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There's a lot of you, And a lot you can do, With the Red Cross. friends for life The Canadian Red Cross Society + Continued from page 1) THE IRONY OF IT ALL their approval prior to sending. sending. the document off to the Ministry of Natural Resources Resources for their consideration. The Port Hope Floodplain Management committee was, setup by the Authority on May 4th, 1978 and since that time has met on numerous occasions occasions to come forth with a program acceptable to both parties. The committee had agreed to floodproof new development development to the 100 year flow, the flow that came to course 24 hours later, and as well carry out certain remedial works to improve flow as indicated in a former report by Totten Sims Hubiçki. ( Continued from page 1 ) $10 MILLION STORM cal Society who in turn were to renovate, secure and maintain the 130 year old building as to its place in the street scope çf the downtown core. 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Box 400, Orono Your hosts Maria (Storsbergen) Hutton, owner. \ Happy Easter. , side of Walton Street and on i he west bank. These 1 two buildings along with à few pther buildings are to be inspected by engineers, at the owners costs, prior to being again inhabited. The Walton Street bridge, which has proven the greatest bottle-neck to the flow of water was denided of its side guards by the force of the water as it rose above the bridge level. Pavement over the bridge has heaved and cracked. This bridge along with other bridges are to be viewed by engineers before they are opened to traffic. A large washout exists at the Ontario Street bridge next to the demolished Simpson order office. According to officials of the Ganaraska Conservation Authority who were able, through upstream readings of stream gauges give a two hour warning of the coming flood, estimate the,water flow to be in excess or equal to the 100 year flow, 9,000 cu. ft. per second. Mayor Wyatt of Port Hope estimated the damage at close to $10 million and said the Town will certainly neecl help. He estimated one businessman businessman alone had lost $40,000 worth of inventory' stored in the basement. He said none held flood insurance. insurance. Saturday Port Hope council passed a resolution asking the Ministry of Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Affairs for a declaration of disaster relief. Through this . form of relief individuals can make claim for structural and inventory damage.'Funding damage.'Funding would come through local donations which are matched dollar to dollar by the province. A local committee would administer the claims' and funding. , Saturday morning clean-up commenced with local citizens citizens volunteering tb the point that some had to be sent hojne as work was not available for the hundreds that turned out to assist. Sunday the Town of Port Hope was jammed with sightseers who crowded the streets to get a glimpse of the damage. Much of the downtown downtown area was closed off to traffic. It is expected that some businesses will be open for business Monday while others will have to put off opening for a period of time. Local citizens in Port Hope estimate the • damage on Friday was as extensive if not worse than that in 1937. Neil Newton to lecture at Samuel Gallery A free lecture will be given, by photographer Neil Newton on Tuesday, April 1 at 8 p m. at the Margot Samuel Gallery „in conjunction with *the current1 current 1 exhibition, 3 'PHOTOGRAPHERS. 'PHOTOGRAPHERS. ' . Works by Neil Newton, James McNight and David Lewis are on view until April 5th at the Margot Samuel Gallery, 899 Nelson Street, 'Oshawa. , . Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 26th, 19804 Estimate $1 million local storm damage Mayor Rickard on Monday night at council meeting told council that it was estimated • that last Friday's storm had done some $1 million damage in the Town of Newcastle. Rickard said the storm had cost' the Town itself at least half a million and expected that local citizens had lost a similar amount. The largest loss to (he Town happened in the ; former Township of Clarke where a bridge, known as Lang's bridge, over the Wilmot on the fourth line had been undermined and would now have to be replaced. The cost of replacing the bridge is expected to run to $170,000.00. At the present time the bridge is closed to traffic. The Lang bridge was scheduled scheduled to be replaced in 1982 but it is the intention of the Public Works department to now move the schedule ahead and have the bridge reconstructed reconstructed this year. Council intends to apply for a supplementary supplementary from the Province Province in the amount of $200,000 to cover this cost and Other costs related to storm damage. damage. It was pointed out at council that the Town over the past four years had not used supplementarys which are used for out-of-the-ordinary projects. Mayor Rickard also said that repair work would also have to be undertaken on the Hampton Mill pond dam and that the Conservation Authority Authority would be involved in this particular project. The Mayor said he had toured the municipality over the week-end following the storm and made his estimate of damage in the order of one million dollars. Council on Monday night gave their approval to the regular Public Works program program in, the amount of $2,369,500 of which amount $1,198,000 will be provided by the Province of Ontario. Counc. Holliday noted the total expenditure was 9.2 percent lower than the Public Works budget of 1979 and 15 percent lower than the actual expenditure in 1979. eel van REALTY LTdL'BROKEfe- 129 KING! ST. W., NEWCASTLE 8674733 6234439; For a mo. obligation evaluation of your home, acreage ,or farm, or for information on purchasing, call one of-'oor area representatives. 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