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Orono Weekly Times, 18 May 1988, p. 3

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t Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 18, 19&8-3 Long service certifictaes were presented last friday to both fulltime fulltime and part-time employees at the Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville by the Board of Directors, The presentations were made by Anna Strike, chairman of the board. Pictured above are long service recipients, full-time employees present present to receive their certificates: (back row) Lois Cox, Judith Arm Sparrow, Meeng Myers, Charlene Mitchell, Joan Ferguson, (front row) Anna Strike, chairman of board, Darlene West, Joe Romard, Julie Hersey and Marie Meeks. The service certificates ranged from five to fifteen years with the hospital. FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE Helmut and Peggy Blaschke are happy to announce the forthcoming wedding of their daughter Patricia to Steven, son of Mrs. Jane Lawrence and the late Robert Lawrence. Wedding to take place on Saturday, June 18, 1988 at 3:00 p.m., Orono United Church. LCBO to relocate, permit issued (Continued from page 1) The report states that the LCBO is not likely to move entirely oht of Orono but that it was unlikely that it would remain in its present location location with its 2,750 square feet with a portion of this area in the basement. basement. The new location of 4000 square feet is all on one floor. The report states that if the LCBO in its new location can attract attract new business then the entire business community can expect to benefit. The report makes a comparison with a similar change in Soqth River but here the store had direct access off the highway and created an increase increase in business of 45 percent. An interesting aspect of the Market Analysis points to Highway 115 traffic passing by the Villagc.on daily average being 12,900 vehicles with a yearly average total of 4.708 million. It is from this flow of traffic traffic that the LCBO expects to gain additional store traffic at the new location. I lie consultants reports refers in .5 percent of this traffic as a possible possible figure to use the I.CBO store at the plaza and with this addditional traffic a 30 percent increase in store transactions would be reasonable to expect. It states that once this traffic traffic is stopped in Orono there would be a spinoff to the downtown area. The reports states that ten percent of these vehicles could possibly be expected to shop in downtown. The report further states that the downtown will lose impulse buying from those who have been shopping at the LCBO as their sole intent but do shop in other stores through impulse at the time. Over the long haul the report expects expects the move to be positive for the LCBO and for the downtown section section of business in the community. Garbage collection for ail (Continued from page 1) • a permanent basis. During the discussion Counc. Hubbard also suggested that further further Transfer Station should be operated and spoke of the need for such a Station in Bowmanville. In speaking of the Spring cleanup cleanup operation conducted by BFI she said the truck loads of refuse was beyond imagination and that this should be a matter of consideration by council. The Public Works also spoke of the clean-up project and stated that there really was no provision provision in the agreement over this matter and discussion should consider consider this part of the operation. It was noted in the report that if the Darlington Transfer Station is closed Newcastle residents would have to travel to Oshawa, Scugog, Cartwright station or to the Laidlaw Landfill site, Walter Evans stated that the department had not as yet setforth tender documents. and that there was a considerable need for changes in the past tender call to clarify a number of problems: Counc. Hubbard stated that BFI had done a remarkable job since taking over the collection of garbage garbage in the Town of Bowmanville. Counc. Cowman noted that the existing charges in the present areas where garbage is collected is in the area of $110.00. She said that in the rural areas the cost would be greater due to the distance between calls and asked if they were saying that the urban areas would have to subsidize subsidize the rural areas under a set fee for all garbage pickup. Walter Evans said this would be the case. Counc. Cowman asked how the system worked in Oshawa and Whitby where they also had rural and urban areas. She said all could end up with a bill of some $150,00. It was stated that cost could not be determined at this time. without the results of a tender. Counc. Stapleton said he was looking forward to the end result and that Counc. Cowman had brought up a good point. He said they do not know the impact of an overall garbage pick-up throughout the Town. Mayor Winters said he could see some problems with the recommended recommended approach and asked that the Town sit down with BFI to discuss these problems and to hear how the system had been working. Council supported the meeting with , BFI. Counc. Wotten said he favoured a town-wide pick-up and noted that some were now saying if costs escalated greatly they would find other ways of disposing of their refuse. Counc. McKnight said he had some concerns over the uniform rate and wanted to see figures. He suggested that tenders be called for both an overall service as well as separate calls so that a comparison could be made. Counc. Cowman said she would like to hear more than she had to this point. . Counc. Harare, who was chairing the meeting said that not all rural residents had garbage pick-up and that in some areas such collection had been denied. She said she supported a townwide townwide service and said it should not be a matter of urban residents subsidizing subsidizing rural residents: She said that urban residents 'had benefited in the past from commercial and industrial industrial assessment which was not the case for rural residents even though they help to pay for locations locations for industry. She said rural residents should also benefit from commercial and industrial assessment. assessment. Mayor Winters said they were there (council) to create 'the beSF quality of life on an e'qual basis for all the residents of the Town. : Further considerations for the tender call will be discussed after the meeting with BFI. , ** Around Home Enumeration F orms I would suppose that everyone has by now completed their enumeration forms and sent them back to the Assessment department for tabulation. The fact is the deadline was May 12th for the return of the form so by now they are somewhat ancient history. I had thought this to be a simple ' and reasonable system that possibly had been overlooked for years not given the fact that there are some political implications, in handing out jobs, for à system for provincial and federal elections. It did do away with enumerators and thus no political appointments. In the first instance I did receive two set of forms with one clearly defining the form with the proper address for the Qro.no Times location. location. The second form was identified identified with just Main Street. Both forms carried only my name and both carried a Main Street address, address, Having two properties I was lead to belidve that one had to be for the home address and with this thought in mind I changed the address to the Mill Lape address and on both forms added Donna's name, birth date and other information. Donna did question,' wjiy her name had not been included by the department in the first place. This, of course, 1 could not answer even though Donna thought I should have been able'to. It would have seemed reasonable that her name could have been added from the previous files. "You're a newspaper person why don't you know?" asked Donna. Really how can 1 know what someone someone else is doing or why. A couple of weeks after receving the first lot of enumeration forms I received a third form and this one had the proper address for the house and it did contain Donna's name. I signed it at the office and it was immediately returned. Telling Donna about this at the dinner table and that her name indeed indeed Was typed on the form I found I should have taken it home and perhaps her signature at the bottom would have served the purpose as well as mine. Well 1 forgot about the whole issue until Sunday afternoon when reading the letters to the editor in the Sunday Star to find that a •woman in Oshawa felt the same way as Donna. The Oshawa woman was complaining that only the husbands husbands name was included on their form while in fact they were joint owners of the mentioned property and that this should have been recognized by the assessment department arid tljat her signature at the bottom would have been just as proper. As to the content of the forms Hilda Tamblyn came to the office and asked if I had noted that , the assessment department: was not interested interested in the actual day of birth. (Continued page 10) It's a Jungle Out There! Tame Your Surroundings with BOX PLANTS If we don't have what you want - We'll get it! Petunias Lobelia Aster Dusty Miller Marigold Carnations Portuiaca box Impatients Alyssum Q Tomato Sweet William 9c NewG. 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