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Vol. 55. No. 4 ORONO. ONTARIO. WEDNBSDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1991 Kinsmen Club present awards Reîion wants Orono a The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club sponsored a Public Speaking Contest on Tuesday, February l7th, at the Orono Public School. j The top honours went to Scott MacDonald who was presented with an award on Monday, February 25 at the Orono Public School along with his brother Danny MacDonald who received an award for last year's competition. To presen;t the brothers with the awards were Kinsmen Past President Norm Dawe and Orono School Public the club who have competed in club competitions. Current club President Danny Stacheruk placed second in the district in competition in reent years. Paul Arsenault also placed second in Canada, in the clubs competitions, a number of years ago. Pictured above are (1-r) Danny MacDonald, Scott MacDonald, Norm Dawe and Ms. Neuwirth. Speaking Co-ordinator Ms. Neuwirth.' The finals included Erin Wilson and Gerrit VanDyke of grade 4; Dayme Drury and Tara McPhate of grade 5 and Cindy Ross, Ryan Winnings and -Jeuica Fernstrom of grade 6. The club bias been actively involved in the, school public, speaking competitions for many years. This interest in public speaking extends to members of Orono C redit Union merges with Auto Workers (Oshawa) C redit Union The Orono and District Credit Union bas merged wîth the Auto Workers (Oshawa) Credit Union Ltd. and now providing a wider range of financial services to their membership. The merger bas been hailed by both parties. as a step forward and accordîng to Don Nichols of the Auto Workers organization it bas been a dlean fit. The local Credit Union provided a mâembership of 500 which have now been merged with the 28,000 members of the Oshawa group. The operation operates under the Auto Workers (Oshawa) Credit Union charter. Representation of the former Orono group is made through an Orono area advisory committee, states Mary Clapdorp, former presîdent of the Orono Credit Union, According to Mary times have changed and with a limait of boans totalling individually to $10.000 the Orono group was flot being able to meet the needs of its members when a car cost well above the loan limait. "We debated the merger for Happenings.. DiMTculties abound OPver the past two weeks the Orono Times has been baving difficulty in the delivery of the weekly paper through Canada Post. Some papers hav taken six days to reach Newtonville and the Newcastle area. We do hope this problem has been solved with Céanada Post and that the -Orono Weekly Times does arrive at your postal box by Wcdnesday and no latter than Thursday. Keeping our fingers crossed for the urne being. ORONO TOWN HALL EUCHRE RESULTS The Orono Town Hall euchre resuits for February 20 were: High scores Marion Sears with 93; Charlie Canmpbell with 89; k.Carl Tamblyn with 81; Margaret Todd with 79; Wanda McNcil with 75; Allen Downes and May Tabb each with 75. Low score Reg Elliott. Draw winners were Katihy Mitchell; Marion Staplcs; Jean Anderson; Grace Coatham; Bernice Pannier and Art Comipton., Euchre is held every Wednesday night at 8 p.m.ý Ladies pîcase bring nch. quiet somte time," said Mary Clapdorp, "before taldng the step i merging." It appears the local Credit Union would have had many conditions to meet to expand their operation and these conditions were just too much. The Orono and District Credit Union bas operated out of Orono for the past 37 years. Later it opened an office in Rowmanville which continues to service members in the Bowmanville area. The Orono group held a charter for the Town of Newcastle which was a turu-over with the merger. In speakdng with Don Nichols of the Auto Workers Credit Union hie said the Orono and Bowmanville offices wiIl continue to service, members. Chequing is now available to al mnembers as are services which have been available to thelarger group. Auto-Cash machines will, in time, be installedl in both Orono and Bowmanville -and there may be some re-location of offices, states Don Nichols. Mortgage bans are available to_ members to a limit of $150,000 which is available through ic head off'iceý in Oshawa. Both Mary Clapdorp and Don (Continued page 2) Special Study The Region of Durham has urban ai failed to move to amend their supported officiai plan bringing the Village of The 1! Orono into a category of a small said she b urban area. small unb The Town of Newcastle had avail. Sht recommended that the hanilet- status Study ar( for Orono be dropped and that the numbero status in the new plan, due later this been mac year, be changed to a small urban action be area.. such des This would allow additional years ago lands to be incorporated in the any attent Village boundaries and open the Counc possibility of municipal water and draft plan sewage coming to the Village. Newcast] The issue was a subject of some attemptc discussion at the recent seminar in the Smal: Belleville attended by members'of well ie Regional council and Regional support S: directors. level coin According to Counc. Diane She ni Hanire the seminar'has suggested support ai that the designation be that of a Urbana Special Study area and that small developn and sewei Laidlaw Waste Management through Dianne Lemeiux of Fogler and Rubinoff, sought the ear of council on Monday night to make some movement on their application for rezoning and officiai plan amendaient to allow infilling at their present landfill site north- west of Newtonville. Laidlaw had made similar overtures at the recent General Purpose comniittee meeting but, as then,' council agaîn received the application for information. Lemneiux stated thiat there was no0 reasýon why the land-use aspect of thec application could flot bel considered. It was stated that land- ar«ea irea designation flot be d. lcal Regional councillor had spoken in favour of the -an designation but to no ie pointed out that Special rea meant very little as a of such designations have ie in the past without any eing taken. She noted one' ýignation being made 14 ;and stili has flot received ition. ic. Hamre stated that the n will return to the Town of le council where another can be made to promoted IUrban designation and as erested parties could also Small Urban at the regional ittee and council. oted that there was some, .t the Region for the Small area that would allow nent of municipal water Irs. Lakeshore resîdents fear for loss of homes A plea was presented to counicil on Monday night by eight delegations from Cedar Crest Beach i Bowmanville, with support from many more in the audience, who are facing possible loss of their homes from erosion of the lake shoreline.- Council was told that for the last five years they have seen their front yards wash away which has been greatly excelerated in the past couple of week with one home owner losing some thirty feet of their front yard. Another reported the water within fifteen feet of their home whiie another said during a storn that water spiashes on their windows. All called the situation serious anid most feared for the loss of their home. I ask, Save My Home", said one. David Lawson said it is flot my house that ismoving it is the lake and 110W my picnic table restsa aithe water edge which was flot the case last summer. Terry Wynn said he had spent $ 15,000 to protect his home but the breakwater 110W needs full repairs. Mrs. David Scott said they had spent $2,000 and that sum only covered a quarter of their lakefront property. "Our well is now useless", she said. Jim Flood, as did others, said "we don't have time to wait any longer." David Ashcroft said he .(Continued page ï) use could be dealt with separately to that of the environniental aspect. Lemeiux said they were totally two différent aspects. Counc. Hamre said that Lemeiux had brought forth the saine points as- been presented at the General Purpose committee. "We cannot deal with land-use planning without considering the environtuental concerns," said Counc. Hanire. She also said that the existing landfilll site had neyer been subject to, an Enviromnental Assessment hearing and as the application calîs for an expansion it should 110W comne under the act. (Continued page 2) Tiown stand firm over Laidlaw application ORONO, ONTARIO, WEDNË$DAY, FEBRUARY 27,1991 Vol. 55, No. 4