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Good grief, what has happened to the summer of '927 Like most people around Scugog Township, I'm still waiting for & to arrive. Ee oe. a oa It's , kids are signing up for the winter sports, and in less than a week schools will open their doors. But, there's no point crying over the summer that wasnt. Since writing in this space a couple of weeks ago about what dogs, birds and people leave behind in the public | have had numerous comments Roy Grierson that might help keep the birds under con- He suggested that the Township build a huge bird feeder on the scrub land north of the boat launch and stock the feeder parks would not have to dance around what the birds leave behind. Roy also suggested that a couple of acres near the bird feeder be fenced off to allow people to walk their dogs. Presumably, the rest of the parks would be off-imits to dogs. Sorry, Roy, | cant buy that one. Waking bird certainly merits a sec- So by Para com back to health recently. The bird had been found unable or unwiling to fly, an easy prey for any predator. Once Ken got the Heron back home with the ponds and stream, the birti start- weighed close to a pound lowed $3 worth of large chub «' iners Ken effort to tend sick or injured animals are a special breed themselves. They get my vote, any time. THE TV NEWS is tough to watch these in any Sumber of rouble spots around he globe. ae tho images graphic? | saw one cp of a corpse in the street with several bul- let holes in the torso clearly visble. The camera seemed to focus on those bullet holes for a long time, then panned up to the guy's face. He looked to be about 15. Al right, this was a war zone, and in a war zone, people get killed. What hom fied me was that this dead "soldier" didn't look like a soldier. He was wearing sneakers (the ones with three stripes) blue jeans (Levis, maybe?) and a red t- shirt with white lettering on the front. This "soldier" looked no more like a "sol dier" than my teen-age sons look like sol diers in their sneakers, jéans'and t-shirts. Looks 'm not naive when it comes to war. People get killed. | grew up on those grainy black and white CBC documen- taires about World War 2. The soldiers, even the dead ones, looked like soldiers in uniform, boots and helmets. This kid in sneakers and Levis with bullet holes in his chest looked like he should be shoot- ing baskets with his buddies in the local dier" to a group of live "soldiers." They him to nip into the comer variety? | dunno. War is hel, as somebody once said, no matter what the combatants are wearing. But it seems a bit more hellish to see a kid in blue jeans and t-shirt, a can of Coke inong hand an automatic rifle in the other, laughing and mugging for a TV buck lay but ridden nthe gute a ow A AA Last word on , beer and pop can pull-tabs To the Editor: This letter is about pop and beer can tabs, and buying and donating wheelchairs with the proceeds. Two members of the Elora Legion branch have collected 80 million pull tabs in the last three years. They sell the tabs for scrap metal to buy wheelchairs. They have been able to buy 13 heelchairs with the proceeds, and they want others in southern Ontario and beyond to help collect the millions of tabs needed to buy these wheelchairs. As a member and a bartender at the Elora Legion, he started collecting the tabs in 1989. He had heard a rumour that 10, tabs would be enough to buy a wheelchair. He hdll a ready supply of the tabs and others were ready to help empty extra cans. Only problem was nol knew who was collecting these tabs. "He said the story turned out to be a hoax, wasting the time of well- intentioned community groups and ruse, he found a scrap metal dealer who buys the aluminum tabs for about 30 cents per pound. It takes about 1,000 tabs to make a pound. Wheelchairs bought are available to anyone who needs one. A student at McMaster University in Hamilton received one recently. Two more have been donated to the Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Aned wheelchairs cost up to $500, ile a new electric model costs about $5,000, or 17 million pull tabs. I hope this letter to the editor will clear up the story around that people can get a wi oe chair for just pull tabs. , The tabs have to be collected, sold as a, then wheelchairs can be the money. Hos want to be get involved check the Elora Legion Branch. Our Legion in Port Perry probably has the address. . I read about this in the July- August issue of Legion magazine. Other newspapers can print this letter if they wish. individuals. Yours truly, But instead of trashing the tabs as Roy Walker Smith, others did when informed of the Port Perry. eet away. ea bot you, | fretted this when the rain wiped out the Sunday bar- bq, and | gave my son heck when he was past curfew by half an hour. Lord, that my problems should always be so small. 21 Who might this horse-enthusiast be? Both of these beasts are obviously well-bred. Do you recognize either of these 8 to hear from you. Call 985-3589. f so the S g Shores M would like ScuGoG CITIZEN Kim Beare was canght off guard, (it was early in the morning), but a citizen is a citizen and this one tumity blue. m's family goes way back in this area. Needless to say so does she. Kim is astually looking forwar to school next week. Although waking up; carly ow em she concedes. A trip to Florida was the the highlight o of to § do is hang out with her % And that's what : fich schoo is all "Am 1 supposed to take a pore Troy walls py for use of the facilities. Photo submitted by a Scugog citizen.