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Howard Hall (left) was named Citizen of -the Year by the Seno Ratepayers Association at a special meetin Township council chambers.' g held last week at the Scugog Mr. Hall said the presentation rendered him 'speechless', and commended the ratepayers for the setting up of such an award. Presenting Mr. Hall with the award is the association' s president, Eric Carre. PORT @ PERRY Serving Scugog Township Wednesday, October 20, 1976 Howard Hall, chairman of the Community Memorial Hospital board and chair- man of the new Scugog Com- munity Memorial Arena became this community's first Citizen of the Year in a brief ceremony Thursday night during a meeting of the Scugog Ratepayers' Associ- ation. Others running for the association award were Bill Brock, Fred Christie, Richard Drew, Dr. Matt Dymond, Diane Lackie, Lawrence Malcolm and Bev Muir. The names were submitted and subsequent voting took place at the association's booth at the Port Perry Fair, as well as balloting from a newspaper advertisement. Hall claimed to be "sel- dom lost for words' but said with the presentation made, "lam now". He commended the Ratepayers for establish- ing such an award. "There are lots of people who work a great deal for the commun- ity, but very seldom hear anything other than ecriti- 20° oe § Vol. 110 No. 50 36 Pages Dr. Tom Millar to perform Topi pe <p cism," he said. "I'm glad to see an award such as this one. I feel good about winning it." Later in the meeting, Mayor Lawrence Malcolm made the same comments. '"Congratulations and special thanks should go to the association for the work Queen St. they. have done and for this award." He said that council is always attempting to pro- mote this kind of thing within the community. The ratepayers meeting continued with a session to prepare questions for an all- candidates meeting later this year. physical appearance changes The business and commer- cial areas of Port Perry are undergoing many changes these days, giving people a bigger and better selection of merchandise from which to choose. Just recently the LCBO removed their store from Queen Street and have set up business at the corner of Mary and Perry Streets, in the old Morrow building. The store has been complete- ly renovated and is now self-serve, giving the public a better selection of their favourite alcoholic bever- ages. According to Royal Bank manager, Bill English, their operation will move into the vacated premises of the LCBO sometime in the early spring if everything goes according to plan. A spokesman for Village Hill Properties Limited, the owner of the old LCBO build- ing at the corner of Queen and Perry Streets said some thought has been given to establishing a movie theatre in the: rear portion -of -the building. "This is not defin- ite,"" he told the Star. If the idea of a theatre does not go through, it is quite likely retail stores will be established along the Perry Street side of the building. In the old Emmerson Block, now owned by Charles Santos, the vacated stores are slowly beginning to fill. Star Stationery and Dor-Jean Fashions have fill- ed two of the gaps, with Organ World scheduled to (continued on page 2) Grid system A system of property "numbering or gridding will be investigated as a means of identifying a loc- ation quickly by Scugog firemen. The possibility was one of a number that resulted from the Monday night meeting of Scugog Council and members of the Caesarea and Port Perry branches of (continued on page 5) Local artist launches music series at Town Hall It may not be the Berlin Philharmonic, but for an evening of good music of a calibre to persuade even the most skeptical about the existance of excellent local talent, the Friday, October 22nd piano recital of Dr. Tom Millar shouldn't be missed. Dr. Millar, a native of Scotland who calls himself an "amateur hobbyist' on the piano has already played a few times before Port Perry audiences and has built something of a local following. Capable of playing some of the most eomplicated class- ical pieces of the great com- posers, Dr. Millar will keep the program in a lighter vein in an effort to provide enter- tainment for as broad an - audience as possible. "The heavy stuff some- times turns people off," he said. '"This will be a kind of introduction." Not that the audience isn't Debate need for full-time chief Scugog Township Council and members of No. 1 and No. 2 Scugog Fire Depart- ments met at the township council chambers Monday night to discuss a Fire Mar- shal's report on Municipal Fire Protection. Why Mayor Lawrence Malcolm began at Recom- mendation 21 and worked backwards became evident when the fuse of debate reached the first three re- commendations which invol- ved the hiring of a full-time, overall chief to head the two separate 'halls' within the Scugog Department. The sometimes testy dis- cussions between the two department's members ex- emplified the discord that has resulted in a lack of full communication between the two departments for years, that makes the appointment of an overall chief such an explosive issue. "There's been some back- biting in the past between the two departments," said Jack Cook in what apparently was the understatement of the night. "I don't know how it got there and I know it shouldn't be there." Cook, who is chief of the No. 1 (Port Perry) depart- ment, explained later about one incident that may be an example of how the mutual dislike began. He said when his department answered a call in the Caesarea depart- ment"s area a few years back, he was rudely told to shove off. According to Cook, there have been several attempts to establish an mutual train- (continued on page 5) of a musician. 'back, who knows what would going to get their monies worth. Dr. Millar said he's been practicing an average of three hours a day for the past six weeks in preparat- ion for the recital. "Most people don't realize," said Dr. Millar, preparation goes into this kind of thing." "Preparation" for a seri- ous involvement started for Dr. Millar when he was seven years old. His mother . played violin and the value of music was appreciated in the Millar family, but he wasn't pushed. "They sent me to music lessons because my sister went." For some reason, his sister dropped piano although *'she was better than I was on the piano'. By the time he reached university, a choice had to be made between music and his studies. The time demanded in the study of music...as in the demands of acquiring a university. education, was overwhelming. One had to be dropped. Leaning to the more prac- tical side, he opted for medi- cine, the less secure career "Looking have happened had I gone into music rather than medi- cine." Then, with a broad smile, he speculates that perhaps his patients think he should have gone into music. "Or perhaps those who hear me play might suggest I should devote all my time to medicine," he quipped. (continued on page 3) "just how much Fi -- Se a Sins a OE SA QC JC AINE eg.