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Damages are estimated $200,000 following a fire in downtown Bowmanville on Friday Friday night. The Leisure Lady women's wear store, at 19 1/2 King St. West, received heavy smoke and water damage as did apart- j ments on the second floor. The drywall which comprised ! the floors and ceilings suffered the most damage, said Town of Newcastle Fire Chief Mike Creighton. The estimation will vary depending depending on insurance companies," companies," said Chief Creighton. "The ceiling and floors will have to be repaired. There was also content damage to the store and apartments." Six people living in the building building were left homeless. However, However, nobody was injured in the blaze. The fire, which was reported shortly after 11:30 p.m. was contained in the false ceiling be tween the second and third floors. Firefighters were on the scene until 6 a.m. Durham Regional Police arrested arrested one tenant and charged him with possession of stolen goods following the fire. Found in one of the apartments was a computer, a television and a VCR which had been reported stolen in a break-in. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. What's Inside... Hydro Halts Darlington Tours Watching Town Councillors u Eagles' Slump Worsens... O Horticultural Highlights O Section Two 683-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, January 30,1991 Bowmanville, Ontario 88 Pages 137th Year Issue 6 60$ Per Copy |prestonJ We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville MIX-UP - Residents in Newtonville - Newcastle Village area are being asked to ignore a notification from the Heart & Stroke Fund, that door to door canvassing for funds has been cancelled this year. There was an error in the mailings as these were to go only to the Cobourg area. Door to door canvassing by the Durham Region Heart & Stroke Fund is taking place this year. If you have any questions, please call 416-571-1582, the H & 3 Fund office. MEMBER DRIVE - The energetic energetic members of the Optimist Club of Bowmanville are planning planning a membership drive on Monday, Monday, February 4tn, 1991. It will take place in Courtroom #2 in the Court-Fire building on Church St., Bowmanville, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. If you are 21 years or over and interested, call 623- 2750 or 623-6521 for more information. information. SENIORS -, The Royal Canadian Legion, Br. 178, Bowmanville, has organized a Seniors Club. This club is open to any Br. 178 member or Ladies Auxiliary member who is 60 years of age or older. Meetings are held the first and third Wednesday of each month in the Jim Fair Room, starting at 2 p.m. If you'd like to hear more, call either Ron Johnson Johnson at 623-9768 or Gloria Grant at 987-1910. Come out and enjoy the friendship of your branch. 11TH ANNUAL - Those dedicated dedicated members of the Mac Ran sherry sherry family are still out there, trying trying to raise more needed money for the Kidney Foundation. They are sponsoring their 11th Annual Kidney Foundation Dance on Saturday, March 2nd at Newcastle Newcastle Village Community Hall, with music provided by "The Tradesmen." Tradesmen." We'll be telling your more about it before the event, but tickets are now available. See the advt in the Coming Events column. column. MAIL BAG - Readers will find a number of most interesting letters letters to the Editor on a wide range of subjects in this edition. We thank the authors for taking the time to express their opinions and putting them into words that we can print without being sued for libel or slander. Keep 'em coming. NUTfflN' NEW - Wonder why only one potential candidate for municipal office has registered his/her intention to run this fall? What are they waiting for - an invitation? invitation? It's a high honor to be able to participate in such an event, even if one doesn't happen to grab the brass ring. Surely, your town is important to you and you'd like to have your say in how jt progresses. Drop into the Town Hall (Civic Administrative Centre) and somebody will help you get signed up. PROTECT PETS - A warning has just come in from S.P.C.A. about the possibility of a beloved pet being killed by ingesting deadly spilled antifreeze (Ethylene (Ethylene Glycol). It's also lethal for humans, The item says take your pet to the vet immediately if such a thing happens. Humans should be taken to the hospital emergency. emergency. It's better if both stay away from the stuff. ON A ROLL - After a dismal start in '91, the Toronto Maple Leafs came to life Monday night to blank the North Stars 4-0. Goalie Peter Ing saved their necks with a great display; they couldn't miss him, he was hot. Did anybody check Wendel Clark for Steroids? MPP Joins Big Brothers' Bowl for Millions Developer Planning More Apartments for Emvtx-Nesters Town Centre Revised by Laura J. Richards The Bowmanville Town Centre, once touted as a landmark to help revitalize revitalize the downtown, will "hopefully" become a reality this year, said its developer developer on Tuesday. Jayson Schwarz, a one-time resident resident of Bowmanville, hopes to get his project off the ground soon. He has been working to rectify problems problems that have frustrated him since October, but wouldn't discuss them at this time, he said. "I am giving serious thoughts to changing the interior of the building but not to the exterior," he said during a telephone interview. "The market now is such that people do not want luxury condominiums with marble lobbies. lobbies. People want more bang for their dollar." When the project was introduced last year, the two-storey residential area of the four-storey complex was to sport two-storey arched windows, balconies, balconies, and a peaked and gabled facade. facade. The design would blend these components to give an atmosphere of Victorian/Art Deco elegance. The first two floors were earmarked Skate '88 Gives Town $300,000 Big Brothers of Newcastle are asking for the public's support in their annual annual fund raising activity, Bowl for Millions. The campaign is being held this ear from February 9 to 16. Durham East MP Gord Mills; pictured here with jittle Brother Johnnie Williams, will be one of the many people participating in the Celebrity Day bowl on February 16. If you are interested in helping to support the organization, pledge sheets and information are available at the Big Brothers office at 133 Church Street, Bowmanville. Or you can call 623- 6646 for more details. E 4 Soldiers Need Games and Underwear Donations Sought For Our Gulf Troops by Andrea Adair Canadian troops in the Persian Gulf need underwear. Çourtice resident Bruce Wood, who is helping organize a donation effort in support of the troops, is attempting to collect magazines, video cassettes, toiletries, toiletries, and underwear for troops in the Gulf. The need for games, magazines and books from him is self-explanatory. Mr. Wood said underwear is on his list of things to send the soldiers because of the fact that after the briefs are washed a few times the density of the water causes the fabric to break down. Therefore, the armed forces personnel personnel find that their underwear needs replacing more regularly than expected. expected. Mr. Wood listed items needed by our troops in the Gulf at a Durham Regional Council meeting last week. He appeared before Council to ask for the support of area municipalities in an effort called "Operation Maple Leaf." An employee at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, Mr. Wood and his fellow employees decided to do something something to snow the troops in the Gulf Canadians are behind them. They started a collection campaign at the plant just before Christmas where workers dropped off magazines, periodicals, audio tapes, ana other items to be sent to the overseas, Mr. Wood explained the idea emerged out of a newspaper story last November that stated the Canadian troops were concerned about the lack of support they were receiving from Canada. American soldiers, of the other other hand, were getting numerous letters letters of support under Operation Brave Heart. "We felt we could help generate some support for our own men and women who could be laying their lives down for us," he said. A social club at the plant organized the effort with the support of Ontario Hydro. The first shipment was sent over to the Gulf, for leisure-time activities, in December. Mr. Wood said contact has been made with a representative from the Canadian Armed Forces who has arranged arranged for the forces in Toronto to pick the shipments up. He wanted to stress that this was a project the public could "plug into" if they wanted to do something for the soldiers. All donations will be welcome. welcome. Service clubs and schools are also being encouraged to take part. Magazines, recent periodicals, audio and visual tapes, games such as trivial pursuit or cards, non-perishable food items and toiletries are all appropriate donations. Donations can be brought to the Information Information Centre at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Drop-off points in the municipality have yet to be arranged, Mr. Wood said. by Andrea Adair Skate '88 made their final payment of $313,287 towards the Bowmanville Recreation Complex on Monday. And with that payment came a suggestion. suggestion. Garnet Rickard, fund-raising cam- S aign chairman of Skate ,'88, asked fewcastle Council to consider transferring transferring money from the park reserve •ânjri! iMo flif.areo.ipff'ihd. ...La ,,j': < ■'•me explained that the sale of the old Queen St. arena in Bowmanville was to' contribute $175,000 to the cost of the new arena. ' ïy Mr. Rickard said the community will approve of council retaining the downtown arena site as parkland. "It will make no difference in the bottom line of the municipality," he said. The Skate '88 fund raising campaign campaign has collected $1,125,000 for the arena. Part way through their campaign, campaign, they raised their goal to $1.5 million. Mr. Rickard said Skate '88 is entering entering the second phase and he is "optimistic "optimistic we will reach it in '91 and optimistic optimistic we'll reach target." The cost of the recreation complex was $5,393,200. The town issued debentures debentures for $2.3 million. The Skate '88 campaign was to raise $1.1 mill! in while revenue from other sources such as grants and reserves accounted for the remainder. The sale of the old arena was to put $175,000 into the fund. The director of community services and the treasurer will be reviewing Mr. Rickard's. suggestion and reporting reporting to Town Council. for commercial space. Mr. Schwarz would like to gear the residential area of the building towards towards "the empty-nesters and senior citizens" and have 35 apartments on three floors. The original plans gave the Bowmanville Town Centre to nave 21 luxury condominiums on two floors. Now, Mr. Schwarz, would like to cut down on the amount of commercial space available in order to provide more housing space. "People want well-done, with very, very nice and reasonably priced living space, The reworking of the interior will require rezoning of the property," he said. The construction of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Town Centre was announced early early in 1990 and was to be completed by November 1990. The complèx was to replace the Specialty Specialty Paper Building wnich was formerly formerly occupied by the Dominion Organ Organ and Piano Factory. Currently all that is there is the safes office trailer, debris and what is left of the last snow fall. JLJL JL 1 V/ WW K7 k. y Environment Week June 1 to Environment Week in the Town of Newcastle has been officially set as the week of June 1 to 8. John Veldhuis, chairman of the Port Granby - Newcastle Environment Committee, asked council to declare the week on Monday, the anniversary of his involvement with the environment. environment. Mr. Veldhuis is an active environmentalist environmentalist who has been working on behalf of the environment for 15 years. Presenting council with a synopsis of the events and activities the environment environment committee has been involved in, Mr. Veldhuis said: "I believe this community serves as a model for other communities." Members of the committee are constantly constantly questioned by the media and Emergency Dept. Re-locates Entrance Beginning on February 4, the emergency emergency entrance at Memorial Hospital will be temporarily relocated to the immediate right of the usual entrance. The relocation is due to renovations being conducted throughout the original original Emergency Department at Memorial Memorial Hospital. Only patients requiring emergency services should be using the new emergency entrance, hospital officials say. All visitors and patients being admitted admitted to hospital are requested to use theTiospital's main entrance. Parking, too, will now be prohibited in front of the new emergency entrance. entrance. Joan Dunnigan, director of promotions promotions and development at Memorial, said unless it is a dire emergency, Handi Transit, taxis and the general f iublic are being urged to use the circu- ar driveway in front of the main entrance entrance to the hospital. She said the administration requests requests the community's co-operation during the next few months of major emergency department renovations. 1er groups, he said, and are meeting with success and gaining respect in other communities. He said if it wasn't for the support of council, the committee would not have accomplished the many things it has. Post Office Goes The post office in Newcastle Village will officially close on February 7. But residents in the area will find retail postal services available to them at the Guardian Drug Store at 50 Mill St. N. Councillor Frank Stapleton, at Newcastle Council on Monday, said that once the building is vacated, the municipality will have first opportunity opportunity to purchase the property if the space is needed. Town staff will be looking into the possibility of acquiring the site. The new retail postal outlet will be open Monday to Wednesday and Saturday, Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Composters are Coming Comnosters and digesters will be available for sale in tne municipality on March 1. Newcastle Councillor Larry Hannah reminded his colleagues at a Council session Monday that Durham Region will be supplying the devices here. But specific depots where they will be sold have not yet been decided. He said councillors could speak to the director of public works if they have suggestions about locations for selling the composters. , by Andrea Adair A former Orono resident was one of the first pilots to fly in a combat mission mission for Canada in tne Persian Gulf. Arnie Tate, 29, a graduate of Clarke High School, flew one of four F-18 bombers on January 24. According to fellow schoolmate and close friend! Karen Martin, Tate had iust finished his training in the forces last April. "Am' had a dream of wanting to become become a pilot," she said, adding that's exactly what he did. After high school, he went to flying school in Sault Ste. Marie, obtained his pilot's license and flew for a courier company in Canada and the US before enlisting in the armed forces at the age of 25. - "Perhaps because of his flying abili- . ty and his maturity of years, he was accepted," Mrs. Martin said. He graduated in 1990 with the "Top Gun" award which, Mrs. Martin explained, explained, is an "incredible honour" because because it is given to pilots who have achieved the highest level of marks in all levels of training. In July of last year he was stationed in West Germany where he remained until December 3 when he was deployed deployed to the Gulf. Over the years Mrs, Martin has kept in contact with her friends. She has known Arnie since public school and Lisa (Lisa MacNeil) since high school. Lisa also is a graduate of Clarke High School. She noted that since the war, the contact has been more frequent. Lisa, still working in Germany, has told Karen that "she finds the moral support all the wives give is good" and the treatment from the base com mander has also been good. "But in her heart she is aching to see her husband," Mrs. Martin said. Mr. Tate, stationed in Qatar, was. thankful when he left West Germany that Canada's role would be one of doing doing surveillance and not bringing harm to people, she continued. "Arnie and the other guys are the best of the best. He may be put in a position position where he has to defend ... he's not the kind of guy to be proud of that but he has a job to do," she said. His wife receives fairly good updates updates on the situation, since she works at the Canadian forces radio and television television station off the base. Unfortunately, most of the news is American and British and she doesn't hear as much about the Canadians as we do. Knowing someone in the Middle East has brought the war that much closer to Mrs. Martin. "Any kind of crisis, when you have somebody dear to you that's there, it makes it that much more real." She said she is concerned both for Arnie and his wife. While Lisa is afraid of her husband being taken prisoner or killed, she remains optimistic. optimistic. On Karen's end, her children have been sending Arnie letters and pictures pictures and his favourite chocolate bars to keep his morale up. Mrs. Martin said that there may be many people who don't believe Canada should be involved in the war. But she said they don't have to believe believe in it to feel sympathy for the soldiers soldiers and their families. "People are there. That's the reality." reality."