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Sports/ Eagles get some help from above News/ Firefighters going door-to-door CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 WHAT'S ON Wednesday: The Campaign Campaign Against For-Profit Health Care comes to Oshawa tonight. This free event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 43 at 471 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa. Oshawa. Maude Barlow, national voluntary chairman of the Council of Canadians, author of the 'McMaster Study of Increased Increased Deaths in For-Profit Hospitals,' will be guest speaker. speaker. Thursday: Lakeridge Health Oshawa invites all to attend attend an open board meeting on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 5:30 p.m. If you have an opinion to share or are just curious and want to learn more about the Lakeridge Health Oshawa, this is your opportunity. The meeting is being held at the Carriage House, Parkwood Conference Centre, McLaughlin Room, 240 Simcoe St. N„ Oshawa. For more information, call Marie Nbrth at 905-576-8711 ext. 4721. 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I.OCAMV05) 666-1772 honda | www.honda1.com Successful CAMPaign Courtice teachers camp out for food drive BY NATALIE MILLER Staff Writer COURTICE - Two teachers and a custodian pitched tents on the boulevard in front of their school recently and spent a rainy night outside. Resource teacher Heather Hogan, Grade 5 teacher Angelo Costa and custodian Perry Woz- niak agreed to camp out in front of Good Shepherd Catholic School after students collected canned goods and other non-perishable non-perishable food items for the St. Vincent de Paul Society food bank. "We knew they were in dire straits," says organizer Ms. Hogan about the food bank run from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Bow- manville. The food bank was in desperate need of pasta, sauce, canned stews and meats, jams and cereal. Ms. Hogan challenged the students to collect 2,400 items and in turn, she and her colleagues colleagues would sleep outside for one night. The 800 students collected collected 4,000 food items, which were delivered to the church last night (Tuesday). "We have very successful food banks here," says Ms. Hogan, noting this one surpassed surpassed them all. The teacher was inspired by a Toronto radio station station campout for food. After a barbecue with the students students on Oct. 2, the trio sang campfire songs and retired to their separate tents at 11:15 p.m. They chatted through the canvas before drifting off. It rained, heavily at times, throughout the night but they managed to stay dry, Ms. Hogan says. When the school buses pulled up in the morning, they greeted the students from their tents. "We came in and had a regular regular day," Ms. Hogan says. However However they were a little weary, she adds, considering they didn't sleep as well as they would have in their own beds. RON PIETRONIRO/Statesman photo Three members of the staff at Good Shepherd Catholic School had to camp out overnight on school property after students surpassed their food drive goal of over 3,000 items. From left are, Heather Hogan (resource teacher), Perry Wozniak (custodian) (custodian) and Angelo Costa (Grade 5 teacher). Program registration about to get easier No more busy lines and no more line-ups BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Long Saturday morning line-ups and busy signals on the phone lines could be in the past for Clar- ington residents trying to register register for recreation programs. The municipality is going live with an Internet-based registration registration program Dec. 7. The public will be able to register for everything from swimming to skating and other municipal programs through the Claring- ton Web site, Erica Badley, program co-ordinator, told the general purpose and administration administration committee Monday. The program will add on to the current telephone registration registration system introduced last year to reduce the need for mass registration line-ups. "We're the first in Durham Region to offer this type of service service so we're proud to be leading leading the way in that regard," Ms. Badley said. Residents will be able to register, browse through the various program offerings and find all the municipality's municipality's park and recreation facilities on-line through the new system. As well, residents can pull up a map detailing where facilities arc located. The Web site offers a full encryption security system similar to those used by banks and department stores. However, However, Ms. Badley said, residents uncomfortable with making financial financial transactions on the Internet Internet can go into the municipal municipal centre and credit their account account ahead of time. Each family is given an account number and a bar code for individual individual family members prior to registration. "If you think about the long See REGISTRATIONS page 7 Big projects in the works for 401 corridor BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer BOVVMANVILLE - The "first domino" is about to drop on a series of commercial projects projects that could see an explosion explosion of development along Ihvy. 401 in Claringlon, says Mayor John Mutton. The municipality has received received an application for development development of nine commercial lots in the area of Wavcrlcy Road and Baseline Road in Bowmanville to include a hotel, auto mall including a Toyota dealership, and restaurants. restaurants. "This is a great opportunity for the municipality to have some high-end commercial," said Mayor John Mutton, dur- Soe HOTEL page 7 NATALIE MILLER/Statosman photo Auxiliary constables Carol-Ami Sauve and Scott lleanulen launched the community safety zone on Hwy. 35/115. Police launch safety zone on Hwy. 35/115 'There's a huge potential for disaster' BY NATALIE MILLER Staff Writer CLARINGTON - A Clar- ington principal was almost hit by a dump truck when she tried to exit the school driveway on Hwy. 35/115. Another time, students were involved in a fender bender because because the driver couldn't see beyond a tractor trailer parked at the side of the highway. There have been too many close calls at Clarke High School, says principal Catherine Catherine Foy. On' Friday. Whitby OFF. school officials and politicians introduced a community safety zone on Hwy. 35/115 in front of the school that's adjacent to the 90 km/h highway. The zone begins in the northbound lanes of Hwy. 35/115 at Clarke Concession Concession 3 and ends at Clarke Concession 4. The designation of a community safety zone means there is increased police presence and speeders face nearly double the regular fines. "This has been a really important important issue for this school," said Ms. Foy. "Nine hundred people enter and exit this property every day." The school's exit goes directly directly into a merge lane on the highway. There are numerous gas stations and restaurants nearby, school buses en route and transport trucks often park at the side of the road obstructing obstructing the view. Staff Sergeant Greg Sweeney of Whitby OFF said Son SPEEDERS page 7 1999 BUICK LeSABRE 3,0, V-0, crulso/tllt, powor windows 8, locks, powor sont, aluminum wliools, koyluss untry. 70,000 km. 1999 OLDSMOBILE AURORA Norlhslai, V-8. Loaded. Loalhor Inloiioi, high |x>llshod chiomo wliools, powor sunroof honlod memory seals, G pack CD changor. Only 53,000 Km. 2000 CHEV LUMINA SEDAN l.oadorl. 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