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\ I pSéfr Circus 7 WW,LL£ ' mm ° UCJA8 Pjl „, 'arlington o iaiio w He may not have looked too unusual coming out of The JamesPublishing offices last week, but Craiggles the Clown was definitely good for a few laughs as he forewarned Bowmanville that the circus is in town this weekend. On Sunday, the Bowmanville Kinsmen Club will sponsor the Carden Circus at the Darlington Sports Centre. The event offers fun for the whole family. by Rob Savage Consultation meetings start tomorrow tomorrow as a professional conciliator attempts attempts to resolve staff and management management problems at the Marnwood House nursing home. Len Fabiano, of Education and Consulting Services, told about 60 residents residents relatives, staff members and administrators attending a meeting at the home last week that the real problem was a breakdown in communications. communications. "You know what the problem is?" Mr. Fabiano asked. "Nobody is talking talking to anybody." "The problem is the solution is not being sought after because of the staff-management problems," he added. Mr. Fabiano said the strain in the working relationship was creating an atmosphere which was detrimental to the "quality of life" for the residents. residents. He arranged a series of meetings to attempt to resolve the differences and end the detrimental atmosphere in the home. The first meeting starts tomorrow (Thursday) and is a full-day meeting with staff. Mr. Fabiano will then meet with management on Friday for a full day and with both groups on J une 17. From there, a report will be written explaining how to get people in the home working together and how to put problem-solving mechanisms into place. The conciliations follow demonstrations demonstrations at the nursing home where protestors have challenged the recent recent layoffs of three part-time em-. ployecs and the quality of care for residents in the home. The layoffs were implemented by Marnwood House nursing home to fall in line with provincial government government standards which call for 1.5 hours of care per patient each day. Marnwood House administrators Turn to Page Two 38 Pages Issue 19 WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1987 40£ per copy 133rd Year Premature Roads Stud Rejected by Councillor] DBIA Merchants Discuss Downtown by Rob Savage Complete co-operation and a belief, that the community's heart and soul is in the downtown were the primary themes of a BÎA seminar last night on the revitalization of Bowmanville. "Who then should contribute and help make the downtown venture a success?" CASE counsellor A1 Matthews Matthews asked during the lecture. "Every person in the downtown business community." Mr. Matthews, a CASE counsellor with the Federal Business Develop-. nient Bank, joined Canadian Statesman Statesman Advertising Manager Brian Purdy and Durham College Teaching Master James Boyes in delivering the lectures for the seminar. Mr. Matthews concentrated on the development of a 10-year marketing strategy for the downtown. He said recent developments like the Pythbow Mall proposal in 1985 were not unusual to Bowmanville. "You are not the first downtown to oe neutered by a suburban mall de- Bf veloper and you won't be the last," lie said. But he added that the BIÀ should not despair. He said malls can be beaten by a collective downtown effort. effort. , "You must win the hearts an/d minds of the consumers in other ways," Mr. Matthews recommended. His primary suggestion was that BIA projects must receive full endorsement endorsement from all members. "Not everyone has had their oar in the water and some who do have it facing the wrong way," he said. Once complete co-operation is obtained, obtained, Mr. Matthews said each downtown downtown merchant should concentrate on selling his self, his store and his downtown to the consumers. Eventually, Mr. Matthews said Bow- manville might reach the stage where every Saturday of the summer guarantees special happenings in the downtown. These could then be advertised advertised to the large populated areas Turn to Page 15 BBMWW illfe : ' He Ï by Rob Savage Newcastle Councillors rejected plans for a $50,000 roads analysis" study because it is "premature" for the municipality at-this time. Councillor Diane Harare said on Monday that the town should postpone postpone plans for the system because the municipality could not afford to implement implement many of the study's findings. She said it would be "foolish" for council to spend large amounts of money to learn that local roads are badly needing repairs. "I don't think there's a municipality in Ontario that doesn't know that they're not spending enough and that roads are falling behind," Councillor Harare said. However, she argued that poor provincial provincial funding prevents municipalities municipalities from spending the required amounts of money on roads. She said council might be in a better better position to accept the system and its computerized data services once the town is operating in the new administration administration centre. As well, she said access to increased funding for roads may improve following the impending impending provincial election. Council's current rejection of the system follows discussions of the roads' requirements raised during the 1987 municipal budget discussions. discussions. In order to receive provincial funding funding for road improvements, j each municipality i,s required to do an annual annual roads needs study which, v -<0. prioritizes the roads needing repairs. V* The standard road needs study Required Required by the province was done' in this municipality by Totten, Simms and Hubicki, who use test analysis of the different roads to determine the condition of each thoroughfare. By contrast, Karl Link of Pavement Management Systems (PMS), told councillors on Monday that the PMS studies are more detailed and pro vide a 10-year plan for financing road improvements. He said the standard road needs studies only do a surface analysis of the roads while the PMS studies look at the base and the surface. He also argued that road needs studies often look at only 10 per cent of the road while the PMS engineers examine the entire road. And he said that with the computerized computerized budgeting plan in place, the priorities for roads needing repairs repairs are more clear when an application application for funding goes to the province. province. "If nothing else, everyone in\ municipality knows what wi doing, where we're going and we're going to get there," said. However, he did not tell council what cost savings would result from using PMS findings over a standard roads needs study and Mayor John Winters said that was the information council was looking for. "I was somewhat disappointed by the presentation," Mayor Winters confessed on Monday. It was the mayor who initially called for consideration of the PMS studies during budget talks. On Monday, Monday, he said he did not think PMS understood understood that council wanted cost comparisons between PMS and the standard roads studies. He received council's direction to ask PMS to look at the road needs studies and offer possible comparisons comparisons at a later time. Meanwhile, council will proceed with the standard study for the upcoming upcoming year. The road needs study cost $6,000 this year but the larger study done every five years will cost $25,000 and is due from the municipality in 1988. A PMS study for all roads in the municipality would cost between $50,000 and $60,000. Majority Favors apital Punishment Av Tag-Dayjpr Hospital Auxiliary Volunteers Wilma Coombes (left) of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, was one of 25 canvassers out last Friday for the annual Auxiliary Tag Day. She is the Financial Chairman for the Auxiliary which is celebrating its 75th anniversary anniversary this year. Seen here contributingtowards the cause is Shirley Van Dyk. GRAND YARD SALE - Waverley Public School is having having a grand yard sale on Saturday, May 23rd, with other fund-raising events planned along with it for a fun-filled day. Donations would be appreciated and can be left off at the scho'ol Friday evening, May 22nd or Saturday morning, May 23rd. NEW CHS QUEEN - Congratulations are in order for Cartwright High School's Queen Joy Werry, who was chosen at their 29th annual prom, held at Nestleton Community Centre Saturday night. Her two princesses are Christina McLean and Leanne MacDonald. REGION HEADQUARTERS -While region councillors appear to be having a field day discussing the possibility possibility of constructing a new headquarters at Oshawa, Whitby or Ajax, maybe someone should ask a question. question. Just when was it established that the region really needed a new headquarters? Who did the feasibility feasibility study and how much did it cost? We seem to recall recall that all the current discussion resulted from a land proposal announced by Oshawa's Mayor Allan Pilkey. PROBLEMS - Wc must apologize to rural correspondents correspondents on two counts. The news some of them submit each week seems to get caught up in the mails and doesn't arrive until Thursday morning, after the paper is printed. We also have been experiencing experiencing a typesetting help problem with others and as a result their news has not been set and in the paper until the following week. This problem we hope to have solved shortly, but the first one is beyond beyond our scope. OPENING GAMES - Three home openers are comtn up this holiday weekend. At Kendal's Jackson Par on Sunday, May 17th, the Ktindal Bantam K's open their schedule at 1 p.m, against Ajax, And on the holiday holiday at 1, the Kendal Sr. Eagles will open their season against Whitby Merchants. Newcastle Sr. Lakers will hold their home opener on Sunday, May 17th at 1 against Markham Shamrocks. SAD NEWS - Her many friends and associates over the years will be indeed shocked to learn that Mrs. Yvonne Carruthers Plooard, wife of the late former MPP for this area, was buried on Friday in Garden Hill. Sympathy to her family. PAY UP YOU BUM! - If you're having trouble collecting collecting on overdue accounts, be sure to attend next Tuesday's Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting at the King Garden Restaurant. An Accounts Receivable expert expert will be providing tips on how to collect on those annoying overdue accounts. The meeting gets underway underway at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, May 19th. Everyone is invited. LAWN BOWLING - We hasten to correct an error that appeared in an advertisement about the Bowmanville Bowmanville Lawn Bowling Club's official opening for the season. We had it opening on Friday, May 22nd, but now they tell us it should have read Saturday, May 23rd at 2 o'clock. New members will be welcomed. welcomed. CIRCUSES - After you've bowled a few games or before before you start, there's good fun and live entertainment entertainment at the annual Shrine Circus, Saturday, May 23rd at the Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, The Junior A hockey Generals should have the Memorial Cup well in hand by then, so the ice can be removed. Usually, Usually, advance sale tickets are somewhat cheaper. Oh, oh, we've Just noticed that the Carden Circus Is also coming to Darlington Sports Centre this Sunday at 2 and .6. HAPPY HOLIDAY - Nowto wind up this column with mention of the Victoria Day Holiday that is coming next Monday, May 18th. This, of course, used to happen on the 24th of May which occurred on any day of the week. Back a few years, an M.P. came up with the idea of holding it on the Monday prior to the 24th and the House of Commons and .the Senate liked the idea. That's how it happened that wc celebrate this holiday on Monday each year. SS®! \r". ' Nearly 17,000 people responded to a questionnaire on capital punishment punishment from MP Allan Lawrence, with 85 per cent supporting reinstatement of the death penally. / ■ ^Ir. Lawrence reports that the poll received 16,831 responses with 14,307 (85 per cent) backing the return of capital punishment. Another 2,517 of the respondents (about 15 per cent) opposed the return return of capital punishment and seven people were undecided. Of those supporting capital punishment's punishment's return, 93 per cent said all first degree murders should be eligible eligible crimes while only seven per cent said capital punishment should be reserved for the murderers of police officers or prison guards. About 55 per cent of those favoring capital punishment felt murders committed during terrorist acts or during the faking of hostages should qualify as capital crimes. Lethal injections were the favored method among those favoring capital punishment's return, while the next greatest majority said the choice of death should be selected by the condemned. condemned. es by Rob Savage Councillor Ann Cowman is challenging challenging the Durham Region water services policy which puts Newcastle in an "invidious position" with taxpayers. taxpayers. She told Newcastle Councillors on Monday that the regional policy for the installation of regional water services services is not dignified. That policy requires requires a majority vote from home- owners before regional water services services are approved. Councillor Cowman said someone must go door to door and poll the neighbors in order to get the majority vote.. She argues that the required polling polling prevents water services from being installed and leads to bitterness bitterness towards the municipality. "What I have difficulty with is the stupid policy which puts us in this in vidious position,"- Councillor Cow- i man said. ■ ) Councillor Cowman said one Pre- L stonvale Road resident had phonecl/ her about water contamination pro- ' blems in that area. She said the resident resident did not mind paying for regional water services in that area but did not want to have to poll his neighbors for support. Councillor Cowman said she backed the resident's arguments and feels the required polling is an inf adequate way to deal with the probf lcm. ; Her comments follow regional council's recent rejection of Ontario Housing Action Program (OHAP) funding for water services in the Nash Road area between Townlind Road and Darlington Blvd. Newcastle Council applied to thé Turn to Page Two '..ràWd iffîi $500 Donation Helps Underprivileged Children The Bowmanville Knights of Columbus know a good cause when they see one. Jose Fernandes, Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, presents Father Bill Malone, director of Northern Lights Camp, with a $500 donation. The summer camp, based in the Ilaliburton area, is for underprivileged children from Port Hope, Cobourg, and Peterborough. There will be volunteers from Bowmanville working at the camp this summer for the first time.