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I 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, February 7, 1996 RED NOSE BEATS WINTER BLUES -- It wasn't the sub-zero temperatures that gave Valeric Crichton, of M & M Meats in Bowmanville, her red nose Monday. She was just doing her bit for Red Nose Day -- a wacky British custom designed to chase away the winter blues. Valerie's rosy nose was a sure bet to make anyone laugh. But, just to be sure everyone left the store smiling, she had some very tasty cream puff samples handy. HOME SAFE HOME Winter Home Security Home Security and Safety lakes planning and should be a year round priority. But in the winter months, special precautions are necessary to protect your home and those you love. In the winter, the cold and snowy weather forces many crooks, who travel by foot, off the streets. Accordingly, the number of housebreaks in some areas drops slightly, but is balanced by the fact that your home becomes more vulnerable to a criminal attack. The cold temperatures force the honest citizens, like you and 1, indoors, which means the bad guys have little to fear front potential witnesses in our neighborhoods. We're inside and can't hear them. During the winter months, it gets darker sooner making it easier for the burglars to approach your home under the cover of darkness and watch your comings and goings through the windows of fully lit rooms. Drawn drapes and closed blinds keep the potential burglar guessing that there might be someone inside who could give him or her trouble. According to FAI Security Advisor, Gary Crittenden, eliminating hiding places near your home takes some planning. It may be best to begin this in the fall when it is easier to trim hedges to eighteen inches or less and to prune hanging tree branches to a height no lower than six feet. Gary also suggests that installing exterior security lighting and making alterations to privacy fencing, to allow for easier surveillance of your home by neighbours, arc excellent additions to your borne security plan. If you arc planning to travel south in the winter months, a few practical tips will reduce your chances of becoming a housebreak victim. Gary recommends that while you arc away, have someone you trust (friend, relative or professional houscsitting service) shovel your snow, pick up your mail and newspapers and even park their car in your driveway. Install a timer for your interior and exterior lights and while your housesittcr docs their daily "security sweep" of your home, have them alter the times that the lights come on to make it appear that someone is home. With these few practical steps you may be able to fool potential burglars into thinking your home is occupied. Another item to think about is that you may be inviting burglars to your home when you arc away by announcing it on your telephone answering machine. Messages should only announce the number being called and the fact that you arc presently unavailable to lake the call, but will get back to the person soon. Telling callers that you are "away for a few days" is an invitation to burglars. Also, be sure to clear your messages regularly. A long series of beeps indicates a long line of messages and potential burglars may take this as an indication that you are not around. "This is all. good advice, but the centerpiece of any home security and safety plan is a professionally installed home alarm system that delects and ejects intruders from your home before they can steal or damage any of your property or hurt those you love. An effective home security plan is not about catching the bad guys. It's about making sure they are ejected the instant they enter your home, so they leave empty handed without hurting anyone," says Gary Crittenden FAI Security Advisor, whose Bowmanville based company markets a nonmonitored "delect and eject" system called the Sccurityguard, a sophisticated but easy to use, award winning home security system sold worldwide by FAI Home Security. Monitored home alarm systems arc subject to false alarms, user error, bad weather and power surges. In fact, in the Greater Toronto Area, monitored systems false alarm at a rate of 95%. (Metro Toronto Police Annual Report 1994). "The FAI Security Guard is not monitored and since it is not hard wired, it doesn't false alarm due to electrical problems. Instead, it blasts intruders with a wall of noise that announces to everyone within several hundred feel of your home that your residence is being violated. With so many witnesses, the bad guys just don't hang around," says Gary Crittenden, FAI Security Advisor. FAI Security Advisor, Gary Crittenden, can he reached at (905) 697-3375 © j p. Cliocolata, [ JJtuhli/i, (Jatcli Wv entry it all for one stop shopping. VAN BELLE FLOWERS COIJRTICK 1979 Highway 112 Bowimmvillc 623-1.141 OSI1AWA 343 King Si. W. ( )shawn 579-1118 ORDER NOW TOM. FREE l.K()0-2fi3-8l)08 WHITBY 100 Dunlins Si. \V. Whitby 668-1650 Municipal Cemetery Plots May Cost More When the price of being buried buried doubles, Clarington Councillors Councillors sit up and take notice. On Monday, elected officials learned why Clarington residents residents could be facing an increase increase in the cost of municipal cemetery plots. The extra fees arc needed in order to provide "perpetual care" for the graves. A report examined at the Monday morning meeting of Councillors Reject GTA From page one Councillor Aker noted the only person who hasn't said much about the report is Premier Premier Harris. "He has not made a commitment commitment one way or another about it," Councillor Aker said. The one thing that has become become apparent, said Ajax Councillor Roger Anderson, is "this isn't the time to walk off and worry about your own little little town." He said, "If residents don't pick up their phones to call their MPP, they will be picking up their phones to call us in Toronto." Pickering Councillor Maurice Brenner added: "If wo want to put a torch under the residents of Durham Region wc must do so now." Some councillors rejected the idea that regional residents will have to become outspoken and, perhaps, aggressive in demonstrating demonstrating what they think of the proposal. But, Pickering Councillor Doug Dickerson disagrees. He observed the residents of Durham Durham Region will have to mount the same sort of battle as the one undertaken by his municipality in opposition to a Metro Toronto garbage dump. "Regional residents will have to follow in Pickering's footsteps footsteps in our action on garbage dumps," he said. "The light of men is justice, quench it not with the contrary winds of oppression and tyranny. The purpose of justice is the appearance of unity among men. The ocean of divine wisdom surgeth within, ; thj^.'cxaltcd word, while thevSiks 5f the world cannot ; contain its inner significance."... Baha'i Failli For More Information Call Automated 1-800-433-3284. the General Purpose & Administration Administration Committee suggests past increases have only covered covered inflation. According to Jim Cameron, Parks and Cemeteries Superintendent, Superintendent, this isn't good enough. "We're just breaking even right now," lie said. In view of today's financial constraints, he believes the municipal cemeteries cemeteries "should be run more like a business." The municipality docs not want to be in the position of requiring requiring pcqiclual care to be funded by the taxpayers. Currently, a 40 per cent fee is charged on top of the plot fee for perpetual care. "Perpetual care is the grass cutting, fence mending" and other assorted up-kccp chores the municipality docs, Cameron Cameron said. In comparing cost of services at four different cemeteries in Oshawa and Whitby, Cameron said, an average cost was arrived arrived at for Clarington's proposed proposed new fees. At Monday's committee meeting, the councillors decided decided the department needs to rework rework the figures.. Mayor Diane Hamrc asked that the department drop the lowest and highest fee comparisons comparisons to find an actual average fee. Cameron told The Statesman he had done that by Tuesday afternoon. The details, however, however, will not be released until next week's Clarington Council Council meeting. Another area being examined From page one feet to work with. To confirm the 6,000 square- foot figure, the members of the General Puqrosc & Administration Administration Committee voted on a resolution to be sent to the library library board as soon as possible. possible. All the councillors voted in by the works department is the rates it charges for the use of its repair shop. It is being recommended that the public works department charge Clarington Hydro Electric Electric Commission $55 per hour for vehicle maintenance. The commission had been paying $43 since 1990. Other areas being reviewed include tender documents and culvert and curb cuts. The entire entire report will be reviewed, and then brought before the councillors soon. favor of letting the library board know that the square- footage of the Courticc library has been cut. The councillors also discussed discussed allowing a private cn- tcqirisc to use the other 6,000 square feet for a business which would complement the recreation centre's activities. sL? The Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Roman Catholic.Separate School Board FRENCH IMMERSION PROGRAM PARENT/GUARDIAN INFORMATION MEETING Parents / Guardians considering enrolling their child in French Immersion Senior Kindergarten in September 1996 are invited to attend an information meeting at the following location: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AREA MEETING LOCATION MEETING DATE St. Joseph's Catholic School Mon., Feb. 12/96 90 Parkway Crescent 7:00 p.m. Bowmanville, Ontario (905) 623-5151 St. Joseph's. Bowmanville St. Stephen's, Bowmanville Mother Teresa, Courtice St. Francis of Assisi Monsignor Leo Cleary If your child is currently registered in Junior Kindergarten and you plan to enroll him/her in the French Immersion Senior Kindergarten Program, please inform the Principal at St. Joseph's Elementary School. If your child is NOT currently registered in Junior Kindergarten and you plan to enroll him/her in the French Immersion Senior Kindergarten Program, please contact St. Joseph's School prior to the registration date to set up an appointment. To simplify the registration procedure please bring your child's Baptismal Certificate, Birth Certificate, Immunization Record, your Lot and Concession number (for rural students) and proof of Separate School Property Tax Support. REGISTRATION FRENCH IMMERSION SCHOOL DATES/TIMES PHONE St. Joseph's, Bowmanville Principal: Sue Vanderkwaak Tues., Feb. 20/96,1:00 - 4:00 (905) 623-5151 Wed.. 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