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monte David Peterson visits Kirby Peterson announces $20 David Peterson, Ontario Premier,is welcomed to Kirby Thursday morning by ' Gary Her- rema, campaign manager for Diane Hamre and by Diane Harare, liberal candidate for the Durham East Riding. The Peterson campaign bus pulled pulled into Kirby enroute from Oshawa to Peterborough with the premier mingling among a sizeable crowd of supporters. He also visited the Kirby Kirby Senate and Kirby Burger. Published Every Wednesday A buoyant and personable David Peterson, leader of the Ontario Liberal party, dropped into Kirby Thursday morning to be welcomed by a throng of spirited supporters along with the local liberal candidate candidate for Durham East riding, Diane Hamre. Peterson also took time to outline a recycling policy with a price tag of $20 million over the next five years providing the liberals arc returned to office on September 10th. The liberal leader took time to mingle through the crowd after embarking embarking from his two red-bus convey convey and this was to the delight of those present. , Following a brief dialogue with the news media when he announced his recycling plan the Ontario Premier took .his place in the Kirby Senate in the Kirby store where Carlos Tamblyn said I didn't ask him questions he was asking me' questions. It was then to Kirby Burger for a noon-time repas. In announcing the recycling plan Peterson said only some 40 to 50 municipalities were now involved in a recycling program. He was hopeful that the $20 million plan would raise that number to 150 municipalities affecting 70 percent of the population of the province. "We think it's significant, it doubles our committment now", said Peterson. He said Ontdrio recycles only 2 percent of its garbage now but he felt this could be increased to 20 ' percent, perhaps 40 percent. He saw the province working with industry to encourage a reduction reduction in packaging and he said they would be . working with municipalities with facilities. The Premier said there are some successful recycling operations in the province now and it would be hoped there can be more. Peterson commented on reports that the free trade meeting of first (Continued page 2) Council takes steps for Courtice area Having reached a tentative agreement agreement with the Ministry of the Environment Environment that the Province would subsidize a water supply system into areas of the Courtice Urban area af- ' fected by dewatering the council of the Town of Newcastle held a special meeting last Friday. It has been determined that the province would provide funding to cover sixty percent of the cost of a municipal water system while the Region and residents would share in providing the remaining forty percent needed. Council on Friday passed four resolutions pertaining to the Courtice Courtice problem. (Continued page 2) Jocelyn coming to Orono Sat. Happenings. Celebrate dawn of the new era - Acquarius Oh Saturday, August 22nd the Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen Antique Motorcade will pass by Bond Head Harbour and pick up Jocelyn Muir bringing her and her entourage back to the Orono Arena. Upon her arrival in Bond Head Jocelyn will be greeted by Canada's best female runner, presently training training for the 1988 Olympics, Sylvia Ruegger of Newtonville. Jocelyn at 6:30 p.m. then head for a parade through Downtown Newcastle and arrive shortly after in downtown Orono for a similar parade in the downtown area. Jocelyn Muir is swimmifig around Lake Ontario in aid of Multiple Sclerosis and is nearing her goal with a finish at the lakefront in Tororlto. The motorcade's final destination destination is the Orono Arena where Jocelyn will be made a presentation by a member of council. She will also be presented with funds raised by the Orono area for Multiple Sclerosis. The Kinsmen will be providing providing dinner for Jocelyn and her entourage. Please come and help welcome Jocelyn to our area and show your support lor her efforts for Multiple OVER 200 CARS EXPECTED AT ORONO ROUND-UP '87 Over 200 special interest cars, Classic, Antiques and Hot •Rods, are expected to take part in Round-Up '87 being held at the Orono Fair Grounds this Saturday and Sunday. General admission to view the cars is a meagre $2.00 with the show opening Saturday at 9:00 a.m. The Kinsmen are sponsoring a buffet dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at a cost of $6.00 a person. The buffet is followed by a Graffiti dance at another low price of $3.00 per couple. Both activities activities take place in the Orono Arena. The Orono Firefighters will be serving hamburgs during the two day event. Other activities of,games are also being organized for both young and old. Six' ROCK BANDS EXPECTED TO COMPETE A new feature at the Orono Fair will be a Rock Band competition competition being held in fronÿ of the grandstand on Saturday evening. The attraction has attracted at least six bands which intend to compete in an age group covering high school age musicians. The bands represent a wide area throughout the district with at least two Orono bands entered. TEEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT Orono Tennis Club will hold a teen tennis tournament on Tuesday, August 25th at 6:30 p.m. Participants are asked to register before August 16th. To register call 983-9443 or 983-9681. The entry fee is $5.00 for non-members. As it happened at many sacred places throughout the world on Monday, so it happened, at Kirby, the celebration of the harmonic convergence. > A group of over thirty from, the Orono-Kirby area, as well as from a distance, gathered on the lawns at the home of Sid and Mary Rutherford Rutherford for an evening 1 celebration of the harrhonic convergence. The group was led by Tanis Helliwell, a gifted teacher and one that assists people to regain their inner inner wisdom to become co-creators on planet Earth during the Age of Aquarius. jHelliwell shares her knowledge with her audience which has been learned from many ancient sites throughout the world. As part of the day's celebration of the dawn of a new age many of the evening group had visited the Serpent Mounds on Rice Lake, and met with Dr. John Beaver, a noted retired nuclear physicist and spiritualist. The Serpen# Mounds are one of the earliest burial grounds of native people who had lived in the area. Tanis Helliwell explained the harmonic harmonic convergence to the group noting that August 16th marked the date of ancient predictions by the Mayan, Aztec and Hopi people which all were similar. It is the sixteenth sixteenth conclusion of 13 heavens and 9 hells. According to the Aztec calendar thé date ends the last of the prophesied nine periods of universal hell and chaos and brings harmonic convergence of the galaxy to start a, new age of peace. Tanis Helliwell said it was the. beginning of a new 25 year cycle of spiritual consciousness which is to be concluded in 2012. The leader of the group said harmonic harmonic convergence would not happen happen physically and would not be immediately immediately manifested, * But she said, "I see it happening in all of our lives as individuals, emotionally, spiritually, mentally.'" She said that spiritual contact was now moving from the east to the west where a new energy will open up for a new world." (Continued page 10) fords in Kirby were the setting for a group of thirty to celebrate the Har- Convcrgences on Monday evening taking part in a ceremony lead by Tanis Helliwell of Acton. Many of the group had visited the Other such events were held Serpent Mounds on Rice Lake Monday throughout the world, earlier in the day.