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Vol. 58, No. 15 ORONO, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,1994 ýresent che que for Oshawa and District Association for Community Living Guard rail not warranted George and Violet Dunlop of Orono presented a cheque in the amount of $2,000 to Gary Cooke, president of the Oshawa and District Association of Community Living. It was a local project of the Orono couple with Violet making a quilt and cush-Ion on which draw tickets were sold. The $2000.00 was revenue fromn the draw. The money is to be uised for improvements to residents operated by the Association. The Association for Community Living operates 30 residents in- Oshawa for developme ntally handicapped. The Association has an annual budget of $8 million with $6,5 comiflg through Community and, Social Service. George and Violet Dunlop and family wish to thank all those who assisted in selling tickets and to those who purchased tickets. They also thank the Heather rebekah Lodge, Orono,. for their sponsorship. Thle quit was won by Dorene Kelsey of Bowmanville. Final decision -Monday over Mosport plan to hold musical events at track, A rezoning application to allow Mosport Park lac. to hold music festivals, concerts, or entertainment events for up to 50,000 people per day for a period of three years has been set- set-over until this coming Monday at council meeting. In the meantime council members will go over an agreement which bas ail but been completed between Mosport Park and the Municipality of Clar- ington through their legal representatives. It was pointed out at the meeting that council would first have to take action on the agreement between the two parties before taking action on the rezoning. If council members should oppose the agreement on what services would bc provided for the shows then the rezoning application would flot go ahead. Mosport could take the issue to the Ontario Municipal Board. Those attending council were told on Monday that Mosport would withdraw a court action as to a previous situation in which the town had had an injunctioni placed on a music event whîch had to bc cancelled. Council will meet sometime during the week to go over the agreement with their lawyer, Mr. Dennis Heffernan. Among many issues the agreement sets out conditions of policing, hours of operation, fire protection, liability, garbage collection and many other items. The terms of the agreement will be made public when and if the municipality agrees to such ternis. If there is no agreement the issue will be dropped as far as the municipality is concerned. Mosport would have the option of taking the issue to the Ontario Municipal Board. A Mr. Butterfield agaîn spoke out against the concerts and presented counicil with a petition of 300 naines objecting to music festivals. Tony Krebelj also objected stating the problems of the past wîll re-appear and our fears will be'real. He said there were too many loose ends. Mayor Hamre said there were conditions but that this information could not be released at this time due to a legal court case. Greg Sznajdruk said police officers cannot control what happens in a field and one could flot compare a music festival to a auto race - they involve different people. He also, said the festivals would flot create long-term jobs. (Continued page 2) a"long roadway The General Purpose committee of Clarington on Monday denied a request for die building of a steel guard rail that was requested beplaced along a section of Mill Street north 10 keep walking and cycling residents off the roadway. The request for the guard rail came from the Northumberland and Clarington Board of Education. Clarington's Public Works departmenî bas recommended that an open ditch be created îo act as a bardier on the north side of Mili Street raîher than the guard rail. It is pointed out that the ditch would improve drainage in the area and as well act as a barrier between the roadway and the proposed new sidewalk. The new into village sidewalk, to be but this year, will be some 52 feet from the roadway. The sidewalk runs south frorn the Peters Pike walkway connecting with a sidewalk on Mil Lane and finally to the Mil Street sidewalk. It is pointed out in a report to council members that Ministry of Transportation guidelines do not cali for a steel guard rail in an area as the off ramp from Highway 115 on north Mill Street. It is also noted that the new walk would be 52 feet from the roadway while in most cases sidewalks are within three feet of a roadway. The cost of the steel guard rail was estimated at $5,600. The cost of the ditch is estimated at (Continued page 3) Runner-up, Carson Elliott, in '91 vote gets vacant council seat Carson Elliott, a resident of Bowmnanville, bas been appointed by a vote of council to the. Regional and Local council seat that became vacant due to the recent death of Mr. Ken Hooper. The decision did corne with considerable debate which started following an information session in which Mr. Dennis Heffernan, legal counsel, outlined somne of tie conditions to be meet in the appointment. the issue of a conflict of interest did surface if a sitting local council member should seek the vacant seat and vote on such a move. No direction was given to any individual or to council in die matter of a conflict of interest. Mîr. Heffernan did state that coundil had to make the slection within. sixty days of the seat becoming vacant. As well he Carson Ellijot pointed out that a tie vote on the matter, having only one candidate to vote for, would necessitale referring the issue to the next meeting of council and, at which (Continued page 2) Committed to move waste north from three southern centres The chairman of the federal Siting Task Force, Dennis Wood, attended a meeting of the Claringlon Community Liaison Group held on Monday evening in the Newtonville Public School. Some over fifly residents of the area atîended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by John Veldhuis head of the local Community Liaison Group. Mr. Wood in addressing the audience said that good progress was being made with Deep River in northern Ontario as a host communily for the waste from the three areas in the south including Port Granby, Welcome and Port Hope. He said seven site are now under review in Deep River and he hoped that one would arise as suitable for the southem waste. He said the Siting Task Force was committed to make the system of moving waste from the south to the north work. Alex Shepherd also spoke to those in attendance of the phenomenal problem a Port Granby. Mayor Diane Hamre also thanked the members of the local CLG . Glen Case, a Senior Environmental Engineer, who has been involved in the low level waste in the area since 1976 gave an outline of waste taken to Port (Continued page 7) Orono We ky fmes .............. .... Z.............Serving Orono, Newcastle, Newtonvllle, Kendal, Starkville Hppenings.... Clarington Concert Band event Thie Clarington Concert Band is holding its second concert in the Orono Town Hall this Thursday evening with the program to get underway at 7:15 pa. A number of new selections are being played by the band from that offered at the last oncert. Again the band will be under the din:ýction of Barry Hodgson. Cost of admission - a donation if you Receive GoId at Board-wide Science Fair Two students fromn the Pines Senior Public School were gold winners with their exhibit in the recent Board-wide Science Fair held on Saturday. Four hundred students compeled in the compçtition. Dan MacDonald, grade eight fromi the Pines Senior Public Sehool collected a gold Clarke award for his exhibit of "Oil Floats, Density of Liquids'". Kathleen Nichols, also of the Pines Senior'Public School was the Clarke special agricultural, award for physics project winncr with her JL