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• Total Market Coverage of Clarington from the Publishers of The v/ El s| 8 -f "\ <5/ Canadian Statesman • 1 Patritk 0. Peegem _ A complete dente re ser Telephone: 623-4473 5 George Street, Bewmenvil A James Publishing Community Newspaper Saturday, February 8, 1997 143rd Year Circulation: 20,550 Take Heart Volunteers Launch Campaign Against Number One Killer A team of 225 door-to-door canvassers in Bowmanville is hoping to raise $20,000 this month to help fight Canada's #1 killer -- heart disease and stroke. "We are quite happy with the number of volunteers," says Bowmanville Campaign Chairperson Nancy MacMaster. "We certainly hope to exceed the goal this year."' The local volunteers are part of a 55,000-strong force campaigning campaigning with the Heart & Stroke Foundation across Ontario to achieve a goal of $5 million. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is the leading funder of non-commercial cardiovascular research. Foundation Chairperson Carolyn Brooks says "continuing health care cuts are challenging us to keep pace as never before. In factj last year, we could only fund .34% of the research requested of us." This year, the foundation launched a mega-lottery (to be drawn in March) and a number of other new. fund-raising programs to help meet the funding shortfall. Besides research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation devotes about 19% of its money to promoting healthier lifestyles. But the battle is far from won, even on the prevention front. A & . 1996 Foundation study found that the aging baby boomers barely make a passing grade when it comes to adopting healthier lifestyles. waisam James "Jumbo" Bacon, of the Harlem Globetrotters, squeezes past Dunkeroo the kangaroo during a promotional tour through the Oshawa Centre last Monday afternoon. In exchange for a charitable contribution to the United Way, Durham residents got an autograph from the 6 foot 9-inch basketball basketball whiz and a chance on a draw for tickets to the Globetrotter show at Toronto SkyDome on February 8th. This is the 71st World Tour for the renowned Globetrotters. -photo by Lorraine Manfredo It's About Time. by Laura J. Richards Staff Writer In 2,000 A.D., which is just three years away, the Community Foundation of Durham Region will be placing mementos of the millennium into a time capsule capsule for future generations to open and examine. But it will be hundreds of years -- perhaps a thousand thousand -- before the contents will be seen again. Alan McPhail, the chair of the Time Capsule Committee, is a former Durham Region councillor. He says the Foundation will be selling boxes in the capsule as a fund-raising venture. The size of the boxes will be determined by the amount of money a family, group, or business puts out for a box. "The bigger the buck, the bigger the box," McPhail said. The capsule will be on the grounds of the regional headquarters building on Rossland Road, Whitby. McPhail added he and another Foundation member member recently described their plan to a committee of Regional Council and the councillors were "quite taken with it." The idea of the time capsule is to leave behind a slice of time for future generations to look back on rather than relying completely on history books. This would give future generations an idea of what some people from 1999 and 2000 thought was important. He noted it would be nice to have histories of "some organizations that may disappear over the (future) years. In the same respect, it would have been nice to have information on the single-room school houses now." McPhail said while the committee has been discussing discussing how the storage facility would be set up, they have yet to determine what it will actually be. "Someone suggested a cement vault like a septic tank and is looking into that aspect. Another suggested suggested a steel cylinder or other substance that would be weather-proof. The size would be dependent on the number of boxes sold," he added. Once it's planted on the grounds of the regional headquarters and a bronze plaque is set up, the Foundation members will be ensuring that future generations generations will know about it by compiling documentation documentation and then locating it at the Ontario Archives in Toronto. "That way, people would know it exists," McPhail said. The exact date when the time capsule is to be opened seems to still be under discussion. McPhail recalled the Durham Region councillors were told 1,000 years would elapse before the materials would To page 19 Growth Funding Softens Blow of Hospital Cutbacks by Lorraine Manfredo .Staff Writer ■ The Health Ministry's decision last week to award additional growth funding to Memorial Hospital Bowmanville will help ensure there are no cuts to service delivery in Clarington. "It's very good news," says Hospital President and CEO Tom Schonberg. "Without the growth funding, we would have had to scale back services." Under the province's new funding formula, hospitals which have experienced significant population growth are recognized. Bowmanville Memorial Hospital will receive $503,909 in growth funding in addition to a previously-announced growth re-investment of $645,000. Schonberg says the Health Ministry has taken a "major step in the right direction" with the latest announcement, but adds that inequities still need to be addressed. "In Clarington we still receive substantially less funding per person for hospital care than the average in the province." The province is now in the second year of a three-year plan to reduce hospital funding. Memorial must find ways to reduce its $15.8 million budget by $871,000 in 97/98. While that task is offset by the growth funding, "we are still looking at a $370,000 shortfall, that we need to pare from the budget in the upcoming year," says Schonberg. This may mean fewer staff in some support areas, he says. It may entai 1 reductions in supplies and further reorganization. A decision will be announced in February. "We are confident we will meet these budget reductions without affecting service, to the public," the hospital president adds. Having already cut back last year in such areas as office cleaning, and through amalgamating management responsibilities, Schonberg says finding fat is getting a whole lot harder. And the cuts aren't over. "Next year will be a much, much tougher task. We have taken out of our system what we can." he says. Height restrictions on stock piles for three building material plants in Courtice were a point of concern for the proponents of the project who addressed a committee of Clarington Council Monday. The development, which is planned for an industrial area on Hancock Rd., would include an asphalt plant, a ready-mix concrete plant, concrete recycling plant, and a contractor's yard and shop. On Monday morning, Feb. 3, Paul Bigioni, representing Toad Hall Construction Inc., told members of Clarington's General Purpose and Administration Committee the company would like the stock piles to be able to go up to eight metres rather than five. The committee recommended approving the higher limit for stock piles. 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