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Lions Club canvass for the sightless There are 15 legally blind people in Port Perry who are served by the Canadian Nation- al Institute for the Blind, according to CNIB district adminis- trator Bill Brown. Residents of Port Perry are being asked to help the CNIB help these blind people by making a contribution to the mail-in campaign now underway by the Port Perry Lions Club. Last Friday, notices were sent in the mail to Port Perry and immed- iate surrounding areas asking for pledges through the Port Perry Lions Club. Mr. Brown told the Star last w that the target is abaut $3000, which is what the CNIB spends for services to the blind in Port Perry, services such as talking books, rehabilitaion teaching in home and personal management, white canes, recreation- al and social activities, and for sending several people to a low vision clinic in Oshawa where efforts are made to improve their vision through magnification devices. The pledge envelopes which were mailed out on Friday contain the name and address of Lions Club CNIB cam- paign chairman Bill Fortune. All you have to do to help the blind in Port Perry is make a pledge, place a stamp in the envelope and drop it in the mail-box. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. November 13, 1984 -- 3 Legion members and veterans assemble for the Remembrance Day service in honour of the Canadian war dead. The parade marched from downtown Port Vandenberg discovers art and himself late in life Really, John Vanden- berg shouldn't be inter- ested in art at all. You'd think with a background in science, particularly biology, the 37 year old part-time artist and full-time teacher would stick to what he's best at. Science. The problem is, Mr. Vanderberg also has artistic talents that would put some artists to shame. So he balan- ARERR TEA i A ces his two worlds, and the result is the one-man show at Scugog Memor- ial Library. But up until six or seven years ago, Mr. Vandenberg didn't realize what talent he had. He had always held an interest in art but he'd never pursued it. He didn't start to pursue it until he began teaching at Port Perry High School, where in his first few months, he didn't know a soul. "I sat in on Grade Thirteen art classes during my lunch hour because I didn't know anybody," he recalls. His first few attempts were almost biological in form, realistic water- colour renderings of plants and flowers. He started off with watercolour because of its subtle, sensitive nature but gradually he turned solely to the Intuitive talent In just a few short years, Port Perry High School teacher John Vandenberg has developed his intuitive talent in art into an evocative graphic statement. Art lovers with a taste for the abstract can check out his one-man show at the library, throughout the next few weeks. See story for details. pencil -- for the same reasons. "I was very pleased with the pencil, which is so much more sensitive than any other medium," he says. With pencil in hand, his metamorphisis into artist was complete when he discovered abstract drawing -- and through abstract design, himself. "I'm actually starting to learn something about myself," he says. His latest work, which is still not complete, is a nine-drawing series of pencil essay he calls '""The Journey", an introspective trip into his own mind. Although each picture in the series begs to be explained, Mr. Vanden- berg prefers to let the viewer figure out the meaning of each draw- ing by his or herself. "What I want you to do is go through it yourself," he insists. "For me, it's like a tunnel, and all of a sudden it opens up and you can explore all sorts of possibilities." For him, The Journey is an almost spiritual undertaking with no end, as yet. And if people can't understand what his drawings mean, that's okay too. "If I can get them to look, that's what I feel is important." John Vandenberg will be at the library Nov- ember 15th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to answer any questions viewers might have about his work. See and be seen, the Ontario Safety League instructs motorists. Before each trip, always completely clear your car of snow and ice. Snow left on the hood or roof can blow back onto windows. Dirty slush and snow can completely hide your signals and brake lights, making them ineffectual. ' i) 0 0! (0 bs, 0 Ed a hs | , For those who died Perry to the Memorial Library for a dedication to the Book of Memory. Members of the High School Army Cadet Corps formed an Honour Guard for the service at the Legion Cenotaph Sunday mor- ning. Remembrance Day services were held Saturday morning in Blackstock. Region rejects request for free vote in House Durham Region council has turned down a request from York City council for support of a resolution calling on the federal government to hold a free vote in the House of Commons on re-instating capital pun- ishment for certain crimes. Regional council turned down the request for support at its reg- ular meeting last Wed- nesday as several coun- cillors argued that the council earlier this fall supported a resolution calling for a review of the death penalty issue. And the council also rejected a request for support from the City of York for a resolution calling on tightened up regulations of violence and sex in films and videos. Among other things, the Yor¥ "itv resolution wants the Ontario Cen- sor Board to ensure that excessive and sexually scenes be removed from films and videos and also that all violent films are clearly labelled to warn viewers of the contents. The resolution also calls the film and television in- dustry to be more re- sponsible in production of films containing de- grading violence and sex. Regional council apparently feels the issue is not a high priority as the request for support was denied without any discussion.