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PAGE AS The Canadian Statesman Decembers, 2006 www.durhamrcaion.com Municipality set to plow into winter Fromnaopfll ~ ■ From page AT The Municipality aims to have everything plowed within eight hours of a snowfall stopping, said Mr. Horvath. "Our goal is to make sure people can get to work," he said. Freezing rain means crews hit the road immediately and the Municipality's Municipality's 28 plows can be on the road as early as 4 a.m. "We fight anywhere between 45 and 60 storms a year," said Mr. Horvath. Residents are reminded reminded not to park in the street and to ensure garbage garbage cans and recycling bins are out of the way to make it easier for plows to get through, said the operatiôns director. Municipal bylaw . stipulates street-parking is only permitted on a three-hour basis, which precludes overnight parking on the street. How often snow will need to be cleared locally remains up in the . air, said Mr. Phillips of Environment Canada. "It's always confusing, but it seems to be doubly confusing this year," he said, sounding perplexed over the Fred Horvath December forecast Environment Canada's computer spit out. "I don't believe the forecast. All these years, I've been dealing with it, I don't think I've ever challenged the forecast," he said. At issue is the fact there's an El Nino, or warming of Pacific waters -- a phenomenon which usually causes milder winter temperatures. But, in spite of that, Environment Canada is calling for nearnormal nearnormal temperatures and precipitation. "I believe in El Nino," said Mr. Phillips. "I think it may very well be that what the computer is saying is that there will be a slow coming of El Nino." That could mean a "winter where December and January January are the toughest months," he said. Already, winter weather is later in arriving compared with last year, when by this point, we'd already seen frigid temperatures and significant snowfall. But, after that, "last year was almost a year without winter... we had more tough winter weather before the first day of winter than after," said Mr. Phillips. The only thing he's forecasting Locally built products in US markets From pageAl been reached with their market share losses," Mr. DesRosiers said. "GM, Ford and Daimler-Chrysler are closing capacity and import nameplates are opening capacity. If you look carefully at all the product product programs to be offered over the next few years, you will also see stronger programs on the import nameplate side of the equation than the GM, Ford and Daimler- Chrysler side of the equation." What do these decreasing domestic domestic numbers mean for production in Oshawa? Not a lot, says GM spokeswoman Patty Faith, since more than 80 per cent of the vehicles produced inside the Oshawa car and truck plants are exported for sale in the United States. "These are the relevant numbers," she said, referring to U.S. sales figures. figures. In the U.S., last month's sales of new cars and trucks are up she per cent over November 2005, fueled in part by locally made vehicles. Sales of the continually-popular Chevrolet Impala boosted retail car sales up one percentage point. The Impala has already surpassed last year's year-to-date sales by 17 per cent. From January to November ■2005, GM sold 221,296 of the Osha- wa-made car to the American market market and that figure rose to 263,708 for. the same period in 2006. In November alone, 23,411 Impalas were sold in the U.S. Trucks coming out of the newly retooled truck plant in Oshawa are also adding to GM's success in the U.S. Retail truck sales,were up 17 per cent, led by a 29 per cent increase in large pickup trucks, including the new generation GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado. Mark LaNeve, vice-president of GM North America, said the company is pleased to be gaining momentum with its truck lineup. "Our manufacturing team worked extremely hard on a high-quality launch and has already produced more than 50,000 new 2007 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierras," he said in a release. "This accelerated accelerated launch means we are in the marketplace 13 weeks ahead of schedule -- and most importantly - ahead of the competition with the best quality, fuel economy and value in the important full-size pickup segment." 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