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i I Section Two have The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 19,1984 Regional Council Briefs 13 at our first Yard Sale and Auction to be held on Saturday, September 22nd in the Bowmanville High School Gymnasium Sale starts at 8:00 a.m. Auction starts at 10:00 a.m. This Yard Sale is sponsored by the Canadian Statesman with all proceeds going towards the Bowmanville and Area United Way Campaign United Wdy Durham's regional council council has decided that it will not become involved in a debate over locating Toronto's Toronto's new domed stadium north of Highway 401 A resolution from the City of North York recommended recommended that only sites north of Highway 401 be considered for the stadium. "I don't think we want to get into that game," said Regional Regional Chairman Gary Her- rema. The majority of council council agreed, and declined to support the North York resolution. resolution. Durham's regional council council agreed last week to declare declare October 29 to November November 2 as Victorian Order of Nurses Week. The week will coincide with the official opening of the VON's main offices in the Durham Region. The value of building permits permits for commercial, industrial, industrial, agricultural, and institutional institutional buildings climbed by 74 per cent over the previous year in the first seven months of 1984. As of the end of July, permits permits had been granted to buildings valued at $52.9 million. This compares to $30.4 million worth of non- residential construction during the same time period last year. As of July, building permits permits had been granted to a total of 1,684 residential units. Fitness Booklet Gives Wrong Information The Canadian Egg Marketing Marketing Agency (CEMA) announced announced today it has alerted camp directors and schools across the country that an Agency booklet distributed earlier this summer contains wrong information information on first-aid treatment treatment for rabies. CEMA became aware of the confusion in its "Outdoor Fitness and Safety Guide" through a phone call which pointed out that a procedure to treat snake bites outlined in the booklet appears under a section headed "Rabies" and could easily be misconstrued to be rabies treatment. The first aid procedures in this section should not be used in the treatment of rabies. The Agency has apologized for any inconvenience the confusion confusion has caused. As a precautionary precautionary measure, Canadian camp directors and schools across Canada are being notified immediately of this problem. Federation Calls on PCs to Honor Pledges The overwhelming support of Canadian voters for the Progressive Conservative Party should only be overshadowed overshadowed by the tremendous responsibility of the new government to live up to its campaign promises, the president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) said in response to the PC victory. "Canadians obviously have great expectations for the PC government to follow through on the agricultural policies it announced during the election campaign." Mr. Pelissero was referring to the PC responses to the OFA Agricultural Issues Platform. Platform. The platform was developed to highlight major farming issues and to publicize publicize PC, Liberal and NDP responses to the issues. In response to the platform, Brian Mulroney made 11 distinct promises, Mr. Pelissero Pelissero pointed out, ranging from funding municipal drainage in Eastern Ontario and renovations renovations at the Ontario Veterinary Veterinary College to controlling the dumping of foreign food onto Canadian markets. Financial and taxation issues were two other areas where the PCs spelled out their policies. Mr. Mulroney said his government would abolish capital gains tax on the sale of farms for continued farming use, reduce taxes on farm fuel, expand the mandate mandate of the Farm Credit Corporation Corporation and introduce a national Agri-Bond program to provide farmers with affordable affordable credit, In the area of marketing, the PC's promised greater marketing protection for tobacco producers, to increase increase advance payments and to develop a national, voluntary voluntary income stabilization program program for red meat producers. "The PCs have given us a report card to mark their agricultural policies over the next four years," Mr. Pelissero Pelissero said, "if they want a passing grade from Ontario farmers then they will have to live up to lheir promises." Mr. Pelissero added Hint he hoped agricultural issues would lie high on the agenda of government activities in the months ahead.