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wv Durham MP Ross Stevenson says the race is too close to predict as Conservative delegates head to Ottawa this weekend to select a new party leader: "I'would not want to bet a pr Vol. 2, No. 48 Tuesday, June 8, 1993 CIRC. 11,500 32 pages SRE ig ry may have oon O00 and estate for the pr Canoe the Nonquon ry but that didn't put a damper on the spirits. There were 108 canoes registered for this year's event (just 78 last year) and organizers say about $10,000 was raised for the Scugog Museum and the Church restoration fund. The couples In these two canoes were caught on film as they paddied not too strenuously through the picturesque village of Seagrave rday morning. But by mid afternoon the wind had whipped' Lake Scugog to the point where many canoes could not complete the race. Results and photos in this edition of the Citizen. 142067 Ross still likes Kim, Jean OK on ; leader, too quarter on the results right now," said Stevénson in an interview with the Citizen late last week. While Stevenson said he will be supporting Kim Campbell's bid for the leadership, he admitted that "like many others in the PC party, I am not as sure as I was." He said the surge by challenger Jean Charest (polls have Campbell just slightly ahead of Charest) over the last few weeks "is stronger than I expected." He summed up his feelings on the leadership race this way: "my view on Charest has strengthened, my view on Kim has not necessarily weakened." One thing that could change Stevenson's mind on who he supports this weekend is what happens in the final few days leading up to the convention June 11-13. If ope of the frontrunners. "gets down and dirty my view could change," he said, adding that so far the leadership race has been a clean one. Stevenson declared his support for Campbell about six weeks ago. He admitted she may havegnade some errors in her comments in aylengthy magazine article Fublisfisd Councillor knocks mall design Developer Joe Cornacchia found out Monday afternoon that when Regional council Yvonne Christie doesn't like something, she'll say say so using words that are less than complimentary. "They look like two pimples . on a cow," councillor Christie told Mr. Cornacchia. In fact, she used the expression several times as council reviewed yet another design for the Erin's Leigh proposal of a shopping mall and condominiums on land known locally as the Conway property opposite the Plaza on Highway 7A just Many residents of the Port Perry-Uxbridge area where pieces of ash-like'Substance last Wednésday morning (June) 'The small pieces of ash, shaped like threads of string, could actually be seen falling to the earth the previous evening. On touching these pieces, they crumbled into a fine white powder. Dave . Fumerton, an abatement officer with the Provincial Mysterious ash drops on Scugog surprised to find Sh vehicles covered wi all Epuirshment Ministry managed to get a small 'sample and 'have it checked at the MOE labs. Mr. Fumerton told the Citizen the ash probably originated from a large marsh fire a mile long the evening of June 1 in the Queensville area. Wind direction and wind speed that evening would have carried the ash to the Port Perry-Uxbridge areas at about the exact times the b was seen 1 of Water Street. . The "pimpled§™ councillor Christi erred to are two Spat nding fast food outlets urgers, donuts) at both' ends of the parking lot in front of the proposed plaza. At one point, her voice rising with anger, councillor Christie said "our (council's) job is to make sure we get the best for the Township: I could accept "ene pimple, but not two." "I can assure you," Mr. Cornacchia replied, "this (development) will not be an eyesore or a pimple." "If you will listen," retorted a visibly angry councillor Christie, " you will hear that I don't like that pimple," she stated pointing to the coloured drawing on display in the She said that two free- down, he suggested. , standing fast food outletd™in the parking arep lil inferfere with traffic pditih's Leigh project has , _ in front of Scugog council in various forms for the last seven years. It calls for 95,000 square feet of stores including an A&P and a department store. The plan also has 110 condominium ly in Vi "In total, the article § is not too serious," he said, but some of athe" quotes look bad when phe out of context of the entire article. The Durham MP said some of the daily media and national press built Campbell up too high, too quickly early in the camp . It was momentum she didn't deserve at the time, and likewise, she said, some of the press she has received recently is not deserved. Ste noted that units in two 4-st: buildi along the shore of Lake Mr. Cornacchia said several times during Monday's meeting that "this is the final design. This is what (the project) is going to look like." He said changes like the two free-standing fast food outlets are a result of tenant demands. "There is only so much to take out of this project. The condos will only fetch so much (money) and the tenants (for the stores) won't pay the rents they were paying in 1988. to make this successful, we must attract as many tenants as - Turn tq page two LIBRARY YARD SALE, JUNE 1 2, Kl] ISMEN HA Campbell has to perform well .- on the first ballot this weekend "or she will be in trouble." He indicated he would consider to support her after the first ballot and said the other voting delegates from his riding are free to support whoever they please. . No matter who the Conservatives elect to replace retiring Brian Mulroney this weekend, Stevenson said he will be comfortable with either Charest or Campbell as leader. "They are both'very good people and the party will be after the tion,' nge. he said: