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letters Lo 3 Nr [4 BR) Y* R LJ .« > | PRIN d | » » rid '] "RY IRE SARA) ps bb Fea a wit Lama ot SEES SENSE ISLE ARSE DFP HINA) So Concerned about care of graves Dear Sir: On December 18,1982, our son was Killed in an accident and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery. When a plot is purchas- ed there, you also pur- chase perpetual care. - My question is- does perpetual care include, the running across the grave with a tractor, when there is at least eight feet between the grave and the woods, with nothing in between? Also, does perpetual care include the throw- ing out of new wreaths and flowers, that have been placed on his grave from friends and children, with love and respect? On Christmas Day, three days after he was buried, the rain had washed the dirt away, so that the vault was show- ing, and as spring ap- proached, there was a hole that a post could have been driven into. His grave had never been heaped up, as some are. The wreath I have retrieved from the woods three times, and the last time, it had been cuse cannot be given that it was old. In searching for our wreath, we discovered at least 30 other ones thrown out. We try to raise our deliberately taken a good 'children to respect the distance from the site and thrown over an em- bankment. However, whoever did it, did not reckon with our younger son, who was most hurt. The wreath was placed there for our son's 17th birthday which was March 16, 1983, so the ex- dead, and to honour them. It certainly is disconcerting to a Mother's heart to see her child's grave misused. We realize that being caretaker for a cemetery cannot be the most plea- sant job in the world. but (Turn to page 6) 0 WAU) iisile ssh abonsaliiioe ti ides dyna uidel Niusoardindd PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. May 25, 1983 -- § LAN | rv the sto PORT PERRY STARR CO LUTHTED (»cna J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher * Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor BYRAOIAN COMMU Gn 135 QUEEN STREET pO 80X90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LOS WO (416) 985.738) (8 | (549) (=) Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday 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 postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35 bill smiley BARGAIN HUNTING Since I haven't had time in the past week to brood over a great national, international, or spiritual theme, as is my wont, he said, this week, we'll have to be con tented with some short shots, or as some put it, theshot- gun approach, in which we aim at everything and often - hit nothing. Although she is quite slim, my wife plays a large part in my life. So I'll get rid of her first. And she can take any meaning she likes from that. You've probably seen a magician pulling eggs out of people's ears, and even out of his own. But have you ever seen an aging teacher-columnist with eggs com- ing out of his ears? Drop around. ' My old lady, torn between inflation and my threats to retire on a piddly pension, has been caught up ina great savings kick. The results would be hilarious, if they weren't so expensive. I mentioned eggs. Recently she spotted a great bargain on eggs, a saving of about 30 cents a dozen. We already had a dozen and a half in the fridge. She rush- ed out and bought three dozen. Have you ever existed on two boiled eggs for breakfast, an egg sandwich for lunch, and bacon and eggs for dinner, for about 10 days straight, so that the eggs wouldn't go rotten? I'm so sick of eggs, I can't even eat chicken. Speaking of which, another bargain -- great hairy chicken legs gat about 10 per cent off. At least you can freeze them, but you risk instant concussion when you open the little freezer in the top of the fridge, and are buried under an avalanche of chicken legs, hamburg, pork chops, frozen loaves of bread, frozen hamburger buns and frozen you-name-it; all bought at bargain prices. It takes half an hour, and the two of us, to get all that junk fitted back into the freezer, and a running jump at the door to force it closed. Some of you oldsters will remember Fibber McGee's closet. That's it. She came across a bargain in margarine, and there are eight pounds of it stuck in the bottom half of the fridge. Not even room to cool a bottle of beer. There was another hot buy on toilet tissue, and we have enough around the house to paper the Kremlin. I'm using third-rate shaving cream because it was cheaper. She hasn't had time to iron'a shirt, because she's so busy chasing around after the "specials." But I shouldn't complain. The savings are fantastic. However the narky little bookkeeper in the back of my mind notes that I have to buy four newspapers a week, instead of one, and that the gas bill has gone up about 20 per cent because she doesn't do all her shopping in one store any more, but dashes around to three or four, miles apart. 1 figure we're only going behind on bargains at about 30 per cent a week. Between her bargains and her canvassing for the Cancer Society, I can scarcely insert a "diddly-poop"' into the conversation any more. I try to get back to my favourite themes: the ini- quity of the Finance Minister, the obtuseness of the school board, the rotten weather, the unreality of the administration, the foibles of my fellow teachers, and the adolescent senility of my students. Normal, sane grouching, in other words. She blithely ignores me as she babbles on about-the latest bargain in deodorants (which on closer examina- tion proved that we were paying more than the regular " rate), and the eccentricities of the people she is canvassing. Her eyes sparkle with anger as she relates how she approached a house with a car in the driveway, televi- sion blaring inside, an upper window curtain twitching, and nobody would answer the door, even after 18 rings, and a quick whip around to the back door. I try to tell her, after my own years of canvassing, that that's quite normal. When people peek out and see a determined-looking woman, with receipts in her hand, and a pen in the other, approaching their house, they instinctively hide. They know she's either selling something, or wants a donation to something. And there are the people whose husband 'gives at the office," and whose husbands tell their canvassers that "my wife looks after all charitable donations at home." And then, she's a sucker. One pensioner, obviously lonely, kept her in conversation for half an hour, refus- ed to donate a nickel and an hour later, picked her up in his car, drove her to his house and gave her a couple of bucks 'because your're working so hard at it." At another house, the door was opened by a man who'd recently had a heart attack. His wife had already contributed, but he insisted mine come in, have a cup of coffee and hear about his attack. We have played golf with the couple and have known them casually for years. But in an excess of nerves or something, she gave him a kiss on the cheek, right on his front porch, as they were parting. And right across the street from the Anglican minister's. I told her the wires would be hum- ming that night. And then there was the drunk in the apartment building, and the woman who wouldn't answer the door, but came running out after her in bare feet, and . . . but that's the way it goes. Fascinating stuff, bargains and canvassing. But I haven't kept my bargain. This was to be a shot-gun col- umn, full of aphorisms, ironies, and biting little snip- pets. And all I've talked about is that crazy lady I've been married to for 35 years. Oh, well. C'est la vie domestique. } } hii a an or 60 YEARS AGO } Thursday, May 24, 1923 We are pleased to report that Messrs. Morley and Lee Honey, Port Perry, have completed their dental courses, having passed the recent examinations. : James Mark, Prince Albert, was chosen Conservative :andidate at the North Victoria convention. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. AE. Sims, Port Perry, on Monday, May 21, 1923. Two thousand dollars was voted to the Board of Education in Port Perry for current expenses. py Mr. W.L. Parrish's account of $500 for the two fur- naces installed in the Town Hall, was ordered to be paid during a special meeting of the Town Council on Monday evening. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 20, 1948 Friday was Open House day at Port Perry Public School. Many parents and friends turned out and filled the Assembly Hall to listen to one of the best concerts the children have ever put on. . Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Graham, Burketon, wish to an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Alma Marie to Ross Lorne Duff, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Duff, Port Perry. It is contrary to law to dump rubbish and refuse on the roadways of the Township of Scugog. Anyone doing so will be prosecuted according to the law. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 22, 1958 Abrams were married in Port Perry United Church on May 3, 1958. The bride is the former Donna Marie Jef- frey of Port Perry. } On Tuesday, April 29th, 1958, Mr. and Mrs. George Staniland welcomed guests into their home on the oc- casion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Uxbridge Township received a deputation from residents in the Glen Major district, requesting that coun- cil take more aggressive action in improving the roads in the area. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 23, 1963 Dennis Symes, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Symes, R.R. 4, Port Perry attained all 14 Wolf Cub badges. Den- nis was 2-Star Cub, Sixer of the Green Six and has hopes of being a Queen Scout. Southern Ontario and York County have just acquired one of the most modern egg factories in Canada. It is the, Feathercrest Farms Ltd., poultry operation at R.R. 1, Prince Albert. On May 28th they will have an official Open House and guest speaker will be Everett M. Biggs, Deputy Minister of Agriculture. Members of the Scugog Chapter of the ILOD.E., senta letter to the Port Perry Council concerning the broken glass and litter on Port Perry streets. Council will en- deavour to do everything in their power to keep the streets clean' ; 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 23, 1968 Wreckless speed boat operators and waterskiers will have to be on the look out this summer as the Whitby detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police has pur- chased a high speed outboard cruiser to patrol Lake Scugog and the south end of Lake Simcoe for hazardous boating habits. . Clark Muirhead, a professional engineer and member of Uxbridge Township Council won the six-way contest of the Ontario Riding Progressive Conservative nominations in Uxbridge. Congratulations to Marie Taylor, who was recently accepted as a member of the Toronto Symphony Or- chestra Chorus, after an audition for the Contralto sec- tion. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 23, 1973\ Port Perry's $83,000 water pump system broke down and left the town with no water for more than 48 hours last weekend. Some very thoughtful youngsters showed up at the hospital Tuesday morning carrying buckets of water. A 3.7 mill decrease in Port Perry's 1973 tax rate will reduce taxes by 12 to 14 dollars on an average home. Mr. Norman Aldred attended the First World War Flyers Reunion last week at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia. There were 237 veteran flyers present for the event. Mr. Aldred was the only one present from this area. The roster stdtes there are still some 714 mem- bers.- > Sevag: TR a eh RR --~ aX ay i i -- ~~ Vom 0 3 peo To IS Se SANRG =