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------ (From page 1) against it. Councillor Malcolm has been an adament opponent of the new Water Street Library, and he called the bridge financing motion "open ended" because it does not stipulate any amounts. "The Library Board has drawn interest on money collected, if bridge financing is needed, the Board should go to the bank," he told the meeting. Both councillor Espey and Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor noted that the Library Board has lived up to its commit- ments by raising its share of the $324, 000 construction cost. "We (council) could force the Library Board to pay bank loan charges, but after all, this is a municipal building project," said Mayor Taylor. Councillor Malcolm read from a recent article in a Bowmanville newspaper which said that bridge financing for projects there had amounted to consider- able amounts of money because Wintario was slow in turning over all the grant money promised, and there had been difficulty collecting pledges made by some members of the public. Financing of the cost of the $324,000 building breaks down the following ways: $108,000 from Wintario; $116,000 from the public donation and fund raising FORFURTHERINFORMATION CALL: LESLIE A. PARKES -985-2105 el Tak Tah 7y atl Rd) iy Waive permit drive; and $100,000 committed two years ago by Scugog council and re- confirmed earlier this year by the present council. Although the. Library Board agreed July 23 to award a general contract for the building to Sherwood Construction of Oshawa, a final approval of this contract is necessary from Wintario before actual construction can get underway. The Board has a meeting with Wintario officials August 5 and members are confident all the final approvals will be given in time for construction to start no later than September 14. The contract with Sherwood calls for the building to be finished in 16 weeks. Members of council were told by the library finance committee at the special meeting last week that the $324,000 price for construc- tion is a firm one that will not go up, but could in fact come down as the Board will con- tinue to negotiate prices for some of the sub-contracts. That price does not include the cost of any new furnishings or equipment. Fund raising for this purpose will continue over the next several months, and the Board is prepared to use existing shelves, desks and equipment from the present library building, and pur- chase new furnishings as money is raised. ATTENTION! Will We Lose Our Local Train Service? VIARAIL TORONTO - MYRTLE STATION - PETERBOROUGH - HAVELOCK 8 According to recent announcements £ made by federal Transport Minister Jean Z Luc Pepin there appears to be a definite £ possibility of discontinuance of this 2 valuable train service and groups of con- i cerned citizens along its route are vigor- I E ously campaigningtosaveit. 5 Petitions are being circulated and are £ available at the Port Perry Star office. YOURSIGNATUREIS NEEDED! JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO © "SAVE THE TRAIN" : er rr Te TT Could provide fobs PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., August 5, 1981 -- 3 Oshawa Revenue building 'topped-off' Numerous provincial and municipal politicians were on hand last week for a symbolic "topping off" ceremony at the new provin- cial Revenue Ministry building in downtown Oshawa. ~The seven storéy multi- million dollar structire at King and Centre Streets is being touted as most energy efficient building in Canada and possibly in the world. That claim was made by architect Michael Ogus as he Riders want VIA (From page 2) In the first year of VIA - operation, the losses jumped from $597,000 to $888,000, and just what are the reasons for this substantial increase is: one question the Association wants some concrete red or blue Bandanas answers to. One thing is for certain, the passengers who use this service, like their counter- parts in other areas of the country, are not going to give up the rail service without a good fight. Selection of MEN'S SHIRTS short sleeve 25% OFF DISCOUNT PRICES Ladies Summer Clothing conducted .a tour of part of the building following the round of speeches and topping off ceremonies. When completed some. time late next summer, the building will be the main office for 1500 civil servants with the province's Revenue Ministry (the one that collects taxes, among other things) Officials estimate that about 1000 of these employees will make the move from Toronto, leaving about 500 positions to be filled. Officials say that qualified residents of the Durham area are being animinin! COCO NCE Susu oe Western Weeken Sin AUGUST 6-7-8 E Children's SUMMER WEAR ALL AT SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICES! BH PP pea for these jobs. Just why the "topping off" ceremony was held last week when the building is still more than a year from completion was not spelled out. Nevertheless, Revenue minister George Ashe, government services minis- ter Doug Wiseman, Oshawa Mayor Allan Pilkey and Dur- ham Region chairman Garry Herrema all rolled up their sleeves to shovel cement into a large bucket on the ground which was then hauled to the sixth floor where the four dumped and screened it in (Turn to page 7) SS CS SN 8 \ CCC SOOO SPONSORED BY - A.W. BROCK DEPARTMENT STORE QUEEN STREET - PORT PERRY (Merchandise Not Exactly as lllustrated.) AL DCT COO ONC CEOS Mtv ew A --~ SCUGOG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Taw nga SL a -- Tw IT Bd Tp - es - Pd