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13 Woman's View by Chris Carlisle As one who thinks, lives and breathes weight reduction, I dread the day the coin replaces the dollar bil! It means my purse, which | strive daily to keep light, will be weighted down anew. Already | separate my keys, taking only those I'll need that day. I'm not one for huge rings with every key I possess, dangling. It's too heavy. Nor do | carry spare tubes of lipstick, books or credit cards oe I carefully check the weight of my purse before I leave the house and if there is even an ounce of extra weight, I shed it. (I'm not lazy, I just tire easily because of a tricky spine But | bet there are a lot of others out there who hate lugging heavy purses and bundles just as much as | do) The new gold-coloured com means instead of six one-dollar bills in the billfold, there will be six heavy cons. I've heard rumors of plans to phase out the two-dollar bull too, so that means any cash under a five will have to be in cons A weighty prospect Men are going to have to start carrying change purses or risk bulging pockets pulling their pants and jackets out of shape. Women with a lot of loose change in their purses will now be carrying lethal weapons. Purse snatchers had better visit the weight room before attempting a grab. There is a solution, however All they need to do at the mint is drill a little hole in the top of the coin Instead of weighing themselves down with jewelry and a heavy bag, women could slip their gold-coloured pieces through their gold- wire ear-hoops. Instant fashion Practical fashion. She spends her earrings, adds new ones as the day goes on and she receives more change The idea would no doubt catch Spread everywhere. To her waist, with a belt of gold coins ; her neck. with a medallion or two: her wrist, with a charm bracelet or flat watch-style. Her shoes would carry quick snap-on decorations. Gold coms would take the place of but- tons and brooches on coats : And with unisex, the idea would spread, of course, to the men who have already adopted earrings There'd be a comeback for those gold chains so many of us have come to hate. Men could make good use of the new trend to cufflinks and tie tacks. They too, could have fancy belt and shoe buckles and bracelets. A hat band with little coin "holders would not only glow, it would provide easy access and add- ed weight. Great for windy days when the hat won't stay on. What started as a practical means of more evenly distributing | weight would become a fashion hit and no doubt go further to become | 'a status symbol. A sign of affluence So a woman with only one ear- ring would be scrambling to spend another fiver so she could keep her matched set. One gold coin per earring would quickly grow to two or three. That be a boon to the sunglasses industry because everyone would be hurting from the glare of all that gold. That would mean more jobs. more gold for the economy. Durham College may Cancel Hygienists threafened Stephanie Grills got some good news and some bad news when she opened a letter from Durham Col- lege one day last week. The good news was that she had been accepted into the Dental Hygiene program for next - September. The bad news was that 'the program may not be offered by 'Durham next year. Ms. Grills, who lives in Seagrave and now works as a Dental Assistant in Oshawa told the Star last week she is extremely disappointed the one year Hygiene course at Durham may be scrapped. She has started a campaign to try; and convince Durham College to keep the program in place. Ms. Grills is writing letters to all members of the Durham College Board of Directors, including Col- lege president Mel Garland. The College says a decision on whether the Hygienist program stays will be made in the next cou- ple of weeks, but its future is very much in doubt at this time. The letter Ms. Grills received last week from Gerry Pettit, Admissions Manager at Durham doesn't hold too much hope. "We would urge you to consider carefully any offer you might receive from another College Dental Hygiene program as our ability to offer our program this year (September) is certainly doubtful," the letter states. The letter also states the program at Durham College is now being 'financially evaluated." Ms. Grills told the Star she feels if Durham College scraps the pro- gram, it will have a ripple effect throughout Durham Region. While she acknowledges that Dental Hygiene programs are expensive to operate, she can't understand why the College would consider doing away with the program when their is such a shortage of Dental Hygienists in the work-place. Ms. Grills said she has had her heart set on a career in Dental Hygiene. She graduated a year ago from the Dental Assistant's course at Durham with first class honours (a pre-requisite for acceptance in- to the Hygiene course). She applied to two other colleges for acceptance this September but was turned down. In fact, she said that if Durham does away with the program, she will end up looking for another career, possibly in nursing science, radiology or physiotherapy. Ontario Hydro proposes hike Ontario Hydro is proposing to in- crease its electricity rates in 1988 by an average of 4.9 per cent, Chair- man Tom Campbell announced April 14. The rate proposal will be review- ed by the Ontario Energy Board. The proposed rate increase would affect over 300 municipal electrical utilities in the province who distribute electricity to their own residential, commercial and in- dustrial customers. The increase would also affect more than 100 AY errr Viewpoint To say that those production room Gremlins have been at work at the Star over the past few weeks is an under-statement. } HELL BE MISSED A lot of people in this community, including myself, were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Grant Williams. Grant had a long association with the Minor Hockey direct industrial customers, as well as Ontario Hydro's 800,000 retail customers. Ontario Hydro proposes to in- crease electricity rates by an average of 5.0 per cent for municipal utilities, 5.4 percent for large in- dustrial customers served directly by the corporation, and 4.1 per cent for its retail customers. The propos- ed increase average 4.9 per cent would take effect January 1, 1988. The impact on individual municipal utilities, direct industrial customers and retail customers will vary depending on consumption pat- terns, supply conditions and rate classifications. Campbell said the proposed in- crease is needed to cover increased costs associated with operating and maintaining existing'facilities and with new facilities being brought in- toservice to meet customers' grow- ing electricity needs. CAKES A ------------ rr -------- organization in Port Perry and served as President for several years. Before he stepped down as president last year, Grant had devoted countless hours to the young people in this community. From the day the ice went in at the arena each September until the last puck was dropped in late March or April, Grant probably spent as much time at the Scugog Arena as anyone. ' Real or Artificial 3 Purchase or Rental Weddings, showers, All Special Occasions Our Wedding Gallery - for backpack, bundle buggy and wagon manufacturers. It could also generate employment. Hire a student to carry your change purse. ~ Hire a chiropractor or physiotherapsst to fix your back--thrown out vi * by the weight of all that money : If we must go gold, I prefer the fashion statement. It's so much Running a Minor Hockey Association with some 400 P-- Is Bpen by App: more fun. youngsters, and more than 30 teams is a big job these days. and pe BEML. pisos rant did it with dedication and hard work. y <7 TORO PRICED At the Minor Hockey banquet on April 18, the organization THERESIA'S If they, in Ottawa, refuse to go for the hole, it'll mean big business recognized his contribution to the game and this community by presenting him with a plaque of appreciation. Sadly, he passed | CARE y 1} away Just a couple of days Inter, DECOR ATING now mi | -- il Yesterday's ow he's gong toe dey mised Memories Ae BLACKSTOCK 986-3509 (From page 5) 12 YEARS AGO Wednesday. April 27, 1977 Morley Davidson of Port Perry placed an impressive 659th in the internationally known Boston Marathon which had over 4.000 par- ticipants this year. He also quahfed for next year's run by finishing just under the three-hour hmit for the 26-mile race. A new column debuted in the STAR called "The Country Mouse," by Danielle Clark, which was airhed at helping local merchants pre- sent new products to the consumers of Port Perry ON wd NUE wD ab ER | eee ET ad John Espley, Debbie Ireland. Paul Delhaise, Greg Carriere, and ~~ Wendy Bracken did well enough in the Junior Mathematics Contest : at Port Perry High School. sponsored by the University of Waterloo, to place them on the Zone &8 honour roll, placing first in Durham S Region and third in Zone &8 Ne Chimo Youth Services Inc withdrew its application for a zon- ing change to the property at 27% Queen Street that would have allow- ed the establishment of a home for disturbed young people Four simultaneous fires. ome of them a house fire that left a Scugog Island family homeless, kept Scugog firemen and equipment spread somewhat thin early Twesday afternoon Ex-pro football player Rev Bob Rumball was the guest speaker at the sixth annual Fellowship Evening sponsored by Warriner Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at Port Perry High School The main emphasis of Mr Rumball's speech was about his work with the deaf SMITH & SMITH BIG V Highway 7A & Water St. Port P Ph. 985- of vour life