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letters UNICEF requires assistance Dear Sir: As fall approaches, UNICEF begins to search for prospective volunteers to assist in the various fund- raising programmes which take place throughout the year, but especially during the fall months. Each year we appeal to Ontarians for this assistance through the good services of the media. Your support in the past has been greatly appreciated in communicating UNICEF's need for volun- teer help to your readers -- and without this help UNICEF projects to assist millions of the most under- priviledged children around the world would not achieve even a modicum of success. The funds raised annually by UNICEF volunteers support projects in 111 countries in the field of basic services, providing over 500 million children with improved health, education, nutrition, safe water and sanitation. I would like to convery our sincere thanks for your con- tinued interest and we look ~- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. September 8, 1982 -- 5 the sto PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET. P.0.80X 90. PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. LOB INO (416) 985-7383 forward to working with volunteers throughout Ontario for the children of the world. If any of your readers would like to learn more about the volunteer opportunities available with UNICEF, they should call: Publisher Editor 416-487-4153. Yours sincerely, Ri, Elizabeth Gordon Edwards n Gon 5 Provincial Chairman 4 3 Ontario UNICEF Committee J.PETERHVIDSTEN Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND 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 cash payment of postageincash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: InCanada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35¢ bill smiley CHILDHOOD REVISITED Towards Christmas, we hear that rather maudlin line only too often, '"'Christmas is for the children." And commercially it is, as we go out and buy them 10 times as many presents as we got when we were kids. But I'd like to amend that slogan somewhat, and make it "'Summer is for the children." I'm talking from experience. As summer waned, I was waning quite a bit along with it. I've been swimming twice, haven't even had my golf clubs out of the bag, and haven't dipped a fishing line in the water. ~ Sounds like a total blank, but it wasn't. Instead of participating, I was coaching. Two grandsons, eight and six, were to spend July with us. Four weeks. I knew it was going to be hectic, but I figured we could stand it. "And we did. If "standing it' means being on your knees when they left. _ But it was a great experience. For the kids. They went to day camp. The older one learned to dive like a seal, the younger to swim. They were already con artists, but honed their skills on their grandfather by developing a sudden and overwhelming thirst every time we got near a pop stand, and a similar hunger every time they came within smelling distance of french fries. Migawd, how those kids can eat! Each one of them eats more than my wife and I put together. Our grocery bill shot up astronomically. How their mother is going to feed them in another couple of years I have no idea. But they weren't the only ones to learn a lot during the summer. I did. I learned, or re-learned a lot about what makes little boys tick, what makes them suddenly sullen and silent, or gabby and gregarious, what drives them into a sudden fist fight out of the blue, and how to threaten, coerce, and tease them into going to bed after 14 hours of non-stop activity. I learned how to stand still and allow them to climb me like a ladder, so that I could serve as a diving board. I learned a new type of baseball in which six hits and you're out. I learned that, with the utmost concentration I can beat 8-year-old Nikov in chess. I learned a good deal about soccer: that you get your feet wet when you play on the back lawn while the dew is heavy. I learned that kids will eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich at any hour of the day or night. I learned that if you give kids a centimeter, they want a kilometer. I learned that, even at eight, boys these days are conscious of their hair-do. After a number of experiences, I learned that there's no point whatever in buying them a new gimmick. They wrecked three (cheap) tennis rackets out of four in two days and quickly destroyed other instruments of pleasure by stepping on them, using them to smash something, or pulling them apart to see how they work. I re-learned how an older brother can look after a younger, and how a younger tries to emulate everything the older ones does, at the risk of breaking his neck. I went through it with my kid brother years ago, but I had forgotten. I detested him because he was always following me and my gang around, even though I'd threaten him with horrible things if he didn't stop. But I never let anyone bully him. And he stood up for me. Each time I'd get in a fight in the schoolyard, which was fairly often, he'd stand by and cry his head off. Similarly. Nik despises Balind at times, but when there's a crisis (chest cold, wasp stings, a bad tumble) he puts his arm around him, coos sympathy like a mother, and leads him to Gran or Grandad for treatment). Typical. They were playing baseball one day. I sat watching and waiting for a window to be smashed. Suddenly Balind began screaming with pain. He'd ventured into a bee's nest that we weren't aware of, as he pursued a triple, and had been stung twice. Nikov dragged him in, arm around his shoulders, "Poor Balind. The bees stung him." I dredge up an old memory of putting baking soda on bee stings. We did, along with ice cubes, and 10 minutes later we were out slaughtering those bees with spray. Nikov killing them mercilessly. I mentioned coaching. Maybe I'll switch to teaching Physical Education this fall. I taught the little guy to keep his eye on the ball, not his brother, when he was hitting baseballs to be fielded. He got it and was soon hitting them deep into the jungle around our backyard. I taught them not to kick a hard soccer ball directly at the head of their grandmother. I taught them that when you were diving off a rock, you made sure your weren't diving onto another rock. I could go on, but it's boring. But I learned one more thing. When you have Grandkids for a weekend, you're delighted to see them, and overjoyed when they leave. But the longer you have them, the more you miss them when they leave. No more Balind saying: "I don't want to live in a basement apartment. I just want to live in an ordinary house like this." He wanted fo stay until Christmas. No more Nikov cooking very carefully scrambled eggs for the gang and apologizing about their texture. No more two little tow-heads side by side, sleeping like exhausted angels. Or devils. remember when? y. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 7, 1922 At the town council meeting, a grant of $75.00 was - made to the Port Perry Fair. Mr. Fred A. Kent took first prize on collection of dahlias at the Canadian National Exhibition. Miss Hazel Everson of Prince Albert is attending Albert College, Belleville. Mr. George Morris was re-elected to the office of Grand Chaplin at a meeting of the Loyal True Blues at Windsor. Port Perry High School opened with sixty-eight students in attendance. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 4, 1947 School opoened this year with 185 students at the public school and 150 at high school. Garnet Cochrane of Prospect won six firsts, two seconds and one third on his showing of eight horses and Miss Wilma Cochrane received second as Lady Driver at Port Perry Fair. In Cartwright township, a by-law was passed fixing the tax rate at 29 mills. Miss Cecil Hill and Miss Mona Ferguson attended a school for leaders of the W.M.S. at Whitby Ladies College. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 5, 1957 Two grade 13 students have been granted Dominion Provincial Bursaries. They are Gloria Fralick and Eleanor Hutchinson. Charles Trinka of the Grade 12 General Course was awarded one of the County's Dominion Provincial Bursaries. A testimonial dinner will be held in Oshawa to honour Ontario Riding's two cabinet ministers, Hon. Michael Starr, "Federal Minister of Labour and Hon. Matt Dymond, Provincial Minister of Reform Institutions. Bruce Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Len Taylor won the George and Elizabeth Rutherford Scholarship in Mathematics and Science on his completion of Grade 13. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 6, 1962 The Red Cross Swimming Instructors at Poplar Park are Nola Hunter and John Pickard. The Ball Park has received a grant of $1,460. from the Province of Ontario. Bruce McMillan, R.R. 1 Blackwater, a member of Port Perry Junior Farmers will represent Ontario County at the annual Junior Farmer's Soil & Land Use Tour. Over 7,000 people attended Port Perry Fair. Port Perry Squirts win the first series against Cobourg, and now meet Oshawa. The contest is for the Ontario Squirt Championship. 15 YEARS AGO - Thursday, September 7, 1967 Perfect summer weather brought out a record crowd to the 1967 Port Perry Fair. Emmerson Insurance, founded by Harold Emmerson on September 1st, 1917 is celebrating its 50th year in business and is still run by the Emmerson family. Mr. Donald Gibson, Port Perry has left to take a position with A.C. Neilson, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 6, 1972 Mrs. Rose Philip of R.R. 4, Port Perry won first prize and a special Chatelaine prize for brown bread at the CNE . Bake Day. - Port Perry Kinette Club has elected their new executive for this year, being: vice president, Barb Brad- bury; president, Doreen Kendall; secretary, Jenny Toms and Bev Travis as treasurer. A surprise part was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harper to honour Mr. and Mrs. Horse Webster on the occasion of their 25th Wedding Anniversary. Guests attending were members of the Historical Society Choir. Mr. Harold Grove of Sunderland received the Bob Flett Trophy for Grand Champion Female Holstein at the Black | & White Show at Port Perry's annual Labour Day Weekend Fair. Ben Cooper, of England, was the judge for the contest. ARs we Doe Da v, ve om LY a ai, So ~ RE i TERR a a Ss oa NCA IN i SE - >. Ff PE x, - eT » ES . a hw ~ -~ Sen ~ ey or wR, », SRA Ne A - oh er a a ht