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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 13 Sep 1989, p. 1

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'cUCmETLi Kill'. COKK'j>irV EES VI CEE Ur^ 2 iAN --v^rr-Av; M r ARTO M. EOwMA^VILLE. OTAFIO 11 nag NEWPU2 9Z33C! Says uanaaa Must Pay Off Its Debt Rotary Club Helps Bring Water to Village in India Lung Transplant Patient Has New Life After One Year Hydro Commission Puts New Machinery Into Operation Hwy. 407 Will Not Ease Traffic Chaos i n i nAwttt/cAnfii orfor!. «î--a fri fiio f^TA p.vnrv Tnmnfn/rinrlnnm LnrJ0r pncf. fn hîfrh- detaile d route, return for more me by Andrea Adair The building of the new 407 freeway freeway to Toronto will not entirely eliminate eliminate local traffic congestion, according to a spokesperson from the Ministiy of Transportation. Dave Gamer appeared before Newcastle Newcastle Council Monday with an overview overview of the proposed highway that would span the northern portion of the municipality. Studies that have been completed regarding the highway indicate that congested roads will continue to be a problem after the 407 highway is built. CARPET WAREHOUSE EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES •a-HEsEbSSU MARINA - Summer may be on the wane, but the Port Darlington Darlington Community Association is not taking a fall holiday. They have a meeting scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18th at 8 p.m. at the Port Darlington Marina. Probably the results of the OMB Hearing Sept. 11th will be on the agenda. CHAMPS - We are especially proud of two of our newspaper staff members, Classified specialist specialist Marilyn Rutherford and Newcastle Editor Hazel Crago. Marilyn cooked the grand champion champion cake that sold for over $400 at Orono Fair and Hazel cleaned up with her crocheting and handwriting. handwriting. Talented gals! HEROES - Two Blackstock men, Don and Ralph Swain were honored honored Friday night at the annual Police Awards night in Ajax. They pulled a man from a burning burning car that had crashed near Blackstock and had to break a rear window to reach the unconscious unconscious driver. Plaques were presented presented to the two brave men. In all, 21 Durham citizens were honored. PAPER DRIVE - Before you get your car washed, please have your bundles of papers tied and at the curb by 8:30 a.m this Saturday. Saturday. The Boy Scouts of Bowman- ville will be around to pick them up and take them away from your storage area, leaving room for more. With luck, they will sell them to somebody and make a buck for their expenses. GOLDEN DAY - His many friends in Lions will be interested interested to learn that this week's Port Perry Star features a photo of Storey Beare and his wife Doris. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday and held an Open House at their home. YOUTH SOCCER-This Saturday, Sept. 16th, the Darlington Youth Soccer finals will get under way at 9 a.m. and continue throughout the day until champions are determined, determined, we presume. These are held at the new Darlington Soccer Soccer fields, Solina Rd. South. Come and enjoy. PIANIST NEEDED - Bowman- ville's Drama Workshop is staging staging a performance of "Gypsy" this fall and desperately needs a pianist. If you can help, you'll be a godsend. And would you please , call 623-6396 (after 6:30 p.m.) and set their minds at rest. Might we ask who has been cast to do the strip act? That is the Gypsy Rose Lee story, isn't it? Just curious, A possible solution in the future, Mr. Gamer said, could include efforts from the Ministry and municipalities to encourage people to work where they live. He added that the market would also eventually. balance itself when people became tired of driving through traffic. Highway 407, which evolved from a study in the 1960's that indicated another another transportation route was needed, needed, is currently in the planning stage. Mr. Garner explained that a proposal proposal for the highway is being worked on now, because "the 407 corridor is at risk." TERRY FOX RUN - Bowmanville Kinsmen arc doing their utmost to exceed the $1,200 they collected collected and donated last year following following the annual Terry Fox Run. It will be held this Sunday, starting at Memorial Park at 9 a.m. Kinsmen need your participation participation to do more. WASH 'EM - This town's cars are .going to be the cleanest in the country if we continue to have car washes every week. This Saturday, the Rotary Club is holding its big event at the Miracle Miracle Food Mart parking lot from 9 a.m. to 4:30. Guess the idea is to have the driver get the car washed while the wife does the shopping. Development on north/south arteri- als, the growth of estate residential- development, the utilization of lands set aside for the Seaton community and the disposal of federal lands are occurring in the corridor The Ministry at this time is also reviewing reviewing the need for an additional highway corridor north of Highway 407. Mr. Garner said the population in the Greater Toronto Area (Metro Toronto, Toronto, York, Peel, Iialton and Durham) Durham) has been annually growing by 65,000 for the past 25 years. 'That is equal to adding a city the size of Kingston to the GTA every year," he said. ^ , The areas of growth differ, however. Toronto is still tne major employer. Now, the next stages of the process of planning the new nighway will entail entail carrying out an environmental assessment assessment on the area of the 407 network network and undertaking route location studies. In the spring of next year, the Ministry Ministry will Begin holding public meetings meetings about the 407 corridor and where the highway may go. (The general area for the highway is north of Taunton Road from the Metro Toronto/Durham border east to highway highway 115/35.) The section where the highway is proposed contains many different hamlets. "It's going to be a very difficult task to get the route through there," Mr. Garner said. The highway will be 10 lanes out to Newcastle where it will drop down to eight lanes. Connecting north-south links, such as Durham Road 23, will be eight lanes wide. The Ministry will evaluate the initial initial meetings with the public, create a detailed route, return for more meetings meetings with the public and then, (around August of 1991) go to the Ministry of the Environment for review. "It is a fairly lengthy process. There are three points where we'll be coming to council and to the public," Mr. Garner Garner said. Councillor Diane Hamre said the - Highway 407 studies show that councillors councillors must consider the greater Toronto Toronto area or "we won't be able to meet the needs of the public." By the spring of next year the Ministry Ministry should have an idea of a possible route. 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 1 Wednesday, September 13,1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 34 Pages 135th Year Issue 37 50<t Per Copy PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville New Queen Crowned at Durham Central Fair I. Av /'! v/: ■ i> . M ■ MS w Traci Mills (right) was selected last Thursday as Miss Durham Central Fair for 1989. Karen Pyke, outgoing Orono Fair Queen for 1988, passed on her tiara and sash to Traci after the pageant on the opening night of the fair. Four other girls competed in the pageant which was sponsored by Garnet Rickard. "Number4... Bobby Orr" - ></ t#* - ; by Lorna Miller "Drugs and minor sports don't mix.". This was the main theme of Bobby Orr's speech at the Rotary Club's Skate '88 Thank You Dinner at the Bowmanville Recreational Complex on Saturday, September 9th. Mr. Orr, the eight-time Norris Trophy Trophy winner, spoke to a crowd of over 300 Rotations and complex supporters about the responsibilities of adults to keep children on the straight and narrow narrow through example. . The dinner was organized by the Bowmanville Rotary Club as a means of raising the club's $35,000 commitment commitment to Skate'88. "It's important that we adults reach our young people with the message that their lives, well-being and futures could be ruined by drugs," said Mr. Orr. "Teens are under a lot of peer pressure to accept it (drug use) as a form of social statement." "I don't understand the recreational use of drugs. Recreation is supposed to r-?fresh tne mind - and restore the [body," Ahid Mr. Orr. "Drugs kill initia- tiVe a», p!' make kids miss the beauty of life." A Itids must be encouraged to experience experience the "joy of achievement" through getting good, grades on a test, sporting event, or playing a musical instrument. instrument. By reaching down into themselves, themselves, not reaching for a needle.. Mr. Orr went on to stress the importance importance of parents setting a good example example for their children. "Children are more influenced by what they see in us - they can read us like a book," Mr. Orr stated, then he questioned "What do they read in us?" He admonished parents not to put undue pressure on their children. "Just take them to the rink and let them play and enjoy themselves," he said. Mr. Orr referred to instances of parental parental interference in minor sports. "I've seen parents chasing referees and coaches around the rink, he recalled. ■ Mr. Orr also advised parents to choose coaches carefully, making sure that their main aim is to "encourage youngsters to have a good time and enjoy enjoy tne game." He cited instances, of coaches exchanging punches with players. He referred to one story of. an eight-year-old Boy who had his jaw broken by a coach. Mr. Orr said: "Stories "Stories like this and others lead to abusive abusive Minor League fans being banned To Page Seven ew c The Ministry of the Environment's new plan to stop water pollution at its. source won't have a big impact on the Town of Newcastle. But it could cost the Durham Region Region an additional $1.3 million per year. Art Leitch, Director of Operations with the Region of Durhàm, explained recently that the provincial government's government's he$" Municipal"' •Industrial- i Strategy Abatement (MISA) plan ! would effect the Region's operations., Mr. Leitch explained that, under the province's plan, municipalities and industries industries would have to monitor what they discharge into the area's lakes and streams through the sewer system. system. During the monitoring phase, Mr. Leitch explained, the municipality will have to look for a certain number of pollutants. As an example, he said the pulp and paper industry began monitoring for 130 contaminants in March of this year. A news release from the Minister of the Environment stated that the data obtained from the monitoring will then be used to set up regulations. The second phase of MISA will entail entail enforcing the regulations. Mr. Leitch said the MISA program is "going to impact Durham Region and is going to cost a good deal of money." money." . He said it will cost the Region $1.3 million annually to monitor for pollutants. pollutants. ■■ r :i . . - k . r> ,,, The cost of MISA, he said, is therefore therefore a great concern in the municipal sector, adding that the Province is expecting expecting the municipalities to have personnel personnel for enforcement. Mr. 'Leitch concluded that he thought MISA will have a major impact impact on Durham Region but didn't think there would be an impact locally. locally. Sewers are the responsibility of the Region while area municipalities are responsible for their local storm sewers. sewers. Environment Minister Jim Bradley said in a news release that 'The goal of the program is the virtual elimination elimination of persistent toxic chemicals from discharges to Ontario's waterways." by Lorna Miller This Friday is D-Day for the Darlington Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, That is the day when the Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) comes to a decision on whether or not to approve approve an operating licence for Darlington. Darlington. Ontario Hydro wants to bêgin low-power operation with one unit which will generate electricity at less than 1% capacity. The station would then graduate into higher power in aBout a month. "Ontario Hydro has applied to AECB for a licence to begin operation" says Sue Stickley, community rela tions officer at Darlington. "But, they also want more testing done on the software for one of the computers which control the safety systems." The AECB, Canada's nuclear repu-, latory agency, is conducting on-going tests to see now the system reacts to differing scenarios and if it drops the shut-off rods within the stipulated 2.2 seconds after an emergency arises. "There have been thousands of random random tests performed on this computer and the results have been successful Turn to Page 2 Town Bans Scale Models y.'MWswvmetism by Andrea Adair Developers' models of buildings planned but not approved for the Town of Newcastle have been banned from the puBlic lobby of the Town Hall. Members of Newcastle Council decided decided in a recorded vote of 4-3 this week that the architectural models cannot Be displayed prior to the proposal proposal Being approved or denied. The models may be exhibited only on days of puBlic meetings when the proposals are to be discussed. Councillor Diane Hamre, who suggested suggested tBe models not be allowed, said she has Been troubled by the displays after something that was said by a resident resident at a public meeting last week. At a meeting called to discuss development development in the Ganaraska Forest area, Councillor Hamre said one of the people people in attendance suggested that the planning process wasn't working because because developers had an inside track with the town. The resident pointed out that a project model was being.dis- played even though it hadn't received approval yet. "I don y t want to see any further models displayed here," Councillor Hamre said. Mayor Marie Hubbard, who suggested suggested she may have been playing the "devil's advocate", said she had invited a developer to display the model outside outside her office because she had been "deluged By calls regarding the Ganaraska." Ganaraska." "From my perspective, it has been helpful in helping people understand proposals," she said. The mayor said she thought the general public can't always read through planning documents and said visual aids are sometimes useful. Mayor Hubbard stated that there was no attempt on her part or on the part of the gentleman who brought in the model to "bypass" an application. "I think to Bring it in at the zero hour, or after it is approved doesn't Belp either. I think we have to use better better teaching tools in planning to show people what we're actually doing," she concluded. Councillor Hamre said there has been a lot of personal attacks on both her integrity and that of the council and she said "...because of the public perception, we are not allowed to continue continue with this (display of development development models in the Town Hall)." Councillors Diane Hamre, Larry Hannah, Ken Hooper and Frank Stapleton Stapleton voted in favour of banning the models, while Councillors Pat Dcegan and Arnot Wotten and Mayor Hub- Bard voted against the ban. 1 nffiliMT ' "*v --.«vfi, --, Popular Pacers Strut Their Stuff at Orono Fair The fairgrounds at Orono couldn t hold all the pco- our photographers managed to find an open spot at pie and vehicles that tried to get in on Sunday foi the the south end of the track where lie took this picture Gospel smg and the horse racing, so they were spread rin „ one 0 f a ie e xcitincr races far and wide throughout the nearby streets. One of tiuring onc ot tne excmng ~ aces ;

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