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Paintings on show in Oshawa ARTHUR A. DRUMMOND An exhibition of the works, mainly water colours, of Arthur A. Drummond, will open on Tuesday, March 25, at The Robert McLaughlin Gall- lery, Oshawa, Drummond, who was born in 1891 in Toronto, has resided in Orono, Ontario for the past fifty years. During the early twenties, twenties, Drummond studied at the Ontario College of Art with such men as A. J. Casson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer and A.Y. Jackson. Never taken by the approach of the Group oi Seven. Drummond prefers the- quiet approach to the Cana BREAUGH NDP STANDARD BEARERMike Breaugh a regional councillor from Oshawa was acclaimed the NDP candidate over the weekend for the Oshawa riding. He had no competition for the nomination. David Lewis was guest speaker at the meeting. MOVING TO NEW QUARTERS-According to the talk around Town the men's club now holding forth in the Orono Hydro building are to move to the basement of the Orono Town Hall which is being operated by the Department of Recreation for the Town of Newcastle. The move will mean that of a pooltable and some furniture. Some controversy has arisen over the use of the present building. APOLOGIES AT COURTICE MEETING-MAYOR Rickard is reported to have apologized for some of the crisp answers to questions at a previous meeting concerning the Courtice Concept proposal. Breakwater repairs Bowmanville harbour Ottawa - Two breakwaters at Port Darlington, Bowmanville, Bowmanville, Ontario, will be repaired under a $181,548 contract awarded to The Ontario Construction Company Ltd., St. Catharines, it was announced announced today by the Minister of Public Works Canada, the Honourable Charles M. Drury. Drury. The St. Catharines firm offered the lowest of three qualified bids received in response to public advertisement. advertisement. .The highest bid was $198,181. The breakwaters, which provide a sheltered entrance to Bowmanville harbour, are 640 feet by 16 feet and 200 feet Leskard family to vacate their home A Leskard family have to vacate their home ramer than further action being taken by the Town of Newcastle. . .Dennis Thompson of Leskard Leskard meet with the Planning Advisory Committee on Monday Monday evening of last week when he agreed to vacate the building until such time as it was brought up to the Town's standards. The committee also agreed to give the family the first opportunity to rent a town house owned in Hampton which is to be demolished in the future. Mr. Thompson has been having a running battle with the Town over the constrcu- ction of the house on his own property. In 1973 he applied for a land separation of 2.25 acres from a larger piece, owned by him, and he applied for a building permit. The permit was denied as the land was not zoned for residential building and as such would to be 40 acres in size for residential purpose. Mr. Thompson began construction construction resulting in a stop- work order being issued by the Town. Mr. Thompson then applied for a minor variance which was denied by the Town and an appeal has been lodged by Thompson with the Ontario Municipal Board which has not yet passed down a decision. In October Mr. Thompson was charged with violating a Town by-law and was fined $50.00. A second Supreme court order stopping work was issued on November 7th. At this time Mr. Thompson approached council to gain permission to do some work in order to winterize what was already constructed. This permission permission was granted but as of Fphrnarv construction had continued to the point that the roof was on the building. On February 26th Mr. Thompson was taken to court and sentenced to three days in Whitby jail for violating the court stop work order. During all this Mr. Thompson Thompson and his family have t Continued page 3) Will Run In ByElection A Mrs. Ann Cowman of the Courtice area stated last Thursday evening at a meeting meeting of the Town of Newcastle Ratepayers Association that she intends to run for the position vacated by former Councillor Wearn representing representing Darlington Township. Mrs. Cowman pointed out that the Courtice area is not represented on council at the present time. She also said it appeared that people in the Courtice area were disturbed over the Courtice Concept plan. Mrs. Cowman is a travel counsellor in the Oshawa area and a mother of three children. As yet no date has been set for the byelection but announcement announcement is expected in the near future. Artist for special school project Mr. Dik Zander of the Kendal area may well be teaching a special two month course at the Orono Public School. At the present time the participants are now awaiting the final plans and funding through the Ontario Arts Council. Mr. Moffatt has stated that the project should be an interesting one both for the student and in the end for the parents and other interested persons in the community. The special project is to be called "The Great Orono Pyramid Caper" and is to be conducted through April and May. The final project has been termed an "art environment" display which is to be open to the public on June 3, 4 and 5 th. dian landscape. From 1918 until 1937, Drummond Drummond exhibited at least once each year with one or more of the following: the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Ontario Society of Artists, the Art Association of Montreal and the Canadian Society of Graphic Graphic Arts. In 1930, Drummond was elected to the American Water color Society, and in 1962 received their award of merit. He is still an active member, as are only three other Canadians. The current exhibition includes includes fifty five works, dating from 1909 until 1972, and Oshawa, Ontario covers the whole range of Drummond's travels across Canada and into New England. England. On Sunday, April 6, in the afternoon, there will be a reception honouring Mr. Drummond, Drummond, and anyone interested interested is welcome to attend. The Mayor of Newcastle, Garnet Rickard, will officiate. The exhibit will run until May 11. From May 13 to May 27 part of the exhibition will be shown in the Clarke Library, Orono, and from May 29 until June 12 in the Bowmanville Public Library. SPRING CONCERT COMING TO ORONO PULIC SCHOOL On Thursday, May 15th the Orono Public School will be holding their annual spring concert. The concert will be presented presented both during the afternoon and evening. In the past the evening performance had always always been sold' out so it is suggested that a good time to attend is in the afternoon if at all possible. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 26th, 1975 Spring gardening horticulture topic OMB hears local severance problem The Ontario Municipal Board met on March 20th when they heard complaints from the Regional Planning committee regarding the allowance allowance of a land separation to Mr. Leland Payne of Newtonville by the Durham Region Land Division Committee. Committee. Mr. Payne owns 85 acres of land near Newtonville and wants to take advantage of a former Clarke Township bylaw bylaw allowing a farmer to separate a lot from his farm and then to sell the farm. The Land Division committee committee agreed to the separation but the Town and the Region went against the decision. On Monday night the Town of Newcastle Planning Advisory Advisory Committee recommended recommended that the Town take no further action in fighting the severance when it came before the OMB. George Howden, town planner, planner, said' it is premature to allow the sale of the land to a developer. He also called the decision by the Land Division Committee one of the wierd- est he has seen. The Board on Monday (Continued page 3) Mechanic's lien stirs council The Town of Cobourg took action regarding a possible grant to the organizers of the restoration of Victoria Hall following the placing of a mechanic's lien on the building building by a contractor. Council is asking approval of the grant from the Ontario Municipal Board but it may be that the grant will not be necessary providing local donations donations co the fund is forthcoming. forthcoming. The grant in the amount of $400,000. It was pointed out that the province is Waiting to see what Cobourg will do befoer it will give a matching loan. The Orono Horticultural meeting held on Thursday, March 20 was most interesting, interesting, coming as it did on the day before the official arrival of spring and with the theme pertaining to spring gardening. gardening. President, Everett Brown, presided and Doreen Boyd took Tier place as the new secretray. The president extended words of welcome. We were pleased to have a number of new members present. A meeting had been held in Bowmanville Library on March March 16 when further plans were made for the Horticultural display to be placed at the World Plowing Match. North ot usnawa. This meeting decided to feature one wall of balcony planters. If anyone has anything this summer, growing in planters, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers which could be used in this display it would be most welcome. The President reported on the "Day for Gardeners", held at Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, on March 15. He said this had been a really good day when much gardening gardening information was gathered, such as planning your garden, gardening under lights, seeding seeding etc., subjects which were well covered by various interesting speakers. They were given samples of chestnut chestnut and other trees which had been grown from seed for novel winter plants. Everett ( Continued page 3) H&Sto hold fun fair in April The Orono Home and School Association are planning what has been termed a super-spectacular super-spectacular fun fair. The Fun Fair is to be held in the Orono Public School on April 17th from the hours of 4.30 to 7.30 p.m. The purpose of the fair is to raise money to buy equipment ana material tor an outdoor ice surface for the winter of 1976. All the classes at the school are planning to assist with the fun fair and have planned some booths and activities. Included will be "Quess your weight", Penny Sale, Kissing Booth, a white elephant booth, candy sale, bake salé, pop corn booth, fish pond and dart game along with others. The Home and School Association will also run a monster, snare-the-wealfB bingo and a refreshment booth. An interesting feature of the whole affair is that prices are to be of the pre-inflation era.