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Garbage pick-up contract extended one more year Scugog Township council has extended the garbage pick-up con- tract with Ed Brown for another year. Council agreed Dec- ember 3 to increase the per stop charge from 60 cents to 75 cents. Mr. Brown is under contract to the Town- ship to make about 4,000 ! Ea aN Snow Princess residential and comm- ercial pick-ups each week in Port Perry, Scugog Island, and parts of Ward 1 and 4. The new contract is Snow sure is an eye-opener for people like Emily Walker, a one- year-old lass who was far too young to understand what snow was all about last year. But she's making up for last time, making snowballs that are nearly the same size as she is. See anything in your size? Well if these clothes are too small for you, it's no wonder. They were designed and hand-sewn specifically for those infamous dolls of - the Cabbage Patch and are being raffled off to raise funds for Epsom Public School activities. The clothes were made by Judy Taylor and June Kett and are modelled above by their children, (from left) Karen worth $142,000. The contractor had initially asked council for more than the 15 cent per stop increase, citing increased costs from some homeowners who exceed the five bag maximum on garbage day. Under the by-law terms, Mr. Brown is not required to pick up more than five bags of garbage from each stop. However, he has picked up more than five on numerous occasions. Members of council expressed satisfaction at the level of service the contractor has pro- vided over the past couple of years. The Township will start an advertising pro- gram in an effort to inform the public that the maximum number of garbage bags the contractor will pick up at a house or business is five. No easy solution (From page 1) pretty nasty trade- off," she told the meeting. The weeds are essential for fish habi- tant and protect smaller fish from large pred- ators. . Chemical spraying has proven an effective way to get rid of weeds, and is carried out in navi- gation channel by Parks Canada and individual property owners who want to clear away the lake in front of their cottages and homes. Last summer, Scugog ed Try Us On For Size p.m. --- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. December 11, 1984 -- 3 £5 OAR J Sh J RG OA rd RH RA RA A SR RA RRR RR Christmas deadlines With Christmas and New Years Day both falling on a Tuesday this year, publishing of the Port Perry Star will In order to accomplish this we must ask for the co- operation of both our advertisers and news reporters as 'new deadlines for all material have been set. Please Note: absolute deadline for all ads and news for our Christmas issue will be 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 21st. We cannot take any material after that : 4 4 q x : be moved-up from Tuesday to Monday. | : : place over the weekend, with the Star being available to the public at or before noon on Monday. The Star will be closed Christmas and Boxing Days, and will re-open on Thursday, December 27 with normal business hours. For our New Years issue, we must once again impose a 5:00 p.m. deadline for all material on Friday, December 98. This issue will be available to the public on Monday, The Star will be closed on Tuesday, January 1 for the New Years Day holiday and will re-open again on Wednesday morning with our usual hours of business. We know these new deadlines will cause some pro- blems, but we request your co-operation to make things run as smoothly as possible. g time as production and printing of the paper will take | | : | 4 4 4 | 4 1 4 : : December 31 at 12 noon or earlier, if possible. 4 4 4 4 4 4 i Township sprayed the area along the Port Perry waterfront successfully. But it's a costly pro- cess, aside from the potential environmental damage wide-spread chemical application might cause. It is esti- mated that the cost of spraying the entire lake would be in-the neigh- bourhood of $6 million. John Lewis, a super- intendent with Parks Canada, told the meet- ing the federal agency will be clearly defining "arr, We F355 Kett, Lisa Taylor and her brother Andy. Also being raffl- ed off is a genuine Cabbage Patch Kid. Tickets are three for a buck or fifty cents each and are available from the school, Brock's Department Store, Port Perry or Yellow Brick Road in Uxbridge. The draw will be made during the school's Christmas Concert, December 19th at 7:30 the navigational chan- nel in the lake next summer by placing 20 additional marker buoys from Lindsay to Port Perry. This channel is sprayed to control weeds and Mr. Lewis said it is hoped that the props of boats sticking to the channel will also help to control the weed growth. Since the weed growth in the lake escalated in the summer of 1983, there has been the suggestion from some local residents that the discharge of treated effluent from the Port Perry sewage lagoons was contributing to the weed growth. At the meeting last, week, Mr. Sherman from the MOE said the lagoons are not a major factor in the weed growth. He said the treated effluent which is flushed from the lagoons into the Nonquon River each spring and fall is well within the Environment Ministry guidelines and the amount of nutrients getting into the lake from this source is the same as it was in 1972. The construction of a conventional type sew- age treatment plant would not improve the levels of nutrients going into the lake. And Mr. Shaw also told the meeting that con- trolling the levels of nutrients going into the lake is not the solution to the weed problem. How- ever, he said that if more phosphates go into the lake, the problem could become worse. Using a mechanical harvester to get rid of the weeds has been tried on Lake Scugog by local council. It is expensive to rent a harvester, hire an operator and truck the weeds away. How- ever, mechanical har- vesting was not dis- cussed in any detail at the Task Force meeting last Wednesday night. The question of raising the level of the lake by control of the dam at Lindsay was also dis- cussed at the meeting with Mr. Lewis saying this could create wide- spread flooding and soil erosion. "The impact of raising water levels often does not show up for four or five years," he said. Despite the fact there was no concrete course of action mapped out at the first meeting, Mayor Taylor said at the outset that the purpose of the meeting was to get the Task Force 'set up and underway." "We have had mee- tings over the past couple of years with property owners and the public and these have revealed one thing: there is a serious prob- lem with the lake," said Mayor Taylor. "The deterioration is having a serious impact on residents, tourists and the local business community,' he stated. There were about 30 spectators in the council chambers for this first meeting. The next meeting is slated for January 30 and will be open to the public. Other members of the Task Force include Durham-York MPP Ross Stevenson, Chamber of Commerce president Bill Barr: Al Goreski, representing marina operators; Rick Johnston of the Lake Scugog Homeowner Association; the Reeves of Mariposa, Ops and Manvers Townships and the Mayor of Lindsay, - Jim Flynn who pledged his support to the Task Force.