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% Dave Muir of the Community Memorial Hospital Board open- ed up the Ladies Auxiliary Craft & Bake Sale at the Latcham Cen- tre Saturday afternoon and was rewarded with flowers from Mary Cannon for his efforts. As usual, 10 minutes after the sale open- ed, the delicious baked goods were sold out! Electrical fires A portable classroon at R.H. Cor- nish School in Port Perry sustained about $1000 in damage after an elec- trical fire broke out Saturday morning. The fire may have been caused by a nail through a basebpard heater wire just inside one of the portable doors. Captain Bill Harrison of the Scugog Fire Department said he has asked for an inspection from On- tario Hydro to have a look at the wir- ing in this portable and the others at the school. When firefighters arrived at the scene about 8:30 Saturday morning, the portable was filled with thick black smoke and it appeared as if the door and frame had been smouldering for some time. The alarm was turned in by two ---- -- D. wl oy Scugog firefighters were called out Satur- day morning to an electrical fire in a portable classroom at R.H. Cornish School. The fire caus- ed about $1,000 damage and is believed to have damage portable youngsters, Julie Brock and Koreena Audette, who were playing basketball at the school grounds. They said they could hear a *"'crackl- ing sound" coming from the por- . table and saw smoke escaping from around the door. _ Captain Harrison said it appears the constant opening and closing of the portable door caused the nail, which was holding the wire, to punc- ture it. He said if the fire had started on a school day when the room is fill- ed with students, he doubted they would have been in any danger as they would have had time to exit the portable. However, the Fire Depart- ment would like Ontario Hydro in- spectors to have a look at the wir- ing in the other portables on the school grounds. Vol. 121 No. 21 Tuesday, April 21, 1987 Copy 50° The Scugog Memorial Library Board says it will ask Township council to re-consider the reduction in the Library's 1987 budget request. The Library Board is seeking a grant of $113,758 from the Township council this year for operating ex- penses, an increase of $20,000 over the $93,000 budget grant given by the Township in 1986. However, in a budget meeting April 13, council voted to limit the Library budget grant to $100,000 for 1987. During a brief discussion prior to the vote on the library budget re- - quest, Ward 1 councillor Yvonne Christie termed the requested in- ' crease "exorbitant." In a letter to the editor in this iss of the Port Perry Star, the Scugog Library Board says the council's reduction in the library budget "is not justified." a) The letter goes on to state why the * Board feels the library needs a $20,000 increase in its budget this year, noting that just over half the people in the Township are registered members of the library. The letter states that in 1986, the .number of people coming into the library jumped 36 per cent and there was an 82 per cent increase in the in- | library use of materials. : Library Board chairman Mar Wilbur told the Star that Board members want the council to re- consider the budget request. 'We feel-that what we (Library Board) are asking for is reasonable. I don't - started in baseboard heating wire near the door. The Fire Department wants the wiring examin- ed and the wiring in other portables in use at the school (see story). } think we are being irresponsible," 'Mrs. Wilbur said the along with trying to keep up with the ever- increasing demand by the public on MARG WILBUR "Not irresponsible" viewed Library Board wants | budget cut re library services, the Board's re- quested budget increase this year is also to bring salaries paid library staff 'more in line with what employees are paid in libraries elsewhere. 3 When asked what the Library Board will do if the council refu$es to re-consider the budget increase this year, Mrs. Wilbur said *'I just don't know at this time. We'll have to face that fact if it happens." The vote last week to reduce the library's budget request was not unanimous. Ward 2 councillor Howard Hall voted against the reduction. He is a council appointee .«. on the Library Board. Mayor Jerry Taylor and Regional councillor Lawrence Malcolm were absent from the budget meeting when the reduction was approved. The full text of the Library Board's letter outlining the reasons for the budget increase is printed "this week on Page 5. . Break-ins reported | Durham Region Police report two break-ins in Scugog Township on the | night of April 14. Thieves cut their way through the wire fence to get into the compound of the Scugog Hydro depot on Regional Road 8 and made off with a quantity of gasoline, believed to be [ about 40 litres. There was nothing else reported missing. Also the same evening, a break- in took place at the Scugog Chrysler dealership in Manchester. A police spokesman said the only item reported missing in that one was a micro wave oven from the staff lunch room. | Marine patrols | | to start early Durham Region Police will soon begin marine patrols on Lake Scugog, thanks in part to the un- seasonably warm temperatures which are already bringing out boaters, wind surfers and even motorized surf boards. A police spokesman said the Durham Patrol Boat is still in winter storage at a local marina but it will be in the water in the very near future. Traditionally, police marine p: og have started the May 24 lo year since the boating season Scugog that will change patrols on Lake weekend, but Some of the more serious offenses encountered by police patrols on the lake include dangerous boating . which ers swimmers or other boaters, and the I use of alcohol by boaters. It is against the law to con- sume alcohol in a boat unless it's a house boat moored at a dock. The operator of a boat convicted of im- be subject | ma to loss of driver's licence. pairaiina Y. be sublect that are more common incl ude not life-jackets in the boat, lack of oars and a ~ bailing bucket. Jack it is now mandatory for wind sur- fers and surf boarders to wear life jackets. A. 44 Pages