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44f fK AM 6 N y • | ÿ y i-i t? .- _ _ „ „ i 0 S ^ « x fi E 83 x h g r 1 i 1 S ill Fl 1 I h » bi g, -a I S|/%P Vw V ¥ IV V # 1% Toto/ Market Coverage of Clarington from the Publishers of The Canadian Statesman A James Publishing Community Newspaper Friday, April 9, 1999 Pickle Power It's Smokin ! Retired Hydro-worker Bill Coakley shows students how their bodies would react to an electric shock by 'plugging in' a dill pickle. The demonstration is part of an electrical safety and conservation presentation presentation Coakley is doing at area schools this month. The presentations are sponsored by Ontario Hydro. Photo by Michelle Wyton Region to Tackle Orono Sewer Issue by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer The Region of Durham will take a look at taking a look at Orono's sewers. A letter sent to the Region from Clarington council requested the Region re-visit the issue of sewers in the hamlet. Wednesday, Regional Council referred the matter to several committees: Works, Health and Social Services, Planning and Finance. "I want the right to say no," said Finance Chair Brian Nicholson when the issue came up. . Mayor's Award Orono native Brin Parker's entry won her the Mayor's Award at the Visual Arts Centre's Winter's I Inrvesl juried craft show recently. Above, Parker is displaying her work with Mayor Diane Mature who was on hand to present the award. All of the winning entries Iront this year's show are on display at the Mill Gallery until April 23. Clarington councillor John Mutton expects the Regional departments that look at the issue will recommend recommend a staff report be done. "I hope they recommend that we take the next step and take a sanitary survey" in Orono, said Mutton. There have been 16 sewage disposal complaints since 1996. Seven of them arc still under review. The 1990 report on the matter said: "During periods of rainfall and/or high ground water base flow the surface waters throughout the downtown core approximate approximate raw sewage." Mutton said that doesn't surprise him. "People downtown (in Orono) have said there is a foul odour in the downtown," downtown," at such times, lie said. A 1996 Regional report on the matter recommended taking some steps to keep the problem at bay, at least on a temporary basis. The report requested regular inspection and maintenance of the current system, and promoted installation of water efficient fixtures and rain barrels. It also advised residents to use proper paper products for septic systems. "They knew there wasn't a solution right away. They couldn't bring the big pipe up yet," in 1996, said Mutton. A full sanitary survey could cost up to $200,000, said Mutton. He will ask the Health Department to add the cost into its budget. "1 don't think they're going to balk at finding the money to take a look at remedying remedying the problem," said the regional councillor for Wards Three and Four. 145th Year Circulation: 21,265 Help for Refugees Donations Accepted at Kogj Enterprises by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer The owners of Kool-Entcrpriscs Refrigeration and Air Conditioning would like to help the ethnic Albanian refugees who will begin arriving in Canada this weekend. Tunu Sodhi says his family will take any donations dropped off at Kool-Enterprises at 161 Baseline Road to Canadian Forces Base Borden, About half of the 5,000 refugees will go to Borden upon arriving in Canada. "We'd really like to get a couple of van-loads" of donations, says Sodhi. Forced from Homes Sodhi's father, Kuldip Singh Sodhi, came up with the idea while watching television news reports about the situation situation the refugees face. They have been forced from their homes in war- torn Kosovo. "We'd like to figure out a way to challenge the town to bring in items," says Tunu. The Sodhis have been in touch with staff at CFB Borden who say the items most needed arc clothes, toiletries, and children's toys. Donations will be accepted at the Baseline Road shop during business hours, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. For more information, call Kool- Enterprises at 623-3221. The Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Clarington District School Board's Lakcshore Family of Schools will also be accepting accepting donations. Drop off points for the schools' collection are at St. Elizabeth School, at 610 Longworth Street in Bowmanville, and St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School at 200 King Street East in Newcastle. Items collected at St. Elizabeth will go to CFB Trenton, while items taken in at St. Francis will be sent to CFB: Borden. Change May Mean Short OMB Hearing For Lishman Project by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer Paula Lishman Inc. may have jumped its last hurdle on the way to building a fur-knitting factory near Orono. The matter was discussed by Durham Regional Council Wednesday. Thanks to a slight change in wording, it looks like the project won't face a lengthy Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing. "With a little bit of give on one side, and a little bit of give on the other, hopefully we can go hand-in-hand (to the OMB) and not have a hearing," said Lishman consultant Kevin Tunney of Tunney Planning. The proposal to build the facility called for an amendment to both Clarington's and the Region's Official Plans. The facility, to be located just off Taunton Road near Leskard Road, will be built on land formerly zoned as permanent agricultural reserve. Over 600 letters and delegations on the subject were received when Clarington's council reviewed the proposal proposal in July, 1998. But Tunney told Council Wednesday that all official objections to the project had been withdrawn. Though the Official Plan amendments amendments had been passed by both Clarington and Durham councils, the matter was to go to an OMB pre-hearing pre-hearing at Clarington Town Hall next Wednesday. In their application, Paula Lishman International asked for rural employment employment zoning which would permit many uses for the area. Clarington council approved a more restricted 'single prestige' use for the land. The Region of Durham was even more restrictive in the wording of the amendment, limiting use to a fur factory factory only. Thanks to a slight change in wording, it looks like the project won't face a lengthy Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing. The planner asked Council to change the wording of the amendment, so it would allow the land to be used for "a single prestige use, including fur manufacturing." He said the broader terms might make it easier for the Lishmans to get bank support for the project. "With fur only, he (Lishman) is having a deuce of a time getting financing," said Clarington Mayor Diane Hamre. Many opponents of the facility had been concerned the factory would be Continued on page 14 XMIeaver v/lumber Independent Flyers A&P (Prices in effect from Sat., April 10 to Fri., April 16/99) Armstrong's IGA (Prices in effect from Sat., April 10 to Fri., April 16/99) Beaver Lumber (Sale ends April 24/99) Color tour World KSXXZ7 loi fipïome yhœdwoBJ © Colour Your World Graham's IGA (Prices in effect from Sat., April 10 to Fri., April 16/99) Home Hardware (Sale ends Sat., April 24/99) Home and Rural Appliances (Special Events) Kingsway Greenhouse & Garden (Let's Get Growing) Orono Fuel & Lumber. 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