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Delivered j Free of Charge to 18,000 Homes in Clarington from The Publishers of Zfjt Canadian Statesman i * mm Bowmanville. OntàüM^M Saturday, November 17th Yean Issue 44 «Ixi ^ | ï - 7* . ' . -- 3 y^v by Laura J. Richards a project by the municipality's Eco- The Young Offenders Act, the nomic Development Office. The lack of sports facilities, finances and newsletter introduced the key mem- access to the beaches of Lake Onta- bers of the municipality to business rio, were some of the issues dis- owners, including councillors and cussed at a mayoralty forum on the mayor. Wednesday evening, Nov. 2. "There's nothing about the job Candidates Reg Willatts, Ann situation in Clarington," he said. Cowman and incumbent Diane Willatts noted the newsletter had Hamre, faced off during a two-hour been printed in Mississauga rather forum at the Flying Dutchman Hotel than in Clarington. He asked why it sponsored by the Oshawa & District couldn't have been produced local- Chamber of Commerce and the Car ly. nadian Statesman. He .also told the group that the new Chief Administrative Officer Candidates'Views w ho had been making $85,000 re- Willatts told an audience of cc j ve( j a $7 ; 000 raise. "Is this the about 70 people he would not make wa y t0 bring investment into Clar- any promises he couldn't keep. inglon?" he asked. However, he didn't pull any " Looking at the issue of municipal r punches when he talked about the credit cards, Willatts said the cards current council's record. have been taken away, but he won- During his opening remarks of dered if anyone was sure the money the evening, Willatts pulled out the spent would be repaid. first issue of the Clarington Report, Continued on Page 27 by Lorraine Manfredo Another load of racist leaflets has been dumped on Clarington. This time the 2-inch by 4-inch pamphlets with offensive slogans were found littering the road along the Bowmanville Golf Course on Middle Road at Concession #4, and also around Nash Road and Maple Grove Road. Earlier this summer police received received several reports of racist literature literature being scattered in ditches in Oshawa, Courtice and Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Heather Rademacher of Bowmanville Bowmanville was out walking her dog early Thursday morning and discovered discovered the leaflets in her area. "There" were easily hundreds, probably thousands" if you started looking. Obviously they're just tossing tossing them out as they drive by at night." Her rural neighborhood secs plenty of "midnight dumping" but Rademacher thinks the racist literature literature is worse because kids will pick up the pamphlets and read them. She hopes the next time it happens happens a witness will get a licence; plate number: "I'm really disappointed it's this wide-spread," she says. Staff Sergeant Sandy Ryrie of the Durham Regional Police says the problem has been on-going for some time and seems to be getting worse, particularly in Oshawa and east to Bowmanville. He has no idea why Durham has become a target area for the racist literature. "It's a problem that rears its ugly head on occasion everywhere everywhere Canada." The penalty for public incitement of hatred is a maximum of two years in prison.. A team from Durham Region's Street Crime Unit is investigating, but needs the public's help. Sgt. Ryrie encourages anyone who has any information to: contact police at 579-1520 or Crime Stoppers Stoppers at 436^8477. *?ncCefee«t6Ce*tt A & • R Ann Dreslinski* C a n ad i a n Ti re * Carson Elliott* Cathy McKeever* Diane Hamre G rah am 's I G A* Miracle Food Mart ("indicates partial distribution) For information about inserting flyers in The Independent, please contact our office at 623-3303 War Heroes Remembered by Legion Comrades mmm tCfêfcy C ■MMMB A Wm Branch 178 of the Royal Canadian Legion is sponsoring the "We Remember" cross program again this year to mark Remembrance Day 1994. This is the third year for the project in which small crosses are placed on the graves of local veterans. At the Bowmanville cemetery last Thursday Thursday were, from left: Sandra Stainton, Harvey Jones, Irene Whitney, Norm Baker, Les Cooper, Kay Allen, and Madge Caden. by Lorraine Manfredo For the third year in a row, a team of local Legionnaires is planting white crosses on all veterans' veterans' graves in Clarington. The "We Remember" cross program is a huge undertaking for the volunteers, who need two full days to mark each soldier's grave in ten municipal cemeteries. cemeteries. Norm Baker, project chairman, chairman, puts the number of dead local local veterans at 578. Baker managed to compile a list of local veterans using existing existing records, his own research and a little help from local genealogists. genealogists. "All the names are either vete rans killed overseas, who are named on their family plot, or they have died since reluming." The small wooden crosses bear a poppy and the message "We Remember, Branch 178". He has tried to get as many names as possible and hopes no soldier has been overlooked. "We are doing this to let people people know that there are veterans buried here. It draws attention to the grave," Baker explains. "As far as I know we are the only branch in Canada that does this." Inspiration for the cross pro- iect came on a recent trip to Europe. Europe. "I went back to Italy on a pil grimage and when I was. at a grave site in Casino, a party of British Legionnaires were putting small crosses on the graves. That's where I got the idea." The number of known veterans veterans buried in each of the cemeteries cemeteries arc: Orono - 85, Ebenezer - 2, Eldad - 2, Ncwtonville - 15, Bethcsda - 44, St. George's - 25, Hampton - 41, Zion - 5, Bond Head - 25 and Bowmanville - 340. The crosses will. remain up during the week prior to Remembrance Remembrance Day They arc removed November 15th. "It's just another reminder that we who are left have not forgotten," forgotten," says Baker. The Town of Pickering has filed a lawsuit asking the Ontario Court (General Division) to ban further dumping at the Brock West landfill. . The landfill site on the western boundary of Pickering serves both Metro Toronto and the Durham Region. Region. Legal papers filed with the court on Tuesday, Nov. 1, slate, "58 million million litres a year of leaking leachate from Metro's Brock West garbage dump arc contaminating two shea ms and local groundwater." A media release from Pickering Mayor Wayne Arthurs adds the town wants the dumping to halt and wants the court to order Metro Toronto Toronto and tlic province of Ontario to pay Pickering $3 million to clean up "dump-polluted groundwater beneath beneath a block of land it owns." The town is also seeking a ban injunction injunction to ban further dumping until the case has.been heard. That motion will be heard on Monday, Dec. 19,1994. "Our expert studies have shown that Brock West is leaking and spilling spilling far more pollution than it's containing," containing," says Mayor Arthurs. • He referred to a technical review of Metro's own 1991 Brock West hydrogeological report which "indicates "indicates the dump's leachate collection and backup underdrain systems fail to stop the spread of more than 60 per cent of the leachate generated,", stales the release. "In 1991, approximately 91 million million litres of free leachate (not ab- Continued from Page 2