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TE. " Waive the as POR! PEERY STR GENTLLTAN 3° bb] RPI & CNA RA wih D8 he co 983 '38) [| J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB Port Perry Star Co Ltd . Port Perry. Ontario News & Features Department. Ottawa. and for cash payment BINS PRIZE WIA NEO of postage in cash RADIAN COMMYL 8 Rg ' CS. LN J 8 ay 0% Sp » lta ass 0 Ser] EWspapgrs CO 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 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office letters PORT PERRY STAR -- Sept. 24, 1985 -- 5 The Lake Scugog death knell Dear Sir: Lake Scugog is dying! Sixty years ago we built a cottage at Scugog Point. We have vacation- ed there ever since. Never, in all that time have we seen weeds so widespread over the lake as they have been this summer. For 60 years kids swam and played on the delightful beach at the Margarite Street en- trance. At the same time the rest of us launched when? our boats there to go fishing for lunge and bass -- fish rarely seen around the point today. This year, cottagers are forking out weeds daily and kids are reluctant to enter the water because of the scum and "nasty weeds.' More seriously, fishermen are taking their boats to other lakes and talking of selling their Scugog cottages. The death of Scugog hurts everybody. All of us in Scugog Township -- farmers, businessmen and cottagers -- tax- payers all, are about to PPHS initiation This year the students of Port Perry High School have been treated unfairly, especially the grade thirteens. Mr. Gradish (Principal at PPHS) and Mr. Grant (Vice-Principal) have banned the grade thir- teen hall and commons room. These should not be taken away from them for they deserve to have these privileges. Another issue that I want to point out is 'Inita- that really fair? Some of us are leaving grade twelve and going on with our lives. Shouldn't we also have the right to in- itate the newcomers Should we not have this privilege" Yours sincerely. Anita Edinger, Grade 12, PPHS. feel it. The demise of our lovely lake will drastical- ly reduce the value of summer property, will no longer attract tourists with the resulting lower assessment value of the Township. We taxpayers are doomed to bear a mounting load of taxes. We vigorously challenge the Chamber of Commerce, Service Clubs and Businessmen to take on the fundamen- tal project of demanding the Township and if need be, the Provincial authorities to diligently pursue the reasons why Scugog is weeding in and then to press for a remedy for this most depressing scourge. To do nothing is to ring the knell for Scugog' George Woods, Scugog Point. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 24, 1925 Mayor Schell of Oshawa opened Port Perry Fair this year. The initial event was the drill by the scholars of the various Public Schools taking part in the parade. Scugog Centre School captured the Moffatt Sales Company shield for the third time, which entitled them to retain the trophy. Mr. HW. Emmerson has sold his residence on Queen Street to Mr. Pyatt. Mr. Emmerson has bought the new house just erected by A.J. Carnegie, Bigelow Street. At the annual meeting of the Port Perry High School Athletic Club, Mr. Bob Harris was elected President with Mr. Ted Jackson as Honourary President. For the girls the President is Mabel Harbron. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 21, 1950 Junior Farmers from all over the province of Ontario spent a week at Geneva Park on Lake Couchiching. Representing Ontario County was Ross McMillan of Beaverton and Kay Prentice, Port Perry. The new arena was erected this year. Mr. Ivan Parkinson was the new P.T. teacher A gathering of young people met at the Trewin home in Blackstock to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Howard Trewin home after their wedding trip. Officers this year for the Seagrave United Church Young Peoples Organization are, Presi- dent Bernard Standish, Vice-President Leona Reynolds, Secretary Ron Wanamaker, Treasurer Joyce Harding. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 22, 1960 Mr. Roy Ormiston was awarded the Eaton's of Canada Livestock special at Port Perry Fair. This award is made annually to the exhibitor win- ning the highest number of points in the Livestock Competition. Mr. Keith Collins who has been with the Bank of Commerce for two years, has moved to a larger branch in Brockville. Mr. Ted Lamb of R.R 4, Port Perry, has been awarded a travelling scholarship*or the Provin- cial Junior Farmers Association United Nations Tour. He will travel to Washington and New York and surrounding areas. Mr. Howard Forder of Blackstock had a very successful sale. (Turn to page 11) tion Day!' Initation Day has been replaced with a STARDAZE 'A Games Day.' Itisn't a bad idea if they didn't ex- clude the student body from watching the events. Initation isn't as bad as people think it is. It's very mild! A lot of grade nines enjoy it! But the reason for banning this is because some parents have been call- ing the school and saying that theyd didn't want their children to par- ticipate. The parents don't have to worry about this. We are not like other city schools. Our initation is very calm and it only lasts about one hour and then it's over. In the past the grade twelves and half of the {1 T wourLD BE NICE IF CERTAIN DRWERS WOULD GLOW OOWN WHILE IN at Port Perry High School this year. grade thirteens were ex- L CADMUSB ov 000 cluded from this event. Is fd = =U. +1) BE bill smiley AS YEARS PASS US BY I was going to say. "There's nothing more boring than old people talking about the 'good old days" when they were young." Then I realized that I was out in left field, with nobody at bat, the pitcher chewing tobacco and spitting juice, the catcher fumbling around trying to adjust his athletic pro- tector, as they now call metal jockstrap There are many things more boring Little children who want one more horse; ride when your spine feels fractured in eight places from the 10 previous jaunts Teenagers babbling endlessly about rock stars, boyfriends, girlfriends, and the money they need to keep up with their friends "How come we only have a 21 inch TV? I'm 16; why can't I stay out till 3a.m if I want to" I'm the only girl in the class who doesn't have construc: tion workers boots!" University students. perhaps the most boring creatures in our society After the initial chirps of recogni- tion: "Oh, Mr Smiley. how are you? How's it going" And then 40 minutes of straight, self-centred description of their university courses or their jobs. their professors, their disenchantment with their courses, their unspoken admission that they can't hack it. as you knew they couldn't in the first place I manage to brush them off after about eight minutes with a cheery, "So long. Sam. great to hear you re doing so well, and best of luck Ihave togotoan orgy for senior citizens that starts in four minutes, with the pornographic movie "It's great to leave them there with their mouths hanging open. Next worse, in the boring department. are young couples who have produced one or two infants. and talk as though they'd swum the Atlantic, or climbed Mount Everest "Let me tell you what Timmy (or Kimmy) said the other day He was sawing wood in the nursery school, and his saw slipped. and he pointed at his saw and he said, "Don't you dare do that," and the teacher told me, and she said it was the most hilarious thing she'd ever seen, and blah, blah. blah, and Boring. B-o-r-i-n-g We can al' top that type of story My daughter age 7, Grade 2, just getting over the Santa Claus bit, came home one day and told my wife she knew what a certain familiar four-letter word that she'd seen scrawled on the sidewalk meant At the time, rather absent-mindedly. with Dr Spock lurking in the background, she enquired. "And what does it mean. dear" The response was, "When men and ladies lie down on top of each other and go to the bathroom That was the end of any birds and bees instruction Next in a descending line of boring conversationalists are middle-aged grandparents. The women, young enough to still elicit a whistle on a dark night, the men old enough to suck in their paunches, when a bikini walks by. they act as though they had invented grandchildren ey whine exchanged whimpers about the baby-sitting they have to do. They brag that their grandchildren are the worst little devils in the world Boring And finally. we get to the elderly Certainly some of them are boring. but they are the ones who have been bores all their lives But the others, the salty ones. even though slowed by the body's increasing frailty, retain their saltiness, and even improve on it. because they don't give a god damn anymore They can say what they like and do what they hke And they do I've met or talked to three men in their late 80s recently My father-in-law, 89, seemed rather franl when we arrived for a visit, at 3p m At 11 that mght we were still arguing rehgion and pohtics, at top form I've told you about old Campbell, the 85-er who dowses wells and 1s set to go to Paraguay Talked to my great-uncle, riddled with arthritis, and his voice and welcome were as warm and crackhng as a fireplace freshly ht This whole column was inspired by a chpping my sister sent me about 88 year old Lawrence Consitt of Perth. Ontario Lawrence was present when the last man was hang- ed in Perth His comment: "It was strange ' The man had turned to the crowd and smiled just before his death He had murdered his wife Today he'd be given a manslaughter and six years Lawrence started playing piano 79 years ago, at dances, at the silent pictures theatre He got five dollars a night for a dance The talkies knocked him out of a job in 1930 But he kept on playing ragtime and jazz wherever there was an opening I listened to him improvise for the silent movies. | danced to his piano at country dances, with his meces and great-nieces He always had a crock. Took the pledge in 1925 It lasted 13 months Got sick on a ship to France in 1918, and was too late to be killed He never married, "But | drank a lot of whiskey = He's in one of those Sunset Havens now, but when they ask him when he'll be back from a day in Perth, he says. "It depends on who I meet © That's boring" Hang on, Lawrence You gave great pleasure to many people. I hope | can stay as salty as you