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i 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, July 13,1983 Section Two [ Editorial Comment Are We Doing Enough? Following is an editorial from The Whitby Free Press congratulating its Mayor Bob Attersley for successfully successfully attracting 22 new industries to that town in the past year. Apparently, he has been a one man promoter who has achieved a great deal. Last week, we published an article about the tourism program that Is being conducted here with considerable considerable ingenuity and enthusiasm. The suggestion is that such a program should be continued year after year so there would be continuity and not just a spot promotion good only for this summer. The proposal has merit, in our opinion and should be explored. But, in view of Whitby's success in the industrial and commercial field, we wonder whether something also could be done along similar lines. We could certainly use the new Industry and at the moment we know of nothing that is taking place here in that field. In fact, there have been at least two incidents where local establishments wanting to expand have had so many difficulties overcoming planning and other factors that their proponents have either gone elsewhere or are still considering such moves. That just doesn't appear to make too much sense. Possibly, we are depending too much on Durham Region's industrial promotion efforts, rather than doing some of our own. The Whitby editorial follows : Stand and cheer for Mayor Attersley Well Whitby is in the news again. The Toronto Star chose to dedicate an editorial column Monday to the growth of our town. , The editorial lauded imaginative and aggressive sales techniques used to lure such new industries as The Fat's the Sony electronics factory. Mayor Bob Attersley was praised for his marketing strategy that has attracted 22 new industries to town in the past year. Billboards advertising Whitby have popped up in such unexpected places as Tokyo's airport and Frankfurt, West Germany. The editorial must certainly have left the ever-smiling Attersley with his head in a cloud. Our messiah is leading us to the promised land (as a city?) Certainly the Mayor deserves all the credit that he is given. Whitby is growing out from the shadow of neighboring Oshawa to gain an identity on its own. The reputation of Whitby is reaching distant ears and Attersley is largely responsible for this. The Mayor not only establishes good relations outside of Whitby, he is building morale and keeping' a sense of community unity within. It is a very rare occasion when he cannot find the time to attend a grand opening or a function within the town. Much of this comes on his own time. He is probably developing blisters on his fingers from the number of ribbons he has cut in the last year, signifying an opening. Those of us in the media frequently run into the mayor at functions throughout the town and he is quick to greet us each with a warm handshake. Yes Bob, you've come a long way since your days of hockey stardom with the old Whitby Dunlops, world hockey champions. The game you're playing now has a lot higher stakes and you're coming through with flying colors. As the Star's editorial says, "While Metro fiddles, Whitby earns." in the Fire The recently elected B.C. Social Credit government, headed by Premier Premier Bill Bennett, last week launched a new beginning in labor relationships that has left many stunned by its severity, while others must be wondering who will be. next to follow. The number of civil servants is to be cut by 25 per cent, several well established commissions will be wiped out, civil servants can be dismissed dismissed without explanation and so on, right down the line to school boards and staff. Naturally, the opposing opposing New Democrats, still led by Dave Barrett are calling it dictatorship dictatorship of the worst kind. There's been nothing like it previously in this country. Unfortunately, there was no direct direct hint of the drastic program during during the election campaign, but Mr. Bennett apparently has the backing of his full cabinet to try and bring the province's economy back into proper focus. It is a well established fact that almost every level of government in Canada is in trouble, piling up higher and higher debts of gigantic proportions with no end in sight. The cure must come, sooner or later, and it's bound to be a shocker to a great many people when it does. The folks on our west coast are about to embark on that traumatic voyage in the next few months and years. Who will be next to join in the restoration? What's All the Hurry? Say it isn't so, CLOCA. A letter considered by members of Newcastle council Monday afternoon afternoon indicates that the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority Authority plans to take over some 20 parcels parcels of land currently being maintained maintained by home owners along the Bowmanville Creek Valley. Admittedly, the lands in question . are owned by the Authority. If our understanding is correct, the valley land was under municipal ownership ownership and the municipality turned the property over to CLOCA for conservation conservation purposes. But for many years, residents abutting the valley have maintained maintained municipal property as if it were their own. The residents gained additional land which they could enjoy as part of their garden, while the municipality municipality had one less piece of property property to worry about maintaining. It was an arrangement which seemed to work well for all concerned. Now, having recently taken over the valley property, CLOCA seems to be reacting with a heavy hand. We understand that the Authority wants property owners to remove fences and other structures within 90 days; gardens may not be planted in the next growing season. If residents want to phase out their valley gardens or if CLOCA has some overwhelming reason to take over this property, that's fine. But otherwise, the Authority should take a hands-off approach. Presumably, CLOCA would not evict birds, fish or animals from their habitat when it acquires a new parcel of property. Naturally, the Authority could do so since the wildlife holds no title to the lands in question; but in the interest of conservation, the flora and fauna of a conservation area are allowed to remain undisturbed. The human inhabitants adjoining the Bowmanville Creek Valley deserve deserve similar consideration. If CLOCA is going to operate a conservation area in an urban locale, it's going to have to learn how to understand people as well as it understands fish and wildlife.. (Btic Caoabtan Statesman 623-3303 (0Na Durham County's Great Family Journal lalabllehad 128 years ago In 1854. Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62*88 King SI. W„ Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 s c vlaV JOHN M. JAMES Editor -- Publisher RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. All layouti end composition ol advertisements produced by the employées ol The Canadian Statesman, The Newcastle Independent end The James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and must not be reproduced without written permission ol the publishers. 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This week, I had planned to come out flatly and make a lot of new enemies and new friends by taking a stand on the Cruise missile and, maybe a little shot at abortion. But my Cruise thing got all mixed up with the Fourth St. Fusiliers fighting town hall, and I made one remark at a dinner party which began such an abortion fight between between two old friends, that I got scared and retreated into my carapace to write about something we all agree on: the weather. The weather is lousy. You can write that at almost any time of the year in Canada and make friends. It's too hot or too cold. There's too much rain or not enough. There was no fall and now there's no spring. O.K. That dispenses with the weather. weather. Now, I was going to say that we should test the Cruise missiles in Canada, which the U.S. is going to ask us to do, despite all the mealy- mouthed evasions of our P.M. and our Foreign affairs man, MacEachen, perhaps the only man in the government who can out- mealy the P.M. My argument was to go something like this. After all, we are a member of NATO to which we provide planes that crash, tanks that you couldn't sell to Afghanistan, rusty, obsolete ships, and as little of our national budget as possible. But if you belong to a military alliance, alliance, you belong or get out. You can't be a little bit pregnant. So let's give the Yanks something we have lots of - wide, open spaces - and let them test their little monsters. Then the local town engineer came up with a plan to rebuild my street, and I swung right around. His plan included cutting down a dozen magnificent maples (the press report said " removing several several old trees"; would you say a dozen was several?, and removing a sidewalk where many children play.) The hell with it, I said. Let the Yanks use their own wide open spaces to test missiles; and let the town engineer cut down all the trees around his own lot. I was equally prepared to leap fearlessly into the abortion fray: abortion is necessary, but not necessarily abortion. We had some people in for a roast beef dinner the other night, and I casually re told a snippet from a novel I'd read, in which a hunter shoots a pregnant antelope, tears out the fetus, and eats it raw, claiming, "It's the best part of the meat." Next thing I knew I was sitting between between two ladies, making like a tennis tennis spectator as the abortion ball flew back and forth between them until the only thing I could offer was some rare roast beef. So. I'll have to push those topics off for a bit until I am not emotionally emotionally involved. Anyway, it's nicer to deal with people than ideas. The people may be a little crazy, but when you mix people and ideas, you have insanity. insanity. Many people have answered my request to "drop a line." David and Ivy Enns ofDajemead, Alta, are fed up to the ears with what they call Bureaucratic B.S. They've been fighting Revenue Canada for three years over tax refunds. "Yes, we have found it is very hard to find any honest men. We have been trying trying to find our nine honest people; unfortunately we have not succeeded." succeeded." Jean Groom reads me in the Dutton Dutton Advance. She and her sisters apparently had a crush on former editor Herb Cambell when they were kids. "Back to your last column column - "A Dispirited Corpse"-which really hit the nail on the head .. . Jack (her husband) goes up the wall when the forces are mentioned on T.V. or in the papers. The sight of Trudeau is enough to raise his' blood pressure to the limit.. . We cap understand why your brother has left Canada in disgust over the mess the forces are in." Mrs. Groom's letter is warm and friendly and so nice that I would blush to repeat some of what she says. Incidentally, that column brought more mail and phone calls, all angry, but not at me, than any for a long time. And another pleasant letter from Myrtle Holmen of Wayne, Alta., concerning concerning my column "To Bee or Not to Bee" in which I suggested, somewhat somewhat tongue in cheek, that humans could learn a lot from the bees and the ants. "Your daily pattern of the human race sounds so glum and uninteresting. uninteresting. A person's life and attitude attitude make a difference in whatever whatever they are doing." I agree. I was just trying to wake people up a bit who insist on living in self-made cells. / -- Queen's Park Report By Sam Cureatz M.P.P. Although the Canada Day celebrations have come and gone, one event lingers in my memory. The annual awarding of the Ontario Medals for Good Citizenship at Queen's Park had a special significance significance this year because because a Durham Region resident was among the 12 participants. Jim Kinlin is well known in the Oshawa community for his annual annual swims to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund, Despite having Hodgkins' Disease, every January Jim swims a total of21 miles - one mile a day - and personally collects all the pledges. To date he has raised $60,000 through these swims. Last year, some of the money purchased a new microscope for Toronto's Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. This year, his efforts will enable, enable, a refrigerated centrifuge centrifuge to be purchased for the hospital's leukemia unit. It is not an easy task choosing 12 people from across Ontario to honour for their outstanding outstanding contribution to society. As you can imagine, there are many people nominated nominated and those who receive receive this special award must be particularly particularly deserving of recognition. recognition. In Jim's case, Oshawa City Council, the local media and myself myself supported his nomination. This is the tenth year these medals have been awarded by the Ontarip Government Government to recognize those who have contributed to the common good in any area of society, and acted in an unusually generous, kind or self- sacrificing manner for the well being of their fellow citizens. Designed by Toronto sculptor, Gerald Gladstone, the medal is a round silver disc that has the Ontario Coat of Arms engraved on one side, and a trillium, On, tario's official flower, on the other. The ribbon ribbon of the medal in green, white and gold, bears the colours ofthe trillium. Each year, an Advis ory Council made up of a Chairman and eight others considers nominations nominations for the Award of the medal. They even compile a list and submit submit to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario names of nominees who, in their opinion, Where is the Howninnville West Reach of Yesterday? What ever happened to the sounds of children's laughter, the splashing in the water, the voices of adult conservation, the sight of a rainbow colored stream of umbrellas, beach towels and sand castles along the shore? Let us take u walk up the beach today. There may be 10 people here, the water looks nice and clean and feels warm to the touch. The beach is still sandy with a few patches of grass popping through. have the greatest merit. The award can only be conferred by order of the Lieutenant Governor Governor in Council upon recommendation recommendation of the Advisory Council. It is the Lieutenant Governor Governor who presents the medals to recipients Oh, look over there, that poorly constructed building. It used to be my aunt's cute little log cabin with a lot of memories. Why do things have to change? Now, we've walked up the beach. Let's walk back along the beach road. What happened happened to my nice, quiet country road with its nice shade trees? It has turned into an auto wreckers and one big giant yard sale. Is this why people sit up town in the heat or drive 50 miles away when they have a each year during the Canada Week celebrations. celebrations. I would like to add my congratulations and those of the people of Durham East to Jim Kinlin on receiving this, special honour. beach to cool off, five minutes away? With a little help from the town maybe it could be again what it once was. 1 would like to see these changes: --garbage tins on the beach for people coming down to leave their pop cans and wrappers wrappers in; --any cars not running towed away; --any clutter be picked up and not allowed to collect. A concerned citizen Letter to the Editor