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2 - Orono Weekly Times Subscriptions $38.09 + $1.91 GST = $40.00 per year. No Refunds. Publishing 48 issues annually at the office of publication. "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Aid to Publishers - Canada Periodical Fund toward our mailing costs." Wednesday, November 24, 2010 ORONO WEEKLY TIMES - 5310 Main St., P.O. Box 209, Orono, ON L0B 1M0 E-mail: oronotimes@rogers.com or Phone/Fax: 905-983-5301 Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart Production and Display Advertising - Roxanne Johnston Classified/Sports - Sue Weigand The Orono Weekly Times welcomes letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. Opinions expressed to the editor and articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Orono Weekly times. Letters must be signed and contain the address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will not be acknowledged or returned. We reserve the right to edit for length, libel and slander. If your retail or classified ad appears for the first time, please check carefully. Notice of an error must be given before the next issue goes to print. The Orono Weekly Times will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. Deck the halls Next week, as we turn the corner on November and head into December, the calendar is filling up with holiday programs and activities. This Sunday, the spectacle that is the CP Holiday Train pulls into Bowmanville with a full fledged, if quite short concert. This year The Odds and the Brothers Dubé will be performing on the cross-Canada train. The Odds are a band of some renown from Vancouver, the Brothers Dubé however are somewhat less known. At the ages of 6, 8 and 10, the Dubé Brothers who hail from Ottawa got their start in music in 2006, when they sang covers of their mother's favourite songs and posted them on YouTube as a way to keep her spirits up while she fought cancer. Shortly after she died in 2008, the brothers began performing fundraising concerts. They have raised over $50,000 for charities in Haiti, following the devastating earthquake in that country in January. With a bio like that, it almost doesn't matter what the Brothers Dubé sound like, you've just got to love them. The Holiday Train stops on Scugog Street in Bowmanville at 6 p.m. Sunday. The cost is free but they ask that you bring non-perishable food donations which will be distributed to a number of local food banks. After several years of not making much of an effort to celebrate Christmas in the downtown core of the village of Orono, BIA has organized some elements of an Olde Fashioned Christmas for next weekend. Visitors to the downtown will be offered hot apple cider at many of the stores, compliments of the BIA, there will be demonstrations to take in and there will be a competition for the best decorated front window. The early concept was to have the Clarke High School art students paint the store windows with a Christmas theme, but there was not enough lead time for the school to get that organized for this year, so some of the windows will be painted by students this year, and next year hopefully there will be enough time to cover all the shop windows. As in past years, choirs from Kirby and Orono Public School will perform on the Town Hall steps beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, and hot chocolate and cookies will be available for the children. Most stores will be open until 9 p.m. on Friday night. A number of new businesses have opened up in the downtown this past year, and have brought a renewed enthusiasm into the BIA. The Orono Town Hall Board has once again organized a number of family activates for the holiday season. This weekend they are holding their Something Unique Craft and Artisan Show in the beautiful historic hall which is decorated for the Christmas Season. The show will be held on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Next week Wednesday they will once again be hosting their Carol Sing Along from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with a youth band, hot apple cider and sweets and a colouring contest for the children. Cost for the event is a donation to the Orono Town Hall. On Saturday, December 4th, the Town Hall Board will be hosting their popular Breakfast with Santa event, providing the opportunity to get the children's pictures taken with Santa. The Heather Rebekah Lodge will be holding their Annual Bazaar on Saturday, December 4th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. As always this bazaar features crafts, a bake table, penny sale, a nearly new table and a luncheon for $5. Where else can you get a lunch for $5.00? The Kirby Church is holding their Christmas Bazaar this Saturday, from 11a.m. to 2 p.m., and besides their regular bazaar offerings they have a whole church full of used books to sell. All the local churches and schools will be holding their own Christmas programs, some of the many events we all enjoy during the Holiday season - the stuff memories are made of. Gone but not forgotten? Jim, As the outgoing Mayor of a lame-duck council, you have once again performed a gross disservice to not only the incoming Council, but to the people of Clarington with your ill-timed and inappropriate news release regarding the incinerator. You have suggested that Council is "delighted" with the Minister's findings on the EFW facility, when the truth is the new and forward-looking Council is not delighted with this announcement and no doubt not delighted with your pronouncement. The people of Clarington sent a strong message last month and rejected your blind support for the EFW. For four years you chose not to listen to the people, and even now, after they have spoken loud and clear, you're still not listening. Shame on you. Your legacy will be the garbage incinerator; a legacy you will share with Roger Anderson, Charlie Trim, Mary Novak and Gord Robinson. You and most of them are gone now, and Roger is on the brink. Jim Richards Orono Why we need a moratorium on industrial wind turbines! The Green Energy Act has been put into effect by the Provincial Government to facilitate the "production of green energy." The GEA took away the rights of the municipality and eliminated environmental assessments. It ignored health concerns, reduced property values, and the effects on birds and wildlife. It put control in the hands of proponents (whose only interest is making profit) and guaranteed them prices of 14.6 cents/kw. for wind and up to 80.2 cents/ kw. for solar power. Hydro prices are 20% higher than one year ago and Ontario Hydro has applied for increases of 15.7% in 2011 and 9.8% in 2012. Much of this cost increase is associated with the Feed-in-Tariff provisions of the GEA. TURBINE see page 4 GM stock `unbelievable!' To The Editor: A few months ago ... GM successfully played their "Too Big 2 Fail" card ... but not before rewarding upper management for driving this company into bankruptcy protection and leaving tens of thousands of investors ... broke. Now ... a multi-billion dollar ... NEW IPO stock offering is expected to "shatter all records" for the all-time highest amount of cash raised. Unbelievable! GM see page 4