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he CatiuMat! man • SINCE 1854 • AMALGAMATED 1999 WITH CLARINGTON T1 .WEEK » Press run 21,900 22 Pages Wednesday, January 10, 2001 the ; OptiomKjJjf week delivery $5/$l newsstand Eagles trade Ford fires players >ports, page 7 the Bullitt Wheels Pull out ™ - Y' McKnight Road site would service other municipalities from Toronto to Northumberland j. Waste station proposed in Courtice - BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer COURTICE - Clarington's garbage collector is proposing a privately-owned waste transfer station in Courtice which would process garbage from various unnamed municipalities east of Blue Circle Toronto through to Northumberland. Northumberland. Canadian Waste Services is requesting an official plan amendment and rezoning of light industrial land in Courtice to allow development of an 800-tonne (daily) capacity waste transfer station and material material recovery and recycling facility. facility. It would process non- hazardous waste such as residential residential and business garbage. The property, on McKnight Road, would require a zoning designation change to general industrial. The company is currently contracted by Clarington to collect collect about 250 to 300 tonnes per day of garbage, processed at a municipally-owned transfer station station in Bowmanville and shipped to a landfill site in Na- panee. The additional waste, up to the 800 tonne limit, would come from other Canadian Waste customers if the proposal receives approval. John McDermott, a consultant consultant for the company, told Clarington Clarington politicians the increase BOWMANVILLE - Blue Circle Industries, which owns and operates Blue Circle Cement Cement in Bowmanville, has been purchased by rival company Lafarge Lafarge SA of France. Lafarge had made a bid for the company last year but, Blue Circle's Bowmanville plant said in a statement released yesterday, yesterday, the new offer "is well above the offer made earlier last year and above the levels at which our stock has ever traded in the past." Lafarge has stated it intends to dispose of Blue Circle's operations operations in Canada, which employ about'2,000 people. This assertion was not addressed addressed in Blue Circle Bow- manville's statement which said, "It is too early to tell how the purchase will impact the Bowmanville plant. It is business business as usual. The company will release further, iijfprmatiqq, when it has something to report." report." in lonnà&e would benefit the municipality •financially and the facility would be "a better environmental environmental facilityYor this municipality." municipality." He suggested the facility facility would even attract other See WASTE paye 2 RIDE officers t, WALTER PASSARELLA/ Statesman photo Teamwork gets results BOWMANVILLE - With all the snow that's fallen fhp' winter, shovelling the driveway is easier when there's four on the job. Tackling the sidewalk on'Carlisle Avenue are, from left, Taylor Hircock, Josh Terry, Alex Terry and Brooks Robinson. Municipality may sell services to Scugog, Uxbridge, Brock merger FRANK WU ' CAO is preparing 'comprehensive ' report on amalgamation issues. c ONTARIO'S DRIVE CLEAN ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY ♦An onU'hil murk of the Province or Ontario'used under licence, WHITBY - OSHAWA HONDA 1110 DUNDAS. ST. E., WHITBY LOCAL (905) TOR. LINE (905) 666-1772 686-1745 BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Clarington Clarington shouldn't amalgamate but that doesn't mean it can't share, suggests Mayor John Mutton, who is meeting this week with mayors, CAOs and councils of Durham's three northern municipalities.- municipalities.- The findings of a joint report on amalgamation commissioned by Scugog, Uxbridge, Brock and Clarington is the basis for discussions discussions which began yesterday among the CAOs and mayors. Talks will continue tomorrow, Thursday, with members of all involved councils. "We are there as interested observers," commented Mayor Mutton yesterday. "We have our preferred position of Clarington Inside If* Statesman WHERE TO FIND IT Editorial Page 6 Sports 7 Classified 9 GIVE US A CALL General 623-3303 Distribution .. .579-4407 Death Notices 1-905- 683-3005 Sincerely Yours 1-800-662-8423 Web site durhamnews.net judi.bobbitt ©durhamnews.net FAX 623-6161 on its own." However, the mayor said, the northern municipalities are "looking at possibly purchasing purchasing service from the Municipality Municipality of Clarington," based on the findings of the report. That, he noted, is something Clarington might be interested in. The report suggested it would be premature to move to any municipal amalgamations amalgamations at this time. The report, prepared by The Randolph Group and Enid Slack Consulting Inc., was completed in October, It reviews various options options fpr possible government re structuring. Enid Slack Consulting Consulting Inc. has also been preparing a separate report for Clarington over the past year to examine the financial impact on the municipality municipality if Courtice broke off and joined with Oshawa. The final draft of that report is expected shortly. Clarington Chief Administrative Administrative Officer Frank Wu says the Randolph and Slack studies are just two pieces of information Clarington council will be reviewing reviewing in the coming months. "A comprehensive report is being prepared by the CAO's office," he says. It will include the findings findings of the consultants' reports and also lay out the reasons for leaving Clarington as a standalone standalone municipality. That report will also make recommendations for optimizing service delivery within the municipality, he says. Tire CAO's report is anticipated to be completed in April, two months before the June 3Ô'dead- line stipulated by the Region"for municipalities to have completed any study on the amalgamation issue. BY STEPHEN SHAW . Staff Writer They came from various walks of life, but 74 motorists caught drinking and driving during during the holiday RIDE program all had one thing in common: excuses. And Acting Sergeant Mark Stone, co-ordinator of the Durham Regional Police 2000/2001 campaign and nine colleagues heard them all during the past seven weeks. "It seems everybody has'an excuse; there's always an excuse. excuse. They range from 'I only had two beers,' to 'I was only going down the road,' or 'I had to pick up a friend. "There are two gfoups (of drunk drivers). The people who believe they're not over tire limit and then there are the hard-core alcoholics who blow substantial levels." As far as Acting Sgt. Stone's concerned, this year's final RIDE numbers are a good news- bad news stoiy. On the positive side, he said, there were no fatal collisions in the region involving alcohol during the holiday season, for tire seventh consecutive year. On the down side, however, is the fact the nunrbér of drivers charged with exceeding the legal blood-alcohol limit of 80 mgs per 100 mis of blood isn't going down. In fact, the figures are nearly identical to last year's. The 74 charged in 2000/2001 is one See COLD page 2 In-car ignition breathalysers arrive BY JOE CHIN Staff Writer It will be much tougher soon for convicted drunk drivers to reoffend. reoffend. Attorney General Jim Flaherty Flaherty yesterday unveiled the latest weapon in the fight against drink : ing and driving - the alcohol ignition ignition interlock device. ■ Under Bill 131, which was passed on Dec. 21, the device will be mandatory for those convicted convicted of a criminal alcohol-related alcohol-related offence. 'Too many lives are lost in the province because of the inability of many drivers to curb their drinking and driving habits," said Mr. Flaherty, during the demonstration demonstration of the machine in Whitby. Whitby. "This legislation Is another step forward to eradicate the carnage carnage on our roads." For those convicted, the use of the device is mandatory for a period period of one year for first-time offenders, offenders, three years for secondtime secondtime offenders and permanently for third-time offenders. "We welcome this initiative, which we believe is one of the toughest in Canada," said Nancy Codlin of Mothers Against Drunk • Driving (MADD), Durham chapter. 'The message has to go out that drinking and driving must stop." Members of the Durham traffic traffic management unit were on hand to demonstrate the $1,200 device, which is in effect a sophisticated sophisticated breath alcohol tester with computer logic and memory capabilities. Installed in the offender's vehicle, vehicle, it is linked to the ignition system. If the person has been drinking, the device prevents the See FEAR page 2 4 iff; i-Tiff ! : ; - s ■' \ V..- : . 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