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= Ran TTI Rg Se PT eee | | EE an naan a I a a Wry EAS go A WINE a £- 1000 nk« va A Akb2ay . NAT Y PRE FO 2 - PORT PERRY SIAR, Tuesday, Apuil 24, 2001 Kids' donation really rocks 10) at At DD YO 15a 80 "lt MARL TPA NIT: "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Chive' Co | se ait SE Primary students from the French Immersion. program at R. H. Cornish oHRIS HALUPORT PERRY STAR Public School were at the Port Perry hospital last week to. raised through their French Cafe, held at the school earlier joined by the students, is nurse Gail Verwoerd. hate a rock- ing chair and ottoman to the New. Life Centre. Money. to buy the chair was is year. Here, Durham Regional Police" from 26 Division are investigating the theft of an all-terrain vehicle on the weekend. At about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, an Ajax resident reported to police that his 1997 Argo six-wheeled ATV was missing. The victim told police he had been riding the "vehicle in the area of Boundary Rd. and All-terrain vehicle stolen in Cartwright Enfield Rd. when he experienced mechanical problems, and had to aban- don it. The man went to get assistance, but when he returned, the Argo was gone. The vehicle is a six-wheeled, green unit with an open passenger compart- ment. Greenb x Garden Centré the weekend. with three white males. According to officers at Port Perry's 26 Division, the man was in a Water St, bar on. Friday night before | a.m. when he became involved in a confrontation ~The men were ejected by bar staff, but when the victim exited the bar later Police seek suspects after | disabled man is beaten Police are asking for the public's said. assistance after a handicapped man was beaten outside a Port Perry bar on The victim was kicked and struck several times, and required treatment at hospital, according to police reports. ties. the trio were waiting for him, police 1520. The suspects are described as three white men wearing baggy pants and . bandannas. They are described as being in their late teens to early twen- Anyone with knowledge of the inci- dent is asked to contact police at 579- Councillor raises concerns Township calls for ministry to investigate farm waste By Chris Hall The Star Township councillors have once -again -asked ~ Ministry of Environment officials to look into the operations of a Scugog Island farm. The appeal to the province was approved Monday (April 16) during a meeting of the town- ship's environmental and public safety issues com- mittee," Committee chair David Dietlein, who rep- resents Ward 4, provided a copy of a resolution he had drafted. He is calling on the MOE to return to the Pine Point Rd. farm to "investigate and remedy the dispesal of food waste". Councillor Dietlein suggested that the farm owners must have been disposing of such food waste at the farm. 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"We made a resolution a year ago (to have the MOE investigate) with the previous council, and it's been about a year now," said Councillor BR ha EL SR gE BL FL WE NL TT FEBS NL TR RY Sh a Dietlein. "(Ward 3 Councillor) Jim McMillen recently asked me to take a look at it, and a week a half ago we went out there and found afoot of tropi- cal fruit rotting in the fields. It was a massive amount, and it seems industrial trucks have been unloading waste there on a regular basis." Councillor Dietlein said the piles of waste contained primarily citrus peels , and the tops of pineapples. "If they want to com- post the stuff that's fine, but they have to follow proper procedures for doing so." he said. "You just can't throw large quantities of the stuff onto your farmland and let it decompose. If it gets into the water table, we can't remedy that." we In his letter, Councillor Dietlein states that the refuse has recently thawed after the long winter, and that "the method of composting of food waste as now prac- ticed constitutes a hazard to the quality of the groundwater, and wells of neighbouring residents." The letter has been forwarded to both the provincial MOE and Durham MPP John O'Toole. Federal environmental investigators visited the site last week, said Councillor Dietlein The farm has been a "contentious issue for neighbours and politi- cians Just last summer, a substance had leaked into a stream near the farm, and it was deter- mined by the Durham Region Health Department that the con- taminant was pig manure a a a a a oa as CR]