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'llWMMUOt 11 rmnwwtt au vtvmi mtwaWl 4## (•f I Total Market Coverage of Clarington from the Publishers of The Canadian Statesman • A James Publishing Community Newspaper Saturday, June 20, 1998 144th Year Circulation: 21,295 ™aagzcs!B^iÆ«sjBM5giaRanigareBggaa»cs^^ wMmaKMmmmwnaaxsuBRÊBBxmnasmnEtam Region Sets Its Sight on 2000 Summer Games by Laura J. Richards Staff Writer Durham Region's councillors have scored a goal for the ad hoc committee organizing a bid for the Ontario 2000 Summer Games by saying 'yes' to a request for funding. The ad hoc committee, made up of municipal recreation recreation directors, is in charge of preparing and submitting a formal bid proposal for the region to host the Ontario 2000 Summer Games. The games would take place from Aug. 11 to 13 in 2000. On Wednesday, June 17, the councillors voted to contribute contribute $52,000 towards the games' budget Chair Roger Anderson told the councillors "Durham will support it. If you (looking at the members of the committee in the chambers) need anything from the region, let us know." Norm Leigh of the region's Economic Development Commission says "we have had unanimous support for the summer games from all eight municipalities, and now the regional council." All the municipalities have put aside funding for the games. Now it is time for the committee members to put their heads together to create the proposal for the bid. Leigh told the Clarington/Courtice Independent if their proposal is accepted then the committee will go Continued on page 2 Forced to ao Elsewhere Clarington Residents Can't Find Work Here Lone Wolf Jungle Cat World in Orono is thrilled with its latest population three tiger cubs, and one adorable little spider monkey. Jungle Cat explosion. Zoo worker Natalie Malarczuk cuddles Nikita, an Arctic World is open seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends. Wolf pup named after the sassy, Russian dynamo of television series -photo by Lorraine Manfredo fame. Other new arrivals this summer include four coyote pups, : BaaBaaaBBBBBgatBiaaGa by Laura J. Richards Staff Wriler The figures arc going up and down when it comes to people working in the same communities where they live says the writer of a GTA-widc transportation study. University of Toronto professor Gerrald Steuart discussed his report on the Transportation Tomorrow Survey with Durham Regional Councillors during during Wednesday, June 17's regular council meeting. He told council that in a number of surveys taken since the late 1980's he has discovered "the actual employed labour in Metro is declining, but rising in regions where there is growth." Looking at Clarington's figures, which he noted were small in the surveys, Steuart said, "the municipality municipality appears to be losing ground in residents being employed within their own area...they are going elsewhere." elsewhere." However, in Ajax where there is a great deal of growth "there is more labour force than there are jobs." As for public transportation transportation figures, GO Transit has been experiencing experiencing a decline in rider- ship, but in- Durham Region, there is a high rid- ership. People in Durham Region are going outside . of the area to work, instead of staying within the boundaries, the professor said. . "Inter-region work trips is at 80 per cent in Metro," Prof. Steuart said. Hamilton-Wentworth is about the same. Many of the people who are going outside of Durham Region to work, tend to be heading towards York Region. Whitby is one of those places where many of the employed work force is heading out of town, but not to Metro. "There seems to be a York thing happening here," Prof. Steuart said. Provincial Election in the Fall? by Laura J. Richards Staff Writer The province has been hesitating sending off the final downloading figures because it is getting ready to call a fall election, predicted predicted the Mayor of Ajax on Wednesday, June 17. Mayor Steve Parish was in the middle of a tirade against the provincial government's government's plan to download download costs to the regional and municipal taxpayers when he mentioned the idea of a fall election, "The premier is working working on another agenda," Parish noted. "There will be an election before people people get their tax assessments assessments and before the education education changes hit them. "They want us to carry the can on this. This whole initiative is negative for the whole of Durham Region. We have had nothing but delay after delay from the province, and we are wait ing for them," he said. Oshawa Councillor Brian Nicholson, who serves as the Chair of the Finance and Administration Committee, asked that Parish be reined in while the region awaits money from the province. He noted that municipalities municipalities are negotiating for transitional funding to get them through the downloading downloading period. Nicholson cautioned Parish from Great Beginnings for Orono ArtFest by Lorraine Manfredo Staff Writer Organizers of the first-ever Orono ArtFest are betting the event could one day rival the success of the Buckhorn Festival near Peterborough. Eighteen exhibitors were set up in the south end of the Orono Arena Saturday and Sunday surrounded by framed originals originals and works in progress, "I get my best work done in public," said Newcastle artist Janet Griflin-Scott as onlookers crowded round her easel for a close-up look at the beginnings of a wolf portrait, Besides Griffin-Scott's spectacular portfolio of wolves and horses, visitors got a chance to sec landscape artists, nature photographers, a jewellery maker, furniture maker, and a woodburning artist among others. "We tried to organize a year ago but didn't get enough artists," says Griffin- Scott. "We hope to be bigger next year and have every intention of making this an annual event." The show was hosted by Shallow Brook Productions which also runs successful successful bridal shows, garden and cottage shows throughout Ontario. To maximize attendance, Shallow Continued on page 16 sending negative comments comments to the province.. "Of course, if they don't come through (with the transitional funding) then it's open season on -, the politicians," Nicholson said. Clarington Mayor Diane Hamre noted she could not get over the Oshawa councillors' remarks because she, like the rest of the councillors, has- been taking "flack" from residents complaining complaining about the late tax bills. "I get calls from residents asking why their tax bills, haven't come," she said. Remarking on the amount of time that has been spent by municipal staff on the financial figures, figures, Hamre noted, "this has been the year, from hell," She added she thinks councillors who bow down to the government in the way Nicholson mentioned arc "sticking their heads in the sand," The half hour debate was spurred by a letter from Premier Mike Harris thanking the Chair of the Region for a letter on the realignment of the provincial-municipal provincial-municipal responsibilities, responsibilities, The letter was eventually eventually received for information information by the council. /lllsiar Independent Flyers 'Allstate (Darlene Ferguson 987-1611) A&P (Prices in effect from Sun., June 21 to Sat., June 27/98) Barina Home Check , (House Watching Service) Canadian Tire (Prices in effect from Sat., June 20 to Fri., June 26/98) 'Cashway Lumber - Port Hope (Prices in effect June 21 to July 4/98) 'Electronaut Systems (Coupon valid Until December 31/98) 'Graham's IGA (Prices in effect from Sun., June 21 to Sat., June 27/98) 'Grant Physiotherapy 'Home Hardware (Savings available until June 2798) 'M&M Meats (Prices in effect Sun., June 21 to Sat., July 11/98) Memorial Hospital ; (Annual Report) 'NoFrills (Prices effective June 21 to July 4/98) 'Valuemart - Port Hope (Prices effective June 21 to July 4/98) mm cHi&i *South China Buffet Restaurant (All you can eat buffet) ("Indicates partial distribution) For information about inserting flyers in '$ï)t> Claringtou/Comtice Hfubepeubent, please contact our office at 623-3303.