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NEWCASTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMUNITY SERVICES LIBRARIAN -- " 1 62 temperance street \thers To Sponsor Christmas Classic 1 ournament BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO ' ' L1C3A8 NEUPU2 980301 The Bowmanville Christmas Classic Hockey Tournament Tournament will take on a new look this year, as the Schickedanz Brothers have agreed to become the major major sponsor. The tournament will now be referred to as The Schickedanz Christmas Classic. The announcement announcement was made just prior to this photo. Back row, 1-r: Paul Jackman (Tournament Chairman), Paul Robinson Robinson (Toro President), Claritta Schickedanz, Bob Schickedanz (Sponsors). Front row, 1-r: Ryan Robinson, Robinson, Bruce Harnum, Jason Jackman, (players on the Toro Canadian Tire Peewees). by Andrea Adair If you park your car in downtown Bowmanville after January 1, don't expect expect to get the usual hour's worth of parking for a quarter. Beginning with the first day of 1990, parking rates on the street and in municipally-owned lots are going up by 100 per cent in order for the municipality municipality to satisfy a new provincial tax bill. Members of Newcastle's general purpose and administration committee grudgingly decided this week to increase increase the cost of parking at meters in the town. The rate will rise from 25 cents an hour to 50 cents. Councillor Frank Stapleton said the town "was being "blackmailed" by the province into increasing the costs of parking. "I don't agree with what the provincial provincial government, is doing," he said. "They're wrong." He added that the town didn't have any choice about increasing increasing fees. In May of this year, the provincial , treasurer implemented a Commercial Concentration Tax for municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area. (Newcastle (Newcastle is considered to be a part of that area). Under the tax, municipally-owned or operated lots are taxed one dollar per square foot of parking space where a fee is charged for parking. The Town of Newcastle will be re- ; quired to pay the province $49,601 in tax for the three parking lots they operate operate in in Bowmanville even though the lots currently generate less than that amount. At the moment, the $48,852 generated generated by the lots is used to keep them in operation. By increasing the fee, the town expects expects to generate an additional $45,000 to cover the tax and maintain the lots. Members of the committee voted in favor of the increase but expressed their concerns about having to do it. Councillor Ken Hooper said he didn't like the increase in parking meter meter rates and said he felt it would drive people to malls instead of keeping keeping them in town. , George Webster, from the Bowman ville Business Improvement Area, doesn't think that will be the case. "We don't expect the increase to have any adverse effect on shopping," he said, adding that meter parking in Bowmanville is still less expensive than places such as Port Hope or Co- bourg where people pay $1 an hour. He said the increase wasn't the choice of the BIA or the town but was in response to the province. He said the money the town collected collected from meter parking is put into a reserve reserve fund for the 'town - to purchase more off-street parking. The provincial bill, however, wipes that fund out. "The town has no alternative then, if they wish to continue putting away funds for off street parking." Turn to Page 2 The United Way campaign has fallen fallen $70,000 short of its goal of $2,925,000. However, a spokesperson for United Wav said yesterday that the campaign will run for four more weeks. If they can raise $17,000 each week for the next four weeks, the goal will almost be reached. There has been no decision as yet about cutting of funding to any of the organizations that rely in whole or in part, on United Way to carry on operations. operations. Over 40 community service agencies in Oshawa, Whitby and Newcastle Newcastle benefit from United Way funding. funding. The campaign will run until December December 31st. EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES mJSw. 728-4601 Oshawa 3 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, December 6,1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 40 Pages 136th Year Issue 47 50$ Per Copy Call us before you list. Your next move could be both professional and profitable 623-4433 Bowmanville STILL ALIVE - Last week we had come to the conclusion that the town's name controversy was almost a dead issue because of costs involved in making any changes. But, readers didn"t agree as you will note from letters letters received. One writer recalled that Bowcastle was the name suggested here, but nobody fob lowed itüp. .V„!" OPEN HOUSE - We've just had a look at this" week's Coming Events columns and suggest you might be well advised to do likewise. likewise. For instance, there's an entertaining entertaining Open House this Saturday Saturday and Sunday at the Museum where the Museum's Friends are always on the job, making visitors welcome. NEAR MISS - We almost had a fit a couple of minutes ago when we checked the calendar for the number of shopping days to Christmas. Somehow, we started at the wrong week and ended up with nine. Actually after today, there are 15, so there's still plenty plenty of time left to begin buying gifts. NEW LEADER - This week we welcome the new leader of the federal New Democrats, Audrey McLaughlin who won the job at their big convention in Winnipeg on the weekend. The rookie MP from the Yukon will be doing her best to fill Ed Broadbent's shoes, no mean task. We wish her well and wonder who the Liberals will be choosing for their top post. Outstanding leaders arc hard to come by. DECK THE HALLS - Tomorrow, Tomorrow, florist Sharon McGee will bring her talents to Bowmanville Branch of the Newcastle Public Library at 7:30 p.m. She'll be demonstrating how you too can bring the warmth of Christmas into your homo, from the wreath on the front door to the centrepiece centrepiece on the table. It's all free, so come and enjoy. That's Thursday, Dec. 7th. Try to Hang This from Your Chimney with Care! Plan Approved Most Christmas stockings are made to fit a person's foot. But, in this case, the stocking could quite easily fit an entire person. The world's largest Christmas stocking was a spot prize given away by Bowmanville's Downtown Business Improvement Area at their annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. ceremony. The event was hold to kick off the start of Christmas hours for tnc downtown downtown merchants. Jamie Douglas won the stocking and is pictured here with David Boyd, representing the Bowmanville DBIA. Approval for Homes SUB CHANGE - So far, the re- sult of our new system of delivering delivering in town subscriptions by carriers carriers has met with great success. At the start, there was some confusion, confusion, but that has disappeared and more Bowmanville folks arc switching over to the now plan. No doubt the reduced rate has helped as well. Now, all that is left for us will be up to the computers computers and deliverers. DURHAM COLLEGE . In this week's edition of The Statesman, you will find the Winter edition of Durham Collc^o's Night School courses. Many interesting and valuable courses are offered for 1990 to help you upgrade your skills, or pick up a now hobby. Registration for courses starts this Saturday morning. - --/ A proposal for a 496-unit affordable housing subdivision planned by the Ontario government received approval by the Town of Newcastle this week. The project, which will proceed in phases, is located north of Concession Street and cast of Mcarns Road, in Bowmanville. At the general purpose and administration administration committee meeting Monday, John Perdue, from the Ministry of Government Services, addressed the committee to answer any questions about the project. Councillor Frank Stapleton said the project was a major proposal that would increase the population of school children in the area and ho questioned whether or not it would bo built in stages. Mr. Perdue explained that 200 homes would ho built in the first phase. Ho staled that a site was available available in the proposal for a school. Ho said the time frame for building the school would ho determined by the board of education. llo said the project was driven by the market to provide affordable housing. housing. Assuming tho market remains sound, ho added, tho project could begin begin as soon as draft approval is grant ed and the subdivision agreement proceeds. proceeds. The subdivision will consist of 196 single family dwelling units; 192 semi- detachcd/link dwelling units; 68 street townhousc units and 40 units contained contained in multiple family dwellings. Region Expected to Make Decision on Metro Trash Plans Today Durham Region will decide whether or not it will enter into a multi-million multi-million dollar agreement to help Metro Metro Toronto dispose of its trash. An agreement in principle, that would allow Metro to dump its garbage garbage at a proposed Durham-owned silo near Whitovnlo, will bo voted on by both Durham and Metro today. Newcastle Councillor Lnriy Hannah. Hannah. who is a member of the Durham Region public works committee, said if tho deal is struck. Durham will got $20 million immediately from Metro Toronto, plus an additional $21 million million Durham fools it is owed for rebates rebates on industrial and commercial trash. ,, 1 „ Turn to Page 2 The emergency plan for Darlington Generating Station was approved last week by members of Durham Regional Council. Sue Stickley, public relations officer at Darlington, said she was "very pleased" the plan was approved. She said it has been in the works for a couple of years and she was glad to see it passed. The plan had been tabled two weeks ago at the request of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle who still had concerns about pre-fire plans at the site. Mayor Marie Hubbard, at last Wednesday's meeting, said those coniferiya coniferiya still exist. ; ; ^ ' j : iv ! "The pre-fire plan has not yet been thoroughly approved," she stated. "I certainly feel there are more issues issues that have to be followed here," she said but directed members of council council to decide on the plan themselves. Ms Stickley said the emergency E lan was an "off site plan" and said, in er view, the issues that had been holding up approval of the plan were "on site" issues. Earlier in the meeting, Mayor Hubbard Hubbard criticized the province for their handling of the financial aspects of the emergency plan. She was speaking about a recommendation recommendation that council apply for funding funding under the joint emergency preparedness preparedness program (JEPP) for emergency planning training expenses and equipment. equipment. Under JEPP, Durham Region is seeking $21,600 from the province for . items relating to emergency plans for Darlington and Pickering. Those items include updating the Pickering nuclear nuclear emergency plan and the Durham peacetime plan. Cost of Fire Hall Is Twice as Much As Town Planned Costs of building the town's northern northern fire station have turned out to be almost double the amount the town was expecting to pay. Town of Newcastle councillors learned this week that the project they initially thought was going to cost $300,000 is now going to cost almost $600,000. The lowest bid the town received for building the station was from Gerr Construction (a Bowmanville company) company) who bid $580,000. The general purpose and administration committee of Newcastle Council recommended awarding the contract to Gerr on Monday. Monday. Councillor Diane Ilamre said she would support the recommendation of staff and approve awarding the contract. contract. She aid say, however, that she hoped a situation like this, where a project was budgeted for one amount and received tenders at a much higher price, wouldn't happen again. "There is no question, wo have to approve tho report and go ahead with construction," she added. Councillor Arnot Wotton, in whose ward tho station is being built, said ho too was shocked when tho tenders for tho building came in so high. Firo Chief Mike Creighton said tho main reason tho cost was over tho budgeted budgeted amount was tho time of year in which construction was taking place. Winter building programs usually cost more than construction which takes place in tho frost-froo months. Additional paving requirements and a busy construction season were other reasons cited for the increased cost. The Region's share of the costs, if it receives funding from JEPP, is $26,400. "I'm not very impressed that we see this now," Mayor Hubbard said. 'The province has neglected to respond to the finances of emergency planning." The mayor said the Nuclear Emergency Emergency Task Force, when working on the plan, "backed off" on requesting a police boat and asked for an answer on marine alerting. "I think we're being had as a Re- gion...I don't think the province and the provincial co-ordinator of emergency emergency planning has responded to this Region," Region," she said. The plan was approved in principle and on the condition that items relating relating to marine notification and the primary primary evacuation zone are resolved. Ms Stickley said the information on the emergency plan will be sent to residents residents after Christmas. W111 mPTPPîQl v win Residents of the Durham Region can expect to pay more for flushing and brushing next year. Durham Regional Council last week approved an average increase of 9.2 per cent for water and sanitary sewer use. The impact on individual customers, customers, though, varies with the volume of water each uses. As an example, residents and small commercial business that consume up to 100,000 gallons a year will see their rates increase by nearly 7.9 per cent. At the other end, industrial and large commercial businesses that use between 50,000,000 and 150,000,000 gallons of water yearly are facing a 13.7 per cent increase on their bill. The rates are based on the assumption assumption that the number of water and sewer customers will continue to grow at a rate of six and 6.2 per cent. Customers who use 60,000 gallons \ of water a year can expect to pay an ' additional $5.81 each quarter for the service. Increased expenditures on water and sewer construction are additional reasons for the higher rates. Durham Region plans to spend $38 million on water expenditures and $43 million on sewers next year. The region annually sets the combined combined water and sewer rate at this time of year. The new rates are implemented implemented in January. Bazaar Raises $34,000for Knox Christian School The annual Christmas Bazaat*hold at Knox Christian School has raised doughnut, from a string. An auction' Inter in tho evening was one of the highlights highlights ol the day.