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Mal HHH WÊm flllfl •v. v ' ■ î\». tmtËÈmÊ §§||| lÿiiûniitJMi-' ff « MM * I W ?%/ /ÛA # A4 y ^4^^' ^ v s i g i ra i F U !.. m ; • w «i m h h b h $€J #I|V w W <> V v v§? Total Market Coverage of Clarington from the Publishers of The Canadian Statesman • Nominations Needed for Apple Blossom Awards Shouldn't Go Unnoticed by Michelle Wyton Staff Writer There's only a couple of weeks left to nominate your neighbour or yourself for Clarington's Apple Blossom Awards. The Apple Blossom Awards are the municipality's way of recognizing residents and businesses who take pride in making their neighbourhoods beautiful. Nominations are open to commercial, residential and industrial properties in Clarington and will be judged by volunteers from the Orono, Newcastle and Bowmanville Horticultural Societies. "We've got 48 nominations in right now, so we're quite pleased," said Jennifer Cook, marketing and communications officer for the municipality. "The deadline is July 15, so there is still time to get nominations nominations in." Judges will be looking for: the contribution the property makes to the surrounding community; the general condition and maintenance of the garden; the selection and arrangement of plant material chosen; the use of walkways, stones, rocks, containers, walls, fencing and water features; originality; the diversity and suitability of plants and shrubs; the use of colour and texture; and the design of the garden in relation to the whole property, Nomination forms arc available at the municipal building on Temperance Street. All nominees will receive a Certificate of Merit and a window sign to indicate their garden has been nominated. This year, there will be awards given out in each of the four municipal wards, with the winners being honoured at a ceremony in early fall. Region Will Inspect Playground Equipment by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer If you see a Regional employee using a swing or slide in your local park this summer, don't be too surprised. surprised. Durham Regional Council Wednesday gave the Health Department the go-ahead to inspect municipally-run municipally-run parks to ensure any unsafe playground equipment is fixed or removed. According to a Health Department report, the inspection is at least partially partially a result of a complaint complaint which originated in Clarington. "On April 21," reads the report, "Alex Connor, Manager, Environmental Health, received a complaint complaint from a resident of Clarington whose thrcc- ycar-old son had fallen from a slide and had suffered suffered a serious head injury. Mr. Connor and one of his staff inspected the equipment equipment and identified numerous deficiencies. A meeting on April 23 with the parks manager and his staff resulted in an agreement agreement to remove the subject slide and seven other similar similar slides from service as soon ns possible." The extent of the child's injuries is not known. Clarington Mayor Diane Hamrc said the complaint may not have gone through all the proper proper channels before the Health Department ordered the removal of the slides. "A woman called, and said she'd just moved from Toronto and our equipment equipment was not as good as (Toronto Mayor) Mel Eastman's. She wouldn't tell us where it had happened, happened, the extent of the injuries, anything, but she immediately went to the Health Department," related related Hamrc. The Regional staffer who took the call "wrote an order and said the slides immediately had to be taken out of use," said Hamrc. "Some of those slides had been bought in the 1998 budget and had been CSA (Canadian Standards Association) approved." "Some of the equipment equipment they ordered taken out, we'd just put there," added Clarington's mayor. Hamrc wcnt .cn to say she believes municipal departments are more than able to take care of playground playground equipment, without without help from Regional Health staff. Osliawa Mayor Nancy Diamond agreed. "Oshawa's equipment is regularly inspected by qualified individuals and immediately repaired. For you to send staff to go out every two or three weeks is an absolute waste of regional resources," she said. "I don't believe the Health Department needs to check up on municipalities municipalities that are doing their job well," said Oshawa Councillor Brian Nicholson, who was also concerned a Health Department stamp of approval might open the Region up to litigation, should someone be hurt in a playground which has- been inspected. 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