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6- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, March 24, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" HN :89 Sous w 188 MARY STREET - PORT PERRY, ONT. - L9L 1B7 PHONE (905) 985-7383 FAX (905) 985-3708 Member of the Canadian & Ontario Newspaper Assoc. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd. - BUSINESS OFFICE Office Mgr. ................... ..... Gayla Stapley Accounting....... Judy Ashby, Janet Rankin Retail Sales......Kathy Dudley, The Pont Perry Star is authorized as second class mail by the EDITORIAL: Heather Callan Post Office J nl crizs for cash payment gute Bind Publisher................. J. Peter Hvidsten ADVERTISING Second Class Mail Registration 0265 General Manager ....Don Macleod PRODUCTION Advertising Mgr. .......... Don Macleod Subscription Rates: Managing Editor..... Jeff Mitchell Trudy Empringham, Sales: Deb McEachern, Barb Hillier, \L 1 Year - $32.10 6 Months - $17.65 Foreign - $90.95 News Reporters .....Chris Hall, Rhonda Mulcahy, Pam Hickey, Ginni Todd, Cindy Jobin, Gail Morse, cED En Includes $2.10 GST Includes $1.15 GST Includes $5.95 GST ~~ Freelance - Heather McCrae, John B. McClelland Robert Taylor, Richard Drew Deborah Tiffin 188 Mary Street - Port Perry, Ont. Editorial Comment LITTLE BO-PEEP HAS LOST HER SHEEP! Funding for a broken promise The long-awaited funding formula for Ontario's schools is due out tomorrow and, from early indications, it will be geared toward shaving administrative costs, and investing in the classroom. Local pundits -- including the local MPP, a Tory -- say that's good news for the public board in Durham, where real efforts have been made to trim bureaucracy, and make efficient use of shrinking grants and costly: tax dollars. Let's hope so. And let's also hope the new formula provides a guideline for those boards elsewhere which remain top-heavy, and in need of reminding that their primary = function is to educate, not decorate. This formula is also a chance for the gov- ernment to make good on a broken promise: 3 NAA «ADS 0 LAOS = oLVE BEEN A VEEN SN \_VERY BAD BOY! 0) (7) ( _h a) AD Or, INNS GNS ag IR \ NAN pooh PorT PERRY STAR That's the one they made when they pledged that their cuts and revisions would not have an effect on the classroom. It was a blithe remark, which may not even have been made in earnest. And it showed the round of deep cuts that followed to be cynical and heavy-handed. It's too bad the Tories took so long to supply the boards with the numbers, but it's a complex system, no doubt. Boards such py as those in Durham will now be working The | toward next year's budgets with, at last, real numbers. Let's hope the province isn't going to short-change education again. To the Editor: [ am concerned about all this talk in the press: "We need to do something about youth crime. We need to get tougher with young offenders." I have been thinking about this issue for some time. I think that instead of getting tough on youth crime, it might be very useful to give youth living wage employment and a life to look forward to. As plants close, workplaces privatize and employers only want to hire contract staff, the next generation is being denied what so many of us took for granted: living wage jobs Living wage could reduce youth crime with benefits. We need a living wage job strat- egy. [ have worked for 20 years and, a short time ago, I witnessed something I have never seen before: a contract worker in my workplace had a toothache, and did not have the money to go to the dentist. I believe that in Ontario it is not impossible to expect, and ensure, the next generation has access to living wage employment with benefits. Maybe it would not be necessary to get tough on youth crime if we did. Joan Gates, Oshawa 55 YEARS AGO David Bourgeois was presented the James Remember When? 25 YEARS AGO - MARCH 1973 March 18, 1943 Gunner Fred Colbear was transferred from the 11th Army Tank Battalion to the 30th Battery Artillery with his brother Gunner Leonard Colbear. Pilot officer Bruce Beare, R.C.A.F. of Claresholm, Alberta is at home on leave. 45 YEARS AGO March 20, 1953 Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Atkinson and their nine children were left homeless when fire destroyed their home in Saintfield. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Griffen and Mr. and Mrs Don Crozier just returned from their Florida vacation. Miss Jesse McArthur agreed to send back her observations of the Coronation in Britain. 40 YEARS AGO March 20, 1958 Former Port Perry High School student Earle Dobson, was elected President of the Students' Council at MacDonald College, Quebec 30 YEARS AGO March 21, 1968 A three alarm fire on March 15 destroyed the living quarters of the San-Man Motel at Manchester and damaged the remaining units. Mr. Ben Bohan, the new administrator at Community Memorial Hospital commenced duties. » Fis I TRE Al The Reesor Fuel and Lumber Company buildings, located at the corner of Water St. and 7A Hwy. was torn down in October 1973 to make way for Lakeview Plaza which was built on the site. Sak es Irvine Memorial Trophy when the Beare Motors Bantams won the OMHA Lakeshore Championship. Janet Reader received the highest marks in Piano Class 4, at the music festival in Sunderland. 20 YEARS AGO March 15, 1978 Van Edward Investments of Port Perry expect to sign an agreement with the township for devel- opment of 43 lots for single family housing on a parcel of land west of the bowling alley, with access through Apple Valley subdivision. Cub leader Paul Saulnier received from Governor General Jules Leger, the Queen Jubilee medal for devoted service to the organization. 10 YEARS AGO March 15, 1988 Port Perry MoJacks swept four games against the Lakefield Chiefs to win the division title. Pam Ellis of Seagrave filed complaints against Central Seven Association alleging wrongful dis- missal from her job as a residential counselor. Diary farmer Brad Howsam of Els Rock Holstein Farm at Greenbank was named the first winner of the Lloyd Wilson Memorial Award. George Timms and Grant Noble returned from Mason City, lowa where they completed a course at the World Wide College of Auctioneering.