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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 5 Feb 2003, p. 4

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PAGE 4THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, FEBRUARY 5,2003 www.durhamrcgion.com Tim Whittaker Publisher Joanne Burghardt Editor-in-Chief Chris Bovie Managing Editor Judi Bobbitt Regional Editor Fred Eismont Director of Advertising Eddie Kolodziejcak Classified Advertising Manager Kirk Bailey Distribution Manager Lillian Hook Office Manager Barb Harrison Composing Manager Clarington's Awarcl-Winning Newspaper Since 1854 Eïjc Cmmbtmt â>tatcsimmt Feb. 5,2003 Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distributing Ltd. Phone 905-579-4400 Classifieds 905-576-9335 Distribution 905-579-4407 General Fax 905-579-2238 Newsroom Fax 905-579-1809 E-Mail newsroom@durhamregion.com 865 Farewell St., Oshawa ON L1H 7L5 Publications Mail Registration No. 07637 infodurham - .com EDITORIAL c-mail Idlers lo newsroom@<ltirliaiim!|>inii.eoni United States presence a big boost for ITER T ilings are looking better for ITER, the $12-bil- lionas international thermonuclear thermonuclear experimental reactor reactor program. With the United States announcing announcing it is formally on board with ITER, the multiyear multiyear project, which features Clarington as a possible site, will get a huge infusion of cash, expertisé and materials. American Secretary of Energy Energy Spence Abraham announced announced the re-entry of the US in a speech last week in which he stated, "This international fusion project is a major step towards a fusion demonstration power plant that could usher in commercial fusion energy. ITER also provides a cost-effective cost-effective way to proceed with fusion fusion research worldwide with the collaborating parties sharing sharing in the project's cost of construction construction and operation." It hasn't always been this way with the United States. In the late 1990s the Americans dropped out of the ITER process citing the then-$20-bil- lion projected costs as too expensive. expensive. There was also a belief ITER was stalled in the planning planning process and it became the victim of party politics in the United States. But, the project's costs have since been cut by 40 per cent, making re-involvement re-involvement more palatable for the U.S. administration. A new president and administration has also played a role in the decision decision to re-enter. Having the U.S. back in means 10 per cent of the project project will be covered by the world's richest nation. It also brings in a partner which will "participate in the research and technology" of ITER according to the US department of energy. It never hurts to have the United United States behind a massive technology project. For Canada, having our next-door neighbour back in may boost our Clarington bid. There are no guarantees and we have plenty of competition for site selection from bids in France, Spain and Japan, but we may benefit by having a North American partner. At the very least, Canada's lack of firm commitment to ITER may now be positively affected. Gary Polonsky, Iter Community Community Council chairman, says US involvement should help Prime Minister Jean Chretien reach a decision. "If he was waiting to see if the Americans were coming on board... now he knows. Now it's ante-up time or all this (the work by Iter Canada to secure ITER for Clarington) was for nought." Indeed, much has been done for a number of years now to get Canada into the international international fusion game, and to bring ITER to Clarington. The federal federal government must join the Province,, the Region and the Municipality to ensure we put our best bid in to get the facility- facility- . OPINION e-inail letters to newsroom @(lurliam rcyion.com Higher education at new Clarington high school A new Bowmanville high school is expected to give a boost to education education throughout Clarington, not just to those students who will attend the new public secondary secondary school. Construction this spring to get the school open in September September 2004 doesn't just mean a beautiful new facility for kids in that boundary area. It means serious overcrowding at Bowmanville Bowmanville High School and Courticc Secondary will be resolved resolved and portables will be gone, at least for a few years. The additional space will mean breathing room in a municipality municipality where we have been squeezing too many kids into too many portables for too much of their school career. The ministry of education education should be commended commended for allowing the board to build a facility facility that won't he overflowing in the first year it's opened, as John M. James Public School was a few years back. The new high school is going lo mean more than just another facility facility though, according to Superintendent Superintendent Joe Hubbard and Clarington Superintendent Sylvia Terpstra, who are both brimming with excitement over the addition. Both will tell you there arc big plans for this school and lor the way secondary secondary education is delivered in Chirington. The new school will have an international language language locus and will he the new home of the French immersion immersion program. As well, it will offer high technology applications applications that could lie in with the research-oriented University University of Ontario Institute of Technology Technology (U01T) and ITER, the proposed international fusion research facility, if it is located in Clarington. A culinary arts program is also being developed. developed. If the board follows through on its plans, the older schools will not be forgotten and students students throughout the board could choose a school not based on where they live but what their interests are. Courticc Courticc Secondary and Bowmanville Bowmanville High School both have strong technical programs in place and would build on those strengths. Bowmanville High School has a well-respected ails and music program that will be open to Clarington's most artistic young minds. Meanwhile, Clarke High School offers a more intimate school community for students students looking for a well-rounded education education with more personal personal attention. With more transportation transportation options for students than ever, it makes sense to look at a more diverse way to offer programming that fully utilizes all the resources we have to offer rather than reproducing reproducing similar programs at each school, This way our kills have a chance to take their talents talents to a new level. Just a note of caution, however. however. Our mediocre Grade 3 and (i HQ AO test results in math, reading and writing, illustrate illustrate poignantly that the best new high school program is only as good as the foundation we give our children to use it. Jacquie Mclnnes Staff Writer LETTERS TO THE EDITOR e-mail letters lo iiewsroom@(liirlmmrct;ion.c<>m Award winner talks of sacrifices on way to , podium To the editor: Recently I was honoured with the Queen's Golden Jubilee Jubilee Award along with 16 others. I received the award for my commitment to being an. elite athlete, wanting to represent our country. I would like to thank John O'Toole for submitting my name and those who chose me. I also receive a grant from the Dairy Farmers of Canada. This award is to help improve my chances at reaching the Olympic podium. The sacrifices I have to make to maintain my status, as an elite athlete was apparent by my absence at the awards ceremony. I was at a camp competing for a spot on the Canadian Women's National Hockey team. 1 will soon be attending a camp to compete for a spot on the Canadian Softball team. The reason 1 share this with you is because of the financial commitment on the athlete's part. This financial burden in the early years is solely the parents' responsibility. As an athlete enters the Elite Athletes Athletes Program he or she must attempt to get a sponsor. 1 will share with you the cost to me for the softball camps coming up. For an athlete attending a walk-on camp the cost is up to $ 100. For me, it costs $400 to attend an evaluation camp; selection selection camp is $600, competition/training competition/training camps will be up to $1,000 plus some other expenses. With the amount of travel and training involved, em ployment for the elite athlete is difficult. Companies do not want to hire an employee who is away so much. With my being a dual athlete 1 am away more than I am home. When I am away, the time to explore the countries 1 am in is next to impossible. The playing and training schedule consumes any tourist time. I am attempting to help everyone understand the commitment commitment an athlete makes to represent her country is simply simply in her heart. We have quite a few great competitors in this region and I ask you to continue continue to support them and recognize recognize their efforts. I will continue my venture with the national programs with hopes of reaching podium podium status. I would like to express express my gratitude to my family family and friends, and the community community of Clarington for its continued support. Sommer West Bowmanville OPINION u-mail letters lo newsroom@(liirli;iinix'aimi.c()m Doe, a deer, a female dear ...my scene with Julie A fter almost 20 years as an actor, 1 don't generally generally tend to get star struck anymore. The experience of seeing a grotesquely fat. trouscrlcss Marlon Brando on set, went a long way lo getting that particular monkey off my hack. Having saitl that, there are still one or two heroes out there who can turn me into a quivering howl of Jell- O. I met and worked with Julie Andrews for the first time last week. I thought I did pretty well at our first meeting, sitting on set, getting ready lo block a scene, and she came and plunked herself down in the chair next to mine. She smiled at me with those joyously joyously twinkling blue-green eyes and I smiled hack, professionally professionally extending my hand and introducing myself. We dialled politely about how the shoot was going, with me smiling and nodding and all the time this idiot voice yelling inside my head, 'Dude! "You're talking lo freaking Mary I'oppins!' We finished oar dint, Julie excused herself in that fabulously soft English accent that had so easily melted melted Captain Von Trapp's hardened hardened heart, and headed off to her trailer. It was all so perfect. I don't think she even realized realized I'd wet myself. With some celebrities celebrities the magic wears off quickly. You catch them in a hideous make-up free moment or watch in disgust as they inhale doughnut after doughnut from the craft table, or loudly dress. down some innocent underling underling whose only mistake was bringing them the wrong brand of bottled water, and the mask comes off. Not so with Ms. Andrews. If anything, I became more and more enamoured with her as time passed. I found myself staring and daydreaming, lo the extent where I am quite sure I have ruined the movie. My mind was everywhere but where it should've been. In the climactic denouement, when my character boldly strides in and unmasks the bad guy, when I should've been focussed focussed and severe and authoritarian. authoritarian. I was miles away, dancing dancing on an Austrian hilltop dressed in some drapes. In still another, when I was directed lo look dark and mysterious, mysterious, I was 16 going on 17 in a moonlit gazebo. And when I should've been sinisterly stalking stalking my elusive quarry, 1 was gaily tripping down' a huge staircase, singing good night in a pair of liederhausen. It was embarrassing. Another week of that and I'm sure I would've answered to Lisle or Grell. One day I found myself on the periphery of a scene in which Julie was working and as the scene ended and the director director yelled 'Cut' I discovered, discovered, to my utter horror, I was humming 'My Favourite Things', loud enough for Ms. Andrews to hear I mean, isn't that tantamount to yelling, 'Yo Adrian' as Stallone finishes a scene or 'I'll he back' when you pass Schwarzenegger coming out of the men's room'/ It's throwing gasoline on a celebrity fire. Asking for a knuckle sandwich. Again, not so with the incomparable incomparable Ms. Andrews, She caught the tune I was humming, humming, picked it up and sang me a verse, Well, in truth I suppose she was singing to the whole room, hut for a magical moment moment or two there, it was just me nml Maria. Neil Crone Enter Laughing was CLICK AND SA^ Today's question: Should the provincial government declare teachers an essential service and take away their right to strike? □ Yes □ No Cast your vote online at infodurham ; com Last week's question: Should the Region of Durham fund local hospital capital expansion projects? □ Yes 50.8% □ No 49.2% Votes cast: 118 HAVE YOUR SAY Question What do you feci is the worst intersection in Clarington? Ena Etcher "According to the paper it's Hwy. 2 and Hwy. 57, I'm not sure why. I guess because it's quite busy." Bob Denard "I agree it's Hwy. 2 and 57. I've seen a lot of accidents there over the years. I think it needs an extra lane going both ways as well as a turning lane into the rec complex." Brad Fothergill "Bloor Street and Liberty. It's a very confusing intersection for people that don't live here. I've had a few close calls down there." Henry Lorrain "Liberty and , j Hwy. 2 ! going westbound, ' J trying to turn left. It's a difficult intersection with insufficient lane widths." Œlic Cmmtiinn Statesman is one of the Metroland Printing, Publishing Publishing and Distributing group of newspapers. The Statesman is a member of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Clarington Board of Trade, the Greater Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, Ontario Ontario Community Newspaper Assoc., Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc., Canadian Circulations Audit Board and the Ontario Press Council. The publisher reserves the right to classify or refuse any advertisement. advertisement. Credit for advertisement advertisement limited to space price error occupies. Editorial and Advertising content of the Canadian Statesman is copyrighted. copyrighted. Unauthorized reproduction reproduction is prohibited. *<'.NA

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