The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

H-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, My 18th, 1979 Kenda l News It's fun to plan a garden, In beauty all arrayed, • But lovely dreams will not come true Without the fork and spade. ' This writer had a dinner of new potatoes and green peas on Sunday with fresh cherry • 1 pie for dessert. A dinner fit > for a king. How fortunate we Canadians are to be able to grow our own food! Yet we are told that 26 acres of good farm land an hour goes out of production. It is being covered covered with houses and golf courses etc. The time is coming when the cherry and peach orchards of the Niagara Niagara Penninsula will be â thing ; of the past. The best peaches of the world are grown in the ; Niagara District. ; Just a reminder to be sure ! and water your tomatoes if ■; this dry weather continues. | Otherwise they get a black : spot on the bottom of each j tomato and fall off (dry rot). ; This year is much like last ■ year which was very dry in ! .July. Then on July 22 came a very severe electric storm ; when water lay in ponds all I around the village and some , ; of the roads were gullied out. It's not ' often that we ; Kendal folk go on two bus trips in one week but we did : last week. The tf.C.W. took a ' bus to Parkwood the former home of Col. R.S. McLaughlin : nin Oshawa. Then on Saturday Saturday the Orangemen and : ladies journeyed to Piéton.' Colonel R.S. .McLaughlin I was born in 1871 in Ennisk- | illen and lived till 1972. He j was apprenticed in his fath- ! er's Oshawa carriage works ! when he was sixteen. In 1907 [ he established the McLaugh- i lin Motor Car Company. In j 1918 it became part of j General Motors with Mc- j Laughlin as President of the 1 Canadian Company and Vice- i President of the American ; Company. His former home in Osh- | awa, Parkwood contains fifty- | five rooms which are beauti- | fully decorated and are furn- Î ished with priceless antique ; furniture from all parts of the f world. The large dining room I table seats twenty-four. One ' of the many paintings on the : wall was a colour portrait ; taken on the occasion of I his eighty-fifth birthday. He and Mrs. McLaughlin are ■ seated and they are sur- f founded by their five daugh- ters. One of our party said he | .would like to spend the whole ï day looking around. The : flowers and the lawns and : fountains are beautiful beyond beyond description. Some of our ladies plan to return and have lunch on the ground at a later trophy for the best in the parade which was indeed quite an honour as there were several ladies lodges in the parade. A number of ladies are from the Kendal area. They marched over two and a half miles past some very fine stately residences. Picton has a population of over 5,000 a busy lake port and tourist centre with a huge sports area situated in their spacious spacious fair grounds where the parade began. Brockville made a fine showing they had a L.O.B.A. lodge also. Then came the Bowmanvilie Canadian Canadian Legion Band in their Kiltie Uniforms very fine indeed. Then came Trenton, Oakwood Reaboro, The Canadian Canadian Legion band of Brighton Brighton was followed by a Kiltie 1 Juvenile Band. There was a Lanark fife and drum bankd of boys and girls. There was the Mohawk Lodge led by their Indian Chief in buckskin. buckskin. Then came Napinee, Colbrook with its ladiejs lodge. Addison, Hastings, Havelock followed by Coboiirg legion pipe band (with bearskin hats) and lastly Picton with a very large Juvenile Lodge, to name just a few of the places represented; Hydro negotiating sale of two units Ontario Hydro may have 'the opportunity to sell to a Canadian consortium two 500,000-kilowatt turbine- generators and associated equipment ordered for use at Wesley ville generating station station near Pdrt Hope. ■ Professional Services 1 j? date. | Mrs. M. Stevens had her ? soil Dr. John Stevens of : Ottawa with her and also her | daughter (Dorothy) Mrs. J. Hellebust and sons Steven $ and Andrew: her sister Mrs. ! F. Porteous was also with her for the weekend. The Orangemen of Kendal District took a bus load to the Orange walk at Picton on Saturday, July 14th. The day was perfect for a parade, of t ' course rather hot. Kjendal .lodge made a good showing | led by their fife and drum ' band and followed by Tyrone L.O.B.A, The ladies won the Clarke Public LIBRARY PHONE 983-5507 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday 10:001o5:00p.m. Orono, Ontario F.R. Tennant Fuels Ltd. Phone 983-5693 To the Unfit If you just sit You won't quit Being unfit BYAMS PLUMBING-HEATING Sales and Service 24 HOUR BURNER SERVICE GULF FINANCING Low Interest Rates ÇÙryWaU Taping - Spray Ceilings Plaster Repair Painting Wally Lucyk 983-5518 ORONO Orono Building Contractor Brick - Block - Concrete Stonework Carpentry - Cabinet Work Floors - Tile Phone 983-5441 ORONO Don't Leave It to Chance Be sure your home is truly protected by a good policy Call us now Mi I Ison Insurance Agency Office: Corner of Church and Cobbledick Street 983-5032 WORK WANTED D.&R. Custom Fencing and custom chain-sawing 983-5005 or 983-9627 Ôrono, Ont. William C. Hall, B.Comm. Chartered Accountant Phone Newcastle 987-4240 ÀLL DAY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY Dave's Plumbing Heating Electric Industrial - Commercial 786-2471 R.R. 1 Orono Hamiltons Insurance Service Susan M. Sawyer Office 983-5115 Home 983-5270 Main St„ Orono Sev 3 Floral Creations "FLOWERS WITH FEELINGS" FOR ANY OCCASION FRESH & DRIED FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS ; for ■ Y WEDDINGS, FUNERALS, HOSPITAL AND HOME Telephone 623-3377 162 King St. East Bowmanvilie In-service dates at the station have been delayed up * to ten years, reflecting lower than expected electricity growth in Ontario. The consortium of Combustion Combustion Engineering Ltd., Canadian General Electric and Ebastec-Lavalin Inc. is attempting to place the units with à foreign power author» ■ ity. "There "are still many ifs involved in the negotiations," said Hydro chairman Hugh Macaulay, "but we want to reassure people in the Wes- leyville ; area that the sale, successful or not, will have: no effect on present schedules for the {liant, which could start up in the early 1990's. , "Our negotiations with the consortium are to recover the replacement value of the units, which means we can buy new equipment at no cost to the consumer," Mr. Macaulay Macaulay said. If the units are sold, Hydro would begin looking for replacement replacement equipment in the mid-1980s. H Hydro began taking delivery delivery of the 'CGÉ turbine generators in 1977, The cost of the units, £lus boilers and associatéd equipment is about $100 million. ORONO ELECTRIC LTD. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES COLOUR T.V. HI-FI HOT POINT ■ * ' R.C.Â. ELECTROHOME WHITE WESTINGHOUSE FRIGIDAIRE SIMPLICITY HOOVER i ii Major & Minor Repairs BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC -ENGINES REBUILT -VALVE JOBS -FRONT ENDS -TOWING MANGER'S GARAGE ORONO 983-5130 Our Fireplaces DO NOT Smoke CHIMNEY CLEANING OXFORD Bricklayers - Stonemasons Ltd. ORONO, ONTARIO PHONE 983-5606 REASONABLE GO 1 DX SERVICE STATION Highway 35 & 115, lust north of Newcastle Featuring: Premiurii Quality Products At the Most Reasonable Prices Stove Oil & Diesel Oil Available in anÿ'quantity Phone 987-4215 ' . i We have a complete line of POP CITY* Soft Drinks. Save by buying these a ca.se af a time. rvi SAVE SAVE WHY PAY MORE FOR HEATING SAVE ON PREMIUM QUALITY FUEL OIL FOR AUTOUR HJEL OIL HEEDS 1517 DUNDAS ST. EAST WHITBY TeiephoM Totfawl Call Collect , 668-3381 Prompt, Courteous Service