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Addit AL DURA AYES a 80. YF oy | SL y mth hot SE ny rr Ron Crawford, a-Kindergarten-student at R. H. Cornish Public School was one of many youngsters who visited the Scugog firehall in Port Perry last week. 'Ron, like most of the youngsters had a great time. Now...where's the water? For more pictures, see page 17. J.G. Photo Plan meeting to help curb rash of break-ins Concerned about an alarming increase _in_cases of break-ins, bad cheques "and thefts in the Port Perry area, Ontario Provincial "Police of the Whitby detach- ment have issued a warning to make local residents more aware of the problem. Brian Dunham, commun- ity services officer for. the detachment, said that plans are in the making for a meeting with local merch- ants and their employees. The informational meeting will include such things as counterfeiting and bad cheques. Up the creek The way things are go- ing, we just might have all officialdom 'canoeing down the Nonquon at the annual Canoe the Non- quon race this year. Last week, Scugog Mayor Lawrence Mal- colm and Clerk Doreen VanCamp announced they would take part, and this week, a- new entry' has been announced. Bill Newman, M.P.P. According to an-official of the riding association, | Mr. Newman and friend Hugh Baird will do their best to navigate the 22- mile race this year. Okay. Who's next? The meeting will be set up _through the local Chamber of Commerce, and Const. Dunham hopes. that em- ployees of individual busi- nesses as well as the owners will be able to attend. There's great value .in public education in these . areas, points out the OPP. Const. Dunham said - any: increase in public awareness has an opposite effect not only on the number of suc- cessful incidents, but also on the overall rate of attempts. "People get to know what they can get away with and where;'*----said~ Const. Dunham. "If they think they can't get away with it in one area, they won't try." Const. Dunham warned "that the Port Perry and is not the a lot of Scugog area "small village" g ple think it is. 'The area . is @rowing, and it's close to majot~southern centres. People should be careful." He also warned that incid- ents of theft and break-ins are increasing, and urged local residents to put-things under lock and key. He's particularly worried" about cottages and.' summer homes, and urged area vac- ationers to lock up all doors and windows before leaving. Const. Dunham is the detachment's new Commun- ity Services Officer, replac- ing Const. Wayne Nethery. Tr FS CREE nav FREE) PLA IVER UY NETS wie . t . * Fl) wii oa ' ' 3 ' > AS . [YX f Bb A 4 [IY Ubud Abts sb liptiinsnd bash wad dia isis osns a daalmoen sditisia tavsiod ' WL A WY LaF UR TA BORE AN SEMPRE od dumb A} HEA CENVIPIRSDMFR SIRI IETS So FISHES, PE Hamlet report is released Port 'Perry and Prince Albert can expect to add 7,000 to the present popul-. ation, -Manchester another 800 to 1000, and Nestleton another 400 to 500, states the long-awaited study on the development of hamlets in Durham Region, distributed - last week at a joint meeting of the region's public works, planning and development committees. While some Scugog Tow for considerable growth, Blackstock, Caesarea and Greenbank are expected to get only limited growth. The major servicing report that could dictate the future development of many . of the hamlets and villages in the Durham Region, pre- pared by. Underwood McLel- lan Associates (UMA), is an in depth report on existing land features andthe limits of growth for 37 of the rural ship hamlets are designated ~ communities in Durham. Serving Scugog Township Wednesday, May 5, 1976 Bob Richardson, regional commissioner of public works said the study is an important contribution to the make-up of the region' s first official plan, due for com- pletion next month. , He said the study will also be a guide for the works department for future ser- vicing information. Broken down further, the study touches on the terrain features, land slopes, drain- age, soil type, water supply, sewage disposal and service limitations of each individ- ual area, a spokesman for UMA Karl Reichert told the joint meeting. Village and hamlets in six of the eight municipalities in Durham were included in the servicing report. Ajax and Pickering were the two towns exempt from the study, however Coun. Jack Anderson (Pickering) won a bid: to have the hamlets of (continued on page 3) 32 Pages Hospital budget cuts reduced "Efforts by local officials have resulted in a $56,000 reduction "in the province's ordered $94,000 budget cut at Community Memorial Hos- pital in Port Perry. The reduction comes fol- lowing an appeal by hospital administrator Dave Brown and board chairman Howard Hall...an appeal that the health ministry demanded should be a nuts-and-bolts one based on possible mathe- matical error, not emotion. Although the two point out' that their mathematical cal- culations show that the hos- pital's budget cut should be even further reduced, they agree that the hospital can "live within the (new) restraint." "We are quite pleased with this development," said Mr! ~ Brown, adding that local officials appreciate the 'financial position of the government in living within the restraints, and are will- ing to do more than their share toward meeting such restraints. When earlier meetings with "civil servants" failed to make any headway, efforts were directed at the "political route' and a meet- ing was set-up with health ministry officials and M.P.P. Bill Newman. Give usfacts and figures to show our calculations are wrong, the two were told, and th: m"nistry would re- consider. But no émotional appeals, and no comparisons with other hospitals would be allowed. ' "After countless hours of discussions and calculations, a 15-page brief was prepared outlining a number of areas where miscalculations were made. The main reason for differ- ences in health ministry and local" figures was due to reporting procedure prob- "lems. Figures on hospital operating reports, provided for the ministry on a regular basis' were unknowingly misread and showed sur- pluses where no surpluses existed. Although the reduced cut is "still significant" to the opération of the hospital, Mr. Brown feels with a number of further minor reductions, it can be managed. Mr. Hall d reductions already applied almost account for the new figure. The cut represents the equivalent of about 3%. employees. One employee had to be let i go, while a nurse who left the hospital regently has not been replaced. A number of hours has been chopped from part-time jobs at the hospital. ' No hospital beds will be closed, an inevitable devel- opment had the original budget cut been applied. The adjustments relate . only to the existing budget TU Port Perry Secondary School held their At Home dance at the High School last Friday; and one of the major events at the annual Sugat is to pick a Queen and Princess. Picked this year for Queen was Christine Donnelly (left) and Princess, Lori Clark (right). -(centre) took part in the ceremony Last year 's Queen Bev Pascoe Formula:Brown +Hall=$56,000 cut, warns Mr. Hall, adding the ministry of health has announced that there would be another round of cuts to follow this year. "Of course, we don't know when and where," said Mr. Hall. "We can only hope that they (the ministry) will start with hospitals that were by- passed during the first round.' «~ iv = 4 J.G. Photo FI Tt Sa ------ LB RS oe oa i we = oer i aN - re 2 =F WL 240 rs eR Ze v . > fn