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Vol. 75 · # 39 Wednesday, October 17, 2012 GST Included $1.35 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono and Starkville since 1937 Partner pushes paved parking Paving the Orono Library parking lot is not going to get bumped from the municipal budget again, if Councillor Wendy Partner has her way. At the September 24th committee meeting, Partner asked staff to provide her with a budget estimate for paving the library parking lot. That estimate was presented as two options at this week's committee meeting. Option one was to pave the existing lot with its six spaces for an estimate budget of $29,900. Option two was to expand the existing lot to 13 parking spaces for an estimate budget of $44,600. Option two would require the removal of four walnut trees along the east side of the parking lot. Both options included a paved walkway from the parking lot to the bandstand. Partner moved that option one be selected without the walkway to the bandstand. When other councillors questioned Partner as to the origin of this request, Partner stated, "It is a direct request from the people in the village who would like to see it [the parking lot] paved." Library patrons and staff do not use the parking lot according to Partner because of its poor condition. Library staff member Deborah Rowsell's truck was the only vehicle in the library parking lot on Tuesday morning. Rowsell told the Orono Times reporter, she often does not park in the lot, "depending on how mucky it is." Partner told councillors she spoke with the Director of Libraries, Edith Hopkins about the lot and was told they have no objection to the paving of the lot, they just don't want to see it turned into a municipal lot. " We want to be able to preserve the available parking spaces for library customer," Hopkins told the Orono Times. She also stated that the library has not received any complaints to date about the lot not being paved. The one complaint she did receive was over inadequate lighting on the lot, which the Operations Department rectified. Fred Horvath, Clarington's Director of Engineering informed councillors that the paving of the Orono Library parking lot was identified in the four year capital budget but keeps getting bumped by LIBRARY see page 3 Cameron Timmins, a grade eight student at The Pines raised $800 for the Annual Terry Fox Run and won the opportunity to switch places with the school's principal for the day on Wednesday October 10. Timmins allowed all his fellow grade eight students to wear their hats in school for the day. No love lost over neighbour garden While it is often said, "Good fences make good neighbours," apparently the same cannot be said about gardens. In May of last year, Council agreed to grant Stan and Sheryl Zuly of Mill Street South a lease for a nominal fee on the unopened road allowance abutting their property. The Zuly's wanted to grow a vegetable garden on the municipal property abutting their own as their yard is too shady and wet to grow the garden they wanted. Council granted the Zuly's a five year lease on the Bond Street, property for a fee of two dollars a year. Last month Catherine Love appeared before council asking that the lease on the unopened road allowance between her lot at 16 Boulton Street and the Zuly property be terminated. According to Love, who appeared again at Monday morning's committee meeting, the Zuly garden is in her visual backyard and an intrusion on her privacy. Privacy was of key importance when her family bought the lot in the fall of 2010 according to Love. She told councillors her family would delay building a home on their lot until the issue of the garden was resolved. According to Love, when the Zuly's expressed to her in April 2011 their desire to grow a garden on the unopened road allowance, she told them she was opposed to the idea for privacy reasons. The municipality has maintained the unopened road allowance for a potential future roadway or parking lot in conjunction with plans for development of the waterfront park at Bond Head, uses Love does not object to. "How a garden sitting there is an invasion of privacy and individuals coming in and out of vehicles is not, is totally incomprehensible," Stan Zuly told councillors at Monday's meeting. If the property were to be used as a parking lot, Love said she would come to some suitable arrangement with the municipality as to fencing and privacy screening. Rather than revoke the lease, Councillor Joe Neal put forward an amendment to divide the unopened road allowance in two and offer the Zuly's a lease on the half abutting their property, and offer the Loves the same on the half of the road abutting their property. Love would not give her opinion as to whether she would be amenable to this solution, telling the Orono Times reporter she was not in GARDEN see page 3