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i 0-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 26, 1991 From A round Te Region Man caught in his own trap Police nabbed a vandal last week whien mhe man became stuck under a car in which hie was letting mhe air out of die tires. Four cars in a Court parking lot had had their tires slashed and windows broken. The eighteen year old was charged with mischief under $ 1,000. Planned events for Canada Day The Millbrook and Cavan recreation comm-ittees have plannied a Community Picnic and Sports Day for Monday, July 1 at the Cavan Maple Leaf Park. Events for ail the family. Following the day fire works will be held at the Millbrook Fair Grounds at dusk. Community determined to keep school The Millbrook community is determined to keep their High School rather than have the Peterborough Board of Education close mhe school and bus students to Peterborough. Some sixty turned out to a recent open forum to express meoir views. PRIDE programn for Millbrook Extensive improvements for downtown Millbrook lias somne business people worried over the fact that the work is expected to take sixteen weeks. The County, Village and Province is mivolved in mhe project for new sewer, water pipes in the area along with a new road, sidewalks and street lighting. Hope Township ready to fight Hope Township is ready to take on mhe Province of Ontario and mhe Ministry of Agriculture-and Food as to an inclusion in mheir officiai plan. Hope wants the option of allowing property owners to convert small sections of mheir lands to non-agricultural uses. Such would allow sons or daughters to pu rchase a small parcel of land from mheir parents farm to build a house. Their Ministry has been objecting to this condition in the Townships proposed officiai plan. The issue could go to the Ontario Municipal Board. Planning future joint programs The Cobourg and Port Hospitals are planning joint programns for Uie hospitals in an effort to reduce costs through sharing programs. First on the list is a joint diabetic-education programn comning mbt effect in July. Administrators at me hospitals are to report to mheir boards other features mhat may bc undertaking in a similar fashion. Continue debate Baltimore Postal outiet Although Canada Post and a convenience store owner have agreed to move postal services to the convenience store the Townslhip of Hamilton site plan restrictions have the move on hold. Kyung-Soo Kim again made overtures to tie Township objecting to the loss of front-store parking and the developmient of 12 parking spaces in the back of the store. He also objects to a new load dock and other structural changes being required. The Township is to reconsider their conditions. Seeking out-of court settiement Neighbours of a Hope Township dirt-bike racetrack are aiming to resolve their differences with track users through an out-of- court settlement. A neighbouring couple have filed a $1 .1 million lawsuit against the owner of the lands on which the track has been built. -The bikers have provided a proposal to settle the dispute while the nieighibours have responded to the proposalinii which they ask that the track-use be abandoned. Thie dispute continues. Cobourg pays $63 7,000 for farm Cobourg is paying $637,00 for 82 acres of property next to the former Cobourg dump which has been leaking leachate onto mhe farm property . In 1987 Joe Shermnan purchased the land for $200,000 and in 1988 found mhat leachate was polluting the Brookside Creek that runs through Oie property. A bank appraiser hiad put the valuation of mhe lands at S425,00. The town in purchasing the lands will make use of it when a sewver line is constructed to catch the leachate and take mhe leachiate to the nearby sewage lreatmenlt Plant. Developmnent put on hold Sinice amalgamation plans of Hamilton Township and the Town of Cobourg have broken downi four develop.menits in Hamilton Township have been at a standstill. Most of mhe problemr centrecs around mhe fact that water may not be available for the developmients whiich werenin Hamilton Towniship. It had beeni proposed tmat Oie areas would have beeni servicedl by water from mhe Cobourg system., Residents calling for impact study Somne residents in the Pratt's Pond area, Cobourg, are calling for ant environmental impact study prior to tme development of a nine hole golf course on the former floodplain area. 1The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority have given mheir approval to thie plans and Ruth Grier, Minîister of mhe Environmient has stated thec act has no application in this case. On the other iiand ani official with the ministry bias stated that the Environmental Protection Act would be the hest legisiation to apply since it deai§ with impacts of development on land, air and water. Natives may again erect road blocks Alderville First Nation Chief, Nora Bothwell, gtatesshe is one hundred percent behind Ovide Mercredi, the ne\Wly elected nation chief of the Aslembly of First Nations. She said there is a tough job ahead for the IIçw chief. Bothwell predficis there will be road blocks again this year. "There are going to be timies when the government doesll.t act and thiere will be bloclmades."! She did say she did flot want to see any violence. Separate Board may add some green The Peterborough- Victoria- Northumberland and Newcastle Separate Sehool Board has given the green light to adding some green to their purchasing policy even though it may increase cons. 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