Township Council Appoints Committees and Officials
Council assigns members to Road and Bridge Property and Finance Planning and other panels. Reeve Foster to Welfare. Carveth Falls to various boards. Gree to Federation of Agriculture. Clarke Township Recreation Association expansion to nine. Road Department subsidy forms due before February 1 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walkey
Carveth
Falls
Gray
Reeve Foster
Game Commission
Gre
Federation of Agricutture
Caveth and Falls
Orono Park Board
Waker and Gray
Cemetery Board
Centennial Committee
Revert Chater
Central Ontario Conservation Authority
W. H. Gibson
Memorial Hospital Board
Bowmanville
Henry DeWith
Clarke Township Recreation Association
Road Department
Centennial Bonfires Light Winter Night Across Region
Local readers recall Ottawa's Centennial Flame and a series of bonfires lit at night. Trees were gathered in Orono and carted to Brimacombe Hill near Kirby while flames flared north of Kendal and west of Leskard. Kilcolman near Newcastle also hosted a visible fire as O Canada and Auld Lang Syne echoed, closing with a note of renewed community spirit across families and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ottawa
Orono
Kirby
Brimacombe’s Hill
Kendal
Leskard
Kilcolman
Kendal News Celebrates Centennial New Year Beacon Fire Lighted
Clarke Township marks a centennial New Year with a beacon fire lit on a hilltop. Descendants Wm Reid Bruce Cathcart and Arthur Thompson helped set the fire on land owned by Reid amid a gathering of about twenty five including local families and newcomers. Neighbors traveled from south and east to join the celebration as the community looks forward to a bright future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Wm. Reid
Bruce Cathcart
Arthur Thompson
New Years Dinner Guests Around Bowmanville and Oshawa
Local notes list New Year dinner guests including Mr. and Mrs. Rickaby, the Websters, the Billings family, and Lynn from Bowmanville, with many others from Bowmanville Oshawa Orono and Port Hope. Health news notes Mrs. Rolph improving after hospital stay. Congratulations to Walter Gibson and Linda Tyrrell on their marriage December 31 1966.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bailey
Lynn
R. P. Rickaby
George Webster
Jan
Karen
Bowmanville
Carl Billings
Wayne Bailey
Carl Kimmett
M. J. Tamblyn
T. W. Cawker
John Leishman
Oshawa
J. D. Brown
Edward Millson
Oroné
Marion Brown R.N
W. Rolph
George Cole
Jack Archer
John Sherry
Lois Sherry
Port Hope
Bill McNaul
Audrey Billings
Alex Watson
Neil Porter
Lynn Bailey
F. W. Trull
James Canning
Canning
Walter Gibson
Harold Gibson
Newcastle
Lynda Tyrrell
Tyrone
Cronwell
C. B. Tyrrell
United Church
New Year Dinner Hosts Include Mercer Family Members
Mrs. Roy Mercer of Orono hosted a New Year’s dinner with fifteen guests. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. David Mercer, Mr. and Mrs. Don Mercer and their son, Mrs. Mercer’s sister, and her two sons. Call 983-5190 with news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Snodgrass
David
Rochester, N.Y
W. B. Hoar
Frank S. Moore
Tucson
Arizona
Ray M. Dickson
Orono
Moore
Dickson
Roy Mercer
David Mercer
Don Mercer
Hydro Commission Sets Bonding for New Hydro Service
The Orono System will require future commercial establishments to post bonds for hydro service. The hydro chairman was authorized to draft by laws governing installations in subdivision extensions and present them at the next meeting. The commission also scheduled a special meeting with the manager to address his resignation and approved a $4000 loan from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce repayable within six months. Dent expects the matter to be settled by March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Woodyard
D. Simpson
Orono
Hydro
Sions
Simpson
Woodyard
Clarke
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Dent
Orono Hockey Night Set With Four Local Teams
Orono rink hosts four local teams Friday at 6 30 p m with the mighty Atoms followed by Pee Wees Bantams and Midgets. Opponents come from Bowmanville Pickering and Millbrook. Saturday at 9 30 p m the Orono Juniors meet Bill Billards Bowmanville. Support at the rink encourages Canada’s national sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orono
Mighty Atoms
Pee- Wees
Bantams
Bowmanville
Pickering
Millbrook
Bill Billiards
Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Council
Kendal News
C. W. Stewart
Neil Elliott
Norman Patton
Laverne Patterson
Roy Sleep
New Yeak
Roy Foster
Clarke Township
H. Brown
John Henderson
Milton Robinson
Doug Mercer
Larry Hoy
Kenneth Chapman
Salina
Newtonville
Professor Grant
Cecil Burley
Vanstone’s
Mill Pond
S. Caldwell
Hugh O'Brian and
James Mitchum
Charlton Heston
Ann Baxter
Debra Paget
John Derek
Charles Webber
Bowmanville Memorial Hospital
Ione Forrester
Ethel Bouck
Russell Maluske
Newcatle, A.R. 2
John Forrester
Hugh Stapleton
United
Orono Pastoral
B. E. Long
Hydro Meeting
Orono, Newcastle and District
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