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i SECTION TWO WEDNESDAY, June 29. 1988 Sfje Canadian Statesman 623-3303 (JSNa Durham County's Grsst Family Journal Established 134 years ago in 1854. Also Incorporating The Bowman vilk News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W„ BowmanvWe, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES Editor--Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. PETER PARROTT Associate Editor DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. All liyouts and composition ol advertisements produced by the employees ol The Canadian itatesman, The Newcaatle Independent and The James Publishing Company Limited are protected ly copyright and must not be reproduced without permission ot the publishers. foreign -- $60.00 a year Statesman, by copyright i $20.00 a year -- 6 months $11.00 strictly in advance Although every precaution will be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable lor any error in the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof ol such advertisement is requested in writing by the advertiser and relumed to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertiser and with such error or corrections E lainly noted in writing thereon, and in that case II any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian talesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost ol such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. , - ' 11 . ■ , This year, there will be some major major changes in municipal election procedures. For the vast majority of voters, the changes , may go unnoticed. But for candidates, would-be candidates, and those who work on local election campaigns, campaigns, the changes will be of considerable considerable interest. For one thing, there has been a new procedure for enumeration. For the first time, self-enumeration has been carried out prior to the municipal election and voters' lists will be created created from that data. Nomination Day has also changed, creating a 28-day campaign in 1988. In the past, nomination deadlines deadlines were the 21st day before polling day but under the new procedures, nomination day has been changed to the 28th day before polling day. In other other words, nomination papers must be filed by October 17 in order to meet the deadline for the November 14 election. election. Perhaps the most interesting of all municipal election procedures in effect effect for the upcoming local balloting will be the rules on campaign expenditures, expenditures, campaign contributions, and declarations of campaign expenditures. expenditures. Under the new rules, candidates must file with the town clerk by the 30th of June in the year following an election a statement of expenses and contributions. If contributions or expenses expenses are more than $10,000, an audited audited statement is required. If they are less than $10,000, a financial statement statement is required. Should contributions contributions and expenses not exceed $1,000, a statutory declaration, only, is required. required. Those who fail to file such a disclosure will be ineligible to hold elected office up to and including the next election. In the area of campaign contributions, contributions, there is a limit of $750 for individual individual donations but there is no limit on the candidate's use of personal funds or those of a spouse. Receipts must be issued for every contribution received. The above regulations for candidates candidates and their supporters represent just some of the changes which have arisen from Bill 77. Candidates should check the terms of the bill carefully before they hit the proverbial election trail this fall. You Start Earning $$$ The latest statistics from The Fraser Fraser Institute tell us that Tax Freedom Day has leaped ahead this year. In fact, the Tax Freedom Day for Canada Canada as a whole will be July 10 of this year. However, the date varies throughout throughout the country according to the spending spending habits of the different provinces. For those who are unfamiliar with the term "Tax Freedom Day", let us explain. The date invented by The Fraser Institute is the day on which the average Canadian ceases to work for the government and can be said to have started working for himself. In other words, during 1988, the average average Canadian would nave to work until July 10 to pay off all the various income taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, resource taxes, and other forms of taxation. But from July 10 onwards the money you have is yours to keep. The Tax Freedom Day is an interesting interesting concept because it clearly illustrates illustrates the extent to which government government spending is a part of our lives. Taxes are generally levied at so many different levels that we never see their full impact until they are added together and explained in a concept such as the one noted here. Now there's a common misconception misconception that the public gets nothing in return return for the taxes which they pay. That's not really true because of the fact that the Canadian government is a democracy which must show the public something in return for the money which it plunders each year. Taxes give us airports, schools, roads, libraries, hospitals, day care facilities, police protection, water and sewer services, the court system, and all of the other wide array of government government services. The only source of debate debate arises when Canadians discuss exactly how much their taxes are now and what they ought to be. Such a question cannot be answered answered here and, indeed, can only be answered to some extent by the electoral electoral process at the federal, provincial and local levels. But, the following information may be helpful in determining exactly exactly where taxes are at the present time and where the aforementioned "Tax Freedom Day" falls in the various parts of Canada. The Fraser Institute notes that Tax Freedom Day is earliest in Prince Edward Island where it occurs May 12. The latest date is found in Alberta, where it has been established as August August 10th. The Institute adds that this date is "a consequence of the large amount of natural resource taxes which are collected by that province." In general, Quebec and Alberta are vying for top position as the highest spending and highest taxing provinces provinces while the Maritime provinces have the lowest expenditures and the lowest taxes. Ontario is described as being in third spot with respect to both taxes and spending. Incidentally, the Fraser Institute has also calculated a date on which Tax Freedom Day would occur if governments governments had to cover current expenditures expenditures with current taxation and were not able to defer the tax burden by deficit spending. On average, that date would occur on August 12. Currently, Currently, tax deferral amounts to $5.5 billion by the provinces and about $28.9 billion by the federal governments. governments. In short, the calculations listed above indicate that the average tax rate in the country is iust over 50 per cent of cash income tor the average family. That's something to think about. A Corner for Poets HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY Although this might seem A bit selfish to you, I think we should celebrate A Children's Day too. There's a Father's Day, And Mother's Day rings a bell, So why not a day for Children as well? Children make us laugh, And forget our sorrow. We should put a day aside For the parents of tomorrow. Just close your eyes, And imagine with me, How special this special day For children would be... It would be a day of fun, Innocence and truth; A day filled with love As we remember our youth ... Memories of first smiles, First friends, first tears; A day to recall Our yesterday years. We should be thankful, And give the children more. We can relate, after all, We've been there before. So, maybe I am selfish, But from my point of view, We'd be a lot better off With a Children's Day too, By Elizabeth Ingram Box 84, Enniskillen, Ont. June 1988 .w* y A-r- : ipISli **** Election System Overhaul - ' " I mm ■ . ^ . .... . . . i, Unique Tree Tunnel at Bowmanville West Beach Bundle Family Annual Picnic Sunday, June 12,1988 was the 19th Annual picnic picnic of the immediate family of the late Herb and Lottie Rundle. It is always a pleasure to gather at Albert and Irene Rundle's tree farm near Centreton, Ontario. The weather was excellent excellent and the children enjoyed enjoyed the swimming. There were 60 in attendance attendance this year. The sports were conducted and prizes awarded by Gail and Les McDonald. The food was then laid out inside the small cabin cabin and a great variety of dishes was enjoyed by everyone. Following the meal, our President, Albert Rundle called the meeting meeting to order. The secretary, secretary, Marilyn Balson read the minutes and financial financial report of last year. Executive for next year: President - Albert Rundle; Secretary - Marilyn Balson; Sports - Brian Fraser and Don Rowan. Once again we expressed expressed our appreciation to Albert and Irene for the use of their farm, where we will gather 1 again on the second Sunday Sunday of June 1989. The meeting was adjourned and the visiting continued. continued. to the Editor Dr. R. Van Hoof 48 Concession Street ' West Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 1Y5 Dr. John Balenko 33 Beech Avenue Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3A1 Dear Sirs: Re: Proposed Re-Zoning of Property at 60 Liberty St. S. Bowmanville. A group of concerned citizens citizens in the Victoria-Liberty Street area wish to express objection to your proposal to rezone Part of Lot II, Con. 1, former Town of Bowmanville, Bowmanville, known as 60 Liberty Street South. These home owners, mostly widows, retirees retirees and young families, have invested much time and money on their properties properties and looked forward to residing peacefully in this area until such time as they chose to move and not to he displaced or disrupted by premature commercial development. development. We are most dismayed for the reason that the type of development proposed by your application will change the zoning from residential to commercial, which will enable others to succeed in achieving additional commercial commercial development and therefore further encroach into our residential neighbourhood. neighbourhood. In our opinion, your development development and/or other commercial establishments . have no place in a residen- tially-zoned area, and as a result result we find ourselves in an adverse position. For the sake of preserving our neighbourhood we have been left no alternative hut to take protective opposition. Given the support we have received in the surrounding area, we believe council has your application and we, of course, are prepared to cany our objections further. To avoid further expense and the inconvenience to all concerned we urge you to abandon this attempt to rezone rezone the property. We would suggest you work with the residents of the area and be- „ lieve the property can he improved improved and designated as a heritage home, or otherwise there is the potential for two homes to be built at this location. location. Yours truly, Residents of Victoria- Liberty St. area. Hon. Jim Bradley, MPP Minister of the Environment 15th Floor 135 St. Claire Ave W. Toronto, Ontario. M4V 1P5. Dear Mr. Bradley Re: Metro Toronto Search for Landfill Sites With respect, sir, we wish to voice our dismay upon learning of the consideration by Metro Toronto to use the Nowtonville-Newcastle areas areas as a dumping ground for Metro garbage. The term Landfill Site is not only a misnomer, it is an insult to our intelligence. We do not want "Landfill". Our land is full. It is full of beauty, beauty, and productive farm land! There are apparently two sites presently under consideration. consideration. One, known as N-3, is a parcel of land running south from Highway 401 TO THE SHORES OF LAKE ONTA RIO! This area is presently devoted to farming and residential residential usuage. One gentleman gentleman was heard to say (at a meeting in Newcastle Town Hall last evening) that he cried when he heard the news. He built his home in this area in 1966 he said and will be uprooted if the plan goes ahead. The other site, N-4, presently presently contains a 20 acre dump operated by Laidlaw Waste Systems in its north east corner. Laidlaw's application application to increase, this operation operation to encompass an add- tional fine hundred acres has already been turned down by thei'Ministry-of the- Envi-, ronment, your department, sir. We understand they have now applied to the Ontario Ontario Municipal Board in an effort to reverse your decision. decision. 1RS ly thought for those heading from cottage country tion It is apparently the inten- of Metropolitan Toronto adjacent to the property and running south to Highway #2, for a total acerage of 1200 acres. We are told Metro is already already well aware this area site "could not possibly pass the Environmental Assessment Assessment Process", so in order to circumvent this happening, Metro has applied for EXEMPTION EXEMPTION from both the Environmental Assessment and the Expropriation processes. processes. The resulting land grab will put yet another productive productive farm out of operation, and in the process will, if successful, dispossess the fourth and fifth generations of the families to whom these lands have passed. Do these families not have any protection under Human Rights to peacefully carry on with their lives and work on their own lands? We urge you, sir, to ensure ensure that all requirements to protect the environment are adhered to in this matter; that full environmental studies studies are carried out at both sites, and that all expropriation expropriation process procedures are implemented. There are a number of very obvious reasons why these sites are totally unsuitable unsuitable for Metro's purposes. 1. Most of the land is good, productive farm land. It is not wasteland. To take it out of production would be an act of criminal insanity. We are rapidly running out of good farmland. 2. Some of the low lying land is flood plain, with creeks and forested areas which funnel directly into Lake Ontario. This is environmental environmental suicide as pollutants pollutants would not disperse before before entering the lake waters. ; 3. This is a rural hamlet; area. The impact of noise from the constant flow of heavy trucks ( we are told 80 per hour, 24 hours a day?) with the smell from their diesel diesel engines would seriously injure the residential lifestyle lifestyle of the hamlets and villages villages and surrounding farming farming communities. 4. The increase in the rodent rodent and seagull populations would bo detrimental to the hamlets of Nowtonville, Kendal, Crooked Crook, Welcome, Welcome, the villages of Orono. and Newcastle and the Towns of Port Hope and Newcastle (including Bow manville) which are all within within a 15 mile radius. In addition- addition- the gulls would present a hazard along highways 401,115, 35 and 2; and prop- ably to training flights out of Trenton Air Base, which tend to circle in this area. 5. The stench of rotting garbage would eventually, depending on wind direction, direction, permeate all the above communities and the surrounding surrounding areas. What a love- tugl home fr< on a warm summer night to have to drive through those wafting breezes! Even the air conditioners would pick it up, so. no escape!! We sübmit, sir, it is long past time that Metropolitan Toronto found some solution to their waste disposal problem problem other than spewing their filth into the homes and back yards of their neighbours. They manage to find ways and means to construct construct stadiums for the use of the few, but are unable to address address the problem their "many" are creating. Perhaps Perhaps the stadium site would have been put to better use as an incinerator for their garbage! (Sorry, we are reaching the boiling point). It is our sincere hope you will be able to help us in keeping this pestilence out of our lovely coutrvside by ensuring ensuring all legislative measures measures to protect the environment environment are brought to bear. We urge you to make a personal visit to the area. You, too, will be shocked that such a rape could even be considered. Sincerely, E. Lydia MacDonald, Bruce MacDonald. Residents Clarke-Hope Boundary Road North. appears so, in is only because we cannot see, smell or taste radiation in the same way we observe the devastation left by oil spills and acid rain. No new nuclear power plants have been ordered in the United States for 10 years. Dozens have been cancelled, and many more are in deep trouble. One of these is Seabrook in New Hampshire, which could possibly suffer the same fate as Shoreham. Also, the Swedish public strongly supports supports their government's plan to shut down existing nuclear plants in their country. country. John H. Morrill of the Washington DC-based American Council for. an Energy Energy Efficient Economy is quoted in Science News (May 7th, 1988) as saying: "If all the households in the U.S. had the most efficent refrigerators refrigerators currently available, available, the electricity savings would eliminate the need for about 12 large nuclear pow er plants". Twelve fewer power plants are better than twelve more! If nuclear reactors are not considered safe enough to be in the presence of New Yorkers or Swedes, they are certainly not safe enough for us. Yet in Ontario, the construction construction of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station near Oshawa proceeds -- contrary to Premier Peterson's Peterson's earlier promise, $528 million over budget, and 5 months behind schedule (Globe & Mail, May 19th, 1988. pBl). The moral of our story is this: If you spent $7 on a piece of cake and then learned that you could bé- come seiously ill, or the lives of your children or parents would be threatened by eating eating the cake, would you eat the cake? No way! As such, all who value their health and welfare should reject the assertion that because $7 billion billion has already been spent on Darlington, it cannot be unspent. Better to throw away our money than to throw away our health -- especially especially when the effects of background levels of radi- tion are largely unknown and may take many years to manifest themselves. Let us write Premier Peterson Peterson at Queen's Park, Toronto Toronto M7A1A1. He should be reminded of the highly- publicized Brundtlana Report Report (The World Commission Commission on Environment and Development), which published published its findings in a book called Our Common Future. On the subject of nuclear energy, energy, it recommends that "the highest priority should be accorded to research and development on environmentally environmentally sound and economically economically viable alternatives". We agree. Yours truly, Anne Hansen, Jeff Brackett Brackett Durham Nuclear Awareness Letter to Editor Dear Peter Parrott: We are writing to encourage encourage awareness ot an important important news issue that seems to have escaped the attention of some newspapers: The controversial Shore- ham nuclear power plant on Long Island, New York, will be sold to the state of New York for $1, to be torn down even before having been fired up. Construction of this nuclear facility was started in 1965 and ended up 10 years behind schedule. At a final price of $6.5 billion, Shoreham wound up costing 80 times more than predicted! predicted! Economics aside-one reason reason cited for its cancellation was the inability of state and local officials to devise an acceptable acceptable emergency evacuation evacuation plan for neighboring residents. Speaking of emergency, Ontario Hydro was reported (Toronto Star, March 29, 1988, p A10) to have failed miserably with the distribution distribution of evacution pamplets to Scarborough residents. Delivering Delivering pamphlets door-to- door falls at about the same intellectual level as returning a library book, yet our "officials" seem not to get the hang of it. How can we trust them with the complexities of safely operating a nuclear reactor, let alone administering administering to an emergency? It is not the sensationalism of the media that 1ms turned a lot of people against nuclear power, but the record of the nuclear industry itself. Nuclear Nuclear power is not clean. If it The first ever (and hopefully annual) Bowmanville Bowmanville Museum Fun Run was an unequivocal success. Approximately 25 runners runners lined up for the 10:00 a.m. start last Saturday. Saturday. The starter's pistol pistol was raised carefully in the air and upon its firing the runners headed headed out on the course. I wasn't competing in the event on foot. I, and three of my friends, chose to cycle the 6.5 kilometre kilometre course. I know that my personal motivation motivation for cycling lay in the fact that I wouldn't have been able to get anywhere anywhere near the finish line if I ran. By riding my bike, I at least stood a better than average chance of finishing without having the ambulance ambulance attendants on duty called into action to rescue me from some ditch, or from a car's front bumper. Well, the four of us set out with a great flourish. As I rode past the runners runners I casually shouted some words of encouragement encouragement and admira- •tion at their courage and fortitude to tackle the course on foot. I was almost almost embarrassed to be in the same class as these obviously physically physically fit people. However, I know my limitations and my body just wasn't made for running. As Cathy, Mary, Cindy and I headed up Roegnik Hill I thought to myself, "This is a piece of cake, I'm in better shape than I thought." Wrong! It didn't take long for the calf muscles to begin to react to the physical activity. My lungs began to scream for a decent supply of oxygen oxygen and my selfpraising selfpraising thoughts about my fitness level generally generally went out the window. window. I was actually doing quite well until the hill at the Visual Arts Centre. That almost killed me and it sure didn't do anything anything for my body either. After that it was sheer willpower that kept my legs pumping up and down, and my mind saying saying to various parts of the body: "Oh, it isn't that bad. We're almost done." The pep talk worked and the four of us crossed the finish line in great style, if not with great relief. relief. Awaiting us, and the runners, were glasses glasses of lemonade and all the bananas, watermelons watermelons and oranges we could eat. I must admit that I had my doubts on the Wellington Wellington Road home stretch if I would even make it to write this column. column. It had to be the easiest easiest part of the whole course and it just about did me in, But, complaining about my lack of physical physical fitness aside, the Fun Run was a well- organized and executed event. It attracted all types of runners, from the super keen competitors competitors to those who simply run to stay in shape (and appear to have a good time doing it). The run was also a learning experience. Not only did I have my suspicions about my fitness fitness level confirmed, but I also saw an innovative and well-planned idea pulled off without a hitch. If there is one thing I have noticed about the Town of Newcastle (and Bowmanville in particular particular I hate to say) it is that new ideas (whether they be business or pleasure related) aren't always received with the greatest response. In fact, trying to get anything new off the ground in this town can be a very large chore in itself. I'm not sure why, but this town has more balk moves than the American American League baseball diamonds. diamonds. So many residents residents waver on the line between letting loose and staying the same. People just don't want to break out of a rut and explore new directions. They allow allow themselves to follow the same routine, day in and day out. However, the museum's Fun Run (and other re- 1 cent happenings such as the BIA's Strawberry Festival) prove that some people are able to take up a challenge (and I don't use that word lightly). I was impressed not only with the run's organization, organization, but with the runners themselves. Maybe I should start training now for next year. Nah, I think I'll just take my medal and ride home. Perhaps when next year rolls around, Kate the Car and I can both enter enter the race.