Last Friday a meeting of the Durham East Soil and Crop Association met at the Orono United Church at which time members of the Association were presented with Soil Con servation awards. The awards were presented by the association in recognition of efforts in soil conservation by members. Pictured above Jim Byers, Published Every Wednesday Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, January 13, 1988 Durham may now go it alone in garbage Gary Herrema, chairman of the Region of Durham, states he feels that the Region should stand on its own as far as garbage disposal is concerned and should not tie itself to a proposed greater Toronto area management authority. Herrema said such a Metro authority would leave Toronto in control of garbage disposal and Durham would simply be an area in which dispose of the garbage. Close to half of Metro garbage is now disposed df in the-Brock west site in Pickering., ' Although Durham had agreed to •work with Metro on garbage disposal Herrema now fells Durham should go it alone. He said he expects expects such a decision sometime in the near future from the Durham council. . He said Durham might just as well find a company to build and run its own incinerator and landfill site. Richard Gilbert, of Metro council, council, addressed a recent meeting of the Regional public works committee committee proposed a waste management authority for Durham, Metro and other regional nuinie.ipaljlies to solve the garbage problems throughout the district, He said the problem of waste management is the single biggest threat to the economic and social life in the region since there was settled settled communities in the area. Gilbert said most of the regions don't have enough space for the end of next year when the Brock west site is to close. This he said will lead to a crisis in waste disposal. He said such an authority would be accountable and relevant, for handling waste instead af the present system where the regions look after disposal and the municipalities the collection. Gilbert felt that garbage in Metro would be look after by incineration rather than in sites outside of Toronto. He said incineration would reduce disposal costs from the present $80 to $35. to $50. a tonne. .The works, eomtnittee were also addressed by Roger Wilson, Hope Township reeve and 1 Robert "Hryniak, president of Canada Capital Corp. Ltd., a firm which is to build a waste recovery facility for eight municipalities in Northumberland Northumberland County. It" was noted that the Northumberland Northumberland incinerator would burn upwards of 200 tonnes a day and that 110 tonnes are already available from the eight Northumberland Northumberland communities. Wilson suggested that the Region of Durham join with them allowing 90 tonnes to be burnt in the Northumberland Northumberland facility. Councillor John Aker of Oshawa noted that Durham produced 700 tonnes of garbage daily and that they would still have to handle 610 tonnes themselves. Chairman Herrema noted that the Northumberland facility would require that Durham dispose of the ashes from their 90 tonnes and that the Region need not' spend a lot of time chasing this rainbow. The public works committee received the two reports. Council of the Town of Newcastle Newcastle turned aside a recommendation of the General Purpose committee on Monday which would have allowed the parking of trucks in a residential zone through a rezoning application by Hartwig, Henderson and Spracklin. On turning the recommendation aside council then passed a resolution resolution supporting a former proposal from the planning department denying denying the rezoning application and i thus denying the use of the lands for truck parking. Council, did however, support a resolution that Counc. Ann Cowman sit down with the concerned concerned residential to work out a possible alternative. In a recorded vote Mayor Winters along with councillors Cowman, McKnight and Arnot Wotten voted to,defeat the General. Purpose committee recommendation recommendation and as well to deny the rezon- president of the Durham East Soil and Crop Association and award recipients, Karl Heer- inga, Fraserville, Bill DeVries, Bowinanville and Marvin Stapleton, Newtonville. ing application. Councs. Diane Hamre and Frank Stapleton voted to uphold the committee recommendation recommendation and voted against the denial resolution. Len Guy, objecting to the action of the General Purpose committee to allow truck parking through a special zoning change, addressed council, asking that they reconsider this action and that they accept the recommendation of the planning department to deny the application. Guy said those opposed to the application were willing to sit down and discuss the issue on the condition condition that all parties entered with clean hands. He also spoke of the cost of an appeal that would be costly for local taxpayers who had been in the area for some twenty years. He said it was unfair that such a burden was set against homeowners who had respected the zoning by- (Continued page 3) Special education fund available to students It's a special education fund available to' any student in any school in Northumberland County or 'the Town of Newcastle who deserves financial assistance for certain certain projects. But, directors of the three year old Northumberland and Newcastle Education Endowment Fund feel they are still not well known enough, either by potential contributors or by all eligible students. In an attempt to create greater recognition of the Fund, the Board plans to expand, and to reach out to industry and to more school employment groups. "The concept is good, and it's building slowly," says Mary Gunn, Administrative Officer for Special Education for The Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education. She stresses that "these activities are all needs that are not covered or provided for by the Board." The .Fund was formed in 1985 when Helen Hawke, a secretary with Special Education with the Board, retired. She asked that monies collected for her retirement establish such a fund. "Since she retired, others have asked that their retirement monies go into the Fund," says Ms. Gunn, who is President of the Board of Directors of the Fund of which Mrs. Hawke is a member. There is currently about $1,700 in the Fund and about $2,100 in grants has been given out. "There are tery, very minimal administration costs because'the work is all done on a voluntary basis" says Ms. Gunn. Assistance of up to $300 per student student is available for specific activities. activities. The Fund policy states that any creative idea will be considered, but it lists specific examples to show the intent of the grants. For example, example, an exceptional student who wishes to participate in a regional or Canada-wide Science Fair, but lacks the funds, is eligible. Funds (Continued page 3) Renovated chalet costs $500,000 plus Happenings . . . Oroitb Town Hall Kurlirv Results Results lor January 6, 1988 were: winners of the high category No. I Reg Elliott (87); No. 2 Jack Goodman (84); No. 3 Ed Skinner (81); No. 4 All Pigoll (80); No. 5 Jean Bowen (78). Winner of the low Marg Union. Winners of the draw were: Harvey Partner; Debbie Debbie Green; Roy Winters and Thelma Forrester. Euchre every Wednesday night at 8 p in. Ladies please bring lunch. Over the past summer extensive renovations costing some over $5(X),000 provided a new look and added facilities at the Oshawa Ski Club east Chalet. The western section section of the Chalet has been replaced with a two storey addition which includes includes improved enlarged cafeteria and enlarged facilifies on two floors for dining. The club has a membership of 5000. No truck parking ruled by Newcastle council