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The Community Telephone system has recently loaned the Orono Public School a telephone kit. The kit includes " two real phones which are hooked into a central switchboard switchboard box. •Upon dialing a number the other phone will ring giving a student the opportunity to answei' it. Enough cord was * supplied with the phones to locate fhemjn different parts of the school. The idea behind the phones is not only to teach $3250 parking lot Newcastle Village Town council on Monday night gave approval to the construction of a town parking parking lot in the Village of Newcastle on the Site of the old fire hall, north of the four corners. The total cost of the project is to be no more than $3,250. Monies for the project are to come from the lot levy fund. , Counc. Barr in promoting the motion requested that funding come from the Park- ,ing Reserve Fund and this aroused the ire of Counc. Hobbs who said the $52,000 in the parking fund had been secured from parking meters in Bowmanville and should only be used for parking facilities in Bowmanville. He said neither Orono nor Newcastle Newcastle wanted parking meters in their centres ancKas such could not create revenue to supplement the fund. We need the monçy iy the fund for Bowmanville, he said. with Town Conciliation meetings have been - arranged for the first part of May to endeavour to work out a contract between the Town of Newcastle and members of Local 74, Canadian Canadian Union of Public Employees. Employees. The contract for the inside workers ended as of December 31st. A meeting in February addressed itself to contract language and nonmonetary nonmonetary issues. There has been no meetings since the February meeting. Joanne Bromley, president of the Local has stated that wages could be a thorny problem in view of the tentative high increase salaries salaries for non-union staff. Although these wages have received committee approval as of Monday afternoon no action has been taken by council. tutt'sPharmacy ORONO, ONT. 983-5009 the children how a phone works but also telephone etiquette- pictured above trying out the apparatus is Kristen Plummer and Jason McGill, both kindergarten students. Counc. Cowman said that net funds from fines in Orono and Newcastle were now being placed in the Parking Reserve Fund. • Mayor Rickard said it was a dangerous precedent to set to take monies out of the reserve parking fund when there was no manner in which to replace these funds. The motion to construct the parking lot passed with monies monies coming from lot levies. %mf (FIRST ■Lon the Farm Ip ARE YOU ON THE VOTERS LIST? . CALL YOUR ALLAN LAWRENCE ACTION CENTRE Port Hope: 105 Walton Street Bowmanville: 133 King Street Ë. Cobourg: t 29 King Street E., f I Port Perry: Water St. & Hwy. 7A (416) 885-4542 (416) 623-1355 (416) 372-2151 (416) 985-8431 Let's get Canada working again • Authorized by the Official Agent for - Allan Lawrence, 105 Walton Street, Port Hope ' 8-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 25th, 1979 Awntnn Dontomc Wants toll-free calls to Board office George Cameron, Board of calls for residents in the Town Education trustee for Ward when calling the Board office. Three in the Town of New- James Bird, business ad- castle, at a recent meeting of ministrator, stated that the the Board called for a toll-free matter was now under con- line for residents of the Town sidération. Frank Thom, dir- when calling the Board of ector of education, said that Education office in Cobourg. the board did not refuse He said this would eliminate collect calls at the Board the need to pay long distance office. Pictured aboCe are the" United County Consolation Champions, Orono Bantams. They are, left to right, Coach, Scott Richards, Rhys Jen- Dennis Abramoff, Jeff Dillon, kins, Manager Jim Levac. Steven Bob, Duffy Hamre, Front row, Ted Oster, Don Kindergarten receives phone kit Doxtater, Mark Stapleton, Charlie Forbes, Paul Lane. Request govt, rep for talks DORIS ROBERTS Bus. 416-983-5476 BOX 220, ORONO, ONT. Res. 416-983-5948 LOB 1M0 , , Daily 10-5 Closed Tuesdays and Sundays and Jessie Slemon