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Hydro rates in Orono up 26.9 p.c The Variety section of Midtown Confectionary is now under new management by Mrs. June Frost arid her husband Kenneth both pictured pictured above with Mrs. Doreen Swan on the left. Mrs. Swan will carry on the gift section of the store which will be housed in the northern part of the building.. Mr. and Mrs. Frost present ly live in the Village of Newcastle and have taken over the operation of the store in Orono on Monday of this week. hours from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and will be open on Sundays from 10a;m. to 5 p.m. The Variety store will be housed in the southern section of the building. It is the intention to carry additional lines to those already in the store as well as improving display. Mr. Frost states that sometime in the future they intend to carry necessity items in the store. The Variety store already 1 section of the has extended Board calls for report on Station St The Planning Advisory Co- Citizen's Lodge until a report mmittee of the Town of is made by the Public Works Newcastle last week tabled a ' Deartment regarding access request for rezoning of lands to the property. The rezoning west of Orono for the Senior is on 6.6 acres of land west of Orono formerly the Orono dump site, and on which the happenings... I RADON GAS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL The Northumberland and Durham Board of Education was informed on Friday that radon gas in quantities beyond that normally present in air had been found in a basement room, 5'x21' at the Dr. Powers Public School in Port Hope. The board met over the matter bn Monday evening. The school will remain open as this is the only room in which the above normal reading was found to exist. When further information becomes available through further testing it will be made known to the board who in turn intend to hold a meeting with the parents of the children attending the school. The original school was built in 1924 with an addition in 1949-50. NO MOVE ON MOBILE HOME PARKS In the Regional Discussion Paper No. 4 under the section General Policies which is now being presented to thé public comment is made regarding Mobile Home Parks. It is as follows: "Council shall not approve the establishment of year-round mobile home parks until it has undertaken a study analyzing the environmental, social and economic ' -pacts of such developments." ' * 'not A CANDIDATE FOR CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP ' In a letter to supporters in the riding, Allan Lawrence, M.P. has made it known that he will nofbe a candidate in the forthcoming federal Conservative leadership race. He said there was enough financial, organizational, caucus and delegate support to convince him that he could do as well as any of those currently in the race. He said he felt he was not ready at. this time to make the personal and family sacrifices which the onerous and gruelling positions of leader of the Opposition, and ultimately Prime Minister of Canada would require if the responsibilities of those offices are to be carried out in the way he felt necessary. ' , NEW PLANT FOR BOWMANVILLE Construction has begun on a new industrial plant in Bowmanville-having. 43,000 square feet. Delta Faucet of Canada Ltd., jointly owned by Emco Ltd. of London, Ontario and Masco Corp. of Taylor, Michigan, are to manufacture a line of two-way, washerless faucets for the Canadian market. KICK THE HABIT It's a matter of life and breath! If you are interested and if you are a smoker you should be, this is Kick the Habit week in Durham. For a free kit on how to quit smoking, sponsored by your Christmas Seal Association,"write to the Durham Region TB-RD Association, 757 Grierson St., hawa,L!G5J8. , ' . Durham County Senior Citizen's Citizen's Lodge group intend to construct a senior citizens complex with some forty units. Under the present zoning the lands are rezoned agriculture agriculture and do not permit the construction of the senior citizen's complex. In a report to The Planning Committee, Planner George Howden recommends that the applicant receive approval from the Regional Works Department for an extension to the Orono water system or approval from the Health Unit for a private water supply. The report also asks that a written agreement be obtained obtained from the applicant to pay • for engineer's report which report should consider three • possible access routes for 'both vehicles and pedestrians arid should recommend standards standards for roadways, walkways and lighting. Cost estimates should also be included in the report. - In reviewing the access the planner brought forth a number number of possible proposals including the improvement of Station Street from Mill Street in Orono west to the site. These improvements would include road construction, sidewalks and street lighting. Another alternative was to improve the land from the north-east corner to Main Street north of the business section and allow only secondary secondary access from Station Street. A third alternative was to close Station street West of Main Street to all but pedestrian traffic and divert vehicular traffic to west on Station Street to the O'Chon- ( Continued to page 5 ) Opening office in Port Hope The Ontario Ministry of Health and the Atomic Energy Energy Control Board are opening an office in the town of Port Hope with the purpose of checking out public requests about radiation level testing and supplying information on nuclear matters to the public. The office has been rented from Feb. 1. Geoffrey Knight of the AECB said that it will take a couple of, days to have the office set up and to have a telephone installed. The office plans to check the entire town of Port Hope. "It looks as if the job will be taking months now, instead of weeks," Mr, Knight stated. May ban . snowmobiles on region roads On Wednesday the council of the Region of Durham will be asked to pass a by-law to prohibit snowmobiles on reg-; ional roads. This will be the second time council has faced this by-law from the regional works department. In December December of 1975 council upon protest from some snowmobile snowmobile clubs had turned the by-law back to the committee for reconsidering. Although the public works committee has had a number of proposals before therh they now rest with total banning of the rriachines on their roads. It was noted that a partial use of the road from the shoulder to the fence could place onus on area rmlnicipal- ities who wished to ban snowmobiling on all roads in their area. , Counc. Bruce Tink of Newcastle Newcastle stated at the Committee meeting that Newcastle had gone to some length to provide snowmobile legislation on regional roads. He also said that the machines Could create drainage problems if they were allowed to travel in the ditches .and thus packing the snow. Residential users of hydro in the Village of Orono will be faced with ah increase of 26.9 per cent as of February 1, 1976. . . The new rate structure was passed by the local Orono Commission on Thursday evening evening of last week at a special meeting called for the purpose purpose of reviewing the financial position of the commission: Gary Gallinger frpm Ontario Hydro was present at the meeting with a report outlining outlining the need for the increase in rates. The overall rate increase has been set at 23.4 per cent with a 26.9 per cent increase for residential users and a 18 per cent increase for industrial industrial and commercial users. The new rates can be expected expected sometime in the fall of 1976, possibly September. Rates Rates at this time will probably go up' another 20 or more percent. Mr. Gallinger stated that the Orono financial position was turning out to be worse than had been anticipated. He said that the loss of the water billing ân operation to Durham Durham Region had an effect as ■ .well as rising costs of admini- ■ strati on, oust of power from Ontario Hydro and loss of revert-Cie due to users cutting back their consumption. It • was,pointed out that it was quite apparent that users were cutting back of their use Of hydro although the peak load Was not reduced thus increasing the cost per KWH to the local system. The Ontario Hydro representative representative also stated that the ' Orono system needed a rate increase of at least 28 to 29 per cent; at this time but that this would be too great coming all at once. If no increase in rates were effected in the local system it would Operate in 1976 with a net loss of some $32,000.00. The new rates will take effect as of February lst^ 1976. > Orono Hydro is itself faced with a 22 per cent increase in the cost of power to the system from Ontario Hydro. Mr. Gallinger also pointed out that the delay in coming up ; with new rates due to the provincial study was also having an effect on the rates and that Orono had lost a three month period under new rates which had to be incorporated incorporated in the rates to come into effect on February 1st. Doug Moffat comments on 1976 I suppose that the question most people would like answered answered by a Provincial politician politician is whether or not there will be an election in .1.976 because of the minority gov- 'ernmçnf situation. My answer to that ,- add the answer of everybody else I have talked to - is the same. We see no reason for calling an early Provincial election. I think the people of the Province have comb to appreciate the benefits of minority government government and members of all parties feel the same way. They feel that this has been a particularly good session of the legislature that has just ended and they look.forward to the kind of government that is responsive and responsible to the needs and wishes and requests of the Province. So my answer to'the question is: I don't see any reason to 1976. Of course, the only person who can really answer the election question is the Premier, and it is rumoured that Mr, Davis doesn't particularly particularly like minority govern ment. However, I think that he may adjust to thé situation and leqrn to. live with it-- I certainly hope so. On the local political scene, I think we are going to have a pretty active year in Durham East. There are a number of important projects underway: underway: 1. The Darlington Nuclear Station 2. The proposed review of Regional Government by the Region and Provincial Members: Members: Dr. Godfrey, Michael Breaugh and myself. The review may result in some adjustments to Regional Government. Government. jl One Government decision On Saturday morning the Clarke Public Library opened a craft prôgram for children which will continue each Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. On Saturday there were some fifteen The program is for school children in attendance keep- age children • and is being ing busy during the session operated By Mrs. Marilyn with a craft usin^ popsicle Bradshaw, librarian and Miss sticks. Numerous crafts are to Anita Bràdy, student librar- be taugH in the program. ian.