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\ 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, July 27,1983 Section Two [ Editorial Comment"] What Price Security? The more we hear and read about the federal government's plan to establish a civilian security intelligence force, the less we like it. As we see it, the scheme would mean setting up a vast organization that would add many civil servants to our already overwhelming network of non-productive federal employees. And they would have powers far beyond what we have permitted the RCMP to have, all within the law. True there have been abuses in the past by the Mounties in the name of national security, but the dangers inherent in this new organization trying to justify its existence are just too frightening to accept. At the present time, as we understand it, police forces on the national and international level work together. They have amassed huge files on individuals and organizations dealing in espionage and spying. Wouldn't the new security organization have to establish contact with Interpol, the FBI, CIA, etc. through the RCMP to obtain access to these voluminous records for fingerprints, photos and all the rest? There is also the danger of political interference, much more so than is presently the case with the RCMP. Frankly, we do not see the need for changing the set up as it is now established. Most Canadians have great respect and admiration for the Mounties and their training. And we doubt very much if a civilian force as proposed has the approval of a majority of Canadians who can't see the need for any such undercover intelligence force at the present time. Leave it to the Mounties and strengthen their powers if needed. They have the expertise and the reputation. Members of town council foresee that the giant Darlington Generating Station will attract industries which can use the waste heat produced by the power station. The Town of Newcastle has agreed to spend $44,800 to hire a consultant who will study the potential for using waste heat produced by Ontario Hydro at Darlington. Inducon Consultants of Canada . Limited will be engaged to conduct the 28-week study. The cost of the project is to be funded by Ontario Hydro through an agreement between Hydro and the Town of Newcastle. The town's hydro liaison committee committee agreed recently to recommend the hiring of Inducon after receiving a recommendation from a subcommittee subcommittee led by Councillor Bruce Taylor. , Councillor Taylor noted that a dozen consultants submitted proposals proposals for the project. Of these, six were selected for review. One possible use for excess heat created at Darlington is the develo- ment of an industrial energy park for commercial use of large quantities quantities of steam. Agricultural applications for greenhouses and fish farms have also been suggested, along with district district heating systems for residential, industrial, or institutional developments. developments. The consultants will examine the social, environmental and economic feasibility of heat utilization. Councillor Councillor Taylor noted that the study will also include a survey of potential users of the waste heat. The project will investigate the possibility of foreign industry using Darlington as a Canadian location. Regional Planners Hold Off Deciding For or Against Durham's planning committee decided recently that it will neither approve nor reject plans for the expansion of the Regional Reclaimers landfill site north of Newtonville. Instead, the 100-acre expansion has been tabled at the committee level. Councillor Marie Hubbard, a member of the regional planning committee, said "there are a lot of issues that we need to get back to the table to look at." She added that the tabling decision will allow the Durham Region to hear reports from the Ministry of the Environment Environment related to the expansion issue. Discussions over the landfill project project took place at a special meeting of Durham's planning committee in Newcastle, Tuesday, July 12. Discussions lasted all afternoon and included presentations from 16 delegations both for and against expansion. expansion. Prior to the meeting, planners for the Durham Region released a report report recommending against granting granting an official Plan Amendment which would allow expansion of the site. Planning staff cited unsuitable soil conditions and elimination of agricultural land as reasons for denying denying the project. Truck traffic was another concern concern raised by regional planners. They estimate that vehicles would travel to and from the site at a rate of one every 1.8 minutes. This traf fic would require its own road and Highway 401 interchange at an estimated estimated cost of $2.8 million. Councillor Diane Hamre, Newcastle's Newcastle's Ward Three representative, representative, said she would have preferred to see Durham's planning committee committee accept the staff report. "With all the unanswered questions, questions, the staff recommendation was the right thing to do at the present present time," she said. The Ward Three councillor noted that with the development of a new landfill site at Maple, there may not be a need for expansion of a site in the Town of Newcastle. "There's a question whether there's a need for any additional site now," she said. She also noted that the issue of building roads and a 401 interchange interchange required by the site has not yet been decided. Such costs should not be the responsibility of the regional regional taxpayer, Councillor Hamre said. Councillor Marie Hubbard said last week that while she supports recycling of garbage, landfill is required required by industry until programs are in place to provide alternatives and until government funds for alternatives alternatives is made available. Regional Reclaimers has asked municipal authorities for permission permission to expand from an exisiting 21- acre site to an adjoining319 acres. Of this property, approximately 100 acres would be used for landfill, according to plans submitted by the company. (Bille Canabian Statesman 623-3303 (JCNA Durham County'» Great Family Journal Eetebllahad 129 years «go In 1854. Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second dess mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-88 King SI. W., Bowmanville, Onlarlo L1C3K8 »1tO V L fk JOHN M. JAMES Editor --Publisher RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. 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Vv i ' ' »• -it i } -&-r f, Vi Waste Heat Will Lure Industry v- V- y ./ , ■ À * ' V * i*- ft a > : 1 à I : • -1 i WiT:.. { :.v ..... ■ - • ;-v -;• ' s- 1 -- ViStS/V mu / p ! / * ' Sst Bike Parade Gets Underway at Vanstone 9 s Mill SUGAR and SPICE You Can Fight City Hall y ! One of the cynfcal, apathetic re-, marks of the 20tiTcentury is, "You' can't fight City Hall." I think it's American in origin, as are so many of our colorful expressions, expressions, but it reflects a conception. that has contributed to the skepti- i cism that permeates many aspects 1 of our life. In essence it betrays a weariness : of the individual spirit in a world 1 that is growing ever more corrupt, 1 violent and treacherous. | It means basically that the indi- 1 vidual hasn't a chance against the I burgeoning bureaucracy, the petty 1 patronage, the you-scratch-my- back-and-I'll-scratch-yours philosophy that has always been with us, and always will but should- be resisted stoutly and sturdily r whenever it rears its ugly head. Jesus fought the City Hall of His ' time, which included his king, the nobility and the clergy, and refused to nudge an inch to save his life, because he was right, and City Hall was wrong. Joan of Arc fought her City Hall, in the form of her own king, traitors to her vision, and an opposing army. She wound up being burned at the stake, and became a saint. Her opponents opponents are mere footnotes in history. history. Oliver Cromwell fought his City Hall, won his fight, and taught British royalty to mind its pees and queus, if you'll pardon the expres sion. William Lyon Mackenzie took on the City Hall of his day, and though his only battle with it was a typical charade, he left it smarting. I coiild name a "hundred others who cocked a snook at City Hall, and lost many a battle, but won many a war. The United States is a classic example. Another is the Republic Republic of France. Mahatma Ghandi practically had the British Empire begging him to go change his diaper and leave it alone. Well, it's nice to be in the company company of such, even if only for a little while, and only in the imagination. The.Fourth St. Fusiliers, of which 1 am a proud, wounded veteran, has fought many a skirmish, several sharp encounters, and a prolonged war of attrition against the local town council, and the will of the people triumphed to the extent of a dozen trees being uncut, a new sidewalk installed, and a desert of pot-holes turned into a paved street. You've heard of the 30 Years War, the 100 Years War, the War of the Roses, the War of Independence, the Boer War, and The Great War, followed by that sickening euphemism, World War II. -Not to mention Korea and Viet Nam. Well, a lot has been written about them; and millions died in them, but for sheer intensity of emotion, I think the Fourth St. War outdoes them all. That's the reason for this bit of history. In three or four hundred years, the Fourth St. War may be almost forgotten, were it not for some humble scribe to get it down on paper. It has lasted between seven and nine years, and the veterans will even argue hotly about the duration. duration. I do remember that the hundreds of children who were going to be slaughtered by traffic if the town council achieved its insidious ends are now replaced by grandchildren in many cases. I do remember that the first rush to the barricades was about as organized organized as the French revolutionaries' revolutionaries' attack on the Bastille. Bastille. I do remember that one lady threatened to chain herself in the branches of a maple tree if the town engineer carried out his plan of massacreing maples. There were other threats of a similar but unlikely unlikely nature, such as everyone lying down in front of the bulldozers, bulldozers, blowing up the town hall while council was in session, or kidnapping kidnapping the town engineer and giving him a cement-barrel burial in the bay. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. prevailed. After half the street was ruined, the works department ran out of money. Over the years, they tip-toed around the potential explosion, filling filling in the odd pot-hole and letting the street turn into the semblance of a long-forgotten country lane. But this spring, falsely feeling that the ancient hatreds had cooled, with new people moving in, and old people dying off, they foolishly raised the desescrative idea again. Cut down the trees. Tear up the sidewalks, make it a one- block thruway to nowhere. Like an old, dormant volcano, the people rose in their might and descended descended on the works committee like a disturbed hornet's nest. The air was filled with vituperation, vituperation, calumny and blasphemy. Council cooled off like a bull confronted confronted by an angry elephant. Another meeting was called. Again The People rose in their wrath. They formed a committee. It consisted of a brilliant mathematician, mathematician, a contractor, a doctor, a lawyer, and an indomitable nurse. Not just a few angry people to be baffled by engineering jargon. I don't want to go into the superb tactics, the incredible strategy of The People. It's too exciting. You wouldn't sleep tonight. But we won. The trees stay, the sidewalks will be rebuilt, the thruway thruway will continue to be a residential residential street, thousands of children will not be cut down by thundering trucks, and the road will be paved. You can fight City Hall. July 21,1983 Dear Editor ,/ Re: Postal Operatiofis - "Civic Holiday", August 1, 1983. This is to inform you that the Post Office will be closed on the Civic Holiday, Monday, August 1, 1983. No Rural Route, Letter Carrier or Wicket service will be provided on this day. Normal business operations will resume on Tuesday, August 2,1983. Sincerely, It, A. Walker, Postmaster Having Fun Vcibuh Winning Well, again this year baseball baseball season is in full swing. 1 hope you're making it out to watch the games. It's a real education in itself what with the audience and the other teams. I heard one person remark that he wasn't hanging around to watch these losers play ball. It wasn't worth his while. This year, Ladies Lobb Ball has twelve teams in the league. It is still a very competitive competitive league with the "be- all and end-all" being to win. The sportsmanship definitely definitely hasn't improved. The league has had trouble of one kind or another already this year. You'd think on a Ladies ball team that the participants would be mature adults and able to deal witli problems without difficulty, yet I've felt some are no more adult than a five year old child. Players think they should run the team and if tilings don't go their way they have a tantrum. Women come out to play hall to have a good time, get some exercise, and if they win, well, great work for the learn, It lakes a team to win a game and also a team to lose. There are teams in the league who think it's a big joke when they come up against a team whose best loss was 15 - 8 or some such thing. Now, that I don't call good sportsmanship. sportsmanship. I think if these teams even come out to play and look like they're having a good time losing then give them the benefit of tho doubt, at least they're trying, A team can't get ahead if everyone is playing for themselves themselves or if players don't show up. If they play as a team and put out a good effort then they'll get to the top slowly but surely, Besides, ns long as they have fun who cures. The teams at the top were not always the professionals they profess to he, It's a real education in itself coming out to watch the games, whether you watch the teams or the spectators. Not much wonder the kids have a very poor idea of what good sportsmanship really is. down to winning If it comes right < or losing all the time, I'd rather lose and have a good time than win all the games there are to play. Losing Queen Spectator Gladiolus & Dahlia Society Tours Darlington Generating During its Annual Reunion The Durham Region Gladiolus and Dahlia Society held its annual picnic, Sunday, July 17, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Van Camp, We met at the Van Camp's at 2:30 and proceeded to the Darlington Nuclear Station for a tour of the facility. Our guide for the afternoon was Pam Znkarow and she gave us many interesting facts as we drove by bus around the site. We found the tour very interesting and impressive, Thank you Pam for your tour I After the tour we returned to the Van Camp home for a grand pot-luck picnic. It was truly a banquet, and as usual, everyone ate too much; hut sampling everything is a must! I Final plans were laid for our annual Gladiolus Show on August 13 to be held this year it the Durham Christian High School on Seugog St. N. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day and the cooler temperatures we had for a change. We gave a round of applause to our hosts Helen and Sam before leaving one by one for home, We look forward to seeing all our friends and neighbors at our August 13 show (doors open at 2:00 p.m.) -- Secretary Sher Leetooze .y