 2 p.m. Each member is asked to bring at least two items for the bake table. Supper committee will look after the lunch. In the correspondence, invita tions were read from Northside United Church, Seaforth to their Thankoffering Monday, March 26 at 8 p.m. and to Blyth Easter Thankoffering on April 8 at 8 p.m. Karen Hoegy of the Committee gave a report on the new prices, this was followed by a discussion. Members were remind ed to bring in their tapes from K-Food and Zehrs, now E.M.A. are acceptable, also labels from Camp bell soups. Dorothy closed the meeting with prayer. After the singing of Grace, lunch was served by Elva Bolger, Marie Coutts, Karen Hoegy and Pearl McCallum. u.c.w. Sunday, Supper Students from public and separ ate schools in Huron, Perth, Bruce and Grey Counties will be partici pating in a tree-planing program to commemorate Earth Day on April 22. More than 23,000 trees, mostly white pine and spruce have been donated to the schools by the Maitland Valley, Ausable-Bayfield and Grey-Sauble Conservation Authorities in conjunction with CKNX Broadcasting for planting by students and their families. Glenn Creamer, the Huron- Bruce reporter for CKNX, came up with the idea for the program after reading a story about a group called Tree Watch. The story stated that if every Canadian planted 10 trees the country’s contribution to the greenhouse effect would be zero. He approached the county schools and according to Mr. Creamer created ‘quite a stir’ when asking the conservation authorities for the trees as there was no existing policy about donating trees to school boards. “But they couldn’t say no; it’s a motherhood and apple pie issue,” he said. Mr. Creamer hopes that the program will become an annual event in the counties and perhaps may someday expand to become a provincial one. It is hoped that each school receiving trees will also plan other Earth Day activities around the planting, such as cleaning up the schoolyards, creating posters, songs or stories about the environ ment and writing letters to politi cians listing possible solutions to the problems. Mr. Creamer feels that if they can get 23,000 families involved in the planting of trees they will be sending an environment message first hand and making it a family project will hopefully heighten awareness and involve as many adults as possible. “Our greatest natural resource is our children,” said Mr. Creamer. “But if we don’t have a clean environment for them, we’re wast ing our time giving them a good school environment. This is the turnaround decade and if we don’t turn things around, we’ll have to pick it in.” Essay winners announced While it has been a long time coming, The Citizen’s judges have finally made its decision on the winners of the students’ Christmas essay contest. The first prize of $15 is being awarded to Heather Thompson, a grade 8 student at Grey Central School for her story “A Season That Belongs to Everyone”. Second place was also won by a Grey Central School grade 8 stu dent. Lori Perrie will receive $10 for her story “The Best Christmas Ever”. And the $5 third prize goes to Sarah Rouw a grade 8 student at Blyth Public School for her re working of an old standard, “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas in Yuppieville”. Congratulations and thank you to all the participants. Brussels students share views BY LORIE JAMIESON AND EMMA RICHARDS This week instead of school events, the topic is a world con cern, the environment. We interviewed some people of different ages and here is what they had to say. Nathan Garland, grade 1-2, hopes to be on council for environ- ' mental safety. He says, “Everyone should recycle to help clean up the environment. We should use more things that aren’t harmful to the environment.” Most of the students thought that Brian Mulroney and other politicians are using the environ mental issue to scrounge more votes. Josh Gropp, grade 1-2, thinks that “(We) should put all the garbage in the right bin so that it can be recycled into a new thing that can be used.” A grade 8 student, Julie Cloakey, comments “Think before you throw away.” Julie also thinks that aeresol cans should be banned. Another Brussels student, Robert Richards, doesn’t have much to say but he is still concerned. “Help it!” Jason Engel, grade 8 student, replies, “Even if we are kids, we should start trying to clean environment, right now!” As you have seen from article, even young children concerned about the environment, so help them start cleaning up their act by showing them how to recycle and which products are ozone friendly, “Start caring or start dying.” the this are WE DELIVER We reserve the right to limit quantities Prices in effect March 13-17 While supplies last Brussels BRUSSELS VILLAGE MARKET OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK SroaV 8 A.M. - 6 P.M. (FRI. NITES ' TIL 9) GREEN GIANT Cream Corn or Niblets 1.1919 OZ. 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