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10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Monday, December 30, 1985 Lookingback at the events of 1985 (From page 2) when he was awarded the Club's top honour for the second year in a row, the Wildey Recruitment Award. After nearly 18 years of teaching business students, first at Brock and then at Port Perry High School, Bet- sy Newman retired from the teaching profession. The Port Perry Tennis Club's an- nual mixed doubles competition was won by the team of Diane Burt and Jay Neill in a tough finale over Sophia Brendon and Ken Elliott. A crowd estimated at 2000 looked on Saturday as a team of six men at- tempted and succeeded in flipping the world's largest pancake The pancake took over 100 pounds of bat- ter and was cooked in a seven foot, 250 pound frying pan, by a team con- sisting of Jack Cottrell, Peter Hvidsten, Wayne Luke, Elgin Knoppe, Earl Cuddie and Harold McDonnell Jennifer Copithorn, 11, won the hearts of judges and audience alike as she captured first place in the Festival Days Lip-Sync contest. Port Perry IGA store manager, Jim Grieve was selected as 1985's Sexiest Male with an outstanding 148,484 votes, followed by Chuck Dewhirst with 106, 395 votes. The Kidney Foundation was the real winner collecting over $11,000 from the contest Seventeen year old Stephanie Butt placed fourth and second in two categories of the recent Miss Cana- dian Hemisphere Pageant in Toronto. One of the finest Holstein heirs anywhere went on the block last week and when the two-day sale ended, buyers had paid just over $7 millon for 302 animals at the Hanover Hills Farm south of Port Perry June Aldridge just discovered she has shares in a $400 million treasure discovered In a sunken Spanish Galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha' recently The shares were a Christmas gift purchased in Florida by her husband Swim races at Caesarea's Annual Regatta were cancelled this week when the Durham Region Health Umit closed the beach July 23rd. after tests revealed a high fecal cohform level in the water AUGUST Durham Region Pohce have charged a woman at Coppins Cor ners after a shoot-out with police About 15 pohcemen from Durham and several from Metro Toronto were on the scene for about 12 hours before Hillary Dawn Hogg. 28 gave up Firemen were kept busy for more than five hours when they battled a blaze on a Scugog Island farm which destroyed 75 large hay bales Shannon Houston, 14, from Bowmanville, was selected as Miss Regatta Queen last Saturday at the Annual Lake Scugog Regatta held at (Caesarea Former Port Perry Reeve JJ (nb passed away August 7th after a three month illness Mr (nb- son spent over a decade in politics in Port Perry and the highlight of his life in pohtics came in 1965 when he became Warden of Ontario County Four cases of rabid foxes in the Township have been confirmed in- cluding one found drowned in a residential swimming pool Agnculture spokesmen say that this 1s not an unusually high number of cases for this time of year The company developing Cawker"s Creek subdivision in Port Perry has refused to pay any more bills to the Township's firm of con sulting engineers saying the fees 'are away out of hne (ohform levels in the water at the government dock in Caesarea have dropped to the point where officials with the Durham Health Depart- ment now consider the area safe for swimming. Damage estimated at $50,000 gut- ted part of a two-storey home in Seagrave of Dieter Wilhelm. Mr. Wilhelm and his five-year old son suffered cuts and bruises and burns after escaping from an upstairs win- dow. Mrs. Wilhelm also suffered minor injuries from the fire. Ten year old Jennifer Geer of Prince Albert has been nominated for the Junior Citizen of the Year Award. Cost estimates for a new sewage disposal system for the Blackstock Arena and Rec Centre range from a low of $30,600 to a high of just over $41,000 SEPTEMBER For the first time in many years, the Port Perry Fair was blessed with three days of near perfect weather. Large crowds attended the many exhibits and events at the fair. A twenty year old Uxbridge youth who was caught breaking into a Port Perry gas station in June has been sentenced to two years in prison. Thirteen people from the Myrtle area were forced to take the series of anti-rabies shots after they were in contact with two race horses which contacted the disease. Enrolments in both Port Perry High School and R.H. Cornish have increased significantly on the first day of school as 1070 registered at Cornish and 1027 at the High School. In all, over 3000 students started the new term in the township schools. Council unanimously rejected a request from the Durham School Board asking for the Catholic School funding extension issue to be plac- ed on the ballot in the form of a referendum asking if the voters are in favour of the issue. Scugog Regional councillor, Lawrence Malcolm has announced that he will be seeking re-election in the November 12 election. The Big Sister organization of Scugog and Uxbridge received a $1500 shot in the arm, thanks to the efforts of the many who took part in the local Bowl-a-thon at Centenmal Lanes Ward II councillor Jack Cottrell has announced he will not seek re- election to Scugog Council this November, leaving the position up for grabs. OCTOBER Much of Port Perry was without hydro power Monday morning following a shut-down of the Caleb Street sub-station for maintenance work. The commercial area of the community was without power from about 9:00 a.m. until noon. The Port Perry Star introduced its new five column format for the paper. The change from 7 columns was part of a Canada-wide effort to standardize column widths of all newspapers. The value of building permits in Scugog Township shows that over $9 million in permits have been issued until the end of August. This is up over $2 million from a year earlier. It was announced that construc- tion of a new municipally-owned marina on the Port Perry water- front could get underway as early as two weeks, with completion by the end of April 1986. Scugog Council has agreed with parents from Prince Albert that a crossing guard is needed in front of the school because of the dangerous situation in that location. Paul Milligan took over the posi- tion of building inspector and by-law enforcement officer after being chosen from a large number of ap- plicants. The 34 year old carpenter lives in Prince Albert with his wife and one child. The latest report from Environ- ment Ontario shows that Lake Scugog fish continue to be the most contaminant-free in all the province. There are 24 candidates seeking election in Scugog Township on November 12 and the number of eligible voters number 12,597 -- up by about 500 from the last municipal election three years ago. Doug Olliffe of Port Perry, a can- didate for Mayor, has withdrawn his name from the mayorality race just two hours before the deadline. After managing the Ted E. Bear toy store on Queen Street for two -- JOIN US -- NEW YEAR'S EVE for dinner at THE MURRAY HOUSE -- 5:30 & 8:30 SITTINGS -- ARR RRND FUN pe Fruit "i v > | * Potato & Leek Soup * Pate & Vegetable Dip Platter 2A FUN 2X * Roast Duck > | * London Broil MM Sole Florentine DANCING V | * Dessert Assortment, XL Nuts. Grapes, IN Chocolate Covered | $3500 a0ON> Y, | PER PERSON bd DANG, 2 1 v Ny Pa) Nr MN «< a oS > o ~ ~ =) N - An, NN NN, 2 «< { «<' « ( i . 7) Va a a) rN yy -< » z . ' Ne Ne Mr NM << "X <5 < C Sd -- CALL NOW FOR RESERVATIONS -- 985-2775 Ay AN SS 2X <7 "+ - years, Christine Gerber bought the business on October 1, with her hus- band Bill. NOVEMBER Hallowe'en was marred again this year when vandals entered the Pine Grove Cemetery and toppled 28 headstones. Several were damaged beyond repair. In a tragic fire, a 12 year old Scugog youth lost his life after the fire raced through a steel-clad barn on the farm of his parents. A break-in at the House of Howard netted thieves over $5,000 in VCR's and stereos sometime during the night. Port Perry Pet Shop and Hank's Pastries were also broken into with about $70 in cash taken from Hank's. Students at Port Perry High School are taking a stand against impaired driving after losing several of their friends to alcohol- related accidents this past year. They will set-up a branch of SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving) and hold a public meeting. Mayor Jerry Taylor was return- ed as Mayor for his third term defeating challenger John Wolters by 865 votes in a hard fought battle. Others elected to office were: ~ Lawrence Malcolm, Harvey Graham, Howard Hall, Yvonne Christie, Don Cochrane and Neil McLaughlin. In the race for the school board, trustee Stuart McEntyre was defeated and Joyce Kelly of Blackstock along with Debbie Tred- way will now represent Scugog at the Board of Education. Debbie Tredway narrowly defeated Bobbie Drew by six votes to earn her seat. Port Perry gained national publicity when 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not" featured last summer's 7 foot Pancake Flip in one of its' weekly columns. The feature is syn- dicated around the world and was seen locally in Monday's Toronto Star. DECEMBER Scugog Council have been asked for a re-count of the votes cast in the recent Board of Education election in the public interest. Bobbie Drew of Port Perry made the request at the first regular meeting of council. Council decided *'no" to the request. Jennifer Geer of Port Perry is one of 15 young people from across On- tario to be honoured as a Junior Citizen of the Year at the February Convention of the Ontario Com- munity Newspaper Association. 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