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t®!LLE LISSA.?, 6*1 ! EiïFEFh.iJfF -T SGIJÎAWILLE, ONTARIO r :"v rt| pc-77, '-"-ii.' O'fv/ùl VOUR SUBSCRIPTION ExPIRtS 0* TU- Si 1989. i SS:S;::_ - HAS PEEfi l'JCLUCED CiJ Fi'- ■ FOR VOUS CO'JVEtNIEMCS. 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, June 21,1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 34 Pages 135th Year Issue 25 50$ Per Copy PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Drivers Escape With Minor Injuries Following Car - Truck Collision Shortly ■try before 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 15. two cars ana a dump truck met at the corner of Liberty Street and Taunton Road, north of Bowmanville. Police, fighters, and ambulance attendants arrived at the scene and quickly cleared the corner. Despite the apparent severity severity of the collision, the injuries were only minor. Development Woes by Andrea Adair A proposal for a 624-unit residential development for the area north of the Baseline Road in Bowmanville has raised concerns from area residents.. At the general purpose and administration administration committee meeting Monday, members of the public and committee members heard the plans Masthead International Properties Inc. has created for development of the area bordered by Spry Avenue to the east and Hunt Street to the west. The development would include single single family dwellings, semi-detached houses and townhouses as well as some non-profit housing apartments and condominiums. In addition to the residential units, the proposal includes the development of some 2,000 square metres of commercial commercial floor space. Local residents appeared before members of committee during the public public hearing portion of the meeting to explain the problems they have with the proposal. Many of the residents were concerned concerned with increased traffic in the area and questioned how emergency vehicles could get into the development development with only one entrance proposed thus far. Others were concerned about the overload on the sewage and water system system in an area with such a high density. density. Mark Pengelly, an area resident, said he thought the number of units proposed was too high, warning that with this number of units the area would eventually look like a "slum". Others were concerned with the effect effect of the development on the Bowmanville Bowmanville Creek. Dave Lawson, representing the Bowmanville Creek Anglers'. Association, Association, said: 'The creek has great potential." potential." He wanted to know where the storm sewers from the development would run. He said if the development went through, he wanted to see a chain link fence put up from one end of the devel opment to the other. It would be buil along the creek to prevent people fr throwing grass clippings or other such items into the creek. Allan Littlewood, a representative from Masthead, said the firm is hoping hoping to get approval to extend Durham, Neilson and Park streets into the development. development. He said the average price of the homes will be between $150,000 and $157,000. He mentioned plans that include developing developing the valleylflBds by planting new trees ani-»?ftSflE \t accessible to the i was rprocess- members ^ _ place be- esidents qnd th^ developer. Green Light for Apartments ITWASCLOSE - From all reports, reports, the annual DBIA Strawberry Strawberry Festival was a great success success on Sunday, after some frantic frantic activity trying to locate strawberries. strawberries. The late season kept them from ripening in time, but Ted Watson and father Harold scrambled around and finally came up with more than enough. HACKERS -The Simpson family's family's golf course, east of Newcastle Newcastle is in for a rough time next Tuesday, June 27th. It will be the scene of the Town of Newcastle's annual Board of Trade Golf Tournament, followed by dinner at Port Darlington Marina. Tee- off times are 12-1 for 18 holes, 3-4 for nine. Dan Strike has tickets tickets at 623-5791. The dinner's attitude attitude adjustment period is at 6:30, dinner at 7:30. Good luck! THEY'RE HERE - Sunday's Strawberry Festival was just a warm up, the real season starts today. The Marthas of St. John's Church have a sandwich and shortcake feed 11:00 to 1:30 tomorrow tomorrow (Thurs.). Lions Club social social is Sunday, June 25 at 5:30, tickets from any member. And the Hospital Auxiliary's Birthday Birthday Wine and Social is next Wednesday at the Lions Centre, 2 p.m. with a mini fashion show. Check Coming Events for more. A senior citizens' condominium complex, complex, proposed for Church Street in Bowmanville, has received preliminary preliminary approval from the Town of Newcastle, Newcastle, despite some objections. The Town of Newcastle's general purpose and administration committee on Monday approved the five storey, 150 unit condo proposed by John Rice and O.P. McCarthy and Associates. The condominium is to be built on land directly oast of Scugug Street that faces both Church and Wellington Streets. The recommendation from the committee committee must still receive final approval from town council at next week's meeting. meeting. A few area residents attended the public committee meeting Monday to voice their continued objection to the proposal. Mike and Sharon Trudeaii, who live on property that is near the proposed complex, said they were concerned with their privacy and what a five storey storey development would do to it. Mrs. Trudeau also mentioned concerns concerns they had with traffic and the effect effect of construction in the area when building begins. Mr. Truaeau, prior to the start of YOUTH DANCE - Tickets are now available at McGregor Drug Store for the Bowmanville Kinette Club sponsored Youth Dance (ages 8-12) on Friday, June 23rd at Lord Elgin Public School 7-10 p.m. The cost is reasonable and the music appropriate. appropriate. No doubt there will be a big crowd to help wind up the school year. BALL GAME - If you are looking for action on Sunday after eating or picking fresh strawberries, come to the Newcastle Village park where a Chamber of Commerce Commerce team will be battling firefighters firefighters from Station 2. It starts at 6:30 and continues until the players arc too pooped to care. We have no idea where the proceeds, if any, will go. Everybody is welcome. welcome. -- HORSESHOES - A note on the Editor's deskgives'details of the Annual River Valley Horseshoe Tournament June 24th at 56 Barley Barley Mill Crescent. Please call Peter or Helen at 623-8976 to let them know' you'll be coming. Kids games start at 1 and end at 3 p.m. A dance and dinner follow. follow. That's about all we know about this event that drew quite a crowd last year, we hear. the committee meeting, distributed a handout from the Concerned Citizens Committee (a neighbourhood group opposed opposed to the development) stating their reasons for opposing the complex. complex. The committee was mainly in opposition opposition to the density of the project. "We do not agree with a high density density building that will dwarf all residential residential houses and significantly alter the present community/-,the handout sfrid. It continued: "Development is welcome welcome but not when it is excessive and denies the present homeowners the type of community they have come to appreciate." The group was also concerned with increased traffic along Wellington Street where the entrance to the complex complex is proposed and safety factors associated associated with the increase. "This concern has not been addressed addressed in any study," the handout said. The report from the Town of Newcastle's Newcastle's planning department stated that since there have been some changes in design from when the proposal proposal was first submitted, the traffic study needs to be updated to reflect the changes. Hydro Stokes Up Reactor At 2:40 a.m., on June 18, the first fuel bundles were loaded into the first nuclear reactor at Darlington Generating Generating Station. The loading began after Hydro had received a fuel loading licence by the Atomic Energy Control Board, the regulator regulator of the nuclear industry in Canada. Canada. John McCredie, project manager at Darlington, said: "This licence is an important step on the way to operating operating the first Darlington unit." When the reactor is fully loaded, testing and commissioning must be carried out before an operating licence will be given. Donna McFarlane, communications officer at Darlington, said that the operating operating licence must be obtained before before the reactor can "go critical" or have a nuclear reaction occur. She said hydro is expecting the first reaction to take place in September. Right now, she continued, the reactor reactor is in a "guaranteed shut down state" which means that a reaction won't occur while loading the fuel. There are 6,240 fuel bundles to be loaded into the reactor. It will take a total of 24 shifts lasting 12 hours each to fully load the reactor. The first reactor unit is expected to be in commercial service by February 1990. Concerning density, the report mentions mentions that the proposal is similar in density to other developments in Bowmanville Bowmanville although the structure is higher than most. Pat Deegan, councillor for Ward Two (Bowmanville), spoke in opposition opposition to the development, saying the Turn to Page 2 Councillors y Will Report On Hong Kong The much-anticipated report on the trek to Hong Kong by Town of Newcastle Newcastle officials has been put on hold for the time being. Councillor Diane Harare, one of the town's representatives on the excursion, excursion, said that a co-ordinated report was soon to come before council. She explained that while in the British colony, each of the five representatives representatives were working on different areas related to bringing development here. She, for example, spent time meeting with Canadian officials. Mayor Marie Hubbard was expected to discuss the trip with members of the press at Monday's council meeting. Unfortunately, she became ill and left the meeting shortly after it began. Bowmanville BIA Cro vt, \\ \\ " JÜ Passing on the title: Last year's 1 Strawberry Princess, Jennifer Burdy, helps this year's winner, Sara Bernard, with the official sash and roses. Miss Bernard was chosen from a field of seven contestants on Father's Day/June 18, at the culmination of the Downtown Business Centre's Strawberry Festival. Festival. The Strawberry Princess Pageant was held at the Bowmanville Museum. The Atomic Energy Control Board has established an office in Bowmanville Bowmanville to respond to questions and comments comments from the public. Although the office initially is open on Thursdays only, Bernard Geres- tein, of the AECB, says that the hours will be expanded if there is public demand demand for such a move. Mr. Gerestein will be available in the office from noon to 8:00 p.m. Thursday to answer questions about the regulatory body and to direct queries to the right places places if they relate to other organizations. The AECB opened the Veltri Complex Complex office because of "a combination of requests from the public and because of the new direction our president (Dr. Rene Levesque) wants to take. We will be reaching out more to the public to explain what we do," he said. The Port Granby low level radiation site and the Darlington Generating Station have contributed in large part to the increase in requests which the, AECB receives from residents in the; Town of Newcastle. The closest alter- , native office is in Mississauga. BACK HOME - Latest word is that Her Worship Mayor Hubbard and members of the Hong Kong expedition expedition have safely returned home after a most interesting trip. So far, no details have been released. The mayor was ill on Monday and unable to comment on the trip. Arena Site Getting Baseball Diamonds J Two "high quality" ball diamonds and a skateboarding facility will be constructed during the next phase of development at Bowmanville's new Recreation Complex. Joe Caruana, director of community services, explained to members of the general purpose and administration committee Monday that funds were provided in the 1989 budget so that the next phase of the complex could begin. Initially, plans were made for the instruction of four ball diamonds. However, Mr. Caruana, in a report to lommittee, explained that since that ;ime the project has been reviewed and changed slightly. Instead of four diamonds, the two ;hat are now proposed, for the area lorth of the parking lot at the complex, complex, will be major level diamonds, :omplete with "subsurface drainage, rrigated fields, floodlights and bleacher bleacher seating." The area between the two diamonds will be used for a new skateboarding facility. Mr. Caruana mentioned the possibility possibility of locating a concession booth near the diamonds and making the parking lot larger. Other revised plans, which ne said could be viewed as a three to five year development proposal, could include such things as a seniors' complex, botanical botanical garden or a library/theatre/ lecture hall. He mentioned possibly designing something with aesthetic qualities for the land at the corner of highways 57 and 2 -- perhaps a water fountain. "It will be a more diversified complex," complex," he remarked, adding that the municipality will be "taking much better better advantage of the location." The director said that with the committee committee approving the report he could begin the tendering process that will start development of the diamonds. The committee has recommended approval approval of the next phase and also a site plan to guide future expansion. .... Lord Elgin Team Takes Turn at Track Meet's Tug of War Heave! The tug-ol-war teain from Lore! Elgin Public wag one 0 f f ive n t a recent track and field meet for ele- School gives it all they ve got as pnncipa Gary Wee s me ntary schools held at Bowmanville High School, and teacher Russ Westwood urge them on. The team J b