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Orono Town Hall Volume 64, Number 38 750 GST Included Wednesday, September 27, 2000 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 193 <T ■\ ORONO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The Society is holding their Fall Flower, Vegetable Show & Plant Sale on Obtober 5th, 7:30 p.-m. Guest Speaker: Ian Andrews - Topic: Landscaping with Interlocking Brick. KENDAL ORANGE HALL The Orange Hall is having a Horseshoe Tournament on Saturday, September 30th, 10:30 a.m. at the Hall. SPECIAL EVANGELISTIC SERVICE This Special Service is being held Saturday, Septmber 30th , 6:30 p.m. at the Orono Community Hall. All Welcome. V. J The very first challenge to the Region of Durham's Communal Services Policy, has that council flip flopping, By a one vote margin, Regional Council voted on September 6, 2000, to support support the use of private' communal communal services in the rural areas, contrary to staff recommendations. recommendations. On September 20, 2000, Regional council reconsidered reconsidered that decision, and in a 13-12 vote dec ided to support staff's recommendations, not to permit Cougs Investmènts to service a proposed 107 , unit housing development on their Deer Creek Golf Course with communal services. Communal systems are • small scale water or sanitary sewerage systems that service service more than one property owner, and are not part of an urban, municipal water sup- (continued page 2) The Village is being asked to come out and get involved in yet another 'made in Orono project'. Wheels have been put in motion to open up another section of the Sidney B. Rutherford Trail. Conceptual drawings of the trail system through the ravine just west of the downtown downtown core of Orono were drawn up in the early 1990's. Permits for the actual work were issued in 1994. At that time trails were created to link with the Orono Park and Station Street, just east of the Senior's complex. A rudimentary trail was cut to northward along the ravine, but never completed. Through the infusion of « some municipal money and a gift from the Rutherford family, family, the push is on to complete this section of the trail, which will loop back to Main Street, by the flax mill. ' Municipal Works Department Staff will be doing the initial ground work to lay the trail, within the next few days. The plan is to leave the area as natural as possible. A steering committee made up of Pat Lycett, Tracey Osmond, Beryl Clark, Carol Bailey and Svjvie Parker have met with Municipal representatives, representatives, Fred Horvath and Grant Ashton to get a fee! for what work can and should be done, in order to get the maximum maximum benefit-from the natural area along the Orono Creek. The steering committee, who have called themselves 'Friends of the Rutherford Trail', would like to see local people come to a public information information get-together, on Wednesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m. at the Orono Town Hall. "We're calling it a get-together get-together because we want people to come out and meet their neighbours," says Pat Lycett. There are so many people who have moved into town since the original trail was opened, who don't even know it exists, she says. » The Committee is open for input, and ideas for the trail, and how to make the trail entrances more inviting. The ' 'Friends' share a vision that Orono's interconnected interconnected trail system will become very important to Orono's future.