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"A Family Tradition for 132 Years" pas PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 27, 1999 - 7 The Poct Perey Stax Question of the Week... How have the recent price | MiB 4 1 hikes at the gas pumps affect- ed you? Should, or can, a level | of government step in and regulate the industry? Do you have a suggestion that you think would make a good question of the week? Call us at 905-985-7383. Ron Cochrane It's a discrimination 'against the people. They get to do whatever they want whenever they want and the government lets them get away with it while we suffer. Linda Barreca [ haven't bought gas in about two weeks because of the prices. I'll walk if | can. The government should regulate the gas industry; this is getting ridiculous. Heather Harlow [ certainly do think the government should do something. This is the time of the year when people go on holidays and use lots of gas and they hike it for that reason. Dan Cervini I's terrible. The govern- ment should regulate because the prices are so high right now. They may have a commission look- ing into it, but obviously that's not working. Susan Holmes I'm not very happy; I'm a bit ticked off with the prices constantly going up all the time. I wish the government would step in and do something. LETTERS OP will have negative effect on jobs To the Editor: The way we plan the use of 6ur land in the Scugog Official Plan has a strong bearing on the creation of jobs. We are obliged to create as many jobs as possible for local people including our youth. The proposed official plan has an objective of no increase in employment in the rural area of Scugog in the next 25 years. This is a wasted opportunity in a much needed sector - - jobs. The report of the planner states "The Agricultural/Aggregate Employment Sector will decline in significance" and remain at 450 jobs" over the next 25 years. Those thou- sands of acres must produce jobs. In the town of Port Perry all the home building will be in the control of five large companies. Past experience shows large devel- opments do not provide many jobs for our local contractors or for local people. If the land use planning is left in this state one of the biggest job producers - that of hous- ing - will be left in the control of five companies for the next 25 years. This will create very few jobs for Scugog people. This is one of the many reasons I have objected to the entire "Scugog Official Land Use Plan" and I ask Scugog Council to recon- sider the plan before committing thousands of tax dollars in an attempt to justify this monop- olistic land control. It must be remembered - the majority of this council were not on council when this plan was approved. & Doug Wilson, Port Perry You can contact the editor by e-mail: port.perry.star @ sympatico.ca ] (Colbear) J Construction started. on » Birdseye Pool, Port Perry in August 1939 and this photo shows kids enjoying the facility the next summer, including Peggy Turner (front right), Margaret ib dy (centre with x on shoulder), and over her left shoulder, Marie' pool was inal closed d by the township in the spring of 1999. nsham. The Photo courtesy Marg. Jeffrey. Editor's Notepad by Jeff Mitchell A WONDERFUL WASTE OF TIME Oh, to be a kid again, and while away the endless summer. Just to wake in the morning and lie there for a time, wondering what to fill the day with. To live without any concept of time or responsibility. | We're envious of them, aren't we? We come home damp and wasted after another day of toiling through the heat and find them, sun-browned and happy, with the fringes of their hair wet from their latest dip in the lake, the pool, or under the garden hose, and just want to be them. Why, just the other day, | watched a boy fill an afternoon by a Repeatedly tossing an old Star Wars character rubber mask (C-3PO, actually) onto the roof, then climbing up a ladder to rescue it, like a firefighter retrieving shrieking victims from a burning building; a Mucking about in the sand box with a tablespoon, three round, smooth rocks and a bucket of water; a Crawling far under the porch to lie in the shade with the dog, then painfully extracting himself by crawling in reverse, dusting off his irretrievably dirty shirt, then crawling back again; a Whacking a worn-out Gris ball with an old 3 wood | dis- carded years ago; \ a Wandering to the end of the driveway to watch the trash go into the garbage truck, then waving good-bye to the crew as they drove off; a Fetching two empty beer cans, a Gatorade container and a plastic coke bottle, setting them up in some sort of pattern, and bowling them over with a soft ball; ~ a Going into the little tent his sister set up, then coming out. Then going in, then coming out. Then going in, and coming out. Etc. o Poking the cat each time she fell into a slumber on a cushioned chair, and o Crawling in and out of the dog house, for no apparent reason at all. None of these activities were of any consequence whatso- "ever. Nothing was accomplished; when all was said and done, there was no sign any of it had occurred, except for the ladder leaning against the house and a cat dozing grumpily with one eye open. But what a blissful waste of three hours. hats ny right now, I'm seriously thinking about going over the'Canadian Tire, buying an inflatable wading pool, and taking it home a filling it up so | can waste all afternoon lolling in it tomorrow, rather than changing the oil in my car, cutting the grass, and fetching that damned C-3PO mask off the roof. And while I'm at it, | think | just might price hammocks, too...