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Volume 66, Number 43 Orono Town Hall RONO Weekly Times $1j00 GST Included Wednesday November 13, 2002 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Li Kristie Travell and Gage Beech laid the Newtonville Public School wreath at the Newtonville Reinembrance Day held Friday at the Cenotaph. Province and feds support Bowmanville Library While Mayor John Mutton thanked M.P.P. John O'Toole for the province's investment in Clarington at Tuesday morning's cheque presentation presentation at the Bowmanville Town Hall, Councillor Don MacArthur was not as gracious. gracious. O'Toole, representing the provinces' SuperBuild fund along with M.P. Alex Shepherd representing Industry Canada, presented the Mayor of Clarington with a $417,926 cheque for the new Bowmanville library branch currently under construction. The cheque represents equal payments of $208,963 from both levels of government. Wearing a protest T-Shirt which read, "We offer our congratulations to our friends around the province who had library projects which better met the funding criteria and so got more of their and our tax money back," MacArthur told the Orono Times Reporter, that while he appreciates the effort John O'Toole is making in getting as much funding for our riding, he feels strongly that we in Clarington are not being treated fairly. Whitby received $2.6 million in SuperBuild funding according to MacArthur, Ajax with a similar library project as Clarington, got $14 million from SuperBuild while Clarington was granted $208 thousand. The four storey building which will house the new library on the first two floors and municipal office space on the second two, will be opened next year. Tuesday's cheque is included in the building's $8.5 million construction construction budget. Armed robbery at lie gas bar At 5:52 Sunday morning, a white pick-up pulled into the PetroCan gas station located at 3005 Hwy.115/35 where a male passenger proceeded to fill the truck's gas tank. When the male entered the kiosk he pulled a gun out of his coat and pointed it at the attendant and asked him to open the till. The attendant who identified the weapon as small, black in colour, possibly a 7 mm gun, stepped back from the till and told the suspect to do it himself, himself, and there was no money in the till. The suspect then backed off and hopped into the passenger passenger side of the truck which was waiting for him at the kiosk door. The vehicle fled north bound on the highway with $95 worth of gas. Police received a descrip tion of the truck from ambulance ambulance attendants who were filling up their vehicle alongside alongside the suspects. The truck was described as large, white, possibly a GMC with dark coloured lettering on the side and mud type tires. The armed suspect and a female passenger where white. The suspect is decided as about 25 to 30 years of age, 175 cm tall with a thin face of medium build. He was wearing wearing dark pants, a black baseball cap. His dark coat rolled up at the waist coat had different colours on the shoulders. The suspect was also described as having a reddish beard of about 1 week's growth. ;• Durham Regional Police Major Crime Robbery Unit now investigating this robbery. robbery. Orono bank mams centennial Sunday, November 10th marked the 100th anniversary of banking in Orono. The first bank to service this community was the Standard Bank which was located at 5314 Main Street, now Wallace Auto Supply which officially opened its doors for business on November 10 1902. A recounting of Orono's banking past by Helen Schmid, printed in the June 14, 1989 edition of the Orono Weekly Times, tells us that the bank served at this location for 18 years, and in July 1919 purchased purchased the lot at the south east corner corner of Park and Main Street for a new branch location location at a price of $1,000. The new branch was opened in April of 1920 under the direction of manager manager William A. Waddell. That building is now the law office of W.K. Lycctt. Waddell faced a run on the bank in 1923, when depositors began withdrawing their money. According to Schmid's account, the Standard Bank had loaned money to Gray-Dort Motors Ltd in Chatham who where rumoured to be in a financial mess. The rumours were squelched by the Finance Minister of the day who declared the Standard Bank to be perfectly solvent. In 1928 the Standard bank merged with the Canadian Continued page 3 From 1920 to 1988, the CÏBC operated out of this building at the corner of Park and Main