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J Sambo was a great h,it with everyone at the recent Father and Son banquet held in the basement of the Orono United Church. Above Brad Heard is trying his hand at operating Clarke judo club a Wintario winner The Clarke Judo Club has become a winner as far as, Wintario is concerned and ! they didn't even have to purchase a ticket on the| biweekly draw. The local' Clarke Club was granted a sum of $1,025.00 from the Wintario fund for the purchase purchase of mats for the children's children's judo program and to expand a physical fitness program for the community. The Clarke Club operates every Saturday out of the Orono Youth Centre in the Orono business section. Mr, Peterg of Orono instructs at the weekly sessions. The grant to the Clarke club is one of 14 announced recently by Robert Welch for ijappemngsi... r OPEN BRANCH IN BOWMANVILLE Wallace Auto Supply Co. who I vive been operating an auto supply store in Orono for the past number of years have now opened a branch in Bowmanville. Thé Bowman ville store is an associate store with McfCerlie and is located on the side side of Ring Street east. Mr. Fraser Wallace will manage the Bowmanville store which opened under the .Wallace banner this week. SNOWMOBILE BLOWS UP Murray Taylor suffered injury to his upper arm over week-ago when his snowmobile motor blew-up while he wa '•tempting to start the machine. A piece of metal from thi • >tor pierced the. bone in his upper arm, now in a sling. Injuries seem the or^er of the day with Wayne Mercer slipping on some ceramic, title with'a piece piercing his hahd . At the time he was working at the Esso station south oi Enterprise Hill which is to be' turyed into a driye-ii restaurant. GM PRODUCTION l it HIRING ADDITIONAL 335 General Motors of Canada have announced the hiring of 435 new employees to boost production of full-size cars and trucks. Of these 335 Will be hired in Oshawa with 100 in St. Catharines. On February 23 production of Chevs and Pontiacs will increase to 50 units per hour from 40. This will be further increased on March 15th to 55» units. Cuts are being made in the U.S.A. due to lack of interest in the subcompacts: WANT TO MEET WITH HYDRO The Town of Newcastle have asked Mr. Holliday of Leighton and Kidd to arrange a meeting with Hydro officials to attend the next meeting of the .Committee of the Whole to discuss establishment of' the Lia son Committee .and the financing of this committee. EXPECT TO DISCUSS RIDGE PINE PARK AMENDMENT The Town of Newcastle Planning Department has informed the Regional Planning Department that the Planning advisory Committee expects to discuss the Ridge Pine Park Amendment to the Interim plan at H the second meeting in March of the committee. They expect at that time to have available the Region's study on the subject of mobile homes. ' Orono Credit Union surges ahead Sambo and Puppet tap dancer With some, instructions from Mrs! Gladys Brpwn. Mrs. Brown sure had the technique in operating the dancer and with recorded music playing had Sambo tapping out a rhymetic dance on the fibrating fibrating board. With jointed ankles, knees, hips and arms Sambo had lots of action and lots of rhythm. the Region of Durham. Mr. Welch is minister of Culture and Recreation for the provincial provincial government. By far the largest grant went to the Oshawa Little Theatre in the amount of $150,000 to con struct a new stage and workshop facilities. The Osh (continued on page ft) Church has increase in givings In spite of strikes, inflation and unemployment The United United Church of Canada managed managed to top its 1975 budget of $13.8 million, it was announced announced this \yeek. The final figure was. $13,800,035, up 7 per cent from the 1974 total Of $12,767,871. "More money from the same people has been the pattern for the past several years," said the United Church Church official responsible for fund raising. Rev. M. Jewitt Parr, secretary of the department department of Stewardship Services, Services, paid particular tribute to the United Church Women for again exceeding their objective objective in contributing $2,109,510 as their share of the Mission and Service Fund. Church members also responded responded generously, to the, special 50th anniversary, fund of the church in 1975, contri-, buting $247,303 for three projects : an international youth exchange, underprivi- ledge children and education. The United Church's financial financial goal for 1976 is $15,200,000, an increase of ten per cent. "Just to keep even with inflation," Mr. Parr said. The memners of Orono District Credit Union held their annual meeting in the Newcastle United Church Sunday Sunday School room on Feb. 17. The ladies of the Ü.C.W. served an excellent roast beef: dinner. Mr, Douglas Moffatt, MPP .who was scheduled to be the speaker for the. evening was:' unable to attend due to an emergency ■ meeting having' been called in Port - Hope, pertaining to the radiation problems there. Mr. Pat Lawlor.MPP for Lakeshore filled in for him. In his opening remarks Mr. Lawlor congratulated those present on having a person of Mr. Moffatt's ability to represent represent them. Mr. Lawlor went on tc speak of our economic situa . tion saying that much as wage and price controls were to be regretted he felt they were s necessity at this time. He also stated that the cases where the welfare system was being abused were negligible and this was one field where no cutbacks should be made. f Mr. Lawlor spoke from experience, experience, having had considerable considerable contact, with people requiring welfare in his riding. riding. „ ■ Sterling Mather thanked him for coming and speaking to us, and presented him with a letter tray donated by Curv- piy, Mrs. Werry, the Treasurer- Manager, gave a report which showed an increase in assets . of $56,527 (39.6 per cent ) over the,assets at the end of 1974. One of. the highlights of the year was that a group of salaried personnel of St. Marys Cement Company join- : ed the Credit Union and were granted, payroll deduction privileges by the company. Our membership increase by 10.3 per cent over last year. Shares were up by 33.6 per cent and members' deposits by 143.8 per cent but loans increase only by 19.7 per cent. Of each income dollar, 44.7 cents was available to be returned to the members in the form of dividends and interest rebates. • . ' * Mr. C. Banks, Manager of the Oshawa Branch office of C.I.A.G. was asked to conduct the election. Members elected to the Board of Directors for a three year term were : Angus Louc- ks, Orono ; Mel Hartwig, Orono, and Alan Raby, Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Harvey Robinson was elected to the Credit Committee and Mrs. Grace Wigley to the Supervisory Committee. Mp. W. Kean presented framed certificates commemorating commemorating 21 years of service to the Credit Union to Mr. Russell Osborne and Mr. Charles Gilkes. Both men are charter members of the Credit Union. Mr. Osborne has been on the Board of Directors and on the Credit (continued on page 3) In honour of Sir Lord Baden-Powell Over the past week-end the scout and guide movement in Orono paid honour to the founder of scouting and guiding guiding through a number of activities in which both took part. On Saturday evening the Scouts as well as the Cubs and Beavers were, guests of honour'along honour'along with their fathers at a Father and Son banquet. Sunday both the scouting and Girl Guide groups attended a church service at the Orono United Church. At this service two All round Cords were presented to two Orono Girl Guides. The father and son banquet held in the basement of the Orono United Church filled ,. the basement with young boys •representing Séoüts, Cubs and Beavers and fathers. A roast beef dinner was served by the ladies of the Orono U.C.W. and enjoyed by everyone. Mr. H. E. Millson, chairman chairman of the Orono Group Committee was master of ceremonies for the evening introducing members of the Group Committee and the leaders iri the various groups. In paying tribute to the leaders Mr. Millson pointed out: that these leaders were most interested in the well-being well-being of the boys assisting in the preparation of these boys for the future. He also spoke of the training in scouting for the boys of the community. The leaders were introduced introduced to the gathering being, Mrs. Diane Cowan; leader of the Beavers with assistants Mrs. Margaret Bradley, Mrs. Bonnie Reid, and Marcel Charland. Mrs. Betty Char- land was introduce^ as lead.er of the Cubs with Mr. Nick Janusshewski. Mrs. Marilyn Garrison, Mrs. Gail Poller, miss Monika Konzelmann,* Mark Charlând and Mr. Robert Tompkins, assistants. The scouts are headed by Mr. George Charland with 'assistants, 'assistants, Mr. Dave Brun ton, Mr. Robbie Reid and Mrs. Brian Myles. Mrs. Nancy Berrie and Mrs. Irene Konzelmann, members of the Group committee presented engraved spoons to each leader and a special broach to Mrs. George Charland Charland and for her continuing efforts in scouting. Presentations were made oh behalf, of the Orono Group Committee. Each group in the scout movement then presented a short program outlining some- feature of their weekly meetings, meetings, Mr. Jack Hartwell, a scout leader from Bowmanville Bowmanville showed slides of the fourteenth World Scout Jamboree Jamboree which was held last year in Norway. Some 17,000 scouts from ninety-two different different countries attended the Jamboree. . AN ENTERTAINING ' FEATURE Possibly one of the highlights highlights of the evening was the entertainment provided in the form of a sing song and à puppet tap dancer. Mr. Lynn' Brown- accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Gladys Brown conducted a sing song with action gestures throughout which kept the boys and their fathers alert. Mrs. Gladys Brown earned a great round of applause with Sambo, her tap-dancing puppet which was a great delight for everyone. The father and son banquet was the second such annual banquet held locally in the past few years. Mr. Millson iputlined thé founding of Scouting Scouting in. 1857 by Sir Lord (continued on page 3) Sunday morning at the Drono United Church service two All Round Cords were presented to two Orono Girl daughter Eleanor aou Miss Guides. Pictured above are Ruth Tate with her motliet Mr, Harold McKnight and ' Mrs. Jean Tate.