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Kinsmen support local competitor in Kayaking Newcastle best in ;S »*«>!:« Published Every Wednesday Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday. Durham - tie Cobourg The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Club on Saturday last working steady from 10:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. raised a total of $300.00 through a Kin Kar Wash held at the parking lot of Armstrong IGA. The proceeds from the event are to be presented to Jpson Carleton (just left of the Kin banner) who is competiting throughout Europe and NorthAmerica this summer in Kayaking. Jason has won an event in Ver- mount and placed.second in an Ontario Ontario event at Elora Gorge. In July Jason will compete in France in the Senior Pre-World Championships and in Aystria in a Junior event. On July 26th the local boys competes competes in Vancouver in both Senior Rerouting Orono Hall has $6440.00 price tag The council of the Town of Newcastle is expected to make a decision this coming Monday as to re-roofing the entire roof of the Orono Town Hall. Two tender prices were received last Monday .with Adanac Restoration Specialists of Oshawa being suggested as the successful bidder with a price of $6,440.00. Before taking any action on the bid the committee on Monday referred the project back to staff to come up with an evaluation of what has" to be done. The evaluation is to be submitted to council at fylonday's council meeting for a decision. ■'The Adanac bid was the lower of two bids with Bond Roofing of Peterborough submitting a bid of $10,000.00. • The Orono Town Hall sustained Happenings TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to go down to the Orono Park and support the EOBA Midget boys in y friendly game of baseball. The boys will be home to play various teams for the next four Sundays at 2:00 in the afternoon. afternoon. So come out and have a great time! SENIORS MEET ON JHURSDAY The Orono Senior Citizens will meet in the Oddfellows Hall on Thursday, June 5th at 12 Npoil for a Pot Luck luncheon and meeting. Everyone Welcome. BIG BAND SOUNDS IN NEWCASTLE The Newcastle Village & District Historical Society will hold their Annual Dance on Saturday, June 14th at the Newcastle Community Hall. Dance away the night to the Big Band Sound of "THE ROYALS". For tickets call Ron Locke at 987-4406 or Pat Macdonnell at 987-5411. CLARKE MUSEUM HOLDS BOOK DRIVE There will be a book drive this Saturday, June 7th to raise funds for Clarke Museum and Archives. Organizers request that the residents of Newtonville, Newcastle Orono, Kendal and Leskard have books, good magazines and records at the curb by 9 a.m. For other areas phone 786-2954 or 983-5837, The Town of Newcastle certainly . was in the running last Wednesday as far as Participaction Day was concerned and won out over Ajax and Uxbridge and then tied with Cobourg. The phones were kept busy at the ' Newcastle Fitness Centre with calls from schools, individuals and grqups participating in the challenge event -and who had at least been active in one sport or another for a period of fifteen minutes. The results show Newcastle with 29.08 percent of its population in action sometime during the day and this percent involved some 9,510 ana junior uivisiuns anu nu^um. 7 1 and 10 takes part in the Ontario Pan-Am Cup race in Minden. , Jason will also compete in the United States at two different events. Jason, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Carleton, is a fifth year . students at Trinity College in Port Hope. children, students and adults in the municipality. It is understood that Cobourg has already challenged Newcastle to break the tie in 1987. The majority of the participants came through school events. The following numbers were recorded in the Town of Newcastle: Bowman ville 5565, Newcastle 1139, Hampton 783, Orono 609, Courtice 513, Enniskillen 199, Kirby 149, Tyrone 142, Maple Grove 107, Newtonville 106, Mitchell's Corners 75, Solina 64, Kendal 40, Leskard 17 and Enfield 2, It could be something has been started to carry-on into the future and possibly with even more vigor. wind damage in a storm on November 4, 1985 causing shingles to be blown away resulting in water damage to the main auditorium hardwood floor. Adanac has also submitted a price of $428.75 for the rebuffing of the floor which project has been approved approved by council. • On December 27th furnance problems problems developed at the hall resulting in water' pipes freezing causing water damage to the basement basement area. Adanac has submitted a bid .of $834.30 for repair of the damage, in the office area. As the repairs are under $10,000 they are Within the deductible limit and as a result will be financed by monies out of the self-insured Losses Reserve established by the Town for such purposes. , June 4, 1986 Table plan to créât three Orono building lots The Town of Newcastle General Purpose committee has tabled a rezoning application by Floyd Nicholson Construction Ltd. for the development of three building lots in the north end of the Village on the east side of Mill Street. Kay Lycett, acting on behalf of the proponent, had asked for the tabling of the application to allow further dialogue between the Region of Durham Health Unit and the proponents engineer as to the suitability of the site for the three proposed residential dwellings. .. In the report submitted to the Town committee the planning department had recommended denial of the application for the three residential lots but submitted that approval be given to develop a single lot on private services for water supply. . The subject property is zoned "Rl-2 requiring service by municipal water system and a private sanitary waste disposal system. The application also notes that there are five dwellings directly east of the proposed development of which four gain access via a private right-of-way across their lots. The proponent has also stated that he • would agree to a dedication of half the road allowance. The Town's Public Works department has stated they have no objection providing thé road allowance is not deeded to thé Town and that if the proposal proceed proceed the applicant be responsible*in constructing the accesses to the property. property. The Region of Durham Health Unit states the property is not suited for three building lots insofar .as health matters are concerned and approval was not. recommended as (Continued page 3) Deny extending Tyrone residential proposal A group of citizens from the hamlet of Tyrone on Monday made it known to council members that in no way would they support more residential development in the hamlet and that proposals before the Town committee should be turned 'thumbs down'. : ■ Applications before committee called for the .extension of an approved approved 7rlot development to 11 lots while two other developments asked for approval of 4p lots outside of the approved Hamlet Development Plan for Tyrone. Those objecting to, the development development addressed council members in mass stating the plan would use good farm, land, would abut onto the Conservation area and would affect the rural atmosphere of the community. Robert Schaffer,,• owner of the Tyrone Mill sfatcd thé. .mill used water power for its Operation and that development and the elimination elimination of trees would reduce water supply, a known factor in the, closing closing of such mills ih the past. He said there' could be effect on the water table another matter that would concern him. He said, "please consider consider my operation when making your decision". Another resident outlined increases increases in traffic, change from rural to urban atmosphere as well as increased increased vandalism. He also said the additional housing would be cause for an increase in taxation to everyone. "Keep Tyrone as it is", he said. The speaker also commented that he intended to start a farm operation operation and would build prior to any development in order to just squash the proposal. He said residential development has to be 1000 feet away from a farm operation. The Town committee tabled the proposal following some debate wHten Mayor Winters said it was .a complex situation. All members of the committee supported the tabling of the proposals. Members of the committee did go into committee for another item of business aftd on returning to regular (Continued page 3) A tug-o-war for the trophy The battle was not settled on the soccer playing field last Wednesday ' between the east and west side of the Orono business section. » When the Orono D.B.LA. Soccer Soccer Trophy Challenge Cup appeared appeared it started all over again . resulting in a tug-o-war. Who won . . . who knows. Pictured above Wendy Partner, east side for Wendy B's, Frank Maitland, west side Blossom Shop, Ann Dreslinski, east sidé Reflections Reflections and Dini Schoenmaker, west side Apple Blossom Shop. The warm-up ceçmeonies conducted conducted by the Orono Public school kindergarten and grade oners was certainly an added attraction.