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Reader's Viewpoint Reader wants flooding problem solved The Editor: I have been trying to get fill for my property as I live by the Nonquon River and own three acres - about two-thirds is wet, This is July and I can walk in places mid-way up my legs. Its pretty discouraging se¢ing as | pay my taxes in Port Perry and also a monthly mortgage of $325.00 ~ Ihave written to Ottawa as Iam a Consumer and get my monthly reports for years. They asked me to keep them informed as to my success or failure. I'm afraid it is the latter. I wrote to Premier Davis, then to my municipal- ity also to Whitby long before Lilla Street was started. I spoke to the Mayor who in the end after 3 or 4 phone conversations promised me three loads. But this morn- ing he said he didn't promise me any fill at all. I should have got it in writing. Everyone passes the buck. People are getting fill for lawns ete. and it's a darn shame when someone needs Wedding Invitations available at the Port Perry Star 985-7383 it to keep down the thousands of mosquitoes nesting at our back door. This spring the water was up to the "ack door and had to use my 'boat in the Jan. thaw. I bought the house in' October 1975 and did not check the backyard for the possibility of water problems. - ' The neighbours told m that ice blocks five years ago came up to the door and people fishing in boats. * The stormsewers on the opposite side of the road empties basements etc. into a culvert which goes through a hand ~ made ditch, through a field into my property. When the gentlemen from Toronto came representing the Minister of Environment he called Ron MacDonald, roads Superintendent at Blackstock to inquire why there was no ditch in front on my house - the answer was there has been, but its filled up with stones ete. from the road - yet there is a culvert in my driveway from the road. I have written to Ron Mac- Donald and phoned him, but no reply. I have called Miss Gray at the Town Hall in Port Perry and she has been most kind giving me names and addresses to try to help me get fill. I didn't want top soil or good fill. Between © Walter and Muriel King here in Seagrave, | got five loads from the main road just beside Seagrave village where I live. If it wasn't for these kind people, I'd have received no fill. Mr. Ross Page of Van- Camp Construction gave me heart when he said he would bring me all the fill he could get il I'd pay-for the gas, but I didn't understand if he meant if he had a pit where he dug the fill out himself. "You can get all the fill you want at the place in Port Perry if you pay $17.00 hour for a truck that you hire yourself the man in the shack said. But I can't afford this. My husband will be retiring next spring after 32 years in G.M. The five men that travel to work with him are upset at the way we've been treated. My husband was born and raised here in Seagrave. I am pretty heartsick at writing letters, phoning and getting no response from anyone. And yet all I read and hear is "Watch out for mosquitoes etc." My pony which I bought for the grand- children to enjoy can't even go on this wet land, so we park him on the lawn and rub him down with Fly Tox twice "a day. Everyone says too bad, too. bad, but no one wants to help a taxpayer. My basement still has water init in July - the sump pump hasn't stopped since January thaw. A Seagrave Taxpayer The persistant rainfall of late have proven a problem in harvesting the hay but as usual the farmers are near- and end to it all. + Better health to Mrs. E. Mulvey who is confined to the locat hospital. ~ One evening recently about fourty immediate rel- atives and friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Rensink and family. This party was arranged in honour of her sister Miss Susan Wannacott R.N. of Oshawa prior to leaving for Rhodesia, Africa where she will serve as a nurse miss- ionary. During the evening Susan was presented with personal and kitchen gifts for which the guest of honour voiced a sincere than-you for the much needed articles. A bounteous lunch was enjoyed while the group wished Sus- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 23, 1976 -- 5 Prince Albert and area news an the best in her noble career, The Shrine Club No. 4, Toronto via bus recently en- joyed viewing highlights of the lovely town of Port Perry. As previously this group of fourty were gener- ously entertained and served appetizing food at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Chas Cla rke. All present commented upon the memorable day. A good delegation from here enjoyed the male voice choir and service in general at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Perhaps the wee few will recall Rev. and Mrs. JF. Everson who served on the joint churches of Prince Al- bert, Manchester, Prospect, Shirley around the year 1918. One of their daughters Ruby, married a Mr. Orland Bert- rand of Belleville whose memorial service was held ten days ago at which Rev. and Mrs. C. Clarke attended, in fact Chas. officiated. We therefore offer warm sym- pathy to Ruby and her fam- ily. Congratulations are due (Mrs. Ron) Betty Deeth's article that was published in our hometown paper. Mr. and Mrs. Berl Fear, Oshawa visited Mr. and Mrs. A. Jeffrey. Mr. and Mrs. R. Olaisen and son enjoyed last week with her parents, the Wm. Dickensons, Toronto. Mrs. Nellie Popert has had: Ee her grand children Scott and i) { Deanna Popert of Wawa. A A While here gramma took the children to Toronto to tour the fantastic C.N. Tower. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Ander- son of Fenelon Falls were (continued on page 10) Disruptive, not constructive The Editor: The thinking in the Pro- vince of Quebec has not been based on the results of The Plains of Abraham nor how the British lost the thirteen states, but by trying to dis- rupt the national flow of business. What language supposed to speak? Parisian or Habitant French? No one to my knowledge has stated which one. Why has French beén taught in Ontario but no English in Quebec. Maybe it is the old saying, 'You do as are we I say. not as 1 do." ment fitting the crime. As a RY Greater Montreal is made friend said to me a few days 2 up of several cities 'which have their own jurisdiction. The one in the centre of Montreal is Westmount and for its size is the wealthiest city in the world. Oh ves, I worked many years in Montreal and there was not the bigotry then as now. ' I have just received 'Our Criminal Law" a report of the Lay Reform Commission. of Canada. It is six pages long but nowhere did 1 see anything about the punish- ago - if capital punishment is forgotten why not bring back the whip. You cannol overcome crime by taking the attitude that things will work out OK. If the U.S.A. backed out of the Olympic games and the island of Porto Rico decided to complete as the United States of America, the shoe would be on the other foot, or is it the climate effecting the universal agreement or are we on a different circum- stantial wave length. E. G.. Michell x Bill Smiley MPs and rednecks ent > - = = ~ Cy SEES re ~-- ~ SS en et a { oy =o, ra o% te ga . . ; A Rif It must be an uneasy time for members of parliament. First, they were forced to vote on a moral question, the abolishment of capital punishment, in what must have been an agonizing examination of conscience versus expediénce, for many. Despite the fact that the bill squeaked through, most M.P.s. must know that most Canadians are against it. And it's the same majority that elects those same M.P.s. Enough to make a politician lose a little sleep, eh? Next they saw a comparatively small group of Canadians, the airline pilots, thumbing their noses at the government, and getting away with it. And once again, it was pretty obvious that a majority of Canadians was solidly behind the pilots. There is little doubt that most M.P.s will be happy to get out of the pressure-cooker YEARS AGO Thursday, July 22, 1926 The Port Perry rink of S. Jeffrey were successful in bringing home the first prize from the Ux- bridge tournament. Skip D. Carnegie and his rink brought home 'the third prize. A lucky day for Port Perry bowlers. Congratulations to Mary Smallman who passed the primary piano examination, and Albert Cawker who passed the elementary examin- ations. Both are pupils of Mrs. J.E. Jackson. The plans of the pro- posed new schools will open for inspection at the Treasurer's office on Monday and Thursday next week, 10 YEARSAGO Thursday, July 21, 1966 Pat Salters and Marg- aret Terrett are this year's swimming instruc- tors at the Poplar Park swimming lessons. They I -are in charge of 125 who 'Remember When..? have enroled in lessions. A reunion . of former students of Port Perry Public and High Schools was held recently at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Harris, at View Lake. A number of those present had not seen each other in forty years. Welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Stratford and family who have moved to their new home in Ulica. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 20, 1961 Congratulations to Mr. Ronald A. Willerton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willerton, R.R. 2 Port Perry, who recently graduated from the Toronto Teachers College. He will com? mence teaching at Green- bank Consolidated School in September, Miss Donna Johnson, teacher at the Port Perry High School is Ontario County Dairy Princess for 1961. Chosen from seven competitors 'June 28. Miss Johnson will re- present Ontario County in the Provincial Dairy Princess contest at the CNE. The Warden of North- umberland and Durham Counties, Bruce Ashton, was chairman at the opening. ceremonies of an additional 28 miles of Highway 401 between Highway 28 at Port Hope and Highway 30, North of Brighton. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 19, 1951 Congratulations to Joan Real and Jane Samells for passing grade five harmony examinations of Toronto Conservatory of Music. They are theory pupils of Mrs. V.P. Stouffer. Other passing exam- inations of the Royal Conservatory of Music were Grade 6, Gloria Hastings: Mary Stevens; Grade 4, Mary Lou Robertson: Grade 2, Margaret LaHive, Helen Routley. These are all students of Miss Helen Willard. Loe - ~ . Ottawa has turned out to be this year, and back to their own constituencies for a couple of months of fence-building, baby-kissing and all the other nefarious activities of a politician on his home grounds. My heart is not exactly bleeding for our M.P.s, but I am more than a little disturbed by the two incidents that have contributed to their unease in the past few months. On the first issue, capital punishment, it is readily apparent, from the closeness of the final tally, that the country is split right down the middle on the issue. And that's not good. But I can live with it. The majority has spoken, in a supposedly free vote, and it's not going to wound this country to the vitals if a few murderers are hanged or kicked to death with a frozen boot, or otherwise executed in whatever cut manner is decided on. It's the second issue that bothers me considerably. For behind the pilots' palaver about safety, and the government's ob- duracy, amounting almost to stupidity, concerning bilingualism at our airports, lies a much darker murk. That is the obvious back lah of English- speaking Canadians to the government's chosen policy of bilingualism. This bitter backlash is not just bad, in my opinion: it is dangerous. Again and again, we saw on television perfectly ordinary citizens who backed the pilots' stand, even when personally incon- venienced by the strike that was not a strike, blurting things like: "I'm sick of having it (bilingualism) shoved down my throat." This is not the voice of reason, but of bias, and 1 hate to see it in this country which I love so much. . For a couple of centuries, the French of Canada had English shoved down their throats, not by law, but by business, commerce, politics, education. Naturally, they resented it. Now, they're trying to achieve equality of opportunity, through bilingualism. The result is a strong and ugly racialism bouncing back at them from those English speaking Canadians who are biased and bigoted. As in most bigotry, the retorts are based Vy eR A ATR We 1 4 on ignorance and fear. Civil servants too bit stupid or too lazy to learn French are afraid RB a for their jobs. Protestants abhor the rise of Rome, even though most French-Canadians these days are more protestant than the 4 Protestants. Conservatives fear any change pAS in the comfortable pattern of Canadian life, i i in which for generations a Frenchman was (4 a "Frog", to be looked down on. CN Maybe I'm out of touch, but I haven't fi noticed anybody trying to shove French down my throat. pis I'hold no brief for the province of Quebec. Vis I am as sick of its whining and demands as ww the next guy. I think its politics are and nN have been, more corrupt than any of the (5 ather provirices, which isn't saying much. 1 i93 don't even care that deeply about Quebec 2 separating from the rest of Canada. Nations id are not sacred. bax But none of that has anything to do with 1 French language. I thought Canadians were LN ; growing up. learning tolerance, becoming the more sophisticated, more fair. a But the latest ugly developments make 8 me wonder. Are we just a bunch of rednecks § : at heart? The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. 3: i PORT PERRY STAR Sil Company Limited Phone 348 1381 Sa NGS Serv ng Port Perry Reach. Scuooq and Cartwriant Toanships J PETER MVIOSTEN, Publisher Advertiuing Manager John Gast. 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