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the PORT PERRY STARR CO (WTUTED 235 Quin STRELY \ Of ppb PORT PEREY ONTARIO LOB nC alo) 88 738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. McCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port P CATHY ROBB ri Perry Star Co. Ltd . Port Perry, Ontario News & Features D\AN Comp J Uni Ve (Qs oY Ww 1\ BCA PERs ASSOC of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for cash payment Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35° © 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. " PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April-16, 1985 -- 5 letters Response for help terrific ...... Dear Sir: Early -in January a neighbour of ours had a severe heart attack. At 39 years of age that alone would have been bad enough, but add to that the fact that he and his family have been hit by several tragedies; one of their three young daughters has leukemia and two years ago they lost their chicken barn to fire; just to name two; 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 16, 1925 Those attending university who were home with their families over the Easter hol.days were John Brock, H. Jackson, Alex Woods, Miss B. Crozier and Percy Malcolm. : Mr. George Howsam has purchased Mr. William Hern's lot on Union Avenue and is mak- ing preparations to build a new house. Mr. Sam Farmer was in Toronto this week at- tending the Convention of the Trustees and Ratepayers Association. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Jackson leave this week for England where they will spend part of the summer. Mr. Harold R. Archer started a taxi service. Closed cars will be used and you can be assured of first class service. Miss Florence Luke of Ashburn spent her Easter vacation with her parents at Kedron. A start was made on the new recreation cen- tre to be built in Port Perry. 1000 bags of cement was transported from Myrtle station in four hours. This was made possible by the free service of several trucks and many men, making a net sav- ings for the Centre of $50.00 At the Port Perry Rod and Gun Club meeting, two new members, Robert Carnegie Jr. and - James Kight, put on a demonstration of casting. Mr. and Mrs. J. Pearce of Scugog Island celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 14, 1960 There was so much water over the Cartwright causeway this week it was almost impossible for the ordinary car to pass through. The Port Perry Group committee are trying to raise $1200.00 to finish up work on the Scout Hall. and I'm sure that you will understand why their neighbours and friends felt it was long past that we should step in and try to help the John Arbuckle family. When we started this undertaking we didn't know what kind of response we would get, but we had to try! To make a long story short, Cathy Robb was right on the button in her Chatter- box of Jan. 22, the people in this area are fantastic! ~ Right from the start help began flowing in, there simply isn't room to list all those who have helped in one way or another. Donations came in all sizes and all ap- preciated. The Benefit Dance on Feb. 9 was packed to the rafters. The 1.G.A. in Port Perry donated a food Block Parents Dear Sir: We would like to take time to say thank you to all those devoted people who are Block Parents. Signs do not have to be displayed at all times. The idea is to be available when a child needs you. Some people show their signs only on weekends or after school, because they work all day. This is great. Most children are in school during the week until 3:30. Some Block Parents do not have children of their own. Whether you are a parent or not does not prevent you from helping a child in distress. A special thanks from us. Block Parents care about all children, and: HOSPITAL REPORT For Week Ending Apr. 4 we care about all Block Parents. If you want to become a block parent, phone 985-7046, 985-7214 or your local school. Yours truly, Peggy Brodin, Port Perry. hamper and Analda Nurseries in Blackstock donated a $25 gift cer- tificate for a raffle. The food hamper was won by Kathie Avery of Oshawa and the gift certificate was won by Linda Hodgson. of Bradford, she re-donated it and it was auctioned off at the dance for $70.; that is on- ly one indication of how generous people were. Special thanks got to the Blackstock Lions, Court Lady Snowbird, Mark's Maintenance, Nestleton Airtight Stoves, The Country Store, Port Perry IGA, and Analda Nurseries for all their assistance and donation. Thank you also to Frank Barkey for his services as D.J. and to all the stores in the area (Turn to page 6) STARDAZE ¢ THERE IS GOING | TO BE TROUBLE |F THESE TRIMOTO TYPES ~ CONTINUE TO CHEW UP OUR FIELDS. / a Lac ~ 0 Anyone wishing to donate could call Mr. John Jef- ford who was the treasurer of the committee this 35 YEARS AGO year. Admissions eerie SU) | Thursday, April 13, 1950 In the Ladies Wednesday night bowling, the Births ..............ooo..... 3 At a Vimy banquet arranged by the Port pyrricanes bowled the best three games of the Deaths ................... 2 Perry Legion Branch, M. Mcintyre Hood of gea50n and their totals for the games was 3197. Emergencies Sensing 186 Oshawa, a former Provincial and Dominion Of- Operations ............... 14 ficer of the Legion, was guest speaker. (Turnto page 6) Discharged .............. 25 | Remaining ............... 34 | Then there is the practice of naming girls after flowers. We have Iris and Ivy and Pansy and Daisy and Marigold and Rose, and even the occasional farout en- counter, Tulip or Virginia (if her last name happens to be Creeper). But they, too, have pretty well gone by the board. I don't know why. A girl is just as pretty as a flower, and often smells even nicer. Why don't we go back to that and call girls Petunia, Begonia, Phlox, Crocus, Daffodil? Think of the sweet little abbreviations they'd acquire. Pet, Beggie, Flocky, Crockey and Daffy. Once in a while there is a flare-up of old-fashioned or foreign names. Then we have a rash of Samanthas, Marthas, Ingrids, Fleurs, Leslies. The trouble is, with out fondness for nicknames, even these august names become Sam, Marty, Ingy the dingy, Flour, and Les. Thank goodness there is a solid element of parents in our society who stick with the good old Biblical and fundamentally Anglo-Saxon tags: Ruth, Mary, Rebec- ca, Margaret, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Susan, Jane, Sophia and such. Not for them the exotic and subtly suggestive stuff like Sylvia, Ronya, Roberta, Giselle, Juanita. Those are the sort of names that can get a girl into trouble. How about Carlotta? Or Vivien? Trouble, trouble. Personally, if I had six daughters, Lord forbid, I'd try to get one into each category. Emeralda for jewellery. September for month. How does September | Smiley sound? Sweet-pea for flowers. Sweet-pea Smiley? Ursula for an old-timer. Once had a slight fling with a girl by that name. Mary for the solid virtues and the religious connotations. And Diana, goddess of love, for the dangerous group. If I suddenly ahd unexpectedly had a seventh, I'd name her for one of the great women in myth or literature. Perhaps Circe, or Cordelia. Everybody hap- py with those" Thank goodness, my daughter has two boys, one Nikov, after a character in a Russian novel, the other " Balind, a name she made up. She'd drive us crazy if she had a batch of girls. bill smiley GIRLS' NAMES For some reason, and I've no idea what it is, this Anyway, I began to contemplate the names of girls, column is going to be about girls' names. There are and whence they derived. We chose the name Kim for several possible reasons, any of which might be theright our daughter, because we didn't know whether she was one. going to be a daughter or another son, and the name fit- First, it might be just an unconscious reaction to ted either sex. There wasn't a Kim on the horizon then. the worst cold spell I can remember. The names of girls, Now you can find one on every street corner. exotic or otherwise, seem to help fight those Jan./Feb. In my home form, I had two Kims, two Karens and winter blues or blahs. a Carol, and until I knew which was which, I'd ask a Secondly, I might simply be getting senile. Who question and start sounding like the old song, *'K-k-k- knows? A couple of years from now I might be turning Katie." up at playgrounds with nothing on but a raincoat. Girls' names seem to go in cycles. One year I had And thirdly, the more I thought about it, the more five Debbies in one class. Hardly ever hear a Debbie I thought about it. I don't know whether this happens anymore. to you, but every so often I get some silly old song in Aside from the fads, when every third gal has the my head, and I whistle and sing it inaudibly, of course, same name, there seem to be some basic roots from because I don't want to be put away, for perhaps fif- which beleaguered mothers and fathers label their off- teen hours. spring. (I've know a Robin Bird and a Pete Moss, but It could be Colonel Boey, and I play it, with varia- those were exceptions). tions, through my head all day. No other tune interferes. Some girls are named after jewels, but there aren't Just a few days ago, I got one into my skull that must many Pearls, Rubies, Opals, Sapphires and such around date back to the Twenties, and it went on all day, these days. They're as old-fashioned as Elmer and Gor- through conversation, eating, shaving. It was: don for boys. You can bring Rose, with the turned-up nose, Strangely, I've never heard a girl called Diamond, But don't bring Lula. though I've met a few hard enough to live up to such You can bring Kate with the partial plate, a sobriquet. But don't bring Lula. Girls are named after some months, but not others. Some old-timers might remember it. I'm sure it We can label a girl May, April or June, but you don't goes back to the days of vaudeville, or the gramophone, hear too many Februaries or Novembers floating as we used to call it. But I've no idea where it came around. I think Febbie would be kinda cute for a short from, where I heard it, why I remembered the tune, or girl born in that short month. what was wrong with Lula. SAL et a Ce Si Hit