At the September 14 Joint General Governance and Planning Meeting council voted 5-2 receiving report FND-030-20 directing staff to prepare a draft budget for 2021 with a target municipal increase of 3.55 per cent. It was ratified at Monday night’s council meeting with a 4-3 recorded vote approving the targeted increase.
Moe Sukraj and his father George pictured here last Wednesday with the newly-caught fifteen to twenty-pound Chinook salmon right from the shore of Graham Creek at the Bond Head Parkette. It took Moe about ten minutes to reel in this whopper, much to the delight of a group of onlookers. George netted Moe’s catch.
6:30 a.m.,” says Chief Gord Weir, Clarington’s Fire Chief and Community Emergency Management Coordinator.
“Crews from Orono, Newcastle, Bowmanville and Courtice worked very hard to extinguish the fire” which happened at Circul-Air Corp (located in what was previously the IGA grocery store in Orono) on Thursday, September 17.
Helen Simpson (left) presented a cheque from the Simpson family and the Newcastle Coffee Club to Jill Richardson, representing Clarington Hospice. The setting was at Bond Head Park Gazebo on Sunday morning. Musician Lloyd Johnson far right, and friends play every Sunday morning at the gazebo. The money collected in his guitar case goes to support the new residential Hospice on Cobbledick Road. Shovels hopefully will be in the ground next March. Johnson challenges anyone who likes to sing to join him next Sunday morning at 10 at the gazebo.
On Thursday, September 17 Amanda Liu, centre holding scissors, welcomed guests to the opening of her wellness spa. MP Philip Lawrence, Northumberland-Peterborough South, Regional Councillor Wards 3 & 4 Granville Anderson and Bonnie Wrightman, Clarington Board of Trade brought greetings and good wishes.
Last year, Jim Barchar, president of the Newcastle Lions Club, and his partner Lynn Denney decided to foster a pup for the first time as part of the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guide program. Like the many other devoted foster families in the program, they made a year-long commitment, opening their home and providing training and socialization necessary for the puppy to become a dog guide for Canadians with medical or physical disabilities.
Charlie Reid has many loves. Most of them have four legs and pull a sulky. They love him right back. They have showered him with many prizes, awards, certificates, medals, trophies, and big sloppy kisses when he comes out to greet them with carrots in his pocket.
Jeany Barrett, president of the Newcastle Horticultural Society, in front of the Pinky Winky hydrangea bush at the Newcastle Community Hall. The Newcastle Horticulture society welcomes all gardeners and those interested in the flora and fauna to see in the beautiful gardens around town.
“On Wednesday, we’ll have 25,400 chickens,” says Brenda Metcalf looking across the aisle at her husband Ron as they lead a tour of their newly completed state-of-the-art egg barn in Tyrone last week. Imagine feeding 25,000 hens per day and collecting 25,000 eggs per day, jobs that in the past would have taken many, many hours and hours and are now fully automated.
The CNR engine rolls across the CNR tracks at Wilmot Creek. At 220 tons, if this hit you, you would not live to tell the story. Is it worth the risk to remove the audio warnings?