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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc. June 28. 1989 SCanadian statesman Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by James Publishing Company Limited ...... k9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 cn 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor < Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Donald Bishop Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. V All layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the *. permission of the publisher. V Subscription Rates ** Six Months-$11.00 One Year-$20.00 Foreign -- $60.00 per year Although every precaution will be taken to avoid error. The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising In Its oolumns on the understanding that it will not be liable lor any error In the advertisement published hereunder unless a proof of such advertisement Is requested In writing by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertiser and With such error or corrections plainly noted In writing thereon, and In that case If any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. Skateboarders Finally Banned <' The municipality appears to have, reached a verdict on the use of skateboards skateboards and bicycles on downtown sidewalks. sidewalks. And for the cyclists and skateboarders, skateboarders, the decision isn't good. After months of investigating the issue issue of skateboards rolling in the downtown downtown core, the Newcastle planning department department wants to prohibit the boards entirely. < Members of Newcastle's general purpose and administration committee. approved the department's recommendation. recommendation. This will keep skateboarders from practising their sport on numerous numerous streets in tne business section. Sidewalks and streets where skateboarding skateboarding is prohibited are: King Street from Scugog to George; Church Street from Division to Scugog;; and along Silver, Silver, Temperance and Division Streets. The report from the planning department department concerning the new by-law states that police and by-law enforcement enforcement officers continue to receive complaints complaints from downtown merchants and pedestrians about skateboarders damaging damaging property. Cyclists also are being banned from sidewalks of the above-mentioned downtown streets. In addition, skateboards and bicycles bicycles are banned from municipal parking parking lots, Newçastle fire department parking lots, the post office property and town hall property. Economic Silver Linings Even when you allow for inflation, economic predictions are still a dime a dozen. But the general theme of forecasters forecasters over the past few months has been that of a decline in our general economic economic welfare. Such forecasts have been wrong before. Nevertheless, there are indications that house prices in the high-priced Toronto markets are moderating. And these are not the only indicators pointing to at least a small U-turn in the economic journey. Assuming that we are looking at only a downturn and not a full-scale tailspin or crash, such news may actually actually be a benefit for those of us living in the Town of Newcastle. A moderating economic climate may be the only thing to put the brakes on the Town of Newcastle's overheated development. Anyone who has taken a drive around the outskirts of Bowmanville, Newcastle, or Courtice in the past few years cannot help but notice the urban sprawl that is occurring. And, if you take a look at municipal council agendas, agendas, you will find that much of this town's time is devoted to development issues. Hardly a council session or committee committee meeting goes by without some development development proposal being disected by the public, elected officials, and town staff. Another informal indication of development development activity is the vast number of white billboards with black lettering that are posted on various empty fields and other parcels of property around the town. These are announcements announcements of various kinds of official plan amendments or zoning changes being requested by the land-owners. They are further evidence that growth in this municipality is proceeding quickly- quickly- And, of course, the number of fields sprouting streets and heavy construction construction equipment is further conclusive evidence as to the rapid changes occurring occurring in the municipality. If memory serves correctly, well over 1,000 new homes have sprung up in each of the past three years. With that development has come some pressing problems which need to be resolved. And a temporary lull in this rapid growth will certainly give us some time to work on them. For example, there would be time to think about steps that the town could take in order to strike a better balance between residential and commercial/ industrial development. At a recent council session, one member of council calculated that approximately three quarters of our assessment is residential. residential. He added that a more reasonable assessment split would be 60 per cent residential to 40 per cent commercial. The benefits to commercial/ industrial assessment are disputed by no-one. Local industries and businesses businesses create additional tax revenue while providing jobs within easy range of the local labor force, thereby creating a more cohesive ana closely-knit community. community. Few would dispute the need for improved commercial and industrial opportunities and some progress has been made in this category. However, the growth of residential development (which costs • a municipality money) has continued to outpace commercial development (which earns money for a municipality). If the Town of Newcastle cannot attract attract its share of industrial and commercial commercial growth, and must remain a bedroom community, then perhaps it's time to seek added provincial revenue that would even up the imbalance. A lull in construction would give us more time to put in place some of the services needed for existing residential development. Regardless of how fast you happen to believe residential growth should occur, the fact of the matter is that residential growth has occurred at a rather astounding rate. The growth that is already here requires requires such things as improved library services, new schools, playgrounds ana parks, and expanded fire department services. The need for new schools is an especially especially important point. There are plans for the public school board to proceed immediately with a new building to Courtice Heights and an addition to the Vincent Massey school in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. However,(it will take at least one year to get these facilities in operation. operation. And if residential development were to continue in the future as rapidly rapidly as it has occurred in the past, it would be virtually impossible to keep pace with the need for new classrooms and related facilities. Moreover, a respite in construction activity would allow the Durham Region Region to catch up with its transportation transportation requirements. Work such as the GO Train extension to Oshawa and even the improvements to Highway Two, between Courtice Rd. and Bowmanville Bowmanville are long overdue. A lull in the pace of building activity would allow allow work such as this to be done without without the municipalities falling further behind. A construction lull would allow the individual municipalities of the Durham Durham Region and the Durham Region itself to re-think some of their planning planning policies. The Town of Newcastle has guided development through a particularly difficult few years. Perhaps it would be wise to assess the growth that has taken place during that time and make some "mid-course" corrections. The local municipality and the Durham Durham Region might consder, for example, example, whether extraordinary efforts should be made to conserve agricultural agricultural .land and undeveloped property in the rural areas. Or it could opt to proceed proceed on the assumption that the entire territory will be paved over by the middle of the next century. A lull'in development might be one last time to set planning policies to manage residential growth and possibly possibly even steer it to places other than Ontario's "golden horseshoe". And, finally, a slowdown in development development concerns would allow élected officials officials more time to.cope with equally pressing issues not directly connected to economic development. Finding solutions solutions to the garbage disposal crisis or getting rid or nuclear waste at Port , Granby are two areas that could use extra attention if development matters could be placed on the proverbial "back burner". Instinctively, the public shivers at the mere thought of a drop in the economic economic thermometer. And rightfully so. If we had our druthers, we'd all like to to live in a world where prices, wages, investment returns, and all of the other other economic indicators pointed steadily upwards forever. But experience teaches that such an environment is impossible and perhaps not even a good thing over the long run. If an economic downturn must come, then we should tiy to cash in the silver linings behind the clouds. Such a slowdown would, for the Town of Newcastle, provide a badly- needed chance to re-group and reassess. reassess. Perhaps, there would be a similar benefit to other municipalities surrounding surrounding Metro Toronto. ,T,„nr ^ÈÈÈÊfcÀ ' -. - - v ■■ tfgraSw*| S3 '■ ' -"V g ïwfàËsMM: "Visitors" by Linda Wahrer Best in show at Visual Arts Centre's Annual Juried Show of Photography. Canada Post has a new idea that won't appeal to your pocket book but will make your taste buds perform back flips of delight. delight. The crown corporation is embarking on a new era in its illustrious career career by issuing lickless stamps. That's right. No longer will Canada Post customers customers have to pucker their lips, screw up their faces and stick out their tongues to mail their letters. letters. From now on, customers customers will have the option of purchasing the normal lick-em stamps or buying thè new peel-off variety. The new stamps will be on adhesive backing and will cost an extra 3.6 cents. Can you imagine what the repercussions of this non-lick stamp will be? Think, for example, of the burden that has been lifted off the shoulders of brides and grooms. Imagine this couple sending out 100 invitations invitations to their friends and families to attend their wedding. Think of the hours of anguish they would spend licking 200 stamps. (That's counting, of course, both the invitation invitation and the reply card.) By the end,of the preparations;.^ preparations;.^ their faces would / be permanently puckeredi But now, thanks to Canada Post, brides and grooms will look happy on their wedding day because because all they will have to do is peel off a stamp and put it on an envelope. And _at Christmas time, people will be lining up to buy these new stamps. They will have so much fun not having to expend any spit on their relatives that they'll send hundreds, if not thousands, thousands, of extra Christmas cards. Who cares if the senders senders don't know who they sending to? They'll in the phone book pick out addresses so they again will the opportunity to use the no-spit stamp. The changes in people's people's lifestyles these stamps will create won't be restricted to the home front. It will spill over into every facet of Canadian Canadian life. Restaurants in eveiy community in Canada will be swamped with the new "non-lick stamp purchasing purchasing customer". After years of getting the yucky tasting glue in their mouth, their taste buds will experience a regrowth. regrowth. The new, "non-stick" customers will be so hungry hungry that they will eat as if they have never had food before. The now very large "non-lick stamp purchasing purchasing customer" will be joining joining every fitness club or participating in every recreational recreational activity known to man to try to eliminate the extra pounds the freedom freedom from glue stamps has put on him. There will be a mad upsurge in the sporting goods market. Doctors will be overworked with patients who will demand special diets that will remind remind them of the glue on the back of stamps so, they will once again not eat for days. In short, we're looking at a potential Pandora's Box being opened. Fortunately, the Crown Corporation has realized this.. possibility and will still sell the old lick 'em, stick 'em variety of stamps. The new stamps are going on sale June 30. If you're daring enough, brave enough and want to save your saliva to seal envelopes, pick some up and take a walk on the wild side. Big Brothers Say Thanks for Help n.-nf. T ™ , t i ~ Newcastle United Way are look and ust ave i i Recyclers Have ideas For Corporate Trash P : hi Up to this point our articles articles nave been mainly addressed addressed to the residential roducer of garbage. We lave examined what can and what ought to be done with grass clippings, hazardous hazardous wastes, kitchen scraps, plastics, glass, etc. The people people have responded. Several of you have been in touch with me and it is my opinion that our Town of Newcastle may very well see an expanded expanded blue box programme in the very near future. I know this is long overdue overdue but there are many good, and not so good, reasons reasons why it has taken this long. It is also my opinion that our Town of Newcastle may soon obtain an grant from the province of Ontario to a local Waste Exchange programme. programme. This is a programme which will hire several students students for summer employment employment to actively pursue opportunities opportunities for exchanging local industrial waste with other waste exchange facilities facilities within the Town, the Region or the Province and thereby eliminating these waste from the landfill site. One company's waste may well be another company's company's raw resource. Almost any waste in any . quantity will become eligible for this exchange programme. One company which produced produced two tonnes of chrome flakes is now selling this waste to another company which resmelts this "waste" to make products and thereby thereby two tonnes of waste is eliminated from the landfill site. Another company is looking looking for large quantities of long chain organic polymers or compounds; products usually usually produced as wastes by latex paint, glue and detergent detergent companies. Wouldn't it be terrific if we could link up these companies and look at waste as someone else's resource? resource? I think this could turn into an exciting project with long term benefits not only for our town but for our environment environment as well. Young people interested in becoming pioneers in this recycling field should contact contact me or the Canada Youth Employment Office for further information. You do make a difference! John Voldhuis. Dear Mr. James: The Big Brothers Association Association of Newcastle would like to express their thanks to all the businesses, organizations organizations and individuals who have supported us in our work this year. We especially especially thank The Canadian Statesman for their excellent excellent coverage of our ongoing events. The Bowl for Millions campaign was most successful successful ■with a net profit to the Association of $8224.30 up $500.0 from 1988. This was made possible with the help of individuals from the community community - elected representatives, representatives, businesses, service clubs, organizations, church groups, youth bowlers, league bowlers and interested interested citizens. Many events have been planned for the summer for the Little Brothers and monies monies raised helped to make these possible. The Little Brothers played in a Ball Tournament Tournament on May 27th in Oshawa. They did not win the trophy this year but a good time was enjoyed by all participating. On June 25th, the Annual Family Picnic will be held at Orono Park and on June 29th a Fishing Thanks from Heritage Week Dear Sir, We the Heritage '89 Committee Committee would like to express our gratitude to all the people people who helped make Heritage Heritage '89 the success it was. First on the list would be Mayor Hubbard and the Staff of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle for their unstinting support. support. All the V.I.P.'s and tne J.I.P's (Just as Important People) at the opening function. function. A special thank you to M.P. Ross Stevenson, who managed to attend almost- every event, We extend our thanks to every person who helped organize, supervise, deputize or just criticize, as all this will help us next year, as we look forward to your participation and support support for Heritage '90. Sincerely, Fleurette Simmonds. Chairperson Heritage Committee. Derby on Lake Ontario will be provided by local Fishing Charters. Swim passes are available to any ■ Little Brother requesting them during the summer holidays. holidays. From July 16th to 28th, ten boys will have the opportunity to go camping atKamp Kuriou. September is Big Brother Montn. Details of all the events taking place will be advertised at a later date Newcastle but the Little Brothers can which in turn is supported, look forward to their Corn by residents of th^commum- Roast on September 9th. , ^ÿhout v_o ii7„ Also the Annual Sport Swap would Bl & Brothers - ™ We is scheduled for September 16th at Cowan's garage. With the help and support, support, of the community, these events are made possible possible for the boys. We also receive funding from the Oshawa-Whitby- express our appreciation to Board of Directors Staff & Committee Members Members Big Brothers Association of Newcastle Nancy Scott Executive Director. ... and in the beginning LIFE FOCUS Part 1: In the beginning.... beginning.... We are the first generation generation to actually see our human human development from the beginning...from conception, and what an amazing picture picture it is! In 1970, Professor Jerome Jerome Le Jeune and Professor Professor William Albert Liley, University of Auckland, N.Z., outlined the "Growth of Scientific Understanding of the Human Being - 1930's to 1970's" at "The Tiniest Humans" Conference. 1930 - First sighting of an egg from the human ovary. 1944 - Union of human sperm and egg seen under microscope. 1950's - Development during first six days outlined. outlined. 1960's - Diagnosis and treatment of baby before birth a reality. - Able to see child in womb. - Genetic code cracked. A basic understanding of the secret of our individuality unveiled. In this 40 year period, we moved from the dim shaaow- land of guesswork to a panoramic panoramic view of life from the start. Within hours of the human human egg and sperm meeting, meeting, an incredible rate of coll multiplication has already begun. In the first six days, the new human life buries himself himself into the lining of the mother's womb and attaches himself to the wall of the uterus by a cord through which ho receives nourishment. nourishment. By 18-25 days, the heart beat can bo detected. Al though only one-tenth of an inch long, the baby already has the beginnings of eyes, spinal cord, nervous system, lungs, stomach, intestines. And at 42 days, just six weeks,-the-skeleton is complete. complete. The baby is emitting brain waves, is moving his arms and legs and has all vital vital organs in place. From the moment of conception, conception, the child grows and keeps growing until life, ends. Cheri Davies (983-9521), Lillian Bowering (263-8985). Writer Wants Rebate Dear Mayor Hubbard, Welcome home, do hope- you had a good trip. I am so pleased to read that my old home town, Toronto, Toronto, is honourable, has seen fit to meet its obligations obligations and is rebating on the much discussed garbage tipping tipping fees at Brock. Wheelchair Goes Missing at Legion Comrade John: I am writing on behalf of Branch 178 Bowmanville Royal Canadian Legion, in regards to a 'horrendous" theft or "loss" from our Branch storage room. It was recently noticed that one of our Branch wheelchairs was missing. They arc kept handy for any E erson comir.g into the ranch needir.'g their use. The saddest part is that the wheelchair was donated to the Branch by the family of the late Jack Niddcry. Anyone having knowledge knowledge of the missing wheelchair, wheelchair, may call the Legion after 12 noon at 623-9032. Thank you, In Comradeship Br. Secretary Cccilo Bowers. As stated by Town Staff and reported in the Statesman, Statesman, approximately $62,000.00 per month or $744,000.00 for the year (or is it seven months equalling $454,000.00) will be rebated to our Town. Taking the _ lessor amount, the residential and commercial rebate should be a minimum of $30.00 this year. To save the additional cost to the Town of mailing these rebates to every taxpayer, taxpayer, may I sug- gest....Taxpayers just deduct the rebate from tneir final tax bill payment this September September and the Town staff stamp our tax bills "Paid in Full, Thank You". Sincerely, Lorraine Lover Pitch In!