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Vol. 129 No. 37 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1995 COPY 65¢ 61¢ = 4¢ GSD 32 Pages JEFF MITCHELL / PORT PERRY STAR Hard-throwing Angel There was plenty of high-quality fastball action at the Water St. diamond in Port Perry during the holiday weekend when Port Perry's Angels played host to a provincial tournament. Good crowds were on hand for all the games, which provided some top- quality performances and close results. Here, Angels' Claire Reed-Cassells tosses in a matct. Saturday afternoon against Chingaucosy. Police cite bravery in Scugog crash Man pulls victim from truck fire By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star A Port Perry man will be recommended for a police citation for the bravery he showed in pulling an injured woman from a burning truck last week. Police say Dale Rutherford, 39, of McDonald St. saved the Gormley woman's life after a tra ffic accident just after midnight last Tuesday (Aug. 1) that saw her Ford Bronco leave the roadway and become airborne, flipping end-over-end before coming to a rest in the ditch along Regional Rd. 21. The truck was engulfed by flames by the time police arrived on the scene. Another man who stopped to help, Mark Lipfeld of Thornhill, will also be recom- mended for a citation, said a police spokesman at 26 Division in Port Perry. "There's no doubt, they saved her life," said Sgt. Ken Hudson last week. Mr. Rutherford was heading eastbound on Regional Rd. 21 after finishing his shift at a Markham electrical company with friend Jennifer White of Port Perry. Ms White was at the wheel as they followed the 1981 Ford Bronco being driven by 35-year-old Kelly Adamson of Gormley through the lights at Regional Rd. 23 and east toward Port Perry. After a car passed the Bronco, it began to weave on the roadway and lost control when it hit the shoulder. Mr. Rutherford watched as the truck careened across the road and hit a driveway, then took to the air and rolled before crossing back over the roadway and slamming into a fence and a tree and coming to a rest on its wheels in the ditch. "She was airborne," he recalled, adding that the truck wasn't going at an excessive rate of speed. . "Wheever was in that truck, we knew they had tc be hurt the way it flew in the air." Ms White pulled her car over and Mr. Rutherford ran to the Bronco. It was a dark night and he had trouble seeing. As he was examining the truck Mr. Lipfeld also approached to help. "Then I noticed smoke," said Turnto Page9 Board faces deficit in fall Durham school board trustees will be faced with the challenge of paring down their 1995 expenditures when they resume sitting later this month. The region's public school board will have to deal with some $500,000 in provincial funding for the remainder of the school year, after bud- geting for a total provincial commitment of $366 million, said Bobbie Drew, Scugog trustee and head of the board's finance committee. The cutbacks, announced with the new provincial gov- ernment's financial state- ment a couple of weeks ago, could leave the board in an illegal deficit situation if' costs aren't cut, said Mrs. Drew. "What it boils down to is $8 a student," said Mrs. Drew of the cut. "It's pretty serious, and we're very concerned about what's going to happen next year," Durham's public school board is in a tight position. Trustees shaved costs during this past spring's budget. deliberations in an attempt to keep costs to taxpayers down, and find now that funds they had relied upon to operate for this year are being cut back.