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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES. MAY 14th, 1975 Mayor Rickard stands alone over town hall proposal Mayor Rickard last week at a special meeting of council took a strong stand against a move to purchase the Honeywell plant in the south of Bowmanville to be used as the Town municipal building, housing all offices and public works department under one roof. The by-law which finally received first reading with the second being delayed placed the total cost of the purchase and renovations at $615,000. An earlier feasibility study by the engineering firm of Totten Sims and Hubicki estimated the total cost at nearly $1.4 million. Mayor Rickard was strongly strongly opposed to the proposal and presented a number of objections objections to the scheme during the course of the meeting. He objected to the short notice given on the calling of the special meeting and the fact that the public had not been informed. Also he claifned that the motion at the special meeting was illegal and further the purchase would contravene Bill 162 which ..vohibits a municipality from ning land in an industrial 'vpàrk and would contravene the Town's official plan. The special meeting was called at the close of the regular council 'meeting on 1 u. I HAMILTON TOWNSHIP HOLDS OFF « Hamilton Township in their bid to eliminate the Police Village of Bewdley have stopped present action to do so due to a strong attitude in Bewdley that the citizens want the police village status to remain. 'YRONE COMMUNITY CENTRE - is having their .5th ,jrmual Fireworks Display at Mosport Park on May 19th. This is held to support their community centre. Your attendance would be appreciated. REGIONAL GOVERNMENT WILL WORK - On Tuesday evening in Hampton at the Liberal nomination Mayor Pot tieary of Oshawa strongly emphasied that Regional Government would work after a few minor changes. APPOINTED VICE-PRESIDENT - Announcement was .made two weeks ago that Mr. Alex Drummond had been appointed vice-president of engineering for Pitt Construction Ltd. Mr. Drummond is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Drummond of Orono receiving his formal education in the local schools. Congratulations certainly go out to Alex on his new appointment. GREMLINS AT WORK - With two books and the paper on the go the forepart of last week the gremlins were having a great time at the Times Office. It seemed that articles were continually getting lost with one showing up, in the Spring prize list of the forthcoming fair in Millbrook. Just another experience in a long list of experiences. THE NERVE CENTRE OF ORONO - The Orono Park is generally depicts the change from winter to summer activities and this year is no exception. The Ball diamond is constantly in use as is the tennis court. Its a real beehive of activities these days and especially early evenings. WHY IS IT - Why is it there is never time to do a job right but always time to do it over. WïîsiNER WITH TRIO GROUP - Miss Jane Staples took two first in the Kiwanis Music Festival held in Oshawa recently singing in a trio with E. Hayward and E. Nicks. The girls placed first in the trio 236 and 237 classes. Miss Staples was also second in the duet section singing with R. Vosboth in the 18 years and under class and in the 15 years and under class. Town council passes interim plan Monday evening of last week. Councillor Hobbs in presenting presenting the proposal said that the Town offices spread throughout the municipality were overcrowded. Coun. Don Allin said even if the facilities were only used for. five or ten years, it was desirable to have all offices under one roof. "I don't think there's any way we can go wrong economically," economically," he added. Mayor Rickard challenged that point, called it "highly debatable." With Newcastle residents facing an estimated 20 mill increase in their taxes this year, and demands growing for fireballs, arenas, and other facilities, council is saying _ there's no money : ; f Continued on page 3 > r On Thursday evening the Town of Newcastle council gave their stamp of approval to the Interim plan with the exception of Coun. Lyall. Lyall asked that the plan be tabled until such time as council could go over the presentation item by item. The plan had been passed by the Planning Advisory Board and had been sent On to council for their approval. The approval came at a public meeting held last Thursday evening when the public were given the opportunity to discuss items in the plan. Most objections came from parties and individuals who found that the plan did not coincide with their proposals. Councillor Kirk Entwisle, chairman of the Planning Advisory Board stated there was. a dire need for the interim plan as the municipality municipality now had a number of plans in effect having many inequalities inequalities and proving almost impossible to administer. He also said there was a great need for a guide and further that a number of large projects had been held up because of the lack of not having the plan. He said the planning process for the town would be at a standstill without the plan in force. Coun. Lyall stated that the town Wa's in fact putting most of the agricultural land out of use and he didn't like all the taught and lip service given to saving farm land when in fact the Town was promoting other uses for the land. Monday evening was a busy evening for both Mr. Ted Samuel and Mr. Bob Hazelton who hung thirty paintings by Mr. A.A. Drummond throughout throughout the Clarke Library in Orono. The paintings will be on display for the next two weeks before moving to the Bowmanville Library. The thirty paintings are part of the fifty-four which were on view at the McLaughlin Art Gallery Gallery for the past month. GARDEN PARTY RECEPTION A garden party and reception reception has been planned for Sunday, May 25th at the Library. A musical program has been arranged featuring the Country Four quartette and the Concordia Pop Concert Concert Orchestra of Oshawa. The day has been arranged to pay tribute and honour to Mr. Drummond while his paintings are at the library. The Rebekah Lodge will provide cookies, cakes and pink lemonade while members members of the Kinettes will assist with other duties during the day. It is a family outing and everyone is invited to take part in enjoying the event on the spacious lawns of the library as well as the showing of paintings by our talented local artist. To await legal advice Although Fred Beaucage was given permission to operate a day care centre in Bowmanville on King Street, next to the: St rat ha ven Nursing Nursing Home by the committee of adjustment he still has not been cleared through the Town Council. Planner George Howden appealed the decision by the committee of adjustment feeling feeling that the committee had exceeded its powers. The committee of the whole of the Town of Newcastle supported the decision made by the planner and had asked for the (Continued on page 2) Kirk Entwisle wins liberal nomination To make definite proposals for arena Kirk Entwisle of Newton- ville was elected by some 300 liberals attending the nomination nomination meeting for the new riding of Durham East last Tuesday as their candidate to contest the riding in the next provincial election. Mr. Entwisle Entwisle won out over Mr. John Liptay of Bowmanville who also contested the nomination. nomination. In opening his address to the meeting Mr. Entwisle stated that Robert Nixon would turn out the Tories in the next election. Why should the Tories and other happenings happenings over the past few years which did little to enhance the credibility of the Conservatives. Conservatives. Something more fundamental fundamental is wrong, he said. The candidate also said that the government gaye out candy at election time, favours favours to the powerful all the time, and social welfare programs devised and passed as quickly as they were thought up. He also said with the presentation of-the budget in April the Conservatives finally realized that they were running out of money. He also, said that the government failed to realize that we have too much government and that the government of Ontario and their off shoot had become fearsome in the eyes of the people of Ontario. "Regional government must be cut down to size." ( Continued on page 2 ) Last week a meeting was held in the Orono Town Hall regarding the proposal for ,a new Orono arena. Although the meeting continued for some two hours no headway was made other than a third meeting is to be called at which time a definite proposal is to be decided upon. At the Tuesday meeting representatives were present from local organizations as well as from the Durham Central Agricultural Association Association and the Town council. . It was the general consensus consensus of everyone present that no action could be taken or any definite decision made by either the Fair Board or the Council until such time as the local Orono group made a firm proposal to either the Fair board or council. The next meeting is to be called with one representative from each of the local organizations to draft a proposal. proposal. The group are also to inspect the fair grounds and look at other potential sites. It was a happy moment for Mr. Kirk Entwisle (left) following his nomination as liberal candidate for Durham East on Tuesday evening of last week. Kirk Entwisle has a lot in common with Des Newman (centre)'who is the liberal candidate for the Whitby riding. The two have a few words with Vernon Singer M.P.P., from the Toronto area. Mr. Singer and Des Newman both spoke at the liberal Rally in Hampton.