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« 2 The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, March 14.1984 SMALL TALK By Donna Fairey Committee Members Appointed j The victim is unsuspecting. unsuspecting. She answers her telephone anticipating anticipating the voice of a friend or relative. Instead, Instead, on the other end of the line, is a frustrated frustrated deviate. He gets his thrills by whispering whispering lewd, sex-oriented suggestions over the. phone wires. Women everywhere recognize this sick degenerate degenerate as the obscene phone caller.. It's a common occurrence. occurrence. Police agree that people bent in this direction direction are emotionally deficient and, when apprehended, apprehended, are usually ordered to seek psychiatric psychiatric help. Of a reassuring nature, nature, women harrassed by an obscene caller are reminded that, traditionally, he is the supreme coward. Police suggest that not one in a thousand of these snakes possesses the courage to slither- from the shelter of anonymity and make good their sexual threats. While law enforcers guarantee that the obscene caller would never show up for the action in the event a female victim agreed to participate in a liaison, they don't encourage the testing of this belief. belief. These spineless sickies, they submit, are incapable of functioning functioning normally in the daylight of reality. The security of the phantom 'phoner lies in his abil ity to hide behind a telephone receiver. Indeed, they are the creeping slugs of society. society. Yet, in a humanitarian humanitarian vein, I suppose there must be pity for the perpetrator. Police say he is like the alcoholic alcoholic who, to fill his needs, acts from an uncontrollable uncontrollable compulsion. compulsion. Pity for them, however, however, does not come easy for the woman who has been unwillingly subjected to the gross utterings of the obscene caller. Victims are encouraged encouraged to report such occurrences occurrences to the local police department. Should it become apparent apparent that one is to be consistently bothered by an obscene caller, police will undertake the installation of a mechanical tracer, whereby a phone freak is unable to avoid detection. detection. • Too, there's simply no advantage to conversation conversation with the obscene caller. He is, alter all, not playing with a full deck. Talking to him only provides greater scope for his carnal suggestions. Women should be acutely aware that calls from these looney tunes can be stopped. Maybe one day Ma Bell will make it easier by inventing inventing a tiny computerized computerized device for home telephones designed designed to record the numbers from which all incoming calls have emanated. Newcastle council has appointed a 12-member citizens' committee which will plan future cultural and recreational facilities in the municipality. municipality. The committee, which is called the Newcastle Community Services Planning Board, consists of four citizens from each of the town's three wards. Appointees to the board were announced announced by town council on Monday. Monday. The representatives for Ward One (Darlington) include Francine Newton, Bernard Hemming, Milt Dakin, and Noel Rivers. For Ward Two (Bowmanville), the members will be Brian J. Ferguson, William Humber, Andy Tielemans, and Gail Degroot. Ward Three (Newcastle, Orono, and Clarke) will be represented by Mary Clarke, Lorriane Lover, Michael Sawyer, and Frank Staple- ton. Two members of Newcastle's community services department and one member of the planningde- partment will also serve on the community services planning board. Recommend Hydro Fundins for Hospital Expansion A sub-committee of staff from On- r, T , . _ . , ^ ** MT ÆT A sub-committee of staff from Ontario Ontario Hydro and the Town of Newcastle Newcastle should investigate the suggestion suggestion that funds from Ontario Hydro could help to finance expansion expansion and renovations at Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville. This recommendation was approved approved by the town's hydro liaison committee last Thursday and will now be forwarded to Newcastle council for final approval. The committee of hydro and municipal representatives discussed discussed the financing of the hospital project last Thursday during its regular meeting. "The question we're to deal with is whether there is an impact and what is the degree of that impact," said Councillor Diane Hamre. In a review of the hospital's funding funding proposals. Chief Administra tive Officer Dave Johnston noted that the Memorial Hospital Foundation Foundation has requested approximately approximately $600,000 as a contribution from the Town of Newcastle council towards the hospital plans. The Foundation has also suggested that a fund set up by town and Hydro officials to offset the impact of the Darlington Generating Station coüld be the source of most of this money. After lengthy discussion, the committee opted for a review of the impact of the generating station on the needs of the hospital. A committee of the chief administrator, administrator, town treasurer, and two Ontario Ontario Hydro officials will study the issue, according to a recommendation recommendation endorsed by the committee last week. "If...there is an impact, there will Video Discs For Rent Over 800 in stock BAK TV 369 King St. W. Oshawa Telephone 725-5633 be money available," said John McCredie, general manager of the Darlington project during last week's committee meeting. He added that Ontario Hydro is interested in seeing a "contaminated "contaminated casualty area" built into the hospital renvoation plans. Such an facility would be used for treating patients exposed to radioactivity and would have a value of approximately approximately $100,000, said Mr. McCredie. Councillor Ann Cowman questioned questioned the entire issue of hospital funding during last week's meeting. She wondered whether council should attempt to fund the entire- $600,000 or whether the money should be provided by means other than the tax bill. "I sincerely believe the plan is somewhat grandiose," she said. She also noted that the proposed hospi tal facility incorporates high- technology facilities which may require require specialized staff not currently currently available. Councillor Diane Hamre responded responded that the Ministry of health will not permit high technology facilities facilities at the province's small hospitals hospitals and she assured councillor Cowman that the design for the Bowmanville hospital ensures that the Oshawa General Hospital is the most advanced facility in the Durham Region. Councillor Marie Hubbard, chairman of the hydro liaison committee, committee, assured its members that the hospital's request for a share of the town's hydro impact money will be given the same consideration as all other requests for funding from this source. No Debate without Mayor Durham Region Community Care Association is conducting a SURVEY OF CAREGIVERS IN DURHAM REGION - To determine the types of support services required. DO YOU CARE FOR AN ELDERLY RELATIVE OR FRIEND IN YOUR OWN HOME? - IF SO, WE NEED YOUR INPUT INTO OUR SURVEY. Please Call: 668*6583 or 985-8579 Or Write: Durham Region Community Care Association c/o Fairview Lodge 632 Dundas Street West, Box 300, Whitby, Ontario L1N 5S4 Members of Newcastle council decided Monday that they would not re-open the debate over a new shopping mall planned for Bowmanville Bowmanville until all councillors are available to debate the issue. The subject will still be raised at a later date, according to Councillor Councillor Ted Woodyard and Councillor Marie Hubbard. The two councillors have introduced introduced notices of! motion which would soften Newcastle's opposition opposition to the 160,000 square foot shopping shopping development proposed by Pythbow Developments Ltd. at the corner of Baseline Rd. and Highway Highway 57. Councillor Woodyard's motion calls for the town not to oppose the development at the Ontario Municipal Municipal Board. Councillor Hubbard's motion asks that Pythbow be allowed allowed to proceed because it would bring approximately $250,000 worth of assessment to the municipality. The project already has the support support of the Durham regional council council which has agreed to alter the Official Official Plan to allow the development. development. But owners of the Bowmanville Mall have asked the provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to refer the Durham Reg ion's decisions to the Ontario Municipal Board. In asking for an OMB hearing, L.D.C.M. Investments Ltd., and Bar- mond Builders Limited stated that the construction of the new mall would have an adverse impact on both Bowmanville's central core and on the completion of the third phase of the Bowmadwille Mall. j Several other objection* were also I cited by the owners of the existing mall, including a lack' of recent growth to support the proposed Pythbow project. When matters relating to Pythbow surfaced during the council session, Councillor Ted Woodyard said he would not be introducing introducing his notice of motion pertaining pertaining to a possible OMB hearing over the shopping development. He explained that it would be unethical unethical for council to discuss the issue when Mayor Garnet Rickard was not available. "I think in all fairness fairness this should not be dealt with in the mayor's absence," he said. Councillor Marie Hubbard also requested that the matter be discussed discussed at a meeting when the mayor is present. Mayor Rickard was absent from Monday's council session due to a vacation. COUNCIL BRIEFS Newcastle council has confirmed the appointment of the board of directors for Bowmanville's downtown business improvement area. George Webster is chairman chairman of the Business Improvement Improvement Area for 1984. Secretary-treasurer is Jack Lander and directors are A. Strike, E. Denny, Len Koen- derman, A. Hooper, and Warren Lamondin. Council was advised Monday Monday that the annual Bowmanville Bowmanville Lions Club Carnival Carnival will be held at the Lions Centre on Beech Ave., Bowmanville, Bowmanville, Friday, July 13. The club requested an exemption from the town's licensing by-law to allow a refreshment vehicle at the carnival for the one-day event. "IDE" Like... THINNER Glasses Now you can have thinner, lighter, nicer looking lenses made from reaj glass -- HIGH-LITE lenses that flatter your eyes and let you look better. If you've always hated wearing those ugly, thick glasses, there's no need for you to wait any longer. ASK FOR LENSES MADE FROM SCHOTT HIGHTITE® FORA .■ BETTER LOOK. Our specialists can fit you with newer, prettier, easy-to- | wearHigh-Lite glasses. In clear white or in tints. 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