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Vol. 133 No. 31 PORT PERRY - TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1999 COP Y 75¢ (70¢+ 5¢ GST) Back to drawing board for police HQ By Chris Hall Port Perry Star There will be no new police station for North Durham this year. Police Services Board chairman Bob Boychyn said yesterday morning that the process for selecting a design for the new 26 Division station will start over again later this year. Proposals received by the Board in February cost too much, and did not meet he naads of the Durham Regional Police, he said. "The situation is that the (first) process has gone through, but we're not really satis- fied with the results we achieved... we're going to start right from scratch again," said the Oshawa city councillor. "We're going to be looking at more specif- ic criteria and hopefully get better prices... the last number (price) wasn't acceptable," said Mr. Boychyn. A new request for proposal tender will be drafted this summer and made public in either late July or September. "This time we're going to be more specific with details; the building will be approxi- mately the same size, but we'll specify the materials more carefully," said Mr. Boychyn. "The last process was a little open-ended with respect to the materials and' this time we'll be more specific." The revised tender will call only for pro- posals for a new building. The first tender sought property and an existing or new building. The region will find the appropri- ate land for the station, said Mr. Boychyn. It could be anywhere between 12 and 18 months before the project is complete, he said. Durham Region chair Roger Anderson was critical of the way the police services board carried out their search for a new home for 26 Division. "We have a bit of a problem with the process followed with the acquisition of the land and the building; only Durham Region is allowed to buy property and build the building (under regional bylaws)," said Mr. Anderson. "The procedure they followed was not what we wanted them to do. There were Please turn to page 17 A % 9 Be} £2 TO JEFF MITCHELL / PORT PERRY STAR A BERRY WONDERFUL HARVEST: Strawberry season is in full swing in the area, and growers are reporting a bumper crop of juicy, delicious fruit. Pick your own operators opened their patches to the public more than a week ago, and forecast a few more weeks of picking. Here, Jim Forsythe of Forsythe Family Farms at 1025 Cragg Rd. west of Greenbank checks his fields, which are open to the public. | GLOBE AND GRAND CAFE BARBECUES AT slu Police give young thieves a break Two young boys will not be charged with theft after they broke into a van and stole a number of items, say police. Sometime after 10 p.m. on June 19, a 1989 Chev van parked on Water St. was entered by two young males. The boys fled from the area when the owner of the vehicle noticed them and shouted at them. The victim, a Queen St. resident, filed a complaint with Durham Police around 7 a.m. on June 20 and supplied officers with a list of the stolen property, which included a Fannon CB radio, a Swiss Army knife, a pocket compass, an emer- gency whistle and a collapsible telescope. Following an investigation, officers attended the home of a nine-year-old Port Perry boy and cautioned him in front of his grandparents, police say. Please turn to page 17 Scugog set to formulate By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star Scugog council will push ahead with a local bylaw aimed at controlling the spreading of paper sludge bio-solids on farm fields in the municipality. The move came a week ago as council- lors expressed growing frustration over what they perceive as lack of action on the part of the provincial environment min- istry, the agency that now has the authori- ty to deal with the issue. Council asked Ward 4 rep David Dietlein to start work on the wording of a bylaw that will have enough teeth to give the municipality the power to force propo- nents of sludge on farmland to prove it is not harming the environment. Council is on record as wanting such a bylaw on the books. Last week's action takes this initiative another step down that road. Mayor Doug Moffatt said the intent of such a bylaw is not to ban the spreading of sludge on rural land. It will be designed to force those accepting the sludge to get township approval first, and then have the land checked before the sludge is applied and during the application process. The cost of monitoring by an independent Please turn to page 12 © 25% OFF T= 103~6032 FURNITURE Durham's Largest Selection For Your Patio & BBQ Needs SAVE UPTO SHEA & HEIDI "PATIO ge bylaw avd 28 Pages ya