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From Around the Region Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 18, 1989-5 Oshawa Symphony Pops Honours young environmental leaders OWL, the Discovery Magazine for Children which proves so popular, has announced the 1989 winners of their annual HOOT CLUB awards. Hundreds of kids compete in the 100 projects submitted to the HOOT CLUB Awards contest. Jessie White, 9 years of Port Hope received an award after organizing a paper recycling, project at her school after learning how much paper was used in her school. Her contest was in the Young Environmentalists Environmentalists Leaders category. Classic film "Young and Innocent" showing The Newcastle Library Hitchcock Film Festival continues on January 18th for a showing in the Newcastle Library, Bowmanville at 2:15 p.m. and again on Thursday, January 19th at 7:15 p.m. The classic film, "Young and Innocent" will be shown. Arrested on break and enter charges Kearney Edwards, 28, formerly of Colbome and Cobourg has been charged along with six young people people with a series of break-ins throughout Northumberland County County in 1988. Edwards has in the past cham- . pioned the cause of homeless youths in the Cobourg area. Oshawa $1 million fire hits downtown A fire early Sunday night at Bond and Simcoe Street, Oshawa, is estimated at a $1 million loss. The fire was fought by three Oshawa stations until 8 a.m. Two Regional Police officers and ' an off-duty Toronto firemen assisted in having the building vacated by residents. Cobourg landmark gutted by fire An early Saturday morning, fire gutted the interior and roof of the ■ Marie Dressier cottage in the Town of Cobourg. The fire is estimated to have done some $250,000 in damage. The buidling had been designated a historical building. Group opposes the new waste authority A citizens group known as PACT formed to fight plans of Metro to establish a new dump in Durham is opposed to the startup of the proposed proposed inter-regional authority on waste management. The proposed authority is being supported by the province of Ontario and, by-Metro and neighbouring regional municipalities. PACT claims Durham's voice will be lost in the crowd as well as its authority. Durham Recycling workers unionized The Canadian Union of Public Employees was certified last week to represent 33 worker at Durham Recycling, a non-profit operation collecting recycled waste in the region. CUPE said the average worker was being paid about $9.00 an hour while the same worker with a municipality was receiving about $13.00 an hour. GO will sell land to Rowntree It has been announced that the GO system will sell ten acres of land to Rowntree next to the former Cadbury plant in Whitby. Rowntree has shown an interest in the Cadbury plant providing the ten acres could be purchased for an extention to the Cadbury plant. Asked to examine jump in welfare cases An Oshawa councillor has asked that the Region study the increase in the number of people on welfare in the region. This request followed a jump of eight percent in Family Benefits Assistance in December over that of a year ago for the same month. There has also been a 14 percent jump in general welfare assistance, stated the Oshawa councillor. / Rural Whitby residents pay about $31 for garbage Oshawa's Irv Harrell in making a bid for cheaper rate for Oshawa's rural residents for garbage pickup notes that rural residents in Whitby pay an annual charge of about $31.00. He said Oshawa rural residents, now using private pick-up pay about $156.00. Region sets up garbage task force The Region of Durham has setup a special task force to handle waste management, a major issue facing the region over the next three years. Members include the public works committee and the Mayors of Ajax and Brock. Larry Hannah of Newcastle is a member of the public works committee. Condos could be first start for Port Whitby If Whitby council gives approval two twelve, story apartment buildings will be the start of revamping revamping Port Whitby. * The development could also include include a recreational complex, boutiques boutiques j convenience stores and a small cafe. Warns to stay off train tracks Canadian Pacfic Railways is warning warning people to - keep, off their right- aways and warn cross country sjciers, snowmobilers and all-terrain vehicle operators that fatalities have occured in the past. To use the right-aways is to trespass. No junior kindergarten in Durham Board system Although it was a close decision members of the Durham Board of Education turned aside a proposal to study the possibility of junior kindergarten in their school system. Seniors urged to take action A deadline of January 20th has been set for seniors to reply to a questionairre concerning rent- geared-to-income housing in Port Hope. Last week only nine replies had been received while a greater number is needed to proceed with such accommodation in the Town. Fifty percent of the administrative administrative work lias been completed completed on the project and an option has been taken on lands. Red Cross Homemakers program was in doubt The province has announced it will provide the $1.8 million to the Canadian Red Cross Homemakers program with the result that the service service will continue to be provided. There was doubt in centres where the service has been provided that it would continue without the infusion infusion of the funding. Hunt rated as a success Last year's deer hunt in parts of. Northumberland county has been declared a success by the Ministry of Natural Resources. Figures show that the success rate for hunters was in the area of 12.7 percent which is average for the shotgun only hunt. Amalgamation report soon to be public A report on the possible implications implications of amalgamation between Cobourg and Hamilton Township will be made public on February 15th. A three man commission has spent the last six months compiling the 300 page report. Public meetings will follow the date of the presentation. Fishermen applaid fines for poachers. Local fishermen are pleased with a Port Hope Provincial Court ruling ruling in a fish-poaching case. Four Toronto men were apprehended apprehended in April '88 with 48 rainbow rainbow trout, out of season in the Shelter Valley area. The auto involved was permanently permanently confiscated along with a $1200 fine. Two of the men are still being sought to issue warrants. To put added burden on local police Provincial plans to increase court security through using local police will put an added burden on local taxpayers state police chiefs in both Port Hope and Cobourg. Proposed legislation by Ontario will require all local police forces to assume full responsibility for security security in all provincial courts. VIP program to start in January in schools The VIP (Values, Influence and Peers) program is underway in the Port Hope-Cobourg public school systems. The 12-week program involves teachers and other professionals .from the community with trips to the hospital included. During the period students are faced with the realities of life and living. It is pointed out that schooling is more than the three R's for students face a slick, sophisticated and dangerous world. Can you get AIDS from sharing a needle while tloing drugs? YES! Get the facts. Let's Talk. Call the Ontario Ministry of Health AIDS Hotline 1-800-668-AIDS concert on On Sunday, January 22nd, 8:00 p.m., the Oshawa Symphony Association will present A Special Pops Evening at Eastdale Collegiate Theatre, Harmony Road North at Adelaide in Oshawa. Sponsored by General Motors of Canada Limited, the concert will feature Canada's outstanding tenor, Mark DuBois, and the Oshawa Symphony Orchestra, conducted conducted by Winston Webber. Mark DuBois' outstanding lyric- tenor voice and extraordinary versatility versatility in all genres of music make for a highly successful career with an extremely heavy schedule. He has performed with every major major orchestra in his native Canada and with, several in the USA, including including those in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Rochester. Since his, operatic debut with the Canadian Opera Company in 1978, he has appeared in leading roles in several productions of that Company Company and in those of the opera com- Sunday panics of Belfast, Calgary, Dayton, St. Louis, Edmonton, Vancouver, San Diego and the National Arts Centre, Ottawa. In addition to an impressive range of oratoris and classical song, Mr. DuBois' versatility has let to a "crossover" repertoire of music from the great Broadway shows which has made him a favourite with pops concert audiences on both sides of the border. He has been featured on several disc recordings and is frequently heard in national radio broadcasts in a wide variety of performances from opera, operetta, oratorio, lieder, art songs and the music of Broadway. He has also starred in several TV specials and is much in demand for solo recitals. Tickets for this popular concert are $15.00 each for adults and seniors and $8.00 for students and are available at Saywell's and Long & McQuade in Oshawa, Middleton's in Whitby, and Rickaby's in Bowmanville or by calling the office at 579-6711. THE ± LUNG ASSOCIATION * |.®-, DURHAM REGION WE GRÀTÈFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE MEMORIAL DONATIONS RECEIVED - in remembrance OF -- Mr. Gerry Abramowicz Mr. Harry Millen Mona Allen Mr. John Monahan Mr. Bill Badour Mr. Wm. Westfield Muirhead Mr. Jack Bawks D. Yeo Martha Blakely Mrs. Neely Mr. Peter Bobyk Mr. L. Parr E. Bowler Mr. George Patterson Mr. Fred Brown Mr. Wilfred Pearce Mr. Fred Bryant Mr. Bertram Pickett Barbara Buffam Mr. Douglas Phillips Mrs. Evelyn Campbell Mr. Ross Prentice Mr. Stuart Candler Mrs. Maria Rebecchi Mr. George Clark Mr. Charles Robson Mrs. Evelyn Chave Mrs. Maud Rorabeck Mr. E. A. Collins Mr; Mark Selleck Mr. W. Coulter Mrs. Shirley Shewring Mr. Vic Cuttings Mr. John Sills Mr. George DePratto Mrs. Cora Sirot Mr. Samuel Durocher Shirley Sloper Mary Edwards Mr. Terry Smith Odella Ferguson Mr. Fred Snelgroye 1 ■ Mr. Gibner Mr. Charles Spraggett 1 Mr. Keith Harrison Mr. Donald Stainton 1 Mrs. Joyce Hodges Doris Switzer 1 Mr. B. Hopkins Mr. Ron Sutcliffe B Mrs. Lois Johnston Mary Syer 1 Mrs. Marion Jackson Mr. Bruce Taylor B Mrs. Kildonk Joyce Thomas i Mr. Wilbur Kingston Mr. Jim Thomson ' 1 Mr. Philip Lakas Bernice Tomlinson jj Dorothy Lander Doris Tomlinson B Mr. Robert Lee Mr. Johannis Tops 1 Mrs. Lenny Mr. Roy Trimm Mr. Lobb , Mr. Vernon Trimm I Mr. Loudfoot P. Tullock. i Dora Lycett Mrs. Isabella Turpin H Mr. - Wm. MacIntyre Mr. Herbert H. Usher .11 Minnie Malcolm Mrs. Mary Walker || Mr. J. McClurg Mrs. Bernice Walsh H Mr. George McKinstrÿ Mr. Gordon Wherry * 1 Mr. Chester McQuaid Mrs, Daisy Wilkins U Edna Mercer ■ ' Mr. Charles Woodman j| Mr. Joseph Micallef Mr. Wright | THESE THOUGHTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS 1 HELPED FUND PROGRAMS TO ASSIST LOCAL I RESIDENTS SUFFERING FROM ASTHMA, ■I' LUNG CANCER, AND EMPHYSEMA. • I I ' "IF ONE LIFE HAS BREA THED EASIER BECAUSE YOU 1 I HAVE LIVED, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED" 1 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson E