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a. ¥ Vi : ran FEE Scugog Library's Storytime program got underway on Tuesday with over 20 four-year-olds registering. More youngsters are expected to register over the next two weeks. The program aims at encouraging these preschoolers to read books and use the local library. The program also includes the showing of films. Seen reading a story to a group of attentive youngsters is librarian Judy MacColl. PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, Sept. 9, 1976 -- 5 News from Utica area By Mrs. Dora Geer Service will be held in Epsom United Church on Sunday, September 12 at 11:30 with Mr. Mike Ward in Charge. The Epsom-Utica U.C.W. will be held at Utica on Tuesday, September 14 at 8 p.m. with group 3 in charge. A number from Utica enjoyed the Fair 'at Port Perry on Monday. They had a good day and a large crowd. ) Mrs. Louie Mitchell had the family all home on Sun- day to celebrate her birth- day. Mrs. Anne Osaduke and Mrs. Rose Gourley of Brigh- ton were Sunday dinner guests with Mrs. Carolyn Bell. Sunday School starts back on September 12 at 10:15. They are greatly in need of a teacher, also a pianist. + Visitors with Mrs. Ola For- syth and the Bailey's were Mrs. Dick Colwell of Clare- mont, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodland and Mrs. Vera Jones of Uxbridge, Mrs. Ted Kidd, Mrs. Gordon Jones and Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Wilson of Goodwood. " Mrs. Jack Diamond spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Diamond and family in Oshawa. Mrs. Vera Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson from England enjoyed a trip to News from Epsom By Jean Jeffery There will be a corn roast for 1st Scugog Beavers, Cubs and Scouts and their families on Saturday evening, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at Epsom United Church. Any family whose sons may wish to join this fall are welcome to attend. The programs for all groups will be starting Mon., September 13 at 7 p.m. at Manchester. Any girl, 12 or older, who is interested in joining Man- chester 4H Homemaking club, please contact Mrs. Walter Kerry, 852-6798 or Beverlee Rudkin, 985-7536. The project, "Taking a Look at Yourself", sounds very interesting for the teenage girl. The first meeting will be held on Mon., September 13th, 7 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Walter Kerry. There will be a corn roast on Sun., September 12 spon- sored by Epsom Sunday School at 6:30 at the Church lawn. Corn and hot choco- late will be supplied. Bring enough weiners and rolls for your group. We are planning to have a sing song. We usually have plank benches but if you want a little more Niagara Falls. Mr. Dennis Thompson is improved and is transferred back to Port Perry Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Boyd of Orillia, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kirton of Mount Albert were supper guests with Mrs. Dennis Thompson on Sunday. A good crowd attended the Euchre on Friday evening. Ladies 1st - Fran Gibson, 2nd - Erma Watson and cons.- Velma Ross. Men's Ist - Carson Watson, 2nd, Ross Thompson, cons. Jim Gibson For the freeze-out - Hardy Noble and Grace Thompson, first; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ploughman, second. and area comfort, bring a cushion or lawn chair. The Sunday School will re-open the following Sun., September 19 at 10:15 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baster, Julie and Kathy have re- turned from a week's camp- ing trip at Bon Echo Pro- vincial Park north of Napa- nee where they were joined by their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer and family of Kitchener. Mr. David Lyons of Rich- mond Hill was home for the holiday weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Harold (continued on page 12) The folks next door Last week I mentioned neighbors, and after I'd finished the column, I thought some more about mine. If you live in a city apartment, you'll probably never know your neighbor two doors down the hall, and will take two years' before you are on nodding acquaintance with those next door. That's fine for some people. They actually like to retreat into their cells, and resent any encroachment on their so-called privacy. But if you live in a small town, in a house, you have neighbors, for better or worse, and you might as well relax and enjoy it. Neighbors are not an unmixed blessing. They can be a terrible pain in the arm. When I was a kid, we spent our summers at a cottage. Next door was an old bat who was the quintessence of a bad neighbor. Everybody else at the lake was part of a big, happy family. Not so this one. She sneered and snarked and caused endless trouble. Finally, she put up a fence between her property and ours, so we couldn't walk on her lawn, which was nothing but pine needles. We solved this by jumping the fence and walking across her pine needles, while she peered from behind the curtains, calling down curses on the brown, bare-foot- ed vandals. That was a nasty one, and caused my mother, I'm sure, some anguish. 50 YEARS AGO Thurs. September 9, 1926 We are glad to see Miss Glasgow back with us in Port Perry after her Eur- opean trip; and welcome to Miss Sine and Miss McLaren, the new High School teachers. Mrs. Reg. Doubt has become a reporter for the Toronto Daily Star, hav- ing taken a territory at Willowdale, North Toron- to. Seagrave, has taken the agency for the new '"'Ov- one of the new models on display. Rev. S.C. Jarrett, wife and daughter, have re- turned home to Port Perry after holidaying at Lake of Bays and Orillia. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs. September 6, 1951 On Thursday of last week, the Radio listeners to C.B.C's "'Guesting with Mr. Howard Leask, erland Whippet" and has' Kesten" heard two people: | of the district being inter- Remember When..? viewed by Bob Keston - Fred Stevens of Myrtle, who runs a market gard- en and Cecil Hooey of Port Perry, prop. of a barber shop. Two former teachers in the Port Perry Public School - Miss May Walker and her sister, Mrs. Flor- ence Nelson, of Bramp- ton, have been spending a week in Port Perry, the guests of the Stovin sis- ters. Miss Peggy Graham of Fort William returned last week to resume her teaching duties at Chalk Lake School. 15YEARS AGO Thurs. September 7, 1961 The enrolment at Port Perry High School is up by 56 pupils for.the com- ing school year. 378 stu- dents are registered with 17 full time teachers and one part-time, : A surprise party was held at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. Owen Reader recently to celebrate the 80th birthday of his fath- er, Mr. Robert Reader. Mr. and Mrs. N. Wilson and Bruce of Prince Al- bert,. enjoyed being with her brother Mr. and Mrs. G. Miller at their cottage at Atherley on Sunday. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. September 8, 1966 Mr. William S. Brad- ford, the new principal of R. H. Cornish Public School, is a native of London, Ontario, where he received his public and high school education. Mr. D.C. (Dan) Mad- sen, is the new owner of the Port Perry 1.G.A. store having recently pur- chased the business from Mr. Jack Hope. Mrs. Clara Martin, Mrs. Alma Cox and Mrs. Marg Hayes of Port Perry won. the Bradley Trophy for the second successive year in the "women's trebles tourn- ament, Thursday at the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club. They had a score of 55 for their three wins. But there aren't many like that. Most neighbors, like yourself, are pretty fine people, if you treat them as you wish to be treated by others. There is one thing about neighbors. They are like relatives. You can't pick and choose. You takes what you gets. Youdon't buy a house because of the neighbors, though it might be a good idea to think about it : I've been lucky all my life, and I've been lucky in my neighbors. In the last town we livedin, they were the salt of the earth. One of them was even decent enough to have his house burn down one night, in a spectacular fire, which I got my kids out of bed to watch. Something they'll never forget. I don't expect that kind of service from all my neighbors, mind you. That was being neighborly to the point of no return. But we've been in this house going on 20 years, and I couldn't have done better for neighbors if I'd handpicked them. On one side lives a carpenter and contrac- tor. For a guy like me, who can't hammer two boards together without making a hand sandwhich, it's better than having a fairy godmother. He is the soul of generosity when it comes to lending advice and nails. And when I'm standing looking stupidly at some project that would take me a week, he comes over, does it in eight minutes, and, when offered pay, says: Forget it." He also has a warm and pleasant wife and a son who has grown into a dandy snow- shoveller and lawn-cutter. On another side, my neighbor is a sailor. Don't see much of him in the summer, but in the spring, he whistles over the fence and holds out a big newspaperful of fresh smelt or perch fillets. Had to cut down one of my Jaks the other day that was threatening to fall on his house. It cost me $300. But who in 1is right mind wouldn't trade mere money for a panful of fried smelt, and the spirit »ehind them? : Up the street a couple of houses lives Gabe. He is a former plumber, and still has 'he tools and the skills of his craft. When vou have guests arriving, and the sink is dlugged, and the regular plumbers are raving their four-day weekend, Gabe comes '0 the rescue. In 10 minutes the sink is slurphing water again. And Gabe doesn't vant an arm, a leg and your liver. Across the way lives John, a teacher, a nathematical whiz, and a delighter in the solving of problems. For example. My wife . saway for a week. I want to do a washing. ( can't get the washing machine going. Call John. He whips across the street, through he snow, and in five minutes the washing is hunking away. And when my wife is away, as wife nips across and puts a jar of nome-made soup inside by back door. When we go away for a few days, the neighbors keep an eye on the place, as though it were their own: Pick up the newspapers, feed the cat, make sure the doors are locked, cut the grass if it needs it. Perhaps best of all is the knowledge that they are there, if you need them. A sudden emergency, a minor calamity, and they'll be there to drive you, phone a doctor, bring food, whatever. This closeness might seem appalling to city folk, with their preoccupation with privacy. But good neighbors don't live in each other's laps. They have their families: we have ours. We don't encroach on their lives; they don't on ours. They have their friends; we have purs; and they're not necessarily the same. Poet Robert Frost summed it up, as poets so often do, when he intoned: 'Good fences make good neighbors." And he wasn't just talking about fences. So there you are chaps. Let's see you come up with a fisherman, a carpenter, a plumber, and a trouble-shooter, and I'd say you're as lucky as I am, when it comes to neighbors. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. (PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited ae, , ', Phone 985 738) Sap (ecin + (om) : -_ rare Serving Port Perry, Reach, $cugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher Advertising Manager John Gast, Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Por! Perry Star Co. L'a, Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Oltawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada $4.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20¢ ee) 2 = -- at NR NT: "< Toad =