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a. 0> Zoo Concerned Over Development.. Newtonville P.O. Is Next to Close A New Twist to A Popular Game Skaters Present Galaxy on Ice We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville 4 © FLAPJACKS - If you look closely closely at our Around the Town column column this week, you'll notice that we have the Trinity Hi-C group serving pancakes at the Orono Town Hall, which is wrong. In fact, they'll be doing their flap- jack serving at Trinity United Church in Bowmanville this Easter Sunday morning and the public is welcome to attend. Our apologies for the mix-up. Actually, Actually, the Orono Town Hall location refers to the site of the SAGA Committee's general meeting on April 2nd, with Hon. David Crombie as guest speaker. EASTER - We're pleased to report report that finally, it looks as though winter has given up the ghost and we are heading into a t reat weekend to mark Good Fri- ay and the sunrise services and early morning breakfasts in a number of local churches at a much earlier hour than usual this Easter Sunday morning. We suggest you take a good look at the Coming Events and the correspondence correspondence for more details. We were looking forward to sleeping in. Foiled again. OUR FUTURE - Tonight at 7:30 a public discussion on the future of Canada will be held in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. It's taking place at Trinity United Church, sponsored sponsored by the Outreach and Communications Communications Committee. Appàr- | ently, some folks in Quebec can't understand why the Anglo Canadians Canadians aren't showing more interest interest in what they are trying to do to this country. Maybe Keith Spicer and his crew might visit here. They are in Whitby on • April 11th and he might drop in on his cousin, Garnet Rickard, when he's this close. Garnet might be able to tell him about tonight's session. Be there to give your opinions, please. CALLED OFF - Due to what they are calling uncontrollable circumstances, the Bowmanville Optimist Club's Magic Show, scheduled for Saturday, April 13th, has been cancelled. Should anybody need additional information information about this project and its demise, demise, we have a couple of phone numbers to call, 623-6490 or 668- 3304, IN SEMI-FINAL - Also tonight, the Toros Peewee hockey club, sponsored by Canadian Tire, will be taking on Orillia in the deciding deciding game of the All-Ontario semifinals. semifinals. Our lads were trailing five points to one in the series, but won a pair of games this past weekend to tie the series. Now, they're going for broke at 7:30 to- nignt at Darlington Sports Centre Centre and would welcome all the support they can get. LET'S PLAY FAIR - We just finished speaking with a Canada Post rep. regarding the 508% increase increase in our mailing costs. It seems that if we were to only publish 48 times per year instead of 52, we would be able to limit our increase to 5,8%. What possible possible reason can there be for such a price ruling? The rep. suggested that we only nublish 48 times per year, after all, "is what you do very important?" It's obvious what Canada Post thinks of weekly newspapers. It's another attempt to put us out of business so that Canada Post can deliver the advertising flyers that we presently insert in The Statesman. Statesman. Naturally, they won't admit it, but it seems very obvious that we are the targets of some very unfair competition. We still have some tricks up our sleeves yet, so we'll have to keep you posted on ' future developments. Until then, thanks to all our readers for your support. by Andrea Adair Newcastle residents will pay an additional additional 4.8 per cent in local property taxes this year as the.result of a $26.7 million budget approved by Town Council Monday. Newcastle Mayor Marie Hubbard said the budget addresses the question of pay equity and GST impacts and prepares for the municipal election this fall. Services Maintained "I think it maintains a safe level of service. I think if it went down much lower, next year we'd be facing double digit increases," she said. The budget includes capital purchases, purchases, operations (including garbage collection), the library budget and grants to community organizations. During budget discussions, $100,000 was cut from both the library budget and the town budget. Last year, the municipality approved approved a $26.5 million budget. Treasurer Marie Marano noted that the expenses and level of service in this year's financial blueprint are maintained at last year's level. Any major projects, such as road programs, planned for the municipality municipality are being paid for through provin- grar Also, there are no plans to hire any additional staff. Layoffs? The mayor said that in the future, if the recession continues and building activity doesn't increase, some members members of the planning staff may be laid off. To date no lay-offs have occurred. "This is something I am going to monitor closely," the mayor added. Councillor Diane Hamre also was in support of the tax increase, explaining that in an election year, "people want to come in with a low increase to impress impress the electorate." But, she said that was bad financial planning and that the increase had to be kept stable instead of having a yoyo yoyo system consisting of a low increase one year and increases of 10 - 15 percent percent the next year. Councillor Hamre said although there are no new staff in the budget, there are increases in programs. "If the recession continues, we will have even less in the way of building permits and an even tighter year next year," she said, encouraging members to support the budget. Reductions Councillor Larry Hannah said he thought there had been substantial reductions reductions in the budget. "It would be difficult to cut further without affecting the services in the municipality." The tax increase means that if a resident is paying $1,000 in property tax, they will be paying an additional $48 on the municipal portion of their tax bill. The municipal portion amounts to 19-20 per cent of the funds on the property tax bill. Durham Region takes 20-21 percent while the school board takes the remaining 60 per cent. The budget was approved unanimously unanimously on a recorded vote. 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, March 27,1991 Bowmanville, Ontario 42 Pages 137th Year Issue 13 56$ + 4$ G.S.T = 60<t: EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES Beach Residents Protecting the Shoreline I . - : i. : 7^1 Ik V\ £Ky_?v_ % ÈÈ, c ay? *'ÎA , ; ; . ■v '<■ i . . • j ■ w . < Cracks Discovered in Turbine Generator of Unit 2 More Trouble for D.G.S. Cedarcrest Beach residents have been feeling the earth move beneath their feet recently as huge rocks were delivered and moved into place to serve as retaining walls along the lakeshore frontages. Here, a worker from RM Construction Construction places another "armor stone" on top of the first layer. The retaining wall is made up of two layers of the huge stones that sit in front of a rip-rap backfill placed over top of a synthetic filter cloth. The improvements along the beach front are designed to protect residents' property against erosion. Retaining Walls Stop Erosion at Cedarcrest by Laura J. Richards Many residents of Bowmanville's Cedarcrest Beach have decided to hire their own contractor to help protect their homes against erosion from Lake Ontario. "About 10 to 12 households have signed contracts with the company so far," said Cedarcrest Beach Road resident resident Dave Ashcroft. "Seven retaining walls have been installed, some are under construction and two to three more will probably be contracted soon." Mr. Ashcroft said the company, RM Construction, is doing a "fabulous job" but the work being done right now can only serve as a temporary measure. The cost of installing the shoreline protection is about $5,000 per property. property. . "The company guarantees its work for two years. But, we hope they (the stone breakwaters) last between five to 10 years," he said. Even that is wishful thinking, Mr. Ashcroft admitted, because the length of time during which the shoreline will be protected depends, in part, "on the frequency we have east winds, and the lake level." At the moment, RM Construction is hauling huge five to eight ton armor stones from Acton on flat-bed trucks to be placed in the lake in front of residents' residents' lots. . This is a different solution than the one offered by St. Marvs Cement officials officials to the residents. The company offered offered lakeshore residents a total of 2,000 tons of six to eight-inch stones. "The stones wore to be installed loosely along the shoreline, not in gabion gabion baskets," said Mr, Ashcroft. A permanent solution would be welcomed. welcomed. But, to date, one has not been 1 found and is not really expected by the residents. For now, the temporary measures that are being constructed seem to be working, Mr. Ashcroft said Some residents believe they know the cause of the erosion. "We have wondered if this condition has been aggravated by the dock installed by St. Marys Cement," Mr. Ashcroft ex- ' plained. Some people don't agree with the theory that it is the St. Marys Cement j dock that caused the disappearance of, the sandy beach and the erosion the; residents are now experiencing. | However, said Mr, Ashcroft, they all agree that something needs to be done. Nicholson File Plant to Close Cooper Tools Canada, part of Cooper Cooper Industries, announced yesterday that it plans to close its local Nicholson Nicholson File manufacturing plant in Port Hope and consolidate file production in its other existing plants. The Port Hope plant employs just under 200 people, Robert Hunter, President of Cooper Tools Canada, said the company will phase out production at the local facility facility over the next eight to ton months. Files made at the Port Hone plant, Turn to Pago 2 Ontario Hydro has discovered two small surface cracks in a rotor inside the turbine generator of Unit 2 at Darlington. Darlington. Donna McFarlane, community relations relations officer at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, said the cracks were discovered when a temporary modified rotor was being replaced with a permanent one. "The feeling right now is that the cracks are just small, surface cracks that won't grow larger," Ms McFarlane said. The Unit 2 reactor was first shut down a year ago when a crack was discovered discovered in the rotor in the turbine gem erator. A temporary modification was put in place at that time from the generator generator in unit four. "The manufacturer has advised us the small cracks are different and unrelated unrelated to the other crack," Ms McFarlane McFarlane added. The rotor, in the non-nuclear area of the station, is 80 _ meters long, weighs 200 tonnes and is the shaft in the generator that spins and produces electricity. The cracks found in the rotor are roughly 11 millimeters (half an inch) . in length and 2 millimeters in depth. Ms McFarlane said Ontario Hydro officials will be talking to the manufacturer manufacturer in early April "to try to figure out how the cracks got there." Unit 2 was shut down again in January January of 1991 (and remains shut down) after damaged fuel was found in the 416 Area Code To be Replaced By 905 Number by Laura J. Richards The Town of Newcastle will be one of many Toronto area municipalities to receive a new area code. As of Oct. 4, 1993 the only portion of the Golden Horseshoe to use area code 416 will be Metro Toronto. All other communities currently using the 416 area code will switch to area code 905. Changing Over To help businesses and households alike with the changeover there mil be a "three-month 'permissive dialing' period period when calls will go through even if people forget that the new area code is in place," said Robert Campbell, the General Manager of Network Planning Planning for Bell Canada, Ontario Region. "We want to tell business customers- now so they can plan to change their telephone numbers on their stationery when ordering new stock," said Una MacNeil, a Senior Information Officer with Bell Canada, Toronto. The change in the area codes is required required because Bell Canada is running out of telephone numbers within the area now covered by the 416 area code. "There are so many cellular phones, fax machines, computer modems and, regular telephones that all need numbers," numbers," Ms MacNeil added. "When the new telephone books come out, there will be a note about the change on the map depicting area codes and time zones." Publicity But that isn't all that Bell Canada is doing to promote the introduction of the new dialing area. There will be letters, letters, information packages for business business and mail-outs in your telephone bills starting in April, All of this will be part of a huge information campaign campaign that started on Monday with the announcement. ' "We're trying to make this ns easy as possible for the public. We also want the public to know that there will not be any changes in local calling charges." By 1994 there will be identical telephone telephone numbers being assigned in both the new 905 area code and the old one, Mr. Campbell said. A similar split has been used in a number of cities in the United States. "The type of area code split we're implementing has already been put Turn to Pago 2 reactor during refueling. . The fuel was sent to the Atomic Energy Energy Control labs in Chalk River earlier earlier this month for tests to determine how the damage occurred. While tests on the bundle are continuing, continuing, preliminary tests from the labs indicate the damage wasn't caused from a chemical imbalance in the fuel, Ms McFarlane said. Additional fuel bundles that have been found to have small cracks on the end plates are being removed from the reactor and are being sent to Chalk River for further tests. The unit will remain shut down until until the cause of the damage is determined. determined. Officials add the cracks appearing in the end plates of the fuel bundles • have not been reported at other stations stations and are not a safety hazard. However, the flaw makes it difficult to replace fuel bundles. If the fuel problem in Unit 2 was : solved, Ms McFarlane said, the unit would be safe to run now that the new rotor has been installed. In the meantime, the second reactor at the station is also shut down for a planned commissioning of fuel handling handling systems. Officials have decided to keep the unit shut down do carry out fuel inspections inspections to make sure the problem in Unit 2 is not present in Unit 1. Durham East MPP Gord Mills went to bat for community newspapers last week. He was encouraging the provincial government to oppose the postal in- , creases community newspapers, such as Thu Statesman', are facing. Mr. Mills addressed members of the legislature in a member's statement, last Thursday. He urged colleagues in the house to phone the minister responsible for Canada Post to demand the rate increase increase be reviewed. The provincial member noted that community newspapers are vital to the areas they serve. "Often they provide the only source of local news to residents." "These newspapers cover all sorts of local board meetings - everything from school to library to police service boards -- keeping them more accounta ble and in the public eye," Mr. Mills said. He noted that there are 350 community community newspapers across Ontario and five papers alone in his riding. He added added that the drastic increases Canada post, has implemented for newspapers threatens the papers' survival. "The Canadian Statesman, in Bowmanville, Bowmanville, for example, faces an immediate immediate increase of 508 percent, or $35,000 per year," he said. Noting that other papers face the same increases, Mr. Mills said some papers may be forced to close. "This would be a tragic loss for our communities," he added. . If you would like to make your views on the matter known, contact the Honourable Harvey Andre, Minister Minister Responsible for Canada Post, at 613-992-6124. Rough Ride for Gentle Newcastle Oldtimers A forward from the Newcastle Oldtimers roughs it up with a Scarborough defenceman during a Saturday afternoon game of the Hockin Oldtimers Tournament Tournament hold lit the Bowmanville Recreation Complex. It was a tough day for Newcastle who lost their opening game 5-1 to MCL, rebounded with an 8-1 drubbing of Scarborough, but wore shut out in the 'O' final by Ontario Motor Sales, 3-0.