Volume 124 Number 47 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1990 Police capture == drug suspect on causeway A man wanted by two po- lice departments was appre- hended on Highway 7A early Thursday morning as he was driving towards Port Perry. Traffic along the causeway just east of Port Perry was stopped about 7:00 AM as sever- al Durham Police officers and four cruisers stopped a vehicle and took a man into custody. The suspect was wanted by the Whitby OPP on charges of possession of hash for the pur- pose of trafficking and escaping custody. Ne +. And the suspect is also : ='wanted by Metro Toronto Police for a parole violation. An OPP officer stopped a car on Highway 401 in Picker- ing for a routine traffic violation and noticed what appeared to be a quantity of narcotics in a plastic container. One of two men in the car was taken into custody, the oth- er fled from the scene. And Police have been look- - ing forhimeversince. The on-going investigation led to the arrest last Thursday morningon Highway 7A. Now in custody to face the two outstanding charges and the parole violation is Byron John Armstrong, 25. His address was given as Caesarea, but a Police spokes- A spokesman for. Whitby... .mansaid he has lived at several OPP said the narcotics and es- caping custody charges stem from an incident last November Blue Box pic 'addresses in the last year. 'A female with the suspect at the time of his arrest was not charged with any offense. kup will not be disrupted in Scugog "There will no interruption in the "blue box" re-cycling pro- gram in Scugog Township this fall, administrator Earl Cuddie told the Star Monday morning. Despite political wrangling and a dispute between Durham Region and the Durham Re- Cycling Inc., Mr. Cuddie said the pick-up will not be disrupt- ed. Last week, Durham Re- Cycling announced that it was laying off all staff that work on the blue box pick-up and at the Re-Cycling depot in Whitby, ef- fective the end of November. Mr. Cuddie said that Scu- gog and the other municipali- ties that make up Durham are asking tenders for blue pick-up. And he's confident that Scugog will have a contractor ready to start the pick-up as of December 1. The tender will call for a 13-month contract and then for a further five years, he said. As for the cost to the Town- ship, he said Scugog has been paying for the blue box pick-up all along through the Regional levy. And he noted that garbage pick-up (which includes the re- cyclables in the blue box pro- gram) is a local reponsibility un- derlaw. "We (Scugog) will insure that all services will continue without interruption," he said. For the time being, he said the blue-box pickup will stay with the existing areas. However, he added that for 1992, the Township administra- tion will recommend to council that all of Scugog has blue box pick-up and regular garbage collection aswell. That will be the ideal time to extend these services Town- ship wide, he stated. Concerned about NDP review A) Hard at work for a good cause They were out in force last Saturday; Cubs, Scouts and Beavers, hard at work selling apples for the Annual Apple Day. The money raised by the youngsters will be used to pur- chase such things as badges and camping gear. These three were selling their apples In front of the Post Office. From left are Lyle Dufoe, 1st Port Perry Cubs; Thomas Greenough, 1st Port Perry Beavers; and Mark Richardson, 1st Port Perry Cubs. And as well as raising funds for a good cause, the boys seemed to having a good time in the process. 2 Zz Transit service back fo square one The Toronto/Peterborough Passenger Association feels it's back to square one with the newly elected NDP government in its efforts to have GO-Transit service from Toronto to Peterbo- rough. Association president Paul Pagnuelo said the group that has lobbied for train service on the old VIA line through Myr- tle, is very concerned that the NDP wants to review all trans- portation policies in the prov- ince. "It's not looking very good right now," Pagnuelo said Mon- day morning. Efforts by the group to get a face to face meet- ing with NDP transport minis- ter Ed Philips have not been successful so far, he said. And so far there has been nor reply from Premier Bob Rae to a letter September 11 from the Association, asking if Rae will follow through on a state- ment he made on GO service during the election campaign. Pagnuelo said that on Aug. 25, Rae made a commitment to extend GO service to Brantford and Peterborough. " "We (the Passenger Associ- ation) took that statement to mean 'immediate,' Pagnuelo said, adding that this "looks like the first broken promise" by the newly elected NDP govern- ment. to "What they are saying now is that everything (transporta- Turn to Page 2 Councillor wants dump search scrapped Scugog Township Ward 4 councillor has asked Durham Region's Waste Management Committee to give up the search for a new Regional landfill and concentrate on other methods of getting rid of garbage. In a personal letter to Dur- ham chairman Gery Herrema and committee chairman John Aker, Glenn Malcolm says "please listen to what the resi- dents of Scugog/Durham have been saying and re-consider your whole approach to the gar- bage crisis. People are looking to their representatives to show leadership and find a '90's solu- tion to this old problem." Councillor Malcolm also says in his letter that Durham most solve its garbage problems through "a combination of a more intensive 3R program and incineration." The full text of this letter is printed in this week in the "let- ters to the editor" section. Meanwhile, the Star has received several other letters to the editor on the issue of gar- bage, almost all of them from residents of Ward 4. The letters express shock and anger that Ward 4 was named September 22 by Dur- ham consultants as the location of two potential sites for a new Regional landfill. Three other sites were also named, one in north Oshawa, one in Newcastle and one on the Whitby-Pickering boundary. (see letters to the editor in thisissue of the Star) le i Se a Or mi Sl RT DE PAY