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Volume 124 Number 45 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990 | Copy 60¢ 56 Pages Information Meeting packed by 700 people Angry ratepayers disrupt meeting An information meeting, de- signed to explain the site selec- tion of two candidate landfill lo- cations in Ward 4 (Cartwright), was cut short after emotions ran high. EE Sit: These youngsters were just two of several local children who competed in the Scare- Over 700 a Cartwright residents attended the meeting held in the Blackstock Arena to voice their disapproval of a long term dump in their boundaries. Recently, an engineering oh % firm hired by Durham Region announced five candidate long term dump sites for Durham only garbage. The Cartwright sites include a 600 acre site located south of crow Contest on Saturday. The contest took part during Apple Fest on Queen Street. The children walked down Queen Street showing off their costumes, much to the delight of many onlookers. Competitors were later judged In four age categories for best "Scare- crow". See Inside this Issue of the Star for photos of the contest winners. Blackstock bounded by Shirley Road, Old Scu Road, Con- cession 3 and the Cartwright 1/ 4 Line and a 500 acre site locat- ed east of Nestleton Station bounded by 7A, Mahood Line, Concession 5 and Wilson Ave. The meeting, which was scheduled to take place in the adjoining Community Centre for residents living on or next door to the candidate sites, was . moved to the arena after the centre was filled and hundreds of residents were lined up down the road to Scugog Street. The ' meeting finally com- menced after a 50-minute delay while a sound system was set upinthe arena. Scugog Township council has gone on record as being offi- cially opposed to the two poten- tial landfill sites in Ward 4 ° (Cartwright). The resolution opposing the two potential sites was passed Monday afternoon after council heard from a delegation of about 20 of the Ward 4 resi- dents who own property on the two sites. "We don't want this dump. Help us. We elected you to help us," Linda Bradburn told coun- cil, speaking on behalf of the delegation. MacLaren Engineers, hired by Durham Region, has designated five potential sites for a 20-year dump for Durham garbage. Two of the sites are in Ward 4, one on the south side of High- way TA between Mahood Road and Wilson Ave., and the other about a mile due south of Black- stock at the intersection of Old Scugog Road and the Shirley Road. The news sparked an an- gry public meeting in the Black- stock Arena Sept. 26, and the formation of a citizens commit- tee to fight against Ward 4 be- ing the final site for a landfill (see separate story) And there are several letters to the editor on this issue in this week's Port Perry Star (see letters page) While Township council passed its own resolution oppos- ing the two potential sites, the vote Monday afternoon was not unanimous and came after much discussion and several at- tempts at amendments. Regional councillors Vern Garlick, chairman of the Public Liaison Committee for Durham's Waste Manage- ment Master Plan, addressed the residents first. He explained that the pur- pose of the meeting was to dis- cuss the site search process and "more importantly, listen to your concerns and answer your questions." "Where does this guy come from? This chairman of the PLC!" one angry resident shouted, questioning who paid members of the PLC. Mr. Garlick tried to explain that the members of the PLC are volunteers from across the Turn to Page 3 Council says no to dump sites Yvonne Christie and Ward 2 rep Marilyn Pearce declined to vote in favour of the lengthy res- olution because they were un- happy with one of its clauses. That clause states "that council recommends that the Region of Durham now termi- nate any further investigation of landfill sites within the Township of Scugog." Both Christie and Pearce made it clear that while they op- pose the two Ward 4 sites that Turn to Page 5 Judicial re-count of riding ballots set for Oct. 16-17 The judicial re-count of bal- lots for the riding of Durham East has been set for October 16-17 in front of Judge Craw- ford. The re-count was request- ed by Conservative candidate Kirk Kemp who lost by 63 votes to Gord Mills of the New Demo- crats in the Sept. 6 election. Close to 35,000 ballots will be re-counted at the Bowman- ville Recreation Centre, includ- ing 117 incorrectly marked bal- lots and 116 that were not marked at all. In Durham East riding, there were 173 "declined bal- lots" a method of making a protest. This is an unusually high number, but represents a trend in many ridings across the prov- ince.