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V ; : ( Jack Muir, assistant public relations officer for the Eastern Region of Ontario Hydro, leaves Belleville Aug. 5 to take up a new postion with Hydro at the Pickering nuclear generating station. Muir has been in Belleville since 1971. Muir heading to Pickering Most people never return to work at the place they started their careers but Jack Muir Muir, assistant public rela- tions officer for Ontario Hydro Eastern Region, leaves his post in Belleville Aug. 5 to return to the Picker- ing nuclear generating plant where he began public rela- tions work nearly 15 years His new duties at Pickering as media and community assignment officer will in- clude inter-staff communica- tions, working closely with the station manager, and focussing on the affairs of Pickering and the communi- ty. Muir started working in the Pickering public information centre in 1966. In October, 1967, he was transferred to the Hydro central relations group in Toronto. In 1971 he assumed his duties in Belleville and has been here since. The interest in Hydro started as when Muir was growing up in Bruce County. "At the time, the Douglas Point station was being built. I applied for jobs in public relations but never got them but I was interested and en- joyed dealing with people," he said. Muir then attended Sir Wifrid Laurier University in Waterloo for a year. While working for the summer on the site of the Pickering sta- tion, a job in the public rela- tions office came up. Muir ap- plied and was accepted. His interest in completing his degree hasn,t waned. Muir was taking courses at Queens Univers i ty in Kingston and will resume his studies at York University in Toronto after getting settled. Muir has mixed emotions < about leaving Belleville. "I'm happy with the new position but my family is giv- ing up a lot by moving from Belleville. The educational and recreational services here are just tremendous," he said. "We're certainly Belleville supporters." Despite having to pull up roots of nine years, Muir, his wife Doris and sons Kevin, 10, and Greg, 7, won't have much trouble settling in to their new home. They've purchas- ed a house just one mile north of where Muir used to live. dfllk"s\0i OC