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12 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Janvary 31, 1989 Museum church could be Heritage Building 3. WRN. RAN LN IA LAE Ry DAA Constructed In 1860, the Head Church on Scugog Island may be designated a Heritage Building. The Church Is now part of the Scugog Shores Museum, though It Is still used for special services. The Museum Committee wants the ex- terior of the church designated a Heritage Bullding. (see story for detalls) important communities. 05 hours per week. An increase of 126%. ~ That's a promise. Delivering on our promise in rural Canada In the spring of 1988, Canada Post Corporation made an important commitment to people living in rural areas of Canada: a promise to make postal products and services more accessible to these By working with businesses in communities more and more postal outlets are now operated by local merchants, resulting ini more accessible and more convenient postal services than ever before. Accessibility to our products and services has been dramatically improved. In the past, hours of service averaged 29 hours per week. Our new commitment has improved the average hours of service to Our efforts are working. Independent surveys continue to show that an overwhelming majority of rural Canadians surveyed believe that the post office is moving in the right direction towards better service. Just as we promised. Canada Post is in rural Canada to stay. The Scugog Shores Museum wants to have A Head Memorial Church declared a "heritage build- ing." - 8 The Church, built in 1860, is now part of the Museum property on Scugog Island. Pat Boyd, acting chairman of the Museum Committee, outlined the heritage building plans at the annual meeting of Scugog Histor- ical Society January 24. Mrs. Boyd told the meeting that the Museum Committee wants the heritage designation ap- plied to the exterior of the church, ut not the inside. She said if it gets this desin- gation, it will allow the Museum to apply for provincial grants to fix the church foundation. It also means the church could not be torn down or radically al- tered outside. Mrs. Boyd said the Museum Committee will approach Town- ship council for a by-law in sup- port of the heritage designation. She said later the Committee considers this a priority project for this year. According to author F.G. Weir, writing in "Scugog and Its Environs," the church was built in Our commitment: better service for you CANADA POST CORPORATION 1869 and dedicated in September the following year for the Episco- pal-Methodist congregation. The cost of construction was $677, and according to Weir, members of the congregation paid the debt with grain that winter, leaving their families without n. The church ceased to be used on a regular basis in 1959, and was taken over by the Museum a decade later. Today, the Church is part of the Museum display open to the public, and is also used several times each year for special servic- es, as well as for meetings by the Head UCW. In other news from the Histor- ical Society's Annual meeting last week, the flu bug that has been making . the rounds in Scugog, kept attendance so low that anoth- er general meeting will have to be held in February to elect a new slate of officers for the coming year. "There were not enough people at last week's meeting to form a quorum. Mary Lynne Williams, the new curator at the Museum was introduced at the annual meeting. (see separate article on Mary Lynne in this issue of the Star) Sgn She said plans are being made keep the Museum open year- round and stage a special program at Christmas. And there are also attempts now being made to enlarge the Museum property, if the purchase of five acres of land can be nego- tiated successfully. Scugog Township council has already given its endorsement of expanding the property through the purchase of about five acres. Guest speaker for the evening . meeting was author Bill Graham, who has recently completed a de- tailed and scholarly book about the history of Reach Township, and specifically the Greenbank area. Mr. Graham's book called "Greenbank" has been on sale in the Township since before Christ- mas. He outlined some of the ways he researched the book and some of the interesting discoveries he made while pouring over archives, old deeds, assessment roles and census returns. And he said that many elderly people living in the community were very cager to talk about their recollections and memories. Mr. Graham's address was well received by those attending the annual meeting. The Historical Society will hold another general meeting in February to attempt to elect a slate of officers, but a specific date for that meeting has not been set. PORT PERRY CLINIC 985-4422 now offering REFLEXOLOGY & PEDICURE -- by = RENEE BOS Certified Reflexologist, Kinesiologist & Pedicurist