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Home My WebLink AboutNA2012_01_11du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ja n u a r y 1 1 , 2 0 1 2 2 AP Enjoy a ‘winter wonderland’ in spring-like conditions JENNIFER WALKER jwalker@durhamregion.com DURHAM -- January usually comes with bliz- zards, freezing temperatures and hibernation but 2012 has other plans and many people took advantage of the strange, warm weather in early January and hit the slopes. According to Christine Lum, administrator for Dagmar Ski Resort, 1220 Lakeridge Rd., Ash- burn, business is significantly down this year but the hills were hustling and bustling on the spring-like winter weekend. “We have made lots of snow and we were able to be the first ones to open for the season in this area,” said Lisa LaRocca, Dagmar advertising and promotions. “We have hard working staff who have done so well to provide us with this winter wonderland.” Adam and Julie Atkinson of Stouffville took their little ones, Cooper and Avery, out for their first experience on a set of skis. “It is a perfect day to be outside, more snow would be good but the warm weather is nice,” said Mr. Atkinson. Avery and Cooper, 3 and 4, wobbled down a tiny hill as they enjoyed their very first lesson, consistently waving while yelling ‘hi mom and dad’ as Ms. Atkinson proudly held on to a video camera. “We learned when we were kids, it is good to teach them while they’re young,” said Mr. Atkin- son. “If they like it, we will go more and more.” While many may be thrilled with the shin- ing sun and high temperatures, Derek Elieff of Oshawa is disappointed. “I hate the warm weather, it needs to be cold. If there was snow, I’d be snowmobiling somewhere,” he said. Out for the first time this season, Mr. Elieff stood on the Dagmar balcony, suited up in his winter gear, watching his children, ages 9 and 7, gliding down the hills. While the snow at the Lakeridge and Dagmar Ski resorts is man-made, there was plenty to go around with about 15 runs open at each loca- tion. According to Jennifer Storin, director of oper- ations at Lakeridge Ski Resort, 790 Chalk Lake Rd., Uxbridge, 45 centimetres of base snow has been produced to cover 15 runs since the sea- son began on Dec. 22. Kevin Marrin of Toronto snuggled up by a cozy fireplace at the Lakeridge chalet while his wife Karen and two kids, Myles and Heidi, took full advantage of the snow-covered slopes. This is the second season for the Marrin fam- ily to jump onto their skis and they hope to be more challenged in February when they visit Blue Mountain or Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, New York. “ We had a good experience here last year,” said Mr. Marrin. “It is a good family place, good instructors and friendly folks.” RECREATION Slopes of Durham prove to be a popular choice in warm weather SABRINA BYRNES / METROLAND UXBRIDGE -- Skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes at Dagmar Ski Resort Jan. 7 on a mild winter day. (Below) Snowboarders enjoy the half-pipe at Dagmar. 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Premier Dalton McGuinty launched the new 30-per cent off Ontario tuition grant at Wilfrid Lau- rier University Jan. 5 and students can apply now. “This is a huge commitment that we made during the campaign that we’re following up on to make edu- cation more accessible and afford- able,” said Pickering-Scarborough East MPP Tracy MacCharles. “This is definitely part of our big- ger strategy to keep Ontario on the right track.” The chatter among students at Trent University in Oshawa was equally positive. “I think it’s really exciting that stu- dents have this opportunity,” said Kelly Vanleyden, president of the Trent in Oshawa Student Associa- tion. “A lot of them are in finan- cial need and this is just what they need.” More than 300,000 students are eligible for the tuition grant this year. Those who already receive the Ontario Student Assistance Program don’t need to apply; their applications will be submitted automatically. Eligible university or college stu- dents in a degree program will receive $800 this semester, and col- lege diploma and certificate stu- dents will get $365. In September, the permanent grant will apply to the full school year. Students in a university or college degree program will save $1,600 for the whole school year, while students in college diploma and certificate programs will save $730. But shortly after this good news, the Province cut $42 million out of the Ontario Research Fund. The Ontario Graduate Caucus of the Canadian Federation of Stu- dents is calling this cut as well as the lack of financial support for gradu- ate students a double blow. “The loss of this research fund- ing is devastating for the academ- ic community, especially for those who conduct research in the social sciences, arts and humanities,” said Desiree Lamoureux, federa- tion chairwoman in a press release. “At a time where innovation can help improve Ontario’s economy, government is cutting programs that are meant to boost economic growth.” Ms. MacCharles said the Province values research and innovation, but with the slow economy, the gov- ernment had to make some tough choices. “We are paying for the tuition reduction by adjusting funds from a number of places, not just the Ontario Research Fund,” she said. There is still at least $200 mil- lion remaining in research funding opportunities for colleges and uni- versities available in Ontario, she said. “We’re coming down to what’s most affordable,” said Ms. MacCha- rles. “Right now economy, jobs, those are our No. 1 priorities.” Associate provost of research at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Michael Owen, said while the school regrets hearing about the cuts, he understands the government has budgetary con- straints. The university has two grants from the fund in the works for a project on thermal mechanical design of nuclear-based hydrogen production. Luckily, the funding for the project has already been com- mitted so it won’t be affected. “In a way it doesn’t have direct impact on us but what it could do in the future is limit the vision that some of the faculty members might have of types of projects they could undertake,” he said. Mr. Owen said UOIT plans to take advantage of other funding, such as the Southwestern Ontario Devel- opment Fund. Not all undergraduate students are eligible for the tuition grant, including Durham College student Dana DaSilva, a mother of three young children. She had received an e-mail from the college explaining the new grant the morning of Jan. 6 and was very excited. “And then I scrolled down,” she said. Ms. DaSilva quickly learned only students who graduated from high school less than four years ago can apply. “I don’t find it fair,” she said. The practical nursing student said around half of the students in her program have graduated from high school more than four years ago. Students with parents who make a combined income of $160,000 or more are not eligible. Durham College student Julia Thompson may be in luck this semester since she’s in her fourth year of studies. She said the grant would definitely have helped her in previous years. 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Does Durham get its fair share from Ontar- io? “Certainly not in terms of infrastructure,” the long-time Durham MPP replies quickly. The Province has made many promises in the past for Durham, but few have been kept, says Mr. O’Toole. Pledges to expand Hwy. 407 eastward to the other side of Durham’s border have been made three times, he says. Connect- ing GO trains to Durham’s eastern bound- ary have been promised twice and much- need improvements to Darlington’s decay- ing nuclear plants are long overdue, says the Durham MPP. “Why are they promising it if they don’t plan on delivering it?” But as the provincial pledges drop from the headlines and much-needed infrastruc- ture in the region continues to crumble, the results of such neglect are starting to show, says Mr. O’Toole. Delays in expanding Hwy. 407 eastward are costing municipalities and the Region mil- lions of dollars as local roadways continue to handle overflowing traffic on a daily basis. A pledge by the Province to shutter power plants fuelled by coal, in conjunction with Ontario’s feet-dragging on renewing Dur- ham’s nuclear plants, will no doubt result in a significant generation gap that could have a dreadful impact on businesses and the econ- omy, he adds. “Infrastructure in Ontario is being compromised by the on-again, off-again prom- ises,” says Mr. O’Toole. Durham’s certainly not alone when it comes to crying poor. In 2007, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities estimated the nationwide munici- pal infrastructure deficit at about $123 billion -- a figure that has no doubt shrunk in the four years since it was released. The numbers at the local level are staggering. For 2012, Ajax estimates it’ll take nearly $32 million to cover its infrastructure needs; in 2011, by its own estimate, Pickering figured it would require almost $25 million. In the north, Scugog’s civic leaders have repeatedly stressed the municipality would need more than $100 million to get its hun- dreds of kilometres of roadways in tip-top shape. The Durham MPP has no quick and easy answer for helping municipalities dig out of the financial potholes they now find themselves in. But tweaking how gas tax funds can be spent may help, says Mr. O’Toole. Cur- rently, the federal portion of those funds can be spent on any infrastructure project a municipality wants. The provincial portion, however, must be spent on transit. Instead, suggests Mr. O’Toole, perhaps the Province should let municipalities make their own decisions: buses or bridges? Ontario “should expand the eligibility cri- teria to address infrastructure deficiencies,” says the veteran MPP. But when it comes to Durham being short-changed by the Province, by his own admission, Mr. O’Toole refuses to blame old-fash- ioned politicking. Just because Durham is rep- resented mostly by Tories, that doesn’t mean the gov- erning McGuinty Liberals are thumbing their nose at the region, he says. “We have to pay for equal treatment whether we live in Thunder Bay or Clarington. If we have to play politics to get our fair share, that’s wrong and unacceptable. That’s not how the game should be played,” says Mr. O’Toole sternly. But given a minute to think about it, the Durham MPP changes his tune slightly: “I think rural Ontario, which is pretty well Con- servative, is not being treated fairly.” Large urban areas, where the Liberals have garnered the bulk of their support, are more likely to get the premier’s ear when it comes to their needs and wants, muses Mr. O’Toole. “If (Mississauga Mayor) Hazel McCal- lion was jumping up and down on Dalton McGuinty’s table, she’d get her way,” he says. Repeated requests for an interview with Mayor McCallion for this Deal For Durham series went unanswered. And some have a different opinion than that of Mr. O’Toole. The idea that Durham is some poor, for- gotten cousin of the larger, more populated regions that form the GTA is hogwash, says Marilyn Pearce, Scugog’s former mayor. “There are a lot of things that happen that make the naysayers say Durham doesn’t get its fair share, but there’s a lot of hospitals in Durham Region and a university and a col- lege,” she says. “I think we’ve done OK by the Province.” In fact, stresses Ms. Pearce, the former chairwoman of Durham’s finance committee, there are plenty of examples. There’s a new regional cancer centre, the ever-expanding University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College campuses and the new Durham courthouse that’s helping to revital- ize Oshawa’s downtown core. On top of that, she continues, construction crews have final- ly begun work on widening Hwy. 7 through Durham, the Region’s smaller municipalities are pocketing thousands -- sometimes more than $1 million -- from provincial partnership funds and Ontario has started the process of uploading a series of social services. “It’s an easy out to say Durham’s not get- ting its fair share,” says Ms. Pearce, who was never shy about her Liberal leanings during her days around the council table. “You can’t just pick one piece, like the 407, and say we’re not getting our fair share. You have to look at the whole bundle of funds and when it comes to Durham Region, I don’t think we’re doing too bad.” Fair share or not, how does Durham get more from the Province then? “All of the municipalities need to come together,” said Mr. O’Toole. “We need to act and perform like a region ... not going to the Province with 19 different projects, asking for $50,000 here and there.” Following his fifth straight election victory in October, Mr. O’Toole sat down with civic offi- cials from across the region that resulted in a we-want list only three items long. Topping the list were: Expanding Hwy. 407 eastward, which will make it easier for supplies and workers to get to Courtice to refurbish the aging Darlington nuclear plant. Con- necting GO trains to Durham’s eastern boundary rounded out the wish list. Going forward, continues Mr. O’Toole, “Leadership has to define the priorities and then approach the Province. We should all be on the same page.” Part 2 Thursday: Durham gets the short end of funding: Fact or fiction? Part 3 Wednesday: Durham poli- ticians say stable funding key to meeting infrastructure demands.du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ja n u a r y 1 1 , 2 0 1 2 10 AP speCial report: a fair deal for durham Is Durham getting its Fair share? With continued growth projected over the coming years, municipal officials across Durham are struggling to deal with increas- ing demands on the region’s roads, bridges, buildings and services. With a municipal infrastructure deficit of $123 billion estimat- ed across Canada, Durham communities are banding together to demand their fair share of funding to deal with infrastructure needs such as more and improved road net- works and new servicing for planned devel- opments. In this first part of a three-part series, Durham Conservative MPP John O’Toole asserts that Durham is the ‘poor cousin’ in Ontario when it comes to infra- structure spending. Celia klemenz / metroland PORT PERRY -- Durham’s municipal leaders need to unanimously agree on a hand- ful of priorities, such as the Hwy. 407 extension, to ensure the region gets its fair share of funding, says Durham MPP John O’Toole. Municipality: Project Stimulus $ Total Pickering GO Pedestrian Bridge $5M/Ont. $5M/Fed $12.5M/GO $22.5 million Pickering Don Beer Memorial Park $840g/Ont. $840/Fed $840/City $2.52 million Ajax St. Francis Centre $850g/Ont. $850/Fed $1.7M/Ajax $3.4 million Ajax Ajax Memorial Outdoor Pool $660g/Ont. 660/Fed $1.88M/Ajax $3.2 million Oshawa UOIT - Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre $22.7M/Ont. $22.7M/ Fed $45.4 million Oshawa Civic Recreation Complex renewal $6.37M/Ont. $6.37M/ Fed $6.37M/City $19.1 million Whitby Durham College Whitby expansion $12M/Ont. $12M/Fed $24 million Whitby Brooklin Community Centre, Library $4.85M/Ont. $4.85M/Fed $4.85M/Town $14.6 million Durham Municipal Infrastructure Projects Sources: Municipal, provincial and federal governments Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ja n u a r y 1 1 , 2 0 1 2 11 AP du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ja n u a r y 1 1 , 2 0 1 2 13 AP du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Ja n u a r y 1 1 , 2 0 1 2 14 AP 1550KingstonRd.,Unit208,Pickering 905-420-7231 www.healingpower@bellnet.ca www.healingpower.ca Dr.FrancineDallaire Dr.Shelley Sequin Dr.Shelley Sequin •Dr.FrancineDallaire CO MPLIMENTARY WORKSHOP DETOXIFIC AT ION&ROCKETFUELNUTRITION REDISCOVER YOURHEALTH Explode your HealthGoalsthis year! •Are yourhealthproblemsdue to a toxicbodyand excess weight? •Do yougetenoughvitaminsandminerals? •Could youeathealthier? 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EUCHRE. every Friday from 6:45 to 10 p.m. at the Petticoat Creek Library and Community Cen- tre, 470 Kingston Rd. W. (between Rosebank Road and Rougemount Drive), Pickering. Host- ed by the Rouge Hill Seniors. New members wel- come. 905-420-4660, ext. 6302. DARTS. every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Petticoat Creek Library and Community Centre, 470 Kingston Rd. W. (between Rosebank Road and Rougemount Drive), Pickering. Host- ed by the Rouge Hill Seniors. New members wel- come. 905-420-4660, ext. 6302. AL-ANON. is an anonymous support group for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Meetings seven days a week in various Durham locations. 905-728-1020, al-anon.alateen.on.ca. OSHAWA SCRABBLE CLUB. meets on Mon- days from 7:30 to 11 p.m. at the Woodview Com- munity Centre, 151 Cadillac Ave. N., Oshawa. For experienced or novice players. The cost is $3. First week free. 905-432-1732 (Trevor). THE HORSELESS CARRIAGEMEN. is for men who love to sing. 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