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BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 163 Church Street 1.105 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1P7 GST Included - Wednesday August 25, 2004 ' * ! ' ' l !'i 1 r 1 •timili mlilktiui iu.' imi. " i " ! : Orono Town Hall Serving Kendal, Kirby. Leskard, Newcastle, NewtonviUe, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 193^ Country music recording star Julian Austin headlines at Orono Fair There will be a bit more country at this year's Orono Fair. That's because Canadian country music star, Julian Austin, will be performing Friday night in the south east horse ring. The 41-year-old New Brunswick born Austin began writing songs at the age of 13, and at 15 took his father's guitar guitar from the closet and began learning to play. In the past 25 years he's gone from heavy metal, to rock, to 80's pop and finally to country music - his love. Like many great's in the Country field, Austin has also spent his share of time in jail. Eight years ago Austin signed his first major album deal and recorded his best selling CD to date - What My Heart Already Knows. That album sold over 50,000 copies and earned Austin an award from the Canadian Country Music Association. Little Ol ' Kisses Austin's first single, went number one on radio and made the Country Music Television (CMT) top 30 videos of 1997. It was also selected as the best ■. . y . ■ ■ ' ■ ' ; '•.! country single at the first annual Canadian radio music awards in 1998. Austin's second album Back in Your Life, released in early in 2000 earned him six Canadian Country Music Awards nominations. His album Bullet-proof was released two years ago, and his latest It's a Good Life is expected to be in stores soon. In January this year, Austin and his band - "The l-2-9ers" joined several other Canadian artists and performed seven shows for the Canadian -Troops in Bosnia. Presently Austin lives with his wife Angela and beagle Baxter in Calgary Alberta, but vows to move back to the place where it all began. "I'm having a blast and am happier than I've ever been," quotes Austin, "and the music reflects that." The Julian Austin Concert at the Orono Fair begins at 8 p.m. Friday night September 10. The concert is included in the price of admission to the Fair. Sod farm guilty of altering water course l.| Ml : M^--iHiiiitniiii;lull, ii'*^ • •** Julian Austin performs at Orono Fair September 10th Vissers Sod Farms owned by Antonio and Theadora Visser of Hampton, pled guilty in court last Thursday to charges stemming from actions undertaken in March of 2002. Visser's agent appeared in court to enter the guilty plea on federal charges, under section section 35. (I) of the Fisheries Act, "that no person shall carry on any work or undertaking undertaking that results in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction offish habitat. Previous to Thursday's court appcarncc Vissers had plead guilty to similar charges laid by the Central Lake n Ontario Conservation Authority Authority (CLOCA). Sentencing on the federal and CLOCA charges were held over till December of this year. The delay in sentencing is to give Vissers time to complete complete the remediation work on the Soper Creek tributary which ran across his property. A Clarington Planning Department report issued last spring, stated that Vissers cleared approximatlcy 8,000 square meters of wood lot and filled in a tributary of the creek on their property. The property, a former tobacco farms at the south cast corner of Taunton Road and the Clarke/Darlington • Townline GUILTY see page 3 Orono Crown Lands Trust Barbecue and Corn Roast Saturday