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I 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, December 11,1991 The Week in Review New Challenges for Chairman Gary Herrema Returned to Head Durham Region Seniors' Centre Issues Raised From Page One -lion or the senior citizen popu- eus of the study is on seniors by Laura J. Richards The next three years will see some tough decisions made on some tough issues. issues. That's the view of Durham Region's recently re-elected chairman. Gary Herrema, who was unanimously returned to the post he has held for the past 11 years on Wednesday, Dec. 4, said, many important issues will be discussed discussed over the next three years. Mr. Herrema told regional councillors, councillors, regional office staff members and the public who attended the council's in- . augural meeting, he understands what pulling together means. "One year ago, there was a great deal of talk and many people thought I would not be back," Mr. Herrema said, in reference reference to his battle with cancer last year. However, he said, he came through that particular battle with help from friends and his family. Councillors will need to get ready to discuss issues such as encouraging communication communication between the public and the regional government. • He said gaining the public's interest would serve to better inform them about • the decisions made on their behalf. While talking with regional councillors, councillors, old and new alike, he said he found many of the electorate did not know much about the regional government. "The public doesn't know who we are," he said, while discussing comments comments made to politicians during the election campaign prior to the November November 12 election. To help build a better bridge with their constituents, regional councillors will have to start using words which don't confuse citizens, he said. "Instead of saying the "Official Master Master Plan," people can understand the "Quality of Life Blueprint." Instead of using the word "competitiveness," Mr. Herrema prefers the word "co-effort," when talking about working with people in government." Councillors will also have to work on dispelling the negativism that can follow them into the council chambers. "I want to say right now that negativism negativism isn't tolerated in this chamber," he told regional councillors. "I am looking forward to the next three years and to meeting the challenge of the 90s," he said. Disentanglement of services that are duplicated in both the local municipality and at the regional level will also be a big issue to cope with, Mr. Herrema told his colleagues. Economic development, which was one of the focuses of the regional councillors councillors elected in the Town of Newcastle, Newcastle, is also high on Mr. Herrema's list. The council will also look at Free Trade and lot levies. Yet another priority for the regional chairman is opening up communication lines with the Boards of Education and Durham College. Mr. Herrema said he .would like to see if the combined forces could "create some jobs." Waste management will be dealt with with the Interim Waste Authority and the Ministry of the Environment. Following his speech, Mr. Herrema introduced the councillors to the audience audience and media. Gary Herrema has been once again returned to his chairman's chair located in the Durham Region's council chamber in Whitby. Mr. Herrema is looking forward to the new and challenging three-year term ahead of him and the new council. lation were former mayor of the Town of Newcastle, Garnet Rickard, and resident Katherine Katherine Blake. "Have you thought about the distance people will have to travel to the centre?" asked Mr. Rickard. "The Town of Newcastle covers such a vast area and there arc focal points where people gather as a nucleus in their own community -- have the pot-stove leagues been considered?" said Mr. Rickard in reference to the list of people people being asked to participate in the information-gathering surveys. Ms Blake asked: "Is there a need to draw the seniors together together and separate them from the rest of the community?" She also wanted to know if seniors would be the only people people allowed to take part in activities activities there. "In the centre, there would be space for our programs," said Glenn Prout, one of the organizers organizers behind the idea of the centre. "If the centre is not in full use in the daytime, then the space could be used for younger younger people," Mr. Prout said. However, he did add: "Most of the time the space would be for seniors." "This project is still in the infonnation gathering stage," Ms Cooke pointed out to those attending the meeting. " It is still too early to make this kind of decision." "We've always focused on the children," Ms Cooke added. added. This time, the community is focusing on the needs of its growing population of seniors, Ms Cooke explained. "We're not excluding others," others," she said. However, Ms Cooke also pointed out the fo- and their needs. Senior citizens make up a fair number of the populations in the three wards in the Town of Newcastle, said Helen Iaras, one of the consultants. In Ward One, which includes includes Courticc, there are 3,014 seniors over age 55. In Ward Three, which includes Newcastle Village and Orono, there arc 2,310 seniors. In Bowmanvillc, which is Ward Two, there arc 2,720 senior citizens. citizens. And the population of this particular sector is. growing, Ms Iaras said. "The senior citizen population population is really growing. There is a trend towards a real increase in this age range." One of the reasons for this is the improved health care which increases life spans, Ms Iaras stated. Ward Two (Bowmanvillc) Local Councillor John O'Toole, one of two councillors councillors who attended the public information session, asked: "Is there an assumption that elderly elderly people collect in large groups rather than smaller groups?" "As with everyone else, there are joiners in the senior citizen population," replied Mr. Martindale. "We have to remember that not all of the seniors will wish to join." However, one woman in the audience told a different story.. "We have several senior groups including programs in Tai Chi and line dancing," she said. "We're bursting at the seams. "Just try to get a hall around here. They are either too hard to get or too far away to travel to or cost too much money (to rent)" she explained. The consultants have been working on the 26-week, five- phase project since November. Currently they arc still in the infonnation gathering stage. They, through a committee of area senior citizens, have just completed a random telephone telephone survey in the Town of Newcastle. The group has also initiated a "Providers' Questionnaire" which was sent out to the various various organizations and agencies in the town to sec what they feel seniors need. There is also a "Users' Questionnaire" which has been dropped off to all of the arenas, libraries and other community service facilities within the town or at the town hall on Temperance Street. These surveys and information information gathered from the Town and Durham Region will help the consultants when they begin begin to analyze and put together their report for the town council. council. Students Honor Women Murdered in Montreal From Page One ones to take part in the remembering remembering of the young women who were killed. Twenty-nine students at St. Francis of Assisi School in Newcastle Village Village lowered their school's flag at half-mast on Friday morning. 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