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> A J v 7 If 4 : 7 3 gy i 5 A * y ¢ RT eT a et SE Eon SI aad ae PR Vv, MEE a it + 4 eo 4 : § J 4 1 ¥ i a ¢ BORER Ee a REL sports pages. me Ontario Champions! . Ed Grimshaw of the O.M.H.A. executive presents trophy to Tim Thompson after the Port Perry Midget B's captured the All-Ontario championship in four straight games at the Scugog Arena Sunday night. PA report on the game and the series see the Star For a complete [0 Pa SK 3 RE 4 ie % Kaiti SOBs ol RNAS : LEA wu lige} i VEAY BPPIAKD & FN 4 RASA VIVE LAE CIN SE Yr SPR Group formed to monitor. Nonquon pollution levels A special committee of the Scugog Ratepayers Associa- tion has been formed to monitor pollution levels in the Nonquon River. The committee, which was set up at the Association's annual meeting last Thurs- day night, wili be paying particular attention to the water quality when the Port Perry sewage lagoons are discharged into the Nonquon towards the end of May. The decision to establish the monitoring committee was taken after a wide ranging and open discussion about the quality of water in the: Nonquon, and whether the annual discharge from the three Port Perry sewage lagoon cells is having an adverse effect on the river. While some citizens who live near the river said at the Nor " rad ME SIAR ARN TD SY TEA EY PATRIA WAS PI. meeting that the water quality appears to have deteriorated since the con- struction of the sewage lagoons in 1971, data taken in 1978 by the Durham Region Water Works department last year indicated that the discharge going into the river from the lagoons met all Ministry of Environment standards, except .one test carried out last May 24. Reg Rose, Durham Regional councillor for Scugog Township, told the! meeting that the Durham Works department operates the sewage lagoon system, and last year the cells were discharged during the period May 9 to May 31 and from October 31 to December 1. There is no discharge into the river when water levels are low. In order for a river or lake to be declared unfit for recreation purposes by the Ministry of ln Mo ten samples per month including weekends must exceed government stan- dards. Councillor Rose said the sewage in the lagoons is treated with alum and the harmful effluent are broken down over time by a natural process of air and sunlight. He suggested that prob- lems may have occurred in the past couple of years because of unauthorized dumping from septic tanks. While this practise is suspec- (Turn to page 12) jewellery was glso taken $400 cash theft A break-in Saturday evening at the Port Perry home of Scugog Arena manager Don Thompson netted thieves about $400 in cash receipts from the arena. A spokesman for the Durham Region police said that entry into the house was gained through a basement window, and in addition to the cash a small amount of Police say thé break-in took place between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. while the house was unoccupied. Vol. 113 No.21 "© Wednesday, April 4, 1979 36 Pages elements in the The Federal onser- vatives kicked off their election campaign for the riding of Durham-Northum- berland at a jampacked ¢ meeting last Wednesday night in Blackstock, and left little doubt that the main target of attack will be 4 Pierre deau. The occasion was the annual meeting of the P.C. PY Association for this riding, and . the three major speakers took the oppor- a tunity to rally the party 7 faithful and rip into the - Earn Bs 4 "1 x | policies of the Prime Minister and the Liberal Party. ® Although the meeting had been scheduled prior to the March 26 announcement of the federal election, incum- bent Al Lawrence, Tory House leader Walter Baker, and national Conservative ® party president Robert Coates came well prepared to deliver a stinging blast against the Liberals and at the same time offer com- plete support to party leader Joe Clark. ° Mr. Lawrence, who has represented the riding since 1972, told the 250 party faith- 1 fuls that the main issue in 4 this campaign is "Mr. Trudeau'. 'People are fed up with his lifestyle, his government, 2 and his 11 years of mis- management of the economy. He is the issue, win, lose or draw, he is a dead duck." Mr. Lawrence zeroes in on the economic issues of @ inflation, the national debt, i and the deflated dollar, a stating that 13 per cent of the national budget goes for interest and carrying charges and the total Canadian debt now amounts to $2500 for every citizen. While expressing con- fidence that the Conser- vatives would win a majority of the seats in Ontario and form a government, Mr. Lawrence at the same time warned his supporters not to be complacent in this riding. "The riding is changing," he said. *"'It is becoming a dormitory for Oshawa and Toronto, and changing away from the rural." } He noted the fact that Durham-Northumberland now takes in Scugog Island, Port Perry and Reach Township, as well as Cart- wright, and said that in 1974, Port Perry went to- the Liberals. The redistribution which brought these areas time was one of the reasons for holding the annual meeting in Blackstock. ENERGY POLICY Mr. Lawrence, who has been energy critic for the Conservatives told the audience last Wednesday that during the campaign leading to the May 22 general election, he will be spending time away from the riding, campaigning across the country as the Tory spokes- man for energy issues. He said that the full party program on energy matters will be made public as the campaign moves on. While Mr. Lawrence steered clear of any name calling during his 15-minute address, Robert Coates, a Nova Scotia M.P. and national party leader, at one point in his speech referred evening. previous incident. be held this week. Youth charged with assault A 19-year old Port Perry youth is facing four charges including assaulting police following an incident at a restaurant in downtown Port Perry last Saturday Police report that officers spotted John Hadley in the Queen Street restaurant about 10:00 p.m. Saturday, contrary to curfew orders imposed by the court for a In addition to the charge of assaulting police, and breach of curfew as a result of the incident Saturday night, Hadley is also charged with causing a distur- bance and breach of probation. He was taken into police custody for a bail hearing to - paign, into the riding for the first ,to 'Pierre Trudeau and his ---- clones sitting behind him in the House of Commons." He also said the Liberal party "is disintegrating", and cited several of the well-known Liberals who have dropped out of active politics in the past few years. "Trudeau insults people", said Mr. Coates. "He calls them fat, bitchers, and thumb-suckers, and tells young people who can't find work to leave the country." Mr. Coates gave strong support to Joe Clark, saying at one point "that he is not a nobody." "Clark put the P.C. party back together: He is able and competent, and if he can put the party back together, he can put the country back together," he said. Copsgrvative House leader Walter Baker also came out strongly in support of Joe Clark, calling him a 'mature man', and at one point compared him to John F. Kennedy who was about the same age when he first sought the presidency of the United States. "I'm glad that people are looking very closely at Clark", said Mr. Baker. "It means they are hungry for change." Mr. Baker, who has represented the Ottawa area riding of Grenville-Carleton since 1972, told the 250 people in the Recreation Centre in Blackstock, "that this is going to be a rough cam- make no mistake about it." He said he expected Trudeau to attack Clark | 'Local Tories set for tough battle because of his youth. "That's good," said Mr. Baker. "Because we need young men and women to clean up this country." il 'All three speeches were tough and highly partisan, and the party supporters loved it. Mr. Lawrence said Turn to page 13 Al Lawrence was in a fighting mood as he kicked off his campaign for the federal riding of Durham- Northumberland which now takes in all of Scugog Township. as a= Re I Se lt rE, ERAT TE Sn -~ ae gh 3 a)