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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 3, 1989 #rono iBeefetp ©mes» Second ('lass Mail Registration Number 000368 Vuhiisi ed Kvery,Wednesday at the office of Publication . Maih Street, Orono Roy V. Forrester. Editor ' ■ - The Hollywood of Ontario The local area came next to being the Hollywood of Ontario Ontario with theatre being presented both at the Clarke High School and at the Newtonville Community Hall. Both theatre presentations were most entertaining and somewhat different from the normal diet of amateur theatre which àll too often feature Neil Simon. The Clarke performers over the years have had excellent direction from John Amesbury who no doubt is the stable force behind the school productions. It was a good cast at Clarke's event last week and it would be difficult to say that one performer performer excelled over any of the others. COARSE, although possibly clutsy did have a professional air, solely attributed to those performing on stage. What can one say about Bernie Martin. As the writer of Joe Boss he portrayed the problems facing the environment in a canny and subtle manner but still with lots of laughter and a clear message. Bernie has a bag of tricks that are often surprising and possibly just out of reach at times to stretch your imagination. Bernie Martin is really the One-Man Show. It was a great week for local theatre and those invloved should be congratulated. It Sounds Familiar If you take memory back to the early 1970s when the province province was baiting the hock for the establishment of Regional government you would find that the same format is now falling on the heads of members of remaining county councils. "A more active role in promoting the economic development development potential of the whole area" .... "to strengthen county government ensuring that the system is fair both in terms of representation and in providing services" ... "much more cost efficient and effective in delivering services" ... all communities communities involved in the decision making ... "no loss of identity". identity". The same script which was rolled out to establish Regional government. Bigger is better. The County are currently in the throws of discussing a report prepared by the province for change of the county system. Will they be up for the challenge? Somewhat of a surprise It was somewhat of a surprise when the Ontario government government announced their proposals for education within the past couple of weeks. No doubt many in Ontario were awaiting word from Peterson and the Minister of Education just what course the province intended rn further development of the educational system. One would have welcomed a plan of improving the quality quality of education which most feel is something that is needed. Rather the province has suggested that the public system should be extended in the number of years a student attends school. It wqs a matter of full-time kindergarten and planned junior kindergarten throughout the province. * Where does the money come from not likely from the province either for the needed capital expansion and the cost of expanded operation costs. Much better that the province come up with plans for an improvement to the existing educational system than extention into earlier years of education. This extending into earlier education education is an afront to society as a whole and does nothing for any planned educational system. ■ CAR WASH RAISES $300.00 FOR KINSMEN The Great Pine Ridge Kinsmen held a car wash at the Armstrong IGA parking lot last Saturday raising an amount of $300.00. The club wishes to thank everyone who assisted with the project by bringing in their vehicles for a wash. A FACE LIFT DOWNTOWN ORONO The Partner Stores on the east side of Main Street are presently undergoing an exterior face lift with the replacement of the mortice at the top of the building and repainted. It will be an improvement to. the downtown area. GANARASKA INVOLVED IN PITCH-IN SATURDAY The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority is involved involved in the Pitch-In week program and is asking for help this Saturday at a number of locations, especially their conservation areas. Locally in the Town pf Newcastle the program is being held at Thurne Park Valley Lands Conservation Area on concession concession road 4 west of Highway 115-35 at the Wilmot Creek. Volunteers who may wish to help with the program are asked to be at the area parking lot between'the hours ot 9 a.m. to, 12 noon A clean-up program is also being held at the Garden Hill Conservation Area as well as the-Cobourg and Port Hope areas, The same hours apply.' Kendal News May is here - the end of cold chilly chilly days and the start of brighter warmer weather heralding a fresh start in life. With shining light Of daffodils With soothing green Of woods and hills, Wild grasses and The cuckoo's song, May tells us that The Winter's gone! Now everywhere Through once bare earth, Small tender shoots Have thrust to birth, And manifest in Maytime flowers Fulfilment of The trusting hours Joyce Frances Carpenter The last three months have been the driest in 30 years the weatherman tells us but rain came last weekend. On Sunday morning after the fine rain our lawn is green again and there were several quail enjoying it. They were released last fall by the men who hatched them and have survived the winter O.K. My grandmother grandmother said when she walked across the fields to school they were quite plentiful and she thought they were Robinson's chickens. We all enjoyed the fine program put on by Bernie Martin, our many talented actor, on Friday and Saturday Saturday night. We all have hidden talents but not many of us have the gift of entertaining both old and' young with wit and humor, interspersed interspersed with plenty of food for thought. There was a good crowd both nights, • Our choir sang, "It is no secret what God can do." The scripture reading was Acts 15: 1-2, 22-29; Revelations 21: 19, 22-27; John 14: 23-29; Sermon: "A Human Condition - Hope!" Next Sunday, May 7th. Kendal U.C.W. Anniversary Service at 11:15 a.m. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Betty Turcott of Bowmanville. President of the Women's Interna 1 - tional Council of Canada. She attended attended the fellowship of the Least Coin Conference from November 25 to 30 in Geneva last fall. This fall the Conference will meet in Jamaica, 300 women attended last year and they hope to top that figure this year. Last year they divided 300,000 U.S. dollars to help women and children all over the world. The organization purchased buses for handicapped people in Australia. The point of that purchase purchase was not simply to supply the buses. They hoped to show governments governments and business officials that such an expenditure was well worthwhile worthwhile and thus involve the com munity in further assistance for the handicapped. No doubt she will have many interesting things to tell us about her work in the international international activities of our church in the world. Now that the seed time of the year has come agàin perhaps you might be interested in the pioneers who cleared away the great forests and made our lands ready to receive the new seed. It is as follows told by one pioneer Major Strickland and the brother of Susanna Moodie who wrote "Roughing it in the Bush." "Twenty-seven Years in Canada West" or "The experience of an Early Settler," by Major 'Strickland C.M. Published in London in 1853. If I could have purchased land on the lakeshore 1 should have liked to settle in Darlington; but'I found the farms 1 fancied much too high- priced for mv pocket. So at last 1 made up my mind to go back to the new settlement of Peterborough, ' and see what sort ot a place it was and what it was likely to become. " Accordingly- I started on my journey, and travelled east, along the Kingston Road, parallel with the shore of Lake Ontario, for about twenty-four or five miles to the boundary line between the townships of Hope and Hamilton. After this I walked for twenty-seven miles through Cavan and Monaghan to the town of Peterborough Peterborough which at that time (1826) contained one log house and a very poor saw-mill erected some five or six years before by one Adam Scott to supply the new settlement of Smith with lumber... My new friend advised me to purchase purchase land adjoining his grant,, which was very prettily situated on the banks of the Otonabee in the township of thé same name, within a mile of Peterborough. The price asked was fifteen shillings which was high for wild land at that time, but the prospect of a town so near had improved the market considerably.' considerably.' I took his advice, closed the bargain and became a landed pro- St. Saviour's Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and , CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 'a.m. prietor in Canada West. On the 16th of May 1826, I moved up with all my goods and chattels, which were then easily' packed into a single horse wagon, and: consisted of a plough iron, six pails, a sugar ket- (Continued page 7) ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes Orono Organist: Joyce Gray Kirby Organist: Mrs. Martha Farrow Secretary: Marlene Risebrough 983-5702 UPCOMING SERVICES Kirby Orono Regular Service 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. ORONO G A TES 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 , Rev. Margaret F. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling Sunday, May 7th Ascension Sunday Sunday, May 14th Mother's Day,family Sunday, Pentecost Sunday Sunday, May 21st Sacrament of Infant Baptism Orono » . EXPLORERS ' Wednesday, May 3rd 6:30 p.m., Upper C.E. Hall Banquet - Wednesday, May 10th HI-C Monday, May 8th 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. At the Manse BIBLE STUDY Wednesday, May 3rd 8:00 p.m. Friendship Room SPRING SUPPER Wednesday, May 3rd 6:00 p.m. For tickets phone Isabelle Challice 983-5824