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& ater! rd S « Ag f yi s ga : 2 La, \ } ] sastcashadrisiogiivivibnsidatospddidotimelivasesouseiiocsdatuas mics bina bod imei oad od "Petitions - not what they're cracked up to be!" Unless Pierre Elliot Trudeau is a resident of Scugog Township, there is at least one discrepancy in the 2,700 signature petition circu- lated in the township a month ago in opposition to the pro- posed penitentiary in the township, and it is on the - basis of this and "plenty of others' that the group of concerned citizens approached council with the request to reopen the issue. According to one member . of the group, flaws in the petition were found almost immediately, and at best, only about an hour was spent looking over the document at the Scugog municipal offices. "I can't begin to imagine," said Howard Hall, one of the group, "what we'd find if we went over the thing page by page, name by name." According to the group; there are signatures of child- ren on the petition, as well as husbands signing for wives and wives for husbands. Although the petition begins with "We, the residents", names included in the count had "visitor" in brackets beside the name. Since the petition was given by at least two council- lors as a major reason for opposing the penitentiary, the group feels that the petition's obvious discrepan- cies are enough in itself to re-open the issue. "Al- though,' said Mr. Hall, 'there are probably plenty of other things in it that we haven't found. We've just found the obvious." Like the Trudeau sign- ature. "It's like putting Mickey Mouse's name _on a serious petition. I cannot understand why anyone would do something so easily detected, serving only to cast doubt on the entire list. "If you are going to cheat, put John Smith. But Pierre Trudeau.....?" According to those who investigated the petition, there is also a number of signatures that were obvious- ly written in the same hand- writing. "And that doesn't include the many people who I've talked to who signed it on the 'FOR SALE Tickets AVAILABLE AT THE Port Perry Star 985.7383 Olympic Lottery | spur of the moment, and on false information, now wish- ing to get their names off the list,"' said Mr. Hall. What it proves, the group feels, is the uselessness and unreliability of petitions as a basis of decision-making. 'We don't want to get invol- ved in a numbers game, which is just what a petition is...a numbers game," he said. That reliance on petit- ions is "useless was ably demonstrated, he thinks, and to gather names of people who are for the penitentiary would be equally useless. There is confidence among the group that a reopened issue would now gain much more support than before, mainly because those in favour are now aware of just what can happen. The vote caught many by surprise, they feel. "Up until the day of the vote, everyone thought that because council had stated the penitentiary was good for the community, they would logically vote in favour," said Mr. Hall. All indications pointed to council accepting the penitentiary here. For that reason, according to the group, there wasn't the strong, vocal sup- port. Why should there by.....everyone thought it was .a foregone conclusion that the penitentiary would be approved." Area residents oppose (continued closest house about 3; of a mile away. Mr. Kime, a qualified instructor from the West London Shooting School, one of only 20 qualified instruc- tors in the world, would be the instructor at the new school. Pupils are always under * constant direction, and it would not just be anyone interested in this type of course as the fee for the lessons would be $50.00 per hour, Mr. Sinclair said. Concern from the residents in the area ranged from the amount of noise created, possibility of animals or children being shot to the destruction of the ecological balance of nature. The vice-president of the RAPSEY subdivision lot- owners association said that "we should not have to put up with gun-toting city-slickers. They should be sent into remote uninhabited areas for this type of recreation." - Other objections to the pro- posed school were that it would be a hazard to the safety of people, access to the property. in question is "rotten" and values of pro- perties would be lowered. Fred Plunkett, owner and operator of Brendean Game Farm, which is in the same area, was the only one at the meeting that had anything good tosay about the possibil- ities of the school. "I'm fully in favour of the idea, I think it is terrific," he said. _ Mr. J.B. Dawson, Regional Biologist of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in a letter to Skinners had openly stated that the level of shoot- ing in their plan would have -little effect on the resident ~~ wildlife, that if the school is run on the British system, it would have the strictest rules by which to abide and that because of its location noise will be effectively reduced. ATA John Gast Editor PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every, Wednesday by the Part Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Oftawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year ! Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Sas, , < (um) : EX Tray Publisher J. Peter Hvidsten, Advertising Manager Single copy 20c Ce wnt nt am mn mn ee sm a ™ a a a ee ™ ee se Attending the meeting, Mr. Dawson said that he had personally checked out the location in February and found it tobe anideal location for this type of venture. Mr. Ralph Sanderson, accused Mr. Sinclair of mis- leading them with the infor- mation he had given. "We are the experts on the noise, we, have been subjected to it and we know all about it,"" he said. '"What you really want is to be able to operate 24 LEVI ARROW hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year, is it not, he questioned Mr. Sinclair. After listening to about 20 of those present during the hearing, Mayor Malcolm thanked those people for attending and said that his council would try and reach a decision as whether to drop the proposal, or continue on in the best interests of those concerned. 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