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Helping fellow employee at Curvply Rezoning amendment to control family units On Monday the General Purpose committee of Newcastle council was considering a proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw Bylaw with respect to the definition of 'family', 'dwelling unit' and 'semidetached 'semidetached dwelling'.. The proposed amendment was the result of numerous complaints received by council and individual members of council where home owners, basically in the Courtice area, have apparently devéloped second second dwelling units within ■ their residential dwellings. As a result council had sought a report from the planning staff as to proposed amendments that would help to solve the problem. The report was available for a public meeting on Monday. The planning report outlined a number of avenues open to council. It was suggested that family could be termed as persons related by blood, marriage or legal adoption adoption or not more than three persons who need not be related. The present present by-law allows ten persons who need not be related. (Continued page 3) Committee approves flusher purchase Curvply Wood Products and employees at the plant last week presented Archie Evans, a fellow employee, with furnishings, an electric electric stove and a sum of money. The presentation was made to assist the Evans and their four children following a fire that The Town of Newcastle general purpose committee ■ on Monday' gave their approval for the purchase of a Street Flusher. The contract went to Amaco Construction Equipment Limited at a price of $92,457.00. The funds are to be drawn from the Garbage Equipment Reserve Fund. Counc. Wotten questioned tak ing this money from the Garbage fund for the flusher. He said the flusher had nothing to do with garbage garbage equipment. The treasurer stated that the town had a 5 year contract for garbage at the present time and felt if there was to be change in the matter of collection collection there was time to rebuild the fund. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 22, 1989 Skills Development office ready to help Clarke committee calls for full Environmental hearing David Scott, president of the Committee of Clarke Constituents, in a letter to the Ministry of the Environment Environment outlines the stand taken by the Committee as to a proposal by Laidlaw Waste Systems to ex* pand their operation near Neyrton- ville. Laidlaw is proposing an infilling infilling plan between two mounds of existing existing covered garbage. The comap- ny would reroute the existing petty. Scott in his letter states that the committee wants a full hearing conducted conducted under the Environmental Assessment Act rather than under the Environment Protection Act. He also states that the proposal must be considered in the context of its Long Term Proposal for an ad- ditonal 100 acre extension. It is pointed out that the Ministry has pipeline that runs through the pro- already called . for a full En- ANTIQUE WINDOWS FOR AUCTION The antique windows which were removed from the Orono Town Hall will go up for auction at the Orono Town on March 24th. The windows windows include the rounded top section and two rectangular casements. MODELLERS CONTEST WINNERS AT WENDY B'S The Modellers Contèst at Wetidy B's Department Store was judged by Gary Arinis op. March 21st add here hre the winners: t in the 7-10 age group: 1st Allan Lee; 2nd John fcyan Hendry and 3rd Wayne Werfy. In the 11-15 age group: 1st Dan Holroyd; 2nd Allan , Lee and 3rd Carla Wefry; Congratulations» to all competitors. . ; ORONO TOWN HALL EUCHRE RESULTS The Orono Town Hall euchre results for March 15, 1989 are as follows: High scores for the evening were Walter Murphy with 86; Don Thompson with 85? Marg Linton with 84; Chas Finney with 82 and Chas Çampbeli. with 81. Low score for the evening was Jack Goodman. Winners of the draw were: Marg Todd, Geqrge Buckley, Wilda Simpson and Harold Allen. Euchre is held every Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. Ladies please bring lunch. TODDLER TIME AT BOWMANVILLE tlBRARY The spring session of Toddler Time will begin on April 14 and end May 19, 1989 from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. This six week, half hour programme is designed for children 18-35 months of age and accompanied accompanied by an adult, Toddler Time consists of a variety of short stories, songs and games. Registration will begin Tuesday, March 28, 1989. You may register your child in person or by calling the Library at 623-7322. No call will be accepted before 10:00 a.m. For more information information call Maria Politano at 623-7322. VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS NEEDED The Canadian Mental Health Association/Durham Branch is in need of volunteers for our speakers bureau. The bureau serves support groups, schools, and various other agencies in Durham Region. Topics such as behaviour modification, sibling rivalry, or any parenting issue, are in great demand. Anyone able and willing to speak on these or any other pertinent topics are requested to contact Judy at 436-8760 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ' vironmental Assessment Act hearing hearing for the 100 acre expansion. The letter also notes that the area is within an area designated by the region as Hazard Lands and by the Town of Newcastle as an environmental environmental Protection area. Scott states the addition of (Continued page 7) The success of any business, large or small, is dependent,on ^productivity ^productivity states Margaret Greenley and Jim Rowland of the Ontario Skills Development Office located at Durham College, Oshàwâ. The two consultants from the Oshawa office were in Orono last week outlining the program available through the Skills program program which was established by the Ontario government in 1986. The Oshawa office has six consultants who service » businesses with the Region of Durham. Rowland points out that over the past year the office has almost doubled its clients to five hnndred and has intiated a similar number of training programs. The consultant stressed that companies companies and individual businesses must be competitive to survive on a local, national or world-wide basis. He said it was a matter of productivity productivity and pointed out that on a scale of 0 to 50 Japan would rate a 32 while Canada rates a 0.6 in productivity. productivity. In speaking of new business startups startups it was pointed out that 80 percent percent fail due to the lack of needed management skills and knowledge (Continued page 3) Apple Blossom takes parts in Skills program Yvonne Maitland (centre) of the Apple Blossom Shop is a big supporter supporter of the Ontario Skills Development program having completed completed one of their courses recently in business management. The Skills program • with' consultants, consultants, as above, Jim Rowland and Margaret Greenley, are located at Dürham College and are ready to help serve small and large business in becoming efficient and thus competitive competitive in todays market place. The program is sponsored by he Ontario government. Contact may be made by phoning 576-0210.' seriously damaged their home on February 24th in Newcastle Village. The furnishings were presented by Curvply with the stove and money being presented by employees at the plant. A Trust Fund is also being setup in Newcastle. Pictured above during the presentation presentation were David Steel, general manager, Tony Wilson, operation manager, Archie Evans, Randy Brown, plant manager and Denise Annaert.