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bwville library 62 TEMPERANCE ST. BOmWlLLE, ONTARIO UC3A8 BOHLIB 930313 "V -j 416-623-3303 20 Pages Wednesday, July 291992 Bowmanville, Ontario 138th Year 560 + 40 G.S.T. = 600 Issue 30 is Hi Orono Shots were fired at two Orono men on Monday afternoon when they followed a pair of bank robbers who held up the Orono branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. "It was. a spur-of-the-moment thing," recalled Murray Taylor. "My friend, Rick Perry, and I were coming coming back from running some errands and decided to follow die robbers." Mr. Taylor said he was surprised at the incident and at the actions of the culprits. "I couldn't believe how stupid they were. They parked their getaway getaway vehicle on a dead end." Mr. Taylor said he felt angry and also felt sorry for the bank employees. employees. "We were more angry than anything anything else. However, you don't feel fear until something is over." Mr. Taylor said he felt it was his duty to follow the robbers so he could tell police in which direction the robbers went. Durham Regional Police said the robbery occurred at about 2:30 p.m. One of the men who entered the bank was toting a long-barreled rifle and remained at the front of the bank. The second culprit went behind behind the counter and began to ransack ransack the'drawers. The first male is described as wearing a black ski mask and as being being in his early 20's. He was approximately approximately 6 feet to 6 feet,.2 inches tall, with a slim build. The second male is described as wearing a witch's mask (yellow with a long pointed nose.) He was in his early 20's and stood 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet, two inches tall. After taking a small amount of money, the pair fled the bank and entered a white cube van parked nearby. They then drove away. That is when Mr. Taylor and Mr. Perry took up the chase. The two men followed the robbers robbers west to the area of Ochonski Road. During this chase, three shots were fired by the culprits. The two suspects then left the van and jumped into a white automobile automobile and fled the scene. The suspects were last seen travelling travelling eastbound on the Fifth Concession, Concession, east of Highway 115. There were no injuries in the incident. incident. The white van has been identified identified as one that had been reported stolen in Oshawa earlier on Monday. Monday. The- Durham Regional Police are investigating. HOLIDAY DEADLINE -Because next Monday is a holiday, our office office and plant will be closed and we'll have to concentrate two days of work into one, so our papers will be published at the regular times. To meet this challenge, the deadline for classified advertising in the August August 5th edition will be set back to Friday, July 31st at 4:30 p.m. Your cooperation would be appreciated. RAINED OUT - There must have been considerable disappointment at. Bowmanville's Lawn Bowling Club on Sunday, where a tournament tournament was scheduled to get under way in the morning, with the winners winners receiving the Royal Canadian Legion's Branch 178 trophy. Unfortunately, the heavy rains made the greens too soggy for the players to exercise their skills at rolling their bowls toward a white 'kitty.' No doubt the event will be rescheduled for later in the season and someone will keep us informed, we hope. NEW MINISTER - A news tip has arrived from the Ncwtonville United Church Charge that the churches in that circuit will soon have à new minister. They apparently have been enjoying several different ministers over the past year, but as of August 2nd, the Rev. David Black will be taking over the pastoral charge and will be welcomed in the customary manner, no doubt. Our thanks to Inez Boughen for this information, we shall look forward to meeting their new pastor at some of the area events. SPREADING CRIME - In the past, bank robberies have been somewhat somewhat rare items in our daily lives, compared to more urban communities, communities, such as Toronto, and we hope to keep it that way, we just don't need all that excitement. Monday's armed encounter at the CIBC in Orono must have been quite a traumatic experience for those in the bank and others who chased the culprits and got shot at. We've also had a couple of sexual assaults reported in Courtice and Blackstock as well as break-ins at a number of homes. Crime seems to be spreading its wings in our direction. NAME CHANGE - Anyone from the present Town of Newcastle who is interested in submitting a new name for this community, should send in their suggestion to the town by Friday, July 31st, so the Name Committee will have plenty of time, to go over them and select a list for further perusal. The Editor has had a couple of requests to repeat repeat some of the editorials that appeared earlier on this subject, but for the moment is remaining neutral to give the committee plenty of scope to come up with a name that will be acceptable to a majority of our citizens and one that will remove the present confusion. So, get those new names in and let them go to work solving the problem. PLOWING MATCH - This area is fortunate this year to have the 1992 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show taking place so close to home. This gigantic event will take place in Victoria County, just outside Lindsay on September 15 to 19 and probably will draw many thousands from all parts of Canada and the United States as well.'If it lives up to advance billing, it will be a major attraction for every farmer and many urban folks as well. BLOOD DONORS - There is an important Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic coming up next Wednesday, August 5th at the Lions Centre on Beech Avenue. As usual, it will be open for clients at noon and com . tinue operating until 8 p.m., allowing loads of time for regular and brand new donors to participate. This is the time of year when blood supplies in the banks arc in short supply for a wide variety of reasons, such as holidays, etc. But, it's also the period when highway accidents and injuries pul a higher than usual drain on-those same blood banks. So, if you can possibly attend, please do so. The need is real. EQUIPMENT - While writing about the Red Cross, we'd like to remind remind anyone who has sick room equipment on loan from the Red Cross Loan Services and no longer needs it, to call this number to ar range its return - 623-3909. Once again it is fair time in the Durham Region. Proving the fact was Orono resident Glenn Andrews who was out and about on Saturday afternoon, July 25 at the Oshawa-Whitby Fair with his oxen team, Bert and Ernie. Dressed in their fancy duds, Bert and Ernie were stepping out and looking handsome for all the kids who paused to take a gander at them. Mr. Andrews, and his oxen were part of the big event held on Garrard Road North in Whitby. Here, one of the oxen stopped to have his neck scratched by an interested fair-goer. -- Photo by Laura Richards ; .v ■., > r-' - >" by Laura J. Richards Over 1,000 of the flyers distributed distributed recently in the Town of Newcastle Newcastle have been returned to the Name Change Committee since mid-July, said the Chairman of the committee. "Since early last week we have had 1,000 replies," said David Wing to Town of Newcastle Council on Monday night. "And that number continues to grow daily." Mr. Wing told councillors he will not be commenting on names that have been suggested so far by area residents. Nor will he indicate what some of the suggested names might be. He claimed he did not want to Bennett Road Plan prejudice residents in their choice of proposed names. However, he did go as far as to say that "there are a lot of good names." Mr. Wing told Newcastle Councillors Councillors he wanted to address a few problems that had cropped up since the gold-colored flyers had hit the mailboxes. "Some people are calling to say they haven't received a flyer," he said. "We tell the residents that they can pick up the flyers here (at the town's administration building in Bowmanville)." A misconception that the com mittee members are also having to deal with is that area residents think that the volunteers are being paid. 'Mr. Wing wants it to be known that this just isn't so. Town of Newcastle Mayor Diane Hamre told Mr. Wing after he spoke that she and her council members were impressed with how the committee committee worked. Ward Two Regional Councillor Ken Hooper asked Mr. Wing if he knew that many of the forms were not delivered with the regular mail. ' "Did you know that some of the forms went door to door with the flyers? "Most people didn't receive them because the name change flyer was in with other flyers -- and we know what most people do with them," Councillor Hooper said. "We were somewhat misled," Mr. Wing said of the committee's intention to have the flyers mailed to each household in the town. "We paid to have the flyers go with letters : not store flyers," Mr. Wing said. Local residents arc being asked to have their suggestions in the boxes boxes by Friday, July 31, as this is die last day for submissions to the committee. committee. Di by Laura J. Richards A Bowmanville company is seeking permission to process industrial industrial waste in a factory it leases on Bennett Rd., just south of Hwy.401. . Detox Environmental Ltd. has applied to die Ministry of the Environment Environment for permission to operate a waste processing and transfer plant. It would use an existing 8,000 square foot building which is a former former paint and solvent blending plant. The facility would be capable of taking in 80 metric tonnes of liquid liquid industrial waste per day and 30 tonnes of non-hazardous solid industrial industrial waste. The site could also receive 150 metric tonnes of hazardous hazardous waste per day. This material would not include PCBs, pathological wastes or explosive explosive wastes. The handling and storage storage would be done inside the builtl- in ®' Continued on Page 2 Torch Bearer Runs in Spain by Brad Kelly There is a part of the Town of Newcastle that is burning brightly in Barcelona, Spain, as the Games of the XXV Olympiad Olympiad continue. Bowmanville resident Jim Crydcrman was one of over 9,000 people to participate in the Olympic Torch Run that covered a distance of 5,500 kms over a 43-day period. The run concluded during the opening ceremonies of the games on Saturday afternoon. The torch was used to light an arrow which was shot into a cauldron, igniting the Olympic flame. "We feel that we are a part of the Olympic flame that travelled travelled through to Spain," said Crydcrman after returning home from the week-long journey. Crydcrman was one of a contingent contingent of 10 Canadians who made the trek to Spain to lake part in the torch run. Sponsored by Coca-Cola, four Special Olympic athletes from Canada and their chape rones took part in the run as it passed through Alicontc, Spain, which is 500 kms south of Barcelona. Barcelona. Equipped with their own torch that they kept as a souvenir, souvenir, participants passed the flame to each other after running running with it for 500 metres. To his surprise, Crydcrman was asked to run alongside the athlete he was chaperoning, John Wass, of Stoney Creek. "I'm not in the best of shape, but I made the 500 metres," metres," he joked. Aside from temperatures that reached into the mid-30° Celsius Celsius range, everything went "just great," he said. This included included the bus ride from the hotel hotel to Alicontc, where they began began their run, "The streets were just crowded with people who were waiting for the torch to pass by," recalled Crydcrman. "They would cheer us on as the bus went through because they knew we were involved in the torch run." Coca-Cola sent 200 people from over 50 countries to take part in the International Torch Run. This year marked the first time in the history of the modern modern Olympics that international participants were included in Continued on Page 2 Jim Crydcrman Speaker Informs Club of Critical Need for Organ Donor Program See Page 4 Kendal Eagles Over .500 Mark As Team Peaks For Playoffs See Page 8 PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville