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I 6-Orojio Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 23rd, 1980 More gifts for champions Presents town medallion Peter Krukkert receives his from Bob Hedges, manager, were all paid for by team hockey bag, coloured team The jackets, bags, photos funds and donations, photo and championship crest Honour coach and manager Mayor Rickard congratulated congratulated the Orono champions on Sunday at their testimonial banquet and presented each player with the Town of Newcastle medallion for their achievement in winning the Ontario championship. Dennis Dennis Klawitter above receives his medallion. Ontario Agricultural Museum Its smiles all around for this group when Gord Lowery, past president of the Orono Athletic presents a Midget jacket to Bob Hedges, manager manager of the Ontario champ ions and with Mike Sawyer, president (right) presenting a Midget jacket to Russ Major, coach of the championship team. Regional councillors to vote pay rise It has been reported that Regional councillors will vote this Wednesday on a pay hike of seven percent. The proposal proposal is apparently from the Management committee of the Region and the hike would also affect the Regional chairman. * If the proposal comes before council and approved it would also have to tie approved by the 1981 Council. The Management committee committee had previously reconv mended a seven percent increase for the chairman along with improvements to a pension plan, As the chairman is not covered by pension the proposal was turned aside. The original review by the committee did not consider a pay increase for council members. Council members are now paid $12,980 which increase with thé seven percent to $13,889. The regional chairman chairman is paid $35,528 and the seven percent increase would increase the annual remuneration remuneration to $38,105, Housing minister speaks at Rotary The Hon. Claude Bennett, Minister of Housing for the Province of Ontario was the guest speaker at the recent meeting of the Bowmanville Rotarv Club. He stated at the meeting that over the past six to seven years housing starts in the province have dropped by fifty percent. He said in 1973 there wçre 100,000 housing •starts in the province com pared to 50,(MX) in 1979. He said this drop in construction 1 has put many construction workers workers out of work. Bennett pointed out that morcthan fifty percent of the homes in the province were more than twenty years old, and many are in need of repair. To increase activity in the building trade,* * he said, „ the province would encourage home renewal by providing loans to municipalities for revitalization of residential and'doWnt,own areas. ' ' > He said the end of the baby boom and the desire for smaller families are largely responsible for the cutback in 1 home construction. The Ontario Agricultural Museum operated by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Agriculture and Fqod tips opened its doors to the public for the 1980 season. Nestled beside the Niagara Ëscarpment, the museum is located on a 32 hectare (80 " açre) site, 5 'kilometres .west of Milton. Last year, in its first full season Of operation, the museum attracted more than 15,000 visitors. This summer, 6 new display areas will, be open with the rest of the museum, from 10 a:m. to 5 p.m. daily, until mid-October. The museum is made up of a number of historic homes and farm buildings, some of which have been moved from various j?arts 0 f the province and reconstructed on the stie. Through" private donations, loans and purchases, the museum has collected more than 17,000 artifacts, including including 125 tractors. One of the major themes of the museum is to reconstruct, farmsteads representing var- ious periods of Ontario rural history. Both an 1830 log house and an 1860 frame ' house have been restored, furnished and now open. A growing highlight of the. museum is tjie Crossroads Community, a typical rural community at the turn of the century. New additions to the community this summer inc lude an early 190Q's John Deere,dealership, a historical disipaly of the evolution of the Massey-Harris company, and an operative shingle mill. A unique end-drive barn, built , in 1882, the Elliott-Harrop barn now houses a display of early implement manufacturers. manufacturers. An 1876 church, originally located in the ListoWel area, will be opening mid-summer. Other buildings include the Women's Institute Hall and the blacksmith's = shop. ' The museum is filled with the past, but it also brings the past to life again with demonstrations pf blacksmith's blacksmith's techniques, shingle making, weaving, spinning and dyeing. A cropping program program is planned this year to demonstrate farm practices. Services available to the visitor include catering facilities!, facilities!, a gift shop, washrooms, .and tractor-pulled wagon rides to tour the grdtinds. Admission prices are $1.50 for adults, $1.00 for senior citizens citizens and students, and 75 cents for children. Special rates are $4.00 for/ families, and $L00 per person for prearranged bus tours. For further information 1 contact: Ontario Agricultural Museum, Museum, P.Ô. Box 38, Milton, , Ontario or phone (416) 878- 8151. ' Campsite* vacancies Check out the campsites still availablfe af 53 Provincial *Parks in Southern Ontario ' before leaving home. , Duringi July and August, the campsite vacancy service operates 7 days a week from 9:00' a.m. to 9:00 p.m. It estimates how many sites in these parks are still unoccupied unoccupied as of 7:00 p.m. each" evening Support yoür local ^^Lung > Association^^2^-3151^