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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 29, 1987 An Opportune Time It would have to be considered that Laidlaw Waste Systems have moved at an opportune time to seek approval for an expansion of their landfill site in the south-eastern part of the Town of Newcastle. Not only does the company apparently carry expertise in the field of waste management but the application for expansion of the site comes at a time when there is a great threat of being buried in our own garbage. ' Certainly the Region of Durham has made no headway in providing providing for the future and the future is not that far down the road. With the closing of the Metro Brock landfill site in 1990 there is actually no future. Locally, Darlington is to close this year and local councillors are well aware of additional costs which could be carried throughout the Region of Durham by all Durham councillors. One could well be critical of regional council and their lack of progressing in development of landfill for the future who in the budget this year set aside a pittance for future waste management. , To the east in Northumberland County municipality and County County council have gotten no further than has Durham Region even though engineering has been undertaken and a landfill site recommended. "Not in may backyard" has prevailed stalling any resolution of their plight to handle waste. No doubt this is true throughout the better part of the province. • .... It almost appears that the issue is too large for municipalities to handle, even at the Regional level where in Durham landfill sites closed and the Region had to depend on what may be called the generosity of Metro Toronto at the Brock site. Its interesting to note that Mayor Winters, and possbily rightfully rightfully so, haS been dubbed on the two occasions when he wanted to start proceeding to oppose any landfill site in the Town of Newcastle. It was pointed out to the Mayor that the process should proceed but this has not always been the case as noted in Pickering where a council vocal objection objection has already been placed on record that no further landfill in that municipality be supported. Certainly there will be opposition to the expansion but time is on the side of Laidlaw. as yet had not been presented to council. A numb'er at the meeting called for stricter enforcement of the two hour parking regulation and that this be extented to no over-night parking in the downtown area. It appeared a general concensus that downtown tenants " and some businesses were providing the problem. problem. Roy Forrester said he had undertaken undertaken twenty-four surveys in late October and in December in 1986 and found only once, on a Saturday, Saturday, were all the 50 spaces in use. He said it averaged out'that 17 percent percent of the 50 spaces were used by tenants and business people, 8 to 9 spaces. He said if this could be eliminated there would be no problem problem at all in downtown parking. ' Forrester also said we do ourselves a lot of harm by noting a parking problem when it may not be that bad. # • The Orono D.B.I.A. is to await the report on the study of the pertinent pertinent parking by-laws and to con-, sider smaller pod parking areas that could be utilized. WhatfsOH fe New Again (Continued from page 1) outside of two other proposed projects projects she had never received such a negative response to a proposal as to the library lawn parking lot. The meeting did appoint Harvey Partner and Murray Taylor who will investiagte the creation of a few parking space through the possible extension of the present library parking lot to the east a few feet, Larry Kotseff, Chief Admin- sitrative Officer for the Town of Newcastle, was present and outlined outlined the possible solutions that had been considered. These included the south library parking lot and lands behind the new bank building. He said that council had earmarked $40,000 from a parking fund that could be considered for parking development in the Orono downtown area. Through some discussion Kotseff is to have a revenue undertaken of the parking by-law in the downtown- .area which Counc. Hamre was call- 'ed for two years ago by council and These girls are from the Second Orono Brownie Pack who recently enjoyed a camp-out at the home of their leader Madeline Heard. Pictured Pictured above are back row (1-r) Melissa van I jrh, Rebecca Bester, Vicky oinnnson, vnrisiie Dukilsch, Erin Muizelaar, Elli Bunto r and Mistie Ovenden. Front Row (• r) are Stephanie Birkett, Ashley Bourne, Kim Birkett, Chrissy Bester, Jessica Lawrence, Tara A.nott, Amy-Jane McAllister and Sezanne Stubbs. Kendal News Blessed is the nation whose Gold is the Lord. ' Psalm 33:12 Sunday July 76 was a perfect day for an outdoor church service and the home of Carole and Pat Gardner Gardner was a perfect spot for such a service with its huge pine trees for shade. The service was well attended. attended. Mrs. Alice Sheffield was the guest speaker. Her father was Allen Martin who came as a young teacher to teach Starkville School. There he met and married her mother Lucy McKay. Some of those in the audience Sunday had been his pupils. Mrs. Sheffield's father became an Inspector of Public Schools but the family returned to the home of her grandparents for aîk family gatherings. She chose as her topic "Memories" and her 'stories ihr terspersed with humour were enjoyed enjoyed by all. We hope she will write these "Memories" down in an autobiography. It would be most interesting. The flowers at the altar were in memory of Amelia Lancaster sent by her husband Syd. The worship service was led by Mr. Pat Gardner while Mrs. Gardner Gardner was organist for the occasion. Mr. Frank Stapleton thanked them for the use of their home. A social time was enjoyed. Next Sunday August 2nd our minister will be back and we hope the congregation will be there at 11:15 a.m. This has been the hottest July since 1955. Sixteen days in a row it has been above 30 degrees celsius. On the radio program "Fresh Air" Bill McNeil has just returned from his holidays in the Regina area. He said they had a bumper crop in that area but they can't sell their grain. They would like to sell their land but nobody will buy land. So one of the parents has to work in the city to pay the bills. Our deepest sympathy is extended extended to Mrs. Eleanor Foster and her brother Horace Hall on the sudden death of' their sister Mrs. Carice Currin on July 17th, 1987. She was . visiting here from North Carolina. The friends of Kendal extend their sympathy to Mr. Ned Foster and family on. the death of à wife and motherTThelma Covington on July 20th. I remember the harvest of 1915 who could ever forget it. Fields of waving wheat as far as the eye could see. In Our part (southern Sask.) many fields were growing their first crop. All weather conditions seem to have been favourable. Our slough (slew) was full of water. We used to go out on a raft and take the shotgun with us hoping to shoot a wild duck. The gun was in a packing packing box but we happened to knock the packing box over in rough weather and the gun was lost in the Water. A couple of years later when the slough dried up we found it all rusted. However there was not enough help or threshing machines ip 1915. The young men had gone to war. A lady told me when I was visiting my brother Fred at Davidson Davidson in 1934 that Americans had come in and bought two sections. (One of which Fred was farming at that, time). They had planted the 1,280 acres in wheat and when harvest time came she had seen six binders going around the field at once; each binder drawn by four horses. In other words twenty-four horses were drawing the binders. I saw the stables in .which they kept the horses, empty Of course, gs in 1934 they used tractors" and combines. combines. Fred had a combine but that year the grain wâs less than a foot high so he just cut the heads off with a swather and threshed them in the combine. But to return to the 1915 harvest. It was very late in the fall when the threshing machine: reached our farm which was small, 160 acres, a! homestead. They went to the big farms first. There were twenty men came with the machiné but no cook car. The cook had got weary and he had gone back east. He had to bake bread every day, seven days a week. So pity poor mother cooxing for all those men. Then it rained for days and the men sat in the tent and played cards. Several of them returned to the east and eventually our neighbours - finished the threshing. However the yield of grain was almost unbelievable that year. A cousin of ours Ed Potter was fanning in the Qü'Appelle Valley. That year he harvested 4,500 bushels of wheat. The Qu'Appelle Valley has been producing producing wonderful crops ever since the Reil Rebellion in 1885. Although in the thirties we Ontario farmers had to send them in a carload of vegetables and apples, I remember. Recollections of a Prairie School Ma'am By Ruby Hewitt Brown (continued from last week) Now as to school (my reason for being there). It was a very small one, only ten pupils and it would have been easy except for some particular particular difficulties. Besides Ally and Jimmy X the only other child who spoke English was one little boy who unfortunately was a very subnormal subnormal child. With all the efforts I made for him, egged on by an anxious anxious mother, he couldn't when I left, even draw'a straight line with a ruler! Sad! The test of the pupils were of German parentage, and one or two tiny ones knew no English at all. Luckily I knew a little German, and I struggled along slowly with them as best I could. 1 recall that the baby of the school put up his hand one day and at my nod said, "Bitte, may I go out?" Best of all I remembdr (he Way they loved to sing and the sing-songs We had everyday. Concerning other activities? Well there was one 24th of May celebrations celebrations at the nearest village (ten miles away). I recall two things about that -- a baseball game, so unprofessional unprofessional that there were about forty runs (I loved that): and the fact that there was a hailstorm before the crowd broke up (to hurry home and see how many windows were broken) that poured down hailstones as big as gof balls or small eggs. Nobody however was too much worried, because the spring spring grain wasn't up yet and the fall wheat not enough to be hailed out; besides every farmer carried large 1 hail insurance. A young travelling preacher turned turned up in the neighbourhood on Saturday, and the, news that he would conduct a service On Sunday travelled like wild fire. It was to be just in a farmer's field, on a little plateau of high terrain. Next day everyone was there - but everyone - from miles around. (I remember I felt a bit un-Christian in figuring out some of the motives) The families were fortified with lunchf- and cameras for the to-be-expectC. picnic afterwards. I forgot the exact text, but as we sat on the dry prairie grass at the chosen site, the very earnest young man preached about loving ones neighbour. By that time I knew the local differences differences among the people in the congregation, the quarrels and hates. It must have been a good sermon; sermon; for afterwards I got the surprise surprise of my life, to see the Buskis talking and laughing with the Macdonalds, Macdonalds, and the Schimmelpfenn- ings shaking hands with my X's! The Huttons were eating lunch with the Brauns! And the Godards were having a snapshot of themselves taken by Willy Acht. Oh, yes all old quarrels seemed to have melted by the fervor of that sermon. (The End) St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. James Small Rector 987-4745 Sunday Service and Church School 9:30 a.m. On the religious side "things" were about nil. We were too far from a church to go-if any one of the X family had wanted to. But there was one service while I was there and I shall never forget it. ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister: Rev, Fred Milnes Telephone: Church 983-5502 Manse 983-5208-.... Mid-Week Bible Study Fellowship July 29 Fred & Marion Milnes 983*-5208 Aug. 5 Orville & Isabelle Challice 983-5824 Aug. 12 Ed & Olive Millson 983-5754 Aug. )9 Gillian & Bill Stubbs 983-5423 Aug. 26 Wayne & Jocelyn Lywak 983-9716 Morning Worship Month of August , , Newcastle United Church 10:30 a.m.