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Joel Aldred presents a painting to David Litt at the annual Commencement held at the Port Perry High School Friday night. Mr. Litt received the first Norman and Lucille Aldred Fine Art Scholarship. Mr. Aldred said he hoped to still be around in another 25 years to make the annual presentation at the turn of the century. Durham will again consider inter-regional transit study Despite crys from Whitby Mayor Desmond Newman that it was an "inappro- priate, devious, arrogant, back-door approach by the province," regional council agreed to once again con- sider taking part in a inter-- regional transit study." The long and often angry debate began when Durham council received two letters from the Toronto Area. Tran- * sit Operating Authority. The letters ask that Dur- ham reconsider its decision not to have anything to do with the T.A.T.0.A. and its study of the inter-regional transit needs of the regions of Hamilton-Wentworth, Halton, Peel, York and Metropolitan Toronto. The letter asked that Dur- ham staff members serve on ° the study. "This is not an exercise to be carried out by the lackeys of - the Provincial govern- ment," Mr..Newman said. "It is time we stopped play- ing games with this most important agency for plan- ning the future of this whole. area." Mayor James Potticary of Oshawa agreed, saying that there should be elected people from Durham involv- ed in the planning not staff people. "We must find out what the province is trying to do to. us," Mr. Potticary said. "We can't let them just stick it down our throat like they do everything else." Coun. Michael Breaugh of Oshawa complained that the province was giving the region little information on the North Pickering Project, the Parkway Belt Plan and Now T.A.T.0.A. The province might ask staff people to attend, but judging on past perfor- + mances, will pay no attent- ion to what the staff says, Mr. Breaugh said. } Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm said it wouldn't hurt to reconsider the region's position again, and to see if there was any more information." Coun. Allan Pilkey of "Oshawa said there seems to be an attempt by the province to exclude elected people from planning. "Our real fear is that we arc not being allowed t6 plan at all," he said. "We are just getting directives from the province. They are trying to manipulate us." ' The letter from T.A.T.0.A' said the authority does not have a planning function. A motion to receive and file the letters and in effect do nothing about them was defeated in a narrow vote. Instead, council referred the matter to the Planning and Development committee and the Public Works com- mittee. Pickering Mayor George Ashe said it might be alright for councillors 'to make political statements with their head in the sand in their own area, but that these statement weren't accept- able when dealing with the a two-thirds whole region. "Things will - happen because of this authority and so lets get (his thing to committee so we can have a voice in this most important body," Mr. Ashe said. discus- Another "similiar sion took 'place later in the meeting when a motion to rescind the previous position on the region of T.AT.O.A. was defeated. The vole to rescind the motion was 16 - 13 in favour of rescinding the motion but vole was needed. Mr. Breaugh said meet- ings had been held with the Premier and two Cabinet Ministers and Durham pre- sented its case, bul nothing has been done about Durham's complaints since then. 225 graduate at High School _ About two. hundred and twenty-five people received diplomas and certificates at the annual Commencement Exercises held last Friday at the Port Perry High School. Of these, 129 received their secondary school graduation diploma, about 35 people were eligible to receive their certificate of training and the remainder received Secondary School Honour " Graduation Diplomas. The graduates were told that the futures of Scugog, of Ontario, of Canada and of the world are in their hands. K. D. Munroe, Director of Education, said that he was sure that the younger gener- ation would make this world a better place to work and to live. Mr. Munroe said that if one . listens to the media these days, they are faced with the reality of many problems. "It is very easy for older people to paint a not very rosy picture of the world today," he said. It is the challenge of the graduates to make it a better world, he said. Many awards and bur- saries were presented Fri- day night. The Port Perry Legion presented more than $1000 worth of awards to the graduates. David Litt and Joanne Nightingale delivered the Valedictorian address. Mr. Litt received many awards, including the Grace Hastings Trophy and the Scugog Music Scholarship. 'Who deserves housing help? It is getting to a point where you have to be old, infirmed, handicapped or wealthy or you are left out in the cold. This was the reaction of Regional Councillor Mike . Breaugh to a basic housing policy approved by the region last week. "I am beginning to think," he said, "that the greatest handicap of all is to have a wife and three children and a job thdt 'pays less than $15,000 a year." The housing policy approved includes support of the principle of land bank- ing, and expresses concern about the housing needs of the elderly and the handi- capped. : A i. L : i subd dadiddoadswisdoad PORT PERRY TAR Second Section Volume 109 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1974 -- No. 1 Little mention of Scugog in booklet study of Durham An economic and financial survey of the region of Durham has been released in _ the form of "a beautiful 40-page booklet that includes coloured photographs on glossy paper. Although there is only "sparse mention of the town- ship of Scugog in the booklet, this is a great improvement on draft copy of the report sent to Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm earlier this year. "I don't think the word Scugog was mentioned in the whole first draft," the mayor said. "So I"sat down and wrote a good -pump for Scugog." Mr. Malcolm said he wrote about two pages of informat- ion on Scugog and about a half of a page was used in the booklet. The booklet will be sent to all prospective industries for the area and will also be used to help secure loans for the region. Major industries of the region are, also, listed in the booklet. Flamingo Pastries and Coulters are the only two industries listed for Scugog. Mr. Malcolm said he listed more industries but the people who prepared the booklet didn't include them. The booklet was prepared by Deminion Securities Corporation, Harris and Partners Limited. There was no mention of Peel Breeders Inc., Triple G Manufacturing, or Ray Whitaker and Sons Manu- facturing Company Limited. "I'suppose if they listed all the small industries, they would have to have four or five pages for Oshawa," Mr. Malcolm said. But Scugog is mentioned more than the townships of Uxbridge and Brock. There is no mention of industry 'in their area and hardly any mention of any- thing else. Fritz W. Glitsch and Sons Limited, Dominion Auto Accessories, and a Coca- Cola Bottling Plant are among the Uxbridge indust- ries that were ignored. There is mention of the Port Perry Water Supply Works with a total water storage system of 300,000 gallons. Iso, the Nonquon River Water Pollution Control System which serves Port Perry is mentioned. - Day Care decision soon? It should be known within a month if Port Perry is going to get a day care centre. Coun. Reg Rose of Scugog told regional council that the province has already - approved the region's first request for a centre in Whitby. "I understand the province is considering applications in batches," Mr. Rose said. "The first batch is finished and they will soon be starting the second group." Among sites considered in Port Perry, are the Latcham Centre and the old Town Hall. It was a fairly quiet Hallowe'en, as far as Hallowe'en's go, in Port Perry this year. 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