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1 w „ e Newcastle Mayor Garnet Ricxa»»»-- has announced that a new industrial industrial operation employing 200 will be locating in Bowmanville next year. "As mayor of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle and on behalf of council I am pleased to announce that an agreement agreement has been reached," he said. The factory, which has not been named by the Newcastle mayor will be underway this fall on part of a 220 acre site east of Bowmanville. The land is located between Highway 401 and the railroad right- of-way, just west of Bennett Rd. In a news release Tuesday, Mayor Rickard explained that the agreement agreement in principle allows private investors investors to provide water and sewer services to the site. The agreement is subject to "final details," he said. "The servicing of this land will , T3"il Olf'W'ET ! " I $ JJ kk».} (;j M W M .JL ©«nSn k, 'S' -£L f **r 9J provide one of the largest tracts of serviced, industrially designated land in the Region.". Mayor Rickard did not state the nature of the new industry or the size of building which would be constructed. But he did say that construction would begin this fall and the plant would be operating by the spring of 1986. The factory will occupy 10 to 15 acres, leaving considerable amounts of property for other industrial industrial clients. He added that a second agreement for an industry which will be located at this site and employ 50 persons will be finalized within a matter of days. Two other additional clients are also considering locating their plants here. The lands will be marketed immediately immediately by W. Frank Real Estate s ti gi i H jl > Limited, one of the property owners involved in developing this agreement. agreement. "As mayor of the town and one who participated in the meeting which eventually led to the agreement, agreement, I wish to thank the regional chairman and staff and our town staff for their co-operation, and the principals involved," said Mayor Rickard. The Newcastle mayor explained that he has been involved with discussions discussions leading up to the agreement agreement for the past several months. The work has included private property owners and officials from Durham Region and the Town of Newcastle. "It's a case where private property property owners and elected government government officials have got together and decided how to proceed." S14* 623-3303 35* Per Copy T~\ ik V/ir i ' .A " orj : 1985 rKIji XU M M S C I §■ - 1 #J, ■ F ? x^ Issue 44 38 Pages BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1985 131st Year Councillors Want More Hiring Control Young Entertainers Perform at Trinity Talent Night A large crowd was present at Trinity United Church on Saturday night for the "Talent Night" program which included entertainment by young artists, such as Heidi Douglas, pictured here at the microphone acting out the song 'Peanut Butter.' Alongside, her brother Jamie was the percussionist doing the accompaniment. This was only one of the wide variety of interesting performances. by Diane Pickett À confidential report from Newcastle's Newcastle's administrator to Council, became the subject of open discussion discussion at Monday night's council meeting. The report, dealing with the administrator's administrator's procedures for hiring a new treasurer, was challenged by Councillor Marie Hubbard. "I'm not satisfied with the process for hiring senior staff, particularly the treasurer's position," Councillor Councillor Hubbard said. Councillor Hubbard suggested that the administrator prepare a short list of five applicants and that council, or a committee of council, select the next treasurer for the Town of Newcastle. "We've let go of the reins, and we'd better wake up quickly," Mrs. Hubbard said, however council rejected rejected her proposal. Voicing her support, Councillor Ann Cowman commented: "The treasurer treasurer will be dealing with the public public and needs to be a P.R. person as Caesarea Driver Found Guilty The driver of a car which was involved involved in a fatal collision following a police chase „i,n the Town of Newcastle Newcastle June 29 Ms been found guilty of criminal negligence causing death and criminal Negligence causing bodily harm. Timothy Pearce, 26, of Caesarea, was found guilty of the charges in Whitby district court last week. He will be sentenced November 29 by Judge Richard Lovekin. The police pursuit started on Re- gional Rd. 57, north of Highway Two, where a car was clocked at 124 kilometres per hour while heading south. The chase continued onto Highway 401 and Courtice Rd. At approximately 6:30 a.m. the Pearce Vehicle went through a red light at Highway Two and Courtice Rd., slamming broadside into an eastbound car. Dulcie McLeaj7, a 52-year-old Oshawa woman died in the accident and her son Michael, age 31, was seriously injured. well as a money person, council also needs to relate to the person-members person-members of council should be in on the selection process." In an interview later, Chief Ad- Turn to Page 18 United Way Drive At the completion of the third week of the six week Whitby, Oshawa, Newcastle United Way Campaign, $935,338 was reported at the weekly campaign committee meeting. "We're half way there and on target at 49 per cent of the 1985 objective of $1,915,000," says Armen Arkelian, Campaign chairman. E.D.S. (Electronic Data System), Whitby have completed Vneir first campaign. $45,000 has been pledged from 620 employees through payrolls Wilmot Creek Retirement Community Split Between Two Wards -- . i ~ iz --a 1 r* 1 t> : The municipal election has split the Wilmot Creek retirement community community down the middle. That doesn't mean the residents necessarily have deep political differences. differences. Instead, they have discovered that because of a geographical accident, accident, some of them are in Ward One (Darlington) and others are in Ward Three (Clarke). Their homes straddle straddle the Clarke/Darlington boundary boundary and residents generally consider consider a compound of construction group had a valid concern. Although Although Councillor Ann Cowman suggested there was one advantage to the split between wards. Wilmot Creek residents have four councillors councillors concerned about their area rather than the usual two. "You've got a lot of power there. You'd better better hang onto it," she said. "It's something the municipality should look at," said Councillor Diane Harare. Mayor Garnet Rickard said he agrees the residents should be in a single ward. He suggested that it would be most appropriate if the area were part of Ward Three. Mr. Jackman, a Wilmot Creek resident, resident, said following the candidates' candidates' meeting that the dividing line for the two wards will become a more important issue in the future future when the community grows to a population as high as 2,000. deductions, day. Delta Faucet, Bowmanville have reported $4,110 passing their goal and continuing to canvass the/ balance of the employees. General, Motors' Fabrication Plant hourly' and salaried personnel have completed 95 per cent of their goal generating $137,344 in donations. Hyruiii, sheds to be the dividing line apple) *" À ;¥>>I would say about half of |(in Clayke and half are it ling,ton." explained Fred Gai ON THE TOWN -- Because their is so much entertainment entertainment activity in this community, our On The Town pages have been expanded to both the first and second sections of this newspaper. APPRECIATION - A great big thanks to each and every student in all the Bowmanville, Newcastle and Orono Public Schools who did posters for the Bowmanville Bowmanville Drama Workshop's successful children's play, "Which Witch is Which?", that played for four sell-out performances this past weekend. REUNION - While Mayoralty candidates are in action action at the Lions Centre on Monday, the Memorial Park Clubhouse will be jumping with joyous reunion reunion laughter as Goodyear female employees mark the company's 75th anniversary. That event will really be fun, catching up on all the news for the past number of years. CANCELLED - There was to have been a Community Care Card Party on November 5th, but it's been cancelled cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. NDP GIMMICK - In a move to raise funds to pay off election debts, the South Central Ontario Area Council of the New Democratic Party has come up with a challenge gimmick. On Sunday, Nov. 17th, they'll b? holding a 10-mile Run-a-Thon with sponsors sponsors of course, between provincial candidate Doug Smith on a bicycle, Past President Bill Swan on foot and Rick Byrne, Canadian Labor Congress organizer organizer and riding executive member, riding 'Lady' the Byrne family's prize mare. The course starts at Oshawa before noon and finishes'just after 2 p.m. at the Flying Dutchman Motor Hotel, Bowmanville, where the anniial meeting will be held. Quite an idea! FIRST MASS - And this Sunday morning at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Father Peter Con- lin, the new associate parish priest, will be celebrating celebrating his First Mass. CRIME PREVENTION - Someone has proclaimed Nov. 3rd to 9th as Crime Prevention Week which is a good idea, but only if the crooks pay attention and co-operate. Maybe it would be a good idea for them to change their way of life by attending the evangelistic crusade at the Salvation Army Citadel every evening from Wednesday to Friday at 7:30 and again on Sunday at 11 and 6:30. Evangelist Doug Hiltz will be the guest speaker. They'll be pleased to welcome others from the community as well. urnnems ELECTIONS - All things political appear to be going as well as can be expected. One candidate for the mayor's post tells us that a number of his lawn signs have been torn down and we've been trying to find out if such activities are illegal.....certainly, they come under the category of'dirty tricks'that are not to be condoned. Aside from that complaint the local campaign is going smoothly, according to several local campaigners. The results will provide a more complete story on the evening of Tuesday, November November 12th. The polls will be open at 11 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. MEETINGS - Candidates for the mayor's post will be heard this Monday, November 4th at the Lions Centre, Beech Ave., at 7:30, sponsored by the Development Development Group. A second session for the same men, plus Ward III regional and local council candidates candidates will take place at Newcastle Village Community Community Hall on Thursday, Nov. 7th, 7:30 p.m. sharp, sponsored by Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce. No doubt opportunities for submitting questions from the floor will be available at both sessions. SUPPERS - And if they follow the customary political political patterns, most of the candidates will also be attending attending turkey, or beef suppers being held prior to election day. There's one at Solina this Saturday, another at Newcastle on Saturday, another at Bethany on Friday for Manvers candidates and there was a good one at Ebenezer last week. Better check the Coming Events for others in the near future; future; it's that time of year. PLEASE HELP - Organizations and individuals could be of considerable help to our photographers by interrupting what they are doing and letting them take their pictures and be on their way to the next assignment. When someone asks us to be at a meeting at a certain time for pictures we try to be prompt, but quite often have to wait up to an hour. That's wasting our photographer's time and isn t fair after they have been working all day before that. Please co-operate or don't get upset if they leave; they are following our instructions. about half of us are in Darlington," Darlington," explained Frfed Gardiner, the moderator for an all-candidates meeting held at Wilmot Creek last Monday. He estimated that the area has about 300 voters at present. Because the Wilmot homes«are in two wards, the meeting attracted the four mayoralty candidates and nine town council hopefuls. Naturally, the matter of a divided community surfaced at the candidate candidate meeting. "What we would like to see considered considered is that we become one ward down here with everyone together," said resident Doug Jackman. He added that the closest voting stations stations are outside the retirement community and difficult to find. Candidates responding to the residents' residents' request agreed that the Young People Loiterings ressio by Diane Pickett Groups of young people who loiter loiter at the main intersection in Bowmanville Bowmanville are creating a bad impression impression and putting an "economic strain" strain" on businesses in the heart of town. So Newcastle Council was told in a letter from George Webster, Chairman of the Bowmanville Business Business Centre, at a meeting on October October 28th. "The presence of bicycles on the sidewalk, the litter, the broken bottles, bottles, the loitering and general bad language of these young people are putting an economic strain on these (downtown) businesses, and creating creating a bad impression on visitors to our town, and the public in general," general," Mr. Webster writes. According to Mr. Webster's letter, Durham Regional Police, When; contacted, suggested a stronger bylaw bylaw to remove "this nuisance".' However, Town Clerk David Oakes advised the councillors: "There is no statutory authority for the municipality to pass by-laws with respect to the matters mentioned mentioned in the letter." Council agreed to ask the police to at least increase their patrols in the area in an attempt to curtail the problem. MAKE 'EM LAUGH - Keep in mind the St. Paul's Players showtime starting this Friday, continuing Saturday and again Nov. 8 and 9. Hospital Building Fund Receives 9 25,000 Cheque from General Motor '« This cheque for $25,000 was presented to Memorial Memorial Hospital's building program last week by représentatives représentatives of General Motors of Canada. The funds will be used to equip a day surgery facility which will be incorporated into the new hospital renovations renovations and construction plans. From left are: Hal McKnight, regional truck manager and Bowmanville resident; Dr. Arnold Jones, medical director for General Motors of Canada; Joseph Kraemer, chairman chairman of the fund-raising committee; Tom Cowan, chairman of Memorial Hospital Foundation; and Richard Elston, executive director of Memorial Hospital Hospital Bowmanville. ■ !