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AY Ee | - It seemed like the whole town ot Blackstock was there to watch as Beacock's Hardware, somewhat of an institution in the community, burned to the ground last Wednesday afternoon. Some $150,000 worth of damage was sustained when fuel explod- ed inside the building. Luckily, nobody was seriously injured. See story for details. - ' 3 . . ay 37 A i : C7 ! 5 HT Bd $ Zod Front Wh +5 a "-- ail Port Perry High School's Vaughan McKee gave it 'that little extra effort' in the Junior Shot event at the COSSA track and field meet held last week in Oshawa. McKee had little trouble winning both the shot and discus. He and several other students from PPHS will compete at the Regional finals this week in Ottawa. (See Sports page for story and more photos of the COSSA event) a be as much as $150,000 - Damage could run as high as $150,000 in a fire last week which des- troyed Beacock's Hard- ware and Repair Shop on Scugog Street in Blackstock. Firefightérs from both the Caesarea and Port Perry departments answered the alarm when the fire broke out about mid-afternoon on May 16. Although the cause of the fire is still officially under investigation, owner Al Beacock told the Star early this week the fire started when fuel exploded in the repair shop. Mr. Beacock said his son Bob was working in 'the shop at the time, and although he escaped with just a minor burn on the forehead, he said the flames spread so quickly Bob just had time to call the fire department and get out of the building. "He was really fort- unate just to get out of there', said Mr. Bea- cock. (Turn to page 2) Vol. 118 No. 25 Wednesday, May 23, 1984 36 pages Caesarea residents ask council to give hamlet a better break Donna Pearce figures it's about time Caesarea got some respect, not to ention some more tax glars from Scugog Township council. Mrs. Pearce read an angry letter to counc- illors at the meeting May 14 in which she complained of a lack of attention to roads, drainage problems, street lighting and a host of other issues in the small hamlet on the eastern shore of Lake Scugog. "The citizens feel i. time the Township cou. cil gives this community a better break', Mrs. Pearce told the councill- ors. The letter went on to say that many of the streets in the hamlet are not paved and in poor repair, there is a lack of street lighting, drainage problems caused by plugged culverts or no culverts at all, a lack of street signs, parking problems in the area of the public dock, dogs running at large and residents who have allowed their property to deteriorate. "Councillors would be shocked at seeing the conditions in which we have to live', she said, noting that with 230 permanent homes in the community, Caesarea . can no longer be termed just a summer cottage area. Mrs. Pearce said her letter has the support of several other residents of the hamlet, and came about after she sent letters to all homes there asking for input on how money from the Scugog Beautification Committee should be spent this summer. Some people respond- ed to that letter by asking what good it would do to spend a few hundred dollars for flower gardens when there are other serious problems that should be corrected. Mrs. Pearce, who has lived in Caesarea for the past three years, is a member of the Beautif- ication Committee which plans to put in a flower bed this summer at Putsey Park along with a Bicentennial Flag and a flower garden in front of the Elderly man killed by car An eighty-year old Oshawa man was struck and killed on Victoria Day as he attempted to cross Durham Road 23 at the area known as the Chalk Lake springs. Regional Police say Tomaso Aloia of 210 Albert Street, Oshawa had stopped beside the road with other members of his family and was attempting to cross the highway when he was struck by a car driven by Edwin Boyce of Toronto. Police say the incid- ent occurred at about 2:15 P.M. No charges were laid against the driver of the car. Both Regional Police and the OPP say there were no other serious motor vehicle accidents in the Port Perry and Scugog Township area over the first long week- end of the summer. A spokesperson for the OPP Whitby office described traffic con- ditions as moderately heavy on the long week- Fire Hall. Members of council were a little surprised at the angry tone of Mrs. Pearce's letter and Mayor Jerry Taylor said the Township has spent money in the community to up-grade (Turn to page 2) Board rejects belts in buses Scugog Board of Education trustee Stuart McEntyre says he supports 2 decision by the Board's transpor- tation committee not to undertake a pilot pro- ject to test the use of seat belts in school buses. Rev. McEntyre said provincial transporta- tion experts and safety officers with the Dur- ham Police are not in favour of seat belts in buses and he agrees that it would be just too difficult for one driver to get 30 young students un-buckled and out of a bus in the event of an emergency. He went on to say that "personally, I don't think the Durham Board is qualified to undertake a pilot project or experi- ment on this issue". He said it should be up to safety experts to carry out these kinds of experiments. On another issue, Rev. McEntyre said he supported a request from the North York Board of Education which asked that all school jurisdictions in the country include Holocaust studies at some point in the curr- iculum. The Durham Board by a narrow vote, rejected the request for support from the North York Board. Rev. McEntyre said that while students in the Durham Board of Education are exposed to studies of the Holo- caust, the same may not be true for students in other areas of the country. He believes it is important for students to have an understand- ing of the Holocaust and why it happened. Sever- (Turn to page 2)