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Orono Weely Times, Wedmesday, Jue 27, 19e7 From Around- the Region Guaranteed to tickle your funny bone Arbor Theatre, Peterborought at Trent University opens its 1990 season with "Sneeze", a series of one-act plays which is billedti t guarantee to tickle your funny bone. The play runs to the end of June wiffurther informatFon avaiable by calling 705-748-3111. David Peterson to visit Durham East picnic David Peterson will visit the Durham East Liberal picnic being held at the Ransberry Farm north of Orono on August 9th from 4 to 8 The -Ransberry farm i s off Highway 115 in the Enterprise area. Visual Arts offering kids summer camp The Visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville is again offering another great summer arts camp for KIDS AT THE MILL. This year students May choose from full days i July or haf days in August. Further information by phoning 623-5831. A great need for old newspapers - The Durham Recycling Centre mnc. Points out, that already titis Year theY have collecteti 8,500 tons Of newspaper, glass andi cans. "TheY want to do more" TheY are receiving orders for old newspapers that they are unable to filL The-Centre asks for help for ,more olti ncwsPapers to be includeti in tIhe recycling process. Tihis is a far cry from what was happening at the beginning of the Year when there was glut 'of newspapers for recycling. Make sure the Times goes for recYcling when You are donc with it. School board has been chopping bus routes. Trustees of thse Northtumberlandi andi Newcastle Board of Education have been chopp ing out somne bus routes throughout the, system in- cluding the Courtice area. The ef- fort is being madie to cut down on bussing costs anti to more reflect the policy of the board as to buss- ing. Decision under review as to murder case trial An Ontario Supremne Court justice will review a Cobourg judg's decision to transfer a young man's double murder case to an adult court, almost a year and a half after thse crime was committed. The youth will be 19 on July 3, is chargeti with the shooting deaths of two teenagers in a Campbellcroft area home in February 1989. Fawcett to stay'put Northtumberlandi MPP, Joan Fawcett, will be the liberal can- didate for the riding in thse next pro- vincial election. Fawcett is thse sit- ting member for Northumberland. The Durham East liberals have Yet to announce a nomination meeting for a candidate for an edec- tion that is expected sometime this fali. Not giving up fight for low-rental housing, Thse Port Hope Non-Profit Housîng Corporation is looking for a site for a new housing complex. They lost a battie to 'Place such a complex in one of Port Hope's park areas. August 3lst a critical date for Port Hope An emergency certificate to con- 9' operation of thse Port Hope ) expires as of August 3lst. To date the Town has not been able to come up with an alternative for their garbage. The Town has peti- tioned the province to extend the licence for their own dump use. Township gets its wish on waste site removal The federal government's Siting task Force has accepted the Township of Hope's request that Hope not be cons¶Idered a 'host' communîity for low-level radioac- tive waste stored at a Welcome site. Hope's Community Liaison Group is to continue its work con- sidering Hope only as a source and transportation community in thse hope that a 'host' community wili be found for thse waste stored in Hope. Developer lobbies county to abandon building plans A Northumberland developer, Harold Macklin, has been lobbying Northumberland Couuty council members to abandon any plans to build a $10 million office complex. Macklin points out that the ex- isting building is occupied by two tenants taking uptwo-thirds lof, the floor space. He suggests they vacat e the building. Macklin also has office rentai space that -le has been unabi e to rent in Cobourg and notes that the county was adding to the office ren- tal floor space by vacating their ex- isting building and providing fur- ther office space in thse new propos- cd building. Disappointing turnoôut About 25 citizens turned up at Port Hope town hall last week for thc thirti open house held by memnbers of the Northumberland Government Study Tearn. Macle up of members of county council, secontied with staff from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, the teami seeks public input on the issue of rcstructuring the county's government. Despite the poor tur- nout, Port Hope Mayor Don Chalmers saiti, that the process is great. Region works, chief to retire. One of Durham Region's original commissioners wili take an early retirement next year. Bill Twelvetrees, hcad of the works. departmnent since the- region was formed in 1974, will retire at the end of next April. Twelevetrees was county engineer for Ontario County, the predecessor of the region. Condoms in School Durham Region's board of education is lookin g into installing condom-dispensing machines in its 18 public schools. The board has set up a committee to examine if there is a need for the machines, after receiving letters from the students concerned about the spread of AIDS. Whitby board trustee Patricia Bowman is opposed'to the idea on the grounds that a condom does not provide complete protection from transmitted diseases. Bowman is also worried that the condom machines will be seen as a signal from the board that sex out- side marriage is okay. TIse new committee, who have yet to be namn- cd, will seek input from the public, including the medical profession and the clergy, before reporting back to thse board at the end of Decembher. Move to protect trees Tse city of Oshawa wants to en- courage developers not to clear the landi of trees before they get building approval. City politicians want, Durhami Region to pass a tree-cutting bylaw to ensure significant woodlots are prescrved. Durham hospîias to:get 47 million dollars 1Durham hospitals will get $47 million to build new faiities, health minister Elinor Caplin, said Tuesday. Major grants will be given to the Oshawa General Hospital and the Ajax and Pickering Hospital, which has become the focal point for critics of the government's health care system. Rigged bids charge A fired manager blew the whistle on an alleged conspiracy by the 'Big Four' cernent- companies in Southern Ontario to rig, and carve up the mnarket in the Toronto area over a period of at least 12 years. The companies nanmed in, the allegations are: St. La wrence Ce- rnent Inc., Lafarge Canada mnc., St. MarY's Cement Corp., and, Lake Ontario Cernent Ltd, and, their ready-mix business in -the region. Cal to am algamate- plain greed Hope Township leaders- sec Port Hope's new suggestion to consider amalagating the two municipalities as little more than a massive land grab. John Boughen,who chairs the township's ratepayers' association, said the town is only attempting to satisfy its own req uirements at the expense of the township. Boughen said, that he would oppose any move. that could combine Port Hope andi Hope Township. White warns o f deal with Meico Bob White warned Canadians they should be ready to block a free trade deal involving this country, the United States and Mexico. White warned a free trade deal with the Mexicans could be disastrous for both Canadian andi Arnerican workers. GMI of Canada president George Peapples said, that his company had not ýyet receîved enough infor- mation to decide whether it shoulti support frec trade with Mexico or not. Welfare on rise Rising welfare statistics continue to play havoc with Durhanm Region. Figures for May show that, expen- ditures for welfare are up 93.8 per cent over May 1989 to $3.5 million while welfare rolîs swelled by 49 per cent to 5,999. The expenditures have increased by $1 million since- December while the caseloati bas gone up by 1,357 in the same period. The region put an extra $2 million in its budget this year to help pay for welfare increases but that money's already allocated with more than haîf the year ieft, said treasurer Jack Gartley. Catholic board gets. tough. Students caught repçeatedly using illegal drugs or drinkîng in Durham Cat holic Schools will face police charges or possible expulsion., Monday night Durham Seperate School Board approved a tough crackdown which cornes into effect next September. 11 The drug policy was prompted province-wîde by the Ontario government, which provided a draft to aIl school boards. White apologizes Canadian Auto Workers national president Bob White has sent a let- ter of apology to his local members for standing them up at the opening of their new. hall last Saturday night. White said that hie was ail tied up w.ith Air Canada negotiations al week, and then spent the weekend at the union's school in.Port Elgin. 1He said, Local 222 was supposed to be told hie would have to cancel the evening, but the message was neyer relayed. Oshawa trees safer Oshawa council sent a message to developers on Monday, when it voted by a large margin, 12 to 4, a motion pledging a stronger fight to save the city's trees. 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