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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 12 1988 No plans to alter Region's water billing The Durham Region finance department has no immediate plans to alter the way water bills are sent to customers or the proce- dure followed when water service is cut off over an un-paid bill. The Region sends out about 70,000 residential water bills four times a year, and according to the commissioner of finance, custom- ers are allowed more than 42 days to pay their bills before the shut- off procedure is put in motion. "I believe that our water cus- tomers are given ample time to pya their bills. The collection cy- cle has been quite satisfactory in the past and we are not recom- mending any changes at this time," said Jack Gartley in a re- port to the Regional council re- cently. Water bills are due 16 days af- ter they are mailed. If paid within this time, the customer receives a discount. Nine days after the due date, an over-due motice is mailed. Ten days after that a dis-connect Letters Museum says thanks To The Editor: To the many people and com- mittees in our community for their co-operation, donations, talents, time and energy. Many thanks for digging in and helping us with Pioneer Days. Only with your help could the Lake Scugog Garbage! To The Editor: Has anyone taken a good look at the beach lately? Welcome to beautiful Port Perry!!! Not so beautiful. We must do something. Why is there such a garbage problem? I suggest a big fine for people who are seen dropping or leaving garbage. Please lets do something. Sincerely, Valerie Carter ~ Port Perry Historical Society and Scugog Shores Museum be successful with our Pioneer Days over the past Canada Day holiday weekend. ' Lake Scugog Historical Society and Scugog Shores Museum; Volunteers we need you. Give the museum a call 985-3589 - there are many rewarding events - serving on committees - museum board - school tour guides - telephoning members regarding meetings - help to assist in fund raising events - Canoe Nonquon - booths at Agricultural Fairs - food booths at auctions or weddings - serving - typing - Pioneer Days. Men, women and students who are interested in membership in the Lake Scugog Historical Socie- ty phone Pat Boyd 985-7034. Remember - Today is the first day of the rest of your life. From the Pioneer Days Com- mittee, Thanks. Roy Walker Smith, Port Perry, Ontario. . notice is hand delivered to the cus- tomer. However, the customer still has two weeks to pay the bill once this stage has been reached. The final step is a 24-hour notice left with the customer advising that the water will be shut off un- less the bill is paid within 24 hours. The report came to council following an enquiry from one councillors asking about why a constituent had his water shut off. He had claimed he had been on va- cation. As it turned out, the customer claiming to be on vacation and unable to pay the bill had been sent seven overdue notices in the Graduate Ralph A. DeJong son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben DeJong, Nestleton, . graduated with honours from the School of Architecture, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario on June 15, 1988. Ralph has accepted a position as an Architectural Design Con- sultant with Holmes & Brakel Ltd., Pickering, Ontario. past two years, received five dis- connect warnings in the same per- iod, and was on the dis-connect listing twice. . The total water/sewer bill is a combination of water consump- tion and sewer use based on that consumption. Many customers have com- plained in the past that the sewer portion of their bill should not in- clude water consumption that does not go back into the sewer sys- tem, for such things as lawn wa- tering, filling swimming pools. In his report, Mr. Gartlev ints out that water an allowance 1s made on the total bill for these things. And water customers who re- ceive an unusually high bill should check the following things: leaking fixture or toilet; or a catch-up bill if previous bills had been based on estimates rather than actual usage. Water bills also can be expect- ed to rise in summer months when people are watering lawns and gardens, washing vehicles and filling swimming pools, the re- port states. Port Perry. Vancouver. Order of Odd Fellows. Yesterday's Memories (From Page 5) Shelly Lascombe, 9 and Patty Davidson, 10, of Caesarea, found a 11% lb. aerial bomb while swimming in Lake Scugog on Sunday. After examination at the 11th Armoured Regiment in Oshawa, it was found to be an aerial practice bomb used by student pilots in the Second World War, who possibly used a gun- nery range located in the Lake Scugog Area. A well known and highly respected resident of Port Perry, Rev. F.G. Joblin celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday, July 7. Welcome to the Garnet Dean family who have moved into the former Leonard Gatchell residence in Burketon. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 12, 1978 An exact replica of Charles Lindbergh's famous "Spirit of St. Louis" flew the skies over Scugog Township Sunday even- ing and made a brief stop-over at Greenbank Airport, north of The Port Perry Star placed second in its class as the Best All Round newspaper in the Better Newspapers Competition. The award will be presented to Peter Hvidsten Jr. at the Canadian Community Newspaper Association annual convention in Hugh Strong retired June 30 after delivering the rural mail in old Reach Township for almost 35 years. : John Beckett, of Port Perry, has been elected District Depu- ty Grand Master of Ontario District NO. 41 of the Independent EAA by J. Peter Hvidsten dom Jottings wv, LET'S HAVE SOME FUN Port Perry's annual summer festival, this year called Great Britain Festival Days is ready to go, and all the organizers need now is some co-operation from the weatherman, lots of people, and an abun- dance of energy to get through the next few days. Having been closely involved with Festival Days for many years, prior to this year, | am all to familiar with the amount of work and preparation it takes to put together this three day extravaganza. Anyone taking on this monumentous task deserves a huge round of applause for their efforts from all those who are able to enjoy the weekend. For the members of the Chamber of Commerce who are directly involved with the organization of Festival Days there has been a lot of time and effort expended to date, and | am sure they will be happy to have it all behind them come this Sunday. But before it is all over ...... let's take a look at what residents can look forward to enjoying over the next three or four days. New on the list of activities this year is the Cana- da Fitness activities area-along Water Street. This event should be a real crowd pleaser, especially with the youngsters and teens as there will be a multitude of fitness activities in which they can par- ticipate and enjoy. Many of the main events will once again take place in the huge Festival Tent which will be located in Palmer Park, and the action will get underway there on Thursday night with a British Bash with the Inn Crowd. Anyone who attended this dance last year will not want to miss the fun again this year as the best hits of the 50's, 60's and 70's will be the main feature. On Friday, Polka Dot Door live will take place in the Festival Tent commencing at 1:00 p.m., and fol- lowing this great show for the kids, organizers will begin setting up for the Medieval Feast and Pub Show. This Feast will begin at 6:00 p.m. and prom- ises to be lots of fun (see story in flyer for details) On Saturday, armwrestlers will take over the Festival Tent for the annual Armwrestling Tourna- ment. Registration begins at 10 a.m., and the com- petition gets underway at 12:30 sharp. This is a great spectator sport, so don't miss the excitment and action of this event. Saturday night, is the big one, with the origninal cast of Beatlemania performing in the Festival Tent. If you like the old Beatles tunes, then you won't want to miss this one. Tickets for this event are probably getting scarce by this time, so you had better act quickly if you don't want to miss this show. Also on Saturday, in the Barley Mow Pub (Latcham Centre) is the Pearly Queen Pub Show. If you enjoyed the Pig and Whistle show of televi- sion fame a few years back, then you won't want to miss Anita Scott who performed on the show for a decade. There are no advance sale tickets for this show so you had better come early if you want to take part. See story in flyer for details. The events mentioned here are just some of the many things planned for the weekend. There are many other events in which to take part and | would urge anyone planning to attend to take a look at the ads in this weeks Star for a detailed list- ing so you won't miss any of the action. Knowing Great Britain Festival Days will be an outstanding success, | would like to congratulate the organizers in advance for their time and effort in bringing a little bit of Britain to Port Perry. | can only hope the merchants of Port Perry will get behind the new British theme, as much as they did with the Bahamian theme. Participation by eve- ryone......the merchants, their staff and the public is paramount in making any event a total success. THE HEAT I'm not sure what the weather is going to be like by the time this paper hit the street, but if it is any- thing like it has been for the past month it will be very hot. Just a warning to moms and dads to keep the little tykes out of th sun during Festival Days as much as possible. This kind of heat can bring on heat-stroke very easily, and with a lot of the activities taking part on the hot ashphalt, the. heat is intensified by a large degree. It is my understanding that you should drink lots of fluids (especially water) during this type of heat spell, and keep out of the sun as much as possible.