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6 Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Fifteen years of floral design The Apple Blossom Shop in Orono celebrated their l5th anniversary with a Christmas Open House last- week. Proprietor Yvonne Maitland (centre), along with staff Janie Dodds (lefi) and Gail Empey (right) look forward to meeting the floral needs of this community for rnany years to corne. Arondthe Region Election of Rkegional Chair Regional Council voted Wednesday to select future Regional Chairpersons from among the 28 councillors eleet- ed to serve on the regional counicil. A certain segment of the current council advocated to have the Regional Chair select- ed by the electorate at large. GTSB The formation of a Greater Toronto Services Board pro- gresses this week as it moves into second reading at Queen's Park. The Region of Durham is opposed to the creation of this, board and sees it as the begin - ning of the end of Regional Government. H wy. 407 Tony Clement, Provincial Transportation Minister announced that construction of , the 407 east of Brock Rd. Advertise your Pickering will start in April. ~ C itn s ' Mr. Clement stated the work wiIl start even if the Province S e w hasn't found a buyer for the tol n h highway. Highway 407 cur- ;~< Oronmo rently ends at Highway 48 in Weekly Tm-ms Markham. Cail 983-5301 Thinking of sprucing things up before the, "Holiday Season" guests arrive? Or, do you just want a change, Paint/n g, decorating, etc., no job is too small. Cal/ for a free estimate. C&q4d 9S3-5761 Hunting proposai1 wîthdrawn Because of the elusive way council has handled the 'no hunting south of the 8th' issue, Eric Atkins is withdrawing that proposa). "It appears to us," said Mr. Atkins at Monday's council meeting, "without any doubt, that deliberate internal interference was used to quash our proposai. This is not, in our opinion, how an ethical council should operate." Last spring council estab- lished a Hunting Committee to look into hunting related con- cerns throughout the munici- pality. No one from Mr. Atkin's group of 74 concernied residents were asked to be on that committee. "Therefore we have been deliberately denied any input into the hunt- ing committee, even though [they] were to have two con- cerned citizens from our group," stated Mr. Atkins. "Whoever was responsible for choosing the two persons to represent the concerned citi- zens on the hunting commit- tee," stated Mr. Atkins made sure these two were not really too well informed of our con- cerns." "The refor." Atkins went on to say, "we have been deliberately denied any input into the hunting committee, even though we were to have two concerned citizens from our group [on the committee]. Atkins also stated hiow he was offended by an article appearing in the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) newsletter of September 1998. That articl -e stated: 'Recently OFAH Zone 'F members and the Clarington Game Commission saved hunt- ing opportunitiesý in" Durham Region by conquering local- ized anti-hunting -rhetoric'. Atkins was offended by the way this article boldly bragged about their success in squash- ing a small anti-hunting group. 1The, proposal Mr. Atkins put forward was to ban hunting south of the 8th concession, and ban the use of hand guns north of the 8th concession. In June staff produced a report that recommended hunting not be banned, rather, emphasis be directed towards enforcing cur- rent by-laws. "You are sorely out of touch with the people,", said Mr. Atkins in his closing remarks. Donate to United Way, Oshawa Truck Assembly, Centre director of personnel. Joe Piechockl, recently sacri- ficed a full head of hair on behaif of the United Way afler he let it be known that if truck plant employees could raise $3,000 he would be pre- pared to have bis head sheared. The truckers rose to the challenge and, in view of a. large section of the workforce, Joe submitted to the hair- cutters' shears -1 and the Oshawa-Whitby-Clarington United Way received its $3,000! Meanwhile, also in support of the United Way agencies in the Oshawa area, General Motors of Canada recently conducted its second annual winter clothing drive. Over 300 winter garments were dry-cleaned at no charge by Canriage Trade Cleaners and are now being dlstributed. Last spring. GM of Canada employees donated over 4,000 pounds of summer clothing which was also dry- cieaned and distributed.