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With over 60 years of history, serving the community and helping kids in Bowmanville make it to Kindergarten, the Bowmanville Nursery School sent off its last graduating class on June 22, Tuesday.

For parent Jodi Gorham, having the school close is sad news. She adds that she doesn’t know where to bring her second son once he goes to nursery.

First opened in 1943 by the Bowmanville Lions Club as a non-profit school for the community, the Bowmanville Nursery School was first under the care of the Trinity United Church, later transferring to the Clarington Beech Centre.

For years, the nursery school has been a part of life in Bowmanville. The parents who now have children at the school were once nursery students there themselves. Teacher Kerry Houston’s husband was once a student long ago, and both her children have attended the school as well.

Low enrolment rates that burdened the school for years combined with the Lion’s Club’s aging membership forced them to make the tough choice of closing down the school and diverting their funds into helping the club grow.

Parents have no need to worry though, as Bowmanville has plenty of other options for nursery schools that may be more flexible to parents’ needs.

Three days after the camels Jonas and Todd, together with the tiger Shawn, went missing in Quebec, Bowmanville Zoo owner Michael Hackenberger still has no leads as to their whereabouts.

The 3 animals were raised at the Bowmanville Zoo their entire lives, which decreases their chances of survival if they were ever released or broke free into the wild. And if they are in the wild, locating them could be even more difficult, not to mention dangerous to the public.

The trailer the animals were kept in was stolen when it was parked at a Quebec parking lot, sometime between Thursday night or early Friday morning. Fortunately, the truck the trailer was hooked to was eventually located in Laval, Quebec, providing investigators with their first source of clues.

The loss of the 3 large animals has been very stressful to zoo owner Michael Hackenberger, who has now put up a reward of $20,000 for any information that will lead to the recovery of Jonas, Todd, and Shawn. His main concern right now is whether or not they’re alive and well, and if they’ve been fed and watered properly.

As of the moment, Mr. Hackenberger is in Quebec, keeping in close proximity to a veterinarian in case the animals are found.

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Lakeridge Health Bowmanville was proud to unveil its new mammography centre to the public last May 13. According to Lakeridge Health CEO Kevin Empey, the centre was developed for the community, to help them in the fight against breast cancer.

Thanks to the Memorial Hospital Foundation-Bowmanville, who donated $1.35-million for the centre’s redevelopment, the hospital was able to improve its facility and add a long-requested digital machine.

According to Lakeridge Health’s doctors, the new digital mammography machine gives them amazingly clear and accurate images, which are available to them at a rate much faster than that of the normal film machine. Furthermore, the machine has the ability to zoom in and out on an area, with operators able to adjust the viewing settings to give physicians a better look at the examined tissue.

For the patients, this means a lot less waiting as well as fewer re-examinations. The new machine is also very accessible to those sitting in wheelchairs and lying down in gurneys. However, one thing that won’t change is the pain an exam can bring. This is because the new machine still works like the usual mammogram, albeit with faster and much more accurate results.

Just think of it this way; the temporary pain of a mammogram is far better than the pain caused by breast cancer.

After careful deliberation, the Municipality of Clarington has decided to lend a helping hand to Ribfest.

The Bowmanville Rotary Club, the organizers of Ribfest, sought help from council and asked if they could somehow borrow a big portable generator for use during the event. According to Kevin Anyan, a representative from the Bowmanville Rotary Club, the organization needs a very large generator for the event, which requires a lot of power to accommodate those who are expected to attend.

At first, the group considered renting a generator, but they found out that the cost of renting one that would have to run for 24 hours a day could be as high as $9,000 – that’s triple the regular renting cost of $3,000.  If the group chose to rent a generator, they’d end up putting Ribfest at risk for lack of funds.

This dilemma led them to approach council and ask if they could borrow the municipal building’s extra backup generator. Council was willing to lend the generator for a significantly lower renting cost which still has to be ironed out.

Ribfest is a fundraising event that plays host to ribbers, vendors, and entertainers dishing out fun for the whole family. The 3^rd annual Ribfest takes place on the 13^th of June.

Last April 14, students from Harold Longworth Public School held an activity in an effort to raise awareness on the harmful effects of bullying on kids and teenagers. The students organized an event in line with the International Day of Pink at the Bowmanville public school, where they wore pink shirts and brought attention to issues such as bullying, homophobia, and racial discrimination.

The Day of Pink campaign first began when a Nova Scotia student was bullied when he wore a pink shirt to school. Fortunately, his classmates took a stand for him, leading hundreds of students to wear pink to school to stop the bullying and discrimination.
That single united act has inspired thousands of kids all over the world, and thus, the International Day of Pink was born. The celebration is marked by various activities and workshops about how to stop bullying and get over our society’s negative stereotypes.

Harold Longworth’s student council put together an awareness campaign to promote the Day of Pink at the school. Students placed posters speaking against bullying all over the school, and made announcements on why bullying needs to be stopped. According to school Vice Principal Stephen Fisher, he’s proud of the students for doing such an amazing job.

We can’t help but agree.

Good news for residents in Bowmanville. The local hospital is set to get a new critical care unit, and doctors think it’s the perfect addition to the hospital for patients to get better care.

Originally meant to be a part of the hospital’s $10-million redevelopment project, hospital officials decided to go ahead and build the critical care unit portion of the project in advance, due to its urgency. According to Dr. Benj Fuller, an E.R. doctor at the Bowmanville hospital, the redevelopment project would’ve included new emergency room facilities, but it became clear to doctors and healthcare personnel working at the hospital that a CCU was much more important.

The new critical care unit, which will cost around $1.3 million to develop, will be funded by the Memorial Hospital Foundation-Bowmanville.

A new CCU should be what specialists need to get work done at the hospital, this according to Lakeridge CEO Kevin Empey. The lack of a proper CCU he said, has impeded the recruitment of new specialists to practice in Bowmanville.

The future of Bowmanville’s hospital was discussed in 2009, when doctors shared their worries on the imminent shortage of specialists and internists that might affect the medical institution’s services and quality of patient care.

March is officially upon us, and the Municipality of Clarington is now offering a wide array of March break camps for 2010. If you have kids or know someone who would like his or her children to have something fun to do this March, then these camps fit the bill perfectly.

This month’s trip camp kicks off at the Bowmanville Indoor Soccer Centre, and is open to all kids aged 8 to 14. The trip camp includes field trips to famous places and tourist spots such as the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto’s Hockey Hall of Fame, the Ontario Science Museum, and many more.

For younger kids aged 7 to 12, the sports camp is where the action is at. This year’s camp runs out of the Bowmanville Indoor Soccer Centre, and will feature numerous activities of just about any sport known to man today.

The project is a part of Clarington’s goal of creating recreational opportunities for its residents and promoting healthy lifestyles in the region. For details and information about this year’s March camps in Bowmanville, Clarington, you can logon to www.clarington.net/htdocs/recreation.html.

So what’re you waiting for? Sign your kids up to the program and let them have a blast this March.

This week headlines primarily consisted of good news from different charitable foundations and programs in the Bowmanville area. Here’s a look back at this week’s news headlines.

Big Brothers and Sisters of Clarington announced this week that they’ll be kicking off the annual “Bowl for Kid’s Sake,” a fundraising event to take place at Liberty Bowl in Bowmanville. The annual event raises funds for children’s programs under their foundation.

Another fundraising event took place last Saturday and proved to be very successful in spite of the bitter weather. The Polar Chili Golf Classic, a unique game of golf in the snow, drew in over 120 golfers to the makeshift links behind Bowmanville High School. The annual event raises funds for The Clarington Project.

The Memorial Hospital Foundation-Bowmanville was pleased to announce that their 2009 Smile Cookie Campaign was a smashing success, amassing a record-number of donations in the Durham region. Furthermore, coffee giant Tim Horton’s wrote the foundation a check worth $96,040.

Moving on to more serious matters, officials said that they can’t put a timeline as of yet on the move to construct more nuclear reactors near the Darlington Nuclear Station. They’re still deliberating the matter as of now.