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Time for a Festival A festival is a place where people gather to have fun, and - organizers of the Scugog Chamber of Commerce Carib- bean Festival Days are hoping that's just what everyone in the township will do this weekend. All the planning is over, and the time has now arrived for the residents of the area to take part in the festivities which Chamber organizers have been working .on for the past six months. Festival Days officially gets underway this Thursday night at the Port Perry High School auditorium when a live broad- cast 'of Wintario takes place. This event gets underway about 7:00 p.m. and there will be a limited number of tickets available at the door. (Turn to page 3) Port doctors Doctors in Port Perry re-opened their offices Monday; ending an OMA sanctioned strike that began nearly three weeks ago. And for the first time in nearly two weeks, the emergency depart- ment at Community Memorial Hospital was back to normal with physicians seeing all patients, not just those with serious problems. Although three Port Perry doctors (Ralph Price, Allan Eix and Tom Millar) continued to see patients at the office during the strike, they supported the OMA condemnation of Bill 94 which out-lawed extra bill- ing in Ontario. The other doctors who work at the Medical Centre on Paxton Street shut their offices. And local physicians still feel very back to work this week strongly about the legislation to the point where they will not at this time" re-consider resignations from inter- nal hospital committees. While things are back to normal in Port Perry this week, there could be further disruptions in the future. The OMA has decided to continue the project with a series of rotating strikes across the province. One Port Perry doctor told the Star on Monday he fully expects that a "number of local doctors" would heed the call to shut their offices again if the OMA ear-marks Durham Region for a shut-down. He said he doesn't know if the OMA will make this request, or how much prior notice local doctors would get if that request is made. Tractor mishap injures former local councillor Well known Cartwright dairy farmer and former Scugog Township councillor John Wolters is in intensive care at Oshawa General Hospital with serious injuries suf- fered July 1 in a tractor acccident at his farm east of Port Perry. Mr. Wolters was baling hay alone late in the afternoon when the mishap took place. He was ap- JOHN WOLTERS parently standing beside the tractor when it somehow slipped into gear 'and ran gver him. A hired hand had been working with him in the fields, but had left just before the accident to return to the barn to start the evening chores. Mr. Wolters was found by his daughter who went looking for him when he didn't arrive at the farm house for supper. He was taken to Port Perry Hospital and then transferred to Oshawa General. His injuries include a punctured lung, fractured ribs, collar bone and pelvis. . Mr. Wolters was first elected to the Scugog Township council for Ward 4 in 1978. He was re-elected in 1980 and again in 1982 as the area councillor for the entire Township. In the most recent elections in the fall of 1985, he was defeated in a bid for the position of Mayor of Scugog. He is a member of the Kawartha Conservation Board. Just how the accident happened is not known, but it is believed Mr. Wolters was standing in front of the rear tire when the tractor lurched forward. Vol. 120 No. 32 Tuesday, July 8, 1986. Copy 35° 40 Pages There was a large crowd on hand at Blackstock Tractor Pull last Saturday night as tractors of all shapes and sizes took to the Kicking up lots of dust track. Dick Reid in "Olds" Black Magic had no trouble winning in his class for modified tractors. More photos and results on page 8) Pipeline inspector blamed for blast The National Energy Board in- quiry into the death of a contractor after the gas explosion east of Brooklin last October 17 has placed the blame for the accident on insuf- ficient regard for established pro- cedures on the part of TransCanada PipeLines field representative Paul Burkholder. Donald Wright died in the explo sion and fire when the blade of the trenching machine he was driving severed a 20 inch main gas pipeline. Three other men were severely burned in the mishap. The board's report stated Burkholder had staked one of the gas lines in belief it was the northern 'of the two. Inadvertently, the mark- ed line was in fact the southerly pipeline. In his error, he told Wright that the marked line was the closest to him and he would be safe to trench within 30 feet of the markings. The board stated Burkholder did not confirm the track of the pipeline by locating the second line.-Further, that he did not prevent the tile work to continue before locating both lines. It also suggested Burkholder was not sufiiciently aware of what Wright was planning to do. The board has indicated it is ex- amining its regulations on pipeline crossings as a result of the accident.