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12- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 7, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Port Perry Star & Weekend Star. Always first with local news! FESTIVAL DAYS July 10 11, 12 Downtown Port Perry Dont ml1ss 1k Call 985-4971 for more info || Port Perry & Prince Albert UNITED CHURCHES Minister: Rev. Robert J. Le Page N 985-2801 C SUNDAY JULY 12 Port Perry United Church Morning Worship Port Perry - 9:50 a.m. Nursery care always available Prince Albert closed for July and August BAHA'I "Rise unto that for which thou wast created." Baha'u'llah | For local Baha'i gatherings Call: 985-4582 Attend: Local Baha'i gatherings . Info line: Automated, 1-800-433-3284 Books: at Public Library Vision TV: "Baha'i Perspective" - 1st Wed. of every month Write: Baha'is of Scugog, Box 1153, Port Perry LIL 1A9 Baha'is of Mariposa Box 59, Little Britain KOM 2CO 705-786-2378 New Web Site: <http://www.bahai.org> |B UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF DURHAM Brooklin Community Centre Cassels (E. of Baldwin) SUNDAY, JULY 12 10:30 a.m. Program of Discovery for Children For information, please call our minister, Cheryl Jack, M.Div at 655-8702 ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH BLACKSTOCK Rev. Hugh A. Kernohan, Parish Priest Tel: (905) 986-0557 SERVICES TUESDAY 7 p.m. - Eucharist 7:30 p.m. - Religious Studies Grou SUNDAYS On the 1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month - 9:30 a.m. Choral Eucharist On the 3rd Sunday of the month - 9:30 a.m. Choral Morning Prayer Church School & Nursery Every Sunday GREENBANK PASTORAL CHARGE Rev. Ross Larson 985-7787 SUNDAY, JULY 12 \U [e210] }4 CHRISTIAN CENTRE BLACKSTOCK - NESTLETON J \\[e]W{o7.Y, Noi, 1V]2{e], Nols THE ASCENSION UNITED CHURCH The Rev'd REV. DAVID SHEARMAN Bod Gary van der Meer, B.A., M. Div. Incumbent SUNDAY, JULY 12 905-985-7278 Blackstock 9:45 a.m. Services: Nestleton 11:15 a.m. http://www3.sympatico.ca/ shearman/bnuc.html Holy Communion Nursery at 10 a.m. Sunday Service Wednesday, July 8 THE NEW s dy " APOSTOLIC CHURCH YOR, uly 180 Mary St., 2nd Floor 10a.m. Your Local Family Church REGULAR SERVICES - Sunday 10:30 a.m. 9 a.m - Sunday School Wednesday 8 p.m. For further information call 985-2611 "A Hearty Welcome To All' SOEUR 017 (at Istand Rd) 985-8681; 985-1588 David S. Daniels, Senior Pastor SUNDAY SERVICES 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Worship & Jr. Church 6:30 p.m. Evening Praise Pre-school child care available UNITED CHURCH A Community Church For All Rev. Jack Griffen, B.A. M. Div. SUNDAY, JULY 12 Service - 10 a.m. "Why Do We Need WEDNESDAY A Shepherd?" 7 p.m. Pisyel Fellowship FRIDAY Sunday School and Nursery Care Always Available ST. JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Mand, oe D.A. an eaton SUNDAY, JULY 12 10 a.m. service Sunday School & Nursery Care Available For further information call 7:30 - 9 p.m. Youth Ministries Call for information A warm welcome to all Wheelchair accessible HOPE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Rev. Norman A Sennema 14480 Old Simcoe Rd (Between 7A & Prince Albert) 985-3881 or 985-4746 SUNDAY SERVICES: All are warmly welcome 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. Sunday School & Nursery YOUTH PROGRAMS: Wednesday evenings LADIES COFFEE BREAK: Thursday mornings Wheelchair accessible & hearing impaired aides Telephone: 985-9307 NESTLETON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Wm. Fairley - Minister Church Closed for July & August summer recess Re-opens Sept. 13 Anniversary Services - Sept. 27 MANCHESTER & SCUGOG ISLAND Minister Elaine Barber 985-8871 SUNDAY, JULY 12 Outdoor Service Scugog Island 9:45 a.m. egular Service Manchester 11:15 a.m. SCUGOG COMMUNITY CHURCH Non-denominational (Meeting at the Latcham Centre) This week only: meeting at 427 Lakeshore Drive for outdoor service, Pastor-teacher John Mank Sunday Worship - 10 a.m. SUNDAY, JULY 12 PASTOR JOHN BENSCHOP "Christ Will Return 0 3% Awa Sieg) " With A Vengeance" (One block south of 7A, 2 Thessalonians 1: 6-10 west off Old Simcoe) Tuesday & Thursday SUNDAY MONNING Home Bible Studies 1am Teaching the meat of God's MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY Word to strengthen your A Christian life. 9 a.m. - Pinedale Tuesday - 7:30 p.m. . : 5 10 a.m. - Seagrave STEP INTO VICTORY Biblical Counseling | 11:15 a.m. - Greenbank For further info call: Color ntonnaion LS A 985-1346 A ) El rd el Porter's crew makes Canada Day go By Rik Davie Port Perry Star Dave Porter likes to blow things up - - way up. And anyone who has attended Port Perry's Canada Day fireworks displays can attest to that, even though they've probably never heard of him or his com- pany, Port Fire & Pyrotechnics. Dave is the guy responsible for the 20 minutes of spectacular color and fire over Lake Scugog every year. He has been setting up fireworks and pyrotechnics for the Ice Follies and other big name entertainment events | for over 12 years. Along with Bob Hibben and Ron VanAuken he sets up and fires more than 150 shells using 200 to 300 different effects to produce the brilliant lights that celebrate Canada's birthday each year on the Port Perry water- front. The fireworks are launched into the air from long tubes, some of which are five or six inches across and are lit by long fuses at their base. They have to be aimed and the charges set according to how much height Doug and his crew want from a particular effect, as well as wind conditions. Scugog firefighters provide Doug and his crew with back-up and an added margin of safety. It's a must in a business that can quite literally blow up in the face of an untrained practitioner. Dave and his crew are all certified in the trade at some level by the Ministry of Mines and Explosives. When asked what his biggest prob- lem is, Dave starts to answer -- but just Dave Porter (C) and crew, Bob Hibben (L) and Ron Van Auken are behind Port's fireworks show. then someone tries to sneak under the barrier set up to keep the public away from the big tubes of gunpowder and fuses that are the display. "You can't come through here -- no you didn't do it last year sir, I was here last year," Doug tells the disgruntled man. Vote In favor of budget From page 1 province, but which have been shifted to municipalities. There is presently a gap of about $11 million between what Durham calculates the downloading changes will cost, and the figures from Queen's Park number crunchers. And that gap accounts for the almost all of the 15 per cent increase in the budget this year. In fact, Scugog Mayor Doug Moffatt told the Star in an interview after the budget was approved that actual increas- es in Durham spending this year impact the budget by just 1.2 per cent. He said there are ongoing negotiations over that gap between Durham chair Roger Anderson and Queens Park: "The province has not said yes (to more changes), and has not said no." The mayor said Durham should at least be given some kind of no interest loan to cushion the blow on ratepayers this year. He pointed out that Toronto received such a loan of $56 million, which allows Mayor Mel Lastman to say that his campaign promise of no tax increase this year is a reality. He said people are telling him that property taxes in Durham are too high now, "and I certainly tend to agree." Mayor Moffatt remains hopeful that Queens Park will yet agree to sweeten the pot for Durham on the downloading issue, and cushion the tax blow this year. Regional Councillor Ken Gadsden is hopeful ratepayers won't feel the full brunt of the projected regional tax hike for 1998. "The province is being lobbied very hard," he said, noting as well that Queen's Park officials have yet to make a decision. He referred to the possible increase as "huge." And that's just the average. For those with more expensive homes and proper- ties, the tax hike will be higher than the average. : And if nothing changes, the tax bite on the regional portion for Scugog ratepayers will be about $140 this year. But only $12.40 of that $140 increase will be as a result of increased spending approved by the regional council, he pointed out. The delays and confusion in sorting out the. impact of downloading this year have caused no end of frustration for municipal politicians in trying to strike their own budgets for 1998. Scugog Township, for example, has yet to set its budget, and Councillor Gadsden, who chairs the township finance committee, said he has "never been irf more of a vacuum in my (political) ife." Asked why Queen's Park has yet to sort out the downloading impact, he said the provincial government plunged into an extremely complex issue without knowing all the potential pitfalls. "They just did not add all the numbers together properly." | At the local level, the dollar gap between Queens Park and Scugog is about $570,000, a figure that will have to come from the taxpayers if no changes are made. As for public reaction, Councillor Gadsden said he is questioned by con- stituents on what it all means, "but by and large, most just don't think that the impact will hit." However, if there are no changes and Scugog ratepayers start getting tax bills that show $140 more in regional taxes and an increase in the local rate as well, there are going to be a lot of complaints and very unhappy constituents.