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4-Ontiio Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 22, 1986 From Around the Region Must keep up the fight with Eldorado - NDP Proposes $9 Million Seniors complex ' The owner of the Hamilton Heights Golf Course has approached. approached. Hamilton Township with a proposal proposal to construct a 250-unit condominium condominium retirement community on 35 acres of the 200 acre golf course. The Golf Course is located on Dale Road east of Port Hope. The owner claims the proposal will not fade away as a number had in the municipality. Gypsy moth spraying costs causing problem With the Ministry of Natural Resources cutting back to fifty percent their assistance in the gypsy moth spraying program the program becomes somewhat doubtful doubtful in Northumberland County. The Ministry last year covered 95 percent of the costs of spraying private lands with the owner paying five percent. For 1987 the Ministry has cut their repsonsibility to fifty percent of the cost with the landowner landowner paying the remaining fifty percent. Northumberland county is sending sending a harshly-worded letter to the minister over the cut in funding. It has been estimated that costs in Northumberland could reach $250,000 for 1987 of which amount $125,000 would come from property property owners. $20.00 to be placed on the waiting list Brian Nicholson, an Oshawa alderman, states that a south Oshawà apartment building is ripping ripping off desparate apartment hunters by charging a $20 application fee which is not refundable. The fee places an applicants name on the waiting list. Will continue fight to relocate airport The Neighbourhood Action Committee in Oshawa^ Seeking relocation of the Oshawa airport claim they will continue their fight for relocation. The committee has objected to nbise and pollution and want the 45-ytar airport moved out of the city. city. New zoning by-law for Hope Township After two years Hope Township last week finally gave,approval to a new zoning by-law establishing land-use guidelines. Country and Western bar noise brings forth petition At a recent meeting of the Town of Newcastle council a 39-name petition was submitted from residents objecting to noise from a western and country bar in the Waverley Road Mall in Bowman- ville. • * The petition has been referred to the clerk's office for a report. Receiver being hung-up on MA Bell's rebate Bell Canada has delayed $300 million worth of capital works planned for 1987 after being ordered to refund $400 million to customers which the government says Bell had overcharged. overcharged. The company is considering suing the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Conimission to get the order overturned. The comp any is also considering suing the commission commission to review the decision. Durham Board decides against reciprocal insurance The Durham Board of Education has decided against joining the reciprocal insurance exchange with other boards of education. The board will remain with Frank Cowan Insurance where they will pay $167,000 for $20 million liability insurance insurance coverage. Last year the board paid $63,000 for the same coverage. An insurance executive has said that the new insurance plan adopted last January by Ontario School Boards is '* sure to fail financially. He said it was the wrong vehicle for something that is as unpredictable as liability insurance. $3.6 Million renovations for Whitby arena-pool The Town of Whitby has approved an expenditure of $3.5 million for extensive extensive repairs to the Anne Ottenbritc • pool and construction of a reg.ulation- size ice pad. Work at the Iroquois Park Arena complex is to start next month. Committee urges region- wide handicapped transit A two-year transit study has recommended recommended that Durham Region try out a regional bus service for handicapped people. The consulting firm of M.M. Dillon Ltd. suggests that to meet growing demands for handicapped transpora- tion outside individual municipalities that the Region consider a limited trial service in the area of greatest demand. The area would be determined through a survey. Handicapped transit exists in Newcastle, Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax- Pickering. Negotiations are underway for similar service in Uxbridge and Scugog. General Motors denies Grossman's charge General Motors has denied a charge by Allan Grossman, progressive Conservative Conservative leader, that GM is ignoring Ontario's unemployed by advertising . in Britain for tool and die makers for its Oshawa plant, GM states the demand for such workers for their Oshawa expansion are not available in Canada and arrangements, arrangements, had been made with 'Employment Canada to search for skilled workers in England. The Canadian Auto Workers state that Grossman's remarks are off the 'mark'. Panel to inform individuals when process resumes The Environemntal Assessment Review Panel which was setup by the federal government to consider Eldorado plans for low-level waste disposal is to inform individuals, whose names are on the Project mailing mailing list, of the resumption of Panel activities. activities. ■. To mark completion of flood control project On Friday, November 14 Vincent G. Kerrio, Minister of Natural Resources, will attend a ceremony to officially mark the completion of the Port Hope Flood Control Project. At the same time 40 years of conservation will be commemorated for the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority." Getting back to the land Farmers are getting back to the land to harvest their crops after a long 1 wet Septépber. Citizen groups fighting the government's waste dump policy have won the battle of Tyrone, not the war, say local New Democrats. "When the government announced announced on October 10th that no low-level radioactive waste dump would be put in the Tyrone area, it left the problem still hanging over our heads" says NDP riding president president Wilf Day after an executive meeting at his Port Hopè home recently. "The federal government is contradicting contradicting itself: For four years they have been trying ,to sell Eldorado, telling it to cut costs and make a profit so it would sell", says Day. "Now they say they'll get the "best minds in the world" to find the best possible way to store the 1.1 million tonnes of historic wastes in Eldorado's Port Granby and Welcome dump sites. "But still Eldorado must pay the cost.. Wesleyville is still "on standby" standby" and is still the cheapest site. "This is the same government that promised to double Canada's spending on scientific research and development, then cut $20 million from the National Research Council. Council. "When asked why the government government didn't rule out Wesleyville the way it ruled out Tyrone, Gerald Mer- rithew simply said that Eldorado owns the land, as though it was already a private company. "Thank God they failed to find a buyer for Eldorado, otherwise the Tyrone proposal would still be alive today" says Day. In a letter to the Minister of the Environment Sept. 30th, New Democrat leader Ed Broadbent called called for "alternate sites which are environmentally environmentally and geographically acceptable and distant from populated areas". "Local New Democrats say Amen to that" says Marg Wilbur of Port Perry, Secretary of the riding executive. "Now that residents have forced the government to back down, we must keep up" the fight" say Wilbur. V "For a start, while they are looking looking for the best minds in the world for their new task force, they should include someone who actually actually knows the problem we have here~a local resident" Wilbur demands. 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