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Orono Weekly Times, 7 Dec 1988, p. 8

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8-(>rmio Weekly; Times. Wednesday, December 7, 1988 From Around the Region 531 to be laid off at Ajax Chrysler plant Some 531 employees at Chrsyler Canada in Ajax are to be laid off over the next eight months. The plant has been employing 2,000 workers. Some of the layoffs are due>to the closing of a U.S. plant that makes Chrysler Fifth Avenues, Dodge Diplomats and Plymouth Caravels and a plant in Detroit. Some of the work done in Ajax is being transfered to the non- unionized Magna International. Durham Police to phase in white cruisers Over the next couple of years Durham Regional Police will be phasing-in white cruisers with red trim rather than the present yellow vehicles. The first white cruisers comes to the Bowma'nville detachment detachment in the next couple of weeks. Car manufacturers have phased out yellow which requires a lead component which is thought to be a health hazard. Portables to be more liveable The Durham Board of Education in an effort to make portable classrooms more liveable are to experiment experiment 'with the grouping of six portables in a solid block facing a central corridor with access to all six portables. Portable, it is stated, are here to stay as the province provides classroom funding at a level of 30 students per classroom. The actual classroom now accommodates less than 30 due to the teacher/pupil ratio agreement between boards of education and the teachers' federation. federation. Sklar states free trade could mean expansion A vice-president of Sklar Furniture Furniture in Whitby states that free trade could mean expansion for the local plant especially if other countries countries adopt similar policies. Sklar recently purchased a - Mississippi furniture manufacturer which may manufacture some Sklar brand lines for distribution in the southern States. The vice-president said shipping is a major cost in furniture manufacturing but that Whitby is •closer to the north-east U.S. market tjian the Mississippi plant. Wants students to kick butts The Durham Region Lung Association is informing children across the region about the hazards of smoking. < _ The Lung for Life school program program has reached some 80,000, school children since its inception in 1980. Thirty schools have already been visited so far this year. How to spread your money for Christmas Christmas is approaching, and the joy of the season may seem less of a joy for those with poor'money management skills. The Oshawa and District Credit Counselling Service offers help in sorting out financial responsibilities and guiding people towards better personal money management. For a free and confidential appointment appointment call 579-1951. School water will be tested Drinking water from fountains in Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education schools will be tested in the near future to.determine to.determine water lead levels. Recent tests conducted in Ontario Ontario schools have revealed unacceptable unacceptable high levels - up to seven -, 1 an s the national standard for lead consumption. While no tests were done in this board's jurisdiction, a Ministry of Edcuation directive has advised all boards to check lead levels on a priority basis, beginning with schools constructed between 1983 and 1985.. The Ministry has also directed boards to have custodial staff run the drinking water for at least five minutes every morning. BFI wins payment for clean-up Newcastle council has voted to pay Browning Ferris Industries $9,600 as an additional payment for a spring clean-up. The company had asked for $13,700 but the town Works director, director, Walter Evans, says the $9,600 is a compromise. , A letter to council from BFI in dicates that it spent some $19,000 more than anticipated during the clean-up in Newcastle*, Village, Orono and Orono Esates. The company suggested it should be paid about $11,000 for dumping costs and one-third or about $2,000 for labour costs. Company presses Newcastle landfill "Durham regional council should allow a landfill site in Newcastle to prevent Metro from disposing its trash in the region," says an official of Laidlaw, a company company wishing to build a dump in Newcastle for regional purposes. Nigel Guilford, vice-president of Laidlaw Waste Management, said Metro Toronto could expropriate a site his company owns and try to build its own dump there. Dave Scott, president of the, Committee of Clarke Constitutents, a local resident's group opposed to dump sites in the area said Guilford was trying to use scare tactics to get residents and local politicians to accept accept their dump in Newcastle. Christmas tree growers pine for traditions of old Free trade may worry some farmers, but Christmas tree growers say their industry has enjoyed free trade for years. What concerns them is the expansion of the ar- tifical tree market. Hope Township growers Alan Peacock and Mac Walker agree that artificial trees are the biggest threat to the industry which Walker states exports a million to the U.S. market annually, ten times the amount imported imported from the Ü.S. , New chief for Ganaraska Brian Hancock, operations manager for the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority will be moving up to assume the position of Chief Administrative Officer in January. ■ Hancock, who has been with the Authority for more than ten years accepted the position after the current current CAO, Heather Rutherford,- resigned from the post. Landfill site deal 'collapses The owners of the Oliver's Road site near Cobourg on which a pro- ■ posed west Northumberland landfill landfill site would be located have left the purchase agreement with Hamilton Township lapse. Hamilton Township had planned to buy the 537 acre site for about $800,000 and turn a portion of the property over to the county for the waste site. The property owner has refused to extend, the agreement past its November 30th deadline. Campaigns to save African wildlife Jean Simmons, Oshawa, an African tour guide since 1964, thinks she will see the day when rinos and elephants will be extinct. She states that a rising population and now poachers are taking their toll on the animals which, some years, ago, were easy to view in many parts of Africa and especially Kenya. FEED & FARM SUPPLIES (corner of HWY 115 & Clarke 4th Cone. East) 963-5791 FRIDAY, DECEMBER Be a Friend to Your Pet with 9th - 9:00 a.m. ■ 5:00 p.m. Sur-Gain Meat Based Pet Foods m .4V m , 0(0^®'^ 28 /0 nO Of* ffn Pr ° tein *7.00 off * 3 'G 2»°/°. V>tO ALL PET FOOD MEAT BASED 10% OFF ALL STORE ITEMS « 1 YEAR IN BUSINESS" OPEN HOUSE Refreshments Are you feeding the right Supplement? PROTEIN COSTS - LET'S TALK $15.00 OFF All Dairy and Swine Supplements .50c Off Bagged Feed In-Store Look for many other In-Stôre Specials Wild Bird Seed 30% Peanuts Budgie and Cockatiel Feeds Water Softener * Salt Horse Feed ; and Supplies Bring the family and tour the Dairy Farm operation

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