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J Clarington Community/A5 Lost in a maze at Pingle's Farm Durham Daily News EVERY WEEKDAY AT NOON ivïdeodurhamregïon.com durhamregion.com ♦ Pressrun 24,350 ♦ Founded 1854 ♦ SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 ♦ 58 Pages ♦ Optional 3 Week Delivery $6/$1 Newsstand Terry Fox participants set out "owngat on a marathon of their own Hwÿ!$5 0f One legged runner set an example that will not be forgotten BY MATTHEW JAMES Special to The Statesman DURHAM - Twenty-six years ago Terry Fox set off on his Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research and set an example that will not be forgotten. Last weekend participants in the annual run in his name proved they have not forgotten as hundreds of participants took part in Terry Fox Runs in Whitby, Whitby, Oshawa and Clarington. Since the beginning of the Terry Fox Run, a worldwide total of more than $360 million has been ---- - For more on this story |i< WATCH W) in raised Terry's name, and that total durhamreglon.com continues to rise today. In Whitby, approximately 828 participants flit the course for the annual Terry Fox Run, a number down from,last year's 25th anniversary totals. However, However, head co-ordinator Dianne Gilbert said the committee was very happy with the turnout. . "It's so rewarding," said Ms. Gilbert. "It gets bigger and bigger bigger every year, and year after year the same people come to help out." Last year participants from Whitby raised $95,000. This year,' on the.day after the event, totals had reached $66,000, an amount Ms. Gilbert expects to rise, once other events and merchandise merchandise are accounted for. When totals Figures are finally calculated, Ms. Gilbert hopes this is the year the cumulative Jr ' 3 V.-r, v'txS 1 ' Photo by Jennifer Roberts CLARINGTON - An elephant from the Bowmanville Zoo came to cheer on the Clarington Terry Fox Run participants. The bikers, runners and walkers started the race in Memorial Park on Sunday morning. total will have surpassed the half a miliion : dollar mark. One of the 828 participants was Scott Timmins, of Brook- lin, who sweat his way across the finish line; he and three friends raised $250. Breathless and red in the face, Mr. Timmins Timmins half joked about what the most regarding part of the run was. "Seeing the finish line," said Timmins. "No, I'm actually running for family still suffering from the disease." J A few kilometres to the east in Oshawa, head organizer 1 just can't say enough about how the whole community all came together to carry on Terry's vision about the Marathon of Hope.' --Mary Tillcock Diane Nodes was coordinating her 17th Terry Fox Run. this year, a total of 350 participants were tallied, down 150 from the year before, but again this was expected. "Even though the numbers are down, Terry had a message, and that message is still out there," said Ms. Nodes. Since 1982, Oshawa has raised approximately $439,800 and Ms. Nodes said this year's count was approximately $25,000,. a number expected to rise as donations are accepted until mid-October. One aspect Ms. Noiles-she did touch on was the need of more volunteers, as she could have used more than the 19 who helped out. Continuing east, the finish line at Memorial Park in .Bowmanville .Bowmanville was being crossed by the masses, as approximately 1515 people participated in the rum Compared that to last year, surprisingly surprisingly or not, the number was only down by 250 participants.. In 2005 Clarington raised approximately $112,429 with 1765 participants. At last count, 2006 donations were roughly $78,000, and by March, Run Day Organizer Mary Tillcock See A, page A3 draws ire of nei ours But owner says she's working according to the rules BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer KENDAL - A neighbour's concerns about-a plan to have horses on a Langstaff 'Road property are unwarranted, says the land owner asking for rezoning rezoning to allow the keeping of livestock. livestock. Clarington's General Purpose and Administration Committee held a public riieeting to look at the request to keep seven horses on the property at 7254 Langstaff Road. No barn or agricultural building is to be constructed. That's one of the problems neighbour Paul Fitze, who intends to soon build a new house close to the area where the horses are currently grazing, has with the idea. Clarington's bylaw indicates that all animals are to have a . structurally-sound building, : complete with flooring, and that the bylaw covers "any member of the animal kingdom, which I think should include horses," said Mr. Fitze. But, said Emily'Wilson, one of the applicants for the zoning change, there's no need for a barn, since the horses "are only here for the summer. They're stabled in the winter." . Flies are also an issue, said Mr. Fitze. "The flies, since (the horses) have arrived, have increased by approximately 400 per cent," said Mr. Fitze. • Since a fly control substance, which kills the eggs from which the bugs would hatch, is used in the horses' food, flies shouldn't , be an issue, noted. Ms. Wilson. : Mr. Fitze also raised concerns about whether the horses would have enough to graze on, but Ms. Wilson said the horses received hay and grain each day. The matter was sent back, to Clarington Planning staff who will prepare a subsequent report. declared 'surplus' Clarington Council pushing for quick answer BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer COURTICE - Clarington officials arc pushing the Region hard for an answer on whether the former Courticc fireball on Trulls Road will become an ambulance station.. Preliminary approval to declare the station "surplus" was granted during Monday's General Purpose and Administration Administration meeting. That means no Clarington - department has identified a use for the building, vacant since firelighters moved into a new building south oflhvy. 2 in mid- 2005. Municipal CAO Franklin Wu has' been in negotiations negotiations with the Region, in an effort to have them use the property as an EMS station, said Clarington Mayor John Mutton. The deal . could include a land trade, with Clarington giving up the fireball property property in exchange for waterfront land, which is Jim Schell surplus to the Region's new water pollution control control plant in Courticc.. Courticc.. Clarington has been calling for an EMS station to be located at the site since 2005. Money has been set aside in the Regional budget to help accomplish the goal, said Mayor Mutton-. "There's been a lot of criticism criticism of (Clarington) council for not moving forward on this fast enough," said- Regional Councillor Councillor Jim Schell. "The fact is, all three of us who represent Clarington on Regional Council have worked darn hard on moving moving this forward... "1 wish we could have had this tiling done months ago, but the process is what the process is. We can't circumvent the process." process." Expansion to four lanes likely BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON-Ministry of Transportation staff are planning Hwy. 35's path into the future, and it may include four lanes. -, The Ministry has been working since 2000 to determine how the road from Clarington's north end to Hwy. 7A will eventually look. After much public consultation, recommendations include widening widening the road to four lanes, with the new lanes likely to be added on the east side, and a concrete centre centre median. As well, interchange improvements will be made. at the Hwy. 35/115 junction. The recommendation also includes a service road, network to allow for safe movement of agricultural . equipment and minimize out-ofway out-ofway travel for emergency service vehicles, said Patrick Puccinni, of the MTO, at Monday's General General Purpose and Administration Committee meeting. ' The service roads must be effectively effectively laid out for farmers, said Regional Councillor Jim Schell. "In that specific area, the north- south roads just aren't there. When people are moving farm- to-farm and property-to-property, (Hwy.) 35 is all there is," he noted. Therefore, the sendee roads must be such that "the farming community community is not going five miles out of its way. to accomplish the same thing." . Another "councillor wondered whether widening the highway was currently necessary. "I'm wondering about the amount of traffic on that' road, and how soon it's going to be really able to justify four lanes," said Ward 2 councillor Don MacArthur. But, though planning work has been going on for several year's, save for a brief break from spring, 2004, to fall, 2005, while the Province worked on the Proposed Growth Plan for the Greater' Golden Horseshoe, actual construction construction of significant changes is 10 to 15 years away, said Mr. ■ Puccinni. 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