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Volume 72, Number 15 GST Included $1.00 Wednesday April 15, 2009 Orono Town Hall Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 Agreement No. 40012366 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Camp 30 needs friends The municipality has decided that creating a "Friends of Camp 30" group is the best way to go about saving the property. At their last council meeting, held on Monday, April 6, Clarington Council passed a motion to establish a "Friends of" group, encouraging all members of the public who have been writing letters to save the former POW camp to get involved. "The public in our municipality and elsewhere is looking to us to be responsible to save this facility," Mayor Abernethy said at Monday night's meeting. "My feeling is, and I'm sure the majority of council will probably agree, that this is the responsibility of the federal government and the provincial government. We as a municipality could help to facilitate, but at the end of the day, if this is going to be saved to any degree, it will not be saved on the backs of the taxpayers of the Municipality of Clarington." On February 2, 2009, the municipality placed the former prisoner of war camp and Boys Training School at 2020 Lambs Road on its Municipal Register of properties of cultural heritage value and interest. This action prevents the property owner, the Kaitlin Group, from being permitted to demolish the buildings on the site for 60 days. The Kaitlin Group developers purchased the 100-acre site CAMP 30 see page 5 Five-year-old Sarah Rutherford enjoyed the Easter Egg Hunt on the library lawn on Saturday, sponsored by the Orono BIA. Region keeps 10-minute speaking limit Members of the public will not have their speaking time reduced from ten minutes to five when addressing Durham Regional Council. At the April 1st meeting of Durham Regional council, councillors opted not to endorse the recommendation from their Finance and Adminsitration Committee to restrict delegations to a five minute speaking limit. The Region's Finance and Administration Committee made several recommendations to streamline future council meetings, including limiting the ten minute rule. This was a suggestion made by Clarington's Mayor Jim Abernethy which was endorsed at the March 25th Finance and Administration Committee meeting. Linda Gasser asked council not to adopt the five minute recommendation. In her address to council Gasser stated, "Delegates who take time off work to address council often have to wait hours to speak, not to mention incur expense -- but at least with ten minutes it can be worth the time and effort to communicate to council." Reducing the time for a delegation to speak could be a real deterrent, according to Gasser. She feels that some individuals won't bother taking time off work to address council on issues for such a limited speaking opportunity. Abernethy told his fellow Regional councillors that Clarington had initiated a five minute speaking limit for members of the public addressing council, "and it works fine," he stated. "Some delegates, who spoke here today in 10 minutes, could have easily taken their 10 minute delegation and put it into five minutes. If you can't say it in five minutes, you can't say it," he stated. Some members of council thought imposing a five minute rule at this stage in the political term would send the wrong message. Oshawa Councillor April Cullen said, "I don't believe limiting people, especially right now, is sending the right message. To be limiting people now, especially when we're coming up to a major decision, is not appropriate." A number of councillors raised the fact that this rule was being introduced just prior to the vote on the proposed energy from waste (EFW) facility in June of this year. "Why limit debate on something that we know is the biggest debate we have dealt with in this council for a long time?" Cullen asked. COUNCIL see page 5 Whats Inside e page 5 See page 4