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8, Orono W'eekly 'limes, Wednesday, June 16, 1982 bjappri"ngîî.«.. OPP GOLDEN HELMETS TO ORONO The OPP Golden Helmets are scheduled to ap- pear at the Durham Central Fair being held in Orono the first part of' September. The volunteer team use 1,340 cc Harley-Dabidson Police Specials which are us- ed 'for police duty. It has been pointed out that the Golden Helmets do not perform trick riding but rather to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine and keep- ing rîsk to a minimum. The team has previously appeared at the Orono Fair and were thoroughly enjoyed. They will beat the local fair for their demonstration on Thursd ay, September 9th, evening performance. TO -START ORONO CREATIVE PLAYGROUND The Orono Creative Playground to be con- sîructed at the Orono Public School grounds is to get underway on June 26th with expected completion within a two week period. The playgrounds will bc placed in the north-west corner of the back playgrounds at the school. A volunteer group from the community is pro- moting theproject and through various Mcanis has rais- ed a total of $4500.00 for the project from sales, dances etc. It is expected that a further $500.00 will be needed. .In speaking with Mr. and Mrs. Tomkins poles for the play equipment have been donated by Bell Canada. The playground will include many features for the children of the community. AIl work in construction is on a volunteer basis. CLARKE AUCTION SALE RAISES $40 to $500 A recent auction sale held at the Clarke High school in conjunction with the parent association has realized some $400 to $500 to be used for various pro- motions at the school. SPLASH STILL OWING $120,00 it was revealed on Monday that Splash, Bowmanville, has reduced it s commitment to the Town of Newcastle Fîtness Centre by some $40,000 since the first of the year. There is still owing an amount of $120,000 which Spliash is endeavouring to cover before the end of the year. It was pointed out that any amount still outstanding in this commitment will have to be ac- cepted by the Town prior to the end of the termn of the present council. ACCIDENT KILLS FIVE EARLY SATURDAY A head-on colision early Saturday morning on Highway 35, 10 miles south of Lindsay has claimed the lives of five, four being fromi the Town of Bowmanville. Dead are Donald Wayne McKnight, 29, driver of onc car; Perry Todd Jackmian, Earl Sidney Carter and one identified, as ofTuesday, ail of Bowmanville. The fifth casuaity and driver of the second car John Lewthwaite wa.ý a resident of Toronto. According to the OPP on Tuesday afternoon -a positive identification had not been mnadè as yet of the foujqth- person expected fromn Bowm-anville. OPP of- ficers said the McKnight car burst into flames after the crash. Approve outdoor gospel sing The Town of Newcastle gave their approval- for a Drive-In Gospel Sing outîng ta be sponsored by the Liber- ty Pentecostal Church of Bowmanville. The church is anticipating the promotion of the Gospel Sing at two loca- tions in Bowmanville, in the Martin Road area as well as the Bowmanville MaIl. Although council gave their approval the church must also gain approval from other bodies including the Department of Health. Council also passed a resolu- tion in that the clerk will assist the church in gaining any additional necessary ap- provals. JOB PRINTING ORONO WEEKLY TIMES 1 1 Nuclear furnaces may be the future it may not be too far off in which remote communites, factories and industrial parks, are heated by small nuclear furnaces. The units, actually small reactors, would not bear much resemblance to the large nuclear electric power sta- tions in that they would not generate electricity and would not require large buildings. lnstead, they could be housed in a basement room or small adjacent structure much like a conventional furnace and would be used ta produce hot water for space heating. Unlike a conventional fur- nace, however, they would rýquire refuelling onlv once every five years.: Far from being an ingre- dient in a science fiction story or just a gleam in the eye of a scientist, the snmall reactor is actually under active develop- ment at the Chalk 'River Nuclear Laboratories af Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. It will be called Slowpoke 3 and is an outgrowth of earlier suc- cessful work which produced small reactors f'or research purposes, several of which are in use in Canada today. Slowpoke stands for Safe Low Power Critical Experie- ment and reflects a design for a machine which can run for extended7 periods of time without the need for an operator to be present. One of the main reasons for this is the self-limiting nature of Slowpoke in which the generation of too much heat, causing the water around the core to boil, stops the fission process automatically.' Slowpoke, its core con- sisting of a bundle of enrich- ed uranium rods abouît the size of a waste basket, is suspended in a pool of water. The pool is cylindrîcal and, w ould.be about four meters across the ten meters deep. Hot water, nat steamn, is cir- culated to the building or complex from the heat ex- changer connected ta the reactor core to provide space heating and an additional safety feature is that this does not require a pressurized, system. Because of the heat exchanger none of the water from the reactor can circulate around the buildings. AlIthough Slowpoke 3 is a very small fraction of tEe size of the large, power producing reactors at Pickering, great care is heing taken in its design to ensure that it will run reliably while being remotely monitored. Dr. John Hilborn, who heads the team working on the reactor, says this atten- tion to detail is warranted because of the requirement for very high reliability. He says development work at the moment involves the use of a laboratory model which can follow the course of certain theoretical accident situa- tions. Dr. Hilborn says there has already been some interest ex- pressed in nuclear heaters in places sucE as the Canadian north and Alaska where com- munîties must now heat wvith oil which is imported at very high cost. He says that in the future, as oil and gas supplies dwindle and become even more expensive, the little nuclear furnace could becoine a viable heat source for factories and even in- dustrial parks which could bc heated from a central plant. How far into the future is al of this? Dr. Hilborn says he hopes to see a two megawatt prototype of Slowpoke 3 operating within about three years. WORK WANTED S D& R Custom Fencing anid custom chain-sawing 983-9627 or 623-7353 Orono, Ont. Discuss recreation at Orono gathering Apo À 'rau meet some surprising people when you're on the road. Last week 1 met 95 year old Leander Gole in the village of West Montrose. He's a busy man. He makes old fashioned cradies, and he has a hard~ time keeping up with the demand. Bufthte really surprising thing about Leander Gole is that he didn't go into this line of work until he was ninety! West Montrose, north of Kitchener, is quite a tourist attraction, mostly because of its -Kissing Bridge" - On- tario's only remaining covered bridge. But they were teIl- ing me at the General Store that Leander Gole is running a close second. People like ta wander in to his old beat-up red brick workshop and watch him make his tip-proof pine cradies. lt's the same building where Gale began working as a blacksmith's apprentice at the turn' of the century.. Later, he bought the shop .and became the village blacksmith, although he dabbled in making furniture on the side. 1Then f ive years ago he got an idea! There seemed to be a growing demand for l9th century style furniture. Why flot old fashioned cradles? 111 Using a design he got in a magazine, he built his first cradle. He took it over ta the General Store, and they sold it right away. Five years and thousands of work hours later, he's made hundreds of them. Ail are beautifully crafted. Ail are custom made. It takes him about 3 days to make each --one. Gale keeps on working while he talks ta you. He's short, wîry and has a gnarled, craggy face that's a photographer's dream corne true. Especially when he pauses to light his pipe. He's also quite a showman. We did a TV news item about his work and he readily anticipated what- cameraman Terry Culbert and my wife Jenny, who's a production assistant, wanted him ta do. When 1 interviewed him on camera he was quick, wit- ty and relaxed. 1 suppose wvhen you're 95 years old it takes quite a bit ta throw you. Leander has children and grandchildren who lîve in the, area. And says he's Iost track of how many great- grandchildren he has. But he does know this. A lot of them sleep in his cradies. JState of our Natural Resources- L.C. Selby, Diîstrict Lands Co-ordinat or! MineraI Resources Supervisor How much forest, t'ish, wildlife, mineraI resources, provincial parks and publie lands and waters will be need- ed over the next 20 years? Lindsay District staff of the Ministry of Natural Reources are inviting you ta attend open house in June and August 1982, ta address this question. The first set of open houses in June will display the back'ground information and documents used ta prepare the draft district land uýe strategy. This will include resource maps, photoes, resO Urc e i nven tori es, statistics, provincial park master plans, plus informa- tion on local nia tutre resources. The second set ol' open houses this sumrmer will pire- sent for comment *the district land use strateg-y. Miniistry staff wil he on hand to ex- plain thec material and welcorne any comminents. They hope to have an oppôr- tunity to speak with yvou at any of the four house loca- t ions, trom 3:00 p.mi. to 9:00 p. i.: Tuesday, June 8 -inidsay- Provincial Governiment Building, 322 Kent Street West. Thursday, June 10 Peter- borough - Sir Sanford Flemf- ing College, Brealey Drive Campus. Wednesday, June 16 Whitby - Heydenshore Pavilion, Water Street. Tuesday, June 22 Cobourg - Lions Community Centre, 157 Elgin Street East. MacLaren Plansearch lnc. who are developing a Recrea- tional and Cultural Master Plan for the Town of Newcastle have been current- ly holding a number of infor- mai meetings throughout the9 Town with various groups of individuals asking questions as to opinions relating to the Town and its facilities. Gary Blazak of MacLaren Plansearch held such a meeting in Orono recently when numerous questions were directed to a small group of Orono area cîtizens. Replies will be tabulated along with others from other areas of the Town and analysed by Plansearch. This information will be used in preparaion of their Master Plan' foi? the Town of Newvcastle. Such questions, presented, by Plansearch were; name five things that come to mind when the Town of Newcastle is mentione d; in single words express your feelings of Orono; is recreational facilities in Orono adequate and if not what is needed. Blazak also informed the meeting that Plansearch would be distributing ques- tionnaires throughout the Town in the near future and these questionnaires would reach one in three homes in the Town. Questionnaires will'also be available at cer- tain locations throughout the Town and may be picked up for answering by those who wish to do so and have not received a questionnaire. The Orono meeting was high in its praise of Orono, ifs residents and its recreational facilities. There was an ex- pression of confusion as to the name of Newcastle and a lack of contact with both municipal and regional- government. There was also an expres- sion of greater use of the Orono Town Hall for com- munity activities in music, drama, arts and crafts and of course the usual dlaim in the need for more downtown parking. . The Orono Athletic was praised for its part -in pro- viding a comprehensive recreational. program for children in the area. The loca- tion of Orono was felt to be a great asset with its proximity to such as the events of the cities of Oshawa and Toronto and as well but a short trip to the recreational grounds to the north. The Cultural and Recrea- tional Master Plan is ex- pected to be completed this year with the Town of Newcastle footing a bill of some $40,000 in its prepara- ti 'on by MacLaren Plansearch.