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-- Ba Ch RE PAT ER etre Ct i ASN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 of now completed and should be a decided asset to the exhibitors in this class. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 24, 1967 Two local livestock breeders, N. D. Hogg and Son of Brookdale and Malcolm Bailey of Epsom, made excellent showings at the Peterborough Exhibition. Each had grand champions. . Ontario County Junior Farmers won second place at the Quinte District Field Day held in Peterborough recently. Dianne Wallace, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Wallace of Cochrane Street, Port Perry, was the recipient of an Ontario Scholar certificate having obtained an 83.2 per cent average. Mrs. W. E. MacGregor and Mrs. W. H, Ploss of Toronto have arrived home after an enjoyable cruise and holiday in Bermuda. On their return trip the ladies also toured to Gaspe Bay and attended Expo '67. 20 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 23, 1972 Port Perry Lions Club are gearing up for a Newspaper Bingo game which will appear in the Port Perry Star. Recording artist Diane Leigh entertained at the Port Perry Arena during Western Weekend Activities to a crowd of more than 1,000 people. Two young ladies from near Manchester, England were recent visitors to Canada as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Jackson, Port Perry. Congratulations were extended to Mr. George Barthau who has received a certificate and provincial medal for his long service with the Toronto Fire Department. Mr. Barthau, now a resident of Port Perry, spent 31 years with the department in Toronto. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, August 24, 1982 #4 . PEE BEBE = 20 2 I J PEPIN TC I SCRE "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" | » Eh KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR Ron Perrier, left, organizer of the Lake Scugog Charitable Poker Run turned over a cheque this week to the Scugog Anglers Association. Accepting the cheque are Greg St. John, centre, president of the Anglers Association and vice-president Dale Irvin. The poker run which was held Aug. 15 on Lake Scugog raised $1,100. The money was donated to the Association to aid it in its clean-up and preservation of Lake Scugog. Letters to the editor Plans underway for poker run A fire of unknown origin destroyed an old barn on an apparently To the Editor: ~~ with a prize and all want to mittee people that made the vacant farm near View Lake. Caesarea Fire Department was on the On August 15-the partici- come back for a poker run in poker run such a success. Last scene for about five hours. 2 pants of the Lake Scugog Chari- 1993. but not least we would like to Anne Manns of Port Perry was pleasantly/surprised when she was selected Woman of the Week on the Big Jirh Marshall show at radio station CFGM in Toronto. She was nominated by her daughter Mary VanKessel. Mrs. Manns received flowers, dinner for two, a letter of congratulations and a tape of the original announcement. After a year-long battle, the Toronto-Peterborough-Havelock Passenger Association has admitted defeat and has said-there is no way the train service can be saved. The association had hoped to operate the service after VIA discontinues it on Sept. 7. table Poker Run enjoyed excel- lent weather all day. Forty-nine of the 50 boats completed the course. All participants had a good time and went home with full stomachs. The winning hand was three queens and two nines, which was owned by John Moore from Port Perry Marina. For most of A raffle was held for a three- day pass for two on the finish line of the 1993 Molson Indy. Louie Eno of Port Perry Yacht Club won the tickets. We would like to thank all the sponsors that were mentioned before as well as new sponsor Canadian Custom Yacht for its generous donations and we thank all the participants who attended. In total $1,100 was donated to the Lake Scugog Anglers Asso- ciation to help them with the problems of getting Lake Scu- gog cleaned up and better for fishing and swiming for all. We are looking forward to the 1993 poker run and plans are the day three threes and two hope next year will be even underway fornextyear. STONEMOOR DAY CARE CENTRES INC. nines was the hand to beat. more successful. / Sincerely, 399 Queen Street, Port Perry Everything went according to We would also like to thank Ron and Lin Perrier, Offers a 3 plans and everyone went home all the volunteers and the com- Organizers "Child Enrichment Programme" for children 18 months to 5 years. Full time and part time available. Ilours 6:30 am to 6:00 pm For further information call 985-0800 Capacity efficiency for fast harvesting When it comes to harvesting, you.can't beat the heavy-duty performance that's built into the New Holland Model 790 forage harvester. Performance starts at the cutterhead. The 19" ¢-inch wide, 12-knife cutterhead delivers a fine uniform chop that's just right for most silage feeding operations. And an electric clutch gives instant response and positive control on the reversing gearbox. The Model 790 is avail- able with either a 540-rpm or a 1000-rpm PTO drive. Stop in today and trade for the performance leader in harvesters--the '790" from Ford New Holland. PRR EEE ER RY > "No way, Free Trade," reader says To the Editor: WAKE UP CANADA! The federal government has Just given our country away to Un- cle Sam at better than bargain- basement prices. Mulroney and friends ask not what they can do for their country, but what they can do for Uncle Sam - and JUMP, they do! While suffering the highest unemployment since the first depression, our leaders calmly tell us that "some jobs will be lost in the transition period." Granted, this is more than was acknowledged in the signing of the 1988 Free Trade Agree- ment. More importantly, the record has proven that this gov- ernment does not provide assis- tance to Canadians in making the transition. Since 1988, the government has decreased investment in re- search and development, as well as support to post- secondary institutions. If we are to retrain workers and edu- cate young people for jobs in the new market environment, does it make sense to cut funding to these programs? George Bush will have unbri- dled access to Canada's resourc- es and ultimately be at the helm of our economic destiny. Per- haps Mulroney and company's decision to not invest in retrain- ing and education is, indeed, unnecessary in Bush's New World Order. Bush's vision is now coming into focus. There will be a three- tiered economic structure in Canada. The unemployed will be the New World hunters and - gatherers, the employed will be hewers of wood, carriers of wa- ter and miners of ore (for Uncle Sam), and the rich will be; win- tering in Flonda, summering in the Gatineaus. And, our children? They will be born with labels: "Made in Canada. Owned, Controlled and To Serve the United States of America." NAFTA, eh! NO WAY!!! Sincerely, Helen MacDonald, Newtonville, Ont. Reader delivers a blow to Canada Post's surveys To the Editor: The day before the recent an- nouncement by the Supreme Court of Canada of its refusal to hear an appeal from rural com- munities seeking the re- opening of their post offices, Canada Post released yet an- other of its miraculously timed customer surveys. Since these surveys (done every couple of years) are the sole defence Can- ada Post and the Minister Re- sponsible, the Hon. Harvie An- dre, offer for their unpopular closure/privatization program, they warrant scrutiny. Canada Post is unwilling to release the names of the 27 com- munities where the interviews were conducted outside busi- nesses operating retail postal outlets. So it is impossible to do the basic checking that in 1990, for example, revealed one of the places supposedly contented with their "r.p.o." not even to have had one at the time ot the survey (Napinka, Mb.). It is un- likely any of the at least 240 towns left without any retail postal service (by Canada Post's admission) after the post office was shut down or the private outlet contract was cancelled, were included in the survey. As Ethel Baird, of Gadsby, Ab. said to a Calgary Hearld report- er, "They should have asked us. [ would say 99 per cent here would have said it's the most horrible thing there was." Since the closure of her post office in 1988, Mrs. Baird, like hundreds of other disserviced and dissat- isfied Canadians, must travel 25 km. for retail postal services. What does not appear in Can- ada Post's survey results is that the great majority of rural Ca- nadians were 100 per cent satis- fied with the post offices that had served them well for dec- ades until closed by the crown corporation. 3 MORROW FARM EQUIPMENT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR fa sirveys aeclesveous the [2 \ Over 45 years in the business The Port Perry Star encourages our readers to make use of the ac no ppl standards FORD NEW HOLLAND - Versatile letters to the editor column to express their opinions and viewpoints on exist for mail travelling be- \@ y/ . Sigel Gavi just about any subject, as we feel a lively letters column helps make a tween two rural points, or be- None? Farm + Industrial + Lawn & Garden wi oi better community newspaper. We insist, however, that all letter writers tween a rural point and an ur- ou camentind SUNDERLAND (705) 357-31 sign their name. Sorry, no anonymous letter will be printed. 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