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2 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, November 17, 1987 The Ontario Provincial Police Christmas/New Year R.I.D.E. Christmas/New. Year R.1.D.E. blitz, which ran for only six weeks prior OPP. "The OPP R.I.D.E. program is an priority on taking impaired drivers off the road," the Commissioner added. sions and 1,595 people faced Liquor Licence Act charges for having alcohol easily accessible tg the OPP driver blitz R.I.D.E. underway driver check program begins Sun- day, November 15 on a province- wide basis. The OPP R.I.D.E. program is a year-round anti-impaired driving | campaign, stepped up for eight | weeks during the peak of the festive season. The two-week extension of the frei A ar iit. sari it, Lid hh Ls io fh ated a ea Tr to last year's program, has been ef- fective in screening twice as many motorists, and getting hundreds of impaired drivers and liquor law violators off the roads. 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No truck parking overnight Scugog Township council will not support a zoning change which would allow a tractor truck to be parked overnight and on weekends in a driveway in a residential neighbourhood. The request for the change came before council Monday afternoon from a Saintfield truck owner who has been parking the tractor cab in his driveway at his home for the past nine years. The truck owner wants the change to make the practise conform to zon- ing regulations in Scugog which for- bid trucks larger than one ton to be parked overnight in a residential zone. The owner informed council by letter he is willing to agree that should he sell his home, the original zoning would revert. The truck owner also filed a peti- tion with council containing several names of neighbours who don't ob- ject to the requested zoning change. Members of council were unanimous in their opposition to this. zone change request. "I think council would be opening the door for many other similar re- quests," said Mayor Jerry Taylor. Township administrator Earl Cuddie told council that to approve a request to park a truck in a residential zone would be "a serious departure from the zoning by-laws." He estimated there could be as many as 100 truck owners who would like to park their tractor cabs at home overnight and on weekends. A few years ago, the Township took a Prince Albert truck owner to court on more than one occasion after receiving complaints about a truck parked in his driveway overnight. Police report 2 break-ins Durham Regional Police report two recent break-ins at a summer cottage on Lake Scugog and a Water Street business in Port Perry. Police say that thieves hit the Con- cession Two cottage and made off with silverware, some furniture and a stereo system. And some time during the night of November 4-5, thieves broke into Gord Lewis Motors on Water Stree! Police report that the thieves at- tempted without success to smash open a safe. Some damage was done to tools used in the attempt to smash the safe. 1] a