Admit One Matthew Kehoc was among the hundreds of Newcastle and area movie fans who attended the Optimist Club's Movie Night at the Newcastle Community Hall on Thursday evening, October 22. Helping out at the door were Gabricllc Worsley and Marlene Connolly, of the Newcastle Village and District Optimist Club. The Clarington/Courtice Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, October 31, 1998 Pace A Salute to Small Business Grade Sevens Enjoy Camp Tawingo M.J. Hobbs News by: L. Ferguson, B. Gilberl - Hello! Welcome to the monthly column covering the latest at M.J. Hobbs Senior •Public School. ! This month has flown by, ;■ almost as fast as those leaves .are falling off the trees! Our i grade 7's experienced four ■days at Camp Tawingo. The "camp, located west of "Huntsville, offers the students 'activities in skills covering co-operation, initiative, l archery, environmental mapping mapping as well as independent ; living skills. It helped us get : to know each other better as '.well as to remind all those great parent volunteers just how crazy 7). grade 7 students students get when we're all together for four days and three...long...nights! The other great - event is the addition to our in-school family of wonderful community community volunteers. Our tutorial system has opened. We arc looking for adults to come in for approximately two hours daily, morning or afternoon, to listen to some of us read. Even at this age, we still love an audience! The other area that could use volunteers is our school canteen. This task involves about 30 minutes each morning (8:45 - 9:15) to count money and fill baskets with our munchie order (there's only 9!) If you feel you can fill a slot, please feel $ Fight winter's icy grig,, with our Winter Ice Radiais ODËŸEAR Cbc SERIOUS P175 x 70R13 $76.00 P185 x 70R14 $77.00 P205 x 70R15 $87.00 P235 x 75R15 $94.00 All other sizes available NO CHARGE ? INSTALLATION • BALANCING VALVE STEMS • SCRAP TIRES ALIGNMENT CHECK 317 Hopkins Street, Whitby 666-2121 Mon. - Thurs. 8 - 5:30; Fri. 8 - 5; Sat. 8 - 2 Dundas St. </) c j*: a o X v TJ V = -- Vannfemtnen o "Tire Warren Rd. jS- Consumers Dr. ' THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON NOTICE SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED SIDEWALK AND DRIVEWAY WINDROW SNOW CLEARING PROGRAM The Municipality of Clarington is offering senior citizens 65 years of age and over and the physically disabled a snow clearing service on municipal sidewalks and for driveway windrows adjacent to single family dwellings, which includes semidetached, semidetached, link housing and row housing in the urban areas of Bowmanville, Courtice, Orono, Newcastle Village and in the Hamlets of Bondhead, Newtonville, Tyrone, Leskard, Haydon, Kendal, Solina, Hampton, Burketon, Enniskillen, Maple Grove, Enfield, Mitchell's Corners and Kirby. To be eligible for this service, applicants must be 65 years of age or older or be physically disabled, occupy a single family dwelling which fronts onto a Town street in the specified urban areas or the urbanized areas of the specified hamlets, and have no able bodied persons under the age of 65 years residing on the property. Senior citizens must provide a copy of a birth certificate or Senior Citizen's Number; physically disabled applicants must provide a doctor's certificate, Application Forms can bo obtained from the Public Works Department, Municipal Administrative Centro at 40 Temperance Street in Bowmanville, or by calling 623-3379 ext. 247 or 263-2291. If you wish to verify that you qualify for the service, please contact Grant Ashton at the above phono numbers. All applications should bo complotod and returned to the Municipality of Clarington, Public Works Department on or before November 1,1998. CS-Incl. 7023 MUNICH V\U IV or la tin (l toil ON1AIIIO <8J.P. free to phone us at 263-2204. Other October happenings included our best-ever magazine magazine sale. This is our major fundraiser and a huge success it was. Thank you for all your support. Remember that we offer this every fall, so save those renewal forms. We match the price and have been known to beat them! Our Hallowe'en dance is slated for Friday, October 30, during school hours. It'll give us the chance to treat ourselves ourselves to our trick dancing before Saturday nights' rituals! rituals! Small Business Week ran from October 25 to the 31st. Small businesses, which include our farming community, community, have been responsible responsible for creating 81 per cent of new jobs over the last decade. That's something to celebrate. It gives you an indication indication of the number of jobs the more than 3,000 small business operators in Durham create. While large corporations like GM, IBM, banks and government downsize, small businesses arc actively actively increasing employment and I take my hat off to them. The federal government recognizes the importance of this sector's growth. The Business Development Bank of Canada provided over $27 million in loan financing to 110 business operators in Durham over the last three years. Farm Credit Corporation provided 55 loans to farmers farmers in Oshawa, Clarington and Scugog over the last three years totalling almost $11 million. The Small Business Loans Act insures government government loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It has been successful successful providing long-term capital for equipment purchases purchases at interest rates affordable to "start up" as well as established businesses. businesses. I, along with some other MPs on the Industry Committee, are currently looking at ways of modernizing modernizing the Act. And nearly $2 billion will be made available available to fit the needs of the ever-growing small business business sector. Another initiative the federal government has undertaken for small and medium-sized businesses is the HIRES program. Under this employment insurance premiums arc not invoked against the company during the first year an employee is hired. This provides an incentive incentive to hire youth and to give people their chance at a job. The Summer Youth Employment Program supports supports a partnership between small business and youth to ensure students get job experience which they can use when they seek permanent permanent employment after their studies. The Export Development Corporation has reformed its mandate and now focuses extensively extensively on small business. It has been a perennial problem for small business to access export trade. Since 40 per cent of our GDP is trade it is important that small and medium-sized business access this area. Given the level of reduced taxes for incorporated incorporated small business, along with incorporated farms and other SMEs that can claim the small business deductions, deductions, Canada taxes its small business operators at one of the lowest rates in the western western world. Two weeks ago I took part in a seminar in Durham sponsored by Industry Canada. It brought together over 200 SMEs to discuss management operations along with how to be successful successful domestically and internationally. Currently the Canadian Bankers' Association, along with Industry Canada, are hosting regional seminars at no cost to small business operators. The seminars cover topics topics like business plans and working-capital management. management. Human Resources Development Canada spon- Parliamentary Report by Alex Shepherd sors training sessions under the Women and Rural Economic Development (WRED) program to assist rural women obtain the skills to establish and promote promote their small business objectives. During small business week we take some time to realize and understand the contribution small and medium-sized businesses make to the economy, locally locally and abroad. They provide employment as well as supporting supporting our little league teams, parades, hospital foundations and volunteer groups. It's important to encourage encourage new small business formations, formations, including farms, which make our communities communities the good places they arc to live and work. BRIDES-TO-BE... Planning a Wedding? Come and meet the Wedding Experts. fyQeicome fyOa Bridal Fashion Sho Admission is FREE, but by invitation only. To obtain your personal invitation for you and your mother or guest, please give us a call. 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