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I The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, December 11, 1996 13 Real Estate Deadlines and Policies Deadline for Wednesday Publication is Monday at 12:00 Noon. Any compensation for errors or omissions by The Canadian Statesman will be limited to the value of the space occupied by the error in the advertisement. L Please phone 623-3303 and ask for the Real Estate Sales Department J St. Francis of Assisi Parish The Story of the Birth of Jesus Jesus will be performed at the 5:00 Christmas Eve Mass at St., Francis of Assisi Parish. Children Children 4 years of age and up arc welcome to participate in the play. A sign up sheet and further further details may be found in the sacristy, or you may contact contact Donna Smith at 987-5319. Donna would also welcome parent volunteers to help make the production a success. Our Advent Reconciliation will be celebrated on Sunday, December 22 at 7:00 p.m. This will include Liturgy of the Word, Examination of Conscience Conscience and General Absolution. Absolution. Everyone is encouraged to attend. The Christmas Mass schedule for 1996 will be as follows: December 24 - 5:00 p.m. Children's Children's Mass, 7:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m., December 25 - 10:00 a.m. Congratulations are extended to parishioners Joyce and Carl Good. After months of prepar ation, they arc opening the doors to the Newcastle Funeral Home at 386 Mill Street S. Carl and Joyce have invited everyone to drop by on December December 15th from 10-5 to view the newly renovated facility. We wish you both the very best in your new endeavor. Orono Building and Decorating Supplies Christmas Carollers Visit Memorial Hospital Bowmanville Guides and leaders brought Christmas cheer to the halls of Memorial Hospital last week. Their visit was greatly appreciated by patients who eagerly joined in singing along with the girls who sang carols and other Christmas favorites. Building a Safer Community Report from Queen's Park John O'Toole Durham East MRP My Rogers Cable program this week, featured Mr. Mike Patrick, President and General Manager of Bowmanville Foundry, Carol Earner, Managing Managing Director of the Safe Communities Communities Foundation of Canada and Pat Morgan, President of the Farm Safety Organization. The topic discussed was the Safe Communities Foundation. This initiative involves everyone everyone at home, at work and in your community to respect the impact of safely everywhere. Police, fire, ambulance attendants, attendants, nurses, doctors, community community care workers, farmers and employers of all industries play a role. The goal is to reduce accidents The Safe Communities Foundation Foundation is sponsored by the five major banks with a $1.5 million million dollar contribution. Two participating corporations are DuPont Canada Ltd. and No- randa Inc. The Provincial Ministry Ministry of Labour is supporting this accident prevention initiative. initiative. There will be a number of communities who will receive 80% funding to develop a business business plan and set goals to reduce reduce accidents everywhere. In the new year, I will be holding a working forum to start to develop develop a business plan. If you or your organization need more information, please call my constituency office at 697- 1501 or(LD) 1-800-661-2433. 1 want to thank the people who attended our Roundtable on education last Thursday. This forum was the second, in this scries of information sessions. sessions. We discussed educational governance and funding, as well as secondary school reform. reform. Anyone who wants to speak to me on this very important important issue, please call. In the coming weeks, the issue of boundaries will come up. During the Sweeney report discussions, many people made it clear that they do not want to be part of the Durham Board. Both chairs of the Northumberland Northumberland and Clarington and the Durham Public Board of Education Education have expressed their opposition opposition to Crombie's recommendation recommendation that school board boundaries be complimentary with the municipal boundaries. I find this rather confusing as the Durham Board just received received the much praised, Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Award for excellence. excellence. The Northumberland Board of Education is also very well regarded by those parents who call my office. I want to hear from you as to which board you want to oversee oversee your child's education, From my view, it all starts with your child, their teacher and their school. There are often often too few resources left for the classroom and that is wrong. I believe that our elected elected trustees in both boards do a good job, as currently mandated. mandated. However, with the funding and governance changes, per haps there needs to be more informed informed discussion on the boundary boundary issue. Besides our emotional attachments, we have to realize that we are in the Region of Durham and this area has common services in matters such as police, public health and daycare and it seems to function well. It might be a good idea for our local newspapers to educate the readers and then take a poll to determine the future once the ground rules are announced. announced. I hope you, don't find ; my column repetitive, but education education is a very, very important issue and I want to support the wishes of my constituents. December 10th is International International Day of Human Rights. The United Nations, 48 years ago came together to recognize the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family family as the foundation of freedom, freedom, justice and peace in the world. As I read, watch the news and listen to the social justice debate, I am reminded of how good we have it in Ontario and indeed Canada. There are still those who need protection even in Canada. Each one of us with a good paying job has a duty to be charitable to others and less selfish when lobbying to protect protect "our turf'. At Queen's Park, I am always mindful of my duties of fairness fairness to all. Governments are often judged by how we care for our most vulnerable in society. society. Those with the loudest voices, are often reluctant to give up their privileges. There is much merit in the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. We must always always remember that we are our brother's keeper. 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