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EC AVILIE LIERA.'.:' _ aï TEMPERANCE ET, " EOfflANVILLE, ONTARIO j L1C2A8 EO'.IIB 912731 U aixuui. j -- 7 x The price of the Statesman is 560 + 40 G.S.T. We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanvllle © HELP - Nine year old Michael VanderHerberg of 151 Liberty St. South is asking for our help to locate locate his G.T. Snowracer that he only rode a few times before it was removed from his front porch. Maybe somebody out there might be wondering why they have an extra one around, he suggests. He sure would like to have it back and no questions will be asked if it is returned. Thanks in advance. THAT'S COOL - For the benefit of those deserters, sweltering in Florida or elsewhere, the temperature temperature was right on the zero Fahrenheit Fahrenheit mark this morning - real crisp. But, believe it or not, the chap who has the contract for cleaning our office windows, was out there in the cold toying to keep the water from freezing while he squeegeed them clean. Now, that's dedication. He does them in the rain, too! PARDON US - For the benefit of a couple of peoplè who sent somewhat somewhat critical letters about the shortage of publicity connected with who won prizes in'the various various contests we ran recently, the results are again included in full this week. We weren't really trying trying to keep them a secret, and no staff member or relatives won the prizes. We just neglected making the most of it with all the other things going on. GRAND OPENING - Probably, readers may be just a trifle late to take in official ribbon cutting at 1 p.m. today, but there will still be time to get in on Ron's Collectable Collectables until 5 p.m. or later in the week. It's at 39 King Street East in Newcastle Village and is being operated by 11-vear village residents, Bev and Ron Walker. Check their advertisement advertisement for more details, including including the hours 11:30 to 5:30 weekdays, 9-5 Saturdays and Sundays. RE-OPENING - The Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at 209 King St. East, Bowmanville, is presented presented a new look for customers, now featuring a seating area. They'll be holding their reopening, reopening, complete with facepainting, facepainting, clowns, balloons, coffee, etc. this Saturday. We're planning planning to be there by 11:30 for one of the 100 free mugs and it's been suggested we could use some face-painting. Anything would help. HAMMER'S - No doubt you have seen the imposing advertisements advertisements in our recent papers about a new club called Hammer's, Hammer's, opening on Highway 35/ 115 3 miles north of 401. This week we have a date for the opening. It's this Friday, Jan. 11th, starting at 8 p.m. and continuing continuing until 4 in the morning. Drop in and enjoy. EX-STAFFER - Congratulations are extended to one of our exstaffers, exstaffers, Donna Fairey, who has a new position as Managing Editor of very slick magazine called "Sailing Canada." It is produced in Port Hope and comes out 10 times a year. Donna credits her experiences on our newspapers for the job, plus a great story she wrote about the terrifying time they had when the mast on their sailboat broke. The copy she forwarded forwarded was superb. CARVERS - Should you be looking looking for a fascinating hobby that might keep you away from the television screen and give you much satisfaction, we have the answer. Drop over to the Visual Arts Centre from 7 to 10 p.m. on •Monday, January 14 th and watch the Wood Chip Carving Club members at work. Instead of approving residential developments, developments, Newcastle Council is going going to talk about them. Members of a committee of council on Monday decided that after the. next two general purpose and administration administration committee meetings, a public "bull" session will be held in order for councillors to voice their views on housing in the municipality. Mayor Marie Hubbard, who suggested suggested the public meeting, believes it is time councillors discussed the types of housing they think should be in the municipality and why. On Monday, members of council decided decided to take no action on two housing applications in the town. One application application for 772 houses had appeared on the committee agenda for the first time and the second was recommended recommended approval by planning staff. A third application, the Bowmanville Bowmanville Valley Co-op, was also recommended recommended to be approved but was received received for information instead. "We have to explore in some of these discussion how to address housing. housing. Everyone can't live in single family family houses," the mayor said, adding that it was time to hold discussions on the matter. Councillor Ken Hooper suggested that the Credit Point Developments housing proposal located north of the Concession Road 3 to the east and west of Meams Ave. and the Zygocki application for 17 townhouses behind the Waverley Rd. plaza be received and filed. He said council was allowed to take the action it did. He said he proposed this action because because the town has to put a hold on development. development. "I think it's premature," he said regarding regarding the 772 housing development. "We have got to get more industrial and commercial business in here. I think we're running right now at 89 percent residential and 11 percent industrial/commercial." industrial/commercial." Mayor Hubbard said she thinks there is a misunderstanding on council about what density means. "We have to provide some alternative alternative housing. Council is not happy with and will not address non-profit housing. But they have got to face it that we have to provide it." "This meeting will give them a chance to state publicly what they want," she added. Index Eagles End Drought See Page 6 Contest Winners See Page 2 Five Robberies Here See Page 5 Road Won't Close See Page 2 CARPET umm i-« WARÈHOUiSÛ «■numda EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES Kinjstw. 728-4601 Oshawa Auxiliary Welcomes s Town's Newest Citizen ' - : " | v* ' / «■ Shane Ciehanskie, son of Connie and David, has the distinct honour of being being the first child born at Memorial. Hospital Bowmanville in 1991. Shane was bom at 6:20 a.m. on January 1 and weighed 7 pounds and 13 1/2 ounces. Connie and Shane are pictured here receiving a gift from Hospital Auxiliary President Joan Appleton. Every year the Auxiliary gives a silver baby mug to the first baby bom in the new year. Police Get Description Of Car Theft Suspects by Laura J. Richards Two white males between 5'6" and 5'8", weighing approximately 160 ounds with dark, shoulder-length air were seen during an attempted break and enter at a vehicle in Newcastle Newcastle Village on Jan. 4. One suspect wore a dark jacket and the other wore at tan jacket. The suspects left a glove and a Craig equalizer in a vehicle they were apparently attempting to rob. Neither the glove nor the equalizer bélonged to the owner of the car. The above description, obtained by police last Friday, follows a week-long rash incidents in which vehicles were ransacked in the Bowmanville. and Newcastle Village areas. There have been more cars entered over the last week than all of last year, said Staff Sergeant John Mairs, of the Durham Regional Police 16 Division, Division, in Bowmanville. Twenty-nine vehicles have been either either ransacked or have had items missing since the first of January. In some cases, stereos, cassettes, loose change and wallets have been taken. Over the past weekend, 18 vehicles on Hart Boulevard, Doncaster Crescent, Crescent, Liberty Street North, Sydel Court, and the 3rd and 4th Concessions Concessions were entered. Four cars were entered on the evening evening of Jan. 3 - one on Soper Creek Drive and three on Penfound Drive. Two car stereos were stolen and a number of cassettes were taken. Six cars in the Mearns Avenue area and on Rhonda Avenue area of Bowmanville Bowmanville were entered on the evening of Jan. 2 and ransacked. Car owners who leave their doors unlocked are more susceptible than owners who lock their doors. Sergeant Mairs believes the rash of car break-ins should decline once the culprits are nabbed. "It is probably a one-shot deal," he said. "I suspect that once this is cleared up, it will be fine for a while." Many Christmas Donations to Sally Ann by Andrea Adair While the downturn in the economy may have affected the wallets of many people, it hasn't affected their hearts. Isabelle Jones, from the Family Services Services Unit of the Salvation Army in Bowmanville, reported that although the number of families receiving assistance assistance during Christmas was up, the support from the community increased as well. "Even though the times are really tough right now, the support hasn't stopped; it's increased," Mrs. Jones said. She said the support the Salvation Army receives from this community is really good. "I can't stress that enough. And the support we get stays in the community and helps the community community through the entire year." The monetary donations made at Christmas enable the Salvation Army to help families throughout the year through their food banks and other services. This Christmas, roughly 225 families families received hampers filled with food, clothes and toys from charitable organizations organizations in the community. The Salvation Army itself distributed 145 hampers. Mrs. Jones noted that this is more than in previous years, explaining that last year the army delivered 108 hampers. The increase is a reflection on the economic times. "People are having a very hard time making ends meet. There are a number number of new families coming that have never been into a food bank before." She explained that some families are referred to the Salvation Army for assistance through social service agencies agencies while others come to them through word of mouth. "More people are aware that we have a food Dank here, that services are available and that there is a place to go when they need help." The Salvation Army itself received help this year from many areas in the community to help those going through difficulties. Mrs. Jones said businesses, schools, churches and people off the street were just some of tnc sources of donations, donations, Pets Go to Labs by Andrea Adair Animals may still be sold for research research by the Town of Newcastle. Members of a Newcastle council committee on Monday decided to follow follow the laws set out under the Animals Animals for Research Act and will still sell animals if a request is made. Mayor Marie Hubbard said councillors councillors made a tough decision. "As chief executive officer we can't be breaking the law." 1 Adhere to Law She added that valid points were raised by delegates on both sides of the issue but that the town had to adhere adhere to the law. Opponents of selling pound animals say they will continue to lobby to stop sending pound dogs and cats. Bryan Kozman, from the Animal Alliance Alliance of Canada and a resident of Bowmanville, said- he and his colleagues colleagues will be at council again next week seeking a ban on the sales for research. research. And on January 24 a meeting has been arranged between the Minister Minister of Agriculture and Food and the Animal Alliance to push for getting the act changed. The issue of selling animals for re- New Regulation * search from municipal pounds came to the forefront late last year when Oshawa City Council passed a motion to ban the sales. Under the Animals for Research Act, which was passed in Ontario in 1968-69, municipalities are required under law to supply research labs with animals if a request has been made for the animal and if the animal has not been claimed by its owner within three days. Delegates from both sides of the issue issue appeared at the general purpose and administration committee meeting meeting on Monday to both voice their con cerns and create an awareness about the issue. Nancy Armstrong, a Bowmanville resident who brought the issue to Newcastle by requesting the ban, said she wasn't debating the use of animals for research but the issue of pound animals animals used in research. Betrayal of Trust "The public has not been made aware of the fact a pet could be turned over for research," she said. Turning the animals over is a betrayal betrayal of trust and a betrayal of the many residents of the Town of Newcastle, Newcastle, she added. Turn to page 3 Co-op Housing Plan Is Headed for OMB >1 LJLJL victims by Laura J. Richards . Durham's regional police force is acting under new provincial privacy regulations which forbid them to name victims of crime. In an announcement last week, police police said the change in policy is the result result of the guidelines provided by the Freedom of Information Branch of the provincial government. The decision not to name victims is the result of the passing of the Municipal Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection Protection of Privacy Act and changes in the Police Act which took effect January January 1. "The Act compels us to protect victims," victims," said Inspector Greg Reid, coordinator coordinator of 17 Division in Oshawa. This Act is geared to providing witnesses witnesses and victims with protection while still providing the public with names of people accused and charged with criminal offences. It covers mu- Turn to page 3 A controversial co-op development in Bowmanville is going to the Ontario Municipal Board for a decision since Newcastle has been unable to make one. The Bowmanville Valley Co-op homes proposal for 68 residential units on Jackman Road has yet to receive receive Town of Newcastle approval. A committee of Newcastle council again .failed to. either deny or approve the application and- simply received the proposal as information. This would place the application in limbo. But the applicant, Chris Smith and Associates, has already applied for an OMB hearing and has a date set for January 29. The OMB hearing was requested by the applicant because they are receiving receiving funding from the province and it must be used in a specific period of time. . Planning staff at the town had recommended recommended the proposal be approved because "it conforms to the Official Plan and is in compliance with the Ministry of Housing guideline for affordable affordable housing." In October last year, planning staff had recommended approval but concerns concerns of local residents convinced councillors to refer the matter back to staff for further meetings between the applicant.and the residents. Elmer Banting, an area resident, said he was concerned about the height of the fence at the top of the bank near the development and children children playing near Bowmanville Creek. He said a "1.2 m fence is not satisfactory" satisfactory" and suggested a 1.3 m would be better. He felt young people would be climbing the fence and going across : properties on Frederick St. Bea Wells said residents object to the development, explaining that they have attended numerous meetings and voiced concerns about density, drainage drainage and traffic. "We could live with 25 percent affordable affordable (housing)," she said. "We feel the residents of this co-op aren't -being fairly treated to put them so far away from the services they need." Bing Wong, from Chris Smith and Associates, said he believes in the concept concept of co-ops for people who can't afford afford houses." After being questioned by Councillor Councillor Arnot Wotten about whether he would like to live in an area where this type of development would be, Mr. Wong said he already does. "There is no indication whatsoever that property values are affected by social housing programs, particularly co-ops." The Rossland and Thornton development development in Oshawa hasn't affected surrounding surrounding property values at all, he said. Retiree Tries His Hand at Fiddle-Making Antonio Stradivari, move over! Here comes Bowman- made over 1,000 during his life. Mr. Perry has lour un- villc's Arthur Perry, another violin maker. Actually dor his chin, so to speak. He is shown here playing one of Stradivari was a more accomplished violin maker, he them. See story on page six of section two.