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Î Legion Dinner Commemorates Battle of Vi my Ridge The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, April 8,1992 3 vr •i -xy...' . The auditorium of Branch 178 Royal Canadian Legion was packed on Sunday afternoon for the dinner dinner commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917. The head table guests, included, 1-r, Events Chairman Jim Firth, Freda Selina, World War I and Vimy veteran Fred West and his wife Elmira, President President Jim Connell, Lynne Puddister, Past President Waller Park and his wife, Auxiliary President Doreen. Also present was Peter Miedcma, a member of the Dutch underground resistance during World Warll. Entertainment was provided by the pipe band and the Rev. Bonnie Kelly. Lucky Winner Takes Home $1,000 from Legion Draw ^Howard Bromell, being congratulated by Legion Past President Stan Dunn at right, was the big winner winner of the $1,000 prize Saturday night in the Legion's Millionaires Night Draw, while at left is Bert Wer- ryjwho won $400 and not shown is Ed Vanhaverbckc who took home $300. Lights Needed at Prestonvale 5 Town of Newcastle councillors want to know the date for the installation installation of traffic signals at the intersection intersection of Prestonvale Road and Highway 2. j And councillors hope the lights will be installed soon. 5 "They've been approved by the Ministry of Transportation, but now xiye've got to push for them," Ward One Regional Councillor Larry Hannah told reporters during a break in the General Purpose and Administration Committee meeting on Monday, April 6. ■ "We need a resolution to press them to install the lights this year. We need the lights this year, not next," he said. j ' During the meeting, he told com- qiittee members Courtice "desperately "desperately needs those lights." * The committee agreed to send a letter to the ministry to ask them to speed up on the project. Also, a letter will be sent to Durham Durham Regional Council asking them to hasten the installation of the lights. The municipality's . request comes just days after another motor vehicle collision sent a person to hospital with a broken neck. The accident accident took place at die intersection of Prestonvale Road and Highway 2 during the late afternoon on Friday, April 3. Land to be Expropriated Near Zoo The Town of Newcastle is going to expropriate hind it needs to reconstruct reconstruct part of Highway Two and Mcams Avc. The reconstruction is to take place along Highway Two from Simpson Avenue cast to the Soper Creek bridge, and on Meams Avenue from Highway 2 to Orchard Park Drive in 1993. So far, the town has purchased land from John and Carol Sombcrgcr who live on the north-west comer of Meams Avenue at Highway 2. DUCA CREDIT UNION MORTGAGES Œ YEAR Ml Œ YEARS 9J5%) ( 3 YEARS 10.00%1 Œ YEARS 10.25% 1 ( 5 YEARS 10.25%1 "Closed Mortgages With Special Prepayment Privileges." Better "Banking" for Everyone 136 King St. E. Bowmanville 623-6343 15 Charles St. Oshawa 728-4658 Manager: Paul Muller Willowdalo**, Toronto, Itoxdnlo, Etobicoke**, Scmtloroui'ti, Richmond Hill, Nowmnrkot**, Brampton, Orangeville*♦ Onliawn, Dowmnnville ♦♦Open on Saturdays 9:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m, The town is currently engaged in an expropriation process with the owners of the Bowmanvillc Zoo. According to a report presented Monday at a meeting of the Town of Newcastle's General Purpose and Administration Administration Committee, town staff thought they had an agreement with Manulife, another property owner. "However, although we feel we have agreed to all of their requirements, requirements, we arc unable to obtain an Offer Offer to Sell from Manulife," town staff explained in their report. To gain the land required for the reconstruction to take place in 1993, "it is now necessary to proceed with expropriation from Manulife for the widening required," the staff report added. H&R Block keeps up with the changes. We know the income tax laws arid the forms inside and out. That's our business. H&R BLOCK* CANADA'S TAX TEAM Standing up for you! BOWMANVILLE MALL 243 King Street E. Bowmanville 623-6957 1413 King St. E. Courtice 432-6800 Week in Review. Residents Not Impressed By Waterfront Master Plan by Laura J. Richards The Port Darlington Waterfront Master Plan is "a pic in the sky" and "just a large fantasy," said a couple of Bowmanvillc residents during an information information session on the newest study. Approximately 50 area residents attended the two-hour information meeting held Wednesday evening, April 1, by the Town of Newcastle's Planning Department. However, not all residents who attended attended were skeptical. "There are more parks now," said one woman, who asked that her name not be used, as did most people, on Wednesday evening. "In this secondary study there's a school and medium density housing. "But I just don't know how it is going to work. Mom and Dad have spent almost 20 years in their home down there," said another woman. Looking at the plan, one man said a road would go straight through his property. And he's not happy with that fact. Especially since he and other residents would lose their homes to make way for other homes, a trail and new roads. Many of the people who attended the information sessions were not in favor of losing their homes to the developments developments proposed in the master plan. However, those weren't the only concerns people wondered about out loud at the session. "There are three issues the provincial provincial government needs to look at here," said area resident Iain Maciver. "First, there are the transmission lines and the radiation that has been attributed attributed to them, causing cancer." Vestibule to be Added To Recreation Complex A local construction company is to be granted a Town of Newcastle contract to build an entrance vestibule vestibule and ticket booth at the Bowmanville Bowmanville Recreation Complex. The members of the General Purpose Purpose and Administration Committee will recommend to council that the bid of Veenstra Construction Ltd. be accepted. The firm submitted the lowest of six bids. Its price was $17,719.82. An estimated cost of $15,000 had bebn projected prior to the formal quotation request from the Treasurer's Treasurer's Department. Joe Caruana, Director of Community Community Services, told committee members the vestibule and ticket booth had been deleted from the original plans for the recreation complex in order to cut costs. The vestibule and ticket booth will be located inside the concourse. "What we're trying to do is create a second set of doors inside so we don't spend a lot of money on utilities," said Mr. Caruana. Nevada Request Denied by Town A committee of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle council has recommended that a licence for the sale of break-open Nevada Nevada tickets be denied to the Big Sisters Sisters of Newcastle, Oshawa and Whitby. Whitby. The denial came because the municipality municipality learned the organization is based in Oshawa. According to policies of the Lotteries Lotteries Branch of the Ministry of Consumer Consumer and Commercial Relations, a licence licence can only be given if the applicant organization is based in the municipality it is requesting the licence licence from. Therefore, the General Purpose and Administration Committee members members have directed the Lottery Licencing Licencing Officer (Town Clerk) to deny all requests for Break-Open Lottery Tickets Tickets until the province amends its policies. policies. Next, there is the amount of traffic and noise from the 401 and the railway railway tracks, he pointed out. "And finally there is the water these people will be drinking. It's from Lake Ontario." "The province should not allow housing to be built by these hazards," Mr. Macivcr added. However, Mr. Macivcr, did say he could understand the reasoning of putting putting facilities such as the proposed marina into the plan. "People who live and work in Toronto Toronto are looking for power vacations." vacations." In his estimation, this would be better for the executives than travelling travelling by plane to foreign shores. Instead, Instead, the executive could travel to the Port Darlington Waterfront, take a cruise on a boat, and book a few nights at the hotel. The proposed plan is looking at two sections of high density housing, one section of medium density residential residential development, one area of medium medium density cluster housing and two areas of low density residential housing. housing. There is also in the plans a school and a considerable amount of parkland. parkland. According to the Master Plan displayed displayed on Wednesday night, there will also be the Regional Waterfront Trail going from West Beach across a pedestrian pedestrian bridge to the cast beach. There will also be a 400-500 slip marina which will extend 500 metres into the lake. The detailed illustration on display indicated the marina will be almost enclosed by a circular outcrop of parkland parkland similar to the Bluffs Park area in Scarborough. There will be an inlet for boats to go in and out of the marina. marina. David Crome, of the Town of Newcastle Planning Department, said the marina will be permitted, if it docs not "negatively impact" the lakcshorc cast of it. The marina is a desirable part of the full concept of the Port Darlington Waterfront Master Plan, Mr. Crome indicated. A few problems people talked about amongst themselves in groups included the buying of the lakcshorc property by the town, the creation of water pollution by pleasure craft, and the use of nearby land by St. Marys Cement. Residents who did not make it to the public information session can attend attend a public meeting on the Port Darlington Darlington Waterfront Master Plan on May 4 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will take place in the council chambers in the Administration Building on Temperance Temperance Street, Bowmanvillc. B.M.T. AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE Hwy. 115 Southbound Lane OLCO Station 987-5174 *! 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