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' ' h #) ho 4 3) ud . ic . . 'Net rall al 4 . x (4) ' beds ive y= * ec > . P, 2 \ - .) . v » ! ' » vw Vp a WAY 4 f, . : Sedition batisin didanosine passin wins w Bish aati wisn heist als eB rus bod otis sabe ist pb ait wi hamt rd bivariate a ith . Mr. William Sexton, who held the. position of Reeve of Scugog Island from 1867 - 1873. He was the first Reeve from the Island to be Warden of Ontario Country, in the year 1870. Photo courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kane. remember when ...¢ 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 21, 1919 Last Sunday the barns and house belonging to Mr. Charles Lamb at Manchester were burned to the ground. Members of the Port Perry Fire Brigade went out to assist putting out the fire but could do nothing. The fire destroyed house, barns, hay and three horses. Their insurance was not sufficient to cover the loss. Rev. Mr. Joblin is home from his holidays. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 31, 1944 Capt. W.T. Harris, 'Mrs. Harris and daughter Miriam of Ottawa are spending two weeks with relatives in town. Miss Norma Ploughman has been visiting Mrs. Herb Arbuckle in Cobourg during the past week prior to attending Business College. Little Alfred and Vera Newnham are spending a couple of weeks in Toronto and Scarboro Bluffs. Mrs. N. DeShane and daughter, Mrs. Howard Chapman, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry DeShane, returned home on Sunday after a pleasant week's holiday with relatives in Syracuse, N.Y. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 2, 1954 Cadet Lt. Arthur Warriner, 15, and Cadet Clive Boyd, 16, both of the Port Perry High School Cadet Corps were among 1500 Royal Canadian Army Cadets who graduated from Ipperwash Cadet Camp last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Vance both had their hair singed by lightening while sleeping. Their bed was situated in the corner where the lightening came in. It did considerable damage to their home but the Port Perry Fire Brigade soon extinguished what fire there was after Mr. Vance drove to Port Perry to notify the Fire Department being his phone was also put out of order. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 3, 1959 Aileen Snooks, Port Perry, won $89.00 in the 50-50 draw of the local Junior Softball Club. Mr. and Mrs. B. Snelgrove enjoyed a few days at (Turnto page 6) bd Yee + ¥ ol 4 Vp Tab Bl Aste 4h USLE YR A Tip "a. LRERA FN 'fh y Teil A A ' ' ATEN SEN vK PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, August 15, 1979 -- § letters Objectivity, please Dear Sir: If Danny Millar ever plans on becoming a big league sports writer he had better take a crash course in object- ive reporting. The story in question is the one submitted to the Star on the C.T.C. Fastball Tournament where in he mentioned that the Udora Shamrocks were per- haps the weakest team ent- ered. Maybe he could have stated, as was told to him after our first loss, that our team was missing nine regu- lars for the game against Port Perry and we were forced to recruit people from the stands. He also forgot to mention that in our second game we lost in extra innings to Sunderland, the tourna- ment champs! Also, in an excellent comeback bid we just lost out to Ontario Motor Sales in our third game. And as stated in his story, these were two of the top teams in the tournament! So, Mr. Millar, next time you do one of your write-ups, make sure you include all the details please. Keith Dalton Member of the Udora Team Extend appreciation Dear Sir: The Canada Farm Labour Pool extends their ap- preciation to the Port Perry Star for the assistance they and as a result we have recorded 638 placements in June and July. Your assistance to the community is very much chotterbox oe. © . THE LIMIT Cigarette smoking can kill you. That's pretty well a proven fact. Yet a lot of people, myself included, continue to puff on the weed. While I have made a conscious effort to reduce the number of cigarettes each day, I don't seem to ® be able to give them up completely. I seem to be prepared to live (or die) with the risks of smoking, but I'm terribly upset over recent reports that drinking beer may cause cancer. Yep, that's the latest from the U.S. National Science Foundation which has found minute amounts of a cancer causing agent called nitrosamines in suds south of the border. Canadian health and welfare researchers have found the same little devils in our brews. However, a scientist working on the research is quoted as saying that drinking a couple of bottles each day doesn't present any health hazard. There is no proof yet that nitrosamines cause cancer in humans, but they have been found to cause the disease in animals. And that is enough for me. I gave up eating bacon over the nitrite scare. I avoid white bread like the plague because fully refined flour is suppose to be damaging to the bowel and colon. I lie awake at nights worrying about when the acid rain is going to fall, and red dye in food makes me break out in a cold sweat. There is precious little arcund these days that isn't hazardous to one's health, and being the kind of person who gets upset over things like this, I smoke cigarettes to calm my shattered nerves. It's a vicious circle. Here I am trying to quit smoking and every time I pick up a newspaper or magazine there's a report about something in the air or water or food or beer that causes cancer. - What choice do I have? If the cigarettes don't get me, my favourite beer will. If it's not acid rain, it's something else. Getting serious for a minute, I would probably quit™ smoking very quickly if the government hiked the price to a couple of bucks a package, or if cigarettes were banned completely. Being a naive kind of person I have often wondered why the government hasn't taken steps to take smokes off the market. I mean they can ban big pop bottles that have caused maybe 100 injuries in Canada, but to my knowledge haven't killed anybody. Yet cigarettes, which can snuff you quick as a loaded gun are available to anybody with the money. I understand that in southern Ontario there are about 100,000 acres of choice farmland planted with tobacco. Banning smokes would kill two birds with one stone: force me to kick the habit and at the same time allow that 100,000 acres to be used for food production. Life is very simple, isn't it. I wonder why nobody else has thought of that? TAKEN FOR A RIDE I was taken for a ride at the Western Weekend Midway, without even going on a ride. Last Thursday night I took my three-year old down to the Midway, and he loved the kiddies rides: the little cars, the train and boat. The fact that it was 50 cents a crack and lasted all of two minutes didn't bother him one bit. It didn't bother me much either. Fifty cents for a kiddies ride may be a little steep. But what the heck. My youngster had a good time, and it looked like a lot of other kids his age were enjoying themselves as well. But to get him away from the rides I had to bribe him with the idea of winning a stuffed toy at the dart throw. And it looked easy enough. The sign said "throw until you win" and the row of stuffed toys was hanging in full view. With my help, he tossed a dart and broke a balloon on the first throw. "Oh, boy," I thought to myself. "Here comes the stuffed toy and now I can get the little guy home to bed." Not quite. The nice young lady working the booth looked behind the broken balloon and said "you've just won a SMALL toy." She reached under the counter and handed my three-year old a trinket key chain. He looked at it and then said to me, *'I want a stuffed dog." I reached in my pocket for another 50 cents, and this time I threw the dart. It broke a balloon and we went through the same SMALL toy routine. I suddenly realized that I could break an awful lot of balloons at 50 cents a throw before I hit one that said BIG prize. The bribe just wasn't going to work, because I was almost out of money and nobody around the Midway wanted to cash my cheque. I wonder why. Strictly cash and carry, I guess. Anyway, by this time I had less than a buck left in my pocket and was still faced with the prospects of somehow getting my kid away from there. It was either the dart game one more time, back to the little cars, or just pick him up and carry him kicking and screaming to the parking lot. I chose the little cars, and that seemed to be the answer. Driving home, the thought of the dart game "win a prize every time" caused me to chuckle at my own stupidity. Did I really think that everybody was going to gave in promoting the farm appreciated. pool day work programme. Canada Farm Farmers have used our ser- Labour Pool, vice extensively this year Rolly Coy Manager. Hold annual reunion Dear Sir: their 34th Annual Reunion in Wartime Personnel of Dunnville on September 21st, Noe ers, RCAF, 22nd,and2srd. Highlights of Dunnville, Ontario, will hold (Turn to page 6) Pen ARAN RIESE am Ly ~ BTN EE ara win one of those nice stuffed animals? 'Fraid so. Live and learn. But how do you explain it to a three-year old after good old dad tells him that winning a stuffed toy is going to be a snap. He is a little young to understand a good old fashioned midway scam. But what excuse do I have? THE LAST WORD As you read this, I'll be on vacation in the Valley. The Ottawa Valley, that is; land of the pine tree and some of the best rock farms in the province. Golf, swimming and a fishing trip are on the agenda, so here's hoping for good weather. I'love to go back to the Valley. It has a lifestyle, even a culture unique in this province. There are at least half a dozen local accents, and I always get a kick out of sitting in the local hotel beverage room listening to the old timers spin their tales. So, here's to vacations, and goin' home. As they say in the Valley, "there ain't nothin' like it." Ya g REN port perry star ¥ Company Limited a0 wy Phone 985-7383 Sa (a (0s): OLR) a 3 ag as WAS SW IN 0 4, Serving the Township of Scugog J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. 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