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Ny | BANE (OS Le CN i R31 ' LJ at. After' hearing a status report on the progress of centralization and computer- Jization of regional water bill ing, the regional finance committee, recommended °* last Thursday that steps now be taken to finalize the _proposal. The move will be in accor- dance with a council decision July 9 which recommended that the region utilize com- puter service of the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission to provide the region with a centralized water billing system. ' At Thursday's meeting, Finance commissioner Jack Gartley presented a draft of the two-year agreement for the billing along with a pro- Killed when car rolls over Ransom Herbert Bell, 40, of R.R.2, Blackstock, died Saturday afternoon when the vehicle he was a passenger © in went out of control , rolling over twice before landing in the ditch at the east side of Regional Road 57. Coroner Dr. David Mosi- enko pronounced Mr. Bell dead at the scene, according. to Newcastle detachment of Ontario Provincial Police. Driver of the car, Mrs. . . Pauline Bell, 37, Mr, Bell's - General Hospital with a frac- ~ wife, was 'taken to Oshawa tured arm and possible frae- tured back. ; ; A = second passenger, James Douglas Mitchell, 29, of Oshawa, was treated at a Bowmanville hospital and later released. Crash causes "damage to two cars No injuries resulted in a two-car collision last Wednesday at the--inter- section of Lilla and Queen Streets. ET i The early afternoon accid- ent involved cars driven by Robert Espie, 19, of 3 Simcoe St., and Kevin Drane, 18, of Oshawa. Espie was eastbound on Queen and Drane northbound on Lilla when the collision took place. Damage to the Espie car was $200., and there was $500. damage to the other vehicle. Two cottages .broken into Now that the summer sea- son is over, offences against * property in the cottage areas is on the increase. In oné instance on. Scugog Island this week, acottage owned by Mrs. Michael Phealor of Tor- onto, was entered and van- dalized. amount of malicious damage was alsodone to the property. Another attemped break and enter was alsoreported in the same area. Coftagers are urged to take steps to secure their cottages and remove those articles likely 'to be stolen, such as televisions, radios, appliances, guns, "food and liquor. Make each cottage as difficult and as » unattractive to a burglar as possible. Arrange to have a local resident make periodic' checks of your cottage and report all offences to the. Police. A substantial" Ai o. (PU Lb pods Bcd is ANT Yire posed implementation sche- dule which indicates when all areas in the region will be completely centralized, Discussion on the central- ization of billing generated a sidebar debate on the effect of centralization on the forth- coming regional rate struc- ture for water and sewer charges. The .regional finance department has had its hands tied on the regional rate structure for a considerable time now and the matter currently rests in the offices of Provincial Treasurer Darcy McKeough. Mr. McKeough has had the water and sewer rates . "under consideration' for some time and has postponed making several key decisions on the matter for several reasons including the Sept. 18 "provincial election, However, Mr. Gartley told' the committee Thursday he had been assured by the treasurer's staff that his decision is now "imminent". 'The decisions; mostly con- cerning grants and loans available to the region for capital works projects, are vital to the input which will result in the establishment of a regional water and sewer rate structure. Despite the proyince's "imminent" promise, Coun. George "Ashe (Pickering), committee chairman, said he felt the "whole thing will not be settled before "Christ- mas...and that's at the very earliest." 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