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4-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 9th, 1980 Scenic Orono Park A trip to the Orono Park on Sunday found the local park'; jammed with a number- of family picnics with every thing in full swing throughout, the entire park. Contrary to some recent reports the park is well groomed and neat with grass over the entire property being cut. The use of the park on Sunday must surely be an indication of its popularity as to the local area for family picnics. Not satisfied with Library answers Mrs. Helen Schmid spoke at the Council-Library Board meeting last Thursday stating stating she had written a letter asking information as to the termination of her daughters employment with the Board. She had been working at the Bowmanville Library as a permanent employee. Mrs. Schmid said she had received a reply to her letter but it had said nothing. She also stated that her daughter has also met with the head librarian to discuss her term ination and was unable to get any response to her questions. Bill Montgomery, board chairman, said it was a policy of the board to not discuss any matter about an employee with anyone other than the employee themselves. He said if Miss Schmid was dissatisfied with her meeting with the head librarian he would be glad to meet her but in no instance would the board make comment other than with the employee herself. herself. Mainstream Canada The Real Big Spenders By, W. Roger Worth Tlte message from 1 the top has been a plea for Canadians to tighten their belts, spend less, save more, and generally: act a little more responsibly. While the input from government government leaders may be useful at a time when high inflation and a deteriorating economy are taking their toll, federal and provincial politicians seem to have difficulty following following their own advice. A few examples: • While all government leaders find it necessary to travel, New Brunswick"'Premier Brunswick"'Premier Richard Hatfield perhaps holds the Canadian record for leap-frogging from New York, to London, to Paris. In 1979, for example, he was on the road for 168 days (about five months) and spent an estimated $50,000. Roger Worth is Director, * Public A /fairs, Canadian Federation of Independent Business. < • Alberta is blowing $75 million million on a provincial birthday party and cash is flowing lige oil to finance every conceivable conceivable project, including a tem porary "Niagara Falls" in Edmonton, • In Ontario, the government is red-faced over g $15,000 grant to help send a car racing team to Europe. The car, carrying carrying Ontario insignia, was supposed to be viewed by 300 million people watching the televised race, the team failed to qualify for the event. • Then there's Ottawa, the granddaddy of Canada's big spenders. It's enough to say ths)t this year's federal government government deficit will probably surpass surpass $14 billion, or more than $1,300 for every working Canadian. The point is that Canadians Canadians can perhaps be excused if they have difficulty believing believing government leaders who talk about restraint, yet seem to have problems practicing what they preach. If Canada's politicians are really serious about their belt tightening messages, ■ they should make more concerted efforts to . cut unnecessary budget items and excessive spending. Then, even hard-pressed independent business people might Have confidence that those pleas from the top are meaningful. * NO CHANGE IN LIBRARY RESTRAINT PROGRAM (Continued from page 1) ville Library and stated these charges were only minimum and hardly paid for the clean-up after. They also said it eliminated some of the security problems being experienced experienced at the library. It was stated at the meeting that a part-time employee was one who worked less than twenty hoitrs a week while a full-time employee was one who worked twenty hours or more. The reduction in staff affects ten part-time and one full-time employee. As to the expansion program program in Newcastle Village Montgomery said the decision to expand had been made prior to budget and required $600.00 for some renovations by the bôard and a rental fee of $1500 a year. He said the board felt it necessary to get the added space now when it was available. Where in the past the Orono library operated with 56 hours of staff time plus 19 hours with pages the library is now to operate with 38 hours of staff time with the continu- • ation of page hours! The • Newcastle Village library '.operates with th" 1 same number number of staff hours. One employee spends 10 hours in Orono and 10 hours in Newcastle. Counc. Hobbs and Counc. Cowman said they had not heard any complaints over the cutbacks. Counc. Barr said this was not the case in Ward 3 and pointed out that the cut in open hours at the two Ward 3 libraries was by 14 hours at each branch while in Bowmanville the cut was a mere 6 hours. " ' Counc. Barr said he was upset over the fact that the board had chosen to eliminate people rather than books for the one year period. You have affected people's jobs, he said. "To my knowledge the laying off of staff was never discussed with council," he said. Counc. Clarke said he had" not been under any illusions and further said it had been spelt out to council by the board. Following the meeting Counc. Barr said statements being made at the meeting were contrary to that being told him in private. He said 1 the matter is not yet finished. WILL RUN FOR REGIONAL COUNCIL (Continued from page 1) Social Planning Council and has attended a number of workshops concerning ser- : vice to people and is confident that she can help the individual individual as well as the com- .munity as a whole. She said after attending a number of council mèetings there are things she is not quite satisfied with. She said she is not against council as a group or as individuals but claims there is a need for new people and new ideas. fn making her choice to run for Regional council she ' points out that many of the areas in which she holds a great interest are dealt with by regional council. Regional council as well as the municipal municipal council does affect local people, their well-being and their services. Harare also pointed out that people are concerned over the system, the economy and taxation. Diane Harare, 41, is married married and has 4 children, living with her husband and family on Church St. N., who attend the Pines Senior Public School, School, Clarke High School, Sir Sandford Fleming Community Community College. Graduates Mrs. Trade Hazeldeti, daughter daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stutt, Orono, passed with honours and received her Bachelor of Education and Ontario Teacher's Certificate from the Faculty of Edu cation at the "University of Toronto. Trade also holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Home Economics awarded in 1979 from the Ryerson Institute Institute of Technology. •mt. he Uiost important thing to remember when you're working with electricity is simply this: always keep a little common sense between you and your electricity. * Common sense 1 means waiting until your fJ' lawn is dry before cutting it with an electric mower. And never building a tree house close to power lines, where children could be seriously injured. There are many other ways to practise electrical safety. And they all have one very important thing in common. | yT . .Common sense., Ontario hydro