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DITORIAL PINION Make it a citizens' project Included with this issue of the STAR is a supplement in support of the restoration of the Town Hall built in 1873. Since the start of the campaign to save the historic structure a couple of years ago, a great many articles have been written and many opinions uttered for and against the usefulness and value of the Town Hall. : A few months ago, a group of Port Perry and area citizens formed a committee and incorporated the group into what now is known as Town Hall 1873. This group through numerous meetings and negotiations with the local council succeeded in obtaining a 99-year lease on the building. However, this is just the beginning. Funds are needed, and considerable amounts. The first stage is to repair the building to the extent of safety and the moneys required for this may reach a figure as _ high as $30,000 to $40,000. At this point a considerable amount has already been collected or promised, but much more is required. Federal and Provincial grants are definitely available, but first of all some enthusiasm and willingness to provide money and a proven future program by the local citizens must be present to be considered worthy to receive government assist- ance. The supplement printed in the STAR this week will be the fore-runner of what is to come, a campaign during the week of October 211028. If we as citizens can prove that we are solidly behind this project, by supporting it-not-only- financially, but--- | = generously as well, support from other sources will no doubt be forthcoming. Time for decision Residents of "the former 'Township of Cart- wright have certainly been active in letting Scugog Township Council know how they feel about the proposed end to garbage collection in what is now known as Ward Four. : Both sides have gone to considerable work to collect petitions and present them to council. They should be commended for this. The problem that arises now is that Council seems to want to please everybody, which isn't a bad idea. Unfortunately, in this case, it is impossible. There is going to be a fairly large segment of the area upset no matter what Council does and the longer the decision is postponed, the more turmoil it is going to create in Cartwright." ' Besides that, people don't know what to expect after November 1. collection or not. Council has said it will make a decision next Monday. It has said that before. But, if a decision is made, it leaves one week for Council to tender for a new contract or to notify residents of Ward Four they won't be receiving garbage collection. We elect a Municipal Council to make and its time this one did. Will they have garbage decisions | HE ecpeveumatapppasates il | PORT PERRY STAR i (@ch (0m) Company Limited (AL LZ ) Sam, N "row Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships . ps YY P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher J. PET R HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the. Pos) Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second (Jass Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ Vif ays aatre BAL Y (N a > VR Ee A 3 AE SANS Ly PA bat LS or AE FEL io * grave returned from a trip money for the Port Perry ~~-Norman-Kerry, of Port Per--- ~~ -of Reach Township by Coun- J - Carol Hope and Bob Parry. BILL MILEY UGAR ano ) AT LAST, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP ..Things at last seem to be looking up for Canadian writers, after. generations of neglect by their own countrymen. With a few notable exceptions, it used to be that to be a writer in Canada was almost on a par with being an Untouchable in India. If you were not openly scorned, you were quietly ignored, which was Wors The big publishers, most of them Britis or American, with an affiliate in Canada, shied away" from Canadian writers as though they had the plague, at the same time fostering insignificant American and British writers. ' : One of the exceptions was Stephen Leacock, who made a lot of money and - became a well-known character in this country, after his first book had been ] accepted by a British publisher. Typically, Leacock was ignored, if not despised, by the people of Orillia, Ont., when he was alive. He had a summer home there. Many Orillians detested him because he poked wicked fun at some of their leading citizens in. his Mariposa tales. Not so today. Some sharp people finally realized that Leacock was commercially viable as a tourist attraction. Nowadays you'd think Leacock had' walked down from a mountain with stone tablets, into Orillia. It is the in-thing to belong to the Leacock Society. There is a Leacock Museum, with a full-time curator. There is a Leacock annual award for humour, a Leacock medal, a Leacock weekend culminating in a huge dinner at which the saint is paid proper homage. I'll Seice bet the old guy is doubled up in his grave, - laughing.® It was all so Canadian, in its approach to writing, that it would be funny, if it weren't a little sad. Canadian are builders. They'll spend billions on railroads and transcon- tinental highways and canals and dams. But when it comes to culture, the approach is always a two-bit one. : A few dedicated souls formed the Leacoc Society. They had no money. But every year, they'd persuade a few people to act as judges, and these idiots would pick out the funniest book published in Canada that year. I know. I was one of those idiots for-about four years, which gave me some insight into Canadian humour. Most of the books submitted were about as funny as a broken leg: Let's say you are Eric Nicol of Vancouver (a' very funny writer, by the way). This would be abouf 15 years ago. You are informed by wire that you have won the Leacock Award for Humour and are asked to attend the Leacock Dinner, receive the Leacock Medal (worth about 60 cents in a pawnshop), and make a witty speech which will take you hours to write. The dinner is absolutely free, but you pay your own way from and back to Vancouver. Today of course, it's different. The dinner price has gone up from $2.50 to $7.50 and the drinks from 45¢c to whatever. I believe that .at long last, some brewer has actually put up $1,000 to go with the Medal. Big deal. "So much for that. I digress. During the long, painful aridity of the "20s, '30s and '40s, the names of Canadian writers were not (continued on.page 7) "and sixty-one. 4 50 YEARS AGO Remember when: Girl's Misses' coats were only $6.00 to $8.00. : 'Dr. F. E. Luke, an Optom- etrist from Toronto, will be visiting and taking. appoint- ments at A. J. Davis Drug Store. Messers Hogg and Lytle had $11,000 worth of Victory Bonds stolen from their off- g $ ice. Mrs. Nelson Mitchell of Sea- ad 2 where she visited England, Wales, . Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and France. She travelled on this trip by motor, boat and coach. 25 YEARS AGO Rev. John Thomas Coney- beare was inducted as the new Rector of The Church of Ascension, Port Perry and St. Thomas' Church at Brooklin. ) $237.00 was raised on a draw-for a calf, to raise Community Memorial Rec- reation Centre. Mavis Lucretia Kerry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ry, graduated from Oshawa General Hospital. 15 YEARS AGO - Mr. Alex Johns, of R. R. No. 4, Port Perry, has been appointed Clerk-Treasurer cil. § At the Teen Town dance, A they had a spot dance and the winners were Jeff Dow- ling and Shirley Snooks and Mr. and Mrs." William Philp of Utica, celebrated their Diamond Anniversary 5 [™ in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall. Mr. Ivan Norton of Good- wood gave a special attract- ion to the Markham Fair, when he grew a giant squash weighing 148 pounds. . 10 YEARS AGO Ontario. County contest- ants, Bob Tran of Claremont, .g & and Barry Timbers of Mount Albert, placed first at 'the International Plowing Match. Clerk-Treasurer, John Raines, says Port Perry's population has increased to two thousand, three hundred Health Minister Matthew Dymond announced that the é Fy Ontario Government will now pay drug dnd treatment costs for needy children with cystic fibrosis. Mrs. Rose Philip, of R.R.4, Port Perry, was-awarded. the Scanlon Bakery Trophy dt Scott Agricultural Fair held in Uxbridge. 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