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ea il a Election fever gr : 25 candidates seek office 40 pages Vol. 119 No. 47 Tuesday, October 22, 1985 Copy 35¢ i Fa . "A 5 of Sap be - fh . & + S80 E \ : » ¥ 3 ; \ --- It was Boy Scout and Cub Apple Day throughout Scugog Township last Saturday and although the weather didn't co-operate, the young lads were out in force raising money oa. is % * ¢ Ww # % Pr - . YR ss wn Pr a through their apple sales. Seven year old Jason Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robin- son of Port Perry was stationed under an awn- ing on Queen Street protected from the rain, but did a booming business for the Scout movement. Theyre off and running. Twenty-five candidates have filed official nomination papers for the seven seats on Scugog Town- ship council and the two Scugog seats on the Durham Public School Board. For the first time in several elec- tions, there will be no ac- clamations in Scugog Township when voters to to the polls on November 12. The deadline for filing nomination papers was 5:00 PM on Monday and two candidates just managed to squeeze in with their papers minutes before the clock hit five. Thomas Vanderende of Caesarea filed at 4:55 PM for the area council seat. He'll be challenging Harvey Graham of Cartwright, who is the incumbent councillor for Ward 4. And one minute before the deadline on Monday, Doug Olliffe of Port Perry filed papers for the mayorality race. He'll join inuc- mbent Mayor Jerry Taylor and challenger John Wolters, the current area councillor. ips Scugog Mr. Olliffe, 28, works as a bar- tender and waiter in a Port Perry restaurant. REGIONAL Incumbent Lawrence Malcolm will face two challengers in the race for the Regional seal. Don Crosier, a former area councillor and Ruth Mark of Port Perry, are both seeking the seat held by the veteran Malcolm. Mr. Crosier ser- ved on Township council in the 1970's, but was defeated in a three way fight for the Regional seat in 1982. Mrs. Mark made an unsuc- cessful bid for the area council seat in the 1980 municipal election. WARD Incumbent Neil Hunter also has two challengers for the seat in former Reach Township. Yvonne Christie and Harold Westerman have thrown their hats into the ring. Mr. Westerman of RR 2, Port Perry, works at General Motors. Mrs. Christie, the former chair- man of the Durham Board of: Education came within a handful (Turn to page 10) Relations sour between Police Relations between the Durham Police Association and the Police Commission have reached their lowest point in more than a decade, Association president Dale Allan told a press conference in Oshawa last Thursday afternoon. In fact, the Association feels so bitter about current contract negotiations, that last week it took the unusual step of publicly calling for the resignation of all members of the Regional Police Commission. Mr. Allan, who heads the Associa- tion which represents 376 police of- ficers in Durham up to the rank of staff-sargeant, told reporters last Thursday relations are so sour that "future bargaining has been seriously damaged," and some kind of job action or work to rule measures are a distinct possibility early in the new year. Police officers in Durham have been without a collective agreement since the beginning of this year Five outstanding issues are set to go before an arbitrator on November 4. but Mr. Allan said what really upset Association members was a decision earlier this month by the Commission to reject a request for an interim four per cent pay hike "This request (for the interim Community mourns a tragic death Blackstock United Church was filled beyond capacity Sunday after- noon when more than 400 family members and friends came to mourn the sudden death of Donald Douglas Wright, 33, who died in Thursday afternoon's natural gas line explosion north of Oshawa. Mr. Wright was part of a four- man work crew from Walker and Wright Drainage that was laying drainage pipe on farmland north of the Sixth Concession west of Simcoe Street when TransCanada PipeLine"s main natural gas line was punctured about 2:13 p.m The son of Lloyd and Thelma Wright of Blackstock. Don Wright was well known in the Cartwright area, and was living in Bethany with his wife Dianne and children Andrea and Travis. Graham Duff, 33, of R.R.2, Blackstock, was badly burned in the explosion but was reported in fair condition in the Burn Centre of Wellesley Hospital. Originally he was taken by ambulance to Oshawa General Hospital before being transferred to Wellesley, where by Monday he was improving slightly and starting to eat and drink on his own. Kevin Brazier, 24, of Lindsay, was listed in stable condition at Oshawa General Hospital Monday morning Joseph Peeters, 22, of Omemee, a drainage installer, was treated in Oshawa and released, and Paul Burkholder, 59. of Markham, a TransCanada Pipelines inspector, was treated in Oshawa and released Mr Burkholder was supervising the work of the drainage crew near the pipe when the explosion occured. a TransCanada standard procedure when any work is being done around a pipeline. The four-man drainage crew had made the trip to Guymaples Farm to replace drainage tiles, a job which should have taken a day to complete No one is sure how the accident happened but machinery the crew was using ripped into the 20 inch diameter steel pipe, buried three to five feet in the ground where the break occured A second pipe. about 20 feet from the main line, was not damaged A five-man coroner's jury led by Dr Charles Mcllveen of Oshawa was on the scene Friday morning from 9 am to noon, collecting (Turn to page 3) and commission wage hike) was made due to the ex- tended. negotiations this year, and because our membership is most concerned that if it does not receive the interim and final wage increase for the year 1985 within a reasonable time, it would adversely affect the filing of individual income tax returns for the 1985 and 1986 tax years,' said Mr. Allan. Police Association president Dale Allen says relations with the Police Commission have turned sour. (See story) The Police Assatviation had asked for an overall wage increase of 55 per cent this year, which would in- crease the pay of a first class con- stable from $32.850 to $35,100, which is in line with pay scales of other large police forces in Canada The Commission's latest offer was to bring the salary to $34,950, but this was rejected by the Association The salary issue, pension changes, court time payments, and survivor benefits are to be decided by the arbitrator next month. The pension issue affects about 55 officers and the Association wants the Commission to contribute for previous police or military service Mr Allan said this would cost the (Turn to page 8) EL atl