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j sOU"h ! .'v'ÏLLE LJ?.f:iRv s2 TEmPER^NCE Si, Hospital j Wi ' :ï,u: - nches Fund-Raising Campaign Memorial Hospital Bowmanville fund-raisers take aim at the $2.7 million objective at a reception reception launching the campaign on Monday night at. The Flying Dutchman Hotel. Pictured here from the left are Barry McNamee, Honorary Treasurer; Tom Cowan, Chairman of the Memorial Hospital Foundation; Diane M. Schwartz, Deputy Chairman; Richard Elston, Executive Director of Memorial Hospital; and Mayor Garnet Rickard, member of the Advisory Council. . iv • A million dollars has already been raised toward the $2.7 million goal of The Memorial Hospital Expansion Expansion Fund. The announcement was made at a reception given to launch the fund-raising drive at The Flying Dutchman Hotel on Monday, November November 12. The major contributions are $600,000 from the Memorial Hospital Foundation and $300,000 from the Town of Newcastle. Businessman Joseph A. Kraemer, living in Orono after a distinguished distinguished international career in the pulp and paper industry, has been named as chairman of Memorial Hospital's drive to raise $2.7 million million from companies, community organizations and other users and friends in the wide area served by the institution. "We are fortunate to have an experienced experienced executive of such high calibre heading up the campaign," says Tom Cowan, Chairman of the Memorial Hospital Foundation. "Mr. Kraemer's acceptance reflects the fact that this community is endowed endowed with a lot of pride and public-spiritedness." public-spiritedness." Deputy chairman ofthe campaign will be Mrs. Diane M. Schwartz, a Vice-President of Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. Barry McNamee, President of McNamee Insurance Agencies, will serve as Honorary Treasurer. The $2.7 million represents the local share of the $5.8 million upgrading upgrading and expansion program. The Ontario Government will contribute contribute substantially towards the overall cost. The improvements planned include include extensive renovations to the existing buildings and a new wing that will hold a new Chronic care rehabilitation centre and extensive out-patient clinic and day service Turn to Page 2 ' I - A ! v U i . :.J ;*v \V U 1 1 A/ :J Y & 1$ . V'VY r f À "Vf ^ A '( '%■/■' f 35 c Per Copy v*. , X NOV 1 5 1984 Z| s 623-3303 ilU-djiifcfc a i-W ■./ ■ iFv~; -H v> vZ Issue 46 Pages BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1984 130th Year Town's Red Tape Slowing Progress A committee of Town of Newcastle Newcastle business persons is looking for ways to make the town more open to development. The need to eliminate local government government red tape wafe one of about a dozen recommendations arising from a meeting of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle Development Group Monday night. Approximately 50 members ofthe business community gathered at the Bowmanville Golf and Curling Club to consider ways that Newcastle Newcastle may improve its commercial and industrial growth. John Winters, chairman of the committee, said he's optimistic about the turn-out for this week's discussion. One of the most impor tant achievements is "the fact that business people are meeting each other and having some place to discuss discuss some of the problems that have been around for so long," said Mr. Winters. While the business representatives representatives listed a number of ideas, their main complaint was related to the time it takes for the municipality to Mall Hearing Starts Monday An Ontario Municipal Board hearing into plans for a new Bowmanville Bowmanville shopping centre gets underway underway Monday morning, at 10 a.m., in the Village ofNewcastle Community Community Hall. The project, which has been on the drawing board for the past 10 years, is planned for a site atWaver- ley Rd. and Baseline Rd. Three weeks have been set aside to complete the OMB hearing. Durham's regional council has supported the centre, although Newcastle's town council has ruled that the construction of additional stores is premature. In addition to the Durham Region and the Town ofNewcastle, the following following parties are likely to be represented represented at the hearing: owners of the Bowmanville Mall; the Business Business Improvement Area of down town Bowmanville; and owners of the site of the planned new mall. George Webster, head ofthe Business Business Improvement Area, said yesterday yesterday that the BIA is supporting the existing district plans approved by the municipality. "The town has a plan which should bring about orderly orderly development of the town," he said. The BIA has objected to the Durham Region's approval of the development against the wishes of the majority of council. "Studies have shown facilities of this type won't be necessary until well after the year 2000," said Mr. Webster. The downtown merchants fear that by ignoring the town's plan for orderly development, property values in the downtown core could decline. "We're concerned about the effects on the downtown," said Mr. Webster. Louie Nuspl, a representative of the owners of the new shopping centre site, stated that a newspaper survey in 1982 revealed over 95 per cent of shoppers are in favor of the centre. Supporters of the mall have also noted that new development will provide ta?. - revenue and funu.fl) jobs for about 200. / Mr. Nuspl said Monday that newspaper newspaper ads have been placed in order to alert the public to the fact that the hearing will begin Monday. "This is obviously something of interest interest to everyone in the community," community," he said. He noted that he is willing to assist assist any member of the public who wishes an opportunity to be heard at the OMB. Id i ■il U! foi H i S $ i BAH, HUMBUG, WINTER STINKS! - This weekend, we darn near froze while taking pictures of Remembrance Remembrance Day services in the area. What happened to the tropical weather of July? Anyway, we're refusing to put our motorcycle away just yet, thinking that perhaps there may be one or two warm days left in November. Brother John in Amherstburg gave up on his bike last week. But, he had to add a little twist to this season's finale. After washing the summer summer grit from "Rhonda the Honda" he decided to take one more spin around town. However, the sixth member of the family, Champ the Wonderdog, decided decided that John shouldn't ride alone. Amherstburg residents must, have taken a few double-takes as John zipped around town with Champ hanging on tightly. No doubt, the pair will be running off to the circus shortly. SANTA CLAUS COMING TO TOWN - Santa Claus will be making his 23rd official appearance in his annual parade this Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m. The parade promises to be as entertaining as ever with bands, floats and clowns. As in previous years, the parade will start at Central School and wind up at Memorial .Park. See the map in Section Two of this week's paper for more details. INTERIM REPORTS ISSUED -- Bowmanville High School will be issuing interim reports this week, showing marks and comments about students' progress progress since September. Parents are urged to read the reports, and are welcome to discuss them with teachers teachers on Tuesday, November 20th. Times for interviews are 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. approve new development. "Every time you want to go somewhere, somewhere, there's a railway tie thrown in front of you," said one speaker. Other businessmen agreed with that point and suggested that municipal staff and elected officials officials should be working to overcome overcome obstacles rather than presenting presenting a list of reasons why a development development cannotget a green light. Among the ideas arising from the meeting were: *Establishing a non-political body to communicate with business persons interested in locating here. *Developing a reception committee committee for meeting new business owners. owners. * Allocating a certain portion of the town's planning budget for promotion and development. "•"Developing some kind of steering steering committee which can guide new industrial and commercial clients ,$7.*,ugh the process of approving Vuélv prCjed. ' "' Forming a committee which can discuss development ideas with council, thus eliminating the need for the town to obtain advice from paid consultants. The committee noted that one of the objectives of new development should be to provide new opportunities opportunities to young people seeking jobs in the community. Growth should be at a rate fast enough to absorb children who would otherwise otherwise have to look for work outside the town. Peter Hobb, a director of the development development group, said Monday night that increased development will mean that the Town ofNewcastle ofNewcastle would not be as dependent on the ups and downs of the auto industry industry in Oshawa. He also noted that it would also provide jobs for younger generations and would maintain the standard of living. "We feel it is important to develop an overall strategy to encourage encourage this growth and it is important important that we start it now," he said. Turn to Page 2 i 1 11 ft ■ *>! 1 ï [I N id 1 f I MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH - Although we won't name names for fear of unemployment, we must relate a story that occurred in the family household last week. One member of the James family family thought that he would be doing everyone a favor by washing the dishes. Things have been a little hectic around here lately, and he figured that any help at all would certainly be appreciated. So, he set out to load up the dishwasher with the day's cutlery. Unfortunately, we were out of dishwasher soap. "That's all right," the ever-resourceful family member reasoned, we've got some Tide in the laundry laundry room. For those who are having trouble imagining imagining what happenend, we will only say that wc now have the cleanest kitchen in all of Bowmanville. YULE SALE -- Once again the Friends of Bowmanville Museum will be holding their annual Christmas Sale on Saturday, Nov. 17th, starting at 10:30 a.m., immediately following the Santa Claus parade. It will be held in St. Paul's United Church Hall. STEAK DINNER IN NEWCASTLE - The Kinsmen Club of Bowmanville and the Bowmanville Minor Hockey Association will be holding a Steak Dinner and Dance at the Newcastle Town Hall this Saturday night at 6:30. If you will be attending, tickets arc available ! at the door. FREAK PORT HOPE ACCIDENT - We just received received a report from our Port Hope office that two men from the Oshawa area were killed when their car tipped into the Ganaraska River. Apparently, the two men finished fishing near the Port Hope Harbor at about 1:00 a.m., only to discover that their car would not start. While attempting to push-start the car with the headlights off, the wheels of the car went over the edge of the pier and the car toppled toppled into the water. Unfortunately, the occupants were unable to free themselves and both were pronounced pronounced dead at the scene. YULETIDE AT THE MILL - The Visual Arts Centre of Newcastle will be holding its 6th annual Yuletide at the Mill, featuring a sale of fine arts and crafts. The festivities begin this Friday night at 6:00 and continue until Sunday at 4:00 p.m. Admission Admission is free and hot cider will be available. OSTOMY ASSOCIATION MEETING - The Oshawa District Ostomy Association will be holding their last meeting of 1904, next Wednesday at 8:00 p.m, The meeting will be held in room 1002-F of Oshawa General Hospital, and everyone is welcome. ONCE AGAIN, IT'S ARGONOTS! - We watched in amazement on Sunday as the favored Toronto Ai\ gonauts blew it against the Ti-Cats. We have never heard of letting the clock run down to allow a one- clumce play to decide a game, but then again, we only played football for one year in high school. It reminded us a lot of a game several years ago when a local baseball team was leading by one run. Rains threatened to end the game with the home team winning. winning. So, the coach instructed the players to strike out to end the game while it was raining. Three strike-outs later, and out came the sun. The visitors were so elated with the change in the weather, they went on to clobber the home team in the final innings. innings. An impressive Remembrance service was held at Bowmanville's Cenotaph on Saturday morning, with many participating in the wreathlaying wreathlaying ceremony. Nearing United Way Goal The Oshawa-Whitby-Newcastle United Way has reached over three- quarters of its objective. As of last Wednesday, the campaign had reached just over $1.3 million. Gord Pearson, chairman of United Way, said canvassing and collections will be extended to November November 21. The extension is required because because the General Motors strike slowed United Way efforts. Employee Employee and corporate contributions from GM are expected to reach $1 million. The 1984goal stands at$l,728,000. At Bowmanville High School, United Way volunteers are wrapping wrapping up a campaign which has collected collected $2,100 to date. The B.H.S. students set a goal of $2,000 this year. But Kim Hancock, a spokesman for the student fundraisers, fundraisers, believes the school's contributions contributions will be the highest on record. record. 1 2 3 1 f> li IS a U> M 42 VI 15 1G 17 18 IS 20 2 *2 2'A 2A V- 5 2 G 27 2 «3 30 31 NOVEMBER 1984 iw.f. f Mt.m-v.iM W) 1 ■I ■' 5 6 7 a '0 11 12 13 14 15- 17 18 10 20 21 22 "> 26 27 28 20 12 13 14 19 20 21 26 27 28 8 9 15 16 ( 17 22 23 28 29 30 Santa Comes to Bowmanville This Saturday Morning at 10:30 Santa's counting the clays to Bowmanvillc's Santa Claus Parade. This year's extravaganza, to be held at 10:30 a.m, on Saturday, will also include appearances from St. Nick's reindeer and his helpers. After the parade Santa will be downtown taking Christmas requests from all good little boys and girls beginning at 1:30 p.m.