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LSA AS Yip bh fen PEPE RURAL YAS 2) AN 16 - PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1972 ARN W ; vy SR Lh es OS Van a ne an cr 8 ETB et DN Te Ha FiEim EIN pL Construction booming' in Village ¥ i Building construction in Port Perry is now progressing on a larger scale than normally. Above are four pictures taken Monday at various locations in the Village. At top left are workmen busy laying bricks to the new Community Centre, made possible by the generosity 'of Arthur Latcham, Stouffville. The building when completed will be 45° x ik and cost about $40,000 Workers are driving 21' steel panels into the -ground for the construction of a water break on the Perryview.Plaza property near the lakefront. The grounds require a great deal of 'prepatory work before buildings can be started. Accordifig to Dan Madsen, proprietor of the IGA store, the new addition to the present store should be completed in December. In the center picture, work- men are busy laying blocks and when completed, the total area of the store will cover 9,000 sq. ft. The present store measures: 5,600 sq. ft. The interior will be modern in every detail, with the latest in fixtures, etc. Bottom picture shows steel structure of the new Ballard Lumber Co. building being built near the Causeway. Prior to this work and pouring the floor, 208 piles were driven into the ground, the depth varying from 4' to 25'. 17 tons of re-inforcement rods were placed in the floor before pouring 500 tons of concrete. The building will cover an area 100' x 156' with 8,000 sq. ft. for showrooms and office space. The remainder of the space will be used for warehousing. School trustee, hydro commissioners will run Gordon Goode, present The coming election con- school board member for cerns three public utilities Port Perry, Scugog and East commissioners as well as the Whitby, will reoffer his Port Perry council and the services in the upcoming school board position. One municipal election. Mr. Goode, a member of the board for the past four years, has always been in- terested in education. He was a member of the local school board for eight years, two years as chairman, Of late, he has been involved with a school pro- ject in East Whitby. Mr. Goode, who worked hard to obtain the recently opened addition to the R.H. Cornish Public School, feels this school is "'efficiently run, a school which matches the best in the province." He considers the school trustee position a means of"paying his dues" as an interested member of the community. public utility commission is automatically conferred on the Reeve. The other two commissions are presently held by Bill Williams and Ted Griffen, both of whom enjoy their work and plan to reoffer their services at nomination time. When the baby is between six and nine months old his b ack leg muscles grow suffi- ciently strong for him to attempt sitting up and craw- ling, according to St. John Ambulance. His jaw has also ben developing and his teeth begin to come through. The two centre teeth on the lower jaw are usually the first to appear. EJ