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Il Awai Lady Fate ng a rea nistry of Transport- b. necessary along with a A Communications new bridge over Courtice ed the. Town of Road on Higbway 401. Some e for approval la change is noted at the of a proposed con- Waverley intercbange to gn conceraing wid- make 'it less confusing than at 1otiier development the present time. Tii. Liberty 7ay 401 from Har- Street interchange will con- ad te the interesect- tinue te be the main access to qighway 401 with Bowmanvile witii some mod- 115 and 35. ification to enhance safety. referred the matter No change is seen for the. blic Works Commit- Bennett Road interchange tii the. proposal tintf wbich is little used at this ;be wic ded by Io a Doi repres- The Bennett Road inter- stry. change could b. closed if outlines anotiier interchange 18 to be irection built east of Liberty Street Rond to access into Bowmanville. 'ated by This -will only be decided uim witii wien the Town of Newcastle It was setties on developurent la thie Pffic is Bowmianville area tbrougii its ;e from official plan. Some consider- IT from ation has been. given by the lai 1985. Town la this matter in the iticipat- past year with proposed lened to developmient la tbe nortb.-east 7a 4 ft. sector of Bowmanville. 2. Tii. change, is de 'ay 115 ity in the 215 feit direction anc and for proposai fier t lai the two-lane ran Workers turn down Board 10 p.c. offer About 160 custodians, main- tenance workers and bus drivers turned dowa la a vote on Saturday an offer by thc Northumberland and New- castle Board of Education. The. members of the Union will now await the report of a No-Board report. Local union 1206 advised their members to turn down the offer as presented by the Board. Negotiations have been und- erway since October and the members of tbe Union have been without a contract since November 28tii. Tii. Union can sometime la the near future set a strike date, if tiiey so desire. Tii- Union bas been seeking a ten per cent increase la wages witb the. Board offering an increase of seven per cent. Tii. current minimum rate for a custodi-al employee is $3.95 with a maximum of $5.25. BUILDING NEW BANK IN BOWMANVILLE Tii. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bas an- nounced that it wii be building a new $500,000 main; branchin lathe.Town of Bowmanville. Tbey also in- tend to open a new brancb witbin two years also la the Town. Tii. new building will be constructed at the four corn- ers of Bowmanville. It wil require the. demolition of one building on the. nortii-east side of the. corner. Tii. facilities f or the bank wil double space for the. bank from the. present location. Four businesses as well as six apartments now locat.d on the site of tiie future main hrancb will have to relocate. Tii. Commerce's present main brancb has been on the soutbwest corner of King and Temperance Streets for more t han 45 years. Over 600 ma ke use of forest centre ay aalia iutu- Winter outdoor activity bas ýficient la capac- escaîated at tiie Ganaraska east to nortii Forest centre (formyerly ýd its retura. Tii. inown as Cold Springs) north r. is to dev.lop east of Kenidal and on iji. for the. move- Sundayý' last botb parking lots proposai is con- the, idening of werc 9aeriIowing wtb-.cars and over 400o snowmobilers iLed page2) and cross country skiers made use of thie chalet at the centre. The, greatest use of the centre and trails is being made by cross-country shiers wiio bave a choice of tiiree an d wind storrn individual trails ranging from ed. School buses two miles la iengtb to a real larke and Pines trip over a ten mile course, al jority of public contained witbin the forest i. storm to stay itself. The chalet 18 providing tended classes. bot chocolate and ciiocolate bars plus a centre for warm th on sucii cold afternoons as icians Unit and last Sunday. ay at tihe Pines. A SOCIAL OUTING FOR oming Monday. PINE RIDGE CLUB Although the. Forest Camp has only been in operation for open discussion a lttle over a month and DPublic School, details are still being worked out for its operation and future use the facilities are quickly being used by various groups la the area. Last Saturday the. Pin. Ridge Cross Country Ski Club held -isûeialaferoovaid- evening at the camp. This group enjoyed the afternoon cross-country sking retura- ing to thie camp where a (Continued page 2) That grand -old lady of Kirby, in ber 99th year and fast approaciiing IN, haà stili yet to have ber future decided. in a recent letter to the editor she was delighted with the prospect of being turned into a museura but. abhored the possibility of any other development.that might be considered. Other than the. museum proposai she would prefer cremation. Her fate came before coun- cil on Monday afternoon resulting la the. decision being set aside again and referred to the finance committee for furtiier study. The matter came before council as a resuit of a letter from the, Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education in which thejoard stated they preferred to dispose of the sciiool as previously determined and that the previeus off er to sel to the municipality will stand until January 31st, 1977. If at this time a positive response te the Board's offer is not receiveci from the Town the property will be offered for sale by public tender as laid down by the Ministry of Education regulations. The. board iiad offered the Kirby scebool to the town for a price of $30,000.00. The. Town bad asked the Board to consider leasing the property to the .Town for a period of seven years. This proposai was not acceptable 4t th local Board, of Education. Ia opening the issu'e on Monday, Councs. Allun and Dykstra moved that the Board of Education b. infor- med that no action was to be taken by the Town coaceraing the purchase of the scheoo. It was then pointed out that the Orono Museum Board had requested the. purchase of the Old Kirby SchooI for them to be used as a museumn and education centre. Counc. Dykstra pointed out that it could be a tourist interest centre and asked if the price was negotiabie. Mayor Rickard also stated that h. feit there couid b. grants of up to fifty per cent for the purchase of the sehool. Couac. Woodyard asked if more time couid flot be arranged for a more in-depth considération of the project and that possibly granta would be dependent on thie number of hours the museumn would be open. He aiso pointed out that the space la the sciiool would be more than wbat the. Oronio Museum now had la the upper rooms above the Clarke Library in Orono. Counc. Holiiday questioned the. availability of grants such as Wintario and the. Heritage Foundation. Thé motion by Allia and Dykstra was voted down. A second motion by Allia and Dykstra gained support oL-couneil to have the matter turned over to thie finance -ommînttee for consideratiýon and a recommriendation te council. It was also asked that the. availability of girants be determined- for the meeting and tint ail counicil members should look at thie scbool. The Board of Education is to be advised of the action of ecauncil. LTown hall1 pa cked fo r ja mbo ree I -jý à