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-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 28th, 1976 STATION STREET DEVELOPMENT , , The Newcastle Planning Advisory Committee have rightly asked their Public Works Department to compile a .report regarding Station Street, .west of Main Street in the Village of Orono. The reason for the report centres around the proposed development of the Senior Citizens complex west iof Orono and which would have to be served by Station - street, a former right-awriy for the railway. It is quite apparent that thé road is far below standard and the Committee and the Town should be most concerned on allowing development which would increase traffic over this so-called road. At the present time the Town does riot even own the property over which the road passes but this is not seen as any particular problem as present owners would be only too glad to get rid of it. Surely the municipality must face the responsibility of maintaining roads up to provincial standards which in this case would costs thousands upon thousands of dollars. Mr. E. R. Lovekin, in speaking on behalf of the Sènior Citizens Lodge stated the road was adequate. This, of course, is very doubtful and the municipality, if it adheres to the policy of proper planning would have grave doubts. Council must consider that they are not planning for today but for years ahead and this section of road if it become a major entrance into the Village will require untold Sums of money. The proposed development could be a costly one if it is to use Station Street as its service road. BY NO MEANS WOULD IT WORK Both Mayor Rickard and MPP Doug Moffatt made the statement last week that education should come under the jurisdiction of the municipal council; Neither however went into any depth to their suggestion but it appeared certain that they were concerned over educational costs for one thing. We feel there are many reasons why education should remain divorced from local councils. It is doubtful that local councils, who are already stating they have a heavy work load could cope with that of education as well. Members Of Boards of education are in amny instances as busy as are council members. Those seeking office with one of the office must have a preference ofr the job they seek and an interest in that particular field. Further, if Council members are only concerned of costs they could well disrupt education as a whole. Would they have time to sit on transportation committees, finance committees, teacher relation committees, negotiating committee and many others which are all part of the education operation of any board. It is very doubtful for it would be impossible. It would be equally dangerous to give council a strangle hold over Board of Education by giving them the right to control budgets. Boards of education have very few variables while councils have % greater field over which they can control costs. Eve in this' Area the thinking would, be different to thé detriment of one or the other. Statistics distributed at à meeting in Kingston recently showed that from 1970 to 1975 municipal current expenditures grew na estimated 95 percent while school board current expenditures grfew about 60 percent. Across the province municipal capital expenditures grew around 110 percent compared to' a decline of 42 percent for school board capital expenditures. In the latter bousing has increased while school enrolment has declined. • We beleive politicians, and there are a goodly number, should keep their fingers out of the school system. After all the province has the means to control spending and this body is also an elected body representing the residents of the province, area to area. iiappenmgîL. CLAIMS HASTING SENIOR OFFICIALS ESCAPE WAGE CONTROLS In speaking with W. H. Carman this week he stated that the Hasting Board of Education who settled on salary increases the day after -the announcement of wage controls were allowed to grant these increases to their senior officials. He states that the salaries of the Hasting officials are now the same, in general, as would have been for the Northumberland and Newcastle Board officials if no cut had been made. The publicized reduction over the past week for Board of Education did not include the Hasting Board, he said. SHOVELLED OUR WAY INTO THE HOUSE Sunday evening we were forced to shovel our way into the house due to a snowbank some two feet up on the side door. The wind from the west took very little time to place this obstruction in our way. ' 1 Letter to Editor I admire and respect Douglas Douglas Moffatt our new representative representative to Queen's Park, the Ontario Legislature. He was an excellent school principal and is now providing a refreshing new face on our political scene - we need his type in public office. However, I will be very pleased when he is over the eager beaver "Lam all things to all people" phase that he is -presently in. For instance. Last week, Mr. Moffatt appeared as a speaker at the Bowmanville Men's Canadian Club. At one time during his appearance according to press press reports he held forth on Bowmanville's recently opened opened Day Care Centre. In the press report Mr. Moffatt is quoted as saying at Christmas time, the Ontario Provincial Treasurer announced announced that the financing of the Day Care Centre had changed from the 100 per cent full financing. According to Mr. Moffatt "Now the Day Care Centre is to be funded on a 60-40 basis for some parts and 80-20 for others." The news story went on to report that Mr. Moffatt expected expected that a local tax levy will come about to help pay for the Centre. Nope, not so and I speak from information released released to the Committee responsible for Day Care Centres at the Region of Durham level. The purchase of the Anfossj property where the Day Care Centre is located, its conversion conversion into the Day Care Centre with all the necessary equipment equipment was and is totally funded by the Ontario Ministry Ministry of Community and Social Services. This point was made without reservation at a meetirig of the Region's Social Service Committee Thursday January 22, 1976 by Mrs. Mary E. Brown, Co-ordinator of Day Nursery Services for the Region of Durham, • * Another point. Mr. Moffatt stated that he ."suspects" that a local levy will come about to help pay for the Centre. Mr. Moffatt was wrong again. Under no conditions could a local levy be placed on this , area Municipality of Newcastle Newcastle for a Day Care Centre expenses. Day Care Nurseries are a responsibility of the Regional government of Durham Durham . Now on to Carson Elliott of Bowmanville who also took a back hander at the Day Care Centre. According to Mr. Elliott, the former Anfossi residence on Church Street purchased to be used as the Day Care Centre at a cost of $130,000 in 1Ô75 had a 1974 value of $68,000. It is a time wasting argument argument to start a hassle these days on land and building valuation because the argu-„ ment could only evolve around around the source of the values. for instance, Mr. Elliott's property-the Ndrthcutt Elliott Elliott Funeral Home at 53 Division Street Bowmanville- had a 1975. value of $12,320. The Anfossi property valued, ' according to Mr. Elliott, at $68,000. and the Elliott Division Division Street property valued at $12,320---where are the ground ground for discussion? The Anfossi property was valuated by a professional land valuator hired and paid for by the Province of Ontario. The results of the findings was that the land was valued at $75,000 and the improvements-the building, was valuated at $63,000 for a total of $138,000. The purchase price paid by the Government was $130,191.98. Here is an official breakdown breakdown of costs for the Bowmanville Bowmanville Day Care Centre : Land Costs, $130,091.98; architect's fees, $11,754.53; construction costs, $92,500.; furniture and equipment, ,$4,602.35. I worked diligently along with Councillor Bruce Tink- who was a member of the Regional Social Service's Co- mmittee-to obtain this Day Care Centre for Bowmanville and the Town of Newcastle: The reason for my assiduity in the matter is and was, my very firm opinion that if mothers of pre-school children children must work--and I stress the phrase, must work, then society must provide Day Care Centres for their » preschool preschool children. If some people in this area do not agree, with my equation, equation, well and good. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I will always maintain that our new Day Care Centre is a good deal and will be a great future asset to our community. community. Sincerely Kenneth E.Lyall Councillor Newcastle, Orono and Clarke January 24, 1976 Building a House? or remodelling your . present one? Then contact; Floyd Nicholson Orono 983-5049 VENEZIA Restaurant HWY 115 and 35 '/a Mile South of Orono Phone 983-5651 OPEN 7 DAY.S A WEEK We Specialize in: r Pizza - Meals ALSO Weekend Specials RE PROPOSED NUCLEAR SITES Bowmanville, Ont.. General Delivery Jan. 22, 1976 More Thought Required -"Nuclear energy in any mishap is an unseen killer. Moreover, uranium debris can last for millennia, still ■ giving off dangerous radioactivity." radioactivity." The above is a quote from a book well worth any citizen's time to read. It is titled, "ONLY ONE EARTH". The care and maintenance of a small planet, by Barbara Ward & Rene Dubos. It is an unofficial report commissioned commissioned by. Sect. General of The United Nations Conference on the Human environment. It was prepared with the assistance assistance of one-hundred and fifty-two member committee, of corresponding consultants in 58 countries. Here are some statistics from this book in this writer's own words and opinion. Approximately one billion people occupy the developed parts of the world. IVortli America, Europe, Russia, Japan and Australia. The two largest nations being the U S.A. and Russia. In America, the birth-rate exceeds the death-rate by one per cent each year. For • example, by two million in America - and two point two million in Russia. The U.K- developes at only 0.5 per cent a year but already there are over 56, million . people there ! Over 80 per cent of these live in urban areas. This gives a density of about 147 people per sq. mile, leaving out places too high or .bleak and barren. If this number of people increases in this area's already limited space during the next two or three decades by an under-estimated under-estimated twelve million, to put ■it mildly, it will be much too great a «demand for life in these islands' already limited space. When one considers that 70 per cent of the earth's surface is water, taking into consideration consideration the fact that under-developed under-developed counties, whose population population growth is ejflceeding the example given above, and knbwing such under-developed under-developed countries are going to fight for the same type of energy- supplies used by the develop- . ed countries (such energy- powers giving off noxious wastes) the thought impact is devastating. The Carribbean Sea and The Mediterranian Ocean, are already dying like our own Lake Erie. • It becomes evident on considering the above facts that in the immediate lifespan lifespan of our immediate descendants, descendants, biological mutation^ will begin to ôccur. They will begin to occur as the air, earrn ana precious water-supplies water-supplies of The World are polluted: For what and why? MONEY.? Gould not the people, ordinary ordinary people, as well as the developers and experts on energy supplies (they must have children too) stop and pqndér these points before plunging a step too far in the direction of nuclear energy- sites? ■ Once we take a step too far in this direction of energy- supply, we cannot undo it by being sorry and admitting we have made another mistake in thirty years. It will be irrevocable. We will have put Planet Earth on a push-cart, going fast downhill to destruction. destruction. Concerned Mary A. 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