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We FR IOLL BOWE ed, Augusti20,:1980 letters ...... Unfair to Lada Plebicites demonstrate democracy Dear Sir: Last week I read that ® While it is usually "safe" between 1975 and 1980 Gen- to denounce anything per- eral Motors had sold 40 taining to the Soviet Union, million cars that had defects and considered heresy tosay of some kind. . anything good about it, I found your editorial re the Lada car etc. very narrow "Car imports" from the Soviet Union amount to about $40 -million dollars ir: I can recall the tiny frame Perry. .Not too many years ago and poorly thought out. while our exports are about Peat Sh lattended a meet- building which preceded the 3. Initially the present the citizens of Port Perry The Toronto Star editoral- $800 million. Your belief is ing about the proposed lake- Present library on the same building was designed for and the surrounding area ly denounced the Premier of that we shouldn't trade with . site, and in which I was enlargement. By doing so achieved a splendid goal in Qntario statements as them at all. I'm sure our side site for a new library. It 'seemed obvious that the majority of those present were opposed to the lakeside site for a variety of reasons, although realizing the need 'for more library space and introduced to the wonderful world of books. To this day I am an avid reader. I admit my reason for favouring enlargement of the present building is largely sentimen- remember we would be keeping faith with those who raised the money for the existing build- ing, and at the same time cut the expenditure to a sum more acceptable to our the building of "the local hospital. Now it has twice been threatened with the closure of at least one department, and the abhor- rent suggestion that we use nonsense, the same state- ments were also serverely criticized by a columnist in Oshawa this Week. For years while grudging- ly admiring the Russian Western wheat farmers would like to hear that. Returning to the Lada car, the importation of them would have as little effect on our economy as does the iliti tal, but I believe it is practi- taxpayers. facilities in Oshawa and spaceship achievements we British car. Incidentally, 1% Jota Saties. 1 BEd cal too for the following 4. Last, but by no means Uxbridge in order fo control Da said that they couldn't am told that the Lada is opposition the Library Board reasons: } least, the lakeside site would spiraling costs. I find this an build a decent motor car. selling quite well in Britain. and the Council would seek 1. Thesite is perfect. Itis be preserved for future park- extremely sobering thought. Technically a car built to Of one thing I am sure if alternatives. I was astound- ¢€asily accessible even by land, of which there never Surely the fairest solution take the Russian weather the Soviet Union was in a ed therefore on my return foot, and 'the parking, seems enough. to the problem is to put the should survive over here. To position to supply Canada from the Philippines in May especially with the improved A library should be central question to the voters in the zero in on one particular, with oil, at prices below what to find that not only was the main street is adequate for and functional, and if pos- form of a plebecite on elec- import and remain quiet on we are paying, we would © issue not yet resolved, but the many hours per week the sible, close to schools, tion day in Scugog. Once and others, because we didn't have no qualms in accepting had degenerated into a bitter library is open. churches, and shopping. A for all the question could be like the policies or dogmas of it. . struggle for and against the ~~ 2. Many library services scenic setting is certainly decided with little further that particular country Finally your editorial lakeside site: a struggle in are surely available to us unnecessary. A library or delay, and in a democratic doesn't seem fair. reminded me of a news item which even the OMB is now through the McLaughlin any other building could be manner. This would prove While the North American that I read some years ago. involved at considerable Libraryin Oshawa, less than constructed on the lakeside without question that the car builders are taking most At that particular time, expense. twenty miles from Port site, but the present library Library Board and the Coun- of the brunt for the present Nielsons Chocolate in Can- site would be useless as cil have acted with honesty recession in car building ada were doing a good busi- % p scenic parkland. Lakeside and integrity, and proven here, the public must accept ness certain of property is a rare and their sincere desire to carry some of the blame. For their candy .lines to the irreplaceable commodity. out the wishes of the major- years a car has been a U.S.A. but they had to Even Torontonians now _ity. Whatever the outcome, gtatys symbol. We have declare that none of the realize this. Asa beauty spot the plebicite would demon- paid out millions for new -sugar used in these i.ems for the pleasure and benefit strate democracy in action. styling every year, lots of came from Cuba. when Py Of Ghani the au shite sia Sincerely, °XUra gadgets that have Yours truly, % ooo © c a source of specia incerely, nothing to do with running a ; , pride to Scugog residents. Virginia (Nasmith) Clifford oop © ne Albert S Harper ~~continued 20 YEARS AGO : --------'Thursday; September 1,1960 ~~ Congratulations to Miss Esther MacDonald for ob- taining highest marks in Grade III Pianoforte exam- inations for Oshawa and surrounding district. Four lady curlers from Port Perry, Vernie Buller, Elma Doyle, Jean Gray and Marie Snooks, entered the summer bonspiel at Tom-O-Shanter Club, Toronto and brought home a prize for one High Win. While the students are away... Custodians ready school Secondary Chief Custo- dian Jim Smitherman and his crew of five have put a lot Port Perry. for new term 3 (4) Two weeks ago Sam Oyler's car was stolenfrom his of work into making the . garage. The O.P.P. found it hidden in the bush at Honey hallowed halls of Port Perry Harbour. High School spotless. The Miss Gladys Joblin and Mrs. Aleta MacFarlane men have been working have spent the summer touring Great Britain. since final examinations . ended, and that was in the 15 YEARS AGO middle of June. i Thursday, September 2, 1965 ~~ = --.._| ~The school's gymnasium TT % Miss Dominion of Canada, Carol Ann Tidey, is floors actually glare up at 'pulling' at the beard of Harold Martyn, Blackstock, to the visitors who tread near i see if itis 'real'. After convincing herself that the beard them, they are that shiny. It - was genuine, she pronounced Mr. Martyn as winner of is Mr. Smitherman's men the Blackstock Centennial Beard Growing Contest. who have spent the last two The Port Perry Council at their last regular meeting, months getting the building decided to accept a proposal from the Port Perry Lawn into the nearly antiseptic < Bowling Club to take over the ownership of the club's shape it is in. property on Queen Street. Mr. Smitherman toured Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lown of Major Street, Port the Star through the vacated Perry are the happy parents of twin boys - Dean Victor, building last week, his face 41bs., 13 oz. and Dale William, 6 1bs., 1 oz. glowing with pride, like the . Blackstock News - Congratulations to Mr. Herb floors he's shined. : tn Hooey, who celebrated his 91st birthday by attending The janitors scrub the | "= 8 : the exhibition. rooms every summer and as Hard at work duri s m . - he Pe © Scugog News - Misses Gloria Fralick, Reta Lam- many that need it again over pg oh . Tork during ie Sane on is: Day Jobs or fishes he Port bert and Elizabeth Sporer of Toronto have been in the Spring Break in March. ly oh. wash Sor walls ckgroun PSs Fysick rear, an Nery Montreal for a few days prior to the departure of Miss During the summer they are ' ! : Sporer, who will be spending two years in Dar Es Salaam, at their busiest, even without Tansania, East Africa. Miss Sporer is a school teacher. the 1,100 students around. "I around the plugson the floor. a change and the students "catwalks", which run out of figure we do four rooms a The work doesn't stop at will surely offer that, but of the fan room down the hall- 10 YEARS AGO day," Mr. Smitherman told just cleaning the rooms. course, they bring along a lot ways to and from the cafe- «. Thursday, September 3, 1970 the Star. ~~ They wash the lockers inside of problems every fall. "It's teria, which is located on the Members of Branch 419, R.C. Legion, will honour He described the interior and out, do the hallways, the nice when you have a little north-west side of the school. fallen comrades in two World Wars on Saturday, Sep- cleaning of each room. They gym floors, the stage, and better relationship with the In the past few years the tember 5 when the newly erected cenotaph at the Legion remove all the desks in the they even took a partition out kids," he noted. He said it High School has Yan the Hall will be dedicated to those who did not return from class and take them out into of one of the upstairs store- helps keep vandalism at a scene of the Port Pe the battle fields. the hallway to be cleaned by rooms and moved a sink minimum. PPHS has the playground for youn child. Queen's University has announced the awarding of the women custodians. Then about ten feet out of the way. lowest vandalism rate of any ng It makes for $ little . B a "Queen's University Anniversary Scholarship" to Mr. the men commence scrub- |... a0 Smitherman Secondary school in Durham | on. OL for the janitors "I Brian McNab, a 1970 graduate of the Port Perry High bing the place 'spic and ade his was So the I Region, so it must help. but the consensus i School. span'. The floors are done Way aeE¢ In the waning summer |. sn s . 2 boiler rooms off to the side of There's; no problem with Marcel Neyroud, a chef with over 20 years exper- last, applying a base seal the janitorial offices. He weeks the janitors are kept them." ience in the best hotels and resorts in Europe and Can- coating, along with two coats showed the huge HIF 0e busy loading and unloading ada, has accepted the position of chef at Conway Gar- of wax. They do the interior 1. occasionally must be 'CXtPooks. These deliveries So the beat goes on for the | dens in Port Perry. windows, the blackboards, (a1 0 careof. "1 y us say A2recommonplace during the janitors. It is a year round Protected by a 'Steel helmet' (which is more com- and the walls first. : Y last days of August. job, eight hours a day. As & monly called a cooking pot), Doug Rowe of Prince Albert ran out into a hail storm to collect some of the hail stones which were the size of golf balls. Greenbank News - Mr. Bob Hunter is away on a United Nations Tour to the States, as a delegate for the Jr. Farmers. Mr. H. Buckland leaves from Montreal by plane this week for Bergen, Norway to visit friends and relatives. The toughest room to clean? "I would say the typewriting rooms are the worst," Mr. Smitherman told the Star. These rooms are made more difficult because the machines must be removed with the desks, and the men have to scrub the dirtiest job is cleaning the furnace," said the head furnace cleaner. According to Mr. Smither- man, the janitors have mixed emotions about the teenagers heading back to class in a couple of weeks. He says some are looking for Mr. Smitherman conti- nued his tour of the building showing rooms in the school which very few students ever get to see. He showed the upstairs fan room just over the boiler room, where all the fan systems are kept. He showed what he refers to as Mr. Smitherman pointed out, a lot of people think that the janitors are finished once school breaks in mid-June. A look at the glaring gym- nasium floors and the beams of light off the hallway and yourealize, that just isn't the case. FIL 5 Mh TOME Te Var RIEL TENT RW WY L, 561 " AT SUES I ER 3 5 nN 0, fh