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Sports/13 Wheels/Insert Chrysler blows the lid off West scores with Hall of Fame Statesman durhamregion.com ♦ Pressrun 24,150 ♦ Founded 1854 ♦ OCTOBER 20, 2004 ♦ 56 Pages ♦ Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$1 Newsstand^ Durham services struggle to keep up With growth B00MT0WN: Part 10 With urban sprawl waking inroads in Durham, will the Region be able to keep pace with the needs of its residents? This is the ninth in a 12-part series examining the issues we will confront now and in the near future. BY CARLY FOSTER Staff writer * DURHAM -- Abraham Maslow wrote about the five needs of humans, he could very jvell have been discussing the necessities of communities. . Neighbourhoods must offer residents residents several services in order to survive and thrive: shelter, water .(and sewer), safety, recreation, education and health. . the same way Maslow said humans must meet certain needs before acquiring others,' communities communities such as Durham and its' growing municipalities must keep up with the demands its residents are putting on services. * physiological needs: • When Dr. Caroline McAllister McAllister took her spot in September September among the other doctors at the Brooklin medical centre, she immediately stopped taking patients. "I was full the day 1 opened my practice," she said. "There's an awful lot of people in these areas who don't have doctor's." ■ Almost every municipality in Durham has been designated underserviced by the Province. ' Df. McAllister took 600 patients fr6m a waiting list of 1,800. Some had no doctor at all, while others have had to travel back and forth'to doctors in other cities cities because none are available f in Durham. Both situations have néant there's been more demand m costly and less consistent Valk-in clinics, Dr. McAllister aid. Growth is also being felt at hospitals. hospitals. While more people mean foore development at the facilités, facilités, in the short term it "puts a lot of strain on resources," said Irian Lemon, Lakeridge Health Corporation's chief executive filccr. KÏÏWe are getting pressure for jnore. and more services," Mr. Lemon said of the corporation's four hospitals in Whitby, Osha- l wa, Bowmanville and Port Perry, especially in obstetrics and needs for an aging population. "We aren't always able to meet those needs and people are having having to depend on downtown hospitals" hospitals" and emergency rooms. Even free immunizations by the Durham Region health department department have skyrocketed the past few years, said Regina Elliott, a nursing manager in immunization. immunization. In 2001, 10,000 Durhamites were vaccinated against the flu, compared to 20,000 last year. The in-school hepatitis B program program has also increased, causing the health department to rely more on volunteers and couriers couriers to keep track of information where once a nurse would visit a school. The department's monthly family immunization clinic is increasing by 100 visits a year, Ms. Elliott said. "We're finding the clinics are quite busy...because of. a lack of physicians in Durham Region." Security and safety needs: In 1996, Durham's emergency medical services (EMS) team responded to 32,221 calls. In 2003, they responded to 65,689. "It's the (growing population), it's the age of the population," said Richard Armstrong, director director of EMS for the Region. "We expect to see the call volumes continue to climb, as a result of the increased growth in the population... population... and age of the population population as it continues to mature and require more medical attention." And with higher call volumes comes increased costs for sala- ' ries and education, kilometres on ambulances, new equipment, Mr. Armstrong said. More people in Durham also means more cars on the road and sometimes more ■ delays responding to calls. See Durham page 8 yj: <• ), 1>V V-T •t ii'i »L.V M iLSt; f ill®® ' Rif;, 1 iiï'fililii-IHiîiîtÜrilriliî mm tj'M, 'itI ' ' hi t% Vjq.lM; éÈÈËÊÉi^m irfUtl it 1 mfi lliM" IS»* iIP III , WSfttLm mmm Wï&m l r a* 10 Wt ' m 4 It! 1 81* • \ v ! ' , /v r T mm. S'LL! <* \ i \ a . 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Not to be outdone by the mini-wonder of the farming community, the Bowmanville Zoo offered elephant rides to children, while another ride challenged festivalgoers to test their ability to survive the sinking sinking of the Titanic. With an inflatable ship's deck poised precariously at a steep angle, adventurers could climb to the top and slide to the bottom. bottom. Kayla Miller, a 6-year-old Grade 1 student who attends Harold Longworth Public School, said she had a great See Revellers page 5 -©--©-• QNTABIO'S • SERVICE • PARTS > MON., WED., FRI. ! 7:30 am - 6:00 pm - TUES. & THURS. 7:30 am-8 pm SAT. f 9 am - 4 pm ACCREDITED TEST A REPAIR FACILITY WHITBY OSHAWA Honda 300 THICKSON RD. S. WHITBY 666-1772 HONDA www.Honda 1 .com seek owners of sunken Documents date back to the 1950s BY JEFF MITCHELL Staff writer BOWMANVILLE -- It's safe to say this thing has been lying around for a while, And now Durham Regional Police arc attempting to find out if there's anyone who will lay claim to a safe dating back 50 years that was discovered on the outskirts of Bowmanville a month ago. On Sept. 28, young people playing along a creek bed near the grounds of Great Lakes College College off Lambs Road found the three-foot-square safe,, made of metal and concrete, said Detective Detective Darren Short of the Claring- ton community police office. The fact that the grounds had a military use years ago added to the intrigue surrounding the safe, which was sealed tight 1 and was enormously heavy, Det. Short said. But some of the mystique surrounding surrounding the safe and its contents contents evaporated when it was finally cut open -- with a plasma plasma torch by a tow truck driver who'd been hired to haul the safe out of the brush in which it was found, Inside the safe and its inner compartments were business documents relating to John Mackey Millings Ltd. The papers had sustained extensive water damage, and inquiries in the area have yielded few clues about the company or the role it may have played in the com- .' munity. "Interest obviously peaked when (the safe) was found," Det. Short said. See Documents page 8 COWAN PONTIAC M BUICK GMC 166 King St. E. Bowmanville 905-623-3396 , .Prices are plu» taxa», license, admin jetratloruee_ TBiit W--kt EH Ron Pietroniro/The Canadian Statesman This old safe was found on the Great Lakes College grounds. AaJkWIlkttQxiweiai USBP CAfll ttlRTWl OgRTtglGATBii! 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