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lÜPÜiï iWEpisi tesSî '-s gliffg lilillElll! Ill Ilftj Safpfv Officer checks local bikes Mobile home plan given reprieve A mobile home proposal for Lot 24. Concession 9 in the former Township of Clarke just west of Highway 35 came before the Town of Newcastle Planning Committee on Monday Monday with a recommendation from the Director of Planning that the Region of Durham be advised that the Town objects to the proposed amendment to the official plan to allow the proposal. The proposed mobile home scheme would place approximately approximately 173 mobile home units with private roads and à communal water and septic tank system on 46 acres in concession nine. It was pointed pointed out in the planner's report that the development would result in extensive clearing of considerable forest which • could result in erosion and ' adversely affect the water retention qualities of the site. It was also pointed out that sixteen letters of objections were received along with a petition containing twenty- four names also objecting to the site being used for mobile homes. These objections referred referred to the intensity of the proposal, the adverse impact upon the local environment ■ (Continued page 2) Constable Jerry Dion ( left) a bicycle owned by Katherine undertakes a safety check of -Blaschke while Constable Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June urn, is»» Area Superintendent elevated to Director Douglas Claire Dodge Sif- ton last week at a special meeting of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education was appointed as the new Director of Edu-; cation. Sifton will take his new position as of September 1st, 1979, following the retirement retirement of Frank Thom, director, director, on August 31st. Thom has been with the Board of Education for the past ten» years and since* its inception in 1969. The salary range for Sifton has been set from $45,000. to $50,000. . . Sifton has been with the Northumberland' and Newcastle Newcastle Board of Education for the past two years in the position of Eastern 'Area Superintendent. Prior to com ing to the local Board of Education in 1977 he was a superintendent for the Oxford County Board of Education. Sifton 'was chosen from thirteen applications from across the province as well as three other applications from within the administra- > tion itself. The new director was born ,.jgnd raised on a farm in Middlesex County receiving his early education in Watford. Watford. He graduated from the Univeristy of Western Ontario, Ontario, in 1952 with a bachelor of Arts degree in honours psychology. In 1963 he completed completed his master of education degree at the U of T and is ■ presently working on _ his doctor of education in educational educational administration at the Ijappetimgs... GRADUATES FROM SHERIDAN COLLEGE Miss Christina Antonia Storsbergen, Orono recently graduated from the Sheridan College of Applied Arts in Professional Modelling and Related Careers. Congratulations. Congratulations. HONOURED AT WARDEN'S BANQUET 1 , Reeve Howard Quantrill of Hope Township .and Warden of Northumberland County was recently honoured at the annual Warden's banquet. The banquet was held in the' Bewdley Community Centre. Quantrili was elected to council in 1963 and served five years in this position. He held the position of deputy-reeve for a one year period and in 1968 was elected reeve of the Township, a position which he still holds today. 136 COUPLES ATTEND ATHLETIC DANCE On Saturday evening the Orono Amateur Athletic Association held a dance in the new Community Centre room at the Orono Arena with 130 couples in attendance. Even though it was a hot evening for dancing the music played on well into the small hours of'the morning. Don Anderson checks the bike of Shane Janes. The bicycle Controversy over 2-4-D use check was part of a bike rodeo held last week at the Orono Public School. University ot Toronto. Sifton has his elementary school teaching certificate, standard four, his high school assistant's certificate, type B and his elementary school inspector's certificate. He has taught for the London Board of Education, 1946 to 1949 and for the Ottawa Public School Board from 1952 to 1954. In 1955 he became an education officer for the National Film Board and from 1955 to 1967 was a teaching master at the Hamilton's Hamilton's Teachers' College. He has also' been an instructor in the extension department at McMaster's University. Sifton was a school inspector inspector for the Woodstock Board of Education from 1967 t'o*l968 and following this stint Returned to the classroom for a 1 year in Ingersoll District Collegiate. He then accepted a position as superintendent Planner wants input in moving Town offices Don Smith, director of planning, for the Town of Newcastle in a report to the planning committee has asked asked that the committee review the status and preliminary findings of the Bowmanville Urban Area Plan Study prior to any action to take over the Pine Ridge School for municipal municipal purposes. The planner has asked that the special meeting be held during the week of June 18th when the preliminary draft of the Urban Area will be available. In his report he said that the staff are concerned that although the relocation of the Town's administrative offices may have 'short term' advantages, advantages, the relocation may ( Continued page 2 ) WHU LUC UA1UIU VUUlllj ...... Til of Education before coming to the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. Education. Parents in the eastern section of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education area continue. to fight the spraying of school yards with 2-r-D for the control of weeds by the Board. The Hastings Home and School Association has formed ah organization, .People Against Useless Sprayiqg (PAUS) to lobby against 'the spray program. A week ago Monday 80 children were absent from one' school as their parents kept them from attending school'due to spraying the Public School Bell Dedicated school grounds over the week-end. Last Friday parents parents assembled to keép a school grounds from being sprayed. Some parents have attributed attributed spraying with 2-4-D as the cause of sickness with their children. On Thursday the issue came to light on the floor of the legislature at Queen's Park when NDP leader, Mike Cassidy, said the Board of Education had violated provincial provincial guidelines in its use of the herbicide. Cassidy said (Continued page 2) The Orono Public School bell rings out once more at a ceremony last week in which the bell was rededicated. Miss Kate Foster, à former principal at the school, did the honours On this occasion.