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Town budget on hold
over $900,000 glitch
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by (;Tenn Hendry
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Approval of Ptckering's
promised zero tax increase
ibudget
has been put on hold
fir a nmonth to give staff and
council lime to make up for
a $9()0.00(1 "oversight."
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Council was supposed to
be ready this week with the
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budget but staff discovered
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in error in the figures of
«
rmearly SI million last week.
Town manager Tim
Sheffieldd admitted the mis-
calculation was linked to a
$1.1 million reduction in
provincial transfer payments
Pickering will have to
absorb this year.
While council has the
option of dipping into
reserve funds to to make up
the neccessary mill rate
reduction, regional council-
lor Doug Dickerson said
council will look at "other
ways" to make up the short-
fall.
Regional councillor
Maurice Brenner tried to
inject sonic humor into the
discussion, saying that staff
should try and find a militia
payroll shipment that is
rumored to have been ship-
wrecked near Frenchman's
Bay in the 1700s
"if we want to achieve a
zero increase," he said, "that
may just do it."
Canada Trust okays
heritage tree planting
by Glenn Hendry
Canada Tm: : h,,..,reed to
foot a �s' x.000 hill for her-
itagr ircc planting it
PJ: lhu►lull. the president
of P ,i ..: Museum
Advi,i,rs Committee, said
trees that were native to the
arca in the late 1800's, like
maples. basswood, mountain
ash. elderberrvs. cooseberrvs
and dogwoods. will be plant-
ed to attract wildlife and pro-
vide cover and give
schoolchildren a "better fla-
vor of life" in that period.
The money will come from
Canada Trust's Friends of the
Environment Foundation.
: Eight -lot rural plan
headed to OMB
by Glenn Hendry
After more than two hours
of debate from 23 public
speakers, Pickering Council
bucked trtrtdition and approved
an eight -lot development in
Clairmont Monday night.
Staff had recommended a
deferral, but with the proposal
headed to the Ontario
.Municipal Board (OMB) no
matter what the town's deci-
sion, councillors opted to take
a stand Monday night.
The proposal, on a site at
Westney Road and 90
Concession, has been eight
years in the making. Pickering,
and later Durham and the
OMB, refused an application
from Corky de Graauw for a
golf course and housing devel-
opment three years ago, but de
Graauw later received the
town's blessing for the golf
course only.
The developer, who has
owned the 4.6 hectare plot of
land since 1986, then went
back to council seeking the
akay for his houses.
de Graauw was in atten-
dance at Monday's meeting
with many of the residents of
Claremont. Some were in sup-
port of the proposal, but most.
like Sheldon Rankin, were not.
Rankin called de Graauw
proposal a 'bastardization' of
the planning process and the
antithesis of planning.' -
Bill Wilder, a local farther,
complained of the scarcity of
grazing land for his cattle (the
site is within a permanent agri-
cultural preserve) and claimed
approval of the plan would be
'giving Mr. de graauw a blank
cheque.'
Ray Hoy, another local resi-
dent. also chimed in his disap-
proval, alleging de Graauw
only built the golf course
because 'it's the quickest way
to get a subdivision
(approved).'
Other speakers noted the
plan is calling for just eight
houses and demanded council
get on with iL'
Council agreed, and
approved the proposal by a nar-
row 4-3counL
Councillors Sherry Senis
(who said the impact of the
development will be minimal),
Enrico Pistritto, Rick Johnson
and Mayor Wayne Arthurs
voted in favor of the project;
Councillors Maurice Brenner,
Dave Ryan and Doug
Dickerson said nay.
Lions and Lioness club
collect used eyeglasses
During the last weekend of
March 1996 the Lions and
Lioness Clubs of Ajax are
holding a used eyeglass
collection campaign,
The public is invited to bring
old and unused eyeglasses to
the following drop off depots,
Ajax Optical 56 Harwood
Ave. S., Old Harwood Plaza
Kearns Optical 75 Bayly St.
Ste 3, Baywoods Plaza
Dr. Ron Ginter 676
Monarch Ave. S., Unit 10A
Ever since Helen Kellar
many years ago challenged
'Lions and Lioness clubs to be
"Knights of the Blind", the
Lions International
Organization has been worku►g
in sight related areas around the
world. This campaign is one
where the general public can
become involved without
having to dig into its pockets
and contribute money.
Lions and Lioness clubs
collect used eyeglasses all year
long, however, at this time
clubs across central Ontario are
conducting a week -end long
campaign with a goal of
collecting 50,000 pairs of used
eyeglasses.
This is a special effort and
the public is invited to get
involved by simply dropping
off your old and used
eyeglasses at the designated
depot. This is a major
humanitarian effort and the
public support is appreciated.
Suicide Intervention
Workshop
The Canadian Mental
Health Association /
Durham Branch is spon-
soring, for a third time,
"Suicide Intervention."
This two-day, intensive,
participatory course is
designed to help care-
givers recognize and
assess persons at risk.
The course is being
offered on May 2 and 3,
1996, at Durham College.
Cos( is $130. Registration
is limited to 22 partici-
pants. For more inforTna-
tiun call CMHA at 436-
8760.
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Water plant costs double
b}' ,lohn Cooper
"The coy i of the new Ajax
water plant is ballooning out
of control," says Janis
Mitchell of the Ajax Save the
Waterfront Committee.
Among the concerns: actual
costs may be nearly double
the initial estimate, there's a
possible million -dollar real
estate loss and it's a wasteful
approach to an important nat-
ural resource. Mitchell says.
But others on the board of
the water plant project are
confident the plant will meet
the needs of the community.
Ttte water plant. originally
estimated at a cost of $77 mil-
lion and now pegged by the
region at $93 million, will in
fact const more thin $138 mil-
lion when $44 million in
interest paid over 15 years is
factored in, says Mitchell.
.Durham Region Commis-
sioner of Finance, Jack
Gartley, confirmed that the
gross cost, with interest, does
in fact conte close to $139
million. Gamey said the net
figure is $129 million, after
deducting a provincial grant
of $7.6 million and revenue
($2.2 million) from the resale
of properties in the area.
The project will be under-
taken by Canadian Dredge
and Dock Inc. (construction of
a raw water intake pipe, $16.3
million) and Kenaidan
Contracting Ltd. (construction
of water supply plant, $77.4
Million).
Mitchell says the loss of
revenue to the town and the
region is enormous.
According to a Durham
Region Works Department
report, the purchase of nine
homes was estimated at $2.5
million-, the cost for the
remaining three (still occupied
by their owners) is estimated
at 5700.000, for a total of $3.2
million. In the same report,
the resale of the properties in
question is estimated at $2.2
million, a loss of $1 million.
Ajax Ward 4 Councillor Pat
Brown says she is confident
the money paid out for the
homes will be recouped after
the plant is built. "When these
homes are sold. the money
will go back in." says Brown.
On the plus side, the plant
will have such safeguards as
tritium detection and equip-
ment to prevent zebra mussel
intake. The cost of the addi-
tional equipment was
S8(]0.000, says Brown.
Brown admits that costs
have increased, but says there
was a need to pay for the spe-
cific expertise required for the
job. 'There are only so many
people who can do it out
there," she says, adding that
she is particularly pleased that
the plant will handle "95 per-
cent of capacity for the subdi-
visions" lined up for Ajax in
the next several years.
Ajax Mayor Steve Parish
admits the latest price tag of
$93 million (without the inter-
est charges) is greatly inflated
over the $77 million estimate.
"The problem with a project
of that scale is that you don't
know what the final cost will
really be," he says. "It's a sig-
nificant variance front the first
estimate."
Parish says his priority is to
service the A-3 and A-7
industrial lands in the east end
of Ajax, in order to attract
more commercial and indus-
trial firms to the town and
change the town's current
80/20 residential/commercial
ratio.
"Those A-3 and A-7 indus-
trial lands will have the capa-
bility of being developed,"
says Parish. "We'll have a
reversal of that (80110) ratio
and the ability of new industry
to locate in .Ajax -- and that
means jobs. That's my pnon-
ty. My primary concem is get-
ting the water and sewer
capacity in place."
Mitchell adds she is both-
ered that Durham is "not
doing water conservation
first" before spending money
on a water plant. "Other
municipalities did it and saved
a lot of money. And yet.
Durham Region will not even
try conservation fust."
Mitchell says such items as
retrofitted, low-pressure taps
could be installed at "no cost
to the region. There are com-
panies who will do the retrofit
and they don't even charge the
region. Why didn't they do
that?"
Rich Krechowicz of Call
Rich Eco Services Inc., an
ecological consulting and ser-
vice firm in Oshawa, says he
has been lobbying the region
for more than a year to devel-
op water saving initiatives, to
no avail.
Krechowicz says that
installing a water -efficient toi-
let, which uses six litres per
flush, can save hundreds of
litres of water annually when
compared to old-style (any-
where from 13 to 23 litre
capacity) toilets.
"rm sure you could retrofit
every house in Pickering and
Ajax," he says, adding that
water -saving devices are used
effectively elsewhere, such as
Barrie and Kitchener -
Waterloo, and are often
installed at no cost to the
municipalities. Contractors
earn a fee from businesses
based on the percentage of
water costs saved on the
year's water bill.
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a Whitchurch-Stouffville: A study in amalgamation
-4 By .lohn C(x)per
A Would Ajax -Pickering be
O known as Ajapick'' Or
44. Pickax''
The Golden Report's rec-
ce ommendations of amalga-
mating municipalities and
s creating a super -council for
the entire Greater Toronto
Area have raised many
questions. But it's not the
first time that streamlining
governments to improve
cost-cf7fectiveness has been
iiscussed. Twenty-five
)-cars ago it was a hot topic
in the GTA as the regional
governments of York.
Durham, Peel, Metropolitan
Toronto and Halton were
established to replace the
old county system.
Few know the issue better
than the former mayors of
Whitchurch-Stouffville,
Fran Sainsbury and Gordon
Ratcliff. The town (pop.
18.500), was created by
amalgamating the township
of Whitchurch with the vil-
lage of Stouffville in 1971.
At the time of amalgama-
tion, it had a small joint
population (12,000) spread
across 82 square miles, with
162 km of roads.
A real estate agent who
served variously as council-
lor, regional councillor and
mayor of Whitchurch-
Stouffville for more than 20
years, Sainsbury said the
amalgamation had a divi-
sive effect on the entire
region, particularly in
Whitchurch to the west.
This was exacerbated by the
construction of Highway
404 to improve commuter
access to Metro Toronto.
"The 404 split the com-
munity right up the middle,
dividing hamlets like
Gormley. Before, they were
all a very happy communi-
ty," she said. "That was a
very frustrating experi-
ence."
Gordon Ratcliff, who
served as mayor during the
time of the amalgamation,
agreed. The move had a
particular effect on
Whitchurch residents, who
saw themselves more close-
ly aligned with the nearby
�— PUBLIC NOTICE
THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY
OF DURHAM
IN THE MATTER OF,
THE MUNICIPAL
ACT
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Rep,onai Munxupality of Durham may pass by-laws authorizing
mastruct" of the folkrwme protects
ROAD NO. ROAD NAME MUNICIPALITY
DESCRIPTIONILOCATION
I Main Street Lhondge
Reconstnxxgn
tram Brock st to
Reacr, St
3 Stn Cont Clarrngton
UpgrW ng to eoceptabie standards.
4 Taunton Road Whitby
Wdernng to 4 and 5 lane urban
from McKinney Dr to
standard
west of Anderson St
5 Central St Pickervrp
Rehabildation nckjduV a culvert
horn Claremont By-pass to
replacernent east of Barclay SL
the wast knd of Claremore
14 Liberty Street I Clarwoton
Intersection ,mprovernents
Wap street
kxersecton
58 Adelaide Avenue Oshawa
Rehatiddatron
from Park Rd to
Stevenson Rd
Hwy 2 Hphway 2 CWvvton
Reconsiuctron to urban standards
horn west of Waverly Rd
including; the removal of wperehrAdion.
to east of Green Rd
Hwy_ 2 Hohwmy 2 Nu
Road and intersection rnprovernents
from Westney Rd. to
including repair to Duffin Crude Bridge and
Notion Rd
the installation of Ights at Elizabeth St.
MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS
14 Liberty Stroet / Clerirtgton
Intersection impmo nrsrts rock I'm g 14
C.oncssaw St
ktwsecbon
tarn lanes and the rtstoNabon d' M,
eigrws.
23128 Lskeridge Road ApxlWhitby
Intersection impwsmsfts irrkx ing lsR
Rowland Road
tarn Innes on Lakenidpe Rd. and the
Intersection
of traffic
Plants shamV the details d the wgects and the lands
Worts C muttee. being delegated by
affected may be seen at the duces of the Durham Works
Regional Conseil as the hesmg body
Department, 105 Consarners Dr.. Whitby. Ontario.
shad hear in person or by his or her
Tele 688-7721 or 1-800.372-1103
counsel. eokctor or agent, any person
pr"xkcwNy affected by the by-laws
and who applies on or before Apel 13th,
Dated at Whitby this 18th day of March, 1996.
1996. to the mlersgwd to be heard
T PREVEDEL, P. ENG.
at a maetrV d the Wong Cornnttee on
DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION
1ApnI 16th, 1996
V,IL, SILOAIUS, P. ENO.
COMMISSIONER OF WORKS
communities of Aurora and
Newmarket.
"This left Stouffville in a
very awkward position,"
said Ratcliff. "With the
town seat in Stouffville, we
had to fight to unite the
town all together."
There is a sense of com-
munity that is lost under
amalgamation, added
Sainsbury. "That's where I
have a problem with going
from 35 municipalities to
perhaps half that many.
Boundaries are changed and
towns lose their identity."
The history of it village
can be devastatingly affect-
ed, she said. "We could
probably lose sonic of our
amenities like our muse-
um... antique stores and log
cabins, that have all been
donated over time. That's
our history. -
Ratcliff said many in
N''hitchurch were satisfied
with the old-style county
council government and
didn't want to change.
Besides, some of the shared
services that were supposed
to come into being under
amalgamation, such as
Hydro service, didn't hap-
pen as planned. Because of
its vast distances and low
population, Whitchurch
continued to be serviced by
Ontario Hydro rather than
the municipality.
But Ratcliff, who worked
as a farmer and spent sonic
time on the hydro commis-
sion before retiring in
Stouffville, admitted that
the amalgamation helped
streamline police services.
"Whitchurch had its own
police system and
Stouffville had one as
well," he said. "I think a
larger policing system
works better. It's harder for
a small municipality, it's
more costly to run a police
service." And Whitchurch
at the time had no fire
department of its own and
relied on Markham or
Aurora for that service.
Selling people on the
benefits of the amalgama-
tion was an uphill battle,
said Ratcliff. Consider
library services.
"Stouffville had a library
and we enlarged it, but peo-
ple from the west side
(Whitchurch) didn't come to
Stouffville to the library,"
said Ratcliff. "They went to
Aurora or Newmarket,
because that's where they
went to shop. It was bad
because Stouffville is right
at the cast side of the
region."
One of the positive
aspects of regional govern-
ment was "the larger pool-
ing of resources so the
smaller towns would have
better roads," said
Sainsbury. "Thal worked
well. The Region of York
(covering Whitchurch-
Stouffville) has served its
communities well. Right
now the services only cost
us $ I a day."
Sainsbury is now con-
cemed about the possibility
of Whitchurch-Stouffville
being absorbed by
Markham to the south. "If
we're annexed by Markham
we'll lose our name. How
can you serve 4.5 million
people from one little coun-
cil?'
GTA threat encourages sharing
between municipalities
by John Cooper
A joint public/private
sector venture is being
touted as a new marketing
initiative to boost future
economic development in
the Greater Toronto Area,
GTA mayors and regional
chairs heard at their
monthly meeting on
March 22.
The GTA Economic
Development Partnership,
representing 35 municipal-
ities and regional chairs in
the GTA, endorsed an eco-
nomic development model
for a ;;permanent
public/private sector orga-
nization to handle eco-
nomic development in the
GTA.
.The model was devel-
oped from research by the
Canadian Urban Institute,
which matte the presenta-
tion to the group. It was
decided that an interim
committee will develop' a
detailed business plan for
the new organization
"To date, private sector
involvement in the
Partnership's activities has
been focused on specific
projects, such as trade
shows and promotion
events," said Karen
Campbell, co-chair of the
GTA Economic
Development partnership
and economic develop-
ment director for the City
of Mississauga. "Building
on this base of experience,
the JbTA Economic
Development Partnership
also recognizes the value
of leveraging resources
through private sector
partners and has identified
this as a high priority in
1996."
::,.,:,:The organization has
been worlong cooperative-
ly to market the GTA
since 1993, a news release
issued by the City of
Mississauga said
Certainly the need for
economic development
has been well-established
According to. Libby
Burnham, chair of the
Golden Report's review
panel, economic growth.
tax concerns and lack : of
communication were the
major themes the panel
beard during its four
weeks of hearings.
.Ajax Mayor Steve
Parish called the idea a
positive step forward. "I
think it's definitely the
way we should be going,"
he said. "We've got to get
very serious about it
because the jobs we can
attract here will make the
difference between having
a vibrant economy or one
with high unemployment.
"Ajax and Pickering
have already taken the
notion of shared resources
a step further by entering
into key discussions on the
subject." PariA said. "We
are involved in an explo-
ration of various aspects to.
see what kind of sharing
opportunities .there ar,"
he said.Antras of interest
include the sharrtig of
printing services and sotine
fire protecdon eq*mem
"We are investigating
these as a way of saying,
'Lets _focus so that each
town can benefit,'" said
Parish. "These are small
items right now. If they
work, we can get into
more significant areas.
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. ew to the Spring fishing
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when buying sporting goods,
you should always buy the best
gear that you can reasonably
afford. Exprrience has proven
that if you cheap -out, the
equipment will either not
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philosophy, I would find it
difficult to pan with over $450
(marked down from $539), for
one of the spinning reels I saw
at the show. For $450, I want a
reel that drives me to the creek,
baits the hook, makes lunch,
takes me home at the end of the
day and then cooks the fish it
caught.
You should be able to
purchase a reel PLUS a graphite
rod that will give you years of
quality service for between $90
and S150. The kind of fishing
you do, as well as how many
times you go out, should
influence the type of equipment
you buy. If you are out on Lake
Ontario every day in the
summer downrigging for
Chinooks and Rainbows, you
should consider higher quality
gear than would someone who
fishes for, say, three or four
days during the time spent at
the cottage.
When buying equipment for
the kids, use the same rule. Buy
good quality gear. Start them
out with a push button spin cast
reel and fiberglass rod and. as
they get older and fund they like
this fishing business, graduate
them to an open face spinning
reel and a better rod. A cheap
outfit will only break down,
tangle and make it difficult for
the young'uns to learn the
basics of casting and retrieving.
It will also just raise everyone's
frustration level and we all
know who gets to son out the
tangles while they fish with
your year.
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organization, which receives
funding from the Ministries of
Health and Community and
Social Services and has been
helping children with special
needs and their families in
Durham Region since 1954.
Grandview is currently
looking for volunteers to assist
in a number of ways, by par-
ticipating on committees of
the Board, participating as a
member of the Board of
Trustees, assisting with activi-
ties of the newly established
"Grandview Children's
Foundation", or assisting in a
vanety of activities related to
service delivery.
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information, or submit a beef
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letter outlining your interest,
to: Executive Director,
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600 Townline Road South,
Oshawa, Ontario
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The danger of too
much power
% watched with mlurst last week as a bw group of Piclering
taxpayers went doom in Dames - again - in their F0 over what is
now known as the "Oklahoma Speedway." But, despile the 16 acci-
dents and, even though local tesidents have mgtrested a money -saving
solution, their pleas (and petitions) have largely gone igtwred.
Because the people in power think trey have a bettor. albeit far more
costly. solution than that suggested by the residents who live with the
problan day-lo-iday.
How often do petitions make a whit of diti mce?
Currently, we are watching as Hydro employees attempt to prevent
privitn tion of the giant utility we have come io ktww orad suspect.
They, too, have elected the petition route, tntstisg that this might
dumge the direction of decision. Our bet is that this petition will be
treated like most others: glanced at aced igsored.
Power (dectric or personal) can be a terrifying force. Wham otdi-
any people gain einordiary pais the results can be devastating.
Think of It: The man AD, yesaiiday, may have ben sable to bal-
ance his own dregme book cold. today, be taking die deaspaa on
wbether or mot a tr ft h& gots i3O. a social tidily is sold io the
highest bidder, or a mttaicolky lanes i1s; ideality.
Vk have sever had mach rapes for postal authori6ar - thoe w
aged I ise - leader✓'„ who hue m maged on, wipe aid calf the Me -
lets and vilages is Ontario ad the test of Caeada Aad few ad'wy
had tt e& say when it can io the eaeatioa of regional now
ennest. Lie it or sot, we saw another kid of govenmat hoisted
upas a, while vilaps ad towwNpit btxamm lot forever - INM
away as if their Wentty tied Will were of oro importaam - an, that
slap lines could be straight
Amdgamum seed not be a bid &m& If approached logicft it
cis wort for the good of cell - Emucially ad iioddly. Bat it to n
d we, diaaatioo ad cud'd pmaisg by the nnak0dities dros-
shm Wham die liaa arc draws d old aleva be decided by Mw
te=W pav&s at a distance, vri9t madding goiiag for dims alter duce
power ask! posittiaL We give ym at a pan
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tkspita whit air httal arryar: sat: anyirg. we haYvelilde Tailor that
6e GTA wet go ahead psdty s■& as #6=L Cal is dial it y a
wA, but if hialory is sty kind of 3 - th &2 we don't bold at asci
hops do public atilt wil be caMesed, is nay way, by be Test► tabu
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I8 oar view, there is sly at way dW Ajar orad Pkbe&g A*V
have nay say over the ded iaiea of our two atsmaaioier. By imniag
a committee of gess ad bamma* o• our own as os,
we might be able to pttsest a voice atnag a ogle io bold oar an is
the battle with the GTA. Aad VW* knight regia iia Lis-
wricai position nor die riglidW centre oMc:briW Bat k wa'tWM=
hem. W a poem wodd tegrdte eoopem m has oar load one -
cis - anal* in die laas(if pttserfor aamm aoaad M : , ,
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Racism a deplorable tradition
Dear Sirs:
Like most people 1 know, I am disgusted by racism. I am
also disgusted by the apathy most people exhibit towards this
problem. lis easy to blame a few students from a local high
school as the perpetrators of racism, and then forget about the
issue altogether. Unfortunately, these students represent a tiny
portion of the problem in our region, and by dismissing the
issue, our complicity simply allows this offense between the
races to escalate.
I believe racism is a behaviour which is taught. It is a
deplorable tradition in which parents have instructed their chil-
dren to follow certain stereotypes, prejudices and intolerances.
It is so common in our society, that we have even accepted
minor aspects of it - including jokes. We must realize than even
seemingly innocent acts like this, as well as the more extreme
doings, can hurt.
I realize that the majority of the people in Durham Region
condemn racism. We must, however, make a more active effort
to help abolish it. I am hoping that the recent "Spring Free
From Racism" carrogn, which was launched with the arrival
of the new season, will act as a catalyst for our communities to
make a stronger dynamic attempt to allow evMb& to work
STEPPING STONES
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together comfortably.
I.E. Papakonstantinou
"Co -fare" is unfair
Letter to the F,ditor:
Pickering Council should riot implement a "co -fare" user fee
for Pickering Transit= Transit riders for three main reasons.
1. When more people use public transit, car emissions are
reduced and air quality is improved for all Pickering residents.
Fare hikes discourage public transit use.
2. A "co -fare" payment targets Pickering's poorest residents
and leaves the wealthiest untouched. We all pay taxes for build-
ing and repairing roads, but only car owners use mads for free.
3. If council believes that public transit sbmw be accessible,
they shouldn't increase costs further. Commuters already spend
$11.80 for a one day trip to Toronto (GO Transit "Day Pass"
from Pickering Station to Union Station is $8.30, TTC two -fare
is $3.50).
The "co -fare" proposal does not honour a 0% tax increase - it
increases taxes without honour. If you are going to increase
taxes, than increase taxes progressively (fairly) ... not regres-
sively, ("co-farely").
Neil WUlatd
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siding lasts virtually forever
of Pickering's Carroll Home
Improvement. "The only thing
you should do with it is wipe it
down, but most people don't
even do that. But if you take
care of it it'll hold its shine for-
ever."
Both aluminum and vinyl
sidings are durable and resis-
!.ant to insects, moisture and
tare, athough aluminum must
be grounded for lightning pro-
tection. Aluminum comes in
more colours than vinyl (and
00OKS AND
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Professionally insudied, or do it yourself for extra savings.
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9'5 ?rock Rd S Pickering ESTIMATE OR
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holds its shine better) but
Carroll noted a wood -grain -
look vinyl variety is very pop-
ular right now.
The only caveat with siding
is its cost, although it must be
remembered that, unlike paint,
it is a one-time thing. The
average cost to professionally
paint a house would be $1,200
to $1,500. Siding costs for sof-
fit, facia and eaves for the
average house could run
$2,000 to $3.000, installed.
and protecting your entire
house could cost another
$3.000 to $5.000.
You could do it cheaper
yourself, but Carroll cautions
that the job would be very
time-consuming.
"You could buy the stuff in
the larger hardware chains but
you may be better off buying
top-quality - heavier guage -
siding from an independent
contractor. Also, if you do it
yourself you can usually only
get (eavestrough) siding in 10 -
foot lengths. We can run a
r worl,
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by Glenn Hendry
us
A fresh coat of paint is a
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sure-fire bet to spruce up your
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house. Unfortunately, it takes
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time - a lot of it - and money
and should be done at least
every three years.
Aluminum or vinyl siding.
on the other hand, goes on but
once and lasts virtually forever.
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"It's maintenance - free.
look: _,resit and lasts forever.
Rather than paint, it's a great
Pickering Town Centre
alternative." said Keith Carroll
siding lasts virtually forever
of Pickering's Carroll Home
Improvement. "The only thing
you should do with it is wipe it
down, but most people don't
even do that. But if you take
care of it it'll hold its shine for-
ever."
Both aluminum and vinyl
sidings are durable and resis-
!.ant to insects, moisture and
tare, athough aluminum must
be grounded for lightning pro-
tection. Aluminum comes in
more colours than vinyl (and
00OKS AND
000,
WINDOWS FOR LESS
f
Professionally insudied, or do it yourself for extra savings.
PYTHON BUILDING SUPPLIES INC. (FOR FREE
9'5 ?rock Rd S Pickering ESTIMATE OR
(905) 420-0188 -,1-800-463-5899 SHOWROOM
holds its shine better) but
Carroll noted a wood -grain -
look vinyl variety is very pop-
ular right now.
The only caveat with siding
is its cost, although it must be
remembered that, unlike paint,
it is a one-time thing. The
average cost to professionally
paint a house would be $1,200
to $1,500. Siding costs for sof-
fit, facia and eaves for the
average house could run
$2,000 to $3.000, installed.
and protecting your entire
house could cost another
$3.000 to $5.000.
You could do it cheaper
yourself, but Carroll cautions
that the job would be very
time-consuming.
"You could buy the stuff in
the larger hardware chains but
you may be better off buying
top-quality - heavier guage -
siding from an independent
contractor. Also, if you do it
yourself you can usually only
get (eavestrough) siding in 10 -
foot lengths. We can run a
seamless eavestrough.
"The other thing, if you've
never done this, you should
know it's not as easy as it
looks...
Decisions, decisions. If you
opt for siding, professionally
installed, spring has sprung
and now is the time to call if
you want your home looking
fresh and clean for summer.
Slate roofing
Slate roofing comes in
two types— premium clear
pieces and ribbon slate.
Ribbon slate is not as
durable as the premium clear
product. It is distinguished
by the ribbons of light color
that run across its surface.
The ribbons are high -carbon -
content areas. They are an
impurity in the slate and are
weaker than the dark areas.
Slate comes in gray, pur-
ple, green and red. Properly
installed it has incredible
durability. It doesn't require
much maintenance, although
an old slate roof might need
a little tender loving care,
such as fixing the occasional
cracked piece.
Kids can
'times in
Now parents who dread
trying to entertain bored kids
during long summer days
can send them on a treasure
hunt in their back yard.
The Wildflower Field
Guide And Press
(Workman), combines botan-
ical exploration and flower
press with environmentally
sound activities that tutu any
kid's neighborhood into a
fertile playing field.
City, town or country,
wildflowers don't just grow
in the wild, they're every-
where: buttercups sprouting
from cracks in the sidewalk;
black-eyed susans popping
up in playing fields: or dan-
delions growing from a back
doorstep.
In the Wildflower Field
Guide, Carol Ann Campbell,
a naturalist, accompanies
budding botanists out into
the field as they hunt fo
common wildflowers.
With field notes that pro-
vide each species' history,
average height, habitat an
bloorning time, kids start
search. Using the guide's
have wild
own yard
color illustrations and a bit
of detective work, they iden-
tify and classify the flowers
they've found.
Along the way, kids learn
how plants take care of
themselves, the role they
play in meals and medicine
and why some open at sun-
rise while others wait for
evening.
.Once they've collected
fresh wildflowers, kids dry
their catch in the sturdy
Wildflower Press and can
preserve them in a record
book called a herbarittm or
use them to create greeting
cards, stationary and other
imaginative crafts.
After a few_ forages
through the neighborhood,
kids may know more botany
that many weekend garden-
ers.
Perhaps a summer of col-
t lecting will grow into a life-
long passion for nature... or
at least a new appreciation of
science class.
d The Wildflower Field
the Guide And Press is available
M
at many bookstores.
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Lawn Care
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♦A62MY lY�ltt \
73
age -
1 `
FIVE APPLICATIONS PROGRAM
1) Early Spring Fertktotlon
2) Spring Weed Contra
3) Summer Fertilization
-4) Fall Weed Contra
i) Fall Fertilization
Most lawns only $120.00 per seasonl
(Based on average sized lot)
• AM granular fertilizer
• insect control, crab gross control, and aeration available as required
• professional applied by licensed applicator
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renowned Canadian landscape artist
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(931-1242)
Thursday, March 28
7PM -- 9PM
Our
"Canadians Exhibit'
continues to
Jill
Easter Sunday, April 7
seamless eavestrough.
"The other thing, if you've
never done this, you should
know it's not as easy as it
looks...
Decisions, decisions. If you
opt for siding, professionally
installed, spring has sprung
and now is the time to call if
you want your home looking
fresh and clean for summer.
Slate roofing
Slate roofing comes in
two types— premium clear
pieces and ribbon slate.
Ribbon slate is not as
durable as the premium clear
product. It is distinguished
by the ribbons of light color
that run across its surface.
The ribbons are high -carbon -
content areas. They are an
impurity in the slate and are
weaker than the dark areas.
Slate comes in gray, pur-
ple, green and red. Properly
installed it has incredible
durability. It doesn't require
much maintenance, although
an old slate roof might need
a little tender loving care,
such as fixing the occasional
cracked piece.
Kids can
'times in
Now parents who dread
trying to entertain bored kids
during long summer days
can send them on a treasure
hunt in their back yard.
The Wildflower Field
Guide And Press
(Workman), combines botan-
ical exploration and flower
press with environmentally
sound activities that tutu any
kid's neighborhood into a
fertile playing field.
City, town or country,
wildflowers don't just grow
in the wild, they're every-
where: buttercups sprouting
from cracks in the sidewalk;
black-eyed susans popping
up in playing fields: or dan-
delions growing from a back
doorstep.
In the Wildflower Field
Guide, Carol Ann Campbell,
a naturalist, accompanies
budding botanists out into
the field as they hunt fo
common wildflowers.
With field notes that pro-
vide each species' history,
average height, habitat an
bloorning time, kids start
search. Using the guide's
have wild
own yard
color illustrations and a bit
of detective work, they iden-
tify and classify the flowers
they've found.
Along the way, kids learn
how plants take care of
themselves, the role they
play in meals and medicine
and why some open at sun-
rise while others wait for
evening.
.Once they've collected
fresh wildflowers, kids dry
their catch in the sturdy
Wildflower Press and can
preserve them in a record
book called a herbarittm or
use them to create greeting
cards, stationary and other
imaginative crafts.
After a few_ forages
through the neighborhood,
kids may know more botany
that many weekend garden-
ers.
Perhaps a summer of col-
t lecting will grow into a life-
long passion for nature... or
at least a new appreciation of
science class.
d The Wildflower Field
the Guide And Press is available
M
at many bookstores.
TOP GROWTH
Lawn Care
EMMA
♦A62MY lY�ltt \
73
age -
1 `
FIVE APPLICATIONS PROGRAM
1) Early Spring Fertktotlon
2) Spring Weed Contra
3) Summer Fertilization
-4) Fall Weed Contra
i) Fall Fertilization
Most lawns only $120.00 per seasonl
(Based on average sized lot)
• AM granular fertilizer
• insect control, crab gross control, and aeration available as required
• professional applied by licensed applicator
Your Earth - In Search of Hyakutake
(and other celestial events)
It was a night so rare that it
changed my perspective on the
entire Universe. The sky, still
illuminated by the setting sun,
was flawless. Not a cloud nor a
single trail of jet stream
marred the sapphire orb that
encircled me. Slowly, as the
last rosy rays of light faded on
the horizon, the stars began to
shine overhead like tiny
perfect diamonds.
It was almost as if I were
standing inside a giant blue
light bulb, and that the stars
were pinpoints of lights
peeking through tiny rents in
the fabric of my heavenly
enclosure. Rather than feeling
like I was facing the vastness
of infinity, I felt safely
contained within my perfect
blue dome.
Albert Einstein once said
that the inconceivable thing
about the Universe it is that it
is at all conceivable. Closer to
the point, my husband jokes
that simply standing outside
under a starry sky is a
courageous act. If the law of
gravity were to be suddenly
repealed, we'd all be space
dust. Looking up into the
heavens on that perfectly clear
evening, I began to appreciate
both our place in the heavens,
and my home on this planet we
call Earth.
ENJOY THE HEAVENS!
Experienced astronomers
and novice stargazers alike
will have the opportunity to
witness two fairly rare events
in our heavens during the next
few weeks. From now until the
end of April, Comet
Hyakutake will be visible to
the naked eye. Named after the
amateur Japanese astronomer
who discovered it only in
January of this year,
Hyakutake is the brightest
comet to be visible in the last
20 years. It will narrowly miss
the Earth by about 15 million
kilometres, or one tenth the
distance to the sun, which in
astronomical terms is a very
close call.
Comets as bright as
Hyakutake are quite rare.
According to Guy Nason, an
amateur astronomer and
member of the Royal
Astronomical Society of
Canada (RASO), if a solar
eclipse is a 10 and a lunar
eclipse is a 5 or 6, then this
comet is a 7 or 8. He explains
that the comet appears as a soft
glow about the size of a full
moon, but somewhat dimmer.
It looks like an extended fuzzy
cotton ball with a bright,
almost stellar core.
Hyakutake will be brightest
from now until the end of
March. To find the comet, look
high in the north sky after
midnight, after the moon has
set. Each successive night it
will get lower and lower in the
sky until April 1 st when it will
only be a fist width above the
horizon.
The second exciting event to
watch for is the upcoming
lunar eclipse on April 3rd.
Since the moon will be rising
in eclipse look to the eastern
horizon shortly after sunset
and keep your eyes peeled.
The moon will gradually form
out of the shadows into a
crescent as it rises. Over the
Nuclear waste hearings come to Pickering
Nuclear Awareness Project March 26, in late morning or
will be addressing a federal early afternoon. The Panel is
Environmental Assessment holding two days of public
Panel on the topic of high hearings in Pickering at the
level nuclear waste burial next Don Beer Arena, 940
week. The group has prepared Dillingham Road, on Monday
a 7 page brief to be presented from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. and
to the Panel on Tuesday Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5:45
Conservation Happenings
G" MI"p4w.141
aka Ontario is the last in line of the five Great Lakes in
North America, and it receives inputs from all upstream
sources. The water quality of the lake is impacted by
many sources including industry, urban development,
agriculture, land fill leachate and atmospheric deposition. The
Lake Ontario watershed is home to the largest concentration of
people in Canada. We rely on the lake for drinking water, we
use it extensively for recreation, and we cherish the green
spaces along its shoreline. The lake effects us every day, and in
tum our daily actions affect it in many ways.
In Pickering and Ajax, the Lake Ontario shoreline and areas
like Frenchman's Bay have influenced the historical and
present day development of our community, yet we know very
little about our waterfront areas. In our day to day lives, it is
quite easy to overlook this great and vast resource of fresh
water. Often people have said to me that "It is too bad that the
lake is polluted" as if they had already accepted the fact that
the lake is damaged beyond repair. The lake has its problems,
but it is also vast in its resources, history and features, and
many people are working towards resolving our problems.
I work, along with my colleagues, at the Metro Region
Conservation Authority where we are responsible for fish and
wildlife management, habitat restoration, and an environmental
monitoring program along the waterfront. Through a series of
regular columns I hope to share with you some of the
interesting places and features of our Great Lake. I would like
to highlight sonic of the conservation issues, help you explore
some special shoreline locations, explain the natural features of
the shoreline and the techniques we use to understand and
manage our waterfront.
Gord MacPherson is the Coordinator of the Coastal
Ecology Unit for The Metropolitan Toronto and Region
Conservation Authority, at (416) 661-6600
p.m. The Nuclear Awareness
Project submission to the
Panel is available on request.
The Environmental
Assessment Panel (EA Panel)
is reviewing Atomic Energy
of Canada Limited's (AECL's)
Nuclear Fuel Waste
Management and Disposal
Concept. The AECL Concept
proposes to bury nuclear fuel
waste in the Canadian Shield.
The Concept is 'generic' and
does not involve a particular
location. AECL released an
Environmental .. Impact
Statement (EIS) on the
concept in 1994. The
Environmental Assessment
Panel is responsible for
advising the government on
whether or not to approve the
Concept.
,Jjrene Kock, spokesperson
for Nuclear Awareness Project
said:"We are not supporting
approval of this generic
disposal concept. An actual
burial site needs to be studied
and much more work is
needed to show that this
scheme is going to protect
future generations."
Public hearings started one
week ago in Toronto (March
11 to 15). Hearings will
continue in Toronto from
March 27-29, then move to
Thunder Bay, Sudbury,
Serpent River and Deep River
next month. A second and
third phase of public hearings
will be held in June and the
fall, after which the Panel
reports to the government.
...Nuclear Awareness Project
is a non-profit environmental
oreanization dedicated to
raising awareness about
nuclear issues and energy
alternatives in Ontario, around
the Great Lakes basin and
across Canada. A local
affiliated organization,
Durham Nuclear Awareness
(DNA), was founded in 1986
following the Chernobyl
nuclear accident, to address
issues that are specific to
Durham Region.
Spring Flowers
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That's what the daffodils
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mean to the many members
malls selling daffodils for $4
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and the volunteers of the
this Festival by purchasing a
Canadian Cancer Society
bunch of flowers from
who will be participating in
Cancer Society volunteers.
this year's Daffodil Festival
Cindy Janssen and Jane
which runs from Thursday
Battah, this year's co-chairs
March 28th through to
for the Festival hope you will
Saturday March 30th. The
come out and show your
volunteers will be in the
support.
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by Steve Mond
The Durham
Economic Deve
Committee (DR
released its 77 page
for economic devel
Durham Regional
recently. The coin
comprised of 17
selected to represe
range of economic
geographic areas,
and environmental
in the Region.
The committee
many factors when
the rep)rt, including
tribution of the po
the decline of manu
trends towards hon
businesses, and ho
vative and receptiv
Region unveils
development
ideas business and residents makes
Region would be. The comprehen- lems f
lopment sive report, which took over a 2.
EDAC) year to prepare, relied heavi- ties to
strategy ly on community input and the g
opment at keys on 22 priority action busin
Council areas. urban
comm was For each priority, the report ing by
persons, defines the action required, ipaliti
nt a wide who will be the group or indi- 3.
sectors, vidual to sponsor or "champi- tunitie
and social on" the task, the timing a you
concerns required, and the specific that
action steps. Some of the top cries
analyzed priority actions identified by of ent
compiling the DREDAC Report were: opportu
age dis- 1. Work with Durham the
pulation, College to establish a 4.
facturing, University in Durham. cable
e -based Currently. the nearest facili- munic
w inno- ties are in Peterborough and home
-
e to new Metro Toronto, and this link u
economic
strategy
for commuting prob- ment systems having state -
or students in the area. of -the -an equipment.
Work with municipals- 5. Encourage alternate
support and encourage work concepts to promote
gr
of home-based new job creation.
esses in both rural and Other priorities included
settings by standardiz- creative recycling concepts,
laws within the munic- working with labour to
es. improve apprentice training,
Short-term work oppor- toll-free phone calling
s for vouth by creating region -wide. an enhanced
th employment bureau skills training centre, tourism
will organize confer- development strategy and a
that highlight the needs film industry marketing
ry level employment package. The Strategy focus-
nities for the youth of es on taking action to solve
area. problems and does not rely
Enhanced telephone, extensively on government
Ind fibre optic telecom- funding for success, although
ations that will enable it does build on efforts
-based businesses to already undertaken by the
p with data manage- municipalities.
Pickering to hold race relations forum
To mark the March 21
International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination, the Town
of Pickering will be holding a Race
Relations Forum on March 26, 1996.
The program is being sponsored by
The Town of Pickering's Race
Relations and Equity Committee and
is designed to raise general aware-
ness about local agencies, programs
and initiatives involved in promoting
positive race relations within the
community.
The four-part program includes a
keynote address by Mr. Bromley
Armstrong, former Ontario Human
Rights Commissioner and member of
the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
Mr. Armstrong will be drawing upon
his several decades of human rights
experience to provide a personal per-
spective on today's critical issues and
thoughts on the future of race rela-
tioas, in Ontario. In the second part,
panelists from key stakeholder
groups speak on current initiatives to
promote positive race relations with-
in the community. The third portion
of the program launches the Town's
new public awareness and assistance
brochure entitled "Harassment Hurts
Us All". In the final segment, atten-
dees have an opportunity to panici-
pate in small group discussions of
key race relations questions to help
further the work of the advisory com-
mittee.
"Effective race relations manage-
ment requires total community
involvement," says committee co-
chair Roland Rutland "and we are
very pleased and excited to provide
this opportunity for residents of
Pickering to learn about the work
being undertaken in this area by
major stakeholder groups. Through
the forum itself and the information
provided in our new brochure we
hope to create greater public aware-
ness of race relations issues and ini-
tiatives within the community. We
are confident that greater public
awareness will encourage greater
public involvement.
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CO's mi-NITI' HAPPENING SUBMISSIONS:
Listings in the Community Happenings column are free. Please fax or write us about your local listing 15 days prior to the event. (Note: limited space
is available. placement is not guaranteed.) Fax: 837-02-60 or mail to Community Happenings, 1400 Bayly St., unit 6A, Pickering, Ontario L 1 W 3R2
WEDNESDAY MARCH 27
Ajax -Pickering
Toastmasters flub has moved.
Our new location is 120
Roberson Drive. at the Ajax
Kinsman Heritage Centre. We
meet every, Wednesday night
from 7:30 to 9.30 p.m.
Toasunasters is an organization
that assists people to improve
their communication skills and
organizational abilities. For
more information please call
(905) 619-064 or (905) 509-
1645.
One Parent Families
Association of Ajax -Pickering
— A weekly meeting every
Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. at
Swwis' Marina, at the bottom of
Liverpool Road in Pickering.
All single parents are welcome.
Custody of the children is not
necessar%. For further informa-
tion call Kathryn (905) 683-
6609.
Fashion Show held by
Mondi of Pori Perry on March
27 to raise funds for Hearth
Place, Durham Region's first
resource centre for cancer
patients and their families. The
show will be held from 1 to 3
p.m. at the Painted Table restau-
rant in the Robert McLaughlin
Art Gallery. Tickets are $25
each and include a luncheon.
For ticket information, call Val
Krimpowicz at (905) 895-7124.
THURSDAY MARCH 28
Gingerbread Co-op
Nursery School — Open House
for Fall Registration for pre-
school or J.K. morning pro-
grams. Drop in during March
from Monday to Thursday 9 to
11:30 a.m. Located at West
Shore Community Center
(Bayly between Whites and
Liverpool Roads). For informa-
tion please call: 420-1627.
Fashion Show at the
Victorian Garden Banquet
Rooms, 60 Randall Drive,
Pickering Village March 28
from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Theme: Fashion on a budget.
Tickets $10.00 each including
dessert and coffee. Proceeds to
the Ajax -Pickering Women's
Centre Inc. to assist with its
planned program for abused
women and their children. For
tickets contact Kathy Cox at
(905) 837-0491.
Durham Environmental
Network (DEN) is holding it's
next general meeting at 7:30
p.m. March 28 at the Scugog
Centre (beside the arena), 1655
Reach Street, Port Perry.
Speakers for the evening will be
Martin Galloway, host of
Discover TV's "Harrowsmith
Country Life" and Scugog's
Green Team. Owners of "The
Organic Gardener" will also
participate. You are invited to
bring along a mug for cote or
tea. DENS meetings are free
and open to the public. All resi-
dents of Durham Region are
welcome. For more information
please call (905) 509-3156 or
(905)985-3225.
FRIDAY MARCH 29
St. Martin's Anglican
Church New -to -You Sale, 1201
St. martins Drive, Pickering
(one block west of Liverpool
off Bayly) from 7:00 p.m. -
9:00 p.m. Children's clothing
from .50 cents, spring fashions,
white elephant table. For fur-
ther information or donations
please call Barb (905) 839-
47()g.
Serenity Group - 12 Step
Recovery 'Meeting on starch
21) at 8:00 p.m. at the Bayfair
Baptist Church, 817 Kingston
Rd., Pickering. This group
meets every week and deals
with addictions of all types
including co-dependancy. All
are welcome. Contact Jim at
(905) 428-9431 (evenings)for
more information.
SATURDAY MARCH 30
The Easter Bunny will be
hopping into the Pickering
Town Centre at Centre Court
March 30 and 31 from 12:00
noon - 5:00 pm. Children can
have their pictures taken with
the Easter Bunny for $5 with all
proceeds to the Heart and
Stroke Foundation Ajax and
Pickering Chapters. Come of
and find out what Easter treat
the Easter Bunny will be giving
out.
The Pickering Civitan
Club, Mayor Wayne Arthurs
and over 70 Civitans represent-
ing 21 different clubs will be
welcoming 30 Charter members
to the new Pickering Civitan
Club at the West Shore
Community Centre at 6:30 p.m.
Individuals interested in joining
the new Pickering Civitan Club
or clubs to be formed in Ajax
and Oshawa are invited to call
7I rry James at 839-8890.
One Parent Families
Association of Ajax -Pickering
is holding a fundraising dance
on March 30 at the Italian Hall
at 245 Simcoe St. South in
Oshawa at 8:00 p.m. to 1:00
a.m. Tickets are $7.00 for
members. 510.00 non-members
and are available at the door.
D1 and light snack included.
Door prizes and 50-50 draw.
All are welcome.
SUNDAY MARCH 31
Welcome Wagon Bridal
Showcase — Ajax and Pickering
brides at Ajax Community
Centre. If you are planning a
wedding within 3 months to 2
years. you'll want to attend.
Fashion Show; Door Prizes;
Gift Bags. Free by invitation
call: Ann 839-4040 or Lynne
427-9009.
Spring Fling - bring the
whole family and say goodbye
to winter on March 31 from
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Ajax
Community Centre. Events
include faice painting, pony
rides, petting zoo, mini -putt,
crafts, scavenger hunt, chil-
dren's games, balloon sculp-
tures, entertainment and much
more. Yummy treats will be
available at a nominal fee.
MONDAY APRIL 1
Ajax & Pickering General
Hospital Prenatal Tours are
conducted every Monday from
7-00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Besides
the tour, you will learn what to
expect from admission to dis-
charge. No registration is neces-
sary. For further information
please contact (905) 428-5202.
TUESDAY APRIL 2
Ajax dr Pickering General
Hospital Breast Feeding
Support Group. — The
Maternal & Newborn Services
Department offers a Breast
Feeding Support Group to pro-
vide support for families in
their effortsto learn more about
breastfeeding. The group meets
every Tuesday from 10:00 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. No registration is
ilry. For further information
please contact (905) 428-5202.
Pickering Powerhouse
Toastmasters Club has moved.
Our new location is 1099
Kingston Road (Suite 224 —
upstairs the former Furniture
Mall), at the Ajax -Pickering
Board of Trade. We meet every
Tuesday night from 7 to 9 p.m.
Toastmasters is an organization
that assists people to improve
their communication skills and
organizational abilities. For
more information please call
(905) 420-9744 or (905) 839-
8508.
ARTHRITIS SOCIETY is
looking for volunteers to take
part in The Kids On The Block
puppei program. Kids On The
Block is a troupe of disabled
and non -disabled puppets that
teach children how to relate to
kids that are different.
Commitment includes one
rehearsal every week, and pos-
sibly two performances per
month. Acting experience is not
required. For more information
please contact Rosemarie
Cleary at (416) 281-7725.
"GAMES" for Seniors by
Settlors — The Durham Ontario
Senior Games are now accept-
ing registrations for the follow-
ing games: Darts, Shuffleboard,
Snooker, Euchre, 5 -Pin Bowl,
Cribbage. Horseshoe, Gulf, 10-
Pin Bowl, Carpet Bowl,
Contract Bridge. For further
information regarding dates.
times, locations, registration
forms. Contact: John Lester
(905) 839-2428, Verna Charlton
(905)579-9336.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Winter Clothing Exchange
Co -Op, Dunbarton-Fairpur:
United Church invites you to
bring items of winter clothing
no longer required by your fam-
ily and exchange them for items
that you now need. If you do
not have clothing to "swap" you
may offer to donate some of
your time to the Co-op in
exchange for items. Open: Wed.
and Sat. mornings from 9:30 to
11 a -m. at 1066 Dunbarton Rd..
Pickering (west off Dixie Rd.,
one street north of Hwy 2.)
Information: 839-7271.
The COPE Mental Health
Program offers 2 self-help
groups in Ajax Pickering to
support women experiencing
emotional problems such as
depression, loneliness, anxiety
or anger. There is no fee. One
group meets in Pickering on
Mon. mornings and the other in
Ajax on Tues. evenings.
Information or to register: 686-
3248 (Christine Kent).
CONFERENCE ROOM
AVAILABLE, free of charge,
for any non-profit organization.
Located at 335 Bayly Street
West, Ajax. Room seats 60 peo-
ple, table & chairs. To book,
call Fortune Financial at (905)
427-7000, ask for Leanne or
Brenda.
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PICKERING HYDRO GENERATING STATION.
HERO OR VILLAII`I?
by Marjorie Green
It broods on the shore of
the lake, like a remote spec-
tre, set apart from the world
by fences, alarms and rein-
forced concrete. Within its
270 hectares (670 acres),
over a thousand employees
form a strange kind of com-
munity where individual
knowledge and diverse
skills blend with one single
purpose; to harness the heat
from nuclear pellets to tum
water into steam; to drive
the turbines and generate
electricity. We mere mortals
know it as the Pickering
Generating Station.
Producing electricity
since 1971, the "A" side was
built at the western end of
the property to house four
CANDU reactors. "B" fol-
lowed with its own four
units, on the east side of the
Information Centre in the
mid -Wk.
and "B" each operate
s a separate station.
Virtually mirror images of
cath other, both .ire kept up -
;o -the -minute with modifi-
cations and improvements
as they become available.
A visit to the Information
Centre, on any day of the
week, is like a trip to anoth-
er planet. Visual displays,
video games, recorded tele-
phone messages and infor-
mational film clips guide
you gently into the world of
power generation. Tours
through the plant are readily
available and are easily
arranged.
You learn that insulated
nuclear pellets are fed into
tubes which, when grouped
together, form "fuel bun-
dles" which are, in turn,
placed inside the 380 pres-
sure tubes it takes to power
each reactor. And the protec-
tion placed around each seg-
ment is awesome — nuclear
safety is a commitment no
one dares to take lightly.
Wear and tear is always a
factor. Given dme, pressure
tubes can lengthen and
become brittle or cracked
and ongoing testing is sup-
posed to ensure that reactors
never go down, unless
required to for maintenance.
such as replacing wom pres-
sure tubes. Fortunately, the
CANDU reactor is unique in
the world in that it is
designed in such a way that
it can be shut down if neces-
sary-
Retubing has become a
uniquely Canadian skill.
Using special equipment.
designed and built here in
Canada. between 250 and
300 workers, working in
shifts, can remove and
replace all the tubes in safe-
ty — a job which takes well
over a year -and -a -half.
While the Pickering
Generating Station has not
been without its accidents
and incidents since 1971, it
e -arranging t
deck chairs
Ontario Hydro and Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL)
are out to prove that you can Bog a dead horse. AECL p valent ,
Reid Morden recently outlined a plan to merge Hydro's severe- :
ly indebted nuclear division. with the federally Nnded AWL to
create Nuclear Canada With over $30 billion in assets, Propo-
nents say the new company would be one of ttte''most impOrMt
nuclear corporations in the world.
Let's not kid ourselves. There is no magical synergy;happen
ing here. Merging AECL with Ontario Hydro Nuclear will not
alter the fact that nuclear power is both high-cost and high-risk.
Since 1952 AECL has been a giant sinkhole for $13 billion in
taxpayer funds. If the same amount had been invested in break
even ventures, the accumulated opportunity cost in 1995 dollars
would be $120.4. billion.
>. Much of Ontario Hydro's $33 billion debt was incurred by
the construction of nuclear plants. Current efforts to privatize
Ontario Hydro are being thwarted by this massive debt. Getting
rid of its nuclear division would make Ontario Hydro much
took a major spill of
radioactive heavy water
from the "A" side's Unit 2
in December, 1994, to alarm
the public into thinking that
perhaps everything was not
as it should be within the
giant plant by the lake.
And the controversy con-
tinues, even as Hydro gradu-
ally completes its start-up —
following 350,000 hours of
work and 7,500 individual
tasks (Hydro is very fond of
to be fully functional by
March 6, could generate
enough energy to power the
city of Oshawa — consump-
tion valued at anywhere
from $250,000 to 5400,000.
depending on season. Latest
estimates say Unit 2's full
power is expected by March
23rd.
But Hydro's worries
never seem to stop.
Recently, Durham Nuclear
Awareness warned that two
stated that Ontario's Nuclear
Emergency Plan must be
changed.
A third study. to be con-
cluded soon, is also expect-
ed to confirm that the plan,
as devised several years ago,
is now inadequate and out-
dated. Ontario's Solicitor -
General is responsible for
nuclear planning.
Impending strikes and pri-
vatization (and who -knows -
what -else) have rocked
employees and their fami-
lies.
And of Open House plans
to celebrate Unit 1's "25
years of solid service to the
province." Meanwhile, pub-
lic hearings — scheduled for
Monday and Tuesday.
March 25 and 26 at Don
Beer Arena — will discuss
nuclear fuel waste manage-
ment and disposal concepts.
Preny scary stuff.
Devil or angel. hero or
figures), in a process to
redesign and rebuild parts of
the reactor's flawed cooling
system.
It's said that Unit 2, on its
own and originally expected
reports — one from
Emergency Measures
Ontario. the other from an
ad hoc committee formed
right after the "loss of
coolant" accident — have
ore viable on the market.
But no matter how you re -arrange the deck chairs on
anada's titanic nuclear industry, the bottom line is that it's
riking, and the Canadian public will be stuck with the salvage
H if this deal goes through. At a time when all levels of gov-
turent are cutting back, the nuclear establishment is dreaming
radioactive Technicolor if they think that the taxpayer and
tepayers of this country will fund this boondoggle.
:According to an AECL brief prepared for the Macdonald
ottunittee, Nuclear Canada would design and market new
nclear reactors, something AECL was supposedly doing for
e last 40 years. Unfarturu,*Jy, nuclear power has proven to be
o risky and too expensive for most countries. From 1978 to
M there was a decline of more than 60 per cent in nuclm-
employment in Canada. In recent years. AECL sales
sve'been limited to sales to Korea and a potential sale to
bina, which if completed will be financed though an agency
E ow federal government.
Another function of Nuclear Canada would be to implement
national waste management system for spent fuel from nucle-
' t 1 h the f the
Hydro's usually "cool" ain-
tude. Reports coming out of
the giant Pickering facility,
talk of closure of (snit at
Bruce and the possible
transfer to Pickering of 1(X)
villin, it's one of Ontano's
top tourist attractions and
whether we like it or not, we
live in the shadow of that
always worrisome. if friend-
ly, giant by the lake.
reactors. It s unhke y that srmp y c angutg name o
layers will solve the problem of high-level waste that has .:.:1996 budget, the federal government also faces the imminent
*ped the nuclear industry since its inception. htstead of pass- ::expiration of a seven-year Memorandum of Understanding with
tg the problem off'on to yet another incarnation of AECL, it's :Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick regarding the funding of
igh time that we stopped producing nuclear waste altogether. AECL
We are at a critical junction, both provincially and federally. The winds of change are blowing. Rather than attempting to
Be Macdonald Commission will make its recommendations resurrect our failing nuclear industry into a giant white elephant
;garding the future of Ontario Hydro sometime next month. In :.with a bad memory, it's time to pull the plug on public subsidies
edition to making a decision about nuclear subsidies for the and let the industry prove its own claims of viability.
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Pickering Intermediate " AA" ringette team makes history
It may have taken 29 years, but
Pickering Ringette finally has a represen-
tatiye at the National Championships.
The Pickering Intermediate "AA"
Ringette team qualified after a big week-
end recently, at the Provincial
Championships in Cambridge.
In only its third year as an "AA" club,
the Pickering squad landed themselves a
berth at this year's National
Championships, which will be held in
Gloucester, Ontario, from April 1-6.
Pickering started the tournament off with
a bang, hammering host, Cambridge, 9-4.
Pickering's second game proved to be a
much tougher contest, as they lost to
heavily favoured Gloucester 8-I. In their
third match, the Intermediates struggled,
:is their counterparts from Scarborough
played a disciplined style and beat
Flickering 6-4.
With their backs against the wall,
Pickering's next opponent was a strong
team from Sudbury. This game was an
exciting. hard-fought match, as Pickering
came out on top 5-4. With their record
now at 2-2 in the round robin, it would
take a win against an
always tough team from
Waterloo to solidify a
semi-final berth.
Pickering came out fly-
ing, took the lead and
never looked back. They
went on to win by a
score of 7-4.
Gloucester finished the
round robin undefeated,
while Pickering finished
second and Cambridge
third. Gloucester, therefore, earned a bye
to the final and would have to wait for
the outcome of the Pickering versus
Cambridge semi-final. The semi-final
was a nailbiter. After the first period, the
game was tied 0-0. This is unheard of in
a ringette game. Both teams were play-
ing a more conservative game than they
normally would. At the 12 minute mark
of the final period,
Pickering scored to
make it 1-0. Both teams
began to open up, but
both goalies made some
key saves and the game
ended 1-0 in favour of
Pickering. The final
Proved to be no contest
for the dominating team
from Gloucester, as they
beat Pickering 11-3.
Pickering was down by
only a goal halfway through, but seemed
to lose their steam as Gloucester took the
game away.
This is the first time in the 26 year his -
tory of Pickering ringette that a team has
qualified for the Nationals. As a result of
this, the team is trying to raise $3,000
dollars to cover their expenses. If any-
one is interested in helping send these
girls to this National tournament, any
donation would be greatly appreciated.
You can send the donation to the presi-
dent of the league, Dave LaRochelle, c/o
The Pickering Ringette Association,
1928 Shadybrook Drive, Pickering, L I V
3X5 or phone 839-5647.
The members of the team would like to
thank, in advance, any donation that is
made. The member of the team include:
Kathleen McCarthy, Jennifer Holbrook,
Cathy Larmer, Colleen Rourke, Stacy
Fertile, Erin Rourke, Jennifer McCarthy,
Diane Bailey, Joanne McCarthy, Karen
Berger, Mary -Jo McCarthy, Mary Ann
Gage, Connie Harriers, and Coach, Neil
McCarthy.
She shoots, she scores. Again, and again, and again, and again..*
b% Steyr "Tait
Goal scoring dust comes naturally for
her. This tiny terror on ice has every team
shakin' in their boots when she touches
the puck.
Blessed with an enormous amount of
talent for an eight year-old, she lights up
the red light almost every time she takes a
shot. This Tyke select and houseleague
player in the Durham West Lightning
Girls' Hockey Association was the lead-
ing scorer in both leagues.
Joanna Ogilvie, or "JoJo" as everyone
knows her by, scored 116 goals in both
leagues combined She won top honours
in the houseleague with 29 goals and
scored an incredible 87 goals with her
select team. To add to her totals, JoJo
scored an incredible 16 goals in a tourna-
ment and popped in 10 goals in one game.
"She just loves to score," said JoJo's
mother Lucy. "Joanna will watch some-
thing on TV and say 'Mom, mom, did you
see thatT Then she'll go out and do what
she saw on TV. She watches the Leafs
religiously and she'll mimic them in a
game.
-And JoJo knows why she was able to
score so many goals.
"I just skated my fastest," said JoJo. "I
know how to do a wrist shot pretty good
and I know how to do a slap shot pretty
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But it was more than just skating her
fastest and knowing how to take a wrist
shot and slapshot. She has an uncanny
knowledge of the game already and
knows what to do with the puck when
going one-on-one with defenders. She's
able to tum defenders mside out and they:
undress goahenders w.:
ability.
Skating since the age of three and play-
ing ringette as well as hockey, JoJo's
skills are impeccable.
"She skates well and has good stick
handling ability," said her Tyke select
coach Bill Apps. "It's pretty hard to stop
he: Stle's easy to coach and if you ask her
to Flo somethutc shell du :
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Utile JoJo set two leagues on fire with her natural goal scoring abWty.
When asked to fill the role of playmak-
er instead of goalscorer, JoJo gladly
accepts the role in hopes of setting up a
player who has yet to score a goal. But
when given the opportunity to play her
game, few have successfully stopped her
and most have to take a penalty to do so.
But now that she has worked her magic
in girls leagues, JoJo wants to take a crack
at playing with the boys. She'll start with
the City Wide Scarborough Summer
League and see how she fares there before
making a decision about a permanent spot
with the boys.
"She has so much energy," said Lucy.
"She can pick up the pace when she has
to."
Apps expects his young star to be play-
ing with the Novice A boys' team next
season and believes she won't have any
problems competing with them.
While she is looking forward to playing
with the boys and sharing a dressing room
with another girl, JoJo isn't looking
towards playing for the Maple Leafs.
`"That's only for boys," she says.
But that attitude may change in another
eight years.
When asked how long she wants to
,play hockey, she said "forevee%
"I want to play until I'm an old
granny.„
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Wado-Kai Karate's triple
threat
Winning a trophy isn't all that mat- Old Orange -Green belt division. It
tern. marked the second time that Bergman
Three Ajax -Pickering Wado-Kai had won both events at a tournament.
Karate Club members, Andrew "I like doing both of them the
Bergman, Jacob Broder and Ryan >:same," said Bergman. "It was fun and
Persaud were all successful at a a good experience."
recent tournament, taking winning in Persaud wasn't too disappointed
stride and wanting to learn and have with his second place finish.
fun at the competition. "Some of the opponents were quite
All three members of the club par- good at sparring," said Persaud. "I
ticipated at a tournament in Thornhill was able to block, but they had some
for the Wado-Kai clubs of Toronto < good moves."
and surrounding areas. Over 150 par- Both Persaud and Bergman have
ticipants took part in the tournament ;i,been with the sport for approximately
and the Ajax -Pickering trio put forth .two years, but Broder has just started
a strong showing. with the club and it marked his first
Persaud, competing in the 9-12 tournament.
year-old Orange -Green belt division, "I started karate because my friends
earned a silver in the sparring portion. are in it," said Broder. "This was my
Broder finished with a third in the first tournament. I'm happy I won."
kata and won the sparring competi- While head instructor Lou DeAdder
tion in the 6-8 year-old White -Yellow said he is happy the kids are excited
belt division. .;about winning, it is not the most
Bergman was the big winter from : important aspect of the sport.
the club. The eight year-old karate "If they get a trophy, it's a big con -
student captured first place in the ` fidence booster for them," said
sparring and the kata in the 6-8 year- DeAdder. "They go to tournaments to
KX 96ers set to
faceoff with the
Wal-Mart Squigglies
The Wal-Mart Squigglies hockey
team will face off with radio station's
KK 96ers in a chanty hockey game on
Friday, March 29.
The two teams will play the chanty
game at Whitby's Iroquois Arena start-
ing at 9:15 p.m. Both teams will play
for an hour with all proceeds raised
donated to The Lung Association
Durham Region.
Wal-Mart employee Brian Baker
made the challenge to the Ajax radio
station. In memory of his beloved
mother, Beverly Boomhouer who
recently lost her fight against lung can-
cer, Baker made the game possible.
For more information on the Charity
Hockey Game or on smoking cessation
programs and lung cancer, call The
Lung Association Durham Region at
(905) 436-1046.
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actually win a trophy, but
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Minor Atom Panthers take
a "Fall" at tournament
The Pickering Canadian Tire
Panthers Atom "AA" Hockey Club
worked hard and played well in
their recent tournament in Niagara
Falls, but managed only one win in
their three tournament games.
The Panthers got off to a good
start by winning their first game,
downing the Burlington Blue
Devils 2-0. Team captain Chris
Papalia and Chris MacLeod each
fired unassisted goals for the
Panthers, while Michael Tadman
turned in an outstanding perfor-
mance in the net, registering the
shutout.
In their second game, the
Panthers dropped a close contest to
the Newmarket Redmen 4-3.
Jennifer Sadler, Brian
Campbell and Papalia notched the
three goals for the Panthers with
helpers going to Michael Watkins,
Greg Garrett, Ryan Gemon,
Craig Burrell and MacLeod.
Luke Chivers played a big game
between the pipes for the Panthers.
In their final match, the Panthers
once again met up with the Blue
Devils from Brampton. This time,
Brampton turned the tables on
Pickering, winning 6-3. Matthew
Yarmoluk, Andrew Hackett and
Papalia fired the Pickering goals
with solo assists credited to Sadler,
Campbell, Garrett and Burrell.
MacLeod chipped in with two
helpers in a losing cause.
In recent exhibition action, the
Panthers lost a lop -sided contest to
the Markham Waxers. Campbell,
Burrell and Michael Murphy
scored for the Panthers with assists
going to MacLeod, Garrett and
Brian Simpson -Fry. Gemon and
Sadler added two helpers.
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answer the call
After a sluggish opening 40 minutes of hockev,-the Pickering
Minor Peewee hockey team bailed themselves out of trouble and
eliminated Bame from the playoffs.
Trailing by two goals ¢ping into the third period, the Bell
Canada Pickering squad responded with four unanswered goals
to advance from the second season playoffs five points to three.
Mark Rogers .cored his second goal with seven minutes left
in the game to ue the contest. A little over a minute later, Ryan
Pebn scored the eventual came -winner. Trevor Small scored the:
insurance marker with 19 seconds left to go in the playoff match.
David Skrepnek opened the third penod scoring parade.
Assists in the game went to Scott Billing, Greg Cusack, Evan
Georgievski, Stephan Philips, Small and Skrepnek.
After tying the first game in Barrie and then losing the second
game at home S-1, the Pickering Panther team, led by Pelan's
hat -trick, finally came to life and played the kind of hockey they
are capable of playing and defeated Barrie 4-1.
Kevin Kearn assisted on two of his line -mates' goals while
picking up a single goal himself. Also earning assists in the game
were Aaron Calder, Michael Dawson, Small and Billing.
In the 4-4 tie in the fust game, Brandon Saker notched two
goals while Pelan and Billing pitched in with solo markers.
Pelan also added an assist to his totals while Small contributed
with two helpers.
Mitch Grigoriadis scored the only Pickering goal in the sec-
ond game with the assist going to Mark Rogers.
The Pickering Bell Canada Panthers Minor Pee Wee team is
now dialed in to the semi-finals where Newmarket awaits.
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A*brarl y's best friend
Lough she's
surrounded by books
a great deal of the
time, one could hardly call Val
Marshall the "bookish" type.
Known for her energy as an
advocate of better services in
the Town of Ajax, Marshall has
played an instrumental role in
ensuring access to library
services for many in the
conIDwnity.
As president of the Friends
of the Ajax Public Library,
a arshall oversees book sales,
volunteer work and donations -
ali designed to improve the
quality of service. The owner of
V:aI Marshall Travel, she is also
what you could call well -
travelled.
Marshall was horn in
Birmingham, England just
hclorc W ,rld War 11 and
worked in the banking industry
there before entigrating to New•
Zealand in 1958
She hitchhiked all over the
country and worked for the
Bank of Nc\k Zealand Travel
Department, Three years later,
she returned to England, taking
the long - and big on experience
- route. via Australia, Singapore
and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). It
wasn't long before her
adventurous spirit led her at last
to Canada.
Arriving in Toronto, Val
sour found a job with the group
travel firm, Unitours, as a tour
seer• t ar} .
But memories of good times
in the southern hemisphere
continually tugged at her.
Talk about fortuity! Not only
was she able to get her old job
hack at the bank, she became
engaged to husband Allan, a
plumber whom she met earlier
in wellington. The pair has a
48-hour honeymoon in
Honolulu before coming to
Toronto. Following several
moves back and forth from
Wellington, they eventually
settled in Ajax in 1968.
Following yet another move
to Wellington. where son
Stephen was born, they returned
to Canada eventually settling in
Ajax in 1968.
Marshall became active in
the community. with St. Paul's
United Church and with the
Ajax -Pickering General
Hospital Auxiliary, working in
the coffee shop and - not
surprisingly - on the book cart.
Those early beginnings led
to other activities - creative
writing, fashion and design, and
membership in the Toastmasters
Club. In 1975, Marshall became
the fust woman director of the
Ajax Chamber of Commerce:
she even worked for a time with
the Pickering Bay News. Later.
she created the local afar -four
program, Playcare, at
Southwood Park School and
bec:uue convener of the Heart
Fuud for Ajax.
T'.rat was a memorable time,
she says. "I bad a local group
dress in red and sing 'You've
Got to Have Heart' when we
rade our presentation to the
Ajax Council."
Val also joined the board of
the Social Planning Council and
ran successfully for council in
ward 4, during the municipal
election in December 1976. She
was acclaimed for another two-
ecar term in the next election.
3ut it came to an end in 1980 -
when she ran unsuccessfully for
mayor against the popular Bill
McLean.
"There ended my political
career," sbc says. "It was a great
experience and I learned much
about running a town and about
politics." It also reopened a
door. She began working in the
travel industry in Pickering and
Toronto, eventually joining with
partner and good friend Gale
Mossman to open Val Marshall
Travel in October 1987.
"We had lots of trouble
thinking of a name for our new
venture," she says "The Val
Marshall name fit the bill best
and we opened the doors with
just the two of us, two desks
and a computer."
The agency grew, from its
original location on Harwood
Avenue South to its current spot
on Westney Road. And
Marshall remained a force on
the community scene -
becoming the first female
member o! the Ajax Rotar.
Club, and then its first female
president. When she joined the
United Way and was appointed
to the Library Board, she soon
heightened that service
orientation with the Friends of
the Library.
A non-profit, charitable
organization. Friends began in
October 1994. Marshall forted
a committee with library CEO
Geoff Nie, deputy librarian
Catherine Biss, and program
and publicity's Sarah White to
conic up with bylaws and goals.
'"Ilse purpose of the Friends
is to foster public awareness.
understanding and enjoyment of
library services in the Town of
Ajax." she says. "Thc Friends
raise funds, support special
projects and enhance library
services." Officially launched in
March 1995, the Fricnds first
big initiative was a Monster
Book Sale, in June, at the
annual Home Wcck. And what
a response from the
community! "Donations rolled
in and together with the reject
books from the branches, we
had over 14,000 books at the
sale, together with 60
volunteers." A total of $1,399
was raised.
As well, the Friends hold a
series of Theme Book Sales at
the main branch of the Ajax
Library, including murder
mysteries, westerns, science
fiction and romance. Marshall
says future plans for the library
include a coffee shop featuring
Internet capabilities ("so people
can have their mug of coffee
and surf the 'net') and the
addition of extra tables and
chairs for use by groups
meeting at the hlrary.
Originated in recent years -
following the closing of dozens
of libraries in the U.S. - Friends
of the Library have been
popping up everywbete on both
sides of the border, primarily to
prevent closures and loss of
iintportanti libV programs.
And what has prompted
Marshall to be such a strong
proponent of the library?
"I grew up with books," she
says with a smile, all the while
arranging books for a library
sale on Saturday afternoon. "I
always had a sense of the
importance of libraries. This is
just a personal thing that I
really, really enjoy."
Springtime at the libraries
If you are looking for activi-
ties for your pre-schooler this
spring, check out the Pickering
Public Library. The library
offers pre-school storytimes
for children 6 months to 5
years. All caregivers must
show a valid Pickering Public
Library card for themselves or
their child at registration.
Baby Talk
Children, 6 months to 2
years, with their caregivers,
will enjoy a twenty minute
program of stories, songs and
fingerplays on Monday morn-
ings at 10:45 a.m. Offered oniv
at the Central Library; registra-
tion Saturday. March 30 at 9
a.m.
Tales for two i
Children 2 to 3 years will
enjoy a special 20 minute sto-
rytime with their caregivers at
the following branches:
Central Library
In-person registration stars
Saturday, March 30 at 9 a.m.;
telephone registrations from
10:30 a.m. This seven week
program will star the week of
April 2. Sessions are offered
on Wednesdays and Thursdays
at 10.05 am. and Tuesdays at
10:45 a.m.
Rouge Hill Branch
In-person registration stars
Wednesday, March 27 at 10
a.m.; telephone registrations
from 11 a.m. This program will
start the week of April 3.
Sessions are offered
Wednesdays at 10:15 am. and
Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Bay Ridges
There is no need to register;
just drop in on Friday mornings
at 10:30 a.m. between April 12
to May 17.
Pre -School Storytimes
Children 3 to 5 years of age
will enjoy a series of half-hour
programs of stories, songs and
fingerplays just for them.
Central Library
In-person registration begins
Saturday. March 30; telephone
registrations from 10:30 a.m.
This is a seven week program
that starts the week of April 1.
Sessions are offered on the fol-
lowing days and times:
Mondays at 10:05 a.m.;
Tuesdays at 10:05 a.m. or 2
p.m.: Wednesdays at 10:45 a.m.
or 7 p.m.; Thursdays at 10:45
a.m.
Rouge Hip Branch
In-person registration begins
Wednesday, March 27 at 10
a.m.: telephone registrations 11
a.m. This is a seven week pro-
gram that starts the week of
April 3. Times are as follows:
Wednesdays at 10:45 a.m. and 2
pm.; Thursdays at 1 I a.m. and 2
pm.
Bay Ridges
There is no need to register,
lust drop in on Friday mornings
at 11 a.m. between April 12 to
May 17.
,Northern Branch Storytimes
Open to children 2 to 5; no
need to register. Contact the
Claremont (649-3341) and
Greenwood (683-8844).
Branches for further details.
Changes at the
gouge Hill Library
The Rouge Hill Branch of the Pickering Public Library is
getting a new look in its old building. Following sevete budget tuts
in 1996, the Pickering Public Library Board is organizing itself to
do mon with less. In the case of Rouge Hill Branch, the separm
children's area wip be integrated into the adult library on the upper
level. This arrangement eliminates the need for two service desks -
an essential step when the payroll portion of the budget has been
cut by mon than 6%.: X,.::.
"Historically, the Brancb was Sys ar�d dus way" noted
Chief librarian Sandy Cameron. "tom of the reasons for aeadng a
separate cbildien� area in the library was to increase = of the
Branch, which went into adratnatic decline with the 1990.0pening
of the Central Library. I am pleased oo say that efforts by the staff
and Board to increase use of the Branch have been verysaccessf'ul.
Consequently, I am quite confident that this rearrangement will
have no effect on use of the Branch, though it will mew a slight
loss of lounge seating space."
Staff have begun work on the rearrangement which should be
completed by 1:00 p.m. on April 16. The Branch will be closed for
business that morning
Hop into spring with "Spring Fling"
by Larl-y Codd
What better way could
there be to celebrate the
start of spring, than to
check out the "Spring
Fling" being presented by
the Ajax Parks and
Recreation Department?
Activities, planned to
.:iter to all ages, will
include games, sports,
music and carnival foods.
"Evcryone will get a
prize," says Lisa Warth,
recreation programmer.
'For the older kids, there
'.vill he a milk can ball toss
.and a bean bag toss into a
,;town's mouth." Children
,under five won't be left out,
as they will have their own
play area with slides and a
basketball toss. And that is
on top of a huge pillow
bounce for those 12 and
under.
Outside the Ajax
Community Centre, a taste
of the country will
showcase a petting zoo with
goats, sheep, llamas,
donkeys, horses and pigs.
And for those young
wranglers, pony rides will
be offered fora small fee.
Back inside the centre,
the youngsters can get their
faces painted and can stop
wandering balloon artists
with requests for their
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The Oshawa District
(`w►ncil for the Arts
t(A)CA) has received a
grant for $3000 front the
Ontario Arts Council to
produce an arts directory.
The directory ' will
profile the ODCA and
provide visibility for area
arts organizations and
vendors. It will be
available to the pubhc for
a two-year period from
1996 to 1999 free of
charge.
The directory`waill be
distributed across. the:
Durham Region and
lie it!h.buuri:n
cummunittes; iE' wxll be
available;: tit hotela�
favourite animals.
And, to satisfy creative
urges, instructors will be on
hand to teach you the ins
and outs of plastic lace
bracelets. Younger folk will
get Colour McBunny sheets
and crayons.
At scavenger hunt head-
quarters, participants -
young children can take
mom and dad - will be
started off with their first
clue and make the rounds of
ten stations, where they will
answer trivia questions and
follow the trail back to
headquarters for their prize.
Indoor mini -putt; a Mad
Hatter refreshment room for
uce arts
J
city an recreation Cerffres
and tourism centres.
."Wc are very lucky to
have the support for this
project from the Ontario
Arts Council," says Ismay
Needham:, ODCA
president, 'particolmly in
these difficult times when
funding to the arts has
been considerably cut..
By making the arts•
directory available, the.
OCA can continue to
fulfill its mandate .to
promote, encourage'>and
develop the arts in
Oshawa & District.
"We. are very p1Ga,SC I t0
have the assistattct .a . a>
Durham -::...001.1
. .... �.: f .
.Administrii on program at.
the college, and is
contacting local arts
organizations ::::.and
businesses."
>,:Tbe ODCA has been in
existence since 1963. It is
affiliated with Arts
Ontario, an umbrella
organization for provincial
.arts councils. Meetings are
held bimonthly on the Iast
Wednesday of the month
from September to May at
the Oshawa Acts Resource
Cemice.
,Advertising space is
available in the directory,
,with discount rates for
ODCA: rnetubers.'' ::<.,A
'v40ty of sizes. and.rates
Pickerieng Arts Council
by Larry Codd
Despite losing all its funding, with the
recent government cutbacks, the Pickering
Ars Council will continue to promote the
arts in Pickering.
Supported by volunteer members and,
by working in close association with the
town, the not-for-profit group will still
pponsor two craft shows in the upcoming
tonths. Using its small grant in previous
ears, the organization was able to sponsor
annual performance by one of the area's
groups. Last year, in connection with the
National Ballet, it ran a class for local
dancers.
"We still hope to have a theater built in
Pickering," says Allena Litherland,
executive director of the Council,
"someplace where we can draw the public
to see big stars, such as Ann Murray and
Liona Boyd, as well as full orchestras
perform." Also planned for the future is an
arts camp for those 12-18 years of age.
The Council provides contacts for the
pizza, sno cones, cotton
candy, cookies and pop; and
entertainment, supplied by
'Edge of Dixie' round out
the attractions.
Lisa expects that the
event will draw up to 4,000
and says that, with the
choices available, all will
have a good time.
"We are very excited
about the event." says Lisa.
"And we couldn't put it on
for the low cost, without the
support of our.sponsors."
Admission is gree: the
scavenger hunt (at $I), the
pony rides (S2), the mini -
putt (SI) and the nominal
costs for food will be the
only extras. The low cost is
due to the support of
sponsors. Messier -Dowty,
PaintPlas, the Optimist
Club of Ajax, Money
Concepts and McDonald's.
The activities take place
on Sunday, March 31, 1996,
between 1:00 and 4:00
p.m.. at the Ajax
Community Centre A'
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hero Ronald McDonald at the Metro East Spring Home & Garden Show.
LINC assists newcomers
Are you over 17, new to
Canada and need to learn
English:'
Language Instruction for
Newcomers to Canada
(ZINC) is offered in
Durham through the
Durham Board of
Education, the Roman
Catholic Separate School
Board and Durham College.
The program helps people
with little or no English.
Newcomers. with more
advanced English are
directed to other programs.
,L.INC not only teaches
English but helps the
students learn about
Canadian lifestyle. The
l: A patron of
various arts groups in the area, puts out its
own newsletter to publicize upcoming
events, and pitches in to help with
individual production.
"Pickering should look within its
boundaries for arts diversity," says Allena.
'"There is a wide range of groups putting
on quality productions, at a reasonable
price. Many local artists have gone on to
phenomenal success."
The Council has been in force for ten
years, has 60 members, and is looking for
classes can be full or part
time and they last for six
months.
If you would like more
infomtation on the program
please call Joan Watson,
Information Coordinator at
the Social Development
Council, Ajax -Pickering, at
(905) 686-2661.
the arts
more representatives from Pickering arts
groups. It depends on volunteers and looks
forward to an infusion of new blood to
provide a positive direction for the Council
in the future.
Watch out for the upcoming fundraisers,
barbecue days - one at the Baywood Plaza
on May 11, and another on September 14,
at the Supercentre - and a rummage sale, to
be held later this spring.
For more information, contact Allena at
683-4602.
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McHAPPY DAY: 3 year-old Griffin Beatty stared in amazement when he met his
hero Ronald McDonald at the Metro East Spring Home & Garden Show.
LINC assists newcomers
Are you over 17, new to
Canada and need to learn
English:'
Language Instruction for
Newcomers to Canada
(ZINC) is offered in
Durham through the
Durham Board of
Education, the Roman
Catholic Separate School
Board and Durham College.
The program helps people
with little or no English.
Newcomers. with more
advanced English are
directed to other programs.
,L.INC not only teaches
English but helps the
students learn about
Canadian lifestyle. The
l: A patron of
various arts groups in the area, puts out its
own newsletter to publicize upcoming
events, and pitches in to help with
individual production.
"Pickering should look within its
boundaries for arts diversity," says Allena.
'"There is a wide range of groups putting
on quality productions, at a reasonable
price. Many local artists have gone on to
phenomenal success."
The Council has been in force for ten
years, has 60 members, and is looking for
classes can be full or part
time and they last for six
months.
If you would like more
infomtation on the program
please call Joan Watson,
Information Coordinator at
the Social Development
Council, Ajax -Pickering, at
(905) 686-2661.
the arts
more representatives from Pickering arts
groups. It depends on volunteers and looks
forward to an infusion of new blood to
provide a positive direction for the Council
in the future.
Watch out for the upcoming fundraisers,
barbecue days - one at the Baywood Plaza
on May 11, and another on September 14,
at the Supercentre - and a rummage sale, to
be held later this spring.
For more information, contact Allena at
683-4602.
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+ Pickering must not turn their
n backs on those that need our
a help the most," says Sherry
Robinson, newly appointed
S 1996 Campaign Chair for
the United Way. Sherry's
4o goal is to reach targets that
will enable the UA to
accomplish its goals.
She also believes that, due
Z to decreased government
," funding, the efforts of the
" United Way are now more
important than ever before.
Sherry was born and
raised on a farm near
Campbellford, Ontario. She
originally came to the Ajax -
Pickering area as manager
of the Royal Bank at the
Highway 2 and Whites
Road branch in 1990. She is
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currently manager at the
Highway 2 and Liverpool
branch. She is also an active
member on the Ajax -
Pickering Board of Trade.
Sherry is married to Steve
and they have three chil-
dren, Jeff, Rob and
Stephanie. She enjoys going
to the cottage with the fami-
ly and plays a mean game of
golf. She says she also looks
forward "to making new
friends and working with
them to meet our goals –
and have a lot of fun doing
it."
The United Way of Ajax -
Pickering has also
announced a dream vacation
draw. This September, at the
annual campaign kick-off
dinner, one lucky couple
will win a dream vacation to
Hawaii. But you don't have
to be at the dinner to win, all
you have to do is buy a tick-
et for the draw. Tickets are
$10 apiece, and only 4,000
will be sold. All winners
will be notified by phone or
mail.
The Hawaiian vacation is
being arranged through Val
Marshall Travel in Ajax. It
includes 11 days touring
three islands, Oahu, Kauai
and Maui. Ten meals and
$2,000 spending money are
included in the trip which
has a retail value of $9,000.
Under terms of the draw,
the vacation must be taken
within one year of the draw
on September 28th, 1996.
The winner has the option
of redeeming the trip for
$7,000 cash.
Second prize in the draw
is a 35 inch television with
surround sound. Third prize
is a 27 inch television.
There is also an Early
Bird Draw on June 16th,
during Ajax Home Week. -
Those who act quickly to
buy their tickets can win a
13 -inch TV/VCR combina-
tion.
Tickets can be purchased
at the United Way office in
the Baywood Plaza, 95
Bayly Street West in Ajax,
or by phone at 686-0606.
Visa and Mastercard orders
accepted.
The draw is authorized
under licence number
M031936.
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On Thursday, March 7th, 1996 the Durham Regional
Police Service conducted a surprise truck inspection
program to examine large commercial vehicles. As part
of its on-going transportation safety efforts, the Police
Service has trained 5 officers who are now certified to
conduct full safety examinations on commercial vehi-
cles.
In one day alone, officers stopped nine large trucks in
the Pickering area; four were taken off the road for hav-
ing safety defects.
And two of the drivers were charged with safety-relat-
ed offences. Forty-four per cent of large tntcks stopped
in Pickering were deemed unsafe.
Hero nes something for everyone
March 3011996
— — — — — — — - by Ste%e Bond You could easily assemble a Officers. "We stock every- "mix and match special on used
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describes Hero Army Surplus
to a "T'. And that "T' doesn't
only stand for T-shirts: Hero
stocks an amazing variety of
clothing and equipment. "We
are basically a specialty store
in the military, hunting, paint -
ball. camping, and security
fields:' says store owner Irwin
Schwartz. "We opened in
May of 1992 and have been
growing ever since"
The 3000 sq. ft. facility con -
Hero including water purifica-
tion tablets, long life candles
that are actually edible in an
emergency, and a survival
sleeping bag that folds up into
an incredible 6 by 8 inch pack-
age. Irwin says, "Anyone who
drives outside of the cities in
the winter should really have
one of our cold weather parkas
that are comfortable to -60
degrees Celsius, and a survival
kit in their car, just in case
cuffs to Police -spec flashlights
and Pepper may„
;::Additionally, Hero offers -a'
thorough variety of products
for the paintball enthusiast.
The store carries a supply of
paintball guns, projectiles,
face masks, camouflage cloth-
ing, hats and gloves, and has
the equipment on site to
recharge CO -2 cartridges for
the guns.
Military specialist Charlie
p I ee or
$9.99. Where else can you get
two work shins and a pair of
pants for ten bucks
"Hero really does have some-
thing for everyone. Recently
some picketers dropped in and
purchased some waterproof
ponchos, insulated gloves, bal-
aclavas and boot liners. From
childrens T-shirts to
footlockers to flight suits, you
can find it at Hero's and they
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Ford Escort,
Ford's number one
ince the launch of
Ford's Escort into
the market place
in 1980, Canadian deal-
ers have delivered over
320,000 vehicles. Funny
thing is, Ford says that
50 percent of these
vehicles are being pur-
chased and driven by
women.
1996 was a repeat
year for the Escort, with
minor changes. These
vehicles are now on
sale. Ford Canada is
ffering a $500 cash
ack or 5.9% financing.
996 will be the last
ear for the popular GT
Ports model. 1997 will
40
selling vehicle
feature only two models;
an LX Sedan and LX
Wagon.
Rumor has it that the
new 1997 will be a
spectator vehicle; with a
sleek aerodynamic
design, more safety fea-
tures and the overall
vehicle lengthened by 4
inches. This could again
be a best seller. The
1997's will be in Ford
dealerships by early
summer, but pricing is
not yet available.
The new Escort will
house 4 wheel indepen-
dent suspension, giving
the driver a better feel of
the road. It will also be
by Terry MacDonald -Cadieux
automotive reporter
equipped with dual air
bags, cross side door
beams, roof beams,
childproof door locks,
standard rear seat fold
down and AM/FM
stereo.
Under the hood will be
a new 2.0 litre engine,
putting out 110 horse-
power, and to get you off
the green lights faster,
you'll have 125 foot lbs
of torque.
One of the options for
the '97 Escort does not
sit easy with me. This is
1997, when most pas-
senger cars come with
ABS as standard. ABS
Is not only for safety, it
also provides a source
of comfort and control.
But, ABS (Anti -Lock
Brake System) is an
option only available on
the 1996 GT model for
an additional $779. In
1997, again, it will be an
additional $$ option for
both models. I strongly
recommend that you
purchase the ABS
option package; you will
feel better in the long
run and the vehicle will
have a better resale
value.
Other options for 1997
are a keyless driver
door remote system.
Again, if this feature
appeals to 80% of
Ford's customer base,
why not make it stan-
dard equipment? And,
why is only the driver's
door remote? I often
have packages in my
hands and would like to
place them in the back
seat or passenger seat.
A keyless remote sys-
tem makes it a lot easi-
er, but Ford's system
opens only the driver's
door.
The Escort again
comes with a 5 -speed
manual transmission, or
you can purchase the 4 -
speed automatic trans-
mission for an extra
$1,000. The difference
will be noticed at the
gas station. The manual
will out -run the automat-
ic by almost a litre per
mile, highway or city.
Ford is offering a sport
package on the LX
Sedan that will include
14 inch aluminum
wheels, a spoiler, sporty
graphics, a tachometer,
rear head rests, different
Interior trim and an oval
exhaust tip.
Whether you pur-
chase now or wait for
the 1997, 1 am sure you
will have a lot of fun
cruising in your new
Escort. Happy motoring.
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There are two types of brakes: Drum and
3'1)1sk. Most passenger vehicles will feature
Drum oft the rear of the vehicle and Disk brakes
oIn the front. Drum brakes use brake shoes,
If. Z here Disk brakes use brake pads.
F Disk brakes are the better of the two, which is
by you find them on the front. Think about it,
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the front of the vehicle carries most of its
weight, mainly because that is where the heavy
engine sits. And under braking, the vehicle has
the weight transferred to the front. Now you see
why you need the best braking system in the
front.
Each time you place your foot on the brake
pedal, brake fluid is pushed through the brake
lines. forcing the brake piston within the calipers
to work. What happens is the piston gets pushed
out. forcing the Iwo disk brake pads to squeeze
the rotator. The squeezing of the rotator is what
makes you stop. This also causes friction and
heat.
With time and use, the material attached to
the brake pad wean out. Some manufacturers of
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brake pads have a safety system built in. As the
material wears out, a small clip starts rubbing on
the rotator, causing an annoying squeaking
sound. This is your indication that you need a
brake job very soon.
Drum brakes work in a similar way, but in a
different configuration. The Drum looks like a
drum. A rotator substance lines the sides of the
drum. As you place your foot on the brake
pedal. the shoes are pushed out and begin
rubbing on the drum. And soon you are slowed
down.
ABS (Anti -Lock Braking System) is
something totally different. This system allows
you to manoeuvre around objects. If you have a
vehicle that doesn't have ABS, and you stand on
the brakes. your front wheels will lock up and
no matter what you do with the steering wheel,
you will continue to slide forwards. But as soon
as you release the brake pedal, your vehicle will
jolt in the direction the steering wheel is turned.
What ABS does is lock the wheels, losing
steering input; then releases the wheels, gaining
steering input. This happens over and over
again, while your foot is still planted on the
brake pedal. The computer makes ABS happen
at a very fast rate. enabling you to have control
and steer in the direction you want to go.
Since there are many different forms of ABS,
your vehicle may have a vibration in the brake
pedal under hard braking. You may hear a noise
when ABS is engaged, or there may be a light
on the dash that will flash, ABS ACTIVE. Still
there are systems out there that have no signs
when you get into ABS.
ABS is a great new system. It takes a little
while to get used to it, but I assure you, it will
save you many times from collision.
Should you be purchasing a new vehicle,
make sure you ask if the vehicle has ABS.
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Ask your mechanic
by Bob Buscaglia
You asked: What service is
available at self -serve gas
hays?
Your Mechanic answers:
They may not offer the
service of filling your gas tank
or cleaning your windshield,
but you receive a reduced
price for the gas. Many
products are available such as
fret air stands with a gauge
attached to show how much to
inflate the tire. The owner's
manual for your car tells the
correct tire pressure.
Windshield washing
equipment and disposable
funnels for oil and washer
fluid installation are often
supplied. You receive
discount coupons for the on-
site car wash. There may also
be a coin-operated vacuum to
use for cleaning the car's
interior.
You asked: How can I care
for my car's battery?
Your Mechanic answers:
Keep battery surfaces clean.
Salt spray from the road is a
good conductor and could
cause a constant battery drain.
A dirty battery in a car sitting
idle could lose its charge
within a week
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Battery life also suffers
from too many charges. Use a
slow, trickle charge to
recharge it when necessary.
To clean battery surfaces,
use a little water and a little
baking soda applied with an
old brush. Rinse with a little
warn water. Don't forget to
use some old gloves to protect
your hands from acid bums.
You asked: 1 hear some
strange noises, especially in
cold weather. Are they
important?
Your Mechanic answers:
Yes. Noises are a warning.
The importance can be easily
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determined by your mechanic.
Some sounds are: squealing
— could be the fan belt
slipping: grinding — the brakes
may be worn; growling — a
bearing may be wearing out;
pinging — could be due to
poor quality fuel or a timing
knock. In any case, visit your
mechanic and explain the
sound you hear. He or she will
want to do a test drive to
identify the source and the
reason for it.
You asked: How often
should I wash the car? Is it
okay to wash it in winter?
Your Mechanic answers:
Yes, a car wash is important
even in winter. Spray lock de-
icer into the driver's door lock
before the wash to avoid the
embarrassment of frozen
doors. Keep a small towel
handy in your car wash
supplies and take a second to
wipe the driver's door
weatherseal and opening right
away after the wash. That will
make it easier to open it in the
moming.
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Does your car sound like a tractor lately?
Maybe a low flying aircraft? Do children
_scream, hold their cars and run away as you
o drive by? Do nurses toss bed pans and their
convents at you as you motor through hospital
Zrl nes? Could be that your muffler is shot and
f �'Inuld be replaced.
Mufflers can be an exhausting subject
Mufflers are an exhausting topic. I'm tired
already, but here goes. An internal combustion
engine makes power basically by utilizing a
series of controlled explosions. Explosions, as
kou can well imagine, make noise. A lot of
noise.
The exhaust system carries unbumed fuel
remnants and gases, as well as the
accompanying noise, away from the car. The
exhaust manifold collects waste gas from each
cylinder and sends it through the exhaust pipe to
the catalytic converter and the muffler. The
muffler's interior baffles and tubes quiet the
explosive release of exhaust and, on some cars,
a resonator further dampens exhaust noise.
Finally, the tail pipe directs the exhaust to the
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outside air.
Do-it-yourselfers can replace mufflers, but it
is a dirty job that requires muscle, as well as a
certain amount of skill, because exhaust system
parts tend to weld themselves together over
time. Labour charges at muffler specialty shops
are not usually excessive and they offer a
lifetime guarantee to replace the muffler, if it
ever goes again. Be aware, however, that while
the muffler will be replaced for free, you can
count on paying for clamps, tail pipe, resonator
or crossovers. Plus taxes, of course.
A muffler contains many intricate
compartments that control and silence the flow
of exhaust gases. These are called baffles,
probably because no one knew what else to call
them. The designers of the first muffler
agonized over this for weeks. "Hey Pete, what
do you want to call these compartment things?"
"I don't know, Bob. I'm kind of baffled."
There are many reasons, other than social
obligations, for repairing exhaust problems soon
as possible. The police frown upon excessive
noise and will either issue a citation on the spot,
or give you a warning to get the offending
vehicle fixed within 24 hours. Engine
performance will suffer if the exhaust system is
perforated, due to the change in back pressure.
Too little back pressure from a hole in the
P-xhaust could eventually lead to burned valves
and a major engine rebuild.
The most serious threat of any exhaust
problem is the possibility of deadly carbon
monoxide finding its way into the passenger
compartment of the vehicle. If you detect any
change in your vehicle's noise level, get a
qualified specialist to evaluate the exhaust
system as soon as you can.
You asked: How often should the
fluid levels be dwdmd'►
Your Methanic ataswera_:' Once a`
week. Learn to check the levels of
engine oil, power steering fluid, brAke
fluid, automatic trio tmissioa lid and.
look at the fan beltts Revieat the owtner's
manual to find fire locatrorts otibe check`
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Seeking
Call
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Ext. 72
41.99 Per minute
FIND A FRIEND
SwF 18. 5 5- 1302x_ uionde
hoK blue eyes. very outgoing
kind, enjoys reading doncng
pod. dining. TV, sports. seeks
turf outgoing SF. for tnendshrp
Ada 6814
SPORTS -ORIENTED
SBF. K. tai- '21.t:, r .,xK ran.
brown eyes. Mork sun. oubbny,
tur"bving. humorous seok,.r;
honest, trustworny, .
humorous SM. for relahOnsr„p
Ads 6656
LOVES KIDS
SWF. 19. 5 /'. 'Ary red,
auburn haw. me, eyes, kin
-
loving. outgoing enjoys
s'ollerbioding. long walks ,r,
boaCh. Seeking tun-IOvng
affectionate- easy SM.
relationship relationshipp Ad 9�
SWF
AND LOVABLE
SWF. 19. r.c,' .ally '^JI. o :rk
brown eyes enjoys qw)g for
coffee. term swan sac_
cot. seeking tall. dark �7
Some. humorous, mtelll g t
SM, for relationship AOS ''.'95
OPEN-MINDED
SB morn, !-,y :" Sck rear.
brow- eyes studert loves
t7lwnpts. enjoys walks, movies,
Music. exercising. seeks rar-
est, reliableSB. mature.
employed M. who Wren C4
dren Ad$ 7382
LIKES STRONG MEN
SWIF
1or'9 blonde MCK green eyes.
adventurous enjoys playing
boseball. basketbab. donc-
ksa going to albs. seeking
attractive SM, who s not shy
Ads 3966
LOYAL FRIEND
W. 20.8 ''Drs k ,,v not.
brown eyes, short. wusygong,
honest, enjoys s., min
dancing, hanging cut with
mends, seeks eosygo'ng hon-
est. loyal SM AW '.t" I
THINGS TO DOI
SM. 20. 5 4- 1301t s. .grown
hat/eyes knc rusting, easy-
going loyal. student, enjoys
dancing, movies. camping
Playing POOL seeks enc. easy-
going, tusMg SM Ada 4244
LOVES TO SHOP
W. 20. 5'6'. 130tos. brown
haK brown eyes outgoing
fnendty. enjoys dance dubs.
cooking, seeking outgoing
feminine. rice SF, tot relahor,
OV. Adt.80M
SPEND TVA
SNF 211 brown curly norblue
eyes. medium build amoc-
five, shy at first- coring.
employed, enjoys done
ckft movies, sports. swm-
c x -
seeks attr
1.. Adl.8 81
MAKE ME SMILE
Spontaneous SWF. 20. 57',
brownish -red hal, grey -blue
me
beak Claemployed,n lie seeks
kustworthy. honest.
Ad# -%M humorous
SWM.AN IIDEPH'DENF PERSON?
ME
al/eyes. hair k�ictr,t so comer honest. arrlb-
relotioranip.
MUST F1KE KIM
Fairly attractive SM. 21. 577,
1 two children. easy to
tok to, enjoys dari poet-
Movim
o meeeettamoc
SF, preferably with a ca.
Adt.8851
UIMS TO GO OUT
SW E 22.5'5-, long blonde hair
blue eyes. hx-bvng pnofes-
slonck erjoys reading Hing
Waging gL#cx seeking SM. for
hiendship possible relotior-
bfdp. Adf.967B
LIKE ME FOR ME
SWF, 22, heavyset, blonde
hair blue eyes bt." talo-
five, enjoys playing hockey.
roleiblodirlg romance. woks
dancing, seeking non-judg-
mentd. fun SM. lar relotbt-
ft. Adl.9543
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24 hours a day!
LET'S TALK SOONI
Full -figure^ very :r.',,-' •,e
SBF. 23, fun -loving, easygoing,
enjoys reading, shopgng�1
travel, meeting people, seek-
ing honest. humorotn SF. with
it tegnty for relottonship
Adl 3371
STRONG-MINDED?
Bi-SBF..'Y,:,", :It wt
to, takat ,e, undcrstundng,
honest, 'ernin le, 1r.gtwpMhy,
enjoys movies, long walks,
computers, seeking under-
standing SBF. for ralptionsn,P
Ad c /F,8
BUBBLY
GWT 23. 5?" org ,Ac1tsh-
brown har. blurs'' -!green eyes,
thin. nice. enjoys working out.
Cuddling by the 4repjace,
seeks sensitive F for fnwkdsrkp
fist Ad* 3641
MEDIUM SUE
Shy outgoing exjoys'eaong.
wchng. TV musicseeking
honest, Spnefe trustworthy
SM for relationship Ad# 5825
CALL SOONI
lir-Cunous -Ar 25. ` -^edUm
build, brown ^ar/eyes. Shy.
enjoys rear;Ing. wntrg TV
tak'ir,„ on prone seeks
hoer.' senero. trustwor'hy SF
for refatrorLyxp Ad! 71.`;
PARTY GIRL
SWF 25. AXk,- 3 'sown
tsar[ blue eyes, rice. Ickes to
laugh. enjoys checkers. walks.
rock Music. Limo w,m trlonds
of ire mall. seek ng fun.
sports -melded SM. 'o, :ego-
honshp Ads 3461
INTERESTING?
SWf. 25 sr ' s. -- c,cwr
how/eyes. outgung, shy
enjoys many hobbies. seekny
sincere. honest. Trus�. C.-tly �f
for relotrorlVup Ada 9815
GOOD LISTENER
SWF 25 5." 204rs J:hrk
hoe/eyes. :,urging sry,
enjoys hiking Skung sw:m-
mrq sport movies. dining
out, seeker g Jndersran ling.
easygoing. i,,tguus¢ attrac-
tive SM Ad$ 61 ?C
FROM JAMAICA
Sim SWI 1t ` '- ,• ' [vr-
Sonakty- ke-0 eeartenl, enjoys
writing heti"s swimming
horsebock -.long, hoDng to
meet strogr r,xwced roman-
tic SBM. 25 37. who's serous
about life Ada 30.:5
ITALIAN OR PORTUGUESE
Slur Tx ,,, iolrk DrCwr.
har/eves corng, loving easy
to gat along voth, enjoys robes
skctn reading poems. seek -
ng occooling loving SM. with
nice body, for relationship
Ads 8407
JUST UVLM LEE
GWF, 27, 5 5-. 1154x., dark
hair/eyes Curvy. down-10-
earm, coring enjoys me out-
doors movies, music, seeing
Honest. understanding. com-
municative F. for relationship.
ACIS.2545
SOMEONE FOR ME
GWF 28, 5'4-. 115lbs., blonde
Plait,blue eyes, outgoing, stu-
dent. enjoys playing pool.
darts. seeks SF. *,no Ekes to
have tun. t0 go out with.
Adt.6872
SPEND TME TOGETHER
SWF 28. 57. petite, blonde
halt brown eyes bubbly. pos-
itive, open-minded, enjoys
sports. cross stitch cooking,
Seeking trustworthy. honest
SM. for relatio stip. Adt.8239
COK*VJ LE?
DWF. 28. 5', blonde hole,
brown eyes outgoing. P-
five, bubbly. enjoys Wiling.
sports. knitting, Cooking..Semi-
seek-
rl�
ti eMfgSM, for rellortion-
08
96
PRETTY GOOD
GWF. 28. 5'5'. 120lbs., dark
brown/block hair/eyes
down-to-earth, easygoing.
likes writing poems and to
pen pal music. movies chit-
in', seeking honest under -
Standing comrnunicatNe,
down-to-earth easygorhg SF
with similar merest. AW.751
MEAN WHAT YOU SAYi
SWF 29. 5'6 brown hot,
blue/green eyes easygortg
fu -lovng, enjoys hme with
friends.
os, coo seeealtoerlyg.
romantic, spontaneous SM,
for relationship. Ads.5251
A GO-GETTER
SBF. 30. T 2" ' Sblbs :,rak
c
hair, bubbly, considerate,
understanding, coon -mind-
ed. enjoys movies, dining,
sports, dogs, seeking honest,
Open-mrrxied SF, for micTion-
ship Ada 91 15
LIKE SOMEONE
Bi -F. 30, rft5 . r'r r r,• .sin
hair. very attritve great
oersonal,ty, very outgoing,
employed. enjoys movies,
clubs, seeks very nice.
decent, honest, sincere SF
Ad/ 7269
VOLUPTUOUS
SWF- 31, 5 4' ,rg rrowr nae
gree- eyes. mednxn bull
nit shy- employed. er;')ys
ceramics. bicycling, playing
pool. seeks hrrsest, sincere
fun SM Ada 8730
AFFECTIONATE
SWF. 32- `. 4'. _ • - , !.,ue
eyes, skin. stnaghttorwr7r1. Stj-
dent enjoys building. sng
r.a cls. seeks sincere. enthut-
aSt:c SM AOS 7545
SOMEONE FUN?
Fit SNF. 22 -" `x _ n•- 'r� .
blue eyes. outgoing. on"
sports, travel, moves, Seekirg
octve. outgoing
shied. intemgent SWM1. for
rek)honsho AdS e' 56
LOVE TO MEET YOU
$AF. 32. Sro,• 'r pe^re
down ; eam. swe7wie.
em0oved. enjoys music.
seeks nice. horeg, l0'vvw, sin'
core. ^vlture. very Cownto,
earn) SM AdS 64'_ I
YOUR HOBBIES?
GWF 32 S : - -1. ,- ',, od.
or'v b.oncie rew TA ryes
Outgoing, fnendly, enjoys
cornprng. pod. TV siring of
home. see. ng GW some
interests. hus-w.Qomy. nuryK7
AdS 9,'20
LET'S TALK SOON
Down rc siert' ;.sir 1.? _- --Sy-
gorng entoys skc•ng, sports,
walking bike ndrng outdoor
events. dancing movift
seeking equal. accepting SM.
for reiatrrrhshrD Ad/ A1C
ASPIRING WRITER
GWF, 34 t 5' ', ,r:: ryr:wr
hays green eyes, fit, outgoing.
sociable. CompdSyoncte,
trendy. employed. enjoys TV
wakks. talks. seeks fermi le
honest SF. who Knc WS herself
Ads 9095
MUST LIKE KIDS
SBF. 35 exciting ;*,r moire
enjoys aancng moves. drrr
Ing J0. waive- in the pork
seeks loving. caring, responsi-
ble SM. who is tali and hand-
some Ads 2182
CRYSTAL BLUE EYES
GWF, 35. 5.6-. 1201bs. strow-
berry-blonde how. enjoys
wafer sports. rearing writwlg
letters seeking fumy. rice GEF.
for possible serous relation-
ship. Ada 9985
LAUGHTER B COMEDY
5WF, 35. 57. red/brown hdr,
green eyes, medium build,
good sense Of humor, easygo-
ing student, loves skiing
swimmng. reading quiet
moment, seeks sensitive SM
Adt.9615
LOVING
SWF. 35. 5.2-. 120lbs- long
brown ndr. green eyes
employed. quiet. sensitive.
coring, enjoys long walks,
movies. dung out, dancing
seeks honest. caanrlgg under-
standing SBF. Ads.9219
NICE LADY
SWE 39, 5'3'. modurn build
brown hair hazel eyes,
Humorous. enjoys log woks
fireplaces. playing POOL
Sports. movies. Seeks ohitac-
five. honest, humorous car -
ng affectionate SWM. 39-45.
Adt.9855
LRE SPORTS?
SWF, 39.5'5'. medium-ofNetk
build humorous fun -loving.
enjoys travel running, swim
ring ,Yoking, reodthg seek-
Iflg S`rlCere. CarRhg rTlprlOgr;T-
mous SM, for rebtlonship.
Adt.9959
COMPATIBLE?
SM. 39. 5'2'. 13013s., brown
hair, senokl5, enjoys life, food -
hg, viktng friends movies
dances, concerts, seeking
friendly, congenial SM. similar
interests. for relationship.
Adt.4866
a dating column for
today's successful singles Ext. 72
ONLY $1.99 per minute
will be Charged f0 yourr:, -_ ^j to ger, ;ry bill You must
be 18 years or older and have a touchtone phone
LOTS OF BAD HABITS
W, 4C [Pt''e Sin- +,, , ,-
hazel eyes. smo,w 7nntter.
funny, enjoys ndirg motorcy
cies. making new friends. Dar-
lyfng seeks I"nest, employed
SM. who .ve:rs leather. ant
"a bike AG 8WA
YOUNG AT HEART
SWF 42...'' " -erj%, se• ';,' ..n
half. blue eyes. sincere. Car
wig humorous. enjoys ongo.
playn g cardsr reading flea
markets, movies, seews r,exI,
est. Caring affec'r)rate.
humorous SWM. n0 games
Ada ' 'a3
QUALITY RELATIONSHIP hguferJ, UMOCtNe, h/S, sn-
corehonest sor,abo.
employed. enjoys quiet 'ares.
musicantiques. rvinfesoaks
sincere. loyal SM Ada %51,5
JUST BE YOURSELF
GF. 44. "its ---,j'r•;'e
build. very cheer`1 friendly.
employed, ekes dancing.
good moves gong to par
hes, seeks rcnost 'r•,stwrr•^y.
frionaly vF Ada a;'9
HEALTH Nk HAPPINESS
`
h ueleyes.easygoing enjoys
current events. Cram. aero
markets. ^sCvk3S, seeking easy
t0 took '^ ';ndorstondmg,
arn0iii z Ln SM. for reicrion-
shrp AdS -,2
INSIDE
INSIDE COUNTS
SW; 4,t ' -• .,r
average looking. home
owneremploye'l part rime.
enjoys workng on The ease.
soaks amoloyed SM. t•x
frlerrisr'lo.--crvoe more
AOR'."`
NATURE PERSON
SW,, 4,t - - A x •-.'a.
wiry ook,f ; em.,t,orlouy
strong. determined,
employed. enjoys swr',ming
reodng pnotogroor'v- quiet
times at home music, socks
exciting SM ACS 8254
CAR04G PERSON
SWF 4, ' - .,, �"";.,.
enjoys Ceramics.rearrg
Gong tongs oround the
house seeing .ery '�rce SM.
to Vlore similar interests for
friendship First. relat,onshrp
Ada 8354
SINCERE
SWF 47.5'. 1:31rs ""L"ed.
hones', Trush orTv sponta-
neouS, humorous. sensitive.
enjoys reading cooing.
sewing theater. seeks eor,esl
coring. secure SWM Adt 7497
JOLLYI
SWF 47, 5 4'. 1451ts. Cork
brown naw/eves neat. tray
humorous. sencus at times.
enjoys vorroiE outdoor acrtvr-
hes, seeking kind. honest SM.
fon hendshp first AoS 7546
LETS TALKI
SWF 50. 5'4-. 122lbs. loving
Gang COMP)O4rOnOte. spon-
taneous, enjoys dancing. the
outdoors seeking sensitive.
compassionate. intelligent
SM. for relationship AW 7268
BE THERE FOR HER
SM. 50. 5'1', 1401ty., outgo-
ing, easygoing employed.
enjoys kntwhg sewing craft
bowling seeing honest, sn-
Cere. Caring, overoge400k-
ng polite SM. Adt.9618
QUITE OKAY TO LOOK ATI
W. 51. 5'8'. 170Ru., outgo-
ing honest. enjoys deconal-
ing. cerafrres Blue Jays out-
door octiVltm seeking hon-
est, compassionate. loyal SM.
past behind for relationship.
Adt.3303
HEAR THE WATER
SWF, 54. 57, 125lbs.. blonde
hoir -yg-% happy,
enjoys music. We theolet din-
ing. gardening. seeking lov-
ing affectionate, easygoing
SM, similar interests, for rek-
tionship. Ads.8475
MOTHER OF TWO
SM. 56. 57. blonde hair,
blue eyes, fin outgwq
lively, enjoys dancing,
cooking, going t0 movies.
seeking honest. urlder-
standing, up -front SM, far
relotiornhip. Ad#.1401
REALLY SINCERE
SWF '2 5 2'
hair, a little bit ov9r-
weight, smoker, oCCo-
slonal drinker outgoing,
loving. enjoy; knitting,
being with grcndChll-
dren. seek; : rrpasslon-
ate. r ;r•'or' SM
Ads 9447
Males
Seeking
Call
-900-451-4882
Ext. 72 I
31.99 Per mnsute
MAKE ME SMILE
har r^del eyes. sTUder.•
humorous. enjOYs 'iSning.
swtmm.ng 1,,e) titre$. seeks
attractive •',n. easygoing
SWF AdS ;'",
ENJOY A GOOD LAUGH
16CIbs w.T^r .S„Cr'an@ou1,
Country rnusic SPPk:r y ;Don-
taneo,A tunry Si. fr,, "fcfoin
ship AdR
SEEKS SPECIAL LADY
btcwr earn/ey-s. Stuo-.,
enIC6 "no outarl". mo:r
'an ckmbna, ryr,krrJ, 1•'Pef
r"ckev seeks 'nma"fir sen-
sihve. numorpus swF
Ad. 82-12
DOWN-TO-EARTH
Fun .,%,., - `. '
bfowr nau "Cha eyes -
dent. er;oyS scor's, tariry
camping par•�es. seeks
funny, ourgo.rg, arractive
SWF Ada 50 �
SOMEWHAT SHY
SWM
St•rrgrr;,rw JC numerous.
eosygonC. erK-ys SDom Ju• -
door oct^v,nes. Ciaw•r ;. see.
ng easyg ,ng, -r., r:'of`
ring 5< or 'e,oflonsr p
Ada
UK ES TO PARTY
SWM „ f ,les
Wing Gies sur:r-;
spending I -e c.1.1,-0rs-
see ;r g som-rve. outgoing sF.
wtT^, good sense Of Naror
LET'S PARTYI
SWM, '.8 5 crowr
ear/eyes, •^..souks. fumy
enjoys sport seek;r,g furnv.
outgoing SF wrC Ines play
sports. for re,oT'crshlp
AOS 1619
MYSTERIOUS
S East Indian M '; 5 6'.
1601bs - block nor. green
eyes, charming Intellectual.
enjoys outdoor activities,
water sports. seeing similar S
East inchon F. 18-25. tot nela-
Tsofslrp AW 8546
PLAYS DRUMS
Nice East Indarl SM, 19, 6 5
1401bs.. long dirty, Diand hays
enjoys budding modefi worfc-
ng on old cam comping
seeks coning down-to-earth
SF, for possible reiatlonstV
AcW 3168
COLLECTING BOOKS
Charming SWM. 19. 5' 11'.
1551ba., brown hays greenrsh-
blue eyes. honest, funny.
enjoys walks. outdoor octivi-
ties, movies. Seeking SWF, 18-
21, sirnbar interests, for retro-
Tkxslp. Adt.9124
HERE I AMI
SWM. 2Q 5'9-, 150D5. Maov-
ng honest. down-to-earth.
enjoys gong out. quiet tines
at home. Sports seeking SF
who knows what she wants
for relationship Ad111.8739
II ECHANIC
SWM. 20. 6'2', blond har
blue/green eyes, fun, outgo -
ng humorous. honest, hu,
lovng coring, enjoys sports
cam walks on the beoch.
seeking similor SF, for relation-
ship. Adt.9870
PRANKSTER
SWM, 21, 171lbs. bland hoK
blue eyes athlete. enjoys
rollerdoding, any kind of
sport, seeking not too silly SF.
for relationship Adt 9152
NO HEAD GAMES
SWM t
golrg, numoro;s. eri,„rs
wa',hng and ala'(Ing '^any
anferer• SCl r'S. seei, r -jst
in,;. -of-est, a,n SF. '-r 'Pio-
tiorSr,lo ACX 8697
WISH TO BE RICH
EnergH s.`4 "? -. / -,r
dark if brow- eyes easy'
jPr-DOr.g «,r.. rvtgofnrg.
9n1ry1 n,crq Drk,r sk:.ng
saeking sr.-Io,.rg
Su*nrlOr `i.aktiPs. ,of
noir, ^rr.
ship ACR 1394
FUN -LOVING GUY
Humc-',.1 :Mil ,4 ' z'
dIOnC half. "veer, eyes. enjoys
kDor's. war,rnq 'r Ov,Pi 7,T-
7oce x•v,•:es. 'ook.rg T�,r
outgoing, at' ar the SF weir) a
caring -,na ,ncles•ardrrg
Ara :ae5
LET'S DATEI
ood oar ' ; , r. v 5' 7'
150" vert outgcs.g, ekes
dar.crG dung exit going
rnoves. ,CvrD,Ters, amD-
ng, hoping to '^5P, SF wrc
enjoys gong 7•f Or`C
Tr Ada
CALL SOON
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ny- ::vs ^ireJ '1-e
Cuaakng 'r hon* Of a ^.re
SEeik,r6 ;P_a,rrfiJ SF 'or 'elk}
txI A. -N :2 -2
LIKE S PEACE
SM. 26. Df' ..- ,
medi:m boor- naoDy-go-
k,Cwy 'urnorai enjoys wCJw
rsg -,r. " se noon. enc....
gamAS. tc k r; darcir,-
seek.r,; -r--')rous SF
Adt8G2
DECENT GUY
Large-(>.-�' .' ' ' -1,)rk
brJ,w'r .,Wr. ,owes '^»u ,
doors. sw,-mm,ng lock -
t=o tgnr.,s. plav:rg p.
oak r;'or nice, ar•ocwe Si
'o :•e similar .r'efesTs
Adt ;Pe5
SENSE OF HUMOR
Trim.
naKieyes. iemc-rvea. enoyl
Comrny. •,ming spot's
everts. ,:.ts Seeks �duCCt-
ec - ra eJ 0^ 3, 've
SWC Dre•erot4vcr4-
dren Ads ::74
MARRIAGE -MINDED
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28 -edum our SDs
eCsvgong enjoys *Arng.
spots seen, .rg loving knC.
orek:honafe ,r0orstandrg
SJ nor relanorshi AOR 4,:
MORE TIME TO PLJAYI
hOK daingL4hed blue eyes
positive. enjoys ou'ocor
activittes music. soorrng
events. seeking honest. Das-
IK)nate resoec'fl l SF. 'or relo-
tkorskp ACS 4,771
LIKES TO COOK
SWM- 28 5 1 I 2051bs back
rice. Dfcwn eves, chief. enjoys
golf. sk;ng. computers. seek-
ing 'web -groomed, down -'o -
earth. CMOCTNe SF Aar 9825
GOOD PERSONALITY?
Farmtut. easygoing SWM. 29
6'. blond harr. blue eyes.
employed, enjoys hockey
basebaLL comping. seeks
honest. caring trustworthy.
outgoing W. AdI1.3394
ATNtETICALLY-MI DED
SWM. 29, 5'11". 195165.. blond
haK bkie eyes, outgoing, low-
key. happy-go-lucky, enjoys
many Sports, seeking outgo-
ing timorous intelligent SF
for rekationShp. Ads 4403
OPEN TO NEW THINGS
Friendly SWM 30. Slm-built,
Happy, open-minded likes
cooking listening to music.
gong dancing watching
movies, looking for outgoing.
NIS SAF. 10 share romantic
tjmes. ACX 1317
OTHER THAN AVERAGE
Shade under 6' SWM, 30.
I&SIDs., brown hat/eyes pri-
vate.
revate. outgoing enjoys sailing
Cycling SpodS, pool. -kvhg
fit. self-consco ss SF. who can
stand on her own, for relo-
tfonship AW 6582
LETS TALKI
SBM, 30. medium build ambt-
iII hardworking intelligent,
enjoys Playing soccer oanc-
Ing seeking honest. intelli-
gent SF, for relatronship.
AW 1149
OPEN TO NEW THINGS
Ing. r,Der.T r ;'ed. '',endly.
enjoys G«:rg. muse_. guitar.
D,arc 'omar'r ^ries. leer.
,ng N/S, y�rgc�rg. roves-
C'Y:n'g. I, mar e, ]F. for rely
T,cnsnip Ada e',4f,
LOVING TYPE
snaCP Irk PS ;:air's. m0r'Ps,
Dlc'r'ng f0^':,alt. ^„Gng •O
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SF, f :r c-S&b�e uxg-ter•- •eic
tOr Sr,C AdS :',1
QUIET NIGHTS
SBM erg
goad-K,okr i. Or;igOrng, hie;
to make -Cp,e "arc,
era'/` ,. -,H D,cvr'g sr:,I;sr
ieek.r; ^fir PST "r M- re,
boa'.'[ ',,r fP':• O Sn,D
ACa :`.:2
QUIET GUY
Shy 3w.1 .`fir. • -,vos
sports. gyne; ,
mr;yes kx,..r a nr:''e s, sir_
Ce;/;SscG'ta
romar'c 'eja*,rr%r,c
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ARE You UNP'REDICTABLE1
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harer. goorJ-^ecrPd. sc^r.
foreC'S SF. tx rctir�•rrsr,C
ACR ;4 -'
A GOOD FRIEND?
nar!eyM.-AasvJW% "relays
t,srrn;f aanGr y.-cvw.s. -ln-
n,g. walk: :ue' '11-1M of
home se.-.:rg nice. 'ter-lky
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ROMANTIC AT HEART
Tall :. `.' - a . .. -
eyes a :. n Saws :r'anq
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Mr .,r,d
range .nor-` m,:9c ^'e on. •C
computers ona
octmfies ^Corg %) -eel wm-
t0-meOi-rn SF. wt -C ^as
wade vinery of :rfefesis
Awa ";x:
CANDLELIGHT TALKS
SW41 1-: - ilr. - - -
na' Draw^ nays Gue eves.
humoro,s. -ones' Jung"
loyal. enjoys pnC'ograDnV
spor's movies. Seecrg C -'r'.
honnest. C: nrq 5F 101 't+Cnon-
00 ACS �k:k
JUST BE YOURSELF
Corefre,e :'A11 '
1351bs. brow, ^,,x ok,e eves.
easygoing enjoys sports.
Pool, Bari see, ng 'r- ---,.
My, respec-..,I SF 'Jr 'elCtion-
snip Ads S5. k
ANY AND EMERY THING
SWM. 4. 5 7- -'5Ls Dfcwr
nau. blue eyes. carerree
easygoing enjoys motorcy-
clessports seeking honest.
trustworthy. 'esti ial SF. for
rela'iorshiC AWS '5 18
HASSLE -FREE
SWM. 34. 5' 7' 170" gown
nor, blue eyes. easygoing.
enjoys sports. bikes, cars.
seeking sensitive, sincere.
trustworthy. respecttUl SF. for
relationship. Adt 2456
GO OUT ON A LOA?
Always cheery SWM. 36. 5' 7-
brown hair. hazel eves. In
good condition, enjoys restor-
ng old cars. dining out. seeik-
ing honest, mentally mature
SF, for relationship. Adt.6366
MAKE ME SMILE
Humorous SWM. 38. 6', slim
block hays blue eyesteacher
enjoys long woks at, seeks
honest, attractive, slender
humorous SWF. Ad`s 5109
WOMAN OF MY DREAMS?
SWM. 38. 6'2. 1801bs. blow
har, blue eyes, athletic
good-natured humorous sin
cere. enjoys computers reod-
ing, walks, seeking hones'.
adventurous SF, for relation-
ship Ads 6838
LOVES GOLF
Professional SWM. 39, 6.
1801bs. brown hair. blue eyes•
enjoys the outdoors. having a
good time. watef skiing, fish-
ing, looking for easygoing SF
to enjoy each other's Compo-
ny Ads 6278
WINE BY THE FIREPLACE
"pan/eyes. casual. Pendry
enjoys D^otortroohv ':sr,ing.
dog _v-wJ,r.g spear; bur -
fur Jassior crap jF. for relatior-
sr:c Ad! 2e'4
ACTTVE AND UPBEAT
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