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SECTION TWO WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. 1989 Canadian statesman Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating pk| A The Bowmanvillo Nows The Newcastle Independent The Orono Nows Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by James Publishing Company Limited 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Peter Parrott Associate Publisher Associate Editor Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Donald Bishop Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. All layouts and composition ol advertisements produced by Iho employees ol James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission ol the publisher. 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If so, you had better sign up for a few night school classes and study the law. Better yet, enroll in one of Ontario's six law schools and take three years really getting to know your field. You will need all the training you can acquire if you want to understand sports today, let alone write about it. In the past month the sports world has digressed noticably from providing entertainment through competition. Discussion now centres on Royal Commissions, Commissions, paternity suits, contract negotiations, negotiations, and drug smuggling charges. charges. The ongoing Dubin inquiiy into : drug use in (laughter) amateur sports has revealed the rotten and festering underside of several Olympic sports. According to the star witness, coach Charlie Francis, most successful athletes athletes use steriods in combination with a variety of other drugs to enhance their performance. The revelations may have shocked some, but they are precisely what we have been gearing up to hear ever since Ben Johnson's luck ran out in Seoul last fall. Alarming is the rather nonchalant attitude which appears to pervade the steroid using community. Taking large doses of illegal drugs leading up to a track meet has become as accepted in some athletic circles as is warming up. If Coach Francis's testimony testimony is correct, Canadians worshipped worshipped a cheater for years while he went on merrily pretending that his hard work.and determination were the reasons for his siiccess. The sad part is that besides Ben, few of our drug-pumping athletes actually actually achieved any real success in exchange exchange for endangering their bodies and breaking the country's trust. Who had ever heard of Molly Killingbeck or Tracy Smith before last week? Even more depressing is the fact that despite despite the heavy use of drugs in Canadian Canadian track and weightlifting circles, we seldom win. Canadians are not a dominant force in Olympic competition. competition. So what are other nations' athletes athletes doing to consistently beat most of our drug-laden pretenders? Don't spend your whole three years at law school studying only Royal Commissions, however. You should take some courses on paternity suits and common property issues. Once a golden boy building the foundation for a lengthy political career career after his baseball days had ended, Steve Garvey now has admitted to get ting two women pregnant and then marrying a third. What brought on this attack of conscience which has moved the former Los Angeles Dodger to confess? What else but a paternity suit from the first pregnant lady who claims Garvey promised to marry her shortly before making the acquaintance acquaintance of the second woman and deciding deciding not to marry after all. In baseball circles this is the equivalent of Mary Poppins spiking her spoonful of sugar with arsenic. If Steve Garvey has sunk to such depths, then perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised about Wade Boggs and his very public private life. The Boston Red Sox third baseman also is trying to sort out the after-effects of an affair. Unfortunately for the lifetime .350 hitter, hitter, his mistress is fond of the media and arranged to have her story printed printed and splashed across North America's America's many newspapers. Just last week troubled Detroit Red Wing Bob Probert was arrested at the Windsor-Detroit border and charged with trying to smuggle cocaine into the United States. After a history of alcoholism, the rugged winger appears to have gone completely off the edge and crash landed into a field of oblivion. oblivion. This caption in the Toronto Star said much about our drug rampant society: society: "Probert only third NHLer to be charged over drugs." Presumably, that ranks the league well ahead of other professional sports bodies. Legal training is needed every year during spring training to untangle and understand the lucrative contracts baseball players demand and sign. Today's Today's headlines speak of holdouts, player strikes, owner lockouts, arbitration, arbitration, and guaranteed clauses. New York Met outfielder Darryl Strawberry Strawberry captured the title of biggest whiner last week when he walked out of spring training camp because the $1.4 million he will be paid this season is not enough in his estimation, He has threatened to sit out the entire season if the Mets do not renegotiate his contract contract to make him the highest paid player in baseball. Already there is talk that the 1990 baseball season may be cut short or ruined entirely by another players' strike. Possibly a little labour law would be a wise pursuit during the three years spent at law school. Professional and top level amateur sport is acquiring a new image which is sad to behold. Greed, stupidity, and drug abuse are becoming as commonplace commonplace in sports today as decency, honesty, honesty, and dignity are becoming rare. Freebie is a Freebie is a... Last month, Durham's elected officials officials went on a two-day retreat to the Ramada Inn of Belleville in order to discuss regional business in a more relaxed relaxed and informal setting. Supposedly, it was a chance for elected officials to get to know each other better. _ Allegedly, it was an opportunity to discuss regional issues in a more intensive intensive way, without any outside distractions. distractions. It was even been compared to the high-level closed-door discussions leading to the federal government's Meech Lake agreement. But, a freebie by any other name is still a freebie. This little outing has cost the Durham Durham Region betwen $4,000 and $5,000. Moreover, there are surely other other related expenses such as the mileage mileage costs incurred in transporting all of the elected officials and regional staff to Belleville and back. It all adds up to a sizeable investment in time and money. Although the dollars in question are not a significant part of the total regional budget which is in excess of $100 million, there are some important principles at stake here. Some readers will even suppose that the issue of a retreat for regional councillors is a trifling one because of the fact that private enterprise and other levels of government arc in the habit of holding similar conferences for management. But, again, we repeat that there are some underlying principles at issue. ■ Firstly, we don't care where large corporations hold their meetings because because it is the corporations and not the public purse which pay for these meetings. And, just because legions of fat-cat civil servants at other levels of government government enjoy the perqs of office, why should the Durham Region follow suit, It's true that regional councillors do not get cars and drivers or paid secretarial secretarial assistance or free airline flights or free mailing privileges as do federal MPs. _ But, the last time we checked, regional regional councillors were drawing annual annual salaries along with allowances for mileage and attendance at conferences and conventions. And, don't forget, one-third of the total salary is tax free -- something that is not always mentioned mentioned when the subject of salaries for elected officials is discussed. Let's not start the process of feathering feathering the political nest with junkets, freebies and other assorted trappings of office. We still subscribe to the old- fashioned notion that although local elected officials should not go unpaid, they should be holding office for rewards rewards other than the pay cheque. Politics Politics should not become a full-time career career -- especially at the local level. Let's put a stop to these out-of-town trips taken by councillors, en masse, for no good reason except a change in scenery. Let's draw the line before somebody decides to hold the next retreat retreat in the Caribbean or Disney World. If councillors want to get together behind closed doors and thrasn out some issues for a couple of days they should do so, of course. But let them use the council chambers chambers or some of the many committee rooms available at regional headquarters headquarters and at various other municipalities, municipalities, In fact, they could even use the Town of Newcastle's new Town Hall. If they get hungry, they can send out for pizza, And when they've finished finished work, they're all within easy driving distance of home. Naturally, this isn't the most glamorous glamorous way for elected officials to meet. But it would be more in keeping with tho needs of the electorate. Doug Brown Named Driver of the Year Canada's Harness Driver of the Year, Doug Brown (right), and his wife, Nancy, accept the driver of the year trophy from Herb Shannon, executive director of The Canadian Trotting Association. Mr. Brown is a Bowmanville area resident. This scene of Doug Brown guiding a horse across the finish line to victory has been repeated many times on Canada's harness racing circuit. In this case, the horse is the crack two-year-old pacing colt, Happy Paysak. The race was the Kindergarten Kindergarten Series at Greenwood Raceway in the summer of 1988. Happy Paysak went on to become the Ontario Jockey Club's two-year-old pacing colt of the year for 1988. Doug Brown joined an elite group of harness drivers drivers when he drove home his 3500th career winner on Monday, October 3rd, 1988 at Mohawk Raceway as he guided General Staff to a wire-to-wire 1:57.3 victory in the evening's sixth race. On Saturday, February 25th, the Bowmanville resident resident joined another elite group as he was honoured as The Canadian Trotting Association's driver of the year for 1988. It might have been difficult difficult to predict such success for the 18-vear-old who posted posted only three wins in his first year of driving while helping his father Stan, at Ontario's "B" tracks. Now at 33 years of age, Brown is known at most of North America's raceways for his astute skill ns a harness harness driver. He has enjoyed continuous success and is into his 13th season as a regular driver on the tough Ontario Jockey Club circurt. Doug has proven that he is here to stay in the topmost level of handling harness horses. Brown had his best year ever in 1988, posting 325 wins and driving horses to earnings in excess of $3,593,234 - 300 of these wins were on the OJC circuit, circuit, his racing home base where he also reined horses to winnings of $3,069,191 in purses, an OJC record. Brown is always a "wanted" "wanted" man behind a top calibre stakes horse. On May 6, Brown steered aged pacer Indian Alert to a track record 1:53.1 in winning winning a division of the Graduate Graduate Pacing Series at Mohawk. Mohawk. Brown 'catch drove' the rookie trotting colt Speedy GB in a $122,460 division of The Champlain Stakes at Mohawk Raceway on September September 4th. Brown responded responded by driving the colt as if he'd known him all of his life, commanding him to a one length 2:02.3 victory. Brown was also the regular regular driving force behind the Stew Firlotte trained colt Happy Paysak. The team set a Greenwood track record ( at that time) of 1:55.4 in wining a $20,000 elimination elimination of The Metro Pacing Stakes for two-year-old colts. The pair combined for a head victory in the $101,600 Canadian Juvenile Final at Blue Bonnets in 1:55.4 over Armbro Hunch and a win in an $84,974 division of The Champlain Stakes at Mohawk Mohawk on September 10th. Brown reined Little Brown Jug winner B J Scoot to a win in an elimination of the Confederation Cup before before finishing second in the final to Matts Scooter. Brown is a regular driver for formidable trainers Bill Robinson, Stew Firlotte and Tom Artandi. To what does Brown accredit accredit all of the wins and money? "Every time I look in the program to see who I'm driving, it seems as though my horse, although he might not be the favorite, does have a shot at winning." Brown comments. Naturally the horses have a lot to do with it. But it certainly doesn't hurt haying haying one of North America's best in the bike. "I was shocked when I got the phone call," said Brown referring to the day he was informed of his national honor. "You know, last year I thought I had a chance to be the OJC's driver of the year but Canada's Driver of There is a problem with the feminist movement movement in Canada today. I haven't wanted to admit admit this to anyone, but lately I have been wondering wondering what direction equality and the people who are speaking for equality are taking. I have always thought en would be receiving money from the federal government has raised many serious doubts about what feminists are doing. REAL Women are supposedly supposedly anti-feminists and have been so since they formed in 1983. They emerged because, women's groups in Cana- they said, feminists wer- da, namely tiie National e n't speakinÿ for all Cal Action Committee on the na dian woman.' j The battli lines were drawn between the two groups then and continue to exist today. Now I haven't read a lot of feminist literature other than The Feminist Mystique and Femininity, Femininity, but I do know that equality is supposed to be about equal opportunity and the freedom to make choices. Feminists were supposed supposed to be fighting for women who wanted the choice between staying at home and going to work. They were supposed to be fighting so that women could choose whether they wanted to marry or stay alone. The battle was supposed to make it easier for women who went against the norm to exist in society. But this recent opposition opposition by NAC to a govern- Status of Women were speaking on behalf of not just themselves but all women. According to a Saturday Saturday Night article, in 1986 NAC consisted of a nurm ber of different groups in Canada diverse enough to include the Anglican Church, the Women's Commission of the Communist Communist Party of Canada and the Young Women's Christian Association. It boasted a membership of over three million. With a membership that large and apparently so diverse I thought they would be accomplishing great things for women and equality would be reality reality rather than merely a concept. But the reaction to an announcement this week that REAL (Realistic, Active, Active, Equal for Life) Wom- ment grant of $21,000 really makes you wonder what they are fighting for. Are they against the unfair treatment of women women or are they against women who don't think like they do? If this is the case then I'd say they've lost their focus because they are trying to stifle people who might have ideas different from their own. Didn't something like that happen years ago when a group of women women lead by Nellie McClung tried to get the right to vote? I'm the last person who would support REAL Women but in this case, for a conference entitled "Equality Revisited", I can't see the problem. Tire group isn't receiving out-and-out funding for operating the organization organization (a prickly issue with the NAC). The money is a grant for a one time only conference. From other articles I have been reading it looks like REAL Women might be changing their focus a little as well. Some reports say that the group is concerned about how the Charter of Rights in Canada's constitution constitution will be interpreted interpreted by the courts. There also seems to be concern in the REAL Women's camp about how the pay equity law will work in situations where there are only female employees. employees. They may not totally be agreeing with feminists feminists nov/(but I think people people from /NAC should attend attend this conference to see where REAL Women are heading. If the direction direction is similar, feminists might be further ahead by re-evaluating their goals and perhaps forming forming a coalition with REAL. If the two groups don't come to a better understanding understanding and coexistence soon, the people they both claim to be fighting for are the people who will be most hurt by the battle. The people I'm referring referring to are women like myself who may not charge Queen's Park de manding pay equity legislation legislation but who quietly contribute to equality in their own lives. Right now I think these women are a little embarrassed to say they are feminists. I know I am. the Year, well I'd never even dreamed about it." Despite the success Brown refuses to admit he's a superstar. "I feel like two different people," he comments, comments, "when I put on my driving uniform I'm somebody somebody and when I take it off, I'm somebody else." "Nancy (Doug's wife and greatest supporter) reminds me there's another life outside outside of racing. Nancy and Doug met about 12 years ago via Nancy's Nancy's father Ron Sucee who had harness horses which Doug drove. Nancy admits she wasn't "really into" harness racing. She considered Doug "a good driver" even though she didn't know much about the sport. Since the two married, about five years ago, Nancy has developed a "passion" for harness racing and is a familiar face at Mohawk & Greenwood Raceways. She takes an active role in the stable, managing the books, hosting parties for owners and staff, not to mention waving the flag as Doug's number one fan, supporter and cheerleader. Turn to page 8 Reader Unhappy with Bell Concern Over Nuclear Waste Dear Editor: Nuclear Awareness Project Project joins with the people of Quebec who have successfully successfully worked for the cancellation cancellation of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's plan to install install a Slowpoke nuclear reactor reactor at the "University of Sherbrooke teaching hospital. hospital. Late in December, the Hospital's Board of Directors Directors decided to refuse this unpopular project. Tho campaign campaign against the reactor was led by Coalition CHUS (Continue Hydro-not Uranium Uranium for our Safety), and supported supported by environmental and peace groups, as well as a local hospital employees union. The proposed 10- megawatt Slowpoke was to come with a seven-million dollar price tag. The environmental environmental cost would have been the creation of one tonne of high-level radioactive radioactive waste every six years! Why would AECL be allowed allowed by our government -- in a hospital (of all places!) - - to produce hazardous nuclear nuclear waste for which there is no satisfactory method of storage or disposal? And why would AECL bo permitted permitted - by an atomic "regulatory" "regulatory" agency - to expose pregnant women, children, and sick people to the inherent inherent risks of a nuclear reactor, reactor, when AECL forbids pregnant women and children children from touring its nuclear nuclear research facility at Pi- nnwa, Manitoba? In 1979, Physicians for Social Responsibility called for a moratorium on tho con struction of nuclear power plants, in an announcement in the New England Journal of Medicine. Part of their message reads, "This is not just another form of pollution, pollution, but one which will cause cancer and birth defects defects for our- children and our children's children." Although the nuclear reactor reactor cancellation is good news for the people of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, all is not well for those in Peterborough, Ontario, Ontario, who are concerned about nuclear proliferation. An AECL official is reported to have said that the next community on their try-out list is Peterborough, where it could be housed at the General Electric plant. Why does the government government subsidize to the tune of $400 million a year an industry industry which has not sold a nuclear reactor in the past ten years? AECL is pushing Slowpoke reactors and food irradiators) for the good of their own health - not ours. It needs a full-sized operating operating prototype to show off to potential foreign buyers, Wo would strongly encourage encourage people who are opposed opposed to the creation of more nuclear waste, to join citizens' citizens' group such as ours, or their own local ones. These hazardous nuclear projects arc everybody's business: They are supported with tax dollars by a crown corporation corporation that is supposedly answerable answerable to the public. Yours truly, Anno Hansen Irene Kock, Writer Wants New Policy on Roads To the Editor: On Monday, February 27, 1989 I attended a Town of Newcastle council meeting. Re. New Roads laid out by the draft plan of a subdivision subdivision be exchanged for the unopened registered streets. This means, in some situations, situations, land that is registered registered and owned by the taxpayers taxpayers is given away free to developers. Thus the town gives away an asset in exchange exchange for a liability. Developers Developers are required to build all the new streets laid out by a plan of subdivision. Getting information about an item on council agenda is very difficult if not at times impossible--indeed, getting an agenda is n challenge. challenge. I did not have a copy of information held by a lawyer--how lawyer--how could I nave? I only wanted to be sure of the ownership of the road allowances allowances in report #WD-33-89. I was unable to make a comparison comparison between report #WD-33-89 and a situation in 1987 report #PD-308-87 when the council gave away $250,000. dollars in registered registered road allowances to a numbered company. In fact, staff value the land at only $14,000 dollars acre when it was worth 100,000. dollars acre. The owner of this property property had to take n $10,000 dollar loss when the numbered numbered company noticed the town registered road allowances allowances within the plan. Mayor Mayor Hubbard, who was town planning chairman at the time, stated "Town Policy was to exchange the registered registered road allowances for new roads within the subdivision subdivision plan." How can you trade town owned road allowances, with the numbered company when they have never applied applied for a subdivision? If procedure does not allow for comparison or if council does not wish to be reminded of past errors, I stand corrected. corrected. The taxes in the Town of Newcastle are excessive and will rise again this year. Can we afford to give away taxpayers land? Apparently, council does not tolerate a challenge from a delegate or it seems wishes to hear the voice of the taxpayer. How quickly attitudes change. A few months ago during the election campaign, the "New Council" declared they wanted wanted to listen to the people, The election is over. The Town of Newcastle owns miles of unopened registered registered road allowances in all areas of the town. Perhaps Perhaps the "New Council" should establish a "New Policy" Policy" that all registered town property located within a proposed subdivision be either either sold to the developers at market value or an equal amount of land be nddea to land the developers must give to the town for parks. The above option could be the choice of the developer and would be fair to both developer developer and the taxpayers of the Town of Newcastle. Kenneth R. Smith R. R. 5 Bowmanville. Dear Sir: For some time now Bell Canada has been dealing very unfairly with customers customers in the Orono exchange and indeed others throughout throughout the Town of Newcastle. If you have the misfortune misfortune to live in the . Orono (983) exchange you will incur incur long distance charges when calling a neighbouring farm less than a 1/4 mile away. If this strikes you as peculiar and unfair then consider that you can call from Orono (983) all the way to Bowmanville (623) at no charge but must pay long distance charges for the area in between (263). We cannot call across the Town of Newcastle without long distance charges. People living living in Scarborough however, can call all the way to Oakville Oakville without long distance charges. Local inquiries seem to indicate that this inequity stems from the purchase of the old Orono phone Company Company by Bell (one of the last private telephone companies to be gobbled up by Ma Bell). When I attempted to get to the bottom of this with Bell a very "carefully rehearsed" mid-level Bell executive executive in Oshawa went on at great length about the low rates we enjoy, CRTC regulations, etc. etc. To which I say, rubbish! Bell has been successfully ripping ripping off their customers in these neighbouring exchanges exchanges for years. Members of the Newcastle Town Council say there is nothing they can do. To which I also say, rubbish! There is a great deal they could do to put pressure on Bell Canada. Recently, Bell communicated communicated with some farm customers customers in our area advising us that the "expansion of your Base Rate Area took place on 1988-12-16." (Imagine, (Imagine, it happened all at once on that day) meaning a reduction reduction of $5.75 on our monthly bill. How nice! Is it possible that the "squeaky wheel is getting some oil?" Then Bell sends a questionnaire questionnaire to customers in the Orono (983) exchange asking if they would like to pay an additional $1.65 per month to have free access to the Oshawa exchanges. This looks like a good and valid offer which I support but what about reaching our neighbours and others in Newcastle on the way to Oshawa? Are we going to have to continue paying these unfair long distance charges? Would it not make sense to offer a complete package of services that would allow us free access to all of Newcastle and Oshawa for a modest monthly monthly fee? I believe Bell has had its way on these unfair long distance distance charges far too long. Subscribers should join together together in pressuring municipal municipal and regional governments governments as well as Bell top management to put this right. With the stroke of a pen Bell senior management could make us happy Ma Bell customers again. Lynn R. Helpard R.R. #2, Orono Ontario LOB 1MO Letter Writer Responds To Editorial on 'Tritium' Dear Mr. James: The editorial entitled "Why Not Sell Tritium?" was interesting reading. You made some valid points concerning concerning the credibility of the promises to sell tritium for peaceful purposes only. Most individuals can see through such a facade easily. However, Canadians are characterized internationally internationally as the peacekeepers. We have an obligation, both to NATO and to Western civilization civilization in general to continue to be the peacekeepers, and be willing to actively negotiate negotiate a peaceful settlement in the "hot spots" of our troubled world. Our success in this role is exemplary. Our credibility in future situations situations would be severely diminished if we were to allow allow the sale of tritium to tho United States, where, most definitely, the substance would be used for the replenishing replenishing of nuclear warheads. warheads. If, as you say, "..wo want to see further reductions of Soviet troops and more reductions reductions in overall nuclear arsenals around the world..", then we must regard regard our position on the world stage very carefully. By all means, when we are called upon to negotiate, then negotiate from a position position of strength. But let us not bargain away our influence influence for the sake of short term financial gains for Ontario Ontario Hydro, a utility that is seriously out of control. I think you will find that the "peaceniks", ns you call them, are not tho minority. Things have changed but the "quixotic world" that you mention most definitely did not go out with psychedelic tee shirts (are they OUT?). Wc arc inching perceptively toward world ponce. It is a time of cautious optimism. Don Quixote would be pleased. Sincerely, Brian J. Elston. R. R, 2 Bowmanville.