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7 "Winter" It's Not Over Yet! For the past month, winter has been throwing everything it could at area residents and apparently is nat about to give up. The past weekend, as in previous weeks, met with high winds and more snow. One of the worst areas around here seems to be Epsom as pictured above. A series of photos taken Tuesday shows Epsom with cars drifted-in, mail boxes and signs buried and roads with near zero visibility at times. Spring is officially just over two weeks away, but it would seem "Old Man Winter" has not [60ked at his calendar lately. Photo J.P. Hvidsten Council Purchases "New" Grader The trade-in of a 1947 Adams grader on a 1959 of the same make and an add- itional payment of $6,500 to close the deal, came up for considerable discussion at the last meeting of Port Perry *® Council. Opinions concerning the price and the practicability the local council meeting. When the resolution, made by deputy-reeve Phil Orde in favour of the purchase and seconded by councillor Grant McDermott was voted on, the two other councillors, Howard Hall and Jerry Jackman opp- osed the resolution The reeve, normally does not vote. However, when a tie vote occurs, he must use his franchise and break the tie. Reeve Kenny, who indica- Hospital Report 52 & pm Remaining Visiting Hours 3 - | ted during the discussion he was in favour of purchasing the grader, voted accordingly to the vote, councillor Jack- man was of the opinion it would be more reasonable and practicle as well to make an arrangement with a con- tractor to bring in a grader when this type of work was necessary. It would mean the municipality would have to sign a contract and pay a "stand-by-fee" im order to have a grader available at any given time, Mr. Jackman explained. Deputy reeve Orde was not in favour of this idea. He was supported by the works when he said: "The municipa- lity should own and operate their own grader. It's right here when we need it the most." Councillor Howard Hail was not against the purchase of a grader, but suggested the price of $6,500 should be negotiated and perhaps an offer of $6,000. be made. | "After all if you are purchas- ing a car, you certainly wouldn't accept the first price offered and | believe it applies to this deal as well councillor said. superintendent Peter Crawford | "the | | neighbourhood Reeve Kenny stressed that in order to give the best poss- ible service to the community and its residents, the Village should operate their own gra- der. He also brought to the attention of the councillors, a 50% provincial subsidy would be paid on the actual hours of work the grader per formed. The grader, a late 1959 Adams 550 model is to be purchased from Equipment Sales & Service 1968, Rex- dale, Ont. The actual trans- action has been made with the local representative, Art hur Van Camp, R.R. 3, Port Perry "The model purchased by the Village is much larger and more powerful than the 1947 Adams 512 model trad- ed in," Mr. Van Camp told the Star. "It's in good mech anical order, but does need a paint job. In order to save the municipality some money, i suggested the works depart ment could do this job, rather than spend the money with our company," he concluded A new grader of the same type purchased by thé mun- icipality would cost in the of $50,000 "Cr Volume 105 - Port Perry, Ontario Wednesday, March 10, 1971 - No. 20 PRESENTS PLANS, COST OF CELEBRATIONS Fine Centennial Program Lined Up For June 9-12 Dr. Wm. Cohoon newly elected president of the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce was present at the regular meeting of Port Perry Coun- cil Tuesday night, last week. On this occasion, he repre- sented the Centennial Com- mittee and the main reason for attending was to find out what possible financial assistance the municipality might budget for the cele- brations of the 100th birtieday to the Village. Dr. Cohoon outlined the program for the four days of celebrations in June, more specifially from June 9 to 12 Brigade Answers Two Fire Calls During Week Last Tuesday afternoon, March 2, firemen received a call at 4:10 p.m. to the farm of Francis Brown on the 9th concession of Reach. Fire had broken out in some bales of straw piled at the side of the barn and caught the outside of the barn door but did not get into the interior of the building. The only loss was to the straw and a little damage to the barn door. Firemen again answered a call to Reach Township on Sunday evening, whenan alarm was received at 8:20 p.m. from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Prentice on the 14th concession of Reach Fire had broken out in an upstairs bedroom of the brick home and when firemen arrived the upper part of the house was filled with smoke, Although hampered by the dense smoke, firemen were able to confine the blaze to the one room. ; The fire damaged the floor and walls of the bedroom as well as destroying some fur- niture and clothing. Cause of the blaze is unknown Many Entries At the last Chamber of Commerce directors' meeting, Mrs. Eleanor Wood was able to already report some 30 to 40 entries had signed up for the Centennial big Parade on dune 9 Children residing in areas too far away from highways and main roads had no poss ible way of attending schools the last few days. Prince Albert school draws quite a number of pupils from the Village and managed to show the greatest attendance Monday about 120 pupils of 360 attended On Tuesday the majority of pupils were back to school, except for those sliving in areas such as Chalk Lake and High Point, sow completely snowed in and no chance for children reaching the buses on main roads Mrs. H. Midgleyat Epsom informs the Star only three | pupils and four teachers made it to sthool on Monday Tuesday attendance was about 50% of the total amount of pupils at the school "Thursday of last week was quite a busy and exciting day at this school,"' Mrs. Midgley said. Accident victims were brought into the school and fortunately the school nurse was there at the time and treated those injured before they were taken home. Two of the injured were taken to the Cottage Hospital, Uxbridge for further treatment 16 members of Comeo Stampings Lid. office staff transferred from Oshawa to Uxbridge had to take refuge in the schoo! during the day Several teachers stayed over night with friends in the Vill age. Only nine pupils and seven teachers arrived at the Green bank School, Monday. The Attendance At Area Schools Low During Storm enrolment at the school is 242 and although attendance improved to some extent Tuesday, only 35 pupils made it to school Teachers as well as pupils were furced to walk from the cars on top of the hill to the school, about half a mile Pupils attending were mostly from the Village area On Tuesday, March 16 Greenbank Schoo! will open the doors to parents and in terested froth 3 to 5.30 p.m Continued on page 16 --= "lam sure you are familiar with the general plans of cele- bration on Queen Street dur- ing those four days," he said. Tentative plans are to have the street closed off for most of those days, he explained and he said he was personally in favour of charging admis- sion to that area during the periods of special festivities. He stressed however, not all the business men are in fav- our of charging. Dr. Cohoon estimated the cost of Staging the celebrations of those four days would run into $3,000. to $4,000. Some of the expenseg will hopefully be covered by"profits on the Barbecues, Acquaintance par- ties, old time auction sale, etc "If we did charge admission to the Queen Street functions, we would have a good chance | of coming out even," he em phasized. He also pointed out that the decision should be left with the Queen Street mer chants, since they will be involved to a greater extent than any other organization or person. Ted Griffen, past president of the Chamber of Commerce, suggested the decision of a charge to the Queen Street functions should really be the concern of the merchants and the council. "After all," Mr. Griffen said, "the council may have to "float" and the streets" should make some of the money merchants "whose we are closing off the decision The council members in general did not appear to much in favour of charging Continued on page 10 Many Collisions Vehicle Damage $35,000 30 Injured, No Fatalities Whitby Detachment of the| ces Edwards, 46, 56 Queen OPP reports 39 motor vehi- cle collisions during the week March 1 to 35 persons were injured Street, Port Perry, driving a 1965 Chev. Damage estimated 7. Fortunately, no/ at $250. fatalities were reported, but Robert Mathews, 25, 167 Queensdale Avenue, Toronto, On Sunday about 3 p.m! driving a 1968 Dodge, $1,800 Villa Smithers, 23, Continued on page 16 a four car pile-up occured near} damage. Prospect. Involved were Fran- After an absence of almost five years, Richard (Chick) Carnegie is back on home'grounds. He has joined the staff of the family business, Carnegie Hardware and will work along with his father, Bob Carnegie and his two uncles Harry and Gordon Carnegie. Richard spent one year in Dunnville, Ontario and four years in Blenheim, Ontario and in both cases he worked in Crest Hardware Stores. He now resides in Prince Albert with his wife and little daugh ter