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Copy 65¢ ©1¢+4aecsD 40 Pages na crm 4 "4 ad JULIA DEMPSEY/ PORT PERRY STAR Staff and students at Epsom Public School decided to beat the February blahs last Wednesday by dressing in beach attire. Jessica Vanuden, Nicholas Spence and Dana Loback, all Grade 2 students, show how cool it is to be hot amidst the winter won- derland scenery of the school's front foyer. Weekend snowmobile accident claims life of Caesarea firefighter A Caesarea man is dead following a single vehicle snowmo- bile accident south of Port Perry on the weekend. Paul Kevin Fidler, 27, of Summit Drive in Caesarea, died of hypothermia as a resiilt of the accident which occurred late Fri- day night. According to Durham Regional Police, Mr. Fidler was snow- mobiling on a trail south of the causeway in Port Perry on Feb. 28 when his 1981 Moto-ski struck a mound of dirt, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. He hit another patch of dirt before being thrown from the snowmobile. He was later found on the ice by other snowmobilers. He was conscious at the scene, but died a short time later at Communi- ty Memorial Hospitalin Port Perry. Police were unable to estimate how long the lone snowmobil- er was exposed to the extremely cold temperatures. They esti- mate the time of the accident was approximately 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. He was not found until approximately 2 a.m. Mr. Fidler, a member of the Township of Scugog Fire Depart- ment, Hall 2 in Caesarea, is survived by his wife Patti, daugh- ter Kirstie Lee and son Kevin. This is the first snowmobile- related fatality in the Township of Scugog this winter. By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star It will not be until the fall be- fore a long list of dump sites in Durham Region will be re- leased, says Gord Mills, Dur- ham East MPP. Alist was tobereleased in No- vember, 1991, and a short list in February but due to delays it was impossible to release this information. The release date for the list of sites hinges on when the Onta- rio Legislature reconvenes and passes Bill 143. Mr. Mills says the Legislature will sit begin- ning April 6, but added the ear- liest the bill would be passed would be in the fall. All work on the long list was put on hold in November after Queen's Park failed to pass Bill 143. This controversial bill rec- ognizes the Interim Waste Au- thority (IWA) and gives it sweeping powers to search for a site. This red tape has pushed back the plans by more than four months. When the IWA an- nounced the beginning of the search in August, 1991, a de- tailed schedule outlined the var- ious dates when the informa- tion would be released. | More delays in announcing J list of potential landfill sites November, 1991, was pegged as the date for the long list of sites, while a short list of potential sites was to be released in Feb- ruary, 1992. February has come and gone and neither list has been re- leased to the public. Erv McIntyre, IWA general manager, says he is unsure how much of an impact the delay will have on the rest of the schedule. "It's in the hands of the gov- ernment," he said. "There's lots of things we can't control." The preferred site was to be Turnto Page 2 Roads program gets boost The Township of Scugog got more than it was expecting from the Ontario government recent- ly. Last Thursday the township was informed by Queen's Park that it had been awarded a five- per cent unconditional grant for road use in 1992. This was sig- nificantly higher than the one- percent they were expecting. The five-per cent increase over last year's figure boosts the amount of money available for the township's roads program to $984,900 in 1992. This is up from the figure of $938,000 the township was able to earmark forroads last year. Despite the increase in un- conditional grant money, Scu- gog's Mayor Howard Hall says it won't have alarge impact on the capital works projects already planned. Mayor Hall says the township 1s working on the budget at the present and will know what plansithas for roadsshortly. Ronn MacDonald, road super- intendant, says when every- thing is taken into considera- tion the amount of funding is down over last year. In the 1991 budget, the township received $119,000 in supplemental allo- cations as well, and although he has been told by Ministry of Transportation officials to ap- ply for the money again, the township is not guaranteed any money. He fears the ministry will cut back funding in this area as a way to save money. Mr. MacDonald says every hit- tle bit of money will help, how- ever. He says "the infrastruc- ture 1s falling apart" in Scugog and there are "terrible needs in the municipality." He says among the major pro- jects which need attending to are the completion of the Sea- grave storm sewer system and the completion of a project to bring Arrow and Lorne Streets in Port Perry to full urban stan- dard. Mayor Hall says heis not sure why the township received the Turnto Page 14 Batter up! It's Shrove Tuesday and Kelly Hoare couldn't be happier. The nine-year-old Port Perry resident loves pan- cakes and looks forward to helping his mother, Donna, whip up a batch for tonight's dinner. Kelly was hoping to sample a few pancakes for this picture but that idea fell flatter than a pancake when Star photographer Julia Dempsey realized she was out of eggs. Sorry Kelly!