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2-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, August 29, 1979 #2 wi Jim Elliot -- Then and Now! Jim Elliot, of Port Perry in a photo taken in 1941, more than a year before he landed with about 5,000 Canadians on the beaches of Dieppe. He was 18 at the time. This past weekend he attended the reunion in Port Hope of about 250 veterans of the Dieppe raid. MacDONALD AT MURRAY WILSON SHOES SEPT. 11th --- "THE DATSUN 310 Runs Circles Around the Competition! MIDWAY DATSUN LTD. 1300 Dundas St. E., Whitby 668-6828 THE DURHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS! DURHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOLS WILL OPEN ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th AT 9:00 A.M. Elementary and Secondary School Students who are new to the Region are asked to contact their school and complete their registration prior to school opening. Elementary Schools will be open during the week of August 27th - August 31 and Secondary School offices are open through- out the summer. Early registration can prevent delays in preparing indi- vidual timetables and assignment to classes. Transportation routes will follow the same general pattern as last year. Detailed information is available at your school office. More detailed information regarding the registration in the Secondary Schools is given below: Brock High School Cannington Telephone: (705) 432-2311 All Students: 9:00 a.m. Textbooks available Sept. 4 Cartwright High School Blackstock Telephone: 986-4241 All Students: 9:00 a.m. Port Perry High School Rosa Street, Port Perry Telephone: 985-7337 All Students: 9:00 a.m. Uxbridge Secondary School Third Avenue, Uxbridge Telephone: 852-3391 All Students: 9:00 a.m. Dieppe reunion attended by local "Prisoner of War' . Jim Elliot of Port Perry attended the annual reunion held in Port Hope over the weekend of the Dieppe Vet- erans and Prisoners of War Association members. The Association was form- ed in 1967 by survivors of the now famous raid against the French coastal town of Dieppe which took place on August 19, 1942. Mr. Elliot says there are now about 600 members in the Association and 250 of them attended the reunion last week in Port Hope. Dieppe is a name that will live forever in the memories of Canadians. It is also a name that has generated considerable controversy, for during the intense battle - that lasted but nine hours, the Canadian forces sustain- ed 3,369 casualties out of a total of 4,963 men. Just over 2,000 managed to return to England that day. About 2,000 became prisoners of "war and the remainder were killed. Jim Elliot was 18 years old when the Dieppe raid took place. A member of the Royal Regiment of Canada, he was among 550 who land- ed at Blue Beach on the left flank. Like all veterans of Dieppe he recalls the day vividly. Things seemed to go wrong right from the start. The Royal Regiment was suppos- ed to hit the beach just before dawn, but they had run into a German convoy in the Channel that delayed them half an hour. As a result they landed in broad daylight, right into the guns of the German defend- ers, who that particular day happened to be on full alert. The result was that the Royal Regiment suffered over 90 percent casualties. Mr. Elliot recalls that most of the 550 men on Blue Beach never even got off the beach. He was captured that day, and while he suffered no wounds in the action, the hardships of almost three years as a POW were; about to begin. Es 3 For 14 months afté¥ cap- ture, the Canadian POW's from the Dieppe raid were kept in handcuffs, a retalia- tions by the Germans for the fact .that some German POW"s had their hands tied during the raid. Mr. Elliot was taken to Stalag 8B, a large camp in the south of Germany. The Paving company trial date set The trial of a city paving company charged with vio- lations of the Industrial Safe- ty Act in connection with the death of a 19-year old worker is set for November 19. Representatives of Bennett Paving and Mater- ials Limited and representa- tives of the ministry of labor appeared in provincial court in Oshawa last week. Charges came after Joseph Patterson of Port Perry was buried under 9,000 pounds of crushed shale and gravel on June 4. He was cleaning the inside of a hop- per when a front end loader dropped the material on him. Each of the two charges against the company carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine, one year in prison, or- both. QUESTIONNAIRE LE IE I IE TR REE 181 Perry Street, Port Per Bev Driscoll. Thank you. RECREATIONAL SUPPLY & DEMAND SURVEY FOR SCUGOG TOWNSHIP July - August 1979 1. Individual's exact location id BS A EER ERE TE JEN En I Ear EE I CIE I TE TE RRR RT hE I I I rT hi ihe EAE LE A ELE SE FE EN OE Ere LEE AE A EE EE EE ETT "1 TT IT IL TT ER hE EE rE Reps ELE AR LE EET ER RE RE TT 7. Are you willing to teach a skill voluntarily? If so, name and phone number AA REE EEE ET RE TT A Bev Driscoll has surveyed 400 people in the Township of Scugog in th e past eight weeks. If there is anyone who was not part of the surv ) ld b : fill in this questionnaire and send it clo The Recr EI I NN I Sr Sr ME EE EE EER EE EE EE EE ET ey and would like to be, please eation Committee, Municipal Offices, ry or drop it in at the Municipal Office, marked Attention: