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ÀOIl Orow W'eefcfyt'imes Serving Orono, Newcastle, Newtonvllle, Kendal, Starkvllle Vo.57, No. il ORONO, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24,1993 G.-reat Pine Ridge Kinsmen Maple Fest SAGA and citizens win appeal of Kendal Gas Station at 0MB by Caroi-Ann Oster and of course, puddles of mapie When spring fmnaily arrives, the syrup, was well worth the morming birds sing, the snow meits ... the trip to Kendai. A horse drawn sap runs in the mapie trees. And sleigh ride was the added bonus. the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen The monies raised fromn the hold their annual Mapiefest. breakfast' will go into the The Maplefest was held this Kinsmen's general account for Sunday at Alan Downes' Farm lui charitable donations. Kendal. The ail you can eat If you mîssed the opportunity to pancake breakfast with sauisage enjoy a real Sunday momîng meal Evoitiriarid trad ofnte commurnii:tyi For over 140 years, memrbers of the Durham Central Agricultural Society have been working away diligently to produce an Annual Fair. For the last one hundred years this fair has been held at the Orono Fairgrounds. Some people may think that this event just happens every September, after all, i t las been going on as long as anyone can remember, one hundred and forty years to bc specific. Many local people can trace their famlily history by show ing where their descendants won prizes at the "Show" (as it was known in early years) or show you where a Great Gmandparent served Happenings. r' An u l Ma lest on the "Board". A fact to be proud of because it proved that ancestor was community minded and had convictions to make this country a better place for their descendants to live. In order to understand the evolution of fairs in Ontario we first have to take a look at how people lived in the early l9th century. In most instances, land was cheap and the govemment of the day wanted to populate it as quickly as possible. Without settlers to clear the new territory and protect it from invaders it was useless and would soon be taken over by soroe other country. With this in mind seulement of the e e e The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club wifl be hosting their annual Maplefest at Downes' Sugarbush this Sunday, March 28th fromn 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Enjoy the delightful taste of pancakes and sausages and have fun with the horsedrawn rides. The Downes' Sugarbush is located 1 mile east of the Oshawa Ski Hill on County Rd. 9 just before the Town of Kecndal. Big Brothers Annual Recognition Dinner The Big Brothers of Newcastle will be holding their Annual Meeting and Recognition Dinner on Thursday, April I st at the Baseline Community Centre, Bowmanville, 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $ 10.50 per person and must be purchased by March 2Sth, 623-6646. Orono Town Hall euchre resuits The euchre results for the Orono Town Hall Wednesday, March 17 with 8 tables in play were: High scores Mark Marchant 96; Norma Moffat 85; Reg Elliott 83;, Hazel Murphy 81 and Lii Balderstone 80. Low score Walter Murphy. Draw winners Reg Elliott, Marie Couroux, June Wilson, Clara Mueleman and Maurice 0'Neal. Euchre is held every Wednesday beginning at 8 p.m. Ladies please bning lunch. last week, you'll have the chance to enjoy it again this Sunday. The Maplefest, will be held again at Downes' Farm this Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sleîgh Belîs ring are ya listening? The Downes' Clydesdales take a morning strol with a few foilowers close behind. itiolis Dominion was put into high gear with lâite thought to the consequence. (A scheme like that today would neyer get off the ground, by the Lime ail the studies were done and the consultants had turned in their reports, the poor settlers would have starved to death or given up hope of ever acquiring land in the new world). But they dîd come, the surveyors were sent ahead to lay out the townships but in some cases they couldn't work fast enough. The early settlers came down the St. Lawrence and started to populate along the shore of Lake Ontario, so the surveyors would lay out townships startng at the shore-line and working to the North. By the time they had one or two concessions laid out the surveyors would have to move off to another township where the settlers were already moving in. t may have been years before they would comne back and complete the original survey. Most of the settlers, had no idea of what they should bring with them to help clear the land and begin farming. 0f course an axe would be on the list but the axe that was common in the olti country may be ail but useless in a country where the trees seemed to touch the -sky. And so it would be with other tools and many other times that the family brought. They discovered that these utensils that worked fine at home, just weren't good enough here. So one of the first specialists that must (Continued page 6) 1A gas station proposed by Veltri and Sons Limited for the Village of Kendal, on the banks of the Ganaraska River has been turned down by the Ontario Municipal Board. Some local citizens and the environmental group SAGA (Save the Ganaraska Again), who opposed the development are very pleased, calling it a "Watershed- Decision', as it embodies the principies of ecosystemn planning for the sensitive headwaters area of the Ganaraska River. The Board found the proposai to be premature and, unwise, as environmental and general planning considerations were not properly addressed. Any satisfactory conditions regarding installation or monitoring of gas tanks would be unenforceable under the current gasoline handling act. This was the second hearing of this case before 0MB. At the first hearing in September, 1991, Board member Claudette Millar, found that the application did not satisfy a condition of the Durham officia] plan which she considered of primary importance, and therefore turned down the proposai Without analyzing any further evidence. Veltri and Sons appealed that decision on the basis that the section cited did not apply to the location of the gas station, only to Newcastle waterfront, and a new hearing was ordered. From the second hearing, Board member Ted Yao found that this is "a text-book case of piecemeal planning", calling the rezoning "premature and unwise". He found the proposai did not meet several sections of the Official Plan, particularly the criteria for gas stations and the stated requirement to preserve the Oak Ridges Moraine. 0f great interest to SAGA is the fact that, whiie the Board made it çlear he also found the proposai unacceptable under traditional planning, he recognized with considerable depth and reasoning the importance of addressing ecosystem effects and cumulative impacts in land use planning, something SAGA has bceen pressing for, since its inception. Mr. Yao stated that ihis site, on the edge of a branch of the Ganaraska River, is a sensitive one which calîs for a more ecologically sensitive assessment than that afforded by the traditional planning approach. He 1(Continued page 2) Crombie Trail not welcomed at lakefront, Wilmot Creek The proposed Crombie tra il to run along the Lakeshore in the Wilmot Creek development is meeting with opposition from the residents of the development. The construction of the walk is not necessarily the problemn. The idea of allowing this waik to be made available to the general public bas residents concerned. Wilmot Creek Community property runs right to the lakeshore. Properties within the development are leased by the residents. There is no Crown property along the Lakeshore. The construction of the walk would mean that people would be passing along right behind the resident's properties. This is what the resident's are concerned about. 1Mr. David Rice, of the Rice Capital Group, came before Council on Monday to present the concerns of the residents of the Wilmot Creek Community. 1Council does not support the construction, of the trail through the properties of the residents or through the community. The Council does however support the construction of a walk that would go in a northern direction from Wilmot Creek. TLown consultant to monitor IWA drilling, Stapleton Farm Acres International Limited, a Town of Newcastle consultant has been requested to monitor the IWA dr illing program that is currently being undertaken on the Stapleton Farm. The drilling of observational wells on the land is part of the IWA investigation of the hydrogeology of the site KK2. t is anticipated that the drilling wil be completed on Marci 26. Mr. Glenn Stapleton has authoizeil the Town's consultant on behaîf of the Town to enter onto the Stapleton Farm for the purpose of monitoring the implementation of the program. The IWA, to date, has not made a participant funding award to the Town to defray the cost of this monitoring. t has been requested that the IWA pay the cost of the monitoring or reimburse the Town for any aniount paid by the Town for this purpose.