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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March 7, 1989 Judges pick Star as hands-down winner of award The Port Perry Star was the re- cipient of two "Premier Awards" at the annual Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA) convention held in Toronto last week. Star publisher Peter Hvidsten was present to accept the awards on behalf of his staff at the Friday evening awards presentations. Premier Awards are presented to community newpapers from across Canada who submit issues to be judged in specific areas. This ycars judging was done by members of the British Columbia association. The Star received a first place award for the Best Tabloid Front Page in the circulation class from 4500 to 8500. The judges com- mented that the "Port Perry Star was an especially attractive page with a dominating picture of a pipe major over the Star's mast- ead. The barn fire story was well written and laid out and the clean screened boxes effectively showed the way to inside features". The story referred to in the Jud es comment was one written y Star editor John B. McClelland about the Redman barn fire on Scugog Island in October 1987. e Star was also the recipient of the "Heritage Award" for their special 25th Anniversary issue published last September. Once again the judges were kind with their comments saying: "Hands- down winner this year is the Port Perry Star (Standard). From the front page with its sepia-toned re- production of the first page of the first Standard on August 16, 1866 to the back page containing pic- tures of all current staff members, this issue, which publisher Peter Hvidsten wrote was two years in the making, is one of the finest ex- amples that I have scen of a news- paper researching, writing and il- ustrating a subject of local historical importance. It was obvi- ously a true labour of love and that shone through to the reader. I was also impressed with the fact publisher Hvidsten, resisted the obvious temptation to fatten up the supplement with "congratulatory" ads thus forego- ing, I am sure a small gold mine in revenue. Instead he has produced a valuable historical document of which he and his staff - and the in- dustry for that matter - can be ud". The Heritage Writing Award was open to all community newspapers in the province of Ontario. Eee "IT'S A KNOCKOUT! G -G BETTEMIDLER ULYTOMLN 'BIG BUSINESS' | . bd Bb : : IN UARANTEED BIG LAUGHS!" Morning America TOUCHSTONE PICTURES presents in association with SILVER SCREEN PARTNERS {lI *"% DORI PIERSON & MARC RUBEL ~~; STEVE TISCH MICHAEL PEYSER 5 JIM ABRAHAMS [PGlam, Available on VHS & Beta Videocassette! NOW on VIDEO -- Beta & VHS "% LEE HOLDRIDGE ~2333 DEAN CUNDEY, Asc TOUCHSTONE THIS OUTRAGEOUS COMEDY HIT WILL BE HERE FEBRUARY 28! 68 WATER STREET, PORT PERRY Phone 985-9888 SUNDAY to THURSDAY -- Noon to 8:00 PM Open until 10:00 PM -- FRI. & SAT. Also available at ... 76 Baldwin St., Brooklin 655-3306 NEW SELF-S8ERVE STORE: 1487 Simcoe St.N., Oshawa 432-3727 The Port Perry Star was the recipient of two "Premier Awards" at the annual convention of the Ontario Community Newspaper Association held in Toronto last week. Star editor John B. McClelland (left) and publisher Peter Hvidsten are shown here holding the awards and the newspapers judged for Best Tabloid Front Page and Best Heritage section. The competitions are open to all member community newspapers across Ontarlo. See story for detalls. Chamber of Commerce opposes four-way Stop at Water Street Ward 2 councillor Marilyn Pearce is not very happy with the Scugog Chamber of Commerce's opposition to a four way stop sign at the intersection of Queen and Water Streets. "I don't understand why they (Chamber of Commerce directors) are opposed to a four-way stop," she said at the council meeting Monday afternoon. "There have been accidents at that intersection and with in- creased traffic along Water Street, we (council) should be studying that corner." As just about everybody knows, Queen and Water is now a Dump to close (From page 1) the process of setting its 1989 budget, the changes in the garbage situation will have a signficant impact on this year's local munic- ipal budget. Councillor Christie is a mem- ber of the Region's Works com- mittee, which has the jurisdiction over garbage dumps in Durham. The Brock West landfill in Pickering is owned and operated by Mctro Toronto, and Durham has special dumping privileges there. But Metro Toronto also dumps a lot of its trash at Brock West and the life expectancy of that site is now being measured in months. When the Scugog dump is closed, Durham Region will spend about $1.2 million to cover the trash with earth, install monitor- ing devices for leachates. Setting up the transfer station at the for- mer dump site will also cost the Region about $500,000, according to councillor Christie. two-way stop, i.e., the traffic coming from Water Street must stop. Traffic moving cast on Queen does not have to stop and the intersection secs a large num- ber of U-turns by drivers who want to go west on Queen again. Mrs. Pearce believes both Queen and Water Street traffic should stop at the intersection. But the Chamber of Com- merce directors, in a letter to council, think otherwise. They voted unanimously not to change anything at the intersec- tion, noting that "there has not - been an accident of any signficant nature there in years." Any changes would further complicate the traffic problems at the intersection," states the letter. An angry councillor Pearce said the letter "agrees with the rea- sons why there should be a four- way stop there." Despite her protests, the issue died at the council chambers as councillors voted to "receive and file" the letter from the Chamber of Commerce. I et a AS