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4 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Big Box Continued from front ing, following the BIA's challenge to the Clarington Corners Mall, across the highway from the proposed new development, ruled that future commercial development development should be tied to population population thresholds. A recently completed retail market analysis, commissioned commissioned by the Municipality Municipality revealed that Clarington residents are not well served with retail facilities in their community. The consultants reports states that "Clarington "Clarington residents are currently making 65.8 per cent of their specialty purchases, which equates to $137.4 million, outside of Clarington. It was the analyst's opinion opinion that additional commercial commercial space could be accommodated accommodated without affecting the planned function of existing existing centres. The analyst predicted predicted that stores in Bow- manville would see a ten per cent decline in sales, while the Zellers store would see a 34 per cent decline, when the proposed big box stores open for business. A representative from Zellers asked council to delay the opening of the proposed proposed new stores till 2010. The Zellers representative said the proposal was a triple whammy to the Clarington Corners Mall with the impending loss of the existing Loblaw's grocery grocery store, to be replaced with a new store across the road, and a new WalMart Store. "This has to put the viability of Clarington Corners into some question," question," he stated. The analyst said at Friday's meeting that this was simply a delay tactic from Zellers and should be seen for what it is. The consultant did suggest suggest that by 2007 the threshold threshold population would be in place, and recommends that the new Loblaw's and the WalMart not be allowed to open till 2007. 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The vet that spayed the cats said that one of the pregnant females was only about five months old, she still had her kitten fur. Olga takes -the stray cats she's caught to a vet in Pickering who was receiving funding from a rescue organization organization for the the spay and neuter procedure. She then brings them to Linda Hapley's in Colbome (20 minutes east of Cobourg), who runs a cat shelter/ Olga got involved with rescuing rescuing stray cats about three years ago at Millwork lumber yard on Simcoe Street in Oshawa. When she heard the the city of Oshawa would periodically go and round up the strays at Millwork and gas them, according to Olga. She intervened and set her own traps, and has rescued 20 stray cats from there. "It's not their fault they're out there," she says. "Killing the cats is no solution." She says the same about the cats in the ravine in Orono. "People get cats when they're little and cute. When they get bigger and not so cute, they often get dumped," she says. If the cats cannot be adopted adopted out, the best thing would be to get the strays spayed and neutered, then release them back to their colonies to live out their lives. But people don't want the cats in the ravine, "so I'm not going to leave them there," Olga said. "This isn't my problem," she stated. "It only looks like my problem because I care." Ms. Mottile thinks there are still about 12 strays out in the ravine--and while they are not starving now, the winter winter ahead will be hard on them. Olga can't afford to keep running the cats to the vet's in Pickering and then on to Golbome. She thinks the vet in Pickering has run out of funding to spay and neuter strays because she can't get a hold of him any more or the organization that provided the funding. 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