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I- f 4 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 2,20Q3 Ü f Places I've Done Time by Clifford Francis Progress at last Some good great late breaking news about the village. village. Late last week I was privy to plans about things to come. Progress in the village after all. In order for things to happen happen changes have to be made. A committee has been formed and things are happening. happening. One of the first things on the agenda was the sewers. Yes, they are coming but it won't be easy. The location of the sewage plant came as a surprise. Loof Lirpa, the engineer engineer in charge of planning had some surprises. First and foremost there will be sewers, and the location location of the sewage plant has to be where the cemetery is now. When I saw an advertisement for someone to excavate graves for the Orono Cemetery Co. I knew something something was up. Apparently they found someone to do this and that will be a great undertaking. undertaking. More surprising was, the word that the Durham County Senior Homes are deemed unsafe. As everyone knows the Seniors complex was built on a dump site years ago and with all the settling, there's cracks in the foundation and the walls. What has been proposed is to build new homes for the folks at the fairgrounds. Everyone can walk to town without walking up hill both ways. A new executive will be formed and tenders for building building and maintenance will be let. No more of 'who you know'. The arena will become a community centre for the village village and property will be pur chased on the Townline Road, where at least two icepads will be built and also lots of land for the fairboard. There is talk of putting Clarke High School as well as the Pines there. It would take the busses off the dangerous Highway 115. Getting back to the cemetery, cemetery, it will be moved down to the land where the Seniors Complex now stands. There is not enough land there for all the graves so some land will have to be purchased, hopefully hopefully just across the road. Someone expressed concern about splitting up family plots, but I was quick to point out there were people in that graveyard would couldn't stand their cousins, uncles or brothers when they were alive so it wouldn't matter much now. Some others didn't rest side by side with their mates when they were alive, so not to worry. I also took the liberty of volunteering a man from Leskard to oversee the moving moving of caskets. Kelly Adams is impeccably honest and will do a good job of conducting operations in an aboveboard way. Any concerns can be voiced with your local councillors. councillors. Apparently building will get started as soon as possible, with the first thing on the agenda getting the homes built on the fairgrounds. The old buildings at the complex will then be demolished and they can then start moving the graves and headstones. As I write this I notice today is April 1st. Happy April Fool's Day everyone, and may you rest in peace. Main Street, Orono Proprietors: Gary & Carol Vrecker • Wedding Cakes • Cakes for a\\ Dccasms • Pastries - Donuts - Pies • 13read & 13 uns 905-983-9779 Closed Sunday and Monday smwil Sikma's Orchard GREAT SELECTION OF FANCY & CEE GRADE APPLES Pure Apple Cider made on our farm located Open Daily of Newcastle • 905-7 w Closed Sundays "It's all in the lack of detail" Though he's been painting for 65 years, Dick Morton has yet to paint a picture he's completely satisfied with. And as far as the Orono farmer is concerned, that's a good thing. "Once I've done that, it means I've quit learning," learning," he told an Orono Times reporter in his home studio Monday afternoon. The landscape painter has just come, through his favourite season. "I like to paint winter because of the natural contrast--snow and the pine and cedar trees. In fact, the end of March is particularly particularly good because the sun gets a little redder and the evergreens have a bit of a glow," he said. Morton's studio contains a great number of finished sketches and paintings, many of local scenes. When he has the time to paint, Morton will get in his car and look for a nice scene. He doesn't venture venture too far though. He says he's done all the easy scenes close to home, now he has to search a.little harder. When looking for a scene to paint, Morton says he looks for composition, and atmosphere which usually means a visible sense of distance. Sunshine is also important to Morton who calls himself a ' sunshine painter'. In fact it's getting the highlights from the sun right, that Morton finds the most difficult part of his painting. Over the years he's also learned to leave the detail out ofthe background. When he's found the scene, Morton pulls over to set up his old music stand and with, paint box of oils proceeds proceeds to sketch the scene in its entirety, to be painted in larger form later at home. He's stuck to landscape painting because as he says, "a half inch on a tree branch doesn't matter but a half inch on the end of a nose means quite a bit." As a kid, Morton says he played around with different colours of inks. He remembers remembers drawing scenes of hills on hills. "It was messy, but it Dick Morton's home studio is filled with stacks of his oil paintings soon to be on display. gave me a sense, of encouragement." encouragement." '7' ""'7! 'While still in high school, on a tree branch doesn't matter... on the end of a nose means ---Painter, Dick Morton in the late 1930s, Dick Morton and his friend Don Staples, expressed a wish to learn to paint, Morton in oils and Staples in water colour. They became students of the late A. A. Drummond, the former Orono bank manager, who was first and foremost an artist. "As far as I know, we are the only students he taught here in Orono," said Morton. Morton remembers sitting in awe of Drummond's work. "Many people say they can see the similarities with my work and Mr. Drummond's," said Morton. I would in no way put my name beside Mr. Drummond's as a painter. I would never make that claim, because he was so extraordinary.' extraordinary.' 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