"Scugog"s Community Newspaper of Choice" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 8, 2000 - § Final sale at flea market Pre mf JEFF MITCHELL/PORT PERRY STAR Bruce Kellet (right) auctions off a host of items Sunday, the final day of oper- ations for the Port Perry Flea Market. The market is making way for a new IGA store, to be built on the Hwy. 7A site west of Port Perry. The flea market has been a destination for bargain hunters for nearly a decade. YOUNG DRIVER'S OF CANADA Next Course Feb. 15, 2000 BOA SOUR 3 toppings and 4 Coke' XO) WARE Sieg (POA [PEARY 985-8448 Trustee presses ahead with call for a youth smoking ban By Rik Davie Special to the Star A Durham District School Board trustee is continuing his battle to make smoking in the vicinity of schools illegal. At a recent meeting Pickering Trustee Paul Crawford reintroduced a letter that he has been bringing to the board since September of 1998, asking that smoking and possession of tobacco by persons under the age of 19 years be made ille- gal. The letter is addressed to the Health Minister, the Attorney General, the Minister of Education and Premier Mike Harris. Mr. Crawford wants all trustees to sign the letter and send it out on board letterhead. Scugog Trustee Bobbie Drew, who is vice-chair of the board, said that while she is in favour of efforts to cut youth smoking, she has concerns over the let- ter. "Who would police a law that disal- lowed smoking in any area of public property near a school?" she asked Mr. Crawford. "How enforceable would such a law even be?" Mr. Crawford said that enforcement of the law is not the issue for trustees to address. "It is not our job to enforce the laws that are on the books," he said. "There are laws on the books now that are not enforced; that's no reason not to add this one." Mrs. Drew said that she would sup- port a letter showing the board's con- cern over of youth smoking in Durham, but not Mr. Crawford's call for a new law. The trustees agreed to form a com- mittee to look at the wording of a letter to be sent in the future. Mr. Crawford declined to sit on the committee. re TC Bigfoot) & SWINGS rte Rl ar Pizza with 0] Real Estate Peace of Mind - George Smith SO CCL OXY (TL AT 0 A OAV PI (1 Ky Wells - Be Careful What Warranties you Give I have written much in my previous columns about Title Insurance because it is new, revolutionizing the way real estate transactions are handled. I said at the outset that it 1s my intention to use this column to write about many topics that are of interest to people buying, selling or mortgaging real estate. Title insurance is only one of a number of things that are of concern to the real estate public. Of interest to both buyers and sellers in many Durham North transactions are warranties on wells and septics. Until about 10 years ago real estate agents did not include standard warranties about these systems in agreements of Purchase and Sale. Today's almost universal inclusion of warranties on the water supply system and the waste disposal system has led to many problems particularly for sellers. My experience is that these systems often fail after a property changes hands. Often this has to do with a purchaser having unrealistic expectations about how much water a dug well is able to produce. Sometimes sellers give a warranty when they have made exceptionally light use of the system being warranted. » In any event when the system fails shortly after closing, purchasers usually demand that vendors give back some of the purchase price to pay for the cost of installing new systems. The lesson here is mostly for Vendors and that lesson is; be very careful about what warranties you give. A typical well warranty would warrant that the well is capable of supplying sufficient water for normal household use. These words are obviously subjective but we might imagine that they mean thatthe well won't go dry if a family of four or more carry on their normal activities through a dry summer without any real thought for water preservation. It's pretty clear that anyone with a well that needs to be babied in any way for normal household use, should not give such a warranty. Next time I'll write about septic system warranties in the Agreement of Purchase and Sale. 226 Queen Street, Port Perry, Ont. LL 1BY @: (905) 985-8465 Fax: 985-3758 You could win aTropical Cruise. Enter the ballot attached to your delivered pizza or enter the next time you're in for a pizza pickup. see detsis at a Square Boy* near you! FAMILY FAVOURITE PIZZA, SUBS ! oy Pi 20 pc. J NTT pag OF . NYZLORP ¥ "~ 2% that [1 ole Tal Pp, LL) h es A pings. SQUARE It!'Add $2". : SOLA #