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Orono Weekly Times, 14 Jun 1989, p. 2

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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 14, 1989 ©rono Weefelp Cimes StH-ondX'lass Mail'Resist rat ion Number (100368 Published Kverv Wednesday at the office of Publication The comparison is distorted . Again this year the Town of Newcastle has included a 1989 Information Bulletin with the issuance of the 1989 final tax bill. On the back it gives a comparison mill rates for the Town , for the Region and for the Board of Education. It shows the School Board receiving 60c of every tax dollar, the Town receiving 21 cents of every dollar and the Region an amount of 19 cents. Unfortunately this comparison is drastically distorted in the actual tax monies paid to the Town for all three purposes. If it was only a^matter of mill rate the comparison is accurate accurate but the fact of the matter is that all tax monies to the Town are not provided through a mill rate while it is so for the Region and the Board of Education. The comparison becomes distorted and less than actual fact. It is misleading. The Town does use a mill rate but also it has a separate fixed charge for garbage, a separate charge for street lights and another for local improvements. When this is taken into consideration taxpayers in the Village of Orono pay 52 cents on the tax dollar to the Board of Education, 31 cents to the Town of Newcastle and 16 cents to the Region of Durham. There is a considerable difference. In fact almost 40 percent of the tax funds to the Town is charged through other than the mill rate. If information is to be dispensed, especially by the Town of Newcastle, lets have it right. There is a similarity The province of Ontario since the last election was on a course to provide car insurance at an affordable level. Premier Peterson attacked the cost of premiums and vowed to set a limit on such premiums. This approach was a disaster for the government. It is impossible impossible to target premiums at a fixed charge while other costs such 1 as claims keep skyrocketing. The insurance industry could only go broke in short order. Finally the government has realized,, and is now studying No-Fault insurance, a means of keeping claim costs down and as a result justification to keep premium costs down. It's a sensible approach as well as a realistic approach. Well garbage is in the same boat with muneipalities rtying to cope with a growing problem of abundance and with little or no effort or control on eliminating the problem of quantity or those items that create a problem. Certainly there are pressures from the corporations in keeping their product on the shelves in waste packaging as well as items almost impossible to handle in any form of waste management. Disposable diapers may well be such an item but for years this society survived on other than disposable diapers. The elected must overcome their fear of political pressure from the corporations and the threat of the loss of jobs and consider consider the issue as it is. The attack must be on the input not the output. It was so on car insurance and it will be so for garbage. Some courage would go a long way on the part of politicians. It's time to stop fiddling while Rome burns. Recycled Plastic Garbage Bags Available The Clarke High School Parent-Teacher Liaison committee has available recycled plastic garbage bags which they are selling as a project to raise money for the school. The bags are available in Orono at Reflections or Matthews and Associates. Also available at the school. Twenty bags for $5.00. Kendal News Falls of Niagara Hark! what can I hear Musical and clear Niagara; Falling from its storied height, Like sparkling gems so bright, Niagara. Oh! glorious the sun Looking but for me, Niagara; Like a rainbow of the sky While the seagulls, wildly cfy, Niagara. Oh! like cannon balls In the river falls, Niagara; While the stars at night; Watch the ghostly sight; Niagara. Mary Varley (age 14) Sunday, June 11, was a beautiful June day. The choir sang, "In the Garden." The scripture was 1 Kings 17: 17-24; Galations 1: 11-24; Luke 7: 11-17. The sermon: "Proofs for the existence of God." Next Sun day, June 18th - Orange Lodge Service Service and Church Parade. June 24th - Kendal Salad Supper - One sitting „ only, 5:00 p.m. adults $5.00, children $3.50. July 9th - Outdoor Service at Morley & Wilma Robinson's, 11:00 a.m. Guest Speaker Mr. Keith Henderson. The restoration fund committee wish to thank everyone who supplied supplied home cooking for the bake , sale last weekend. They sold well in spite of the inclement weather. One of our Kendal ladies was transplanting flowers to the church flower bed. A little girl who now lives in one of the new houses beside our church was watching with interest interest then she asked, "Can I dig them up and plant them in our flower bed?" ' Elephant Stew by T^m Koetje: 1 medium size Elephant 2 rabbits (optional) Zi chopped ground pepper 1 can t'omato soup 4 large onions ;.Cut elephant into small pieces (bite size). Add enough gravy to cover. Cook over kerosene fire about 4-weeks at 425 degrees. This will serve 3,8(X) people. If more are expected 2 rabB'ts may be added, but do this only in an emergency as most people d@ not like hairs in their stew. A little girl who had been spanked spanked by her father, climbed upon her mother's lap and said, "Mama, 1 wish you had married Jesus. He loves little kids!" The Kendal Women's Institute met at the home of Mrs. Eleanor Terrill on Thursday at noon June 9th for a Pot Luck dinner with eleven members present and three visitors. After a scrumptuous dinner the president Mrs. D. Turansky opened the meeting with the Ode and the Mary Stewart collect. Mrs. C. Mun- ckton read the minutes and gave the financial report. Some unfinished business was settled in connection with the Penny Sale. The third week in July we go to the Couroux cottage. cottage. Then the president called on Mrs. A. Cathcart, convenor for Education, Education, for her topic. It was entitled, 'How Peter Rabbit's Creator Nearly Nearly Became a Canadian' and was written by E.M. Cleland. During the war I was spending a leave with some new friends in the Lake District and never having been there before they took me for a drive to show me the high spots, as it were. As we were going through the village of Saurey my hostess pointed out a stone farm house and remarked: "A woman lives there whose rather famous in her way. Her name is Mrs. Heelis. But years ago when she was a Miss Beatrix Potter she wrote Peter Rabbit and a whole series of wonderful books for children." I had not laid eyes on a Peter Rabbit book since my own worn out copy vanished about the time I started school, but -instantly I remembered a host Of Old friends with names like Peter Rabbit, and Timmy Tiptoes, and Jememy Fisher, Jemima Puddle Duck, and Benjamin Bunny. And their creator still lived and had her being right there! The glimpse of that house intrigued intrigued me far more- than did the homes of Wordsworth and Ruskin which we had seen earlier. I said: "If I only had a copy of one of her books. I'd almost be tempted to knock on her door and beg her to autograph it." My hostess looked thoughtful. I think Mrs. Heelis might be very interested interested in meeting a member of the Canadian Air Force who remembe'^d her books. When we get home I'll give her a ring. We might find one of her books for you in Kendal." And that is how it happened that two days later I found myself on my way to meet the creator of Peter Rabbit. It was snowy that day I remember and while we wère still stamping our feet on the porch the door opened. I think I must have been expecting a wispy poetic sort of person, but the woman who greeted us was a stocky little lady in the late 70's, very stooped, her hands and feet gnarled and misshapen from rheumatism but with a smiling red cheeked face and a pair of the shrewdest sparkling sparkling eyes I ever saw. She looked exactly exactly . like a very sensible sort of grandmother. And to my delight she wore a frilled white cap, with a lace edge, something I had not seen on anyone's head since my own grandmother died about the time I was growing out of the Peter Rabbit books. • She welcomed us cordially and took us into a comfortable farmhouse farmhouse parlour where there were boxes piled on chairs, a heap of curtain curtain material on a table, and a large framed picture standing with its - face to the wall. For a few minutes she exchanged some talk about Girl Guide work with my hostess. Then with a smile Mrs. Heelis turned to me and asked, what part of Canada I came from. During the war I learned to dread that polite question, for then I had, usually to face some further remark like, "Oh, I've heard Ontario is a very beautiful city." This time I need not have worried. What part of Ontario? Grey County. Was that anywhere near the St.. Lawrence? No, I explained its location. Was it mainly a rural county? Yes, it was, and I told her quite a bit about it. "The reason I know a little about Ontario," she said, "is that my husband husband and I considered emigrating there after the First World War and we even decided where we would settle - it was on the St. Lawrence below Lake Ontario. Then a big property here in Westmoreland came on the market, and after hesitating we decided to buy it and stay where we are. So Canada lost the creator of Peter Rabbit as a citizen.- She told us how Peter had his beginnings. She had to write a letter to a sick little boy and having nothing in particular to tell him made up a story about a bad rabbit' whom she.called Peter after a pet of her own illustrating it with little pen and ink sketches. It was long afterward afterward that she decided to make a little little book out of it. A book for small (Continued page 4) St. Saviour's Anglican Church MIL' STREET ORONl., ONTARIO SUNDAY SERVICE and CHURCH SERVICE 9:30 a.m. Minister: Rev. Fred Milnes Orono Organist: Joyce Gray Kirby Organist: Mrs. Martha Farrow Secretary: Marlene Risebrough i 983-5702 UPCOMING SERVICES Regular Service Kirby 9:30 a.m. Orono 11:00 a.m. Sunday, June 11th Sacrament of Holy Communion SUMMER SERVICES KIRBY July 2nd, 16th, and 30th 10:00 a.m. Congregational Pot-Luck Lunch July 30th ORONO , July 9th and 23rd 10:00 a.m. NEWCASTLE August 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th 10:30 a.m. SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKSHOP Thursday, June 22, 1989 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Lower C.E. Hall 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 Rev. Margaret F. West Res. 983-5962 Counselling SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKSHOP Thursday, June 22nd 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Lower C.E. Hall With Mr. Ken Ingram from David C. Cook. Topics: "Strengthening the Sunday School" and "Preparing to Teach." For parents, teachers and those wanting to help. . CUSTODIAN NEEDED The Board of Trustees are looking looking for an energetic person or persons persons to care for our church beginning beginning July 1, 1989. Please contact Bill Tamblyn (983-5550) for information. information. Remember your Special Dad on Father's Day June 18th QRONO. ONTARIO 983-5009

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