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bowmanville library 163 Church Street 1.1.05ac Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1P7 $'I.UU GST Included Wednesday May 4, 2005 i--^ôda/, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle. Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Tie-breaker nets lifestyle community new defibrillator planned for Canadian Vets in the Netherlands this week. Local Vet celebrates Liberation of Netherlands _ . . ,. i tm ^miftc rvf •vx/tir that Ted Pritchard left Friday to attend one of the greatest celebrations celebrations he's probably ever to attend. A WW11 veteran, Pritchard of Orono, flew to Holland Friday to participate in that country's 'Thank You Canada" Canada" activities. Me said he couldn't wait to get there. While he expects to participate participate in three parades along with fellow veterans, Pritchard says it's the visits to the cemeteries he's really looking forward to. "What I'm really going for is to walk among the graves of the fellows fellows 1 was with," Pritchard told an Orono Times reporter in an interview last Thursday. "If it weren't for those guys laying there, I wouldn't be alive," he said. Pritchard went back to Holland for the 35th anniversary anniversary of the Liberation, and was overwhelmed by the response the Canadian vetei- ans received from the Dutch people. "They love Canada," he stated. Even more heartwarming heartwarming than the response the Canadian solders get from the Dutch people is the fact that the graves of the veterans are well tended. " 1 he» cemeteries are spic and span, and every grave has a flower,' stated Pritchard. "The school kids look after the Canadian graves, and that tells me how much they appreciated us," he said. There are parts of war that he will talk about, says Pritchard, but there are parts he won't. He joined the Lincoln and Welland Regiment on July 13th, 1940. While the regiment regiment was 1,100 men strong at the beginning of the war, Pritchard said the regiment rolled over three times by the end of the war. It suffered a total of 1,548 casualties. At the last reunion Pritchard went to, two years ago, 34 to 40 veterans veterans showed up. When he first went overseas, Pritchard said he was to join the Bren Gun Carrier Platoon. The day before Pritchard was VET see p»ge 3 In a rare move, Mayor John Mutton had to cast a vote to break a tie at Monday night's council meeting. At issue was a request from Wilmot Creek Adult Lifestyle Community, for a $1,500 grant from the Municipality for a public access defibrillator. Councillors Adrian Foster, Don MacArthur and Jim Schell all said they couldn't support buying equipment for a private institution. "I personally would find it very difficult supporting something something going into a private, profit profit making hall, that I can't as a citizen of Clarington rent, stated Schell. The request for the defibrillator defibrillator grant was sent to the municipality from Terry Plolbrey, Chair of the Wilmot Creek Healthcare Committee. The committee would like to have a defibrillator in theii recreational centre. The cost of the device, which administers an electric shock to restore normal normal heart rhythm in cases of cardiac arrest, is $8,442. According to ' Councillor Pingle, the residents of Wilmot Creek are actively fundraising for the defibrillator. Currently, the Older Adult Centre on Beech Avenue is the only municipal building equipped with a public access defibrillator. The municipality will be slowly phasing in this equipment over a number of years, to equip all their facilities, facilities, according to Clarington's Chief Administrative Officer Mr. Frank Wu. "It doesn't seem right to put something on private property, when we don't have it on our own property," stated Councillor Councillor Foster. The question of whether the Wilmot Creek community even qualified for a municipal grant was answered by Mr. Bruce Taylor of the Community Community Services Department. Taylor said the Wilmot Creek committee did qualify as they were a group providing a service service to residents. The municipality municipality puts one dollar per capita capita into a municipal grant fund, annually, which is distributed to volunteer community groups who apply for the funding. funding. ■ . This was not an issue ot whether or not Clarington supports supports volunteer groups, according according to Jim Schell. "It has more to do with, is this the best use of taxpayers' money?" Councillor Charlie Trim, who did support the grant request, saw it differently. "I love to play hockey but I can t play on a girls team or a pee- wee team, yet we support that," he said. Mayor Mutton told councillors councillors that if the matter came to a tie vote, he would be supporting supporting the request. "We collect development charges from the Wilmot Creek community, and by and large, they don't see a lot of the infrastructure from development charges on or around their site," he stated. The Mayor's vote was needed to break the tie. Newcastle farmer's market to open in June The Clarington Board of Trade hopes to have a farmer's market up and running running this June. They plan to hold the market on Sundays from June to October at the Newcastle Arena Parking lot. The Board requested and received a $5,000 interest free loan from the municipality to cover start-up costs associated with the market. 60 years ago "Liberation Day" See page 3