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Techstar plant in production by March 1st One woman's view about "hockey fights OMHA turns h down Port's bi B "BB" appeal BH WF CofC honours members with presentations Four people, including an 11-year old girl managed to escape to safe- ty after their car plunged through the Lake Scugog ice Saturday even- ing at Caesarea. The four, all from Missassauga, were returning to Caesarea from an ice fishing hut when the car hit open water about 400 feet east of the government pier. The car, a 1975 Monte Carlo then quickly started to fill with water and began to sink in about seven feet of water. Neil Gauci told the Star the follow- ing morning, he didn't see the . stretch of open water beside a large 'pressure ridge. His 11-year old Saturday evening at Caesarea. Fortunately, the four, including a young girl escaped with nothing more than a cold dunking in Lake Scugog. (See story). Annette McQuaid, Shane Renouf and Roger McQuaid, all from Caesarea were in the right place at the right time to lend assistance to four ~ people whose car plunged through the ice early "Four "scared to death" as car goes through ice daughter Diane was in the back seat, along with Mr. Gauci's brother Jim and another family member Joe Cutajar, who was in the front seat passenger side. As the car sank, the three men managed fo get the driver's door open and splashing around in the frigid waters, they were able to first hoist the young girl to safety on solid ice. : "We were all scared to death," he said later. "There was a lot of panic" as they floundered about in the freezing water. Fortunately, three residents of Caesarea were near the scene of the (Turn to page 3) Vol. 122 No.8 Tuesday, January 19, 1988 Copy 50° 36 Pages Appeal from Mayor O'Connor Scugog, Uxbridge team-up for highway change study Scugog Township councillors have changed their mind and agreed to go to bat with Uxbridge in an effort to have Regional Road 21 and Highway 47 re-designated. "But it took some friendly per- suading by Uxbridge Mayor Gerri- Lynn O'Connor Monday afternoon to get 4« somewhat reluctant Scugog council to change the postion it took on this issue two weeks ago. What Uxbridge Township wants Scugog to do is support an "in- vestigation of ' the potential benefits' of re-designating Durham Road 21 from Manchester to Goodwood as a provincial high- way and change Highway47 from No. 12 Hwy. to Goodwood into a Regional Road. When Scugog council first turned this request down two weeks ago, they were under the impression that such a re-designation would mean that gravel trucks which come from pits north of Uxbridge would end up travelling south on Highway 12 and then west on Regional 'Road 21, by-passing Ux- bridge completely. Council two weeks ago felt it would not be fair to residents of Cars crash in heavy fog, one man injured Thick fog was the probable cause of a two-car collision Sunday after- noon at the intersection of Durham Road 2 and Concession 10 at the "Ridges." | Although details are sketchy, a 1980 Camaro driven by Gordon Rogers of Blackstock collided with a 1985 Malibu driven by Walter Debres of 840 Dundas St. E., Whitby. The force of the impact caused the Camaro to catch fire but the driver and his passenger were able to escape with minor cuts and bruises. Walter Debres, driver of the ' Malibu, was trapped for over half an hour while firemen from Scugog No. 1 and'ambulance attendants work- ed to free him with the Jaws of Life. Mr. Debres received neck and back injuries, but his condition was unknown as of Monday. One of the first to arrive on the scene of the accident was fireman Jamie Donaldson of Port Perry, who grabbed a fire extinguisher from the ambulance to put out the engine fire in the Camaro. No additional information was available from Durham Region Police as of press time on Monday , neck injuries. While some firemen from. the Scugog who live along Regional Road 21 to have the additional (Turn to page 14) trapped man from his car with the Jaws of Life. The accident occurred about 2:30 p.m. in thick fog at the intersection of Concession 10 and Durham Road 2. See story for more detail. A fiery crash on Sunday afternoon at the "Ridges" sent one man to hospital with severe Port Perry Fire Department extinguished the fire in one vehicle, others were busy rescuing a