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Orono Weekly Times, 13 Apr 1983, p. 8

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Candace Vey, Allison Cochrane, Cindy Carscad- den, Briar Ranxberry, Kelly Peacock, Tammy Hansen, Christine Henderson, Susan Lycett, Brent Gates and Shane Gylytiuk all take part in the fjisco number at the annuâl carnival. 8-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 13, 1983 Ballet Dancers Vicki Baker, Elaine Mote,' Spencer, Jennifer CoodmUr- Kathleen Minnis, Tanya phy, Shannon Hartwig and Me and My Shadow This group of skater strutted strutted off to the music of Me and My Shadow. Those tak ing part: Ashley Burnham, Tami Osmond, Michelle Ruthérfqrd, Tanya Thertell, Monica Rorabeck present the ballet dancers at the annual Tanny Gylytiuk, Melinda Broome, Shannon Reid, Lisa Co,bbledick, Stephanie Clap skating show. dorp, Karen Garrison and Shannon McGregor. Disco at the carnival ' From Around Operating licence renewed The Atomic energy Control Board in a recent annouce- ment states they have renewed the licence for waste disposal at the Port Granby nuclear waste site in the Town of Newcastle. The Port Granby site is used by Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. for low-level radioactive waste disposal. Hampton driver killed ■ A Hampton man, John' E, Snoek, died after his truck collided with a trailer involved in an earlier accident on Highway 401'. Snoek was 27 years of age. The accident happened at Dorchester Road on 401 highway. Three charged with armed robbery A Port Hope man and two others with no fixed address have been charged with armed robbery and possession of a . firearm while committing an offence. The charges resulted from an armed hold-up of Jeffrey's Superette, Liberty Street, Bowmanville last" Thursday evening. The trio were apprehended in an Oshawa parking lot following the robbery in which" they stole $191.00. Operate in a balanced position Richard Elston, Administrator of Memorial Hospital Bowmanville, feels the hospital will operate with a balanced budget. He said there was need of additional provincial funding funding as the hospital now operates at capacity in all departments. departments. Memorial Hospital has been given $6.3 million for 1983-84 up from $5.86 million in the previous year. Only a matter of time Paul McKay, author of a new book on Ontario Hydro, states it is only a matter of „time before a serious nuclear accident accident occurs in Ontario. McKay spent four years researching and "writing Electric Empire, the Inside Story of Ontario Hydro. McKay states the operation of the nuclear plants is just beyond the capacities of Hydro engineers and they are among the best. ' Defining serious, McKay quotes from his book, an official official of the AECB who states the worst possible accident at Pickering might result,in several thousand deaths, tens of thodsand of injuries and billion of dollars damage. GM leads on GM's car sales jumped ahead some 70 percent in March . from the same period in 1982. Combined sales of cars and trucks durin'g the first quarter ate up some 15.4 percent over the previous year. New north Whitby Mall It is the intention of Markborough Properties Limited to open a new large commercial mall in'north Whitby by December of 1986. The development will also include institutional development development and residential development. It is to be known as Durham Heights. Aldred supports Crosble With Allan Lawrence now officially"out of the race for the Conservative leadership Joel Aldred, Scugog, and a prominent prominent Tory will put his support behind John Crosbie. Aldred had sought the presidency of the Progressive Conservative party at the recent Conservative convention in Winnipeg. , ,."4 Uniform reassessment In order to clearup some of the mysteries and inequities inequities in the present tax 'system the province suggests a uniform reassessment across the Region of Durham. In a discussion paper it was pointed but that similar houses within a region .pay different taxes to boards of educations and region. The province has always sought a uniform tax base but have never taken action to implement such in a region. Calls for entrepreneurship Richard Spence, commissioner of the Diamond Triangle, tobourg, Port Hope, Hopp and Hamilton, spoke to som'e 170 mcmbcrs'of service clubs and'legion recently in the Lion Centre id Bowmanville. He spoke of development in the area reaching out to as far as Cobourg as a resultrof thermal energy possible from the Darlington Generating station when it is completed. Spence made an appeal to his audience, for business incentives. incentives. "Entrepreneurship has to be redefined from 'How much can we get,from the government", he said. The Darlington development is not going to happen unless we are going to make it happen, he said.$11 million project ■ The recent',$11 million project announced by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto will reach out. as far as Oshawa and include work projects in such,centres as Pickering Pickering and Ajax.. . , ' The Toronto Archdiocese is cooperating with the pro- vinoe and the federal governments to provide funds of $200 million to create work for those who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits.- Renovations will be undertaken undertaken in churches to create jobs,. i i

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