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OooWekï l i, Wdns A"JIy2 9- Graduation Quaeen's Park ]Report from Gord Mils, MPP Durham East Orono Fire Cails Cathy McCullough Cathy, McCullough, daughter of Pete and Lynda McCullough of Orono, recently graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Science in Life Science. She is an Ontario Scholar graduate of Clarke Higb School and will continue ber studies at Humber College in Human Resources Management Post Grad - Diploma Program. CounCil Bri*efs Council teok the final steps of approval for a 91 unit link tewnhouse condominium devel- opment on the west of side of Courtice Road just north of No. 2 Highway. A 207 unit plan for housing south of Highway 2 and on the west side of Courtice Road was also given approval by coundil. The value of building permits in Claington for the six month period bas doubled over that for the same period in 1993 te an amount of $44.765 million. Industrial development bas increased from zero in 1993 to $ 1.6 million this year. In residential permits a total of 436 permits have been issued with the major portion 268 being for Courtice comparing with 168 for the Town of Bowmanville. Newcastle Village permits dropped down to twe from 24 during the sanie period in 1993. Approval was given te a tender for the installation of Street lighting in Newcastle Village fnom Hart Court to Sunset Boulevarde. Othen projects in the bid of $21,782.50 included lighting in Bunketon and in the Countice anea. Council turned aside a posal for the punchase of - -âiature and other n equipment for the new fine hall amounting to $111,558.50. The amount included moving expenses. Staff have been asked te reconsider some of the expenditures. Founteen separate community organizations took part in the Community Yard Sale that was 1 want to start off this weeks column by reminding you that we still have the "Power of Attorney" kits on band at the constituency office in Bowmanville. These kits are compleue with the ful instructions. Call my office or cal in, ither way we wil make sure you get them. On band 1 also have the video of the TV show I did with a lawyer from the office of the Public Registrar. Look at the video, read the instructions, then complete your power of attomney and you are all done. Easy as One, Two, Three. In my last couple of columns, 1 have been saying to you cail just how well things are going everywhere. This past week 1 picked up the newspaper and read great things about local new housing starts. 442 new units started in Whitby, 436 in Clarington and 228 in the City of Oshawa. Ahl in the first six, months of this year - more than double the housing stants in the first six months of 1993. Is that a great sign or what? The weather has been great, and the economic weather bas been tremendous. We are 100,000 jobs to the good compared to where we have been. We have saved 40,000 jobs in the public sector. We have fiscal decisions which are now more manageable, as difficult as they are, because of what we have done they are far more manageable now than most other govemments in the country are facing. The jobs agenda is coming together, Jobs Ontario Training agenda, coming together, social assistance agenda, coming together, fair tax agenda, coming together. We have been through a veny difficult time, we tried to provide the best possible leadership that we can. It is fair, we have taken our knocks, but we organized through the municipality and held at the Bowmanville Recreation Centre on Saturday, June 18. A survey of the vendors and buyers had 44% suggesting that the event should be opened up to alI residents while 37% felt it should remain for only community organization vendons. Althougb 51% said thein expectations were not met with the event 83% said they would returfi next year. Council declîned to recommend a payment of $20,000 to assist with a total cost of $40,000 for a picnic shelter tO be built by the Central Ontario Conservation Authority at the Bowmanville Harbour Conser- vation Area. CLOCA had received $20,000 fnom the Regeneration Trust for the shelter. It was pointed out that the municipality did not. have $20,000 slated for the project in the budget, that it was not a priority and that it was flot appropriate -for the municipality to help build a building on lands owned by another government agency. can hold our heads up higb because we have done our best, because we have remained true to the fundamnental values that have kept us going as human beings and because we honestly believe that we have done it better and ini a fair and more balanced way than odhens would or could have. As I liste-n to what Lynn and Mike would have done I arn reminded of that old Italian expression - "temapo buono ogni uno'puo navigare." - When the weather is good anybody can sail. Recently, I read an article, obviously written by somecone quite comfortable, which said that we politicians need to stop hiding behind the Great Wall of expensive and unaffordable social programs. The writer should spend a week working in my constituency office, were my staff struggle to arrange the supply of power te homes where it bas been cut off, and the occupants wash themselves in Lake Ontario with soap from a food bank, and cook meals on a borrowed Coleman stove. Heartbreaking stories and situations are the normal every week scenario we deal with, in the real, less tban comfortable world, s0 many people survive in. Its something that so many can't comprehend when they talk of social program cuts. 1 can say, that the cut backs in social pnograms in the United States have all failed. Ronald Regan's kind of economics created riots across -their country. Who can forget the fires ini Los Angles or the misery in Flint when their social net collapsed? You can be ruthless and heatless te a point, and then you will face the inevitable uprising and rebellion, for the human spirit will only take s0 much before it explodes. What I am saying isn't socialist ideology either, history la ail you need to look at te see what happens when people get squeezed unmercifully. .For over a decade now, provincial governments of all stripes have been talking about reforming and improving the long-terni care system ini Ontario. 1 arn happy to be able te report to you that our long-term care bill bas been introduced and bas gone through second readîng. We are committed to binging to Ontarians a long-term care system that will better serve the needs of the community. The legislation, Bill 173, responds to the needs that have been articulated over the years by: simplifying access with a "one-stop" approach to information and services. To create net-for-profit community based organizations that can respond to the needs of the consumers in their community., By întegrating case management to ensure continuity of care, and to put consumer choice and customer service first. The government bas also proven its financial commitment to community based care. In 1991- 1992 we spent $706-miillion in community-based long-terni care services, during 1996-1997 we plan to spend more than $1- billion. This together with the These arc the fire cails for Station #3, Orono from June 30 to July 13, 1994: July 3, 1994 at 9:05 a.m. a car fire at 2220 Regional Road 42. July 4, 1994 at 10:19 a.m. an assist ambulance at 7427 Leskard Road and also at 2:04 p.m. a expansion, imprevement and integration of community based services is fundamental to effective and efficient long-terni care. We can - and are - changing our over-neliance on institutional care. Much ado was made over the purchase of a new car for Ontaio's Lieutenant Govemnor in spite of a so-called freeze on the purchase of any new vehicle. The old car was a 1988 Lincoln TownCar which had travelled over 670,000 km. The cost of refurnishing the '88 car was examined, however, the Lieutenant Governor had expressed some concerns over safety and security and requested a replacement. The new car, a 1993 stretched Lincoln TownCar cost $69,000 including modifications. The old car was sold at public auction and I can't tell you how much it fetched. My guess would be precious Uitile. To all local business, 1 can announce a new Open Bidding Service to be going into effect very so on, which will allow you to bid on govemament contracts. The OBS will be a computerized on-line tendering service that allows suppliers an easy way to tap into provincial and federal government purchasing rubbish fire at 4447 Concession 4. On July 4 the Orono Station also at 5:15 p.m. attended a car accident on Hwy. 115 north of Boundary. On July 13 at 9:05 a.m. the station attended a farming accident at 4145 Concession 6. opportunities. Goods over $25,000 and services over $200,000 (excluding construction) will be advertised on the OBS. These opportunities is part of the Intergovernmental Agreement on Government procurement. This is a positive stop in the governments commitment to open trade between the provinces and create new program please cail 1-800- 361-4637. Good Luck. Finally, it won't be long before you can make purchases in your local LCBO outiet by using your credit card. You can already, pay for camp sites at provincial parks by credit card, the use at the LCBO should bc in place before the end of the year. 1We don't trip over mountains, but we do stumble over stones - Until next week. Gord. FWe C - BaseentIt a u or 180-8-52 insaledCAulthored InsiMe N olycti o n Lasn tDe aing Ssep sT SHOP AROUND, GET YOUR BEST PRICE THEN CALL US FOR YQUR Be.- *.RI maw