The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Ma at ke A GANS i 500 IIE, "A Family Tradition for 132 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 8, 1999 - 7 | Week... i question of the week? @he Pod Povey Shay Question of the The township's Birdseye Pool HER has been closed, isn't li «ye © Shera and sn thikely Janette Gadanidis Deanna Grove | Ba uild municipal I'm not sure why they're Yes, they should have ity a new pool' not rebuilding the old another pool. It's a Do you have a suggestion that you think would make a good Call us at 905-985-7383. one. Kids need a place to go in the summer. People can't complain if kids have no where to go. The town needs something. shame that the kids won't have a pool this year, and its not as if they can swim in Lake Scugog. Ken Parker For sure. There's all kinds. of kids who used it for swim- ming lessons and there was a long waiting list to get in there. Uxbridge will now be the closest community pool. Albert Putsey They have the water (Lake Scugog) here, but sometimes it gets pollut- ed. People need a place to swim. Susan Dutton Yes and no... My grand- son has to go to Uxbridge to swim now, so it would be convenient to have one here. But, I don't think it iS a necessity. LETTERS All our teachers deserve an ovation To the Editor: After the recent music awards banquet held at Port Perry High School, a parent and teacher dropped into my home and commented on the standing ovation the music teachers received from the parents. As it was outlined to me in a recent conver- sation, the music program is not an extracurric- ular activity; it is considered by the music teachers to be part of their regular program. The music teachers, as good as they are and as great as the program is, should no more be rec- ognized than the English teacher who prepares lessons and individually marks 95 papers every four or five days. I believe that the teachers at Port Perry High School recognize that all teachers are equally involved in the education of our children. All staff at the school deserve our standing ova- tion for excellence during challenging times. : Mike Steele Port Perry To the Editor: The strategy of strategic voting was a dis- aster. It taught them a good lesson in human nature in our political environment. Mike Harris was again elected democrati- cally to run this province of Ontario, instead of union bosses. Their main goals were to cause chaos and anarchy with their days of actions by trying to derail our democratically elected government from day one and to try and change public opinions. They blamed Strategic voting scheme was a real disaster Premier Harris for everything under the sun. However, union bosses can always become candidates and run in the next élection in the year 2004, like Sid Ryan did in 1999, and was clobbered. Let Premier Harris continue to do his job, as he is a very capable leader as was again demonstrated during our recent provin- cial election. Until then, give it a break. Herman van der Veen, Oshawa Remember When? o pro ae fT +, Fi x E ab SCUGOG ISLAND 'FOOT' SCHOOL 1928 - Students from back left, Ray Fralick, Percy Jeffrey, Audrey Good, Margaret Crozier, Viola Cherry, Clara Hardy, Jean Hood, Lillian Fralick and teacher Miss Winnifred Niddery. Front left, Gordon Hood, Earl Clark, Russell Fines, Lesley Leighton, Douglas Crozier, Joy Hood, Myrtle Wray, Marie Hood and Everett Wray. PHOTO COURTESY MARIE (HOOD) MORTON Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell STOP! YOU'RE IN PORT PERRY As heir to the largest stop sign manufacturing concern in the country, | must say it's a pleasure being in Port Perry. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing one's investments at work, and here, all | have to do is step outside to set the cash registers clanking and ringing in my head. Why, just now, on my way to get some drive-through coffee, | saw my personal wealth increase again. Damned if there aren't more stops signs on Queen St. And look: Here comes our municipal affairs reporter to file a story about how Scugog Township is ordering more stop signs. There is such urgency for these ones, he informs me, that they'll be installed before the enabling bylaw has been passed. Cha-ching! It's nice to know, too, that while my bed is being feathered, my pockets lined, my palm crossed, that the personal safety of every man, woman and child, motorist, pedestrian, cyclist, dog walker and even drunken crawler (Crawling home from the pub? Make sure you go through Prince Albert... they should have the new stop signs up by the time you get there) who shall henceforth traverse these fair streets is being seen too, as well. Safety, after all, is Our First Priority, or so reads the motto on the company letterhead, or words to that effect. Everyone knows that traffic flowing unimpeded is certain death for us all. Interruption is Our Business, | think the motto is. Or something like that. So word is that the signs will work well in Cadmus, too. Now, if ever there was a convergence of thoroughfares crying out for a four-way stop (We need these signs now, dammit! Stop the madness! Oh, the humanity!), it's the four corners in Cadmus. Combine that with the Road Watch program, and chances are nobody will ever bother driving, ever again. They'll just leave their cars in the driveway and walk. Stop Before Something Gets Started, | believe the saying goes. Before long, traffic in this town will resemble the drive- through at Tim Horton's. You won't be able to tell Highway 7A from the Canadian Tire parking lot. Safe? You talk about safe: Since the four-way stop was installed at Queen and Water Streets, there hasn't been an accident, according to council. Which is akin to Air Canada boasting that they've not lost an aircraft for almost four years. Well! We can all just cancel our auto insurance, and our OHIP as well, eh? And Queen and Perry? While it's true that every other motorist continues to breeze through the new stop signs, they're doing so safely.Why, in a few weeks, we will have ham- mered into the hardest of heads that stopping is mandatory, and it's for everyone's own good. So thanks for your patronage, folks. Scugog is definitely on the corporate Christmas card list now, and forever. Stop Signs Unlimited: Stopping You In Your Tracks for Five Generations, as we like to say. Or something like that.