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our cover lan MacKinnon is proof you can’t take the boy out of a man, no matter how old he gets. lan has been collecting model railway paraphernalia for more than 50 years and he’s excited about the railway show coming to Port Perry. See page 10 for details. Photo by J. Peter Hvidsten | Computer Systems Computer REPAIRS IT and Network SUPPORT PC and Server UPGRADES 333 Major St., Port Perry 905-985-0568 gmemullen@majortech.ca SERVING SCUGOG & UXBRIDGE TOWNSHIPS The Township of Scugog invites you to CELEBRATE 2 FOCUS - JUNE 2011 JUNE FOCUS. 40 pages.indd 2 Two nurses, separated by generations, share love of vintage cape Sandra Carrier, a nurse at Port Perry Hospital, was thrilled the day her daughter called to tell her she had discovered a nurses cape at a consignment shop in Lind- say. Sandra loved the romance of the heavy wool, lined, elegantly constructed capes that nurses used to wear as part of their uniform when they ventured outside. The nurses capes of the 1950s had their roots in nurs- ing uniforms from World War 1, known as tippets. The style continued on after the war and became inextricably linked with the image of an efficient, capable nurse, on duty to serve. “L always wanted a cape,” says Sandra. “They were just so nurse-like.” On a day off from her nursing duties in Port Perry, Sandra drove to Lindsay to check out the cape. She found an immaculate navy blue cape with a perky stand up collar, lined in bright red, complete with the initials of the original owner still stitched inside. Exactly what she had been looking for. “It was lovely,” says Sandra. Little did she know that the original owner of the cape would not be anonymous for long. During a casual chat with Port Perry resident Wilma Cotton, 82, one of Sandra’s patients who she knew a former nurse, Sandra mentioned that she had found an authentic nurses cape. “I told her I had found this perfect cape,” says Sandra. Then, Wilma asked her about the initials. “I told her I wasn’t sure what they were, but I would bring it in.” Sure enough, the initials were WJS, Wilma Cotton’s maiden name initials. The cape that Sandra’s daughter had found in the back of a Lindsay consignment store had belonged to Wilma when she first started nursing, back in 1950. “It was so special and so surprising,” says Sandra. “Thad been looking for a long time, they are really hard to find. It wasn’t anything special in their day because Please turn to page 4 524i 8:47:44 AM