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Home My WebLink AboutNA2011_12_14 facebook.com/newsdurham twitter.com/newsdurham Pressrun 54,400 • 52 pages • Optional 3-week delivery $6/$1 newsstand P ICKER I NG News Adver tiserT H E Wednesday, December 14, 2011 RYAN PFEIFFER / METROLAND PICKERING -- Pickering council voted to save 10 heritage homes from demolition on the federal airport lands. FEDERAL LANDS Homes saved City will ‘hand (heritage) properties back’ for demolition after six months MOYA DILLON mdillon@durhamregion.com PICKERING -- Ten homes located on Pickering’s federal lands have been saved from the wrecking ball after council voted to pre- serve some sites of heritage interest. Councillors approved a staff report recommending that 10 prop- erties slated to be demolished by Transport Canada be leased by the City. Of those properties, staff recommended four be evalu- ated for long-term use, with the remaining six leased short-term term to gauge interest from private buyers. 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In the competition, entries raced around a small track similar to the ones chariots raced during Roman times. “They’re allowed to battle oth- ers and knock them down,” Mr. Eklund explained. The aim of the competition is to “expose high school students to robotics and engineering. We want them to have fun and get them familiar with UOIT. We’d like to get the best and brightest to study here,” he noted. Teams have to write an engi- neering report on their entry, Mr. Eklund added. A three-member team from Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Sec- ondary School included Nick Warenycia, Eric Charette and Mitchell Dinneen. Nick said they’re taking part because, “It’s a lot of fun. It’s a good day, good times.” In their first race, their robot flipped over changing lanes. They won another race. They took part in the competition last year and are using the same ‘bot. “It gets the job done,” Nick said. Another team from Austin included Brandon Altarejos, his brother Christan, Jonathan Messi- ha and Shane Perera, and they’d been working on the project for two weeks. Eastdale Collegiate students Cassandra Arndt and Seth Kamin- ski were competing for the first time. “They just announced it (at school). We figured we’d join,” said Cassandra, a Grade 9 student. Cassandra is taking part because, “I love this. I love science. I’ve just always loved it.” She’d like to do something in astronomy, while Seth, in Grade 10, said, “I really like robotics.” One of the things they’ve learned is how to program and build their entry, he said. Tommy Metcalf, in Grade 10, and Alex Massicotte, in Grade 12, were another Eastdale team. “I was interested last year, so I joined the (Robotics) club. Last year, we didn’t do too well, but we looked back and try to improve on the area we didn’t do so well,” Tommy said. Jasmine Mascial, Christian Clarke and Christian Xavier, are all in Grade 12 at Notre Dame Catho- lic Secondary School in Ajax. Jas- mine was one of the few females in the competition. “It’s unfortunate there are not a lot of girls, but it’s good to see a lot of people at this competition,” she said. Isabelle Roberts of BRIC Enter- prises, one of the event sponsors, said the company was involved because, “It’s a lot of fun for us. We want to promote students in the field of science and technology. They really enjoy it.” The company has been involved in the competition since it began. Ms. Roberts noted the dearth of females entering engineering and science-related fields. “I was the only woman graduate in my class. Unfortunately, it’s still that way. It hasn’t grown the way I would like,” Ms. Roberts said. “There’s still not enough. It’s nice to see the girls compete. Some are even leading their team, which is nice to see.” EDUCATION Domo arigato Mr. Roboto at UOIT RYAN PFEIFFER / METROLAND OSHAWA -- Jonathan Messiha, a Grade 12 student at Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Secondary School, made some adjustments to the team’s robot during the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s sixth annual engineering robotics competition Dec. 3. Monday Cooking Recipe: cookies for the holidays Tuesday Sports Get your downhill gear ready Wednesday Nutrition Recipe: make your own eggnog Thursday Fitness Total body fitness Friday Wine Fruit wine with dessert BlackBerry iPhone Windows Android PHOTOZONE Get our news APP Daily video tips from the experts See these photos and more at durhamregion.com/photozone VIDEO Pets with Santa Cheer for the Cure 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 3 P “Our exposure is only six months,” said Tony Prevedel, chief administrative officer for the City of Pickering. “At that point either someone will take the house and move it or we hand these prop- erties back. We’re trying to protect heritage in the area but also be fiscally responsible because this is money that is going to have to be budgeted for in the coming year.” Brophy House, at 4355 Brock Rd., got a special concession when council voted to move it from the short-term list to the long-term list. Joining it as possible long- term leases are a Craftsman cottage at 3570 Brock Rd., Ever Green Villa at 3970 Brock Rd., a two-storey Edwardian brick home at 3656 Brougham Rd. and the 1911 Altona school house at 5460 Sideline 30. The five remaining short-term properties include a classic Ontario frame house at 140 Sev- enth Concession Rd., frame houses at 840 Eighth Concession Rd. and 575 Ninth Con- cession Rd., a stone house at 5050 Sideline 24 and a rare plank-on-plank home at 5245 Sideline 28. The costs to protect the homes, including leasing costs and estimated security and maintenance costs, is estimated at $31,000, with the addition of a fifth long-term prop- erty expected to add about $5,000 annual- ly. Mr. Prevedel likened the City’s interest in the short-term properties to the province’s current campaign to promote the sale of heritage homes in the path of the Hwy. 407 extension. Should the City be successful, these properties would be moved to other locations by private interests. While the move to preserve properties is welcomed, it is possibly too little, too late, for the community of Brougham, already ravaged by demolitions. “Kudos to the City of Pickering and the people still fighting at that level, but it is cold comfort,” said Mary Delaney, a resi- dent of Brougham for more than 30 years and founding member of Land Over Land- ings, which advocates to have the federal lands turned into a land trust. “These homes that anywhere else would still be viable are now being torn down and that is a testament to the successive levels of bureaucracy that have destroyed this town.” While she laments the fate of Brougham, which she estimates has about 42 occu- pied homes remaining, Ms. Delaney was happy to see the properties saved. “Certainly to know the Brophy House won’t be torn down right away is great,” she said, noting that it’s been dishearten- ing to watch the beautiful old homes fall into disrepair. “Evergreen Villa, when it was expropriat- ed, was absolutely gorgeous and very well- maintained. To see it as it is now, a wreck inside and out, is a testament to everything that’s gone wrong over the last 40 years. At this point I don’t even know if it can be saved, and that’s tragic.” Councillor Jennifer O’Connell echoed the sentiment. “I think in Pickering’s bicentennial year that we are demolishing these heritage buildings is appalling,” she said during a planning and development meeting on Dec. 5. “It’s absolutely terrible that this council chamber is not filled with residents, and I would bet most people don’t know these buildings exist or that Transport Canada is doing this. In a year where we’ve heard speeches about Pickering’s inaugural speech and all the history here, to see this is disgusting.” John Sabean, president of the Pickering Township Historical Society and past chairman of Heritage Pickering, agreed. “For more than 150 years, the Township of Pickering was governed from Brougham, your predecessors sat in council in that hamlet,” Mr. Sabean said during a delega- tion to council at their meeting on Dec. 12. “The hamlet of Brougham is the cradle of the administrative heritage of Pickering and remains the geographical centre of the city today. Without some rational think- ing, and very soon, all this and more will be lost to the residents of Pickering. With every structure removed from that hamlet it comes closer to being ghost town. While I applaud your efforts, I am appalled by the wholesale destruction that continues on federal lands.” Included in the report was the Prov- ince’s concession of a 1.4-hectare prop- erty at 1607 Hwy. 7 as a relocation site for Brougham’s Don Beer Memorial Park. “I’m cautiously hopeful about the reloca- tion of Don Beer Park,” Ms. Delaney said. “It gives me some hope that they recognize there is still a community here.” Included in the park property is a home at 1607 Hwy. 7, which will be preserved and used as part of the park development. Council voted to approve the relocation of the park. CITY from page 1 federal lands City to gauge private interest in Pickering heritage properties Computer Training Specialists Durham District School Board Durham Continuing Education 905.579.6041 1.800.408.9619 Thinking of re-training for a new job, or updating your computer skills for your current one? Ourflexibleevening,weekend,ordaytimeclassesmaybeforyou! Financial assistance may be available. 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We welcome all the Seniors of Durham for a fun and memorable afternoon of Christmas Carols, Holiday Appetizers and Refreshments. 11 - 1 8 1 1 Registration is required for all events.To RSVP or for more information, please call Katarina George at 905.665.6200. obituary Ajax Advertiser founder dies at 94 Lou Dickson remembered as loving family man reka SzekeLy rszekely@durhamregion.com AJAX -- He’ll be remembered as a loving father who raised a large family and for hold- ing politicians’ feet to the fire during the early days of Ajax council. Lou Dickson, founder of the Ajax Advertis- er, the forerunner of the Ajax-Pickering News Advertiser, died at the age of 94 on Dec. 10 at Lee Manor in Owen Sound. “He was very much a family person, loved his children, they both did,” said Ajax-Pick- ering MPP Joe Dickson of his father and his mother Mary, who died eight years ago. Born in Toronto, Lou Dickson moved to Ajax and married Mary Hickey, who hailed from Pickering Village, after the Second World War in 1945. The couple went on to have 10 chil- dren, 17 grandchildren and 27 great-grand- children. Lou Dickson joined the air force in 1942 and was trained in wireless telegraphy, serving as an operator and instructor at CFB Rockcliffe near Ottawa during the war. He attended the University of Toronto’s engineering school in Ajax after the war, but he felt the entrepreneurial call and switched to working as one of the first salesmen for the Fuller Brush Company. At the time, Ajax was a small community of 600 homes and he soon took on a new job, picking up mail from a central location and delivering it to Ajax families for a fee of 50 cents per month. He added the Ajax News to his route and when the paper failed, Lou Dickson became a newspaperman himself, starting the Ajax Advertiser in 1948. He became a fixture at the brand new coun- cil meetings after Ajax became a town in 1955. “He said he could go for years at a time and be the only person ever at council as a report- er because no one else ever went to council,” said Joe Dickson. “He quite enjoyed that and he made his editorial viewpoints very strenuously, but he always had a respect for the elected officials and they in turn respected him very highly. They didn’t agree with him on all occasions, but they had a mutual respect.” Lou Dickson sold the Advertiser to the Toronto Telegram in 1965 and the chain of suburban newspapers owned by the Tele- gram is now Metroland, with the newspa- per now known as the Ajax-Pickering News Advertiser. He went on to work for 20 years at Dickson Printing, which was founded by his son Joe Dickson. Lou Dickson was also a talented athlete who was set to compete in the 1936 Olympics before he sprained both ankles. The two sub- sequent Olympics were cancelled because of the war. “He was quite an athlete, I remember as a child in the late 40s sitting in the stands in the Canada Exhibition and my mother pointing where my father was,” said Joe Dickson. “When I was going into my teens I found out he was a better basketball player than I was. When I would race him on the odd sum- mer evening, I couldn’t understand how my father could beat me, but he could.” But even with his athletic abilities and his fiery writing, his father and his mother’s life was always about their family, Joe Dickson said. “He was just a hard-working parent with broad shoulders to carry the load with his wife Mary.” A mass of Christian burial was celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Owen Sound on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 1:30 p.m. The inter- ment was at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Memorial donations to the donor’s charity of choice are appreciated by the family. Messages of con- dolences can be left online at www.tannahill. com. Page 6 - today’s editorial SubmitteD Photo AJAX -- Ajax resident Lou Dickson with his wife Mary Dickson, who died eight years ago. Mr. Dickson died on Dec. 10 at the age of 95. The couple of was married almost 65 years. 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 5 AP MON. TO FRI. 10-9PM SAT.10-6PM SUN. 11-6PM 495 TA UNTON ROAD EAST, OSHAWA (905) 432-7789 www.mountkirbyskisandboards.com ALL SKI & SNOWBOARD OUTERWEAR ALL CROSS COUNTRY & SNOWSHOES (EXCLUDING CANADA GOOSE)20-40% off 25-40% off HST WE PAY THE HST ON ALL INSTOCK REGULAR PRICED SKIS, BOOTS, BINDINGS & SNOWBOARDS (EXCLUDING PA CKAGES) 10days of Christmas Countdown ON NOW! Number of firearm-related charges laid AJAX -- A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after a routine traffic stop led to the seizure of a loaded handgun. 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PolIce Suspect surrenders in Ajax robbery, violent assault Success in learning to meet the challenges of the future. www.durham.edu.on.ca AJAX SCHOOLS Alexander Graham Bell PS 905-683-7368 Applecroft PS ..........................905-428-2775 Bolton C. Falby PS .................905-683-6240 Cadarackque PS .....................905-428-2347 Carruthers Creek PS............................905-683-0921 Dr. Roberta Bondar PS.........................905-686-1081 Duffin’s Bay PS .......................905-683-6023 Eagle Ridge PS....................................905-426-4463 Lakeside PS.........................................905-686-3014 Lester B. 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There are eighteen schools in Ajax and Pickering offering the Full day Kindergarten program for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. Specific information about Full day Kindergarten will be shared with relevant school communities. All other DDSB schools will continue to offer a part-time Kindergarten program in 2012-2013. We invite parents to pre-register their child at their DDSB home school. Please visit our website for further details. Telephone pre-registration for the Kindergarten Program at the Durham District School Board will take place on Tuesday,January 17, 2012 beginning at 9:30 a.m. January 17, 2012 PRE-REGISTRATION (FDK)*— Full day Kindergarten will be offered in the 2012-2013 school year. Children eligible for either program must be four (4) years of age by December 31, 2012. Children eligible for Senior Kindergarten programs must be five (5) years of age by December 31, 2012. If the number of children pre-registered for either program exceeds the accepted class limit, some students may be transported to another school. Pre-Registration for September 2012 Beginning in Grade 1, the Durham District School Board offers, at no additional charge to parents, a French Immersion program for non-Francophone students. To find out more about the French Immersion program, please join us at an information meeting at one of the following French Immersion schools: All French Immersion program information meetings will be held Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Pre-registration will begin following the meeting and will be available at the schools thereafter. 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As noted by Mike Schreiner, Green Party of Ontario, Ontario is still paying for the cost overrun of 270 per cent on the original Darlington proj- ect. This debt of $30 billion, transferred to the people of Ontario in 2009, exists because we have never been able to bring a nuclear project in on schedule or on budget. That may explain how Ontario taxpayers have paid $36.3 billion and still, somehow, owe $27.6 billion. This information does not support the editorial comment that nuclear is the “least expensive”. Knowing this debt exists, the tax- payer must ask, ‘can we afford more nuclear facilities’? Currently in Ontario we are being told that a nuclear ‘renaissance’ is in motion that will provide jobs, security, safe and ‘inexpen- sive’ nuclear power. The future of CANDU, a poorly marketed product not without design flaws and operating problems, lies in the balance of the new Darlington project. Include further debt. Ontario could afford and is well suited for a better balance of power resource other than nuclear. The future for energy will be renewable sources and Ontario would do better to invest in becoming a world leader for renew- able energy and technology. Attracting the renewable industry to the area would pro- duce a prosperous economy with tremen- dous future employment potential. Prosperity comes with insight to the needs of the province, the country, and world mar- kets. For the most part, the world market can afford renewable energy projects, adding to that resource gradually. Few countries have the resources and technology to go with nuclear. The expense is too great, and in the wrong hand the risk too great. Dan Rudka, Clarington Feedback If bullied, stand up for yourself To the editor: Re: ‘Province must strike a balance with bullying legislation’, editorial opinion, dur- hamregion.com, Dec. 2, 2011. The entire blitz on bullying is getting way out of hand. It reminds me of the fantas- tic claims and studies from a few years ago stating that “the video game made me do it.” Complete hogwash. It truly is. It’s just another story being pulled every way it can to get our attention. I’m not pro-bullying, just a realist. And the reality is that bullying is not as bad as it’s being made out to be, and it can and does benefit people. How’s that you ask? When I was young and picked on relentlessly, both my teachers and my parents had one piece of advice: stand up for myself. This is the real world and the hard reality is that you can’t rely on other people or laws to make something of yourself. Gaining self- esteem and learning how to both deal with and remedy a situation yourself is needed in our world. Bullying teaches just that. And it’s a lesson that can’t be learned by crimi- nalizing and trying to abolish the bully fac- tor. You stated the old way of thinking was ‘kids will be kids’. That is correct. When a youth does something to himself, or thinks about doing something to him- self/herself or others, do you not think that maybe there are other issues going on? That maybe the local bully is not to blame com- pletely? There are always other factors at play or maybe a imbalance in certain peo- ple. I’m not claiming to have all the answers but I do know this: the positive side of a bully is that it forces character building and teaches a person to stand up for themselves. Brutal bullying is another story, but disci- plinary actions have always been in place for such cases. It’s a slippery slope. What would be next? Taking away a kid’s right to refuse something? Make it socially wrong to build a snowman? My point is this: dealing with a bully is one of the only tools left in this world to build self-esteem. Without them we will have a generation of passive sheep to deal with in our old age. Plain and simple. Bill Turner, Oshawa A Metroland Media Group Ltd. Publication Tim Whittaker - Publisher Joanne Burghardt - Editor-in-Chief Mike Johnston - Managing Editor Duncan Fletcher - Director of Advertising Eddie Kolodziejcak - Classified Advertising Manager Abe Fakhourie - Distribution Manager Lillian Hook - Office Manager Cheryl Haines - Composing Manager News/Sales 905-683-5110 Fax 905-683-7363 Classifieds 905-683-0707 Distribution 905-683-5117 130 Commercial Ave., Ajax ON L1S 2H5. Publications Mail Sales Agreement Number 40052657 Member: Ontario Press Council, OCNA, CCNA, SNA. All content copyright we think... email responses to newsroom@durhamregion.com Editorial Opinions 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 6 AP& Education, accessibility key to reducing teen pregnancies At once, Lacie’s story is both ordinarily common and terribly heartbreaking. At 15, the young Oshawa woman dis- covered she was pregnant. With few pros- pects, little support and a region that offers a patchwork of services for young pregnant women, Lacie was forced to confront -- at a time when most teens are focused on peer acceptance, school socials and the latest fashions -- the demands of adulthood and the all-encompassing responsibilities of par- enthood. Lacie’s story -- or a variation of it -- emerged through a groundbreaking Metroland Media Group investigation of teen moms in Dur- ham Region and around Ontario. In com- munity after community, the comprehensive analysis of provincial maternal health data shows a clear link between low incomes and low educational achievement with higher rates of teen pregnancy. Oshawa, for exam- ple, has a teen pregnancy rate of 7.1 per cent. Delving deeper, statistics show that Oshawa neighbourhoods with the highest rates of teen pregnancy are also those with lower household incomes, higher unemployment and a significant percentage of residents who don’t have a high school diploma. In con- trast, Oshawa’s affluent neighbour, Whitby, has a teen pregnancy rate of 2.1 per cent. Other affluent GTA communities -- Oakville, Vaughan, Markham -- with high- er median incomes and educational lev- els, recorded not one infant born to a teen mother out of the more than 4,400 records examined. Clearly, the statistics make a compelling case for implementing new approaches and policies to deal with teen pregnancy and must include all levels of government. Spe- cifically, communities must see improved social outreach and much better education, combined with expanded and easily acces- sible community programs to assist and support teen moms. Existing support program providers in Durham Region are doing all they can with the resources they possess, but many rely on the generosity of the communities they serve -- often through larger charitable organiza- tions -- simply because government funding doesn’t go far enough. And those programs tend towards serving young women who have already given birth. In that context, publicly funded schools must also update curriculum components to include far greater emphasis pregnan- cy prevention, and responsibly include for teens the information they need for access to contraceptives. At the most basic level, teens will be teens. Some will explore their emerg- ing sexuality, some will abstain entirely and others will land somewhere in between. But the life-changing consequences of teen pregnancy compel an effective, practi- cal response from our governments, in our communities and in our schools to confront the issue and offer real solutions. There’s a fair bit of wisdom in the phrase ‘Never say never’. ‘Never’ is a real door closer. Half the fun of life is that it is dynamic. Things are con- stantly shifting and changing as we make our way through it all and what was tried and true advice yesterday may not apply so well tomorrow. Throwing ‘never’ around is like putting a pair of blinkers on and refusing to look at the host of possibilities and opportunities that surround you. It’s a recipe for a stag- nant life and an early grave. For that rea- son, I only have a very few ‘nevers’ in my life: Never order ‘clearance’ sushi. Never eat hollandaise before a pogo stick competition. And, never pass up a chance to make someone happy. That last one is particularly important. Vital, in fact. For what greater legacy could any of us wish for than that we were able to bring a little more joy into this world. I can’t think of a more empowering act. On both sides of the equation. The giver and the receiver both end up feeling wonder- ful. The great secret behind any real act of kindness, philanthropy or generosity is that your own life is made immeasurably happier by the deed. When you act out of love you are precise- ly and perfectly tuned to the frequency of God. And that’s a pretty fantastic feeling. One of the most incredible perks of any kind of celebrity, for those not stupid enough to squander it, is that, rightly or wrongly, you are very often put in a posi- tion where you can, with a very little bit of effort, make a big difference in people’s lives. It’s a remarkable gift. And it’s one that I struggled with for a long time. I had enormous difficulty recon- ciling the superciliousness of what I did for a living with the amount of attention and praise it garnered. Boiled down to a nutshell, I make faces on TV. Don’t get me wrong, I think some of them are pretty good faces. Especially the one where my lips go sideways and the eyes go crossed. That’s hard. And I had to go against years of warnings that if I did it enough my eyes would stay that way. But I’m not teaching children for a liv- ing. I’m not racing into burning buildings to save kittens. I’m not a doctor, an EMS worker or a brilliant scientist -- although I have played them all on TV -- just doctors, EMS workers and brilliant scientists who made funny faces. Still, for years, I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. Until it dawned on me that regardless of whether or not the fuss was warranted, it was a gift. A priceless opportunity to make myself feel absolutely wonderful by doing just a little something for somebody else. Every autograph I’ve ever signed, every picture I’ve posed for, every appearance I’ve made, every letter I’ve written, has made me feel as good and probably better than the individual on the receiving end. That’s the big secret. And only a moron would do the math on that equation and find himself wanting. I’ve stopped wondering why or looking for logic in the way things are. I don’t ever want to look a gift universe in the mouth. I know that not everyone is afforded the opportunities I am and that I would be a tool to waste them. And believe me, I never want to do that. -- Durham resident Neil Crone, actor, comic, writer, saves some of his best lines for this column. du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m 7 AP Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 HOT TOPICS: Two of four puppies stolen from an Ajax pet store have been recovered by police.... www.durhamregion.com/ news/crime/article/1257940- -two-of-four-stolen-puppies- from-ajax-pet-shop-are- back-home ONLINE POLL RESULTS Top 10 Canadians! 1. Tommy Douglas 2. Terry Fox 3. Pierre Trudeau 4. Sir Frederick Banting 5. David Suzuki 6. Lester B. Pearson 7. Don Cherry 8. Sir John A. Macdonald 9. Alexander Graham Bell 10. Wayne Gretzky -- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004 The City of Oshawa has received a top bid from the Niagara Parks Commission to purchase the Cullen miniatures collection for $113,000, split over five years. What do you think? Try to negotiate that figure up a notch! (11%) Take the money and run! (79%) Hold out for a better offer from someone else! (10%) Total Votes: 156 NEIL CRONE Do unto others...and reap the happiest feeling CELIA KLEMENZ/ BEHIND THE LENS UXBRIDGE -- I have long admired the pillared archway at the Thomas Foster Memo- rial. The structure isn’t across the entrance but rather had been placed on the edge of the back of the property facing out to farm fields and the hills beyond. On assignment to the landmark recently I noticed the far hills shrouded in mist, allowing the delicate archway to stand out from its back- ground. Adding in the barren tree branches, the photo came together to capture the mood I had long felt when visiting the Foster Memorial. Musical chairs in the newsroom Ch..Ch...Ch...Changes. There will be quite a few in our news- room when the calendar switches to 2012 from 2011. The new year brings with it new promis- es and a chance to take on new challenges and a number of our reporters will be given that opportunity when they come back to work after the holidays. Follow along as I connect the dots. First off, after seven years covering Oshawa, last year’s OCNA Reporter of the Year, Jillian Follert, will move over to the Durham Region beat. Jillian has done a fantastic job covering Oshawa, as wit- nessed by the number of people who wrote on her Facebook page that they are sad to see her go. Jillian never backed away from a story while covering Oshawa and is now taking that tenacity to the Region. Regional reporter Keith Gilligan is moving to the spot vacated by Crystal Crimi, who a month ago was named managing editor of our newspapers in Port Hope, Cobourg and Brighton. Keith will be responsible for business, our food and wine pages and lay- ing out Kristen’s Kritters. Stepping into the Oshawa beat is Reka Szekely, who has plied her trade in Ajax for the past two years. Reka is a whiz with social media and should fit in well with the residents of Oshawa, who love to take to Facebook and Twitter to discuss and argue their con- cerns. She will continue to write her weekly column on all things online. Tara Hatherly, who has handled the Clar- ington beat while Jennifer O’Meara is on maternity leave, will be moving to Ajax. Jennifer, the new mom, returns to her beat on Jan. 1. Those changes alone would be enough to keep us busy but we are also planning some new features, including a number of investigative stories, and stories built around numerous Freedom of Information requests we have been filing. 2012 is looking like another busy year. -- Managing editor Mike Johnston writes a column every second week about life in the newsroom. 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In November the organization saw a record amount of food fly off the shelves, sending out more than 205,000 pounds of food compared to a normal month, where between 120,000 and 150,000 is distributed to food banks and other emer- gency providers. “This number is staggering and shows the harsh reality of hunger in our own community,” said Julien LeBourdais, executive director of Feed the Need in Durham. In response to the increasing demand, Feed the Need is urging commuters to help by contributing to an upcoming donation drive at area GO stations. Feed the Need volunteers will be on hand collecting mon- etary donations at the Ajax GO station on Tuesday, Dec. 13 and Thursday, Dec. 15 and at the Pickering and Whitby GO sta- tions on Wednesday, Dec. 14 and Thurs- day, Dec. 15 during the morning rush from 5:45 to 8:45 a.m. For every $1 donated to Feed the Need, up to $4 worth of food can be pur- chased. In the past year, 39,000 people received food assis- tance in Durham Region. Feed the Need in Durham is the regional distribution warehouse that supplies food to area food banks and other emergency food providers, includ- ing soup kitchens, shelters and breakfast programs. For more information on Feed the Need or to donate: CALL 905-571-3863 visit candonatefood.ca commuNity Feed the Need sees record use in November 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 9 P Direct Access 905.420.4660 General Enquiries 905.420.2222 Service Disruption 1.866.278.9993 Upcoming PublicMeetings Date Meeting/Location Time December20 HeritagePickering AdvisoryCommittee 7:00pm City Hall –Main CommitteeRoom December21 Committeeof Adjustment 7:00pm City Hall –Main CommitteeRoom Allmeetingsareopen to thepublic.Fordetails call905.420.2222orvisit theCity website.For Service Disruption NotificationCall1.866.278.9993 cityofpickering.com/greatevents To night at 7pm Thelight tourincludesa celebrationstopwithliveentertainmentandlight refreshments. EastShore CC 910LiverpoolRoad St Martin’s Bayview 1201 St Martins Drive Petticoat Creek CC 470KingstonRoad Valley FarmNursing Home 1955 Va lley FarmRoad Tr idel Building 1880 Va lley FarmRoad Chartwell Select,City Centre 1801 Va lley FarmRoad Seniors Co -op 1990 WhitesRoad(7:05pm) Condo To wer 1000 TheEsplanade Claremont Community Centre 4941 Old BrockRoad(6:40pm) Be at oneofthe followingpickuplocations by 7:00pm Formoredetails call 905.420.6588 Routemapswillbe available to the communityaftertheevent cityofpickering.com/greatevents Holiday Hoursof Operation Claremont,Greenwood,Whitevale Contact Branch for Holiday Hours December23 8:30am –12noon December26&27 Closed December30 8:30am –12noon January1 Closed January1 2pm –4pm –Mayor’s New Ye ar’s Day Levee January2 Closed December24 7am –12noon December25&26 Closed December31 7am –12noon New Ye ars Eve Event 7pm –9pm January1 Closed December23 –Jan8inclusive Closed December19 –23,27-30 Call forswimtimes December24,25&26 Closed December31 7pm –9pm New Ye ar’s Eve Free Swim January1 Closed December24-26 Closed December31 Closed January1 Closed Public Skating Schedule December27-30,Jan.2 1pm –3pm Tim Horton’s FreeSkate December25,26 Closed December31 7pm –9pm Fa mily New Ye ar’sEveFreeSkate Civic Complex (CityHall) 905.420.2222 Recreation Complex 905.683.6582 Recreation Complex Pool 905.683.6582 Recreation ComplexArena 905.683.6582 Pickering PublicLibraries Dunbarton Pool 905.831.1260 L1V 3Y7 Report CS 36-11 was presented at the Executive Committee meeting on November 14, 2011 recommending that the speed limits be lowered from 80 km/h, as indicated in By-law 6604/05,to 50 km/h on all city roads north of Ta unton Road to match the existing (un-posted) 50 km/h statutory speed limit in accordance with the Highway Traffic Act.Exceptions of the 50 km/h limit will be the following roadways, which would be designated at 60km/h. •Fifth Concession Road east of Brock Road •Audley Road •Uxbridge-Pickering To wnline from Uxbridge Concession Road 2 to Uxbridge Concession Road 3 The following roads will remain at their current maximum speed limit of 60km/h. •Sideline 16 from Highway 7 to Seventh Concession Road •Salem Road from Fifth Concession Road to Highway 7 •Sideline 4 from Fifth Concession Road to Highway 7 •Uxbridge-Pickering To wnline Road from Markham Pickering To wnline Road to Uxbridge Concession Road 2 The 40 km/h maximum speed limit will remain on all local residential roads in the Hamlets of Greenwood, Brougham,Whitevale and Claremont. The Executive Committee deferred the report to the Joint Planning and Development and Executive Committee meeting of December 5, 2011 in order for staff to undertake rural community consultation through advertisements and the City website.The report and by-law amendments have now been deferred to the Executive Committee meeting of January 16, 2012, in order to provide notice of the proposed changes. We invite comment from the public with respect to the information above, and ask that you provide comments by December 23, 2011.If you have any questions regarding this, please contact: PUBLICNOTICE Darrell Selsky,C.E.T.,CMMIII Supervisor,Engineering&Capital Wo rks City of Pickering Te l:905.420.4660Ext2149 Fax:905.420.4650 dselsky@cityofpickering.com Nathan Emery Coordinator,Tr affic Operations City of Pickering Te l:905.420.4660Ext2054 Fax:905.420.4650 nemery@cityofpickering.com 2 to Uxbridge Concession Road 3 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 AP Over the past three weeks, culminating with today’s newspaper, we have taken a look at maternal health care in Ontario with a focus on teen mom rates. a Metroland special inves- tigations team analyzed more than half a mil- lion Ontario birth records spanning four years to produce this three-part series. High rates of teen mothers and high rates of poverty were found to go hand-in hand, in Durham Region and across the province. The problem is espe- cially evident on remote native reserves in Ontario’s northern reaches. The rate of babies born with low birth weight remains a chronic problem in some parts of Ontario. In Durham Region where there are pockets of high teen mom rates, the news is promising -- access to first trimester pre-natal care is above average and low birth weights are restricted to small pockets that local health care experts say do not represent a significant problem. In Dur- ham Region, access to information on preg- nancy prevention emerged as an area that could be improved upon. Please see today’s flyer wrap inside your newspaper for the full BORN Part 3. DURHAM -- Improving Ontario’s rate of low- birth-weight babies is more than just a quest for better statistics. There’s also a lot of money at stake. Low-birth-weight babies are a consider- able expense for the health care system -- sometimes for life, since they’re more prone to lifelong health problems than infants born at a healthy weight. According to an Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion document published last year, the average hospital costs for a newborn of healthy birth weight in 2005-06 were about $1,000. The same document estimated that in 2009, hospital costs would be about $88,000 for each low-birth-weight baby in the first year of life. Meanwhile, an Alberta study showed premature babies required five times more in direct health costs than full-term babies over the first seven years of life. It’s unfair, however, to suggest nothing is being done to improve birth outcomes and maternal health. At the federal level, Health Canada, which funds First Nations health care, provides at least $200 million each year to a variety of programs dedicated to improving the health of native mothers and children, including nutrition programs and programs aimed at preventing fetal alcohol syndrome. In Ontario, the Province established a pov- erty reduction strategy that aims to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent by 2013. The Province has also set a goal of reducing child obesity by 20 per cent by the same deadline. “We’re all better off when all our children are better off,” said Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews. “Health is closely linked to their ability to eat nutritious food or to have stability in their housing,” she added. “Taking financial pres- sure off families is good for the health of kids and they’ll do better in school. “Everything is connected and I think we have to look at it in an interconnected way.” Paul Cloutier, the income support admin- istrator for Durham, said the Region has a LEAP (Learning, Earning, Parenting) pro- gram for young parents. Participation is mandatory for a parent who is 16 or 17 and on social assistance. For parents 18 to 25, participation is voluntary. “There are three components -- they have to be enrolled in school leading to Grade 12. There are a number of expectations. They have to participate in the parenting program and develop more skills and more strategies.” They’ll also learn job search skills, so they can begin earning income, he added. “When they finish all three, they graduate from the program.” Graduates receive $500 in a Registered Education Savings Program for their child, or they could use it for their own education, Mr. Cloutier noted. “It’s an incentive.” The Region has 409 clients enrolled in LEAP, with the vast majority -- 282 -- in Oshawa. “The numbers tell a bit of the picture. Our caseload is 53 to 54 per cent in Oshawa,” he noted. Over the past 10 years, 575 people have graduated from the program. “In the last seven years, there have been 454 graduates, with 180 already registered to attend post-secondary school. One hun- dred and fifty one are registered or will attend post-secondary school in the next six to 12 months. So, 331 are in or planning to attend post-secondary education,” Mr. Cloutier said. “The numbers dictate most move on to post-secondary education, with 73 per cent of LEAP graduates attending or planning to attend post-secondary education. If you measure success by a move onto post-sec- ondary education, it’s pretty successful. “As they exit social assistance to education, there’s a reduction in payments we make and this is a savings we see.” This year, the Region will save $420,000 in social assistance costs as LEAP grads move to post-secondary education, he said. From 2005 to 2011, “if all of them stayed off assistance, it would be just over $2 million in savings, gross savings,” Mr. Cloutier said. The gross savings include Durham Region’s share and the provincial share. Neil Johnston, a collaborator on Metro- land’s BORN project and a faculty member in McMaster University’s department of medi- cine, understands improving the health of Ontario’s mothers and babies will require the co-operation of various levels of government and local agencies on a variety of fronts. But his assessment of the current situation is more pointed. “What we need is a symphony orches- tra. We need everybody playing together and playing from the same score, and that requires structural changes.” One of those changes should be to develop hard targets and define accountability, Mr. Johnston added. “If we see something like this continuing relatively high level of apparently poor preg- nancy outcomes -- with a great deal of varia- tion between different neighbourhoods and population centres -- then I’d simply like to know who is responsible,” he said. Ms. Matthews, the health minister, shoul- ders some of that responsibility. But untangling accountability for Ontario’s native population is more complex. Geographically isolated reserves and “chal- lenging socio-economic conditions” are some of the barriers to delivering compre- hensive health services, said Health Canada spokesperson Gary Holub, along with “the intergenerational impacts of Indian residen- tial schools, which have profoundly impact- ed parenting and mothering skills and dis- rupted healthy relationships at many levels.” Mr. Holub noted some aboriginal health markers have improved in recent years, but infant mortality rates remain about twice as high as in Canada’s non-native population. The quality of data collected from native communities is also a problem, which hin- ders the government’s ability to measure progress. CorreCtion -- Due to an error on the part of the newspaper, the chart on the back page of today’s flyer wrap incorrectly lists Teen Pregnancy Rates as a percentage. To clarify, the rates should be reflected as a number only, preg- nancies per 1,000 females aged 15-19 years. We regret the error. Small babies mean increased expenses BORN: Metroland investigation finds few hard targets in place to improve maternal health in Ontario An exhaustive analysis of 535,000 provincial birth records has identified unacceptably poor birth out- comes in Ontario neighbourhoods and communities where incomes and educational achievements are low and poverty is high. The three-part Metroland investigation also showed the Province has virtually no hard targets that would allow it to gauge success or failure when it comes to monitoring maternal health. In particular, the series revealed that from 2006 to 2010: • There were 19 communities in Ontario where more than 20 per cent of babies born were to teen mothers. • There was a northeast Ontario community where close to 23 per cent of babies weighed less than 2,500 grams or 5.5 pounds -- the cut-off for low birth weight. • More than 40 per cent of Windsor’s expectant mothers received no prenatal care in the crucial early months of pregnancy. On average, 85 per cent of mothers in the province received first trimester prenatal care. • Poor birth outcomes were particularly pronounced in the province’s Far North and native reserves, where there are high levels of unemployment, household income is far below the Ontario average and many adults don’t have high school diplomas. So what does this laundry list of statistics tell us? Is maternal health improving in Ontario? Are we doing better than expected? It’s difficult to answer these questions, since few hard targets exist at the federal, provincial or municipal levels. In 1997, Ontario’s Health Ministry set a concrete, unequivocal goal to reduce the province’s low- birth-weight rate -- 5.7 per cent at the time -- to 4 per cent by 2010. But over that period, the rate actually became substantially worse despite the fact that Ontario’s annual health budget more than doubled to $44 billion from $17 billion. 10 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 11 PPickering ShopTalk.com Videos & Blogs About Local Shopping how To reAd A Qr code Check out other Durham Shop Talk Websites too! ajaxshoptalk.com • whitbyshoptalk.com • oshawashoptalk.com 1 reAdy? From your smart phone browser application, visit any of the following websites: • Bakodo- http://bako.do • Scanlife- http://www.scanlife.com • I-nigma- http://www.i-nigma.com 2 SeT? 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For just the fourth time this sea- son, the Ontario Junior Hockey League team registered a victory, winning in Mississauga on Sat- urday night by a 5-3 score, end- ing a losing streak that reached 11 games one night earlier with a 4-0 loss to North York on home ice at the Pickering Recreation Complex. The win marked just the fourth time in 29 games that the Pan- thers have been able to celebrate at game’s end. It was the first win for head coach Dan Cameron since inheriting the post seven games ago. The victory also came against a Mississauga team that he coached before, mak- ing it just a little sweeter. “It was nice to beat Mississauga because I coached them last year. It was a little bit of revenge there,” said Cameron, who was quick to praise his team. “Our team needed it. We are try- ing to put in some systems of play. The team’s common denominator is they don’t believe. They don’t believe they can win. “The kids have to believe they can make a run. That win will help our confidence, I hope.” The weekend started off fol- lowing the same pattern as many before with a loss, blanked 4-0 by North York Friday. According to pointstreak.com, the Panthers were outshot 52-19 on the night. Their fortunes turned in Missis- sauga, but not until the third peri- od. Down 3-2 heading into the final 20 minutes, Cody Doiron scored on the power play to tie it, then Taylor Pryce scored his second power-play goal of the game hav- ing already potted one in the first period to put the Panthers up 4-3. Andrew McCann scored into an empty net with 52 seconds left to put it out of reach. Brandon Parks had the other goal for the Panthers, a second-period tally while short- handed. With 20 games remaining in the season, but only a few weeks until the trade deadline, Cameron said the team is waiting to see what happens over the next few games before determining how the rest of the season will unfold. They are seven points back of Mississau- ga for the final playoff spot in the South Division. If that spread wid- ens, the Panthers will likely unload some of the veterans to teams headed for the playoffs, he added. Beyond that, he is already look- ing ahead to trying to build for next season. “We need to overhaul the team for next year. We need to bring in new blood,” he said. “(GM) Lonnie (Freeman) is working really hard making contacts with people try- ing to get everything reorganized and get a winning attitude. We need to renew what Pickering used to stand for which was excellence. They used to be a proud organiza- tion. “The way things have gone the past few years it hasn’t been a place to be. Pickering is dying for a win- ner. Between Lonnie and myself, if we can come up with the players and get them good coaching, we’re excited about the team going for- ward. “People are just sick of us los- ing. Even our own training staff can’t stand it. They all work hard. When you lose it’s hard to get excit- ed about coming to the rink for six hours, which is what they do. Then we lose and they wonder what’s the point.” The Panthers get a chance to make it two wins in a row when they travel to North York Wednes- day. PrOvinciaL wOmen’s HOckey League Junior Lightning vault up the standings Brad keLLy bkelly@durhamregion.com AJAX -- Forgive members of the Durham West Junior Lightning if they have a little extra bounce in their step these days. A perfect weekend -- winning three of three -- tends to do that for a hockey club. Especially one that had been riding a four-game losing streak, even though they garnered a couple of points in that stretch with a pair of over- time losses. The Provincial Women’s Hock- ey League team collected all six of the available points to them, kick-starting the weekend with a 3-1 victory in Oakville on Friday, then taking care of business on home ice at the Ajax Community Centre by beating Etobicoke 2-1 and Southwest 2-0 on Saturday and Sunday respectively. “It wasn’t necessarily the pret- tiest, but getting six out of six points is what we had hoped, planned to do and were able to do,” said head coach Wayne McDonald. “We played pretty good. Obviously we would have liked to score more goals based on our shots, but we’re generat- ing the chances and right now that’s the most important thing.” In Oakville, the Lightning gave up the only goal of the first peri- od, but took advantage of their power play in the second and third periods, scoring once with the man advantage in the sec- ond and then converted on two more chances in the third. Sara Lanni had the goal in the mid- dle frame to tie it, with Kennedy Marchment scoring the winning 1:57 into the third and Lindsey McDonald adding some insur- ance just over three minutes later. Specialty teams were also a deciding factor in the win over Etobicoke, but it was the penal- ty kill that proved to be the dif- ference. Emily Kekewich scored short-handed midway through the third period to give the Light- ning its first lead of the game at 2-1. Etobicoke opened the scor- ing in the first period and Maris- sa Redmond tied it up in the second. The Lightning doubled Etobicoke in shots with a 38-19 advantage. In the weekend finale, goalten- der Jackie Rochefort stopped all 17 Southwest shots she faced in a 2-0 win, as the Lightning fired 30 the other way. Only two man- aged to find the back of the net, as Stephanie Cooper scored in the first period and Redmond collected her second of the week- end in the third to provide just enough offence for the victory. McDonald credited the work that assistant coaches Jeremy Murphy and Alan Thatcher have been doing with the team, help- ing move the Lightning into a three-way tie for third in the 18-team league with a record of 10-3-1-2. “The girls are starting to believe in what these guys are telling them,” said McDonald. “It’s slow- ly coming together.” This weekend the Lightning will be off to Etobicoke (3-9-2-1) on Saturday and host Cambridge (5-12-0-1) on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. before breaking for the holidays, resuming Jan. 7. saBrina Byrnes / metrOLand PICKERING -- Pickering Panthers’ netminder Allistair Whyte prepared to block a shot on net by North York Rangers’ Patrick Simmonds during OJHL action at the Pickering Recreation Complex. 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 • De c e m b e r 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 20 AP OntariO HOckey League Generals go stone cold up north SHawn cayLey scayley@durhamregion.com OSHAWA -- While things have come together at dif- ferent times for the Oshawa Generals under head coach Gary Agnew, there is still one element he is waiting to see reach an acceptable level. Consistency. “We’ve talked about it. It’s consistency and it’s still an issue,” Agnew said on Mon- day, just hours after his team had returned from a fruitless trip north that saw them lose games to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves. “Consistency in all areas of our game. It’s the old John Wooden thing, repetition, repetition. You keep ham- mering these things home so when they get out there it becomes habit. Unfortu- nately right now, we’re not in the habit. It’s not a habit yet ... That’s what we’ve got to keep pushing these guys on.” Indeed, the Generals were all over the map on the week- end. In Sault Ste. Marie, Agnew said early penalty trouble put the team back on its heels, and despite the fact the Generals emerged from the first period tied 2-2 with the Greyhounds, they were never fully able to recover in a 5-3 loss. Two nights earlier in Sud- bury, Oshawa scored the first two and last two goals of the game but a handful of sepa- rate breakdowns and bad bounces on the in-between spoiled things in a 5-4 set- back to the Wolves. “You go into a weekend like that, you want to win both, but at the least you want to get a split. It’s dis- appointing that we weren’t able to do that,” said Agnew, whose club is now three games under .500 and in still in ninth spot in the Eastern Conference with a 13-16-1-3 record. At 5-6-1-1 since Agnew took over on Nov. 7, things obviously haven’t gotten much better for the Gen- erals record wise. Howev- er, a deeper look indicates improvement in a couple of ryan Pfeiffer / MetrOLand don’t let go PICKERING -- Megan Edwards, 10, a gymnast from the Pickering Athletic Centre, competed in the bars during the 2011-12 women’s artistic provincial qualifier at the Pickering Athletic Centre. key areas, most specifically on the power play where a group that looked unorga- nized and disinterested with the man advantage earlier in the season is now clicking at better than 20 per cent, good enough for seventh in the league. “I am really happy with what is going on there. I think we’re doing the things offen- sively that I’ve asked the club to do,” said Agnew. The other end of the ice, however, remains a big time concern. And it’s an element Agnew believes is a direct reflection on the team as whole, not solely the much scrutinized goaltending tan- dem of Kevin Bailie and Dan Altshuller. “Defensively we’ve got- ten better, but it’s still an area that needs major, major improvement. That four has got to get down to prob- ably mid two’s at this level,” he said of the goals-against average. “Save percentage, if you look at our goaltenders’ save percentage, it’s got to be better, but it’s a team thing. We can point fingers at our goalies, or our defence or the forwards, but really, when you play defence it’s a team defence and it’s a mindset. We’ve just got to be better as a team in that area.” With that in mind, the looming Christmas break that will commence follow- ing weekend home games with Plymouth on Friday and Ottawa Sunday, couldn’t come at a worse time. Sav eUp To90%!o 90%!e Up TavSo 90%!e Up TavSo 90%!e Up TavSSaveUpTo90%!IT’S FREE! 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(416)524-8468. 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, Oshawa, central location, sunroom, Washer/dryer, storage, parking. First/last required. $895/month, available Jan/Feb. (905)744-7530 BOWMANVILLE, UNIQUE 1 bedroom apartment, Down- town area. Private entrance, parking. Available January 1st. $700/month inclusive, (including A/C). (289)685- 1659. Skilled &Te chnical Help Apartments &Flats for RentA 2 BEDROOM north Oshawa very bright quiet apartment, Simcoe North at Russett. Well-maintained 12 plex, Newly renovated, New appli- ances, hardwood floors, cable/heat/water/parking in- cluded. Laundry, No dogs. near bus/shopping. (905)576-2982 (905)626- 3465 3-BEDROOM APT. in north Oshawa executive home. Ground level, some furnish- ings. Non-smokers. Available immediately. Call Bob for de- tails (905) 718-1028 AJAX- OXFORD Towers. Spacious apartments, quiet bldg, near shopping, GO. Pool. 2-bedroom & 3-bed- room from $1099 & $1199/mo. Plus parking. Available January 1st. 905- 683-5322 BOWMANVILLE immaculate 1-bedroom; $970 all inclu- sive. Security entrance, very clean building, freshly paint- ed, includes appliances, utilities, parking, laundry, no dogs, Dec 15/Jan 1. 905- 697-1786, 905-666-1074 GOING FAST! Just a few units left! 1140 Mary St. N. 1-bdrm. From $799, Utilities Incld. Near public schools, Durham College & amenities. Laundry on-site, Elevator and secure entrance. 905- 431-7752. Skylineonline.ca LARGE 1-BDRM, hardwood floors, sep entrance. Central Oshawa. Available January 1, 2012. $850/mo-inclusive. Parking available. (905)579- 4250. MARY STREET APTS bachelors, 1's & 2s bdrm apts. Utilities included, min- utes to downtown, short drive to Whitby Mall. Mary/Garden 905-666-2450 www.real- star.ca NORTH OSHAWA, 1 bed- room apt, clean, quiet, se- cure building, laundry on site, $795/plus hydro. Mature per- son preferred. Available Jan 1st. Call Genedco Services, 1-866-339-8781. OSHAWA NEAR downtown $800/month. 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Kangeryuaq, Kenojuak and more; narwhal tusk & large Inuit tapestry. General auction to include English pottery, crystal, porcelain, sterling silver, miniature portraits, dining room tables & chairs, china cabinets, settees, dressers, sofa tables; large variety of Canadian and international artwork; carpets, rugs & much more. Watch the website for updates & photos. For further details contact us at 905-373-0501 or pn@waddingtons.ca Tel: 905.373.0501 Toll Free: 1.855.503.2963 Fax: 905.373.1467 Email: pn@waddingtons.ca 9 Elgin Street East, Unit 6, Cobourg, ON K9A 0A1 MACGREGORPRE-CHRISTMAS AUCTIONAntiques & Collectibles Sunday Dec. 18, 9:30am (viewing 8:00am) Our Pre-Christmas Auction features anOutstanding Offering from 2 Estates& Downsizing of a Century Home. Partial List includes: 2 Modern Dining Room Sets, Antique Couches, Chairs, Rockers, 2 Exceptional Sideboards, Dressers, Washstands, Working Weber Player Piano, 810 Hammond Organ, Bongo Drums, Coke Cooler, 60 Drawer Library Index Cabinet, Church Pew, Unique Antique Chairs & Rockers, Settees, Large Diverse Offering of Tables, Storage Cabinets, Clocks, Paperweight Collection, Chande- liers & Lighting, Several Flatware sets with Boxes, Cabi- nets, Emphori Original Art & Prints (old & new), Miniature (Gurpet) Grand Piano, Marlines Train Set, Reproduction Cast Toys, Royal Doultan Jardinière, 50's Wicker Doll Carriage, Rattan Patio Set, Row of Theatre Seats, Old Tools, Quality Glass & China, Plus many more great pieces from the past to the present, This is a sale not to be missed. Something for one and all. Merry Christmas from MacGregor Auctions Terms: Cash, Visa, M/C & Interac (10% buyers premium) see: www.macgregor.theauctionadvertiser.com MacGREGOR AUCTIONS Located in Orono at Silvanus Gardens. 401 to 115/35 hwy, North 10km. Exit 17 Main Street Orono. Follow signs on MillPond Rd/5th Concession905-987-2112 1-800-363-6799 HOLIDAY DUAL ESTATE AUCTION STAPLETON AUCTIONS NEWTONVILLE Monday, December 26th, 10: a.m. Selling the attractive furnishings and interesting antiques and collectibles from an Oshawa and local home: Full Listing next week, or please refer to the website. Preview After 8:00 a.m. We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas Terms:Cash, Approved Cheques, M/C, visa, Interac 10% Buyers Premium Applies Auctioneers: Frank & Steve Stapleton, Newtonville, 905-786-2244, 800-263-9886 www.stapletonauctions.com 'Celebrating 40 years in the auction industry' CORNEIL'S AUCTION BARNFriday December 16th at 4:30pm located 3 miles East of Little Britain on Kawartha Lakes Rd. 4.Selling the Property of Walter and Elizabeth Snow of Lindsay plus others, 7pc livingroom set, oak side by side china cabinet, walnut gate leg table and chairs, oak washstand, walnut cor- ner cabinet, Ottaviani 800 silver Italian relief art (shells), flat to wall cupboard bottom, jam cupboard, dough box on legs, two 4pc wicker sets, oak china cabinet, bistro set, oak buffet, set- tee and chair, Gingerbread clock, area rug, new bar stools, pb rockers, 6 cast iron urns, love seats, garden swing, tandem bi- cycle, alum ext ladders, Freespirit elliptical exerciser, Enviro wood pellet stove, approx 20 bags of wood pellets, 10' Grum- man flat bottom boat, 2Hp Honda outboard motor, 2000 Nis- san Altima, 95 GMC 1500 ext cab 4x4 truck, Summit 150 crossbow, Winchester mod 12 pump shotgun, Lakefield mod 64B rifle (PAL required), Qty of china, glass household and collectable items.Don & Greg Corneil Auctioneers1241 Salem Rd., Little Britain (705) 786-2183 for more info or pictures go to www.theauctionadvertiser.com/DCorneil- open for viewing Thursday from 8:30am to 5pm and 7pm to 9pm and Friday morning at 9am BRUCE KELLETT AUCTIONS Kellett Sale Barn •13200 Old Scugog Rd. (1/2 Mile South of Blackstock, Ont.) SAT., DEC. 17, 2011 @ 10:30 am • Pine table • Old Coke and Pepsi tin signs (4' x 6') • Aircraft cook • Aircraft frame prints by R.W. Bradford • Dishes • Tools Merry Christmas & Happy New Year AUCTIONEER: Bruce Kellett(705)328-2185 or (905)986-4447 See items on:www.theauctionfever.com or:www.kellettauctions.fcwhost.com/web Holiday Wishes HappyIquis atie te con hent nullandreet, quat illa feuisim dolore digniamcon vulputatem ipit iure tat aliquisim delit erat nullam, voluptat del essisis esto estrud eu feuip er sim dolum aliquat. Duiscil landre ming exerosto eum in endio et, quis nulput tem dui tat, susto odolor suscincil do conulpute faci Seasons Greetings HappyIquis atie te con hent nullandreet, quat illa feuisim dolore digniamcon vulputatem ipit iure tat aliquisim delit erat nullam, voluptat del essisis esto estrud eu feuip er sim dolum aliquat. Duiscil landre ming exerosto eum in endio et, quis nulput tem dui tat, susto odolor suscincil do conulpute faci Happy Holidays HappyIquis atie te con hent nullandreet, quat illa feuisim dolore digniamcon vulputatem ipit iure tat aliquisim delit erat nullam, voluptat del essisis esto estrud eu feuip er sim dolum aliquat. Duiscil landre ming exerosto eum in endio et, quis nulput tem dui tat, susto odolor suscincil do conulpute faci Merry Christmas HappyIquis atie te con hent nullandreet, quat illa feuisim dolore digniamcon vulputatem ipit iure tat aliquisim delit erat nullam, voluptat del essisis esto estrud eu feuip er sim dolum aliquat. Duiscil landre ming exerosto eum in endio et, quis nulput tem dui tat, susto odolor suscincil do conulpute faci Send your Holiday Wishes through the News Advertiser newspaper! The holidays are here again. It’s a time to spread good cheer and wish health, wealth and happiness to all the special people in your life. This Week will be publishing a special Personal Holiday Greetings Section in our Friday, December 16 editions. Do you have a teacher, coach, babysitter, mechanic, friend or family member that you would like to say thanks to? Be different this year and send your special Season’s Greetings via this newspaper. The cost is only $29+hst for a photo and a maximum of 50 words. Please call Erin for more information at 905-683-5110 ext. 286Christmas Greetings Remember your loved ones at this special time of year in our Christmas Tributes 905-683-5110 ext. 286 Publishing Saturday, Dec. 24 Deadline Tuesday Dec 20 For further information please call Erin Jackson at SHIERS, Judith "Judy" (nee: Blake). Sadly on November 20, 2011 in her 65th year, Judith "Judy" Shiers passed away after a lengthy illness. Judy is survived by her husband Edward, sons Mark and Glenn (Tracy), daughter Denise (Tony), brother Gary (Sharon), sister Jan (Bob), grandchildren Breanna G., Tristan S., Corbin S., Mellena M. and Tristan M., and many more family members and friends. She will be greatly missed. Judy was cremated as per her wishes. The family thanks the nurses at Markham Stouffville Hospital (1 East and Center) for their great care of Judy. The family also thanks LOW AND LOW FUNERAL HOME in Uxbridge for their kindness and compassion with the cremation arrangements and service. A Memorial will be held in the spring. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario or the Canadian Liver Foundation. Online condolences may be made at www.lowandlow.ca DICKSON, Louis John - At Lee Manor in Owen Sound on Saturday, December 10th, 2011. Lou Dickson of Owen Sound in his 95th year. Husband of the late Mary Dickson (nee Hickey). Dear father of Joe Dickson and his wife Donna of Ajax, Ellen Spence of Oshawa, Ed Dickson and his wife Chris of Ajax, Marg Osborne of Sauble Beach, Judy Reid of Owen Sound, Mary and her husband Grant Westlake of Ajax, Christine Dickson of Courtice, Paul Dickson of Ajax, and Veronica Brown of Courtice. Lovingly remembered by 17 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Predeceased by his parents Louis Dickson and Katherine Kennedy, an infant daughter Mary, by his brothers Robert, Gerry, Ned (Rev. Brother Xavier), and Phil, and his sister Anne Merrick, sons-in-law Doug Reid, and Pete Osborne, and infant granddaughter Sharon. Friends are invited to TANNAHILL FUNERAL HOME for visiting on Tuesday evening from 7- 9 p.m. with Parish Prayers at 7 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Owen Sound on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. Interment St. Mary’s Cemetery. Memorial donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated. 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