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TT LY PAS AST oY A Sop . Vol. 112 No. 18 (1 EY Ea A UES. «Wednesday, March 8. 1978 32 Pages EB) : a, go 8 », Wood glueing, water play and finger painting with whipped cream and pudding kept children amused last Friday morning at the Durham Region Family YMCA "Let's Create Together". Melanie Johnston, right, seems a little disappointed Young '0K What's next?' and bewildered as friends Katie Galberg, bottom, and Jeffery Currie, left, dig in. The program is held Friday morning for mothers and preschoolers. Photo and story on pdge 23. % id ; Access Available On March 1 a thick yellow @ book became available to the public in post offices and federal buildings across Canada. " Called the Index of Fed- eral Information Banks, the book provides a list of some 1,500 federal government in- formation banks in which files on private citizens may be kept for one reason or another. And if any citizen wants to look at the file the govern- ment may be keeping on him, the Index allows him to identify where that file is: located, and gives him the right to look at the-file and request corrections if the file is inaccurate or incom- plete. . The 1,500 information banks cover more than 100 government departments and all non-commercial fed- eral agencies; from health and welfare, consumer and corporate affairs to employ- ment and-immigration, jus- tice, labour, and national revenue (the tax man). It is not a completely open - book, however, and files relating to national security, crime prevention, or what "might be injurious to inter- national relations, national defense or federal provincial relations", are going to remain closed to the public unless the appropriate government minister agrees otherwise. Making a request for infor- mation involves several steps: first, consult the index- and find the appropriate information bank where you assume your file would be - Government files on you Roads dept. contracts let Five . companies have been awarded contracts for the supply of a variety of materials to be used in 1978 by the Scugog Township _ Roads department. Tenders were opened at a special meeting of council March 1 by roads superin- tendent Ron MacDonald and in each category the price accepted by the council was " the lowest one bid. Two contracts were awarded Miller Paving of Buttonville, the first for the supply of calcium chloride at $92.18 per liquid ton, and-- the second for supply of hot mix asphalt at a price of $14.84 per ton. SCREENED SAND Van Camp Contracting of Port Perry submitted the lowest tender of four com- panies for supply of screen- ed sand, hauled and piled at a price'of $1.40 per cu. yard up to six miles, and an additional nine cents per cu. yard over six miles. PIT RUN GRAVEL The tender of Robert' Young Ltd., Ennismore, Ontario, was the lowest of four submitted for pit run by Scugog gravel at 75 cents a cu. yard up to six miles, and an additional 9.5 cents a cu. yard for over six miles. GRAVEL Fred Nelson and Son Ltd., Keene, Ontario, was award- ed the contract for supply of gravel, the lowest of three tenders submitted. The prices accepted are as follows: Off belt - 50 cents per cu. yard; stockpiled - 68 cents per cu. yard; up to six miles - 99 cents per cu. yard with an additional "nine cents per cu. yard for over six miles. BITUMINOUS SURFACE TREATMENT Seven companies bid for the supply of four different materials for surface treat- ment, and Royal Paving of Lindsay was awarded the contracts at the following , prices: MTC prime --53.5 cents per gallon; sand blot- ter - $5.08 per cu. yard; R.S. 1K - 52 cents per gallon; and 3 chip, supplied, spread and roll at $7.12 per ton. The vote by council for the awarding of all con- tracts was unanimous. Truck bid opposed Colin Ball Motors of Port Perry submitted the lowest of eight prices for a new four-wheel drive half-ton truck complete with snow plow and heavy duty pack- age for the Scugog Township Works department. Scugog Township council accepted the low price at a special meeting March 1, but not without opposition from councillor Vern Asslestine. Councillor Asselstine said he was not opposed to the price from Colin Ball for the half-ton truck, but suggested rather that before a decision was taken to buy a new truck for the works department, the council should ask for prices on a three-quarter ton truck. He said he was under the impression. that prices for a three-quarter ton truck were going to be submitted, and he added that the heavier truck might be better suited for such things as plowing snow in Port Perry. kept; and second, fill out a There are almost 570 pages Record ~ Access ~ Request Form (available at the post office) and mail it to the address of the appropriate government department (given in the Index). Persons thinking of using the Index should heed this warning, however. First read the introduction in the opening pages of the Index Book, and read it very care- fully, before you start filling out therecord access request * forms. And then happy hunting. of information banks where your file might be kept. And oh, yes the Index is printed in both official languages. While the Index went into the Port Perry post office on March 1, it looks like the citizens of Scugog Township haven't exactly been break- ing down the doors to find out what the government has on them in its files. In fact, in the first two days only one person showed any interest in the Index. - . While council went along with the purchase of the half-ton truck from Colin Ball Motors at $8,478. includ- ing tax, licence, heavy duty package and snow plow des- pite the opposition from Councillor Asselstine, the "members did agree on a later motion specifying that in future the council should determine by motion exactly what kind of equipment is to be purchased before dealers are asked to submit prices for consideration. BIA meeting Thursday A meeting has been called for this Thursday evening to discuss the proposed by-law to establish a Business Im- provement Area (BIA) in downtown Port Perry. Open to those business people within the area de- signated for business im- provement, the main topic on the agenda will be the "notice of intent" to esta- blish a BIA that was mailed out March 3 by Scugog Township. This was mailed to all business people within the designated BIA, encom- passing the commercial core bordered by Lilla, Mary, Water and North Streets. The by-law, if approved, would set up a BIA board of management to work out specific proposals for the beautification and improve- ment of public property within the designated area. The meeting will be held at the Township council chambers and gets under- way at 8:00 p.m.