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What's Inside... Debate Over Doctor's Office in Newcastle Japanese Teachers Tour Local Schools. Goodyear Eagles Squeak Victory Memories of World War II O }) CL- 7 .....7 GOOD SHOW - With three ceremonies ceremonies at the same time on Sunday, Sunday, the Legion lads and Sea Cadets Cadets were spread out between here and Newtonville. But, everything everything went on schedule. At the cenotaph here, there was a huge crowd of participants and. spectators. spectators. Stan Dunn, Jim Firth, Councillor Larry Hannah and Salvation Army Capt. Gary Cooper Cooper and his band headed the ceremony ceremony and it went well, in spite of the chilly atmosphere. PARADE TIME - If the forecasters forecasters are accurate, the weather for this year's Santa Claus parade on Saturday could be almost balmy in contrast to the chill winds we have encountered early this week. Everything appears to be ! ready for yet another great show I to. warm the hearts and souls of I young and old. Come early and | - enjoy. The committee has been ! working hard and deserves sup- f ! Port. I ' CONGRATS - We extend best g ; wishes to the Bowmanville Busi- 1 ness & Professional Women's 1 Club who have attained their jj 40th anniversary. The big event jj will be celebrated tomorrow at | the Lions Centre with an outstanding outstanding speaker who, we sus- |i pect, will reveal how tough it is jj for a woman to get ahead in this jj male dominated world. But, they'll keep trying. -- XMAS STORIES - Maybe this week's parade and the advt in this paper will encourage folks to j write stories and letters about jj Christmas that we can use in editions editions close to Dec. 25th. Please i check out the details and then j let's hear from you. There are prizes to be won. We'll be waiting. waiting. SHOPPING - We see where the new NDP government may be planning to clamp down on Sunday Sunday shopping, although the mat- , ter is before the courts. We somehow somehow doubt if they'll have much j success, most of the merchants are going all out to make up for the lack of business in. recent months and some of them need all the sales possible to survive. Did you hear about the enterprising enterprising church that put out a sign saying, "C'mon in, we're open Sundays?" HI TECH - After years of watch- i ing buglers and trumpeters at Remembrance services experiencing experiencing problems with freeze ups, lips sticking to mouthpieces, etc., the problem was solved on Sunday. A I portable tape playing machine was brought in ana the recording of the Last Post and Reveille poured out loud and clear over the large crowd. It seems buglers ; ! are hard to find, nowadays. ON A ROLL - On Monday night, the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team, aided by some new recruits and some sorely needed vitamin pills, or something, came to life and chalked up a win over their adversaries from Winnipeg. Now, if tlie Argos can duplicate their success this weekend, all will be joyous in the great city and they may not have to sell the Gardens or the Skydome. Maybe Bob Rae would even reinstate the province's province's donation to the arts centre. HOW DO YOU FEEL? - An item in last week's council news aroused our curiosity. The Town's Community Services Director Director was reported ns interested in selling the hall in Hampton, . now used ns a community centre and the Armory building in Oro- no. Do you have an opinion on this? Proposed Hiring Freezes Spell Bad Times for Public Health Programs in Region JlT Budget restrictions will result in cuts in Durham Region public health programs next year. A letter from Durham Region's acting acting medical officer of Health, Dr. Steven Steven Gold, in this week's regional council council agenda, explains cuts are imminent because of proposed hiring freezes. In order to keep the tax increase next year at 6.9 per cent, council will be asked to approve a recommendation that no new staff positions be included in next year's budget and that vacant full-time positions not be filled unless they are critical to the operation of a department. Dr. Gold wrote that because of budget budget restrictions in 1990, the nursing division was unable to hire new Public Health Nurses "despite regional growth and the ongoing establishment of new schools." The doctor further stated that P.H.N. nursing heads identified seven service areas where cuts will be necessary. necessary. Those cuts are: vision and hearing referrals in school settings; a reduction reduction in classroom health teaching bv 25-50 per cent from its current level; mall and community displays on healthy lifestyles won't have participation participation of P.H.N. staff; prenatal classes will be cancelled; assessment and geriatric geriatric monitoring of more than three visits will' be eliminated (only three visits are mandatory); Home Care referrals referrals won't be accepted and three programs, scheduled to be implemented implemented in 1991 (Healthy Adults, Mental Health and Reproductive Health) won't be initiated. Dr. Gold stated that these measures will "further reduce our compliance with Ministry of Health Program Guidelines from 80 to 55 per cent of Ministry of Health Guidelines." He further said that while he understands understands the measures are necessary to cope with the recession, "the reduction reduction of preventative health services consequent on such measures will ultimately ultimately be magnified many fold in costs to this region in the longer term." Bowmanville 'Fun For Everyone "Buy A Santa Button" 4 11 WrwW fir Aw fzmzp' W V rçp'xy • 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, November 14,1990 Bowmanville, Ontario 38 Pages 136th Year Issue 46 50<|s Per Copy PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Reindeer Ready for Annual Santa Parade Valerie Gardiner, a member of the Santa Claus Parade Committee, gives Comet a pep talk on how to behave during Bowmanville's Annual Santa Claus Parade on Saturday, Nov. 17. Comet is excited about being back in Bowmanville and hopes he will see all his friends, young and old alike, at the parade. The parade will wind its way through Bowmanville starting at Central Central Public School and ending at Memorial Park. It begins at 10:30 a.m. For further details, see our Santa Claus Parade Supplement in this section. The 29th annual Santa Claus Parade Parade will be making its way through Bowmanville this Saturday. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. at Central Central Public School, the parade will follow the same route as in previous years: west on Church St., along Scugog to King, east on King St. to Liberty and down Liberty St. to the Memorial Park Clubhouse. Organizers of the event are hoping hoping for yet another good crowd. Don Welsh, chairman of the Santa Santa Claus Parade committee, said "there always has been a good turnout. turnout. We're hoping for the same this year." As of last week, 10 bands, 20 floats and 15 fillers have entered the parade under the theme of "Fun for Everyone." Mr. Welsh noted that the Bowmanville Bowmanville Parade is still a noncommercial noncommercial event and is the only one in the Region with that distinction. distinction. The parade committee will once again be selling buttons for the event and button sales before and during the parade are one of their main sources of revenue. Members of the parade committee committee are: Ede Cole, Sharon Smith, Valerie Gardiner, Pat Lange, George Hilson and Roger Leetooze. by Andrea Adair Newcastle council took a rap on the wrists from the mayor on Monday for not making a decision on a grant request. request. Mayor Marie Hubbard told councillors councillors that she has seen money granted for various reasons since she has been a councillor and couldn't see any problems problems in granting this request. "T hope council recognizes this is a very small percentage of money, These people have been through hell on wheels," the mayor said. A request for $5,000 was made to council in mid October to assist the No Ganaraska Dump Committee with the initial costs of fighting a dump in their area. A site has been selected by MacLnr- cn Engineers, a consulting firm hired by Durham Region, to find n long-term landfill site for the municipality. Recycling Week Draws Attention to Our Environment New Attitude for Recycling by Andrea Adair Consumers need, to decide which is more important: owning a product made from a non-renewable resource that ends up harming the environment environment or having lakes to swim in, air to breathe and healthy food to eat? "We have to start thinking in terms of our purchases from the cradle to the grave," Helen MacDonald, coorganizer coorganizer of Recycling Week in the Town of Newcastle, said recently. Mrs. MacDonald notes that the emphasis emphasis of the week is being reevaluated reevaluated and is starting to shift to waste reduction rather than diversion. The most important thing, she explained, explained, is getting the waste out of the - waste stream by not producing it in the first place. j That sentiment is echoed by Suzanne Suzanne Elston, co-organteer of the week. Mrs. Elston said Canadians have to change their attitudes anjd that "recycling "recycling doesn't require us to change our habits." She noted that the breakdown of waste shows that only a small percentage percentage is recycled: five per cent of our waste is metal, 9 per cent glass and 15 per cent newsprint. Not all the glass is recyclable either. "By contrast, compostable material makes up for 30 per cent of the waste." t Mrs. Elston said the emphasis on recycling week now is reduce and reuse because "it doesn't take any effort effort or thought to recycle." Mrs. MacDonald said the production production of waste is related to consumers' habits and lifestyles. Consumers have a right to demand a product that will effectively clean their oven, for instance, but at the same time they have to take responsibility responsibility for 4he effects that product may have on the environment. For example, Mrs. MacDonald said, if the product is made of virgin materials, materials, and the material is nonrenewable, nonrenewable, and it may harm the environment. environment. Do we need the product? Tetrapaks are an example of one such product. She said they consist of foil and plastic, with the remaining 75 per cent made of paper. She says the product was created because consumers needed it. It goes on the market, people think it is great. It fits well in knapsacks, keeps cold longer, but eventually it starts to create a great amount of garbage. People don't like it any more and a large amount of money is spent on a technology to deal with the waste. "This is a symbol of wastefulness," Mrs. MacDonald said, explaining that people have to "do more with less". She said we have to decide in our own minds what more means (material (material items) or if more means more clean air, water, food and health. "Having more of the latter will cost Turn to Page 2 One of five candidate sites is located in the Kendal area. The No Ganaraska Dump committee committee has formed to stop the land from becoming a dump. Their request for funding was tabled tabled once and now has been sent to the Town of Newcastle's solicitor for a legal legal opinion on complying with the request. request. Councillor Larry Hannah, who suggested suggested the request be referred, thinks the town might legally be put in a vulnerable vulnerable position if money is given to the committee now, He explained that if the town interferes interferes in the process Durham Region is taking to find a long-term dump site "we possibly could be liable for some of the Region's costs." "I'd far rather pay our legal staff a couple of hundred now rather than Turn to Pago 2 100 Units of Blood on the Wall, 100 Rowlie Coombes, of Bowmanville, has been giving blood since 1952. And at last count, he had donated a total of 103 units. He is shown above with the certificate he received in honor of this accomplishment. The document, which is presented to blood donors who have g 'ven blood 100 times, is signed by anada's Governor General. Mr. Coombes said that when he first gave blood, he did so at hospitals. At that time, the families and friends of patients patients receiving blood were requested to replace the blood donation on a two- for-one basis. Later, the Blood Donor Clinics were taken over by the Red Cross. Mr. Coombes noted that he feels lucky that he has been able to give blooa over the years because donors donors must be in good health. "I feel very fortunate that I was able to do it. That means I have never been sick," he said. Durham Region may be taking tough steps to keep next year's tax increase increase at 6.9 percent. Councillors this week will be asked to approve a recommendation from the finance and administration and special special standing committees that will limit limit hiring ana will cut spending. The Region, in the past year, has had dramatic increases in welfare costs and expects those costs to increase increase in the next year. Social Services staff at the region estimate that if the Province increased its share of welfare payments from 80 per cent to 90 per cent, the region's net cost of welfare payments would be reduced reduced by $6 million. But at the present time, the Region will be looking at allowing no new staff positions next year, limiting departmental departmental expenditure increases to 4.5 percent over last year, and deferring deferring capital construction projects (Regional (Regional Administrative Facilities and renovations to Hillsdale Manor and Lakeview Manor) until at least 1991. In addition, "until such time as initiatives initiatives are undertaken by the Province Province to share a greater portion of the funding of welfare related costs," staff overtime will be scrutinized and vacant vacant full time positions will not be filled (unless it is critical to the operation operation of the department). Regional Councillors will make a decision on the recommended measures measures to achieve the budget guideline at a meeting today (November 14). Canada's War Heroes Honored at Remembrance Day Service At Sunday's Remembrance Day service at Bowmnn- villo's cenotaph, the color party of Legion and Ladies Auxiliary members and Sen Cadets, lower their lings as the Last Post is sounded. In the background arc some of the many young people who attended that service. Since then, many young public school pupils and their teachers teachers have also visited the cenotaph, almost surrounded by memorial wreaths, to make them aware of the human sacrifices that were made in war, so they could bo free.