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■■■■■■I ■ • M» T^vS" mÈÊÊÊÊË i ,MM?"v-VC, WÊmIÊÊlKm MM : • M pBBIÉMWp mi wBÊÊËm s 1 i ■ m * Delivered j Free of Charge to 18,000 Homes in Clarington from The Publishers of Œfie Canadian à ta Usman i ilipl ■zmfM ise** mm §§§ WËÊÊmÊmÊÈk WÊÊÊÊÊÊk WmÈÊm il sliilllliM If SlâiÊé IBÈ6» âss*£. ^ ■ ■:, ■: ■ : . - V, • > /V . EE; ESE ^■1 . ■ .'V.'. A' EEe ME§i8 IISSiliSK; Operation Impact Encourages Drivers to Buckle Up Saturday Today (October 2nd), police officers officers across Canada will join for a common purpose: to demonstrate their commitment to achieving increased increased use of seat belts and child restraints and thereby save lives. Operation Impact is a one-day co-operative traffic law enforcement and education campaign involving the Ontario Provincial Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Surete Du Quebec and the Canadian Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. Police. This partnership now represents represents more than 60,000 police officers Canada wide. Durham Regional Police are also participating in the 24-hour "Operation "Operation Impact" Efforts are under way throughout Canada to achieve a 95 per cent seat belt compliance rate by 1995. Achieving that percentage will mean saving 500 lives for every year that level is maintained. In the No. 8 District, numerous initiatives will be taking place on October 2. Available personnel will be patrolling all major highways and issuing violation notices for non- compliance of the seat belt laws as they relate to drivers and passengers. passengers. Peterborough, Millbrook, Lindsay Lindsay and Cobourg detachments in conjunction with Peterborough Community Police, Lakefield Po lice, the Town of Cobourg Police and the city of Lindsay Police Service Service are participating in an Alternative Alternative Measures Program. This program program allows the police, after issuing an offence notice to the offender, to offer them a chance to attend a seat belt education course. Upon the completion of the course, the ticket is withdrawn and no fine is imposed. imposed. The course is scheduled for the third week of October in order to accommodate the seat belt blitz on October 2. Cobourg and Brighton detachments detachments will have a seat belt educational educational display in place at the 401 Service Centres on October 2 as well as concentrated seat belt enforcement enforcement on Highway 2,30 and 33. Three RCMP officers will be patrolling patrolling with OPP officers from the Newcastle Detachment and the Om tario Provincial Police RIDE unit will be working with the Town of Port Hope Police Service this day. To the west, the Coboconk Detachment Detachment will be concentrating their enforcement enforcement efforts on Highway 48 and 35. Your local police hope that this co-operative traffic law enforcement and awareness day will help reduce deaths and injuries as a result of traffic accidents. Please buckle up for safety today, October 2, and on every other day. by Laura J. Richards The Durham Region has picked a local contractor to haul sewage sludge to farm fields. Durham Region councillors voted voted to go with a known quality of customer service rather than an unknown unknown quality. The five-year contract with Cour- tice Auto Wreckers will cost the region region $5,907,000 (excluding GST) for haulage and land application of digested sewer sludge from the region's region's water pollution control plants. It was not the lowest bid submitted submitted for the job. The other bidder was Laidlaw Waste Systems Ltd. Public Works Chairman John Aker told council members Wednesday Wednesday that having heard delegations from the farming community, Laidlaw Laidlaw and Courtice Auto Wreckers, the staff recommended the higher of the two contract bidders because the local company is trusted by the farmers. "There has been a tremendous amount of discussion on this matter," matter," Councillor Aker said. "In my opinion, the Courtice Auto Wreckers Ltd. has 10 years' distribution experience," Councillor Aker noted. With that experience comes the knowledge of the "different types of crops, soil" and weather conditions, he said farmers had noted during a meeting. He said the farmers warned that if the wrong thing is done, it could negatively affect their crops. Minutes from the public works committee meeting of Sept 21 state that Vern . Powell, a farmer from North Oshawa said he and at least 50 per cent of the other land owners currently - in the program would withdraw if the tender went to Laid- Continued on Page 2 Graham's IGA* Maxi Drug A Sc P Miracle Mart ('indicates partial distribution) For information about inserting flyers in The Independent, please contact our office at 623-3303 Secret Growing Tips Lead to Giant Pumpkin Albert Mavin of Church Street, Bowmanville, is proud of the pumpkin his grandson, Brent, planted this year. The pumpkin is more than 60 inches in circumference. The secret to a large pumpkin seems to include buying a giant pumpkin seed and starting it in the house. It is also important important to deposit a large amount of compost and roto-till the soil before planting the young pumpkin pumpkin seedling in the garden. At this time Mavin is unsure of what will happen to the pumpkin. He's leaving it up to his grandson and his wife to come up with a plan. Ontario "snowbirds" facing the high cost of health insurance are caught between "a rock and a hard place," Durham East's MPP says. In a statement to the Ontario Legislature, Legislature, Gord Mills urged Ontario's cabinet and premier to come up with solutions which will help resolve the hardships faced by seniors who may have to pay $3,000 for health insurance insurance if they spend their winter in Florida. "This year, 40 per cent of the seniors who usually go south will be forced to stay at home. And this is happening because they can no longer afford to pay the $3,000 or so for health insurance," Mr. Mills said on Wednesday, September 29. "These seniors forced to stay home are not wealthy, they are the ordinary folks who have saved up to buy a winter place in the sun to enjoy enjoy respite from cold in their old age. Mr. Mills went on to say that some of the seniors sold their homes to purchase two mobile homes, one in Ontario and one in Florida. If they must stay home this winter, they will find themselves living in a home not designed for winter residency, residency, while their Florida dwelling is empty. Such homes in Florida arc less in demand because of the health insurance costs facing retirees. "The seniors of Ontario have, during their lives, made a significant contribution to the fabric of Ontario. They have paid their way and now expect some return considerations by way of the creation of some reasonable reasonable health insurance for their stay in Florida or other warm spots," Mr. Mills continued. "I appeal to the premier and cabinet cabinet to set up your war room now and work out a solution to help those that have done so much for the Province of Ontario in the prime of their lives," he said.