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2 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 5, 2002 Serving East Clanngton and beyond since 193,' (jCNA Subscriptions $29.91 + $2.09 G.S.T. = $32.00 per year. Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 • Agreement No. 40012366 Publishing 48 Issues Annually at the Office of Publication "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. " Orono Weekly Times 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario LOB 1M0 E-mail: oronotimes@speedline.ca • Phone/Fax 905-983-5301 Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart The Orono Weekly Times welcomes letters to the editor on subjects of interest to our readers. Opinions expressed to the editor and articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Orono Weekly Times. Letters must be signed and contain the address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will not be acknowledged or returned. We reserve the right to edit for length, libel and slander. If your retail or classified ad appears for the first time, please check carefully. Notice of an error must be given before the next issue goes to print. The Orono Weekly Times will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. What's wrong with this picture? Having cut short a non-business related convention in Kingston last Saturday provided me with the leisure time to take the long way home. I headed home on what was formerly formerly known as the "Heritage Highway" - Highway #2. The sun was shining, the weather was pleasantly warm, traffic was light and I had my 'driving music' playing on the system. What a rich country we live in. Everything was lush and green Saturday. The fruit trees were in blossom, the spring bulbs where blooming and the lilacs were at their peak. The best lilac display I saw along the whole stretch of highway was along the roadside in Newtonville, People were fishing in the numerous water courses I crossed, a few teams were playing playing ball games, and groups of people were gathered around smoking BBQ's along the way. I could have stopped at 73 yard sales, bought ostrich eggs, lean beef, a variety of cement lawn ornaments, and fine porcelain dolls at Stella's. The flow from urban to rural landscape was gradual yet constant, with golf courses occurring at all too regular intervals. Idyllic as everything seemed, all was not well in paradise. Big roadside signs in Napanee declared that local folks were against the Richmond Dump expansion. The Richmond Landfill site, owned by Canadian Waste, currently accepts 125,000 tonnes of household waste a year. Clarington's waste is collected by Canadian Waste which in turn dumps it at their Napanee site. The land-fill site owners have applied to expand the site six-fold and accept 750,000 tonnes of waste annually, extending the site's life for 25 years. Napanee Municipal council has passed a resolution that they are unwilling to host this landfill site, which is currently in the Environmental Assessment stage. Clarington Council passed a similar resolution a few years ago when Newcastle Recycling applied to extend the life of their landfill site in Newtonville. We don't mind sending our garbage to a municipality that doesn't want it, but there's no way we'll take anyone else's garbage here. Something's wrong with this picture! Looking back Mr. Donald Davis of Scarborough sent us a photograph photograph taken about 1900 depicting his late maternal great-grandparents and their children. Mr. Davis' accompanying letter explains that Andrew Morrow's father, Robert, was a native of County Tyrone, Ireland. Two of the Morrow children, Andrew and his brother Jim, were well known local blacksmiths. Andrew's blacksmith shop was located in Kirby and his children attended the red-brick school Shown in the picture from left to right are: Andrew M. Morrow (d. 1946), Ary ilia M. (d 1973), Florence "Pearl" (d, 1962), Leonard A. (d. 1960), and wife, Victoria (d. 1906), house that now houses the Clarke Township Museum. Jim settled in Bowmanville. Andrew and Jim married two Chapman sisters (Jim's wife, Ada Zilla and daughter Eva Alberta died during the Orono typhoid outbreak of 1910). All of these Morrow family members are buried in Orono. Andrew Morrow won a prize in the Chicago World's Fair for his display of silver- plated 'orthopedic' horeshoes. This remarkable -and heavy - display is archived at the Clarke Township Museum. Andrew Morrow is survived survived by his three grandchildren, grandchildren, who currently reside in Cobourg, Wilmot Creek and Toronto. •I