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orono weekly times Second Class Mail Registration Number 6368 Published every Thursday at the office of publication Main Street, Orono, Ontario. Phone 983-5301 Subscription: $3.00 per year in advance CONGRATULATIONS We would like to extend our congratulations to the officers, directors, and members of the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club, on their chartering last Saturday evening in Orono. The organization will not only be an asset to the community as a whole but one which will expand the character and compassion of its membership. The Charter night activities were a great success and we know that with the enthusiasm so far display this will carry into the future for this group. Again . . . congratulations THE DROP OUTS Concern has been voiced recetly over the drop-out of students from the High School. A considerable number of students have left High School throughout the Northumberland and Durahm area which in some sectors of the educational field has been termed alarming. In a matter of fact society and the system has maintained over the past years an artifical level through inducements of programs and other factors which has kept students in school. Many of these inducements are now breaking down and society and especially the younger set are realizing that values must change. The educational system itself has gone through the Robarts plan, The Davis plan and now the non-grade credit system. All were intended, to a great degree, to keep children in school with the idea that a better education meant a fatter wallet, and also we suspect to lessen the labour force. The latter was most true some ten years ago when the composite school idea was introduced. These plans, of course, have kept students, in school but the myth that more education means more money has broken down to the point where it is now found that brickIayers, butchers, etc are in many cases better off financially than those carrying a degree. Society itself has pressured students to remain in school. Education is almost a status symbol for most parents with students at school. They not only pressure the student but also the teacher, the principal and the system so their offspring comes up with the best mark. The teachers and the system have also played an adverse part with boh factions having to prove their ability with good marks at exam time. The sight of education of the student is often lost in that thé teacher must and also must the system prove they are competént. With all the pressures upon the educational system education itself has been watered down so as to maintain the system, and the criteria which society asks. Its philosophy has been lost. No wonder many students find the system somewhat unenchanting. It is quite possible for an individual with a basic public school education and possibly a year or two of high school to be a good contributing part of society. Guest editorial Planning and land use To expect Io to set limits In today's crowded world an old problem has feasible and erupted with tremendous impact -- a housing going to ma shortage. In our cities the amount of land housing avail available for private, individual houses is at the Fede scarce. In addition a lot for an ordinary house answer is thE can cost a small fortune. Landowners in could co-opex metropolitan areas know that there is more suitable land money to be made in putting up an apartment building at building on an acre of land than by taking that inflated valu same acre and building 3 or 4 houses on it As to the In order to find cheaper land the prospective because of z home owner flees the city and looks in the rural sînce these de areas for a small lot. The councils and school of the public a boards, in these rural areas, then face the has a duty b problems of servicing. More houses mean more This may people-more people mean new school facilities, compensatior garbage collection and disposal problems, whole zoning improvements to streets and roads, etc. All of Some have which add up to dollars in considerable housing short amounts for initiation. land, The fol' Ontario has met this reaching out to the rural immediately areas with the placing of size restrictions on up this land new lots created; first 2 acres, then 10 acres market until and now in some cases 40 acres. The reasoning, figure. Drive of course, is that no one can afford to buy a 10 townships and acre lot and build on it. The error here though is land held by s that if an ordinary lot, of say a quarter acre, in financial killi Scarborough sells for $15,000 and a 10 acre lot in On the loca Clarke sells for $12,00 the buyer will grab the and land use Clarke bargain and save $300. As prices in attempts to e Metro and the townships closest to it continue plan and to b to rise the 40 acre lots will seem a bargain in the speaks. Disgr same way that the 10 acre lots will seem a unit subdivîs bargain in the our example. The procedure for Estates as ai preventing rural home building will have failed Reeve is ena -- the houses will go up, and the land will have ment (only been wasted. xmmediately Land is a resource that must be used to its best ment is in lar advantage not turned into real estate. Wilmot Cree Conservation has been defined as "The WISE productive lai use of natural resources". It's time we stopped Rice Constru thinking of Ontario's land as real estate and already led started thinking of it as a precious resource. Council and p Land which should be built upon should be that another such which is not suited for other use! semi-secret It seems to me that land which is capable of Council, Rice, agricultural production must remain so. Clarke. Streams, ponds, marshy places, lakes and the The unfortun land immediately surrounding each of these not made now are the future parks and recreation areas and made by the must remain in as ecologically pure a state as Once the lai possible. It is urgen Tbis leaves us with a couple of real Pann o problems: Where do the needed bouses go? pooe u What bappens to the local person wbose land is araRcha worth $1500 per acre as real estate but only $300 arsinCrl per acre as agricultural or ecologically isnewre resriced nd weT of expcl $4.50 - U.S.A. 1 MEL Pictured above are Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Best whose wedding took place in Orono United Church on April 14th, 1973. Mrs. Best is the former Evelene Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Brown, Orono, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Best, Oshawa. Caractures of Executive of New Kinsmen Club Tony Mitchell, Chairman Morris Honeyman, Sec-Treas. Mel Hartwig, Bulletin Editor John Clapdorp ocal planning boards and councils s on develooment is Drobably indeed democratic BUT who is ke the decisions to make more able? The decision must be made ral and Provincial levels. One at the three levels of governament rate in assembling and servicing and make it available for house cost. This would tend to lower es and make lots more available. question of land values dropping oning decisions it is obvious that ecisions are made in the interests nd society as a whole that society o compensate the injured party. not be popular but if the n step is not included then the exercise is unfair and futile. suggested that one solution to the age is to relax all restrictions on [y here is that land speculators will begin taking options and buying and will then withold it from the the price is at an acceptable through Pickering and Whitby d see the acres and acres of good peculators and waiting for a real ng. l1 level the problems of planning are exacerbated by the general vade the provisions of the official end the by-laws when big money untled citizens view the modular sion of Home Smith at Orono n ill-conceived plan and yet the moured with a similar develop- 700 mobile homes) in the area west of Newcastle. This develop- ge part in an area which borders ek and the remainder is on nd. The pressure being exerted by action and the Royal Bank bas to an excursion by the Clarke planning board to Barrie to visit development and the calling of a meeting with the Newcastle E.R. Lovekin and the Reeve of rnate part is that if decisions are to preserve this land will they be new Regional Government? nd is gone -- it's gone! t for the Clarke Council and rd to firmly declare that this division must not be set in the s picked. There may be better e but for this development there than the property immediately ot Creek. MUDDY GEORGE CONTINUES TO WIN Muddy George owned by Mr. Lawrence Hooey of Orono continues its winning form at the big tracks and chalked up another win on the circuit last week. Muddy George has been nominated for the horse of the month in Montreal. He races again this week in Saratoga, then at St. Catharines on May 26th. Two local drivers competed in the opening feature of the night with Junior West finish- ing second driving Wil Lor Finigan. The 3 year old horse is owned by Feltis of Bowman- ville. Keith West in the same race placed fifth driving R. Boyd and C. Varey horse, Sun Brier Bullet. In the fourth race Junior West again drove a Feltis horse, Sambo Ken Kay and trailed the field in a race that was won by Ivan's Lucky Girl in a time of 2.09.1 Keith West placed with Ja De Glassford in the fourth spot in the sixth race. This race was the fastest for the night going in a time of 2.07.1. Mystic Kid driven by STAN Brown . Superior Ted and Scotch Tan finished in the following two money spots. keith west came back in the seventh to finish second driving Lee's 'land a horse owned by W. H. Lee of Newcastle. In the eighth race Keith again raced finishing sixth with Gallant Mir. In the ninth race two Orono drivers again competed with Derek Newman driving- his own horse Wil Lor Ben to a fourth place finish. 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