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( < 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, July 18,1984 Section Two Bell Pays More Than $370,000 In Municipal Tax Community Service Coordinator Speaks to Rotary r Bell Canada paid a total of $370,086.16 in municipal taxes to Newcastle in 1983 as a result of telecommunications operations in its Bowmanville and other exchanges in the area. In addition Bell spent $1,110,000 to maintain and upgrade telephone service in the Bowmanville exchange. The 1983 tax payments are: real estate, $23,037.21; business, $6,841.25; gross receipts, $340,207.70. The Gross Receipts Tax is a levy of 5 per cent of all telecommunications revenue derived from Bell operations in Ontario the previous year and apportioned to each exchange based on its number of Bell-owned telephones in use. In 1984 Bell's gross receipts tax to be paid locally will be $371,335.10. Last year each phone leased from Bell generated $22.35 in revenue to the local municipality. Highlights of 1983 expenditures : new subdivisions, including Wil- mot Creek Retirement Village; Village; realigning facilities for widening of Highway 2. Highlights of 1984 estimated total ($764,000) : Additional 600 telephone lines in switching centre; new equipment to handle local calling between Bowmanville and Orono; non- urban relief on Concession St. ; replacing and modernizing urban cable; new feeder cable in urban area. In the Oshawa area Bell employs 633 people with a total payroll of about $17.2 million. In 1983 Bell's capital expenditures were more than $1.13 billion. This year's total is expected to be more than $1.3 billion. Bell had 5,486 customers in the local exchange at the end of 1983. "Summer Special" jéÊÊOku for Guys $ Gals 3 DAYS ONLY JULY 19th, 20th & 21 st WASH, CUT and STYLE Reg. $15.00 FOR ONLY GUYS & GALS SHEAR MAGIC 28 DIVISION ST. BOWMANVILLE CALL US NOW Gwen, Kathy and Sue Pat Rundle, co-ordinator of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle Community Service Order Program, was guest speaker at last week's meeting of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Rotary Club. She explained how Community Community Service Orders help an offender make restitution restitution for his crime by working in the community. community. The program applies only to non-violent offenders, offenders, most of whom are males in their late program, Mrs. Bundle's responsibilities responsibilities include assigning assigning volunteer work to the offenders and ensuring that each one is completing the hours of community work which have been prescribed. prescribed. Often, this kind of assignment assignment is an alternative to a jail sentence. "It's expensive expensive to keep people in jail and there really isn't a lot of positive things to come out of a jail term," she explained. Offenders may be directed directed by the judge to work any number of hours. But an average is between 50 and 150, Mrs. Rundle explained. Offenders may be of any age, but the average client is a young male aged 18 or 19. In most respects, they are no different from any other youths in their late teens or early twenties. "You'd probably have a lot of trouble picking my clients out from any other group of young people," she said. The offences which lead Rather than serving a jail sentence, an increasing number of non-violent offenders offenders are given a chance to repay their debt to society society by performing community community service. Details of this program were the subject of an address address to the Bowmanville Rotary club last week. The guest speaker was Pat Rundle, co-ordinator of Community Service Orders in the Town of Newcastle. Mrs. Rundle explained that over 11,000 offenders took part in this program during 1982-83. "They completed 430,000 hours of volunteer work in Ontario last year," she said. Mrs. Rundle explained that the program has been operating in Bowmanville for the past two years. All "clients" involved in Community Community Service Orders are on probation and have been ordered by a judge to contribute contribute a specific number of hours towards work in their community. As co-ordinator of the The best person to see about your LIFE INSURANCE may be your car, home and boat agent! See or call: DON IRVINE Telephone 623-4482 _ 108 Waverley Road "«Jytv Bowmanville Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANY Canadian Head Office: Scarborough, Ontario STATI FAIM INSURANCE BROCK'S PETR0-CAN SERVICE CENTRE OUR SIDEWALK SALE SPECIAL! GAS! $1.00 OFF YOUR GAS PURCHASE OVER $10.00 ON SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1984 ONLY ON PRESENTATION OF THE COUPON BELOW M. 00 PfTRO CANAM \UU// M 00 SUNNY MONEY LIMITED TO FIRST 200 CUSTOMERS GOOD ONLY ON JULY 21, 1984 to a community service order are non-violent. They include break and enter, theft, shoplifting, and vandalism. vandalism. A long list of community agencies are eligible to use the services of individuals completing community service service orders. Non-profit groups such as service clubs, churches, and sports groups may benefit benefit from the program. In addition, publicly-funded organizations such as a museum board, library board, or agricultural organization organization may apply for the program. She noted, however, that the offenders are only performing performing work that would otherwise be done by a volunteer. volunteer. They are not permitted permitted to take the place of salaried employees. Agencies wishing to make use of clients from Community Community Service Orders are re- THE IWATCH FOR THE Byline... By Peter Parrott teens or early twenties. They work for non-profit groups such as service clubs and churches. In addition, addition, they may be employed by tax-supported organizations such as museums and libraries. Shown here with Mrs. Rundle are: Glenn Fry (left) a member of the Community Service Order Board of Directors, and Allan Strike, president of the Bowmanville Rotary Club. quired to provide advance notice if they need assistance assistance and to keep accurate records of who arrived for work and how many hours of work were provided. A number of statistics would seem to indicate that this project is serving the purpose for which it was intended. intended. But perhaps the most interesting statistic concerns the number of offenders offenders who start their volunteer volunteer work as the result of a sentence from the courts but continue to work once they have completed the required required number of hours. One in five clients stays with an organization as a volunteer even after he or she has met his obligation to the court. Out of all the statistics surrounding Community Service Orders, that one speaks most strongly in favor of the program. The gardener in me always admires a display display of well-kept foliage. So I couldn't help admiring admiring what seemed to be a perfect example of how houseplants can look if they are properly properly fed, watered, and exposed to sunlight. They were such a lush shade of emerald and jade that they made your eyes water. Oh yes. They were also very dead. The poet observed that "Only God can make a tree.". That's true enough, of course. But somewhere there's a plastic company which is trying to give The Almighty a little competition in the fern and philodendron department. department. And to give them their due, the manufacturers manufacturers of plastic plants are reaching a highly- advanced stage. Once upon a time, plastic greenery had a certain petrified look that was literally a dead giveaway. Today, these plants look more perfect than the real thing. Unless you study them carefully as you sit in the restaurant or the office waiting room, you'll never know they're fakes. All right. I know all the advantages to plastic plastic flora. I've heard that institutional settings such as offices, waiting rooms, churches, and restaurants are especially especially hazardous to greenery. Which would you rather have: Decorative Decorative specimens which look nice, or a floor littered with so many dead leaves that the room looks like November November in Algonquin Park? Plastic plants don't need tender loving care. They don't need careful watering or fertilizer. fertilizer. They won't complain complain of the blinds are drawn for three or four days. Children can't pull them from their pots and scatter topsoil across the carpet. They only need occasional occasional dusting and replacement replacement every 29,000 years. So why am I so upset over plastic house- plants? I guess it's the principle principle at stake. Plants which live have a few wrinkles, wilting leaves, spider-webs, and spots. They have to be carefully tended by real, live people. Are we so much in love with convenience and perfection perfection that we are beginning beginning the process of plasticizing nature? Had a nightmare the other day about leaving a restaurant full of plastic plants and pausing pausing to lean against a tree which, yes, had been made of plastic. And then I drove home in my plastic car to find that the lawn had also been turned to plastic. And the dog, and the frontdoor. Fortunately, I woke up before I my wife and baby appeared appeared on the scene. Perhaps they had been plasticized too. It's odd that our society society hands out strict fines and jail terms for those who counterfeit money. But there's absolutely absolutely nothing unlawful unlawful about the use or the manufacture of counterfeit counterfeit plants. It's something something to think about. Don't you think it's time we uprooted plastic plastic plants and replaced them with real ones? 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