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: "ws :Y : -TPi V: 'x:-|jj§ IBiSSi V , : •■ ■ V X -Sv : . : Ipl NX X . ;. V . V 'ss^'^^w' S' v-■■•.•.■.■.'xy <•:■:■>•:•"<" ■S:x^sSNy.v«^\\wy" &§§$|§ Delivered j Free of Charge to 18,000 Homes in Clarington from The Publishers of Sfie Canadian Statesman i Wm mm F r WM Saturday, June 25,1994 «|7th Year, Issue 2® S&S «111 Kill I ; ■111! Former Newcastle Mayor Dies at Age 79 Former Newcastle Mayor Garnet Rickard died Thursday, June 23, 1994, in Bowmanville. He was 79 years old. Mr. Rickard, the first mayor of the Town of Newcastle, (now Clarington) Clarington) collapsed while attending a Rotary Club golf tournament at the Bowmanville Golf and Country Club. Garnet Rickard had a distinguished distinguished career in business, community community service, and municipal politics. He served 10 years as Mayor of the Town of Newcastle, having been acclaimed to that position in 1974 when the Durham Region was established. established. More recently, he was chairman of the Skate '88 Committee, a group of volunteers who raised over $1.8 million for construction of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Recreation Complex. The former mayor was a member of the Order of Canada. "He was an icon -- somebody really special. It will be an unbelievable unbelievable loss to this community," said Marie Hubbard, a former Newcastle mayor who served as a regional councillor for Bowmanville when Garnet Rickard was mayor. "He cared about the town. He cared about its people. He was always always charitable, diplomatic and supportive," supportive," she added. Marie Hubbard described Mr. Rickard as a good friend and she added that his death is an enormous personal loss. "I learned so much from him." Garnet Rickard began his career in public life as a school trustee, later later serving on Darlington Township Council. He was a former reeve of Darlington Township and was elected elected in 1957 as the warden of the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham. An all-round farmer and agribusinessman, agribusinessman, Garnet Rickard took first place at the Canadian National Exhibition in a seed-judging competition competition at age 24. He went on to establish establish a seed cleaning and grading operation at his farm in 1940. His efforts won him numerous awards for seed-growing, including a reserve reserve championship in oats at the Turn to page two by Laura J. Richards One second it was on the tip of her tongue. The next second -- oops -- it wertt down her windpipe! Stephanie Reay, of Bowmanville, is one lucky little girl. The five-year-old daughter of Frances and John Reay of Ashdale Crescent choked on a gold-coloured metal alloy ring set with ruby- coloured glass petals and a small pearl-like center. But, thanks to GO Train conductor conductor Kevin Smith, she survived the ordeal. And on Wednesday, June 22, Stephanie and her family had a Downtown Parking To be Investigated Clarington Council is taking yet another step to implement the recommendations recommendations of an architectural study .conducted in downtown Bowmanville Bowmanville several years ago. Already, the municipality has looked at the design and installation of signs pointing to Historic Downtown Downtown Bowmanville and improvements improvements of directional signage to public public parking. These suggestions came from the CAUSE architectural study. Next on the agenda is parking, an area also considered by the CAUSE study in a report. A Planning Department report Continued on Page 3 happy reunion with the conductor at a GO Train yard in Whitby. The incident in which Kevin Smith's Heimlich Maneuver prevented prevented Stephanie from choking occurred occurred on May 20. Stephanie and her mother were travelling home on the GO Train after after visiting friends in Toronto. Frances was wearing a ring that Stephanie had loaned a friend because because it was too big for Stephanie's fingers. Stephanie asked to see the ring and began playing with it "She was playing with the ring and put it on the end of her tongue," said Frances. "I told her to take it off and put it away because the train could jolt and she could swallow it," Frances noted. Shortly after the warning, that is exactly what happened. When the train jolted, just past the Guildwood Station, the ring went down. Stephanie started coughing and Frances tried to free her daughter's breathing by slapping her on her back. "I was afraid she would choke to death," her mother recalled. With other passengers too shocked to react, Frances pressed the yellow alarm bar to get assistance. assistance. Enter GO Train Conductor Kevin Smith. Just as Frances was pressing the alarm bar, he noticed Stephanie Continued on Page 2 A Sc P Canadian Tire* Graham's IGA* Memorial Hospital Miracle Food Mart Wee Watch (-Indicates partial distribution) For Information about Insertlna flyers In The Independent, please contact our office at 623-3303 Heimlich Maneuver and GO Conductor Save Choking Girl GO Train conductor Kevin Smith is thankful for a basic training course which taught him the Heimlich Maneuver. Even more thankful are Bowmanville resident Stephanie Reay and her parents, parents, Frances and John Reay. It came in handy on Friday, May 20, when Stephanie swallowed a ring while on the GO Train. The ring lodged in her windpipe, but the conductor's efforts enabled Stephanie to resume breathing. Smith noted almost a month before Stephanie's near catastrophe, his sister, a nurse, gave him a small refresher course on the maneuver. -- photo by Laura Richards