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3" RNIN y LIP grants: what sis socially acceptable? : Following some recent criticism on how some of the $150 million from the Federal government's Local Initiatives Program is being spent, Prime A Minister Trudeau said the monies "are given to all At types of organizations provided they create jobs ad! and perform functions that are socially accept- able." . TE After hearing that an application submitted to the LIP by the Port Perry Parks Committee for Ay $22,000 to be used for the construction of a public wash and change room has been rejected, there is a very real temptation to jump and ask '"what's going on here? What is the federal government doing with our hard-earned tax dollars? Who made the decision to reject the Port Perry application?' This temptation might become even stronger, when one learns where some of the LIP money is being spent; $13,946 for eight people to produce handmade paper for artists, printers, and writers; an . + $35,989 to employ 16 people to teach arts and crafts A to people who want to earn their living-making arts and crafts; $24,570 to produce ahistory of Canada using music, dance and mime; $25,900 to Process, Church of the Final Judgement, which will use the money to 'test the resources of young people;' $14,602 to operate a distress centre for Toronto homosexuals. More than $200,000 was allotted to various organizations listing their address as Rochdale College. Are these and other .similar projects more socially acceptable than wash and change room facilities for a park in Port Perry? It is the opinion here that they are. The reasons are simple. If not given the money to pursue the various projects, many of the persons involved would. probably be a burden on the tax-payer anyway, through the welfare roles. But'even more important, if the money is being used properly (let us assume that it is) some potentially volatile and socially disruptive energies are going to be diverted towards something 1 constructive instead of destructive. ' - So AP ~ --t hei nn society for sandal-makers? And why not a distress centre for homosexuals? Society needs more of good chance they just might have a profound and positive affect on the personal lives of those involved. If the money being spent on these projects makes for better individuals and human beings now, isn't this worth more to society than a public washroom (which is going to be built anyway)? One can't help but suspect that there was a bit of politics involved, with the federal government probably reluctant to support a municipal project in rich and provincially Conservative Ontario. In an - election year, the government probably feels that municipal projects in the '"have-not" provinces would be worth more votes. . It has not been the intent here to negate the need for the wash and change room facilities which are part of an imaginative plan for the development of the Port Perry lakefront area. When completed this development is going to be a definite asset to the community. = Yet now, in this winter of 1972, with some half-million persons unemployed, 'and a large majority of these under 25, there are more pressing social needs for LIP money. : J.B.M. ~~ PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited RL aie Mia 3 Sams, | G CNA 2 (0A) : vi a5 \8S £05 Serving Port Percy. Reach. Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND. Associate Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN. Plant Manager Advertising Manager 1 Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Astoc.ation Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Port Perry Ontario .. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department. Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per year. Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ ee ---- LZ ~ > Besides, who's to say there can't be a place in L% these types of people-oriented projects. There is a_ 3 Busy DAYS AT 24 SUZpEX DRIVE Tat FORE 143 < bod 8 : i Hes 5 TRY 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 16, 1922 At a Reach . Township smeelingt Messrs? Wnt Bowles and 'Jas. Owens reported that the bridge over Nonquon River, opposite lot 16, Con. 8 was in bad -->gondition and unsafe for traffic. A committee of. the Reeve and Deputy-reeve were appointed to examine and report on the condition of the bridge. Look at this for a real - estate bargain! 3 acres choice garden land, new modern frame house, eight rooms. barn, part of lot set to currants and 'other fruit, Port Perry 2!» miles. Price $2,000. $1.000 cash. Friends of Mr. W.C. Pol- lard of R.R. 4, Port Perry will learn with pleasure that he was called to the bar of Upper Canada. Osgood Hall on January 19. 1922, and * 'sworn in as a barrister and solicitor for the Province of Ontario, before his Honour Justice Latcford. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 12, 1947 Port Perry United Church formed a Men's Club. the following officers were elec- led. Pres. Tom Harris. Vice-Pres. Bruce Beare, Sec'y. Chas. Reesor, Treas. Clayton Love and pianist. Stanley Causley. At the regular metting of Port Perry council Mr. Stan Ploughman, on behalf of the Boy Scouts was granted permission to, gather paper for salvage. Port Perry Council offered an arrangement for the townships of Reach. Scugog and Cartwright. to have the ' Port Perry Fire Department make cals to fires, when . possible, for a sum of $25.00 * plus $1.00 for each fireman per hour. plus cost of recharging fire extinguis- hers. "There were 9 major and 14 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14,1957 .. During February, the Community Memorial Hosp- ital had a total of 94 admissions including 10 births making a total of 601 patient days for the month. _ summoned minor operations performed. What might have been a major fire occured in Prince Albert late Wednesday night when the Kiezebrink chim- ney became all '"'aflame"'. ? A Port Port Perry Fire Brigade was ~ } } BIE ~~ MILEY UGAR promptly preventing further destruction and alarm. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 15, 1962 The Royal Canadian Le- gion Branch 419 moved to -their-new premises on Bay Street. Mr. Jim Norton was the President' this year. One of the first events held in the new: hall was a social night officially known as the "Tom McNeil Night." Perry basketball teams copped top basketball and 'acted Bantams and Senior taking the Georgian Bay "B" lour- nament. S A Sunderland - business known as Piggyland de- clared bankruptcy and 'Sunderland Limited ha been placed: under trustee ship of chartered account.. ted president of the Brooklin Lacrosse Club. Seice AND 'DIRTY' PLAYERS GET THE LAURELS Watching our high school hockey team in action the other day. I could not refrain from brooding about how the game has changed. Ifxwhat I was watching was "sport", and *school-boy sport at that, I guess it's time I was pul out to pasture. Oh. it was exciting, all right. That is, if you. like to watch teenage boys trying to tear each others' arms off with deliberate hooks, remove each others' teeth with high sticks, and smash each others' brains out against the boards. ; : Throw in some deliberate slashing, tripping. kneeing. butt-ending and a couple of fights, and you have the picture of young Canada playing its 'national game. Admittedly. the game is faster and more furious than ever. But furious is a word that does not belong in sport. unless you think professional boxing is a sport. which it is not, in my opinion. i In vain do the coaches of high school teams tell their charges to play hard but 'clean. The kids have watched too much pro hockey. where most of the fans. like spectators in a Roman arena. want blood. and the pros oblige. "The only thing that redeems the spectacle --and it is a spectacle. not a game -- is the fact that there are usually one or twc players on each team who still believe ir skill rather than violence and who use their heads for something besides butting. These are the players who emerge as the team leaders. even though some of the 'wilc men' may have more natural ability. These are the players who almost never get = penalty. who walk away from a stupid fight rather than look for one. who put some spark into the team when it is behind. A pleasure to watch. And then there are the others. Kids who are pleasant and well-mannered off the ice, - but go berserk the minute the first whistle blows. : "One of them expressed his philosophy to me: "Yah. Yer sposeta drop yer stick when a fight starts, but yuh don't drop it till the other guy drops his." And, of course, if the other guy is following the same principle, here could be stick-swinging match. Put four feet of hardwood in the hands of two young huskies, let them start swinging their clubs, and you have a situation more deadly than many of the duels of history, fought with lethal weapons. It's about as quick a way as any to wind up with a smashed nose, a permanent scar, a concussion, a skull fracture, or one eye. In my opinion, a great deal of the blame for the situation lies with the referees. They seem 1o--be brain-washed into letting anything go. short of chopping a head off with a stick. The game is faster and more 'colourful" that way. And the colour is that of blood." : The goalie used to be protected by a sort of mutual consent. He was slower and more vulnerable because of his heavy padding. You took your shot, and if he stopped it, skated around him. Now. he comes out to" stop a shot and is quite likely to get mouthful of high stick. Result?The goalie starts playing dirty, to protect himself. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. But when I played team sports -- football, hockey, baseball -- there were one or two "dirty" players on each team. Caught in the act, they were penalized andd ostracised. Nowadays. you have to look hard to find one or two 'clean' players on each team. And it's the *'dirty" players who get the roars from the crowd. This is fact, and it's fact that is sobering. saddening and sickening. honours this season as the . "closed their "doors. Algo = ants, at the request of\the directors 7 Ne Mr. Bill Vipond was elec- : I