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The Citizen, Ottawa, Friday, Sept. 23, 1983, Page 23 Neighborhoods Lowertown New gymnasium to open A new gymnasium for students and the public is scheduled to. open next week at Routhier School on Guigues Street. Students at the school will use the $425,000 gym during the day and members of the Armand Page Community Centre on 130 King Edward Ave. will use it at other times.

Ottawa recreation supervisor Jacques Lortie said the gym will offer badminton, basketball, volleyball and floor hockey for adults. Children and youths will be able to participate in gymnastics and a variety of indoor sports. Lortie said Ottawa provided $250,000 for the project and the Ottawa Separate School Board contributed about $175,000. Construction started in the fall of 1982. Anyone who wants to register for gymnasium activities can go to Armand Page Community Centre from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday or call 563-3319. The gymnasium's official opening is scheduled Oct. 30. Beacon Hill South Crafts workshop Gloucester Craftsmen's Guild, an amateur craftsmen's organization, has scheduled a day of handicraft workshops on Oct.

15 at Gloucester High School on 2060 Ogilvie Rd. Guild spokesman Gerda van Keulen said beginners' workshops will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in batik, candlewicking, pottery for children, embroidered Christmas decorations, adult pottery and stained glass. Van Keulen said the workshops will give participants an opportunity to try out various crafts.

She said some participants become so interested they take advanced courses at community centres or Algonquin College. The guild meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester fire station at Innes and Blair roads. Membership fees are $15 a person or $30 a family. Drew Gragg, Citizen Framed in: Two workmen install insulation panels on the new Mallorn Centre on Moodie Drive in Bells Corners.

I 1 i inn 'Uliii Adult game faces own survival fight and shoots red dye pellets does with gas pistols that fire dye-filled pellets. The object of the game is to capture the opposition flag and return to home base without being shot. Many players wear camouflage gear and smear their faces with greasepaint. Safety glasses are mandatory. Gerry Campbell, a former trapper and Perth resident, brought the game to Canada 18 months ago and its popularity has spread rapidly.

"It's really adults having a lot of fun," says Campbell. "I can't see what's wrong with that." But Greenslade argues "the fact that the gun is C02-powered The motion asked municipal officials to look into the legal possibility of banning the game and further discussion is expected at the next township meeting in October. Coun. Gerald Greenslade, author of the motion, is hoping other municipalities across Canada will follow the North Burgess lead by attempting to ban the game. "It is unacceptable in the name of recreation that grown men should crawl through the woods with gun in hand and on sighting an enemy take aim and shoot him," Greenslade said.

Players in the game are split into two teams and are armed By Steve Forster Citizen correspondent PERTH The Survival Game is under attack by North Burgess Township Council. The politicians object on moral grounds to a game that creates a warlike situation among men and women armed with gas-powered pistols that fire dye pellets. The Survival Game is currently played at 19 locations across Canada, including a field in the township near Stanleyville south of Perth. It's "immoral to draw a gun on another person during a game," says a motion passed by council earlier this month. Chicken producers seeking talks with provincial marketing board Chris Mikula, Citizen Computer talk: Paul Bhullar, an instructor from Nabu, showed Tom Lane and Gertrude Holt how to operate an Apple lie computer Thursday during a computer literacy course for adults at the Jack Purcell Community Centre on Elgin Street.

Richmond Sewage station to be built Construction is to start next week on a 1 sewage pumping station in Richmond that will enable the village to more than triple its size, Goulbourn clerk Regis Gagne said Thursday. The station at Cockburn and York streets will pump sewage from Richmond to a treatment plant on the Ottawa River. The sewer project linking Richmond to the treatment plant is scheduled to be completed in June, 1984. The municipality installed a sewer main to Hwy. 7 in Kanata in 1982.

Gagne said the system will enable Goulbourn to eventually eliminate sewage lagoons near Richmond and allow the village to expand to 10,000 people from its present population of 3,000. Goulbourn will keep the lagoons as a backup system for at least a year. The limited capacity of Richmond's present sewage system has restricted the village's growth, Gagne said. The project will be completed with assistance from the Ontario environment ministry and the region. Carlington Storm drains approved Ottawa physical environment committee has approved an $89,684 storm drainage system in the Carlington area west of Merivale Road.

The system would use culvert pipe in ditches to improve drainage without disturbing roads in the community. A staff report to the committee indicated the ditches in the area are difficult to maintain. Aid. Terry Denison said the project is part of the Ontario Neighborhood Improvement Program for Carlington. Under the program, the provincial government contributes to municipal services in older residential communities.

The drainage system will be built on Raven, Larose and Lepage avenues. not, in my view, make the act of pointing a gun at another human being morally acceptable." He says he has received com-1 plaints about the game from ratepayers. But Campbell says "it's being played in other locations and we've never had any difficulties." Campbell says he will fight any attempt to ban the game and has sent invitations to all members of North Burgess council to participate in or observe one. "I can't understand how Mr. Greenslade can form an opinion on the Survival Game when to my knowledge he has never played or observed the game." Gloucester honors citizens Saturday will be Gloucester's "Volunteer Appreciation Day" at the Earl Armstrong Arena on Ogilvie Road.

The activities, to run from 9 a.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday, will be highlighted by a giant barbecue from 5 to 7 p.m., the unveiling of the city's new flag at 7 p.m. followed by the presentation of 10 volunteer achievement awards. The barbecue is open to volunteers, their guests and registered participants.

In case of rain, teams participating in the ball tournaments will instead join in an indoor game of sports Trivial Pursuit from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. During the same time, children's games will be held in the lobby of Gloucester High next to the arena. Broken pipe closes school Classes at the Ottawa Board of Education's Borden High School on Cambridge Street were cancelled today because of a flood caused by a faulty pipe, Borden principal Bruce Renton said. Renton said classes are expected to return to normal Monday. The school is attended by about 200 special education students.

derstanding of our position and we'll be able to resolve the dispute," said Mike Thiele, spokesman for the local producers. The 32 Glengarry and Prescott producers decided to issue the invitation after rejecting a request for talks from the Ontario Chicken Producers' Marketing Board. The marketing board said it. was only prepared to meet with local producers who have not been charged with operating without a quota. Thiele and Franjois Quesnel, the group's president, were among four charged earlier this summer.

Those charges led producers to occupy the area's headquarters of the agriculture ministry on two occasions. The dispute began in 1978 when the marketing board distributed production quotas, but ignored the local producers, who at that time were selling their birds in Quebec. By Dan Karon Citizen staff writer ST. ISIDORE DE PRESCOTT In a new attempt to resolve the long and bitter dispute over production quotas, the Eastern Ontario Chicken Producers' Association Thursday invited provincial marketing board officials to a meeting here Oct. 6.

"If they come here and get a first-hand look into the situation maybe they will have a better un Ratepayers fight nursing-home sale "But I am disappointed with their attitude because they didn't even take the petition into consideration," he said. The ratepayer group had collected more than 1,700 signatures of people opposed to the sale of the Ill-bed nursing home, which is jointly operated by county and city councils. Major, who was accompanied by about a dozen ratepayers and nursing home employees, asked council to put the sale off until a meeting could be arranged with provincial health officials. Major wants the meeting to see if the nursing home's financial problems could be tackled by By Dan Karon Citizen staff writer CORNWALL A ratepayer delegation opposed to the proposed sale of the publicly-owned St. Lawrence Estate nursing home failed Thursday to convince Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County Council to block the deal.

"It was just like running up against a brick wall," said Mor-. gan Major, chairman of the Citizens Action Committee following the council's meeting. "Our presentation didn't do a lot of good because they've already made up their minds," he said. reclassifying it as a chronic care institution. In that case it could charge higher rates.

Warden John Cleary told Major county council discussed the subject at length before calling tenders to sell the home. "We received some really good bids and we would sell our residents short if we didn't accept one," he said. At a closed meeting, council members were given an outline of the nine bids. "Within the next few weeks, there will be a joint meeting with city council to select one," said Cleary. Mkf, fy Sction Lino Roger Appleton Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape and stands up for your rights.

Call Action Line at 829-9100 from 9 a.m. to noon Monday to Friday or write to Action Line at The Citizen, 1101 Baxter Box 5020, Ottawa K2C 3M4. Please send photostatic copies, not original Policy legal but is it right? I wanted a pair of 19 mm knitting needles. I could find only one shop that stocked them. The store would not sell me the needles unless I also bought yarn.

I already had enough. As I could not 19 mm needles elsewhere, I had to make do with ones of different size. The more I think about it, the more I wonder. Did the store have the right to insist that to get the needles I must also buy yarn? Lise Desrochers, Vernon Yes, as long as the needles were not adver-' tised. Then any special conditions on the sale would have to be set out in the ad.

Otherwise it would be a "bait" type ad and illegal. Aside from advertising laws there is no obligation on a merchant to sell to the customer's taste. A shopkeeper, may refuse to break up a set of dishes. He may insist on selling goods in combinations, such as a spoon plus a knife and fork, or knitting needles with yarn. He may make a higher short term profit by selling scarce needles plus yarn.

Long range, who knows? Annoyed customers might not go back for any supplies they could get else-, where. But his business style is legal and thus his own affair. now than it was in 1980. I thought the landlord would give me the money. Not a chance.

He says I'm just leaving the tank full the way I got it and should not expect to make money from the higher price of oil. But I'm sure he will charge the next tenant the higher price and pocket the $99. Shouldn't I at least gethalf? Name withheld That sounds reasonable at first until you think it over. Then it does not sound reasonable at all. He shouldn't give you just half.

He should give you everything. You paid when you first bought the oil from him. You've paid for all the oil purchased since. You paid for what now fills the -tank. The price paid for oil in 1980 has nothing to do with anything.

It's the value of a tank full of fuel oil right now that counts. The landlord has to pay you the going rate, then get it' back by selling the oil to the next tenant. To be fair to the man, he may have been honestly confused. That sometimes happens when a knot gets into a line of reasoning. Until the knot is untangled, all sorts of wierd things may seem to make sense.

He now agrees that the fullness of the tank is not the issue; it is the current market value of the oil inside. He accepted your $99 figure and paid. Lynn Ball, Citizen Fall cleaning: The leaves are beginning to waft to earth and for Arlene Whitford that means clean-up time at the Experimental Farm. Maple Island Wintario grant rejected The provincial government has refused to provide a Wintario grant for a proposed bandshell for outdoor concerts on Maple Island in the Rideau River behind Ottawa city hall. The city applied for the grant more than a year ago when public servant Richard Bouvier presented his plans for an island gazebo to be used in the summer' by amateur performing arts groups and schools.

Bouvier planned to build the project with a $55,000 Wintario grant, $27,500 in private donations and a similar city grant. The project was to have been started after a bandshell was constructed at Britannia Park. The province also has rejected a $125,000 grant for the proposed Britannia bandshell. City recreation planner Sam Fulton said the project will probably be scrapped because Andrew Haydon Park to the west has a small bandshell that can be used by performing arts groups. "i Market value today counts If there is any way to squeeze a little extra money, count on landlords to find it.

Mine has Figured out how to make a profit from higher fuel oil costs. I rented a house in 1980. When I moved in, the fuel tank was full. I paid the going price of the day for the oil. Just before moving recently, I filled the tank again.

The full tank is worth $99 more.