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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 28.1990 Group Wants Two Areas Part of Lakefront Study Council Won' t Move To Make Newcastle English Only Town Bell Customer Gets That Long Distance Feeling...for $4,381 Bowmanville's lakefront residents have asked that Town Council include Ce- darcrest Beach and "The Cove" in a planning study which would help determine the area's future. Gordon White, President of the Port Darlington Community Community Association, said Monday night that the study is needed in view of the ex- Fishing Derby On April 8th The Bowmanville Creek Anglers' Association will be sponsoring Ontario's first live release steelhead tournament tournament at the Bowmanville Creek on Sunday, April 8. All of the fish caught will be measured and released immediately by toumamént officials, who will have special special weighing stations at various points throughout the creek. The final ceremonies ceremonies will be held at the Memorial Memorial Park Clubhouse after the 4:00 p.m. deadline on Sunday. Dave Lawson, President of the Association, estimates that about 200 anglers will be participating and he is already already getting requests for further information from fishermen across Ontario. plosive growth taking place in the Town of Newcastle. "Today's announcement for Newcastle On The Lake sets the stage for the nature of the development to take place on the lands between Port Darlington Road and Wilmot Creek," he said. Last December, Town Council adopted a waterfront waterfront development study for lands between West Beach Rd. and the Wilmot Creek Community. However, the 86 homes in the area known as "The Cove" and Cedar- crest are outside of this study. Mr. White warned that the homes will become isolated isolated as St. Marys Cement continues its expansion. In fact, in 20 years' time, he predicted that St. Marys will be quarrying east of Waver! Waver! ey Rd, with excavations going 150 feet deep and as close as 50 feet to residential property. "At that time, the remnants remnants of Cedarcrest and "The Cove" will be a narrow ribbon of land separating Lake Ontario from a great quarry hole created to the north," he said. Mr. White added that the special development study requested by his association would answer the important question concerning the relationship relationship between the nearby nearby St. Marys plant and the homes. Council voted to receive Mr. White's presentation for information and promised that the issues he had raised would be examined by Council. Beckers is Latest Victim Of Thieves Video tapes, cigarettes and cash were stolen from the Beckers Store in Newcastle Newcastle Village over the weekend. weekend. Durham Regional Police report that the suspects entered entered the basement of the pizza store next door, came up stairs and punched a hole in the wall to enter into Beckers. Police report that $800 in cash, $4,000 worth of video tapes and $9,000 worth of cigarettes along with chocolate chocolate bars and magazines were taken from the store. Police say most of what was stolen has been recovered. recovered. Police currently have two suspects under investigation. investigation. Newcastle's Town Council Council has declined to become involved in the bilingualism debate that is currently raging raging in some Ontario municipalities. municipalities. Elected officials took no action on a request that the Town of Newcastle declare itself to be unilingually English. English. George Brooks, a Bowmanville Bowmanville resident, made that request in a speech to members of Town Council Monday night. In reference to recent resolutions resolutions passed by Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, along with 39 other municipalities, municipalities, Mr. Brooks said: "They have shown the way and other municipalities should have the guts to take up their stand." He listed the federal government's government's bilingualism policy policy as something that has fcieen shoved down the throats of disapproving taxpayers taxpayers and linked it with other government initiatives such as the GST, metric system system and free trade. "I am quite sure that these municipalities, as myself, myself, are not in any way racist racist or anti-French," he continued. continued. But he added that the cost of bilingualism cannot cannot be supported in view of the fact that only five per cent of the Ontario population population speaks the French language. language. "It is a luxury we cannot afford," he said. He also told Town Council Council that he objects to the French immersion program operating at Ontario Street School in Bowmanville because because he believes that it adds to the tax load. He claimed that the Vincent Vincent Massey school addition was only required because of the fact that rooms are no longer provided at Ontario' Street School for the students students in the regular, English language program. "I think it's time for the mayor and council to stand up to provincial and federal governments and tell them to stop raping the people's pocketbooks," he said. Mr. Brooks warned that if governments get their way, more jobs will require bilingualism, including positions positions in the post office and other government agencies. "Your job could be the next in line," he warned. Newcastle Council voted to receive Mr. Brooks' presentation presentation for information. That resolution was passed without any further debate or comment.. Arthur Brooks was more than a little shocked when he received his phone bill for last month. His bill totalled totalled $4,381.58. It turned out that while in the hospital hospital someone had discovered his calling card number Name Change Petition From Page One in name to Township of Newcastle would have clarified the situation. The petition he presented to Council Council contained the signatures of 5,933 persons who wish to see the identity of Bowmanville retained and the Town of Newcastle's name changed. Name Defended Speaking in defence of the current name, Bob Willsher told Town Council that he believes the present name is supported by the majority of a town population now estimated at 42,000. "I sincerely believe that there is no benefit to the Town of Newcastle or the majority of taxpayers in supporting supporting a name change," the Newcastle Village resident added. Moreover, he warned that the debate debate can create unwanted divisions in the municipality and he suggested that Council has more pressing issues "Heaven knows which it must face this country has enough problems _ with unitÿ without having! it at the 16- port from Council ' Ipal municipality," he said during his - Councillors Deegah presentation. / Another citizen who addressed F Council also suggested that the Town should put aside the question of the municipal name and face more important important issues. Bob Allen argued that the issue could sidetrack the municipality and hinder its chances for business and commercial growth. Businesses look for stability and strength in a town, he said. "We cannot cannot reflect this important image if we are constantly reviewing our name... Our credibility is at stake," he added. He called on the town to join forces and "bring the 200 square miles together." together." "Let's put this issue to bed. Let's move on to bigger and better things." Receive for Information After about a half-hour's discussion. Council voted on the issue, deciding to receive all presentations oh this topic for information. Councillor Pat Deegan, attempted to introduce a motion which would investigate investigate the possibility of changing the name from Town of Newcastle to Township of Newcastle but that resolution resolution was rejected when it failed to receive a seconder. Councillor Ken Hooper said Monday that he had hoped to present a resolution resolution asking that the Minister of Municipal Municipal Affairs meet with councillors and members of the public in order to discuss the issue as soon as possible. However, he said after the meeting that this resolution did not have sup- --. am! IL/iivi /Ml « 1 V Py and Hooper were the only members of Newcastle Council opposed to the decision to receive receive the delegations' comments for information. information. The vote failed to satisfy the màny citizens who gathered in the Council Chambers to support the name change. Jack Elston, a life-long resident of Bowmanville who was in the crowd at Monday's meeting, predicted that the issue is still not settled. "You cannot obliterate somebody's identity and get away with it. They'll remember it forever," he said. Council Requests Ontario to Change Laidlaw Decision Hydro Building in Question Town Council has learned that Ontario Hydro may be occupying one of its Darlington buildings illegally. illegally. Larry Kotseff, the Town of Newcastle's chief administrative administrative officer, said Monday ni [/ht that the Town's chief building official is looking ijf m the issue. He told New- J Me Council that the mu- V ■ality may apply to the f Bs for a restraining or- s could stop Hydro using the building in on until the Builai Code and lire safety issues are resolved. The subject of the dispute is the building which contains contains the Tritium Removal Facility and the Heavy Water Water Management area. The Town of Newcastle claims that the structure violates violates Building Code requirements requirements and that there are outstanding issues related related to fire protection which have yet to be solved. Ontario Hydro claims that the building meets all of the rules and has referred the issue to the Ontario )><•/ 8 « Buy Now R and SAVE! SALE PRICE IS PERCASE PLUS DEPOSIT, TAX Sale ends March 4,1990 The PoP Shoppe Gruffies Variety King Street East, Newcastle raparenrgrgg; rajiricgM- Building Commission for arbitration. arbitration. "Our position is that the Ontario Building Commission Commission has not ruled on this issue," issue," Mr. Kotseff said yester- day.And he added that until the Commission does so, Newcastle believes Hydro is contravening the law by occupying occupying the heavy water facility facility and the tritium removal removal facility. In addition to updating Council on the status of the dispute with Hydro over building regulations and fire protection, Mr. Kotseff also advised councillors Monday night of the upcoming hearings hearings of the Environmental Assessment Board. The hearings deal with Hydro's 25-year plan for electrical production. Since the Darlington B nuclear generating station is part of that plan, the chief administrative officer recommended recommended that the municipality municipality bo represented at the hearings which take place April 4 in Toronto. "It's quite important that we participate and provide input into this board," Mr. Kotseff said. A resolution passed by Town Council authorizes the Town's solicitor to appear Ixiforo the preliminary hearing hearing of the Environmental Assessment Board in order to protect the municipality s interest. The resolution adds, in pnrt, that "the Town has experienced experienced great difficulties m obtaining compliance by Ontario Hydro with provincial provincial laws. These included the Ontario Building Code and the Ontario Fire Code. The resolution status that "the Town's experiences and concerns in this regard should bo brought to the assessment assessment of the Environmental Environmental Assessment Board insofar as they relate to the possible Darlington Nuclear Generating .Station Phase B". Ontario Premier David Peterson has been asked to reverse a decision which calls for a consolidated hearing hearing into the proposed expansion expansion of the Laidlaw waste management facility in the .Town of Newcastle. Town Council indicated Monday night that it is concerned concerned over the fact that the Ministry of the Environment appears to be expediting the approval process required for the landfill expansion at the site northwest of Newton Newton ville. A resolution passed at this week's Council session asks that Environment Minister Minister James Bradley reverse his decision to proceed with consolidated hearings. The jTown of Newcastle wquld prefer to see the project Submitted Submitted to individual tribunals tribunals rather than to a single ^approval process. Premier David Peterson i has received a copy of that ■resolution and a request ;hat he support the town's position. A consolidated hearing could, for example combine the requirements of both the Ontario Municipal Board and the Environmental Assessment Assessment Board. Council's resolution states that the municipality FBDB Plans New Program To address the need for training for small businesses businesses within the Town of Newcastle, Newcastle, the Federal Business Development Bank will be offering a training initiative in co-operation with Employment Employment and Immigration Canada. Canada. This initiative is a unique combination of training and individual counselling which has been developed to provide provide business people with a learning process tailored to their individual needs. The program runs for 12 months ana includes 40 hours of workshops followed up by 40 hours of individual counselling counselling which assist owners in implementing the training. The Federal Business Development Development Bank will coordinate coordinate the program content and workshop lenders. The program will be run with 20 noncompetitive small businesses businesses located in the Town of Newcastle. The participating participating businesses along with the F.B.D.B will identify the training needs and, following following this, the program content content will bo developed to satisfy satisfy those needs. Application forms are available if your company is interested in taking part in this program. Further details can bo obtained obtained from the Federal Business Development Bank at 22 King St. W. 6th Floor, Ofllmwn. The phono number for the local office is 576- G800. is disappointed in a course of action which "prefers the interest of a private company company ... over the legitimate interests interests of the Town and the Region." Newcastle Mayor Marie Hubbard said Monday night that that she and Chief Administrative Administrative Officer Larry Kotseff have had meetings with Laidlaw officials. In addition, she said she has recently learned of a road configuration which entails entails the building of an overpass' overpass' at Morgan's Corners and the creation of a new road to the Laidlaw site. The mayor revealed that the plans she saw indicated that the company is proposing proposing a significant road, to ser- / vice thjTaWfill <'prfec< and she feifirati fr-bhq- mu ni ci - ïpality'yc rincé n o'i'er any expansion expansion ay Li idlàWr' 'V "if r .hèy [ et their way, Graham Crei k will become a sewer," she Earned. , Laidlaw h; s made public two proposa|s in recent months. One would call for "infilling" of} the existing dump site anti another calls for an even lprger-scale expansion expansion of thé operation. Chief Administrative Officer Officer Larry Kotseff said yesterday yesterday that it would appear as though both projects would be the subject of" the consolidated hearings. "Our hunch is that they're going to do everything in one hearing," hearing," he said. Building Code Violations at Darlington From Page One said, adding adding that the Town feels they can't do that because there are building code violations against it and the building isn't supposed to be legally occupied, Hydro says the building is separate from the reactor. "We're saying in spite of the differences the building there. Wo still have to by Lorna Miller If you think your phone bill is enormous, you should talk to Arthur Brooks. It seems while Arthur was in the Orthopedic Hospital in Toronto in December, he used his calling card and gave his number to the hospital operator verbally. This was a mistake, as Arthur soon found out. He began to think something was wrong when he received a call from Bell Telephone asking asking him if he had used his card a lot lately. He replied replied in the affirmative. The representative from Bell asked where he had been making his calls from to which he replied from the hopsital. The representative from Bell was disturbed with this response and told Art that several long distance calls had been made with his number. After his discussion with Bell, Art was prepared prepared for a discrepancy in his phone bill when he got home. But not a discrepancy discrepancy of $4,381.58. Town Asks Region For Quick Approval Of Rice Condo Plan n Council kham Regio lflj approval conaominiu oun< a Region to expej' is have a plan for it.,.if they want changes, well make the changes," Mr. McCredie said. The bottom line, the project project manager added, is that the building 'got building permits in 1984 and was built with good fire fighting practices, An independent consultant consultant and the! AECB staff said the building was okay, he stated. The building code issues are going to bo settled by an independent arbitrator. when the unit 2 reactor at Darlington is producing at full power it will be able to produce enough electricity to servo a city the size of Hamilton at the peak time of day . This is the first reactor to come on stream at the facility facility since construction began 12 years ago. ) ToW.n ( the.Dir „ dite thojapproval of a storey condominium project planned for Bowmanville. The Wellington St. development, development, which has received approvals at the regional, local, local, and provincial levels, has been stalled because of a technicality in the wording, of a Town of Newcastle bylaw. bylaw. The building will contain 150 senior citizens' condominiums condominiums and some commercial commercial space fronting onto Church St. "I think it's time we got the building up - got the assessment assessment into the taxpayers' pockets ... That's the name of the game," said Councillor Ken Hooper. At a meeting of Town Council Monday night, he introduced a resolution which asks that the Durham Region Planning Committee take steps to clear the remaining remaining hurdles in the way of the building. Specifically, the motion asks that the Planning Commissioner Commissioner of the Durham Region Region withdraw his appeal to tbe Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The resolution resolution notes that the appeal "only relates to a technical matter and not a planning matter." In the by-law passed by the municipality, it was not clearly stated that the 1,400 square metres of commercial iloor space would be contained contained within one building. This is one of the reasons why the matter has been referred referred to the OMB. "We made a mistake," said Councillor Hooper. "We are admitting the mistake. But the mistake is very technical." technical." He said it would not be justifiable to hold up the project any longer. Monday's resolution reassures reassures the Durham Region's planning committee that "it is always Council's intent of the by-law to include the commercial portion within one building". The resolution was passed on a vote of 4-2, with Mayor Marie Hubbard declaring declaring a conflict of interest on the subject. Councillors Wotten and Deegan voted against the resolution. Councillors Hooper, Harare, Stapleton and Hannah were in favor. Public Meeting Discusses Waste Management A public meeting concerning concerning the Durham Region Waste Management Master Plan will be held at the Bowmanville Bowmanville High School on Thursday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will bo one of eight that will be held at various locations throughout the Region. During January and February, February, the Durham Waste Management Master Plan hold meetings in each of Durham's eight municipalities. municipalities. • WINDOWS ^ • DOORS • SKYLIGHTS * SOFFIT and EAVES • SOLARIUMS HEAT MIRROR® Custom Installations 5 Points Mall /" aw'I'i Taunton Rd. E,, Osliawa 4J0 M ^7 Jj ôrtùf (de 'Voty t Se<ï(, . ! NOW OPEN! East End fiutoCash Location at the southeast corner of Highway No. 2 and Prestonvale Road (East of Townline Road, west of Courtice Post Office) fltiTO WORKERS CREDIT UNION 3ZZ King St. W.„ Oshawa 50 7Z8-5187 and used it to call places all over the world. Tax on ' the charges alone was over $500. Art is pictured here with the eight pages listing the numbers and the loca- ' tions called. ' they (the bills) seldom,,, ever get that high." "Alter Bell warned mé' ' about the problem, I expected expected to get a bill of ' about $100, but not for ' four thousand," Arthur - laughs. Arthur objected to the ; way the hospital ran its'.j telephone switchboard.' There was always a dif- ! ferent operator on duty and when there are five - people in beds in a room '; it is easy to overhear a' conversation." , , A security guard came ; down to Arthur's room to - check out the problem ' and question people, but _ there was no one who knew anything about the problem. "People get a calling card number and sell it", outside the country," says Arthur, who now has à. new calling card number. "There were phone calls to Saudi Arabia, Japan, Japan, Australia and Egypt," says Arthur. "And there were some calls made from Boston and Ottawa." Most of the phones used in this scam were pay phones, but there were a few from residential residential phones, so there may be a chance that the culprits culprits will be caught. Arthur proved to Bell that he could not have been making those calls, and he was required to pay only $39.63 of the bill. "Bell says that once in a while this happens. People overhear a number number being given on the phone and they write it down and use it themselves," themselves," says Arthur, "jout, even Bell says that Help Us Celebrate! This happy couple is celebrating their 25th Anniversary. Monday. March 5th. All friends, past and present, are invited to celebrate with them. 7:00 p.m. until 12:00 at the Marina. THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE TO ITS CITIZENS AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE'S BY-LAW 86-112 being a By-law to establish a street name map and a street name inventory for roads in the Town of Newcastle Pursuant to Section 210 (105) of the Municipal Act, nolico Is horoby glvon of a Public Mooting to bo hold on April 2, 1990 in rospoct of proposed amondmonts to By-law 86-112. Tho subject amendment would havo the following olfoct: 1) Change tho namo of "Manvor Slroot" within tho former Villago of Nowcastlo (Bondhoad) to "Goorgo Manners Slroot". Explanations and details of tho properties alfoclod may bo obtained, during normal ollico hours, from tho offices of tho Planning nnd Dovolopmont Department, 40 Tompornnco Slroot, Bowmanvillo, Ontario or by calling tho Planning Department at 823-3379. Tho Public Mooting roqulrod pursuant to Soction 210 (105) of tho Municipal Act will bo hold as follows: TIME: 9:30 a,m. PLACE: Council Chambers, 40 Tompornnco St„ Bowmanvillo DATE: Monday, April 2,1000 Council shall lionr any parson who clnlms Hint lio/sho will bo ndvorcoly nlfoclod by tho by-law nnd who nppllos to bo hoard by contacting tho Cloth's Dopmlmonl, Prnnklln Wu, M.C.I.P, Director of Planning nnd Dovolopmont 40 Tompornnco Slroot, Bowmnnvillo, Ontario L1C SAC Onto ol Publications: 1) Fobrunty 20,1090 2) March 7,1000 3) March 14,1090 4) March 21,1000