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tp w= Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant All You Can Eat Byffet Over 50 tems - Free Home Delivery 985-1 921 - port Perry Plaza CLASSIFIEDS PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1994 T & C LIMO Airport Service 985-0170 1-800-361-0216 REAL ESTATE By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star A Scugog Township teen is cleaning up in the ring after starting to show cattle just last year. Samantha Diotte, a 13-year- old Grade 8 student at S.A. Cawker Public School in Port Perry, has placed first in 11 of the 12 events she's entered this year, and now has her sights set on ribbons at the Markham and Royal Winter fairs. "So far I've got a perfect score," Samantha said at her family's farm on Scugog's 6th Line last week, the day after she took a first and third at the Lindsay Central Exhibition. Samantha proudly displayed "Amy -- show name Ms Presedence -- an eight-month- old red angus heifer, with whom she has fared so well at this year's 4-H and community shows. With Amy she has amassed enough points to put her well in the lead for the Durham West: 4-H- competition, and plans to remain in the lead Remember: This is just Samantha's second year showing "I've been to a lot of fairs," she said. "(Amy's) only been when the season winds down. Scugog girl cleaning up in show ring 'She's my baby,' Sam Diotte says of bovine partner Samantha Diotte with Ms Presedence (Amy). The two have won 11 of 12 events they've showed In this year. beaten once." "Im a pretty quick learner," Samantha said of her instant success. "So it didn't really take me long to learn it." The showing of Samantha and Amy is amazing to Sam's father Butch, who was a 4-H member himself when he was a boy. He tredits the 4-H program with giving Samantha the basics, and the drive to do well in competition. "Theres so much work involved with it, it's incredible," he said. "If they don't do their : homework, they don't win." - Samantha, meanwhile, looks to her partner Amy when explaining their success this year. "She's my baby," she said. Japanese school director visits Scugog Alternative Housing group back in business after funding forecast is revised By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star North Durham Alternative Housing is back in business. The group that is attempting to establish a non-profit hous- ing project with "supportive housing" units for the physically challenged learned recently that dire predictions about provincial funding were wrong, and will allow for a much larger project than anticipated. Alternative Housing com- mittee chair John Gillham said new figures from the govern- ment show jobsOntario funding will be available for a 32-unit building with 10 apartments designated for supportive hous- ing. That's a building twice the size the committee were told they could anticipate last month, said Mr. Gillham, but still smaller than the initial concept, which called for a 60- unit building with 15 supportive housing apartments. The building is to be built in Uxbridge and service clientele from Uxbridge, Scugog and Brock Townships. The aim is to integrate those who need ongo- ing care with the able-bodied, giving them alternatives to "Studying educational system" An interest in school management led two Japanese school directors to Port Perry High School and Cartwright Central Public School last week. Mr. Shaji, who is a director of a small network of schools in Sappow, Japan and Mr. Nakajewa, assistant to the principal of a Japan high school, and a physical educa- tion teacher, visited the local schools to learn more about local school board policies. Ms. Yoko Barber accompanied the two men as their interpretor. The trio were interested in - student assessment, the use of technology, the role of women and the role of parents in the Durham Board of Education's school system. The local schools wide range of programs and the use of basic, general and advanced courses was what led the group to -Port Perry High School, according to Scugog school board trustee Bobbie Drew. The visitors spent one day touring Carwright Public School and Port Perry High School, where they were treat- ed to a meal prepared by the Short Order Cooking class. Other visits included a tour of the Durham Board of Education offices and Bill Lishman's home. Last Saturday evening the trio from Japan later treated several people they had met on their trip to an authentic Japanese meal. During the meal the visitors thanked the board members for their hospitality and had only glowing reports on their trip to Durham. The trip was a great learning experience for them, according to Mrs. Drew. Mr. Shaji called the Durham Board of Education a "system based on love, trust and gentleness." "We want to take many things we have learned here and utilize them in our schools, and hopefully to a broader area than just our schools," he added. institutional care. Ongoing care would be pre- sented by the March of Dimes, which was to present the group's proposal to Durham's District Health Council (DHC) Monday. Members of the committee were dumfounded when they were told in August that fund- ing would be available only for a 20-unit building with five supportive housing apartments, and considered abandoning the Uxbridge proposal, said Mr. Gillham. But they've swung back into action with the latest revelations. "The news we got from the province was incorrect," he said. "Thirty-two units (for Durham Region) is a definite... Whether we get it for Uxbridge, we don't know." The committee is hoping now that the DHC will be receptive to their proposal. If it is accept- ed, provincial funding from the ministries of health and housing would likely fall into place, said Mr. Gillham. He added, however, that it will likely be some time before word on funding arrives. "We are going to be more or less sitting tight, probably into the next year," he said. Port Perry High School students prepared a meal for visiting Japanese school directors 1 last week. The visitors were interested in school management and spent the day at two lo- cal schools. Pictured are: Mr. Shaji, Mr. Nakajewa, interpretor Ms. Yoko Barber, PPHS prin- cipal Sandra Riches, Scugog school trsutee Bobbie Drew and Cartwright Central Public School principal Don Real. Also pictured are Short Order Cooking students Thai Cuu, Coral Sharkey and Jason Merton who served the guests their meal. 1GA 5 7¥ Proud! Hometown NOW OPEN SUNDAYS Due to the increasing popularity of Sunday Shopping, Port Perry IGA is now open for your convenience 10a.m. to 4 p.m.