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db) N + : 3 H t = $ Vol. 129 No. 12 3 Copy 65¢ (61¢ + 4¢ GSD Sculptures Come To Life igh winds plummeted temperatures 1c ! 0° 'but it couldn't deter Ice scull Cartwright Minor Ball split. | Leagues will vie for ball players By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star There is the potential for a turf war developing in Cartwright this summer, as two separate leagues attempt to lure players to sign up in baseball programs. As of now Cartwright Minor Ball and the Nestleton Hardball League are vying for players as they begin registration for the 1995 season, and representatives of both leagues say they'll try to field teams in all age categories. Cartwright Minor ball has been convening baseball in addi- tion to the more traditional softball leagues for the past couple of seasons, and the sport has grown in popularity among kids who formerly could play just softball. The Nestleton league was born just recently when former CMB coaches and organizers, angered by a per- ception they were being disre- garded by CMB, split from the league to go it on their own. "In part we felt we were being used as a cash cow," Rik Davie, on the directors of the new league, said last week. "What was happening was that the people who were sign- ing their kids up for hardball were in effect subsidizing soft- ball." He said calls for support by baseball coaches to the CMB fell on deaf ears; organizers of the new Nestleton league broke away from CMB to foster the growth of baseball here, he added. "We didn't feel they were taking us seriously," he said. Mr. Davie said that the new Turnto Page9 Tax write-in campaign a success Response to a write-in cam- paign protesting higher federal taxes has been "overwhelming", says a Port Perry organizer. "It's outstanding," Tyler Briley said of his campaign to send letters to the local MP and the federal Minister of. Finance. "We're overwhelmed, and I think maybe it's a sign of things to come." ' Mr. Briley, along with fellow Scarborough firefighter Glenn Kerr of Uxbridge, started dis- tributing form letters in the area last week. Addressed to Durham MP Alex Shepherd and Finance Minister Paul Martin, the letters say any more taxes in the upcoming budget are unacceptable. The first batch of 6,000 let- Turnto Page 11 By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star V ' HEN BOB Free woke up one morning nine years ago and he knew semething wasn't right; what he didn't know was that he was in the midst of having a heart attack. At only 41 years of age, he was not expecting something of that magnitude to happen to him. Like many others, Mr. Free felt pain in his chest and at first dismissed it as indi- gestion or gas. After trying unsuccessfully to relieve the pain, he decided Life begins anew for heart attack victim to have a shower and get ready for work. "As soon as the hot water from the shower hit, it really started to hurt," he recalled. He called to his wife Marianne, a health care work- er, who quickly had him taken to Community Memorial Hospital. "By the time I got to the hospital that morning, I was very glad to be there," Mr. Free said. After his heart attack nine years ago, Mr. Free has trav- eled a long road back to good Turnto Page 10