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- | i" i" - Jennifer Geer receives Ontario Junior Citizen award JANUARY The new year got off to an eventful start for Ron and Karen Parish as little Shawn Michael was the first baby born in 1986 at the Community Hospital in Port Perry. Weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, Shawn arrived January 2nd, at 4:30 in the afternoon. Port Perry High School's SADD group (Students Against Drunk Driving) received national publicity on CFTO's evening news. Reporter Jim Wicks and cameraman Tom Johnston taped a regular SADD meeting and inter- viewed several of the key charac- ters involved in the group. Harvey Kirck, one of the best known personalities in the Cgna- dian Broadcasting industry was the special guest speaker at the Scu- gog Chamber of Commerce annu- al meeting. The Port Perry United Church celebrated 100 years of service to the community. An 1886 atmos- phere was recreated by the mini- ster, and many of the choir and congregation were dressed in peri- od costume for the dedication ser- vice. FEBRUARY "Transcending the Traffic", an 86 foot high sculpture depicting traffic through the ages, arrived at the Expo '86 site in Vancouver. Creator Bill Lishman spent two weeks supervising the assembly of his work. Expo '86 would open in May. The Durham Board of Educa- tion's Property and Transportation Committee agreed to keep Cart- wright High School open for the next five years without review. Epsom Public School was prom- ised not to be reviewed until atten- dance drops below Board-rated ca- pacity. MARCH Bill Barr is a bird fancier and has just completed building a purple martin "hotel" big enough to hold 70 pairs of his favourite bird. The residents of Utica want the speed limit through their little hamlet reduced, and local store owner Sylvia Mooney along with Judy MacSween have started a pe- tition to present to council. Scugog Township council has accepted an offer from the Durham Board of Education to purchase seven acres of land at the fair- grounds as the site for a new ele- mentary school. The offer of $115,000 was accepted by council but was not unanimous. A 60-unit co-op housing project for Port Perry received the finan- cial green light from the provin- cial and federal governments. The project will be built on land east of Carnegie Street and south of Highway 7A near the Canadian Tire Store at the Port Perry Plaza. Vin and Jean Walker of Port Perry are the proud new owners of a 1986 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, thanks to a Super Lotto ticket win late in January. John Arthur Begin was convict- ed on criminal negligence causing the death of his two young chil- dren, in a fire that consumed his home in 1984 and was sentenced to 6 months in jail. An 18-unit condominium pro- ject by developer Alex Shepherd has cleared the final hurdles and construction could get underway in the very near future. He hopes that the $1.5 million project will be finished by the end of this year APRIL Scugog Township hired a full- time by-law enforcement officer. Don Intine will enforce ali by- laws in the Township books. The speed limit through Utica was reduced from 80 km/hr to 70 km/hr after the organization of a vetition, with well over 100 names on it, demanding that the limit be lowered on Durham Road 21. Town Hall 1873 celebrated its 10th anniversary at a gala evening which featured Moe Kauffman and his Jazz Quintet. As many as 60 people from Port Perry and area, most of them children, needed anti-rabies shots after they were in contact with a rabid dog during the last week of March. The dog in question roamed throughout the Perry Glen and Cawker's Creek subdivisions. The Durham Board of Education received provincial grants for con- struction of a new elementary school in Port Perry. It gained approval for a construction grant of $2,062,000 plus an additional $90,000 for purchasing land for ~ the school site. MAY Township councillors declined to support a request from the local Chamber of Commerce to have Port Perry declared a tourist area which in turn would allow stores in the community to remain open on Sundays and statutory holi- days. The Central Seven Association for the Mentally Handicapped turned the sod to start construction of Carlan House on a lot immedi- ately to the east of the Central Seven workshop on the Durham Road 8. A committee of the Durham Board of Education approved a res- olution to keep looking for a site in Port Perry for construction of a new elementary school. JUNE Scugog Township council has refused to support a bid by the lo- cal Chamber of Commerce to al- low any store in Port Perry to re- main open on Sundays. The council voted unanimously to support the request from Chamber president Peter Hvidsten. The tennis courts are in need of repairs and estimates are as high as $27,000 to make the necessary repairs. Bob McCrae told council the lighting is poor, there are low spots on the surface, and the fence is beginning to lean. The Durham Board of Education has pulled the plug on a new school for Port Perry in 1987, de- spite protests from Scugog trus- tees Debbie Tredway and Joyce Kelly. Trustees voted 17-3 to transfer the $2.1 million school to a school in Pickering. A 51-year-old Scugog Township hog farmer was sentenced to 12 months in jail for defrauding the Bank of Commerce of $125,000. The judge ordered John Schewaga to make full restitution of the money, as well as serve a jail sen- tence. The mysterious Phantom has struck again with his famous call- ing card placed on the steps of lo- cal businesses. The calling card is a white rock, in a variety of sizes, painted white with the words "The Phantom" in black letters. JULY Port Perry was declared an "honourary island" by the govern- ment of the Bahamas for the up- coming Carribean Festival Days. About 20 Port Perry families held "welcome back" parties as their pet dogs have been allowed out of quarantine, three months af- ter they came in contact with a "dumb rabid" dog that touched off one of the worst rabies scares ever in Ontario. Doctors in Port Perry re-opened their offices Monday, July 7th, ending an OMA sanctioned strike that began nearly three weeks ago. Well-known Cartwright dairy farmer John Wolters is in inten- sive care at Oshawa General Hos- pital with serious injuries suffered in a tractor accident at his farm. Somehow the tractor slipped into gear and it ran over him. Earl Martyn and Carol Smith have been named the sexiest man and woman in Scugog Township after the two raised over $3,000. for the Kidney Foundation and the Scugog Chamber of Commerce. NOVEMBER 1986 PORT PERRY STAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE -- Tuesday, September 20, 1988 -- 53 FEBRUARY 1986 Jennifer Geer of Prince Albert was the recipient of a Junior Citizen of the Year award at a special ban- quet held by the Ontario Community Newspaper AS- soclation In Toronto. She Is seen here with Lt. Gov- ernor Lincoln Alexander following the presentation of her award. Plans for a small commercial plaza on Lilla Street just north of Port Perry have been rejected by Scugog' Township council. The small commercial package on the old Brooks farm is part of a devel- opment which includes 141 single family homes. Wintario Live packed the audi- torium at Port Perry High School for its broadcast of the popular weekly show. Over 600 people crowded into the hot, steamy audi- torium to help kick off the Ca- ribbean Festival Days activities. AUGUST Thirteen people, including secre- tary-treasurer James Duncan have resigned from the Port Perry Fair Board over the past couple of weeks. The on-going turmoil about the sale the fairgrounds property has caused deep splits and dissension among Fair Board members. Barb Carnegie and Jeanne Jack- man are just two of the committee members working to make the ~ "Fur Into Fashion" is the name of show held at the Scugog Memorial Library. Featured Is the knitted, woven and crocheted fur of local artists, from left, Fran Solar, Dinl Page, Pat Boyd, marilyn Baker, Helen O'Rellly, and Paula Lishman (seated centre). Abserit was Wendy Bateman. Ah, 1 n18 first-ever reunion for the former Port Perry High School students a success. The reunion will take place in June 1987. Residents from Prince Albert tabled a petition with more than 200 names after they learned from sources that the Port Office in the local general store may close if the present owners sell the business. Scugog Township sculptor Bill Lishman has caused quite a stir around town with his latest crea- tion," Autohenge". The creation is a precise replica of the famous Stonehenge in England built out of wrecked cars. It was the scene for a Chrysler Commercial which was filmed here this month. Township Council has given Scugog Chamber of Commerce approval in principle to install Victorian-style decorative light standards along both sides of Queen Street, along with several new benches and some heavy-duty steel garbage containers. Total cost of the project is estimated at just under $40,000. SEPTEMBER A 2,200 pound Belgian horse was destroyed Monday night at the Fairgrounds after a freak accident during the horsedraw competi- tions. The team of horses spooked and ran into the infield where they eventually crashed into a parked motorhome, causing a fractured skull and broken verte- brae. Port Perry's downtown has been given a facelift to make it resem- ble the little town of Rockport, Indiana circa 1957. Filming of "The Arm" starring Matt Dillon will begin this week. Veterans of the Korcan War re- dedicated the Blackstock Cenotaph to honour those who died in the war. _A residential home for five au- tistic teenagers has been proposed at a public meeting into the re- zoning of a rural piece of property. The property in question (known as the Bolahood Farm) has 116 acres and a large farm house. Movie star Matt Dillon, camera crews, directors, producers and ex- tras moved into downtown Port Perry this week for the filming of "The Arm". The street was lined Turn to page 54 grr HE Ag --_-- Sy ak GARE