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t t] f ( ti t f y r t r t ec m g gi 'e th d vi c w b( e a c el p 't a of fa t E Lûetter to the Editor Sept. 20, 1976 Dear Editor, Ratepayers Association, in Action TONRA, Town of Newcastle Ratepayers Association held its first fall meeting on Sept. 20, with but very few citizens in attendance. The next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. in the Bowmanville courtroom, at which time the directors hope to see and hear from a good number of taxpayers. Certainly our community can benefit from a forum where people from all walks of life can speak freely about their real or imaginary problems with local government, suggest ways and means for improvement, and help prevent development from taking place which might be harmful for the community either as a whole or in part. The meetings are informal and also informational, some politician might attend and be helpful in giving some insight into our community problems, but they should not be the only persons who are thinking about how things can be done in a better way, you taxpayers should also come forward with your ideas, critisisms and or problems. TONRA, wants your participation to help make this a better commun- ity or at least try to prevent it from becoming a worse community¯than it is now. On Oct. 18 TONRA wants to present a resolution about the proposed Eldorado plant at Port Granby, asking Regional Council to halt any action in regards to that plant, until the Joint Great Lakes Committee, has completed its in- vestigation of the present Eldorado plant in Port Hope, for possible pollution into Lake Ontario, the more people support such a resolu- tion the better. Mark Oct. 18 on your calendar and show your support. Perhaps you could do some thinking about the following prob- lems; Garbage disposal from the wvhole region into Darlington, now Town of Newcastle. Are our politi- cians thinking too big having such an immense amount of land to rule over? They want us to believe that dumping the garbage from Bow- manville, Newcastle, Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax, an average of over twenty five miles from their actual residential areas to be a natural must for the community! If Toronto, in comparison would dump its garbage that far away it would be farther away than Belle- ville, Ont. What a cost to bring our paper and cardboard to Burketon!par With Mr. Lyall, don't you wonder about being planned out of your home (in taxes) and not one new building lot to show for in three years of planning? Should a $40,000 saltdome be build on the works department property, south of 401 while this property might better be used for a new sewage disposal plant, and the salt stored on some higher ground away from the creeks? Is the Courtice plan dead or has it surfaced again with 30,000 new residents added at the direction of big landowners, through the re- gional backdoor of suddenly added millions for Oshawa's eastend sewers. Courtice will either be too big for Newcastle or become part of Oshawa. Should we not first make Bowmanville and the Village of Newcastle grow with some added sensible development in and around the hamlets? Do lot levies help our community? What good is it to the town when a Durham County's Great Family Journa Establisned 122 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced evsery Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LiMITED 62-66 King St, W , Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3K9 CC-NA JOHN M. JAMES Editor-Publisher s r GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appepring on this proof. 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Bowmanville, Setember 29. 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Loads of Room for More The way things are shaping up on past three years, many of them the local front, it would appear that handed down from area councils an exciting election is in prospect for that preceded them. So, they have to both seats on Newcastle Town be excused for some of the delays Council and the Regional level as and confusion that have existed. well. Hopefully, that introductory period Almost every week, another is just about over and for the next person enters te field, indicating three years, a good deal of that there is considerable interest constructive work will come from among the general population ... and whoever takes over the various possibly some dissatisfaction with postings. the way the affairs of the town and It is unfortunate that the problems region have been conducted since with the arenas in the area arose at he last election. So far, there hasn't the twilight of this council's tenure. been too much stirring so far as the That was an unexpected burden that Northumberland and Newcastle fell into their laps with little Board of Education's seats are previous warning anda great deal ofl concerned, but there too there may their time in recent weeks has been be developments as nominaton day devoted to solving the situation. As approaches. It is noted this week we see it, any solutions of a hat Maurice Prout is leaving that reasonable satisfactory nature are ield to contest the Ward II going to cost a great deal of money Bowmanville) council seat, so a that wasn't included in anybody's eplacement will have to be found to forcasted budget, including the ake over his post. individual budgets of citizens al- Actually, it's an ideal time for any ready hard hit by taxation. But, 'atepayer to enter the race who feels through the cooperative efforts of e or she has the necessary service clubs, other organizations ualifications, the interest and time and private citizens who in the past o devote some energy to municipal have been most helpful in similar eolitics. Those already in office situations, the problems will be ocally and at region have not had an overcome. It's difficult to contem-- asy time during the formative plate a winter without sufficient ice 'ears since the restructuring of local time for youngsters to participate in :overnment. They have done the our national sport. roundwork and we suspect in the But, back to the election. The time yes of many citizens have not done is drawing near when those who feel he best job of it that could have been they can make a contribution to the one. So, from a political point of betterment of this community iew, a newcomer with some savvy should take the big step and ould base his campaign on the announce that they will be in the nistakes or alleged ones that have running. We would suggest that een made and produce quite an anyone who is thinking along those ffective campaign. We doubt if lines might be well advised to take in nyone at tbis point in time could a few council meetings and some of onvinee the populace that be or she the many committee meetings to vould be able to lower taxes if become better acquainted with what lected, but that has never stopped goes on. They'll find that it's not rospective condidates from saying quite as simple a proposition as they would. may have believed. There's much to Frankly, it is very easy to sit back learn in this complex age about nd be critical of the actions or lack municipal government, but the f action by council on certain rewards in satisfaction can be great. aatters. Actually, the current So, don't hesitate, join the battle and ouncil bas been faced with many see if you can convince the electors roblems on certain matters. Actu- that you have more to offer than Lly, the current council has been somebody else. The race is wide aced with many problems over the open. In theDim andI 25 Years Ago Thursday, September 2o, 1951 Teachers for the recently enlarged Ontario Street Publie Shool this year are Asst' Principal Mr. Tom Turner, Miss M White, Mrs. M. Clarke, Miss K. Ard, Mrs. M. Symons, Mr. M. McDon- akd, MissH. Weddell, Miss W. Harker, Miss M. Somerville, Miss I. Phillips. Teaching staff at Central Public Sehooltincludes Prin- cipal A.M. Thompson, Miss M. McGregor, Miss A. Car- ruthers, Miss G. MacCrim- mon, Miss V. Bunner, Miss M. Hall, Mr. M.'Slute, miss m. Couch, Mrs. L. McDonald, Miss L. Bragg, Miss D. Weese, Mr. A. Merkley. Parish priest of St. Joseph's Church, Father S.J. Coffey bas been appointed pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Trout River, near North Bay. He had served here for 15 years. Rev, F.K. Malane, Peterborough will assume charge here. W.J. Eastaugh, superinten- dent at B.T.S. for several years has been appointed superintendent of Brampton Reforn atory. J.J. Brown has 49 Years Ago Thursday, September 29, 1927 Miss Ida Payne recited a poem, and W.R. Strike sang a solo at the Trinity Young People's meetings on Monday evening. Mem bers of the Bowman- ville Tennis Club held ar enjoyable corn roast at Ra Head, the country home of Mr and Mrs. Alan Campbell on Friday. )elo Retail milk prices in Toron- to were raised on September lst to 15 pints for $1.00 instead of 16. A gallon was raised to $2.20 from $1.95. Attending TB.H.,S. i 8 were Cyrus Siemon, Marcus Pascoe, James Devitt, Daisy Walbridge, Lottie Lockhard, Ethel Cole, Fred Foley, Sam Courtice, Everett Brown, Joe Mountjoy, James Colville, Norman Heatlie and others. Union S.S. No. 17, Darling- ton, report for September. Form V Sr. Verna Griffin, Barbara Wotten, Form V Jr. Clarence Avery, Donald Simp- son, Form IV - Vera Griffin, Gladys Wotten, Harold Web- ber, Norman Avery. Form III - Ida Ferguson, Effie Avery, Leslie Wotten, Clara Griffin, MecLaughlin. Fred M L ih- the teacher, the parent and the policeman. It's time governments be- gan protecting the law abiding citizens instead of pampering the criminai; time that poli- ticians realised that they were elected "servants" of the people - not their masters. It's time the shackles were taken off businessm-en and producers alowing them to workandsel] ona competitive market instead of hog-tying them with bureaucratic red tape and endless controlling Arena Will Operate Durham East M.P.P. Doug Moffatt dropped in to the community services meeting at the Town Hall on Sept. 20th and expressed optimism that the Newcastle Village Arena would be allowed to operate this winter. The same afternoon, he had Iearned that a short term agreement had been reached with the Department of Labour permitting the Ux- Report From Queens Park by DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P. I bridge Arena to open for th current year, and Mr. Moffal pointed out that the tw facilities were "almos identical" in terms of th predicted cost of keeping then open, the wind limit and th structure of the buildings. In addition, both arena were inspected by the sami engineering firm of Totten Sims, Hubicki. Things ar looking up- At the end of August ail members of the Legislature were invited to attend a two daysession with the Ontario Professional Foresters Asso- ciation in Thunder Bay. 1, along with 26 other members of the Ontario Legislature, took part in the program and I must say that those members who did not attend missed a marvellous opportunity to be- come informed about one of the key industries of the province. I found the exper- ience very worthwhile and I would like to share some of the information with my con- stituents. The entire thrust of the Foresters presentation was based on the fact that while the' woodlands of our pro- vinces are part of a renewable resource they will not renew without management by man. During the course of the two days we were presented with slides, talks, tapes, and field demonstrations to prove that if we want to maintain a forest industry for the next 100 years we must take action now. This means that all of the jobs in the actual forest, the pulp and paper milîs, saw milis and lumbermyards will gradually be lost if we don't take action within the next 3 erucial years. In the past wood process companies have been given grants to cut on crown land (the "crown" in Ontario iPyou and 1) and as soon as the merchantable wood was cut the company moved on to a new tract. In fact the company was a tenant on land owned by all citizens and as such should havehad stringent controls piaced on its actions to guarantee regeneration. This was not done and once the usable wood was cut the second growth is of low grade, often useiess varieties. J found this amazing be- cause when I fly over or drive through Northern Ontario I have the impression that the stock is endless. When it is drawn to one's attention that 75-80per cent of the trees I see are next to worthless it gives reason to pause. Fifty-two years ago a royal commission in Ontario bluntly stated that forest stock was sadly de- pleted! Why has nothing been done? There appears to be four reasons:1 . There is no firm poiicy statement on regeneration. 2. There are no forest pre- serves set aside. 3. There is not adequate personnel. 4. There is no move to integrate logging with regen- eration. One of the foresters put it bluntly: "The biological and economic consequences of our economic consequences of our sources. new home buyer has to add $3500. to his mortgage at il or 12 per cent and then pay the interest on that amount and the principal to the big banks and insurance companies? Would we not all be happier withjust a 10 year development tax, equal to the interest on the $3500? With no lot levy to pay a homebuyer would be in a better position to help pay the running cost of the municipality that was and save himself the $3500. Now that the Regional Land Use plan has been adopted, there is no more incentive for speculators to buy farmland outside the designated urban areas since no development can be expected there for many years to corne, that's an important improvement for saving farmland. However, the price of serviced lots will steadily increase as long as our elected officiais fail to substantially increase the, number of serviced lots. A tight supply will play into the hands of speculators, and make present policies will bring the entire industry to its knees." Since 20 of the 38 members of the N.D.P. caucus attended the sessions you may rest assured we intend to lay out before the government the problems and solutions need- ed to remedy this tragedy. I would like to quote, if I may, from the Foresters Associa- tion: A forest is the most universal, versatile, efficient and pro- ductive ecosystem on earth. A forest converts solar energy to provide us with wood and the air we breathe. It pro- vides an environment for fish, game and fur animals and for recreation. It moderates the climate and provides the capacity to collect, retain and purify water. The forest is an important base fortboth the service industries that pro- vide recreation opportunities for people and for the manu- facturing industries that pro- cess its products in the urban centres. At the end of its cycle the forest ecosystem will pro vide us with building mater- ials, paper, chemicals, food, clothing, energy and more jobs, The forest is also RENEwABLE. Can we count on YOU to assist us in main- taining this resource? We can no longer afford to ignore the implications of wasteful management of one of our most valuable re- owning a house impossible for the next generation. Some politicians want us to believe that it is too costly to oversupply a municipality with water and sewer services in order to depress the cost of serviced lots but have they ever figured how costly this shortage of serviced lots is to the new homebuyer? 1 People pay for this lack of foresight at a far greater scale than a few miles of water and sewer lines would have cost ten years ago. Feel free to come and give your opinion, let'ý kick some ideas around and see if we can help make this Town of Newcastle a better place to live from one end to the over. See you at TONRA, Oct. 18, D.V. Dirk Brinkman, Director, Town of Newcastle Ratepayers Association. SUMMER End of summer notes. Can't think tt of one, single, useful, constructive o thing I did during the past summer. t Which is as it should be. e m I did threaten, once or twice to e paint the back stoop and the pienic s table and chairs. But on the days e when I was ready to put the stain on ,the pienie eguipment, it rained, e thank goodness. And I never did figure out how to paint the stoop. The cat sleeps there all day. I was either gomg to have a cat with green feet, or I'd have to tie him to the lilac tree until the paint dried, which I thought was a bit inhuman. One of the big events of the -summer was having an oak tree taken down. It was about 70 feet high t and two feet thick at the base. It was quite a thrill to watch the tree-slayers, two of them, scramb- ling away up into the blue of a summer evening, slinging ropes around in all sorts of mysterious ways, shouting incomprehensible directions to each other, like a couple of sailors reefing the foresail around Cape H orn,and lowering the might oak in sections. I now bave four woodpiles in my back yard, about six cords of firewood, on which all sorts of people are casting an envious eye. Forget it, friends, It cost me $300 to have that oak down, and I'm going to enjoy it, if I have to keep the fireplace burning day and night all winter. That was a bad week. Just after the oak came down, the automatic washer in the basement blew its guts. The dryer was shot too, so this was another $700. An exciting installation. The washer and dryer won't go down our cellar stairs. The boys had to rip out the stairs and lower the machinery. But they labored with great good nature and ingenuity. We didn't lose a single man. Nor even a married one. It could never happen if you bought the outfit from one of the big, out-of- town firms. They'd just sneer if you said: "The stairs have to come out." That was a $1,000 week of pure loss. But is somewhat redeemed the following week when I went to Halifax and won an award which included a handsomeacheque for $500. It made me think God was back in His heaven, after 6eing out to lunch for a whole week. That Halifax is quite a place. It looks like a city in Germany, circa 1950, that has been badly bombed, and is rebuilding. Beautiful new buildings rising right next to deadly, three-storey slunis, with winos hanging out the windows. Last time I was there was in the spring of 1942, on my way overseas, and Halifax was a real crud then. Cold, wet, dismal, blackout, poor food. England looked like paradise after war-time Halifax. Now it's a swinging, lively city. Had a fine trip on the Bluenose II. all sails set, spanking along in the sunshine. Don't miss this, if you're there. Watched in fascination as a prominent western editor fell asleep, not once, but three time, during a speech by Joe Clark, a potential prime minister. Humored an eastern editor who, armed with a credit card from the Grand Trunk Railway, personal signed by Sir John MacDonald, thought he could finance a trip for several of us to Paraguay. Listened to a number of editors my vintage tell me they're riel, retired and work one day a week, "just to keep my hand in." Which, of course, means interfering with their sons, or daughters, who are trying to pay off the old man the tremendous sum be wanted for the business. Gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a young woman called Alic B. Toklas, who assured me she had quit running around with Gertrude Stein and Ermst Heminway and Scott Fitzgerald and ail t hose rotters. And then, of course, we've had The Boys, as they are now called. The Boys are the two grandsons. When they are here, it takes four adults full time to keep things even minimally sane. One is at the hell-on-wheels stage. The other is at the crawling, "if you can't eat it pull it over on your head" stage, And every time our daughter leaves, with The Boys, we are cleaned out. She goes away with a big, green garbage bag full of steaks, chicken, port chops, a box full of canned goods, and a pillow case stuffed with new clothes for The Boys and herself. Next morning, we have to go shopping to get enough grub for our own breakfast. Then there's been the golf. No matter what she does, my wife is an enthusiasts. She believes nothing succeeds like excess. So we've played golf every day. She is really a rotten player, because she reads books about golf and practices ber swing. I am just ordinary rotten. I'm afraid we're going to bo- thrown out of the golf club. If anyo had tried to tell me that my swee, shy bride of a few years ago would core out wit the language she used on the golf course, I'd b ve said: "Sir, pistols at dawn, or nine irons at nine, Take your pick." 1 try to help, in a gentle, sincerç sort of way. When she flubs a sbot, L merely point out that ber grip was slack, ber stance sloppy, ber back swing too fast, and ber ead .vent up like a toilet seat, and she screams at me, right across the fairway. I heard one elderly lady golfer saying to ber husband, quite concerned: "Mark my words, sbes going to kili bim. Wby do you tbink she takes ber seven iron home every day, after they play? I hear be's well insured." Al in al, it was a pretty fair summer. 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Gill, 2nd vice, Sept.23rd,1976 media began pointing to the politics; to a day's work for a human beings. mirably with the names of George F. Annis, Treas. R.F. Editor: Dear Sir: stars instead of feeding us the day's pay and saving for a Yours sincerely, Harafuji, Ohaski, Kamina and Aitchison, Sect'y - C.H If Canada is to pull out of its "realism" of the sewer; time rainy day - instead of living it Patricia Young Cormier. Mason. headlong plunge into the abyss we saw the family unit as the up and expecting taxpayers to REffK 5 R EU E R R E EUER UUgg of permissiveness and per- first unit of, government in- provide a financial umbrella. verted progress, we had better stead of an arenaeor combat Perhaps then, instead of stop to rediscover some of the principles, standards and ethics that went into the building oftthis nation. t It's time we recovered ourUurriam East MPP sense of humor, sense of decency and sense of honor. 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