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< i 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 20,1989 S&e Canadian gtattsmatt cn Durham Region's Great Family Journal Established 135 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating m •m Ai * » The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second Class mail registration number 1561 Produced weekly by James Publishing Company Limited 62 King Street West, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C3K9 416-623-3303 Fax 416-623-6161 John M. James Editor - Publisher Richard A. James Associate Publisher Peter Parrott Associate Editor Geo. P. Morris Brian Purdy Donald Bishop Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. All layouts and composition of advertisements produced by the employees of James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the publisher. 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Editorial Comment Ben Becomes Scapegoat In a Drug Filled Sport Although international track and field officials are justified in stripping Ben Johnson of his world record, this action alone will do nothing to halt durg abuse in amateur sport. The word "scapegoat"has been used in ' connection with Ben Johnson and the' treatment he has received at the hands of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF). That description description is quite accurate. The actions of the IAAF convey the impression that Ben Johnson's use of banned steriods was an unusual practice practice which began and ended with Johnson Johnson and perhaps his most immediate associates. The IAAF decision creates the fictitious impression that amateur sports are basically drug-free. And there's little doubt that this is what most of the officials in amateur sports want to believe. But, the findings of the Dubin Inquiry Inquiry suggest that in certain branches of high-performance amateur sport, the use of drugs is anything but unusual. unusual. ■ We'd be the first to agree that it's false logic to suggest Ben Johnson doesn't deserve to be punished because so; many other athletes are aparently cheating and getting away with it. This would be like suggesting that a driver who gets a speeding ticket shouldn't have to pay a fine because there are so many other drivers who have been equally guilty of speeding but were lucky enough not to get caught. Ben Johnson broke the rules and deserves to pay the appropriate penalty- penalty- y However, it's clear from Canada's inquiry into drug abuse and amateur sport that Ben Johnson is not the only athlete to bend and break the rules. ; the Canadian runner was convicted by the IAAF as the result Amateur sport lacks the equivalent of a police force which would attempt to see that all the rules are followed and would investigate evidence of cheating. Up until recently, sports organizations organizations have only had medical tests to try and determine whether or not a runner has been using banned substances. substances. (And, if an athlete is devious enough to find a way to fool the tests, he or she can cheat as much as he or she wishes.) Because of the interest in the Ben Johnson scandal, Canada had the good sense to establish a formal inquiry which was given the job of getting to the bottom of the mess. It's unfortunate unfortunate that other countries haven't been equally willing to put their amateur athletes and sports organizations under under scrutiny. For it seems odd to us that Canada is the only country in which a gold medal athlete attempted to take a pharmaceutical short cut to the winner's winner's circle. . The decision by the IAAF to create a squad of officials empowered to conduct conduct random, surprise tests on amateur amateur athletes at any time may be the only good that will come out of the Ben Johnson steroid scandal. Unfortunately, even this action may be insufficient to halt the wholesale cheating which is probably occurring but going undetected. One cannot help but wonder how many other prominent names would have to be removed from the official record books if all record-holders had faced the same sort of scrutiny that Johnson faced. Although the Ben Johnson episode caused Canada some embarrassment and shame during the 1988 Olympics, Canada should be very proud of the efforts efforts it took to ensure that amateur sport played by the rules. It's time for other countries to take the same approach. i year, for the past 50 years, . Way and its predecessor agen- Ï- Each United x ties have been going to the public for donations. v; Once again, the end of September is here and that means the start of yet •another campaign. jir- The goal this year is just shy of $3 : million. (It's $2,925,000 to be exact.) »And although this amount is up 6.4 -per cent over last year, it should be re- fmembered that costs have risen over • the past 12 months. And let's not forget forget the fact that in the growing municipalities municipalities of Oshawa, Whitby, and the '.Town of Newcastle, there will be not (only greater capacity for giving but •also greater needs. ■*Z The advantages to United Way are numerous. But one of the biggest benefits benefits is the fact that your single gift can .'•Help a total of 42 member agencies which rely on fund-raising by United l:\Vay to help continue their programs. ; Frequently, the United Way contribution contribution can be made by a payroll deduction deduction at the workplace. The list of United Way organizations organizations benefiting from these funds includes includes Block Parents, Big Brothers, ; Community Care, the Distress Centre, • St. John Ambulance, YWCA, Durham ! Save-A-IIeart, and many other groups. Don't be surprised if, in reading the }/list of agencies using funds from Unit- red Way, you discover organizations (with which you have been in contact. ( Although the campaign funds do go, in >■ part, towards helping the less fortu- ! nate in our community we should note K that the United Way dollars really help a much wider spectrum of our friends and neighbours. It has been es- United Way Sets Sights on Goal of'2,925,000 in '89 timated that an agency sponsored by United Way touches one out of every four people in the community. Perhaps you or a member of your family have already used the services of such an agency without knowing that it was part of the United Way family. Another advantage to giving to the United Way is the fact that you, as a donor, can rest assured that virtually every penny goes to the agencies which need the funds. There's a bare minimum spent on administration or operating costs so that more can go to those who need it. With administration administration and other expenses kept at eight cents out of every dollar, you can rest assured that the United Way is making making the most of your contribution. It goes without saying that the principle of conducting one campaign for 42 agencies is much more efficient than if each of the 42 organizations had to round up the volunteers and do all of the organizing for major campaigns of their own. Much of the success of United Way depends on the fact that volunteers are doing virtually all of the work. Over 2,000 of them will be assisting in this year's campaign. At a kick-off dinner held in Oshawa on Monday, the keynote speaker, Peter Peter Taylor, reported that people give for many reasons including the desire to benefit others. Surprisingly enough, one of the chief reasons wny they do not give is the fact that they haven't been asked. If you've not yet been asked to contribute to United Way, why not consider this your invitation join the ranks of the United Way donors? donors? It really is the way to help the most. wWSH wm ■ * ■' \'v " ' ' • V V-.: •'•:• V : ' ■ T • • • . . ■ " ' . ' ; V ' ' , ^ V. ' ■ / V _ ' , / . ./ \ Judging from the grip these boys had on the railing, think they were somewhat unsure about what was Public Auction To be Held on •September 23 Dear Sirs: On Saturday, September 23, 1989, commencing at 9:30 a.m., the 15th Annual Public Auction will be held by the Regional Municipality Municipality of Durham in conjunction with the Cities of Oshawa and Peterborough, the Towns of Ajax. Newcastle. Pickering, Richmond Hill and Whitby. The Auction will be held indoors at the Ajax Depot located at Regional Regional Road No. 4 (Taunton Road West) and Salem Road, R. R. 1, Pickering, Ontario. Ontario. There will be a pre-. view showing of equipment for sale on Friday afternoon, September 22, 1989, between between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Over 500 items will be offered offered for sale on an "as is, where is" basis, including cars, trucks, tractors, lawn mowers, chain saws, office furniture and equipment, and many other items of interest. interest. A paid advertisement will be placed with your newspaper newspaper by the Auctioneers, M. R. Jutzi and Company Inc., but a write-up in your columns columns drawing attention to the forthcoming sale would, no doubt, help attendance and would, therefore, be very much appreciated. If you would like any further further details, please do not hesitate to contact the writ- you'd t in store for them. They found out soon enough when the platform kept going higher and higher into the air. The boys were two of the many visitors Darlington Generating Generating Station had at their open house on Sunday, September September 17. er. Yours truly, F. Wilkinson, Material Co-ordinator. Andrea Adair W Over the past two weeks, I've watched with unbridled fascination, the Ontario Hydro/Town of Newcastle drama. The dispute has captured captured the attention of Canada's national newspaper newspaper and other media 1 who have been reporting on the recent events almost almost daily. After following following the drama since the early part of this year, I'm grateful that there may, perhaps, be an end in sight. To give you some background, background, in case, you haven't been following the story, the Town of Newcastle suspended its meetings with Ontario Hydro at the early part of this year. The town stated three reasons for breaking off further discussion: The first was that the municipality municipality believed there were some buildings constructed constructed at the site that had not received building permits. permits. The town believed it should receive additional additional payments for the buildings buildings that were in this cat- egoiy. Newcastle's second reason was a concern over apparent building code infractions: i< •• 'to i , The finah reason for suspending (meetings revolved revolved around fire protection protection and the lack of an off-site emergency plan in the event of an accident. If an agreement couldn't be reached, the town planned to attempt to block Darlington Generating Generating Station from getting getting a licence to begin testing the first nuclear reactor. A few weeks ago, Ontario Ontario Hydro made an offer to the municipality to try to reach an agreement. Members of council turned it down. Two weeks ago, an internal internal report from the Atomic Energy Control Board (the nuclear regulating regulating agency in Canada) found its way into the offices offices of the Globe and Mail. According to portions Teachers Respond to PM Earlier this fall, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made national headlines with a comment that Canadian Canadian education was failing to keep pace with technological technological needs. That prompted Jim Head, president of the 40,OOO-member Ontario Secondary Secondary School Teachers' Federation, to respond on behalf behalf of teachers across the country. These were his comments to the prime minister. Dear Prime Minister: Your recent condemnation condemnation of Canadian education, widely quoted in the media, both hurt and confused many of our members at a time . of year when they would like to re-enter the classroom with a sense of purpose and renewed enthusiasm. enthusiasm. As the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, which represents 40,000 members, I also found your remarks confusing. 1. Your government fervently fervently supports increased immigration. Yet, by reducing reducing transfer payments to the provinces, you make it more difficult to provide extra funding for badly needed English-as-a-second- language resources and teachers. 2. You speak of the need to encourage technology in Canada. Yet it was an earlier earlier Conservative government which axed the Avro-Arrow space program 30 years ago and made this country a bystander bystander in electronics. 3. You speak of the need for more research in this country. Yet I mote that Northern Telecom is moving to Texas because of your government's free trade policies. policies. 4. You speak about the importance of education. Yet the proposed 9% national sales tax will have a significant significant negative effect upon education education through extra hidden hidden costs which parents and students will have to bear. Hardest hit will be single parents and their children, 6. A federal government which seriously believed in encouraging the highest possible possible standards would help establish a Canadian equivalent equivalent of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in each province, 6. How often have you taken the time to visit schools like Marc Gnrnonu ,ary politan Toronto (East York), which is named for our well- known Canadian astronaut and which encourages student student interest in space technology? technology? I could point to scores of similar examples of excellence throughout this entire province. Your remarks, sir, sound like a smoke screen for a move to cut back on public finding for education while moving towards privatization privatization of the education system, following Margaret Thatcher's Thatcher's leadl Surely, students and parents parents across this country deserve deserve better than that. Yours truly, Jim Head, President, Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. of this report which were subsequently published, the AECB staff were recommending recommending against granting a licence to allow allow Hydro to start testing the reactor. The staff indicated indicated that there were some concerns with the emergency shut down system. At the AECB meeting in Ottawa last Friday, the board decided to defer granting the licence until the safety concerns of the board had been met. Arvo. Niitenberg, a Vice President of Ontario Hydro, told me that Ontario Ontario Hydro, too, was concerned concerned about the shutdown shutdown system. He said Hydro had asked that a licence be granted for low power testing after the AECB was satisfied that the computer shutdown systems were in place. He said, though, that he was happy with the AECB's decision. The AECB is at ready to proceed with the licencing once the remaining remaining concerns are resolved. resolved. Mayor Marie Hubbard told me that she too was happy with the deferral. But, do you know who is the happiest of the lot? Me! Finally the dispute seems to have reached its climax and the denoue-. ment is approaching. Mr. Niitenberg said that the Atomic Energy Control Board felt both players in the dispute were being "inflexible h . Inflexible? Really? To be fair, I think both parties in this performance performance believed they were right. The town should be, and is, concerned about the safety of its citizens. Ontario Hydro should be, and is, concerned about the job of efficiently supplying Ontario resi dents with electricity. Call me naive, but I believe believe both parties were acting with the interest of the public at heart.. I, as a member of the local working press, followed followed the matter from the opening act. I went through stages of amazement amazement and confusion interspersed interspersed with glimmers of understanding and more frustration. And I wouldn't be surprised surprised if other people in Newcastle felt the same way. But the end is near. An intermission has been called. The two chief E rincipal actors have een told to learn their parts and try to reach an understanding. If they do as directed and come back on the stage with an agreement in hand, I will be the happiest happiest member of the audience. audience. I'll be applauding loudest when the final scene concludes. I Better Understanding Needed for Environment Councillor Responds to SAGA Committee Queries Dear Editor: I get rather upset with people who use the term environment environment and call themselves themselves environmentalist when the vast majority of reasonable people would not agree. People have told me they were improving the environment environment when they werepaint- ing a room, installing a music music system in the office, picking up litter in their backyard, talking about the deplorable state our environment environment is in, presenting a paper to a group of students, enlarging a room, planting flowers in the garden, cutting down a tree, hunting ducks, going fishing, drilling a well, installing a septic tank, joining a car pool and building a patio. While they may be improving improving their environment not all activities will do much to improve the environment. environment. What we need is a more precise definition of the en- ..vironment. Painting a room ' does not improve the environment. environment. It used to be called 'painting' and 'decorating' and it should be called so again. Why do people insist that Reader Enjoys Editor's Mail Dear Mr. James, You can tell Ms. Sandra Haggett for me, "Bravo!" She's very refreshing, and writes a letter like a compact compact short story. I felt as though I was right there in ~ ~ Wi ' hunting or fishing is conservation? conservation? What has building a patio patio or drilling a well nave to do with improving the environment? environment? Since when does enlarging enlarging a room help in an improved improved air or water quality? What we need is a more precise definition of our environment. environment. Cutting a tree may, affect the environment but in a negative way. it does nothing nothing to improve the environment. environment. It may improve the landscape or accessibility or a hundred other things but cutting a tree down does not make a person an environmentalist. environmentalist. Why not plant a tree this fall and assist your environment? environment? A tree provides beauty, beauty, shade and pleasure. This is a good time to plant a e. Trees are our friends.' tree that eh? Santa Cruz. Words arouse the senses, Words, period. Sincerely. Elizabeth Ingram ees are our friends.' J. Veldhuis. Happy Reader Dear John: Two months have slipped by since I moved to the beautiful Island of Vancouver, Vancouver, and I love every moment moment I've been here. I have enjoyed getting The Statesman every week. I must admit when I lived in Bowmanville, I only took time to glance through it, but out hero I read it from front page to the back page. I am really writing to f 've you my new address as have moved into a nice apartment. If you and Dorothy are ever out this wny, please call to see me. Yours truly, Molly Mnirs 111-2296 Henry Avenue. Sidney, B.C. "8L V8L 2B2. Mrs. Katherine Guselle Chairperson, SAGA Committee 45 Connaught Street OSHAWA, Ontario L1G2H1 Dear Mrs. Guselle; Please accept my apology for not attending to your letter letter of July 25, 1989 sooner than I intended due to various various circumstances. I reviewed the questions raised in your letter and after after lengthy discussion with the Town Planning Staff, I would like to offer the following following comments. 1. Is the subdivider required required to drill the well? Yes, every subdivider is required to provide a drilled well on every lot created in a plan of subdivision. This requirement requirement is incorporated in trie Town's subdivision agreement which is registered registered on title against the land. i.e. applicable to all subsequent owners of each lot. 2, Does the agreement specify into what aquifer the well on each lot shall be drilled? The Town's agreement does not specify the aquifer. Since the provision of portable portable well water is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment and administered administered through the Region Region Health Department, the determination of the aquifer aquifer is handled by Staff at the Region Health Department. Department. For your information, the Region Health and Social Social Services Committee recommended recommended to Regional Council on September 7, 1989 the following: "That the requirements for the installation of a drilled well be incorporated into the Regional Subdivision Subdivision Agreements .respecting all estate residential lots and the Region must obtain from the developer a letter of credit for the cost of drilled wells on all estate residential lots to be in stalled in the subdivision." The intent of this recommendation recommendation is to ensure the developer will install the drilled well to the satisfaction satisfaction of the Region Health Department. 3. Who monitors the agreement to see if it is carried carried out? The Town's Agreement is generally enforced by Town Staff for those matters under under the Town's jurisdiction. Since the installation of well is under the jurisdiction of the Region Health Department, Department, it is therefore being monitored by the Region. In the past, the Region has experienced experienced difficulty in enforcing enforcing the drilled well provision provision in a local subdivision agreement, The recent recommendation recommendation from the Region Region Health and Social Services Services Committee will rectify this situation and allow the Region the proper authority through its own agreement to enforce , and monitor drilled wells. 4. When the lot is sold, is the agreement with all its stipulations registered against the deed, to follow in perpetuity? As stated earlier, all subdivision subdivision agreements, be it with the Region or with the Town, are registered in the local Registry Office against the land applicable to all subsequent owners. It is in fact a restrictive covenant on title. Such convenant can be removed from title only upon consent from the municipality municipality which must be satisfied satisfied that all provisions in the subdivision agreement are met. The existence of a subdivision agreement usu- 1 ally is not indicated in the deed. However, the solicitor for the lot/home purchaser, having carried out a proper title search, has the obligation obligation to advise his client of those requirements contained contained in the subdivision agreement, including the re quirements of drilled well 5. In the event that j whoever drills the well inadvertently inadvertently or intentionally contravenes the agreement and creates a problem with a neighbour's well what recourse recourse does the neighbour have? I am not a lawyer and in • my view, this is primarily a matter to be sorted out by , the legal profession. I can only speculate that the neighbour could take legal action against whoever causes causes the problem. 6. Does the Town enter into some sort of convenant that it will ensure that the agreement is adhered to and be responsible for correcting infringements? Please refer to my comments comments respecting your question question No. 3. 7. Are springs and other artesian sources protected the same way? The current subdivision agreement does not address the protection of underground underground springs or artesian sources. This is a question of who owns the right to the underground water and it would not surprise me if different different lawyers come up with diverging views on this subject subject matter. I regret I cannot comment on this. The above comment is provided to you based on my understanding and knowledge knowledge on the matters raised in your letter. If I have misinterpreted misinterpreted any of your questions, or you would like to seek further clarification, please do not hesitate to call me or contact the appropriate appropriate staff member at tne Region Region Health Department and the Town Planning Department. Department. Yours truly, Diane S. Hnmre, Regional Councillor - cc: Mayor and Members of Council ! The Canadian Statesman The Orono Times.