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Voi. 119 No. 30 Traffic on Regional Road 2 at Seagrave was back- -of kittle-Britain suffered minor injuries as a result of the ed up for awhile last Monday, June 17th because of a two- accident, which Durham Regional Police say happened car crash. Paul Davidson of Lindsay and David Vaughan at 5:30 p.m. Task Force still looks for answers The Task Force study- ing the weed problems in Lake Scugog has not yet come up with a specific plan of action, but weed eating fish such as mud- cat and the white amur have been ruled out. The Task Force's most recent meeting was held in Port Perry June 17 and part of the discussion centered around putting mudcat into the lake for weed control. However, staff from the Natural Tuesday, June 25, 1985 Resources office said there is no documented evidence that mudcat are a method of controll- ing weeds. According to Mayor Jerry Taylor, who is chairman of the Task Force, a suggestion that the white amur fish be used was also ruled out because the Canadian government does not allow its importation in- to Canada. He said there is Lots of fun at Festival Days With July just around the corner, the directors of the Scugog Chamber of Commerce are hard at work finalizing plans for their mid-summer Festival Days celebration. The name has been changed (formerly Western Weekend), and there's lots of new ac- tivities, and plenty for everyone in the family to do. Festival Days will get underway on Thursday evening, July 11 at 7:00 p.m. with an opening ceremony taking place at the new Rotary Club Bandstand. Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor, and Chamber of Commerce, president Peter Hvidsten will welcome the crowd before an evening of entertainment gets underway. There will be music and a singalong with Ir- win Smith, a skit featur- ing the Borelians and the Port Perry Fair Queen Pageant. All these events (Turn to page 3) evidence that this species of fish eats more than twice its own weight each day in weeds in lakes in the United States, and apparently the fish is believed to be a way of controlling the growth of acquatic weeds. On the positive side, the Task Force will make a formal recom- mendation to Parks Canada to open a second navigational channel in the lake, this one running into the Caesarea area. That would require Parks Canada to alter its channel policy, but if the federal agency agrees to the recommendation, the new channel would be sprayed for weed control as the existing one is now. It runs down the centre of the lake from the Scugog River to Port Perry. Parks Canada is ex- pected to starts its weed spraying program on the navigation channel by the end of this month, and a program initiated by the Township and the Chamber of Commerce will start about the same time. Scugog Council has ear-marked $4000 for (Turn to page 3) Rather than pay $500 fine The former owner of a Port Perry video store found guilty of two counts of distributing James Hoffman, 28, told the Star he will ap- peal the judgement and sentence handed down obscene material, says he'll go to jail rather than pay $500 in fines. by Judge William Lane in a Whitby provincial courtroom last Thursday morning. Insisting on his in- nocence, he said Durham Regional Police "should have gone after the distributor of the films, not me. I refuse to pay any fines. I'll go to jail first." Mr. Hoffman was con- victed for distributing two obscene movies, | Spit On Your Grave and Snuff, for which he was fined $250 each. Judge Lane registered 40 pages age \} Durham Region Works department staff have agreed to requested changes in the operating hours at the Garbage Transfer Station, east of Blackstock. A meeting over the sta- tion hours was held last week between members of Township staff, coun- cil and Works depart- il i wy ' 5 She's fast on her feet Ten year old Gretchen Cornish of Port Perry was in high gear at a recent all-Durham track meet. She set a new record in the 100 meters and also took a first in the 200m event. Gretchen is a stu- dent at R.H. Cornish Public School. For a complete story of the school's successes at the all-Durham meet, see sports page in this week's Star. Video store owner may take slammer acquittals for High oschool Memories, Sex Boat, All The King's Ladies, Confessions of Seka, Touch Me In The Morning, L'Amour, Ex- treme Close Up, Lilly, Little French Maid, Lus- ty Princess, and Master and Ms. Johnson. He dismissed Sexy Fire because there was no evidence it was being distributed at the time police seized the tapes in December 1983. Mr. Hoffman said he "did okay" but only be- ing convicted for two of the tapes, but will refuse to. pay his fines (Turn to page 3) BR Region OK's dump hours ment staff for Durham Region. They agreed that the Transfer Station should be allowed to stay open to 4:30 P.M. on Satur- days and to 9:00 P.M. on Tuesdays. The station will be closed Wednesdays and Sundays. However, in agreeing to these changes, the Region staff asked that the number of hours of supervision be reduced each week to 24, from the present 44. The supervisor, who's paid by the Region, has been on the job under contract since January. It will remain the supervisor's job to open and shut the gates in the morning and evening, and the 24 hours he works each week will be varied. He will continue to turn away commercial loads of garbage and heavy construction materials. The meeting last week also resulted in approval to ask a scrap metal dealer to provide a bin at the site for metal objects. The changes in the operation of the Transfer Station must still be ap- proved by the Region's Works committee before they come into effect. That could take two or three weeks. Changing the hours of operation of the station so it was more accessible and convenient for the public, especially residents of Ward 4 who have no regular garbage pick-up, had been the ob- jective of a citizens group who mounted a campaign for these changes in the last few weeks. If the new changes are approved by the Works Committee of the Regional Council, it will mean the station will be open 44 hours each, but ' supervised for just 24 of | those hours. }