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2 The Canadian Statesmanl, Bowmanville, June 21, 1978 Firemen Tackle 0il Spili Top Winners in C of C Golf Tourney About 100 gallons of diesel fuel flooded pavement in the area of the Courlice Interchange after a trans- port truck on Highway 401 developed a leak.e Newcastle Fire Chief Jim Hay- .man said Tuesday that volunteers from the Bowmanville Firehall were at the scene for about one hour early Tuesday morning mopping up the spill. Crews from the Ministry of Transportation and Communication cleaned up the oil that had spilled on Highway 401 while the local fire department tackled the spill on a parking lot and the end of Courtice Road. Chief Hayman said the cause of the leakage was believed to be a broken fuel ine from two 150 gallon tanks on the truck. He said the driver of the vehicle thought the lines broke after several loose pylons in the Harmony Road area were struck by another vehicle and one of the pylons flew under the truck. The fire chief reported that there was no damage to the asphalt as a result of the spilled oil. The mishap occurred just after 3 a.m. Tuesday morning. KIDS DAY - Bowmanville Merchants Sr. ball club has a special day for kids on Sunday with a free balloon for every youngster. They are playing Kendal Eagles at 2 p.m., Soper Creek Park. Bring the whole family, they can play on the swings and slides if they don't like the game. GREAT SUPPORT - On Tuesday night, Newcastle Lions were scheduled to hand over their third 000 donation this ear in support of the Newcastle Arena fund. That's $15,000 in total which is superb help from a small but hard-working club. BIG OPENING - Another business will hold its Grand Opening on Thursday. It's called Ye Olde Health Shoppe, located at 129 King St. East. Officiai ribbon cutting is at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and there'll be free juice and balloons for chîidren. Cýan Keep Fence Protest Tax System From Page One past and I think that this is a major achievement of this council. We need provincial help for full market value assessment but this is a step in the right direction." Councillor Gray did not comment on why he opposed the by-law at the meeting. The by-law set the mill rates at: WARD ONE (DARLINGTON): the residential public school sup- porters' rate is 233.30; for commer- cial property it is 265.57; the residential separate school support- ers' rate is 226.47; the commercial separate school supporters' rate is 257.98. For street light areas in ward one the rates are: 6.72 and 7.91 for residential and commercial proper- ties respectively regardless of support in Hampton; and 8.81 for residential and 10.36 for commercial regardless of support in Enniskillen. WARD TWO (BOWMANVILLE): the residential rate for public school su porters is 181.63 and for separate sehool supporters the rate is 176.93. The commercial rate is 207.13 for blic school supporters and 201.91 or separate. WARD THREE (CLARKE): resi- dential rate for public school supporters 263.07 and the commer- cial rate is 299.26. For separate school supporters 255.45 residential and 290.80 for commercial. Street light area rates are: Kendal - 23.21 for residential and 27.31 for commer- cial; Newtonville - 13.15 for residen- tial and 15.47 for commercial; and Orono Estates - 3.39 for both commercial and residential. In street light rates, school support does not affect the rate. DELOITTE, HASKINS & 1LIMITED F. A Vice Trustee in Bankruptc Bell Canada Building Oshawa Centre TELEPHONE 579-8202 lan Lawson C.A. P.O. B 9-President Oshawa L WARD THREE (NEWCASTLE): the residential rate for public school su pporters is 193.98, or separate sehool supporters it is 189.30; the commercial rate is 221.25 and 216.04 respectively. According to the by-law, all taxes, including local improvement assess- ments are deemed imposed and become due and payable on January 1, 1978. The taxpayer is allowed to pay the bill in four instalments. Two instalments have already come due under the interim tax assessment and the next two instalments, the remaining taxes after deduction of taxes already paid, are due on September 11, and October 31. After October 31, there will be a penalty for non-payment of taxes of one per cent on the first da of default and one per cent sha be added on the first day of each calender month thereafter in which the default continues, but not after the end of the year in which the taxes are levied. While it is impossible for the taxpayer to appeaihis taxes, it is possible to appeal the assessment which in turn would affect the final tax. The town is considering appealing the assessment on land in the municipality in an effort to bring the assessed value into line with the actual value of the land. This would result in greater tax dollars being raised, and in the minds of council, provide a more equitable distribu- tion of the tax burden within the municipality. SELLS Ivestigation Continuing into by Y Train Accident Durham Regional Police are investigating an incident involving the Canadian ox 800 Pacifie Railroad Dayliner L1H 7N1 train in which the engine - suffered $4,000 damage. According to a police spokesman, someone wîred a 14 by 30 foot log to the tracks, whih the train strork, just west of Burketon. "This is an extremely dangerous kind of thing" said the spokesman. "And while there wereno injuries this time, this sort of thing could lead to a lot of injuries". The police department is also investigating two ?78 robberies. At Nichols Motors, someone broke a window and then stole a Corvette and a Camaro from the dealer. The police re- covered the Cmaro in Bow- manville yesterday, however, they are stil looking for the Corvette. e or The depart tment is also is yea r. Aooking for someone who stole books of Wintario tickets from the Courtice General Store. The incident was re- ported yesterday and the tickets are valued at $100. September in good condition or they would replace it. Council, however, could not resolve the issue and referred it to the community services committee meeting held Monday night and empowered the committee to act. The committee. heard Bud Fanning, director of community services, explain that he was not upset at the ball club but rather at the story he was told by Bruce Alldred. Mr. Fanning explained that when he found out about the fence being up and asked Mr. Alldred about it, he was told that Doug Rickard, a member of the team's executive, had spoken to Mayor Garnet Rickard about it. Mr. Fanning later found out that it was Mr. Alldred who had spoken to the mayor, and that it was this story he was referring to when he said he was told Sealed tenders for the con- struction of the Courtice Fire Hall were opened Monday night at the commupity services meeting and two irregularities were revealed. Town Manager Albert Guiler informed the committee that two days after tenders closed, a letter was received by the town oertaining to the tender, submitted by Mirico Contractors Limited, one of the two companies who submitted bids on the building. This letter has remained unopened and the committee recommended that it be returned to the company without being opened. After dealing with this, however, and opening the two tenders, the town manager then proceeded to inform the committee of yet another irregularity. Totten Sims Hubicki Associates Limited, the engineering firm working with the town on the project, sent a cost analysis of the tenders. Something which required them to know the bids in the sealed tenders before they were opened. One councillor wondered what the use of having sealed tenders was if the companies were going to let everyone know. Mr. Guiler said that this was the first time he had ever seen something like this happen. Committee members, although somewhat confused over the whole affair, decided to send the tenders to the town manager, the fire chief and the engineer for approval and a report to be delivered at the finance committee meeting Monday night. Mirico bid $211,629 for the job. It' offered to have the engineering drawings and specifications completed within 21 days of the Your loss is T yuAin. 'a pack of lies', not the explanation given by the team executive. Mr. Fanning maintained that it was because of a misinterpretation that the executive was maligned. "I told them they couldn't put the fence up", said Mr. Fanning. "I'm not putting a retraction in the paper because I didn't say anything wrong." The committee recinded the motion made requesting the Lakers return the snow fence and granted them permission to have the fence. One of the points made during the council meeting was the fence did not interfere with any of the park's other activities and presented only minor problems with maintenance. Councillor Alf Gray stated that he was under the impression originally that there were many other activi- ties in the park that would be adversely affected by the fence. tender being awarded, construction to start within 21 days of approval of the specifications and completion of the project within 19 weeks from the date of acceptance of the proposal. The other bid was from Bowman Construction Limited. Bowman bid $209,000, offered to have the specifi- cations and drawings completed in 21 days, work to commence within seven days of written acceptance of the plans, and completion of the building within 20 weeks from contract acceptance. Regardless of the bid accepted, completion date for the hall, barring unforseen difficulty, appears to be around December 1. The committee recommended that the issue come up again at the finance committee meeting because Ontario Municipal Board approval is still needed for the project and the committee wants to see the wheels of the project in motion as soon as possible. Both tenders were under the $250,000 budgetted for the work and both included a $12,000 contingency fund in the bid to be spent only on the written authorization of council. "It is apparent from the above that both tenders received will yield a final project cost below the town budget of $250,000," wrote John Hubicki in his summation. "Both bidders are well qualified. At council's discretion, these tender may be received and tabled foi analysis by Totten Sims Hubicki tc determine which proposal offers thE better value." Mr. Hubicki stated that the company would need three days to carry out its examination of the bids. )WN HOMEaS C LE A R A NC%"E Last Wednesday, the annual Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce Golf tournament was heid at Bowmanville Country Club with 5 -men and women participating. Hugh Bieber at right won the low gross trophy, Bev Ells won the men's ow net and Kay Stephen, the ladies low net. It was one of the most successful C of C tournaments to date. Community Services Can't Run Info Center The Director of Community Services has informed council's community services' committee that he doesn't think his department can operate an information centre as requested. "Ater a deep discussion with department staff, it would be very difficult for this department to operate such a service," said Bud Fanning, in his report to the committee. Mr. Fanning told the coun- cillors that there was several reasons for his recommenda- tion. On one day alone the Break-in Durham Regional Police said this week that a break-in at the News Restaurant on 28 King St. East, Newcastle was reported at 10:15 Sunday. Police said entry had been gained by forcing a window and cutting an m- side screen. About $14 worth of confectionery goods was reported stolen. FLOWERS DRIED FRESH TROPICAL .GREEN PLANTS 3 STORES: .King St. E., EihwyNo. 2 Oshawa Simcoe St N VAN BELLE Oshawa office received 71 telephone calls requesting information, staff made 30 calls, and had to deal with 50 customers at the counter. The director felt there was no way the present staff could handle the volume of calls as there was often only one member in the office during the day. Committee members agreed with Mr. Fanning's findings and have sent the matter to the town manager for further study Irregularities Revealed ~$VILe. 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