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Arson Charged In Bowmanville The Durham Police have charged a Bowý,manville man 'ith four counts o ro followinig a brash of fires in Bowmanville on Saturday evenîng. Charged is 22 year old Stephen Mark Evans of 95 Churcb Street. He appeared in c ourt today for a bail hearing. The man was arrested at the scene of one -of the five individual fires Sunday, the old Bowmanville High School. The hardest bit building was- the old Bowmanville High School which was, under Present alIternate rouùtes for hydro Iin.e Its Christmas in October for Museum and Archives a Mrs. Horner of Garden Hill the next three Wednesday course is being conducting in Beginners weaving is 'ahà afternoons in the basement of making Christmas decora- being offered by the Museun tbe Orono Town Hall. Under tions. The -above group are group and this course is beirI the auispies of the Clarke busy learning the art from held on Monday evenings. Dr. Solandt held a press conference in Newcastle Vill- age on Monday to present to the pu blic an evaluation of alternate routes for the, 500 KV transmission line through the Townships of HQpe, Clarke and Darlington. .In addressing the gathering Dr. Solandt stated that in the former hearings it became apparent that other routes il. should be considered and so evaluated. These proposals, a rn more northern route and a ig, southern route soutb of 401 highiway, he stated, had been proposeci by. the general public and not in bis mind evaluated to tbe extent that tbey sbould have been by Ontario Hydro and Common- wealth Associates. H1e said in attempting to write bis report it became evident that the routes bad been chosen too early, espec- ially prior to any great input by the public. As a result, Dr. Solandt appointed Tom W. Sparling, Landscape Plann- ing Consultant, to evalute a more northern route through the 'Durham and Ganaraska (Continued page 3) re novation at the, time to provide the community wi th a senior elementary school, The contract for the work had been Itit by the school board in amount of around three-quar- ters of a million dollars. Work had started. Fire at the school totally destroy ed the oldest section of the scbool which was to be tomn down. It also did -consid- erable damage to a front portion which' was being renovated as well as a lot of water damnage- to the new -wing at the sehool. Some two months ago vandals turned taps on at the school doing considerable, damage to the building and as yet this bas flot been settled with the insurance company. Damage at the sehool on Sunday was estimated over- $200,000. The fire in the sebool was irst noticed at 14.30 a.m. Sunday morning. The first fire was reported at 9 p.m. Saturday evening at (Continued page 3) The council of the Town of SNewcastle on Monday even- Q>ing gave their stamp of approval to a recomnmenda- tion fromn the Finance Comn- rnittee that tb.ey not, issue. a builýdingy permit to Mr. Liptay i n Hayden for a residen>rce. The refusal was based on the f act that1 the lot did not face an approved road. Mvr. Liptay in S'peaking to council on the m-atter said he pleaded with them no 't to delay the issuing of the permit any longer. Coun. Enitwisle said that the ( ecision was not being delay eas the permit was flot beirig issued due~ to the fact that the road was not an improved road. He said that Mr. Liptay may cor-ne back to council and agree to bring the road up tu standard and that it may then be accepted by the council for winter and summer mainten- ance and that the issuing of tbe building permit may then be considered by counicîl. Mr. Liptay stated that he WOUld agree ta bring the road up to the standard of the Town and have the work completed in 1975 and that he did request the building permi~t at this lime soâ*e could get on with the buildi ng of the bouse. Coun. Hobbs said this would requi re some kind of bond. i(Continued page 3) Tt is apparent thiat the Town office in Orono is'to remain open. This is accorded from a report from the finance com- mittee which was approved by couneil on Monday even- ing. Council has approved that a typist be engaged, for the Orono office for typing of Planning 'Advisory minutes- happening IMETRIC WORKSHOP IN ORONO A work and fun session for everyone is being beld in the Orono Public Scbool concerning the metric system. The meeting is under the auspices of the Orono Home and School Association and being held on Tuesday, October lSth at 8.00 p .m-. As childrei) will soon be starting the metric systemn it is a grand time for parents to get i n on the ground floor. PHOTOGRAPWHY GALLERY The Pbotography Gallery will bang regular exhibitions of photography in the Orono and Newcastle libraries- commencing this montb. The first exhibition will be the Baffinland pbiotographs of Lorne Smith of Fort Churchill and Bob Billyard's photos ranging over a wide subjeet matter fromn an explicitly personal viewpoint. The exhibitions are arranged by Neil Newton with assistance fromn the Newcastle Library Board and the Ontario Council of the Arts. RESERVES DECISION Decision bas been reserved for three weeks ever the 4charge of the Town of Newcastle regarding the mobile boa» unit placed by Rice Construction in the Village of Newcastle for show purposes. The Town contends that a building permit shouki bave been obtained to, move the building onto the site. ORONO WEEKLYTIMES, OCTOBER 9th, 1974 MAKES APPLICATION FOR REZONING- .In a report to the Councilof- the Town of Newcastle from' the Town Clerk it was noted that the Durham County Senior Citizens Lodge bas made application for an amendment, to the zoning by-laws. The Lodge is reques- ting that counceil have the lands rezonied from Agricul- ture to Special RI zone. The request bas been referred to the Planner for processing. a seni or citizen, complex west of tlhe Village oi uruo. Limit estate reýideniaI to 25 Newcastle planning advis- ory committee Monday voted to create not more than 25 indlividual estate lots in rural areas to the end of 1975 as part of its proposed interim distr- ict Plan. The recommendlation stood, despit~e repeaed intRe by mnember Doug Moffatt that real estate developers would find a "loophole" to gel around this. H1e wants the lots given out in a lottery system to prevent one developer from getting tbem ail. Watsto prevent -a real estate developer fromn buying up the land, setting up 25 lots, and applying for them?" he asked. "The real estate companies bave the rigbt to grab lots, as long as the others have the same rigbts," he added. "lHow would tbey get more than one severance without a plan of subdivision?" asked (Continued page 3) Arnold Tate, 14 year's old son 4i Mr. a-id Yrs. Arnold Tate of Orono was chosen as the top district deivery boy for the Toronto Star and along wjith 93 other district wininers was entertained last Friday even- ing by the Star. Arnold was quest of the Star at the Roy& 1 York in Toronto where he attended a banquet, and en- joyed some fine entertaîn- ment. Durîng thie course of the evening each boy was presen- ted withf a plaque and a jacket in recognition of their work. Arnold has a Star route in Orono and was quite excited over bis trip to Toronto. Congratulations are in order to this young energenic busi- nessman. and attencding to the Orono office. Further the Mayor and Clerk are to advertise for the help needed for afternoons and are to bring a report ba ck to the finance commnittee ,with a report from the Personnel Committee. An Evaluatiori of Alternate Routes for The Solandt Commission Alternate Routes by Toffi W. Sparling 'AIternate Switching Station SGenerat ion station Hydr- ComonwalthTransfor mer station Q _ nInCe SithigStation «. Hydro- Common'wealth R.4nommended Route The above shows the alter- the south Highway 401 route CS'mmonwealth alternative. sented the two alternatives te native Ganaraska Route and as well as the middle Hydro- THe Solandt Commission pre- the public on Monday Councill refuses permit to- Hayden Resident Apparent that Orono Office1 to remaîn open Ci