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^ n :s:::::::::::::::v::::::x:v:::::::::;:::: 905-623-3303 16 Pages Wednesday, January 5,1994 Bowmanville, Ontario 140th Year 560 + 4# G.S.T. = 60# Issue 1 51 SÊÊSËSSmmmmmm Il SSEEBUBBB 1 SSiS^^ BBBIBBEEE5B5Sg5IB^l IS jam WiSÆS Feline Rescue at Newtonville Overcome by smoke from a Newtonville house fire, a stunned cat receives receives a welcome breath of air from firefighters battling a two-storey blaze on Hwy. Two last Wednesday night. A family of three managed to escape the burning building before emergency teams responded. Their family pet was rescued from an upstairs bedroom. Complicated 0MB Hearing Expected on Shopping Mall by Laura J. Richards Ten weeks have been set aside for the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing to take place in Bowmanville starting on Jan. 31, 1994. The board members will be listening listening to the pros and cons of development development on the west side of Bowmanville. Bowmanville. The owners of the Bowmanville Mall and Ghod's Builders want the property south of Highway Two (be-' tween Highway 57 and Green Road) reviewed and examined by the OMB. The land is the proposed site of a new shopping plaza, including a supermarket supermarket and department store. Clarington Planning Director Frank Wu told The Statesman on Monday afternoon he predicts the hearing will become complicated. "There will be four or five developers, developers, their solicitors and the town involved," Wu stated. But they won't be the only ones. The lawyers for the. Bowmanville Mall owners and Ghod's Builders will be there too. The Bowmanville Mall is arguing arguing that, given Bowmanville's current population, there should not be any commercial expansion past . the Bowmanville Creek. As for Ghod's Builders, Wu says, "They didn't get what they wanted from the municipality." They did get the McDonald's Restaurant approval from council, but they wanted to be able to provide provide more commercial space. Wu figures the solicitors for the Bowmanville Mall. will, among a number of things, have the OMB members take a long look at the population forecasts for this area. However, no matter what happens, happens, it is still the members of the OMB who will determine the outcome outcome of the hearing. "The long and short of it is that the members will determine the outcome. outcome. I hope we will know by spring," said Wu. If spring brings a positive answer in favor of the municipality of Clar- ington's wishes to proceed with development, development, Wu said it is possible area residents will see action taking place before the end of 1994. Of course, that depends on whether the developers are equally keen to proceed# HELLO TO '94 - Now that we have made it through 1993 without encountering a complete disaster, we are facing up to a brand new year with great anticipation, mainly because it's always a pleasure to have another year behind us. And, believe it or not, the folks at the licence bureau renewed our driving licence. Now, we can head for 115/35 and check out the new speed testing cameras that should be in operation shortly. WANTA GO WALKIN'?- Apparently, there is a Walking Club in our community of Bowmanville that swings into action every Monday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. and strolls for an hour to dispose of excessive amounts of calories acquired during the festive season. They meet at the Administration Centre (Town Hall) on Temperance St.. We have no information concerning where they meander, but anyone interested in joining the group or learning more about them should ohone 623-2755. ^ MOOVIN' & GROOVIN' - We are delighted to hear that the 55+ Movin' & Groovin' group is planning a 12-week winter session of exercises, TaiChi, Line Dancing, etc. Registration will be held Friday, Jan. 7th at the Community Care office, in Bowmanville at 98 King SL West, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mary Lane has more information at 623-9732. There's also a new program of Orono line dancing Monday afternoons, with registration Thursday, Jan. 6th 1 to 4 pm. at Orono United Church. If more information is required on this class, please call Annabel Sissons 983-5877. No doubt we shall hear more when Orono correspondent, Isabelle Challice and husband Orville join up. WINS SECOND PRIZE - The Ontario Lottery office in Toronto sends along the good news about a 2nd place prize winner in the Dec. 29th 6/49 draw. The lucky winner of $85,635.40 is Brace Tripp of Lindsay. They didn't provide additional information concerning any possible connection with Bowmanville, but you have to admit winning that kind of money is a very nifty way to conclude any year, not just 1993. We're happy to congratulate Mr. Tripp and wish him well with whatever plans he has for investing his windfall. NEW HOME & NAME - This is a brief reminder to mark your 1994 calendar with the Tuesday, Jan. 11th date for the Big Broihers Open House in their new home at 23 Scugog Street in Bowmanville. They not only have an attractive and spacious new home, but also a new name as they have followed other local groups in replacing the Newcastle designation with the now official name of this regional Municipality of Clarington. Special ceremonies will be held at 5:30 and refreshments will be served. They are hoping a large crowd will attend this important celebration. BACK TO NORMAL - After the horrendous pace of the Yuletide season and the always welcome holidays enjoyed by staffs at governments, banks, schools, etc, this week is a rather reluctant return to normal hours and days of school and business. While it may take a | week or two to get back into the regular routine of things, most of us will adapt fairly quickly if customers and callers will be patient and understand the problems being faced. By February, those who j enjoyed the time off will be getting ready for the March school break. Then, of course, there arc those of us who enjoy our work so much that we hate to leave it for a day, it says here. GETS CURIOUSER - If all goes well at next Monday's Clarington Council meeting, all the information requested by Councillor Ken Hooper, about the use of credit cards by Mayor Diane Hamre and staff members, should be available for public consumption. He 'certainly is within his rights and duties to ask for and receive this information. Frankly, we can sec no reason for any delay in providing him with all the details he has requested to clear up this problem, so council can get on with dealing with .regular business matters with despatch. The controversy has been dragging on too long and should be settled so credit card use guidelines can be brought in and enforced Newtonville House Fire Causes Damage Estimated at $65,000 Firefighters in Newtonville are heroes after resuscitating an injured cat and rescuing another from a burning building last Wednesday night on Highway Two. The damage was estimated at $65,000. The occupants, a family of three, managed to escape their flaming two-storey home at 4419 Highway Two before firefighters firefighters arrived on the scene about 10:40 p.m. One unidentified cat found on the grounds was suffering the effects of smoke inhalation and was revived with an oxygen mask by fire crews. The family's family's pel cat was found in a back bedroom "cowering in a corner," corner," according to Clarington Fire'Chief Mike Creighton. The terrified animal was carried to safety and treated. Both cats are reported to be doing well. The fire apparently started in the basement where one of the occupants was working on a snowmobile. The flames spread up the outside wall to the second floor. Firefighters battling the blaze got it under control in approximately approximately three hours. by Laura J. Richards Glenabbey Rd. residents were visibly angry on Monday morning when they left a municipal committee committee meeting. The group has complained to Clarington's councillors that traffic is using Glenabbey Rd., in south Courtice, as a collector route for Highway 401. They fear for the safety of other drivers, pedestrians, and children. "You don't know what's going c -- The Stork Marke Pi /jlluX Rpnnrt kwWr f j *r \\ 1 lupui x : DALLAS-It's u Girl! DKNNIS-NOKMAN - It's ii Hoy! GLOVER~ it'» * Roy! II V Sec Page'14 Total This Year Boys 2 Girls 1 J v Municipal Councillors Are Being Questioned by Laura J. Richards A Ward Two councillor is once again wading through' more paper work to get details on municipal spending. Councillor Ken Hooper wants to know why the figures on one reimbursement reimbursement form for June 1993 are different from another one for the same month. To find out what is going on, Councillor Hooper has asked Clarington Clarington Treasurer Marie Marano to look into the matter. However, the information is not to be made public. "This is a confidential matter," Councillor Hooper stated. However, "once the report is made out, I sec no reason why it can't be given out to other council members." The report is to include the cheque numbers of the payments made to the municipality and what the payments were to cover. At Monday's meeting of the General Purpose and Administration Committee, a summary of expenses claimed by municipal councillors for the first 11 months of 1993 was presented. Two councillors -- Councillor Ken Hooper and Councillor David Scott -- did not claim any mileage or convcnlion/confcrcncc expenses for the entire 11 months. Clarington Mayor Diane Hamre Turn to Pago 2 on at that street," remarked one resident resident after the traffic problem was discussed by the general purpose and administration committee this week. Committee to Call Meeting to Address Residents'Concerns The committee voted to call a meeting to review the residents' concerns. Clarington's director of public works, the Durham Regional Police, and a representative of the Glenabbey Rd. residents would participate participate in the meeting. However, the residents claim that the municipality isn't doing enough to solve, the problem. They are demanding demanding further action. Appearing on behalf of the.residents the.residents was John Stezik, who questioned questioned a report written by the Public Works Department. He stated, having only "one recommendations recommendations for action" was con sidered unsatisfactory by area residents. residents. "We expected a list of recommendation recommendation from which some would be implemented," Stezik exclaimed. He stated that the report offered no input from a traffic expert, and provided no traffic source study. It suggested the participation of residents in a modified version of a 'Neighborhood Speed Watch Program.' Program.' But, the Glenabbey Rd. spokesperson questioned that option. option. "This is an attempt to shift the responsibility from the municipality onto the residents," Stezik pointed out to the committee members. Within the report to which Stezik referred, the Neighbourhood Speed Watch concept was described as "a program existing in Georgia, U.S.A., which encourages the residents residents to assist in a form of public education. "The program was designed to reduce the speeds of motorists in self-contained subdivisions that experience experience little or no through traffic with an 85 percentile of 10 miles per hour or more above the posted' speed," explained the public works department report. ! "Although Glenabbey Drive as a collector road does not fit the 'local traffic' description or have as large a speeding problem, it does carry basically the same through traffic every working day," added the report report from Public Works. Glenabbey Rd. Used as Route To Highway 401 As Stezik sees it, the Works Department's Department's response to the traffic danger, along with its lone recommendation, recommendation, needed to be sent back to the works department for review. He asked that another report including including "multiple actions" be submitted submitted to council members. The members of the GP&A committee committee have decided to uphold the Turn to Page 2 Planning Committee Gives Approval for Land Rezoning The Clarington municipality's planning committee has given approval approval for the rezoning of property located south of Aspen Springs Drive and west of Regional Road 57 in Bowmanville. The re-zoning will permit 1200 square metres of retail floor space and 650 square metres of floor area for a day care centre. While the Kaitlin Group Ltd. application application to allow this development was submitted in April 1991 and council approved the associated Official Official Plan Amendment designating the lands as Local Central Area in January 1993, the detailed site plan drawings had not been submitted until last October. Surrounding land uses include residential development, Regional Road 57, the CPR railway and other property subject to development applications. applications. The current application for the development of the retail store and/ day care space docs not have the extra extra high density component once discussed. There will be two entrance and exit driveways -- one off Martin Road/Regional Road 57 and another ■off Hartwell Avenue -- according to the detailed plans in this week's General Purpose and Administration Committee agenda. Also, the design of the development development is to be "sympathetic to the new residential development in its architectural style. "In addition, the site is sloped so that the building grades will be one metre to two metres below the grade of Regional Road 57, further minimizing minimizing the visual impact to the residents residents of Martin Road." To further minimize the impact to residents of the new subdivision, the developer is to erect a privacy fence and provide "significant onsite onsite landscaping." While the rezoning application may be approved at next week's council meeting and was approved by committee on Monday, the municipality municipality still lias a "holding symbol' symbol' on the location. This will remain remain until the applicant enters into a Site Plan Agreement with Clarington. Clarington. PRESTON We Move it! 623-4433 Bowmanville Popular M J. Hobbs Teacher Retires after 35 Years Sec Page 3 125th Anniversary of Tyrone United Church See Page 7 CARPET EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES King St. w. 728-4601 Oshawa