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Shopping plazas residential and commercial complex planned for Reach Township, just south of Port Perry on the west side of the Oshawa Road. By passing a by-law to have the land in question re-zoned from agricultural to residential and commercial, Reach Council have given their vhanimous approval to the project. Opposition is coming from Port Perry Council who, recently passed one resolution opposing the re-zoning, and another resolution that the office of the Provincial Treasurer be made aware that Council are of the opinion that the project is bad planning, and could have a detrimental affect on the Village of Port Perry. As well as objections for these reasons, Port _ Perry Council are concerned about the method by which the projects are to be serviced, and feel that the Village should have control over services that will go outside the Village boundaries. ) What are the arguments for and against this proposed development? (Unofficially,.the plans call for a subdivision of about 150 units and a 100,000 square foot shopping plaza). ' The Village of Port Perry has no land left within its boundaries for industrial usage. However, land within the Village can accommodate about 700 new housing units, and the Council feels that this growth should proceed before there is growth outside the. boundaries. Reach, understandably welcomes the development for the benefits of the increased assessment and population for the Township. And Reach also questions whether Port Perry has any right to get involved in the affairs of the Township. Because of the servicing and planning argument, Port Perry says it does have the right. : And what about the shopping complex? These as we know them today are a relatively new phenomena, 'mostly a result of our mobile way of life. The argument against the plaza in question is that it would take business away from the downtown commercial district of Port Perry, with a resulting loss of assessment. It has been proven that shopping plazas outside some towns and villages have led to a decline in the downtown retail trade. However, Athika Enterprises, who are developing the plaza argue quite validly that in a free market system, the name of the game is competition. And does the consumer not have a right to the widest possible selection of goods, conveniently accces- sible, at competitive prices? The developer also argues that developments such as these are inevitable in this area, and nobody can really dispute this. But the question is when. New shopping facilities should relate to some kind of corresponding increase in population. Obviously, Athika, who are spending a sizeable amount of money on this must feel that it will show a profit. Athika also are in the process of developing an industrial park in the same area and say this is not profitable without the residential and commercial development as well. These are by no means all the arguments involved. However, before some kind of solution acceptable to all can be found, a lot of co-operation and compromise will be necessary. Whether this" will happen remains to be seen, for at this time, both the Councils of Port Perry and Reach seem to be at almost complete loggerheads. PORT PERRY STAR | Company Limited C\LIR./ RD , Pred cin um): " rare Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, 4 Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Por! Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for paymen! of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rates: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $7.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ IRAARAANA ARRARRANAAS SSSSS There is considerable reaction developing to the: MILEY UGAR THIS IS THE YEAR FOR HIS NON-NOVEL BILL 'Don't hold your breath waiting for its publication, but this is the summer I'm going to write a book. It's the tenth summer in a row that I've [been going to write a book, but this year will be different. It's the year in which I'm nof going to write a novel. Other summers-I didn't get around tc writing a play, or an expose of the educational system, or a series of pungent essays, or an attack on marriage. This year it's the novel. f That doesn't leave too much, does it? Maybe I'll write a "slim" volume of verse. Any dam' fool can write poetry these days. The secret is to avoid capital letters and punctuation, make your lines' all different 'lengths, toss in a little erotic imagery, and make the end result a visceral experience which nobody understands. ©. Here, just to show you what I mean. If yo don't get a real charge out of it, a profound emotional experience, that is, and haven't a clue what it's about, you're a connoiseur of modern poetry. Oh, one other thing: no rhyme please. We'll just call it : poem yesterday in the supermarket a fat lady or maybe she wasn't really a lady ran over my foot . ' not really ran but walked I guess it was her buggy laden with a quarter-ton of cat food and orange juice and tide and glide and wa» and snacks and four cases of non-returnable bottles and twelve pounds of pallid meat . two bags of spuds 16 cans of chunky soup that ran over my foot (not the soup) driving my seed wart into my metatarsal I wept not because it hurt like hell but for lovable fat ladies and and unlovable supermarkets and because I couldn't do 1 a thing. Now, don't tell me that's not a poem. It was a vivid personal experience which I attempted to convey to the reader. It's got wo SPICE everything. Ther's sex in it: a secret yearn for fat ladies; the word nietatarsal. There's plenty of concrete images. There's symbol- ism: how about seed wart? a fertility symbol if I ever saw one. There's masochism, social criticism and a deep personal sense of futility and frustration. It's what I would call : universal in it 's appeal. ' They won't all be so deep and bitter, of course. There'll be the hearty bucolic touch: The garden ain't hoed The lawn ain't mowed But I'll be blowed If she's going to goad Me into doing any of them. Then there'll be the fragile, tender little lyric that makes real poetry lovers jusi wriggle and almost turn themselves inside out. Something like: [ love myself more than, anyone but your - sorry baby but maybe it's not even true. Sorry about that rhyme, but somethimes it just comes so automatic-liké vou can't hold it back. ; D And of course ther'll be some dramatic ° narrative stuff. I'm working on a sort of epic call The Day I Shot the Black Squirrel Thinking It was a Black Bear. But it still needs a little polishing in the last twelve cantos. =. ) Maybe you think this is just advance publicity for my book. But I guarantee ther'll be something for everyone, though some of it will be pretty strong stuff, and you may have to hide it from you teenage kids. I' was thinking particularly of a couple: Down By the Old Gravel Pit, and Let Me Call You Meathead. : - Butthere's also some stuff coming up that is really haunting. One is entitled simply "Puke". It is based on a great storm on the Great Lakes when I, as junior porter, did great things with a mop after people were sea-sick. It's been haunting me ever since, anyway. it So, there's a delectable foretaste of my summer project. I can hardly wait to get started. Except that I have a golf date, then I'm going swimming, the there's a barbecue, and somehow after a day like that, the Muse and I are both ready for the sack, . 50 YEARS AGO . Thursday, July 13, 1928 At a nomination meeting in . Port . Perry, seven persons were nominated for Reeve they were: P. Figary; H.C. Nasmith; Norman STuart; H.G. Hutcheson; Chas. A. Rindle; James Lucas and W.L. Parrish. * . Miss Hazel M. Blakely of Seagrave passed her intro-, diictory music examinations with honours. Her teachpr was. Edgerton Boyce. : A bowling rink skipped by E.H. Purdy took second prize against 22 rinks in Oshawa for the McLaughlin Trophy, they were beaten out of firgt place by Toronto rink. Sixteen pupils of Miss Lillian Gibson tried their piano examinations at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Doubt, Port Perry, all passed. 4 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 10, 1947 Mr. T.T. Sangster, a broth- _[§ . er of Dr. Sangster and a one time Port Perry boy revel an appointment as Distri Post Office Inspector, and will be in charge of the Toronto postal area. Miss Doreen Johnson and Mr. Wesley Johnson of Manchester are attendirg summer school in Toronto. Joan Marie Bentley and Mary Jean Riddell are attending Glen Mohr Camp, Lake Simcoe. A 3 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 11, 1957 Winds and storm hit the Sunderland area, the north- -east portion of the commfin- ity arena was completely torn .away, a garage and a new cement block building suffered severe damage. Farmers in the area were also hard hit. Mr. Roy Leask of Grecg: bank had the misfortune to get his foot caught in a baler and broke it.in two places. Mr. and Mrs. B. Neufer of Myrtle have been touring Europe for two months before moving to their n¥w home in Vancouver, B.C. Miss Joan Venning and Mr. ARnold Taylor of Blackstock were successful in passing their teachers examinations. ® 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 12, 1962 Mr. Ray Medd,- Epsom, teacher.at Manchester school will be the teacher at Epsqgn next year. The pupils of Manchester presented him with a silver plate. Saturday night will see the official opening of the new Ball Park. The N.H.L. All- Star softball team will play® - nine inning game against the Merchants. Eleanor and Allan Cawker of Scugog were honoured by neighbours and friends before leaving for their neg home in Oshawa. !