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"A Family Tradition for 128 Years" Car payment dropped in lot By Jeff Mitchell Port Perry Star Nine-year-old Steven Blundan was just goofing around waiting for his parents when he found more mone than he ever imagined existed: $85,000, in the form of a cheque made out by a car dealership to a bank. Steven was with mom Sonia and step dad Tim Clancy back on Saturday, April 8 in the lot at Williamson's in Uxbridge when he made the discovery. Sonia and Tim were there to look at the new automobile Sonia was purchasing, and were disappointed to find the dealership closed; but they took a walk around to check out their new wheels anyway. Steven had wandered off and was kicking around in the huge lot when he looked down and saw a slip of paper lying on the rain-soaked pavement. As boys are apt to do, he bent down to check it out. Something about the paper told him it was important. "I was just wondering what it was," he said at the family's Nestleton home last week. "1 just picked it up and I gave it to my mom." Sonia looked at the paper and was shocked when she saw the figures on the registered cheque: $85,461.37, the pur- chase price of three new auto- mobiles. "I kind of went: Aahh! Do you know what this is?" she said. Tim heard the commotion and couldn't believe what his wife was telling him. "I didn't believe it either at first," he recalled. "I said, 'Here, let me have a look at that.'" As the dealership was closed, they took the cheque home and got on the phone. They finally made contact with someone at Williamson's, and learned that the cheque had probably been dropped by a truck driver after he made delivery of the vehicles. The Williamson's people weren't that alarmed about the cheque, but indicated the folks at the bank, to whom the cheque was made out, were somewhat anx- ious to retrieve it. So Sonia, Tim and Steven made the trip to Uxbridge last Tuesday and returned the cheque. Steven was given a baseball cap for his efforts. He said he'll continue to keep his eyes on the ground, a practice he has already found can pay off. "I've got a whole bunch of pennies in my room," he said. "It goes up to three dollars. "Some of them are mine that Con J IROTE BY RIDIN FQ Eh YMA VE JEFF MITCHELL/PORT PERRY STAR NO FOOLIN': Nine-year-old Steven Blundan, seen here with mom Sonia and step-dad Tim Clancy, shows off the $85,000 cheque he found lying in a lot at an Uxbridge car deal- ership last weekend. The honest Nestleton resident returned the cheque, and got a baseball cap from the company for his efforts. He says he plans to keep his eyes on the ground In the future. : chroer in Greenbank Saturday gl Violinist presents 'Jigzup' What if Don Messer and ae Stephen Fearing. tor Piazzola had joined the | i Beatles? The result would prob- Hi musical explorations ably have sounded much like Jigzup, the exciting new album from Oliver Schroer. You can hear him this Satur- nadian folk music into the realms of jazz, new music, funk and Celtic, Scandinavian, Bul- i Indi day, April 22, when Greenbank garian, Mongolian and Indian traditi ics. Folk Music Scciety hosts Jigzup o. nional musics for an 8 p.m. show at the Green- Now Oliver brings you Jig- bank Hall. zup, nominated for a Juno in Oliver Schroer has been 1994, an instrumental tour de prominent for several years on force of 14 original tunes. Oliver the Canadian acoustic music draws on his diverse musical scene as a side man of choice, a Past to give each of the tunes a musicians' musician. He has Strongindividual flavor. toured and recorded with Loree- Tickets $15 - Uxbridge - Blue na McKennitt, Don Ross, Har- Heron Books; Port Perry - Cir- bord Trio, Bobby Watt, Rare cular Sounds, Irwin Smith Mu- Air, Theresa Doyle, Ian Bell, sic; Greenbank - Chicken Coo Anne Lederman, Sharon, lois Bakery; Bowmanville - The and Bram and Jack Grunsky, Hands On Music Company. For have taken him far beyond Ca-. | 1 | 1 1 | TTT LR RR XX 3 NR RRS RAN TE N QUESTION OF THE WE The medical clinic is closed for three days this month || due to provincial funding kb cutbacks dictated by the social contract. Do you agree with this form of cos cutting? | it = EK ae & Sam 3 ANIA aa Egy by ot pd And st of them 1 | not to mention appearances information call (905) 985-8351 a : and mos OLIVER SCHROER with Valdy, Connje Kaldor and or (905) 852-7578. ' N WY YY VYYIY! FY WY YVY I 2.2 22 22 224 4 32282 2%: } Bat on tin T Tt Bet tet EATS he Ad hth dh Eh 20h 13 8 323 83 2 2 82h 2 oh hh 3 cub i lh ih 5. ; 2 3 » 5 3 SRS y 3 § hi +8 Po % 3 ¥ SER S E £ 4 = 85 ' 3 AAR _ on Se N NN N\ ) 3 N 3 da 4 ™ 3 P 3 N . NN RLS RS $ > . 3 8 : 5 A X : 3 3 3 '