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A weekly news commentary from one of Canada's outstanding news personalities ANCHORMAN FOR GLOBAL NEWS 6-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July <>. 1983 * Rëceivç badges at Parent and Daughter Banquet Ontario Scholars at Clarke High C larke . I liyh School have announced çjg ht Ontario Scholars from the graduating class at the school-. Congratulations arc. in order to the students in their achievements. Judy Ann.Rhodes, Campbel 1 croft93.3% Jessica Karen Mostert, Orono, 89.8% Catherine'J, Facca, Newcastle, $5.3% Carolyn Lee Bannister, Newcastle, 85% Timothy Donald Oke, Newcastle, 83.3% Scott James Gooch, Orono, 83.3% Brian Edward Danilko, Newcastle, 82.8% Roger William Proctor, Orono, 82.5% The above, 1st Orono Brownies were presented with their Holiday Crafts, Bead- worker and Native Lore Badges which* they had earn ed while at camp at the Ganaraska Forest Centre on the week-end of Jyne 17 to 19. The badges were It seems, impossible that Elizabeth II was crowned Queen thirty years ago, when some of us were young . and half the people we work with,weren't even thought of. But I had lunch the other day with a guy I haven't seen in almost that long, and it was surprisingly easy to turn back the clock that far. The year we're talking about, in case your mental arithmetic is as creaky as mine is, is 1953. Canada was a different country then. The guy I had lunch with, and I, were in the naval reserve in those days -- the UNTD. When we were recruited, we swore allegiance to the British monarch, and for most of us it was not a pro forma declaration. I, remember one of our number being asked what he thpught of the young monarch, and he replied truthfully that ne'd die for her. In the. navy, our bible was QRCN, Queen's Regulations Canadian Navy. We've come a long way from a frame of mind in which that sort of thing was acceptable. And a lot of other things have changed. A couple of years earlier, my father had bought a 1951 Dodge, a Coronet, if my memory serves me. He ran that car for 12 or 13 years. That was in thq, days when built-in obsolesence Wasn't'as thorough as it is now. We had just come through a terrible war, and even those of us who were too young to fight bore the scars of it. A hundred thousand of our uncles and brothers and cousins and even some aunts had died in it, and, were buried thousands of miles from our home and native land. Many of the survivors, the veterans, mature men and women, still rubbed shoulders with the downy-cheeked youths and pert bobby-soxers of my generation in the country's universities. Because of the veterans, and the additional thousands of Cana- dians-who had put their shoulders behind our stupendous stupendous war effort, we had a pride irt our country which tends to be elusive now. During the summers, in the naval reserve, we spent a lot of time in HMCS Stadacona, the Halifax Shore Base. We went to sea in the newer relics of the late, unlamented war -- HMCS '"Crescent, Swansea, and La Hulloise. We got paid ten dollars a week, (or was it twenty,) plus room, board and uniform, and somehow on that we had money enough to walk up Barrington Street for a meal at the Green Lantern, and enough to drink too much beer at the Lord Nelson. At lunch, my friend and I recalled a Mediterranean Mediterranean cruise one summer, which I suppose will remain one of the highlights of both our lives. We had whaler races in mid Atlantic when it was calm enough, and mad night exercises in the Med, in which we blasted- away with the star-^hell, and tore past lighted cruise presented at the annual Parent and Daughter banquet banquet held recently in the basement basement of the Orono United Church. The banquet took the form of a Pot Luck supper supper organized by the Parent Group committee. Niagara escarpment plan ravaged by Arlin Hackman - Federation Federation of Ontario Naturalists Il took millions of years for Ontario's most scenic land form to emerge as a ribbon ribbon of craggy forested rock, •winding its way from Queenston to Tobermoy. Bui the Ontario Government may effectively undo that history this year if it accepts the recommendations of a hearing hearing board convened to review the first comprehensive plant to protect the Niagara Escarpment. The' natural splendor of this ragged curtain dividing southern Ontario has been praised for a century by visitors who come from all over the world, to hike the 450 mile Bruce Trail, and enjoy enjoy waterfalls, rare plants and many caves along the way. Ten years ago the Ontario, Ontario, Government also paid tribute, by enacting legislation legislation which created the Niagara Escarpment Com- .niissii .i and spawned its proposed proposed plan of 1979, a plan designed to maintain the escarpment area "...as a continuous continuous natural environment..." environment..." by controlling development. , Continuity is the very essence of this serpentine environment, environment, and arfy plan for ongoing protective management management must reflect this fact if the remorseless chipping away at escarpment features - a process which literally provides 40 percent of Ontario's Ontario's sand, gravel and stone -- is to be stopped. Two years of expensive public hearings followed tlie- plan's release, revealing strong, thoughtful support for its proposals up and down the escarpment. But the hear- - ing officers only heard and reported on the heated 1 reaction reaction of crit ics who see I he natural environment as an unexploited resource, and the proposed plan as an assault on private property. Their report is alleged.by the Coalition Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment Escarpment (CONE), a citizen's organization, to illegally defy the guiding principles of thb 1973 legislation. Its recony- mendations would effectively turn the Commission's conservation conservation proposals into a development plan by allowing allowing condominiums in the most sensitive natural areas as well as the agricultural lands which the commission seeks to protect; approving development in the Beaver Valley and several other areas despite sustained 1 local opposition; opposition; shifting plan implementation implementation from the Commission Commission to local municipalities; and removing many rural areas from tlie- plan. "An orderly plan for this magnificent provincial heritage is now in tatters" says Lyn MacMillan, President President of CONE. Though denounced denounced in major editorials and the legislature for its onesided, onesided, insulting review of the evidence heard, the hearing officers' report is the one out- (Continued page 7) ships Which loomed like Christmas trees out of the blackness. And we went ashore in the soft summer nights of Gibraltar and Toulon and Villefranche, and did things that we didn't talk about but could have. Irt the mirror, I suppose we fcjoth have to face the fact that we're middle-aged. Inside, we're still in bur late teens and ready for a night on the town, ready for anything in fact, and still excited. Committee of Clarke Constituents Inc. We want to thank everybody who made our Yard Sale in Newtonville such a success either by donating articles, buying, giving donations and time. We plan to hold another sale on Labour Day Weekend. If you have used articles of any kind you want to donate to our committee committee you can" do so as of today. Phone 786-2413 786-2585 . 786-2348 On July 12th, 1983, there will be a hearing hearing in Newcastle Town Hall by Region of Durham Planning Department. Watch for the announcement in the local newspapers this week. Plan to attend. If you want to appear in person to make your concerns known phone 668-7731 and confirm in writing. The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE TENDER SEALED, TENDERS, for the contract specified bêloW, submitted in the envelope provided, to the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle, Office of the Clerk", 40 Temperance'St., Bowmanville, Ontario, Ontario, 9re invited and will be received by the Clerk until the specified closing time and date. Tender No. T83-11 - RECONSTRUCTION OF KING ST., HIGHWAY #2, NEWCASTLE. Closing Time & Date: 12:00 noon (Local Time), Thursday, July 21, 1983. The work required by the Town of Newcastle, under the direction of the Director of Public Works, Mr. R.G. -Dupuis, P.Eng. Involves the reconstruction of King Street, King's Highway No. 2, former Village of Newcastle, for the length of approximately 660 metres. Work must commence on site oh August 8, 1983. The approximate quantités of major items are as follows: * Ejarth excavation 11,500 m, Granular 'A" and 'B.' ■ _ 20,0001 ■Hot Mjx H.L.-4 3,2501 Storm Sewers (150^ mm 0 to 750 mm 0) 1,120 m Concrete tn manholes and catchbasins120 m, Concrete curb and gutter 1,150m Concrete sidewalk ; 2,500 m 2 Plans, specifications- and Tender Forms are available at Totten Sims . Hubick'i Associates (1981) Ltd., P.O. Box 398, >A King St, E., Cobourg, Ontariq K9A 4L1 (Telephone 372-2121) upon payment payment of a $40.0Q non-refundable fee made payable to the Consultants. - i A Bid Deposit in the amount specified ih the tender documents must accompany each bid. -> An Agreement to Bond must accompany each tender submission* > i ' . The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. accepted. . , i Mr. D.M. Homeniuk, P.P. Purchasing and Supply Agent. Corporation of the Town of Newcastle Telephone: (416) 623-3379 Ext. 67 Date of Publication: July 6. 1983