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- ■ :~; iÜ8 11! On Monday evening at the New Dutch Oven Restaurant Kin Murray Taylor received the "Kin of the Year Award" from the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club. Murray (1) is presented with the award by Kin President, Don Hyland. The Great Pine Ridge club now has a membership of some thirty-one members and the membership is embarked on a number of progressive programs within the community. community. Two deaths over weekend During the week immediately preceding March 10, 1975 the Newcastle Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police investigated investigated thirty-two Motor Vehicle Accidents and seventy-five seventy-five general occurrences, As a result of these accidents, Which caused injuries to ten persons, five persons have" been charged with offences under the Highway Traffic Act. Some of the general occurrences occurrences investigated were as follows ; two Break and Enter, two Theft and two wilful Damage. Other investigations concerned reports of missing persons, prowlers and various driving complaints. Fatal Snow Vehicle Accident On the 9th of March 1975 at approximately 1:05 p.m. a fatal snow vehicle accident occurred on private property (Continued lo page 5) Recreation opening Orono office Since the council of the Town of Newcastle placed the Orono Town Hall under the jurisdiction jurisdiction of the Recreation Department Department and Mr. Bud Fanning at the recent meeting of council it has been decided that a branch office will be set-up in the building by the Recreation Department. Mr. Fanning, director, hopes to have Mr. Joe Caruana, a program supervisor set up an office in the basement of the Hall and it will be from this office that programs in the Orono, Newcastle, Newton- ville and Hampton area will be promoted and organized. Currently the department is active with projects in Orono and Newtonville for Youth groups and it is the intention that such programs will be School to be co-educational extended lo other areas in the future. SUMMER PROGRAM FOR ORONO AND KENDAL In a recent conversation with Mr. Fanning he said that the Department intends to operate operate a summer park program both at the Orono and at the Kendal park this summer. More details will be available later. CENTRE OPEN DURING HOLIDAYS The Orono Youth Centre will be open afternoon and evenings evenings during the Easter School break. It is the intention that events of interest will be available for the youth of the Community. The Centre operates operates out of the Orono Town Hall. ORONO WEEKLY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12,1975 400 attend town's Courtice meeting Ratepayers oppose honorarium increase A general concensus of the lice Plan for residential x--velopment would appear that it was the destruction of x the community as it now exists. Some 400 were in attendance at the meeting held last week at the/Gourtice High School when the plan received its first public exposure. exposure. Consultants who had worked on the plan were present to , point out the features of the plan. A lot of the land in the area is held by developers now, said Mayor Garnet Rickard, and the alternative to the Courtice icept. would be to allow fiappenings, them to develop their properties properties without any direction from the community via the town council. But, a lot of people crowded in the Courtice high school gym didn't see it that way. A predominant view expressed by those who advanced to the microphones during the question question period was that the Courtice Plan is something over which they have no control, and a plan which will mean the destruction of their community. Throughout the meeting Murray Jones of a consulting firm bearing his name, and (Continued to page 5) ONLY ONE RESIDENTIAL PERMIT IN JANUARY According to Coun, Lyall only one residential building permit was issued by the Town of Newcastle for the whole of the municipality. February was not much better with only four residential permits being issued. It would appear that few are contemplating building this year especially in the early spring. Lyall claims some 130 new homes in Bowmanville are still unsold and some 8 or 9 in the Village of Newcastle. ALL BACK TO WORK AT GM On Monday of this week all workers were back at the job at General Motors at Gshawa except for 50 workers who are on a one week temporary lay-off. The call back is attributed to the record sales in February for the Canadiar manufacturer. Company officials were unable to say if this trend would continue. MEET WITH CONCILIATOR-!-About 50 members of the United Steel Workers of America and management oi Custom Glass in Newcastle meet with a conciliator in Toronto on Monday. There has been no contract since January 29th, 1975. ATTENDS HYDRO CONVENTION-Mr. Harvey Partner chairman of the Orono Hydro system and Charlie Pearce attended the annual hydro convention in Toronto last week. There were 1400 delegates in attendance representing some 340 municipal utilities in the province. Mr. Partner states the main theme was that concerning rates and methods oi distribution of electric povver. xA \ : ' ' ' Ffm THE FIRST TIME IN TWENTY-ONE YEARS-For the first time in 21 years General Motors will borrow money for investment in production facilities and research. Some $600 million in bonds will be offered to be used throughout all of the industry. The.last quarter saw a drop of 60 percent in company earnings. ■ Members of the Newcastle Ratepayers Association are planning to lodge a protest against a planned 100 percent increase in salaries paid to trustees of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle board of . education... ,.,. The school board will take the matter under review at its next meeting at board office in Cobourg on March 13. Current salary for the trustees is $200 a month. The proposed new salary would be $400 a month, the maximum allowed under ministry of education guidelines effective Jan. 1, 1975. Head of the Ratepayer's social service committee, Keith Shackleton, suggested that there is some need for an increase in the salary paid to the trustees, but argued at an association meeting Thursday Call for region rate structure A report submitted to the public works committee for the Region of Durham recommended recommended the use of a regional rate structure in water, sewage and solid waste disposal. It was stated that such a move would broaden the financial base of the Region. The rate structure would take pressure off the mill rate in most cases, it was stated. It was reported that the rate structure would be a source of funds for operating and maintenance maintenance and would include a service charge with a commodity commodity rate with stepped.rate blocks. It also recommended the conversion of the present flat rate billings to meters. This latter would affect the Village of Orono where now the charges for water are on a flat rate basis and it would require the installation of water meters. that $4,800 "is Out of line." He asked the association to back a brief he plans to submit to the board requesting requesting that they limit their increase increase to $3,000 a year. The Pine Ridge School in Bowmanville will this year become co-educational with the admittance of girls to the school. This was indicated by Mr. Art Handelman, superintendent superintendent at the school last week when he was speaking to the Bowmanville Jaycees, This will be the first time that girls have been admitted at the school and Mr. Handelman Handelman said in his address that boys finally ending up in jail. A few years ago the school hired their first female staff and now in each house of 20 boys out of the five staff, two are women. Mr Handelman said this creates a more normal atmosphere in the house and allows the boys to relate to females. The majority majority are from the age of 14 to 16 years. He said they were endeavouring to minimize the the old system had not worked institutional atmosphere and and that new approaches to bring to the school some must be endeavoured. In the normality of life, past the Bowmanville school Handelman said at the very had been a traditional school minimum , "we have an with up to 75 percent of the obligation to try new things". IP WILMOT SCENE Extensive work for Wilmot Creek - by A. P. O'Donnell, Fish and Wildlife Management Management Officer. Wilmot Creek in the town of Newcastle (formerly Clarke Township) is one of the best rainbow trout migration, production production and angling streams in the Lindsay District. Currently Currently it is undergoing a major face lifting program. In the past this stream meandered meandered through well cropped grazing grounds and suffered each year from springfloods and sudden flash floods, overflowing the stream banks and flushing silt and other organic material into Lake Ontario and degrading the value of this valuable stream. From highway 115 south to highway 401 the Ministry of Natural Resources is attempting attempting to restore this stream to its natural state. In the past two years work has progressed on stream banks to stop erosion and hold them from further deterioration. deterioration. On a large portion of a sliding bank, tons of large boulders have been strategically placed placed to arrest tigs problem. On two other banks where flood conditions take a,way up to 10 feet of bank annually large wire baskets called gabions have been filled with rock and placed against the banks. These are then covered with fill to allow growth of grasses and shrubs to take place. Wildlife shrubs and trees are being planted within the flood plain to further hold the soil from floods. Planned future work includes small falls, rock riffles, cut- banks and shaded. areas to further enhance the appearance appearance of the creek and make it more desirable for both the fish and the fisherman. The improvements completed completed and planned for the future are to compliment the past structure of the stream where Samuel Wilmot opened in 1866 the first Fish Hatchery in Ontario at the site between Highway 2 and Highway 115. In fact this was the first fish hatchery in Canada.