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Mrs, Marie Grier, RR No. 4, Port Perry, accepts cheque from Port Perry STAR Publisher'P. Hvidsten for winning entry in "Our Hometown Newspaper Contest". Read entry on page 16 "Newspaper Contest' winner The Port Perry. STAR is pleased to announce that James and Marie Grier, R. R. No. 4, Port Perry have been selected as winners of _our 'Hometown Newspaper", Contest. Their winning entry, about what they believe a hometown newspaper should be is reprinted in this issue, and we think that on reading it, you will agree it is deserving of the award, The selection of the winn- ing entry was not an easy one to make, as we received almost fifty = submissions from our readers. Of course this great response fiom our readers made our task of selecting a winner that much more difficult, but never- theless we "would like to personally thank everyone who did: take part in the contest, When we informed Mrs. Grier that the entry by herself and her husband had won, she told us in a brief interview that they had workeda "couple of days' on the essay, and originally it was 'much longer than the final draft. Neither Mr. and Mrs. Grier has ever done any writingina professional capacity, although Mr. Grier had submitted material about Ireland to the Toronto Telegram. Mrs. Grier told us that she and her husband have been reading the Port Perry STAR for 26 vears, and from 1962 - 65 had it sent to Ireland where they lived for those three years. Mrs. Grier said a weekly newspaper has al- ways been a part of her life, and she recalls that as a HOSPITAL REPORT Week Ending April 20, 1972 Admissions............... 29 Births. .......0 00 000 2 Deaths ............c.oooe Nil Emergency Treatment ...76 Operations ......... PIT 42 Remaining .......... J ....36 young girl she always read the hometown newspaper. _ Mr, and Mrs. Grier sub- scribe to several other pub lications including McLeans, and Gardens, the Toronto Press. Thus the Port Perry STAR is in'pretty good company," and it is some- what gratifying for us to know that the hometown paper has a place alongside these national publications. For their winning entry, Chip wagon the Port Perry STAR presen- ted Mr. and Mrs. Grier with $25. We are also sending their entry on to the national '"'Hometown Newspaper Chatelaine, Better Homes -- Contest" to be judged-by the Canadian Community News- Star and the Winnipeg Free papers Association, with a first prize of $300 and a gold medal. Again, our congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Grier, and our sincere thanks to all our readers who submitted an entry to the "Hometown Newspaper" Contest. operator debates with Council Without passing a formal resolution, Port PerryCoun- cil indicated to Mr. Elmer Arsenault that his request to operate a chip and hamburg wagon within the Village will not be granted. : On hearing this at the meeting of April 18, Mr. Arsenault left the Council chambers stating "I'll be pack. I'll be back here every Tuesday night." Mr. Arsenault first ap- proached Council with the request for the licence April 11. At that time he told Council he has operated chip wagons in Ajax and other communities, and would be willing to locate any place in Port Perry that wouldn't interfere with traffic. He was tcld at the April 11 meeting that the Village woud not licence him to park on the street, and was asked to look -for-a-location-himself; and come back to Council when he had found one. - Mr. Arsenault returned to Council a week later saying he had negotiated to rent two lots owned by Scanlon Motors on Water Street directly across from the baseball diamond. He informed Coun- cil that not only would he park his chip wagon on the lots, he was prepared to level the lots for use as a parking area for cars and boat trailors. He said his chip wagon would be in operation roughly six months of the year. Council's objection was based on the fact that there is (continued on page 15) OPP Report For the week of April 17-23, the Whitby Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police reported a total of 19 motor vehicle collisions, causing $19,000 damage. Three per- sons were injured in these mishaps, but there were no fatalities. Up to April 23, there have been four persons killed on the highways patrolled by the Whitby OPP. To the corres- ponding date in 1971, there had been three fatalities. During the week of April 17 - 23, there were 99 general occurrences reported, and these included 12 liquor offences, 5 thefts, 4 break and enters, 2 disturbances, 4 driving complaints, one assault, and one case of malicious damage. P2 EE Volume 106 -- Port Perry, Ontario, Wednesday, April 26, 1972 -- No. 27 Port Perry education taxes go up total County budget up by $6 million The Village of Port Perry and Scugog Township are to experience an increase this year in the education tax levy, while the levy this year in Reach Township will be fractionally lower. Figures released last week by the Ontario County Board of Educationindicate that the increase for Port Perry this year will amount to 2.33 mills on the education levy, while inScugog the increase will be .90 mills. The decrease in Reach Township will amount to .58 mills this year. These increases apply only to public secondary and elementary school suppor- ters, as the mill rates for separate = schools in the County have not yet been announced. Total separate school budget has been announced at $6,371.716 for 1972. The total budget (esti- mated) for elementary and secondary school expendi- tures-<in* 1972 for Ontario County was announced: at $44,961,900, an increase of over $6 million over last year's spending of $38,826,106 fat For the Village of Port Perry, the total amount of money to be raised for edcucation in 1972 will amount to$197,558. Of this total, $106,022 is for elemen- tary and $91,536 will be for secondary school education. Mr. Bill Keith, Controller 2 of Finance for the Ontario County Board of Education said the figure of 2.33 mills for the Village of Port Perry could be subject to a slight change because assessment figures at this {ime are not necessarily final. According to Mr, Keith, this estimated figure of 2.33 mills for Port Perry was derived by subtracting a .31 "mill decrease in Port Perry secondary school rate from a 2.64 mill increase in the elementary rate, thus leav- ing anoverall increase of 2.33 Daylight saving time this Sunday Please be reminded .that Daylight Saving Time starts officially at 12:01 am. Sunday, "April 30, 1972. So, before you retire Saturday evening (or Sunday morn- ing) don't forget to put your clocks and watches AHEAD one hour. If you are one of the many people who has trouble re- membering whether the clocks go ahead in April and back in the fall, or whatever, the following little jingle was quoted recently, and it is the easiest way we have heard of yet to keep this thing straight. It goes like this: "Spring ahead, fall back." (continued on page 15) mills 'in the combinedsecon- dary and elementary rate. Mr. Keith said the increase for Port Perry this year is due to the fact that last year there was a decrease because of credit given for a small surplus. Mr. Keith termed the decrease last year as an "artificial one," caused by a non-recurring credit appli- clable only to the year 1971. The reduction "last year amounted to 1.86 mills. The Port Perry hike is also due to an apportionment change this year which has increased the Port Perry share of the total County education budget from 1.16 percent to 1.25 percent. This is the first year that apport- ionment had been based on 50 percent of 100 percent 'assessment, For local property owners, the 2.33 mill hike in the Port Perry--levy will mean- an education tax increase of $2.33 for each $1,000 of the local assessment value of the property. Despite the fact that the total County education bud- get is up this year by more than $6 million, several municipalities experienced a mill rate reduction. The decreases are a result of increased provincial grants this year which will give the County 61 percent of the total budget instead of last year's 55 percent. ERs Bill Peeters (right) and John Notenboom, senior automotive mechanic students at Port Perry High School won this handsome trophy for a second-place finish in the 1972 Chrysler "Trouble Shooting Contest" held April 21 at the CNE grounds. At left is instructor Mr. Stan Lefort, who had some words of praise for his students. "I'm overly pleased with their said Mr. Lefort. ot 2 NIN 7 0) TA LA effort, the boys did a great job for me,' N tre Ta "TE a = = Fx gs aA x Ao Ss ES Pg