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I t Mtntoaw DUFFAM PîGJCN UcDlâ CROUP '/ News/3 Candidates wade in on education E()t CanaMan Statesman CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 Sports/13 Young guns on par with PGA WALTER PASSARELLA/ Statesman photo Giddyup, cowgirl ORONO - Avery Morris was all smiles while taking a spin on the carousel at the Durham Central Fair in Orono. .Perfect weather conditions greeted visitors to the annual event, helping set new attendance records. For more on ;tïie fair, see page 4. Hwy. 407 not necessarily a bad thing: agriculture group BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Glaring- ton's Agricultural Advisory Committee says, in spite of what people might think, not all farmers are against building building Hwy. 407 through the rural part of the municipality. "We understand it's created a little ripple in the waters that an agricultural committee would not recommend the preservation of agricultural land," Tom Barrie, a member of the advisory committee, told Clarington councillors at Monday's General Purpose and Administration Committee Committee meeting. However, he notes, though the committee would like to see the highway built, the group does hope any route chosen would "steer away from the best (agricultural) (agricultural) land they can." 4 The land the 407 could potentially potentially run through, if the highway were extended through Clarington, will likely be developed in some way in coming years anyway, and the road may be the best use, Mr. Linda Gasser: Questions comments of Clarington Agricultural Advisory Committee. Barrie says. "What we can do with the 407 is make life easier for the residents of Clarington," he says. "We can't sec council as having any say on whether farm land is preserved... If the farmer is not making money, he is going to sell that farm Candidates have their say DURHAM - The Metroland Durham Region Media Group find Rogers Community Television Television are co-sponsoring a series series of televised candidate debates debates for the ridings of Os- hawa, Durham, Whitby-Ajax and Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge. - Candidates in the upcoming provincial election have been invited to participate in taped debates that will be shown over the remainder of the campaign. ■■ The debates will air on Rogers on the following dates: Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge riding riding Wednesday, Sept. 17, 8 p.m.; Whitby-Ajax riding Thursday, Sept. 18, 7 p.m.; Os- hawa riding Thursday, Sept. 18, 8 p.m.; and Durham riding Thursday, Sept. 18, 10 p.m. The Metroland Durham Region Region Media Group is a team of seven community newspapers including The Canadian Statesman Statesman and Clarington This Week. determined whether or how far into Clarington the highway highway will go, though having it end at Hwy. 35/115 is one possibility. But, in spite of the CAAC's stance, not all farmers are in favour of having the highway run through Clarington to Hwy. 35/115. ' "As a member of the farming farming community potentially impacted impacted by a 407 route, 1 am concerned about the comments comments by the Clarington Agricultural Agricultural Advisory Committee, and cannot see how they would be in the best interests See FARMERS page 7 Rowe won't seek re Longtime Clarington councillor calling it quits CLARINGTON - Two- term Ward One local councillor councillor Jane Rowe has removed her hat from the ring for a municipal municipal scat. Ms. Rowe, a former high school biology teacher, was first elected in 1997. Though she initially registered to seek re-election in the November municipal election, she has since changed her mind and removed her name from the candidates' list. "I was willing to serve another another (term) but it's a big commitment in terms of Jane Rowe: 'It's a big commitment in terms of lifestyle.' lifestyle," says Ms. Rowe, noting she'd like to have a more flexible schedule than land to the highest bidder and that highest bidder is not going to be a farmer." The agricultural committee's committee's stance comes as Clarington Clarington provides its comments to the Province on the terms of reference for an environmental environmental assessment on- the highway, highway, which will be submitted to the Environment Minister for approval. The approved terms of reference will eventually eventually help act as a guide to determine the highway's route, as well as provide ways to mitigate the adverse environmental environmental impacts any extension extension of the highway could cause. So far,'it has not been Enemies, allies recall war Bowmanville prisoner of war camp revisited BY JANE MCDONALD Staff Writer DURHAM - Bruno Petrenko Petrenko went back to Bowmanville Bowmanville last Sunday, to a place he tried to forget. But for the 86-year-old grandfather grandfather of three, his 60-year-okl memories of the years he spent here as a prisoner of war have mellowed. "1 was thinking it was the worst thing that could happen in my life, but over the years, I came to the conclusion it was the best thing that happened happened in my life," says Mr. Petrenko. "I was taken out of that terrible war." Mr. Petrenko was attending attending the Sept. 7 book launch of 'Word of Honour - Camp 30' when he and fellow prisoner Volkmar 'King' Konig revisited revisited the PoW facility where they waited out the war before before being returned. to Germany. Germany. Written by local authors authors Lynn Philip Hodgson of Port Perry and Alan Long- field of Whitby, the book documents documents a time when, in accordance accordance with the Geneva Convention's Convention's rules of war, captured captured members of enemy forces were placed in camps similar to the climate of their homeland, and in keeping with their military status. Some 40,000 German PoWs were interned in Canada Canada between 1940 and 1945. Twenty-six main camps operated operated mostly in Ontario, Quebec Quebec and Alberta. The camp in Bowmanville held 800 German German prisoners at the height of the war in 1943. Made up mostly of Luftwaffe pilots shot down over England early -election in the war, plus some U-boat commanders and a few panzer panzer division army officers, the PoWs considered conditions 'deluxe' at Bowmanville.' Both men - Konig who was a submarine officer and Petrenko, Petrenko, a Messerschmitt pilot - must have been relieved when they were transported to Canada after their respective respective captures. Mr. Petrenko remarks on how different the place looks today because of the height of the trees. "They were just shrubs then," he says. Mr. Konig remembers the 'Battle of Bowmanville' and eagerly shows visitors a bullet hole in the wall of Building 4. Guarded Mostly by veterans veterans of the First World War, the temporary residents of Bowmanville spent their time here in relative comfort. As officers, their 'word of honour' honour' was all it took to be allowed allowed to hike in nearby forests. Tunnels were built, short wave radios assembled, but only a few escaped. The only hint of real trouble trouble at the camp came in the wake of Dieppe, the failed August 1942 assault along a See PRISONERS page 7 INDEX Editorial Page 6 Classified 9 Sports 13 GIVE US A CALL General 905-579-4400 Distribution 905-579-4407 General FAX 905-579-2238 Newsroom FAX 905-579-1809 durhamregion.com serving on council allows. "I'd like to spend more time with my husband." Ms. Rowe says she intends to remain active in the community, community, and continue working with a number of committees and organizations with which she is currently involved. She says she gave her decision not to seek a third term a great deal of thought. "There's never a good time to leave. There's always a project project in motion and you want to see it through," notes Ms. Rowe. Ms. Rowe's decision to depart depart council doesn't leave her ward devoid of candidates. Two candidates - Adrian Foster Foster and Jim Vinson - have registered registered to run in Ward One. 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