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Or,ono Weekly Times, Wednesday, November 24th, 1976 Ross i b lësto p I i ghts along higway 115 It appears that consideration consideration is being given for the installation of stop lights at the Kirby and Taunton road intersections with Highway 115. Mr. George Cameron, a member of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of edcuation from Ward 3 revealed revealed this information following following a meeting last week with representatives of the Minstry of Transportation . and Communications. The meeting was held at the Clarke High School and also included Mr. Witherspoon, principal, the Superintendent of Schools, Doug. Moffatt and the Highway department representatives. representatives. Mr. Cameron said it appeared appeared a good possibility that the Ministry mav erect stop lights at the two intersections, Kirby and Taunton road, He said no consideration was being given to such at the Clarke High School nor did lie see any change in the Ministry policy with stopping at Enternrise. He did say that the Ministry is now listening to them over the problem and are as a result looking for solutions, He said there is to be some change in signing along the highway and that some Regional Regional signs are being moved to improve vision at some of the intersections. ' In speaking on school busing Mr. Cameron said that now those dn Bellwood Drive want the bus to travel their road to pick-up children. At the present time students living on the road have to ' walk to the third line for the bus, a distance of no more than three-quarters of a mile at the maximum. Good attendance at candidate forum The running battle between the two candidates for the mayor's office, Garnet Rickard Rickard and Ren Lyall, for the Town of Newcastle continued Monday night at an all-candidates all-candidates meeting held in Orono when attack and counterattack counterattack between the two corn tinued through most of the meeting. It also was apparent that candidate workers dur- the question and answer , •iod presented written que stions to credit either their candidate or discredit the opponent. The meeting was capably chaired by Mr. Jim Stutt of Orono who had the meeting well in control throughout holding the speakers to the pre-arranged time limits for the initial presentation and during the question and answer period. All speakers were seeking election in Ward (Continued page 3) RECONSIDERING fuuT PATROL FOR BOWMANVILLE The Region of Durham police commission is reconsidering reconsidering foot patrols for downtown Bowmanville as requested by the Town of Newcastlé council. A former decision of the commission had turned down the request feeling that Bowmanville had no specific problem requiring requiring such patrols. Counc. Allin told the committee committee of the whole on Monday that if the commission commission did approve the patrols it would only be on a temporary basis and during the evenings. Businessmen in Bowmanville Bowmanville did complain that vandalism vandalism was increasing during during the evenings. Chief Jenkins in July stated that police could respond to a call anywhere in Bowmanville under the present present system within three minutes and felt this was adequate under present conditions. conditions. P1LKEY PICKED AS PRESIDENT OF ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR On Tuesday Cliff Pilkey of Oshawa was elected president president of the Ontario Federation Federation of Labour when he polled 938 votes compared to 681 for incumbent, David Archer. The third candidate, Gordon Gordon Lambert received 135 votes. Mr. Archer has held the position of president for a period of nineteen years. Pilkey, 54, UAW citi?ehship and legislative department director , and an Oshawa Alderman was the first serious serious challenge to Archer and came off the victor. IT'S GOOD TO ' RE HOME AGAIN The Orono aren.a was not long getting into full operation operation fdlowing the, necessary repairs which allowed the use • of the building this winter under certain Conditions» Mr. Earl Taylor had the machinery machinery humming with the last nail being driven into place in , the repairs with the result that the local hockey program was.in operation on Monday evening " of this week. The arena will also now he the site for figure skating under the sponsorship of the Orono Figure Skating Club. Above Lqe Webster pays her dollar to attend the first hockey game in the arena with Shirley "Henry and Joyce Major on the receiving end of the pay-„otit. We learned at the office that the wind velocity outside was a mere ten miles and hour and this gave a leeway of some 25 miles per hour before the building would be closed. The few drifts of some snow flakes were not a problem. After all thé hassle the arena is now in full operation and many a frigid night will be spent along the stands by parents and others interested in the sport. 1 tjappemngs... F I On Monday, Nov, 15th, 1976 at approximately 2:30 pim. a 67-68 Dark Blue Chevrolet with 4 small dent in the right front fender and the rear licence plate hanging down, 'ped at the gas bar and V--or receiving gas the driver produced a handgun and ordered the attendant to hand over the money. The vehicle was last seen heading south on Highway 35 with three occupants. The three suspects are described as follows : No. 1 Male - 6'1" or 6'2", 180-185 lbs., eearly twenties, twenties, muscular build, dark • brown wavy hair shoulder length? silver chain bracelet bracelet left wrist, weeks growth of beard - 'wearing blue jeans and jean jacket - black T-Shirt. No. 2 Male - Early twenties, blonde hair to bottom of ears, reddish-blonde mustache, mustache, wearing red and black checkered lumberjack lumberjack shirt, grey work pants, blue track shoes with white stripes', S'il", 170 lbs., ' medium build. No. 3 Possibly Female - Long brown hair past shoulders,, age 19-20 years, wearing 'blue jean jacket. * ' , If you have any information contact Ontario Provincial Police, Newcastle - phone 987-4060 or 623-3384. Will be treated as confidential. BACK TO BATTLE Dr. Charjes Mcllveen, former M.P.P. for Oshawa is back in the public eye and is making a bid for a seat on the Durham Board of education. Mcllveen ran second to Moffatt in the last provincial election. TOSUGGESTRENTSCHOOL - A committee from the Clarke Museum board met with the finance committee on Monday when it was recommended, that council ask the school board to consider renting the old Kirby school for Museum purposes for a period of seven years at a modest rent. The Board of Education has put a price of "$30,000 on the sale of the building to the Town. The local Museum Board is interested in obtaining the school to use in their program. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER 29th Town council will hold a special meeting on November 29th to discuss the Secondary plans for Courtice, Éowmanville and Newcastle. The meeting is being held in Court Rooni No. 2 at 9:00 am. The next regular meeting of council will be held on December 13th at 7:00 p.m. in the council chambers. ADVANCE POLL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27th An advance poll for W^rd Three is, being held in the Orono Town Hall on Saturday, November 27th from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The poll is, being held for those who cannot vote on December 3rd for various reasons. A person may also vote by proxy by ■going to the clerk's office to complete an application for vpting in this manner. 1 . 96,090 BALLOTS FOE ELECTION <T o undertake the vote in the three Wards in the Town of Newcastle for school board members, local council members,, regional council members, a mayor and a liquor' vote in Ward 1 it requires a total of 96,000 individual ballots. Each voter in all' three wards will be'presented with four ballots on election day or at the advance poll being, held this Saturday at three locations in the TovVn. '