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Ad , NF y+ Js 4 a 22% 5 Set Shad FER pg MAAN TA NY escape sinking airplane A 50-year old Richmond Hill pilot and his 58 year old passenger escaped serious injury when their light plane flipped over while landing on Lake Scugog near Washburn Island Saturday morning. Durham Police = say Kingsley Ward was attempt- ing to land his Cessna 185 valued at $100,000. when the retractable landing gear on the nose of the plane caught the surface of the water. Mr. Ward and his passenger, George Marshall of Gormley, managed to get out of the over-turned plane and were holding on to the floats when rescued by Township resident Ron (Turnto page 2) samantha Rooke of Port Perry was delighted to beany the worse for wear for "get her Toy Poodle "Sweets" back after the dog was missing for three days recently. The Greenbank "woman who found 'Sweets' declined the $200 reward |, "0 + Samaritan in Samantha had offered for 'Sweets."' [See story] Vol. 116 No. 23 Wednesday, May 5, 1982 Four fire departments battle 80 acre blaze Firefighters from four departments were kept busy for several hours last Thurs- day afternoon as they battled a stubborn brush fire that raced through fields and wooded areas on the east side of Durham Road 23, just south of Durham 21. . At one time, there were 'more than 30 men on the scene from the departments in Port Perry, Caesarea, Whitby and Uxbridge, as the fire, fanned by strong winds, began to threaten at least 36 Pages two homes on the east side of Durham Road 23. Captain Ray Penney of the Port Perry department estimates the fire covered about 80 acres, and may have damaged as many as 40,000 small pine trees plant- ed a couple of years as a reforestation project on private property. And personnel from the Ministry of Natural Resources helped fire- fighters bring the blaze under control. As the blaze moved south- ward and jumped Con- cession Four Road, it came within a couple of hundred feet of two homes, and for a time it was feared the res- idents would have to evacuate their homes. How- ever, this did not happen. Firefighters used portable back-packs in their efforts to contain the blaze, and at one time the flames were spread- ing so fast, the men could not run fast enough to keep ahead of them. He said the exact cause of the fire has not been deter- ned. (Turnto page 3) Good Samaritan returns pet dog, declines reward "'Sweets" is home safe and to have him back. sound, and his owner "Sweets" is a year old Samantha Rooke of Port pure-bred Toy Poodle, and Perry is more than delighted when he disappeared for . three days recently, :] Samantha almost gave up hope of ever seeing him again. She offered a $200 reward for his return and placed an ad in the local newspaper. Fortunately, for 'Sweets' and Samantha, a Greenbank woman found the dog early one morning on her doorstep, cold hungry and very tired. The woman remembered the newspaper ad and called Samantha. "I was so happy to see him again," Samantha told the Star last week. Samantha said the woman ~ in Greenbank who found the dog declined to accept the reward, and would not even give her name. "She said she didn't want the reward because she has children and knows what it would be like to lose a dog," said Samantha. Samantha believes the dog was taken from her Queen Street apartment in Port Perry when she was out. But she is not certain just how "Sweets" got from Port Perry to Greenbank, a distance of about six miles. "Sweets" does not seem to his three days and nights away from home. And Samantha is very grateful to Greenbank. Over 100 Cubs and Scouts from Seagrave, Port Perry, Sunderland and Cannington met last Saturday morning at the Nonquon Conservation area north of Port Perry to plant trees. Troy McCulley [left] and Kevin Buscher of Seagrave were two of the young boys who helped to plant about 3200 Cedar and Pine trees at the site. This is the fourth year the local Scouting organizations have participated in the Trees for Canada project.