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4 Clarington Community/7 Sylvia Vanhaverbeke honoured by award Wheels/lnsert Dodge Durango has new look durhamregion.com ♦ Preasrun 24,150 ♦ Founded 1854 ♦ APRIL 19, 2006 ♦ 50 Page. ♦ Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$1 Newaaland Businesses honoured Board of Trade Group holds annual general meeting and awards ceremony BY JENHIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - This year's Clarington Board of Trade Industrial-Manufacturing Business Business of the Year was borne out of a newscast. Francine Nesbitt was doing safety inspections of equipment up north in INCO mines when ■she saw a newscast about two miners who had been killed in The mine the day before her Arrival. They'd fallen, and when Jheir helmet lights had been covered, they'd been run over T»y a piece of equipment. "I started to think about what T could do so people could be Jeen," said Ms. Nesbitt.. », She came home and started snaking visible-in-the-dark stickers for hard hats: 5>he was advised to see someone at one of the railways, who asked her if she could make arm or leg bands. Fines Insurance won't always cover fallout from ' convictions BY KEITH GILLIGAN Staff Writer DURHAM - Are taxpayers, paying twice when a municipality municipality or other public sector entity is fined by another level of government? government? That depends. Some may have insurance to cover the cost, while in other instances, the money comes out of operating revenue. Last month, Durham Region was fined $33,000 after pleading pleading guilty to three charges under "I didn't have a sewing machine, so I did it with a glue gun and took it, back," she recalled. "He ordered 200." She promptly bought a sewing machine and the business, Safe and Sound Manufacturing, grew from there. She and her husband Ken moved the business to Bowman- ville from Toronto in 2000, and "we do every- t h in g now from flame retardant underwear underwear to parkas," said Ms. Nesbitt. "The reward is in the safety." Safe and Sound was. among a number of businesses honoured honoured by the Clarington Board of Trade last week, as it held its annual general meeting and awards ceremony. Retail Business of the Year was Cowan Pontiac. "Whether they are offering See BOARD, page 4 ■Ron Hooper, President's ' Award recipient 00^ , - ,:KrZ!£gfijS$S Walter Passarella / Metroland Durham Region Media Group BOWMANVILLE -- Parade marshall and caregiver Janet Rogerson brings up the rear of the second annual Molly Tot Daycàre's Easter parade. governments, the Safe Drinking Water and the Ontario Water Resource acts. A fourth charge was dropped. John Presta, director of environmental environmental services for Durham Region, said the money for the fine came out of the water supply budget, which is funded by user rates. "It's basically part of doing business," Mr. Presta stated. Hydro One, a private company set up by the former Conservative government to operate the electrical electrical transmission system in Ontario, Ontario, was fined $60,000 on April 10 after pleading guilty under the Ontario Water Resources Act to the charge of permitting the discharge discharge of transformer fluid into Pine Creek. The charge was filed following 'It's basically part of doing business.' --John Presta an incident in 2003. Hydro One could have been fined up to a maximum of $6 million for the spill, but the company company had spent nearly that amount recovering the oil and cleaning the creek. Daffyd Roderick, a spokesman for Hydro One, said the cost of the fine would come from the company's, general revenues. Rob, Ford, the finance director director for Ajax, said the Town has what's called errors and omissions omissions insurance that could be used to cover the cost of a fine. "Errors and omissions insurance can come into play in certain circumstances. circumstances. In our first case, we look to insurance," Mr. Ford said. If insurance doesn't cover the cost, then the money would come out of general operating revenue, he stated. "There's no really broad answer," he added. "It depends on the facts. Insurance Insurance is pretty broad based. It's always the first place to look is insurance. If not, it's general operating funds. We're lucky, we never had to face that." If someone were to slip and fall on a sidewalk, liability insurance would be used, he said. Mr. Presta pointed. out each potential situation is different. "If someone were to get into an accident with one of our big vehicles, insurance would cover it," he said. "It falls under the insurance group and the Region pays for that. In this (water) case, it's not covered by insurance." The $33,000 went to the provincial provincial Ministry of the Attorney General. "We're trying to have the funds go to the Ministry of the Environment Environment and the money reinvested into the water system," Mr. Presta stated. The Region's water supply budget budget for 2006 totals about $71 million, with $31.8 million for capital construction projects. The remainder goes to operations and maintenance. moves east Annual event raises money and awareness for cancer research BY BLAKE WOLFE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - The Canadian Canadian Cancer Society will be bringing its annual Relay For Life fundraiser to Clarington this June. The event, which will be held on. June 23, will take place at Clarington Central High School in Bowmanville. Members of the Canadian' Cancer Society, Clarington Clarington town council and Clarington Clarington Central principal Ron Tansley gathered at the school on Wednesday to officially announce the fundraiser. "I know you will be quite successful," successful," said Clarington Councillor Councillor Charlie Trim, to the event's organizers. "These events just don't happen - they require a lot of planning." Relay For Life involves teams of 10 members walking or jogging jogging in shifts overnight during a 12-hour period. The event starts . off in the early evening with the Survivor's Victory Lap, in which local cancer survivors walk one lap of the track with family and friends. A luminary ceremony takes place at dusk, in which candles are lit for both survivors and victims of the disease. Relay for Life events take place each June in 81 communities communities across Ontario. Ms. Tweedle said that the event's success in both Oshawa, where it has taken place for the last six years, and Uxbridge, led to the fundraiser coming to Clarington. Clarington. "It was so popular they decided that Clarington was big enough to hold it on its own," she said. Linda Anderton of Courtice has participated in the Oshawa Relay For Life every year since it began by taking part in the Survivor's Victory Lap. A cancer survivor herself, she will walk in the Clarington Clarington event with her family this year. For more information on the event, or to register a team, contact contact 905-430-5770, or e-mail kchopcian @ ontario.cancer.ca. 0 ONTARIO'S m • SERVICE • PARTS MON., WED., FRI. 7:30 am - 6:00 pm TUES. * THURS. 7:30 am - 8:00 pm SAT. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ACCREDITED TEST A REPAIR FACILITY WHITBY OSHAWA Honda 300 THICKSON RD. S. WHITBY 1-866 240-6192 HONDA www.honde1.com m Group of DOIT students design the best new shoes Team wins competition to market an online simulation project , UOIT submitted photo From left, University of Ontario Institute of Technology students students Nalls Sifat-Ur-Rahman, Anton Gavrilov and Manja Pope work on the NewShoes Challenge, for which they were awarded first place by Pearson Education Canada. The online competition required them to participate in a simulation simulation game using introductory marketing concepts to design and market a new line of shoes. BY CRYSTAL CRIMI Staff Writer DURHAM - When it comes to new shoes, University of Ontario Institute of Technology students have the best. A team of business students recently took first place in Pearson Pearson Education Canada's NewShoes NewShoes Challenge. The online competition required teams to participate in a simulation game using introductory marketing concepts to design and market a new line of shoes. "It's a simulation, so it's not a physical product," said Manja Pope, a member of the three- person UOIT team. "We didn't actually design a physical shoe, it was more the marketing design of the proj ect. The group, which also included included Nafis Sifat-Ur-Rahman and Anton Gavrilov, had to meet frequently and discuss product decisions, listen to team suggestions suggestions and work out agreements. "Some of the decisions were the price in each market," she said. Others included where to sell the shoes, advertising and the amount spent on market research. Throughout the project, the team was confident it could win, Saa STUDENTS, page 4