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Clarington ‘Best Site’ for Incinerator Site Is in Industrial Area and Close to Where Waste Is Generated: Curtis The Pickering 32 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 48,900 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 Ring the bells Children’s Aid Society opens its doors to new home Page 10 Clarington ‘best site’ for incinerator Site is in industrial area and close to where waste is generated: Curtis By Erin Hatfield [email protected] DURHAM — A preferred site for a proposed energy-from-waste (EFW) facility that would burn garbage has been chosen by con- The purple outline shows the pre- ferred site in Courtice for an incin- sultants and it’s in Clarington. erator. A report released on Sept. 21 by Genivar and Jacques Whitford, retained by the regions of Durham “Generally, it’s in an industrial Photo by Rob Mitchell Environmental lawyer Dianne Saxe is overjoyed at being one of the first of almost 50 cyclists to arrive in Pickering and York to identify where an EFW area and it’s fairly remote for most after having biked from Mississauga, a 56-kilometre trip. Waterfront Trail Partners declared Thursday Waterfront Trail facility should be located, states residential uses and it’s generally and Greenway Day, celebrating 15 years of building trails. Ms. Saxe commented that each year the trail just gets better, that a site in Courtice has the best unobtrusive.” with beaches and all the wildflowers. balance of advantages and disad- The site is located on the west vantages. side of Osbourne Road, with the “From my perspective, the nearest intersection Hwy. 401 and greatest advantage is that it’s fairly Courtice Road in Courtice. close to where the waste is being Kerry Meydam, who lives in the generated,” said Cliff Curtis, the Connecting Durham’s waterfronts Region’s commissioner of works. ✦ See Public, Page 3 Pickering and Ajax cue greeted 52 cyclists who rode projects include the Ajax trail to Blaisdale 62 kilometres of the waterfront Whitby and a pedestrian bridge at celebrate trail from Mississauga to Pickering the Petticoat Creek Conservation B I Montessori L on Thursday. Area in Pickering. The waterfront A R I O improvements S S D S 35.2//-3s7).$/73s$//23 A L T E Cyclists took part in the ride, partners declared Thursday Wa- E M O N School Manufacturer of along Lake Ontario celebrating 15 years and 52 com- terfront Trail and Greenway Day, SUNROOMS pleted projects by the Waterfront and Pickering Ward 1 City Coun- SPACES AVAILABLE & WINDOWS By Kristen Calis Regeneration Trust (WRT) and its cillor Jennifer O’Connell, along Call for a tour [email protected] 41 waterfront community part- with City staff and businesses, put Visit our showroom ners and conservation authorities. on a celebration at the finish line. 239 Station St., Ajax DURHAM — Drums beating, The WRT is a not-for-profit or- “We knew it would be a tough, 905-509-5005 water raining down from Pickering ganization committed to regener- www.blaisdale.com 12 months - grade 8 905-686-2445 fire trucks, massages and a barbe- ating the waterfront. 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Bill McLean, Ward 2 Regional Council- lor and Communities in Bloom Advisory trails Committee co-chairman, at the latest Council meeting announced Pickering had received top honours, and thanked ✦ Pickering from page 1 all businesses, residents, sponsors, judg- es and City staff who got involved. long ride, and we wanted to show them He also announced that Pickering had some Pickering hospitality,” she said. won the 2007 Environmental Awareness Coun. O’Connell, Ajax Mayor Steve Par- Award as well. ish, Ajax-Pickering MPP Mark Holland and “It was real inspirational to see how WRT executive director Marlaine Koehler everyone got on board and participated were among those who completed the ride. in this,” he said. Ms. Koehler said Pickering’s waterfront “We’re looking forward to participating has great aspects, and one of her favourite in it next year.” spots along the trail is Dorsey James’ wood Mayor Dave Ryan, also co-chairman carvings at Millennium Square. of the committee, said he’s very proud “In Pickering you can actually feel like of Pickering’s effort, demonstrating its you’re in the canopy of the trees going over pride, passion and commitment. that beautiful bridge over Petticoat Creek, “Being judged as one of Ontario’s very which happens to be one of the 52 projects best Communities in Bloom municipali- we’re celebrating,” she said. ties is a watershed moment in Pickering’s A common criticism of Lake Ontario’s history,” he said in a press release.
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