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If if '*- s.-'t.'.-r;".':-". sr- » ,-? -x-J-rx- •$ .•;*,•«. A «;r.4-p;à.« 3:,■' «.--sa -w./t ivvkgfr',*■ i-üt >ai'^ti.-. », iW|t\3.* Orono vVvikix 1 iiiivs* %>t -?!vmki>. Mu- I'/Sv-S From Around the Region Waste management group would trip to Europe The Regional Waste Management Management committee of ten members of council have recommended that the committee along with staff members travel to Europe to study garbage handling. The cost has been set at $5,000 each for the trip. Council is to consider the recommendation recommendation this week. Health nurses get tentative contracts Durham Region's 100 public health nurses and case managers have a tentative two-year contract. Salaries have ranged from $14.75 to $17.15 per hour. The new deal has not yet been announced. 911 Scugog service through Oshawa terminal The City of Oshawa fire committee committee has suggested Scugog Township pay some $50,000 to Oshawa for a joint 911 emergency number and the following dispatch. Oshawa intends the service and dispatch in Oshawa will cost almost $492,000. > Will pay off mortgage on Thickson Woods Following a successful draw for local and national wildlife artists' paintings the Thickson Woods Heritage Foundation Inc. will pay off their mortgage on the property, ty. The Foundation purchased the property some years ago to protect the site from development. It is now a popular woods for observing birds and is a oasis of white pine near Lake Ontario south of Whitby, Whitby, Durham to explain dump plans A public information meeting is being held in the Pickering Recreation Recreation complex on May 9th to explain a proposed Durham-Metro dump in north Pickering. Durham is to later consider a bilateral agreement with Metro and other Regions in which an interim dump would be located in one of the municipalities. Durham is offering offering the north Pickering site as one choice for the interim dump. Fulton defends timing for, 401 widening Ed Fulton, Minister of Transportation, in speaking in Oshawa recently defended the timetable for the widening of Highway 401 in Durham. The plan is to start work this year which will last for the next ten years. Fulton also spoke of highway 407 to be built'across the top,of Toronto Toronto over the next three years. He said they would be preparing a plan to extend 407 further east from Highway 48 to the intersection of Highways 35-115, He put no time of completion for this latter project. project. Horsemen plan Kawartha boycott The Ontario Harness Horsemen's Association is urging members to boycott the opening of Kawartha Downs this Saturday due to stalled contract negotiations. The track has offered 53 percent of the 18 percent from betting to go to the harness horsemen over the next five years. The horsemen are asking 53 percent in the first year of a two year contract and 54 percent for the second year. Durham Bd. of Education propose 14% increase The Durham Board of Education is set to set its annual budget for 1989 with a 14 percent increase. The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education recently approved a 14.9 prercent increase. Could derail VIA train Havelock to Toronto The federal budget presented last week with a reduction in funds for the VIA Rail system could spell the end of the Havelock to Toronto run states Paul Pagnuelo, president of the route's passenger association. The VIA system carries some 200 passengers daily and is subsidized , Some 50 percent annually. Hope shys away from Marydale proposal The planning committee has decided that council cannot support a proposal by Bill Oates at Marydale Trailer Park which would result in 120 retirement units in the south-west corner of the municipality. Hope township had assumed that the developer would take continued responsibility for water and sewage. It was found however when over five units are involved the system must become a municipal system with full responsibility held by the Township. Ducks Unlimited forming new chapter Duck Unlimited are . forming a new chapter in the area to include Whitby, Oshawa and Newcastle. A Port Perry chapter has raised $180^00 in its three year histroy. The first fund-raising event for the new chapter is to be held on June 1st. Further information on the organization by phoning 723-3605. OPP planning radio tower The Ontario Provincial Police are planning to construct a telecom- munictations tower near Warkworth, one of six such towers stretching from Northumberland County north to Haliburton. Completion of the centralized system which involves detachments _ in Newcastle, through to Port Hope, Cobourg, Lindsay, Minden and Peterborough. Dispatch will come from Peterborough. County system could be in for reform A new study as to reform of the county system of government could well affect Northumberland county if the province follows through with the recommendations. A provincial committee has recommended some 41 sweeping changes for the county system. County councils have been asked to reply to the study by mid summer. summer. The report suggests that municipalities with less than a population of 4000 should be consolidated consolidated and this would affect 11 of the 15 municipalities in Northumberland. Northumberland. Dam repairs over $2 million The federal government is undertaking undertaking repairs to a darn on the Trent-Severn waterway some 8 kilometers south of Campbellford. Work is to start in July 1 and is to be compleed by February of 1990. Whitby Mayor owner of Kingston Raiders Last week Whitby Mayor, Bob Attersley, purchased the Kingston Raiders of the Ontario Hockey League. Attersley was a former Oshawa Junior player and currently owns a business in Kingston. He states the club will remain in Kingston. It had been rumoured that the club was to move to Owen Sound under its former owner, Lou Kazowski. Guard picket at Whitby jail Guards at_ the Whitby jail are picketing and threaten to work to rule if contract negotiations are not speeded up by the province. The province has offered a three percent pay raise while the guards are asking for an 8.9 percent increase. Ethical-Legal Issues in Nursing Seminar Durham College will hold a Seminar on the Ethical-Legal Issues in Nursing Monday, June' 5 at 8:30 a.m. in the Lecture Theatre of the main campus, 2000 Sitricoe Street North. The morning keynote speakers are Professor Paul Thompson of the University of Toronto and Pro lessor Elizabeth Jack from Queen's University in Kingston. The afternoon session will feature a panel discussion on present present case studies of ethical-legal dilemmas. 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