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#ft!lf«if!§ëg88»f#i#ggiwit»! BOHHANVILLE 62 TEMPERANCI EOHMANVILLE. strikers Clash ai Si. Marys Cement Police and strikers clashed on the St. Marys picket line Tuesday afternoon when police cleared a path so company cement trucks could enter the plant. by Chris Clark An eight-week strike at St. Marys Cement Company has heated up considerably considerably following company attempts to take cement trucks through the picket line earlier this week. On Tuesday afternoon, police and strikers clashed, and two men were arrested arrested after police had cleared a path through the workers and a makeshift blockade they had erected. Minutes after eight St. Marys Cement Cement trucks rumbled through the S lant's main gates, a shoving match egan between picketers and some of the 25 police on hand. Two officers grabbed 60-year-old Stu Crossen, a maintenance worker, and hustled him into a cruiser. He was charged with assaulting police police and obstruction, according to Superintendent Superintendent Dean Westbrook. A second second man was charged with causing a disturbance. According to workers, who are members of Local 222 of the Canadian Auto Workers, the trucks were sent in to pick up cement which was in "gross" form when the strike began but which management has finished processing during the strike. They were not sure how much cement might be complete and ready for pick-up. Frustrated workers turned their anger anger against* the police after the trucks were let through. "They just started World War Three," yelled one. Another chided police, "I hope you guys are proud of yourselves." Superintendent Westbrook said that the police were simply enforcing the law. ^We have no choice. Anyone has the right to come and go to work. There is a safety factor too. Those 18- wheelers don't exactly turn on a dime and the slightest shove while they are going by and someone could be hurt." The 86 strikers rejected a company offer of 4.2 percent increases in pay over each of the next three years be fore walking off the job. They cite recent recent increases at Hutton Transport and Standard Block of Ajax which gave workers a 6.5 percent boost in wages. In addition they claim that the company company is employing increasing numbers of non-union contractors. The result, they say, has been lay-offs of union members in three of the last five years and no growth in the union membership. membership. They also argue that the standard 40 hour week and voluntary overtime is under seige. Plant manager Cliff Meta was unavailable unavailable for comment. . AECB Opens Local Office See Page Z < ---- / /• > Local Educators Work with College See Page 17 s z z Meet the Stars of "Private Spaces" See Page S < ; I / Z ' Community Care Honors Volunteers SeePage 16 . s -- / NO DROUGHT - As this is being written Tuesday morning, the rain is still providing most welcome welcome moisture and the lawns appear appear to be responding. It looks very much as though lawnmow- ers will be in action this week for the first time this year. TRADE SHOW - We hear that all available spaces have been sold for Bowmanville Kinsmen's Trade Show this weekend at the Recreation Complex. So, it's bound to be a success if interested interested crowds show up. Incidentally, Incidentally, the Kinsmen are marking marking their 40th anniversary. We offer congratulations and best wishes for many more productive years. BLOOD DONORS - If you've picked up your Statesman or had it delivered Wednesday afternoon, afternoon, there may still be time to head for the Lions Centre on Beech Avenue to part with some lifesaving blood. Those dedicated dedicated Red Cross nurses and helpers helpers will welcome you with open arms and provide you with a drink and a couple of cookies afterwards...and afterwards...and you'll feel great. It's open until 8. ASSUME - Last week, word came in that Bowmanville Kinsmen were celebrating their 40th birthday birthday at Blackstock on Saturday evening in the Recreation Centre. Best time for pictures would be 8:30. Ye Editor-photographer Editor-photographer assumed it was a dinner that would start around 6:30 and he could get a head table, past presidents picture and be home in time for hockey game. Nobody was there at that time. It must have been a dance. Next time, he'll check, not assume. IN BETWEEN - During the hockey hockey season, every Monday morning morning the Editor's desk was piled high with reports of weekend hockey games. This week, things were different, no hockey reports. reports. It was quite a change; But, how about Ken Wreggett's fantastic fantastic performance with the : Flyers Monday night to break Canadiens' win record at the Forum? Wasn't that something! There's still more action ahead before the season's over. $ I MIDS IN TOWN - This weekend is reunion time for members of the Midland Regiment who wore out a considerable amount of shoe leather marching around this town and elsewhere in World War II. They'll be hobbling to the cenotaph to honor fallen comrades comrades on Saturday afternoon, with tummies in and heads held high. Afterwards, there's a banquet at Legion Branch 178. STEER ROPING? - If you are looking for excitement on Saturday, Saturday, head weston Taunton Road to Mitchell's Corners Public School, They are staging Western Western Days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. including bake and yard sale, face painting, cake walk, Rope the Steer and barbecue. Great fun guaranteed. 683-3303 Fax 416-683-6161 Wednesday, May 3,1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 36 Pages 135th Year Issue 18 50$ Per Copy We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Committee Approves Housing Project ., , , . rm_ 1 „11. a™ en 1 Oshawa and said it is running very The recommendation of the commit by Chris Clark Following an impassioned speech by a councillor about the merits of the Durham Non-Profit Housing Corporation, Corporation, a committee of Newcastle council voted in favour of a 60 unit non-profit development in Bowmanville. Councillor Diane Hamre, president of the Durham Non-Profit Housing Corporation, told her fellow councillors that "I'm proud of every one of our sites in the Durham Region. I defy you to go through and tell which units are subsidized. Two residents living near the site, east of Mearns Avenue and north of Concession Street, objected to the development, development, complaining about the density density and increased traffic patterns. Jack Elston predicted that in 20 years the townhouses would "degenerate into a very low level of maintenance." He also suggested that as a result surrounding property values will fall if School Board Blaming Ontario for Tax Increase the development goes ahead. George Bellman said that he represented represented over 100 people who had signed a petition against the project. He too complained that higher density would create a series of headaches for current current residents. Mr. Elston suggested that the area would "degenerate into slums." Valerie Cranmer of the Durham Non-Profit Housing Corporation disputed disputed many of the residents' claims. She said provincial studies show that surrounding property values do not diminish diminish but rather rise because the property is maintained so well. "We are in there for 35 years (with a mortgage), and we're very concerned about our impact on the neighbour-. i . hood," ah 4 told the General Purpose. ,Councillor Deegan asked why only and Administration Committee. "We "'units (had been set aside for . do not just build it'and sell It. We a/re tamatppedj accommodation. Ccuncil- very proud of our management in our lor Hamre informed him that the ae- projects." mand for such units in other projects had been lower than expected. Mayor Marie Hubbard compared the proposal to Conant House The proposal calls for 60 townhouses. townhouses. Three will be set aside for handicapped handicapped tenants. Nine will have two bedrooms. Twenty-nine will have three bedrooms. Nineteen will have four bedrooms. She said that 50 percent percent of the homes will be subsidized on a rent-geared-to-income basis. The remaining remaining homes will be rented at market market price. The vote to rezone the land was not unanimous. Councillors Arnot Wotten and Pat Deegan voted against the proposal. proposal. Councillor Wotten said: "I'm still concerned about property values. You haven't convinced me. I'm also concerned about traffic on that little street (Mearns)." Oshawa and said it is running very well. "We must be responsible to house all the people in this town and not discriminate discriminate against anyone," she implored implored The recommendation of the committee committee to approve the rezoning and place a hold on development until_ a site plan agreement is arrived at will go to council next week for final approval. Region Tax Bite at 19% in Newcastle residents, along with other citizens of the Durham Region, will be asked to loosen their purse strings a little more this year. Members of Durham's regional council are expected to approve a budget budget today that will increase residential taxes by 19 per cent. Councillors are looking at a budget that asks residents of the region to kick in almost $62 million towards $170 million in expenditures which Durham-faces in 19891 ü$»it The 19 per cent increase means that the average taxpayer in Newcastle Newcastle can expect to spend an additional $50 on the regional portion of his taxes. taxes. If you paid $299 in taxes to the Dur ham Region in 1988, you can plan to pay $349 in 1989, provided that the budget is approved today. Tax increases will vaiy from one municipality to another. Residents in Pickering, for example, are facing a regional regional tax increase of $66 in 1989, while Brock residents may be paying an extra $31 in taxes. The increase in taxes has been partly partly attributed to 201 new staff positions within the region that will cost Durham Durham $2.4 million. Inflation, which is expected to rise to between five and seven per coni in the Metro Toronto area in 1989, has been cited as another cause of higher taxes. by Chris Clark Laying the blame squarely at the feet of the provincial government, Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education trustees voted in favour, of a 14.9 percent education tax increase increase for the upcoming fiscal year. The trustees met at S.T. Worden School, in Courtice, last Thursday night. Several expressed their dismay and disappointment at what they described described as a cut in provincial funding this year; however, when it came time to vote, 14 of the 15 trustees okayed the increase. In presenting the work of his committee, committee, Operations and Finance Committee Committee Chairman David Gray said "the budget was made more difficult by the decreasing provincial support" and acknowledged acknowledged that the large increase was higher than usual. Trustee Wilf Day said, "when you receive an increase less than inflation, I call that a cut." He added that Company Plans to Move Plant Here The Town of Newcastle has won the contest among area municipalities to be the new corporate headquarters of Powerscreen of Canada Ltd. The company has been searching for a new home for some time, and on Monday a committee of Newcastle council agreed to rezone the appropriate appropriate land near the 401 interchange at Port Darlington Road. Powerscreen co-founder David Crone said "we're ready to go ahead and would like to get started this year." The company is relocating its headquarters headquarters from Ajax to Newcastle, and Mayor Marie Hubbard said that the move is the first- fruit of the town's new emphasis on drawing industrial development into its boundaries. "We're talking to about seven prospects prospects for that area and other areas. We're very pleased," she reported. Powerscreen is a distributor of screening and conveying equipment for processing of aggregate and top soil. It was founded 14 years ago and has grown to include branches across the country. The mayor said that many workers will transfer from the Ajax facility and some new jobs will be filled by Newcastle Newcastle residents, She was not sure of the proportion of old to now jobs. among other programs which were cut was the Board's five-year computer replacement replacement budget which was more than halved. This left a total of $100,000 for the purpose of updating outmoded computer facilities across the Board. Bowmanville Trustee Mike Slo- combe called the provincial funding a "shell game," and lamented the fact that "we had a new initiative book full of exciting ideas and many of them have been cut." The lone dissenter during a record- Turn to Page 2 Nash Rd. Woes Complaints about various conditions conditions along Nash Road in Courtice prompted action by Newcastle councillors councillors this week. At a committee meeting councillors passed a motion made by councillor Larry Hannah calling for a four-way stop sign at the corner of Varcoe and Nash Roads, just east of Townline Road. Councillor Hannah relayed comments comments from police that speeding on Nash Road in the area between Cen- trefield Drive and the townline is rampant. rampant. A stop sign at Varcoe Road, halfway halfway along this corridor, will slow down speeders and protect children attending attending S.T. Worden Public School which is located at the corner. ' Councillors also considered a lengthy report from staff about several continuing grievances of Nash Road residents. The committee okayed a Turn to Page 2 a. ' . The One That Didn't Get Away Fishermen of all ages flocked to the Bowmanville LJ g f Scarborough> It took bofch boys to hold up this wjt catch. The fish was given to Dominic and his father by lucky as Shaun Wilcox, 10, of Bowmanville, and Dominic Rob Smith > of 0shawa - who landed ,L Courtice Residents Have Big Plans for Future In a few short years the community of Courtice will equal or surpass. Bowmanville Bowmanville in terms of its community facilities. facilities. In addition, it will have the finest parks system in the Town of Newcastle, according to Ward One Regional Regional Councillor Larry Hannah. 'We're building a planned community community of 28,000 people," Mr. Hannah told 75 Courtice area residents attending a public meeting of the Courtice and Area Community Association last Tuesday, April 25. The Ward One regional councillor was the guest speaker at the meeting held in the Courtice Secondary School and made several announcements regarding regarding the future of Courtice. He pledged to encourage development of 20 acres of land adjacent to Courtice Secondary School to provide community community services such as a swimming pool and arena. 'This will be something worthwhile, not something small," he promised. With Mr. Hannah was Barbara Baker, Chief Librarian of the Newcastle Newcastle Public Library system. She announced announced plans to open a storefront library library somewhere in Courtice possibly by tne end of this year. "It will be a temporary branch," she said. 'The Board is well aware of the growth and has a permanent library in the long range capital budget," Another longstanding complaint of Courtice residents is the lack of a post office in the area. 'This community is not an outlying area of Bowmanville, and it should have a Courtice address," address," Mr. Hannah said, He explained that- negotiations soon will begin with Canada Post which he hopes will lead to a full service facility. "I believe Canada Post should take an option on a full point-of-delivery post office in a community of 28,000 people." When questioned about the proposed proposed BFI medical waste incinerator for Courtice, the councillor stressed iga anxious for the Ministry ronment to conduct a full tal hearing on the matter. that he is against the project and is îe Ministry of the Envi- environmen- lgo Although many of the streets in Courtice are presently without streetlights, streetlights, Mr. Hannah promised that over the next couple of years that will change. He noted that $30,000 was included included in this year's Town budget for streetlights. (. t