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ON PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., August 19, 1981 -- 5 No bikes on street during festivities Dear Sir: _ VT nh I] . I a i PM one minor change for next With another successful year. Western Weekend just behind us, and thoroughly be blocked off to all traffic, enjoyed by all, may I make not just automobiles, but This, being that Queen St. AUGUST 29, 1968 - The Port Perry Chamber of Commerce and the Maple Leaf Judo Club donated a total of $293 to Central Seven Associa- - tion for the Mentally Retarded. Seen presenting the Judo Club are Eric Place, instructor and Kim Murray presenting the cheque to Mrs. M.B. Dymond. C of C president Eleanor Wood is seen looking on at right of photo. remember when ...¢ 60 YEARSAGO Thursday, August 11, 1921 Port Perry's 1921 Tax rate is 26 mills struck at Monday's council meeting. - The purchase of the property for a rink site from Wm. Parr has been completed. A number of rink plans are now being looked into. Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Crosier and Mrs. Bond, Manchester called on friends in Brooklin and Whitby on Sunday afternoon. M.J. Mitchell, Manchester has improved stock by importing a couple of fine Chester Whites from Portland, Michigan. 35YEARSAGO Thursday, August 14, 1946 On Wednesday of this week, the monument of D.D. Palmer, Founder of Chiropractic, was unveiled in a ceremony, by Hon. Mr. Michener, Provincial Secretary for the province of Ontario. Master Donald Long, Scugog Island is enjoying his . holiday with his uncle Mr. Roy Hope in Reach. A number of local Junior Farmers attended the - annual Sports Day of the Quinte Junior Farmers Assoc- bicycle riders as well. During the 4-day festivities I noticed several annoyed parents, because of children on bikes, dodging in and around them, even on side- walks. If you didn't happen to be looking in all directions at the same time, you could easily have been run over. A very close acquaintance of mine was walking across Queen St. carrying a hot dog in one hand, a hamburger in the other, and a bicycle zoomed right into him. The result - 4 cracked ribs (to the walker) and a lot of pain and discomfort. The rider took off and never looked back. For . parents pushing strollers and accompanying other small children as we were, it was a hazard. I understand that for some kids it is their only transpor- tation. I'm sure that store owners would not mind you locking your bicycle and leaving it parked behind their store for a few hours. One sign posted at the east and west entrances of Queen St. would certainly be seen by all entering. This would allow everyone to look forward to a safer Western Weekend, 1982. Yours truly, Mrs. Mary Van Kessel R.R. 1 Port Perry, Ontario Rail service vital Dear. Sir: , In the two weeks since M. Pepin announced his pro- posed cancellations of the Havelock-Stouffville and Barrie-to-Toronto daily VIA Rail service, public interest has waned and we feel that your readers should be reminded of what such cancellations will mean to all the . communities which depend on the inter-city train access to the airport and other train services, and for many other reasons. And many of us are dependent on the train service to bring family members home for the weekend, to transport the elderly, and for greater access to the cottage country. We cannot merely assume that nothing can be done to save the inter-city train iation. . ' link. Of course, the most service. All of us benefit obvious loss will be felt by from the daily availability of 25YEARSAGO those many hundreds of these trains. We must Thursday, August 16, 1956 daily commuters who use the protest to our elected Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Letcher are among the péirty of ¥ r Ontario bowlers that are touring Canada. 1 The OddFellow and Rebekah Lodges and their families met at Birdseye Centre Park for their annual picnic this past week. Radiostation CJBC's public affairs program "Let's Find Out" is in town this week, recording about people and events in the community for broadcast on the air next Sunday. The program is a documentary featuring Port Perry as atypical Ontario community of 2,000 people. } 20YEARSAGO Thursday, August 17, 1961 A caravan of forty-five cars of the Horseless Car- riage Club of Southern Ontario was in town on the Civic (Turn to page 6) Time Is Rows Our | train to get to jobs in Toronto. However, all our commun- ities depend on this very necessary train service -- people go to Toronto to shop, for educational purposes, for medical treatment not available locally, for enter- tainment, for visiting, for members; we must attend the Opposition's hearings into this matter; and we must keep the issue alive. Help save our trains, and preserve this vital inter-city link. Yours sincerely, Mary H. Baird Bethany, Ontario Umpires criticized Dear Sir: Oh, to be an umpire! It's not a job everyone wants and those that do choose that position in baseball are there . because they wanted to be. Now to get to be a profes- sional umpire that person has go through different stages of learning at dif- ferent ages. Some start their training at a young age. A group of boys in our Port Perry area in the twelve to thirteen year old age bracket decided they wanted to learn the umpire position. They spent time under the watch- ful eye of a carded umpire learning the basics. It was is helping them become good umpires. Constructive criticism can be beneficial. Professional umpires have been known to use poor judgement and make bad calls. The attitude there is - he's the umpire. All that training and experience and yet mistakes- What does that make him...A human being- ~ capable of error just like all of us at whatever we do. I'm sure all of us, at one time or another, have attend- ed a ball game and got upset with the umpire. Such comments as "Ah c'mon ump" or "Give us a break ump" and "Change the decided they should get some umpire", are often heard. I on-the-job experience and a myself have shouted at an good place to start would be umpire or two, even got a in the Squirt House League level. The children in this level are also in a learning' stage, some just up from T Ball, many of them making mistakes. Mistakes are healthy, you learn by them. These young umpires are making mistakes, at which point, some critical comments made by coaches Good effort Dear Sir: On behalf of the children of Manchester, we would like to thank Terry, Carol and Dawn of the Prince Albert Playground for the tremen- dous effort they put forth this summer. It was very much little frustrated at young umpires. But never have I (Turn to page 6) Kids news Dear Sir: As a weekly recipient of the Port Perry Star, and an avid reader of your news- paper I wonder why you do not have any section donated to my age group. I am age eight years and would love to see something for children published each week. We would not take up much newspaper space. Waiting for a positive response on this matter. i Sincerely appreciated. Many thanks. or ) : Ed and Barb Taylor Ronny Rossitor Thornton ATE. a Meta A > PN ys A ES Erni ta Mx A SEIN Hy Rah 3 ay ST > re - - - \} nt -