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L t Fairground only suitable site The Durham Board of Education is seriously considering ex- tion as a final resort to get a piece of the Fairgrounds as the site for a new elementary school in Port Perry. Chairman Ruth Lafarga and of: ficials with the Durahm Board met with Township councillors Monday morning behind closed doors to in- form council that expropriation proceedures likely will be started. "This (expropriation) is not a pleasant proce ure,' Mrs. Lafarga told the Star following the meeting. But she said the Durham Board has reached the point where it has no other choice. "The second alternatives for a school location are just not suitable. We did not want to have to go this way, but we are left with no other choice," she stated. She said the over-crowding situation as schools in Scugog has reached the point where more por- tables will have to be added next September and the Board may be faced with the unpleasant task of busing Scugog students to a small school in Raglan, five miles south of Port Perry. The Durham Board has tried for the past year to negotiate for seven acres of Fairgrounds land at the corner of Simcoe Street and Durham Road 8. The land is owned Marg Wilbur of Scugog Township is about to jump into the political arena once again. Mrs. Wilbur, 47, announced last 4 that she will be seeking the New Democratic Party nomination for the new provincial riding of Durham East, which includes Scugog Township. Marg Wilbur With a provincial election in On- tario expected some time in 1987, Mrs. Wilbur said "we need more New Democrats at Queens Park to fight for the ordinary working peo- ple. They need a voice to speak out about the future of their com- munities, about their jobs and about issues relating to their families. I in- tend to provide that strong voice for the people of Durham East," she stated. Mrs. Wilbur said some of the ma- jor issues in the up-coming election campaign will be the environment; by Scugog Township, but leased until 1995 to the Port Perry Fair Board. Twice in the past seven months, members of the Fair Board and Agricultural Society have narrowly voted against giving up the lease to make way for the new school and to move the Fair to a new location near the Scugog Arena. In notifying Seugog Council of the intent to likely start ex- propriation proceedings, the Durham Board asked for the Township's support. Members of council reacted cautiously to the request for sup- port on Monday and immediately asked Township solicitor Michael Fowler for a full report on the legal ramifications of expropriation and other options the council may have. Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor told the Star the council will get the report from Mr. Fowler by next Monday and a special meeting of council will be called to deal with it. He said members of council are convinced that the Durham Board of Education has not been. able to find another suitable school site in northwest Port Perry. And he said council members are award of the growing pressure to find a site for a new school. He said without the Wilbur seeks 'nomination the need for a compulsory no-fault public auto insurance program; im- proved daycare facilities; and oc- cupational health and safety programs. The New Democrats of Durham East will hold the nomination meeting on January 27 at Durham College in Oshawa. The meeting will get underway at 7:30 p.m. with Pro- vincial NDP leader Bob Rae as the guest speaker. No other candidates to date have announced their inten- tion to seek the NDP nomination in this riding. Mrs. Wilbur, who lives with her husband Jim and their three children southwest of Port Perry, is a veteran NDP campaigner and party strategist. She sought election in the Durham York riding in 1981 and 1985 and has worked as cam- paign manager for federal NDP candidates in this area. Born and raised in Toronto, she attended university there as well as in London, England where she took a post-graduate course in education. She has been a teacher in Ottawa, England and the West Indies, before "retiring" to raise three children. Mrs. Wilbur has worked actively for the NDP for many years at the provincial and federal levels. She is a member of the provincial ex- ecutive and the NDP Municipal Af- fairs committee. She was elected to the federal council of the Party at the Convention this year. She is also very active in local community affairs as chairman of the Scugog Library Board, a member of the Durham Federation of Agriculture and Operation Dismantle. She is the former Presi- dent of the Stony Lake Cottagers Association and the Reach Protec- tive Association, a local ratepayers group. Her father, the late Andrew Brewin, served as NDP member from 1962 to 1979 in the federal riding of Greenwood in Toronto. Fairgrounds site, the Durham Board would not have a new school open before 1989 or 1990. Fair Board president Jim Vol. 121 No. 3 Jamieson, breaking the lease and moving the Fair to a new site, tolu (he Star Monday night that he hoped who has supported » Tuesday, December 16, 1986 Board may expropriate negotiations between the Fair Board, the council and the Durham Board could resolve the problem (Turn to page 6) 40 Pages Debbie Colston has brightened up the library and will continue to do so for the next porcelain dolls. Debbie has won many awards for her work, and a trip to Scugog Memorial Library three weeks with her outstanding collection of will show you why. Council want traffic study "We have a traffic disaster just waiting to happen in the area.' That was the way Ward 1 coun- cillor Yvonne Christie summed up the way she feels about the ever in- creasing traffic problems and congestion along Highway 7A bet- ween Carnegie Street to the west and the causeway to the east. There were nods of agreement to Mrs. Christie's assessment of the situation from fellow councillors during a long discussion on the problems Monday afternoon in the council chambers. But, like Mrs. Christie, the other councillors could come up with few suggestions on how to improve the traffic situation along Highway 7A. And even three experts with the provincial highways department, who tock part in the discussions with council, admitted finding a solution will be a complex and possibly expensive undertaking. But Harold Doyle of the MTC was adament about one thing: the provincial roads department (MTC) will not install traffic signals at the entrance to the Port Perry plaza onto Highway 7A. Mr. Doyle said MTC will not put traffic signals there because it is a private entrance into the plaza and because 1983 traffic counts don't warrant signals. He also said signals at the plaza entrance could create problems because they would be too close to the present signals at the intersection of Water Street and Highway 7A. However, Mr. Doyle added the (Turn to page 3) Township man dies in crash Funeral services were held in Pembroke, Ontario last week for a 43-year old Blackstock resident kill- ed December 9 in a two car accident on Durham Road 57, just south of Highway 7A. Joseph P. Wierzbicki died instant- ly when his southbound car slid out of control and was hit broadside bry a northbound vehicle on Durham Road 57. The driver of the second car, Isobel Bartley, 49, of R.R.2, Blackstock suffered major injuries in the accident and was transferred to Sunnybrook Medical Centre in Toronto where her condition was listed as serious. Mr. Wierzbicki was a former resi- dent of Port Perry and Uxbridge. The father of four children used to operate a chip truck in the Scugog area. Police say both drivers were alone in their cars at the time of the acci- dent. Road conditions at the time were described as extremely slip- pery due to freezing rain. EM