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2 The Canadian Statesman,;Bowmanville, May 19, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Letters to the Editor Who's Doing the Planning? 73 Alonna Street, Bowmanville. May 15, 1976. Dear Editor, The shopping centre meeting we were all waiting for has been rescheduled. I wonder what our council was thinking of? Could it have anything to do with the fact that staff reports on the final draft of the regional official plan come before regional planning committee on May 25? There is only one member on this committee from the Town of Newcastle. This same committee had the Bowmanville West Project placed before it in October of 1974, the project never reached Bowmanville until July 1975. If that delay is not questionable our planners report on the project was not available until March 1976? Why such a delay? Are we going to have region do our planning for us? The majority of council seem quite placid in their roles as they continue to table any significant planning proposals. This attitude is becoming conta- gious, the Planning Advisory Com- mittep have now tabled the Bow- manville West Project pending the release of a report. This report is an answer to a question I asked in a letter to the editor dated February 20, 1976, concerning a comparison of the servicing costs between north- eastward and westerly development of Bowmanville. But! Why was this report commissioned by a developer and not the town? The developer had no way of knowing the outcome of the report, it could go against him or in his favor, he went ahead anyway. This report will be released shortly, once again it could be too late. The twenty-fifth of May is the date when region enters the final stage of the official plan. Region will be doing this with very little input from the elected officials of Newcastle, due to the tabling motions on all planning that was not in line with a document by Murray O. Jones known as the Bowmanville Interim Plan. Mr. Howden in his reports constantly refers to Regional Road Fifty-Seven as a barrier to develop- ment. It seems I must remind him and the members of the Planning Advisory Committee that that bar- rier has been broken by over two- hundred homes. Let's forget that barrier and we seem to forget one of the major objections to westerly developments. I do not wish to sound as if I ami decrying our council, I am not, just those stili living in the past. It sometimes seems to me that Councillor Ann Cowman is the only one who thinks Newcastle has a future, all you hear of the others is what was done in the past (if you hear anything). This is an election year, the next term of council will see many of today's proposals becoming actualities. Do we want repeats of past mistakes, e.g. lack of a school (a brick school) in the Waverly area, the tunnel under road fifty-seven, and the half road known as Martin Road, need I go further? We do have some planning authority or why is the taxpayers money being used to pay a planner and assistant, so lets get some affirmative ideas before region instead of none. Council, lets wake-up and let region know we are here. As long as region is allowed to dictate planning to us I feel our council is shirking their duty, they were, after all, elected on our behalf to make affirmative decisions on our behalf. Also, lets remember one thing, many mistakes were made due to piece-meal development (many developers of many small areas over many years). This same antiquated method is going to occur in north-eastern Bowmanville. Bow- manville West Community offers us a community planned by a con- sortium of developers under the management of one. THINK ABOUT IT. Yours truly, Dennis Sadler Public's Right To Know May 15, 1976 Letter to the Editor; Twice during this past week, Mayor Garnet Rickard has charged this writer, Councillor Kenneth E. Lyall, with "causing trouble" while I was engaged in my duties representing the people of the Town of Newcastle in my elected position as a Durham Regional Councillor. Therefore, may I use your paper to present the facts of the brouhaha before the publie? The first time that the Mayor's charge was made occurred at a Town meeting of the Committee of the Whole Council held Monday May 10 - last week. At that time the Com- mittee Was discussing the Eldorado Nuclear Limited by-products dump in the south-east corner of the Town at Port Granby. Here is what one of the local papers had to say about the debate (The Reporter, 6th paragraph, 3rd page, May 12 edition): "The debate was quite fierce with Mayor Rickard and Councillor Entwisle accusing Councillor Lyall of stirring up the people in Port Granby." Then the following --- and again quoting from the same source "Mayor Rickard said they even tell me that you were up in Tyrone on Sunday stirring them up." This outburst of the Mayor and Councillor Entwisle referred to the fact that I had attended a Newton- ville meeting where the Eldorado dump was the subject of the gathering and a second meeting at the Tyrone Community Hall where I spoke to a group of residents on the effect the recently published Dur- ham Region Hamlet Study might have on their community. JOHN M. JAME Editor- Publishei Mayor Rickard again used the phrase "causing trouble" at the Durham Region Council meeting held Wednesday, May 12 during debate on the Regional Hamlet Study. He was commenting for the second time on my meeting with Tyrone people. I deeply resent being charged with "stirring up the people" and "causing trouble" when engaged in my publie duties or at any other time. Ken Lyall is very truculent in his opinion that the public has a right to know what events of note are transpiring in the Town Hall and in the Regional Council. I firmly believe also that the duties and responsibilities of elected - and appointed, public officials include the job of keeping the electorate informed. The possibility of expanding the holdings of Eldorado Nuclear Limit- ed in Port Granby, Newcastle from 126 acres to a total of 650 acres is and should be a matter of grave concern for Newcastle residents. The grave concern on the part of the group of people who live in close proximity to the Eldorado holdings, occasioned the meeting which I was invited to attend. I met with the people and expressed my opinion on the matter. Result? Charges by the Mayor and' Councillor Entwisle that I was "stirring up the people of Port Granby." The Hamlet Study -- or to give it the formal title "The Regional Municipality of Durham Rural Community Servicing Study" was put together by Underwood McLel- lan and Associates as an engineering survey at a cost of $55,000. 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I guess I was wrong. Everyone thought that the reaction to regional govern- ment would be a lesson to the government, and that when next Darcy McKeough wanted to tamper with local govern- ment he would discuss it with the people. Two weeks ago the Treasur- er introduced a bill to amend all of the Regional Govern- ment Acts which would ap- parently give more power to the regions and less to the municipalities. Mr. McKeough told us that all the municipal- ities had been informed. Yet, when I called Mayor Rickard and Mayor Potticary (the heads of the two municipal- ities in Durham East) both assured me they had not been informed. I senththem copies and asked that they study the bill and said I would be pleased to put forward their views in the debate on the bill. My colleague, Monty David- son, MPP for Cambridge, contacted the Mayor of Cam- bridge in the same fashion and received detailed comments in a memorandum from the From Queens Park DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P. city Planning Commissioner endorsed by the Mayor. As background, I should mention that the bill in, question is Bill 55, "The Regional Municipalities Amendment Act, 1976". It contains nine amendments proposed for all the Regional Municipality Acts as now in force, together with some amendments proposed for particular municipalities only. One section of Bill 55 drew strong reactions from the Mayor and Planning Commis- sion of Cambridge, and here things get a little complicated as we switch from the proposed changes in Bill 55 to the present Planning Act as now in force. This particular section of Bill 55 will give Regional Councils the power to pass by-laws under Sections 35a and 35b of the Planning Act. (They are already en- titled topass by-laws under Section 35). Sections.35a and 35b could prove to be some- thing of a Trojan horse, involving the Region in intensely technical and basic- ally municipal matters which will create endless work and delays. Section 35a of the Planning Act would ailow the Region ta met with Tyrone people to discuss this very important and costly document in relationship to their homes and their property, I am' subject to the charge by Mayor Rickard "They even tell me that you were up in Tyrone on Sunday stirring theni up." Baloney. I have a message on the subject of participatory democracy for Mayor Rickard and Councillor Entwisle. Participatory democracy -- our system, means that everyone must get into the act if democracy is to work successfully. For, if there is no publie participation, our system will degenerate into a bureaucracy. Further, Mayor Rickard and Councillor Entwisle, if we the people, citizens of this great Canada of ours want to remain as a country where participatory democracy exists, then we --- the elected -- must accept the fact that the people have' the right --- not the privilege, of knowing what is being considered and what is being done by the elected bodies. To conclude this, I would like to express a few personal thoughts on Eldorado and the Regional Hamlet Study. No extension of Eldorado Holdings in Newcastle and the removal of their dump right down to bedrock in the fashion that the authorities are to clean up the Port Hope-hot spots of nuclear problems. The Hamlet Study. This study is a technical report conceived by a very reputable firm of engineers and deals with the water and sewerage possibilities in our Hamlets. It outlines the potential of residential expansion in aur local areas of Enniskilen, Kendal, Saina, Burketon Station, Leskard, Orono, Newtonville, Hampton and Tyrone. In the Editor's Mail Dear Sir: We read the article in the paper about shopping centres in Bowmanville. We feel that it iS becoming a necessity to have more shopping facilities in Bowmanville. Bowmanville suburbs are growing but the facilities do pass development by-laws not only on those aspects of projects which might be appropriate to the regional level, but also on many other aspects which are not -- such as land grading, easements, landscaping, garbage dispo- sal, floodlighting, and snow removal. The Cambridge Planning Commissioner states that the only power relevant to the Region is in relation to road widening and access. As far as Cambridge is concern- ed, a good balance of control already exists on this question as there is a city by-law on development control which could if necessary ensure road widening and access to a particular development. Also, the Region bas control over access onto a Regional road at the building permit stage. The Cambridge Planning Com- missioner says bluntly: "the implications ofdthe Region entering the development control field in terms of deiays in development approvals and increase n red tape are horrendous." Section 35b of the Planning Act'would allow the Region ta require land for park purposes as a condition of development or redevelopment for resi- dential purposes. The amount of land required can be upto 5 What distresses me about the report is the great effort by Regional officials to keep the study out of general circulation and out of the hands and knowledge of the Hamlet people concerned. There was a publie meeting in Hobbs School on the Taunton Road Friday evening. The writer went to a great effort to obtain extra copies of the study for the use by members of the public attending the meeting. No way. The Chairman of the Region Works Committee, one Councillor Carl Puterbough and the Chairman of the Regional Planning and Development Committee, one Coun- cillor Clarke Mason gave definite orders to Regional Works Commis- sioner Robert Richardson that no extra copies beyond the ones that had been sent to Regional Council- lors and Town Clerks were to be issued. Why? I may be wrong but I suspect that the main reason for this unnatural desire to keep the Regional Hamlet Study out of the hands of the public is due to the recognized fact that land. speculators have sacked up a lot of expensive raw land around the Hamlets and publie exposure of this Underwood and McLellan Study might endanger some well laid out and costly land developers' plans in some -- yet to be explained, manner. What other reason for the secrecy? Enough of this nonsense -- the public has a right to know and an elected representative should not be pilloried because he sees the need to put the phrase "The Public Has A Right To Know' into practice. Sincerely, Kenneth Lyall, Councillor not appear to be expanding. We do not feel that the shops in town would lose any custom- ers because from what we can see the stores right now do not supply us people with very much variety and most people now go to Oshawa to do their shopping. If shopping centres were put up in Bowmanville it would at least keep the people in their own town plus providing more opportunities for its citizens and jobs for the young people. Mrs. E.A. Oegema; Irma Oegema. The probability of eight children of the same sex being born in an eight-child family is 255 to 1. per cent of the proposed development area, or cash in lieu of parkland. The Cam- bridge Planning Commission- er again indicates that this will create confusion between Region and municipality:, "The assumption of powers under Section 35b will result in a duplication of efforts by the Region and the area munici- palities in a field which is being satisfactorily handled at present at the local level." The section of Bill 55 extending these powers of the Planning Act to Regions is' common to all Regions. We Imm lm 25 Years Ago Thursday, May 3rd, 1951 Louis J. Alber, a confidante of Winston Churchill, Britain' s War Prime Minister, will addressr a public meeting in Trinity United Church on Friday, May 11th. Topic will be (Kremlin Blueprint). Clair Wakelin, born and educated in Bowmanville has joined the provincial police force at Niagara Falls, Ontario. A. Ronald Hall, Health Unit of Northumberland and Dur- ham Sanitary Inspector, has resigned, and will devote his full time to his business enterprise. Six wards await sponsorship in the new Memoriai Hospital. Murray Lord, of Cambell- croft and Bev Gray of Port Hope graduated in first and second positions, respectiveiy, from Kemptviiie Agriculturai College. Congratulations to Mrs. James Stark of Newtonville on winning a prize in the Star contest. Attending the Oliver tractor general service schools, held throughout Ontario by Goodi- son Industries Limited, Sar- nia, were E.A. Virtue and A.L. Phare, of Tyrone. Col. Stanley Palmateer has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant and is now stationed in Peterborough. have had a very prompt response from Cambridge, but all municipalities will be considering this section, and no doubt the other eigh changes proposed by the Bil raise just as many questions. As you can see, the Treasur- er bas proposed changes which will have strong impact on the relationship between region and municipality. Yet the Cambridge Planning Com- missioner notes the lack of consultation: "This proposed legislation has not been dis- cussed, that I am aware of, In the, Dim and' )istant Past 49 Years Ago Thursday, May 19th, 1927 Hug sHotson of the Continu- ation School, Tavistock, won first place in the Ontario Oratorical Contest, Wednes- day evening in Convocation Hall, Toronto. Alian Sprague, Beleville took second place. Also competing was Merrill Ferguson who was the winner in the district competition. New officers elected ta the Home and School Club for the year are Hon. Pres. - Dr. R.E. Dinniwell, Pres. - Mrs. Harry Allin, 1st Vice - Mrs. Frank Jackman, 2nd Vice - Mrs. F. C. Colmer, Sec'y. Treas. - Mrs. W.P. Hlall.' Animals to be seen at Bowmanville Zoo include two oppossums, two foxes, five pair of rare pidgeons, several muskova ducks, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, skunks, wolves and a wild dog. Host and hostess at the camp are Mr. and Mrs. W. Florence. Requests of E.A. Osborne ta instal gasoline pumps on curb in front of his property on King Street, and T.A. Garton the same privilege in front of garage and rest room he is erecting between the Bai- moral Hotel and the Saivation Army Barracks, were grant- ed. Sam Clarke, ex M.P.P., for West Northumberland for 27 years was recently honored at the annual Liberal picnic. with any of the area munici- palities. I feel we should be made aware of the reasoning behind the extension of such powers to the Region before the legislation is enacted." What kind of behaviour is this on the part of the government? Had the Trea- surer no idea of the kind of reaction this bill was certain to cause? What concerns me most is that now, if any beneficial changes are included in this bill, the chances of their being accepted are greatly reduced. By Bill Smiley The, Human-Spirit Could you write a pungent, telling essay on The Human Spirit? No? Well, that's what my senior students tell me, too. But I know they are wrong, and I think you are wrong also. l'Il bet you could write a dandy, especially if you have lived a lot. I gave my students instructions for an essay, and most of them went into a state of mild shock. They shouldn't have. They are dealing with the human spirit, their own and others, every minute of their young lives. However, students, like most of us, prefer things to be spelled out, But how can you spell out the human spirit? You can't touch it, taste it, smell it, weigh or measure it. You can't, peer through someone's navel and shout "Tallyho! There it is! Your spirit!" From the beginnings of thought, our great writers and thinkers have explored the human creature in an effort to pin down this elusive thing. Some philosophers have believed they had put their finger on the slippery little devil only to find that it has squirted away. Clerics are more apt to call it the soul. Psychologists pin nasty names like id and ego and libido on various aspects of it. Writers give examples of it. Artists try to depict its highest aspirations. The human spirit exists in all of us. It, along with the power to reason, is what raises us above the level of the beasts. Its presence is allied to all that is good and great in human kind: loyalty, integrity, compassion, hon- or, courage, dignity. Its absence represents all that is bad in the human race: greed, cruelty, prejudice, indifference, treachery. Given the right fertilizer, the human spirit reaches out to other human spirits, and mankind moves another inch toward the stars. Without proper nourishment, the human spirit shrivels or warps, turns in on itself, rots, and spreads like a cancer. In certain periods, the undernour- ished spirit produces the great psychopaths }ike Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Hitler,'and we are led into darkness. But after each of these sombre intervals, the resurgent human spirit roars back, fanning the embers into a blaze of glory, and once more man is on the march. This is all very inspiring, I'm sure, but it's pretty abstract, and I prefer the concrete. Let's see if we can find some examples of the human spirit in action. When a two-year-old child, nor- mally good and obedient, sticks out his lip and flatly refuses to do something reasonable, and defies threats of spankings, he is not just being stubborn. He is exhibiting, to the world, his sense of self, of independence. That is the human spirit. When an 80 year old man, or woman, prefers to pig it alone in poverty and discomfort, rather than be shuttled off to a cosy senior citizen's home, he or she is doing the same. When a man or woman has enough guts to say "No! " at a time when all about are saying "Yes!" that's the human spirit at work. But let's get down to an example we can all understand. When a man gets up after his old lady has knocked him down five times, and advances on her, arms outstretched, and says: "Darling, let me explain just once more," that is the human spirit at its best. Don't get this human spirit thing all mixed up with sentimentality: the cooing of a baby, which might be just a gas pain, the radiant smile of a bride, which might be just vanity. Or gloating. No, let's keep it on a high plain. Here are the instructions I gave my students. See how they grab you. "This essay is to be an examina- tion of the human spirit (soul, self) as it acts and reacts under stress, in inter-play with other human spirits, in conflict with society. "The essay should reveal some- thing of what the student has learned this year from exposure to the ideas of first-class writers concerning the human spirit. "Ideas expressed should not be merely emotional clap-trap or mystic foofawraw. Nor should they be a mere recording of examples of the human spirit in action, taken from the books read. They should rather represent the student's own human spirit reacting to the stimulus of what has been read and pondered. "Any reasonable - and even so, unreasonable - approaches to the topic will be encouraged. "Students may choose one of the following exhortations from their glorious leader: "Good luck" "or "Eat Your Heart Out." Aren't you glad you don't take English from me?', s r