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Yvonne Schoenmaker, of Vandérstoops Florist and Greenery demonstrated the art of flower arrangement Orono rezoning denied by Town At the Planning committee meeting on Monday ' the committee denied a rezoning application that would have rezoned the property of Man- gar's garage to allow additional additional use of the property including 'used car sales' and 'body work for safety purposes'. purposes'. Don Smith, director of planning pointed out that the property became a legal non-conforming use in 1969 and did allow the operation of the present garage and service service station. He stated that the lands were in a residential zone. Any change of zoning, he said, should revert to residential to be compatable to the surrounding lands. It was pointed put that there 1 were no objections to the rezoning application other than from the Minister of the Environment. The committee accepted the recommendation of the Planning department in that they recommend to council and boutineirres at the Horti- that the a PP lication for rezon " cultural Arts and Craft Show. b y denied Eldorado refinery to northern Ontario ACCIDENTS SEND YOUTH TO HOSPITAL A two-car accident Sunday at 6:15 p.m. hospitalized Ronald Opoka, 19, R.R. 1-Newtonville with head and neck injuries. The accident involved a car travelling north on Highway 115 driven by Donald Goode'of Lakefield and the Opoka car travelling west on the eighth line. Charges are pending. RELOCATION TO COST HOPE $400-500,000 * The Township of Hope is expected to'lose an estimated amount of from $400,000 to $500,000 in yearly federal grants in lieu of taxation with the moving of the Eldorado refinery from the Township to Blind River in northern Ontario. LOOK TO EAST YORK TO SPEND $2,700.00 The Newcastle fire department communication system is threatened With interference from the system employed by the East York fire department. Newcastle Fire Chief, J. Hayman, informed the Social Service committee that East York has taken no action to this-, point to correct V the situation. He said it would cost East York but $2,700.00 to change the crystals in their transmitters to eleviate the problem. HAMILTON TOWNSHIP HOLnW THE TAX LINE Hamilton Township has established their 1980 budget which, including the Township rate, the education rate and the county rate will be up 6.3 percent over that of last year. It was pointed out that the Township itself had not increased its 1980 expenditures over that of 1979 and that the increse was due to increases by the Board of Education and the county. Reeve Williams warned that not increasing expenditures this _ year in the Township could result in a very large increase in expenditures next year through the Township budget. SIGN MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT The negotiating committees of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education and the Elementary teachers early Tuesday morning signed a Memorandum of Agreement as to a contract between the two parties. Both the board and the teachers must now ratify the agreement which is understood is for a two year term.. NO WAY LOCAL LIBRARIES WILL CLOSE In speaking with Counc. Bill Clark this week he brought up the issue of Library closing in Newcastle Village or Orono and said there was no way either library was going ) be placed in jeopardy. He said vs an elected member of council in Ward Three was he alu. :; to see either of these essential services being di v :on' 1 Town budget nearing Members of the Town of Newcastle council met on Friday to again consider their 1980'budget and completed the meeting with the feeling that with another meeting the first part of this coming week final draft of the budget will be ready for council's consideration. consideration. Although all features of the budget are yet to be com- . pleted it does appear that taxpayers in the Town will be faced with a 11.5 percentage increase in their tax bill for 1980. Expenditures at this point by the Town for both their purposes and those of the Region and Board of Education Education are up by some ten percent. Due to a drop in assessment the increase in expenditure of ten percent is expected' to hit an 11.5 percentage increase in the mill rate and the final tax figure of property owners in the Town of Newcastle. Both the Region and the Board of Education have levied rates lower than the Town of Newcastle. The Town has had to make adjustments to offset a $390,000 deficit from 197^ and even with an amount of $150,000 from reserves this deficit figures in the increase. Marc Lalonde, Federal Minister of Energy, announced announced last week that the new $130 million Eldorado Refinery would be transferred from , Hope Township to Blind River in northern Ontario. The Hope Township site which was chosen by the former Conservative Conservative Government has now been reversed by the present Liberal government to a riding which over the past has elected a liberal member to parliament. It is estimated the switch will add $15 million to the cost of the project and delay completion by some eighteen months. It could mean the loss of 250 to 300 jobs in the Port Hope - Hope Township area. Work was stopped a couple of weeks ago on the Hope Township site by order of the Minister of Energy. The announcement last Friday to switch the refinery north Was greeted angrily by Allan Lawrence, MP for Durham- Nor'thumberland and area politicians and supporters of the refinery in Hope Town- \ship. It has been estimated that some $2 million had already been spent on the Hope Township site which will now be a loss. Lalonde'said there would be extra operational costs at Blind Riyer but said the Blind River area should share in some good aspects of the industry. He said it did not make sense to mine the ore in tpe north, transport it south for refining apd then ship the residue north for burial. . Allan Lawrence, who was influential in having the refinery, located in Hope Township by the Conserva- The Pines Judo Club recently recently placed first in the Element-' ary Division in a, Judo competition that represented all such schools in the Province of Ontario. The above students at the Pines 'make up the Ontario Champ- tive government said it would cost $20 million more to switch the plant to Blind River and as well increase yearly operating costs by $2.5 million. He also said it would cost Eldorado $30 million to cancel the Hope Township project not $2 million. Port Rope and Hope Township Township members of councils are Ccdling the move purely political with Roger Wilson of Hope Township stating that it does not make economic sense. Wilson headed up the Hope Township committee to have the refinery locate in Hope Township and recently attended a meeting with Lalonde in Ottawa. The Minister rejects ppliti- cdl patronage charges and states that Blind River was chosen .because of Liberal energy policies. He said the liberal government is committed committed to processing of resources resources as closely as possible to their source for production. Lalonde also said a second reason was the consideration of Northern Ontario as the site for interim and permanent permanent disposal facilities. He said the north should also be in line for benefits. REGIONAL BUDGET AFFECTS FENCE AROUND ORONO REGIONAL DEPOT The Regional budget cuts in the amount of $693,000 come about through the scurtiny of the budget and elimination of works slated previously for this year. One of the cuts affects a former project slated for the Orono depot, an amount of $19,000 Was saved with the delay of a fence around the property. ionship team beipg (back row) Lewis Marchant, Kathy McGill and Rob Clarke, (front row) Laverne Marchant and Gordon Hardy. The Ontario Individual Championship was won by Lewis Marchant. In another division of the Ontario Individual Individual Championship Kathy McGill placed first with Gordon Hardy placing third. The Pines Club members will be displaying their skills at the Pines on May 8th.