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bfficial plan receives little criticism Sold their last candy bar The Clarke Township Plan- ning Board presented their final draft of the Township proposed official plan on Wednesday evening in the, Township Hall. The plan has been over two years in the making and during the past eight months changes have been made to those proposed in 1972. About 60 ratepayers were on hand Wednesday night when the final draft was presented by planning consultant John Farrow and no major object- ion was raised. A major change since the plan was first presented to the public last autumn, said Mr. Farrow, has been a different set of objectives. Among these, he told the audience, was "the promotion of a pattern of development which faciliates économic servicing by public utilities." The plan, he said, aiso aims at preserving good agricul- tural land and the preservat- ion of land within 500 feet of the lake bank for future public use. The plan allows farmers to sever one-acre parcels from their farms fro their own homes or for houses for employees. RESTRICTS But for non-farmers, the plan restricts new housmg units pretty well to infiling in the hamlets and villages of the township. There is one category, estate residential, which per- mits construction of 1,800 square foot homes on two-acre lots virtually anywhere in the township. In recent years, the meeting was told, considerable build- ing has taken place, despite a by-law which -allows new homes only on lots of 40 acres or more. Officials explained that the construction is taking place on lots that were severed and registered prior to May 1968. In the past three years, the clerk told a questioner, approx 235 new homes have been built in Clarke. SECONDARY PLAN As a move to preserve existing farm land and to (Continued page 6) OooekiMes VOLUME 37 NUMBER 31 Move hydi hydro told Ontario Hydro on Tuesday of last week face the residents of Clarke, Darlington and Hope Townships when they outlined the proposed Wesley- ville power generating station to be constructed in Hope Township with work to start in 1974. Hydro fielded question on the ecology and on num- erous occassions told that the pl-nt was not wanted in this ýAbout 60 residents turned out to a public meeting in this hamlet's community hall Tues day night and questioned Hydro officials closely about the impact the plant would have on their environment. One man likened the new generating station to a dump. Many of those attending Tuesday night's meeting are the same people who have been attending other area hearings on a proposal to allow CPR to use land in the very same area for a waste disposal site for garbage to be f"ighted out of Toronto. Nhy kill our country for s station?" asked John Lyng, of R.R.1 Orono, a town planning consultant. "Why not build the plant between Tor- onto and Hamilton. The power from this station will be used there. This is just a dump to t us." Henri Teekman, manager of resource planning for Hydro, replied the engineers would ORO ro plant by crowd "love" to build the plant in the Metro area but had not been permitted to do so. "Why foist a thing like that on us?" Layng persisted. "You make Toronto bigger and we're asked to take the Toronto dump and now this generating station. We didn't ask to be big." "I don't know how you can fragment the country," Teek- man replied. "I don't know who you would put the blame on for Toronto. If Port Hope is to secede, what does that lead to?". "This station is so large it is (Continued page 3) Official plan not yet passed on The proposed official plan which was presented to the residents of Clarke on Wed- nesday of last week bas yet to gain final approval from the Planning Board to pass it along to Council for their consideration. The Planning Board which met on Thursday evening of last week was minus two of its members and with one re- signation a couple of months ago it lef t oniy three members and the chairman to carry on the business of the Board at the meeting. No consideration was given to passing the proposed plan onto council at the meeting. 'NO WEEKLY TIMES, WEDNSE>AY. AUGUST 22nd, 19 Newcastle plans Cobourg dump Oktoberf est The Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that they will be holding their SECOND ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1973 at the Newcastle Community Hall. Plans are well underway for the event. There will be music by a German Band. German food will be available. Our First Annual OKTOB- ERFEST held a year ago was a huge success and was enjoyed by all in attendance. More details will follow at a later date. Meantime should you have any questions on the event please do not hesitate to contact any member of the Chamber of Commerce Exe- cutive. Come, join the happy throng and enjoy yourselves. 1Dollutes creek Farmers who own property along Brookside creek have complained to the ministry of the environment about pollut- ion of the creek from the Cobourg dump. One of the farmers, Gordon Carruthers, is having to draw 500 gallons of water from Cobourg every two to three days because his cattle won't drink from the stream. "The water that runs through the pasture I rent is a mile from the dump but you can smell it before you get near it," he said. "The creek seems to have died. There used to be minnows and crabs and the kids used to make little dams and swim. The botton was sandy. It was a lovely- little stream. We used tobe able to get a drink from it but now we don't want to go near it. Orono signs contract close Orono dump The Orono Police Trustees on Thursday evening approv- ed the signing of a new garbage contract for the pick-up and disposal of garb- age from the Police Village of Orono. The contract is to be signed with Hale's Disposal for both the pick-up of the garbage and the disposal of the garbage at Hale's Disposal dump in the Township of Clarke. The Orono disposal area will be Change displays Clarke Museum ,umqviqk- ha~t ha~ve shimD to do witb Visi your Museum says the sign nging on Y ou M t the verandah of the Clarke Library building. a museum? Stamps are issued to tell a story For the next two weeks a treat is in store for of this great land of ours. They are fot just anyone interested in philately. Mr. Earl Hann pretty pictures to be placed on a page and of Oshawa has loaned part of his vast forgotten. Mr. Hann's display is mainly of collection of postage stamps and covers for a Canadian stamps and tells a story of how we display in our 'new' room. grew from the beginning up to Centennial The first display this season featuring Year. clocks and driftwood was later followed by Visit the museum anyway even if you don't lamps and crocks. like stamps. Noftiwtogenvalleln could suTyass Orenoust The Hamlet of Newtonville could well surpass the Village of Orono in size in two to three years if sub-division proposals now before the Township Planning Board pnd others that are known to be in a preparatory stage for presentation at the Planning Board. The Board was faced with its third division proposal for the Newtonville a on Thursday evening which with two others would provide over three hundred building lots in Newtonville. One proposal for 180 lot sub-division was presented a month ago along with a smaller plan for fourteen lots. On Thursday the third proposal was for 138 lot sub-division. It was also stated on Thursday that other proposals for the Newtonville area will be presented in the very future and will included provisions not only for homes but also a commercial area. About half o the already proposed lots were to be serviced with individual wells and septic tanks. The larger plan was to have piped water from one or two communal wells in the sub-division. All proposals are for the area south of No., 2 Highway east and west from the centre of Newtonville. R. Forrester of the Board said it was beyond him and certainly it meant a supply of municipal water for the Newtonville area. He also stated that consideration should be given by the municipality to obtain an over-all development plan for the Newtonville area. We cannot go at it in a piece-meal manner, he said. E. R. Woodyard said it could well mean sewers for the area. It was pointed out that the development as now being considered did not conform with the proposed Offical Plan as (Continued page 3) closed to use by anyone and will cease to be operated as a garbage dump. The decision to sign a contract with Hale's Disposal came about after repeated requests by Mr. Partner and Mr. Simpson to Mr. D. Tennant to sign an agreement with the Police Village "nd also as a result that the Orono disposal area was ever under complaint by the Ministry of the Environment. Mr. Simp- son stated that he had verbally received word that the Police Village and their last warning and that the next time they would be liable for a fine of $2,000.00. The contract to be signed was in an amount of $6,500.00, $1.30 a month for residential pick-up and $2.00 a month for commercial pick-up with $1,000.00 for the use of the Hale Disposal area. The total cost of garbage pick-up and dis- posal matches that of the present system even though the pick-up charges are more than those now being paid to Mr. Tennant. At present the Village hires a part-time caretaker as well as extra work for bulldozing at the Orono dump. The new contract is to come into force on September lst, 1973. R. Forrester stated that the garbage service should be extended to the sub-division north of Orono, Orono Estates, as the Police Village already services the sub-division with water. It is logical that Orono garbage service he also ex- tended to include the sub-div- ision said Forrester. Mr. Hale Continued page 3) Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mid- dleton shown above sold their last candy bar, on Saturday at their store in Orono. Saturday was the last day for them at the store before it was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Swan. The Middleton's have operat- ed the store for the past five years having purchased the Mr. and Mrs. Swan pictured above who recently purchased Middleton's Confectionery store in Orono took over the operation of their new enter- prise on Monday August 20th. The Swan previously lived on the seventh line of Clarke for the past number of years. We store from Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Rainey. The Middleton's have purchased a home in Oshawa where Mr. Middleton works for General Motors. Mrs. Middleton states that although she had enjoyed the store she was looking forward to her retirement. wish them well in their new enterprise in the business section of Orono. They intend to expand the services of the store by extending into the back room of the store now occupied by Mr. Ray Brown, the barber. No music concert at Mosport Park On again....off again....that bas been the fate of the family music concert or rock festival (as one may wish to call it) but the latest bas it that there will likely be no event of a music nature staged for Mosport over the Labour Day week-end Reeve Woodyard, last Wed- nesday reported that he had been informed by Mosport that the proposed family music concert would riot be scheduled on Labour Day as the promotors could not meet the regulations which are required by Mosport. Reeve Woodyard stâted that, to his, knowledge, Mosport is asking stringent requirements before signing any contract for the use of the Track for any musical concert. The reeve deubted that with the limited number of days left to Labour Day that it would be almost impossible to organzie any event of any consequence. happenings... I TEST FOR CAUSE OF DEATH- Tests were still being conducted on Monday following the death of a racing fan who died at the Mosport Race track early Saturday morning. Dead is Richard Michael Brown, 0, of Thornhill. It is believed that Brown was struck by lightning while sleeping in a tent at Mosport. Following a shock a companion endeavoured to awaken Brown but was unable to do so. KENDAL ROYAL PLAY WITH THORNTON IN KENDAL SUNDAY-The Kendal Royals face Thornton in further OBA Junior C playdowns in Kendal on Sunday afternoon at 3.00 pm. CONSIDERING SHOPPING CENTRE - The Planning Board of Bowmanville bas called a public meeting for August 22nd to hear views on a proposed new shopping centre at the south east corner of King Street and Simpson Avenue. IT FINALLY RAINED -Believe it or not it finally rained the latter part of last week and you can now expect to get out the lawn mower again as the grass is beginning to green up and no doubt grow. LOCAL BOYS WIN LUCKY DRAWS AT ORONO STREET FAIR+Kevin Hartwig was the winner of the 50-50 draw and Blaine Moffatt the winner of the Panda Bear drawn at the Orono Amateur Athletic Street Fair last Wednesday. The fair was held in the Orono Arena with somewhat of a reduced crowd. It is expected however that the Athletic will realize from $700 to $800 from the venture. All gamnes and kiddies rides were in operation during the evening. ly-e .1-- -, flin cian linnainci nn