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BOtmwiLLE lieras? 62 TEHFESfitlCE ST BOIWANVILLE, ONTARIO L1C3A3 E0HLÎ2 890731 iTiW*- „ __ Wha-u Volunteers Tick? Answer on Page ... Early Budget Figures Point to 9.7% Increase Newcastle Town Council has made its first move toward passing a 1989 budget. At Monday's meeting, councillors councillors unanimously approved a report calling for an increase in expenditures over last year of 9.7 percent. Included in the report is a municipal municipal tax hike also equal to 9.7 percent. Taxes levied by the region and by the Board of Education are not included in PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville LAST CALL - Everything is set for a big Opening Night at the Bowmanville Drama Workshop production of "Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild." The seniors have had their free rehearsal and reports reports indicate they enjoyed the show. It runs from Thursday to Saturday at the BI-IS auditorium. You may be able to get tickets at the door, if you're lucky. LAMBS ON STAGE - We herewith launch a special appeal appeal to our urban readers. Please check the big advertisement advertisement on page four, second section. It's loaded with details about things to see and do this , Saturday during Lamb Awareness Awareness Day at the Lions Centre. It could be a real learning experience. experience. COMING UP - Appparently, all those renovations at Miracle Mart have now been completed and an official ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome the change will be held this Thursday Thursday at 10 a.m. You could also take in the Science Fair at St. Francis of Assisi School in Newcastle Newcastle Village the same day, starting at 9:30 or the Rebeccas' annual Rummage Sale at St. John's from 10 to 1 & 6:30 to 8. WASTE - Anyone interested in helping the authorities solve the current garbage crisis with a well-planned Master Plan should set aside Wednesday, April 19th, 7:30 p.m. That's when the local Public Workshop will be held at Bowmanville High School. Your ideas will be welcomed. welcomed. PC MEETING - Darlington PCs held their annual meeting at The Acres on Monday and the federal Durham PCs are planning their election of officers for April 17 at 7 in the Osliawa Shrine Club, Sim- coe St, North, Osliawa. If the session session is late starting, there arc two golf driving ranges nearby where members could get in some practice practice swinging. THEY'RE HERE - We haven't seen them, but understand that the thousands of golden yellow daffodils from British Columbia have arrived in good shape. And will be all over town this Friday, for sale by a host of Cancer Society Society volunteers. Just make certain your home is brightened up by your very own bunch. BIG DEAL-We've just been reading reading a news item about our thoughtful federal government giving us an extra day to file income income tax returns. You may have missed it while listening to Finance Finance Minister Wilson telling us how hard we're going to be hit by new taxes. We don't have to send in returns until May 1st. Doesn't that make your day? HUNGRY? - Our information says that Russell Oke has taken over the job of looking after tickets tickets for Bowmanville Lions Club's big roast beef dinner slated for Sunday, April 30th. Ilis number is 623-5938. Just checked to find out why Ncls Osborne has given up this high paying job after many years and was happy to learn that the ex-mayor is fine, just decided he'd done it long enough. ROYALS PERFORM - The famous famous "Royals" from Cobourg will be playing the Big Band hits Friday Friday night at Newcastle Community Community Centre. Your host will be the Clarke High School Band Parents. Parents. Phone 983-5462 for more information. information. council's report and will be added to the municipal tax increase. Town treasurer Marie Marano said that there are a few amendments to the report pending; however, the total budget expenditure will be very close to $21 million. Of that amount, $8 million million is allotted to public works, and $5 million will go to community services. Topping the list of new expenditures, expenditures, according to Mayor Marie Hubbard, Hubbard, is the northern fire station which is planned for the Enniskillen area. It will cost in excess of $300,000. The town also will hire four additional full-time firefighters who will join the current eight in the town's employ. Also included in the new expendi tures is an additional by-law enforcement enforcement officer and another building inspector. inspector. "They will be needed with the tremendous growth in the town," the mayor stated, adding that Newcastle grew by 10 percent last year. In order to comply with the province's province's new Freedom of Information legislation, legislation, scheduled to go into effect in two years time, the town will purchase special computer and microfiche equipment. The mayor also cited the town-wide garbage collection as an additional expense expense which figured into the overall rise in town spending. The preliminary preliminary report also calls for additional funding for tourism initiatives and better maintenance of the town's physical physical structures. According to the mayor, the town has dipped into its reserve funds, acquired acquired through lot levies, to lessen the impact of the tax increase. As municipal municipal officials across the province have done, Mayor Hubbard cited the province's province's decision to freeze unconditional grants as a primary reason for higher local taxes. Ms. CARPET _ WAREHOUSE M EVERYDAY P®, DISCOUNT PRICES 3! Sh® King's!w. 728-4601 Hivf Oshawa Tipping Fees To Rise by *33 Next Month t Beginning next month it will cost more money to dispose of waste at landfill sites in the Durham Region. Regional councillors, at last week's council meeting, approved charging an additional $33.33 a tonne for disposing of trash at their sites. The increase brings the total fee to $83.33 per tonne. The tipping fee increase is a result of the higher fee Metro Toronto has decided to charge for disposing of waste at their landfill sites. Since 1984 it has been a policy of Durham Region to charge tipping fees identical to Metro at regionally owned landfill sites, a report from Works Commissioner William Twelvetrees states. The current fee charged for disposal at regionally operated and Metro operated operated sites is $50 per tonne of waste. Regional Councillor John Aker, co- chairman of the waste management committee, said Regional Chairman Gary Herrema will be negotiating with Metro to determine how much money Durham will pay to dump at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering. Durham currently uses this site for some of its refuse and has received a rebate for the amount that it pays. Currently, Durham pays $21.64 a tonne to dispose of .waste at Brock West, Councillor Alter said. Councillor Aker added that it would be "disastrous if we (Durham. Region) don't get the rebate." Major Fires Cause Extensive Damage -Lv, V':"" ■ it.-1 t*i fcW-wx w&h'J • ...;■ • -d\i '^WwÊÈ HP ' 1 mÊmm Fire completely destroyed a Concession Street barn Saturday afternoon. Damage to the barn, owned by Mr. Valda Pauzer, was estimated at $50,000. Two nearby homes that were under construction were slightly damag'td. 911 Newcastle firefighters battled two large fires in Bowmanville this week, both of which caused extensive damage. damage. On Monday, flames exploded from a second-storey apartment on the corner of King and Division Streets in Bow- manvifle. All five occupants escaped without serious injury, but their apartment apartment was engulfed in smoke and flames, causing nearly $40,000 in damage. Firefighters arrived on the scene quickly and prevented the fire from spreading west to connecting businesses businesses and apartments. Struts, a clothing store directly beneath the apartment, sustained some water damage but was unaffected otherwise. The blaze tied up the downtown for a couple of hours, as a crowd gathered and traffic became snarled. Jean Braybrook, Randy Jarvis, and three children, ages 10, 11, and 14, escaped escaped their home only to watch as fire destroyed it. Deputy Fire Chief Mike Creighton said that the cause of the blaze has been determined to be accidental but that a fire marshall investigator will probe for a more specific cause this week. On Saturday, fire destroyed a Concession Concession St. barn and caused external damage to two nearby houses which had recently been built and therefore were unoccupied. The bam belonged to Valda Pauzer, and fire officials estimate estimate the damage to be roughly $50,000. The vinyl siding on both homes was ruined and will have to be replaced. Damage to the nearby houses was estimated estimated at $15,000. Flames shot out of a second-storey apartment late Monday afternoon in downtown Bowmanville. The apartment, at the corner of King and Division Streets, sustained an estimated $40,000 damage. Five people fled the building and escaped major injuries. ork Effective J _by Andrea Adair Deputy Fire Chief Mike Creighton says Newcastle residents will benefit from the 911 emergency phone number number even though the service will operate operate differently here. Mr. Creighton explained that since members of Durham Regional Council approved, in principle, adopting the system, there has been some concern about how the service will work in Newcastle. A report from the region's chief administrative administrative officer, Don Evans, explains explains how the emergency system will operate. Under 911, all emergency calls for the police, ambulance and fire department department services would be directly routed to a central emergency reporting bureau. bureau. Right now Durham Regional Police receive and dispatch all calls in the re- Postal Woes ForCourtice Newcastle councillors are attempting attempting to solve the postal problems in Courtice. At Monday's town council meeting, Ward One representative Larry Hannah Hannah presented a motion to arrange for a meeting with Canada Post officials and the Town of Newcastle. Mayor Hubbard, Councillor Hannah and a member of town staff would represent the municipality in the discussions with Canada Post over ways to improve improve the postal service. In supporting the motion, members of council also requested that a postal outlet be established in Courtice "to offer offer full postal services to the residents of Courtice" and to "consolidate" addresses addresses in Courtice "to reflect the name of the community". Councillor Hannah explained that the Courtice area has experienced much growth in the past few years and right now the residents don't have "the benefits of full postal service." Mayor Marie Hubbard, speaking in support of the motion, said that Cour- ticc has many "great strains" and that the postal service in the area is one of them. She said that Courtice must be given given an identity. The motion passed unanimously. gion through the headquarters in Oshawa. Ambulance service in the region works in a similar manner with a central central dispatch which receives emergency emergency calls and contacts the required personnel personnel by way of a radio. Since these two systems are close to how the 911 system is expected to operate, operate, not too many changes are needed needed to convert them to 911. The only major change to the system system comes under the fire department. There are eight separate fire departments departments in the region. To bring fire service under 911, the region plans to set up five central dispatch centres. When a. caller dials 911 for a fire emergency, the operator will transfer the call to the dispatch centre in the municipality the caller is from. For example, when a resident in Whitby dials 911 for fire service, the operator at the central bureau would transfer the call to an operator at the centre in Whitby who would be in charge of dispatching fire fighters to the emergency. Under the system the region is proposing, proposing, the information such as the caller's address and telephone number is displayed on a computer screen at the dispatch centre. Mr. Creighton said this is the portion portion of the service that Newcastle won't be receiving, However, he said Midgets Win Ontario Cup by Norm Powers The odyssey began on October 2, 1988 and culminated March 29, 1989 as Ilalminen Homes Toro Midgets brought their O.M.H.A. season to a glorious end with the coveted All- Ontario cup. In between was the most exciting season ever witnessed for the team and their fans as they were party party to an unbeaten regular season, a European Tour of Finland-Sweden and five play-off series that proved once and for all - Toro Midgets are the best! The prestigious Tournament of Champions Champions will pit Ilalminen against other champs next weekend, (April 14) in the last contest. - the Provincial Championship. Goqd luck Toros, Old, old, old. bee story on Page 7. the service won't be diminished. He explained that if a Newcastle resident called 911 in the case of a' fire, the operators at the bureau receiving receiving the call would route the information information to three off premises operators in Newcastle. Those operators, in turn, would alert the fire department. He said there could be a slight delay by transferring the information in this manner but, he added, it hasn't been proven yet. The enhanced system of 911 that uses computer screens to display information, information, is something that Newcastle "won't be able to go with...at this time," he said, partly because of the cost of implementing it. This system is expected to cost $200,000 to implement in Newcastle plus an additional $113,000 yearly to keep it operating. Mayor Marie Hubbard said that the system of emergency fire calls operating operating in Newcastle now costs $70,000 a year to run. She said the town supports the principle of a central emergency response response headquarters but said there are other capital projects planned and building a central dispatch centre isn't in the budget yet. She said taxpayers have contributed contributed to the 911 reserve fund and will continue to do so. The mayor said the town "will take the advantage of 911 and will use the effective transmission of that through the present system." "We will keep working with what we have because it is working well," she added. Regional Council at this time has only approved the 911 project in principle. principle. It may take 18 to 24 months for the system to be in service. ' *-, ...»v \ •" • 1 ™"*'*r; ■'Vi Midgets Win Ontario Crown in Packed Arena row 1-4, Steve Jeffreys, Geoff Smith, Jim Pithie, Doug Lever, Steve Smith, Tony Vanlloof, Jeff Rohr, Steve Cus and Ian Cooper; back row, Roy Moore, Coach Fred Brown, Neil Taylor, Greg Healey, Don Szuch, John Duc- smalewski, Paul Hindman, Steve Bizi, Tim Powers, Jeff Flintoff, Steve DcSmcdt, Jeff Reynolds, Derick Biss and Ken McArthur. This Thursday, they head for Elliot Lake and the Tournament of Champions. evening hockey finals between Ilalminen Homes Midgets Woolwich. It was a noisy game as three busloads of Woolwich fans did their best to outshout the hundreds of local supporters. The Ilalminen lads were not to be denied denied and won the game 6-2, After trophy presentations, the champions assembled for this photo, including, front