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r CARPET _ WAREHOUSES EVERYDAY DISCOUNT PRICES King St. W. 728-4601 Oshawa , ! / M JUST PLAYING THROUGH -- The Simpson family, owners of Newcastle Golf Course, had some unusual players last week. A herd of about 26 cows knocked down a fence and decided to get into the game. Unfortunately, their feet did more damage to the course than the Editor's weird golf shots ever did. They did provide some free fertilizer here and there, so it wasn't all bad. HOLIDAY - This Saturday, July 1st is Canada's 122nd birthday and there will be celebrations of note here. The Museum in Bowmanville has a birthday program lined up starting at 1 with Dykstra's Deli supplying free hot dogs, etc. for youngsters who show up for the party. Newcastle Newcastle Lions are sponsoring a Chili Cook-Off at the fairgrounds in Orono and there's a gigantic Auction at the Orono Arena starting at noon. If that isn't enough, Port Hope and Cobourg are staging parades and other events. Have fun! LONG HAUL - It was 20 years ago that John Rice acquired ownership ownership of the old CPR freight sheds on Wellington St. And since then, he's been attempting to convert them into a new structure structure that would be an asset to the community, and we suppose, be a viable project for him. He's faced many frustrations along the way, but may now be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. tunnel. You have to give him credit for persistence. NICE GOING - Supporters of Knox Christian School are to be congratulated. They have raised more than $100,000 of the $135,000 needed for renovations at the school. The work is on schedule and should be completed completed by mid-August. Most of the labor on the job has been done by volunteers. Anyone who would like to help this cause should phone either Will Bakker 987-5687 or Bill Vanderher- berg 623-9955 for more information. information. COURSE - The Town of Newcastle Newcastle Community Involvement and Volunteer Program is offering a 30-hour, 10-week course, beginning beginning on July 4,1989. It is for anyone anyone interested in volunteering to assist people experiencing difficulties difficulties coping with changes in their lives. There are a lot of us. To register or for more information, information, call Janice Kroft at 623-2261. o'. iTWoewroiCMWunneiei SCHEDULE - A Saturday holiday creates somewhat of a problem for us at James Publishing. Events have to be covered for news and production people have to be given time off to compensate for a holiday that happens, on a day when they would be off anyway. anyway. So, a front office skeleton staff will take care of any customers customers on Friday while production people holiday. The entire plant will be open on Monday at regular hours. The Post Offices close Monday, but lobbies will be open. Normal operations resume Tuesday. Tuesday. CORRECTION - Apparently we were negligent in our report of the Strawberry Festival last week. Somehow we neglected to mention that this year's Princess was sponsored by Ruthie's Nail Care Centre, King St. East in Bowmanville. No doubt her exquisite exquisite nails helped the Princess in her quest for the title. Also, we hear that we misspelled the name of last year's winner, Jennifer Berti. Our apologies for these goofs. i_ PLEASE HELP - Newcastle Lions Club is appealing for volunteer volunteer judges who would be willing to spend about three hours Saturday or Sunday doing the honors at the Great Pine Ridge Cook-Off in Orono. We don't know what the qualifications qualifications are, but anyone interested is asked to contact Brent Rickard Rickard at 987-4822. Shouldn't be subject to heart burn. Just kidding. kidding. DON'T MISS IT! - Still on the subject subject of food, if you are in the neighborhood of Newtonville United Church on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. and haven't eaten too much chili, park and come in. Huge roasts of beef will be turning turning on the barbecue and expert chefs will be tending them to make sure they are cooked perfectly. perfectly. To make certain of tickets phone now to 987-4748 or 786- 2099. 623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 Wednesday, June 28,1989 Bowmanville, Ontario 30 Pages 135th Year Issue 26 50$ Per Copy PRESTON We Move It! 623-4433 Bowmanville Newcastle Mayor Says Two-Week Visit Produced 23 Commercial Prospects Hong Kong Trip Nets Industries by Andrea Adair The Town of Newcastle's economic development mission to Hong Kong has netted an import business, a hotel complex and an industrial condominium condominium development for the Town of Newcastle. Newcastle. These three commercial prospects were announced by Newcastle Mayor Marie Hubbard at Monday night's council meeting. Mayor Hubbard was reporting to council on the results from the trip made earlier this month by herself, Councillor Diane Hamre and three members of town staff. She stated that the two-week-long visit to Hong Kong generated 23 industrial industrial prospects for the town. "We were successful in landing substantial commercial development prospects," Mayor Hubbard said. The town's successes include a 70,000 square foot import/export business. business. Mayor Hubbard explained that the company has acquired land for the project and could be operating full-tilt by the fall. The mayor said the town is expected expected to receive an application soon for a hotel/convention/condominium development development to be built within the munici-. pality's borders. tihe said she felt the development would be an extension of the town's tourism industry, adding that "tourism "tourism is one of Newcastle's greatest assets." assets." The third business, expected to be here by the fall, is a half-million- Tritium Treatment The tritium removal facility at Darlington Darlington Generating Station is expected to begin operating again next month. Grant Childerhose, a spokesman from Darlington, said commissioning (testing) will start in July and processing processing of heavy water is expected to begin in September. Last December the tritium removal facility (TRF) was shut down after problems with a leaking valve' occurred, occurred, Mr. Childerhose told a group of reporters last week. He said 1.3 per cent of the allowable limit of radiation was released into the atmosphere at that time. The facility is designed to remove radioactive tritium from heavy water, the coolant in a CANDU reactor. Tritium forms in the reactor moderator, moderator, over time, while the reactor is in use. The longer the contaminated water remains in the reactor, the higher are the levels of radiàtion to which hydro workers are exposed. When the tritium is removed, the heavy water can be used again in nuclear nuclear reactors. Currently, heavy water is stored in drums at the Pickering and Bruce nuclear nuclear plants. When the Darlington facility facility is in operation, heavy water will be transported on flat bed trucks to Darlington for removal. There is enough heavy water at Darlington for the facility to operate this summer. square foot industrial condominium complex where space will be rented out to small businesses. Other businesses that are interested interested in the municipality include a shoe manufacturer, a computer chip manufacturer manufacturer and a textile industry. Mayor Hubbard said she was "pleased with the types of investors I have met," and explained that the municipality municipality needed to sell itself further to get economic development in the area. She said prior to the town's arrival in Hong Kong the municipalities of Brampton, Scarborough and Rich mond Hill had also been there in an effort effort to promote commercial development. development. "Other municipalities are not afraid to market themselves, so why should we be?" she asked. "We have to have a far more aggressive aggressive approach to let industries know we're here," she added. Representatives from the computer chip business will be visiting the municipality municipality during the earlv part of July while officials from the shoe manufacturing manufacturing company and the textile industry industry will tour the town near the end of August. Over 50 Cyclists and Runners Embark on Bowmanville Museum Fund Run US Runners from as far away as Cobourg participated in the Museum Fund Run through the streets of Bowmanville on June 24. Roughly 50 runners and cyclists gathered near the museum on Wellington Street to start the course which many, upon crossing the finish line, said was the toughest course they had run. Albert Dell'apa was the men's winner with a time of 32.17 minutes. Lynn Moreau, with a time of 47.04 minutes was the ladies' first place winner. Money raised from the event will go to the Bowmanville Museum. by Andrea Adair jl Citizens opposed to a high density seniors' condominfam complex in Bowman Bowman ville are taking their concerns to the Ontario Municipal Board. : Ed Finlan, one of the residents opposed opposed to the complex on Wellington St., told The Statesman that after the approval was granted to the proposal Monday night, residents decided to appeal appeal the decision. Mr. Finlan said the concerns of the citizens are based on the large number of units contained in the five-storey, project. He and others who have objected to the 150 unit seniors' condominium proposal emphasize the fact that they are opposed to the density of the site and not to the idea of a seniors' complex. complex. Ron Strike, a resident of the area, appeared before Newcastle's town council Monday on behalf of Mr. Finlan Finlan and other residents to ask members members to reconsider the decision made by the committee. He said residents in the area were not opposed to seniors in the neigh- residential aspect is group the greatest. ~ bour-io," \1. "The what;, causes our concern," he explained. Mr.l Strike said that the 150 units represent a high density land use while (low density housing units are across the street from the proposal and beside it. To illustrate what a complex of this size would do to the neighbourhood, Mr. Strike compared the proposed ouilding Apart ments near Baseline f Rd. and Liberty St. He asked council to visualize the Devonshire apartments located at the Wellington St. site, ( "You can see what it is going to do to the neighbourhood,'! he said. He added that the high density would lead to increased traffic in the area. Traffic at the intersection of Scu- gog and Wellington St. is a problem now, he said. With the introduction of the new condominium, it "will just get worse," Mr. Strike asked that the project be denied or referred back to the planning planning staff' in order for the planning department department to look at . the issues that have been raised. Mr. Strike found support for his request request in Councillor Pat Deegan who Turn to Page 2 Town Would Pull Plug on Darlington The town's battle with Ontario Hydro Hydro over building permits and building code regulations has started to heat up. Mayor Marie Hubbard told members members of council Monday night that the matter is now in the hands of Dennis Hefferon, the town's lawyer. If the building code requirements are not met and problems with the de-, velopment, of a Darlington emergency plan aren't Settled, the town is pre- . •" ' . x - . . . , : X, v 'W.'."'. t : '• • ' Car- Truck Collision on Highway 115 Sends Driver to Hospital An Omemee resident was injured early Friday morning in a collision between a car and a tractor trailer truck on Highway 115, north of Enterprise Hill. Ontario Provincial Police at Newcastle nave identified the driver of the car shown here as Anthony Wilkins, of Omemee. The truck was driven by Hans Vanborzyskowski, of Brampton. Mr. Wilkins was taken taken to Oshawa General Hospital, where he is reported to bo in stable condition. His 1986 Nissan Micra was demolished. pared to stop the first reactor unit at Darlington from operating. Building code infractions, building permits;' and costs connected to emergency emergency plans have been listed among the concerns of the Town of Newcastle. Mayor Hubbard said 'There are still building code infractions. We are not going to allow anything to go ahead until the building infractions are met."' She mentioned there are concerns connected to costs of emergency plans and said that the town has not received received any offers from Ontario Hydro regarding building permits. The town broke off relations with Ontario Hydro early in March, claiming claiming that Hydro had failed to pay sufficient sufficient building permit fees connected with the $11 billion Darlington project. project. Last week, Chief Administrative Officer Officer Larry Kotseff, the town's solicitor, solicitor, and officials with the Atomic En ergy Control Board met to discuss" Newcastle's concerns. (The AECB is the regulatory body for the nuclear industry in Canada.) Mr. Kotseff told members of council that there were many building code violations violations at the Darlington site. "We feel there are some extremely life threatening situations down there," he said. Mr. Kotseff said the town will ask AECB to deny an operating licence to Ontario Hydro unless the town's concerns concerns are dealt with. Regarding emergency plans, Mr. Kotseff said: "The town is not equipped or staffed to deal with an emergency at Darlington Generating Station if one occurs." He said the costs related to training, training, staff and response time has not been dealt with satisfactorily in the plans that have been prepared to date. Town officials did not elaborate on specific instances where the building code requirements had not been met. Future Deficits Possible Hospital Director Warns The executive director of Memorial Hospital Bowmanville warned last week that the hospital coilld see a $150,000 deficit in the next fiscal year. Richard Elston estimated that only $26,000 of that amount is acknowledged acknowledged by the Province of Ontario because because the Ministry of Health does not recognize building and equipment depreciation. depreciation. A four percent increase in basic funding will not even allow Memorial Hospital to continue with the services it presently provides. The hospital is counting on the province's new equity fund of $25 million to provide additional additional funding in this and future years. Mr. Elston hopes to receive $800,000 from the fund for the upcoming upcoming fiscal year, thereby balancing the hospital budget, which he predicted will top $14 million by the year 1990/ 91. The hospital's executive director made these remarks during the annual annual meeting of the Memorial Hospital Board of Directors. The meeting took place on Tuesday, June 20th, in trie hospital board room. Over the past year, the hospita, ,. ao treated approximately three percent more in-patients and out-patients than during the previous year, Mr. Elston said. In his remarks, he also suggested that health care in Ontario will change drastically in the next few years. He predicted that hospitals will be forced to become much more efficient efficient and productive. In fact, the Ministry Ministry of Health is installing a $35 million million computer system designed to monitor hospital efficiency and productivity. productivity. Mr. Elston also suggested that funding practices will soon resemble the system in place south of the border where the amount of money received by a hospital is based on the number of patients treated. 'This could happen as soon as 1990 or 1991 and we must be ready," he warned. He also stated that in coming years, tax dollars will be re-allocated to help prevent illness as well as treat diseases. diseases. .»• «.Ml-» *4» ffW,,