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i ■ \\ The 1987 Bowmanville Senior Public Boys Volleyball Volleyball Team won the Brighton Lions Volleyball Tournament. Of the twelve games the boys played, they did not lose one. The boys, the only representatives representatives from the Town of Newcastle, faced teams from around the Belleville and Trenton area. 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In the back (left to right) are: Marty Burgess, Shawn Greenley, Dan Kooy, Andy Krumenacher, Leigh MacArthur, Jeff McFeet- ers. Letter to The Editor I am as a rule, not the type could convince us to. keep it of person to vent my opinions opinions or wishes upon others, nor do I write letters to the editor of any newspaper let alone the local newspaper of the community, which, I chose to live in since buying my property in 1967. As a city boy wishing to farm, I have through the years managed to do so, with the help of many of those farmers already established established in the community. Unselfishly, they have given their valuable time and tolerated -my inquisitiveness inquisitiveness and helped me in times when I needed them. Today, I pride myself in having the ability to judge and handle cattle and horses with the best of them. I thoroughly enjoy my farm and hope to for many more years in this community. community. I'm grateful to the fine neighbours I have, past and present. I'm grateful to those who became friends/ These, people helped and welcomed me to this area since 1967 and one of these people is Bill Hale. Which is one reason I feel compelled compelled to write. Well, has this community changed since 1967? Many years ago, this area, sparsely populated known as Clarke Township was full of honourable people, mostly farmers. When they accumulated à certain amount of garbage, they took it to Bill Hale's site which was started by his father. Now, at the time this was no big deal but it appears appears to me, as new people move into the area and the area is slowly being built up, the accumulation of wastes has increased and of course ends up at.Bill's old site. It's my understanding that a petition is being circulated circulated against the landfill site and against any further development of the site now owned by a reputable company, company, Laidlaw. It appears to me that all of a sudden a few people have become do- gooders. Now I'd like to ask, what are these people trying to prove? Is the need for certain certain individuals to create their own ivory tower so great that they will jump to protest any cause where ever they may find a scapegoat, or are they just trying to see their names in big bold print extolling what héros they are? Boy, what a laugh. The do- gooders don't want a dump in their community. Ajax doesn't want Toronto's, we don't want Ajax's etc., etc. Personally I wonder if we left the solution in the do- gooders hands, how would they propose we dispose of it? Where in the hell is it all to go? Maybe the do-gooders at home. Wouldn't our town's streets look cute? Can't you just picture, little green mountains on everyone's front lawns. At least the lawns wouldn't have to be mowed. We could call it art. Maybe these do- gooders could explain how we coirld exist and create no wastes - wow - what an Eden. Me, I think I'll continue continue taking my refuse to Bill's old site. I think we should face facts. Wastes do exist. Landfill Landfill sites are necessary. The landfill site in our community community is now controlled by a new and competent company company called Laidlaw. Laidlaw Laidlaw is a public company (owned by shareholders) which is, underthe jurisdiction jurisdiction of the federal and provincial provincial governments, licenced licenced by these governments governments who continuously take tests to insure a clean disposal kite:' Not' to mention mention Laidlaw, who do their own testing. Laidlaw is one of the largest waste disposal disposal companies in Canada, the third largest in North America. This company pays enormous taxes to this community which benefits us all. We already are one of the highest tax paying areas in Ontario. If we didn't have Laidlaw and other businesses in our community could you just imagine how much higher our taxes would be? Laidlaw Laidlaw is developing ideas to improve and absorb the costs of truck routes and work is being done experimenting experimenting with composting, etc. Sounds okay to me. I feel instead of wasting our time trying to find fault with everything which bothers us, maybe we should be big enough to ask ourselves how can we individually individually cut down on our wastes? I'm sure if anyone could come up with a good suggestion, this company would be kind enough to listen. listen. I've used this site since Bill sold it and personally I feel it's being run efficiently efficiently and competently. It certainly looks clean enough to me. Now if someone were to ask me what I'd suggest. Why I'd say let the land site expand. Let's negotiate royalty royalty fees for extra tonnage. Let's negotaiate garbage pick up for everybody with no increase in taxes and with a prayer on my lips, maybe lowered. What do I do about my garbage? garbage? Well I crush the cans and paper containers to reduce reduce bulk. Sometimes I break up the jars and bottles bottles into a safe container. Those of my friends who * Is your company too small for a Blue Cross Plan? Ask Ross Freer, or your agent Suite 204, Peterborough Square, 360 George St, N, Peterborough, Ontario K!)H 7E8 (705) 743-0677 7238-41 Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, December 16. 1987 5 We Caught Eagles 9 Goalie Standing Up Goalie David Smith has been playing some great hockey in recent games that have been successful for the Goodyear Jr. C Eagles) Usually, during a game, he's bent over in a crouch, waiting for the next shot to arrive, so we were lucky to catch him standing tall at a recent practice. Last weekend, the Eagles knocked off Lindsay Huskies on Friday by a score of 8-4 and on Sunday at Bowmanville Arena, they beat out Little Britain Merchants 5-2. At the moment, they are leading their division. This Sunday, it's Goodyear Night as they take on Trenton here at 7:30 p)m. SPORTALK MIDGET BALL PLAYERS HONORED -- Congratulations Congratulations were extended to the Canadian Tire Midget Baseball Team at the November 23rd meeting of Newcastle Newcastle Council. The team won the All Ontario Cham-- pionship in the Class "B" category and was rewarded with medallions from Mayor Winters and town council. MIXED SNO-PITCH--On January 9, the Audio Vision Oldtimers will be hosting a mixed "Sno-pitch" tournament. tournament. For further information, call George Moore at 623-5610 or Tom Wilson at 623-2982. RIDE-A-THON RESULTS -- The annual ride-a-thon held at Hoskin Stables in September has raised a grand total of $7,076. That money will go towards funding a program of horseback riding for disabled children. The fund raising event was sponsored by the Horseback Horseback Riding for the Handicapped Association: ORONO WINS PEE WEE CHAMPIONSHIP -- On Saturday, Saturday, November 21, the Orono Pee Wees OMHA team travelled to Bewdley for their first tournament of the season. Orono came away with the A Championship, defeating defeating Port Perry 6-2 in the final game and beating Bewdley and Bowmanville in earlier competition. Many thinking people are pre-arranging funerals At quiettlmes, along with their own private thoughts, many people --both young and elderly --are making the sensible decision to pre-arrange their funeral. Their wishes are made known well before time of need, removing stress from surviving relatives. Call or write for our selection of brochures on the various aspects of funerals and pre-planning. Nortbcutt Elliott Funeral Home know I do this tell me I do so because I'm too cheap to pay the dumping fees anymore anymore than I have to. 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