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WY nz 6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 13, 1979 letters Dear Sir: On behalf of the P.P.H.S. music department and, indeed, the whole school, I would ljke to thank you and the Port Perry Star for your generous coverage of the events that we have been involved in this year. It is my belief that the community's greatest asset and largest investment is its "young. people". If -the community in general is il Thanks for coverage informed as to the successful activity and involvement of its youth, then an invaluable communication link exists, everyone is then a benefac- tor. . The paper has reported on artistic, athletic, and academic achievements in picture and story. They have come each time we have called and requested that pictures be taken. They have printed reviews of Put to public vote Dear Sir: In regards to the town fathers deciding we might need a new library and municipal building in the area, designated for a park, wouldn't it be a lot more sensible and a lot cheaper to add on to the existing buil- dings and leave them where they are. I think if they asked for a few opinions they would find most people would agree. I'm a little fed up with the taxes going up a hundred or more dollars a year and we still don't have sewers, lights or sidewalks in our area. Haven't they learned any- thing from the mess the past federal government has left us in without getting our town into the same financial bind. Let's put it to a public vote say in the post office on a bulletin board and see how many are in favour of using a little common sense. They saved the post office Learn to Drive PROFESSIONALLY with and Town Hall 1873, let's save our Memorial Library. Remember, fellows, we put you into office and we can put you out. Myrtle Prentice Port Perry concerts, write-ups of sports events. The year at P.P.H.S. has been, for lack of a better word, incredible. The spirit is excellent! The achieve- ments, as your readers know, are numerous. The Port Perry Star has, indeed, disseminated the infor- mation, the good news from P.P.H.S. which has in turn propogated greater spirit and enthusiasm and school commitment (obviously!). Thank you Peter and the Star Staff; without sounding maudlin, our community is served well by our com- munity newspaper. . Sincerely, Russ Baird Dept. Head - Music . Douglas E. Williams Principal Port Perry High School Noxious weeds Dear Sir: In the issue of the Port Perry Star of Wednesday, June 6th, 1979 appeared a notice re property owners to destroy noxious weeds. Said article states unless proper- ty owners destroy said weeds by June 8th, 1979, the Town- ship will do it and charge property owners for doing SO. I suggest that the Town- ship clean up their own act first, said being ditches in Port Perry owned by the Township and which to say the least are a disgrace. LUKE'S 'DRIVING SCHOOL BARRY LUKE Phone: 985-8382 or (705)786-2242 PHIL 10 VANEDWARD DRIVE - PORT PERRY Over 100 Factory Fresh, New Pontiacs, Buicks and 6.M.C. Trucks. Special Edition Street Coupe 4 Wheel Drive G.M.C. Pickups Silver Anniversary Firebird Trans Am Exciting Front Wheel Drive Rivieras, Phoenix & Skylarks. Large selection of Good Will Used Cars & Trucks OPEN MONDAY TO THURSDAY TO 9 P.M. - FRIDAYS to 6 P.M. - SATURDAYS to 4 P.M. PRR A BR It's Always Worth the Trip to PONTIAC-BUICK LIMITED 985-8474 Excuses given are, we have no money, yet the taxes in this area have increased beyond reason. Property owners try to make their property attractive only to have the ditches mar their efforts. I suggest the property owners clean the ditches and submit a bill to the Township or deduct their cost of labour etc. from their tax bills, the same way the Township would charge them. Fortunately, I don't pay any taxes personally but my employer, Durham Area Housing Authority does. I am Custodian of the Senior Citizens apartments at 327 Kellet Street in Port Perry. Yours truly, Toney Buck P.S. With students looking for summer employment why doesn't the Township hire students to clean up the ditches and make Port Perry and surrounding area the attractive and beautiful area it is? Answer we get - no money for this!! Baloney!!! A ESN LV Concerned taxpayer appalled Dear Sir: I, as a concerned taxpayer am appalled at what the Council proposes to do with our tax dollars. It is amazing what they proniise before an election. For instance, they were going after new industry for our Town, but that is long forgotten, and also keep control of taxes that are fast getting out of control. How soon they forget. This town has been a very nice place to have a home, but this year many of the taxes are up from $60.00 to $100.00 per house. Now they are looking for Ontario Municipal Board approval to borrow $700,000. which they claim may not be onour tax bill. At 10 per cent interest that amounts to $70,000.00 plus any principle. Directly or indirectly this would have to be paid back. I wonder how stupid they think the taxpayers are? Then I understand the council are going to pur- chase 4 new trucks - close to $100,000.00. I can see buying one-truck per year but not four. Then there is another so called idea of ripping up the front street to modernize the town, another few hundred thousand dollars. Then lately we read where the council is considering an administrator - another person on the payroll. We all know we have inflation. But they must remember that they were not given a blank cheque to go overboard with. There are a great many families trying to pay for their homes and many also on a fixed income. As tax- payers we should have Actions (From Page 5) and hike in. (Now in Port Perry we have had the for- tune to get back some lake- front property. A perfect spot for more parkland? No- our Council wants to build municipal offices on it. 1 can't believe that future gen- erations will care where the offices are but I am certain all would enjoy a waterfront park. I inquired of people in construction if it would be feasible and no more expen- sive to add to the present offices. They say no prob- lem, probably cheaper when all is considered. As for the Library Building -(a much better memorial than statues etc.) I am sure something can be done structurally to add more space and keep it for what it was intended. We are fortunate in Port Perry to have a main street running down to a park and lake, a mix of new and well kept older homes and ex- panding business communi- ty. Let's keep making it more attractive and prosper- ous. It seems irresponsible of the Council to consider this huge capital outlay at a time of rising taxes. Yours sincerely, Mrs. (W.N.) Barbara Smith consideration and not make our taxes such a burden. We are being told to constrain but how about the council showing constraint. It appears the citizens. of much fired up over this controversial subject and well they might be. To me it all adds up to incompetance in the council. Yours truly Scugog Township are very Burnsell Webster remember when ...? continued Fit. Sgt. J.L. Sweetman, has returned to his duties at Toronto after a few weeks at home. Pte. Ross J. Harding of the Central Ontario Regiment has been seriously wounded in Italy. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 24, 1954 The talent show featuring amateur entertainers from the Port Perry district and sponsored by the Coronation Track and Field Club, Port Perry, provided a most enjoyable evening for parents and friends of the contestants who competed last Friday evening in the Public School. The Port Perry Legion's little ball league opened in big league style last night. All teams met at Palmer Memorial Park, clad in their bright uniforms and took their place behind the Legion Colour Party and mar- ched to the fairgrounds to the music of the Bowman- ville Pipe Band. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 25, 1959 Barbara Grace Love, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clifford Love of Port Perry, graduated recently at the University of Western Ontario with her B.A.. A letter was received by council from Arthur Jef- ford, thanking the Reeve and Councillors for the. donation of $100. towards his expenses at the forth-- coming Boy Scout Jamboree. : Mrs. D.L. Crosier was elected Provincial Representative of the Ontario County Tuberculosis Association at the annual meeting. 15 YEARS AGO : Thursday, June 18, 1964 Miss Catherine Jefford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jefford, Port Perry, has been chosen as a delegate to represent Ontario County at the Provincial Girls' Conference for 4-H Homemaking Club members in the Guelph Federated College, June 23 to 26. Mrs. A. MacFarlane was presented with a glass- topped coffee table by Mr. Robert Archer, Chairman of the Public School Board, in recognition of her retirement after 20 years of teaching. ' Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bruton were among the visiting pharmacists who gathered at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa for the reunion of the 1939 Graduating Class of the College of Pharmacy. The members of Warriner Lodge, No. 75 and Maybelle Rebekah Lodge, No. 348, witnessed the grand opening of their new Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall on June 13th, 1964. Miss Marlene Badour was among the class of twenty-one graduates from the Ontario Hospital School of Nursing, Whitby, Ontario, who graduated on Friday, June 12th, 1964. Congratulations to Kathleen Ann Trenka, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trenka, R.R. 4, Port Perry who graduated from the University of Toronto with her B.Sc. degree. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 19, 1969 Charles Labanovich, Port Perry, presented his personal trophies to the happy winners of the first canoe race on the Nonquon River, Greg Cowan and Glen Fallis from Millbrook, Ontario. Second place winners were Vic Ives and Earl McClure, doing the 19 miles in 3 hours, 50 minutes. Storey Beare, in his capacity of Governor, will represent District A-3 at the Lions International Con- vention in Tokyo, Japan from July 2nd to 5th, 1969. Reeve Robert A. Kenny officially opened the 1969 Home Show on Thursday in a ribbon cutting ceremony. Looking on weré Howard Hall, Constance Snowdon representing the Historical Society, Dan Madsen, Wes Lane and Mrs. Wm. Cornish, secretary-treasurer of the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce. Robert and Mary Brinkman of Port Perry, atten- ded a re-union of the 1964 graduates -at the -Ontario Hospital in Brockville. Over 300 guests from Ontario and surrounding counties attended the annual banquet in honour of Ed (Sam) Oyler, reeve of Reach Township and Warden of Ontario County, held at Fern Cottages, Lake Couchiching, last Thursday. I EE FN 3 w w