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This Arnold Antique and Classic Fal This oid (1918) and very raj inet Old tires reduced (slightly) The pile of old tires that has been sitting in a barn on Scugog Island for over a year, %ent down slightly last week A Prince Edward Island man hailed away about 1000 of the tires last Tuesday and Wednesday He will truck them back to P.EI where they will be re-capped and sold The man, who identified him- self only as "Jimmy," along with two helpers spent two days sorting through the estimated 50,000 old ures stored in a bam on Chandler Drive He said he is in the tire busi- ness in Summerside, PEI. and often makes trips through Ontario and Quebec with a tractor trailer looking for tires that can be re- c Asked whether it is worth hif while to drive a tractor trailer all the way to Ontario to pick up tires for recapping, he smiled and said, "you think I'd be doing this if it wasn't?" He said he made arrangements Please see TIRES, page § A Proud Voice For Scugog Vol. 2, No. 4 Tuesday, July 21, 1992 CIRC. 10,000 24 pages Region to take 'drastic action!' over dump issue Durham chairman Gary Herrema says the Regional coungal, 15 getting ready to take drastic Buon" against the MPP povern ment over the"votatile garbage dump 15sué ' «BE&K ing in trond of a large crowd at a public meeung in Pont Perry Sunday evening, Herrema didn't divulge details of what this "drastic action" will be, but he suggested 1t could be a coun chal lenge against the provincial gov emment's dump site selection pro cess and Bill 143 "We will be taking an aggres sive stance at the Regional level," he wld the meeung. He also said Durham, Metro and Peel Regions are paying $30,000 cach for a study on alter- nauves to landfills such as com posung. incineration and shipping garbage to worked out mines in northern Ontano Expressing anger that several of the "long hist" sites in Scugog and clsewhere are on prime farmland Herrema at one point said "I hope 1 don't have to be a part of civil disobedience, but if it comes to that ' He warned also that the provin cual environment minister has the authonty to order garbage from anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 10 be shipped to any landfill in the GTA In response to a question from the floor, Herrema said he doesn't think the IWA has already picked a preferred site for Durham Region Also in response 10 a question from the floor about what 1s being done at the local level w Herrema cad Durham Region as reduce garbage pending $7 millon annually on the blue boy program (which d ty about seven per cent ol the garbage away from landfills) He also said heanngs into a large composting facility could cost as much as $5 millon "You (laXpayers) have w keep pushing the polhiucians (10 make changes) If you stop pushing, they will stop," he said. Fhe meeting held at Port Perry's Town Hall 1873 was orga- nized by PEST/Zero Garbage, the two citizens groups that are fight- Please see REGION, page 3 Young Cannington woman dies in head on crash Durham Regional Police are continuing to investigate a two vehicle accident near Scagrave that claimed the life of an 18 year-old Brock Township woman Police said Angela Kennedy of RR 2, Cannington was killed in'the accident that took place July 15 just before 9:00 AM on Durham Road 2, just north of Scugog Line 14. She was driving a Ford Ranger truck that collided with a northbound Camaro dnven by 23 year old David Jenkins of RR 2, Liule Britain He was taken td Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto with serous imunes. Police say both drivers were alone in their vehicles. An investigation into the accident continues. Police are also investigating another fatal accident that took the life a 21 year old Beaverton woman. Lorraine Wright of RR 1, Beaverton was killed July 16 in a two car collision on Regional Steven Bradley, 21, a passen- ger in the Wnght vehicle suffered minor injuries while 29-year old Timothy Nixon, of Toronto, dnver of the second vehicle escaped without injury Road 30 and Davis Drive near pojioq investigate the scene of a tragic head on driving a Ford Ranger truck that collided with a the boundary of Uxbridge collision near Seagrave, that claimed the life of Township and York Region. She was Angela K y, 18, of C northbound Camaro driven by David Jenkins of Little Britain. See story.