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No firm U.S. market 3 Killed for Ontario Hydro Members of the Planning and Development committee for the Town of Newcastle were told on Monday that Ontario Hydro could not at this time obtain a firm commitment from any state in the U.S. to purchase hydro electric power. The comment wa*s made by John McCredie, Ontario Hydro project manager, manager, when addressing the committee as to the progress of the Darlington Nuclear plarit, McCredie • said the U.S. were in no, more of a position to commit themselves to a long-term agreement to. purchase purchase electric power than was# Canada. "We just don't know the future", he said. In reporting, the progress at the Darlington plant he said there were some 350 people now involved in engineering engineering and a further 231 (Continued to page 2) Ijappcmngs... WANT UPGRADING OF TELEPHONE SERVICE PRIOR TO ANY RATE INCREASE TO ORONO CUSTOMERS A petition from the Orono business section will be delivered to a hearing on Thursday being, conducted by the Ontario Telephone Service Commission in Toronto Concerning a 9.3 per cent increase in telephone service charges to Orono customers. The local petition speaks of a deplorable telephone service,in this area. The petition objects to any telephone rate increase until such time as the service in Orono is substantially up-graded and the petition considers that to the contrary a lowering of rates for the present service is indicated. The Orono petition, signed by most businessmen, endorses the petition of „the local Orono Telephone Ratepayer's Association who from all reports will be seeking an extension of the calling area to be covered by the Orono exchange. It has been reported that the Ratepayer's Association is seeking to have the calling area extended to Bowmanville . and Oshawa with similar rates being charged in those areas. • There will also be an attempt to have the hearing postponed and recalled to be held in Orono. The Association is reported to be armed with signed statements from some ■ "00 customers in the .Orono exchange. ' x,_-- A list of nineteen objections is ajso to be presented to the Commission. Three persons were killed over the week-end in unrelated unrelated accidents in the area. Two died frpm highway accidents while the third was a victim of a snowmobile accident. A 46 year old Oshawa man, and a former resident of the Orono area, Nicholas Victor Shewchuk was killed while walking south of Highway 115 about 8 p.m. Friday evening. The accident happened north of thç Fifth Wheel restaurant. He was struck from behind by a car driven by Charles E. Gray, 43, of Orono, Shewchuk was pronounced dead On arrival'at Memorial Hospital in Bowmanville. Stephen Mandryk, 67, of Toronto was killed about 3:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon. At the time of the accident he was operating his snowmobile on private property east of Highway 35 and north of Pontypool. According to O.P.P. the snowmobile rolled over Mandryk crushing his chest. Edward J. Thompson, 25, of R.R. 1 Hampton died in a collision Saturday evening about 8:30 p.m. on Regional Road 57. He was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital upon arrival after being freed from his Honda Civic by Newcastle firefighters. No charges were laid against the driver of the second vehicle in the crash, Harold Ray West of Orono. West and his passengers were checked at Memorial Hospital Hospital and released. * . ' to appear on TV-11 The Bluegrass group of "Don Adams and Company" will be appearing on CHCH TV Channel 11 Sunday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. The name of the show is "New Faces" and it will highlight several different acts of entertainment entertainment from the Brooklin area. The Don Adams and Company Company bluegrass group consists consists of Jeff Howe on bass, R.B. (Rick) Jones on flat-top guitar, Paul Reddick on harmonica, Sally Shortt on 5-string banjo, and Don Adams on his 5-string banjo. The group has made several several appearances on the Orono Jamboree, Robert McLaughlin McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Whitby Yacht Club, plus many other festivities in the a'rea including Pineridge Cable T.V. from Oshawa. To be sure it will make many of thé local citizens proud and overjoyed to watch someone from their community on T.V. Congratulations - and keep on pickin'. Com. room completed completed within month the kinsmen hold the prize winning artwork in the foreground. foreground. Work on the new community community room in ; the new Orono Arena is well On its way and should be completed well before the official opening in April. There is some hope that the work will be completed within the next month. ■ As of last Wednesday even- . ing the partitions in the upstairs room had been completed and work was underway in the two wash- rooms t . The kitchen area and bar have also been partitioned partitioned off and work is expected to be completed shortly in these two areas. Work'had yet to start on the painting of the walls or on the (dosing in of the ceiling. This work hovyevdr is expected to be completed well within: the time frame for completion. In speaking with Mr. Mike Sawyer he said the committee had yet to choose the type of floor but said it would be either tile or hardwood. Mr. Sawyer also pointed obt that there were already were a considerable number of rentals for weddings and dances and that these rentals could well pick up with the completion of the room. The kitchen, he said, would be completed according to the specifications of the Department Department of Health. Sawyer also said it was a wish of the committee to paint the inside of the arena this summer in a similar manner to that of the outside of the building. Mayor Rickard of thé Town ' under the sponsorship of the of Newcastle presents, con-i Orono Figure Skating Club. granulations to a trio of young skaters from the Orono Skating Skating Club who on Saturday won medals at the Pine Ridge tneet held in Orono Arena Shaking hands with the May- . or is Denise Maher of Orono, winning the silver medal in Bronze Intermediate Girls B; Loretta Deriet, Orono, (front) won the gold medal in the Bronze Intermediate Girls A while Kathy Netten of Orono won a silver medal in the juvenile Girls 'A'. Over 150 boys and . girls ' from the area competed Local Musicians Pictured above Paddy Breen holds the trophy she was presented with for being the overall Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 21, 1979 Pines Senior Public School in the Heritage Day contests. The trophy was presented Ridge Kinsmen Club by Hans Van Klink. l\lr. Bolton, principal of the