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mE A i | Western Weekend starts Thursday Port Perry's service clubs, and even one church, are preparing to participate in Western Weekend which' A begins tomorrow night in Port Pery and continues. until Sunday evening. At its July 23 meeting the esis i 4 WAS 2 gi SSN aaa ------ ON 4 L Sa \ Ine Anwua, _-- B > 10 funy fy yi R DEREY Og, tired tadian t franpion LIN "skier : r ] ANCE HOWDIE PODNER. Bret, 3, and Korin, 5, Drew welcome one and all to Port Perry's Western Weekend, which begins tomorrow. Public content with Scugog name The largest area munici- pality in the proposed reg- ional government east of Metro Toronto will likely be born with the name the province has tentatively given it - Township of Scugog. According to local politic- We're off ..As previously announced for the past two weeks the STAR office will be closed for summer holidays from Saturday, August 11 until Monday morning August 20. The next issue of the STAR will be published on Wednesday, August 22. ians there have been no citizen complaints or reason for a plebecite to change the name in the regional elect- ions Oct. 1. The origin of the name came from the provincial legislation which created the Regional Municipality of Durham. The legislation gave a tentative name to each of the eight municipal- ities within the new region which will come into effect Jan. 1, 1974. The new Scugog Township will include the Village of Port Perry and the Townships of Reach, Cart- wright, as well as the exisit- ing Township of Scugog. § Lions Club received a re- port on western weekend activities for the benefit of members. Kin - Kinetes Local Kinettes are organ- izing a childrens parade which will make its way up Queens Street Friday morn- ing. Children with bikes, trikes, carriages or what have you will leave Latcham Centre at 10 a.m., march to the Public Library then return to the lakefront. They will be accompanied by Sam The Talking Police Car, courtesy of the Oshawa Police Dept. Prizes will be awarded for the best decorated bike, the most originally decorated trike, the most attractively decorated doll carriage and for the most unusual "mis- cellaneous." First prize in each catagory will be 2 silver dollars, second prize 1 silver dollar, and third prize a 50 cent piece. Soap Box Derby At 2 p.m. Saturday a soap box derby sponsored by the Kinsmen Club gets under (continued on page 7) 15¢ per copy 20 Pages Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. Wednesday, Aug. 8th, 1973 No. 4? "Not the women's candidate" "After all the parking problems have been solved and all the shopping plazas have been built you have to get back to talking about people,"" says Georgia (Brock) Brendon, a 39 year old high school physical education teacher who has decided to run for a seat on the new council which will be elected October 1. Recreation, opines Mrs. Brendon is people and 'people in motion is my bag." The candidate is a native of Port Perry. She has a degree in Physical Educa- tion from the University of Toronto and has taught Phys. Ed at Port Perry Diane Findlay injured in car-truck accident Diane Findlay of Scugog Street is in Scarborough Centenary Hospital with lacerations to her scalp and legs and 'stitches near her mouth as the result of a car-truck accident on the Bloomington road Sunday evening. Mrs. Findlay's 4 year old son Michael is also in the hospital with cuts. Other children, John- athan, a 4-year-old nephew of the injured woman, Shawn, 3, and David, 2, were treated and: sent home. } After several calls yester- day the STAR could find no Man killed, three injured A Sunderland area man was killed and three others were sent to hospital in a car-truck collision on High- way 7 and 12, near the intersection of Highway 47, on Friday morning. Pronounced dead at the scene, just below the crest of a hill south of the inter- section, was Kenneth Wal- lace, 47, of R.R. 4, Sunder- land, driver of the pickup truck. Harold Pollard, 25, of R.R. 3, Sunderland, was first taken to Uxbridge Cot- tage = Hospital and later transferred to Scar- borough's Centenary Hos- 'pital. He is listed in '"'satis- factory" condition today. Two other passengers in his car, Roy Pollard, 18, and Garry Gibson, of Col- umbus, were treated for minor injuries at the Ux- bridge hospital, and re- leased. 1 The Wallace truck was struck broadside by the southbound car and Wallace was thrown into the east ditch by the impact. Const. W.R. Linington, of Whitby OPP, investigated. one on duty at York Re- gional Police who would discuss the accident, but it appears as if Mrs. Findlay's car collided with a truck which pulled out in front of her. Sources say the truck stopped at a stop sign, then suddenly pulled out in front of the car leaving the wo- man no chance to stop. Hospital officials de- scribed Mrs. Findlay's con- dition as 'just fine." Li High and for the Etobicoke Board of Education. She has one child, a 6 year old girl who will be in grade two at R. H. Cornish in September. In an exclusive interview last week Mrs. Brendon pointed out that most of the major decisions under reg- ional - government will be made by the region council, which she thinks should meet in Whitby. Local council will have only two or three responsibilities and recreation is one of them. Recreation Important "The most important one," she thinks. The only woman to enter the race so far says that it would be foolish to spend a fortune on a community centre-ice arena complex in Port Perry, as some people are suggesting. The new council, she points out, will have to serve people in places like Nestleton, Utica and Saintfield. By putting all recreation eggs into one basket we would be in- conviencing people in out- lying neighbourhoods and creating more parking pro- blems downtown. Instead, she suggests, neighbourhood skating rinks and tennis courts could be built in existing parks and = y - * #i Janis McLaughlin Queen QUEEN OF THE REGATTA, Janis McLaughlin of Blackstock was chosen from 21 contestants in the Caesarea Regatta Queen contest Saturday. The 41st Annual Regatta ran for three days last weekend. More pictures inside. GEORGIA BRENDON school yards throughout the whole area. That would not only be more convenient but, she says, it would cost less than a new arena com- plex. Area Losing Money The candidate thinks this area is losing a lot in grant money for recreation. Both Ottawa and Toronto have grant systems for local recreation programs. Mrs. Brendon says that if the taxpayers consider all they own in municipal parks, libraries, halls and the arena, plus the facilities owned by the taxpayers in (continued on page 3) Arena repairs Ea near completion New concrete footings have been constructed all along the south side of the arena by Mel Ron Con- struction of Whitby, and the company is putting the fin- ishing touches on im- provements to the north side of the building. Cost of repairs on the south side were $3,845. Original estimates had gone as much as four times what the work was: actually worth, so area councils were overjoyed when ten- ders were opened. All four councils contribute to the cost of repairs. According to arena board Chairman Vin Walker the work being completed this week includes all the re- pairs that engineers said had to be done in order for the arena to operate next hockey season. Two cartoons Two cartoons are be- ing published in this ed- ition of your paper, due to our staff vacation next week. Children entering the Elmer Safety Rule Con- test will find the last two cartoons on pages 18 and 19.