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Unes up the day's work for Tom fSp Aunt Polly lineS up the sid plays the devil ad day's work for Tom while vocate. Oleson and Jeremy Pooler. Pictured above are; Doug Bedford, Jennifer A dance routine The Sun Flower Girls were right in step last week with their dance routine in the Tom Sawyer show at the Orono Public School. Included in the chorus line were (not in order) Tiqa Bryant, Shannon Reid, Tracy Spencer, Tara Wallace, Stephanie Clap- dorp, Tami Osmond, Pauline Cox, Nicole French and Kelly Hentig. Jody Melville in the cen tre of the picture. Churches call for sentencing ch ange Both society and the offender offender would be better served if more use was made of community community alternatives rather than prison. This is one of the major recommendations by a Consultation on Sentencing which brought together 55 participants from coast to coast representing 12 Canadian Canadian churches. The Consultation's Consultation's Final Report was submitted submitted recently to the Department Department of Justice. Sponsored by the Church Council on Justice and Corrections, Corrections, the Consultation was in response to the federal Department of Justice's request request for public input as it prepares revisions to the way sentencing .is conducted in Canada. The Minister of Justice plans to introduce legislative changes in sentencing sentencing in the fall. The church representatives, representatives, many of whom had extensive experience in the corrections field, were convinced convinced that prisons do little to protect society, probably don't deter many future offenders, offenders, and have minimal rehabilitative impact. Incarceration Incarceration should be reserv'd reserv'd only for offenders who are ely to commit violent of- Tënces again. David McCord, Executive- Director of the Church Council, said 'that programs of restitution and victim/offender victim/offender reconciliation were proving quite successful, particularly particularly with people who had committed property crimes. Such community alternatives have a better chance, of ati- dressing some of the basic caifses of the crime in the first place. Participants agreed that the present practice is unjust where courts across Canada dispense widely differing sentences for similar crimes. To encourage greater equity in sentencing, guidelines should be developed for the use of judges. Judges must be. allowed discretion within the guidelines but should be required required to give their - reasons for choosing a particular sentence. The Consultation also forwarded forwarded a variety of recommendations recommendations on the role of the victim in sentencing, probation, probation, fines, - discharges, and parole. The Consultation was organized in conjunction with The United"Church of Canada and with support from the Department of Justice. Durham College students hired Several Durham students have been hired for summer projects through government " funding programs. • Three Durham College Business students are employed in regard to the Management Excellence in Small Business Program through the Small Business Secretariat of the Federal Government's Ministry of Industry, Industry, Trade and Commerce and Regional Economic Expansion. Expansion. Two of the students are participating in a project involving assistance to the downtown Oshawa merchants. merchants. Working through the Oshawa Board of Management, Management, they are assisting in planning promotions and doing doing marketing research to aid local merchants. They are For more information contact: contact: Rev. David McCord, Church Council on Justifce & Corrections, 151 Slater St., Suite 305, Ottawa, Ontario, K1.P 5H3 Telephone: 613-563-1688 also direct,ly assisting individual individual small businesses., in regard to sales promotion and advertising. The project is for eight weeks, and entails a total of $3,000 including in- # cidental expenses. The third student will be assisting the Escalator Handrail Company in computerizing the forecastings, ordering and inventory inventory control of new materials. The project is for twelve weeks, and involves a total of $3,000 including expenses. expenses. Seven Durham students have been hired by Durham College to take a physical inventory inventory of all furniture and equipment. The project will run for three months, and will entail a total of $21,000 including incidentals^ The project is made possible by a $16,000 Federal contribution under the Summer Canada Student Employment Pro- ' gram. The remainder will be paid by the College. Six' Durham students have also been hired by the College's College's Plant Department for relining tRe parking lots in order to accommodate more cars. This project will run for 13 weeks, and will entail approximately approximately $23,000 including including incidentals. Total, contribution by the Federal Government will be $15,440 under the Summer Canada - Student Employment pro- , gram. The remainder is being underwritten by the College. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 15, 1983-7 Whether you know it or not, there are likely at least three fence viewers in your community. Under Ontario law, property owners have always shared the responsibility for fences between their properties. properties. In the past, when disputes arose about matters'involving matters'involving a fence, an arbitrator was called in to try to settle the problem. The arbitrator was called a fence viewer. They've been around since 1826. They're appointed by municipalities and they still exist. The other day I met two of them in the Town of Vaughan, a few miles north of Toronto. John Becker ànd Glen Norcliffe were telling me that they get $25 a call. But they don't get too many calls. • John says he's only had two calls since he took the job a few years ago. So he augments his income by being Vice President of York University. Apparently Glen hasn't had any calls at all so far. He says he found things so tough that he was forced to support his wife and children by being a professor of Geography at York. ' Both feel they are well qualified for their jobs as fence viewers. But it sfeem there just isn't that much work for fence viewing anymore. They're both brutally blunt. They openly admit they're both moonlighting! When we all stopped chuckling about their miserable plight, I learned that these days most fence disputes ere settled over a cup of coffee. And in most areas, fence viewers are appointed from among public works employees who are not paid extra for the work. There's not much glamour in the job. It hasn't the devil-may-care flair of dog-catcher, for example. But it's nice to know that when we're faced with a fence ' dispute there's someone out there who cares. Someone who can be impartial. Someone who is on the fence and can provide defenses for our fences. The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE .PROPOSED DURHAM REGIONAL OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT The Town of Newcastle is currently considering an application to amend the Durham Regional Official Official Plan submitted by Mr. W. Klose for redesigriation of his property to permit the establishment of an exotic cat sanctuary. The lands affected are indicated on the key map. KEY MAP Former Township of Clarke The Tovyn of Newcastle General Purpose and Administration Committee will consider this application application on Monday, June 20, 1983 at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom No. 2,132 Church Street, Bowmanville. Delegations and written briefs on this application will be received by the Committee at ttîis meeting. Additional' information may be obtained by contacting contacting Janice Szwarz, Planner, Town of Newcastle Newcastle Planning Department. T.T. Edwards, M.C.I.P. Director of Planning Planning* Department File: OPA 83-4/D Date of Publication: June 15th, 1983 ,