Cleaning up and Clearing out Problem Pickering Parks
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The Pickering 48 PAGES ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 WENDEL SIGNS CENTRE STAGE Former Leafs great visits Kia unveils with fans in Pickering sedan Sept. 13 Page B1 Wheels pullout [ Briefly ] Distress Centre School board looking for help DURHAM — Distress Centre budget draws Durham needs volunteers for its telephone help line. Volunteers are selected for small crowd being empathetic, non-judgmental and responsible individuals 18 years or older. The centre pro- vides training in active listening, Four people offer input risk assessment, grief and loss, on education spending setting and maintaining boundar- ies, crisis and suicide intervention, along with prevention techniques. By Crystal Crimi Anyone interested should con- Staff Writer tact the centre for an application DURHAM — Along with money re- package. Once a completed ap- quests Monday came a suggestion for plication is turned in, a telephone a revenue generator during the public interview is held, followed by a school board’s budget input meeting. face-to-face registration meeting, Just days before Durham District during which the training manual is School Board trustees vote on the provided. Next is a two-part train- budget, residents were invited to ing workshop, held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays, Sept. 18 share their thoughts at the Aug. 22 and 25. forum. The $525.08 million operating The deadline for submitting an budget and $33.8 million capital bud- application is Friday, Sept. 2. get presented Aug. 18, include almost The volunteer commitment is 300 new staff, as well as maintenance 16 hours a month, including one projects such as $1.3 million in sci- overnight shift from the centre’s ence lab upgrades for Anderson CVI confidential Oshawa location. and R.S. McLaughlin CVI. For more information, call 905- Danielle Milley/ News Advertiser photo During the input meeting, presen- 723-4461. John Coyle, Pickering’s supervisor of roads and parks, and chief administrative officer Tom Quinn survey some of the damage tations were made regarding fund- left behind by last Friday’s sustained downpour in Pickering. This walkway along the Waterfront Trail is expected to be fixed by the ing challenges for special education, [ What’s on ] weekend. track repairs at Uxbridge Secondary School, and a possible new revenue source. Library wraps Ron Dancey, an Oshawa resident, summer reading said the school board could make more money by introducing parking with party fees on its properties. “When I go to Durham College, I PICKERING — The Pickering have to pay,” said Mr. Dancey. He also central library branch is celebrat- Flooding fallout noted he has to pay for parking when ing a summer full of reading with a party today, Wednesday, Aug. 24. he goes downtown or to the hospital. By Danielle Milley wife. “It’s a sad situation.” another in 1998 and then a smaller one “This is an issue I’ll tell you right The party marks the end of Staff Writer the summer reading club and it Friday’s storm pelted Pickering and in 2002. point blank I will not support,” re- features prizes and refreshments. PICKERING — Ivan Marcoux was other areas of the GTA with rain that The area is prone to problems be- sponded Trustee John Dolstra. The evening is also the launch sitting at home Friday afternoon caused power outages, flooding and cause no stormwater management With the Region implementing its of the library’s newsletter for watching TV when he heard a familiar infrastructure damage. plan has been implemented for that transit system soon, the board can teens. It features short stories, sound of gurgling in the basement. Ms. Marcoux had to park her car on area of Krosno Creek (money was al- help reduce the temptation for em- poems, photographs, comics, and Before long there was 16 inches of the next street over and wade through located in the 2005 budget but work ployees to drive by making them pay editorials, as well as music, movie water in the basement, the backyard hip-deep water as she made her way to hasn’t started yet) but the Marcoux’s for parking, said Mr. Dancey. and book reviews. Those inter- was full, and his neighbourhood looked her home, where her belongings were situation is worse because their house “Whether we use it or not, I want ested in submitting a creative piece liked Venice, with nearly enough water floating out of the garage. sits lower than others. to thank you for coming out and pre- of work can bring it along. on Streamside Court and Sandy Beach This was the fourth time since the The furnace and hot water tank were senting an idea for raising money,” The party and launch is at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. The central Road to float a boat. Marcoux’s moved into their home in both affected by the flood, as well, the said Trustee Marilyn Crawford. “It’s branch is at 1 The Esplanade. Reg- “It’s just like a little Niagara Falls. 1993 that their basement has been in- home’s electrical box is located in that one I would have never thought of.” istration is not necessary. You sit there and there’s nothing you undated with water. The first major can do,” said Marilyn Marcoux, his flood happened in 1994, followed by ✦ See Pickering, Page A2 ✦ See Parents, Page A8 [ Index ] Editorial Page, A6 Sports, B1 Entertainment, B3 Cleaning up and clearing out problem Pickering parks Classified, B4 Police lay 58 charges, and conservation areas in Ajax and Beechlawn, Glenanna, Bronty timidation” -- were also found, Sgt. [ Call us] Pickering, said Staff Sergeant Mitch Square, Greenwood conservation Colling said. make 35 arrests Colling of the community police of- area and the Seaton hiking trail from “Hopefully the message comes out General: 905 683 5110 fice. July 19 to Aug. 12, Sgt. Colling said. that we’re trying and we’re willing to Distribution: 905 683 5117 By Carly Foster “The hope was to have a direct Nine males were caught running respond to the complaints,” he said. General Fax: 905 683 7363 Staff Writer impact on the undesirables using the near Cedar Park in Ajax, where police “If it doesn’t resolve itself, we have to Newsroom Fax: 905 683 0386 DURHAM — Police have cracked parks and to clearly indicate a po- discovered a male victim had just come in and deal with it.” Pressrun 47,600 down on after-hours loitering and lice presence,” he said. “This is inap- been robbed. All nine were charged. If you have complaints about parks drug use in local parks, making 35 propriate activity causing mischief Police seized 187 grams of mari- in your neighbourhood, call Sgt. Rico infodurhamregion.com arrests and laying 58 charges. and damage and annoying people in juana, 10.5 grams of hash and hash Sirizzotti at the Ajax-Pickering Com- Project Clean Up was a result of their homes.” oil, and 2.2 grams of crack cocaine. munity Police office, at 905-683-9100 complaints and concerns from Police beefed up patrols in parks Knives and expandable batons -- a ext. 2578 or anonymously to Crime residents who live near the parks including Pauline, Steeple Hill, “formidable weapon used for in- Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). INCOME TAX PERSONAL INCOME TAX RETURNS All-Canadian Tax Service Shovels in ground for Pickering compost facility TAXES NOT FILED YET? We specialize in New building will Vaughn Bullough, vice-president of and Clarington in the spring of 2003. far been “satisfactory. PRIOR YEAR RETURNS 1995-2004 Miller Waste Systems, says the build- An existing pilot program in Pickering “I think the residents in the more rural Our office is open year round ! handle Durham’s ing at the existing Squires Beach Road doubled in size to 1,200 households in areas have traditionally used composting 100 Westney Rd S (Ajax Go Station) compostables in 2006 facility will be 2,926 square metres in June 2004. Peter Watson, Durham Re- methods around their houses more than (905) 426-4860 size. It is yet to be determined if all of gion’s manager of waste management, those who live in the big urban areas. Durham’s kitchen waste is to go to the says in the first week of July 2006, the They have more land,” he explains. By Mike Ruta location. Currently, the Region’s kitchen balance of the region will come online, When the green bin program is re- Staff Writer compostables are taken to Miller’s facil- representing about 130,000 households gion-wide, kitchen compostables are to DURHAM — Construction is under- ity in Richmond Hill. in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax and the rest of be collected every week while regular SERVICE HOURS way on Miller Waste Systems’ new com- “It will depend on economics,” he Pickering. garbage will be picked up once every MON., WED., THURS., FRI. posting facility in Pickering. says. “Some of the northern collection “In mid to late June 2006, the residents two weeks. 7:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. When it opens next summer, coincid- vehicles are actually closer to the Bloom- who receive curbside collection now in “By going to once-every-two-week TUES. 7:30 A.M. - 8:00 P.M. ing with the region-wide implementa- ington than the Pickering site.” Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax and the balance of collection, that will encourage and re- SAT. 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. tion of the green bin kitchen waste pro- If it’s logical to take all the material to Pickering will all receive their curbside inforce to our customers that we need (905) 831-5400 gram, the facility will be able to handle Pickering, “that’s what we would prefer green bin, a kitchen food container and to reduce more and compost more,” he 25,000 tonnes of compostable material to do,” Mr.