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Volume 66, Number 35 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday September 18,2002 Serving Kendal\ Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Kendal Variety loses outlet as postal service is restored By Anita DeVries Postal Service has been restored in Kendal; but it seems the new owner of Kendal Variety, Miae Oh, will be paying the price. Canada Post had decided to save some money by not keeping keeping a post office in Kendal when the post master, Eric Wilkin retired. Which was the same time as his wife sold their PVR variety variety store in Kendal, where the. postal outlet was situated. Residents were sent notices telling them to put up mailboxes, mailboxes, if they lived outside of town, and green group boxes were used for those living in town. The notices didn't go over well. The citizens of Kendal were infuriated! "I got a letter in my mailbox, mailbox, 'Great news we're moving moving your mailbox closer to you!"' scoffed Ray Minard, an area resident of Kendal. That was in late August; the next thing he knew he had to put up a mailbox by September 5th. Packages had to be picked up from Port Hope, and any other postal needs required at least a 15 mile drive to the nearest postal outlet. "I tried to keep post office," said Miae Oh, the new owner of Kendal Variety. "The post master retired so they don't want to pay for a post master. Everybody is very upset." Oh was very upset herself. She had bought the variety variety under thé . .. assumption that - she would have ■ the post office. "The previous owner said it was busy in the morning. Now it is very slow." Canada Post received a number of complaints, politicians got involved and so Canada Post realized they had to do something. Oh said in a Monday morning morning interview that she was in contact with Canada Post and she was hoping to have some services restored, like sending and receiving parcels. Monday evening Charlie Continued on page 3 notices did not go ever citizens qf Kendcil were Young three year old William Benson performed in the audience as his dad Greg Findlay, drummer with the Bowmanville Legion Pipe Band performed with the band in Newcastle last week Thursday night at the gazebo beside the Community Hall. Photo by Allan Kirby Thumbs down to boundary shift Not only are the three levels of government opposed to the new electoral boundaries, they are working together to see the changes never take effect. Our Federal Member of Parliament Alex Shepherd said in a phone interview with the Times .Monday, that he's been on the record from day one, as being opposed to the boundary shift that would put Clarington in the same federal electoral district as Port Hope and Cobourg. "The municipality of Clarington secs itself as part of the Greater Toronto Area, (GTA)," said Shepherd. There are issues that impact Clarington as being part of the Greater Toronto Areas which they share with the rest of Durham Region such as transportation, transportation, pollution and gridlock. gridlock. If the redistribution of boundaries is to take place, Shepherd will have a riding made up of the townships of Scugog, Uxbridge, Brock and the western portion of the city of Pickering. Shepherd has filed an appeal to the redistribution redistribution with Electoral Commission. Northumberland M.P. Paul Macklin is also on record as being opposed to the boundary shift. In a press release dated August 20th, Macklin states, "Northumberland is an interesting interesting mix of rural and urban communities alike, and together together with my provincial and municipal counterparts, we as governments have worked diligently diligently to create a climate of open and effective communication communication for the betterment of all citizens in this great riding of ours. With the potential for redistribution, all of this previous previous hard work would not keep us effective as a political unit, and the constituents of Northumberland would not Continued on page 4 Hot stuff It will be a hot time in the old town Saturday as more than a dozen chili cookers will take over the main street. The annual Chili Cookoff put on by the Orono Business Improvement Association (BIA) gets better every year. This year again the downtown downtown core will be closed to traffic from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to accommodate the many additional events. There will be a jumping castle and climbing wall for the children. children. Live bands will be performing performing music throughout the event. in Orono Downtown merchants have been gearing up for weeks with their scarecrow entries as the Clarington Board of Trade will be holding holding their Scarecrow Hoedown downtown Orono in junction with the chili cookoff. Chili judging will begin at 2 p.m. with prizes given for the judges' choice and the people's choice. The BIA is also inviting artisans and craftcrs to set up exhibits downtown. For more info call Evelyn Rozario at 905-983-9167.