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Yahi, kh) letters Stop when you hit a pet Dear Sir: come in. You ran over our dog and kept on going. You must have obeyed the speed limit or you would have killed her. We hope it was accidental, but this is This letter is address- ed to the driver that hit our dog. You ran over our dog today and left her suffering on the road- side. something we will never Let us explain what know because you didn't happened. stop to tell us. We had mass confus- Our dog dragged her- ion in our home today; self home to die. We attention. water problems. During found her at least two 8: this time of people going hours later, almost un- Driver, ple yah Mir andre in and out of the house, consious, lying under x OF Sy ple ~~ no eR an our small cocker spaniel our parked car. She was ©f us allow them to roam : ' got outside into our deep in shock, and L2Y with almost no hope of survival, Our dog did survive after receiving internal injuries, and will, as with human beings, heal with time. We know our dog should not have been _ near the road, and we accept responsibility for her pain. You are re sponsible for her suffer- to freely. Take a moment MEE NIE Ce So 20, ¥ AXA LOS Ry 8 EVE INE (al 8 IA RLY wv. it, OS LAN LIE an 2. BLY FILE A RL AZ SNE NC 4 Las SANS SLEAR SE I wat Se As AS pt ly Ld w PA 4 # ash deitad FURL ARE 7 PAUSE ARAN NTR SERENE, 1 SRRFC IDC RE BOAT WFRV > ibpastile das nip Vidar Aah Wig Yie's py rs [RE orate Ja Pata ALS Vit sh | St PORT PERRY STAR CO (NTUTED 235 QUEEN STREET PO 80x 90 PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. October 25, 1983 -- 5 PORT PERRY ONTARIO ¢ CNA (416; 985.7383 (a | (849) now and think that maybe she was out there without our know- ledge, and was frighten- ed We know that some accidents are unavoid- able, so please have the courage to stop. Allow- ing we the owners, the opportunity for our pets receive medical J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND 1383 RT LAS ao! Muy AS NIT / (=) Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd Port Perry. Ontario Editor Authorized as second class mail by the Post Otfice Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35° Sonya fenced yard. We pre- sume she got out of the yard by crawling through the hedge. This is where you freezing cold. Trauma that could have been treated immediately, had you stopped. We rushed her to the vet Medicine helpers The Scugog Memorial theme of his address Library will offer a will be, "How to get the special informative pro- most benefit from the gram on November 3 at medicine you are 2 p.m. on the subject of taking'. The program is self-medication. ~~ Mr. especially suitable for Don Walker, a retired: Seniors but could be pharmacist, will be pre- helpful to anyone who sent to answer questions may be combining pre- people ask about both scription drugs with prescription and non- favourite over-the- prescription drugs. The counter medicines. chatterbox (continued functionally illiterate. There are some in Canada who lament the fact that most high schools don't have competitive hockey pro- grams. Others would like to see our universities get deeply into hockey scholarships, foolishly believeing that high academic standards could be maintained. I hope this never happens. We should take a look at the American experience where athletics, especially football and basketball has turned into a high pressure meat grinder. } Sure, organized sport can develop character, perseverance and teach youngsters to cope with victory and defeat. And there is nothing wrong with striving for a career as a professional athelete (the pay and the hours are good) but when the perspective is lost and all the fun of the game disappears; when the pressure is destroying young people, something is wrong. bill smiley GOING OUT ON A LIMB There's nothing more exhilarating than going out on a limb. It begins when you're very little, when you eat a worm to see if he'll really stay alive inside you or pick up a toad to see whether you'll wind up covered with warts. Later, it might be climbing out on a long, shaky tree limb over a deep pool, when you can't swim. Or it might be caught up in a tree, shirt stuffed with apples, while the voice of Geo. J. Jehovan thunders from beneath. 'Come down, ye little divils; I know yer up there and ru hale the tar out of yez and the police'll put yez away fer life." Or it might be caught in the act of swiping corn and racing through backyards and over fences, with the cobs . dropping and your heart thumping and the shotgun go- ing off in the sky. _ Or it might be, about age 12, smoking butts with the hoboes in the "jungle" beside the railway tracks, and having a drunk with a gallon of wine come up and start . terrifying you with all sorts of obscenities you don't understand. Or it might be, about 14 and spotted like a hyena with pimples, having to ask a girl to a party, knowing that you are the most repulsive, awkward booby in town. This is a rotten limb to be out on. It could be say "Don't you say that about my mother!" to the bully of your age and sailing into him, yourself outweighed 20 pounds, but your fists and feet and teeth going like a windmill. Or it could be a swimmingly exhilarating moment, like the day when I was in high school and kissed my French teacher up in an apple tree. She was a spinster and six years older than I, but if I recall, it was a swoon- ing experience and I think we both wound up hanging by our knees from the limb. These are some of the limbs I've been out on. Lots of other limbs. You've had yours; round limbs, crook- ed limbs, rotten limbs, smooth ones, brittle limbs, stur- dy ones. We have all gone out on a limb. When you're young, you don't really know the dif- ference, or you just don't care. It's climbing out on the thing that matters. Even at 20, I was climbing out on a limb, trying desperately to make the grade as a fighter pilot, sweating blood so that I could climb out on the -fragile wing of a Spitfire and be killed. What an irony! Those who didn't make it were broken-hearted. And then there's the limb of marriage. Most males will climb out on the first limb that is endowed with long eyelashes or trim ankles or a big bust. Even though they know it's a very green one, or a very brittle one, out they go. I was lucky. The limb I climbed out on was firm but yielding, green but not brittle\And I damn soon discovered that when you climbed out on that particular limb, you didn't carry a saw, but a parachute and an iron-bound alibi. However, what I started out to say was that, as we get older, we climb out on shorter and shorter, safer and safer limbs, until we are finally left, clutching the tree- trunk, even though we're only two feet off the ground. The old limbs (or the young limbs) creaked and swayed and cracked and dipped. They are replaced by the limbs of safety and conformity and security and enough life insurance. And the sad part is that these are the limbs we want our children to climb out on, no farther than two feet from the trunk and no higher than two feet from the ground. While they want to climb on the swinging limbs that will sail them to the skies or break and let them fall. All this of course, is a preamble to the fact that I'm still willing to go out on a limb. If somebody will fetch a step-ladder to help me get started up the tree. remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 1, 1923 Local winners of the Entrance Examinations to High School are Grace McMillan and Alfred Andrus: Marion Farmer won second prize to be presented by the Board of - Education. Mr. Lewis McLean, Port Perry, who is taking an Arts Course in Toronto University was home for the weekend. Misses Clema McTaggart and Annie McTaggart spent several days with their aunt, Mrs. Hall of Sun- derland. ' Harry Wagner and Company put on a very pleasing "concert in the town hall, featuring music from his Hawaiian guitar. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 4, 1948 Miss Kate Rutherford, B.A,, a teacher on furlough from Angola, Portuguese, West Africa, was the guest speaker at the Autumn Rally of the Women's Missionary Society held in Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Morley Bruce, Seagrave, were host and hostess for a shower held in honour of newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Martin. : Mr. Dennis McKinzey, Manchester, has greatly im- proved his B.A. station with a coat of white paint. Utica's Young People's Group spent a happy and hilarious evening at Lois Sandison's masquerade party. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 30, 1958 Donald McLaughlin and Karen Leahy of Port Perry were presented with traffic safety awards and badges from Transport Minister Hon. Dr. M.B. Dymond, for their safe traffic conduct during the summer months, . Miss Mary Lyn Hodgins, Prince Albert, is in St. Jeans, Quebec, taking a few weeks of basic training in the Air Force. . Mr. J.J. Gibson and Son entertained over 250 guests at the official opening of their new delivery loading and general office building at their poultry plant on Bigelow \ Street, Port Perry. Mrs. Butt and Mrs. VanCamp conducted the services at Blackstock to initiate several new Explorers. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 31, 1963 The population of Port Perry is down to 2,353 this year as compared to the same time last year when the population was 2,366. - TT The Port Perry Fire Brigade was called to Simcoe Street to extinguish a fire in the truck of Wood's Plastering, Oshawa. The owner was working in the home of Police Chief Cameron at the time of the fire. Mrs. Roger Oke, owner of Port Perry's Elizabeth Shop on Queen Street, has been elected president of Port Perry's Chamber of Commerce. z i Rev. Owen Robinson Orr, M.A., S.T.B. was inducted as the Rector of the Church of Ascension, Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 31, 1968 Mr. and Mrs. John Murray held an Open House on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary. Neil Clark won the Judo Championship (160 Ibs. class) at a recent competition in Kingston. He was promoted from the Blue Belt to Junior Brown Belt and was chosen to represent Eastern Canada in Montreal in November. The sod was turned on the property of the new Medical Clinic to be built on Paxton Street in Port Perry. Dr. Wm. J. Cohoon and Dr. R.M. Price, the first two oc- ~ cupants of the clinic were present for the sod-turning ceremony. The building contract was awarded to Lake Scugog Lumber Company, of Port Perry. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 31, 1973 Four dedicated employees of Community Memorial Hospital were honoured last week. Receiving their 15 year pins for long and faithful service were: Mrs. Marie Gray, Mrs. Hattie Moore and Mrs. Grace Bassant. Mrs. E. Jean Gray received her 20 year pin. Presentation of the pins was made by Mrs. Grace Love. Some of the older residents of Port Perry may recall the Dunn family who lived here years ago. Last week two members of that family dropped in to the Star office for a chat. They were Addie (Mrs. Don Simon) of Farmington, * Michigan and Greta (Mrs. H.L. Tanner) of Vancouver, British Columbia. eS rp Sr at J fn uh ptr = TEEN As ANN TR a A grade Era erry