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20- Orono0 W eely Time-lS, W ednesda y.Februýaxy 1 2. 19 9 7, RRONO WEEKLY TIMES Division of Loyal Printing Ltd. Publications Mail Registration No. 0368 Publishing 47 Issues Annually at the Office of PublicatLion 5310 Main Street, P. 0. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB IMO Telephone 905-983-5301 Fax 905-983-5301 Herman and Marg Zwart Happy Valentines Day. We have fallen in love wîth this littie town called Orono. The people we've met are great. Publishing this paper is also something you fall in love with, especially after it's been printed and delivered. Getting this paper to the publishing stage can be an overwbelming experience. Were is the news going to corne from? How do we word this? Is this enough information? Is it clear enougli? Etc. The resuits though are worth the effort. I think the relationship between the paper and pubhisher is somewhat the same as the relationship betxveen two loyers. t is good and satisfying. As in any relationship you go through ups and downs and that, certainly has been the case with the paper. If we want our relationsbips to last, we know we can't always push to have our own way, for can we throw in the towel when things don't go our way. We stick with it. The same can be said for the paper. Eventually the relationsbîp becomes easier and maybe a bit complacent, but in the end it will be worth it. Happy Valentines Day. Postage Rates Affect Our Weekly Paper Any subscriber to the Orono Weekly Times pays f'or 47 issues per year (five issues short of a fuil year). This is a limit imposed by Canada -Post regulations. Twelve bundred plus copies of the Orono Weekly Times get mailed every week by 2nd class post and we cannot send out more than 47 issues per year. In the past this problem was overcome by sending out 3 or 4 free issues by mass mailing. As of January 1 of this year. Canada Post can no longer deliver junk mail. This decision was made by the federal govemment even though letter carnies were quite happy to deliver junk mail. We do take exception to Our paper being classified as junk mail, but in a mass mailing it would be treated the same as a flyer. To send out a free issue, to ail the homes in a broad mailing area we would have to put postage of just over $1,00 eacb on 5,000 papers. Not having the financial resources of a Conrad Black this venture is a bit too nrich for our blood. We now haýve to pick 5 weeks each year were there will be no paper published. Subscribers will be notified well, in advance when there will be no paper coming in the mail. In the meantime we will continue to find creative ways to get, a paper to you every week,(excluding holidays). Paper carriers are not an option because of the huge rural area the Orono Weekly Timies serves. We wvelcomie any ideas fromn you the reader. m -EDt7-IL«: Dean Editor, I amn taking isstue on aml gamnation of miiunicipaJities,, and school boar-ds. It origi- nally miade a lot of sense to vote f'or tbe Commiion Sense Revolution and] government downsizîng but 1 dontbeie fewer and biggeur govenning bodies Will necessarily bing more efficiency and saving. Having been in business fon many years ilmanuifac turing furniture I can iiappreciate ibe savlngs in miass production but zdown iloading can have nany unfjor-eee cost.s. On the other ianid bavinig people do mlore fortesevsanld not rely on the ovmen(o useU taXpayer funlds to meet the wairrations culd saeconisidena-ble. It seems to me that this amalgamation exercise will remove 50% or more people from thTe grassroots decision making process. This will concentrate power in lewer hands witb an increased workload arld stress. The next s tep will be Iemands f'or more compensatipfl to soothe the nerves and we are back to high cost of grassroots gov- emrment with less service. in the meantirroe those displaced small towfi politicianis are forced to cope witbh the void in their lives. Frankly, I feel that Mike Harris and bis government have made a one hundred eigbiy deglee turn in the above nlamef1 issues. It would be more responsible to leave present miifliciPalities and school boafds as they are. Have trustées and counsel- lors stand tô be elected as vol- unteers'and only reimburse out of pockët expenses. This would brinlg forward only dedicated communify imemii bers to thc @jsks. 1 personial- ly have beef! involved in sev- eral volunteer comlmunity projects and this bas given me a sense a~f satisfaction and belonging.j feel that 1 have made a dijlTëFence and that I count. RespectfullY, Oskar Scpnaithmann, Sidney TôWnship LETI'ER 120 THE EDITOR Re: Your- afticle on the Enniskcillen hill for sleigh rid- ing. This hill î,,ý one of the best for good f'un for children. My daughters who live in Hamilton an'd Ottawa plan their visits tP> include fun on the hili. I have been there many times and 1 have yet to see any supervision controlling the slde. paf ents are there to see their littie children go on the smaller hilI andl the bigger children on the big hill. Snow maehine trails are maintained for adult enjoy- ment thirougb the Ganaraska. W/bat is the actual cost to maintain this bill at Enniskillen for our children to enjoy nature at its best? K. Henderson. Dear Sir: We would appreciate your pninting our response to an article regarding the Old Newcastle Public Scbool Demolition. The Newcastle Ad Hoc Committee has been trying to reason witb Chairman Willsber to postpone the demolition of our scbool since October 1996. Our gr oup consists of 16 people from ail walks of life and different political persuasions. Bob Willsber bas obstructed us from the very start. It has been bis personal opinion that be knows more than any or al of our members. He was elected to be our voice at the board and bis idea of' free speech is for him to do al the talking and everyone else should listen. Last Wednesday evening Bob called me and we discussed selliner the old school and oice again be passed the huck by stating tbey could flot seli the building or land. I explained to hirn that the board could seli the building and lease the land ior a period of up to 99 years. There is nothing to stop thie board froni leasing or selling this pnoperty. Mn. Willsher told me he wasn't aware of ibis and if we had a party interested in buying the old school be would present it to the board. This is certainly not the way-he presented this information negarding selling the school at tbe board meeting. He would lead the public, 10 believe that the school was in desperate n eed for extra space. Demolition would add approx. 10,000 sq.f. about 60' x 160'. In one of our presentations we even suggested bow the board might be able to acquire more playground area. He bas been very careful to avoid mentioning the $138.000,00 cost of demolition plus the loss of the revenue from the sale of the scbuol that could be well in excess of $275,000,00 not to mention the realty taxes that Claington would lose. Ail of this taxpayers money bas been lost forever. This is the same board who messed up the road entrance into the scbool, that we ahl know is a dîsgrace. This is the board who refused advertising money on tbe buses that could bave been controlled and appropriate. I believe that it was upwards of $80,000.00 yearly depending on bow much of the space that could be sold. This would be an annual revenue. witb no cost to the taxpayer. Mr. Willsber wuuld h'ave you and the taxpayers believe that use of the building would not be comrpatible with the new sehool, there is notbing furthen from the trutb. It wvould seem to be that Bob always bas twostonies, one for private conversations and one for publication. The interested party wanted to use the sebool for adult education, not a fast food outlet or an arcade. We feel very strongly that there was a bidden agenda fromn the start and be unduly infiuenced many of the other board members. The board had made up their minds to destroy this fine old building corne bell or bigh water. What was 50 wnong with holding a Public Meeting so that ail of' our questions could have been answened in the proper way? Even "Claringion" asked the board to do so along with M.P.P. John O'Toole's request for a meeting. We believe that Mr. Willsher and the board wanted to demolisb and therefore destroy any chance f'or us to prove our case. lladwe known that we were going to be KENDAL UNITED CHURCH Kendal, Ontario Sun. Feb.16, 1997 Worship & Sunday School' 11: 15 ar. Preacher: Rev. Bruce Whiîte, Chaplain Memorial Hospital, Bowrnanvifle Pleasejoin us a% good place to a healthy place for children" Minister: Rev. David Balck 786-2950 St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Minister: Rev. Ann Tottenham Rectory 987-5678 - Church 983-5594 SUNDAY SERVICE. SUNDAY SCHOOL and YOUTH GROUP 9:30 a-n. 1 ST & .3RD SUNDAY 0F MONTH HOLY COMMUNION ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister il> Rev.Mervyn Russel Risebrough, Secretary 983-5702 Church Office 983-5502 CHURCH SERVICES Sunday, February 17, 1997 Kirby Unied Church 9:30 arn Orono United Church 11:00 arn A.A. meets every Thursday 7:30 p. m. NEW HOURS until further notice Monday 9 -6 Tuesday 9 -6 Wednesday 9 -12:30 Thursday 9 -6 Friday 9 - 6 Saturday 9- 3 UhUNt> ONTARIO 983-5009