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Orono Weekly Times, 15 May 1991, p. 11

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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 15, 1991-11 School Jgoard summer school remedial and special interest August 1968 Mr. Walter Frank of W. Frank Real Estate Limited, Bowmanville, provides a $300.00 scholorship to an outstanding boy from Durham County who is enrolled in a degree course in agriculture or will be enrolling in such a course at any Canadian University. The wfinner of this award for 1968 is Mr. Neil Allin, Orono. The Orono Street' Fair sponsored by the Orono Amateur Athletic Association was held on August 2lst with a large crowd in attendance. Misses Anne Arnott, Susan Goode and Ellen Milîson are attending Camp Quin-Mo-Lac on Maira Lake this week. The Orono United Church Vacation 'Bible School opened this week in the Church with a hundred per cent increase in enrolment over that of last year. On registration day eighty children fromn the area were prepared to take part in the two week course at the church. The Orono Tennis Club held a social evening on Wednesday night at the court in the Orono Park with about twenty-five present. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McKenzie and Michelle spent the holiday weekend with Dr. and Mrs. A. F. McKenzie, lant and Donald.. Barry Wes t led his team mateS with a triple, a double and a single hit Monday evening when Orono Tykes won over the Kendal Tykes by a score of 17 to 10. Don Dennis played well for Kendal collecting three hits. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Carman and family are holidaying north of Kalledar. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Armstrong and family are moving to Peterborough today (Thursday, August 1, 1968). Mr. and Mrs. Helmut Blaschke and farily are visiting relatives ini Germany. .Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Annaert and son are spending holidays wîth relatives and friends ini Belgiumn. The Orono Band will commence its weekly practice this coming Monday evening, August Sth at 6:30 for mhe Juniors and 7:30 for the senior section of the Junior Band. August 1978 At the Kirby School Centennial Reunion, Mrs. Emnie Hamm, age, 94, turned the final sod for the planting of meé centennial maple tree in mhe Kirby School Yard. Stephanie Hood of the Orono Figure Skating club placed first last week in mhe central Ontario Section Summer Skating competition held at Centre Ice in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Clare Gunter enjoy a much'deserved retirement party at the Coach and Four Restaurant. Mr. Gunter leaves mhe Bank of Commerce after 42 years with 9 1/2 of those at the Orono Branch. The general public obtained mheir first opportunity on Saturday evening to view the interior of mhe new Orono Mrena and Conimunity Centre Complex with promotion of the Monte Carlo night sponsored by the Orono Athletic Association. Among those students to receive Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree at the University of Guelph was Janice Caldwell, a Horticultural Science student front Orono. Janice is mhe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Caldwell, Orono. Father Frank Michelic solemnized mhe marriage of Debra Marie Kidd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm A. Kidd, Newcastle to Stephen John Sawyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Sawyer, Orono, on Saturday, June l7th, 1978. Mr. J. C. Tamnblyn, m ember of the Canadian Royal Legion, Bowmanville Branch, presented a cheque in die amount of $ 2500.00 to Mr. Charles Gray, Chairman of the Orono arena fund committee. Donald Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wood, Kendal, graduated May 27, from Durham college min*"Civil Techniques". Some opposition to local school board budget Despite some opposition in a 9 to 5 vote in committee and a 9 to 4 at a regular school-board meeting, die local public school board's 1991 budget was approved. This year, the board's expenditures will total about $ 132- million, compared to about $ 122.7- million last year. The overal spending increase is almost eight per cent, while the average mill-rate increase is about seven per cent. Teachers and instructors will receive 73 per cent, $96-million, of the total expenditures in the new budget whereas last year they received about 69.5 per cent, $85- million. Prior to the voting, Newcastle- area trustee Bill Carman said he felt the board could have made more cuts to its budget and still run an adequate education prograru. He maintains mhere was no discussion on mhe core portion of the budget and reductions in this area were possible. Bowmanville-area trustee Allan Brunt pointed out that several factors which caused expenditures to increase were beyond mhe board's control. They mncluded growmh in enrolîment, the cost of implementing pay equity, mhe goods and services tax and new unemployment-irisurance rates. This year, mhe board will collect about $59-million from taxpayers in the Northumberland/Newcastle area, compared to about $51.8- million last year. That is an increase of about 14 per cent. The province will provide a $63- Million grant for the new budget up 8.41 per cent front last year's $58- million grant. Summer School to be Offered Trustees last night voted at the regular board meeting to keep elementary school doors open during the summer. According to the resolution, administration is authorized to make the decision to offer summer school at the elemnentary level on a campus by campus, basis "as deemed advisable". 1According to Superintendent Brian Todd both remedial and special interest courses will be offered but the special interest courses wil be offered "on a cost recovery basis." The Board cancelled summer school at the elementary level in 1988 when the Provincial Ministry of Education* decided to stop funding special interest courses and only fund remedial courses. Todd said a Board survey "indicates that the interest courses will go and be self-supporting." Moving to Integration Trustees approved a new direction in special education which will see inecasing integration of special education students into regular classrooms. In September 1991, students will start and finish their school day in their age appropriate classroomis. Where appropriate, special education resource teachers will work with students in the regular classroom rather than withdraw students to a resource room. The Board is also describing the integration process in more Measies shots being ordered Students at Port Hope High School were inn-culated against red mieasles recently after a ~tdn ciame down with mhe illness. The Port Hope innoculation programn comes on the heels of a measles outbreak at mhe high school in Brighton. Recently students at East Northumberland Secondary School were inmoculated after 40 cases of measles were reported, said Dr. Don Mikel of the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit. Things are now 'back to normnal" in Brighton and only a few students are out of classes on exclusion orders, he added. Students who have not been innoculated for medical or religious reasons are excluded fromn classes for the 14-day incubation period plus a four-day buffer period. Ditched trash should be in dumps Old sofas, chairs, stoves and construction materials are being dwmped along roadsides and in the Ganaraska Forest, despite the fact that they can be left at county dumps for a fee. According to Milce Brennan, an attendant at the Port Hope dump, it costs about $7 to throw out a sofa at mhe dump. In Port Hope and Cobourg, residents are also restricted to thiree bags of household garbage per week. Any extra garbage must bc taken to the dunip and a fee paid for disposal. Pamn Russell, tme county's waste management co-ordinator said the three-bag limit might also be one of the reasons for garbage being thrown in ditches. detail through the following &fmnitions: -Stage one involves a process called social integration. Students participate ini age appropriate non- academic regular classroom activities to enhance their self, esteem, develop social skills and create friendships with students their own age. eStage two refers to process called Auditing. At this stage, a student participates in age appropriate regular classroomf academic activities at a verbal level. Initially, the document says, "the student should not be exetd... to take notes or tests. Auditing is perceived as a good first step in moving a student toward integration for academic purposes, " . Stage three is called Academic Integration. A student now participates in age appropriate, regular classroom activities. Ilt.1]doe 1E[] X)B< Request for Proposais SEALED PROPOSALS, clearly marked as to contents, for the following requirements isted below, submitted to the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle, Purchasing Office, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, LiC 3A6, are invited and wilI be received on the forms and in the envelope provided until thé specified closingtime and date. Proposai Documents may be obtained from the Purchasing Office at the above address: Proposai RFP91-2 - "Moveable AisIe"' Filing System Ciosing Time & Date: 4:00 p.m. (Local Time) Wednesday, May 29, 1991 The Iowest or any proposai not necessarity accepted. Mrs. Lou Ann Birkett Purchasing and Suppiy Agent Telephone: (416) 623-3379 ext. 268 Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 15, 1991 P-0. 4575 Lawn Contrai you can depend on -Weed Spraying -Crab Grass -Fertilizing -Insect Spraying -PIug Coraieration Program available for the season. See the Difference Quality Makes! 983-5598 (Orono, Newcastle) ORONO FUEL & LUMBER LIMITED P.O. Box 180, Station Street Orono, Ontario LOB iMO ALISTAIR ROZARIO FREE ESTMATES Telephone: (416) 983-9167 Residence: (416) 983-5344 F 1

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