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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-02-08, Page 14A wint�rstde Around here we are having an old-fashioned winter and everyone 1 know has master- ed the Canadian winter one- step. That's the little jig we do in the water -spotted vesti- bule, with one boot on and one boot off. An old-fashioned winter is when rooftops hide under blankets of snow; . when driveways turn into tunnels and sidewalks become tren- ches. Old-fashioned winters produce crunchy snow that squeaks under your boots as you walk out in the moring, sharp air that bites into your 'lungs, chimney smoke that rises straight up into the frosty air. Mornings hum with the sounds of skidoos and snowblowers and spin- ning tires., I love winter. It is so good to go out and play in the snow — to ski or skate or toboggan — and then to come into the warm, gasping with cold, with fingers and toes numbly -solid and cheeks .burning, It is so cheerful to cuddle up to someone or something warin and to enjoy a hot drink and dry socks. Canadian winters are fun, healthy, invigorating and picturesque as all get out. They can also be deadly - as lethal as a sandstorm in the Sahara. Frosty Lady Winter can blind you with her smile, then suddenly scowl and howl and show you who is boss. (Sheis.) _We skied last weekend in a wilderness provincial park, near a friends' cottage. The cross-country trails led us through the bush, where we admired nature in her winter dress. Tiny wild footprints HEY KIDS! LEARN TO DRAW WITH DANNY COUGHLAN 1. Here's Dann 's complete drawing. 2. Finish what Danny started. 3. Now try it yourself! dotted the 'snow in neatly parallel seams; fungus mounted the trunk of a tree like a stairway to the sky; white snowformed stark patterns against ancient stumps. There was a good choice of trails angling off here and there. We struck out on the ones that seemed silkiest, fastest, most remote and beautiful. And we agreed that winter in the silent for- est is beautiful. At one point we circled a beaver pond where the open water rippled blackly against the icy bank. We looked into the inky depths and shivered. Cold. We took some pictures, and thought about the pot of chili await- ing us back at the cottage. It was time to retrace our steps. It seemed a long way back, uphill and chill, now that the sun had disappeared behind clouds. A ,few snowflakes drifted down. I was glad I'd worn a hat. At every little trail inter., section or crossroad, we paused for orientation, chose rq the direction that seemed right, and plunged ahead. After half an hour of this we knew -we were lost. Where was the tree with the inter- esting fungus? Where was the landmark log with the obscene lump? We'd•missed a turn somewhere. The park seemed very big, and that pot of chili seemed as distant as Mars. A hydro line crossed our path, set in a wide swath that angled across the bush in a purposeful way. Hydro is not random, we reasoned. It goes somewhere, and comes from somewhere. We aban- doned the meandering ski trail and followed the hydro cut. Which direction? Hard to tell. By now the sky was uniformly grey. One of us noted that we had about an hour of daylight left. The snow was deeper here and not so beautiful as it seemed out on the ski trail. The surrounding bush no longer looked friendly. We looked for buildings and saw none. We listened for traffic noises, and heard none. Snow came down in heavy clots. Headlines began to flicker Recycling: through my brain. "Skiers perish in provincial park.".. Things like that. As a news- paper person I took grim comfort in the fact that my frosty demise would be re- corded on the film in my .. camera. Should be 'great black and white (and blue). shots, I thought. We wondered what we would do if we got too tied to continue. We had no matches for a fire, no candy bars for . refreshment, no tools to cnt boughsfor shelter. I Felt a short stab of fear, like an icicle in my heart. Didn't say - a word' though. Stiff upper lip, Canadian calm and all that. Then a dark shape loomed through the trees ahead — a snow-covered cabin. There • was another,. and another end soon we bumped up against the high snowbanks of the concession road. We whooped like a couple of 10 -year-olds and high -tail- ed it for home I hope I'm not over -dra- matising here. This was no life and death situation - not quite. But if we'd taken the wrong turn on that hydro cut and headed instead -out into, the blinding blizzards of Jan- uary Georgian Bay, the story might have ended different- ly. And somebody else would have written it. .,BooK EFJVIEW 'llii:,pi 71`: GUMET,I9860; By FranklYn,.M Manley. 'Dia- . gran Sally J, Bensusen. E;r, ' NIttDn, New'York. (In Canada.: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto. $115.50.) 96 pp. Reviewed by PE)ItCYMADDUX 'Comets haveeintrigued mankind for centuries. Until 1577, people thought that comets were a phenomenon of earth's atknosphere, but in that year the Dan;* astronomer Tycho Brahe concluded that they came from farther away than the moon. Eventually it was sup- posed that comets came from, planets, but in the 1950s it was accepted that they come from, a huge cloud sur- rounding the solar system, thousands of times farther, than the farthest planets. The most famous comet is that named for the astrono- mer Edmund Halley, who - first saw it in 1682, figured it was the same one that ap- peared in 1607, and accurate- ly predicted it would return in 1759. Appearances of this comet have now been traced to time's earlier than the Christian era. In modern times it appeared in 1835 and again in 1910. So it travels about the universe in an orbit that requires 76 years to complete. It is due to come again in 1986, and Franklyn M. Bran- ley's book "Halley: Comet 1986" tells us what to expect at that time. As it is getting dimmer with every journey, •'-it will be seen after sunset 'low in the west and very faint. Branley's book ex- plains comets and is a guide for understanding and per- haps observing the return of Halley's in 1986 — it will not come again until 2062. The next morning the ra- dio told us that the tempera Its time has Comae tore had skidded down to 20 below the ° night before. If the provincial Ministry of the Environment has its way, most Ontario families in the next year or so will be -separating reeyclable-news- - papers, bottles and cans from their garbage. The reason for this is that the government is in the final throws of deciding to set up recycling byy'allowing high- s scrapwatue'-containers such as aluminum cans onto the market. ' This means the recovery of recycled scrap aluminum, glass, plastic and paper will have a tremendous impact on reducing household waste now clogging landfill sites. In addition, 1,100 brand . new jobs will be created in a born again recycling indus- try. The Environment minis- try is excited about the pro- spects because in one fell swoop Ontario will reduce municipal dumping and gen- erate new jobs without hav- ing to dip into the taxpayer's pocket. How will this work, and will householders co- operate? "You're darn right it works," says Nyle• Ludolph, manager of Total Recycling in Kitchener, Ont. who al- ready collects separated re- cyclables from the city's 35,000 houses and who has just begun to collect from hig -rise apartments. ` After just eight weeks we hail four out of five house- holds separating their gar- bage. People want to pitch in, Secretly they've always known we've been tossing valuable materials into the dump, but until now no one has convinced them they shouldn't." Each Kitchener household is provided with a free rec- tangular plastic container, about the size of a laundry basket. The family then puts its newspapers, bottles and crossroads Published every Wednesday by Wenger Bros. Limited as the lifestyle and entertainment section in The Listowel Banner, The Wingham Advance - Times, The Mount Forest Confederate and The Milverton Sun. Members of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association. and the 'Ontario Press Council. Controlled distri- bution in Elmira, Palmerston. Harriston. Brussels. Millbank. 'Newton. Atwood, Clifford, Drayton. Wallenstein. Moorefield and Arthur. Display and Classified advertising deadline — 5:00 p.m. Thursday week prior to publication date. Advertising and Production The Listowel Banner 188 Wallace Ave. N., P.O. Box 97, Listowel, Ont. N4W 3H2 Accounting and Billing The Wingham Advance -Times Josephine St., - P.O. Box 390, Wingham, Ont. NOG 2W0 The Listowel Banner 291.1660. The Wingham Advance -Times 357.2320. The Mountforest Confederate 323-1550. The Milverton Sun 595-8921 Lucky us. cans out for separate collec- We still love winter. tion, on regular garbage day, We also respect it, and by a special truck. • from now on, we'll carry A group' of companies in - matches. Consumers Glass and Twin- pak are already donating special depot containers to a number of pilot recycling programs in lbntaria µnclud- ing K%t�chene;; 'hese ;'ale specially designed for high- rise applications. . . A third component of this multi -material recyclingwill be the buy-back centre in which householders, rural ones in particular, will be able to sell their.recyelables by taking it to a depot them- ' selves. Obviously this has the biggest application in areas without regular gar- bage collection. ,"flight now we need a_ gov- ernment subsidy, but with these new materials on the market recyclers should be home free," says Mr. Ludolph. Colin Isaacs, executive di- rector of Pollution Probe, Canada's most prestigious environmental group, says: "I hope Ontario doesn't miss any waste management opportunity. Obviously man- ufacturers want into the Ontario market; so the gov- ernment can certainly make sure non -refillable cans and bottles are recycled, in re- turn for allowing them onto the shelves.". Today virtually all of Ontario's three billion empty food, beer and pop cans sold each year end up in the dump. Prices for old news- papers, glass bottles and jars have not been high enough to encourage wide- spread recycling. But with the advent of alu- minum the economics for re- cycling changes completely. Allan Wakefield, vice presi- dent for business develop- ment of Alcan Canada Pro- ducts Limited, says: "Alcan's guarantee`to buy back all aluminum cans in Ontario for three years at a minimum $900 a ton means suddenly the government has a way to implement sub- sidy -free recycling and gen- erate new jobs simultane- ously. "Aluminum cans are the backbone for recyclers in the U.S. Over 56 per cent -of alu- minum cans there are al- ready being recycled, and this is increasing yearly. 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