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Home My WebLink AboutNA2010_09_10_incompleteExpand your social circle. The Fab 10 Student plan from Bell gives you unlimited talking and texting to 10 lucky friends.1 Plus, you also get unlimited evening and weekend local minutes starting at 6 p.m., 100 anytime local minutes with 50 additional bonus minutes and more. There’s never been a better time to get on Canada’s best network2 and do more things in more places. $30 /MO.FAB 10 STUDENT PLAN1 Available at the following Bell stores: Whitby Whitby Mall 905 725-1212 Pickering Pickering Town Centre 905 837-1212 Offer ends September 30, 2010. Available with compatible devices within network coverage areas available from Bell Mobility where technology permits. HSPA/HSPA+ not available everywhere. Long distance and roaming charges (including foreign taxes) may apply outside your local area. Weeknights Mon-Thur, 6pm-7am; Weekends Fri 6pm-Mon 7am. Other monthly fees, e.g., 911 (Quebec: $0.40), and one-time device activation ($35) apply. Paper bill service charge ($2/mo.) applies unless you register for e-bill and cancel your paper bill. Upon early termination, price adjustments apply; see your Service Agreement for details. Subject to change without notice; not combinable with other offers. Taxes extra. Other conditions apply. (1) With new activation on a 3-yr. term with valid student card. Applies to local calls and text messages made to and from ten designated numbers. (2)With compatible HSPA/HSPA+ devices. Based on comparison of national networks: (a) fastest network, according to tests of average upload and download speeds in large urban centres across Canada, (b) largest network, based on total square kms of coverage and c) tests for fewest call failures including network access failures, blocked calls, and dropped calls in large urban centres across Canada all on the HSPA+ network available from Bell, vs. Rogers HSPA/HSPA+ network. Excludes roaming partners’ HSPA and GSM/Edge coverage in certain parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Speed may vary due to topography, environmental conditions, device type and other factors. HSPA+ not available in all areas. Bell.ca/network. Fall Program Registration cityofpickering.com Sign up now, programs start soon!Pickering Volkswagen Inc. 503 Kingston Rd. Pickering Sales Hotline: 905-420-9700 www.pvw.com New Golf. NewGolf.ca Pressrun 51,400 • 32 pages • Optional 3-week delivery $6/$1 newsstand PICKERING NNews ews AAddveverr titisseerrTHE Wedding disaster avoided in Pickering PAPPS CLOSURE LEFT COUPLE SEARCHING FOR LAST-MINUTE RECEPTION VENUE KRISTEN CALIS kcalis@durhamregion.com PICKERING -- The DJ has been booked, the flowers ordered, the temple and the reception venue set, and the invitations for Andrea McGowan and Omar Sahi’s wed- ding were mailed out long ago. Everything was ready for the couple’s wedding, set to take place Saturday, Sept. 18. That was until Sept. 5, just 13 days before the big day, when they learned that Papps Casual Dining and Banquet Hall, where they were holding the reception, had been shut down due to outstanding rent pay- ments.JASON LIEBREGTS / METROLAND PICKERING -- Omar Sahi and Andrea McGowan found out by chance that Papps has closed, just days before their scheduled wedding reception at the venue. facebook.com/newsdurham twitter.com/newsdurham See COUPLE page 4 Friday, September 10, 2010 ELECTION 5 Who’s running? 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DURHAM’S LARGEST INDOOR DURHAM’S LARGEST INDOOR SHOWROOMSHOWROOM MOVINGMOVING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH Bayly Street HarwoodWestneyHWY 401 N Come out a n d meet the m a y o r a t o u r RIBBON C U T T I N G CEREMON Y 11:00 GOVERNMENT Durham headquarters demolition cost rises Asbestos removal adds thousands to project DURHAM -- Tearing down the former Regional headquarters and courthouse is going to cost almost $200,000 more than originally budgeted. About $147,500 of the extra cost is for removing more asbestos than was expected. The Region had set aside $905,000 for the project. The original tender, awarded to Salandria Ltd., came in at $482,500. However, an extra $196,600 is needed to finish the work, Regional council’s finance committee heard on Wednes- day. Regional Chairman Roger Anderson said the original tender “came in sub- stantially lower than what we thought. That’s a good thing.” When Salandria began the work, “as they started moving things, they found more asbestos, more things,” Mr. Ander- son noted. A consulting company retained by the Region “should have known there was more asbestos. The contractor, as they went through the building, found more and more asbestos,” Mr. Anderson stat- ed. “It’s the works (department) posi- tion the consultant should be respon- sible for some or all of the (extra) costs. Where they found asbestos, the consul- tant should have known,” he added. Even with the extra cost “a big hit,” the project is still “well within budget,” Mr. Anderson noted. Works Commissioner Cliff Curtis said given the age of the building, it was known asbestos was there. Asbestos was also found in floor tiles, ceiling tiles and the concrete canopy, Mr. Curtis stated. The asbestos “isn’t dangerous, as long as it doesn’t get airborne,” he added. The finance committee approved spending the extra money.