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< Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 11, 2000 l\vo Clarke Graduates Win Ontario Scholarships Two Clarke High School graduates have found that hard work and high marks can pay off financially. Melissa Kwaschen and Barbara Nugent, who graduated from Clarke in June, have each won one of the Ontario Government's "Aiming for the Top" tuition scholarships. This new program recognizes hard working students who earn top marks by awarding a graduating student student with up to $3,500 per year during his or her post-secondary studies. The tuition scholarship is awarded for each year that the student can maintain an average of 80% or more. Melissa Kwaschen Barbara Nugent Melissa is presently carolled at Seneca College where she is studying Fashion and Barbara is pursuing a course in the Humanities at Trent University. Long term management of low-level radio active waste sites From Around Home -x by Roy Forrester/ It was great news but most unfortunately I wasn't wasn't there. When I finish you will know - why. It all started a little over a week ago on the weekend weekend when Rick Patterson of Bowmanville asked if 1 ■would show him part of the Oak Ridges trail west of the Enterprise Hill area. Of course there was no .problem ' for I am well aware that Rick . and his wife, Barb are avid hikers. It was a beautiful day and we 1 ■ hiked Athe. unopened road allowance on the west ' side of Highway 115 from Skeld- ing Road to Regional Road 20. . ^ . Tills takes you through some forested hilly lands, through an open area going into a shrubby area, back into a mature woods and again out into the open. The northern part of the trail is what we have been calling the Cochrane property and where we have placed some twenty bird houses thus the name Blue Bird trail. Rick was quite taken with the trail and it's varying varying environmental features. features. I will return he stated. stated. Later the next week I get a report from Rick that he and his son, Greg, had returned to the section of trail three days later. "We saw Blue birds. It was a flock of Blue birds, 25 to 30, both male and female." Rick said his son had never seen a Blue bird and was amazed how blue in colour the males were. "They just flew ahead from tree to tree." 1 There is no doubt the. birds were in migration but I would have to think it would have to be considered considered a sizeable flock. Well I wasn't there - and missed it all. It would have been an exciting experience. I can only hope that it will happen again when I am present. I have always thought that the particular area should be attractive to Blue birds. In fact this spring Î did place a bird house in the area and two days later a pair had taken possession df the box and did raise a family of three. By the way that bird the Robinson's have been pondering whether to call a Least Bittern or Green Heron has been settled. , The bird has been around the Helpard pond for sometime. Our expert in Orono, Jim Richards, settled the question when I told him . it flew out of the trees, to feed wading in the wafer. Right off -- a "Green Heron". Least Bitterns do not roost in trees their home is in the reeds and shrubs. Identification is more than just the result of vision. In this case the birds are somewhat the 'same in size, in marshy habitat with the exception that the Bittern shuns height, the perching in trees. Of course the Blue Heron nfests in self-made platform nests at the top of tall dead trees. Hosts communities of three local low-level radioac- , tive waste sites have reached another milestone towards the long-term management of the sites. Cabinet passed the Principle of Understanding for . a management - plan endorsed by the three municipalities municipalities last Thursday. . Mayor Ham re . of Clarington, Mayor Smith of Port Hope and Reeve Angus of. Hope Township were joined by Northumberland M.P Christine Stewart and Alex Shepherd M.P. for Durham, in an initialing ceremony ceremony of these Principles in Port Hope, on Friday afternoon. afternoon. Over the past 18 months, Port Hope, Hope Township arid Clarington have each developed proposals for their own low-level radioactive waste dumps. The wastes will ' be contained in long-term storage facilities, -one in each municipality, engineered to last for at least 500 years. Roughly one million cubic metres of low-level radioactive radioactive wastes are - located' in these three communities. The wastes were produced by the former Federal Crown corporation corporation Eldorado Nuclear Limited at its Port Hope uranium uranium refinery, beginning in the ' 1930's. Harvey Thompson, Chair of the Foil Granby Low-level - Waste Monitoring Committee, was pleased with direction being taken and said, "this is the first step in the new process." Last October the Port Granby Monitoring Committee presented Clarington Council with a document containing three proposals, with the preferred option being a permanent storage facility to be built on the Port Granby site. This is the option the Federal Government intends now to endorse. "This concept is a bargain compared to what moving the waste was going to cost," stated stated Harvey. The waste on the Welcome site will be moved a short distance, distance, and one new storage mound will be created there. In Port Hope, waste will also be moved to a new site, near their household waste site. Other dump sites around the town will all now be cleaned up. At Port Granby, on Clarington's easterly boundary, boundary, the largest of the three sites, a containment facility will be built around the dump. Material in the east gorge will be moved to the new site, and the bluff at the lake front will be stabilized preventing further further erosion. Natural Resources Canada has set aside $260 million for the entire plan. . "The storage proposal for Clarington will assist us to secure the health and wellbeing wellbeing of our community in the future," stated Mayor Harare at the initialing ceremony. The Initialing of ■ the Principles precedes the signing signing of the- legal agreement which is currently being developed. RECYCLE ORONO PASTORAL CHARGE Minister •: Rev. Dorinda Voilmer Church Office 983-5502 KIRBY SERVICE 9:30am ***** ORONO SERVICE 11:OOam Wheelchair Access A.A. meets every Thurs. 8 pm ***** St Saviour's Anglican Church MILL ST., ORONO, ONTARIO Rev. David R. 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