HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-08-14, Page 11Summer playground
(by Heather Sweeney)
We only had four days of
Occupations Week because
Monday was Civic Holiday.
On Tuesday the activities
included; discussing the occ-
upation of the people in this
community and playing five
innings of baseball. We made
costumes for our skits which
we did Wednesday. "Kick -
the -can" was a popular
game this week. Roller skat-
ing was the main event on
Thursday. Everyone dressed
up for "Let's Make a Deal," -
which took a lot of planning,
but was a lot of fun; follow-
ing, because of Carrie Sween-
ey's birthday, we ended Fri-
day afternoon with cake and
ice cream.
(by Susan Deichert)
The fourth theme of sum-
mer playground was Wild,
Wild West week. In this week
we made a teepee and a
chuckwagon for a project.
We worked on these for about
a day and a half.
Thursday was dress -up day,
Everybody dressed up in eith-
er cowboy or Indian costumes.
We started the day with a
costume contest. There were
four winners. Next, we had a
square dance. Two squares
danced to the tune of Red
River Valley in the auditor-
ium.
On Friday, we went camp-
ing at Rainbow Valley near
Bayfield. About five o'clock
we had supper of roasted
wieners and buns. We toast-
ed marshmallows after sup-
per. That night seemed long
for some.
This week was enjoyable
and I hope everybody enjoy-
ed it.
Zurich Citizens News, August 14, 1975 - Page 11
UNIQUE DISPLAY - Another prize. winner at the big parade held in Dashwood for the
Friedsburg Days was this entry of Merner's Meats, which clearly spelled out the name of
the business.
Garbage
ming
roses..
Twenty years from now, crops
growing on recycled garbage will be
an everyday sight.
That's pretty hard to imagine
right now because most of us think of
garbage as just that -garbage. But
in fact, it's a potential resource.
And the Ontario Ministry of
the Environment is harnessing it.
How does it happen?
By recycling. Garbage will be
taken to recycling centres where it
will be shredded, separated, and
some of it, turned into fertile soil to re-
vitalize barren areas of the province.
The same basic shredding and
separating process will also produce
fuel, paper, cardboard, metals.
And we've just begun to explore
the possible end uses of garbage.
Shredding
Separation
of metals
Landfill
Recyclable
materials
Fuel
/ Separation
of light
and heavy
\ materi�
The system: step by step.
A centre for advanced research will
come up with many more.
Where is it happening?
Our Ministry has
already inaugurated
Ontario's first recycling
centre in North York.
In the next two years,
similar centres will be
built to serve London,
Sudbury, Peel, Halton,
Metro Toronto and
' south eastern Ontario.
In 15 years there will be
recycling centres all across the
province to handle 90 per cent of
Ontario's garbage -every -thing from
abandoned cars to organic waste.
Why recycle?
Because the people of Ontario
-all of us -pile up garbage at three
times the rate that the population
increases.
The Ministry is working on
ways to reduce that amount, but we'll
always have garbage. And we're
having trouble finding places to put
it and the landfill to cover it.
Once garbage is being
recycled, those problems will be over.
But more important than the dumping
problems, we're literally throwing
away valuable resources with every
ton of garbage we discard.
In a community of 100,000,
garbage recycling will conserve
the equivalent of up to 3,500,000
gallons of fuel oil a year, 3,600 tons of
,,, reclaimed steel, 4,500 tons of glass.
Our recycling program is
considered one of the most
advanced in the world. It's a
,..-,,,, commitment to a
different way of living.
And the whole
world will be watching
Ontario's garbage come
up roses.
Ministry
of the
Environment
Ontario
Hon. William Newman, Minister
Everett Biggs, Deputy Minister