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f Paul Martin Jr. at liberal meet Bev. Grose, a director of the Durham Liberal Association presents Paul Martin Jr. with a gift following his address at the recent annual meeting of the Association held in Columbus last Thursday. Martin stated the debate over the future for Canada should continue and will through the concerns held by the liberaf party. Council members call for Town information A comment from Counc. Hamre on Monday sparked requests for a number of requests which are to be provided by staff and presented to a future general purpose committee meeting. Counc. Hamre noted a lack of department reports on the agenda for Monday's meeting and further noted that it had been some time since a report had been issued by the Community Services department, department, She said she had been appointed chairman of the Parks Policy committee committee and through, a meeting had noted the activity of park development development over the past year. "I was as- ' tounded as to the number of parks that have been developed,", she said, "this should be information available to all members of council". She said council members must be kept informed or how are they to be creditable during budget discussions. discussions. Larry Kotsef, chief administrative administrative officer, said he appreciated appreciated the comments and would look into the matter. Counc. Hamre also ■ suggested that committee meetings and coun-, cil agendas should also be available to town appointed committees in j order that the committees are informed informed as to the actions of council. Through some disccussion it was suggested that such agendas be provided provided only where a request is made by a particular committee. Mayor Hubbard stated that the Recreation Master plan was redundant redundant and consideration should be given to updating the plan. She said money was available for updating. Hubbard also questioned as to the use of the multi-purpose room at the new arena. She also said she has had complaints as to rental fees at the complex especially charges for the operation of the bar. Jim Cameron, project manager for Community Services, said he would have to get the specifics as to the use but did feel that charges for use of the multi-purpose area was a good deal, as good as any in the Region, • Mayor Hubbard alsq referred to use of the swimming facilities by the patients from the hospital and nursing nursing home which did not want to lose their time allotment in the handicap swim program. A report is to be provided by staff. Mayor Hubbard said there is a lot of interesting reports coming forth for the near future. Counc. Hannah s^id he. would be pleased with the updating of the Recreation Master Plan. "It is redundant", he said. Critical 911 report stirs Newcastle debate Over the past week the Town of Newcastle has been the subject of debate for what has been called their tardiness in giving an indication indication as to their support of the 911 emergency telephone dialing system. The system was first considered considered for Durham in 1984 with a report in 1986 and following again in 1987. Regional committees now state they await a decision from the Town of Newcastle which was to have reported following their 1988 budget conclusions. No such report has been received from the Town of Newcastle. The subject surfaced at the Town • of Newcastle meeting on Monday when Mayor Hubbard referred to the long outstanding report. She said she believed in the principal of the plan but'there was a need to look at the financial implications as far as the Town was concerned. The Mayor mentioned an expenditure of $200,000 as a capital investment for the Town and an operating cost of $150,000 to $175,000 annually. This cost is to bç borne solely by the Town of Newcastle. The Region estimates, in '1988 dollars $1.7 million for a start-up of the system region-wide with a further further ,almost $1 million for annual operation. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 5, 1989-5 The Pines School News report Winter Carnival On Friday, March 3rd, The Pines held it's annual Winter Carnival at the Orono Arena. The first event of the day was the Biathlon. For the grade 8's, Jason Hansen, from 8B came in first. While the Biathlon was in progress, the snow toss event was being held outside the arena. 8A won the snow toss. Speedskating Speedskating was the next event. 8A won both the boys and girls title. The next event was the centipede relay which was won by 7 A and 8B. Next came the part everyone loved loved - LUNCH!!! A Broomball competition was held following lunch. The winners were 7C and 8B, Near the end of the day a big hockey game was held between the grade 8's and the teachers. After returning to the school, houseleague points were added up. Ganaraska House came in on top with 37 points, McLaughlin House came in second with 32 points. Our winter carnival was a great success. Outdoor Education Centre In the last week of February, all the grade sevens went to the Outdoor Outdoor Education Centre. In the morning, morning, half the class classified trees while the other half measured them. We met in the cabin for lunch. The afternoon was spent playing a game called Instincts for Survival. In this game you had to survive like an animal in a big sanctuary. But you had to watch out for animals that can eat you, the diseases, the floods, the hunter and most of all, the mad truck driver. You would be considered dead if you ran out of food or ran into any of the things named above. All the classes had a great time. The Deputy Fire Chiëf stated that the local system could handle the primary system but not. the preferred preferred enhanced system. The enhanced system provides automatically the address of (he caller when they phone the 911 central in Oshawa. Mayor Hubbard stated, upon a question from Counc. Stapleton, that the Town would likely be forced forced into the system. She noted that not all of the Town of Newcastle would be included in system. A Regional report points out that a section of Newcastle along the eastern border and in the north-east corner of Clarke would not intially be included. This affects some 200 dwellings in Newcastle. All others would be included. Hubbard said that the regional chairman was asking the assistance of Newcastle and that a meeting had been called for Wednesday of this week. The Mayor said she wanted to see the figures on the Town's cost from the fire department. The question was also asked by Counc. Stapleton. Counc. Hannah said the costs would be high if 911 does take effect effect arid as well noted that all of the Town would not be serviced. Counc. Hooper stated that he failed to see that the system was going going to benefit the Town. In referring referring from Regional comments as to Newcastle he said, "they don't know what they are talking about." He said there has to be a, reason for change and we presently have a good system. "I'm not hear to help Ma Bell", he said. "I'm not sold on 911". Counc. Hooper said he would not be supporting the plan at the Region. Newcastle, Brock and Uxbridge have yet to give their final approval to the scheme. Toronto Trip On Wednesday, March 8th, we went to see a play called The Time Machine at the Ryerson Theatre. Five other classes went also. After the play was finished, everyone went for a hardy lunch at McDonalds. Following lunch, we went to the Science Centre where we used their equipment to perform many experiments. The grade 8's also saw the play; but, in the afternoon some of. the grade 8's went to either the St. Lawrence Market, or the Planetarium. We would like to thank our teachers and volunteer parents. Quest For Knowledge The Quest for Knowledge team was made up of grade 8 students. The team members were Melissa Colville, Brett Rogers, and Richard Jenkins. The members were chosen by an in-school competition. Competition Competition questions were based on knowledge obtained from curricular curricular subjects, such as science, history, health, and geography. There were also general knowledge questions. Our team competed last Thursday at Cobourg in the Cable T.V. Studio against two other schools. We.were victorious over Grant Sine with a fantastic score of 30-4 and against G.R. Gommmow with a score'of 23-21. The Pines advanced advanced to the semi finals which took place on March 9th. Here The Pines again did well, ending up as silver medal winners in the Board- Wide Conference. Public Speaking The grade 7 and 8 semi finalist, in the Legion Public Speaking Contest, Contest, were Shannon Hancock, Melissa Colville, Andrea Hartmann, Hartmann, Evan Davies, Aaron Staples, Janet Reader, Jamie Osmond and Jennifer Chaffey. Our representative at the Legion Contest was Janet Reader, who presented an excellent speech called, called, "If I were Boss in Our House." The runner up was Andrea Hartmann. Hartmann. Band On March 15, The Pines band travelled to Newcastle Public School for a morning presentation, and to Newtonville school in the afternoon. Rumours Rumour has it that Mr. Farrington Farrington is making a video year book. 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