4 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 8, 2003 ) ;;i j w ■* i Places I've j Done Time i iH ; M „■ , , --, ÜÜHifiHV r Unforgiven Ernie R. Carr lived a couple of concession roads east of Lindsay and two or three side roads to the north. I got to know Em from going to Kawartha Downs Raceway. He worked at Quaker Oats in Peterborough and farmed part-time. He would be at the .race track most Saturdays either schooling a horse or trying trying to get one qualified to race. If my memory serves me right I don't ever remember him getting getting one to race. It wasn't from the lack of patience or perseverance. perseverance. I don't know where he bought or brought these horses from, but they were duds--ill gaited, too slow or just plain outlaws. He would bring all kinds of horses to the track and never gave up on one of them--change the shoeing, use every lineament or remedy, but nothing seemed to work. I would sit and talk to Ern for hours and listen to his thick brogue. He would offer me a "wee taste" and most often than not I would have more than a few. He had come from the County of Tyrone in Ireland the same place as my ancestor. We got along famously until one night I claimed a horse called Medic. Things changed overnight. On that particular night I bought, or "claimed' a horse out of a race and Ernie's daughter Hazel offered to bathe the horse and walk it around to 'cool it out' after the races. When the horse was ready, we loaded him up in the trailer and brought him home. A short time later Ernie's daughter along with a girl friend showed up at the ranch. We got the horse out of his stall and sat around, had a couple of drinks and looked at him. After a few more drinks I decided to see if I could ride him bareback. He walked as nice as anything across the barnyard and then went straight up in the air and flung me to the ground where I was cut badly above, below and around the eye. The girls loaded me in the car and took me to Bowmariville Hospital to be stitched up. The nurse stitched me without freezing and I was sober when I went home at 4:30 in the morning. Hazel and her friend said goodnight and went home. The next morning I was hurting big time and I was having having a couple of "snorts" to get rid of the pain when the phone rang. It was Ernie and he was some mad. I could hardly understand what he was saying, saying, but it had to do with his daughter Hazel. He said I would lay dead on the street if 1 ever saw Hazel again. I told Em to get a grip on himself and because I thought he was kidding kidding me I said the night before had been heavenly^ When 1 realized he wasn't kidding, then I felt insulted that I would even go for a girl like his daughter. Hazel was a nice girl, but flat chested, with glasses and buck teeth that you could eat an apple through a picket fence with. Not my type but Ernie was unforgiving. Several times and more I tried to talk to Ernie but he never believed me or forgave. Hazel went to England to teach and never married but Ernie blamed me for that also. For the past several years Em lived in Bracebridge in a retirement home and he passed away over the holidays. Hazel said he never changed his mind about me, not even after all these years. Main Street, Orono Proprietors: Gary & Carol Vreeker • Wedding Cakes • Cakes for all Occasions • Pas tries - Donuts - Pies • bread & bms 905-983-9779 Closed Sunday and Monday i«r * w it \v <9$ *-- ( \ Orono Country Ccjfe 7k Full Menu 4 Main Street., Orono, Ontario • 983-9009 <S&, ^ Police blamed unplowed road conditions for this single vehicle accident which occurred at 10:00 Saturday morning. Thirty-one-year old Lisa Westheuser of Millbrook lost control of her 2000 Chevy Blazer as it left the road and rolled in the ditch. The vehicle was travelling northbound on Newtonville Road near Starkville. No charges were laid. Bowmanvillés King East development frozen All development on King Street from Liberty Street to j Mearns Avenue has been frozen for one year. Clarington Council passed the Interim Control By-law, temporarily temporarily freezing development in a special council meeting held Monday. The moratorium moratorium on development will allow the municipality breathing space to rethink its land use planning policies in that area. During the next year the municipal planning Department Department will define the terms of reference and put out a tender , for a King Street East Corridor Study. The purpose of the study is to review the appropriateness of existing land use policies in the area, and ensure traffic volumes and flow function safely and efficiently. efficiently. Interest in redevelopment of commercial property and the development of vacant lots and residential properties along this portion of King Street East has increased of late. The commercial proposals proposals all include eating establishments establishments with drive- throughs. The municipality has identified a number of land use and related traffic concerns stemming from these applications. Tim Hortons, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Williams Coffee Pub have submitted applications for development or redevelopment of commercial commercial property within a four block section of King Street East. Tim Hortons is seeking to redevelop a vacant site for both eat-in and drive-through uses. The Kentucky Fried Chicken proposal is for a drive-through service at the existing restaurant and the Williams Coffee Pub application application would be to build a stand-alone building on an existing strip plaza site with both an eat-in and drive- through service. According to a Planning Department report on this issue, on each site the drive-through service requires significant land area for the queuing of vehicles and will not only impact traffic conditions conditions on King Street East but will conflict with pedestrian use of these establishments. At least one of the three applicants caught in the freeze told councillors Monday, they will be appealing the moratorium moratorium at the Ontario Municipal Board. Council may extend the length of the moratorium up to by not exceeding two years from the date of the passing of Interim Control By-law. 2002/3 Festive R.I.D.E. Statistics for week 5 The fifth week of the Durham Regional Police Festive R.I.D.E. program concentrated on Ajax, Pickering, Oshawa and Port Perry with the following totals: • 1,890 Vehicles were stopped by R.I.D.E. • 20 People given Roadside breath tests • 9 12-hour Suspensions for registering WARN • 3 People arrested for Drinking and Driving Other criminal charges included: 1 person charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Possession of Proceeds of Crime, 3 persons charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking and 1 person charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance, Weapons Dangerous and Carrying a Concealed Weapon. Under the Highway Traffic Act, two people breached their graduated licence conditions involving alcohol, one person was charged with disobey an officer and one person was charged with no brake lights. Once again, members of M.A.D.D. (Durham Region chapter) and members of the Ontario Provincial Police from the Whitby Detachment assisted assisted with these R.I.D.E. spot checks. Total results from Festive R.I.D.E. 2002/2003 (with total results of last year's Festive RIDE in brackets) are: • 23,242 (30,497) Vehicles were stopped by R.I.D.E. • 420 (483) People given Roadside breath tests • 109(107) 12-hour Suspensions Suspensions for registering a "WARN" • 48 (70) People arrested for Drinking and Driving Durham Regional Police would like to advise all motorists that drinking and driving will not be tolerated on our streets. The Festive R.I.D.E. program is part of our continuing effort to deter the alarming number of drivers who are still drinking and driving driving during the Festive season.