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CES Eline, oa oo ae SERRE aie, Si AES Li Bl GS GE i v 2- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 20, 1996 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" a 4 " J. PETER HVIDSTEN / PORT PERRY STAR FOR YOU MY LOVE - While most people get chocolates or flowers for Valentine's Day, Kim Toomey presented her husband Michael with their first child. The baby girl, Brittany Jordan, was born at 8:49 p.m. at Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry and tipped the scales at 7 Ibs. 12 oz. The happy couple live in the Blackstock area. fou Port Per on Family; Dora, Ket people were not just employees but became personal friends as well. Once again we would like to express our appreciation to all of our customers, employees and friends with whom we )/ have been associated during our years in the business. Sincerely, The Dowson Family From Page 1 patients will visit their doctor three times on spe- cified days and samples will be collected from each eye. Dr. Stewart said the stu- dy is done under very strin- gent guidelines as to ensure an accurate result. When future patients will be treated according to the results of this research, it is very important that initial data be very accu- rate, he said. "Doctors read and make decisions on how to treat patients by what's new and the research done on it. It is important that it is very accurate," he added. Even though the project just got underway, Dr. Stewart already has a new appreciation for why there is such a rising cost for medication. All of the studies are so precise and with the time spent sending research and samples around the country, the costs go up. But, it is a cost that he said is important, because we are all paying for the safety of knowing the drug is safe to use. Dr. Stewart feels a small community like Scugog is the perfect place for clini- cal research. With the local doctors being general phys- icians they see a broad range of illnesses and are not specialized. "It creates a real balance of really ordinary patients in a small community," he said. The research project got underway just recently and there are two patients already involved. It could take anywhere from six weeks to more than one year for the project to be complete. The time frame depends on the number of patients, those willing to volunteer for the research program and the number of patients who meet all of the criteria. The local physicians are | Research antibiotic excited about their new venture, their first involve- ment in clinical research. The program will see the doctors learning the work, effort and precision that is put into research data. "It's kind of exciting for us. It will be an interesting challenge," he said. Dr. Stewart also sees it as a way for the local doc- tors to prove to their col- leagues that they provide quality medicine, while performing research and contributing to medical knowledge. Changes proposed to eliminate parking problems at school By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star - Parking at Port Perry High School is going to be changed to accommodate neighbors who claim their visibility is being blocked by the parked cars. The issue of parking has been an ongoing concern at the local high school and recently a group of Rosa Street residents ap- proached Scugog's Roads Committee asking for a so- lution. 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The recommendation that will go to council is that parking be eliminat- ed on the east side of Rosa and the north side of McDonald, during school hours only. To accommodate these cars, the school will do away with a bus loading zone on Ottawa Street, where these students can now park their cars. It will be graded to make it more suitable for parking. With all bus pickups now being on McDoanld and Rosa Streets there will be some jockeying of bus arrival times to ac- commodate this change, said Regional Councillor Pearce. "The school seems to be in agreement with our rec- ommendations," she said. Although Councillor Pearce said this should satisfy the neighbors, the school still needs to look at the long-term situation and the need for another parkinglot. The Roads Committee again suggested that the school consider turning the bottom of the high school hill, on McDonald Street, into a parking lot. However, Councillor Pearce said the school, at least at the administra- tion level, does not believe the students would use it, making it a waste of mon- ey. Councillor Pearce said it is up to the students at the school to stand up and tell those in authority that they are sick of parking tickets and that they need a parkinglot.