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i Québec driver to compete at Mosportin Can-am JACQUES VILLENEUVE Canada's Jacques Villeneuve, Quebec, is heading for the Labatt's Can- Am at Mosport with , the 9th through to September 1 lth. Villeneuve will be driving driving the Canadian Tire Frissbee. Villeneuve won the season was expected to run away with the Canadian title this year. Due to mechanical failure, an accident and greater competition than ex will have to be successful in the remainder of the Canadian Canadian meets. British Formula 1 Champion Champion Crawford leads the stan- event being held September opener of the Can-Am and pected from others, he now dings with 41 points compar- From Around the Region MAKES PLEA FOR REDUCED RENT HIKE Madeline Currelly, operàtor of a pre-school learning learning centre at the Port Hope High School for the past three years has asked the board to seriously consider a reduction in the proposed rental increases for the classroom she rents at the High School. Currelly has in the past paid $30.00 a month for the classroom which by September 1, 1984 is to increase increase to $300.00 a month. The rental charge as of September 1st, 1983 has been 'set at $100 per month. Currelly points out to the board that she has exercised an interaction between the high school students and the pre-schoolers at her centre which has been very successful successful over the past years. She said she had great support support for the program from the Minister of Education, Bette Stephenson, The board which considers it costs $3900.00 per classroom per year for janitorial services, heat and light is to again consider the proposed rental charges. TRENT PUTS HOLD ON APPLICATIONS Trent University, Peterborough Peterborough has put a hold on further applications for both full-time and part-time students. First year plac'ements have increased from 850 in 1982 to 1150 in 1983. President Donald Theall has said some qualified applicants had to be rejected due to the fact that facilities could not accept more students. Trent University does offer 26 part-time courses at Durham College in Oshawa which enrolment has also been frozen. TWO NEW SCHOOLS TO OPEN IN OSHAWA The Durham Board of Education will open two new schools in Oshawa this September. One in the core of the city and one in the northeast northeast sector of the city. The core-center school will offer facilities for 170 students during the day and then come into use as a community community ■ centre after 4:30 operated by the city. Recreational Recreational prograrris will be offered offered by the city. The Harmony Heights School will accommodate about 500 students on its opening next week. The school was constructed with community use in mind although not to the extent of the core-centre school. These two schools are first to be built in Oshawa over the past ten years. GAS BAR OWNER MARKING TIME . An owner of a gas bar in the City of Oshawa had to ' withdraw his threat to open 24-hours a day with the hope that the city council is about to reconsider tjreir legislation that prohibits such in the city. Wally Hawkins expects council will give this reconsideration reconsideration over the next two months. , A committee including service service station operators has recommended that a survey be conducted to see if operators would support gas stations to remain open seven , days a week, from 7 a.rp. to 9 p.m. BUSINESS COLLEGE FORCED TO EXPAND The Ontario Business College College in Oshawa started some two years ago with an enrolment enrolment of twenty students. Today Today it occupies greater floor space and has an enrolment of 200 starting this September. The Business College courses range from six months months to a year compared with the two courses offered at Durham College. Courses start each month being offered during the day with word-processing courses also in the evening. REGIONAL POLICE CHIEF PRESIDENT OF CACP Durham Regional- Police Chief, Jon Jenkins, has been named president of the Cana dian Association of Chiefs of Police. Jenkins was appointed head of the Association at the annual meeting held in Calgary last week. The 53-year-old Jenkins told the conference that two of the major concerns over the next year, while he will be president, will be legislation affecting police officers and the compensation of the victims victims of crime. Jenkins has said that today's officers face many restraints and regulations regulations which are sometimes frustrating. Jenkins states he is prepared and ready for the challenge which he expects will take him away from Durham Region some 40 days over the next year. DURHAM EAST 4-H COUNTY TEAM WINNER A 4-H Club from Eastern Durham Region has been declared the winner of the Regional county breeding knowledge competition. The local club competed against 16 other regional clubs from • eastern Ontario on August 16th in Kempt ville. Members of the local team were Anne-Marie Hoogevan of Blackstock, Gerard Prins of Hampton and Peter Tallman of Port Hope. JUDGE ISSUES A WARNING Provincial Court Judge, R.B. Baxter, has issued a warning that those found guilty of impaired driving for the first time may receive jail sentences or be fined in the $2,000.00 range. The statement was made in Campbellford Provincial Court when the Crown Attorney Attorney was referring to the number of cases before the court and made the statement, statement, "word must be out that .the fines are only $300 to $400 for first time offences." Baxter , then said fines could be substantially increased increased in the near future. AGAIN CALL FOR INJUNCTION TO CLOSE DUMP Mr. Justice Barr of the Ontario Ontario Supreme Court will hear a request for an injunction to halt dumping at the Regional Reclaimers Ltd. laftdfill site northwest of Newtonville. The hearing is being held in Rattlesnakes could use a hand WOODS, WATER . AND WILDLIFE By Arlin Hackman - Federation Federation of Ontario Naturalists Through the ages, snakes have been feared, misunderstood and maligned. Some people believe all snakes are venemoüs. Others consider them useless. Many dislike them "simply because they are snakes". ,, Fortunately this attitude is changing. Gradually th'e realization is 'spreading, through natural history education, that these reptiles play an important part in, nature consuming great numbers of insects and rodent rodent pests. But will this change occur quickly enough in Ontario to prevent the extinction extinction of our one. and only poisonous snake, the eastern , massassauga rattler? : Found chiefly along the shores of Géorgian Bay to about twenty miles inland, on some of the Islands and on the Bruce Peninsula, the massassauga also makes its home along some parts of the Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie shores. Although it dines chiefly on the mice found in rocky situations arid meadows, the favourite habitat of this mild- mannered, rather sluggish little little snake occurs in and around swamps. There it can be found searching for another staple, frogs, and often swimming some distance from shore. Born in numbers of seven or eight during the Summer months, the massassauga is a stout-bodied snake which seldom attains a length of more than two and a half feet. Its head is broad and distinct from the neck, the snout is blunt, and like all rattlers the massassauga also Osgoode Hall on Thursday. It is' the , fifth time that the Crown Law Office has sought, the injunction. 1 It is expected to take two days for the hearing. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, August 31, 1983-5 Despite its small size, this raftler is equipped to fend for itself, as it must from birth, with highly toxic venom which attacks the heart and circulation system. A bite from a massassauga has proven proven fatal in a few cases, though prompt medical treatment treatment is sufficient to prevent this from happening. The chances of being bitten are • very slight, however, as the massassauga prefers retreat to attack and tries to avoid encounters with humans. The greatest danger lies in accidentally accidentally stepping on one or, more commonly, in trying to capture or kill it. In fact a far bigger worry is the threat which human settlement settlement poses to the entire rattler population. Urban development and the draining of wetlands have taken a big . toll already, and present scientific studies indicate the species has approached the , first warning signs 4 on the road to extinction. As its numbers decline scientific study becomes more difficult and it is important for public sightings and observations to be recorded. A handy booklet produced by the Federation of Ontario Naturalists provides accurate information on the massassauga and is useful preparation for anyone who comes across one of these reclusive snakes. ing with 40 for Villeneuve. Dr. Charles Monk of Sarnia holds down third place with Irish driver, Michael Roe of Dallas, Texas in fourth place with 32 points. has the facial pits and cat-like eye pupils. The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE NOTICE OF HIGtfWÀŸ CLOSING , TAKE NOTICE that the Council of The Corporation Of the Town of Newcastle, at a Council Meeting to , be'held at the Council Chambers, Police Building, Bowmanville, Ontario, on Monday, the 26th day of" September 1983, at the hour of 7:00 o'clock in the afternoon, propose to pass a by-law to stop-up ■ and close and to authorize the sale of all that portion portion of the original road allowance between Lots 26 & 27, Concession 9, in the former Township of Clarke, more particularly described as follows: ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land, situate, lying lying and being in the Town of Newcastle, Regional Municipality" Municipality" of Durham, Province of Ontario, Ontario, and being composed of all that portion of the original road 'allowance between Lots Twenty- - Six (26) and Twenty-Seven (27) in - the Ninth Concession of the Geographic Township of Clarke, formerly in fhc County of Durham, more, particularly designated as Parts One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), and Five (5), according to a Plan "of Survey 'deposited in the Land" Registry Office for the Registry Division of Newcastle (No. 10), on'the 14th day of March 1980, as Plan 10R-1097. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that before passing the said By-Law, Councilor a Committee of Council, Council, shall hear in person, or by his counsel, solicitor or agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by this By-Law and who applies to be heard. , DATED at the Town of Newcastle, this"31st day of August 1983. ' David W. Oakes, B.A., A.M.C.T., Town Clerk, Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6. ■ ■ ■ File No. 77.44.119. Dates of publication August 31, Sept. . 14, 21, 1983