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Ie ik JE A 1 ¥ Wabi ASR HL ANB Bt as EP SANA RA Th RO AO EA EY Ky RRA SAS RN NTA OR ri Volume 106 -- Port Perry, Ontario, Wednesday, June 28, 1972 -- No. 36 Home show a success } more than 5,000 attend By all accounts the three- day Port Perry Home Show was a resounding success. Although nobody really kept an accurate count of just how many people came intp the Port Perry arena to examine the varied and colourful ays, Home Show organi- stimate the crowd for hree days to be between five and six thousand people. The event was organized by the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce, and in all 31 merchants occupied 50 booths in exhibiting their products and services. Evening entertainmént in- cluded country and western sounds by the Sun Valley Boys of Seagrave, music by members of the Port Perry High School Band, a piano recital by Mrs. Carol Morrow of Port Perry, and songs by Eleanor Bailey accompanied on the piano by Joan Lee. For the first time ever,' a bar was open at the Home .,. Show (upstairs - at the. St. Charles Hotel) and this was both popular and successful. New Village street signs Port Perry Council decided at the meeting of June 20 to purchase new street name signs for the entire Village at a cost of $3,525. This price includes the signs, brackets and steel posts. The company supplying the signs has made a survey and determined that 155 double signs are needed for the entire Village. The signs will be metal, and will have white lttering on a blue background. When asked whether the Chamber of Commerce is pleased with this year's Home Show, Bert Stulen simply replied, 'darn right: we are. We are more than pleased with the good turn-out." Bert was just one of the many organizers who worked to make the event a fine success. Already, plans are being made for The Home Show next year. "We plan a complete show with a new face, and you have to start. thinking about these things ahead of time," added Bert Stulen. . Most people who saw the show would have to agree that the organizers have their work cul out for them if they are to match the success of the 1972 Home Show. It will be something to look forward to. Man drowns in. Scugog A 52-year old Oshawa man drowned late Sunday after- noon when he apparantly fell from his cabin cruiser into Lake Scugog near Goreski's Marina. Youth dies after struck. by car Malcolm Reid Bruce, 17 of Port Perry was killed Satur- 'day when he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle near the small community of Little Current on the north end of Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. Officers of the OPP detachment in Little Current investigated the -accident. Next of kin of the youth were notified by the Whitby detachment of the OPP. The family had recently moved from St. Catherines, and were living on Scugog Island. The deceased has been identified as. Orest Nickol- ishen of 111 Taunton Road, East, Oshawa. The mishap occurred about 6:00 p.m. June 25 and the body was recovered in a dragging operation carried out by the Whitby OPP and the Port Perry, Reach and Scugog Fire Department. A spokesman for the OPP said: the victim was on his 19-foot pleasure craft with his wife and a friend, and fell overboard into the water. He was pronounced dead by drowning by coroner Dr. J. Patterson of Oshawa. An autopsy -was performed Monday. No inquest will be held. . Investigating officer from the Whitby OPP was Con- stable G.D. Bihun. Hospital Report For Week Ending June 22 Admissions .............. 43 Births ....oc.icevnincrnss Nil Deaths .................. Nil Emergencies ............ 123 Operations ............... 12 Discharges ............... 37 Remaining ............... 41 Ginny Burt (right) and Allison McNab are seen working on their cartoon creation 'Smutly" which will be appearing in the Star for the next few weeks. The young cartoonists sent us a nice letter asking if the Star would be interested in the cartoons. We like the idea and think you will also. (See letter page 5, and cartoon on page 22) Greg Clarke will be supervising Port Perry's playground programe for six weeks this summer, starting July 10. Greg is a Recreation Leadership student at Centennial College, and has worked with a summer playground program in Toronto. Louise Luke will also be working with the program in Port Perry this summer. Additional surcharge levied to cover cost of new well An annual surcharge is to be levied to all users of water on the Port Perry system to cover cost of financing a new well. For those users within the Village, this will amount to an extra $10.50 per year, and for those users in Reach Township, the figure will be $15. per year. A resolution authorizing the surcharge was pased by Council at the regular meet- ing of June 20. It is expected that one separate billing will be made to all users to cover the full amount of the surcharge. The monies which will amount to about $13,000 yearly will be used to cover Old boat given to museum 'A wooden boat with a one-cylinder gasoline engine has been donated to Scugog Shores Historical Museum. The boat is alleged to have been built by Captain John Bowerman who was active for many years building boats on Lake Scugog. Boats of this design were once a common sight cruising the lake. The Museum Board would like to contact someone who is familiar with these old "boats to inspect it and advise on its condition and the possibility of restoring and preserving it -- also someone who might have space avail- ble to store it next winter. Anyone able to help call Jack Kane. 985 - 2765. .costs of financing construc- 'ion of anew well. Thisis tobe done through the Ministry of Environment (formerly Ontario Water Resources Commission). The surcharge method of raising the nec- essary funds was suggested in a letter from the Ministry of Environment, which also suggested other ways such as amillrate increase, a charge on frontage, an area levy, or by debenture. In a disucssion on the resolution, Council made it clear that the surcharge is a : individual, business and : production. MESSAGE to the Star readers The trend of the higher cost of living hits every or removeable one, and will be removed when funds from new residential development fees start coming in. Council also emphasized that the surcharge and the new well are not just to accommodate the proposed new residential development within the Vil- lage. Reeve Robert Kenny stressed that a new well is of the utmost importance to provide an auxilliary source of water for such things as fire protection should there (continued on page 8) organization and Port i Perry Star is no exception to this rule. It has : therefore become necessary to increase rates in "order to meet the demand of higher cost in Unfortunately, but this time it'll have to be the : readers who must help to shoulder the financial burdens of publishing a weekly newspaper. We will "not publish facts and figures to prove the necessity of this decision and have no apologies to make, but just © ad that it's over three years since the subscription 'rales were increased. During the last seven years, we have made a E - continuous effort to improve the paper as far as content is concerned. We have also invested in new and modern equipment to keep up with the tremendous progress in the printing and publishing = fields. The increase in sale of papers from 1,100 to well "5 over 3.000 during that same period, we believe must ~ be credited to increased popularity of the Star. Starting with the July 5th issue, the yearly subscription rates will be $6. in Canada, $7.50 elsewhere and single copy will sell for 15 cents. P. Hvidsten, Publisher. SORE SE ST PN ECA A I ps