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Mackie Automotive Invests $13 Million in Oshawa The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, Novcmmbcr 28, 1998 Page 3 ! Mackie Automotive Systems has announced plans to build a new, $13 million "sequencing and assembly megaplex" for the City of Oshawa. ! The plant will consolidate consolidate several smaller locations locations into one and is scheduled scheduled to be completed by More Funny Money Found ' Two more counterfeit bills have turned up in Clarington. • Police say a person received a phoney $50 as change in the cafeteria at Ontario Hydro. And another resident was given tv fake $100 bill in payment payment for clothing repairs, i The bills were seized to be checked out by the tfCMP. Teachers and :Board have ; Marathon I Meeting I Kawartha Pine Ridge District secondary school teachers may be moving a little closer to a new contract. contract. ; The latest talks between the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation began on Wednesday and recessed at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, after almost 24 hours. ! The negotiating teams resumed meeting at one p.m. Thursday. However, at The Independent's deadline • Thursday al'ter- -nboh, no further information information on the progress of the' negotiations was available. available. More Cops ; Front page 1 oilier related costs will be paid by the municipalities. < The program is just one component of the government's government's five-year, $150 million commitment to enhance community safety safety announced in this year's Ontario budget. Other initiatives initiatives include $6 million for 120 Ontario Police Service Cadets who will perform administrative duties, increased funding for the provincial anti- biker gang squad, and a rural crime prevention strategy focusing on break and enters. With these new officers, officers, the province hopes police departments will be able to increase police visibility visibility and presence in residential residential neighborhoods, community parks and downtown centres that arc being affected by crime. New Fund From page 1 mine the best allocation of the grant dollars available. "This is still in its infancy, with much work to do," said Orton. Orton said the foundation foundation has applied to the municipality for a portion of the advanced lottery funding available. "In making this application, application, I want to emphasize emphasize that we are not doing so in competition with any other charities," she said. "We are doing this to create create a great win-win situation situation lor this community. Supporting capital costs and certain program costs is important, as this kind of support can often allow charities that extra hit to get ahead this year. But, I encourage you to think about next year and the year after that and the year after that. Who is going to be there for these charities when there is no advanced lottery funding available and the government changes its mind once again about the funding base for charities?" June 1 of 1999. "With 60 years of Mackie operations in Oshawa, this is a logical next step for us to make at our home base, to continue growing for the future. It will help us meet the needs of our single largest and most important customer -- General Motors of Canada Limited," said Paul Mackie, Vice- Chairman of Mackie Automotive Holdings Inc. The new plant was announced Thursday. 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