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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, August 20,1987 Section Two Efje Canadian Statesman 623-3303 Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 132 years ago In 1854. Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orooo News Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES Editor--Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. PETER PARROTT Associate Editor DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. 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Banner Year for Housing This has, undoubtedly, been a banner banner year for housing development in the Durham Region. All indications point to the fact that oyer 5,000 units will have been completed completed by the end of 1986. And the Town of Newcastle is gathering in its share of the new growth. The development is a healthy sign, of course. New communities increase the vitality of any municipality. They :bring new talent and new faces and they create business opportunities. But the fact remains that additional housing is also a drain on the human services which all municipalities must provide. These include areas .such as libraries, schools, roads, day care, garbage collection, streetlights, sidewalks, police protection, and a number of other categories. In days gone by, housing growth was synonymous with prosperity because it indicated an underlying strength in the business or industrial economy. ..But today, there's the phenomenon of : ;the "bedroom" community -- a place ■ that provides a home for people who might work or shop someplace else. It's the kind of fate which most communities communities want to avoid. For housing is only acceptable ; when it is balanced by industrial and commercial activity. Therefore, the 'survival of the Town of Newcastle defends defends on whether or not it can attract an adequate industrial base. Newcastle's problem is unique in that it is currently experiencing a "boom that is caused by construction of the Darlington Nuclear Generating "Station. It's a project which is good for the economy while it lasts. But as -the plant nears completion it's essential essential that some kind of new economic base be developed. Otherwise, the town will be faced with the twin evils of a large housing L . development and a dwindling number number of jobs in the immediate community. community. Of course, it's possible that a second second Darlington plant may be launched. And in that case, Hydro jobs would continue. It's also possi ble that the Wesleyville Generating Station may be revived. And, again, there would be additional construction construction jobs. But Newcastle must still plan for the day when these massive utility plants are no longer the major employer in the municipality. It would seem that the encouragement encouragement of new industrial and commercial commercial opportunities in the Town of Newcastle should be the top priority in 1986. Of course, attending to the needs of the new communities being built in Courtice, Bowmanville, and Newcastle Newcastle will also be a major challenge facing facing the municipality. Undoubtedly they will be coming forward with requests for parks, sidewalks, crossing guards, and all the usual needs of urban communities. communities. Finally, the municipality must complete complete its own ambitious building program. And, here again, the municipal municipal administrative headquarters and the new skating facility may be seen as further evidence of a growing community. In 1987 Newcastle must start the town hall renovations and construction construction and must also begin the new Bowmanville Arena. Oh yes, there are three other major public sector projects likely to begin in 1987. These are the Memorial Hospital Hospital addition and renovation plus the construction of a new separate school in Courtice and an addition to the existing Courtice West public school. All of the above issues do present a major challenge for elected officials. officials. But they can take some consolation consolation in the fact that the work which lies before, them represents the type . of work which is associated with a growing municipality. It will be up to elected officials, the business community, recreational associations, associations, churches, schools, and each one of us to meet the challenge of growth. It has been predicted for the past 10 years. But now that it's here, we may still not be quite ready. Tough Topic to Discuss Getting politicians to deal with garbage garbage dumps is a little bit like getting kids to eat their vegetables. Adequate waste disposal is something something which is "good for us". But it's not the favorite pastime of elécted officials. officials. There's not much glamor in developing developing a new landfill site. Nor is there much political future in this line of work. It's easier to devote one's time to community centres or day care facilities, facilities, libraries or even roads and bridges. After all, these projects are not only good for the community but also better-appreciated by all concerned. concerned. By contrast, the development of a garbage dump is likely to arouse citizen unrest in the community selected for the site and it will also, create arguments among elected officials. officials. Garbage dumps are also horrendously horrendously expensive. ($15 to $20 million million according to a preliminary estimate estimate considered by the Regional Municipality of Durham). In the City of Toronto, it was estimated estimated that a mere detailed consultant's consultant's study of waste management would cost $11 million and the City's elected officials voted against that expenditure. But there's a second problem associated associated with municipal garbage. We are referring to the fact that garbage garbage disposal issues arc ones which can be indefinitely postponed because because no one (except for a few forward-thinking forward-thinking elected officials or civil servants) really cares about the subject. There are citizens groups which lobby for things such as better roads, crosswalks, arenas, shopping plazas, street lights, and a long list of other amenities. But when did you ever hear of a citizens group lobbying for a landfill site? For the short-term future, there's no immediate problem with putting off any decision with regard to the disposal of garbage. Landfill sites, it seems, have always had a few years of use remaining. But it's becoming pretty clear that lime is running out. Landfill may not be a problem today. But given three years or so, it could become the biggest single issue facing municipal government, This September, the Darlington dump, northwest of Enniskillen will be closed. And that will be (he end isswf 5SE . : ,}m ; .> $v*r # # - ... si tT-tl ' -ûWv ^ 11J■ V Vi. , . -. ; ... / st; > \ v •<> >> ****wn.&&, it ... Y - * ' ' v * " **...>» .. 121 - < '.•«,• w " v ^ v- •» , ^ yr-r IttiÉîsL, _ : .: - - s ' ■ • •• zrrrS?? .. ^ • - -'Îïu-C ' -- •»* '■ ^ » , v - , vVÆ -, ' y *1 1 ■ - . ■ ■ - v. „ ' .... A ;. " - f .. f / . ;s«r V > ^ » V.T Icy Water Can't Stop Port Hope Fishermen r • by Peter Parrott j of the last municipally-owned landfill landfill area in the Town of Newcastle. The only remaining site is a privately owned disposal area near Newton- ville. Durham Region's only major disposal disposal area is located at Pickering, on a site shared by the city of Toronto. But it, too, is rapidly nearing capacity. capacity. The capacity will be reached in the early 1990s, according to reports on the subject. The opening of a new site would likely require at least five years of hearings and debate at the various levels of government. And it's pretty clear that the available capacity for trash disposal in regionally-owned sites will run out in less than five years. So although decisions over trash disposal may be put off for the next few months, there may very well be some kind of garbage emergency in the next few years and certainly within the next decade. The solution is for elected officials to immediately look at the problem seriously. And then they must look at all the options available. It seems to us that in our world of high technology we should be capable capable of solving the garbage disposal problem by methods other than burial, burial, although it's quite true that even with modern methods such as recycling recycling or incineration, a residue will always always have to go to landfill. As the old-style landfill sites are gradually used up, there will be an enormous increase in the cost of disposing disposing of trash through either conventional conventional methods or incineration. And, in time, the costs will grow to the point where recycling of trash is not just a part of the environmentalists' environmentalists' creed. It will become a cold, hard, economic necessity. That's when recycling will at last become viable. viable. Moreover, manufacturers and retailers will also start to think twice about the cost of disposing the throwaway throwaway packages which wrap everything everything from hamburgers to kitchen appliances. In the meantime, it would appear as though the local political issue of the next decade will not be expressways expressways or subdivisions, or community services. It will be garbage. The problem is becoming too big to ignore any longer. The way I see it, the stars are out to get me. On or about January 1st, you can find newspaper newspaper forecasts for each sign of the zodiac covering covering 365 days^of the year. And, having little else to do New Year's morning, morning, I happened to glance at my forecast. I shouldn't have. Put it this way: IF 1987 were a car, it would be an Edsel. Or, at least that's how the seer in charge of horoscopes sees the prospects for the next 12 months. How else would you describe a forecast which starts off by recommending recommending that you check very carefully the fine print in any legal contract you might sign during the year? It goes on to suggest that I not make any major decision. That I watch out for business disasters* think twice about '.taking aircraft "jourheySs,' ■'riot' stray r ' to close to volcaiios or manholes, manholes, beware of falling pianos, and get the business business card of a good criminal criminal lawyer. Actually, I exaggerate slightly. But that's about the way the horoscope reads. It also notes that there will be some brighter brighter days ahead--two of them to be exact. I think they will arrive sometime sometime in April. Furthermore, the star forecasts didn't get much better when I consulted a second opinion which I found in a certain almanac. almanac. There I learned that I am "caustic in my remarks (which are almost almost always critical)". It goes on to note that I am "jDsychotically ' : concerned concerned àboütf clèanli- riess" : and " possess ' thé trait of excessive nitpicking. nitpicking. How's that for an outlook outlook in 1987. Whatever happened to the days when horoscopes horoscopes said nice things? Most of us who take the trouble to read them want to be informed that we are as handsome as Bert Reynolds, and smart as Albert Einstein. It wouldn't hurt if we were also advised that within the next six months we will become as rich as an assistant deputy deputy cabinet minister. I think, somehow, that the horoscopes are being written by Don Rickies. Who really needs to get insulted by a ,planetary.. conjunction? Who wants to know that a constellation constellation is going to force you to trip over a banana peel or that the North Star and Neptune are snickering behind one's back. Besides, who really believes believes that their life is influenced influenced by a few billion tons of rock orbiting the earth at a distance of more than 150 million miles? Does it make sense? Of course not. And even the horoscope-writers horoscope-writers themselves will admit that individual individual futures will vary. In other words, not everybody whose horoscope horoscope predicts a rotten year will have one. and vice versa. " " For example, take the persons who were born under the sign of Leo. They happen to be blessed blessed with a good year ahead of them, according according to the modern-day astrologers. astrologers. Now, I'd say that there are a few hundred million million Leos in the world today. And there's a pretty good chance that at least some of them will die, get sick, be struck by a bus, or suffer some other misfortune in the year ahead. What the stars predict, in general, may not be in harmony with an individual's individual's own fortunes. One of Shakespeare's characters said it best when he observed that the-fault is "not in our stars but in ourselves." Thank goodness for that piece of advice. Without it, I might be tempted to sit this year out and wait for a better planetary conjunction. So I have started 1987' by taking the horoscope page and attempting to throw it to the planet Pluto. I plan to have a happy new year anyway. And I hope that (planetary configurations configurations not withstanding) you do, too! Queen's Park Report By Sam Cureatz M.P.P. Pay Equity; Woman Deserve a Fair Deal In June of 1985, the government made its commitment to the women of this province: there would be legislation drafted giving women equal pay for work of equal value. For 18 long months, women have been waiting for the fair deal they deserve. There are more than 2 million women in Ontario's workforce, but under the government's approach to pay equity, not all of the province's working women will be covered. On November 24, the government finally introduced the Pay Equity Act providing for pay equity in the broader public and private sectors. Bill 154 is the "sister" to Bill 105 which provides for pay equity in the narrow civil service. Bill 105 was introduced in February and has been held up in Justice Committee since October for clause-by-clausc consideration. Instead of implementing Bill 105 to serve as a model on which to fashion the new legislation, the government withdrew it and introduced Bill 151. Although about 1.3 million women in the public and large private sector arc covered by Bill 154, this figure is deceiving because thousands of women in traditionally female occupations such ns those In day care centres, nursing homes, factories, shops, plants and offices will not benefit from the legislation. Opposition leader Larry Grossman has said the Bill was not unfair in requiring businesses to end a lengthy practice of undervaluing and underpaying women. "The principle of private sector pay equity is the right principle," he says. i But at the sàme time, upon close examination, the proposed legislation seems Dear Sir: To follow up our telephone telephone conversation of December December 18, 1986. I am writing writing to advise that I attended before the Commission to argue against the proposed redistribution of our federal federal riding. As you are aware the plans arc to put the Town of Newcastle and Township of Scugog into a new riding which would include include North Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, and Uxbridge. Uxbridge. Hope Township, Port Hope anil Cobourg arc to be amalgamated with a new riding running cast of Brighton. Manvers and Cavan arc to be joined to Vicloria-IIaliburton. 1 argued before the Commission Commission that the proposed redistribution totally obliterates obliterates the former County of Durham. I feel that the redistribution redistribution ignores both our historical tics and present present socio-economic tics to the north and east. To me, for the federal riding to have any meaning our citizens citizens must remain united with Cobourg and Port Hope in the same riding. flawed in three areas: it excludes a large number of women, especially those in the lower paid establishments that are predominantly female; there is no time frame stating when pay equity must be achieved; and some of the gender predominance features may invite manipulation to avoid the legislation. Municipal and hospital administrators have also expressed concern. They are afraid they will have problems with the complex implementation process set out in the new bill. Some administrators are worried they will be required to pay out money that they just don't have or that they won't have sufficient time to develop pay equity plans. In my next column, I will address the Regional Municipality of Durham's response to Bill 154 and the action taken on the matter. In May 1985 the government of Ontario established the Order of Ontario to recognize those persons who have rendered service of the greatest distinction and of singular excellence in any field of endeavour benefiting society in Ontario or elsewhere. The Order will be awarded annually to the most outstanding residents of Ontario. Any person or organization may submit a nomination and in order to obtain more information, call 416-963-0559. LETTER TO THE EDITOR elude Cartwright, Manvers and Cavan. Witli this area as a base we fit into the category category for a correct number of voters for a riding. These arguments were also made by Allan Lawrence, Lawrence, Sam Cureatz and others from the Port Hope area. It was my feeling that the Commission listened carefully to my arguments but unfortunately they indicated indicated that there had been very little input from the citizens in our area supporting supporting this position. As you and I discussed, this is a situation where our historical historical and community ties could be done away with by one stroke of the pen unless we act to protect them, The Commission assumes that there Is no objection unless unless they hear from people. I would ask that any interested interested readers write to the Commission and state as strongly as possible their desire to have our Federal rilling boundaries based on those of the former County of Durliam. The address is: Electoral Boundaries Commission 108 Dundas Street West Suite 305 M5G 1Z8 . Attention: Alan Stewart Please write immediately as the Commission will soon be submitting their report to the Federal Government. In a democracy, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I believe that we can preserve our heritage if we make the effort. Yours very truly, Irwin A. Hamilton. Dear Editor: The Report of the House of Commons Standing Committee Committee on Government Operations in regard to the Canada Post Corporation's five-year plan for 1986-87 to 1990-91 called for the closure, amalgamation and franchising of rural Post Offices. The Committee Report, which was presented to the House on December 15, 1086, recommended a few changes and emphasized some aspects of the Plan. One point that the Committee enlarged upon was the privatization of certain rural Post Offices, While the Committee's observations about the human resource issues arc appreciated, I must stress that I consider the privatization privatization of these operations to be most illogical. If, by suggesting the Post Offices in certain rural communities be turned over to private operators, the Corporation is saying that a profit can be made from them, why then is the Corporation which needs money, giving them up? If they arc not profitable, what guarantee do the citizens of these communities have that their postal service will continue in the future? What will happen to the government representation in these communities, to its ability to assist citizens with the completion of Government, forms such as U.I.C. gasoline tax rebate, Income tax, birth certificates, access to information, etc.? The Post Offices In the rural areas are the perfect example of what the motto of Canada Post means "Service to the People". Service is exactly wlmt the people In rural Canada want, and that Is what i lui riiiuni-iimimt should ensure The Rural Operations Group of Canada Post Corporation is supported by individuals mailing in smaller communities, communities, and through a variety of services such as general delivery, lock box and rural route delivery, Canada Post recognizes that the Rural Operations Group is a service-oriented body, in stating that they do not generate sufficient revenue, It is our view that the quality of service to rural residents should be maintained even at a net cost to Canada Post. To this end we solicit your support in writing to your Federal member slating that your Post Office be saved, therefore ensuring that postal service to your community remain ns it is today. R.W. Starkey, Prescott, Ontario. KOE 1EO TXxink Canadian