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Orono Weekly Times, 15 May 1985, p. 1

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,2n ennifer Garland [adeline Heard of castle celebrated over 15 r of service as Brown Owl der) of the Second Orono ,wnie Group when a din- was held in her honour by ,nies and their mothers the Flying Dutchman el in Bowmanville last lnesday evening. Special ts included Helen Mar- District Commissioner of Girl Guide Movemnent. n appreciation for her ser- over the years, the ýhrs of' the Brownies ïented Hkeard with two aved hanging owls. She is Sdue to receive a pin reserting over 15 years of urono service ;in the Girl Guide Movemnt. Elli Bunton, one of the Brownies present1, baked a cake for the occasion as part of lier Bakers Badge which requires a Browo!ie to bake and decorate a cake for a speciloccasion. Hear d initially got involved in the movement when her daugliter was a Brownie- several years ago. She enjoys working with children which has kept hier inlvolved ail these years. The evenmng was also occa- sion to celebrate the 75th An- niversary of the Girl Guide Movemrent in Canada. Mother's Day contest winners announced are: front ýod, Christie Van Lth, on the thev hý tended to pay against the ac- cumulative debt of $155,00. The Authority hlad propos- ed to pay off $50,000 of the ONO GOLFER Pike, Orono, drove off for a Newcastle Golf course on the ý-in-one reg-itered at the Golf aying with Ron dleWýuf, Don OronO. A GO0 GO u Restaurant is mnaking, a drive for new his Thursday with a daily noon-hour free bus Orono Town Hall to and from thç Forum w van is now already to supply service to the ýaily basîs with Fred's guarantee of a return 0 BANK BUILDING Sof the Canadian Bank of no D.B.I.A. that a decision molish the exîsting building, ide of Main Street iust south 'lie building, a frame house, ago witli plans to build a new eand area. to action was taken to con- ting in the frame house being ittie to the appearance of the of the Bank also state that roperty into a gravelledi park- ýd within the nlext tliree -mont- L1Lg LU seV f the past iew bank L ) and thus Sa couple of rance of the Ya new bank and create a with better Allison Pato)n-Stewart and Jessica Ward, (middle row) Angela Dumnouchel, Elli Bun- ton and Tracy Arniott, (back debt this year but due to a "f10 increase" in operating grant from the province the Authorty has had to trim the deficit payment to $ 19,420 for the year 1985. fit had been proposed at the annual meeting that the Authority consider a pay- mnent of $50.000 against the defict. T his amiounit was reduiced last month when the Authority struck thir annual budget and set aside $39,750) to use against the, deficit. 'Within the last week the Authority has re-duced the paymient to the $19,420 figure, When the Authiority struck their budget last nonth they were not aware of what the province was to provîde in grants. The Authority has ex- pected a three percent i- crease in grants for adi- mninistrative purposes but the province provided funds at no increase over that of 1984. This has forced the Authority to redirect funds from debt payment in 1985. The eight munîcipalities have had their levies increas- ed by five percent by the Authority and Counc. Hamrre at the recent mneetinig said she feit they could not continue to add more on the municipal tax payer. She said she dfid feel badly that the deficit ,would have to remain at the size is now exists. Conce. Hamnre noted that the province had cut the ad- miitaiePortion of their grants to the Authority while on the other hand increaseýd capital grants beyond thie ex- pectations of the Authority. She was critical of the Con- servative government for such .action. row) Suzanne VanDerMN Madeline Heard, Brownr, and Heleni Martin, comr sioner. lat last week's news,,paper, we announced thie Oronoi Downtown Mother's Day and Granidmother's Day con- test. Contiestants were to Wr-ite a few lines or a paragraph on "Why My Momp is No. 1- or ",Why MY Grandma is No.1". Entries were to be judged according to three age categories, up to seveni, eight to eleven and twel-ve ai~ up in each of the tw,,o divisionis. The judges were over- whelmied by the response and after niuch thouglit have picked the following six win- ners who wîll receive $ 10.00 Worth of Orono 'dollars redeem(able at downtown stor*es. Gjrandmna wininers: Keri Jones, age 5; Karrie For- rester, age il; Ben Deremo, G r. 3. Momt Winners: Sarah Thorne, age 6; Andrea Le-vac, age 10; Sherry Todd, age 15. We thouglit yqu imiglit en- joy some of the other entries by: Melanie Johnson, age 9; Lorna McLaren, age 6; Paul Flintoff, age 9; Jane Faston, age 5; Christina Kilpatrick, gr. 2; Michielle Faulkner, age 6. Aimee Olczak, age 7; Amanda Garniet, age 9. <Continuied page 3) Oyrono Guide earns Ail1-Round Cord Roger and Janet Frenchi of the Orono Estates are justly proud of their daugliter, Nicole, who recently ,vas presented with the Al-Round- Cord in guiding. Nicole hias been a memnber of thie Orono Guides and lias earned thie Ail-Round Cord, the highiest honour presented in guiding. Congratulations to Nicole.

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