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_® ; Irate. Manvers-Cartwright " 'Boundary Road residents o: .. Crowded into 'the. Scugog "council" chambers Monday - 'night, and 'arined 'with a "petition laced 'with scarcely- "veiled threats and innuerido, 'demanded that the township improv maintain: the neglected" portions of the road. : F f ~ "Efforts will be considered to unseat, at the next elec- tion, any of 'our elected re- presentatives .who do not 'give active support to this request', states the petition. "The group has given the township 30 days to initiate the work (from the receipt of the petition). If the request- ed action is not undertaken in that time "further steps currently being considered will be persued,"' the petition concludes. The petition also calls "intolerable" the "mistreat- ment by various township officials afforded previous attempts at having the ne- glected portion of the road improved. Petitioners found little or. no support among members of council, who said there It's been some time since there's been an opportun- ity to see downtown Port Perry in such a reflection. It's from the chromed headlight of a 1936 Rolls-Royce parked in front of Emiel's Restaurant on Monday (inset). The car, owned by George Donneral of Nestleton, attracted more than a few passers-by. were miles and miles of similar roads in similar con- dition in the township, and that opening up every road upon request would mean Demand road improvements tripling the taxes. It was pointed out to pe- titioners that such work on officially-designated un- (continued on page 14) Malcolm, Rose, Taylor seeking second term True to "a promise made to the press" as quoted in the Sept. 9 issue of the STAR, Mayor Lawrence Malcolm made his intentions known for the upcoming election. "Ithought it over seriously for some time," said the mayor, "whether to try for the same position on this "council again for another term, and I've decided to do just that." Malcolm opened the meet- ing to any other announce- ments, and Coun. Jerry Tay- lor said he too will seek another term as represent- ative of Ward 3, Scugog Island. Coun. Reg Rose, inter- viewed late last week, said he will run again for councill- or. Coun. Don Frew announc- ed in August that he would not be seeking another term with council. Coun. Neil Hunter and Bob Brinkman have not yet in- dicated their intentions in _the upcoming election, and there have been no ann- ouncements -as yet from others outside of council challenging council seats. Explaining his decision, Mayor Malcolm said a great deal of thought was needed because he had his ups and downs when he thought about the busy schedule of meetings--both local and regional, that he would again have to attend. "My wife thinks I can do it, so I'll do it," he quipped. Getting stung Ron Radcliff of Caesarea complained to i: Scugog Township Council Monday that some- ii thing should be done to curb his neighbour's i hobby--bee keeping. Seems that the thousands of bees have made life painful around the Radcliff swimming pool, which is located across the property line about 50 feet from the nearest hive. Both Mr. Radcliff and his friends have been stung while working around the pool, and Mr. Radcliff appealed to council for some action. "I wonder' mused Mayor Malcolm during one point of the conversation, 'where the bees get their nectar?' "I don't know," answered Radcliff, 'but | : know where they get their water." Last attempt to establish corps Want to learn target shoot- ing? Read a map and use a compass? Handle a canoe? Learn about photography? Go to summer camps all over Canada? Take trips overseas? Earn good money in all of your teen years? All this and much, much more is being offered by the Royal Canadian Army Cadets to young men and women between the ages of 13 to 18 and Pat Dooley, commanding officer of the local unit here says he wants area young people in on the action. J Scugog schools reveal slower student growth trend Only slight fluctuations in area elementary and secon- dary schools are being re- corded at the beginning of this year, revealing a gener- al trend toward slower @ growth in student population if not a levelling out. At Cartwright Central Public School student enroll- ment is down for the first time in recent memory, from "last year's total of 620 to 611 this year, na School principal Doug Hogg sees the slight increase as relatively insignificant, although he thinks the surges of student population have slowed down somewhat. He expects student popula- tions in the upcoming year to remain about the same. Referring to a Ministry of Education forcast of de- creases in school population, Mr. Hogg points out that such forecasts will not neces- sarily apply to every school or even every school board. Such things as population shifts, variations in land costs, new, job opportunities and many other factors could effect school popula- tions on a local level. Much of the fluctuation in student enrolment indicates student shifts within the local system. Reach Central Public School in Prince Albert, for example, has slightly more students enrolled this year 'than last, up from 300 stu- dents to 311. At least part of the reason for the increase, however, is the fact that Scugog Island Kindergarten students who would have moved to R.H. Cornish in Port Perry have remained at the Prince Albert school for Grade 1. Officials at Cornish also report that a number of parents have opted to send their older children to Prince Albert to accompany young- er brothers and sisters who are remaining there. School officials at Prince Albert report that if not for the the inter-school moves, student population would be about the same as last year, or even down slightly. Likewise, R.H. Cornish would have remained about the same as last year had it not been for the shifting of some students to Cartwright and Prince Albert Schools. Enrolment is down slight- ly, from 939 last year to about 900 this year. Main reason is the splitting up of a Junior Special Education class. Youngsters from this class will now be going to Cartwright and Prince Albert. According to Cornish figures, it's the first year in at least three years that enrolment has not increased. Student enrolment in 1973 was 860, in 1974 it was 890 and (continued on page 15) Dooley's last shot at es- tablishing and maintaining a strong corps began last week when registration began for the new, enlarged, revamp- ed and reorganized cadet croup. Main change in the way the cadet corps will be run is that it will move away from the strictly high school or- ganization, and will seek to draw young people from all over the township. Where most activities in the past years were held during or shortly after high school hours, the corps this fall will seek to move away from the school environ ment. If there is sufficient interest among high school students to warrant it, the course during school hours, but corps organizers say they want interested stu- dents to come out to at least one Wednesday night meet- ing a month. "We're going this year all for nothing,' said Mr. Dooley, also a teacher at Port Perry High School. "Either we get a top-notch corps of interested kids here, or we fold up. It's as simple as that." The corps, sponsored by the board of education, will (continued on page 3) i" OEE: REY me