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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 12, 1988 Editorial Comments She's Earned It We are sure that most Canadians are pleased as punch with the news that Elizabeth Manley has signed a lucrative three-year contract to skate with Ice Capades. The deal was inked last week, and though the terms were not made public, it will make Elizabeth a "wealthy young woman," according to a spokesman for Ice Ca- pades. And Elizabeth will also be cashing in with some very well-paying endorsements over the next couple of years. All we can say is good for her. She's more than earned every nickel she makes from skating over the next few years. Not only is Elizabeth Manley a world champion ath- lete, she appears to be a downright nice person even in the pressure-packed world of figure skating with the glare of the media that goes with it. Always smiling, always with a positive attitude and an out-going personality, what a contrast she is to some of the professional athletes who strut their way across the sports stage in a bad-tempered, arrogant and foul-mouthed fashion (a few tennis and base- ball players come readily to mind) And who will ever forget that electrifying night last Feb- ruary in Calagary when Elizabeth set the figure skating world on its ear to win a silver medal. She really should have won the gold based on her performance that night, but in the idiosyncratic way of judging figure skating, some technical flaws in the figures competition, ruled out that possibility, despite the best free-skating performance of any of the competitors. But all that is history now. What an outstanding ambas- sador she has been not just for the sport of figure skating, but for Canada as well. If young people really do look to sports heros for inspiration and as role models, they need look no further than this super star. In the world of professional sports where temper tan- trums are a dime a dozen, where many millionaires wouldn't stop to give a youngster the time of day, much less an autograph or word of encouragement, Elizabeth Manley is a breath of fresh air. : She's earned whatever wealth comes her way. Canadi- ans in all walks of life should take note that Elizabeth Man- ley is proof that nice guys CAN finish first, and good things will happen to nice people. Smart Move Not content to assume because things are good now, they will always be this way, members of the recently formed Port Perry Downtown Merchants Association are making a united effort to attract more business to this com- munity, and particularly to the 'downtown' core. This move is not aimed at isolating the downtown mer- chants from present and future Port Perry shopping pla- zas, but is to help promote the common interests of the small downtown merchant. (Turn to page 8) Port Perry GS A STAR § (== | 235 QUEEN STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO Phone 985-7383 P.0.Box90 LOB 1NO J. PETER HVIDSTEN Member of the Publisher Canadian Community Newspaper Association ing M and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Advertising Manager Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash CATHY -OLLIFFE payment of postage in cash. News & Features Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 : A )" Subscription Rate: In Canada $20.00 per year. vel Elsewhere $60.00 per year. Single Copy 50° 4 , \ CErnstts A330 EWSpapEns ( NJ © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the adver- . .tising departmet of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. yp . . OA ECL v4 'Gee, Nonlcy: Wir ALL THOSE COMMIIES UNDER My BED, / FIND | CAN ONLY SLEEP INV THE DAYTIME," Chatte rbox by Cathy Olliffe TECHNOLOGICAL My mind doth reel. | just spent, oh, maybe three hours in the darkroom, fiddling around with the latest tech- nological gizmo here. at the Port Perry Star. This latest thing-a-ma-jig saves mega-time on Monday mornings producing black and white pictures properly prepared for printing. Until we acquired this computerized gadget, getting prints ready for the paper was a com- plicated two-step process. | was in charge of the first step--holing up in the darkroom for two or three hours process- ing film and then making prints with an enlarg- er and a processor (which beats the heck out of the old tray system of photo reproduction). When | was done making the prints, they'd all be sent to another darkroom where Anna- bell Harrison would re-photograph the pic- tures. During this process, dots would be added to each image. If you look at a photo in this newspaper with a magnifying glass, you will see it is made up of dots. | know there's some big technological name for this process, but | simply call it screening. All photographs must be screened in order to be printed in a newspaper, or magazine, or any medium. And it's always been a long, painful process taking anywhere up to four hours on an aver- age Monday morning. But not anymore! This new gadget in the darkroom eliminates one whole step in the screening process, cutting the time in half. Now, when | make up a print in the dark- room, I'm screening it (making dots) at the same time. It no longer has to be re- photographed. When I'm done, it's ready for the printing presses. Maybe this doesn't mean much to you, but it sure means a lot to me and Annabell, who are a little mole-eyed after all the time we spend in the dark on Monday mornings. This new machine saves so much time and energy. It makes our jobs so much easier, you wouldn't believe it. | can't believe it. Actually, | just can't believe all the new gadgetry here at the Port Perry Star, period. This place has gone gadget-crazy. The only room in the whole building that doesn't have something computerized in it is the bathroom. Even the coffee room has & mi- crowave. Let me just think for a moment, how compu- TIME WARP terized this newspaper has become. Let's start in the editorial offices, where Pe- ter, John and | all have Macintosh Plus com- puters and Vantage phone systems on our desks. All three of us also have cameras that . are to various degrees computerized or auto- matic. Moving to the advertising department, there's the Compugraphic typesetting system that can do anything but stand on its head. The production department has two more similar Compugraphic systems, plus an anti- quated headline setter, and a really out-dated typesetter that's as big as a stove, and really isn't used for anything but a giant carpet weight. Of course, my darkroom is also part of the production department, and it boasts the brand new computerized print maker | was just boasting about. Annabell's darkroom is another part of the same department, and her darkroom has the absolute latest in screening, PMT and nega- tive technology. I'm not sure what it all does, but | do know it is essential in the production of a newspaper, and | do know it's "the latest" in its field. Moving on to the front office, where office supplies are sold and information is Jiven and taken, | am again astounded by modern tech- nology. First off, there's the cash register, an elec- tronic marvel all on its own. Then there's the adding machines and the electronic typewrit- ers. Not to mention the two computers that look after billing and accounting information. Oh, and there's also a fancy-looking gizmo that puts postage on letters without doing any licking. And now there's something brand new in the front office. Called FAX, it's an incredible device that is hooked up through phone lines to other businesses all over the world. Believe it or not, actual pages, actual docu- ments, can be sent verbatim to anywhere on this earth, any other business that owns a FAX machine (and | understand there's more than a million out there). So, for example, | could send a resume to a newspaper in Australia, and the editor could have an exact copy of it in his hands in only a minute or two or less. Sometimes, it takes only seconds to send or receive information that would take couriers a day or more to deliver. And then another day (Turn to page eight)