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a>iimo'Weekly 'Tintes, Wednesday, July 30th, 1980 ©roito Meefelp ŒtmeS Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Rvery Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Street, Orono Rov.C. Forrester, Editor ♦ WELL DONE THOU GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , The retirement of Rev. Basil Long from the ministry and from his Orono charge provided those in this community the opportunity to show their appreciation for his dedication in His service in this community. It was fitting that it should happen and this was the case in Orono Sunday evening as well às previously in Kirby. The ministry is much more than the Sunday service and in this Rev. Basil Long was well aware being commited totally to his congregation and community. As stated by Rev. Barr, "he held Christ aloft anddrew all men to Him". We can say no more than 'thank-you' for the part you have played in this community knowing full well that you can be nothing other than satisfied with your ministry. May the future shine down brightly upon Basil and Norma Long. A FLAP OVER MOSPORT'NEW WAVE'FESTIVAL Certainly the promotion of a 'new wave' music festival at Mosport on August 23rd has had council in a flap over the past couple of days. It would appear if council had its way it would turn down such an event in the municipality and it would certainly be the case with the Durham; Regional Police. Council may well never get the opportunity for the proposed upcoming festival. It is understandable that the police force would be opposed to the promotion for it does come at an inopportune time and with little time to prepare for the event. To out the skids to the festival because some people left the area fearing for their safety during the i978 festival may not be justifyable as such action does not point to factual happenings. The arrest of 30 persons out of a crowd of a possible 100,000 is not as Counc. Clarke decribed the event a 'holocaust.'. ' ' Of course no one can guarantee absolute immunity to trouble at the.concert but, such can happen at almost any event which is held where people are involved in large numbers and in fact in lesser numbers in some cases. It did appear to this untrained eye that the 1978 festival was in the most case orderly and newspaper reports appear to have borne this out. Young adults from this community were certainly in attendance and saw nothing wrong with the promotion. It is however a decision of council if they wish to oppose the promotion providing they can and they should have the information available to back up their decision. It would be a misnomer on the part of council, to give their approval on the fact they were part of the action and were financial rewarded as suggested by Counc. Holliday on Monday. A few dollars in the Town treasury may be welcomed but a troublesome évent should not gain support .thorough financial gain on the part of the municipality. Unfortunately it was not the first time on Monday that a suggestion had been made from a -council member as to financial reward. ' These rewards, like any other in the Town come from a municipal service and through legitimate taxation. The safety of local residents is paramount' but we should be careful not to be carried away by emotional rhetoric. * HESf'irÊE: CROWNED QUEEN OF NEWCASTLE CARNIVAL Norma-Lee Duerdon of Crooked Creek was crowned Queen of the Newcastle Lions Carnival last Saturday evening having won out over ten other girls from the area. Norma-Lee will have to await further activities as to the carnival as it had to be postponed due to rain. The carnival has been postponed to be held on August 9th along with an auction, sidewalk sale arid the annual mid-summer dance of the Newcastle Lions Club. The pretty brunette from Crocked Creek says her ultimate goal is to become an actress. TOWN MUST CUT ITS SPENDING A report has been circulated out of the Town treasury that the Town is agan spending too much in 1980 and could again end, at the end of the year, in a deficit positron. The Town treasurer has said expenditures have to be cut in services to prevent overspending. If the present trend set over the past six months continues a large deficit could be expected at the end of 1980. ASKING SUPPORT OF LOCAL BLOOD CLINIC The Canadian Red Cross urge residents of the Town of Newcastle to support their blood donors clinic in Bowmanville at the Legion Hall on August 6th from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m Organizers of the clinic hopes to get some 300 pints of blood. It is pointed 'out that during the summer months supply of blood drops causing a shortage. Letter to Editor Dear Editor: I was very interested to read in the July 16th issue of one of our local papers the reported statement of one of our elected officials that "most of the issues affecting Ward 3 should be resolved by then". (Nov. 10 election). Are we, the residents of Ward 3 (Newtonville, Newcastle, Newcastle, Orono, Kirby, Kendal, Leskard), being a part of the Town of Newcastle, to believe from this statement that the , following issues, all of which affect every taxpayer in the Town of Newcastle, are to be resolved in less than sixteen weeks? Issues such as: -the $400,000.00 plus deficit (so far unexplained) -the $230,000.00 plus shortfall related to the Courtice area storm sewer project -the Newcastle Hydro Electric Electric Commission and whether whether we will have equal area representation or not . -the Leskard Road situation (was this not an issue during the last election?) -the spiralling cost of education education (though local Council has no control in this area should they not at least be taking a stand of concern?) -the cuts in Town of New- . castle Library grants and the resulting cut-backs in service. -the need for improved communications communications with the electorate electorate (e.g. the present library library situation, the report of bills being paid incorrectly on behalf of a local Board without their approval, etc.) -budget expenditures that totalled in the area of 20 percent over the previous year contrary to earlier guidelines (I know our tax increase was kept to 10.5 j percent but that was due to lower Regional and educational educational increases) -the occasions of conflicting motions, wasting time and money (e.g. Orono fire hall - hydro building or no) -Pine Ridge Training School - to have or not to have (again, conflicting reports, motions, fete.) , -the very real threat of even greater tax increases due to the market value assessment and the need for an improved equalization factor at the Regional level assisted by the Provincial Government: to find same -are we to believe that the citizens of the Hamlets will no longer need to feel lost in the . largeness of Regional Government nor need, any longer, to wonder if they have any input into the governing of their own affairs? affairs? If these issues are to be resolved by Nov. 10th then I see no need for a change in the present elected representatives representatives of the taxpayers. If they are not resolved tpen there is a very real need for change! Respectfully, Diane Hamre. Kendal News Such a lot of people toiling in the sun Waitresses and shop girls always on the run. Such a lot of folk, I say Work while you're on holiday ! Several of the Kendal folk attended the combined service service in Kirby church on Sunday morning. The church was filled with seats in the aisle to hear Rev. B.E. Long preach his farewell sermon; He chose as his subject John 3:30, "He must increase but I must decrease". We also heard an organ solo by Eric Lambier. Mr. Long congratulated congratulated him on having won a gold and silver medal in the Olympics for the handicapped in Holland. Next Sunday Rev. A. Tizzard will be back' from ' his vacation in Nova Scotia, ■ and Kendal church services will resume at 11:15 a.m, Let us all be there. Mr. and Mrs. James Grun- errid of St. Paul, Minnesota are visiting her brother Mr. Robert Morton for a few days and also her mother Mrs,. V. Morton. We are encouraged to hear ■that recent rains have dampened dampened the fires of Northern Ontario. The northern forest is very beautiful when spring comes. Every bush seems to burst into bloom. There are honey suckles, wild pine, cherry blossoms and birds of every description. There, are even wild orchids. When the royal ■ train visited Sioux Lookout one of our men presented the Queen with a box of wild orchids. He made the box of birch bark. After the Royal visit when the Red Lake children came to Hudson we were anxious to see Red Lake. So when we attended the last Board meeting of, the year our principal asked the chairman of the School Board who was also the owner of Sterritt Airways what a ticket would cost us teachers to Red Lake. Mr. Robert Sterritt replied, "Nothing at all to you teachers. Come back one week early, travel in by boat and return by plane." We left early in the morning on an ideal August day. The cook prepared perfect dinners for the four of us teachers. Behind our boat was two meat scows. Lac Seul was the biggest lake on the trip. It was twenty miles long. There was just one portage at Iroquis Falls. We slept in sleeping bags on deck. In the early morning it was drizzling rain just as the sun was rising and we saw a double rainbow. We arrived at Red Lake about nine a.m. and signed in at the hotel. We had travelled one hundred and sixty-nine miles by water a marvellous experience experience perhaps we three ladies were the only women who had enjoyed 1 that trip on a boat. The two ladies who came with the Red Lake kids had ridden in a scow with the girls while the boys followed in another' meat scow, with twq men teachers. Everyone flew into Red Lake ninety miles' by plane at that time. We visited the Hudson Bay Store and all the interesting places. We toured the refinery where the ore was refined. We saw the gold button, the result of one week's work by perhaps one hundred and fifty miners but they wouldn't let us descend into the mine. No lady but the Queen was allbwed to go down a mine at that time. Miners arfe superstitious superstitious and they believed an accident would follow if we went down. Lake people must fly in from , Sioux Lookout. All grounl^. personnel were moved to a Canadian Pacific airport in Winnipeg. At the close of the war a highway was built from Winnipeg to Red Lake so supplies could be trucked in. Even a telephone line was built formerly all messages were sent by radio to and from . Red Lake. Next morning we flew home on the B.G.Y. a plane with pontoons for taking off and landing on water. There was far more water than land below us. This trip was In August 1939. Soon the war came, all pilots were needed to train air crew so two years later the airways were closed down. Purchased by Canadian Canadian Pacific Airways. Red UNITED CHURCH Orono Pastoral Charge Minister Rev, Wayne Wright, B.A.; M.Div. Organist and Choir Director David Gray COMBINED SUMMER SERVICES AUGUST Newcastle 10:30 a.m.