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Dozens of kids lined up to meet the Easter Bunny at the Port Perry YMCA’s annual Lunch With the Easter Bunny earlier this month. Among the lucky sters who enjoyed a visit was 3 1/2 year-old Hailey. The little redhead wath a big smile is the daughter of Rick and Carole Vaughan of Uxbridge and it was the first time they have attended the Easter lunch. Photo by J. Peter Hvidsten aaae OS ADVERTISING DEADLINE for the next issue of Focus On Scugog April 30, 2006 Call Tracy at 905-441-6252 NR Re Baffled by one sided sur- Continued from page 1 posed “points of proof” as to why they wanted us to break our limits of restrictions in terms of commercial space. We were baffled by surveys all one sided, all incomplete and all to change our limitations on site plan sizes we put a lot of thought into years back, and all for our town’s best interests. Let's do our own surveys! Put a survey form in our local news- papers. Have them sent in to the Municipal Office to be tallied and use our information to make our decisions justified by we the mre of Scugog Township. Yours tr Mike Steck, Port Perry Enjoyed Memories of the 50s and 60s is- Dear Petet T really "enjoyed your publica- tion of “Memories Of The 50s & 60s.” Having lived here for the past 73 years I can associate with many of the articles. I wish to draw your attention to the article of the Gossard Com- pany coming to town in 1951. 1 was one of the first four females hired, which was in 1946. The Gossard Company was a Montreal based company with a large factory located in Toronto. They then decided to open a smaller factory in Port Perry in the Town Hall, where undergar- ments such as corselets, girdles, and bras were made. After extensive renovations to the building such as remov- ing the sloped floor and remov- ing the stage, they made three production lines. This consisted of various types of sewing ma- hines. This factory opened in 1946 and hired four employees to start; they were Marg Jeffrey, Merle St. John, and Leona Rider and Rose Walker (deceased). ‘We worked a forty hour week for $14.00. This was considered big money in those days. A total of approximately 35 employees made these elite gar- ments, which were expensive to buy. Sincerely, Margaret. Jeffrey, Port Perry. TRACY SOUCH ARLENE WALKER Faces of Focus Welcome to FOCUS On Scugog ‘We hope you enjoy this, the premier issue of Scugog’s new monthly magazine. Focus on Scugog is fortunate to have a small staff of excited and dedicated people and we would like to introduce them to you. J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher TRACY SOUCH Advertising Sales ARLENE WALKER Production BARBARA HUNT Freelance Writer PETER HVIDSTEN 2 BARBARA HUNT 4 Focus On Scugog focus@observerpub.ca