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,;2 TEMPERANCE ET. ec::::anville, Ontario Raisers Open Campaign with Pledges K il P pJf . MPT' ;.:.v3m r : ■ The Skate '88 Arena Building Campaign embarked on its $1.1 million effort on Tuesday when the co-chairmen co-chairmen and honorary chairman of the organization made their pledges to the project. Standing from left are: Co-chairmen A1 Strike and Garnet Rickard along with Statesman Editor-Publisher John James, who is the honorary chairman. Accepting the donation are Iain Maciver, the treasurer of the Skate '88 Fund-Raising Committee and Henry Downing, Campaign Co-or- dinator. Although the main fund-raising effort is slated to begin early in the new year, pledges are being accepted accepted now for the benefit of those who may wish to donate before the end of the year. The committee's next major event will be the opening of a campaign office on December 15 in rooms just above Tim's Rent- All, 102 King St. W., Bowmanville. The office will contain contain detailed drawings of the arena and will be a place where the public can receive further information on the project and also make donations. Total Trash Pickup Possible by Carolyn Hepburn No matter where you live in the Town of Newcastle, you may soon enjoy household garbage collection. Town councillors asked for an investigation investigation into the costs of implementing implementing town-wide garbage collection, collection, at the general purpose and administration administration meeting on Monday, December December 7. by Carolyn Hepburn There should be no significant impact impact on the Town of Newcastle once the Darlington Generating Station is fully operational in 1992 and the workforce has declined. This information was contained in a report presented at a Hydro Liaison Committee meeting last week. The study was undertaken to set out information and analysis for 25 area municipalities in anticipation of the potential changes that will be brought about by the decline in the station's workforce. The licence for the transfer station at the Darlington Landfill Site runs out December 31, 1987 and there are serious questions about the future future of garbage disposal in the Town of Newcastle. A decision at the regional council meeting on December 2 called for the transfer station to close once the licence licence runs out December 31. Town Over the next six years construction construction at the station will come to an end and the facility will become operational. operational. Included with the completion of the facility will be a decline in the workforce from 6000 to zero. The operations operations workforce will peak at 820, the report states. The study, which was commissioned commissioned by Ontario Hydro and carried out by Deloitte Haskins and Sells in association with C.N Watson and Associates Associates Limited, looked at the impacts impacts that the decline in workforce Turn to Page 2 councillors voted to return with a resolution resolution at the regional council meeting meeting on December 16 asking for at least a three month extension for the site. "We are running out of time," said Frank Stapleton. Apparently, over 200 residents in the Tyrone area agree. A petition protesting the impending impending closing of the transfer station was presented to councillors at the meeting. meeting. "We were promised that dumping bins would stay there until a new site was found" the petition read. Jack McCorkell, of the regional works committee, said that the transfer transfer site has cost $26,000 dollars to ijun since opening in mid-August and|ljas jseen an average of 85-30 cars a day. ' y Mr. McCorkell advised area resi- ) dents that they could take their gar- 1 bage to the Cartwright transfer station, station, five miles north of Blackstock on Regional Road #57. Once the garbage is taken there, the Scugog Township will then be responsible responsible for the tipping charges associated associated with having the refuse unloaded unloaded at the Brock site in Pickering. Mr. McCorkell says that pending the closing of the Darlington transfer Turn to Page 2 Little Impact on Town When Darlington G.S. is Operational SANTA LETTERS -- We're getting close to the big day, but there may still be time to send letters to Santa through the columns of this newspaper. If loving parents parents can talk then children into writing those letters, we'll do our best to print them in time for the mail to reach the North Pole and Santa's workshop before he starts out on his nighttime ride Christmas Eve. Either mail them or drop them into the mail slot at our office 62 King St. West. NATIVITY SCENE -- The framework for St. Paul's United Church's living Nativity scene is already in place. Now;jall that is needed are the animals, some humans in special costumes and music, plus an audience. audience. The three performances will take place Dec. 21, 22 and 23 at 7:30 each evening. Everyone is invited to attend this unique presentation; it's spectacular. Also for those interested in Christmas scenes, there are several other Nativity scenes in town at local churches and at the Port Darlington Marina where there is a massive display of lights as well as live animals on view. GOODYEAR FAN NIGHT -- More information has just come in concerning the Goodyear Fan Night Sunday at 7:30 p.m. when the Goodyear sponsored Junior C Eagles take on Trenton at Bowmanville Arena. Four Goodyear tires will be won by some lucky patron and there are other prizes as well. Let's have a huge crowd to provide loads of support for the players so they'll put on a great show of top notch hockey. CHURCH SUPPLEMENT -- Several months ago, histories histories of local churches were submitted for a special supplement which so far has not been published. We still have the articles and plan to put them into print in this newspaper, starting shortly after the first of the coming year. We do apologize for the lengthy delay to those who sent them in. CHRISTMAS LIGHT TOUR -- Once again this year, the Bowmanville Kinsmen will be treating the senior citizens citizens of the community to a free tour of the Christmas displays in town. The Kinsmen have scheduled the tour for Sunday, December 20th, and would like those interested interested to meet at the Memorial Park Clubhouse. For more information about the event, watch next week's Statesman for the advertisement or contact McGregor's T.D.A. Drug Store. GLASSES FOUND -- Eye glasses in a leather case were found on Elgin Street on Monday morning and are now waiting for their owner at The Statesman office, 62 King St. West, Bowmanville. They appear to be safety glasses of a bifocal class and we would suspect suspect that somebody Is hoping they will be located before before he has to purchase another pair. Drop in during business hours and pick them up. CHOIRS IN CONCERT -- This Sunday at 7:30 p.m. the three choirs ofTrinity United Church will be celebrating celebrating the Christmas season in music and would welcome a large audience. That's December 13th. VOLLEYBALL BATTLE -- Volleyball players from the area's senior schools will be doing battle at Bowmanville Bowmanville High School this Saturday between 9 and 3, and sports enthusiast Harvey Webster assures us the Bowmanville Bowmanville Audio-Vision/Panasonic tournament should be quite an entertaining event for volleyball fans. There are also some big prizes up for grabs for every player. WHITE BUT COSTLY -- Quite a few subscribers noticed that part of last week's Statesman was printed on much heavier and much whiter newsprint than usual. Several of them phoned to tell us they liked the new look, but we didn't when the extra cost of the stock was considered. Actually, we were facing a real crisis because of a current shortage of regular newsprint and would have been forced to cut way back on production if we hadn't found a supplier who had some spare super white paper worth considerably more than our regular newsprint, Luckily, a truckload of ordinary newsprint arrived on Monday of this week or we'd really have been in big trouble. NEWCASTLE LIONS DRAW -- We neglected to mention mention the winners of the Newcastle Lions Stag Night, held on Friday, November 27th. Taking the $500 first prize home was Bob Simpson. Brian Allen picked up $100 for second while Larry Carroll won $50 for third. ARENA PLANS SHAPING UP -- Alter months of spinning spinning their wheels, the organizers of the new arena project project are going full steam ahead as they plan fundraising events to pay for the complex. Some great promotional ideas have been bounced around, including a possible banquet featuring hockey great Bobby Orr. Oldtimers will remember that Orr played in the old Bowmanville Arena when the Oshawa facility burned down. More details will be available in the coming weeks, but donations donations to the facility are now being accepted. To make your donation or if you want more information about the Skate '88 project, phone 623-8888. Let's build it together! together! SANTA SUITS -- The Bowmanville Jaycettes are once again renting Santa Claus suits for special occasions. This is a fund raiser which began 12 years ago, with the money going towards work in the community. To rent your Santa and Elf suits, please phone Bev at 623- 6639 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Town of Newcastle spends $20.55 per person on fire protection. Questions are being raised as to whether that is enough to provide adequate fire protection in areas such as Courtice. A 25 minute response time to a vehicle vehicle accident in Courtice by the town's fire department has again raised concerns about the level of fire protection for the area. This time, town councillors have decided to take action. Councillor Marie Hubbard asked for a report from Fire Chief Jim Aldridge Aldridge dealing with the minimum requirements requirements for safe fire fighting in terms of equipment and staff for the Courtice Fire Station. "If we haven't got the appropriate equipment it's about time we did," said Councillor Hubbard at the general general purpose and administration meeting on Monday, December 7. The fire call in question was in response response to a car accident with a fuel leak on November 25. The call was received at 9:45 a.m. but firefighters did not arrive at the scene until 10:10. Two firefighters from Station 4 and one firefighter from Station 1 who was working in the area answered the call 25 minutes after it was received. In a memo to councillors dated November November 30, Fire Chief Aldridge called the response time "totally un acceptable". Currently, discussions are underway underway with the Oshawa Fire Department Department about the possibility of sharing fire fighting responsibilities in the Courtice area. Newcastle Mayor John Winters, Councillor Hal McKnight and Fire Chief Aldridge attended an Oshawa. fire protection committee meeting on November 10. Discussions focused on the feasibility of shared fire services. From that meeting a resolution was passed calling for the identification of areas of coverage, acceptable response response times, when the coverage is needed and the level of service requested. requested. 40$ Per Copy Issue 49 Bowmanville, Ontario Wednesday, December 9, 1987 133rd Year Merry Christmas, Teddy Has Been Found Two-year-old Erin Forget was very happy to see her teddy bear. Erin lost the bear, who she calls "Teddy", at the Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade while she took off her mittens. He was returned to her last week. A Scugog Street resident had found the bear and kept it safe for her until a notice in The Canadian Statesman last week helped to reunite "Teddy" with his happy owner. Noise By-law to Remain in Place There will be no noise by-law exemption for kennel owners in the Town of Newcastle. Despite a recommendation from the town's clerk, David Oakes, that certain exemptions be passed, councillors councillors voted to keep the noise by-law in place at the general purpose and administration meeting on Monday, December 7. While the actions must still be passed at next week's council meeting, meeting, the decision has answered the concerns of several town residents. "I don't understand why one sector of a neighbourhood should be allowed allowed to make noise over another," Darlene Cook told councillors in her presentation against the proposed exemptions. Under the exemption guidelines it was recommended that a curfew be imposed from 11 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Sunday to Friday and 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening, during which time kennel noise carrying beyond the boundaries of the licensed property would be considered considered in violation ofthe noise by-law; During the daily non-curfew hours, continuous barking for more than an hour would also be in violation ofthe by-law. ... Mrs. Cook, who resides beside a Viennef, "wasn't so sure that ther exemptions would Work. ; "There are 16 hours a day when continuous continuous barking could occur," she told councillors. "That is a lot to ask neighbours to tolerate," she added. In defence of her neighbourhood kennel, Mrs. Cook said that the kennel kennel had been very quiet since the passing of the noise by-law. She only wished it to continue. James Barr, another neighbour of the kennel, also raised his concerns at the meeting. "It's a self-servicing document for the kennel owners," said Mr. Barr of the proposed exemptions. While Mr. Barr wanted the decision to be deferred until the end of January, January, so it wouldn't get lost in the "time of year for doing everything other than being concerned about the amendment," town councillors decided decided they didn't need to wait. "The by-law should be left and enforced enforced on a complaint basis," said Councillor Ann Cowman. According to Town Clerk David Oakes not passing the noise by-law exemptions won't hurt the kennel owners. "Time will tell which is the better, idea," said Mr. Oakes. by Carolyn Hepburn Erin Forget has already received a visit from Santa Claus this year. The adorable two-year-old Bowmanville Bowmanville resident had her favorite stuffed animal, "Teddy", returned last week, after she lost him while making a mitten change at the annual Santa Claus parade on November 21. He was only returned last week because because it took awhile to discover that he was missing in the first place. The Forgets moved to a home in the River Valley Estates the Wednesday following the parade and it was presumed presumed that "Teddy" was packed in one of the boxes. As the unpacking began, "Teddy" was! nowhere to be found. After the loss was brought to the attention of The Canadian Stateman, a notice appeared in the Bits and Pieces section of the December 2 issue. Luckily, the Flonk family, of Scugog Street, read the notice and the case of the missing teddy bear was solved. Andy Flonk had found "Teddy" shortly after the parade and knew that he belonged to some child, so he put the bear in a "warm and dry place." Mrs. Flonk explained that because they have grandchildren oftheirown. Turn to Page 2 Let there be light! Newcastle Mayor John Winters, Ted Denny and Garth Gilpin (business manager for the Downtown Business Improvement Association) flicked the switch to light up the Christmas trees at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Museum on the second annual "Family Night" held on Thursday, December 3. Snowden Electric and Newcastle Electric provided the lights and decorations and did the wiring for the bright job. The evening officially officially kicked off the DBIA's Christmas season and signalled signalled the beginning of extended shopping hours. Bands Irom Central Public School and Bowmanville Senior Public School helped out with musical accompaniment accompaniment and refreshments were served in the beautifully beautifully decorated museum after the festivities.