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Vol. 117 No. 50 Tues. November 15, 1983 36 pages Scugog hit with first icy blasts Scugog Township got its first real taste of winter last Friday as' several centimetres of wet snow fell on the area causing all kinds of traffic problems. Durham Region Police report numerous accidents in all areas of the Township due to the weather, but according to a police spokesman there were no serious injuries. The worst driving con- ditions were on the Oshawa Road at the. Ridges south of Port Perry where police were forced to close the highway for nearly four hours Friday evening. - until work crews could get plows and sanding equipment to the area. Police say there were several accidents just to the south of the Ridges. In Scugog Township, a Little Britain man escaped serious injury near Seagrave when he lost control of his vehicle while trying to pass a farm tractor. A car driven by Omer Desroches slid into the ditch on Durham Road 2 causing about $3000 damage. The following day a "éar driven by Edward Rossar{ of Ajax went out of eontrol on the Scugog Island Road, and flipped onto its side in the ditch. Rossart was not hurt and police pegged damage at about $1000. Thelma Jeffries of - Scugog Township also escaped injury when the car she was driving went out of control on the old Simcoe Road, hit the ditch and struck a hydro pole. Damage was set at over $1500 to the car. In an accident early Friday morning not related to the adverse driving conditions, a car driven by Jethro Arscott of Seagrave struck a deer on Regional Road 2 just south of Port Perry, causing about $2000 damage. The deer was killed. Forget about any rebates 'on water bills Durham Region is not going to start handing out rebates on water bills for residents who used a lot of water on their lawns during this past hot, dry summer. Regional council turn- "ed down a request from a group of Pickering home-owners seeking a rebate of about 40 per 'cent of the sewer portion of the water bill as they claimed they. were forced to keep watering their freshly sodded lawns this summer or the turf would die. They sought the re- bate on the grounds that . water used for lawns does not go back into the sanitary sewer. Includ- ed in a Regional water bill is a sewer portion calculated on the amount of water that comes into a residence. Although some Regional councillors sympathized with the request from the 77 Pickering home owners, council felt that to agree to a rebate for these purposes would set a precedent resulting in thousands of water customers lining up for similar rebates. "We know that a lot of water used by home owners does not go back into the sanitary sewer system, but we don't know what an equitable rebate system would be," said Jim Witty, chairman of the Region's finance 'committee. 'He did 'say however, that since the Region is looking at a surplus in (Turn to page 3) Those hot, hazy days of summer are long gone as winter appears to be settling over everything in Scugog Township, including this boat moored at the Port Perry water- Compromise By an overwhelming vote. of 19-6 Regional council last week approved a recommend- ation to increase the dumping rate at landfill sites by 14.7 per. cent effective January 1, up from the current $11.55 to $13.25 per tonne. But that's a far cry from the 40 per cent increase in the dumping rate recommended by Regional Works and Finance departments staff reports. However, next year in order to make up an expected shortfall in funds for operating the Region's landfill sites, Parents of students attending Immaculate Conception School in Port Perry say they are concerned for "The health of our children' because of lack of adequate washroom facilities. Parents worry for kids health A brief prepared by the Parents Guild of Immaculate Conception School for presentation to the Durham Separate School Board says "the health of our chidren is of the utmost concern and there is reason to front. Boating was the last thing on Township residents minds Friday when the first storm of the winter hit, causing numerous traffic accidents, (See story) worry' because there are just two washrooms for use each day by the nearly 200 students and staff at the school. "Cleaning and disin- fectant problems arise due to the constant overuse of the facilities and there is no possibil- ity of expanding the washrooms", says the brief which was to be presented to the Separate School Board Monday night. The brief goes on to note that present wash- room facilities fall far short of requirements under the municipal building code, and there is serious over-crowding in other areas, especi- ally the Kindergarten, which "must have a negative effect on the development of listen- ing skills, attention span and concentration." The school, which 'opened two years ago is now made up of six portables on the grounds of Immaculate Conception Church on Highway 7A in Port Perry for Catholic students in Scugog Township. The two present wash- rooms are in the church hall, which also is used for the Kindergarten, library, gym, staff room and office. Noting that the number of 'students enrolled at the school has jumped by 30 per cent in one year, and the number of Catholic families in Scugog has more than doubled to 575 since 1978, the brief says a new properly equipped school is badly needed. The brief calls on the ~ Separate School Board to ask the provincial Education Ministry to make the funds avail- able for a school with eight classrooms, library, gym and all other normal facilities, and says construction must start in time for the doors to open in September 1984. The brief suggests that "conservative estimates' indicate there would be 300 students enrolled if a new school was built. It estimates cost of con- struction of a new school at $2 million. on garbage rates council agreed to a general levy increase of about 1.5 per cent. The 14.7 per cent increase in the tonnage rate was described at Regional council last week as a "comprom- ise', as it brings the rates in line with those charged by Metro Toronto, and may help to keep private waste haulers in Durham com- petitive' with those in Metro. Both councillor Law- rence Malcolm and Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor voted in favour of the recommendations with Malcolm' calling it 'a reasonable com- promise." And he said the amount to be raised from the general tax levy (about 1.5 per cent increase) "is accept- able." Oshawa councillor John Aker noted there is another reason for keep; (Turn to page 3)