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Not Travelling with A Full Load? Someone may have been in for a bit of a surprise last weekend when they went to unload their vehicle. An off-duty Durham Regional Police officer found several still- scaled boxes of computer equipment -- mostly computer paper -- - on Concession Street East in Bowmanville last Saturday. He turned the items in to the Clarington detachment of DRP. Police say the items appear to have fallen off a delivery vehicle. Drunk Drivers Beware! See story on page one, Section B BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY, 62 TEMPERANCE STREET BOWMANVILLE ONTARIO L1C3A8 EXPIRY DATE: AUGUST 26, 1999 7 <> iiViVMf fW • Clarington's Community Newspaper Since 1854 • A James Publishing Community Newspaper Wednesday, December 2, 1998 144th Year Issue 48 70# + 50 G.S.T. = 750 Shades of Christmas It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the greenhouses at Rekker's Garden Gallery. Here, David Bouma, one of the staff at Rekkers, wheels away a cartload of poinsettias that are ready for market. Plants from the Maple Grove facility will be sold as far away as Montreal and eastern Ontario. This year, the greenhouses greenhouses have produced about 55,000 poinsettias which come in 14 varieties and several colors. Red, however, is still the most popular hue. Rekker's Garden Gallery held their annual Poinsettia Festival Saturday, with the public invited to tour their greenhouses. Teachers and Board Reach Tentative Deal by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer After three straight days of negotiations, high school teachers and the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board have reached a tentative agreement. agreement. Talks aimed at reaching an agreement started last Wednesday, and ran with few breaks until 4:20 a.m. Saturday, says local Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation President Dave Nickle. "Most of us had had minimal sleep," says Nickle. "But we felt it was a window of opportunity that would not be there in the future." "I'm certainly glad that exhausting process is over," he adds. Teachers held an infor mation meeting Tuesday to discuss the tentative deal and will vote on the agreement Thursday. Board members will also vote on the deal before the weekend, perhaps at Thursday evening's board meeting, says Board Chair Judi Armstrong. Details of the contract will not be made public until it has been ratified by both sides. "We were constantly feeling like we were very close (to a deal). We knew we could do it -- it was just a matter of coming up Continued on page 2 Accused Back in Court A man accused of breaking into the Bowmanville RCMP detachment and stabbing a Mountie will not be able to use a "not criminally responsible" defence, says a psychiatrist. Daniel Edward Cayley, 30, of Oshawa, faces an assortment of charges, including aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, break and enter Region to Look at Low Income Burials The Region of Durham will discuss a recommendation recommendation regarding paying funeral and burial expenses expenses incurred by low income families when it meets * today. ' : • The report on the subject, subject, which came forward at the request of Clarington Regional Councillor John Mutton, recommends that low income applicants for financial assistance with funeral costs be needs- tested. Those who qualify under the requirements of the needs-testing process will have funeral and burial burial costs for loved ones paid for. "I'm exceptionally pleased," says Mutton of the recommendation. "People have more dignity when they don't have to leave a body unclaimed." According to the report from the Region's Director of Family Services, when the Ontario Works Act came into effect earlier this year, one of the changes was that only people people on financial assistance would be eligible for payments payments for funerals or burials. burials. People who could not afford to pay for a funeral, but were not on financial assistance, would no longer qualify. Since May, when the new regulations came into effect, about 30 requests for assistance with funeral costs have been denied by the Region because the deceased was not receiving receiving social assistance. Regional staff estimate about 60 requests a year would be eligible for financial help if the recommendation recommendation is approved. The cost to the Durham Region is estimated at about $120,000 per year. and theft, resisting arrest, and possession of property obtained by crime.' He appeared briefly in court last Friday. The accused recently completed a 30-day psychiatric psychiatric evaluation at the Whitby Mental Health Centre. The report, which was released to lawyers last week, pointed out a number of serious psychiatric psychiatric problems. In spite of those problems, the report concluded Cayley cannot use the "not criminally responsible" defense during during his trial. Cayley was arrested August 11 after a man struggled with RCMP Inspector A1 Roney, Insp. Roney's son, and Clarington firefighters in the parking lot of the RCMP detachment on ' Baseline- Road; where a break and enter had just taken place. Insp. Roney sustained a knife wound on his forehead forehead while attempting to arrest the suspect. His wound required 11 stitches. stitches. Cayley also • faces charges in an attempted carjacking and an incident where two men were approached on Church Street in Bowmanville by a man with a knife. Both these incidents took place- the same night as the RCMP break-in. Cayley's lawyer asked, for additional time to deal with the contents of the psychiatric report. He will return to court January 11. Read the Label, Health Unit Warns by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer Though no cases have been reported in Durham Region, the ' Health Department is warning of a connection between unpastcurizcd apple cider and E. coli bacteria. Three cases linking the juice and the bacteria have been reported recently in Southern Ontario. In each case, the cider had not been pasteurized. In Durham, there has not been a suspected link between the drink and the illness since the early 1980s, says Durham Region's Environmental Health Manager Alex Connor. In 1997, only 13 cases of E. eoli infection were reported in Durham, and most of those were related to contaminated meat. But he says the problem problem can also occur when "windfall" apples arc used to make cider. "Apples that have fallen on the ground can betome contaminated by animal faeces. When these apples are crushed for juice, the harmful bacteria can survive survive unless the juice is pasteurized," pasteurized," he says. Cider is made at a number number of locations in Clarington, including Archibald Orchards and Estate Winery. Archibald recently began pasteurizing pasteurizing its cider, says proprietor proprietor Fred Archibald. "It docs give us the confidence confidence to ensure our product product is pathogen (disease)- free," says Archibald, adding it doesn't mean the cider will keep forever. "It will still eventually naturally spoil, but it won't have the pathogenic potential potential to poison anybody," states Archibald. The orchard also employs other safety measures, such as cleaning and sterilizing apple press equipment, and only using apples picked off trees, as opposed to windfall apples, which are found on the ground. According to Connon children, the elderly and those with immune problems problems are most vulnerable by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer With the Parti Québécois once again rolling to power in Quebec after Monday's provincial election, Durham MP Alex Shepherd says it's time to "sort of draw the line." "It seems we should be prudent and proceed with a more defined orientation. We cannot suffer death by 1,000 cuts," says to infection by E. coli. The bacteria can lead to hemolytic uremic syndrome, syndrome, a disorder of the blood and kidneys which can be quite serious. Shepherd. The PQ took 75 of the 124 scats available in Quebec Monday, in spite of only registering 45 percent percent of the popular vote. "Half of the people of Quebec arc saying they clearly don't want a referendum, referendum, and they're going to get it anyway," states Shepherd. In spite of the fact the PQ did win the election, In spite of possible health consequences involved with drinking unpasteurized cider, Connor says it's not illegal Continued on page 2 Shepherd says lie's "pleasantly "pleasantly surprised" by the results posted by the Liberal party under the leadership of Jean Charcst. However, he says, "it's certainly not nice to live with another separatist government in Quebec." "The separatists have been less than honest ... if there's any way to stretch the truth to get the right Continued on page 2 easas as er wenam Local MP Not Pleased With PQ Re-election Photo Feature A display of the work of Bowmanville photographer photographer Jean Michel Komarnicki will be on view at Clarington Town Hall until January 5, The exhibition of "black and white photography is a mix of Komarnicki's older and newer works. The local photographer's photographer's work has been displayed previously at Clarington's Visual Arts Centre. 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