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4 L o) J] . Li Pavol, PERSIE I Sd AL LEE RY ER aa ee Reds 20° Vol. 110 No.11- Serving Scugog Townshi = p: Wednesday, January 21, 1976 - 24 Pages : If officials attending the Scugog Ratepayers Associ- ation meeting Thursday felt any relief about the some- what small group of people attending, it was short lived. What the group. lacked in numbers was made up in enthusiasm, and local offic- ials were kept on the grill answering questions ranging from the proposed penitent- iary to township develop- - ment policy. Perhaps the most discus- sed was the regional project that would make Lilla Street a three-lane street through Port Perry. While most of the statements made op- posed the project, the local council's position on the pro- ject was left somewhat ambiguous. Scugog councillors active- ly opposed the street widen- ing into four lanes as origin- ally planned by the region, and fought to no avail to have the region adopt local suggestions ranging from a Penitentiary rivalry Following a detailed presentation by the : Regional planning department of Discussion Paper 4 on Durham Region's official plan, the David Porter and Barbara Berezowski reversed shoulder scheme to a building program that would install storm sewers first and widen the road whenever it became neces- sary. Scugog Councillor Neil Hunter say the question of Lilla Street widening is the price the local community has to pay for getting a long-time water problem eliminated, while Coun. Reg Rose sees the project as a decision the Region has made about their own road. "Council has argued with them that we want the storm sewers now, and that the roadwork should come later, but we got nowhere," said Coun. Rose. "We've told them what we prefer, and they've simply decided to do it their way, on their road. That's two lanes and a park- ing lane." Mayor Lawrence Malcolm understood concern by local residents about the widen- ing, but called "frightening" meeting was opened to questions from the floor. © One question was inevitable. With all the land = designations and restriction, somebody wanted =~ to know, where was the proposed penitentiary © going to go. going to Uxbridge." "With all due respect...and | biased on this," smiled meeting chairman Bill Ballinger of Uxbridge, 'it's not going here. It's realize I'm Coun. Ballinger was instrumental in getting penitentiary officials interested in Uxbridge as a possible site. nothing done. la St...." they'll do the suggestions that nothing at all be done on Lilla. He said two different points of view among those opposing only the street-widening pro- ject, and those who want The latter would be irresponsible, the Anajor feels, in view of what he considers to be many serious water drainage it their problems along the street. Asked if the January 29 information meeting, the region has set up here, will allow local residents to con- front' the regional author- ities about the project, Coun. Rose said that indications are the Region is willing to listen to specific points, but will not be willing to discuss _ regional Retain title Porter, Berezowski Dance Champions It took no less than their best effort ever for skaters Barbara Berezowski of Toronto and David Porter of Port Perry to gain the points needed to top the Canadian Figure Skating Senior Dance Championship in London last week. Rated by their coach as their best effort ever, the two skated to regain a fraction of a point ahead of rivals Susan Carscallen and Eric Gillies of Toronto who had threaten- ed to fashion an upset by leading through the first two segments of the competition -- the compulsory dances and the original set pattern. "They were down after Thursday's performance and they knew they had to- skate better than they ever had before," said Marijane Stong, their professional in- .structor. "I really feel they did. I tried to make them believe they were still the champions until it was over and that if they really were the champions they could do it." -There will undoubtably be at least a few people and organizations in Scugog who will take the advice of Planning and Development department and supply "input" in the form of briefs and present- ations on the department's way" if the project should go or not. "They've decided to do it their own way." Bev. Muir who chaired the meeting for the association claimed that at least part of the problem was no more than a personality conflict between some local resid- (continued on page 9) Great concert event February 22 The 26-year-old Port Perry skater and his 21-year- old partner edged only 44-100ths of a point ahead of their competitors. Final points for David and Barbara totalled 154.62, followed by the Toronto couple's 154.18. Canada is allowed to send three men, two women's singles skaters, one pair and two dance teams to the Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, next month and the Worlds in Sweden in March. The two finished ninth in the World championships in 1975 and, by making it into the top 10, ensured that two groups would be able to go in 1976. They finished second at Skate Canada in Edmonton, behind a Russian couple, also one of their best efforts, according to their coach. "Experience from several international competitions has made them more at ease before the judges, and they have a more mature attitude generally," she said. Stage 4 discussions Stage 4 discussion paper that among other things, limits Scugog's growth to 19,000 and Port Perry's growth to 5,000. i Even at the Monday night public meeting when the official plan discussion paper was presented to a packed house at Scugog Council Chambers, a good portion of the questions from the audience deferred to the limiting of the community to that number, while other municipalities such as Beaverton, Sunderland and Cannington which are desig- nated to grow by as much as four times their present size. Port Perry, it was point- ed out, is limited in the amount of growth it can take by the Nonquon Rivers sew- (continued on page 9) Maureen Forrester to sing in Town Hall - Considered by some to be the greatest and most exciting concert event ever for Port Perry and area will take place in the Town Hall Sunday, February 22. Maureen Forrester, in- ternationally famous Cana- dian contralto has gracious- ly consented to appear for a Port Pérry and area audience. "It is a most unusual arrangement, that an artist of Miss Forrester's status can afford to take time out from her busy schedule to perform in a small community like Port Perry," said one member of the Town Hall Committee. "It's indeed a great honour to the Town Hall and its dedicated board mem- bers to haye the opportunity ° to host a fine artist and exceptional personality such as Maureen Forrester," he concluded. She has performed, and with great success in concerts and operas in most large cities in America and Europe, and always received glowing critics. Following a recital in New York, the famous newspaper writes: 'Voices of this order make one feel the fabled golden era is not gone forever." London Free Press writes after a performance of Menotti"s opera The Medium at the Stratford Festival: "The rafhs of Maureen Forrester, contral- to, in the title role as Madame Flora, the phony spiritualist, was monumen- tal. Her acting and singing must be considered one of the greatest moments in operatic history." Enthusiastic accounts after her performances go on and on in the media. Boston Herald American writes fol- lowing her success as soloist in Mahler's second sym- phony with Boston Sym- phony Orchestra under the baton of S. Ozawa: 'Miss Forrester sang 'I come from God and will return to God' with the passionate convic- tion that Mahler, the tor- mented spirit, would have wished for him." No doubt this great event will fill the restored Town Hall to capacity when Maureen Forrester enters the stage at 2:30 p.m. Sunday February 22. ' = wis ot NE SA ee 3 »