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i : - -r ig • Out lor ovAv<uivns To Trash Problems Drama Club Busy Preparing for Production in April Section 2 Goodyear Eagles Start Semi-Finals Against Lakefield Local Family Sets 100 Year Attendance Record at Central Section 2 gg Region Doubles Developers 9 Lot Levies -* _ _ _ . . j c t. «Atir Lo nnuinrr Q2 AQzi onmenfc that has received council an- Afler April 1 it will cost developers more money to build in the Durham Region. Regional Council, last Wednesday, approved an increase in lot levies charged to developers that almost doubles doubles the rates charged in 1988. After the April 1 deadline, it will PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville BEACH MEETING - The Port Darlington Community Association Association will be holding its next meeting on Monday, March 20 in the Bridge at the Marina starting at 8:00 p.m. If you're interested in preserving and restoring our lakefront area, be sure to attend. It would be great if this group could get the beaches back to the great recreation and tourist attraction attraction it used to be many years ago. MAPLE SYRUP - Just received a news item from CLOCA about Pancake Weekend at Purple Woods March 18, 19th. Public tours start at 9:30 a.m. every half hour until 3 p.m. Pancakes and refreshments will be sold by Durham A. M. Kiwanians. No word has been received about the Qanaraska Authority's plans. GOLDEN BEAUTIES - Individuals Individuals and business establishments are urged to take part in the annual annual Daffodil Festival and support support the Cancer Society by preordering preordering bunches of daffodils at $3 for 10 blooms. The St. Paul's Couples Club has volunteered to do the on the street selling Friday, Friday, April 14, but the pre-orders should be in by this Friday. Lend a hand and receive some colorful colorful symbols of hope. REUNION PROMO - In connection connection with the 100th birthday of Central Public School in June, an advance promotional article has been prepared for this week's Statesman on one local family's involvement. It deals with the brilliant, and not so brilliant, record record of participation by the James family. Fortunately, the not so brilliant sidelights of some of its members have been omitted. omitted. TENTERS - Tom Farmer of the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Conservation Authority is one of those predicting there will probably be about 8-9 million hectares of moderate to severe defoliation across Ontario this year. The culprit is the Forest Tent Caterpillar, Caterpillar, more formally known as Malcosoma disstria. Mr. Farmer suggests we should watch for the egg bands and destroy them before before the eggs hatch. More on this later. EAGLES TIE - Last night at the Bowmanville Comp-lex, the Jr. C Goodyear Eagles evened their playoff round with Lakefield Chiefs at one each. They downed their unhappy and chippy visitors visitors 7 to 3, cheered on by a large, partisan crowd. Third game goes Friday in Lakefield, back here Sunday at 7:30. FAVOR RETURNED - Many times in the past, Ron Mutton at Cowan Pontiac has helped us avert, crisis situations by getting our vehicles back on the road in emergency situations. We've been waiting for the opportunity to return the favor and this week' we make special mention of his father's birthday. Cecil marks 80 years on Friday and best wishes are extended to him by Ron and Leona. We can remember being chased out of Memorial Park many times by Cecil after playing playing tricks with the lights during baseball games. Ah, the good old days! UNITED WAY MEETING - The annual meeting of the Oshawa- Whithy-Newcastle United Way is scheduled for March 29th at the Bowmanville Lions Centre. This year's guest speaker is Joel Alldread, Alldread, a representative of the National National Advisory Board for Senior Citizens. Should he interesting information for those in attendance. attendance. Phone the United Way office office at 433-7377 for tickets. cost $5,770 to build a house in the Durham Region. In 1988, the fee charged for the same home was $2,955. The new development charges represent represent only the fees assessed by the regional regional municipality of Durham. The Town of Newcastle also charges a levy on each new home for municipal services services provided at the local level. In addition, school boards are considering considering seeking permission to charge their own lot levies on new development. development. Works Committee Chairman John Aker explained that the increased lev ies are needed for water, sewers and roads in the region. Without an increase, he said "the general taxpayer will pay more." "We arc trying to be fair to the water water user, the taxpayer and the developer," developer," he added. Developers constructing apartment buildings will now be paying $3,494 for one-bedroom or smaller apartments apartments and $4,632 for apartments larger larger than one bedroom. The lot levy in 1988 for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,910 and a fee of $2,430 was applied applied to a larger apartment. Council has decided that any devel- m 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, March IB, 1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 34 Pages 135th Year Issue 11 50<t Per Copy opment that has received council approval approval "through a consenting by-law" prior to April 1 will be charged the levy rates in effect prior to April 1. Any development that receives council approval on or after April 1 will be charged the increased development levy rates. CARPET *- warehouse! LF' i|g \ EVERYDAY k DISCOUNT PRICES s* King Sr w. 728*4601 Oshawa Gold Medal Performance by Karate Champs These two karate kids are members of the Maple Leaf Karate Club of Courtice. They won awards in February at a tournament in Toronto. Nikki Castori- na, 16, captured two gold medals, and Paul Murdoch, 9, won a single gold representing the club. St. Marys Workers Walk Picket Lines A week of walkouts, intense negotiations, negotiations, and a negative ratification vote have left 86 St. Marys Cement workers workers still on the picket line in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. They are determined to force the company into making a better offer. The workers, members of local 222 of the Canadian Automotive Workers, left their jobs Thursday afternoon, a full day prior to the union strike deadline. deadline. By Friday, however, the two sides had reached a tentative agreement which called for wage increases of 4.2 percent in each of the next three years. Under their current contract, workers receive approximately $15 per hour. Local 222 President John Sinclair then asked the striking workers to return return to work until the ratification vote was held Monday. The workers re fused, however, choosing to remain off the job until they were able to vote on the deal. On Monday they rejected the proposed proposed contract by an overwhelming 82 percent margin, calling for a larger wage increase, a cost-of-living allowance, allowance, and job security. Some workers are fearful that the massive $160 million million expansion planned for the St. Marys site will allow the company to stockpile product, creating long layoffs. layoffs. The expansion could be put in jeopardy jeopardy if construction workers honour picket lines set up by the cement workers. Mr. Sinclair said late on Tuesday that further talks are not planned for today, adding that he hopes negotiations negotiations will resume late this week or early early next week. Town Takes Aim At Shoddy Builders Little Opposition to Sale of Marnwood by Chris Clark Opposition to the sale of Marnwood House, a Bowmanville nursing home, seems to have ebbed considerably since the sale was announced in late January. Only a dozen people attended Friday's Friday's Ministry of Health public meeting meeting called to discuss the proposed transfer of 52 patients to S.trathaveri; a nearby nursing home owned by Marn wood's new owner, John Martino. All sales of nursing homes in Ontario Ontario must be approved by the Health Minister. Most in attendance appeared convinced convinced that the sale will be approved and focused their questions on more Garbage Solution Sought The Region of Durham has decided to spend almost $1 million to find methods of dealing with Durham's garbage. Regional council voted last week to spend $991,025 for the hiring of consulting consulting engineers who will begin work on a proposed solid waste management management master plan. Oshawa Councillor John Aker, who chairs the waste management committee committee with Regional Chairman Gary Herrema, said this is a long-term waste management solution that will not help in the short term. "In the fastest, fast track," he said "It will not come on stream until 1993. The proposed waste management plan may include a Durham Region only landfill site and a "new waste processing processing or energy from waste facility", a report from Works Commissioner Bill Twelvetrees says. director of operations, ment (incineration, landfill and energy from wastes) will be considered in the master plan. 'The four R's (reduce, reuse, recycle and recover) will be an integral part of the master plan as well," he added. The project is eligible for partial government funding (50 per cent) for one year, Councillor Aker said. He said that MacLaren Engineers, the consulting firm selected to conduct the study, is expected to have Durham only landfill sites selected in the spring of 1990. At that time, he said, the region then must decide if it wants to deal with waste management on its own or if it wants to proceed with the Greater Toronto Area waste management strategy. "If we don't bring this forward...you don't have any other option, you're locked with the GTA," he added. Regional Chairman Herrema concurred, concurred, saying "We'd be in someone else's hands and that worries me." ■ i ' ) .general topics. Beverly Ashton, a mm- \ktiy official, w,b asked several times whether there aéon would be a shortage shortage of nursing home beds in the province. province. The proximity of the Wilmot Creek retirement community to .the Bowmanville Bowmanville area also prompted concerns that local nursing home facilities will be overburdened in the near future. Although she was willing to discuss such matters to a point, Miss Ashton often reminded the meeting that the immediate topic for discussion was the proposed transfer of patients from Marnwood House to Strathaven. Jean Butters, Strathaven director, explained that through renovation and construction Strathaven will be capable capable of accommodating all 52 transferred transferred patients. She also said that "the Martinos hope to make Marnwood a Turn to Page 2 Newcastle Council is sending developers developers the message that inferior housing housing construction will not be tolerated in the municipality. The message evolved after Councillor Councillor Frank Stapleton said he, staff and the jmayqr have, 1 all received complaints complaints from home owners in a subdivision subdivision of affordable homes built by Absec Property Development Incorporated in Newcastle Village. Councillor Stapleton said he has received received several calls over the past few months from buyers in the Orchard Park subdivision about construction deficiencies that "apparently" have not been corrected. He said "We encourage affordable homes built in our town ... but not at the cost of workmanship and quality". He referred to one homeowner who claimed to have 100 things wrong with his house. "There are things going on that_ I want council to be aware of', Councillor Councillor Stapleton continued. Mayor Marie Hubbard said some of the types of problems encountered by some homeowners are garage doors that do not close and air leaking in around windows. She said there have been "allegations "allegations made of poor building" arid that some people have been moved into their houses without occupancy permits permits having been issued. "There are a lot of unhappy residents/' residents/' she said. Council has asked the director of planning to determine if the town can stop issuing building permits to Absec until the deficiencies are corrected. Mayor Hubbard said halting the issuance issuance of building permits would serve as a message to this company and other developers that this type of situation isn't looked on favourably by the town. Council also decided to have the director director of planning hire a building inspector inspector and assign him to construction activities carried out by Absec. "Affordable housing doesn't mean inferior in this municipality," Mayor Hubbard said. Art Leitch, said that all aspects of waste manage Bowmanville Student Wins Canada Scholarship Elizabeth Canrinus, a student in aerospace engineering at Ryorson Polyiccn- nioal Institute in Toronto and a resident of Bowmanville, is one of 12 Rycrson recipients of a Canada Scholarship. Sponsored by the federal government, the Canada Scholarship Program provides up to $8,000 over four years to first-year college and university students pursuing degrees in science, engineering and related disciplines. Awarded on the basis of academic performance, more than half the scholarships are awarded to women, who arc traditionally under-represented under-represented in these areas of study. In addition to the cash award, Ms, Canrinus received a commemorative pin and a certificate for her special achievement. On hand to present Ms. Canrinus with her award citation is Rycrson president Terry Grier (far right) and Alan Cobb, Director General of the Universities and Research Council Branch, Ministry of State for Science and Technology. Duke of Edinburgh Award Winner Six years ago, Sea Cadet Travis Martyn began work toward achieving a Duke of Edinburgh Award. During that time, he has served as Chief Petty Officer second class with the Bowmanville Sea Cadet Corps. He has gone to England with his rugby team and written an essay on the experience experience he gained while there. He has been on canoeing and sailing expeditions expeditions in northern Ontario. And he went on a five-day hiking and sailing expedition along the Rideau Canal. This week all the hard work and determination determination paid off for the Bowmanville Bowmanville High School student when he was presented with the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award by the Duke himself, Prince Phillip, in Toronto. Already a bronze and silver award recipient, Travis had completed the requirements requirements for the prestigious gold when Prince Edward was in Canada about a year ago. Gold awards must be presented by members of the royal family, but Travis did not receive his award at that time because the paperwork paperwork had not been completed. "It turned out better," Travis admitted. admitted. "because I got to meet Prince Phillip, Phillip, ' He was the initiator of the program program in 1963. Not only did he meet the prince, but he and his parents also rubbed shoulders with a long list of distinguished Canadians at Monday's dinner and reception at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The regal affair gathered together such people as John Black Aird, Ontario Ontario Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander, Alexander, Roland Michener, Emmett Cardinal Cardinal Carter, and _ Minister of Employment and Immigration Barbara Barbara McDougall. Amongst the large crowd were the 70 Canadian gold award recipients who received their awards the next day at North York City Hall, in a formal ceremony. Turn to Page 2 Nineteen-year-old Travis Martyn, of Bowmanville, received the Duke of Edinburgh gold award on Tuesday in Toronto. The regal ceremony was presided presided over by Prince Phillip who is in Canada for a four-day visit.