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N D P supports nuclear power Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 11th, 1976 MPP. Doug Moffatt for Durham East on Thursday opened his constituency office at 26 King Street West, Bowmanville. This office will be open frofn 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with Vi Pilkey in attendance during these hours to give assistance. Mr. Moffatt Moffatt will be at the office on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday mornings betwe'en 10-:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. He will continue to visit the Oshawa office which he shares with Mike 1 fjappentnas... I ALL IN THE COMMUNITY EFFORT Mr. S. Mather on behalf of the Orono Firefighters wishes to thank a group of local ladies, Mrs. R. Sutcliffe, Mrs. Peggy Blaschke, Mrs. Donna Scott, Mrs. Donna Hutton, Mrs. M, Thompson, Mrs. E. Gordon, Mrs. Bonnie Reid and Mrs. Ruth Yeo who catered to the Christmas banquet for the firefighters and their wives and who have since returned a sum of $50.00 to the firefighters to be handed over to the Muscular Dystrophy fund. The donation from the ladies is the profit from catering the banquet which incidentally was enjoyed by everyone. A fine community spirit by all concerned. MAY SOON ANNOUNCE SITE FOR OSHAWA FAIR R may be that the Oshawa fair is not entirely dead yet. According to Bill Reid, j chairman of the South Ontario Agricultural Society's fair relocation committee he hopes to be able to announce a new site for the fair in the near future. Apparently several sites-are being considered by the committee. The Qshawh fair was not held in 1975 due to having no home. PIG BROTHER ASSOCIATION FOR NEWCASTLE A move is under foot for the formation of a Big Brother group in the ToW of Newcastle. Presently a steering committee is at work drumming up interest in the group with a meeting being held in Bowmanville tonight, Wednesday. The Big Brothers ultimately provide fathers for fatherless, boys-- One Man-One Boy. . >N TELEVISION TONIGHT, FEBRUARY 11th ' Allan Lawrence,-. MÇ for ' Northumberland Durhafn riding will be a guest on The Editorial Page, Channel 12 fron 7.30 to 8.00 p.m. Re has been invited to discuss the radiation problem in Port Hope. COULD IT EVER HAPPEN INORQNQ? Four women in Caesarea have unsuccessfully since last August endeavoured to become part of that communities fire fighting force. It,is now reported that the girls are taking ' their case to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for a ruling. Apparently the Caesarea chief have ruled no women and other men of the department claim they will resign if the women make the force. We were wondering how Chief Mercer would handle such a case if it were to happen in Ororio. TOWN TURNS DOWN $3 MILLION OFFER The Town of Newcastle on Saturday morning turned down an offer of $.3 million. The offer was made by Milani *nd Milani, Holdings Ltd. conditional on the town approving 533 acres of combined residential and industrial development west of Waverly road by Highway 401. The first phase of development would include 1000 dwelling units along with industrial development. The area under consideration has been retained strictly agriculture in the fourth stage plan of the region. Mayor Rickard is reported to have said he could not approve the procedure Milani was taking to gain Breaugh for appointments .from 7:00 p.m. on Friday evenings. The local MPP was assisted in the opening of the Bowmanville Bowmanville office by NDP leader, Stephen Lewis. The phone number at Bowmanville, 623- 9155. Lewis warns of possible election Stephen Lewis at the opening opening of the Moffatt constituency constituency office in Bowmanville stated there would be a division in the legislature if the Ontario government did not revise its stand on costs cuts in the health and welfare departments of the province. He said before anything more is done by the province in such cuts the Minister of" Health, Frank Miller, should provide to the government all support material concerning these cuts. He was critical of the closing of some hospitals and the proposed closing of a number of Ontario Health labs. Lewis repeated the- hint of an election over the health cuts at'Durham College and at a meeting of the Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce. NDP Leader Stephen Lewis in a press conference last Thursday with Doug Moffatt, MPP stated that the NDP as part of their policy' did support nuclear power stations. stations. He furthered this statement statement by saying that the CANDU reactor manufactured manufactured in Canada was excellent. He did say however that it was possible that Hydro wanted too many plants in Ontario. Lewis said the NDP had been critical of Hydro in thëir growth plans based on a 7 per cent growth factor. He said this was far too high and is now showing to be from 5 to 6 per cent which may allow in cutting out some future nuclear nuclear plants: Doiig Moffatt said he favoured favoured an independent study other than by hydro on the proposed Darlington plant. He also said the Town of Newcastle Newcastle council was determined to have a say in the development and felt there were a lot of problems. In referring to a Thursday morning meeting Mr. Moffatt said that the clerk •of Port Elgin had said that if given ,the choice again over the Bruce Station that the municipality would again welcome welcome the project but under somewhat different terms. It was pointed by the local MPP that the government could place the hydro station in the Town of Newcastle with Newcastle having no say whatsoever. Stephen Lewis stated that under the new organization of Hydro they are for the first time accountable accountable to the province. This, he said, was most welcomed. In commenting on the acceptance by the government government of the Soldant Commission Commission report for the transmission transmission line from Lennox to Oshawa Moffatt stated that it appeared to him that the provincial government took the least line of public resistance. He said it did not solve anything and suggested the power line should have been buried beside the. railway. railway. Hydro will not discuss burying the lines, he said. approval. Counc. Entwisle, who made the motion turning down the offer suggesting the developer make a direct submission to the region. • 1 SPONSORING HERITAGE DAY CRAFT The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club are sponsoring' Heritage Day craft in the community with Heritage Day being Monday, February 16th. The Orono Library over the past two weeks have had children making macaroni collage and this Saturday awards of silver dollars will be presented to the winners. Both the Orono Public School and the Pines Senior Public School are taking part in the Day and awards' will also be presented at the schools this coming Monday. Plane crashes east of Kirby Bill Katocs, 44, an Oshawa acrobatic pilot was listed in fair condition in hospital after undergoing back surgery for inf juries he received Saturday Saturday morning in a plane crash. Mr.'Katocs, of 1352 Chippewa Chippewa Street, Oshawa, was attempting to land his home built Pitts Special on Regional Road 9, east of Kirby when the crash occurred. A fried of Mr, Katocs explained that He was about to make an emergency landing on the county road but was hampered by oncoming traffic. traffic. He swerved to miss the traffic and crashed into the ditch. Mr. Katocs was taken to (Continued page 3) Pinewood derby big success for local cubs Saturday morning and well into the afternoon the basement basement of the Orono United Church was bulging to its seams with cubs and parents from the district. The final run of the Pinewood Derby was underway with some ninety-six cubs entered in competition both for speed and design. Saturday the final winners were established in the two events, $peed and design, following each pack having run off their competitions in the Orono church on January < 24th.. The Pinewood Derby has become an annual event in cubing in the district and for the past two years this event has been held in Orono. Mr. George Charland of Orono organized the event again this year. Each cub in the district gets the opportunity to participate in the Derby starting with a piece of pine wood while they carve into a speed car. They are also given whèels and pin axles and nothing more is to be added to their cars. Not only do the cubs carve the car out of the pine block but also paint and decorate the car thus being able to compete in ' not only the speed trials but also a competition in design. On Saturday the top four cubs from the twelve packs in the district were in competition. competition. The cubs represented Orono, Hampton, Newton- ville* Janetville, Pontypeol, Enniskillen, Hillcrest Heights Maple Grove and four packs from Bowmanville. The speed trials are held on specially made ramp with six cars in competition in each race. The boys assemble at the finish line and wearing helmets give all the sound effects of a real derby race at Mosport. Parents in many cases are as excited as their boys and when a win is registered a big cheer resounded resounded throughout the basement. Excitement mounted in the final heats to determine the champion of the derby and the dinner-ups. The Orono Pack did quite well with Gordon Hardy placing second -in the speed event while Mark Sargent placed third,out of the 48 entries in the design division. Following the cub events the leaders took over for similar competition which went on until almost three in the afternoon. Gail Pooler of the Orono Pack placed second in the design .division and third in the speed trial. Betty Char- land landed a fifth place finish in the design division. Also representing Jhe Ôrono Pack ! Marilyn Jerrison placed sixth in the backward race. This last event represented all those who had not won in the speed trials. In all it was a good day for the Orono Cubs and their leaders. Gordon Hardy (right) receives receives his trophy for winning second place for speed in the Pinewood Derby. The Derby was held in the basement of the Orono United Church apd Gordon was on Saturday competing against forty-sev en other cubs from the 'district. The trophy is being presented 'by Mr, George Charland of Orono, organizer oftheeyenf. '