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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 2nd, 1975 ivnaway uirougn tne monm of February while most citizens citizens are baffled with the cold : weather and summer seems a long way off. greenhouse operators are well aware of summer and have most likely planted the first flower seed starting the trail to beautiful bloom during those summer months. Mr. John Breen (foreground) (foreground) and Joe Fra lick at the Orono Tree Nursery and two such men who now in eariy April are ; seeing the : efforts of thëir work as the seeds have germinated and young plants have been transplanted transplanted into, flats. By the end at me month the young plants will leave the greenhouse to spend most of May in cold frame and around the twentieth twentieth will finally be planted in the flowers beds enjoyed by those who visit the Tree Nursery during the summer. Mr. Breen masterminds the operation of the greenhouse and with special soil for ' seeding starts the greenhouse in February. During the germination period the heat in the greenhouse is kept at 70 degrees ( Sorry don»' t know the /Celsius reading). After germination germination the heat is reduced to sixty. An important feature is also that of humidity and Mr. Breen points to the ingeniousness ingeniousness of Mr. Jim Buckley who devised a special watering system for the greenhouse. Each plant among the thousands almost receive individual individual care with pinching off of the snap dragons and mums and the slipping of geraniums. The geraniums number in.the hundreds and are now coming into bloom aS they await the time for transplanting to the flower This summer when enjoying the flowers at the local nursery you: can visualize the beginning/with the dropping of a tiny seed early in February: Chose architect firm for Clarice The Board of Education at their meeting on Thursday evening of last week chose the firm ' of Jackson. Y pet; and Associates as architect for the proposed addition to the clarke High School. Further the ' Board also RECEPTION ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON " The McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa is holding a reception on Sunday, April 6th at 2.00 p.m. to 5.00p.m. for Mr. Arthur A. Drummond of Orono. The gallery has- some 56 painting by Mr. Drummond on display at the gallery. Most of the show is of his earlier works in water colours and are well wort It the trip over to Oshawa. MILK PRICES GOING UP Mr. R. Stevens of Glen Rae Dairy informed us on Tuesday that the price of milk in the area would be increased by 4 to 5 cents a quart later this month. Effective on April 1st fluid milk producers received an additional $1.16 per cwt. which supports a rise in -the cost of milk of 31.5 percent since april 1st, 1974, states Mr. Stevens. FREE FOOD FOR THE NEEDY McCain's; Frozen Food Company are distributing free food throughout the area on April 3rd. The Company will be visiting the Bowmanville High School, North Liberty Street in Bowmanville on the above date at 5.00 p.m. and will distribute the free food to those in need. Recipients will be from low income families, disabled and senior citizens.Proof of being on welfare, mother's allowance must be exhibited for the food. McCain's .storage premises were destroyed by fire and having ho storage they are distributing a large shipment free through a joint effort of the company and the Emergency Measures Organization and Social Services Deaprtment. TO ELECT COUNCILLOR MAY 12th . The Town of Newcastle council has passed that an election will be held on May 12th to elect à municipal councillor to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Counc. Don earn for the former Darlington Township ward. Closing time for nominations will be Monday, April 21st at 5.00p.m. It has also been; reported that Mrs. Cowman of the Courtice area will not now be a candidate in the elction. WILL SEEK NDP LEADERSHIP Ed. Broadbent, who two months ago said he would not be seeking the leadership of the national NDP party has now changed his mond and will seek the nomination later this year at the leadership convention, Broadbent has been the interim leader in the house of commons following the personal defeat of David Lewis in the last federal election. PREMIER WILL NOT ATTEND Due , to the fact that the Premier of Ontario has previuos committments lie will be unable to attend the official opening of thé new Pines Senior Public School on May 28th. The Board are now seeking to have the; Minister of Education attend, Mr. T. Wells. approved a committee re-, commendation to offer tin- , gppoi: tijn i ty to .th < nmmrinal - : ity to include facilities for community use in the project. The costs of these; facilities, whatever they may; be would be born by the municipality. In the Bowmanville High School Bowmanville had include^ include^ at their expenses the theatre auditorium. Oshawa wants to takeover all water billing The Oshawa Public Utilities Commission is seeking to do all the water billing for the Region of Durham and have made request to the Region in this matter. At the present time the Oshawa PUC does 65 percent of the billing for the Regional Works Department. . At the: present time the Orono- Hydro electic system continues to issue the bills for water and to collect the revenue from these bills. It appeals that this is to continue for some time other than for the request of the Oshawa PIT request which will go before council sometime sometime in the near future. The issuing of bills and the collecting of monies is a source of revenue for the local hydro system. The Oshawa PUC looks on the work also as a source of revenue. HOLDS $1.5 . MILLION : Further in the merky wallers wallers is the holding of some $1.5 million in a reserve account by the city of; Oshawa which ; was labelled for sewers in the city. The Region has asked that this reserve be turned oyer to the region but as yet Oshawa has held onto the sum awaiting assurance that it will be used for the purpose jt was •(•■ilii'ctcd. - Other municipalities as well as Orono have : turned over reserve funds to the regional works department. In the case of Orono nearly $37,000. has be turned over which is to be used to partially pay for the construction-of the second: well in the village. Recommend building be demolished Two reports submitted to the Town of Newcastle council in July of 1974 recommend the demolition of the Reid Hardware Hardware building in the Main Street of Orono which had been damaged due to a fire in October of 1973. As the result of a Committee Committee of the Whole meeting last week the building inspector, Chas. Warren under the date of March 27th, 1975 has written the owner, J.'G. Reid asking for a reply within thrity days. In the letter the building inpsector asks for the reply within thirty days "that you submit to this office good and sufficient reason or reasons why this department should not ask council for an order for the removal of the remaining portions of the above building and rubble. It appears that the municipality municipality can order the removal of the building in accord with present legislation, through the passing of a resolution. In July of 1974 the building inspector, Chas. Warren submitted submitted a report to council as follows. "I have come to the conclusion that as long as the building is kept boarded up So no one may enter, there is very little danger of walls collapsing. Both the front and rear wails are solid, the danger is within the building itself. I would suggest that the remains should be removed as soon as possible as there is no feasible way of. rebuilding within the present walls." ; At the same time the Newcastle- Town . Fire Chief also submitted a report as follows. "Due to the fire, the interior structural members are in very hazardous condition. condition. In my opinion adverse weather conditions or high winds could produce hazards associated with progressive collapse, due to sever overload overload of the floors and ceilings. I would recommend that action be taken for the demolition of the interior. It was also noted that the Orono Hydro Commission had termed the building as being unsafe. Counc. Kirk Entwisle brought brought the matter before the meeting of the whole in the latter part of last week. It will now go before council for their consideration.' Durham Co-op shows record year in sales Plan activities for education week During education week in the latter part, of the month of April schools in the area have completed plans for various activities. The Orono Public School is preparing a list of activities to which parents are to be invited. They will take the - form of displays, performances performances and activities. Further details will be available later. The Pines Senior Public School will hold a Oral communication contest with the preliminaries on April 17th and 18th. The finals festival and entertainment is planned for April 23rd from 7:30:to 10:00 p.m. There wili also be a games night and dance for parents, teachers and staff to be held on April 18th. Further to these activities open house will be held on April 22nd and April 24th when parents may visit classrooms, art, project displays displays and a science fair. in Kirby written invitations have been sent to parents to visit the school. As well a school committee evening has been planned with one parent giving a film presentation on Japan, Lockhart's Public School is presenting a metric study for parents on April 21st along with an Oral Communications contest. Parents are also being invited to attend the school to assist wi th the school program. , The Durham County Farmer's Farmer's County Co-operative in Orono held their annual meeting last Monday evening showing in their financial report a big upswing in business as well as a large increase in their net savings for the year. Total sales for the Co-operatives Co-operatives for 1974 totaled $950,880 compared with $643,703 in 1973. The increase is due to serving a larger area as well as extending the various items in stock. Mr. Louck's sees some of the increase due to inflation but felt the major portion of the increase was due to increased business during the year. The net savings for the year van its amount of $63.044 compared with $35,544 in 1973. The meeting passed a motion at the meeting that a 4 percent patronage return be issued on member's purchases- purchases- during the year. This amount will be paid sometime sometime in the future. The Board was also given authorization to payoff the declared 1969 patronage dividends. The patronage patronage dividends for 1974 are éxpected to amount to somewhere somewhere around $20,000.00. Some seventy members of the local Co-op attended the annual meeting held in the Oddfellow's Hall in Orono. Following the business session session of the meeting the group were entertained by the Allin family with their singing and (Continued naseS) A few geraniums out in bloom preparing a large: root system for the rigors of the coming summer.