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Police officer pulls youngster from well Five year old Erin Hoekstra is a lucky little girl. Erin, the daughter of Don and ' Mary Hoekstra of Honey's Corners, two miles north of Port Perry, sur- vived a plunge into a 30 foot well on her parents' property while playing with her six year old friend, Sarah Vanderlaan, on Sunday afternoon. According to Durham Regional Police, the cap to the old well was deteriorated to such a point that it collapsed under the tyke's weight. Sarah was thrown back from the scene but Erin fell through where she floated in icy water 15 feet below the ground. Sarah immediately went for help £ Vol. 121. No. 13 and within moments Mrs. Hoekstra was at the well's side. Police were called, and Constables Bob Wilson and Greg. Heasman showed up minutes later, along with off-duty Scugog volunteer firefighter Clive Boyd, neighbour Brad Hurst, and Durham Police Sgt. Ken Hudson. Although firefighters, more ex- perienced with this type of rescue were notified (later than police), the people at the scene couldn' t afford to wait. "She (Erin) was conscious and crying," Sgt. Hudson recalls. "Her face was badly injured with a severe cut on her forehead." Between the little girl's injuries Tuesday, February 24, 1987 and the cold water she was immers- ed in, the police at the scene knew they had to act quickly. One end from a rope (part of emergency equipment kept in all cruisers) was attached to Clive Boyd's truck. The other was tied around Constable Heasman's waist. Without further adieu, PC Heasman was lowered into the 36 inch diameter well. It took less than a minute to get PC Heasman into the well, but a lot longer to get him out. As soon as the officer reached Erin, he was pulled up far enough to reach a set of pipes which protruded from the inside of (Turn to page 3) Copy 35° 44 Poss Donna Mcintyre, 18, is the smiling Heart Queen of 1987 chosen by her peers at the annual Cartwright High School Heart Dance on Saturday night. Each year the "littlest high school in On- tario" hosts the dance to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. See inside for a photo of the Heart Queen runners-up. Report says Scugog | needs rec. director neighbourhood of $650,000, a second Scugog Township should hire a full time professional director of recreation this year. and the municipality start the first steps towards the development of a ma- . jor recreation area called Scugog Centre on lands around the Scugog. Arena. Those were two recommendations . given "'high priority" by a team of 'consultants who took a detailed look at recreation in the Township and came up with a lengthy report which includes 79 suggestions. The Recreational Needs Study. prepared over the last nine months by the Ottawa based consulting firm Sesquaig Inc., was accepted in part last Thursday evening by the ad hoc citizens committee which in turn will formally present the study to Township council on May 2 Kim McQuaig, one of the con- sultants, stressed that the study and recommendations are "'the opinion of the consultants," and while he hoped that the high priority recom- mendations would be adopted by the Township, the others would serve as -a long term guide for recreation planning in Scugog ~ Mr. McQuaig admitted that while many of the recommendations are ""mother-hood™" type, others will be controversial in the Township. specifically the suggestion that Blackstock Arena be closed when it becomes necessary to spend money there for major capital improvements The study also suggests that Scugog may heed a full banquet hall for 500 people. a second pad of ce at the Arena nid an indoor swim ming pool. But these items are not given "high priority" status because of the major costs involved Erin Hoekstra, 5, cuddles up with one of her rescyers, Durham Regional Police Constable Greg Heasman, in the children's ward of Port Perry's Community Memorial Hospital. PC Heasman was lowered into a 30 foot deep well to rescue the little girl after she Had fallen in. For details, see story. The study suggests that construc- tion of a banquet facility and new pool might be started some time in the next five years, while it could be up to ten years before a second ice pad at the Arena gets serious consideration. The consultants estimate the cost of a complete banquet hall in the ice pad woultf be in the $1 million. range, and a 25 metre L-shaped in- door pool would cost in the $2 million range. . But one area where the con- sultants feel the municipality should move immediately is the hiring of a (Turn page page 9) Feasibility study for proposed site Scugog Township council has agreed to seek a feasibility and engineering study on the site near the Scugog Arena which is propos- ed as the new location for a Fairgrounds. However, that study will be car- ried out only if the Port Perry Fair Board agrees to the terms of reference. Council came to this decision last Friday morning after meeting with municipal solicitor Michael Fowler, who in turn had met earlier in the week with lawyers for the Durham Board of Education and Murray Stroud, the lawyer who has been re- tained by the Fair Board in the on going and controversial issue of whether the Fair should move to a new location = Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor told the Star following last Friday's meeting with the lawyer that the council is hopeful that all parties in volved in the dispute will at least agree to terms of reference for a feasibility study on the proposed new site If the study, by a qualified consul- tant, goes ahead, the mayor said it likely could be completed sone time in May Also at Friday's meeting, council voted. not to ask for a hearing of necessity in the expropriation pro- ceedings that have been launched by thé Durham Board of Education for seven acres of land at the pre sent Fairgrounds as the site for a new elementary school. While the Township council's posi tion in this expropriation has been that it would not officially object to the School Board's action, the coun cil felt it should ask for the hearing of necessity to show why it feels the Fairgrounds site is needed for a new © school _#0ur (council's) position now 1s that we feel it is not necessary for the municipality to get involved in such a hearing. It is up to the School Board to argue why that site is the best one for a new school," said Mayor Taylor The Port Perry Fair Board has the legal option to ask for a hearing of necessity in expropriation proceedings