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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, November 21, 1984- From around the Region The Newcastle Chamber of Prior to the draw the The Oshawa Festival Singers Commerce. sponsored the capacity audience was enter- and Ross Metcalfe. Wintario Lottery draw at tained by a local program The lively program was an Clarke High School last Emceed by Stirling Mather entertaining feature for the Thursday which was televised and wth musical numbers by evening. by Global. Shelley Gray, Gladys Brown, TheOshawaFaestivaa NoSire Fam'il-ir Faces-Pla-es Tow f Newcastle Bi-Centennial article caIls to S. B. RUTHERFORD Sid Rutherford insists he is not an historian. It's a strange denial from the co- author of Out of the Mists, a detailed history of Clarke Township. "Frederick Lower -- now there's a historian," he says of the man who wrote of Canada's history in From Colony to Nation. Ruther- ford believes that a profes- sional historian must have academic credentials such as a Phd. and should be publishing regularly. He prefers to think of himself as an amateur, a chronicler of sorts. S. B. RUTHERFORD History, it appears, is se- cond nature to Rutherford. "You live in an area, you learn its history.' It's something that gets passed down through the genera- tions, he says. And as a boy, Rutherford recalls sitting on his grandfather's knee hear- ing stories of the early pioneers. He himself is a seventh generation resident of Clarke Township. He is also a walking compendium of detail on the area and its history. This is obvious as he recites in great depth the F y of the little known M., road, a path in the Ganaraska Forest on which the British hauled great white pines to the lake for the pur- pose of making ships masts. It was Rutherford's knowledge of local history that led Helen Schmid of Orono to call him when she got the idea to compile a history of Clarke Township. "I knew he came from the area and that he knew a lot about it", says Schmid. So every Monday for 3 years' the two met to work on the book that became Out of the Mists, of which Rutherford did a lot of the writing. Says Schmid, "1 found him very knowedgeable and very down to earth." Rutherford also looks like he belongs to this rolling country of which he has writ- ten. His tanned face framed by a silvery thin beard gives him the appearance of so- meone who belongs outdoors on the land. It was this area and its good clean living that brought him back from what he calls the artificiality of city life in Toronto. There, he was a teacher for four years at the prestigious Forest Hill Col- legiate where he enjoyed the challenge of teaching some of the finest minds around. Some of his former pupils hold prominent positions in the federal and provincial governments. Unlike some other self pro- fessed amateur historians in the area, Rutherford is not a collector. He does though, possess a few significant relics. One is a set of medical textbooks from the first graduating medical class at Queen's University. Another is the photograph of a woman, the original owner of his Kirby Road house, which dates back to the mid- nineteenth century. Her face Orono department In a report to council from the Fire Department of the Town of Newcastle for the month of October the Orono department had a free month with no calls being recorded. In total the four depart- ments answered thirty calls with nineteen directed through the Bowmanville department, six through Newcastle Village and five through the Courtice depart- ment. Vehicle fires and rubbish calls made up the majority of the calls, 13 while public ser- vice and fires related to elec- trical wiring came next on the list. is hard worn, with protruding cheekbones and her piercing stare speaks of the hard life on the land. "I'm afraid to take her down in case she might spook the house," says Rutherford. As for future works, Rutherford says he is trying to write a fictional account of life in a northern Ontario set- tlement. (Nakina?) where he once taught. He goes there from time to time because in order to write about an area he says, you must spend time there, live among the people, get the feeling of things. And that is what he advised this writer. ile may be modest about being an historian or having written a book but one thing is clear: Sid Ruther- ford is a rustic intellectual whose personal knowledge of Clarke Township history make him a valuable hunan source of information to those interested in the area's heritage in this bicentennial year. DURHAM REGION WILL VOTE ON 9 PERCENT INCREASE Durham Region council will vote on a two year con- tract with two of their unions affecting 380 employees. The Management Committee has given their approval to a 9 percent increase over the next two years. NEWCASTLE AUTHOR RELEASES SECOND BOOK Charles Ewert of Newcas- tle Village, author and law teacher at Durham College, has just released his second book this year, an historical novel "Canaan". This is the fourth historical novel by Ewert. His first and third books, "A Cross of Fire" and "No Man's Brother" flush out heroes who were instrumental in the early history and develop- ment of Canada. "Canaan" tells a tale of the Israelites fight for freedom from the Ca- naanites. LAST MODEL 'B' CAR OFF LINE Last Thursday the last 'B' model car rolled off the assembly line in Oshawa. The line has now been shut down for retooling as the plant con- verts to production of mid- size models. In the meantime 4000 employees are on lay-off until February when the new line is expected to be in operation. MORE WORKERS TURN TO THE UAW One hundred workers at the Atlantic Sugar in Oshawa and formerly members of the Canadian Union of Operating Engineers and General Workers have been certified members of the UAW Local 222. Earlier this year, 350 workers at Cadbury changed their union allegiance from the Teamsters Union to the UAW Local 222. More workers are expected to seek certification with the UAW. SUGAR FOR STARVING IN ETHOPIA Parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Whitby have col- lected 1400 pounds of sugar which is to be sent to Ethopia. The group expect to later collect soap, salt and cooking oil in latter canvasses. Motorways Ltd. transported the items to Mississauga free of charge. ENROLLMENT HOLDING UP IN DURHAM Enrollment in the Region of Durham served by the Durham Board of Education is holding firm. There is a slight increase in elementary schools with a total of 30,092 students in September 1984. Enrollment in secondary schools is down slightly to 17,569 students. ONE OF THE LOWEST The Oshawa-Whitby area is the hardest place in all of Canada, with the exception of Thunder Bay, to find a va- cant apartment. The area has a vacancy rate of 0.3 percent while the average of 23 major centres across Canada rests at 2.3 percent. A joint interest-free grant from the provincial and federal government of $600,000 has been offered for the construction of 83 new apartments in Oshawa. PREPARED FOR BOARD FLAK Trustee Donna Fairey of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Educa- tion is critical of the fact that the local Board did not res- pond to a request for infor- mation on the possible effect, locally, of the new separate school funding. The request for information was made by the Ontario Public School Trustees' Association which plans to make a submission to a provincial commission investigating the funding issue. The local Board of Educa- tion at a recent regular meeting held at the Pines Senior Public School turned aside the request even though the board has received a report detailing the probable effect the new funding may have on the local board as to the loss o students. W.H. Carman, trustee for Ward Three, Town of Newcastle, in commenting on the action of the local board said it was just too big an issue to disregard and that, although he was absent from the recent meeting due to other school business, he would bring the matter before the board again. Carman points out that the effect to the public school system is anticipated to be considerable and that it is estimated that 8,000 secon- dary school teachers could lose their jobs across the pro- vince. Donna Fairey has stated she intends to independently submit the report prepared by the Board's administration to the provincial trustees' association, even though the Board itself voted against sending in the report. The report did suggest that the Board could lose some 9.5 percent of their grade nine students in the first year of implementation. E. Creighton, a trustee on the local board representing separate school supporters said at the recent meeting that the report was only an assumption of what may hap- pen and as such meant nothing. Open business in Port Hope Lynn Brown, formerly of Orono, carlier this month opened his new business on John Street in Port Hope known as Sylvester and Brown offering engineering and land survey services. Local dignataries from Port Hope assisted Lynn and Lois Brown in the officiai rib- bon cutting. NEWCASTLE CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Dr. Johannes Baarbe, D.C.,B.P.E.,B.Sc. CHIROPRACTOR 29 Kinq St. W. (formerly Bank of Commerce) Village of Newcastle Telephone 987-4600 PIONEER CHAIN SAWS Save 10% On ail In-Stock Models ROLPH we made our name in hardware DOMINION HARDWARE Main St., Orono Phone 983-5207