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! Solutions te Local Garbage \ L!C3A8 Taking Shape EOWtttNVILLE LIBRARY 62 TEMPERANCE ST. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO BOWL IB 900731 * II Section 2 M Library Board Disappointed with I Cuts in Funding ^ 1,:, by Andrea Adair The number of welfare cases in Durham Durham Region has risen sharply in the first two months of this year. And that could mean a $1.7 million increase in the Durham Region's annual annual budget. Last week, chairman of the health and social services committee, Diane Hamre, told members of Regional SECURITY SYSTEMS Wireless Installations FREE Demonstrations NORTH STAR SECURITY 723-5988 986-4348 LUCKY NUGGET - Some fortunate fortunate Bowmanville shopper may be $500 richer. Please check the Gold Nuggets you received at one of the DBIA participating stores and if your nugget shows the number 17051, you've won. Just present your nugget to Bowmanville Bowmanville Audio Vision before March 17th and walk away with your prize. Watch this space next week for another winning Nugget number. You can get loads of nuggets by shopping at the DBIA stores. Good luck! WHY GO AWAY? - As we sit here writing this profound stuff, we wonder why students and parents parents are flying all over the world during March Break when the weather outside is magnificent. The dense fog has lifted, the sun is shining and the thermometer is heading heavenward. Aside from a plethora of mud, it's a great day here and we are not worried about our luggage. You couldn't esk for anything more. ERRATA - Apologies are preferred preferred to readers, only one of whom was kind enough to clip last week's Bits column and sent it in to suggest in a kindly way that we didn't know what dates were involved in a couple of articles. articles. We're not quite sure how the goofs occurred. We caught them just after the papers were printed. That's when they really stick out clearly. CROWDED OUT - Last week, we had so many letters, pictures and stories that three letters on the town's controversial name had to be held over. They are included included in this edition and while there have been no tremendous developments to report, the wheels are turning and some progress appears imminent. Stay tuned. PARKING COMPLAINT - One letter last week was addressed to the Bowmanville Boosters, criticizing criticizing them for being part of a town that would fine people for parking at the Fitness Centre while they were attending an event at the High School. We should mention that the Boosters have nothing to do with such items. That's up to Town of Newcastle Newcastle staff NOT Bowmanville. However, in their defence, we just checked and noticed a sign saying parking only for those attending attending the Fitness Centre. Guess you gambled and lost - or can't read. But, we sure do need more parking space at the school to accommodate large crowds. POKER GAME - While most citizens citizens don't appear to bo too concerned concerned about the Mooch Lake Accord, the federal and provincial politicians are doing their utmost to stir up anxiety over Canada's future if the accord is not signed. The deadline is approaching and both sides of the dispute are standing pat, making no concessions. concessions. We should soon know who is bluffing whom and what cards they arc holding. BOTH ANNIVERSARY . A release release just came in advising us that well-known sportsman- lawyer Terry Kelly of Oshnwn will bo the keynote speaker at the 50th Anniversary Annual general mooting of the Oshnwn- • Whilby-Nowcnstlo United Way. It's a dinner at General Sikorski Polish Veterans Hall, Oshnwn, on Tuesday, March 20th. Terry headed the United Way lor five years starting in 197u and has been involved ever since. Wo look forward to hearing him again, Council that the caseload in February climbed by 35.3 per cent over the caseload caseload in 1989. This increase comes on the heels of a 25.3 per cent jump in January. Councillor Harare said staff was hoping the increase in January was just a glitch but now "it looks like it's the trend." She explained that to continue to meet the needs of the people living on assistance, eight more staff members will need to be hired. . The health and social services department department has budgeted for 18 new members. Councillor Hamre explained that under an agreement with the Province of Ontario, Durham has to have a certain certain number of staff members for the number of caseloads they have. Staff are hired only when the clients clients appear, but the positions must be included in the budget. "If the numbers keep going the way it looks like they're going, we will need the staff," Councillor Hamre told The Statesman. Eight additional staff members will increase the health and social services budget by $1.7 million. © Guidelines for budget discussions have been set at 12 per cent. Councillor Hamre said the budget increase may be high but it's based on matters the Region can't control Such as inflation, wage settlements and annualization annualization of salaries. "We can't maintain the existing services services without going to 12 per cent," she continued. . Other areas surrounding Durham are experiencing similar increases in caseloads. In Durham, 2.4 per cent of the population population is on assistance, But, in other regions, the chairman said, that number number is at 4 per cent. Councillor Hamre said the major factor in the jump is the downturn of the economy as well as layoffs at General General Motors. ¥ 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday» March 14,1990 Bowmanville, Ontario 36 Pages 136th Year Issue 11 50$ Per Copy Iprestonj , We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville f m Tin M What Do You Mean I Need a Nose Mg igjsvtgyv «ÉBl j. VH 1 - Sarah Monaghan (left) and her sister, .Elizabeth, had to get out a ruler to measure Pinnochio's legendary skills in tellin 7th Annual March Break Bonanza. The Pi in the Bowmanville Recreation Complex. Children have been busy ....v.. „ number of special March Break outings this week as the Town of Newcastle Community Services Department does its best to give parents a rest from their holidaying children. Hydro Explains Its Side to D.G.S. Staff Board Ratifies Accord Trustees with the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education have ratified a two year contract with their elementary school teachers. The trustees approved the agreement agreement at a board meeting last Thursday Thursday night. Teachers ratified the contract contract on March 5. The contract is retroactive to September September 1, 1989 and runs until August 31,1991. Under the contract, teachers will receive receive an initial salary increase retroactive retroactive to September 1, 1989 of 5.5 per cent. A second increase, retroactive to February 1, 1990, increases teachers' salaries by 1.4 per cent. In the second year of the contract, the teachers will receive a 5.25 per cent increase in September 1990, followed followed by a 1.25 per cent in February 1991. Under the old contract, the salary range for teachers was $21,870 to $55,520. As of February 1990, the salary salary range for approximately 800 teachers teachers became $22,180 to $56,300. Salary and working conditions, especially especially preparation time, were the issues issues that proved to be stumbling blocks in the talks which started last April. Preparation time will increase in the 1990-91 school year to two hours a week from the current 90 minutes, and in the 1991-92 school year to 28 minutes a day. The Board also agreed to new average average class sizes for tne 1990-91 school year. The average class size for grades 1 and 2 will become 20 students compared compared to the current 22. After five months of talks, the Education Education Relations Committee appointed a fact finder - Helen Finley of King ston, Ontario - who met with the parties parties in October and released her report in late November. Later, an impasse in negotiations led to the appointment of Gene Swimmer Swimmer of Carleton University as mediator. mediator. He met with the parties on February February 14 and 15 when a tentative settlement was ironed out. "We are very gratified with the results results and appreciate the assistance of the Education Relations Committee and Gene Swimmer in mediating the settlement," said Charles W. Kennedy, Superintendent of Instruction (personnel). (personnel). by Andrea Adair Ontario Hydro has issued a letter to its Darlington workers in order to explain explain its side of the ongoing dispute with the Town of Newcastle. But the Town of Newcastle sees this step as an indication that Hydro views itself in the wrong. "If clean and 100 per cent right, why take this course of action?" asked Larry Kotseff, chief administrative officer officer with the town of Newcastle Mr. Kotseff said the letter may be fine from Hydro's perspective. But he questioned why the utility has taken this action. A spokesperson from Darlington said the letter was issued to communicate communicate information. Sue Stickley, communications officer officer at Darlington Generating Station said a number of employees had been asking about the dispute between the town and Hydro. "We wanted them to hear directly from Ontario Hydro," she said. Ms Stickley said a copy of the letter was sent to the mayor and members of Council because hydro wanted them to know, what was being said. Bt.L Mr. Kotseff said there were some 'matters listed in the letter that were inaccurate. 1 One of those matters, he stated, dealt with the emergency plan. Mr. Kotseff said the off-site emergency emergency plan hasn't been approved by the province and has only been ap- . proved by Durham Region in principle. The letter stated that "off-site emergency emergency réponse plans dealing with public public protection have been developed by the Provincial Ministry of the Solicitor General and the Region of Durham." Ms Stickley said there were some matters reported in the media by the Town of Newcastle that Ontario Hydro felt were inaccurate as well. 'That's the trouble when we don't communicate directly," she said. A copy of the employee letter sent to Mayor Marie Hubbard came with a le,tter asking her to reinstate direct communication with Hydro. "John McCredie and I would very much like to reinstate direct communication communication with you and your Council members to discuss this type of information information (the letter) as well as matters not directly related to building permits and fire plans," Ms Stickley wrote in the letter. Mr. Kotseff said Hydro needed the liaison committee more than the Town does but said it would be up to Council to make the decision whether to reinstate reinstate it or not. The Town of Newcastle suspended the hydro liaison committee, a committee committee made up of Town of Newcastle Council members and representatives from Darlington, one year ago. Ms Stickley added that Hydro was trying to "play fair" with the Town. "That's why we gave them something something (the letter) before we gave it to the employees," she said. Newcastle's dispute with Hydro over building permit fees and building code requirements related to its Tritium Tritium Removal Facility and its heavy water water management building have been referred to independent tribunals for a resolution. i Problems Keep -r> 1 • g"'i n Darlington L.o. Generators at The unit two reactor at Darlington Generating Station is currently running running at less than one per cent power because of some problems in the electrical electrical generator. Sue Stickley, communications officer officer at Darlington, said there were some "abnormal vibrations in the generator generator bearings." The rëaetor has been idling at less than one per cent because, she said, Hydro doesn't want to shut the unit down but it has no place to put the steam at a higher power. Ms Stickley said it is unknown at this time whether this is a serious problem and said it was being investigated investigated this week. "We expect to find problems when we are doing commissioning. It may still be a simple commissioning problem." problem." The reactor has. been at 50 per cent power since Ontario Hydro received its 100 per cent power licence last month. Power to the reactor was lowered to seven per cent last Friday and was dropped down to less than one percent yesterday. Plans Needed for Railway and Hydro Wilmot Creek Residents Preparing for Disaster Wilmot Creek residents have asked the municipality to review evacuation plans to be used in the event of a rail disaster near their community. The Wilmot Creek development, which is designed ns a retirement community, community, lies between Highway 401 and the CN railway lines. In a letter to Newcastle Council, Los Trotman, chairperson of a committee committee of the Wilmot Creek Homeowners' Association, said that his group wishes to bo told of plans in place in the event of a railroad disaster involving the spillage of chemicals omitting toxic fumes and gases. "I am sure you are aware of the vulnerability vulnerability of the Wilmot Creek development development insofar that there does not seem to bo any quick and safe egress from this particular location," Mr. Trotman said in his letter. The Wilmot Creek community currently currently has about 1,000 residents and there is potential for additional growth in a future phase. In an interview, Mr. Trotman said that tlm inquiry on behalf of the Con cerns, Safety and Security Committee is exploratory in nature. "We arc interested in working with the town to discuss it further," he added. added. Both roads lending out of the development development cross the radwny tracks and one of the roads, which lends to Cob- Turn to Pago 2 Tax w® Although the Town's 19ÜU budget has not yet been finalized, it looks as though Newcastle ratepayers will see a 7.5 per cent increase in the local portion portion of this year's tax bill. Newcastle Mayor Mario Hubbard said after Monday's Council mooting that it now appears Newcastle's budget budget will be 7.5 per cent over last year's expenditures. Councillors began budget deliberations deliberations last Friday and the talks are continuing, continuing, -IMEE lEv im fe N Eagles Force 7th Game with 4-2 Win in Port Perry Scott Webster and lira rest of lira Bowmanville Eagles will bo 'under the gun' as they prepare for a seventh and deciding game tomorrow night at lira Recreation Complex Complex against Port Perry. The Eagles came up big in game six last night, defeating the Mojacks 4-2. For these Bow-