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To the editor: smell it The proposed site will also have the To the editor: Triathlon changes necessary competitor says turn-out of people from Manchester. 1 looked around the audi very few people from the hamlet. Do you realize that three of the five pro- posed sites are in your back yard? Do you know, that if the dump is allowed, it will be 25 feet into the ground and garbage will be piled as high as the silos on the Hanover Hills farm, or 80 feet high? What a wonderful sight to witness as you drive over the Ridges on your way home. If you don't see the mound forming at first, you will surely The following is a letter sent 10 the organizing committee of Canoe the Nonquon and of the Triathlon. It was passed on to the Citizen by the committee. Dear organizers: Congratulations and thanks to both organizing tcams for once again staging two excellent events. Your attention to detail has cer- tainly paid off in the smooth operation of both races. Quite an plish for a plicated event like a Triathlon! My only disappointment is that I never seem to have enough time to really enjoy your beautiful location in and around Port Perry. 1 would like to put forward a suggestion that I believe would enhance your races and change one excellent day into an exception- al weekend in Port Perry. Would the organizi i id staging the Triathlon on Sunday morning instead of Saturday. Along with this, could the participants be allowed to camp (lents) at iC idents of Manchester. creek that meanders through the ham- FORGEFT LAR 1) On July 5, I had the opportunity to let, where many of the children like to four HE'S SEPTING Wii ARD . attend a meeting at Town Hall 1873 to play, could be polluted with toxic hear members of PEST (Preservation of chemicals. A HORSE HE HAS TO DRESS the Envi of Scugog Township) 1am very disappointed that the resi- FOR THE OCLASION). discuss the ramifications a garbage dents of Manchester have lost the spirit ~~ dump will have on the Scugog area. they had 13 years ago when my family What | found alarming was the poor and | moved here. and saw potential to pollute our water. The little At that time, we had to fight the trucks, to stop ours were polluted with salt. We fought long and hard and finally, some cight years ago, many of the residents had new wells in their back yards. That source of water is threatened again, if the dump is located just one kilometer from our back door. Three years ago, when the owner of trucks that pick up garbage for the Township, planned to buy property in Manchester to park and repair those to get new wells, because the people stood together again this project. What I find ironic about the whole situation is that this part of the Ward 1 where we live, does not have municipal garbage, pick-up. We have to take care of our own garbage. Now they are proposing to dump everyone else's on us. There are five proposed sites in the Township, on a list of 17 in Durham Region. Odds are that one Scugog site will be on the "short list™ in September. 1 haye addressed only a few of the problems a dump will cause if located in our area. But think about having to fight a stream of garbage trucks as you drive to and from work. Think of the re-sale value of your home. Think of those pleasant back yard when the smell of garbage drifts past your nose. We have 10 stand up and be heard, or we will get dumped on. Barbara Ann Taylor, Manchester. summer evenings in the Promoting religious,view of life To the editor: Ronald Calvin's letter last week regarding the loss of Christian values in the public schools prompted me to write to p inform your readers about a case which is presently before the Ontario courts. Our local Scugog Christian School in Prince Albert, is a member of the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools, an organiza- tion representing 75 private, multi-denominational Christian schools serving 12,000 students in Last November, the Alliance, together with the Canadian Jewish Congress, launched a court action the race site? This would allow p p Pp y of a family weekend in Port Perry. Some of the benefits I sce with this two-day 'Canoeing the Nonquon' weekend are: 1. The Triathlon bike/run held on Sunday moming contend with less traffic and therefore would be SAFER than on a busy Saturday afternoon. Port Perry streets are very busy on Saturday. 2. It would be cooler on Sunday morning (Saturday was very warm in '91). 3. Visitors 10 Port Perry would be able to stay longer with the Iting injection of into the local y. 4. Families would attend with the participants making it a family oriented event for us out-of -towners! 5. The volunteers would not be split between two events, there- fore fewer may be needed. 6. People will be inclined to do both events with a longer rest period with the resulting i in partici 7. You could charge a nominal per family) and generale revenue. I believe a change to holding the Triathlon on Sunday moming would enhance both events. Please consider this as a suggestion in order to enhance your races. I will be back in 1993 either way! fee for camping (say, $10/might Marvin Doran, Richmond, Ont. We must work together To the editor: Where is our Mayor? PEST, (Preserve the Environment of Scugog T L " A p) a formed to fight the proposed dump sites in Scugog, held a pub- lic meeting at Town Hall 1873 on Sunday evening. Appareatly, the issue of dump sites was not important enough for our Mayor to bother to attend the meeting. Apparently, the meeting was of so little impor- tance that our Mayor would not This is a beginning, but obvi- ously the Mayors in other arcas have chosen to take a more active approach on behalf of their tax- payers. Councillors Ken Carruthers and David Dictlein are both involved with the anti-dump groups (PEST and Zero Garbage), and along with councillors Yvonne Christie and Marilyn Pearce were in attendance Sunday night. Everyone in our Township, including our Mayor, must work allow an at the h Canada Day Fireworks. Mayor Howard Hall did attend an earlier meeting and informed those present that Scugog 8! . A dump at any of the five potential sites will destroy our community. Where was our Mayor and has he forgotten how he got his job. Lisa Feasby, Scugog Township. q the Ontario govern- ment's total non-funding of inde- pendent schools. Ontario is the only major jurisdiction in North America which provides no sp port to independent schools. Parents who choose to send their children to Christian schools must carry the burden of paying twice, first through their taxes Children not pawns in issue of abortion, reader says To the editor: : This is in response to the letter written in last week's Citizen by Jil McIntosh. | would like to say that "No, children are not pawns in the abortion game." They, of all people, most likely undtand the issue more, and their version is simple. For example: a mother is preg- nant and tells her young child that she is going 10 have a baby. The cently. The child khows that he or she will eventually have a fully alive baby brother or sister. This is not a complex issue, if you open your eyes 0 one under- lined fact, that abortion does ® indeed kill ehildren. And that is all anyone needs to know, no mat- ter what age. Katie Ouelette, Scugog Township. which go to public schools, and then with tuition at their own schools. The Alliance has been trying to rectify this by negotiation. Since the NDP government has stopped negotiating, the Alliance is trying to establish the constitutional right of independent schools to some public funding through the courts. Our schools are not looking for full funding, but are hoping to gain access to health and support services, and through partial fund- ing, to make Christian schools affordable to families at all income levels. The hearing in this case ended on June 4, and Judge Anderson, having heard all the arguments for and'againdt the challenge, has promised a decision some time in late of July or August. We are hoping the results of the hearing will be favourable to our schools, as we continue 10 promote our goals of a religiously based view of life, the teaching of Christian morality in the lives of young per- sons, the nurture of the traditional family, and the pursuit of academ- ic excellence. Jane Batterink, Board Secretary, Scugog Christian School, Prince Albert. MOO NN (on Harvest for the Young at Heart by Joe Mahoney - OH DOUGLAS WHEN T SAW \ (Ry ) YOUR BABY PICTURE IN THE CITIZENS BIRTHDAY GAME T WISHED I HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO YOu MYSELY. _ -- YEAH, T Guess | T WAS Kind OF CuTE