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Start 'work on school entrance '" muiuuay wo aews au -, muncauons startea work on, scnoo entrance. The area is ýquipment from the Ministry widening the Highway for also to be lighted with two of Transporation and Com- extra lanns t the Cl;ar')rt-Tiah "-indards and lights. From Queen's Park Alex Carruthers, MPP for Diirham Following a meeting at Ministry of Transportation and Communication Office in Port Hope on Friday, Decem- ber 6th, with representative of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Edvcat- ion and the District Engineer Mr. James Peer and his officials, Alex Carruthers, M.P.P. Durham issued a statement respecting improve ments to Highway 115 and 35 at the entrance to the Clarke Secondary School complex. While the section of the highway from 401 to Enter- prise Hill is presently under study work commenced on Monday December 9th to alleviate the potentialt hazard at the seco school location. The improvements pr ly underway include: 1) the widening of the pi two lane highway to pro left hand turning lan south bound traffic en the school property. Wi provision of the left turning lane protectionv given to turning ve while still permifting bound traffic throughi ment. 2) The entrance to the5 property will be illumi with 450 or 500 candle1 overheati luminaries, on ated on the island on thE side of the highway in fr the restaurant and one ed immediately south school entrance on the side of the highway. Wi installation of the ove (Continued on page. Not main info source It bas been reported North- umberland and 'Durhamn MP traffic Allan Lawrence as stating ndary that he was nbt a major contributor of information to 'esent- Dr. Morton Shulman who has been making allegations in resent the Ontario House in regards vide a to political contributions to e for federal ministers by the tering Seafarers International th the Union. hand Mr. Lawrence was inter- will be viewed ontelevision last hicles Thursday in regards the soutài- contacts between bimself and move- Mr. Shulman. Mr. Lawrence said he bas school been receiving information inated from anumber of sourcesin power the matter just the same as ne loc- Dr. Shulman but said they had e west exchanged single points of ont of views on a few occasions only. locat- Mr. Lawrence said he was not of the the main source of informat- east ion for Dr. Shulman and that th the it was a great dis-service to rhead Dr. Shulman for it to be infered that he was. m New school to be named "The Pines" The planting of twenty pine f-r-ees mfront of the new Senior Elementary school has been attributed to the naming of the school, "The Pines Senior Elernentary School." The board at their recent meeting last week accepted tbe name as proposed by the conmit- tee. The committee in their report to the Board stated that they had received many suggestions which had been solicited from residents in the area andfrom students who would be attending the school. Survey now underway It was revealed at the Town of Newcastle Council meeting tbat the Fire Marshall's Office is now conducting a survey of the area in regards fire safety regulations. Councillor Lyall was still opposed to the survey feeling it would present council and local groups with a, lot of problems. Councillor Don Allin said tbat council had been informed that they did not bave to take any action on conditi'ons of the report. A attempt was made to find some relationship to the nistorical, geographical or political setting of the area but no appropriate name could be found. Tbe planting of the twenty trees infront of the building so enhanced the building and its appearance that the commit- tee devies the name "The Pines Senior Public School." It was also the recommendat- ion of the committee that the total site be developed along these lines with further plant- ings of pine trees. Honeywell1I Man held Honeywells Controls Ltd., Bowmanville, has announced it will close as of January 3st, 1975 after being in operation in Bowmanville since 1968. The closing of the plant will affect some 100 employees with only some ten possibly !being fralsferred to a pareht plant in Scarborough. It bas been stated that the market for the plants primary product Keytape, a data entry device for computers did not develop. For the last year the plant has devoted most of its (Continued on page 3) No enthusinsm for teens program The children of the Orono area have shown no interest in a Town of Newcastle Recreat- ional program being offered in the Town Hall in the Village of Orono. * The program devised for children of 13 years up to and under 17 years would include such events as table tennis, cards, and various games. The hall bas been open on Tuesday and Thursday even- ing as well as Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. ORGANIZE SKAT-A-THON-The Great Pine Ridge-Kinsmen Club have organized a Skate-A-Thon to be held at the Orono Arena on December 26th from 9 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Anyone wishing to assist the clùb may do so and thus help support their part with Cystic Fibrosis. Sponsor sheets available from Charles Grey. ENJOY SCHOOL CHOIR-The Orono Public School choir sang at the Orono United Church on Sunday and were greatly appreciated by the congregation. SANTA COMING TO TOWN SUNDAY-The Orono Chamber of Commerce are holding their annual Family Skating Party this Sunday. Santa will also make his appearance. Plan to attend, no charge. Further information inside. CHRISTMAS IS ON ITS WAY-The Village of Orono now boasts its colourful array of Cbristmas lights in the business section. Ail we need now is the snow. and a few extra dollars. Last Saturday only one girl appeared at the hall and the evening sessions have been ne better. The disinterest of the child- ren bas baffled the Recreation Department and if things dc not improve the idea will be shelved for the time being with a possible try again after in the spring. Those helping out with the program locally are Messrs. Ron Reid, Sterling Mather and Ken Nixon. Members of the Recreation Department have also been in attendance to date. Open bridge Abut two and a half year after the idea was presented to the Bowmanville council the new West Beach bridge was officially opend Thurs- day. The concrete bridge span- ning Bowmanville. Creek at the foot of West Beach Rd. replaces a wooden structure that had served the town for about 75 years. The $58,000 structure is the first bridge built by the new town of Newcastle since it came into existence last Jan. for robbery Terry James Hoover, 25, of Port Hope is charged with robing the Bank of Nova Scotia in Port Hope on Wednesday December 4th. The robbery took place at 11:35 a.m. with the arrest being made at 1:30 p.m. at a road block in Norwood. It is reported that the bandit used a fuil length shotgun in the hold up planning il over the counter and asking two tellers to give him all the money in the drawers. Police found an unloaded shotgun in the Hoover car along with $4,800 taken from. the bank. Region approves modular ho es The Planning and Deve- lopment Committee of the Region of Durham last week took a look at the Modular Home concept as proposed b.y Rice Construction and decid- ed it was a valid form of housing as any type of development. Further to accepting this concept the developer, Max Rice, was told that the region would process this form of development as it would conventional development. Rice Construction has been seeking approval of a Modul- ar Home scheme as a retirement home develop- ment in the Town of Newcast- le with some 1000 units proposed for a site south of 401 highway just west of Newcast- le near the mouth of the Wilmot Creek. This proposal was first presented to the former Township of Clarke who'gave it approval late in 1973. In 1974 the new Town of Newcastle withdrew the ap- proval and had the Ministry take similar action. Following this Rice Construction bas made another appeal to the Town with agreement in principal being given the Town's planning advisory board. It has been pointed out that although approval was given in principal the propos- al bas not been given approval on the proposed site. (Continued on page 3) 140 tons ofwater to steam Steam billows from a corn dryer on the farm of Roy Sawyer north of Orono, and at times with the aid of a í>uff of wind would blanket the whole farm yard. The operation of drying corn has been fore- most on the farm for the past few weeks. The process of drying corn is to reduce the water content of the corn after picking in order that it may be stored. Mr. Saywer points out that the corn is being picked this year with a moisture content of from 35 to 38 percent and this moisture content must be reduced to 14 percent before it can be safely stored. The corn dryeris called a portable batch dryer and will handled some 600 bushels at a time. The dryer has a beat chamber with propane gas providing the heat source. The machine is capanie, according to Mike Sawyer of creating one million BTUs of heat and this compares 'with 100,000 BTUs for the average home furnace. The grain in the dryer is moved about by means of augers and samples of the grain is periodically tesited to note the water or moisture content. It takes some five hours to happenïngs'l-