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Water Safety Weel Formula for tragedy: take children near water and turn your back for a moment. These words may sound all too familiar: "When | fooked back my two-year old son was gone. The wind had carried his red and white beach ball some fifty or sixty feet past the markers. The shore was full of children, but not Michael. | ran to the water's edge. Frantic, | yelled for help. A crowd gathered. Someone shouted 'There he is!' and 'an arm's length from shore was the motionless body of my son. A lifeguard dashed through the crowd and gave mouth-to-mouth respiration. After what seemed like a century of nightmarish waiting, Michael coughed up water and began to cry.' Formula for tragedy: take children near water and turn your back for a moment. The formula works. There is a way to prevent this kind of horror. There is a formula for an enjoyable day at the beach: vigilance, more vigilance, and constant caution. Brian Paterson, Director of the Canadian Red Cross Water Safety Service in Ontario has this sound advice: . Supervise -- stare at -- paste your eyes on -- small children and non-swimmers of any age whenever they are in or near the water. Even in supervised areas guard your children yourself. "If you take family picnics in unsupervised areas, or go to a cottage, always check the water and the shore very carefully for broken glass, sharp rocks or holes. Throw twigs in the water to see if there is a strong current. "Swimming lessons under a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor will give your child safety knowledge as well as swimming techniques. The badges he earns for the different levels are a challenge to acquire more training." During Water Safety Week, June 3 to 9, and all summer long, remember the formula for an enjoyable day: vigilance more vigilance and constant caution. It won't spoil your day. Nursing Home Week Throughout Ontario May 27 to June 2 Nursing Home Week in the Province of Ontario has been designated as May 27 to June 2. This will be the annual declaration of Nursing Home Week in this Province and the entire membership of Ontario Nursing Home Association will be going all out to publicize, their consider- able effort and contributions to Health Care in Ontario. The true value of Nursing Homes has never been realized or appreciated as much as it is now with the participation of the Ontario Government making Nursing Homes an integral part of total Health Care Plan. CT Nursing - Home management and personnel are striving to go beyond the existing Regulations in giving the finest care possible to the people of our province. But to retain the dignity of .community life, the participation of the com- munity is needed. Government can regulate -- Nursing Homes can cooperate -- but it takes participation by the public to make Nursing Homes truly '"homes" within the community. During Nursing Home Week all Ontario Nursing Homes member homes will have Open House. Please assist in opening the hearts of people to bring love to the respected members of our society. ' fom A PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited \0 Ww, AY Sa», # CNA 2 (ounad = % S 0 1, <& Care Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher . BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager WM. T. HARRISON, Plant 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., 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 Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ ~ r= 7, "/ DUNNO... HOW ABOUT YOU -_ YOU GOING AWAY 7415 SUMMER 7" MILEY UGAR ano Srice arrive. I've been watching the television commercials for those disposable diapers, and am keen to have-a go at them. I've told everybody so often about how won the war practically single-handed that all I get now when I causually mention the Normandy campaign and the Falaise Gap is a rolling of eyes, which then become utterly apathetic. Here comes a new listener. And there are the bed-time stories. There's nothing finer in life than to blow - and burble in the stomach of a fresh- bathed child, bundle it into its nightwear, then launch into a story, with its eyes wide, the occasional chuckle, then the eyelids falling and the gentle breathing of deep sleep. 2 So I must dust off some of my dandies. They were a mixture of Mowgli and Tarzan and Kaa the Snake and Munkle- Uncle-Unky, the oldest and wisest monkey in the whole jungle. They might have been a little confusing to the adults who had read the books, but the kids loved them. Geography got a bit mixed. Tigers turned up in Africa, and gorillas in India, but nobody cared. Sometime I must tell you about how Mowgli, the wolf boy, after seeking the advice of Munkle-Unkle-Unky, scattered a band of marauding elephants by swinging through the tree-tops and sprinkling the ground with thumb-tacks. It was a real gas to see those elephants hopping around on two feet, trying to pick out thumbtacks from the other feet with their trunks. Then there's going to be the fun of teaching the little blighter all sorts of things. If it's a boy, I'll teach him to fish and swim. If it's a girl, I'll teach her. to swim and fish. Their grannie can teach them all the other things, everything from playing Mozart sonatas to making out the income tax return. She's much better at practically everything that I. So she says, anyway. : Maybe it'll be twins. I have a vision of the Old Lady and me, she sitting with the boy on her lap, I with the girl on mine, burping them on a Saturday night while their mother is out on' the town. One thing worries me. What kind of a world is- the little stranger going to grow up in? I hope the general outlook improves by about 300 per cent in the next ten years, or it's not going to be a pretty place to be young in. 3 There's only seven and a half months to go. Wouldn't it be a real bummer, after I've adjusted so well and made all these plans, if it turned out to be a false alarm? BILL SURPRISE! I'M ABOUT TO BE A GRANDFATHER One minute you are a Dad, in your prime, just a broth of a boy taking a breather after raising a family. The next, you are a Grandad, doddering, heading into the lean and slippered pantaloon stage. That's what hapened to me this week. Over the phone, long-distance, a familiar and dear voice asked with a giggle, "Hi, Dad; how'd you like to be a grandfather?" Immediate reaction was, . "Oh, no!" Followed at once, as I realized the enormity of my mistake, by, "Oh, yes!. Great!" The kid then talked to her mother, but for some reason, didn't mention the main item on the agenda. She left that to me. When I'd picked the Old Lady off the floor, fanned her back into consciousness, and wiped away the tears, the whole thing struck me in its bleak truth. Here we were. Not even middle-aged, except by the calendar. My wife still attracts whistles. I still have an eye for a thigh at the beach. And we're about to be plunged back into a world of bottles and nappies and colic and constipation and talcum powder. At first it seemed as though someone was playing a practical joke. But fortu- nately, the resilience of human nature came into play and we bounced back to not only acceptance, but anticipation. "That girl should be right here with me," announced her mother. "If she's as sick as I always was . . ."And was she sick! She threw up every day, all day, until you could see the insides of her heels, This lasted for about four months, with each of them. It runs in the' family. Her mother was the same. : I used to bring my wife tea, and soup, cold drinks and hot, and everything came up. You'd think the babies would appear looking like something out of Belsen or Buchenwald. But then she'd settle down, eat like a hyena for three months, and produce a little fatso. However, maybe the child will escape this. Modern girls don't seem to do anything the way their mothers did. Last night she was eating beef as though the last steer in the world had been slaugh- tered, and today she was out raking the lawn. Anyway, I'm now looking at the positive side. I can hardly wait for the kid to 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 31, 1923 The Junior High School Entrance Examinations will be held in Port Perry High School on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 27, 28 and 29. Standards passing are 40 percent on each subject and 60 percent total. - % Gradually the waterfront of Port Perry is being put into proper order and the present council is being- complimented for the part they are taking in the clean up. We hope that some further effort will be made by the citizens to improve that part of the waterfront facing the station. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 27, 1948 'Open Day' at the high school allowed Port Perry folks to inspect the school. school. There were exhibits of % sewing and woodworking. A program was given by pu- pils in the well filled audi- torium. The principal, Mr. Crane, welcomed those pre- sent and acted as Master of ceremonies. Myrtle Station reports that weekend "and holiday highway traffic was the heaviest since the first of the year. Mrs. Earl Wallace, Port Perry, accompanied by Mrs. Winnie Causley, Lind- say, attended the Pioneer's * Convention of the Bell Tele- _ phone Company at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, on Friday and Saturday of last week. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 29, 1958 The Port Perry Commun- ity Curling Club last Wed- nesday night approved final steps for the construction of a $43,000 Curling Arena for the community. It is planned to have the struc- ture ready for the next curling season. Plans were approved in principal at the Annual Curling Banquet in March. Mr. Nels Houston of Rail- way and Power Engineering reported that he will send one man to rehabilitate Well No. 1 starting June 2, 1958 and to have two men avail- able. It was left to Coun- cillor Harris to have the ® necessary men available on June 2nd. ; Jennifer Mumford of Port Perry won first prize int he: General Board of Religious Education's. Jubilee writing contest. Jennifer received a diploma of recognition by her Sunday School teacher. Mrs. J. Dowson and a che- que for $25.00 from the' Rector's Warden, Mr. Stan Mumford who is her father. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 30, 1963 Open House for the High School was a success again. The band spent many hours practising and was well prepared to greet pa- rents and friends on cam- pus. ) Student works were on display in the various class- rooms. Parents were able to tour through the séhool or talk to teachers. } This week the High School is busy preparing for 'Cadet ™ Inspection' required for ® SE r---------- ---- a Al