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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. January 4, 1984 Looking FEBRUARY Ten year old Clair Cornish of Port Perry reached an elusive plateau when he notch- ed his 100th goal of the season. The Atom player took just 37 games to get the 100 goals. School. Motorists in the Scugog area were able to fill up their car tanks at the low price of 32.7 cents per litre. High School teachers in Durham Region said no thanks to the latest contract offer from Durham Board of Education. Lake Scugog was the site of a new world speed record as Tom Erhart of Grand Rapids, Michigan, pushed the needle on his Budweiser-Polaris sled to 154.5"-MPH. Karen McKelvey, a grade twelve Port Perry High School student was accepted as a member of Ontario Youth Concert Band. The band was to perform in England, France, West Germany and Austria. The provincial government gave Scugog Township an 8 per cent in- crease, or a total of $700,300 subsidy for maintenance and construction of local roads and bridges. For the second time during the winter, the Snowarama was forced to be cancelled for the lack of snow. MARCH 1983 The Department of Natural Resources is suggesting that ice huts be removed from Lake Scugog prior to the March 15 final deadline. An 18-year old Port Perry youth and a 15-year old juvenile was charged by Durham Police with break, enter and theft in connection with an over-night break-in at Irwin Smith Music Store in Port Perry. Even with an increase in the 1983 roads budget, it nay not be possible to maintain it levels of service in the municipality. Roads superintendent Ron MacDonald told council that demand for services and the costs of providing these ser- vices in Scugog Township has grown faster than the increase in assessment. Durham Region council approved an official plan amendment which clears the way for Scugog Township 'to take winter sand from a pit in Ward 4, just east of Highway 57 and north of the Scugog-Newcastle Town Line A break-in in the Port Perry Snowmobile Clubhouse near the Shirley Road resulted in a.loss of about $1,000 worth of goods. Missing was a colour TV set, microwave oven, chocolate bars and cigarettes. Friday March 11, 1983 is a new * record for the earliest date the ice left Lake Scugog. This is not surpris- ing in the light of the mildest winter in memory. March 18 will go down in history as the earliest that anyone has ever gone swimming in Lake Scugog, and Al Bouwmeester, 17, now holds that record. Al had a $10 bet with his brother Mark, that he could not stay in the water for ten minutes, but Mark lost the bet. The temperature of the water was 8 degrees Celsius or 46 Farenheit. Scugog Township council has ap- proved the 1983 roads budget of $1,285,000. Raglan Public School will be clos- ed in June and students transferred to Prince Albert or Meadowcrest (Brooklin) public schools. Damage estimates are ranging as high as $300,000 in a fire March 22, which destroyed the interior of In. sulose Products Ltd., and for a time threatened to force the evacuation of numerous homes in the northwest corner of Port Perry. Wintario came to Port Perry last Thursday and at least 650 people packed the Port Perry High School in Milton, Hamilton and Gravenhurst. Port Perry High School grade 13 student Carla Dempsey and Velvet Linton both received honourable mention in a national writing con- test. There were 2,000 entrants in contest from all parts of Canada. Kathleen Taylor, a grade 12 student was the winner of the essay contest, sponsored by Durham Branch of Canadian Mental Health Association. Malmont Farms Atoms won the Eastern Ontario Championship defeating Campbellford, three games to one. Scugog Township building per- mits showed a total of $2,494,000 issued in the first three months of 1983, compared to only $385,000 in the first three months of 1982. The Borelians production of "Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii" was awarded two THEA's awards, for "best production' and "best pro- duction of Canadian play." The strap will officially disappear from school classrooms in Durham Region at the end of June 1984. Tony Bertrand, . 13-year old member of R.H. Cornish wrestling ~ team won the all-Ontario champion- ship in the-Bantam heavy-weight class. The United Churches in Durham Region have asked governments to raise the legal drinking age from 19 to 21, and ban all media advertising of alcoholic beverages. Port Perry Branch 419, of the Royal Canadian Legion presented the Victorian Order of Nurses with a new Chevette. The car will be us- ed when nurses make their calls to sick and needy people throughout the Port Perry area. MAY 1983 The owner of an average home in Scugog Township will be paying APRIL PeeWee B's of Port Perry are the all-Ontario Champions as they defeated a team from Forest 5-1 taking the best of seven games four games to two. This is the third year in a row that the PeeWee team has captured the all-Ontario title. Front row left to right: Mark Elliott, Greg Stapleton, Jamie Menzies, Brent McMillan, Mike Toye, Jim Vernon, lan Smith. Se. cond row: Jeff Oke, Robbie Jamieson, Keith Roberge, Kevin Gibson, Derek Fitzgerald, Tim Allsopp, Davis Watts and Paul Wyli Back row: Sponsor George Stone, Manager Carl Fitzgerald, Coach David Obee and Trainer Peter Christie. Auditorium. Although there were no big winners, a number of people walked away with $10 prizes. Scugog Chamber of Commerce sponsored the Wintario draw and the result was $1,400 which will benefit the Hospital Expansion Fund. APRIL 1983 Scugog Township has given ten- tative approval for a proposal to develop a campground tor about 5 trailers on property on the north side of Shirley Road owned by Mike Burner. Durham Council was told last week that revised spending estimates indiaate the region may be able to hold the line on a net tax increase of just over 5 per cent. Cathy Robb joined the Port Perry Star as a reporter-photographer. She is a graduate of Sheridan Col- lege in Toronto, and prior to joining the Star she worked for newspapers about $70 more in property taxes for 1983. A 35-year old Scarborough man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the se- cond degree murder of Gary McKenzie, a Port Perry area resident. Port Perry artist Les Parkes won the award for the Best Watercolour "Swell at Breakwater' at an art ex- hibition sponsored by Oshawa Art Association Miller Paving of Unionville was awarded the contract for the reconstruction of Highway 7A through Port Perry. Miller's bid of $2,194,319 was the lowest bid receiv- ed by the provincial Department of Transportation. After a winter of poor ice fishing, pickerel fishermen attacked Lake Scugog as the season re-opened for the popular Kawartha game fish. The Inflation Restraint Board has back at the photos an These two Scugog Township youngsters got the fishing season off to a great start with an 11 pound rainbow trout taken from Wilmot Creek. Thirteen year old Robbie Jamieson (right) hooked the 29 inch fish and his fishing buddy Brent McMillan, 11, coax- ed the trout into the dip net. ruled that the Durham Board of Education must give teachers a 9 per cent increase, vice-principals 6 per cent for the 1982-83 school year. The Scugog Arena Board approv- ed a small increase in the ice ren- tal rates for the upcoming season. Increase will be $2 per hour for both the prime rate and the preferred rate. Scugog Township council award- ed a contract to Tripp Construction for construction of a new steel roof on the Latcham Centre. The con- tract for $4,587 was the lowest of several bids examined. Scugog Island dairy farmer, Mur- ray W. Jackson won the Premier Exhibitors award at the 4th annual Spring Show held in Belleville. After 39 years of perfect atten- dance with the Port Perry Lions Club, Lion Cec King was honoured at the 45th Anniversary celebration of the local club. JUNE 1983 A group of Seagrave parents is demanding changes in the school bus route system following the tragic death of a seven year old boy who was killed May 27, as he step- > RB an Fant VAR ' ~~ SH . A SE LAY ped off a school bus in front of his home Durham Road 2, south of Seagrave. Ontario Premier William Davis was present at the offical opening of the Michael Starr building, the new structure in downtown Oshawa, which is now the home of 1,600 employees with the Provincial Ministry of Revenue. For the first time ever, the Com- munity Memorial Hospital in Port Perry has been granted a three-year accreditation. Seven Mile Island, the private retreat on Lake Scugog owned by wealthy Paddy Harrison has been sold for $630,000. Scugog photographer Clara Mar- tyn won first prize in the third an- nual photo contest sponsored by the Kawartha Conservation Authority. After more than a century of educating young people, Raglan School will close its doors on June 18, when a huge reunion will be held with a pot-luck supper etc. 108 canoes entered and competed in the 15th annual Canoe the Non- quon race. Dr. Matthew B. Dymond using a » JUNE After a couple of years of hard work by a lot of dedicated people the playground at R.H. Cornish School was officially opened. And once the ceremonies were over, this group of youngsters was more than willing fo give the equipment a whirl, and ham it up a bit for the photographer. -- --