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A 2 iv » 8 2 5 SIA Ss ACE AT AY, ASE IAS ET Ty Sar "y i. david ib About 20 members of the Blackstock Senior Citizens group attended Monday's nights council meeting in an attempt to.solve a dispute over proposed renovations to the old town hall in Blackstock. Coun. A dispute that Coun. Don Frew said could split Black- stock right down the middle was referred back to the Cartwright Parks Board for one more quick try at settl- ing the issue.. The dispute centers around proposed renovations to the old town hall in Black- stock by the Blackstock Senior Citizens Group. About 20 members of the group appeared before Scu- gog township council Mon- day night and spokesman Bert Gibson told council a decision had to be reached by the end of the month. Mr. Gibson, a former reeve of Cartwright town- ship, said the group had received $5,600 in federal funds to renovate the build- ing and planned to remove - the stage in the hall and build a kitchen where the stage is now located. The group also has $1,000 of its own money. But members of the Wo- men's Institute strongly opposed this plan and would like to have the stage lowe- red and the kitchen put off to one side, Mr. Gibson said. 'Mr. Frew said the Parks Board, which is like a board of management for public buildings in the former township of Cartwright held three meetings trying to settle the dispute and have had no success whatsoever. Mr. Gibson said the Senior Citizen's Group had to report to the government by the month on how they were going to use the money and that if the dispute wasn't settled the money would go back to the federal govern- ment. There will probaly be other money available for fixing "the floor after this work is completed, Mr. Gibson said. But if the stage dispute isn't settled, nothing will happen. Mr. Frew said that Parks Board wanted the Women's Institute and the Senior Citi- zens to get together «and reach an agreement. But this has proved impossible so far, (continued on page 2 Hospital Report Week Ending Sept. 19th Admissions .............. 35 Births ......ccccoiciiniens 2 Deaths ...cococaviisinniins 1 Emergencies ............ 119 Operations ....5......... 16 Discharges .............. 36 Remaining .....c........ 33 Bob Brinkman (left) and Coun. Bob Kenny are facing the camera while Coun. Jerry Taylor's back is to the camera. Council decided to let the Cartwright Parks Board have one more try at settling the dispute. Cartwright dispute erupts at council 28 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1974 -- No. 47 15¢ per copy Changes in gun bylaw Scugog township council has tentatively accepted some changes in its gun regulations. Council agreed to most changes in the bylaw, that were proposed by the Big Game Association. Clerk Neil Brodie was asked to prepare a new bylaw following the guide- lines set down by council at Monday nights meeting and present it at a future council meeting. One change under the pro- posed bylaw would allow the discharging of firearms on crown land and on lands under wild-life agreements. This isn't allowed by the existing bylaw. Another change would allow land owners to use a gun with a calibre not great er than .275 for the control of pests on land he owns. Under the existing law, a farmer yarena . details of finance, si work on the report. Public not invited Scugog township council will be presented with the results of a three month study on a new. "arena for Port Perry on Friday night. Vi At the special meeting, which will be held in: 'camera, appointed committee of five will make a report and' solid recommendation on a new. The commitice; has already; presented its report to the Arena Board and according to mies chairman Howard Hall, the is Surely af the requ ot allow. ef r. Hall's iid ie arena, after hres moths of hard work. Mr. Hall would like to see council appoint an official committee to follow up the tontinued : > had ork out cure of the can use a gun with a calibre not greater than .22 on his own land for pest control. But council would not go along with a suggestion of the Association, that a hun- ter need only oral permission to hunt on somebody's property. The proposed bylaw will state a hunter needs the land owner's written consent to hunt on his land. If the bylaw is accepted, the fines for "violation will range from $100. to $300. The Rod and Gun Club also submitted suggestions to council on revisions of the gun control bylaw but were not represented at the council meeting. Two mem- bers of the Big Game Associ- ation were present. Coun. Reg Rose said he had been talking to a mem- ber of the Rod and Gun Club and he understood the Club would go along with the changes sought by the Big Game Assoication. Snow show The third annual Snow Show will be held this week- end at the Port Perry Arena. Eric Donnelly, chairman of the show committee, said that about 15 different snow- mobile companies will be répresented through local dealers at the show. A special section has been added to this week's STAR dealing with snowmobiling. Mr. Donnelly said there will also be. snowmobile fashion shows "as well as snowmobile safety displays by the Ontario Provincial Police. NE NN EA [UR PLE Saran) 4 4 r ] » TR whakodi wie wd cod Day care centre probable A day care centre will probably be established in Port Perry this year. Regional council was told last week that a letter of applications has been sent to the province indicating the region's priority in establish- ing day care centre in Durham. The establishment of a centre in Port Perry has been given second highest priority by the region. W.F. McAdams, commissioner of planning, said the region should get at least two or three centres this year. Lawrence Malcolm, mayor of Scugog, said he is hoping the centre will be established in the old town hall, although there are other sites under considera- tion by the region. Mr. Malcolm said the centre will be able to handle between five and thirty-five children. Mr. McAdams explained that the province had un- dertaken a special project to build more day care centres and that 100 per cent of the cost of building renovations would be paid by the pro- vince during this period. The province will pay 80 per cent of construction cost if a new day care centre is built. Normally the province pays 50 per cent of the cost of day care centre construc- tion. The region has applied for five centres, with top prior- ity given to a centre in New- castle. Durham has also applied for centres in Can- nington, Whitby and North Oshawa. this Mr. McAdams said he had no official indication of how many centres Durham would get, but had some unofficial indication, Mr. Malcolm told the Star that the cost of operating such centres is normally about $3,000 per child per year. This high cost can be explained by the fact that there must be a registered nurse, a nurse's assistant and a cook at each centre. But Mr. Malcolm pointed out that most of the opera- ting cost is picked up by government and the user only pays a small portion of the actual cost. "It might almost pay to give the mother the $3,000 or $6,000 it costs to keep her child or children in a centre and let her stay home and look after them," the mayor commented. year Charges laid after fight at Flamingo Assault charges have been laid by a Teamsters Local 647 member and a security guard at Flamingo Pastries following an- incident on the picket line on Sept. 17. Whitby provincial police report that a fight broke out on the picket line at the strike bound plant resulting in charges being laid by both sides. Bill Overy, business repre- sentative of the union, said that the stalemate continues at Flamingo with no pro- gress reported. Vandals had a busy time in Port Perry last week as this newspaper box shows. Newspapers left from the day before were set on fire in this box located at Simcoe Street and Highway 7A. Vandals also broke windows at a Water Street Shopping plaza which is still under construction. Sotlabuni