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300 Cyclists leave Orono Saturday Two Cabinet Ministers visit Durham riding Pictured above is the first group their way to Peterborough. The Starkville, Osaca, Canton and then of close to fifty bikers leaving the lunch stop was at the Arena in north to Bewdley, to South Orono, Fair grounds Saturday. Bewdley. Monaghan to Bensfort Road into moming at 8:30 p.m. The route from Orono lead Peterborough. They had six check points on through Kendal, south to Oshawa receives trail money The City of Oshawa has received $210,000 towards a two- phased trail project that will connect its downtown with'the lakefront. The trail will also provide public access to an environmental and recreational area known as the Pumphouse Marsh. Oshawa is providing $ 140,000 in funding. Forming volunteer rescue team Durham Region is expected to be the first community ini Ontario to have its own volunteer ground search and rescue team. St. John Ambulance of Oshawa is setting up the organization that will be trained te help police in search and rescue. St. John Ambulance states there is a need for such an organization. To minimize contributions 1The Canadian Auto Workers Union has voted to minimize contributions to the Ontario NDP as a result of recent action by the government in calling for the Social Contract to reducing Provincial funding. 1And last week governmcent workers angry with the Social Contract protested with an ojitside rally. The employces were from the Whitby Jail and the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital. Identical tenders find a solution Hamilton Township in-opening two tenders for snow ploughing in three township areas for the next three years found that the tenders were identical. Flipping a coin was considcrcd but when it was found that one of the participants had but one truck and the other two trucks the work was divided into thrce parts with one part Ito the one-truck owncr, the two parts to the owner of thc two trucks. If there is a will there is always a way. Residents have concerns over power lUne Concerns are being exp ressed over Ontario Hydro's routing of a new hydro power line fromn Millbrook to Port Hope. A number o f possibilities have been suggested but Hope Township residents see no reason to open another area to a new line when a corridor already exists. Durham East 4-H tops Durham East 4-H members won three of the four divisions at the recent Peterborough Exhibition Inter-County Judging competition. Top Senior Judge and winner of the RoyalBank award was Carolyn Barkey, Winner of the intermediate Division and Bank of Nova Scotia Award was Donna Benschop. Nancy Metcalf was the winner of the Junior Division and the Sandoz-Agro Chemnical Ltd. Award. The 1993 competition hias 232 competitors representîng 8 local 4-H' associations. During this competition-, mem bers were asked to judge seven classes, and defend their placings on four of thc classes. Teacher's book wins award Fran Newman, a grade 4 teacher with the,,Northumiberland and Newcastle Board of Education, Brighton school, has won a04,000 award for lier book Childreni In Crisis, She said she has written the book to help teacher identify and. deal with childrcn who corne to class hurting because of bad situations at home. The award was made by the Federation of Womens' Teachers Association of Ontario. Trail money to Port Hope The provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs has been in Port Hope and provided the Town with funds for work undertaken and to bc undertaken on a waterfront trail system. Oshawa and Whitby were also récipients of funds for lakefront trail of recent weeks. The Port Hope award was in the amounit of $25,000. Pool car resources, The Port Hope Enerigreen project which is working on reduction enecrgy costs inthe homes as' far as ýwater and electricît y or concerned are also directing attention to other avenues of conservation. The group want to reduce the number, of vehicles on the road and the amount of pollutants that spew into the area . The Energreen group is pro-, moting local car pooling for those going to work, play, shopping and attending educational facilities. -A registration system has been setup, which is now in use and working. Gaines workers back to work One hundred and seventy-five workers are back to work at the Gaines Pet Food plant in Cobourg after being on strike for three and a haîf weeks. The thiree year contract marks a wage freeze for-two years and a two percent increase in the third year. 5000 apply for 110 jobs A frozen food processing plant opening in the Osaca area,. Hope Township, has, need for 110 workers- of which 20 percent would be full-time and the rernainder part-Urne. It has been reported that the hiring agency received a total of 5000 applications from people from as far away as Burlington on the west and Picton on the east. Federal International Trade Minister Tom Hockin and Indian Affairs and Northern Development Minister Pauline Browes, visted Durham Region last Tuesday, August 24, during a tour of Eastern Ontario, Durham M.P. Ross Stevenson announced. Trade Minister Hockin, attended a special breakfast hosted by the Durham Region Manufacturers Association, at the Oshawa Golf Club on Alexandra Street. Indian Affairs Minister Browes also-attended a private breakfast withi representatives of Use the Classified Section 983-5301 1Br bc .1. rê I the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation Band, followed by a tour of the reserve on Scugog Island, încluding a visit to the new Community Centre complex presently under construction. 1 Sl Bro i zi -I -I *Cowboys Clowns - Wes tern Booths * -Midway- The 1993 Finals are Sponsored By: The Knsmen Clubs of Bowmanville& The Great Pine Ridge For tickets wvite: Kinsmen Club of Bowmanville, P.O. Box 5, Bowmanville, Ont aro LI C 3K<8 or Ca#. TICKET OUTLETS: ___BOWMANVILLE: Cathy's Gold & Boatworks VIA OSHAWA: Stereo Trend in K-Mart Plaza L I WHITBY: Wild Willy's in the Kendalwood Plaza - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i TICKETS: Fri. 7:OOpm Sat. 2:00pm Sun. 2:OOpm. 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