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P2RTK PERRY Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Jan 17th, 1973 -- No. B 'Real Community effort needed to save Scout and Guide Hall A large group of concerned citizens met in the Girl Guide and Boy Scout hall last week . as the result of a statement published in this newspaper that the hall was in danger of closing because of insuffi- cient funds. The hall is presently leased from the village for $1 a year. It is used exclusively for Brownie, Cub, Scout, and Guide activities. Howard Hall chaired the meeting. He enumerated the bodies concerned with main- tenance of the building and the youth activities, in gen- eral; the Scout Mothers, the Guide Mothers, the Group Committee, and the Prop- erty Committee. After a good deal of discussion by various indiv- iduals concerned, it ap- peared the whole crux of the problem was how to obtain sufficient money to keep the building in. operation in future years without im- posing an undue burden on the - Scouts and Guides; without having them spend too much time on continual fund-raising operations, to the detriment of their Scout- ing and Guiding activities. The big problem seems to be: how to make the revenue match,the expenses. It 'cost $1481 to operate the building last year. This money was used to pay for cleaning, renovation, oil, hydro, in- surance, snow removal, grass cutting, etc. There was an additional $300 expense to be met for the replacement of shingles on the south side of the roof. The Scout Master Stan Plowman was present and outlined the groups' finan- cial position to the audience. "We just can't raise enough money to meet the ex- penses," he explained. He went on to detail just © yesterday. Whitby Mr. capacities. 8 Elect John Howden | County Warden John Howden, Reeve of East Whitby was elected the 124th Warden of Ontario County, by . acclamation, at the County Building in Whitby Deputy-Reeve, Goodwin, who declared himself a candidate last week, declined nomination. As far as can be determined at the moment, acclamation of an Ontario Warden has never occured before in the long history of the County. Howden could also become the Warden of Ontario County with the almost certain establishment of Regional Government for the area east of Metro Toronto in 1974. A farmer in East Whitby all his life, he has served on the Township School Board for several years. He was acclaimed deputy-reeve of 'the Township in 1964 and has been reeve since 1968 and served on Ontario County Council in various how this situation has come about. "In former years, this building has been rented. The rent was used to meet expenses. However, we have been told we can no longer rent the building in its present condition. If we want to rent it now, we'll have to spend a lot of money we haven't got renovating and meeting the prescribed stan- dards. Otherwise, we will not be given a permit. It boils down to us losing the $500 or $600 a year we used to get. Which is why we're in the present fix.' He continued; 'Until two or three years ago, people were continually making compliments, saying how the youth of Port Perry were the best-behaved and most man- nerly in Canada. This is a direct result, I believe, of the Scout and Guide activities which have been present here for many years. This building ~ is twenty-three three years old," he stated. (continued on page 10) Joe Fowler Bingo winner Joe Fowler, the lucky winner of the second News- paper Bingo sponsored by the Port Perry Lions was Speaks on ° '@ ; Lionism Earl DeHetre, Whitby, Zone Chairman, District A-3, Region 10 South, Lions International was guest "speaker at the Port Perry Lions Club meeting Monday night. Mr. DeHetre. spoke in glowing terms about the many accomplishments of the Port Perry Lions Club during a 35 year period. He also congratulated the club on the occasion of its 35th anniversary to be celebrated on March 3, when Tris Coffin first vice president, Lions International will be guest speaker. Plans for the celebration are under way, the chairman of the arrangement, Storey Beare reported, and partici- pation in the event not only from the local club, but from clubs in district A-3 is expected on a large scale. SPSS John last 4 certainly a very popular "choice". Joe dropped in to the Star office" shortly after he had received his paper, Wed- nesday, January 3, but had to patiently wait a full week in the event someone else also had a lucky card. The waiting paid off hand- somely and Friday Joe was presented with the. cheque for $500. The members of the Lions Club, reluctantly decided Monday at the dinner meet- ing to terminate The News- paper Bingo, at least for the time being. Participation in the two games has been a great deal less than antici- pated and the club has had to take a considerable loss. Edmondson elected chairman Norm Edmondson was elected new chairman of Ontario County Board of Education at the Inaugural meeting held last week. Three were nominated, namely Mr. Milton Mow- bray, incumbent chairman; Mr. Edmondson and Marion O'Donnell. Mrs. O'Donnell was de- feated on the first ballot and the second ballot gave a tie vote. Mr. Mowbray, not present withdrew his name by telephone. aE i... ith iadanuishoindddsinmmivmnitmsabodisinfosuisaiosat ai wl The Post Office was actually to have been demolished and a new one almost completed by now, according to the original plan presented to coUncil in July 1971. "Save Post Office" campaign 500 sign petition The petition of the Histori- cal Society to save the old Post Office on Queen Street for continued use as a post office is gaining momentum. Since the announcement in the Port Perry Star last week until time of writing almost 500 signatures have been obtained. Those collecting signa- tures report that the com- munity is solidly in favour of the proposal to a greater degree than had been thought originally. Over 80 percent of individuals signed the petition willingly when approached. No door to door canvass is planned so that the numbers of signatures which are ultimately filed with the government will be far short of the total number of people in the area. It will, however, C of C Annual Dinner Meeting The annual meeting of the Port Perry Cham- ber of Commerce will b e held at Conway Gardens, Wed., January 24, at 7 p.-m., when dinner will be served. Cocktails will be served between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. See adver- tisement elsewhere in this issue. a significant enough be to cause the Post Office to take a second look at its plans. Anyone who has not yet signed the petion is asked to be sure to do so this week at the Star Office. Reach water agreement The joint waterworks ser- vicing agreement between Reach Township and Port Perry, up in the air for the last few weeks, was finally brought down to terra firma last Tuesday evening, during a meeting of the two coun- cils. After lengthy debate, a resolution was passed sta- ting the two .municipalities "agree to a one-third two- third sharing and to the proposal policy - agreement as per Totten-SimsHubicki." What this effectively means is that Reach and Port Perry have settled their long stan- ding differences over the water question, specifically the $500 "development fee" which Port Perry had in- sisted be paid by developers to maintain and update water works equipment. Reach has finally agreed to the need for such a fund. Meeting closed to public Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 17 a number of meetings between municipal repre- sentatives and provincial officials will be held to discuss the proposed region- al government plan. The meeting for this area will be held in the Municipal building, Port Perry, on Thursday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m. Members of the councils for the Village of Port Perry, and the Town- ships of Reach, Scugog and Cartwright will be partic- ipating in the discussions. According to a department representative all these meetings in the proposed local councils will be closed to the public. Hospital Report Week Ending January 11th Admissions ......... 28 Births ........ .... ......3 Deaths ............. 2 Emergencies ... 71 Operations .... .. .. .. . 8 Discharges... .. . .. .. 21 Remaining ... .... 37 Will organize Ratepayers' Association Will Queen Street become a Stop Street at Lilla? Will the Scugog area be adequ- ately represented in the newregional system? Will each area served by the new local council be adequately represented? . These questions and many others must be answered "immediately, and with this in mind, a group of local citizens met on Sunday evening to discuss the for- mation of a Residents and Those present at the initial meeting were Hans Kraupa, Joe O'Reilly, Cleve Knight, Ken Bateman, Gord Mac- Millan, Bill Brock, and Paul Arculus, all of Port Perry, Stan Glass of Prince Albert and Bill Ferguson of Cart- wright. The feeling of this group was that the people of the area should be able to speak out with a collective voice on the important issues which face us all in these days of rapid change. A decision was taken to hold a public meeting at the Anglican Church on Tues- day, January 30 at 8 p.m. Mr. Ed Colodzie who is prom- inent in the Oshawa Rate- payers Association will be invited to explain the workings and organization of such a group. His experience will be helpful in getting our Scugog area group opera- tinal in as short a time as possible. The new regional govern- ment proposal makes it imperative that such a voice be heard by the decision- makers at all levels. The degree to which the authori- ties heed the advice will depend upon the degree to which the Association is supported by individuals in the community. A good attendance of public-spirited people at the January 30th meeting will assure the success of this new and essential organ- ization.