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Orono Weekly Times,, June 16 1976 Second Class Mail Registration Number 6368 Published every Wednesday at the office of u ica ion Roy C. Forrester, Editor Rick Patterson, Advertising Manager COMMUNITY SPIRIT STILL ALIVE It has become quite apparent of retient weeks that local initiative and community spirit is not dead in the Village of Orono. Local projects have been devised and are either now on the planning board or have been completed, The case of the resurfacing of the Orono Tennis court is a prime example of local initiative and pride in the community. The Orono Tennis Club now have the finest courts in the area, all planned and financed by the club itself with no help from outside its own membership, It was completed without even help from the now famous money pot, Wintario. The total cost of the recent project amounted to $6000.00 while funds are now in the treasury of the club for payment of the work completed. The future installation of new lighting for ball, soccer and tennis at the park could also soon be a reality. It is understood that at time of going to press there is some '$5000.00 already donated -to the cause. Here again the initiative comes from within the community, the Chamber of Commerce and they face a project calling for a total cost of $18,000.00. . Besides the above two projects a third undertaking, the largest of all costing close to a half million dollars became a step closer when the Durham Agricultural Society approved the use of landtn the fairgrounds for a new arena-community centre complex. Although there is yet a great deal more to be done before construction will ever begin a first step has been taken. It is such co-operation as shown by the Fair Board that makes a community a good place to live. All in all Orono appears to be healthy, active and thriving. ' municipalities for their staff. , ; That may explain why the councillors had to indulge in such largess. After all, : if a region needs a treasure, where else to look but to some city or county official who is employed at his craft? ' , , . ... . The report found also that regions didn't discriminate against other employees either when wages were settled upon, Investigators found there was a tendency to settle on the highest wage level when employees of municipalities were amalgamated or taken into the regional service. In.other words, we settled for the very highest, presumably getting- the very best in doing so. Of course by offering substantial wage increases to lure senior personnel from the municipalities, the wage scales in -the municipalities have crept .up too. They had to stay in competition. It is all a rather expensive if not vicious circle. Their inquiry concluded that the regions have performed their roles well which may reveal something of a bias. We hardly expected a department of treasury which invented regional government to come right out and say costs had gone up but the services remain pretty much the same. The major cost booster, the investigators claim, was inflation, not that tendency to settle for higher wages. In all, the committee came up with a pretty rosy picture of how well regional governments are Working. But it did not reveal why Premier William Davis promised, as he did during this September election campaign, not to extend this Utopian type of government to all areas of the province. - Oshawa Times * S letter TO EDITOR "How Things Orono" are Done in THERE IS A SOLUTION TO HOUSING , For a number of year there has been a; cry about the lack of housing and the rising cost of such accommodation. Governments of all levels have come up with their own form of solutions but none have ever accomplished a great deal to increase housing and lower the cost. , The problem cannot be solved until governments and people realize that we must live within our means. This is one of the great problems of today and affects not only housing but many other phases of our lives. The fact we now must have at least two bathrooms plus i a bath off the master bedroom, at least three bedrooms, a finished recreation room, fireplaces and floor space amounting to at least 2000 square feet is hardly a sign of living within our deans. These frills certainly add greatly to the cost of shelter and of course as long as people will pay tor these frills they will continue to exist and nowhere can a family on a modest income afford the abode they desire. Housing Minister" John Rhodes in a recent speech pointed out correctly tliat' many municipal governments ■ have also shoved up the cost of housing requiring more than adequate space for living. Twelve hundred square feet should be adequate for the average family but who today builds a • house in this area that small. Municipal governments aiso look for other frills, trees .planted on lawns, underground wiring and other such items that could come over a number of years. Today we build palaces to give shelter when all that is really needed is a home to live in. Take a look around the next time you drive around. Our way of living affects the cost of. housing and no government can overcome this costly attitude. 1 • KEEPING UP WITH JONES HAS COST US A BUNDLE It's taken a number of years to do it, but finally the Ontario treasury department, has noticed that regional governments have been generous to their new staffs. The report comes from the municipal finance branch of the treasury department and applies to all regional governments, some of whicl\ are older than Durham. "Re-organized municipalities tend to pay higher wages to ' their senior administrators than comparable'jurisdictions in ' the province," says the report. And it notes elsewhere that . some regional governments went into competition with area ; In the spring, a general meeting was called to plan Ladie s Lobb Ball. It was discussed and decided that all ages would be able to play as there were no teams for girls from fifteen to eighteen. This ■ was followed with an advertisement advertisement in the'Orono Times, .April 28th -- "WOMENS LOBB BALL ALL AGES," After having paid her registration, being picked on a team, 2 or 3 practices and an exhibition game, plus a new glove, two days before her first game, my daughter was told she could not play. She .was hot eighteen. To add salt to- the wound, I discovered our Director of Recreation did not have backbone enough to straighten straighten this filthy situation out. As to iiis assistant in the Orono office, he told me that lie had nothing to do with it; that he just sat in on the Executive, meeting to "advise". After being Chairman of the General General meeting and giving advice; like this, I would suggest that he- should seek other employment employment where giving advice is; not a requirement. OTTAWA and SMALL BUSINESS ml mmk A pattern for Canada In Canada, attemptsare made to help weaker provinces provinces by transferring income income from the more prosperous prosperous regions through equalization payments, unemployment insurance and other forms of social assistance. This policy prolongs the dependence of the poorer regions while discouraging them from trying to overcome it. It also assumes that transfers can be supported indefinitely indefinitely by continued growth in the other regions. That assumption collapses with the economic- slowdown caused by higher energy costs. • • e The introduction, into a depressed region, of ' publicly-financed projects and industries unsuited to the area distorts the cost and availability of labour to the detriment of local industry. Large shopping ' plazas in cities improverish rural communities by luring business away. Transfer payments to individuals individuals are used to buy goods made outside the region. Yet, instead of correcting this senseless policy, politicians call for more social spending by government to patch up its victims. - , small-scale technology. • » • High energy costs will make much of our present long-haul distribution from centralized production uneconomical. Many centralized; centralized; automated, manu- . factoring >processes made uneconomical by high energy costs will be replaced replaced by local, labour- intensive industry. This is the direction Atlantic Canada and other depressed depressed regions should be taking today. • • • Development depends not <?n goods, but on people developing qualities qualities to sustain themselves. Rural areas of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland need cottage industries where people can màke saleable products in their homes from local materials. New Brunswick needs low-cost, power-driven farm implements implements for small holdings to make the province self- sufficient in food. In the whole Atlantic region, consortia consortia of retailers should be organized to support local suppliers. By KENNETH MCDONALD Instead of trying to copy Central Canada, the poorer regions of the nation should be learning from the Third World. Their problems are the same: surplus of labour and shortage of capital. The Canadian Federation Federation -of. Independent Business predicts that by the year 2800 much of the development in North , America will be patterned on policies now being pursued ' by the Third World - rural industry and Canada cannot support ever-growing transfer payments, payments, nor subsidize the ballooning costs of transportation transportation which are bound up. with the present model of big institutions and big cities. Future development must be geared to a more diffused economic model of stable, self-supporting communities. At this" time, I would like to, thank the editor for the privilege of giving tiie facts as . they have happened. Having lived ,fn Orono all, my life, helped with the baseball for several years and taken many car loads of kids to and from ball games, I find it very hard to swallow, being told by five heartless, selfish strangers my daughter daughter is too young to play bail in a town where tiie motto is "pRONO,. A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE " Just a concerned father and taxpayer, Aleck Moffat. PROCLAMATION The Council of the Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE resolves that June 20 to 26,1976 A shall tie observed as "Senior Citizens' Week" h in .. THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE f » In compliance with the aforesaid resolution, - I hereby proclaim June 20 to 26, 1976 - as y 1 • "Senior Citizens'Week" . • . • - ■ : in , 1 , THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE G. B. Rickard Mayor