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Vol. 120 No. 18 Tuesday, April 1, 1986 Copy 35¢ For the first time ever, the Borelians theatre group of Port Perry are tackling a musical pro- """ duction "The Fantastics. 'This parable on love will have performances at Town Hall 1873 in both dinner and cabaret style theatre. Director Lynn Relf says this: 'Anyone who has ever been young and in love will relate to this show." Strong characterization and dramatic lighting will high- Street. light the 'bare set' effect. Musical director is Ruth Harcourt. Cast members featured in this photo include from left front: Brad Prentice, Col- een Embree, Tammie Lee Chilco, Mervyn Thom- son and Bill Bagshaw. At the back are Les Parkes and Mel Somerville. The show will run April 11 and 12th and April 17, 18 and 19th. There are tickets available at Irwin Smith Music on Queen By-law enforcer now on the prowl " Scugog Township has hired a full- time by-law enforcement officer. Don Intine began his new duties on March 24 and his job will be the enforcement of all by-laws on the _ Township books, investigations in- to infractions and the gathering of evidence for possible prosecutions. Mr. Intine has lived in the Port Perry area for the past six months. He is originally from Brantford, He has completed law enforce- ment courses at Humber College in "Toronto, and his background in- cludes hotel security, the Military Police at CFB Cornwalis, and sum- mer student work with the OPP dealing with municipal by-law infractions. This is the first time Scugog Township has employed a person to deal exclusively with by-law en- forcement. In the past, the function of by-law enforcement and building inspection had been done by one person. Rapid growth in the Township over the last few years made it more and more difficult for one person to DON INTINE handle both functions effectively. In the past year, the Township has received numerous complaints from citizens about alleged by-law infractions. Council irons out site for new school Scugog Township council and the - Durham Board of Education have hammered out a final agreement for. the site of a new elementary school at the Port Perry Fairgrounds. In a two hour meeting with the Township council last Thursday morning, Board of Education chair- man Ruth Lafarga agreed with a re- quest from council to locate the school in the northwest corner of the grounds, rather than the southwest corner, which had been the Board's first choice for the location. However, in agreeing to move the school site to the northwest corner, the Board reduced its cash offer for the seven acres of land from $115,000 to $102,000. Board officials feel that extensive site preparation (grading and filling) will be needed on the northwest site. Members of council were initial- ly reluctant to reduce the price for the land, but finally agreed when it was pointed out that the Township will be able to develop eight more residential lots in the remainder of the Fairgrounds property. This ad- ditional eight lots would bring the total lots to 53 that may be developed there by the Township. Township council wanted the new school located on the northwest cor- ner because this would allow for bet- ter overall development of the total 23 acres of land at the Fairgrounds. The Durham Board of Education is now waiting for final approval from the provincial government for the funds to build the new school. Of- ficials expect that approval in the next week or so. The Board expects to start work on the new school early this fall (after the Port Perry Fair Labour Day Weekend) with the doors to open for students in September 1987. " Following last Thursday's meeting, Mrs. Lafarga said the school will have ten classrooms, a gym, library and resource centre for Kindergarten to grade six (Turn to page 31) Regional taxes up 7.2 % this year Property owners in Scugog Township will be facing a 7.2 per cent increase in the Regional por- tion of their taxes this year. For the average Scugog home owner ($3,000 assessment) this will mean an increase of about $14 in Regional tdxes. The average homeowner will be paying $205 in Regional taxes this year, compared with $191 last year. The reason for the increase is the Durham Region budget which received the green light from Regional councillors March 26. The average tax increase in that budget were "the second highest' in the short history of Durham Region, said finance committee chairman Jim Witty at the meeting last week. Durham's net spending re- quirements this year will be $51.6 million, an increase of more than 13 per cent over last year. Assessment increases and the for- mula used to apportion the Regional levy among all eight municipalities led to the net tax increase of 7.2 per cent for Scugog Township. Only Brock Township with a net tax hike of 5.4 per cent was lower than Scugog. Other municipalities in Durham were not so fortunate. In Pickering, taxpayers will fork over 10.4 per cent more in 1986, and the figure will be 11.2 per cent for those in Whitby. Increases for the other communities range from 7.9 to 9.8 per cent. Commenting on the budget that was presented to the council last week, finance chairman Jim Witty said there were several factors that contributed to the overall 13.5 per cent spending increase. The Durham Police budget is up over $2 million as the force will hire 17 new officers and eight support personnel, the first time in three years that additional manpower has been added to the Regional Police. Large capital items in the 1986 budget increase $432,000 for a police computer and $360,000 for renova- tions to Fairview Lodge in Whitby. Also, Durham was forced to put $769,000 from general revenues in- to the waste disposal (garbage) budget. This was necessary, Witty said, because the Region is trying to keep its dumping charges com- petitive with Metro Toronto. Other factors contributing to the overall increase include a reduction in the surplus from the previous year, an increase in roads works spending of $1.4 million, and the fact the unconditional grants from the provincial government were in- creased by just 1.1 per cent for 1986. In Scugog Township, the Region has ear-marked $226,000 this year for construction of a sewer force- main in Port Perry. In commenting on the budget, councillor Witty warned that 1987 will also be a difficult year to keep increases down. "We are looking at (Turn to page 31)