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) m BOiIRWILLE LIBRARY MPERANCE si 0W74S/0 U ^3 JW151987 United Chi jm tICJfiS Boy W> 878731 jüjS Id Workshop m ** i The annual workshop for local U.C.W.'s of the Oshawa Presbyterial was held on Tuesday, January 13, at the Courtice United Church. Approximately Approximately 50 ladies attended the full-day workshop which included a presentation presentation by Gale Glover (centre), Bay of Quinte Conference Minister for Leadership Development. Pat Beach (left), past President of the Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W., and Margaret Ann Lamb (right), President of the Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W., are showing Gale Glover their new logo, designed designed in honour of the U.C.W's 25th anniversary celebration this year. O TLh ïy B w W by Rob Savage Newcastle Council will be seeking bids this month on the $4.25 million renovation project at the town hall in Bowmanville. Seven companies are being asked to bid on the work after the final drawings for the renovations and new addition were approved "in principle" principle" by council on Monday night. "I'm so pleased and excited about this project for the town of Bowmanville Bowmanville and the Town of Newcastle," Ê Councillor Ann Cowman said during the meeting. "I think it's going to make an exciting addition." The final drawings for the building were presented to council by Pat Hansen of A. J. Diamond and Partners. Ms. Hansen said the design, which calls for a 27,000 sq. ft. addition to the building, is "slightly larger" than the initial drawings presented to council five years ago. However, she added that the new 1 IZ. g'S/Mf ■7 V Ù "building provides adequate working space for all town staff members. And she gave council a specific breakdown of the nature of the new building. The outside of the existing building will be restored, and renovations to the inside of that building will involve involve a complete refinishing starting from scratch. The main floor of the old building would continue to house the offices of the Mayor, the administrator, and the councillors, along with a committee committee room. On the main floor level of the new building, there would be the treasury offices and a second committee committee room. On the second floor, the old theatre would be transformed into a council chamber. And in the new addition, the second floor would contain offices offices for the Clerk's and Planning departments. departments. The third floor would still have the Turn to Page 12 Ax 1 4y Jw w Issue 2 24 Pages WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1987 V W 400 per copy 133rd Year Town Planning Eldorado Court Action by Rob Savage The Town of Newcastle wants to take legal action against Eldorado Resources Ltd. The town is asking legal counsel to investigate possible lawsuits which would stop Eldorado from using its Port Granby dump site for radioactive radioactive materials. Councillors fear that New Arena Consulting Firm Selected by Rob Savage A consulting firm for the new $4.9 million Bowmanville Arena was selected by Newcastle council last Friday. After an all-day session with four different firms at the special General Purpose Committee meeting, the town chose Phillips Barratt Kaiser Engineering Ltd. as their consultant on the project. The decision was confirmed on Monday by council. The company's specific duties as consultants remain uncertain at this point since the construction method for the building remains unclear. The town has a choice between two construction schemes. One is design- build, where the construction company company creates its own drawings based on specifications from the town. The second is design-tender, where the town has architectural drawings done for them and then puts the construction construction work to tender. In the event that the design-build approach is selected, Phillips Barratt Kaiser Engineering would basically be responsible for drawing up the specifications. Nursing Home Operators Are Charged with Theft The former operators of the South Haven Nursing Home in Newcastle Village, have been charged with three counts of fraud and theft over $1,000... . The charges were laid iis the result of an investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police anti-rackets branch and the Ministry of Health. Police identified the suspects as the couple who had formerly operated operated the nursing home and their son. Charges of criminal breach of trilst have also been laid. ; \ A court date has not yet been set. In the meantime, the nursing home continues to operate under interim arrangements. Impressive Building Stats For Town of Newcastle by Rob Savage Building activity in the Town of Newcastle last year was greater than the previous four years combined. Planning Director Terry Edwards says the total value of construction projects receiving building permits for last year is $73.1 million, with residential residential housing permits alone totalling totalling $65 million. In a report going to council on Jan. 19, Mr. Edwards will give the complete complete breakdown of the permits issued issued for the past 12 months. Among the figures will be the 1,149 residential permits issued in the Town of Newcastle. Of those permits, 579 were in Courtice, 125 were in Bowmanville, 105 were in Newcastle Village and 172 were at Wilmot Creek. The report also cites vast increases in other categories of development during 1986. Commercial permits totalled $2,247,000 in 1986, up from $1,299,000 in 1985. Industrial permits reached $3,071,000 in 1986, compared to $1,299,000 in 1985. And agricultural permits for 1986 were valued at $184,000, up from $100,000 in 1985. The value of institutional permits went down in 1986. In 1985, they totalled totalled $2,995,000, while the total for 1986 was $839,000. The value of the permits to Ontario Hydro was $1,770,000 in 1986, compared compared to $509,000 in 1985. In total, the permits equalled $73,121,000. In 1985, the total value of permits issued was $35,726,000 with $29,858,000 coming from residential permits. If one excludes the permits to the . Darlington Generating Station's con-, struction in the early 1980's, the value of the permits issued by the town in 1986 is greater than the total value from the previous four years. "It looks like this year is better than the last four years combined," Mr. Ed- wards ( said. "And I have twice as many grey hairs as before." However, if design-tender is selected, the firm would then be doing the architectural drawings for the town. In either case, Chief Administrative Administrative Officer Larry Kotseff says the firm is more than capable of both the architectural and engineering work which may be required. The selection of a consulting company company follows last month's decision to build the single pad arena and community community hall at Hwy. 2 and Regional Road 57. Mayor John Winters Says he's hoping hoping council will vote in favor of a site selection review by the consulting firm. The mayor has previously contested contested the selection of the Hwys. 2 and 57 site and says he still believes the site could cause long-term problems for the town. Included in his concern is the fear that the Ontario Municipal Board might reject plans for $500,000 watejr lines to the arena at that location.|, | , f The mayor.,says the OMb couici r ^'*, ject the areria plans simply because - ' the $500,000 water lines are not likely to service anything except the arena. At the same time, Mayor Wintèrs points out that he's pleased with the selection of Phillips Barratt Kaiser as consultants and notes that the company's company's past credentials include the dome stadium in Vancouver and several several arena projects. He reasons that in spite of rumors that he has delayed the arena construction construction process, he has actually been preventing council from making mistakes. He says the most recent reports reports on the subject confirm this view. Mayor Winters stated council has seen that initial plans to award a design-build design-build contract without all the known costs were wrong and he's now hoping they'll support the design-tender design-tender approach. As well, he says that if council permitted permitted a site review process from the company "without political interference," interference," he would accept the conclusions conclusions reached by the consultants. "That I can live with," he said. In the past, Mayor Winters has argued argued the arena should be built at a location near the Martin and the Baseline roads. Council's current plans are to develop that area into a park, and they have authorized an agreement to buy about five acres of land at that site from Kiddicorp Investments Ltd. for $2. arsenic or orner wastes from the operation operation are seeping into Lake Ontario. Ontario. "I think the time has come for us to say: No more. Get out," Councillor Marie Hubbard said during her motion motion to pursue legal action Monday night. "We have to do it because we've had no action from anyone else," Councillor Councillor Hubbard said later, adding that the Provincial and Federal governments governments may be included in any forthcoming forthcoming lawsuits. She said the two main goals of a lawsuit would be to prevent the spreading of waste into Lake Ontario and to reimburse taxpayers for any loss in housing values caused by contamination contamination getting into Lake Ontario. The motion presented by Councillor Councillor Hubbard and endorsed by council was in response to a recent decision by the Atomic Energy Control Board to renew Eldorado's licence at the Port Granby dump site for one more year. Council received a copy of the letter letter sent to Eldorado by the AECB which challenges the efficiency ofthe overflow ponds at the Port Granby dump site. In theory, those ponds are intended to collect the ground water which flows through the dump site to the bordering area just yards away from Alternative to Trash Problem by Rob Savage Ontario Hydro will be looking into plans to convert the smokestack and buildings at the Wesley ville Generating Generating Station into a facility which would burn or recycle municipal garbage. The idea was offered to Hydro on Monday by Newcastle Mayor John Winters as a possible solution to the impending garbage problem facing the Durham Region in the 1990's. "It is really in ah exploratory stage right now," Mayor Winters said Monday Monday night following his discussions with Hydro in the afternoon. The mayor said Hydro is looking at the technical and economic possibility possibility of converting the stack into either a garbage recycling plant or an in- , venerator . - /y,'. Avoir can't go on bufying garbage," ! Mayor Winters said in reference to the landfill problems facing the reg ional . municipality. "If there is another opportunity we should explore it." The idea follows recent concerns of the closing landfill sites at Darlington and Pickering. The Darlington landfill site will be full by September of this year, and predictions for the Brock West site in Pickering say it could close as early as 1990. Once closed, Durham Region faces the task of finding a new landfill site. The landfill site in Pickering is owned by Metro Toronto, which is also searching for a new location. Some regional councillors are skeptical that Durham will be included included in the plans for any new site found by Metro. In the event that. Durham needs to find Its own site, barly predictions say the cost to the region could be about $20 million. Lake Ontario. The collected water can then be treated before being returned returned to the lake. Yet in the letter to Eldorado, the board says it learned of occasions when the ponds were overflowing and nothing was reported. "Board staff is aware that overflows from the collection reservoirs have occurred which were not reported to the board by ERL (Eldorado Resources Resources Ltd.)," the letter says. "We wish to stress that we attach some significance significance to overflows from the collection collection reservoirs. ERL should therefore therefore ensure that in the future, such occurrences are promptly reported to the board." Council was upset by the AECB's decision to approve Eldorado's licence licence in spite of this knowledge. "What a bunch of you-know- what's," Mayor Winters said. "Why should we as a municipality allow these people to continue to put their pollutants into our municipality?" Councillor Diane Hamre shared the mayor's anger. She pointed to a letter sent by the AECB to MP Allan Lawrence which questioned the absence absence of warning signs at the Port Granby dump site. "The company apparently removed the existing signs without our approval approval sometime in October," the Director Director General of the AECB said. Councillor Hamre informed council council that those signs were removed just a few days prior to the open house planned by Eldorado when they were proposing a long-term dump site in Tyrone. Turn to Page 12 One Thing Leads to Another by Rob Savage High taxes, industrial development, development, and a self-evaluation program for town councillors were among the many subjects kicked around at Monday's Monday's meeting of Newcastle Council. The issues arose during the discussion discussion of the Courtice and Area Community Community Association's request to look into school board jurisdictions. Taxes became an issue because the Courtice residents feel that living under the Durham School Board's jurisdiction would provide lower taxes. Councillor Diane Hamre challenged challenged suggestions that taxes for residents residents in Courtice are worse than for those people in other areas of the Town of Newcastle. She had town Treasurer John Blanchard Blanchard confirm that taxes for all citizens citizens are calculated from the same base mill rate. She said the differences differences in taxes stem from the different property values of homes. "Some of those high taxes are the result of purchases being made," Councillor Hamre said. She said the people in Courtice paying high taxes chose to move into the expensive homes in that area. The argument over taxes soon led to a discussion of the need for commercial commercial development in this area. Mayor John Winters said residential residential developments without industry cause the town to lose money. He based his information on a 1981 report on the Town of Newcastle. According According to that report, the costs for services to new areas is usually double double the percentage of revenue collected collected from the taxes. Mayor Winters stated 18 per cent of taxes collected on a residential dwelling goes to the Town of Newcastle. Newcastle. He said that if taxes in new areas equal about $2,000 per home, the revenue revenue from each home to the town is $360. Since the cost is twice that amount ($720, based on the report's estimates) the town actually loses $360 per home. That means that for the 1,149 new residential starts in the Town of Newcastle Newcastle in 1986, the total cost to the town is$400,000, Mayor Winters said. He said the problem might not show in the 1987 budget but would be apparent apparent by 1988. "Next year, when people start crying crying for the needs in the area, that's when the problems arise," he said. He said the town must encourage industrial development to offset the residential costs. That discussion, in turn, led to Mayor Winters' plans to have municipal municipal staff and council do an evaluation evaluation of themselves. The mayor referred to a diagnostic checklist prepared by a provincial government branch which was previously previously answered by councillors in January January of 1986. The checklist offers three ranges of scores. A score of 0 to 70 is low, a score of 70 to 110 is medium and a score of 110 to 150 is high. Last year, the final average for the town was 52, a low score. Mayor Winters said council should complete the checklist again this year to see if the municipal council is managing town affairs properly. "For any real problem, you can't blame other people," Mayor Winters said. "It's right here." "I'm hoping there'll be some improvements improvements in this year's score," he added. THEY'VE DONE WELL -- Last week, we mentioned that a reception is planned for author David Milne, Professor of Political Studies at the Univcrily of Prince Edward Island who has just launched his book "Tug of War", at Bowmanville High School Monday, January 19th at 8 p.m. He's a native of Bowmanville. This week another Bowmanvillcitc, C.L. 'Mitch' Mitchell's photo appeared in the University of British Columbia's Viewpoints Viewpoints magazine and was brought to our attention by Mrs. V. II. Storey (Nora Mitchell). Lindsay Mitchell as he was known here in younger days, has been a professor professor at UBC and is retiring. Also, this week, we learned ofthe death of Charlie Cawkcr, in Orillia, a town native and son of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. Wesley Cawkcr, and brother of George. Dorothy Payne brought this item to ourallention. BUTT OUT - For the benefit of those who arc interested interested in the subject, January 21st could be the last day of your dedication, to smoking cigarettes. It's Weedless Wednesday and as a former puffer, we encourage encourage you to take the plunge and join us martyrs who now are as pure as the blown snow in a barnyard, as they say. ANNUAL MEET -- This week's Coming Events column column lists the Annual Meeting of Durham Central Agricultural Agricultural Society for Saturday, January 24th at Orono, when new officers will be elected and we'll hear more about plans for this year's Fall Fair at Orono. No doubt this session will be a happier one than is being contemplated contemplated for the next meeting of Port Perry's Fair Board which could lose seven acres of its leased property property for a new elementary school. This dispute lias split the township wide open and shows no sign of an amicable settlement to date. Too bad. CENTENNIAL -- Blackstock United Church's first major event during its centennial year will be a visit by the General Motors choir this Sunday evening at 7:30. More details appear in the Blackstock correspondence. correspondence. We like the final two words "Silent collection." Does that mean you should not drop noisy metal coins on the collection plate? Only folding bills that don't make a racket when they hit. ] I TH IT'S BEGUN -- After several months of delay, it appears appears work on the dismantling of our Town Hall in Bowmanville is about to begin. The building has a protective protective snow fence round it and the Parlait Construction Construction firm from Cobourg has installed a sign which usually usually signifies that something is about to happen. mm CROSS COUNTRY--a note came in on Tuesday saying there will be Cross-Country skiing this Saturday and Sunday at Mosport Park, with no trail fees from 9 a.in. until 5 p.m. More information is available by calling 983-9141. We also would think there would be skiing and snow shoeing, plus sleighing, skating and tobogganing tobogganing at Enniskillen and possibly other conservations conservations areas as well, now that there is a fairly deep covering of snow. . . - ... ■ % L K 1 y < ..Y/',"/', VV . / V /r. , M P. Allan Lawrence Speaks to Bowmanville Lions Club Agriculture Minister John Wise was unable to attend the Bowmanville Lions Club's Rural Night on Monday hut MP Allan Lawrence served as his stand-in. Mr. Lawrence brought the Lions Club and their guests up lo date on the government's latest agricultural initia tives with notes from a speech prepared for the Minister. Minister. The Durham Northumberland MP was introduced by J im Rickard (left), a past president ofthe I .ions Club. He received a token of thanks on behalf of the group from the president, Wally lleinbuch (right),