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RONO WEEKLY TIMES S er Eas C-rnt n e, snef*1937 650 GST Included Wednesday, A prit 2, 1997 7 Cub carj races ati Orono church Durham Farmer' s County Co-op annual ,meeting Last Monday night at the Orono United Church the Cubs held their Cub Car Happenings Races. lI the picture at the Lengyel, L.T. Harris, Kyle event from left to right are Secord and Bilan Cowan. Jas on Hôyne,' Andrew a 0 0 ORONO TOWN HALL EUCHRE RESULTS 1 - Frances Cathcart 84; 2 - Joan Sutcliff e 84; 3 - AIf Pigott 81; 4 - Marian Staples 79; 5 - Paul Mucha 78 and Alice Hooey 78; Low - Clara Meuleman; Draws - Frances Cathcart, Norma Moffat Charlie0 Stapleton Mary Henderson, Helen Simpson Charlie Campbell, Marie Couroux. INFORMATION SESSION -HATE CRIMES' Parents and interested community members are invited to attend an Information Session entitled "Hate Crimes» at Newtonville Public School on Tuesday, April 8, 1997 at 7 p.m. Constable Mike Marks of the Durham Region Police Force will be the guest speaker. CLARINGTON OLDER ADULT A SSOCIA1ION The Clarington Older Adult, program on Tuesday, April 8, 1997 includes line dancing at 9 a.m. and cards at 10. At 10:15 a.m. Maureen McCoy from the Bowmanville Library will speak about the Books and Resources available to Seniors. Square dancing starts at 1 p.m. Lunch at noon and local transportation for a nominal fee can be arranged when requested in advance by Monday noon. Programs are held at the Lions Community Centre, 26 Beech Ave., Bowmanville. Phone Community Care at 623-2261. BIG SISTERS OSHAWA-WHITBY-CLARINGTON Big Sisters O-W-C wîll be holding our monthly orientation meeting on April 16, 1997 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Ail interested community mem- bers are invited to attend. Our office is located at 555 Wentworth St. E., Unît 1, Oshawa. Please caîl 725-9300 to reserve your seat today! Big Sisters Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington is dedicated to making-a dif- ference in the community it serves by providîng caring, non-judge- mental role models to children in need, through the support and guid- ance of volunteer Big Sisters. NEWCASTLE VILLAGE & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS "AN EVENING WITH SHER LEETOOZE" Sher Leetooze is a writer, historian and story teller. Sher will relate stories and show slides of her quest to assemble material for the books written and being researched on local townships. Ail are wel- come in the Lions Room at the Newcastle Community Hall on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted and refreshments will be served. The-Cîarington Concert Band Presents... CARDIFF COUNTY AND VALE 0F GLAMORGAN YOUTH BRASS BAND OF SOUTH WALES in concert at the Bowmanville l-igh School (Liberty Street) on Sunday, April 6th, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $5.00, Students and Seniors $1.00. This weekend is the weekend that we turn alur clocksforward one hour. Emnie Eves - Treasurer and Don Yeo - President of the Clarington Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society raise tlag in Newcastle. April is Cancer month so the flag by Roy Forrester The Durham Farmers' County Co-operative oper- atlng a Co -op store in Orono and in Grafton have entered their 5th year of business on a rather high note. The 49th annual meeting of the Co-op was held last Wednesday eveningin the Orono United Church. Some nlnety were in attendance enjoying dinner, a travel- oque talk by eruce Taylor of the Peace River area and a reported positive year flnancially in 1996. In speaklng with the manager, Lyle Jackson, he said they expect a successful year for the perlod of the fiftieth' an- versary. Total sales for 1996 reached some $4.65 million compared to sales ofl $4.3 million in 1995. Cost of sales reached $3.7 million comparlng wlth $3.5 million the previous year. The net income figure camne in at $52,431. a much better picture than the net loss of $224.695m'x 1995. Operating costs were down sllghtly while patronage income increased by some $68.000. The Co-op stores have a total membership of 1800 of which number 600 are active members. Lyle Jackson sald they anticipated a good year li 1997 as there was an Indication of some turn- arounid in the economy. "Everyone has had problems in the past few years", he said. He spoke of increased sales lIn the first two months of 1997 and said a lot depends on business in May whlch is the busy time for the co-op. Twenty percent of sales can happen in a short period in this month. he sald. The manager did comment that although a turnaround seemned to exist there was stilI a lot of people still looklng for jobs. "We advertised for a part-time worker liGrafton and have had flfty applications up to this point li-time," said the manager. Bill Devries and Peter (continued page 2) will be flying and canvassers Friday. The Cancer Society will be going door to door -for is in need of more volunteer donations. Volunteers will canvassers. If you are able also be selling daffodils at dif- to help out, please caîl Don ferent locations throughout. Yeo at 634-7543. the municlpality this week Volume 61., Number 13 April is Cancer month