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I Legion Ladies Auxiliary Elects New Officers Section Two The Canadian Statesman. Bowmnnville .Tune 29. 1983 Byline... By Peter Parrott The Ladies Auxiliary of the Legion recently elected its executive for the 1983 yean The executive executive members are, from left to right, front row, Phyllis Rose, treasurer and past president, Dorothy Richards, secretary, Helene Wallis, president, president, Mary Blunt, 1st vice-president, Nina Cowl ing, 2nd vice-president, back row, Doris Ormiston, Grace Murdoch, Nyhl Sheehan, Sheilagh Hockett, Marilyn Walton and Audrey Bate, sports officer. Absent for the photo were Dorothy Fair and Virginia Virginia Fairey. Region Owes *82 Million BY PETER PARROTT - ' Elected officials reviewed the debt load of the Durham ' Region last week and were , tola that the municipality is living within its fiscal means. ■ The Durham Region owes a total of $82 million, regional council was told. A report from the Durham Region's finance department showed that the debt load now stands at 7.5 percent of total regional expenditures. Regional debts are expected to peak at $83.6 million in 1985 and decline in the following three years of the forecast period, according to the report from the finance department. The report was presented at a meeting of Durham's regional council in Whitby last Wednesday, June 22. The regional municipality's debt load was expected to décline to 7,1 percent of expenditures expenditures by 1988. "We owe $82 million and we're paying about $9 million per year in debt charges," said Jim Witty, chairman of the finance committee. Regional council was reminded reminded that some of today's debts were taken over by Durham when its eight member municipalities formed formed the. Durham Region in 1973.. Finance Commissioner Jack Gartley estimated that these liabilities, which were taken over from local municipalities, municipalities, totalled $29.1 million. There's More to a Lifeguard Than Just a Magnificent Tan! By Pauline Jones Just the other day as I was sitting on my Lifeguard chair, I could hear some kids about my age saying, "Boy, does she ever nave an easy job. Sitting on that chair all day, getting tanned this summer and getting paid for it." I wanted to turn around and tell them all the hidden things a lifeguard must go through. But, I thought they would think I was crazy so this is my chance to turn around and tell you what a lifeguard must go through before having the honor of sitting tin that chair. All last week from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. lifeguards from various areas were getting together at the Eastview boys and girls club to take a National Lifeguard course. ; This course requires you to be in good physical condition as it calls for lengths of strokes, towing victims and emergency situations. This course is physically as well as mentally strenuous and will soon be manditory if you wish to become a lifeguard. Even before being able to take your N.L.S. you must work your way up from all the Red Cross badges until your Bronze Medallion. It also requires good swimming skills - and strength. Both Bronze Medallion and National Lifeguard Lifeguard must be renewed every two years. This requires you to take other courses in between to keep yourself in shape. National Lifeguard does have one easy part and that is meeting your fellow candidates who all have the same feeling about people who think their job is easy. It's not an easy job, you must be alert and well trained, N.L.S. gives you the confidence in yourself that if ever there was an emergency we'd be prepared. I'd like to thank Tom Ferrais and Jane Lunn for sharing their time and know^ ledge with us. It was very much appreciated, -According to the finance commissioner, the Ontario Municipal Board estimates that debts of large municipalities municipalities should not exceed 20 to 25 percent of total expenditures. Based on this measurement, Durham is well within its capacity to repay its debts, members of council were told. One member of regional council suggested last week that Durham should begin to adopt a pay-as-you-go policy. "One of our goals should be to move away from debt financing," financing," said Councillor John Aker. "As a regional municipality becomes mature, it should move away from debt-supported debt-supported capital expenditures," he said. This year has been described described as a milestone in Durham's financial history because for the first time, the regional municipality has been able to eliminate the need for debenture financing. When the temperature goes above eighty degrees, there's no point in writing anything remotely serious. So I'm going to tell you about my blue spruce trees. What can you say about a blue spruce? It just sits there, looking blue. It grows a little taller each season and sometimes drops a few needles. Exactly. In fact, this is precisely my point. It occurred to me just this weekend that the blue spruces are probably the most successful trees in our whole garden. And they survive in spite of the fact that I do nothing whatsoever to aid in their growth. I sometimes don't even realize they're there except for the odd time when, for example, the dog runs away with my hammer and goes to hide behind a blue spruce. Let me tell you about some of the other highlights of our garden. Take the lawn, for example. In spite of our best efforts to fertilize and weed it, the lawn is looking these days like a backdrop for one of those cowboys and Indians movies located south of the Rio Grande. You can get thirsty just looking at it. The vegetable garden was planted a little late, so that everything looks like it is of the dwarf variety. The juniper trees do all right, although a winter wind beheaded one of them, and the front flower bed has had a lopsided look ever since. The birch tree is all right, but not quite healthy. Let's say that if it were a person, this tree would be a hypochondriac. It needs fertilizers, insecticides and other potents just to stay alive; it always seems to have some kind of mite or scale on the leaves. The maple tree isn't bad, but for some strange reason, it hasn't grown in years. ' New additions include the flowering crab apple trees. They are excellent specimens for their age. But this planet will have to go around the sun about three or four more times before they stop looking like buggy whips and start looking like trees. That brings us back to the blue spruces. They haven't had fancy fertilizers or insecticide sprays. They get no watering or pruning. And yet, they thrive and manage to put to shame all the rest of the pampered plants. There may be a moral to be drawn from this story, or a lesson to be learned. I think the moral of the story is to plant the yard in blue spruce. is Celebrated 1st Birthday Hi, my name is Michael Shrives. I was one year old on June 15, 1983. My parents are David and Sherry. My grandparents are Walter and Beverley Shrives of Oakville and James and Haroldine Kinney Kinney of Bowmanville. My great grandmother Jeanette Shrives of Toronto. C.L.O.C.A.'s 1983 Summer Program Kingston Lawyer Appointed to Mediate School Negotiations Doug Belch of Kingston has been appointed as a mediator by the Education Relations Commission in the negotiations negotiations between the trustees and secondary school teachers of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. Education. Mr. Belch is a member of the Kingston law firm of Cunningham, Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little and Bonham. He received both his Bachelor of Arts ( '64) and law degree ('67) from Queen's University. Mr. Belch} is also a lecturer in family law at the Faculty of Law, QueenW.yt^yersity,.has attended ERC workshops in dispute resolution and served as a Mediator in Timmins Secondary Board of Education. Education. This apiiointment is made under Section 13 of the School Boards and Teachers Collective Collective Negotiations Act, Revised Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1980. ( Providence-Shaw's W.L Enjoys Parkwood Tour Ladies Auxiliary Presents Cheque to Branch BY SHIRLEY BROWN P.R.O. On June 16th, 18 members of Providence-Shaw's W. I. met for a short business meeting before travelling to Oshawa. A collection was taken for the A.C.W.W; project "Clean Water for All." A gift was collected from each member for a neighbourhood child taking treatment at Princess Margaret Hospital. Three social events in the community community were needing volunteer helpers and plans were made to assist with these. We proceeded by car to Parkwood Estate, the home of Win Beef in Lions' Draw Newcastle Lions gave away meat from an entire beef last Saturday, June 25, during a draw at the annual Lions Carnival. The first prize of half a beef went to Shirley Rutherford, of Bowmanville, who held ticket 4780. Second and third prizes of a quarter of beef went to Jerry Wilson, of R.R. 2, Pickering, and Pauline Nadeau, of R. R. 2, Newcastle. Winning tickets for second and third prize were 5185 and 5405. Col. R. S. McLaughlin, for lunch in the teahouse. We enjoyed a delicious lunch in a cool spot, overlooking a beautiful beautiful reflecting pool with fountains. fountains. What could be nicer? We walked through the gardens afterwards to the main house for a tour where we were surrounded by luxury. We loved it. So many of us were viewing this magnificent magnificent home for the first time although we had known about it. Have a safe and happy summer and mark your calendar calendar for the third Thursday in September when we shall meet again. This weekend, the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority will begin its 7th Annual Summer Program of guided walks and slide film shows. The program runs up to and including September 4, 1983. Guided walks will be held at all of the 12 local conservation areas over the course of the summer. Participants are to meet at the Authority office (1650 Dundas Street East, Whitby - Cherney's building) and dress for the weather (walks will go rain or shine). Cameras, field guides, etc., may come in handy on the walks but are not essential. Walks will be held every Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. and every Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Evening programs, consisting consisting of slide talks and related films will be held at the Heber Down Conservation Area campsite on Tuesday and Saturday nights at 9:30 p.m. A nature walk around the conservation conservation area will be held before the Saturday evening show at 7:00 p.m. The walk starts at the campsite's washroom washroom service building. Directions to the campsite: Follow Highway 12 (Brock Street) north to Highway 7, turn west for three kilometres to Coronation Road, south one kilometre to entrance. - Watch for Signs - Saturday, July 2, 1983 - evening program, "Trout and the Streams", for fishermen (and women) of all ages. Sunday, July 3, • 1983 - "Forest Nature Walk", a walk at Long Sault Conservation Area to see many different natural aspects of a forest. Tuesday, July 5,1983 - evening evening program, "Mammals of the C.L.O.C.A. Region", a look at some of the wild animals right in our own backyard. For further information, please telephone (416) 579-0411 or write: Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority, 1650 Dundas Street East, Whitby, Ontario, L1N2K8 PEACOCK LUMBER LTD. Building supplies. Our specialty is lumber and lumber products. A complete line of kiln dried hardwood and softwoods. • Walnut • Cherry • Maple • Redwood • Teak • Oak • Phil. Mahog. • Softwoods Hardwood & softwood olywood. MILL and YARD Specialty 328 Rltson Rd. N., Oshawa Custom Milling 725-4744 Legion President Doug Walton accepts a cheque from Ladies Auxiliary President Helene Wallis in the amount of $4,000 as a donation to the Legion Building Fund. The auxiliary made the presentation on Monday night at the Legion Hall. launlon Rd. / , 01 c Bowmanville g h* Concession SI. Oron KENT'S _BERRY ■ farm O / 4th Line 115/35 Newcastle No. 2 401 VaPrice Summer Special Continues All Perms Vz Price until Saturday, July 23 Visit The Location Nearest You: 21 Silver St. Main St. Bowmanville. 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