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As part of their commitment commitment to the United Nations Year of the Child, Unit One of the Northumberland and Newcastle Women Teachers' Federation are throwing their support behind the upcoming Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic. Clinic. The Clinic will be held on ■ May 2 from 1-8:30 p.m. at the Lions Centre, Beech Avenue, Bowmanville. Pledge cards have been distributed to all teachers in the area. Carol Yeo, committee committee chairman hopes for ioo percent involvement by the teachers. "Some people can't give blood for medical reasons. reasons. We are asking them to give a donation or provide a ride for. other teachers in their school to the Clinic". Money f raised through this campaign will pay for advertising advertising in local papers and purchase the food and drink for the tea room at the clinic. The teachers. are also canvassing local food store managers to obtain staples for the Red Cross tea room. Many service 'groups help with clinics on a regular (Continued to page 2) Pictured above discussing the future program is from left to right, Carol Yeo, Linda Coyle. Rohr (chairman) and Shirley Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 25th, 1979 mrn--m--W tmppenmgs.. Kinsmen bringing circus to town BILL NEWMAN TO SPEAK AT ORONO FAIR MEET Bill Newman, Minister of Agriculture and Food will be the guest speaker at the annual Durham Central Agricultural banquet to be held in Newcastle this coming Friday evening. CAVAN MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE The Master Feed plant located just west of Highway 115 at the north road to Millbrook was'destroyed by fire on Thursday of last week and has been closed down. The early • morning fire caused an estimated $3 to $4 million damage and loss of 1500 tons of grain. Some thirty local residents worked at the plant owned by Maple Leaf Mills Limited of Toronto, The mill serviced customers over a wide area of Ontario and the loss of the mill will put prêssure on other Maple Leaf Mills in the province. SPRÎNG AHEAD , This Sunday the clocks spring ahead one hour to Daylight Saving Time. Saturday also brings about trout season in the area. . HELPING HANDS NEEDED The Orono Arena Fund Raising Committee are holding a meeting in the Orono Arena this Thursday, April 26th at 1 8:00 p.m. It is the intention of the committee to get the fund raising campaign rolling to pay off the'remainder of the cost of the arena complex. Anyone interested in helping are asked to attend the meeting. WILL JOIN ONTARIO LOBB LEAGUE A move is under foot and well on its way to forming an Orono Merchant's Lobb Ball team which will play in a sanctioned league this summer. The local club will be faced with other teams in the league from Pickering, Uxbridge, Oshawa, Scarborough, Bowmanville, Stouffville and other centres. The club will play one away-game* per week with a home game Sunday night at the Orono Park. The Orono team will also be eligible for Ontario and other championship playdowns. At the present time members of the club are seeking support from the Orono merchants for a set of team uniforms. . ALL HAS BEEN QUIET AT CLARKE Some 300 students at the Courtice High School staged a walk -out from classes last Friday and expected support from students i'n Bowmanville and Clarke. They did not receive the . support and students remained in classes at Clarke. Some of the walk-out students at Courtice said they were sick and tired of doing custodian work as well as gain an education. Although 300 walked out the majority of the 1000 students . v d to remain in clasp at Courtice. > , The Courtice students walked along with the picketing custodians. ' On Thursday, May 10th the unique sounds, sights and smells of a real, old fashioned, fashioned, tent Circus will seep into the hearts and souls of children of all ages in Orono as the all new 1979 edition of the Martin and Downs Circus presents 2 performances at 6 and 8 p.m. under the sponsorship sponsorship of the local Kinsmen Club. ' Designed strictly for family audiences and billed as an old *time tent Circus, the Martin and Downs Circus will present present 15 trained animal and variety acts to please young and old alike. i Adults wishing to relive childhood memories or to introduce their children or grandchildren to the magic of the big top, are invited to the Showgrounds at. the fairgrounds fairgrounds on Circus morning, to see the raising of the big top, and the feeding of the animals. 1 • Under the big top, the land ; of spangles and mirth, you will enjoy such favourites as; esteemed equine exhibitions of liberty horses, the antics of with this you might as well ( Continued page2> Mobile homes gain third town approval Town of Newcastle council on Monday night for the third time gave their approval to the Ridge Pine Park mobile home proposal and again are to ask the Region of Durham to modify the official plan to allow this development west of Newcastle Village on the shores of .Lake Ontario. David Rice of Ridge Pine Park addressed council pointing pointing out that the proposal had been in the planning stage for six years. He stated the proposal had been approved in principal by the former Towship of Clarke in 1973, and approved by the Town of Newcastle in principal in 1975 and again in 1977. Rice pointed out that the matter was before the Ontario Ontario Municipal Board and it now appeared that it would come up for consideration within the next three to four weeks. He asked council to pass a motion requesting a modification of the official plan by the ; Region. He said with the modification all coujd save time and money. Rice also pointed out to council that Ridge Pine Park had reached agreement with Ontario Hydro and that Ont ario Hydro was purchasing all of their lands in the proposed development area for use of thé hydro corridor. We do hold an option to buy back a good portion of the land on the condition we can proceed With the development. development. "We also have a letter from Ontario Hydro that they are agreeable of the development development and that the proposal is compatible with the hydro development. It was stated by Rice that there was enough land for 589 to 300 mobile home units and that the units were strictly for senior citizens. He said the development would raise $450,000 in tax revenue. A motion later in the meeting by Counc. Holliday reconfirmed previous approval approval of the development by the Town of Newcastle council council and requested the Region of Durham to consent to a modification of the Regional Official Plan. Mayor Rickard ruled that he could not accept the motion and that it should be a notice of motion. This, he said, was a substantive motion. motion. "If you are going to deal (Continued page 3) Drops in for lunch Multiple Sclerosis Read-A- Thon Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Trudeau dropped in for lunch last Saturday at noon at the Forum Restaurant, south of Orono, while enroute from Peterborough to. Hamilton. It caused quite a stir at the restaurait and a delight for Fred and Maddolene Cancel- liere pictured above with the Prime Minister. He is just an ordinary man said Fred and it was a real honour for Us to have him at the restaurant. To observe the International International Year of the Child, the Orono Public School is participating participating in a Multiple Sclerosis Sclerosis Read-a-thon, Each child receives pledges for a number number of books to bfe read. Last Thursday Ms. Linda Budd representing the M.S. Society presented a film and discussion about the read-a- thon. Pictured above teacher John Witheridge signs up the interested students in his class while, Ms. Budd in the rear is ready to answer any questions.