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Orono Weekly Times, 25 Apr 1990, p. 11

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Orono Weeklvy Times, Wednesday, April 25, 199().l , Green was in at Spring Fest Green was certainly in at the Orono Town Hall Spring.Fest on Saturday with even styrofoam cups out for coffee and tea served on the balcony. Don Armnstrong displays some of the green products offered at Arm- strong's IGA and bids Ann Dreslin- ,ski to make sure she uses them. (Wbat is she doing holding up cloth dia.pers.),_ With the Tree Nursery offering Senior Girls Soccer Tuesday, Apr il 17 was >the fîrst league game played by our Clarke Senior Girls Soccer Teani. Cobourg East came down to play at Clarke and were defeating our girls 2 -0 by haîf time. The girls came back in the second haîf to smash the bail past Cobourg East to win a vctory of 3 - 2. Goals scored were by Ken- dal Eady - 1 and Tina Mlîson - 2. On Thursday, April 19 Clarke girls were hosting an exhibition game against Adam Scott. The girls played extremcely well against the powerful Adam Scott players. The score was 1 - 0 for Adam Scott with only seconds left when the girls scored to tic 1 - 1. Goal by Tina, Milîson. Excellent goaltending by Liz Oxenham who turned away the Adam Sèott girls time and time again. Strong performance from Kendal Eady who helped the Adam Scott girls. Congratulations on a strong performance and good luck in yourfuture games. SAC On Saturday, April 28th the SAC is doing a pop bottle drive in the Newcastle sub-division. We ask you, the public, to save your pop bottles to help us buy an electronic message board for Clarke High School. We thank you and will sec you on the 28th. MUJSIC NOTIKS Dessert Concert - April 19 The Junior Stage Band, Senior Stage Band, Jazz Choir and Senior Band entertained at the Annual Spring Concert. A mout ap- preciative crowd was on hand. The desserts anid coffée were supplied as pine seedlings for planting and Earth Green, Pat Lycett and Kristen McCrea, offering compost boxes for sale along with tips for their use the emphasis was for a bet- ter environment. A corn burning stove was also of great interest and from the informa- tion they are environmentally friendly compared to other fossil fuels., usual by the Band Parent Associa- tion. Stay tuned for the dates of the next year's concerts. New Orleans As you read this, the Senior Con- cert Band will have winged their way to New Orleans. The trip Apnil 25-29, will include several tours of the area; the French Quarter; atten- Orono school celebrated Earth Day. Miss Walker hosted the event, April 23rd. Mrs. O'Neil's class sorted ail the types of garbage in our school yard and showed the group 6 baskets of garbage. Mrs. O'Nèil's and Mrs. Osh- mond's classes sang the circle, song entitled, "Oats and Beans and Barley Grow." Mrs. Buck's class collected gar- bage fromtheir lunches and sorted it. They 'placed food scraps in a bucket to show how to compost garbage. Grade 6 performed a skit, "Our Tree Is A Friend." Each student told why the tree is our friend >and presented a large 'mural. Five students recited a poem, "A Pro- blem" written by Charlie Liv- ingston a grade 6 student. On Friday, April 20 each class was given two trees to plant. Jason Todd, Jason Benford, Scott Hentig and Paul'Dreslinski assisted Mr. Lunin in digging the holes for each class. We would like to thank Orono Forestry for their donation of trees. Grade 6 visited Darlington Hydro Plant. The following is an account of our trip. It was 9:35 when we entered DarI- ington Hydro Centre. We were escorted into a room with fold dcown seats. 1 sat in the second row. We listened to our host Mr. Holli- day talk about eniergy and asked us if we knew how it worked and where it comes from. Then hie showed us a film that we ding a jazz festival; a Mississippi paddle boat cruise; and the highlight and culmination of over a year's hard work practicing and fundraising will be their participa- t ion in a band competition Saturday morning. Needless to say, aIl going are most excited about this adventure to one of the world's musical capitals. Te ep rain ôrt& TENDER SEALED TENDERS, clearly marked as to contents, for the followlng requirements lsted below, addressed to the Cor- poration of the Town of Newcastle, Office of the Clerk, 40 Temperànce Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, LiC 3A6, wili be recelved on the forms and ln the envelope provlded until specified closing time and date. Tender Documents can be obtained f rom the Purchasrng Office at the above address. Tender N4WOO-17 Emulslfled Aspha!t Pa tchlng Materlal (CoId Mlx) Tender NWO-18 Currugated Steel Culvert Closing Time& Date. 12:00 Noon (Local time> Wednesday, May 9,,.1990 The lowest or any tender flot necessarily accepted. Mrs. Lou Ann Brkett Purchaslng and Supply Agent 9 UýJ0N P ý1Telephone:, (416) 623-3379 ext. 267 Date of Publication: April 25, 1990 P.O. 3760 had already seen. It was called, "A Piece of Sunshiine." We ail went back to the bus and he took us for a tour of the biggest construction sight -in North America. He told us that billions of dollars were being spent on the sta- tion and that they had spent millions on somnething which they hoped they neyer had to use. He also told us many interesting thi ngs. They had four huge generators at Orono Public Sehool News Report the station. Twenty-five percent of the elec- tricîty being produced at the station is by water, twenty-five percent pro- duced by coal and the rest is pro- duced by uranium. The uranium is taken ou t of the rock and squished into little black cylindiers. Then it iK put in a long tube. It takes 31 of the little cylindiers to fit into a tube. They take 37 tubes and weld them together. Mr. Holliday told us that there is enough electrici- ty in those 37 tubes to give our houses electricîty for 3 months. The trip was irnteresting and quite fun. by JilI Rypstra 1' 1

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