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.... ..... -.......... .. ....... OwonrWify Minies, WedxWsdsy, lune 5, 198"' Congratulations to.the winner of aur annual meat draw. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Perrault Toronto won the total price of their meat purchase valued at over $300.00. We thank our customners for their participation. KIRBY, STOR R.R. #1, ORONO 983-5476 From Around the Regioi HANDI-TRANSIT WILL SURVEY PUBLIC USE A $2,500 grant fromn the Pilot International Founda- tion has enabled Handi- Transit to distribute surveys to 250 users in Oshawa, Whitby and Newcastle late in June to determine if the public is satisfied with the service. The survey will examine whether handi-transit pro- vides what the people need, whether they are happy with the vehicies, service, drivers and administration and any changes they would like to see, Handi-transit cuirrently has five vehicles in Ohwtwo in Whitby and one in Newcastle with another part- timte vehicle beinig added this faîl. OSHAWA MPP INTERESTED IN SPEAKER'S JOB Rumour at Queen's Park has placed Oshawa MPP Mike Breaugh at the' top of the list of people more likely to be chosen as speaker Mien the legislature'resumes. While Breaugh has heard nothing officiai about the job, he said he wouid be in- terested if it was offered to him. He said his interest in parliamentary procedural af- fairs committees, as well as his experience of aimost 10 years as MPP, is what put* him on the list for thejob. VICTIM IDENTIFIED A man burnied beyond recognition in a single vehicle accident Wednesday after- noon in Courtice has been i fied as Walter Czaus, ýf 198 Kin1g Street East in Oshawa. Czaus, an emiployee of Chrysler otf Canada in Ajax, was killed when the truck he. was driving left Baseline Road near Courtice Road, rolled over, and then burst in- to flamnes. He was atone in the vehicle. ROAD WORK CUT TO PAY FOR PLOWING The Durham Works com- mittce has trimmed more than $400000 from road con- struction to find money for snow plowing thisnter. Higher than. no6in-m snowfalls in the first three months of this year forced the Works Department to spend ail but $146,000 of its $2 miillion road clearing budget. The region would normally have spent about $1 .4 million for snow plow- ing in that period. MINISTRY ALLOWS, COTTAGE OWNERS TO SPRAY WEEDS WITH REGLONE A Cottage owners on Lake Scugog xill be permitted to spray chemnical Regione A near their properties to clear away the weeds following a meceting ai the Latchami Cen- tre in Port Perry iast Sunday. Federal and provincial politicians, tourist site operators, ratepayers and of- ficiaIs of the municipaiities around the iake were on hand to discuss the weed problem in Lake Scugog. Fish contamination levels dropping Local fisherman are advis- ed to limit their consumption of fish from the Ganaraska River in the 1985 edition of the Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish. However, Allen Johnson, a provincial Ministry of En- vironment bioiogist says if contamination levels con- tinue to drop, within the next fobür years it may be safe to eat as-many of those 75 cen- timetre (30 iých) rainbows in the Ganny as ýyou can catch. Johnson said while the Guide stili warns fish-eaters to limit their consumption of rainbow troutA-ver, 55 cen- timetres or 22 inclrs) and brown trot (over '35 cen- timetres, ýr 14 inc s) taken from thý river -býcause of mercury, PCB and pesticide contamination, the levels are d ropping, at least in the ramn- bows. Federal waste office regdy to start partial dlean-up Ottawa's low-level radioac- tive waste office is prepared to start unburdening Port Hope of somne of its radioac- tive waste problemis, but only if town council says yes to a request included in a report made public last night. The report says the low- level waste office of Atomnic Energy Canada Ltd. is ready to move between 5,000 and 10,000 cubic metres of radio active waste from some of the' town's most contaminated areas to a temporary storage area this year. The total amount of waste in Port Hope's ravines and public lands is estimated at 72,000 cubic metres. The average content of waste in town waste is 217 parts per million of uranium, 71 pico- curies of radium 226, and 60 parts per million of arsenic, the report states. Restoration Society meets maybe for Iast time The Society for the Restoration of Victoria Hall in Cobourg met last week, probably for the last time. The 1 3th annual general meeting of the Society held last Thursday in Victoria Hall's Old Bailey-style cour- troon, was in alI likelihood the last time it will gather to report on a year's worth of wrestling with foundations and grants and the myriad details the restoration project has entailed since it adopted the once derelict Grand Old Lady of King Street in 1972 as worthy of saving. Oshawa man to bike Europe Jim Boate of Oshawa will travel aIl over Europe by bicycle this summer. Boate, supervisor in the plastics department at General Motors, is an avid bike rider, travelling- five miles everyday to work. He first started riding after be quit smoking in 1978. Trent-Severn lockage fee boost Recreational boaters who go up and down the popuilar Trent-Severn Waterway system are up in arms over a whopping increase in lockage fees imposed two weeks ago by Parks Canada. The increases, the first in 10 years, go as h igh as 300 per cent for some classes of boats and resuit in seasonal fees as high as $225. .7 Canada, ranking ahead of Mirabel International Air- port in Montreal. In 1983 a total of 98,504 landings and take-offs were recorded at Oshawa Municipal Airport. In 1984, that total went slightly up to 100,189. Mirabel, a massive airport which has been described as a white elephant by its critics, recorded a total of 51,472 air- craft movements last year. Mirabel ranked 37th overal in 1984. Location of Con- sumers Gas plant to be aninounced The site testing is yet to be completed but Consumers Gas officiais say they hope to announce a final location for their proposed $100-million plant in Northumberland County by the end of June. Along with a preferred site, the announcement will' also reveal the location of an Liberals Darlington1 The Ontario1 Rethink Policy Liberal party alternate site for the liquified natural gas (LNG) facility, the firm's director of gas sup- ply said last Monday. Countdown begins for Cobourg Mal The 35-day countdown has begun until the final go- ahead is granted f or, Cobourg' s Northumnber-la,,d" Mal. Cobourg Counicil, with. a bare minimumn of discussion and no debate, passed a bylaw on Monday nighit to rezone six acres of land adja- cent to flecZellers mal for shopping centre use. If there are no objections to the new mnail, Toronto land developer Stan Poulton will finally, after 10 years of waiting, begin work on his Northumberland MaIl in the near future. N ;. N. Air, Conditioned Roolm Sumimer is the tirne to make tracks for the great outdoors awaiting you in Ontario's Provincial Parks. To pitch a tent or park the trailer. To sleep beneath the stars in the cool fresh air. Ontario's Provincial Parks and private carnpgrounds are inexpensive and easy to get ta. So take a deep breath. Corne, park yourself. For more information write Ontario Travel-Parks, Dept. N.D., C)ueen's t'rkToronito M7A 2R9. NAME_________________ ADDRESS___________________ CITY___________________ PROV CODE________ CALLTOLL FRE L1-800-268- 3735 ()Mnisty of Hon Michael Harri Natural M.eeogford (5 ,Resources Depryy Miser Ontario lias changed its long-standing policy that the $1 I-billion Darlington iuclear generating station should be scrapped and, instead, will decide its fate after study by a new legisiature committee to be set up if the liberals form the government next mionth. Some 398 of the 59 Liberal candidates who also respond- ed to the Project for En- vironmental Priorities Survey supported cancellation of the Ontario Hydro Plant, being built on the -shore of Lake Ontario, about 60 kilometres east of Toronto. The agreement between the Liberals and the New Democrats calîs for creation of a legistature standing com- mittee on energy that would overslee Hydro. The committee wilI be asked to recommnend whether Danl- ington be closed, whether on- ly two of its planned four reactors ,should--be com- pleted, or whether the whole project should go ahead.