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4 meets 8 p.m. at Simcoe ; Club meeting, 8 p.m, 18 Tuesday | TENNIS MEETING | Port Perry Tennis 19 Weslnasdan BRIDGE Scugog Duplicate Bridge, Prince Albert Community Centre, | and Emiel's Place, back Hall Seulement House, 387 Simcoe St. S., for cof- fee, cards and conversa- uon. Call 986-5707 or CHURCH New Apostolic Church 180 Mary St. (2nd floor), 10:30 am. Call 985-4594 WILD LIFE HIKE Join staff from the Kawartha Region Conservation Authority for a hike, 1 p.m , through the Ken Reid Conservation Arca to denufy animal signs and leam how animals adapt to the cold, snowy conditions Of winter. For more informauon, call 887-3112 SKATING CANCELLED Public skaung at Scugog Arcna cancelled Feb 23 due to hockey play-off (20 The come Hospr 'An E has been declared 'Hean & |] Stroke' month. Please wel- calls on you! 985-7321. Crizens' Communiry CALENDAR -- FEB. 18 TO 29 : Te -- Thvarsday 2 sont ; HEART MONTH RIDE-IN BREAKFAST g e month of February | Attention snowmobilers! The Cartwright Dynos Snowmobile club |i. the canvasser who PARISINTHE || SPRING! & Tickets $100 for 3624 or June at 985-2544. Community Memorial }3] tal's fundraising gala, |° vening in Pans'. Call | J hosts a ride-in breakfast, 9 am. 10 noon, at the Orange Hall, Shirley Rd. | Gord Mills, MPP, constituency clinic, 1 to 4 p.m. Church of the Ascension. Call 10 book appointment -- 1-800-661-2433 Make a quilt in a pillow or a full-size wp io one day. Call Mary at 985- Golf on ice! 910 11 a.m. Speed skate, | 10 2 p.m. FRANCOPHONE SOCIAL CLUB a The Francophone Social Club goes bowling at Centennial Lanes, 2 \\" m. Call Suzanne at 985-9907. MEET MPP WORKSHOP ICE PALACE J February i is Heart rY Stroke Month give generously! | 24 Monday 25 Tuesday 28 Friday (29 Saturday MEETING GRE PARENT HELP! ) EVENING IN PARIS The monthly Osthwa Chapter One Bay neers are Hos a Fo Memon! meeting of the Parent Family Association for oe pent Tening in Panis, 6 pm. at Durham Federal meets at 8 pm. a Simcoe Blood L 1d March 5 Blackstock Recroaio Liberal Associaton Hall Settlement Houle, to be held March {4 Centre. Semi-formal. $100 will be held a1 7:30 || 387 Simcoe StS Oshawa ho pon Bower || er person Live & silent auc pm + at 400 pf) Guest speaker Sandra au 085-8764 von, live entertainment, danc Bigelow St. Port Sweet will attend For ing. dinner fabulous door Perry All associa more informauon, call a. . won members wel- 986-5707 or 728-1011 mre me social event of oo Come Memberships R wa For uckets call 98 available before the : mecung 57] JL J -- «J o The GALLEY FISH & SEAFOOD 9850516 161 Queen St.. Port Perry 985-8647 SPECIALS Breaklast Specia "502 FILET ORANGE ROUGHY or SOLE Grilled or Deep Fried * STUFFED FILET of SOLE Stufled with Shrimp 8 Garkic or Crab 8 Scallop Served with Chips or Baked Potato, WOODTECH - QUARE BOY. PIZZA & SUBS 80 WATER ST, PORT PERRY "6448 | 0 2 + AM to 11 AM Mon. to Fri pc Meo lo) Changing our attitudes about automobiles Every ume | go for a walk around my ncigh bourhood, | see evidence of two pressing envy ronmental problems On garbage days | am, continually amazed at the number of bags some folks are still putudg out as though dump sites were a dime a dozen! But the one | want 10 talk about Uns week is our cars. Although a good many of us have been trying to cut down on garbage, the damage we arc causing with our beloved cars is a much more serious prob lem and one that 100 few of us seem 10 be doing anything about cold weather, we opt instead for appearance Then, because we feel froren the minute we walk outside, we feel obliged 10 warm our cars up.for an inordinate length of ime, thought lessly poisoning the atmosphere all Wound "us 1 guess we sull believe that pollution will mysteriously go 'away' spmewhcre but. I'm sorry folks, itsyust isn't s0' There 1s no away' that's one of the difficult lessons we have been learning in the past few years All that unk we madly pour into the air today + Most of will sull be us seem tof around. fouling the view the nvironment for family cari ur children and as a per their grandchil sonal dren transporia- Last year | tion device whose environmental impact is of no consequence. We have to stop thinking this way! In fact, our cars are responsible for an enormous amount of environmental damage Although our governments have so far failed 10 really grapple with this issue, we all need to face the fact that there is much we could be doing as individuals -- and, for the most par, are choosidg not to An awful lot of us drive our children to school daily, even though they would be better of walking -- for the exercise, as well as to preserve the plane. Many people seem to have, forgotten what legs were given to uf for! We hop info the car without even thinking, to go half a block In winter our driving habits are really bad news. Rather than dress appropriately for the lipped a wonderful ly well-written shoh newspaper article by a Burlington high school chemistry teacher, who pointed out the awful siatistic that, every time we drive a car 10 kile; metres, we 'trash a gym volume of air' Whew Put in those terms, it really brings it home, doesn't it? Here's my advice: let's all quit going on about how 'they' should do this and 'they' should do that, and start by changing our own behaviour Yours and mine. Have we been pay- ing enough attention to the facts and doing enough about them? Probably not Next week ['ll offer suggestions for people who want to help minimize the damage we are inflicting on the air our children (aad theirs) will be breathing long after we are wo ) SRHARE RAV | 20 Piece Te I a 20 Piece BIGFOOT PIZZA With 3 Toppings and 4 Coke Extrs Choose counte se 7 hema. Aditional hems Avelisbls. Mot be he combined with any other offer. Ps Tan 13 - Expires Feb 2282 JRL SP