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Last Saturday the boys and girls of Seagrave organ- ized the Sunshine Junior League with the following officers: President - Gladys Joblin, Secretary - Alma Frise, Treasurer - Elgie Joblin, Ex.Com. - Grace Rey- nolds, Vera Tanner, Olive Mark, Ross Midgley. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 3, 1945 Lion Sam Griffen of the Port Perry Lions Club was son. They used to practice at a rink in Manchester in what they called "The Brick Yard." [ Photo courtesy of Viola Johnson] elected Deputy District Governor of District A3, Zone 10 for 1945-46 at the zone meeting held in Port Hope on Friday, April 27th. Mr. J.J. Gibson bought the home belonging to the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Crosier and moved there recently with his family. We are happy to hear that Mr. V.P. Stouffer is gradually improving from his recent attack of pneu- monia. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 5, 1955 A very pleasing Piano Recital was held at the Port Perry Public School by the pupils of Mrs. McClintock, (Turn to page 6) LE ---- --_-- i A WILL THATBE CASHOR ..... 2 Did you ever notice how much plastic is being used in our day to day living items recently? Take a look! There are plastic containers for your milk, margarine, and vegetables. Your skates are made of plastic, as well as a good portion of your car and even your house. We have plastic covered books, plastic cups, and plastic clocks. There's plastic bags, telephones, records, containers, and eyeglasses. Youname it and almost anything you deal with during the day is made of or contains plastic. - But the plastic that is possibly creating the most harm to people is plastic money. In a recent article it states "the burgeoning use of credit cards seem to have reached a peak. Already in the U.S., many smaller businesses have already stopped accepting plastic money (credit cards) and bigger retailers and hospitality businesses are joining the trend. With high interest rates, it's only a matter of time until the same thing happens in Canada. A couple of examples of belt tightening in the U.S. are that in Florida many major restaurants have outlawed the use of cards and some franchised service station operators have even stopped accepting the plastics issued by their multi-national parents. The reason: firms accepting credit cards pay a percentage of each transaction to the institution that issues the card. In Canada, for example, Master Charge and Visa promoters charge businesses 2 to 6 per cent for the service: The smaller firms most always paying the highest percen- tages. In other words, when you the consumer uses a credit card, the merchant from which you are purchasing the goods is losing between 2 and 6 percent of the transaction price. But worse than the money small businesses are losing through the use of credit cards is the cost to the consumer. The financial institutions receive approximately 21 percent interest on accounts which are not paid within 30 days. Perhaps it is time we looked at our plastic world and our so called "cashless society". It could be costing us all more than we can afford. OMB HEARING I, along with a number of other township residents spent the best part of last Thursday sitting patiently through an OMB hearing, which was held at the Latcham YA SRY SLI MY CRA . iT Rp VE chotterbox .... Centre, in Port Perry. The purpose of the hearing was to settle a question that has raised a lot of controversy over the past few months. That being the building of a new library on a section of property that abuts the shore of Lake Scugog. There are those who contend that it is not good planning to build any structure on lakeshore property. Their reasoning is simply that lakeshore property is too valuable to be taken up by buildings. The other side of the argument (briefly) is that the property in question is not now an open park area, and by changing the zoning they will create more parkland and at the same time have a cultural facility adjacent to it. After sitting through about six hours of testimony, cross examinations and speaches by those both for and against the proposal for the new library on the Water Street property, it was not surprising to see the OMB chairpersons reserve judgement on the issue. But, it is rather sad to think that we must now wait an estimated four weeks (and it could even be longer) to find out what the outcome will be. It is in general agreement by both those for and against the proposed site for the new library, that indeed a new or improved library facility is needed. Nobody seemed to disagree with this fact. So, the issue is "location." If one was to listen to the professional planners, people that are qualified to say whether building a library on lakefront property is good planning, there is no doubt that the building would already be underway. They have examined the Township plans and feel that this building would fit in well at the proposed location. But there are those who object. Their reasons range from they want to see the original location expanded - to - we need more lakefront because the park is jammed on the weekends and we need more parkland. I personally do not care where the new library is built. But it seems to me that if this project is to ever get off the ground the best thing that could happen would be for the OMB to approve the change of zoning so the project can get underway. Time is running out. The building must commence this year if the Township hopes to get the grant money available for the project. In addition the cost of building is increasing every year and it has already been over two years since plans were first considered for an expansion. This has already added thousands of dollars to the cost of the building because of inflation. REE id SR sr a PRP LZaYT) Nid) x ' (x if ess ol letters French immersion Dear Editor: As has been reported in the paper a group of Port Perry parents is trying to organize and arrange for a French Immersion class in the area. We have had a lot of support but have also heard a lot of objections. We feel that these are due to a lack of information and understand- ing of what French Immersion means. We are writing this letter to try and point out some of the misapprehensions and why they are such. Firstly, we feel that French Immersion is a viable alternative in the education of our children that all parents should consider. It has been a highly successful program in all parts of Canada over the last 15 years and in the Durham Region for 3 years. It provides our children with an opportunity to attain bilingualism, in a country committed to bilingualism. It provides the students with a good knowledge and under- standing of Canada's other culture - without losing their own. There is strong evidence that learning French at an early age in a French Immersion program can actually improve a child's English skills. It is quite clear that the more knowledge a person has the more enriched that person's life is. Knowledge of any r Hvidsten second language serves to enrich any person's life. Some of the objections raised to us have been as follows: People feel that the second language confuses the child and that the English suffers. Remark- ably, the children in Kinder- garten French Immersion classes readily accept the use of French in the class- room and enter into the challenge of learning a second language without being aware of the challenge. More education studies have been done on the subject of second language training in recent years than probably any other area. These studies indicate that students jn the French Immersion programs do not suffer a temporary lag in their English skills. However, once formal training is intro- duced in English the students rapidly catch up to children in regular programs, suggesting that considerable transfer of language skills takes place from French to English. Evaluators have reported that despite the early lags immersion students tend to perform better than children in regular programs on several aspects of English achievement by the end of elementary school. People protest that French (Turn to page 6) If the OMB does give the go-ahead for the new zoning, I Dy a an | ee, Pao bs & bao 1 would hope that everyone would get behind the project and support it to the fullest. The library is an important part of our community, and a community is made up of many people with different ideas. But when the decision is handed down, we must all pull together to either get the job underway at the proposed location or quickly find a new one so that there will be no more delay. Let's start working together for the benefit of all. AND IN CLOSING People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Which are you? (port perry star | Company Limited 0 Phone 985-7383 Sa, (0 : (UM); "1. Ys < rr "ion /, 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. 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