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Orono Town Hall Volume 64, Number 20 750 GST Included WEDNESDAY May 17, 2000 MSI ■ ■ Come on over! Shawna Thompson entered the creek a 'Beaver', and accepted Brian Cowan's hand as a 'Cub'. The 1st Orono Scouts held their advancement ceremonies at the Orono Park Monday evening. All is not well at the animal animal kingdom on the 7th concession. concession. Scott Creed, Animal Educator at the Jungle Cat World, claims he was unaware that he was in contravention contravention of Clarington's ' Exotic Animal By-Law, when he kept zoo animals on his property overnight. After returning from one of his many educational road trips, Creed, who lives at 150 Tamblyn Road, Orono, would often keep the zoo animals in a temporary enclosure at his home. Creed states his desire to spend more time at home with his family, as the reason for wanting to keep these animals on his property. He also wants to work with young animals'at home. Other than the red tailed hawk, and some reptiles of his own, the animals he works with belong to the Jungle Cat World. Along with building a permanent enclosure, on his 1.68 acre property, Creed would like to purchase a wolf pup and socialize it at his home. Pete Klose of Jungle Cat World, says they've never asked Creed to keep animals on his property, and it is not necessary for him to do so. In fact, they are totally opposed to the rezoning and the by-law exemption. "He is an animal educator, not an animal trainer," stated Klose. Klose also went as far as to say, "if he does get it, [the exemption and re-zoning] we will dissolve our relationship with him." Neighbours on Tamblyn Road are split as to whether they want Creed to keep exotic exotic animals on his property. Henry Eikens Jr., who lives across the road from the Creed residence says, "it's (continued page 3) The Lishman project now rests on how much they have to pay to upgrade Taunton Rd. One of the conditions of approval for the land severance, severance, was that Paula Lishman Ltd. pay for re*profiling Taunton Rd., to provide safe sight lines. The cost of this work, mainly to take the crest off the hill to the west of the entrance way, was estimated at roughly $300,000. In a letter to Regional Chair, Roger Anderson, Bill Lishman writes, 'this tariff is beyond the scope of economic economic viability for the Lishmans to bear'. The cost of reconstructing Taunton Rd, has been a condition condition of the rezoning application application from the outset. In July of 1997, Paula Lishman Limited .made application application to the Municipality of Clarington,, and the Region of Durham, to amend both Official Plans to allow for an earth integrated fur garment manufacturing plant on the former Bennett Pit site, also known as the Hawke farm. The application was contested contested all the way to the Ontario Municipal Board, where a settlement was reached last August. Lishman had one year from that date to meet the terms of the land severance. The 20 hectare parcel of land Lishman was to build the plant on, is to be severed from a larger parcel owned by Hannu Halminen. The Lishmans have suggested suggested a sensor triggered cautionary cautionary light system that could be installed at a reasonable cost, as a solution to the sight line problems on Taunton Rd. This is not an acceptable solution, according Bob Szartz, of the Region's Traffic Operations Department "We do not install unorthodox traf- (continued page 2)