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|) " v ll ~ 5 £ 'MAYOR -electone | it's your duty, get out and vote by bruce arnold It does not matter who gets elected from this area Monday if your main con- cern is about where regional council will meet, how much regional councillors will get paid, the amount of devel- opment which will be allowed to take place here or the fate of what is left of our waterfront area. All candi- dates agree: the region should meet at Whitby, regional councillors should get about $3,000 for a job which should take about 2 days a week, development should be carefully con- trolled and confined to areas that are already built up, our waterfront should be preserved for the people, mothers are nice and so is apple pie. However, if you care about what will happen to Port Perry's old town hall, the need for improved rec- reation facilities, whether or not high lot fees should be charged to developers (the fees eventually get passed on to the family buying the "JERRY JACKMAN BILL BROCK house), confli¢ts of interest (at least one candidate now has a sub division proposed for the Port Perry area) or the degree of public partici- pation which will be sought in decision making you had better spend the weekend checking out all the candi- dates. They do not agree. A question about Port Perry's old town hall was asked at an all candidates meeting in Manchester. With one notable exception everyone managed to skirt the question without bother- ing to answer. One candiate for mayor is a strong advocate of high development fees. The other thinks they add too much to the cost a young couple has to pay for a home. Half the candidates think we need community halls or parks or tennis courts or ice surfaces or something in each community within the new Scugog area. Others consider these things to be more expensive than they are worth. About half believe the LAWRENCE MALCOLM JIM BAIRD public should be encouraged to .contribute opinions and advife to councillors. The other half advocate what they refer to as "repre- sentative democracy," a state of affairs in which you gamble on picking the right guy and then are stuck with him for three years and should keep your mouth shut about what he does until the next election. We have no intention of trying to identify who agrees with what. There are too many candidates and the election will be over before we get a chance to correct a mistake. However, every candidate pointed out at the all candi dates meetings that, "I'm in the phone book." Give some of them a call. Or even better, get out to the last all candidates meeting. in Greenbank at 7:30 toninght and watch argue the issues in person. The people elected will serve for the next three years. You do not vote for local councillors again until 1976. In the meantime these Ottawa region councillors get $3,500. Regional councillors in the region of Ottawa-Carleton are paid $3,500 a year, in addition to their local council salaries. A call from the regional director after we had gone to press last week revealed that the region, which was established in 1969, pays close to the figure candi- dates in this area have suggested as a salary for our regional politicians when they take office Jan- uary 1st. AREA COUNCILLOR - elect one VERN ASSELSTINE guys will spend (or waste depending on who you pick) millions of dollars of tax money. That fact may have con- tributed to the large turn out at all candidates meetings so far. Interest in this election seems to be running high here, as compared to other areas. In fact the audience was so good Monday night that the candidates ended up applauding the voters. SEPARATE SCHOOL The STAR has followed a general policy of not naming candidates so no one ends up with an advantage. How- ever, one exception must be made. Roman Catholics in this area have the opportunity Monday of electing two separate school trustees for the first time. Only one of the four candi- dates has bothered to show up and meet the public at any of the four all candi- dates meetings held. He is Chuck Roche of Ashburn. P2RT { PERRY nd SECTION Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. Wednesday, Sept. 26th, 1973- No. a8 Regional Counci oN J gal ART CATTON REG ROSE llor - elect 1 CLIFF CROWELL Costs up under Regional system "There is no doubt in my mind," Ontario Riding M.P. Norman Cafik told a press BOB KENNY PORT PERRY COUNCILLOR - elect 1 BOB BRINKMAN CHARLES BRIGNALL GRANT McDERMOTT GEORGIA BRENDON. conference Monday, 'that the county system of education was supposed to reduce costs. It has not done that." The implication was clear. Regional government, it is claimed, is meant to reduce costs and Mr. Cafik doubts that it will work. "You're going to end up with Oshawa getting all the dough if you are not careful," he warned. Not only does Mr. Cafik feel that there is a real danger of regionalism JAMES MUSSEL School Board = elect 2 increasing costs, he thinks it may reduce public partic- ipation in local affairs. "Is this new (regional) council going to take up as much time with a very real pro- blem in Zephyr as it will over a problem in Oshawa?" he asks. People want more and more influence over public affairs, he claimed then added, I find it strange that we are moving into a system that increases the problem. 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