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IMM Xinsmen Bike-A-Thon this Sunday 9 until 4 p.m. The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen and Kinettes have everything in place for their Bike-A-Thon and Rodeo to be held in Orono this coming Sunday. The event is being staged in the parking lot at Arm- strong's IGA and is to run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. In speaking with Dan Stacheruk some 400 kids are expected to take part and in fact many of these are already working to have pledged sheets filled and even to the con- struction of a carboard box village which will line the sides of the plan- ned bike courses. And its not only the kids that will be busy but the Kinsmen are being assisted by the Orono firefighters, the O.P.P. and Regional Police and the Optimist Club membership. Over fifty volunteers to assist have already been signed up for the event. There are four categories in both the Bike-A-Thon and the Rodeo spanning kinds from Senior Kindergarten to grade eight. There is a further division between boys and girls. Stacheruk also points to the ap- pearance of clowns, and heritage displays and pictures with a bike dating back to 1906. And the youngsters in the family are not be- ing forgotten for there will be a kid- dies area set-up for this younger age group. The Rodeo section of the event will include bike safety inspection along with the operation of the bike by the rider. Here again the event is classified in the four age categories. The list of prizes reaches out to ,(Continued page 4) Junior Gardeners at work downtown Orono hamlet meeting Tuesday, June 5th The future of Orono may well be determined as it relates to develop- ment in the hamlet on Tuesday evening, June 5th. The Town of Newcastle is holding a Public meeting in the Orono Town Hall when the merits of a revised secondary plan for the Village of Orono is to be con- sidered. With approval of a secondary plan for Orono by the Town of Newcastle, the Region of Durham and the Ministry of Municipal Af- fairs, it (the plan) will become part of the Town of Newcastle's Official Plan and set the direction of development iin the community over the next number of years. The proposal by the Town's plan- ning department following a draft by Proctor and Redfern in 1989 has This group of Orono Junior the flower planters in downtown Eastabrook, Reuben de Jong, Jeft Gardeners under the leadership of Orono last Saturday. Finlay, Renee Zegers and Minnie Minnie Zegers, one of our noted Technic was most important for Zegers. horticulturalists, were busy planting those.present, (left to right) Mathew .i . .. onII tti i m. 35C.acp PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY a I Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 30, 1990 Now to dig by hand for Newtonville water hook-up Way back in March of 1989, after most challenging, is the bore under years of study and negotiations, the C.P.R. une that crosses Newtonville residents were promis- Highway 2 at the entrance to ed water, at the turn of a tap. To- Newcastle Village. day, some 14 months later, not a The mechanical boring bas now drop of municipal water has passed stopped, about 100 feet under the through any tap. rail une. About 60 feet remains to The tenders for the project were be completed. Minorgan said the re- some $400,000 below the estimated maining portion will haveto be dug cost of $4.1 million. With the delays through by hand! to date will this still hold true? It appears that the vibration from The original breakdown of the the mechanical digging shakes bon- costs was just over $2 million from ding material loose from other the Province of Ontario. Area boulders and rocks not in the direct developers prepayment of levies for path of the dig. This fragments then water was $1.3 million, and drops down into the path of the homeowners in the hamlet machine, stopping it. $342,000. In the meantime, the wait for Jim Minorgan, Durham Region's water by Newtonville residents goes Chief Construction Engineer, on. The project, originally destined claims that despite the delasy, the for completion in October 1989, is project is still on the target budget. now 6 months overdue. Faced with The present delay, and perhaps the a physical dig of the last 60 feet or FOURTH ANNUAL OPEN GARDEN Everyone welcopxe to view the gardens of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hinton, second house west of Leskard Road on Taunton Road. The gardens will be open June 2nd and 3rd, 10:00 a.m. to dusk, and con- sist of many rhododendrons in a natural setting of pine and young oaks. ORONO TOWN HALL EUCHRE RESULTS The Orono Town Hall euchre resuits for May 23 wýith 14 tables in play: Olive Little wýith 90; John D. Mloffat with 85; Shirley Moffati 81; Aleck Moffat and Marion Sears tie with 79. Low 'ýore Wanda McNeil. Drawýt winners Glen Bradley, Ro nHayward, ay Staples, Wanda McNeil, Art Bed oein anl arie Couroux. Due to offers of extra help euchre will continue tilg end of Juge every Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Ladies please bring lunch. so, the project of a quick finish looks even dimmer, by Gord Mills Time and money has been spent by the Region in their effort to pass a watermain under the CPR tracks at the Hole-In-The-WalH on Highway 2, east of Newcastle Village. All is completed to supply Newtonville with municipal water with the exception of the section been called regressive by the Orono Development Committee which came into being earlier this year. The Orono committee is asking that a progressive plan be presented which would include a water supply and sewage systeni that could well hook up to plants in the Village of, Newcastle. The committee also calls for an area to be set-up for light industry. In addition the committee calls for two applications that have been before the Town to be exempt from any change that the plan may bring and that they be processed by the rules that are now in place and were in place when the submissions were made. The development plans affected lands in the north-west corner of (Continued page 3) Council accepts approval for trucking operation Members of council on Monday night followed the recommendation of the committee meeting last Tues- day giving approval to a rezoning application submitted on behalf of Stuart and Jean Wood of Best Road north of Orono. The rezoning approval grants a 9 acre parcel to be zoned to permit the continuation of a non- conforming trucking operation and the erection of a second residential dwelling on the property. The planning department of the Town of Newcastle had recom- mended that the application be denied and that the owners be given under-the tracks. No completion date has yet been set. As to cost, Counc. Hamre said she understood it had risen close to $1 million, with added costs still to come from CPR, due to disruption of their schedules. In speaking with Counc. Han- two years to relocate the trucking business prior to the enforcement of the by-law. Last week Kay Lycett represented the Woods said the business predated the Region of Durham and had been in operation for 17 years from the Best .Road location. He also questioned the illegal designation suggested by the plann- ing department. Lycett said it was a legal non-conforming use. On Monday the group opposed to the rezoning application especial- ly the continuation or expansion of the trucking business were (Continued to page 2) nah, a member of Public Works, he stated that extra costs were con- siderable, but he had not seen a re- cent figure. The director of operations for the project said he was still working within budget I