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1 ls a rac 3 a 38 Lt Bs SP ov 2% Vol. 127 No. 18. PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993 40 Pages Council gives nod By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star Scugog council has given its blessing to a controversial training school slotted for the Marsh Hill area. In a vote of five to one with one absent, council voted in fa- vor of supporting an official plan ammendment to allow a training school for heavy ma- chinery operators. The proposed site is on the north side of the 12th Conces- sion, one kilometre east of Re- gional Road 23. All the facilities would be located on a 140-acre site of an old gravel pit. The facility, proposed by the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario, would be a permanent school providing 'to training school both classroom construction and on the job training in heavy construction equipment. The school would feature a 125,000-square foot adminis- trative building, a shop build- ing, machinery storage and craning area. An additional 20 to 25 acres will be utilized for outdoor training areas. From the word go this train- ing facility has been a contro- versial proposal. A local envi- ronmental group, which evolved into SCOPE, has taken up the fight against the school. "Our concerns are dust and noise primarily," David Tasker, an executive member of SCOPE told council on Monday. The organization has opposed (Turn to page 5) Mixed reaction to By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star Scugog council received some good news and some bad news at a council meeting Monday morning. The good news was that 260 additional sewsdge capacity units have been freed allowing future development in Prince Albert. The bad news is that local councillors will not be given the opportunity to decide where this development should go. Valerie Cranmer, a manager at the Region of Durham Plan- ning Department, delivered the long awaited news to council- lors at an extended council meeting Monday morning. . The results were the culmina- tion of a lengthy study to deter- mine how much additional de- velopment the area could handle. A long-term investigation is currently being conducted to de- termine the capacity of the Non- quon River water treatment fa- cility. ' And although further units could be released after the study is completed, the 260 units have been approved. The study released to the councillors Monday revealed that the Nonquon facility can currently supply 700,000 gal- lons of water per day. Of this to- tal, 480,000 gallons are current- ly used. It was therefore determined that 260 additional units could be accommodated in Prince Al- bert. we sewage increase The small lot development in Prince Albert will be serviced by a gravity-fed sewer system, passing in a north and east di- rection through vacant lands designated residential. The region will pay a portion of the cost while the developers will assume the remainder. Although council has been lobbying regional council for ex- isting sewage capacity for a number of years, the announce- ment was not greeted with open arms. Many of the councillors were furious that the region would determine where the units would be placed. Ward 2 Councillor Marilyn Pearce, who serves the Prince Albert area, is an hat the re- gion is making the decisions. "The region's only role is what the land use should be," she told the Star after the meeting. "We're elected to recognize the impacts on the community." "I'm furious. This isn't their role." Councillor Pearce said she was under the impression that the local councillors would 'be able to designate the areas. She now has concerns that the impact will hurt the commu- nity. "We have concerns that it's too much, too fast in one area," she said. "I don't know if we want to spend all our money on one spot because the impact would be horrendous." Turnto Page 3 Police seek hijackers By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Metro Police are seeking two men who hijacked a van last week in Toronto, holding its driver at gunpoint for several hours and forcing him to drive to Newmarket and finally Man- chester where the men quietly left the van. The two men, who appeared to need nothing more than a ride, hijacked the van at approx- imately 3 p.m. Thursday, March 18 at the corner of Bloor and Bay Streets in Toronto. According to police the two men jumped into the side load- ing door of the van when it was stopped at a red light. One man pulled a handgun and ordered the male occupant to drive to Newmarket. Once in Newmarket one man left the vehicle and made a tele- phone call from a phone booth. The pair kept the driver at the scene while they waited for a re- turn call. After the call came, the men forced the driver to take them further north until coming to the intersection of Highways 7A and 12, in Manchester, where they told the driver to stop and - they left the van. The two fled on foot. Police say they are not sure how much time elasped be- tween the time the van was hi- Jacked and the time it arrived in Scugog. The driver reported the hijacking to police at 10:30 p.m. after reportedly driving straight home from Manches- ter. He was unharmed. Police are looking for a white male, in his early 20s, five-foot eight inches tall, 180 lbs. with blonde hair. The second maf is described as black, in his early 20s, six foot, 190 lbs, with his hair in a box cut. Anyone with information is asked to call the Metropolitan Police Department at 324-4204. "Music for Music" Saturday night in Greenbank FY ow N EET. EN es a IR 8