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AREA HE L Raw A JE SS EER RAV ORS, Viewpoint was the characters warmly after each scene, climaxed with standing ovations at the completion of the play. The success belongs to everyone who had some- thing to do with the staging of the play, but - having learned to know all. those fine and interesting mem- bers of the Borelians, I know they will all endorse me when 1 say; without the director, Diane Lackie and Auntie Mame, played so beautifully by Jean Kennedy it would have been practic- ally impossible to have staged the play so success- fully. Sincerely, Per Hvidsten "I'm putting you on a very. strict diet. Soup and nuts." May 5, 1976 - Dear Sir: I would like to enlist your co-operation again this year in assisting us to carry out a "esearch program on Ruffed Grouse supported by the Ministry of Natural Re- sources. If yqu could bring the following information to the attention of your readers we would be most apprecia- tive. . As part of a continuing research program on Rufféd Grouse at the University of Guelph, we are attempting to collect a sample of eggs from the wild. The eggs are required to provide grouse for use in the research pro- jects. Becasue of the great diffi- culty in locating nests, it is necessary to have the co- AAV EF RB IAEF RAR SS OR REL REAL IPS 8 DEE RE y EON L AY Le EY Tipe . \ fat d [FEN KE vip | dow Ha Y a EITAL 4 5 \ v 3 ] CL aa Bohne auf tsi dhe nt hf Sl nthe hh Ac mathe sh Bd bhai AL FUTYRERS SANE PR FERS wrt } EIT RSA ET VIP Si rr bo ry ACY 4%' als PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 12, 1976 -- 5 Need samples of wild bird eggs operation of as many people as possible. Anyone locating a nest within 125 miles, of Guelph is asked to mark the location, but not to disturb the ness. They should con- tact us by phoning collect to Betty Campbell (519) 824-4120 ext. 2703 during office hours. At other times, call collect to: Al Garbutt (519) 821-3056, Don Price (519) 821-1207, DMurray Pengelly (519) 824-0255. We will come and pick up the eggs as soon as possible and will pay the locator one dollar per egg for his trouble. The number of eggs collected in an area will not be sufficient to harm the local grouse population. All captive birds are, of course, given the best possible care. No trouble driving May 10, 1976 Port Perry Star: This in reference to Dean Kellys trouble coming home from Florida. I have driven to Florida and back 26 times and never had the trouble Mr. Kelly has described. I left Florida alone Friday ® (a day every- one told me I would run into a lot of traffic). Went through Atlanta, Cincinnati, Toledo, never much under 50 miles per hour. At Detroit a sign reads keep right for bridge, crossed over to Windsor, did not have to get out of car after a few ques- tions he said drive on. Arrived home. third after- hoon. 4 p.m. Kept around speed limit of 55 miles per hour all the way home. I do not think Mr. Kelly can be older than me. I have just turned 83. Yours truly, Stanley H. Malcolm P.S. Nothing to it. You co-operation last year was most appreciated. The birds raised from eggs we: collected have allowed us to make a number of signifi- - cant findings. #hank you for co-operation, Yours sincerely, Allan Garbutt for A.L.A. Middleton Associate Professor University of Guelph Dept. of Zoology Cafik in support of prohibition order Mr. Cafik gnnounced yesterday that he was in full support of a prohibition order against the Electoral Boundaries Commission for your Ontario preventing them - from tabling their report. If successful, Mr. Cafik hopes that this will provide another opportunity for the Township of Scugog and Georgina for further repre- sentation to remain with his riding. Mr. Cafik said it is partic- ularly important that a change is made in the case. of Georgina Township so that it will be allowed to either _remain with the Durham Region or become associated with the Region of York. Under the current proposals Georgina would become a part of Victoria Haliburton. The Wild Ones SRR The facts, as Stewart pointed out, in describing several brutal and violent strikes, are otherwise. ' Canadians, on the whole, are not tolerant. I am young enough to remember when such expressions as "Jew him down" "nigger in the woodpile" '"'dumb Hunkie" and "greasy wop" were current in the home and on the street. If you came out with one of those today, you might just be looking for a purple eye or a fat lip from a militant Jew, black, Ukrainian or Italian. As a result, Canadians have switched their intolerance a bit. We can tell Newfie ~firstwith a mark of 87 in the girls triple trio. Sunday, May 7 marked the 75th anniversary of Port Church. Jack Crosier, Utica, was the winner of the second annual trout derby sponsored by Uxbridge: Kiwanis Club. Mr. Crosier's trout weighed in at 1 1b. 13 oz. 10 YEARS AGO Thurkday, May 12, 1966 On a request from Port Perry Chamber of Commerce, the local council at the last council meeting decided to contri- bute $200.00 towards a banquet to be held in honour of Anna Forder and Richard Stephens, Canadian Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champ- ions and 'Tripp's "Bull: dozers, Intermediate "'C"' Hockey champions of Ontario. At the Ontario County Music Festival in Ajax, No. 3 (Epsom) placed Perry United Reach .Central School y A ste Reader's Give praise to Borelians dl Dear Mr. Editor: duce a play. with over 30 During the past three to characters in the Town Hall four weeks I have had the With limited space for pleasure of associating with costume changes, furniture the members of our local and stage settings. amateur theatre group the I am glad to admit Borelians, , - : wrong. Combining 'dédica: | Taking part in the staging tion, co-operation, talent and | of Auntie Mame, in a very the willingness to work, small way I had the oppor- Auntie Mame became a tunity -and pleasure: to tremendous hit, and the FY J witness the hard 'work and most successful play per- dedication by members of formed by the Borelians to the cast, those working with date. ' i set designs, costumes, The Town Hall was filled | make-up, ticket sales, sound 0 capacity three consecu- | and lighting, etc. and to me tive nights last week and ~ it was an experience I will despite the length of the treasure for a long time to Play, over three hours, the. come. : . Public showed a genuine ®l 5: At the time, 1 personally delight with the perform- thought it.impossible to pro- ances, applauding Letters to the Editor The Port Perry Star welcomes letters to the editor' from its readers, however, all letters ¥ e received must be signed by the writer and include address and phone number to be considered for -publication. Any letter we receive 'unsigned'! will not be published. We would encourage those writers submitting letters to use their name, but it will be withheld upon request, and a pen name may be used. The STAR reserves the right to edit all letters received and to withhold any that do not appear to bein the best interest of the community. a '® Bill Smiley In a recent issue of Canada's: so-called' national magazine, Maclean's, writer ie 'Walter Stewart has an article trying to show that Canadians are not the quiet, sober, gray, decent people they think they are. I could have told him that years ago, and have used it as a theme in this column on " some' occasions. Perhaps the self-perpetuating myth, at home and abroad, that we are sensible, tolerant, respectable, and rather dull, has \ J t been fostered by our generally colorless press and equally colorless politicians. When..? NE. fourth operating pos a four - 50 YEARS AGO ition to -the switchboard y | 4 Thursday, May 13, 1926 will be installed and in ' The Port Perry Board. operation by June 30 of Education has engaged High Point Echo Sup- wy * / Mr. John T. Hornsby, reme, a pure bred Hol- Lindsay, as architect for stein owned by Smith : the new school. A number Bros., Port Perry, has of trustees are visiting the qualified for a Blue Seal combined High and Certificate for longtime Public School at Brigh- production for records of ton, with a view to seeing over 125,000 lbs. of milk. to what extent this type of A play entitled "The y | ® building will meet the Grape Vine" was put an needs of Port Perry. under the auspices of Mr. W. A. Christy has Y.P.U., Seagrave, Wed- been appointed secretary- nesday night. A good treasurer of Port Perry crowd was in attendance. Board of Education at a ; salary of $200.00 per year. _~ I5YEARS AGO : : The annual inspection Thursday, May 11, 1961 of the High School Cadets Trophies were present- took place on Tuesday ed at the annual bowling v ® morning with Capt. bahquet for the Men's Edwards of M.D. as League held at Flamingo inspector. Robert Harris Restaurant. ~ Champion- was Company Comman- ship winner was the Star der, Grant Real and team with Irving Boyd, Grant McMillan, Platoon captain; and Archie Commander. RD. Woedan. Eged . OJsen, Geo. Smith, Wes.. ; * T 25 YEARS AGO / St. John and Ged. Stone ursday, May 10, 1951 Due to the increase of -- Members of the team. -- _ telephones in Port Perry, Sunday, April %0 and | Jokes, because the victims are a long way off. We can tell Paki jokes, because the victims are pretty helpless. And if you are too *'tolerant' to indulge in either of these, you can always run down the Yanks, and feel like a virtuous nationalist. Sober? Canadians are about the worst drinkers in the world, with the possible, exception of Scots, who get ugly, Irishmen, who get belligerent, and Poles, who get gloomy. Maybe we are the worst. We get all three. If you do happen to be a decent, sensible, middle-aged person, and you don't believe a word of this slander, drop in to your local bar or beer parlor on a Friday night. There are scenes that would make Hogarth, chronicler of the 17thicentury gin places in London, quail in his cravat. I once sat in a beer parlor and watched this scene. Four commercial fishermen came in. Tough, violent men. They sailed ~ into the beer as though there were going to be"a brewery strike within the hour. And within the hour. they were drunk and ugly and vicious. One called another a "sonuvabitch," an old Canadian expletive often used as a term of affection. The other, in maudlin mood, retored "Don't you talk about my mother like that," cracked his glass in two on the edge of the table, and jammed ' the ragged edge in the first speaker's face. Blood and language flowed freely, but there wasn't even a fight. It was just another Saturday night in Canada, and not untypical of an evening in that beer parlor. "Putting the boots to someone who is down isisomething you might associate with the slums of Glasgow or Paris or Hamburg. It is not all that unusual on a Canadian Saturday night. Reasonable? Courteous? Canadians? Don't make me laugh. Just take a drive on a four or six-lane highway. Admittedly, most people fit those two adjective, but there is a large minority who make Canada one of the worst places in the world to drive, as any American will tell you. Just the other day I was driving on a three-lane, one-way highway. Solid old Bill was in the middle lane, gauge right on the 60-mile per hour limit. Suddenly, a car cut in front of me from the left lane, and simul- --taneously, one from the right lane. Both were trying to get into my lane, about 50 feet ahead of me. They almost collided, beforé veering off like a couple of startled trout. Neither had any reason for passing me. I found myself almost wishing they had crashed, 'if it weren't for me being the filling in the sandwich. Ask the people of southern England about the First Brigade of Canadians in World War II. Find out something about the Halifax riots at the end of that war. Ask your Dad if he was among the Canadian * troops who booed their own prime minister at Aldershot, in the same struggle. If I were in a tight spot, I'd just as soon have a Canadian back td back with me as anybody else. We are tough and brave and resourceful. We have a wry gift for not swallowing BS, no matter who is dishing it out. But let's be honest. We are not a nation of gentle, reasonable, tolerant, dull, sober, clear-thinking nambie pambies, as so many nations, and so many of our own politicians, think us. We have too much wild blood in us, from all those immigrants wo have been pouring into this paradise for 200 years. We are intolerant. We are bad drinkers and drivers. We have a propensity for violence that may explain our great reputa- tion"in a couple of wars. You can watch it all in the hockey playoffs. 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