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• , - t • • < • * 2 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 14,2004 • $ j 3 ii i; ?. :? :r g. :t u ü m & G ï S Ü P 5 Subscriptions $29.91 + $2.09 GST = $32.00 per year. Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 • Agreement No. 40012366. - Publishing 48 issues annually at the office of publication. >: acknowledge the financial support of the .Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance, Program (PAP) toward our- mailing costs." y , Orono Weekly Times 5310 Main Street, P.O. Box 209, Orono, Ontario. LOB 1M0. ; • Email: oronotimes@speedline.ca • Phone/Fax 905-983-5301 Publisher/Editor Margaret Zwart ■ Jssarn^reflect^h^opinbnro^f üîe Orono-Weekly timesi Letter^mustb^sîgn^d and cwrtafn^hê address and phone number of the writer. Any letter considered unsuitable will not be acknowledged orretumed. We reserve the right to edit for length, libel and slander. If your retail or classified ad appears for the first tune, please check, carefully. Notice p a rror must be given before the next issue goes to print. The Orono Weekly Times will not be responsible for the loss or damage of such items. . . > error Ten sure ways to beat the winter chills! 1) Slip on into the Bowmanille Library for a steamy novel and a hot cup of java. 2) Take a brisk walk with the local solicitor or go on a cross country ski excursion with Roy Forrester. 3) Spend an afternoon of cut throat crazy eights with the 'all too warm' members of the Gentlemen's Card Club. 4) Join in the electrified conversation with the social club at Mercer's Garage. 5) Snuggle up with the new white wooly residents at the Kendal Vale. 6) Enter the heated race for the new Federal Member of Parliament to take over Alex Shepherd's seat in the next election. 7) Get embroiled in Richard Wards' long standing legal battle to end corruption. 8) Involve yourself in the fiery debate taking place at the local focus group on the vision for Orono's future. 9) Pull on a pair of those toasty, lined blue coveralls that are all the rage among the men of Orono this winter. 10) Watch out for Cop Knopp who is still hot on the trail of Snow White's missing head. 1 !*'V Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, This is in response to an article in which the mayor states that the people of Clarington* are comfortable with nuclear reactors. I lor one, and l am sure there arc many others, look at the reactors reactors with great apprehension. How is it affecting our health and safety, not only the nuclear reactors but also the transmission lines? This concern concern has never been answered satisfactorily even though it has been studied for years. We are also told that building building an Ontario B site here in Clarington can eliminate the problem of multiple sites for storage of high-level waste materials. Think about it. Do we want to be the prime dumping site for nuclear waste in Canada? I hope not. Is the mayor only thinking of the financial benefits? What about the quality of life in the com munity? . He goes on to state that Clarington is a willing host to have nuclear reactors built here. Is he speaking for all the citizens? 1 don't remember that question on the ballot in the last election. Before the mayor and council make such broad and sweeping statements there should be major input by the Dear Editor, Our present government's pre-election promise to pull a "Wal-Mart" and roll back the 407 fees... will turn into a multi-million dollar losing legal battle funded in part by tax paying commuters unable lo afford escalating lolls. Five years ago, Harris and the boys needed some extra cash to cover a "budgetary deficit"... so they sold "our" highway and gave the new owners the legal right to charge whatever the market would bear. The new fees arc now several hundred $ higher than the "absolute - written in stone - tied to inflation" limits that our crack legal loons negotiated for us. My government is truly a corrupted embarrassment and it's times like this that 1 feel so frustrated and humiliated for my fellow Canadians. We must appear to be such jerks to allow government, after government, government, after government, lo treat its with such contempt. Their total disregard for honesty honesty and aceountabililly is indeed... disgusting. My suggestion to 407 citizens of Clarington, who will be affected by it for years to come. George Van Dyk Bowmanville users: pay a user 407 fee that you have adjusted to the government's government's guide published five years ago. The courts should find it awkward... ruling against its own. Sincerely, Kelly Adams Orono • '**,*•' ■ I. * * • * ■