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Orono Town Hall BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 163 Church Street 1 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C ' GST Included Wednesday September 28, 2005 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard. Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 193 Petition calls for library in downtown core "*To have the library in the centre of town maintains the town" --Ann Harley Newcastle Resident Eighteen pots of chili bubbled bubbled and boiled on Orono's Main Street Saturday. The 7th Annual Hot Stuff in Orono Chili Cook-off provided a grand variety of taste options. The Durham Region Health Department provided each contestant with a thermometer thermometer this year to ensure that the chili was at optimum temperature. It took the Region's health department seven years to catch up with the cook-off in Orono, and when they inspected all the chili pots Saturday, they found everything to be in order. Prizes were awarded for the Judge's Choice and the People's Choice. The panel of chili judges which included Norm Tillson, and councillors Charlie Trim and Cord Robinson, selected the entry of George Gauthier and Ian Mohammed to be their favourite, with Mike Bridge- man's recipe as their runner up selection. The "People's Choice" award went to the team of The Three Amigos, who were Rae Bcstcr, Leo A lie and Ron Dee with their World Champion ship Chili recipe from a 1990 Toronto Star. Dereck Sellers' Smokey Mountain Chili garnered garnered the second most votes for the runner up prize. John Witheridge, who emceed the event, picked the winner of the Best Booth prize. The team of Gauthier and Mohammed, who went with a construction zone theme, complete with construction construction tape and "Danger, Men Cooking", aprons won this prize as well. The BIA was pleased with the turnout for the day, and look forward to another successful successful event next year. See pictures on page 7. Ml^ uu George Gauthier and Ian Mohammed(of the Dangerous Men Cooking team), earned bragging rights at this year's Orono BIA Chill Cook-Off, winning top prize as the Judge's Choice. While the location for the new Newcastle Library, branch has not been yet been decided, the residents have made it clear where they want it. " At last Tuesday's Tuesday's public meeting on the proposed new library, Ron Hope of the. Newcastle Business Business Improvement Improvement Association Association presented a petition with over 300 signatures signatures requesting requesting the new ~ library building be located in the downtown core. Mr. Todd Brown of Monteith Brown Planning Consultants, presented his findings and recommendations recommendations on proposed new branch library, at the meeting held at the Newcastle Community Hall. The preferred sites on the short-list are: Memorial Park, the proposed Community Centre site on Ruddell Road, and on the vacant land just west of the CIBC. Brown is recommending that the plan proceed with the preferred site being Memorial Park. According to Brown, this plan should allow for some parkland to remain at the site once the library is built. The preferred location of the approximately 40 people who attended the public meeting, meeting, was the site next to the CIBC. As Memorial Park is currently currently under utilized, Hope agreed that the park would be a good place for a new library building. It was really important important to the BIA that the service be kept downtown, Hope said following the meeting. "Since we lost our post office; a place where people gather, it is important that we have a public public place where people can go," Hope stated, l ie did recognize recognize that there were a number number of residents who would not want to lose the park with its historic significance, in the downtown core. "To have the Library in the centre of town maintains the town" says Ann Harley. "Too many small towns are stripped of their core with strip malls and big box stores on the periphery. The result is an empty town - centre where undisciplined . youth may take over and use it for drug dealing." dealing." According to Harley, if the Library were - built next to the CIBC it would be" an opportunity to revitalize the downtown area. It will encourage encourage the new people to start using the centre of town if their children are'using the library for their homework. "It follows that if they use the centre of town, it will grow and be the kind of healthy community they moved here to live in." Not only were the consultants consultants hired to provide Claring- ton Public Library with a clear strategy for the location of the new building, they were also asked to provide recommendations recommendations as to its size, services and capital cost estimates. Based on the consultant's findings which included population population projections for Newcastle, Newcastle, consultation with the community, and looking at major trends in library design, Monteith Brown is recommending recommending a space of 9,600 sq. LIBRARY see page 3