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A RAINEY £ £7 Scugog baby first arrival of New Year in Durham The first baby born in Durham Region in 1983 is Amy Lee, first daughter for Lori and David Aldred (top photo) of Scugog Street in Blackstock. Amy Lee, weighing eight pounds, was born at 12:35 A.M. New Years Day at Oshawa General Hospital. At Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry, the first baby of the New Year arrived January 5 shortly after 12 noon. Sarah Jane Street is the daughter of Jean and Ron Street of Law Street, Oshawa. Sarah weighed nine pounds, nine ounces, and is a new sister for five year old Jimmy. Ta A ERNIE ASTANA oA 'pt ed ELEN LF ELI AC a ey x NIB 4 HLH A keira ast oieilinadnisdniiionn camille tad AlN DSA Ib Se nA i 2 Y ab Vol. 117 No. 6 Tuesday, January 11, 1983 36 Pages For Hospital Expansion Council asked for $160,000 tax dollars Scugog Township council has been asked to contribute $160,000 in tax money to- wards a planned $760,000 addition to Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry. The request for money came to council Monday afternoon from a delegation representing the hospital board who submitted a len- gthy brief and went into de- tailed discussion about why the expansion is needed at the hospital and who will pay for it. After listening to the pres- entation by hospital adminis- trator Dave Brown, building committee chairman How- ard Hall and Joy Hull of the Dump will likely close an extra day The Scugog garbage dump on Durham Road 8 likely will be shut an extra day per week as a cost-saving measure. A delegation from the Dur- ham Region Works depart- ment, which operates the site, made the suggestion to Scugog council Monday afternoon. . Council agreed, but asked for time to study the issue and made a decision on what day of the week the dump will be closed. Bill Twelvetrees, Dur- ham's commissioner of pub- lic works, told council that by shutting the dump one extra day per week, Durham would save about $30,000 per year in operating costs. He said the dump in Scu- gog is now operating at a deficit of about $80,000 each year, even though all Reg- ional dumps are supposed to run on a break even-user pay basis. The reason the dump is costing money is that not enough trash is going into it (Turnto page9) hospital board of governors, members of council agreed only to think about the re- quest for several weeks and let the council's finance committee study the implic- ations. Even if Scugog council agrees to support the expan- sion with numincipal tax dollars, no funds can be turned over to the hospital until the Provincial govern- ment gives third and final reading to a bill which would give local governments the legal authority to make such contributions to hospital building funds. That reading is expected some time in the next session of the Legis- lature. Mr. Hall told council Mon- day that plans for the expan- sion have been approved in principal by the Health Min- istry, and the hospital board is hopeful that actual con- struction can begin as early as this spring. He said the Health Minis- try has agreed to pay $200,- 000 of the total cost with the remainder of the money (Turntopage12) Extensive changes in education suggested Parent advisory commit- tees will meet this week to discuss long range proposals which if eventually adopted, will mean significant changes for several schools in Scugog Township. The long range report, call- eg the C.B.S. Facilities Plan for Scugog Township, and in an interview with the Star last week, Scugog's trustee Rev. Stuart McEntyre stressed the report only contains suggestions. "It is a projection of where we might be going over the next few years," said Rev. McEntyre. He added that once the Parent Advisory Committees have had a chance to study and discuss the suggestion made in the report, there will be a series of public meetings in Scugog to allow parents a chance to express their feelings. The suggestions cover a four year period from 1983 through to 1986, and possibly the most significant among them is to "investigate the opportunities and implica- tions of transferring Cart- wright High School to Cart- wright Public School" offering Kindergarten to grade 13. Rev. McEntyre said last week he has discussed this suggestion with the principals at both schools. The other suggestions in the report for 1983 are: to close the school in Raglan and send students to Meadowcrest and Prince Albert. - - - close the old Greenbank schoolhouse and put two por- tables in its place For 1985, the report sug- gests that additions be built on both Greenbank and Prince Albert Schools (in- cluding a gym and library at Greenbank) and including grade seven at these schools. The following year, the report suggests that both Prince Albert and Greenbank offer Kindergarten to grade eight education. Currently, they are Kindergarten to grade six schools. The reason for this would be to relieve some of the pressure on R.H. Cornish School in Port Perry. Rev. McEntyre said that with close to 1000 students, R.H. Cornish is close to being over- crowded. Projections by the Durham Board show that if Prince Albert and Greenbank were (Turnto page 9) Four year old boy dies in accident A four-year old Scugog Township youngster died early Saturday evening in an accident at his parent's farm near Seagrave. According to Durham Regional Police, Michael Wray became caught up in a grain elevator being run by a tractor power take-off at the farm on Concession 10, and died of head injuries. ~~ LR Sa Ce di EW AX Se a - & 5 ~ ¥ : SFA ln J TX "ows ha AER "7 --~ oo iy ory r A a TT rte tg, Po Tt eT ely hry