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Wheels/Insert Sophistication in spades Sports/11 Eagles' rookie gets tuned up ♦ Founded 1854 ♦ JANUARY 12, 2005 ♦ 46 Pages ♦ Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$1 Newsstand Port Granby waste discussed Public meeting to be held on clean-up, slated to begin next year BY JENNIFER STONE Staff writer PORT GRANBY -- The results of three years' worth of study into how to manage low- level radioactive waste in Port Granby will be presented and discussed at an upcoming public meeting. The meeting is slated for Tuesday, Tuesday, Jan. 18, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Newtonville Hall, 10 Church Lane, behind the United Church. Presentations will highlight the results of studies on how to store the waste, left over from operations at the defunct Eldorado Eldorado Resources, a company that refined uranium products from 1955 to 1988, Currently, about 500,000 cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste is located in the Port Granby Granby Waste Management Facility on the existing site next to Lake Ontario. The Port Granby Project, as part of the Port Hope Area Initiative, Initiative, has been seeking an envi- . ronmentally safe, long-term storage storage solution for the waste. The project has come up with a proposal for storage that is made up of an "engineered facility that fully encapsulates the waste and isolates it from the environment," Glenn Case, of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office, told Clarington's General General Purpose and Administration committee Monday. The project was launched in 2001. Environmental assessments, assessments, which looked at potential effects on the atmosphere, plants, animals, fish and shoreline wildlife, wildlife, geology and groundwater, social and economic considerations, considerations, and human health and safety considerations, followed. "We've taken the project we brought forward, and looked at the effect of the project on the environment, as well as the environment on the project," explained Mr. Case. The six draft reports will be presented to the public in late February. The studies are being reviewed by the Municipality's peer review team. Now, the facility design is ■ in the process of being finalized, finalized, and "we're moving toward licensing applications," said Mr. Case. Clean-up is slated to begin in 2006, and end in 2011. Monitoring Monitoring and maintenance is to continue continue for hundreds of years. - After the open house, the draft environmental reports will be available at the Bowmanville branch of the Clarington Public Library, 163 Church St. As well, all project-related reports are available at the Project Information Information Exchange, 110 Walton St. in Port Hope. The Exchange is open from 1 to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. shop away home - r • . , • « : \ ; ' , - ' ■ : x 1 / f m IBut more, choice could mean more money spent in the Municipality •report says BY JENNIFER STONE Staff writer CLARINGTON -- Residents of the municipality are leaving Clarington to do the vast majority majority of their shopping, but some of the money spent could stay here if more retail floor space was opened, says a report. According to a market analysis, analysis, Clarington residents spent over $250 million outside the municipality in 2003.. They did only 17 per cent of their department department store shopping in Clarington, and only 12.3 per cent of their home-improvement purchasing here. About two-thirds of Clarington Clarington shoppers' supermarket dollars dollars remained in the municipality, i But, Clarington residents dropped $137.4 million , on department store type merchandise in shops other than department stores outside outside the municipality in 2003. "A significant number of dollars dollars are leaving the community to areas like Ajax, Whitby and Cishawa," said Douglas Annand of urbanMetrics inc., which did the retail market and impact analysis portion of the Clarington Com mercial Policy Review draft final report, which was presented to the General Purpose and Administration Administration committee Monday. Clarington council commissioned commissioned the study last May. It was to look at the current commercial structure and' policy framework, and specifically study whether the Municipality should grant permission permission for the construction of Wal- Mart, Home Depot and a larger Loblaws in Bowmanville. As it stands, according to Clarington's official plan, population increases increases will trigger expansion in how much floor space can be opened. The review was to help determine if those thresholds should be maintained, maintained, modified or deleted. At the same time, it was to consider how to maintain downtowns as strong commercial areas. But the days of people doing the majority of their shopping in a downtown core are over, said Bob Lehman, of Meridian Planning Consultants, the company retained to do the study. ' "The day of people shopping in small stores in downtowns are over," he said. However, he noted, "specialty retail will do very well in the downtowns." Keeping new big box stores close to downtowns could actually bolster main-street shopping, he said. "The more remote the shopping centres are from downtowns, the See COUNCIL page 5 -- : - : • -*•' m In -, "V ' " */ •' 'Vv' vv* ■f» S-:Wm ' . * • ' fill k }v 'ÆÉBÈBBÈBËxr I k m I à SSÊm ■ • V > • ; . ' ■ .. .. . V Ron Pietroniro/The Canadian Statesman Hot on the ice BOWMANVILLE -- Bowmanville Eagles' #19 Andrew Fracz prepares to drill Jeremy Hmura of the Cobourg Cougars during Provincial Junior A action at the Garnet B. Rickard complex Sunday. The Eagles won 3-1. , Baby Jesus stolen from Newcastle church Parishioners donated funds for new creche BY JULIAN F0LLERT Staff writer NEWCASTLE--After collecting collecting funds to build a new creche just in time for Christmas, parishioners at St George's Anglican Church in Newcastle built suspense by displaying the newly built figures of Mary and Joseph, with a sign • that said simply, "He is coming." On Christmas Eve, that sign, was replaced with one that read, "He is here," accompanied by a small baby Jesus, placed in a hay-filled manger. This week,, a sign proclaiming "He is gone" would be more accurate, accurate, after the tiny figure was stolen from the outdoor nativity scene, sometime between Jan. 8 and 9. "He was there on Saturday afternoon, afternoon, but when people came to church on Sunday morning he was gone," says parishioner Ann-Marie Harley. "It's so sad that something like this happened here. It's not the sort of thing that happens in Newcastle... so many people have moved here because, it's a safe, town, a good place to bring up children." Ms. Harley notes that the late addition of the Jesus figuré, meant it wasn't secured in place like the See CRECHE page 5 ONTARIO'S • SERVICE • PARTS MON., WED., FRI. 7:30 am - 6:00 pm TUBS, ft THURS. 7:30 am-8 pm SAT. O am - 4 pm ACCREDITED TEST ft REPAIR FACILITY WHITBY OSHÂWA Honda 300 THICKSOH RD. 8. WHITBY 666-1772 honda. uoe www.™- - '-o ^ Hampton hit-and-run claims life tm «•», I. v ■ is ■ Wilma Vanginhoven, 50, was killed Monday. Clarington woman, 50, was hit while walking with a friend BY JEFF MITCHELL . Staff writer HAMPTON -- An Oshawa woman faces. numerous charges charges after a* Kit-and-run accident near Hampton Monday morning claimed the life of a woman described as a "very caring" mother and grandmother.. Members of the canine unit tracked and arrested a suspect after the 10 a.m. crash that killed . 50-year-old Wilma (Adriana) Vanginhoven, who was out for a walk with a friend along Taunton Road near Hampton, Durham. , Regional Police said. The driver, who police say was operating a stolen car, faces charges including criminal negli- ' gence causing death and having care and control of a vehicle while impaired by drugs, She made a court appearance Tuesday. Tuesday. Ms. Vanginhoven and a friend were walking on the north shoulder shoulder of Taunton west of Old Scu- gog Road, when an eastbound vehicle veered across the westbound westbound lanes and struck the Clarington Clarington woman from behind, said Sergeant Paul McCurbin. The driver left the scene after the impact. Ms. Vanginhoven died at the scene, Sgt. McCurbin said. Her companion, who was not struck, was able to provide police with a description of the vehicle. The accident happened just down the road from Ms. Vangin- hoven's husband's gas station, located at Taunton and Old Scu- gog roads. "I didn't even know what happened," happened," said Mr. Vanginhoven, who was at the gas station at the time of the incident. Police officers quickly fanned out throughout the area in search of the vehicle, Sgt. McCurbin said. It wasn't long before they found a suspect vehicle near a; home west of the hamlet. "They located a stolen vehicle,"; Sgt. McCurbin said. ; See CLARINGTON page 6 |§r? ;< "V ; ' v 'U : ' " Ah Here at Cowan's we want everyone to know what they are purchasing. Our vehicle Birth Certificate for every General Motors product Includes, full warranty history, the vehicle's build, original warranty start date, original selling dealer! All completely documented! We pride ourselves In not stocking or selling out of province dally, rentalell VI Ti m T SSI i'j fii ft; ami