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Kin beach washed-out It would appear that plans by the Port Perry Kinsmen Club for a new beach on Lake Scugog have been washed out, for this year anyway. Pending approval of parks e grant from the provincial government, the Kinsmen planned to start dumping beach said on the ice along a section of Lake Scugog just north of the Palmer Park baseball diamond in Port Perry. However, Scugog Town- ship council was told Mon- pday afternoon that applica- tions for the work would first have to be forwarded to the provincial Ministry of the Environment. Township by-law officer Robert Kenny told council that permits are necessary before a lake can be dredged or filled, and the council agreed to a motion from councillor Don Crosier that the appropriate provincial agencies should be notified of the proposed beach plan. Because there are only about two weeks left this winter when the lake ice would be safe enough to allow heavy trucks to dump sand, and Kinsmen proposal most likely will have to be shelved. : * Smokers Clinic The five-day plan to stop smoking is helping to save lives. The plan now in progress at the Port Perry High School at 7:30 p.m. is prov-. ing as always that you can quit the smoking habit. It points out how to quit, ®not just why you should quit. Lectures; films and the buddy system is certain- ly one of the most effective means employed. Trained counsellors guide you every step of the way. One comment "received after the first meeting on Sunday, Feb. 12 was "They sure make you feel goed about the whole thing. They don't tell you it's easy but they make you feel you can equit". More information is avail- able at 985-8296. ETT CT OFFICE SUPPLIES Samm m------ The Kinsmen club had first made the suggestion for the beach last year, and the club agreed to cover half the projected cost of $55000 if a parks grant could be obtain- ed to cover the remainder. The parks grant has appar- ently been approved and the Township was notified by telephone to this effect last Friday. In a verbal report to council, Mr. Kenny express- ed some strong reservations about the project, stating that the particular charac- teristics of Lake Scugog would be unsuitable for the dumping of beach sand. Mr. Kenny said that if the sand is placed over the lake bottom, it displaces the mud" which then slides outward from underneath the sand. When that happens, he said, it could mean dredging the displaced mud, which would be expensive, and would also stir up the beach sand that had already been placed on the lake bottom. Mr. Kenny hinted that the beach would not get a lot of use from Scugog Township residents, and he suggested that if the Kinsmen want to spent money, a children's wading pool in Birdseye Park might be a more suit- able plan. He also said that the site of the proposed beach could present problems because there is debris in the lake from an old mill and pier that once stood in that general direction. Some initial dredging work for the project was carried out on the shoreline last fall. The beach plan had called for some $3000 worth of sand to be used on the lake bottom and up from the shoreline. The snow was to have been scraped from the ice, and a sheet of plastic placed on the . ice with the sand dumped on top. During the discussion Monday afternoon, it was pointed out that similar pro- jects to create a beach have been carried out elsewhere with favourable results, but not on lakes which have mud bottoms similar to Lake Scugog. 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