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2 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 18,1994 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" URANJO ONTRACTING ° Custom Built Homes e Additions | "e Renovations 'Building today, your dreams for tomorrow" RIG Snow Flake Festival, January 15 & 16, 22 & 23. rer pm A FORGET THE REST WE'VE GOT ... ... THE BEST! In January Save 25¢ off the price of any HOT DOG or SAUSAGE wben wearing your Snow Flake Festival Button. Come see us for lunch and pick up your button Jor only $2-- also save $$$ when visiting the ... We're located at... 94 Water Street across from the Ice Palace *Not applicable with other coupon offers. Beat the Tax Man m= os VAR - NO GST NO PST i | i ! i All In Stock Carpet & Vinyl Remnants. Also Select Custom Orders A 11 BTN OF) y oT As Tile Shoppe 154 Queen Street Port Perry Q 985-4808 3 Adil Ce) Snow Flake Festival activities continue at lake this weekend From page 1 weekend included an ice sculp- ture exhibition, ice fishing der- by, snowmobile poker run, and a fashion show. More great events are planned for this weekend. Ongoing events include teth- ered hot air balloon rides, hang gliders, and buggy and sleigh rides. Each day begins with a pan- cake breakfast hosted by the Classic Country Music Reunion Association. The breakfasts will be held in Palmer Park from 8- lra.m. Teams of five members will go head-to-head in the decathlon being held from 10a.m.to4 p.m. each day. (See separate story for details.) One of the highlights of the weekend will be the dog sled races which will begin on Queen Street at Perry Street. The event was promoted on Saturday during the opening of the Open Air Ice Palace. Jamie McNab of Little Britain and his seven-year-old son Graham demonstrated the sport using a full team of dogs. Spectators at the dog sled rac- es are asked to leave their pets at home, stay behind the marked off area, and watch their children closely. The races will take place between noon and 3 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. A festival dance will be held at the Latcham Centre on Sat- urday evening beginning at 8 p.m. A youth snowball tournament will be held at the baseball dia- monds from 9 a.m. to dusk on Sunday. A police officers versus teens snowball fight will be held at noon on Sunday. The partici- pants will purchase buckets of snowballs and the proceeds will go tocharity. A pig roast in the park will be-- Henshall*s Closed For Holidays Mon., Feb. 7 & 14 Tues., Feb. 8 & 15 Wed., Feb 9 & 16 gmat 3 p.m. Tickets are $8. The festival winds down at 4 p.m. with the closing ceremo- nies. Decathlon and dog sled awards will be given out and the winning 50/50 ticket will be drawn. (Tickets are being sold during the festival. The winner will receive up to $2,500 de- pending on the number of tick- ets sold.) [For more information about the Snow Flake Festival, please call Judy at 985-9804. Cold temperatures cause a number of serious problems By Kelly Lown Port Perry Star Record-breaking tempera- tures caused an abundance of problems for Scugog Township residents and kept emergency crews busy all weekend. Many residents experienced problems with frozen water pipes, interrupted cable service "and hydro blackouts. Scugog Fire Department was kept busy responding to nine calls between Sunday, Jan. 16 and Monday, Jan. 17, the most serious being a snowmobile ac- cident on Lake Scugog that sent one woman to hospital with seri- ousinjuries. According to Durham Region- al Police, Kim Chevallier, of Whitby was driving her 1991 Polaris southbound on Lake Scugog when it struck an abut- ment at the edge of the lake in the area behind Candell's River- boat. The impact sent the Whit- by woman airborn before com- ing torest under a truck. Police say the woman, who is in her late 20s, was transported by ambulance to Community Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Toronto Western Hospital, where she remains in critical condition as of press time. Other fire department re- OFF Small to 4X » 28 to 48 Waist sponses included the crews be- ing called to the senior's resi- dence on Rosa Street twice, once for a broken water pipe and lat- er when the sprinkler system was activated. Chief Steele said the building received extensive damage. The cold weather also caused one chimey fire on Honey's Beach, an electrical fire on Al- dred Drive and one in Utica, a car fire in Prince Albert and a water pipe problem at R.H. Cor- nish Public Scholl. A series of problems at the lo- cal school forced the principal to evacuate the school. According to principal Rick DeJong, a water pipe burst in the school which caused exten- sive flooding. The flooding even- tually caused the boiler to burn out and created further prob- lems with the transformer. By 9 a.m. the principal said they had no choice but to send the pupils home as there was no heat, hy- dro or telephone service in the building. But, he added, crews have been working on the transform- er, and he fully expects work to be complete and the damage re- paired, allowing the students to return to school today (Tues- day). 241 QUEEN ST., PORT PERRY 985-1965 LTR alk AR RB Rs ara