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1 6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, November 4,1992 Section Two Award Winning Pumpkin Carvings at Courtice Flea Market by Peter T. Sum Elected politicians and bureaucrats bureaucrats of the Town of Newcastle discussed discussed last week with representatives • of 12 business organizations matters regarding a projected community complex in Courtice. "It was a very upbeat type of meeting," meeting," Regional Councillor Ann Dres- linski of Ward 3 told an interviewer after last Friday's meeting which she chaired. She said the representatives from the private sector had asked a number of questions, "some on zoning, some on roads and other related" matters. "We're not going to dictate to them what's going in," she said, referring referring to the initial planning stage of the projected complex. The Town has said that it plans to have a swimming pool, a library and a community room included in the initial initial planning of the construction of the complex. Last week's meeting was the result of an exercise the Town undertook early in September when it mailed 39 requests to the private sector seeking proposals to the design and planning of the community complex. Towards the end of September, Town authorities received 13 replies. Since then, one of the 13 respondents respondents has bowed out of the picture. Aside from the two representatives from each of the 12 private sector organizations organizations and Mrs. Dreslinski, others others who attended the meeting last week included: Mayor Diane Hamrc of the Town of Newcastle; Chief Administrative Officer Larry Kotseff; Community Services Director Joe Caruana; Community Community Services facilities manager Fred Horvath; Frank Wu, director of Planning and Development Department; Department; the Town's solicitor; councillors councillors Larry Hannah and Mary Novak, regional and local respectively of Ward 1, which includes the community community of Courtice; and Hannu Halminen, non-voting member of the Town's Technical Advisory Committee. Mrs. Dreslinski head the Technical Advisory Committee, which is also known as the Steering Committee for the projected Courtice Community Complex. Mr. Halminen, a Courtice developer, developer, heads a project group of the Courtice Courtice Community Complex Fundraising Fundraising Committee which was formed last April by a group of concerned Courticcans for the expressed purpose of raising money from the private sector sector to help make the complex project a reality. Mrs. Dreslinski described last Friday's Friday's encounter with the businessmen as "we gel together, it's a good meeting." meeting." Asked when she thought the spade would be in the ground, the Ward 1 councillor said she was still setting her target date on sometime in 1994; "If they (the businessmen) can come up with a real viable package then I think it'll be before'that." The businessmen have until this Friday, November 6, to come up with some concrete proposals from which Steering Committee members hope to boil down to "three or so" finalists to ■ the Town-private sector partnership in the (community complex project. Meanwhile, Courtice Community Complex Fund-raising Committee (CCCFC) held its October meeting last week and decided to have Community Community Services Director Caru ana approach approach provincial authorities for a list of consultants specializing in fundraising. fundraising. CCCFC chairman Bev Grose said a copy of the committee's terms of reference for a fund-raising feasible study will be mailed to consultants on the list with a covering letter, seeking their participation in the fund-raising aspect of the Courtice Community Complex project. The letter informs the consultants that they have until November 23 to submit their proposals for participation participation in the fund-raising exercise. CCCFC next meets on Wednesday, November 25. CCCFC members Muriel and Rene Krizanc have agreed to co-chair a sub committee to select a fund-raising consultant. The fund-raising campaign will start officially with a "kickoff' dinner to be held on a Thursday night early in February at Bowmanville Recreation Recreation Complex near the junction of Highway 2 and Martin Rd. The $50-per-person black-tic affair will probably highlight an Olympic gold medallist, or a number of gold medallists, as guest speaker, or speakers. speakers. Mrs. Grose said CCCFC .hopes to "fill the hall, which means selling 400 tickets." The CCCFC meeting last Wednesday Wednesday also received the treasurer's report report which shows that revenue has exceeded exceeded expenses. "In other words," said Mrs. Grose, "we have money in the bank." Also last week, Jennifer Markle, aged 10, was judged best junior pumpkin pumpkin carver in a contest held on Saturday Saturday at the Courtice Flea Market and Auction Bam on Bloor St. between Courtice and Trulls roads. Her runners-up in the aged-six-to- 10 category were Zachary McLeod, 7, and Chelsea Wilson 8. In the aged 10-and-over category the first prize went to G. Dowsett, who's over 21," followed by Paul Heavysage, aged' 11, and "Mom", aged undisclosed. Three area journalists from Courtice Courtice and Oshawa - faced the challenging challenging task of selecting the six winners from a field of "at least 80" entries. "I'd prefer facing my editor than this," one judge was overheard mumbling mumbling to himself as he approached his task at hand then. Linda Welsh of Bowmanville, who maintains a folk art and decorative painting booth at the flea market, won the prize for the best costumed vendor ■ for Hallowe'en. "My husband was laughing at me this morning," she said after she was told she had won the prize. "Now I can show him. And get some respect." About 80 ordinary pumpkins were transformed into extraordinary jack-o-lantems on Saturday, October October 31, at the Courtice Flea Market. The pumpkins were given to anyone wishing to enter the contest. 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