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Volume 123 Number 19 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1989 Copy 50¢ 52 Pages Fashions for Spring 1989 are beautiful April showers bring May flowers--as well as a wealth of wonderful spring fashion. Above, Jennifer Malcolm of Daph- ne's on Queen St. shows off a white sult fit for a princess. And yes, polka dots are all the rage this season. For more on what's hot this spring, be sure to catch Spring Into Fash- lon, an upcoming fashion show sponsored by the Catholic Women's League of Port Perry. The show will be held In the Catholic Hall, Scugog St., starting at 7:15 p.m. with desserts and coffee, on April 5 and 6. Fashions being shown are from Daphne's, Wendy's Boutique, Northern Clothing Company, Strawberry Threads, Spencefield House, The Bridal Touch and designers Fran Solar, Susan Haslett Scholfield, Bill Fitches, Murlal Price, Marllyn Wallace, and Marcella Lukav- sy. Tickets are $7 and are available from participating ores. Super Mailboxes! Get ready 'cause they're coming The "super mail boxes" are coming to Port Perry, and soon. In fact, Canada Post offi- cials informed Township coun- cil Monday afternoon, the move to super mail boxes for many Port Perry and Prince Albert residents could start as early as this fall. Connie Read, manager of delivery services with Canada Post, told council that eventual- ly all residents who live outside a 400 metre (quarter mile) radi- us of the post office on Queen Street will get their mail via the community boxes. The same will apply to Prince Albert residents who live outside a quater mile radius of the general store where the post office is located. In her presentations to the council Ms. Read said there are two main reasons why the com- pany feels it must move to the community mail box system "as soon as possible." The first is economics. It is cheaper than door to door deliv- ery. In the last four years na- tion-wide, the Post Office has saved some $100 million with the super mail box delivery sys- tem. And in the case of the Port Perry Post Office, the buidling simply is not large enough to handle the increased volumes of mail, or provide new customers with lock boxes in the lobby or over-the counter general deliv- eryservice. She told council that once the system is in place, there will be some 125 super mail box lo- cations throughout Port Perry's urban area. And it will mean that all those residential customers will have to have a new mailing ad- dress. Canada Post will give customers a year's time to change their mailing address to the new "super box" system. * Further details about the new system will be ironed out between the Post Office and the Township as the locations of many of the community boxes will be on municipal land. In response to a question from council, Ms. Read there are "no immediate plans to re- duce" the number of people now working at the Port Perry Post Office. Several members of council expressed some concern about litter piling up around the com- munity mail boxes, but Ms. Read said this has not been a problem in other communities. And Ms. Read said postal customers would be supplied with change of mailing address cards free of charge. Township council must give its approval to the plans since the land for the mail boxes is owned by the municipality. Further meetings between the council and Postal officials will be held over the next few months. But for a lot of residents, the move to super mail boxes is coming. Township endorses zoning for day care It was not unanimous, but Township council has endorsed a zoning change to permit day care centres in elementary schools in Scugog. Councillor Neil Hunter and Yvonne Christie voted against the "blanket" re-zoning for all schools in the Township. Councillor Hunter said there are already parking prob- lems at some schools, and he questioned whether the addi- tion of a day care would com- pound the problems. Councillor Christie said she was not in favour of a blan- ket resolution pertaining to all the schools, though she is in fa- vour of re-zoning to permit a day care in the new school that --- will open in September on Sim- coe Street north. The Board of 'Education has no plans at this time to open day care centres in the other Scugog schools, but the zoning change clears the legal hurdle should space become available in the future. Councillor Marilyn Pearce said she favours the re-zoning as day care, in her view, is "a compatible use" within the com- munity facility zoning require- ment. There were several letters of objection filed by members of the community opposed td the concept of placing day care cen- tres in elementary schools. 1 i { :