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Orono man drowns on fishing trip Dave Hinton of Orono cheeky in after some 125 rounds in the Roll-A-Thon last Thursday with Fran Lunri ' who is keeping tabs on rounds made by skaters. .Hinton completed 200 rounds of the arena in much less than an hour with each round,' from reports given the Times, netting the arena fund close to three dollars. It is expected that Dave will pump in at least close to $600 through the Roll-A-Thon. to the arena fund. Dave, working working at GM, signed up a goodly m » : «HKM number of his co-workers at the plant as sponsors and will certainly give a big lift to the total funds raised through the Roll-À-Thon. Mrs. Lunn who assisted with the promotion through the Orono Figure Skating Club said it was, remarkable the response to the Roll-A- Thon and that it was an easy way to provide financial support to the arena fund, much easier than catering to banquets at a net income of perhaps one or two hundred dollars. To investigate special truck route Leskard area Council of the Town of Newcastle on Monday gave authority for a feasibility study relating to a special truck route for the hauling of aggregate from the Leskard area. The resolution from the Public Works committee pointed to the exorbitant problems resulting from the moving of aggregate. Town • staff are now to undertake a feasibility study as to the establishment of a truck route for aggregate, in particular from the Leskard area southwest. southwest. The resolution also requests the necessary fieldwork be undertaken to determine the cost estimates for such an alternative route. The cost of the study is not to exceed $5,000.00. : One third of the cost of the study is to come from thé Station account of Ontario Hydro with the remainder from the reserve account from the sale of road allowances. allowances. A fishing trip to Caribou Lake, a small lake in Burrows Township, 100 miles north of Gogama ended in tragedy for Reid Cyrus Cochrane, 41, of Orono and two companions ' from Oshawa, William Curtis, 48, and Milton Arthur Hunter, 50. The thyee General Motors employees left the week-end of July 21st for their fishing trip to Caribou Lake and were expected home either last Thursday or Friday. They travelled to Gogama in a camper-pick-up truck owned by Reid Cochrane. ' As the trio did not return Mrs. Joan Cochrane of R.R. North Orono asked the Gogama Gogama Provincial Police on Sunday to launch a search for the men. She had said her husband would have phoned if he had intended to stay longer than planned. Reid had been expected home to babysit their five-year-old daughter Monday when Mrs. Cochrane went to work in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Mrs. Curtis had also expected expected her husband home on Friday as - the family had intended to visit his brother in Janetville over the week-end. According to Constable John Tunn of the Gogama Provincial Police the bodies were taken from Caribou Lake Monday. A lake one- quarter of a mile wide and a mile long. He said it seemed apparent that the boat had overturned and the bodies were found not far from shore. It is thought,that the accident accident occured on July 24th. Constable Tunn said he Understood that two of the men were weak swimmers with the third not being able to swim. He said none of the men were wearing life jackets. jackets. Reid Cochrane, either himself himself or in company with Milton Hunter hasbpem fishing in Northern Ontario for the past ten years. Fire hall move to hydro building? Hydro line jjappemngs... I WILL AFFECT PETERBOROUGH The move by the federal government to cancel a number of planned moves of government departmens out of Ottawa will affect the City of Peterborough. It was expected that 200 jobs would have bepn created in the city with a section of the income securities offices being moved to Péterborough. This has been cut by the federal government apd the Mayor of Peterborough now states that their council will have to revise their planj for a one-block area in the downtown improvement plans. PARK ALIVE AGAIN With the resumption of the second phase of swimming lessons at the Orono Park the park again comes alive in the mornings. All classes are included in the second phase of the program which is under the sponsorship of the Department of Recreation for the Town of Newcastle. APPOINTED GRAND" STEWARD V. Wor, Bro. D.E. Devolin of the Orono Masonic Lodge has been appointed one of fifty-eight Grand Steward^ at the annual meeting held in Toronto recently. Last year D.E. Devolin acted as GrandSecretary for Rt. Wor. Wayne Bailey who was elected District Deputy Grand Master for the local area district for the term of 1978-79. Jack Penfound of Oshawa was elected District Deputy Grand Master for the fraternal organization at the recent annual meeting and.for the term 1979'80. TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE Tickets are now available for the annual Beef Barbecue to be held in the Orono Park on Wednesday, August 22nd. All arrangements have been completed for the event by the Orono and Area Chamber of Commerce who co-sponsor the event with the Department of Social Services for the Town of Newcastle. Tickets are available from Chamber members as well as a number of stores in Orono including the Orono Weekly Times. PARK BOOTH OPEN The Orono Park Booth is now open and operating during the day and evenings. Bud Fanning, Director of Social Services, said they had been able this year to rent the booth for the rest of the season. SPLASH DEFERS DECISION TILL END OF AUGUST The SPLASH committee, promoting a new indoor pool and'squash courts in the Town of Bowmanville met Monday evening and as a result of the meeting will make a final decision as to the project by the end of August. The Splash Building committee are to up-date the cost of the project while the Finance committee are to confirm the support of the project from organizations and the people of le community. With this* information available a final ^--'decision is expected tv ie end of August. , Orono telephone rates remain unchanged An increase in local telephone telephone rates has been approved approved for the Community Telephone Co. of Ontario Ltd., Ontario Telephone Service- Commission Chairman Mrs. W. Bielski, Q.C. said today. The 'commission ordered Community Telephone to prepare prepare and submit a revised rate structure which will generate additional local service service revenues of $156,742, a 7.2 percent average increase. .When the rate structure has been reviewed, the OTSC will ' set the date the new rates will become effective. The commission also ordered ordered the company to freeze rates at their present level for basic telephone service in the Erin, Hillsburgh and Orpho exchanges. A hearing held in the Erin and Hillsburgh area last December attracted over 250 people, and a similar hearing in Orono during" March had over 300 in attendance. The commission stated in its order that, given the voluminous negative response response to the service being provided by the company from customers in - these areas, it could not permit rates to increase in these three exchanges at this time. The company filed its (Continued page 2) Pleasant setting for concert ' Following a report from Fire Ctiief, Jim Hayman, the Community Services Committee Committee recommended to council council of the-. Town of Newcastle that in the event of the transfer of the Orono Hydro Building and offices to a central offjee consideration be given to thé feasibility of acquiring the building for the Oropo Fire .Station. The Orono Hydro building is presently owned by the Town of Newcastle and rented rented by Orono .Hydro. It is expected with the restructuring restructuring of the three local hydro utilities within the Town into a single commission the offices will be removed from Orono * and the use of the building as a depot for. Hydro would not be needed. According to a councillor's , statement at the meeting on ■ Monday when the Community Services recommendation was approved by council it was said that the fire chief had reported that the Orono Hydro Building would be suitable for the re-location of the Orono Fire Hall. m service 1980 Council was informed on Monday that the new transmission transmission hydro line that passes through south of the Town of Newcastle will be ip service as of May 1st, 1980. The statement was made by Mr. Chris Taylor of Ontario Hydro- who sought but was 4emed permission to' show a twenty minute film- to council on tne hydro area development both at Darlington and also relating relating to the transmission line. Taylor stated that work would commence in late August or early September in stringing the wire and that' the line was expected to be operating in early 1980. . He informed Counc. Slarke on question that some of the power would be coming from the Pickering plant. Counc. Clarke stated that ' Ontario Hydro had raped the countryside and further stati ed it was a discusting mess. Some fifty to sixty availed themselves of the opportunity to attend the band concert Sunday afternoon at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. R. Morton. The Oshawa Civic band members who were holding their annual picnic at the farm entertained with a good' i selection of musical numbers to the. delight of all in attendance. 1 ' I , »