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ýGive Marathon Council Session Ends in Agreement Pool Project Gree By Peter Parrott After about three years of planning and discussions, Newcastle council has taken the plunge and agreed to build a $1.3 million municipal pool and fitness centre. The decision to proceed with the centre came last Friday afternoon following a marathon council meeting which lasted most of the day. In giving a green light to the pool project, Newcastle's elected officials have also agreed to contribute $200,000 in municipal funds towards the project. This sum of money is needed to close the gap between the final cost of construction and the amount to be provided through public donations and government grants. Council also recommended that a contract be drawn up with Gerrifs Construction Co. Ltd. for construction of the pool. The local firm had submitted the second lowest tender on the project, however, only $6,000 separated the lowest and second lowest bidders. In a poll of council, the majority of council members voted in favor of the tender being awarded to Gerrits Construction. The tender was for $1,230,000. It is expected that the pool will take a total of 39 weeks to build. n Light The municipality's $200,000 contribution towards the pool is not to be funded from general tax bills but will be taken from the municipality's park reserve fund and/or other sources to be determined by council. For its part, the Town of Newcastle SPLASH committee has promised to raise a total of $610,000 towards the fitness centre. Merrill Turn to Page19 125th VEAR 20 Pages BOWMANVILLE, ONTARiO, DECEMBER 26, 1979 Phone 623-3303 25e Copy Issue 52 harge Woman withAttempted Murder A Christmas Stocking That's Weil Stocked Following a stabbing incident at Cedarcrest Beach early Saturday morning, a Bowmanville woman has been charged with attempted murder. Patricia Catherine Herie, 34, (alias Patricia Wales) of 2 Cedarcrest Beach, Bowmanville, was arrested and charged with the offense following an argument at her residence. Victim of five stab wounds, Clarence "Sonny" Asselstine, 31, of 230 Nipigon Street, Apt. 405, Oshawa, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm. Durham Regional Police were Little Brothers Get Tickets for Leaf Practice Through the courtesy of W. Frank Real Estate, area Big Brothers will be able to take their Little Brothers to the Maple Leaf hockey practice at Civic Auditorium, Oshawa on Jan. 6th at 11 a.m. They may even be able to get Bobby Orr's autograph because he'Il be there too, on skates. Big Brother Murray O'Brien, centre, is accepting the 30 tickets from Joe Bosco, left, and Charlie Reid of W. Frank's Bowmanville office. More tickets are on sale at Civie Auditorium, with the proceeds going to Durham Participation Fund. They expect to raise about $14,000. summoned to the beach cottage of Patricia Herie and found her and Asselstine both covered in blood. Clarence Asselstine had sustained stab wounds to his abdomen, hip, back and two punctures to the thigh. He was taken to Bowmanville Memorial Hospital by ambulance and was later transferred to Oshawa General. Also taken to Bowmanville Hospital, Patricia Herie appeared to have been badly beaten with visible Own s Off Owner«"s Offi Take notice that the owners of Nesika Farms Mink Ranch in Hampton, Lot 14, Concession 6, Tow'n of Newcastle, will pay a $1,000.00 reward to any person providing information leading to the establishing of the identity and address of any person or persons found to be liable in law for damages to their mink stock caused by dogs running at large. Open Letter and Appeal In regard to the above notice, the owners of the Nesika Farm & Mink Ranch, located north-east of Hampton and in operation there for 23 years, would like to make it known that four attacks by large dogs have taken place at their ranch within the last '19 months, resulting in great damage to their livestock., The last two attacks took place on October 29th and November 30th, 1979. The re-occurrence of the attack within such a short time, strongly points to the possibility that these dogs are owned by people living within the Hampton area. The owners of the dogs will most likely know that their dogs were involved, because the dogs would, on the above dates, have been badly bitten and scratched. Evidence at the site of attack, such as extremely large bite marks on ripped boxes and LAST OF 79 -- This is the last edition of The Canadian HLDYTUE Alpris nteucmn Statesman for 1979. We had expected it would be only federal election seem to be taking time out during the a token effort of abQut 16 pages because of the holiday season, but probably are busy preparing for a shortage of time, but readers will find some fast four weeks of campaigning, starting shortly after impressive bargains inside as merchants have New Year's Day. Here, it looks like Hon. Allan launched their January sales. We have been forced to Lawrence PC, against Fred McLaughlin NDP and leave out many pre-Christmas pictures and stories possibly Dr. Ian Wilson again for the Liberals, that will be published next week at the regular time. although he has not yet made an announcement. First Have a Happy New Year's Eve and drive carefully. nomination meetings come on Jan. 3rd for the latter ________two parties with the PCs holding theirsJan. 9th, al in MADE HEADLINES - That controversial bylaw Bowmanville. on banning bikes and trikes on sidewalks certainly gave the Town of Newcastle'wides rpad ublicitv vfederal electiontseem tovbettakingttime outtduring th giu LV ul INWdtewrnpra p uily. Someone brought in a copy of the Edmonton Jour- nal that included an item about it. They probably won't mention that it's being reviewed and may be changed. UNUSUAL - The lack of snow must have made travelling somewhat difficult for Santa Claus. At two or three Christmas parties, our photographers have noticed Santa sitting outside in a car, waiting for the cue to come in. There was no sign of any reindeer around either. Hope nobody was disappointed Christmas Eve because Rudolph's red nose couldn't penetrate the fog. LAYOFFS - All car manufacturers appear to be experiencing some problems with slower than ex- pected sales, with the result that layoffs are in the cards in the weeks ahead. Hopefully, the market will improve soon to keep production lies h um ming. HOLLAND HOCKEY - Toronto Sun Sports Editor George Gross had quite an article in Sunday's Sun about hockey in Europe. He mentioned Tom 'Shot- gun' Sinipson of Courtice who is enjoying himself playing on a team in Amsterdam, without all the pressures of the NHL. Tom is one of the most popu- lar players because of his booming slapshot. No doubt we'1l see him back here in the spring ready to help out Station 4 firefighters. TOURNAMENTS - There's a Novice House League tournament in Newcastle Arena this Thursday, followed by a Midget OHA tournament on Friday. These always result in good competition and are worth watching. BOTTLENECK - On Monday afternoon there was some traffic congestion on Church St. near the Liquor store. Could that be called a bottleneck? bruises and swelling in the face area. Treatment included stitches to, her mouth and she was kept overnight for observation and x-rays the following morning. Asselstine underwent surgery at Oshawa General Hospital and was listed in stable condition Tuesday. Patricia Herie was subsequently released from hospital and taken into custody by Durham Regional Police. reeder Min er Rew ard cages, size of dog-tracks and the sheer force required to do such immense damage, lead the ranchers to believe that more than one dog was involved and that they would be large dogs. During the last attack 49 Breeder Mink were killed, some completely ripped in half and strewn as far as twenty feet apart. We would like to use this avenue to reach the owners of these dogs and to appeal to them to ensure that, these attacks stop. We would like to point out to them, that they are fully responsible for the damage done. Under the Town of Newcastle Bylaw No. 78-41 it is an offense to let dogs run at large and owners are liable for all damages incurred. All we ask of them is to keep their dogs under control. In case of another attack, the owners of the ranch, in full co- operation with the Town of Turn to Page 19 In conjunction with their trucker's free dinner da last Wednesday, Fifth Wheel Truck Stop also sponsored a Christmas draw for a stocking filled with various merchandise worth over $300 from the restaurant's store. Proceeds from the draw were donated to the Bowmanville Kinsmen Club toward their support of Cystic Fibrosis research. Draw winner was Shirley Sherriff of Toronto. Pictured here with the stocking is general manager of the truck stop, Jim Lowrey. S-h oWins epri e By Peter Parrott representatives voted to instruct the Enniskillen's butcher shop has by-law enforcement officer to take been given a reprieve from a no further action in prosecuting the municipal order that would have village's only butcher business. closed the shop by the middle of In addition, the committee January.. recommended that planning staff At a meeting of the planning and inelude the shop in a prdeveopent development committee last plan which is being prepared for the Thursday, Newcastle's elected TurntoPage19 Four1ther Hospi Four &<-OtÂhers Hospitahz.mýed,ýý A two-vehicle accident. on Highway 28 Friday night claimed the life of a Newtonville youth and left four others hospitalized. Timothy Trimble, 17, died at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital Saturday morning from injuries received when his car collided head- on with a half ton pick-up truck just north of Dale Road. In serious condition in Sunnybrook Hospital is the driver of the truck,- Peter Feir, 29, of R.R. 2, Bewdley. Three passengers in the Trimble vehicle, all from R.R. 3, Newcastle, were taken by ambulance to Port Hope General Hospital with injuries. They were later transferred to various other hospitals. Mark Zietsma, 18, is in Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, Anthony Vogels, 17; is in Toronto Generai and Harry TaIsma, 18, is in Oshawa General Hospital. Earlier that evening, a Cavan man was killed on the same highway near Bewdley as a resuit of a single vehicle crash. Pronounced dead on arrival at Peterborough Civic Hospital is Clifford Edwin Roberts, 37, of R.R. 3, Cavan. The Roberts vehicle was northbound on Highway 28 when it went out of control and entered the ditch. Jaycettes Help Salvation Army FUi Christmas Hampers Bowmanville's Jaycettes estimated that 25 toys and a large number of canned goods and grocery items were recently collected through donations made by shoppers in local stores. Here, the Jaycettes turn over some of the gifts to Captain Doug Lewis of the Salvation Army in Bowmanville. From left to right are: Darla Allen, president of the Jaycettes, and Laura Robichaud. This Christmas season, the Salvation Army sent Christmas hampers to about 50 needy families in the area. The Jaycettes provided boxes at local stores where shoppers could drop off items for Christmas donations. All of Bowmanville's supermarkets participated in the program. 1