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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" .- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, May 9, 1995 - 3 f ve > PORT PERI STAR J COMMUNITY -- Ball fight Is finally settled By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star A compromise has been reached in the dispute over diamond times in Cartwright. Representatives of Cartwright Minor Ball and Nestleton Hardball leagues sat down last Thursday night (May 11) with Scugog Mayor Howard Hall and Regional councillor Marilyn Pearce to hammer out the agreement, which settles for now a fight over facilities that started when the Nestleton league broke away from Cartwright. Organizers with the Nestleton league sought coun- cil intervention after becoming dissatisfied with the process of meting out diamond time among Cartwright's baseball, softball and lob ball leagues; they said that as a new league, they were being treated unfair- ly. Nestleton Hardball broke away from Cartwright Minor Ball last year. The arrangement arrived at last week sees CMB and Nestleton splitting up diamond time and Nestleton winning Thursday night space on the hard ball diamond in Nestleton; the Mustangs ladies' team gave up Thursday night time for the new league. "It's too bad that it took intervention at the council level," Rik Davie, a member of the Nestleton steering com- mittee who requested the nego- tiation said. But, "We are really appre- ciative to Mayor Hall and Councillor Pearce for helping us to do what we said was pos- sible all along, which was to sit down and negotiate." Dave Stapley, secretary trea- surer and municipal liaison with CMB, agreed it was unfor- tunate the fight had to be mod- erated by council. But he gives the mayor full marks for wad- ing into the dispute and helping bring a solution about. "Somebody basically had to take the bull by the horns, and that's what (Mayor Hall) did," he said. "I admire him for it." Mr. Stapley said the major concession made by CMB was diamond bookings for practice time. In the past the league JEFF MITCHELU/PORT PERRY STAR THE BOYS OF SUMMER are back in Cartwright. Members of the Nestleton Hardball League's Midget squad gathered for a spring practice last Wednesday night at the fair- grounds diamond in Blackstock. Here, pitcher Rich Timmers warms up for the season. A scrap over diamond time has been settled, meaning local players can get down to their season. has attempted to schedule games and practices Monday to Thursday nights, but now some practices will have to take place on weekends. "It's probably not the best for everybody," he said. "But it's the best for what we have." Representatives from both leagues stressed that with the tentative scheduling deal in place, it's time to forget about squabbles and just play ball. "It's all water under the bridge now," said Mr. Stapley. "We just want to get on with our season." "We'd like to play ball now," agreed Mr. Davie. He said Nestleton will officially open its season May 18. Mayor Howard Hall is sched- uled to throw the first pitch. Don't forget © attend the uN ay, May 14 - 10 - 4:30 p.m. A local Postie has been honored by the corporation for going above and beyond the call of duty. Port Perry Postmaster Robert Walker has consis- tently gone "out of his way to provide the best service to his customers" Canada Post said in awarding him a Silver Postmark Award last week. Mr. Walker received the honor at an awards dinner in Toronto last Tuesday (May 2). A citation from Canada Post said Mr. Walker has over the years shown dedica- tion and community spirit in the carrying out of his duties at the Port Perry office. Among his efforts was delivery of 10 large cartons of Priority Courier mail to a Prince Albert nursing home on his own time. That's just one example of his caring attitude, said the corporation. SRN the years," Local Postie honored with Silver Postmark WALKER "As Postmaster of Port Perry, (Mr. Walker) has won the respect and admiration of his superiors, his employ- ees and his customers over said Canada Post in a statement. Mr. Walker's honor was one of several handed out during a banquet at Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week. By David Stell : QUESTION OF THE WEEK Should the Federal govern- ment be cutting the deficit by slashing services like the local agriculture office? "Bill Dun There are people looking for work and farmers looking for help. They: should keep it open. Trish. Russell... We need those support: offices; There's not a lot of places we can go to get that kind of help. Cam Aldred If there's enough farmers to call for it, keep it open. If not they should have one close by, maybe in Peterborough.