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"Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Letters to the editor CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Joan Clarke, Cecil Noble and Grant Jones will be going with the Junior Farmers on a bus tour of Eastern Ontario and Quebec. Port Perry Pee Wees will make their debut in the OASA playoffs at the new ball park. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 17, 1967 Mrs. V. Skerratt, Port Perry, has been judged a five-time winner in the annual handicrafts competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. She won four firsts and a second in the various classes. Miss Anna Forder and Mr. Richard Stevens were in Erie, Pennsylvania where they participated in an Ice Show held there. Local council announced that the Ontario Provincial Police will take over policing of the village on September 1, 1967. A capacity crowd attended the Old English Pub Night sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary of Port Perry. 20 YEARS AGO . Wednesday, August 9, 1972 Former students of Greenbank Public School met with teachers Mrs. Ruby Hook (nee Wilson) 1916-18; Mrs. C._ Taylor (nee Forsythe) 1922-31; Mrs. Aleta MacFarlane (nee Ferguson) 1924-29; Mrs. Della Moore (nec Johnson) 1949-50; and Miss Fern Edwards 1919-21. The plan for a subdivision known as High Chapparral Homes received approval from the planning board at a recent council meeting. While trolling in the Washburn Island channel, Don Urquhart of Oshawa managed to hook a 14 pound muskic using a black and silver plug lure. The fish took 20 minutes to land and measured 40 inches in length. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, August 11, 1982 Doug Rowe, a swimming pool expert, told local council the Birdseye Pool is in terrible condition and will have to be closed down within the next three years. Rain hampered some of the cvents at the 10th annual Western Weekend in Port Perry, but the inclement weather didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the many pcople who turned out to enjoy the festival. The winner of the best dressed staff competition was Karen Taylor Cosmetics. Best window display was awarded to Settlement House and best outside display was awarded to IGA. Scugog Chamber of Commerce president Miriam Price won the Superstar Contest. A special celebration was held to honor Myrtie Stone on her 90th birthday. Clem Jeffrey of Port Perry has been golfing for just three months and he achieved cvery golfer's dream by scoring a hole in one. Transportation routes a concern To the Editor: Open letter to the IWA: Compare potential for im- pacts to traffic safety along waste haulage routes: The principal theorem is: risk to safety is directly proportional to the distance travelled, where highway construction stan- dards and highway traffic viola- tions are held constant. The greater the miles travelled the greater the risk of traffic fatali- ties and injury per load deliv- ered. Driver fatigue and bore- dom are relative to the time a driver is confined to his vehicle. Not all provincial highways were built at the same time to the same standard, nor do all highways traverse identical ter- rain or serve the same number of customers. Highways No. 7 and No. 12 were built before high speed auto traffic was in place and are not without curves and hills. In fact be- tween Whitby and Port Perry the highway has to climb over the Oak Ridges Moraine and down the other side. There are long established communities along the route: Brooklin, Myr- tle, Manchester, Port Perry as well as many clusters. Long be- fore planners discouraged ur- ban sprawl, lots were separated along these highways. Travel on these roads is many times more hazardous than on a sep- arated highway. These roads al- ready accommodate heavy truck traffic. They are main commuter routes from the wil- lages, highway sprawl and es- tate housing allowed in north Whitby, Oshawa, Scugog and beyond. Adding a steady stream. of garbage trucks to these al- ready overloaded and danger- ous roads adds to the frustra- tion of commuters and to the risks they will accept to travel to and from their urban employ- ment. These risks will also be shared by people living along the highway, in the village it bi- sects, and in the adjacent rural areas who use the roads for lo- cal travel to shop and attend school. Highways 12 and 7 and Re- gional Road 57 bisect some of the best foodland in Canada. Most of this land is intensely farmed by large cash crop farm enterprises. These farmers re- quire mobility for their very large machinery (tractors, till- age equipment, combines). These are slow moving, wide machinery which are historical- ly entitled to move on public roads. The YY sites are north of Oak Ridges Moraine. Trucks pro- ceeding north must climb over the moraine and descend to the elevation of Lake Scugog. This 1s not a flat or straight route. It is ski country: hilly, a snow belt, and about five degrees Cel- sius colder and icier than south Durham. The truck route through Port Perry passes by two public schools. As a tourist centre it has many family centred activi- ties which naturally attract children and adolescents. It is History of "Remember When?" photo revealed This picture, which ran in the Port Perry Star's "Remem- ber When?" column on Tues- day, June 30, has been identi- fied. Blackstock resident Roy Werry submitted the picture with the hope that someone could provide him with the history. He purchased the pic- ture in 1980 at the Gibson sale in Greenbank, but had no in- formation about it. He received word from Mrs. Muriel Gibson of Greenbank on July 14. She says the pho- to was taken around 1928. Jim Gibson and his son Os- car are pictured at their farm near Saintfield. The steam en- gine and threshing machine in the photo belonged to James Blair. ERNST ORR AFF FANS REE 0 CRN SNARE EA ALA A D4.5 Cove (white) 52° per sq. (approx. 100 sq. ft.) ALSO ... Soffit, Seamless Eavestroughing, Shutters & A Complete Line of Metal Siding The Porfect Balance Quality Buchner Manufacturing Inc. 705-437-1734 416-836-1033 30004 Hwy. 48, PEFFERLAW 599 Steven Court, NEWMARKET 1-800-461-6455 985-8552 LOOSE RUGS BROADLOOM J Port Perry Counselling Services MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, 462 Paxton St. Maureen Salkeld, B.A., M.Ed. PSYCHOTHERAPY MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELLING "DIVORCE MEDIATION - - STRESS MANAGEMENT - 3 Tak 985-0757 - DAY OR EVENING - AN TAA x % SAAS 4 4 RT J RR RS inevitable that there will be a pedestrian or cyclist fatality if 400 (figures includes round trips) garbage trucks pass through each day. A traffic mix of farm machin- ery, gravel trucks, vacationers, tourists, school buses, harassed, commuters, and garbage trucks jammed on an unlimited access road going up and over the Oak Ridges Moraine and through Port Perry is a prescription for death. The route to the YY sites, with twice the travelling time as a route to a southern site would have to be twice as safe to have the same number of fatal accidents. It isn't. If these northern sites are not shown to be much more danger- ous than southern sites, then the transportation studies are seriously flawed. Compare potential for the im- pacts to traffic operations along haul routes: Many of the conditions which impair safety also negatively impact on traffic operations, economy and convenience. The haulage routes to these northern sites (that pass through several small commu- nities) will lead to immediate demand for road widening, passing lanes, grade modifica- tions, straightening, and by- passes. The province, trying to cope with a staggering public debt load will find it difficult to justify increasing demand for new capital expenditures for unnecessary highways. The route to the YY sites is particularly negatively impacts on traffic operations. The five kilometre stretch along the un- limited access 7A Highway through the built up area from Manchester through Port Perry will become even more hazard- ous as hundreds of garbage trucks compete with local traf- fic, school crossings for the pub- lic schools, and four traffic lights. The congestion at the Port Perry mall will be exacer- bated to the point of severely impacting on business; people simply won't shop there. Add to all this both the tourist and the cottage commuter traffic, and you have a prescription for dis- aster. These northern sites, being twice the distance as southern sites, will require twice as many trucks. Thus there will be twice the impact on traffic oper- ations along haul routes. Compare the economic cost of transporting garbage: The longer and slower the route the higher will be the transportation costs. Costs are both direct and indirect. Direct costs are fuel, driver wages and benefits, vehicle maintenance and repair. Indirect costs in- clude recruitment, training and insurance for more drivers and more vehicles. Not only is each trip to the landfill more expen- sive, but the capital cost of the truck fleet (requiring twice as many trucks) could easily be twice that required for a closer, more efficient site. It is irre- sponsible to site a landfill that will result in high dollar cost per day to the people of the re- gion. Environmental cost of trans- porting garbage: The further the site is from the source of garbage the great- er the environmental impact of transportation. The greater the shipping distance the higher the kilometre/tonne ratio and the greater the number of Turnto Page 10 EA a a nl - eds 3 ?