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Interested in Port Perry Fairgrounds Board plans for new school The Durham Board of Education is expressing an interest in a chunk of the Port Perry Fairgrounds property as a possible site for a new elementary school. The Durham Board is now in the process of Vol. 119 No. 34 identifying potential sites for the new school, which it hopes can be built within the next three years. In a letter to Scugog Township this month, the Board suggests that five acres of the Fairgrounds property would be suitable for a school because of the central location. The Fairgrounds. which are owned by the Township and leased to the local Agricultural Society, have a total area of 23 acres, located on the south side of Durham Road 8 between Simcoe and Bigelow Streets Township council reviewed the letter from the Durham Board at its meeting July 15, but councillors feel it is not Tuesday, July 23, 1985 hikely that the Fairgrounds will be available for a school or any other purpose within the next three years However. it pected that eventually, the Fairgrounds will be moved to a new location IS eX-. Dump hours change Durham Region coun- cil has given its approval to a change in the hours of operation at the Cart- wright Transfer Station, east of Blackstock. According to the recommendation ap- proved at the council meeting last Wednesday, the transfer station will be open to the public from 8:30 AM on Mon- days, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, to 4:30 PM. On Tuesdays, the sta- tion will be open from 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM from May 1 to October 31, but the rest of the year will shut at 4:30 PM on Tuesdays The dump station will be closed at all other times, including statuatory hohdays The Region will con- (Turn to page 2) Peter Heffering leads Tony Charity around the auction ring. Minutes later this champion seven year old Holstein who has Inside the Star Coke Is It... .. Cee ee ee Editorial . ...... The Country Store Sports ........ Down On The Farm . Classifieds . . . .. Business Directory . . DE eee ee never been defeated in class, sold to Stephen Roman. Mr. Heffering will retain a half in- terest in the cow. sale brings $7 What many people call the finest Holstein herd anywhere went on the auction block last week, and when the two day sale ended. buyers had paid st over $7 million for «ww. ammals at the Hanover Hills Farm, south of Port Perry The highlight of the sale came just before noon on Tuesday. July 16. when the 'almost perfect cow." Brookview Tony Charity. was led in to the auction ring inside a mommoth tent set up on the grounds at Hanover Hills for this sale The crowd, estimated at about 2500, many of whom were at the sale just to witness Tony Charity on the block, broke nto a round of spontaneous applause, as owner Peter Heffering led the magnificent seven-year old around the ring. Flashbulbs popped and auctioneer Robert Shore of Glanworth, Ont gave everybody in the crowd a light hearted chance cand thrill) for at least one bid on Tony Charity when he set the opening price at $50,000 Hands everywhere shot up But the bidding quick- ly moved into the upper stratosphere, and when the gavel came down for the last time a couple of minutes later, Charity had brought a cool $1.450.000, a Canadian record for a single cow, and probably a new world record as well The buyer was multi milhonaire Stephen Roman with extensive holdings in mining and financial institutions, and Romandale Farms at Markham Mr Roman's bid was $50,000 more than the final offer from a 14 year across Durham Road 8 in the area behind the Scugog Arena, but there are numerous hurdles to overcome before that takes place. A committee has been set up with reps from the Fair Board. council, the Arena Board and several local service clubs to start studying all the ramifications of moving the Fairgrounds, as well as the plans to build a complete banquet facili- ty on the Scugog Arena. That committee met for the first time last week, and will meet again in August The committee will eventual- ly come up with a report to Scugog Township council on the costs, the feasibility and the need of moving the Fair- grounds and building the banquet facility at the local arena. Pavlik property. Bros. Circus will cus elephant. Circus coming With the fun and excitement of Festival Days hardly out of our minds, the Scugog Chamber of Commerce announced this week they will be bringing a Circus to Port Perry next month. The one-day event will take place on Satur- day, August 24 in a large three-ring circus tent at the corner of Lilla and Perry Streets on the The highly acclaimed Al G. Kelly and Miller feature wild animals, elephants, trapeze artists and crazy clowns. And circus morning everyone is invited to watch as the "Big Top™ 1s raised high in the air with the help of Nina, the performing cir- Watch next week for ticket outlets and make plans to see the "greatest show on earth." Durham to get 911 emergency dialing system Durham Region will probably have a 911 emergency phone dialing service someday, bul a lot of technical and political questions will have to be answered first. Regional Police Chief Jon Jenkins told Durham councillors last week that at the moment about 52 per cent of the popula tion of Ontario hves nan area with the 911 emergency system, in cluding Toronto, London, Windsor and several large regional municipahties in the Golden Horseshoe Hanover Hills Holstein million old Pennsylvama boy. Chris Witter, who was bidding for his father who owns a Holstein breeding business in the United States The Witters already own one of Tony Chari ty's sons and dearly would have liked to add mother to their herd But the 14 year old apparent ly had been told by his father not to go higher than $1 4 milhon for Tony Charity Incredible as it may seem, Mr Roman's $1,450,000 only bought half of this world famous cow Peter Heffering and He added that the Association of Ontario Police Chiefs recognizes the need for such an emergency dialing system, and he predicted that eventually, all of the Golden Horseshoe, 1n- cluding Durham would be served by the system Chief Jenkins made his comments at the July 17 meeting of Regional council Members of council viewed a 20 minute audio visual presentation about the 911 system which was prepared by the OPP and the Durham Pohce force (Turn to page 7) his Hanover Hill partner Ken Trevena will retain a 50 per cent share in the animal As might be expected when a dispersal sale of this kind takes place, buyers from all over Canada, many American States, and countries such as Argentina, Italy, Japan, Holland, Ecuador and Mexico made their way to the farm located on Scugog Concession Four, just south of Manchester And the sale attracted many more who had no intention of putting a bid (Turn to page 8) --