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Orono Town Hall bowmanville library 62 Temperance St. 1 1 04 Vc Bowm anville, Ont. L1C 3A8 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday September 17, 2003 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Terry Fox Run "best ever" Jack Hartwell, member of Terry's Team Turnout for Sunday's Terry Fox Run.was the highest yet in the fourteen years the event was run in Bowmanville. The Run is a big exercise requiring over 200 volunteers said this year's organizer Walter Gibson of Newcastle. "We had an incredible day," Gibson told an Orono Times reporter on Monday. "The community was expressing itself, and it spoke loudly/' he said. Last year, around 1,300 people participated participated in the Bowmanville Terry Fox Run'•,. .. ■, ■ ;~f which was surpassed this year by an additional 200, raising approximately $82,000 for cancer research, about 17 per cent more than last year said Gibson. The response in Clarington is phenomenal says Jack Hartwell also of Newcastle. Hartwell, a cancer survivor himself, who joined Terry's Team last year said in an interview interview last week that the support for the Run says a lot about the caring community this is. While he has always sponsored, sponsored, people in the Terry Fox walk or Run, Hartwell says he walked the 10 kilometers himself himself last year for the first time. "I thought I can do that," said Hartwell. After having sponsored others to walk or run in the event in the past, Hartwell said last year I thought to myself, "I can do that!" He convinced members of his Masonic Lodge in Bowmanville to form a team and together they raised over $2,000. "I probably would not have done that if I didn't have a concern myself," he said. "You can get so wound up in yourself yourself sometimes you need a hit on the head before you do something," something," Hartwell stated. That hit on the head came some years ago when his daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, which is genetic. His * daughter considers considers herself to be in a stable condition now, says Hartwell, but through advances in research, aided by the funds raised by the Terry Fox Foundation, it has been determined determined that his grandchildren do not carry the gene that caused his daughter's cancer. Hartwell received another hit on the head two years ago when he himself was diagnosed diagnosed cancer. A routine PSA test, indicated that Hartwell had prostate cancer. Hartwell found the advances in cancer research were evident following following his surgery to remove the cancer, because what was a five day stay at Oshawa General for him would have been a three week stay for the same type of treatment years ago. Hartwell says he remembers remembers seeing Terry Fox dip his foot in the Atlantic Ocean on April 12,1980 when he began his 'Marathon of Hope'and said, "I admired what he was doing at the time." . "Last year 1 just clued in and realized it's time I started doing something," stated Hartwell, who says he just feels glad he can help. "In participating participating in the Terry Fox Run 1 feel I'm doing something to help my daughter." After losing a leg to cancer in 1977, Terry Fox captured the hearts of the nation when he began his cross Canada run in 1980 to raise money for cancer research. After 143 TERRY continued page 3 Veteran chili cooker, Pam Oakes and Sydney Somerville are tweaking their recipe in preparation of Saturday's BIA Chili Cookoff downtown Orono Councillors get tough on body rub parlours ^ « vo . • 1 _ A.- „ The passage of a new by law will help ensure there will be no illegal commercial body rubbing activity in Clarington. With the passage of a new by-law at Monday night's Council meeting, body rub parlours are now subject to a licensing process that will regulate regulate and govern such establishments. establishments. The by-law is, in the words of Mayor John Mutton, "The toughest by-law in Ontario as far as I'm concerned." concerned." Pastor Vincent from Courtice Baptist Church spoke at Monday evening's public meeting dealing with the new by-law saying, "We are in favour of what you .are attempting to do." This type of activity is exploitation of women, it's destructive of young men and marriages that are under attack. "We would prefer not to have any [Body Rub Parlours] allowed in the Municipality," he said. The Municipal Act does not: provide Clarington with the power to impose an outright ban on these establishments but does allow a restriction on the number of licenses it issues. The by-law 4 passed Monday evening restricts the number of body rub parlours in Clarington to two, which can be located in either of the light industrial areas of Bowmanville and Courtice. "As of this date, there was COUNCILLORS continued page 3