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Jirefighters commended ■>' ■ Smoke pours from the back porch at Peter Sikmas on Saturday with firemen bringing bringing the blaze under control. control. (Inset) Norm Tillson of the Orono Fire Department is assisted» by Jack Mercer in replenishing the oxygen supply supply enabling Tillson • to enter the smoke filled house wearing wearing a mask» The local depart ment was commended by their deputy fire chief, James Aldridge, for the efficient manner in which they fought the fire. From Around the Region IN HIGH GEAR , General Motors Of Canada Oshawa plants are now back to full employment, the first time in almost a year when in midr April, 1982, a full shift at the car assembly plant was laid off. The truck plant resumed two shifts**on Monday. The Oshawa production lines have some 520 GM workers from other plants now working. Some may return to their home plants when employment becomes available. REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE The Ontario Ministry of Health has requested requested the Durham Region District Health Council conduct a study as to a regional ambulance service being established. The Health Council is now expanding a former study which considered Ajax- Pickering area to all of the Region of Durham. The Council in 1982 set a centrally run and dispatched ambulance service as one of its long-term goals in the Region. Since that time the Province now operates the ambulance service out of the Bowmanville Hospital which is dispatched through a central location. The Ajax- Pickcring Ambulance service is the only such service now provided through a hospital. ' ""WENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY fhe Cartwright High School is to hold its Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reunion on April 30th, 1983. Rooms are to be set aside at the Cartwright Cartwright Central Public School for the occasion occasion when former students are expected to renew friendships with former classmates. EDUCATION RELATIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION 1,050 secondary school teachers are to level a complaint of bad faith against the Durham Board of Education in an attempt to reach a contract settlement. Teachers have been teaching without a contract since August 31st, 1982. The Inflation Restraint Board which had also been called into the dispute recommended recommended a nine percent increase for the secondary teachers but teachers have turned this down as they claim it affects only sixty percent of the teachers and does not recognize the forty percent who have special degrees. LOSS BUS SERVICE FIGHT Parents in the west end of Bowmanville lost their fight for bus transportation for their students attending Bowmanville High School. Last week the Board turned down the request. Some students walk almost three miles to the high school. "The Board of Education's Transportation Transportation Committee stated it would cost in the area of $1,260 to provide such busing for an estimated forty students. The Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of < (Continued page 5) Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday* April 6,1983-3 $3.89 MILLION AND WHAT THEN With the announcement last week that a winner had been declared in LOTTO 649 in the amount of $3.89 million we could not but help feel that lotteries in Canada had become ridiculous. If one would count the losers against the winner the odds are about one chance in 14 million. One • could easily question if the assumed benefits do in fact exist which we doubt very much. In lotteries sponsored by the governments we are going to the extremes and promoting promoting an idle dream leading to the exploitation of human beings. It is not what govern- t ments are supposed to be all about. After getting over our first reaction to the lottery win and its promotion we did a little dreaming of our own and placed ourselves in thè position of the winner with $3.89 million in the bank collecting collecting interest at almost $400,000 a year. This did not appeal to me at all so I would have to do something with the money. Taking age into consideration consideration I decided the best thing to do was to get rid of it but being somewhat selfish too. Just in case of problems in the future 1 would tuck the first $100,000 away then hand over $200,000 to Donna for her dreams in revamping, the house and putting on that family room at the back of the house with sliding doors and a new set of kitchen cupboards cupboards and a new car. New equipment and revamping the printing office building should do away with another $200,000 • and we could certainly lift salaries all around. As we have always held a desire for a farm this certainly certainly would be on the list and if our children and their families were interested it could be two farms. Surely by now we are up to $1.25 million. One may wonder why I would choose a farm but I consider farm life the ultimate dealing with and working with nature and all its wonders. I would also want to set up a small herd of four purebred cattle for each grandchild and and delegate to them the responsibility of their welfare and through the venture use it as a learning experience both in the care of the animals and as a business venture. In ten years their in- 1 vestment could be substantial or Vve would hope so. A $100,000 would go to set a 5 to $1.00 store in downtown Orono, something we think this community has lacked for a good number of years and there is also the challenge of its operation and success. . That*about sets the game plan Up.and I do realize there are still considerable ' funds left over from the $3.89 million. To get it out of the way but still making good use of the money it would be donated to ' such as the Sick Children's Hospital in'Toronto to be used used as the hospital saw fit. Now with all these new ventures its quite apparent I am not about to have time to travel but life should take on a new dimension and the scope of interest in life has widened. Dream on Forrester, you didn't even buy a ticket. In the Sunday Star, McCormack McCormack Smyth, Professor of Administration and former Dean at Atkinson College, York University, expressed expressed in an article many of the views I hold as government government lotteries. He states the governments are aware that lotteries are a pre-democratic form of taxation taxation and are regressive. He states lotteries and gambling are .socially destructive attitudes attitudes which should not be encouraged. 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