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6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, Janvary 26, 1988 Durham will consider $4 million expansion Durham Region council will be be approved with the following One Woman s View by Chris Carlisle financing schedule. Half the total would come from provincial government grants. The Region would pay for the remaining $2 million by taking $250,000 from the general tax levy this year; a fur- ther $750,000 from the development charge reserve fund this year; and an even $1 million from the general tax levy in 1989. In order to be eligible for the $2 million in provincial subsidies, the project must be tendered and design approved by the end of March this year. asked this week to approve a $4 million renovation project to Fair- view Lodge home for the aged in Whitby. If council goes along with the re- quest, the extensive project will be completed in 1989, and it will be the second phase of work at the Region owned nursing home. The Region has already spent $2.6 million to upgrade, renovate and improve the facililty. In a report to council this week, the Region's finance committee recommends the $4 million project Is it really any wonder Gary Hart cheated on his wife? . And is it really any wonder that the Supreme Court - nominee and presidential hopefuls smoked pot? . All those little indiscretions are part of being human | | I in the Twentieth Century. There are probably many I more people under fifty who tried pot at one time in ll A their lives than those who didn't. Especially ur- | banites. One could actually wonder at a man who To those in his crowd, he was right on in his philosophy. No crabs; no love. As for marriages, they opened up. Completely. Multiple sex partners and flings were no longer frowned upon. Some people even refused to marry unless they could have an open marriage. Society's attitudes radically changed over the past twenty years. Sexual partners were a dime a dozen and those with notches, patches and even crabs, were glorified. So why shouldn't Gary Hart be like so many other Twentieth Century husbands, wives and singles liv- ing the dream? It was no longer considered serious- ly morally wrong to break marriage vows--it was almost expected. (And who knows what kind of private arrangement the Harts had. We've all heard Yesterday's of Sean gusits whine bath parties are just ast hap Co " Py. if the husband gets his meals away from home). Now back in the running, Hart in affair was I AVY SIAM © r i s Gk a "damn fool mistake." Sure, in hindsight, maybe it was. How could he know the pendulum's swing (From Page 5) toward old-fashioned values would so quickly knock him off his feet? | I'm not condoning his philandering, but the point is what he did was largely socially acceptable only a while ago. Oh sure, people will always point their fingers and wag their tongues, but everyone knew about JFK's affairs twenty years ago and no one I demanded that he leave office. A man's private life was then considered private. He could do as he pleas- ed behind closed doors. Too big a deal was made out of the affair of Hart. The uproar was partly because of our cutthroat socie- ty these days with reporters, adversaries and com- petitors all looking for dirt on their intended victims. But should't Hart have sensed the changing winds of attitude and if he had to play, kept ahead by making sure no one found out about Donna Rice? Now he's back in the race. Will he be able to con- trol himself? If he is caught wandering, he should léave the race again, but not for moral issues. It would mean he's just too stupid---he can't even read venereal disease was another notch. "If I wasn't and follow a trend. How could a man so out of it lead needing the blue, it would mean I wasn't getting a country? } L love," he explained in words something to that effect. a oT : made it through college or university twenty years ago without succumbing to the peer pressure and the then current trend to smoke dope. These days Western society is fueled and driven madly by trends. Like schools of fish chasing a sunbeam, we dart in and out of trends as soon as we spot them. "Society" even goes so far as to look down on those who don't dive wholeheartedly into the trend. For the past twenty years or so, the longterm tendency has been towards free love, as it was call- ed in the sixties. No longer was sex confined to marriage. It wasn't even confined to love. One night stands were like rabbits--flourishing everywhere. Characters in books and movies were all sleeping with total strangers and bragging about it. § A healthy sex-life signified success. You didn't have H to love the partners, but as long as you had a multitude of them, you were winning. Leaks and pat- i ches on the waterbed replaced notches on the ik gunhandle. Even women were allowed to play freely and the pill made things so easy for everyone. : Gays were scrambling out into the open--even i / marrying. i A perfect example of the attitude is a gay man I ; know who, ten years ago, upon arriving late for a New ; Year's Eve gathering said he'd been delayed because he'd been busy applying blue powder to an infested area of his body. . When I expressed shock that he'd make such an an- ; nouncement publicly, he laughed with absolute glee. "But I'm proud," he protested. To him, every truck drivers $1.95 and casual labour $1.70 per hour was accepted by the workmen when an additional offer of time and one-half for all overtime worked over nine hours was given the employees. An old town shed on Mary Street, Port Perry, collapsed last week under the weight of the last snowfall. The shed was used to store a town tractor and other material used for maintenance of various works departments in Port Perry. Kevin Willis of Port Perry was the lucky winner of a week of free hockey training at a hockey school in Bowmanville, operated by Dick Gamble. This draw took place at the Pe¢ Wee Tournament held in Port Perry which was sponsored by Mr. Gamble. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 25, 1978 Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm is becoming concerned that a planned junket to Switzerland to promote industrial development in Durham Region will be limited to the promotion of municipalities in the southern part of Durham and will not represent the interests of the entire Region. Larry Kendall was re-elected president of the Scugog Choral, Society. : dw ad AW an PTs pre ---- --- PP Random Jotting by J. Peter Hvidsten a RR JUNK FOOD | have really tried to stay away from French Fries since Christmas, and up until about a week ago | was successful. | But one day at lunch recently, the craving was just too strong, and YES | did break down and place an order for those delectible tatters. The unfortunate thing about telling everyone you are trying to quite something (like French Fries) through this column, is they hold you to it. While having lunch down at the Feed Bin one day, the waitress refused to take my order for fries, because she read in my column that | was trying to quit. In fact she said if she ever saw me with fries she would grab them and throw them out. Anyway.... enough about french fries! The real message in this column is for all you junk food lovers. According to a recent article in a Toronto newspa- per, eating junk food makes no difference to-one's life expectancy and neither does smoking. This hews comes by way of an Austrailian physiol- ogist whose world studies have show that a slob who eats junk food and smokes can expect to live just as long as any non-smoking, fibre-eating jog- ger. . 'Nine major studies over a 20 year period com- pared thousands of subjects; "unhealthy people" with those who exercise regularly. In eight of the nine studies there was no improvement in life ex- pectancy and no reduction in deaths from cancer or o heart disease, according to Dr. R. Johnstone. "We all have to die of something", the Doctor said, "I see nothing wrong with dying of a heart at- tack or cancer. If you live long enough you will eventually get them". Well, | don't know about you, but this study will not really change my eating habits anyway. Every -day some "expert" comes out with a new study on. what is or isn't good for your health, and if we lis- tened to them all, we would die of starvation, be- cause nothing is safe to-eat. Probably the most reasonable thing to do, is to eat, smoke, run, slump in front of the TV, work, drink, etc. etc. in. moderation. An excess of anything is not healthy, but what are afew chips, cans of pop, or push-ups going to hurt. SMOKERS While having lunch one day last week at a local re- staurant, | glanced around the room and noticed two women lighting-up cigarettes following their lunch and found to my amazement that of the doz- en or so people in the room, only the women were smoking. I'm not trying to say that women were the only smokers in the room as | know one of the men with me smokes, but it did seem odd that six women lit- up after their meal, while no men did. | don't follow the statistics in the news about who does and who doesn't smoke, but it was a very in- teresting observation. At any rate, smokers (men or women) in Toronto are going to have a tough year now that anyone can object to someone smoking in any public place. For me, | think smokers have some rights also, but they won't have for long if those who do smoke don't use their heads and respect the rights of the non-smoker as well. The complaints about smokers, are usually insti- gated because the smoker has not given any con- sideration to those who don't smoke, and have a "don't give a damn" attitude about their rights. On the other hand to tell a smoker "you can't smoke anywhere", is not fair either, so designated areas for smokers should and must be available. Here at the Star we have a number of smokers, and they are allowed to use our staff room' to smoke. All other areas of the office are "smoke free" except the private offices of our reporters, who like the "occassional" drag. IN CLOSING Did you see in the weekend paper where the owner of Lulu's, the largest nightclub in Canada is SO upset about new regulations making him have 60 percent of his establishment available for non- smokers that he is going to ban anyone who smokes. A sign on his door now reads, "No Jeans and No Non Smokers". &