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Port Perry Star, 31 Mar 1982, p. 1

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AlLittle Help From His Friends Getting a helping hand from sister Laurie Thompson, 6, and Kelly Newman, 7, is Greg Thompson, 4, the youngest participant in the Skate-a-thon held March 24 at Scugog Arena. Greg skated 28 laps and both girls completed the 100 laps. Over 100 children, parents and friends took part in the Skate-a-thon which was a group effort by Ringette, Minor Hockey and Figure Skating as part of their annual fund-raising efforts. The Skate-a-thon is expected to bring in $700, and is considered the "finale of the season." Well situation in Manchester up in the air There does not appear to . be any quick or easy solution to clearing up the problem of salt contamination in the wells of residents living in Manchester. Following a lengthy meet- ing Monday afternoon between Township council and representatives of the Ministry of the Environ- ment, council decided there will have to be another public meeting - with Man- chester residents, many of whom have been unable to drink water from their wells for the past several years. However, the thorny ques- tion of how much money the Ministry of the Environment is prepared to spend to correct the well water prob- lem has 'not beén totally resolved. Environment represen- tative George Trewin told council the Ministry is prepared to pay 75 per cent of the cost of new individual wells. And he said the Transportation ministry will pay the remaining 25 per cent of replacing those wells with salt contamination only. He added that no decision has been made on how much Subsidy 'the Ministry would pay towards piping water from Port Perry or Prince Albert. However, Mr. Trewin hinted Monday that if Town- ship council feels a piped municipal water supply system is the best alter- native, the Ministry might change its policy to allow subsidy on the cost of this project: ) "This policy.change would have to be made at the deputy-minister level," said Mr. Trewin. He indicated that a decision one way or another might be made in the next couple of weeks. (Turntopage?2) . Vol. 116 No.18 Wednesday, March 31, 1982 32 Pages Cottages destroyed in third major blaze The third major fire in as many weeks caused an esti- mated $50,000 damage des- troying two cottages and badly damaging a third at Sunset View Beach on the west side of Scugog Island. The cottages were not occupied during the winter months, and there were no injuries. Captain Bay Penney of the Scugog Fire department said an inspection of the charred ruins the following day failed to reveal what might have caused the fire. He did say that firefighters noticed. fresh foot-prints in the snow leading to the cottage area, so it is possible that one of the cottages may have been occupied shortly before the fire broke out on the night of March 22. The private road leading to the beach area is closed during the winter months and clogged with snow. Fire trucks were unable to get near the scene and equip- ment had to be carried. Captain. Penney said Island resident Everett Prentice greatly assisted firefighters by using his snowmobile and sled to transport heavy pumps and hoses from the trucks. The cottages were pretty much destroyed by the time firefighters were able to reach the scene, but they were able to keep the blaze from spreading to several other cottages along the same row. Water to fight the blaze had to be pumped from holes (Turnto page 2) Residents warned of bogus phone campaign Officials with the Central Seven Association are warning people there may be a bogus phone campaign underway claiming to be raising money for the organi- zation. A spokesperson for Central Seven in Port Perry told the Star last week that anyone who has received a call asking for donations should contact the Association immediately at 985-8511. There is no authorized phone campaign underway at this time, said the spokes- person. Central Seven has one public fund raising cam- paign each year - The Flowers of Hope - and this is done by direct mail every May. Durham Region Police has been contacted by the Asso- ciation. Suspicious about the bogus campaign were raised last week when Brad Heintzman, whose wife Joan is president (Turnto page 2) A fire last Monday night totally destroyed two Sunset View Cottages and part of a third cottage before firemen from the Port Perry department were able to get it under control. Photo above shows the second cottage as flames engulfed the building. RT Pa Ow a Se hs So Sr =F

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