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i i BOWMANVILLE library „ "Patience æ « temperance st t at J J BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO Is Needed Newcastle Ne L1C3A8 mIB 900731 i. Section 2 Comrade Sam Views Free Elections In Lithuania The president of a company planning planning to build 618 residential units south of Bowmanville's Goodyear plant has asked the municipality to. approve his project as speedily as possible. possible. "I would like to be able to resolve this matter at this level of government in the shortest possible time," said Alan Littlewood, president of Masthead Masthead International Properties Ltd. 1 Mr. Littlewood added, however, that the company has also requested àn Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the issue in the event that the approval approval is not received at local and regional regional council. If the matter cannot be • resolved by local authorities, then the developer may take the case to the OMB. In a public meeting held by the general general purpose and administration committee committee Monday morning, elected officials officials heard that neighbours in the Hunt St. and Duke St. area have concerns concerns about the impact of the proposal on their neighbourhood. Town Council has neither approved nor rejected the plan. And on Monday, the general purpose and administration administration committee voted to place the proposal proposal . under the microscope of the town's. planning department once again. Darlene Potter, a resident living next door to the proposed develop ment, told the committee about concerns concerns related to the density of the proposal. proposal. She stated that original plans indicated that her single family home would back onto the yards of three new homes. Each of these would have lots of 18 feet in width. She added that,she was subsequently subsequently told by a representative of the developer developer that only two lots would abut her property, but added that this has not been confirmed in writing. The resident also expressed concern over traffic volume resulting from the development. She also mentioned the impact of the 618 dwellings and commercial commercial property on the environmentally environmentally sensitive flood plain oLthe Bow- manville Creek. "Not too many of them are happy about the whole deal," said Mark Pen- gelly when asked how the neighbours felt about the proposal. He agreed that their main concern is the density of the development. ! . In his presentation to the committee, committee, Mr. Littlewood pointed out that in the pastl2 months, the number of proposed proposed lots has been reduced and the total acreage has been increased. He recalled that lot sizes and widths of municipal road allowances were two major concerns connected with the development when it was first introduced. "Our new application rloflPlPnPV " V» P SAIfl. And he added that the company remains remains willing to discuss other issues. "We remain open to suggestions as to how the plan may be improved... We're continuing to meet with local and regional planners, he said. He assured councillors that the new proposal from Masthead ensures that 92 per cent of lots conform to the current current zoning by-law's size requirements and that no lot is narrower than 20 feet. The development's housing units consist of townhouses, single family homes, semi dètached dwellings and apartments. A total of 2,360 square metres of commercial floor space is alfeo part of the plan which utilizes land on both sides of the Bowmanville Creek. Mr. Littlewood informed councillors that less than half of the land in question question would be occupied by the development development and the remaining property would become public parkland. "We remain remain committed to the improvement of the valley lands as parkland," he. said. Councillor Ken Hooper raised the issue of the- land's susceptibility to flooding during the spring. "Every other other winter, that place is completely flooded," he said. Mr. Littlewood replied that his Turn to Page 2 | SWAMPED - Readers will no- i tice, no doubt, that we have re- | ceived a number of letters from | citizens, concerning recent devel- j opments on the local political front. Several, along with editorials editorials of interest on current controversial controversial topics are printed in following following pages. And let's hear your views too MARCH BREAK - As of Friday afternoon, area school students | will be heading out for a wide va- | riety of places where they will be | celebrating their annual Spring School Break that lasts a week | until Monday morning., March 18th. ' Most of them, of course, | will spend their time poring over a books, , sorrowful about being, jj | away from their teachu's ana j classrooms. No doubt their teachers will also hate to be away from the little darlings.We comfort comfort them all by pointing out that, ( the week will go rapidly. There's :j lots of action planned. SLOW START - Last Siinday j- night, the Jr. C Goodyear Eagles tj got off to a disappointing start in their best of seven playoff series with Port Perry MoJacks, losing i; 3-1. Apparently, the lengthy lay- i! off left them somewhat off their ; usual game. They play tonight in |; .Port at 8, Friday here at 8:30, ; Saturday at Port 8 o'clock and H here Sunday at 7:30, followed by j: a Tuesday game at 8:30 in Port j! and back here Thursday at 8:30 if needed. That's a pile of hockey in a short time. Let's go get'em . SPRING FLING - Bowmanville Optimist Club has a Spring Fling Dance all lined up for Saturday, Saturday, March 19th, just after the | start of March break. It's at New- | castle Village Town or Communi- j ty Hall starting at 8, with tickets ; ; available at the door. DISCOVERY - Councillor Larry ' Hannah must really have been ' upset to hear that some births at - Memorial Hospital here were be- 1 ing registered as born in Newcastle Newcastle NOT Bowmanville. After 1 checking with Dick Elston at Memorial, he.phoned The Statesman Statesman with the revelation that parents parents could stipulate Bowmanville r if they didn't like Newcastle. And it would be legal. Maybe, he finally finally got the message the peti- | tioncrs were presenting at the re- 1 cent council meeting. i GOLDRUSIIFEVER - Make l certain you hit downtown Bow- { manvillo stores early and often j during the, Gold Rush Days. There are big DBIA bucks to be , won in four $500 draws. The rush t started on March 5th and contin- 1 ues for some time. Gold Nugget j winners will bo announced each week, starting March 12th. The j Downtown merchants are going all out to make this the bargain !; extravaganza of the year. LEADERSHIP • The Darlington Progressive-Conservatives had ! the good fortune Monday night to 1 see first hand the two candidates ; running for the leadership of |l their provincial party. The session session was hold at The Acres and '! ' was well attended. So far, neither that campaign nor the one for the , federal Liberal leadership scorns to ho catching lire. But, there's still much ground to bo covered j before the conventions, so we'll ( wish all of thorn well on their j thankless quest. We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Provincial Awara For BHS Teacher by Andrea Adair When Bowmanville High School teacher Jane Eccles found out she had won the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Distinguished Teacher Award she was "flabbergasted". "flabbergasted". "I thought it was a long shot," she admitted. A phone call last Thursday evening indicated the shot wasn't so long after 1 all. Mrs. Eccles was informed she was one of 10 teachers in Ontario to receive receive the award. Fifty-one teachers in Canada have been selected for the award this year. Of that number, 12 will be chosen for awards at the national level. The Marshall McLuhan awards were established by Mary McLuhan to keep alive the memoiy df a writer who was known for his thoughts on the impact impact of media in ,6ur lives. -Another pu'rpose of the award is to recognize outstanding teachers. Mrs. Eccles says (she won the award for bringing professional artists into the classroom over the past 18 years. She has tried to show to her students students how they will have to relate their own work to the media and that the media sometimes distorts information. information. For example, she mentioned a number number of different artists who had received received negative reviews or stories in local and national newspapers. \ When the artist was brought into the classroom, the students liked the artist and were impressed by his or her work. The people who had selected her, she said, were interested in her success success in using the media, the artist and the student to "de-mystify" what art is about. A Bowmanville resident for 13 years, Mrs. Eccles has been teaching at Bowmanville High School for 16 years. She taught for two years prior to that in Peterborough. The idea to enter the awards came during a department head meeting at the school when the Principal Jack Taylor supplied application forms and suggested a number of the teachers could be in the position to win. Mrs. Eccles said the support of Mr. Taylor and Grant Yeo, the superintendent superintendent of instruction with the school board, was invaluable to her. The package she sent along with Turn to page 3 Town Hall Will Have New Name Town Councillors are planning to drop the name "Newcastle" from the Bowmanville Town Hall. A committee of Town Council votëd on Monday to change the name from Newcastle Town Hall to "Municipal Administrative Centre." This course of action was introduced introduced in a resolution by Councillor . Larry Hannah and Councillor Pat De- 1 egan. \. Councillor Hannah noted that the change is appropriate since the municipal municipal headquarters' serves all the people in the municipality. The councillor added after Monday's committee session that the resolution responds to "some of the sensitivities" expressed by citizens who object to the name Newcastle appearing over the doorway of what has traditionally been the Bowmanville Town Hall. At last Monday's Council meeting, the residents had objected to the name Newcastle appearing on buildings in Bowmanville. And this was one of the reasons why a change in the Town of Newcastle's name was suggested. The erasing of the name Newcastle from the entrance to the town hall was supported on a unanimous vote. Councillor Councillor Diane Hamre said she could support support the wording introduced by Councillor Councillor Hannah. "It would be misleading in my opinion, opinion, to call it the Bowmanville Administrative Administrative Centre," she added, noting that the facility serves the entire area. This week's committee decision must still be approved by Town Council Council next Monday. B.H.S. Reunion Starts on June 22nd The 100th anniversary reunion of former students of Bowmanville High School is only a few short months away. Scheduled for the weekend of June 22, 23 and 24, the gathering promises to be an event former students won't want to miss. Decade rooms, dances, performances performances of BHS musical plays and a welcoming welcoming reception arc a few of the happenings happenings planned for the celebration weekend, Members of the Centennial Committee Committee have been working for the past three years to organize the event. Those same volunteers have put in hundreds of hours trying to locate former former students to invite them to the reunion. reunion. Registration forms have recently been mailed to all former students. However, some students will invariably invariably bo missed from the list. The Committee is advising those people who don't receive a registration form for the reunion to drop in to the Statesman office on King Street to pick up a form. Any former 13IIS student, whether a graduate or not, is invited to attend the special centennial reunion weekend. weekend. The registration form stated the Centennial Committee's address incorrectly. incorrectly. The correct mailing address is BUS Centennial Committee. l'.O. Box 241, Bowmanville, Ontario, Llü 3L1, Registration forms must bo received by May 1,1990. June 22nd is rapidly approaching for former students of Bowmanville High School who will bo celebrating the school's 100th anniversary. As part of the lublicity program to contact as many former students ns possible, signs have icon erected at both ends of Bowmanville on Hwy, 2. Keith Swan of Swan Signs designed and created the signs. Above, Mayor Mario Hubbard hammers hammers in the final nail with the assistance of Keith and son, Timmy. At right arc B.II.S. Centennial Committee members, Marilyn Colo and Joe Dnlrymplo. The official logo below the photo was designed by Jonnotto Hancock. Hwy. 407 Worries by Lisa C. Brown The Durham Region Federation of Agriculture meetings usually bring out 20 to 25 farmers. But on February 27, at the Solina Community Hall, it was standing room only. The topic of Tuesday's meeting was the agricultural impact of the proposed proposed Highway 407 on farmers. The meeting drew concerned residents from throughout the area being considered considered as tne possible corridor for the new freeway. They came to last week's meeting in Solina hoping to have their questions answered. Most people were concerned about the effect that the proposed highway will have on their lives. As one resident explained: "This freeway is going to cause a lot of problems." problems." A major issue is the possibility that Highway 407 will cut off farmers from parts of their land. Agricultural Representative John Finlay said after the meeting that "those who are really committed to forming don't want it (Highway 407) to interfere with their operations." Since n number of farms extend between between two concessions, there is the fear that the highway lias the potential potential to split up a farm and make it difficult difficult to operate portions of the property. property. Because the highway is planned for a right-of-way between existing roads, largo farms in the path of Highway 407 could bo divided. Ministry of Transportation officials arc currently undertaking a study to determine tne location and right-of- way requirements for Highway 407. The area under study is from Highway 48 in Markham oast to Highway 35/ 115, a distance of approximately 60 kilometres. The study, which began a year ago, is in the information gathering stage and no definite routes have boon established. established. Ray Smith, from Parker Consultants, Consultants, said: 'The routes right now are rubber and are still moving." Tho.o are proposed routes running nil throùgh the study area but no one route has been decided. The Durham Region has proposed that Highway 407 run north of the Hydro Hydro Electric corridor but the Ministry of Transportation recognizes this as only one possibility. Ultimately, Highway 407 would be a 10-lane freeway with an interregional interregional transit right-of-way from Highway F armers 48 to the vicinity of Durham Road 34 and an eight lane freeway from there to Highway 35/115. The Ministry of Transportation will be holding public information meetings meetings sometime in May which will outline outline specific routes. At that time, there will be experts on hand to answer any questions which may arise. The laws of gravity were working wonders on Friday, Friday, March 2, as the students at St. Francis of Assisi participated in a skipping fund-raiser for the Heart Fund. Trying their best to avoid stepping on the rope were, from left, Lisa Foresta, Ashley Poirier, Danielle Beaucage, Gregory Bester, Rachana Gupta. Students Allowed to Skip School For a Good Cause