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llllfllg «il §|||§|| IlSlIIIIII ill siSSISIIISl?' lEpSpi?* S' S N Orono Weekly Times. Wednesday, Decemoer 8th, 1976 :.!.v Neighbours of Mr. Ted Woodyard were out Tuesday morning to pass along congratulations congratulations to the newly elected regional councillor for Ward 3. On the left Mr. Harold Gobbledick while on the right Mr. George Carson. Councillor Councillor Woodyrad was adhering to local by-laws with the shovelling shovelling of snow from his sidewalk Mr. Woodyard in listening to the radio station around midnight Monday night heard a report that he was in third place and that the seat had been won by Mr. Keith Barr. A telephone call shortly after, from the Times office notified Woodyard that he had won the seat. A big change in a couple of minutes. Six new members to Board of Education Six new members have been elected to the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education, four of which are women including Mrs. Margaret Ibbotson of Ward i, ■The Brighton area elected Dr. Galt as a new member while Hastings elected Mrs,} Oliver, Cobourg, Mrs. Parkin, Port: Hope, Mrs. Parker, Orono, Clarke, Newcastle, Mrs. Ibbotson and Bowman- ville Bob Burke all being new to the Board of Education. George Blythe was returned returned to office in the Brighton area while electors in Cob- bappemngd... I DID YOU KNOW? That the C.P. & T. Committee of the Oddfellows and Rebekah Lodges have wheel chairs, crutchesm walkers, hospital beds, commodesand many items for invalids which they will loan free of charge to anyone in the area needing them. All they ask is that you return them promptly after use. ' ROOT TOO DEEP In speaking with Ken Lvall on Tuesday concerning Monday's election he said he had no statement but'would be ■ v mg an article for next week.: On his future plans he said hi- was going "to cool it" until after Christmas but would be remaining in the community as, his and h'is wife's roots are now too deep to pull up. He stated that the polling of 3643 was a sizeable amount throughout the Town. 6 HOUR STRIKE SETTLED General Motors' workers wer out o strike for some six hours Tuesday which was the shortest strike ever for GM. Workers began to return to work Tuesday following the reaching of an agreement between the company and the union negotiators at 6 a.rri. Tuesday morning. It has been agreed that over a three year period and hourly increase of $1.75 would be added to the rate now existing bringirig the total hourly rate to $8.25.. SANTA'S PARTY THIS SUNDA Y Santa's party is being held in the Orono arena this coming Sunday afternoon from'2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The event is for the whole family. Mr. Bob Hazelden has stated there are to be some new features this year eben though Santa will arrive as usual. The activity is sponsored by the Orono and Area Chamber of Commerce and everyone is invited, with or witlÿut skates. PLEASED WITH RESULTS Mrs. Margaret Ibbotson stated Tuesday morning she was pleased with the results of the- election on Monday whereby she was elected to the local Board of education. She ;aid she would hold to her electidn promises, a ) a reduction in -- the empire at Cobourg, BJ transporalion, too many being bused and c) some consideration for a new way into the Clarke and Pines schools and that eventually entrance be closed off to highway 115. ourg and Hamilton Township returned Dr. I. Wilson and Walker. Campbellford returned returned by Johnson. Hope Township Township returned George Humphreys Humphreys with Ward 3 Newcastle returning Wm, Carman and Bowmanville returning Andrew Andrew Thompson with a wide margin. Sid Wordon and Allan Werry returned by acclamation in Ward 1 of the Town of Newcastle. Mrs. Harriet Reisler of Port - Hope an incumbent member of the board was defeated at vthe polls as was Ronald Cook W. H. (Bill) Carman was congratujated Tuesday morn- ' ing as he arrived at work by A big change in Newcast le Counci I Out of a total of seveti on the Town of Newcastle Council there will on January lst.be five new faces with only Mayor Rickard and Council Ion Don Allin from the Town of Bowmanville returning to office. Twq of the new. faces will come from Ward 3 in the persons of E.R. (Ted) Wood- yard of Orono as Regional Councillor and Alfred Gray of Newcastle Village as local councillor. Ward 1 (Darlington) is providing council with a further two new faces ia Bruce Taylor of Enniskillen . area as Regional Councillor and Jasper Holliday of Hamp- , ton as local, councillor. Bob Dykgtra of Bowmanville adds the fifth new face representing representing the Town as Regional councillor. Three present members went down to defeat as a result of the vote on Monday being Regional Councillor Renneth Lyall who sought the position of Mayor, Regional councillor Ivan Hobbs of Bowmanville who again sought fhe same seat on council and who was away behind his competition in the racR Mrs. Ann .Cowman who serves on council as the local councillor for Ward 1 was in a running battle with Bruce Taylor for the Regional council seat and lost out by a (Continued page 9) Garnet Rickard Incumbent Mayor Garnet Rickard received the support of the electorate on Monday to continue as Mayor for anoth-. er two years. The incumbent Mayor took a decided edge over his only opponent, Kenneth Kenneth E. Lyall of Newcastle. Total vote across the municipality municipality for Rickard was 5771 with "Lyall receiving 3643 vQtes. Following the retdrns the Mayor elect stated he attributed attributed his success in the election to the fact that he had confronted the' issues, of which there were a number, and that the electorate had appreciated this approach. Mayor Rickard stated he would be taking a week off. He intends to call the new council together prior to the end of the year on an informal basis nad was Confident of progress over the next two years with the new council. of Cobourg, Hamilton Township. Township. Mr. George Cameron,' an incumbent member for,Ward 3 Newcastle, was also defeat-^ ed at the polls on Monday. Prior to the election Howard Howard Sheppard, Hasting and J.C. MeCuage, Castleton retired retired from the board with Maurice Prout also giving up his seat to run for regional council out of Ward 2 in the. Town of Newcastle. Santa visits Orono jamboree Santa made a big impression impression on the young and old Sunday 'afternoon at the Orono Country Jamboree in th Orono Town Hall. He came dancing happily out on the stage and done a little jig with the M.C. Sterling Mather. Santa drew the- tickets for the lucky winners- and then sat down on stage to chat with the children and hand out candy canes to them all. He then wandered through the crowd shaking hands with the adults and passing out the remainder of his candy canes. Artists to appear on the show was Les Powney from Oshawa, Mel Clingman from Lindsay, Lynn Greer 12 year old tap dancer from Cobourg and Harlie Elder from Baltimore Baltimore on fiddle, Everyone doing an excellent job. The House Band of Fay Adams and the Country Hits (Continued page 2) ■ Mrs. Sid Barrabal) at Rolph's Hardware. Mr. Carman lead the polls to be returned to the Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle Board of education. Carman polled 1297 votes with Mrs, Margaret Ibbotson polling polling ,1109 votes 'to became, a new member op Mie Board of •education from Ward 3.