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Volume 124 Number 9 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1990 Copy 50¢ 72 Pages It was a good year and a bad year for Durham Recycling. A drop in the price of recy- cled newsprint, plus the over- whelming acceptance of the blue box curb-side program by Durham residents led to the Centre going nearly $80,000 over budget last year. The Recycling Centre re- ceived about $1.8 million from Durham Region in 1989 and the $79,000 over-budget represents about 3.4 per cent. But a spokesperson for the Centre said last week, the non- profit organization handled 14 per cent more material than an- ticipated. Officials had calculated that 14,000 tonnes of cans, glass and newsprint would be andled in 1989, but the actual amount was nearly 16,000 tonnes. That meant renting addi- tional vans for curb-side pick- up and hiring extra staff to do the work, said the spokesper- son. But what really hurt was the over-supply of newsprint for recycling in southern Ontario. The single plant that buys newspapers for recycling could not handle all that came on the market. With a lack of space to stock-pile newsprint at its remises in Whtiby, Durham a three months ago was forced to start shipping bales overseas to buyers in South America, Korea and Indonesia. "The shipping and trans- portation costs (for the overseas market) were reflected in the lower price we received," said the spokesperson. That situation is expected to continue for the next eight or nine months until Atlantic Packaging opens a new recy- cling plant in Whitby towards the end of the year. Prices for recycled steel and aluminum remained stable last year, but tougher stan- dards to prevent contamination in glass pushed up costs for all recycling centres in Ontario. Despite the problems of more material than expected and lower prices, the spokesper- son said Durham Recycling's 3.4 per cent over budget reflects the efforts to control expenses and maximize revenues in a tough market year. Durham Recyclingis slated to be taken over as a depart- ment of Regional Works in May of this year. The spokesperson said the amount of material collected in Durham in 1990 will increase over last year, especially if new programs get approval. "These include blue box col- lection from apartment build- ings and an expansion into com- mercial and industrial sectors. Plan now for a new school site Though it could be five years at least before the Dur- ham Board of Education builds a new school in Scugog, mem- bers of Township council be- lieve now is the time to start looking for potential sites. "At this time we (council) just don't know where the best site for a new school might be," said Regional councillor Yvonne Christie on Monday. The site for a new school will hinge on a sewer servicing Two youths charged Two youthful offenders, aged 15 and 16, have been charged with auto theft after a truck was reported missing from a driveway at a home in Greenbank. Durham Police say the 1982 pick-up was missing the night of January 19-20, and re- covered the next day by Parry Sound OPP. The truck apparently had broken down beside the high- way. report due tnis summer from the Durham Region Works De- partment. Especially if that report recommends that the sewage treatment capacity for Port Perry can be expanded, which in turn will mean major new residential development and higher densities of housing. "If the (expanded treat- ment facility) comes on stream, we most certainly are going to (Turn to page 4) The two young offenders had been unlawfully at large from the St. John Training School in Uxbridge. Also that same night in the Greenbank area, an attempt was made to steal a school bus from a yard on Concession 10. Police report that five bus- es in the yard were entered, as was an office in a garage. There was apprently noth- ing stolen, but one of the buses was started and had its battery run down. 'Recycling feels pinch of success Walking the dog or Is that skating the dog. This youngster was captured by the Star photographer Sunday afternoon getting ready to take "Fido" for a run, er skate, on the rink in front of Port Perry Marine. While the young boy looks to be enjoying himself, we're not sure about his favourite pooch. Maybe the four-legged critter needs some skates, size five, and one for each paw, please. Apartment hunters find a few more on the market By Kelly Storry Vacant apartments are not as rare a find as they were just a few short years ago. Although in the past few months apartments in Port Perry have been available by the handful, it was only a while ago, that people were desperate to find anything to rent in Port Perry. Many reasons have been giv- en to explain the increased va- cancy rate in the area. Peter Daciuk, a representa- tive of the Durham Region Housing Registry suggests that the slowdown may be due to a lot of people moving out of the area. He explained furtherby saying one reason people may be moving, is because of the slowdown at Darlington, which has resulted in less work in the area. "The vacancy rate has gone from .2 - .3 percent to .7 percent in six months in Oshawa," he said. A survey done by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corpo- ration states that the vacancy rate in the Oshawa CMA is at its highest level in five years. Although the vacancy rate is higher, there is no particular Suncenivation of vacancies in any building type surveyed. Only private and assisted ren- tal construction activity re- gins very low, the survey said. The survey states that as of October 1989 Oshawa had a va- cancy rate of .7, while the rest of Durham Region had a 3.4 per- cent vacancy rate. This was brought to a total of a 1.1 per cent vacancy rate for all of Dur- ham Region. One reason the report gives for the slowdown is the fact that in-migration in Ontario was 11,221 in 1988, which was down considerably from 36,373 in 1987. The report went on to say that it is ex to be 3.000 for all of 1989. Net inter- (Turn to page 4)