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40 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 30, 1987 Fundraising harmony The barbershop harmony group Country Chords has been doing more than just singing lately. Through a raffle the group raised $500 for the Durham chapter of the Ontario Society for Autistic Citizens. presented the cheque to Verna McLellan who Clem Jeffrey chnre) of Warriner Lodge, Port Perry was sworn in recently as Oddfellows District 41 Deputy ( Grand Master. Ray y ingieton Marg . Jewell PJ Grand Mast ter said the funds will be used 6 a computer for classroom use. The Country Chords get together each Thursday night at the Masonic Hall in Port Perry and Mrs. Jewell said new female members -are more than welcome (left) of Ashburn was the installing officer. At right is Ken McTaggart of Greenwood, Deputy Grand Warden for District 41. x 4- ey confefence held Four area 4H members will represent Durham West at the 4-H Regional Conference. in Peter- borough, on July 1st, 2nd & 3rd "Lee-Ann Drapak., Oshawa; Deborah Fintelman, Uxbridge; Michelle McLeod. Sunderland & Melody Somerville, Seagrave will join approxamatedy 100 4-H'ers from across the region This three day Conference is desagned for 15 year old mesnbers It 1s designed to im- prove thewr leadership & com- 'munication skills The Theme 'You Are The ONE -- MAKE IT COUNT" will emphasize building self- confidence & awareness of world affairs Dairy Products & Holstein Breeders Co-Speaser Twilight Evening The aAnual Ontario County Twilight Meeting. on July 7th, will once again feature a fun-filled fami- ly evening The dairy producers & Holstein Breeders in Durham West co-sponsor the evening, which will be held at the farm of Murray & Robert Stone. on the 13th Concession of Scugeg formerly Reach) Township The evening begins with a barbecue supper. followed by the Dairy Princess Competition, cattle judging, music. & a apeian for the young at heart The Stone famaly farm features 44 head of registered Holsteins, crop ping approximately 250 acres of land. On-farm forage crop testing will be available to farniers throughout Ontario this summer. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food has announced a Summer Experience '87 Program , called FORAGE CROP TESTING, whereby 8 summer students have been hired to arrange & make on- farm appointments to take forage crop samples of hay, haylage & grain. These samples will be sub- mitted to Agri-Food Laboratories in Guelph, to be analyzed. Farmers 'are asked to take handfuls of haylage from various loads to get a - random sample, & freeze the sam- ple until the Forage Crop Tester arrives. Farmers enrolled in the Red-Meat Program or Pork Industry Improve- ment Program, should have their feed vouchers readily available to use. Assistance required with ration formulation will be available from local agricultural offices. The pro- gram will run for a maximum of 10 weeks from June 22nd until August . 28th, 1987. For an appointment, call the agricultural office at 1-800-263-3251, & leave a message. Obituary Daisy McNeely day of May, 1987 She fas in her 84th year Daisy McNeely was born in Cookstown, Ontario on April 9th, 1904. She is the daughter of the late Joseph and Edyth Wilson After leaving Cookstown, she lived in Bar- rie for some time Daisy attended a business course in Toronto, worked 32 years for a creamery package manufacturing company in Weston Daisy married Stanley McNeely and they had just celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary April 28, 1987. They retired to Caesarea in 1969 She is the mother of Thelma Greenlaw and Stanley Jr , both of Scarborough and Margaret Manley of Peterborough. Also 14 grand- children and 8 great grandchildren. Sister of Rita Grover of Whitby, Velma Stewart of Midland, Della Collingwood of Orillia and predeceased by Vivian Jackson Funeral Services were held at the Wagg-McDermott-Panabaker Funeral Home in Port Perry on May.. 6th, 1987 Interment Nestleton United Cemetery Reverend Swan officiated Sugar not as evil as it's made out to be Over the past few years, sugar has developed a rather unsavory reputation. It has been directly blamed for a lot of things: obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, even learning disabilities in kids, hyperactivity and emotional pro- blems that lead to delinquency. Not so, says Joan Fielden. She's a home economist working for the Canadian Sugar Institute, and part of her job these days is to puncture some big holes in the myths that have been generated about sugar. Ms. Fielden spends a lot of time talking to the media and last week she paid a visit to the Port Perry Star. She says quite bluntly that the sugar refiners world-wide have decided it is time the public learn- ed some of the facts about sugar consumption. And she is armed with some pret- ty impressive information, the main one being a study released this spring by the American Food and Drug Administration. The FDA spent three years in an '"'exhaustive review" of more than 1,000 research studies on sugar, and came to the conclusion that there is no basis in fact to support the list of popular myths and fears about eating sugar. However, before you reach for the tea-spoon and start heaping your coffee with sugar, Ms. Fielden says that sugar, like all foods, should be - consumed in moderation as part of a balanced diet that includes all the major food groups. "As far as dieticians are concern- ed, sugar is strictly a non-event if people are eating a balanced diet," said Fielden who has been a home economist since 1960 and has work- ed for the Canadian Sugar Institute for the past 11 years as a consultant. But wait a minute. Every parent knows what happens to their kids on Halloween. They eat a lot of candy loaded with sugar and their activi- ty level increases, to say the least. Don't blame that on sugar, says Ms. Fielden. The hyperactivity is a result of what Halloween means to a youngster: the excitement of get- ting dressed up, going out door to door with friends, probably missing supper, staying up later than normal. Kids get excited on Halloween. How else do you expect them to behave? But don't blame it on sugar in the candy, she said. And what are some of the other myths about sugar? The FDA medical research team found no evidence that it causes any number of diseases including glycemia and gallstones. The only detriment to health found by the study was that sugar will cause tooth decay. Some people believe a teaspoon of sugar has 150 calories. Not so, it con- tains just 16 calories. Studies have found that people us- ing artificial sweeteners in place of sugar "to cut down on calories' ac tually end up consuming more calories than those who don't. Ms. Fielden noted that sugar is one of the purest forms of car- bohydrates, a source of energy for the body. Kids might be better off having a regular pop with sugar, rather than a "diet pop' with ar- tificial sweeteners. "At least they'll be getting some energy from the sugar. Diet pop gives them no energy,' she stated, but added that a glass of fruit juice is probably a better idea for kids than any kind of pop. When asked how the myths about sugar crept into the collective think- ing of North Americans and others, Ms. Fielden replied that some of them were generated through the "diet fad" eras of the last 20 years. Robert Thompson, president of the Sugar Institute says in a written report that 'sugar myths have been promoted since the 1960's in books and theories by self-styled experts with questionable credentials." Ms. Fielden, in de-bunking these myths, is not suggesting that people gobble large amounts of sugar. Far from it. The key, she says, is moderation. The message, she says, is that sugar consumed in moderate amounts with a balanced diet is no threat to good health. And even the evidence that sugar when combined with saliva in the mouth will break down tooth enamel and cause decay can be overcome with proper dental hygiene. Sugar causes this decay when left in the mouth. Sugar, says Ms. Fielden, has its useful place as a food. It makes some foods taste better and because of its unique characteristics, it enhances baking, preserves, jams and jellies. Hospital service Service pins were presented to hospital employees at the an- nual meeting June 24 of Community Memorial Hospital. Sandy McCully (left) and Ron Raines received ten year pins. while Charlotte Mills received a pin for 15 years of service. a i a : 1 Z = ! | = a: tsa ¢ MO MoD < -- --t