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4 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, September 27,2006 Breaking ground in Newcastle (ontiuction to begin on new pool facility The shovel for Newcastle's new aquatic facility will be in the ground by next week. Clarington council approved approved the facilities budget of $17 million at Monday's council meeting and awarded awarded the contract to build it to the Brampton firm of Aquicon Construction Company Company Ltd. On the aquatic side the facility will include a 25 meter, six lane leisure pool with various water spraying features, tot pool, sauna and whirlpool. It will also have a full size, multi-use gymnasium gymnasium with adjoining activity rooms plus four meeting/pro- OPG Continued from front ÔPG last spring that they gramming rooms that can be rented by the community for meetings and functions. The building will also be fully accessible to persons with mobility issues. Components will be built into the structure so it can be expanded in the future. At such a time when Newcastle needs a new arena, there will be the capability to build a new twin pad onto this facility according to Clarington's Community Services Director, Joe Caruana. The Treasurer was authorized authorized by council Monday to make application to the Region of Durham for a begin the federal approval process for new nuclear units at an existing site. Bmce Power in Kincardin PUTTING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY FIRST Meet Linda at the events shown below: Thursday September 28th: Meet and Greet - Kendal Community Centre (Regional Rd. 18, Kendal) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday October 5th: Candidate's Coffee Evening hosted by Tyrone Community Centre (Cone. Rd, 7, Tyrone) for Wards 3 & 4| 7 to 9;30 p.m. Saturday October 7th: Lion's Walk for Guide Dogs -.Newcastle 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. ELECT LINDA GASSER Regional Councillor Wards 3 & 4 on or by November 13, 2006 For information and/or to offer your support to the Linda Gasser Campaign please contact: www.lindagasser.com • E-Mail: lagasser@netrover.com Tel: 905-983-5249 • Fax: 905-983-5825 debenture in the amount of $17,155,000 plus debenture costs of 5 percent, to finance the facility. According to the Treasurer, Ms. Nancy Taylor, the project cost will be deben- tured over the next 15 years, and 90 percent of estimated annual repayments of $1,400,000 will be funded through development charges, with the remainder coming from the tax levy. The official ground breaking breaking ceremony for the new facility, to be built on Rudell Road, and Hwy. 2 in Newcastle, is scheduled for 11 a.m. on October 11,2006. filed a similar application with the CNSC a month ago. Mayor John Mutton and Regional Councillor Jim Schell went to China last November as part of provincial provincial trade mission. The goal of the mission was to increased trade, investment and cultural links between the province and one of the world's fastest growing economies. Mutton and Schell's goal was to meet with Premier Dalton Mc- Guinty to sell Clarington as a nuclear friendly community, and the place to build new reactors., I ' r . , .j "• Councillor. Schell echoed the Mayor's sentiments at Monday's council meeting and added, "There's been a fair amount of criticism for you and I going to China. This is a direct result of you and I going to China, and I would go again tomorrow. If OPG gets the necessary approval to build two additional additional reactors at their Darlington site, it will take at least 10 years before they are operational. We Salute Our Veterans We will remember them. Sept. 27, 1918: Private George Openshaw 152605. 27 years. Killed In Action. 16th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment). Son of: George and Anne Openshaw (nee Agar). Native of: Bury, Lancs, England. Rests in Sec. II. Plot D, Gr. 9. Sains-Les-Marquion British Cemetery. Honoured in the 1918 Book of Remembrance, page 480, Memorial Chamber at the House of Parliament, Ottawa and the Orono Cemetery Gates. Oct. 1,1918: Private LIONEL.DOUGLAS BOWEN 461398.23yrs. Killed In Action. 1st Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Son of: Henry C. and Katie J. Bowen, Orono. Rests in Sec. C. Gr. 42. Queant Communal Cemetery British Extension. Honoured in the 1918, Book of Remembrance, page.372, Memorial Chamber at the House of Parliament, Ottawa the Orono Ontario Cenotaph, and Bowen St. Orono, Ontario named in His Honour. Oct. 1,1918: Private GEORGE HENRY COULTER 3317163.102nd Bn. Killed In Action. Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). Rests in Sec. III. Plot C. Gr. 21, Bucquoy,Road Cemetery, Flchëux. Honoured in the 1918, Book of Remembrance, page 390, Memorial Chamber at the House of Parliament, Ottawa, and the Bethany Ontario Cenotaph. Oct. 2, 1916: Private EDWARD GERARD CLARKE 57382. 35 years. Killed In Action. 20th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) Husband of: Frances.Clarke, 20 Liberty St., Bowmanvllle, Remembered with Honour Vimy Memorial. Honoured in the 1916, Book of Remembrance, page.67, Memorial Chamber at the House of Parliament, Ottawa, and the Bowmanville Ontario Cenotaph. Oct. 3, 1918: Sapper, JOSEPH PALMER 2009007. 35yrs. Killed In Action. Canadian Engineers, Reinforcement Pool. Son of: John and Ellen Palmer. Rests in Sec. LXVIII. Plot G. Gr.16. Etaples Military Cemetery. Honoured in the 1918, Book of Remembrance, page 481, Memorial Chamber at the House of Parliament, Ottawa, and the Bowmanville Ontario Cenotaph. II anyone has photos of this Serviceman or any Serviceperson featured, please send care of Orono Weekly Times. All photos will be returned. Researched by Bill Calm Rezoning Continued from front lion. The report issued by the OSPCA on August 10th states, "met Emily, owner of seven horses, seven very fit horses!! Nice area, clean, conditions acceptable. Water available at all time, good quality of hay, grain provided. No grounds for any type of action or OSPCA orders." Tosswill appeared at Monday Monday night's council meeting, to address the issues raised by his neighbour and brought his veterinarian veterinarian with him. We live in an area that has a lot of horse and cattle operations, Tosswill stated. "Rezoning our property will not increase the fly population," population," he stated. We supplement our horses with grain, alfalfa grass and hay, he told councillors. councillors. The veterinarian from Millbrook concurred with the OSPCA conclusions that the horses were very well cared for. Fitze attended Monday's public meeting though he did not speak. Following the meeting, he told the Orono Times reporter that he did not agree with some of the comments comments made by his neighbour. "Nobody in Clarington should be able to convert a residential property into an equestrian centre," he stated; Following the public meeting, meeting, the application was refereed refereed back to staff for further processing, prior to releasing a report with their recommendations. recommendations. ! JË$' n :-- y - IF ■ ; L N// COOkCfi . %..f Thank you to the Orono DBIA for organizing a , great Chili Cook-Off, this past Saturday. Also, thank you to the community for your support. Paul Jones Candidate for Local Council, Ward 4 Orono Chili Cook-off - 2nd Place, Judges Choice Vote mmm votecooke for Wednesday, September 27,2006 "People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive" ***** "It is by going down into the abyss that we recover recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ***** "Find a place (inside) where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) Joseph Campbell was an American professor, writer, scholar and orator in the fields o mythology and comparative religion. He passionately studied myth and its similar,, seeming ly cohesive threads among all human cultures, le that all myths originate from a commoi source - the communal past of the human race. He believed all the religions of the world, a I the rituals and deities, to bo "masks" of the same transcendent truth which Is "unknowable. He often quoted a Vedic Scripture saying "Truth Is one, the sages speak of it hy many names'