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Honoured at Retirement Party Community Centre , attended by friends, family and co-workers in the educational field. Following the banquet Anna Marie Allin, (left), a co-worker at the school with Jeanne Staples over the past 16 years, presented the retiree with a Royal Dalton Bedtime Story Figurine on behalf of those present. Jeanne Staples started her teaching career in 1943 in After a two year stint in Burgessvillc she moved to ingersol teaching kindergarten in that town for three years before taking up kindergarten duties in a Toronto school for five years. She then retired from teaching to raise a family on the family farm in Orono with her husband Don Staples. In 1965 Jeanne Staples returned to teaching in Orono teaching twenty-two years. Many words of praise were expressed expressed by fellow educators for her commitment to her profession and her students. The evening closed with dancing with music being provided by Rod Crawford, a former teacher at the Orono School. A retirement tea is being held at the Orono Public School this Thursday afternoon and evening. May look for donors for trees at museum At the monthly meeting of the ■ Clarke Township Museum Board improvements and clean up seemed to be the order of the day. A decision was made to landscape landscape the museum property once the road construction around the museum nears completion. It was suggested that perhaps, former , pupils could be asked to donate and plant new trees between the existing old trees on the perimeter of the property. ' As for the question of storing museum artifacts, Diane Harare has asked council to consider giving the museum the Orono Armoury for this purpose. Council discussed it Monday and Council Planner T. Edwards agreed that for the short term the museum would be welcome to the Armouries, but long term use needed further study. The museum's summer activities are also underway, up next is the annual Book Sale on June 20th, starting at 10 a.m. Orono parking lot up for further debate The proposed parking lot at Clarke Public Library has become the source of a great deal of debate, and as it came up in council this week council members agreed it needed much further, careful study. Councillor Hubbard commented that she had received several calls from upset, Orono villagers, "afriad Orono would lose it's only grée space left downtown." Steve Wood, . an Orono resident, has more at stake than most villagers. Steve's house is adjacent adjacent to the land on which the proposed proposed parking lot is planned for construction. Mr. Wood made his feelings clear in a letter to Mayor Winters, "I bought this house last year because of it's quiet, secluded position position in a beautiful historic part of Orono. Ÿoü must realize that placing placing a parking lot at this location would change forever the character of this part of Orono.. Wood emplored council to "let the decision makers see this site for themselves to realize what an irretrievable irretrievable mistake it would be to allow the destruction of this beautiful green space to make yet another tarmac parking lot. With all the problems, noise, pollution, litter and the added danger for school children who use Church Street to get to and from school and the library, it is a proposal that is being pushed on a neighbourhood that does 1 not want it. Mr. Wood not only made his grievances known but offered an alternate course of action. "If Orono needs more par king...allow angle parking down one side (of Main St.)". Wood claims this would be more inexpensive, closer to businesses, and allow more cars to be parked than at present. The proposal was taken seriously by council. Councillor Stapleton said council should definitely consider consider angle parking downtown as, a possible solution. Temporary Hwy. signs up, permanent in fall John Winters, Mayor of Newcastle, Newcastle, has begun the process of putting Orono on the map, or at least Orono directional signs on Hwy. 35-115. .* Winters brought it to the attention attention of . Mr. Miti'anic, of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications', that the Orono sign, "a makeshift, thing" -partly covered over, was "hardly a proper directional sign for a village of 1,100 and a downtown business area." Winters quickly received an apology, explaining the delay was due to poor summer weather conditions conditions preventing permanent sign construction. The steel structures will be installed in the fall, the Ministry said, and they hoped the temporary signs would prove satisfactory until then. The temporary signs were installed installed at the sbuth of the Village on the highway some two weeks ago. Town group denied part on new arena committee As 1 plans for the new Bowman- ville Arena are moving into the final stages the N.C.S.A.B. (Newcastle Community Services Board) has requested requested appointments for three N.C.S.A.B. members to sit on the Arena Project Team. The request was denied, "it's just a little late for them to join us now." said Councillor Councillor Hubbard. Councillor Hubbard, chairperson of the Project Team, asked where the N.C.S.A.B. had been since 'the beginning of the project. "The N.C.S.A.B. has "been aware of all (Continued nage 2) Happenings... . STRAWBERRY- MUSIC NIGHT The Orono Downtown Business Association are holding their ' Strawberry Music Night in the Orono Town Hall being held on Monday evening, June 29th. A 16-18 piece orchestra from Oshawa is being featured for the .evening of inusic.atid. does include local musicians as A1 Mote on trumpet, Ed Morton on drums and Janette Desousa on saxophone. . Strawberries, ice cream and cake will be 'served during the' musical performance. To Officially Open New Orono Well " The Region of Durham has announced thaLit...will ho'xi an Official Official Ceremony opening the new water well for Orono. The ceremony will be held at the Orono Pumping Station and well on the fifth line of Clarke (an extension of Somerville Avenue). The event is being held at noon on Tuesday, June 23. Following the ceremony a reception will be held at the Orono Town Hall. Laidlaw Reactivating garbage dump application Information provided by the Clerk of the Municipality, David Oakes, on Monday informs council.that his department and that of the Planning Department had been informed that Regional Recîaimers'had ,submitted for an Official Plan amendment to allow extension of its landfill site in late 1986. The clerk's memo stated that Regional Reclaimers had not submitted submitted the required support documents and that the application had been put on hold at the Region and at the Town's Planning Department. Department. The memo further states that the landfill site has been purchased by Laidlaw who are now reactivating the application. Tyrone Spring water unsafe for human consumption The Town of Newcastle Public Works Department has been informed informed that the Tyrone Spring on the north side of the 8th concession in the vicinity of Lot 5 is unsafe for human consumption.' The Regional Department of Health Services has informed the Town x - that the spring be made inaccessable to th^ public and that the pipe be ' removed from the ground immediately. Port Granby Monitoring group sandbag at dump A goodly number of the Port Granby Monitoring Committee which has been a watch dog over the Eldorado dump site in Port Granby and has sought the relocation relocation of the low-level radio-active contents were out making their point once more on Saturday morn ing. The Monitoring group has sought * sonie action to contain the run-off into ,Lake Ontario and the containment containment of the banks along the shoreline. ' , In' a symbolic manner the group placed dummy sandbags at the bluffs between the lake' and the Eldorado dump. John Veljdhuis, chairman of the organization pftints out that the lake is a source for drinking water for millions 'of people while the dump is a source of pollution now running into the lake.