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4 JO SSA Champions Senior Girls' COSSA Champs from Clarke High School. Back row: (1-r) Shelley Fice, Lisa Stamp, Tammy Riddle, Jill Cunningham, Michelle Riddle. Front row (1-r) Dana Shelter, Anndee VanDoleweerd, Jacki VanDoleweerd, Julie Warren, Leanne Kent, Coach Kim Knight. Absent Deanna Roughly (captain), Kathv Desousa. Clarke mm High School 1 Report By Janet ' On March, 1 Clarke High School hosted the COSSA Senior and Junior Girls Volleyball Championships. Championships. Prior to COSSA the Senior Girls competed at York University in a tournament involving double A and triple A schools. Clarke was the only single A school (under 700 students) at the tournament and came nut in the top 8 out Of 20 teams. At COSSA the Senior Girls beat Cloyne's North Addington 15-4 and 15-3 in the finals to become the COSSA Champs. They will now go on to represent Clarke at OFSAA (Ontario Federation School Athle(ic Association, for single A schools) on March 9-11 in Ganao- que. Eight of the team members play for an Oshawa OVA (Ontario Volleyball Association) team. Twins Michelle and Tammy Riddle, Deanna Roughly, Leanne Kent, Jill Cunningham, Kathy Desousa, Julie Warren, and Dana Shetler all play for the team Genesis. Good luck to the girls at OFSAA! Also competing in the COSSA tournament at Clarke were the Junior Girls, who came out with a second place. Good work girls! Clarke recently sent Tim Harrison Harrison to the OFSAA wrestling competition competition held at Humber College in Toronto. Two competitors are sent from each Ontario District in each weight class. Tim came 4th out. of 32 competitors in his 87 kg weight class. Clarke's Drama Club is busy learning learning lines and moves for this year's play. This year" the Drama Club will be presenting "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. Production dates are set for April 28, 29, and 30. 200 attend Library meèting in Orono (Continued from page 1) the consultant's report and that if was the intention to provide a better library service for the Town. She « said the report noted the growth areas and the higher expectations of it's residents. Counc. Cowman also' noted, that the report stated a lower educational level than the Provincial Provincial average existed in the Town of Newcastle. She spoke of the need for services for life-long' learning, fqr popular reading and for children's open door to learning. All of these, she said, is a delivery of a service and not the maintenance of a building. Counc. Cowman referred to the consultant's suggestion that a population of 35,000 warranted only only one library facility. And that the 1 choice of a store-front library in Newcastle Village over that of Orono was made because of the growth factor in Newcastle. She said it was not the intention to close the Orono branch in 1988. In speakingeof the Orono facility e said the building was' comfortable comfortable and friendly but it is deeay- would not provide the same service as either the Or-'iio Or Newcastle libraries as there ' would be no " , resource materia! as now exists. She noted that it was interesting that 1989 would be the one hundredth hundredth anniversary of the Orono library. An Orono resident said that consultants consultants from Bay Street didn't know what made a place like Orono tick. He said it was the quality of life that we want to keep up. ^ Hilda Tamblyn said that the quality of service and books at the Orono library was quite satisfactory and that it would be a great loss to the community to see the library closed out. Merle Cox said she used the local library quite extensively < and how could anyone or any group consider closing oilt the service to the community. During the discussion both Councs. Hamre and Stapleton as well as Counc. Cowman noted that consultant's report had estimated a cost of $25*000 in 1986 figures for repairs to the Orono library. Jim DeCosta in speaking at the meeting said "You don't put a price on the quality of life". He said the • Orono Library had to be maintained. maintained. Counc. Hamre pointed out that council had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Bowman ville library building and that it was not near as old as the Orono facility. Carlos Tamblyn said many, including including school children, can walk to the library and that it was a big drawing card for the community. He noted that the meeting had brought people out from as far away as Kendal. He said, "we just keep on losing out since Regional Government came into effect. Roy Forrester stated that people were attending the meeting because of their concern over the closing of the library and that a course of action action should be determined. Fie sug- . gested that a petition be presented to the Town council asking that council, by resolution, inform the Newcastle Public Library Board ■ that the Clarke Library in Orono continue to operate in its present facility and that the quality of service, service, as now exists, remain to meet the needs of the community. He " also suggested that those concerned write council and carbon copy their letter to the Library Board- opposing opposing the proposed closing. Many from the audience volunteered to assist with a petition cirlculation and to help with phoning phoning in preparation for a march on council, if such was required. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 9, 1988-3 Letter to Editor 1 was most • distressed after reading the article "Library to spend $3.4 million for facilities" in your February 24th issue. 1 am, like- most people, well aware of budget problems within organizations, but I think we had all better sit back and take a good, look at what we are doing to our community by removing its library. Adults in a community are the first to complain about our children being illiterate these days. How then can closing a library in a thriving thriving village be justified? What about the senior citizens who do not dirve, the children who - do not drive, the disable who do not drive? The consultants seem to thing that thirty minutes of driving to the nearest library is not a problem. problem. It isn't if you drive! There are many different things in out lives we can certainly do without, before having to give up our books, our.opportuhity to learn and to become more knowledgeable, by - having a pleasant pleasant atmosphere, close at hand, to turn a few pages. As a past student, who grew up in Orono several years ago, and did not have a library dosé at hand, L found the school library to be the only resource available. This was not convenient, for a number of students, especially during evening hours. I find it extremely upsetting to see more arid more spent on development development and less and less on the future of our children or the comfort of our senior citizens. Please, sit back and take a look at. what direction we want our community community to take in the fast pace of the world today. Only through' public pressure can anything change! Janice Smith Harrowsmith, Ontario Letter opposes the Orono Library closing Dear Mr. Stapleton, It haÿ recently come to my attention attention that there is a possibility of the Orono Public Library being closed down. If this has in fact been considered considered I respectfully ask that such a decision be reconsidered*. The Orotjo" library is a vital part of the village of Orono. Not"only is it a place to pick up the recent best sellers, but to research any, subject that may hold an interest for any person living in Orono, Furthermore, Furthermore, any evening a person desires they can take a quick stroll up to the library and meet with neighbours they might not get to see during busy days and thereby keep the spirit of small town Ohtario alive and ticking. - * Perhaps the citizens of the Town of Newcastle have forgotten Orono. Perhaps the citizens who are considering considering closing down the library have forgotten how important it is for all people to read and have access access to reading material: Reading is fundamental and I will never tolerate nor accept any decision that Forrester also suggested that the petition be presented to council on Monday, March 28th at 7:00 p.m. and that as many as possible attend the council meeting. ' Would allow the only library in a town with no transportation system that would allow people to travel to either Newcastle Or Bowmanville. If you close down the library you assume that every person in Orono can drive. This cannot possibly be the case so therefore you will now deprive a good portion of the population of a public library. In an age of advancing technology and increased increased demand for skilled labour you also deny the poprilus of Orono the chance to keep attuned to modern day advances in technology and the changing labour market. Such a decision would throw our village back to the dark ages and keep us there. Sir, I resent any such decision and I resent having the privilege of a public library removed from myself and from my family. I ask how anyone dare remove my privileges and the privileges of my fellow villagers. Of all the issues that have affected Orono and that may affect Orono in the years to come I know my fellow villagers will consider this the most vital. We must keep our library if we are to remain a village at all. Yours respectfully,' Diane L. Lofgren Orono, Ontafio ing. "It costs a lot to maintain a grand old lady", she said. It was pointed out by Counc. Cowman that the library board was asking the Town for an additional $300,000 in 1988, . - She said the Library Board had , accepted the consultant's report and recommendations. Sid Rutherford said he questioned questioned the consultant's report as to the educational level in Newcastle being being lower than the average provincial provincial level. He said the report shows that up to and including-grade 13 the average in Newcastle is higher than across the province. He said it was natural that above grade 13 it would be lower because all the university graduates had to leave the area for employment. Rutherford pointed out that the library board had not held any public meetings in Ward Three and that the Study Stearing committee had been composed of mainly library board members. He further slated that spending $2.8 million in Bowmanville was no indication of saving money. Helen MacDonald said the report was inconsistant throughout and that it i was ridiculous to close the Clarke Library. She said that the proposed store-front libraries Keirstead's New 1988 Print MILLBROOK * Millbrook & copyright James L. Keirstedd' 1988 REFLECTIONS "3| Downtown Orono 983-9757