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Special Christmas Gift Christmas Day was a very special one this year for Gord and Marilyn Goode of Port Perry with the arrival of Lisa Noelle, their third daughter. Lisa arrived at 12:54 a.m. Christmas morning tip- ping the scale at 8 Ibs. 10 oz.. and earned the honour of being not only the first baby at Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry, but also the first baby born in the entire Region of Durham. Gord and Marilyn are seen here with Lisa, while Jennifer and Melissa waited patiently at home for their new sister. Vol. 120 No. 5 Monday, December 30, 1985 Copy 35° Waterbed was best Christmas present Little Steven Hyatt got the best Christmas present any four year old with apnea could ever have hoped for. The Prince Albert tyke was the happy recipient of a waterbed, a gift that could save his life. Apnea is a rare disorder found usually in infants that causes its vic- tims to stop breathing during sleep. Doctors don't know why it happens, but they do know 1t almost always stops before children reach the age of one Steven is an exception, one of three children in Ontario older than their first birthday. who still risk their hves every time their eves close for the night. In Steven's case, apnea became a fact of life when he developed bron- chitis at nine weeks. His father Dick says doctors prescribed penicillin for the sick youngster and warned he didn't know how the drug night affect Steven That night, while Steven was sleeping in his playpen, his mother A capsule view of t JANUARY \ massive police investigation 1s underway after the partially-clad body of mmne vear old Christine Jessop was found on New Years [ove just 16 km north of Port Perry The young girl disappeared October 3rd. after buying bubble gum at the general store near her home in Queensville Nine year old Chad Broan had a close call when he went through the ice into the frigid waters of Lake Scugog His brother Robbie, 14 and his Uncle Dean Matthews 23. managed to pull Chad to safety after he had been in the water for about i minutes Mr and Mrs Milton Howsam of Port Perry celebrated their 6rd wedding anniversary on January 4 It was officially announced January 15th that VIA Rail passenger service from Havelock to Toronto will be back on the rails by June | RE MAX Scugog Realty of Port Perry has expanded their opera tions to open an office in downtown Uxbridge Scugog Township council 1s seriously considering a by-law to force residents to clear the snow from sidewalks in front of their homes and businesses Mersco Department Store opened with a bang and all sorts of specials Saturday after moving from a shop beside Luke's Country Store to their new location beside House of Howard Star pubhsher Peter Hwidsten presented Judy McColl, chief librarian at the Scugog Library and Yvonne Christie. president of the Historical Society with 63.000 pages of microfilm from copies of the Port Perry Star dating back to 1857 t the Scugog Chamber of Com merce annual meeting last week. Ralph Wilbur received a plaque for his 20 years service portraying San ta in the annual Christmas Parade Miriam Price was honoured for her 12 vears of service as a director with the Chamber of Commerce FEBRUARY Marg Wilbur announced she will be seeking the New Democratic Party nomination for the provincial riding of Durham-York 158 snowmobilers took part in this years' Port Perry Snowarama and raised just over $17,000 Marion Lee of Port Perry raised $1,071 in pledges in honour of her late son Bill Kids hined up at Stedmans last Saturday to bring their Cabbage Patch dolls to the Cabbage Patch Hospital, set up by the store Nurse Sharon Beevor treated the dolls for various ailments A reward of $50.000 has been of- fered jointly by the Durham and York Police commissions to anyone with information leading to the ar rest and conviction of Christine Jessops killer Mabel and John Sweetman celebrated their 60th wedding an niversary at a celebration at Fomiel's Place with family and friends For the third year in a row Ux bridge Township's bowhng team beat the Scugog council team dur ing the Big Brothers Bowlathon Mavor Jerry Taylor was forced to Joan was chatting on the telephone When she hung up, she took a look at her son and discovered he was blue. Within the next 10 months Steven quit breathing eight or nine times, and each time he was saved by his apnea monitor The infant monitor (Turn to page 3) (there are Swedish hockey team to challenge Eagles The Swedes are coming to the Scugog Arena in Port Perry on New Years Day A nudget-age team from the Han mge Hockey Club will play an ex hibition game against the Port Perry Fagles with face off at 2 00 PM on January 1 Haninge is a suburb of Stockholm and the hockey organization there has more than 900 players of all ages, including senor mens and womens teams The madget age team that will e year present the Uxbridge team with the trophy following the match A 43 year old Scugog Island man, Robert Hobbs was treated for frostbite and hypothermia after fall ing from his snowmobile sometime during the might A resident spotted him on the ice just before 7a m and alerted snowplow operators who went to his rescue Scugog Township is still waiting for over a half-mmlhon dollars in outstanding tax revenues that have not vet been pad to the municipahty Ray Litt of Queen Street. Port Perry said that the new Township Snow removal by law 1S richeulous putting him in a posi tion where he could be charged for not removing snow that Township trucks put on hiv dewalk in the first place Dr John Hammett has obtained his Masters Degree 1n Health Science from the Umversity of Toronto Hes currently working as a Medical Consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Health Scugog Chamber of Commerce play in Port Perry New Years Day Is on tour of several towns in southern Ontario, and 1s being hosted by the Minor Hockey Association in Pickering As well as Port Perry, the team will make stops in Little Britain and Oshawa Tickets for the Port Perry game will be available at the door The cost will be $2 for adults or a special family rate of $5. Kids playing in the Port Perry Hockey Association have been given complimentary tickets to attend the game 1985 past president Miriam Price gratefully awarded Gerry Nelson an appreciation plaque for 20 years of outstanding service as the Santa Claus Parade Marshall The Port Perry unity of the Scugog Fire Department spent several hours over the weekend pumping more than five feet of water from the basement of a home at the north end of Bigelow Street The flooding was caused by an ice clogged culvert which diverted water down the driveway, through the garage and into the basement The Holstein Association of Canada recently awarded retired Seagrave farmer Harold Honey with a special clock. com memorating his membership as the longest continuous one in Ontario, J total of 74 vears MARCH I.ocal schools were closed for the second time this winter when Old Man Winter roared through the Township dumping several inches of (Turn to page 2)