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Vol. 75 · # 40 Wednesday, October 24, 2012 GST Included $1.35 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono and Starkville since 1937 Charges laid in Orono crash Durham Regional Police have charged a 22-year-old Orono man with four offenses following a crash on Friday, September 28. Chris Lupul, who remains in hospital suffering with the serious injuries he sustained in the crash, has been charged with one count each of; unlawfully driving his off-road vehicle on a highway, and with having no permit, number plate or insurance on that vehicle. Main Street Orono was closed for several hours on September 28th while police investigated the accident at the Mill Pond Road intersection. The police report claims witnesses reported seeing the dirt bike southbound on Main Street at a high rate of speed when it collided with a northbound pickup truck. The truck driven by a 31-year-old Port Hope man was making a left hand turn onto Mill Pond Road in front of the bike. There were no reported injuries to the driver of the truck, who has also been charged under the Highway Traffic Act for failing to afford reasonable opportunity to avoid a collision. Orono tots (left to right) Makhi McKelvie, Reese McAllister and Addison Cook engrossed in a story read by Heather at the Orono Library on Thursday afternoon. Shake, Rhyme and Read is offered at the Orono Library in partnership with the YMCA Ontario Early Years Centre. Cease fire at gun club Councillors decided on Monday night to accept that the Union Rod and Gun Club in Newcastle are operating within the decibel levels permitted in Clarington's Noise By-law. In September council received a report from a noise monitoring consultant they hired to test sound levels at the gun club at 3796 Concession Road 3 which concluded that the club was operating within the limits. Clarington's Noise By-law sets a limit of 70 decibels for gun cubs operating in the Municipality prior to 1980, and 50 decibels for clubs starting up after that date. Both of Clarington's outdoor shooting ranges have been in operation well before 1980. Testing results showed a range of readings from a low of 47.4 decibels to a high of who claimed to be writing to 61.2 decibels from two days Creamer on behalf of the of testing ­ May 17 and July neighbours living in the vicin31st. ity of the gun club, asked that A letter on the agenda of testing be done again without Monday night's council meetthe gun club's knowledge ing from a gun club neighbour with as many guns shooting as stated that inadequate controls possible at one were used time and with during the ammunition two days of purchased testing at the a neutral gun range. We make sure from party. "Our In her letter to Len our operation has min- ears don't lie," C r e a m e r , imal impact on our Vetzal, stated. The gun club Clarington's which is open Chief By-law neighbours..." Officer, ~ Mr. Dave Sebben to members on Dianne Vetzal Gun Club President Sundays and Tuesdays has stated," It has operated in been conharmony with its neighbours firmed by all of the neighfor many years. Neighbours bours who were home at the started complaining when the time of testing that the noise club allowed Ontario Power was nowhere near the level of Generation to use their facilinoise we normally hear when ty for training of their security the shooting occurs." Vetzal Hallowe'en Bash Orono Town Hall Saturday, October 27 " team. This training occurs several days a week for periods of time over the summer. Gun club president Dave Sebben who appeared before council on Monday night told councillors the club has always been respectful of their neighbours and takes the municipal noise by-law seriously. "We make sure our operation has minimal impact on our nieghbours and have spent thousands of dollars planting trees and building berms to mitigate the sound," Sebben stated. "Enough is enough," said councillor Willie Woo at Monday's meeting. To suggest there was anything inappropriate in the testing is unfounded, according to Woo. The testing has been done, the results came in under the decibel limit, Woo said, "Let's move on."