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editorial Good Luck As winter moves in to lock Lake Scugog with an icy grip, few people are thinking about the big summer problem: weeds in the lake. For the past couple of summers, Scugog has literally been choked with acquatic weeds: chok- ed to the point where normal boating and fishing activities have become almost impossible. On December 5 in the Township municipal chambers, a group of politicians and experts from a variety of government and private agencies will meet for the first time as the Lake Scugog Water Quality Task Force. Their mandate is simple enough: examine the quality (or lack) of Lake Scugog and try to come up with long and short term solutions to cor- rect the serious problems. The deterioration of Lake Scugog over the last couple of years has already started to hurt the tourist industry which is crucial to the economic well being of this Township. Talk to just about anyone and you'll get a different opinion as to what must be done. Let us hope the newly formed Task Force is successful in finding some solutions that work. 'As the Task Force prepares to sit down at its first meeting, about all we can say at this time is 'good luck." PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. November 20, 1984 -- 5 the PORT PERRY STAR CO LIMITED 135 QUEEN STREET PO 0X90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 WO (410) 989 738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN (ecia Ch Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor - and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB [Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario, News & Features PAnADIAN COMMUNI A " RS Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Artns As30S Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35° 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 Ne Ww © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers. remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 27, 1924 A memorial meeting held in planning a new soldiers Memorial Library was held in the Town Hall. During the meeting $650.00 was subscribed with a $200.00 donation from the .O.D.E. : Prizes were awarded to Jean Cawker and Alfred Higgs winners of second and third place in entrances examinations. Two young Port Perry men were called to the bar at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, the oath was administered by Chief Justice Meredith. They were Mr. John Harris and Mr. Douglas Lucas. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 24, 1949 Two local families were particularly interested in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the B-29 forced down in the Atlantic as each had a son among the personnel of the Destroyer who went to the rescue of the passengers. Mrs. J.C. Whitby's son, Patrick, and David Bentley, son of Mr. and Mrs. I.R. Bentley. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mountjoy, Blackstock, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter, Mrs. M. Byers. Miss Audrey Kent won thirteen prizes with her rabbits at the Royal Winter Fair. She had seventeen entries. Sinclair Robertson won first place standing in his class of Aberdeen Angus at the Royal Winter Fair. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 26, 1959 A Lions Club was organized at Brooklin and Charter Night was held in the 1.0.0.F Hall. Mr. J.J. Gibson started his fourth year as Reeve of Port Perry. The first Deputy Reeve for Port Perry was Mr. Tom Harris. At the Rod and Gun Club Banquet, Mr. Art Brock presented the 'Biggest Bass" trophy to Mr. Sam Naples. A 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 26, 1964 Mr. Neil Clark was promoted with his orange belt in Judo. Mr. A.G. Pacey was appointed the new Manager at the Royal Bank. Port Perry Hospital Auxiliary presented a $1000.00 che- que to the Hospital. The Third Consolidated school in Reach Township was officially opened in Epsom. The trustees this year were Pat Love, Bryon Holtby, Dorothy Mulholland, Neil Hunter and Earl Wilson. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 20, 1969 Miss Dianne Taylor was the Valedictorian at the an- nual Blackstock High School Commencement. She is now attending the University of Western Ontario. Dianne was presented the Valedictorian plaque by principal Gordon Paisley. Jim Gerrow, R.R. 3, Port Perry and a member of the Port Perry 4-H Grain Club is this year's Barley Champion at the Royal Winter Fair. His brother, Roy, captured se- cond place in the same class. Three staff members of the Community Memorial Hospital were presented with their R.N.A. certificates after a successful training program. Director of Nursing, Mrs. Jean Gray presented the certificate to Sylvia Franssen, Marie Perigoe and Marie Gray. Bruce Smith, R.R. 2, was the winner of the Port Perry Lions Club 4-H Grain trophy for 1969 with a total point score of 891 out of a possible 1,000 points. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 20, 1974 The arena committee was given the go-ahead by Scugog Council to start working out details for a single-pad arena. Damage is estimated between $8,000 and $10,000 in a cottage fire on the 7th Concession of Reach, just west of Highway 12. Fire Chief Jack Cook said there must have been an explosion before they arrived as the walls had shifted and one end of the building had moved. The clock in the tower of the Post Office will be back in working order as soon as the renovated Post Office opens for business. Postmaster Bruce Hull said there is a good size bell in the clock and people will once again be able to tell the time when the clock strikes. Van Camp Construction moved its 34 ft. x 50 ft. garage from its old location on Bigelow Street to its new location on the Oshawa Road, across from the Oddfellows Lodge. It took about three hours to move the building. An addition to Cartwright Public School which will bring the number of student places up to 559, was approv- ed by the Durham Board of Education. Gordon Goode and Yvonne Christie urged the Board to accept a larger addi- tion which would accommodate 622 students. bill smi LET'S STOP WHINING Aren't you sick to death of the gloom and doom the media is imposing on us? I am. Let's have a little light and cheer in the country for a change. Sure, our economic situation is a mess. Of course, we have high unemployment. Naturally, inflation is not wrestled to the ground, but has us pinned two rounds out of three. But this is happening all over the world, and we're about 500 per cent better off than most of the rest of the people in said world. Do you live on a sampan in Singapore or Hong Kong, existing on a handful of rice a day? Those people don't have high interest rates. They have nothing except what native cunning and hard work feed their bellies. Does a nice lady in Somaliland or Eritrea bring you into the office and chat about which welfare program you should apply for" your children are eating mud, because there's nothing else. Are you stuck in Ulster, as a Catholic, without a hope of getting a job from the Protestants, your children dirty, hungry, growing as vicious as small animals who are starving? Are you black, with a good chance of getting your head pulverized by a white policeman if you say anything but, "Yes, sir'? Are you suffering from "nerves' and taking all kinds of pills from your very well fed doctor, while millions of people in the world have rickets and ringworm and elephantiasis and bleeding bowels because they don't even know what a vitamin pill looks like? NE a Are your little boys running around barefoot in the rain, selling their sisters for a cigarette or a chocolate bar? Nope, they are probably riding around on bicycles, and whining because their allowance doesn't run to more than a2 carton of french fries and a Dairy Queen every day. Are you worried about whether you should spend $50 or a little more on a wedding present when in most countries most mothers are wondering whether a cow or a bushel of maize is a suitable dowry? And they haven't a cow or any maize. Tut and tut and tut. We are in an economic depres- sion, many people are unemployed, our government seems to be living in Alice in Wonderland, with its ridiculous six and five desperate attempt to appear credible. But when have you last missed a meal? When have you been cold, cold, cold? When is the last time somebody pounded on your door at 4 a.m. and you shivered with fear, knowing what was coming? When have you last been hit on the head with a club for saying "Trudeau is a fink?" There's lots wrong with this country, but there is a hell of a lot more right with it, when we take a look around. We read about farmers and small businessmen and big companies going broke. Well, that's the capitalist system, and that's 'the system we embrace. We don't hear much when the farmers have a bumper crop and spend the winter driving south in their Buicks. We seldom hear about the small businessman who's making a quiet fortune, unless he's suddenly become an entrepreneur and is a big businessman. We scarcely hear a word when a huge company makes a huge profit. But now the tears are flowing, we need a Wailing Wall, located about Winnipeg, and thousands of paper towels to wipe up the tears. Help from the government means help from you and me. Come on, Canadians, let's stop whining. My father and mother didn't whine during tt 2 Big Depression. They did the best they could, and desperately tried to avoid going on Relief, now euphemistically called Welfare. Get rid of your boat. Sell your second car. There is such a thing as walking. Cut your kid's allowance to zilch, and let them earn it by working. So you like steak? Eat hamburg. Stop buying that crap from California and Florida in the winter: lettuce for $1.50, mostly water: grapes, oranges, celery, those little hard bitter tomatoes. Eat spuds and porridge. They're good for you. Dig a root cellar under your patio deck and fill it with car- rots and turnips. Get a couple of chickens, and if they don't lay, eat them. Cut out those long-distance calls about nothing, and write a letter. Wear a sweater and keep your thermostat down. We can lick inflation, but not by living the way we do. We can lick unemployment, with some guts. But not government guts. There aren't any. And if you're out of work, take your U.I., but get looking for something else. This country still has limitless opportunities, if you want to work. Ask the im- migrants. If you don't, you'll become like those millions in Britain, during the first depression, who just gave up and sat around on the dole, steadily eroding their very souls. End of sermon. But cheer up and forget the headlines. There's a place for you, if you have any guts. - | |