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A TT TI Thi eae wy », ov "A Family Tradition for 128 Years" - bas RAM ua PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, December 13, 1994 - 7 The Port Perry Star (CTD) EAL or voiktan BLUE RIBBON AWARD 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO LoL 187 PHONE (905).985-7383 FAX 985-3708 The Port Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, for cash payment of postage. 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Port Perry, Ontario CCNA 4 VERIFIED CIRCULATIO I ETTERS Board defends pornographic' book To the Editor: I hope no parent is planning in the near future to ask for the removal of a book from the Northumberland-Clarington Board of Education's list of rec- ommended texts. Once the school board has ap- proved a book for their curricu- lum list it is literally fixed in ce- ment and it is absolutely futile to ask for it to be removed. This became painfully obvious to me as I sat in on a meeting held at the board office and watched just how little influence a per- son launching an appeal has. The meeting was held a few days ago, on Nov. 23. The text book under review was Timothy Findley's "The Wars." The person asking for the book's removal from the board's list was a parent. The individu- als deciding whether the book stays or goes was a committee made up of the school board's Superintendent of Program (re- sponsible for curriculum), two school board trustees, the board's chairperson of the Eng- lish Subject Council, and one other person who is selected by the preceding four board peo- ple. Now, you tell me how an indi- vidual has a hope of getting a book off the board's list of rec- ommended texts when the judge and jury deciding such a case is the board itself. Of course, it was not at all surpris- ing when this review committee ruled unanimously in favor of keeping the book on the school board's list of recommended texts. They were just agreeing with the decision their organi- zation had made in the first place. And just what kind of book were they saying yes to? They were saying we will continue to buy with taxpayer's dollars and put in the hands of their sons Information imperative From page 6 or drug addict can appear to be quite healthy at birth. It is often not until he reaches school that it is realized that the child is more than just a little slow at meeting the developmental milestones. These birth defects are 100 per cent preventable. Alcohol is the primary cause of mental re- tardation. It is also excruciat- ingly expensive as the patient is usually going to spend his/her life unable to hold down a job, possibly even in prison. Children's Aid is now report- ing that there are many pros- pective adopters who will not consider a child unless they can be assured of the child's mental of our most needy children are being passed from 'pone foster home to another. ere are many adopters who would take on the challenge of an FAS child if they could be assured of a proper diagnosis and appropri- ate support from social services. Without Bill 158 we are not caring properly for very needy children. Please let your MPP know that you see a clear need for the province to pass this leg- islation. Marian Cook, Community Outreach Co-ordinator, Motherisk Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Blackstock Resident heals The result is that many ei" { and daughters, a book that por- trays in vivid detail explicit, dé? viant pornographic scenes, a book that is consumed with the theme of death and violence and a book that takes the reader's mind on a roller coaster ride turning his or her values upside down so that by the end of the book right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right. I hope, parents, you realize that your son and daughter who is studying to get his or her O.A.C. level credits will have their minds dragged through such horrible scenes as whore house sex, a group of men gang raping a man, and sex with beatings. In fact, there are no positive sexual encounters por- trayed in this book at all. Once these images are impressed on your sons and daughters minds, how do you erase them? Individuals defending the book use the word censorship. But this has absolutely nothing to do with censorship and every- thing to do with responsible pa- renting and responsible educat- ing. If a person wants to go to a library or book store and get the book there, they are completely free todo so. As the parent of a son who is entering high school next year I believe in the responsible moni- toring of what he watches on T.V. and what he reads. I do turn the television off when something is too violent. No one in their right mind would call- that censorship; they would say that is responsible parenting. Last Wednesday a parent cried out against the school board's commitment to put erot- ic material in their children's hands, and the school board ig- nored her. I have one question: Who gave the school board the au- thority to put pornographic ma- terial into our schools in the first place? I'm quite sure it was not the parents! Judy Hilsden, Courtice Thursday, December 15, 1949 The car donation by Mr. Harold Archer to raise money for the recreation centre in Port Perry was drawn at a special event at the high school. An Oshawa man, Mr. Steve Reminik was the winner. Mr. Art Bruton was Master of Ceremonies for the evening. Mrs. Fred Ballard was elected president of the Utica Womens Association with Mrs. George Mitchell as vice president. A very impressive Vesper service was held in the United Church by the C.G.I.T. girls, under the leadership of Miss Joblin. Mrs. Walter Brown picked pansies in her garden on December 12, 1949. A district ski social was held at Skyloft Lodge. It was hoped that a district committee could be organized to consider the possibility to hold a district ski meet that winter. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 17, 1959 The Lions Club held their annual Christmas party and Ladies Night at the Flamingo Restaurant, and all enjoyed a turkey dinner provided by J. J. Gibson. Mr. John Wilde was engaged as the skating club professional to teach the skaters. The Women's Hospital Auxiliary netted over $500 with the Doll Draw. The profit was approximately $350. ' At the Ontario Crop and Soil Association meeting, a scholarship award was made to Lloyd Wilson, the high judge in the Ontario County annual seed judging competition and Mr. Keith Bacon was chosen to represent Ontario County at the Juhior Farmers land use tour in August. Mrs. Murray Holtby was elected president of Prospect UCW. 20 YEARS AGO . Wednesday, December 18, 1974 Three original Jimmy Frise drawings were purchased by th Scugog Shores Museum for the sum of $500 from Mr. Ed Goss, who had known the artist as a young lad working as a copy boy for the Toronto Star. Mr. Goss had advertised the drawings for sale to the highest bidder, but when he found out they would go into a museum in the area Frise had lived as a young man, he accepted the lower museum bid and presented them to Mr. Al Bertrand. The business section of Port Perry was without water for about 12 hours after a water valve in the area was flooded because of the leak. Mrs. Margaret Wilbur was elected president of the Ontario New Democratic Party Association at their annual general meeting. This is her third term as president of the local association. 10 YEARS AGO Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Residents were warned of a fox in the area which was believed to be rabid. : Water and sewage rates were going up by five per cent by 1985. After much community concern, residents were told excavated material from a west Toronto train yard, that was being used for "cover" for the Scugog landfill site was safe. A task force gathered to discuss possible solutions to the weeds in Lake Scugog, but the answers were not easy to come by. Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell WHEN SANTA RUNS AMOK WHY'S SANTA VOMITING? ...Disturbing news this week from Merry Olde England, where there's a report of a department store Santa who became so plastered while on the job that he pitched from his chair and fell through a window. Santa apparently downed about a case and a half of red wine during the course of a day of bouncing adoring tots on his knee, under the assumption it would make him particularly jolly and provide the proper blush to his cheeks. Only problem is, the grape got the best of him. Horrified children and their parents looked on as a stricken Santa lurched from his chair, scattering helpful elves, and proceeded to crash through a plate glass window. The drunken Santa was unhurt and, remark- ably, not unemployed. "My employer was very understanding about it," he said when he was back in the saddle the next day. And a smelly, hung-over Santa he must have been, too. Eeesh. No Billy, not that Santa, let's check out the one in the department store across the street. Trust me... SPEAKING OF WHICH... That reminds me, kind of, of the Christmas dinner when I was seven or eight and we were all at Grandma's house, cozy and warm and happy. My father and grandfather spent the afternoon tippling in the workshop, something of a misnomer because it seems very little work ever occurred there, just -- tippling. Around 6 o'clock when the turkey was extracted steaming away from the oven, young Jeffrey was dispatched to fetch the men. I trudged through the chilly darkness, no doubt snug in my new boots or clutching my new down jacket around me, or something, to the shop, where I pushed through the door and into the stunning heat pumped out by the woodstove. There I found the two of them, my grandfather and my father, sound asleep, sprawled in lawn chairs with heads tilted back and snoring like bears in hibernation. Try as I might I couldn't wake them, even after I manged to pour my grandfather out of his chair and onto the floor of the shop. So I left them there and we commenced to have dinner without them. Eventually both of them came to the house, shi- vering from the cold they'd sustained after the fire went out, and a little bit sheepish too. The lesson? ...Avoid Five Star whisky and wood stoves, and you should be all right. A CALL TO ARMS: Rumor has it that the sup- ply of Sleeman's at a local pub will be drying up as the management tries some "new" product from one of the major breweries. This is outlandish. All faithful brew fans should descend on this place -- it's on Water St. -- and have a word with the guy who runs the joint. No Sleeman's? Say it ain't so! Maybe a petition will help. Maybe we should gather there and belch loudly until some kind of compromise 1s reached. Maybe we should get a life... I don't know. Ll I EE TE I vu DE