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2-Orono Weekiy Times, Wednesday, February 2nd, 1977 Orono Weekly Timies Second Ciass Mail Registration Number 6368 Publishied Every Wednesday at the office ofPublication Main Street, Orono Roy C. Forrester, Editor Erie Patterson, Advertising SO YOU WANT TO PAY FOR A NEW ARENA Due to structural deficiencies two Athletic arenas in the Town of Newcastle, Orono Arena on and Newcastle Village, have been con- $36,024.58 demned and must be losed permanently $4,500.0 g and demolished by Aprîl l5th, 1977. These were- rai arenas have served the two comnmunities registratic for a great number of years but this era is banquet.1 close to an end. Both centres are now local Cla:, considerîng the construction of new the $4,500 facilities. Township: It is understood that residents and taxes, $56, taxpayers in the two centres are faced Darlingtor with raising of monies up to $150,000.00 as operation a part of the cost of construction. This sum total of $ of money must be raised through public arena faci subscription «'hich wiil then be matched double thE by a certain sum from Wintario and from industria] the Community Centres Branch of the only $80,75 provincial ministry. The This is no minor task facing thost council oft promoting the ventures which are duplic- show thati ated in both centres. It isî a sizeable paying a amount of money for each community to arenas in raise through subscriptions.' asked to e( Residents and taxpayers in the to build the Township of Clarke are presently being fromn the r( called upon, and actualiy have no choice, through ti to support the Bowmnanville arena and the fair and0 Darlington arena both in capital and asked to operating expenses. This money is being themnseîveç raised through your tax bNil issuedby the sucb facili Town of Newcastle. To ta What does this cost the taxpayer in would like Clarke Township? placed in t According to the annual budget election> statement for the Town, 1976 it appears advertiseni that the Darlington arena operated with a factual fiý deficit of $71,011 in 1975 while the between ta: Bowmanviile arena in the same period had taxpayers a deficit of $34,307. The total defîcit for the centres of two arenas in 1975 amounts to $105,318. 0f 1 The this amount the taxpayers in the former Township Township of Clarke pay almost twenty-five tax bill of per cent or $26,429.00. the averagi The budgeted figures in the saine an$316 owner in t statement for 1976 uipon which the 1976 tax conditioni bll was estabiished show the Bowmanville- further'that arena with a defîcit of $97,185 while the is aîreadyc deficit for Dariington rises to $133,460.00 other centr for a total deficit between the two arenas And we are of $230,645 to be paid by taxpayers over the costs of ar whole of the Town of Newcastle. 0f this Surel sizeable deficit taxpayers in Clarke and that hs Township will pay $56161. Now one can accept al add to this total a further sum as the Town ohcpt of Newcastle this year is supporting the bth apsi village of Newcastle arena t o an unknown taxaesidz sum at thîs time. ce suItdi Costs for local residents are further in the Town increased due to the fact that the Orono in Clarke T IT MUST ALSO APPEAR TO BE 80 There is an old saying which goes something like this,, "It must not ofly be so it must appear to be so". This could well appiy today in matters pertaining to devel opment in the Town of Newcastle and a running battle between our local M.P.P., Doug Moffatt and Union leaders. For the past number of months this community has been faced with some sizeable development proposais such as Rice Mobile homes, Darlington Generating Station, Eldorado Nuclear deveiopment and of course the now resolved hydro transmission line. In ail these proposais Mr. Moffatt has voiced a personal opinion, which hie has every right and duty to do so. t wouid appear to this corner that hie has been opposed to the proposais, making statements such as hydro was over developing or that nuciear power generation was far from an efficient source of energy. In June commenting on further use of the Welcome or Port Granby disposai sites for radioactive waste he is recorded to have said this solution is not acceptable to the communitv. News reports in the past give every indication that there has been some form of riff between the local member and labour leaders although at this point these appear to be resolved. A recent joint statement by the Oshawa and District Building Trades, Ed Broadbent, M.P. and leader of the federal N.D.P's and Doug Moffatt, Durham East M.P.P. sta tes that ail of the above demand that the present dump site at Port Granby be made safe and secure and that any further waste disposai areas for nulear waste be properly engineered and maintained so that the safety of the public, Association operate the Orono n their own whicb amounted to ýfor 1975-76 . Other than a grant from the Town these funds ised through rentais, hockey Jons, a dance, carnival and AU this money cornes from the irke area. Making allowance for )0 grant from the Town Clarke p residents then fork over through 6,000 for the Bowmanville and on arena plus $31,524 for the t of the Orono arena for a grand $87,524.00 on à yearly basis for ilities. Bowmanville with at least he population and a much wider 0 and commercial tax base pays '50.00 for the facilities of arenas. efigures as submitted to the fthe T -own of Newcastle certainly residents of Ward à are already sizeable sum of money for ice nthe Town and'yet are being cough up further sums of mornes Jeir own arena with no assistance residents of the Town as a whole Lxation. To say the least it is not. Orono and Newcastle are being )subsidize others while they es must foot their own bills for lities as arenas. take the matter a step further we ,e to, refer to an advertisement the area newspapers prior to the by Mayor Rickard. In. the nent he outlined, with real gures, an unfair differential Lxpayers in Clarke Township to sin Bowmanville and other fthe Town. average home owner in Clarke pays an average residential f$647.95 compared to $475.92 for ge home owner in Bowmanville 67 for that same average home the Village of Newcastle. This is appaling and only proves at the Clarke Township taxpayer overtaxed compared to those in res of the Town of Newcastle. .e being asked to finance capital new arena? ly there is only but one answer ifor the Town of Newcastle to, 1responsibility for arenas for ta and operting costs. Those in Clarke Township are already gthe facilities of arenas in other [s time the remaining taxpayers n assisted the cause for arenias Township. The abominable Snowman, cornes to life? No! This is one of two ice creatures standing guard at the Pines Senior Public- School. When asked4 how they enjoyed the week- end blizzard ... they had no comment. Advertising... I a showcase I for intelligentI shopping.j CANADIAN ADVERriSING ADVISORYj OARD 9 --m workers and the environment are insured. The statement -continues, "The building of a refinery in the Town of Newcastle would be a welcomned addition to the local economy but we stress that proper protection must precede any decision to construct the facility. We are not willing to trade the health of lworkers or the environment for a few jobs." This is a clear enough statement bout just who is going to determine if the procedures are safe or not. Not surely the Trades councîl or Mr. Broadbent or Mr. Moffatt, they do flot have the expertise or knowledge to make such a judgement. In tact even the so-called specialists disagree in their opinions of what is or what is not safe as far as the storing of radioactive material or machinery which has handled such material. The local politicians have worked their way out of their previous stand or at least it appears to be the case. They can now operate in a whole spectrumn of a grey area and a simple sentence will take themn to one side of the fence or the other. "We are satisfied with the controls . . . or . . . we are not satisfied with the controls. It is interesting that a TV documentary by one of the U.S. stations was aired on Thursday night clearly outlining the problemns being faced with nuclear waste disposaI. Taken from this programn there is no sure way, at this time, to store the waste without some area of doubtL. The program closed with -You die f rom possible pollution ot freezing to death. - B ROADLOOM Our New L-ocation 170 CHURCH STREEI BOWMANVI LLE rT 623-5 BOWMANVI L 5054 Cushion Floor f rom $3.95 sq. Yard Roll Ends and Remnants now Sno availbe Bot à ~- mm 2 5 OF I ITRAIL a Snomobie oos3 OR 25%ONAR O FFin 9350 F. R. Tennant Fuels Ltd. 983-5693 M -LI