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Master Feed building in Port Perry. Master Feeds is closing! After over 110 years of operation as a mill on the shore of Lake Scugog, the familiar Port Perry land- mark will close its doors and cease operation as of Sep- tember 30, 1980. ) This surprise announce- ment was given to the nine employees operating the Master Feeds mill last Thursday when manager Mike Doyle called the staff together. Master Feeds to close local mill "Their reaction was of surprise," Mr. Doyle told the Star. "They had not expected it, but accepted the fact very well." The closing of the mill stems back to July of this year when Maple Leaf Mills, of which Master Feeds is a division, was purchased by C.P. Investments. The new owners are repor- ted to have reviewed the structure of the Agricultural Division and made the decision to close all out- dated, non-profit and no- growth operations. This decision means that ten of the nineteen mills operated by Maple Leaf Mills across the province will be closed. The closest of these in addi- tion to Port Perry are Lind- say, Peterborough and Stouffville. The new mill in Cavan, which opened recently, will (Turn to page 3) i Vol.114 No.42 32 Pages 'Kids back to school, enrolment unchanged I" It was back to school last week for 2059. elementary and 1216 secondary students from across Scugog Town- ship. A survey of the seven schools in the Township indi- cates that the 1980-81 enrol- ments figures are pretty much the same as last year, with a couple of the schools reporting an increase in students. The largest school i in h Seu- gog Township is Port Perry ° High where principal Doug Williams reports that there are 1105 students as of the first week of school, virtually At Cartwright High School in Blackstock, principal Gord Paisley says enrolment is 111 students, up slightly from the 105 students who attended classes last year. There are seven full-time teachers on staff, the same number as last year. One new course offered there this year will be a credit in instrumental music taught on an after-school hours basis. Night school courses at both Port Perry and Cart- wright High Schools will get underway towards the end of the month with a wide varie- ----------unchanged fromthe number --ty of subjects available. last year. The teaching staff of 64 at the high school remains the: same as last year. Registration will be held at these schools on Sept. 15 and 16. At R. H. Cornish Public Wednesday, September 10, 1980 7 School in Port Perry, princi- pal Murray Prentice reports enrolment at 888 students, virtually un-changed from last year. There are 38 teachers on staff, the same as last year, and the kindergarten to grade 8 classes include special education and a class for trainable mentally retarded students. Kindergarten enrolment at R.H. Cornish this year is up to 91 students, and means four classes (two each in the morning and afternoon) will be held. That's one addition- al class over last year. -- At Prince Albert Public School, Principal Roden Rut- ledge says there are 381 students, an increase of (Turn to page 2) An Apple For The Teacher It was back-to-school for hundreds of students throughout Scugog Township last week and six year old Michelle Ball of Port Perry was one of those students. Michelle is in the grade one class of Mrs. Pauline Pavlik and surprised her with a nice red apple when the Star photographer arrived. OMB library site hearing ends The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has concluded an exhaustive three-day hearing into the proposed site for a new Scugog Public Library, but it may be four to six weeks before the Board hands down its decision. The hearing, which was held at the Latcham Centre in Port Perry, wound up last Thursday afternoon after listening to testimony for both sides from about 20 witnesses, and reviewing 24 exhibits entered as evidence. At issue is a two-acre chunk of land formerly owned by Lake Scugog Lumber on the east side of Water Street in Port Perry. Township council last year re-zoned about half the property as the site for a new library building, and the remainder to open space parkland. A group of Township rate- payers led by Myrtle Prentice of Port Perry and Roy Grierson of Caesarea lodged a formal objection with the OMB against the re-zoning, claiming the entire parcel should be turned into parkland and that no buildings be con- structed on it. An initial OMB hearing held last spring ruled against the re-zoning, but at the same time that ruling said the matter should be re- considered by the Township, prompting the council to ask for a second hearing to have the by-law approved. Lawyer Michael Fowler representing the Township called numerous witnesses to the stand during the three days to outline details of the financing of the proposed library, the actual design of the building and exactly where it would be located on the site, and to hear evidence from two professional engineers as to why the construction of an addition on the rear of the present library building on Queen Street would be "expensive and difficult. (See separate story). However, Mr. Fowler based his arguments for the re-zoning on the three points which he detailed in his final 40-minute address to the OMB panel at the conclusion of the hearing. Mr. Fowler told the panel that the re-zoning conforms with the Durham Regional Official Plan, the use of part of the land as a library site is good planning and would be compatible with surrounding land uses, and that if the land is not rezoned it could remain in its present com- mercial designation which permits just about any kind of development. Speaking on behalf of the objectors, Joel Aldred, a well-known and life-long resident of Scugog, argued that the entire land should be park as "there are very few available pieces of public land left on the waterfront in this Region or the entire province." Stating that the objectors are not opposed to expanding or improving the library services in the community, Mr. Aldred told the panel that "this is a text-book case for leaving land vacant." "Port Perry could be a leader in the province in getting rid of the clutter of buildings along a water- (Turn to page 2) ----t A Sa