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Mr. Stone has worked for the in 1968. The new school allowed ownership of the busing business "It‘s the kind of load that loads and _ Ministry _ of Transportation â€" and Gordon to expand his business to _ took seven months, with the deal unloads itself." That‘s what Gordon _ Communications for some 24 years, . nine bus runs and two additional _ having to be approved at various‘ always says to people who ask how and he plans to continue with the kindergarten runs. Around the same levels. Because the Renfrew County he can stand having a load of noisy _ job. So, Gordon has agreed to stay time he closed the feed mill and _ Board of Education contracts the kids as his cargo. on and manage the business for Ken stopped selling farm equipment, buses to carry its students, the board Of course, being the owner of your _ and Ann, and of course he‘ll still be focusing all his energies on the had to be consulted. And the own fleet of nine buses helps make _ a driver. ‘‘The business will carry on _ busing operation instead. Ministry _ of . Transportation _ and the job all the more tolerable,. _ much as it has been,"‘ says Ken. * f 7 Communications also had to approve Gordon has had the option of It‘s an arrangement that suits As if running a business weren‘t . the sale. Then there were licences to running the business without ever Gordon just fine, and he admits he enough to keep him busy, Gordon _ transfer and reapply for. Finally all leaving the bus yard, but he‘s always might not have been so eager to sell entered the world of municipal of the buses had to pass safety enjoyed working a daily run himself. if it had meant he wouldn‘t be able politics in the early 1970‘s. He _ inspections. to work anymore. And he won‘t mind _ served the village as a councillor for But, now that the paper work is And now that he‘s sold his Cobden the switch from owner to employee. _ 11 years before being defeated in the behind them, both Ken and Gordon based business, Gordon hopes to "If ken works me too hard, I‘ll 1982 elect.ion. Over the years he sat _ are eager to get back to the business keep on busing for as long as he can. _ quit,"" he jokes. as council‘s representative on the . of busing. Along with regular school On â€" January .3rd, _ Gordon H. Gordon spent 15 years farming in Astrolabe Arena Committee, and was _ routes, Ken says he Wiugcontinue s Duncan Bus Lines Ltd. became the Almonte area before moving to also a member of the building offer charter service _ t ive o Cobden Bus Lines Ltd. when Cobden in 1964 with his wife Mary _ committee flor the water and sewage customers. n aiivole rship of the business . was and their three children. He went treatment plants. But charte : ?;Z:gferrgd to Ken and Ann Stone of _ into the busing business immediately Looking back, Gordon recalls how . work, Gor dorxf CSE;“ Sm“;‘};g}e thel most Cobden. Included in the sale were with four buses, and he also ran a _ the village streets were once plowed _ ‘"My worst memgr o a laugh. the bus yard and garage along Main _ feed mill and sold International _ with a farm tractor with a bucket on _ business is of a sl}(,‘ t‘.’m being in Street, and the nine buses, the Harverster farm equipment from the the frontâ€"the only real piece of took 29 girls to Ml t“g charter, I station wagon and halfâ€"ton truck _ same location along the CPR tracks . equipment the village owned. He _ had to load and u 1onde fillo, and I which make up the fleet. in the village. headed the committee which oversaw _ and suitcases."" nloed *) theircts e n oi en on en nnan enc ns aeorae on _ e _