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The Canadian Statesman. Bowmanville, December 30.1987 13 A guide to fine dining and entertainment. A Quick Look Back at the Events that Occurred in 1987 From Page 4 The controversy over building additional variety stores in Bowmanville continued continued during February. Proponents of a new 7-Ele- ven store proposed for Bowmanville Bowmanville told a committee of town council that the new store would not have an adverse adverse impact on the community. community. A similar comment was made by the spokesman for the development of a second convenience store. spectacular efforts was the removal of the town hall cupola for repairs and storage storage until the renovations inside inside the old building were complete. new building includes a large auditorium, a library, and various classrooms and meeting rooms. Sidewalk superintendents superintendents viewed the first evidence evidence of the construction and renovations at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Town Hall during February. One of the more Bowmanville High School students hosted a one-day health fair during February. February. A wide variety of health care agencies were on hand to discuss their work as were representatives representatives of various health care professions. The official opening of Bowmanville's new Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) took place during mid-Februarv. The Parents in the Waverley subdivision ofBowmanville saw the end of a 12-year battle battle for bus service to the Bowmanville High School and the Bowmanville Senior Public School during during February. In a decision of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education, Education, busing was extended to include the entire Waverley Waverley area. Commencing January 2 Mon. -- Closed Tues. -- Wed. 10-6 Thurs. -- Fri. 10-8 Sat. -10-6 Sun. --11 - 3 Closed New Year's Day Efje Colonial Œea Ü>bop 29 Silver Street 623-1700 Bowmanville The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education Education also approved the preliminary preliminary plans for a $2 million million expansion and renovation renovation program at Courtice West Public School, near the Oshawa/Newcastlc boundary. In a report to town council, council, the consulting firm for the Bowmanville arena project project recommended Highway Highway Two and Regional Rd. 57 as the preferred site of the new sports complex. It was noted that the site in question is 15 acres larger than an alternate piece of property at Martin Rd. and Baseline Rd. 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'BEZL BOWMANVILLE TRAVEL CENTRE 19 King St. W., Bowmanville 623-3182 leading from the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station. Station. The Bowmanville Cowan Pontiac Junior C Eagles captured the quarter final playoff in the Vern MacGregor MacGregor Division. The Eagles defeated Port Hope 8-6 in a game on February 17. In addition, addition, the Flying Dutchman Dutchman Major Midgets won their first playoff game against Oshawa Tuesday, February 17. Rutherford, Cathy Haick, Ross Metcalf, Doug Eddy, Joe Dalrymple, Doug Bothwell, and Lana Rickard. Rickard. The new River Valley Estates Estates subdivision, located eastofMearns Ave., in Bowmanville, Bowmanville, was formally opened. Mario Veltri, of Marianna Developments, along with Mayor John Winters Winters and Planning Director Terry Edwards were on hand for the formal opening of the subdivision project. The Durham East Liberals Liberals announced an April 8 nomination meeting, ending ending a freeze on nomination sessions imposed by the party earlier. Newcastle Councillor Diane Hamre and School Board Trustee Donna Fairey were the two candidates standing for election. School Board Chairman Bob Willsher attended a meeting of Newcastle council council where he advised elected officials that there would be no benefit to Newcastle Newcastle joining forces with the Durham Board of Education. Education. Mr. Willsher told council that high taxes are the result of the town's low assessment base and a lack of provincial funding towards towards school board expenditures. expenditures. Newcastle's chief executive executive officer, Larry Kôtsèff, was the guest speaker at the aqnual meeting of the Bowt.i manville Chamber of Com merce. Ontario's Lieutenant Governor, Governor, Lincoln Alexander, payed a visit to St. Stephen's School in Bowmanville Bowmanville on February 25. The students presented His Honor with a mural depicting depicting various scenes within the town. A total of 84 suspects were charged as the result of the Durham Region's biggest drug bust. At a news conference conference February 25, police announced that 150 criminal criminal charges were laid and a credit card fraud ring had been broken up. MARCH A committee of Newcastle Newcastle council voted to veto the first of two applications for convenience stores in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. The town's general general purpose committee supported a staff recommendation recommendation to deny the rezoning rezoning application for a 24- hour convenience shop at Liberty and Ontario St. Eight members of the Newcastle Aquatic Club's swim team received medallions at the 8th annual annual Brampton Invitational Swim Meet. The Bowmanville Drama Workshop presented the three one-act play entitled "Answers" at the Bowmanville' Bowmanville' High School Auditorium Auditorium March 5, 6, and 7. Actors included Mark you Q4U and ÇàeeÙHÿi.... Ita tot lew totale to Well It's time to call your Welcome Wagon hoeteaa. Sandra Yates Phone 623-5873 Leo Haunsberger, a prominent member of the Canadian judo community, was named to the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame. Mr. Haunsberger, an R.R. 2 Bowmanville resident, is a judo official, coach, and former president of a number number of associations including including the North American Judo Confederation. Ill the first round of the annual Town of Newcastle budget discussions, elected officials-managed to reduce the budget to a figure of 6.25 per cent more than the previous previous year. At that point in the proceedings, expenditures expenditures were $24.1 million. The Bowmanville Museum was slated to open its doors on April 1. But over 200 visitors saw a "sneak preview" of the museum on Sunday, March 29. Highlights of the open house included a "conversion "conversion project" which saw the front parlour and dining room designed to match the historical setting of the museum itself. for repairs. He later asked to see some rings and then grabbed the tray and made off with its contents. Music, food and fashion combined to create a very successful "Spring Car- navale" on March 7. The event took place at Durham College and it raised an estimated estimated $4,000 for the renovation renovation and restoration of the Cream of Barley Mill. A $4.7 million contract for the construction of the new town hall in Bowmanville was awarded to a Rexdale firm. Dineen Construction Limited was the successful bidder. The building was slated for completion in 12 months. The annual B.M.H.A. Pine Ridge Tournament attracted attracted hockey teams from across Ontario. Newcastle Mayor John Winters dropped dropped the puck at the ceremonial ceremonial face-off. Talents of Music students from Bowmanville schools were highlighted during a . Mid March Music Festival held at Bowmanville High School. The St. Paul's Senior Choir performing arts series continued in March with a performance by The Pump Boys and Dinettes. The six-person musical ensemble ensemble played , the sounds of country, blues, gospel and rockabilly music from what is now a Broadway show. The performance took place on Wednesday, March 25. One of Bowmanville's best-known citizens passed away at the age of 92. W. Ross Strike, former mayor of Bowmanville; and chairman chairman of dhtario.Hydro from 1961 to 1966, ,diéd March 18 in Memorial Hospital Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Plans for the development development of a new 200 acre General General Motors headquarters site near the Oshawa/New- castle boundary were announced. announced. Councillor Ann Cowman said the project will be a major benefit for the Town of Newcastle since the development would take place close to Newcastle, just west of the Darlington Provincial Park and east of Wentworth St. Bowmanville's Downtown Downtown Business Improvement Improvement Area celebrated its first decade March 10 at the Bowmanville Lions Centre. The Durham Region approved approved a budget which adds approximately 7.8 per cent to the regional portion of the local tax bill. This mean an increase in the regional tax levy of about $18 for an "average" residential ratepayer. The Bowmanville Zoo announced announced its plans for a new season. These included the arrival of some new animals, animals, notably a pair of elephants, and the start of a daily animal show, complete complete with elephant rides and trained pot-bellied pigs. that their decision to reject the applications was in keeping with town policy. The Ontario Municipal Board was to entertain the final stage of the battle at an upcoming hearing. Employees of the Specialty Specialty Paper Products Ltd., in Bowmanville, staged the company's first strike on Monday, May 4. Strike action action was taken after nearly five months of negotiations for better wages, according to the picketers. About 24 unionized workers out of a total of 34 were part of the walk-out. Members of Branch 178 of the Royal Canadian Legion took picket signs to the sodturning sodturning for the new Bowmanville Bowmanville Town Hall on Monday, March 29. Approximately Approximately 30 demonstrators were protesting plans to move the Cenotaph during the reconstruction of the building. Mayor Winters said the possiblity of moving moving the monument was "just a suggestion" and that there was no resolution from town council to go ahead and move the monument. The students of the Bowmanville Bowmanville High School Drama Club were rehearsing rehearsing a dramatized edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The performance performance was slated for May. APRIL Plans to completely enclose enclose the main street of downtown Bowmanville and turn it into a giant shopping shopping mall were revealed in banner headlines of The Statesman April 1. It was, of course, an April Fool's joke -- the sort of thing that newspapers have been known to do when the publication publication day and April Fool's Day co-incide. Bowmanville needs a new fire station. This was the conclusion of a document produced by the Fire Underwriters' Underwriters' Survey and considered considered by town council. The Underwriters'Survey stated that consideration should be given to hiring at least eight full-time firefighters firefighters in Bowmanville. The building of a new station station was also recommended. recommended. The Bowmanville Figure Skating Club held its carnival carnival at the Bowmanville Arena on the weekend of April 4. The many facets of the sheep industry were presented presented to the public at the annual "Lamb Awareness Day" held at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Lions Centre. The event, which included displays displays of meat and wool and a few live lambs and ewes, was sponsored by the sheep producers of the Durham Region. The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education Education voted not to re-locate senior grades at either the Ontario Street or the Central Central Public Schools in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Instead, the Board decided at a meeting in Clarke High School to move the French immersion immersion kindergarten students and all regular kindergarten kindergarten pupils from Ontario Street Public School to Central Central Public School for the 1987-88 school year. Busing would be provided to the students in question. ROADHOUSE and TAVERN 45 King Street West Newcastle (416) 987-4442 Happy New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE BASH Featuring SHOTGUN Tickets Available Now Advance $ 10. -- $ 12. at Door Doorman, Waiter, Waitress Wanted Take the Bus to Buster's NEW YEAR'S EVE at the Castle Hotel 54 KING STREET EAST BOWMANVILLE (416) 623-7072 Jan. 8-9 Silent Vision Jan. I5 - I6 Body to l ? Body é\ A team of divers was at work at the Bowmanville Golf Course where large quantities of golf balls were recovered from water hazards. The diving was done by a company called Merk-e-MacWaters, which adds that it also finds an occasional occasional golf club in the water holes. A report from the Town of Newcastle's fire chief revealed revealed that the town's fire losses for 1986 totalled approximately approximately $700,000. There were 593 fire alarms, of which Bowmanville recorded recorded the greatest number of responses. On March 17, the Toronto Dominion Bank's Bowmanville Bowmanville branch celebrated the official opening of their newly-renovated facility. The ribbon-cutting, presided presided over by Mayor John Winters, included Branch Manager Bernie O'Halldrn, and Lome Brohman, gen- ■ eral manager of the Ontario North and East Division. Of course, no month of March can be complete without a March school break. In 1987, the students who were out of school for their March break had an opportunity to participate in a number of special events offered by the Town of Newcastle's department of community services. These included such happenings happenings as a skating party, art programs, gymnastics, and a Cabbage Patch Doll Party to name just a few of the attractions from the "March Break Bonanza". Newcastle's general purpose purpose committee rejected plans for a 7-Eleven convenience convenience store at the corner of King St. and Liberty St. The application was considered considered to be "premature". MAY "Convenience Store Fight Going to OMB" read the lead headline in the May 6 paper. Newcastle councillors councillors had rejected applications applications for two 24-hour convenience convenience stores, one from Pioneer Petroleum, and one from the 7-Eleven chain. The town's Planning Director, Terry Edwards, had reported to councillors ****** Take the Bus to Buster's NEW YEAR'S EVE $3.00 Return 1st Run Starting -- 7:30 p.m. 2nd Run Starting -- 9:00 p.m. Return Starting -- 1:15 a.m. 2nd Run Starting -- 2:30 a.m. STOPS 1 -- Orono Beckers 2 -- Orono Garden Centre 3 -- Hampton Gas Station 4 -- Bowmanville Hydro (No. 57/Scugog) 5 -- Fitness Warehouse 6 -- Castle Hotel 7 -- Bowmanville Mall 8 -- Buster's Newcastle Ward Three Councillor, Diane Hamre, captured the Durham East Liberal nomination in a meeting held at the Blackstock Community Centre. Approximately 500 members of the party were on hand for the vote. Mrs. Hamre defeated Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle School Trustee Donna Fairey to capture the party's nomination. --.-- i Councillor Marie Hubbard Hubbard said a shortage of staff, combined with rapid development, development, is creating a building crisis in the municipality. Her comments comments were made in relation relation to a request for additional additional town staff contained in the 1987 budget. The Skinner's Insurance Major Bantam hockey team won the All-Ontario championship. championship. The series was decided alter the team's opponents, opponents, from Essex, failed to arrive for a game at the Darlington Sports Centre. No explanation for the team's absence was given and Essex forefeited the championship. About 30 workers from the Bowmanville Creek Anglers' Association were on hand Saturday, April 11, to construct a sea lamprey control barrier on the Bowmanville Bowmanville Creek. 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