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, [RIE $0 MANES 2 Ty 0 Sl SALIVARY. WTR added dom Nard Ya aler yy AE VI'H +4 \] EFT LE Pali aubheds iabiv aii si dc mountain bibait ml sled birt dB wid. The clock in the tower of the Post Office will be back in working order as soon as the renovated Post Office opens f * there is a good size bell in the clock an time when the clock strikes.-- Charlie Brignall, twenty-three years at the Post Office, The clock will still be hand wound wit was installed when the post Office Ww War. or business. Postmaster Bruce Hull said d people will once again be able to tell the who was caretaker: for said the clock stopped about five years ago. h a big crank, Mr. Brignall said. The clock as'built around the time of the First World ,Ron MacDonald suggests Lilla Street solution Scugog Roads Super- intendent Ron MacDonald and Coun. Reg. Rose are going to discuss the proposed widening of Lilla Street with Durham officials. Council decided to send these two men to the regional works committee and per- haps the planning committee to discuss suggestions made by Mr. MacDonald to council on Monday night. Earlier in the evening council heard a presentation by Dave Muir and Fleming Galberg, outlining their " objections to a regional plan which would add a parking Lane to Lilla Streel. About 45 people were there to hear the presentation with most opposing the planned widening. - Mr. MacDonald suggested that Lilla Street be recon- structed as a two lane 28-fool wide road and that a (wo-foot V-shaped gutter be installed next to the road. A twelve-foot drop-back curve should then be con- structed from the gutter to the sidewalks, he said. There is a similiar design in use in Columbus, he said: The drop-back paved curve would be on a slight slant upwards towards the sidewalk and could be used for parking. he said. "I don't know if the Minis- try of Transportation and Communication would approve such a design or not, but T would be willing to go down to the region and find out what they think about the matter." he said. Mr. MacDonald also said that if Regional Road 8 (7th Concession of Reach) is reconstructed, il could be continued on page 2 Blackstock dispute erupts again A .dispute that council thought it had seen the last of surfaced again Monday night when the Blackstock Senior Citizens appeared before council wanting to + tear out the stage at the old town hall. Bert . Gibson. told council that there was no need for a Hospital Report } Week Ending November 14th Admissions .. Births.......... Deaths .............. Emergencies os Operations ....................... 0 Discharges..................... 1.28 Remaining....................... 44 stage in the building and that the senior's wanted to build a kitchen in its place. Mr. Gibson said if they didn't get their way, they would send back the $5,600 New Horizons grant they had received. The Blackstock Women's Institute opposed the idea of removing the stage com- pletely. . The dispute first came to council on September 23 and at a subsequent meeting of the Cartwright Parks Board, Mr. Gibson agreed to a compromise solution that would see a stage occupy half of the front of the hall. But Mr. Gibson said Mon- day night that the Senior Citizens had voted on that idea and rejected it. Coun. Don Frew said they had held many meetings on the subject and that another Parks Board meeting would be held at which they would make a decision one way. or the other and then report back to council. Mr. Frew said that it had been estimated it would cost $8,756 to carry out the com- promise plan. This did not include plumbing, electrical work: or painting, he said. As Mr. Gibson was leaving the. council chambers, he said "If there is no stage, then there is no money. adhe ' 32 Pages 15¢ per copy ry Volume. 109 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1974 -- No. 3 ; : va Committee instructed to start working on details of arena The arena committee was given the go-ahead by Scugog council Monday night to start working out details for a single-pad arena. The motion, of council slated that "a single pad arena be erected and that the new arena committee be authorized to proceed with recommendations as to (1) fund raising, (2) location and (3) type of structure for said building." Council passed the motion alter it considered a report from Mayor Lawrence Mal- colm which suggested that when $100,000 is raised by public subscription, council should then approve a con- tract for the building of the arena. In his report, the mayor suggested that council bud- gel $50,000 lo $75,000 each year beginning in 1975 and thal by the time work star(s on the arena, $200,000 to $300,000 will bave. been raised. The remainder would be debentured over a five year period. The report of the mayor was nol accepled or rejected by council. Rather il was given to the arena ,commit- tee for its consideration. Coun. Don Frew wondered il there shouldn't b& a plebis- cite on the matter before council commits the taxpay- er to any long-term pay- ments. Two members of the com- miltee appeared before Fire destroys Reach cottage Damage is estimated bet- ween $8,000 and $10,000 in a cottage fire on the 7th- Concession of Reach, just west of Highway 12. The fire; which occurred on Thursday at about 3:25 p.m. completely destroyed a garage that had been con- verted inlo a coltage. Fire Chief Jack Cook said there must have been an explosion before the fire department arrived as the "walls had shifted and one end of the building had moved. Mr. Cook said there was nobody living in the cottage at the time, although people by the name of McCaulay come up to the cottage on the weekends. B The fire department also responded to a fire call Friday\night at 11:59 p.m. at Highway 12 and the 4th concession of Reach. Mr. Cook said there was minimal damage in a chim- ney fire at the residence of Norm Vivian. council and asked that coun- cil make some firm commit- ment so they could start working on such things as plans and fund raising methods. After the committee has done some ground work. il and added Coun. Reg Rose and Neil Hunter to the commiltee. Coun. Bob Kenny suggest- ed the committee investigate properties on the west side of the hydro building on the landfill site. He said that will then report to council there might be enough room 3 with recommendations (here to build an arena Bs about fund raising. location although it might mean and type of structure. moving the hydro's fence. Council must make all final decisions. Commitlee member, Stan Glass said the committee would like to build the arena and would be quite happy with a 47-acre site on pro- perty owned by the township beside the landfill site. In a report presented lo council five weeks ago. a commillee recommended that council sell the present fair grounds, buy a new site and build a new arena on the new sile. The: commillee was eslablished by council. When the committee's report was presented, coun- cil made the committee an - official committee of council Don Crosier, another commitlee member, said the commitlee has considered three sites for an arena. Santa coming on December 7 The Port Perry Chamber of Commerce has received permission to close off Queen Street for three hours on December 7th for the annual Santa Claus Parade. Ken Dowson, president of the Chamber, said Queen would be closed off from Perry to Water Street. Council gave its approval Monday night. Cartwright High School Valedictorian Leslie Wright received her Secondary School Honour Graduation Diploma Saturday night at the annual commencement exercises held at the Recreation Centre in Blackstock. Miss Wright is - 1 now attending Carleton University and was one bh of thirteen students to receive Honour diplomas. Miss Wright, also, received the Ottawa Citizen's Scholarship in Journalism and an Ontario Scholarship.