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E SS - Editorial Topics Fine Community Effort Most smail towns and villages are real beehives of act- ivity during the year and certainty Port Perry with ail its clubs, church and other organizations keep most of the residents busy throughout most of the year. group' deserves @ great deal of credit for the tremendous effort made in establishing one of interesting small museums in a limited space of During two short summer months over 1,300 attend- ed and enjoyed the various displays in the Museum, in- We also like to pay tribute to those dedicated people who made the Museum's Craft Centre possible. About 200 persons participated in various arts and crafts during the summer, an assurance that it will be repeated next While on a complimentary note, an active organization in this community, Port Perry Branch 419, Royal Canad- ian Legion, made a fine contribution recently. We are referring to the new Cenotaph erected in front of the The monument is a fine tribu those their lives on the battlefields and the service was con- 8 8 We hope the Star readers won't think us to boastful, but we intend to also take this opportunity of "blowing our own horn". On the 19th of September the present owners of the Star can look back on seven years of hard work and a geat deal of enjoyment publishing your local news- Paper. We like to believe we have contributed something worthwhile to this community during these seven years. If the growth of the paper is an indication, we must have at least to some extent accomplished what we intended to do. During this seven year period, the circulation of the Star has increased from 1,100 to well over 2,700. We have certainly enjoyed publishing the Star,.and hope to do so for many years to come. With the con- tinued assistance from a loyal and efficient staff and dedicated country correspondents we shall endevour to keep on improving your weekly newspaper in the 4a PORT PERRY STAR | Authorised as second clam mail by the Post Office $ Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Clase Mail Registration Number 0768 ed Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., - L---- | Solp on He MIDI Bill Smiley PARENTS OF THE WORLD, REJOICE! Going back to school could be a traumatic experience, but it isn't. It's sad to see the summer go, and all those things you were going to do not done. But there's a cer- tain excitement as we step into Septem- ber, surely the finest month of the year in this country. It is certainly not a sad occasion for mothers of young children. Most of them héave a sigh of relief, right down to their sandals, at the thought of school opening. Children are wonderful creatures. But, like booze, they should be taken in small doses. In summer, they are constantly wanting to eat, do something dangerous, or fight with their brothers and sisters. A young mother's nerves are tough, but can be stretched only so far. 4 Even more grateful for our educational system are the parents of all those teen- agers who didn't have a job this summer. Most of them, even those who complain bitterly about high education taxes, could kiss the minister of education on both cheeks. For, despite all the wonderful things to do in summer, there is nothing more bored than a teenager of either sex, just hanging around home. I can't blame them much. I get bored silly myself, just hanging around home. And adolescence makes it even more frus- trating, because the body is full of beans, not meant for sitting in a lawnchair, read. ing a book. But the pattern goes something like this, Sleep till noon or later. Get up after the lunch dishes are done and make a sham bles of the kitchen preparing a messy hamburger. Leave the mess for Mom. Demand why there isn't a clean shirt. Slouch to the streets or the park, or hitch. hike to the beach. Sit around and rap with a gang of other bored teenagers. 1f dinner is at six, be sure te get home ugar and Spice \ LPEPESIILIS, AOI LL APSF IEA ITED IP PSF ADL LOL ABA S S)MALLTIE STE With exceptions, this is how it' goes. It's demoralizing for all parties. And it's one reason even teenagers are glad to get "ck to school and their parents are not giad, but ecstatic. Then there's the business of clothes for school. Little kids are sent off clean and shining, in fairly conventional apparel Big kids battle every inch of the way. Big boys aren't so bad, though even they are showing peacock tendencies. It's the big girls who cause the trouble. After a summer in shorts and jeans, sweatshirt and bare feet, they are exceed ing loath to don dresses and skirts and shoes. So they do the next best thing-- buckskin jacket, a prayer shawl, a micro or maxi skirt ,a see-through blouse of them are glad to get back They're broke, or they're sick ling around with their families, or they want to see what kind of rotten timetable I know one who'll be glad to get back, for all the reasons mentioned above. Lion's Club by District Gov- ernor Lion Charles Carter, Bowmanville at the regular meeting. A new service for the High School students has been in- augurated this year -- a bus is in operation for the pupils living around Seagrave and the Greenbank area. Between twenty and twenty-five pupils are taking advantage of this. Thursday, Sept. 15, 1955 Little Misses Sonja and Sandra Enge, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Enge, were the winners of their calss in the Baby Contest at Toron- to Exhibition. Brooklin Stevenson Motors captured the Lawson Clifford Trophy and the championship of South Ontario County Softball League at their home