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Barbecue at the Orono Park East wing at Memorial Hospital to open early in November The new east wing of Memorial Hospital, Bowman- ville, is expected to be open and in use by November 1st, according according to Jack Wilson, Vice President President of Corporate Services. This stage of the $15 million development at Memorial will note the first major change for the general public. The total project is expected to be completed completed in the fall of 1990. The opening of the new east wing on November 1st will place the main entrance to the hospital at the east end of the hospital. It will be serviced with a driveway through to the adja cent parking lot which is already in place. The emergency entrance will remain in its present location. The east wing ground floor will house the switch board, reception as well as a new Tuck Shop. It will also accommodate the radiology and .physiotherapy departments and a new service occupational therapy. It will also house all out-patient clinics. The first floor in- the new addition addition houses 30 medical rehabilitation (chronic) beds. The second floor, which will accommodate accommodate another 30 such beds will open with fifteen in service. Fifteen of these beds have been shelved for the present present time. The basement of the wing houses a new pharmacy, cafeteria and staff facilities. Emergencies at the hospital will continue to be handled in their present location. However renovations are expected to be undertaken for the emergency department and plans are now before the Ministry awaiting ap- (Continued page 5) Digestors in place in Newcastle as a pilot project by Region The weather was fine and the the event with 250 in atten- food was great at the annual dance. Orono Barbecue sponsored by The fifty-fifty draw held in the Orono Arena Project fund conjunction with the barbecue Committee. was won by Reg. Chad, Orono, There was great support for in an amount of $132.00. The G.O.O.D. committee (Garbage Of Ontario Diminished) Diminished) co-operating with the Region of Durham have distributed twenty household waste digestors throughout the Town of Newcastle. The recipients recipients are part of a pilot project being undertaken using the digestors to handle some of the kitchen waste that is created in the home. The digestors handle kitchen scraps, meats, fats, fish etc. but not lawn and garden wastes. They do not creaté useable compost for lawns and gardens but produce a liquid Published Every Wednesday Orono Weekly Times, A WHOLE NEW LOOK , Sylvia Parker of Not Just Fashions re-opens her store in Orono with a whole new look. The store re-opens on Wednesday, August 23rd. ■ NEW STORAGE TANKS AT ORONO GARAGE New gas storage tanks are being installed a the Orono Tarage, Main Street, (his week. Gas dispensing will be in full swing this coming week with the possibility of one pump being being operative this week-end. SIGNS DISAPPEAR Five warning signs 1 on the fence of the radioactive dump in Port Granby were stolen last week. The site is now owned by Cameco Fuel Services. The signs read "Danger Radioactive". IRONO PEEWEES BASEBALL IN PLAYOFFS TJte Orono Pee Wees Baseball team will be starting a hree game series with Georgetown beginning this coming weekend. Their first game will be held in Georgetown pn laturday, August 19th at 6:00, their second game will be held Sunday, August 20th at the Orono Park commencing at 2:00, md if a third game is necessary is will be played on Sunday as veil as part of a double header. The boys coujd really use the lupport, so please come out on Sunday and cheer them on. 3oqd luck boys! ORONO GIRLS NOVICE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT On Saturday, August 19th the Girls Novice Softball Tournament will be held at the Orono Park. Their games will be played at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and the Championship game 1:00 p.m. This could turn out to be a very entertaining day of baseball as the team standings at the end of this regular ball season ended with ties for 1st place and 3rd place. Good luck to all five teams on Saturday. If by chance the weather man doesn't cooperate on Saturday the ram date will be Sunday. Sunday. waste that filters through a screen in the bottom to the soil below. Those with a digestor weigh scrap kitchen foods into a sealed sealed container and dispose in the digestor. Monthly reports are submitted to the Regional Solid Waste department who tabulate the results and determine the value of the pilot project. .The project is to be carried on until November 30tfv, 1989. A wide range in size of family units have been sought to assist with the project and forty other similar projects are being carried carried out in other sectors of Newcastle. According to dësigners the digestor has been, designed to significantly,reduce the amount of food waste going to the dump. It is stated that over one quarter of total household waste is comprised of food and cooking scraps. , The digestor pilot project is but one of three processes being tested during the next four months. months. t- The G.O.O.D. committee members have also distributed 20 drums and 20 Soil Savers. The drum process was designed by members of the Regional works department and make use oPdiscarded drums that may be rotated with their garden, lawn and household wastes. The (Continued page 5) Wednesday, August 16, 1989 Peterson at Liberal picnic at Camp Samac It was not all hot dogs "and pop for Premier Peterson when he attended the area ridings' Liberal 'picnic on Friday at Camp Samac in north Oshawa. But the reception was .apparently .apparently old hat for the Premier to enjoy the outing and also receive picketing over complaints complaints of one nature or another. Not only did he mingle with the 200 liberal workers present but also with delegations objecting objecting to a proposed Durham landfill site in Whitevale and complaints from members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union representing ambulance workers, staff from the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and employees at the Whitby jail. The OPSEU group having concern over their, pensions and working conditions. Peterson took time to speak to his fellow liberals thanking them for their work in (Continued page 5) Pictured abdve are Helen ■ MacDonald and son Kyle, R.R. 1 Newtonville, with a household waste digestor which has bfeen installed in their backyard as a pilot project by the Region of Durham.