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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1989-5 ■Successful event at St. Saviour's Church In speaking with Charles Gray he reports'a very successful auction and bake sale held at St. Saviours on Saturday of last week. The bidding was active with up to 60 numbers out and the baking lasted but for a short period of time to sell-out. Pictured at the bake sale, Phyllis Dewell and Gloria Gray, at the auction John Caldwell, Frank Stapleton and Ian Dewell. R September startup for Hydro nuclear reactor The first nuclear reactor at the Darlington Nuclear Generating station station could well start up in September irregardless of whether the Region or the Town of Newcastle Newcastle have sanctioned the emergency evacuation plan. Furrukh Ali of nuclear emergency emergency planning with the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General said municipal approval is but a formality. formality. He said there is a plan and it is the provincial emergency planning planning who advises the atomic Energy Control Board on whether to grant an- operating licence to Ontario Hydro to begin producing power at the Darlington plant. A spokesman for the AECB in Ottawa has said they would be satisfied with approval from the Ontario emergency planning committee. committee. Ali has also said that regional police, health and other emergency personnel are "quite satisfied" with plans to evacuate people within a 10 mile radius of the nuclear plant if an emergency happens. The Town of Newcastle has threatened to hold up the start-up if they are not satisfied with the emergency plan and that other issues are not cleared up between Hydro and the Town of Newcastle. Newcastle is also seeking $10 million from Hydro for building permits which it has been claimed were not subscribed by Hydro. Document problem for a single mother Not even luke warm to school proposal Trustees of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education state they are skeptical of a proposal proposal that would allow school boards to operate on a year-round schedule. A provincial education committee committee recently recommended that pilot projects for all-year schooling be set up in various school boards. The committee states the proposal proposal could lower drop-out rates, a reduction in operating costs and greater retention of course material as some of the benefits of the proposal. proposal. Two models are being di^ussed which would see the two traditional summer holiday months, July and August, being spread throughout the year. There would be shorter in-school periods with more frequent frequent breaks. Ahumber of school boards have stated they will consider a pilot project. project. Diane Stewart, chairman of the local board states there- would be many ramifications. She states the maintenance department uses the summer months for major repairs and a lot of students use: this period to raise funds for their future education. The provincial proposal came in reaction to the problem of overcrowding overcrowding and trie shortage of funding funding for new schools. , Trusted Bill Carman, Orono, has said many of these conditions, overcrowding overcrowding and lack of schools is not a real problem with the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle Board. He also said this has been considered to a degree in the past but that this was the first time such action has been taken, calling for pilot projects. He said he doubted that the local board would take part, at this time, in any pilot project. Under the new system the school year could consist of a variety of different cycles. Citing an example: four terms of 45 school days each With a 15 day holiday after each; or a three term of 60 days with a 30 day break after each cycle. Different cycles could co-exist at a single school with the actual school year still set at 194 days. If a school were to go on a cycle it would still be closed for the same number of days as now. Peter Roach, of the separate school Board said he does not see the logic in the proposal. "If the schools are not going to be used more, how will it cut costs and how will it reduce overcrowding", overcrowding", he asks. He said the only only way it would help over-crowding would be. to have the time at the school totally used up. • Roach also cites the joint use of busing and libraries and said the system could become complex. More unnecessary deaths During the month of June 1989, detachments in the Peterborough OPP District investigated 5 fatal motor vehicle collisions. Three of these accidents involved car or trucks (the other fwo were a car-pedestrian accident, and a single motorcycle accident.) In all three of the car/trck accidents, accidents, segt belts were available in all three, seatbelts .were not worn by the fatally injured victim. Two of these people were thrown out of their vehicles; the third died of injuries injuries sustained in the collision of his body with the interior of the car. There is ample evidence to believe that these deaths were unnecessary' and avoidable, had the victims complied complied with mandatory seatbelt laws. Once again, we ask you to communicate communicate our .request for public cooperation cooperation and compliance with seatbelt laws to your respective audiences. audiences. Enforcement alone is not the answer; changing attitudes through education is the solution. Superintendent R.B. Wheeler No. 8 District Commander A single parent mother, Terry Patterson, sppke to council on Monday outlining her plight to enter the job market. Patterson said she had been receiving Mother's Allowance from the Regional Social Services during which, time she had attended school improving her work skills. She commented that she had tried to get work in this area but to no avail. "I did .finally &et work with the Hastings Board of Education," Education," she said. This required moving moving to Belleville, she said, and obtaining obtaining an apartment for which the first and last month rents were required. required. She said she did not have enough to pay both rents and had explained . her situation to Social Services who bad refused such an amount due to the fact she was leaving the Region. She said Hasting County also . refused because she didn't live there yet. "Every where I went they were ' interested but couldn't help," she said. She outlined a long list of . agencies and other areas where she sought help to no avail. 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