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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" a p-- : PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 10, 1995 -9 _ 1 > PORT PERRY STAR Thanks, COMMUNITY Scugog Injured cops holding benefit game at local arena; funds go to hospital By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Members of the Durham Re- gional Police Force will take to the ice against the Port Perry Modacks in a benefit hockey match Thursday, January 26. The game is a way of saying thank you to a community that showed it cared for police offi- cers shot in the October 20 bank robbery in Port Perry. According to Sgt. Good, the idea for the game was the brain- storm of Constables Warren El- lis and Mark McConkey and De- tective Paul Mooy. The wounded officers wanted to show their appreciation for the support they and their fami- lies received after the shootings. Community Memorial Hospi- tal, which will be the benefactor of the match, was chosen be- cause it is close to the communi- ty's heart and the officers all re- ceived their initial care at the local hospital, before being transfered to other medical fa- cilities. It is hoped that the other two shooting victims, bank manager Alan Knight and real estate agent Debra-Ann Taylor will also be in attendance for the game. Constables Ellis and McCon- key were shot on October 20 as they arrived on the scene In their cruiser, Const. Ellis in the forehead and Const. McConkey in the jaw. Detective Mooy sus- tained severe injuries to his arm when the gunmen opened fire in the Port Perry Plaza. The two teams will face off in a 6 p.m. tilt. at Scugog Arena. The match is slated to be two hoursinlength. Tickets are $3 each and are available at the Port Perry Star, Pineridge Sports, Lakeside Golf and Hockey Centre, Chamber of Commerce, Seagrave Country Store, Country Convenience Store and from the Port Perry ModJacks Hockey Club. Local artist Lishman to create 'lcehenge' Local artist Bill Lishman, with the help of a number of friends and volunteers, plans to construct "Icehenge"" as his ice sculpture contribution to the Port Perry Snowflake Festival. Stonehenge is that ring of giant stones built 5,000 years ago on Salisbury Plain in Eng- land. It started out as a calen- dar and celestial observatory used by the Druid priests of the time. It, along with the many stone rings situated throughout Great Britain, heralded the change of man the wandering hunter to man the resident farmer in need of a calendar to plan the yearly crops. Stone- henge became an icon and it has been painted, studied, copied and wondered about since. A few years ago Mr. Lishman created Autohenge, a full-scale replica of Stonehenge, made from crushed cars, in a field off Shirley Road, a few kilometres south of Port Perry. Autohenge stood for about five years but had to be taken down as the rusty cars were beginning to sag. Lishman plans to construct Icehenge by cutting slabs of ice from Lake Scugog in the same manner ice was once cut from Scugog prior to the advent of re- frigerators. Icehenge will be created di- rectly out from the end of the Port Perry pier and will align with Queen Street and the Port Perry water tower. Queen Street will play the role of the processional for Icehenge and the water tower will be the heel stone. The plan is to flood a circular area about 50 metres in diame- ter for a number of days prior to the Festival and build up a cir- cular ice platform on which the ring of vertical ice slabs will be erected. Mr. Lishman will at- tempt to create Icehenge a geo- metric replica of Stonehenge at two-thirds the scale. As yet, the cutting, moving and erecting of the 30 ice block verticals (each weighing three quarters of a ton) and an equal number of 300 kilogram lintels or cap "stones" has only been worked out in theory. Mr. Lish- man says "we are not sure of the structural integrity of the Scu- gog ice and whether or not everything will work as planned. There are many vari- ables such as weather, ice thick- ness, availability of ice druids (manpower)." "It might just wind up as a jumble of big ice cubes or it might work out per- fectly," said Mr. Lishman. Work in earnest is to start on Jan. 14 with the hope it will be completed by the opening day of the Festival. If you are interest- ed in joining in the fun and help- ing out, call Bill at 986-4384. J J. PETER HVIDSTEN / PORT PERRY STAR Tyler Briley has finished his latest sculpture just in time for the Sled Dog Races which will take place in Port Perry on Jan. 21 and 22. Mr. Briley was commissioned by the local Kinsmen Club to create a bronze sculpture of a team of sled dogs and its musher. The finished work will be on display at various locations in town. (See story) Bronze sculpture of sled dogs latest creation for Tyler Briley Local sculptor Tyler Briley proudly unveiled his latest creation over the weekend. The 65 lb. bronze sculpture shows a musher on the back of a sled with a team of four dogs in full flight. The magnificent work of art, which was com- missioned by the Port Perry Kinsmen Club to be used in a raffle, is intricate in every detail and took Mr. Briley more than 100 hours to complete. Mr. Briley told the Port Perry Star the sled dog piece was a very enjoyable project. "It was entire- ly different than any of the other pieces I've done," he said. Mr. Briley's pieces of art are created in wax by a method known as the "lost wax method." When complete they are takep to a foundry where a ceramic shell is made and molten bronze is poured into the shell to form the cast. [+4 When removed from the shell, the pieces go through a number of steps including sandblast- ing and adding the bronze color. i Speaking of his latest piece, Mr. Briley said the owners of MST Bronze in Mississauga told him due to the complex detail in the dog sled, casting the sled had "pushed the limits of casting technology." The original piece of art will be on display at various stores in town over the next few weeks and is currently at Native Perspectives. The Kinsmen Club are selling tickets on the sled dog piece and a draw for the sculpture will take place in July. Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25 and are available from members of the club. Proceeds from the draw will be used by the Kinsmen to further projects in the community. Woman on mend after single-car crash A Cartwright woman was reportedly on the mend in a Toronto hospital this week after being involved in a car accident Friday morning. Durham Regional Police at the Port Perry detachment had few details on the single-car crash that resulted in injuries to Lorrie Swain, and could con- firm only that she had been involved in an accident. Police did confirm that her in juries required hospitaliza- tion. Star Blackstock correspon- dent Joyce Kelly reports today that Ms Swain was transferred to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following the mishap. She is recovering in the Toronto hospital, Mrs. Kelly reports. DVANTAGE IR ®& CARE Heating and Airconditioning Ltd. 085-4484 WINTER SALES ~ Hi. Eff. Gas Furnaces ~ ~ Central Air Units ~ SN CTANN [a1 x WAG N Think Smart Think Natural Gas Authorized Dealer CONSUMERS GAS J Wo INSTA-FLAME CFM Gas Fireplaces b Put It On Your EE GAS | FURNACE on el Gas Bill! SPECIAL >