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i 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, August 25,1993 Vacation Bible School Successful You ask what to do with your kids this time of the summer? For over 600 children, Vacation Bible School has been the answer. From August 17-22 Liberty Pentecostal Church, on the comer of Martin Road and Highway Highway #2, has housed hundreds of excited excited boys and girls. But this week was no baby sitting. The children did some "serious" playing and learning. Each morning at 9:30 a.m. the kids packed the church's main auditorium, singing songs like "Sing, Shout, Clap Your Hands". And that's exactly what they did. From there the large group is broken down into age groups for Bible Stories, crafts and sports. Bible Stories were based on the theme Construction Zone. "The main purpose of the lessons is to build moral moral values in to the lives of these children" children" says Pastor Rick Hilsden, Senior Senior Minister of the Liberty Pentecostal Church. Crafts included, a mouse trap refrigerator refrigerator magnet, a floral wallhang ing, a "walking" chicken and more. But the activities that got the biggest reviews, were the special sports and creative events, VBS '93 featured a 300' Ice Cream Sundae, smothered with chocolate sauce, bananas bananas and cherries. Saturday included a 75' water slide. The grande finale took place on Sunday with a musical presentation of "The secret of Life is JAM" followed followed by a Community Bar-B-Q and an outdoor drama called "The, Land of Jam". ■ 1 The success of Liberty's Vacation Bible School is due to a dedicated volunteer staff of 125 adults who worked for weeks preparing for this event, according to Pastor Hilsden. Mr, Mark MacPhcrson, a local GM employee, has been the creative genius genius behind the numerous details. He begins planning the annual event nearly 9 year in advance. Vacation Bible School takes place in August each summer. ' The 125 volunteers at the Liberty Pentecostal Church Vacation Bible School had some quiet time on Friday, Aug. 20, as 550 children children spooned their way through a 300 foot sundae. The sundae was made from 128 litres of vanilla ice cream, 20 pounds of bananas, four litres of chocolate syrup, 10 jars of cherries. As for the kids, they just enjoyed their "just desserts." m ' • ; I'm Back! and working at BY DESIGN You can reach me at 987-5455 Tuesday - Saturday « 73 King St. West, Newcastle ]J * *x> Joanne Pierik Back To School with Bulova The right fashion watch at the right price Caravelle by Bulova presents the most beautiful and practical jewelry to ever circle a ^ ». woman's wrist. Quartz > precision and sophisticated sophisticated styling are combined to create the last word in affordable fashion timepieces. Take a little time to come in and see them. CXravelle l by Bulova 4IK3I Black dial Mt with one diamond. Goldione case. Solid-link goldlone bacelet with center catch. 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The municipality is also seeing the need to develop the Main Central Central Area. This is an issue that the municipality municipality has had studied. It is now looking at how to apply the knowledge knowledge gleaned from recent reports. With the need within the municipality municipality to keep the shopping dollars here, the owners of Markborough Properties were ready to step in with the idea of a plaza on the west side of Bowmanville. "Everyone generally agrees, that more shopping facilities are heeded in the area," Mr. Kotseff said. " The new plaza will give the new and growing population an extended place to shop. At the same time, the council has helped to lessen the impact impact on the downtown business area. And, as the population base grows, so does the need to keep green spaces and heritage areas amongst the growth. Mr. Kotseff spoke of the numerous numerous parks and recreation areas that will become pockets for enjoyment in future years for residents living here. He said the same goes for the heritage buildings within the municipality. municipality. "You just can't go out and make a heritage building," he noted. Places like the Tyrone Mill will. become more than just attractions to folks outside of the area. Mr. Kotseff said one of the other areas where there have been changes changes over his seven years of being at the helm of the administrative ship is in the greater involvement of people people within their community. For example, there was the committee committee which raised the money for the Bowmanville Recreation Complex Complex at the comer of Highway 2 and Regional Road 57. Mr. Kotseff predicts people-will^ be as supportive of the Courtice' Community Complex as they .ycrcl for the Bowmanville facility. .X \ One facility that he has seen improved improved over the years is the administration administration building of the municipality. municipality. "Prior to the building of the addition, addition, the departments of the town were scattered all over," Mr. Kotseff said. One department was in Hampton, another in the Vcltri Complex, and municipality, since it "forced municipalities municipalities to think in a 10-year term." "The whole aspect of subdivision agreements will ensure the protection protection of the public," Mr. Kotseff said. The agreements will come in handy if a developer of a subdivision subdivision doesn't finish the work which is supposed to be done. In that event, the municipality can complete complete the work at no cost to the public, public, Mr. Kotseff stated. "Our paramount obligation is not to put the public at risk," he added. Looking to the future, Mr. Kotseff Kotseff predicts that municipalities such as Clarington are going to find themselves "doing less for less" instead instead of doing more for less as they are now. During those times, council, and municipal departments will find themselves having "to reduce or postpone projects for a time." The changes will be more in tune with what the taxpayer wants from the municipality, he said. While the taxpayer goes with less services, the departments within the administration will make adjustments adjustments as well. "There will be some fine-tuning and the sharing of resources within the departments," he noted. Some of the municipality's actions actions will not be in keeping with what local government has traditionally traditionally done. For example, our municipal government government docs not have a personnel department, The number of departments in this municipality is lower than the number of departments in the municipal municipal government in Pickering, for example. However, Mr. Kotseff says that; suits this municipality's administration administration and the way it works. Another thing that seems to suit, the administration is their ability to sit back and review potential opportunities, opportunities, Mr. Kotseff said. "Council will digest this (his leaving) and see this as an opportunity opportunity to rethink its needs," Mr. Kotseff Kotseff predicted. So, as of Friday, Sept. 10, he will have left the halls of the Clarington Municipal Building on Temperance Street, Bowmanville for the somewhat somewhat more established corridors of the City of New Westminster, B.C. He is looking forward to the new challenges and additional responsibilities responsibilities he will be dealing with there. Mr. Kotseff will miss this area of Ontario, since he has spent "almost all of my life here," but he is looking looking forward to the move. "What I feel (for the area) will be offset by the new job. It's a tough move, with a lot of positive aspects," aspects," Mr. Kotseff told The Statesman. Statesman. Larry Kotseff ■ another in the old Bell Telephone building on the north side of Church Street at Temperance Street. The addition "allowed us to get under one roof and offered the public public a gallery" during council and public meetings. The building of the administrative administrative centre was, in Mr. Kotseff's line of thinking, "a real positive move," especially since the town officials officials had thought about moving the administration building to another location altogether. "It was wise to keep it here. If the administration takes an interest in the downtown, others will," he said. Since Mr. Kotseff became the CAO, other changes have taken place in some notable areas. One such area is the fire department. department. When he first came to Clar- inglon, Newcastle had two full-time firefighters, a chief and a deputy. Now there are 16 full-time firefighters, firefighters, a healthy part-time complement complement and five fire stations throughout throughout the municipality. 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