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*à ,à~ Gord Mils and Brussel Spro uts by Carol-Ann Oster The Durham Regional Police Street Crime Unit made a presentation to parents at Newcastle Publie School last Monday. Officers Chuck Nash and Michelle Hoard explained to the parents the differences between street gangs and youth gangs and the types of activities that youths are becoming involved in. They also discussed the behaviours of these youth and they talked in length on the topic of weapons. Street Crime Unit is a relatively small portion of the Durham Regional Police. They are responsible for the entire Region and find that most of their time and efforts are spent in the Ajax/Pickering area. They have and will continue to patrol the Newcastle area. The street crime Hey, great news folks! According to our trusted economic experts, We are officially ot of the recession. I have simply one word for this ... HOGWASH. Do they honestly expect us te belIieve that titis is true? We bave been hearig for months several differing opinions on the topie. Some have said that the future is looking brîghter. Others have said that we have a while befre we see any improvement. Others say that it c-an only get worse before it gets better. But now this ray of sunshine cornes to brighten our miserable, recessionary trnes. We are out of the recession? Corne on! Just last week GM announced that it was forced to lay off 1,450 workers from an Oshawa plant due to a continuing sales slump. 1,450 pink slips does not sound like a good sign to me. unit, when seeing what goes on in a town does not go undercover. They are however plain-clothed. They say that they do not want to bide what they are doing but they do not want to draw attention to the fact that they are there either. Though the unit spends little time in Newcastle, this does not mean that street crimes neyer occur. They stress that as a parent ît is your job to know what your child is doing and it is your responsibility to discipline before the problems grow and it becomes the police's responsibility to discipline. This presentation was found to be so informative that St. Francis of Assisi is currently planning to hold a presentation for the parents of their students. To walk down a street or through a mail is depressing these days. The number of bankruptcies and closing out sales does not make shopping a pleasant experience. But here, again, 1 guess this is just another sign that we are coming out of an econornic slump. Unemployment. Well, I guess that with this economic uptura, we will also see unernployment corne down. (Despite the lay-offs at GM) Well, that's great news. There are a lot of people who could really use the jobs. Al those poor souls who have been graduating frorn post-secondary, higher learning institute s, they will be able te get the jobs that they are qualified for. With economic renewal also cornes an end to governmient cutbacks. This means that those who couldn't afford to go to by Gord Mils MPP Durham East Most people 1 know, unless they originate from England, al hate brussels sprouts. I don't know what it is about them, but when folks corne to dinner just mention that you have brussels sprouts on the menu - ugh! people' just turn green at the mere thought of having to eat any of them. What then is the solution? How about a brussels-sprouts- eating machine. This device, when engineered, will be an unobtrusive contraption, carried easily in pocket or purse. school, to get the necessary education, to obtain a job that was not available, wili be able to get the money to go to school, to get the education that they need to get that job that shouldi corne available anyday. So any time now we will be seeing an improved standard of living. Our dollar wiIl become so strong that it will far outweigh the American dollar and even the British pound. Our Gross Domestic Product will skyrocket. Minimum wage will zoom up to $9.50 an hour. People everywhere will drive new cars and be able to fi up their tanks with gas that costs $0.75 a litre. There will bc an end to homelessness. Charities won't need our help, but we'Il keep on giving just because we can. Cures will be found for every terminal disease through funds provided by our government. And the govemnment, they wil again be able to stuff their ermine lined pockets. Yes, folks, this leaves us looking up to our overcast January sky for that one silver lined cloud that we have been told does exist. If you squint, cross your eyes and crane your neck, I think you can see that cloud. Faint though it is, yes, we can see it. And it seems that our cold northerly wind is blowing it in the general direction of Washington. The Newcastle Community Liaison Group ivites you to a Pw)U BLIC MEETL i The Topic: The Port Granby Low Level Nuclear Waste Site YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VITALLY IMPORTANT. YOU CAN BECOME PART 0F THE SOLUTION TO LOW LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN THE TOWN 0F NEWCASTLE Its lucky owner, confronted with a plate bearing brussels sprouts, simply places the brussels-sprouts-eating machine alongside the plate and lets the machine do the eating, thus leaving the cleared plate so flattering to dinner-party hosts. I sec a few kinks - mechanical belches, actually, that remain to be ironed out of the prototype, but at last relief is not far off. While we are in the kitchen, what about those folks who write everythin~g down for fear of forgetting something. Like the Trustees - Don't blame us School truste-es of the Durham Public Board don't want to be painted with the same-brush as trustees in Scarborough who gave themselves a 36 pay raise for 1993. Bob Rae has since commented that revamping of the system may be considered. The Durham trustees make $13,600 and have remained at that point for the past couple of years. Could create local jobs A planned revamping of the Whitby Psychriatric Hospital is ready to start and could create husband, who's fed up with his wife forgetting everything, asked ber to write everything down. On her way to the kitchen her husband asked her to bring back a bowl of ice-cream. "Alright," she "Write it down," he cries out. "It's not necessary," she insists. "I'm already in the kitchen." In a few moments the wife appears and says to her hiusband, "Here's your piece of cake." His -reply: "What happened to thetoast I asked for?" Ain't life wonderful? some 500 to 700 jobs over the next five years in the building industry. To this point $20 million dollars' have been spent i n planning the project but approval from the govemnment has not been yet obtained. The project has been in the works for the pat 16 years. 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