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• SINCE 1854 • AMALGAMATED 1999 WITH CLARINGTON THIS WEEK • Press run 21.900 50 Pages Wednesday, September 12, 2001 gBS b Kia big on the mini Wheels Pull out Optional 4 week delivery $5/$l newsstand Eagles search for wings Sports, page 14 When terrorists attack ANDREW IWANOWSKl/ Statesman photo A security guard at the Pickering nuclear generating station tario Power Generation stepped up security at both the Pick- uses a mirror to check underneath a car entering thé plant ering and Darlington plants as Durham Region took pre- Tuesday, following terrorist attacks in the United States. On- cautions following the attacks. Durham Region steps up security DURHAM - The devastating aerial attacks which destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York and hit the Pentagon in Washington were felt in Durham Region Tuesday. Security measures were taken at Durham's two nuclear power plants in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Security officials at the gate into the facilities were rigorously rigorously checking vehicles entering the plant, searching undercarriages undercarriages and the cab and trunk space of all cars and tracks. The attacks began in New York City Tuesday morning, as terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, reducing the twin 110-storey towers to piles of rabble rabble containing, according some estimates, multiple thousands of dead. Approximately 35 minutes after the initial crashes, another hijacked plane slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, collapsing collapsing part of that building. By the early part of Tuesday afternoon Canadian officials had closed down the border and all Canadian airports. Pat O'Brien, Ontario Power Generation's manager of public affairs, said the Pickering and Darlington plants were following following normal procedure by in- MP ALEX SHEPHERD Heard from nurses, firefighters willing to help in the United States. creasing security, something they would do in the case of any terrorist situation of this magnitude magnitude on North American soil. "This is the normal thing," he said. "We've taken security to the next level at the site." For security reasons Mr. O'Brien refused to provide details details about specific measures that would be taken, except to say additional additional staff would be on hand while the plant was on alert. Mr. O'Brien said several staff members are American citizens or have family living in the U.S. and many were given time off to See DURHAM page 2 Clarington is scaring up business 'Speak out' on moraine, Clarington council urged BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer CLARINGTON - If you see an optometrist filling a client for glasses in his store window, a paper carrier hanging around outside the newspaper office or a shopkeeper relaxing in a wicker wicker chair outside the shop, take a closer look - these guys are all stuffed up. More than 30 businesses are taking part in the Clarington Board of Trade's scarecrow festival, festival, says Sheila Hall, administrator administrator at the board. "They're throughout Clarington Clarington from Courtice to Orono," says Ms. Hall. "Some are inside businesses, some are on display in store windows and some are outside. "If you find one scarecrow scarecrow you can find them all," she adds. Each participating busi ness has a list of the participating participating businesses, she says. The scarecrows will be on display until Saturday, Sept. 22, says Ms. Hall who adds the festival festival will conclude with a hoe- down in Rotary Park on Sunday, Sept. 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. "There will be a live band with free entertainment and food," she says. The public is invited. invited. The festival began as a fun way for Clarington's business community to promote itself. It was adopted from a similar annual annual festival in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The board hopes to make this an annual event and may consider consider inviting residents to participate participate next year too. For more information contact contact the Board of Trade at 905- 623-3106. Final public meeting is tomorrow BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Clarington Clarington council needs to "speak out clearly with one voice" against development such as commercial commercial and rural residential use and golf courses on the Oak Ridges Moraine, a former regional regional councillor claims. "Your voice must be heard loudly and clearly," said Clarington Clarington property owner and former former councillor Irv Harrell in an impassioned speech to council, Monday night. Council was considering public input on the municipality's municipality's own response to the provincial panel recommendations recommendations on protection and development development of the Oak Ridges Moraine. About half a dozen Clarington residents presented .their views to council in addition addition to Mr. Harrell. Rural residential, commercial, commercial, industrial and active recreation recreation (such as golf courses and ski hills) development have no place in certain areas of the moraine as the provincial panel is recommending, said Mr. Harrell. Those recommendations, recommendations, when finalized following public input, are expected to be the basis for legislation governing governing development on the moraine. "It is inappropriate, it is wrong and it will be the cause of major erosion to the structure structure of an Oak Ridges Moraine Strategy and to this municipality," municipality," he said. "Why would anyone anyone in their right mind contem- ' plate (this) carte blanche... into an area that represents 38 per cent of the moraine?" Orono resident Sandy Cook said despite her own misgivings misgivings with some of the provincial provincial recommendations, she is hopeful with input from Clarington, Clarington, other municipalities and the public calling for stringent stringent protections that appropriate appropriate legislation for the moraine will be created. "I strongly believe the best way to ensure adequate moraine protection is through strong provincial legislation... it is very clear to me an arms- length provincial act that is specific and all-encompassing would best protect the moraine." The final scheduled public meeting with the panel will take place in Cobourg tomorrow tomorrow night (Thursday) at the Cobourg Lions Community Centre, 157 Elgin St. E. from 7 to 9 p.m. West Nile virus may be in Durham DR. DONNA REYNOLDS 'There's really no cause for concern.' Dead crow in Whitby being tested for disease BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer DURHAM - Durham's associate associate medical officer of health is asking residents not to panic, in spite of the discovery of a dead bird in Whitby believed to be carrying the West Nile Virus. "There's really no cause for concern," says Dr. Donna Reynolds of Durham Region's health department. "The risk of the West Nile Virus (to humans) is very low." The dead crow - the first in Durham to show signs of the virus - turned up in central Whitby Whitby Aug. 29, and was sent to Guelph for testing. Sunday evening, Sept. 9, the local health department received notification that three preliminary tests were positive for the virus. The bird was then sent to a federal lab in Winnipeg for confirmation of the diagnosis. Test results are expected expected back by Friday. "To date, all the birds that have come back with preliminary preliminary positives have come back positive" after final testing, notes Dr. Reynolds. The mosquito- born virus was first confirmed in Ontario when a bird found in Windsor Aug. 22 tested positive. It has since shown up in a variety of other areas of the province. "I think, as we look at the distribution distribution of the West Nile virus... they've seen it in Toronto, Peel and Halton. It was just a matter of time before we saw it in Durham," says Dr. Reynolds. Still, she says, more testing is necessary to determine if the virus has actually made its way to Durham, or if this is an isolated isolated case. "We want to see if this is sporadic, or will we see more cases in the Whitby area," she says. "We don't know if the bird (thought to have had the viras) flew here to die." 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