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7 pn so spt retn letters Residents say "no" to road Dear Sir: This letter is in con- junction with the poss- ible opening of a road- way between Aldreds and Sunrise Beaches on Scugog Island. At the council meeting of June 11th, council stated that the main reason for the road was to provide a better service to these beaches, as far as snow buses were concerned. As I se it, when most of the residents bought here they took into account the aspects of a country style of living. and made their choice. Plus the service here is_ now far superior to some of the cities we've been in. Council also stated that with an alternate route the residents and would have better access to their beaches, yet they also argue that traffic flow would not increase except on weekends, because each beach would use their own concession road as the fastest access. Hopefully this would also be true for properly trained drivers of emer- gency vehicles. As far as increased weekend most of us are home with our children and want 'the peace and quiet this community has to offer. After all we work all week in the hussle and traffic, Another major con- cern is our own park areas. We look after upgrade and police these areas ourselves now. Will we even be able to use them our- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 19, 1984 -- § the PORT PERRY STAR CO LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET PO 801 90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 NO (416) 983 738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager CNA Member of the J.B. MCCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association C Published every Tuesday by the Port P S . : CATHY'\ROBB erry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash. News & Features AON AN COmMp vu ¥ a (Ce) NINE Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35° © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers ~~ removal and school emergency vehicles traffic, that is when (Turn to page 6) remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 19, 1924 Mr. W.A. Evans is sailing to England on Saturday to visit the Empire Exhibition. Mr. George Coulton planted 125,000 young trees cover- Ang about 65 acres of Steven's Farm near Shirley to make a fine forest some day. A few changes of ministers has been made at the recent Methodist Conference. Rev. R.G. Carruthers goes to Sea- grave, Rev. McNeely to Scugog and Rev. J E. Griffith to Blackstock. Rev. R.G. Carruthers has been appointed Chairman of this district. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 16th, 1949 Arthur L. Cook, who was finishing his fourth year on the teaching staff at Port Perry High School, is resigning from here and accepting an appointment at the Collegiate Institute Staff at Smith's Falls. At the livestock judging competition, Howard Trewin was third of the High Juniors, with Bill Ferguson for High Novice. Howard Forder and Neil Moffat were tied for High Seniors. High Standing and High Coach were won by Howard Forder who gets a trip to Chicago International. The town girls travelled to Claremont last Wednesday and tasted defeat 6 to 5 in their first game of the season. Parry, Oak and Mark passed the hitters for the Perryites with two each. Redshaw of Claremont had 17 strikeouts to her credit. - 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 18th, 1959 Dr. Dymond will serve a second term as Ontario Rid- ing's Progressive Conservative in the Ontario Legislature. A pure bred Holstein owned by Edward Oyler of Port Perry has completed a very fine Record of Performance tests. As a junior three-year-old, in 305 days on twice-a-day milking, Lindette produced 15,676 Ibs. of milk. The Manchester Jr. Choir Concert was a success with proceeds of $43.00. Many thanks go to Mrs. Hunter and Beth for their musical selections and also Susan Roach and Elaine Gooding for their piano selections. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 18th, 1964 Five teachers of Port Perry Public School are leaving their positions and were honoured by the remaining staff members. They are Mrs. Nancy MacMillan, Mrs. Elaine . Bailey, Miss Donna Johnson, Mrs. Grace Hastings and Mrs. Althea MacFarlane. : Sincere congratulations are extended to the executive and members of the Odd Fellows on the official opening of their hall. Kathleen Ann Trenka, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trenka, R.R.4, Port Perry, graduated from the University of Toronto with her B.S.'s degree. Also Miss Marlene Velma Badour was among the class of graduates from the Ontario Hospital School of Nursing, Whitby, Ontario. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clin- ton Badour of R.R.4, Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 19th, 1969 Charles Labanovich, Port Perry, presented his person- al trophies to two happy winners of the first canoe race on the Nonquon River - Greg Cowan and Glen Fallis of Mill- brook. An estimated 4,000 spectators attended the Port Perry "Home Show", during its three day opening. Reeve Robert A. Kenny officially opened the show on Thursday. Cec King, a member of the Port Perry Lions Club, was surprised when he was presented with a gift and a cake in recognition of his 25 year attendance record with the Lions. Mr. King had also served as club treasurer for 17 consecu- tive years. Utica News - Mr. Kit Robinson is spending his summer vacation with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crosier. Epsom News - Mr. and Mrs. David Prentice have mov- ed to their new home in Uxbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Medd and children have moved to their new home in Ux- bridge. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 19th, 1974 Dr. John Hammett, co-chairman of the new Port Perry organization, Town Hall 1873, presented Mrs. Bonny Gerrow with the prize for having the closest guess in the competi- tion determining the height of the Town Hall tower. Town Hall 1873 won the first phase of its battle to save the old town hall Monday night when council accepted an offer to lease the building for 99 years at a nominal charge of $2.00 annually. More than 400 Ontario Riding well-wishers endorsed Joyce Bowerman's nomination papers this week as the hard-working Conservative candidate filed her official election entry with the Returning Officer, Rick Hull, at the Pickering Office. The Nestleton Community Centre officially opened Wednesday of last week. Allan Lawrence, campaigning for re-election in Northumberland-Durham, was given the honour of cutting the ribbon and officially opening the new centre. bill smil WE'VE CHANGED There has been a tremendous change in the man- ners and mores of Canada in the past three decades. This brilliant thought came to me as I saw a sign to- day, in a typical Canadian small towns: 'Steakhouse and Tavern." Now this didn't exactly knock me out, alarm me, or discombobulate me in any way. I am a part of all that is in this country, at this time. But it did give me a tiny twinge. Hence my opening remarks. I am no Carrie Nation, who stormed into saloons with her lady friends, armed with hatchets, and smash- ed open (what a waste) the barrels of beer and kegs of whiskey. I am no Joan of Arc. I don't revile blasphemers or hear voices. I am no Pope John Paul II, who tells peo- ple what to do about their sex lives. I am merely an observer of the human scene, in a country that used to be one thing, and has become another. But that doesn't mean I don't have opinions. I have nothing but scorn for the modern 'objective' journalists who tell it as it is They are hyenas and jackals, who fatten on the leavings of the "'lions" of our society, for the most part. Let's get back on topic, as I tell my students. The Canadian society has roughened and coarsened to an astonishing degree in the last 30 years. First, the Steakhouse and Tavern. As a kid work- ing on the boats on the Upper Lakes, I was excited and a little scared when I saw that sign in American ports: Duluth, Detroit, Chicago. I came from the genteel poverty of Ontario in the Thirties, and 1 was slightly appalled, and deeply at- cy tracted by these signs; the very thought that drink could be publicly advertised. Like any normal, curious kid, I went into a couple, ordered a two-bit whiskey, and found nobody eating steaks, but a great many people getting sleazily drunk on the same. Not the steaks. In those days, in Canada, there was no such creature. The very use of the word "tavern" indicated iniquity. It was an evil place. We did have beer "parlours' later exchanged for the euphemism "beverage rooms." But that was all right. Only the lower element went there, and they closed from 6 p.m. to 7:30 or some such, so that a family man could get home to his dinner. Not a bad idea. In their homes, of course, the middle and upper class drank liquor. Beer was the working-man's drink, and to be shunned. It was around then that some wit reversed the old saying, and came out with: "Work is the curse of the drinking man." a neat version of Mark's (7) "Drink is the curse of the working classes " If you called on someone in those misty days, you were offered a cuppa and something to eat. Today, the host would be humiliated if he didn't have something harder to offer you. Now, every hamlet seems to have its steakhouse, complete with tavern. It's rather ridiculous. Nobody to- day can afford a steak. But how in the living world can these same people afford drinks, at current prices" These steakhouses and taverns are usually pretty sleazy joints, on a par with the old beverage room, which was the optiome of sleaze. It's not all the fault of the owners, though they make nothing on the steak and 100 per cent on the drinks (minimum). It's just that Canadians tend to be noisy and crude and profane drinkers. And crudity isn't only in the pubs. It has crept into Parliament, that august institution, with a prime minister who used street language when his impeccable English failed, or he wanted to show how tough he was. It has crept into our educational system, where teachers drink and swear and tell dirty jokes and use language in front of women that I, a product of a more well-mannered, or inhibited, your choice, era, could not bring myself to use. And the language of today's students, from Grade one to Grade whatever, would curl the hair of a sailor, and make your maiden aunt grab for the smelling salts. Words from the lowest slums and slummiest barnyards create rarely a blush on the cheek of your teenage daughter. A graduate of the depression, when people had some reason to use bad language, in sheer frustration, and anger, and of a war in which the most common four- letter word was used as frequently, and absent- mindedly, as salt and pepper, have not inured me to what our kids today consider normal. Girls wear T-shirts that are not even funny, mere- ly obscene. As do boys. Saw one the other day on the otherwise nice lad. Message: "Thanks, all your virgins ---- for nothing." The Queen is a frump, God is a joke. The country's problems are somebody else's problems, as long as I get mine. I don't deplore. 1 don't abhor. I don't implore. I merely observe. Sadly. We are turning into a nation of slobs, LE EE EEE EE EEE EE EE I EE EE EN I BE J A a ae a