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i MMANVILE LIBRARY 62 TEMPERANCE ST. L 1 C3A8 301113 91273! ttÜlg f Marilyn Pearce ^ \ Opens Kirk Kemp J Campaign Office v ' ■ ^ Welcomes Premier 1 To Port Periy z ::3 ! k. New M.P. Feels Durham East Could be Won by N.D.P. Former Ushawa MPP Mike Breaugh doesn't think a David Peterson Peterson win is inevitable. "Politics in Ontario is changing quickly," Mr. Breaugh told an NDP nomination meeting in Bowmanville last week. "I feel quite optimistic the NDP will do quite well this time." Mr. Breaugh, who was an NDP member of provincial parliament until this year, won an August 13 federal by-election to take over Ed Broad- bent's seat. He told party supporters that a summer election is a tough election CARPET WAREHOUSE CARPET AT EVERY DAY DISCOUNT PRICES 3 FRtl: ESTIMATES * PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION 149 KINGS ST. W., | oshawa ' ' 728-4601 MEMORIES - An incident last week must have brought back a few memories for Rod Savage, one of our editorial graduates, now with Thomson News Service. He was doing a story about the Queen of the Fairs Pageant at the CNE when he noticed that Orono's Fair Queen, Traci Myles, had won the Miss Congeniality title. Congratulations! Probably Rob may nave reported on Durham Durham Central Fair at Orono when he was with us. This year's CNE Queen is 20-yr-old Lynne Nicklas of Tavistock. COMPLAINT - Fairly early Sunday morning, the Editor was on duty, covering the Hungarian Scouts at their picnic grounds on Hwy. 57, north of Taunton Road. Unfortunately, the rains had forced the picnickers to go inside at their Oshawa headquarters, but several men were there, including including Otto Weber. He was most annoyed with the mayor and council because they were insisting insisting that the grounds be rezoned before their burned out shelter could be rebuilt. No doubt we shall hear more at council in Sept. .-HELD OVER - Sorry to disap- • point the crew who were doing l the crime re-enactment at Roy : Nichols Motors in Courtice Mon- ■ day night, but we ran out of ; space before the pictures of the event were ready for publication. There were too many political photos competing for exposure. They will appear in next Wednesday's Wednesday's paper, for sure, and we hope someone will recall more details details of the car theft so the culprits culprits may be apprehended by Crime Stoppers. VOLUNTEERS - Correspondent Joyce Kelly of Blackstock, who is also Secretary of Blackstock Fair, which takes place this Saturday, , has offered this newspaper's staff a rare opportunity, which so far ' is going begging They are having a Media Milking Contest and looking for competitors with pull ■ : or squeeze from the newspapers . and radio stations. The problem . is they don't say whats to be milked. They've tried goats, cows -' and pigs. Wonder what it will be this year? Our staff don't seem too eager. SYMPATHY may have been Some husband saved a day or two of laborious work by an accident accident Monday afternoon. We have no idea who the lady was, but we had just parked our car outside Dykstra's when we noticed a stream of what we thought was milk flowing down the gutter. It 11was paint, probably n gallon of the stuff, that had been dropped and spilled not just on the road, but on the woman ns well. What a mess! Hope she doosn t mind our mentioning it. ! MORE CORN • This item has nothing to do with the current provincial election, although we wouldn't bo surprised if there is some mention of it at the event. But, next Wednesday, August 29th from 4 p.m. until dusk, Mr Ross Stevenson is carrying on Al Lawrence's tradition with a BBQ* CORN ROAST at Blackstock Fairgrounds, rain or shine. Bring appetites and lawn chairs. Wonder Wonder if the four NOT PC candidates candidates would lie welcome? Just a thought. Bring your own soap box! but added that there is a base of support support for the NDP in Durham East, stating that a number of residents work at GM and other organized plants. „ The MP said there are a number of ridings in the province similar to this one where the incumbent isn't running running for office. "I don't know if we'll win but the NDP stands the best chance of everybody everybody else." Mr. Breaugh said he was pleased with the directness and freshness of the current NDP campaign and criticized criticized David Peterson for not explain ing why the election was being called at this time, three years into his term. "Is something going to happen this fall that David Peterson doesn't want to be involved in?" he asked, adding that the best explanation for the election election is that someone in his office likely did a poll and found that the premier shouldn't wait any longer. Mr. Breaugh said the theme of what the Liberals nave been doing in Ontario Ontario since they won their huge mandate has been to listen to people, talk nicely to them, and then wait for their problems problems to go away. -- ■ - Turn to Page 2 NDP Selects Their Man by Andrea Adair Gord Mills has been selected as the Durham East NDP candidate for the upcoming provincial election. At a meeting in Bowmanville last Tuesday, Mr. Mills, who was the sole nominee, told a crowd of roughly 13 party members, that he wouldn't let them down. "I promise you that on September 6, there will be more people here than there are tonight." Mr. Mills told the members he may have a peculiar accent but that he has lived in Canada for more years than he has lived in England. He said he had been brought up in a labour home and said the NDP in Canada Canada has been the only party he has associated associated with. "It is the only party.in Canada today today that has a social conscience," Mr. Mills stated. When the candidate first entered E olitics, as a local councillor in Barrie, e was a little reluctant to do so because because he wasn't sure how the public would accept him. "There is an old saying that you can always tell an Englishman but you can't tell him anything," which is what he thought people would feel about him. But he states he was never defeated in Barrie where he served for 7 years. He left only when his job as a provincial provincial tax auditor brought him to Oshawa. Concerning Durham East, the candidate candidate believes the riding is up for grabs. "I think the big blue machine in this riding ... the wheels have fallen off of it," Mr. Mills stated. Gord Mills 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, August 22,1990 Bowmanville, Ontario 24 Pages 136th Year Issue 34 50$ Per Copy IpRESTONj We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Durham East Riding Has Close to 170 Polls Massive Responsibility for Returning Officer by Andrea Adair No one hates a summer election more than the person in charge of organizing organizing the event. Francine Newton, returning officer for Durham East, said the problem with the election call coming in the summer is that people are on holidays. "We have problems getting people to work and to enumerate them," she said in an interview last week. It may not seem as if it is a serious problem but when you only have 37 days to organize and train 338 enumerators, enumerators, 169 poll clerks, and 169 deputy deputy returning officers, in addition to finding locations for 169 polls, you want things to run as smoothly as possible. possible. At this moment, there are more As Returning Officer for Durham East, Francine Newton has her hands full. She is in charge of organizing, training and supervising enumerators, poll clerks and deputy returning officers. In addition, she is also responsible for dividing the riding up into polls for voting. Durham East boasts 169 different different polls. College Plans to Offer Classes at Hospital For the first time ever, Bowmanville Bowmanville residents will be able to take a course at Durham College without stepping out of town. This fall, the Management Centre of Durham College will offer a course on communications in one of the meeting meeting rooms of Memorial Hospital Bowmanville. Bowmanville. The course is one of the subjects lending to a certificate in Effective Supervision. Supervision. It will be offered Wednesday nights from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., starting September 12. Although it's located at the hospital, the communications course is open to any member of the public. Gary Polonsky, president of Durham Durham College, visited the hospital last week to review arrangements for launching this now project. He stated that he hopes to see an expansion in the number of courses available from Durham College in Bowmanville. "I would eventually like to see a Durham College satellite in Bowmanville," said Mr. Polonsky. He noted that satellite campuses are already already operating in communities such ns Ajax and Port Hope. Hospital President Richard Elston, said that Memorial Hospital Bowmanville Bowmanville welcomes the link with Durham College. "Tne Memorial Hospital Board of Directors and staff are extremely pleased and proud to link our resources resources to those of Durham College Management Management Centre, allowing us to extend our facility's services beyond the usual parameters of health care in order to offer educational opportunities to our community," Mr. Elston said. Anyone socking further information or wishing to register is asked to call the college at 576-0210. names left off the voting list than there were in all of the 1987 election and only two-thirds of the list has been completed. It is understandable the ease in missing a name on the list here and there. The riding is a mixture of rural and urban communities and sweeps from the Town of Newcastle to Durham Durham Road 23, covering Oshawa and Whitby north of Taunton Road, Man- vers, Scugog and Reach townships and Victoria Corners and Seagrave in the north. In the last provincial election, there were 46,486 people on the voters' list in this riding. With such a large area, there is little little wonder that Mrs. Newton doesn't see much of her family these days. Six days a week, from early morning until late at night, she can be found doing work in the Elections Ontario office in the Veltri Complex in Bowmanville. The days are long for all the return- ing officers in Ontario's 130 ridings because, because, a great deal of work is required tT .get the election machine, geared to rm\. smoothly on September 6. Mrs. Newton, who was returning officer officer for the election in 1987, can't officially officially start working on the election until until the writ comes down from the province. But in January she received maps of the riding which she used to divide the area up into polls. She had to drive through the riding and carry out a house count in order to have between 300 and 400 people in each polling station. . . What she found, while driving through some of the newer areas and what the enumerators are finding now, is a number of vacant homes. "This has affected the count when you are expecting 300 to 400 names and are getting only 45," she said. "That's the worst part of the job, working with guess-timates all the time," sne said. Once the election is called she can begin organizing her team of enumerators. enumerators. Two people work each polling area. The first person is appointed by the party in power; the second by the party with the highest votes in the riding, riding, Once they have completed their job and compiled the voters' list, the lists are checked and re-checked before copies copies are made and handed to the political political parties. Each party is entitled to 12 copies of the list which are then checked again. A person has until September 5 to get their names on the voting list. If they were missed, and if they live in an urban area of the riding, they. can phone Elections Ontario office at 623-5543 and an enumerator will be sent out to their home. Turn to Page 2 His Honour Lincoln Alexander, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will officially open the 125th Blackstock Fair this Saturday. In keeping with the 125th Anniversary celebrations, prizes will be awarded to various classes of period costumes. There are a wide variety of events planned for the fair including a Horse Show and a Cattle Show. Contestants had better sign up soon for apple peeling, nail driving, log sawing and the Farm Olympics for both adults and juniors. Teams of four are needed for this fun event. There will be a magic show by Steve Hepburn and an antique machinery display to bring back those memones of yesteryear. . , A longtime favourite of the fair is the Champion Cake Auction when the prize winning light cake will be auctioned by local auctioneer Harvey Graham. Other highlights include a media milking contest, horse pull and a dance to • conclude the fair on the Saturday. The Blackstock Fair Demolition Derby will be held on Friday evening, August 24, at the fair grounds. _ Spaces are limited to 30 entries and only a few slots remain. For more information, call Joyce Kelly at 986-4257. Chief Scout of Ontario Tries His Hand at Archery by Lisa C. Brown As the Chief Scout of Ontario walked into the camp,. tents were perfect perfect and faces were smiling. His Honour Lincoln Alexander, the Lieutenant Governor' of Ontario, visit- , ed 700 Hungarian Scouts at Loyola Park Camp just outside of Orono last Wednesday, August 22. The Lieutenant Governor, also the Chief Scout of Ontario, helped. the Scouts celebrate their 80th Anniversary Anniversary at their week long Jamboree. As the Lieutenant Governor toured the various camps and met Scouts, he told them: "You are the future of your countries and I am excited by what I see." He described his role ns Chief Scout as an opportunity to encourage and support young people of this country." The Scouts, ranging in ages from eight to 87, had gathered from Canada, Canada, the United States, Europe and South America. Due to the collapse of communism Scouts from Hungary were also able to attend the Jamboree for the first time in 45 years. Fittingly, the theme of the Jamboree Jamboree this year was the "Flowering of Democracy Democracy in Eastern Europe" with specific specific emphasis on Hungary. The campers were separated by ago into different sub-camps which were located within the 200 acre park. Scouts took part in overnight hikes, individual competitions in practical scouting skills, ns well as competitions in folktale tolling, Hungarian folk songs and public speaking. Tho park includes an infirmary with doctors and nurses on the silo along with assistance from the St. John Ambulance. Dale hache, COR Training Officer, described tho role of St. John Ambulance Ambulance as assisting in the health and safety for tho camp. MMm T.inulniinnl Tlio Lieutenant Governor is Vico Prior of St. John Ambulance. Tho jamboree camp ended on gust 18 with tho various troops seating folk dances, ballads and songs. also Au- pre- lblk His Honour Lincoln Alexander, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, visited tho Hungarian Boy Scouts Jamboree in Loyola Park near Orono on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 10th. While there ho visited the various camps and oven got a brief lesson in archery at one of tho camps for older Scouts. Tho Lieutenant Governor is tho Chiof Scout of Ontario.