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■ORONO WKKKI -Y Tl MHS. JAM AH Y 811,.übS -? have allowed a blight to ho .created in our community for KENLYALL (Continued from page.» will pay approximately 4 ivrcenl. This Day Care Centre will «• a great boon to working not hers with pre-school •hildren. Here, in my opinion, are some of the delicate areas of decision for the Town of Newcastle in 1975. My biggest fear for the community concern Ontario Hydro plans to establish an nuclear electrical generating station - one of the biggest in the world - which Uncle Billy Davis and Alex Carruthers, M.P.P. and the rest of the Ontario government wish to place on the front at Bow- manville. To this deal, I have the following warning - if the Newcastle Council through a recommendation of the Planning Planning Advisory Board and the people of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle allow this generating station to be built west of the Cement plant - or in any other location in our Town - we will which our children's children will never forgive us. It is to be hoped that responsible citizens will form a battling committee NOW to fight, step by step any action that would allow to have its way with this project. With regards to Housing. Between the Federal tax on building materials, the Province Province of Ontario Planning Act and the efforts of the land speculators our Housing is in a mess. I am quite convinced that certain members of the Town of Newcastle Council do not want any homes built by local contractors or by the taxpayers. taxpayers. The problems that beset any private person who wishes wishes to buy a lot and have a home built thereon are almost unsurmountable. Zoning by-laws, building permits, unopened road allowances allowances and on and on and on make home building for the individual almost an imposs- Notice: Employers and Employees New Employment Standards Act Effective January 1,1975 the new Employment Standards Act covers the existing standards: minimum wage, vacation pay, overtime pay, termination termination pay, collection of wages and provides for: Public Holidays Employees are entitled to seven paid statutory holidays; New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Dominion Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. (Conditions and exceptions apply in certain situations ) Overtime Pay Overtime pay at time and one-half the regular rate for hours in excess of forty-four in a week. Equal Benefits The Equal Benefits provision will be brought into force at a later date. Pregnancy Leave Pregnancy leave is extended to seventeen weeks for employees with one year's service or more and covers all employers having one or more employees. Transportation The Act no longer requires an employer to provide provide transportation for female employees finishing finishing or starting work between the hours of midnight midnight and six o'clock in the forenoon or prohibits prohibits females under 18 working after midnight. These are the principal amendments and changes to the Act. For detailed information regarding exemptions arid application of the standards contact your nearest Ministry of Labour office. Hamilton--1 West Ave. So. Kenora--808 Robertson St. . . Kingston-1055 Princess St. . . Kitchener--824 King St. W. .. . London-560 Wellington St. Ottawa--2197 Riverside Dr. . . Sault Ste. Marie--125 Brock St. . Sudbury--1538 LaSalle Blvd. . . Thunder Bay--435 James St. So. Toronto--400 University Ave. . . Windsor-500 Ouellette Ave. . . >'• 527-4501 468-3128 542-2853 744-5211 438-7291 731-7200 949-3331 566-3071 345-2101 965-5251 256-8278 Ministry of Labour Ontario ibility. . V On the other hand - the big shot, developers, that is another another matter. By-laws are changed, land expropriated, unopened road allowances sold for $2 and other goings on take place for this elite, the developers. It would appear that your Town Hall can not do enough for the wheeler dealers. "Meetings for developers? yes, sir, right away - tomorrow tomorrow soon enought?" "Having a problem, Mr. Developer, fine, we will fix it fast," - just be sure to see the right men on Council. The little guy? Forget it. In case anyone wants to start a debate on this subject - let them start talking in Council, I have a good filing system. We are in a mess with housing and the politicians brought it. all on themselves with the Planning Act, Zoning by-laws, spot zoning, O.M.B, and meglomaniac civil servants servants on one level and obliging elected representatives representatives who can quite cheerfully make fish of one request and fowl out of another. Housing is a bad scene. 1975 will bring on some desperate in-fighting between the Province, planners and land speculators over the Housing Action plans for the Town of Newcastle. Already plans for Courtice have come forward and to say the least or most, I am not impressed. , The interesting part will be the tug of war between land specultors with holdings in the Courtice area and other, speculators holding land in Bowmanville and yet again others in the Newcastle Village Village area. These people have millions tied up in raw land needing municipal services. As there are only so many tax dollars available for sewer and water services - and these dollars have to be spread all over Durham, it is very apparent that all areas will not be serviced at the same time. Speculators are going to make a big pot of money - or lose a big pot of money on this development thing - so the infighting will be fierce. ' It will be interesting to see how the Town Council will handle the needed fire hall in the former Town of Newcastle. Newcastle. one thing, this tired old project cannot be put off much longer - already the volunteer firemen are in a rage over the current delay. It will be interesting to see how'the Town Council will handle the unopened road allowance problem during the coming year with pressure mounting occasioned by land owners wanting to build homes in areas not fronting on improved roads. There are many instances in this, category of problems. It will be interesting to see if the Town Council will put its foot down in 1975 to halt the flow of "Stop Work Orders" and the issuance of building permits under dubious conditions. conditions. This problem has arrived at the status of being a ridiculous ridiculous situation highlighted by a "Stop Work Order" being issued against the Town of Newcastle when someone failed to request a building permit for the Town's new dbg pound presently under construction. construction. Now to some philosophy. "Is Regional Government be tter than the old system ? " This is a question frequently posed to me and my standard answer is "yes, Regional Government is better than the old system - if we can make it work." Under the old system, local government was closer to the people but the ever present drawback was the fact that there were not enough tax dollars generated in a small community to provide the services demanded by the inhabitants. There was a tremendous duplication of services. For instance, under the old system of Baldwin Government, Government, the area presently forming the New Town of Newcastle had four municipal clerks and someone to look after the affairs of the Police Village of Orono. There were four treasurers or some sort of a money man. There were three fire departments. There were four works departments. There were - three water departments. Wide duplication of effort. Now that all these municipal municipal services have been melded into the New Town of Newcastle Newcastle or the Region of Durham it is to be hoped' that the new system will be much more efficient and less costly than the old Baldwin-type of government. government. Time will tell. Taxes? That is something else. As long as people demand more municipal services such as swimming pools - even donated ones need maintenance maintenance - better library service, better fire protection, better equipment to maintain their roads, more arenas and community halls as well as a lot of other municipal services - taxes will go up. After all, it is not the tax rate that is set that costs the money. What is important is the manner in which the tax dollar is spent by the municipal municipal authorities after the tax dollar has been collected. If the tax dollars are spent wisely then our tax dollar requirement will lessen. It is pie in the sky spending that is playing hob with our tax total. We all must moderate our municipal requirements and we must spend our tax dollar wisely. To conclude. We are Canadians living in the greatest country on this earth and the good Lord has given our country everything in abundance - and it belongs ■ to the people. With this wealth of our homeland, no person must be jobless, no family lack a comfortable home and the words cold and hungary must not - ever - be used to describe any one of us. I pledge my public life to battle for the complete establishment establishment of this paragraph. Though our economy at the moment looks screwed up owning to the mismanagement mismanagement of public affairs by our leaders in superior governments governments I would like to take this opportunity of extending to all my best wishes for a better 1975. ' Kenneth, 4 'Kel" E. Lyall Regional Councillor Newcastle, Orono and Clarke GIRLS AND BOYS COMPETE TOGETHER f Conimueu rrom page 1) push-ups, sit-ups etc. Here Mr. Proctor stated it was unbelievable what has been achieved by the student in the physical sense in the past few months. The physical exercises exercises can be carried on outside the classes at home. The ultimate goal is to receive the Black belt. This comes only after passing five examinations for ' other coloured coloured belts ranging from the first being white to black. Both Mr. John Peters and Ray Wilson who instruct at the club hold their black belt. Half of the Clarke Club hold their yellow belt which is the second step towards the ultimate. Two girls, Mary DeWitt and Audrey DeWitt are the holders of the Orange belt, which is the highest in the club outside of the instructors. The Club is hopeful of being able to purchase more mats and to be able to extend the classes for adults. They are presently negotiating to come under the Town of Newcastle Recreation Department. The Club also competes in tournaments and will attend a meet at the Maple Leaf Judo Club in Courtice. They also intend to compete in a competition in Peterborough in the near future. It certainly is an active time at the Orono Town Hall on Saturday mornings for the members of the Clarke Judo Club. WORK LOAD DECREASES CHRISTMAS MAIL INCREASE AT ORONO ) Continued from page i ) 60 hours. Mr. Gray stated that it was more economical to sort the out of town cards at Oshawa where they dealt with a larger quantity and would be able to sort the mail to a greater breakdown. The cards sent to Oshawa weighed a total of 650 pounds. All Christmas parcels and first class mail was still sorted at Orono it was only the six cent cards that went to Oshawa. In speaking with Mr. Gray he felt that mail service had improved during the past year and felt that this would continue into the new year. KINSMEN SKAT-A-THOiN Continued from page 1 those who donated prizes also the Orono Times, Reporter Earl Taylor arena manager, Moms Kitchen and the Kinetics. Kinetics. Those who were successful irr winning trophies for their skating are: junior Under 13 - Ronnie Talsma Senior over 13 - Lowery Group of 20 Minor Kinsmen trophy > Abramoff meeting but had left before this matter was completed " was stated that Coun. L> had left in a huff when the matter was being discussed in committee. Coun, Wearn said that the Recreation Department had asked what could be done as far as snow removal was concerned and as the Works department felt they had enough to do Coun. Wearn prior to the meeting had obtained a number of quotations quotations for the work from area contractors and that the committee was recommeding that the job be contracted to Veston. Wearn said it was eally not his job but to speed things up he had asked for the quotations. He said under the circumstances he would not do it again. He also stated that if those that did all the chewing would do some of the work it would be a lot easier for others on council. Coun. Wearn said it was all debated at the committee level stating that the Works department did not have the proper equipment and that to remove the snow would be the thin edge of the wedge for all kinds of work in the municipality. municipality. Councillor Hobbs stated that there was more than one price submitted and he objected objected to the fact that they had to go over this matter twice and he said all the fact were presented at the committee meeting. Mayor Rickard near the , of the discussion questioned^ why the work could not be done by the Works depar ent. He could see no ditW- ence between taking on this job to that of having to accept further mileages of new roads when they were developed in the municipality. Coun. Etitwisle with Coun. Hobbs moved that the problem problem be referred to the Community Services Committee Committee for further consideration, consideration, At this point Coun. Wearn said he hoped it snowed ten feet. / " The Works department i.^_ look after the snow removal until another report is submitted submitted tO COlinnil Marcia Hockey Dennis Randy Thompson Orono, Ontario Phone 983-5759 Carpentry Work Remodelling We build from the foundation up COUNCIL HUNGUP ( Continued from page 1> the job. Coun.; Lyall asked if tenders had been called for this work and was informed that such had not beert done. Further Lyall stated that he understood that the Works Department had not wanted to do the work and that Coun. Wearn had obtained the price from Weston. At this point Coun. Wearn jumped to the floor stating that he resented the remarks by Coun. Lyall who had been at the Finance Committee Bob Yeomans Plumbing alia Heating 24 Hour Service New Installations Alterations - Repairs Specializing in Hot Water Heating Forced Air Heating Septic Tank Work R.R.l, Orono 983-5624 WANTED Fresh Dead or Crippled Farm Stock Margwill Fur Farm *63-27*1