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+ bog | | a Na > da] ot A ------ Rn oH od or rbmesion ws pmo a A oP ng 2 % Hy RAL wk Work is now under way on the third floor of the new Community Memorial Nursing Home in Port Perry. Officials hope the building will be completed in the spring. The Home will have seventy-five beds and will have greatly expanded sypport facilities. There are fifty-five people at the home now, and plans call for the present building tobe used for a different type of senior citizen accomodation. €C. A. Glass reminisces on Remembrance Vimy Ridge. Clifford Sifton. Hughes. . To most people today, these are names out of history books or names used by their grandparents or Cambray. Sir Sam parents when discussing the first World War. But to 83-year-old C. A. Glass of Port Perry these names all bring back vivid + memories of both good and bad times. Scugog Island Provincial Park : Lack of money delays Park development Efforts by the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce to find out what the Ministry of Natural Resources is doing about the proposed provin- cial park on Scugog Island may finally pay off. Oscar Irwin of the Lindsay office of the Ministry of Natural resources told the STAR the Ministry would be sending somebody to discuss plans with the Chamber Soon. ' Mr. Irwin said that all ' planning for the new park is being done by the Ministry's Richmond Hill office. Once all planning is com- pleted, the Lindsay office will take charge of the actual development of the park. In a recent letter to the these studies, the Ministry hopes to be able to draw up a Chamber, C. R, Gray, Dis- trict manager of the Minis- try, said he hoped initial development. could. take place within two to three years. Mr. Gray said that resource studies on geology, geomorphology, ecological assessment and archaeology have been carried.out by the Parks division this past season. With the information from master plan and to carry out detailed site planning. * On October 31, the Cham- ber wrote to the Ministry: asking that a meeting be set up so more details on the plans could be discussed. In the letter the Chamber said that a recent announce- ment was made that more revenue would be available for Tourism and suggested that some could be used for this area. "We are keenly interested in the completion of this park because we are turning tourists away having nothing in the way of accomodation to offer them," the chamber's letter said. Dr. Matthew Dymond, M.P.P. for this- area, has promised to keep pressing the province to go ahead with - development of the park as soon as possible. "lI have been badgering the Ministry now for some months that in my view il was time to go forward with the development of this part. The matter, however, is purely one of economics," (continued on page 18) Mr. Glass is one of the few Port Perry area residents left who took part in and can remember vividly World War 1. "I remember one day we were in the trenches and General Sifton's glass eye fell out," Mr. Glass recalls. "Il caused quite a stir, but we finally found it." Sitting in the living room of his Perry-Street apartment with. his 75-year-old wife Connie, Mr. Glass is able to LL | rs! FTN ny New three storey nursing home will accomodate 75 patients Work has started on the third and final floor of the new Community Nursing home building on Lilla Street. ' I'red Lafontaine, owner of the Home, said that he hoped that work could be finished on the $700,000 project by carly March. . The three-storey, split-rib brick, nursing home will "replace the present building which will be used for another type of senior citizen housing. Mr. LaFontaine said they have experienced very little trouble since building began in July. We are building the new building to provide better service to our patients," he said. "We will have much larger facilities." The old building accomod- ales 55 people and is 14,000 square feet. The new build- ing will accomodate seventy- five people and will be 32,000 square feet. Mrs. Edna Goss, director of nursing at the Home, said that the second and third floors will have single, semi- private and four-bed rooms. A large dining room, an occupational and physical therapy room and a lounge will be included on the ground floor. A billiard room, as well as better support facilities will also be on the ground floor. Ample parking will be provided as well as profes- sional landscaping. The present building will be turned into a "retirement facility" according to Mr. Lafontaine. It will be for elderly people who would not qualify for a nursing home or hospital but don't want their own place. Mr. LaFontaine said meals and laundry will be provided for these people and that about thirty-five people could be accomo- dated. The present building came from Ajax and was part of the old Ajax hospital at one time. It was turned into the Community Nursing Home alter the new Community Memorial Hospital was built in Port Perry. Mr. Lafontaine and his wife own the Community Nursing Home in Port Perry as well as nursing homes in five other centres, including Pickering, Port Hope and Sunderland. Mrs. Goss said she is running a contest to see if any body can guess the exact minute of the particular day that a chosen patient will move into the new nursing home. Interim taxes Mar. 1, April 15 Scugog council will be required to forward 'interim tax levies" to the region on March 1st and April 15th if a recommendation of the fin- ance committee is accepted. Finance committee staff had suggested payments for February 15th and April 15th, but the committee wanted more time to prepare for the budget. P2RT § PERRY Second Section Volume 109 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1974 -- No. 2 talk for hours about his experiences in the war. Mr. -Glass took part in many battles including the Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the most famous battles of the war. "The Allies were bombard ing the Germans for three week solid before, so they wouldn't know when we were coming," Mr. Glass said. "When the real thing came, we"all went over the top." There were people getling killed all around Mr.glass during this battle. "When we got over the top and it was time to be relieved, my officer told me to round everyone up. But he and I were the only ones left from our group." So they took the other men's identification disks and left them for the burial party. RX Mr. Glass said that although there were people getting killed all around him C. A. Glass shows his wife, Connie, his medals from World War One. Mr. Glass is one of the few area residents left who took part in the war. He still remembers details of the war well and can sit and talk about them for hours. Day all the time, he was never really scared or too worried. "It is a funny thing," he said. "But there were men who were afraid to go into a certain battle because they knew they were going to die that day. And sure enough, they would." "They would often ask you to keep something for them and to send it to their loved ones after they were dead." "But I never felt like that and made it through alright. Perhaps 1 had a lucky nickel in my pocket or something." Most of the stories, about how awful life in the trences was, are true, according to Mr. Glass. In some places the mud was just horrible and you lived, ate, and slept in the trenches. "My cousin was sleeping in a slit in the side of a trench,' he said. 'A shell hit right where he was sleeping and blew him to pieces." Both his cousin who he came to Canada with and the cousin he joined the army with were killed. His brother Bertrand lost his leg in the war. But not all the times were bad, he said. After that Mrs. Glass said "Oh, come on CA. the voung ones will be reading this." "You can't teach the young very much about things like that these days," he said. ' "When we were back in England. we would go to dances and have good times," he said. Mr. Glass won a military (continued on page 18) ve t . ' 1 ey wily . ' MN Ly ' A A A a a aa