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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 23, 1993- 7 Orono Guides receive Ail-Round Cords to Norwood. One of the Newcastle workers will be relocated to Port Hope while the other three will be Iocatcd in either the Newtonville or Pontypool yards- Yard empIoyees do snowploughing, sanding, salting in the winter, gencral repairs, clean- ups and road kili in the summer. MTO cuts could affect Port Hope district office The Ministry of Transportation through the expenditure control plan is being asked to eut some $110 million fromn its budget and there is some fear that cuts could spread to the district office in Port Hope. The Port Hope office has a staff of 50. The announicement as to what is to be eut is expected to be made by the end of June. Already there has been announced cuts at the patrol yards. Five members of the First Orono Guides reeently received their Ail Round Cords. This is the last that such an award wili be presented as the program has been changed. The above Guides will be advancing to Pathfinders. Pictured above (back row), Guidîng event with Alladin Theme for Maice Fly-up It was a busy evening at the Orono Park on Wednesday iast when Orono Rangers, Path- finders, Guides, Brownies and Sparks were in attendance. Following an Alladin's theme members 'of the various groups were asked to fly-the-magic- carpet to new horizons in guiding. The Orono groups, in ail, have an. enrolîment of ninety girls and many many volunteer leaders. The ceremonies were Youngster left alone at home A P ickering mother of a five year old boy has been charged by police after the mother left her son alone in a basement apartment for a period of two days. Theboy wandered up to the main floor apartment of the owner who then called police. Anti-dump group cails for private sector, search Members'l of anti-dump groups in Pickering have called for the pro vince to-scrap its search for megadumps in the Toronto area and to tumn the proçess over to the private sector which they ,dcaim will do a better job. The Interim Waste Authority is to anîtounce three ,major dumps, one each for Durham, York and Peel, near the end of August this year. Constructio n has started east of Newcastle Village Reconstruction of Highway No. 2 east of Newcastle Village, the Hole-in-the-Wall, has started and roceeding towards New- conducted by the ever-present Pam Allun. Others present for the ceremonies were Division Commissioner Jane Allan and Pamela Werry, Followi'ng -the ceremonies those in attendance, and there was a large numnber of parents, enjoyed a 25th anniversary cake that was provided in honour of Madeline Heard who has served as a Brown Owl for that period of time. tonville. According to the OPP one lane of traffic will be open during the daytime while two-lane traffie wîll be open during the night time period. Highway 2 and Mearns Avenue Highway reconstruction along Highway No. 2 in the east end of Bowmanville to Mearns Avenue and the Bowmanville Zoo is necaring completion. The works started late last year. At the.present time boulevards are being installed along the reconstruction. The area at tîmes has been a botie neck for traffie. ,Oshawa councillor, seeks Tory nomination Veteran Regional councillor Linda Dionne, Oshawa, is to seek the Conservative nomination for the federal Oshawa riding. Dionne was first elected to Oshawa couneil in 1985. She lost out in a bid to represent the conservatives in the last provincial election when Stephianie Bal represented the Tories. Sabrina Bruton, Alecia Staples, (front) Alison Finlay, Melissa MeQuillan and Adele Jenkins. .Median inco-me tops in Canada The Median income of working resîdents in the Whitby/Oshawa area is the lhighest in ahl of Canada being set at $26,600. Ottawa (Huli),Ontario was next with a median mark of $25,300. - The $26,600 median of Oshawa\Whitby area is up from $25,600 set in 1990 in the area., Median empîQyment ineome is the point at whieh haîf the wage earners made more money and the other haîf earned less. GM hires over 700 students Many of the 700 students who have been hired by GM Canada to work in their Oshawa plants started work last week. More than 3600 students applied for the jobs at the plant this year with 700 to 750 being hired. If they arecflot notified by the end Of June there is little hope of a GM job this year. Would like to revive istone Offiejals of the British baseil firni that had proposed the multi- million dollar Hilstone preposai for downtown Oshawa are making an attempt to revive the proposa]. The development that would have provided ,new,-quarters for the Regý,.n of Durham was voted down last year by Regionai couneil after some stinging debate. The vote went 17 to 15 agaînst the proposaI. Some $6 million had already been spent by Oshawa, the R egion and developers. Closing MTO patrol yards, The Ministry of Transportation has announced that it is closing both the Newcastle and Roseneath patrol yards and consolidate the operations in Port Hope at a yard at highway 401 and 28. The patrol yards operate separately from the district offices. Three employees from the Roseneath yard wiIl bc relocatcd at Prt ope iththe fourth going ~<e 46~4al[e<t23 yea,4 e"vece. "j, tojaebiwý ym M cwu xe"wnié Tear into your biggest Iawn and gardon chores with the John Deere GT262. 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