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e7lebrate First Birthday Hi, rny narne is Carman Leonard Kenneth Black and 1 celebrated my first birthday on Saturday, March 16, 1985. I lîve witb rny rom and daddy Teresa and Bob Black in Calgary. My granciparents are Leonard and Patricia Black, Sberwood Park of Alberta and Ken and Joani Girnblett of Leskard. Canae4ans wvon't really know whether they've got the government they voted for until late April or early May, wvhen Finance Minister Michael Wilson brings down his first full budget. If the voters did get the change they wvere after in September, the budget will be a tough one and everyone will suffer. If thie Tories are in fact what Ed Broadbent says tLhey ae - Liberals in blue suits - we'Iliget a budget whicý doesn't hurt anyone very much, and we'll be on our wâV agamn tobigger and bigger deficits. Don Johnston, the Liberal Finance critic, was on his f eet recently, giving the Tories some well-aimed shots for preaching restraint while estimates topped one hun- dred billion dollars for the first time. And he asked if higher taxes were in the offing. Mr Wilson chose to answer the rhetoric, not the question, and no wonder. The Finance Minister has been hanging his hat on the hope that the new climate n this country wilI trigger significant economnic growvth, and help bail Ottawva out. But with interest rates sliding ever upwards, that hope is becoming ever more remote, and the government is faced with impossible choices. In the first place, government spending wiIl have to be cut. There is no alternative to that, if the Tories are going to honour their campaign promises, and more im- portant, their own convictions about the well-being of the country But as the President of the Treasury Board, Robert de Cotret, indicated when he presented the estimates, at least two-thirds of government spending is legally committed, and ariy savings will have to corne out of the third that is not. Given campaign promises for everything from restored train service to meaningful increases for the Armed Forces, the legally uncommnitted third of the budget that the Tories have left has shrunk alarmingly. They have painted themselves into a very tight corner and the only way to get out may be to bust a hole in the wall - raise taxes - and hope it doesn't bring the ceiling down. The problem with raising taxes, of course, quite apart from the political one, is that economic growth is already so tentative that a good dose of new tax might well snuff it out. For what t is worth, 1 think most Canadians will understand if the budget is a tough one. We kruow in- stinctively that we can't go on, the way we have been -- and if-for once the government led us - instead of playing a perpetual catch-up game through the public opinion poîîs - the Tories would have four years to con- vince us that they were right. No Canadian government in years has had this kind of opportunity to turn a country around. We can only hope the Tories don't finch when the moment of truth is upon them. Swim instruction is the major activity The director of the.Town of Newcastle Fitness Centre submitted a report to the General Purpose committee of the Town on Monday out- lining activies a' the centre tnrough Septmiber 1984 to through January 1985. The report outlines the in- structional swirn prograrn for children and aduits to be the major activity in the pool area. The prograrn books sorne 27 hours a week and during t he above period 1575 individuals were involved creating a revenue of $46,066.73. The report shows 67 per- cent o& those taking part in the instructional swim corne from the Town of Bowman- ville with 18 percent from the Orono-Clarke Township and Newcastle Village area and 8 percent from Darlington Township. Seven percent, corne fromt other than the Town of Newcastle. Facility membership revenue wh ich allows use of squash courts and pooi have risen from $ 10,868 in the 1983-84 period to $13,168 for the same five month period in 1984-85. As to squas h it is reported there are 165 active members. Enrolment bas declined but it is pointed out this rnay be due to the fact that the courts are over-booked with too many members. Revenue in pleasure swim has increased almost ten per- cent over the five rnonth period compared to that of a year earlier. The report also points out that the Y.W.C.A. is rnaking greater use of the cenfre of- fering a greater variety of programs. Individual school use of the pool is not a big item at the present time and accor- ding to a reported schedule the high sehool in Bowrnan- ville does not make use of the An Oshawa Regional- Councillor, Bruce MIcArthur states regional taxpayers a, "re being robbed due to the fact the Region of Durham is to use a n amtount of $3 19,000 frorn provincial uincondi- tional grants to mo1vecthre con- struction of a niew police beaidqu!arters ninBowmanville abead one year. MICAtblur as .weIl as twelve other couincillors last Wedniesdcay vtedagLainst a proposaI to allow, a foutr-way split of u 'nconditionial grants thus allocating the $3 19,000 to the poli:ce station. Jit took Gary Herrena, chairman to- break a fie which faciltates the spli(ttngË of the provincial grant to four sec- tors wit h $23,5W0 being used in ,vater and sewvers, $233,500 to lowertae for regional taxpayers in 1985 and the $3 19,000 to the police depart- ment. The $233,500 lowers the tax increase front the former five percent to 4.2 percent. Mc/Artbiur and other couni- cillors wanted the total un- conditional grant of $576,000 to be used to lower 1985 taxes which would have allowed the increase- to be some 3.2 percent. Bob Attersley, Regional Police Commissioner, stated the $3 19,000 sbould go to the po lice department to ensure adequate servi ces and facilities. He wvas supported in b1is iew by Jim Witty, finance cbairman, wvho said the fou-wýay split was the most[ equitable distribution. He said tbe plan reduced tax- ation as well as accelerating the capital projects by a year. 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