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. ® Vol.113 No. 46 FLA Sra FI SEER Bh OW) ' Wednesday, October 3, 1979 36 Pages Mr. and Mrs. Sy Pok, their three children and grandmother, are settling in to a new way of life in Port Perry after fleeing their native Viet Nam almost a year ago. They arrived in Port Perry last week and There will be no expansion of the Scugog Memorial Lib- rary building on Queen Street. Any hope for an addition to the 45 year old building was put to rest September 25 when the Scugog Committee -of Adjustment turned down an application from the Lib- rary Board for three adjust- ments to local by-laws which would have been necessary before a proposed 5000 square foot addition could be built on the rear of the existing building. Scugog Library Board chairman Chuck Preston said after the committee of adjustment meeting that the decision did not come as any surprise. "The Board was prepared for it," he said. "Especially in light of the fact that Scugog council at its meeting September 24 recommended that the Committee of Ad- justment turn down our ap- the parents are delighted and thankful for the chance to start a new life in Canada. The three children, however, were a little shy when this photo was taken last week. plication." However, Mr. Preston said that despite the decision, the Library Board members re- main committed to expand- ing the library services for the people of Scugog. The Board now is working on an alternative proposal which Mr. Preston said likely will be presented to the Scugog Council in the next couple of weeks. Since the Committee of Adjustment decision Sep- Regional Road 23 getting bad reputation * Library expansion back to square one tember 24, Mr. Preston said the Library Board's building and finance committees have had a meeting with an architectural firm, and a conceptual design will be included in the Board's pres- entation to Scugog council. Mr. Preston said the Lib- rary Board prefers not to release details of the alterna- tive proposal until the full presentation is made to the council. However, because (Turn to page 2) AA STR IRA dl AMAR uF fe Aare ante rh i SE RE RAL ATA oA eal baad dotdot taf @en NU An Ais vistas Viet family settles into a new home Almost 12 months after they fled by sea from their native Viet Nam, the Sy Poc family is finally settling into their new home in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Poc, their three young children and Mr. Poc's mother are the first family of Viet Nam "boat people' to settle in the Port Perry area. They arrived here last week after being met at Toronto airport by members of the sponsoring group, and immediately they were faced with what will be a difficult transition to life in this country. Like all the refugees who have fled Viet Nam in the past couple of years, the Poc family faced danger and peril during the long journey which brought them to Canada. After scraping together all the money they owned, the family left the Saigon area aboard an old over-crowded fishing boat. There were 350 other refugees on the same boat which left Viet Nam last November. After eight days on the open sea, they put ashore at a refugee camp in Malaysia, after being turned away on more than one occasion. That camp was to be their home for the next ten months. Food and other necessities supplied by inter- national relief agencies made conditions at least a little better than those they experienced while at sea. The Poc family were among the lucky ones, as they were chosen for immi- gration to Canada when sponsoring groups came for- ward from all over this country to help them get a new start in life. The family spent their first week in Canada getting ad- justed to the new surround- ings. That included a trip to a relief centre in Oshawa which is supplying clothing for the refugees. The local sponsoring group has found them a house just outside Port Perry, furnished com- fortably with donations from people in this area. (Turn to page 3) Port Perry will host Swedish hockey team Hockey fans in Port Perry will have the chance to see a touring European squad this winter at the New Scugog Arena. The Haninge midget team from Stockholm, Sweden, will play an exhibition game against the Port Perry Midget A squad on New Year's Day, with face-off at 2:00 p.m. Plans for this exhibition match have been known for some time, but it was just in the past week or so that the Port Perry Minor Hockey Association learned that the commitment had been final- ized. The Haninge midget squad is one of six teams from Norway, Sweden, and Den- mark which will be playing exhibition games throughout Ontario this winter. The Haninge team is being hosted by the town of Stouf{- ville, and will begin its exhi- bition tour there on Decem- ber 27. It will also play games in Midland, Port Perry, Cobourg, Nobleton, and Bowmanville before re- turning home Janurary 8. Jan Frannsen, president of the Port Perry Minor Hock- ey Association, said the local organization is looking for- ward to the exhibition match and there are plans now underway for a banquet after the game in honour of the Swedish team. Heavy traffic may be cause of accidents It is the longest stretch of road in<the Region of Durham, running from Highway 401 in the south all the way to Beaverton in the North. And it is a good stretch of road, with a smooth surface, wide shoulders, easy to drive through scenic farm fields and wooded areas of Durham Region. And it is a limited access road, which means there are no strips of "gasoline alleys" which can create havoc when motorists slow down to turn off. There are COLE OOO 0000000000800 0000000800880000080000000000EVPE000800000000008800000000, Happy Thanksgiving Holiday The Port Perry Star offices will be closed Monday, October 8 for the Thanksgiving Holiday. The edition of the Star normally on sale early Wednesday morning will not be available until about 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 10. The Star office will be open at regular hours on Tuesday, October 9 for advertising and correspondence, but we would ask that if possible any material that can be ready prior to the holiday be submitted this Friday. Final deadline for all ads and material will be Tuesday, October ¢ § at 12 noon. The Star wishes all of our readers a safe and happy Thanks- giving weekend. COP 0 COOI000P0OPTCOLP CONC PREPLPCEOOEPCBPLOCOOIIPPPIICELPLCOPPPORIPTEEEPIPERPEIFS no clusters of residential development, which also can lead to traffic accidents. Yet, rightly or wrongly, Regional Road 23 is starting to get a "'reputation", especial- ly among residents in the Scugog and Uxbridge areas of Durham. There have been several serious acci- dents along Regional Road 23, the most recent on September 21 when a truck driver was killed at the intersection of Regional Roads 8 and 23. In fact, statistics from the Durham traffic department, reveal that so far in 1979 there have been three fatalities recorded, and the number of accidents in the first nine months of this year, already exceeds the number for all of last year, when there were no fatalities on that highway. Mike Bellamy, traffic supervisor for Durham Region, told the Star in an inter- view last week that there is no single cause for the accidents. "The road is a good one," he said. "The engineering is good. It is in good condition. There is no apparent pattern to the acci- dents such as time of day, location, or road and weather conditions." However, Mr. Bellamy went on to say that Regional Road 23 is getting busier all the time, and that in itself may be the reason for the increase in the number of accidents. Certainly, anyone who travels the high- way on a Friday or a Sunday evening, : especially on a long weekend during the summer months, knows that there is a substantial amount of traffic on the high- way. Again, statistics from the Region's traffic department show that there is indeed an increase in the traffic flow, not just on weekends, but on average, every day of the year For example, in 1978, the average number of vehicles in one given 24 hour period north of Taunton Road was 2270. In (Turn to page 14)