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2-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 10, 1991 Ruth cGrier's plan still on course The announcement last week by Ruth Gnier, Minister -of the Environment, to stop any plans to ship garbage to'Kirkland Lake caused somewhat of an uproar in the Regional communities and in Metro Toronto, IL was as if Grier was out-to-luncli and had forsaken ber plans for waste management within the Greater Toronto area. Her annouincement was nothing more than Kirkland Lake was not acceptable to the province and that in fact the Greater Toronto area would find within their own area waste management sites. It was a position she han held since ber announcement in November of 1990. The November announcement certainly did not eliminate the possibiity that a waste management site could be established in any of the Regions when the public authority had been appointed and had undertaken their study for a site. The public authority han yet to be setup but when it is will likely have representation from the area Regions as well as Metro and the province. The most important of aIl is the choice of an environmentally safe site or sites whichever the cane may be. There would seemn to be some advantage to smaller sites with municipalities taking cure of their own garbage, with the exception of Metro that is limited in being able to find a site thatcan be made or would be environmentallty rafe. 1At the present time an Interim Agency is operating to undertake the site search while legislation is prepared and pansed establishing a permanent waste management authority, a group as announced in November 1990. The whole Greater Toronto area is in the saine boat and it's time aU învolved put out their oars to get that boat moving in a direction in which there is a solution to the problemn. More bas to' be done in the Thiree R programs with reduce at the top of the list. In this no one Region can point a finger at the other. Dont citicize Grier she's on course - are we ready to follow? Nostalgia In an article this week Gord Milîs expresses his view over nostalgia mentioning the College Street Eaton's complex of years ago. I can well remember visiting the store with my grandparents and aunts and it was an ,Mils sutes a place to buy ahnost another and the in-pace at the ime. Talking about nostalgia we would like to put a plug in for Station Street west to remain asthe old railroad track road rather than a new by-way being proposed by The Town of Newcastle and expected to be completed in the next few years. We can't go back as far as when the train passed througb the Village but the mere fact that the railway bcd still exists as do the high banks is a reminder and imagination can do the rest. That will al disappear with the removal of the trees to be replaced by modern guard rails, concete and pavement. The Town Hall is a reminder of the past and il is part of Orono and so is the railway road. Just how dangerous is it? How many serious accidents? t flot likely compares with the accidents through the rural roads of late and over the past few years the unfortunate fatal accidenta. Some years ago the Orono Trustees were endeavouring to keep angle parking on both sides of the Main Street in the downtown area and the battle was with the then county engineers who wanted to elimînate what he had called a dangerous situation. t was Harry Mercer, then a trusîee, who made the point that angle parking did reduce the travelled portion of the road but it sure slowed down traffic 10 bc able to travel through the downtown area. There is no doubt there has been little difference as ýo accidents on the Main Street since that batte was lost a good many years ago. Its our part of the nsotalgia picture and we sec little difference in the beauty of the Town Hall compared te that man-made railway bed with its high bank of some years ago. Bus service (Continued from page 1l David 1-ergiisofl, of the Ministry of Transpontation, spoke to counicil members on Monday outlining the proposed subsidized bus service plan that would service Peterborough to. Oshawa and Whitby as wetl as from Port Penry to Oshawa aïpd Whitby. It was called a GO Trai n link which may well also provitle a service for shift workers at Genperai Motors He said tha service could also include Oroflo and Newcastle Village, and tien express to GO at Whitby and popSîb1y GM. in speaking, of the bus service, Ferguson said, it would be a wider service than the single rail VIA train that hagd run between Peterborough anid Toronto. He also stated that th@ service would be faster by haîf ?an hour with buses compared wlth the Toronto- Peterborough sîjigle train lînk. Fergusonl spoke of high frequency runis during peak periods and as well as a continual service throughout thé. day. It is a 5 year demonstration, lie said. Mainly said Ferguson the service is to connect the northemn areas with the south and although runs would bd much advanced to that of the train the cost would be reduced by sotne $1 million. He said the subsidized cost was in the area of $1.8 mnillion but it was hoped to reduce this figure. Ferguson said three major bus firins have shown an interest and a system is to be worked out with a service in place late spring or early surnmer. He said buses are wanting to improve their image and much is being done to accomplish tbis end., When counicil members questioned if the GO bus service now serving Bowmanville would be done away with Ferguson raid that it would not. Hie said the present service could be upgraded if the need was there to do so. Counc. Haire asked if it wouldnt be more feasible to have bus service take over the early morning train run tbat was to come to Bowmanville later this year. She said the GO train service for one run a day, return, surely was a costly matter. lie suggested the Town write a le tter poining this out to GO and said be would discuss the situation with GO. Courtice recreational facility (Continued from page 1) $15 million. It appears that the termis of references given the consultants indicated that the Town of Newcastle is interested in -an innovative facility and approach. The General Purpose comimittee on Monday witb little discussion authorized staff to investigate the possibilities of a public/private partnership proposal for a Community Facility within the Courtice Urban Area. Correction In lIast week's issue we lnadvertinately left out two donors in an advertslement placed by the Orono flreflghters thanking Orono busiînesses in donatlng prizes for Lake front tConinued ýfrom page 1) returned to staff for further cletailed evaluation. -Council members however went a step further calling for no further work to be undertaken on. the application. A Mr. Kaiser who resides in the area questioned the planning aspect of such a proposai and said there was a need for a master plan. He said it was good farm land and if the designation was changed it should be used only for recreational purposes. Evelyn Stroud of Bowmanville also noted the environmental problems and the erosion aspect of the lakefront. Counce. Hanire said the erosion aspect of the lakefront was a problemt Crombie (Continued from page 1) He said if was a difficuit time for no0 one knows who is responsible for what. The duties cannot be listed as they were in the past for either the federal or provincial govermment. >Çrombie spoke of the early 1900 as a period of the imagery of Canada and that it was s0 strong that people could support it. He stated that each generation bas had to deal with nature and the environent and one should neyer underestimate a conservation movement. That movement, he said, is stronger and wider today. It is changing governments and corporat ion, he said. In outlining the need for an eco- system approach he said everything is connected to everything else and made the point that humans are part of nature and the eco-system. Crombie spoke of the waterfront trail, stating that two-thirds of the trail is in place and he spoke of the provincial interest in the Oak Ridges Moraine. He said the commission bas no power of itself and would be over by the end of the year. He said ail jurisdiction bave kept their own jurisdictions but that it is in their self-interest to bave a part ini protecting the environinent. In speaking of the reports he said they were readable but'tbat tie final report would be only as good as this group in this room and ORONO, ONTARIO othrs likeit "If you don't yell they will go to- sleep," he said. "You have everytbing going for you and.we need governments to know that people do support this report on the lakefront if it is to bave any positive results, " stated Crombie. "Our report is not pie-in-the- sky, stated Crombie. St. Saviour's' Anglican Church MILL STREET ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. Douglas Hall 987-4745 SUNDAY SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 a.m. ORONO CHA4RGE *983-5208 S Marlene Risebrough, Secretary Sunday, April l4th Kirby United Church Momning Worship at 9:30 a.xn. Sunday Sehool at 9:30 a.m. Orono United Church Momning Worsbip at il a.m. Sunday Sehool at il a.m. Installation of Officers Kirby/Orono United Churches present "Focus on Christian Communlty Conceras", Part 1 - "Molder of Dreanis" Sunday, April 21st 7:00 p.m. Part 2 - "Molder of Dreanis" Sunday, April 28th 7:00 p.m. at Orono United Church 983-50091 U~P~ P r.l J~ ~ Minci