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ar ---- a ------ i ------------ 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, October 23, 1990 -- When? (From page 7) 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 4, 1965 Police Chief Robert Cameron reported a very quiet Hallo- ween this year. "In all my years on a police force, I have never experienced less trouble or enjoyed such a quiet Halloween," Chief Cameron said. Peel's Poultry Farm Limited, Port Perry, was recently visit- ed by Dr. Juan C. Sala of Lima, Peru, manager of one of Peru's largest poultry breeding concerns. Senior and Junior winners of the Port Perry Rod and Gun "Club shooting trophies were Charles Lown, senior winner, who had 1000 marks out of 1000 and 88X's. Cathy Nelson, the junior winner had 996 out of 1000 and 45X's. The X's are the inner 10 ring which is used as a tie breaker. Marie Taylor has received the Gold Medal for highest marks in A.R.C.T. Pipe Organ of the Royal Conservatory of Mu- sic Examinations for 1965 in Oshawa and district O.R.M.T.A. Rev. and Mrs. Ivan L. Saunders, Utica, were honoured b, their family at a dinner party on the occasion of their 25th Wed- ding Anniversary. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 5, 1970 The long awaited construction of sewers in the downtown section of Queen Street is now in progress and the laying of pipes as far as Lilla Street should be completed within the next two to three weeks. The upstairs of a small two storey frame house on the cor- ner of Lilla and Balsam Streets was completely gutted by fire Tuesday. : Andrew Van Ham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Ham, R. R. 2, Seagrave, has won a $300. scholarship at Guelph Universi- ty. Peter is in his 3rd year and received the award for highest marks in Poultry Science. News - Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Netten have returned to their home in England after spending the summer with their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Netten. They spent many lovely weekends at their cottage at Aldred's Beach. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 22, 1980 The Durham Region Health Unit will continue testing the well water at Cartwright Public School this week after a sample last week showed unacceptable levels of coliform and fecalcoli- form contamination. A Siamese cat may have saved the life of two-year old Es- ther Mortimer of R.R. 4, Port Perry when fire broke out last week at the family's farm house. The cat alerted Mrs. Mortimer who rescued Esther from an upstairs bedroom as flames were breaking through the floor. Joel Aldred of Scugog Island and Lyle Conquist of Winnipeg were both flight commanders during the last war with the "RCAF 431 Bomber Squadron, and they had not seen each other for more than 15 years, until Mr. Conquist visited Scugog last week. The Cartwright Public School girls cross-country team took runner-up honours in the Durham Region finals held October 15 in Pickering. Letters io the editor Students upset with dump prospect Editor's Note: The following let- ters are among several sent to the Port Perry Star by the students in Mr. J. Wilson's grade 8 class at Cartwright Public School in Blackstock. They refer to the fact that engineers working for Durham Region have identified two areas in Ward 4 as the potential site for a Regional landfill. Leave Us Alone! On Saturday the 22nd our com- munity was shocked to discover our farm land was to become a waste land. Blackstock was pick- ed one of the five sites to become a dump, including Nestleton. Since this issue has been announc- ed, both communities have been arguing over why we shouldn't have this dump. People living on this purposed land have been told they are go- ing to have to move away from this area. If this dump succeeds, it will ruin this community, by polluting the water and air. This dump will also reduce property value, create diseases (tuber- culosis) among humans and animals and will also. attract rodents, including rats and alo * noisy seagulls. This dump will not only bring disease but may cause birth defects among pregnant women. The trucks coming in and out from the dump will damage the roads, which will increase taxes. In bringing the dump here, we will lose valuable crops which feed nearby towns. This dump will produce a hor- rendous odour that will encourage residents to move away, which will let the government buy up more land for an even larger dumping ground. And that will mean the end of Blackstock. The city of Sudbury has one of many abandoned mines, if these mines were filled with the gar- bage the proposed landsites would be left alone and everything would hopefully settle down. The only problem with this solution is the government will not pay the cost for the delivery of the waste. -If the dump goes in Blackstock or Nestleton, we will lose a very important part of our childhood. Both communities love the town they live in the way it is now and they want to keep it this way. If the dump does move into Blackstock or Neslteton, we're not just losing a lot of land, we're losing our homes, our town and a place we love. Please help us save our homes and make the govern- ment "Leave Us Alone!" Chris Sheridan, Kelly Phipps, Lianne Campbell Why Blackstock This situation is making Cart- wright furious! A dump going in so close to the town is ridiculous! We are only young teenagers, but we have lived in Blackstock (and area) for most of our family's generations. If this landfill goes in at Blackstock the government will be taking away millions of dollars. of agricultural land. 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If we do own this land, "how can people kick us off and give us half of what its worth? You probably already know about the two dumpsites in Scugog Township that may open in 1996. These garbage dumps will grow to be about 500 M high. This is the length of about 5 soccer fields. Did you know that approx- imately 5 feet under the ground there is water. This will affect wells in Blackstock and will also affect the Port Perry water system and surrounding lakes. People will get sick and may even get diseases. The site will attract wild animals who may get sick and also the domestic farm animals may become ill causing many problems to surrounding farmers. I think they should find a big mine, fill it in and close it up. Then they should wait for about fifty years and hopefully the materials inside will break down. Do you really want this dump to go in? Just think about it. If we don't do something about this, we will be living in a junk yard. Signed by angry kids from, C.CP.S. John Ford, Scott Swain, Gordon Bentley, Steve Kyte Where To Dump Although nobody wants '"'the Dump' near them, it has.to go somewhere. We'd like to tell you our feelings on this situation. We make our residence close to the proposed dump site and we all go to school within 3 miles of the position, so I'm sure you will understand our concerns for the problem. Within the four of us there are two opi- nions. All of us are partly against, but we feel that the economical boost would be very helpful to our community by lowering our taxes, creating new jobs and pro- viding money to the people whose property they wish to take over. On the other hand, the dump would pollute our water, create a temporary odour and possibly a disease threat, for example, tuberculosis. Our solution to the problem is to create a few smaller dump sites or move it to crown land. Most im- portant, to Recycle whatever possible. We conclugle without being bias- ed, that nobody in their right mind would want the dump in their back yard but it has to go somewhere. Sincerely, Kingsley Malcolm, Dave Kett, Tony Waldriff, Keith White IRE Ee a DIT YL RRR -- Ric ns ps