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6-Otono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 16, 1985 From around the Region MILLBROOK SCHOOL TO BE SAVED The old Millbrook school in Millbrook Village may be around for a long time as a group known as Friends of the Old Millbrook School have funds totalling $34,000 for its purchase from the Peterborough Board of Education. The Board is ask- ing $45,000. for the 14,000 square foot facility which sits on four acres of land. The Ontario College of Art which has a campus in New York, N.Y. and one in Florence, Italy is considering locatitn of a satelite campus at the\school in Millbrook and a study will soon be underway. The College of Art notes the beauty of the area. CANOE MUSEUM TO COME TO PORT HOPE Last year announcement was made that Fire Fighting Equipment Museum would be locating in Port Hope and this announcement has now been followed by a recent an- nouncement that a Canoe Museum will as well locate in Port Hope. The Canoe Museum, ex- pected to bring 100,000 peo- ple in the town annually will located in the old Nicholson File plant along the bank of the Ganaraska. The building will house up- wards of 1,000 boats of all types which have been col- lected from around the world. The boats are currently displayed in Haliburton County where a small display will remain after the majority of the vessels are brought to Port Hope. Former Iawyer gets 3½ years A former Port Hope lawyer, Claude Fitzgibbon, 53, pleaded guilty before the Ontario Supreme court last week on four counts of defrauding 29 persons, most- ly in the Port Hope area, of more than a half million dollars. Chief Justice Gregory Evans sentenced Fitzgibbon to three and a half years in a federal penitentiary. The case has been in the courts for two years. Fitzgibbon was admitted to the bar in Ontario in 1955 and moved to Port Hope where he joined Wilfrid Bon- neville's law firm. In 1969 he purchased the firm and took in a partner Ronald Good. Fitzgibbon declared bankrupcy in November of 1980. WHITBY RECREATION EXPANSION $4.3 MILLION The Town of Whitby will spend 1985 in planning the Town's new, improved recreation ,centre which is now estimated to cost $4.3 million. Phase one of construction is to get underway in 1986 and continue for two years following. The plans. call for a second ice pad, a fitness and martial arts centre, ex- pansion to the swimming pool gallery and extensive renovations. It ail takes place at the Iroquois Park Recrea- tion Complex. FACE FIGHT ON OSHAWA WARD SYSTEM Within three weeks the On- tario Municipal Board will hear a proposai from the City of Oshawa as to their concen- sus of a partial ward system which would go into effect prior to the 1985 elections lat- ter this fall. The city proposal has not met with approval of some groups and it is expected bat- tie lines will be drawn at the OMB hearing. TO HELP EASE APARTMENT SHORTAGE Interest free loans to private developers in the amount of $1 million from the federal and provincial governments will assist the construction of (4) new apartp ments in the City of Oshawa in 1985. The City has one of the lowest rate of vacancies in the country. MINISTER STATES PLAN ON NO INCREASE Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister for . the Province of Ontario, Claude Bennett said last week in Oshawa that municipalities in the province should not plan on increased grants this year. He said the municipalities should plan on getting no more than in 1984. The Region of Durham has already asked the Ontario government to at least give an increase of two and a half percent which is half the in- crease received in 1984 from 1983. TOWN WILL MEET WITH LIBRARY BOARD Counc. Hamre at Monday's meeting of the Town of Newcastle council called for a joint meeting of council and the Town Library Board due to the fact that the provincial financial approach to library financial assistance is to change for 1985. __Mayor Rickard stated the information is not yet available but that such a meeting was appropriate when the information is available. Council supported the pro- posal and a meeting will be arranged. WANTS FACT OF LIFE OUT IN OPEN The Durham Region District Health Council wants to get the facts of life out in the open. The council along with the family planning department of the Region of Durham, the Durham Board of Education and other groups are sponsoring a Human Sexuality Awareness Week, February 10ith to 14th. "The theme is open com- muncations between parents and kids," says Mick Peters, executive director of the health council. "There are ai leasi 300 un- wanted teenage pregnancies in the region each year, and that's a major problem," he says. And the main reason why kids have unwanted babies is because they don't fully understand how the reproductive system works or how they can prevent themselves from becoming pregnant. HELPING NEEDY IN NORTHERN ONTARIO The Whitby Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion have co-ordinated the collection of 500'pounds of clothiñg and boots which have been sent to a Cree Indian village in Northern Ontario. Further such assistance is to go to Attawapiskai near James Bay later this year. The articles will be distributed by a former Whit- by resident who teaches in the northern community. The need for assistance was made known last September when the former resident visited their home town of Whitby. CASHIER STOLE $8,100 FROM GAS BAR Katherine Alldread, 21 of Whitby, has pleaded guilty on eleven counts of theft. The woman stole some estimated $8,162.00 from the Bush Gas Bar in Whitby. GM EXPANSION A BOOM FOR OSHAWA As a result of expansion at the GM plant in Oshawa, the city recorded a banner year relating to new development amounting to $100.2 million. The GM expansion made up $66 million of the value in development and with the amount of the city recorded the highest level of develop- ment in comparison with other years. Without the GM expansion the city would have a slow year. THEATRE COMPANY PERFORMS Jan. 20th "Moebius, theatrical tour de force" will b.e the featured performers at the second con- cert of the Durham Region Concert Association's cur- rent series on Sunday, January 20th at 8 p.m. in the Oshawa Little Theatre on Russett Street. The Moebius group has had TV exposure and is described as fusion theatre combining the elements of masks, movement, mime and theatre within each perfor- mance. lncluded in the program is Psychology (0), which showcases two lovers on Saturday night, confession, -and a poetic love duet. Christian High School 3rd World Seminars During the week of January 21 to 25 Durham Christian High School is hosting its annual Special Emphasis Week. This is a week when regular classes are set aside, the school is opened up to the community, and students and visitors alike ex- plore a topic of interest in an in-depth, integrated way. In past years such topics as Food and Nutrition, Work HAVELOCK VIA BACK ON TRACK The Havelock-Toronto VIA service cut out in 1981 is to be restored by the federal Conservative government on June lst, 1985. The service is to be operated as an experiment to determine its cost efficiency. and Leisure, Life as Celebra- tion, and other have been studied. This year focus is on Central America: Our Third World Neighbours. The recent publicity of the famine in Ethiopia and other African countris reminT us of the terrible conditions in which many Third World people live. It also reminds us of our responsibilities as af- fluent North Americans to these people. Much has been done to help the people in Africa, but we know the pro- blem does not end here. There are many other coun- tries having the same needs, and our effrots to help should not stop with a contribution to the Ethiopian Aid Fund. It is the intent of our Special Emphasis ¶Veek to draw attention to the needs of the people living almost next door to us: Central that hve there? What are their problems? What is bein- done to help them, and ha can we help? These are some ' of the questions we hope to answer throughout the five days of the week. Our school has planned a variety of activities and events. Films and slide pro- grams will be shown. Speakers have been invited: people who have lived in the area or who have first hand knowledge; experts who have studied the problems; representatives of various organizations who are busy at work in Central America try- ing to help the people. In ad- dition, the entire student body will be experiencing a "Hunger Awareness Dinner" to make them more aware of what it feels like to "go without" when others can eat in luxury. We realize, of course, that a genuine concern for our neighbours in Central America will depend to a (Continued page 7)