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4-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 13, 1983 From around the Region Cobourg flips back to per-footage rate Cobourg council flipped for the fourth time in setting charges for marina dockage fees and have now set a rate of $14.00 per foot. Initially Cobourg set a per foot rate of $18.50, then reduced the rate to $16.50, then set a flat chargé of $350.00 and last week set a per foot rate of $14.00 per foot. The federal government who are pouring considerable money into harbour reconstruction had asked that a per foot rate be charged- which council resisted when they set the $350.00 flat rate fee which was requested by boat owners in the Cobourg Club. Joins battle to save Oshawa second marsh The Canadian En- vironmedtal Law Association has urged the federal government government to act upon a recent report which says the Oshawa Second Marsh is being destroyed. The federal Environment- Minister, John Roberts, has been asked to negotiate with Oshawa, the province and the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Conservation authority to implement implement the proposals in the federal report. The association is calling for proper methods of control control of sediment before the GO commuter system crosses the Farewell and Harmony floodplains. It is from this are I that sediment has been proceeding to the marsh, and reducing it in size and depth. Mike bid to keep Lancaster in Canada A group of aircraft preservation preservation associations are fighting to keep the Second World War Lancaster bomber which has been an attraction attraction at the Oshawa airport airport for over a decade from leaving the country. The plane has been dismantled and was on its way to England when in Montreal the Canadian custom officers seized the aircraft. aircraft. ■ Ottawa was asked to delay the export of the Lancaster until such time as its historical value to Canada could be determined. There are .only six or seven such planes in Canada. Ganaraska would donate 149-year-old mill to museum The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority conservation conservation advisory board has suggested the 149-year old mill at Baltimore which the Authority owns be donated to the Ontario Agricultural museum in Milton. The Museum is to be asked if they are interested in taking the building down and making what use of it they felt they could. The museum some years ago purchased a saw mill which was connected to the mill. "Lateral Move" for George Ashe George Ashe, former Minister of Revenue for the province over the past two years has now been appointed by Bill Davis in a cabinet shuffle to Minister of Government Services. Ashe has called the move a 'lateral move". Ashe replaces Doug Wiseman who was dropped from the cabinet in the shift. Ashe has also said his new post will not be as exciting arid enjoyable as . was the Ministry of Revenue. Ashe did run into some criticism when the revenue ministry undertook a massive reassessment of properties. Cuts Ganaraska funding $159,000 The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority like other authorities in the province province have had funding cut by the Ministry. The Ganaraska has been told that. $159,000 will be cut from provincial funding for the year 1983. Of this amount $150,000 will be taken from the Fort Hope flood plain project, $9,120 from water and related land management program administration and $780 from the outdoor education education facility. Doug Palmer, secretary- manager, has stated that reallocation within the budget is possible to meet these cuts. Mini-Vacations . for Oshawa Seniors Mini-Vacation '83. design- ' ed to give seniors an opportunity opportunity to see some of Oshawa's sights is now in operation being promoted by three students through the use pf a Canada Sunlmer Works Project. Through the program Oshawa's, less-mobile seniors will be able to visit Cullen Gardens, Parkwood Estates and as well picnic at the Harmony Harmony Creek Conservation area. The first Mini-vacation outing took place on Tuesday < with a followup, on July 26 when the tour will visit Cullen , Gardens. The last visit is to Parkwood Estates and a Lite Bite in the Parkwood arbour. Oshawa resale homes the lowest A recent survey by Royal Trust shows that resale house prices in Oshawa are generally generally Ihe lowest in the Toronto area. The survey was taken in twenty Toronto area municipalities with Oshawa registering the lowest in five of six housing categories. A detached three-bedroom duplex in Oshawa sells for $67,500 while in Rexdale the price is $95,000 and in Thornhill Thornhill $113,000. A detailed two-story in Oshawa sells for $97,000, in Don Mills $155,000 and in central Toronto $200,000. First French Immersion Grads. The first French Immersion Immersion class to complete elementary school graduated this June from the C.R. Gummow School in Cobourg. The class started out as a pilot project under the jurisdiction of the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle .Board of Education. The sixteen graduating students will now attend a French Immersion program at the secondary level in Cobourg this fall. Calls off gas-bar feud Wally Hawkins, a gas-bar operator in Oshawa, who has confronted the City over their Sunday closing gas bar bylaw bylaw by staying open on Sundays Sundays and being charged on two occasions, has called off his fight. The City has rejected a proposal to increase the maximum maximum fine to $1,000 rather than the present $50.00 fine. Hawkins said it now appears that council is ready to give and to try and make changes to the by-law. He said he never wanted to break the law in the first place and may well now close on Sundays. 17,161 in the Oshawa area Alternate Full Day kindergarten committee The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education have appointed three trustees to a committee which is to study the possible implementation implementation of alternate full day kindergartens within the board's jursidiction. Donna Fàirey, Bowman- ville, has been appointed from the western area, Elizabeth Parken from the central area and Verna Shackletori from the eastèrn area. Parents, teachers, principals principals and board staff will be appointed to the committee at a latter date. The number of clients unemployed and registered for work at the Canada Employment Centres in Ajax, Whitby , and Oshawa for the month of June totalled totalled 17,161, consisting of 7384 females ■ and 9777 male clients. Placements in the three offices offices totalled 400 for the month, which compared to a total of 460 placements during during May. The majority of clients were registered in Clerical and related; Sales; Service; Machining and related; Product Fabricating; ' Assembling and Repairing; Construction' Trades; Material Handling and related. During June, the greatest employment opportunities existed in Mfg. of Paper Industries; Industries; Printing, Publishing and allied Industries; General Construction, Special Trade Construction, Mfg. of Transportation Equipment; Wholesale Trade,. Retail Trade. In June, there were 16 agreements signed under the General Industrial Training Program. 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