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Scugog Township will be gaining a public schoo! board trustee when municipal elections are held this coming November. This means the Township will elect two trustees to the Durham Board of Education, while Uxbridge Town- ship will lose a trustee and elect just one to the Board this November. The reason for Scugog's gain and Ux- bridge's loss is the total equalized assessment shift in the two municipalities. The most recent assessment figures show that Scugog is now .45 per cent larger than the neighbour to the west. Five years ago, Ux- bridge gained a trustee and Scugog lost one when the assessment in Ux- brige nosed slightly ahead of the municipality. In other changes to the make-up in the Durham Weed spraying Public Board of Educa- tion, which will come in- to effect this November, the City of Oshawa will send one separate school rep to the Board, rather than two, and the re- mainder of Durham will send two reps, instead of just one. The total representa- tion of 20 trustees on the Public Board will remain the same. The juggling of trustees, according to assessment totals takes place each municipal election year. According to the Education Act, Durham Region clerk Cec Lundy has the authority to determine the number of trustees elected from the City of Oshawa. The clerks from Ajax, Whit- by and Pickering (the three largest municipali- ties in Durham after Oshawa) have the authority to determine the representation from the remainder of the applications up 400 percent The number of ap- plications for chemical weed spraying in Lake Scugog has jumped significantly this year. According to the Ministry of the Environ- ment office in Peter- borough, 40 permits for application of the weed killer Reglone A have been issued this sum- mer, compared with nine in 1984. Those 40 permits will cover an area of 21 hec- tares, or just about 50 acres of the lake. Geoff Carpentier, an official with the Environ- ment Ministry told the Star last week the pro- bable main reason for the dramatic jump in permit applications is the wide-spread publici- ty about the weed pro- blem through a series of Lake Scugog Task Force meetings that began this year and are continuing through the summer. Mr. Carpentier said the Environment Ministry will not be ac- cepting any further ap- plications for weed spraying this summer. With the dramatic in- crease in the number of spraying applications, the Environment Ministry this summer has stipulated that the Reglone A be applied at arate of 11 litres per hec- tare, rather than the 22 litre rate last year. However, Mr. Carpen- tier assured the Star that even at the reduced ap- plication levels, Reglone A will be effective in get- (Turn to page 3) Trial date fo be set An 18 year old Little Britain man will ap- pear in a Pickering courtroom July 25 to set a trial date in connection with a two car crash that killed two people. Steven Guymer appeared briefly in court last Thursday to hear his charges which include two counts of criminal neghgence causing death, impaired driving and exceeding the legal blood alcohol limit of 08 The accident happened on Durham Road 21 just east of Durham Road 23 Monday May 20th. Durham Regional Police say Margaret Parsons, 62. of Aurora, was sitting in the passenger seat of her husband's westbound car when it was struck by Guymer's eastbound vehicle Mrs Parsons was flown by air am- bulance to Sunnybrook Hospital but was pro- nounced dead the following day James Parsons, 77, of Tonawanda New York, died about a week later Don Parsons, 62, and Jean Parsons, 77, were also seriously injured in the collision. Scugog to gain one new school trustee Region. The decision to add a trustee from Scugog and take one away from Ux- bridge was made ty the Whitby-Pickering-Ajax clerks at a meeting last Thursday. : Pickering clerk Bruce Taylor said the decision concerning the Scugog trustee can be appealed within a 15-day period. Vol. 119 No. 32 Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Glant Pancake Attempt Saturday Festival Days '85 has finally arrived and one of the highlights of the two days of excitement will be | the giant pancake flip which is to take place this Saturday at about noon. The Golden Griddle cook- ing team is all set to meet the challenge as they at- tempt to make the world's largest pancake. Above, testing out the 7 ft. trying pan, are, from left: Elgin Knopp . Jack Cottrell, Stella McDonnell, Peter Hvidsten and Wayne Luke. A 99 cent pancake breakfast begins at 9:00 a.m. and there will be a celebrity pancake flip featuring Keith Acton of the Minnesota North Stars at about 11:30 a.m. Festival Days kick-off Thursday at lakefront Something old, something new That's about the best way to describe Port Perry's Festival Days which kick off this Thurs- day (July 11) and con- tinue on Friday and Saturday The three days will be filled with all kinds of in- teresting events. everything from a Rock Video Party to an at tempt to flip the world's largest pancake, a giant of a pancake seven feet across and made from 60 pounds of batter This is the first year for Festival Days. but its predecessor Western Weekend has been an ongoing mid-summer at- traction in Port Perry for more than a decade Chamber of Com- merce organizers felt that Western Weekend needed some changes. and they came up with the new name, a host of new events, while keep- ing many of the old ac- tivities that proved popular over the years There will be two focal points for this year's Festival Days in front of the Post Office on Queen Street. and in Palmer Park at the bandstand and the large Marquis: style tent Possibly the highhght of the weekend will be an attempt to fhp the world's largest pancake (according to the (Guiness Book of Records) A huge pan, seven feet in diameter has been contracted specially for this attempt, and the ac- tion will get underway about noon on Saturday in Palmer Park Don't miss it If the pancake can be flipped, you may witness history in the making Just prior to the world record pancake flip. you can catch a few local per sonahties flipping or: dinary flap-jacks Keith Acton of the Minnesota North Stars will be join ed by Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor, Regional chairman Gary Herrema and others as they stick- handle their way through the pancake flipping contest. And the pancake fun starts Saturday morning at 9°00 am with a Golden Griddle Breakfast in Palmer Park. pancakes, coffee and all the fixin's for just 99 cents If roast beef 1s your cup of tea, don't miss the Big Brother Beef Bar-b-q Friday afternoon starting at 4:30 at the Festival Tent in Palmer Park And while you're en- joying the beef dinner, you'll hear the Blue "(Turn to page 2) tl NR A INR. cnttte, wring id w