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4, Orono Weekly TMmes, Wednesday, JuIy 21, 1982 Orono Public School 'Creative Playground joy the Orono Park facilities 1The Orono Park is a littie day and into the evening. heat wavc the forepart of the bit of something for every age This group of youngsters week with a plunge into the group with activity being were certainly beating the wadinig pool. carried on, throughout the On *going Battie re Road Closing An on-goîng battie over a road closing in the riorth of the former Township of Clarke, lots 26 and 27, con-. cession 9, continues. The proposai came before council on Monday night supported by Mrs. R. Beaucage, an adjacent resi- dent of the unopened road allowance which she seeks to have closed. A representative of the Long Sault Ridgeruin- ners Sinowmobile Club op- posed the closing of the unopened road allowance which is part of a network of snowmobile trails in the area. In a staff report it was pointed out that cor- respondence goes back to December of 1979 regarding the closing. Mr. Tom Hoar, representing the Snowmobile Club states the matter goes back to 1974. Don Smith in a report said that staff has had meetings with ail concerned including the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Transportation and Com-' munications. It is also pointed out that an alter- native route was considered, by staff but that abutting owners to the alternative route have sent in letter of objections or concerns. Smith states alternative routes have aIl been dismissed for one reason or another. The report statesithat staff of the two Ministries wished to be assured that a trail system would be protected by the Town of Newcastle especially assuring that acces s to the jointly funded under- pass under highway 115 can be maintained. It was also pointed out at the meetin& that Mrs. Beaucage has agreed to the sale condition price for the lands that would become available through closing of the unopened road allowance. Tom Hoar, in speaking on behiaîf of the snowmobile club, said they we-re in- terested in safety and that any of the alternative routes did pose a problem in safety. He stated that snowmobiling had become a family outiniz. He said with the present route in the north it was away from any centre of population and referred to the road allowance as a recreational strip across the north of the Town. He made the point that it linked up with other trails and was extensively us- ed. Hoar referred to a Ministry count of snowmobiles pass- ing over one area of the trail that in 1980-81 numbered 10,000 and increasing to 12,000 in the winter of 1981-82. He also stated that the Mfinistries were concerned as to the continuation of the route aà it was their inten- tions to put an underp ass under Highway 115-35 during reconstruction in 1984. He said the underpass would be used by others than snowmobilers when wanting to cross the highway. Hoar said his club could not police aIl infractions of- snowmobilers in the area but did do what they could. He feit damnage off the trail was not that extensive. The matter has been refer- red back to staff for a further report and legal implications. of SAVE $12 G~e nie K ALkyd Porch & ForEae IRG.$3139YÈ gaiSles 9 SiAiVE$10GL Kem Mat Latex House an Super Wbite 1 SAVE $10 GA.pin.* REG.$2899gi sale $18M BAVE $15 e.# Kem Alkyd Gloss House and Trim Paint *Similar savings on One-Coat Wbites, "iHc Priners, Packaged Colours, and Tinta r i L~) ow to paint exterior surfaooe" boeklet ROLPH HARDWARE (DeminIo) Phono 983-207 VAWre close to your homne EMM 1 .