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Orono Weekly Times

Location

Orono, Ontario, Canada

Date

Aug 01, 1968

Page

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Children Pass Swim Tests At Orono Pool

Orono pool completed the summer term 1968 with Red Cross and Royal Life Saving tests. A total of 374 children enrolled in July classes with many earning Royal Life Saving merit and First Bar distinctions, along with Red Cross senior and intermediate swimming awards. Institutions involved include the Royal Life Saving Society and Red Cross.

Orono Pool Orone Red Cross Royal Life Saving Typcal Royal Life Donald McKenzie Michael Carman Caroline Johnson Bonnie Barlow Diane Hazelden Doreen Hazelden Sally Stapes Carol Caldwell Suzanne Bunting Wayne Couvier Tom MacDonald Sally Staples Stacy Stutt Kathy Gustar Craig Tennant Karen Homewood Sheila Bairstow Lynn Lowery Cheryl Cornish Yvonne Schoenmaker Warren Johnston Sharon Johnston Sharon Lowery Dale Evans Cindy Fee John Coatham Steve Allin Paul Staples Larry Lunn Shelley Hooey Steve Sawyer Pam Newell Cliff Fee Edward Clark Tracie Stutt Donald McLaren Becky Lee Mark Car

Festival Of Arts Opens In Newcastle With Billy Budd

The Great Pine Ridge Festival will open August 8 at 7 30 p m with trumpets from the bell tower. Billy Budd premieres in the theatre as three productions Billy Budd the Admirable Crichton and A Man For All Seasons rotate for three and a half weeks. A company of 95 young actors and technicians prepares for a major youth theatre festival in Pine Ridge.

Newcastle Billy Budd Pine Ridge Crichton North America

Clarke Township Ratespayers Form Association Meeting

The Clarke Township Ratepayers Committee voted to form a Ratepayers Association at a Sunday gathering in Orono. About seventy ratepayers attended as Mr. Butt outlined aims to inform on legislation, improve government relations, and keep citizens informed while warning of rural decline from development and industrial growth.

Clarke Township Orone Oddfellow’s Clarke Butt Clarke Citizens’ Committee Lindsay Port Hope Cobourg Peterborough Darlington Cartwright Oshawa Family Herald

Revised Plans Lift Orono School Purchase Cost

Clarke Township Public School Area Board reports the general purchase room cost at Orono Public School rose from 50456 to 61166. The higher figure matches the tentative approved amount in the original building proposal and has been approved by the department for grant purposes.

Clarke Township Orono Public School Department

Plan By law meeting details with Clarke Township minister

Mr Butt told a Sunday meeting that Clarke Township Ratepayers Association executives would meet the Minister of Municipal Affairs on Wednesday to discuss objections to the planning by law. Questions covered zoning, borrowing by debentures, farm purchases, and lot size changes with few clear answers.

Butt Ratepayers’ Association Simpsons Clarke Ans Porteous

Farm Truck Burned In Curtis Field Fire

Two fire calls last Thursday afternoon to Wm Curtis farm and Saturday night to Lands and Forests property report a 1966 half ton truck fire owned by R Elliott that destroyed the vehicle with unclear cause and a second fire in a Mrs Elliott car from faulty wiring saved from damage. A straw stack used to cover seed beds on Lands and Forests property caught fire, suspected to be lit internally by pranksters.

Wm. Curtis R. Elliott Eliot Elliott Department of Lands and Forests

Orono Tykes Triumph Over Kendal Tykes 17 10

Orono beat Kendal 17 to 10 in a Monday youth baseball game at Orono Park. Barry West led with a triple a double and a single while handling catcher duties. Nicky Van Segglen added a triple and a double with two double plays in center. Mark Mercer pitched well and had two hits. Ken Wright preserved the win with a last inning catch. Don Dennies had three hits for Kendal.

Orono Kendal Tyke Orono Park Barry West Nicky van Segglen Mark Mercer Ken Wright Kendal Don Dennies

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