Orono Fair Opens With Parades and Shows This Weekend
The Durham Central Agricultural Fair in Orono runs Friday and Saturday September 9 and 10. Events start at noon with school floats and bicycle judging, Holstein show, 4H day, fat cattle, and a P pak motorcycle precision ride. Saturday features horses, beef and dairy cattle, poultry, rabbits, art exhibits, an amateur contest and a town hall dance to close the 1966 edition.
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Durham Central
Orono
Ontario Provincial Police
Committee Urgently Needs Assistance In Clarke Township
Clarke Township council heard the Committee of Adjustment is eight to ten weeks behind in paperwork and short of clerical help. Mr E R Lovekin urged coordination with the clerk treasurer and suggested the township office handle the work for the rest of the year to avoid abolishing the committee. Jurisdictional actions and ministerial approvals have been delayed, impacting mortgages and development.
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E. R. Lovekin
Clarke Township
H. , Millson
Committee of Adjustment
Lovekin
Semi Rotary System At Orono School
Back to school sees Clarke High School register 322 students including 104 in grade nine with more commerce course enrollments than prior years. Orono Public School reports 253 pupils. semi rotary planned for grades 6 8 with subjects in history geography science PE and music under principals Mr D P Moffat and Mr Muldrew. Transport issues noted as busing across Clarke Township districts causes occasional misrouting resolved by local driver.
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Clarke High School
Clarke
Orono
D. P. Moffat
Elizabethville
Muldrew
Peterborough Teachers’ College
Clarke Township
Cowanville
Lockharts
Crooked Creek
Newtonville
Kendal
Clarke Union
Leskard
Salem Public School
C. W. Rolph
Salem
Darlington Township
Orono Juveniles Lose In Ontario D Championship Tilt
Orono Juveniles travel to Clarkesburg for the Ontario D tournament. Clarkesburg edges Orono 4 3 after three unearned sixth inning runs, aided by five Orono errors. Paul Jones pitched for Orono with six strikeouts and seven walks. Clarkesburg’s Smith fanned fifteen and allowed seven hits. Orono led 3 1 after Ted Stark, Brian Foster, and Fraser Wallace produced key hits. The loss ends Orono’s 1966 season with few wins but noted effort.
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Orono
Clarkesburg
Beeton
Paul Jones
Smith
Ted Stark
Brian Foster
Stark
Fraser Wallace
B. Lane
Earl Cobbledick
Cameron Perrault
Orono Juveniles
Orono Fair Exhibits Grow With Strong Entries
Mrs. John Rickard secretary reports rising fair entries in Orono with domestic science ahead of prior years. Poultry water fowl displays promise a full showing while eight Beauty Queen entries and sixteen Amateur Show entries fill Friday and Saturday programs. Interest grows in horse, needlework and flower divisions as the Fair approaches.
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John Rickard
Domestic Science Department
EMO Courses Clarified by Cobourg Co-ordinator
EMO co ordinator Gordon Wright outlined plans for the coming training year with a September 11 picnic as the kickoff. Emphasis will be on rescue basic radiation monitoring and auxiliary fire fighting with room for more volunteers in Cobourg. EMO has aided OPP at two aircraft crashes and a missing child search but remains ready to assist only when authorities request it.
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Gordon Wright
EMO
Cobourg
United Counties
Opp
Millbrook
TCS Expansion Plan Over $2 Million
Trinity College School Port Hope announces a $2.5 million expansion to add a library gymnasium and sixty-bedroom residence. Phase one began recently east of Boulden House with earth moving. Projected completion by September 1968, increasing senior enrolment to 240 and total enrolment to about 320.
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Trinity College School
Port Hope
Canada
Angus C. Scott
T.C.S
Boulden House
Rose Glen Road
TCS
Boulden
Scott
G. M. C. Dale
A. H. Humble
Council And Trustees Debate Restrictive Area By law
A Tuesday discussion by Clarke Council and Orono Police Trustees, with legal advisers E R Lovekin and K Lycett, examined objections to the Restrictive Area By-law. Lycett urged allowing redevelopment to modern standards in built up districts, noting 75 foot frontages with water should not be restricted. The debate touched on sewage and parking, temporary status, health approvals for new apartments, and potential relief for aging homeowners.
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Clarke Council
Orono Police Trustees
E. R. Lovekin
K. Lycett
L. Perrault
Woodyard
Department of Health
Perrault
Lycett
Orono
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