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6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. February 24, 1985 letters Happy ending to a very messy incident 'Dear Sir: My husband and | recently experienced a famous Port Perry sewer backup. It all "started on a Wednesday 'when we came home from a hard day at work and walked right into a smelly mess, I'll tell ya it sure doesn't make your day. Like a good wife | am, I went straight upstairs to fix supper (of which we didn't feel like eating anyways) and left my poor husband to clean up the mess. Well, while he was down in the base- ment with the cap off the toilet stack pipe, I ac- 'cidentally flushed it. Have you ever tired to stop something after its already started? At first I let on nothing happen- ed. After a while I gathered all my courage up and quietly tiptoed downstairs to find amongst the blue air my wet, smelly little hus- band just sitting there ready to kill me. Sudden- ly I became very brave and said 'Why don't we rent a worm' (that's plumbing talk for a thing that goes through the pipes to clean them out), 50 in keeping with the kind of day we were hav- ing the rental in Port Perry was closed so off my poor, wet Donnie went to rent one at Millwork in Oshawa. By the way we moved from the Island so we wouldn't have this sort of problem. Ha Ha! He gets home an hour later and went straight to work screwing that funny thing into the pipes to no avail. You know this all started because my favourite mother-in-law bought me a washer and dryer for Christmas. God bless her and I couldn't even use it after waiting for 25 years to get one. Then 1 got the bright idea of phoning a plumber. Well apparently he was kind of busy but he did confirm quote 'You do have a bit of a problem' reasons to do so. Letters to the Editor policy It has always been the policy of this newspaper to encourage our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column. Our readers have a right to freely express their opinions and viewpoints on just about any subject, and we feel that a lively letters column helps make a better community newspaper. We insist, however, that a letter writer sign his or her name. On rare occasions, we will agree to with-hold publication of a letter writer's name, if we feel there are very good Under no circumstances. will this paper print an anonymous letter to the editor mw While, we enjoy receiving letters from' our readers, we must continue to insist on know- ing the identity of the writer. Low unquote. He said he'd be here the next day or even the day after that. We waited for 2 days for this plumber and decided to phone another one, Ken Rankin had the honours. He told us right off to phone Durham Region Works Department that they would be able to help us. So here we are late Friday night walk- ing our fihgers through the Blue Pages of the telephone book looking for the emergency numbers. Have you ever had the misfortune of having to look through the Blue Pages for anything, well they drive you nuts! We were just about ready to pull our hair out when Don notic- ed a number that might help us in Oshawa. Well we phoned it and got im- mediate action. They would send somebody down right away. In they came banging down the stairs with a big machine and umpteen coils of springs or rods as they are formally called through the pipes for over an hour 90 feet in all. We'll be back tomor- row they said and we'll try again and don't flush your toilet. It's annoying how many times you find you have to go when you can't flush. By this time its Saturday and prompt- ly at 9 o'clock a different crew walked in and went straight to work trying to get those stupid things out of my pipes and after two hours they were worse off than when they started. To put the icing on the cake, the one that went through last broke right off at the opening. Now we were really in trouble. They said they would have to dig outside and maybe tear up most of my paved drive. Ap parently we didn't have the proper 4 inch clean out pipe in the basement if we did the rods wouldn't have got stuck in the first place. A lesson to us all, make sure you have a proper clean out pipe before calling the Works Department. They spent most of the day locating my sewer pipe with a detector to see in which direction it went. Finally, they decided to dig right in front of my house on the grass part thank goodness. By this time it's Monday morning like 8 o'clock early. They have to remove all the snow that my snow plow guy has been piling up so neatly all winter before they can dig. I'll tell you that gravel sure is frozen. It took them awhile but they finally got to my sewer pipe 10 feet down (it'll never freeze) it's still intact or it was until they started sawing it away so they could find their rods. There they are laying in there so neatly like they're supposed to be there. The rods came out pretty easy after a few yanks. They rejoin the pipes where they were cut with a brand new plastic one and by Wednesday. the hole is covered in and I now have a big mound of frozen dirt in front of my house. Oh, well, we were thinking of landscaping there this year or at least we were talking about it. The moral to this story is find a plumber who will direct you in the right direction in the first place and call the Durham Works Depart- ment, when you have a sewer backup. In most instances it's free or sort of, thats what your taxes are paying for. I want to thank all of you who work for the Region. You are a nice bunch of guys, courteous and prompt. P.S. my pipes are all - cleaned out now the hard way. Yours truly, Bev Silverman, Port Perry. Flawless show Dear Sir: Through the years, from meagre beginnings during the 70's, the Borelians Community Theatre of Port Perry has developed into an auspicious organization, surely a formidable one among its peers. Indeed, in my opinion, the finest artistic effort both visually and dramatical- ly, ever presented on the stage of Town Hall 1873, exemplifying the ultimate calibre of this group, must be the cur- York, Toronto. ing a course. of the intense cold. Mr. and Mrs. George Staniland moved into their new home in north Blackstock. Mr. and Mrs. H. Saywell of Blackstock attend- ed the Hardware Convention held in the Royal Mr. Neil Malcolm, Blackstock, and Mr. Hugh Ormiston, Brooklin, spent a week in Chicago tak- Only two pupils showed up at Manchester school on Monday morning of this week because 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 25, 1960 Port Perry Fire Brigade responded to a call at the home of Mr. Richards on Rosa Street and found a chesterfield smoldering. Considerable smoke damage was done At the Annual Chamber of Commerce meeting this year sik new directors were named for two years, they were Chas Carnegie, George Emmerson, Dr J Price, MJ Porter and R.J. Harper Williams, Gordon remember when? 20 YEARS AGO Thursday February 25, 1965 Rabbi Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg of the Beth Tzedec Congregation, Toronto, gave the address at the Secondary Schools teachers conference in Uxbridge. Congratulations were extended to our local curling team, Foster, Jim Baird, Cliff Rodd, and Freddie Etcher on winning 7th prize at the G.M. Bonspiel last Saturday with 48 teams competing. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 25, 1975 A 14 foot wide Delta wing kite crashed to Lake Scugog taking well-known kite-flyer Eldon Cresswell to his death. The 34 year old Oshawa man had just disconnected a 600 foot tow rope when the kite collapsed and spiralled to the ice Mr Richard Drew was elected to the position of President of Scugog Chamber of Commerce He replaces Ken Dowson who has just finished a two- year term rent production of "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds." All who par- ticipated deserve to be proud. In fact, the entire community should be applauding. My wife and I along with others who attended one of the performances last week were deeply moved. I am certain the adjudicator who is scheduled to be there on Thursday night will have a difficult time attemp- ting to remain totally ob- jective throughout this splendid experience. To those who have not yet seen this production, I truly urge them to do so. You're in for a treat. It's flawless. Yours truly, Leslie A. Parkes, Port Perry. Needs a break (From page 5) Scugog is the under- writing of a capital ex- pansion loan. It's done on the federal level with huge corporations with billions underwritten, why not scale this down to the municipal level where it benefits us all more directly. What I'm saying is why not see what we can do to ex- pand local industries first before we gamble time and money on fishing trips for new industry William Lishman, VP Paula Lishman Limited. Blackstock Dantzer work on display at Durham College Local artist Sheila Dantzer has an exhibi- tion of her paintings in the main rotunda at Durham College. This excellent display area shows Sheila's work off to its best advantage. She has included 10 new works not shown before and it can be clearly seen that Sheila's present in- terest is in painting peo- ple and animals. There is -a wide variety of mediums. There are watercolour, acrylics, tempera, chalk, magic marker, pencils and oil...as Sheila says "Whatever it takes to convey the spirit of the subject matter." Sheila is a graduate of the On- tario College of Art and has had six one person shows in Ontario. She has recently won awards in Bowmanville and Bancroft. Durham College is open until 11:30 p.m. every day and Sheila's show runs from February 18th to March 10th, 1985. So do yourself a favour and get rid of the February blahs for a few minutes by dropping in to see Sheila's pain- tings...you'll beglad. you did! chatterbox by John B. McClelland (From page 5) Stories like this one, or variations of it, are lore to the game of golf and everyone from scratch player to weekend hacker has had a similar experience. With spring just around the corner, I can hardly wait, though I know there will be days on the course when I will wish I could get my hands on that SOB who invented this crazy, wonderful sport. Leader of the New Democratic Party of Ontario will be st speaker at the Provincial Nomination Meeting of Durham York NDP Riding Association MARCH 6, 1985 7:30 P.M. 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