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V!V ! Ah Cites Communication Breakdown as Reason for Quitting m Councillor Diane Hamre has resigned resigned from her position as deputy mayor. In a meeting of Newcastle Council on Monday, she cited a breakdown in communications between herself and other councillors as the reason behind her abrupt decision to quit the post she has held for the past year. "I feel I can no longer fulfill that role in the atmosphere that I find myself myself in," Councillor Hamre told her colleagues. colleagues. The Ward Three Regional Councillor's Councillor's decision was apparently sparked by the fact that her fellow-councillors decided to set up an economic development development committee during an informal meeting which she was unable to attend. attend. She said she didn't learn of plans to form the new committee until it appeared appeared on the agenda of the Monday, February 5, meeting of the general purpose and administration commit-, tee. Although Councillor Hamre supports. supports. such an economic development committee, she objected to not knowing knowing about its formation. At last week's committee session, she told Mayor Marie Hubbard that îsÎÆses she apologizes if she had not been doing doing enough to assist in the area of economic economic development. In her role as the town's planning chairman, she has been assisting the mayor in matters of industrial investment investment inquiries in the town. Councillor Hamre was also one of the group, which went on the economic mission to Hong Kong last spring. However, Mayor Hubbard assured her during last week's committee discussions discussions that the creation of an industrial industrial development committee wasn't "pointing fingers at anybody." Rather, it was to get members of council involved. involved. !Êâ>~ "We need to put a lot of emphasis on economic development," she explained explained last week. Bowmanville Councillors Pat Deeg- an and Ken Hooper were chosen to serve on the committee along with Mayor Hubbard. I J When the issue surfaced again on ' Monday, Councillor Hamre said she feels she is not in touch with what is happening around her at council. _ "I feel there is a communication barrier barrier that has come up and it is hard for me to speak on your behalf or on the behalf of members of Council." "I find it very difficult to fulfill my 0/ role of deputy mayor without a flow of communication," she added. Mayor Hubbard replied by saying that in the 10 years she has served on Town Council she has been "surprised a thousand times by motions put on the table." She said economic development was the mandate of the chief administrative administrative officer and the mayor and they wanted to put a committee together. Mayor Hubbard said Councillor Harare's resignation as the deputy mayor came as a shock to her and added added that the formation of the committee was "no criticism of what you have done on my behalf." The mayor said she thought the councillor was "personalizing" the issue issue too much. She added that she thought it was time each member of Council took a turn at being deputy mayor. It was decided Monday that councillors councillors will share the post for a two- month period, taking turns in alphabetical alphabetical order. Councillor Ken Hooper introduced a resolution which called for council to decline Councillor Hamre's resignation and urged her to stay on. , However, Councillor Hamre said that she would not do so. EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES Kin, a. v,. 728-4601 Oshawa j ! I y 1 tej 3 V 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, February 14,1990 Bowmanville, Ontario 36 Pages 135th Year Issue 7 50$ Per Copy [PRESTON] We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville m Si DELAY AT HOSPITAL - The opening of the entrance to the new wing at Memorial Hospital has been delayed one week. The new entrance will open, however, on February 20, according to revised revised estimates. Visitors are requested requested to continue to use the Liberty St. main entrance. A hospital hospital spokesperson said the delay was due to the fact that certain items didn't pass the inspection required for the building to be ready for public occupancy. DISSENSION - The peace and quiet that has prevailed at our town council since the election, appears to have disappeared. And it's too bad, because from now until the next election, it will be difficult to get anything done without a fight. Political maneuvering has raised its ugly head and probably will replace cooperative congeniality in the months ahead. See the story on the deputy mayor resignation for evidence of this trend. DARK SPECS - Last week, we received a good-looking pair of dark sun glasses found on the sidewalk near Klompmaker's bar- bering emporium on King Street West in Bowmanville. Owner may pick them up at The Statesman Statesman office, 62 King West, during during business hours. BOWLERS - This Saturday should be a terrific day at Liberty Liberty Bowl when the celebrities try their luck on the alleys - all in the interests of Big Brothers of Newcastle. There will be plenty of room for everyone, starting at 3:30. By the way, we tried to get a photo of bowlers at Newcastle Village alleys Saturday afternoon, afternoon, but the front door was locked. What happened? Don't forget to line up pledges. VALENTINE'S DAY - Guess we'd better get looking in the advertisements advertisements in this paper to see if we can find a suitable gift that looks like a million bucks, but sells for much less. After all. it's the thought that counts, doesn't it, not the amount you spend. After After all these years, we should be getting better at this, but never seem to know what would make a hit. LUCKY GUY - We'll bet Edward Gallant, of Courtice, will have picked up something nice for his wife, Andrea, and probably his daughters as well on Valentine's Day. He won $62,308.80 for second second prize in the Feb. 10th Lotto 649 Draw. That would certainly cure the February Blahs, wouldn't it? He plans to pay off some of the mortgage with his winnings and probably will keep buying draw tickets at Checkers where he bought this lucky one. GIMMICK - It being Heart & Stroke month, the folks at Oshawa Centre have lined up a different occasion to tie it in with Valentine's night, From 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, the public is invited to get married, remarried or divorced divorced in Centro Court. And all it costs is $1 to enter. There will be prizes to go along with them, so take your choice and have fun. The funds go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. WORLD DAY OF PRAYER • This year, St. Andrew's Prosby- ' torinn Church at the corner of Church and Tompornnco St., Bowmanville, will host the World Day of Prayer service at 2 p.m. on Friday. March 1st. Guest speaker will bo Lynda Reid. Babysitting Babysitting will bo provided and everyone is welcome. Dealerships Prepared to do Battle at Big Brothers Bowl-a-thon t 4 r JfVJ .hgssas* * m t. m Mr 'A*. ù.%1, Task Force to Decide If Transit System is Necessary for Region . Jim Reid (left)'of Roy Nichols Motors, squares off against Bob McDonald, of Cowan Pontiac, in"' t est challenge in' the Big Brothers! Bowl for jv Lending a hand to her teammate is Pat Bagnell, while by Andrea Adair The Durham Region will be spending spending $52 million to build its new offices in Oshawa and Whitby, if it follows the advice of its consultants. The new headquarters facilities would be located in downtown Oshawa and in Whitby. Under a plan outlined last week by a consultant for the Durham Region, Oshawa would eventually become the workplace for 923 regional employees. A further 234 would eventually be employed employed at the Whitby site. The first phase of the study into dividing dividing the Durham Region administrative administrative buildings was discussed at the February 7 meeting of Regional Council Council in Whitby. An engineer, Cec Holtrop, from Marshall, Macklin and Monaghan gave an update of the project to members. members. Members of council previously de cided that in order to settle the headquarters headquarters controversy and to adequately adequately house its ever-growing staff, the facility should be split between Oshawa and Whitby. Administration offices are now located in Oshawa, others others at the headquarters on Rossland Road and still others at a building on Consumers Drive in Whitby. Mr. Holtrop said his firm was "managing "managing the process to have the project implemented" rather than designing the administrative facility. In their study, he explained, they looked at such factors as location, personnel, personnel, parking and size of builiding. The site in Oshawa for the facility is at the southeast corner of William and Maiy Streets. This building would house the works, planning, health services and the social services departments as well as the Durham Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Currently 599 persons make up the staff for those departments while it was projected by 1998 staff would reach 923 persons. To adequately house those people, Mr. Holtrop said a 207,000 square foot Turn to Page 2 by Andrea Adair Increasing population and the lack of an adequate lakeshore transit system system have led a Durham Regional task force to conclude that a need exists for a regionally operated system. Harold Dalkie, senior transportation transportation planner with Durham Region, said: "We feel clearly the need for an improved transit system in the Region has been established." Mr. Dalkie, along with other representatives representatives of the task force, made a presentation about the transit study to members of Newcastle Council Monday. Monday. He explained that the population in the Region continues to grow. Forecasts Forecasts now predict that the projected populations for the year 2001 will be reached by 1992. Four municipalities within the Region Region operate their own local transit system. Each of the systems, however, does not serve areas outside of its municipal municipal borders. The GO Transit system, Mr. Dalkie . continued, is the only system that goes thjrough the five,lakeshore.rhunicipali- ticls. ' ■ 1 - He added that only three per cent of the population took part in the 100,000 bus trips GO Transit made between between the five southern municipalities. municipalities. He added that bus service reduction is expected to take place in the future as the GO train expands east. Determining the need for the system system has been the main priority of the task force at present. Mayor Marie Hubbard, planning chairman at the Durham Region ana chairperson for the task force, said the committee will he making a recom mendation to the planning committee by the end of the year. She said the question of how to move people in the Region is going to be a very critical matter. A number of municipalities, she stated, have their own transit system but she added: 'We have to step out of that parochialism and start looking broadly over the eight municipalities in the Region." The task force will be making presentations presentations to other municipalities in Durham, soliciting input into the study. Mr. Dalkie said they have been looking at the possibility of having the system run along the Highway Two corridor, thereby integrating the existing existing systems. School Board Plans Program To Stop Rising by Andrea Adair The Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle Board of Education is launching a new program to combat the secondary school dropout rate. The program will be tested at Bowmanville Bowmanville High School, beginning later in the month. Eva Nichols, the co-operative and alternative education officer with the school board, said while the program is unique to the board, it is similar to ones offered by other school boards in Ontario. Turn to Page 2 School Puts "Emphasis" on Sports A development freeze has been placed on large commercial developments: developments: in Newcastle Village. The freeze, which was approved by Town Council on Monday, is to remain in effect until the Town of Newcastle has completed an Official Plan review. And an application considered by councillors this week for a convenience store development has been turned down even though it doesn't require an Official Plan amendment. The majority majority of councillors feared that the proposal would bo a "foot in the door'.' for other developments. Council voted 4-3 in favour of freezing freezing all applications for development in Newcastle Village that wore m excess of 5,500 square feet of commercial floor space. The decision emerged after a number number of proposals for development outside outside of tho downtown core had been submitted to tho Town. Ron Strike, a lawyer representing one of tho applicants, said that the decision decision to freeze development would "shut down our plan for three years." Delbert Construction Corporation, Mr. Strike's client, has plans to construct construct a mixture of commercial, office and residential buildings on a triangular triangular portion of land north of Highway Two and south of Given Road in Newcastle Newcastle Village. Mr. Strike said .his client was willing willing to do a retail market analysis on the area and felt they would be able to co-ordinate a master plan on the area for presentation to the planning department. department. An application for a convenience commercial development on the land, that was less than 5,500 square feet in size was turned down in a vote of 6-1 (Councillor Arnot Wotten voted in favor) favor) because councillors were concerned concerned approving it would be precedent-setting. precedent-setting. Councillor Frank Stapleton said ho wouldn't support tho application submitted submitted on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Bould, because he thinks there arc a number of convenience stores that can serve'the area. lie also viewed approving tho application application ns a start to additional development development on the triangle of land, musing that tho other developers could decide to reduce the space size of their proposals proposals to got the Town approval. Councillor Diane Harare said although although she thought tho proposal looked great (The development would ho constructed as a Victorian lmuso with two stores on tho bottom and two offices on tho top floor.) Lhoro was no support for tho proposal from nron résidants. résidants. Shu also saw it as a foot in tho door for other applicants. A member of the Kingston Military High Box Team performs at Monday's Monday's Special Emphasis Emphasis Day held at Durham Christian High School. For another story on two athletes in attendance attendance see page 15. SNS vv by Brad Kelly It's a sports fanatic's dream come true. Could you imagine three days in the high school year set aside to learn about sports and the role it plays in our lives? It's almost enough to make me .sign up and go back to school. For the past 14 to 15 years, Durham Durham Christian High School has had special emphasis days where students study a particular subject. Some of the topics examined in past years were: Central America; Food and Nutrition; and The Environment. This year, the school is spending three days studying sports, recreation, and play. Monday was declared personal experiences experiences day and students were treated treated to panel discussions, workshops, and a performance by the Kingston Military High Box Team. The workshops, workshops, which were hold in the morning and repeated again in the afternoon, covered topics such as professional hockey, karate, and training differences differences in eastern and western bloc countries. countries. On Tuesday, students were able to participate in recreational trips to Maple Maple Leaf Gardens, tho Skydome, or downhill skiing. Unfortunately, the cross-country skiing trip was cancelled due to the warm spell in the weather. Today (Wednesday), is designated ns Big Sports-Big Business day with topics covering injury treatment, soccer, soccer, national level refereeing, and sport reporting in newspapers. One of tho featured guest speakers is Gino Rcda of TSN. In the afternoon the Senior Boys' Volleyball Team will challenge challenge Redeemer College from Hamilton. Hamilton. Some of tho guest speakers were former graduates of tho school while two current students, Roberta and Fetor Fetor Gjnltomn, discussed tho life of a swimmer. It was hoped that those past three days will challenge students to think about the Christian approach to sports.