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ay RAR RPE Sgn [oe ' gees. Nl apc > Vol. 129 No. 13 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1995 Copy 65¢ 61¢+4¢GSD PATER SAR A ER REE RR RTS Rava tr With a little help from Lance CFTO sports announcer Lance Brown helps out 12-year-old Gary Bennett as he prepares to launch a ball down the lane during the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of North Durham Bowl For Millions fundraiser, held at Centennial Lanes in Port Perry Saturday. The event saw local businesses assemble teams and gather pledges to help support the organization, which matches kids in single-parent homes with big brothers or sisters for fun and support. Draft paper under fire Trustees review By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Public school trustees were to be briefed last night on a sex education document that has drawn fire from critics who claim it could have a "negative effect" on teens. The draft resource document "Reduce the Risk" has been crit- icized for recommending exer- cises which encourage kids to take part in activities which use explicit language, and offer their opinions on sexual activity. It is aimed at teaching high school students about avoiding sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS. "I don't know what will hap- pen with the meeting on Monday night," Bobbie Drew, Scugog township's representa- tive on the Durham Board of Education said Friday. She said that Jill Hamilton, a Pickering trustee and chair of the board's Family Life Education Advisory " Committee (FLEAC) -- which has approved the third draft of the document -- had called for a review in light of a letter writ- AIDS document ing campaign by groups opposed to its use. She said trustees have received a number of letters oi. the document, like the one by Carol Switzer of Scugog Turnto Page 18 A busy year for softball Scugog's baseball organi- zations are gearing up for an- other busy year of special events on the local ball dia- monds. : Representatives from the Scugog Fields of Dreams Slo- Pitch Tournament and Port Perry Minor Baseball in- formed council on Monday that plans for both the second annual slo-pitch tournament and the third annual Cana- da-USA Challenge were well underway. _. .. . Please see Page 10 for more details on both special events. Weather shuts dog races down By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Organizers of this past week- end"s snow Flake Festival are keeping their chins up after rotten conditions resulted in the scratching of sled dog races. Ferocious winds whipped across Lake Scugog Saturday morning, reducing visibility to Zero and uncovering ice patch- es, making the first race of the day, for six-dog teams, a wash- out. The rest of the weekend's races were cancelled after the first event, which ran over schedule and resulted in a num- ber of teams becoming lost on the lake. Snowmobiles were dispatched to fetch the lost teams, and the decision was made in early afternoon to scratch the other scheduled races. The Port Perry Kinsmen Club, which organized the sled dog event, reimbursed racers for their registration fees as a result. "Financially, it's really going to hurt," said Rick McCoshen, Festival chairman. "Not so much the Chamber (of com- merce), but for the Kinsmen with the sled dog races." Organizers worked quickly to make amends with the racers, many of whom travelled great distances and put out some seri- ous money to take part in the Port Perry event. It has already been canceled once this year, when warm temperatures killed any chance of holding the festi- val back in January. "(The racers) will be back next year," Mr. McCoshen said Monday morning. "They were really disappoint- ed that that happened, but Mother Nature is Mother Nature. there's nothing any- body can do about it." It's estimated as many as 10,000 people came out during Turnto Page 5 "> I a a I A TB TT A I RR I A a Wr