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"Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 19, 2000 - 9 LETTERS Venturers enjoyed a wonderful trip To the Editor: The Ist Port Perry Venturers recently returned from a 10 day visit to England. They were accompanied on the trip by advisors, Gary and Brenda Manns and Wil and Deb Corneal. While in England, many of the famous London landmarks were visited as well as other areas of Southeastern England including Dover, Stonehenge and Windsor. Visits were also paid to several well known On another evening the Ist llford their honour. District Scouting Group held a barbecue in Gary and Brenda and Wil and Deb would like to thank the following people for their assistance in making this trip such Scouting sites: Wil and Deb Corneal, the incoming Venturer advijsors, were invested one evening at Gilwell Park. a memorable experience: Marigold Travel, Mike Fowler, the Ist Port Perry Scouting Group Committee, all the wonderful peo- ple they met in England and all of the Venturers who travelled with them. Gary Manns, Port Perry LACAC would serve advisory role To the Editor: On behalf of the Lake Scugog Historical Society and the proposed LACAC, we would like to clarify the role of a LACAC in a com- munity (re: Committee Considers Historical Designations, Friday, Sept. 15). A LACAC (Local Architectural Conservancy Advisory Committee) is solely an advisory commit- tee reporting to local coun- cil. The LACAC has no power to designate, arbi- trarily or otherwise, but through its existence, can provide resources and information on local prop- erties deemed to have his- torical/architectural value by their owners or others. The power to make a his- torical designation rests with council, as in the example of the War Memorial Library men- tioned in the same article. Most requests for his- torical designation status comes from the property owners themselves and in cases otherwise, the prop- erty owner has the right to object to the proposed designation. While facilitating histor- ical designations is one very important role of a LACAC, a LACAC also works in an educational capacity to develop com- munity awareness and appreciation for an area's architectural heritage, urban or rural. Scugog Township has a rich her- itage and through actions of the township and many To the Editor: I would like to propose three cheers for Bobbie Drew for her promise to restore Harry Potter to his rightful place in Durham's classrooms, and three more for Radda, who risked Divine Retribution Three cheers for Scugog trustee by showing us the funny side of the situation. See you on platform nine-and-three-quarters*, Ms Weist. * (You'll simply have to read the book.) Bernie Gotham, R.R.I, Bowmanville _-- A HEARTEELT THANK YOU TO hots kindle andl concern hg wy surgery and, recovery earlier this sumumer. Thank you to all understanding corto atts Stuf heaping the business running smoothly during wy absence. We are back at "FULL SPEED" inthe now-and, look ward to helping ih yor cabinet need Mark Burger (WOODTECH, f§ CUSTOM CABINETS 172 Reach Ind. Park Dr., Port Pe "985-0420 er gui J individuals, much has been done to preserve and maintain the physical link to our past. It is not the intention, or within the ability, of the Historical Society to ask council to create a commit- tee which would impose its will and vision on unwilling property owners. A LACAC would provide the township with a resource for both council and individuals to inte- grate the architectural her- itage we are becoming so well known for with the needs of a growing com- munity. Carey Nicholson and Mavis Brodie, Kirkland Lake is an option, but it's not the right one To the Editor: Local politicians are about to vote on the issue of whether to join other mem- bers of the GTA, and send Durham Region's garbage up to the Adams Mine in Kirkland Lake. This issue keeps coming back to haunt us, over and over again. | know | myself first became aware of it about 10 years ago. Kirkland Lake offers "an apparently easy solution to the serious problem of garbage, and where we are to put it. But ~ it's the wrong one. Sending the GTA's garbage to Kirkland Lake is a flawed idea on both environmental and ethical grounds. Putting a dog's breakfast of mixed garbage in this open pit mine is like putting it in a sieve, as the Mayor of Ajax said to the joint regional Finance and Works Committee last week. It will almost undoubtedly poison groundwa- ter for a wide radius in the immediate area, and downstream of the site. Poison it forever. The Adams Mine area is the headwaters of the Ottawa River! On moral grounds, we must ask our- selves why it is considered reasonable for those of us in southern Ontario to take a problem that we have refused to resolve in our own area, and foist it on the people of northern Ontario. Would we be enthusiastic about hav- ing cur groundwater polluted by their garbage? If not, we can hardly ask them to do it for us. | won't say there is an easy or quick solution to local garbage woes. Stubborn problems of long-standing generally don't lend themselves to easy answers. But we need to hunker down and learn to deal with the issue by implementing beefed-up waste solu- tions that have succeeded in other com- munities. In other words, we have to clean up our own mess here, instead of asking someone else to take it on for us. Our politicians can and should vote no to taking part in the Kirkland Lake scheme. At the very least, they should opt to defer a decision until after this fall's municipal elections. Let's not continue to pretend that good can ever be expected to flow from decisions that are both environmentally and morally wrong. Janet McNeill (formerly Banting) Greenbank Your local THOMAS COOK TRAVEL TEAM Colleen Anderson | Gloria Quibell John Darby : + John Mullins Virginia Frew-Clarke We invite you to drop by our office for expert travel advice and ideas. Our professional Thomas Cook Travel' Team will be pleased to assist you with any of your travel requirements. Our winter hours are Monday to Friday 9 to 5; Saturday 9 to 3. 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