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6-Or<mo Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 4, 1989 Town and Board of Education to team up À unique coalition in the province province was forged last night as representatives of local municipalities for the Town of Newcastle and Northumberland County met with trustees of The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education at the Board Office. Chairperson of the Board, Diana Stewart, whose Board initiated the meeting, said she feels last night's dialogue offers the hope, that by working together, "we can accomplish accomplish some change." "School boards and municipalities have many of the same problems," Stewart explained in her opening remarks at the meeting, citing exploding growth, and declining provincial funding. "In education, the province continues continues to mandate new programs without sufficient funding, or, in some cases without any funding," she informed the group. As well, new workplace legislation, such as pay equity, places an increasing financial burden on boards. Agreeing that the Board and the municipalities have common ground on the issues of provincial funding, Allan Holdaway of Hope Township said, "We'll go broke," if the province continues to fund education and municipalities this way. The provincial per pupil grant was cited by many municipal representatives and trustees as outdated outdated and inadequate. Trustee Wilf Day of Port Hope agreed that "the key issue is the grant ceiling, which doesn't reflect the costs of the programs programs we're offering....No Board in the province is able to spend at the established ceiling level," because it is too low. Cobourg Mayer, Angus Read, argued that the funding issue is â constitutional one. Under the BNA Act and the present constitution, the Province bears responsibility for funding education, he said. "We have to be firm enough and strong enough at the county levels (with the province) or we're going to be defeated," (on the funding issue.) Trustees and municipal representatives representatives agreed to take the issue to their respective provincial organizations organizations to attempt to broaden the lobby lobby for increased municipal and education funding. And they have agreed to a further meeting that would include representatives of the Ministry of Education and area MPP's. Representatives from Camp- bellford, Percy, Murray Township, Brighton, the Town of Newcastle, Hope Township, Port Hope, Cobourg and Haldimand Township attended the meeting with Board Trustees. Expect Forest User Committee report soon The Ganaraska Region Conservation Conservation Authority will be looking for a full report from the Ganaraska Forest User Committee by October 26th which has been studying the affects of recreational 1 use on the forest over the past year. The Authority expects to have completed their appraisal of the report by the first of December. The Ganaraska Forest User Committee Committee which has representation from all user groups of the forest was formed to, make comment on the forest use for recreational purposes purposes and the affect such use may have on the environment and on (he forest in particular. The use of Motorized vehicles has been a hot issue for the committee with a well organized group opposing opposing such use and Calling for a ban of ' motorcycles and ATVs in the forest. The new chairman pf the committee, committee, Ron Bond, surprised the Authority recently when he asked for a moratorium be placed on motorized vehicles in the fores until until a complete study had been undertaken. undertaken. However at a subsequent meeting of the Users' Committee last week no great debate resulted as, to motorized vehicles. The Users committee is to meet again this Thursday to prepare for the final input for the full Authority. Authority. The full Authority had refused to consider. Bond's request for the moratorium. Bond had said a number of members had toured the forest and were appalled at the destruction being .done by the. motorized vehicles. Both 1 the Ganaraska Authority and the Ministry of Natural resources have agreed that motorized motorized vehicles have not adversely affected affected the resource management of the forests. , . Past week fire calls for Town of Newcastle The following fire calls were received by the Town of Newcastle Fire Department during the week of September 25th to October 1st. Wednesday, September 27th at 2:38 a.m. truck fire on Highway 401 east of Newtonville; 6:51 p.m. burning burning complaint on Nash Road in Bowmanville; 7:39 p.m. chimney fire at 111 Parkway Avenue, Bowmanville. Thursday, September 28th at 6:01 a.m. false alarm of a smoke detector at 51 Trudeau Street, Bowmanville; 12:00 midnight St. Francis of Assisi School in Newcastle, Newcastle, when their alarm went off. Friday, September 29lh 2:30 p.m. hay fire on Middle Road, Bowmanville. Bowmanville. ■ ' Saturday, September 30th at 11:48 a.m. car fire on Black Creek Drive, Bowmanville; 4:26 p.m. called called to the soüth west corner of King and Division Streets, Bowmanville for a wash down due to a gas leak; 8:32 p.m. check call at 138 Elgin Street, Bowmanville in regards to a bonfire. Sunday, October 1st at 12:05 a.m. responded to an alarm at the Newcastle Multi-Care Unit, Newcastle; 5:21 a.m. false alarm 132 Church Street, Bowmanville; 5:39 p.m. called to a grass lire on Morgan's Road at the corner of Highway 2. Bill Bramah and his Ontario The Fox and the Pheasant Lady are the most coloufful pair I've met in some time. Their real names are Doug and Deborah McKinley. Doug is a businessman -- an entrepreneur. Deborah is a former fashion consultant. consultant. A couple of years ago they decided decided to get away from it all and move to the country. But they did it with flair. They bought a magnificent old home in Pine 1 River Valley south of Collingwood. It's set on top of a hill overlooking the valley, and the view is one of grandeur. You get the feeling that on a clear day you could see the whole province! They're flamboyant people. Live with zest. I'd seen both of them on television. Doug does commercials for one of his automobile franchises called Foxhill. He comes on strong. Lie's a big man with long white hair and a flowing beard. He looks like a cross between Santa Claus and Ernest Hemingway, and has a driving, driving, rasping voice. For years, his friends have called him the Silver Fox, which was eventually abbreviated abbreviated into just the Fox. Qeborah has appeared many times on Global's News at Noon as a fashion expert. She's a tall, glamorous beauty, considerably younger than the Fox. ■ When they moved to the country, they had no intention of returning to a pioneer lifestyle or anything like that. They brought their extensive extensive collection of antiques and furnished furnished the house luxuriously. The Fox also brought his yacht, and it's moored in a small manmade manmade pond just down from the house. He had it set there by derrick. derrick. "I'll take you on a cruise to nowhere," booms the Fox. He's not kidding. The pond is only about 150 yards long and there's not even room to turn the yacht around. But it makes a great guest house. Needless to say, they call the Estate Foxhill. There ate a few horses loafing around, and a few sheep. But there are thousands of pheasants. That's Deborah's new career -- raising pheasants." She started with just ten pheasants. Now they're all over the place. Even the pheasant raising is done 1 with a certain flair. The nursery where the eggs are hatched has a sign outside saying "kindergarten". And other signs designating "Junior School" right up to the university graduates. As a result of this profitable enterprise, Deborah has become known as The Pheasant Lady. v. The Fox and The Pheasant Lady are a vibrant, creative couple who love life. 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