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EE -- a -------- ------ a a ---- Wo XP 8 Thorpe £8 LJ A 8 JRA SLY £4 Pi" 1) Hae aarti) CANT vat N : HS TR RV RLF IAN Bhatia 0 dimckiiigiv- tae ddennn Did dino ab ling aw § 0 ble dio tad SERA ERE J HOE ALN Norligh A 1 SAP es BER The Scugog Museum would like your help in finding out some history on this 2 gallon Finger Jug: salt-glazed grey stoneware, with floral cobalt-oxide [blue] design. The jug is stamped with the name "A. Sinclair, Wine & Spirit Merchant, Prince Albert, C.W."" Any infor- mation contact: Miss Trisha Holman, Curator, Scugog Shores Museum, P.O. Box 489, Port Perry. remember when ...¢ 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 11, 1921 At a meeting of the citizens of Port Perry concern- in the new rink, Mr. W.S. Short and Mr. W_.L. Parrish were appointed Captains of the canvas to take place in aid of funds. This method of the canvas will be to form a joint stock company and sell shares. Doctor Lundy was elected Chairman of the Board of Eduction. The Church of Ascension Young Peoples Society entertained the teachers from the high school and pub- lic school in the Parish Hall. Misses Glasgow and Eu- nice Harris won a box of chocolates for a music contest. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Williams, Scugog, opened their home in honour of a bride-to-be, Miss Gertrude Hayes, teacher at the 'Foot' school to Mr. Geo. W. Hood. 35 YEARS AGO Thurday, February 10, 1946 Hugh MacMillan, son of Rev. J.A. McMillan, Port Perry, having received his discharge from the army, has done a recorded bit of of hiking. He covered a distance of 4,200 miles in a couple of weeks. A shipment of 200 baby chicks was made by Peels Bros. from Toronto to Bellingham, Washington, by air express, a distance of 3000 miles. This is the second trial shipment of baby chicks. The chicks all arrived well and in good condition. Port Perry High School Choir entered the Kiwanis Music Festival and won third place. Mrs. Elsie Dobson is musical directress for Port Perry School. Mr. John Orde has received his discharge from the army and is now settled in Hamilton: : : 25 YEARS AGO Thursday February 16, 1956 At the annual Scout Father and Son Banquet, held in the Scout Hall, Mr. Stanley Ploughman was presented with the Long Service Medal for 20 years of faithful service to Scouting in Port Perry. Three Scouts - James Hunter, Albert Fulford and Clive Boyd were presented with Queen Scout Badges. Mr. Jack Atkinson, Com- missioner from Provincial Headquarters, made the presentations. The new addition to Uxbridge High School was of- (Turn to page 6) HOLLYWOOD NORTH Spring may yet be a long way off, but if politics warms your blood, there is enough going on right now to keep away the chilliest of winter breezes. Premier William Davis surfaced February 2. Nobody asked him whether or not he saw his shadow, but he did announce that the good citizens of Ontario will be going to the polls for a provincial election March 19. Politicians usually dread the thought of a winter campaign, although it did not seem to bother Pierre Trudeau too much just a year ago this month. Tied in with the provincial election, of course, is the red hot race for the Conservative nomination in this riding Durham-York. The meeting to select a candidate is this Wednesday night (February 11) and most observers of the local political scene agree that the balloting will go down to the wire. There are three very credible candidates seeking to carry the Tory blue on March 19 with the retirement of Bill Newman who didn't have much trouble getting re-elected in the riding four years ago. Reg. Rose and Yvonne Christie from Scugog Township and Ross Stevenson from Georgina are battling it out tooth and nail for that Tory nomination, and quite frankly, I would not for one minute care to hazard a guess as to what the outcome will be. More than 600 delegates will be casting ballots at the meeting this Wednesday. Officially, the action takes place in the auditorium at Uxbridge High School. But the real politics will be going on in the corridors of the school or out in the parking lot as supporters of each candidate try their utmost to sway delegates to vote for their favourite. The nomination fight is going to be tough, maybe even bitter. One aspect of the process that could be interesting is what kind of an effect it may have on the local organization and the party faithful during the campaign leading up to the March 19 election. Will the nomination fight lead to bad feelings and splits within the ranks? Time will tell. But I see where a Tory nomination meeting last week in Oshawa caused some people, including the defeated candidate to leave in a huff, not even bothering to pose for the traditional pictures with the victor. The NDP meanwhile are running Marg Wilbur in the Durham-York riding. Mrs. Wilbur, a tireless party worker in numerous campaigns lives in Scugog and comes from a very political family. Her father, Andrew Brewin was a federal M.P. in Toronto for the NDP for almost 20 years. Mrs. Wilbur will run a good campaign. She is articulate, has a knowledge of the issues, and has been active in community affairs. chotterbox by John B. McClelland However, she is running in what is a conservative riding. And quite frankly, the mood of people in Ontario and Canada in 1981 is not shifting to the left by any means. Observers say that the provincial NDP under Mike Cassidy will have trouble holding on to the seats they have now, never mind making any new in-roads. As for the Liberals in Durham-York, to my knowledge there was not even a candidate being mentioned as of the middle of last week. No doubt one will be selected, but the Libs in this riding are slow off the mark. Whoever carries the banner on March 19 will have to contend with the incredible anti-Liberal feeling that is being generated at the Federal level over the Constitutional crisis and the way Pierre Trudeau has handled the whole issue. At this moment, he is probably the most unpopular politician in the country, and the strong dislike for him is cutting through traditional party loyalties. And Uxbridge Township, Scugog's good neighbour to the west, went to the polls Monday (February 9) to choose a mayor. - Although the results will be known by the time this appears in the paper, I am guessing that Bill Ballinger will easily win the election over his two opponents. Ballinger, who operates a restaurant in Port Perry was quoted in an Oshawa newspaper last week saying he's worried about the outcome. One of his opponents is a 19 year old unemployed kid who has never run for office before, and the other is a 66-year old gentleman who is fairly new to the Uxbridge area and not very well known. Maybe Ballinger should be worried, stranger things have happened in politics. And finally this winter, federal Tories will be off to the nation's capital shortly for a national convention, at which time the question of Joe Clark's leadership will be raised. Everyone talks about Clark's "image" and how badly he has been treated by the media, especially those devils who draw editorial cartoons. Balderdash. His 'image' aside, Clark has hardly been an inspiring leader, and doesn't seem to be improving even though he has been at the helm for five years. If the Tories have not figured out yet that style, not substance is 90 per cent of the political game these days, then they deserve him for another five years. Anyway, that's enough about politics. Thank goodness there is something going on in this country besides the constitutional debate. The politics this winter is going to be more interesting than Hockey Night in Canada, and will probably get me through to spring. Nery SA. SEA KA ZAOT iY, Hs Ahly Liaw TP ie ISON AL iad fe os FARE RRMUPIIL FIR WIA CHOY Sup sr eriv ess YE FPA PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., February 11, 1981 -- 5 letters Fisherwoman replies Dear Sir: Before maintaining that the fishing has never been better on Lake Scugog you first should have phoned Natural Resources and got your facts straight in last week's letter. Due to heavy use (winter and summer) more weeds than ever before, greater population growth around the lake, the average size of the Pickerel is down and fishing in general is poorer. The question then is how can we lift some of the pressure off our lake? Just maybe the answer could be to alternate ice fishing to every other year. Horrors! There we go again maligning the ice fish- erperson. Really! 1 say to you Mr. McBride quit making noises like a cry baby, face up to the fact that there is a problem and that the average citizen is not out to eliminate ice fishing but is trying to find a practical solution that can be employ- ed to make fishing better for all. Yours truly, Joan Bayley, Caesarea, Ont. Support Hospital Strike Dear Sir: i We, the executive of Local 164 of the Ontario Nurses Association, encompassing the Registered Nursing staff at Community Memorial Hospital, would like to bring to your attention a press release from our association during the recent .CUPE strike. It clearly states our concerns, and support of the - members of CUPE in the major issue of the strike which we feel was overlook- ed by the press who seemed more concerned with the dollar and cents value of the wage settlement in reporting to the public. For, we too, have been without a contract since September and are presently involved in the arbitration process, a lengthy and all too often, unsatisfactory ex- perience. Our previous contract that expired in September 1978 was settled by the arbitration process only in the late spring of 1980, after a wait of almost two years. Now, the present negotiations are seemingly going the same route. Can you not imaging and sym- our membership in a le than satisfactory settlement each time contract negotia- tions come due? We share these feelings with the CUPE members and have supported them throughout the strike as much as possible, within the bounds of our collective agreement. Yours truly, The Executive - Local 164 O.N.A. Eleanor Holroyd, President Imports costing jobs Dear Sir: In a recent article in a Toronto newspaper, I read a story concerning the purchase of new police cars in Ontario. The Sarnia police have just bought three new Volks- wagon Rabbits and the Metro Toronto Police Force just recently purchased thirty new Toyota Tercels. Surely they could have found a car made by General Motors. Ford or Chrysler just as inexpensive and of equal performance that would be as easy on gas as these imported cars. I believe it is time people realized that the slogan "Buy Canadian' is not just another patriotic chest- thumping. flag-waving propaganda campaign. but can mean a real loss of jobs for all Canadian workers and I do not just mean in the auto industry. ' I wonder how the Metro police force would feel if (Turn to page 7) (port perry star Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Rey Gow (1m): Y--- Serving the Township of Scugog J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. 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