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.ijm-Ki;. tS|n*iiiiHnH!!iiill!:îl:IH?«HiiliHUHiiiiIiînlüüilibü!üilHHHnimil=UH!!!ïn!iaiiniUiiih::UU::- Orono Town Hall BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 163 Church Street 1.1.05 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1T7 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday May 26, 2004 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard. Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 calls election Liberal Candidate Conservative Candidate - CHP Candidate Bev Oda Durk Bruinsma Tim Lang Durham Region butting out In less than a week, Durham's smoking ban will be in place. On June the first, all public places and work places in Durham Region must be smoke free. To assist with enforcement of the new by-law Durham Regional Health Department have hired two additional smoking by-law enforcers along with the two they already have on staff. The four officers enforcing the Tobacco Control Act and the smoking by-law, will also be assisted by the 26 Regional Health Inspectors who could enforce the by-law if needed. "We will be out there every day of the week," said Ken Goreman in a phone interview with the Times last week. Goreman, the Director of Environmental Health tor the Region "If people think we won't have anyone out there in the evenings and weekends, weekends, that is incorrect. However, according to Goreman, "the vast majority of people his Department have been in contact with want a smoke free environment. "The hospitality industry want a level playing field. "If all the bars and restarunts are smoke free, there won't be any place to smoke indoors." Of the local restaurants, Diane Thertcll of Di's Pizza on Main Street Orono doesn't think the ban will hurt her business. "Our lunch crowd aren't real smokers" she stated. stated. However as a smoker herself, herself, Diane will now have to go outside of her own restrau- rant if she wants to light up. Nick Katsiapia of The New Dutch Oven on the 115/35 thinks customers should have the right to decide. Twenty per cent of his establishment is a designated smoking area. "Let customers decide which way they want to go, smoking or no smoking," smoking," he said. Nick also has a bar in his establishment where customers like to sit with a drink and smoke. He feels the ban will have a negative impact on that part of his business. While many of the out of town customers won't mind the smoking ban, "the local people will just have to cope," he stated. Being a smoker himself Nick says the by-law is a good excuse for him to quit. Smokers will still be able to light up in public spaces provided they are out of doors. The Regional smoking bylaw bylaw which bans smoking in SMOKING seepages Clarington's Liberal and Conservative candidates hit the ground running Sunday when the Prime Minister called the election. Tim Lang, Liberal, and Bev Oda, candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada have already begun to blanket the new Federal riding of Clarington-Scugog-Uxbridge with signs for the June 28th election. Both Lang and Oda are brand new candidates, having having never run for political office before. Entering his third Federal election campaign is Durk Bruinsma of the Christian Heritage Party (CHP). Bruinsma, a retired hog farmer lives in Bowmanville, is running on his parties cam- pagn slogan, "You know what's right." The CHP claim to be Canada's only pro-Life, pro- family federal political party, and the only federal party that endorses the principles of the Preamble to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Canadian Constitution: 'Canada 'Canada was founded upon principles principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.' ***** Federal Liberal nominee Tim Lang says its time Canadians saw a change in the way government docs business. "When I look at the way things are done by the federal government, 1 believe we can and must do better. We can have a more el Vicient and effective effective government," the 38-year- old bilingual business executive executive says in a news release, i «mr who has worked as an executive with Bell Canada and Look Communications, says it's time there was a complete complete culture shift in the bureaucracy in Ottawa. "Our customer is the Canadian public and every tax dollar must be seen as sacred," Lang says. After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Master's Degree in Public Administration, Lang embarked embarked on a career in the private private sector making his way through the ranks of companies in Canada, Britain and theU.S. "I've made a career out of going into companies and motivating motivating staff by helping them redefine goals to become more efficient, more effective, and to get results." he says. Lang believes Prime Minister Paul Martin is the only political leader in the country who possesses the ability to precipitate a cultural shift in government. CANDIDATES see page 3 What's Inside Butting out see page 5