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emergency dial } Like pumpkin, like child. Aurora Har- rison, 10, who won a Cabbage Patch doll in the Stedman's pumpkin carving contest Fri- dav niall. reed o hosel ood eames en with (ho SNE idea for her toothsome vegetable, complete with egg shell eyes and celery hair. See more winners of the pumpkin contest on page 33) Given high priority Port Perry may Construction of a new elementary school in Port Perry has been given a high priority by the Durham Board of Education which has asked the provincial Education Ministry to approve funds for the school in 1985. The proposed new school, from Kinder- garten to grade 6, would accomodate 336 students, and the estimated con- struction cost is $1.8 million. The project is listed se- cond in priority in the Board of Education's capital forecast. Vol. 118 No. 48 Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1984 Region to study Should Durham Region have a 911 emergency dialing phone system? That's what Durham region council wants to find out and the council last week agreed to set up a task force to study all the implications of such a system. The task force is ex- pected to spend about four months studying the issue and come up with recommendations on such key matters as: 1. the agencies to be included (fire, police and ambulance are the minimum require- ments) 2. the location and staffing of a central bureau 3. centralized or de- centralized dispatch 4. the estimated cost of both the initial install- ation and the ongoing operation of such a system In a lengthy report submitted to council last week, Durham's chief administrative officer Donald Evans noted that the 911 emergecny dialing system is used widely in the United States where about 30 per cent of all Ameri- cans are now covered by over 1200 different 911 dialing systems. However, the system has not bee implemen- Waste disposal a real problem Durham Region has hired a consulting firm to find out what, if anything, the Region can do to get rid of garbage more efficiently. Regional council last week confirmed the hir- ing of MacLaren Engineers "to undertake a study to provide recommendations on ap- propriate medium and long range strategies for disposal of solid waste." The cost of the study by the consulting firm will be about $68,000. This was not the lowest of the three bids receiv- ed by the Region, however, MacLaren was given the job because of the company's ex- perience in similar plan- ning studies for Peel Region, Essex County (Turn to page 6) ted on such a wide- spread scale in Canada, and there are now just eight municipalities in Ontario using the sys- tem. These include Tor- onto, Windsor, Kit- chener and London. Out- side Ontario, such cities as Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver and St. John's are using the system. Some of the advant- ages to a 911 system is that the number itself is simple and easy to remember for persons in an emergency sit- uation. The system can be designed to identify originating switching centres, call back per- sons who disconnect, hold callers and handle switching centre over- loads. A single three or four digit number for emer- gencies is used in many European countries, in- cluding Belgium, Swe- den, Denmark and the United Kingdom where the system was first put into place some 40 years ago. In Durham Region, a seminar was held last month involving chiefs of fire departments, the police, ambulance, hos- pitals, emergency mea- sures organizations and Bell Canada reps. Scugog trustee Rev. Stuart McEntyre told the Star last week that he is "satisfied" that the pro- ject is on the priority list, but he cautioned that even though the Durham Board feels there is a need for a new school here, there are no guarantees the Ministry of Education will ap- prove the funding. The capital forecast will be submitted to the Ministry of Education by the end of this month and it is expected that the Durham Board will find out next spring, how many, if any, of the pro- jects have received fun- ding approval for 1985. If the provincial government approves the funding for 1985, the new school would be completed in 1987, accor- ding to information from the Durham Board. Rev. McEntyre said there is no question about the need for a new school in the Port Perry area and he stated that the '"over-loading at R.H. Cornish has been a long standing issue." Part of the pressure for the new school has come from the growing population in this com- is not a Cabbage Patch doll, but 19 month old Katie Powell didn't care much as she gave this big, soft doll a hug at the Christmas Craft Sale held at Port Perry High School on Saturday. This young lady is the daughter of Kim Powell of Whitby, who was just one of thousands who attended the popular show. More photos on page 14. get new school munity, but Rev. McEn- tyre also stressed that the introduction of special education classes (required by a 1982 pro- vincial law) has been a crucial factor as well. The Durham Board estimated that its capital requirements in 1985 will amount to about $11.7 million for the construc- tion of four new schools in Pickering, (2), Port Perry and Whitby, with additions and renova- tions to schools in Oshawa and Uxbridge. And the Board says that further $760,000 should be spent on site aquisitions in 1986. But a statement issued by the Board of Educa- (Turn to page 3) Dump hours cut? The hours of operation at the Cartwright trans- fer station east of lack- stock will be cut back, if Durham Region agrees with recommendations from Scugog Township council. Alarmed at the grow- ing amount of garbage coming into the transfer station and the cost to Township taxpayers to truck it to the landfill site in Darlington, Scu- gog council Monday aft- ernoon agreed to ask that the station hours be the same as other sites in Durham and that a person be hired to supervise and help make sure that non-res- idents are not using the service. The transfer station is now open to the public and unsupervised 24 hours a day, seven days per week. The bins are supposed to be only for Township residents to (Turn to page 8) Bowling Green deal Negotiations between Scugog Township and Carlan Developments for a site for a new lawn bowling facility reached a successful conclusion Monday afternoon. Carlan representat- ive Peter Koropisz agreed to sell the Town- ship a two acre site for the lawn bowling green on Simcoe Street just north of Durham Road 8, at a cost of $23,000. However, no money (Turn to page 8)