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Touareg
M ake a molehill out of a mountain.
Province also under
fire at Queen’s Park
By Erin Hatfield
Staff Writer
DURHAM — The provincial bud-
get isn’t sitting well in Durham Re-
gion and beyond.
From the floor of the provincial
legislature to the Region’s council
chambers, a lack of provincial dol-
lars for Durham has not gone un-
noticed.
The McGuinty government spent
large on transportation in its 2006
budget, including $670 million for
the York Region subway extension,
$95 million for transit in Brampton
and $65 million for Mississauga. But
Durham was left out of the transit
picture.
“The provincial budget was a little
disappointing for Durham Region,”
Chairman Roger Anderson said. “It
didn’t include some major infra-
structure investments on the 407,
Hwy. 7, 401, issues that are of some
significance to us, especially in re-
gards to our industrial growth and
moving traffic in and out of Dur-
ham.”
Mr. Anderson said there are still
some questions to be asked with re-
gard to ambulance funding, welfare
and social services, but he already
has his sights on the 2007 budget.
“I would hope with discussions
I have had with the premier, the
Province and others, that Durham
Transit will be looked at prior to the
end of this year by the government
and that the 2007 budget will be
a municipally oriented budget and
hopefully a little more friendly to
Durham.”
West of Markham Road, Mr. An-
derson said, the Province has spent
A LOT OF JUMP IN HIS STEP
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durhamregion.comA/P PAGE 2 THE NEWS ADVERTISER, March 31, 2006
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
PICKERING — A local
church that wants to see
youth in graduation shots,
not mug shots, wants $20,000
from Pickering to help it
achieve that goal.
Representatives from the
Word of Truth Community
Resource Centre came to
council March 20 to ask for
support to expand and sus-
tain its mentoring program.
The resource centre is run by
the Word of Truth Christian
Centre.
Alvin Adams is the admin-
istrator of the program. He
said it began because he saw
so many young, mostly black,
men being killed in Toronto
and wondered if it might be
problems in school that lead
them to a life of crime. He
thought mentoring and tu-
toring might help make more
kids want to stay in school
and on the right track.
“We didn’t want to see
them in mug shots, we want
to see them in graduation
shots,” he said.
Their hope was to have 20
students sign up, and they
ended up with 120 when
it began in April 2004. The
Saturday morning program
currently has 130 students
ranging from kindergarten to
Grade 12 .
“We’ve taken them from
the streets, the plazas, the
shops and have them in-
volved in meaningful educa-
tion,” Mr. Adams said.
The senior pastor, Rever-
end Joseph Fisher, said they
took the proactive approach.
“We are of the mindset that
the church must go to people,
not rely on people to go to the
church,” he said.
Rev. Fisher said they are
doing their part to help.
“What we’re doing is seek-
ing to help the establishment
deal with what we have in
the community – the hidden
problems and not so hidden
problems,” he said.
But they can’t do it alone
and are asking for the
$20,400 grant from council.
The request covers $11,400
to cover the cost of the edu-
cation mentoring program
and $9,000 for the youth em-
ployment program, also run
by the centre. “We’re hop-
ing that some way we can
leave here with an assurance
or with some understanding
that as a city council you are
interested in being a partici-
pant with us,” he said.
While councillors were
supportive of the program,
no decision was made on the
request.
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