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TTT "WEEKEND STAR" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2000 - 17 More leaders are needed for Brooklin's Spark's unit Guides Still Need Help Time is tanning out to recruit new Spark's leaders to have a second Spark unit for five and six-year-olds up and running within the normal start-up period. Registration for the forth- coming year is planned for Sept. I2 at Brooklin United Church between 7 and 8:30 p.m. Spaces are limited for certain units and new mem- bers will be received an a first come first served basis unless more leaders are secured. Most in jeopardy as previously mentioned are the littlest ones. If you can spare one evening a week to become a leader please call the District Commissioner, Heather Perigoe at 655-8352. ! Library Programs Registration for the fall session of storytime begins on Sept. 16, in"'person from noon until closing at 5 p.m. If you can't make it that day, Jou can call the library at 655-3191 for any available spaces. Storytime invites three to five-year-olds to discover the joy of books ng reading accompanied . by songs and action rhymes in a half hour program. The "program starts on Wednesday, Sept. 27 and continues each Wednesday wR A Aah Ba ASE SECA until Now. I. Starting in September, Brooklin Library will start putting to use the video equipment recently donat- ed by Group '74. Saturday afternoon movies will be shown, featuring all the lat- est flicks to hit the big screen, compliments of the Wick Family and the Video Image. Movies will roll at 2 p.m. for school age children only. Registration started Tuesday, Aug. 29 in person until 6 p.m. Following that any remaining spaces can be filled by calling the library at 655-3191. Bye Bye Tomoki The Jackson family on Columbus Road West, recently bid farewell to a young 14-year-old Japanese lad, who has lit- erally almost become part of the family. Tomoki came to Brooklin as part of a 4-H exchange program for a month. Arriving with little English, the only child had a bit of a culture shock stay- ing with a family of four who are very active in the com- munity and sports, but he took it all in stride, promis- ing to return to visit his adopted Canadian family again. - Meeting Planned Group '74 will be holding a a meeting for all groups Sat CTIA Nl BRE Lr Derek Leeming on September 3, i | wish him a hap 21st Birthd ay Mom, Dad & Michael If you see Love Have you checked your Insurance FARMERS' REPRESENTING: MUTUAL INSURANCE Co. (Laos) Farm-Home-Auto-Commercial-Watercraft-Cottages and persons involved in the forthcoming Harvest Festival to wrap-up last minute details. It will be held upstairs at the legion on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m. We'll have details of the festival later. } Commission ny Ontario Notice "B" KSA Energy de 'Energie RP-2000-0040 a Board de I'Ontario ENBRIDGE CONSUMERS GAS FISCAL 2001 RATES NOTICE OF APPLICATION An application dated July 25, 2000 (amended August 11, 2000 and August 21, 2000) ("the Application") has been filed by The Consumers' Gas Company Ltd., carrying on business as Enbridge Consumers Gas, ("ECG"), with the Ontario Energy Board ("the Board") under section 36 of the Ontario Energy Bourd Act, 1998 S.0. c. 15, Sch. B. Any customer of ECG may be affected by the Board's decision(s) regarding the Application. Particulars Of The Application ECG has applied for an order or orders approving or fixing just and reasonable rates for the sale, distribution, transmission, and storage of gas. The Application proposes that new rates be effective October 1, 2000 based on a forecast of results for a test year commencing October 1, 2000 and ending September 30, 2001 ("the 2001 Test Year"). The Board has assigned file number RP-2000-0040 to the Application. Under current rates, ECG forecasts a revenue deficiency in the 200} Test Year of approximatcly $326.0 million based on an 8.68 percent overall rate of return which includes a return on common equity of 9.73 percent and a proposed rate base 0f $2,976.5 million. ECG has indicated that forecasts for rate base, rate of return, and revenue deficiency for the 2001 Test Year may be amended or otherwise updated. If new rates are approved to allow ECG to recover the forecast revenue deficiency, a typical residential sales customer will experience a bill increase of approximately $225. 00 annually or about 19.0%. The Application will be supported by written and oral evidence. The written evidence will be pre-filed and may be amended, from time to time, prior to or during the course of the Board's proceedings. Pre-hearing conferences with Board Staff and the intervenors may be held in an attempt to identify and reach agreements to settle the issues arising out of the Application. Any settlement proposal will be sub- mitted to the Board for its consideration prior to the hearing(s). 1 "ECG has also applicd for an interim order adjusting the existing rates to reflect the current forecast of gas costs for the 2001 Test Year. ECG has requested that the Board proceed with the gas cost issue on an expedited basis by means of an oral or written hearing. ECG has also requested that the resultant rates be approved on an interim basis effective October 1, 2000. Gas costs represent approximately $318.0 million of the forecast revenue deficiency of $326.0 million. For a typical residential sales customer, the gas cost adjustment would translate to an annual bill increasc of - approximately $215.00 or about 18%. In addition, ECG has applied to clear the balance recorded in the Purchased Gas Variance Account ("PGVA™) as at September 30, 2000. Clearance is usually accomplished by means of a onc-time charge to customers in the first billing cycle of the following month. "ECG proposes to reduce this one-time charge by applying a portion of the gas storage inventory credits arising from the interim rate increase against the commodity related component of the PGVA. The reduced" balance in the PGVA would then be cleared by means of a one-time charge to customers commencing with the first billing cycle in October 2000. The remainder of the gas storage inventory credits would then be applied to reduce the ges supply charge payable by customers starting with the first billing cycle in October 2000. How To Sce The Applicant's Pre-filed Evidence The pre-filed evidence and any other material filed in support of the Application will be available for public inspection at the Board's office, after it is filed, and at the offices of ECG in Toronto. The address of thei respective offices is set out below. How To Intervene If you wish to intervene (i.e., actively participate) in any part of the proceeding relating to the Application, you must seek ADDRESSES Ontario Encrgy Board Attn: Mr. Paul B. Pudge Board Secretary 1-888-632-6273 If sent by mail: ¢ P.O. Box 650 (voice-toll free) Toronto, Ontario (416) 440-7656 (fax) MIK SE3 If sent by mail or delivered: If delivered: Enbridge Consumers Gas status as an intervenor by means of a letter of intervention. Your letter of intervention must be delivered or mailed to the Board Secretary and served on ECG, at the address below, within 14 days after this Notice of Application is published. Your letter of intervention must state the following: 1. your full name, address, telephone numbet, and fax or electronic access number and similar information for your counsel or other representative (if any); 2. your interest in the proceeding and the grounds for your intervention; 3. the nature and scope of your intended participation; 4. your intention to seck an award of costs if you wish to do so; and 5. your intention to participate in the hearing(s) in the French language if you wish to do so. The Board Secretary will notify all parties whether or not they have been granted intervenor status. All parties granted intervenor status will receive notice of the time and place of any pre-hearing conference(s) and of the hearing(s). The Board Secretary will maintain a list of persons who have been granted intervenor status. The Board Secretary will distribute a list of intervenors to ECG and all other parties. How To Observe If you are not interested in actively participating in the proceeding as an intervenor, but you wish to receive documents issued by the Board you must provide a written request to the Board Secretary seeking obscrver status within 14 days after this Notice of Application is published. You do not require status as an observer in order to examine documents issued by or filed with the Board in this proceeding. All such documents may be examined free of charge at the Board's office at the address below. How To Comment If you do not wish to be a party to the proceeding but you do wish to communicate your views to the Board, you may file a letter of comment with the Board Secretary at the address below. Your letter of comment must describe the nature of your interest and state clearly your views, including any relevant information that may be useful in explaining or supporting your views. You must also include your full name, address, and telephone number in your letter of comment. All letters of comment will be provided to ECG and any other party who requests a copy. Your letter of comment and any reply to it will be placed on the public record. Alternatively, if you wish to make an oral presentation at the hearing(s), you must indicate this intention by filing a letter with the Board Secretary including your intention to make your presentation in the French language if you so wish. You must also contact the Board Secretary at one of the telephone numbers below to arrange a time at which you would make your oral presentation. IMPORTANT 'IF YOU DO NOT FILE A LETTER OF INTERVENTION OR A LETTER OF COMMENT OR INDICATE TO THE BOARD SECRETARY THAT YOU WISH TO COMMENT AT THE HEARING, THE BOARD MAY PROCEED IN YOUR ABSENCE AND YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY FURTHER NOTICE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS. Procedural Orders The Board may issue Procedural Orders as to how the Application will proceed and copies will be sent to all intervenors and observers. A copy of the Board's Rules of Practice and Procedure is available from the Board Secretary. Ce document cst disponible cn francais. IT sent by mail or delivered: Aird & Berlis ® BCE Place 181 Bay Street Suite 1800, Box 754 Toronto, Ontario MS5J 2T9 DATED August 25,2000 at Toronto, Ontario. PO. Box 2319 Enbridee C . ge Consumers Gas 2300 Yonge Street 500 Consumers Road 26th Floor Toronto, Ontario Toronto, Ontario M2J I1P8 M4P 1E4 Aird & Berlis, counsel for Enbridge Enbridge Consumers Gas ) 0 2 Attn: Mr. James C. Grant Consumers Gas: * =" Director, Regulatory Affairs (416) 495-5223 (voice) (416) 495-6072 (fax) jim.grant@cgce.enbridge.com (electronic access) ONTARIO ENERGY BOARD Aun: Mr. Jerry H. Farrell (416) 865-7728 (voice) (416) 863-1515 (fax) jfarrell@airdberlis.com (clectronic access) Peter 11. 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