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COPY 65¢ (61¢=14¢ GST) 48 Pages AANA A hs It's official... at last! 'By Jeff Mitchell Hundreds attend hospital openin - Port Perry Star It's appropriate that the thick cloud cover broke and the sun beamed down Friday afternoon. Because that's when the people at Community Memorial Hospital officially opened the new Stephen B. Roman wing, ush- ering in a new era of health care for Scugog Township. Hundreds gathered on the lawn outside the hospital under sunny skies to take part in the festivities, which marked the end of eight long years of planning, fundraising and construction for the new, 25,000 square foot wing, and the accompanying renova- tions to the existing hospital. The opening ceremony, with hospital board chair Kent Farndale as master of cere- monies, wa 1d almost two years to the day after a ground- breaking ceremony for the new wing, named for benefactor Stephen B. Roman, who settled on Scugog Island atter emi- grating to Canada from Europe in 1937.. There were plenty of digni- taries on hand -- including Ontario Premier Bob Rae, who pulled in off the campaign trail in his touring bus, followed by a gaggle of media representa- tives -- all of whom offered con- gratulations to the hospital and the community on comple- tion of the mammoth project. The expansion cost $6 mil- lion, the majority of which was raised locally. Over the past several years there have been numerous fundraisers launched by the Hospital foun- dation at Community Memorial, and dozens of groups, individuals and local Turnto Page 10 | rules, see the advertisement Still time for photo contest There are still a couple of weeks left for you to submit contest. ~~ * A'two-night stay at 'the! your entry for the Star's photo | Royal York Hotel in Toronto is the grand prize, and the top selections from: each of three categories -- People, Places and Pets -- will be printed in the Port Perry Star In June, after the competition to closes. In addition, all submis- the Scugog Memorial Library in Port Perry. . Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31. For more jnforination on on page 19 of today's paper. Provincial hopefuls taking message to the people By David Stell Port Perry Star Get the message out to the people personally. That's what the provincial candidates vying for your vote on June 8 want to do. MPP Gord Mills of the NDP, Tory John O'Toole party and Liberal Mary Novak have been out there knocking on doors for more than two weeks now,' and all say they're getting a ra strong response from the people they talk to. ecent polls have the Liberal party way out in front, with more than half of decided voters leaning towards the Grits platform. And Mrs. Novak says the response when she visits people at home sup- ports that poll. "It shows up at the doors," she says. "Everyone is very positive when they talk about the Liberal party." Yet Mr. O'Toole and Mr. Mills say they too are receiving very positive responses when they reach out to talk to people in their homes. Mr. Mills says he has a strong reputation in the riding for doing what needs to be done, and people have responded to his work. "They tell me 'we may not be absolutely for your party, but you as an individual have served us well, you've worked (ON very hard for us and we believe that you're the man that should go back to Queen's Park for us,"" the Durham East MPP said. "I went out to Wilmot Creek, -and eight out of a 1,000 people told me to get lost," Mr. Mills says. "If every poll was a Wilmot Creek, I would have a huge majority here." Mr. O'Toole said he's also had success talking to people at their homes. oy "I feel pretty confident here going door-to-door," he said. "I think that the most important part is getting out there and shaking hands and letting them know what our message 8." The issues he finds people raising centre around employ- ment equity and government overspending. "They don't like the idea of Turn to page 4 sions will be on display at {-