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Students of the Orono Pub- conditions te become sculp- Colouring and detail of the lic School took Advantage last tures and to exhibit on the work was excellent., wivth suchl wveekç of the snoýw and weather school grounds their snow art, as the above turtle displays. w v F' à m r--ovposes new regional fair Mayor Garnet Rickard et the Town of Newcastle in speaking at the annual banquet of the Durham " Central Agricultural Soc- iety challenged the soc'iety to give direction towards the formation of a Durham Re gional Fair, This society he said, should be the nucleous towards the form- ation of a regional f'air. Mayor Rickard was speak<ing before somne one hundred miembers of the local fair at their annual G. banquet being held on Thursday evening in the being for basement of the Orono location United Church. He outlined exhibitioi a brief history of the area Dutrhbam- directing attention to the to meet importance of agriculture, must olt outlining some aspects of said, an regional government and should co ending with the challenge In closi for the creation of a up the ( regional fair. pflaced bc The Mlayor pointed out Followi thiat the Oshawa fair wvas presideni the DUrI little to challenge therewas (Cont B. Richard *ced to find a new for their aninual )n and that the Society7 should ask with the.m. You kto the future, he id the initiative mo-,e fromn here. sing, he said, pick challenge that is )fore you. ing the meeting iE.R. Lovekin of rhamn Society had say about the 7but did state that is sure to be some itinued page 3) Region to take over Orono water Mayor Garnet Rickard- of the Town of New,ýcastiellio is now a memnber of the Orono Hlydro Comimission 'attended, the mnonthly meeting on Tuesday evening and inform- ed the Commission that dlir- ection .vill cone from the RIegional Council in the very near future that the Region will take over the operation of thec system as of April 1Lth. This mnove was approved by the Regional Works commit- tee last week at their regular mneeting and was approved by Regional Council. It is not known at this timne as to what extent the ta-ke-off may reachi on April lSth. Whether or not the Region will dlelegate certain works back to the Hydro Commission is flot known but it is the first mnove by the Re: on the complete take over sometimne in the future. M ayor Ric-kard satisfied the local Commission that surplus funds now with the Orono systemi wouîld go towards the construction of the second wvell and thus reduce the borrowiig requirem-,enits and charges towards theloa residents seve ,b the Orono, Water sys*èem. ORONOP WEEKY IMES April 3Ird, 1974 Expnse account caIn d.,le ba t eid During the past number of meetings of the Orono Hydro Commission there has ýorne befere the local group the matter of expenses for the ~"annual AMEA and AMEU mieetingc hejd in TI'proto. At a previotis meeting the local Commission on motion of Forrester and Simipson a sum of $300-00 was set for the chairman and the manager to attend the convention. At Tuesday meeting the cho1irman, Mr., H. 'artner, Sented a bill for their 'ý-enes at the meeting totalling $501.00 Mr. Partner stated that there was no way. in which anyone could attend *the convention for any less money. R. Forrester stated he was content that the allottmnent could be raised and the fVll amount could be paid, but Doug Simpson stated that $300. had been set by the Commission and he could see no reason to change this Port Hope maiernity May sf11 llIose. The m-aternity department at Port Hope Hospital is till threatened with losure, Dr. E.A. Hunt chairman of the medical advisory committee told the annual meeting of the hospital trust on Thursday. Dr. Hunt said although there had been some increase in ùtilization of the mnaternity wards - 125 babies were born in 1973 compared to 121 the previous year - if the figures do not increase even further, "it is entirely possible that the closing of this department may still occur at some future date." resolutation. "They knew what the limit was," he said. The matter got flot -further and only the surn of $300. was paid for convention expenses leaving the manager and the chairmnan to pay the remnaind- er out of their own pockets. I happenings FIRE DEPARTIMENT KEEPS BUSY -The local fire department during the past few months has kept reasonably busy and have beeni called to some extensive fires starting last summner with the Reid Hardware fire. Since that time the cails have been to many serious fires such as west of Orono, in Leskrd and Kendal. Last week the department received three calîs with the fi rst on March 27th to Newtonville where a shed was destroyeci housing a snowmobile machine which had' just been. placed in the shed following a general tune-up. Later the same day the department was called to the home of Mr. T. Walton east on the third line of Clarke where fire had broke out in the basemnent apartment. Considerable smoke damage resulted. On March 3th the office at the Cowanvîlle Auto Wreckers was destroyeçi by fire and here again the local department made the call. TO RESIGN FROM ORONO SCHOOL-Mrs Ina Brown has handed in her resignation to the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education to take effect as of June 30th. Mrs. Brown has been a teacher at the Orono Public School. EDUCATION WEEK ACTIVITIES-A number of events are now planned in local Public Schools for Education week. Kendal proposes a dîsplay of Bell circuits along wîth electric __motors. They will also include arts and crafts and a spelling Sbee. Kirby School plans a Metrication for parents on April 22 alông with a Puppet Festival for the following day. Lockharts wiII be favoured with the Canadian Puppet Theatre presenting the "Firebird". Vote against scugog a uthorîty There wilil not be a Scugog conservation auth-ority. At, least not yet. For the second time in six years municipal represent- atives from the Scugog River watershed voted dlown a propoal to form an authority for the area. The vote at Lindsay fast night was 7 for and 10 against. Durham Region had five of the 17 votes at the meeting. 0f theSe enly Scugog Couin. Robert Kenny voted ini favour of establishing an authority at this time. A two-thirds majority would have been required to carry Durham co-op's 'sales incre ase MR. JI HUTTON Mr. Jim Hutton of Orono was the winner of the $100.00 Eliminiation draw at the annual Athletic Booster Ban- quet last Saturday evening held in the Orono Oddfellow's Hall May assist with Orono town ro The Orono Hydro Commisi- sion a month ago submitted a bill in the amount of $201.09 to the Town of Newcastle which amount wac the cost of hydro and fuel used to heat the back part of the Orono Hydro building and which houses part of the hydro operation as well as a community roomn which is used by the local Art Group and as a gamnes room for men in the commrrunity to play billiards and cards. Lt was feit by Commission- ers Partner and 'Forrester that at least part of this bill was the responsibility of the Municipality. They felt that the Commission had no right to incur costs for the comn- munity room other than allowing it to be used. The building is now the property of the area municip- ality for which the Oronio Hydro Commission does pay rent. The bills were returned to the Commission from the Town treasurer stating that it was the responsihility of the Orono Commission as they rented the building. Mayor Rickard stated he had no knowledge of the bill and asked to take it to council as he said he understood the circumstances. The Durhamn Farmer's County Co-operative t its aninual meeting on Mlarch 25thi presented its annual statement for the year 1973 which pointed to consider- able increased sales over that of the previous year. Sales totalled $643,73 in 1973 compared with sales of $401,880 in 1972. Net savings frem 1973 before patronage returns amnounted to $5,544 eompared with $21,023 in 1972 . *It was pointed out at the meeting that the co-oper- ative has grown consider- able since its beginning some 25 years ago. It now holds investments in bonds of $5,000 and wîth the UCO an amount of $19,267. Entertainment durîng the evening was provided by Mvrs. Dora Harris and Certificate presented by fair board gr oup from Garden Hill. Mr. Wesley Yello3wlees -,as elected to the board of directors alonig with the re-election of Lawrence Harris and Ewart R.obin- son. Other directors on the board who were not up for ,re-election in 1973 are Stanley Milîson, Ken Hlend- erson, Gerald Shackleton, Sam Turner, Carlos Tamn- blyn and Francýis Jose. The annual meeting was held in the Orono Oddfel- low's Hall. OId hydro truck sold Seven tenders were receiv- ed by the Orono Hydro Commission for the sale of their old 1954 truck equipped with digging equipment. The tenders ranged from $100.00 to $560-00. The Commission accepted the tenider price of $560.00 fromn Mr. Ron Robinson. Mrs. Robert G. Moffat Of Department displayîng work Orono United Church enter- i)rono (centre) was honoured from the area public schools. ta inmen t was provided by Mr. at the recent Durham Central The presentation of the cert- and Mrs. James Lowery, Agricultural banquet with a ificate was made by Mrs. instrument one numbers, and Certificate of Mý,ent for the Wayne Bailey and a bouquet Mr. L. Dewell on the piano many years of service she has of roses by the 1973 Queen of along with community singing given to the fair staged inI the fair Mliss Lorna Lowery. conducted by Mr. Donald Orono annually. Mrs. Moffat During the course of the Staples. MIr.Jae Rickard lias worked for some twenty- evening following 'the banquet also showed slides of a recent five years with the Junior served in the basement of the trip to England.