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RET ie nn, 4 iy p----" 4 E THE BEST IN ONTARIO. Port Perry's. Beare Motors Bantams won the all #% Ontario bantam championship April 10 by downing Dresden 7 - 1 in the final game at Dresden. Accepting the cup for Port Perry are, from left to right; Storey Beare representing the team sponsors, Dave Horton captain and Larry Lee manager. Kindergarten childrén will be -- bused from Greenbank Kindergartén children from the Greenbank school area will be bused to Epsom next year, a meeting of parents and teachers deci- ded last week. About 80 people attended the parent-teacher meeting in Centennial Hall at Green- bank April 12 and voted by a solid majority in favour of a motion by Larry Kendall of Utica that the children should be moved by bus to Epsom school to solve a space problem. Principal Ralph Rowe explained that projected attendance figures for next term indicate about 23 children per classroom at Epsom and about 36 per classroom at Greenbank. He said the meeting had been called to find some way of balancing the attendance. Mr. Rowe voiced dis- agreement with considering a change in school bounda- ries. Families whose child-. ren go to school at Green- bank, he said, have also developed other ties with the community such as church and scouts or guides. He suggested that boundary change would disrupt the entire family social pattern. Instead he proposed that one grade he moved. 'I'he meeting was asked to consider which grade. Mr. Kendall's motion sug- gested that kindergarten children would likely be less disturbed by the move than older children because they have not developed any school habits or made any friends among classmates anyway. Someone asked school trustee Yvonne Christie if the decision of the parents would be binding on the board. "It was my under- standing when I came here," she replied," that the decision of the parents would not be changed. It won't be changed if I have anything to do with it." Trustee Alec Williamson also attended the. meeting. Museum to open May 20 The Scugog museum will open for its 4th season on Sunday, May 20. It is- the policy of the museum board to change displays every year. In keeping with that policy a number of changes will greet the visitor who will be making a return trip this year. : A display of wedding gowns from 1874 right up to 1972 will be available and museum officials promise that there will be a surprise in store for anyone who thinks todays styles are very new. The front bedroom and parlor of the Lee House have been restored to their original 1880s style and the Reach council wants new walter service on meters Reach Township council sent the first draft of a water agreement between the township and the village of Port Perry back to the Port council so a clause could be added guaranteeing that all new water services in Reach will be installed with meters. Council also asked for "clarification of a clause which stipulates a devel- opers fee for new houses which may be built in areas where water allocations exist. The clause in the present agreement was not clear to some councillors. The agreement covers water which will be pro- duced by a new well the Water Resources Commiss- ion of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment plans to have built in this area by 1975. Council will also ask the Ministry of the Environment to recommend the most suitable type of relocation of the automobile recycling business of Art Evans. Mr. Evans has offered to buy a piece of property from the township but council is not sure that it is well suited to the type of operation Mr. Evans has. house will be open to the public. i Special displays this year will include a private collection of Eskimo arti- facts carvings and handi- work, and a display of glass, blue enamelware and iron trivets. " EEE Ye a tT FEE FRFRNNE Sr RARFUENCTRITI ANCA t: Was SF BON TCL Y JRO PSRT ( PERRY 15¢c per copy 24 Pages Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday. Apr.18, 1973 -- No. 26 Controversial subdivision fee now approaching $2,000 A new Port Perry by-law which will charge housing subdividers a minimum of $1,700 per housing unit has been met with mixed re- action from local real estate merchants. Last week the STAR reported that the cost of building a house in a subdivision has been raised to $700. that story was . written before we received a copy of the actual by-law. It now appears that the $700 fee is only to cover the cost of improved water service in the village. In addition Port Perry is demanding $600 per house for sewage and roads, $300 undesignated development fee and $100 for hydro. Beside this $1,700 total the subdivider will be required to pay the cost of placing all hydro lines underground. One developer told the STAR that the underground wire stipulation may cost another $300, bringing the total cost per house to $2,000. Local real estate men were reluctant to be quoted di- rectly, but their, "off the record" comments ran from 'disasterous' to "so what". The president of one real estate firm predicted that. the new regulations will put an end to housing develop- ment in Port Perry by scaring off developers. He said the village is pretty well a working mans community SPRING IS A PAIN IN THE GRASS for members of the Port Perry-Reach-Scugog volunteer fire brigade. Firemen were kept busy last week fighting and, "'you can't serve a beer budget at champagne prices." However the manager of another firm had the exact opposite view. he claimed that lots in Port Perry are already $3,000 cheaper than anywhere_else in the region, and that even if the price goes up two thousand dollars, houses here will still cost less than most places. He said his company would have no trouble getting the extra money out of home buyers. (continued on page 24) Parents claim buses unsafe About a half dozen mot- hers from the Seagrave- Saintfield area complained to school trustee Yvonne Christie and Ontario County school bus supervisor Wil- liam Gilfillan about buses the | mothers claim are unsafe. Eighty parents attended a public meting in Greenbank Thursday which had been called by school officials to discuss board of education problems. The 6 mothers surrounded Mr. Gilfillan and Mrs. Christie at the end of the meeting and demanded that something be done about the condition of the buses. Mr. Gilfillan said he had already heard one complaint about the condition of the buses. Mr. Gilfillan said he had already heard one complaint about an incident in whieh a grass fires. Most of them must be accidental. Surely no one would be foolish enough to try and burn bus is alleged to have been driven with faulty brakes. will be taken off the road. Mrs. Christie termed the unsubstantiated charges "inuendo'"" but said she would look into them if specific names, dates or places could be provided. She said anyone who has definate information about improper or unsafe busing should contact her imme- diately. "This is the first I have heard of this," she said of the mothers charges. Hospital Report Week 'Ending April 12 Admissions .............. 38 Births ..... 3 Deaths ......... ... ...... .. 1 Emergencies ....... 127 Operations ............ .. 10 Discharges .............. 30 Remaining ........ .. .. 45 garbage in the open air at this time of year.