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JULY 6, 1967 - Centennial celebration held in Port Perry exceeded all expectations as the days activities went off without a hitch. Above, 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 25, 1921 Intherecent Cartwright Field Crop Competition the following were winners, Nelson Marlow, Jas. Marlow, L.E. Mountjoy, Reg Nesbitt, Geo. Nesbitt, Geo. M. Marlow and W.C. Ferguson. H.S. Osler trapped about 200 ducks in the reserve at the head of Lake Scugog. Most of them were blacks and EN Ma ln Centennial secretary Howard Hall and chairman Bill Taylor [right] display their enthusiasm as the proceeds kept them out of the hole. mallards and a few blue winged teal. Reports of these ducks have been received from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansa, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, while one of the blue winged teal waskilled near Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than 25,000 miles from the place where they were banded. The Port Perry Board of Education have engaged (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., September 9, 1981 -- § It's back to school for 3300 Scugog students It was back to school on Tuesday for students across Scugog Township, and a survey of area schools by the Star shows that enrolment figures are pretty much the same as last year. For the 131 students and six teachers at the new Immaculate Conception Separate School in Port Perry, Tuesday was a "first" first day of class. Principal John Quinn told the Star that the opening of the new school went very smoothly and the 131 stu- dents registered from Junior Kindergarten through to grade 8 represent a slight increase in projections made earlier in the year. Classes are being held in portables at the Immaculate Church property on Scugog Street in Port Perry with the church hall used for library and administration facili- ties. The new school is "'twin- ned" with St. Leo's School in Brooklin where Mr. Quinn also has duties as principal. R.H. Cornish Public School in Port Perry reports that 916 students were registered on the first day of class, a slight increase over the 905 at the school last year. This is the first year that full French Immersion classes are offered at the school, and there are 42 in the Immersion program at the Kindergarten level and 29 in the grade 1 class. Prince Albert Public School, which has Kinder- garten to grade 6 classes and a T.M.R. class reports enrolment of 382 students on the first day of school, down three from last year. However, school officials there expect that enrolment will increase slightly over the next week or so. There are 19 teachers on staff at Prince Albert School, the same as last year. Bud Morrison, principal of the combined schools in Epsom and Greenbank said that first day registrations were at 221, down by four students over last year. In the Kindergarten to grade 6 class at Epsom, there are 89 students, and the grade one to grade six classes at Greenbank there are 132 students. The ten teachers at both schools is the same as last year. At Cartwright Public School in Blackstock, princi- pal John Hinch said that 511 students registered on the first day, a decrease of about 30 from last year. Mr. Hinch said the drop in enrolment had been expect- ed by the school due to the French Immersion prog- rams at R.H. Cornish and the opening of the new separate chotterbox PETER BUYS THE SUN "The date is September 1, 1986. The energy agreement, signed with such fanfare five years ago by the Ottawa and Alberta governments has just expired, and the original negotiators are back at the bargaining table . once again to work out a pact to take them through the next five years. However, much has changed since that day five years ago. Peter Lougheed is now the president of the Republic of Alberta, strongest industrial nation in the world. Alberta bought its independence on January 1, 1982 and agreed somewhat reluctantly to take the other nine provinces of what used to be Canada under its wing. Pierre Trudeau, who was Prime Minister of Canada on that day five years ago, retired from politics a couple of months later, moved to Alberta and became a recluse on a dirt farm just south of Lethbridge, content to live out his days in quiet anonymity. The big job he cherished so dearly at the United Nations never came to. It went to an Albertan by-the name of Joe Clark. But on the day Alberta bought her independence and swallowed up the rest of Canada, the people of the nine other fiefdoms now ruled from Edmonton, sent an urgent message. to that dirt farm just south of Lethbridge, calling on Mr. Trudeau to come out of retirement, form a coalition government and lead the negotiating team to work out a new oil price with Alberta. The meeting, held in Edmonton, now the second largest city in the western world behind Calgary, gave President Peter a chance to show the rest of the world just what Alberta has been able to accomplish in five short yers with unlimited petro-dollars. One of the first things Alberta did was to buy Saudia Arabia, lock stock and barrel for $100 billion cash, payable in Swiss francs and Alberta petros, a currency so. strong it is now recognized the world over. The $100 billion for Saudia Arabia scarcely put a dent in the Alberta heritage Fund, which grows by half that amount ea y. You see as soon as Alberta became a country on January 1, 1982, President Peter revealed to the world that Alberta is literally sitting on an ocean of oil, hundreds of billions of barrels of the stuff just beneath the surface. Prior to September 1, 1981, that was a well kept secret. Alberta didn't stop with Saudia Arabia. It purchased the by John B. McClelland entire eastern seaboard of the United States from Maine to Florida for an undisclosed fee. Alberta agreed not buy Washington D.C. as a way of letting Ronald Reagan save face. By the way, as soon as that deal went through, Mr. Reagan also retired to Alberta, just down the road from Mr. Trudeau: Alberta made a few other minor purchases along the way such as the entire North Sea, the complete Japanese auto industry (GM refused to sell) all the gold in South Africa, the State of Alaska, every nuclear reactor in the world (all of which were promptly mothballed) the Trans-Siberian Rail- way, Hollywood and the Eiffel Tower. In 1983, President Peter suddenly came to the conclusion that the new country would need an army to protect its far-flung empire. He went to China and bought a force of seven million soldiers, each of whom is equipped with the latest in military hardware. He bought the entire American missile sytem, moving half of it to Alberta. The Russian submarine fleet was next on the 'shopping list, and just so Alberta sailors could get home once in a while, a canal was dredged from the Pacific through the Rockies. So that is what Alberta has done in the last five years, and now as President Peter and Premier Pierre for the other nine fiefdoms sit down to work out a new agreement, the -conversation goes like this: PIERRE: Good to see you again, Peter. You are doing rather . nicely, I see. PETER: Thank you, Pierre. I've always meant to tell you how grateful I am for that agreement of five years ago. It was just the breakthrough Alberta needed. You know what they say: that first $100 billion is the toughest, the rest comes easy. PIERRE: Well, it seemed like a good deal all around five years ago. PETER: Let's get down to business. I'm told the people in the colonies of Ontario and Quebec are in for a tough winter this year because heating oil is $5 a gallon. We never set out to cause undue hardship. Albertans have only taken what is rightfully theirs to steal, er, take. PIERRE: It is going to be a hard winter, and there are just 60 cars left on the road in all of Ontario because nobody can afford the gas. PETER: Really? I had no idea it has come to that. If there are no cars to use our $10 per gallon Alberta gasoline, that (Turn to page 6) could be trouble for us. PIERRE: I'm afraid that's the situation. PETER: Well, we can't have that, can we? Alberta is thinking of buying the Pacific Ocean, but if there are no cars on the road in the colonies, we could have a cash flow problem. PIERRE: You may also have another problem, as there are two companies making illegal wood stoves in Ontario so the peasants can burn wood this winter instead of oil. PETER: I gave orders to my armies to crush the illegal wood stove business three years ago. Tougher measures are needed, obviously. But if you can help me rid the colonies of the last wood stove, Alberta will hold the line this winter on oil prices. What could be more fair? PIERRE: That's very generous of you. But what about gasoline? PETER: I've decided that since the agreement of September 1, 1981 was such a good thing for all concerned, we simply repeat it for another five years. PIERRE: The peasants will rejoice at the glad tidings. PETER: Then it's all settled. Sign here please, and then you'll have to excuse me. I'm trying to buy the sun, but you-know-who is asking for a steep price. PIERRE: (under his breath) If Peter buys the sun, I guess you-know-who will be retiring in Alberta along with the rest of us. Oh, well, I couldn't ask for a better neighbour. (Aloud) Good luck President Peter. (port perry star | Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Sa, Gon ; (0m): "as ay 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. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as Second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage incash 4 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $10.00 per year. Elsewhere: $30.00 per year Single Coply: 25° ) ------------ ---- --------"-- rs