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LR) pr or vw Yin \ ER L 47 a Wid d PA 'le * As; RL ¥ aed, Vig | TA BEY 3 . Vo vay do 3 / * EPR PA eT INT RR ol RY Y "Le > v nite My PIS NR FESIASGEIN TY POCTT TTR SAPAN STREP CANO DE surrounds serious trout fishing. Anyone who has ever didn't make it again this year. Something is always getting PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 2, 1979 -- 5 remember when ...¢ letter S | Spring Swing Dear Sir: applause. [ have never y I would sincerely like to heard 'Mine eyes have seen Cs congratulate the teachers, the Glory" more magnifi- students and all concerned cently performed. A truly for a thoroughly enjoyable spirit lifting, soul searching evening at P.P.H.S. number that moved one to | « The "Spring Swing' really see God's work of art program which was a delight manifested in our young to the eyes, a joy to the ears people. J and truly inspirational Thank you again, all who experience to parents and all gave, we, the audience had a who attended this musical most memorable and extravaganza. delightful "Swing into It was an evening we will Spring". God bless you all. long remember, I am sure. The Grand Finale received Mrs. E. Valentino " e a tremendous round of Port Perry Ontario | Nuclear Fall-out osm ; : hh i TREE Dear oir: : by Bill U.S. Governmerit research . In reply to a letter i i . Port Perry youth ball team taken over 60 McKinnon, Eddie Boe, Leonard Henry. Knee- Cr ey oy fiat Sond fs yeu years ago in what is now the area between ling: John Ross Roach, Gordon Howard, Charlie figures presented in my radiation until now thought Beckers and the Post Office. Standing from left Boe, Chester Boe, Bill Howard, Jim Harrison article "Nuclear Madness" , to be harmless, can cause a to right: Gordon White, Walter White, Earl and Jack Callacutt. the subject is hardly one of real danger, particularly to MacGregor, Archie McDermott, Gordon Photo courtesy of Bill Harrison levity as expressed by Mr. unborn babies and children. Pargeter, Alley Hortop, Allen Savage, Clarence Graham. Normally I would World famed Dr. Spock has ? just ignore the criticism but echoed the warning along | r] memorial to all ex-students who have fallen in the as it is vital to everyone with noted geneticists that 60 YEARS AGO recent war. living and yet to be born I radiation can cause muta- - } Thursday, May 8, 1919 Co 35 YEARS AGO must reply. tions in genetic material. Owing to an accident the local Electric Light Plant Thursday, May 11, 1944 I have quoted eminent 1 could fill several pages will be closed down temporarily for repairs. LAC John Christie RCAF of Trenton, was a week- sources including Dr. David on the matter but the cynical To arrive next week - one car load of white lump end visitor with his parents Mr. and Mrs. G. Christie. Bates, Professor of Medi- attitudes and apathy of those lime and hydrated lime. Wood fibre in stock. "A pleasant evening was spent recently at the home cine, University of British who ignore what they cannot a The Staff and students of Port Perry High School (Turn to page 6) Columbia, former member see (radiation) or try to are proceeding with the erection of a suitable of Science Council of | Canada, and a report from a (Turn to page 7) [] / | b cl IOC et OX by John B. McClelland : [] y : fished a good trout stream knows that it can't be done easily in the way. But maybe it is just as well, for I might be T h T 1 S 1 or haphazardly. disappointed. After all, I'm not nine years old, and I'm told e r oO U r eam And trout fishing is not a social event. It is an that some of the streams we used to fish years ago have individual activity to be pursued in singular silence so as grown dirty and sluggish, victims of passing time and not to break the calm and quiet of the forest and streamona creeping progress, their banks jam-packed on opening day Half-way through the Stanley Cup finals, half-way spring morning. It is a time when the fisherman must with "fishermen" from everywhere who laugh and shout through the federal election campaign. If you don't like become a part of nature, not an intruder. If the trout inits and carry on and leave behind McDonald hamburger hockey, and if politics turns you off, it's probably as good a natural habitat is a symbol of purity and integrity, so must cartons. time as any to take a couple of weeks off and get away from the trout fisherman be the same. } i I wouldn't want to see that, not now. I want to it all. Especially in light of the fact that trout season opened _ T'was too young to have any recollection now of my first remember that trout stream as I knew it 20 years ago, last week. introduction to trout fishing, but it was at my father's knee. silent, pure, part of an untrampled forest. I want to The opening day of trout season brings back some very Later as a young boy and teenager, my father and I would remember a young boy and his father, just the two of them, i o fond memories of my childhood and youth in the Ottawa spend hours talking about trout fishing, waiting for opening quietly, carefully fishing the banks of that stream all the Valley when trout fishing was almost an art form and the day, beginning the preparation weeks, even months before summer long, and then spending most of the next winter first day of the season became something of a ritual. the season actually got underway. During the long nights talking about it. My father was an ardent trout man, going back to his of an Ottawa Valley winter we would spend much time in youth in the Maritimes, and I guess it is only natural that he the seat sorting ot the tackle, Leaning ang ing ( 3) : : spinning reels, pouring over topographical maps, in, ould pase along to his son the respect and love of angling ut trou, wa ting, wating for the magic day, g port pe ff y st Qf I use the word respect because anyone who is seri rout fishing and all that surrounds it cemented a bond gr about fishing for trout Sly that polo £1 th ot ea between a boy and his father. Later, when I drifted away Company Limited must be treated with respect; the hand-tied flies, the from home and a generation gap threatened to throw up a Phone 985.7383 RO delicate, light spinning tackle, the rod and reel, the silent permanent wall between us, I found that we could always nen Spo approach to the deep, dark pools of the cool, clear forest see each other over that wall by talking about fishing. (CG CNA < (OUR) = streams where brook trout spend their time. And most of Even today, those fishing trips are implanted in my --- all, the trout itself. memory like they happened just last week. My father and sos The brook trout is a beautiful fish; sleek, trim, agile, TS UP before dawn, breakfast eaten in silence so as not to serving the Township of Scugoa quick as silver, with dark, mottled colouring on the back for disturb the rest of the family, the long drive to the end of the J. PETER HVIDSTEN protection, brilliant blue and red dots along the sides and a bush road, the hike through the forest to the trout stream Publisher white stomach tinged with red around the fins. and finally, the first cast of the new season, the line Advertising Manager Itis also a shy fish, easily frightened, preferring to spend breaking still water just as dawn broke in the still forest. 1. 8. McCLELLAND its time in deep water, under logs or the overhang of the e almost always seemed to have good luck on opening Editor stream banks. The trout is a muscular, powerful swimmer ELE t Jory asinine Jbery ridin are Memiserdihe om pte ls dene, amet hase sve Me memories (hi come oe cry year about 1s me, grim . y y : . a: i y Newspaper Association susceptible to even the slightest change in its natural memories of a man who loved to go trout fishing, and loved Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry CAT SHMIGHL. to tae Dis boy bi Hn. { time together in th 0 Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario . . Aji e haven't been able to get time together in the pas } ] have coal. clear and pure water in order to thrive. Unlike [EW years fora fishing trip. Time, other commitments, jus oh ano other game fish such as pike, bass or muskie, the trout just Be made 1 possible. hen we talk on the phone, the in cash a Sa) Bandi man-made intrusions 2nd pollutants into its | ue Soudie igedo gat avay i a lille flspung, this Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 4 LJ Any trout fisherman knows all this, of course, and it's year", wo i "Yea," he replies. "Sure wou nice." Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year the 0 why there is a mystique, a certain aura that But opening day, 1979, has come and gone, and we Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single Copy 20¢