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il!,:. Orono Town Hall COURTICE LIBRARY 11-21.05 163 Church Street Bowmanville, ON L1C 1P7 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday November 24, 2004 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard. Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 193_ Port Granby Residents assured removal is safe Thursday's public meeting on cleanup process of the Port Granby Low Level Radioactive Radioactive Waste Management Facility (LLRWMF) was the subject of a public meeting last week. It took 15 paid participants in the form of consultants, facilitators, Port Hope Initiative Office, staff, councillors councillors and municipal staff, to address 15 Port Granby area residents, that moving the waste would cause no ill health effects. "Would I not be better off living somewhere else during the construction?" asked Elliott Road resident Mr. Gord Ewington, who said he was afraid they were opening opening a pandora's box by digging digging up and moving the contaminated contaminated soil. The . Federal Government has taken responsibility for moving the historic low level radioactive waste which was dumped at Port Granby between 1955 and 1988 from the Eldorado uranium refining plant in Port Hope If the waste is not moved, stated Dr. Duncan Moffat, "you're leaving an unsafe situation situation for the future. He went on to say, "you would get more radiation living up on Hamilton Mountain than living living next to this [Port Granby] facility.] Dr. Moffat is a scientist scientist and retained by the LLR- WMO as a consultant. There is no safe dose of radiation, Mr. Paul McKee, the consultant hired to develop develop the cleanup criteria, explained in his presentation. While there is no safe dose, the Nuclear Safety Commission Commission has adopted a standard of 1 millisicvert above background background radiation as an acceptable acceptable level for protection of public health. The proponent has cut that 1 millisicvert PORT GRANBY seepeye3 -grade 9 ; Chnstine Teo - grade 10; and Alina Vandergaast - grade 11. ■-- Clarke High School Outstanding academic achievers recognized The staff of Clarke High School celebrated academic achievement at a special ceremony ceremony on Tuesday, November November 23. Over 100 students who were in Grades 9, 10 and 11 during the last school year, were recognized for their outstanding academic success success by being awarded certificates certificates and plaques. . These students are not eligible for awards during the annual grade 12 commencement commencement for graduating students and this event gives staff an opportunity to congratulate congratulate them for their success. success. Each student was recognized recognized for earning a spot on the school's honour roll with an overall average mark of eighty percent or higher or for achieving the highest mark in a subject. Mr. Perrault, the vice-principal, was the master of ceremonies ceremonies at the assembly, which was attended by many parents as well as representatives representatives from the Board of Education and the Clarke School Council. The organizer organizer of the assembly, Clarke teacher/librarian Mr. Ray Saitz, said that the awards assembly is an annual event and has received numerous positive comments from proud parents.