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o 2 7 n 2 } L -~ 9 [ ¢ § PORT ne J N PERRY -- ~~ NANA 100 Years Young Herb Eagleson reveals a good sense of humor, a great deal of wit, charm and alert as can be. He's active.....inquisitive.....and 100 years old. Mr. Eagleson, who lives with his wife Mable, 88, Sr -- at the Community Nursing Home in Port Perry celebrated "his birthday on Saturday. He lived most of his life in the Lindsay, Seagrave area. See page 7 for complete story. | ered NNN IRARARA x AAA No Meet within three weeks..... Talks with local officials on pen site It looks like there will be some communications between penitentiary and local municipal officials within the next two or three weeks, but a penitentiary source emphasised that such communications would not signal a site has been picked. Ross Duff, acting deputy - regional director of the Canadian Penitentiary Ser- vice, said that a number of sites have been identified and are under examination by the federal department of public works now. But talks with local council, to come within three weeks, he No thinks, won't mean a site will be picked. "It'll basic- ally be part of the site clearing process with local authorities." he said. "We'll want some local input on this thing before we go ahead." While Mr. Duff emphasises that the penitentiary service ~~ Vehicle-pedestrian accident kills Port Perry area woman A Port Perry woman was killed Monday evening when she ran into the path of a car on the Shirley Sideroad, about a half mile east of the Oshawa Road. Norena Lambe, 72, of Lot 31, Con. 2, Scugog (R.R.2, Port Perry) died at the scene of the accident. According to Ontario Prov- incial Police of the Whitby Detachment, Mrs. Norena Lambe, 72, had just picked up her mail from the mail box on the south side of the road when she ran north across the road, into the path of a car driven by Richard Schofield, -30, of - Pleasant View Street, Caes- area. The car, travelling west on the road, swerved to avoid the woman, according to the police investigation conduct- ed by Const. Murray Gordon but was unable to do so. Police report that the pedes- trian collided with the side of the car. No charges have been laid according to police. Raise more money, get larger grant A change in the structure of Wintario grants has given Scugog's new arena effort a strong incentive to collect the $200,000 public subscrip- tion portion of the total esti- mated $750,000 cost. According to new arena Chairman Howard Hall, Wintario grant structures have changed to allow the granting of funds on a dollar for dollar basis. That means instead of the $112,500 Wintario fund ceil- ing under the old structure, Wintario would now provide a full $200,000 toward the project. Only catch, however, is that subscription and pled- ges match that amount. "That makes our campaign more important than ever now," said Mr. Hall. "Rais- ing the money is very bene- ficial to the community now." At the last Scugog council meeting, Mr. Hall said that the new arena may be elig- ible for a community centres grant of up to $150,000, double the size of the normal $75,000. Mr. Hall told council the committee anticipated re- ceiving $75,000 under the provincial grant program, but had recently learned it may get $150,000, $112,500 of which would be in the form of progress payments for work completed prior to next April 1st. Mr. Hall said the public canvass, with slightly more than half the 76 canvassers 'réporting, has already raised nearly $95,000, close to half the $200,000 goal. Of that amount, $45,000 is in cash and pledges while the remainder is in outstanding commitments. Mr. Hall said he expects a further $112,500 from Win- tario, the ministry of culture and recreation's municipal assistance scheme. How- ever, he added, that com- mitment would not come until the canvass had reach- ed $112,500. The arena committee meets this evening with Totten, Sims, Hubicki and Associates, the consulting firm analysing the recently- + ween but no quick decision is talking about one insti- tution for Scugog, he didn't rule out the possibility of considering two institutions for the Uxbridge-Scugog area. He confirmed that a pro- posed medium security penitentiary, to have been located in the Innisfil area, has not received approval from the local municipality, and that the penitentiary service is looking at other locations for the institution. But, he emphasised, area municipalities will be the ones to decide. He said the situation now is that each council (Uxbridge-Scugog) has approved in principle the construction of a recep- tion centre here, and that the construction of any other kind of institution would require further approval by the local municipality. Mr. Duff said the depart- ment is making efforts to avoid thc emotionalistic, negative response that has greeted the project in some circles, and according to Mr. Duff, resulted in the Innisfil turn-around. In an interview with the STAR last week, Innisfil clerk Richard Groh said council had originally ap- proved in principal the loc- ation of a medium security penitentiary in the township. That motion came in May, but since then, overwhelm- ing negative response by the public has convinced Innisfil councll to oppose the pro- ject. The proposed institution would have provided that community with between $80,000 and $90,000 grants in lieu of taxes and employed ahout 200 people, He said that a great deal of emotionalism surrounded the issue in Innisfil over the (continued on page 2 opened tenders for the arena construction. Follawing the consultant's analysis, the committee will meet with. representatives of the con- * struction firms being con- sidered for the project. Final decision is not expected tonight, Mr. Hall said. ) Five tenders for the 1,000- seat one-pad arena ranged from $629,209 to $790,000. Mr. Hall said 17 items were to be priced separately by the bidders. However, the low tender covered none of the indivi- dual items while the high jender covered the complete ist. -The arena is scheduled for completion next October. Consider 2 tenders The new arena committee has narrowed the choice of tenders down to the two submitted by Con Dign Ltd. of Waterloo and CDS of Whitby. Lowest of the tenders, a tender of $629,209, has been rejected by -the committee as well as the two high bids of $790,000 and $770,000 sub- mitted by two Markham firms. The arena committee had stated earlier that under the flexible method of tendering used, the lowest tender would not necessarily be the one chosen. Instead, it is up to the committee to pick the best value for the money. Committee spokesman said that the lowest tender, for example, includes none of the seventeen individual, special items that the com- mittee wanted itemized indi- vidually. Adding on some or all of these separate items, for example, would probably bring the cost of this tender well above some of the others, according to com- mittee members. The committee will sit down with the two builders to discuss further details on Thursday. NOTICE For the benefit of advertisers and read- ers, the STAR will be published earlier next week. Instead of the usual Wednesday publica- tion, printing of the STAR will take place Monday morning Dec. 22nd and available to the readers the same afternoon. In order to accomp- lish this successfully, staff members will have to work during the weekend and co- operation from adver- tisers and correspond- ents is essential. Only one deadline will apply in connection with the Christmas issue. 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