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2 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 26. 2002 ) Serving /Bast Clarington and beyond snipe 1937 , (£§N a Weekly Times Subscriptions $29.91 + $2.0? 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. Council becomes more accessible Council's willingness to ease up on their procedural bylaws bylaws really proves you can make a difference at town hall. Linda Gasser and a number of other concerned residents did not receive the necessary 3/4 vote to suspend and the rules last September, to allow them to address an important report on the Oak Ridges Moraine. When the Province was drafting their plan to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine last summer, they left little time and opportunity for public input. Clarington's Planning Department also had a very short time frame in which to add their comments to the Ministry's plan. By the time Clarington's comments on the plan became available to the public, the opportunity to be listed as a delegation delegation to comment on the report had passed. Concerned residents did turn up at the Monday committee meeting, hoping for the opportunity to voice some of their concerns but were denied the chance by councillors. They did however have an opportunity the following Monday to address council and make their comments, many of which were included in the final Planning Committee Report. Linda Gasser later addressed council asking for changes to the procedural by-law. This would allow residents more time to get their name listed as a delegation on the council agenda without being at the mercy of councillors and leave them dependant on a 3/4 vote in order to be allowed to speak. The procedural by-law passed on Monday will definitely make Clarington council more accessible to the public. Posting council's agenda on the municipal web site also makes the entire procedure more user friendly. One no longer has to go to the Town Hall to see which items are on any week's agenda. The card's in the mail Councillor Charlie Trim was quite surprised to pull a letter out of his mail box Friday, addressed to: The Mayor, Newtonville, Toronto, Ontario Canada. The letter was post marked June 17, 02, and was sent from England. After making his apologies to Wally Boughen, the real mayor of Newtonville, for having the correspondence end up in his mail box, Councillor Trim proceeded to read the letter at Monday's council meeting. The letter written by Mrs. Doreen Pollard of 2 Stort Lodge, Hadham Rd, Hertfordshire England, to the Mayor of Newtonville reads as follows: Ido hope you will forgive a complete stranger for writing yo you -- but I am hoping you will be able to help me to make a much-loved lady's 90th birthday very special! My mother, Amelia Bond (nee Honywill) was born in Newtonville on August 10th, 1912, her parents having gone to Canada because her father, Arthur Honywill, had been given the job of getting that section of the Canadian Pacific Railway open. They returned home when my mother mother was 12, but her heart has always remained firmly in Canada! (My parents ' home z'S called "Maple Leaf ") She has told me so many wonderful stories of her childhood childhood there (not to mention the journeys to school with her sister, having to use one of these 'hand-propelled trolleys along the railway line.) There was also, of course, the great excitement of shopping trips to Toronto. We had always hoped to take her "home "for a holiday one day, but due to ill health it has not been possible -- so, for her 90th birthday, on AugustlOth, I am hoping somehow to bring a little of it to her. 1 don't really know what to ask you for but anything that will help to bring back memories memories to her ( or even to show what things look like today) would be so very much appreciated. appreciated. I know everyone thinks their Mum is someone very special but, believe me, This lady really is! On last thing, which would most certainly be the 'cherry on the cake, " would it be possible possible for my mother to receive a birthday card from Newtonville? (to be sent to my address and I will present it to her at her party with anything else that you may be kind enough to send me.) Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, . . - - -- - - Doreen Pollard Councillor Charlie Trim mails a birthday card to Hertfordshire, England England, for the 90th birthday of a Newtonville native.