Orono Street Fair and Dance Planned on August 18
The Orono Chamber of Commerce sponsors an August 18 street fair on Main Street featuring eight adult and children games plus a giant bingo. Keating Orchestra of Peterborough will play for round and square dancing. A 50 40 10 cash draw offers prizes with ticket price of 1.00, proceeds shared with the winner the Chamber and the seller. Tickets serve as admission. The event caps the Chamber monthly meeting agenda held Monday night at the Northway.
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Orono
Keating Orchestra
Peterborough
Chamber
Northway
Kendal Students to Join Orono as Bus Plans Shift
The Clarke Township Public School Area Board met to set 1965-66 busing, moving Kendal area pupils to Orono and reassigning grades. Oak and Antioch schools close. Kirby Enterprise and Leskard host certain grades while Starkville opens temporarily.
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Clarke Township Public School Area Board
Leskard
Burley Bus Lines
Jack Carscadden
Oak School
Kirby and Enterprise
Antioch
Orono
Clarke Union
Starkville Area
Kendal
Newtonville
Port Granby
Starkville
Lakeshore
Oak, Kirby
Enterprise
Orono Chamber Plans Police Backing for Underpass
The Orono Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting Monday August 16 at 7 30 p m with the Police Trustees to seek support for the Highway 115 underpass into Orono The debate centers on Trustee backing and timing amid parking concerns and a Department of Transportation study.
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Chamber
Orono
H. M. Mercer
R. Forrester
Department of Highways
Trustees For
North
Mercer
Department of Transport
Village To Supply Municipal Water This Coming Week
The Orono municipal water system will be completed within a week with mains and the water stand pipe to be flushed sterilized and cleansed. Once the pump is in operation the system will be ready for customer connections later next week and water use will begin after a mid week completion.
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Orono
Orono Juniors Reach Final by Defeating Welcome
The Orono junior girls team clinched a spot in the finals by beating Welcome in the semi final at Orono Park on Thursday night, marking two straight wins over Welcome.
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Orono
Orono Park
Welcome
Beverley Tennant
Caroline Johnston
Shelly Mercer
Nancy Forrester
Carol Mercer
Carol Caldwell
Diane Nicholson
Susan Bunting
Newtonville adds two rooms at cost $84,500
Clarke Township Area School Board accepted a tender of 84 500 for two classrooms and a utility room at Newtonville Public School. The project awaits Department of Education approval before starting and provincial grants cover 60 000 with the local board paying 24 500. Once finished Newtonville will absorb students from Port Granby and Starkville schools.
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Clarke Township Area
Newtonville
Department of Education
Electrically heated homes expand in Bowmanville district
Bowmanville and district now report more than 260 all electric dwellings including 83 within Bowmanville town limits and 170 in surrounding areas. Orono adds 16 all electric homes plus 16 six all electric apartment suites. Ernest Dent notes every new Orono house last year was all electric.
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Bowmanville
Geo.t. van Bridger
Orone
Ernest Dent
Orono Hydro
Orono
Clarke Township Area Public School Board Seeks Teacher
The Clarke Township board reports a vacant Kendal position with no leads at present. Mrs. Preston joins Brown's school staff while finances show about 81,000 dollars in combined funds and bills totaling 10,040.70. Grades 1 and 2 hours, bus schedules, and yard maintenance are to be reviewed.
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Clarke Township
Sinclair
Wannan
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Orono Street Fair
Wm. Wannan
Burley
F. E. Lycett
Gerald Wayne Bailey
Kendal United Church
Carol Gertrude Little
Roy Little
Bailey
Harry Bailey
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