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The Citizen, 1989-10-18, Page 22Classified________ FAST____________ DEPENDABLE HIGHLY VISIBLE RATES 20 words or less only $3.00. Additional words 12c each. Extra billing charge 50c will be added if not paid the following Wednesday. DEADLINE 2 P.M. MONDAY IN BRUSSELS. 4 P.M. MONDAY IN BLYTH. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1989. PAGE 23. Environmental problems VEHICLES FOR SALE HELP WANTED HELP WANTED WINTER CARS: ‘77 ASPEN 6 auto, p.s.; ‘78 Volaire 6 auto, p.s.; ‘79 Ford LTD. loaded; ‘75 Grand Prix, buckets and stereo. Call 887- 9854. 42-1 1981 MONTE CARLO A LAN- deau model light blue */: white vinyl top, loaded, air, cruise, p.s., tilt wheel, am/fm stereo, 4 new tires, excellent condition, asking $3,400. Call after 6 p.m., 887-6974. 42-1 WANTED WILL DO BABYSITTING, BRUS- sels/Walton area - in my home, weekdays. Phone 887-9242. 42-lp The Huron County Board of Education NEEDS ASSESSMENT PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR The Hard to Serve Committee of Huron County requires the services of an experienced person to conduct a comprehensive survey of the needs of children and youth and their families. Applicants should have experience in conducting detailed surveys of this nature. Please apply to: Chuck Rowland Superintendent of Student Services Huron County Board of Education 103 Albert Street Clinton, Ontario N0M 1L0 All applications must be received by 4 p.m. October 26th x_______________________ ___________ ________________________/ BROOMBALL EQUIPMENT needed - various pieces. Ladies’ size 9 or men’s size 7 shoes. Phone 526-7714 after 5:00 p.m. 42-1 SOMEONE TO TEACH ME HOW to cover lawn chairs with macrame in the Auburn area, please call 526-7589. 42-lp STUDENT REQUIRES TRANS- portation from Blyth to Clinton at noon. Phone 523-9640 evenings. 42-lp Boneschanskers take produce to Toronto Local market gardeners John and Carol Boneschansker, of Ethel celebrated Agri-Food week in Ontario by taking their produce right to the heart of the city. The Boneschanskers were among 35 farmers who were invited to sell their produce at the parking lot of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto October 1. They began setting up at 7:30 in the morning to prepare for the crowds that would descend seeking farm fresh produce. On sale were vegetables, apples, honey, baking and perserves, flowers and decor­ ative articles. The Boneschanskers took mostly their own produce but augmented it with some materials from the Holland Marsh. Selling directly to the public isn’t a new experience for the family business. They regularly attend the market in Waterloo. John Barger and Donna Higgins were married September 16 in Belgrave. Couple weds in Belgrave Majestic WI holds card party The Majestic W.I. held their first card party on October 2 with six tables full. Lucky winners were: high man, Marjorie Richie (playing as a man); low man, Richard Limbg; high lady, Roberta Simpson; low lady, Clara Haig; most lone hands, George Laverty and lucky cup, Jim Smith. The next card party will be on November 6 at 8 p.m. BARGER - HIGGINS Knox United Church in Belgrave was the setting for a wedding on September 16, 1989, when Rev. John G. Roberts united John Barger and Donna Higgins in holy matrimony. The groom is the son of Alan and Marie Barger of RR 3, Lucknow and the bride is the daughter of Ross and Wilma Higgins of RR 5, Brussels. Maid of honour was Denise Nethery of St. Catherines and bridesmaids were Ruth Higgins of Waterloo, and Mrs. Patricia De- Keserdey of Ottawa. Amy Barnes of RR 5, Brussels was flower girl. Tom Barger of Kincardine was best man for the occasion while Bruce Higgins of RR 5, Brussels and Michael Barger of RR 3, Lucknow were ushers. Organist Mrs. Elizabeth Procter accompanied soloist Mrs. Pam Gethke. Following a reception at Brus­ sels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, the couple left on a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls. Upon their return they will be residing at 565 Campbell Street in Lucknow. AIDS Awareness Week on October 16 - 22 is AIDS Aware­ ness Week in Ontario. Residents of Huron County will have an oppor­ tunity to learn the latest status of this disease at a community info­ mation night Thursday, October 19, 1989, 8 p.m., at Huronview Auditorium, Clinton. Entitled ‘‘AIDS: A Community Concern”, the information night will feature videos, speakers, a book display and poster contest. Youth in Huron County are encouraged to enter the poster contest by designing a poster to increase AIDS awareness. Entries may be submitted to any Huron County Health Unit office or Wo­ men Today. Winning posters will be forwarded to Toronto for use on World AIDS Day. December 1. Continued from page 5 The ultraviolet radiation will also cause the deformation and destruc­ tion of all vegetation including food crops over the entire planet. It will also destroy the aquatic life in the lakes and oceans. Skin cancer is already increasing at an alarming rate of 80 per cent annually which has been linked directly to ozone depletion. The main sources of CFC pollution are the cleaning sprays in electronics, automobile air conditioners, foams, and the improper disposal of refrigerants (air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, etc). It is strongly recom­ mended that we cut back on the use of CFO’s by at least 80 to 85 per cent now. That means we should be only using them for necessity refrigeration (food) and we should find a safe substitute for that as soon as possible. A 20 per cent reduction as proposed by the government over the next decade (which our government hasn’t act­ ed on in two years) will do very little about the problem and will do little for the quality of human health. At the present time it will take around 200 years for the ozone layer to repair itself and the CFC’s in the atmosphere to clear them­ selves out. We already have two holes in the ozone that were never expected. When and where will the next hole or holes appear. Deforestation on a global level has the potential to run most of this planet into desert within the next 20 years. The effects of rainforest destruction in South America alone will be equivalent to that of a world wide thermal nuclear holocaust by the end of the century or shortly after. Rainforest controls weather patterns worldwide and they are disappearing at a rate equivalent to the size of Great Brittain per year either by logging or burning. It is estimated that in less than seven years the rainforest will be 65 per cent destroyed and the remainder will die off on its own. Forest destruction on the west coast of North America from Cali­ fornia to the Yukon will probably turn the entire central line of the continent into desert and complete­ ly disrupt the weather patterns over the rest of the country (droughts and torrential rains). Forest destruction in the rest of the country will have the same effects and irreversibly damage the eco­ systems. The deforestation has also impaired the planet’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide (fossil fuels. Damage done by deforestation is irreversible and that is something we are already going to have to live with. Carbon dioxide comes from the burning of fossil fuels and the burning of rainforest in South America. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas in the atmosphere that contributes to global warming. Methane is anoth­ er gas which contributes greatly to global warming (caused by cattle and garbage). They act just like insulation or glass, trapping heat in the planet’s atmosphere. There is already 25 per cent more carbon dioxide in the air than there is supposed to be and there have been readings of up to 47 per cent. The major contributor to this increase is automobiles: over 30 per cent. Rainforest burning ac­ counts for another 20 per cent of carbon dioxide pollution. It has been said many times, if you start your car, you are contributing to the greenhouse effect. Right now it is estimated that there are over 200 million cars on the road in North America every day, Worldwide 600 million by the end of this year. Government proposals of a 20 per cent reduction by the year 2005 fall way short of doing anything at all. The United Nations and World­ watch Institute are pleading for an immediate 85 per cent reduction in the use of fossil fuels. Our former Ambassador to the U.N., Stephen Lewis, who chaired a conference in Toronto last year on global warming has stated that we should stop using fossil fuels immediately and find a substitute as fast as humanly possible. The present Speaker of the House of Commons in Ottawa, John Fraser, who was Environment Minister in the Joe Clark Administration has said publicly that unless something is done right away all life on this planet will cease within 20 years. The future outlook is pretty gloomy. The reports and data being gathered is progressively getting worse on a daily basis. We are looking at a temperature increase of about 5 degrees C. over the next 10 to 20 years and a probable 10 degrees C. increase in the next 50 years. Ocean levels will rise any­ where from nine to 22 feet or more from polar ice melting. They have already risen slightly with dire consequences to low level fresh water supplies. There are warnings of sea water contamination in coastal wells in China already. Global warming at present rates will have a spiraling on ocean levels to a point where they will be out of control in the next decade and rise at a more excellerated rate. Some scientists believe that as the oceans warm they will reach a point where they will release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere instead of absorbing it as they do now, thus a greenhouse effect gone wild. The odds are very much in favour of the lower one-third of the United States becoming totally uninhabitable within the next 10 to 20 years. Southern Ontario is now going to have a climate like Tennessee and Ottawa like Georgia. The green­ house effect means a temperature shift that when done naturally takes thousands of years but which we will have achieved in a few decades with the probable annihila­ tion of the eco-systems in the process. Forest fires have raged out of control in every corner of the planet destroying 20 times more than normal due to drought. Drought is also directly responsible for a 20 per cent increase in rats in Great Britain this year and there is now some concern over diseases carried by rats. Droughts are not just a summer occurrence anymore either. Precipitation levels in win­ ter have decreased dramatically, (no snow) and temperature fluctu­ ations increased. Warmer winters mean less bacteria is being killed off in water that is not freezing. Lower precipitation levels in the winter means less ground moisture in the soil. The hurricane that hit Jamaica last year has been linked to climatic change being caused by the green­ house effect and the destruction of rainforest in South America. Winds in that storm were clocked at near 200 miles per hour, the highest ever recorded. Scientists predict that these storms will get progres­ sively more violent and there will be more of them. You could go on and on about the greenhouse effect, water pollution, and related matters. It would fill this paper many times over. What it all boils down to is that we have to do something now. The longer we put it off, the worse the situation will be. It is about time that we take individual responsi­ bility for what each and everyone of us is doing to the environment and clean up our act. The clock is ticking and time is running out quickly. Doug and Deborah Trollope Brussels. CALL CITIZEN CLASSIFIED AT 523-4792 OR 887-9114 24 HOURS\\ DAY