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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Orono Weekly Times - 11 Looking Back... Gleaned from past editions of the Orono Weekly Times 25 Years Ago... A week ago Monday the Orono Cubs held their club Pinewood Derby run-off in the basement of the Orono United Church. Winners in the speed category with the first four placing entries travelling to Pontypool this Saturday for a District meet where twelve packs will be competing were Brian Leech, Stephen Hegarty, Jason Stubbs, Lae Nowak, Daniel Powsey and Kriss Perron. Brett Graves was the winner of the Design category in the recent Pinewood Derby held for the Orono Cub Pack. Darel Wernik was the winner of the Skill event of the Pinewood competition. All boys received trophies for their placings in the local Derby event. classroom to be opened this year at the Orono Public School. Mrs. Lyte has resigned from the teaching staff of the school and her term is being completed by Mrs. W. Reid of Orono. All the other teachers have signed for another term at the Orono School. The Board is to consider the applications at a future date. With the leaving of the High School from the building this year the Public School Board is to open one of the rooms as a Physical Education room ... and the school in the coming year will teach some science to the upper grades of the Public school. The lawn at the back of the school has been reseeded and a new black board installed in the senior room. Consideration was also given for auxiliary heating of one of the rooms in the school but in this no action was taken. the Shipman shield which was held at Peterboro on Wednesday night. Orono received 95 points while Reaboro secured 90. On April 14th, this team travels to Ottawa, where they will meet a degree team from Patterson's Corners, Greenville County. Orono won the shield last year and are starting strong this year, giving all degree teams fair warning that they will be hard to defeat. Practise makes perfect, so keep on practising. 50 Years Ago.... The Orono Public School Board met recently and on applications for two teachers have received over twenty. The school this year is in need of two new teachers, one to fill a vacancy and the other to teach in the fifth 75 Years Ago... As we go to press we learn of the victory of Orono Orange Lodge Degree team, of L.O.L. N. 409 over Reaboro in the 1st round for Clarington's Older Adults Association has been reaching out to Clarington's smaller communities for a number of years now. While the main hub of the organization which has a membership over 1500 strong is at their centre on Beech Avenue in Bowmanville, they offer a number of programs and events in Clarington's smaller communities. Two years ago the municipality mandated the COAA, which is a municipally funded organization, to reach out and seek satellite locations in the outlying communities including Orono, Newcastle, Courtice, Tyrone and Kendal. According to the COAA's Executive Director, Angie Darlison, "We are constantly reminded that we are the Clarington Older Adults Center, not the Bowmanville Older Adults Centre," Darlison told the Orono Times reporter in a phone interview on Friday afternoon. The COAA is interested in running a number of general interest and educational courses in East Clarington; however their programming is restricted to the level of interest they receive from the various communities, and the partnerships they can create with local hall boards. Some of the seniors' groups in the smaller communities are worried about competition for programming, Darlison stated. "That is just not what we want to do. We try and form partnerships with the local groups." However, if the COAA cannot work in cooperation with the local COAA reach out to rural communities group, then they will back off so as not to compete with the local organizations, according to Darlison, who says she gets very positive feedback from the seniors that participate in the programming offered in Clarington's smaller centers. Programs currently being run by the COAA in East Clarington include Ballroom and Latin dancing lessons on Wednesday afternoons, badminton on Wednesday mornings and pickle ball on Monday morning and Thursday afternoon all at the Newcastle Recreation Complex. Mr. Chris Weller of Orono says he enjoys the programs at the Beech Centre in Bowmanville and also participates in activities at the satellite locations. He is currently playing pickle ball -- a racquet sport which combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis, at the Newcastle Recreation Centre. The COAA has organized two murder mystery dinner theatre events to be held at the Orono Town Hall on April 11 and 12th and theatre a production, The Greatest Story Never Told: The Tale of Dan McGrew, at Newtonville Town Hall on May 23rd. See COAA ad on page ?? Van transportation for all COAA events and programs is available by contacting their office at 905-623-2856. Tickets for upcoming events are also available by calling the COAA number. Tickets for the two murder mystery events in Orono are available at the Orono Times office.