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I ^4 2-Oroito Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 8, 1989 ©rono Üeefelp ©mes Second Class Mail Registration Number 000368 Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication N n Street, Orono Roy I. Forrester, Editor No talk . . no progress The event of the Town of Newcastle breaking off any form of communication and negotiations with Ontario Hydro will hardly bring any differences closer to resolution. In fact it will cause greater delay and with a dollar waste as well., The Port Granby group at one time took similar action breaking off dialogue with Eldorado in an effort to make some form of impact. But it was a few months down the road that a statement was made that the Monitoring group did not know what Eldorado was doing. It is important to keep open the avenues of communication because it is only through communication that differences can be resolv ed. According to Ontario Hydro's Sue Stickley the corporation has paid all building permit fees as agreed to in 1981 and included are permits permits for the Information Centre and Tritium refinery. The total amount in permit charges has reached some $600,000 over the years for the building structures. According to Stickley, Ontario has set up a Station A account as the outset of the agreement with $1 million and a Station B account with $1.4 million. Both accounts have been credited with interest revenue since the inception. A total of $684,000 has been spent from the Station A account for such as roads. A sum of $2.5 million now exists in the account. A total of $2.11 million has been paid out of the Station B account account on agreement with the Town for such as the Police Station, the new arena, the hospital, library and other areas where growth impacts were considered as a result of the Hydro development. The account still has a surplus of $1.11 million. Through last week's action by council the Town would like to get their hands on this money at this point. According According to Stickley the agreement of the disposition of the Station B account account is intended for the Town at the completion of the total project. When the first unit comes into production Ontario Hydro will start to pay an amount of dollars in-lieu of taxes and by 1992 when all four units are in operation that amount is estimated to be $1.5 million annually. Council in taking their action against Hydro gave no debate in open council session. It is difficult to understand from where they are coming or why. Certainly it has been a shock to Ontario Hydro and the closing out of debate with Hydro will serve no one. As a matter of fact both parties were to meet with the Ministry of Health over a Baseline Health Study proposal. This has been cancelled being a negative for the general public. Can we be so smug A couple of weeks ago through' the Around Home column 1 wrote about "We are all part of the problem". It went on to point out that through the import of paper from Brazil we were using up the rain forests which in one hand we are denouncing and yet on the other using using up the resource which resource contributes greatly to the overall ecological system. Klaas Schoenmaker brought us a copy of the National Geographic in which it outlined just how much we in the North American continent are part of the problem. In the United States, and this would hold true for Canada, 45 units of energy are consumed per individual as would compare with three for Brazil and one for India. We are a big big part of the problem and smog to think that we are not. Letter to the Editor: % , Dear Sir: For some time now Bell Canada has been dealing very unfairly with customers in the Orono exchange and» indeed others throughout the Town of Newcastle, If you have the misfortune to live in the Orono (983) exchange you will incur long distance charges when calling a neighbouring farm less than a 'A mile away. If this strikes you as peculiar arid unfair then consider that you can call from Orono (983) all the way to Bowmanville (623) at no charge but must pay long distance charges for the area in between (263). We cannot cannot call across the Town of Newcastle Newcastle without long distance chargés. People, living in Scarborough however, can call all the way to Oakville without long distance charges. Local inquiries seem to indicate that this inequity stems from the purchase of the old Orono phone Company by Bell (one of the last private telephone companies to be gobbled up by Ma Bell). When I attempted attempted to get to the bottom of this with Bell a very "carefully rehearsed" rehearsed" mid-level Bell executive in Oshawa went on at great length about the low rates we enjoy, CRTC regulations, etc. etc. To which I say, rubbish! Bell has been successfully ripping off their customers in these neighbouring.exchanges neighbouring.exchanges for years. Members of the Newcastle Town Council say there is nothing they can do. To which I also say, rubbish! There is a great deal they could do to put pressure on Bell Canada. Recently Bell communicated with some farm customers in our area advising us that the "expansion of your Base Rate Area took place on 1988-12-16." (Imagine, it happened all at once on that day) meaning a reduction of $5.75 on our monthly bill. How nice! Is it possible that the "squeaky wheel is getting some oil?" Then Bell sends a questionnaire to customers in the Orono (983) exchange exchange asking if they would like to pay an additional $1.65 per month to have free access to the Oshawa exchanges. This looks like a good and valid offer which I support...but what about reaching our Neighbours and others in Newcastle on the way to Oshawa? Are we going to have to continue paying these unfair long distance charges? Would it not make sense to offer a complete package of services services that would allow us free access to all of Newcastle and Oshawa for a modest monthly fee? 1 believe Bell has had its way on these unfair long distance charges far too long. Subscribers should join together in pressuring municipal and regional governments governments as well as Bell top management management to put this right. With the stroke of a pen Bell senior management management could make us happy Ma Bell customers again. Lynn R. Helpard Kendal News "Just to be gentle, kind and sweet, Just to be helpful with willing feet: Just to be cheery when things go wrong, Just to drive sadness away with a song; Whether the hour be dark or bright, Jiist to be loyal to God and right, Just to believe that God knows best, Just in his promises ever to rest; Just to let love be your daily key, That is God's will for you and me." On Sunday morning March 5th I walked half way to my garage over the ice and decided a broken nose (like the girl in the onq-room school would not help my'appearance) so I stayed home. 1 am told there was a very good attendance. I watched "The Mass" on T.V. Station 9 at 10:30 a.m. and listened to a very new version of "The Prodigal Prodigal Son" being read. ■ I wonder if that story was specially specially chosen to illustrate the forgiveness of the Heavenly Father in contrast to the Unforgiving attitude attitude of the Mohammedan religion. The Mohammedan religion, accepts accepts the first five books of the Bible Bible (The Pentateuch) as taught by Mohammed. The old law teaches, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" but Jesus says, "I say unto you, if any man smite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other also. Matt. 5:38 and Ephesian 4:32. Be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as god for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." Then from eleven till noon I watched watched the People Church with the subject of "Worship and Service." One must follow the other. Our sympathy is extended to Cliff and Jack Fonk and their families on the death of their father in Burk's Falls. The funeral was on February 28th. Good Friday Service - March 24th in Kendal United Church at 7:00. Mrs. L. Downes gave thé financial report. The offering was $15.00.- .. , Mrs. Betty Turcott will be our special speaker on May 7th. She is President of the 'Women's Inter- church Council of Canada'. Our U.C.W. has been asked to cater to the Ken Baptie auction sale on Saturday, March 11th. So plans were made to provide sandwiches, muffins, pies, coffee etc. Any donations donations of food will be welcomed. There were three birthdays this month, Elinore Foster and Peggy Frank both on March 22nd as well as Catherine Stewart's on March the 1st. It was moved by Mrs. A, Dilks, second by Mrs. M. Stevens that a basket of fruit be given to Mrs. Ursula Ursula Smuk who is recovering after surgery. The roll call was - "Tell something interesting about Africa." They told of the wild animals, the diamonds, and even a frightening cobra story that fortunately fortunately had a happy ending. The language spoken is African. Then Mrs. A. Cathcart gave her topic on Apartheid, In the film (Cry Freedom) the notorious security police descend on a sleeping squatter's camp, arrest arrest some, and beat many. Then as the sun comes over the horizon dozens of bulldozers arrive. When the dust settles hundreds of dazed people are seen hunting through the rubble, for some treasure of the past. We , have just seen a "forced removal". More than one and a half million. South Africans have been forcibly removed 1 to barren pieces of land calle,d "homelands." June 12, 1986 the South African government declared a .State of Emergency. In the. five months following 8,800 children were detained detained and held without trial at the rate of 250 per week, some as young as 8 or 9 years. - Children tell of being kicked, beaten and tortured during their detention. Their parents tell of having having to go front police statibn, to jail, to hospital searching in vain for their children. Children are often held for long periods of time without access to families, lawyers or medical help. Sanctions reduce the ability of the South Africa's government to maintain apartheid. In 1960 our United Church called for boycotts of South African wines and oranges. In 1980 we were asked to sell our shares in companies with South African investments. The Task Force - made up of most of our Christian churches worked in 1970 to have banks stop making loans to South Africa. In 1979 the Royal Bank did. In 1980 the Toronto Dominion said, "No loans to South Africa till apartheid is ended." Other banks followed suit. In 1985 the Canadian govern-, ment banned imports of South African agricultural products, steel, iron and coal. We are asked to pray for South AFrican children and victims victims of Apartheid. (Continued page 8) St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. * Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes ' Orono Organist: Ross Metcalf Kirby Organist: Mrs. Martha Farrow Secretary: Marlene Risebrough March 11th - Couples Group will meet in the home of Ron and 1 Arlene Phillips. Pot luck supper with intentions of going to the Fundraising Fundraising dance afterwards. Come dressed the same, March 11th - Old Time Dance starting at 8:30. Cost $5.00 per person. person. Kendal United Church Women met at the home of Mrs, Susan French on Wednesday afternoon, March the first, with eight ladies present. The President Mrs. Dora Youngman opened the meeting with a poem, "The Parable of Spring," followed by No. 86"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross." Mrs. M. Stevens gave as the subject subject of her devotional "The Burning Bush (The Fire Inside)". She referred referred to the story of Moses Ex. 3:1-15. Moses saw a burning bush that was not consumed. Shirley Endicott, a university lecturer, lecturer, daughter of Jim Endicott, became involved with a group of battered wives. Their stories so inflamed inflamed her that in her book "Facing "Facing the Tiger," she writes, "I became a burning bush." Moses somehow became a burning bush who was consumed with righteous anger. This gave him the courage to do as God commanded. He confronted confronted Pharoh and finally led the Jews out of Egypt. Jesus likewise became a burning bush when he drove the traders and money lenders out "of the temple. This fire sustained him through his arrest, his trial, his beatings and crucifixion. * Prayer: God give us the strength to be burning bushes for our time. As Mdses and Jesus were for theirs. Mrs. A. Dilks read the minutes. ORONO GATES' OF PRAISE BIBLE MINISTRY 5414 Main Street Orono, Ontario Inter-Faith Full Gospel " SERVICE 11:00 A.M. Rev. Lyle L. West Office 983-9341 Personal Ministry SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH Sacrament of Baptism Kirby 9:30 a.m. Orono 11:00 a.m. EXPLORERS Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Main Hall, Orono United Church BIBLE STUDIES January 25, - March 29 Ladies Bible Study Wednesday 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Friendship Room , or Mixed Group Study Wednesday 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Friendship room Rev. Margaret F. West Res. 983r5962 Counselling Just In Time For . . 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