The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i WE VEY 14 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 13, 19689 | Cornish kids | cleaned up and got dirty | at boat launch & vv "Gross!" "000000, yuck." "Disss-gusting!" Those are just a few of the comments overheard last Wednesday June 7 when mem- bers of the R.H. Cornish Science Zookeeper's Club teamed up with Scugog Ward 2 Councillor Marilyn Pearce to do some gar- bage picking at Port Perry's boatlaunch area. Eighteen members of the group, led by teacher CIiff Moon, donned surgical gloves, grabbed garbage bags and set earnestly to work cleaning gar- bage from the lakeshore. Mrs. Pearce supplied several blue boxes from Durham Recy- cling to hold cans, bottles, paper and other recyclables. But some of the things thé group discovered wouldn't fitin the blue boxes--even if they could be recycled. Sarah Croxall, Sarah Hobbs and Michelle Hiemstra, for ex- ample, found a decrepit old tube that, in its' younger years, might have been a hot water heater. Leanne Murray and Mandy x Although it was a dirty job, the Cornish students who cleaned up the boat launch area still had themselves some fun. Above, pals Wendy Little, Annette Stainton and Lori Hall Goreski were just two of many hammed It up with their tool of the trade. who found used firecracker cas- ; SpE fs i " 4 NE Before the Grade Sevens and Eights of R.H. Cornish started their clean-up at Port Perry's waterfront, Ward 2 Councillor Marilyn Pearce told the young people about Scugog -T 's plans for a park in the area. After conversation, the kids turned to conserva- tion-a using blue boxes from Durham Recycling. . w The Cornish Science Zookeeper's Club found all clean-up June 7th In the Port Perry boat launch are and Michelle Hiemstra tried to heft a rotten old hot boat launch area in Port Pe ings, no doubt left over from Vic- toria Day hi-jincks. Of course, beer and pop tins were the most common finds. The boat launch area, direct- ly north of Scugog Memorial Li- brary, is one of the few remain- ing untouched lakeshore areas in Port Perry. Unfortunately, it has been used as a constant trash barrel by the people who enjoy it. On Monday, Scugog Council unveiled plans for the area (see story elsewhere in this issue), that will transform the land into parkland. The clean-up crew from Cor- nish had a special sneak- preview of the plans by Mrs. Pearce before the garbage pick- ingbegan. "Just think," she told them. "You get to see these before your parents!" The kids were interested in sorts of Interesting garbage during a a. Above, Sarah Croxall, Sarah Hobbs water heater. the plan, but they were more keen on getting to the job at hand--cleaning up other peo- ple'slitter. - "We've been looking forward to this all week," Mr. Moon said. The clean-up was held in hon- our of last week's National En- vironment Week. Mrs. Pearce said the whole idea of the clean- up was, "That we don't let areas get so run down we can't do any- thing about them." Before the work began, she added, "You'll see just how bad- ly people have dumped garbage here...when you're done, you 18 go back to tell the rest of the town not to dump garbage. It11 be appreciated." Funny, isn't it, how easy it is to toss one pop can out of a car window--and how hard itis fora group like the Science Zookeep- er's Club to pick it up again. Leanne Murray and Mandy Goreskl share a laugh while ex- amining firecrackers they found during a ven of the ry June 7th,