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Film causes confusion, excitement By Kelly Lown Patrick Dempsey, began film- The scenes on the lake areone ply, the municipal dock on ice cream, chocolate and fudge Port Perry Star ing on Queen Street on Thurs- of the main reasons Port Perry Queen Street, as well as the seg- were all moved to the basement Although downtown Port day and will remainintownun- waschosen for the movie. ment on Lake Scugog. of the store. } Perry was bustling with activity til today (Tuesday). "They came to Scugog be- Nuts About Chocolate under- While owner Ken Koury said for several days when a Toronto production crew moved into town, local merchants are not convinced it helped their sales. The cast and crew of an as yet unnamed suspense thriller, starring Margot Kidder and ahe gg Sig « J PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1994 Vol. 128 No. 36 The movie is set in a small town , where a young woman is befriended by a wealthy family. As time goes on a number of un- usual deaths occur, one in the form of a drowning on Lake Scu- 808. cause itis a pretty town and itis on the lake," said Sharon McKinnon, president of the BIA. 3 The made-for-TV movie, in- cludes scenes from Nuts About Chocolate, Port Perry Auto Sup- went a transformation into a bakery, taking on the name "Confectionery by Phyliss." Most of the stock in the store was removed as the heat from the cameras would have de- stroyed the chocolate. Freezers, Copy 65¢ he was sorry he had to disap- point some customers while his store was closed, he was "happy and excited" to be a part of it. Mr. Koury, who was compen- Turnto Page 2 40 Pages Scugog Shores Museum's Steam and Rallway Days held over the weekend attracted a = Y . ihr a PR 7 2 T Fs ¥ # By Kelly Lown ort Perry Star The first step of the long- awaited hiring process at Port Perry Metal Processing got un- 300 potential employees ap- : plied at the plant. The Minacs Group Inc., which - handled the application pro- - cess, accepted resumes and ap- plications on July 21, 22 and 25, . -. for the plant, which is scheduled . to open 'in the fall at the old >> Johnson Controls building. According to plant manager Randy McLeod, all three days = were very busy, as more than 300 ~~ lyMonday afternoon. ple had applied as of ear- These applications did not ac- count for the 76 the company re- ceived last week at a recruit- ment day for Mother Jackson's Open Kitchens, held at Agricul- tural Employment Services, or for the more than 200, Mr. McLeod had received personal- J. PETER HVIDSTEN / PORT PEARY STAR good number of interested spectators. The show featured both scale and full sized steam engines as well as model railway replicas. Above, Bruce Carr of Seagrave Is ly. Although he expected to see a 'More than 300 ne up for jobs derway this week, as more than =¢ great deal of people applying for work at the plant, Mr {icLeod said he was surprised at the number of people, both local and. out of town residents, who turned out over the three days. . "Mr. McLeod has began sifting through the applications and is narrowing the list to a short-list of possible employees. He will be interviewing those on the short list over. the next three days. | "We will be starting off slow," he said of the hiring process. "By the end of the year (we will have hired) between 20-25 people," he told the Star. It was announced in early June that Port Perry Metal Pro- cessing, a division of the Missis- sauga-based Makagon Indus- tries, had inked a 10-year lease ofthe vacantbuilding. Its operation in Port Perry will supply primarily the auto industry with its products. Its customer base includes General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Volkswagen. Man airlifted from 'scene of accident By Kelly Lown as firefighters, police and ambu- Port Perry Star lance attendants cleared the A two-vehicle accident on roadway. - July 20 sent two people to hospi- Scugog firefighters from Hall tal, including a Port Perry man, who was airlifted to Sunny- brook Hospital. According to Ontario Provin- cial Police, Jeffrey Burrows, 29, of Port Perry, who was travel- ling westbound on Concession 3, stopped at the intersection of Concession 3 and Highway 12, but then proceeded onto the highway, where he was struck by a southbound vehicle, driven 1 were called to the scene to ex- tricate Mr. Burrows from his ve- hicle. He was airlifted to Sunny- brook Health Science Centre from the scene, where he was listed in critical condition on Monday morning. Mr. Chon was taken by am- bulance to Community Memori- al Hospital for treatment. No charges have been laid as the accident is still under inves- seen operating a 1/6 scale model of a 1920 Waterloo Steam Engine. The engine was built by Charles Truckle, 41, of Ome- in 1976 by the late Walter King of Seagrave. A number of displays of steam operated Traffic was backed up High- | engines were on hand. way 12 for more than one hour Hometown vay NOW y / [rf Proud i NO the | OPEN SUNDAY p-- tigation. A heavy rain storm caused poor visibility at the time of the 12:40 p.m. crash. Port Perry IGA Is now open for your convenience 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.