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r v Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, April 10,1996 7 A Look Back at the Stories That Helped Shape Our Community Which Career Shall I Choose? Your Future? Eleven-year-old Ken Auger ponders over the possibilities as he looks at some of the literature he received in his tour of the Bowmanville High School during the school's 'Career Expo' held last Thursday. Ken, a grade Seven student at St. Joseph's School, isn't sure what he wants to be -- but says he wants a job which would offer a bit of a challenge. His father, Vic Auger, is a geography teacher at B.H.S. Still No Solution Last Minute Interjection Persuades Town Council to Hold Up School Bus By - law ' SHOW RESURRÉCTION 1 FILM The Bowmanville Salvation Salvation Army Corp* will show » film on Saturday nlfht at their aduitorium «tartine at 8 p.m. Title of the hour- long, colour movie' Is 'The Power of Resurrection'.' HOCKEY PLAYOFFS BEGIN Tonight, the quarterfinals quarterfinals of the NHL will get underway, with television sets getting, a steady workout workout for the next few weeks. Canadiens meet Bruins In Boston, Maple Leafs play Rangers In New York, Phil- l.v Flyers play Black Hawks in Chicago and Minnesota North Stars open with the Blues in St. Louis, tonight and tomorrow. Next games with locations locations reversed will be on Saturday aqfl Sunday, The Separate School Board of Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Durham has a problem In Bowman- ville It is -- "where are they to stop their buses In -order to load and unload the students attending St. Joseph's School? They formerly used the adjacent adjacent church parking lot as a depot but the parish priest put a stop to that last fall, So the Board asked their drivers to deposit and; gather (TURN TO PACE TWO) Kinsmen Plan Auction May 15 The Kinsmen Club of Bowmanville Bowmanville are planning a giant donation and consignment auction. auction. We are appealing to all merchants, farmers, drovers and residents to help make this an all-out success to help the Kinsmen raise a goodly sum for a major community service project. The selling fee is 10% for any article under $100 and 5% for anything anything over $100. All unsold articles will be charged 2% sales charge. The sale date is May 15th, Help our May Day Sale. We will glady accept all donations or consignments. We would appreciate them being turned in by April 17th. Contact Harvey Webster at 623-2612; Lome Tink 263-2176. Career Expo -- 'A Great Success' Last Thursday's 'Career Expo', the first ever held at the Bowmanville High School, was considered considered by school principal, Len Lucas to be a "very worthwhile endeavour". And though he couldr" commit himself to a definite date said that he hop the school might be able to hold another such eve in future years. "I am grateful to the great number of people in the community who were interested in it," he said in an interview yesterday. He felt that the 41 exhibitors who showed i with their displays, had done a "tremendous jot and praised school employees and service club wor ers who had organized and helped in the day-lo: affair. Their Tickets at Lions-Rotary Stag Were Lucky Ones (TURN TO PAGE TWO) Goodyear Workers Ratify New Contrat Local 189 of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America ratified on Sunday, April 4th, a new contract totalling wage increases of 82c an hour over the next three years, it was announced jointly by the Company and the Union. About 300 employees at Good- year's Bowmanville Plant are affected. The previous three- year contract expired February February 20th, The new contract calls for an increase of 30c an hour the first year and 26c an hour for each of the next two years. Inequity payment totalling $9,600 will bejaid Ja.certain day work operatidnsover the next two years. Benefits include increases in pensions, life insurance and weekly indemnities for sickness sickness and accident.. Pensions will increase from $5.50 to $7.25 per month per year of service and employees will be able to retire at. 55 with no reduction in pension payments providing they have 37 years of service. Life insurance will rise by $1,500 and sickness and accident indemnities will increase increase $15 a weék. Local 397 of the United Rub- (TURN TO PAGE TWO) BUSY HOCKEY WEEKEND The Pee Wee A Trailsleds play the third game of their best of five series with Exeter here at 5 on Saturday Saturday and back there on Sunday Sunday afternoon. The series is tied at 1 each. The Jr. C. Eagles go to Huntsville on Friday and back here on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. Their series Is also tied at two games each. Tyke All-Stars go to Mississauga Mississauga to take part in the Paperweight Tournament Saturday and Sunday. On rimrsrliiy afimmnn, two Public Utilities work- I Brunt's home on Sunicrest Blvd, They were taken to men iMTir.-i IVrtcri :md Ernest Reader, and Barton Oshawa General Hospital by Bowmanville Area Am- Arne, an employee of Gi'firge Mutton, masonary von- bulnncc and are making satisfactory progress, Above tractor, sustained severe hums when there was a pro- i Is the area where the explosion occurred, Pjÿflc explosion and fire m the basement of William^ £ Town Lower Charity Bing Permit Costs The fee for * licence.to- i charity bingo will be lo' ed, Bowmanville town cot said on Monday night. At the request of Helen Park, president of Bowmanville Memorial I Association, council agreei lower the town fee for cl ity ■ bin jos, in which the g f do .notr/wMt'isOO free* the present $1» to"$2, The'latter fee is the same as that charged charged by the city of Oshawa. Council voted to amend their by-law accordingly. .,. These three .happy men shared in the $500 main prize at the Lions-Rotary Stag on Monday night at the Lions Centre. They are, left to right," Joe Cooper who was acting as proxy for Frank's Variety who won $100, Harold Brown whose number was the last one drawn, giving him $300 and Gord Carnegie of Crest Hardware who also won $100. Dr. C. F. Cattran and a représenta» tive of the Royal Canadian Legion decided to go fed the full $500', but were eliminated. m® Pitas DEDICATION -- Mrs. Gerald Kelly has established what must be a record for devotion to duty. She is the Biackstock correspondent for The Canadian Statesman, and a week ago Monday mailed her news for that week. On Tuesday morning, their fourth daughter was born (9 lbs. 15% ozs.). That didn't stop mother Joyce from gathering the news and sending it in on Monday again. They certainly grow them rugged out in that area; they needed to be all winter to get through the snow banks. t t t t T NO HURRY -- It is noted that St. Catharines council voted 9 to 2 recently to breakaway from the Regional Municipality of Niagara, the reason being that with 33 per cent of the region's population, population, they only have 21 per cent representation. Obviously, that regional set up isn't a happy one and as it is presently proposed we doubt if the one for this area would work any better. Being married to the wrong mate is worse than being single, they say. Let's not rush into it,-there is no hurry. t + t + + ERRATA -- Barron's Gift Shop advt last week should have stated they would be open last Sunday during their annual show, but not every Sunday. The report of Newcastle's Skating Carnival termed Craig Tennant of Orono as one of the guest professionals. professionals. He is not a pro, just a good guest skater. Under the picture of the Bantam A's who won at Midland, the name of Nick Wind was spelled incorrectly. incorrectly. Also, John Wood, a member of the team, was not Shown or mentioned. That should clear up a few of last week's errors and omissions. Wonder if there ever will be a week.when everything is correct? correct? We doubt it, but keep trying. t t f T t DUTCH DUCK -- VanBellc Gardens received a shipment of nursery stock on Friday that had ! been air-freighted from Holland. When it was : opened, out waddled a duck that somehow had ; stowed away. Later, it was taken to Bowmanville Zoo,'but succumbed, apparently from shock. . t T t t T HONOR -- Manitoba has followed the Ontario Lrgis- j lature's lead in choosing two girls as pages during | the session. They will join two 16-year-old page hoys i at the opening today, one of the students being Josh • Barber whose mother is the former Pat Clarke. '■ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill.Clarke of Oshawa. and ! former residents of Lovers Lane here. Incidentally, i Mrs. Clarke was honored last Thursday with an i Educational Service Award by the Ontario Separate ! School Trustees Association. She has served 14 years | on the Ontario County Board and prior to leaving | here served six years on the Bowmanville School 1 Board. She was Chairman when they moved to Oshawa. t t + + + RETURNS -- Last week, wc were pleased In encounter former Memorial Hospital Administrator Administrator Bernard Holden on the street. He advised that he and his family have moved from British Columbia and he will be working nut of Toronto as Vice President in charge of operations for a I group of nursing homes,"" I Port Hope's 1971 Tax Rate Lower by Over Six Mills Port Hope Council struck Its 1971 budget on March 29th and gave ratepayers the happy news of tax reductions. The residential millrate dropped 6.28 and the commercial 7.46 over the previous year. Yet the budget, which proposes proposes $2,279,942 in expenditures expenditures this year, showed no cutback in capital expenditures. expenditures. The Bowmanville Town; Council is still mulling over' its 1971 budget. It is expect-! ed it will be discussed at a meeting of the Committee-of-i the-Whole on April 12th. If, it is, and if councillors concur, with it, the budget may be: Introduced into the regular', public council meeting of [ April 19th, Joseph Mcllroy, town clerk, said last Wed I PICTURES IN DEMAND The color photos of the opening of Sugaj Plum Mountain are still in the window at Cliffcrest Cleaners Cleaners and orders for them may be left at Crest Hardware Hardware next door. These are beautiful photos, well worth the 50c for small size and $3 for the enlargements, enlargements, No Grass Fires Without a Permit At the Legion Ladies' Night dance on Saturday, there were several guests who appeared in Hawaiian costumes, including grass skirts. As The Statesman photographer was about to photograph Mr. and Mrs. Keith Purdy, someone (Ed Major, wc think) lit a match and began lo approach the grass skirl Fortunately, al the last minute he withdrew when he realized that one has tn have a permit from the Fire ChiSf to start a grass five in this area al this time of veer, but it did make for an interesting picture. Wc did a bit of superimposing in the dark rtjum to enlarge the hand and the match." so they would be more prominent. Urges Change in OAPADS Focus The whole focus of the Oihawa-cen- fred regional government study was given a jolt Friday when the Study Administrator, Ted Sims, speaking to the Executive Committee Committee in Whitby, urged more dmphasis on regional government implementation and less on the nitty-gritty aspects "of planning development. Up fo the present, the planning development development part of the study, replete with six sub-committees 'and a membership of about 130 persons, has been responsible for between 80-85% of" the Study's million dollar expenditures, Mr. Sims said in an interview with the Statesman on Monday. In a letter to the Executive Sub-Committee Sub-Committee dated February 15th, 1971 and tab led in Friday's executive meeting, the Administrator pressed members to direct their attention to the problems associated with the reform of local government. He also proposed that work on the development development components of the study be stopped 30 days after receipt of Discussion Paper No. Four, which was tabled Mardi 15th. , niRrj ro tac-e Twnt VOLUME 117 16 Pages BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1971 15c Per Copy NUMBER 14