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""Aren't you a little big for that bike, mister?" R.H. Cornish Prin- cipal Harry Kiezebrink, above, no doubt agrees as he fries out a tiny electrically powered Vespa. (See story for more on miniature cars for kids). Kids take wheel to learn road safety An experimental pro- gram has given 23 primary students at R.H. Cornish Public School a new way of looking at traffic safety -- from behind the wheel. The children, a group of French Immersion students aged six to eight, literally drove through a series of simulated traffic situa- tions using miniature electric cars specifical- ly designed for children. The course ran for three separate days throughout the last month or so at Mosport, south of Blackstock and concluded during a special media present- ation last Wednesday. John Powell, presi- dent of Powell Motor- sport and director of the Goodyear Advanced Driver Training Course, designed the children's driving exercises to coincide with the Good- year driving program, which teaches accident avoidance techniques to licensed drivers. "The children learn how motorists deal with things like traffic lights, stop signs and pedest- rian cross-walks, etc.," he said. "The program deepens the child's per- ception of what the rules of the road are all about and, at the same time, strengthens their under- standing of the import- ance of pedestrian safe- ty'. Mr. Powell chose the children from Cornish for his experiment be- cause his son is a student there. The Pow- ells live in Blackstock. "It is important to understand that this is a pilot program", said Mr. Powell, the person- al trainer of such racing drivers as Tom Sneva and 1984 Indy 500 winner Rick Mears. 'We're monitoring the child- ren's rate progress carefully so we can fine-tune the driving exercises to suit their level of understanding." The children's safety program is part of an auto industry effort (also supported by Gen- eral Motors and Esso) to help make Canada's roads safer, he added. During the children's first day behind the wheel, there were no rules and the result was a fun-filled bumper car escapade with "acci- dents" all over the simulated highways on the infield at Mosport. They were then asked (Turn to page 16) Vol. 118 No. 30 Tuesday, June 26, 1984 36 pages Scugog Township council has agreed to tackle the Lake Scugog weed problem this sum- mer with chemicals, rather than a harvester. Councillors agreed unanimously Monday afternoon to spend about $2,000 for spray- ing the weeds over an area of approximately eight acres stretching roughly from the tennis - courts in the sourth to the boat launching area north of Birdseye Park, along the Port Perry waterfront. The spraying, which will take about two days, will be done in the very near future as July 7 is the last date the federal environment department will allow chemical to be used to kill weeds in the lake. During discussion on this issue Monday after- noon, Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor said the chemical used is Reg- lone A, the same one that the Trent Severn Waterways Authority uses to spray weed infested navigational channels in Lake Scu- gog and other bodies of The sign and the expression on the face of Ron Davidson says it all. He's an indepen- dent Sipco dealer who charges that the ma- jor oil companies are trying to force in- water in the Kawartha chain. He also said that the operator of Port Perry Marine has agreed to spend about $500 for spraying weeds in front of the marina to keep a channel open. All members of coun- cil agreed that spending the money for spraying the weeds is needed at this time. "The weed situation in the lake right now is almost as bad as it was at this date last year," - said Ward 2 councillor Jack Cottrell, who add- ed that he has received serveral enquiries from the public wanting to know if the Township planned to do anything about the problem this summer. "If we don't take some quick action, the situation is going. to be very bad in a couple of weeks," he said. He suggested that the council spend more than $2000 to include such areas as the mouth of - It looks like the resid- ents of Sunrise Beach made their point when they said two weeks ago they don't want the Township to build a road linking their beach with Aldred"s on Scugog Island. With virtually no dis- cussion late Monday afternoon, council de- cided not to build a road Ron Davidson angry ~~ Township to spray © Lake Scugog weeds the Nonquon River and near the Port Perry Yacht Club on the" west side of the lake. However, both coun- cillors Lawrence Mal- (Turn to page 3) 'Beach road furned down that would link the two beaches. : "We should not be pushing this road down the throats of the res- idents if they don't want it," said Ward 3 coun- cillor Don Cochrane. The other members of council agreed, and the decision not to construct (Turn to page 3) Local dealer will fight, not switch dependents out of business by unfair pricing tactics. But he says he won't go under without a fight. (See story) Ron Davidson was a bitter and angry man last Friday morning. As an independent Sipco gas station dealer with outlets in Raglan, Manchester, Brooklin and Orillia, Mr. David- son was losing money, like most other inde- pendent dealers who sell gasoline under other trade names. He charged it was the major oil companies, including Petro-Can which is owned outright by the Federal govern- ment, and Sunoco, part- ly owned by the Ontario government, which were causing him to lose money and in the end want to force him out of business as an inde- pendent. "They (major oil companies) want me off the block. It's as simple as that", he told the Star in an interview at his office in the gas station located at the junction of Regional Road 8 and Highway 12, west of Port Perry. (Turn to page 9) - pn an AON A tir Fa" " " 5 A