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4 2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 10, 1988 The shopping list The Town of Newcastle Council members have either starting budget deliberations or are about to start. The shopping or wish list of undertakings and proposals continues to grow on a weekly basis as council refers réquests and their own suggestions suggestions to the budget discussions. If one had kept a tabulation of this list it was seem that it has to be a healthy one at this time. The wish list certainly includes includes those from the museum boards, the Visual Arts Centre, the library board, the 911 emergency number, full-time fire fighting departments and of course a host of others relating to parks, community centre. This is all in addition to the general operating costs for the municipality which continue to snowball year after year. The formation of Regional government was to strengthen the tax base through the amalgamation of a number of municipalities, four in the Town of Newcastle and five if one includes includes the Police Village of Orono as a separate identity at the time of regionalization. This larger tax base would benefit all taxpayers with a full count of facilities and services and at an affordable affordable cost. Having witnessed many struggles with budgets over the past deçà des it is quite apparent that the process is to-day no better better or easier than it was in the past. Of course they use larger numbers but that's all. What the future holds as to taxation depends to a great degree on what action councils take at the present time. They must consider the implications of acts now that could well become costly to the taxpayer in the future. A good case in point was a recent discussion over the matter of road facilities in a new industrial area in Bowmanville. Council liad voted that the developer be allowed to undertake the proposal using rural road standards, open ditches. Councs. Cowman: and Mayor Winter were right recently when they questioned questioned this and to a lesser degree Counc. McKnight. Both Cowman and Winters supported that the developer provide urban urban industrial roads with curbs, gutters and storm sewering and they pointed out that if this was not done today by the developer it would rest as a cost to the local taxpayers in the future. How right this is and it is the lack of any council that defers costs later to the taxpayer. The two councillors receive our laure and with the hope they they hold out and council finally sees the ebenfits of such action. Don't forget the joint public meeting Tuesday, February 16th in Court Room One in Bowmanville which discusses the future direction of library service in Newcastle. The Orono branch, you can bet will be on the table. KENDAL NEWS Let us not go where there is no snow, To make it a permanent thing For how can we know if there never is snow The excitement that comes with the spring!- Let's not retreat to some place in heat, j , Or a Spain in a tropical clime But rather let's cope with each season and hope, The winter! will be milder next time. AnomymoUs What a wild and woolly day Sunday Sunday turned out to be with a high temperature of -7. Quite a contrast from the week before January 31st when .the temperature was 48 degrees F. However We had a good turn out for the pancake breakfast, The pancakes and sausages were tip top. One làdy told us that the best way to co|ok sausage is t'o cover them with Water. Then boil them till the water is all gone, then roll them till they are beautiful brown. This means that the centre is cooked.- We are pleased to have visitors from Newtonville worshipping with us and Mrs. McAllister brought tvith her Mrs. E. ,Clubb a visitor from Morriis, Manitoba. » The chqir sang, "Fill my cup Lord." The minister spoke to the children ab|out the coming of Easter and the meaning of Lent. It meant giving up. : Scripture on Hearing God's Wcjrd. Job 7:1-7; 1 Cor. 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39. The sermon sermon was entitled 'Pain the Megaphone of God," C.S. Lewis World Day of Prayer: March 6th in evening 7:30 at Newtonville: Speaker Mrs. Betty Turcott of Bowmanville. We were able to enjoy the , beautiful new carpet that has been laid on the Sunday School floor. Some of the little children were lying lying down on it and rolling. A lot of effort was put into thé choosing and laying of this carpet by Mrs. Mary Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Westlake to them we ex tend our appreciation. The Kendal United Church Women met at the home of Mrs. Lena Skerratt on Wednesday afternoon, afternoon, February 3rd with ten ladies present. The president opened the meeting with the repeating of the U.C.W. purpose in unison: Then she read the poem entitled "A New Start," followed by hymn 530 "New every morning is the love." Mrs. M. Stevens gave the devotional. devotional. Today her devotional was the topic Roll call: Name an apostle. apostle. They are named in Matt. 10 v. 2 - 4. There are twelve. She regretted regretted the fact that religion is so seldom mentioned on the air waves. Often if it is mentioned it is to make fun of it. The one and only good religious program left during the week is "Man Alive". She referred to those who had died for their faith in the time of the Roman Emperors. They were thrown into dungeons, tortured and fed to the lions. Then in the dark ages they were forced to agree with the Pope in every belief if not, they lost their life. Martin Luther said the Pope had no power to forgive sin. Only God could forgive sin. He was courageous enough to stand up for his beliefs. It takes courage today to be a Christian. Passages read and discussed were Mark 9:1-8; Mark .12:29-31, Of all religions the only ope to have love as its central*'theme and core is the Christian Religion. ' Mrs. L. Downes read the financial financial report. Mrs. Ann Dilks read the minutes of last meeting. A letter was read from Rev. Dawn VanEyk telling us that she was unable to be our special speaker on May 1st as that month was completely booked. Our Oshawa Presbyterial will meet March 7th in Centennial Church. Offering $34.85. The closing hymn was 220 "Hear O My Lord, I see thee face to face." > The next meeting will be March 2nd at the home of Mrs. P. Frank. Lunch was provided by Mrs. Ann Dilks and our hostess. What would y 11 do i f y° u saw nine dogs racing down the road past your house pulling a sled without a driver? Well Doug Cathcart jumped into his truck and followed them. He passed them and waited at the top of the first hill Then he stopped them, by jumping on the brake of their sled. He drove His truck to the first road leading south and blocked it. So they had to keep going west, then south to thé seventh line, across the big creek and into their own kennels. In a few minutes the driver arrived. arrived. He went to adjust the dogs harness when they took off, dragging dragging him by their line which he had wrapped around' his wrist. He managed to unwind it and they were gone. He followed them in his snowmobile. So Doug took the driver east to the Langstaff side road, then north to get his truck, which he had left far north in the Ganaraska, Each day he starts them off up there and they run about seven miles home to their kennels, where each dog has its own dog house. Each day a different dog is hitched a leader so they all are trained to lead. . Love those Sunday School Limericks! Where but in a rural church would you find such classical gems as this: "In the garden of Eden sat Adam, Disporting himself with his Madam, She was filled with elation For in all of creation There was only one man and she had'im." Once Dwight L. Moody had Dr. Wilfred Grenfell in the pulpit with him when a third visitor was praying praying a long winded prayer. In order to give the famous Labrador missionary missionary sufficient time to speak Mr. Moody said: "While our brother is finishing his prayer the congregation congregation will sing hymn number 86." When gold was discovered at Red lake in 1929 men flocked in. They bought a Canadian National Railway ticket to Hudson (17 miles ' west of Sioux Lookout). From Hudson they travelled by boat 169 miles northeast to Red Lake. Then . came the "Freeze Up." All the, rivers and lakes froze over even LacSeuI a lake 5 miles wide and twenty miles long. All these miners' had made some sort of tar paper shacks and settled in for the winter, but they wanted to send mail out to their families and they wanted to get mail from their folks back home. So the Post Office arranged that mail bags for Red Lake would be . thrown off at the Hudson railway station and a man with a dog team would pick the mail bags up. Early Monday morning he would set out. The dogs would travel all day. Then at night they were given a meal of fish. I expect they spent the night curled up in the deep snow. Next morning they were off again. They received no food till night each day. Friday evening, they reached Red Lake. On Monday morning they began the southward journey carrying carrying the out-going mail. I have a picture picture of the five famous dogs that carried the mail to Red Lake, hanging hanging in my front room. They told me that each dog had a name. 1 didn't go to Hudson till 1938. In August 1939 I travelled with three other teachers to Red Lake on a small boat that was pulling two scows carrying carrying meat. There was a cook on board who served its tip-top meals. We left Hudson about 9 a.m. (if 1 remember correctly) travelled all day and all night and arrived in Red Lake perhaps around 6 a.m. The only other passenger was a wealthy American business man of middle age. When we were preparing to leave Hudson one deck-hand stood* on the wharf and threw our bags to a deck-hand standing on the top d e c k . When the America n gentleman's dub bag was thrown up he said, "Be careful of that club bag it has my toothbrush in it!" Before the day was out we realized it contained more than his toothbrush. We walked over one portage at Snake Falls, the scow was pulled along a railway. We slept on deck in sleeping bags on a marvellous starry night. Just at daylight it started to drizzle, a warm rain, just as the sun was rising over the water of Red Lake. It formed a double rainbow, the prettiest sight Lever saw. We took a room at the Red Lake Hotel and spent the day around the town. When the siren rang we must run for cover before the blast was discharged lest we be hit by a falling rock. It was most interesting to see the big machinery that crushed the rocks and then we saw the refining of the gold and finally held a gold ' button in our hands about the size and shape of our wash basin, and worth $10,000.00. Our Principal went down into the gold mine but no ladies are allowed below the ground. Miners are very superstitious. They believe if a woman goes down an accident will follow. Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) went down into the mine and was shown around. They said an accident did follow. Next day we flew home on the B. G.Y, 90 miles. Our trip was given to us free by the Chairman of our School board R.W. Skerratt. He was also the owner of Skerratt Airways Airways and Transportation System. He sold-the business to C.P. Airways Airways three years later. Later the war became so serious that tjie Dominion Dominion Government closed down the airport. They said Sipux Lookout Airport was just 17 miles away and it could supply Red Lake with it's requirements. My, brother Fred was the radio technician at Hudson. The C. P. Airways said, "You can move to Montreal or Winnipeg." Fie and his, family moved to Winnipeg. This was a marvellous trip by boat to Red Lake. The boats were not equipped to carry passengers so we were among the very few who ever had this golden opportunity. Our sympathy is extended to Eddy Eddy Car^cadden who lost his huge steel workshop on Thursday night, February 5 around 6:30 p.m. It happened when welding'was being done., Fortunately the Fire Brigade was able to save the house. There being only the driveway between. This was where the school buses were repaired. ORONO GATES OF PRAISE ( BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono, Ontario Inter-Fatih Full Gospel SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L, West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry Rev. Margaret F. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling. St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE February 14, 1988 Minister: Organist: Telephone: Rev. Fred Milnes Mr. Ross Metcalf Church 983-5502 Manse 983-5208 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School ,11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. YOUTH GROUPS Explorers - Wednesday 6:30 p.m. C.G.I.T. - Thursday 6:00 p.m. Upper C.E. Auditorium BIBLE STUDIES Sunday Evenings home of Bill and Jillian Stubbs, phone 983-5423 Ladies Bible Studies - Wednesday At the Manse at 9:00 a.m. At Kirby Church 1:30 p.m. KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Sunday Church School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Remember Someone Special on Valentine's Day Stuff's Pharmacy ORONO, ONTARIO . 983-5009