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PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1997 COPY 65¢ (61¢+ 4¢ GsT) 36 Pages last weekend an TF You BUILD IT - 'Members of the Durham Rowing Club pooled their talents together put up a 3,200 square-foot boathouse for their equipment using manpower from club members and community volunteers. Here, Rob Millikin, a director for the local club, lends a hand during the construction process. 5 still to be By John B. McClelland __... Port Perry Star Scugog residents should find out in a couple of weeks if they will be voting for their own Board of Education trustee in the muni- cipal elections this coming November. A committee of the municipal clerks from Oshawa, Pickering and Whitby will decide if Scugog will retain a single trustee or share two trustees who will run at large in the' Townships of Scugog, Brock and Uxbridge. If the clerks decide on the former, a single trustee will rep- resent both Brock and Uxbridge on the board after the municipal elections. / Scugog's current trustee on the board, Bobbie Drew, called the decision that will be made by the three municipal clerks "the best of a bad situation." This redistribution of trustees has come about because the Ministry of Education has declared that the number of trus- . tees in Durham will be reduced from the present 20 to 11 for the up-coming term, which starts aft- er the November elections. Mrs. Drew said she would have preferred that Scugog, Brock and Uxbridge each retain a single trustee because of the large geographical area of the three northern municipalities. But that scenario would have left Ajax -- with a population of about 50,000 -- with just a single trustee on the board, and a cer- ~ Tattoo marks start of Highland Games By Karen Wetmore Special to the Star Organizers say this year's Highlands of Durham Games will be "even bigger and better than last year." ~~ Running this week from Thursday to Sunday (July 24 to 27) in Port Perry and Uxbridge, the Games include animal - shows, police bands, a parade, Highland and Irish dancing and a young people's - CANADA A pavilion. In five years, the event which takes place in Uxbridge and Port Perry should rival the one held in Fergus, said Stu Bennett, chair of the Games. New attractions this year include the Metro Toronto Police Band and Mounted Unit, which will perform in the massed band march of Friday (July 25) at the Port Perry fairgrounds. With. most of the bands attending the ---- us i. aii... ® | ( ) x x ¢ 5 { Great prices and 3 Hi financing on military tattoo being police bands, Mr. Bennett said "we have found a niche. "With United Postal Service (UPS) as a sponsor, we hope to have a North-American police pipe band championship in the years to come," he said. Bands from as far away as Regina and New York City will take part at this year's tattoo. After the tattoo, bands will march to Please Turn to Page 14 E CLEARA : prs Lbiirtiin ) GMAC CREDIT ONLY. LI the Local Number of Scugog trustees next term resolved tainty that it would have been appealed by that town. A committee of trustees called Education Improvement Committee (LEIC) has recommended that Scugog retain its trustee, with one to represent Brock and Uxbridge. But the final decision will be up to the three municipal clerks because the Durham board itself was split on whether to accept the LEIC recommendation. Mrs. Drew said the problem could have been solved quite eas- ily if the ministry had allowed Durham 12 trustees instead of 11. With those numbers, Ajax would get two trustees and Scugog, Brock and Uxbridge would retain one each. However, the ministry would not budge on Please Turn to Page 5 | KFA still on [the outlook for mussels By Chris Hall Port Perry Star While there have been no sightings of zebra mussels in Lake Scugog as of yet, a local fisheries official says that it is only a matter of time before the pests show up. According to Sandy Beaton, an official with the Kawartha Fisheries Association, Lake Scugog is pretty much the only lake in the area that has not been infested by the tiny mus- sels yet. "Most of the other lakes in the area have them but we have been lucky because our water runs the other way. We have no incoming river; we have no water coming into our lake from other contaminated Please Turn to Page 16 PONTIAC BUICK LIMITED 10 Vanedward Drive, Port Perry 985-8474