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The Besi at the Pines Senior Public School, Oronio Weeki), limes, Wednesday, l'ebruary 27, 1%5-7 Sam' s *r-eport F"wn Ç 's P The above group of sponsored by the Royal Snyder and Barb Byers were Although representing students at the Pines Senior, Canadian Legion, Bowman- winners declared at the Pines their school w'ell on Sunday Public School represented ville Branch. through a school-wide com- they were unable to pick-up- their school in the Public Jeff Walters, Michael Hin- petition in both grades seven any of the top thiree placinigs Speaking contest held in ton, Jennifer Devolin, Aaron and eight. in the competition. Bowmanville on Sunday and I keep promnising fo write part two or a mrulti-plçt .ries on what makes a town or a Ci- ty a real "place". I started out by suggesting that Whit- by's atnhition (added by big governmienf fundi-ng) must also be supported by a will f0 make it work; by a combined business-polit ical-cifizen in- teresf in the projecf. If will take more than someè trees to make any downtown a "eplace". Planner, architect, social philosopher Buckminster Fuller had my favourite idea of whaf any city had fo be. He said much of if back in the days before fear and mistrust creafed fortress mentality, and perhaps before aniother authority, Jane Jacobs cam-e ouft in favour of small. He said if before we became more concerned about the preservation of life than the qualify of that life. Don't misundersfand. 1 think life is worth preserving, and I would rat her- be alive and bored than overstimulafed and dead. 1 can'f quote Fuller ver- bat im, butthe'substance was: city planning should take int o account that a city is for the ",use" of everyone; that peo- ple's homes are where t hey eat and sleep, but the city and ifs amenities is where citizens really live. If mnust have amenifies that feed the spirit, that feed the desire to be entertained, uplifted, amazed, or just eleganfly or interestingly fed. If happens that more of this variety (rememnber when we called if -"spice?") in lhfe isý available in a big city than in a smnaller town. Small places can join i with food for the eye and fthe spiri.They offen do. Small places do better at if f han bedroom suburbs jammed by Larry Solway with station« wagons, mails, and power mowers. Another planning authori- ty, architect Oscar Newman wrote about what is good arid bad about cities, and >especially about Developments and Suburbs. He is the avowed enemy of High Rise. Years ago he stood wif h me and at St. James Town, Toronto' Uglyopolis, and told me that if would one day become a boring, inhuman, 'offen dangerous ghetto. He was right. Read last week's Toronto papers. Some of fthe mosf blighted areas (or soon- to-be-blighted) are the highi rises of Whitby and Oshawa, Only the ultra-expensive heavily guarded ones work. And who can afford them. (But thîs is another whole topic.) Newman talks about "pro- prieforship." He speaks of privaf e space being inside your own door. Shared open spaces are "semi-public" and the rest is public. He says that t he fart her we gel from private space the farther we get from a sense of control, and so the less we care about if. If leads to fear, vandalism, and general neglect. If is why people who have spotless bathrooms af home litter and deface, public washrooms, even in restaurants. -Point. You can't create a sudden sense of pride in a place, either by lathering if in money to "beautify" if (although f hat ddesn't hurt) and you certainly can't do if by appealing to anyone's sense of civîc responsibilif y. Guilt trips don'f work. A few weeks ago Ed Buffet said t he people of Whifby have a "responsibility" f0 shop locally. (The quof e may not bc precise. lt's the gisf.) Il makes about as much sense as t elling a Canadian he has an "'obligation" to read MacLeans or to root-root- root for the home team. Back to Bucky Fuller. If a town wants f0 revitalize if must not only LOOK better, it must BE betten.* It miýst convince people that it is easy f0 get f0; comfortable to he in; and inferesting when you get there. People come to a downtown, or any people place in a town or city because they wanf f0 exfend fheir idea of private space beyond their own fences. 0f herwise fhey will lock int o a formula that excludes mosf things excepf scheduled golf or skiing, supermarket shop- ping; shopping plaza park- ing, chain store donuts and chîcken, and a good healthy upstanding solid suspicion of anyone who doesn't look ex- actly like evenyone else. 1 To make if workwe also have to stop giving the Great Canadian Fînger to everything local that strives to be better or different on sfylish, or cuit ural, or even outrageous. Nuala FitzGenald and I us- ed to beasked to speak to Service Clubs a lot. We wenf because we had something f0 say, and we had a theatre (The Marigold) we wanted people f0 know about. What we had to say spoke dinectly to the sense of who and what makes a t own really work. I is to celebrate each other: Nof f0 suppose that t hé delighits of the Metro flesh.pots are supenior to what we have here. The facf is t hat they may be. But we will not get better until we leanni, nof be "obligated"' to patronize each other, but because we want f0 come ouf into fthe No Police Station for Bo wma nville in 1985 The Region of Durham finance comimittee has again cut ouf of t he police budget planislfor a new vand improved police stationi for the Town of Newcastle. For fhe pasf three years considerationi has been given onl a nlew facility in] thre Townr of Bowmv-an ville buf during Regionral budget cuts has been dropped. Chairmian of the finlan-ce commrit tee said the Police depart mrenit camue with a shopping~ list t hey could not approve and included in. the list wvas $525,000 for the Bowmrianvýille Police Station. Alfhoughi the monies were eliminated from fthe budget the commiftee did giv e a moral commitmenf by allocating $50,000 seed money in the 1986 budget to draw up plans and designs for a renovaf ion to start the following year 1987. Other items deîeted from the shopping list was $500,000 for parking at the Oshawa' headquarters and monies for an extension to the Pickering Police Station. The 'finance commitfee did approve setting aside $450,000 this year and next for police computers. streets and be seen walking and talking and looking anid buying. Weeks ago 1 suggested that you couldn't counterfeit an atmosphere by pourinig money ouf. I still believe that. Buf somefim-es a plan, t hat cost s money does work. If works because if wiIl enntýchi or restore or sav e what is already there. Maybe that's why downfowni Markhamn is t he envy of so mrany other fowns. The second in a seies about smnall towns and suburbs anid people places. The construction of Danl- inglon Nuclear Generating Station was approved by the Ontario Government i 1978. As you know, the plant is located on a 1,200 acre site, in the Town of Newcastle, on Lake Ontario. When this four-unit station is fuilly operating- in 1992, it will pro- vide 3,524,000 kilowatts of electricity. This is enough power f0 serve a city of 3 million people. Further, Darlington will emnploy about 600 workers. Darlington was appro\ed for mnany reasons. Firsf, it was selected because of ifs promnimify to residen- tial, industrial and commer- cial energy markets. Also, the site has transportation access, an abundant supply of cool- ing wafer from Lake Ontario, and excellent bedrock for sta- tion ýfoundations. A\nother of the main reasuons- for Darlingfon's ap- proval is that it will help On- tario Hydro meet its commit- ment to provide reasonab ly priced energy in the future.* Presently, nut-lear energy accourus for a third of the enerigy in Ontanio. The con- struction 1 olfinu Clea r generating stations such as Dariling2ton w ili increase the amilounlt of lectricit.y produc- ed from unraniumr and reduce our dependenice on imported f'ossil fues swlnuclear enryis a dlean fuel, and that's good news flor fthe en- Plants such as Darlingf on cosf more in the first few years thilan 1power generated fromr a coal-fired station due to high capital costs. However, the cost of Dari- ington's power should average 50 pier cent less than the cost or poweý,r fromi coal- fired stations. Ont ario presently hasý 3 ful- ly oPer1a t ilg in-aclea r generating stations, If we had relied primarily on coal as a Source of power generatin, our electuicityý rates would be at least 25 per cent higher than the present rates. Recently, Onitanio Hydro Chairmnan Thomtas C(ampi- bell, predicted thaf the utility's 1986 rafte, increase will be only 3 or 4 per cent -- lower than inflation. This is parfially due to increasing sales and lower interest rates. But, hie further believes that hydro rafes wîll be even'less, in the future, especially in comparison to utîlities in fthe U.S., which confinue to de- pend heavily on fossil fuels. This will give Ontario in- dusi ries a beffer edge over f heir compef ifors. In fthe long run, Ontario will save over one billion per year when -aIl nuclear plants, such as Darlington, are in ful operat ion. I was of course pleased that one of Bill Davis's final duties as premier was the opening of the Darlington Generating Station's new Information Centre. As you may know, a se- cond transmission line con- necting the Cherrywood Transformer Station to the Bowmanville Swg*ching Sta- tion is schedulect for comple- tion by the summer of 1987 f0 be available for the start of power transmission ouf of the first 2 units at Darlingf on in 1988. This year, preparaf ion work for the transmission towers will begin. Assembly and erection of the towers will start in 1986, with the str- inging of. the conduct ors scheduled for the latter part of that year for complet ion in 1987. Cleanup and restoration of work locations will be an ongcîng activity during con- structioni, Should you have any ques- tions about a portion of the transmission line which may affect you, please contact: Mr. Dennis Boyd, Construction Contact Officer, EV 291 800 Kipling Ave. Toronto, Ontario. Phone: 1-416-231-4111, ext. 6311 For matters relating to pro- perty or any crop damage dlaimis, please contact: Mn. Chanlie Ricketf s Regional Propent y Agent Central Region 5760 Yonge St. Willowdale, Ontario Phone: 1-416-222-2571, ext. 471 Ontario montorists are now required f0 keep their headlights on longer due to an amendment f0 the HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT. If is now necessary thaf drivers switch on their headlighf s a haîf hour BEFORE sunset and keep them on a half hour AFTER sunrise. 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