Monthly Archives: December 2022

Orono Public School students (LtoR) Jaxon S, Evan L, Gemma W and Georgia F where very proud of their school community with over 1,176 pounds of food collected for the Clarington East Food Bank. In total 1,454 items were donated. Mrs. Armstrong’s class won the pizza party with 226 donations, Ms. Richardson’s class came in second with 204 and Ms. Griffin’s class came in third with 186 donations.

Walking into the Clarington East Food Bank last Thursday, one will notice the shelves are full, as are the storage cupboards. The staff have been busy receiving, sorting and weighing the many donations that have been coming into the premises at 250 Mill Street South in Newcastle over the last several weeks.

Aspen and Denver (front) and Levi and Noah are very excited that Christmas is very soon. They joined in the fun last Wednesday lighting Orono’s community tree at the Gazebo. Remember to add your favourite ornament to the tree.

St. Saviour’s Anglican Church hosted their annual Harvest Dinner Sunday night. Guests gathered for pre-dinner caroling. Rev. Augusto Nunez performed Feliz Navidad acapella. Performers were Lloyd Johnson, guitar, Carol Bailey and Susan Sedlack on ukuleles, Marie Pedwell and Warren Tait.

When we think of health care, we think of hospitals nurses and doctors, prescriptions. There are many more layers to our health care system, and advocacy is one of them. An advocate is described as a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.

It’s nearly Christmas, and that means holly, mistletoe, Christmas trees and Santa Claus everywhere. Today. But in the past, especially during wartime, these things didn’t often appear on Christmas cards or in our homes.

Dakota and Timber thank the community for their donations to the Clarington East Food Bank that were collected at the Orono Veterinary Hospital.