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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 30th, 1978-3 Structural steel is being Station this summer. Siding installed in the services area installation on the 1,068 mega- of the Wesleyville Generating Truck traffic ma%%ay increase on Leskard Rd. An appilicaf ion f0 increase granular extraction by Salco Sand and Gravel from their pit north of Leskard caused some council members con- cern. The application fo council ls asking thaf extract- ion be mncreased froru the present 350,000 tons f0 750,000 tons. Counc. Dykstra said thaf granting tbis increase would no doubf incrense traffic on the Lesknrd road where complaints bave lready been received due to truck traffic on the rond. He also said council wns in somewbat of a bind if they did not grant the request ns they would be interfering with free enter- prise. On the application fihe public works departruent was not concerned with the ini- rease. Counc. Dykstra asked if it wns possible f0 negotiate an alternative route for the trucks' Mr. Ilunham, director Of public works said there was an alternative route wich did not affect as many people but that if would be costly to consfrucf the rond f0 a level to take sucb fraffic. Counc. Woodynrd said fthe increase in tonnage f0 be taken from the pit could resulf ia fwenty-four hour use of the rond by trucks. A motion by Woodyard and Dykstra wns passed referring the matter to the -Town Manager nsking that the Higbway Traffic- Acf be reviewed to see if council could have more confrol of traffic on the Leskard rond. Parking proposai back to committee A notice of motion by Counc. Gray regarding fund- ing for parking lots in such arens as Newcnstle Village, Orono and other hamlets but excluding the Town of Bow- manville was turned over for furtixer study by thxe finance and administration commit- tee. The notice of motion cnlled for n maximum town grant of $2,500.00 be made available for the above centres for the purpose of creating public parking facilities. Any parties wisbing to make use of the funîds would npply te, the Cutting rights for 114 cords Tender forms are available froni tbe Lindsay District Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the cutting rights to approximat- ely 114 cords of bardwood fuelwood. The fuelwood wiil be available for cutting from hardwood tops produced dur- ing a previous sawlog operat- ion and from oother mnarked bardwood trees whicb are not suitable for sawlogs. Town providing specificaf- ions were met. Counc. Taylor snid lie could understand the infent of the motion but wns not sure this was. the proper wny to proceed. He fnvoured the return of the mat fer to commnittee. Councs. Allun and Dykstrn pomnted out the fac t that Bowmanvifle was excluded in the motion and also pointed out that no such money exisfed in the budget for this purpose. Counc. Holliday spoke i favour of the motion saying fthe grant would be an incentive to get things mov- ing. He also said this was kicked around enough aI- rendy. Counc. Woodyard also fav- oured the sceeme be returned to the finance committee and also said that $2,500.00 would be of no use as a grant for parking in Orono as land would bave to be purcahsed, and it could be very expen- sive. Mayor Rickard said an overal policy was certaînly needed and suggested that the Town sbould seriously con- sider the setting up of a parking autbority. watt powerhouse begins in Septemrber. SCHOOL'S IN (Continued from page 1) beyond 1878, to the days of early settiement in this area, because this was flot the first school building at Kirby. Ini 1832, one hundred and f orty-six years ago, the first settiers arrived here after an arduous journey northwards through the forest by oxcart. The driver of this cart was Nathaniel Powers, who with his wife and family were to stop on tis very property. They were French Hugenots, wbose need,,to escape relig- bous persecution had made their long and difficult journey a neeessity. Their first nights were spent sleep- ing ini the shelter of a great fallen pine tree, just soutb of where we are now assembled. Four years Iter, in 1836, tis family erected our first sehool bouse at Kirby. By then, ether settiers had begun to arrive, and in spite of the long bours required to clear their holdings, they obviously recognized the need for the cbildren's education. Surpris- ingly, considering Kirby's northern location, it was apparently one of the earliest sehools buiît in the whole of Clarke Township. It was 22' x 22" square, and built of logs; the first teacher in tis log seb ool was Nathaniel Powers' son Henry Larue Powers. The community soon out- grew the tiny schoolhouse, and in 1856, a second building was erected. Todny, we tend to idenlize enrly life, but there had obviously been problemns with the first schoolhouses. The local superintendant, William Ormiston, writing to the Reverend Doctor Egerton Ryerson in his annual report of 1850 on ail the Clarke Township schools, comment- ed thus on their condition: "Few, if any are properly seated - the desks'and sents both being generally far too high,' - desks loose and seats without hacks. None of tbe schoolhouses are constructed wîth any other means of ventilation than the doors and windows, and not unfrequent- ly (it is provided by) a broken pane.,, The 1858 Annual Report, however, commented more favourably that "In the state of the schools in this township there are signs of marked improvement - considerable progress bas' been made in the creation of new and imiproved scbool houses". The 1856 frame schoolhouse built at Kirby must have been one of these; it cost 145 pounds to build, and a further 20 pounds was paid for the site. That school was of course replaced ini 1878 by the one now standing. Its builder was Rickard Laing - whose shop wns at the corner of this road; and the plans were drawn up by John Galbraith - a success- ful farmer wbo lived in a large stone bouse one mile east of here. School trustees at that time were Rickard Brown, William Cooney and John Clemence. Let's imagine the scene, one bundred years ago. The schoolhouse was completed, and laing tbe builder (E. Brown) and Galbraith (S.B. Rutherford) were surveying tbe finishedi product, and perbaps their conversation went somnetbing like tbis: Laing: "Well, John, I bave driven the lnst nail - does it look like you thought if would?" Galbraith: "Dick, you bave done an ever better jo than I tbought, fthe wails are. straight and true, fthe floor is even, and every detail bas been looked after. 1 like the belfrey - it is f0 be hoped the trustees wiil purchase a bell and have if bung before sebool opens". Laing: "Well, xnoney is scarce this year, but my bill is moderate. I kept expenses down and I believe the section can afford if". Galbraith: "Whnt was fthe total cost, Dick?" Laing: 'I will submit My 1bill at tonight's trustee meeting with your approval. The total cost of material and labour looks to be four bundred and eighty-four dollars ($484.00)>. Do you tbink fbey will pass if? Galbraith: "Richard Brown will. Cooney and Clemence may quibble-a lit fIe." Well, folkis, the trustee meeting was duly held, and Rickard Lning's bill was passed. And in addition, tbe minute book records the foilowing motions: 1. Ordered by meeting that John Galbraith be paid tbe sumn of twenfy dollars ($20.001) for bis superinfending and drawing plans and specifi- cations of the new school bouse. 2. Ordered also that a grat- uity of ten dollars ($10.010) be pnid Richard Laing - Contrac- for, as a present for tbe substanfial manner in wbich he completed the school- bouse." Yes, completed in such a able f0, take part in the festivities and the planting of thxe tree. She outlined somne of the early hisfory of the scixool and pointed ouf thaf she had attended fthe scixool in ber early years as weIl as affending the Orono Public Sehool. Mrs. Hamm spoke of ber substantial manner that one bundred years later we may gather here to honor and celebrate its onst - and ifs future. And of course, we are also honouring alI the scbools of Clarke Townsbip, in the mnny pbotograpbs on dis- play. The Kirby school rep- resents ahl the early schools, and we are happy fbnt it has been snved. The scbool willý now begin ifs new 111e as a Heritage Centre, so that, by displays and demonstrations of nrtifacts once used ,and by the teacbing of various skills and crafts, we may per- petuate the memory and knowledge of a way of life that was, and is sf111, an infegral part of our life today. At tins time, we have our visiting dignitaries f0 intro- duce, and 1 would ask Everetf Brown'- a former student of Kirby to carry out thaf honour. great grnndfafher, Nathaniel Powers wbo at one Uime, prior f0 the 1860S was, a scixool frustee i the Kirby aren. Prior to fthe present building wbich dates back to 1878 there was a former school, builf in 1856, and to that a previous school elsewhere located in Kirby a sehool builtifn 1836. Plant maple tree in honour of centennial (Confinued from page 1)