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4 - Orono Weekly Times 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Looking Back... Gleaned from past editions of the Orono Weekly Times 25 Years Ago... Ryan Winning, a grade 2 student at Orono Public School, has had his first poem published. Ryan is one of some 117 elementary students throughout the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education area whose poetry has been chosen and published in the fourth annual anthology of poems under the title of Rainbows. Each school in the area was allowed ten students' works and from these submissions the 117 poems were chosen through a series of judgings. Ryan's winning entry; BASEBALL Baseball, baseball Is in the summer Miss the ball And that's a bummer. Rutherford, devised the erection of the Medical Centre as a lasting remembrance of the Little family and especially of Robert Smith Little. They saw also a need in the community where the practice of Medical Arts could be carried on to serve the needs of the residents of the locality. In order that the remembrance may be contained year after year after a Charitable Foundation was formed and in the name of "The Little Charitable Foundation of Orono" has received its Letters Patent and is now Incorporated. The first project of the Foundation was the construction of the Orono Medical Centre which is now completed and ready for occupancy. Other projects may be initiated in the future being governed by funds available and the need for such projects. Courtice Secondary School's Construction Technology class recently completed two raised walkways over wet areas in the Orono Crown Lands. 75 Years Ago... Mr. Edward Pinder, with his son Harry, of Toronto, called on friends and neighbors in Orono who were glad to welcome him. Mr. Pinder is eighty-nine years of age, and was a resident of this village for years. He carried on a blacksmith and carriage shop in the building now occupied by Arthur Manning. He sold his business in 1910 to Jim Morrow, and moved to Toronto in 1919. Mr. Pinder was considered one of the best blacksmiths of his time in the Province of Ontario, knowing as an expert every branch of his work. 50 Years Ago.... The Orono Medical Centre located on Cobbledick Street in the Village of Orono will soon open its doors to provide its service to those in the community. The Orono Medical Centre is the result of a bequest left by the late Robert Smith Little, a lifetime resident of Clarke Township and the Village of Orono, who designated his Executors and Trustees through his will to use the residue of his estate for charitable purposes in the Village of Orono. The Executors of the Estate, Messrs. John D. Moffat and Robert F. Enjoying your copy of the Orono Weekly Times? Receive your local news in the mail every week for less than 90 cents a copy. For a subscription contact: 5310 Main St., P.O. Box 209, Orono, ON L0B 1M0 Orono Weekly Times 905-983-5301 · oronotimes@rogers.com