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t Young. BOmmiLLE LIBRARY 62 TEMPERANCE ST BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO nuncial Title j ; ; ( iJJ / JÉ (u J by Carolyn Hepburn In a vote of 13-11, Durham's Regional Regional Council has chosen an Oshawa site for its new headquarters. However, that decision will be reviewed reviewed next week because the necessary necessary nine votes were received on a motion of reconsideration introduced introduced by Whitby Councillor Tom Edwards. Edwards. The votes took place in Whitby jdnesday, May 20, after nearly five ars of debate. )urham Region Planning Commis- mer Dr. Mofeed Michael told lected officials that the Oshawa site (ft! (Tf! /? f WPfCb TP [\ V /,:/'/) kuytu/ (vtu'U x- j.VjJ.'-u,' ) ! U ■ l Ua / v.;-/ xi P n 0 ; : IfMhn was superior to several others under consideration in Whitby and Ajax. "The headquarters would serve the population best in Oshawa," Dr. Michael said. He added that there are connections to transit and the GO Train. Incentives offered by the City of Oshawa were another factor in the headquarters decision. Oshawa Mayor Allan Pilkey described his city's proposal as the number one choice. If Durham chooses the Oshawa location, location, then the city has agreed to drop a $3.3 million claim which the city says it has against the existing headquarters building. Oshawa has argued that it actually owns a share of the regional building on Rossland Rd. and would want to be reimbursed if the headquarters were disposed of. In addition, Oshawa would provide 610 free parking spaces to serve the new headquarters building located on former General Motors property at the corner of Mary St. and Bond St. The problem of what to do with the present regional building if a new headquarters is established is still being investigated. The proposed new building will mean the separation of council and the courts that are presently housed at Rossland Road in Whitby. One suggested option is to sell the building building back to the province. The motion to approve the Oshawa proposal hinges on whether an agreement can be reached with the province or other interested parties reagrding the future future use of the existing headquarters. In addition to an Oshawa and Ajax site, regional councillors considered the possibility of having a new headquarters headquarters directly across from where the regional building is presently lo- Turn to Page Two / ? « • x.<• 'X ,<■ A I m'Jm M i A ' v v r "/ cxxx-J o 1 À 1 IX t, V 'Pf i' y' x;y W ! 'X. h&i! ■ C a 32 Pages Issue 21 WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987 400 per copy 133rd Year Harbor Redevelopment Long Overdue The Town of Newcastle is taking the first step towards what may become become the redevelopment of the Bow- manville harbour area. In a motion put forward by Councillor Councillor Ann Cowman, town council fully agreed this week to spend $5,000 to hire a consultant who will do an engineering engineering study of the harbour. Councillor Cowman believes that the harbour development is long overdue. "The pressures are all there for the development, we just need to take the first steps," she said. Among the initial investigations into future development will be efforts efforts to find out if goverhineht funding funding is available for the project,, as well as consultations with the Central Chris Peldiak, a grade one Waverley Public School student, will be competing competing in the 5th Annual Youth Bowling Council "Bowler of the Year" Provincial Championships on June 6 and 7. Chris, who bowls in the Tyke Division at the Liberty Bowl in Bowmanville, has worked hard all year improving his style and his scores. As part of the championship celebrations, celebrations, Chris and his family will spend the afternoon of June 5 at Canada's Wonderland. Mayor's Findings Show Cheaper Tax in Durham Grade One Student Heads To Ontario Championships by Carolyn Hepburn Two years ago, Chris Peldiak was looking for an activity to occupy his time in the winter. He found bowling to be just the right sport and has turned it into a trip to the 5th Annual Youth Bowling Council "Bowler of the Year" Provincial Championships. Chris, who recently turned seven, will be making the trip to the championships championships with his mother and father, and nine-year-old brother, Eddy. At the start of his championship journey, Chris first won a "Bowler of the Month" title at the Liberty Bowl, in Bowmanville, where he bowls in the Tyke Division. From there, Chris competed in the District Final of the Youth Bowling Council "Bowler of the Year" Tournament. A victory at that tournament has allowed Chris his shot at a provincial championship. championship. Whatever the outcome of the competitions competitions on June 6 and 7, Chris and his family will be spending two exciting exciting days in Brampton. On Saturday, June 6, all the bowlers and their guests and families will spend the afternoon afternoon at Canada's Wonderland. The following Sunday, June 7, the provincial championships will take place. The grade one Waverley Public School student finds that the best part of winning is receiving 'the trophies and plaques, and the praise from his friends and family. Chris' bowling average this past year was 85, and his highest scoring game was 159, as he has made steady improvement in botli his style and his scores. "I uscd to bowl with two hands, but I'm starting to bowl with just one now," Chris said. Chris also notes that his fellow teammates are really happy for him. Part of the key to Chris' success has been his routine of practising once or twice a week. It takes a lot of hard work to win championships and Chris has kept working to improve. Mr. and Mrs. Peldiak are pretty optimistic optimistic about Chris's chances of success success in Brampton. However, regardless regardless of the outcome they are very proud of Chris and how hard he has worked. Even though the provincial championships championships are the last step in the bowling ladder, Chris won't be stopping stopping after they are over. He will be seen transferring his talents to the soccer field, where he is enrolled in a summer league, and the baseball diamonds, where he plays 'just for fun'. Newcastle Mayor John Winters believes believes that the town is paying too much for education and he estimates $896,946 could be saved by amalgamating amalgamating with the Durham Board of Education. Mayor Winters used copies of 1985 schedules of apportionment for both the Durham Board of Education and The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education to reach his conclusions. conclusions. Those schedules are used to determine determine how much each municipality contributes to each education board. By transposing the Newcastle numbers numbers from the Northumberland schedule onto the Durham schedules, Mayor Winters found that there was a substantial savings for the municipality. municipality. ■ r ■ V In a comparison of the amouhts paid by Port Hope and Cobourg for education taxes, the Mayor has found a difference of nearly $5 million. With a similar collective popula tion, and similar tax assessments, Cobourg and Port Hope are paying a combined total of approximately $7 million to the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education in 1987. The Town of Newcastle is paying approximately approximately $12 million for 1987. Though unsure of why the differences differences exist, Mayor Winters thinks that there may have been an error in calculation that has carried throughout throughout the whole tax assessment procedure. procedure. Mayor Winters has written to the Ministry of Education and asked them to review and comment upon his findings. Although sure that a difference does exist, Mayor Winters does allow ÿv the fact that there may be variable',vhc variable',vhc hasn't considered in his calculations. calculations. A copy of Mayor Winters' letter to the Education Minister was received for information at Monday's council session. Lake Ontario Conservation Authority. Authority. Council will be approaching Ontario Ontario Hyrdo to fund the $5,000 for the study, and if funds are not available tlie moeny will come from the tourism .and economic development budget. Among the marina improvement plans, Councillor Cowman would like to see more publicity about the boat building taking place at Wiggers Custom Custom Yacht Ltd., next to the marina. "We need more emphasis on the exclusive boat building at the marina," said Councillor Cowman. "We want people to know that the boats come from Bowmanville, and to put Bowmanville Marina on the map," she added. Councillor Cowman told the council council of a boat being built by the Wiggers Custom Yacht Ltd., that will be competing competing in the next Canada's Cup. "American yachts are coming here to be built and few people know about it," she added. Another area of development could be the expansion of the present hotel facilities to residential accommodations accommodations according to Councillor Cowman. Cowman. Another asset to the property is the beach land. "The beach area would be a prime piece of public parkland," Councillor Cowman said. Councillors Hubbard and I-Iamre also fully endorsed the initial steps of study of the marina, and agreed that they were long overdue. "Council agreed at the outset that they would do something about the harbour," said Councillor Hubbard. One concern raised by Councillor Hamre was the possibility of a long- range report from the proposed study. Councillor Cowman believes that the benefits of expansion far outweigh outweigh any drawbacks. "We will be paid back a thousand times in years to come," she said. Kaplan is Guest Speaker Trash Concerns Council by Carolyn Hepburn Members of Newcastle council are worried about what will happen once the local landfill site closes and tenders tenders are called for the transfer of trash to the Metro Toronto area disposal disposal site in Pickering. The Darlington site is scheduled to close in July or August of this year. "We are on the brink of a real crisis," said Councillor Marie Hubbard Hubbard as she described her concerns to members of Newcastle council Monday night. "If we can't expand Darlington we could end up with substantial costs," she added. •j .1 THAT'S NICE -- Somebody around the Youth Bowling League went to a considerable amount of effort by collecting collecting signatures from each bowler, purchasing a card and sending it along to The Statesman, expressing expressing thanks for coverage of their events. It was certainly certainly appreciated and we thank them and especially Program Director Joan Murphy. ALIVE AND WELL -- We'd like to take back a comment comment we made in last week's column about Baseball Baseball having trouble surviving here. It did apply to the seniors, but we found out on the weekend that from Tykes to Juniors, it's still going strong. We'd like to congratulate coaches, managers, etc. who are doing a great job looking after these teams. They deserve some help and a lew medals, OPTIMISTS AT WORK - Tills Saturday, May 30th is going to be a busy one for members of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Optimist Club who have two projects scheduled. They are holding their 3rd annual Kite Rodeo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, at Waverley Park for children ages 5 to 12, with 300 free ldtcs. And while that is going on their members will be taking turns operating a Car Wash from 8:30 on at the Bank of Montreal parting lot. Let's hope the weather is ideal for both events. B.I.A. BIRTHDAY -- Bowmanvlllc's Downtown Business Improvement Area marks its 10th anniversary anniversary this weekend, starting Thursday with an all out promotion that should attract many visitors. visitors. Special events arc outlined in an advertisement advertisement in this edition. Come downtown and join in the festivities. BINGO CANCELLED -- We've Just received word that the Tuesday night Bingo games sponsored by the Village Village of Newcastle Lions Club have been cancelled because because support was not up to expectations. These were held at the Community Hall. This means that the Newcastle Lions will have to find some other ways of raising funds for their community work. iE COFFEE PARTY -- Unit 7 of the Trinity Church's UCW has a couple of coffee parties coming up on Tuesday, June 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, June 3rd from 10 a.m. until noon. They are being held at Anna Strike's home, 8 Beech Avenue and there will be a display of musical curios. BONSAI CLUB -- Tomorrow at 7 p.m. the Visual Arts Centre off Simpson Avenue will be the host of the first Bonsai Club In Bowmanville. For the benefit of the uninitiated, Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing small trees in pots. You are welcome to come and find out if they really do put something in the water to make the trees shrink. For more information, call Joan Greenway 623-3951 or Harry Kamstra 623- 8482. KEEPS 'EM GUESSING -- Another Monday has gone by and a provincial election has not been called for July 2nd. Premier Peterson is still teasing his political opponents as he scoffs at any and all questions about an election date. So, it looks like it will be held over until Sept, or Oct. BASE RUNNING CHRISTIANS - Baseball fans are Invited Invited to come and hear Jesse Barfield and Mark Eich- hom of the Toronto Blue Jays who are Christians first and ball players second. They will be speaking at Ebenezer United Church, Courtlce Road South on Sunday, May 31st at 7:30 p.m. PAPER DRIVE -- Another fund-raising paper drive is planned for this Saturday by the Newcastle Village Village Boy Scouts. Please have your papers bundled and to the curb by 9:30 a.m, and call 987-5551 for special pick up. NO NAME -- A couple of letters were received this week from people complaining about things that arc or have been happening here. Unfortunately or fortunately fortunately the writers did not sign their names so they won't appear in print. Also, one was verging close to slander so it's just as well left out of the paper. Councillor Hubbard believes that trucking the waste to the Pickering site, upon Darlington closure, will only increase the cost of waste removal. removal. Presently, the Region of Durham (including Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax) is using Metropolitian Toronto's landfill site at Pickering for the disposal disposal of solid waste. With the pending closure of the Darlington landfill site later this year, the Town of Newcastle will also have to use the Brock West Site. Of the three Metro-owned sites in Pickering, Brock West is the only one receiving waste, and Metro estimates that it will be filled by mid 1989. At present there are 100 tonnes per week of garbage in the Bowmanville urban area alone, that go to the Darlington Darlington site. Also of concern is the waste from muncipalities to the east. "We need to make some inquiries as to garbage that comes in from the east to private land fills," said Councillor Councillor Hamre, There are tonnes and tonnes of garbage garbage coming into thd Town of Newcastle Newcastle from non tax-paying companies, companies, according to Councillor Hamre. "There are even municipalities that do not allow them to put their own municipal waste into their own municipal sites," she adds. Damage to the roads of this town because of the trucking of garbage is another major concern. D.B.LA. Marks 10th Anniversary Bowmanville's Business Centre is 10 years old this year, and what could bo better than a birthday party? On May 28, 29 and 30, citizens of Bowmanville are all invited to come downtown for the celebration. Every 10-year old listed on page 8 in the Statesman who reports to the master of ceremonies in front of the Bank of Montreal between 10:30 and noon, will receive a free silver dollar. There will also be balloons, free shopping bags, music by the Bowmanville Bowmanville Senior Public School Band and entertainment by the "Yorkshire Lad" on Saturday. And, of course, what birthday party would be complete without birthday cake? They've got that, too, so all those who are counting calories, please don't count out loud. The rest of us feel guilty enough having such a good time. Hon. Bob Kaplan The Durham - Northumberland Liberal Association has secured former former cabinet minister Hon. Bob Kaplan, Kaplan, Q.C., as guest speaker for its" annual fund-raising dinner Thursday, Thursday, June 4th. The event will take place at the Community Hall in Newcastle Village with a reception at 6:30 followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Kaplan, M.P. for York Centre, is a Toronto native and a lawyer who was first elected to the House of Commons in 1968 and after holding a number of Parliamentary Secretary Secretary posts, he was appointed Solicitor Solicitor General of Canada in 1980. In that capacity, he was responsible for the passage of the Young Offenders Act in 1982 and is now the official Opposition critic for Justice. Tickets are available from any member of the executive or Francine Newton, 263-2688 or Audrey Martin, Martin, 623-3224. Rotary Club Hosts Annual Beef Barbecue 'lidBsWw », Rolarinn Joe Sweet has the honours of cutting up the beef for the Annual Bowmanville Rotary Club Barbequc and Dance at Darlington Sports Centre on May 23, There was plenty of delicious food for the well-attended event and the dancing afterwards helped to burn off the calories.