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eh a Vol. 127 No. 22 Township and union reach an By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star agreement has been reached between the Township of Scugog and its unionized workers. The two sides agreed to ex- tend the life of the contract to December 31. They will then re- negotiate the contract. John Cherry, union represen- tative for the Canadian Union of Public 'Employees (C.U.P.E.), told the Port Perry Star that he was not happy with the agree- "ment. School bu less than By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star Durham Board of Education Trustees are hammering away at its budget in an attempt to find an acceptable rate. And at last Wednesday's fi- nance meeting they took a giant step by carving two per cent from the figure. Before the April 14 meeting, the school board budget was sit- ting at 5.99 per cent with what appeared to be no further cuts possible. But additional areas were found, says Scugog Trustee Bobbie Drew. agreement "Is anybody happy when you come out of negotiations and nothing has been aceom- plished?" he said. But he did acknowledge that the local workers ratified the contractin a vote last week. Mr. Cherry said one of the fea- tures of the present contract - was an agreement that there would not be any lay offs during the life of the contract. This will extend to the end of the year as well. Although Mr. Cherry was not Turnto Page 7 get set at er cent According to Mrs. Drew, the preliminary budget is now at 3.98 per cent. This has yet to be approved by the trustees, but Mrs. Drew is hopeful it will be accepted at the April 26 meet- ing. She points to the fact that 18 of the 20 trustees were at the meeting. Despite being accepted by those present at the finance meeting, it was close as it went to a vote of 10-8. Going into the meeting the trustees had found additional cuts to decrease the budget to a Turn to page 5 Lake Scugog freed of icy grip April 18 The shroud of ice covering Lake Scugog for the past four months finally began to break away last week revealing patches of sparkling blue water by Friday afternoon. But it wasn't until Sunday, April 18th, the dark ice mass finally succumed to warm temperatures and disappeared from the lake. While April 18th is rather late for the ice leaving the lake, it's eleven days short of setting any record. The latest recorded date for the ice to disappear from Lake Scugog was April 29, 1965. The earliest date to catch a glimpse of the spark- ling waters of the lake was March 16, 1983, a span of six weeks difference. A complete list of the dates recorded by the Port Perry Star for the ice leaving Lake Scugog since 1872 can be found inside this issue of the Star. By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Marsha Clouthier swam her way to three silver medals out of the five events she competed in at the Eight Nations Interna- tional Youth Swim Meet, held earlier this month in Dort- mund, Germany. Marsha, 15, of Port Perry was one of 24 Canadian youth swim- mers who made up the Youth National Swim Team which competed at the meet April 5- 12. ocal swimmer wins in Germany Individually Marsha won the . silver medal in both the 100- metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly. Marsha tied her best times in both events. She swam a 2:21 in the 200-metre and a 1:05 in the 100-metre event. A competitor from Germany out touched her in both events. "I'm happy (I won the silver)," Marsha told the Port Perry Star, but she feels she could havedone better. "I am not really satisfied, I guess because I wanted to win," she said. The Canadian team won the gold at the competition with 685 points, eight more points than second place France. Germany placed third. The event which put the team over the top was the 4x100 relay team which swam to a silver medal. Marsha along with three other swimmers from Whitby, Toronto and Quebec made up the team. Marsha also swam in the 400 Turnto Page 3 NY TdT TINGE 3 mg rr Irn TY CUT TT CPTI TR CIPTRIIITRS. A The rn TET me TTT ereeEmme--m