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OPG investment aims
to fill void of retiring
energy workforce
By David Blumenfeld
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Recognizing the
need for a future generation of
energy specialists, Ontario Power
Generation (OPG) has announced
a $10-million investment in the
University of Ontario Institute of
Te chnology’s (UOIT) capital cam-
paign.
The funding -- to be provided in
$2-million installments annually
over a five-year period -- aims to
provide students at the university
with the latest technologies, and
high-end labs to acquire the skills
they need to succeed in the energy
sector of the future.
“O ver the next decade, (we)
will be challenged with helping
the Province meet an ever-grow-
ing need for electricity at the
very same time we experience as
much as 50 per cent attrition in
our skilled workforce due to retire-
ments,” OPG president Jim Han-
kinson said at the announcement
at UOIT on Oct. 6.
“This investment is an integral
part of our succession plan to en-
sure we have the best-prepared
candidates available to replen-
ish our knowledge-based, skilled
workforce.”
In recognition of the investment,
the new engineering building will
be named the Ontario Power Gen-
eration Engineering Building.
There are nearly 700 students
enrolled in UOIT’s engineering
degree programs, Mr. Hankinson
said, and from a business stand-
point, investing in UOIT and Dur-
ham College made sense.
“These academic institutions
benefit from being close to OPG’s
nuclear facilities and the exper-
tise of our employees,” he said.
“We benefit from being close to a
large pool of career-ready gradu-
ates that these institutions and
their programs provide. This helps
OPG, but it also helps the energy
industry, this community and ev-
eryone in Ontario.”
A.J. Groen/ News Advertiser photo
Ontario Power Generation announced yesterday it is donating $10 million over five years to the University of On-
tario Institute of Technology. From left, OPG president Jim Hankinson; Thomas Coughlan, president of the students’
association; and Dr. Gary Polonsky, the UOIT and Durham College president, were on hand as an artist’s rendering
of the OPG Engineering Building was unveiled.
UOIT energized by $10-million donation
Councillors want
concerns addressed
By Mike Ruta
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Durham Region
will work with the towns of Ajax
and Whitby to determine why
more than 100 Durham homes
flooded in an August storm.
As part of the process, regional
staff plan to meet with Ajax resi-
dents, by far the most affected by
the Aug. 19 rain event. Of the 113
flooded basement calls the Region
received, 106 were from Ajax. A
number of areas in Pickering were
also hit hard by the storm.
At the Oct. 5 works committee
meeting, councillors debated the
merits of having a public meeting
sooner rather than later. Several
council members, including Dur-
ham Chairman Roger Anderson
and committee chairman Marcel
Brunelle, argued it was pointless
to meet with residents if there was
nothing concrete to tell them in
terms of an action plan. But other
councillors, including two from
Ajax, won the day.
“We’re going to sit and wait?” a
worked-up Ajax Regional Coun-
cillor Colleen Jordan asked when
it appeared a meeting could be
put off for months. “The anxiety
level is very high and we need to
talk to the people and tell them
what we’re going to look at, what
is the town of Ajax going to look
at.”
Oshawa Regional Councillor
Nester Pidwerbecki had moved
that a meeting be arranged “as
soon as possible.” However Brock
Mayor Keith Shier and Ajax Re-
gional Councillor Scott Crawford
said that wasn’t good enough.
“It is open-ended,” said Coun.
Crawford. “As soon as possible
could be May 2006.”
He accepted Mr. Anderson’s
amendment that the meeting take
place before the end of the year.
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Provincial funding
addresses five areas
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Although Hume
Martin is pleased with the extra
money to reduce wait times from
the Province, he says
there are other areas
that could use extra
funding too.
“We’re very grateful
for the ongoing sup-
port,” said the president
and chief executive of-
ficer of the Rouge Valley
Healthy System.
The Province an-
nounced $39.3 million
as part of the second
phase of its Wait Times Strategy,
which is to improve access to five
key health-care services: cataract
surgeries, total hip and knee joint
replacements, cancer surgeries,
MRI exams and cardiac proce-
dures.
Rouge Valley is getting $1.115
million. The money means 140
more hip and knee joint replace-
ments, 96 more cataract surgeries
and 312 more MRI exams. Joint
replacements are done at the
Centenary and Ajax
sites, while cataract
and MRIs are done
only at Centenary.
Mr. Martin said those
were the amounts the
hospital was expecting
as the McGuinty gov-
ernment has worked to
decrease wait times.
“C learly this is a very
high priority for this
government and we as
a hospital are trying to assist the
government to speed up access
for the public,” Mr. Martin said.
Children’s mental health, emer-
gency room and women’s health
are other areas where wait times
need to be addressed, he said.
“You got to start somewhere
and the government is focusing
on these five.”
Mr. Martin said there should
be another announcement soon
about waiting times, detailing
how long they are at each hospi-
tal.
“What we’re going to be looking
for is how much variance there is
between surgeons in our organi-
zation and how do they compare
to other systems,” he said.
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PICKERING — A couple of
stray roaches gave away a man
who was found to be carry-
ing more than $200,000 worth
of drugs on a Pickering street
corner, Durham Regional Police
said.
An officer had stopped a man
near Whites and Kingston roads
Wednesday around 6 p.m. on
suspicion of a probation viola-
tion and asked him to provide
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PICKERING — John Sabean
is a leader in heritage preserva-
tion in Pickering.
Or at least that’s what Picker-
ing council thinks.
Council passed a motion Oct.
3 to nominate Mr. Sabean as
a Heritage Leader under the
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