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4 TT ET RRR A ha ee RA ' COMING TO By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star : Santa Claus is coming to town this Saturday as the annual Scugog Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus Parade makes its way through Port Perry. There is still time to register your float for the 1993 edition of the parade. All service clubs and organizations, church, youth and school groups along with commercial floats are encouraged to join in the parade. According to Alissa Smith, organizer, the parade currently has 50 entries, which is consistent with last year. Nine of those entries will be bands from the Oshawa, Uxbridge and Lindsay areas. The parade will begin at the Port Perry Fairgrounds at 2 p.m. and make its way downtown Vol. 128 No. 1 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1993 via the usual route along Reach Road to Simcoe Street to Queen Street before moving down Water Street to the lakefront. After the parade Santa will be in his house, beside the Laurentian Bank, where he will be handing out goodie bags to the children. | Anyone wishing to register their float, or for more parade information call Alissa Smith at 985-2635. Copy 65¢ 61¢ + 4e GSD - 40 Pages By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Members of Scugog Fire De- partment spent more than four hours dragging a portion of Lake Scugog for a missing York Region man, last week. According to Durham Region- al Police, it is suspected that a 27-year-old man took his own life by drowning himself in the lake just off shore at Pine Point Lane on Scugog Island. Aresident of Pine Point found a jacket floating in the lake on Thursday, Nov. 18. The jacket contained keys belonging to a car abandoned near the location two days earlier. The car was | Firefighters drag | cugog for man | registered to the York Region man. Four members of the fire de- partment, Captain Dave Ballin- gall, Lieutenant John Foster, Dale Lown and Rick Boccaccio along with the chief Don Steele, deputy chief Richard Miller and police spent Thursday and Fri- day dragging the lake near where the jacket was found, but did not find anything. Inpsector Dan Matthews told the Star on Monday he was not sure if they would have the lake dragged again as it has been several days and they have not found anything. See page three for a photo. Scugog Chamber of Commerce on verge of disbanding group By Julia Dempsey . Port Perry Star The Scugog Chamber of Com- merce may disband if directors cannot be found to fill its vacant seats. And if it dissolves, so will many of the special events that shape the community, such as the Santa Claus Parade, Festi- val Days, and the Canada Day celebrations. As well as organizing the spe- cial events, the Chamber of Commerce runs the Tourist In- formation Booth, brings the Kelly Millar Circus to town bi- annually, and offers a group 1n- surance plan forits members. The idea to disband the cham- ber was brought forward by the organization's president at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday morning. "I don't want it to get that far," Scugog Chamber of Com- merce president Bill Dowson told the Port Perry Star. "But the problem is mainly manpow- er. We don't have enough people to do the jobs required to work as achamber." He said the chamber's consti- tution requires the board to have 15 directors. Three direc- tors have stepped down during the present term and seven di- rectors have said they won't be returning to their seats when Turn to page 4 Santa visits B Seven-year-old Holly Tucker of Prince Al ig V openin ve for d FE PASE oo Sn tor ArT NE ree rn ET mp ane me Bf Po erty AS AA rt (right) was ng J the 300 childfen who had thelr picture taken with Santa Claus during the "official opening celebrations at Big V drugs store last weekend. Santa's other friends for the DIL tig Son ir racy Soli (ows) Gs Arden Durham ak Samia | Larrival In Port Perry during the Scugog Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus Parade this Saturday. Seq story 8h pe Poa So 18 Milgree.. 4 - rs ans yaa A ens et i als, af ner Sho me tg ew es tp DC MY Tn. ------ -----" ------ --------"