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ES ra nar wo ---- Pre St Tt eR mA ms vn ---- ae FLAS vor ENS 2A : LAS Apr AV Eady Ne MN. ANT th ho A isd > ¥ 7:3 A . « ASL Ye Fa} > en WL) <4 i 2rd al? o [AL > FLL 53 (ER ROR ERTS POR PETRA FAR TE CSTR TI SWS. | PR A00 SI PAI, Interior view of the office of D.J. Adams. Mr. Douglas Adams is seen standing at the 60 YEARS AGO } Thursday, January 27, 1921 The Councillors of Port Perry are to be congratu- lated on the improvements at the Town Hall. Mr. Stew- art Ford was available to do the work to the stage and scenery. Blackstock Agricultural Society at their annual meeting, appointed the following officers: Pres. W.C. Ferguson; 1st Vice, George Forder; and 2nd Vice, John Wright. At the Port Perry, Reach and Scugog Agricult- ural meeting, Mr. George Smith of Pine Point was elected president and Mr. Hugh Lucas as secretary. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 24, 1946 Port Perry United Church held special services morning and evening in celebration of their Diamond remember when ...¢ § rear of the building near the safe bearing his company's name. [Photo courtesy of Scugog Shores Museum] Jubilee. After a lapse of 30 years the wardenship of Ontario County went to Uxbridge Township, when John Rae of Uxbridge Township was elected Warden. Mr. Geo. Crawford is re-modelling his building to accomodate the Health Clinic and is making an apart- -ment for the nurse who is to be in charge. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 2, 1956 A Business Men's Association Banquet in the Del Restaurant, saw the finish of the organization after years of service to the community. The organization resigned as a body to make it possible for a new organ- ization that would serve the community under to-day's (Turn to page 6) chotterbox OUR NATIONAL SPORT Doug Fisher may be right. He may have hit the nail on the head in his report last week to the Ontario government on amateur sport, fitness and recreation, when he lashed into organized minor hockey in the province, and at one point called hockey a "barbaric game." Fisher is no stranger to the game. He is a former chairman of Hockey Canada, and while just a portion of the report refers directly to minor hockey, that aspect made headlines and may have widespread repercussions for minor hockey in this province and all of Canada. Fisher does not mince any words. Some of his criticisms include the fact that-hockey is becoming too expensive and takes the lions share of municipal, provincial and federal monies. He also says it has a high injury level, and makes the crucial observation that while there are a lot of youngsters between eight and 14 playing the game, the drop-out rate after that is phenomenal. He goes on to say that any rational person must recognize hockey's inadequacies. "It requires an inordinate number of volunteers and officials and always seems to have arecurring bombast of charges, attacks, recriminations and what could fairly be described as poor sportsmanship." Any person who has ever spent any time around any arena in any town in Ontario will know exactly what Fisher is talking about. As far as I'm concerned, the image of hockey as a sport has gone downhill terribly in the past ten years, right from the pro leagues where mediocre slobs earn twice as much as brain surgeons, through the minor ranks where violence on the ice among midget age players ends up in front of the courts. There is a growing number of people, myself included, who are getting turned off by hockey in general and all that surrounds it. ~The cost of organized hockey is reaching the point of the absurd, and some families are finding it just too dear to have by John B. McClelland two or three children playing the game. More crucially, the construction and operation of arenas can cause severe financial strains for even medium-sized communities. There are many who believe that a municipal arena should operate on a break-even basis and not be a drain on the tax-payers. But raising the rates for hockey registration to achieve this would drive more and more young players away because their families can't afford it. For whatever the regsons, there is a drop-off in interest in hockey once a whe. voi 150r 16. Here in Scugog this winter, there are examples of this with the midget, juvenile and junior teams actually competing for players, and causing friction because of it. ~~ Fjsher goes on to say that hockey is not an excellent sport for developing fitness. He's right. Two games and one practise each week are not enough to build and maintain good levels of overall fitness, especially for those players who spend a lot of time on the bench. Ihope that the people responsible for organized hockey in this province take a good, hard look at the Fisher report. There is too much wrong with the present situation; there are too many people who are going to use the report as further ammunition in their attacks and criticism of the game as it is played at the present. Hockey may be headed for even rougher times unless there is a drastic overhaul: everything from violence on the ice, too much competition at too early an age, the costs, the lack of qualified volunteer coaches and so on and so forth. Maybe Fisher's harsh words will actually wind up doing the sport a favour. For hockey is still a beautiful game when played the way it should be played. And it can be fun when the emphasis is on participation rather than competition, when the violence is removed. But unless there are substantial changes in all aspects of the game and the way it is organized, Fisher's report may well be just another nail in the coffin lid which is slowly closing around our national sport. : PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., January 28, 1981 -- 5 letters Ban ice fishing Dear Sir: Re the letter Port Perry Star, January 21, from Terry McBride, Blackstock, concerning ice fishing. I am happy to know that Mr. McBride has never seen much debris, broken glass, etc. left behind by his fellow ice fishermen. Unfortunate- ly, my eight year old son has. He has a scar on his left instep from the seven stitch- es it took to close a gash from the neck of a beer bottle after his first swim of the year. The fishermen did a real good job of cleaning up after that trip, just dumped every- thing into the water. If Mr. McBride or anyone else has any doubts, just ask the excellent personnel at your hospital who have to repair the human damage. As for my fellow summer fisher- men, polluting the lake I offer my apologies. Fortun- ately, we do not harm people and spoil children's summers. On January 15th, the local Police Department advised me that the thickness of the ice on Lake Scugog was between three and four feet. As anyone who boats in this lake knows a vast majority of the lake from Port to the end of the Island is in this depth range and that is why you will find everyone ice fishing in or near: the channel. As for Mr. Goreski only being concerned because of monetary reasons, I would advise Mr. McBride that a few years back the same Mr. Goreski made money from winter people as well but stopped at the request of local people and summer fishermen. Also, I have yet to see or hear of any boaters trespass, knock down fences or leave broken bottles. I am equally sure that in Mr. McBride's many long and costly excur- sions to Lake Scugog from Blackstock that he spends a great deal of money in Port Perry. I for one who enjoy both summer and winter fishing am strongly in favour of banning ice fishing in Lake Scugog. Having fished this lake for the past 26 years, the size of fish has deteriorated greatly. Yours truly, Stan Smith, Toronto, Ontario editorial (From page 4) of local councils throughout the Region is reaching the point of absurdity. The 30-member Regional council rate is now $13,890 per year. A member of the local Scugog council, for example receives $5300. Although the public would no doubt have a hard time accepting it, the figures really should be reversed. There is no question that if a local councillor is doing his (or her) job the work-load at the local level is every bit as strenuous and time-consuming as it is at the Regional level, and in many cases, more so. There is just no way that the amount of work done by a regional councillor is "'worth" $8000 more than the work done by a ward councillor in Scugog. In fact, during debate in Regional council last week over a proposed freeze on councillors salaries at the 1980 level, more than one member made reference to the fact that the work-load has actually decreased from what it was three or four years ago. Council still turned down the freeze and will get a seven per cent hike in 1981. Meanwhile, Scugog. councillors, who in fact are under-paid these days will wrestle with their own pay increases over the next few weeks. And while they probably will vote for an increase, they'll still be far under-paid when compared to the Regional rate. port perry star Company Limited J.B. 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