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ht SER LL Volume 123 Number 10 ~ TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1989 Copy 50¢ 44 Pages: by Cathy Olliffe Allison Elizabeth Margaret Ir- win, less than a week old, is the talk of the town. She was born at Community Memorial Hospital Thursday Jan- vary 26 at 7:37 a.m. after endur- ing the adventure of a lifetime. Carolyn, 31, and John Irwin, 36, of Pine Point, already proud parents of four year old Marshall, . discovered they would be expect- ing a second child late in January. - ~ Doctors told the couple Carolyn was carrying a breach baby, so she was booked for a caesarean section at Oshawa General Hospital Fri- day January 27. She was told to check into the hospital Thursday afternoon. But she never did make it t Oshawa. Thursday at 4 a.m., Carolyn's water broke, and she started into heavy labour. While she got dressed and pre- pared to go to the hospital, John went outside to salt the steps "and fire up the truck." With a great deal of difficulty, Snow baby | While high-performance machines squealéd and roared not too far away at the snowmobile drag races held on the weekend In Port Perry, Brittany' Leach, 3, of Scugog Island, busied herself making a snowman in the rapidly dissolving snowbank. It was a beautiful warm weekend for the races. For all the results, see inside this Issue of the Port Perry Star. Dramatic rescue saves baby girl John says he got his wife into the vehicle but couldn't move the truck out of his driveway. It was iced up like a skating rink. Ronn MacDonald, roads super- intendant for the Township of Scugog, says the sky started dumping ice pellets Wednesday at 11 p.m. when he recorded the tem- perature as 21 degrees Fahrenheit. He called the weather office in Malton, where it was already freezing rain, for a hint of what was to come. Sure enough, by 1:30 a.m. the temperature had risen to 30 de- grees and freezing rain was pour- ing down, melting the ice pellets and forming a thick sheet of ice on roadways. John Irwin realized the serious- ness of his predicament and called Durham Regional Police for help. "They said they were sending an ambulance, a sander and a police "cruiser," John recalls. The sander, driven by Gary Car- ter, led the ambulance, the cruiser and one of the Irwin's neighbours, Henry Dunn (driving a Toyota 4X4 truck) east along the 9th con- cession of Scugog Island towards Pine Point, a small community of residents living at the bottom of a very steep hill. At one point along the 9th, the sander slid into a ditch and fli over. The driver wasn't hurt but the truck sustained more than $4,000 damage. Then the ambulance skidded into the ditch. The cruiser attempted to make it to Pine Point along a pathway known as "the bush road" but it too was unsuccessful. (Turn to page 11) Man drowns in Barbados A 53 year old Port Perry man was killed in a tragic diving acci- ; 'dent in the Barbados, Thursday January 26. - Raymond Joseph Boyce was vacationing with his family when he drowned. No further details were available at press time. He was the husband of Brenda Boyce and the father of Sandra Marlowe, Pam Carwardine, Mat- thew and Michael Boyce. Services will be held at the Em- manuel Full Gospel Fellowship Click on Saturday February 4 at a.m. TE ITS Ask any mother, and she'll tell you childbirth isn't easy. But Carolyn and John Irwin of Scugog Island had more problems than usual delivering baby Alli- son Into the world, thanks to ice-slicked roads. Alll- son was In a breach position when Carolyn went Into labour, and the Irwins found themselves stuck at Pine Point because the roads were virtually Impassa- ble. An impressive emergency crew of professionals and friends quickly pulled together to get Carolyn to Community Memorial Hospital, creating a true-to-life drama few movies can equal. And yes, both mom and baby are doing just fine! See story for the details to this heartwarming story. New lots to pay $1000 parks levy Scugog Township council has voted to expand the policy for col- lecting parks levy on all new lots created in the municipality. Effective January 23, a $1,000 levy will be collected by the Township on every new residen- tial lot created by severance or subdivision. The money will go into a re- serve account ear-marked strictly for parks and recreation projects in the Township. Prior to this change, Scugog had been collecting a $1,000 parks levy on developments of three or more lots. The new policy will include single lots such as farm retirement severances and in-filling. And it applies to new apart- ment and condominium units created in the Township as well. Ward 2 councillor Marilyn Pearce was one who pushed for the changes in the levy policy. She's a member of the coun- cil's parks and recreation commit- tee and said "we want to build a reserve fund that will be used for capital projects." She said the committee did some checking with other munici- alitics and found similar policies in place. Councillor Pearce said she would have preferred if the levy had applied to commercial and in- dustrial severances as well as resi- dential. However, she said she is pleased with the changes. "I think Scugog has missed out on a lot of money by not hav- ing something like this in place during the building boom of the last few years," she said. She is not certain just how much revenue the changes will generate for the Township parks and recreation fund this year as that will depend on the number of new lots that are created. With subdivisions, Township policy has been to ask for a chunk of land for a park, or cash in licu of parkland. Devclopers who dedi- cate parkland or make a cash pay- ment in lieu of parkland will not be asked to pay the $1,000/lot levy. Meanwhile, the Township council has appointed a seven per- son steering committee made of Glenn McCoy, Wayne Hancock, John Woodward, Wayne Wilson, Pam Fis, Tom Patton and Amold Peake. The mandate of this commit- tee will be to choose a consultant to provide an in-depth feasibility study for the Township on the de- velopment of a new ice pad, recre- ation hall and banquet room at the Scugog Arena site. The provincial will contribute $15, the cost of this study. overnment towards ps i TE aa. i | rat = el SA i atm eas