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Parking lot at a standstill A proposal for a parking lot. in Hie.Village of Newcastle by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce came again before before the finance committee on Monday with the status of the lot being unchanged. Coiinc. Barr had asked at a previous meeting that all information pertaining to the parking lot be reviewed by the finance committee. On Monday the complete file was provided for the members of Town financing $1,206,095 for arenas The Town of Newcastle is .presently financing $1,206,095 for their two new arenas in Orono and Newcastle which at twelve percent costs the town over $12,060.95 a month in interest charges. A payment of $480,000.00 from Wintario, expected in the next six weeks, will reduce the overall present cost of $1,206,095 to $726,095. The length of carrying the $726,095.00 is unknown at this time as it will depend on _ additional local contributions and payment of Community Centres grants for the two new arenas. A reliable source has stated that Community Centres grants may not be available until 1980 or 1981. At present interest rates it would cost the Town at least $7,260 per month to finance the $726,095.00. In a report submitted to the Finance committee on Monday Monday the total actual cost of the Orono Arena to date was set at $861,387.. Through fund raising and an allotment of $24,816.00 from the Town a total of $146,443 has been raised to offset the cost of the Orono arena leaving $714,'944 outstanding on the Orono Think small Legal Gambling = Bigger Government If you want to lay a few bucks on your local bookie, the government has a surprise for you: fines and/or jail.. But, at the local race track, you can legally blow your financial brains out. , There's a full-fledged law prohibiting penny-ante poker on the CNR. But you can buy Loto Canada tickets at, most train stations. The law says you can't run a Bingo game for cash. But you can buy lottery tickets from almost any of the provincial governifients. And at least two provincial governments are seriously considering legalizing casino gambling. We've reached an interesting interesting point in the social development development of this country: No longer is all gambling deemed to be the work of the Devil. Now only private enterprise gambling is officially labelled as sin. State-run gambling is now condoned as socially beneficial. This sort of convoluted thinking comes naturally enough to a government which wants to spend more than it figures it can safely raise in taxes. ("Safely" means, simply, that the level of taxation will remain low enough that the voters will keep the government in office.) office.) A similar sort of thinking thinking takes place during wars when^ rather than tax the public directly for the full cost of the campaign and risk losing public support for the war effort, government prefers to print money and tax the public more subtly "rough inflation. Almost anything - as any politician knows -- is preferable to a tax which is highly visible. In lotteries, all sorts of governments have discovered an almost unlimited gold mine. The same people who j hate to pay taxes love to lose their money on games of "chance" where the odds ■against success are high enough to make a bookie blush. This vast supply of money means that government government doesn't have to take the full rap for its spending. And, since the taxpayers are not really aware of the total revenues which government is taking out of the pub,lie pocket, there is less opposition opposition to the government's programs. The casé for lotteries might be à lot stronger if the money was being used to offset the deficits in essential essential public programs. Instead, the lottery departments are running around trying to find new projects which can be funded through the gambling revenue. ' It's impossible to make an airtight case for legal gambling gambling under any circumstan? ces, however. Government should be required to collect its revenues through taxes, making the public fully aware of the cost of public programs. As matters stand now, lotteries are just one more loophole allowing government government to avoid the full consequences of its excesses. the committee who received the various reports for information. information. No further action was taken by the committee. ' . Counc. Barr and the Newcastle Newcastle Chamber of Commerce have been supportive of the off-street parking lot north of the four corners on Town owned property. Two reports were received from the Director of Public Works in which he refers to a study being carried out and that the findings of the study provided no evidence of the, need for additional off-street parking in the Village of Newcastle. The Director recommended that on-street parking stalls in the Village be metered and that with the exception of this recommendation no further action be taken until a District Plan for the Village is produced. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 7th, 1979-3 ■ t Fitness is a national issue. We call it Body Politics. arena. With a payment of $240,000 from Wintario there would still be left an amount of $474,944 to be financed by the Town for the local arena. The report showed the actual cost of the Newcastle arena to be, as of this date, $627,967.00. Of this amount $144,816 has been raised through local fund raising and a $24,816 allotment from the Town. This leaves $493,151 outstanding for the Newcastle arena which can be reduced a further $240,000 when the Wintario Funds arrive. Orono Jr. Gardeners Round-up for 1978 DX SERVICE STATION Highway 35 & 115, just north of Newcastle Featuring: Premium Quality Products At the Most Reasonable Prices Stove Oil & Diesel Oil Available in any quantity Phone 987-4215 We have a complete line of POP-CITY* Soft Drinks. Save by buying these a case at a time. "Think small" is an editorial •message from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business© We had a very busy year and most enjoyable with 29 members. January - Attended senior pot luck supper. February - Made flower arrangements from a piece of styrofoam and styrofoam egg cartons ( Valentine arrangement) arrangement) March - Made plant holders by glueing popsicle sticks to a paper milk carton. Plants were given to the members for the pots. They cared for these and entered them at the Annual Show. April - Made terrariums from large jars, plants were provided and members entered entered at the annual show. May - Outdoor trip to Jensens Greenhouse and Spring Show. June - Made wild flower arrangements in dish soap bottles, held Flower Basket Day selling 53 baskets of arranged flowers. July 1 Outdoor trip with a scavengers hunt in the woods, games, and a picnic. August - Annual Flower and Vegetable Show and the judging of the gardens (members (members given seeds earlier in the spring) .September - Slides of birds by Mr. Rekker, Port Perry. October - Children brought in a Harvest time arrangement arrangement to be judged, made Christmas tree decorations and corsages to be entered at the iRoyal. Winter Fair in Toronto. We had several work shops this month to finish these. November - Decorated yarn cones with seeds to make- candle holders. December - We were joined by our parents ' and the children showed their other talents such as piano playing, story and poem readings. We had four special events this year. The Convention in Kingston - Entering essays, posters, plaques and brought home 2 firsts and 1 second. Canadian National Exhibition Exhibition - We entered a group entry of three items and won three prizes. Royal Winter F air - We won , third prize on the decorated Christmas tree, one first and one second on posters, and two firsts, two seconds, one fourth and one fifth on cprsages. * Tray Favours - We made tray favours for the lunch trays at Bowmanville Hospital Hospital on New Years Day. The Jr. Gardeners would like to say Thank you to all of the people who have made special donations and to the judges and to those who have made our year such a. success. Looking forward to seeing you all in 1979. New members are always welcome. welcome. 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