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10 - "WEEKEND STAR" By Rik Davie Weekend Star Final presentations regarding the Durham District School Board's Student Accommodation Plan were heard by trustees earlier this week. | Close to 20 deputatiohs were heard Monday and Tuesday evening from schools requesting exemption from closure or looking for additions or new schools to be included in the planning document. The presenta- tions were heard on a clock-like pattern of 15-minute intervals strictly adhered to by board chair and Whitby Trustee Liz Roy. Epsom Public School supporters were on hand for both nights of presentations after having made their pitch a week earlier in-hopes of saving the tiny school. Up to 127 students attend the rural school, including as many as 22 youths who travel from outside the Epsom 'area. The school has a rated capacity of 87 students. Parents are attempting to keep Epsom Public School open as it is one of the last small school settings left in Durham Region. 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Scugog Trustee Martin Demmers has publically stat- ed he's in favour of saving the school he has referred to as "my little school." He is also lobbying his fellow trustees to forego the closure of four other schools slat- ed to be shut down by the accommodation plan. However, at a private finance meeting a week ago Mr. Demmers admitted that closing the school is a real possibility. "We have said in the past if you take something away from a community then we have to give back," Mr. Demmers told fellow trustees and staff at the closed door meeting. : "I would say that were Epsom to close then I would want you to look at perhaps an addition for Cartwright (Public School)." At Monday night's board meeting Mr. Demmers denied the remarks, telling The Star, "I said that I would like an addition in Cartwright and they certainly need one but I did not say anything about Epsom." Mr. Demmers was then told that his comments had been confirmed by those in attendance at the finance meeting. 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Boxing Day pickup, and all other garbage collection will remain on the regularly scheduled days. Durham Region Recycling Program will operate according to Collection Schedule (Christmas and New Year's Day cancelled, | resumes January 8, Boxing Day rescheduled to Saturday Dec. 30). CHRISTMAS TREE PICK-UP Christmas tree collection for the Urban areas of Port Perry and Prince Albert will be held on Wednesday, January 9, 2002, Please place your tree at the curb or end of your driveway by 7:00 a.m. on that day. | Bi-- ---- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2001 Currently no decisions have been made about school closures, but a report at the private finance meeting stated that funds needed for the proposed $89 million accommodation plan could be lost if underused and expensive older facilities are not closed. Trustees are expected to make a move to help sim- plify the accommodation problems before a mid- January decision is made. A motion by Whitby Trustee Doug Ross to assure such moves as the $12 million Uxbridge Secondary School renovation and addition will proceed was announced Monday night. The motion will split the planning document into two sections for elementary and secondary schools. This will allow trustees to approve the secondary plan and allow for the building and additions for four sec- ondary schools in the region, including Uxbridge. Trustees can then look at the elementary plan which includes a new school for Cannington and the closure of Epsom on their own merits. Ms. Roy told The Star that the decision will not be an easy one. "This is as hard a decision as any trustee has to make in their career at board," she said. "The hardest part given the dollar figures the province allows us and the predictions of yet more cuts to our funding is to make the fiscally responsible move in the face of very emotional pleas for schools that are great. schools but are no longer within our abilities to subsidize." Protection for police - By Rik Davie Weekend Star The three-year battle for the protection of police service dogs is on the verge of conclusion for a Durham Regional Police officer and his fel- low canine cops here and across the country. Constable Dave Mountsteven has been a high profile officer for many years, thanks in large part to the exploits of his four-legged part- ner, Chase. What has bothered Const. Mounsteven since his induction into the world of police dog han- dlers is the fact that many service dogs have been killed in the line of duty and that no law existed, over the usual cruelty to animal laws, to protect the dogs or pros- ecute those who injured and killed them. Three years ago, after an article in The Port Perry Star on Const. Mounsteven's , efforts to try and have the law altered to protect the dogs and their equine counterparts was run in the national police maga- zine Blue Line, a partner- ship began between Corporal Pete Nazaroff of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Const. Mounsteven was formed. Their work finally paid off. Last week the new | service animals near cruelty to animals legisla- tion passed third and final reading in the House of Commons in Ottawa bringing their efforts to culmination, according to Const. Mounsteven. "The media exposure was the first. thing," Const. Mounsteven said. "That put Pete and I in touch and with him work- ing so hard on the west coast we began to make some headway. "Then through (The Port Perry Star) putting us in touch and getting us together with MP Ivan Grose, it began to work," he said. The pair of canine law enforcement officers, with the help of Justice Committee Member Grose, travelled to Ottawa and told the sto- ries of dogs killed and injured and the fact that no one had ever been prosecuted for the offense. "We got support from all the parties and even a handwritten letter from the Prime Minister," Const. Mounsteven said. "It is amazing to think that we have accom- plished this and with the help of my fellow officers I have had the time to get this done," Const. Mounsteven said. The two cops and oth- ers will travel to Ottawa in February to witness the bill's signature. | -- A) .. ~ ~ . aa A TRONGR MA ZC ARR Sh