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Been therefor twenty-five years At the opening ceremonies on Saturday at the 25th Anniversary at Clarke three teachers were presented with gifts having been at the school since the opening in 1962. Those honoured were, (left to right) John Amesbury, Hugh Hubbs, principal at the school making making the presentation, Lyn Lowery and Ron .Wells. The opening ceremonies were attended attended by upwards of 600 former students from the school. Published Every Wednesday Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 8, 1988 || Town rules out tenders for garbage collection The Town of Newcastle is about to renegotiate a contract for garbage garbage pick-up and disposal with BFI, the present contractor who services Orono, Newcastle, Bowmanville and Courtice. The contract will include include all of the Town of Newcastle and based on obtaining a uniform rate for each residential and eonri mercial section of the Town. The contract is"to.be'for a five year period. The Town's committee on Monday Monday gave their approval for the negotiations following staff meetings with the contractor when a number of issues were discussed. A staff report noted thaf the service service of BFI had been excellent over the past couple of years. Further the report pointed out that the contractor had stated that it had taken a while to iron out some problems. The report said that this would again be a factor if a new contractor was td take over the collection collection and disposal. • Town staff is to report back to the Town committee with recommendation recommendation following the negotiations. negotiations. Previously the committee, bad suggested that staff meet with BFI to discuss tendering or negotiations and this meeting has been held resulting in the recommendations on Monday. Happenings , . . . ORONO DOWNTOWN SIDEWALK SALE At a meeting of the Orono Downtown Business Association last week it was decided to hold a Sidewalk Sale in the Downtown area'on Saturday, June, 18th. The event is to feature downtown promotions promotions by individual stores, some demonstrations and kiddies rides will be setup including a Moon Walk, small Ferris Wheel along with candy floss and pop com. Further details will be available next week. LISHMAN PIG SELLS Bill Lisbmari, of Blackstock, noted internationally for' his sculptures, exhibited a welded "metal pig on the door steps of the Orono Town Hall at the recent Art Festival held in Downtown Orono. The exhibit attracted a lot of attention at the event and was possibly the most photographed exhibit by the news media at the festival. We now understand the pig has been sold, as a result of the showing in Orono, and was a $2,000 item. It certainly was an excellent excellent piece of work. > SENIOR'S HERITAGE DAY IN BOWMANVILLE Community Care of Bowmanville will be holding .Senior's Heritage Day at the Bowmanville Museum, 37 Silver Street, on Wednesday, June 15, 1988 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This programme programme is free, come and enjoy tea biscuits, preserves, tea and cof- !vc. for more information and free transportation if needed •Vphone Community Care at 623-2261 or Museum 623-2734. Princess Margaret to open administrative centre On Tuesday, July 12th the Town of Newcastle, in Bowmanville, will welcome her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret, the Countess of Snowdon, to assist with the official opening of the renovated and new administrative office. Queen's Elizabeth's youngest sister will travel to Bowmanville by car from Toronto, before departing from Trenton by plane for home, and spend from half an hour to an hour at the official opening of the new quarters in the Town of Newcastle. Ann Cowman, deputy mayor for Newcastle, said on Friday that she had been surprised that the invitation invitation ' had been accepted but was delighted that the Princess would be in attendance. She said the invitation invitation had been accepted only the day before after considerable contact with the federal government's pro- . tocol office and directly with Buckingham Buckingham Palace. Counc. Cowman said in a recent contact by her, the clerk -and administrative administrative officer, the schedule program of events did meet with approval approval of the Princess's private secretary. The itinerary for the visit includes includes a welcome at the street by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, a presentation of flowers by a selected Brownie as well as presentation presentation to members of council, two members of parliament and the r Regional chairman, at the base of the stairs. Sea eadéts will form an honour guard on either side of thq stairs. The Princess will proceed to the grand staircase and may wish to view the Town Square and (Continued page 4) 25th a great time for former Clarke students by Janet Crowther Many graduates of Clarke High School came home last weekend to attend the school's 25th Anniversary Anniversary Reunion. Graduates returned to this area from various places across. North America including Vancouver, California, Florida, Chicago, New Brupswick and Nova Scotia. As they entered the front foyer Friday night, the former students of Clarke were serenaded by present day music students. Registration took .place at this time involving, obtaining name tags and also packages containing a list of people pre-registered,. a scratch pad with the 25th Anniversary Logo, a pen, key chain, etc. The 25th Anniversary Anniversary Yearbooks were available to be bought or picked up if they were pie-ordered. Also for sale were 25th Anniversary pins crafted by Ed Hoad and designed by Tricia Verbeek. There are still some yearbooks yearbooks and pins available if anyone would like to buy one. All profits that the Anniversary Committee makes will go towards a 25 th An- , niversary Bursary. Visitors to the school Friday night and Saturday morning were invited to wander through the halls and classrooms of their past. Four of the classrooms were set-up as decade rooms containing many pictures pictures and paraphernalia from years gone by. The rooms were set up in the years 62-63 to 67-68; 68-69 to 73-74; 74-75 to 78-79; 79-80 to the present. There were also graduation . pictures dating from 1963-1982 (Continued page 3) Metro looks deeper in Newcastle for dump site The search for à temporary landfill landfill site by Metro Toronto has extended extended deeper into the Town of Newcastle. Two sites in the east end of the Town were announced the latter part of last week. According to Counc. Diane Harare Metro Toronto is now looking looking at a site along Morgan's Road between Newtonville and Newcastle south of 401 Highway. A second site is listed to be the Laidlaw property property along with ; other adjacent lands on both sic|es of Stapleton Road arid north of Highway 2. it is understood, although there has been some confusion,. that Metro is to undertake soil testing at the two new possible sites. Metro did ask permission of the Town to undertake soil samples on Town property between the Darlington Darlington Generating Station and Darlington Park. The permission was not granted by the Town. Metro was also to undertake soil sampling on individual properties in the area. Over the past couple of months many sites have been listed by Metro as possible sites for a temporary temporary landfill site for use both by some Metro municipalities anti the Region of Durham. 1 At the present time Durham Region has remained to be included in the Metro scheme. There was (Continued page 4) Receives'A ward of Merit Elva Grant of Leskard last week received an Award of Merit from Environment Canada's weather service service for 22 years of reading local ■ temperature'extremes and precipitation precipitation on a twice daily basis 'in her backyard in Leskard. She Has been Reporting these readings on a monthly monthly basis. Over the past few years Mrs. Grant has been reporting only precipitation. Elva Grant was one of seven observers in Ontario to receive the award. There are tiurrently 350 volunteer observers in Ontario. Besides the plaque Mrs. Grant also received a book on Ontario. The records from the observers are compiled monthly for publications publications and form the basis of climatological studies that assist commerce, ■ industry, agriculture and the legal profession across Ontario Ontario and Canada.