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Top 4-H winners Town seeks funds for further sewage study in Orono and Estates The Durahm East 4-H organiza- tion held their annual dinner and awards night at the Orono Arena on Friday evening with close to 200 in attendance. Following the dinner, catered to by the Orono Skating Club, the awards were presented. Pictured above are Tracy Welsh and .Ulenn Barkey who were presented with the coveted Cana- dian Imperial Bank of Commerce awards having been chosen as the top female and top male 4 Her for the year. The presentation was made by Joan Sutcliffe of the Orono Branch of C.I.B.C. The General Purpose committee of the Town of Newcastle, is recommending to council, that the Town pursue a study of a communal sanitary sewage system for the Village of Orono. To this end the Town has made representation to the Ministry of the Environment for a $100,000 grant in order that funding is available for a further study which would also include an Environmental Study Report. The submission to the Ministry of the Environment follows a report received from the engineering firm of Tot.en Sims Hubicki, in which it is concluded there are serious problems with the private sewage disposal systems in Orono, which create a health risk. The engineers recommend that a communal sanitary sewer system be investigated as a means to alleviate the health risk. The Ministry of the Environment does have a direct grant program through which such a study would be funded 100 percent. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, December 5, 1990 Clarke Museum report outlines additional expansion space needs The Clarke Museum and Ar- chives Board recently received a report from a Mr. Sears of the con- sulting firm of Sears and Russell pertaining to needs of floor space for artifacts now held by the local board. The Board has been considering an addition at the Museum at Kirby to be able to enlarge the exhibit for display and consideration has been given to a 10,000 square foot building. The recent Sears report suggest that, considering artifacts now available to the museum, a need of 18,000 square feet would be desirable. This allows space for of- fices, storage exhibit preparations, carpentry shop and some 4000 square feet for museum galleries along with other needed space. The Sears report estimates the cost of the expansion would be greater than $2 million. At the present time the Museum Board uses some net 2563 square feet at the Orono Armouries building owned by the Town of Newcastle. It further had additional storage through the use of three storage containers at Kirby with a total of a little over 500 square feet, net. The board has great desire to ex- pand the interest in the museum by adding artifacts through a proper gallery or galleries at Kirby. It is to this end that consideration has been generated for an expansion. The report was received by the board. In commenting on the downtown core area the report points out that 74 percent of the properties have lot sizes and/or ground conditions that preclude the individual Class 4 or Class 6 private sewage systems. It further states that many existing systems are overloaded and discharge raw sewage to the surface. The report also states that during time of rainfall or high ground water base flow the surface waters in the area approximate raw sewage. Lt suggests this resuits in contamination of the Wilmot Creek and a branch of the Wilmot. The report continues that a random sampling of 75 lots in the surrounding area has found that 20 percent have lot sizes that do not allow proper installations of Class 4 or 6 private sewage systems. But it is not only the downtown core that has been pointed out. It states that during dry weather the Peters Pike, Andrews Road and (Continued page 2) SAGA seeks special environmental section Save the Ganaraska Again committee sought and received support from the Town of Newcastle council that a new designation be included in the Regional Official plan that would deal with environmental areas. Kathy Guselle speaking on behalf of the organization said the committee had addressed the issue of the designation of environmental lands at the Region and were told that the Headwaters area was included under the tern of "Special Study Area", a designation she said is generally reserved for places that are being flagged for development. The chairperson said after consultation with several planners SAGA felt that the Ganaraska area and other such areas should have its own designation and she suggested Environmental Study Area. She said a permitted use in the designation would include farming. She said they were not asking that the Town change their comments but that the Regional council members support tie designation of Environmental Study Area for environmental areas. In general this met with approval of council members. Wendy Boothman of the "No Ganaraska Dump" committee said the Dump conimittee was in support of the designation being sought by SAGA. Counc. Hamre said both the Town and Region were supportive of a special study for the Ganaraska in the Oak Ridges Moraine but she said it was going to cost money. Both Counc. Hamre and Mayor Hubbard sought support from the SAGA group to do what they could gaining funding from the province for such a study. Mayor Hubbard say they were aware SAGA had contacts and asked that they be aggressive in calling for the study. Mr. and Mrs. Santa arrive Newcastle Hydro announces 8.9% increase in Hydro rates Customers of Newcastle Hydro (users in Bowmanville, Newcastle Village, and Orono) will start pay- ing 8.9% more in electricity on New Years Day, 1991. The Commission is facing an in- crease in wholesale power costs from Ontario Hydro on the same date and for the same percentage. Over eighty cents of every dollar the local Hydro collects is paid out for bulk power. Happenings... VOLUNTEER'S CO-ORDINATORS' GROUP HOLD MEETING You arc invited to attend the monthly meeting of the Volunteer Co-Ordinators' Group, Durham Region to be 'held on Thursday, December 13 at the Northview Community Centre, 150 Beatrice Street E., Oshawa. The meeting begins at 12:15 p.m. and lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. The topic will be "Seminar Loca- tions." Please phone 576-3011 for any further information. ORONO TOWN HALL EUCHRE RESULTS The cuchre results for the Orono Town Hall held on Wednes- day, November 28th with 13 tables in play were: High scores Norma Moffat with 85; Olive Little with 83; Art Compton with 81; Wanda McNeil with 80 and Marian Staples with 76. Low score was Mary Thompson. Winners of the draws were Alan Downs; Reg Elliott; Dora McDonald; Marie Couroux and Bob Bradley. Euchre is held very Wednesday night beginning at 8:00 p.m. Ladies please bring lunch. If Federal Bill C62 passes as plan- ned, an additional 7% for the Goods and Services Tax will be add- ed to hydro bills at the same time. The Ontario Government has decided that conservation and im- proved energy efficiency will be the main strategies for avoiding elec- tricity supply shortages that have been forecast for the early 1990's. Industry analysts predict that there will be a deficiency of generating capacity within five yearS if the de- mand for electricity continues to in- crease by a modest three percent per year. Annual increases over the last five years have exceeded five per- cent. Ontario Hydro is cooperating with the Ontario Ministry of Energy in developing programs which pro- vide incentives for consumers to im- prove the efficiency of electricity usage. Cold water rinsing, low wat- tage, fluorescent light bulbs, (Continued page 2) David Richards was not about to have anything to do with Mr. Claus at the Co-op's Christmas Sale on' Saturday. He did however warm-up somewhat with Mrs. Claus.