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RONO WEEKLY TIMES -Seving East Ciarington and beyond since 1937 650 GSdiancluded Wednesday, November27, 1996 Orono Skaters Compete At Eastern Ontario Sectionals No Need For Sewers The Orono Figure Skating Club sent a few of its members off to compete at the Eastern Ontario Sectionals held November 7-10 in Ottawa. Orono's skaters placed fairly well, with Adam and Kati Colville advancing on to the Divisionals to be held in Baie-Comeau Quebec fron December 12-15. Competing from Orono at the Sectionals were Michelle Moffat (7th with Partner, Pre-Novice Dance) Adam Colville (2nd Junior Men, 2nd with Partner Novice Pairs) Kati Colville (2nd with Partner Novice Pairs), and Jillian Lemieux (6th Novice Short). At This Time In Orono Regional Council has upheld the possible impact of any mal an earlier consultant's report functioning systems on the and a ruling by the Ministry of environment. The findings of Environment and Energy that this report were passed on to Orono does not need to be MOEE to see if funding would hooked up to a sanitary sewer be available to construet a sar- system at this time. itary sewer. In a report to Clarington Bacteria were found in the Council dated October 29 of ground waters of the area, as this year, the Region of Durham well as in Wilmot Creek. cited a number of reasons as However, it was fot determined why it would not support the whetber or fot this occurrence construction of such a system was linked to faulty private sys- in Orono at this time. tems in the Orono area. Clarington had requested that The Regions Health the Region of Durham com- Departrent also undertook a mence an investigation into the survey of the incident of com- sewage problems in Orono at a municable diseases in Orono. meeting held October 16, 1995. Orono was compared to the In April of 1990, the towns of Cannington and Municipality of Clarington Sunderland, two other commu retained the firrn of Totten nities in the Durham Region of Simms Hubicki Limited to similar size to Orono that are undertake a detailed investiga- also presently on privatesys- tion of the private sewage dis- tems. Diseases such as posal systems for properties in salmonella, campylobacter and the commercial core of Orono iardiasis, which can be caused and a general investigation of by pathogenic organisms that the systems for the balance of can be found in contaminated the community surrounding the water sources. Orono placed downtown core. The purpose better than the other two cor- of the study was to obtain a munities, with only 5 cases out general assessment of the per- of 2,668 across Durham from formance of the existing private 1990 to 1996 occurring in sewage systefss and to assess continued on page 2 A Picture'sWorth A Thousand Words Due to a screw up in our dark room, this week's pic- tures did not come out. That's too bad, because there were some nice shots. First on my list was up at the Orono Senior Citizen's Centre. The 4-T Club pre- sented a cheque for $195.00, as well as four boxes of food and some mittens and hats to the Salvation Army. Isabelle Joans of the Family Services Division came out to Orono to pick up the donations on behalf of the Sally-Ann. The 4-T Club had a box out for about a month collecting food and decided to forgo giving presents to one another in order to help out those less fortunate in our comnmunity. The next place I was at was the Village Card and Gift Shoppe in Newcastle. Saturday tbere was a book signing by local author Pat Lake. The thirty-year Newcastle resident has pub- lished a book of poetry enti- tled "The Roller Coaster". The poetry was written by her between 1992 and 1993 while she was suffering from severe depression. The poetry shows the ups and downs she was suffering while coping with this serious ailment (she has suffered from depression since 1984). "I wrote about people, places, things: everything that was important to me," said Lake. Her doctor, Dr. Khan, urged her to publish her poet- ry as part of the healing pro- cess that would help ber over- come ber depression. "It's been a healing process for me and it has belped a lot of peo- ple," said Lake. Pat speaks at Oshawa General Hospital to help other people that suffer from depression. 'You can ride the roller coaster and learn to live with depression." The book is available at the Village Card and Gift Shoppe and sells for $5.95. The Newtonville Public School held a Bazaar on the weekend to help raise funds. A plethora of crafts were avail- able. The picture that was taken was of a nice home- made rocking horse made by Catherine Lyall of Newtonville. If you want to see what one looks like, you can call her at 786-2246. Take my word for it, the rocking horse would be an excellent gift for someone. Next it was off to the Clarke Museum and Archives for the Ontario Historical Society's Preparing for a Victorian Christmas in the 19th Century. A group of people had just fin- ished off preparing a repast of salted almonds, candied orange peels, apple fool, atholl brose, and sugar plums. The rest of the day was made up of workshops on the Victorian Christmas cus- toms. Another 19th Century Christmas event happens at the Museum on Saturday December 7 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Lastly was a trip in to the Big Brothers Christmas Party, where Mr. Electric and Mr. Rooter Plumbing donated $500.00 to go towards the costs of the party, which was held at Liberty Bowl in Bowmanville. The kids sure had a good time. Well we may not have had the pictures, but at least you got a run down on what hap- pened this weekend around our mumicipality. Volume 60, Number 47 -TT E