PAGE 8, WHITBY FU REEPSSY3WWDNESDAY, MARCU 8,1989 Newenvironment oentre lxClaremont By Tamara K. Downes area would provide the ýAjax- mature hardwood forest 'and 'a The Durham Board of Educa- Pickering area students with flot sugarbush. tion -has received permission to only a shorter bus ride but also a set up an enviromental centre at less expensive class trip. It will cost approximately the Cl aremont conservation area. $45,000 plus a teacheir's salary Another site was necessary, It will also rovide a different " to get it up and running,» says apart fromn the centre north of ecosYstemn and habitat for the Jim Cook of the Durham Board Port Perry, because of the high students to study. of Education. demand for lass visits. Also at the Claremont site, but He said he boped it would be The Claremont conservatioïi not at the northern site. is a readv for use hv thiça fal- Spending urged for 1-%AdIl site Durham Region council bas been asked to approve spending Of $99 1,000 to continue the search for a Durham-only landfill site. The recommendation has been made by the Region's works department. Works committee members were told last week that a location would be recom- mended to council by May, 1990. The recommendation cornes despite Durbam's involvement in meetinus with four other Greater Toront& Municipalities in trying to solve the short- and longterm landfill problems. £dit is important we do somne work on our own if ail else fails," said Art- Leitch, operations manager. He said the fandings could be used as a comparison to any decision the GTA makes. MacLaren Engineers, who bas done work for Durham on waste in the past, is again being recom- mended to carry out the studv. Leitch was asked if MacLaren could produce a final recommen- dation by 1990. He replied, "for $990»000 1 su gst they can meet the deadline. ýg A $300,000 study by MacLaren on an energy-from-waste system for Durham should be cancelled, works committee bas also recom- mended. That study was approved by council in August last year. Leitch said the new study will include a look at an energy- from-waste system. He also told committee the Province may fund 50 per cent of the study. Regional council will vote on the recommendation today (Wed- nesday, March 1). ELEANOR AND ]KEN WEIR celebrate, with a kiss, their 5Oth wedding anniversary during the recent 'Shamrock Party' held at the Witby Seniors' Activity Centre. -- Vînce Ohpreclo-Free Prou. phota Recydling centre "doesn't have expertise" tee Monday night that the centre did an admira ble job in starting up rccling in the Region but tey on' t h ave the expertise to handle this magnitude. 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The report bas been tabled by a Region committee to soften tbe wording of tbe recommendation, wbicb some councillors felt was too blunt. Leitcb was asked what the role of local municipalities will be wben the 20 per cent ban on dumping corrugated cardboard at Brock West takes effect Sept. 1. Works director Dick Kuwabara said bis department bas bad calîs from business in tbe down- town area wbo are confused about tbe ban. "That is my fault,» said Leitch. lie told committee a brochure on tbe ban is now being printed. He was also, questioned-,about tbe ban at Broc k West on wbite stuif, fridgsstv, dryers, etc., that the Town normally picks up during dlean-up week. He said an Osbawa firm, Cedardale Scrap Iron and Metals, a division of Lake Ontanio Steel (Lasco), would pay $15 a tonne for the ap pliances. He also said resicdents co uld dispose of the appliances at the Ritson Rd. transer station in Oshawa. Centre on notice FROM PAGE 1 Regional board there is no one we can iget our voice to,"' said Newcastle councillor Diane Hamre. Tbere are now only tbree Dur- ham Region counciLors on tbe 12-member board. "We don't bave direction over the board but I don't tbink a majority of Regional councillors on tbe board would belp mat- ters," said Brock Township mayor Don Hadden, another member of the DRC board. Leitcb said tbe Region's goal of 25 per cent recycling is drivin~ the report and no matter whicg option the Region takes on recy- ci ing, costs are going to increase $500,000 per year. The proposed budget for recy- dling in 1989 15 $l.5-million, un increase of 76 p er cent over last year's budget o f $859,9 00. Hadden said DRC had ai $500,000 deficit in 1988, a deficit expected to grow to $800,000 in 1989. 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