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Grade Niners Initiated Bables, aren't they adorable? Wait a minute--these babies look kind of full-grown--and what's with the dog collar on Bryce Green (holding "baby" Brad Mitchell). It's all part of the pranks of Initiation Day, held last Friday September 23 at both Cartwright High School and Port Perry High School. Brad and Bryce were just two of the Grade Nines from Cart- wright who were forced to dress up like babies (for the guys) and Pee Wee Herman (for the girls). Cart- wright also had a slave auction--thus, Bryce's collar. For more photos from both Initiations, see inside. World records All the world knows Ben Johnson is the fastest human alive. Late Friday night, Ben zipped across the finish line in the 100 metres final in Korea in a new world record time of 9.79 seconds. Now that is fast, very fast. But the same night another kind of record for speed on land was being set, this time in Lex- ington Ky. Matts Scooter, owned by Gord and Illa Rumple of Utica and Charles Juravinski, paced the fast- est mile in harness racing history. In the Red Mile, Matts Scoot- er was clocked in 1:48 2/5, break- ing by almost a full second the eight year old previous record. Matts Scooter was driven that night by Michel Lachance. He's trained by Harry Poulin. The horse has won over $1 million in harness racing purses this year. Vol. 122 No. 43 Tuesday, September_26; 1988 Copy 50¢ 48 Pages Library plans for purchase of 5,000 additional books The Scugog Memorial Library Board has come up with a five year plan to dramatically increase the number of books. Details of the plan were pre- sented by the Library Board to Township council on Monday. If implemented, the plan would kick in next year, and es- sentially would allow the library to buy 1,000 books per year for the next five years. That is over and above the 1600 new books the library buys in any given year. Librarian Judy MacColl said the target of the plan is for the li- brary to reach 35,000 volumes by 1993. Currently, the library has 23,700 volumes. Of nine libraries in Ontario that serve communities similar in size to Scugog, this library has the smallest number of volumes, said Mrs. MacColl. She said if the plan is imple- mented, the majority of the 1,000 new books would be popular fic- tion, but the library also needs to increase its research and reference sections and add more of the very popular "how to" titles. Buying books is expensive these days, even for libraries. The Bisrage cost of a new books is 14. : The five year plan also calls for the installation of a humidifi- cation system for the library and a lighted sign for the exterior. As well, the library would like to be open Mondays year round. Mrs. MacColl said the library board has been working on the reparation of the five year plan or the past several months. In presenting it to the Town- ship council on Monday, the Board was not seeking a yes/no re- sponse at that time. But Board members feel it is important for the library to have a long range plan and the board will be seeking approval when it presents its 1989 budget to the council next year. The Scugog Library currently has just under 9,000 card holders and on average 1400 people use the library each week. Region requests return of dump In what amounts to a desper- ate bid to buy more time, Durham Region council wants Metro To- ronto to turn the Brock West land- fill site over to the Region. Regional councillors last week voted 19-8 to once again ask this favour from the Metro Toron- to government. If Metro agrees to the request, which is unlikely, it could provide Durham with up to five years breathing space on the issue of what to do with its garbage. Searching for a "Heart of Gold" The Brock West landfill site in Pickering is owned and operated by Metro Toronto, but Durham has dumping rights there. However, at the present rate of Metro and Durham garbage going 10 the dump, it will be filled by 1990. If Metro stopped dumping and turned the dump exclusively over to Durham, the dump would handle Durham's garbage for the (Turn to page 2) No doubt you'll recognize most of these smiling faces. They are all hard- working people, dedicated to the betterment of our community, and they've all been awarded Air Canada's Heart Of Gold. The honour was bestowed upon thousands of Canadians, Including five from Scugog Township. From left Is Louise Hartney, Kent Farndale, Roy Walker Smith, Ruby Dusty and Barbara Wil- son. For more photos and stories about these five wonderful people, see inside this Issue of the Port Perry Star. | - A Da =,