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2-Orono Weeki3' Times, Wednesday, February 14, 1985 *reno atth' MMt5 Scond MefsM" eisrtio Numbert(i~ A World of Difference The Town of Newcastle came through with their 1985 budget on Monday with final approval expected on Fcbruary 25th. Not only was the timing right on target but it developed, in what one may call, a business-like manner. This is a far cry from a number of years ago when debate on the budget was piece-meal and was prolonged weIl into the last spring with no one realiy seeming to know where the Town had been or were it was going. Not only council but department heads and staff have to be complimented in the procedure this year in their development of the 1985 budget. t may wcll be that taking budget debate to special meetings has greatly hclped and the use of the Culture and Rccreational Planning Board is but one other feature that has assistcd in studying grant requests and making recommenda- tions based on proper information bcing provided. The Town treasury has donc an excellent job and fromn our vicwpoint has always been wcli prepared with ail the answers as to the financial position of the Town. Much of the 1985 budget success no doubt goes to this department. It was notcd in the discussions that the Newcastle Hydro Electric Commission had overspent the street lighting budget by some 30 percent or $42,000 which in 1985 causes a 22.9 percent jump in street lighting costs for those taxpayers in such as Orono, Newcastle and Bowmanville. Council has sup- ported a recommendation from the treasury thaf the Commis- sion supply the Town with a street lighiting policy which has been sadly lacking in the past. Up to this point the Town has not pursued the operation of the Commission as it relates.to street lighting and it appears that in 1984 street lighting got ouf of control. t is a responsibility of the Town and they now ap- pear to recognize this fact. In aIl the town is to bc congratulated. Board must now face priorities The local Board of Education always pointing to pro- vincial cut-backs in funding for education must now be in a position that they have to consider their priorities. The discus- sion of JuniorKindergarteni may put this fact to the forefront. One may ask how long the Board can cofntinue to offer new programs and at the same time maintain the standard of education thcy now offer throughout their educational system. , The Junior Kindergarten proposai does step into an area that is met to some degrce by the private sector and if one may, if is a user-pay program. The Board must consider if the private program is adequate and from that sector they dlaim they do operate at a higher degree than wiil the Board of Education. This corner has always contended that what we lack to- day in education is the developn'ent of creativity and this does not come about by ieading a youngster by the nose through a rigid and structured program. Let the kid play with the pots and pans which can become anything he or she wants with a liff le imagination. We hear a lot of interesting features in support of Junior Kindergarten but let uts have the býard look at the whole package before diluting one area f0 get another. JUNIOR~ KINDERGARTEN (From page 1) system by the local Board of Education. 1In the Town of Newcast le there are three such facilities in the Town of Bowmanvîlle, one in the Village of Orono and one in Orono, the latter having anl enrolmrent of thirty children from the communiity. The O.E.C.E.O. feel that the service is in place in the communiity for those desire the service and that the Board pro- posaI would in fact put the private nurseries and day care out of business or at least severly curtaîl the service. In speaking with Judie Reid of the Orono Nursery school she pointed out that the Private operations are under the juriscliction of the Provincial Community and Social Ser- vices ministry wi'ichhas higher standards thanl those promnoted by the Ministry of Education. She noted that unider thie Social Services mninistry the student-teacher ratio cannot be more thani 8 to 1 while under the ministry of Education it canris'e upwards of 20 to 1. She aiso notes that those in the private nursery schooi must hoid an Early Chiidhood certificate wAhich is flot a requirement for the Board of Education. Standards are aiso higher in space requiremnents under the Social Services mninistry. ail private Nursery Schooi and day Care Centre have týý be licenced by the Ministry, she said. Mrs. Reid feit the local Board of Education was con- sidering the deveiopment of Junior Kindergarten without a great deai of adequate input from other sectors of the comn- munity. Kendal News Because I have been given much, 1, too, shall give; Because of Thy great bounty, Lord, Each day I live I shalH divîde my gifts fromn Thee With evcry brother that 1 sec Who has the need of help fromt me. Grace Noîl Croweil When 1 looked at my ther- mometer on Sunday morning it registered 20 degrees F a lot better than 2 degrees below or zero F that we have had for so long. For 36 days it has neyer risen above freezing. That's a long stretch of steady cold. However our roacîs have kept open. Other areas like Saskatchewan have had very bad storms. On Sunday morning the choir sang "Lord, take my hUeé and make if wholly, Thine". Mrs. Lynda King told the boys and girls a story oU an American doctor she had met who was studying to be an engineer when he met Dr. Tom Dooley who had gone ouf Io the other side of the world to doctor the vcry poor, who had neyer had a doctor in their country. He had cured them oU many dýseases. So this young man décided he would become a Doctor also, and serve in Asia. He did and went f0 Viet Nam. There was a war going on. So he and his wife set up a hospîtal and doctorcd many refugees. Soon she had to quit working in the hospital because of the babies that were let on her door step at night. Young mothers who had nothing to fecd their babies left thçm, hoping this st range doctor and nurse would care for them. There inally were thirf y-six babies. They wrote letters and got peopie'at home to adopt a lot of them. Then orders came that they >must leave the country. They adopted two brothers themscives. These two boys are very talented. They go to school and play musical instruments and are fine lads. An Open House was held in Newtonville Sunday School Hall on Sunday affer- noon to honour Frank Stapleton on becoming the World Champion Auc- tioneer. Major Rickard was there and presented him- with a mredallion. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Lawrence and some of thec couniciliors were among the dignatories. Phiotographiers took the pic- turc of Frank with Silvia Ruegger. The two that have broughit international faine to our area. I arn told there was an artistic display of Frank's trophies under dhe banner "Congratu-ilat ions Franik". On vacation we visitcd Grand Caniyon National Park. We were contem-plat ing a tnip to the bottomi of the ca- niyon until we heard the followving introduction'by a park ranger: "I wvould like to, invite youto 1 join our mule trek f0 the bottom ,of the ca- nyoni. Wc have mules for everyone. We have fat mules for fat people and'tall mules On February th Mrs. Pearl Clark had a birthday. Neighbours called on her and wished her a good ycar ahcad. On February th eighit U.C.W. ladies met at the home of Mrs. Dora Youngman. It was a snowy day. The president opcned the meeting wit h a poem "If Jesus came to your house-, and the hymn 488 "corne let us sing of a wondcrftil love" Mrs. Stevens asked us f0 open onr Bibles at Ec- clesiastes 3: 1-8 whîch we read in turn. The writer of this book lived ninety years before Christ. He is a fatalist, a lecturer. He calîs himself, a son of David and a king like King Solomon. This book is very gloomy. At first the Jewish seholars hestitated about making it part of the Bible. Then some cheer was added and if was included in the Bible. If says everything happens when God chooses. The minutes werc read and the treasurer's report given. Moved by Mrs. A. Cathicart sec. by Mrs. M. Stevens that we give $250.(X) a year to the Mission and Ser- vice Fund. Carried. Offering- $15.03. Mrs. Pat Beach of Green- wood has consented f0 be our special speaker on our U. C.W. Suinday, May th. She- is Presidenit of the Oshawa Presbyterial United Church Wonmen. The Presbyterial U.C.W. meets on Mar. l9th at Kingsview U.C. O.shawa. Then Mrs. Stevens con- tinued with her topic. MIany expressions used by uis aIl are found in Ecclesiastes, eg. Vanity, vanity, ail is vanity. The lsraeiites were ruled first by Judges. Samuel was thre last of the fifteen Judges. They wanted a king so God had* Samnuel choose Sauf, followed by David and Soiomron. Then it becamne t wo kingdomis amiong the kings \vas the wicked King Ahab. Prophets told these ruiers the word of the Lord but thecy ied the people astray. Finaliy they were con- quered and carried away to Babylon. After many years they-retuirned and were ruled by the Persians. Then the Greeks took over, and even- tually the Romans were rul- ing in 90 A.D. This writer decides to become a scholar but that doesni't bring hap- piness. Thden hie turnis to wine, womeni and song then hie becomies a builder. He is bitter about dying and flot being able fo take anything ,with him. He decides to mnake a fortune but is flot happy. (continued next mnont h). A delicious iunchi was pro- vided by ouir hostess Mrs. D. Youngmani. Next meeting March 6 at M rs. H. Couroux's home. Send the children out with a hot breakfast. Serve hlot milk on shredded wheat. E-ven hot bread and mnilk is good. Old Dr. Tucker oU' my childhood after spending a night at a farmmIhomie a v asked for a dish of' hot bread and milk before he left flot hing more. During the last conflict one of flhe interesting things we did was huint up relatives. Ann Sheridan a minister's wife who wrote in the Observer said,- when her mot her heard she was being l'IlIgive you fthc acdresses of Aunt Mary and Aunt Margaret -and Aunt Carnie and cousin Jean tillt se lad a list of relatives to visit. Ail of whom received her with open arms. She was sure that would be the way when she reached heaven, a welcome would await hier. If you couldn't find a far ouf relative to spend a holi- day weekcnd in their home, surely your girl friend could. Anything was better than staying in your barrack block looking at empf y beds. When 1 was on course at Trenton I knew 1 had a dis- tant cousin down Napane way. His grandfather and my grandfather were brothers. His grandfather had lived in the oldest home in Kendal. That is the firsf one built in Kendal now occupied by the Forth family, but he died when he was twenty-four, his 'wife married again and took the littie girl to lîve af Newcastle. When she grew up she married a mani named Clark and her soni's name was Earnest Clark. So one fine autumn day my girl friend and I set out for Napance. When we arrived we went to the main hotel and enquired if they could tell us where Earncst Clark lived. He had ten of a family the youngest would be teenagers. He had a large dairy herd and sold milk. No one knew him, he probably lived a long ways ouf of town. So we went into the dining room of the hiotel, ordered a full course mecal and returned f0 the R.C.A.F. station at Trenton. Thien 1 wrote f0 mny aunt to enquire where he livcd. It was at Odessa twenity mtiles east of Napanee. The next holiday I set out alonie, this timie, for Odessa, real early for I knew' mnilk men were early birds. Odessa had a service station right on the four corners but it was closed for the holiday. As 1 stood, there on that perfect autumn morning wondering what I should do next, a pick up truck with miik canis on the back came round the corner, heading north. 1 held my hand up and went over f0 the driver. I ask- ed, "Couid you teli miewhere Earnest Clark ives? He said, -I am Earnest Clark". I told eU twCILy Imiles iiii lii1, a wiinding road to a'ý_' pioneer farm, he had just bought, with a log house and a log barn. His two teenage daughters kept house for hîm. It was indeed nice to meet those two iovely girls, beautiful singers. Three sons were in the R.C.A.F. One a navigator in Halifax, the other two were on the Pacific Coast. After the war Earnest went to live in B.C. and my brother often visited with him. Unfortunatcly he became ili and is now gone. It was a weekend long to be remembcred. St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO REV. ALLAN HALDENBY Rector ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH February 17, 1985 9:45 a.m. Holy Communion Church School ORONO UNITED SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1985 ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE FOCUS ON FAMILY Feb.l7th - 7:00p.mn. Orono United Church Shaping the Will without brcaking the Spirit. BIBLE STUDY WVednesday 8-9:30 p.mi. Friendship Room Hi-C Valentine Dance Town Hall, Orono, Ont. Phone - Gord Hardy, Robin Robinson or Randy Cowan Orono United Church Church School 11:15 a.m. Morning Worship ll:15am. KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Church School 9:45 a.m. MorninigWorshiip 9:45 a.m. ST CHANCEfor - Sweet heart Specials f ýê.Thurs. Feb. l4th 411ào MAIN $1. OfiONO. ONT. .943-5009,