2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, December 10, 1986 c>: " Seeohd Class M^URegistratitm Number 000368 " Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication All or Nothing At All ■The Town of Newcastle is dabbling in an effort to provide the rising populated area of Courtice with cheaper hydro through a possible amalgamation with the Town of Newcastle Hydro system. The cost of hydro in the Courtice area has been questioned at council a number of times over the years by Councillor Cowman who states that rates are some 25 percent higher than in the Town of Bowman- ville and the area serviced by the Newcastle Hydro Electric Commission Commission which also includes the Villages of Orono and Newcastle. The issue has arisen again and a further effort is to be made to at least address address the issue in some form or other. One of the stumbling blocks for the Town in such an effort is the fact that to this date and time Ontario Hydro has resisted chopping chopping off a section of their hydro system. An effort locally was made some years ago to have the Orono Estates serviced with hydro from the then Police Village of Orono. This same matter was also addressed addressed by the Newcastle Hydro System, again to no avail. Ontario Hydro apparently holds to their line of 'all or nothing at all' and it is understandable. The price tag for the entire system covering the whole of the Town runs in the neighbourhood of $9.7 million. ■< A total Town system does come up for review and report every three years and this report has just been handed to council over the past month. There is doubt to the viability of the local system covering all of the Town of Newcastle and carrying such a debt load. In speaking with Harvey Partner, chairman of the Newcastle Hydro Electric System, he said amalgamation at this time into a total Town system would see urban rates increase by some 13 percent and he doubted there would be any major reduction in the existing rural rates. If this is true, and likely is, one may ask who would really benefit. Mr. Kotséff, Newcastle's Chief Administrative Officer, has been reported to have said the examination of hydro rates in Courtice Courtice is proof of the town's determination to correct an unsatisfactory situation. He also has said that the new push for Courtice alone could be possible and was the main intent of the resolution endorsed by council recently. It must be suggested that there are other areas in the Town of Newcastle which should be also considered by council. These areas as Mitchell's Corners, Hampton, Enniskillen, Kendal, Newtonville are in and have been for years, the same cost position as is and has been the Courtice area. If hydro rates are a problem in Courtice under the rural system then the same holds true for the other rural and hamlet areas , in the Town of Newcastle and they should be considered along with Courtice. Council, we believe, would be hard pressed to push for Courtice Courtice to be joined with the present Newcastle Hydro system and leave out such as the Orono Estates. As we would see it the Courtice area best bet to hydro rate reduction would be to join with Oshawa whereby hydro may then be provided from the Oshawa system within their own boundaries. Maybe this is what concerns the Town of Newcastle. Separate School (Continued from page 1) fictilt to attend a meeting of bouncil and that the board felt the matter could be dealt with by appropriate town staff and the Board's Chief Executive Officer. Counc. Cowman said she had viewed the Clarke Library with the librarian and felt that the repairs could be undertaken easily. She also said that Counc. Hubbard was also aware of the situation having also visited the library. She said it was the responsibility of the Town as to the maintenance of the building. Counc. Stapleton said he saw no need to change the resolution of council and the procedure Which council had set out. No action was taken as to the recent recent request of the Library Board. Kendal News ' He brought a message for us all, A message of peace and love; That's the reason He came to ,us, ' From the Father's houSfe above. ' We really enjoy the sending, Of greetings to o'Ur friends; Those close at .hand and far away Knowing Christmas never ends. Rev. A. Tizzard We all can do better than yet we have done And still not be one whit the worse. It never was loving that emptied the heart Or giving that emptied the purse. From "Toronto City Mission • Quarterly" Next Sunday is White Gift Sunday Sunday let us all give well to our Mission Mission and Service Fund. We are away behind in our givings at this time. The great danger is that our interests interests are being centred around the 'Things of Christmas' rather than the Christ of Christmas. Sunday morning was the first Sunday in the month so we had our hymn sing at 11 a.m. Next Sunday will be the second Sunday so we will have a social time after the service : iy ; .... ' ■ : ht* third Sun s' it , tv »■ Vi i • t ■ i j | i v ■,: *•■■■ a.'.w ■ T . * * > .* day will be the Christmas Program by the 'children. On a very snowy Sunday morning there was a very good attendance. The choir sang "What Child Is This?" The story of the second advent advent candle was given by. Brad Foster and the candle lit by Chad. Switzer. The Sermon was entitled, "From Old to New." Mrs. Mabel Elliott celebrated her birthday on December the eighth along with her sister-in-law Mrs. Irene Dunbar who also had a birthday birthday on that date. It was a quiet , family gathering at, the restaurant and hospital. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stapleton who .will celebrate their Golden Wedding on December 19th with a quiet family reunion Kendal friends send best wishes. Envoys from Egypt are toilring Canada trying to encourage Canadians Canadians to come to Egypt for their vacation not just to see the pyramids but to enjoy their sunny beaches on the Red Sea. They say it's a land of peace not near as riotous as Paris. Road graders are being sent out to Zimbabwe and with the grader is a video tape telling how to repair it. Thus* even a mechanic that can^t read can take off a wheel efç. 'j ' ■■ '! , 1 There were more candidates for the office of elder than there were vacancies so an election'had to be held with secret ballotting. A little girl was bv her mother's side and watched her mother mark her ballot. Afterwards she said: "Do you always vote for the man you love the most?" "Why whatever do you mean? What makes you think that?" her mother asked. "Because I saw you put a kiss by his name," the little girl said. My First Canadian Christmas By Ina Bruns (continued from last week) Bill and about 20 boys heaved the stage into the classroom the first week in November. Poor little teacher never did have much "no" in her "no". And for weeks she crept over it on her knees to write our exercises on the board. When the School Inspector found her in this position, he went away scarlet with rage and voiced a loud opinion of rural concerts that left us fearful he might have been heard in Education Department in Edmonton. Edmonton. What if they sent the Mounties after Bill and told us we couldn't hâve a concert. We talked about it for days. However it never occurred to us to move the stage out. We knew that neither Mounties or tidaf waves could dampen the enthusiasm enthusiasm of that district for concerts. concerts. When the men heard the stage was inside, they moved the stove so the pipes wouldn't block anyone's vision and put up wires for the curtains, curtains, Then the Johnsons came along to unload their piano for the yearly event. There was no holding us now we picked out material for a three hour program, even though teacher warned us that the concert was to run only an hour and a half. After much haggling we dropped a half hour, but not one more recitation would we relinquish. The decorations decorations we made gathered a goodly amount of dust two weeks before the event. Lessons were forgotten as we spent days cutting crepe paper into long trails of red and green and practiced and talked concert. One thing worried me I didn't know how to dance. Yet worries' about the dance did not dampen my joy at gift buying. We all drew , names and each of us was allowed to squander 25 cents on a gift. We spent hours shopping. A quarter would buy a pretty box of handkerchiefs, handkerchiefs, a cup and saucer, a book, beads, a manicure kit, crayons or a lovely bottle of perfume. We finally made up our minds then wrapped , arid re-wrapped the treasures. A week before the big night, we children harnessed up the horses to the Jones' cutter and headed for the river bank to choose a tree. We made so much noise with our singing singing and shouting the Wilson's cattle cleared the pasture fence. We sized up the fat spruces and argued all afternoon trying to decide between a dozen beauties. At last we cut three. It was decided teacher was to choose the tree, but after she made her choice, Bill nailed his own selection selection to the stand and cut the others up into boughs. Soon it was bending bending under strigs of popcorn, glass ornaments and balloons. The costum'es were stitched and laid away, blackboards were decorated, and the ceiling almost, hidden by festoons of streamers. We thought the school the'most elegantly turned out building in the country. • Mother baked for the midnight lunch and spent an afternoon sewing sewing green dnd red cheesecloth ia'to candy bags. t In out young lives there had never be, en anything as exciting as i this! How festive and fragrant the school was the night of the concert. The crowd were already gathering gathering and we were herded to the dressing dressing room, jlehind the girl's curtain there was much giggling and whispering; behind the boys much wrestling and laughter. Finally'we lined up on the platform platform and the white sheets in front of us slid back to reveal our parents and neighbours sitting away out in the dark. We marched, we sang wc went through play after play while our parents must have suffered agonies , sitting on those hard backless ben-' . ches. At last we came to the pantomine pantomine that teacher had planned for the climax. I was manoeuvered into, the fragile whilte crepe-paper gown I was to wear in the role of the Virgin Mary. I stood near the cradle filled with straw, a lantern casting a soft light over my head. The Wise Men in their colourful robes stood nearby. nearby. While the group offstage sang sweetly. I leaned over the cradle and lifted a- real live baby from the bed of straw. A tiny plrimp arm reached up to catch at the tinsel on my gown. For all its Shortcomings, our little pantomine Carried the audience audience back across 2000 years to that first Christmas. 1 remember looking and seeing people wipe tears from weathered cheeks. For the first time 1 really understood something of the miracle that happened happened so long ago. Santa followed that hushed and quite pantomine. ...gifts were distributed...the young men started sweeping the floor. Before we knew it our cowboy pianist was sending dancers about the floor in a whirl of coloured streamers....we sat on the edge of the stage eating hard candy and watching the .dancers. At lunch time we drqnk cup$ of scalding black coffee not because we liked it but because we were not allowed coffee courage- to venture out on the dance floor to try the Round Polka. Even I was brave enough to attempt it. , Driving homeward through the starlit night, I realized I wasn't homesick anymore. Christmas in Canada was wonderful and even though'thé concert' was'now a thing • of the past, there was next year's concert to think * about--and the next. Maybe we should stay in 'Canada after all. IT did seem a shame to go back now that Father was learning to ea't carrot pie! Visitors with Miss C. Stewart on Sunday were Miss Carrie Brown and her friend Jennifer as W„/as her brother Michael Brown. • Religioris Christmas cards by the box are very difficult to locate this Christmas. 1 have received some pretty ones! St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. James Small Rector 987-4745 Sunday Service and Church School 9:30 a.m. ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister Rev. Fred Milnes Church Phone 983-5502 Manse Phone 983-5208 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1986 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. YOUTH MEETINGS Explorers Wed. 6:30-8:00 p.m. C.G.I.T. Thurs. 6:00 p.m. At Orono Unitqd Church Hi-C Youth: Chirstmas Party Wednesday, Dec. 10, 7:00 p,m. at John and Linda MacLean's MIJD-WEEK FELLOWSHIP Wednesday 8:00 p.m. at the home of Gladys & Everett Brown • Ladies Bible Study Will resume in January Date to be announced later KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. 13 "o dçys and counting • Many Super Savings for Christmas Giving Colognes Singles & Sets for Ladies & Men Shaeffer Pens & Pencils Sets '& Singles Confectionaryl Cameras & Films ENTEk CHRISTMAS GUND DRAW ORONO, ONTARIO 983-5009