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Wednesday, August 30,2006 Orono Weekly Times - 9 Church Directory fPleasejoin us atony of our local places of worship Anglican Churches Rev. Canon David R. Saunders, CD St. Saviour's - Orono 27 Mill Street-905-987-2019 9:30 a.m. - Worship, Sunday School, Youth Group Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer - 2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday Coffee and Fellowship to follow St. George's - Newcastle 250 Mill St. S. • 905-987-2019 8 a.m.-Holy Communion 11:15 a.m. - Worship, Sunday School Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer 2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday . Coffee and Fellowship to follow Orono United Church Reverend Dorinda Vollmer Orono Church Office 905-983-5502 Minister 905-697-9715 ***** Sunday Worship - Sept. 3 Service begins 11 a.m. 13th Sunday after Pentecost. •>4 m if Newcastle United Church 84 Mill St. S., Newcastle LIB 1H2 905-987-4515 • nuc@durham.net Rev. James Feairs, b.a., mm. Minister SUNDAY, SEPT. 3-10 a.m. Worship Activities for Children SUNDAY, SEPT. 10-10:30 a.m. Worship with corn on the cob'& hot dogs following. following. Children's Church - registration and we begin our JONAH Workshop Rotation. ' >Vv-:'v == 'iy&M-. 0 Continued from page 2 Government pensions, like CPP and Old Age, don't pay much at best, and company pensions are indexed to inflation increases only. Seniors, even if they have a nice company pension (only about half do), are very limited in possible ways to raise,new money, for. taxes. Usually it involves going without something else. Like food. A number number of seniors I have met with are actually losing sleep and suffering health issues worrying about whether they'll have enough money now with the new tax rates. Not caring about your customers ability to pay rapidly increasing prices is a sure sign of a company-out company-out of control. Of course with the added money coming in the front door, the second warning sign of a monopoly out of control is frivolous spending^ Embarking on projects that from the outside look ridiculous and using them to justify the rapid price (tax) increases in the front door is obviously obviously a bit of a mental impairment at best. I submit submit the Hockey Hall at a cost of two to three mil lion dollars currently, going up to house a collection collection of hockey memorabilia. memorabilia. The collection has never been publicly appraised, and indeed the ownership of items such as Peter Puck is being, challenged. The collection collection did not make money at the Big Apple, which is a bigger tourist draw than its current location ever will be. This collection collection will require staff, a curator, and yearly operating operating costs. Future generations generations will be saddled with these costs. It would have been far wiser to use this money to promote promote our current assets-- the museum, the Visual Arts Centre and other attractions. The name "Total Hockey" has been used by a local businessman businessman for years. No-one thought to ask or- register register this name before using it in advertising? This closely ties with the third indicator or an out of control company, failure to follow standardized standardized procedures. OK. Let's take the Hockey Hall again. Before any project is started, a budget of expected revenue and costs is drawn up, including expected attendance attendance and ticket prices, yearly wages and operating costs, building maintenance and all other important issues. This is always analyzed and discussed with shareholders! Sometimes, Sometimes, town projects operate at a loss, and that's ok if the good of the project outweighs the costs (like a local hospital--health is more important than operating operating profit), but the point is the project must be looked at in a valid rea- sonable businesslike way. Has anyone seen the forecast for this project? project? Where's the costs versus benefits analysis? analysis? When was public input? Where are the projected business sales or the residual benefit analysis to local merchants? merchants? You have to do your homework! Fall back on logic: A $3,000,000 hockey collection collection in a town of 27,000 households^)? You do the math. The fourth indicator deals with a company "culture". This is a hard item to peg down. It is the result of observation. observation. When a company starts serving itself before the public, and when individual members members begin lining their- own pockets at the expense of the customers,- customers,- they've lost it.* The current mayor is making 207% of what he made when he was elected. Other Councillors Councillors are paid around twice what they were six years ago, all voted with their own hands. Our current mayor of Clarington (population 78,340) makes $30,000 MORE than the mayor in the city of Toronto (population 2,480,000). All the councillors voted to make their milage automatic, so they don't need to even drive at all to collect this generous amount. Then they voted themselves themselves a big rate increase. The Mayor is now making making over $1,200 .per month, up from $500, in unaccounted for mileage mileage perks-. Clarington is big, but not that big. And who gets paid for driving to work anyway? anyway? A reasonable company company board of directors would have long ago asked "what would our customers think when they hear of our big pay increases and perks? And probably back off. An out of control company company would basically answer "who cares?" and vote themselves the raise. Guess which one we saw this year? This CHANGES seepage 10 'Clarington Tom Web Pago OUTSTANDING 2-DAY ESTATE AUCTION Saturday, September 2nd & Sunday, September 3rd 9:30 a.m. • Viewing 8 a.m. MacGregor Auctions located in Orono Take 115 Hwy to Main St., Orono & follow signs to Mill Pond Rd. SATURDAY'S AUCTION features a quality selection articles from past to present: present: antique and modem furniture, couch, chairs, dressers, tables, TVs, electronics, electronics, glass and china, country and kitchen collectables, lamps, oriental vases, cement lawn ornaments, lawn/garden hand tools, plus many more useful articles. SUNDAY'S AUCTION features one of our most interesting selections of antique and a few modem pcs. of furniture, original, refinished and in paint, rare 6 pcs. Art Deco bedroom set, sideboards, washstands, organ and piano, exceptional selection of tables and chairs, crocks, blanket boxes, parlour stove, bonnet & chests of drawers, quality glass and china, depression, crystal, art work, wide selection of collectables found in and around an older home. NOTE: Partial viewing viewing of Sunday's auction is available at Saturday's auction, many treasures still to be unpacked. See www.macgregor.theauctionadvertiser.com Terms: Cash, cheque, Visa/MC & Interac 5% Buyer's Premium on all articles MacGregor Auctions • 905-987-2112 • 1-800-363-6799 30ac HOLIDAY ESTATE AUCTION Stapleton Auctions Newtonville Monday Sept. 4th *10 a.m. • Preview morning of auction Selling varied collections of Marlowe Hancock, Oshawa and the contents from the home of Mr. I. Barrett, Wilmot Creek including: 10 antique rockers; 10 antique clocks; 30 oil lamps; old lighting; numerous pressback pine and Victorian chairs; several old musical instruments; china cabinets; ant. cupboards; old chests of drawers; dressers; old prints frames and mirrors; decoys; crocks; bottles; books; woodenware; chesterfield suite; nesting table; bridge set; lamps; dinnerware; sil- Vèrwaret'china; glàss; etc. etc. Check website for updates. Terms: Cash, Approved Cheque (Drivers License), Visa, M/C, Interac Auctioneers - Frank & Steve Stapleton, Newtonville 905.786.2244 • 1.800.263.9886 'Estate Specialists Since 197V • www.stapletonauctions.com 30ac ANTIQUE AUCTION SALE Labour Day - Monday, September 4 • 10:30 a.m. Haydon Auction Barn, 2498 Cone. Rd. 8, Haydon ON An excellent selection of antiques and collectibles: mahogany early Duncan Phyfe 8- legged large table w/ 8 chairs, 2-door china cabinet, drop leaf server, oak gramophone, mantle clocks, wall clock, cedar chest, Cheval mirror, dressers w/mirrors, parlour table, oil lamps, cranberry, crystal, pressed glass, estate jewelry, jewelry, Coke & 7 UP coolers, wooden washing machine, antique loom, leaded windows, windows, toy trucks (Lincoln, Structo) and many other unique articles. Gallery @ www.theauctionfever.com Auctioneer Don Stephenson • 905-263-4402 or 705-277-9829 30ac CLOSE-OUT PUBLIC AUCTION Pinecrest Bowl Sports Centre Jane St. & Toronto Road, Hwy 2, Port Hope, ON Thursday Evening, September 7th • 6:00 p.m. Selling the contents, furnishings, banquet & restaurant equipment, fixtures and recreational equipment from this nostalgic bowling sports centre (property sold): National 2-door display fridge; 3-door display fridge; 3-door beer dispenser fridge; chest freezers; 5 burner gas charcoal grill; gas deep fryer; gas flat grill; S/S sinks; electric pizza oven and stand; two 3-unit coffee makers; commercial pop corn machine; 3 cash registers; microwaves; 13ft. stainless exhaust hood; Manitowac ice maker; 2 Jet Tech glass washers; quantity beverage glasses; kitchen appliances; supplies & utensils; four 5 pc. chrome ice cream sets; 27 folding folding banquet tables; 166 plastic metal stacking chairs; 4 pub tables; 5 soda stools; 10 patio chairs; office equipment; 14 dart boards; 15 chalk boards; message and advertising boards; sharp vision projector unit and 100 in. screen; disco lighting Dynamo coin pool table; Beaver 4-unit candy dispenser; Ultratroc air dryer (18 mos.); 6 scoring tables w/chairs; 6 ball racks; quantity of hardwood flooring on 12 x 65ft. lanes; 14 unique old bowling benches (corner and 8ft. units); Galaxy Bowl 'Rock and Bowl' system; certified inflatables include appx. 18' x 18' bouncer; 16' x 24' maze; 16'x24 'slide (15' high) all with blowers in excellent condition; 64 ft. decorative cedar and plastic fence (36in.); Percy The Bowling Pin costume; 6-8- 10 ft. step ladders; lockers; cabinets; safe; hand carts; 24 doz. birthday shirts; vacuum; vacuum; clean up buckets; etc. etc. 30ac